This Week’s News
Pittsford SB keeps watch for trains, deals with mowing tractors in traction
Rep. Butch Shaw was on hand during Pittsford’s most recent selectboard meeting to remind the town and its citizens that Amtrak will begin its daily train service to and from Burlington beginning on July 29.
Brandon SB smooths out new paving projects
The Brandon selectboard was the picture of ease and efficiency on Monday night as they met for less than thirty minutes to review a relatively light agenda.
Swiss Roll champ devours the competition yet again
Competitors came from far and wide to take a bite at this year’s Swiss Roll eating competition.
Don’t count your duckies ’til they win
The day started gray and drizzly, but by afternoon the sun was blazing. The gents from the Brandon Fire Department waded out into the Neshobe, just behind the Brandon Inn, with a tub full of numbered rubber duckies…
RNESU Superintendent Jeanné Collins reflects on years of service
When Jeanné Collins was a little girl in Indiana, she ran a “summer school” in her backyard. She was seven and charged even younger kids a quarter each to learn essentials like counting and coloring.
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Sports
State Champions! West Rutland battles Proctor down to the wire, 57-56
The West Rutland Golden Horde girl’s basketball team won the school’s second state championship in Division IV girls basketball in the past four years by defeating rival Proctor, 57-56, at the Barre Auditorium this past Saturday.
Otters oust Oxbow, 69-38, in state playdown opener
The Otter Valley Otters ladies basketball team defeated the Oxbow Olympians, 69-37, on Wednesday, Feb. 23 at the House of Noise in the first round of the Vermont State Tournament.
Proctor girls handle OV, 57–42
In one of the more entertaining county games in many years, the Phantom Proctor girls ran their record to an impressive 14-1 with a solid 57-42 win over their neighbors to the north, Otter Valley Union High School, on Wednesday night, February 16.
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.
