Middlebury College’s Feb Class of 2024.5 gathered for their graduation ceremony on Feb. 1, marking the culmination of their academic journey with impassioned speeches that urged them to challenge norms, step beyond comfort and leverage their collective power for meaningful change.
For 14-year-old George Cammack attending the 2024 Fire Cadet Academy hosted in Pittsford by the Vermont State Firefighter’ Association was one of the few times he stepped foot outside of his Ripton home this summer.
For a lot of fairgoers, the Addison County Field and Fair Days is about the eating street food, enjoying the rides and watching cars crash into each other.
On Tuesday, Aug. 20, Vermont Adult Learning will host its graduation ceremony at the Kirk Alumni Center at Middlebury College.
Addison County Fair and Field Days, Vermont’s largest agricultural fair, has cleared a lot of hurdles over its nearly eight decades of offering fun, competition and education about our collective past and current community.
Nearly every year since the late 1960s, the young and the old with a special loyalty to hand tools gather to show their skills at the Addison County Fair and Field Days hand-mowing competition.
The Twist O’ Wool Guild is making its annual return at Addison County’s fair, in fact celebrating its 45th anniversary at Field Days.
This election year, 2024, also marks the end of my four years studying abroad in a U.S. college. Four years at Middlebury was four years under the Biden administration as a noncitizen, a student from China.
As the clock hit two o’clock on the first day of the Addison County Fair & Field Days this past Tuesday, kids and adults alike rush to the sheep tent in the northeast corner at the Addison County Fairgrounds.
On the first evening of Addison County Fair and Field Days, horses are quickly lined up behind the warm-up ring gate, ready to gallop.
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Saturday was a typically hot summer day, and there was a lot of cool water splashed and sprayed in the G. Stone Motors parking lot in Middlebury. But it wasn’t kids playing in the water — it was adult men and women.
From a child’s point of view, it might have been that two fairies manifested from a secret garden and made their way to the local library.
According to Hank Bissell, more than 7 acres of crops were destroyed, farm roads were washed out, and areas of cropland were scoured out as much as three feet deep.
The 2023 Vermont Waste Composition Study conducted by the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation concluded that textiles grew as a portion of Vermont’s aggregated municipal solid waste (MSW), from 4.2% in 2018 to 6.5% in 2023.
