This Week’s News
OCA teacher retires after 43 years
After 43 years of teaching at Leicester Elementary, Laura Coro is retiring at the end of this school year.
Green Up Day comes to VT
With a statewide focus to clear up every town road in the state, this year’s statewide Green Up Day campaign is challenging towns to reach the 100% goal.
Brandon’s Green Up Day set for May 7; details ready at Central Park Gazebo
Green Up Day is coming! Green Up Day is always the first Saturday in May and falls on May 7 this year.
Oops! Contractor takes the roof off wrong house
Brandon police received an unusual call on Thursday, April 21…
Energy dominates select board agenda; EV or gas-powered cruisers?
A lengthy discussion on how Brandon should be investing in renewable energy and lowering its carbon footprint conflicted with the perceived practical realities of the times at the town’s selectboard meeting Monday night.
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
VT Wrestling Championship at Otter Valley; Cole named Coach of the Year
Vermont’s top wrestlers competed in the “House of Noise” at OV last Friday and Saturday. One hundred and fifty-one competitors on 25 teams vied for the individual and team state championships.
Otter Valley Wrestling Alumni Association presents the first Ray Miro scholarship to Cassy Sue Thompson
A $1,000 check was presented to OV senior Cassy Sue Thompson by Wrestling Alumni Association President Richard Kepner last week.
