This Week’s News
OV task force maps out district’s future
By RUSSELL JONES After more than a year, the work of the Otter Valley Planning Task Force is nearing completion. Assigned by the OVUU school board to develop a five- to ten-year plan for the district after consolidation, the task force met Monday to put the finishing touches on a plan present to the board. […]
Paul Hunt, the epitome of the American Dream
By RUSSELL JONES Paul Hunt is the epitome of what the American Dream represents: He started his own business and built it up from nothing to a successful well-run operation. He married a wonderful woman, had kids and enjoyed life to the fullest. Born in 1945 in Burlington, Hunt’s father Kenneth was a farmer before […]
Otters of the marking period
Otter Valley is proud to announce Lena Flanders as our Middle School Otter of the marking period. Lena brings a positive attitude and a smile with her each day. She is motivated and a self starter. Lena takes the lead in class and she helps her classmates without being asked. She shows curiosity and puts […]
OV board nixes Pittsford sidewalk talk
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley school board rejected a proposal from the Pittsford selectboard to use $100,000 of Burditt Trust funds to repair a sidewalk along Route 7 in front of Lothrop Elementary at a meeting on Wednesday. The board rejected the request because a majority believed it was a town expense, not a […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
OV girls’ soccer extends winning streak to four games
One of the hallmarks of great teamwork is communication. This is true in business and relationships, as well as in sports, and it has been a big part of the OV girls’ soccer team’s three-game win streak coming into Friday’s showdown with Springfield—including a 7-0 lambasting of Mill River on September 28.
Otters smother Mount Abe 46-25 for bigtime Homecoming victory
The Otter Valley football team broke open Saturday’s Division III game against Mount Abraham-Vergennes with a three-touchdown second quarter on the way to a big homecoming win.
Otter Valley Union High School fall sports report
BY ANGELO LYNN BRANDON — As the Otter Valley fall 2022 sports season heats up, a strong field hockey team looks to be competitive, the school’s golf team has its eyes on getting back to the state championship to defend their 2021 title, and competitive soccer and football programs are in the making. GOLF: REPEAT […]
OVUHS sports round-up
OV girls soccer took a 2-1 victory over West Rutland on Wednesday, Sept. 14, thanks mainly to the outstanding play of its entire roster.
Brandon’s first family of golf
Paul Politano hardly played golf while growing up in southern Vermont (Wilmington). “My dad never let me play,” he said in a conversation last week outside the golf shop at Middlebury’s Ralph Myhre Golf Course, where Paul has been the golf pro since 2017.
