This Week’s News
OVUU board wrestles with complex issues
Diversity and equity, technological integration and facility upgrades were the topics du jour at the most recent OVUU school board meeting.
Park Your CARbon Week, May 16-20
Hot on the heels of Green Up Day, comes Net Zero Vermont’s spring transportation challenge, also known as Park Your CARbon week.
Pittsford’s new TM looks to boost town’s economic development
A native New Englander, Brenda Fox-Howard brings a wealth of experience to the table.
Forever cool
Brandon resident Dorothy Niss, who often is seen out walking through the downtown, has more than a few stories to tell about her years hanging with luminaries from the Woodstock era.
Brandon Library plants sunflowers for Ukraine
A group of Brandon-area gardeners are pitching in their lot with a statewide movement supporting Ukraine’s battle for independence.
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
Six Otters named to Second Team All-Stars
After a successful season this fall, 10 members of the Otter Valley football team received postseason recognition from the Division III coaches.
