- MOUNT ABE JUNIOR Julianna Murphy stretches to keep a ball alive this past Friday night during the Eagle volleyball team’s debut varsity match, which was a victory over visiting Vermont Commons. Independent photo/Steve James
- MUHS SENIOR GOALIE Lyle Cary had a big day Tuesday in the boys’ soccer game in Middlebury. Here he races off his line to beat Commodore senior forward Aiden Fuller to the ball. Independent photo/Steve James
- JOANN SITS ON the shoulder of her neighbor Lloyd Raymond and holds a 3-foot yardstick on top of his 5-foot-8-inch frame and it still doesn’t reach the top of this 9-foot-tall sunflower in West Addison. And we’re still a ways from the first frost! Photo courtesy of Barbara Pelton
- United Church of Lincoln Pastor Co-Relous Bryant revs up the several hundred people who came tot he Bristol town green on Labor Day for sign waving and speeches. Photo by Jonathan Blake
- THE BANDS ON these two butterfly chrysalises found in Weybridge late last month glitter just like gold. The caterpillars inside are going through their metamorphosis and after a few weeks will suddenly emerge from these cases as incredible monarchs. Peggy Lyons, who sent in this picture, said the last time she did this the newly hatched butterflies climbed onto her hand and stretched their wings to dry them before softly drifted away — probably heading for Mexico! Photo by Peggy Lyons
- ASSOCIATE CURATOR AND Professor Pieter Broucke, above left, gestures toward two prints by Giovanni Battista Piranesi that Middlebury College acquired in 1900 for the inauguration of Starr Library. They are featured in the exhibition “Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Visions of Grandeur,” on view at the Middlebury College Museum of Art through Dec. 7. Above right, Broucke stands beside the “Ancient Roman Cinerary Urn,” an antiquity restored by Piranesi. Independent photos/Maria Barr
- The staff at Middlebury Sport and Spine formally open their business at 227 Pond Lane in a ceremony late last month. Pictured, from left, are Dr. Erik Pajer-Rogers, Cheyenne Capek-Reed, Caitlin Bone, Jacob Bone, and Anneke Jewett.














