This Week’s News
Floating Otters battle to out-paddle each other in annual homecoming raft race
Though it was canceled in 2020 due to COVID and featured just two rafts in last year’s edition, there is still a strong contingent that would like to see the race return to its former glory.
Sandy Korda of Orwell is Vermont’s Emergency Management Director of the Year
Korda was recognized for his commitment and excellence during the annual Vermont Emergency Preparedness Conference on September 20.
What can Brandon do to help the Monarch butterfly?
It has come as a shock to many of us that their numbers have dwindled so drastically that the Monarch—the State Butterfly of Vermont—has just been listed as an endangered species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
GMP flattens fossil fuel fleet emissions at their Destroy-a-Truck event in Pittsford
In the 37th law of Robert Greene’s book The 48 laws of Power, under the heading “Create Compelling Spectacles,” Green wrote that “Striking imagery and grand symbolic gestures create the aura of power—everyone responds to them.”
Brandon’s inaugural Green Fleet Policy report aims to inform and inspire residents toward environmental change
Tim Guiles has been taking action since he became a dedicated environmentalist in the early 1990s—a dedication that he recently put on display again via the publication of a new carbon emissions tracking report which looks at the town of Brandon specifically and that Guiles hopes will encourage personal action as well.
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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.
