Embroiderer, history buff to speak in Addison on Aug. 2

The DAR John Strong Mansion/Museum in Addison will host a talk by Ellen Thompson Saturday, Aug. 2, at 1 p.m.: “Education, values, creativity: Samplers of Post-revolutionary War Vermont.”

On July 20, from noon to 4 p.m., members of the Green Mountain Timekeepers will be on the porch at the Chimney Point State Historic Site in Addison for this “Blast from the Past” to talk with visitors about their historic time pieces.

The following real estate sales were recorded in the town of Addison in 2024 and in the first six months of 2025. Three properties sold for more than $1 million but none fronted on Lake Champlain.

The Addison selectboard at its June 3 meeting declined to endorse a statement supporting Constitutional guarantees for “due process, equal protection, and fundamental rights to all persons regardless of citizenship, immigration status, race, religion, gen … (read more)

An effort to get Vermont towns to adopt a resolution condemning attacks on due process and affirming the constitutional rights of all people in their towns is making its way to the town of Addison.

Addison resident Sophia Parker has been named Miss Vermont 2025.

On Sunday, May 18, at 2 p.m., Chief Don Stevens, Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk – Abenaki Nation will talk about the Abenaki culture and beliefs, what peoples were in this area, how the area was used.

A major land and timber-rights transaction approved — or at least not opposed — by selectboards in Weybridge and Addison has paved the way for the transfer of hundreds of acres of land and timber rights on Snake Mountain in both Addison and Weybridge to t … (read more)

Janet Loraine Clark, 87, of Addison passed away on February 10, 2025, due to complications from pneumonia, after fighting it hard for over three months. Janet was born on June 1, 1937, to Chase M. Clark and Evelyn (Bristol) Clark of Cornwall. She grew up … (read more)

There are contested Town Meeting Day races in two of the five communities that include Vergennes and the four other towns northwest corner of Addison County.

At an Addison selectboard meeting, a member of the public read a letter that personally maligned another Addison resident. We are deeply disappointed that this board permitted the use of a public forum for personal grievances.

Late last month the Vergennes LEOs Club completed — with plenty of help from Vergennes Lions Club volunteering time and expertise and community businesses’ support — its major project for the school year. The LEOs, a community service youth club sponsored … (read more)

Spectators mingled amid camp chairs and canopies as they gathered at Chimney Point State Historic Site in Addison on Saturday last month, primed for views of the Adirondacks across Lake Champlain.

These days it can feel like there’s an app for everything — listening to music, ordering food to your doorstep, and even managing herds of cattle.

As is the case in most Addison County communities, the overall residential tax rate in Addison — including taxes to support both municipal services and Addison Northwest School District schools — rose this year. In Addison’s case, the homestead rate incre … (read more)