Archive - 2009
February 19th
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — If Middlebury College students are familiar with that oft-repeated idiom, “as easy as falling off a log,” they didn’t let on Sunday morning as they gamely took their marks on a Western Red Cedar log bobbing placidly in the warm waters of the college Natatorium.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
MIDDLEBURY — In a first-round Division II boys’ basketball playoff game that was not decided until the buzzer, No. 12 Mount Abraham survived a furious late rally by No. 5 Middlebury Union High School to win, 53-50. The game, which also served as a 2008-2009 rubber match between local rivals, was played in an electric postseason atmosphere.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
ADDISON COUNTY — In both 1990 and 2000, Charlotte resident Sky Thurber knocked on doors, many of them belonging to his neighbors, saying that he was from the government, and he was there to help — by counting.
By Matt Dickerson
Different sports have their own specialized lingos and vocabularies.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ORWELL — Outside of the Orwell Village School last week, a dull gray sky and patchy spots of February slush and snow signaled midwinter doldrums.
February 16th
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MIDDLEBURY — Prominent — and controversial — civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton addressed a crowd of roughly 700 at Middlebury College’s Mead Chapel last Wednesday, urging students at the college to remain activists even in the wake of January’s political sea change.
By JOHN FLOWERS
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury voters on April 8 will field a proposed 2009-2010 Mary Hogan Elementary School spending plan of $5,685,814, which represents a $61,029, or 1.09-percent, increase compared to the current year’s spending plan of $5,624,785.
