In local high school girls’ basketball rivalry games, Middlebury breezed past Otter Valley, but the Otters bounced back to knock off Vergennes. Meanwhile, Mount Abraham won the only game it played ...

I was a young secondary school teacher in Cleveland at University School, teaching English and coaching baseball and basketball (yes, I’m that old).

In the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team’s only game in the past week, host Burlington/Colchester blanked the Tigers, 4-0, on Wednesday, Jan. 22.

Visiting South Burlington defeated the Middlebury Union High School boys’ hockey team, 4-1, on Jan. 22, in the only action during the past week before deadline for this issue of the Independent.

The leaders of the local school districts are excited to learn more details about the governor’s plan to reduce the number of Vermont school districts to five.

A Vermont State Police trooper observed multiple motor vehicle violations on Stage Road near Route 7 in Ferrisburgh in the wee hours of Jan. 23, and pulled the car over at around 1:12 a.m.

Middlebury police on Jan. 23 began investigating a report of some juvenile Middlebury Union High School students making a recording of themselves having sex and then sharing that recording via social ...

Vergennes police are looking into the repeat theft of an American flag stolen from the porch of a South Maple Street home.

After a brief chase, police took Cota into custody and cited him for driving with a criminally suspended license and resisting arrest. Police then turned him over to the Addison County Sheriff’s ...

Effie Lorraine Scruton Cole, age 87, passed away peacefully on Sunday, Jan. 26, at the McClure Miller Respite House in ...

Clifford J. Douglas, 82, of Addison, Vt., known to many as Bucky, Bucket the Clown, or Santa, passed away peacefully on the ...

Sarah Bower Perry passed away peacefully on Jan. 18, 2025. The family would like to express its deepest gratitude for the ...