This Week’s News
Brandon residents help preserve the environment at Good Point Recycling in Midd
Tucked away in plain sight, in a nondescript green warehouse behind the Dollar Market on Route 7 in Middlebury, is Good Point Recycling, one of the country’s foremost electronics recycling programs.
Brandon’s Erynn Doaner recognized by 98.9 WOKO
Everyone in Brandon knows how hard Erynn Doaner works.
Tim Brookes presents ‘Endangered Alphabets’ at the Brandon Library
While humans absorb spoken language almost by osmosis—we learn to speak and process language through immersion in a spoken environment—we need to be actively taught how to read and write.
Names lost in Vermont, Part 46: Oakes, Ash, Hickory, and Plumtree
The burgeoning of spring inspires me to reunite these anglicized French-Canadian names with their original birth surnames.
OV’s Kiera Mallette shows off her art at the Brandon Inn
OV senior and Brandon resident Kiera Mallette had a one-day exhibit of her portrait drawings at the Brandon Inn on Sunday, March 30.
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
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.
