Ripton readies to reacquire school

Future control of the Ripton Elementary School property will be decided by ACSD voters on March 3.

Middlebury voters at their March 2 annual meeting will be asked to approve a fiscal year 2027 municipal budget of nearly $16 million.

Middlebury voters on Town Meeting Day will decide a three-person race for two three-year seats on the town selectboard.

Elizabeth Gleich, a native Minnesotan and associate pastor of the Congregational Church of Middlebury, joined fellow clergy to protest in her home state.

The Addison Central School District board on Monday overwhelmingly endorsed K-5 school choice within the district’s seven towns, but with limits.

The annual meeting of the Addison County Firefighters Association drew 149 firefighters representing 17 area departments ranging from Addison to Orwell.

The school board on Monday agreed to use $650,000 in capital reserve funds to bankroll security improvements at all of the ACSD’s operational school facilities.

A community-created fiber art piece will show how temperatures in Addison County have risen over the past 101 years.

District officials are trying to build understanding and support for the spending plan. SVUSD has, in recent years, failed to pass a budget on the first try.

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.