Business


  • New owners, familiar faces, take helm at Waybury Inn

    New owners, familiar faces, take helm at Waybury Inn

    Chas Lyons was a longtime customer of East Middlebury’s historic Waybury Inn. His wife, Halina, used to work there.

  • Vermont lifestyle lures biotech duo to buy lumber yard

    Vermont lifestyle lures biotech duo to buy lumber yard

    What do two, 37-year-old friends do after successfully incubating and growing two successful biotechnology companies in the greater Boston area? They become owner-operators of an established lumber business…

  • A chocolate shop opens in Middlebury

    A chocolate shop opens in Middlebury

    On Main Street, down a flight of stairs on the south side of Otter Creek Bridge is a recently opened chocolate store — Adagio Chocolates. 

  • Stone Mill launches new wine bar

    Stone Mill launches new wine bar

    The Stone Mill’s partnership with Dedalus is aging like fine wine. 

  • New owners take over local vineyard

    New owners take over local vineyard

    Spring is a season associated with new beginnings, and that’s certainly been the case this year at Lincoln Peak Vineyard, where new owners Nichole Bambacigno and Kevin Bednar…

  • Local woman starts new fitness center

    Local woman starts new fitness center

    Karrie Sinks has opened 802 Pilates Health & Fitness in The Centre shopping plaza in Middlebury, in a space previously occupied by H&R Block, and then Middlebury Sew-N-Vac.

  • MUHS grad wins $212K business pitch award

    MUHS grad wins $212K business pitch award

    When Salisbury’s Zachary Dunn graduated from Middlebury Union High School in 2019, he wasn’t sure what he wanted to do — other than attend the University of Vermont.

  • Popular Middlebury UPS Store to close

    The very popular UPS Store at 105 Court St. in Middlebury will close on May 31, and the building in which it’s been located since 2014 has been…

  • Bristol startup aims to help kids learn key skills

    Bristol startup aims to help kids learn key skills

    When Carleen Haylett founded EnrichedHQ Marketplace four years ago, the Bristol resident was hoping to address an ongoing challenge she and other working parents faced: getting their children…

  • Sparrow Art Supply flies to a new nest

    Sparrow Art Supply flies to a new nest

    Downtown Middlebury’s Sparrow is leaving its nest, but it’s building a new one just a few wingbeats away.

  • AllEarth Renewables first tenant at Bristol’s new park

    AllEarth Renewables first tenant at Bristol’s new park

    AllEarth Renewables, a prominent provider of sustainable solar energy solutions in Vermont, has announced its recent relocation from its current headquarters in Williston to a new state-of-the-art manufacturing…

  • 3 Squares to change hands after 17 years

    3 Squares to change hands after 17 years

    Sometime in the near future, Matt and Danelle Birong will sell their downtown Vergennes eatery, 3 Squares Café, to longtime friends Scott Collins and Jody Hayes, a couple…

  • Local comes home to steer car dealership

    Local comes home to steer car dealership

    Cory Quenneville is living a dream, but slumber has been a challenge. It’s part of the excitement of returning home to Addison County to take over the vehicle…

  • Smoke & Lola’s cooks up comfort food in Bristol

    Smoke & Lola’s cooks up comfort food in Bristol

    Lincoln residents Abbey LaMay-West and Wayne Johnson are passionate about feeding their community. 

  • Midd Partnership chocolate bar raffle is back

    Midd Partnership chocolate bar raffle is back

    The Better Middlebury Partnership’s chocolate bar raffle is back this year, and it features awesome local prizes. 

  • County businesses earn state support

    Gov. Phil Scott and Jennifer M.V. Fitch, commissioner of the Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services, recently notified the Addison County Economic Development Corporation that it was…