I do a lot of historical research and I would really love it if the archives of the Addison Independent was digitized and searchable. I don’t know how newspapers.com gets the papers that they have, but their service is invaluable. I search Vermont papers there all the time and there’s a huge gap of information from Addison County after 1924. The Burlington Free Press is on that website as is the Rutland Herald. Those papers occasionally have news from Middlebury, but it’s sporadic. The local obituaries are … (read more)