Middlebury News

College Leaders Advocate Lower Drinking Age

WPTZ - Tue Aug 19

College leaders across the country and some in our region have signed a statement, agreeing that the current legal drinking age is not working.

Salisbury fire destroys dairy barn

Burlington Free Press - Tue Aug 19

Salisbury Volunteer Fire Dept. firefighters Justin Allen and Dean Mandigo fight a barn fire at Nob Brothers & Sons farm in Salisbury, Tuesday, August 19, 2008.

Fire claims part of Salisbury barn, 350 cows saved

Burlington Free Press - Tue Aug 19

Firefighters from the Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department and six other departments, aided by a north wind that helped slow the fire, saved most of a cattle barn that was engulfed in flames when they arrived ...

Fire service scrambling for recruits

Addison Independent - Mon Aug 18

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH - Addison County fire service veterans see the banners outside of the Ferrisburgh Fire Department's Route 7 station as signs of the times.

Who Should Pay?

The Post-Journal, Jamestown New York - Sun Aug 17

Vermont Sen. Harold Giard, D-Addison, spent 20 years running his own dairy farm.

The Vermont gubernatorial race is on

Burlington Free Press - Sun Aug 17

The trio of gubernatorial candidates expected to score the bulk of the votes in November - Republican Jim Douglas, Democrat Gaye Symington and independent Anthony Pollina - have much in common despite their ...

New Middlebury Sears opening in November

Rutland Herald - Fri Aug 15

The Sears under construction on Exchange Street is slated to open in November. The 12,600-square-foot building won approval from the Development Review Board in the spring.

REDC names new director; rest of staff are leaving

Rutland Herald - Fri Aug 15

The Rutland Economic Development Corp. will be run by a new executive director come September, an announcement made by the agency Friday, days after two key employees filed resignation letters, both going to ...

Farmers put in economic peril by soggy fields

Addison Independent - Thu Aug 14

By JOHN S. McCRIGHT ADDISON COUNTY - After suffering through an unusually wet summer area farmers have one eye on the skies and one eye on the calendar.

Why so wet? Blame the jetstream

Addison Independent - Thu Aug 14

By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY - An uncooperative and mysterious shift in the jet stream, the major west-to-east airflow across North America, lies behind this summer's steady diet of wet weather, according ...