- OLIN PORTZ OF Middlebury seeks aquatic critters in the rippled waters of Lake Pleiad on a recent sunny summer day. Photo by Wally Elton
- A great blue heron pictured in Lincoln resembles a maestro conducting a performance of Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Only the work of Handel requires this much wingspan. Photo courtesy of Dale Cockrell
- IN LATE JUNE, Cornwall’s Erin Sears took part in the USA Hockey National Development Program’s Eastern Select Camp at St. Anselm’s College. Sears and other players from 18 states were selected after tryouts for a week of training and games with college and prep school coaches and professional players from the Premier Hockey Federation. Erin is a rising Middlebury Union High School 9th grader who plays club hockey for South Burlington’s Dynamo HC and is looks forward to playing on the MUHS team this winter.
- Rising over the horizon and up through and out of the clouds, a buck supermoon shines over Middlebury on the night of July 14. Photo courtesy of Jonathan Blake
- Vermont Breakfast on the Farm returned in its entirety this year, drawing nearly 2,000 visitors to the Gosliga Farm in Addison. After two years of virtual activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the July 16 event invited participants to enjoy a local Vermont breakfast and take a self-guided tour around the dairy farm. The tour included 13 educational stations, educating visitors about daily life on the Gosliga Farm.
- Vermont Breakfast on the Farm returned in its entirety this year, drawing nearly 2,000 visitors to the Gosliga Farm in Addison. After two years of virtual activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the July 16 event invited participants to enjoy a local Vermont breakfast and take a self-guided tour around the dairy farm. The tour included 13 educational stations, educating visitors about daily life on the Gosliga Farm.
- Vermont Breakfast on the Farm returned in its entirety this year, drawing nearly 2,000 visitors to the Gosliga Farm in Addison. After two years of virtual activities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the July 16 event invited participants to enjoy a local Vermont breakfast and take a self-guided tour around the dairy farm. The tour included 13 educational stations, educating visitors about daily life on the Gosliga Farm.
- A LONE ANGLER plies the waters below an unusually low Middlebury Falls this past week. Water in the Otter Creek has been low due to a lack of rainfall in July, but it’s been even lower recently because of water being diverted into the southern sluice, once used to generate power, that skirts the falls. Independent photo/John McCright