MiddPride festival returns this Saturday

When the Middlebury Pride Festival began two years ago, it was just a little parade but it had a big impact. The 2022 event, organized by the Middlebury Teen Center and Ilsley Public Library, drew fewer than 100 people, but the teens involved were buoyed by the small but mighty crowd, according to Teen Center Executive Director Lindsey Fuentes-George.

Turning Point Center of Addison County is closing in on a deal to buy a two-story building at 79 Court St. to serve as the nonprofit’s new hub for substance-use disorder programming.

It is not compassionate to have people exposed to the elements. It is not freedom to be allowed to take drugs; drug addicts are slaves to their addiction.

Middlebury residents on Tuesday voted 416-185 to affirm a June 25 selectboard decision to give Vermont Gas Systems a free easement to funnel natural gas to St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Cleon Arthur Bigelow of Middlebury passed away surrounded by family at his home at 7 a.m. on Friday, Sept. 27, 2024. A service for he and his recently departed wife, Helen, will be held Sunday, Sept. 29, at the American Legion in Middlebury.

The town of Middlebury has recruited a familiar face to temporarily serve as its top administrator — Tom Hanley.

Middlebury residents next Tuesday, Oct. 1, will have a chance to either affirm or reject their town selectboard’s decision to grant Vermont Gas a free land easement to extend its natural gas pipes to St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church at 3 Main St.

Middlebury’s aging wastewater treatment plant will require an investment of around $28 million to repair and update much of its aging equipment and infrastructure, according to a consultant who’s helping the town design upgrades aimed at extending the fac … (read more)

With state and national candidate campaigning heating up, and Middlebury voters going to the polls to vote on the Vermont Gas easement question next week, many area residents may be thinking about how they are going to vote in the Nov. 5 General Election.

The town of Middlebury has won a $1,092,000 grant for a “Greater Buttolph Neighborhood Connectivity Project,” which will create new sidewalk from Seminary Street Extension (future site of the planned 218-unit Stonecrop Meadows subdivision) to Route 7, at … (read more)

I’m confused as to why the approach to the homeless problem in Middlebury would be to criminalize “homelessness” rather than enforce the current laws that are broken on a daily basis; public intoxication, assault, disorderly conduct, theft, etc.?

The town of Middlebury is considering an encampment policy that would give community officials more guidance on potentially regulating temporary settlements of houseless individuals within the shire town.

Current and past town officials and many members of the Middlebury community wished longtime Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay a fond farewell during a Sept. 5 party held at the Town Hall Theater

Middlebury has narrowed its town manager search down to two finalists who’ll be interviewed by the town selectboard within the next week or two.

Running afoul of Middlebury’s parking rules will now cost you $25 per infraction, up from the longstanding $5 fine that had been in place for most violations.