This Week’s News
Restaurant owners want Country House to feel like home
“We wanted to have a place that was affordable,” Don said. “Somewhere a family of five or six could go out to eat. We couldn’t afford that raising five kids.”
Otter Valley pilot programs looks to get kids real jobs
Real Careers, a pilot program at OVUHS, is trying to help current and recently graduated high school students find careers after they finish school.
Pittsford seeks to clean up system with sewage bond
On Town Meeting Day, March 5, Pittsford will ask voters to agree to a sewage bond that would cost up to $970,000. The bond would replace pumps and pipes to upgrade efficiency of the sewage treatment plant…
Planning task force eyes difficult task
What does it cost to deliver equitable education to all students and what would that look like? This is the question that the Otter Valley Unified Union planning task force, comprised of OVUU school board members and community members, is tasked with answering…
Gov’t shutdown squeezes food shelf
The Brandon Food Shelf, like all food shelves around the state, relies on community donations and volunteers to provide nutritional assistance to those in our area who need it. The Food Shelf works in conjunction with the Brandon Senior Citizens Center to make sure no one in the area goes hungry. Together, they serve close to 300 people a week…
Photos of the Week
Sports
OV field hockey beats Fair Haven, 7-0, to earn No. 4 seed in Division II playoffs
The Otter Valley field hockey team earned the No. 4 seed in Division II after a successful regular season that concluded late last week. The Otters will open their title quest on Friday.
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.