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February 26th, 2009
By KATHRYN FLAGG
NEW HAVEN — Middlebury pedestrians braving drab February weather may have glanced a spot of color and whimsy in one Main Street window this month.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
BRISTOL — The No. 7 Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ basketball team took control early in Wednesday’s first-round Division II playoff game against visiting No. 10 Woodstock, and the Eagles never trailed in a 60-39 victory.
By Andy Kirkaldy
Anyone out there object if we talk spring for a moment?
I didn’t think so.
To start with, the Middlebury College lacrosse teams are already practicing and even scrimmaging. One news tidbit: Middlebury Union High School’s own Gus Brakeley is assisting Coach Dave Campbell’s men’s team this year.
February 23rd
By KATHRYN FLAGG
ADDISON COUNTY — Three hundred farmers packed into the Statehouse on Feb. 17 for a legislative hearing on the future of agriculture before the Senate and House Agriculture Committees Tuesday night, and legislators listened.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — Voters in Vergennes, Panton and Waltham will be asked on Town Meeting Day to approve a loan of up to $200,000 to fund energy-efficiency upgrades, structural improvements and new roofing for two portions of Vergennes Union Elementary School.
By KATHRYN FLAGG
MONKTON — As the Monkton selectboard gets ready to grow from three to five members this year, candidates have squared off in two races for seats on the board. It represents one of the few Addison County town in which there is a selectman’s race.
By ANDY KIRKALDY
VERGENNES — To the delight of a full, noisy house, the Vergennes Union High School boys’ basketball team erupted in the middle quarters of Friday’s Division II quarterfinal to oust Harwood, 75-60. No. 2 seed VUHS advances to a Wednesday night semifinal vs. Montpelier in the Barre Auditorium.
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.