Middlebury College Biology Professor David Allen has been studying the county’s tick population since 2016. Although the deer tick is a non-invasive species to North America, it didn’t appear in Vermont until roughly 30 years ago.
For the first time since 1985, Addison County’s official federal flood maps are being updated. This comes toward the end of statewide FEMA flood map reevaluations.
“Someone has said before, there’s not very many places that you can get your pet food, your fishing rod, your bait, your grain, your steak and beer, and walk out the door,” co-owner Mikayla DeGraaf said.
Pete Brooks, 35, Andrew Gates, 39, and Riker Wikoff, 33, who together founded Brandon’s Red Clover Ale Co., are about to make their 250th batch of beer.
The Fresh Air Fund, initiated in 1877 to give kids from New York City the opportunity to experience nature in a capacity impossible to find in the five boroughs, was reintroduced to Addison County last week.
Since last week’s heavy rainfall and disastrous flooding across the state, the bridges above the Otter Creek Falls have been occupied by walkers pausing to peer over the edge and snap a few photos of the raucous rapids.
Salisbury’s Russ Lawton and Ripton’s Ray Paczkowski, who comprise the acclaimed drum and organ duo Soule Monde, have built an impressive musical résumé.
Town Clerk Rosemary McKinnon walked into the town office with a broken arm in a sling one day last month and found this message written on the chalkboard: “The beatings will continue until morale improves.”
The woman who led the effort to bring an anti-trans activist to speak at Vergennes Union High School last week says she’ll continue to be active in parental rights even though she now has left the state and soon will move overseas.
Smoke from Canadian wildfires lowered air quality in Addison County and prompted at least one kids’ program to scale back activities on Monday.
This is a special year for the German Language School: This summer, the German Program for Singers celebrates its 25th anniversary.
More than five dozen people gathered inside the Vergennes Union High School auditorium on Tuesday to hear Walt Heyer, an advocate against gender-affirming healthcare for youth.
