Middle schoolers embrace volleyball ‘Madness’

 Where could you see more than 100 6th-, 7th- and 8th-graders setting a ball over a net? In the Middlebury town gym the “March Madness” youth volleyball program.

A leak in a water service line last Saturday flooded Middlebury Union Middle School, and classes resumed on Wednesday, Jan. 3.

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Union Middle School will have a new principal come July 1 to help navigate the school through one of its most eventful years ever. His name is Michael Dudek, and for the past eight years he has served as principal of Blackstone Mil … (read more)

Lucy Poduschnik, a seventh grade student at Middlebury Union Middle School wrote these two poems, Her words reflect the experience that she and many of her peers are having during the COVID-19 pandemic.    Housebound   I glance out the window hoping to se … (read more)

Editor’s note: During the 8th-grade graduation ceremony at Middlebury Union Middle School in June, 8th-grader Camilla Blanco delivered the following address. Before the conclusion of our ceremony I would like to invite Dalton Rheaume and Lille Gee to join … (read more)

MIDDLEBURY — Two 14-year-old Middlebury Union Middle School students have been indefinitely pulled from classes and face juvenile court citations after allegedly cooperating on a plan to shoot someone on campus. Middlebury police are still investigating t … (read more)