Celebrate Independence Day in Brandon on Saturday

Celebrate Independence Day in Brandon with free events all day on Saturday, July 5. There will be the parade, contests, children’s activities, beer garden, auctions, street dance, fireworks and much more. The theme of the day is Sunflowers, which represent happiness, good fortune and the ability to find beauty everywhere!

“Underworld” (1927), a silent drama that spurred a boom in “gangster” movies, will be screened with live music on Saturday, June 7, at 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center.

46-year-old Brian Bailey was found at his home on Champearl Road, and Vermont State Police consider his death suspicious.

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

Chef Robert Barral, who founded and runs Café Provence in Brandon, is back home from the hospital after being attacked by a man with a knife in the popular restaurant on Saturday.

The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation and the Vermont Advisory Council on Historic Preservation recently announced grants totaling $357,207 to 22 municipalities and non-profit organizations in nine counties for the restoration and rehabilitation … (read more)

Michael Lee Tebbetts, 64, passed away Feb.12, 2025, surrounded by his family at his home in Leicester. He grew up in Leicester and Brandon, where he received his early education. Michael was an avid hunter and fisherman.

A large mural painted by 15 Otter Valley Union High School students under the tutelage of Brandon artist Doug Lazarus recently went on display in downtown Brandon.

Scouts from around the state will come to Brandon to honor veterans with a parade this Saturday morning.

On Nov. 15 and 16, the world premiere of “Truman and Nancy,” a captivating and poignant one-act opera by renowned New York City composer William Zeffiro, will take the stage at the Barn Opera House in Brandon.

A rarely shown World War I prison camp drama with an unusual Christmas sequence will fill the big screen when “Barbed Wire” (1927) is revived on Saturday, Nov. 16, at the Brandon Town Hall.

Eight independent churches in the region will gather to celebrate aspects of the Christian faith recovered during the Protestant Reformation on Oct. 25 and 26 at the historic Brandon Baptist Church. Eight congregations will join together for music, encour … (read more)

The Brandon Museum has received an $8,000 grant from the Walter Cerf Community Fund at the Vermont Community Foundation.

“The Phantom of the Opera” (1925), the silent big screen adaptation of the classic thriller, will be shown with live music on Saturday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center, Route 7, in Brandon.

Brandon is going to be in Festival Heaven at the beginning of October when the charming town between Middlebury and Rutland will host its annual harvest fair.