MUMS repair costs could top $45 million

Proposed improvements to the crowded middle school building include expansions to the gym, library, kitchen and cafeteria, along with new classrooms and common space.

Citing mounting professional and family responsibilities, longtime Middlebury selectboard Chairman Brian Carpenter says he won’t run again in March.

The longtime owners of Green Peppers in Middlebury are selling their business to Christian Bloom, who owns and operates The Retro Realm arcade next door.

The vending machine, located next to Bristol Police headquarters at 72 Munsill Ave., is stocked with Narcan and other emergency health products.

The ACSD board on Monday voted 8-1 in favor of a plan to blend Shoreham’s kindergarten through 5th-grade students into Bridport Central School beginning next fall, and convert Shoreham Elementary School into a district Pre-K hub.

The ACSD board on Monday agreed to initiate the formal closing of Ripton Elementary School, a move that will still require a positive vote by district voters on Town Meeting Day.

Residents came together to provide “Thanksgiving in a Box” to neighbors in need.

Next to the Bristol police headquarters off Munsill Avenue is a band refrigerated bays that CVOEO stocks with food for qualifying low-income families.

A Bridport citizens group has come up with ideas for boosting the town’s limited housing stock and is working with a local landowner to map a hypothetical new neighborhood.

Otter Creek Child Center cut the ceremonial ribbon on its newly completed renovations that will allow it to ramp up staffing and add 77 childcare slots.

During a Tuesday forum about Act 73, ACSD Superintendent Wendy Baker described the changing education policy landscape that could shape Addison County schools.

The Brakeley family is extending Libby’s Trail on the Porter Medical Center campus, converting it into a roughly half-mile loop that anyone can enjoy.

The CSAC board recently picked Taylor Morley, 34, as its new Executive Director.

The numbers presented to the ACSD board on Monday were a very tentative, birds-eye view of Middlebury Union High School’s repair, maintenance and upgrade needs.

A citizen-led effort to revive the former Buxton’s Store building in Orwell was selected to receive financial and technical assistance as one of five beneficiaries of the 2025 Village Trust Initiative.