John Flowers


  • Ripton readies to reacquire school

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

  • Middlebury town budget set for March 2 vote

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

  • Middlebury selectboard race looms

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

  • Local pastor witnesses ICE turmoil in Minnesota

    Local pastor witnesses ICE turmoil in Minnesota

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

  • ACSD board OKs school choice, sets limits

    ACSD board OKs school choice, sets limits

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

  • County firefighters, local citizen honored

    County firefighters, local citizen honored

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

  • ACSD ramps up school security

    ACSD ramps up school security

    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.

  • Tempestry to evoke climate change in county

    Tempestry to evoke climate change in county

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

  • Orwell voters to field $32.5M school budget

    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.

  • Stonecrop neighborhood grows

    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.

  • College assistance to town is morphing

    College assistance to town is morphing

    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…

  • Agency to launch new care home in E. Middlebury

    Agency to launch new care home in E. Middlebury

    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…

  • Bridport photographer brings business into focus

    Bridport photographer brings business into focus

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

  • ACSD board considers limited school choice

    ACSD board considers limited school choice

    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…

  • Middlebury sewer plant upgrades come into focus

    Middlebury sewer plant upgrades come into focus

    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…

  • Middlebury budget battle continues

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