This Week’s News
Ruth Stone Foundation hosts poetry reading
By RUSSELL JONES The Book and Leaf in Brandon held a poetry reading by a group of poets from the Ruth Stone Foundation on Saturday. Founded by her granddaughter Bianca Stone and Ben Pease, the foundation is attempting to carry on a legacy that was started many years ago. The Foundation, started in 2013, looks […]
Humane Society 60th celebration howling good time
By RUSSELL JONES The Rutland County Humane Society celebrated their 60th anniversary on Saturday with a cookout and animal get-together. Despite the soggy ground and the weather threatening more rain, many area residents showed up to enjoy hamburgers, hot dogs and cake. The celebration, which included a good number of dogs, reflected on the six […]
OV Task Force tests three-phase plan
By RUSSELL JONES After spending the past year gathering data, conducting surveys, holding community forums and focus groups, and hours of internal discussion, the Otter Valley Planning Task Force met Monday night with a select group of 20 community members from the five district towns to discuss a three-phase plan to effectively manage the school […]
State Police train for active shooter at OVUHS
By RUSSELL JONES Adorned with replicas of different planets in our solar system, the blue and white hallways of Otter Valley are cast in long shadows as the harsh glow of the fluorescent lighting falls on four VSP recruits who are moving stealthily down the school’s hallways, their black uniforms in stark contrast to the […]
Proctor to hold special Town Meeting to approve $330,000 bond vote
By RUSSELL JONES The Proctor selectboard approved a resolution to call a special town meeting and ask for a $330,000 bond vote to provide renovations to the office and install a wheelchair lift and repair a falling front wall at their Monday meeting. The special town meeting will be held on June 3. There will […]
Photos of the Week
Sports
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.
Proctor and West Rutland fall sports start Aug. 19
West Rutland High School and Proctor High School are starting their fall sports on Aug. 19. These sports are varsity boys and girls soccer and a bass fishing team.
Fall Sports Begins Aug. 16 for RNESU schools
BRANDON –– Otter Valley Union Middle and High School’s grade 9-12 football will kick off the fall sports season starting Monday, Aug. 16. “It’s a family within itself and I’m really looking forward to seeing everybody,” said OV Football Offense Coordinator Coach Jordan Tolar, 28, who is returning for his fifth year of coaching at […]
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 military services. We ask that the applicant take the time to tell us what football at OV has meant to them. Our recipient for the 2020 […]
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 dedication, Sheehe and Tate were honored as co-valedictorians, while Kelley is salutatorian. Shehee, the daughter of Kevin Shehee and Carol Ryan of Proctor and N. […]
