This Week’s News
Brandon Festival Singers ring in the holiday season with 42nd annual concert
The Brandon Festival Singers performed their 42nd annual holiday concert to a packed house at the Brandon Congregational Church on Sunday, December 8.
Pittsford Historical Society presents an old craft form: Samplers
Two hundred years ago, it was usual for young women to craft a piece of stitchery, embroidering a small piece of cloth with alphabets and numbers, perhaps in different styles, perhaps also with a verse and also design elements.
A new twist on ‘A Christmas Carol’ comes to Brandon this weekend
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a beloved holiday classic, but we’ve all seen or read it a thousand times.
From Adams to EmRose: vacation site in Brandon gets a big makeover
For the better part of the past year, everyone driving down Route 7 south of Brandon Village has wondered about the transformation of the old Adams cabin resort—most recently known as the Autumn Mountain Winery & Cabins.
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OV Wrestling has terrific tourney at MUHS
A deep Otter Valley wrestling team walked away from last week’s 50th annual Hubie Wagner Invitational Tournament in Middlebury as the team champions.
‘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.
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.