Doggie daycare to open in Middlebury

Brett Pollinger is launching a second Woof Pack doggy daycare and boarding center in Middlebury, in the former Vermont Field Sports building.

Middlebury voters overwhelmingly backed all the financial items on their town meeting agenda and elected Farhad Khan and Fred Dunnington to three-year terms on their selectboard.

At Monday’s Legislative Breakfast, local hunting and trapping enthusiasts grilled Sen. Chris Bray on bill S.258, which proposes to transfer the authority to adopt rules for the taking of fish, wildlife and fur-bearing animals from the Fish & Wildlife Boar … (read more)

Middlebury officials are working on a 10-year plan for upgrading the community’s 54-mile municipal water system — some of it more than 100 years old — that’s been springing an alarming number of leaks in recent months.

While some Addison County congregations are shrinking so quickly that they’re turning their churches into community centers, leaders at Middlebury’s Memorial Baptist Church are aggressively searching for more space in which to house their popular programs … (read more)

In an era when names rotate quickly on selectboard rosters, it’s nice to have a consistent, go-to person fronting your town office.

When Middlebury voters endorsed a local option tax back in 2008, they saw it as a means by which neighbors and visitors would help pay off debt on the $16 million Cross Street Bridge. Sixteen years later, the local option tax has been paying even bigger d … (read more)

For around 70 years, the proud old farm silo standing near the intersection of Route 7 and Exchange Street served as a familiar, friendly beacon to those entering and exiting Middlebury’s northern gateway.

Michelle Steele returned to her MUHS French classroom last month after having spent the previous four months on a Fulbright sabbatical in Morocco. While there, she interviewed 30 teachers in eight schools stretching from Casablanca to Guelmim, studying wa … (read more)

Middlebury residents will see a single contested election on the Town Meeting Day ballot: A three-person competition for two three-year terms on the town selectboard. It features, in alphabetical order, former longtime Middlebury Town Planner Fred Dunning … (read more)

NBM President Caroline Carpenter has invited Ilsley Public Library to temporarily relocate its public facing operations — rent-free — to the first floor of the bank’s historic Duclos building.

The county’s top prosecutor is seeing increasing calls for her resignation or removal from office, with some of those appeals coming from folks she’s represented in criminal court cases.

Better Middlebury Partnership board members knew former Executive Director Karen Duguay would be a tough act to follow.

The town of Orwell has one of most picturesque town greens in the county. The only blemishes on the Rockwellian portrait are the current benches and tables, which are around 40 years old and in rough shape.

Addison County State’s Attorney Eva Vekos on Monday pleaded not guilty in court to a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence.