This Week’s News
Pittsford Historical Society presents an old craft form: Samplers
Two hundred years ago, it was usual for young women to craft a piece of stitchery, embroidering a small piece of cloth with alphabets and numbers, perhaps in different styles, perhaps also with a verse and also design elements.
A new twist on ‘A Christmas Carol’ comes to Brandon this weekend
Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is a beloved holiday classic, but we’ve all seen or read it a thousand times.
From Adams to EmRose: vacation site in Brandon gets a big makeover
For the better part of the past year, everyone driving down Route 7 south of Brandon Village has wondered about the transformation of the old Adams cabin resort—most recently known as the Autumn Mountain Winery & Cabins.
‘Bankers Alley’ art installations joyfully unveiled in Brandon!
The Downtown Brandon Alliance unveiled ‘Bankers Alley’ on Saturday, capping a months-long campaign to add a little fun and color to what had been a rather dreary cut-through between Park Street and the parking lot behind Café Provence.
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Sports
OV girl’s basketball drops opener
In a hard-fought season opening game in which the teams traded game-changing runs, the host Middlebury Union girls’ basketball team put together the decisive surge to outlast Otter Valley, 35-28.
Six Otters named to Second Team All-Stars
After a successful season this fall, 10 members of the Otter Valley football team received postseason recognition from the Division III coaches.
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.
