Bristol to weigh land purchase at town meeting

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. 

The Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition has seen plenty of growth during the past year, from welcoming new members and staff, to launching a workforce development program for local high school students interested in agriculture.  

After measuring and reporting on the health of local rivers, the Addison County River Watch Collaborative this spring and summer plans to expand its work beyond water sampling.

There aren’t a lot of similarities between Matthew Dickerson’s work as a computer science professor at Middlebury College and his literary endeavors as a published author. 

The Mount Abraham Unified School District board will hold a special meeting on Thursday, Feb. 8, to give board members a chance to reevaluate the proposed district budget for fiscal year 2025 in the wake of anticipated 11th-hour changes to Vermont’s new s … (read more)

For more than three decades, Vaneasa Stearns has been somewhat synonymous with the Lincoln General Store. 

The past year has brought its fair share of weather-related challenges for Vermont farmers. Following summer floods and a damaging spring frost, growers around the state saw their crops devastated, feed stores depleted, and faced a variety of other obstac … (read more)

Bill Vitek and Doyle Dean know that talking about the climate crisis, social injustice and other pressing issues facing the world today can be challenging.