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Jan 15, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
BRANDON—The Brandon Selectboard convened for its first meeting of 2025 on Monday evening. Police resignationsBy far the most pressing issue before it was the recent resignation of 4 Brandon police officers. One of those resignations had been anticipated by the town, but the other 3 officers had not signaled their intent to resign until they submitted their letters of resignation.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
PITTSFORD—Just weeks after announcing its purchase of a new facility in Brandon, the Rutland County Humane Society (RCHS) announced the arrival of Jennifer Perrigo as its new Executive Director. Ms. Perrigo replaces Beth Saradarian, who worked at RCHS for 20 years and served as RCHS Executive Director from 2019 until last fall.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
PITTSFORD—Pittsford’s Town Manager David Atherton tendered his resignation to the Pittsford Selectboard last week, effective Friday, February 7. Mr. Atherton has been Pittsford’s Town Manager since spring of 2023. He came to Pittsford after a long tenure as Brandon’s Town Manager, during which he oversaw the massive Segment 6 construction project that revamped Brandon’s downtown.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
BRANDON—The Brandon Fire District No. 1 held its annual meeting at the Brandon American Legion on Monday evening. The purpose of the meeting was to elect officers and pass a budget for Fiscal Year 2025–26, which will begin on July 1, 2025 and ends on June 30, 2026. The Fire District encompasses both the Brandon Fire Department and the Brandon Water Department and is a separate legal entity from the Town of Brandon, which has no oversight over the District.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
BRANDON—A recent query to the Brandon Free Public Library led to the rediscovery of a forgotten visit to Brandon of one most important Americans of the 19th century. Patrick Hanlon, a researcher for the Frederick Douglass Papers at Indiana University, had an unverified source indicating that Douglass spoke in Brandon on May 12, 1870. His question to the library was, could it be true? It turns out that it could.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
For 136 years, one iconic two-story brick building by the upper waterfall in Brandon’s downtown has survived a number of disasters—floods, fires, and even an explosion—that took down the buildings surrounding it. Located at what is now 31 Center Street, it is now occupied by Blue Moon Clothing & Gifts, owned and operated by Ellen Walter. But many in town remember it as LaDuke’s Restaurant.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
BRANDON—All of us have, at one time or another, walked away from an argument and immediately thought of the perfect response to a jab that left us flummoxed in the moment. If only we’d thought of it when it mattered! That’s the art of debate: thinking of just the right response when it actually matters.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
The subtitle of this installment could well be “leaving no stone unturned.” Last week, over wine and cheese with a friend, I asked, “Are you sure your husband is really a Stone?” As you may expect, context is everything here. Having been acquainted with several Stone families, I suspected some of them may have undergone a surname change from an ancestor from Québec whose name was Laroche or Lapierre.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
brandonreporter.com | Kate Saunders
BRANDON—The Brandon Selectboard and the Brandon Budget Committee convened on Monday night to make the final decisions regarding the budget that will be proposed to Brandon voters in March. The Board approved a provisional budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 of $3,403,965, which represents a 2.25% increase over the current year’s budget of $3,328,882. The amount to be raised by taxes in FY26 would be $2,876,645, which represents an increase of 2.58% over the current year.
