Ice cream, history, hiking and community in focus on Ferrisburgh Day

Ferrisburgh Day, which returns this coming Sunday, Sept.15, brings the community together with events at a half-dozen venues around town.

An airplane crash on Sunday afternoon claimed the lives of four people who had flown up for brunch at the Basin Harbor resort.

For 14-year-old George Cammack attending the 2024 Fire Cadet Academy hosted in Pittsford by the Vermont State Firefighter’ Association was one of the few times he stepped foot outside of his Ripton home this summer.

An oft-repeated African proverb posits that it takes a village to raise a child. In Salisbury, it took a community to launch a new childcare center.

Your stinky trash is piling up in your garage and you missed that one, three-hour opportunity every one or two weeks when a hauler is parked at your community’s designated drop-off location to collect rubbish and recyclables.

The Addison Central School District (ACSD) on Aug. 20 honored its top staff and educators for 2024, one of whom has also earned statewide accolades for her performance.

The 10th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) went all-out for its first double-digit birthday, and that paid off in attendance and quality for the five-day extravaganza that dominated the shire town from Aug. 21 to 25.

A blood-sucking creature that comes at dusk is frightening Vermonters this summer. 

Bristol property owners can expect to see an increase in their tax bills this year. 

There will be a party on the Bristol Town Green on Friday, Sept. 13, from 4-7 p.m., to celebrate 35 years of Addison Housing Works, a nonprofit that creates and preserves affordable homes in Addison County.

Extreme weather and flooding returned to Vermont for the second summer in a row, but Addison County farmers reported less damage from storms this past July than in 2023.

The Vergennes City Council on Aug. 27 approved a $40,000 city loan to downtown ice cream business lu*lu to help it expand the company’s manufacturing/wholesale end into an undisclosed location elsewhere in Vergennes.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board last week discussed options for the future of the district’s central office location, ultimately showing support for entering into another five-year lease at the BristolWorks complex on Bristol’s Munsill Ave … (read more)

Ferrisburgh Day returns Sept. 15 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with celebrations across five sites all close to the Town Center.

A state program is helping Bristol officials identify potential energy-related upgrades to municipal buildings that could help lower operating costs and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.