Roaring cars smash and crash in Demolition Derby

Whether five or 45, age was not a limiting factor for participants in Tuesday’s annual Addison County Fair and Field Days Demolition Derby. Nevertheless, five-year-olds who took part in the action at the fairgrounds’ tractor pad were not smashing gas guzzling machines into each other. This year “drivers” ages three through eight were able to participate in the “Power Wheels” competition that kicked off the Demo Derby. Driving in kid-sized, battery powered cars, the children’s mission was to pop the balloons … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — On April 8 three Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center students, all seniors, learned their best work was the best, or close to the best, in Vermont. In one case, that of Vergennes Union High School senior and Vergennes resident Nima Mehregan, … (read more)