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After long search, Bristol taps Nason as full-time police chief
BRISTOL — The town of Bristol has promoted one of its own. As soon as a few contractual details get ironed out, Bristol Police Lt....
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Middlebury's economic health panel gets two-year extension
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard is giving the community’s Economic Health Committee a two-year extension to come up with...
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Sing-along Scouts
SOME OF THE more than 10,000 Girl Scouts who attended a Scouting roundup at Button Bay in 1962 gathered at the Basin Harbor Club last week for a reunion. The women are seen...
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56 years and counting
IN 1962 10,000 Girl Scouts from around the world attended a Scout roundup at what is now Button Bay State Park. Last week more than 100 gathered at Basin Harbor Club for a...
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Looking for an opening
MOUNT ABE'S NEVIN Jemison looks for a way through the Otters' defense during Friday night’s game as Kameron Strickland moves in for the tackle. Independent...
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Closing in
OTTER DEFENSIVE BACK Dylan Mackie closes in on the Eagles’ Nevin Jemison during Friday night’s game. Independent photo/Evan Johnson
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Power
OTTER WIDE RECEIVER Nathaniel Hudson powers down the sideline Friday. Independent photo/Evan Johnson
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Facing off
THE OTTERS' DEFENSIVE line faces off against the Eagles Friday evening in Bristol. Independent photo/Evan Johnson
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Keeping the beat
THE VERGENNES UNION High School marching band drum line performs on the school’s auditorium stage before the introduction of guest speaker Gov. Phil Scott last week...
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Big dig
WORKERS SHOW GOV. Phil Scott the big drainage pit in downtown Middlebury last week. Scott made several stops in Addison County. Independent photo/Trent Campbell
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Deep down
PART OF THE drainage system for the rail bridges project in downtown Middlebury is in place now that the big pit is at its maximum depth of 40 feet. Independent photo/...
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Project update
GOV. PHIL SCOTT listens to a presentation about the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project last week. Scott made several stops in Addison County. Independent photo/...

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Vermont family recalls terror of riding out hurricanes
PITTSFORD — After surviving two of the worst hurricanes in recent memory, enduring a move of nearly 2,000 miles and contending with life in a...
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Australian playwright wins Town Hall Theater prize
MIDDLEBURY — Katie Pollock is the winner of Town Hall Theater’s “Ingenious Grant for Playwriting” competition, but you...
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Bristol performers kick off church fundraising
BRISTOL — It’s never a good sign when a roof needs a tarp. Unfortunately that’s exactly what happened this summer at the...
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Editorial

Editorial: Deane Rubright was loved
While driving to Cider Mill Road in Cornwall last Friday to attend services for Shoreham resident Deane Rubright, I followed a steady stream of cars that had been jammed up around the roundabout in Middlebury’s downtown. By the time the lot of us had turned onto Cider Mill, there was a line of cars 20 deep in front of me, and another 20 stacked up from the other direction. We were parking in the field at Woody and Ingrid Jackson’s...
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Sports

Eagle football's running game bests Otters' aerial attack
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BRISTOL — In a Friday night Division II high school football game featuring Otter Valley’s potent passing and the host Mount Abraham/Vergennes team’s bruising rushing, the Eagles’ ground-and-pound approach came out on top, 36-18.

Led by senior Kevin Pearsall’s 30 carries for 157 yards and an offensive line that allowed the Eagles to run for 340 yards on 63 carries, the Eagles offset a strong...

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Feature

Students of the Week - 9/17/2018
The Addison Independent is proud to publish the Students of the Week from area High Schools each week. The students are chosen by teachers and administration from each school who would like to...
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Video: When the Oxford Punch Needle went viral
Amy Oxford invented an ergonomic rug-hooking needle in 1995. Since then, she's been running her business and teaching rug hooking from an old farmhouse in Cornwall. But recently, business has...
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Sports Column

Andy Kirkaldy: Yes, that U.S. Open umpire was out of line
Wow, that Naomi Osaka is some tennis player, huh? Strong with good court coverage, great groundstrokes, booming serves, and what a lot of poise under pressure against Madison Keys in the U.S. Open semifinal last week and then Serena Williams in Saturday’s final. What a bright future. If she ever learns to take advantage of her height and quickness to develop a net game, Osaka could be the next great women’s tennis player, if she isn’t already. And yet, sadly, that’s not what anybody is talking about. Thanks for nothing, Carlos Ramos. Ramos is the match official...
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Arts Beat for Sept. 17: Joel Cage to perform at Brandon Music Saturday
JOEL CAGE RETURNS to Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Road in Brandon, on Saturday, Sept. 22, at 7:30 p.m. By GREG PAHL Spend an evening with the virtuoso guitarist and impassioned vocalist, Joel Cage, at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 22, at Brandon Music. Cage is an award-winning veteran singer-songwriter and guitarist from Boston who stands alone. You can’t compare Cage to any other player. He inspires amazement. His command over his guitar is incredible — an original,...
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