This Week’s News
Meet Guinness: Brandon’s newest police trainee
The newest member of the Brandon Police Department is warm, furry, too cute for words — and in the earliest steps of training.
Brandon to reconsider $1 million in ARPA spending
A change in the way towns can spend American Rescue Plan money sparked a lengthy conversation among Brandon selectboard members Monday night.
Press Release: Chamber of Commerce – OVUHS Prize Award
The Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce is once again offering its annual Otter Valley $500 Prize Award for a graduating senior or junior class OVUHS student.
Brandon Area Toy Project helps vets
The Auxiliary of the Fair Haven Legion decided to do a collection of needed supplies to augment services at the Veterans Home. Silver Bells and Operation Christmas for Troops of the Brandon Area Toy Project stepped up to help.
Mentoring: The need is great, the rewards are too
With the stresses of the pandemic, disrupted school days, and family members out of work for part of these past two years it is no wonder that the need for mentoring is at an all-time high.
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
Kaizen Fitness Arts, martial arts studio, opens in Brandon
Growing up in New Hampshire, David Belanger was a big fan of Ip Man, a Chinese martial artist who taught the legendary Bruce Lee.
The new Nesh, founded on old farmland, still thriving
After the Brandon Country Club closed in 1944, the town went without a golf course for thirteen years until, in 1957, a group of Brandon golfers started investigating places in town to build a new one.
