This Week’s News
Spotlight on the issues
Special bonds highlight votes at Town Meeting By RUSSELL JONES As Town Meeting Day nears and voters bone up on who they’ll choose for various board positions and community offices […]
BLSG district towns see legal costs edge up; Salisbury balks
By RUSSELL JONES A handful of residents led by Chris Fastie, of Salisbury, is challenging the operating procedures of the Brandon-Leicester-Salisbury-Goshen Insect Control District and running up the legal bills […]
Marijuana legalization put drug sniffers’ role in question
By RUSSELL JONES Cole, a drug-sniffing dog that is a member of the K-9 unit with the Vermont State Police, could one day be out of a job due to […]
Meet the candidates night
By RUSSELL JONES Three of the four candidates in contested races showed up for a candidate Q and A forum held by the Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce on Thursday […]
Legislative Report
By Butch Shaw Your legislators are now focused on committee work as the Town Meeting break, scheduled for March 2 through March 11, approaches. I do look forward to this […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
Cosmos, Otters embody sportsmanship
This past Saturday, the Otter Valley field hockey team met visiting Springfield in which both teams came out as winners by seeing close-up what good sportsmanship means.
OV wins State Championship!
The Otter Valley boys’ golf team dominated the field at the Manchester Country Club on Thursday, Oct. 10 to win the Division II championship by a 22-stroke margin.
Eagles pull away to topple OV in high scoring battle, 44-20
The Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative football team converted seven Otter Valley turnovers into 30 points on Saturday as the Division II Eagles won for the time this season, 44-20, at the visiting Otters’ expense.
OV field hockey starts fast, blanks host Tigers 5-0
When the Middlebury and Otter Valley union high school field hockey teams met in the 2020 Division II playoffs the Otters prevailed in double overtime.
