This Week’s News
Brandon Budget Committee & SB discuss Police Dept.
The Brandon Selectboard and the Budget Committee convened on Monday evening to discuss funding for the Brandon Police Department for the fiscal year beginning on July 1, 2025.
Ex-Brandon PD Chief Brickell to run VT Police Academy
Christopher Brickell’s career in Vermont law enforcement has taken him from Manchester to Brandon and now to Pittsford, where Governor Scott just appointed him Executive Director of the Vermont Criminal Justice Council, which oversees the Vermont Police Academy.
Names lost in Vermont, Part 37: Brooks and Disorda
Unfinished business from our last installment, Brooks had been included in the previous title along with Wideawake.
“Mean Girls” is coming to Otter Valley this weekend
Otter Valley’s Award-winning Walking Stick Theatre Company is presenting the Broadway Musical “Mean Girls” this weekend.
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.
