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The new year dawned on Jan. 1 for the rest of us, but for one little girl the whole shebang kicked off on Jan. 2, when Porter Medical…

On Feb. 1, the Middlebury College Class of 2024.5 (popularly called “Febs”) headed to the Snow Bowl for their iconic graduation ceremony — going up the chairlift in…

March means town meeting, and Addison County residents dutifully went to the polls and their annual meetings to elect local leaders and pass a variety of municipal and…

April brought sad news for the town of Ripton: Its elementary school, decimated by declining enrollment, would be closing at the end of the academic year. The Addison…

At the beginning of May it looked like Bridport’s and Shoreham’s elementary schools would both remain open for the next school year, serving their own local children with…

Readers of the Addison Independent Summer Guide in June got some ideas about what would make a good “staycation” in the Green Mountain State and read about how…

As the dog days of summer unfolded in Addison County, a group of community members had their sights set on the upcoming school year and the fate of…

August in Addison County started out on a dry note, and local residents continued to battle drought throughout the month. Jon Lucas of Lucas Dairy in Orwell reported…

September opened with the community talking about the recently concluded 11th annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, which featured films from across the state and the world. The five-day…

Trump’s battle on immigrants came to Addison County in October when Panton’s Juan De La Cruz, a native of Mexico who has lived in the United States for…

The Middlebury College community kicked off the month of November by officially welcoming President Ian B. Baucom to his post. Baucom’s installation ceremony culminated a weekend of events…

While residents in the seven Addison Central School District towns are thinking about how they can keep their elementary schools open with declining enrolment, they found out in…