This Week’s News
Pianist Ben Cosgrove enraptures audience
People gathered behind The BigTown Gallery in Rochester last Saturday, September 9th, to hear Ben Cosgrove, a talented composer-performer play his original compositions in gallery owners Annie and Doon’s beautiful garden.
Editorial: It’s important to keep a full written record of public meetings
There’s been a bit of debate over the last several weeks regarding the optimal way to record the minutes of the Brandon Selectboard meetings.
Stacey Coburn: A woman entrepreneur in a ‘man’s business’
Women who own insurance agencies are rare. Insurance has been a man’s world for years, from martini lunches to today’s golf outings.
Gardening Corner: Woman with a pickaxe, cobra-head weeder, and spear-head spade
Many times in this column I refer to people as master gardeners. Who are these folks and what does this mean?
Photos of the Week
Sports
‘Game Seekers’: local hunters use online platforms to reach an audience
Fall in Vermont means foliage, cider, pumpkins, and, for a good number of our neighbors, hunting. Every year, people across the state pick up their bows and rifles and head out into the woods, hoping to bag a big-antlered buck or a fat, feathered turkey.
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.
