By RUSSELL JONES After more than a year, the work of the Otter Valley Planning Task Force is nearing completion. Assigned by the OVUU school board to develop a five- to ten-year plan for the district after consolidation, the task force met Monday to put the finishing touches on a plan present to the board. […]

By RUSSELL JONES Paul Hunt is the epitome of what the American Dream represents: He started his own business and built it up from nothing to a successful well-run operation. He married a wonderful woman, had kids and enjoyed life to the fullest. Born in 1945 in Burlington, Hunt’s father Kenneth was a farmer before […]

Otter Valley is proud to announce Lena Flanders as our Middle School Otter of the marking period. Lena brings a positive attitude and a smile with her each day. She is motivated and a self starter. Lena takes the lead in class and she helps her classmates without being asked. She shows curiosity and puts […]

By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley school board rejected a proposal from the Pittsford selectboard to use $100,000 of Burditt Trust funds to repair a sidewalk along Route 7 in front of Lothrop Elementary at a meeting on Wednesday. The board rejected the request because a majority believed it was a town expense, not a […]