This Week’s News
Beyond the garden gate: a visit with Brian Jerome
Brian Jerome’s garden welcomes you with ten-foot-high deep-pink calla lilies in pots and planted in the ground.
‘The Farm Boy’: a wartime love story about Vermonters
George Woodard is a 3rd-generation dairy farmer up in Waterbury. His latest film, “The Farm Boy,” will be shown on Friday, April 28 at 6:30 p.m. at Brandon Town Hall.
Brandon SB seeks replacement for outgoing Seth Hopkins
The Brandon Selectboard on Monday night made a formal offer to Seth Hopkins to assume the role of town manager at a salary of $75,000. Mr. Hopkins now officially occupies the position. The selectboard must now replace Mr. Hopkins in two capacities: as a member and, more specifically, as chair.
Harry Hunt celebrates 50 years on the Brandon Fire Department
Harry E. Hunt was recently honored for 50 years with the Brandon Fire Department with the presentation of a shiny new fire ax.
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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.
