This Week’s News
Brandon United Methodist Church is having a fundraising tag & bake sale
We will be accepting donations Sunday, July 30th, from 12:30-2 and Tuesday, August 1st, from 12-3. No clothing or upholstered furniture please.
Tree care for weather extremes
A few years ago, I asked a realtor friend what he thought was the best real-estate investment. His response was “the property you bought five years ago.”
Our Creative Kids: OCA 5th & 6th Graders
Fifth and Sixth graders from OCA designed, refined, and painted these murals to beautify the cement blocks in the school’s driveway.
Poetry: The Long Trail South
At the Great Cliffs of Mt. Horrid we were strong, tunneling through the woods,/ peeping at the nesting falcons,/ using the toilet at the Sunrise Shelter,/ stopping at the top of No Name Ridge to turn back home.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Disc golf beats the winter blues at Brandon Town Hall
Imagine throwing a flying disc in the cavernous Brandon Town Hall. Now you can!
OV wrestling coach named Vermont Coach of the Year; team takes third at state championship
When the mats were rolled up on Saturday night in the Vergennes Union High School gym, wrestlers from Mount Abraham, Middlebury, Otter Valley and the host school had racked up three individual state titles and 20 top-six podium finishes at the Vermont championship tournament.
7th-grade OV girls’ hoop beats Rutland at home, 22-19
The Otter Valley 7th-grade girls’ basketball team had a terrific home game against Rutland on Friday, February 10.
OV wrestling takes third in state championship
Otter Valley wrestling added another notch to its belt this year with its third-place finish in the state dual-meet championship at Springfield High School on Saturday, February 11.
Special snow goose hunting opportunity
Vermont has a special spring snow goose hunting opportunity that will be held from March 11 through April 23.
