Sports

Otter Valley varsity softball dusts off the cobwebs for their first scrimmage of the season against Proctor High School.

The Otter Valley girls’ softball team is ready to ride the experience of their seven seniors to a successful 2023 season.

The Otter Valley Otters varsity baseball team is back and looking for the success that slipped through their fingers last year.

Dozens of middle- and high-school climbers from around the region vied for the top spot, ascending newly created routes ranging in difficulty level from 5.7 to 5.13. 

Who’d know that only 10 minutes east of Brandon on Route 73 lies a world class backcountry ski area? For skiers or snowboarders who crave untracked powder, it is a slice of heaven. 

Franklin’s fundraiser nets $1,574.15 for Proctor baseball team to go to Cooperstown.

When the last climber was belayed down the wall for the final regular-season meet last Tuesday, Feb. 28, at Green Mountain Rock Climbing Center in Rutland, the Otter Valley Union High School climbing team topped the scoreboard, with a season total of 115,725.

When was the last time you experienced a “dink in the kitchen” or made a serve from the “even court?”  This is the language of Pickleball enthusiasts, and we’ve got a few right here in Brandon. 

Imagine throwing a flying disc in the cavernous Brandon Town Hall. Now you can!

When the mats were rolled up on Saturday night in the Vergennes Union High School gym, wrestlers from Mount Abraham, Middlebury, Otter Valley and the host school had racked up three individual state titles and 20 top-six podium finishes at the Vermont championship tournament.