This Week’s News
Rockfest gets kids and families outside
BY KATHERINE LAZARUS BRANDON –– Rockfest came back to town for its second year of music, food and activities at Estabrook Park on Saturday, Aug. 7 from noon until 10 […]
Fall Sports Begins Aug. 16 for RNESU schools
BRANDON –– Otter Valley Union Middle and High School’s grade 9-12 football will kick off the fall sports season starting Monday, Aug. 16. “It’s a family within itself and I’m […]
Adam Bornstein joins Vt. Community Foundation
MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Community Foundation has hired Adam Bornstein as a Mission Investment Manager. Bornstein joins the Community Foundation after more than 25-years in finance, social impact investing, and […]
Green Mountain Writers Conference Comes to Brandon
BY KATHERINE LAZARUS BRANDON –– The Green Mountain Writers Conference came to the Brandon Inn from Monday, Aug. 2 through Friday, Aug. 6 for five days of writing, reading, workshops […]
Intl. Rehab Forum meets at Porter
MIDDLEBURY — Porter Medical Center in Middlebury hosted leading young rehabilitation medicine doctors from around the world at an international forum last week. Their personal stories were compelling yet their […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
OV beats Mill River in quarterfinal, 12-6
The third-seeded Otter Valley football team outlasted visiting No. 6 Mill River, 12-6, on Saturday in a Division III quarterfinal and will play No. 2 Fairfax in a semifinal this coming Saturday.
Proctor girls soccer shoots for 11th straight trip to finals
Going into the girls Division IV soccer playoffs, the question around the state is whether anyone can challenge two-time defending champions, the Proctor Phantoms.
‘Trash-talk’ allegedly used racial slur at OV/MR game
RNESU Superintendent Jeanné Collins released a statement on Monday, Nov. 1 referring to an alleged incident at the OVUHS-Mill River High School football game in which players may have used racial slurs in an escalated instance of trash-talking among the players, Collins said.
OV field hockey beats Fair Haven, 7-0, to earn No. 4 seed in Division II playoffs
The Otter Valley field hockey team earned the No. 4 seed in Division II after a successful regular season that concluded late last week. The Otters will open their title quest on Friday.
Field hockey love
A couple of weeks ago, an out-of-town sports team came to Brandon to donate a day of free labor. Brandon’s economic development and recreation director Bill Moore welcomed the help and put the Castleton University field hockey team to work moving a big pile of woodchips at the Seminary Hill Park playground and painting picnic tables at Estabrook Park.