Monkton voters on Town Meeting Day will elect three new faces to serve on the town’s selectboard, as a few longtime board members decided they will step down, and several residents have stepped up to ...

Megan James exited Middlebury College with a degree and a lot of enthusiasm that led her to a career in journalism. Young, ...

The leaders of the local school districts are excited to learn more details about the governor’s plan to reduce the number of Vermont school districts to five.

In local high school girls’ basketball rivalry games, Middlebury breezed past Otter Valley, but the Otters bounced back to knock off Vergennes. Meanwhile, Mount Abraham won the only game it played ...

In the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team’s only game in the past week, host Burlington/Colchester blanked the Tigers, 4-0, on Wednesday, Jan. 22.

Visiting South Burlington defeated the Middlebury Union High School boys’ hockey team, 4-1, on Jan. 22, in the only action during the past week before deadline for this issue of the Independent.

Addison Central School District residents on March 4 will field a fiscal year 2026 spending proposal of $51,719,284 to run Middlebury-area schools. This plan reflects a 2% bump in overall spending, ...

Middlebury residents will see only one contested election on their May 4 Town Meeting Day ballot: A five-person race for three of the community’s seats on the Addison Central School District board.

Thousands convened in the nation’s capital a couple of days before last week’s presidential inauguration to call for their rights. Organizers of the “People’s March” spanned a variety of interest ...

The Mount Abraham Unified School District board on Tuesday agreed to send a $34,894,443 fiscal year 2026 budget to voters that reflects a decrease in total spending of $486,753, or 1.38%, from the ...

I was a young secondary school teacher in Cleveland at University School, teaching English and coaching baseball and basketball (yes, I’m that old).

Dale and Lucinda Cockrell of Lincoln traveled to South Africa for a five-week stay in Kruger National Park. Over the course of the trip, Dale Cockrell snapped more than 18,000 photos.