MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 25 No. 17
Middlebury, Vermont
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By  XIAN  CHIANG-ÂWAREN MONKTON  —  The  Monk- ton  selectboard  unanimously  approved  a  memorandum  of  un- derstanding  with  Vermont  Gas  Systems  at  a  hastily  scheduled  special  meeting  on  Wednesday Â
night.  The  board  had  rejected  an  earlier  draft  of  the  agreement  in  a  3-Â2  decision  just  nine  days  earlier.  The  revised  memorandum  struck  out  language  that  explic- itly  endorsed  VGS’s  Addison Â
Natural  Gas  Project,  which  is  currently  under  review  for  li- censure  with  the  Vermont  Pub- lic  Service  Board,  and  added  some  clarifying  language  to  ex- isting  provisions.  Wednesday’s  (See  Monkton,  Page  35)
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Stone  learns  value  of  earning  his  diploma  By  JOHN  FLOWERS LEICESTER  —  Daryle  Stone  didn’t  have  much  use  for  school  —  or  at  least  that’s  what  he  thought  14  years  ago  as  an  Otter  Valley  Union  High  School  freshman. He  wasn’t  learning  things  as  easily  as  his  (See  Stone,  Page  21)
New exhibit offers view into dairying Milk  memorabilia  shown  at  Sheldon
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By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  Ask  some  young  whippersnapper  where  milk  comes  from,  and  you  might  get  the  wiseacre  response,  “from  a  carton.â€? Well,  a  new  exhibit  at  the  Henry  Sheldon  Museum  of  Vermont  His- tory  aims  to  set  the  record  straight  on  all  things  dairy,  covering  the  past  200  years.  On  display  at  the  Middle- bury  museum  through  Aug.  4,  “From  Dairy  to  Doorstep:  Milk  Delivery  in  New  Englandâ€?  features  a  mesmer- izing  mĂŠlange  of  milk  memorabilia  that  would  make  Old  McDonald’s  The jaw  drop.  donatedThe  donated-  and and  museum- museumowned  pieces  in- clude  antique  milk  owned containers,  butter  pieces molds,  churns,  include cheese  boxes  and  antique drainers,  and  but- milk ter  tampers.  Visi- containers, tors  can  also  drink  in  an  abundance  butter of  dairy  ephem- molds, era  and  intriguing  churns, photos,  as  well  as  cheese landscapes  depict- boxes and ing  farm  animals  and  wonderful  drainers, folk  art  carvings  and butter with  a  bovine  mo- tampers. tif. Bill  Brooks,  ex- ecutive  director  of  the  Sheldon  Mu- seum,  said  the  exhibit  is  being  done  in  partnership  with  Historic  New  England  (HNE),  the  oldest,  largest,  and  most  comprehensive  regional  heritage  organization  in  the  nation.  MILLICENT  ROONEY  TALKS  about  the  history  of  Monument  Farms  Dairy,  which  was  started  by  her  parents  It  was  founded  in  1910  to  preserve  and  present  the  cultural  and  architec- in  1931,  during  a  walk  through  the  new  “From  Dairy  to  Doorstepâ€?  exhibit  at  the  Henry  Sheldon  Museum  of  tural  heritage  of  New  England.  The  Vermont  History.  The  exhibit,  which  features  antique  cheese,  butter  and  milk  processing  equipment,  will  be  open  through  Aug.  4.  Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell (See  Exhibit,  Page  22)