This Week’s News
‘Scrappy’ Otter girls’ basketball team down but not out
Early on the visiting Otter Valley girls’ basketball team on Friday looked determined to take it to Middlebury, using tough man-to-man defense to force a batch of turnovers and a balanced attack to bolt to a 11-4 lead after one period.
BPD makes arrest in serious domestic disturbance
Police were occupied with several domestic disturbances in the past week, two of them resulting in arrests.
No issues paves way for Brandon SB shortest meeting
n a record-setting meeting (at least in recent memory), the Brandon selectboard opened its biweekly meeting at 7 p.m. on Monday and adjourned 16 minutes later.
Reporter board shares vision for nonprofit newspaper
About 20 community members were present at the Thursday evening meeting in the OVUHS auditorium with others attending via Zoom.
RNESU eyes 10.71% budget hike for FY’24
Specifically, the board is eyeing a spending increase of $1,149,539, from a FY23 budget of $10,773,367 to a proposed FY24 budget of $11,882,906.
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
Skip Jennings Founders Cup Golf Tournament at Neshobe Golf Club
Skip Jennings, 93 years old, led off the tournament with a beautiful drive right down the middle of the fairway on hole #1.

