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LINCOLN — By a margin of more than 3 to 1, Lincoln voted Tuesday to withdraw from the Mount Abraham Unified School District. The vote count was 525-172 in favor of the measure.

ADDISON COUNTY — After enduring nearly 15 months of COVID-19 restrictions, from masks and social distancing to remote and hybrid classes, local high schools are on the verge of having an almost “norma

RIPTON — Ripton’s bid to withdraw from the Addison Central School District will again take center stage before the Vermont State Board of Education (SBE) next Wednesday, May 19.

SUMMER LOVING Wilson and DeVido play starry-eyed teens in Zeno Mountain Farms Vermont-shot musical. Our streaming entertainment options are overwhelming — and not always easy to sort through. Lately, everybodys been talking about Best Summer Ever, a musical that was produced and shot in Vermont by Zeno Mountain Farm, a Lincoln nonprofit that runs retreats and camps for people with and without disabilities. Directed by Michael Parks Randa and Lauren Smitelli, the movi...

Mud season might limit your hiking adventures — but you have other options, we promise.  The transition from winter to spring in Vermont means mud-laden trails and restrictions on where you can hike.  "Rain and melting snow at higher elevations are keeping many of Vermonts hiking trails wet and muddy," Vermont State Parks wrote on its website. "When hikers tramp on saturated soils, they cause soil compaction and erosion as well as damage to the trail and surrounding vegetation." Fear not...

Bear Mountain, Hartford, 1934, dismantled between 1950 and 1961 Deer Mountain, unorganized territory T4, R2, 1926, dismantled 1950 Old Speck Mountain, Grafton Notch, 1914 (replaced 1919,) standing, observation only, open to the public Pleasant Mountain, Denmark, built 1920 (rebuilt 1968), standing Roost (The Roost), Batchelder’s Grant, 1940, removed 1940s Sabattus Mountain, Lovell, 1939, disassembled 1962 and moved to Mt. Hope near Sanford Speckled Mountain, Stoneham, 1914 (replaced 1917, 191...

Thu, 04/15/2021 - 1:34pm meganj By:  Elsie Lynn Parini ZENO MOUNTAIN FARMS “Best Summer Ever” was filmed in Lincoln, Bristol and Mount Abraham Union High School. Here is a scene from the musical that closed down Main Street in Bristol for a whole night. “BEST SUMMER EVER,” written and produced by a team at Zeno Mountain Farm in Lincoln screened at the South by Southwest virtual festival this year. The feature-length musical will be released for the public on...

By:  Addison Independent staff BRISTOL RESIDENT STEVE Brown delivers his completed ballots to election worker (and town selectboard member) John “Peeker” Heffernan during brisk voting in the basement of Holley Hall on Tuesday afternoon. Independent photo/John Flowers LAURA ASERMILY, WHOSE appointment to fill a vacancy on the Middlebury selectboard expired on Tuesday, pauses to say Hi while handing out ballots at the Middlebury polls in the Recreation Center. Independent photo/Megan James...

By:  Addison Independent staff AFTER MANY YEARS holding the Addison town meeting in the nearby elementary school, municipal officials decided to hold this year’s annual gathering in the Addison Town Hall building off Route 22A at the four corners next to the Baptist church. Selectboard members believe the historic building has enough room for meeting participants to safely social distance. Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy THE PANTON TOWN shed off Panton Road is in poor condition, and offici...

Caleb Kenna Lincoln Community School Anna Smith grew up in Lincoln, in a house just a stones throw from the New Haven River and half a mile from the elementary school. Ever since she left, shes been trying to figure out how to get back. For now, her job as an elementary school health teacher keeps her in another town in Addison County, Leicester. S...