Regional planning survey affirms housing crisis

With a great majority of Addison County residents agreeing that we are in a housing crisis, there’s broad support for creating new dwellings through zoning changes. People here also favor authorizing more accessory apartments and offering other incentives for startups.

Starksboro’s Robinson Elementary School will welcome a new principal in July. 

Middlebury College is working on a plan for the 3,000 acres of land it owns in the Champlain Valley, and community members are invited to take part in the effort. 

While Ilsley Public Library boosters are seeking to write a new chapter in the Middlebury institution’s 100-year history — one they hope will be based on a major makeover of the institution’s longtime headquarters at 75 Main St. — they’re also asking patr … (read more)

The Middlebury Development Review Board has given its unanimous approval for FW Webb to erect a 25,235-square-foot building in the town’s industrial park.

Tri-Valley Transit recently that it will be adding EZ Trip Middlebury microtransit service to its services. EZ Trip is a door-to-door, on-demand ride service that will be free and accessible to anyone in the large EZ Trip Middlebury Trip Zone.

Weybridge’s Sixth Annual Haiku Contest asked Vermonters to reflect on these challenging times. Reflect they did with 51 writers submitting 443 haikus. As in past contests, the themes ranged widely — despair over fickle weather, the challenges in growing o … (read more)

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 involved in enriching extracurricular activities. 

5 Town Friends of the Arts presents The Winter into Spring Musical Library Tour. On Thursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m. Sam Kuhns will be performing a free acoustic concert at the Lincoln Library.

The Leicester Historical Society is sponsoring Prize Bingo on Sat., Apr 13, at 1 p.m. at the Senior Center at the Four Corners. Refreshments sold and all are welcome!

The Monkton Museum & Historical Society is pleased to announce a presentation on Stephen Bates, the first black sheriff in Vermont, who held his position for many years in Vergennes.

Members of the public are invited to take a guided walk in Brandon’s Wolf Tree Forest next week and get a look at on-the-ground conservation practices implemented in the woods there.

Vermont Coverts: Woodlands for Wildlife, a leading conservation organization that works to educate landowners and others about sound forest management and wildlife stewardship, has launched a Bear Ambassador Program.

“Me and Kylie met at the American Legion Post 14 at Tuesday night bingo with our grandmas when we were four or five,” Cyrus recalled. Kylie Comeau and Cyrus Devine spent most of the years since then together.

Just before totality began on Monday, the DJ at the Middlebury recreation fields wrapped up “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” and a brief silence fell. Then the sun completely disappeared, and the crowd went wild.