Robert Frost at age 150 is still worthy of recollection

For around five decades, Jay Parini has returned to Frost’s poems as a reader, a fellow writer, an academic and a biographer. He spent more than 20 of those years poring over Frost’s work and interviewing those close to the poet to compile his 1999 biography “Robert Frost: A Life.” 

The unusually balmy winter has affected some local businesses whose offerings rely on cold weather and reflects a larger trend of warming winters driven by human-caused climate change. 

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District could field another spending plan for the 2024-2025 academic year before the end of this month, with district officials eyeing March 26 as a possible revote date. 

The U.S. Department of Education is investigating a complaint of alleged antisemitism at Middlebury College. 

It’s possible that Lincoln’s annual town meeting, held on Monday night in Burnham Hall, can be summed up by a single remark made by resident and former state representative Mike Fisher during one of several lengthy discussions that evening.

Voters in the Mount Abraham Unified School District on Town Meeting Day narrowly defeated the proposed district budget for the 2024-2025 academic year and opposed by a much larger margin the purchase of the building that houses the district’s central offi … (read more)

Sugarmaker Dave Folino has spent over four decades tapping trees in the woods of Starksboro’s Hillsboro Mountain. 

Bristol voters will be asked at the town’s annual meeting next week to OK the purchase of land to house a new Public Works Department facility. 

Lincoln School District officials have begun their search for a new administrator to lead the Lincoln Community School, as longtime principal Tory Riley will step down from the position at the end of this school year. 

It’s often been said that many hands make light work, and that’s certainly the idea behind the volunteer “working bee” groups being organized by The Addison County Relocalization Network.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District wants to start conversations about diversity, equity and efforts to address racism in the district and broader community.

Lincoln’s Town Meeting Day ballot will feature two contested races for openings on the town’s selectboard. 

Town Meeting Day voting in Bristol will feature a two-way race to fill an open seat on town’s selectboard, as incumbent and current selectboard vice chair Darla Senecal will not run to keep her two-year seat after March 5. 

July 2, 2023, is a day that Middlebury resident Demitria Kirby will remember for the rest of her life. 

The Mount Abraham Unified School District board this past Thursday, Feb. 8, got a look at how anticipated changes to Vermont’s new education funding law, Act 127, are expected to affect school tax rates in the district’s four member towns.