Resolve to reduce, reuse in 2024

#MiddleburyCT #Reduce #Reuse By JANINE SULLIVAN-WILEY January is a favorite month for making positive changes. How about trying to improve your environmental impact? Pretty much everyone ... Continue Reading →

New Board of Selectmen starts meeting

By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Middlebury First Selectman Edward B. St. John conducted two December meetings with the newly elected Board of Selectmen, one on December 7 and one on December 18. ... Continue Reading →

Watertown ACO writes a book

#MiddleburyCT #WatertownCT #ACO #Lola   By MARJORIE NEEDHAM December 14, 2023, was a big day for Watertown Animal Control Officer Judy Umstead and her trained comfort dog, Lola. ... Continue Reading →

Keep walking this winter

#MiddleburyCT #MiddleburyLandTrust #Winter By JANINE SULLIVAN-WILEY As winter closes in here in Connecticut, it can be very tempting to just grab a sweater and a cozy blanket and curl ... Continue Reading →

The Saga of Bessie Webster – Part V

By DR. ROBERT L. RAFFORD Part V of V – By November 1913, the fates of Bessie Wakefield and James Plew had been sealed by the court: death by hanging. Suffragists from across the ... Continue Reading →

Tax Collector opts to retire

#MiddleburyCT #TaxCollector By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Middlebury Tax Collector Brenda Carter was due to be reelected this November, but her name won’t be on the ballot. Instead, she ... Continue Reading →

Shift to native garden species

#MiddleburyCT #NativePlants By JANINE SULLIVAN-WILEY At the recent Middlebury Land Trust Sunflower Days event, several people said they want to shift the plantings at their homes to ... Continue Reading →

EDC sees Southford Park building renderings

#MiddleburyCT #SouthfordPark Southford Park representatives presented artist’s renderings of the proposed project’s two buildings to the Middlebury Economic Development ... Continue Reading →

Pies & Pub celebrates 12 years

#MiddleburyCT #Pies&Pub By MARJORIE NEEDHAM When Pies & Pints (as it was initially called) opened in the former Perrotti’s Pizza in 2011, it opened in an already popular ... Continue Reading →

P&Z to hold Southford Road project hearings

#MiddleburyCT #SouthfordPark #P&Z   By MARJORIE NEEDHAM Following the August 3, 2023, Planning and Zoning Commission (P&Z) meeting, Drubber Associates on August 23 finalized ... Continue Reading →