MIDDLEBURY — FEMA has announced $7.8 million in direct assistance grants to 340 fire departments nationwide, including the Middlebury Fire Department. The grants are part of the agency’s FY2020 Assistance to Firefighters Grant COVID-19 Supplemental program (AFG-S). Middlebury got a $2,566 grant, and was one of only three departments in Vermont to do so. The others were in Norwich and Underhill-Jericho. The Fiscal Year 2020 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program – COVID-19 Supplemental (AFG-S) is a suppl … (read more)