This Week’s News
RASTA is now ROC; launches Velomont Trail
BY KATHERINE LAZARUS ROCHESTER––The trail network organization that has been called RASTA since its founding in 2013 is changing its name to The Ridgeline Outdoor Collective (ROC), or Ridgeline, for […]
GMNF to hold use hearings on Telephone Gap’s 72k acres
BY CHRISTOPHER ROSS RUTLAND COUNTY — Last Wednesday night, when Green Mountain National Forest officials unveiled the 72,000-acre “Telephone Gap Integrated Resource Project,” they talked of many scientific things and […]
Polli honored by OV Football Club
BRANDON — Each year the Otter Valley Football Club offers a scholarship to one of our graduating seniors. The player must be going on to college, technical training, law enforcement or […]
Brandon to receive $5.53 million for wastewater project
Washington — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced Friday, July 9, that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $307 million to modernize rural drinking water and wastewater […]
The Maturing Garden
BY JUDITH IRVEN Creating a garden is like taking a journey. An adventure which, at the outset, we don’t quite know where it will lead. Gardens are also living creations, […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
Brandon Country Club created to fill the gap
After the first Neshobe Golf Club folded in 1903, the town of Brandon went without a golf course for the next 24 years.

