By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — As the temperatures rose into the high 90s on Saturday, 34 teams of Cornhole players made the journey from all over the state to the Brandon Inn for the first-ever Vermont State Cornhole Championships. “Despite the oppressive heat, we had a great turnout and a good day of Cornhole,” event […]
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BARN OPERA scores a new performance space
By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — The melodious voices that make up the BARN OPERA will soon be getting a new home. After two years inside the barn of Brandon Music on Vermont 73, the opera will be moving to the west side of Brandon on Pearl Street. “We have looked at, trespassed in, and explored […]
Center Street is paved!
By RUSSELL JONES With new pavement laid this past weekend in a critical section of the downtown, linking the newly revised road around the Green to that section of road redone to the north of the downtown, light is truly visible at the end of that proverbial tunnel. The road construction project that has been […]
Slaters top Otters, 3-1
Controversial call ends OV’s title chances By Andy Kirkaldy An Otter Valley Union High School baseball team led by seven multi-year senior starters compiled an outstanding 18-win season this spring. But on Friday night the 19th, and most important, victory slipped out of the top-seeded Otters’ grasp in the Division II final in Burlington at […]
Freshman legislator discusses thoughts on first session
By RUSSELL JONES Freshman Rep. Stephanie Jerome, D-Brandon, said that while the way the session ended was unusual and somewhat mystifying, the issues of surrounding a $15 minimum wage and establishing family leave are issues they can take up again in January. “We saved $250,000 a week by not going back,” she said in a […]
OV’s ‘comeback magic’ fizzles against Mt. Abe, 9-1
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter softball team has brought a kind of magic with them throughout the Division II playoffs. Comeback magic. They were down in every game they’ve played this postseason. Yet, no team has been able to top them on the scoreboard when it’s all said and done. That is, until they ran […]
West Rutland defeats Blue Mountain 19-9 in finals matchup
By RUSSELL JONES In many ways, what played out on Spartan Field in Castleton on Saturday, June 8, was very familiar for West Rutland fans. Just like in Barre for the basketball state final, the two teams fighting it out were the same, many of the players were the same, and West Rutland raised the […]
Otters to take on Fair Haven for state title
By RUSSELL JONES The Otter Valley baseball team continued their dominance of Division II as they faced off against Harwood on Tuesday, June 4, with a trip to the state finals on the line. The Otters scored three times in the first and that was all the support senior Josh Beayon needed as he threw […]
Legislative session ends with House walking out on Senate
Additional money earmarked for vector control but not necessarily for mosquito districts By RUSSELL JONES The 2019 session of the biennium ended in a strange fashion for state representatives as the House adjourned before the Senate for the first time in four decades on Friday, May 24. Representative Butch Shaw, R-Pittsford, said this was one […]
Movement underway to reclassify Otter Creek wetlands
By RUSSELL JONES An effort to reclassify the Otter Creek wetlands from a Class II wetlands to Class I is in the preliminary stages as the conservation commissions from Cornwall and Salisbury have formed a steering committee to petition the change. It is still very early on in the process and they still have much […]
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