This Week’s News
Gardening Corner: Woman with a pickaxe, cobra-head weeder, and spear-head spade
Many times in this column I refer to people as master gardeners. Who are these folks and what does this mean?
Brandon Police Log: Children keep BPD busy
While on patrol, officers observed a child in diapers climbing a fence near a busy intersection on Conant Square.
Mary Pickford’s ‘My Best Girl’ with live music at Brandon Town Hall on Oct. 7
She was known as ‘America’s Sweetheart,’ but often played assertive take-charge characters that made her a role model to movie-goers around the world.
Nelson Richard ‘Dick’ Kirby, 92 years old and still going strong
Dick Kirby met German-American master rocketeer Wernher von Braun in Maryland in the 1950s while welding on a stainless-steel gas tank for the Redstone rocket.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Pittsford’s Patrick Daly takes ninth place at the USA Youth Climbing Nationals
Ten years of training probably sounds like a long time for most. For 15-year-old Patrick Daly of Pittsford, it’s practically a lifetime.
Stone, Kelly score on Double Feature Night at Devil’s Bowl
WEST HAVEN—Young racers Justin Stone and Marty Kelly III held serve at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Saturday, August 20, as The Stove Depot presented the annual Double Feature Night. The […]
Justin Comes busts out for back-to-back wins at Devil’s Bowl
With dry-slick conditions underneath him, Comes marched forward from the 17th starting position to make an authoritative statement for the win. Comes also scored the Charlie LaDuc “Hard Charger” bonus for gaining a race-high 16 positions.
Brian Thomas named new OVUHS varsity soccer coach
Otter Valley Union High School has promoted JV boys’ soccer coach Brian Thomas to take over as its varsity coach, according to OV Athletic Director Steven Keith.
Otter Valley’s Dylan Stevens-Clark named captain for Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl
For the last 69 years, all-star Vermont and New Hampshire high school football players have been squaring off in the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl game to help raise funds for the Shriners Children’s Hospitals as part of 30 Shrine games nationwide.
