Classic Harold Lloyd comedy ‘Speedy’ to screen in Brandon

He was the bespectacled boy next door whose road to success was often paved with perilous detours. He was Harold Lloyd, whose fast-paced comedies made him the most popular movie star of Hollywood’s silent film era.

The Otter Creek Watershed Insect Control District Board of Trustees is looking to fill three leadership roles after a handful of former leaders recently resigned from their positions. 

Buster Keaton stars in “The Cameraman” (1928), a classic silent comedy to be screened with live music this Saturday, July 20, at 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall.

Celebrate Independence Day in Brandon with free events all day on Saturday, July 6. There will be the parade, contests, children’s activities, a beer garden, auctions, a street dance, fireworks and much more.

Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union students from Devon Karpak’s woodworking class at Otter Valley Union Middle and High School crafted a new sign for the Brandon Police Department. They presented the sign to Chief of Police David Kachajian on June 5.

“The Thief of Bagdad,” a celebrated triumph for actor/director Douglas Fairbanks stands as one of greatest achievements of cinema’s silent era. It’s a film filled with images of flying carpets, exotic cities, underwater palaces, winged horses, fire-breath … (read more)

Neil Silins of Brandon has been awarded the Vermont Arbor Day award by the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program, which recognizes an individual who has made a significant difference in his or her community’s urban and community forest.

Renowned artist and Brandon resident Warren Kimble made a huge splash in the 1990s putting his distinctive twist on 19th-century folk-art styles, creating a whimsical world of white New England houses and wildly proportioned farm animals.  One of those an … (read more)

Classics from the silent film era return to the big screen this May at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center, which will host another season of vintage cinema with live music.

The Otter Valley school budget wasn’t the only spending plan defeated on Tuesday.

Voters in the Brandon area on Tuesday got a second chance to approve a fiscal year 2025 spending plan for the Otter Valley Unified Union schools. They said, no thank you.

Voters in the Brandon area on April 30 will get a second chance to approve a fiscal year 2025 spending plan for the Otter Valley Unified Union schools.

Members of the public are invited to take a guided walk in Brandon’s Wolf Tree Forest next week and get a look at on-the-ground conservation practices implemented in the woods there.

Robin Myers, a Family Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director of Community Health Brandon, is a recipient of one of the 2023 Rutland Regional Medical Center Advanced Practice Provider of the Year Awards.

The town of Bristol through the years has been home to many individuals who’ve served our country in the armed forces, including more than a dozen veterans who’ve been awarded a Purple Heart for the sacrifices they made while in the line of duty.