Videos
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Video: The CocoaPort
The weekend before Christmas, Addison Independent digital editor Megan James and her family hosted a physically distant holiday extravaganza they called the CocoaPort. Inspired by COVID restrictions —…
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Video: All lit up
Buttolph Acres is all lit up for the holidays. Enjoy this tour through the Middlebury neighborhood. Want to show off *your* holiday display — and win some local…
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Video: Playing with fire in Middlebury
MIDDLEBURY — Town Hall Theater brought Cirque de Fuego, a Vermont-based fire cirucs, to Merchants Row for a fiery outdoor performance as part of the Bundle Up Artisan…
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Video: How to phone bank
https://youtu.be/q-bOR0XCAZs Phone banking for the election is easier than you think! Bristol resident Sarah Stott walks us through the process in this video by Marin Howell.
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Video: Preparing to install the new tunnel
In our latest video from the Middlebury construction zone, we talk to project manager John Whitaker about the next big phase: the installation of the precast concrete tunnel…
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Video: How to get around downtown
The removal of Middlebury’s Main Street bridge this past Monday marked the beginning of a 10-week intense phase of the rail tunnel construction project. For those who love…
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Video: Bye-bye, Main Street bridge!
On Monday, July 13, crews removed Middlebury’s Main Street bridge to make way for the construction of a new rail tunnel. The bridge removal marked the start of…
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Video: Giant crane kicks off Middlebury’s downtown construction
The Addison Independent is teaming up with Middlebury Community Television this summer to produce weekly video dispatches from the rail bridges project in downtown Middlebury. In the first one, we…
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Video: Doc Lyle Sol’s Medicine Show
Something special happened in Middlebury last weekend. Folks in Buttolph Acres and at EastView were drawn out of their homes and into the streets by an old-fashioned traveling…
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Video: A clang and bang parade in Vergennes
Every evening at 7 p.m. since March 26 up to two-dozen residents have gathered in the Vergennes Union Elementary School parking lot to begin a nightly car parade…
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Stay home to save lives
VERMONT — UVM Health Network produced this PSA featuring Dr. Tim Lahey. It urges people to stay home while the COVID-19 pandemic continues. This is a critical message…
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Ferrisburgh Central School Circus
FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh Central School kicked off 2020 with a two-week residency with circus artist Troy Wunderle of Wunderle’s Big Top Adventures. The kids were mesmerized by Wunderle,…
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Video: Working Cats
MIDDLEBURY — Homeward Bound, Addison County’s Humane Society, has just launched a new program called Paws on the Job, which aims to match some of the shelter’s less…
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Video: Loon rescue!
On Thanksgiving night, Vermont game warden Eugene Stearns responded to a call in Lincoln, where a loon was stranded in a field. The next morning game warden Dale…
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Video: Junebug’s Cozy Kids
MIDDLEBURY — For the past few years, the Middlebury resale shop Junebug has been donating children’s outerwear to local families who couldn’t otherwise afford it. Last year the…
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Video: Tricia’s Book Bike
MIDDLEBURY — Each Thursday through the summer, Ilsley Public Library’s Children’s Librarian loads up her bike with books to give away and rides — in costume — to…