North Branch runner excels as local teams vie in Randolph

RANDOLPH — Middlebury Union High School runners posted several top-20 results at Saturday’s Randolph Invitational, while North Branch School 9th-grader Estella Laird’s third-place finish in the girls’ race was the best result for a local athlete.Tigers Ella Landis, in 12th overall, and Baxter Harringon, in 19th overall, had the top finishes for the MUHS girls’ and boys’ teams, respectively.For the Eagles, Abigail Johnson and Noah Engfall led the way.Laird finished third with a time of 19:58; she was one of … (read more)

After a full year of studying religion, the students at the North Branch School experienced a rare and special gift in the person of George Jaeger, 95, of Middlebury.Jaeger, a retired Foreign Service Officer and former Diplomat in Residence at Middlebury … (read more)

RIPTON — North Branch School Co-founder/Director Tal Birdsey has heard some people refer to the COVID-19 pandemic as “the lost year.”Not so fast.“I think that’s the wrong philosophical place to start,” Birdsey said during a teaching break last week.  “It … (read more)

RIPTON/MIDDLEBURY — COVID-19 has claimed another casualty in terms of long-running public events that have been called off because of the pandemic. The North Branch School Board has decided to cancel this year’s NBS Hockey tournament.  The tournament, whi … (read more)

RIPTON — Teacher Steve Holmes has joined the ranks of the school faculty at The North Branch School in Ripton. Homes will teach seventh, eighth and ninth grade math to its students. In addition, Rose McVay, longtime NBS math and science teacher, will assu … (read more)