New plant in Midd is turning waste into energy

The new Middlebury Resource Recovery Center, which consists of an anaerobic digester and a pipeline under Exchange Street, is the state’s first food-waste-to-renewable-electricity project awarded under the Vermont Public Utility Commission’s Standard Offer Program.

Oddly enough, Erik Koskinen and Rachel Rivard never crossed paths while attending the University of Colorado School of Dental Medicine more than a decade ago. Fate would instead unite them after both had coincidentally moved to Addison County several year … (read more)

At a preliminary visioning exercise last Wednesday evening, Oct. 23, Middlebury Director of Planning and Zoning Jennifer Murray introduced a process that will imagine future development in an area surrounding the Amtrak rail platform.

Current exploration of geothermal heating potential for Middlebury’s Ilsley Public Library is being expanded to see if the technology can be harnessed for multiple buildings downtown.

Vegar Boe could have been content to let his career unfold in the private sector. The Norwegian national was director of operations at Rutland-based Censor Security in 1999 when he felt the pull of law enforcement service.

The town effort to draft a policy comes in wake of citizens petition that forced an Oct. 1 vote asking residents to affirm — or reject — a decision the selectboard made this past June to grant a free easement through the town green for a natural gas servi … (read more)

This year marks the third annual offering of Stories from the Heart, which will take place on Oct. 26, from 6:30-8 p.m. This is a Moth-style storytelling event where five community members will stand up and tell their stories of grief or loss.

These are all real people with individual histories like those of us with homes. In other words, they are people, not “problems.”

I read the recent coverage noting the concerns of some in the community about the relocations to Court Street of Turning Point Center and the Breadloaf Mountain Zen Center.

Mark A. Pruhenski, the current town manager of Great Barrington, Mass., has a past connection to Addison County’s shire town.

A recent spike in Middlebury’s houseless population is prompting a renewed sense of urgency among town officials to enact an “encampment policy” to delineate which parts of the community’s public property should be off limits for overnight, outdoor stays.

The historic John Warren House at 88 Main St. in Middlebury has new owners: Don Devost and Matt Wootten of Marble Trail Financial.

That Middlebury’s houseless population has become more problematic is an outcome of doing too little for too long. The issue has been recognizable for several years but came to a head a year ago when downtown vandalism and disruption prompted two dozen do … (read more)

When the Middlebury Pride Festival began two years ago, it was just a little parade but it had a big impact. The 2022 event, organized by the Middlebury Teen Center and Ilsley Public Library, drew fewer than 100 people, but the teens involved were buoyed … (read more)

Turning Point Center of Addison County is closing in on a deal to buy a two-story building at 79 Court St. to serve as the nonprofit’s new hub for substance-use disorder programming.