This Week’s News
Vicious dog hearing in Brandon comes to a peaceful conclusion
The issue began last May when one of Ashleigh and Jeff Heath’s dogs, a blue heeler, jumped the four-foot fence dividing their properties and bit Christie Whittemore’s whippet, Lou-Lou, who was not seriously injured.
AG’s office settles allegations of abuse, neglect with Rutland residential care homes
Following its investigation, the Vermont Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud and Residential Abuse Unit (MFRAU) announced a settlement with Our House Residential Care Homes on August 31.
Brandon Town Hall to show rare vintage crime melodrama “The Flying Ace” (1926)
Can discrimination exist in an America where everyone is Black? That’s among the questions posed by The Flying Ace(1926), a rare surviving example of movies produced early in the 20th century for Black audiences in segregated cinemas.
Local artists deal with common and uncommon threads
“Common Thread” is a new fabric and fiber arts exhibit by Althea Bilodeau Lamb and Judith Reilly.
Brandon’s volunteer-led “Adopt-a-Garden” sows civic beauty
Sarah Pattis helped organize a group of like-minded citizens in the “Adopt-a-Garden” program that’s kept downtown filled with flower gardens throughout summer, and now into to fall.
Photos of the Week
Sports
1961: A season to remember
In the fall of 1961, the high schools in Brandon and Pittsford merged to form Otter Valley Union high school. Prior to that merger, both schools fielded athletic teams. Throughout that long history at Pittsford High School, they had never had a state championship in any sport…
