During his Ultraman Competition, a three-day event in Hawaii that includes a 6.2-mile swim, a 261.4-mile bike ride and a 52.4-mile run, Steve Hare listened to Yes, Rush, Def Leopard and Styx. Races like this are standard for Hare, who owns Vermont Sun Fitness Center with his wife Shelly. He continues ...
This Saturday, Oct. 30 marked one of the most significant events for the town of Middlebury in the past century. The Cross Street Bridge, a project on the town docket for over 50 years, opened to the public with a daylong community event that celebrated the tremendous accomplishment. The celebration, ...
Bake and rummage sale Oct 29, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Oct 30, 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. The Middlebury United Methodist Church has organized a rummage sale.From 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Fri., there will be a bakesale in the upstairs kitchen and a rummage sale downstairs from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The sale continues into ...
After 18 months of construction, the $16 million Cross Street Bridge above Otter Creek will open this Saturday, Oct. 30. Joe Colangelo, the assistant town manager, and Douglas Anderson, the executive director of the Town Hall Theater, have spent a significant amount of time preparing for the grand opening ...
Part of Vermont’s charm lies in a simple image of its landscape: quaint New England villages nestled in rolling hills dotted with red barns and cows. While this scene may dominate postcards, there is more behind these picturesque illustrations. Real rural communities in Vermont have been falling behind ...
Vermont’s ongoing budget problems have affected education due to the aging of the state’s population coupled with a decrease in the number of school-aged children.In 2000, around 150,000 Vermonters were under the age of 18. As of 2009, the number is approximately 120,000. My K-8 school had about ...
David Nienow, owner of Ramunto’s Pizza in downtown Middlebury, has worked in the food industry nearly his entire life. A native of Southern Wisconsin, Nienow got his first food service job as a dishwasher the same day that he received his driver’s license, and has worked in the industry ever since. Yet ...
In June 2010, the Vermont State Legislature passed a bill to take affirmative steps away from the use of fossil fuels and towards renewable energy. The first company to take advantage of this new bill is Pormerleau Real Estate, which usually specializes in commercial building and real estate. This year ...
Vermont’s political scene is heating up in the midst of preparations for the upcoming gubernatorial general election, set for Nov. 2. Incumbent Republican Governor Jim Douglas ’72, who has held that post for the last eight years, chose not to run again this year. The battle is between Republican ...
For the first time ever in the history of Middlebury cross-country, the Middlebury men took home a NESCAC championship at Hamilton College on Saturday. The last time the men touched the top three was in 1991. This year, they won. The women’s team helped make history as well by winning their third ...
Following a tough 1-0 loss at home to Bates on Oct. 23, the Middlebury men’s soccer team needed a win on the road against Williams to secure the top seed in the upcoming NESCAC tournament. The Ephs entered the game as perhaps the Panthers’ strongest opponent of the season with a record of 10-1-2. ...
For the last regular season game of the fall, the Panthers travelled to Williamstown to take on the formidable Ephs in a match-up that would determine whether Middlebury would be awarded home field advantage for Sunday’s playoff game. Additionally, the game provided the two NESCAC powerhouses with ...
Women’s volleyball finished their regular season with a strong showing at Hamilton College this past weekend. The Panthers easily beat the host school 3-0 Friday and took down the Ephs of Williams College 3-1 on Saturday morning. After winning these final two matches, the team heads into the playoffs ...
The Middlebury Crew Club is a team caught in transition. The team has grown to its largest membership ever, with 21 members on the varsity men’s team and 12 members on the varsity women’s team. At the end of the spring season, every single varsity boat medaled in the New England Championships in ...
After finishing up their regular season with a 2-1 overtime victory at Williams for their ninth straight win, Middlebury (11-4) was defeated by the sixth-seeded Trinity Bantams (9-6) 3-2 at Kohn Field in the opening round of the NESCAC tournament, eliminating the Panthers from the tournament in a game ...
The Panthers dropped to 2-4 Saturday after losing 25-10 to Trinity (5-1). Despite a strong start from the Panthers, the Bantams dominated the second half of play and extended their impressive home winning streak to 38 games. Trinity, a team known for its fortitude on defense and in the running game ...
Tim Edwards ’10, former co-captain of the most sucessful basketball team in Middlebury history, has recently signed an agreement to play for SB DJK Rosenheim Basketball Club in Rosenheim, Germany. Rosenheim competes in Germany’s Regionaliga 2. One of Middlebury’s most decorated basketball ...
The venerable ESPN show “E:60” had a distinctly Middlebury feel this week, as one of the episode’s 15-minute segments was dedicated to the well-known Middlebury athletics tradition of “Picking up Butch,” which refers to the 50-year-old ritual established by Roger Ralph ’63 in which members ...
En route to their 13th consecutive undefeated regular season, the seemingly invincible men’s rugby club had a bit of a scare this past weekend when they had their most hotly contested match of the season against UVM. Even in a game decided by only three points, it was clear that Middlebury would still ...
Playing their first home game in a week and a half, the Panthers fed off of the crystal clear fall day and the support of enthusiastic alums to pounce on a 2-0 shutout win over Bates in their Homecoming match. The win snapped a three-game scoreless streak for Middlebury women’s soccer –– the team ...