Moments in Time – March 30, 2022
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On April 17, 1882, several copies of Sheriff Pat Garrett’s wildly inauthentic, fictionalized biography, “An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid,” arrive at the Library ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – June 2, 2021
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On June 16, 1738, Patriot printer, publisher and postmistress Mary Katharine Goddard is born in New London, Connecticut. In 1777, when Congress decided to print the Declaration ... Continue Reading →
Tribute honors two Middlebury heroes
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Rusty Bona kindly shared this photo of a Memorial Day tribute to two sons of Middlebury who were killed in action serving our country. The tribute ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – March 17, 2021
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On April 2, 1513, near present-day St. Augustine, Florida, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon comes ashore and claims the territory for the Spanish crown. Ponce de Leon ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – June 24, 2020
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On July 9, 1877, the All England Croquet and Lawn Tennis Club begins its first lawn tennis tournament at Wimbledon, then an outer suburb of London. Twenty-one amateurs ... Continue Reading →
2020 Honor Flights starting up soon
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Last year the Honor Flights Network took 21,000 World War II, Korean War and Vietnam War era veterans from around the country aboard flights to Washington, D.C. ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – Jan. 8, 2020
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On Jan. 26, 1918, soon after the Bolsheviks seized control in Russia, the former Russian state of Ukraine declares its total independence. In 1922, Ukraine became part ... Continue Reading →
Honor Flights Network needs our help
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The number of World War II veterans topped 16 million during the war. Now there are fewer than half a million still alive, all in their 80s and 90s. ... Continue Reading →
Moments in Time – Dec. 27, 2018
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On Jan. 13, 1128, Pope Honorius II sanctions the military order known as the Knights Templar, founded in 1118, declaring it to be an army of God. The Templars protected ... Continue Reading →
News you can use – April 30, 2017
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May 3 Vote
Middlebury voters will cast ballots for or against the town budget and the Region 15 school budget Wednesday, May 3. Polls will be open ... Continue Reading →
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