Christopher Ross


  • Starksboro pursues exit from MAUSD

    Starksboro pursues exit from MAUSD

    Another Mount Abraham Unified School District community has officially launched a campaign to withdraw from the district.

  • Auditor: State spending on health care is ‘out of control’

    Auditor: State spending on health care is ‘out of control’

    It took just six presentation slides by Vermont State Auditor Doug Hoffer to astonish the audience of a virtual healthcare talk hosted by Bristol Democrats earlier this month.

  • Sugarmakers celebrate the art of boiling sap

    Sugarmakers celebrate the art of boiling sap

    After taking two years off because of the pandemic, the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association has brought back its popular maple open house weekend events.

  • Shoreham farm acquires high-end butter business

    Shoreham farm acquires high-end butter business

    Twenty-two years after founding Animal Farm Butter in Orwell and making it into one of the most celebrated farmstead butter operations in the country, Diane St. Clair has…

  • Illinois educator is tapped to lead Bristol Elementary

    Illinois educator is tapped to lead Bristol Elementary

    After narrowing the field to three finalists, the BES Principal Search Committee announced this week it has chosen John Bratko of Frankfurt, Ill., to be the school’s top…

  • Mount Abe celebrates renovations

    Mount Abe celebrates renovations

    The 54-year-old Mount Abraham Union Middle/High school building is brighter and shinier than it’s been in a long time, but the process of making it that way has…

  • Volunteers head to kitchens to tackle food insecurity

    Volunteers head to kitchens to tackle food insecurity

    A new program launched by the Metta Earth project is hoping to establish more connections between food producers and community members experiencing food insecurity. Its recipe for success…

  • College officials unfazed by COVID spike

    College officials unfazed by COVID spike

    Middlebury has 200 COVID cases on campus, but they aren’t as severe as in past instances, officials say.

  • MAUSD director of student support resigns

    The Mount Abe school district will have a reshuffle in how it supports students.

  • Cannabis sales approved in three towns

    Bristol voters on Town Meeting Day overwhelmingly approved a measure that will permit licensed cannabis retailers to operate in town.