This Week’s News
Brandon residents help preserve the environment at Good Point Recycling in Midd
Tucked away in plain sight, in a nondescript green warehouse behind the Dollar Market on Route 7 in Middlebury, is Good Point Recycling, one of the country’s foremost electronics recycling programs.
Brandon’s Erynn Doaner recognized by 98.9 WOKO
Everyone in Brandon knows how hard Erynn Doaner works.
Tim Brookes presents ‘Endangered Alphabets’ at the Brandon Library
While humans absorb spoken language almost by osmosis—we learn to speak and process language through immersion in a spoken environment—we need to be actively taught how to read and write.
Names lost in Vermont, Part 46: Oakes, Ash, Hickory, and Plumtree
The burgeoning of spring inspires me to reunite these anglicized French-Canadian names with their original birth surnames.
OV’s Kiera Mallette shows off her art at the Brandon Inn
OV senior and Brandon resident Kiera Mallette had a one-day exhibit of her portrait drawings at the Brandon Inn on Sunday, March 30.
Photos of the Week
Sports
Local athletes named 2022 football all-stars
Several members of the Otter Valley Union High School Division III football team, as well as members of the Division I Middlebury and Division III Mount Abraham-Vergennes football teams, were named all-stars in voting by the leagues’ coaches.
Record Killington fans cheer FIS World Cup racers
Vermont’s Killington Resort, the largest ski and snowboard resort in Eastern North America hosted the women’s Audi FIS Ski World Cup for the sixth time over Thanksgiving Weekend.
FISU World Conference to address climate change and winter sports
“Winter sporting communities and athletes alike are seeing first-hand the impact of climate change on winter sport,” said Ashley Walden, Adirondack Sports Council executive director and a member of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games’ Organizing Committee.
OV boys soccer bows out to MUHS, 7-0
Looking at this past Saturday’s game, Tiger Coach Chris George was pleased with his team’s ball movement and work to create good looks on goal, and also credited the Otters’ effort.
OV closes their football season at 4-5
No. 2 seed Fairfax-Lamoille pulled away in the second half on Saturday to defeat the visiting No. 7 Otter Valley football team, 18-6.
