Christopher Ross


  • MAUSD adopts sexual harassment policy

    The Mount Abraham Unified School District board at its Nov. 30 meeting adopted a new sexual harassment policy, 14 months after it was approved for posting.

  • 20 planned Bristol units to ease housing crunch

    20 planned Bristol units to ease housing crunch

    A pair of nonprofit housing organizations are nearing the financing and regulatory finish lines on a project that would add 20 units of affordable housing in a place…

  • Historic New Haven depot to travel across farm fields

    Historic New Haven depot to travel across farm fields

    Plans for relocating the historic New Haven Junction Train Depot have taken an adventurous turn in recent weeks.

  • College lauded for 2020 voter turnout

    College lauded for 2020 voter turnout

    It was about two weeks before the 2020 election when Middlebury College student Isabelle Hartnett realized the work she and her classmates were doing to boost voting engagement…

  • Coach Mary Stetson leads through empowerment

    Coach Mary Stetson leads through empowerment

    The field hockey program Mary Stetson built at Mount Abraham Union High School is legendary.

  • Proposed ANWSD-MAUSD merger faces bus challenges

    Some kids would spend 60-90 minutes on a bus — both to and coming from schools — plus spending on busing would go up by $385,000 to $880,000.

  • MAUSD gives towns say on school closures

    After nearly a year of debate over the issue of whether “repurposing” schools is tantamount to “closing” them, the Mount Abraham Unified School District board approved a measure…

  • MAUSD board turns away distraught parent

    Mount Abraham Unified School District Board chair Dawn Griswold refused to convene an executive session Monday night to hear testimony from a distraught parent who alleges her child…

  • College workers get a special bonus

    Middlebury College informed its faculty and staff last week that they would get two extra holidays this year and one-time bonuses to be paid in December.

  • Turkey farm preps for Thanksgiving

    Turkey farm preps for Thanksgiving

    If sales data from Stonewood Farm are any indication, more people are planning to host Thanksgiving meals this year, compared with 2020 during the first year of the…

  • Police investigate assault at Mount Abe

    A seventh-grader at Mount Abraham Union Middle School who was physically attacked by another student during school last week has come home from the hospital and continues to…

  • ANWSD-MAUSD merger forum slated

    The ANWSD/MAUSD Merger Study Committee invites the public to attend a virtual community meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 16, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

  • Firehouse food drive benefits Have-a-Heart

    Firehouse food drive benefits Have-a-Heart

    Fire departments in Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro collected more than 4,500 pounds of food and more than $3,000 for the Bristol Have-a-Heart Community Food Shelf…

  • Local family reunited with World War II Purple Heart

    Local family reunited with World War II Purple Heart

    During the summer of 1945, an Allied victory over Japan seemed imminent enough that Frank Darling, 55, of Caldwell, Idaho, felt the urge to celebrate in advance.

  • Monkton man convicted, sentenced for federal gun charges

    Monkton man convicted, sentenced for federal gun charges

    MONKTON — Former Monkton resident Kory Lee George, 33, who has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the July 2019 shooting death of his stepfather, David…

  • It’s been a sweet season for apples

    It’s been a sweet season for apples

    Trees in Bridport, Middlebury, Monkton, New Haven and Shoreham produced a bumper crop in 2021, and in some cases those trees are still giving.