Sparrow Art Supply flies to a new nest

Downtown Middlebury’s Sparrow is leaving its nest, but it’s building a new one just a few wingbeats away.

DAVID WERLE MIDDLEBURY — David Werle, 80, of Middlebury, Vermont, passed away peacefully on Wednesday, March 27, 2024, at the Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury after a courageous battle with cancer. David was born on July 13, … (read more)

When terrorists attacked the Kibbutz Nahal Oz in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Nikita Soumrov and his family hid in their safe room. He will speak in Middlebury on April 4 about the experience.

 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 Middlebury man is being held without bail after pleading innocent to charges he attempted to kill a Middlebury College student in a knife attack on College Street this past Wednesday, March 20. 

Police say a Jerry L. Hoffman randomly attacked a couple then was chased into Otter Creek. One victim is at UVM Medical Center, Hoffman is in jail.

The film, which tells the stories of four women leaders whose lives are overturned by cyberviolence, will screen at the Marquis Theater with a panel discussion afterward.

The program will give local officers an extra set of high-in-the-sky eyes to help find missing persons, monitor active-shooter situations, inspect natural-disaster areas, and document crime and accident scenes.

Brett Pollinger is launching a second Woof Pack doggy daycare and boarding center in Middlebury, in the former Vermont Field Sports building.

Middlebury voters overwhelmingly backed all the financial items on their town meeting agenda and elected Farhad Khan and Fred Dunnington to three-year terms on their selectboard.

The local Rotary is looking for worthy causes to help out. It’s calling for applications.

CHAD ALSPAUGH MIDDLEBURY — Chad Alspaugh, 47, passed away on Feb. 24, 2024, here in Middlebury. Chad was born in Winston-Salem, N.C., on Jan. 10, 1977, the son of Robert Alspaugh and Samantha Ellsworth Alspaugh. He spoke constantly of his family, and espe … (read more)

Middlebury officials are working on a 10-year plan for upgrading the community’s 54-mile municipal water system — some of it more than 100 years old — that’s been springing an alarming number of leaks in recent months.

While some Addison County congregations are shrinking so quickly that they’re turning their churches into community centers, leaders at Middlebury’s Memorial Baptist Church are aggressively searching for more space in which to house their popular programs … (read more)

When Middlebury voters endorsed a local option tax back in 2008, they saw it as a means by which neighbors and visitors would help pay off debt on the $16 million Cross Street Bridge. Sixteen years later, the local option tax has been paying even bigger d … (read more)