This Week’s News
Brandon Police Report: The kids are not alright
Youth in Brandon were expressing their anger this past week, requiring Brandon police to respond to a number of different incidents.
Otter softball ready for 2023 season
The Otter Valley girls’ softball team is ready to ride the experience of their seven seniors to a successful 2023 season.
Vt. school districts are under scrutiny for special education
Thirty-eight Vermont school districts and supervisory unions — nearly three-quarters of the total — are under state scrutiny for their special education practices, according to a list provided in response to a public records request.
Skip Jennings remembers
Duane “Skip” Jennings has lived and worked in Brandon for all of his 92 years. And he’s played golf here for 65 years!
Children’s books and cheese: the creative life of Salisbury’s Hannah Sessions
It began with a forgotten lamb, a rejected baby from a flock of 30 sheep that Hannah Sessions and her husband, Greg Bernhardt, had sold to focus their attention on the goats that have since become their trademark and livelihood on Blue Ledge Farm in Salisbury.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Triathletes kick-off series at Branbury State Park
Saturday’s beautiful early summer weather welcomed more than 150 athletes to Branbury State Park in Salisbury for two Vermont Sun triathlon races.
State champs, again!
For the third consecutive game in the Division IV state softball playoffs, the West Rutland Golden Horde overcame a late-game deficit in the final two innings to upend their opponent.
Hartford ends OV baseball season
The Hartford Hurricanes defeated the Otters of Otter Valley in their last game of the season.
West Rutland comes up from behind to top Proctor
West Rutland continued the school’s improbable run to a possible state championship by coming from behind to top rival Proctor at Proctor’s softball/baseball complex on Tuesday afternoon.
Otters lose in the eighth to Hartford
The Hurricanes took advantage of a wind-blown fly ball and turned the misplayed fly ball into four runs in the top of the eighth to pin yet another tough defeat on the home team.