Meet Guinness: Brandon’s newest police trainee

The newest member of the Brandon Police Department is warm, furry, too cute for words — and in the earliest steps of training.

A new art happening is opening at the Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon on April 22, at 5 p.m., featuring FROBERTAN, a collaboration between acclaimed artist Fran Bull and long time collaborator Robert Black.

The final maps of the redistricting bill, H.722, which redraws lines for Vermont legislative districts, will have an impact on Brandon and area towns.

GENEVIEVE CLIFTEEN GERO BRANDON — Genevieve Clifteen Gero, age 79, passed away Saturday, March 26, 2022, at her home in Brandon. Genevieve was born in Hancock on July 28, 1942. She was the daughter of Clifton and Geneva (Whitter) Vorse. She grew up in Han … (read more)

The curriculum chief will replace the retiring Jeanné Collins on July 1.

The Otter Valley Unified Union School District budget was defeated, 522-462, by voters in the Brandon-area district on Tuesday.

Though her career path was varied, her passion for art was clear. And just as this New Jersey native knew she wasn’t an urban person from the start, she also always knew she wanted to be an artist.

Sanford Rouse is at it again. In his recently released second memoir, the 93-year-old Brandon writer is taking readers back more than eight decades to the less complicated world he knew growing up in East Shoreham.

On July 1, 2022, Michael Ruppel will become OVUHS’s new principal, replacing Principal James Avery, who announced his retirement last November.

Want to become an exhibiting member of the Brandon Artists Guild? Applications are open now for the spring jury.

The Reverend Sara Ann Rossigg has been selected as the new pastor at The Brandon Congregational Church and will begin her full-time duties in mid-January.

VERGENNES/BRISTOL/BRANDON — Police in Vergennes, Bristol and Brandon are seeking help from the public in providing information about two recent attempted break-ins into pharmacies and one burglary at Kinney Drug Store in Vergennes in which police said thi … (read more)

Superintendent Jeanne Collins cited two main factors that prompted the action: a cluster of positive cases that affected a number of grade levels and sent at least six classes into quarantine, and a shortage of staff.

After decades of taking care of Brandon-area residents when emergency attention was needed, the Brandon Area Rescue Squad is now appealing to the community for an emergency of its own.

Performing their special combination of bluegrass, jazz, Celtic and traditional American string music, steeped in the hills of Vermont this concert promises to provide an incredible night of entertainment from some of Vermont’s finest musicians.