Art Cohn’s Erie Canal story gets published

“The underwater cultural heritage on the bottom of our waters is ‘a new archive’ to be managed, preserved and learned from.”

Fourteen Addison Northwest School District students in grades 7-12 competed — and five individuals and one team won awards — in the Vermont Historical Society’s annual Vermont History Day Contest.

It is Spring and that means Green Up Day! Ferrisburgh will participate in this statewide event on Saturday, May 3.

State Representative from Ferrisburgh updates Addison County residents on money bills being considered in the Legislature.

Town officials pulled the plug on live-streaming Saturday’s town meeting after someone hacked the site and X-rated images appeared as a legislator was addressing the crowd.

A Ferrisburgh Grange “King Pede” card party is scheduled for Saturday, March 15. This get-together is held at the Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center and will begin at 6:30 p.m. with a sandwich supper and then on to an evening of fun and games. Kin … (read more)

Preliminary work has begun to transform the former Ferrisburgh Methodist Church, on Route 7 next to Ferrisburgh’s town office building, into the new home of the nearby Gilfeather’s Fine Provisions, according to Rick and Nan Benson, the owners of the groce … (read more)

Ferrisburgh residents will consider from the floor of town meeting on Saturday, March 1, the selectboard’s proposed Fiscal Year 2026 spending plan of $2,830,154, which was adopted on Jan. 28.

Rokeby will host Julie Anderson, multi-Emmy and Peabody award winner and Academy-nominated Film executive for non-fiction documentaries, to talk about her personal experiences in researching, creating, and producing her work. Her experience includes overs … (read more)

Vergennes Historian Susan Ferland will be giving a talk about the Dalrymple Brothers of Vergennes on Saturday, Feb. 8, at 11 a.m., at the Cross Life Church, 1759 Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

The Friends of the Union Meeting Hall in Ferrisburgh will present a special screening of Jay Craven’s award-winning 1997 film, “A Stranger in the Kingdom,” based on the novel by Howard Frank Mosher. 

There are contested Town Meeting Day races in two of the five communities that include Vergennes and the four other towns northwest corner of Addison County.

While Vergennes residents on Town Meeting Day will consider a non-binding resolution relating to Israel and its treatment of some Palestinian people, Ferrisburgh voters will not have a voice on a similar resolution after the town’s selectboard declined to … (read more)

An early Wednesday morning water main break under Monkton Road cut off water to major portions of Vergennes and Ferrisburgh and ended classes for the day at Vergennes Union High School and Ferrisburgh Central School.

New state reps from Addison-4 says he is honored to be one of the 29 Republicans and 23 Democrats in this year’s very large freshman class, clearly reflecting voters’ desire for change.