Archive - 2009
March 9th
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Town Meeting Day votes in Vergennes, Panton and Waltham to end operations of those towns’ ID school boards in 2010 have set the stage for reconsideration of whether the four Addison Northwest Supervisory Union schools should be united under the control of one board.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — This time a week ago, Cornwall residents Jon Isham and Tracy Himmel Isham were facing arrest — or, at least, potential arrest.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — In what will be the first modern dance performance at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater since the building’s renovation, Middlebury College professor Tiffany Rhynard and a coterie of dancers and choreographers take to the stage this weekend, performing five cutting edge and conceptual dances in “Sampler.”
By ANDY KIRKALDY
MIDDLEBURY — Despite the constant, high-decibel support of a standing-room-only crowd in Pepin Gymnasium, the Middlebury College men’s basketball team saw the finest season in program history come to a stunning end in Saturday’s second-round NCAA Division III tournament game.
March 5th
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Gov. James Douglas on Monday said he will resist growing calls for the state to raise income or gasoline taxes to compensate for declining state revenue, and vowed instead to continue to push for cuts in programs and personnel to balance the state’s books.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County and Brandon-area voters backed all five local union school budgets and the Patricia Hannaford Career Center spending plan in Town Meeting Day balloting.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Scott Gaines admits his many hours of volunteering are not all about serving the community.
MIDDLEBURY — The Miles Donahue Quintet featuring Joey Calderazzo of the Branford Marsalis Quartet returns to Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts on Sunday, March 8, at 7 p.m.