County officials take oaths of office

Rose Elmore pins the Adison County Sheriff’s badge on her husband, Michael Elmore, at the Mahady Courthouse in Middlebury this past Wednesday. Michael Elmore took the oath of office to become the county’s top elected law enforcement officer that day, as did the other elected county officials.Independent photo/Steve James ADDISON COUNTY — In Vermont, there aren’t many countywide offices, but there are some. This past Wednesday, Feb. 1, Addison County’s elected officials elected this past November were sworn … (read more)

No one was injured, but a fire near downtown Middlebury on Saturday morning destroyed a garage and brought out 38 firefighters from three area towns in sub-zero temperatures.

Brrrrrr! Wind chills of minus 20 or colder force big changes in events planned for this weekend.

Middlebury has earned a Neighborhood Development Area, or NDA, designation from the state for a large swath of property in its core village area.

It’s a new biennium, but a return to a familiar battle for Rep. Robin Scheu.

The Patricia Hannaford Career Center has hired a new superintendent: Nicole MacTavish, a longtime educator currently working in the Marshall Islands. School officials and MacTavish worked out final terms of a contract on Tuesday.

Faced with managing changes in best practices, business competition and climate change — not to mention the daily challenges of raising crops and animals — growers and ranchers who gathered at the Champlain Valley Farmers Coalition annual meeting in Middl … (read more)

In an effort to make youth programming more accessible to families in the 5-town area, the Bristol Recreation Department will be implementing a new, “pay what you can” payment system for half of its youth camps this summer.

On a snowy, below-freezing evening in Lincoln last week, Dale and Lucinda Cockrell shared with listeners at the Lincoln Library stories of their recent adventures in a much warmer climate.

Porter Medical Center needs volunteer doulas, who provide guidance and support to pregnant women during labor.

Two communities in the 5-town area of Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro will elect new selectboard members on Town Meeting Day after a handful of incumbents decided not to run again. 

Vergennes will have a new mayor, at least one new member of the city council, and a new city representative on the Addison Northwest School District Board after voting on Town Meeting Day. 

Town Meeting Day this March will feature three races involving four seats on the 13-member Addison Central School District board.

The 2023 Legislative Breakfast series will debut in Vergennes on Monday, Feb. 13, at the St. Peter’s Parrish Hall, 85 Maple St.

Vermont is still not meeting its goal of recycling and composting half its waste, according to a new report from the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation.