This Week’s News
Board nixes idea of blurring town lines; seeks public input
By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — The Otter Valley Unified Union (OVUU) Board has decided against moving school boundaries and will begin to gauge interest in construction of a consolidated middle […]
Pittsford’s sidewalk to nowhere
Board cuts scope of project to lower costs By RUSSELL JONES After consulting with the Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans), the Pittsford selectboard has decided to reduce the scope of […]
Sticky Business…
Bees must visit 2 million flowers to produce a single pound
of honey. So when beekeeper Fred Putnam, Jr. says he expects to
collect nearly a ton of honey this year, he’s talking about almost 4 billion flower visits.
Wyman Timber to take over Brandon transfer station
By RUSSELL JONES The town of Brandon will have a new transfer station operator beginning in September. After months of negotiating with the current operators of the town’s garbage and […]
Pittsford Selectboard commits to sidewalk
By RUSSELL JONES Despite not being able to secure funds from the Burditt Trust, the Pittsford Selectboard remained committed to the sidewalk project in front of the Lothrop School on […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
Field hockey love
A couple of weeks ago, an out-of-town sports team came to Brandon to donate a day of free labor. Brandon’s economic development and recreation director Bill Moore welcomed the help and put the Castleton University field hockey team to work moving a big pile of woodchips at the Seminary Hill Park playground and painting picnic tables at Estabrook Park.
Cosmos, Otters embody sportsmanship
This past Saturday, the Otter Valley field hockey team met visiting Springfield in which both teams came out as winners by seeing close-up what good sportsmanship means.
OV wins State Championship!
The Otter Valley boys’ golf team dominated the field at the Manchester Country Club on Thursday, Oct. 10 to win the Division II championship by a 22-stroke margin.
Eagles pull away to topple OV in high scoring battle, 44-20
The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative football team converted seven Otter Valley turnovers into 30 points on Saturday as the Division II Eagles won for the time this season, 44-20, at the visiting Otters’ expense.
OV field hockey starts fast, blanks host Tigers 5-0
When the Middlebury and Otter Valley union high school field hockey teams met in the 2020 Division II playoffs the Otters prevailed in double overtime.
