Whiting Town Meeting Day 2026 Results

WHITING — Town meetings in Whiting are long and contentious in some years; but this year was not. On Tuesday evening, residents met for an hour and a quarter and OK’d town spending and elected the expected slate of municipal office holders. The town spending plan of $526,590, up almost $15,000 from the current year, was approved. That level of spending will require the town to seek $345,395 in property taxes in the coming year — about $29,297 more than was levied in taxes this year. Nine town officials were … (read more)

Here’s what to expect this Town Meeting Day in Whiting.

“Time to make hard choices” became the unofficial refrain of the first Otter Valley Unified Union school board meeting of 2026.

Brandon-area school officials spent much of Saturday addressing feedback and concerns regarding a proposal that would see the reconfiguration, and closure, of elementary schools in the district, including Otter Creek Academy (OCA) elementary schools in Le … (read more)

The Otter Valley Unified Union school board is exploring potential reconfiguration and closure of district elementary schools including Otter Creek Academy schools in Leicester and Whiting.

Two men who are well-known to police pleaded innocent to an alleged assault that took place in January.

Brothers Jimmy Ryan of Whiting and Randy Ryan of Orwell dueled to the first- and second-place finishes in the top feature at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Saturday, a 30-lap Sunoco Sportsman Modified feature.

Garrett Law loves history, so it’s not surprising that when he decided to run a general store in his native state of Vermont, he turned up at a spot in Whiting that had been a store serving the community for most of that last 150 years.

The Vermont Department of Health strongly recommends limiting evening time outdoors in high-risk areas due to the threat of Eastern equine encephalitis. Vergennes, Whiting and Cornwall are at slightly higher risk.

Voters in the Brandon area on April 30 will get a second chance to approve a fiscal year 2025 spending plan for the Otter Valley Unified Union schools.

Aime Rene Page, 67, passed away Sunday, July 9, 2023, in Virginia. He was born in Middlebury, Vt., and raised on a farm in Whiting, Vt.

Brooke Bertrand of Whiting and Spencer White of Vergennes were recently chosen to receive Ray E. Davison scholarships from The Addison County Firefighters Association.

The nonprofit internet provider Maple Broadband began work in early October stringing fiber-optic lines that will bring high-speed service to up to 1,400 underserved or unserved households in portions of Cornwall, Leicester, Middlebury, Orwell, Salisbury, … (read more)

BRANDON — During the COVID-19 pandemic, youngsters have seen the brightness of their childhoods darkened by the specter of disease, uncertainty and the real-time fissuring of a society in which many have been taught to trust implicitly. New Rutland Northe … (read more)

Whiting artist Micajah Bienvenu, who moved to Vermont from the Pacific Northwest, is being featured in SculptureNow’s Exhibition 2022 at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s Home in Lenox, Mass.