Brandon News

The Otter Valley Union High School Board adopted an $11,101,261 school budget for next year, complete with fewer course offerings in French and technology education and more than four full-time staff cuts.

Hey, Mother Nature: Big Brother is watching you - at least along parts of Interstate 89.

MONTPELIER - Declining enrollments and state cost-control laws are prompting school districts around Vermont to contemplate what some are calling dramatic budget cuts, with staff reductions and program ...

Twin Wallingford brothers could be sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment each if convicted on identical charges of burglary and grand larceny in connection with the break-in and theft of a guitar and sports ...

A tractor-trailer heading south on Interstate 89 yesterday hit a state dump truck that had stopped to assist a motorist in the breakdown lane just south of Exit 2. The rig struck the rear driver's side of the ...

Earlier this month, I faced a tough choice. Do I make a second trip to the town landfill and recycling center , or do I go to Lincoln's Burnham Hall and participate in a town meeting with Sen.

Contact Molly Walsh at 660-1874 or mwalsh@bfp.burlingtonfreepress.com . Vermont school leaders gave the Douglas administration an early Christmas present Wednesday.

William Mathis, the longest-serving school superintendent in Vermont, announced his resignation Monday.

Stuart Comstock-Gay will take over as the new president of the Vermont Community Foundation, the organization announced Friday.

A Brandon teen pleaded innocent to sexually assaulting in June a female younger than 16 with whom he went to high school, as well as charges of breaking into a Brandon restaurant and stealing alcohol.

A scroll saw, stain and polyurethane: Three things Chris Keyes, a seventh-grade student in Otter Valley Union High School's technology education program, said he may not have access to in school again if his ...

Across Rutland County, churches and charitable organizations are trying to provide a merry Christmas to all.

The fundraising effort for the Brandon Boys & Girls Club is rocketing toward the finish line.

The state of Vermont is continuing to sell off the buildings of the former Brandon training school.

Two more buildings from the former Brandon Training School are up for sale. The Vermont Department of Buildings and General Services will take bids on Dormitories J and K until Jan.

A former police officer fired from the force has settled her federal lawsuit against the town.

The economic crisis has strained most peoples' ability to understand the complicated world of financial affairs.

INCIDENT: Heroin Trafficker arrested in Brandon CONTACT: 802-241-5350 - Waterbury, Vermont Sgt.

Authorities in Rutland County are investigating one of the largest animal cruelty cases that the area has ever seen.

More than 110 animals have been removed from farms in Hubbardton and Brandon following an animal cruelty investigation.