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Community helps find New Haven couple's dog

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 4:07pm meganj

NEW HAVEN RESIDENT Ursula Olender welcomes home her dog Tela, who was on the loose for six days last month. Finding the dog was a community-wide effort, including friends, neighbors, fellow dog park users, and work colleagues of Olender and her husband, Jon. The couple also had some help from unusual sources — a dowser who does animal communication work and an unnamed Vermonter who had “insights” about Tela’s location. Paul Dahm, right, and his wife, Carolyn, finally discovered the dog near a swamp on Field Days Road. Photo by Jon Olender

NEW HAVEN — In late August, after their four-year-old English setter, Tela, bolted from a nearby hay field and sallied forth on six days of unknown adventures to undisclosed locations, Ursula and J

Bristol-area schools will continue to see enrollment decline

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 4:02pm meganj

MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION High School is the youngest building in the Bristol-area school district, but it is also the one in the most need of repair.

BRISTOL — Even as it celebrates recent successes — well-received community engagement last fall, Essential Persons Child Care and Meals on the Bus this spring, a high school graduation ceremony for

Vergennes area to get new free meals program

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 3:58pm meganj

BAR ANTIDOTE OWNER Ian Huizenga, with help from 3Squares Café owner Matt Birong and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes, is spearheading a new free meals effort that will begin in the city area and could spread wider in Addison County. It will run through at least December and also employ a number of restaurant workers, all thanks to a state-administered federal grant. Independent file photos/Steve James

VERGENNES — A new effort set to begin on Sept. 14 will provide hundreds of free meals to residents in need in the Vergennes area — and possibly beyond at some point.

Good Point Recycling signs major contract

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 3:51pm meganj

ROBIN INGENTHRON, CEO of Good Point Recycling, is looking for investors to help his Middlebury company prepare for a veritable tidal wave of new e-recycling business it will secure through a new, five-year contract with the state of Massachusetts. Independent photo/John Flowers

MIDDLEBURY — Good Point Recycling recently signed a major, five-year e-waste contract with the state of Massachusetts that is prompting its ownership to recruit investors to help the 20-year-old co

United Way alters its fundraising strategy

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 3:49pm meganj

THE UNITED WAY of Addison County recently moved from its previous office on Court Street in Middlebury to a newly opened space on the first level of the Wilson Street home of Middlebury Fitness. Among the amenities of the new space is the John Dale Memorial Conference Room.

MIDDLEBURY — The COVID-19 pandemic has temporarily changed the way companies and individuals interact and do business.

Ceremonial rail tunnel opening on Sept. 18

Thu, 09/10/2020 - 3:37pm meganj

Workers installing sidewalks in downtown Middlebury remove a wooden form in front of a Merchants Row business Thursday morning. Work on the $72 million downtown rail tunnel project will wrap up next summer, but the 10-week shutdown of down is drawing closer to its conclusion. Independent photo/John S. McCright

MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury, the Vermont Agency of Transportation and Kubricky Construction are organizing a socially-distanced ceremonial opening of the new downtown Middlebury rail tunnel

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