Local sweethearts enter tenth decade — together

November 24, 2021

If you’re lucky, you’ll spot Victor and Betty Nuovo just about any morning, walking hand-in-hand along Main and/or Weybridge streets.

RNESU chief Collins retiring at year’s end

November 24, 2021

After 41 years as an educator, including 17 years as a superintendent, Rutland Northeast S … (read more)

November 24, 2021

Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects (HOPE) will reopen its Holiday Shop to in-person browsi … (read more)

November 24, 2021

The Patricia Hannaford Career Center is generally doing a good job, but should consider ad … (read more)

November 24, 2021

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s hockey team will not participate in this weekend … (read more)

November 23, 2021

With precision passing, clinical and at times gritty finishing, relentless ball pressure a … (read more)

November 23, 2021

Visiting Skidmore improved its record to 4-0 and dealt the Middlebury College women’s bask … (read more)

: STUDENTS AT THE Bridge School in Middlebury, who named their plow “Plowy McPlowFace,” include Connor Desabrais, Billy Mitchell, Daisy Madden, Viviana Billings, Sam Bierman, Cooper Heitkamp and Olivia. Independent photo/Steve James

: THE FIFTH-GRADE class at Bristol Elementary honoring classmate Adrien Ralph, who named their plow “Captain Snowpants.”

: EIGHT ADDISON COUNTY schools hosted state snowplows on Nov. 17 as the Vermont Agency of Transportation recognized them as winners in VTrans’s Name A Plow program. Schools submitted names — creative and clever, cute and silly — for the plows that will serve their communities this winter.

: EDORAH FRAZER, PRINCIPAL of Starksboro’s Robinson Elementary School, presents a chicken to first-grader Elijah Purinton, who suggested the name — “Snowy Chicken” — that the school voted to submit to the Vermont Agency of Transportation’s snowplow naming contest. The chicken will travel from class to class as the classes do things that contribute to the greatness of the school. Photo by Myriah Cogswell

: ‘SNOWY CHICKEN.’ THAT’S the new name of this snow plow, thanks to Robinson Elementary School first-grader Elijah Purinton, pictured here with plow drivers Steve Schropp (left) and Nick Hamel; and Calvin Peck in a giant chicken outfit. Elijah suggested the winning name for Robinson’s snowplow. Photo by Myriah Cogswell