Brandon News

Brittany Daniels was spent. Dripping in sweat while sitting in the blue corner after the second round of her 2010 Ver mont Golden Gloves 132-pound novice division championship fight, Dan iels rose and waited for the bell to start the final round at Memorial Audi torium Saturday night.

Discussions about the town plan and the finer points of traffic studies dominated the fifth hearing before the Development Review Board on a proposed shopping center.

Peter Fjeld of the McKernon Group located in Brandon, Vermont has received Certification for Energy Audits from The Building Performance Institute .

One school of thought holds that a proposed Hannaford would be great for downtown.

Everybody had a dream at the Boys & Girls Club of Rutland County on Monday. Members of the club observed Martin Luther King Jr.

Jeweler Robert Merkert's Farrier had just finished and the hoof trimmings were on the floor of the stall in Brandon, Vermont.

Bethel's Dana Cole-Levesque, the principal at Otter Valley Union High School in Brandon for the past five years, will resign from the post effective June 2010 and will likely take on a new role: superintendent of the four-school Rutland South Supervisory Union starting next summer.

The Otter Valley Union High School Board will look to make deeper cuts to its proposed $10.8 million school budget today after at least one school staffer opted to retire and a school leadership change is possibly on the horizon.

Hannaford Supermarkets today announced an agreement in principle to buy two Grand Union supermarkets located in Swanton and Brandon, Vt.

Before even opening, Hannaford has bought out its competition. The supermarket chain, which plans to build a store in a proposed shopping plaza at the intersection of Route 7 and Nickerson Road, announced Tuesday it would purchase the Grand Union in Brandon along with one in Swanton.

Collin H. Frisbie, vice president of Sterling Construction Inc. in South Burlington, was named a Certified Green Professional by the NAHB University of Housing.

Brandon police say they needed a Taser to subdue the man in charge of training for the Vermont Department of Corrections after he was stopped for suspicion of drunken driving.

With his wife sitting behind him in a Washington County courtroom Thursday afternoon, State Auditor Thomas M. Salmon admitted to having "made a mistake" as he pleaded guilty to a charge of driving while intoxicated.

Workers are building one road to fix another. Segment five of the Route 7 project is under way, though work on Route 7 itself is not expected until spring.

Stephen Sutton didn't exactly start his move from England to New England at the best of times - he began setting up his classical record label Brandon Music in early 2008, just before the global recession hit - but he's making a go of it in the former gallery of famed Vermont folk artist Warren Kimble.

Maple View Farm will give the public a look at its herd of 30 alpacas at an open house Saturday and Sunday.

Jeff Ellis said he may need to change careers "At my age, it's going to be tough," the 55-year-old from Salisbury said.

Golf Recreational Hole-in-one Mike West recorded his third hole-in-one on Nov.

STATE OF VERMONT DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY VERMONT STATE POLICE PRESS RELEASE INCIDENT: Driving under the influence CASE #: 09A304607 TROOPER: Brandon Doll STATION: Middlesex DATE/TIME: 11/13/2009 at 2237 hours LOCATION : Towne Hill Rd in Montpelier, VT VIOLATION: Driving under the influence ACCUSED: ...

CASE #: Numerous DATE/TIME: 10/30/09 to 11/4/09 LOCATION : Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury and Whiting VIOLATION: Unlawful Mischief SUMMARY OF INCIDENT: The Vermont State Police and Brandon PD responded to 30 plus related vandalisms in northern Rutland and southern Addison Counties during the 2009 Halloween weekend.