Monday, Feb. 5, 2018

MONDAY EDITION

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

Vol. 29 No. 41

Middlebury, Vermont

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Monday, February 5, 2018

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College seeks OK for new building

Seized pets are adoptable

‘Swing space’ part of renovation strategy

• A court ruled that the 28 dogs, cats and other animals seized in Ferrisburgh must be sent to new homes. See Page 16.

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College is seeking town permission to erect a new, 23,000-square-foot building off Shannon Street to accommodate faculty and students temporarily displaced by upcoming renovations to Munroe and Warner halls.

The two-story structure, to be sited on the south side of the “E” parking lot behind Johnson Memorial Building, would also assimilate some of McCardell Bicentennial Hall’s current programming so that it can better accommodate a growing number of students seeking science and computer-related education. The new “swing building,” as it is being called, would house the college’s computer science department, currently housed within Bi Hall.

An estimated 62 faculty and 125 students would use the swing building daily, according to a project narrative Middlebury College Project Manager Tom McGinn has filed at the town offices.

College officials see the project (See College, Page 26)

Dollar General eyes Shoreham • The discount retailer plans a new store on Route 22A near the telephone company. Read about it on Page 3.

Boys’ hockey hosts Raiders

• The Tigers were seeking to pick up valuable points in the Division I standings on Friday. See Page 20.

Salisbury kids working with Rotary Club on service work Picasso takes to the THT stage

• Witty repartee is the order of the day when the famous painter meets a giant of science in this humorus play. See Page 10.

BIXBY MEMORIAL LIBRARY Youth Services Librarian Rachel Plant reads to toddlers in the cramped Children’s Room last week. A new Children’s Room will be built as part of a planned two-phase renovation project.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Bixby plans big space changes No tax dollars for new community room & other amenities

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The Bixby Library is about to embark on almost a quarter-million dollars of renovations, repairs and

reconfigurations that its board members and director think will not only help preserve the Vergennes landmark, but also enhance the library’s ability to meet the needs of

the five communities it serves.

Board members said funding for what will in fact be three separate projects will come from the library’s (See Bixby, Page 25)

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Rotary Club has spent many decades helping others, whether it be picking up trash on Green Up Day or helping to eradicate polio from the face of the Earth. The club has historically drawn membership from some of the best and brightest on the local business scene.

Well, club officials last month brought a new generation of philanthropists into the fold: students at the Salisbury Community School, who on Jan. 24 were officially recognized as Addison (See Learning, Page 15)

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Lecture with Bill McKibben An in-depth look at climate issues Join us for a discussion on how to make sense of the politics, science, and policy around climate change.

Featuring Bill McKibben, author and founder of the grassroots climate campaign, 350.org, as well as a founding fellow of the Sanders Institute.

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Addison Independent, Monday, February 5, 2018 — PAGE 3

Shoreham spot eyed for Dollar General

By JOHN FLOWERS SHOREHAM — The Shoreham Zoning Board of Adjustment on Feb. 8 will begin reviewing an application for a 7,545-square-foot Dollar General store that would be built on a 1-acre parcel on the east side of Route 22A. Plans on file at the Shoreham town offices show a barn-style design for the store, which would be located within the town’s Village-Commercial zoning district. The proposed site would be carved from a 5.37acre parcel owned by the Shoreham Telephone Co. at 3167 Route 22A. The company would lease the property to Dollar General, according to plans.

Dollar General as of last November had 14,321 retail locations in 44 states, including more than 30 stores in Vermont. One of those stores is located on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

Matt Casey is vice president of business development for Zaremba (See Dollar General, Page 7)

In training

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE JANUARY-Term EMT students pose between classes at Middlebury Regional EMS headquarters in Middlebury at the end of January.

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Monkton begins town plan update; community input sought

MONKTON — Every number of years each municipality in Vermont must update its town plan per the requirements of the Vermont statutes, and this year Monkton’s is due for revision.

The last Monkton Town Plan was issued in 2014. While it is the Monkton Planning Commission’s responsibility for this update, commission members believe it is necessary and desirable to engage town residents in dialog concerning the town’s future.

Thus during 2018, the Monkton Planning Commission will host a series of forums to give community

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members opportunities for discussion and solicit their input. Some preliminary work in this area has already been performed with the townwide survey held last year (results are available on the town website, monktonvt.com).

The town plan helps develop a picture for the future and sets out clear goals for economic development, housing, infrastructure and environmental health. It provides a framework toward attaining community aspirations, land use regulations and land conservation.

The plan can help a community identify priorities for funding,

grants, capital improvement program and other public and private local initiatives such as farmland protection, housing development and recreational facilities. It underpins the official town map and guides local regulatory decisions.

Vermont law requires the inclusion of several elements in the plan; these elements have varied degrees of importance for different communities facing their own set of issues. These elements relate to future growth, land use and development, housing both moderate- and low-income, preservation of rare and irreplaceable natural areas, an energy

plan, economic development, transportation and flood resiliency.

The plan details the programs and projects to achieve goals and objectives that the town deems important.

It forms a basis for municipal regulations and serves as a foundation for zoning and subdivision regulation (known as the Unified Planning Document, or UPD) and bylaws to protect shorelands and flood-hazard areas.

Later in the year, after considering all the inputs and consolidating them, the planning commission will issue the revised Monkton Town Plan, at which time residents will

get a further opportunity to comment. The plan then goes to the selectboard, which may or may not make further changes. The intention is to have the plan ready for a town vote on Town Meeting Day 2019.

Some additional information is that the Monkton Energy Committee has recently been successful in securing a grant to help in writing a town energy plan. This will be a great resource in writing the energy element of the town plan.

Editor’s note: This story was provided by Ivor Hughes, clerk of the Monkton Planning Commission.

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A D D IS ON INDE P E NDEN T

Guest Editorial Timing could not be worse for education funding bill The House Ways and Means Committee is pushing legislation that would change the way Vermont finances education. The impetus is political. Property taxes are high, and rising. Legislators want to rush in to ease the pain.

The timing could not be worse.

What the proposal would do is shift some of the burden from the property tax to the income tax. The particulars have not been solidified, so we don’t know what the rates would be, or who would be affected.

But the talking points would be clear; the change would lower what is paid in property taxes — which makes home owners/voters happy — and the difference would be made up by raising what people pay in income taxes, with the rates skewed higher for higher income tax payers.

Here’s the problem: That’s not the discussion we need to have.

Rather, we need to finish the consolidation efforts launched by Act 46, and to figure out how to produce a quality education without spending more than we can realistically raise.

This is difficult work. It’s taken us years to get where we are, and it can’t be reversed in a matter of months. The worst thing we could do is to confuse the objectives, to take a matter of policy and turn it political.

That’s exactly what any debate over school funding would do. It tells voters that the issue is not how much we spend, or how we spend it, but about who pays. Few things could damage the process more.

Rep. David Sharpe, chair of the House Education Committee, was quoted as saying: “This method of funding schools, this tax support of public schools, has lasted 20 years. That’s twice as long as any funding system I recall in history, and so it’s overdue for an overhaul.”

Really? We’re supposed to change something just because someone thinks time’s up?

Rep. Janet Ancel, chairwoman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is the one who articulated the reason behind the new finance proposal: “We’ve been hearing for years now that people feel overwhelmed by their property taxes and there’s been a lot of interest in moving to something that better reflects ability to pay. Income is a good measure of ability to pay …

When we’re looking at increases this year averaging about 7 percent or the 9.4 cents people are talking about, it may be a year where, you know, the political interests of various people come together and that we’re actually able to make a change.”

When voters feel “pain” legislators respond. This was precisely the push behind Act 46. It came out of a massive sense of frustration that property taxes were too high and that what we were spending on schools was disproportionate considering the dramatic drop off in student enrollment.

What Act 46 did was to start the discussion as to how we could begin to operate our school districts differently and more efficiently. It’s one of the most difficult and important discussions we’ve had. And we’re only part of the way through. Now is not the time to change the discussion.

Ms. Ancel and Mr. Sharpe will respond by saying their proposal makes it clearer for voters to tie what they spend to what a school proposes; but surely they know better. The proposal is blatantly political, it seeks to assuage those who want to pay less. It’s an effort to shift the burden from one group of taxpayers to another. It does nothing to address the fundamental problem, which is to figure out how to reorient existing resources to do a better job educating fewer children.

The message being sent out by Ms. Ancel and Mr. Sharpe is that the issue is property tax levels. That all else is trivial by comparison; if people can be made happy by lowering their property taxes, then the issue with our schools fades. That can’t be allowed to happen.

Legislators need to step beyond their comfort zones and insist that the present discussion be taken to its conclusion. If there is a need to revisit how we finance our schools, so be it. The opportunities to do so will not fade anytime soon. But to have that discussion now may doom our chances to actually complete the discussion we began with Act 46, a discussion that began with a heightened concern about property tax levels.

by Emerson Lynn, St. Albans Messenger

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LATE AFTERNOON SUN dapples part of a Middlebury barn and illuminates a Green Mountain backdrop last week.

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Letters to the Editor Health-care providers put patients, not profits, first It comes as no surprise that the local providers and the healthcare community are embracing the recent efforts outlined in “County joins Vermont in new approach to healthcare” (Addison Independent, Jan. 4, 2018). As a primary care provider in Addison County, it has always been my experience that our local medical community strives “to do no harm,” while keeping the best interests of our patients at the heart of our decision-making. Achieving this within the confines of our current medical system is at best a

challenge for all involved.

What is strikingly disheartening are the comments of a local Green Mountain Board member, which imply each provider/patient encounter is first viewed as an income-generating opportunity for the individual provider? I can assure you that the furthest thing from our minds, as we enter an exam room, is whether we “are going to be ordering another test just to generate income.” I find such comments offensive, misguided and deeply concerning coming from our

regulatory board.

Until recently, most primary care providers in Addison County were salaried and not reimbursed on an incentive-based system.

As a provider, we are more likely preoccupied with the affordability of medications, the additional administrative burdens that further limit patient access, and the unsustainable mandates of 15-minute appointments, which are a disservice to patients and providers alike. The implication that the exorbitant cost (See Letter, Page 5)

Addison Independent, Monday, February 5, 2018 — PAGE 5

Letters

to the Editor

City should act on sewer problems Angelo Lynn’s math in his Monday, Jan. 29, 2018, editorial leaves much to be desired. His subject is an important one, however, the impact of the sewage overflows into Otter Creek, then Lake Champlain, is minimized when he states that 10 percent of the 2017 total of 8,657,890 gallons is actual raw sewage, amounting to 86,570 gallons. Clearly 10 percent of 8,657,890 is the far more significant total of 865,789 gallons of raw sewage (86,570 being only 1 percent).

As is pointed out almost daily in matters of national importance, facts do matter, so proper proofing is necessary at all levels of discussion. Unfortunately, I have noticed a decline in the general standard of proofreading accuracy in the Independent over the past several years. Every issue now seems to have dropped words and other oddities that I don’t recall as often over the previous 35 years I have been reading the paper.

I digress. Back to the main issue of sewage overflows into the Lake Champlain basin, which the state of Vermont seems unable to curtail.

I feel that Mr. Lynn lets Vergennes off the hook too easily. It is good that the city is finally starting to take some

concrete steps to address the issue there, however, it is decades too late.

I recall an article in the Independent in the past year or two that covered a Vergennes city council meeting in which an increase in the sewer fee was discussed. I believe it was stated that the sewer fee had not been increased in at least ten years and that it was now time to raise it modestly.

Given the knowledge that combined sewage overflows have been a problem for the city almost since the sewage treatment plant was built a long time ago, I wonder why the sewer rate wasn’t gradually raised over those more recent 10 years in order to create a fund to cushion the blow when the eventual fix is decided on.

This would have also reminded the city residents that the problem could not be ignored.

Vermonters used to pride themselves on saving up to pay for things that they needed, but for decades now we have fallen into the trap of wanting someone else to pay for everything, thus putting more and more power into the hands of those “someone else’s.”

Craig Allen Bristol

Description of Trump fits many

I read with interest Victor Nuovo’s recent column in the Jan. 25 Addison Independent. It will take me a couple of re-readings to get the gist of his main premise.

But, one excerpt in his essay is very clear and that is his very apt description of our current U.S. President. Victor notes that “..he

(Trump) is a vulgar populist, an immoralist, a narcissistic celebrity, whose only interest is in self-aggrandizement.”

Sadly however, I would note that much of that description also applies to many of our politicians.

Jim Peabody Sr. Bristol

Organic dairies would protect lake Inadequately designed or antiquated wastewater treatment plants account for roughly 5 percent of the pollution in Lake Champlain.

Upgrading or replacing these plants would require years and years and cost hundred of millions or even billions of dollars. When these plants are all upgraded, the pollution flowing into the lake from WWTPs would probably improve from 5 percent to 3 percent.

Storm water from storm drains and parking lots designed to channel water as quickly as possible into the nearest stream or river accounts for between 40-45 percent of the pollutants entering the lake. New storm drains and water gardens will need to be designed and will cost hundreds of millions of dollars and take years and years to install.

Redesigning and rebuilding the state’s wastewater and storm water systems can only be accomplished with taxpayer support.

Approximately 45-50 percent of the pollutants entering the lake come from conventional dairy farms.

135,000 cows produce as much manure as 4.3 million people and the vast majority of it goes untreated onto the ground along our rivers and streams in Addison and Frank-

lin Counties. Unlike MWWTPs and Storm water infrastructure, which are essential components of life, conventional dairy farming is voluntary: we could stop it without taxpayer support.

Reducing the flow of nutrients from conventional dairy farms can be reduced by half in two years by converting all state dairy farms to organic. Farms housing in excess of 200 cows, which means 150-175 of the remaining 600 farms, some housing in excess of 2,000 cows, cannot comply with the pasture rule of the National Organic Program and therefore cannot produce organic milk. This means that approximately 80 to 90 thousand of the cows now in Vermont would have to be sold out of state or go to slaughter. Since according to your editorial all Vermonters share the goal of attaining clean water, the taxpayers might allocate funds to help ease the cost of transitioning the state’s 600 conventional farms, but if the state’s present failure to locate funding for the new “Clean Water Law” is any guide, there seems little likelihood that the taxpayers would do so.

James H. Maroney Leicester

Lawmakers back RR bridges plan On Thursday, Jan. 18, the House government. Selectboard Chair Briand Senate Transportation Com- an Carpenter and Community Liaimittees held a public hearing at the son Jim Gish spoke to the efforts of Statehouse on the plan to rebuild the many organizations and individMiddlebury’s downtown bridges uals in Middlebury who are working and rail corridor. with town leaders and the Agency All five Senators that form the of Transportation to prepare for the Senate Transportation Committee project’s impact on their commuattended the hearing as did all of the nity. During 2017, Middlebury’s 11 Representatives who serve on the Community Liaison organized some House Transportation Committee.

70 meetings with downtown stakeWe understand how vitally im- holders to keep them fully informed portant Middlebury is about project developto its citizens and to the ments and to provide economic wellbeing of them with a forum for Addison County and, expressing their conindeed, the State of Vercerns about the project mont. directly to the VTrans This week’s We also understand writers are Sen. Dick project team. that the townspeople of Mazza (D–Grand A group of conMiddlebury will have Isle) and Rep. cerned citizens in Midto bear the brunt of the Patrick Brennan dlebury has been vocal downtown construc- (R–Colchester); they with concerns about tion, as have the citi- are chairmen of the the proposed project zens of Barre City, St. Senate and House and asking for a delay Johnsbury, Waterbury, Transportation in construction to evalDanville, and other Committees, uate alternative plans. towns across our state respectively.

It was important that when aging, unsafe inwe hear these concerns frastructure needs to be directly. The testimony replaced. from George Jaeger and Max Kraus One of the purposes of our public was appreciated in addition to othhearing was to get an update from ers concerns who presented written the Agency of Transportation on testimony. what the state regards as one of its Following the public hearing, a highest-priority projects. poll of Committee members showed Chief Engineer Wayne Symonds, unanimous support for moving forRail Section Chief Dan Delabru- ward with the project presented to us ere, and Secretary of Transportation by the Agency of Transportation. We Joe Flynn summarized how they have met with the Addison County are managing the complexities of legislative team and know that they this project and their impact on the support the project, as does the Midbuildings, environment, businesses, dlebury selectboard and the Addison and people of Middlebury.

County Regional Planning CommisWe also wanted to hear from rep- sion. resentatives of Middlebury’s town We think it’s important to invest

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in the capacity of rail freight on the western corridor of Vermont in order to drive economic development and reduce truck traffic on our state highways. We support the proposed 21-foot clearance so that the western corridor rail line can handle all manner of freight well into the future.

Constructing this project on the proposed schedule will allow Amtrak to launch its service in 2022 between Burlington and Rutland and ultimately New York City with a station in Middlebury.

We trust our state engineers, environmental scientists, and administrators to develop the right plans for excavating, transporting and storing contaminated waste from the rail corridor and for designing a project that will improve, not degrade, the quality of the environment in Middlebury.

And we trust the Town of Middlebury and the State of Vermont to protect Middlebury’s downtown community, from St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church and the Battell Block to Town Hall Theater and the retail stores that line Main Street and Merchants Row. We understand that plans are underway to make good on that promise with grants and other sources of funding and we fully support that initiative.

We know this is not going to be easy. There is legitimate concern that businesses and livelihoods will be threatened. But we have faith in the Agency of Transportation to design and deliver a project that can minimize the harm. And we have faith in the citizens of Middlebury and their town leaders who are working for the betterment of their community.

Letter (Continued from Page 4) of our current healthcare system can simply be attributed to providers “running up the bill” is not only an inaccurate over-simplification but disingenuous.

I am hopeful that the current efforts of our local medical community will serve as an example of its uniqueness and willingness to continue to do what is best for our patients and our community. What

is least needed in today’s current medical environment is finger pointing and misinformation.

Scott D. Smith, MD Middlebury

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ADDISON COUNTY

Obituaries

Donald Hunt, 80, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Dr. Donald C. “Doc” Hunt, long-time large animal veterinarian of Middlebury, passed away on Jan. 27, 2018, after a long battle with Lewy Body Disease, at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.

Don was born in Rochester, Vt., on Aug. 22, 1937 to John and Esther (Rhoades) Hunt. He grew up on a dairy farm in Rochester, after living for a few years during early childhood in the Adirondacks. He graduated from Rochester High School in 1955. He attended the University of Vermont and then Cornell School of Veterinary Medicine, graduating in 1961.

After working as a veterinarian in Randolph, Vt., he served as an Army Captain in Fort Bragg, North Carolina from 1962 to 1964, also working as a veterinarian. Following his service, he joined Dr. Ward Goss at the Middlebury Large and Small Animal Clinic, and eventually bought the large animal practice, establishing the Middlebury Large Animal Clinic. He retired in 2013.

Don was active in his community and passionate about agriculture. As part of his veterinary work, he was the veterinarian for the UVM Morgan Horse Farm, and was Vermont’s foremost equine reproduction expert. He served as president of the Vermont Veterinary Medical Association, the Vermont Draft Horse Association, and Addison County Field Days, establishing the Draft Horse Show at the fair. He loved working with local 4-H clubs, and also was a member of the Vermont Beef Producers’ Association and the Middlebury Lion’s Club, as well as the Cornwall Congregational Church. He enjoyed raising draft horses, beef cows and chickens. Don also loved trees and enjoyed teaching his children how to identify different species. He loved his work and his family.

Don is survived by his six children; Bonnie Hogan (Gregory) of Stow, Mass., Patricia Hunt of Bristol, Vt., Robert Hunt (Suzy) of West Addison, Vt., Michelle Pierpont (Mort) of Leicester, Vt., Emily Fuller (David) of Middlebury, Vt., and Alison McKenney (Gregory) of Quechee, Vt.; his brother David (Ann) of Rochester, Vt.; and his

DR. DONALD C. “DOC” HUNT foster brothers Jim Thompson (Joyce) of S. Royalton, Vt., Ronald Burch (Karen) of Pelham, N.H., and Gordon Burch (Gaye) of Randolph, Vt. He is also survived by his grandchildren, Caitrin Alb (Hermann), Connor Hogan, Andrew Hogan (Kaitlyn), Gilson Hogan, John Hunt, Asa Hunt, Tia Hunt, Marlie Hunt, Sawyer Pierpont, Fraser Pierpont, Benjamin Fuller, and Peter Fuller, as well as great-grandsons Samuel and Jonas Alb, and many other family members who loved him.

He was predeceased by his parents and his first ex-wife, Elizabeth Hunt of Middlebury, and is survived by his second ex-wife, Julia Harris of Middlebury.

Calling hours will be held at the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home, located at 117 South Main Street Middlebury on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 1-4 p.m. A celebration of his life will be held in the spring.

The family would like to thank the many, many people and organizations who provided wonderful care and support for Don and his family throughout his illness. Donations in his memory may be made to Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation, Addison County Home Health and Hospice, Project Independence, or the Alzheimer’s Association.

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Paul Fuller, 85, Bristol BRISTOL — Paul A. Fuller, 85, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018, at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.

He was born June 10, 1932, in Nelson, Pa., the son of Glenn and Carole Purinton Fuller.

He graduated from Bristol High School and served in the US Navy aboard the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was discharged in California where he met and married Carol English, the mother of his children. He returned to Vermont in 1966 with his family and became a private contractor under the name of Bear Construction. Part of his career involved water heater installation for Central Vermont and Green Mountain Power and he retired at the age of 80.

Paul was very active in the Lions Club as President of the Bristol club and later a member of the Vergennes Lions Club. He worked many years with the Cystic Fibrosis Stampede.

He is survived by a daughter Darlene (Richard) Beckstead Henderson, Nev.; a son, Brady (Chris) Fuller of Bristol, Vt.; two brothers, Robert Fuller, of Bristol, Vt., and Charlie (Faith) Fuller of Selkirk, N.Y.; seven grandchildren, Joshua Beckstead, Derek (Brandi) Beckstead, Amelia (Darren) Wilson, Jacob (Clarissa) Beckstead, Jarrod Beckstead, Rachel Beckstead and Brighton Fuller; 10 great grandchildren; an aunt Beverley Purinton Brown; several nieces, nephews and cousins.

Visiting hours will be held on Monday, Feb. 5, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Bristol from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at Lincoln United Church. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Vergennes Lions Club, PO Box 94, Vergennes, VT 05491 or Bristol 3day stampede for Cystic Fibrosis, Attn. Bonita Bedard, Vermont

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Ryan Murphy, 46, Middlebury GRANVILLE, N.Y./MIDDLEBURY, Vt. — On Dec. 20, 2017, Ryan Elizabeth Murphy passed from her earthly life to the presence of her Heavenly Father and the loving embrace of her daddy’s arms. She died of natural causes at her residence in Middlebury, Vt., the community where she had lived and worked for the last ten years.

Born on March 28, 1971, in Norwalk, Conn., Ryan was the daughter of Margaret (Young) Murphy and the late Kenneth C. Murphy. The family resided in Westport, Conn., until moving to the Village of Granville, N.Y., in 1974.

Ryan graduated from Granville High School in 1989. She participated in band and excelled as a distance runner on the track and cross country teams. Upon graduation she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in English and continued to run track.

While working at United Way in Middlebury, Ryan became program coordinator of Special Olympics for Addison County. She received the Wilton W. Covey, M.D. Community Award, “In recognition and appreciation of her commitment to enhancing the quality of life in the Addison County community.” She developed a strong bond with her athletes and

most recently coached their track team.

Ryan had many diverse talents, interests and passions that she rejoiced in sharing with friends, family and those with need. She enjoyed literature, music and cooking, as well as designing her balcony gardens and unique Halloween costumes. She loved, cared and felt for “all creatures great and small” with a depth that few can begin to fathom. We will forever feel Ryan’s love and always remember her beautiful, smiling green eyes.

Ryan was predeceased by her father Kenneth; her grandparents, Jay and Dick Young; her great-grandparents, Irma and George Lang; her young cousin John; her Uncle Joe and extended family members and dear friends. Greeting her at the Rainbow Bridge were her rescue dogs, Tyler and Emily.

Ryan is survived by her mother Margaret O’Brien and step-father John O’Brien; her Uncle Ricky; her Aunts JoAnn, Laurie, Donna, Jenifer, Kathleen and Veronica; numerous cousins, nieces and nephews; her step-siblings Judy, Beth, Peggy, Michael and their families; and her cherished orange tabbies, George and Olivia.

Should you wish to honor Ryan,

RYAN E. MURPHY her family suggests memorial donations in her name to Special Olympics of Vermont, 16 Gregory Drive, Suite 2, South Burlington, VT 05403, or Homeward Bound (Addison County Humane Society) 236 Boardman Street, Middlebury, VT 05753.

A celebration of Ryan’s life will be held in the spring. Arrangements are under the care of Robert M King Funeral Home, Granville, N.Y., robertmkingfuneralhome.com.◊

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George Gross is a member of the Shoreham Planning Commission, which last October held a brief, informal discussion with Dollar General representatives about the company’s plans. Gross believes the developers have taken some of the commission’s feedback into consideration with their latest proposal, which he looks forward to studying.

Gross believes the Dollar General application provides Shoreham with an added incentive to re-examine and perhaps adjust its zoning rules.

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Dollar General has been known to Dollar General, according to its raise concerns among small, local website, bills itself as selling “food, storeowners fearful their prices will snacks, health and be undercut. This beauty aids, cleaning wouldn’t appear to supplies, basic appar- Dollar General be a major issue in el, housewares and scaled back Shoreham, whose seasonal items at ev- the size of the picturesque village eryday low prices in proposed lot boasts but a few busiconvenient neighbor- and building to nesses, including a hood locations… The Maplefields gas staaverage Dollar Gener- better fit within tion and convenience al customer completes the community. store and an inn. her shopping trip in The company’s Dollar General has less than 10 minutes.” original version of historically shared The company did the project (that few insights on its $22 billion in sales store siting criteria.

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CCV Open House in Middlebury.

Monday, Feb. 5, noon‑2 p.m., Community College of Vermont, 10 Merchants Row. Come tour the newly renovated CCV space and talk to CCV President Joyce Judy and students, staff and faculty. Refreshments served. Free and open to the public.

Addison County Democratic Committee meet‑ ing in Middlebury. Monday, Feb. 5, 7‑8:30 p.m., Illsey Public Library, 75 Main St. James Ehlers, candidate for governor, will speak at about his candidacy and his plans for Vermont’s future. The public is invited to attend.

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TUESDAY

Artist Opening Reception in Middlebury. Tuesday, Feb. 6, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Join in and welcome artist students from the Middlebury Studio School, whose pastel drawings will be on exhibit in the Main Dining Room through February. Free, open to the public and accessible to those with disabili‑ ties. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Hunger Council of Addison County meet‑ ing in Middlebury. Tuesday, Feb. 6, 3‑5 p.m., Counseling Services of Addison County, 109 Catamount Park. A meeting with local and regional experts on issues facing Addison County’s grow‑ ing senior population to explore what they are seeing, and what opportunities exist to ensure all seniors in the region can lead healthy and fulfilling lives.

Tai Chi for fall prevention in Middlebury. Begins Tuesday, Feb 6, 4:30‑5:30 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Certified Sun style Tai Chi instructor Jerry Henderson will introduce and guide you through basic Tai Chi principles, the moves of Tai Chi fall prevention, and related Qigong exercises. Class size is limited.

Register through Ilsley Library 802‑388‑4095.

More info contact Jerry at 802‑453‑3804 or 802‑598‑1830. Free for those 50 and over.

Tuesday and Thursdays through April 24.

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WEDNESDAY “Girl Rising: Changing the World One Girl at a Time” presentation in

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Bristol. Wednesday, Feb. 7, 10‑11 a.m., Holley Hall. Award‑winning author Tanya Lee Stone comes for a free event offered by the One World Library Project to area middle and high school students and members of the community. Stone will discuss and answer questions about her latest book, which examines global barriers to girls’ education.

“Whose Streets?” on screen in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Feb. 7, 4 and 7 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Middlebury Showing Up for Racial Justice offers the third film in the Seeing Color/Seeking Justice Racial Identities Film Series, aims to educate Addison County residents about the struggles of communities of color in the United States. The film documents the unrest and activism in Ferguson, Mo., in the wake of the police shooting of Michael Brown. All proceeds benefit Black Lives Matter Vermont and Middlebury SURJ. Suggested donation $10.

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THURSDAY

“Slavery by Another Name” talk in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 8, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Historian and filmmaker Douglas Blackmon discusses his film, and Pulitzer‑winning book, “Slavery by Another Name.” Both chronicle the return of forced labor across the South between the Civil War and WWII. The talk includes brief film clips. Part of the Vermont Humanities Council First Wednesdays series.

“An Evening for Porter” in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 8, 6‑8 p.m., Edgewater Gallery at the Falls.

A benefit for UVM Health Network‑Porter Medical Center, featuring food and drinks from Two Brothers Tavern, cocktails by Aqua ViTea Spirits and a raffle for the original Rory Jackson painting, “Dry Quarry Stream.” Raffle tickets $10. More info at portermedical.org/tickets.

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” on Stage in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 8, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Opening night for the Middlebury Community Players’ produc‑ tion of Steve Martin’s long‑running Off‑Broadway absurdist comedy of historical fiction, which finds Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Tickets $12 plus $1 THT preservation fee, available at Town Hall Theater Box Office Monday‑Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. or 802‑382‑9222.

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FRIDAY

Bill McKibben speaks in Middlebury.

Friday, Feb. 9, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. In “What Do We Do Now? The climate fight in context,” McKibben will discuss how we make sense of where politics, science, and policy are taking the environmental issues at the moment. Free, open to the public and accessible to those with disabilities. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

All‑you‑can‑eat spaghetti dinner in Weybridge.

Friday, Feb. 9, 5‑8 p.m., Weybridge Elementary School, Quaker Village Rd. Menu includes spaghetti and meatballs, green salad, garlic bread, homemade desserts and beverage. Proceeds go to the Weybridge Volunteer Fire Department.

Tickets adults $10/children 6‑12 $5/under 6 free, available at the Town Clerk’s office or at the door.

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” on Stage in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 9, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Middlebury Community Players’ production of Steve Martin’s long‑running Off‑Broadway absurdist comedy of historical fiction, which finds Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativity and the cele‑ brated painter set the art world afire with cubism.

Tickets $17 plus $2 THT preservation fee, available at Town Hall Theater Box Office Monday‑Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. or 802‑382‑9222.

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SATURDAY

Green Mountain Club hike or snowshoe the TAM in Middlebury.

Saturday, Feb. 10, meet at Wright Park.

An easy three‑mile hike from Wright Park to Belden Falls with a return to Wright Park. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, a snack and hiking poles if desired. This is a family and dog friendly hike. More info contact David Andrews at vtrevda@yahoo.com or 802‑388‑4894. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 10, 8‑11 a.m., Otter View Park, intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Help Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust to survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. More info at 802‑388‑6019 or 802‑388‑1007.

A SHROVE TUESDAY, or Pancake Tuesday, pancake supper will be offered in Shoreham on Tuesday, Feb. 13, from 5-7 p.m., at the Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Traditionally, people stuffed their bellies with the fattiest foods they could find (milk, butter, flour and eggs = pancakes) the night before Lent began.

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TAKE THOSE TRACKING skills to the next level on Saturday, Feb. 10, at 10 a.m., at the Orwell Free Library, 473 Main St., in Orwell when tracking guru Josh Hardt leads a workshop on how to follow animals in winter.

Cottontail hunting seminar in Addison. Saturday, Feb. 10, 9 a.m.‑3 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Route 17. A workshop about hunting eastern cottontail rabbits with beagles followed by a hunt on the grounds of Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area. Free. Space is limited. More info contact John Pellegrini at 802‑793‑1894.

Pancake Breakfast in Goshen. Saturday, Feb. 10, 9:30‑10:30 a.m., Blueberry Hill Inn, 1245 Goshen‑Ripton Rd. Help raise funds for trail and bridge maintenance at the Blueberry Hill Outdoor Center with a meal and a ski or showshoe.

Pancakes, VT sausage, VT apples and Goshen VT Maple Syrup and VT roasted coffee.$15 per person suggested donation/$7 kids 10 and under.

Bring friends.

Art and Chocolate, a Fun(d)raiser in Salisbury.

Saturday, Feb. 10, 10 a.m.‑2 p.m., Salisbury Public Library, 918 Maple St. Buy your Valentine a delectable sweet, a jewel, a basket, a quilt, a painting, a new hat, or custom made poem.

Children’s activity and free coffee.

Winter Tracking with Josh Hardt in Orwell.

Saturday Feb. 10, 10 a.m. Orwell Free Library, 473 Main St. Learn what questions to ask to deci‑ pher your next trail, plus tips and tricks to take your tracking to the next level. Free. This work‑ shop is part of the Shoreham Orwell Libraries 2018 Keynote Speaker Series.

Big Change Roundup for Kids in Vergennes.

Saturday, Feb. 10, 10 a.m.‑3 p.m. and 7 p.m.‑midnight, Vergennes Eagles Club, 67 New Haven Rd. Help raise money for the UVM Children’s Hospital at the vendor fair during the day and a dance with Twist of Fate in the evening.

50/50 raffle, bag raffle, 45 vendors and crafters, and cash bar at the dance.

Valentines dinner dance in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 10, 5‑11 p.m., VFW Post 7823, 530 Exchange St. Come enjoy happy hour, a roast pork from Pratt’s store with accompanying mashed pota‑ toes, gravy, glazed carrots, salad, rolls and desert, then dance to the Starline Rhythm Boys. Tickets $15/person, $20/person at the door, if available.

More info/RSVP at 802‑388‑9468, by Feb. 3.

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communitycalendar 6th annual Maple Fest in Shoreham. Saturday, Feb. 10, 6:30‑8:30 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. A benefit with a concert by Brandon’s Nelson Bandella, a maple dessert contest and a raffle. Submit your favorite maple dessert for the crowd to sample an rate. Free.

Attendees are asked to just bring their appetites and plenty of cash for voting. Dessert entries must include Vermont Maple Syrup and a recipe card. Entry forms are available at the library or at plattlib.org. More info at the Platt; 802‑897‑2647 or platt@shoreham.net; Carol Causton at 802‑897‑2747 or cacauston@gmail. com; or Judy Stevens at 802‑897‑7031 or judystevens@shoreham.net.

Contra dance in Cornwall. Saturday, Feb. 10, 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. More info at 802‑462‑3722.

Chocolate delight night in New Haven. Saturday, Feb. 10, 7‑9 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Enjoy food and wine and help support the New Haven Community Library. Many fabu‑ lous chocolate desserts to choose from. $10/ person. Lincoln Peak wines may be purchased by the glass.

Open Mic in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Sister Wicked, 3 West Seminary St. Bring your instrument, your talent and your singing voice and have a rocking time strutting your stuff.

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” on Stage in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Middlebury Community Players’ production of Steve Martin’s long‑running Off‑Broadway absurdist comedy of historical fiction, which finds Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist transformed physics with his theory of relativ‑ ity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Tickets $17 plus $2 THT preservation fee, available at Town Hall Theater Box Office Monday‑Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. or 802‑382‑9222.

Paul Asbell on stage in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. The multi‑faceted and highly acclaimed Asbell performs what he calls “steel string Americana” music from his three solo albums. Concert tick‑ ets $20. Pre‑concert dinner available for $25.

Reservations required for dinner and recom‑ mended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802‑247‑4295, info@brandon‑music.net or online at brandon‑music.net Alex Smith and Jacob Brillhart perform in Lincoln. Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Singer songwriter Smith and fiddler Brillhart will perform “mountain folk” for the Burnham Music Series. Tickets $10 adults/teens and kids free. More info call 802‑388‑6863.

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SUNDAY

St. Peter’s Parish breakfast in Vergennes. Sunday, Feb. 11, 8‑10 a.m.

St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 85 South Maple St. Hosted by the Knights of Columbus.

Mark your calendars for a delicious breakfast of eggs, omelets (to order), hot cakes, French toast, sausage, bacon and more. Bring family and friends. Adults $8.50/Seniors over 60 $7.50/kids 6‑12 $6/ children under 6 free/immediate families of five or more $28. More info at 802‑877‑2367.

Baseball Bingo Extravaganza in Middlebury.

Sunday, Feb. 11, 11 a.m.‑3 p.m. American Legion Post 27, Boardman St. Come out for an afternoon of fun and help support Tiger baseball.

Doors open at 11 a.m. Quickies start at 12:15 p.m. Regular games at 1 p.m. There also will be an auction, pulltab tickets, basket raffles, and concessions. All proceeds benefit Friends of Middlebury Baseball and the new Bullpen/Batting Cage.

“Picasso at the Lapin Agile” on Stage in Middlebury. Sunday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Middlebury Community Players’ production of Steve Martin’s long‑running Off‑Broadway absurdist comedy of historical fiction, which finds Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before the renowned scientist

Spring singing

THE MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY Chorus will begin rehearsals for its spring concerts on Sunday, Feb. 11, from 7-8:30 p.m., in Room 221 at Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. All interested singers are welcome to join in.

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transformed physics with his theory of relativ‑ ity and the celebrated painter set the art world afire with cubism. Tickets $17 plus $2 THT preservation fee, available at Town Hall Theater Box Office Monday‑Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. or 802‑382‑9222.

Meet Mr. Bixby! in Vergennes. Sunday, Feb., 11, 2 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Ever wonder why our five‑town library is named the Bixby? Or maybe why it has such a beautiful and unusual stained‑glass dome? Please join us for an enter‑ taining and informative “reenactment” of how the library came to be and what it is currently doing to be a vital resource for our community. All are welcome. Refreshments. More info contact Gail at 802‑425‑4505.

Moose Crossing in Middlebury. Sunday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Come delight in the sounds of Moose Crossing, the go‑to group for the jazz aficionado looking for classics. From Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra, to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, as well as some hard driving funk tunes from Josef Zawinul to Herbie Hancock, performance includes some original jazz music too. Free, open to the public and accessible to those with disabili‑ ties. Part of The Residence’s Sunday Music series. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

“Quilters, the Musical” in Middlebury. Sunday, Feb. 11, 7 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. A tender, moving play about a pioneer woman and her daughters that portrays the lot of women on the prairie through music, dance and drama. Free will donation.

Community Chorus in Middlebury. Sunday, Feb. 11, 7‑8:30 p.m., Room 221, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Come join the chorus — in a special location — as it prepares music for its spring concerts in early May, as well as a special appearance with the Middlebury Wind Ensemble in mid‑April. Open to all, high schoolers and adults, who love to sing.

More info contact conductor Jeff Rehbach at rehbach@middlebury.edu or 802‑989‑7355.

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TUESDAY

Shrove Tuesday pancake supper in Shoreham. Tuesday, Feb. 13, 5‑7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Come celebrate, prepare for Lent and feast on good food. Enjoy pancakes or French toast with maple syrup, sausages, latkes with applesauce or sour cream, and beverages.

Tickets $8 adults/$4 children/$20 for a family.

Open to all.

Shepard’s Pie community dinner in New Haven.

Tuesday February 13, 6:30 p.m., New Haven Congregational Church, Town Hill Rd. Come and enjoy vegetarian or beef Shepard’s Pie, salads, brownies and beverage. More info contact Donna at 802‑877‑2712.

Community Chorus in Middlebury. Tuesday, Feb. 13, 7‑8:30 p.m., Mead Chapel. Join the chorus for its first Tuesday rehearsal to prepare music for its spring concerts in early May, as well as a special appearance with the Middlebury Wind Ensemble in mid‑April. Open to all, high schoolers and adults, who love to sing. Plan to attend at least one rehearsal weekly on Sunday and/or Tuesday. More info contact conductor Jeff Rehbach at rehbach@middlebury.edu or 802‑989‑7355.

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WEDNESDAY

“David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts” on screen in Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 14, 11 a.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. In‑depth and intimate interviews with Britain’s most popular artist during his hugely success‑ ful shows at the Royal Academy of Arts in 2012 and 2016. Part of THT’s Great Art Wednesdays series. Tickets: adults $13/students $8 available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

MALT benefit bake in Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 14, 5‑9 p.m., American Flatbread, 137 Maple St (Marbleworks). American Flatbread hosts a benefit for Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT). For each flatbread purchased, a portion of the proceeds goes to MALT and their mission of working with our community to conserve natural and productive landscapes and to enhance scenic, recreational, and educational opportunities.

Book club meeting in Bridport. Wednesday, Feb. 14, 7 p.m., Bridport Highway Department Conference Room, Crown Point Road at Short St. “ Every Man Dies Alone” by Hans Fallada is the selected book. All interested readers welcome. More info at 802‑758‑2858.

“13th” screening and discussion in Lincoln.

Wednesday, Feb. 14, 7‑9 p.m., Lincoln Library, West River Rd. Come see the film by Ava DuVernay that chronicles the progression from the second qualifying clause of the 13th Amendment to the horrors of mass criminaliza‑ tion and the sprawling American prison industry.

With a potent mixture of archival footage and testimony from a dazzling array of activists, politicians, historians, and formerly incarcerated women and men. More info at bridgesoflincoln@ gmail.com.

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THURSDAY

School Maker Faire in Middlebury.

Thursday, Feb. 15, 4‑7 p.m., Hannaford Career Center, 51 Charles Ave. A kick‑off event in support of creating a maker space in Middlebury. Coinciding with the Career Center open house, this event will provide opportunity to showcase local makerism, create connections in the local maker web and gauge interest in having the resources of the Career Center available to the community after school. More info contact thexfactoryvt@gmail.com.

Hannaford Career Center open house in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb/ 15, 4‑7 p.m., Main Campus, 51 Charles Ave. and North Campus, 372 Mainelli Rd. Come see what programs the Hannaford Career Center has to offer, browse the Maker Faire, and enjoy refreshments, prizes and more. More info at 802‑382‑1012.

“A Walk in their Shoes: Dementia Simulation” in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 15, 4‑5 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Allow Certified Dementia Practitioners to take you through an experience to better create a positive environment for those with demen‑ tia. We will guide you through the challenges of compromised vision, hearing and dexter‑ ity, which all affect cognition. Free, open to the public and accessible to those with disabili‑ ties. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

“Jewels of Ecuador” lecture in Middlebury.

Thursday, Feb. 15, 7‑8 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Otter Creek Audubon’s Cabin Fever lecture series welcomes Hank Kaestner and his brother, Peter, who will review highlights of a bird‑viewing trip to Ecuador taken last April, where they saw almost 400 species of birds, including 45 different hummingbirds. Free.

LIVEMUSIC Jukebox Time Machine with the Grift in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 10, 5‑9 p.m., Notte.

Masefield Perkins Bolles in Bristol. Saturday, Feb. 10, 7 p.m., Hatch 31.

Paul Asbell in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Alex Smith and Jacob Brillhart in Lincoln.

Saturday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall.

Toast in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 10, 10 a.m.‑1 p.m., Notte.

Moose Crossing in Middlebury. Sunday, Feb. 11, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

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Steve Martin’s ‘Picasso at the Lapin Agile’ at THT Looking for a reason to come out of hibernation? Ready for an infusion of warm intellect with a provocative dose of humor? Wipe the winter gloom away and come out to the Town Hall Theater on Thursday, Feb. 8 at 7:30 p.m. to see the Middlebury Community Players’ presentation of “Picasso at the Lapin Agile.” Additional performances will take place at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, and at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 11.

Steve Martin’s play “Picasso at the Lapin Agile” is a clever and humorous take on a chance meeting and witty repartee between Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein. It is 1904, in Paris, France. The Lapin Agile (Nimble Rabbit), quaint watering hole to struggling artists and would-be geniuses, welcomes two soon-to-be legends for one extraordinary night. Picasso and Einstein, whose egos match their intellects, spar with the regulars and each other about art, science, inspiration, love, and the promise of the 20th century. Throw in a mysterious visitor who makes the ladies swoon, and you’re in for a well-rounded theater experience.

THE CAST OF “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” the latest production by the Middlebury Community Players, gears up for their performance of wit Equally smart and silly, Picasso and repartee. The show runs Thursday, Feb. 8 through Saturday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday Feb. 11, at 2 p.m., at Town Hall Theater. at the Lapin Agile asks serious Independent photo/Trent Campbell questions about art, science and acoustic guitar that I have heard in genius while it cracks goofy jokes musician,” playing nearly 200 shows on his grandfather’s fiddle. After PAUL ASBELL AT BRANDON years!” about history, romance and how to a year. In the fall of 2012, at the graduating college — where he met MUSIC From his early days, playing bake a pie in the shape of the letter close of his first extensive summer and began touring with folk singer Paul Asbell will perform music “e.” It was Steve Martin’s first full- tour, Smith signed with acclaimed Alex Smith — Brillhart moved to from his three solo albums at blues on Chicago’s South Side, to length play; at the debut reading in folk label Wepecket Island Records. Boston, where he now studies violin Brandon Music on Saturday, his present multi-faceted career based out of northern Vermont, Martin’s Beverly Hills He has since toured making with master maker Roman February 10 at 7:30 p.m. home, Tom Hanks read “Steel String Americana,” Paul Asbell has earned an internationally both Barnas. Brillhart continues to play the role of Picasso and solo and with his band with Smith while also teaching “Roots and Branches” and “From underground reputation as a true Chris Sarandon read the The Mountain Sound, fiddle lessons and gigging with other Adamant to Atchafalaya” received “musician’s musician.” “Guitar role of Einstein. The numerous rave reviews for their Player Magazine” acknowledges been featured on groups.

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by Greg Pahl Keep” alongside Pete instead on violins he has built country-based themes and original Best Off-Broadway Play.

Seeger, Peter Yarrow himself. Whether playing traditional pieces from the “American roots” sense of swing, [Asbell] tackles There will be a cash and Dan Berggren, Celtic tunes or contemporary folk tradition. The Flynn Theater called bouncy ragtime fingerpicking, crisp bar at each performance won an NTCMA award music, you’re bound to find the them “A genre-blurring, virtuosic flatpicking and lush, jazzy chording with a limited number of café table for his record “Hamilton County” “Gaelic” in Brillhart’s playing. waltz through the deep heritage of with equal aplomb…” evidence that seats available. and received extensive radio play Admission is $10 for adults; teens American folklore, where styles of he is not your average solo acoustic Tickets are $12 for opening night, nationwide. and kids get in for free. Refreshments Robert Johnson, Doc Watson and guitarist.

“Steel String Americana” is also and $17 for all other shows. Tickets Jacob Brillhart grew up in will be served. Doors open at 7 p.m. Dr. John rub elbows with those of are on sale through the THT box rural Vermont playing Cape For more information, call 388- Joe Pass and Bill Frisell.” Others how Asbell characterizes his overall office at townhalltheater.org, or in Breton and Scottish style tunes 6863. have said “It is quite the best CD of musical style, and other acoustic guitar legends are fans. David person at 68 South Pleasant Street, Bromberg keeps coming back to that Middlebury, by calling 802-382album, taken with “how musical it 9222, Monday-Saturday, noon to 5 is.” He believes Asbell is “one of the p.m., or at the door starting one hour best-kept secrets in American music before show times. today.”

BURNHAM SERIES IN In his 45-year career Asbell has LINCOLN played and recorded with Muddy Singer songwriter Alex Smith will Waters, John Lee Hooker, Howlin’ be performing with fiddler Jacob Wolf, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Magic Brillhart for the Burnham Music Sam, Earl Hooker, Paul Butterfield, series at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. Sam Lay, Pops Staples, Donny 10 at Burnham Hall, 52 River Road Hathaway and numerous others. in Lincoln.

He formed the award-winning jazzSmith grew up in Long Lake, in the fusion group Kilimanjaro in the rural heart of New York’s Adirondack 1970s, was a founding member of Park, and his music strives first the Unknown Blues Band, featuring and foremost to echo the people Big Joe Burrell, and more recently and culture of that area. He builds has partnered with Brooks Williams, songs from a blend of traditional Mike Dowling, Chuck D’Aloia and folk harmony and strikingly modern Elisabeth Von Trapp. lyrics, confronting today’s most Concert tickets are $20. A prepressing issues with a style of honest concert dinner is available for $25. and accurate observation. He is Reservations are required for dinner often compared to songwriters Stan ALEX SMITH AND Jacob Brillhart come to Burnham Hall in Lincoln on Saturday, Feb. 10, to play their and recommended for the show.

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Smith is truly a “working traditional folk harmonies with strikingly modern lyrics. The show begins at 7:30 p.m.

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Addison Independent, Monday, February 5, 2018 — PAGE 11

Cosmic Forecast For the week of February 5

PAUL ASBELL, VERMONTER and guitar legend, will bring his stunning musicality to Brandon Music on Saturday, Feb. 10, at 7:30 p.m.

Photo/Laura Carbone

Arts Beat (Continued from Page 10) Venue is BYOB. Call 247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music. net for reservations or for more information. Brandon Music is located at 62 Country Club Road in Brandon.

LIVE MUSIC AT NOTTE There will be two live performances this week at Notte Neapolitan Pizza Bar (formerly Two Brothers Lounge and Stage) located downstairs at 86 Main Street in Middlebury. On Wednesday, The Open Mic is hosted at 9 p.m. by the

ever talented, Mark Sikora. Play solo or join Sikora and friends for a jamming good time. All talent levels are welcome. You never know, what you are going to see and hear at open mic: musicians, comedians, poetry, slam poetry or short stories. It’s free to enter and there is no cover charge.

Then, on Saturday, February 10, Notte presents Toast at 10 p.m.

Toast is ready to rock your winter blues away. There is a $3 cover charge. For more information, call 388-0002.

ARIES: March 21-April 20.

Aries, you give everyone the benefit of the doubt, and that’s commendable.

Such a positive outlook will serve you and your relationships well.

TAURUS: April 21May 21. Taurus, you may do a bunch of sitting around and waiting at work in the days ahead.

Stay patient and rest up, as you’ll need energy reserves when things pick up again.

GEMINI: May 22June 21. Gemini, you may need to work on communicating with some coworkers. Mixed messages can lead to delays, so convene a meeting to clear the air.

CANCER: June 22-July 22. Cancer, in attempt to stay calm, you may be suppressing feelings that really should come to the surface. This may only lead to a blowout later on.

Transparency is key.

LEO: July 23-Aug. 23.

Leo, it may be tempting to put on an overly cheery attitude, even if things are bugging you. Masking your true feelings may lead to miscommunication.

Better to keep things honest.

VIRGO: Aug. 24Sept. 22. Virgo, your ego is strong enough to withstand some criticism this week. Use the feedback to develop an even better version of yourself, which will only benefit you in the long run.

LIBRA: Sept. 23-Oct. 23. A current situation has you feeling a bit pessimistic, Libra. But that outlook can be adjusted by looking into the future. Let upcoming plans restore your sunshine.

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It’s fine to have differing opinions, just be sure to respect each other’s point of view.

SAGITTARIUS: Nov. 23-Dec. 21. Sagittarius, your energy levels may start off very high at the beginning of the week, but they may quickly fizzle out. Roll up your sleeves and try to trudge through.

CAPRICORN: Dec. 22-Jan. 20. Feeling needed this week can quickly recharge your levels of motivation, Capricorn.

Helping others is a surefire way to realize personal satisfaction.

AQUARIUS: Jan. 21Feb. 18. Aquarius, you have an opportunity to further your education by doing some traveling.

Don’t let responsibilities at home clip your wings this time around.

PISCES: Feb. 19-March 20. Pisces, a busy workweek is on the horizon, but you are set to make the most of every situation. Your confidence can make a difference.

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Addison Independent, Monday, February 5, 2018 — PAGE 13

Orwell Free Library offering workshops in February and March ORWELL — The Orwell Free Library has several free workshops and talks planned for February and March. All events will be held at the library at 423 Main St. First on Saturday, Feb. 10, the library will host Winter Tracking with Josh Hardt at 10 a.m. Hardt will detail what questions to ask to decipher your next trail, plus tips and tricks to take your tracking to the next level. This workshop is part of the Shoreham Orwell Libraries 2018 Keynote Speaker Series.

F o r those into Saturday, composting, Feb. 10, the the library library will will host host Winter “The Dirt Tracking with on Backyard Composting” Josh Hardt on Tuesday, at 10 a.m.

Feb. 20, at Hardt will 6:30 p.m. detail what This free questions workshop from Addison to ask to decipher your C o u n t y Solid Waste next trail, District will plus tips and cover the tricks to take basics of your tracking b a c k y a r d composting, to the next including level. information on why food scraps should be diverted from the landfill, what compost is, how to set up and manage a pile, uses for finished compost, and troubleshooting tips. Whether a seasoned composter or brand new to the process, come get questions answered, concerns addressed, and learn more about the wonderful world of compost.

For those who have ever considered writing, librarian, poet, and founder of Zig Zag Lit Mag, Muir Haman will be on hand on Saturday, March 10, from 10 a.m. to noon to run the workshop “‘I can be a writer?’: An Intro to Creative

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Writing is not the painful process from grade school days, it is a core human skill that anyone can enjoy, and everyone who can tell a story can “write.” Haman will explore some basic concepts, techniques,

and at least one writing prompt to help spark creativity. Whether a practicing writer or someone who has simply dreamed of being a writer at some point in life, the workshop will offer something rewarding. Discussion will cover a wide array of expression and

will focus on techniques that can be adapted to any form of writing.

Bring a writing utensil and paper.

Then on Tuesday, March 13, at 6:30 p.m. Local mushroom farmers Heather Ewing and Jimmy Horton will share their experiences growing mushrooms. Come learn about the

many ways to grow mushrooms, including in the backyard.

By the end of March, when the ground begins to thaw, soil scientist Sheri Young will be at the Library on Tuesday, March 27, at 7 p.m., to talk about Septic System Maintenance and Best Practices.

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St. Mike’s hires first female president, Lorraine Sterritt

By GAIL CALLAHAN of the college community at the VTDigger.org McCarthy Arts Center. “The more I COLCHESTER — The first fell in love with Saint Michael’s, the woman president of Saint Michael’s more I realized how fundamentally College arrived on the institution’s values campus this past and mine were in Tuesday to meet with “I’m very deeply alignment — devoted administrators, faculty, honored. I would to learning, social staff and students. hospitality, be honored to be justice, Lorraine Sterritt’s any president of respect of the dignity selection as the 17th of every human being president of the Saint Michael’s and stewardship of the Colchester liberal arts College, but planet. The spirit of college was announced I’m deeply Saint Michael’s came by the college’s honored to be through loud and clear presidential search the first woman at every turn.” committee on Jan. 26.

Later, at a press president of Originally from conference, she said Ireland, Sterritt is Saint Michael’s her approach to her currently president of College.” job would be based on Salem Academy and — Lorraine Sterritt a three-tiered model College in Winstonconsisting of analysis, Salem, N.C. She will assessment and action. take up her new position in July.

Sterritt said she would build “on College officials declined to disclose the great work” of the college’s salary information. current president, Jack Neuhauser, “When I first started exploring who is retiring. this opportunity, Saint Michael’s “All of that takes a village, and stole my heart,” Sterritt said in a we’ll do it together,” Sterritt said.

30-minute address to members “As a person called to a life of

service, I’m profoundly honored to be admitted to your company.”

Sterritt’s nearly 30-year career in higher education has taken her around the U.S., including Harvard University, where she was associate dean of freshmen, and the University of Pennsylvania, where she was dean of freshmen and director of academic advising. Sterritt holds a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in French from Queen’s University Belfast, and a master’s degree and a doctorate in French from Princeton University.

In appointing Sterritt, Saint Michael’s joins a recent trend among Catholic institutions of higher learning toward appointing women presidents. From 2000 to 2016 the number of women presidents of Catholic colleges and universities increased nearly 150 percent; of 220 colleges and universities in 2016, 46 had women lay presidents, according to the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.

“I’m very deeply honored,” Sterritt said. “I would be honored to be any president of Saint Michael’s College, but I’m deeply honored to be the first woman president of Saint Michael’s College.”

Saint Michael’s, which was founded in 1904 by the Catholic Society of Saint Edmund, has recently faced challenging times. It is competing with other small liberal arts colleges for both students and funding. There were staff layoffs at the start of the academic year. Sterritt said such challenges are common among smaller colleges. She said she would institute an aggressive marketing plan, and would be urging students and alumni to be ambassadors for Saint Michael’s.

Mary Kate McKenna, chair of the presidential search committee and head of the college’s board of trustees, said Sterritt is the right person for Saint Michael’s. “The committee is thrilled to have Dr. Sterritt, a scholar and experienced administrator, coming to lead the college at such a crucial time in our history.”

McKenna, a 1980 graduate of the college, said Sterritt’s resume floated to the top of the applicant

LORRAINE STERRITT pool. She praised Sterritt’s love of liberal arts education, specifically, and her “clear vision” for the future of higher education generally.

Sixty-five applicants submitted resumes for the position, according to The Very Rev. Stephen Hornat, superior general of the Society of Saint Edmund and a member of the search committee. “She’ll make a great president and will have the prayers and support of the Edmundite and the larger Saint Michael’s community,” Hornat said.

Born and raised in Ireland, Sterritt first came to the United States on vacation in 1984, when she visited New York, Boston and Vermont, and in her words, “fell in love with Vermont.” She moved to the United States in 1985.

Sterritt has a career of nearly 30 years in education in the U.S. starting at Chatham Hall, an all-girls college-preparatory boarding school in Chatham, Va., where she was

director of school and also taught French and Latin from 1985 to 1991.

From 1991 to 1996 Sterritt studied at Princeton University, where she also served as assistant master of Wilson College.

In 1996, she became associate dean of freshmen at Harvard University before moving to the University of Pennsylvania, where she served as Dean of Freshmen and director of Academic Advising.

From 2004 to 2010, she was administrator with teaching roles at Stanford University, and served as associate dean for Graduate and Undergraduate Studies for the School of Humanities and Sciences.

From there she moved to Harvard, where she was a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University and Dean for Administration at Harvard College.

Sterritt took the top job at Salem Academy and College in North Carolina in 2014.

Addison Independent, Monday, February 5, 2018 — PAGE 15

Learning (Continued from Page 1) “I am interested in building a County’s first-ever EarlyAct Club. platform around a tree at our school Sanctioned and supported by Rotary that we call ‘Mother Pine,’” she International, EarlyAct is a service said enthusiastically. “It’s special, club for elementary students ages because it’s the only tree we get to 5 to 13. Its members embrace the climb.” same Rotary philosophy of “service Channing Brush will serve as above self” as they collectively plan corresponding secretary for the club. activities and projects designed to “I wanted to be an officer because help themselves and others.

I wanted to try something new and Five young leaders of the nascent different,” she said.

Salisbury EarlyAct Club met their Phoenix Popp is one of the group’s adult sponsors on Wednesday, vice presidents.

Feb. 24, during the Middlebury “I wanted to be the vice president Rotary’s weekly gathering at Rosie’s to become part of the community,” Restaurant. he said.

“I think it’s fabulous to get Emma Cait Morrissey young people involved serves as co-vice in philanthropy, “I think it’s president. community relations fabulous to get “I wanted to at an early age,” help people in the young people Middlebury Rotary community,” she said member Maureen involved in of her reason for joining Conrad said of the philanthropy, the club.

Salisbury EarlyAct community Jameson McGuire effort. It’s a club that relations at an is also a treasurer will not only perform for the new student early age.”

SALISBURY COMMUNITY SCHOOL fifth-graders Jameson McGuire, left, Phoenix Popp, Emma Cait good deeds in Salisbury, organization.

He, — Middlebury too, said he joined in Morrissey, Natalie Gillett, and Channing Brush are leaders of the school’s new EarlyAct Club, which is a but potentially also Rotary member an effort to help his service organization affiliated with the Middlebury Rotary Club. serve as a pipeline for Independent photo/John Flowers Maureen Conrad community. future Rotary members.

EarlyAct Salisbury Students will spend clubs in northern Vermont, northern Gifts included a gavel to sound measure new initiatives. germinated during a discussion the coming weeks reviewing New Hampshire and southern the beginning, and end, of their As Canales whisked the students between Salisbury School Principal potential community service Québec. He was pleased to be part of EarlyAct meetings and some rolls off to school, she expressed her Fernanda Canales and Middlebury projects.

Among the early the ceremony formally creating the of “Four-Way Test” coins. Each gratitude to Rotary members.

Rotary Club member Ben Fuller. candidates: filling in some of the Salisbury EarlyAct Club. Denu gave Salisbury student will get one of the “Thank you for the opportunity “I had been looking for something holes in a large field near the school the young Salisbury officers some coins, which bears the Four-Way you’ve given our school,” she said. to engage our kids in really genuine playground and putting up reminder official EarlyAct pins.

Test (truth, fairness, friendship and Reporter John Flowers is at work in the community,” Canales signs for school toilet users to flush “The whole idea is sustainability benefit) against which Rotary Clubs johnf@addisonindependent.com. said. within our organization of Rotary,” when they’re done.

Her students jumped at the idea The club officers also want to Denu said. “If we can instill the with great enthusiasm. make better use of the school garden ideals of Rotary at an early age, Canales said 27 students vied for and want to donate some of the we hope that carries on through for the privilege of becoming EarlyAct fresh produce to Helping Overcome the rest of their lives and hopefully, Club officers. Students in grades Poverty’s Effects, a local nonprofit some day, they’ll become Rotarians.

5 and 6 — which amount to a that feeds low-income residents.

It’s a great program. We have it at all combined total of 48 kids — were Middlebury Rotary members were levels now, from elementary through eligible to apply for leadership posts, impressed with the youths’ growing college age. It’s a great organization, Canales noted. and I’m glad we’re going to get to-do list.

Two representatives of each “These guys are motivated and some new Rotarians.” class will take turns attending the their hearts are in the right place,” Middlebury Rotary also sent the meetings of the Middlebury Rotary. Fuller said. “These guys have some children off to school with some They’ll share meeting highlights great ideas.” gifts to go along with the words of with their peers, who will also Eric Denu of Bridport is governor encouragement and a hearty Rosie’s serve as a sounding board for of Rotary Club District 7850, which Restaurant breakfast. ideas. All Salisbury Community includes more than 30 individual School students are considered club members.

“These kids have also written their constitution, their bylaws, and they are learning the process of being civic members of our community Here’s what one reader has to say about us! and responsibility,” Canales said.

“Whether it’s Rotary or any other part of their community, I’m hoping that this enthusiasm and engagement carries on for them.”

One reader from Weybridge, VT writes: Students pick their officers and run “We love ‘The Addison.’

Keeps us in touch with our community and events. ” their own meetings. Together they must plan, execute and raise funds for three community service projects each year. One of those projects must benefit their school; another must be a boon to their broader community; Quotes are taken from reader comments submitted with subscription renewals. and the third must be helpful to the global community.

Each of the new Salisbury EarlyAct Club officers on Jan. 24 told members of their parent Rotary club why they signed up and what they hoped to accomplish.

Natalie Gillett will serve as one of the Salisbury club’s treasurers.

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PETS IN NEED HOMEWARD BOUND

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Diesel is ready to start his engine and drive right into your home! He is a very sweet dog who does well with people; his previous guardians stated that he is very outgoing. Diesel loves to play and to snuggle-if that isn’t the perfect combination, we don’t know what is! Diesel really likes to go for car rides, he knows his basic commands and he has a preference for rubber toys. Diesel is questionable with other dogs and will do best in a home without a lot of chaos. Diesel will need very regular exercise and would love, love, love a fenced in yard because he really likes to be outside (though not a requirement). Come meet this handsome man today!

Almond. 2 years, shorthaired tiger, spayed female. If eating almonds has health benefits, imagine what petting Almond, the cat, can do! Almond has a silky soft coat and is really friendly! She lives in a community room here at the shelter but she can be hissy towards other cats if a human is giving them more attention than they are giving her. Almond really loves to rub her head against any leg who passes by.

She is also very affectionate and curious!

Venice. 1 year, shorthaired orange tiger, spayed female. “If I could rename love, I’d call it Venezia.” Venice is a gorgeous, loving cat. She is looking for a new home with a family who will provide her with as much love as she deserves. Venice is very sweet and really likes to have her head, neck and back scratched. Venice is a little timid at first, so she appreciates when any new human reaches toward her slowly, but once she sees you are only there to pet her, she is more than happy to receive the attention.

Buddy. 10 years, shorthaired black, neutered male. All Buddy wants is to have a new buddy to cuddle and play with. Buddy is a total sweetheart! He is affectionate and mellow, loves to lay in a lap, likes to be brushed, is good with other cats, and doesn’t mind being picked up.

Buddy is very social and loves to hang out with any humans who come to visit him. He is as close to perfection as one can get and we know you will absolutely adore him!

Demi & Juniper. 11 months, American Guinea pigs, females. Description: Demi and Juniper are a bonded pair of guinea pigs looking for a home together! They are very friendly and like to be picked up and held. They are talkative, love to play and love to snack on their veggies!

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Juliet. Adult, Masked Lovebird, female. This gorgeous lovebird is looking for a home where she can get daily love and attention! Juliet is not hand-tamed but with daily interaction she may become much more sociable, and single lovebirds have been known to bond with their owners. This lovely lady will brightened up any home!

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28 mistreated pets find a haven MIDDLEBURY — At approximately 11 a.m. on Monday, Jan. 29, cheers could be heard throughout the county’s animal shelter. What prompted the celebration was a call from the Addison County State’s Attorney’s Office notifying them that the animals seized 115 days prior in an animal cruelty case had been ordered surrendered and were now theirs to re-home.

The seizure took place on Oct. 7, 2017, when the Vermont State Police, with the assistance of Homeward Bound and a licensed veterinarian, removed 28 animals from a Ferrisburgh home. Several hearings took place in the months that followed, culminating with a Civil Forfeiture hearing on January 24, which consisted of 4.5 hours of testimony, argument, and evidence.

The court ruled on Jan. 29 that the state had provided “clear and convincing evidence” that the animals were “subject to cruelty, neglect, and abandonment.” In particular, they were “restrained in a manner that is inhumane and detrimental to their welfare,” and “deprived of adequate food, water, sanitation, and necessary medical attention.”

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New Haven Vermont State Police barracks and to Addison County State’s Attorney Dennis Wygman and Victim’s Advocate Deb James for bringing this case to a successful conclusion,” says Homeward Bound’s Executive Director Jessica Danyow. “We have seen many a cruelty case in Vermont drag on for months, only to end with the animals returning to the neglectful situation they came from and the shelter shouldering thousands of dollars in expenses after caring for the animals in limbo. The outcome of this case sends a strong message to Addison County and Vermont: animal cruelty will not be tolerated and those animals in neglectful situations will be advocated for to the fullest extent of the law.”

With regard to the cost of caring for the 28 animals seized in this case, Danyow reports that the expenses have reached nearly $11,000 since they came into the shelter. “The defendants still

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face criminal charges and will be expected to pay some restitution,” says Danyow. “This would be great but the most important thing is that these animals can move on with their lives in safe, loving, and healthy homes.”

Now that the animals are in their custody, Homeward Bound can address their neglected medical needs including dental care, diagnosing body masses/tumors, and providing spay/neuter surgeries. Many of the animals will be adopted by their foster families.

Danyow adds, “We are grateful to the many people who stepped up to provide foster care for the animals once we were allowed to place them in foster homes. It’s wonderful to see so many of these foster families transitioning into forever families and it’s the absolute best thing for these companion animals.” Still available for adoption are ferrets, birds, guinea pigs, a hamster and a puppy.

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Schedule HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Hockey 2/7 MUHS at Beekmantown...................TBA 2/9 Colch/Burlington at MUHS.............. 5 PM Boys’ Hockey 2/7 MUHS at Rutland............................ 4 PM 2/9 Burr & Burton at MUHS.................. 7 PM Girls’ Basketball 2/6 Missisquoi at Mt. Abe...................... 7 PM 2/6 MUHS at VUHS.............................. 7 PM 2/8 MUHS at Mt. Abe............................ 7 PM 2/8 OV at Hartford................................ 7 PM 2/9 VUHS at Mt. Abe............................ 7 PM 2/10 MUHS at North Country................ 2 PM 2/10 OV at Brattleboro.......................... 6 PM Boys’ Basketball 2/5 VUHS at Fairfax........................Canceled 2/6 Springfield at OV............................ 7 PM 2/7 Mt. Abe at VUHS............................ 7 PM 2/7 MUHS at St. Albans........................ 7 PM 2/9 MSJ at OV...................................... 7 PM 2/9 Enosburg at MUHS......................... 7 PM 2/10 Missisquoi at Mt. Abe.................... 7 PM Wrestling 2/7 MUHS at St. J................................. 6 PM 2/7 OV at Fair Haven............................ 6 PM 2/8 Mt. Abe et al at VUHS................ 6:30 PM 2/10............................. NVAC Meet at Essex 2/10..............OV at MVL Meet at Fair Haven COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Hockey 2/9 Midd. at Williams............................ 7 PM 2/10 Williams at Midd........................... 7 PM Women’s Hockey 2/6 Midd. at Norwich............................. 7 PM 2/9 Midd. at Colby................................. 7 PM 2/10 Midd. at Colby............................... 3 PM Women’s Basketball 2/9 Hamilton at Midd............................. 7 PM 2/10 Amherst at Midd............................ 3 PM Men’s Basketball 2/6 Midd. at SUNY-Canton................... 7 PM 2/9 Midd. at Hamilton............................ 7 PM 2/10 Midd. at Amherst........................... 3 PM Late events occurred after deadline. Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

Sports BRIEF Girls’ hockey splits on road

ESSEX — The Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team split a pair of road games last week and stands at 4-8 heading into two games this week, at Beekmantown, N.Y., on Wednesday and at home vs. the Colchester-Burlington collective at 5 p.m. on Friday.

On this past Wednesday the Tigers edged host Mount Mansfield/Champlain Valley, 1-0, reversing an earlier 4-0 home loss to the CougarHawks.

Tiger goalie Abby Hodsden worked a 29-save shutout, and Helen Ander(See Girls’ Hockey, Page 22)

MONDAY

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School senior Tyler Giorgio disrupts play in front of Rutland goalie Glen Mandel Friday night in Middlebury. Giorgio had a goal and an assist in the 5-1 Middlebury win.

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Middlebury boys’ hockey comes on strong to topple Rutland Raiders

By ANDI BOE & ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — A second-period surge proved to be the difference for the Middlebury Union High School boys’ hockey team on Friday night as the Tigers cruised to a 5-1 win over visiting Rutland.

The Tigers improved to 8-5-1 heading into two games this week, a rematch with the Raiders in Rutland on Wednesday and a home game vs. Burr & Burton on Friday at 7 p.m. in the Memorial Sports Center.

The Tigers are currently in sixth place in Division I, while Burr & Burton (9-3) is in fifth; at least a No. 5 or 6 seed would ensure the Tigers a home first-round playoff game.

On this past Friday MUHS came out of the gates strong, and when a puck popped out of the corner into the high slot 42 seconds into the game, sophomore Devon Kearns buried it inside the right post to give Middlebury an early lead.

But that score seemed to light a

“Now it’s just figuring out the personnel and having these guys showing up consistently and playing at a high level​. ​Like tonight when we wanted to work, Rutland didn’t touch the puck.​” — Derek Bartlett, MUHS coach spark for the 3-10-1 Raiders, who began creating chances off of Tiger missed passes that became more frequent after the early goal.

MUHS Coach Derek Bartlett noticed his team’s change in pace. “​I thought we were a little complacent the rest of the period,” Bartlett said. “It didn’t seem like we were working off the puck. It seemed like we were waiting for the next guy to do something and then react to it.​” And at 14:08 Rutland capitalized. The Raiders won a faceoff to the inside of the right circle, where freshmen Ryan Melen netted the Raiders’ only goal to tie the game

at the end of the first period.

After the late Raider goal the Tigers emerged with a new intensity in the second period. When asked what he said to his team to flip the switch, Bartlett credited his players and their leadership. “​I did not set foot in the locker room. There was no message,” Bartlett said “And, honestly, they know what the message would have been. Because we’re at the stage of the season where it gets a little tiresome where we’re saying the same things over and over again. And the thing is they know what they’re capable of when they want to play and do the things

we’re asking them to do.​” And it seemed the Tigers did know what to do. From the puck drop at the start of the second period, Middlebury dominated play, and at 2:56 junior Kolby Farnsworth made it 2-1. A shot from the point glanced off the left post and bounced into the corner, where Kearns and junior Ben Turner won the puck. They moved it to the front of the net, where Farnsworth was waiting for a one-timer that went in off Raider goalie’s Glen Mandel’s glove and bounded just over the goal line.

From there, the Tigers controlled the game. Senior defenders Krystian Gombosi and Ziven McCarty effectively shut down the Raider attack, and sophomore goalie Daniel Wiles (12 saves) made a few crucial saves to keep the Tigers in the lead.

With just over a minute remaining in the period, the Tigers lit the lamp again. Sophomore forward (See Boys’ Hockey, Page 21)

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Eagles, MUHS earn victories in girls’ hoop

ADDISON COUNTY — Mount Abraham and Middlebury each won twice to highlight local high school girls’ basketball play in the latter part of last week, when also Vergennes came up short twice at home and Otter Valley lost at Fair Haven.

EAGLES On Wednesday the Eagles rolled to a 30-8 lead in the first half on the way to a 54-23 win over visiting Milton.

Emma Carter (20 points and 15 rebounds) and Jalen Cook (nine points and six rebounds) did the most offensive damage for Mount Abe. On Saturday the Eagles shut down visiting Enosburg in a 41-17 victory.

The loss dropped the 9-3 Hornets out of the top four in Division II

and moved the 9-4 Eagles into third place, according to the Vermont Principals’ Association standings.

The Eagles held Enosburg to six first-half points and led by 17 at the break. Carter scored 20 again and added nine boards, and Abby Mansfield (six points and six assists) and Emma LaRose (five points and five assists) also helped spark the Eagle attack.

TIGERS On Wednesday the Tigers earned a 50-32 victory over visiting Missisquoi. Keagan Dunbar tossed in 30 points and added 11 rebounds as the Tigers avenged an earlier road loss, and Shannon Sunderland chipped in eight points.

On Saturday the Tigers made it five

wins in seven outings after an 0-6 start with a wire-to-wire, 50-41 win over visiting Winooski. Dunbar scored half of the Tigers’ points, while Ashley Sunderland scored seven to lead a number of other contributors.

Khadija Hussein, Amna Cicak and Lydia Nattress all scored 10 for the 6-8 Spartans.

COMMODORES On Wednesday the Commodores hung with visiting Mount Mansfield during a 12-12 first quarter, but the Cougars pulled away for a 4433 victory. Kate Gosliga topped a balanced VUHS scoring sheet with seven points.

On Saturday visiting North Country remained undefeated in the Lake

Division by defeating VUHS, 5026. Kylie Wright (14) and Grace Giroux (12) led the 10-4 Falcons.

Brianna Vanderwey led the 3-11 Commodores with seven points.

OTTERS On Thursday host Fair Haven improved to 13-2 by coasting past the Otters, 57-28. The Slaters, the firstplace team in D-II, snapped a 9-9 tie after one period by outscoring OV, 23-5, in the second period, during which Ryleigh Coloutti hit four three-pointers. Coloutti finished with 16 points, and Kaleigh Brown and Adriana Dalto added 11 each for the Slaters.

Gabby Poalino paced the 3-9 Otters with 14 points.

for the Tigers, and Goalie Jeffrey Stearns made 16 saves.

Gabe Frigo, Mason Fay and Dylan LeClair found the net for the Wolves in the late going, and goalie Ted Hopper stopped 13 shots.

Bartlett said one reason the Tigers played well last week was a tweak to their forecheck the team has been working on, a switch to a system that has their defensemen pinching more aggressively on the wings with the center covering the middle. “​Now we feel we have the right

forecheck, the look that we want,” he said. “Now it’s just figuring out the personnel and having these guys showing up consistently and playing at a high level​. ​Like tonight when we wanted to work, Rutland didn’t touch the puck.​” As the regular season nears its home stretch Bartlett said the Tigers are confident. “​We just have to keep climbing and keep focus here,​” Bartlett said. “​ When we play I really believe we’re a contender, a legitimate team in this league​.”

Boys’ Hockey (Continued from Page 20) Hale Hescock received a pass from senior captain Tyler Giorgio (one goal, 1 assist), skated the puck behind the net and slid a backhanded wraparound past Mandel (23 saves) to make it 3-1.

The Tigers sustained pressure for the final minute and finally forced a puck in the corner to pop into the high slot. Junior Cooper O’Brien was there to hammer home a one-timer right at the buzzer.

The Tigers held their momentum in the third. At 3:53, Giorgio, with

assists from McCarty and Kamrin Bartlett, ripped a close shot inside the right post. Middlebury controlled the rest of the period to secure the 5-1 victory, their second of the week.

On Wednesday the Tigers bolted to a 4-0 lead against visiting South Burlington (4-8-1) and hung on for a 4-3 victory. The Wolves took advantage of Tiger penalties, including a five-minute major, to score all three of their goals in the final six minutes. Ryan Nadeau, Gombosi, Hescock and O’Brien scored

TIGER KOLBY FARNSWORTH scored a goal in Middlebury’s 5-1 win over Rutland Friday night.

Score BOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Hockey 1/31 MUHS vs. CVU/MMU.......................1-0 2/3 Essex vs. MUHS.................................3-1 Boys’ Hockey 1/31 MUHS vs. South Burlington..............4-3 2/2 MUHS vs. Rutland..............................5-1 Girls’ Basketball 1/31 Mt. Abe vs. Milton.........................54-23 1/31 MUHS vs. Missisquoi....................50-32 1/31 Mt. Mansfield vs. VUHS................44-33 2/1 Fair Haven vs. OV..........................57-28 2/3 MUHS vs. Winooski........................50-41 2/3 Mt. Abe vs. Enosburg.....................41-17 2/3 North Country vs. VUHS.................50-26 Boys’ Basketball 2/2 Fair Haven vs. OV..........................63-50 2/2 Enosburg vs. VUHS........................39-26 2/2 Milton vs. MUHS ............................57-56 COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Hockey 2/2 Wesleyan vs. Midd.............................3-1 2/3 Trinity vs. Midd....................................3-0 Women’s Hockey 2/2 Midd vs. Wesleyan.............................3-0 2/3 Midd vs. Wesleyan.............................4-0 Women’s Basketball 2/2 Bowdoin vs. Midd...........................70-52 2/3 Midd. vs. Colby...............................55-48 Men’s Basketball 2/2 Midd. vs. Bowdoin..........................72-70 2/3 Midd. vs. Colby...............................75-56

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TIGER JUNIOR COOPER O’Brien sets up in front of the Rutland goal during Friday night’s game in Middlebury. O’Brien scored a goal in the 5-1 Middlebury win.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

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Boys’ hoop: Slaters tip OV; Commodores and Tigers bested ADDISON COUNTY — Host Fair Haven topped Otter Valley to highlight local high school boys’ basketball action, all from this past Friday. In other games Middlebury lost a road heartbreaker, while Vergennes stumbled at home.

OTTERS The Slaters rode a 15-3 game-opening start to a 32-16 halftime lead and an eventual 63-50 victory over the visiting Otters.

Slater Cam Coloutti scored nine of his 28 points in the first quarter and 16 in the first half to help his team to the fast start.

But OV guard Dylan Mackie’s 23-point night, which included six three-pointers, helped the Otters pull to within 50-44 in the fourth quarter. An Austin Ellis three pushed the Fair Haven advantage back to nine, however, and the Slaters pulled away to improve to 9-3, a record good enough for third place in Division II. Andrew Ferrara added 10 for the Slaters.

For OV, Tyler Rowe chipped in nine points and Payson Williams added six. The Otters dropped to 6-6 and are in a battle to earn a

first-round home game for the D-II playoffs.

TIGERS The Tigers suffered their second straight defeat in a game that came down to the wire, 57-56, at Milton. The 10-2 Yellowjackets got a tie-breaking free throw from Colby Ducharme with 10 seconds left to net the win. Seth Herrity scored 19 for Milton, in fourth place in D-II, and Ian Jennings added 16.

Skyeler Devlin and Spencer Cadoret led a balanced MUHS attack with 12 points each, and Cody Pomainville chipped in 10 for the 3-9 Tigers.

BASKETBALL

Wrap-Up

COMMODORES Visiting Enosburg defeated the Commodores, 39-26, with a strong defensive effort. The Hornets improved to 6-4 and are just ahead of OV in the D-II standings. The 3-8 Commodores also played well defensively, including holding Enosburg to two points in the first period, but sank just nine of 58 shots from the floor.

Next up for VUHS is a visit on Wednesday from rival Mount Abraham, which was idle late last week.

All-time leader

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SENIOR Jack Daly scores two of his 14 points against Colby Saturday afternoon. Daly also tallied eight assists in Middlebury’s 75-56 win and became the school’s all-time assist leader with 558 in his career.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Girls’ Hockey (Continued from Page 20) son’s second-period goal proved to be the game-winner. Goalie Joanna Wright made 22 saves for the 4-7-1 CougarHawks.

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On Saturday host Essex defeated the Tigers, 3-1, despite another 51 saves from Hodsden. Izzy Pistilli’s second-period goal tied the game for the Tigers, but Essex scored twice in

the third for the win.

Maddy Young, Abby Robbins and Olivia Miller-Johnson scored for the 10-3 Hornets, and Sophie Forcier made 17 saves.

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MCTV Channel 16 Tuesday, February 6 5 a.m. Vermont State Board of Education 11:45 a.m. First Wednesdays - Holocaust 1:30 p.m. The Indian World of George Washington 3 p.m. Osher: My Brigadista Year 4 p.m. The Story Matters 5 p.m. HCC & ACSD Board Meetings 9 p.m. Rare New England Conference: Improving Health Care Experiences in the Rare Disease Community Wednesday, February 7 5:44 a.m. At the ilsley: Michael Katz 6:35 a.m. Martin Luther King Remembrance 8:01 a.m. MLK Celebration Panel Discussion 9:03 a.m. What’s Race Got to Do With It? 10:30 a.m. HCC & ACSD Board Meeting 3:30 p.m. Abled and On Air 4 p.m. First Wednesdays 5 p.m. OCAS – Bird Friendly Maple 6 p.m. Project Independence, The Singer 7 p.m. At the Ilsley 9 p.m. What’s Race Got to Do With It? Thursday, February 8 5 a.m. Rare New England Conference 7 a.m. Osher: My Brigadista Year 8 a.m. HCC & ACSD Board Meetings 1:30 p.m. What’s Race Got to Do With It? 3 p.m. Abled and On Air 5 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 6 p.m. At the Ilsley 6 p.m. At the Ilsley 8 p.m. The Story Matters 9 p.m. Vermont State Board of Education Friday, February 9 5 a.m. Vermont State Board of Education 12 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 1 p.m. At the Ilsley

2:30 p.m. Osher: My Brigadista Year 3:30 p.m. The Story Matters 5 p.m. HCC & ACSD Board Meetings 9 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 10 p.m. The Indian World of George Washington 11:30 p.m. First Wednesdays Saturday, February 10 6 a.m. All Things LGBTQ 7 a.m. The Story Matters 8 a.m. What’s Race Got to Do With It? 9:30 a.m. At the Ilsley 11 a.m. HCC & ACSD Board Meeting 3:30 p.m. Abled and On Air 4 p.m. Osher: My Brigadista Year 5:30 p.m. The Indian World of George Washington 7 p.m. At the Ilsley 9 p.m. Rare New England Conference: Improving Health Care Experiences in the Rare Disease Community Sunday, February 11 5 a.m. The Indian World of George Washington 6:30 a.m. What’s Race Got to Do With It? 9 a.m. At the Ilsley 10:30 a.m. ACSD, HCC Board Meetings 2:30 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange 5 p.m. OCAS – Ravens & Crows 6:15 p.m. Vermont State Board of Education Monday, February 12 5:45 a.m. Tiger TV 6 a.m. ACSD, HCC Board Meetings 11:30 a.m. Tiger TV, Project Independence 1 p.m. At the Ilsley 4 p.m. The Story Matters – Jack Mayer 5 p.m. Otter Creek Audubon Society 6 p.m. Tiger TV 7 p.m. Rare New England Conference: Improving Health Care Experiences in the Rare Disease Community

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DRAMATIC VISTAS, SUCH as this one snapped during the trek along the Coast to Coast Walk in northern England, are a regular feature of the 192-mile hike.

Photo Deb Van Schaack

Trekkers talk about walk across England MIDDLEBURY — The Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section will host its 26th Annual James P. Taylor Outdoor Adventures Series on Wednesday, Feb. 21, at 7 p.m. at Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society at 2 Duane Ct. in Middlebury.

Deb Van Schaack and Nancy Custer Carroll will present images and stories from their 15-day coast-to-coast walk across England in September 2017. Through three national parks from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, Van Schaack and Carroll encountered sun, wind,

rain, magnificent countryside, thousands of sheep and some very fine folk with whom to walk and share a pint at the end of the day.

The path, first described in 1973, is 192 miles of mostly unsigned footpaths along varied terrain.

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Students make dean’s list at Vermont Technical College RANDOLPH CENTER ADDISON COUNTY Bronson, Agribusiness, — The following Addison Shoreham; Christopher County students were School News John Brown, Architectural named to the dean’s list at & Building Engineering Vermont Technical College for the Technology, Middlebury; Nathaniel fall 2017 semester.

Cannon, Electrical Engineering, Shelby Andrews, undeclared, Panton; Sarah Clark, Mechanical Granville; Riker Billings, Computer Engineering, Vergennes; Zachary Engineering, Middlebury; Courtney Ellison, Architectural Engineering,

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Monkton: Ashlynn Foster, Dairy Farm Management, Middlebury; Hailey LaFave, Nursing, East Middlebury; Kelsey Many, Entrepreneurship, Salisbury; Macey Ross, Equine Studies, Bristol; and Michaela R. Whitman, Dental Hygiene, Ripton.

Students named to the dean’s list must achieve a GPA of 3.5 or higher.

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Emily joined the National Honor Society on April 25, 2017, a testament to her academic talents. So far she has been named to scholars list, an honor reserved for the top 15 percent of her class. Currently she is enrolled in Advanced Behavioral Science, AP Literature and an online Introduction to Psychology course through the Community College of Vermont.

In her younger years she played basketball and soccer, but realized her true love — acting — in her sophomore year. She became a member of Otter Valley’s Walking Stick Theatre and has been in it ever since.

Emily holds a job at Subway in Brandon. For seven years she has volunteered for The Alzheimer’s Association annual “Walk To End Emily Perry Alzheimer’s” event that helps raise money for research into the disease.

OVUHS When not studying or acting she enjoys writing, reading and drawing. If she could spend hours in a bookstore just browsing, she would. She also likes to hike, swim, and kayak in the summer months.

“I have learned how important it is to be organized and honest,” she says. “Even if you’re not all put together you shouldn’t worry, because no one is … never compare yourself to anyone else … there’s always an opportunity to learn more than you know.” Her advice to other students is to “focus on yourself and what you need to thrive and be happy, don’t worry about what everyone else is doing: be the person that satisfies you, not anyone else.”

After she graduates, Emily plans to attend a four-year college and try to learn more about other cultures and the diverse world we live in. She hopes to travel to different countries. She is undecided on a career, but she is interested in business and psychology.

Her teacher Francis Willard says, “Emily has a creative spirit that touches everything she works on. In the art room, she is innovative and never backs away from a complex task.” Teacher Pat Roberts adds that Emily has been a valued member of both choral groups, and the cast of musical theater productions at Otter Valley.

The faculty, staff and students of OVUHS all wish Emily the best in her future plans.

Mount Abraham Union High School presents Jenna McArdle as its Student of the Week. Jenna is the daughter of Wendy McArdle of Bristol and Scott McArdle of Starksboro. Her sister Caroline attends Fordham University.

Jenna has received highest honors and academic excellence every year during high school. She was inducted into the National Honor Society her junior year and is now its Vice President. She has taken AP Calculus AB and BC, AP Biology, AP European History, and AP Language and Composition.

She also received an award for Academic Achievement in Science her sophomore year and was given a “golden test tube” for Chemistry in her junior year.

Her non-academic school activities include soccer and softball in grades 9-12, makeup and stage crew for the fall and spring musicals in grades 11 and 12, and a cast member in the spring musical this year. She is also a member of the Environmental Action Group, the Scholars Bowl team, “The Office” Club, the Harry Potter Club and the Mount Abe Student Activism Group.

Jenna works at Lantman’s Market in Hinesburg and has worked at the Bristol Bakery. Her volunteer activities include serving at the American Jenna McArdle Legion dinners, packing meals to send to malnourished children for Feed MAUHS My Starving Children, helping with the youth softball clinic run by her coach, and lending a hand at the Three Day Stampede.

“I’m not going to lie,” she says. “I watch a lot of TV.” Her favorite is “The Office” — she started a club dedicated to the show. Jenna loves playing and watching sports, attending most home games in full Eagle attire. She has won two awards for school spirit. In the summer she prefers to go to the river, hike with friends and hang out with her dog.

Jenna has learned not to care so much about what other people think of her. “I remember being so embarrassed multiple times in middle and elementary school over the silliest things, but I’ve realized that embarrassment is such a wasted emotion because the only one who really cares is yourself … don’t take yourself too seriously,” she adds, “because you’ll regret everything you didn’t do because you were too scared of what others would think.”

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What makes her the exception is that she gives everything she has to everything she does because that is who she is.”

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Bixby (Continued from Page 1) maintenance endowment, grants, donations, and the sale of tax credits.

They emphasized they are not seeking more money from the residents of Vergennes, Ferrisburgh, Addison, Panton and Waltham to support the repairs and upgrades.

“We also felt very strongly we didn’t want to go to the towns at this point to ask them for increased funding,” said Gail Blasius, who leads the Bixby’s space planning committee, along with Bixby Executive Director Jane Spencer.

“We’ve never asked them for building maintenance (support).”

The most expensive of the three projects will start first, sometime this month, and be most evident to library patrons, who should still be able to use the library during most of the work. This first project is known as Phase 1.

For $114,000 the Bixby will get a community room in the Main Street building’s west wing with new couches and chairs, an effort that means the removal of all books from that space and the allowance of, and even encouragement of, chatter.

The project will also install a new circular circulation desk to greet visitors directly under the building’s central stained-glass dome, and a new public coffee maker, copier, and more computer terminals for public use.

That work — which library officials call Phase 1 — will take three weeks, and will be funded by the library’s maintenance endowment. They hope that will lead to a Phase 2 of larger children’s and family rooms and a meeting room on the second floor, plus an addition to house an elevator and stairway to improve access to that upper level.

And yes, said Bixby Board President Paula Moore, a former library director elsewhere who has a master’s degree in library science, the work means there will be fewer books overall. But Moore called culling of books part of a library’s job, and said the Bixby had fallen behind.

“Any public library has a book management component,” said Moore. “Part of managing a book collection is not only selecting books to add, but it’s also de-selecting things.”

Moore said books are being removed that have not been taken out in 10 or 15 years or more, while books that have been read in the past three years are being kept.

Spencer, whose planned June retirement became public last week, added that more books are being brought in regularly.

“The book budget is not being decreased,” Spencer said.

Moore said Bixby still will have room for a large collection if it makes smart purchases.

“If you’re buying the right books they’re going to be out a lot,” Moore said. “Our goal is to have a collection that is being utilized, and the books are flying off the shelves.”

Books will be removed from

BIXBY MEMORIAL LIBRARY Executive Director Jane Spencer stands in the middle of the main lobby where a new circulation desk will be built as part of a library reconfiguration project.

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the central lobby as well as the community room, and they will be concentrated in the room to the right behind the current desk, while some will be moved upstairs. Those who would prefer to read in quiet can also head upstairs, Moore said.

OTHER PROJECTS Two other projects are planned for the spring. For $32,000 the Bixby will see a reconfigured front entryway and vestibule to lead to that new circulation desk. Funding will be raised through tax credits.

And $110,000 of extensive repairs to the building’s parapet, chimney and roofing masonry will be funded by a combination of tax credits, a Vermont Historic Preservation Grant and a grant from Hoehl Family Foundation.

The latest work comes after many projects in the past five years that were listed in the Bixby’s town meeting reports: “We’ve added a new ADA bathroom, repaired all windows and sills, repaired foundation and redirected storm water, repaired front exterior stone staircase and columns, opened the porch and created a second egress from the main floor — all with grant money, tax credits and private funding.”

The board can also report higher library usage. According to Spencer in the past year the Bixby more than doubled its adult program offerings, drawing 1,404 attendees. Its adult book circulation has held steady over the past three years, while circulation of children’s books has increased by almost 25 percent.

And Spencer said all of the work being done — or planned in Phase 2 — keeps in mind the fact that the 107-year-old library is one of the

state’s architectural treasures.

“The board is very knowledgeable about the history of the building and the integrity of the architecture,” Spencer said. “And whatever we do we still want to be preserving its historic value.”

At the same time Bixby officials said changes being made and contemplated are looking to current and future needs of the residents the library serves.

About 300 residents and patrons responded to a survey last year, and they identified areas of need to which board members are responding in Phase 1 and to which they hope to respond in a future Phase 2.

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a cup of coffee, and just to share the space, maybe use a laptop computer.

So that was part of it. Another part we heard is we need more space for children’s services, that the current location is too small on the first level,” Moore said. “The third thing

is we asked basically what would excite you about the Bixby. And the third thing they said is an opportunity to learn, more programming ideas.”

The creation of the community room addresses the first of those (See Plans, Page 26)

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Plans (Continued from Page 26) needs, while Blasius said the board went beyond the survey and researched what libraries should be providing, leading to the extra computers and copier, to available instruction in computer and software use, and an increase in digital book and magazine subscriptions.

“One thing the board also did is read a book about what is happening in libraries and what is going to be happening in libraries and what we need to prepare for in the future,” Blasius said. “So along with the programming came out some technological needs, I think, that were prevalent.”

PHASE 2 Other needs identified in the survey will have to wait until Phase 2, for which the board has drawings, but not a price tag or a timetable.

“The board does not have a date yet for Phase 2. We know we need to work with somebody who can help advise us on a capital campaign,” Moore said. “This is a major commitment for the board to undertake, so we do expect it is going to take a little bit of time.”

The biggest financial piece of Phase 2 and also its lynchpin is a two-story addition that would be built off the back of the community room and west porch. It would house a stairway and elevator to create full access to the second floor, which would then house an expanded children’s room to the right, a family room to the rear, and a meeting room with movable walls over the firstfloor community room.

Those changes upstairs would also allow the Bixby to convert the current first-floor children’s room into a quiet reading room.

Creating the second-floor meeting room would require finding a new

THIS FLOOR PLAN shows what the first floor of the Bixby Library will look like when Phase 1 of a planned $114,000 reconfiguration is complete.

Book stacks will be removed from the central lobby and from the room to the left, which will become a community room with chatter allowed. The circulation desk will move to the lobby center, and books will be moved to the room on the right and upstairs. A copier, coffee machine and more computers are also planned. A more ambitious Phase 2 is on the drawing board; it would add an exterior stairway and elevator and thus fully integrate the library’s second floor.

home for, or “de-accessioning,” in museum-speak, most of the Bixby’s collection of artifacts. Board members noted the board voted to do so decades ago, but never followed through.

Board members said they are

working on a de-accession plan comprehensive enough to create space for the meeting room, one that could involve local historians in helping identify the most vital pieces that the Bixby should retain, which then could be used by local students.

Bixby officials hope Phase 1 will help create momentum that will build support for a Phase 2 that will finally integrate the second story into the daily life of the library.

“The purpose of getting through Phase 1 is to demonstrate the

transformation of the library and what we have in mind,” Moore said.

“We would like to be able to get through Phase 1 first and show what we are about. And we think that will generate more excitement and interest going into Phase 2.”

College (Continued from Page 1) as an important precursor to a series of capital improvements that will be mapped out on campus during the next five years. The centerpiece of that construction, according to McGinn’s narrative, will be a new academic building.

Bill Burger, the college’s vice president for communications and chief marketing officer, said the institution has yet to assign a specific location or program use for the new academic building. Those details — along with design and financing — will be sorted out during the next three to five years, according to college officials.

For now, the college wants to make sure it has enough reserve space to keep programs running at full capacity when repairs place some of the college’s facilities temporarily out of service. This strategy is reflected in a “space utilization study” the institution kicked off last fall.

Upcoming renovations at Munroe and Warner halls will address Americans with Disabilities Act

shortcomings, mechanical/thermal systems upgrades, and fire & safety amenities, according to McGinn’s project narrative. The $4.5 million swing building will have a useful lifespan of 10 to 30 years, according to Burger. And the college will be able to dismantle and potentially relocate it depending on the institution’s ever evolving space needs.

“I think this building, and the style with which it is going to be constructed, will give us muchneeded flexibility over the next couple of decades,” Burger said.

This is the college’s second try at a swing building proposal. Officials pitched a similar plan last summer that was to have been sited east of the Atwater Dining Hall, at the north end of the Johnson “E” parking lot.

College officials shelved the plan in order to iron out some wrinkles. For example, the structure as initially designed would have impinged on a much-appreciated view for those dining at nearby Atwater Commons.

The new proposal would preserve the Atwater view shed, though it

AN ARCHITECT’S PRELIMINARY sketch shows the temporary building to house the Computer Science Department and serve as swing space for faculty offices while other buildings are being renovated.

would still result in the loss of two tennis courts that would be converted to parking to make up for 50 current spaces on which the swing building would be erected.

At its highest point, the new building would measure 34 feet, 4 inches and have a roughly 12,200-square-foot footprint. The slab-on-grade structure would be clad primarily in metal panels. Designers are seeking to reduce the visual impact of the building with such

features as a covered portico and recessed entries.

The proposed site is in the town’s Institutional zoning district and will need to receive a conditional use permit from the Middlebury Development Review Board. The DRB is slated to review the swing building plan at its Feb. 12 meeting.

Assuming a smooth permitting process, college officials would like to see the swing building under construction this spring and ready to

be occupied during the next academic year, according to Burger.

College officials are pleased with the growing popularity of the institution’s science programming, and it wasn’t that long ago that the institution beefed up its science amenities. Liberal arts students of today and tomorrow are asking for more in the way of science instruction, and Middlebury College wants to deliver.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall has become the college’s hub for science programs. Named for former college President John McCardell, the building was completed in 1999 at a total cost of $47.3 million. It comprises 116,900 square feet and is headquarters to 90 faculty and staff representing seven academic departments: Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Computer Science, Geography, Geology, Physics, and Psychology. It also hosts the Armstrong Library and programming for Environmental Studies, Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology and Biochemistry.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meet‑ ing 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street.

Discussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Cen‑ ter, 54 Creek Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NORTH FERRISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS RIPTON MEETINGS: Mon‑ day, As Bill Sees It Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meet‑ ing 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. GRIEF ANONYMOUS MEET‑ ING every Tuesday @ 6:00 pm at Grace Baptist Church, d lle 52 Merchants Row, Middel‑ nce a bury, Vt. A support group for those grieving the loss of a loved one.

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NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednes‑ days, 9 am, held at The Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turningpointaddisonvt.org.

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OLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

Heidi Willis a well-known musical talent in Addison County & has been sharing her gifts with Hospice Volunteers “Wellspring Hospice Singers” for 11 years where she is the music director, mentor, coach and all around supporter of her choir members. Heidi leads the rehearsals, pours through music selecting the perfect repertoire & helps Wellspring make decisions regarding music.

Heidi says, “I love singing, and even more, love singing with people, and love the comfort, connection and joy that singing together can offer. Through Wellspring we experience the power of music at the end of life, as well as the magic of stimulating memories through music when we sing at community care locations. Music can kind of express all of those intense feelings that are hard to put into words”, she said, “and for family members, it’s very comforting,” Willis said. “Music expresses something that words can’t. It speaks to a part of us that nothing else speaks to. That’s part of the gift.”

In addition to sharing her time and talents with Wellspring Hospice Singers, Heidi has a well-established volunteer history in our community; She has served both the Weybridge Church and the Addison County Riverwatch Collaborative for more than 25 years & the Salisbury Conservation Commission for 14 years! Thank you, Heidi, for being such a valuable member of our community!

Hospice Volunteer Services is a not-for-profit agency committed to offering care and support to those in our community facing the end of life or grieving the death of a loved one. Their mission includes educating the community on dying, death, and bereavement. Call 388-4111 for more info!

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PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth.org.

CHAMPLAIN ORCHARDS IS an ecologically managed orchard and we are looking for an energetic, dynamic Sales Manager setting sales quotas, coordinating and managing staff. This position includes management of sales of our orchard products such as fresh fruit, sweet cider, pies and bak‑ ery products as well as our line of hard ciders. Proficiency with Excel, QuickBooks and data analysis is a must. If you’re a big picture thinker but can still manage a staff and the details of a sales department while developing new and existing markets please visit our web‑ site at: champlainorchards. com/employment/ and com‑ plete a job application.

SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS MEETING of Alcoholics Anony‑ mous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Friday, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church, Middlebury, VT. WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, tap‑ ing, skim coat plastering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

CONSTRUCTION: ADDITIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

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PROFESSIONAL PAINTING; interior/exterior, residential/ commercial, pressure wash‑ ing. 20 years’ experience.

Best prices. References.

802‑989‑5803.

Opportunities STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown Mid‑ dlebury. Approved for seat‑ ing for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of possibilities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

Help Wanted AUDY TRUCKING LLC is seeking a part‑time (30 hours) Office Assistant in our Ver‑ gennes office. A background in the trucking business would be ideal but will train the right person. Please contact Jeff at 989‑5024 or Carol at 382‑8745 (leave message) for details and interviews.

CHAMPLAIN ORCHARDS IS seeking a strong, orga‑ nized Production manager for our apple packing, sweet cider, bakery and shipping departments. You will manage a staff of dedicated employ‑ ees ensuring the quality and accuracy of orders. You will be responsible for organizing production schedules, assess‑ ing resources, maintaining inventory and quality control standards and ensuring that health and safety guidelines are followed. Our typical work week is Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday & Fri‑ day. If you are a strong leader with a determination to suc‑ ceed we really want to hear from you. Please visit our web‑ site at champlainorchards.com/ employment/ and complete a job application.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Join the Parent/Child Center Team We are seeking an Early Childhood Teacher to work in our 5 STAR child care setting for a temporary position.

We are a therapeutic child care program that supports children birth through 3 and their families. Total hours are negotiable.

Contact Donna Bailey at: dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org or Sue Bloomer at sbloomer@addisoncountypcc.org

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR an Animal Control Officer for the Town of Salisbury. Please call the town office for more information on duties and com‑ pensation. 802‑352‑4228.

WHISTLEPIG CURRENTLY HIRING FOR full time bot‑ tler. Eye for detail and ac‑ curacy. Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday. Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unassisted lifting of 25 pounds. Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com.

YARD WORKER. DRIVER’S license required. Load and unload trucks, run machin‑ ery, bag product, assist cus‑ tomers. Apply at: Vermont Natural Ag Products, 297 Lower Foote Street, Middle‑ bury, VT or email resume to: tfmoodoo@sover.net.

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

LATHROP FOREST PRODUCTS is looking to hire a full time log truck driver. Clean driving record, Class A CDL required. Must be able to pass physical and drug test via DOT regulations. Local work no trav‑ el, woods experience helpful but will train the right individual.

Paid health benefits, paid va‑ cation included. Looking for an individual who wants roots with a company. Application available at 44 South Street Bristol, Vt. 05443.

Buy it!

Sell it!

Find it!

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Call 388.4944, today!

The Town of Monkton is looking for a Zoning Administrator to fill a part-time position.

Must be available to attend evening meetings and have day time hours at the Town Hall.

Previous experience desired.

View complete job description at www.monktonvt.com/za.

Please submit resume by February 6, 2018 to: Monkton Planning Commission P.O. Box 12, Monkton, VT. 05469.

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KITCHEN OPENINGS. LINE COOK, full time, dinners only.

Wednesday ‑ Sunday. Experi‑ ence with fresh food. Also, entree level prep position. 3 ‑4 nights per week. Email: info@innatbaldwincreek.com or call Doug at 453‑2432.

ATTENTION PCA’S: PART TIME and full time, night shift. On the job training, competitive wages and flex‑ ible scheduling. Call Marlene at 802‑877‑1363 or e‑mail ringerhomecare@gmail.com.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Manufacturing – Floater Positions

Full-time positions available at the Middlebury plant as floaters. Shifts will vary, but primarily will be on 2nd and 3rd shift. Work flexibility is a must. 24/7/365 environment.

Maintain a sanitary work environment, ensure accurate records, and understand specific SOP’s and product specifications.

High School Diploma, or equivalent is required. Must be able to lift 40 lbs.

Apply in person, by email to ajacobs@ agrimark.net or send your resume with cover letter to:

Agri-Mark

Attn: Ashley Jacobs 869 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 EOE M/F/D/V

WE HAVE ONGOING CAREGIVER JOB OPPORTUNITIES AT HELEN PORTER! If you are interested in RN, LPN, or LNA positions, come to Helen Porter for an interview any Wednesday between 9:00 am and 6:00 pm.

More information and an online application is available at: UVMHealth.org/PMC under the “Careers” tab.

UVMHealth.org/PMC

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Part-Time Installation Merchandiser

needed to install Hallmark displays and merchandise Hallmark products in the Middlebury area.

To apply, please visit: https://hallmark. candidatecare.com EOE Women/ Minorities/Disabled/ Veterans

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For Sale

For Sale

RESIDENTIAL HOME MAN‑ AGER Community Associates is seeking to fill a new posi‑ tion to manage and direct the daily functions of two staffed residences, one in Middlebury, the other in Leicester. The job is a combination of staff supervision, direct service and administration. Looking for a strong leader and commit‑ ted team player well versed both in staff supervision and direct service. Experience in Intellectual Disabilities or Mental Health needed. Sched‑ ule requires some flexibility.

Salaried full‑time position with comprehensive benefit pack‑ age. To apply, submit resume to apply@csac‑vt.org, or visit csac‑vt.org.

TOUR DE FARMS MANAG‑ ER The Addison County Relo‑ calization Network, (ACORN) is seeking a Manager to or‑ ganize the 11th annual Tour De Farms bicycle tour in Ver‑ gennes. The event will take place in mid‑September 2018.

Planning needs to start in late March or April. Enrollment of event sponsors, farm recruit‑ ment, assisting ACORN board and executive director with marketing plan and publiciz‑ ing the tour, route planning, volunteer recruitment and management, day of event management, monthly reports to ACORN Board of Directors, regular check‑ins with ACORN Executive Director. Please send cover letter, examples of past history of event and/ or project management, and three letters of reference to: info@acornvt.org.

‘69‑’70 JOHN DEERE 350 Track Loader. All newly rebuilt engine. $7,100. 453‑4387.

Okay to leave message.

THE BARREL MAN; plastic and metal barrels, 275 gallon food‑grade totes. 55 gallon plastic food‑grade barrels with spin‑on covers. Great for rain barrels. A barrel for every need.

802‑453‑4235.

Help Wanted

Help Wantedð

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HIRING

ANTIQUE DOUBLE BARREL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge.

Beautiful vintage firearm. $185.

802‑989‑5803.

BEDROOM DRESSER, 5 drawer, maple. Heavy duty and very good condition. $75.

OBO. 802‑453‑4235.

SAWMILLS FROM ONLY $4,397. Make & save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info/ DVD: NorwoodSawmills.com.

1‑800‑578‑1363, Ext. 300N.

USED RESTAURANT EQUIP‑ MENT plus chairs, tables and hood systems. 802‑388‑4831.

WOOD STOVE FOR SHOP 802‑453‑3870.

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

For Sale

For Sale

MIDDLEBURY, VT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT Income Limits Apply. No Utilities Included. Modern apartment, carpet/tile, W/D connections plus onsite laundry facility. Efficient gas heat/hot water.

Ample parking and storage. Includes trash, lawn care, snow removal, professional management and 24-hour emergency maintenance. In quiet Middlebury neighborhood. References Required.

To request an application, call 802-472-5016 or e-mail pinemeadow@maloneyproperties.com.

Equal Housing Opportunity.

THE ADDISON INDEPENDENT IS SEEKING A NEWS REPORTER The Addison Independent in Middlebury, Vt., is seeking an energetic multimedia journalist to join our award-winning, twice-a-week multi-media news staff. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated excellence in reporting and writing news stories. The ability to produce stories in audio, digital and video formats and to do news layout is also a big plus.

This position will feature a mix of classic print media and cutting-edge online news. As such, those applying should have a demonstrated experience in journalism and understanding of news writing and feature writing, as well as be interested and engaged in social media with an eye toward understanding the community and building reader loyalty. This reporter will play an important role in finding out what’s going on in the community and reflecting it back to community members through the newspaper and website.

Currently it is structured as a part-time job with some flexibility on when and how assignments are completed. It could become a full-time position for the ideal candidate.

The person we hire will be intelligent, curious, indefatigable and work well as part of a team. Also, the candidate must have a car, as in-person interviews are a must.

Send a letter outlining your qualifications, resume and examples of your work to: news@addisonindependent.com

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BATTELL BLOCK MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE FOR LEASE Beautiful, historic building located right in downtown Middlebury. Features heat and air conditioning, extra tall ceilings, lots of natural light and a highly customizable space. Walking distance to all downtown amenities.

Available January 1st, 2018. $800/ Month gross including electric and heat.

Contact Christine cgolden@neddere.com or 802-651-6888 Listed by Nedde Real Estate 747 Pine Street, Suite 501, Burlington, VT 05401 www.NeddeRealEstate.com

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NOW OPEN Newly Constructed Loft, One Bedroom and Two Bedroom Apartments in Downtown Middlebury Historic Building | Air Conditioning European Appliances, Quartz Countertops & Washer/Dryer Off-Street Parking | Pet friendly Walk to Middlebury College campus Contact: Christine Golden Nedde Real Estate 802-373-5893 battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

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For Rent

2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, 1 mile south of Brandon. $700/mo. plus utilities. Ab‑ solutely no pets or smoking.

802‑352‑6678.

ADDISON, PRIVATE SUITE IN large house. Bedroom, pri‑ vate bathroom and sitting area, skylights. Shared kitchen, laun‑ dry. Includes utilities/internet. $600 monthly, security deposit, references. 802‑759‑2133.

2 BEDROOM, FIRST FLOOR apartment with full private basement. W/D hookups. Lo‑ cated in Middlebury, close to town on Court St. Off street parking, lawn care and snow plowing included. $1,100 per month plus utilities. No smok‑ ing or pets. 802‑352‑6678.

For Rent

CORNWALL‑ CLEAN, QUIET efficiency apartment. $675.

Includes all. batesproperties@ yahoo.com.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

For Rent

For Rent MIDDLEBURY 3 BEDROOM apartment, fully furnished, all inclusive except internet/TV. Call 802‑388‑4831.

For Rent

For Rent

Wood Heat

Att. Farmers

VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently accepting applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Vergennes. All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. Elderly or disabled only. W/D onsite.

Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg.com.

Equal Housing Opportunity.

ONE BEDROOM, FIVE‑STAR energy efficient apartment in Salisbury, close to Lake Dunmore. One half of duplex.

Large bedroom with full bath up. Living room and kitchen with all appliances on first floor. Heated basement with W/D. Private sun deck. $850/ month, plus utilities. Absolutely non‑smoking, no pets on prem‑ ises. Deposit and references required. Available 4/1/2018.

Call 802‑352‑6678.

FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green.

802‑282‑9110.

ORGANIC AND NON‑OR‑ GANIC hay. 4X4 string bales.

700‑800 lbs. Stored outside.

802‑265‑3857.

READY ‑2 ‑ BURN™ Sea‑ soned ‑ Everyday low prices; Free delivery ‑ Free kindling ‑ Small orders OK. Click www.MIDDMEN.com or call 1‑855‑MIDDMEN.

FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

RIPTON, SMALL ONE bed‑ room house. No smoking or pets. $850 per month plus utilities. 802‑388‑2641.

BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN RE‑ TRIEVER puppies. Males and females. $1,000. Call for more info. 802‑989‑5803.

RIPTON: SHARE A spacious home w/ woman in her 70’s who loves travel, knitting and crafts. $400/mo (all included) plus some help w/ yard‑work.

Must be pet‑friendly. 863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks required. EHO.

Real Estate

M I D D L E B U RY O F F I C E SPACE for rent. 400 sq.ft., second floor. Available Janu‑ ary 1, 2018. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addison.

Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter stor‑ age. The barn is structurally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also avail‑ able for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@ yahoo.com.

FOR RENT: BRIDPORT, Commercial/retail office. 1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. tbrought@middlebury.edu.

LAKE DUNMORE: Winterized 2‑bedroom lakefront cottage available until June 1. Shorter periods. Sleeps 5. Comfort‑ ably furnished, fully‑equipped kitchen, bathroom with shower.

Plowing, trash collection, re‑ cycling, WiFi, satellite televi‑ sion included. 802‑352‑4236; karen@northcovecottages. com.

MIDDLEBURY: RETAIL/OF‑ FICE space for rent. 1,303 square feet. Front door park‑ ing. Contact Eric at 388‑6054.

(Countryside Carpet and Paint)

NEW HAVEN, SUNNY, ef‑ ficient apartment. Views, hard wood floors. No pets, no smok‑ ing. References. $895/month plus utilities. 802‑236‑2040.

OFFICE SPACE RENTAL IN vintage 1800’s building. Main Street, Vergennes, location. 4 rooms plus bathroom. Many charming details. Large bay window and private entrances.

Nicely laid out for single office use or for several individual of‑ fices to share. $850/month plus utilities. Call (802)877‑3372.

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SHOREHAM: SHARE A home w/a 40+ professional inter‑ ested in cooking, NPR & hik‑ ing. 25 minutes to Middlebury. $400/mo. plus utilities. Private BA. No deposit. 863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, references,background checks required. EHO. ROOMS FOR RENT in his‑ torical Vergennes Inn. Janu‑ ary through Mid May. Perfect for UTC, Traveling nurses or other traveling profession‑ als. $550 to $950 per month.

Call Bill 802‑877‑3293. emersonguesthouse@msn. com.

TWO BEDROOM APART‑ MENT, central location near schools and stores. Includes s t o v e a n d r e f r i g e r a t o r.

Available immediately. Call 802‑349‑7555.

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Reach Gov. Phil Scott

It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing

Animals

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Only three lots remain in the Daisy Lane Residential De‑ velopment. One is a beauti‑ ful wooded 1 1/4 acre with a small year round stream.

Lots are supported with village water and approved for simple in‑ground septic. Located in East Middlebury, just 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, 2 golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore. 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350..

Att. Farmers CORN SILAGE, SAWDUST at the farm. Book Bros. West Haven, Vt. Call after 7pm, 802‑265‑8698.

DRY SLAB FIREWOOD, hard and softwood, processed fire‑ wood, sawdust. Book Bros.

West Haven, Vt. Call after 7pm, 802‑265‑8698.

HAY FOR SALE small first cut, $3.00. Small second cut, $4.00. 802‑377‑5455.

LUMBER AT SAWMILL, hard and softwood, sawdust.

Book Bros. West Haven, Vt. 802‑265‑3675.

PRODUCTIVE, APPROXI‑ MATELY FOUR acre hay‑ field available off Route 30 in Cornwall. No charge.

Phone 462‑2272 or email bobandjuliet@gmail.com.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agitating, liquid manure hauling, drag line aer‑ ating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Wanted LOCAL COLLECTOR SEEK‑ ING to purchase Vermont re‑ lated military weapons and equipment, especially 18th and 19th century items. Ralph, 802‑877‑3814.

LOOKING FOR A PLACE to park my newer RV camper with water, sewer plus electric hookup. Text: 304‑261‑3805.

LOOKING FOR SMALL PIECE of property to buy to park RV camper that has water and sewer hookup, within 20 mile radius of Bristol area. Text 304‑261‑3805.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT An‑ tique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collectibles, etc. Visit bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527.

Consulting/appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.

VT COLLECTOR WILL PAY cash for old wood bird carv‑ ings, goose, duck and shore‑ bird decoys. 802‑238‑1465.

Contact Your U.S. Senators

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

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Public notices for the following can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on Pages 33, 34 & 35.

Addison County Superior Court (1) Addison Northeast Supervisory Union (1) Addison Northwest School District (4) Addison County WARNING ADDISON COUNTY SUGARMAKERS ANNUAL MEETING

In accordance with the by-laws of the Addison County Sugarmakers Association, the Annual Meeting will be held on February 12th at 6 pm at the American Legion, behind G. Stone’s, in Middlebury. Meeting will commence after dinner.

Agenda items include: Election of Officers Financial Report Field Days Review & Discussion Scholarship Awards Hall of Fame Induction Admission is free with paid annual dues of $10. Dues can be paid at the door. Please RSVP to Barbara Rainville Secretary/Treasurer at rainvb@wcvt. com or call 453-5797.

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To publish a legal notice in The Addison Independent email information to

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or fax it to (802) 388-3100.

Deadline for the Monday edition is the previous Thursday at noon.

Deadline for the Thursday edition is the previous Monday at 5pm.

Sugarmarkers Association (1) Cornwall (1) Middlebury (2) Starksboro (1) Weybridge (1) PUBLIC NOTICE REMOVAL PROPOSALS REQUESTED

Mt. Abraham Union High School is seeking proposals for the removal and repurposing of approximately 1000 pieces of classroom furniture. Proposals must include a description of the intended recipients and must include the removal of all of the identified items. Work must be completed between 2/17 and 2/19/18.

Applicants must be bona fide businesses and provide proof of insurance covering this activity.

Submit proposals by Thursday 2/8/18 at 4:00 p.m. to Alden Harwood, Facilities Director, 72 Munsill Ave, Bristol, VT 05443 or aharwood@anesu.org. For more information call 802-453-6957.

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TOWN OF WEYBRIDGE PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE ZONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT

A public hearing before the Weybridge Zoning Board of Adjustment will be held at the Town Clerk’s Office on Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 7:00 p.m. to pursue the following business: The Board will review Paul and Brenda Deering’s application (#18-01) for a waiver from the minimum side yard setback for an addition to an accessory structure in a Medium Density Residential Zone at 942 Cave Road in Weybridge. The application is available for inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office. NOTE: Participation in the local proceedings is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

Notice submitted by Megan Sutton, ZBA Chair.

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY

77 Main Street Middlebury, VT 05753 Separate sealed BIDS for the construction of the Well Monitoring Improvements project will be received by the Town of Middlebury, VT. The project consists of the construction of two (2) well monitoring buildings with appurtenances, an addition to the existing Well House No. 3, electrical, site work, and restoration. The BIDS shall be received by the Town of Middlebury, Public Works Department, 1020 South Route 7, Middlebury, VT, until 1:00 p.m., February 27, 2018 and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud. If BIDS are forwarded by mail, the sealed envelope containing the BID must be enclosed in another envelope containing the BID addressed to the Town of Middlebury, Public Works Department, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. A non-mandatory pre-bid meeting is scheduled at the Public Works Department 10:00 a.m. on February 15, 2018. All prospective bidders are encouraged to attend this meeting.

The CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be examined at the following locations: 1. Town of Middlebury, Public Works Department, 1020 South Route 7, Middlebury, VT 05753.

2. Aldrich + Elliott, PC, 6 Market Place, Ste. 2, Essex Jct., VT 05452.

3. AGC of VT Plan Room, c/o Works In Progress, 20 Farrell Street, Suite 103, So. Burlington, VT 05403.

Copies of the CONTRACT DOCUMENTS may be obtained at the office of Blue Prints Etc. located at 20 Farrell Street, South Burlington, VT 05403, upon a nonrefundable payment of $150.00 for each set. Checks shall be payable to Blue Prints Etc. February 5, 2018 Kathleen Ramsay Town Manager 2/5

WARNING ANNUAL TOWN AND TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 2018

The legal voters of the Town of Starksboro in the County of Addison and State of Vermont are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Robinson School multipurpose room within said Starksboro on Saturday the third day of March, A.D. 2018, at 9:00 a.m. to discuss and transact the following business viz: Polls will be open on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. to elect Town Officers and Town School District Officers, to vote on the Mt. Abraham Unified School District Budget, to vote on renovations for Mt. Abraham High School, and to vote on the Hannaford Regional Technical School Budget. (See separate warnings for School items.) The Business meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 3, 2018.

Article 1: To be voted by Australian Ballot on March 6, 2018.

To elect Town Officers and Town School District Officers for the ensuing year.

Moderator, 1 yr Lister, 3 yrs Selectman, 3 yrs Tax Collector, 1 yr Selectman, 2 yrs Library Trustee, 3 yrs Town Clerk, 3 yrs Town Planning Commission, 3 yrs Town Treasurer, 3 yrs Town Planning Commission, 3 yrs Auditor, 3 yrs First Grand Juror, 1 yr Cemetery Commissioner, 3 yrs First Constable, 1 yr Cemetery Commissioner, 2 yrs Second Constable, 1 yr Cemetery Commissioner, 1 yr Town Agent to Prosecute/Defend Suits, 1 yr Article 2: Shall the voters of the town accept the Auditors’ Report for the year ending June 30, 2017?

Article 3: Shall the voters of the Town of Starksboro vote the following sum of money for the proposed FY 18-19 General Fund Budget, being expenses of $1,110,385 less receipts of $404,650, for an amount of $705,735?

Article 4: Shall the voters of the town vote the following sum of money for the Fire Equipment Reserve Fund, being $45,993?

Article 5: Shall the voters of the town vote the following sum of money for the Road Equipment Reserve Fund, being $89,072?

Article 6: Shall the voters of the town vote the following sum of money for the Paving Reserve Fund, being $40,000?

Article 7: Shall the voters of the town vote the following sum of money for the Starksboro Public Library to fund the costs of its operations for FY 18-19, being $28,750?

Article 8: Shall the voters of the town authorize the Selectboard to borrow an amount not to exceed $167,000 for the purchase, in FY 18-19, of a replacement utility truck? The loan will be paid within five years from the Road Equipment Reserve Fund, with the first payment due in FY 19-20.

Article 9: Shall the voters of the town authorize the Selectboard to borrow an amount not to exceed $45,000 for the purchase, in FY 18-19, of a ¾ ton pickup truck with plow and sander? The loan will be paid within five years from the Road Equipment Reserve Fund, with the first payment due in FY 19-20.

Article 10: Shall the voters of the town agree to exchange parcels of land between the Town of Starksboro and Robinson Elementary School?

Robinson Elementary School is located on land that is in part owned by the Town of Starksboro. Robinson School owns a parcel of land located west of Robinson School. The Town and Town School District proposed to exchange these properties, so that the parcel of land where Robinson School is located will be owned entirely by the school, and the parcel west of the school shall be owned by the town. The Agreement for Transfer of Real Property is available for review at the office of the Town Clerk.

Article 11: Shall the voters of the Town of Starksboro vote the sum of $25,000 for surveying, development of architectural plans, and preparation for permitting for the purposes of constructing a replacement Fire Station #2 and renovating the historic Jerusalem Schoolhouse to serve as a community center and an emergency shelter with all structures being located on town-owned property in South Starksboro?

Town meeting will be recessed at 11:00 am for the Town School District Meeting. Discussion and articles not voted by 11:00 will continue after the Town School District Meeting is adjourned. Articles listed in this warning after the Town School District Meeting may be voted prior to that meeting, time permitting.

RECESS TOWN MEETING; CONVENE TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING ADJOURN TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT MEETING; RECONVENE TOWN MEETING Article 12: Shall the voters of the town vote for the following sum of money for the purchase of food for the Starksboro Food Shelf, being $2,000?

Article 13: Shall the voters of the town vote the following sums of money for the listed In-Town requests?

Starsksboro Cooperative Preschool 4500 Robinson Mentoring Program 2000 Starksboro First Response 9500 Starksboro Sports Program 2500 Starksboro School Age Program (RASY) 425 Starksboro Volunteer Fire Department 22000 TOTAL IN-TOWN REQUESTS 40925 Article 14: Shall the voters of the town vote the following sums of money for the listed Out-of-Town requests?

AC Restorative Justice Services, Inc. 600 AC Home Health & Hospice 1964 AC Parent/Child Center 1600 AC Readers 350 AC Transit Resources 1708 American Red Cross 500 Bristol Family Center 500 Bristol Rec Center 2500 Bristol Rescue Squad 7500 Age Well 1300 Counseling Service of Addison County 2200 Elderly Services, Inc. 900 Green Up Vermont 100 Homeward Bound (AC Humane Society) 500 HOPE (formerly ACCAG) 1750 Hospice Volunteer Services 500 John W. Graham Emergency Shelter Services Inc. 970 Lewis Creek Association 550 Open Door Clinic 250 Otter Creek Natural Resources Conservation Dist 176 RSVP 370 Vermont Adult Learning 700 Vermont Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired 500 Vermont Center for Independent Living 250 Vermont Rural Fire Protection Task Force 100 WomenSafe 1250 TOTAL OUT-OF-TOWN REQUESTS 29588 Article 15: Shall the voters of the town vote that property owned by the Starksboro Volunteer Fire Department be exempt from property taxes?

Article 16: Shall the voters of the town vote the Real Estate taxes to be paid, without discount, to the Treasurer on or before Thursday, November 1, 2018, at 5:00 pm becoming delinquent after November 1, 2018 at 5:00 pm? Taxes must be received by this time, postmarks are not considered receipt.

Article 17: To transact, vote and act upon any further non-binding business which may legally come before this meeting.

Dated at Starksboro, this 23rd day of January, A.D. 2018 s/ Koran Cousino s/ Susan Jefferies s/ Peter Marsh s/ Tony Porter s/ Keegan Tierney 2/5

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WARNING ANNUAL MEETING ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT

(Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham) The legal voters of the Addison Northwest School District are hereby notified and warned to meet at 6:00 p.m., on Monday, February 26, 2018, at Vergennes Union High School for a Public Information Meeting on the proposed 2018-2019 budget and to transact the following business: Article 1. To hear and act upon the reports of the Addison Northwest School District Officers Article 2. To establish salaries for the Directors and other elected officers of the Addison Northwest School District pursuant to 1-6 V.S.A. 562.

Article 3. To authorize the Board of Directors to give notice that in lieu of distributing the School District Annual Report by mail within ten days of the District’s Annual meeting, it shall give at least thirty days’ notice of the availability of such report by inclusion in the warning of the District’s Annual meeting, commencing with the District’s 2018 Annual meeting.

Article 4. Shall the voters of Addison Northwest School District approve the exchange of parcels of land with the Town of Addison in accordance with the terms of the April 19, 2017 Land Exchange Agreement between the Town of Addison and the Addison Town School District?

Article 5. To transact any other business proper to come before said meeting. This meeting will be recessed until Tuesday, March 6, 2018, for the purpose of voting by Australian Ballot on the remaining Article(s) at the following locations: Location Polls Close Polls Open Municipality Addison Town Clerk’s 7:00 PM 7:00 AM Addison Office 7:00 PM 7:00 AM Ferrisburgh Ferrisburgh Town Office 7:00 PM 9:00 AM Panton Panton Town Hall 7:00 PM 9:00 AM Vergennes Vergennes Fire Station 7:00 PM 10:00 AM Waltham Waltham Town Hall Dated at Vergennes, Vermont this 22nd day of January, 2018.

Addison Northwest School District Board of Directors: Susan Rakowski, ANWSD Chair 2/1

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STATE OF VERMONT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC v.

SCOTT BOYLE, DORIA M. BOYLE A/K/A DORIA BOYLE AND CITIBANK, N.A. OCCUPANTS OF: 91 Court Street, Middlebury VT

Public Notices can be found on Pages 33, 34 and 35.

TOWN OF CORNWALL HELP WANTED ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICER

The Town of Cornwall is seeking an individual to act as the town’s animal control officer. The position includes enforcing the town’s dog ordinance, as well as dealing with other types of animal issues in a humane way. The selected individual will receive $100 per month as an oncall stipend and the fee per call will be negotiated with the selected individual.

Please send a letter of interest, which includes a resume or a work history, along with at least one reference to the Cornwall Selectboard, Town of Cornwall, 2629 Route 30, Cornwall, VT 05753. Specific questions may be forwarded to Ben Wood, Selectboard at 462-3216 or email address bwoodcornwall@gmail.com. 2/1

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 152-6-15 ANCV

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 June 1, 2017, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Scott Boyle and Doria Boyle to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for Flagstar Bank, FSB, dated December 30, 2003 and recorded in Book 206 Page 255 of the land records of the Town of Middlebury, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as a nominee for Flagstar Bank, FSB to Flagstar Bank, FSB dated March 6, 2014 and recorded in Book 269 Page 724 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Flagstar Bank, FSB to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC dated May 21, 2015 and recorded in Book 277 Page 72, both of the land records of the Town of Middlebury for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 91 Court Street, Middlebury, Vermont on February 28, 2018 at 10:00AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed by Warranty Deed of Daniel J. Tiley and Lois Ann Tiley to Scott Boyle and Doria M. Boyle dated May 4, 2001, and recorded in the Middlebury Land Records at Book 182, Page 80, and more particularly described therein as follows: “Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Daniel J. Tiley and Lois Ann Tiley by Executor’s Deed of Charles J. Averill, Executor of the Estate of Howard L. Averill dated August 20, 1968, and recorded in the Middlebury Land Records at Book 64, Page 5 and therein described as follows: `Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Charles O. Adams by Howard L. and Minnie W. Averill, and described in said deed as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises described in a deed from David P. and Ellen B. White and Howard L. and Minnie C. Averill to Allan R. Sturtevant, dated April 5, 1913, recorded in Book 34, Page 775 of Middlebury Land Records, and described in said deed, as follows: (1) The land conveyed by Emma M. Bain and Charles H. Bain, her husband, to said David P. White by warranty deed, dated July 20, 1907, and recorded in Book 34, Page 407 of Middlebury Land Records, being Lot No. 5 in the so-called Fairview part of Middlebury Village. (2) The land conveyed by Frank A. Trudo to said Howard L. Averill by warranty deed, dated July 20, 1907, and recorded in Book 34, Page 406 of Middlebury Land Records, and is a triangular piece of land located northerly of and adjacent to the first mentioned piece of land. (3) The land conveyed by William K. Foster to said David P. White by warranty deed dated August 19, 1907, and recorded in Book 34, Page 411 of Middlebury Land Records, and is land lying easterly and adjacent to the more southerly part of the first mentioned piece of land. (4) The land conveyed by William K. Foster to said David P. White by warranty deed with condition, dated June 7, 1909, and recorded in Book 35, Page 608 of Middlebury Land Records, on the condition that said land be used for driveway and garden purpose only.

Said land lies northerly and adjacent to the third mentioned piece of land. All of said lands are now one piece and on them has been erected a house and barn being the residence property of the said Howard L. Averill, deceased.

Being one and the same land and premises conveyed by quitclaim deed from Charles O. Adams to Howard L. and Minnie W. Averill under date of July 29, 1946, of record in Volume____, Page____, of said Land Records.

To said deed, and the record thereof, and the deeds therein mentioned, and the records thereof, reference is hereby had in further aid of this description.”

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 5, 2018 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 2/5, 2/12, 2/19

ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT NOTICE TO ALL STUDENTS IN GRADES 8-11 PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL CHOICE

Vergennes Union High School, along with all other Vermont high schools, participates in a statewide system of high school choice. Under this system, students from VUHS may apply to transfer to any other high school in the state. For the 2018-2019 school year, the maximum number of students eligible to transfer is limited to ten (10). The actual number will depend on the number of students selected in prior years to continue their enrollment at other area high schools.

To apply to participate in the program for the 2018-2019 school year (grades 9-12): • Complete an application available from the VUHS School Counseling Office; • All applications must be signed by a parent or guardian; • File the application with the School Counseling Office no later than March 1, 2018.

Notification of decisions to all students who have applied to participate will be provided no later than April 1, 2018.

Additional school choice information, including a timeline, is available from the School Counseling Office.

A student’s enrollment application may be denied by another receiving school if the student has been expelled or received an extended suspension for violation of Vergennes Union High School’s alcohol, substance abuse, or weapons-in-schools policies during the year prior to enrollment in that regional partnership school. Upon enrollment in the receiving school, students are subject to the disciplinary policies and procedures of the receiving school. If selected to attend another high school in the regional partnership, students shall be guaranteed enrollment in that receiving school until graduation as long as they remain residents of the Addison Northwest School District and are not subject to expulsion as a result of the receiving school’s policy and federal and state law.

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ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

The following schedule of the Board of School Directors’ meetings is announced for the month of FEBRUARY, 2018.

Friday, February 2 7:30 AM Facilities Committee Meeting at ANWSD Office Monday, February 12 5:30 PM* ANWSD Regular Board Meeting at VUHS Library (note time change) 7:30 PM Facilities Committee Public Forum at VUHS Library Monday, February 26 6:00 PM ANWSD Annual Meeting at VUHS Library 2/1 7:00 PM ANWSD Budget Informational Meeting at VUHS Library

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT WARNING ANNUAL TOWN MEETING MARCH 5 AND MARCH 6, 2018

The legal voters of the Town of Middlebury, in the County of Addison, the State of Vermont are hereby warned and notified to meet at the Mary Hogan Elementary School Cafeteria/ Gymnasium, 201 Mary Hogan Drive on Monday, March 5, 2018 at 7:00 P.M. to act on Articles 1 through 6; and on Tuesday, March 6, 2018 from 7:00 A.M. through 7:00 P.M. at the Town Offices, 77 Main Street in Middlebury, to vote by Australian ballot on Article 7 as provided by the Middlebury Town Charter.

Article 1 To act upon the reports of the Town Officers.

Article 2 Shall the Town vote to adopt the proposed budget for the Fiscal Year 2019 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) in the amount of $10,574,426 with a portion thereof in the amount of $7,331,905 to be raised by taxes?

Article 3 Shall the voters authorize the Selectboard, pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §1786a(b), to replace Town Vehicles and Equipment in accordance with the schedule hereinafter set forth and to finance the purchase of same by borrowing funds in a total amount not to exceed $122,400 over a term not to exceed five (5) years?

[The Schedule of Vehicles and Equipment is: a). One (1) police cruiser and related equipment; b). One (1) Street Sweeper; c). One (1) Skid Steer and d). One (1) Asphalt Hot Box].

Article 4 Shall the Town vote to collect taxes on real property for fiscal year 2018/2019 in three equal installments due in the Treasurer’s Office on the 15th day of August 2018, the 15th day of November 2018 and the 15th day of March 2019?

Article 5 Shall the Town vote, pursuant to 24 VSA § 2804(a), to authorize the Selectboard to apply $57,484 in surplus funds from the Cross Street Bridge Fund to offset increased spending for Capital Improvements in the FY19 General Fund Budget?

Article 6 To transact other business proper to be done.

[For voting by Australian Ballot on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, polls open from 7:00 A.M. to 7:00 P.M.] Article 7 To elect officers as required by the Middlebury Town Charter.

Dated at Middlebury, Vermont this 23rd day of January 2018.

Brian Carpenter, Chair Susan Shashok, Vice Chair Nick Artim Laura Asermily Heather Seeley Victor Nuovo Farhad Khan MIDDLEBURY SELECTBOARD 2/1

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ANESU schools energy efficient Residents share ideas at meeting BRISTOL — A couple dozen residents of the Mount Abraham School District joined with some school officials and an energy expert this past Tuesday, Jan. 30, to explore ways of improving energy efficiency and sustainability in the schools within the five-town school district.

About 25 residents from Bristol, Starksboro, Monkton, Lincoln and New Haven came to the Mount Abe cafeteria to share ideas and concerns and discuss improvements. Along with the two hosts from the district office — school district Facilities Director Alden Harwood and Chief Financial Officer Howard Mansfield — Efficiency Vermont official Cheryl Graves was there to explain cost-sharing programs and expertise available in support of energy efficiency and sustainability efforts in the Mount Abraham district. Schools across the district have taken advantage of Efficiency Vermont rebate programs to improve lighting efficiency over the last decade.

Among the first to speak were Richard Faesey and Jeff Dunham from Starksboro. They and other members of the recently formed Starksboro Energy Committee, have been working in their spare time to research ways to reduce the carbon footprint of Robinson Elementary School. Dunham shared specific plans to improve the comfort and efficiency of the 1978 addition to the building by using heat pumps powered by the school’s 19 solar trackers, as well as basic energy audit improvements. They are promoting this work as a potential demonstration project for air source heat pumps in the district Bristol resident John McCormick made a strong case for undertaking regular energy audits of all of the schools in the district and involving high school students in the work.

He recounted a similar project that garnered enthusiastic student involvement and learning in another district. There was much agreement about the utility of comprehensive energy audits and the benefits of fostering hands-on learning for students.

Harwood shared the fact that Lincoln Community School, after a thorough renovation several years ago including lots of air sealing, insulation and blower door tests, now heats for roughly half the cost of the rest of the district buildings.

Several attendees spoke of the numerous solar projects going on in this part of the state, and of the zero-cost investor-driven options available to schools and other entities. Projects like these will be needed to help the state reach it’s goal of achieving a 90 percent renewable energy portfolio by 2050.

According McCormick, the recently covered Bristol town dump could be a perfect place to site a ground mounted photovoltaic solar array.

Another resident mentioned that

there is a six-year waiting period before capped landfills can be put to use for other purposes.

The large expanse of the Mount Abe roof was also mentioned as an ideal place to situate photovoltaic panels, though apparently the roof would need some work to support this.

All present agreed that there are many opportunities across the five towns to both make the school buildings more efficient and to reduce reliance on fossil fuels. It was clear also that between the assistance

offered up by efficiency Vermont, and the diverse expertise of citizens in the area, the district seems ready to make some progress. Many thanked Harwood and Mansfield for their willingness to engage in an educational dialogue and continue to try to draw more players into the conversation and ultimately the work ahead.

Editor’s note: This story was provided by Louis duPont, chair of the outgoing Robinson Elementary School Board in Starksboro and an active community member.

Public Notices

can be found on Pages 33, 34 & 35.

WARNING ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT

(Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham) The legal voters of the Addison Northwest School District are hereby notified and warned to meet on Tuesday, March 6, 2018, at the polling places listed below, to vote by Australian Ballot on the following Article: Article 5 Shall the voters of the Addison Northwest School District approve the school board to expend of $21,106,26I, which is the amount the school board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year? It is estimated that this proposed budget and the following article(s), if approved, will result in projected education spending of $17,644 per equalized pupil. This projected spending per equalized pupil is .004 (less than half of a percent) higher than spending for the current year.

Article 6. Shall the Board of School Directors of the Addison Northwest School District enter into one or more District school building energy efficiency performance contracts, and for such purpose to incur indebtedness not to exceed $7,630,000, such indebtedness to be repaid by avoided costs attributable to school building improvements made under such performance contracts?

Location Polls Close Polls Open Municipality Addison Town Clerk’s 7:00 PM 7:00 AM Addison Office 7:00 PM 7:00 AM Ferrisburgh Ferrisburgh Town 7:00 PM 9:00 AM Panton Office 7:00 PM 9:00 AM Vergennes Panton Town Hall 7:00 PM 10:00 AM Waltham Vergennes Fire Station Waltham Town Hall Dated at Vergennes, Vermont this 17th day of January, 2018 Addison Northwest School District Board of Directors: Susan Rakowski, ANWSD Chair 2/1

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This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-424-8590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.

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Hazard Analysis for Critical Control Points (HACCP) Eight hours of online classroom support; $300. Please call to express interest.

Learn how to minimize food safety hazards in a food processing environment and create a HACCP plan. International HACCP Association certification is awarded with a passing final exam grade.

Register using one of the following ways: • WALK IN - 8 AM to 3 PM, Monday-Friday • FAX IN - (802) 388-2591 • BY MAIL OR PHONE - (802) 382-1004 • ONLINE at www.hannafordcareercenter.org/ adult-education You will not be contacted unless class is cancelled.

Classes are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Intro to Residential Construction Tue; 5-7P; Feb 13-Apr 3; 16 Hrs; $245.

This class is intended to build participants’ knowledge of basic construction for employment, self-reliance, or communicating with construction professionals.

Two hour sessions will be divided between class time and shop time. No prior experience necessary, but ability to read a tape measure is helpful. Work shoes and long pants required. Topics covered include: • Carpentry and light construction vocabulary • Hand and power tool use and safety • Intro to scale drawings and blueprints • Basic framing including floor, wall, door, window, rafter, & roof layouts • Familiarity with construction and job site math Shielded Metal Arc Welding I Scheduled Fall 2018; 30 Hrs; $550. Please call to express interest in a Spring 2018 class.

A beginner course to introduce students to the art and science of welding. Focus is developing hands-on proficiency. This process commonly known as “stick welding” is the standard for a variety of industries and applications. Hands-on practice with supervisor instruction ensures students develop proper technique.

Also includes intro to MIG, TIG and cutting.

WINTER 2018

Licensed Nurse Assistant Program (LNA) Mon & Wed; 5-8:30P; Mar 19- May 26; $1,920. Additional $150 needed for LNA License application and testing fees. A non-refundable $50 deposit is required to enroll in this class.

This course will prepare the student to apply for Licensed Nurse Assistant (LNA) licensure with the State Board of Nursing. The program is targeted to individuals who are interested in beginning level skilled position in healthcare and immediate employment. Official signed verification of immunizations/titers is mandatory and must be presented to the instructor.

A criminal background check may be required prior to clinical placement or employment.

Web Design Mon; 6-8P; Feb 26-Apr 23; 18 Hrs; $225.

Need to create a website for your business or hobby? This is the class for you! We will start with the basics of planning and designing an effective website and then cover topics such as what are the many different Web Design Tools out there? What is HTML and why do I need to know it? We will learn about text and graphics in web design; applying appropriate color, fonts, images, image maps and hotspots, links, tables and lists and much more.

Shielded Metal Arc Welding II Mon & Wed; 5:30-8P; Feb 26-Apr 4; 30 Hrs; $600.

Designed to enhance SMAW welding skills and either prepare students for taking structural steel welder performance qualification test(s) or expand skills to include TIG and MIG welding. Prerequisite: SMAW Level I or instructor permission. Combined tuition: $1,100 for SMAW Level I & Level II

MS Excel Classes Take individually for $75 each or sign up for all three for $200.

CDL Driver Training Begins May 14; $5200 for Class A; $3500 for Class B. The Hannaford Career Center has teamed up with Giroux General Transport of Barre to offer classroom and behind-the-wheel CDL driver training in Middlebury.

More information available at www.cdlschoolinvt.com. Call HCC at 382-1004 for scholarship and financing options. Clean driving record, background check, and random substance testing required.

Excel 2 - Intermediate Tue; 5-7P; Mar 20, 27 & Apr 3; 6 Hrs; $75.

Sorting & filtering; functions and advanced formulas; charts & graphs.

Forklift Operator Safety Training Please call to express interest. Class will be scheduled when minimum class size is met. Four hours; $100.

Designed for all powered “lift truck” operators in manufacturing, construction and retail. The course will cover an overview of the regulations (29 CFR 1910.178), training requirements, forklift basics and characteristics, operating rules of the road, truck inspection (hands-on), dock safety, parking, and the stability triangle.

Fundamentals of Natural Gas Mon & Wed; 5:30-8:30P; Feb 26-Mar 28; 30 Hrs; $600.

Required for State of Vermont Certification, course focuses on subjects critical to ensuring the safe and efficient use of natural gas. The subjects will be presented through lectures, videos, demonstrations, and weekly tests. This course is not a hands-on course designed to train students to become service technicians, therefore students should have related field experience. Under the Fire Prevention and Building Code, there is a state requirement that anyone who installs, repairs or maintains natural gas equipment must obtain training and certification in natural gas. The Fire Prevention Division of the Vermont Department of Labor and Industry is the regulating body for this program. What you will learn: Combustion Theory, National Fuel Gas Codes, Venting, Hazard Recognition, Carbon Monoxide, Electricity, and Natural Gas Appliances.

Small Engine Repair Tues; 6-8P; Feb 27-Apr 3; 12 Hrs; $144.

Learn small engine repair for your business or hobby. This class will combine classroom instruction with shop time to learn small engine repair basics while working on your own small engine project (pending instructor approval). Topics covered include: • Routine preventative maintenance • Trouble shooting and diagnostics • Standard procedures and tool use • Engine theory and operation

Excel 1 - Introduction Tue; 5-7P; Feb 27, Mar 6 & 13; 6 Hrs; $75.

The basics - the Interface; cut, copy & paste; formatting; basic formula and Fill Handle.

Excel 3 - Advanced Tue; 5-7P; Apr 10, 17 & 24; 6 Hrs; $75.

T3-D formulas; subtotals; data analysis & pivot tables.

Makerspace Under Construction Do you want to explore your interests, make something from nothing, and feed your maker mindset? Over the next 6 months, we are hoping to generate enough interest to begin hosting Makerspace opportunities in some of the HCC program labs. A Makerspace is a place where anyone with an interest has the chance to make, learn, and explore their creativity and undiscovered talent by accessing a range of high tech and low tech tools. This will most likely start with our Engineering/ CAD lab and expand to include Woodshop, Welding Lab, and Machine Shop as interest permits. The HCC Makerspace would have a monthly membership fee and a one-time safety training requirement for each lab used. Please email Len Schmidt at lschmidt@pahcc.org for further information.

Adult Education classes in Welding meet the Makerspace safety training requirement for that lab, and Intro to Residential Construction can fulfill the safety training requirement for use of the Woodshop. Please call 382-1004 if you would like to join the Makers email list and we will keep you informed as this exciting opportunity develops!

Cooking and Eating Sustainably Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op Join us each Wednesday from 5:30-7:30P. March 21 - April 25 $30 per class.

See full listings and descriptions at: middlebury.coop/participate/workshops-classes/

For more information check out our website www.hannafordcareercenter. org/adult-education

The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center does not discriminate on the basis or race, color, national origin, creed, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or handicapping conditions.

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