This Week’s News
The challenges and bright spots of pandemic learning
Tech, health and safety top issues, but creativity flourishes at Otter Valley Union High School.
Schools plan for handling the holidays
Spike in COVID-19 cases possible after Thanksgiving gatherings By LEE J. KAHRS BRANDON — The Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union wants as many kids in the schools as possible, but is […]
Annual Brandon Chamber auction gets boost through pandemic
By LEE J. KAHRS BRANDON — The pandemic has been difficult on everyone, especially small business, but it has caused an unexpected boost to the Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce. […]
It’s Hooker, Collamore and Terenzini for Rutland County Senator
By LEE J. KAHRS RUTLAND COUNTY — The Republican Party kept a Republican seat warm in the Rutland County Senate seat race with the election of Josh Terenzini. The first-time […]
No place she’d rather be
For the last 17 years, school nurse Melanie Parker has held down her dream job at Lothrop Elementary School in Pittsford. After all, she’s an alumnus.
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.
