Lincoln woman witnesses ICE in Minneapolis, reflects on freedom of movement

A week after Alex Pretti was killed, I joined a dear friend in Minneapolis to offer support as they continued living day-to-day in a besieged city. We also went as witnesses and to carry back home to Vermont what could be scenes from our near future. If ICE is a virus spreading city to city then we all must be ready to muster soon.

School gyms and town halls were busy these past few days hosting annual town meetings. Read our town-by-town coverage.

Pulitzer Prize winner Beverly Gage will the lecture “This Land is Your Land: Grappling with the American Past on the 250th Anniversary of the Nation’s Founding” at Middlebury College.

Voters in Bristol and Vergennes have agreed to establish a local option tax in their respective communities. They join Middlebury as the second and third Addison County communities to approve one.

Residents of Addison County’s largest and smallest school districts approved their fiscal year 2027 public education budgets on Tuesday. But two school budgets on the southern end of the country did not pass.

American Flatbread owner Danielle Boyce and incumbent Dan Brown won three-year terms in a three-person race for two seats on the Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday.

Middlebury residents at their annual meeting decided a contested race for their selectboard and passed all money items on the warning — including a fiscal year 2027 municipal budget of $16 million that represents a 9.96% increase compared to the current s … (read more)

Addison County voters turned out at the polls on Tuesday to resoundingly endorse a Career Center budget request of $6,271,915, though residents of one of the towns served by the school didn’t get to vote on the spending plan.

The “Flip the Switch” campaign seeks to raise $70,000 for stadium lighting and an upgraded sound system, which could be installed at the Bristol school this spring.

The roughly three-hour gathering saw voters approve town and highway budget asks, reject a request for funds to repair Piney Woods Road and pose suggestions and questions to the selectboard over aspects of town operations.

Voters in several Addison County towns sent a clear message to the Vermont Legislature this town meeting season — they want to see action on universal health care for Vermonters.

The clocks will “spring” forward by an hour beginning at 2 a.m. this Sunday, March 8.

DAR members welcomed Louisa Guilmette and her mother, Nan, to the Samson Memorial in Cornwall to celebrate Lou’s selection as the 2026 Good Citizen Award winner.

My Dentist’s Son will host another of its ongoing gatherings at the Ferrisburgh Town Hall on March 15. This is a space to share tales of magic and miracle and to find meaning in stories that don’t seem to fit.

Bring proof of your pet’s prior rabies vaccination, if they have had one. Please leave your pet in your vehicle until you have checked in with the vet.