Demo Derby: Flames, tears, joy and an incredibly humane story

The piloting prowess at display by drivers in the G. Stone Motors Demolition Derby at the Addison County Fair and Field Days on Tuesday night sent the crowd into electrifying cries as they cheered on the brave men and women navigating their rigs around the tractor pad.

You may not head to next week’s Addison County Fair & Field Days expecting to find a way to save money on your energy bill, but representatives from local energy committees and programs are working to make sure you do.

I would like to remind organizers that quite a few people I have spoken with were so incensed by the “TRUMP 2024” message on the video screen at the top of the midway that they will no longer attend the fair.

Lucien Paquette died last week at the age of 105. An icon of the agricultural community, he was widely known as the Father of Addison County Fair and Field Days.

HOME AND GARDEN DEPARTMENT AWARDSFrom Addison County Fair and Field Days, 2021FOODS:King Arthur Award 1st – Cheryl Cesario of Cornwall; 2nd – Perry Lessing of Weybridge; 3rd – Barb James of Bristol.King Arthur Award – Youth – Grace Tolles of New Haven.Dai … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — How does a judge in Addison County Fair and Field Days Home and Garden Department competitions assess crafts, home-grown vegetables, art work?Quality of workmanship, flavor, distinctiveness …Bethany Barry, who was judging a fish tank filled wi … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — Lori Brown may run the Field Days event with the strangest name, but she said it’s also one of the more inclusive and family-oriented competitions on the program: the gymkhana.On Tuesday gymkhana celebrated its 10th anniversary at Addison Coun … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — “You always get told not to smash up a car all your life,” said New Haven resident Zachary Lavoie, 21. “(And then you) turn up and smash a car and do what you were meant not to do.”Lavoie competed in the four-cylinder qualifying competition of … (read more)

ADDISON COUNTY — Addison County Fair and Field Days, which would have taken place this year on Aug. 11–15, has been canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic. All currently scheduled events at the county fairgrounds in New Haven have also been canceled … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — With a wink and a nod, anyone who’s lived around these parts for a while will acknowledge that our beloved Addison County Fair & Field Days is engaged in an epic annual struggle with the weather gods. On one hand — the positive one — heavy rai … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — The results of the draft horse competitions at the 2019 Addison County Fair and Field Days is as follows. Showmanship 13 & Under: 1. Jack, Fox Hollow Movers, Cameron Utter; 2. Jay, Fox Hollow Movers, Cameron McNiel. Showmanship 14-18: 1. ux, C … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — The following were recognized in the Children’s Barnyard Displays at Addison County Fair and Field Days. ATTENDED DISPLAYS Child — Under 8: 1. Natalie Layn, Quail; 2. Noah Sheldrick, Rabbit; 3. Timmy Wright, Ducks; 4. Abel Sheldrick, Chicken; … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — Everywhere you look at the Addison County Fair and Field Days, you see tractors — lined up by the demo derby arena, sprinkled about behind the antique equipment building. Seven of them belong to Phyllis and Bob Bowdish, owners of Weybridge Far … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — Opening night of Addison County Fair and Field Days 2019 on Tuesday was met with scattered showers. The wet conditions prompted fair officials to postpone the 8 p.m. opening parade until Wednesday evening. But despite the wet conditions (this … (read more)

NEW HAVEN — This week the Twist O’ Wool Fiber Guild celebrates 40 years as a guild and 40 years of demonstrating at the Addison County Fair and Field Days. The guild was organized by Eleanor Boutcher of Shoreham, Ellen Leone of Bristol and Shelagh Smith o … (read more)