Porter Medical Center has accumulated more than its fair share of compelling stories during its first century as Addison County’s cradle-to-grave health care hub. Thousands of births spanning multiple generations, and patients vanquishing life- threatening illnesses since Porter Memorial Hospital was built in 1925.
Middlebury Indivisible and other Indivisible groups from around the state have organized an Indivisible VT car caravan support rally to show solidarity with our Canada neighbors and for Canadian Sovereignty on Saturday, April 26.
Will Robinson has been a volunteer at the Charter House Coalition homeless shelter in Middlebury since 2023. We sat down to learn more about Will and what inspired him to volunteer.
In separate cases, Vermont State Police this week cited two Addison County men — one from Middlebury and one from Orwell — for sexual misconduct involving children.
Middlebury police responded, with Middlebury Regional EMS, to a reported suicide attempt (by overdose) by a person in an apartment on April 20. Police said the person was taken to Porter Hospital.
A Pennsylvania attorney and developer is proposing a 32-unit, four-story apartment building — that would also host a restaurant — on a 0.71-acre lot near the intersection of Middle Road and Route 7, at Middlebury’s southern gateway.
If you’re tuned into an oldies station, you’re bound to eventually hear Jackie DeShannon or Dionne Warwick soothingly intone the verse, “What the world needs now, is love, sweet love.”
The annual Middlebury Bike Swap will be on Green Up Day Saturday, May 3, 9 a.m.-12 noon, at Middlebury’s Cannon Park near Frog Hollow Bikes. The event will happen rain or shine.
Middlebury College last week announced several new steps it will take to balance its budget, including limiting employee benefits, offering a financial incentive for Vermont employees to retire early and growing undergraduate enrollment in the coming year … (read more)
Jennifer Murray’s tenure as Middlebury’s director of planning & zoning has spanned eight years, but the body of work accomplished during that span by her and the citizen committees to whom she answers makes one think she’s been around much longer.
Workers are putting the finishing touches on $3.25 million in renovations to Elderly Services Inc.’s (ESI) headquarters off Middlebury’s Exchange Street. The project is already paying big dividends for the nonprofit, which hosts one of the most successful … (read more)
Projects that address homelessness, elderly services, childcare, poverty eradication, hunger, health, youth sports and economic development are eligible.
Addison County is made up of 23 municipalities, all of which offered a variety of public service opportunities to residents through the March 4 Town Meeting Day elections. Sadly, the election ballots in the vast majority of towns featured zero contested e … (read more)
Middlebury residents on Tuesday voted overwhelming in favor of three public works-related bond proposals, the centerpiece of which was a proposed $49.5 million upgrade of the town’s 24-year-old wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) at 243 Industrial Ave.
Help Nikki Juvan earn the national “Stroke Hero Voters’ Choice Award” by voting for her online. Juvan has not only cared for her husband, Trent Campbell, but also advocated for all who have suffered strokes.
