Otter Valley, Slate Valley set school budget revotes

OVUU and SVUSD leaders will spend the next three weeks crunching numbers in hopes of getting fiscal year 2027 spending plans approved by their respective residents, who on March 3 defeated both districts’ original budget asks.

Bristol officials are in the midst of a couple of projects aimed at addressing sidewalks on West Street and aging waterlines in town.

A proposed 74-unit middle-income housing development in Vergennes, a major broadband expansion effort, and a keenly anticipated skatepark project in Middlebury are among 10 initiatives that have earned a place on the ACEDC 2026 Regional Priority Project l … (read more)

Pat Stevenson has always been fond of nature — in its purest form. Originally hailing from urban Connecticut, she knew that pastureland, once paved, is gone forever.

Starksboro residents will start exploring what it would require for the town to withdraw from the Mount Abraham Unified School District, should their community decide to pursue that option in the future.

The $94,386 per year comprehensive fee put Middlebury in the ‘middle of its peer institutions.’

Kollmann will join the university in its third year of an integrated statewide university system. The Vermont State Colleges System in 2021 merged Castleton University, Northern Vermont University and Vermont Technical College into a single institution.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 726 more Americans left Vermont than came to it between 2024 and 2025, the lowest domestic migration the state has had in years. 

Both men arrested were Berlin residents.

In other action last week, Middlebury police responded to the report of an unresponsive woman at a Jackson Lane address on March 3. Police said the woman was pronounced deceased at the scene.

Between Feb. 22 and March 7, the sheriff’s department completed patrols in multiple towns, stopped 112 vehicles for various motor vehicle violations, attempted to serve 32 pieces of civil process around the county and provided a car seat inspection for a … (read more)

On March 6 at a little after 2:30 p.m., troopers from the New Haven barracks got a report of a single-vehicle crash near Route 7 and Route 17, otherwise known as the New Haven Junction.

Between Feb. 22 and 28, Bristol police completed four foot patrols, conducted four traffic stops and checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School seven times, at Bristol Elementary School seven times and at local businesses five times.

MIDDLEBURY — Alex Barron, associate professor of Environmental Science and Policy from Smith College, will speak at Middlebury College on Tuesday about what colleges and universities can do, and are doing, about climate change. The talk titled, “Beyond Bu … (read more)

BRISTOL — The organization Bristol Area Indivisible is organizing a roundtrip bus to Montpelier from Bristol on Saturday, March 28, for the third big No Kings Day Rally. The chartered a bus will leave from 74 Munsill Ave. (BristolWorks) at 9:30 a.m. sharp … (read more)