Thursday, January 31, 2019

‘New Voices’

Personal time

Rivals clash

A college series is highlighting diversity among classical music composers. See Arts + Leisure.

A Ferrisburgh selectman with three decades of public service won’t run again. See Page 3A.

MUHS came to VUHS with a better record on Tuesday, but the game was tight. See Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 73 No. 5

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

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Thursday, January 31, 2019

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46 Pages

Lawmakers and citizens take aim at carbon tax

College preparing employee buyouts Imminent offers aim to cut Midd. deficit

BY ABAGAEL GILES MIDDLEBURY — As soon as next Friday, an unknown number of faculty and staff at Middlebury College will receive voluntary buyout offers from the college that will give them incentives to leave their positions.

The offers come after months of deliberation by the college’s senior administrative staff and are the culmination of a workforce rightsizing initiative launched in June 2018.

The college aims to reduce staff compensation costs — before employee benefit expenses — by about 10 percent before the end of the 2018-2019 academic year. In total, the college hopes these staff and faculty buyouts will save the institution $8 million annually.

Changes in staffing at Middlebury

College have an effect throughout the community. The college not only brings a wealth of cultural and intellectual resources to the area, it is also the biggest employer in Addison County.

“The college is an economic engine for Middlebury and the outlying communities,” said Middlebury selectboard Chairman Brian Carpenter. “It is an extremely valuable part of our local community economically, culturally, and it is an integral part of the local fabric. We need the college to be healthy and a long-term partner.”

The process was announced by President Laurie Patton on June 19, 2018, as part of an effort to offset an operating deficit that peaked at $22 million in 2016. As of the end of fiscal year 2018 last June 30, Middlebury (See Buyouts, Page 11A)

Business leaders warn of economic perils

Home health agency’s success is questioned

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The new managers of Addison County Home Health & Hospice (ACHHH) are proud of their record in taking the New Haven-based nonprofit from the brink of financially insolvency in 2016 to more modern operation that in fiscal year 2018 posted an almost $900,000 financial cushion in an era of Medicaid and Medicare funding shortfalls.

But some current and former ACHHH employees believe the agency’s financial resurgence has

come with a less collegial and more authoritarian management style that they said has resulted in many workers — some of them with more than two decades of experience — choosing to retire sooner than they wanted to, or moving on to other health care jobs. “(Management) chose not to listen to what the staff were saying,” said Diane Dunsmore, who worked more than a quarter-century with ACHHH before resigning last April. “This is an organization without a history (See ACHHH, Page 3A)

Snow bales

LOOKING ALMOST LIKE miniature round hay bales, these “snow rollers” appeared on fields all around Addison County — from Whiting to West Ferrisburgh — on Sunday and Monday. We’re told that they occur naturally when there is just the right combination of humidity, water in the snow and wind across open spaces. Check out the snow roller photo on Addison Independent’s Facebook page, where readers have posted at least 10 more photos and dozens of comments. This image from Addison came courtesy of Christine Dubois.

Housing market tight for young, old

High construction costs, zoning restrictions are driving rents, home prices up Editor’s note: This is the third in percent of their income on rent.

Increasing the amount of a three-part series looking at what the shrinking percentage of younger affordable housing would allow the people in Vermont means to the county’s growing number of aging seniors to downsize and live within future of the Green Mountain State. their means, and it would also attract

By SARAH ASCH ADDISON COUNTY — For younger residents with limited many of those concerned about budgets, according to Bristol Town Administrator Valerie Capels.

Addison County’s aging “Especially as our population, one solution Our shifting is aging, seems evident: more Demographics population people who have larger housing. homes need to downsize into Specifically, affordable housing, or housing where young smaller, more manageable homes,” families and empty-next seniors she said. “We need housing for with low or fixed incomes can live young families, we need housing for without spending more than 30 our aging population and we need

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housing for our workers.” owners, there is very little Adding more incentive for landlords affordable housing to and home sellers to keep local communities is prices down. complicated, especially Elise Shanbacker, because Addison County the executive director lacks sufficient housing of the Addison County across the income Community Trust spectrum.

According (ACCT), said that her to data collected by the organization has a long Vermont Housing and waitlist for the affordable Finance Agency, in 2016 SHANBACKER housing they manage.

Addison County has a ACCT currently owns or 4.2 percent vacancy rate for rental operates 228 units in multi-family rental properties, 340 units in housing.

With very few apartments and mobile home parks and 78 singlehomes open for new tenants or (See Housing market, Page 10A)

By JOHN FLOWERS BRIDPORT — Carbon tax.

It was a political land mine that few state politicians wanted to step on during last year’s campaign, and there appears to be little support this year for adopting such a tax to combat climate change.

Still, the prospect of a carbon tax was the main topic of conversation at the session’s inaugural Addison County legislative breakfast at the Bridport Grange Hall on Monday.

Fanning the debate was the release last week of a state-commissioned report titled “An Analysis of Decarbonization Methods in Vermont.” The 139-page document explores two classes of policies that Vermont could pursue to further advance the transition to green energy in the state: Carbon pricing policies, such as carbon taxes or cap-and-trade programs; and non-pricing policies, such as financial incentives, mandates or direct investments.

Authors of the report suggest the state could implement a carefully structured carbon tax — in concert with other incentives aimed at reducing the use of fossil fuels — without hurting Vermont’s economy.

But Rep. Harvey Smith, R-New Haven, noted the authors conceded a carbon tax would be more harmful to those in more rural areas of the state than it would be to those living in Chittenden County, primarily because (See Lawmakers, Page 12A)

Community bids farewell to Robison

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDLEBURY — Former Middlebury College President Olin Robison was recalled on Sunday as an outstanding diplomat, scholar and administrator whose perseverance helped breathe new life into virtually every institution he helmed.

Those were among the recollections of family, friends and former colleagues of Robison — including Middlebury College President Laurie Patton and President Emeritus John McCardell

Jr. Robison, Middlebury’s 13th president, died at age 82 last Oct. 22 after a long illness. His three sons and several of his grandchildren joined a chorus of speakers who serenaded him in the college concert hall that bears his name in the Mahaney Arts Center.

“It is so fitting that we’re gathered together in this space, this acoustical marvel, named for the 13th president of Middlebury, who helped bring this entire building into being,” Patton told the more (See Robison, Page 11A)

College to divest from fossil fuel companies By the

Trustees also back campus energy plan

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVIST AND author Bill McKibben speaks Tuesday at the college announcement that it will divest from companies involved in the fossil fuel business. He credited years of pressure from students, in part, for changing attitudes toward divestment.

Independent photo/Abagael Giles

By ABAGAEL GILES MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College’s board of trustees voted unanimously on Jan. 26 to fully withdraw over time the institution’s $1.1 billion endowment’s investments in the fossil fuel industry.

The divestment vote came in the form of support for a plan called Middlebury Energy2028, which also includes new initiatives to reduce energy consumption and eliminate the use of fossil fuels on the college campus.

It was the second time the college’s board of trustees has voted on whether to divest its fossil fuel stocks: the board in 2013 rejected divestment.

President Laurie Patton said at a press conference on Tuesday that the college will withdraw about $55 million of direct investments in fossil fuel corporations over the next 15 years.

At the same time, Middlebury has not committed to divesting from general index and general equity funds, which tend to include some fossil fuel investments. Such funds account for about 1 percent of the school’s endowment, according to the college.

The announcement came just four days after the student groups Divest Middlebury and Sunday Night Environmental Group marched on Jan. 25 to hand-deliver letters of support from students and faculty for the Middlebury Energy2028 initiative to school trustees.

Patton announced the resolution’s approval during a Jan. 29 press conference held in Wilson Hall, where she told about 100 students, community members, faculty and staff that the college will reduce the value of its investments in fossil fuel (See Divest Middlebury, Page 12A)

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Reminder from the U.S. Postal workers: Please remove snow from around your mailboxes to help mail carriers in their appointed rounds. Winter walking and (See By the way, Page 10A)

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VSP: Cornwall home’s door shot CORNWALL — Vermont State Police are investigating what they are calling a vandalism case involving birdshot fired at front door of a home on Park Hill Road in Cornwall this week.

The property in question had been the scene of a major fire last July that investigators deemed “suspicious.”

That fire severely damaged a house, main barn, carriage barn and two smaller barn. Cornwall Fire Department Dennis Rheaume described it at the time as the biggest fire he had seen in his 25 years with the department.

In this most recent case, police said in a press release that the shots at the house took place at 2:30 a.m. either on Sunday, Jan. 27, or Monday, Jan. 28. The press release gave both dates and state police were unable to get back to the Independent to clarify.

Police have obtained security footage of a vehicle they believe might have been used by the shooter.

A Cornwall resident informed the Addison Independent about this incident on Monday, Jan. 28. The Independent immediately sought details about the case from Vermont

State Police, who issued a press release on Wednesday, Jan. 30.

Police said they believe this to have been a “targeted event” and that there’s no threat to the general public.

Anyone with information about this incident, or anyone with information regarding recent suspicious activity in the Park Hill Road area, is encouraged to contact Trooper Josh Gurwicz at the New Haven barracks at 388-4919. Information can also be submitted anonymously online at vtips.info or text “CRIMES” (274637) to Keyword: VTIPS.

(Continued from Page 1A) of staff going to the board (complaining) about stuff. This didn’t happen.”

A person claiming to have direct knowledge of ACHHH personnel provided a list of 44 people she claimed had left the agency since December of 2017. Agency leaders dispute that claim of 44.

At least one person who has left is considering taking legal action against the agency. The person told the Independent that they were fired last September after refusing to sign a “non-disclosure and non-solicitation agreement.”

That agreement, among other things, prevents the employee from sharing any information about ACHHH clients, service pricing, care TIM BROWNELL techniques, training material or “trade secrets,” among other things.

The former senior employee — who FINANCIAL HARDSHIP They inherited an organization requested anonymity because of her potential lawsuit — said she declined with significant financial problems; to sign a 5-page non-disclosure the ACHHH ran a $485,700 deficit agreement because it was written with in fiscal year 2015 and experienced a legal terms that she wanted a lawyer $503,106 shortfall in fiscal year 2016.

So in 2015, the agency had less to vet.

She said the non-disclosure form than nine days of cash on hand, a epitomized a new working culture — term used to describe how many days more akin to a for-profit corporation an organization could operate with — that she believes has alienated no money coming in. In 2016, the agency had less than 10 days of cash many past and current employees.

“They run things a lot differently on hand, according to Rooney.

New leadership put in some new than it used to be run,” she said during a phone interview. “It’s programs and financial protocols that Rooney said resulted in turned into a toxic work ACHHH having 28 days environment.”

“Tough of cash on hand by the An environment she decisions end of June 2017, and claimed makes employees around 80 as of end of afraid of expressing isn’t always criticism, for fear it might about cutting last October.

“It was a substantial end their job or result in staff; tough turnaround,” Rooney demotion. decisions is said. “Our debt ratio has It was during the spring gone from 48 percent in of 2017 that the ACHHH sometimes 2016, to 22 percent in board hired Tim Brownell about October of 2018. The as its new CEO. Brownell changing balance sheet has been joined the agency after processes.” more healthy than it’s having spent more than — Tim Brownell ever been, and the agency 25 years serving in has financially right-sized various management roles with other home health and itself to the point where it could absorb hospice organizations throughout the certain slowdowns in business or other country. He had most recently served financial repercussions that may occur.”

Rooney believes many in the as divisional director of Hospice for Community Health Systems, a large community might not know how hospital system based in Franklin, close ACHHH came to closing its Tenn. Prior to that, he was vice doors. “(ACHHH) took almost $1 million president of business operations for a large multi-state pediatric and adult in losses over two years and was home health care company called really hovering on the brink of not “Loving Care Agency,” based in New only insolvency, but disappearing from this community,” he said. “In Jersey.

He succeeded former ACHHH the last two years, we’ve been able to Executive Director Sherry Greifzu, capture all of that back and continue who moved to Connecticut to be to post solid gains.”

Brownell acknowledged not all closer to her family. Greifzu took the helm on an interim basis in December employees bought into the agency’s 2015, following the resignation of resurgence plan, which called for former Executive Director Larry some major changes to its business plan.

Goetschius.

“Tough decisions isn’t always Brownell assembled a new leadership team that includes about cutting staff; tough decisions CFO Patrick Rooney and Human is sometimes about changing processes,” Brownell said.

Resources Director Liz Gregorek.

Those new processes, according to ACHHH leaders, include a new electronic medical records system (EMR) that supplants a less efficient paper-based system, and a new computer program that allows home health workers to build patient-care plans. So when they go into a home, ACHHH staff can conveniently access data confirming the patient’s care regimen for that day.

“This is something new to them,” Brownell said. “(Records) were on paper for the longest time. They tried an EMR in around 2014, but it wasn’t good and they stopped using it. A lot of people become intimidated by computers. The EMR system is that.

But everyone who has bought into it, loves it.”

Another recent change: Electronic mileage tracking. A worker’s schedule is loaded into the program, along with the route, which can be monitored down to the last mile. In addition to ensuring that only work-related miles are reimbursed, the program can flag — in real time — the closest employee to the most seriously ill client.

“As a home health agency, our people are out there all the time on the road,” Rooney said. “This program has saved us around $10,000 a month and you can imagine that at $10,000 savings a month, if there were certain individuals who may have been taking advantage of the program, that it’s not going to be very popular, because that supplemental income — right or wrong — is no longer there.”

EMPLOYER RELATIONS Tim Hanson — Dunsmore’s spouse who worked more than 30 years at ACHHH before also resigning last April — said he believes employeeemployer relations have gone down as the profit margin has gone up.

He and other past and present ACHHH workers lamented changes that include: • Workers allegedly fired for refusing to sign a non-disclosure agreement.

• Employees allegedly being cautioned after criticizing changes put into place by new leadership headed

by CEO Tom Brownell.

• Newly installed technology — including a computer program measuring employees’ work-related mileage — that some critics said challenged the trustworthiness of workers.

• Employees allegedly being led out of the ACHHH office the moment they’ve been fired or tendered their resignation.

“I think the board has a fiduciary responsibility to the community to have the agency be viable,” Hanson said. “And year after year after being in the red… is wearing and tiring.

And if someone says, ‘I can fix that,’ and that is the focus, then you get this kind of for-profit mindset that drives decision making in a different way than it used to.

(See Employees, Page 3A)

ACHHH Good Samaritan

MARK RAYMOND OF Middlebury reaches in to assist the uninjured driver from her overturned vehicle in Shoreham on Monday afternoon around 3 p.m. Raymond and a helper came across the accident off Route 74, where the driver had just lost control of her car on a curve and ended up wrongside down.

As he was helping unbuckle her seatbelt, which held her hanging upside down, the driver realized that she recognized Raymond from a past work experience.

Photo by Joey Ciaramitaro

Orwell town hall project on hold

By JOHN FLOWERS ORWELL — Orwell residents this March won’t be voting on a school building project after all. A recent state mandate that Orwell join the Slate Valley Modified Unified Union School District (SVMUUSD) means town officials need to table plans to expand their local elementary school in order to accommodate a cafeteria and gym.

Orwell school officials had hoped to present voters with a proposal to put an addition onto the upper wing of the west side of the school. It also called for razing the neighboring Orwell Town Hall, a deteriorating 179-yearold structure that currently serves as the students’ cafeteria and gym.

Orwell school directors were hoping to limit the project cost to around $2 million, believing a higher figure would be too much for local taxpayers to foot through a bond.

Local officials were planning under the assumption that Orwell would continue to operate an independent PreK-8th grade school, and thus pay the costs itself.

That notion changed after this past November’s General Election, when Orwell residents and those in the

SVMUUSD voted by a combined 2,216 to 1,615 to require Orwell to join Castleton, Benson, Hubbardton, West Haven and Fair Haven in the Slate Valley district. The SVMUUSD governs all public schools (including Fair Haven Union High School) in the district.

Orwell voters on three previous occasions had rejected their community’s entry into the SVMUUSD. But since the most recent vote co-mingled ballots from all six towns, Orwell’s fate was decided by the collective electorate of all of the communities.

So Orwell will need to delay its school building bond vote while the town’s entry into SVMUUSD is being sorted out.

And that delay could end up saving Orwell taxpayers some money, as the costs of the project would be shared by other SVMUUSD taxpayers, according to district Superintendent Brooke Olsen-Farrell. It remains unclear whether Orwell’s forced merger will be challenged in court by opponents of Act 46, the state’s school governance consolidation law that triggered the referendum.

“Since we are under the impres-

sion that Orwell is merging, Orwell Town School District wouldn’t have the authority to bring forth a bond by themselves,” Olsen-Farrell said through an email. “Slate Valley is looking at a bond to address issues across the district and the Orwell project would be incorporated into that.”

Slate Valley officials are targeting this September for a district-wide facilities bond vote, according to Olsen-Farrell.

Litigation or other merger delays that could further upset Orwell’s proposed building project, she added.

“If Orwell doesn’t merge on July 1 of 2019 and instead merges in 2020, it could delay everything, or Slate Valley would move forward without the Orwell project,” she said. “We really aren’t sure at this juncture. The Orwell project is a definite need, just not sure how it will all ultimately play out. The best scenario is for the merger to move forward on July 1 of 2019.

Otherwise (it) will be undoing all of the work we have already done just to redo it a year later. This ultimately does nothing to benefit students.”

Grants available for child literacy plans WATERBURY CENTER — The Children’s Literacy Foundation (CLiF) has several literacy grants currently available to public libraries, schools, and organizations serving low-income, at-risk, and rural children in Vermont and New Hampshire. All grant applications are available on clifonline.org.

Grants currently available are: • Year of the Book — $25,000 worth of literacy programming and new books will be awarded to qualifying elementary schools in New Hampshire or Vermont. Eligible schools have a minimum of 35 percent of students qualifying for free/reduced lunch and at least 30 percent scoring below proficient on reading and writing assessments. Programming includes au-

thor visits and writing workshops, family literacy events, mini-grants for classroom projects, new books for the classrooms and the school and local public libraries, as well as ten new books for each child to choose. Applications are due Jan. 30 for the 2019-2020 school year.

• Revive Your Literacy Programming — Funding is available for additional literacy programming completed in the 2018-2019 school year, open to any organization that has received a CLiF grant since 2014. Applications are due Feb. 1.

• Community Building — Funding is available to build connections between kids and their communities through a Reading with Seniors program, a 1,000

Books Before Kindergarten challenge, a songwriting workshop, or the Young Writers’ Project’s My Community Story platform. The project must be completed in the 2018-2019 school year. Applications are due Feb. 6.

• Rural Libraries — A schoolyear-long program awarded to public libraries in towns of 5,000 or less includes two storytelling sessions with professional authors/ storytellers, new books for the public library and local elementary school library, mini grants for new library programming, and two new books for each child to choose.

Applications are due April 2 for 2019-2020 school year.

For more information about CLiF visit clifonline.org.

Addison Independent, Thursday, January 31, 2019 — PAGE 3A

Addison race tops Vergennes-area ballots

Employees

By ANDY KIRKALDY office-seekers have a clear path to ADDISON — Barring a write-in election in March, but there will be campaign the only Town Meeting a new face on the Ferrisburgh selectDay race for a major town office board: Selectman Steve Gutowski in the Vergennes area will come in has decided to step down after Addison, according to petitions for almost six years on the board (see offices filed by the deadline this past story below).

Monday.

For a time it looked In Addison multi-term In Addison like there would be a race incumbent Selectman for his three-year term, Peter Briggs will face a multi-term as both zoning board challenge for a two-year incumbent member Clark Hinsdale seat from Alden Har- Selectman III — a former Charlotte wood.

Peter Briggs selectman and Vermont Briggs, a farmer who Farm Bureau president has also mounted chal- will face a — and another resident lenges for the Vermont challenge took out petitions. But House and Senate as a for a twoultimately only Hinsdale Republican, first won filed before Monday’s year seat a spot on the Addison deadline, and he will face from Alden selectboard in 2015. no challenge on the ballot.

Harwood, who until Harwood.

Next to him on the recently worked seven Ferrisburgh Town Meetyears as the director of ing Day ballot will be infacilities of the Mount Abraham cumbent Selectman Jim Benoit, who Unified School District, in the past is seeking a two-year term to return has served as Addison’s zoning to the board and is also unopposed. administrator. In 2004 he ran an Also on the ballot will be Addison unsuccessful write-in campaign for Northwest School District board Addison delinquent tax collector. member George Gardner, an inHarwood won some regional fame cumbent seeking another three-year decades ago for attempting to pay his term. He faces no opposition.

Addison property taxes with sheep.

In all, four terms on the 12-member The Independent will reach out Addison Northwest School District to both candidates for interviews board are ending on Town Meeting before Town Meeting Day. Day, two belonging to Vergennes Elsewhere incumbents and other incumbents. John Stroup is running

(Continued from Page 2A) steady in recent years, she said.

“I think the board watched things “With all the Visiting Nurse go from red to black, and I would Associations we have human assume felt vindicated, in a sense that resources meetings and we have the at least now, the agency was making fewest open positions,” Gregorek money,” Hanson said. said. “We have the fewest number of He claimed agency leaders are not travelers.” cutting employees as much slack Rooney, at the time of the interview, during personal emergencies. said ACHHH had only one traveler in “Home health was not its employ. a perfect place before Gregorek said the changes, but it was “When she doesn’t believe essentially ‘kind’ to someone has employee morale has people — especially in been in a job been suffering, though times of need,” Hanson in a company she — like Brownell said, noting his colleagues for a long — acknowledged were able to cover some some people have left of his shifts when his time, they because they weren’t on then-significant other don’t have board with organization was afflicted with a brain exposure to changes. tumor.

“When someone how other Dunsmore recalled that businesses has been in a job in a ACHHH management run. So when company for a long time, similarly eased her they don’t have exposure workload when she something to how other businesses suffered a major changes for run,” Gregorek said. “So equestrian accident them, some when something changes around three years ago. take it on the for them, some take it on “It was a very kind chin and run the chin and run with it, place,” Hanson said. and some don’t. It’s all in It was during a staff with it, and one’s perception.” conference in early some don’t.

Brownell cited patient 2018 that Dunsmore and It’s all in one’s feedback as proof the Hanson said they realized perception.” agency is on the right how much the working — Human track. climate had changed.

“If the morale was Resources ‘HOSTILE down and miserable, Director Liz ENVIRONMENT’?

Gregorek our patients would be Several workers at miserable,” Brownell the conference asked questions said, adding ACHHH hospice challenging the administration, raising recently received a “5-Star rating” issues such as employee retention. from its Medicare customers By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — There will It became clear at that gathering that based on a patients survey. “And the administration didn’t appreciate that’s something we hold in high be a new face on the Ferrisburgh criticism, according to Dunsmore. standard, and that our nurses hold selectboard after Town Meeting Day “After the staff meeting, people in high standards. That shows the elections.

Selectman Steve Gutowski, 65, were called in and written up for communication piece between speaking their minds,” Hanson administration, staff and patients has decided to step down after almost recalled. “They were admonished for is flowing, and flowing in the right six years on the board and roughly three decades in all serving the town their behavior.” direction.”

Hanson said the ACHHH board got Rooney said 46 percent of ACHHH in various positions.

Before being appointed to the wind of employees’ dissatisfaction patients are Medicaid recipients, and selectboard in December 2015 and and set up a mediated meeting 42 percent are on Medicare. between employees and management.

Bryan Young, leader of the winning election to the board since Around 15 employees showed up to ACHHH board promised he and then, Gutowski served on the Ferrisair grievances, though the couple his colleagues have heard employee burgh Zoning Board of Adjustment believes others stayed home out of complaints. The board was slated to from 2001 to 2012. And before fear for their jobs. discuss that, and other issues, at a that Gutowski estimated he was Ferrisburgh’s representative to the “Some people used the words meeting on Wednesday, Jan. 30. ‘hostile work environment,’” “It’s something of great concern to Addison County Solid Waste Management District for about 15 years.

Dunsmore said of feedback at the the board,” Young said. meeting. “We felt we had lost the culture we had loved so much.”

There were no board members at that meeting, according to Hanson.

An employee who spoke up at that gathering ended up being let go five days later, according to Hanson.

The ACHHH personnel policy precludes managers from speaking about specific employees.

Dunsmore and Hanson resigned shortly thereafter, on April 9, 2018.

Hanson cited more than a dozen other nurses who have left ACHHH during the past year and a half. Dunmore and Hanson are both Registered Nurse generalists, though Hanson focused on hospice care and Dunsmore was an IV specialist.

“We would have worked there forever,” Hanson said of the couple’s satisfaction prior to 2017. “We miss the collegiality, the feeling of safeness, the trust and the ‘We’re all in this together’ (atmosphere), as opposed to an ‘us versus them’ mentality.”

BETTER THAN AVERAGE But managers of the agency argue there hasn’t been a “mass exodus” of workers from ACHHH, and that the organization’s turnover rate is far less than the industry average.

Rooney pointed to a Dec. 6, 2018, article in Home Health Care News that places the national average for home health agency turnover last year was 21.23 percent. The current turnover rate at ACHHH is around 12 percent, which Brownell called “extremely low.”

ACHHH currently has 124 full-time, part-time and per diem employees, according to Gregorek.

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to return to the board for another three years, but Christopher Cousineau opted not to seek re-election.

City officials said Keith Morrill, a Vergennes resident since 2014, filed a petition to get on the ballot for that three-year vacancy. Stroup and Morrill are running unopposed.

Also in Vergennes, as the Independent reported earlier, Mayor Renny Perry decided not to seek a full term in office this March. Perry, then the deputy mayor, took over in February 2018 after Mayor Michael Daniels opted to step down. Perry, who is retired from the human resources position with the Vermont court system he took after leaving his job as Vergennes city manager, cited his years of service and many future travel plans as behind his decision.

Deputy Mayor Jeff Fritz filed for the two-year term as mayor, and will be unopposed on the ballot.

Also unopposed are elected incumbent Vergennes Aldermen Mark Koenig and Lowell Bertrand, who are each seeking another two-year term; incumbent Aldermen David Austin and David Small, who were appointed to council vacancies in 2018 and are looking for voter approval to fulfill second years of terms; and former mayor and council member Bill Benton, who filed for an open seat and a two-year term.

PANTON Also running unopposed is Panton selectboard Chairman Howard Hall, who will be on the ballot looking for voter approval for another three years on the board.

This is the first year in Panton that elective positions and spending measures will be decided by townwide Australian balloting, and not by voice vote from the floor of the annual meeting. According to Town Clerk Pam Correia no other town races are contested.

WALTHAM In Waltham one term apiece on the selectboard and ANWSD board end on Town Meeting Day. Waltham remains the only town in the ANWSD area to nominate and vote on its town officers from the floor of town meeting, According to Town Clerk/Assistant Treasurer Mary Ann Castimore incumbent ANWSD board member Tom Borchert would like to be nominated and serve again, and she believes the same is true of incumbent Selectman Tim Ryan.

Castimore added that she and Waltham Assistant Clerk/Treasurer Lucille Evarts, who serve on a yearto-year basis, would also like to be nominated for and voted back into office.

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

Ferrisburgh selectman to step down Gutowski, who spent a year as chairman of the selectboard, said he will also be slowly phasing out his work as the operations and yard manager of Charlotte’s Point Bay Marina over the next few years as he devotes more time to his family and his own pursuits.

“There are a lot of things that I want to do and need to do for myself,” he said.

Certainly, Gutowski said, he has been happy to serve with the board, and he praised its chairman, Rick Ebel, and the rest of the board members.

“I think the board is in good hands, and all the other people on the board are excellent people,” he said.

But Gutowski said he has been

planning to simplify his life a bit, and the time has come.

“It just a lot of that stuff. I turned 65 in November,” he said. “I just want to not think about meetings and site visits and all that.”

Gutowski will remain on a town advisory committee studying zoning bylaws, but said someone else can emerge and take his place on the selectboard.

“I’ve done my share,” he said.

“It’s time for other people to step up and do their part in town,” Zoning board member Clark Hinsdale III — a former Charlotte selectman and Vermont Farm Bureau president — filed before Monday’s deadline for petitions, and he will face no challenge on the ballot.

STEVE GUTOWSKI

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What passes for economic development in Vermont is largely ineffective and not suited for the 21st century, according to Peter Stromgren and Bill Schubart in an op-ed elsewhere on this page.

They are correct in the sense that what we have — the Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development — was not built to do what is necessary, which is to attract new businesses and to create new markets. The agency spends its time and money helping those businesses already here with many business-related tasks spread across a number of state programs.

What Mr. Stromgren and Mr. Schubart suggest is to draw all efforts under one roof and that the group should be a non-governmental agency “with skilled but apolitical leadership, a clear organizational chart, and declared accountability measures and sole responsibility for economic improvement...”

The writers also argue that this new “economic development authority would collaborate with UVM’s various advanced scientific disciplines to help them bring new technologies to market…”

We have made this same argument for years. It has long been apparent that economic development in Vermont is an afterthought. The Agency of Commerce and Community Development carries little to no weight in the legislature, and hasn’t for as long as we can remember.

The University of Vermont is the largest and most important asset the state has, and its potential as an economic development partner has never been explored, let alone tapped. UVM is a billion-dollar-a-year organization and its intellectual capacity is restricted to within the walls of the school itself. The same can be said of Vermont’s higher education community.

Why? Because economic development is an expensive, long-term, labor-intensive exercise that requires a lot of patience. It’s everything a political environment abhors.

Particularly one designed around a two-year election cycle.

And, in Vermont, economic development has always had a negative ring to it. Like it’s a little bit dirty. We have never put economic development on par with human services, or education, or the environment.

Isn’t that odd given that a good job is the basis for any definition of prosperity or personal stability?

The Legislature has convened for the new biennium. Ask yourself: what are the issues being considered by the leadership this session? Are any of them focuses on bringing new jobs to Vermont? Any of them focused on creating new markets? Any of them identify economic development as a priority, with suggestions as to how this effort could be reorganized and funded?

Nope.

The hope — expressed by the two authors — is that our leaders will recognize that today’s needs are more urgent than in the past and that today’s needs cannot be met within the existing system.

They are correct, but it’s a heavy lift.

Any successful effort to create a new economic development paradigm must follow the recognition that there is a problem, that what we have doesn’t work.

That perception does not exist. We are beyond full employment. Anyone who wants a job can find one, which is about as far as the thinking goes. We’re spending more time focused on the revising of Act 250, the state’s land use law, than we are creating the next wave of new jobs in Vermont.

Mr. Stromgren and Mr. Schubart are right to push the cause, and they are correct in saying it’s an effort that needs to be championed by the governor. If economic development in Vermont continues to be run out of the governor’s office — no matter who sits in the chair — the results will be more of the same.

That won’t work much longer. Tomorrow’s jobs are of a different cast and require different skills. To get them will require a change in approach and a change in partnerships.

It will require a different — and yes, apolitical — leadership.

It’s a conversation that needs to happen.

— Emerson Lynn St. Albans Messenger

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Sonata in black and white

UNDER A CLOUDY sky Sunday this stand of trees in Middlebury cast no shadows creating a stark white-on-black-on-white composition of the snow clinging to dark trunks against the white blanket of snow.

Independent photo/Meg Madden

New ways to lure youth to the state The snow’s piling up and the temperature’s dropping.

Some folks are dreaming of warmer climes. Not me. By my third year of college, I knew Vermont was where I wanted to live. Growing up in Washington State, I had known wonderful wilderness. Vermont’s was similar, though on a less majestic scale. I relished the many older buildings; the way towns had changed only gradually as the decades passed. Around Seattle, everything expanded since World War II; even the oldest buildings dated back a mere hundred years. How special, I thought, to live in a place that could embrace change at a more measured pace.

By Laurie Who knew that I was about to beCox come part of the youth “invasion”? To me, it was a place that just felt right, a good fit. When I graduated, I had few professional skills.

Jobs beyond minimum wage were in short supply, but I didn’t need to earn very much. I could share the rent with friends, commute on an old bicycle. I only knew of this “invasion” because the college’s Dean, perhaps responding to political pressures, actively urged parents to not let their new graduates remain in the area. My parents were heartily disappointed when I did not climb into their car to return west for my future.

I have read some articles written about this influx of young people to the state fifty years ago. While reasons for migration varied, the availability of relatively cheap land and housing played a part. Some people stayed briefly, others settled in for life. Whatever skills we began with, many of us went on to become lawyers, teachers, farmers, artists, builders, doctors, and entrepreneurs. Some of us became “pillars” of our communities,

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and possibly a few became outlaws. Those who stayed undoubtedly found the “good life” in this state. Ripton’s population more than tripled between 1960 and 1990.

Since the early 2000’s, Vermont politicians have worried about the slowdown of the state’s population growth, particularly in the younger sector. Other than the recent offer of $10,000 for people to come to Vermont and telecommute, little was tried to change that demographic, other than wringing hands and bemoaning too many old people, which is not really a message that’s likely to entice youth!

Of course, 50 years ago the hand wringing was about too many young people arriving.

I don’t know about the rest of the state, but the height of Ripton’s population was in 1880 when the mountains were almost denuded, farms and sawmills abounded, and most people had huge families. One reason for the state’s aging population is that most people don’t have large families anymore. Considering a “sustainable” population for our environment, that is probably a good thing, but it does weigh on the economist’s or business owner’s goal of constant growth.

In 2015, a gubernatorial candidate said younger adults wanted WIFI, cell service, lattes, and to live in apartment buildings. I looked around Ripton: no apartment buildings; coffee available at the store, but no lattes; cell service here and there, but we did have internet.

I’m not sure anyone picks where they live based on coffee, and my understanding is that — if they can afford it — most young people would rather live in a house than (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

No bag limit on bagels this season At this time of year, when the temperatures drop below heard of gluten. Believe it or not — and I swear this zero and the wind howls, I like to get my gear on and is true — bagels used to be sold at fitness centers as go skiing or snowshoeing, or maybe even do a little ice post-workout recovery snacks. climbing.

It was a magical time.

I’m joking, of course.

Unlike so many others who now shun all starches, I Really, I prefer to stay inside and bake things. Lately, never gave up on bagels. When they come back in style it’s bagels. as a health food — and we know they will — I’ll be right During the warmer months, you might consider me there waiting. downright outdoorsy. I mean, not hike-the-AppalaI’ve made bagels in the past, but this winter it’s become chian-Trail outdoorsy, but enough so something of a passion. I’m running that I have to check myself for ticks my own version of America’s Test every day.

Kitchen, except without the careful When winter comes, though, forget measuring or any culinary training. it. If I need to check myself for anyBagels are made from a simple thing, it’s bedsores. dough of flour, yeast, salt and water, Granted, twice a day I have to layer plus a bit of sugar — although I’ve up and head out to the coop to tend graduated to barley malt syrup, bethe chickens. It’s the only effort I cause all the cool online recipes are

By Jessie Raymond using it. make to get outside, but it’s plenty.

Each five-minute trip requires me to You knead the dough, shape the barecover by the woodstove for at least gels and, to give them their distinctive a half-hour. I examine my toes for frostbite and reflect on texture, poach them before baking. (By “poach,” I mean my good fortune: somehow I made it another day without “boil briefly,” not “take out of season.” Happily, there’s having to be rescued by helicopter from a snowdrift. an open season on bagels, with no bag limit.)

I don’t handle winter well.

I’m working on fine-tuning my choice of flour, rising While some people embrace nature’s intensity at this time, poaching time, etc., to come up with the perfect time of year, I embrace carbohydrates. That’s where the recipe. At least that’s what I tell people. In reality, I’m bagels come in. just looking for an excuse to make another batch.

I know, I know: Eating refined carbs will rot you from I’ve been experimenting with various flours: all-purthe inside. But for the purposes of this column — and pose, bread, high-gluten, even 00. I only recently learned my winter survival — we are going to have to agree that that “00” is a designation that indicates how finely ground bagels are an unqualified good thing. They just are. the flour is, but I don’t see it as two zeroes. To me, it looks Maybe I’m biased because I grew up in an age when like the eyes of a gluten-intolerant person whose pupils carbs had not yet become vilified and no one had even (See Jessie, Page 5A)

Around the bend

As chair of the Middlebury Community Television board, I’d like to thank the Addison Independent and John Flowers for summing up the financial challenges facing MCTV and NEAT if the FCC rules are adopted as planned.

The article provided a clear summary of the legal and accounting framework on which public access television relies.

There are a couple points worthy of explaining further.

First, the franchise fee is not Comcast’s money, but subscribers’ money (roughly $5 a month per subscriber in Middlebury). This fee promotes government transparency, allows public access to create and broadcast local content, and provides extensive media literacy training through the Ilsley Public Library and the schools. Comcast’s closing quote in the article claims that they are concerned about this increasing cost to the consumer, but does not present the fact that this franchise fee is stable, while Comcast, at the same time, is raising the broadcast TV fee as well as the sports fee, fees which it does control and from which it profits.

Second, a point of clarification: MCTV and the town of Middlebury are each contributing $8000 to the planned purchase of new equipment in the town offices. This cost sharing is due to the fact that the equipment is predominantly used for recording Selectboard, Development Review Board, and other government meetings. The town additionally uses it to record committee meetings for the purpose of taking minutes.

One substantial advantage to the new equipment will be the capability of streaming meeting coverage, so anyone will be able to watch these meetings via the internet. I know Kurt Broderson, the executive director of MCTV, would be happy to show anyone the studio setup and discuss the plans for the new equipment in the town offices.

Len Rowell, chair Middlebury Community Television

Economic model should be stable Recent statements by our governor about his desire to attract more people to Vermont in an effort to spur our economy are disappointing. We should realize by now that an economic model that relies on continued growth of populations and their resulting increase in the use of natural resources is unsustainable.

People will continue to migrate to Vermont from other states and to the U.S. from other countries.

That’s fine.

We will have to adjust to that.

However, we should not be inviting people here or spending money to get them here based on an outdated and unsustainable economic model. We should embrace and celebrate the population stabilization that is happening. Most developed nations have seen a decline in their birth rates. It has to happen in order for our planet to survive, and it is better that it happens sooner rather than later.

World population stabilization is necessary for the long-term availability of clean water, clean air, adequate food, adequate forest resources, quality outdoor recreational opportunities, shrinking our carbon footprint, minimizing impermeable surfaces, and maintaining wildlife populations and the healthy working ecosystems they and we depend on. World population stabilization is attainable simply through education, adequate funding, and shifting of basic necessary resources to those areas of the planet that most need them.

Vermont has an opportunity here to show the world how to maintain a healthy economy with a stable population. It will take some creative adjusting of traditional economic models at a variety of levels, but it must be done and we have been presented with a wonderful and needed opportunity here that we should welcome.

Affordable housing, good working conditions, and livable wages are certainly worthy goals for the people already here and those who will decide to migrate here, but (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, January 31, 2019 — PAGE 5A

State needs central plan for economy

In a recent VTDigger piece, fail to being meaningful results.

If we’ve learned nothing more Secretary of Commerce and Community Development Mike Schirling from the recent EB-5 fiasco, political highlighted actions his agency has appointees, as a general rule, rarely taken to make a positive impact on provide competent leadership. In the Vermont’s previously lackluster past ten years or so, there have also been directives given to economic development outside committees and program: “Focusing on consultants to develop fundamental activities, strategies to bring greatsupporting economic er responsiveness to growth, and affordabilThis week’s economic opportunities ity.”

— efforts then gobbled There are many mov- Community forum is up by competing ing parts to economic by Peter Stromgren economic development development. Presently, of Bennington and interests as these various Vermont has spread Bill Schubart of factions seek to protect those needs across Hinesburg. their turf. various constituencies.

Neither will simple nostrums help.

To be successful, they will need to be reorganized into one comprehensive In a recent New York Times article. office with a clear mission and sole Paul Volcker was asked about his authorization — including the man- concerns for the current economic agement of the fundraising streams climate. He noted that while attendsuch as VEDA, VEGI and the like ing recent economic lectures and presentations, eventually someone that support grants and loans.

Unfortunately, the legislature also would always ask, “what about that allocates what little there is of its poor manufacturer in my town?” he funding for all economic develop- further noted that the questioner’s ment activities over the regional de- concern was too easily dismissed velopment authorities, the industrial with talk of worker retraining or some development authorities, and county other solution far easier said than development groups. This dispersal done. In essence, there’s no single of assets clouds strategic initiative, stratagem but rather the need for a focus and mission. and diminishes more comprehensive approach to overall results. With the exception understanding the growth economy.

A new quasi-governmental agency of very recent actions by the ACCD, overall results have been marginal. would replace all existing programs Economic development is a potent and have sole responsibility and political catchphrase but in reality, accountability for economic develophas contributed little to Vermont’s ment efforts be managed by a professional with requisite experience and growth for decades.

Successful economic development support staff. Not all opportunities are programs are by their very nature equal or readily apparent. Business complex, have low visibility, and development executives know that a require longer gestation periods. sustained and proactive approach to Using a smaller, independent and growth opportunities brings success. highly-focused group of non-political In the current economic climate professionals, we must step back where competing states have focused and articulate the underlying funda- approaches to bring new business into mentals of Vermont’s strategy. This their economies, Vermont has been on should be a non-governmental agency the sideline. Economic development with skilled but apolitical leadership, in the new age will not just be about a clear organizational chart, and low taxes and deregulation. Most declared accountability measures new businesses will accept taxes that and sole responsibility for economic enhance the economies and markets improvement — in essence returning in which they and their employees to the basic fundamentals of the craft live and work if they’re regionally and not on feel-good approaches that competitive. They also want rules

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of the game that are principle-based, not mercurial, to enable long-term business planning.

To that end, a new agency would categorize and index Vermont’s current Businesses into related groups to better understand their underlying challenges, trends and growth needs.

The Public Assets Institute recently presented data showing that most growth does indeed come from our current business community. But if Vermont is to ever have meaningful job growth it will need to come from new business and markets as well.

The university of Vermont is a premier basic research institution in Vermont. A future Economic Development authority would collaborate with UVM’s various advanced scientific disciplines to help them bring new technologies to market, either independently or through existing enterprises here. The Rubenstein School and the UVM Medical School both have deep experience in intellectual property transfer in the service of new business development. Such a partnership will enhance the continuum from research to intellectual property transfer management and new business development.

Such a change will be a radical move for state government. The Governor and the legislature need to stop reassuring Vermonters that “all is well” when they know full well the existing system has been a failure from an organizational and performance perspective.

Governor Scott has made economic development a top priority, but this will need to go beyond his simple “affordability agenda,” which is retrospective rather than prospective. It will be up to Governor Scott to take the lead, rationalizing and championing such organizational change while articulating why it is imperative for Vermont’s economic future. Without executive branch support, our state will continue to be an “also ran” to the detriment of all Vermonters across the economic spectrum. Until he makes significant organizational changes, economic development will continue to be a slogan rather than a reality.

Jessie (Continued from Page 4A) have rolled back in their head.

I understand that for some people, gluten is only slightly less poisonous than strychnine, but for a satisfyingly chewy bagel, gluten is the key. And, as we’ve established, bagels are good.

Don’t worry, however, that I’m subsisting entirely on bagels this winter. I’m being careful to round out my diet with plenty of pasta and Italian bread as well.

I know what you’re thinking: Aren’t you the woman who was determined to resist the Great Christmas Cookie Onslaught of 2018? Yes, that was me.

By and large, I succeeded, and I think that’s my problem. In December I deprived my body of much-needed chill-fighting carbs, and now I have a deficit that I’m making up for, mostly in bagels.

This summer, I’ll be happy to chat about my love for garden vegetables

and how they not only boast vibrant colors and a satisfying crunch but also pack vital nutrients.

But tonight it’s getting down to zero with wind chills in the negative numbers. So if you don’t see me out on the slopes tomorrow morning — and you won’t — don’t fret.

I’ll be right here by the fire, enjoying one of my homemade bagels.

They may not be a superfood, but in weather like this, they are, without question, a super food.

Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) an apartment. The state might be able to help make low-cost homes more available, but the real thing they could help with is cell service and internet. While these utilities are easily accessible in Chittenden County and most larger communities, they are fair to nonexistent in many smaller towns. These towns have more housing available. They have schools begging for more students. But the very people our governor is trying to lure to the state, the telecommuters, cannot settle in a place without decent internet service.

Maybe some younger people don’t want to live in small towns, but I think what drew folks forty years ago still beckons. Increasingly, I see younger people and families moving to Ripton — where we may not have much cell service, but many areas do have good internet.

In our smaller communities, we can often handle a bit of growth without having to radically change the landscape: a new house here or there instead of a development.

This kind of growth can support small general stores to stay viable, schools to flourish, and historic buildings and churches to not

crumble but continue as part of our beautiful landscape.

During Governor Douglas’ early term, I was going to write to him. I was going to propose an investment plan for Vermont: statewide cell and internet service; diversified, organic and value-added agriculture; single-payer health care; renewable energy; high-quality educational system and affordable child care. I never wrote that letter, but I believe if we had taken that direction fifteen years ago, we would have young

people and businesses flocking to our state. We might even be wringing our hands over their numbers, in spite of our winters.

Laurie Cox is a retired school counselor and long-time Ripton selectboard member.

Besides occasional writing, she sings with Maiden Vermont, pursues art, takes long hikes with her dog(s) and seasonally gardens. She also is about to become more actively involved in things political, environmental, and just.

The Worldview of Sir Walter Raleigh There is a well-established queen, which suggests that in spite tradition among political philos- of prior Indian settlements, and the ophers that there are three types commercial relations between them of government, distinguished ac- and the English, it was taken to be cording to the number of persons English territory, a domain of the who rule: one, few, or many; Queen. Sir Walter Raleigh was a hence, monarchy, oligarchy (or major sponsor and financier of the aristocracy, when the few are of Roanoke colony. He was favorite noble character), or democracy. of the Queen, who knighted him for For the sake of consistency, the his services. He was a Renaissance man: adventurer, latter might have been statesman, soldier, designated “demarentrepreneur, but chy,” but this word has also a poet, philosanother meaning. A opher, scientist, and demarchy is a form of historian. representative governThe Roanoke coloment of a city or state, ny was ill-fated. The which is subdivided second settlement into districts. The was also abandoned, people of each district how and by what choose their represencause, is unknown. tative or “demarche,” Its settlers simply either randomly or disappeared. Accordby preferential vote. ing to one theory, The demarchs make The American they were massacred up a council with the power to govern. In Political Tradition by the Indians, according to another, a pure democracy, An essay by they were at the point there is majority rule Victor Nuovo of starvation and of all the people in a Middlebury College sought refuge with common assembly. professor emeritus neighboring Indian Accordingly, a demarof philosophy tribes and were aschy is a representative similated by them. democracy, a form The first permanent of government with which we are intimately famil- English settlement was established iar: a democratic republic, that in Jamestown ten years later. It was is, a representative government named after James I, who succeeded whose representatives are dem- Elizabeth. Raleigh took no part in ocratically selected, by popular this later settlement. Indeed, when Jamestown was founded, he was a vote.

In the wake of Columbus, the prisoner in the Tower of London. A various European governments few months after Elizabeth’s death, engaged in the colonization he was accused of treason, of plotof America were monarchies, ting against the James’s succession. and the adventurers whom they He was convicted and imprisoned empowered were all dedicated for thirteen years. In 1616 he was monarchists. During this age of pardoned and allowed by the King discovery, the Pope, thinking to lead an expedition in search of El himself to be the spiritual Dorado, the legendary city of gold, monarch of the world, divided supposed to be located somewhere this new world between the in what is now Venezuela. His two leading Catholic political voyage enraged he Spanish, who monarchies, Spain and Portugal. considered this their territory. The Little was known then of North Spanish ambassador persuaded America. Like Columbus, the James to punish Raleigh. The senSpanish Conquistadores claimed tence of death was renewed, and he the lands of South and Central was beheaded on October 29, 1618.

America for the Spanish mon- It was reported that when he mountarchs, Ferdinand and Isabella, ed the scaffold, he asked to see the and for their successors. All this axe that would be used to kill him, and noting that its blade was very was accomplished by conquest.

The early English colonies in sharp, commented “This is a sharp America were more interested Medicine, but it is a Physician for in enrichment than conquest; all diseases and miseries.” His last they assumed that America words, to the executioner, were was a wilderness, land free for “Strike, man, strike!”

While in prison, Raleigh passed the taking and for commerce.

However, their politics were the time reading, writing, and reno different. The first English flecting. He was well supplied with settlement in North America was all that he needed, books, pen, ink, established on Roanoke Island, and paper, and he wrote The History in the Chesapeake Bay in 1585, of the World. It is a masterpiece. It and abandoned, settled again is also a very long work, and few in 1587, and soon the whole have read the whole of it — I have area came to be known in the not. But there is an abridgment of minds of the settlers as “The it that gives the sense of the whole.

New-Found Land of Virginia,” And it contains the reflections of named in honor of the English a man of refined literary taste and

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penetrating thoughtfulness. It presents a view of the world, and of history, exemplary of its time, a succession of kingdoms and sovereigns, good, bad, and indifferent. Raleigh’s preface gives a brief survey of English monarch, it is frank and unvarnished.

Reading it, one is reminded of Shakespeare’s histories, which were written about the same time. They complement each other.

In his prison cell, Raleigh reflected on the meaning of history. It was a fitting subject to think about for someone in prison and under a sentence of death.

It was a way of escape, for he perceived that history “triumphs over time” and its misfortunes.

By studying history, we are no longer confined to the present moment. Historical memory and imagination transport us to the most distant times past, to the origin of the world, and to its successive generations. In the historical imagination the dead are made to rise “out of the depth and darkness of the earth” and pass in review in the present.

Raleigh’s purpose was not to escape his present misfortunes, but to judge them and himself, and to make even more universal judgments, to draw out of the past “a policy no less wise and eternal.”

Policy or policies of prudent social action, of just institutions and practices, of political wisdom, and there is a good deal of this, spread throughout the many pages of Raleigh’s history. One can randomly open the book and read and be edified.

We are all prisoners of the present, and in these doleful political times, the present may seem a place of hopeless confinement. But, joining Raleigh to Aristotle, we are also historical and political animals; our greatest talents are historical memory and a capacity for prudent action; and history is our best teacher.

Postscript: Raleigh’s cell in the tower of London was not a dark dungeon, nor was it anything like a modern jail cell.

It was a spacious room, with windows, a fire place, cabinets, a writing desk and chair. It was large enough to accommodate a library of 500 books and also scientific equipment, for among other subject that interested him was natural philosophy, especially chemistry, which allowed him to conduct experiments. Like all early chemists, Raleigh had was curious about the possibility of transmuting base metals into gold. A useful abridgment of Raleigh’s History of the World was published in 1971 by Macmillan Press, edited by C. A. Patrides. It has a fine introduction.

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Enid Wonnacott, 57, grew up in Middlebury and Weybridge

Obituaries Gerald C. Blair, Ferrisburgh

FERRISBURGH — Gerry Blair’s family are sad to announce that he passed away on Jan. 22, 2019.

He was the son of Harvey and Iris Prouty Blair of Grand Isle and spent many happy years growing up on the shores of Lake Champlain.

Gerry graduated from South Burlington High School, where he made lifelong friends.

He worked for Gardeners Supply, where he met his wife Pamela, and they were married on Valentines Day 1998 in Ferrisburgh, Vt. He then worked at Ferrisburgh Central School where he was a friend to both young and old.

Gerry and Pam together shared their love with their five children and four grandchildren. He was the best father that any child could ask for. He had many interests but foremost he was a Tolkien scholar. He attended many of the yearly conferences and wrote profuse essays on various JRR Tolkien topics. He also enjoyed ice fishing with his wife, gardening, creating art,

singing, and being a grandfather, hero, and friend to Willow Hosanna, who held a special place in his heart.

Gerry is survived by the love of his life, wife Pamela; children Dulcinea and her husband Jesse Juenger; Abraham Begins and wife Rebecca and his three young grandchildren Caden, Kami and Kinsley; sons Elijah Begins, Zachariah Maple, and daughter Moriah Hosanna; his brother Fred Blair and partner Ric Churchill; and by his beloved cats Stuart and Tata.

He was predeceased by his parents Harvey and Iris, brothers Greg Blair, and Randall Blair and sister Rosemary Nutting.

A Celebration of his life will be held on Thursday Jan. 31, 2019, at the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral GERRY BLAIR Home, located at 117 South Main St., Middlebury, Vt. Visiting hours are 3-5 p.m. and a celebration service direction of Sanderson-Ducharme from 5-6 p.m. to share stories and Funeral Home. memories of Gerry.

Online condolences at sandersonArrangements are under the funeralservice.com.◊

Joanne Carrara, 78, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Joanne “Nanna” LaPenna Carrara, age 78, passed away peacefully, surrounded by her loving family, on Jan. 23, 2019, in Englewood, Fla. Joanne was born on Nov. 6, 1940, into an Italian immigrant family in Proctor, Vt. She was the first child of the late Annina Carmen Manganelli LaPenna and the late Albert Francis LaPenna, and grew up surrounded by family, food, and a strong immigrant work ethic.

Joanne graduated from Proctor High School in 1958. On July 8, 1961, she married the love of her life, Paul Carrara and before the age of 29 she had given birth to their six children.

Joanne’s passions in life were raising her children, passing on her Italian Heritage, preparing healthy meals, and an unwavering commitment to the ethos of putting family first.

Joanne’s dedication to these values was unbounded and she passed them on to friends and strangers alike.

Joanne served on the Mary Hogan School Board, was an avid tennis player and taught tennis to local children. She had a strong musical ear and loved playing the piano with family singing along. She also took great pride in the fact that she educated herself to work as an assistant with Dr. Bill Eichner in his Middlebury, Vt., Ophthalmology office.

Nanna could always be found out in her rock garden weeding and tending to plants or in her kitchen preparing healthy meals for family and loved

JOANNE “NANNA” LAPENNA CARRARA ones. In promoting her beliefs for a most healthy and tranquil lifestyle, her children and grandchildren would receive daily e-mails pertaining to health, diet, natural medicine and the use of essential oils. She closed each email with the same loving advice “Always question and be informed, love your nagging Nanna.”

Paul and Joanne were fortunate to have traveled to many far-away places, but her most favorite place of all was their home in Florida. It gave her great joy to share this home with her children and grandchildren all arriving at different intervals throughout their winter stay. Needless to say

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She was predeceased by her sister Shirley LaPenna.

Funeral services will be held on Feb. 16, 2019, at 1 p.m. at St. Mary’s Church, Middlebury, Vt. A celebration of her life will follow immediately after at Tourterelle Restaurant, 3629 Ethan Allen Highway, New Haven, Vt. In Lieu of flowers donations may be made in her memory to: Open Door Clinic, 100 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT 05753, or Dismas House, 103 Park Ave., Rutland, VT 05701.◊ “May love, kindness and respect for each other be with you always ... It will keep you safe and happy forever.”

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Program — developing a farmer- policy makers and politicians. She driven organic certification program, ultimately retired in December, 2018. championing a robust farm-to-school Enid’s love of the outdoors was partnership in Vermont that became a evident in their home where every national model for broadening access window offers a beautiful view, the to local and organic food, and lead- small farm she and Harry worked ing the organization with an open- together, the many canoe trips with minded approach that made room at family and friends, travels across the the table for everyone. country and the globe and her abidEnid believed that collaboration and ing interest in long walks. mutual support are critical to sustainEnid continued her love of ing agriculture sports as a field in Vermont and hockey coach helping more at Champlain farmers move Valley Union toward organic High School, and nordic skiing practices.

Her with the Bill work was honored Koch Kids Ski with an induction Program.

She into the Vermont could be found Agricultural Hall every year on of Fame last the sidelines summer. Enid was of the Vermont the first member State Field of the Vermont Hockey Playoffs Agricultural Hall and the Cross of Fame to be Country Ski exclusively affiliChampionships, ated with organic cheering on all agriculture. the athletes from One of her every team. favorite projects Enid was was the traveling predeceased by NOFA-VT pizza her parents and oven in which she ENID WONNACOTT is survived by delighted for its her husband, capacity to bring people together around food. She was Harry Frank, their two children, passionate about community build- Eli and Lila, sisters Megan Sutton ing and embodied the warm heart of of Weybridge and Robin Davis of Vermont’s organic agriculture move- Norwich, nieces Elsie, Alison, Doris, ment, pulling people together around and Laura, and nephews Bruce, Will, organic food and the farmers who Graham, Wesley, and Alex.

There will be a tribute to Enid at produce it. Launched in 2006, the portable pizza oven fulfilled a vision the NOFA Conference on Feb. 16, Enid had for gathering people around and a celebration of life at Shelburne food in a way that fostered connec- Farms on June 16. Special thanks to the many friends and family who tion and conversation.

Since her cancer diagnosis in 2014, provided food, company, love and working the oven also provided Enid support, and a collection of the most a way to get out and see people, beautiful and touching cards, as well which she described as “a really as the doctors and nurses at UVM healthy thing to do especially when Medical Center and the hospice team from Visiting Nurse Association. you have chemo brain.”

NOFA-VT has established a fund Many people who worked with Enid described her positive energy to continue the work that was so and balanced approach as both anchor important to Enid. Donations can be and beacon through the hard work of sent to The Enid Fund, ℅ NOFA-VT, building a movement, as well as a PO Box 697, Richmond, VT 05477. source of fun. She is remembered as Additionally, Enid’s family encourthe first one to turn on the music and ages donations to the cancer charity get everyone dancing at many events. of your choice.

Also, there is going to be an Harry and Enid were married in 1990, and had two children, Lila “Enid’s Orchard” project with farmand Eli. Enid seamlessly blended ers planting an apple tree on their her work with her family life — farms in her honor, and a statewide bringing Lila and Eli along to meet- farm-to-farm walk to raise awareings and events from the time they ness of organic agriculture and were infants through this past fall community. She had a vision of when they helped her cook pizza in hundreds of people joining together NOFA’s travelling oven. Enid kept to walk for the cause.

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HUNTINGTON — Enid Wonnacott passed away peacefully from breast cancer, surrounded by her family at their home in Huntington on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019. She was 57 years old.

Enid lived a life filled with family, friends, horses, sheep, chickens, ducks, dogs, gardens, sports, outdoor adventures and a long career in organic agriculture.

Born on Aug. 29, 1961, to Bruce and Erica Wonnacott, the family moved to Middlebury, in 1968 and later to Weybridge.

Enid’s deep passion for agriculture was seeded while growing up on her family’s Weybridge homestead.

There, she spent a lot of time on a neighboring dairy farm, showed livestock at the fair and worked with a large-animal veterinarian.

In high school, she was a standout athlete, lettering in field hockey and nordic skiing. Her athletic passions continued while a student at St. Lawrence University.

At St. Lawrence, Enid studied Biology and Chemistry and first learned about organic agriculture.

She relief-milked for a nearby organic dairy and discovered Wendell Berry’s writing.

During a semester in Kenya, Enid learned how to treat cobra bites and hand-milk a 70-cow herd.

That semester planted the seed for her eventual study of and work in sustainable and organic agriculture.

As graduation neared, Enid applied to veterinary school and, at her mother’s suggestion, for a yearlong Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study alternative agriculture. Enid always talked about her mom as the role model who showed her that women can do anything and supported what was in her heart.

After college, Enid travelled the world as a Watson Fellow and Fulbright Scholar, studying sustainable agriculture in New Zealand, Greece, India, Nepal and Norway.

Upon her return, she worked as a Biology and Environmental Science teacher at Northfield-Mt. Hermon school, where she also managed the school’s farm, coached field hockey and skiing, and met her future husband, Harry Frank. Together, they moved to Huntington, where they both pursued further education and their careers — Harry as an educator, and Enid as an organic certification agent and Executive Director for Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) beginning that work while a graduate student at UVM. Enid began her tenure at NOFA-VT in 1987, inheriting two milk crates and one filing cabinet.

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SALISBURY — William “Tiny” Ephraim Sheldrick, age 97, passed away peacefully in his home on Jan. 24, 2019, surrounded by his family.

He was born on Aug. 18, 1921, in West Haven, Vt., to George and Mable (Hunt) Sheldrick. He is survived by his brothers Calvin (Pete), Howard (Dowdy) and David (Dave) and sisters Audrey (Duge) and Jane (Janie), and is predeceased by brothers George (Buck) and Franklin (Peany), and sisters Dorothy (Peaches), Genevieve (Sister) and Marion (Majee).

William and his first wife Mary were married in Nov. 1944. They had seven beautiful children; William and his wife Michelle of Bridport, John and his wife Joyce of Richfield Springs, N.Y., David and his significant other, Wendy Stone of Shoreham; Christopher and his wife Kathleen of West Haven; Patricia Townsend and her husband Harold of New Berlin, N.Y., and Mary-Jo Pinson and her husband Eric of Fallbrook, Calif. He is predeceased by daughter Pamela Sheldrick.

After his wife’s tragic passing in Dec. 1967, William met his longtime partner Elizabeth Wisell, who also survives him. They had five wonderful boys: Erik and his wife Kimberly of Shoreham, Isaac and his

wife Megan of Brandon, Matthew of Salisbury, George of Weybridge, and Eugene and his wife Christina of Salisbury. After years together, the couple married in Feb. 2004.

William is survived by his many, many nieces, nephews, 48 grandchildren, 69 great-grandchildren and 12 great- great-grandchildren.

Many who knew Tiny knew that he was all about his family. It would be nothing to find him telling his stories to anyone who would listen.

When he wasn’t busy working on the farm, which he was able to do into his early 90’s, or helping out family, you could always find him tinkering on one of his many Farmall tractors.

He always said that “If it isn’t red, then leave it in the shed.”

He loved life and the adventures that it came with. He especially loved spending time with the grand babies and would hold them for hours. They were all his “little cusses” whether they were related or not. William was a loving, husband, brother, father, grandfather, greatgrandfather, friend and so much, much more to so many people. He will be deeply and terribly missed by everyone.

A funeral service will be held on Saturday, Feb. 2, at 1 p.m., at Mallory Funeral Home in Fair

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Foster McEdward, 97, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Foster A. McEdward, “Mac,” passed away peacefully in his home in Middlebury, Vt., on Thursday, Jan. 17, 2019, surrounded by his family.

After a long, full life of adventure, Mac’s passing brings much awaited relief from his extended bout of neuralgia from shingles late in life.

Mac was born in Strong, Maine, on Oct. 22, 1921, the third eldest of seven children. Mac’s family moved to Union, Maine, where his dad had a creamery. As young teenagers, he and his brothers drove the 100-mile milk route to pick up milk from area farms, before school started. He grew up loving nature and sports and excelled in baseball, snowshoeing, and speed skating during his high school years.

In the fall of 1942, Mac enrolled at the University of Maine. Six months later he was drafted into the Air Force — known at that time as the Army Air Corps — to fight in WWII. He trained to be a pilot in California, graduating as a cadet.

On June 6, 1943, he left for China to serve as a pilot in the China-Burma War. Mac was just 22 years old.

In a C-46 with no radar or radio communication, Mac flew “the Hump”, a 580 nautical mile flight route over the 21,000-foot Himalayan mountains. The flight route later became known as the “Aluminum Trail” from so many planes lost along the way. Some nights, Mac was the only pilot to return to his barracks. For this dangerous flying mission, Mac received The Distinguished Flying Cross and many other military awards.

From 1946-1950 Mac lived in Shanghai China flying DC-4’s and C-46’s for the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC) and China Air Transport (CAT). These missions provided airlifted supplies

and food into war-ravaged China.

In 1950 Mac was recalled into the Air Force for the Korean War. During this time, he flew missions to Thule, Greenland and Europe.

From 1952 - 1960 Mac flew for the ARAMCO, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company. He was based out of Dhahran, Saudi Arabia flying missions to Europe, the United states as well as missions to oil wells throughout the Arabian desert.

Wherever he went, Mac shot 16mm movies and photos, accumulating amazing footage from all over the world. Consequently, Mac’s films are now archived at Getty Images and highly sought after.

In 1960 Mac met his future wife Kirsten Gram in Copenhagen, Denmark. After a short courtship, they married in Beirut, Lebanon and spent their first year in Cairo, Egypt where Mac was part of a government contract to aerial map all of the Egyptian desert.

Their first child Jackie was born in Denmark, Kirsten’s homeland, and a month later they settled in Middlebury, Vt., in a house Mac owned in Chipman Park and now their home of 58 years. Their second daughter Pennie was born two years later.

Mac managed to live in beautiful Vermont and fly worldwide for the rest of his career. For his final 20 years of flying he worked for a private company piloting his favorite plane, the DC-3. He flew it worldwide to Europe and South America. The company also owned a T-28 Navy Trainer with a single 350-horse power engine. With this plane, Mac flew the company president, who loved old planes and flying, to meetings all over north America. Some of their “joy rides” in this plane included a trip to Alaska, where, among other flights,

FOSTER A. “MAC” McEDWARD they circled Mt. McKinley and flew the entire length of the Mackenzie River in the Yukon and Northwest Territories at low altitude.

It was not unusual for Mac to buzz his daughters at the Middlebury Union High School Field Hockey games as well as slalom races at the Snow Bowl.

In 1983, the company renovated a DC-6 into a machinery show room and flew it across the Pacific Ocean on a four-and-a-half month trip to New Zealand, Australia and Asia.

Mac was a pilot for 50 years and accumulated 25,000 hours of flying.

When home, Mac reveled in the outdoors, spending the majority of his free time with his family at their hideaway cabin, “Eagles Nest” in Ripton, Vt., enjoying nature, tennis, hiking, canoeing, hunting and back country skiing.

Mac’s positive spirit and wonderful sense of humor inspired everyone around him. A lot of neighbors will recall, with a smile, Mac’s

annual appearance in the Memorial Day parade in “BIG RED”, his old Ford pick-up truck, loaded with all the kids in Chipman Park and flags flying.

Until Mac contracted Shingles at 85 yrs. old, he biked fifteen miles every day in the summer and speed skated, skied or snow shoed every day in winter. He loved Vermont and the four seasons that would transform the rural landscape. He called it “the land of honey, cake and ice cream.”

Mac inspired his family to be good athletes, live a healthy life and to appreciate nature. He supported his daughters in their sports pursuits and later on, his three wonderful granddaughters competing on foot, skis and skates.

Most of all Mac loved his family.

Mac is survived by his wife of 58 years, Kirsten; their children Jackie Morse and her husband Cullen of Snowmass, Colo., and Pennie Rand and husband Matthew of Richmond, Vt.; and granddaughters Brianna, Annavitte and Karin. Mac was pre-deceased by his brothers Perry McEdward, James McEdward and Robert McEdward. He is survived by his brother Donald McEdward of Scottsdale, Ariz., and his sisters Norma Dodge and Joicey McEdward, both of Epping, N.H., as well as many wonderful nieces and nephews.

The family wants to thank Addison County Home Health and Hospice for their amazing care and support. Thank you also to friends, family and neighbors for helping keep Mac’s spirits up with visits during his long illness.

In lieu of flowers please make contributions to Addison County Home Health and Hospice.

There will be a Memorial Service celebrating Mac’s long and interesting life in the spring.◊

Merritt Hull Eddy, 45, Middlebury native AMHERST, N.H. — Merritt Hull Eddy, of Amherst, N.H., passed away on Jan. 20, 2019, at the age of 45.

Merritt was born on June 22, 1973, in Charleston, W.V. and was adopted as an infant by his parents Jane and Marshall Eddy of Middlebury, Vt., where he grew up. In addition to his parents, he is survived by his loving wife of 17 years, Jodi Belisle Eddy, and his beloved children, Marshall Richard Eddy and Ashlyn Tamara Eddy.

Merritt graduated from Proctor Academy in 1992 and New England College in 1997 with a degree in communications and as captain of the lacrosse team under the tutelage of his revered coach Rob Quinn.

He worked for many years as an award-winning Account Executive MERRITT HULL EDDY at UPS, Grainger Industrial Supply, True Blue, and School Specialties.

Merritt’s greatest passion was coach- (Londonderry, N.H., JV girls) and ing lacrosse at both the high school youth level (4 Leaf Lacrosse Club).

He also had the pleasure, as a Head Coach, of introducing his son Marshall to hockey in Learn to Play.

Ever since he was a child, Merritt has loved animals, and his favorite activities included fishing and boating with his family, snowmobiling with his buddies, and working outside with his chainsaw alongside a well-lit fire pit.

Merritt’s favorite pastime, however, was spending time with his family, and he took deep satisfaction in nurturing the growth and witnessing the accomplishments of his beautiful children.

Merritt was a generous, sensitive, thoughtful and loving son, brother, husband, father, uncle and friend. We will all carry cherished memories of him for the rest of our lives.

He will be sadly missed by his siblings Serena Eddy (and partner Ethan Guiles), Katinka Eddy (and husband Eric Troffkin), Stanton Eddy (and partner Andrea Grimm), and his cherished nephews and nieces

Maxon Moulton, Kess Moulton, Tucker Moulton, Seely Troffkin, Spencer Grimm, Chelsi Parker and Brianna Belisle.

He was predeceased by his sisterin-law Tamara McFall Eddy and his best friend Deane Rubright. He also leaves behind many supportive colleagues, fellow coaches and dear friends, including Dylan Stein, Jeff James, Shannon Young, John Perry, and Bob Hill.

A celebration of his life will be held at the Lawrence Barn Community Center in Hollis, N.H. from 12-4 p.m., on Saturday, Feb. 9. In addition, a spring gathering to honor Merritt’s memory will be held in Middlebury at a date to be determined.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made for the educational benefit of Merritt’s children, Marshall and Ashlyn Eddy, via the Merritt Eddy Honorary Trust, One Woodbine Lane, Amherst, N.H. 03031.◊

Bonnie Stearns, 71, formerly of Middlebury MONTPELIER — Bonnie P. Stearns, 71, of Prospect Street passed away on Thursday, January 24, 2019 at Burlington Health and Rehabilitation Center.

Born January 5, 1948, in Burlington, she was the daughter of Norman R. and Dorothy (Simonds) Stearns. Bonnie attended local elementary schools and graduated from Middlebury Union High

School. She then went on to attend Brown University where she earned her Bachelor of Arts degree.

Bonnie took great pride in being a homemaker. She was a member of the Websterville Baptist Church and a Vermont Disabilities Council Board member. Throughout her life, she was involved in various counseling service events and peer support programs.

In her spare time, Bonnie loved all things cats, music and clocks. She especially loved spending time with friends, including her best friend Cecile Gendron, and thoroughly enjoyed cooking and sharing her delicacies with family and friends, especially her famous fudge.

Survivors include her sister Virginia “Ginny” Stearns Ashenselter and her husband James of Bristol and

Bernard Gale, 76, longtime Addison County resident MIDDLEBURY — Bernard Perley “Pete” Gale, age 76, passed away on Jan. 24, 2019, at the Deltona Health Care Nursing Home in Deltona, Fla. Pete was born in Rutland, Vt., on Feb. 10, 1942. He was the son of Bernard C. and Kathryn (Scarborough) Gale. He grew up in the Salisbury area and attended school there and graduated in 1960 from Middlebury Union High School. Following graduation, he served in the U.S. Army from 1960 to 1963 and was stationed for a period at Ft. Leonard Wood, Mo. He was an experienced heavy equipment operator for over five years, working in construction with New York Contractors building the New York State Northway. He later was employed for 33 years driving truck for Carris Reels. He had many hobbies, enjoyed hunting, fishing and woodworking. Mr. Gale belonged to American Legion Post 27, in Middlebury and Lee Masonic Lodge.

He is survived by his wife Linda

Lorraine (Forrest) Gale, whom he married March 4, 1977, in Middlebury. In addition to his wife, surviving are a daughter Kimberly Berthiaume and her husband Samuel of Middlebury; two sons, Brenton P. Gale (Karen Trombley) and Jody L. Gale (Stephanie), both of Hubbardton; sister-in-law Nancy Kane, Orange City, Fla., his brother Raymond Gale (Rose) of Salisbury; special aunt and uncle Bucky and Audrey Scarborough of Rutland, Vt.; three grandchildren; Taelor and Joshua Gale and Colby Berthiaume.

A nephew and several cousins also survive him. He was predeceased by his parents and his sister Bonita “Bonnie” Gale.

The graveside committal service and burial with military honors will BERNARD PERLEY take place, at a later date in Pine Hill “PETE” GALE Cemetery in Brandon.

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several cousins.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her brother William “Bill” Stearns.

The service to honor and celebrate Bonnie’s life will be held on Thursday, Jan. 31, at 1 p.m. in the Hooker and Whitcomb Funeral Home, 7 Academy Street, Barre. There are no calling hours. For a memorial guestbook, visit hookerwhitcomb.com.◊

NEWCASTLE, Maine — Penny Sherwood, 75, passed away after a long illness on Jan. 26, 2019.

She was born Oct. 8, 1943. She is survived by her children: Elizabeth Perreault and husband Chris Roark in Colorado; Matthew Perreault and wife Bonita with children Jason, Summer, Heath, John and Jarrod in Idaho; Wendy Perreault in Vermont; Jennifer Cook and children Nathaniel and Conner in Connecticut and Vermont; and Martha Bracy and husband Lloyd with children Liam and Miles in Maine.

Penny spent her early years in her beloved Bristol, Vt. These were happy times in the care of her adoring grandparents, Carroll and Marie Hartwell. She made life-long friends in Bristol whom she cared about very much for the rest of her life.

After traveling around for a few years with her parents Albert and Rebecca Sherwood, Penny attended and graduated from Laconia High School in New Hampshire. Penny began her family in Concord, N.H. and later moved back to Bristol, Vt. She lived and worked in Bristol for 40 years, 18 of which as the Town Clerk and Treasurer. She flourished in that role. Penny loved town politics and devoted herself to serving the town she loved so much. It was here she made some of her deepest friendships including her dear best friend Shirley Emilo.

In 2006 Penny moved to the coast of Maine. It didn’t take long for her infectious laughter and loving nature to attract new friends. She would get together with several groups of them regularly, including the “Wine and Whine” ladies.

Everyone who met Penny loved her right away. She was honest, funny, stubborn, and an amazing listener. She loved a great conversation and could sit for hours with

PENNY SHERWOOD a good friend pondering everything from the weather to politics to the deeper mysteries of life.

Penny adored her children, grandchildren, and her dogs Bella and Rosa. She would have done anything for them. She made them all feel loved unconditionally and they will miss her deeply.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Feb. 2, at Burpee, Carpenter & Hutchins Funeral Home, 110 Limerock Street, Rockland, Maine. A reception will follow at the funeral home’s 104 Limerock Street reception facility.

In addition, there will be a memorial service in Bristol, Vt. on May 4.

Details will be announced. To share a memory or story with Penny’s family, visit their online Book of Memories at bchfh.com.

In lieu of flowers, consider a donation to the German Shepherd Rescue of New England (gsme. org) or the Pope Memorial Humane Society of Knox County, P.O. Box 1294, Rockland, ME 04841 or at humanesocietyofknoxcounty.org.◊

Anita Cirillo, 88, Middlebury and Myrtle Beach, S.C. MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — Anita Alberta Cirillo, age 88, entered into eternal rest on Jan. 23, 2019, at Embrace Hospice House in Myrtle Beach, S.C., after a long battle with cancer. She was the wife of Frank J. Cirillo with whom she shared 67 years of marriage.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., she was the daughter of the late Marie Sabatino and the late John Taormina.

She and her husband raised their three children in Long Island, N.Y. A devoted homemaker, her care of their daughter, Lisa, who had developmental and intellectual disabilities, was a lifelong labor of love. They later moved to Middlebury, Vt., and have had a home in Myrtle Beach for the past 38 years.

Involved in her community and her church, she was an expert seamstress, enjoyed water aerobics and bingo, and was an avid tennis player. Later in life she traveled extensively and was an active member of the South Strand Senior Center in Surfside Beach, S.C. She will be remembered as a devoted wife, mother and friend.

She was predeceased by her beloved daughter, Lisa, in 2003. She is survived by her husband, Frank J. Cirillo; her daughter, Maria CirilloLein; her son, Frank B. Cirillo; her grandchildren, Jessica Ortiz, Andrew Lein and Cameron and Caroline Cirillo; and her four great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her

ANITA ALBERTA CIRILLO brother, Ernest Tarmin, and her sister, Frances Butta.

A memorial Mass will be held at a later date at St. Michael’s Roman Catholic Church in Murrells Inlet, S.C., where her ashes will be inurned.

The family extends their special thanks to her dedicated doctors, Calhoun Cunningham, M.D. and Edward Eckert, Jr., D.D.S. of Myrtle Beach.

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Arc of the United States and the Horry County Council on Aging.◊

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American Red Cross blood donation in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 31, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Middlebury College, 58 Hepburn Rd. “From the Tailgate: Active Harvesting” presentation in Ferrisburgh. Thursday, Jan. 31, 1-3 p.m., Lower Otter Wildlife Management Area, Sand Rd. See forest and habitat management techniques used to manage property for wildlife. Visit harvested areas and discuss the strategies to achieve specific objectives and goals on the parcel. Registration not required but appreciated. Free and open to the public. More info contact Lisa Sausville at 802-8772777 or info@vtcoverts.org.

“The Middle East: Regional Disorder” discussion in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 31, 3-4:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. The second of eight weekly sessions of the “Great Decisions” program, a national discussion program on world affairs. Facilitated by Middlebury College Professor Emeritus Nick Clifford. Free and open to the public.

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MAKE THE BEST of all the white stuff and join the Green Mountain Club Breadloaf section on Saturday, Feb. 2, when they go hiking or snowshoeing on the Farm Trail at Shelburne Farms. The hike is about 4.5 miles and the snow will be plentiful. See calendar listing for more information.

American Red Cross Blood Drive in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 1, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Middlebury Rec Center, 154 Creek Rd. A donation shortfall over the winter holidays is prompting the American Red Cross to issue an emergency call for blood Green Mountain Club hike or snowand platelet donors to give now shoe in Weybridge. Saturday, Feb. 9, to prevent a blood shortage from Otter Creek Gorge. Walk or snowcontinuing throughout winter and the TAM Otter Creek Gorge affecting patient care.

M I D D L E B U R Y S T U D I O S C H O O L — A d u l t : L a n t e r n shoe loop. 2.4 miles through varied Age Well Senior Luncheon in Making, Exploring Color & Value in Oils, Bookbinding & Artist terrain, both marshy and wood.

Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 1, 11 a.m., Books, Block Printing with Ashley Wolff, Colored Pencil Drawing, More info at gmcbreadloaf.org.

VFW, 530 Exchange St. Doors open at 11 a.m., Meal served at noon.

Mon & Weds PM Wheel Kids: Lantern Making, Colored Pencil Share the love: DIY Valentine’s Gifts in Middlebury. Saturday, Meal includes pot roast, mashed Drawing, Paint It, Clay Wheel & Hand Building, Home School Clay Day Feb. 9, 1:30-3 p.m., Community potatoes, gravy, peas and carrots, & Art. middleburystudioschool.org Contact Barb at 247-3702, Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main dinner roll, apple pie. $5 suggested St. Make a gift (for you or someewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org donation. Advanced tickets required one else) to take home: bath salts, — deadline Monday, Jan. 28. Call body scrub, card-making, and more.

Michelle Eastman at 802-377-1419. specialist will help you develop a plan to reduce your Free.

Bring your own place setting. Open to anyone age 60 consumption and meet your goals. Free. Registration Annual Maple Fest in Shoreham. Saturday, Feb. 9, and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may required. The first of four sessions. More info contact 6:30-8:30 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 297 Main St. be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Courtney Thorn, Community Health Team, 802-388Celebrate the Platt and all things maple at benefit Age Well Senior Luncheon at the Hannaford Career 8860 or cthorn@portermedical.org. concert and maple dessert contest. Music will be Center. Friday, Feb. 1, 11 a.m., Charles Ave., All-ages discussion of “March” in Bristol. performed by Brandon’s Nelson Bandella and Middlebury. Doors open at 11 a.m., meal served at Wednesday, Feb. 6, 5:30 p.m., Lawrence Memorial Friends. The family-friendly event will offer free 11:30 a.m. Meal is Chef Woody Danforth’s choice Library, 40 North St. John Lewis will lead a talk on admission. More info call the Platt at 802-897-2647, and is prepared by the students in the Culinary Arts this 2019 Vermont Reads book. Food provided. Free.

Carol Causton at 802-897-2747 or Judy Stevens at program. $5 suggested donation does not include Books are available at the library now.

802-897-7031. gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their New Haven Ladies Union soup supper in New spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call Haven. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 6 p.m., New Haven ACTR at 388-2287 to inquire. This month is full; Congregational Church, Town Hill Rd. Come enjoy please call Michelle at 802-377-1419 to reserve for hot soup on a cold winter day. A variety of soups, next month. bread, crackers, beverages and dessert will be availCommunity breakfast in Vergennes.

Bistro concert with BlueBrass in Middlebury. Friday, able for $8. More info contact Carol at 802-453-5059.

Sunday, Feb. 10, 8-10 a.m., St. Peter’s Feb. 1, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, “What You Didn’t Know about Evangelicalism” Parish, 85 South Maple St. The Knights 100 EastView Ter. Come to the Family Café when in Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m., Ilsley of Columbus host a breakfast of eggs, omelets to guests Margie and Jim present a concert of pop, jazz, Public Library, 75 Main St. Most Americans assoorder, hot cakes, French toast, sausage, bacon and blues, Celtic, and music from the Great American ciate evangelicals with the hard-right precincts of more. Bring your family and friends. Adults $8.50/ Songbook, accompanied by the unusual combinathe Republican Party. But as Dartmouth religion Seniors over 60 $7.50/kids 6-12 $6.00/ 6 and under tion of a 32-string electric harp and a flugelhorn. It professor Randall Balmer explains, evangelicalism free/immediate families of five or more $28. works! Free and open to the public. in America has a much longer and more complex “Silas Towler: Rokeby Papers” in Ferrisburgh.

“A Winter’s Companion” presentation in Middlebury. history, including a distinguished pedigree of workSunday, Feb. 10, 2-3 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Friday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m., Community Meeting Room, ing for progressive reforms. What happened? Part of Center, 3729 U.S. Route 7. Local historian Silas Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Jonathan and Kim the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays Towler will share stories discovered through old town Hescock, owners of Vermont Victory Greenhouses, series. records and papers given to the Historical Society by will discuss the challenges and solutions for creating Rokeby Museum. Free and open to the public. a four-season greenhouse for the northeast and their Free Community Dinner in Bristol. Sunday, Feb. 10, journey in creating “Companion Greenhouses.”

5-6:30 p.m., St. Ambrose parish hall, 11 School St. Menu includes chili dogs, potato salad, cole slaw, Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. brownies for dessert and various drinks.

Thursday, Feb. 7, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, Green Mountain Club hike or snowshoe 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and in Shelburne. Saturday, Feb. 2, Shelburne coffee hour. Program by People’s Bank: Senior Fraud Farms. Walk or snowshoe the Farm Trail from Prevention Class – Don’t be a Scam Victim, 11:15 Legislative Breakfast in Bristol. the Welcome Center. About 4.5 miles. More info, a.m. Meal served at noon of minestrone soup with Monday, Feb. 11, 7-8:45, Bristol American including meeting time, contact leader Ruth Penfield diced chicken, broccoli florets, wheat dinner roll and Legion, Airport Rd. Talk with local legislators at 802-388-5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail.com. More strawberry shortcake. Bring your own place setting. over breakfast. Purchase of breakfast not required to activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice attend but helps defray the cost of opening the hall. required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419.

Age Well senior luncheon in Bristol. Monday, Feb. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of 11, 11 a.m., Cubbers, 8 Main St. Doors open at any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 10:45 a.m., meal served at 11 a.m. Menu is chef’s 802-388-2287 to inquire. choice and always delicious. 72 hours advanced Free community meal in Vergennes. Senior meal in Bristol. Thursday, Feb. 7, noon, First notice required, call Michelle to reserve 802-377Sunday, Feb. 3, 5-6:30 p.m. St. Peter’s Baptist Church of Bristol, Park St. Menu includes 1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuparish hall, 85 South Maple St. A pre-Super choice of corn chowder, pea soup, white chicken chili ity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse Bowl meal with a choice of beef or vegetarian chili, or tomato mac with egg salad sandwich, fruit salad of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at chicken wings, corn bread, carrot and celery sticks, and bread pudding. Suggested donation $4. To be on 802-388-2287 to inquire. brownie and ice cream and beverages. the list call 453-5276. Come early and enjoy talking with friends and make new ones.

“Nuclear Negotiations: Back to the Future?” in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 7, 3-4:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 Age Well senior luncheon in Legislative Breakfast in Vergennes.

EastView Ter. The third of eight weekly sessions of Vergennes. Tuesday, Feb. 12, 10 a.m., Monday, Feb. 4, 7-8:45, St. Peter’s Parish the “Great Decisions” program, a national discussion Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Hall, 85 S. Maple St. Talk with local legislators program on world affairs. Facilitated by Middlebury Housing, 50 Armory Lane, Vergennes. Doors open over a breakfast. Purchase of breakfast not required College Professor Emeritus Nick Clifford with guests. at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. VASA monthly to attend but helps defray the cost of opening the hall.

Free and open to the public. meeting at 11:30 am. Meal served at noon of ham Backing up Apple computers and devices in and cheese stuffed chicken breast, mashed potaMiddlebury. Monday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., Community toes, baby whole beets, wheat dinner roll and strawRoom, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. The monthly berry yogurt cake. Bring your own place setting. meeting of MiddMUG, the Middlebury Macintosh $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice User Group, will discuss how, when and why to “Financabilities: Finding the Right required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. back up our computers, iPhones and iPads, using Business Financing,” workshop in Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of a number of different methods. The discussion will Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 8, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at include a demonstration of iCloud Drive. More info at at the Middlebury Regional Emergency Medical 802-388-2287 to inquire.

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Services building, 55 Collins Dr. The Addison County Economic Development Corporation (ACEDC) and the Addison County Chamber of Commerce (ACCoC) co-host this Business Finance Workshop.

Free for ACEDC & ACCoC members and $15 for Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. others. Non-members pay in advance to secure a BlueBrass in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 1, 3:30-4:30 Tuesday, Feb. 5, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area spot. Space is limited. More info at addisoncounp.m., Eastview at Middlebury.

Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 tyedc.org/register/1671.

Chelsea Berry in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 2, 7:30 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and Age Well Senior Luncheon in Bristol. Friday, Feb. p.m., Brandon Music coffee hour. Meal served at noon of hot turkey sand8, 11:30 a.m., Mary’s Restaurant, Route 116. Doors Greg Klyma in Ripton. Saturday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., wich, mashed potatoes, winter squash and fruit open at 11:30 a.m., lunch at noon. Menu includes Ripton Elementary School. cocktail. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested winter greens with beets and goat cheese, fresh Va-et-Vient in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 8, 3:30-4:3donation. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call baked roll, baked cod with lemon tarragon butter, p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. Open to anyone rice and vegetables, and chocolate cake with mocha The Dave Keller Band in Lincoln. Saturday, Feb. 9, age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free frosting. 72 hours’ advanced notice required. Call 7:30-9:15 p.m., Burnham Hall ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 Michelle to reserve at 802-377-1419. $5 suggested LC Jazz in Vergennes. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., to inquire. donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone Vergennes Opera House. age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free Melissa D in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 Brandon Music to inquire.

Rick Hawley in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 15, 3:30Bistro concert with Va-et-Vient in Middlebury. Friday, 4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Age Well senior luncheon in Feb. 8, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, Jazzou Jones in Middlebury. Sunday, Feb. 17, 3-4 Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 11:15 100 EastView Ter. Lively and sonorous three-part p.m., EastView at Middlebury. a.m., Middlebury Rec Center, 154 Creek harmony singing of irresistible songs from Québec, Connie and Chris in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 22, Rd. Doors open at 11:15 am. Meal served at noon France, and cajun Louisiana accompanied by guitar, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. of chicken marsala with mushroom sauce, mashed fiddle, flute, mandolin, penny whistle, harmonica, Richard Ruane and Beth Duquette in Brandon. cauliflower, Italian green beans, wheat dinner roll and and a variety of percussion instruments. Free and Saturday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. pineapple upside down cake. Bring your own place open to the public. setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced All-you-can-eat spaghetti dinner in Weybridge. notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377Friday, Feb. 8, 5-8 p.m., Weybridge Elementary See a full listing of 1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their School, Quaker Village Rd. Menu includes spaghetti O NG OING E V E NT S spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call and meatballs, green salad, garlic bread, homeand an extended Calendar from ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. made desserts and beverage. Proceeds go to the Tobacco cessation program in Middlebury. Begins Weybridge Volunteer Fire Department. Tickets Wednesday, Feb. 6, 5-6 p.m., UVM/Porter Medical adults$10/ children 6-12 $5/under 6 free, available at on the Web at www.addisonindependent.com Center, 115 Porter Dr. A trained Tobacco Treatment the Town Clerk’s office or at the door.

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Kunin helps us learn what to expect at 80

By MICHELLE MONROE St. Albans Messenger SHELBURNE — There are two red chairs in former Vermont Gov. Madeleine Kunin’s cottage on Wake Robin Drive.

The chairs probably wouldn’t draw attention except they feature in her new book “Coming of Age: My Journey Into the Eighties.”

For most of her life, Kunin writes, she made the places she lived into a calming refuge from the outside world.

But when she and her second husband moved to Wake Robin, she abandoned white walls and soothing neutral colors in favor of yellow walls, a red kitchen and those chairs.

She also, the year she turned 80, replaced her beige Prius with one that is bright red.

Kunin and her husband, John Hennessey Jr., had chosen the chairs specially for their cottage, but when the chairs arrived doubt set in.

Pondering why she hadn’t chosen chairs in soothing neutral tones she concluded: “Part of me... no longer wanted a refuge. I wanted to bring life inside, not leave it at the door. And the red chairs did exactly that. They were red. They were vivid.”

That willingness to still try something new, to reach outside of what is known, comfortable and familiar marks Kunin’s writing as well.

“I made myself vulnerable,” she said of the book. “I exposed myself.”

That exposure ranges from small things like the chairs or sneaking into the men’s room at the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts rather than waiting in line for the ladies room and much bigger things like her father’s suicide, and the deaths of her brother and her husband.

In “Coming of Age,” Kunin turns her incisive mind inward, examining the experience of growing older in both prose and poetry.

“I was kind of intrigued with what I was experiencing and thought ‘that’s worth writing about,’” she said.

“When you’re in politics you’re sort of a one-dimensional character,” said Kunin. “I wanted to let people know who I really was.”

In politics, you also must choose your words with care, but that has changed. “As I got older I found I could say what I want,” said Kunin.

“I just felt so liberated to say what I thought and heard and felt.”

Many of those thoughts and feelings center on her romance with

Hennessy, whom she met at the age of 71. He was eight years older. “I joke and I say he had two qualities which were essential: He was a feminist and he was a Democrat.”

He was also comfortable being with a woman who carries the titles governor and ambassador.

“John was very comfortable with who I was. I couldn’t have written that book without him,” Kunin said. “He sort of gave me the strength and the confidence to write like this.”

As he grew older, Hennessey began to suffer from insomnia and depression. Kunin writes frankly about the challenges of loving someone who is struggling with depression, how his depression meant their life shifted between good periods when they spoke together of the travels they’d still like to take and darker ones.

Kunin also writes of those things women her age are not expected to experience, or at least not to speak of — attraction, flirtation and sex.

O, SAY CAN you see? Ten-year-old Octavia Devine is congratulated by Vergennes Union High School wrestling coach Eugene Stearns after She writes of the loss of sex with she sang the national anthem at the Bob Benoure Invitational wrestling tournament at VUHS on Saturday.

Independent photo/Steve James John and other men she noticed and felt attracted to. “Older people still enjoy making love,” Kunin wrote, quoting columnist Jane E. Brody, “but they had hired someone else, “the legislature, becoming chair of the from attending the London School ambassador to Switzerland, Kunin’s only thing they had to say was ‘we Senate committee dealing with the of Economics instead of Columbia, diplomatic efforts centered on getting we’re not supposed to talk about it.” so she would remain close to their the Swiss to release money and valuKunin agonized over including the decided to give the job to a man,’” she budget just as she became governor.

Their closeness was tinged with mother. A month later Kunin discov- ables that had been left in Swiss banks parts about sex, but “I thought I could recalled.

She ultimately wrote for the competitiveness. ered Edgar was taking a trip to Europe. by Holocaust victims. connect with some people,” she said.

“In the process of writing, I discov- Edgar, unlike Kunin, had not asked She also used her time in Europe The pace of her life has changed. Burlington Free Press for a year.

Her older brother, Edgar, was also ered he had a tough time with me, but their mother for permission. to try to visit the facility where her “You have time to stop and look at a The differing rules and expectations father stayed prior to his suicide. He tree,” she said. “I see more. I stop to a journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning we were very close,” she said. one. Still, he followed her into the It was Edgar who discouraged her for men and women did not sit well had served in World War I and likely see more. with Kunin. “I was basically a suffered from post-traumatic stress.

“Maybe it’s knowing feminist before the movement,” Kunin said she wanted people to you’re not going to be she said. know and understand her family’s around forever.”

It was after spending a year history, where she came from, that she Aging, she said, is in Switzerland, observing the had grown up in a single-parent home. seen as a problem, a efforts of Swiss women to Although she avoided politics in the burden. “We venerate secure the right to vote, which book, she is still paying attention. “I’m youth,” said Kunin. they did not gain until 1971, very concerned about what is happenBut there are still “new and reading the writings of ing in our country,” Kunin said. things to be discovered, Betty Freidan and others, that “I still believe in the power of new ideas, new people,” inspired her to run for the democracy to move us from the far she said.

Vermont legislature. right to the center,” she added, saying Before she became She has remained commit- the most hopeful sign she has seen Vermont’s first female ted to getting women into is the number of women elected last governor, Kunin was a public office, founding Emerge fall. “When people hope for change it journalist. She attended Vermont to support female comes down to the ballot box.” the Columbia School of candidates, and speaking at the The need for an instantaneous Journalism, and while Women’s March in Montpelier response to every criticism or event her male counterparts in 2017. concerns her. “That’s dangerous,” said went to work as copy But she didn’t want this book Kunin. “You have to use discretion.” boys at The New York to be about politics. Instead, “The worse case would be if we Times, she was offered a she writes of her mother, a start a war based on tweets.” job in the cafeteria. She Jewish woman fleeing Europe “That’s one of the characteristics turned it down.

FORMER VERMONT GOV. Madeleine Kunin sits in a red chair with two young children during of this president, he punches back After graduation, she in her Shelburne home. The red chair and its matching companWorld War II. “Only later did I immediately,” she observed. “Facts was one of three candiion feature in her new book “Coming of Age: My Journey to the fully appreciate my mother’s have been dismissed. That’s so scary. dates for a job with the Eighties.” courage,” said Kunin.

He can say anything and his diehard Washington Post. When St. Albans Messenger photo/Emerson Lynn While serving as the supporters will believe him.” they called to tell her

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New buildings not always needed to solve shortage

By SARAH ASCH ADDISON COUNTY — As developers face rising construction costs, town zoning regulations and a lack of infrastructure, the possibility of adding new affordable housing in Addison County gets more complicated. However, there are other, smaller ways to help increase local housing stock without developing new projects.

One potential solution is to encourage homeowners to build accessory dwelling units, often called in-law apartments, and rent them out.

Shaun Gilpin, a housing specialist at the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development, said that Gov. Phil Scott proposed money in his budget

to help homeowners who need to fix up their rental units in order to keep them in operation.

“A growing concern across the state is that a lot of our housing stock is old and aging and in need of rehabilitation,” Gilpin said.

Gilpin explained that around 83 percent of Vermont rental properties are privately owned, and many landlords do not have the income to remodel units that no longer meet housing standards. Gilpin said the goal is to provide grants to landlords to remodel their units and keep them running.

“Accessory dwelling units in particular are attractive for a lot of reasons,” he said. “From an environmental standpoint reusing something that’s already been built

is more sustainable than building something new. And it allows us to maintain the character of some of our smaller towns while also increasing density.”

He also pointed out that in-law units can help elderly homeowners age in place.

“We have houses where the residents are aging and maybe moving onto a fixed income and it would allow them to get some income from that unit,” he said.

Another potential solution is HomeShare Vermont, a non-profit that connects locals looking for affordable housing with hosts who have an extra room. According to Executive Director Kirby Dunn, the average rent in their program, which operates in the counties of

Addison, Chittenden, Franklin and Grand Isle counties, was $287 a month.

That is because guests in the program often perform household tasks as part of their home sharing agreement instead of paying market prices for rent.

In the last fiscal year, Dunn said they made 10 matches in Addison County between guests and hosts of all ages, and they are always looking to expand.

“We always want more people to share their homes and not everybody who needs housing knows about us,” she said. “It’s harder in a less populated area ... but we’d like to see our numbers increase numbers at Addison County.”

of four units per acre, which doesn’t really work for affordable housing,” she said.

Kris Perlee, the zoning administrator for Bristol, Monkton and Panton, said this concern comes up frequently in his line of work.

“One thing we hear all the time is we want to keep the open land in our rural communities,” he said. “And if we want those open spaces we eliminate development opportunities.”

Still, Perlee said that Bristol recently revised its town plan and zoning laws to give incentives for more development, which could lead to more affordable housing.

He believes the bigger problem is the time and expense of the state permitting process.

“If the state could figure out a way to either fast track or mitigate the permitting process to make it more cost effective for the developer, I think it would make it more affordable to build,” he said.

Perlee also pointed out that in communities without adequate water and wastewater systems, developers also must take on the additional infrastructure costs. This makes building affordable housing, or simply including affordable units in a larger development, that much less feasible.

There are steps towns can take to make it easier to increase their stock of affordable housing. Dunn recommended that towns create task forces devoted to advocating for affordable housing.

“A lot of times when you build affordable housing there are locals

who oppose the project because they are not comfortable with that change, so having a local champion is really important,” she said.

Shaun Gilpin, a housing policy specialist at the Vermont Department of Housing and Community Development, agreed, and added that towns should reach out to developers to learn more about the problems they face.

“Reviewing local zoning and bylaw regulations, and how they are affecting the housing market, is a good idea,” he said. “It’s important for a community to identify their need and create a vision for how they would like to address it.”

Shanbacker also suggested ways for individuals to promote more affordable housing in their communities, including by donating to ACCT. “About 5 to 10 percent of our budget relies on community contributions to manage the properties we have and build new ones,” she said. “Donations help ACCT access federal and state grants to offset construction costs, allowing us to charge rents that average only about $800 per month — including heat.”

She also said locals can communicate to town leaders that affordable housing is important to their constituents.

“Every five years towns are required to update town plans and they hold public meetings about what people think is important,” she said. “Getting language in your town plan about affordable housing is important.”

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(Continued from Page 1A) family homes. Their waitlist is 117 households long, representing 171 individuals waiting for affordable housing.

The lack of housing has caused many to overspend in order to have a place to live. According to 2016 data collected by the Vermont Housing and Finance Agency, nearly half of all renter households in Addison County are paying more than 30 percent of their income on housing, with 20 percent paying more than 50 percent of their income on rent.

One major barrier to building more affordable housing for seniors and young workers is the high cost of construction. Samantha Dunn is a developer at Housing Vermont, a non-profit group that develops affordable housing across the state.

Dunn said that the cost of labor and materials is higher now than it has been in a long time.

“Normally construction costs increase 3 percent annually in Vermont and right now we’re seeing a 5 or 6 percent increase every year,” she said. “The primary reason for that is pressure in the labor market.

When the recession happened a lot of people left the construction labor market and they didn’t come back.”

Dunn explained that while this is a positive thing for laborers because wages go up, it does make it harder for developers to build affordable housing because they need to earn back those additional building costs.

According to Shanbacker, the cost of construction has driven up rents beyond what low-income families can afford.

VALERIE CAPELS “For a private developer to make money on housing, they usually have to charge $1,500 a month for rent on average,” Shanbacker said, adding that that the recommended monthly rent for a full-time minimum wage employee in Vermont is closer to $600 a month.

RURAL ZONING HURDLE Shanbacker said that one solution could be for developers to put in more units to offset high building costs, but that it is often difficult to do so in smaller communities given zoning policy and infrastructure concerns.

Dunn explained that zoning regulations in rural towns usually limit the number of units per acre, which makes it more challenging for developers to start projects.

“Many communities have a maximum density on a building lot

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) driving are never easy, especially when days are at their shortest and carriers find themselves working more in the dark. The USPS also reminds people to watch for letter carriers on foot, as well as for slow-moving postal vehicles.

Homeowners are encouraged to clear snow and ice from sidewalks, walkways, porches and steps to help prevent falls.

February is Black History Month, and the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh will be open Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. throughout the month featuring special programs for youth and adults to explain Vermont’s role in the Underground Railroad that helped fugitives from slavery. On Feb. 10, from 2 to 3 p.m., children ages 7 to 12 will be given the opportunity to become “History

Detectives” as they meet Simon, Jesse, Jeremiah Snowden, and others — all fugitives from slavery who were sheltered at Rokeby. Children will examine the evidence — letters from the museum collection — to discover what these people felt, what was important to them, and what they did to make their lives better.

The museum houses “Free & Safe,” the only permanent exhibition in New England that addresses slavery, abolition, and the Underground Railroad. It is located on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

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(Continued from Page 1A) than 100 people who attended the special memorial service. “All his passion for the arts is just one of the qualities we will celebrate here today.”

Robison was born in Anacoco, La., on May 12, 1936, and grew up in Port Arthur, Texas. He graduated from Baylor University in 1958 with a bachelor’s degree in history, religion, and philosophy, and studied church history at Oxford University in the early 1960s.

His lengthy resume included stints as special assistant to the deputy undersecretary of state, associate provost for social sciences at Wesleyan University, and provost at Bowdoin College.

He was a nationally recognized expert in foreign affairs, particularly on U.S.-Soviet relations.

Robison led Middlebury College from 1975 to 1990. He was credited, among other things, for increasing Middlebury’s enrollment reach, redefining the curriculum, expanding library facilities, and increasing the College’s capacity to extend financial aid to students from middle-class families. He also sought to increase faculty salaries to remain competitive with other, comparable liberal arts institutions.

Middlebury’s enrollment in 1975 was 1,750, McCardell noted. Its endowment stood at $32 million. A MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PRESIDENT Emeritus John McCardell Jr. reminisced about his friend and former recently concluded capital campaign had raised a then-record $13.8 boss, the late Olin Robison, at Robison Concert Hall at the Mahaney Arts Center on Sunday. Several speakers lauded Robison, who died last October, at the memorial service. million.

Independent photos/John Flowers The college’s summer school included instruction in several crowd of memorial attendees. romance languages, along with Each year, there’s more diversity Russian and Chinese. among the incoming Middlebury But McCardell noted the vast students thanks to some of the majority of enrollees hailed from the policies that Robison championed, Northeastern states, and Middlebury according to Patton. was “unable to meet the full (financial) “By establishing Middlebury as a need of every admitted student.” need-blind institution, he opened the Faculty salaries lagged behind door to the Middlebury experience to those offered by comparably size more students — different students, institutions, according to McCardell. diverse students, international A Greek social system still students and challenged us to segmented the community by welcome them more, and better,” she residence and by dining, he noted. said.

Faculty and staff at the time were “Financial aid will be one of the having long debates on whether each cornerstones of my time here at building on campus should have a Middlebury for all students, so we photocopier. know in this one “The economy in key way — but in 1975 hardly favored “Olin pushed us, so many other ways an agenda that sought he challenged too — that Olin’s to make progress us, he raised our legacy will continue in addressing these sights, he made us far into the future,” complex and daunting better… Not more Patton added. “We’re realities,” said students like someplace else, funding McCardell, recalling from scholarships the Dow at that time but more like our started in the 1850s. stood at 873, inflation central, Middlebury Think of how broad MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PRESIDENT Laurie Patton had some nice and unemployment self.”

Olin’s legacy will be things to say about the late Olin Robinson, who led the college from were both running at 100 years from now.”

— John McCardell Jr. 1975 to 1990. The college on Sunday hosted a special memorial service 8 percent, and median SALZBURG for Robison, who died in October at 82. household income SEMINAR was slightly more than $10,000 per Robison would make his mark on Seminar could continue its mission. pitch while his son was battling the year.

“What was transparent to me, home team. It was only after Blake another organization after turning Yet when Robison ended his tenure over the college’s reins in 1990. whether we were successful or not, had been subbed off at halftime that as Middlebury president in 1990, the He was named president of was the esteem and respect with which his dad eased over to the Middlebury college’s enrollment stood at 1,950, the Salzburg Global Seminar, an Olin was held by all (the prospective side of the pitch. the endowment had blossomed independent, non-profit organization donors) we met,” Hastings said. “By An avid runner (often attired in to $220 million, and a recently founded in 1947 to “challenge current sheer force of his personality and a Brooks Brothers dress shirt and concluded capital campaign had and future leaders to shape a better reputation, Olin made the case for the New Balance sneakers), Robison yielded $80 million. The college was world.” He moved the Seminar’s importance of the Salzburg Seminar would brag that he consistently won attracting students from around the American headquarters from — especially now that the Cold War his category in the 5-kilometer road world amid a need-blind admissions Cambridge, Mass., to Middlebury. had ended, and why it was worthy of race during reunion weekend. The policy. Faculty salaries had risen to Robison led the Seminar until 2005, support.” category: College presidents. “middle of the pack,” coed social but didn’t leave the public eye. Up Upon his retirement in 2005, “Coffee and wine were his true houses had replaced the fraternity/ until a few years ago, he continued the Salzburg Seminar “had been passions,” Blake Robison said with sorority system, additional languages to deliver insightful commentaries re-established with global reach and a chuckle. “Installing the espresso were being taught, and “there was a on Vermont Public Radio on topics outlook, and with a diverse program… bar at the Salzburg Seminar computer on every desk and a copier ranging from prehistoric art to that ensured Olin’s successors a firm ranked among his most proud on every floor,” McCardell added bipartisanship in Washington to the foundation to build upon,” Hastings accomplishments.” with a smile. said. politics of climate change.

Blake Robison said he admired his “It’s a pretty impressive record,” he Robinson’s son Blake recounted father’s abilities as a communicator.

Amy Hastings is a “senior said. global fellow” with the Salzburg an experience that he said epitomized “He had a unique ability to articulate “Olin discerned something in Seminar. She praised Robison for his dad’s diplomatic nature. Blake the goals of an organization in ways this place — something that we did presiding over a major turnaround Robison had traveled to Middlebury everyone could understand,” Robison not necessarily see in ourselves,” in an organization that was on shaky as part of the visiting Williams said. “It wasn’t folksy, but elegant in he continued. “He pushed us, he financial footing. He quickly turned College soccer team. The elder its simplicity and clarity.” challenged us, he raised our sights, his attention to fundraising so that the Robison stood at the center line of the he made us better… Not more like someplace else, but more like our central, Middlebury self.”

While she never served with Robison, Patten said she gets frequent reminders of his legacy.

“I think of Olin when I think about our next decade of making Middlebury global, because I know it was Olin who put us on the global path, where we are today with 38 distinguished schools abroad and where students challenge themselves with advanced curricula of study in the language of the country,” she said.

“I think of Olin on good days and bad days, when I’m alone in the office or on campus contemplating next steps.

‘Did you have days like this?’ I’ll ask him, as I look out at a student walking across through the snow. ‘What kind of decisions did you make that were Middlebury decisions, ones that hold our values dear and keep them into the next generations?’”

It was Robison who started the president’s tradition of passing Gamiliel Painter’s cane to all incoming students at Middlebury.

Painter was a key figure in founding the college 200 years ago. Patton, in a parting tribute to Robison, passed Painter’s cane through Sunday’s

(Continued from Page 1A) College has an endowment of about $1.1 billion and in January 2018, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration David Provost reported that the operating deficit was reduced to $13.7 million in FY2017. The operating deficit was reduced to $11.3 million in FY2018, and the administration expects a deficit of $7.5 million in FY2019.

According to Bill Burger, vice president of communications and chief marketing officer for Middlebury College, staff compensation accounts for about 70 percent of the college’s annual operating costs, which came to about $278 million in 2018. The same year, the college brought in about $274 million in total revenue.

“It would be difficult to achieve our goals of a balanced budget and moving the college into a place where it has a reasonable surplus without addressing compensation,” Burger said.

Over the course of this past fall, staff vice presidents across the college led discussions within their respective departments about where work could be done more efficiently and where there was need for more staffing and resources. In December, each department submitted two plans to top administrators: one that cut its staff compensation costs by 10 percent and one that cut costs by 15 percent. Senior administrators are currently reviewing those plans and intend to act on them as soon as next week.

Officials are wrapping up efforts to identify departments that can sustain cost-cutting. In early February the college will send all employees in those departments offers to take an “elective staff incentive separation plan.” The finances of each employee’s plan offer will depend on their salary and length of employment at Middlebury. In cases where there are multiple people holding one position, the entire department will receive an offer. In those scenarios, if more staff apply for the plans than necessary, those with the greatest seniority will be made official offers.

Employees must respond to the offers by early March, and final binding decisions are due in midApril.

INVOLUNTARY JOB LOSS? If the college does not achieve its financial goals through the voluntary incentive plan, it will consider involuntary separations.

“We have not talked about or designed a process for an involuntary plan because at this time we don’t believe it will be necessary,” Burger said on Monday.

Faculty will undergo a different elective process. On Sept. 13, 2018, 117 eligible faculty members were offered applications for a new Faculty Incentive Retirement program.

The program, also a product of the workforce planning process, offers retirement incentives to tenure-track, tenured or term faculty who have worked in a benefits-eligible position at Middlebury College for at least 10 years and are older than 45. The offer includes a lump-sum payment of up to one year of salary and a Health Reimbursement Account, along with funds to support scholarship and research for up to three years after retirement.

Ultimately, 23 College faculty accepted offers and submitted paperwork to receive them by the Jan. 18 deadline.

“We were pleased with the positive reception of the Faculty Retirement Incentive Program and it accomplished all we set out to do,”

Burger said.

This week, administrators are working to determine where costs should be cut among staff.

“A lot will be happening in February,” Burger said. “We don’t know the number of positions that will be eliminated right now, but we do know that about 40 new positions will be created.”

Staff whose positions have been eliminated will be eligible to apply for those new positions, which will likely be finalized in February or March.

Burger said Monday that, in departments where the college determines it can cut costs, employees will be notified before they receive incentive separation plans next week.

“Managers have already had discussions with staff. Everyone who is going to be receiving an application will have had a conversation before the letters go out,” he said.

Burger says the college does not anticipate any changes to class size as a result of this cost-cutting exercise.

He says the institution “expects to fill the vast majority of (eliminated faculty) positions within the next couple of years and sees this as an opportunity to hire in areas where there is the greatest need because of shifting course interest.”

Furthermore, “Most, if not all, of those positions will be replaced by new, more junior tenure-track faculty positions,” Burger said, which he acknowledged have lower salaries and less expensive benefits packages.

ECONOMIC DRIVER According to a report the college published in 2014 titled “The Economic and Community Impact of Middlebury College,” the college was then the largest employer in both Middlebury and Addison County, employing about 1,500 faculty and staff, including 1,098 full-time employees.

According to the same report, the college generated $220 million in economic activity through its annual expenditures in 2011, much of which manifested as wages and benefits and local capital construction projects. The same year, the college paid its Vermont employees, many of whom live in Addison County, $60.6 million in wages and $19 million in benefits.

In 2018, it spent $129 million on salaries and wages and $44 million on employee benefits.

Middlebury Selectman Carpenter said this week that though he’s always sad to see any business in Middlebury or Addison County cut jobs, he hopes staff who leave the college will consider working for other Middlebury businesses, whom he says are “scrambling to find good staff.”

He said the college has a long history of financially supporting community projects.

“The Cross Street bridge and the new town offices and recreation facility are all examples of projects that hinged upon contributions from the college,” Carpenter said. “The town doesn’t have the size to build projects of that magnitude alone.

“We need a healthy college,” he added.

Burger says the college hopes these staffing reductions will allow it to be a better community partner in the future.

“The stronger we are in our finances, the better community partner we can be,” he said. “If we can operate in a place of financial strength, we will be able to better collaborate with the town and county than we can today.”

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MEMBERS OF THE Middlebury College student group Divest Middlebury and a key supporter prepare Tuesday for a live broadcast about the college’s decision to divest from fossil fuels. Weybridge resident Fran Putnam, front row left, is joined by students, front from left, Leith Taranta, Zoe Grodsky and Cora Kircher, and back row, Alec Fleischer, Gabe Desmond and Conner Wertz.

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Divest Middlebury (Continued from Page 1A) companies by 25 percent in five years, by 50 percent in eight years and by 100 percent within 15 years.

With the trustees’ vote in support of Middlebury Energy2028, the college has committed to using exclusively renewable energy sources not derived from fossil fuels for electric and thermal power by 2028.

The college, according to a press release, plans to get all of its electricity from renewable resources in part by “investing in solar and, possibly, hydropower” in Vermont. Currently Middlebury College gets most of the energy it uses for heating and cooling from an on-campus biomass gasification plant, which also produces 15 to 20 percent of the college’s electricity needs. The college also intends to eliminate the use of natural gas as a supplemental energy source for the biomass plant by 2028.

Patton said that Middlebury will reduce energy consumption on its campus by 25 percent by 2028 by renovating several large academic buildings and putting in place better energy monitoring across campus.

The school has also vowed to make climate change a bigger part of the curriculum by offering new undergraduate research opportunities.

The college announced it is considering a self-imposed, institution-wide carbon tax. If the college chooses that route, it would tax its own carbon emissions and put the funds toward improving its energy efficiency and expanding its use of renewable energy.

“This is a floor and not a ceiling and we hope to get there sooner than 2028,” said Patton.

She also praised students for their leadership on the initiative, to applause from the audience.

In divesting from fossil-fuel investments, Middlebury joined more than 1,000 institutions around the world that have done the same.

According to the climate-activist nonprofit 350.org, the divestment movement has so far taken more than $8 trillion from fossil fuel companies.

Middlebury College’s undergraduate Environmental Studies program is the oldest in the country, and its student groups were some of the first to advocate for divestment.

In 2008, the Sunday Night Environmental Group and activist, author and Middlebury College Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben launched 350.org, now a leading national climate organization.

In 2012, McKibben wrote an article for Rolling Stone Magazine in which he argued that oil companies had more carbon in their reserves than scientists said could safely be burned, and that if they carried out their business plans, irreversible climate change was inevitable.

The article, along with McKibben’s national tour that followed, launched a global movement to persuade universities, governments and companies to divest their resources from fossil fuel investments. The article and tour also sparked the founding of Divest Middlebury in 2013.

The same year, Middlebury College issued a statement regarding divestment, saying the institution was not yet ready to take such a risk with its endowment. Six years later, as the college is working to reduce what is now an annual $11.3 million operating deficit by cutting staff compensation costs, it has reversed that decision.

Concluding her presentation, Patton said, “I believe the heart of education is intergenerational responsibility and

(the students) have reminded us of that.”

McKibben said this week the fact that stock in the fossil fuel sector has been performing poorly over the last five-to-six years helps colleges make such decisions.

McKibben applauded Middlebury students and Patton’s leadership in encouraging conversations on campus.

“Often at a college, people are only there for four years so things tend to die out. These guys figured out how to pass the torch along so each generation of students learned from the last,” he said.

Jeannie Bartlett, co-founder of Divest Middlebury and a member of the class of 2015, attended the press conference.

“The trustees vote to unanimously support fossil fuel divestment speaks to the power of student activism,” Bartlett said. “It took seven years of student organizing and a ‘no’ vote from the trustees in 2013 before divestment was achieved. I’m thrilled that Middlebury’s investments finally say that fossil fuel extraction is unacceptable.”

For Leith Taranta, a Divest Middlebury student-organizer, learning to speak the language of finance was a key takeaway from the effort.

“I think a big part was negotiating the line between fiduciary responsibility and social responsibility. There is a common misconception that those two things are opposed,” Taranta said.

“We wanted to show that divestment is in the fiduciary interest of our institution both in terms of how fossil fuel stocks are predicted to perform in the future and the fact that if climate change continues to accelerate, we won’t have a planet to live on.”

By JOHN FLOWERS BRIDPORT — While much of the discussion at the Legislative Breakfast at the Bridport Grange Hall on Monday was on the idea of a “carbon tax,” the four lawmakers and many citizens in attendance also talked about other important issues.

Other discussion at Monday’s legislative breakfast focused on: • Priorities for the 2019 session.

Sen. Christopher Bray, D-New Haven, said Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe has asked his colleagues to think about “the two Vermonts” during the next four of five months.

“There’s a Vermont that’s doing quite well, and there’s another Vermont that’s facing many challenges, in terms of housing, health care, and general welfare,” Bray said. “(Ashe) said we ought to be thinking, in every Senate committee, not just about just the ‘bright and shiny’ parts of our economy, but also the parts of our economy that aren’t looking so well. We’re trying to make sure we improve everyone together as a group.”

Bray pledged to support efforts to create prosperity for all Vermonters.

Recent success stories, according to Bray, include the clean energy industry — which now employs 18,800 Vermonters — and that the farming and food economy, which has added 842 new businesses providing 7,700 new jobs during the past decade.

“For me, the framing of this session is that our greatest opportunity is to think boldly and look at the things

we’re doing well, and think about how we bring a stronger economy forward,” Bray said.

• Paying for a federally mandated cleanup of the state’s waterways.

“We have a lot of clean water work ahead, and it represents about $3 billion in public and private (investments) over the next 20 years,” said Bray, chairman of the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee. “That’s a heavy lift, but it’s also one that brings us into compliance with Vermont law, federal law, and I think most Vermonters want to live in a clean, healthy place.

“We have a lot of work to do, but it’s good work, and I’m looking forward to working with my colleagues as we push on,” he added.

• Expunging misdemeanors from Vermonters’ criminal records.

Middlebury resident Dave Silberman helped organize two events last year at which Addison County residents were shown how to get their records cleared of past misdemeanor offenses — including possession of small amounts of marijuana. The state has now legalized marijuana.

Nonetheless, the presence of such offenses on a criminal record can prevent an individual from qualifying for certain jobs or securing an apartment, even when the person has long-since paid their debt to society.

“People with past criminal histories are deemed by society ‘dangerous forever,’” Silberman said. “As we now move to fully legalizing the commercial production and sale of cannabis, I’d like to

urge our legislators to go back and automatically expunge the tens of thousands of cannabis-related convictions sitting on people’s records, so we can truly erase the harm that prohibition has caused. There will be legislation (this session), and I hope you all can support it.”

• Universal primary care.

Shoreham resident Barb Wilson urged lawmakers to support a new bill calling for development of a plan on how to integrate universal primary care into Vermont’s existing health care system.

Rep. Matt Birong, D-Vergennes, is one of the bill’s 47 co-sponsors.

Birong owns 3 Squares Café in Vergennes, and said he’s currently unable to offer his workers health benefits because he would be unable to realistically build that expense into his food pricing. He explained he and his wife cannot qualify for health insurance subsidies and must currently pay a monthly premium equivalent to “a home mortgage.”

• The minimum wage.

Lawmakers again this session expect to vote on a plan to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage rate to $15 per hour by 2024.

Darwin Pratt, owner of Pratt’s store in Bridport, said such a bump in the minimum wage could force some small enterprises to close their doors. He said storeowners believe $15 per hour is too much for a worker with no experience, and more senior employees will expect raises beyond the minimum $15.

in wake of a 2017-2018 biennium (Continued from Page 1A) marked by Scott’s two budget vetoes, rural residents have to drive further.

Vermont has set a goal of reducing which drew fire from a Democratits greenhouse gas emissions by 50 dominated Legislature.

“I think all three leaders all percent by Jan. 1, 2028, and by 75 had a theme of collaboration and percent by Jan. 1, 2050.

Most lawmakers have stopped short working together this session, after of touting a carbon tax on fossil fuels a somewhat challenging session last time,” Hardy said. as a primary tool in encouraging Sen. Chris Bray, D-New renewables and paying for Haven, hasn’t endorsed a household weatherization carbon tax, but believes it programs. Entrepreneurs and could be part of a broader business owners have warned conversation on reducing a carbon tax could hurt the greenhouse gases in the state economy while increasing the financial See the report “An Analysis Green Mountain State. of Decarbonization “The carbon tax burden on Vermonters Methods in Vermont” is just a small piece they believe are already with this story on of that much bigger feeling overwhelmed by addisonindependent.com. discussion,” Bray said. fees and taxes.

“It just says, ‘If we’re Smith said he doesn’t believe there will be much movement going to use polluting fuels, let’s toward a carbon tax this year. He figure out the costs related to using noted such a levy hasn’t made the them.’”

He pointed to a recent Vermont 2019 to-do lists offered by House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, Senate Department of Health study President Pro Tem Tim Ashe, and indicating that weatherizing a home Gov. Phil Scott. Smith said Lt. produces around $1,000 in annual Gov. David Zuckerman is the only value to Vermonters at large, in prominent state leader thus far to tout terms of reducing expenses related to cleaning the air. Bray wants the a carbon tax.

That said, Smith and his fellow Legislature, the Department of Public Republicans know that Democrats Service and the Public Utilities will hold most of the cards this Commission to agree on a measuring biennium by virtue of their sizable stick for carbon and its impacts.

“There’s already a cost to all of us; numerical advantages in both the the question is how well we see those House and Senate.

“I think there will be a lot more costs, evaluate them and then make reaching across the aisle to make rational decisions about how to most compromises and come up with cost-effectively move forward,” Bray solutions,” Smith said. “It’s very clear said of global warming. “We also the Democrats have control of both have an obligation to take care of the the House and Senate, and they can planet while it’s our turn.”

Bristol resident Lynn Dike lamented override any veto that the governor makes. So it behooves us all to reach the fact that some Vermonters are unable to qualify for weatherization, out and do the best we can.”

Sen. Ruth Hardy, D-Middlebury, solar and other program benefits agreed. She’s beginning her first because their incomes are a tiny bit term in office, and said leaders of over the threshold for qualifying for Vermont’s legislative and executive such subsidies.

“We are on a fixed income, but branches appear willing to work together for the benefit of the state. it’s too high for getting this help,” That’s an encouraging observation she said, without which she and her

husband wouldn’t likely break even on a solar investment until they reach their 90s.

“We just cannot financially do it,” Dike said.

Bray acknowledged the state has been underfunding its weatherization program. He said he hopes to correct that problem this session, and make it easier for people who now get no subsidy when they reach a certain household income level.

“It’s a great investment for everyone,” Bray said. “Rather than have a ‘cliff,’ I’m working with colleagues to turn that into a ‘ramp’ so that you at least get some assistance at higher income levels.”

Mike’s Fuels owner Mike Bordeleau asked what a business owner’s responsibility would be in terms of collection of a carbon tax, and whether a business would still be liable for the tax in cases where a customer defaults on their bill.

He added a carbon tax would substantially hurt Vermont-based fuel businesses located along the border of New York state.

“I just don’t see where we’re going to benefit,” Bordeleau said.

Bridport resident Ed Payne said he believed Vermonters might be able to afford a carbon tax if there were a corresponding decrease in the amount citizens now pay for public schools — particularly as it relates to administrators’ salaries. He argued the state employs too many principals in this era of declining student enrollment.

“We’ve got to bite the bullet,” he said. ‘Let’s have some compassion for us poor people.”

Hardy, a member of the Senate Education Committee, said she believes taxpayers will see greater school savings during the next few years, when she believes more administrative positions will be consolidated.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@ addisonindependent.com.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 2019

MATT DICKERSON

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A seaweed classroom

It’s Tuesday morning. I’m standing with a dozen Middlebury College students listening to a biologist teach us about [dramatic pause] seaweed.

If listening to a presentation about seaweed doesn’t sound enjoyable to you, it may only be because you are not imagining the scene. The 12 students with me are taking my narrative nonfiction nature and environmental writing class.

We are in Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island, and the seaweed we are learning about — a coldwater species of algae known commonly as rockweed, and by its scientific name as Ascophyllum nodosum — blankets the ground about us. We are standing in the intertidal zone: the space between low tide and high tide, where the plant thrives. Though the brisk wind had earlier threatened to make my students a frozen dozen, by the time noon approached the sun had warmed the temperature almost up into the mid-20s.

Our surroundings are beautiful. A few miles to the right, the sharp, iconic peaks and ridgelines of Acadia rise over us against a bright winter-blue sky. Across Otter Cove, a wooded hillside leans out over the island’s rocky coastline, occasionally painted white with spray from a gentle surf.

Through a gap to our left lies a grayblue expanse of open water of the Gulf of Maine. And below us, rests the seaweed — several varieties, as it turns out: not just a single ubiquitous plant, but a number of different species each occupying its own niche in the ecosystem.

Our teacher is Hannah, a biologist with the Schoodic Institute. Schoodic is a scientific and educational non-profit that works within Acadia National Park, in keeping with the mission of the park and in close collaboration with the National Park Service and its scientists. The fact that Schoodic is a private non-profit is part of the reason Hannah is able to meet with us despite the government shutdown, which affected the park and all its employees. Though the (See Dickerson, Page 3B)

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Hockey 1/30 MUHS at CVU................................Late Boys’ Hockey 1/30 CVU at MUHS................................Late Girls’ Basketball 1/28 Colchester vs. MUHS...................54-28 1/28 VUHS vs. Winooski......................54-31 1/28 Mt. Abe vs. N. Country..................48-27 1/29 OV at Windsor......................Postponed 1/30 VUHS at Mt. Mansfield...................Late 1/30 Mt. Abe at Milton.............................Late 1/30 MUHS at Missisquoi.......................Late Boys’ Basketball 1/29 MUHS vs. VUHS..........................56-53 1/29 Milton vs. Mt. Abe.........................59-49 1/30 OV at Proctor..................................Late COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Basketball 1/27 Midd. vs. Trinity.............................75-38 Women’s Basketball 1/27 Trinity vs. Midd..............................59-55

COMMODORE GAGE LALUMIERE gets under the Middlebury basket but his way is blocked by Tigers including Zachary Dunn (34), who leaps to block the shot in Tuesday’s game in Vergennes. Visiting Middlebury Union High School won the game, 56-53.

Independent photo/Steve James

MUHS boys outlast host Commodores Tigers are 9-2 despite VUHS effort

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The Middlebury Union High School boys’ basketball team continued its winning ways on Tuesday, but it was not easy: Scrappy host Vergennes shrugged off a slow start and took the Tigers down to the wire in a 56-53 setback.

First-year Coach John Howe’s Tigers improved to 9-2, thanks in part to 14 points apiece from seniors Parker Beatty and Tyler Buxton and 12 from junior Jeffrey Lokatys. And they remained firmly in contention for a top-four seed in Division I. Howe credited the 2-9 Commodores both for their effort and their in-game adjustments.

“Vergennes played a phenomenal game,” Howe said. “They executed well defensively. They figured out how to get through the press that was giving them a hard time in the first half. That’s really a credit to good coaching and players who listen.

More power to them. I thought both

teams played well. I’m glad to walk out with a win, for sure.”

Senior forward Ezekiel Palmer sparked the Commodores with 15 points and 15 rebounds, while junior forward Kevin Jackson (18 points) and junior guard Zeke McGee (nine points, two assists off the bench) combined for 14 of the 17 VUHS first-half points after MUHS took an 8-0 lead after six minutes.

The Commodores have had disappointing results overall, and firstyear Coach Josh Carter said efforts like Tuesday’s could mean a stronger second half of the season for VUHS. “It was unbelievable tonight. I think they really stepped up to a rivalry game and locked in,” Carter said. “Everybody really bought into the team today and came out and played hard. I was really happy.”

Beatty dominated the first period with eight points and two blocked shots as the Tigers took a 12-5 lead (See Basketball, Page 2B)

thrashing of visiting NESCAC rival Trinity.

The Panthers held the Bantams (13-7, 2-4 NESCAC) to five points in a midgame span of 15:37 while pushing a three-point lead to a 36-point bulge.

Middlebury (15-5, 4-2 NESCAC,

Girls hoop: Mount Abe, VUHS prevail

ADDISON COUNTY — In local high school girls’ basketball play earlier this week, Mount Abraham and Vergennes picked up home wins, while Middlebury lost on the road.

Otter Valley’s Tuesday road game at Windsor was postponed; no makeup date was immediately announced. The Otters are 4-6.

COMMODORES On Monday the Commodores cruised past visiting Winooski, 5431. VUHS broke open the game by outscoring the 3-10 Spartans by 16-4 in the second quarter.

The 6-5 Commodores relied on a balanced attack paced by Kate Gosliga (eight points), Sophie Hatch and Brianna VanDerWay (seven apiece). Kiara Mack had 10 points for Division III Winooski.

The Commodores were unofficially in 10th place in D-II heading into a Wednesday game scheduled at Mt. Mansfield that was played after the deadline for the sports section.

EAGLES Mount Abe retained first place in D-II by easing past visiting D-I foe North Country on Monday, 48-27.

Jalen Cook scored 15 points for the 10-2 Eagles, Chloe Johnston totaled 13 points and six steals, and Cora Funke contributed eight points and seven boards. Marsh McKenna scored 12 points for the 6-6 Falcons.

The Eagles were set to go after their 10th straight win at Milton on Wednesday after this section went to press.

TIGERS Host Colchester (2-10) knocked off MUHS, 54-28, on Monday. The Lakers pulled away by outscoring the Tigers by 16-2 in the third quarter. Jess Lequarre led the Lakers with 13 points, and Annie Andrus paced MUHS with 10.

The Tigers were hoping for their first win in a game scheduled to be played at Missisquoi on Wednesday evening.

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Yellowjackets rally past Eagle boys

VERGENNES JUNIOR ZEKE McGee grabs his own rebound in the second quarter of Tuesday’s home loss to Middlebury. McGee came off the bench to tally 9 points in the game.

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Panther men put the clamps on Bantams

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — A Middlebury College basketball team coming off its biggest win of the season a week before — an 80-66 upset of host Williams, NESCAC’s first-place team — kept the pedal to the metal on this past Sunday with a 75-38

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good for third place) led, 15-12, at 10:00 of the first half, when Trinity’s Connor Merinder completed a threepoint play. Their next points came on another three-point play, this one from Donald Jorden at 0:20 of the half.

Panther big man Eric McCord

answered that with his own hoop and free throw a second before halftime, and Middlebury led at the break, 34-15.

While the Bantams were missing 11 shots and turning the ball over three times after Merinder scored, (See Panthers, Page 3B)

MILTON — Host Milton rallied in the second half to get past the Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ basketball team on Tuesday, 59-49.

The Eagles led at the break, 2924. But Milton’s Ian Jennings scored nine of his 24 points in the third period, during which Milton outscored Mount Abe, 168, to take control. Jennings reached the 1,000-point plateau as the Yellowjackets improved to 9-3.

Mount Abe dropped to 5-7 despite 14 points from Shain Sargent and 13 from Logan Rodriguez. The Eagles will host Middlebury on Monday and Vergennes on Wednesday.

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Hockey 2/2 MUHS at Missisquoi....................... Noon 2/6 MUHS at Hartford........................... 6 PM 2/8 Burr & Burton at MUHS.................. 5 PM Boys’ Hockey 2/2 MUHS at Spaulding................... 5:30 PM 2/6 Rice at MUHS................................. 7 PM 2/8 Rutland at MUHS............................ 7 PM Girls’ Basketball 1/31 Fair Haven at OV.......................... 7 PM 2/1 MUHS at Winooski.................... 7:30 PM 2/2 OV at Brattleboro....................... 2:30 PM 2/2 VUHS at N. Country....................... 2 PM 2/2 Mt. Abe at Enosburg....................... 4 PM 2/4 Proctor at OV............................. 6:30 PM 2/5 VUHS at MUHS.............................. 7 PM 2/5 Mt. Abe at Missisquoi...................... 7 PM 2/7 Hartford at OV................................ 7 PM 2/8 Mt. Abe at VUHS............................ 7 PM 2/9 North Country at MUHS........... 12:30 PM 2/9 OV at Hartford........................... 2:30 PM Boys’ Basketball 2/1 Fair Haven at OV............................ 7 PM 2/1 Milton at MUHS.............................. 7 PM 2/1 VUHS at Enosburg......................... 7 PM 2/4 MUHS at Mt. Abe............................ 7 PM

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

MOUNT ABRAHAM SENIOR Gary Conant grabs the leg of Malone, N.Y., Husky 138-pounder Izaiah Robideau during a match at the Bob Benoure Invitational at Vergennes Union High School on Saturday. Conant was one of three Eagles to win their weight classes.

VUHS SOPHOMORE AIDAN Gebo ties up Ben James of Burr and Burton Academy in a 126-pound match at Saturday’s wrestling tournament in the Vergennes gym. Gebo won the match.

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Mount Abraham Union High School wrestlers won three weight classes and finished in the top four in three others at the annual Bob Benoure Invitational on

season by finishing third with 127 points among 17 teams, trailing only Essex (202.5) and Malone, N.Y. (140.5). The Commodores finished eighth in a tight group in the middle of the pack with 86.5 points, two

Independent photos/Steve James

Eagles, Commodores wrestle well at VUHS meet Saturday, while the young host Commodore team picked up two seconds, a third and a fourth in matches held in the Vergennes Union High School gymnasium.

The Eagles continued their strong

points behind Mount Mansfield.

Winning for the Eagles were three seniors: • Roman Mayer at 126 pounds.

Mayer, ranked No. 1 in Vermont at vermontwrestler.com, pinned three

opponents before coasting to a 19-3 major decision over Connecticut Valley, N.H., wrestler Matt Kimball in the final.

• Gary Conant at 138. Conant, (See Wrestling, Page 3B)

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(Continued from Page 1B) after eight minutes. McGee scored the first points for the Commodores, two free throws at 2:09, and also assisted their only basket of the quarter, a three-pointer by junior Aidan Scott.

McGee’s ballhandling also provided a template for the Commodores on how to break down the Tigers’ 3-2 zone, and he and Jackson combined for all the points in a 9-4 second period run that cut Tiger lead to 16-14 2:15 before the half.

The Tigers answered with a 7-0 run, however — a three from senior forward Spencer Cadoret, senior point guard Zach Dunn’s second transition hoop of the period, and two Buxton free throws at 0:23 that made it 23-14. Jackson hit a free throw six seconds later, and then beat the buzzer with a layup after he stole the ball to make it 23-17 at the half.

In the second half the Tigers repeatedly threatened to pull away, and the VUHS FORWARD GAGE Lalumiere dribbles round the back of the Middlebury defense in the second quarter Commodores kept reeling them back Tuesday as the Commodores tried to break the Tigers’ 3-2 zone. in. Lokatys broke loose for two threes Independent photos/Steve James and a layup nicely set up by Cadoret In the final minute, Dunn and in the first four minutes of the third Cadoret each hit a free throw, and the period, and the lead was 31-24.

Palmer (eight points in the period) lead was five. With 10 seconds left, then went to work, hitting a short Scott (eight points) swished a three jumper and then stealing the ball and from the left wing, and it was 55-53. cruising in for a layup to cut the lead VUHS fouled Cadoret with five seconds to go. He made the to 31-28 at 3:35. The first, but missed the secTigers responded by “It was ond. The Commodores, outscoring VUHS the unbelievable rebounded, but could rest of the period, 9-6, to tonight. I think only try a half-court lead by 40-34 after three heave that missed at the periods. Beatty scored they really buzzer. four in that stretch, Bux- stepped up to The Commodores’ ton converted a three- a rivalry game work on the boards point play, and Lokatys and locked in. floated in a runner.

Everybody really helped keep them in the game. Counting When Buxton sank a bought into the team rebounds, VUHS three to open the fourth earned a 34-29 advanperiod, the lead was team today and tage despite the Tigers’ nine. But four points came out and 11-6 first-quarter edge. from Jackson and a played hard.

Jackson and McGee three from junior Josias I was really TIGER SENIOR ZACHARY Dunn and Vergennes junior Josias Salomao offered support for battle for a loose ball in the fourth quarter of the Tigers’ win over the Salomao offset only by happy.”

Palmer on the boards. a Beatty bucket sliced Commodores on Tuesday.

— VUHS coach For MUHS, Beatty the lead to 45-41.

Josh Carter hauled down 13 re- the team, they did,” he said. really hard.”

The Tigers pushed Carter said Tuesday’s game should The Tigers (14 turnovers) took bounds, followed by the lead to seven three better care of the ball than the Com- give the Commodores confidence. times, finally at 2:03, when Buxton Cadoret (five) and Buxton (four).

“I think this is a game we can build Howe’s Tigers will host Milton modores (20), and Carter praised hit a three to make it 53-46. on and try to learn from. Being in latePalmer and Jackson supplied an- (9-3) in a Lake Division showdown both teams’ defensive efforts.

“Their zone affected us late in the game situations, you can’t learn that swers the first two times, and Palmer on Friday at 7 p.m., when they will did again with a minute to go and the hope to have sophomore point guard game and caused a few turnovers. in practice. And hopefully our guys score still 53-46. Palmer drove and Gabe Dunn, who was out with an And hopefully we can come back got some experience tonight and can scored, drawing a foul at 1:02. He illness on Tuesday, back in the lineup. next time and be a little more pre- learn and grow in those moments,” missed the free throw, but bolted in, In Tuesday’s game Howe praised the pared for that,” Carter said. “Defen- Carter said. “But I thought overall sively I thought we locked into our we rose to the challenge and played snared the miss and laid it in to make team’s seniors for leading the way. assignments, and guys were hustling really well.”

“The older guys who need to lead it 53-50.

Women’s basketball splits pair of games MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s basketball team split two recent games, winning a nonleague contest late last week at home before dropping a pivotal NESCAC road contest on Sunday.

The Panthers (17-3, 4-2 NESCAC), will host undefeated Bowdoin, the No. 1 team in NCAA Division III, at 7 p.m. on Friday before entertaining Colby at 3 p.m. on Saturday. Former Middlebury Union High School standout Keagan Dunbar has been starting for Colby (7-11, 1-5 NESCAC) as a freshman.

On Thursday, Jan. 24, the Panthers picked up a 66-50 win over visiting University of New England (9-10).

UNE trailed by three at the break, 30-27. But Middlebury opened the second half with a 9-1 run and led by at least nine points for the rest of the game by holding the Nor’easters to 26 percent shooting from the floor and outrebounding them, 37-27.

Colleen Caveney led the Panthers with 16 points and four steals, while Kira Waldman finished with 15 points and 11 rebounds. Maya Davis scored 11, and Catherine Harrison scored nine with 15 boards. Betsy Knox recorded eight points, nine rebounds and four blocked shots. Jocelyn Chaput paced UNE with 14 points and seven rebounds.

In Sunday’s key NESCAC contest

host Trinity (16-4, 3-3 NESCAC) hung on for a 59-55 victory over the Panthers. The two teams are battling for the No. 4 seed and home advantage in a NESCAC quarterfinal.

And Trinity has an easier schedule the rest of the way — the Bantams have already faced Bowdoin and thirdplace Amherst (17-2, 4-1 NESCAC).

Middlebury must visit Amherst on Feb. 9 as well as Bowdoin this weekend.

In Sunday’s loss the Panthers hit just three of 20 three-point attempts, figures that included two late misses with a chance to tie the game before the Bantams sealed the win from the free-throw line.

The Panthers trailed by as many as nine in the first half before rallying to take a 44-42 lead in the third period’s final minute. But Trinity scored five points in the remainder of the period and maintained the lead throughout the fourth, although the Panthers cut it to 54-53 with 2:13 to go on a Knox jumper.

Alex Huffman (19 points, six rebounds and four assists) and Davis (10 points) were the only Panthers who shot well. Caveney scored nine with four steals, and Waldman added seven points, nine rebounds and five assists. The Panthers shot about 37 percent overall and were awarded only three free throws, making two.

Schedule (Continued from Page 1B)

2/4 Missisquoi at VUHS........................ 7 PM 2/5 OV at Springfield............................ 7 PM 2/6 VUHS at Mt. Abe............................ 7 PM 2/6 St. Albans at MUHS........................ 7 PM 2/8 OV at MSJ...................................... 7 PM 2/8 Enosburg at MUHS......................... 7 PM 2/9 Mt. Abe at Missisquoi...................... 7 PM Wrestling 2/5 Mt. Abe/Spaulding at VUHS........... 6 PM 2/9 NVAC Meet at St. J........................10 AM Gymnastics 2/6 SBHS/CVU at MUHS...................... 6 PM COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Hockey 2/1 Wesleyan at Midd........................... 7 PM 2/2 Trinity at Midd................................. 4 PM 2/8 Midd. at Williams............................ 7 PM 2/9 Williams at Midd............................. 7 PM

Women’s Hockey 2/1 Midd. at Wesleyan.......................... 7 PM 2/2 Midd. at Wesleyan.......................... 3 PM 2/5 Norwich at Midd.............................. 7 PM 2/8 Colby at Midd.................................. 7 PM 2/9 Colby at Midd.................................. 3 PM Women’s Basketball 2/1 Bowdoin at Midd............................. 7 PM 2/2 Colby at Midd.................................. 3 PM 2/8 Midd. at Hamilton............................ 7 PM 2/9 Midd. at Amherst............................. 3 PM Men’s Basketball 2/1 Midd. at Bowdoin............................ 7 PM 2/2 Midd. at Colby................................. 3 PM 2/8 Hamilton at Midd............................. 7 PM 2/9 Amherst at Midd.............................. 3 PM Late games were played after deadline.

Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

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Wrestling (Continued from Page 1B) ranked No. 2 in his weight class, picked up one win by pin and two by shutout (6-0 and 8-0) before edging Essex wrestler Wyatt Lamell, 7-5, in the title match.

• Kevin Pearsall at 225. Pearsall, ranked No. 3, won his first two matches by pin in 17 and 55 seconds.

But Commodore senior Brady Gebo put up more of a battle in the 220 final before Pearsall pinned him in the last minute of the third round.

Mount Abe Coach Nick Mayer said the third-place effort in the tournament showed the Eagles are rounding into form after injuries slowed them for much of the winter. The team is aiming for a second-place finish at the upcoming Northern Vermont Athletic Conference Tournament, and another strong performance at the state meet later in February.

“We have been struggling this year with a number of injuries, and taking home the third-place trophy out of 17 teams is a testament to what we have the potential to do when everyone is healthy and we have a full roster,” Mayer said. “We have a great, intense energy in the practice room being packed with 21 wrestlers, who all are psyched to be there every day.”

Also finishing second for the Commodores was sophomore Gabriel Payne-Vinick, who pinned his only opponent before reaching the 195-pound final. There, Springfield’s Brandon Bennett pinned Payne-Vinick.

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Both teams had one third-place finisher. Vergennes sophomore Barret Barrows finished with a 3-1 record at 182 pounds and defeated Massena’s Preston Guynup, 9-7, in the consolation final. Mount Abe sophomore Izzy Emmons earned third by default as one of three wrestlers at 99 pounds.

One other Eagle and one Commodore finished third: Mount Abe junior Parker Gero compiled a 4-2 record at 132 pounds, and VUHS sophomore Zach Botala went 3-2 at 145 pounds.

Also competing at the Commodores’ Bob Benoure Tournament for VUHS or Mount Abe were: • At 120, Eagle Maddie Donaldson, who finished with an 0-2 record.

• At 126, Commodore Aidan Gebo (3-2).

• At 132, Commodores Ashton Greenia and Jeremiah Moulton, both 0-2.

• At 138, Commodore Jack Chaput (1-2).

• At 145, Eagle Sam Rathbun (02).

• At 160, Eagle Hunter Gorton (1-2).

• At 182, Eagle Justice Green (02).

• At 222, Eagle Keaton Rayborn (0-2).

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COMMODORE 145-POUND wrestler Zach Botala clamps a headlock on Eagle Sam Rathbun during action at Saturday’s VUHS tournament.

Botala won the match and earned third place overall.

Independent photo/Steve James

Saturday’s major Mount Mansfield tournament. Vergennes is scheduled to host Mount Abe and Spaulding on Feb. 5 at 6 p.m., and the three county

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EAGLE SOPHOMORE NATE Lavoie checks the referee to see if has scored a fall during Saturday’s tournament. Lavoie won the match and earned second at 152 pounds.

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Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) Schoodic campus is on park property and is thus closed — and the research of the institute scientists is thus partially handcuffed — at least Schoodic researchers can keep working. That is not true of the biologists with the National Park Service.

Hannah is passionate and engaging as well as knowledgeable as she teaches us about her special area of research. Her enthusiasm is part of why the learning is enjoyable.

Among other things, I learn that there is a significant commercial harvest of Rockweed in Maine, and (as with so many other things) the management of that harvest is as much determined by social, historical and political factors as by scientific ones.

Rockweed is not human edible.

Though it has been used as a dietary supplement for horses, its primary use in Maine is agricultural. It both

fertilizes soil and also helps maintain moisture. Rockweed is harvested by cutting it a minimum of 16 inches above the roots, which are left intact.

It is hardy, and though difficult to cultivate or farm, it generally grows back well in the wild after a harvest.

It is therefore a sustainable resource, and in theory much better than using petroleum products in agriculture.

Harvest in a given sector of the Maine coast is limited to 17 percent of biomass per year — or roughly 50 percent of the biomass over a threeyear period. The alga seems to thrive despite these periodic harvests.

There is some concern, however, that many creatures in the intertidal zone depend on the rockweed, and may suffer when the plants have been cut way back. At high tide, the 16 inches is not long enough for the remaining plant to reach the surface.

Thus after a harvest, and until it

grows back, some young ducks that are unable to dive beneath the surface can no longer feed on the invertebrate life that lives in the rockweed. Hannah is trying, through her research, to understand how much rockweed can be harvested without detrimental effects on the ecosystem.

My students are trying to understand Hannah’s work and its implications, and how science might hopefully be used to set policy. The fact that we are standing in the midst of the seaweed and observing the intertidal ecosystem makes the learning both more enjoyable and also more real. This place-based learning is far more compelling than sitting behind desks in a classroom looking at slides.

Being outdoors is like that. It is invigorating. It spawns curiosity.

Questions emerge that might not otherwise come to mind. Plus the students have to navigate along the

shore, which would be challenging enough with just the seaweed, and is made more challenging by the ice that coats the rocks. It is, after all, winter.

If walking the intertidal hadn’t already proven a winter sport for the students, it becomes one when we reach a big sheet of ice blanketing the beach above the tide, where a spring seeps out of the cliffs. I ponder the challenge of getting past the obstacle and wonder how the students will do it. The students have no such concerns. Before I can figure a path around, they are seated on the ice sliding down the beach from the woods to the seaweed. Our learning lab has momentarily become a playground. I’m not sure if the diversion is directly leading to any addition learning, but it does remind me of another reason the outdoors really is the best classroom.

prevent the Panthers from running, but Middlebury also showed well in half-court sets. Brown attributed improvement at both ends to more practice time.

“We played a lot of games early.

We didn’t have a lot of practice time.

And now that we’re done with the non-league games we can devote a little more time to teaching in practice and coaching,” Brown said, adding, “Our guys have always done a great job of sharing the basketball and playing unselfishly. I just think the more time that we’re together, the more comfortable they are with their

teammates and where they are on the floor, and we can put everybody in the best position.”

Bosco led the way with 15 points and five assists, while Matt Folger contributed 11 points, 10 rebounds, four blocked shots and three steals.

McCord and Kornaker each chipped nine points, Jack Farrell and Leighton scored eight points apiece, and Alex Sobel nabbed eight rebounds.

Jorden led Trinity with 11 points,

while Merinder had eight points and five rebounds.

The Panthers will head to Maine to face Bowdoin (11-7, 2-4) on Friday and dangerous Colby (15-5, 3-3) on Saturday.

Brown is hoping the Panthers can continue to surge.

“We’re looking forward to going back on the road next weekend and seeing if we can get some more NESCAC wins,” he said.

Panthers (Continued from Page 1B) Max Bosco put up four points; Matt Folger tipped in a miss, sank a three pointer and drove and dished to Thomas Zodda for a layup; McCord hit inside; and Griffin Kornaker drove for a three-point play before Jorden ended Trinity’s 9:40 scoreless drought.

The Panthers opened the second half with a 19-2 run to make it 53-17 with 14:03 to go.

Bosco hit three free throws and two drives to the hoop during the run, Hilal Dahleh scored in transition and capped a sequence of sharp ball movement by drilling a corner three on a feed from Kornaker (a hoop that drew cheers from a crowd of about 1,000), Folger sank two from the line, and Joey Leighton capped the surge with a three pointer set up by Dahleh.

With the Panthers up by 36 points, the only real suspense was whether the Bantams could crack 40 points in 40 minutes. They could not. The Panthers continued to work hard in their man-to-man defense, and the Bantams also missed six or eight shots they might normally sink.

Trinity made 13 baskets and shot 22.4 percent.

After holding Williams to 60 points at home, the Panthers have in two games moved from 10th in the league in points-against per game to fifth.

Coach Jeff Brown is happy to see it.

“Certainly we’ve improved as the year’s gone on defensively. And tonight was just an outstanding job of the guys just following the game plan and defending a very athletic team in Trinity,” Brown said.

Two Panthers routinely harassed ballhandlers as Trinity tried to deploy a high-screen attack, and Middlebury also used its defensive versatility to switch on the picks.

“We were looking to hard-hedge a ball-screen, and temporarily double-team the ballhandler, and our guys did a good job of that. And we combined that with a little bit of switching,” Brown said.

Trinity slowed the pace down to

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By HERBIE TEOPE, NFL.com ATLANTA — Tony Romo made national headlines after the AFC Championship Game for his uncanny ability to call out plays before they happened during CBS’s broadcast.

Romo, the CBS football analyst and former Dallas Cowboys QB, was so good that Los Angeles Rams defensive coordinator Wade Phillips joked he wanted to link an earpiece to Romo in the booth to know what Tom Brady was going to do in Super Bowl LIII. “I asked Wade Phillips about planning for Tom Brady in the postseason and what’s the plan this time around,” ESPN’s James Palmer tweeted on Monday. “He told me his

plan is to get an earpiece with Tony Romo in it to tell him what’s going to happen before each play.”

When told of Phillips’ comments during a Tuesday afternoon press conference, Romo, who will call his first Super Bowl this Sunday, jokingly advised against the Rams DC doing that.

“Well, probably not a good idea,” Romo said with a wide grin. “No, coach is fantastic. He’s going to come up with a great plan and I think he’s going to have to because Tom’s going to be obviously prepared.”

The kidding aside, Romo made a seamless transition from jokester to NFL analyst and said he believed Sunday’s matchup provides a unique

matchup between two highly competent coaching staffs.

Each team boasts a fair share of superstar players, of course, but Romo focused on the Patriots’ Bill Belichick and the Rams’ Sean McVay. “You’re going to see real-time adjustment in this football game going on by both sides, and I think that’s one of the more enjoyable aspects of this game going in,” Romo said.

“We’re just starting to get into it a little bit more right now, but I think by the end of the week you’ll find that this game will start off a certain way, and someone will have an advantage like the Patriots did last week with the Chiefs, and then there will be an

adjustment that will be made.

“If you don’t, you probably won’t beat one of these staffs because their ability to change it up and basically get in to the best possible stuff as the game goes on is really a credit to them how good they are.”

Still, a lot of the media attention during the CBS Sports’ press conference fell on Romo’s ability to make predictions and he wasn’t let off the hook when asked for a final score in Super Bowl LIII. Romo stayed away from identifying the winner, but he obliged by forecasting a close game.

“I’m going to go 28-24 and I think that 24 has the ball at the end and they don’t score.”

Ram funds team janitor’s trip to the game

By GRANT GORDON, NFL.com Alfonso Garcia and his son are headed to the Super Bowl.

If you haven’t heard of Garcia, that’s OK, but rest assured, Rams’ talented receiver Brandin Cooks has heard of him and he appreciates him. That’s why Cooks gave Garcia, a day porter for the Rams, a pair of Super Bowl tickets and went above and beyond by arranging flight and hotel accommodations for the big game, as well.

“Oh, man, Alfonso — the guy is special, man,” Cooks told USA Today’s Mike Jones. “He keeps our

locker room in tip-top shape. He has such a special soul. Someone that I found myself drawn to once I got there and I see him around the facility all the time. I just felt like it would be special for him to see that he is part of this success, as well, and I wanted him to be able to be at the Super Bowl with his son and enjoy it.”

Stories abound about stars recognizing overlooked teammates and practice squad players, but Cooks arranged through the Rams an opportunity for the franchise’s custodian to realize he’s contributed

to the team’s journey to Super Bowl LIII. Making this story all the more feel-good is that Cooks didn’t seek out any attention for it.

As the tale is told, it was fellow receiver Robert Woods who relayed the story to scribes.

“I walked by and just happened to see that encounter,” Woods said.

“That’s the type of teammate he is, and a leader.”

The fleet-footed Cooks is on his third team in five seasons and is in his second-straight Super Bowl after going as a Patriot a year ago.

Storylines no doubt are prevalent for the talented Cooks.

However, this one might be the one that most easily brings about a grin and the realization that a receiver who’s played on three teams is a great teammate indeed. Just ask Alfonso Garcia.

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ADULT ALL- RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders.

Wednesdays, 3-4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802-388-4249 or 802683-5569 or visit turningpointaddisonvt.org.

AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP - For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anonymous, confidential and free.

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AL-ANON: FOR FAMILIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. Newcomers welcome. Confidential. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15-8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS, 1 SUNDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9-10am.

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NA MEETINGS MIDDLEBURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NARCAN KITS are available at the Turning Point Center of Addison County FREE of charge. Narcan (Naloxone) is a nasal spray used to reverse an opioid overdose in progress. These kits are specifically intended for public distribution and can be used by anyone to save a life. Easy training is provided at Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, and takes approximately 10 minutes. Wednesdays between 9 a.m. - noon, or call for an appointment (802) 388-4249.

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CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

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ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Vacancies

Help Wanted BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802-388-1156.

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH SCHOOL Coaching Positions Middlebury Union High School is seeking coaches for the following: Assistant Varsity Girls’ Lacrosse JV Girls’ Lacrosse Assistant Varsity Softball Coach JV Softball Coach

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HOPE HAS AN opening for a part time retail associate. 15 hours a week, reliable schedule, fun and active environment. Must have good cash handling and math skills, and solid customer service ability. We also have a part time opening in our warehouse. 29.5 hours a week to start, with the potential for moving to full-time. Must have good customer service skills, be able to lift, stand, and walk for extended periods of time.

Mechanical ability a plus.

Send resume and cover letter, indicating the position for which you’re applying, to HOPE, 282 Boardman Street, Suite 1A, Middlebury, or email to receptionist@ hope-vt.org.

IMMEDIATE OPENING The Town of Salisbury is currently looking to fill the following position. Those interested do not have to be Salisbury residents but must live in close proximity.

Training, when available, will be offered as well as a stipend and mileage.

Please call the town offices at 352-4228 for further information. Animal Control Officer primary duty is to enforce Salisbury’s Animal Control Ordinance as well as provide information to residents, investigate animal bites in concert with the Town Health Officer, maintain records and prepare reports to include judicial citations when appropriate, as well as appearing at any hearings or meetings when necessary or required.

BRISTOL VILLAGE, HIGHLY Visible Retail/Office street level space on the Main Street. Approx.

1,800 SF plus basement storage. Available March 1, 2019. $1,370 mo. Call Tom at Wallace Realty 453-4670 or Tom@WallaceRE.com.

Help Wanted

Applicants must possess a strong knowledge of coaching principles with previous coaching experience preferred. Must possess strong organizational skills and the ability to communicate and relate to student athletes.

Interested parties should send a letter of interest, resume, and three current letters of reference to: Sean Farrell/Athletic Director Middlebury Union High School 73 Charles Avenue Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications will be accepted until the positions have been filled.

E.O.E.

We’re thrilled you’re interested in working for the finest whiskey company in the world.

Join the Parent/Child Center Team We are seeking an Office Supervisor to work in our center. The job is an office position focusing on training young adults in office skills. Other tasks include office management, phone coverage, administrative assistant tasks and invoicing.

Strong candidates must have excellent phone, computer and communication skills and want to work with young adults and families. Flexibility and collaboration is a must. Total are hours negotiable. Please submit your resume by February 4.

Contact Donna Bailey at: dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org

Please visit www.whistlepigwhiskey.com/ work-with-us/ for a list of current openings and how to apply.

All applicants may submit a resumé with 3 professional references to jobs@whistlepigrye.com.

No phone calls please.

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Vacancies

Administrative Assistant Addison Central School District is seeking a full time Administrative Assistant to the Athletic Director at Middlebury Union High School.

Candidates must have excellent interpersonal skills and a sincere enjoyment of helping others and working as part of a team.

Qualifications include: • Associate’s Degree • Strong background in various computer applications, ie, Excel, Word; • Strong organizational skills with emphasis on detail and accuracy; • Ability to multi-task; • Strong written and oral communication skills; • Knowledge of accounting desirable, QuickBooks a plus; • Ability to work independently as directed; and • Ability to work collaboratively with administrative office team; Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, three current reference letters, and complete transcripts via School Spring.

Join the Parent/Child Center Team We are seeking an Early Childhood Teacher to work in our 5 STAR childcare center.

We are a therapeutic childcare program that supports children birth through 3 and their families. Strong candidates must have knowledge of child development, family systems, mental health issues, excellent communication skills, and want to work with young families. Flexibility and collaboration is a must. Total are hours negotiable. Please submit your resume by February 4th.

Contact Donna Bailey at: dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org

For Rent

For Rent

It’s against the law to

discriminate

when advertising housing.

Its easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.”

There’s a lot you can’t say.

The Federal Government is watching for such discrimination.

FULL-TIME EMPLOYEE WANTED Bourdeau Brothers seeks a fulltime employee to work in a multiduty environment including driving, warehouse, and specialized equipment.

CDL license required. Agricultural experience preferred. Benefits include medical, 401K, and vacations.

Contact Skip Cray at 802-388-7000 or scray@bbinc.us.

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THE CITY OF Vergennes has an immediate position for a full-time Administrative Assistant who will have the primary responsibility of accounts payable.

The position is located in downtown Vergennes. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: entering invoices into NEMRC AP software, printing checks, reconciling GL account, warrant report, retrieving/ opening and sorting mail, weekly payroll administration, human recourses and benefits administration.

Please submit resume to mchabot2vergennes.org.

THE TOWN OF Salisbury is currently looking to fill their Town Health Officer position. Those interested do not have to be Salisbury residents but must live in close proximity. Training, when available, stipend and milage will be offered.

Please call the town offices at 352-4228 for further information. The duties, outlined in 18 VSA §602a, deal primarily with investigating any complaint of public health hazard, enforcing the provisions of Title 18, and rules/permits issued by the Vermont Department of Health. The THO prepares reports on all investigations and incidents. This position is regulatory in nature.

No medical background is needed or required.

For Sale 1985 DODGE PICKUP w/ Boss plow & sandbox, 1980 Mack dump truck & 2001 20 ton Talbot trailer, TD7 International Crowler.

758-2037.

VERMONT CASTINGS DEFIANT stove with misc. stove pipe. Excellent condition. $450. Call 388-2233.

Applications will be accepted until position has been filled with consideration given to applications received by February 8, 2019 E.O.E..

PAINTERS WANTED Acorn Painting is seeking two professional painters for winter interior work.

Excellent pay, great benefits. Reliable transportation, tools and a positive no nonsense attitude is a must. This is a great opportunity for people looking for full time work year round. A minimum of three years experience necessary. Call 453-5611 Serious applicants only.

Let us help you shift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal.

Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

Talk to our sales professionals.

For Rent BRIARWOOD APARTMENTS is currently accepting applications for 2 BR apartments in Middlebury.

All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. NS/NP, onsite laundry. Call 802247-0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg.com.

Equal Housing Opportunity.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addison. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structurally sound and weather-tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802-363-3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BEDROOM, fully furnished apartment, all inclusive, W/D. $1,250/month. 802349-8544.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM near downtown.

Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802388-4994.

MIDDLEBURY UPSTAIRS STUDIO apartment with parking and utilities. New carpeting and paint. No animals, no smoking, no exceptions. References and deposit required. $750. monthly. Available 2-1-19.

453-4823 after 6pm.

MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, parking.

Can be subdivided. RealNet Management Inc. 802388-4994.

PROCTOR, 2 BEDROOM apartment for rent. Available 2/1, parking, washer/ dryer hookup, pets allowed, free trash removal, references and checks required. $850 includes heat. Call Kathy at 802-855-1570 or email ktccsm@gmail.com.

SMALL OFFICE SPACE, 656 Exchange Street, Middlebury. $500/month.

802-388-4831.

Wood Heat FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802-282-9110.

Real Estate EAST MIDDLEBURY, DAISY Lane Lot #11. Beautiful, level 1/2 acre building lot with good southern exposure on a private lane.

Town water, power and cable hookups at curbside. Site approved for four bedroom home with conventional (no mound necessary) septic system. $68,000. Call Jack Brown 388-7350.

Public Notices Index on Pages 8B & 9B. Addison Central School Dist. (2) Addison Probate Court (2) Addison Superior Court (1) Addison, Town of (1)

PUBLIC NOTICE – TOWN OF ADDISON

The Addison Planning Commission will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, February 18, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office.

To consider the following: 1.

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To approve the meeting minutes of the January 21, 2019 meeting.

To transact any business found necessary before the board: To allow time for public comment interaction at beginning of meeting.

We are working on the Zoning Regulations for discussing a future presentation of the 2013 regulations. We are working on the “Zoning” Regulations page by page & section by section. We need to work on updating & referencing correctly according to VSA 24 Chapter 117. We will make a new list for the cross referencing #’s to be corrected for the rough draft. We plan to present a rough draft of “Subdivision” Regulations for the 3 boards to look over.

Continue working on items that are considered to be projects in progress. We need to look at a rough draft of “Density-zoning” as prepared with suggestions for implementing into the Town Plan. We will continue to invite the Z.A. to other meetings.

We will continue working on Zoning Regulations (2013 copy) & Subdivision Regulations to bring them into compliance with the revised Town Plan. We will review the revised copy of the PUDS section on rearrangement of the sequence order. We need to implement this in rough draft of everything.

Frank Galgano, Chair Starr Phillips, Secretary 01/31 Addison Planning Commission

TOWN OF SALISBURY PUBLIC NOTICE The Salisbury Development Review Board (DRB) will hold a Public Hearing in the Town Office (25 Schoolhouse Road) at approximately 6:00 PM on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, to consider the following: Application #2019-01 Change of Use from Seasonal to Year-Round Use This application is pursuant to §2.4.4 C and §3.80 of the Salisbury Unified Development Regulations. The property is located at 1648 Lake Dunmore Road (parcel ID# 1353141-A) within the area of the Lakeshore District.

Participation in a hearing is a prerequisite to an interested person’s right to take any subsequent appeal from the DRB’s decision.

See VSA §4465(b) and §4471(a).

Application materials are available for inspection in the Town Office during regular business hours.

Richard Enser, DRB Clerk 1/31

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PUBLIC INFORMATION HEARING FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The legal voters of the Addison Central School District are hereby warned to meet at the Middlebury Union High School in Middlebury, Vermont on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 7:00 PM, for a Public Information meeting to discuss Australian Ballot articles warned for vote on Tuesday, March 5, 2019.

Hearing will take place immediately following adjournment of the Annual Meeting of said Addison Central School District.

Linda J. Barrett, Clerk Peter Conlon, Chair Addison Central School District Addison Central School District The 2018 Addison Central School District Annual Report will be available in the following manner: http://www.acsdvt.org/domain/30 (Departments/Finance) or call 802-382-1274 to request a copy.

1/24, 1/31, 2/21

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for Jan. 24th & Jan. 28th, 2019

HAY FOR SALE Small square bales. First cut and mulch. Call 802-349-9281.

Wanted

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, February 18, 2019 at 7 p.m. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Witherbee, LLC for site plan review to change the use at 186 Main Street from a bank to an office, and move a window and add a door on the North Green Street side of the building.

The review will also consider a request for a parking waiver. The request will be reviewed pursuant to Article VII of the zoning and subdivision regulations.

A copy of the application is available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

January 29, 2019 Peter Garon Administrative Officer 01/31

Member Districts are Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Weybridge The legal voters of the Addison Central School District are hereby warned to meet at the Middlebury Union High School in Middlebury, Vermont on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 at 7:00 PM, to transact the following business: ARTICLE 1: To elect the following officers: a) A Moderator b) A Treasurer c) A Clerk ARTICLE 2: To hear and act upon the reports of the school district officers.

ARTICLE 3: To see if the voters of the Addison Central School District will vote to authorize its Board of Directors, under 16 VSA 562 (9), to borrow money by issuance of bonds or notes not in excess of anticipated revenue for the school year.

ARTICLE 4: To do any other business proper to come before said meeting.

HAY FOR SALE - big squares, small squares, round bales. Stored in shed. 802-349-9161 for pricing. Trailer load or individual.

W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FARM WORK. Pond agitating, liquid manure hauling, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462-2755, John Whitney.

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

WARNING ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL MEETING FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Att. Farmers

HAY FOR SALE. 1st, 2nd and 3rd cut. Small squares $2.-$4.; 4’ rounds $30.-$50.

Mike Quinn, Middlebury.

802-388-7828.

Middlebury (2) Salisbury (1) State of Vermont (1) Vergennes (1)

Tom Broughton Auctioneer • Home • Estates • Commercial • Consignments Bridport, VT • 758-2494 tombroughtonauctions.com

BEEF Westminster Farm Wilcon Farm Nop Bros Farm Danyow Farm Hatch Farm Nea-Tocht Kayhart Bros.

Costs Lbs. per lb 1560 .65 1630 .62 1300 .62 1835 .60 1325 .60 2060 .58 1910 .58

CALVES M. Churchill Woodnotch Farm Gosliga Farm Elysian Fields Brace Farm

Costs Lbs. per lb Dollars 103 .72 74.16 97 .68 65.96 102 .65 66.30 113 .60 67.80 110 .60 66.00

Dollars 1014.00 1010.60 806.00 1101.00 795.00 1194.80 1107.80

Total # Beef: 329 • Total # Calves: 340 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

Addison Independent, Thursday, January 31, 2019 — PAGE 9B

Hinesburg woman found in Monkton barn, cited for DUI, third offense ADDISON COUNTY — At about 1 a.m. this past Sunday, Jan. 27, Vermont State Police troopers from the New Haven barracks responded to a home on States Prison Hollow Road in Monkton for a report of an individual who had broken into a cow barn.

Troopers found Amanda St. Cyr, 37, of Hinesburg inside of the barn; police said she did not have the permission from the property owners to be there.

Police determined that St. Cyr had driven to the residence; while speaking with her, troopers detected several signs of impairment, so they screened her and ultimately cited her for driving under the influence (third offense), driving with a suspended license and unlawful trespass.

In other recent activity, Vermont State Police: • On Jan. 22 at approximately 10 minutes before 8 p.m. responded to a two-car crash on Burpee Road in Bristol. Both cars reportedly sustained substantial contact damage, but no one was injured. A 2008 Subaru Impreza apparently involved in the crash near Plank Road fled the scene. The driver of the other car, a VW bug, gave police a photo of the car that fled and troopers said they identified as Shawn Pomainville, 47, of Starksboro as the driver that had sped away. They cited her for leaving the scene of an accident.

• On Jan. 22 at 11:20 p.m. stopped a 2008 Saturn Aura after observing an equipment violation on Route 7 in New Haven. Troopers ended up citing Edward Hannon, 60, of New Haven for driving with a criminally suspended license.

• On Jan. 24 at 9:25 p.m. got a call about a stray dog found under a porch at a home on Sand Road in Ferrisburgh. Police found that the young female husky was wearing an LED blue light collar as well as a black electric collar, but had no other ID tags.

Police took the husky to the New Haven barracks and later to the Vergennes Animal Hospital for the evening and put out the word that it was looking for the dog’s owner. By 10:30 p.m., Cpl. Michelle LeBlanc let the public know that they had reconnected

the dog with her owner.

• On Jan. 24 at 10:20 p.m. were notified of a vehicle parked in the middle of Isham Hill Road in Lincoln with the driver passed out in the front seat. Troopers arrived and spoke with Timothy Lyon, 54, of Starksboro, screened him for drunk driving and cited him for driving under the influence.

• On Jan. 24 reached out to the public to remind people that four years ago, on Jan. 24, 2015, 24 yearold Denise Hart was last seen leaving a friend’s residence in Sudbury. Her burned vehicle was found two days later and her family reported her missing on Jan. 27. Her remains were found in Goshen in December 2015, and her death was determined to be a homicide, which remains unsolved. Anyone with any information on this, or any other unsolved homicide, is asked to contact Vermont State Police’s Major Crime Unit at 802-244-8781.

• On Jan. 25 at around 11:30 p.m. the area of Route 116 and Hewitt Road in Bristol to look into a report a car had rolled over in a crash. Upon arriving on scene, troopers found a green 1999 Volkswagen Golf on its roof approximately 10 feet off of the road. Police surmised that Adam Kuhns, 18, of Monkton was driving southbound on Route 116 lightly over the speed limit when he encountered a patch of ice and the road and failed

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PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

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to negotiate a curve, causing the Golf leave the road and overturn. Police issued Kuhns a ticket for driving too fast for conditions, which carries a waiver penalty of $220 and two points on car insurance.

The Vermont State Police was assisted on scene by the Bristol Police Department, Bristol Fire Department, and Dupont Auto.

• On Jan. 27 notified the public that police are seeking information regard-

ing the theft of a CJ Heavy Hauler trailer from a residence off Main Street in Orwell sometime between 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 26, and 10 a.m. on Sunday, Jan. 27.

Anyone with information pertaining to this incident or anyone with information regarding suspicious activity in the area is asked to contact Trooper Gurwicz at the New Haven barracks.

Information can also be submitted anonymously online at vtips.info or

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Shard Villa Road, Middlebury, Vermont – Bank Repair & Stabilization Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of Shard Villa Road Bank Repair & Stabilization will be received by the Town of Middlebury Public Works Department (1020 S. Route 7, Middlebury, VT 05753; mailing address- 77 Main Street) until 11:00 AM, on February 15, 2019, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud.

This project includes bank repair and stabilization along Shard Villa Road, located in Middlebury, Vermont. Slope stabilization and road improvements include installation of a rip-rap wall or gabion baskets, slope protection with rip-rap, water control measures, erosion and traffic control, surface restoration and appurtenant work. The site is located approximately 500 feet south of the Shard Villa Road crossing of the Middlebury River.

Each BID must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the OWNER for five percent (5%) of the total amount of the BID. A BID BOND may be used in lieu of a certified check.

The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the following locations: Works in Progress 20 Farrell St. South Burlington, VT 05403-6112

DuBois & King, Inc. 25 Union Street Brandon, Vermont 05733

ISSUING OFFICE: The Issuing Office for the Bidding Documents is: DuBois & King, Inc., 28 North Main Street, P.O. Box 339, Randolph, VT 05060, Contact: Dawn Conant at 802-728-3376, dconant@dubois-king.com. Bidding Documents may be obtained via one of the following methods: 1. Via Download Electronic Copy: Download Bid Documents as a pdf at www. dubois-king.com/projects-bidding-active for a non-refundable charge of $75.00.

Note: When purchasing download bid documents, the purchaser will receive an e-mail notification with a link to the downloadable plans and specifications.

Depending on individual computer settings, the e-mail may go to the spam folder.

Please check the spam folder and allow e-mails from dubois-king.com 2. If Hard Copies are wanted: Please contact the Issuing Office Contact identified above to discuss the details of this method and to confirm cost.

The date that the Bidding Documents are transmitted by the Issuing Office will be considered the prospective Bidder’s date of receipt of the Bidding Documents. Partial sets of Bidding Documents will not be available from the Issuing Office. Only Bid Documents obtained from DuBois & King, Inc. (Website or Issuing Office) shall be used for submitting a Bid. Neither Owner nor Engineer will be responsible for full or partial sets of Bidding Documents, including Addenda if any, obtained from sources other than the Issuing Office.

IMPORTANT Any change to the Bidding Documents during the bid period will be made via addenda and posted at HYPERLINK “http://www.dubois-king.com/” www.dubois-king.com/ projects-bidding-active. The prospective Bidder is responsible for checking the web site as required to obtain any/all addenda that may be issued. The Issuing Office is NOT responsible for notifying prospective Bidders when addenda are posted. This responsibility lies with the prospective Bidder.

A Non-Mandatory pre-bid meeting is scheduled at the site at 10:30AM on February 1, 2019. All prospective bidders are encouraged to attend this meeting.

A Performance BOND and a Payment BOND each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required.

Kathleen Ramsay, Town Manager 1/28,31,2/4,7

can be found on Pages 8B & 9B.

STATE OF VERMONT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 10-1-19Anpr STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOANNE LANPHER, LATE OF HANCOCK, VT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Joanne Lanpher late of Hancock, Vermont.

I have been appointed Administrator of the above named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within 4 months of the date of the first publication of this notice.

The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy filed with the register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described above within the four month deadline.

Dated: January 17, 2019.

Rhonda Richmond 115 Virginia Street Goose Creek, SC 29445 rjrichmond62@gmail.com 843 822-2104

Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: January 31, 2019 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 1/31

PROBATE COURT DOCKET NO. 20-1-19Anpr STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS IN RE THE ESTATE OF RONALD JAMES O’NEILL LATE OF BRIDPORT, VT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Ronald James O’Neill late of Bridport, Vermont.

I have been appointed Administrator of the above named estate. All creditors having claims against the estate must present their claims in writing within 4 months of the date of the first publication of this notice.

The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy filed with the register of the Probate Court. The claim will be forever barred if it is not presented as described above within the four month deadline.

Dated: January 24, 2019.

DONNA M. O’NEILL 2490 Crown Point Road Bridport, VT 05734 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: January 31, 2019 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 1/31, 2/7

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 179-10-17 ANCV

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR THE RMAC TRUST, SERIES 2016-CTT v.

PAUL C. SMITH, DIANNE L SCHROEDER AND CITIFINANCIAL, INC. OCCUPANTS OF: 229 Pine Lane, Salisbury VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Paul C. Smith and Dianne L Schroeder to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Flagstar Bank, FSB, dated July 11, 2006 and recorded in Book 60 Page 117 of the land records of the Town of Salisbury, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) an assignment of mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Flagstar Bank, FSB to Nationstar Mortgage LLC dated May 12, 2011 and recorded in Book 64 Page 88 and (2) an assignment of mortgage from Nationstar Mortgage LLC to U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity but solely as trustee for the RMAC Trust, Series 2016-CTT dated May 22, 2018 and recorded in Book 71 Page 153, both of the land records of the Town of Salisbury, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 229 Pine Lane, Salisbury, Vermont on February 12, 2019 at 12:00 PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Paul C. Smith and Dianne L. Schroeder by Warranty Deed of Steven R. Carruthers dated December 18, 1998 and recorded in Book 45 at Page 539 of the Town of Salisbury Land Records and is described therein as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to the herein Grantor Steven R. Carruthers by Warranty Deed of John L. Austin and Judy H. Austin dated September 29, 1992, recorded in Book 39, Page 302 of the Salisbury Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: “Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Jonh L. Austin and Judy Hendy (now known as Judy H. Austin) by Warranty Deed from Raymond R. Wanke, II and Shelley Wanke dated August 23, 1985 and recorded in the Salisbury Land Records in Book 32 at Page 596 and being more particularly described therein as follows: ‘Being all and the same lands and premises described in a Warranty Deed of Leo F. Sabourin and June M. Sabourin to Raymord R. Wanke, II and Shelley Wanke, the Grantors herein, dated June 22, 1981 and recorded in Book 30, Page 429 of the Salisbury Land Records and therein more particularly described, in pertinent part, as follows: “Beginning at a point on the northwesterly corner of the parcel herein conveyed marked by marble marker, said point also being located on the rod right of way to Route 53; thence proceeding in a general southerly direction 90 feet to a point marked by a marble marker; thence turning and running in a general easterly direction a distance of 97 feet to a point marked by a marble marker; thence turning and running in a general northerly direction 90 feet to a point marked by a marble marker, said point being located on the northeasterly corner of the aforesaid right of way; thence turning and running in a general westerly direction 92 feet along said right of way to the point and place of beginning.

Bounded on the west by George Wright, on the south by Sleepy Oaks, so called and on the east by Paula Wimett.

Included is a right of way leading from Vermont Route 53 to Lake Dunmore; AND SUBJECT to the right of way of the Grantors and others to use said roadway leading from Vermont Route 53 to Lake Dunmore; Subject to applicable zoning, development and subdivision laws, regulations, restrictions, conditions, ordinances and the like promulgated by the State of Vermont, the Town of Salisbury or arty other municipal corporation, any of their subdivisions, or any commission, agency, board or the like, by whatever name called, regarding any matter affecting health, safety, order and the like.

Reference is made to said deed and the references contained therein for a more particular description.

The Grantees herein are obligated to pay water rent to Bryon E. Jones, his heirs, successors and assigns commencing 1 November 1981 as follows: Rental due from Grantees or their heirs and assigns, $7.00 per month until June 1985 while the said Grantees are actually using water from the said Bryon E. Jones’ well. After June 1985, the Grantees or their heirs and assigns shall pay such rental as may be agreed upon by the said Bryon E. Jones, his heirs and assigns and said Grantees herein and their heirs or assigns.”

The foregoing parcel is commonly referred to as the “Renshaw Cottage”.’

Subject to easements and rights of way of record, if any, as of the date hereof.”

The lands and premises hereby conveyed are not the homestead of the herein Grantor.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : January 10, 2019 By: /s/ Loraine L. Hite Loraine L. Hite, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 1/17, 24,31

by texting “CRIMES” (274637) to Keyword: VTIPS. • On Jan. 28 at approximately 4:32 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle Route 116 Middlebury. During the motor vehicle stop, police allege that Lynn Sumner, 36, of Fair Haven lied to the trooper in an effort to implicate

another person and further deflect the investigation. Police cited Sumner for providing false information to law enforcement, and issued her tickets for not having the proper inspection for her vehicle, for driving with a suspended license and for “Possession of license certificate.”

WARNING ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL MEETING MARCH 5, 2019

Member Districts are Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Weybridge The legal voters of the Addison Central School District are hereby warned to meet at the following polling places on March 5, 2019 to vote by Australian Ballot on the following article(s) of business: District Location Polling Hours Bridport Bridport Community/Masonic Hall 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Cornwall Cornwall Town Hall 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Middlebury Middlebury Town Office (77 Main St) 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Ripton Ripton Community House 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Salisbury Salisbury Town Office 8:00 AM-7:00 PM Shoreham Shoreham Town Office 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Weybridge Weybridge Town Clerk’s Office 7:00 AM-7:00 PM ARTICLE 1: Shall the voters of the Addison Central School District vote to authorize the ACSD school board to expend $37,794,916 which is the amount the ACSD school board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year? It is estimated that this proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of $17,473.81 per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is 3.35% higher than spending for the current year.

ARTICLE 2: Shall the voters of the Addison Central School District vote to authorize the ACSD school board to appropriate $123,801 of the FY 2018 Unassigned Fund Balance (estimated at $123,801) to the ACSD Capital Reserve Fund?

ARTICLE 3: To elect five (5) school directors from the nominees to serve on the Addison Central School District Board for the following terms: Three (3) who are residents of Middlebury for a three-year term.

One (1) who is a resident of Ripton for a three-year term.

One (1) who is a resident of Weybridge for a three-year term.

Ballots shall be commingled and counted at Middlebury Union High School by representatives of the Boards of Civil Authority of the member town school districts under the supervision of the District Clerk of Addison Central School District.

Linda J. Barrett, Clerk Peter Conlon, Chair Addison Central School District Addison Central School District

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PROPOSED STATE RULES By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/.The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Rule I-2018-03, Short-Term, Limited-Duration Health Insurance.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 19P015 AGENCY: Department of Financial Regulation CONCISE SUMMARY: On August 3, 2018, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Treasury released a final rule allowing health insurers to lengthen the maximum duration and number of permissible renewals of short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans (STLDI). The final rule allows the states significant flexibility in regulating STLDI. In accordance with the requirements of 8 V.S.A. § 4084a, this rule sets forth rules and procedures governing the filing, sale, marketing, and issuance of STLDI in Vermont. This rule protects Vermont consumers by ensuring that STLDI provides robust benefits and clear disclosure of its limitations compared to ACA-compliant health care policies and other types of minimum essential coverage. It promotes the stability of Vermont’s health insurance markets, including Vermont Health Connect (VHC), by ensuring that STLDI is sold only to bridge temporary gaps in coverage and not as comprehensive health care coverage.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Phil Keller, Department of Financial Regulation, Director of Insurance Regulation 89 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802-828-1464 Fax: 802-828-3306 Email: phil.keller@vermont.gov URL: http://www.dfr.vermont.gov/proposedrules-and-regulations.

FOR COPIES: Emily Brown, Department of Financial Regulation, Director of Rates and Forms for Life and Health 89 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802-828-4871 Fax: 802828-3306 Email: emily.brown@vermont.gov.

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Shard Villa Road, Middlebury, Vermont – Road Improvements Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of Shard Villa Road Improvements will be received by the Town of Middlebury Public Works Department (1020 S. Route 7, Middlebury, VT 05753; mailing address- 77 Main Street) until 11:00 AM, on February 15, 2019, and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud.

Project will consist of Reclamation of road bed and paving of 2.5 inches of base course of Type II and 1.5 inches of Type III wear course. Driveway aprons shall be 10 feet deep and mailbox pull-offs shall be 2-feet deep.

Existing pavement for Reclamation is a section of Shard Villa Road, beginning at the bridge over the Middlebury River and continues south for 2,700 feet. The Town recently improved drainage along the proposed road recycling project area, including ditching and a new RCP culvert replacement. These areas were repaired to a depth of 24 inches.

Driveway aprons and field entrances will be paved to the same Town of Middlebury specifications as the road. There is a gravel pull off used as parking for swimming hole access just south of the bridge over the Middlebury River to be included in the paving project.

Each BID must be accompanied by a certified check payable to the OWNER for five percent (5%) of the total amount of the BID. A BID BOND may be used in lieu of a certified check.

The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the following locations: Works in Progress 20 Farrell St. South Burlington, VT 05403-6112

DuBois & King, Inc. 25 Union Street Brandon, Vermont 05733

Middlebury Public Works Department 1020 South Rt 7 Middlebury, Vermont 05753

ISSUING OFFICE: The Issuing Office for the Bidding Documents is: DuBois & King, Inc., 28 North Main Street, P.O. Box 339, Randolph, VT 05060, Contact: Dawn Conant at 802-728-3376, dconant@dubois-king.com. Bidding Documents may be obtained via one of the following methods: 1. Via Download Electronic Copy: Download Bid Documents as a pdf at www. dubois-king.com/projects-bidding-active for a non-refundable charge of $75.00.

Note: When purchasing download bid documents, the purchaser will receive an e-mail notification with a link to the downloadable plans and specifications.

Depending on individual computer settings, the e-mail may go to the spam folder.

Please check the spam folder and allow e-mails from dubois-king.com 2. If Hard Copies are wanted: Please contact the Issuing Office Contact identified above to discuss the details of this method and to confirm cost.

The date that the Bidding Documents are transmitted by the Issuing Office will be considered the prospective Bidder’s date of receipt of the Bidding Documents. Partial sets of Bidding Documents will not be available from the Issuing Office. Only Bid Documents obtained from DuBois & King, Inc. (Website or Issuing Office) shall be used for submitting a Bid. Neither Owner nor Engineer will be responsible for full or partial sets of Bidding Documents, including Addenda if any, obtained from sources other than the Issuing Office.

IMPORTANT Any change to the Bidding Documents during the bid period will be made via addenda and posted at www.dubois-king.com/projects-bidding-active. The prospective Bidder is responsible for checking the web site as required to obtain any/all addenda that may be issued. The Issuing Office is NOT responsible for notifying prospective Bidders when addenda are posted. This responsibility lies with the prospective Bidder.

A Non-Mandatory pre-bid meeting is scheduled at the site at 10:30AM on February 1, 2019. All prospective bidders are encouraged to attend this meeting.

A Performance BOND and a Payment BOND each in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the contract price will be required.

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Triolo guilty of city armed robbery

By MIKE DONOGHUE suspect had robbed more than $200 BURLINGTON — A serial from the Speedway store on Aviation armed robber, who used a handgun Road in Queensbury, N.Y., on April to steal more than $6,100 from a 30, authorities said. clerk at the Small City Market in Vermont State Police responded Vergennes this past May, has pleaded to Kampersville in Salisbury; the guilty to robberies at three Vermont campground owner reported the convenience stores. robber was staying there, the FBI Mark Triolo, 46, pointed a pistol said. A trooper went to the campsite, at the head of a clerk at but found only an empty the Small City Market vodka bottle, FBI Special during the May 1, 2018, Agent Colin Simons robbery, authorities said. said in a court affidavit.

The robber stole about Vergennes Det. Sgt. Jason $6,115 before fleeing Ouellette later spoke with the store at the corner of the campground owner Main and South Water and learned Triolo had streets at about 9:05 p.m., planned to stay for two Vergennes Police Chief days and leave May 3.

George Merkel said.

A review of security Three days later police camera video from the in Brattleboro shot Triolo campground confirmed multiple times after he the camper and the robber robbed two southeastern was the same person and MARK TRIOLO Vermont stores earlier in the hat worn in both the evening, the FBI reported. It was robberies were the same, Simons part of a four-month, multi-state crime said. Triolo’s multi-state crime spree spree by Triolo, officials said. came to an end when he was shot on Triolo entered guilty pleas in U.S. Black Mountain Road in Brattleboro District Court in Burlington last shortly after the two armed robberies Thursday for the robberies at the Small in Southern Vermont the night of May City Market, the Ascutney Sunoco 4, police said.

Station on Route 131 in Weathersfield After being hospitalized under and the Allen Brothers Farm Stand on armed guard for a month, Triolo Route 5 in Westminster, both on May 4. was released and eventually taken Until last week, Triolo was charged in to federal court in Burlington for his federal court with only the Vergennes arraignment. Triolo’s possible federal robbery. The U.S. Attorney’s Office court trial was delayed with at least added two more counts charging he three defense motions seeking to get unlawfully obtained personal property his other legal problems resolved. from the store clerks by means of actual Records and court statements indicated and threatened force and fear of injury. Triolo also was facing a state charge in As part of the signed plea agreement, Texas in late January 2018 for a parole Triolo is asking the sentencing judge to violation in an aggravated assault consider his cooperation by admitting case, a federal charge in Topeka, his guilt instead of forcing a full trial.

Kan., for bank robbery on April 26, Triolo faces up to 20 years in prison 2018, and a state charge in New York for each robbery. Once released from for the armed robbery on April 30 in prison he also would face up to 3 years Queensbury. He also was a possible of supervised release on each robbery. suspect in another bank robbery from He also could be fined up to $250,000 last spring, officials said. on each robbery and ordered to make The 7-page signed plea agreement restitution to the stores. Federal Judge says it can only cover crimes that could Christina Reiss ordered a presentence be charged by federal prosecutors in investigation report by the U.S. Vermont. It “cannot bind other federal, Probation Office. The sentencing is state or local prosecuting authorities,” tentatively set for June 3 in Burlington. the document notes.

U.S. deputy marshals returned Windham County State’s Attorney Triolo to the Southern Vermont Tracy Shriver and Vermont Attorney Correctional Facility in Springfield at General T.J. Donovan announced the end of his change of plea hearing. in August that they would not file Magistrate Judge John M. Conroy had any charges against the four police ruled at the June 2018 arraignment officers involved in the shooting that that Triolo was a flight risk and a led to Triolo’s capture. Three were danger to the community. with Brattleboro Police Sgt. Steven Triolo came to the attention of “Chase” Stanley and Officers Sean Vermont law enforcement after Wilson and Michael Cable, along back-to-back armed robberies in with Vermont State Police Trooper Queensbury, N.Y., on April 30 and Jason Lengfellner assigned to the Vergennes on May 1.

Westminster barracks. Additionally, The Warren County (N.Y.) Sheriff’s now-Lt. Adam Petlock of Brattleboro Department called Vergennes police police and Trooper Joshua Gagnon to report deputies had seen a report of the state police were at the scene, about the market robbery on social but never discharged their firearms, media and deputies believed the same officials said.

Lincoln LINCOLN — The library isn’t just for books anymore. Now there is the opportunity to check out more than just books. At the Lincoln Library, they plan to start with a microscope, puzzles, a Nook e-reader and soon there will be snowshoes. Some of these items will be able to leave the library, while others will need to stay in the library. Depending on the feedback they receive, they may add more items. Let the librarians know what you think.

Another idea that libraries are adopting is the thematic backpack. It usually includes one or two books, a stuffed animal and game based on a particular subject such as dinosaurs.

These backpacks are great for

Triolo sustained gunshot wounds to the legs and one to his chest, according to his federal public defender during the June court arraignment.

Conroy ordered Triolo detained as both a flight risk and a danger to the community. Triolo was sentenced in 1999 in Texas to 25 years in prison on charges of aggravated robbery and aggravated assault against a public servant, but was freed Dec. 20, 2016, news accounts show. The plan was to have him on parole in Texas until 2024, but on Jan. 4, 2018, an arrest warrant was issued because he failed to meet the conditions of release and was classified “an absconder,” the news accounts indicated. Lewisville (Texas) Police Department reported Triolo removed his GPS bracelet before leaving Texas in a vehicle stolen from the mother-in-law of his girlfriend, Deborah Greenfield, officials said.

Vergennes police said they learned from Lewisville police that Triolo was on state parole for armed robbery when he stole the car and he removed a tracking bracelet installed by his parole officer. Triolo then sent a text message to the Greenfields that read “by now the feds have contacted you about me, sorry about that. I’ve robbed too many banks in the last few days for this to end well. Just put the kua (sic) on a car hauler should be there in ten days look in the door panel of the driver’s door it’s stuffed with cash keep your mouth shut about it and no one will know. Sorry I know I ducked up love you guys. Don’t try and text me back ditching the phone so I can’t be tracked.”

The stolen 2007 Kia Sorento with Texas license plates was the getaway car in the two robberies on May 4, police said. About 25 minutes after the second robbery near Interstate 91 exit 5 that night, police spotted the car parked at the I-91 Exit 3 Mobil gasoline station in Brattleboro, the FBI said. Triolo went inside the store to buy three Mike’s Hard Lemonades and when he came out Brattleboro officers tried to move in, but the driver fled at a high rate of speed about 8:41 p.m.

About nine minutes later, a resident on Black Mountain Road reported a suspicious car had pulled into a driveway and shut off the lights. Police found nobody with the car, but Triolo was located hiding nearby in a wood line about 9:04 p.m., the FBI said.

He was ordered to stop and show his hands and when he didn’t, Brattleboro and state police officers wounded him, the FBI said. The officers provided first aid until rescue personnel arrived to take him to the hospital.

Police said investigators never found a firearm at the scene, but later located an unloaded Daisy Powerline 340 pellet gun in the front seat of the car.

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grandparents or anyone looking for an activity for their child. Contact the library if you are interested in sponsoring a backpack.

LCS is set to embark on a Mongolian adventure this week. As part of their culture study, students in K-6 will work in multi-age groups to explore a particular aspect of Mongolian culture. Some of those groups include: folktale and animals, music, traditions/ festivals, embroidery, felting, nomadic/ reindeer culture, games and sports, and food/cooking.

Students will participate in intro groups to get a feel of each group in order to see which group they’d like to focus on. Once intro groups are complete, students will delve deep

into their topic of interest in the expert group of their choice. The culture study wraps up on Thursday, March 14, with a Mongolian Festival, where the students display the work they’ve created and show all that they’ve learned during their study.

REMINDER: The Dave Keller Band will perform as part of the Burnham Music Series on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 7:30-9:15 p.m. at Burnham Hall. $10 adults, teens and kids are free. Refreshments will be served.

Until next time ... Life Is A One Time Offer, Use It Well. The Struggle Is Part Of The Story. Beauty Begins The Moment You Decide To Be Yourself.

NELSON BANDELLA AND Friends, made up of sister and brother Emily and Ethan Nelson, left, Andrew Flynn and John Farnsworth, will be the musical entertainment at Shoreham’s Platt Memorial Library Maple Fest this year, on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the library, 297 Main St.

Photo/Molly Francis

Maple Fest on tap in Shoreham SHOREHAM — Shoreham’s Friends of the Platt Memorial Library will host a benefit concert and maple dessert contest on Saturday, Feb. 9, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Brandon’s Nelson Bandella and Friends will rock the library with their own special brand of folky Americana. The familyfriendly event will offer free admission.

A maple dessert contest and tasting will be held in conjunction with the concert. Local cooks are invited to submit their favorite maple dessert (which must be

made with Vermont Maple Syrup) to share with the public. The crowd will sample the desserts and ‘vote’ for their favorites by making cash donations into the respective ballot boxes for each dessert item. All cash ‘votes’ will benefit the Friends of the Platt Memorial Library’s efforts to fund further renovations of the historic building.

The creator of the most popular item will win a spot on the coveted Golden Sap Bucket trophy, as well as a good share of bragging rights.

Attendees are asked to just bring

City police help ‘masked man’ VERGENNES — A report of a Jan. 21 and 27, Vergennes police: On Jan. 21 dealt with a complaint masked man outside of a Vergennes lending institution last week proved of two dogs running loose in Booth Woods. to be a false alarm, city On Jan. 22: police said.

• Helped Vermont Police on Friday, Jan. 25, were called because State Police by dealing Police Log a man was walking back with a one-car accident and forth near a credit in Addison. union wearing, according to police, • Checked out a report that a boy a white mask that covered his entire was playing near thin ice on Otter head, a black jacket and white boots. Creek, but found no one.

Police said they recognized him when On Jan. 23: he complied with their request to • Ordered a car to be towed that remove the mask, and he told police was left on city streets overnight in he was acting out because he was violation of the city’s wintertime unhappy. parking ban.

Police gave him a ride to Shaw’s • Began an investigation into an Supermarket to buy groceries. alleged $4,000 bank fraud case.

Not long afterward the man called • Looked into a complaint from police from the Champlain Farms a Monkton Road business of illegal convenience store and asked for a ride trash in its Dumpster. home. Police suggested he seek a ride On Jan. 24: elsewhere, but said he could call back • Ordered towed a car that was left if he was unable to find one. They did on city streets overnight in violation not hear from him again. of the city’s wintertime parking ban.

Among other incidents between • Heard a complaint from a funeral

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home customer that it had not honored the family’s wishes in how it had transported a deceased person; police said it was a civil matter and that if the family could not work things out with the funeral home it could report the issue to the Secretary of State’s Office.

On Jan. 25: • Helped a driver whose car could not navigate North Maple Street in poor road conditions.

• Were told by a Northlands Job Corps employee that keys had been lost.

• Took a report that alleged a woman’s mother had taken money from a joint account without permission; police told the woman and her daughter it was a civil matter, but recommended ending the joint account.

• Helped an owner get into a locked vehicle on South Water Street.

On Jan. 26 helped the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad on Monkton Road.

Woman cited for simple assault

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury report of an unruly patient on Jan. 21. police cited Regina Fuller, 39, of • Responded to multiple reports Middlebury for simple assault, of vehicles — including two tractorfollowing their trailers — sliding investigation of a Jan. off area roads and/ 22 incident at Porter or being involved in Hospital that allegedly accidents during snowy Police Log involved hospital staff. conditions on Jan. 21.

Fuller was released • Were informed on after being processed.

Jan. 22 of a possible sexual assault In other action last week, that allegedly occurred “several Middlebury police: years ago” in Middlebury. The • Helped a man who was locked investigation continues. out of his Main Street apartment on • Ticketed several vehicles for Jan. 21. being in violation of the town’s • Responded to Porter Hospital on a winter parking ban on College and Academy streets on Jan. 22.

• Checked a report of a drunken woman who allegedly was having trouble getting into her apartment on Jan. 23.

• Collected a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner kit from the Middlebury College Health Center on Jan. 23.

• Assisted a mental health patient who was sitting in the middle of the intersection of Birchard Park and Rogers Road on Jan. 23.

• Received a report of a truant student from Middlebury Union High School on Jan. 23.

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• Were informed of an alleged fraud case at the National Bank of Email submissions (40 word limit) to: Middlebury on Main Street on Jan. 24. Police said someone is believed alexis@addisonindependent.com or go to www.addisonindependent.com/love_notes to have deposited altered checks Or drop them off or mail them to our office at 58 Maple Street and then withdrew money from in the Marble Works in Middlebury by February 8th. the account. Police continue to investigate the matter.

ADDISON COUNTY • Conducted a welfare check on Jan. 24 on a South Village Green resident, at the request of the Counseling Service of Addison VERMONT’S TWICE WEEKLY NEWSPAPER County. Police said Middlebury Middlebury, VT • (802) 388 4944 • www.AddisonIndependent.com

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their appetites and plenty of cash for voting. In addition, tickets may be purchased for the ever-popular fundraising raffle.

Show off those cooking talents and enter a maple dessert. Entries must include Vermont Maple Syrup and a recipe card. Entry forms are available at the library or at plattlib.org. For more information contact: the library at 802-897-2647 or platt@shoreham. net; Carol Causton, at 802-8972747, cacauston@gmail.com; or Judy Stevens, at 802-897-7031, judystevens@shoreham.net.

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Regional EMS took the person to Porter Hospital for evaluation.

• Responded to a report of a drunken woman who had injured herself in the South Pleasant Street area on Jan. 25. Middlebury Regional EMS officials took the woman to Porter Hospital.

• Received a report about a drunken man refusing to leave Two Brothers Tavern on Main Street during the evening of Jan. 26. Police said the man had left prior to their arrival.

• Responded to a report of woman suffering from mental health problems at a Lower Plains Road residence on Jan. 26. Police said the woman reported feeling OK. • Responded, with fire officials, to a report of smoke emanating from a South Pleasant Street apartment on Jan. 26. Police said the smoke had been caused by burnt food in a pan. Firefighters helped ventilate the home and clean the smoke detectors.

• Took, to Porter Medical Center, a drunken woman who needed to detox on Jan. 26.

• Issued parking tickets to vehicles parked in violation of the winter parking ban on College Street and Bakery Lane on Jan. 26.

• Responded on Jan. 27 to a report of a man taking off his shirt and challenging people to fight near the Dunkin Donuts on Court Street.

Police cited Matthew Ceda, 26, of Middlebury for disorderly conduct in connection with the incident.

• Took, to Porter Hospital, an Eastview Terrace resident who was believed to be suicidal on Jan. 27.

• Responded on Jan. 27 to Olympia Sports in The Centre shopping plaza, on a report of a man who had allegedly been making “strange comments” to women employees. Police said the man had left prior to their arrival at the store.

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MATTHEW EVAN TAYLOR Bringing new voices into the century

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ow often do you think about the composer when you’re listening to classical music?

Be honest…. For most of us, it’s not much at all, right?

And that’s OK.

“There’s something really nice about experiencing classical music; letting it wash over you,” said Matthew Evan Taylor, an assistant professor in the Music Department at Middlebury College. “But for some reason, nobody is perturbed that the fourth concert you go to is all white men.”

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

Consider it: Mozart — white and male.

Haydn — yup, a white dude. Brahms — you guessed it, another white guy.

Etcetera, etcetera. Sure the performing musicians might be of a different race or gender, but the point is that we’re assimilating our diverse musical cultures to one created just by white men.

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ART The Met’s popular ‘Carmen’ to be broadcast live in HD

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ezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, with impassioned tenor Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José, in the ever-popular “Carmen.”

Opera Company of Middlebury alumnus Yonghoon Lee played Don José earlier in the show’s run. Omer Meir Wellber and Louis Langrée share conducting duties for Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, a Met favorite since its 2009 premiere. Catch the show live in HD at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on Saturday, Feb. 2.

Bizet’s masterpiece of the gypsy seductress who lives by her own rules has had an impact far beyond the opera house. “Carmen’s” melodic sweep is as irresistible as the title character herself, a force of nature who has become a defining female cultural figure. Carmen was a scandal at its premiere but soon after became a triumphal success and has remained one of the most frequently

staged operas in the world.

The opera takes place in and around Seville, a city that, by the time “Carmen” was written, had already served many operatic composers as an exotic setting conducive to erotic intrigues and turmoil (Rossini’s “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” and Verdi’s “La Forza del Destino,” among others). The hometown of Don Juan, the city also inspired Mozart with “Don Giovanni,” and Beethoven used Seville as the setting for a study of marital fidelity in “Fidelio.”

Run time for Saturday’s performance is approximately 3 hours and 21 minutes.

Jim Pugh will give a pre-show talk in the Byers Studio at 12:15 p.m. The show begins at 1 p.m. Refreshments provided, courtesy of the Opera Company of Middlebury.

Tickets are $24/ $10 students plus fees and may be purchased at townhalltheater.org, by calling (802) 382-9222, at the THT box office (MondaySaturday 12-5 p.m.) or at the door an hour before show time.

Clémentine Margaine sings the title role in “Carmen,” on Saturday, Feb. 2 at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater.

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What about the work of women and people of color who created and continue to compose music?

Taylor, a 38-year-old black composer, musician and educator, is doing his part to help with a music series at the Mahaney Arts Center (MAC) that kicked off in January called New Century | New Voices (NCNV).

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Later in January, Redi Llupa performed the piano sonatas of George Walker. Walker, who recently passed away at the age of 92, was the first black composer to win the Pulitzer Prize in Music Composition for his piece “Lilacs” for voice and orchestra.

Coming up on Feb. 15, TURNmusic — a contemporary chamber music group based in Waterbury — will perform “Young Lions” curated by Carlos Simon, at MAC. “‘Young Lions’ has a young, hip aesthetic,” Taylor described. “There are allusions to jazz and hip hop… it’s going to be a really dynamic concert.”

“When I arrived at Middlebury College in August of 2017, I was The series continues with struck by how urgently people were performances by Gary Levinson discussing issues of inclusion and and Asiya Korepanova on Feb. 18, diversity, in part triggered by the a masterclass with Gary Levinson Charles Murray controversy and at Middlebury Community Music the events that same summer in Center on Feb. 19, Charlottesville, Va.,” “Music Without the Alabama native Boarders” curated explained. “In some

by Marcos Balter ways they mirrored “THE FACE OF and performed by discussions that TURNmusic on April had been becoming CLASSICAL 7, and concluding ever more intense COMPOSERS IS NOT with “American in classical music ONE SKIN COLOR OR Mestiza” curated circles.

ONE GENDER.”

by Gabriela Lena Frank, performed “NCNV is my

by TURNmusic on attempt to May 12. contribute to this larger discussion “The music you will hear during of inclusion by showing the growing diversity among classical composers the concerts of New Century | New Voices is categorized as ‘classical,’” working today. It is my hope, in the explained Taylor, who received his future, to also highlight the work of Doctor of Musical Arts degree in composers from bygone centuries music composition from the Frost who were marginalized by their race School of Music at the University of or gender.”

Miami, Fla. “That essentially means that the composers in question write This music series honors the work of classical composers who are women music that is in part related to the classical tradition. However, music in and/or people of color. To start, this series will not sound like Mozart, Taylor first picked three people he Haydn, or Brahms. The composers wanted to work with: Carlos Simon, featured in this series are, for the Marcos Balter and Gabriela Lena most part, active in our modern Frank. Then together they curated world and thus write music informed the series. by that world. There will be music that will be easy to grasp and there The first concert in January, “The will be music that will sometimes ask Mentors Among Us,” was curated by the listener to be patient. What these Taylor, featuring songs composed pieces have in common are that they

by Gabriela Lena Frank, Trevor are earnest expressions of artists Weston, Valerie Coleman-Page and living and creating today.”

Dorothy Hindman (who Taylor called his “most important composition And Taylor is one of them. teacher,”) as well as two of Taylor’s own pieces.

“I started playing the alto saxophone

Matthew Evan Taylor, an assistant professor of music at Middlebury College, launched the concert series New Century | New Voices in January that highlights the work of women and people of color. Taylor is a musician and composer himself; he plays the alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, flute and piano.

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in 1990 when I was 9 going on 10 years old,” said Taylor, who grew up mostly listening to Michael Jackson.

“By age 14, I started playing in small jazz groups around Birmingham, even writing a few small songs in high school (thankfully lost to time).”

Taylor remembers as a kid, they would get dressed up and go to the Alabama Symphony Orchestra. But it wasn’t until college that Taylor really found classical music.

“These days, I am most well-known as a classical composer and a free improviser on saxophone,” said Taylor who now lives in downtown Middlebury. “In addition to the alto saxophone, I play soprano saxophone, flute and piano.”

Not to mention his work trying to change the fabric of classical culture.

A pretty big goal.

“I want the perception of what we call classical music to be as diverse as it actually is,” Taylor said. “That the face of classical composers is not one skin color or one gender… I’m hoping to make just one cut into this fabric of our culture.”

Want to join him? Check out the NCNV series events.

save the dates Friday, Feb. 15, 8 p.m.

“Young Lions” Curated by Carlos Simon Mahaney Arts Center Free Monday, Feb. 18, 8 p.m.

Gary Levinson and Asiya Korepanova in Concert Mahaney Arts Center Free Tuesday, Feb. 19, 3 p.m.

Masterclass with Gary Levinson Middlebury Community Music Center All are welcome.

Sunday, April 7, 8 p.m. “Music Without Borders” Curated by Marcos Balter Mahaney Arts Center Free Sunday, May 12, 8 p.m.

“American Mestiza – The Music of Gabriela Lena Frank” Curated by Gabriela Lena Frank Mahaney Arts Center Free For more details follow “New Century New Voices” on Facebook.

LISTEN TO MATTHEW EVAN TAYLOR IMPROVISE DURING THE INTERVIEW — CHECK IT OUT ONLINE.

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IN TOWN

BUBBLES

Jeff Boyer brings his zany spectacular “Big Bubble Bonznza” to the Town Hall Theater stage in Middlebury on Sunday, Feb. 3, at 1 and 4 p.m.

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MASTER BUBBLE-WRANGLER RAISES AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION TO A NEW LEVEL IN MIDDLEBURY ubble rainbows with people inside. Audience members making volcano bubbles. Gigantic bubbles that blow their own bubbles.

What’s not to love?

See the newest, funniest, zany spectacular from worldfamous, Guinness Book of World Recordsholding, master bubble-wrangler Jeff Boyer, as he takes bubbles to the max with big bubble flair. Mixing comedy, music, and interactive bubble-magic, Boyer engages and delights audiences of all ages and is bringing his show to the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Feb. 3. Come be a part of this uniquely interactive show where the audience participates in the creation of art. It’s a sensory-friendly bubble extravaganza for

the whole family.

So who is this guy?

Boyer launched Jeff Boyer Productions in 1999 and began creating bubble shows in 2005.

His experience with school groups led him to raise audience participation to a new level.

The evolution of this unique inclusiveness and interactive art separates his show “Bubble Trouble” from other bubble shows, thrills audiences and builds lasting community among performing arts center’s patrons.

Boyer is an internationally acclaimed pioneer of highly interactive community-based bubble performance. Put that on a business card. A variety artist with over 25 years of entertainment experience, specializing in inclusion and diversity performance, he seamlessly engages audiences beyond language, cultural, age and ability barriers. His dynamic style galvanizes communities.

Come for some fun this Sunday, Feb. 3 at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. There will be two shows, at 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 for kids, $20 for adults plus fees. The show runs approximately 45 minutes. Tickets may be purchased at townhalltheater.org, by calling (802) 382-9222, at the THT box office (MondaySaturday 12-5 p.m.) or at the door an hour before show time.

“We adore Jeff! He does such amazing things with bubbles — things that defy physics, really,” said THT operations manager Haley Rice. “Just unbelievable. Don’t miss your chance to see him. His show is so much fun and kids love it!”

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IN TOWN

Troubadour rolls through Ripton with folk rock

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reg Klyma will perform on Saturday, Feb. 2, for the Ripton Community Coffee House music series, but note, that this concert will be held at the Ripton Elementary School, due to repair work being done at the regular FEB. location.

Ripton Elementary School

Some artists find inspiration in romantic breakups, others find it in rediscovering their roots. For Boston-based singersongwriter Greg Klyma, it came from both.

“Never Knew Caroline,” his latest release, finds him coping with a toxic end of a romantic relationship and recalling the musicians from his Buffalo, N.Y. hometown that inspired him in his formative years. Several of them, including critically acclaimed artists Peter Case and Gurf Morlix, join Klyma on the album.

The genre diversity of this album shouldn’t come as a surprise from an artist well studied in American music.

“Old school country, classic rock, and singer-songwriter folk are three styles of music that I love,” said Klyma. “I love to listen to ‘em. I love to play ‘em…

My wheelhouse finds me standing in

the long shadows of Bob Dylan, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Steve Earle, Tom Petty and Mick & Keef, to name a few.”

His birthdate puts him squarely in the middle of Generation X (that means he was born between the early-to-mid 1960s and the early 1980s), but Klyma considers himself an old-school troubadour. His enduring themes, articulate and amusing stories, and populist ideals make him one of those rare young artists who is carrying the torch of Woody and Ramblin’ Jack. He rolls in off the road, pulls out a guitar, and proceeds to take us back to the basics: family, love, gratitude and laughter.

Don’t miss Klyma in Ripton, where he’ll share the timeless art of the true troubadour — keeping alive the American folk tradition.

Doors open at 7 p.m., open mic starts at 7:30, followed by the featured performance. General admission is $10, $15 if you’re feeling generous.

Kids under 12 come in for $3. Again don’t forget this show is at the Ripton Elementary School, 753 Lincoln Rd, in Ripton.

For more info visit rcch.org or call (802) 349-3364. To sign up for open mic call (802) 388-9782 or email rcchfolks@ gmail.com.

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A CELEBRATION OF VERMONT POETRY AND POETS The Vermont SATURDAY FEB. Book Shop in The Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury Middlebury presents an afternoon of poetry and chocolates on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 4 p.m., to help get you in the mood for Valentine’s Day.

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Featuring poets from the second edition of “Roads Taken, Contemporary Vermont Poetry,” attendees can nibble chocolate while Middlebury area poets, whose

work is showcased in the anthology, read selections of their work.

Local poets: Dede Cummings, Chard deNiord, Karin Gottshall, Sydney Lea, Gary Margolis, Julia Shipley, Bianca Stone will offer readings. In addition, Paige AckersonKiely, Julia Alvarez and Jay Parini have work published in the second edition of “Roads Taken, Contemporary Vermont Poetry.”

Set the mood with your sweetie — see you next Saturday.

Greg Klyma will play for the Ripton Community Coffee House music series this Saturday evening. Note: this concert will be held at the Ripton Elementary School due to construction.

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CALENDAR

ARTS

CHILDREN’S ART SHOW OPENING RECEPTION IN BRANDON. Friday, Feb. 1, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artist’s Guild, 7 Center St. Gallery Come see this annual show featuring the work of hundreds of children from eight area schools: Lothrop, Sudbury, Leicester, Whiting, Neshobe, Barstow Memorial, and Otter Valley Middle and High Schools.

COMMUNITY ART PROJECT IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Feb. 2, 1-4 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Help create a mandala representing the theme of community inclusion and connections for display on the Chain Link Art Gallery in the middle of downtown Middlebury. All art supplies included. No experience necessary.

Refreshments provided. Organized by the Community Bridges project. More info contact Carolyn Brewer at 388-6751 x 148.

BOOKS & AUTHORS

ANDREA CHESMAN IN NEW HAVEN. Thursday, Jan. 31, 7 p.m., New Haven Community Library, 78 North St Local author Chesman will discuss her new book, “The Fat Kitchen: How to Render, Cure & Cook with Lard, Tallow & Poultry Fat.” There will be samples of food that showcase animal fats to their best advantage and books will be available for purchase. All welcome. North St. More info call Deborah at 802-453-4015.

JESSICA FJELD IN BRANDON. Saturday, Feb. 2, 2 p.m., Book and Leaf, 10 Park St. in Brandon.

Brandon native Fjeld will read from her new book of poetry, “Redwork,” which refers to a type of nineteenth century embroidery in which red thread is used to outline images. An open mic for all writers will also take place.

CRAFTS

TWIST O’ WOOL SPINNING GUILD MEETING IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Feb. 7, 7 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. The Guild’s monthly meeting followed by a workshop on Skirting fiber.

All are welcome. Questions call 802-453-6919.

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE IN CORNWALL. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7-9:30 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall, Route 30.

Featuring David Kaynor calling to live banjo and fiddle music by Red Dog Riley. $5-10/person (sliding scale). All are welcome. No experience or partner necessary. Questions? 802-462-3722.

FILM

COLLABORATIVE VIDEO SCREENING IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Jan. 31, 5 p.m., Room 232, Axinn Center, Old Chapel Rd. A viewing of short films produced by students in the Collaborative Video Projects course during winter term.

Free. Originally scheduled for 2/1. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

“THE EMIGRANTS” PART TWO ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Jan. 31, 6-8:30 p.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. The second half of the award-winning 1971 film starring Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow, which tells the story of 19th century Swedes’ desperate to escape the poverty of their homeland, will round out the Middlebury Community Classic Film Club series on immigration and migration.

MNFF VERMONT TOUR DOUBLE FEATURE MATINEE IN VERGENNES. Sunday, Feb. 10, 2 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St. Come see “All the Wild Horses” at 2 p.m. and “DatelineSaigon” at 4:30 p.m. when the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival statewide tour of the top documentaries from its 2018 4th Annual Festival stops in Vergennes.

JUST FOR FUN

JEFF BOYER BIG BUBBLES IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Feb. 3, 1 and 4 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Be filled with excitement and delight as Jeff Boyer brings his big bubbles for an interactive bubble show for all ages. The show runs approximately 45 minutes. Tickets $10 kids/$20 adults plus fees available at townhalltheater.org, by calling 802-382-9222, at the THT box office Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., or at the door one hour before show time KIDS’ NIGHT OUT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Feb. 8, 5-8 p.m., Bridge School, 1469 Exchange St. Drop off the kids at Bridge and enjoy a pre-Valentine’s Day date night. Pizza dinner, games, crafting and more. $15 per child, $25 for sibling pairs. Grades K-6. Open to the public. Pre-registration required at bit.ly/kidsnightbridge.

CHOCOLATE DELIGHT NIGHT IN NEW HAVEN. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7-9 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery, 142 River Rd. Celebrate Valentine’s Day (or just celebrate winter) with a variety of desserts that have one thing in common –– chocolate. Taste as many as you like and sip a glass or two of

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wine. Admission $10. Lincoln Peak wine may be purchased by the glass. Funds raised will benefit the New Haven Library.

LECTURES & LEARNING “A WINTER’S COMPANION” PRESENTATION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Jonathan and Kim Hescock, owners of Vermont Victory Greenhouses, will discuss the challenges and solutions for creating a four-season greenhouse for the northeast and their journey in creating “Companion Greenhouses.”

“WHAT YOU DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT EVANGELICALISM” IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Feb. 6, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Most Americans associate evangelicals with the hard-right precincts of the Republican Party. But as Dartmouth religion professor Randall Balmer explains, evangelicalism in America has a much longer and more complex history, including a distinguished pedigree of working for progressive reforms. What happened? Part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays series.

“NUCLEAR NEGOTIATIONS: BACK TO THE FUTURE?” in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 7, 3-4:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. The third of eight weekly sessions of the “Great Decisions” program, a national discussion program on world affairs.

Facilitated by Middlebury College Professor Emeritus Nick Clifford with guests. Free and open to the public.

“SILAS TOWLER: ROKEBY PAPERS” IN FERRISBURGH. Sunday, Feb. 10, 2-3 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center, 3729 U.S. Route 7. Local historian Silas Towler will share stories discovered through old town records and papers given to the Historical Society by Rokeby Museum.

Free and open to the public.

MUSIC

CHELSEA BERRY LIVE IN BRANDON. Saturday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. As a vocalist and performer, Berry evokes the style of artists such as Cheryl Crow, Eva Cassidy, KD Lang, and Melissa Etheridge. Concert tickets are $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for shows. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295 or info@brandon-music.net.

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Feb. 2, Ripton Elementary School, 753 Lincoln Rd. This Ripton Community Coffee House concert will be held at the elementary school due to repair work being done at its regular location. 7:30 p.m. open mic followed by featured performers. $10 general admission/$15 generous admission/$3 kids under 12. Doors open at 7 p.m. More artist info at rcch.org. Open mic sign up-802-388-9782 or rcchfolks@gmail.com.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLERS BRANDON JAM IN BRANDON. Sunday, Feb. 3, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Brandon American Legion, Route 7 South. Open jam at 11 a.m., fiddling at noon. Listen to people sing, play instruments and dance. $3 cover.

Refreshments. 50/50 raffle. Open stage.

SHAPE NOTE SINGERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Feb. 3, 3 p.m., Mitchell Green Lounge, McCullough Student Centre, Old Chapel Rd. Shape-Note or Sacred Harp music is traditional community singing in 4-part, a capella harmony, based on tunes from early settlers in the New World. We sing from the Sacred Harp Song Book. Loaner books are available. All are welcome. More info contact David Rosenberg at rosenber@ middlebury.edu or visit Facebook/Middlebury Shape Note Singers.

JUKEBOX TIME MACHINE IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Feb. 8, 5:30-9 p.m., Stonecutter Spirits, 1197 Exchange St. Enjoy dinner and a chooseyour-own-music adventure with the Grift and help raise funds for the Bridge School’s community outreach programs. Attendees select their favorite songs from the Grift’s ridiculously large play list of ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, ’90s. Dinner, cocktails, and nonalcoholic beverages available to purchase starting at 5:30 p.m. Music and bidding for your favorite songs begins at 6:30 p.m.

LC JAZZ WINTER THAW CONCERT IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, 2120 Main St. Free community concert with this group of more than 20 musicians who have been playing together for more than 26 years, raising and donating thousands of dollars to area students to pursue their musical education. Taking donations at the door. Doors and cash bar provided by Bar Antidote open at 6:30pm.

MELISSA D IN BRANDON. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Singer/ songwriter Melissa D began her singing career as a painfully shy six year old in a southern Vermont church where in those moments that quietness fell away and revealed a genuinely beautiful voice that immediately set her apart from the rest. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandonmusic.net.

THE DAVE KELLER BAND IN LINCOLN. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30-9:15 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River

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top pick JOIN THE COMMUNITY ART PROJECT IN MIDDLEBURY ON SATURDAY, FEB. 2, FROM 1-4 P.M., IN THE COMMUNITY ROOM AT THE ILSLEY PUBLIC LIBRARY. HELP CREATE A MANDALA REPRESENTING THE THEME OF COMMUNITY INCLUSION AND CONNECTIONS FOR DISPLAY ON THE CHAIN LINK ART GALLERY IN DOWNTOWN MIDDLEBURY. Rd. on p.m. at Burnham Hall. Come hear Dave Keller, one of the finest soul and blues men of his generation, when he performs as part of the Burnham Music Series. Tickets are $10 adults, teens and kids free. Refreshments served.

SCRAG MOUNTAIN MUSIC’S MUSICAL STORYTELLING FOR ALL AGES IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Feb. 10, 4 p.m., Middlebury Community Music Center, 6 Main St. Scrag co-Artistic Directors Evan Premo and Mary Bonhag will be joined by the award-winning Aeolus Quartet and acclaimed Montpelier-based theater artist Kim Bent for a concert that showcases how chamber music can bring our most memorable storybook fables to life. Appropriate for all ages.

Come as you are. Pay what you can. Atwill donations collected at intermission.

More info at scragmountainmusic.org.

POETRY

A CELEBRATION OF VERMONT POETRY AND POETS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Feb. 9, 4 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Middlebury area poets featured in the second edition of “Roads Taken, Contemporary Vermont Poetry,” will read selections of their work, including Dede Cummings, Chard deNiord, Karin Gottshall, Syd Lea, Gary Margolis, Julia Shipley and Bianca Stone.

THEATER

“CARMEN” LIVE IN HD IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Feb. 2, 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Mezzo-soprano Clémentine Margaine reprises her remarkable portrayal of opera’s ultimate seductress, a triumph in her 2017 debut performances,

with impassioned tenors Yonghoon Lee and Roberto Alagna as her lover, Don José in the MET production. Tickets $24 (+$2 preservation fee)/$10 students (+1 preservation fee), available online at townhalltheater.org or the THT Box Office at 802382-9222, Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m.

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OUT OF TOWN Tickets on sale for Tash Sultana’s show in Shelburne

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ash Sultana is an explosive live artist who has commanded world attention since homemade videos went viral. Sultana was soon selling out major theaters and arenas globally and playing at the world’s biggest festivals — no mean feat for an artist who just a year before was recording songs on a GoPro in a bedroom.

Sultana started off with a guitar from their grandfather at the age of three, then played open mic nights on a fake ID and did some busking on the streets in Melbourne, Australia.

The self-taught artist quickly developed a unique style that

has people lining up to see around the world. What kind of music is it? It’s hard to define.

Sultana loops their own tracks to build a kind of transcendental jam, layered with dreamlike vocals and a strong, grounded rhythm.

This musician has mastered over 15 instruments, vocals that shine with a magical quality and a live show that needs to be seen to be believed. Your chance is coming this spring, Thursday, May 23, to the Ben and Jerry’s Concerts on The Green at Shelburne Museum.

YouTube Sash Sultana, check it out and if you’re moved you’ll want to reserve your tickets now. Tickets are $42 in advance, $46 day of and are available at highergroundmusic.com.

Tickets to see Tash Sultana perform live at the Ben and Jerry’s Concerts on The Green at Shelburne Museum, May 23, went on sale Friday, Jan. 25. You might not know Sultana’s music, but you want to — this musician’s energy and skill will amaze you.

This concert’s going to be a great way to welcome summer.

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DECIDUOUS DECISIONS

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“JUST AS A TREE CANNOT GROW NEW LEAVES IF IT HOLDS ON TO ITS OLD DRIED UP LEAVES, WE NEED SPACE MENTALLY AND PHYSICALLY AND MAKE ROOM IN OUR LIVES.”

hat if you were a tree? What kind would you be? If I were a tree, I would most certainly be a deciduous tree. Firstly, because I find deciduous such a delightful word, with its combination of both hard and soft sounds.

It has a quality of being both solid and ephemeral simultaneously. It begins with a firmly rooted “d” and ends with the luscious and echoing “s.” If I could work deciduous into my conversation regularly, I would consider my life linguistically and botanically fulfilled.

hands down been a theme for my clients, and myself, this January. This may be letting go of objects, letting go of expectations, or possibly letting go of relationships.

For many clients the recent bitter

On an embodied level, I would be a deciduous tree because of its necessary season of dormancy. Metabolism, energy consumption and growth slow down as these sun and water loving beings move into a state of repose in order to survive the extreme cold of our Vermont winters. This inner retreat is not unlike the winter cycle that many of us are drawn to at this time of the year. The stark and barren landscape of our slumbering trees gives comfort as it reflects the quiet and inner work of connection to self and soul. The bitter cold that almost takes our breath away, forces us to realize that we are indeed breathing and are alive in every cell of our body.

temperatures have provided a forced opportunity to reexamine their physical space and determine if these spaces serve them well.

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This knowledge of our inner landscape is essential in the work of health and wellbeing. It provides the foundation for which our life choices and actions are built. Honoring the quiet spaces of ourselves and each other through stillness and contemplation provide the opportunity to listen deep and truly hear what we need to move forward towards our best state of health.

In my writing last month, I invited you to explore your inner wisdom with kindness and patience by focusing on who you want to be, not on what you want to do. If you accepted this invitation, what did you learn? When do you feel most alive? What supports you in actualizing this most alive self? What additional supports do you need?

When I asked these questions to my clients the overwhelming anthem was this: they want a more peaceful existence. They want more spaciousness in their lives, their homes, their relationships. They want a balance of being and doing. Their paths toward this balance are varied and energized. One client is exploring Yin yoga. Another client is bringing playfulness to her piano practice. Yet, another is beginning a meditation practice as a means to bring more pause and intention into her relationship with her teenage son. What shift in your path might bring you closer to your optimal self?

One final reason I would be a deciduous tree, is that they undergo a cyclic process of shedding their unneeded parts, such as leaves.

This is known as abscission. (Another juicy work, eh?) Letting go has

When you look around your home or work environment — does it enhance your health and wellbeing? If yes, then settle in. If not, what might serve you better? Just as a tree cannot grow new leaves if it holds on to its old dried up leaves, we need space mentally and physically and make room in our lives. For new life to flourish, we must prune and cull the accumulated overgrowth.

For me, this process has culminated in numerous trips to recycling, HOPE, and early morning outside burns as I yell to my perplexed daughter that she will thank me for this clean out when I die. Out goes the old industrial carpet; in comes the wood to acclimate to our space. Out go the papers and extra things that I may need “someday,” and in come the paint swatches. Out goes the clutter of the life I have already lived, and in comes the space to fully live the life in front of me now.

How about you? What would it look like to live fully in your life — the only life you truly have, btw — the one right here and now? With that, I am off to check on my first coat of fresh paint. See you in the present.

Laura Wilkinson is a Nurse Practitioner and Integrative Health Coach at Middlebury College. Learn more about her and her coaching at middlebury.edu/middleburyintegratedhealthcoach.

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OWN HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Sat 2/2 1pm $24/$10 Students MET LIVE IN HD

CARMEN

Sir Richard Eyre’s powerful production, which updates this 19th century masterpiece to the 1930s Spanish Civil War, features mezzosoprano Clementine Margaine reprising her remarkable performance portraying opera’s ultimate seductress.

Pre-performance talk by Jim Pugh at 12:15 in the Studio.

Sun 2/3 1pm & 4pm $20 Adults/$10 18 & Under

JEFF BOYER’S BIG BUBBLE BONANZA

Mixing comedy, music, and interactive bubble-magic, worldrenowned Guinness Book of World Records-holding bubble wrangler Jeff Boyer engages and delights audiences of all ages. It’s a sensory-friendly bubble extravaganza for the whole family!

Wed 2/13 11am & 7pm $13/$8 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAYS

YOUNG PICASSO

Picasso was just 25 years old when his cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles d’Avignon shocked the art world and shaped art history irrevocably. What experiences and influences inspired the talents of the young artist? Three cities play pivotal roles.

Working closely with the Picasso Museums in Spain’s Malaga and Barcelona, as well as Paris, the film scrutinizes his early works and periods, exploring how he became one of the greatest and most prolific artists of the 20th century.

Fri 2/15 7:30pm $49 Orchestra/$39 Balcony

DAR WILLIAMS

Dar Williams is an accomplished and engaging singer/ songwriter whose original material is both passionately personal and incisively cultural. With an artist’s voice informed by a worldview both hopeful and critical, her songs are all the more powerful in these challenging times.

Sun 2/17 2pm $13 MNFF WINTER/SPRING SCREENING SERIES

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An extraordinary cast including Hilary Swank, Michael Shannon, Blythe Danner & Robert Forster give exceptional performances in this touching and potent drama.

EXHIBITS ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early 15-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE. On display beginning Feb. 15, featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing seen through the lens of Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo — with audio reflections from the shanty owners drawn from interviews conducted by the Vermont Folklife Center. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

MORE LIGHT. On view Dec. 1-Jan. 31, featuring all new works from Anne Cady, Cameron Schmitz, Edward Holland, Pamela Smith, Rose Umerlik, and Sobelman Cortapega in a range of media, including watercolor, oil painting and collage. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

SO VERY HIDEOUS AN IDEA. On view through Feb. 1, featuring Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. A Middlebury College Special Collections exhibit commemorating the 200th anniversary of Mary Shelley’s novel. Located in the Davis Family Library Atrium. A companion exhibit, “Vital Experiments: Science in 1818” is on display in the Harman Periodicals Reading Room and in Special Collections. Davis Family Library, 110 Storrs Ave, Middlebury.

(802) 443-5494.

SELF-PORTRAIT. On view Jan. 10-Feb.2, featuring 35 self-portraits juried and curated by Aline Smithson that show who the subject truly is. An additional 35 images were also selected for the Online Gallery Annex.

PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-4500 or photos@ photoplacegallery.com.

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION. On view Jan. 8-April 28, featuring more than 30 works from the museum’s modern and contemporary collections, including recent video works by William Kentridge, Tracey Moffatt, and the Swiss team of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Other artists represented include Andrew Lenaghan, Banksy, Damian Hirst, Shazia Sikander, Dale Chihuly, Elizabeth Catlett, Andy Warhol, Judy Chicago, Christian Marclay, Kara Walker, and Dennis Byng. Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

NOTE: The Sheldon Museum, Research Center, and Shop will be closed for strategic planning, facilities updates, collection and archival research until Tuesday, April 2.

Sat 2/23 7:30pm $20/$30/$40

JORGE MARTÍN & FRIENDS

Town Hall Theater and The Opera Company of Middlebury present a very special concert featuring Middlebury’s own Jorge Martín, celebrated Cuban-American composer. Mezzo-soprano Cherry Duke, star of Opera Company of Middlebury’s The Italian Girl in Algiers performs with tenor Brian Downen (a Metropolitan Opera alum) in a varied program of Jorge Martín’s songs, and arias from other composers.

Reception to follow.

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MUSIC

live music CHELSEA BERRY IN BRANDON. Saturday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

GREG KLYMA IN RIPTON. Saturday, Feb. 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Elementary School.

THE DAVE KELLER BAND IN LINCOLN. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:309:15 p.m., Burnham Hall.

LC JAZZ IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House.

JAZZOU JONES IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Feb. 17, 3-4 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Melissa D will perform at Brandon Music on Saturday, Feb. 9, at 7:30 p.m.

Singer-songwriter Chelsea Berry will perform at Brandon Music on Saturday, Feb. 2.

Chelsea Berry to shine bright at Brandon Music

C

helsea Berry is a singersongwriter with the edge, power and finesse of legends. Her presence has been described by listeners as “compelling… she draws the entire house into her world like moths to a flame.”

As a vocalist and performer, she evokes the style of artists such as Sheryl Crow, Eva Cassidy, KD Lang and Melissa Etheridge. And she’s coming to Brandon Musicthis Saturday.

Singer-songwriter Livingston Taylor calls Berry’s vocals “world class” and says she has, “a voice of remarkable power and control with a joyous soul. Brave and bright, Chelsea Berry is the real thing.”

A favorite among venue owners up and down the East coast and firm favorite of Brandon

Music audiences, Berry’s beautiful voice and commanding stage presence has brought her across the U.S. as regular support for Livingston and others as well as headliner of her own shows. Born and raised in Alaska, she now makes her home in New York City.

Her music transcends its indie rock roots and touches listeners with its poetic lyrics, bold melodies, and pure, clear, powerful vocals.

Singer/songwriter Chris Smither says Berry is “great, talented, beautiful … her future is so bright you’re gonna have to wear shades.”

Berry has played Boston’s House of Blues, Carnegie Hall in New York City, the Shalin Liu in Rockport, Mass., Eddie’s Attic in Atlanta, Ga., World Cafe Live in Philadelphia, Penn. and more. She has opened for many artists such as Chris Isaak, Mavis Staples, Belinda Carlisle, Roger McGuinn and Tom Chapin.

Berry was a 2016 Falcon Ridge Folk Festival Emerging Artist and has been a student of American songwriting legends such as Dave Van Ronk, Janis Ian, Susan Werner and Ellis Paul. Her newest full length album, “Wanderbird,” was released this September.

It was recorded, mixed and mastered in NYC with producer Adam Rhodes. The instrumentation and arrangements are a mindful and energetic extension of Berry’s own music and performance.

See Berry perform at Brandon Music this Saturday, Feb. 2, at 7:30 p.m. Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert diner is available for and extra $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for shows. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, email info@ brandon-music.net or visit brandon-music.net for more info and reservations.

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the movie ALL IS TRUE — RUNNING TIME: 1:41 — RATING: PG-13 “All Is True” is the creation of Kenneth Branagh, who directed and acts the role of William Shakespeare. Branagh has put his dream on film and the audience has the pleasure of watching without having to measure it for accuracy. Since Shakespeare’s work reaches readers in all kinds of modern interpretations, there is no one right or wrong way to present it. Because no expert can know the cultural details of the 1700s, that becomes a great gift to writers of the following centuries who build worlds from their own imaginations around Shakespeare’s plays.

Actor/director Branagh decided to make a film of his version of Shakespeare’s last year on earth — 1613. He has been away from his family and his home town while building fame and fortune through his plays. The natural intelligence of wife Anne (Judi Dench) is wrapped in her indignation at her husband’s neglect of their family. Her resentment is echoed in their youngest daughter Judith (Kathryn Wilder). Son Hamnet died at eleven but because he was a boy in an era when only males counted, resentment boils furiously in Shakespeare’s wife and daughters as they listen to him talk about that dead son.

As Branagh builds his film around Shakespeare’s return to home and family, that obsession with his son casts a major shadow over his relationships with his wife and daughters. When Branagh decides to rebuild these relationships, we in the audience feel a little as if he is dropping the man/woman culture of 2018 into 1613. Daughter Judith, with reason, is wrapped in resentment at her father’s love of his dead son.

If his story seems too modern at times, his filming is not. When the camera focuses and lingers on the faces of the characters, each shot is held quietly as it takes on the feel of a painting. No electric light was used in filming. Candlelight and daylight form the atmosphere for the unfolding story. The camera work feels rooted in the time.

Kenneth Branagh directed and stars in “All Is True” (2018).

Both Branagh and Dench are able to drop themselves into the past in interesting ways. It is Wilder whose acting shoots the film through with the feeling of a modern culture. If that seems unfortunate, hers is a powerful performance and who is any one of us to say what form of resentment of parental neglect might have taken three centuries ago.

Historical accuracy is not the judgement pole here. The fun of it is following Branagh’s imagination as he creates his version of a century whose accents and behavior can only be imagined. That fertile ground is tended by a strong cast and wonderfully imaginative filming. A discussion between Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton (Ian McKellen) is a good example of something that might or might not have happened in that way. It unfolds in the hands of two fine actors who take us there in the light of long ago.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

MORE BOOKS ON POVERTY

the book

Educated, by Tara Westover

MAID: HARD WORK, LOW PAY, AND A MOTHER’S WILL TO SURVIVE — BY STEPHANIE LAND

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City,

by Matthew Desmond

(Hachette Books)

Through the lens of her job as a maid, Stephanie Land, in spare and unsentimental yet evocative language, depicts the crushing hopelessness of poverty and the broken system of government assistance as she worked and fought her way, as a single mother recovering from an abusive relationship, from a homeless shelter to a new home, and life, for herself and her young daughter. While working as a maid, she discovers that while her clients have the material things she yearns for, they did not seem to enjoy life any more than she did, and that her “invisible” labor only made their lives appear polished and perfect. She describes feelings of shame, as she is overwhelmed by how much work it took to prove she was poor. This is an important book to read, notably, right now, as due to the partial government shutdown, the Department of Housing and Urban Development has stopped subsidies for low-income renters and the Department of Agriculture’s funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, which provides food stamps and other aid to almost 40 million poor and working-class Americans, will run out by March 1. We should value her knowledge and expertise even if she is struggling with poverty — and because she is struggling with poverty.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury

Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth,

by Sarah Smarsh Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America,

by Barbara Ehrenreich “We Are All Fast-Food Workers Now:” The Global Uprising Against Poverty Wages, by Annelise Orleck The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, by Keith Payne Janesville: An American Story,

by Amy Goldstein

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1455 CIDER MILL ROAD, CORNWALL $850,000

A LOOK INSIDE ADDISON COUNTY HOMES FOR SALE.

Victorian-era home with commanding views Set atop the hill on Cider Mill Road, this home has views to the east incorporating meadows, woods, the Green Mountains and the Middlebury College campus and sunsets to the west over the Adirondack Mountains. Most every detail of this home speaks of its historic past including the slate roof, Italianate brackets, pillars on the covered porch and two, floor to ceiling four-window bays that accent the exterior. Enjoy a renovated portion of the home with a modern kitchen, energy efficient windows, radiant heating and a master bedroom with Victorian soaking tub plus loft and office. Four historic barns comprise more than 7,000 square feet of floor area, as well.

Step back in time and into this beautiful, historic property.

This week’s property is managed by Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty. More info at FourSeasonsSIR.com.

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Things to never, ever do to your house What may seem like a good idea, often isn’t. Here are 7 common mistakes new homeowners often make.

#1 GET RID OF YOUR ONLY TUB If resale value is important to you, don’t get rid of your only bathtub no matter how dreamy that walk-in shower looks. It will make it harder to sell when the time comes. You’ll flat-out lose buyers who love a good soak or need a tub to bathe little ones (both human and four-legged).

#2 LEAVE CABINET DOORS ON WHILE PAINTING Painting your kitchen cabinets pays off big at resale — it’s a small investment for a big “wow.” But the job’s time-consuming, so it’s tempting leave the doors on.

Resist. At all costs. Because no matter how hard you try, it’s not going to look good. Even the pros don’t do it. That should tell you something.

#3 PLANT A TREE TOO CLOSE TO YOUR HOUSE That young sapling just a few feet from your door seems so harmless. Until it grows up.

roots from mature trees can weaken your home’s foundation and clog plumbing and sewer pipes. Plant medium and large trees at least 30 to 50 feet from the house. Put small trees (30 feet tall or less) at least eight, preferably 10, feet away.

#6 PUT A BRICK IN YOUR TOILET

#4 PAINT EXTERIOR BRICK

Replace the toilet ($350 or less) or fill a halfgallon milk jug with sand and drop it in the tank instead (saving about half a gallon per flush).

Brick needs to breathe. Paint chokes it.

Paint can destroy the brick and mortar and even cause the foundation to crumble. Talk about a hidden cost. If you’re itching for a new exterior look, try new shutters, paint the front door, or update your landscaping. Those moves can scratch your itch and boost your curb appeal. If you just can’t live with your brick color, try brick stain, which bonds with the brick, allowing it to breathe.

#5 KEEP AN OLD-FASHIONED THERMOSTAT

To decrease water use and save money, many people put bricks in their older, high-wateruse toilets. But bricks crumble in water and can damage or clog pipes.

#7 CLEAN WINDOWS ON A BRIGHT, SUNNY DAY Doesn’t a warm, sunny day seem like the perfect time to wash windows? Counterintuitively, it’s the worst because the sun dries windows too quickly and causes smears.

Instead, save this chore for a cloudy day.

— More tips at houselogic.com

Maintaining a cozy home temp while you’re at work or sleeping wastes money and energy. If your house came with a non-programmable thermostat, you’ll have to manually change it multiple times a day to avoid all that waste. (Like you need another task on the way out the door.) Install a programmable thermostat, stat. One in the $150 range saves a typical household $131-$145 annually, so it’s practically free.

In addition to the risk of falling limbs, tree

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