This Week’s News
Guiles, Blais face off in selectboard race
In the one contested race in Brandon this year, one-term incumbent Tim Guiles will face challenger Marielle Blais for a three-year seat on the Brandon selectboard. This past week The Reporter sent each candidate seven questions to address in a question-answer format and given a word limit per answer.
Brandon selectboard OKs solar site, spends $500,000 in ARPA funds
The Brandon selectboard on Monday threw its support behind a proposed site for 2,200 kW solar array on private land off of Steinberg Road that has a small window of visibility from Routes 7 and 73.
Barn Opera stages Valentine special
The Barn Opera of Brandon will be staging a romantic comic opera just ahead of Valentine’s Day this coming Friday and Saturday, Feb. 11-12.
RNESU superintendent search comes up empty
The search for a new superintendent at RNESU to replace retiring Supt. Jeanné Collins will take a hiatus of several weeks after the preferred candidate in an initial search declined RNESU’s offer.
Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce: Zoom Candidates Forum
The Chamber of Commerce is sponsoring a forum for the candidates running for the contested
seat on the Brandon select board on February 15th.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Proctor baseball faces early hurdles to get back in race
By RUSSELL JONES Proctor baseball coach Jeff Patch knows his team will have their work cut out for them this spring, but if they can get over a couple of […]
Otter girls tennis looks to be competitive, says first year coach Hailey Watters
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley girls tennis program will return all but one player from last year. The squad will be made up of four seniors and three sophomores. […]
Ov fields JV girls lacrosse team
By RUSSELL JONES Otter Valley will not field a varsity girls lacrosse team this season. However, they hope to have a varsity squad in the future, and this year’s junior […]
OV boys lacrosse looking strong; fields large team with four All-staters
By RUSSELL JONES Otter Valley boys’ lacrosse coach Jesse Milliman has a large squad of varsity lacrosse players to work with this season, in fact it’s his largest ever in […]
OV baseball looks to get another title
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley baseball program fulfilled all of its goals in 2017, bringing home the state championship that season. Two years later, they still have nine players […]
