Bridport


  • Sunderland Farm recognized for excellence in dairying

    Sunderland Farm recognized for excellence in dairying

    By LISA HALVORSEN, Freelance Agricultural Journalist for UVM Extension BRIDPORT — Sunderland Farm, a sixth-generation dairy operation in Bridport, can best be described as a farm with a future…

  • Bridport Dem seeks Vermont House seat

    Bridport Dem seeks Vermont House seat

    BRIDPORT — Jubilee McGill knows what it’s like to struggle. It wasn’t that long ago that McGill, now a 36-year-old Bridport resident, was a single mom without stable…

  • Town meeting results: Bridport

    Town meeting results: Bridport

    BRIDPORT — Bridport residents at their town meeting on Tuesday morning endorsed all the money items on their warning, including a major bridge/culvert project and a new, one-ton…

  • Bridport town meeting preview 2020

    BRIDPORT — Bridport residents at their town meeting next Tuesday will be asked to bankroll a major bridge/culvert project and a new, one-ton truck for the highway department.…

  • Vermont State Police Log: Crime spree blamed on Bridport man

    ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police are blaming a Bridport man for what appears to be a one-man crime wave between August and November of last year. After…

  • Pet of the week: Fiona

    Pet of the week: Fiona

    Fiona is 10 months old and loves wrestling with her kitty friends Sweetie Pie and Silas, going to the park with her big brother Harrison, and running around…

  • Vermont State Police Log: October 22A crash investigation results in charges

    ADDISON COUNTY — On Nov. 30 Vermont State Police wrapped up their role in investigating a bad crash on Route 22A that had sent four people to the…

  • Wetlands hearing in Bridport set for Nov. 20

    BRIDPORT — The Legislative Study Committee on Wetlands will hold a public hearing on the regulation of wetlands in Vermont on Wednesday, Nov. 20, in Bridport. The hearing…

  • Vermont State Police Log: Head-on car crash injures four in Bridport

    ADDISON COUNTY — At around 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 18, Vermont State Police were dispatched to an address on Creek Road in Salisbury for a motor vehicle complaint.…

  • Wedding: Brittany & Ryan

    Wedding: Brittany & Ryan

    Brittany and Ryan’s lives have been aligned almost their whole lives. Their initial meeting would date back to Evergreen preschool in Vergennes. They then reconnected at Vergennes Union…

  • Wedding: Alicia & Brad

    Wedding: Alicia & Brad

    Though neither had high hopes for the platform, Brad and Alicia had initially met online. They started off tentatively, just talking for well over a month before they…

  • Three plead innocent in Bridport harassment case

    Three plead innocent in Bridport harassment case

    BRIDPORT — Three Bridport men on Monday pleaded innocent in Addison Superior Court, criminal division, to charges they engaged in a series of crimes targeting multiple farm families…

  • Bridport farm prospers with new technology

    Bridport farm prospers with new technology

    BRIDPORT — Meet Bob, Nancy, Brittany, Abigail, Vanessa, Laila and Beau. Farmers Bob and Nancy, and their five kids, make up the Sunderland family. Despite their busy lives,…

  • Letter to the editor: VSP wrong on bias incident

    Letter to the editor: VSP wrong on bias incident

    I read with some relief when the state police claimed that the recent harassment at and vandalism to Mexican farmworkers’ homes in Bridport was the result of a…

  • Three Bridport men cited in farm family ‘feud’

    Three Bridport men cited in farm family ‘feud’

    BRIDPORT — Vermont State Police on Wednesday announced the arrest of three Bridport men on third-degree arson, aggravated stalking and other citations in connection with a series of…

  • Police investigate possible hate crime in Bridport

    BRIDPORT — An activist group alleges that a group of people recently surrounded farmworkers’ homes in Bridport, shouting insults and firing guns. The group Migrant Justice has called…