By Lee J. Kahrs Environmentalists seek to block the state permit allowing the local insect control district to spray pesticides to control mosquitoes. The Toxics Action Center and the Environmental Natural Resources Law Clinic at Vermont Law School filed an […]
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Program aims to ease transition to middle school
PROSPER Team Leader Kimberly Griffin, right, hands out information about the PROSPER program during the eclipse party in Brandon on Monday, Aug. 21. By Lee J. Kahrs BRANDON—A new program designed to help parents and kids communicate is being offered to […]
Local News
Brandon Dunkin Donuts delays plans to build
By Lee J. Kahrs BRANDON — Plans to build a convenience store and Dunkin Donuts where the Mobil station currently sits have been put on hold as the Segment 6 Route 7 project gets underway. Property owner Midway Oil in […]
Local News
Brandon breaks ground on $20 million construction project downtown
By Lee J. Kahrs BRANDON — There are two things no one thought they would ever see this summer: the sun, and the start of the Segment 6 Route 7 improvement project. But the clouds parted over the weekend and […]
Local News
RNeSU rejects Scott’s level funding mandate
By Lee J. Kahrs BRANDON — The Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union has no intention of retooling its school budgets or waiting until a May date to have voters weigh in, despite what Gov. Phil Scott outlined in his budget address. […]
Local News
Pittsford joins BLSG Mosquito District
By Lee J. Kahrs PITTSFORD—After years of discussion, the Town of Pittsford is dipping its proverbial foot into the local mosquito control pool. At a regular meeting on May 18, the Pittsford Select Board unanimously accepted the Brandon-Leicester-Sudbury-Goshen Mosquito Control […]
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Voters pass new Otter Valley Unified Union School District
By Lee J. Kahrs Last Tuesday, Jan. 19, voters in eight towns overwhelmingly approved a proposal to merge six school districts into two under the state’s Act 46 school consolidation law. The Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, along with the Barstow […]
Op - Ed
Bigger than Christmas
By Lee J. Kahrs This Christmas may feel a bit off, edgier than Yuletides past. It’s not just the unseasonably warm December we’ve been having, or the lack of snow. Oh, it’s the climate, all right, but there is more […]
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School consolidation vote set for Jan. 19
By Lee J. Kahrs BRANDON — The Rutland Northeast Act 46 Study Committee has decided to send the question of local school consolidation to the voters in each of the all six district towns, plus Mendon and Chittenden, in January […]
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Dick Horner abruptly resigned as Proctor Selectman after zoning conflict
By Lee J. Kahrs, The Reporter PROCTOR — A selectman abruptly resigned and walked out of a regular meeting on. Oct. 12 after a lengthy debate over conflict of issue regarding a zoning grievance. Proctor Selectman Dick Horner, who is […]