This Week’s News
Brandon selectboard discusses appointments, sidewalks, and paving
At its regular meeting on Monday evening, the Brandon Selectboard worked through its agenda, which included appointments to several town committees, the awarding of bids for paving of Arnold District Road, and the funding of the Union Street sidewalk project, among other topics.
Vermont Marble Museum hires new director
The Vermont Marble Museum has announced the hire of Molly Wickes as its new Director, effective July 1, the date of its re-opening after several years of closure.
Get to know this year’s Brandon parade participants
You might know her as Tonya Durant, a longtime Brandon resident who works at the Junction Store & Deli in Forestdale.
Notes from the pulpit: The importance of rest
R. I. P. We usually associate this acronym with that final “rest” we call death.
Letter to the editor: The honor of a nation hinges on a Swiss Roll eating contest
As part of the Brandon Independence Day celebration, the seventh-annual world championship Swiss Roll eating competition will be held behind the Brandon Inn at noon on Saturday, July 1.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Field hockey love
A couple of weeks ago, an out-of-town sports team came to Brandon to donate a day of free labor. Brandon’s economic development and recreation director Bill Moore welcomed the help and put the Castleton University field hockey team to work moving a big pile of woodchips at the Seminary Hill Park playground and painting picnic tables at Estabrook Park.
Cosmos, Otters embody sportsmanship
This past Saturday, the Otter Valley field hockey team met visiting Springfield in which both teams came out as winners by seeing close-up what good sportsmanship means.
OV wins State Championship!
The Otter Valley boys’ golf team dominated the field at the Manchester Country Club on Thursday, Oct. 10 to win the Division II championship by a 22-stroke margin.
Eagles pull away to topple OV in high scoring battle, 44-20
The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative football team converted seven Otter Valley turnovers into 30 points on Saturday as the Division II Eagles won for the time this season, 44-20, at the visiting Otters’ expense.
OV field hockey starts fast, blanks host Tigers 5-0
When the Middlebury and Otter Valley union high school field hockey teams met in the 2020 Division II playoffs the Otters prevailed in double overtime.
