Stonecrop neighborhood grows

The largest planned neighborhood in Middlebury’s history is projected to expand to 70 housing units by the end of this year.

Middlebury College officials are proposing to pare back on what have been two decades of annual payments to the town of Middlebury, while pivoting to investments like housing and entrepreneurship.

Addison County Home Health & Hospice have closed on closed on a 2,963-square-foot, five-bedroom home in East Middlebury that they plan to renovate into a residential care home for up to eight medically frail adults.

Blair Heagerty is the driving force behind BH Studio, a home-based photography business.

The Addison Central School District board is considering a policy change that would give Middlebury-area parents more flexibility in determining which among the ACSD’s soon-to-be five K-5 schools they’d like to enroll their children.

A voter-approved, $49.5 million makeover of Middlebury’s wastewater treatment plant won’t begin for another two years, but behind the scenes, town officials are starting to make big decisions on how that critical project will unfold.

The Middlebury selectboard has made progress in reducing the property tax impacts of a draft fiscal year 2027 municipal budget.

Ripton’s Bill Hunsinger is good at a lot of things — brewing beer, parenting a daughter, serving on his town’s selectboard. But his biggest talent might be saying “Yes.”

It’s looking increasingly likely that the ACSD might have to shed programming in order to afford even a fraction of the more than $60 million in physical upgrades at its schools.

Residents in Middlebury, Bridport and Salisbury have until Jan. 26 to file petition papers for four available seats that will be up for grabs on the ACSD board.

Lawmakers have a big question awaiting them — how to move forward with the process of transforming Vermont’s education system. There local superintendents weigh in.

Middlebury residents will be asked to support a bond to complete the final stage of an effort to replace an almost 10,000 feet of aging water main adjacent on Foote Street.

Hannaford Career Center leaders are asking the state to ramp up school choice among Vermont’s 17 Career and Technical Education hubs, which could increase enrollment and lower its tuition.

Miro Weinberger is now executive chair of Let’s Build Homes, a nonprofit working to address Vermont’s housing deficit.

Barring any major, 11th-hour subtractions or additions, ACSD voters on March 3 will be asked to approve $53 million in spending to educate Middlebury-area PreK-12 students during the 2026-2027 academic year.