This is dedicated to everyone who grabs a shovel, fork, or hoe and puts seeds or plants in the ground, and waters them, weeds them, and hopes.

On the evening of Friday, July 7, the air around Middlebury will ring with the beauty of the College Chapel carillon bells, and a new season of the most public of performances will begin.

Vermont State Police (VSP) received a 911 call at 9:55 p.m. from 1352 US Route 7, near the intersection of Route 7 and Leicester-Whiting Road.

The Brandon Free Public Library (BFPL) is one of the oldest extant buildings in town, dating back to the early decades of the 1800s. 

Edward Bird and his wife Mary are buried in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Brandon. As immigrants from French-speaking Canada in the 1840s, they were both hard to trace because they lost their original names and, as their story will reveal, they remained outside the Catholic Church for most of their lives.