This Week’s News
OVUHS selected for CFES program
By Ariadne Will BRANDON — New York nonprofit College For Every Student (CFES) has selected 20 schools in Vermont and upstate New York to receive funding for college-readiness programming, starting […]
League of Women Voters announces 2021 scholarship recipients
BRANDON — OVUHS senior Grace Coolidge of Brandon was recently named one of The Vermont League of Women Voters 2021 Winona Smith Scholarship Awards recipients. She received $1,000 to help […]
UVUU School Board approves equity policy
BRANDON — After a tense meeting last month, the school board came together June 2 to continue their discussion of the 2.9 Equity policy, ultimately approving the measure 9-2 to […]
Proctor honors graduating seniors
PROCTOR — Maeve Sheehe, Lucy Tate and Hope Kelley lead the Proctor Class of 2021 with top honors ahead of graduation ceremonies this coming weekend. For their hard work and […]
First-ever rom-com! Harold Lloyd comedy ‘Girl Shy’ at Brandon Town Hall on Saturday, 6/19
Live music to accompany uproarious silent film classic; to be shown on big screen using restored edition. BRANDON — It’s a candidate for Hollywood’s first-ever “rom-com:” a silent film comedy […]
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.
