Young Lions Club does good work

Over the past 10 months, a group of Vergennes-area teens have built a playground at the John Graham Shelter, installed an owl barn at the Otter Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center, worked at book sales and fish dinners, rake the grounds at D.A.R. John Strong Mansion, read to youngsters at Ferrisburgh Central School, and helped residents clean up after floods. 

The Middlebury Development Review Board has unanimously OK’d a mixed-use building on South Pleasant Street that will host offices for Marble Trail Financial and a penthouse residence for that business’s owners.

If you’re fortunate enough to be one of the 56 people on Dr. Tom Munschauer’s Christmas card list, you’ve just received a small sampling of his creative oeuvre: A watercolor painting depicting a wondrous winter scene. He’s been creating them each holiday … (read more)

Persistent rain flooded some roads in Middlebury on Monday, prompting the Addison Central School District to close schools in town early.

Blasting ledge could begin on Monday in Vergennes as work on the $25 million Vergennes Grand Senior Living project in the heart of the city gets underway.

Two state lawmakers are urging Addison County folks not to ease up on efforts to battle climate change.

Dustin Hunt always knew he wanted to work with children in the field of athletics. He got an opportunity to do just that during a 14-year stint with Middlebury Parks & Recreation Department (MPRD), five of those years as its superintendent.

Middlebury College has launched the public phase of the largest fundraising campaign in the institution’s 223-year history. What would all this money buy?

The Middlebury area will see a major infusion of much-needed childcare slots during the next two years, thanks to a big expansion of an established center and the launch of a new one.

A 14-year-old Burlington youth pleaded innocent to charges of second degree murder, manslaughter and aggravated assault in the case of a shooting in Bristol Monday evening.

Searching for a spooky way to spend the Halloween season? You are in luck. 

Longtime educator, philosopher, author, columnist, husband and Middlebury selectboard member Victor Nuovo was recalled as a gentle statesman and great human being whose heart — and love for the community — guided his decisions.

The woman who was shot to death on a rail trail in Castleton on Thursday was a retired dean at the nearby university. She is a former Middlebury resident who maintained ties to Addison County even after she moved to Castleton.

Local planners and a hired consultant this week unfurled Middlebury’s first-ever “Bicycle and Pedestrian Connectivity Plan,” a document that suggests 28 specific spots in the community where such amenities could be improved.

Vergennes resident Margaret Clifford offers nearly a century of recollections, from losing her first husband to a World War II wound, leaving her with five children, to doing laundry for her large family in a river, to traveling the world.