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Cornwall principal leaving after seven years

Posted on April 4, 2013 |
By John Flowers



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BRIDPORT — Denise Goodnow recalled taking over the principalship of Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School during the fall of 2006 and feeling a special kinship with the dozen-or-so freshly minted kindergartners who walked with her through the doors for this first time.

So it seems almost fitting that those kindergartners and Goodnow should matriculate at the same time.

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Warm spring nights bring on salamander migration

Posted on April 1, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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Homeless women work together to serve Vermont troops

Posted on March 28, 2013 |
By Andy Kirkaldy



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VERGENNES — The residents of the John Graham Emergency Shelter in Vergennes know what it’s like to be without a home.

Maybe that’s why it didn’t take long for the shelter’s newly formed women’s group to zero in on the men and women who are serving in the military far away from their homes as the subject for a community service project.

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Holy week religious services directory

Posted on March 25, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



The following organizations will have special relgious services this week.

Brandon/Forest Dale

BRANDON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Easter Sunday, March 31, 9 a.m., free continental breakfast; 10 a.m., Easter morning worship celebration, with music provided by the Brandon United Methodist Choir.

 

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Local monument part of a Vermont tradition

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By Nancy Price Graff



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More than 6,000 people thronged the town on this cool, bright day in May 1905, some having arrived by train from as far away as Burlington and Rutland. The occasion was a special celebration of Memorial Day, a holiday that had arisen spontaneously in the years immediately after the Civil War to honor soldiers from both the North and the South.

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Sugarhouses welcome visitors this weekend

Posted on March 21, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



ADDISON COUNTY — Ten Addison County sugaring operations will open their doors to the public on Saturday, March 23, and Sunday, March 24, in conjunction with the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers’ Association’s 12th annual Vermont Maple Open House Weekend. This weekend event, when Vermont’s sugarmakers invite the public to their sugarhouses, gives visitors an opportunity to see how maple syrup is made and experience a day in the life of the sugarmaker.

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Dairy farm adds wind power to its energy portfolio

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By Xian Chiang-Waren



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BRIDPORT — A wind turbine is up and running at the Audets’ Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport, the second in Addison County that was constructed especially for the Green Mountain Power’s Wind Power Program. The turbine, which sits atop a 121-foot-tall tower just off Route 22A, generates around 165,000 kilowatt hours of electricity per year, about enough to power 23 homes. It also will save around 191,807 lbs. of carbon emissions annually.

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Animal communicator helps people understand their pets

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By Christy Lynn



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It isn’t just Dr. Doolittle and Ace Ventura who can talk to animals. There are animal communicators that live and work everywhere, even here in Addison County. One of these communicators is Alyson Young, a certified energy medicine practitioner and animal communicator (as well as certified practitioner of several other holistic healing practices).

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Panther skiers at NCAA championships slideshow

Posted on March 18, 2013 |
By Addison Independent



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Commodore championship game slideshow

Posted on March 14, 2013 |
By Trent Cambell



BARRE — After the Vergennes Union High School boys’ basketball team defeated No. 2 Burr & Burton in this past Saturday’s Division II championship game, 62-49, the No. 1 Commodores’ hundreds of fans — who once again made a neutral site sound like a home game — chanted what their team had accomplished for the first time in program history.

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