This Week’s News
RASTA is now ROC; launches Velomont Trail
BY KATHERINE LAZARUS ROCHESTER––The trail network organization that has been called RASTA since its founding in 2013 is changing its name to The Ridgeline Outdoor Collective (ROC), or Ridgeline, for […]
GMNF to hold use hearings on Telephone Gap’s 72k acres
BY CHRISTOPHER ROSS RUTLAND COUNTY — Last Wednesday night, when Green Mountain National Forest officials unveiled the 72,000-acre “Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project,” they talked of many scientific things and […]
Polli honored by OV Football Club
BRANDON — Each year the Otter Valley Football Club offers a scholarship to one of our graduating seniors. The player must be going on to college, technical training, law enforcement or […]
Brandon to receive $5.53 million for wastewater project
Washington — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday, July 9, that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $307 million to modernize rural drinking water and wastewater […]
The Maturing Garden
BY JUDITH IRVEN Creating a garden is like taking a journey. An adventure which, at the outset, we don’t quite know where it will lead. Gardens are also living creations, […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
OV Football Club realizes a goal: an illuminated field
Let there be light! The Otter Valley Football Club realized a longstanding dream this past weekend: lights on Markowski Field at OVUHS.
Naylor & Breen golf tourney raises awareness of rare disease with local significance
Almost everyone in the Brandon area has been touched in one way or another by Naylor & Breen, the construction company founded by Rob Naylor and Peter Breen in 1978.
Burning rubber: Brandon’s Joey Scarborough racks up wins at local racetracks
Joey Scarborough was driving racecars years before he even had a license to drive himself to school.
Skip Jennings Founders Cup Golf Tournament at Neshobe Golf Club
Skip Jennings, 93 years old, led off the tournament with a beautiful drive right down the middle of the fairway on hole #1.
