This Week’s News
State Senate candidate: Dave Weeks
Originally from Wallingford, Proctor resident Dave Weeks (R) has specialized in “leading commercial high-tech, internationally sensitive projects valued in the billions” and works as a “Chaos Manager and Fortune 500 Aerospace Program Director.”
State Senate candidate: Bridgette Remington
Democrat Bridgette Remington is an attorney in Rutland City who graduated from UVM and later Vermont Law School.
State Senate candidate: Joshua Ferguson
Democrat Joshua Ferguson was born in Rutland City, Vermont, and is a lifelong and multi-generation Vermonter.
State Senate candidate: Brian Collamore
Incumbent Brian Collamore (R) of Rutland Town was born on November 28, 1950, in Detroit, Mi., where he completed his elementary education.
OV closes their football season at 4-5
No. 2 seed Fairfax-Lamoille pulled away in the second half on Saturday to defeat the visiting No. 7 Otter Valley football team, 18-6.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Mt. Abraham cruises past Otter boys in nail-biter, 57-42
The Mount Abraham boys basketball team took a trip down Route 7 for a clash with Otter Valley in a Saturday afternoon matinee at the “House of Noise” and used their size and speed to claim the win, 57-42.
Otter Valley wins on Senior Night
The Otter women welcomed the Wasps of Woodstock to Senior Night at the “House of Noise” on Friday, February 11 before a raucous crowd.
Otter Valley defeats Hartford, 36–34
The Otter Valley girls basketball team defeated the visiting Hartford Hurricanes, 36-34, on Friday, January 28 at the “House of Noise” in Brandon.
OV, Proctor, Westside winter sports teams kick-off the season
The COVD-shortened winter of the 2020-21 high school sports season is behind us, and the teams at Otter Valley are happy about that. The pandemic forced the school’s basketball programs, like those elsewhere, to play abbreviated seasons, and wrestling was sidelined for the entire season.
OV girl’s basketball drops opener
In a hard-fought season opening game in which the teams traded game-changing runs, the host Middlebury Union girls’ basketball team put together the decisive surge to outlast Otter Valley, 35-28.