This Week’s News
‘The Yurtbags’ perform at Red Clover Ale Company
Three nursery school classmates have banded together decades later to wow an excited and diverse audience at Red Clover Ale Company last Saturday night.
Legislative Report: Sprinting to the finish
The legislative session of 2023 is winding down with members looking forward to a targeted adjournment date of May 12.
Our Creative Kids: Brogan Malay
Brogan has been working on this piece, titled Sea Dragon, since the beginning of his current school year.
Silent movie series to return to Brandon Town Hall
Classics from the silent film era return to the big screen this May at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center, which will host another season of vintage cinema with live music.
Our Town: A mid-century check-in with Brandon
Exactly 50 years ago, way back in 1973, the Brandon League of Women Voters published a nifty booklet called “Brandon – Our Town.”
Photos of the Week
Sports
OV beats Mill River in quarterfinal, 12-6
The third-seeded Otter Valley football team outlasted visiting No. 6 Mill River, 12-6, on Saturday in a Division III quarterfinal and will play No. 2 Fairfax in a semifinal this coming Saturday.
Proctor girls soccer shoots for 11th straight trip to finals
Going into the girls Division IV soccer playoffs, the question around the state is whether anyone can challenge two-time defending champions, the Proctor Phantoms.
‘Trash-talk’ allegedly used racial slur at OV/MR game
RNESU Superintendent Jeanné Collins released a statement on Monday, Nov. 1 referring to an alleged incident at the OVUHS-Mill River High School football game in which players may have used racial slurs in an escalated instance of trash-talking among the players, Collins said.
OV field hockey beats Fair Haven, 7-0, to earn No. 4 seed in Division II playoffs
The Otter Valley field hockey team earned the No. 4 seed in Division II after a successful regular season that concluded late last week. The Otters will open their title quest on Friday.
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.
