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 ...

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.

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.

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