Makeover
Heavy hitting
Memorial Day
The Middlebury Opera Company has given a classic work a modern update. See Arts + Leisure.
The Mount Abe and MUHS softball teams broke out the lumber on Tuesday. See Page 1B.
Towns all over the county will honor the fallen on Monday. See how in a special section inside.
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Hoarding is about more than clutter Disorder affects many in county
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER TRENT Campbell, shown here on the job several years ago, has been recovering from a series of strokes. He is making steady progress in his effort to return to his home and his rightful spot behind a camera. A Gofundme campaign has been started on his behalf. Photo by Mark Bouvier
Where’s Trent? After strokes, Independent photographer is on the mend By JOHN FLOWERS COLCHESTER — For two decades, Addison Independent photographer Trent Campbell has captured the beauty, personality and excitement of Addison County’s people, places and things. He’s won so many statewide
and regional awards for his work that he keeps them stacked near his desk; the wall in his section of the production department is insufficient to display them all. And if there were an award for perseverance and courage in the face of adversity, Campbell and (See Trent, Page 11A)
By JOHN FLOWERS VERGENNES — Maureen used to be a social butterfly. She liked to entertain and visit with people. Until her possessions became so abundant that she closed her door and her life to all but her immediate family. Clutter became her constant companion. With it came depression. Her mom, who moved in with her a few months ago due to failing health, has added an abundance of clothing and other stuff to the handbags and knick-knacks that Maureen can’t resist and can’t find the strength to discard. “I really want to be free of this,” she said of the items she and her mom have amassed. Maureen wishes passersby would think more compassionately about the disheveled property she calls home. “There’s more to the story than what you see.” It’s a story touched by hoarding disorder, and one shared by as many as 2,000 other people in Addison County, according to Ellen Repstad, a clinical services coordinator with John Graham Housing & Services in Vergennes. Repstad provides in-home clinical support for acknowledged hoarders
PEOPLE WITH HOARDING disorder have a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, which can pile up through every room and even outside homes. The prevalence of hoarding has prompted creation of the Addison County Hoarding Task Force.
willing to accept help so they can keep their lodging. It’s a story with good and bad endings. The most extreme cases lead to dangerous, unsanitary and unsightly conditions that result in evictions and the condemnation of homes. The prevalence of hoarding has prompted local social service providers to establish an Addison
County Hoarding Task Force, through which officials are exploring new strategies to help people thin out the possessions that have been taking over their lives. “It’s a long, slow process,” Repstad said of the rehabilitation process for people who fall into the hoarding category. “It’s clinically similar to an eating disorder. It’s something they’ll always struggle
with, and you learn skills to maintain and address it. Those skills can be taught and learned. The behavior can be changed, but it takes time.” WHEN IT’S A PROBLEM Hoarding disorder is a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions — regardless of their actual value — because of (See Hoarding, Page 10A)
College avoids employee layoffs City affordable housing Officials praise ‘workforce planning’ By CHRISTOPHER ROSS MIDDLEBURY — After nearly a year of evaluating its workforce in preparation for job cuts, Middlebury College told its employees on Tuesday that it achieved a balanced budget without issuing pink slips. “It is important to recognize the effort this took,” wrote President Laurie Patton in a campus-wide email. “This process has been both lengthy and challenging, and caused many in our community
significant uncertainty and discomfort. Thanks to your participation, the process was successful.” Last June Middlebury College, which is the largest employer in Addison County, launched a program called “Workforce Planning,” a comprehensive reevaluation of personnel and work processes. Among other things, the administration hoped this would lead to a 10 percent ($8 million) reduction in non-benefit employee
compensation costs by the end of the current fiscal year (June 30). VOLUNTARY SEPARATIONS On Tuesday, college officials announced the results of two employee buyout plans — a Faculty Retirement Incentive Plan (FRIP) and a staff Incentive Separation Plan (ISP). Of the 117 faculty who were eligible for the FRIP, 24 elected to participate. As a result, the college will achieve $4.6 million in annual savings, though over time some new faculty positions will need to be phased in.
Of the 77 staff members who were eligible for the ISP, 35 elected to participate. This number was slightly lower than hoped, college officials said, but it will result in an annual savings of $3.6 million. That number climbs to $6.1 million once the elimination of currently vacant positions is factored in. Altogether, through buyouts and attrition, 147 full-time-equivalent (FTE) positions were eliminated, 43 new FTE positions were created for next year and 100 existing positions will get pay adjustments. (See College, Page 3A)
project gets final funding By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The funding pieces have fallen into place for a planned 24-unit Vergennes affordable housing project on Armory Lane, and construction should begin in August, according to Elise Shanbacker, the executive director of the Addison County Community Trust (ACCT).
Bristol paving project details outlined; some options remain By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — The town of Bristol is bracing for a pair of construction projects that are expected to cause major disruptions downtown. Though project details, including scope and schedules, are subject to change, the Main Street lighting and sidewalk project will begin this fall. The downtown portion of Route 116 will get repaved next spring or summer. Representatives from the engineering firm DuBois & King, which is responsible for both projects, presented their plans and answered questions at a public information meeting on May 13. Roughly 20 residents attended that meeting. SIDEWALKS, LIGHTING The original scope of the Main Street lighting and sidewalk project called for replacing 14 lampposts between North/South Street to west and the National Bank of Middlebury and Hatch 31 to the east, replacing the brick paver areas with stamped concrete to match the intersection, and realigning the (See Bristol, Page 11A)
ACCT and Housing Vermont are cooperating on the project, called Vermont Community Housing, which in April and May received the final two funding awards it needed. One will be worth more than $4 million of equity from a Low-Income Housing Tax Credit from the Vermont (See Housing, Page 11A)
By the way The town of Lincoln will hold its 30th annual “Town Wide Yard Sale” this Saturday, May 25, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Vendors are asked for a $15 donation to Weathervane United senior housing in order to have their individual yard sales included on a map for bargain hunters. The yard sales will be held at individual Lincoln homes, the lawn of the local library, and at the Weathervane United (See By the way, Page 12A)
Index Obituaries...............................6A Classifieds......................9B-10B Service Directory.............7B-8B Entertainment...... Arts + Leisure Community Calendar.......8A-9A Arts Calendar...... Arts + Leisure Sports...............................1B-3B
Raise their voices
MEMBERS OF THE Middlebury Union High School choir follow director Liz LeBeau as they sing a lovely concert of songs from Gershwin and other composers at the school auditorium Monday evening. The event included performances from the school string ensemble, jazz ensemble and concert band.
Photo by Jason Duquette-Hoffman
PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, May 23, 2019
Police: Man used truck to kill woman By RUSSELL JONES PROCTOR — A late night out that led to a domestic dispute ended with police alleging a Pittsford man struck his girlfriend at her home in Proctor with his truck, causing her death. State police were notified of a body found at 13 Market St. in Proctor at 4:52 a.m. on Saturday, May 18, and troopers from the Field Force Division, Major Crime Unit and Bureau of Criminal Investigations, were called to the location. According to the police report, investigators found Melanie Rooney, 31 of Proctor, in her driveway dead from what police reported as having been run over by a vehicle. Her official cause of death was body trauma from being crushed. The follow-up investigation led police to her boyfriend, Anthony Reynolds, 48, whom police arrested on Saturday in connection with Rooney’s death. Reynolds was held without bail until he was arraigned on Monday, May 20, in Rutland.
He was charged with manslaughter, first degree aggravated domestic assault, second degree aggravated domestic assault with a prior conviction, grossly negligent operation of a vehicle, leaving the scene of a fatal crash and operating with a criminally suspended license. In an affidavit filed after the arraignment, Vermont State Police Detective Sergeant Tyson Kinney said Reynolds told police that he and Rooney started dating in January, and during the evening prior to her death, a dispute occurred between the two in the city of Rutland. Rooney initially told police that they drove back to Rooney’s house in Proctor after the argument and he returned to his house in Pittsford. Hours later, the affidavit states, Reynolds told officers he had not told the truth in the first interview and wanted to “come clean.” Reynolds went on to tell police that he was kicked out of a bar due to an argument with a bouncer and got into a verbal
argument with Rooney before they returned to her home. Upon arriving, Reynolds said he went into Rooney’s house briefly before getting in his truck and driving away. He quickly realized he forgot his cell phone and turned around to get it. Reynolds told police that when he returned to Rooney’s house he saw what he thought was a duffel bag laying in the driveway. Once he discovered the shape in the driveway was Rooney, he thought she was being dramatic and told her to get up. After he discovered she didn’t have a pulse and wasn’t breathing, he said he panicked and left. According to the affidavit, at this time Reynolds believed it was him that struck Rooney due to the fact that he did not see any other vehicles and the short amount of time until he returned to the residence. In court on Monday, May 20, Reynolds pleaded not guilty to all six charges and was held without bail, pending a trial.
Buzzell to lead Bristol Elementary Former ID-4 boss succeeds Robinson By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District has hired former Mary Hogan Elementary School principal Tom Buzzell as interim principal of Bristol Elementary School. His one-year term begins July 1. “I’m looking forward to bringing my growth from previous educational experiences to Bristol Elementary,” Buzzell told the Independent. This past year, he worked as a library media specialist at the Bristol school. “I’ve really enjoyed getting to know the faculty and students at BES, as well as the larger Bristol community,” Buzzell said. In a public statement to the school district, MAUSD superintendent Patrick Reen extolled Buzzell’s virtues. “Tom has quickly become a positive, influential member of the BES community,” Reen said. “His experience as a school leader positions him well to assume the responsibilities of interim principal.” He replaces Kevin Robinson, who submitted his resignation
TOM BUZZELL last month after three years in the job. “This was not an easy decision as it has certainly required a lot of thought and consideration,” Robinson wrote in his resignation letter. “However, I have decided to move into a new direction that will hopefully allow me to continue my professional growth
and career development.” On April 9 Robinson was hired as the principal of the Integrated Arts Academy (IAA), a magnet school in the Burlington School District. At the time, he had also been a finalist for the principalship of Champlain Elementary School, in the same district. Robinson did not respond to multiple requests for comment. Buzzell, 55, brings 13 years of administrative experience to the job. Before coming to Bristol, he served as assistant principal, co-principal, and then principal of Middlebury’s Mary Hogan school. Before that he taught science high school science for 10 years and served two stints as a school librarian. He’s looking forward to using his leadership voice to help the MAUSD implement its Five-year Strategic Plan, he said. Launched last month, the Strategic Plan sets out a series of goals, objectives and metrics for the district’s six schools, chief among them a district-wide curricular consistency. Buzzell’s term as interim principal of BES ends on June 30, 2020, at which time he hopes to be considered for the permanent position, he said. Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent.com.
Midd. downtown funds OK’d By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on May 15 unanimously endorsed a $228,750 proposal to market the downtown during the next two years, a period that will bring much construction disruption to the core village area during replacement of the Merchants Row and Main Street rail bridges. The marketing plan — which must ultimately gain funding approval from the Vermont Agency of Transportation — was assembled by the grassroots group “Neighbors Together,” made up of representatives from downtown businesses, churches, citizenry, institutions and economic development organizations. Their common goal: Help downtown merchants and property owners weather the rail bridges project, which will bring detours, noise, dust and other challenges to local commerce, tourism and everyday life for those residing in the construction zone. “We’re looking for accessibility, as well as communication,” Nancy Malcolm, a leader of Neighbors Together, told the selectboard. The group is asking for a combined total of $228,750 in state funds to implement promotional programs for this year and 2020. Their recommendations include: • Supporting the E x p e r i e n c e M i d d l e b u r y. c o m website, and related social media platforms, to herald Middlebury businesses and community events and attract visitors to the area, building on the work already begun. • Ongoing funding for the “Bundle” pop-up event space at 60 Main St. Advocates want the space to host up to six events per month in collaboration with downtown businesses, to bring traffic into the community center and encourage
patronage of restaurants and stores. During its roughly two months of operation, Bundle has hosted multiple pop-up events, including a reusable-bags-making workshop, a basket weaving event, a makers’ market and a jewelry/maple syrup sale. Most of those events have been well attended and enthusiastically received, according to Karen Duguay, a Neighbors Together member and executive director of the Better Middlebury Partnership. “I’m so excited about what’s happening in this space and the potential going forward,” Duguay told the board. • Continuation of last year’s work to make the downtown more aesthetically pleasing, including fence art and flower baskets. • Launching a regional marketing campaign to tout Middlebury’s allure as a tourism destination. The campaign will, among other tings, note the community’s year-round outdoor recreation opportunities, its diverse local food and craft beverage market, and its vibrant arts and culture scene. • Working with wellness organizations — such as Rise Vermont, Porter Medical Center and Come Alive Outside — to promote healthy activities while also encouraging off-site downtown parking during construction, with rewards for those who participate. • Hosting special events in the downtown to draw crowds. Planned events include additional downtown block parties and outdoor concerts at the Marble Works during the summer of 2019 and 2020. • Using local promotional currency, such as “Middlebury Money,” as rewards or prizes for local business patronage during special events or promotions. • Offering special promotions at specific downtown businesses, on
a rotating basis. Those promotions could include deals and/or discounts to encourage traffic and spending in that business. • Holding weekly scavenger hunts with prizes, promoted and led by the various Neighbors Together stakeholder groups. • Creating a volunteer-staffed visitors’ center to answer questions, provide information and way-finding details to visitors and locals during construction — particularly when Main Street and Merchants Row both close during an estimated 10 weeks of the summer 2020. This plan also calls for an un-staffed information kiosk on the east side of downtown. Advocates have also outlined a series of downtown promotional activities that aren’t part of the $228,750 budget. They include creating partnerships between downtown businesses and those on Exchange Street or Route 7, working with Addison County Transit Resources to promote use of shuttle buses by downtown employees, installing a “construction-themed story walk,” and offering golf cart transportation between some downtown locations. Selectboard members praised the Neighbors group for its efforts. “What you’ve done is created a great feeling of enthusiasm and joy about the town,” Selectman Victor Nuovo said. “Perhaps your greatest contribution is the feeling that we’re not going to be paralyzed by this (construction project) that’s going to happen.” Selectman Nick Artim told group members, “I don’t have any disagreement with anything you’re going.” “I love the plan,” Selectwoman Laura Asermily said. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.
Addison Independent, Thursday, May 23, 2019 — PAGE 3A
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College (Continued from Page 1A) “We are pleased that Middlebury was able to achieve its highest-level goal — a balanced FY20 budget — without having to resort to layoffs,” wrote David Provost, executive vice president for finance and administration, in a campus-wide email Tuesday. The email was also signed by Jeff Cason, executive vice president and provost, and Karen Miller, vice president for human resources. At this time, Middlebury does not anticipate making further staffing cuts, Provost told the Independent. But in their campus-wide email, he, Cason and Miller cautioned that workforce planning was never meant to be a “quick fix.” “It was designed to be a new way of thinking about and prioritizing the work we do in support of our educational mission,” they wrote. “We should be engaged in a continuous search for better and more efficient ways of working.” A TOUGH YEAR Workforce planning was introduced last June to accelerate an existing initiative, called The Road to a Sustainable Future, which itself had been launched in September 2016, just after the college posted a $16.7 million spending deficit. Because Middlebury, like most colleges, spends more money on employee compensation and benefits than on anything else — typically 60 to 65 percent of total operating costs — it would be difficult to achieve a balanced budget without in some way addressing that spending, Provost said. The process for figuring out how to do that began last fall, when vice presidents across the college launched a series of staff discussions about how work could be done more efficiently and by whom, as well as where more staffing and resources might be needed. In December each department submitted two plans to the administration: one that cut staff compensation costs by 10 percent and one that cut costs by 15 percent. Then they waited. Throughout the process, employees were concerned not only about job security, but also about future work burdens for those who remained. “Without knowing exactly how many responsibilities will be allocated, many departments are concerned that they will be expected to do the same amount of work with less staff,” reported Middlebury’s student newspaper, the Campus, earlier this month. “While the administration has repeatedly assured staff that this will not be the case, the lack of clarity on (that issue) has left some department heads and managers on edge.” NEXT STEPS For many current employees, job descriptions have indeed changed and responsibilities have shifted. Some employees will find that their new duties have earned them an increase in compensation, while others will receive outright promotions.
Putting all of those pieces together is still happening at the departmental level, Provost said, and is likely to occupy college officials for the next couple of months. Any raises or promotions would not take effect until July 1. In the meantime, the faculty and staff are having to navigate an entirely new online financial platform called Oracle, which was implemented not only to save money and increase efficiency but also to reduce the college’s software security vulnerabilities. Looking ahead, the college’s board of trustees, which earlier this month approved a FY 2020 spending plan that would reduce expenses by 1.4 percent, will at its autumn meeting consider a proposal that would require the administration to submit a budget each year that shows an operating surplus. FINANCIAL MILESTONE Next year’s spending plan is set to become the first such budget, which college officials project will produce a surplus of nearly $300,000 — the first surplus since 2012. When operating revenue doesn’t meet expenses, the college turns to its endowment to make of the difference. President Patton in her cam-
pus-wide email called it an important milestone for the college. And, thanks to workforce planning, it was achieved a year ahead of schedule, she said. Operating deficits have been steadily shrinking since their high in 2016: • 2016: $16.7 million. • 2017: $13.8 million. • 2018: $10.6 million. • 2019: $7.5 million (projected). According to Provost, the college’s net improvement in financial instability between FY 2016 and FY 2020 is more than $30 million. Still, Patton said, “maintaining our secure financial footing will require continued care and attention.” It has also required a tuition increase. Next year the rate for tuition, room and board at Middlebury College will increase by 3.25 percent ($2,261) to $72,256. Tuition is not the only thing that has increased, however. This year the college set a record for applications. Middlebury’s incoming class of 2023 was selected from a pool of 9,750 applicants, the largest in the college’s history. Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent.com.
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No bill is better than a bad one In a legislative session initially filled with the promise of progressive accomplishment, the supermajority owned by the Democrats was so poorly managed by the House and Senate leadership this session that the best move at this late stage, with two of the biggest issues of the year yet resolved, may be to call it an impasse and simply adjourn and start anew next session. The legislature and governor have to approve a budget, of course, but rather than pass a minimum wage or family leave bill that is at best a last-ditch effort to avoid embarrassment, it’s probably best not to poison the well any further. The Senate’s initial version of the minimum wage bill took it to $15 by 2024; the House countered with some reasonable burdens that would place on the business community in light of a recession and set the annual increases to inflation, which would have delayed the $15 goal by a year under current circumstances, but could have delayed it longer if a severe recession hit — a fairly reasonable concern in light of Vermont’s struggling business community and job losses over the past several years. In good times, most Vermonters agree workers’ wages need to increase, but in bad times few would agree businesses should be strapped so thin they might be forced out of business. A little common sense in light of a likely recession, makes the House’s version far more realistic. And realistic is an important benchmark since Gov. Scott is very likely to veto anything that isn’t. And if Democrats can’t even agree on a measure they can support, it’s unlikely they could override a veto. And that would just be egg all over their face. Besides, at least on the minimum wage issue, there’s not much to lose by a one-year delay. Vermont already has a standard of living increase built into its minimum wage, which is currently $10.78, and will increase again in the coming year. The House’s version of the bill would have essentially increased the minimum wage by a similar cost of living measure. On the family leave bill, the House and Senate leadership made a tactical error early in the session when they rejected outright the governor’s proposal to raise funding for his family leave proposal through the estate tax. The governor proposed an inferior and unreliable source of funding, but the Legislature could have left it there as a fallback measure in case they couldn’t come up with anything better, which is where they are with adjournment expected this Thursday or Friday. As it is, passing a compromise measure neither House nor Senate members fully support, and whose funding source is not properly vetted, is a recipe for disaster. In short, no bill is better than a bad one. Is there a graceful way out? Admit the truth. These are tough issues with many options that have good and bad consequences. The difficulty is agreeing on the right balance of aid to workers without harming and discouraging the business community and future job growth. Most of us understand that. It was only the political hype ahead of the legislative session that made it sound as if both issues could be easily resolved within a blink of the eye. Angelo Lynn
Saying thanks for cherished photos In a personal commentary about a tough medical period he has endured over the past six months, the Addison Independent’s beloved photographer Trent Campbell offers a humble observation about how to adjust one’s priorities and get a new outlook on life. “I recommend having a stroke,” he writes. “I had one, and it did wonders altering my perspective.” He backs off that wry sense of humor in the next sentence, recalling that he had two strokes in the past six months and suggests “avoiding a stroke any way you can.” The first statement is the ever-present optimism that Trent has shown all of his colleagues at the Addison Independent for the past 20 years, as well as the thousands of people throughout Addison County with whom he has photographed and had the pleasure of interacting. The second statement reflects the reality of serious illness, and what you learn about what’s truly important in life. Trent has always been a soulful storyteller, though mainly through his photos. You could see it in his work for all these years not just because he has a “photographers eye,” but because he empathizes with others. He sees his subject’s pain or joy, determination and grit, athletic prowess or dramatic flair and illustrates that in the photos he takes. Like all great photographers (and we’re lucky to have Steve James filling in until Trent’s return), Trent doesn’t “snap” a profile shot for a feature story, but rather captures the essence of a person; he shows the physical exertion and drama in sports that stories alone can’t convey; and he has preserved timeless moments in the county’s history that should never be lost because he knows where to be and when. The art in photography is in the seeing and giving back, more than in the taking — and Trent has given to the county tens of thousands of moments not to be forgotten. But right now he’s not able to operate a camera let alone the physical mobility to get about. For much of the past six months since his first stroke in late October, he’s been in and out of the hospital and in rehab, using a walker, then a cane to get around. He tells his personal story in a sidebar (see Page 12A) to a front-page story written by long-time colleague and lead reporter John Flowers, and he is, as expected, unflinchingly honest, touching, optimistic and grateful. Grateful? Yes, despite six months of a debilitating illness, he’s grateful for all life has given him, for every opportunity to intrude into someone’s personal space for a moment to capture a photo, for being accepted as an integral part of the Addison County community, for his family and friends, and for all those who have helped him and his wife, Nikki, throughout their current ordeal. That’s understanding life’s priorities and gaining perspective. Perhaps you know Trent personally, or maybe have only seen him at community events taking pictures at a parade, sporting event, graduation, a high school musical or community play, a news event or, perhaps, at Addison County Field Days. He’s been there and he’s hoping to be there again. But as he says in his story, and as John Flowers reports, he’s got a long recovery ahead. There’s a Gofundme campaign in his name (see story for the details). If he’s ever taken a photo of you or a member of your family, or perhaps covered a school play or community event, a group or team shot, or something else that you’ve long cherished, this is a good time to say thanks. Angelo Lynn
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Towns are more than small schools Congratulations to Kathleen Reynolds for her excellent letter to the editor re: school consolidation and the related financial and education issues. Over the past 32 years I’ve chaired a small town school board, served on the ACSU executive committee and chaired that same small town’s selectboard. I’m comfortable with my grasp of both community and culture here. Ms. Reynolds’ challenge to the emotionally appealing but inaccurate notion that “schools are the heart of the community” is spot on. The reality of our small communities is considerably more complicated and nuanced than such a superficial assertion conveys. Ms. Reynolds clearly conveys the daunting challenges our state and our Addison County communities face going forward. The only way we can hope to navigate these rapids will be by thoughtful, informed, fact-based and comprehensive consideration of our options, not by yielding to the emotional plaints of “activists” and single-issue protestors. Bruce Hiland Middlebury (formerly of Cornwall)
Savings don’t justify closings No clown
AT THIS INSTANT in Sunday’s game at Middlebury College, a bright yellow lacrosse ball floats in front of Panther Jane Earley’s face as if it were the nose of a circus performer.
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Your letters to the editor matter Why is it that when people disagree these days the only way we seem to be able to address each other is through shouting? Sometimes if feels like we are all so sure that reasonable arguments aren’t going to change minds that we too quickly raise our voices as if physical intimidation will sway the opinions of those we disagree with. Fortunately we have these pages of typed out opinion in the Addison Independent every week — pages 4 and 5, sometimes 7, occasionally beyond that when a lot of people have something to say — where we encourage our neighbors in Addison County and Brandon to share their opinions on matters of public policy and matters of broad By John public interest. We want people McCright to share their disagreements here. Reading and considering differing opinions on important public matters is hopefully how we find the best ways to deal with our challenging public problems; offering a forum where members of the public can consider various options is an important role of newspapers. And because these opinions are in print it is more difficult to shout and bully than it is in electronic media. In most cases the letters to the editor of the Addison Independent come through me. One challenge I face when moderating these opinion pages is encouraging people to keep their letters as succinct as possible. As a writer myself I know how difficult it can be to get started when writing something that you have been cogitating on for a good time, and then how difficult it can be to stop writing once you get started. I understand that
people form opinions on complex issues like abortion or the role of government in economic development by considering a complex web of information, and often they want to share every tentacle of that web to explain how they got to where they are, and this results in very long letters. Those looong letters pose two problems. One, space really is limited in the newspaper. We determine how many pages to print based on a percentage of ads sold. Over the years the percentage of space for news has grown, but ultimately we still have to sell some ads to make this business work and actually publish a newspaper. And the addition of addisonindependent. com may in theory give us unlimited space for longer letters, the reality is that time is limited and preparing longer letters for online does chip away at the time our staff has to do other things to get the newspaper out the door. The second problem of long letters is that — again as a writer it is sometimes hard for me to believe — many people won’t read all the way through a long letter. Some people will see how long a letter is and not even start reading if they think it will take them too long to get through. A very common question I field is what is the word limit for letters to the editor. There is no hard and fast limit. I counsel against 1,000-word letters, and if people ask I tell then that the limit is 700 words but keep it to 400 or 500 if you can. I think that for some people if you give them a word limit they will simply write that many words, so a lower “limit” is better. (See Clippings, Page 5A)
Clippings
Finally solving the purse problem I don’t know the correct name for it. Younger people for reasons I can’t explain), a few expired coupons call it a purse. Retailers call it a handbag. I think I call and a mini tube of toothpaste from the dentist’s office. mine a pocketbook, although the word makes me think Everything but my keys. of my grandmother. Whatever you call it, mine is not I could hear them jingling when I shook the bag, but working for me. they would camouflage themselves on the bottom, like I throw my car keys into my bag without thinking, a flounder, always just out of reach. and I have yet to own a bag that So the next time, I switched up my strategy and went small. will allow me to find them easily I bought a tiny but expensive later. (Call me self-conscious, but leather wallet/purse combo on a I’ve reached an age where it feels long strap. It had slots for cash and undignified to dump the contents cards and a zippered compartment of my pocketbook on the blacktop just big enough to hold keys and a every time I need to unlock my car.) phone (but, sadly, not snacks). My “Just take a moment to put your keys, with nowhere to hide, would keys in the same pocket every time By Jessie Raymond always be right at my fingertips. you get out of the car,” my more And they were. The opening at orderly friends tell me. I have to the top of the bag was so narrow, forgive them; these are the same repressed souls who put clean sheets back on the bed however, I could hardly get those fingertips in, and my knuckles soon grew raw from scraping against the hours before they plan on getting into it. I once believed an oversized bag with no interior zipper. Despite the tight quarters, I still found room to cram dividers would solve my problem. I bought one so roomy that it could hold my keys, my phone, library in the receipts that I was too shy to tell sales clerks books, a change of clothes and a water bottle, plus I didn’t want. When, with a pained but triumphant double as an emergency shelter. I figured the keys shout, I would finally manage to yank my keys out, would simply fall to the bottom where I could grab the crumpled receipts would fly high and far in all directions, as if part of a flashy magic trick. It often them. But it didn’t work out as planned. When I rum- drew applause from awed onlookers. This brings me to my current bag. Neither too big maged around in the bag, I’d come up with fistfuls of old receipts, lip balm, loose change (mostly Canadian, (See Jessie, Page 5A)
Around the bend
It was disappointing that the Addison Central School District Board has not come up with any more positive proposals than to question the need for six small rural elementary schools one more time. These six schools’ total cost, as per an exhibit, is $5.7 million (417 students) compared to $5.3 million (441 students) for Mary Hogan, $4.2 million (267 students) for Middlebury Union Middle School, $7.8 million (558 students) for Middlebury Union High School and $6.1 million for Special Education. The savings from closing one, two or three will not have a significant impact on ACSD total cost per pupil, based on the board estimates. Further the future enrollment projections were based on 2018/19 numbers whereas 2019/20 projections became available in December. These show that enrollment will actually increase by 34 students (2 percent) and updated five-year projections would show no further decreases over the period based on current elementary enrollments progressing through MUMS and MUHS. And oh, by the way, the “idea” is back to further weaken the rural elementary schools by consolidating grade 6 into MUMS. It seems strange that after a very open and comprehensive discussion on the Five Year Strategy in 2014/15, which is being actioned on plan according to the latest updates, and IB (International Baccalaureate) is being implemented successfully (a huge accomplishment), that the whole future organization is being thrown into question by bricks and mortar. As has been addressed by many letters in this space, the issues are not only about “Student Equity” but also about all Addison County towns’ equity, values and opportunities. Unification does not mean elimination. The potential savings, if any, on closing a few small buildings will not compensate for the much larger ACSD loss of vision and equity. Nick Causton Shoreham
Climate research seen as flawed This November will mark the 10th anniversary of Climategate, when emails between Phil Jones at the University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit in the U.K. and Michael Mann at Penn State University were hacked. The significance to this hacking is that it exposed the fraudulent side to the uncompromised objectivity of science. Michael E. Mann is known by all interested in climatology, whether you be an alarmist or a denier, from one with a mere (See Letter, Page 5A)
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‘Founding Brothers’ wore no halos Letter Editor’s note: This is the sermon, “Sinners in the Hand 19th in a series of essays on the of an Angry God,” but who was also, like his predecessor Cotton American political tradition. Mather, a philosopher of no By VICTOR NUOVO It is now no longer appropriate mean ability and an empirical to use the expression “Founding naturalist. Burr died from complications Fathers” when referring to the founders of this nation. Its use resulting from a smallpox vaccination, to was once meant to which he voluntarily put them in a class submitted to above the people, encourage others to to present them as do the same. This venerable, whereas, occurred shortly we have come to after he assumed realize that they, like the presidency of us, were “human, The College of all too human,” New Jersey (since flawed, and full of renamed Princeton foibles. Besides, the University). He expression smacks opposed slavery and of patriarchalism, had earlier served which is vile. The American as a missionary to “Founding Indians Brothers,” the title Political Tradition Mohawk residing in Western of a noted historical An essay by Massachusetts, study of them by Victor Nuovo desiring not merely Joseph Ellis, has become the accepted Middlebury College to convert them to Christianity, but expression. It has professor emeritus thereby to include a better pedigree, of philosophy them in American for the founders society. used the expression Aaron Burr Jr. was also an “band of brothers” to refer to themselves. Of course, they early advocate of the education of were all male, a deficiency of the women. He read and admired the works of Mary Wollstonecraft, times. Among its younger members, the author of “A Vindications notably Hamilton, Jefferson, of the Rights of Women,” and Madison and Burr, this band was with that as a guide he oversaw beset by rivalry, jealousy, envy the education of his daughter and even fratricide. It is now well Theodosia, about whom I will known that on July 11, 1804, have more to say in my next Aaron Burr inflicted a mortal essay. He had abandoned the wound on Alexander Hamilton religion of his fathers. Alexander Hamilton had a in a duel on the Heights of humbler heritage. Born out of Weehawken, New Jersey. One is reminded of another wedlock in the Caribbean island tale of two brothers that led to of Nevis, and orphaned while fratricide, of Cain and Abel, but, still a child, he was a precocious although Burr came to bear the youth, whose intelligence and mark of Cain, he was no villain, brilliance attracted a circle of nor was Hamilton a saint. They benefactors and sponsors. They were ordinary men, gifted, but arranged for him to attend King’s also driven by vain passions College in New York (now and ambition and uncontrolled Columbia University). Hamilton and Thomas rivalry. were political The event might be described Jefferson as an American tragedy. I’m not opponents belonging to opposing sure that Lin-Manuel Miranda parties. Jefferson preferred a has portrayed it so in his musical decentralized system based “Hamilton,” in any case, while on an agrarian economy. his play is justly praised for its Hamilton favored a strong drama and music, it is not reliable central government. He was history, and should be considered also the founder of American for what it is — a work of the capitalism and he promoted imagination, entertaining and industrial growth and commerce. edifying, but nonetheless a All three founders opposed slavery, although in this instance, fiction. Of the four “founding brothers” Jefferson’s hypocrisy becomes just named, Aaron Burr, Jr. had most evident. The historian Joseph Ellis cites the most distinguished ancestry. His maternal grandfather was Jefferson’s own census of his Jonathan Edwards, who is most household, or as Jefferson termed remembered as a religious it, “my family.” It consisted of 11 revivalist, a leader of the Great “free whites” and 93 slaves, “two Awakening. He was also author of whom were his own children.” The cause of the animosity of the famous or infamous
between Hamilton and Burr is uncertain. Hamilton had the unfortunate habit of being a loud mouth, especially when speaking of people he didn’t like or who were in his way. He accused Burr of certain “despicable acts.” Just what he was referring to is a matter of speculation. Gore Vidal wrote a novel about Burr, titled “Burr.” He conjectured that Hamilton was alluding to an unsubstantiated rumor that he had committed incest. But it is a mere conjecture that has dramatic value. Yet, unlike Miranda, who produced “Hamilton” after reading only one recent biography, Vidal read widely in the sources and his vast learning informs his art. The novel is worth reading, yet no one should forget that it also is fiction. Politically, Burr and Jefferson were allies and ran on the same ticket, but they were also rivals. In the presidential election of 1800, they tied for the most votes in the Electoral College for the presidency. The practice then was that the top vote getter would be president, and the next, vice-president. But there was no top vote getter; although there was a prior understanding that the presidency should go to Jefferson. It was up to Congress to decide: they chose Jefferson, with Hamilton’s encouragement. Hamilton let it be known that he considered Burr dangerous. But he might have said the same about Jefferson. For Jefferson’s party favored a less centralized association of states, and Jefferson was less worried about the possibility of armed conflict between the states. Jefferson was no admirer of Hamilton, but he had a greater animosity towards Burr. Unlike Burr and Hamilton, who distinguished themselves in the Revolutionary war, Jefferson had no military experience. Yet he believed that conflict, even when it erupted into violence, was beneficial, even necessary for an enduring liberty, as he wrote in 1787: “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.” The Treaty of Paris (1783), between Great Britain and the United States, which ended the Revolutionary War, set the stage for western expansion. It recognized not only that the 13 original states were independent and sovereign, it also set boundaries to American expansion: to the north Canada, to the south, Florida (then under Spanish dominion), and to the (See Nuovo, Page 7A)
Jessie (Continued from Page 4A) nor too small, it promised to be the Baby Bear of pocketbooks. But in reality, it’s far from “just right.” In a physics-defying design, the bag measures 8 by 10 inches on the outside, while on the inside it’s the size of a modest one-bedroom apartment. It’s technically a travel bag, with lots of pockets for stashing passports, ticket stubs and contraband, and somehow my keys always end up in whichever pocket I’m not reaching into. I can feel them through the fabric dividers, but they’re consistently one compartment over. I need to find a better bag. At least that’s what I thought until yesterday. I was ranting to a coworker about my pocketbook troubles. She blinked at me blankly as I expounded on the many iterations of handbags that I have known and the difficulty of discovering a style that would allow me to retrieve my keys without a sending in a search party. I recognized her expression. I’m always rambling on about stuff like this to people who are too polite to say what they’re thinking: “How long is she going to keep talking?” or “That’s nice, lady, but I’m just a bank teller, and there are customers behind you.” As it turns out, however, she wasn’t ignoring me; she was just confused. She had assumed that I, like her and many other owners of newer cars, had a keyless fob, the kind that unlocks and starts your car remotely. You can toss the fob
in your purse and never take it out. And that’s when it hit me. I’ve spent years searching for a pocketbook (or whatever it’s called) that
would keep my elusive keys within easy reach. But I don’t need a new pocketbook. I need a new car.
(Continued from Page 4A) budding interest to a Ph.D. whose life work in research has made them globally recognized. When we hear that this is the warmest year, of the warmest decade, of the warmest century in the last millennium, it comes from the Mann et al. hockey stick. Michael E. Mann, Raymond S. Bradley, and Malcolm K. Hughes published their first (Nature, vol. 392, pps. 779-787, 1998) of several related papers in the prestigious scientific journal Nature, of James Watson and Francis Crick and Linus Pauling fame. Temperature proxy data obtained from the tree rings of California bristle cone pines and Canadian cedars from the Gaspé Peninsula was combined with actual thermometer data for the most recent 40 years. The result was a graph resembling a long straight handle with a sharp up turned hockey blade. Both the Third (2001) and Fourth (2007) Assessment Reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded that most of the observed warming over the last 50 years is due to human activity. The IPCC shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President Al Gore, the latter having used the hockey stick graph in his 2006 documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth.” This prize was given because of their efforts to disseminate the knowledge of man-made
climate change and for laying the foundation required to counteract these anthropogenic changes. But there was a major problem. Both the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) from A.D. 950 to 1250 and the Little Ice Age from A.D. 1645 to 1715 were eliminated by incorrect, faulty statistical analyses. One could not make the claim that mankind was responsible for this recent increase in temperature unless one controlled the past by eliminating data variability. And since temperatures during the MWP were over twice that during the 1990s, the magnitude of these temperature increases needed to be suppressed. This scandal in the scientific community was largely exposed through the work of Steven McIntyre and Ross McKitrick, beginning in 2003. Mann was not forthcoming in sharing his raw data and algorithms used in the statistical analyses. He also deleted data, emails (because of fear of imminent FOIA requests), and ultimately sued multiple individuals who had made their criticisms of Mann’s work publicly known. But this is not the only way the narrative for anthropogenic climate change has been controlled. Today, it is being touted throughout the media that there is a 97 percent consensus among the world’s scientists who believe that climate change is caused mostly by man from the burning of fossil
fuels. Further, this situation must be corrected with governmental intervention, regardless of the financial impact to the USA for what we are ethically required to repair on a global scale. Climate activist Bill McKibben and Sen. Bernie Sanders have each told us that this is the truth, and that the consensus is in. In a 2008 online survey conducted by graduate student Margaret Zimmerman, two questions were asked of earth scientists in academic and governmental institutions. Out of 10,257, there were 3,146 respondents. Of these, 79 individuals were selected who had listed climate science as their area of expertise and who had published greater than 50 percent of their peer-reviewed papers on climate change. Of these, 76 of 79 or 96.2 percent answered “risen” to the first question: “When compared with pre-1800s levels, do you think that mean global temperatures have generally risen, fallen, or remained relatively constant.” And 75 of 77 or 97.4 percent answered “yes” to the second question: “Do you think human activity is a significant contributing factor in changing mean global temperatures?” One does not need to be a scientist to see the problems statistically with this method and with the conclusion. Dan Monger New Haven
Clippings (Continued from Page 4A) Also, after working in journalism for more than 25 years I have seen readers’ attention spans slip and believe that nowadays more people stop reading after 700 words (I’m at 588, so I better wrap this up). Besides length, the other major thing we have to keep an eye out for — and the more crucial — is that people are honest in their letter. If the role of the letters forum is for people to frankly exchange ideas on matters of public importance, then we need to have a minimum threshold for facts that the letter writer must clear. Anyone who has read this far has probably also read an online forum where people of unknown motives throw around so much crap that it hardly seems worth your time. We require that all letter writers include their name and town of residence (for publication) and phone number (not for publication, but in case I need to call and check something). Now and then I call and confirm that a letter submitted under someone’s name truly was submitted by that person; quality control. What really is a thicket of complications is assuring that facts are accurate in letters to the editor. People don’t often slander others by name in their letters (although some do try, but they don’t usually put up a fuss when I tell them we can’t libel someone in the newspaper because we and they could (See McCright, Page 7A)
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Obituaries
ADDISON COUNTY
Roger Brouillette, 72, Vergennes
VERGENNES — Roger L. Brouillette, age 72, passed away on Saturday, May 18, 2019, at the St. Albans Health and Rehab Center. He was born in St. Albans on Dec. 22, 1946, to the late Richard He enjoyed carpentry, and created a and Shirley (Longley) Brouillette. house using beams and barn-boards Roger attended Richford High from dilapidated barns, along with School and then entered the U.S. old sinks, tubs and doors that he scavArmy. He served in Vietnam, and enged from other sources. He started a following his honorable discharge, cut-your-own Christmas tree farm on he served in the National Guard for the land. One of his daughters overseveral years. heard him saying to a telemarketer, Roger was employed at the Best “Listen, I’m eighty-eight-years-old, Western Ocean Front in Virginia I have an eighteen-year-old cat and a Beach as their chief engineer for sixty-year-old-tractor. Do you really 10 years. He was also a licensed think I’m going to buy something plumber and worked for Sam from you?” Bryant in Norfolk, Va., for 16 years. He loved his family. And his Roger retired in 2013 as a superviseven grandchildren brought great sor for Breebing Real Estate, he joy to him in later years. He taught was in charge of 36 properties. them to play Bridge, an old card He enjoyed deep-sea fishing, game unfamiliar to most young cookouts, and playing frisbee people. “Grandpa” and his grandkids golf. Roger was a faithful, kind, played at the extended family’s Lake and generous man. As a member Dunmore cottage, on a dimly-lit card of St. Peter’s Catholic Church in table, during summer evenings. SPENCER WRIGHT Vergennes, Roger was very active Spencer’s outlook on life was in the Knights of Columbus and bright, like his red hair. He celebrated every day by eating several dishes of Leicester, Vt.; Donald Wright and received the “Patriotic” Fourth ice cream. He admired Red Skelton, partner Denise Viscomi of Burlington, Degree. In 2015, he was awarded Winston Churchill and explorer Vt.; and Catharine Wright and partner Ernest Shackleton. He liked going to Karen Grimm of Middlebury, Vt. He England, where he began each day by is also survived by his grandchildren: watching the Changing of the Guard. Zoe Wright-Neil, Spencer Wright, His random naps were legendary. So, Alexander Wright, Zelie Wrighttoo, was his rapport with all kinds Neil, Rosalie Wright-Lapin, Connor of people: young and old, rich and Wright, Forrest Wright-Lapin, poor, shy and outgoing. He often and step-grandson Austin Grimm. MIDDLEBURY — Duane K. asked them to “sit down and tell me Other survivors include his former (Duey) Myrick of Middlebury a story.” Then he’d tell a few himself. wife Nancy Wright, and the nieces, passed away peacefully in the He stayed in touch with all of his old nephews and cousins with whom he early hours of Tuesday, May 14, friends and kept making new ones, always stayed in touch. surrounded by his family at Helen even as his generation passed. His The family would like to thank Porter, after a short illness. epitaph might well read, “He had a Addison County Home Health and Duane was born at home in lot of friends.” Hospice, as well as Joanie Roberge, Bridport on Oct. 2, 1933, to He is survived by his four chil- his friend and caregiver. Kenneth W. and Frances Beatrice dren: Gary Wright of Cornwall, Vt., A memorial service for Spencer (Doane) Myrick. He was predeand girlfriend Cindy Bolger; Lesley will be held this summer, and will be ceased by his parents and his sister Theda Costello of East Middlebury. Wright and husband Jim Ellefson of announced at a later date.◊ He is survived by his sister Janice Whitman (Robert) of St. Albans, as well as by his wife and four Staying Local Means Your Loved children. He married his high school One Never Leaves Home... sweetheart Geraldine June White of Middlebury on August 27, 1954, to Affordable Cremation & Burial Plans whom he was a devoted and loving The only on-site crematory husband for nearly 65 years. They in Addison County. Locally owned had four children, Leslie Myrick and operated by Walter Ducharme. (Martha Rust) of New York, N.Y., Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home Kenneth Myrick (Laurie) of Port Henry, N.Y., Juliana Myrick 117 South Main St. Middlebury, VT (Michael Wolfe) of Brooklyn, 802-388-2311 N.Y., and Paula Eisenberg (Jamie sandersonfuneralservice.com Eisenberg) of Underhill, and two grandchildren, Allison and Dylan Myrick, both living in Addison. After graduation from Middlebury High School in 1951, Duane enlisted in the Navy during the Korean Conflict. He served as a radioman on the fleet oiler MAWOR
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Pawcatuck, enjoying tours throughout the Mediterranean, North Sea, and Caribbean. Upon his return to the States he began a career as a machine accountant (administrative computer programmer) for Simmonds Precision in Vergennes. He worked for 44 years for various defense firms that filled and expanded that office space over the decades, culminating in B.F. Goodrich. Upon retirement he served as a volunteer at Porter Hospital for 15 years in the mailroom and in radiology. Duane was an avid supporter of local sports teams at the high school and college level, and was a great fan of the New York Giants football team through all its vicissitudes. In his younger days he was an enthusiastic sportsman of field and stream, and he remained a lifelong N.R.A. member. He cherished the natural beauty of his home state, and was in so many ways a true Vermonter of the old cloth: He lived his life based on the virtues of self-reliance, personal responsibility, tolerance, integrity, and reliability. Duane will be remembered by all those who knew him as a gentle, kind, and quietly philosophical man with a wry sense of humor, who strove to help others, whether in his
DUANE K. (DUEY) MYRICK lifelong practice of Freemasonry, in which he achieved the 32nd degree, as a volunteer, or as an inspirational mentor to fellow friends of Bill W. He was a beloved brother, husband, father, and grandfather. A graveside Masonic service will take place this summer at the Bridport Central Cemetery. Details will be posted here as soon as arrangements have been confirmed.◊
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LEICESTER — Spencer Wright died Tuesday, May 14, 2019, at the Leicester farm of his daughter Lesley Wright and her husband Jim Ellefson. He was 95. Born in Worcester, Mass., on July 13, 1923, to Ruth (Ashworth) and Stanley Wright, from Addison County, Vt., he was the elder brother of Charles and Daniel. He graduated from Kimball Union Academy and Middlebury College, where he was an avid member of DKE fraternity, and played on the football team. He was one of many family members who attended the college. He married Nancy Means, a teacher and writer, in 1950, and they raised four children, while both working at Proctor Academy in Andover, N.H., and renovating an old house in Cornwall, Vt. At Proctor he taught economics and history; in his last few years he still read history and watched historical films long past midnight. He served as athletic director and coached varsity football and hockey. Both sons played hockey at Proctor. He called all of his players by their surnames, including his son Gary whom he addressed as “Wright.” He was inducted into Proctor’s inaugural Athletic Hall of Fame. Equally adept in the classroom, he is remembered by Curt Peterson, class of 1962, as “one of the best teachers from whom I’d ever had the honor of learning life lessons.” After twenty years at Proctor, in the early 1970’s, the family moved full-time to their Cornwall home. They operated Cornwall Crafts, and Spencer worked as a realtor for Murdochs of Middlebury. He then built a home on Cider Mill Road.
Vermont Outstanding Knight of the Year because of his remarkable service to Church and Community. He is survived by his aunt, Sylvia Brouillette of Enosburg Falls; several cousins, including Douglas Harrod and his wife Jeanne of Franklin, Penny Couture of Milton, Francis Harrod Jr. of Milton, and Gary Brouillette and his wife Cammy of Barre. He is also survived by many friends; including Bill Whittemore and his significant other Lorraine Warner, Allen Whittemore and his wife Barbara, Dee Whittemore and Pauline Rheaume all of Vergennes; Albert and his wife Alice Reynolds and Diane Rivers of Addison; and Gary Erickson of Virginia. Roger was predeceased by his parents, Richard and Shirley Brouillette and his brother Robert Brouillette. A Mass of Christian burial will be held Saturday, May 25, at 10:30 a.m., at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Missisquoi St., Enosburg Falls. Interment will follow in St. John the Baptist Cemetery in Enosburg Falls. For those who wish, contributions
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Marion Davis, 95, Hinesburg HINESBURG — Marion E. Davis, 95, a lifelong resident of Hinesburg, passed away April 27, 2019, at the age of 95. Marion was born in Hinesburg on Aug. 25, 1923, to Daniel M. and Kitty C. (Smith) Davis. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, May 25, at 11 a.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 6 Park Street, in Vergennes. Burial will immediately follow in Hinesburg Village Cemetery. To view a complete obituary and leave on-line condolences, visit corbinandpalmer.com.◊
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Mary at the Lighthouse When I was twenty I worked at a nursing home as the activities director. The home was located in a transitional urban neighborhood, and residents included Irish Catholic immigrants, Eastern European Jews, Southern Black Baptists, White Anglo Saxon Protestants, the mentally ill, the developmentally delayed, the senile, and folks who had all their facilities intact. The one common denominator was poverty. None of them could afford anything better. Mary was a slender, whitehaired woman with stooped shoulders. A pixie haircut framed her delicate childlike features, while deep blue eyes revealed the tempest within, shifting from joy to fear in an instant. Mary sat in a corner of the activity room each day hovering over an embroidery sampler. When other residents became agitated, she carried on without notice. Eventually Mary would set her project aside, curling into herself, feet pulled onto the chair, rocking silently, her eyes going blank as they gazed into space. Mary never initiated conversation and only responded to questions with a nod, perhaps adding “Yes, yes,” in a surprisingly husky voice, her eyes and lips smiling for a moment before retreating. Any attempt at conversation received a similar reply. I discovered Mary had a sister who lived near the ocean an hour’s drive from the home, though to my knowledge she had never visited. When she invited Mary for lunch I offered to drive her there, hoping to learn more about Mary’s life. She agreed to the plan. The day of our visit, Mary wore her usual attire, a faded but tidy shirtwaist dress from another era and a pair of childlike sneakers with anklets. She sat quietly in the back seat. When
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we arrived, Mary’s sister Laura welcomed us at the door to her cottage. Stepping inside, we were surrounded by antique clocks of every shape and size. Their dozens of pendulums swishing side to side created a watery flow of sound at once soothing and energizing. I wondered how Mary fit into this picture. Mary and her sister embraced lightly. Their conversation was brief. Laura served grilled cheese sandwiches. She asked Mary a question now and then, receiving the usual minimal response. As we finished with tea and cookies, Laura explained her husband’s passion for clocks. There are resources in this household, and Mary has so little, I thought. While Laura and I washed dishes, Mary remained at the table. In the kitchen I learned her story. Half a century ago, in the 1920s, she was a glamorous young woman who enjoyed dancing, dating and the latest flapper fashions. Laura idolized her older sister. When she became mentally ill, Mary was sent away. Laura visited often, but when she married, her husband severed their relationship. This lunch visit was arranged in secret. Laura’s husband had erased Mary’s existence from their lives. We would have to leave well before he arrived home. We took a short drive to the ocean. Mary hopped in the back seat; Laura and I chatted. Checking on Mary through the rear-view mirror, I sensed her engagement with the scenery, a liveliness in her eyes. We arrived at the site of a lighthouse and stepped out for a look. Laura seemed ready to return to the car and head home. Then Mary spoke. “Let’s walk
McCright (Continued from Page 5A) be sued). The bigger problem is that people simply get their facts wrong. One vexing issue of our era is climate change. My view on policing letters on this topic have evolved. Journalists for years have been taught to include multiple points of view in their stories, and as a result for decades most stories about climate change took the stance that some scientists say the climate is changing and some say it is not. Journalists have rightfully been criticized for trying to be even-handed when the overwhelming consensus is that climate change is happening and people are to blame. When it comes to letters to the editor, I find that publishing opinions that I know are not only wrong but also detrimental to the public conversation without offering some challenge increasingly seems irresponsible to me. We got a climate change letter recently that reported facts that I found pretty hard to believe. I’m sure the letter writer was sincere in his assertions about conspiracies and Medieval warming and statistics. Given the age we are in it would have been easy to just tell him, “That’s not true, we’re not going to print your lies.” I worry that the result of publishing the letter would be to distract people from the real work they need to do to help their community by doing something about man-made climate change, not just fret about whether it is happening.
But I also worry that declining to publish the letter would not be helpful in advancing our public policy goals — the more people you shut out of the discussion the less chance you have for consensus. Publishing his letter would show readers the perspective of one member of their community, and, crucially, I thought the writer was sincere in his beliefs. He wasn’t saying things that were obviously untrue — water isn’t wet, Earth is only 6,000 years old. I checked out some of his claims and I could go point by point why I didn’t agree. But I have enough humility about my own understanding of the world to acknowledge there are some things I don’t know (I hope my kids aren’t reading this). And part of the reason we have a forum is to give others a place to weigh in and to host a back-and-forth that hopefully results in more people pulling in the same direction. My personal point of view is that someone smarter than me will figure out what to say to make this guy and others who have doubts about climate change alter their perception and either get on board with solving this huge existential problem or get out of the way of those who will solve it. Some minds, of course, won’t be changed. But the letters forum is also a place where we can rally support for public office holders who will take climate change seriously and help us do something about it.
down to the ocean,” she said. I had never heard her initiate conversation of any sort. I had never before heard Mary request anything of anyone. Laura hesitated, perhaps anxious her husband would arrive home before she sent us on our way. I jumped at the moment and headed down the path with Mary while her sister waited in the car. We arrived at the lighthouse, which had a small bench at its base facing out to sea. “Sit down here,” Mary invited me, and we did, gazing at the distant horizon, breathing the salt air, bathing in the cool sun. “It’s so beautiful,” she said, her eyes caressing our surroundings. “Yes,” I agreed. I wanted this moment to last. We sat in silence a long while. There was a lightness around Mary, a feeling of the gracious loveliness she still had to offer if only it could be accessed. On the drive back to the nursing home, Mary gazed out the window from her back seat. Too soon, her bright presence dimmed and she returned to her inner place. At the nursing home, Mary stepped lightly out of the car, thanking me softly. I watched her walk away, slender shoulders stooped forward as she returned to a life where she would continue to embroider flowers and rock in a corner until the end of her days, but where there was no lighthouse to sit beside and gaze out to sea, calming the demons that lived in her head. I wondered if that stylish flapper was still nestled somewhere inside her and if there was a time, deep in the night, when she still danced to jazz music in the latest roaring twenties fashions. Alice Leeds, of Bristol, was a public school teacher for 25 years and is currently a writing instructor at the Community College of Vermont in Winooski.
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Aliza Kenney, daughter of Fred and Jan Kenney of Salisbury, finished her college career on Sunday, May 12, when she graduated from Emerson College in Boston, Mass. Kenney was named to the Emerson
College dean’s list for the Spring 2019 semester. The requirement to make Emerson’s dean’s list is a grade point average of 3.7 or higher. Kenney received a BFA degree in Theatre.
Christine Moten of Ferrisburgh was among a select group of outstanding students named to Adelphi University’s fall 2018 Dean’s List. Moten is majoring in Studio Art.
the Treaty of Paris and he looked further west and south. He is said to have hoped to become emperor of Mexico. His adventures resulted in armed conflict. Article III, section 3 of the Constitution defines treason as armed conflict against any of the United States. Jefferson had him arrested and tried for treason. He was acquitted.
The moral of this historical narrative is that one should not idealize, or worse, idolize the founders of this nation. They bear no halos. But what they achieved, represented and prescribed in our Constitution deserves respect, seasoned with critical understanding, without which their achievement will not last.
Nuovo (Continued from Page 5A) West, the Mississippi River. Burr, who did not continue as vice-president for Jefferson’s second term, having been abandoned by Jefferson and his party, hoped to make his fortune in this Western expansion and he raised an army to achieve it, for his conscience was not bound by
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a way of sharing our thanks. Come meet other Veterans and friends and enjoy a delicious meal. Free open to all Veterans and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220, or pryan@ residenceottercreek.com.
Green Mountain Club hike in Ripton. Thursday, May 23, Oak Ridge Trail. Afternoon/evening hike along Oak Ridge trail. Enjoy the extra sun. Distance dependent on weather. More info contact leader Ellen Cronan at ecronana@yahoo.com or 908-595Age Well Senior Luncheon in 2926. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org. Vergennes. Tuesday, May 28, 10 a.m., “The 2020 Presidential Election: A First Look” Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane in Middlebury. Thursday, May Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 23, 4 p.m., The Residence at 10am for bingo and coffee hour. Meal served at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. noon of spinach and cheese quiche, winter mixed Join Eric Davis, Professor vegetables, wheat roll, and Emeritus of Political Science at Middlebury College, for a MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL —Adult: Oils, Pastels, Clay applesauce. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested discussion of what to expect in Hand Building & Wheel Classes, Digital Photography, Watercolors, donation. 72 hours advanced the 2020 presidential campaign. Basket Making Kids: Colored Pencil Drawing, Summer Clay Wheel notice required. Call Michelle Free and open to the public, but space is limited. Fully accessi& Hand Building, Art Camps: Dragons, Art is Delicious, Art of at 802-377-1419. Open to ble. RSVP required to Suzanne Israel, Nature Art, Welcome to the Zoo, 5 Days of Fun, World of anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride Bennett at 802-377-3393 or Color, Art is Everywhere middleburystudioschool.org To register may be provided. Call ACTR at sbennett@residenceottercreek. email: studioschool2377@gmail.com or call Barb 247-3702. 802-388-2287 to inquire. com. “Raising your Recycling Emerald Ash Borer talk in SECOND DEGREE REIKI WORKSHOP — Increase your ability and Composting IQ” in Ferrisburgh. Thursday, May 23, Middlebury. Tuesday, May 7-9 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall. to help yourself or others with Reiki, learn techniques for remote 28, 3 p.m., The Residence The Ferrisburgh Conservation healing, emotional healing, and developing your ability to at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Commission hosts this talk as perceive energy. Prior Reiki certification required. June 15–16th, Rd. Join Jessie-Ruth Corkins part of National Emerald Ash Middlebury. Love offering. Instructor Barbara Clearbridge has from the Addison County Solid Borer Awareness Week. The Waste Management District week of May 18-25 has been over 25 years’ experience teaching traditional Reiki. www. (ACSWMD) as we debunk designated as a nationwide FeelingMuchBetter.org, clearbridge@feelingmuchbetter. common recycling misconcepeffort to raise public awareness org, (802) 324-9149. tions to raise our recycling of an invasive forest pest that IQ. We’ll also dive into the has destroyed millions of acres best practices for backyard of ash forests in the U.S. composting just in time for summer. Free. Open is a unique game that involves “trick-taking” techto the public, but space is limited. Fully accessible. niques such as in Hearts and Spades or Pitch. A RSVP required to Suzanne Bennett at 802-377game of fun and skill. Come prepared to use your 3393, or sbennett@residenceottercreek.com. strategic thinking. Green Mountain Club walk in Vergennes. Friday May 24, 10:30 a.m., Button Bay State Park entrance fee building. An out-and-back walk on park road to trail to Pancake breakfast in Bridport. Fish processing workshop in Button Point and on Champlain Trail along lake Sunday, May 26, 7:30-10:30 a.m., Ferrisburgh. Wednesday, May, 29, 6-8 toward Basin Harbor. 45-60 minutes one way. Bridport Community Hall/Masonic p.m., Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Roots and rocks on trail. Lake and Adirondack Building, 52 Middle Rd. Come for breakfast and 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. Learn how to catch your views. Wildflowers. Poison ivy warning signs. May help support Masonic scholarship funds. Menu own dinner and how to cut up a variety of fish be windy or buggy. Bring windbreaker, water, bug includes regular and blueberry pancakes, French species quickly, easily, and safely, as well as how dope, snack and hiking poles if desired. Fee is toast, eggs, bacon, sausage and more. Tickets: to safely store just-caught fish to keep it fresh $4 in the slot for those without a park pass. More children under 4 free/$6 ages 4-18/$8 adults. for eating. Equipment provided. Dress for the info contact Jill Vickers at jvickers@gmavt.net or weather. Free. Bring a snack or meal. Space is 802-759-3227. More activities at gmcbreadloaf. Vermont Crafts Council Spring Open Studio Weekend in Addison County. Sunday, May limited to the first 30 registrants. Pre-registration org. 26. Visits artists’ studios in Brandon, Bristol, required at.vtfishandwildlife.com. Directions to the Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, East Middlebury, Middlebury, Orwell, Ripton and meeting spot will be given upon registering. May 24, 11:30 a.m., Rosie’s, Route 7 South. Starksboro. For more info and open studios in Doors open at 11:30, meal served at noon of the area, go to vermontcrafts.com/OSW/addison. meatloaf, mashed potatoes, peas, coleslaw, html. and maple bread pudding. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle at 802-377-1419. Memorial Day Parade in Orwell. Sunday, May 26, Water Quality Day open house 1:30 p.m. The parade lines up on North Orwell $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. in Middlebury. Thursday, May 30, 8 Road and gets underway at 1:30 proceeding into Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse a.m.-2:30 p.m., Middlebury Wastewater the village and past the green. Mark Young is the of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR Treatment Facility, 243 Industrial Ave. The public 2019 Grand Marshal. at 802-388-2287 to inquire. is invited for a free, first-hand introduction to the science, high-tech, and human dedication that protect the public health and keep Vermont’s rivers and lakes clean. Visitors will see the many Vermont Crafts Council Spring Middlebury Memorial Day parade. processes: filtration, UV light exposure, chemical Open Studio Weekend in Addison Monday, May 27, 9 a.m., downtreatment, sedimentation, biodigestion, testing, County. Saturday, May 25. Visits artists’ town. “Remembering Our Heroes.” computer monitoring and more. More info contact studios in Brandon, Bristol, East Middlebury, Commemoration event at the Soldiers Monument Bob Wells at 802-388-6514 or rwells@townofmidMiddlebury, Orwell, Ripton and Starksboro. For at the top of Merchants Row follows the parade. dlebury.org. more info and open studios in the area, go to Interested in participating? 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Towne Meeting performs in Middlebury. Sunday, June 2, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek. Diana Fanning Piano, students’ recital in Middlebury. Monday, June 3, 7:15-8:15 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.
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Garden Shoppe fundraiser in Bristol. Sunday, June 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3319 South 116 Rd. Silent auction, plant sale, pie sale, fairy gardens, handcrafted garden décor, garden stroll, gnome forest and cornhole area. All proceeds benefit the Brendon P. Cousino Med47 Foundation. Champlain Valley Fiddlers in Brandon. Sunday, June 2, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., American Legion, Route 7 South. Jam session at 11 a.m., music and dancing noon-5 p.m. Donation $3. Refreshments available. All are welcome. Towne Meeting performs in Middlebury. Sunday, June 2, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Towne Meeting is noted for their powerful vocal harmonies. Their musical roots are in folk but the band branches out into many other genres, from country to acoustic rock. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220, or pryan@residenceottercreek. com. Fun run in Cornwall. Sunday, June 2, 3:30 p.m., parking at Pink House Farm, 299 Ridge Rd. Cornwall School 6th grade has organized this a 1-mile, 2-mile and 5k timed run on. Suggested donation is $5 to enter. Runners and walkers welcome. Come enjoy beautiful Ridge Rd. for a fun community event.
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Hungrytown in Vergennes. Thursday, June 6, 6-7 p.m., Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main St. Come hear the celebrated acoustic duo Hungrytown. Their songs and music have appeared on IFC’s Portlandia, Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Neftlix’s comedy, Lady Dynamite; as well as various documentaries and major sporting events ranging from NASCAR to Hockey Night in Canada. Piano Recital in Middlebury. Thursday, June 6, 7:15-8:15 p.m., Community Room, EastView at
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Jim Gish: Town of Middlebury update in Middlebury. Friday, June 7, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Jim Gish, the Community Liaison for the Downtown Bridges Replacement Project, will offer residents and community members an update on Middlebury’s multi-year project. Free, open to the public, and fully accessible, but space is limited. Refreshments provided. RSVP to Suzanne Bennett at 802-377-3393 or sbennett@ residenceottercreek.com. Ted Wesley and Dave Gusakov in Middlebury. Friday, June 7, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Bistro, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Ted Wesley, blues guitarist and singer of all kinds of great songs, obscure and familiar, returns to Eastview’s Bistro, this time joined by fiddler extraordinaire Dave Gusakov. Free and open to the public. Public reception in Middlebury. Friday, June 7, 5-7 p.m., Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Reception for the Sheldon Museum’s exhibit “The Landscape Architecture Legacy of Dan Kiley.” Also on view: “Art and Blooms,” a selection of creative flower arrangements by local gardeners and florists, inspired by Dan Kiley’s landscape designs. The arrangements will be available for purchase during the reception. Free and open to members and non-members. More info at 802-388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org. Artist’s opening reception in Middlebury. Friday, June 7, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater On The Green, 6 Merchants Row. A reception for photographers Jim Westphalen’s solo exhibition, “The Enduring Landscape,” on view through June. More info at 802-989-7419 or Edgewatergallery.com. Bridge to Summer celebration of the art of learning in Middlebury. Friday, June 7, 5:30-8:30 p.m., Bridge School, 1469 Exchange St. A communitywide outdoor event featuring Vermont’s LC Jazz ensemble and an online and live auction of original art and prints from local artists and supporters. An evening of dancing, bidding, dinner and sipping will also honor local artist Chris Murray’s Bridge School Silo mural. Admission $10 adults at the door. Kids 12 and under free. Dinner from Sabai Sabai be available to purchase.
L I V EM U SIC Senior Week choral concert in Middlebury. Friday, May 24, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center. Cradle Switch in Brandon. Saturday, May 25, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. The Eschatones in Middlebury. Saturday, May 25, 9 p.m-midnight, Notte. John and Marge Butterfield in Middlebury. Sunday, May 26, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek. Mark Sikora in Middlebury. Wednesday, May 29, Notte. Instrumental Pops Concert in Vergennes. Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m., Vergennes Union High School. Va-et Vient in Middlebury. Friday, May 31, 3:304:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. Ross Daly and Kelly Thoma in Brandon. Friday, May 31, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Caitlin Canty in Ripton. Saturday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House. The Rough and Tumble in Brandon. Saturday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. The Champlain Valley Scottish Fiddle Club in Middlebury. Sunday, June 2, 1:30-2:15 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.
LIBRARY PROGRAMS Bixby Memorial Library. 258 Main St., Vergennes. 877-2211. Monday, 12:30-7 p.m.; Tuesdays and Fridays, 12:30-5 p.m.; Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; Art Studio with Linda Francis, Wednesdays, 1-4 p.m.; Story hour Thursdays, 10:30 a.m.-noon; Writing Group with Jay Dubberly, Thursdays, 6-8 p.m., Bridge Club, Mondays, 1-4 p.m.; First Friday free movies, 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Free Family Movie night: Fourth Fridays, 6:30-8:30 p.m; Book Club 2nd Mondays, 7-8 p.m.; Beginner/ intermediate Tai Chi, Mondays & Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-noon; Advanced Tai Chi, Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon. Brandon Free Public Library. Hours: Wednesday, 4-7 p.m., Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Magic the Gathering Table Top dropin gaming, Wednesdays, 3:30 p.m.; Storytime (during school year) Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m., Fridays, 3 p.m.; Friday film on the big screen, Fridays, 1:30 p.m.; Annual Book Sale, Fridays, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., Saturdays, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., May through October. Hancock Free Public Library. Wednesday, 1-5 p.m.; Thursday, noon-6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Books, videos and DVDs. Other items available through interlibrary loan. Ilsley Public Library. 75 Main St., Middlebury, 388-4095. Monday-Thursday 9 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Childrens room closes 15 minutes earlier. Baby and toddler storytime, Tuesdays, 10:30-11:25 a.m.; Preschool storytime, Fridays, 10:30-11:15 a.m.; Library Explorers (K-3rd) storytime, Wednesdays, 3:30-4:15 p.m.; Family storytime, Saturdays, 10:30-11:15 a.m.; Youth Media Lab (grade 4 and up), Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m.; Storymatters: a monthly story circle, Wednesdays, 4 p.m. Teen Advisory Group (grade 6 and up) Saturdays, check library for times. Technology help: Mondays, 10 a.m.-noon; Tuesdays, 3-5 p.m.; Wednesdays, 12:30-2:30 p.m.; Thursdays, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.; Fridays noon-2 p.m. Tai Chi for Arthritis; Mondays (basic) and Thursdays (advanced), 4-5 p.m. Otter Creek Poets; Thursdays, 1 p.m. First Wednesday lectures; first Wednesday of each month, 7 p.m. For a complete listing of ongoing and special children’s activities, visit ilsleypubliclibrary.org. Lawrence Memorial Library. 40 North St., Bristol, 453-2366 or lawrencelibrary.net. Monday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 1-5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Story time for children and families, Mondays, 10:30-11 a.m.; Thursdays, 10:30-11:30 a.m. beginning in Sept. Free walk-in computer help. Reel Film Fridays, Fridays at 7:30 p.m. Book Group, Tuesdays, 1 p.m. Lincoln Library. 222 W. River Rd., Lincoln, 453-2665. Monday, 2-6 p.m.; Tuesday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Wednesday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. (additional evening hours on a volunteer basis); Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Chess Afternoon, Tuesdays, Sept. 15-Nov. 17. Story time (age five and under), Friday, 10:30 a.m. Senior program, second Wednesday, 10 a.m. Book discussion group, fourth Wednesday, 7 p.m. New Haven Community Library. Located in the new library/town offices building. Tuesday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday, 1-8 p.m. Thursday, 1-8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Story Hour, Tuesday, 10:30 a.m. Information on Facebook at New Haven Community Library (Vermont), at the website nhcl.org, or by phone at 453-4015. Orwell Free Library. Tuesday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Wednesday, 3-6 p.m.; Thursday, 3-6 p.m.; Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.; Story Time, Friday, 10:30 a.m.; Events listed at orwellfreelibrary.org. Platt Memorial Library. Shoreham. 897-2647. Monday, 11 a.m.-7 p.m.; Wednesday and Thursday, 2 p.m.-7 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Programs on website: plattlib.org. Mondays, 10:30 a.m. Lap-Sit Storytime and Playgroup: Fridays 11 a.m.-noon, Sept. 14, Oct. 19, Dec. 7. Drop in crafts, Saturdays. 9 a.m.-noon. Russell Memorial Library. Monkton. 453-4471. Tuesday and Thursday, 3-7 p.m.; Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Friday Story Hour, second and fourth Friday, 10-11 a.m. Wi-Fi available. Salisbury Free Public Library. 352-4198. Tuesday, 2:30-5:30 p.m.; Wednesday, 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; Thursday, 2-5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-noon. Children’s Time, Tuesday 2:30-4 p.m. Info: http:// salisburyfreelibrary.blogspot.com. Story hour, pre-K through grade 4: Tuesdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m., read-aloud book followed by arts and crafts project. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Sarah Partridge Community Library. East Middlebury. 388-7588. Ilsley Library cards accepted. Tuesday, 9 a.m.-noon; Thursday, 2-6 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.noon. Book sale on Saturdays. Starksboro Public Library. 2827 Route 116, Starksboro (in town hall); 453-3732. Parking behind town offices. Monday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Story time (ages 3-5) Monday, 10:30 a.m. 453-3732. Whiting Free Library. Main Street opposite the church. 623-7862. Call for hours. Story time with Deb Lendway, 10 a.m. Wednesdays.
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Hoarding (Continued from Page 1A) a perceived need to save them, according to a definition offered by the Mayo Clinic. A person with hoarding disorder can experience distress at the mere thought of getting rid of their items. Repstad described it thusly: “When a collection prevents your capacity to use your home in the way it’s intended… If you can’t use your kitchen to cook food, then it’s hitting a clinical level. If you’re using your shower to store boxes, then that’s a problem.” Classic cases involve countertops, sinks, stoves, desks, stairways and virtually all other surfaces piled with stuff. When there’s no room left inside, the clutter spreads to a garage, vehicles, yard and other storage facilities, task force members noted. Hoarded items of choice vary from person to person. It can be periodicals, electronics, clocks and/or animals. Whatever the collection, it gets out of hand. Repstad and others who work with hoarders can find possessions stacked to the ceiling and only narrow pathways allowing passage from room to room. Though Repstad has grown accustomed to seeing household disarray, the hoarding visuals can be jaw dropping. During the past few years she has been inside several homes piled high with waste and clutter, ranging from magazines to rotting food. In some cases, the resident had maintained only a narrow walking path. In some cases, the hoarding had devolved into squalor. A person living in squalor is surrounded by filth, brought on by neglect or due to a mental and/or physical disability. “I’ve seen squalor that was significant,” she said. “I’m working with one woman who has piles (in her home) that are over my head. That’s a real hazard. You can’t get a gurney through those pathways.” Then there was another case in which the homeowner was meticulous about cleanliness, but had possessions piled high all over the place. Most of the clutter consisted of craft supplies — enough to keep a team of
Explaining our Process
ELLEN REPSTAD, A clinical services coordinator with John Graham Housing & Services in Vergennes, has formed a task force to help Addison County residents with hoarding disorders.
Independent photo/John Flowers
seamstresses busy for a long time. “There was no dust; I would have eaten off the floors,” Repstad recalled. “It was definitely like a ‘pathway’ situation.’” She helped a man who had a different collection passion. “He had a number of trophies and photographs; he definitely fit the classic profile you would envision (of a hoarder),” Repstad said. “Five VCRs he was never going to use, a bunch of TVs. Things he felt were worth money and useful.” Tragically, hoarding isn’t confined to objects. HOARDING LIVE ANIMALS Jessica Danyow is executive director of Homeward Bound, the Humane Society of Addison County. The Middlebury-based organization advocates for animal welfare and offers pets for adoption. Danyow and her colleagues are occasionally asked by police to help investigate suspected cases of animal cruelty and neglect. Danyow has become attuned to hoarding cases, as pets are among possessions that many people with the disorder choose to amass. And that’s usually bad for the pets, the owner, and the neighborhood, according to Danyow, who is pleased the task
force founders reached out to her cases could only be resolved organization. through legal action. Danyow recalled a handful And some of those punished for of particularly notable animal animal hoarding don’t learn their hoarding cases during her 20- lesson. plus years in the animal welfare “One of the characteristics of arena. One of them involved a animal hoarding sometimes is that Hubbardton household in which (offenders) just move on and set up more than 100 pets were found. In shop somewhere else,” Danyow another case, Vermont State Police said. “Recidivism is unfortunately in October 2017 seized 28 animals very common.” from a Ferrisburgh home due to HOARDER’S SHAME poor living conditions. Many hoarders, according to Animal hoarders, according to Repstad, aren’t willing to give Danyow, usually fit into one of outsiders a glimpse of their home. three categories: In such cases, it’s difficult to • The “overwhelmed caregiver” get cooperation for cleanup and whose heart is in the right place but counseling for the disorder. Others, lets their pet population get out of like Maureen, recognize they have control. a problem and are ready for help. • The “rescuer hoarder” who “There is so much shame might be acting altruistically but associated with the disorder,” is ultimately unable to care for the Repstad said. “They call me number of pets collected. because they think if I’ve seen • The “exploiter hoarder” — other (hoarding situations), I won’t fortunately uncommon — who be as shocked; I won’t go in and shows no empathy or emotion and say, ‘Oh no, I can’t believe you’re is indifferent to the suffering of the living this way.’” animals under his or her control. Fortunately, Maureen’s house is Hoarding situations, Danyow still salvageable. said, might involve The same can’t be animals housed “I worked with said for other residents. in crates that are “The saddest thing stacked around a woman who about it is I had a a home. Or the had her children client who was very animals are forced taken from her willing to work with to congregate in years ago, and me, to have things a single room, that’s when removed and trashed,” preventing one Repstad recalled. “But the hoarding pet from escaping the home was a place another, more started. She that really needed to feels she now aggressive pet. be condemned. You An unpleasant, has control over couldn’t rehab it. So pungent smell of what she has in even if I could clean out ammonia is typical her house.” his place somehow, it for homes in which — Laura Morse wouldn’t have affected groups of animals the mold on the walls are held with subpar or stuff like that.” treatment, she added. Danyow The outcome in this case was recalled visiting one home and getting the client placed on a list seeing guinea pig cages stacked for subsidized housing. on the kitchen counter. She found Repstad sometimes receives around 25 cats in another home, referrals from Porter Hospital. and it took a couple days to catch She explained a hospital can’t them all. discharge a convalescing patient While there’s no state law into an unsafe home environment. limiting the number of pets one can That’s when local social service own, some Vermont communities organizations are asked to help have local ordinances that cap find a safe landing spot and support domestic animal ownership, services for patients prone to selfaccording to Danyow. neglect. She’s tried to work with people While hoarding is a largely a who have animal hoarding self-inflicted condition, there are problems, but conceded some often emotional reasons behind it. “For some, it’s sentimental attachments; for others it’s ‘These are things I or someone else can use,’” Repstad said. ANXIETY & CONTROL Laura Morse is a housing advocate at Addison Community Action/Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity. Like Repstad, she works with hoarding households to clean up their homes so they can avert eviction. She works with many low-income citizens who reside in subsidized housing. Morse said hoarding disorder is complicated and those afflicted often possess some or all of the following traits: Separation anxiety, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and/or reaction to losses/ tragedies in one’s life. “I worked with a woman who had her children taken from her years ago, and that’s when the hoarding started,” Morse said. “She feels she now has control over what she has in her house.” Repstad developed her familiarity and interest in the hoarding issue in her previous job as a case manager with the Age Well organization. The disorder disproportionately affects seniors who live alone, though it affects all
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Why we’re doing this story I became curious about the hoarding issue after having recently seen an Addison County Hoarding Task Force post on social media. It fascinated me that hoarding had apparently risen to such a level that it warranted creation of a local help group. Thus began a series of interviews with members of the hoarding task force, including organizer Ellen Repstad of John Graham Housing & Services and representatives of the Champlain Valley Office of Economic Opportunity and Homeward Bound. I was also fortunate to land an interview with an Addison County woman who had engaged in hoarding and is now gradually weeding out items from her home. What we learned We learned that hoarding is a disorder, and those afflicted often suffer from depression, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and other mental health challenges. We also found out that hoarders can be weaned from their collecting obsession through counseling and meetings with peers. demographics. of professionals like Morse and “It’s one of the only disorders Repstad are unable to keep hoarder that crosses cultural, ethnic and tenants in their apartments. socio-economic barriers,” she said. Morse said she’s aware of three “There’s no consistency.” households — two families and an During the course of her time elderly woman — that have been at Age Well, Repstad received evicted from subsidized apartments training in how to recognize in Addison County during the past hoarding behavior and help those year, due to hoarding. afflicted. She learned of a hoarding She sympathizes with the task force in Chittenden County, tenants but also understands the and audited one of the group’s challenges for landlords. meetings. She was joined at the “It’s a fire hazard when we meeting by Elizabeth Ready, who close off accesses,” she said. “It’s was at the time executive director also about insect control, rodent of John Graham Shelter. control, and mold.” She and her colleagues agreed it The mold was so bad in one would be a good idea to establish cluttered home that a human an Addison County hoarding task services worker got an asthma force, and they did last year. attack while touring “It was a gap in the place, according services, and I thought “(Hoarding) to Morse. I’d give it a shot,” “It’s also causing is clinically Repstad said. health issues with Task force members similar to an the people who live represent such eating disorder. there,” she noted. nonprofits as the It’s something Morse has seen the Champlain Valley they’ll always hoarding impulse so Office of Economic struggle with, ingrained in some Opportunity, Age folks that they can’t and you Well, John Graham escape the disorder. Housing & Services, learn skills to “They have family the Agency of Human maintain and that come in and Services, Homeward address it … empty the place, Bound and Porter The behavior and then it’s filled Hospital. All these again within the next can be changed, organizations have couple of months,” had clients, at one time but it takes she said. or another, who have time.” Advocates at times hoarded objects and/ — Ellen Repstad can detect a hoarding or pets. situation without Task Force members crossing the threshold of the home. meet the last Monday of each “Lots of times we’ll go by month at Homeward Bound to someone’s house and see a lot of discuss hoarding-related issues and the junk outside, and that’s sort plan outreach to locals afflicted of indicative of the fact the house with the disorder. is full,” Morse said. “We have a Repstad recently posted news of family with seven vans full of stuff the task force on social media. She and the house is just pathways was pleased her outreach attracted (inside).” new task force members and three PEER SUPPORT people seeking help with their It can take several years for respective hoarding disorders. someone to beat their hoarding LOSING HOUSING disorder, according to Repstad. John Graham Housing & The goal for advocates is to get Services’ interest in the hoarding clients to a point where they can phenomenon is directly tied to independently maintain a clutterhousing loss prevention. Folks free, safe household. who hoard or live in squalor are Repstad wants to supplement the at risk of losing their task force with peer housing. Repstad has groups for those with “If you can’t use unfortunately seen hoarding disorders those scenarios play your kitchen and a “Buried in to cook food, out too many times. Treasures” workshop By establishing the then it’s hitting this summer. “Buried task force, advocates a clinical level. in Treasures” is a hope to steer future 16-session facilitated If you’re using tenants away from workshop that your shower hoarding tendencies. borrows from a “We get people in to store boxes, book of the same the (John Graham) then that’s a name. The workshop shelter space and we problem.” provides tips for see they have these — Ellen Repstad people compulsive behaviors,” she said. about saving and “If I start working acquiring things. with them right away, or get them Maureen and her mom are involved with this task force, we grateful for the help. Repstad can feel better they’ll be able to and other John Graham Housing maintain a home and not need our & Services staff will be visiting services any longer.” their home in the near future with As of last week, Repstad was a truck to sort, discard and donate working with five Addison County possessions that are doing them no households dealing with hoarding good. or squalor issues. That’s about her For Maureen, it began with an limit, time-wise, as she has other online shopping addiction and duties to perform at John Graham procrastination. Her mom added Housing. to the pile when she moved in. “When I work with folks who Maureen’s garage is now also have collections or who have full, and she’s got furniture in her clutter, I say to them, ‘This is about backyard. you and your goals; what is it that She called Repstad “a lifeyou want out of your home?’” she saver,” the person who helped her said. “It’s very important that the get serious about cleaning out her person who has the collection has home. Together, they’ve cleaned control over how the collection is out the living room. More rooms discarded — whether it’s donated will follow. or reorganized.” “There are so many reasons,” Like Repstad, Morse works with she said of her long spiral into hoarding households to clean up clutter. “But don’t immediately their acts so they can avert eviction. judge someone just because “When you’re on some sort of they’re messy.” subsidy from the feds or the state, For more information about they have a system of inspections the hoarding task force, call Ellen every year — or more often, if Repstad at 877-2677 or email at needed,” Morse said. “People with ellen@johngrahamshelter.org. this disorder have a hard time just Reporter John Flowers is at cleaning up.” addisonindependent.com. Sometimes, even the best efforts
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Trent
Bristol
(Continued from Page 1A) his wife, Nikki Juvan, would be odds-on favorites. As many folks already know, Campbell is recovering from the second of two major strokes he’s experienced during the past six months. He’s spent a lot of that time at the University of Vermont Medical Center and at its Fanny Allen Campus, healing and rehabbing from health setbacks that have sapped his strength and mobility, but not his mind or his will. No Addison Independent employee goes a week without NEITHER SNOW, SLEET nor dark of night keeps Trent Campbell someone asking him or her, from his appointed rounds. Here he was out in the snow in December “How’s Trent?” or, “We sure miss 2012 while shooting the Very Merry Middlebury festivities. Independent photo/John S. McCright Trent’s photos.” So we decided to sit down with “the Maestro,” as he is affectionately sometimes called, factor to his strokes, according to and swallowing firm food. to get his thoughts on his recovery Trent. “It’s been especially hard, since during what has been a long ordeal. “It was good to know a the only thing I like to watch on I’ve conducted thousands of definitive reason,” he said. TV is the Food Network,” he said interviews during my 34 years as AFib occurs when the heartbeat with a chuckle. a professional scribe, but this one is rapid and irregular and, as a Trent is back to using a walker, was especially difficult, while also result, doesn’t move blood through a major stride from the wheelchair. part sublime and surreal. the chambers of the heart normally. He hopes to soon ditch that for a Tough seeing my longtime This causes blood to pool in the cane, with the ultimate goal of journalism teammate confined to atria, the upper chambers of the being able to walk on his own. a bed. While it would easy for Trent to heart, and form Crestfallen seeing a “I couldn’t have clots. If one of these espouse a “woe-is-me” attitude, devoted foodie having clots gets pumped he’s looking at the bright side — a to take most of his done it without out of the heart, it hallmark of virtually all of his nourishment — a her (Nikki). She’s can travel through photos. non-descript viscous been here every the bloodstream to “I think about all the great things ooze — through a day. She has to the brain, cutting that have happened to me,” he said tube leading directly do so much; run off blood flow and with a smile. into his stomach. Among them is Nikki, his rock. causing a stroke. the house and Sad he didn’t have With diagnosis She’s been at his side throughout that familiar black take care of me, in hand, physicians his journey, and keeps a meticulous camera bag draped and I’m an hour established a recovery journal of his health strides and around his shoulder. plan for Trent that setbacks. away.” But tremendously “He has a story to tell,” she said. — Trent Campbell included medication grateful he was not and — again — an “I think he can be an inspiration for one of the 140,000 aggressive rehab stint other people. Americans claimed by strokes at Fanny Allen, where he returned “There’s a reason he’s still here.” each year. Ecstatic he’s making on March 23. Trent had hoped to be back progress — so much so that his His latest road to recovery has home on Saturday, May 25, in medical team has extended his sadly been a bumpy one, at least time for the upcoming Middlebury rehab stay for another two weeks to start. Memorial Day parade. His goal so that Trent can capitalize on the The second stroke has affected was to ride in the parade for the first mobility gains he’s recently been his left vocal cord and his ability time, after having photographed making. to swallow food and liquids. This it for many years. Local resident Glad to just be with him. led to a coughing fit while at Fanny Churchill Franklin had offered Truth be told, Trent has Allen, which led to his transfer to Trent his choice of several sweet experienced more strokes than UVM Medical Center. Turns out rides to cruise in style. his physicians can even count. he was aspirating and developing But he received the bittersweet He received that news following pneumonia. He spent two weeks in news on Tuesday that he won’t be the battery of tests — including the hospital, during which he was discharged from Fanny Allen until CAT scans and MRIs — after his fitted with a feeding port initially June 8. Thankfully, it’s because of first major stroke last October. through his nose and then directly his improving health, as opposed Trent offers his own account of into his stomach. to another setback. that first stroke in a sidebar to Perhaps he’ll ride in the July Then another trip to Fanny Allen this article on Page 12A. 4 parade, or maybe on April 8. After scaling a metaphorical he’ll wait until next Two steps forward, “He has a story mountain to get to a point where one step back. Memorial Day. It’ll he had shed his walker for a cane, be great either way, On April 10, Trent to tell. I think Trent experienced his second had another aspiration he can be an and Nikki will be major stroke at his home on episode that sent him inspiration for there with him. March 19. “I couldn’t have back to the hospital. other people.” “I woke up that morning, More treatment for done it without her,” — Nikki Juvan grabbed my cane and took a step pneumonia. Trent said. “She’s toward the bathroom, and my leg been here every day. “He was incredibly completely gave out under me, weak and had lost a lot of strength,” She has to do so much; run the and I fell back onto the bed,” Nikki recalled tearfully. “There house and take care of me, and I’m Trent said. were days he couldn’t hold up his an hour away.” It wasn’t just an issue with his upper body.” Together, they thanked the many leg; he felt generally numb and Trent was volleyed back to nurses, physicians and technicians weak on the left side of his body. Fanny Allen on April 16, and who have helped Trent along the And that’s when he feared he’d has since enjoyed a steady pace way. likely suffered another stroke. And he and Nikki could use of progress. His typical day With help from Nikki, Trent includes at least three hours of another helping hand. made it down the stairs. He therapy, including work with a The bills have piled up while called his physician, who advised speech/language pathologist. He’s he’s been out of commission. His him to get to the Porter Hospital using a treadmill (with supports). family has set up a Gofundme Emergency Department, which Occupational therapy is getting account at tinyurl.com/y4hk8fva. he did. There, he met one of his body ready to perform basic The goal is to raise $25,000 to his favorite people — Dr. Mike household chores — such as cover some of his lost wages, his Kiernan, who had been on duty doing laundry — for when he mounting medical costs, and some for Trent’s first stroke. Tests returns home. photographic equipment that will didn’t indicate a new stroke, His speech is becoming better make it easier for him to continue but he spent that night under every day, as his left vocal cord is to be creative behind the camera observation at Porter. starting to move. His swallowing lens. He woke the following morning has improved to the point As of Wednesday, the campaign unable to stand at all. where he’s being given custard- had raised $7,555. “It had gotten worse,” he said. consistency food by mouth to Trent is ready for the next stage That’s when Trent was supplement that which he receives of his recovery at home. transferred to UVM Medical through his feeding tube. He jokes “It’ll take a while, he said, Center for additional tests and about the faux Salisbury steak and adding, “I’m super-grateful.” care. mashed potatoes molded from Reporter John Flowers is at “They confirmed I had had a mush. But he can’t yet risk chewing johnf@addisonindependent.com. stroke and didn’t know why,” Trent said. Not knowing the cause of his strokes has been very frustrating for Trent and Nikki. How can you tailor your diet, exercise and medication to your recovery if you don’t know the root of the health problem? He’s never smoked and hardly ever Receive Comprehensive Care in a consumes alcohol. Trent said his physicians had compassionate, friendly environment attributed his first stroke to diabetes and high blood pressure, h General Dentistry h Cosmetic Dentistry issues that he had since brought under control. h Dental Implants h Gum Therapy It appears his health mystery h Crowns & Bridges h Dentures has now finally been solved. Doctors at UVM installed a “loop recorder” in his chest to monitor his heart rhythm. 1330 Exchange Street, Suite 107, Middlebury Measurements from that tiny device have led physicians to identify atrial fibrillation, or www.MiddleburyDentalVT.com “AFib,” as a major contributing
(Continued from Page 1A) granite curbing. After conducting a detailed survey of the sidewalk areas, DuBois & King determined that existing conditions present challenges, and the firm has proposed three alternatives: • Alternative A reflects the current/original scope. Its estimated cost: $312,000. • Alternative B expands the scope of the project to include complete replacement of the sidewalk on the south (Hatch 31) side of Main Street. Its estimated cost: $431,000. • Alternative C would include that replaced sidewalk and then extend the sidewalk and stamped concrete across driveways, thus emphasizing the pedestrian right-of-way. Its estimated cost: $455,000. Alternative A would likely require about three months to complete, representatives said. Choosing Alternative B or C would add an additional month to the schedule. The project will be funded in part with a $100,000 Downtown Transportation Fund grant, and the town will foot the rest of the bill by tapping some mix of the following funds, plus other sources: • the Bristol Revolving Loan Fund. • the Sidewalks Reserve Fund. • the Capital Road Fund. This June, the town plans to apply for additional funding from the Bike and Pedestrian Grant Program, said town administrator Valerie Capels. Because much of sidewalk project needs to be completed before the paving can begin, DuBois & King urged the selectboard to make their final decision regarding sidewalk options as soon as possible to work
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schedules to become more specific. PAVING Whereas the sidewalk project will be confined to the main business block of downtown Bristol, the Route 116 paving project is much greater in scope — 6,570 feet or 1.245 miles, from Airport Road to the west to just beyond the Lord’s Prayer Rock to the east. The Vermont Department of Transportation (VTrans) will fund the paving project, which is part of the larger Starksboro to Middlebury Route 116 paving project. Though VTrans typically tries to repave Class I highways every 10 to 15 years, it has not tackled this section of Route 116 since 1997. The project was delayed a couple of years because of the downtown waterline and drainage projects that were completed last year in Bristol. DuBois & King representatives estimated the project could be completed in “half a season,” or just under three months. For instance, if construction were to begin on April 15, it’s possible it could be finished by July 4, they said. They cautioned, however, that several factors could affect that schedule, including shifting VTrans budgets. That reminder was greeted with uneasy laughter at the meeting. MAJOR DISRUPTIONS “As a downtown business owner I would like to highly recommend that you do not do this in the fall foliage season into the holiday season,” said Carol Wells, who owns and operates Bristol Suites and Vermont Marketplace. “If you could do it in the spring that would be much better for the businesses that are going to be affected.” To the degree it is able, DuBois & King would be open to adjusting schedules, representatives said, but the current project is slated to
begin as soon as the design process is completed, sometime in the fall of 2019. Selectboard chairman Joel Bouvier asked if the sidewalk and lighting project were completed in the summer, could paving then start Aug. 1 and be finished by fall foliage season. Such a schedule might be possible, DuBois & King said, as long as milling and other preliminary paving work could be performed while the sidewalk project was still under way. The firm recommended that paving work be done at night through the downtown area, which would cause less disruption to local businesses and be more efficient for contractors, who would have less traffic to deal with. A six-night-aweek schedule is typical for these sorts of projects, representatives said. NEXT STEPS The selectboard will make the final decision regarding sidewalk options and funding, and Capels said discussion will likely continue at the May 27 selectboard meeting. Other details that must be decided include the number and location of handicap parking spaces, curb adjustments, drainage, crosswalk improvements, lighting details, and changes to signs. Further public input is welcome at any time, Capels added, though she does not know if DuBois & King will be asked to give any more presentations. Project documents were included among the meeting materials for the May 13 selectboard meeting and are available on the town’s website. Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@ addisonindependent.com.
a sidewalk leading to the crosswalk across Armory Lane, porches around the front and rear entrances, and a play area and vegetable garden on the building’s east side. According to the application, the new building will at its closest point be 335 feet from American Legion Post 14 and 700 feet from the nearest home. Shanbacker said the 24 units will include seven market-rate apartments set aside for households making up to 120 percent of the local median income, eight units affordable to households earning less than half of area median income, and nine units available to households earning less than 60 percent of median income. ACCT and Housing Vermont use federal calculations of the region’s median income, which for 2019 translate to $76,100 for a family of four, $53,300 for one person, and $60,900 for two people. Shanbacker said monthly rents, including heat, will range from about $659 for income-restricted units up to $1,175 for the marketrate units. “Most of the units will be restricted to households earning less than $32,000 annually,” Shanbacker said. “For reference, a full-time minimum wage earner makes about $23,000 per year. This project will provide much needed workforce housing up and
down the income scale, including for households earning higher wages — up to $63,960 for a single individual, or $91,320 for a fourperson household.” In the past Shanbacker has said seniors will almost certainly occupy some of the new apartments, as is the case for about 40 percent of the roughly 100 units that ACCT already manages around the county, but new units will not be specifically set aside for seniors. ACCT has a waiting list that has only grown while the new project has been in planning and permitting stages. “While we are not accepting applications for Vergennes Community Housing yet, we received 20 percent more applications for housing in 2018 than we did in 2017, and still have over 100 people on the wait list for housing in Vergennes. Vergennes has a zero-percent vacancy rate and rents in the $1,000 to $1,200 per month range,” Shanbacker said. Although applications are not yet being fielded, inquiries are welcome at (802) 877-2626. “We are keeping an interest list if people would like to be notified when we open the application process, which will likely be at the beginning of 2020,” Shanbacker said.
Housing (Continued from Page 1A) Housing Finance Agency, and the other is a $400,000 grant from the Vermont Community Development Program to the City of Vergennes to be dedicated to the effort. According to ACCT and Housing Vermont these awards build on funding of the more $2 million the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board earlier had allocated, including through Housing Revenue Bond funds. Construction should run around $5.4 million, Shanbacker said, and the total development cost will be a little less than $7.3 million. Shanbacker said work should begin within three months on a site that lies directly across from the senior housing project already on Armory Lane, just west of American Legion Post 14. A crosswalk will link the two properties. “All permits are in hand, and construction is anticipated to run from August 2019 through June 2020,” she said. The 23,000-square-foot building, according to the projects’ Vergennes Development Review Board application, will include 14 one-bedroom units, nine two-bedroom units, and a threebedroom apartment in a structure that will be partly two and partly three stories. There will be 37 parking spaces,
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Campbell tells story of his first of two strokes
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walkway in Lincoln Village. Also, the Lincoln Library will be selling plants and used books in conjunction with the yard sale. Food will be available at the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department. Call 453-2785 for more information.
Recovery brings new outlook on life By TRENT CAMPBELL Do you want to gain a new outlook on life? Are you interested in changing your priorities? I recommend having a stroke. I had one, and it did wonders altering my perspective. On second thought, I actually had two strokes or many more (more on that later), and I suggest avoiding a stroke any way you can. A stroke is debilitating, frustrating, and very, very frightening. But I am here to tell you it is possible to have a stroke and go on loving life, living life, loving family and friends, and being loved by family and friends. My story begins on a perfect Vermont fall day. It was October of 2018, and I headed to Middlebury College to photograph three sporting events. I started with field hockey, changed to men’s soccer, and then made the long walk to football. It was during the walk that I first felt a little strange. I was oddly tired and felt unsteady on my feet. Halfway to the game, I veered off the main path to take a seat on a big metal storage box, the nearest makeshift resting spot I could find. I made it to the game, stumbling a little on the way, and photographed the first half. At half-time I left, anxious to later meet up with my grown son, Owen, to go to the movies. I took the tiring walk back to my car and headed home. After a short rest, I started to get ready to meet up with Owen. Before I had one shoe on, I promptly threw up. I otherwise felt fine and blamed it on a not-so-fresh turkey sandwich I had eaten for lunch. I cleaned up and drove to Weybridge to get him. I drove to his mom’s house, and when I got there, I stood and talked to him and his mother for a while in the front door. I started to feel nauseous again and turned and threw up again off of her porch. Luckily Owen had better sense and said we should reschedule, and I should go home, which I did. Things went well the rest of the afternoon, and I went to bed that night feeling fine.
However, I woke up to go to the bathroom at 2:30 a.m. and couldn’t make it 10 feet to the bathroom without getting help from my wife, Nikki. My legs just weren’t working. At 5:30, I woke up again and was able to stumble to the bathroom by myself. I threw up some more and went back to bed wondering what was going on. Nikki and I agreed that I would sleep a little more and then we would figure out what to do. By morning, what to do turned out to be going to the Emergency Room at Porter Hospital. This was very scary, and I didn’t know what was going on. At the ER, the doctor, who I knew outside of the hospital, was very concerned about what he was seeing. He certainly thought I wasn’t myself. He ordered a CT Scan, and it couldn’t confirm exactly what was happening at this moment, but it did show an old stroke I had in the past. He suspected I was having a stroke again. The doctor gave us two options — wait at Porter until it was possible to do an MRI and consult with neurologists on Monday or go to University of Vermont Medical Center and do the same immediately. The diagnosis was frightening enough to warrant an immediate trip to UVM via ambulance. A gauntlet of neurologists met me at the ER and confirmed the past stroke and fairly quickly confirmed that I had just had another one. An MRI reinforced their thoughts. And I was admitted to the hospital. I was feeling overwhelmed, but with my supportive wife by my side, I patiently awaited more news. Not much came. The doctors had no explanation for the strokes. Without further testing, which would come later, they theorized that high blood pressure and uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes were the culprits. The doctors prescribed new medications and said a trip to the acute rehab hospital was probably the next step.
TRENT CAMPBELL, AN excellent photographer, writer and human being, recuperates at the Fanny Allen rehabilitation hospital in Colchester with his wife, Nikki Juvan, at his side. Campbell suffered several strokes, which, to some extent, changed his perspective. A Gofundme campaign has been started on his behalf.
Independent photo/John Flowers
I gladly took the short ambulance ride to Fanny Allen, the rehab hospital, where I had a private room and an attentive staff. At the hospital, I would undergo three hours of therapy a day to treat my problems with balance, walking, and arm and hand use, which were debilitated by the stroke. Luckily the kind of stroke I had (a cerebellar stroke) didn’t affect my speech or thinking. Just a few mornings after arriving, I turned on my TV and saw reports of the mass shooting at a synagogue near Pittsburgh. And I sobbed. Almost uncontrollably. I couldn’t believe this was the world my children would continue to grow in. The hospital psychiatrist stopped in to see me that afternoon, and I explained how I had been feeling. He was sympathetic but reminded me that for every act of evil, there were many acts of beauty and love in the world. He told me to just look at the hospital, which was full of people who woke up every morning, tied their shoes, and went in to work to help people like me. I agreed, and luckily got to visit with all of my four children in the next few days. I told each of
them what the doctor had said and then told them how proud I was of the people they had become. How happy I was to be their father and how much I loved each of them. I had always believed these things, but my illness had prompted me to speak them out loud. Score 1 for the stroke. Acute rehab means having at least three hours a day of therapy with Occupational and Physical Therapists. It was hard work. With an Occupational Therapist, I was relearning how to do simple tasks that were normal for me in the past. I worked in the kitchen, folded laundry, and tried to relearn to use my hands, which were affected by the stroke. With the Physical Therapists, I was relearning how to walk. Pretty important stuff. So most days were pretty busy, and pretty tiring, and very important. Some days I put on a pair of harness shorts, which helped support me when I worked very intensely on a treadmill. I was not a fan of treadmill days, but I was a fan of all the amazing people who worked at the hospital. Not just the therapists, who helped me so incredibly, but the nurses too, who
helped me do everything from get the proper medication to getting dressed. My feelings toward these people is really beyond words. On my next to last day at the hospital, I met with the hospital psychiatrist and sobbed again, thinking about saying goodbye to these wonderful people. Nikki and I both sobbed when we drove away the next day. Finally back at home I worked hard with OT and PT from Addison County Home Health twice a week. After three months, I started outpatient PT and OT at Porter. Through it all, Nikki has been my rock. She visited me every day in the hospital and kept the household running and did everything else. We also have to thank friends who made meals for us after I returned home. The big lesson I learned through all of this was that even though we have to rely on ourselves first, we have to rely on each other. Our family, our friends, our neighbors, our coworkers, and even strangers. We all need each other in this world. And someday, I hope I can repay all those with whom I used up so much of my need.
For those on the east side of the Green Mountains (but still in Addison County) participants in Hancock’s annual Memorial Day parade will gather at the firehouse on Monday morning. A parade featuring fire and rescue equipment, more veterans, and anyone else who wants to join in will begin marching at 10 a.m. The parade will proceed around the town green, which features the town bandstand. Marchers will continue up Route 100 to the main Hancock Cemetery near the intersection with Route 125. Some of the components of the parade will then head south to Rochester for that town’s cavalcade. The popular Middlebury Dog Park off South Street is back open, now that the waterlogged property adjacent to Middlebury Regional EMS has sufficiently dried. Dog park organizers want to thank all dogs and their owners for their patience during the recent hiatus. Volunteers have applied wood chips to wet areas as a potential long-term solution, and sunshine certainly will be helpful. Organizers are giving special kudos to Chris Zeoli Tree Service, Kirk Fiske Lawn Service, and Brian Bishop of Cedar Ledge Fence Co. for their time and generosity to the dog park. The Middlebury Parks and Recreation Department is being heralded for the new “dog-out” shelter — which formerly served as the East Middlebury Baseball dugout. The dog park greatly depends on donations, which should be sent to the Middlebury Dog Park, c/o the town of Middlebury.
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Not the Voice of the Panthers He’s been to 84 different sporting events at Middlebury College, 11 different teams — that’s this year alone! You probably won’t recognize him, or even see him. He doesn’t cheer for either side (but he has deep ties to Middlebury). Yet he is the lifeline to games for many of the college’s most ardent rooters, parents and alumni who follow the teams, often from great distances. He’s Bruce Bosley, the announcer Middlebury games online with NSN (Northeast Sports Network). Bruce does the webcasts for Middlebury baseball, softball, men’s and women’s lacrosse, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s soccer, volleyball, and field hockey. He would do football and men’s hockey but those games conflict with other broadcast duties (John Lawrence does those games for NSN, Bruce explains, “and he’s really good”). Unlike many in the broadcasting world, Bruce is self-effacing. He does not mention his name at the beginning and end of his broadcast (nor in the middle). He says, “my broadcasts are never about me — they are about the teams, studentathletes and coaches. I mention their names, not mine.” He means it. When I suggested that he was “the Voice of the Panthers,” he demurred. “No, that’s Dave Sears. He was the Voice of the Panthers.” Sears was a very popular fellow about town who was the PA voice of Middlebury men’s ice hockey for 25 years. He died at age 56 in 2015. I marvel at Bruce’s versatility and asked if there was a long learning curve for him in volleyball, not a sport widely played in Vermont. He shrugged, “it’s either in — or it’s out.” The soul of his broadcasts is in the information he provides about the players and the teams — and other sporting insights that pop into his head from pretty much a lifetime in sports. Volleyball is a women’s sport at Middlebury, no men’s team. He enjoys doing women’s and men’s (See Lindholm, Page 3B)
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Baseball: OV wins; Tigers best Mt. Abe By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — Middlebury edged rival Mount Abraham to highlight high school baseball action earlier this week. Meanwhile Otter Valley won on the road and apparently clinched the top seed in Division II, and Vergennes split a pair of home games and could earn on a top-four seed in D-III. The season will conclude on Saturday, and the Ve r m o n t BASEBALL Principals’ Association will release playoff pairings on Monday. EAGLES-TIGERS The Tigers nipped the Eagles, 3-2, in Middlebury Tuesday night as Wyatt Cameron tossed a complete-game two-hitter, striking out 11. He outdueled the Eagles Eben Clifford, who surrendered four hits and one walk in an efficient six-inning effort. Four Eagle errors, (See Baseball, Page 2B)
Wrap-Up
EAGLE RUBY BALL beats the throw to home putting the visitors ahead on their way to a 12-9 win over the Tigers in Middlebury on Tuesday.
Independent photo/Steve James
Eagles hold on to knock off Tigers in a slugfest
Sports BRIEFS VUHS softball earns first victory
Teams launch three homers, four doubles By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — After the Mount Abraham and Middlebury union high school softball teams finished trading heavy punches on Tuesday, the Eagles emerged standing after surviving a late Tiger flurry, 12-9. Of the 14 total hits between the teams, three were homers — by Tigers Ashley Sunderland and Gwen Stafford and Eagle Cami Willsey — and four were doubles, three by the Eagles and one by the Tigers. Eagle Coach Don McCormick (See Softball, Page 2B)
MIDDLEBURY PITCHER GWEN Stafford slides into second too late to beat the throw to Mount Abe’s Cami Willsey during the Tigers’ late-game rally, which fell short as the Eagles won, 12-9, on Tuesday.
VERGENNES — The Vergennes Union High School softball team on Tuesday broke into the win column in a big way, pounding out a 17-8 victory over Milton. Felicia Poirier led the attack against the 2-12 Yellowjackets with five hits, including two triples. Ema Gernander added four hits, winning pitcher Sierra Bertrand doubled and singled twice, and Ella Hameline also finished with three hits. Sydney Tarte and Karrie Ayer added a pair of hits apiece, and Audrey Tembreull contributed a double as the Commodores improved to 1-13. The Commodores were set to wrap up their regular season by hosting Fair Haven on Wednesday, a game moved from Thursday.
ScoreBOARD Panther women roll, reach NCAA final four
HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 5/20 VUHS vs. Lamoille....................... 12-3 5/21 MUHS vs. St. Albans................. 11-10 5/21 VUHS vs. Harwood...................... 13-1 5/22 MUHS at Mt. Mansfield................ Late Boys’ Lacrosse 5/20 Mt. Abe at U-32.................. Postponed 5/20 OV vs. Montpelier..................6-5 (OT) 5/21 St. Albans vs. MUHS................... 12-8 5/22 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS................ Late 5/22 Hartford at OV............................. Late Baseball 5/20 VUHS vs. Richford......................... 7-0 5/20 OV vs. Bellows Falls...................... 6-4 5/21 Milton vs. VUHS............................ 6-2 5/21 MUHS vs. Mt. Abe......................... 3-2 5/22 Essex at MUHS........................... Late 5/22 Fair Haven at OV......................... Late Softball 5/20 OV vs. Fair Haven....................... 10-7 5/21 VUHS vs. Milton.......................... 17-8 5/21 Mt. Abe vs. MUHS....................... 12-9 5/22 OV at Springfield......................... Late 5/22 Fair Haven at VUHS.................... Late Tennis 5/20 MUHS Boys at Spaulding.. Postponed
(See Schedule, Page 2B)
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Lax team thumps foes in regional By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — After the host Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team thoroughly dismantled Franklin & Marshall in a Sunday NCAA Division III quarterfinal, 164, both senior leading scorer Emma McDonagh and Coach Kate Livesay offered theories on why the Panthers are peaking at tournament time. McDonagh said the tough competition the Panthers faced all season in NESCAC play made them better. There’s plenty of evidence to support that opinion. Two other NESCAC teams, Tufts and Wesleyan, will join them the NCAA Final Four this weekend in Ashland, Va. Middlebury (20-1) will meet league foe Wesleyan (17-3) at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 25, in one semifinal, and NESCAC runnerup Tufts (19-2) will square off vs. Salisbury (19-3) in the other.
None of these three NESCAC teams has lost a game this spring except to other league teams: Tufts fell twice at Middlebury (10-9 both times, and Wesleyan lost once to Middlebury and twice to Tufts). Middlebury won at Salisbury, 11-6, and lost only to NESCAC foe Bates in its opener and has since reeled off 20 straight wins. Since March only Tufts has come closer than four goals to the Panthers, and Bowdoin (10-8) gave Middlebury a better game (an 18-9 loss) in Saturday’s regional semifinal than Franklin & Marshall (17-5) did on Sunday. Exactly how did McDonagh explain Sunday’s domination of the Diplomats? “Our chemistry is incredible right now, and everybody is playing so well together,” McDonagh said. “I (See Panthers, Page 3B)
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE ATTACKER Emily Barnard scores her third goal in the second half of the Panthers’ 16-4 win over Franklin & Marshall on Sunday. She also scored a hat trick in the semifinal win over Bowdoin on Saturday.
Independent photo/Steve James
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Softball
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5/20 Spaulding at MUHS Girls... Postponed 5/22 St. Albans at MUHS Boys............ Late 5/22 MUHS Girls at St. Albans............ Late COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse NCAA D-III Regional 5/19 Midd. vs. Franklin & Marshall...... 16-4
Schedule HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 5/23 GMVS at VUHS.....................4:30 PM 5/25 CVS at MUHS........................... 11 AM 5/27................ Playoff Pairings Announced Boys’ Lacrosse 5/24 CVU at MUHS............................4 PM 5/24 Mt. Abe at Montpelier..................7 PM 5/27................ Playoff Pairings Announced Baseball 5/23 MUHS at Missisquoi..............4:30 PM 5/23 Spaulding at Mt. Abe.............4:30 PM 5/24 OV at Fair Haven...................4:30 PM 5/25 Fairfax at MUHS.........................2 PM 5/27................ Playoff Pairings Announced
Softball 5/23 MUHS at Missisquoi..............4:30 PM 5/23 Spaulding at Mt. Abe.............4:30 PM 5/24 OV at Leland & Gray.............4:30 PM 5/25 Fairfax at MUHS.........................2 PM 5/25 Springfield at OV........................1 PM 5/27................ Playoff Pairings Announced Ultimate 5/24 MUHS at Long Trail..................... 3:45 Tennis 5/24 Harwood at MUHS Boys........3:30 PM 5/24 MUHS Girls at Harwood........3:30 PM 5/27................ Playoff Pairings Announced Track & Field 6/1.... D-III Championship Meet at Windsor 6/1 ...........D-II Championship Meet at TBA COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse NCAA D-III Final Four in Ashland, VA 5/25 Midd. vs. Wesleyan............. 11:30 AM 5/25 Tufts vs. Salisbury.................2:30 PM 5/26 Final............................................2 PM
Late games were played after deadline. Due to uncertain weather and other factors spectators are advised to consult school websites for schedule updates.
Baseball (Continued from Page 1B) a Spencer Cadoret sacrifice, and a Sean Deering single led to all three Tiger runs in the second inning. The Eagles scored in the fifth, when Nolan Whitcomb singled in Clifford, who had walked, and Parker Hines, who reached on an error. The Tigers improved to 6-5. They were scheduled to host Essex on Wednesday, and are set to visit Missisquoi on Thursday and host Fairfax at 2 p.m. on Saturday. The 5-10 Eagles will wrap up by hosting Spaulding on Thursday at 4:30 p.m. OTTERS The Otters, first place in D-II, won at Bellows Falls on Monday, 6-4, and in the process improved to 13-1 and apparently earned enough quality points to put first place in out of the reach of second-place Fair Haven (10-3) and third-place Enosburg (10-1). OV hit the ball early and took advantage of BF miscues to take a 6-0 lead and held on behind the complete-game pitching of Patrick McKeighan, who allowed
seven hits and four walks and whiffed six. Reilly Shannon doubled and singled and Jack Adams doubled to lead the OV offense. The Otters were set to host Fair Haven on Wednesday, and will close out the season by visiting the rival Slaters on Friday at 4:30 p.m. COMMODORES On Monday the Commodores blanked visiting Richford, 7-0, as Jarret Muzzy tossed a twohit shutout. Muzzy fanned 13 and walked just one during his pitching gem. Robbie Bicknell went three-for-three to lead the Commodores. On Tuesday Milton scored six runs in the third inning and defeated the Commodores, 6-3. VUHS finished the regular season at 10-5 and as of Wednesday morning’s VPA standings stood in third place in D-III. Whether the Commodores maintain that seed could depend on future and/or unreported results from Oxbow and Williamstown (both 9-4 as of Wednesday per the site) and Thetford (7-4 as of Wednesday).
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(Continued from Page 1B) saw his team improve to 11-4, and the Eagles can sew up the No. 1 seed in Division II by defeating Spaulding for a second time this spring on Thursday, this time in Bristol. McCormick praised the Tigers for fighting back from a 10-2 fifthinning deficit against his ace pitcher, senior Ruby Ball. “They really hit the ball,” he said. “They’re a good team.” At the same time, the Eagles showed patience against the Tiger No. 1, Stafford, who threw hard but at times struggled to find the strike zone, walking five and throwing four wild pitches in 4.1 innings. She allowed all eight Eagle hits and 10 earned runs before senior Aby LaRock came on and threw well for the final 2.2 innings, allowing no hits and two unearned runs. McCormick said the Eagles have finally been able to adapt successfully to both harder throwers like Stafford and to the softer serves from other pitchers. “We’re starting to hit the ball. We’re starting to adjust back and forth to what we’re seeing for pitching,” McCormick said. Stafford tossed a 1-2-3 first inning and gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead by leading off the bottom of the inning with an inside-the-park homer to deep right. Ball also struggled with her control, hitting two batters and walking one in the first, but struck out a batter to escape the jam. The Eagles then plated three runs in the second. Ball singled, and Sam Rathbun lined a double down the left-field line. Abby Hoff plated Ball with an RBI grounder, and Erika Tracey doubled home Rathbun. Camilienne Masse capped the rally with an RBI single. The Eagles added two more in the second. Jess Murray and Ball walked and moved up to second and third on a wild pitch. Rathbun scored Murray on fielder’s choice grounder that erased Ball at third on a tag play, and Hoff doubled Rathbun in. Meanwhile Ball settled down, allowing only an unearned run in the fourth. Kyra Roberts reached second on an error and advanced to third on a wild pitch. With one out Harley Williams walked and stole second. Katelyn Stearns drove in Roberts with a ground out, but Masse, the first baseman, threw out Williams trying to reach third on the play to end the threat.
AFTER FORCING OUT Middlebury base runner Katelyn Stearns at first, Mount Abe sophomore Camila Masse fires to third for a double play in Tuesday’s 12-9 Eagles win in Middlebury. Independent photos/Steve James
MOUNT ABE FRESHMAN Cami Willsey crushes a threerun home run to put the visiting Eagles ahead in Tuesday’s game against Middlebury Union High School. Willsey had come into the game to replace pitcher Ruby Ball, earning the save as Mount Abe won, 12-9.
The Eagles then pushed across five runs in the top of the fifth. Ball singled, and Hoff and Tracey walked. Masse singled in two runs, and McCormick sent in Willsey to pinch-hit. It was a good decision: The freshman delivered a towering home run to center field, ending Stafford’s outing and making it 102. LaRock came on to get the final
The Tigers managed a hit vs. Willsey in the seventh, a Williams single, but the freshman struck out one, got a groundout and another infield pop-up to earn the save. McCormick said he will be happy to have just one game between this past Tuesday and the opening of the playoffs next week after Ball pitched three games in four days late last week due to weather rescheduling. “Last week killed us, those four games in a row,” he said. “But everybody’s in the same boat.” Meanwhile, the 5-6 Tigers are in the middle of a tough final week. On Tuesday they played D-II’s top team. On Thursday, they are set to travel to face D-I’s second-place team, Missisquoi (13-1), and on Saturday at 11 a.m. they will wrap up by hosting D-III’s top team, Fairfax (11-2). As for the Eagles, they will be seeking their third straight D-II title and fourth-straight appearance in the championship game. At times, McCormick said, it has felt like they have been on cruise control during the regular season, but he believes they will be ready for the postseason. “It’s a little bit of the Golden State Warriors. Let’s get through the season and get to the four-game run,” he said. “I think they’re going to be fine. I think they’re waiting for the playoffs.”
Lax: Victories for girls’ teams, Otter boys ADDISON COUNTY — In area high school lacrosse earlier this week the Vergennes-Mount Abraham girls and the Otter Valley boys kept up their winning ways, the Middlebury girls picked up a key road victory, and the Tiger boys dropped a road game. The Mount Abraham-Vergennes boys’ game at U-32 on Monday was postponed. Unless that game is rescheduled, the Eagles will wrap up their season by visiting Montpelier on Thursday. The regular season concludes on Saturday, and the Vermont Principals’ Association will release playoff pairings on Monday morning. VUHS GIRLS
On Monday the Commodores outpaced visiting Lamoille, 12-3, as Jalen Cook racked up four goals, an assist, six ground balls and 10 draw controls. Grace Harvey added two goals, two assists and five ground balls; Hannah Kelly and Ryley Olsen each scored twice; and Harriet Anderson (two assists) and Leah Croke added a goal apiece. Commodore goalie Ashley Tierney made eight saves, and Wenzdae Wendling stopped 10 shots for the 4-5 Lancers. On Tuesday Cook posted six goals and four assists as the Commodores rolled past host Harwood, 13-1. Harvey added two goals, an assist and scooped six ground balls. Molly Laurent, Croke, Siobhan Eagan,
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two outs. The Tigers fought back in the bottom of the fifth. Stafford singled, but was erased when Taylor Sylvester hit into a fielder’s choice. Carly Larocque then reached on a throwing error, and a wild pitch put runners on second and third. LaRock lined a single to center, and both runners raced home. A walk to Sunderland and another wild pitch moved LaRock to third, and Roberts drove her in with a groundout to make it 10-5. The Eagles scored an unearned run in the sixth, with a Rathbun grounder plating Ball after she reached on an error. Then the Tigers landed a couple more punches in the bottom of the inning. With two outs, Sylvester doubled, and Larocque singled her home. An error put LaRock on, and Sunderland followed with a majestic shot over the left-field fence to score three more runs and make it 11-9. McCormick called for Willsey, and she got the final out of the inning on one pitch, inducing a pop-up to Masse. The Eagles picked a key insurance run in the seventh. Tracey — who played another outstanding defensive game at third base — reached on an error, moved to second on a groundout, stole third, and scored on a Willsey groundout.
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Olsen and Marley Keith chipped in a goal apiece. Tierney stopped two shots. VUHS (14-0) will host secondplace Green Mountain Valley at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday. The VPA lists GMVS’ record at 8-1. If that is accurate the Commodores have already clinched the top seed in Division II. OV BOYS On Monday the Otters topped host Montpelier, 6-5, in overtime, to improve to 7-3, 7-0 in D-II. Tim Kittler and Ethan Sulik-Doty each scored twice to pace OV, and Hayden Gallo and Hayden Bernhardt added a goal apiece. Goalie Alec Stevens backstopped the win with 14 saves. The Otters are in the three-way battle for the No. 4 seed in D-II with Hartford (8-4) and Harwood (7-3), both records as of Tuesday; those teams have played tougher schedules, including games vs. firstplace Spaulding (10-1) and secondplace Stowe (8-4). The Otters close with two games vs. Hartford, one scheduled for this Wednesday at home and one on Saturday afternoon on the road. MUHS GIRLS On Tuesday the Tiger girls
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Lindholm (Continued from Page 1B) sports equally (his daughter was an athlete at South Burlington High). “The enthusiasm of the women athletes is really great. In volleyball, they celebrate every point!” He noted how many of the volleyball players for Middlebury and other NESCAC teams were from California, so he acknowledges the time difference for the 7 p.m. broadcasts, and opens with “Welcome to Happy Hour here at Pepin Gym.” “As a parent who sends my daughter to school 1,500 miles away (Marquette University in Milwaukee),” Bruce says, “I am aware that the internet has changed everything: parents get to watch their kids play.” Nancy Erickson, mother of Rob ’18 a pitcher for the Panthers, wrote from Texas: “Jonathan (Rob’s dad) and I both appreciate Bruce Bosley. He has a great sense of timing, he knows when to add commentary and when to let the game play out.” That’s true. Bruce is a master of the medium. He knows he’s not a radio play-by-play broadcaster: people are watching the action with him, so he identifies players and adds detail and perspective. “I also appreciate that he calls the game with the Midd fans and the visitor fans in mind,” Nancy Erickson goes on to say. “He is quick to recognize a great play by either team and makes an effort to keep the game exciting for both sides of his audience.” Another parent, Rich Wolfin, father of Jake ’13, a Panther basketball stalwart, waxes admiringly of Bruce’s work: “Bruce is smooth, concise and fair, and never a homer. I have a college roommate who has been a sportscaster since 1980, so I feel like I have become a fair critic of others who do it. “Simply put, I would put Bruce up there with any play-by-play man I have heard do TV basketball. Plus, he’s is one of the nicest guys you will ever meet.” One more: Martha Punderson Graf, mother of Sam Graf ’19, baseball player, wrote from Colorado: “The discovery of livestreaming games to remote parents was an exciting moment for me. I thought I’d probably never see Sam play a college game when he decided to go to Middlebury. It was a wonderful day when I learned I could watch and listen in.” Bruce is a Vermonter. Raised in Burlington, he attended Burlington High School, then the University of Vermont. He has ties to Addison
BRUCE BOSLEY ANNOUNCES webcasts of scores of Middlebury College sports events every year. Here he is boning up on the rosters before a Panther women’s lacrosse game at Kohn Field on May 4. Photo by Karl Lindholm
County — his mother grew up in Middlebury on Court Street. He was in sales for 17 years before he joined the athletic department at his alma mater as Assistant Sports Information Director in charge of men’s basketball, men’s hockey, and baseball. He served in that role for 13 years. He recalled UVM’s first foray into March Madness in 2003. “We played Arizona in Salt Lake City and Dick Enberg, Matt Goukas, and Kareem Abdul Jabbar were doing the game, so I had to provide them with information. That was fun.” He remembers keenly when Middlebury basketball coach Jeff Brown played for UVM. The Catamounts’ three overtime win in 1981 against Boston University, coached by Rick Pitino, is a particularly vivid memory. “Jeff played the whole 55 minutes!” Bruce started working Middlebury games in 2010 when Middlebury Director of Athletic Communications Brad Nadeau brought him aboard when the games were being handled “in-house,” before NSN came along to produce the webcasts. “Many broadcasters do their homework and come prepared to do a game,” says Nadeau, “but Bruce goes beyond that. He makes the broadcasts personal — finding connections or interesting facts between the coaches, players and parents. Our constituents love the job he does.” There is no show-off in Bruce, no signature call, no false enthusiasm: he calls all that “crap,” a very Vermont attitude. He admires greatly Mike Gorman, the Celtics TV announcer: “He’s the best. No rants, he just tells the story.” He likes Gorman’s characteristic “Got it!” to indicate a made hoop, and uses it. Joe Castiglione, the Red Sox radio
voice, is another favorite. “He’s so well-prepared. I send Joe tidbits now and then, and he uses them! He pumps up the Wiffle Ball Tournament and I’m grateful for that.“ While Bruce works nearly 200 events a year (“that’s a lot of National Anthems!”) the highlight of his year is the Travis Roy Foundation Wiffle Ball Tournament, a grand two-day event at Pat O’Connor’s Little Fenway and Little Wrigley, facsimiles of those two iconic ballparks in the town of Essex. Bruce contributes his time. Travis Roy was a hockey player injured in in his first game for Boston University, paralyzed from the neck down. His parents are both UVM alums with close connections to Vermont. Bruce says, “I broadcast over 30 Wiffle ball games over two days. In 18 years, we have raised over $5 million — $600,000 just last year. It’s great!” That’s not all. Bruce is the official scorer at the Vermont Lake Monsters (minor league baseball); that’s 40 games in a summer. He is the director of the Vermont State Baseball Coaches Association, which oversees the Twin State Baseball Classic (Vermont vs. New Hampshire). He’s the vice-chair of the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame. And, oh yes, he also has season tickets to the Red Sox and catches about a dozen Sox games every season (and all the playoff games when they make the postseason): “It’s the one place where I can be a fan.” A favorite Middlebury game for Bruce was the dramatic last-second one point NCAA tournament win in men’s hoop against Ithaca College in 2013. The whole game was exciting, but one aspect in particular thrilled Bruce. “Eli Maravich was on the Ithaca team,” he explains, “the nephew of legendary Pistol Pete Maravich, so it was cool for me to say, ‘Maravich pulls up for a three . . . Got it!’” Longtime Sports Illustrated writer and Bosley friend and admirer Alex Wolff describes Bruce’s knowledge of sports as “encyclopedic.” “Bruce knows Vermont cold — and every little strand that radiates out from Vermont. He’s fearless. He’s ‘comfortable,’” Alex goes on: “He knows sport and takes it seriously. He’s been around. He never gets a name wrong, even the most exotically named players. “Webcasting is a perfect medium for him.” Bruce Bosley: Not the Voice of the Panthers maybe, but a treasure for legions of the most engaged Middlebury sports fans.
(Continued from Page 1B) think this speaks to the NESCAC, too, all the regular season games that were so challenging for us just allowed us to get better throughout the season. Obviously F&M plays in a great league, too, but I think we’re playing our best lacrosse because of the NESCAC tournament, and just how bad we want it.” As for Livesay, she pointed to growth on the offensive end. The Panthers began their surge by switching from man-to-man to a zone defense with sophomore Addy Mitchell serving as a backer. But Livesay said the offense has since clicked into high gear by becoming more diverse. “We just have confidence in a lot of attackers right now. I think for a while we were relying on a couple different goal scorers, and we’ve really developed our attack to be more versatile, just looking for each other a little bit more. We’re getting more assisted goals,” she said. Again, facts back the contention. Nine Panthers scored in each of the weekend NCAA wins. And when senior defender Alex White went coast-to-coast vs. Bowdoin for her first goal of the season on Saturday she became the 18th Panther to score this spring. Ten Panthers have at least 14 goals, led by McDonagh (54 goals, 17 assists), freshman Jane Earley (45G, 16A) and junior Emily Barnard (43G, 19A). And the Panthers racked up 14 assists in the two weekend games. On Sunday F&M tried to slow Middlebury by packing in a tight man-to-man defense, but the tactic backfired as the Panthers attacked to force fouls and shooting-space calls in the defensive fan. Earley (twice) and middies Grace Getman and Erin Nicholas converted the resulting free positions to make it 4-0 in the first 7:34. Meanwhile the Panthers were bottling up F&M in its own end. Only half the Diplomats’ 14 first-half clearing attempts were successful. Attacker Kirsten Murphy knocked
JUNIOR MIDDLEBURY DEFENDER Hayden Garrett is crosschecked by a Franklin & Marshall player while trying to advance the ball in Sunday’s NCAA regional final in Middlebury.
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the ball loose on the next clearing attempt, and Earley scooped it and tossed in a breakaway to make it 5-0. F&M won two draws and Caroline Kolva and Marissa McGarrey netted their team’s first shots of the game to make it 5-2 at 17:58. Then the Panthers scored five times in the half’s final 11:10. Earley whipped home, free position, and the Panthers followed with four crisply assisted strikes — a fast-break goal by Erica Barr set up by Lily Riseberg, a Barnard goal assisted by Earley, a Riseberg goal from Getman, and finally a Murphy goal from Barnard. As Livesay subbed freely in the second half, one goal by McDonagh
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE FRESHMAN sensation Jane Earley pops up in front of F&M goalie Emily Kitchin to score one of her four goals.
and two by Barnard, the second after she stole the ball at midfield and broke in alone, moved the game into running time. Kate Zecca added a pair of goals, and Hope Robertson benefitted from another quick Earley feed. Starting goalie Julia Keith and Kate Furber each made two saves, while F&M’s Emily Kitchin made 13 saves. McGarrey finished with two goals for F&M. On Saturday Bowdoin trailed by just 8-5 early in the second half before the Panthers pulled away. Earley scored four goals, McDonagh and Getman each had a hat trick with one assist, while Barnard scored twice and dished out three assists. Casey O’Neill and Sarah Weppler each controlled five draws, while Mitchell scooped six ground balls. Keith made six saves as the Panthers held a foe to fewer than 10 goals for the 15th straight game. Two Bowdoin goalies combined for nine stops. After Sunday the Panthers could start focusing on a return trip to the NCAA final four. A year ago they lost to Gettysburg in the final, but Wesleyan upset the Bullets in their quarterfinal on Sunday. Middlebury’s nine seniors celebrated an NCAA title four years ago, and McDonagh said they are hungry for another, for themselves and their teammates. “Ever since our seniors missed graduation because of a national championship, we had it in our minds that that’s what we wanted to do, too,” she said. “I want everyone to experience what we got to experience freshman year.”
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Mt. Abe students win in High School Art Competition MONTPELIER — Two Mount Abraham Union High School seniors participated this year in the 38th Annual Congressional High School Art Competition in Vermont. Both Althea Kane and Claire Holloway were honored at the award ceremony held at the Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier on May 3. According to Vermont Congressman Peter Welch, “The Congressional Art Competition provides a unique opportunity to both showcase the work of Vermont students and appreciate the creations of their peers across the state.” Kane received a Certificate of Distinguished Achievement for her colored pencil drawing of a mermaid. Holloway was one of only nine students out of 158 who were selected to be award winners. She received a “Judges Choice” award for her large, photorealistic painting of a cinnamon roll titled “Sweet!” The judges look for works that best portray originality, technical skill, and clearly expressed content. The Vermont Congressional Art awards are sponsored by Rep.
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LINCOLN — Lincoln Sports is once again hosting summer camp for area children entering grades 1 through 8. This is a fun way for the kids to connect with old friends and make new ones outside of school. Camp is centered around the ball field in Lincoln but day trips to other locations happen as well. Activities include crafts, games, swimming, hiking and more. Registration forms can be found on the Lincoln Sports website, at the Lincoln Community School, the General Store and the Town Office. Scholarships are available — applications for scholarships are due by Saturday, June 1. There will be a FREE hazardous waste collection event hosted by Addison County Solid Waste Management District on Saturday, June 1 from 8 a.m. to noon at the new Starksboro Town Garage. Accepted items include pesticides, gasoline, U.S. REP. PETER WELCH presents an award to Mount MOUNT ABE SENIOR Claire Holloway’s photorealistic painting “Sweet!” won a motor oil, paint, cleaning products, Abe senior Claire Holloway for her painting in the Con- “Judges Choice” award at the Congressional Art Competition among Vermont high automotive and pool chemicals, fluogressional High School Art Competition on May 3. schoolers. rescent light bulbs and batteries. This Peter Welch along with IBM, the the Vermont College of Fine Arts. of Jennifer and Michael Kane is the daughter of Joan and Tim event is for household waste only. Vermont Council on the Arts and Althea Kane is the daughter of Starksboro. Claire Holloway Holloway of Monkton. Business waste will not be accepted. Motor oil is limited to 10 gallons per household. This event is open to Lincoln residents. In observance of Memorial Day, the town offices, library and schools have to be Weybridge residents, but Monument stands high Moderator Spence Hello Mosquito will be closed on Monday, May 27. should have some town connection. Kids going outside to play Never flustered. Knows his -Melissa Lourie SAVE THE DATE No experience is needed. Good life in Weybridge Robert’s On Snake Mountain Road The Lincoln Fire Department will Winners will be announced at the — Jonathan Kehoe Do I hear any nays? Those who drink and toss their be hosting their annual Father’s Day town picnic on July 13. All haikus — George Bellerose cans chicken BBQ on Sunday, June 16, will be published in the By the Wey Monument Farms sells Prefer Twisted Tea starting around 11:30 a.m. Adults newsletter. Talent Night, a popular Best chocolate milk in world Wonder of the world. -Melissa Lourie are $10 and kids and half sizes are community event in the past, may Really good, try it Our school castle. Thanks Mike $7. There will also be a 50/50 raffle. be resurrected next winter. Winners — Jonathan Kehoe N. Submit haikus to George Tickets are $1 each or 6 for $5. would be read then. In addition, Clark S., 56 knights Bellerose by June 21 at georgeUntil next time ... When You Can’t Parini and Alvarez will select —George Bellerose bellerose@gmavt.net or 80 Find The Sunshine, Be The Sunshine. other haikus to form a collection or Cups of hot chocolate Meetinghouse Lane, Weybridge, The Best Preparation For Tomorrow renga, which would also be read at And small snowflakes Trees verdant, grass green VT 05753. He will forward them to Is Doing Your Best Today. Inhale The talent night. Melting into warm summer nights Fragrant blossoms tumble forth our poet laureates for judging. Future, Exhale The Past. The 14-and-under winner will — Narges Anzali receive a copy of Alvarez’s young adult novel, “Where Do They Every time to you go outside Go?” The adult winner will receive You see cheerful faces a copy of Parini’s Why Poetry Knowing you can trust them Matters. — Esra Anzali NEW HAVEN — The Willowell children outdoors for play-based, all demographics in Addison Winners will also receive gift Foundation recently announced sensory and experiential educa- County,” she said. “Teachers at certificates for the Vermont Book Travel takes a toll. that it will use the grant money tion. Children at Wren’s Nest Wren’s Nest see a discrepancy in Shop. Planes, trains and automobiles. it received from the Middlebury spend the majority of their school the quality of gear students are All submitters will receive a Home? I’m on the Wey! Maple Run to enhance acces- day outdoors in all of the elements sent to school with. Functional, certificate of participation. — Sam Prouty sibility to outdoor education for of Vermont weather — hiking, waterproof and warm footwear Alvarez’s advice: Haiku are vivid students at the Wren’s Nest Forest constructing and constantly for each child is our priority.” snapshots, based on the senses, not Utopian school; Willowell, which was one of Preschool. The money will help exploring the ecology of the natuabstractions. Children all above average six recipients of grants from the preschool purchase Muck ral landscape. Some examples from last year’s In Lake Weybegon. boots for their students. Willowell Administrative the Middlebury Maple Run, winners: — Sam Prouty Sweetest HalfThis school is a five-day-a- Director Tasha Ball said that Vermont’s week nature-based program for some children lack adequate gear Marathon, will use the grant children ages 3-5, which takes to fully participate in the explor- money to buy 10 new pairs of place at Treleven Farm in New atory and land-based curriculum. boots that will live in perpetuity Haven. This newly expanded “Above all, we want this school at the school for generations of program’s mission is to bring to be accessible to children of young students to come.
Local poets invited to compete with their haikus WEYBRIDGE — For the second year, Weybridge poet-laureates Julia Alvarez and Jay Parini invited residents to submit haikus for a local competition. Last year’s inaugural haiku competition, resulted in 70 haikus from two dozen residents. The challenge is to write a haiku or two or more about Weybridge or Vermont: a moment in a season, a particular encounter, a vivid, sense-based snapshot. Maybe it’s a moment or observation that happened in Weybridge. Maybe it’s about Weybridge’s past or a look ahead at its future. Last year’s themes included community, nature, home, people, farms and creatures. It’s an opportunity to let the imagination run free. All submissions need to be in haiku form — either the traditional form of three lines no more than seventeen syllables total (5-7-5) or a short three lines that captures the spirit of the haiku. See examples below from last year’s winners. Participants of all ages are encouraged to submit and do not
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MEMBERS OF MIDDLEBURY Indoor Tennis recently planted a tree to honor their late fellow-member, David Van Vleck, who died on April 22 of this year.
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Florida man cited for DUI after car crash Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Danny Carter, 71, of Miami, Fla., for driving under the influence, after receiving a report of a vehicle being stuck in a Case Street driveway on May 14. Police said they stopped the vehicle on Quarry Road. Police said they measured Carter’s blood-alcohol content at 0.177 percent; the legal limit for driving is 0.08. In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Enforced traffic safety while waiting for a Green Mountain Power crew to fix a low-hanging power line on Halpin Road on May 13. • Responded to a report on May 13 of a Middlebury Union High School student allegedly threatening a non-student by phone. Police said they determined there was no threat to the school and they continue to investigate the case. • Received a report that someone had damaged a coinoperated vacuum at the SpeediLube on Route 7 South on May 13. • Were informed of a possible phone scam targeting a Valley View Drive resident on May 13. • Served a juvenile citation on a youth for providing false information to a police officer on Mary Hogan Drive on May 14. Police said they issued the citation as a result of an investigation about one juvenile allegedly threatening a peer. • Received a report of a car being keyed while parked off Court Street on May 14. • Investigated a report of two counterfeit $20 bills being passed on Middlebury College campus on May 14. • Assisted U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials in executing of a search warrant at a South Pleasant Street location on May 14. • Responded to a report of an “uncontrollable juvenile” at Middlebury Union Middle School on May 15. Police intervened and
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referred the youth to the Counseling Service of Addison County. • Served an extended stalking order on a man in the Buttolph Drive Extension area on May 15. • Prevented a potentially impaired driver from operating a vehicle in the Bakery Lane area on May 15. • Responded to a complaint of speeding in the Burnham Drive neighborhood on May 16. • Were informed an unspecified number of cows were loose near the intersection of East Main Street and Route 7 South on May 16. • Assisted a local resident who complained of being the target of threatening and harassing behavior in the Washington Street area on May 16. Police advised the person on how to apply for a no-stalking order at the courthouse. • Began an investigation into a possible case of lewd and lascivious conduct at the South Village Green housing development on May 16. • Received a complaint about a dog that was barking “excessively” in the North
Pleasant Street area on May 17. • Assisted with a child custody transfer at a Valley View home on May 17. • Received a report about a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident at the intersection of Cross and South Pleasant streets on May 17. • Investigated a report of an allegedly intoxicated men harassing customers at Kinney Drugs on Court Street on May 17. Police said the man agreed to go home. • Responded to a report about a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident near the Frank Mahady Courthouse on May 17. • Cited Michael Gardner, 49, of Starksboro for driving under the influence, after spotting a vehicle in a ditch along Case Street on May 18. Police said they measured Gardner’s blood-alcohol content at 0.1 percent. • Received a report about a “possibly intoxicated” person becoming agitated at Martin’s Hardware on Route 7 South on May 18. Police spoke with the man at his home, and noted he wasn’t intoxicated. • Received a report about a possible phone scam from a local resident on May 18.
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BRISTOL — On May 7, Bristol police responded to a report of a suspicious male who had been found sleeping in someone’s yard. The individual was located and identified, and police determined that no further action was needed. Between May 6 and 12, Bristol police assisted Vermont State Police four times. During that period, officers in the Bristol Police Department completed nine foot patrols and two hours of car patrols in various parts of town, some of which were part of the Governor’s Highway Safety Program. Bristol officers checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School six times, secured one unsecure building and processed at least six requests for fingerprints. In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On May 6 assisted someone with identification verification for a legal process. • On May 6 investigated a possible theft of a package from a local resident but determined there had been no theft.
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• On May 6 responded to a report of alleged drug activity in a vehicle parked next to the Bristol town park, but found no illegal activity. • On May 7, with the assistance of Vermont State Police, conducted a welfare check, spoke with the resident and found that all was well. On May 8 responded to an alarm at a local business, which turned out to have been activated by mistake. On May 9 investigated alleged threats made toward someone. On May 10 opened an investigation into an alleged violation of a relief-from-abuse order. On May 11 assisted participants of the Human Powered Parade. On May 12 completed a check of town parks within Bristol.
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City police issue lots of tickets on patrols VERGENNES — Vergennes police between May 13 and 19 issued 26 traffic tickets and a number of warnings for various moving violations during a series of eight patrols throughout the city. The special directed patrols are part of the department’s continuing effort this year to enforce traffic laws and enhance safety in the city, police said. Some have been done in response to specific complaints about speeding on certain roads. In other action during those seven days, Vergennes police: On May 13: • Made available their station’s processing room to Vermont State Police, who needed to hold a fugitive from justice in custody. • Responded to yet another false report of the odor of drugs from a Hillside Drive apartment resident. On May 14: • After a report of threats made at a Short Street residence issued no-trespass orders to both Short Street and Addison residents. • Accepted a gold necklace found at Champlain Farms and stored it in hopes someone will step forward and claim it. • Helped calm a juvenile who was reported to be striking her parents and throwing objects at a city home. • Spoke with a woman who said she felt suicidal and had taken medicine with alcohol; police arranged for a counselor to meet her at Porter Hospital, and the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad took her there. On May 15 took a report that $120 had been stolen from a North Street resident; the incident
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remains under investigation. On May 16 told a West Main Street resident not to reveal personal info over the phone to a persistent caller and to stop answering the number. On May 17: • Suggested that a South Maple Street resident report a fraudulent bill to the state Attorney General’s Office. • Checked the welfare of a woman reported to live on Cataract Lane and were told she had moved to Boston. • Responded to Northlands Job Corps to help campus personnel deal with a case of a student receiving a shipment of an often addictive prescription drug through the mail; police confiscated the drug, and the student was terminated. • Responded to a report of an erratically driven vehicle on Second Street; it was gone when police arrived. • Checked a report of children left in a car on Green Street; it was gone when police arrived, but police reported the incident to the Department for Children and Families because of a credible account. • Were told the occupant of a car outside the Small City Market cursed at a pedestrian. On May 18: • Calmed two men arguing at a West Main Street home. • Warned a driver who had operated his car erratically on Main Street. On May 19: • Warned a driver who had operated his car erratically on West Main Street. • Checked a report of a child in pajamas and bare feet outside an Alden Place home and were told a parent was watching him while he got something from a car. • Helped VARS on a Monkton Road call.
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MIDDLEBURY HORSE ENTHUSIASTS Calvin and Tucker Kennett, at right, competed for the first time in the 4-H Teens, 14 and older, competition at the State 4-H Horse Judging Contest. The Kennetts came in fourth and fifth, respectively. Other winners included, from left, Samantha Blackmore of Charlotte (first), and Vivienne Babbott (second) and Emily Lang (third), both from Hinesburg. This year’s contest was held May 5 in New Haven.
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Bristol man investigated for animal cruelty ADDISON COUNTY — On this past Sunday, May 19, Vermont State Police in the New Haven barracks announced the results of a threemonth-long investigation into an animal cruelty case in Bristol. On the afternoon of Jan. 31 troopers executed a search warrant at a Bristol home. State police were assisted by members of the Homeward Bound/ Addison County Humane Society and later by the Vergennes Animal Hospital. Police seized six animals — multiple cats and a rabbit — due to poor living conditions and health concerns for the animals. Police investigated further and said they found out that 29-year-old Josh Farrington of Bristol was responsible for the care of the animals, but he had abandoned the residence with no known whereabouts. Police attempts to locate Farrington were unsuccessful, and they got a warrant for his arrest. Farrington was later located and taken into custody. During a civil forfeiture proceeding regarding this case, police learned that two of the cats were owned by Jennifer Sumner, 22, of Middlebury. Police cited bother Farrington and Sumner for cruelty to animals. They are due to answer the charge in Addison County Superior Court, criminal division, on July 15. Separately, troopers from the
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New Haven barracks conducted saturation patrols on May 7 and 8 between 5 and 7 p.m. in Ferrisburgh in order to enforce motor vehicle laws and distracted driving laws and to promote safe driving. The five troopers who took part stopped a total of 38 vehicles, issued 26 traffic tickets (14 related to distracted driving), and issued 145 written warnings. There will be a sobriety checkpoint(s) conducted in Addison County, by area law enforcement within the next two weeks, state police announced late last week. This will be done in an effort to monitor the flow of traffic along Vermont’s highways in the interest of detecting and arresting persons under the influence of alcohol or any drug that has impaired their ability to operate a motor vehicle. In other recent activity, Vermont State Police: • On May 8 at approximately 2:45 a.m. were told that a vehicle had driven off the roadway on Short Street in Bridport. When they got to the scene, troopers identified the driver as 19-year-old Hassan Farhan of Burlington. Troopers report that they learned that Farhan’s driver’s license was under criminal suspension, and they claimed that Farhan attempted to provide them with false information regarding operation of the vehicle. Police arrested Farhan, took him to the New Haven state police barracks and cited him for driving with a criminally suspended license and giving false information to a police officer. • On May 9 updated a case that had been initiated the previous month. On April 22 at a quarter to 6 p.m. state police received a report that a vehicle had been stolen from a Lookout Lane home in Monkton. Troopers suspected that Calvin C. Joos, 22, of Monkton took the vehicle without the owner’s consent, and used it for several days. On May
8, Burlington police located Joos with the stolen vehicle. Police cited Joos for aggravated driving without the owner’s consent. • On May 9 at shortly after 10 a.m. saw a vehicle westbound on Route 17 in Bristol with no registration validation sticker on the rear plate, and stopped the vehicle. With the assistance of Bristol police, troopers identified the driver as 45-year-old Sybil Saunders of Vergennes. They cited Saunders for driving with a criminally suspended license and violation of conditions of release. • On May 11 at around 10:30 a.m. saw a vehicle being driven on Main Street in Bristol by someone known to have a suspended license. Additionally, troopers learned the vehicle did not have a registration validation sticker affixed to the rear plate. With the help of Bristol police, the trooper stopped the vehicle. The trooper cited Collin Bell, 35, of Bristol for driving with a criminally suspended license and with violating conditions of release . • On May 12 at approximately 1:12 a.m. stopped a motor vehicle on Route 7 in New Haven for speeding and marked lane violations. Police said their investigation showed that Rusty C. Conant, 58, of New Haven was driving while under the influence of alcohol. They cited Conant for DUI, second offense. • On May 12 at just before 5 a.m. checked out a report that a car had crashed into a utility pole on Morgan Horse Farm Road in Weybridge. The vehicle was not occupied when police arrived on scene. Investigation showed that two occupants left the scene without reporting the crash. Troopers said they learned that the two occupants involved in the crash were Michelle Davignon, 29, and Roger Towle Jr., 32, both of Middlebury. Troopers report that when they spoke to them, both Towle and Davignon provided false information. Davignon reportedly was injured in the crash and treated at Porter Hospital. Police sited both Towle and Davignon for providing false information to a police officer. • On May 12 at a few minutes
before midnight, stopped a motor vehicle on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh and identified the driver as Alyssa Cassidy, 34, of New Haven. Troopers learned that Cassidy had an active arrest warrant out of Illinois, where she faced charges of unlawful possession of methamphetamine. Police arrested Cassidy without incident and jailed her at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility for lack of $75,000 bail. • On May 13 saw a vehicle southbound on Route 7 in New Haven with an expired inspection sticker. Police stopped the car and cited the Dawn N. Doviak, 38, of New Haven for driving with a criminally suspended license. • On May 14 at approximately 8 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle on Route 17 for an observed equipment violation. After seeing several indicators of alcohol impairment in the driver running some roadside tests, the trooper cited Robert Jackman, 39, of Bridport for driving under influence, second offense. • On May 16, cited Jeffery McGrath, 51, of Leicester for simple assault on May 8. On that day, at about 10 minutes to 8 p.m., state police received a call to investigate a citizen dispute at a Leicester home. Troopers said they learned that McGrath had assaulted a 56-yearold Leicester woman. He is due to answer the charge in court on July 29. • On May 18 at 7:30 p.m. pulled over motor vehicle stop on Route 7 in New Haven, suspected drunk driving, screened driver Kent A. Sourdiff, 54, of Jacksonville, Fla., and cited him for driving under the influence, second offense. • On May 18 at a little passed 9 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle on Route 7 in New Haven, detected indicators of impairment in the driver, screened him and cited Jeremy Roberts, 45, of Addison for driving under the influence of drugs. • On May 19 stopped a motor vehicle on Sand Road in Ferrisburgh. Troopers detected signs of impairment in driver Shilo RinderGoddard, 30, of New Haven. Police sited Rinder-Goddard with driving under the influence, second offense.
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TOOL SALE Saturday June 1st. 10am‑4pm. 1831 Mnt. Rd., Bridport. 802‑545‑2144. YARD SALE 3318 Rte. 7 South. Saturday May 25 and Sunday May 26th. 8am‑3pm. Lots of house‑ hold items, dishes, pots, furniture, bed linen, boys and girls clothes, winter gear, adult clothing, etc. Nothing priced. Make a decent offer and take it all away.
Help Wanted BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.
CLEAN PEAKS JANITO‑ RIAL is hiring for part and full time positions. License and vehicle required. Must pass background check. Starting rate ne‑ gotiable based on experi‑ ence. Must be detail ori‑ ented and reliable. Call 802‑388‑6904 or email: CleanPeaksJanitorial@ gmail.com.
CONSTRUCTION WORK‑ ERS NEEDED: Looking for dependable hard‑ working individuals with a valid driver’s license for concrete & carpentry construction. Experience a plus but will train. Wages based on experience. Paid holidays. Call Donnie at 802‑453‑6426.
Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190. CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All as‑ pects of construction, also property maintenance. Ste‑ ven Fifield 802‑989‑0009. HANDYMAN ‑ LIGHT carpentry, insulation, yard clean up, junk removal, dump trailer services. Call Eugene 802‑453‑8546.
Garage Sales BARN SALE ‑ MAY 24, 25, 26. 9am‑4pm. 2841 Watch Point Rd., Shore‑ ham. Multi‑family sale. An‑ tiques, crafts, signs, home decor, yard sale items and much more.
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C O O K ‑ I M M E D I AT E FULL time position. Ex‑ perienced, fast paced, family friendly. Noon to 8pm. Apply in person. Halfway House Restau‑ rant. Shoreham.
PT HOUSEKEEPING position & FT Cook posi‑ tion available in a health‑ care facility located in Vergennes, VT. Must be able to pass a background check & be able to pass drug screening. Email or call to set up an interview at MA3024@metzcorp. com or 802‑222‑5201 ext. 316.
LANDSCAPERS ‑ LOOK‑ ING for honest, hardwork‑ ing people to help with busy 2019 season. Call Mark at Pleasant Val‑ ley Inc. 802‑343‑4820 in North Ferrisburgh.
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PAINTING, GROUNDSKEEPING AND MORE! There are barns to paint, lawns to mow, and no end of odd jobs needing attention.
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DELIVERY DRIVER ‑ CDL Class A or B. Champlain Orchards Inc. in Shore‑ ham, Vermont is seeking a full‑time staff member who will be responsible for delivering product to our customers and for en‑ suring trucks are loaded properly for delivery. Job requirements: Valid CDL class A or B, minimum 1 years’ experience as a Delivery Driver, clean driv‑ ing record, background check and drug test, strong customer service skills, positive and profes‑ sional attitude, ability to lift up to 40 lbs. Full job description available at: champlainorchards.com/ employment. Please send a letter of interest, resume and the names of 3 pro‑ fessional references to hr@champlainorchards. com.
MOUNTAIN MEADOWS Organic Beef Farm seeks motivated individual to assist on large beef op‑ eration. Ideal candidate will have experience with cattle, equipment and gen‑ eral farm practices. Du‑ ties include feeding, barn chores, crops and general farm maintenance. Full or part‑time positions avail‑ able. Full time offers vaca‑ tion and benefits. To apply contact Brian Kemp, Farm Manager at 802‑989‑0514.
Let us know if this describes you. Send resume with references to: jobs@whistlepigrye.com.
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JOIN THE STAFF OF Songadeewin of Kee‑ waydin. We are a girls’ residential summer camp. Live and work with camp‑ ers teaching the activities you know and enjoy. Wil‑ derness canoe and hiking trips are central part of our program. We provide training through our Trip School which includes a four‑day canoe trip, a SOLO WFA course, CPR and a week of pre‑season training which starts June 5. An optional ARC Life‑ guard course begins June 1. Commitment June 5 – August 17. We are an ACA accredited camp. Salary starts at $3,625 for current college students. Contact camp director, Ellen Flight, ellen@keewaydin.org.
PAID SUMMER WORK, Environmental Intern‑ ships. Learn about re‑ pair, reuse and recycling markets at Good Point Recycling. Great oppor‑ tunity for high school and college students to build their resumes, learn about online marketing, build ref‑ erences. and enjoy hands on work with a fun team. Apply on our website, snail mail PO Box 1010 Middlebury, or email to JOBS@Good‑Point.NET. PAINTERS ‑ LOOKING FOR honest, hardworking people to help with busy 2019 season. Call Mark at Pleasant Valley Inc. 802‑343‑4820 in North Ferrisburgh. PAINTERS WANTED ‑ Acorn Painting is now hiring for the 2019 exte‑ rior season. Experience preferred but willing to train. Please have a valid drivers license, your own reliable transportation, good work ethic and good attitude. 453‑5611.
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Reliable, responsible Part-Time cashiers needed for flexible schedule. All shifts available. The ability to work nights, weekends and holidays is essential.
Bottling Team - Shoreham VT To meet our growing demand we are looking for quality, detail oriented team members for our bottling line. Hours: 7:30 am - 3:30 pm. Must be able to be on your feet for those hours and lift 25 pounds unassisted.
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ZERO TURN OPERA‑ TORS. Looking for hon‑ est, hardworking people to help with busy 2019 sea‑ son. Call Mark at Pleasant Valley Inc. 802‑343‑4820 in North Ferrisburgh.
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EA ST MID D LEB U RY, SPACIOUS 3 bedroom, 2 bath house, quaint neigh‑ borhood. W/D hookup, yard space, screened porch. New carpet, paint. Lawn care and trash re‑ moval included. First, last plus deposit. Credit reference. 1 year lease. $1,200/mo. Available June 1st. 802‑352‑4124, leave message.
For Sale 2005 DODGE STRATUS 85,000 miles, full tank of gas. Minor front end bum‑ per damage and some rust. Has a new battery and summer and winter tires. $1,500 obo. Lilly @ 349‑6016. FOR SALE: 50 ASPARA‑ GUS crowns at $1 each. 45 Raspberry starts at $2 each. 25 Balsam firs at $3 each. OBO. Contact Pamela 779‑5355. PRIVACY HEDGES ‑ spring blowout sale. 6ft. Arborvitae ‑ reg. $179, now $75. Beautiful, nurs‑ ery grown. Free Installa‑ tion/Free delivery. Lim‑ ited Supply. Order now: 518‑536‑1367, lowcost‑ treefarm.com. SIDE ARM FRANKS pip‑ ing wood hot water radia‑ tion furnace. 123,000 BTU. Feed door size. 161/2 w, 12 1/2” h. 388‑2460. S TA I N L E S S S T E E L FLATWARE 134 pcs. Fiddleback pattern. Ex‑ cellent condition. $350. Call 802‑453‑5600.
Vacation Rentals ADDISON: LAKE CHAM‑ PLAIN waterfront camp. Beautiful views, gorgeous sunsets, private beach, dock, rowboat and canoe included. $600 weekly, or call for weekends. 802‑349‑4212, no texts.
For Rent BRIARWOOD APART‑ MENTS is currently ac‑ cepting applications for 2 BR apartments in Middle‑ bury. All income/assets must be verified to de‑ termine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. NS/NP, onsite laundry. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summ‑ itpmg.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.
All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” 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 1-800-4248590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.
5,000 SQ. FT. AVAIL‑ ABLE. Retail, light in‑ dustry/commercial, office space, food operation. Route 7, Middlebury. 802‑349‑8544. A BEAUTIFUL, NEWLY RENOVATED 2 bedroom apartment available July 1st. Nice open kitchen, living room, tile bathroom. In the heart of downtown M i d d l e b u r y. Wa l k i n g everywhere. Text Baba 802‑373‑6456. BRISTOL VILLAGE, HIGHLY visible retail/ office street level space on the Main Street. Ap‑ prox. 1,800 SF plus base‑ ment storage. Available March 1, 2019. $1,370 mo. Call Tom at Wal‑ lace Realty 453‑4670 or Tom@WallaceRE.com. DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addison. Available stor‑ age space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structurally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.
2,500 SQ. FT. AVAIL‑ ABLE in industrial zone. Exchange Street, Middle‑ bury. 802‑388‑4831.
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MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994. MIDDLEBURY‑ STUDIO apartment. Country set‑ ting, unfurnished, wifi, sat. TV, no smoking, no pets. 388‑7249 leave message. M I D D L E B U RY, UP‑ STAIRS, SPACIOUS 2 bedroom apartment. Close to downtown. $1,300/ month. All utilities in‑ cluded. Security deposit and references required. Available June 1. Call 759‑2169 evenings. MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, park‑ ing. Can be subdivided. Real‑Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994. NEW HAVEN; 1 bedroom apartment. Fully furnished, appliances, W/D and utili‑ ties included. Great views. No pets. Security deposit $1,075. Rent $1,075. 802‑453‑3870. ONE BEDROOM apart‑ ment. Available June 1st. $925 month, heat and elec‑ tricity included. Private and quiet. No pets, no smoking. New Haven, 802‑377‑7024.
PEACEFUL ROAD SELF STORAGE Rt. 7 North Fer‑ risburgh. peacefulstorage. com, 425‑4114. Units are $50, $70, $90, & $110.
Wood Heat FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802‑282‑9110.
Animals ICELANDIC CHICKS hatched 5/11 and 5/18. $8.00/ea. $5.00/ea. 10 or more birds. 802‑767‑4424 or edague@gmail.com.
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Lake Dunmore, Rustic camp on 1.4 acres of land on a hillside overlooking the lake across the road from 320 feet of the best swimming on the lake. Big deck with dock on the water and beautiful sunsets and views from the camp across the road. FSBO for $234,500.00 cash only. Call 802-352-6678 or 802-349-7431 and leave a message please.
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2019 ENERGY STAR homes, modular, dou‑ ble‑wides and single‑ wides. Open 7 days a week. Beanshomes. com. 600 Rte. 7, Pitts‑ ford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@beanshomes. com. Down payment as‑ sistance now available.
FOR SALE: JOHN DEERE 4850, 4wd. Also, BB940 New Holland big square baler and a Claas 650 twin rotary rake. All in excellent condition. 802‑759‑2135, 802‑349‑8515.
EAST MIDDLEBURY, DAISY Lane Lot #11. Beautiful, level 1/2 acre building lot with good southern exposure on a private lane. Town water, power and cable hookups at curbside. Site approved for four bedroom home with conventional (no mound necessary) septic system. $68,000. Call Jack Brown 388‑7350. HOME IN PORT HENRY, N.Y. Owner financing. Ask‑ ing $32,500. Hardwood floors throughout. Six miles to Champlain bridge. Payment less than rent. #518‑597‑3270.
Real Estate Wanted EMPTY NEST COUPLE looking to purchase sturdy 1700s or 1800s farmhouse with original details on 5+ acres in Addison Co. to restore and make family home. If you or a family member have a house that might be ready for its next owners soon, please get in touch. Please no realtors. hollygardner26@gmail.com
Att. Farmers 2018 PROCESSED CORN silage, 500 ton. Mix legume and grass, haylage, 600 ton and sawdust also avail‑ able. Call West Haven, VT. 802‑265‑8698 after 7pm. BRIAN’S FARM SUPPLY, net wrap, bale wrap, baler twine and bunker covers. 802‑355‑2076.
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HAY FOR SALE. Small square bales, first cut + mulch. 802‑349‑9281. TRAILER TYPE John Deere side rake and Grimm Tedder. Good working con‑ dition. 388‑2460. WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.
Cars 1969 DODGE DART. Cus‑ tom 4 door, 6 cylinder. In great condition. 68,000 original miles. Blue. Asking $5,800. Call 802‑352‑6678 or 802‑349‑7431 and leave a message.
Wanted LIONS CLUB NEEDS ‑ stuff for their annual auc‑ tion. Please no appliances or electronics. Call for pick up, 388‑7124. Help us, help others. TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collect‑ ibles, etc. Visit bittneran‑ tiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Consulting/ appraisal services avail‑ able. House calls made free of charge. VT COLLECTOR WILL PAY cash for old wooden bird carvings, goose, duck and shorebird decoys. 802‑238‑1465.
F I R S T C U T, S M A L L square bales for sale. 802‑759‑2135 or 802‑349‑8515.
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It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing. 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. Talk to our sales professionals.
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Tick-borne diseases on the rise; precautions urged when outdoors By MEGHAN MCCARTHY MCPHAUL Eighteen years ago, when I moved back to New Hampshire, I rarely came across ticks. The dog didn’t carry them unwittingly into the house, and I could spend the day in the garden or on wooded trails and not see a single, hardshelled, eight-legged, blood-sucking creepy-crawly. Not so anymore. Now, from the time of snowmelt in the spring to the first crisp snowfall of autumn — and often beyond — we find ticks everywhere: on the dog, crawling up the front door, along kids’ hairlines, on backs or arms or legs, and occasionally (and alarmingly) walking along a couch cushion or bed pillow. With the increase in tick numbers has come an upsurge in tick-borne diseases. Lyme disease is still the most well known and most common. But now we can add Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Borrelia miyamotoi disease, Ehrlichiosis, and Powassan virus to the list of tick worries. Vermont and New Hampshire are home to more than a dozen species of ticks. In almost all cases, however, the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis) — also known as the deer tick — is the one transmitting tick-borne diseases to humans. “The blacklegged tick is kind of the bad guy,” said Patti Casey, environmental surveillance program director for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture. She noted that while some types of ticks
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Anaplasmosis and of Lyme disease. Those symptoms of general malaise — fever, aches, chills, and fatigue — are also common in Borrelia miyamotoi, another infection transmitted by blacklegged ticks, and of the tick-borne disease Ehrlichiosis, which is transmitted by the lone star tick (so named because of a distinctive light-colored circle on its back, not because of any relation to the Lone Star State of Texas). This tick is beginning to appear in northeastern states.
While still quite rare — with only one human case reported in New Hampshire in 2017 and none yet in Vermont or New York — Powassan virus is causing concern for tick watchers. Although it hasn’t spread yet to people in large numbers, 40 percent of the deer harvested last year in New York showed signs of exposure to Powassan virus. With the same general symptoms of other tick-borne diseases, this virus can affect the central nervous system and cause meningitis and
TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY PUBLIC NOTICE
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Date: Friday, May 31, 2019 | Time: 11am Location: West St, Cornwall, VT 05753
Full Passport Service
Sale Managed by: Wright’s Auction Service, Newport, VT. AUCTIONEER: RON WRIGHT P 802.334.6115 | F 802.334.1591 Or Contact Roland Ayer 802-343-3750
Terms: Cash or good check w/ID. 10% down day of sale & balance due at closing. Please call Wright’s Enterprises for more info 802-334-6115. Like and follow our Facebook page (Wrights Enterprises). Email: info@wrightsauctions.com Website: www.wrightsauctions.com
5/23,30,6/6 The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide Langrock Ripton Tax Sale 2x4 Q 052319.indd 1 5/17/19 3:48 PM CITY OF VERGENNES passport photos. FINAL PUBLIC HEARING REGULAR HOURS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT
the date of the last advertisement if no claim of interest is made and the watercraft/outboard motor has not been reported stolen, SCDNR shall issue clear title. Case No: 20180926950673 Upon completion, you will need to get the following from the Newspaper: • Signed Certification • Copy of the advertisement • Dates the advertisement was printed Include this in the paperwork that you send to Marine Theft Investigations. 5/9, 5/16, 5/23
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The resident and nonresident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of the lands in the Town of Ripton, in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by said Town for the years of 2016 Monday June 10, 2019 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at and 2017 and 2018 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid upon the following the Town Offices, 77 Main Street, to consider the following: described lands in the Town of Ripton to wit: 1. An application (file # 2019-05:181.000) request by Harley Grice Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to William R. Revocable Trust for 2-lot final plan/plat subdivision approval of parcel # Randall and Pamela J. Randall by Administrator’s Deed of Linda A. 005181.000. The Grice property is located at 1126 Halpin Road in the Leonard, Administrator of the Estate of Lloyd G. Roberts, said deed dated Agricultural Rural (AR) district. July 27, 1987 and recorded in Book 260, Page 86 of the Town of Ripton Application, plans and additional information regarding this application may Land Records (1568 North Branch Road Parcel 06-01-36). be viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office in the Town Offices or by calling Subject to a 2005 Mortgage Deed in favor of the National Bank of 388-8100, Ext 226. Participation in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the Middlebury. right to take any subsequent appeal. Reference may be had to said deed for a more particular description David Wetmore of said lands and premises, as the same appears of record in the Ripton DRB Coordinator/AZA 5/23 Land Records. And so much of said lands will be sold at public auction at the Ripton Town Clerk’s Office, a public place in said Town, on the 18th day of June, 2019, at LEGAL NOTICE Midd Grice 2x2.25 Q 052319.indd 1 5/17/19 3:57 PM 2:00 o’clock in the afternoon, as shall be requisite to discharge said taxes with To all persons claiming an costs and other fees allowed by law, unless previously paid. interest in: You are referred to 32 V.S.A. 5254, if applicable to said property affording a 1986-110HP-EVINRUDEprocedure for E110TLCDF-J1126474, designating a portion to be sold, if the time limits and procedures therein are Nicholas Leung will apply to followed. SCDNR for title on watercraft/ DATED at Ripton, Vermont this 30th day of April, 2019. Addison County outboard motor. If you have any Kathleen Sullivan claim to the watercraft/outboard Collector of Delinquent Taxes Courthouse motor, contact SCDNR at (802) Town of Ripton 734-3858. Upon thirty days after
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landscape. “We’ve changed what had been a solid patch of woods decades ago to a situation where we’ve got little openings,” he said, referring to what conservationists call “forest fragmentation.” Eton noted that when people build houses in the woods, they make good mouse habitat in the process. With the mice come the ticks — and the diseases they transmit. The most effective way to prevent tick-borne disease is to not get bitten. Experts suggest tucking shirts into pants and pant legs into socks when outside, treating clothes with a product that contains permethrin, wearing a repellent containing DEET, and performing daily tick checks, especially during the highest risk periods — from late spring through summer. “You control a large amount of the risk,” Eaton said. “You decide what you do, what you wear, whether you use repellents, whether you check yourself for ticks. We live in a beautiful state with wonderful things to do. Understand the risks and continue to protect yourself. But continue to get out and enjoy this wonderful place, too.” Meghan McCarthy McPhaul is an author and freelance writer based in Franconia, New Hampshire. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by “Northern Woodlands” magazine (northernwoodlands.org) and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (wellborn@nhcf.org).
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encephalitis. How quickly ticks transmit diseases varies and is difficult to study effectively. As Alan Eaton, a retired University of New Hampshire professor and UNH Extension entomology specialist notes, “Nobody wants to volunteer to see how long it takes to have a disease transmitted to them.” In experimental lab testing using rodents, it takes Lyme disease between 48 and 72 hours to be transmitted. But scientists have documented transmission of Borrelia miyamotoi disease and Anaplasmosis within the first 24 hours of attachment. Most terrifying is one study that showed Powassan virus being transmitted within 15 minutes of tick attachment. While there are various reasons why ticks are becoming more abundant, climate change is a likely contributing factor. Casey said that longer shoulder seasons in April and October, when temperatures are not as reliably cold as they once were, give ticks a longer chance to mate and find a blood meal. Lee Ann Sporn, a biology professor at Paul Smith’s College, adds that one result of warmer, wetter weather trends has been that tick-borne diseases are an “almost year-round risk.” Eaton points to another factor in the spread of ticks and the diseases they carry: a changing
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DOCKET NO. 209-5-19 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF CHARLES H. MAKOVEC NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Charles H. Makovec of Leicester, Vermont. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: May 16, 2019 Gary S. Makovec, 360 Fisher Rd., Orwell, Vt., 05760 948-2149 gsmakovec@gmail.com
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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 182-4-19 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF DALE P. HALLOCK
NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Dale P. Hallock of Bristol, Vermont. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month deadline. Dated: May 20, 2019 Yvonne M. Jarvis, Exector, 111 Hayes Avenue, S. Burlington, VT 05403 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: May 23, 2019 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 5/23
The City of Vergennes received $30,000 from the State of Vermont for a grant under the Vermont Community Development Program. A public hearing will be held at 120 Main St., Vergennes, VT on 6/11/2019 at 6:00 pm to obtain the views of citizens on community development, to furnish information concerning the range of community development activities that have been undertaken under this program, and to give affected citizens the opportunity to examine a statement of the use of these funds. The VCDP Funds received have been used to accomplish the following activities: The Mary Johnson Children’s Center completed a feasibility study for the development of a proposed childcare center on Armory Lane. The Vergennes’ Children’s Center would serve up to 40 children ages 18 months, to 5 years old. The feasibility study considered multiple architectural and site design options, and a number of financing options. Information on this project may be obtained from and viewed during the hours of 8:00 am to 4:30 pm at 120 Main St., Vergennes, Vermont on 6/7/2019. Should you require any special accommodations please contact Mathew Chabot at 802877-4821 to ensure appropriate accommodations are made. For the hearing impaired please call (TTY) #1-800-253-0191. Legislative body for the City of Vergennes.
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HEARING NOTICE TOWN OF ORWELL DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD
The Orwell Development Review Board will meet on Wednesday, June 19th at 7:00pm at the Town Clerk’s Office to conduct the following business: 1. Permit #5-17-19: Hall & Breen Farm, LLC for a conditional use permit located at 175 Route 73. Information pertaining to this matter may be viewed M, T, Th, 9:3012:00 and 1:00-3:00 and Fr. 9:3012:00 and 1:00-6:00 at the Town Clerk’s Office. Robert Bogdan, Acting Chair Orwell Development Review Board 5/23
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TOWN OF CHARLOTTE REQUEST FOR BIDS FOR CLEANING THE TOWN HALL/TOWN OFFICE
The Town of Charlotte seeks bids for cleaning the Town Hall/Town Office. A copy of the Request for Bids can be obtained from the town web-site: www.charlottevt.org or by stopping by the Town Office, or by calling/e-mailing Dean Bloch, Town Administrator, at 425-3071 ext. 5, dean@townofcharlotte.com. Bids are due by Monday June 10, 2019 at 6:00 pm. 5/16, 5/23, 5/30, 6/6
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Margolis will read from ‘Time Inside’ on May 24 MIDDLEBURY — Awardwinning poet and counselor Gary Margolis will be reading from his newly published book of poetry, “Time Inside,” on Friday, May 24, at 4:30 p.m. at the Vermont Book Shop. He will be joined by fellow Green Writers Press author, Tal Birdsey. “Time Inside,” Margolis’ seventh book of poems, takes us behind the walls, through the metal gates of his experience leading a poetry workshop for inmates in a maximum security correctional facility, and back out to the surrounding worlds of love’s nature and memory’s hold and release of us. Emblematic of Margolis’ writing, sometimes in phrases, sometimes in sentences, Margolis always has an ear for a line’s turning. Each poem finds its centering image that arrests
Kudos to young musicians
SIX VERGENNES UNION High School students recently participated in the Vermont All State Music Festival in Montpelier. The entire high school band marched in the Vermont All State Parade on May 8, followed by a performance on May 9 by a quintet made up of VUHS musicians playing Kai Williams’ winning composition. The above students participated in the culminating concerts on May 10 at U32 in Montpelier. Chorus: Olivia Brooks, Addie Brooks and Caitlin Walsh. Orchestra: Kai Williams. Band: Bess Gramling and Anna Rakowski. Kai Williams’ winning composition “Addison County 1873” was performed at the Vermont All State Music Festival by the following VUHS students Xander DeBlois, Gramling, Rakowski, Leah Croke and Williams.
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the heart. With clarity, humor, and a counselor’s and poet’s eye, Margolis sees the keys and latches of dark and light inside our time. Fellow Green Writers Press author and head teacher of the North Branch School, Tal Birdsey has an upcoming book of essays about a year in his independent school, “Hearts of the Mountain: Adolescents, a Teacher, and a Living School,” to be published in October. Birdsey will read selections from that forthcoming book. Co-founder and director of North Branch, Birdsey teaches writing, literature, social studies, art, student government, and ethics and serves as the school counselor, soccer coach, and newsletter and literary magazine editor. In 2008, he published a book about the founding and first year of North Branch School, entitled “A Room
for Learning.” Margolis is also Emeritus Executive Director of College Mental Health Services and Associate Professor of English and American Literatures at Middlebury College. He was a Robert Frost and Arthur Vining Davis Fellow and has taught at the University of Tennessee, and Vermont, Bread Loaf, and Green Mountain Writers’ Conferences. He was awarded the first Sam Dietzel Award for Mental Health Practice in Vermont by the Clinical Psychology Department of Saint Michael’s College. His recent books include “Seeing the Songs: A Poet’s Journey to the Shamans in Ecuador,” a memoir, and “Runner Without a Number,” a book of poems. The event is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow.
State historic sites to open this weekend ADDISON / RUTLAND Lake Champlain Bridge project. COUNTY — Time to consider The special seasonal exhibit in some road trips and explore the the ballroom is “Salmon and People history and scenery of our region. in a Changing World,” from the The Chimney Point, Mount Lake Champlain Basin Program Independence, and and Champlain Valley Hubbardton Battlefield Plan an outing National Heritage State Historic Sites are Partnership. It this summer opening for the 2019 includes the successful season on Saturday, to explore reintroduction of the May 25, at 10 a.m. Plan Vermont’s Atlantic salmon into an outing this summer interesting Lake Champlain. to explore Vermont’s history and Artist Lillian interesting history and beauty spots. Kennedy will have a beauty spots. These hallway exhibit, “A sites also host a variety Brush with Nature,” of engaging programs. Hours of and will be offering two workshops operation are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Aug. 10 on landscape painting. Chimney Point is on Lake The site will be open Wednesdays Champlain in Addison. Enjoy the through Sundays through October new exhibits, “Crossing Paths” 13. Admission is $5 for adults and and “Point of Contact,” which free for children under 15. focus on the Native American, Orwell’s Mount Independence, French Colonial, English, and a National Historic Landmark, early American history of the is named after the Declaration of Chimney Point area, incorporating Independence. It is one of the largest archaeological findings from the Revolutionary War defenses built
by the Americans. Visit the museum and then choose one or more of our trails — six miles in all — to walk. May 25 is the annual spring bird walk led by Sue Wetmore; meet outside the museum at 8 a.m. The year’s highlight is Soldiers Atop the Mount living history weekend, Aug. 31 and Sept. 1. Open daily, admission is $5 for adults and free for children under 15. The Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site is the location of the only Revolutionary War battle fought in what would become Vermont. It is one of the bestpreserved battlefields in America, retaining most of its original setting. On Monday, May 27, at noon, is a short Memorial Day ceremony at the battle monument. The annual battle weekend is July 6 and 7. Scores of reenactors and lively new offerings are expected. The site will be open Wednesdays through Sundays. Admission is $3 for adults and free for children under 15.
State Police announce sobriety checkpoint(s) ADDISON COUNTY — The Vermont State Police announced that there will be a sobriety checkpoint(s) conducted in Addison County by area law enforcement
within the next two weeks. This will be done in an effort to monitor the flow of traffic along Vermont’s highways in the interest of detecting and arresting persons
under the influence of alcohol or any drug that has impaired their ability to operate a motor vehicle State Police Sgt. Matthew Daley said in a press release.
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The Opera Company of Middlebury will present “Cendrillon (Cinderella), An Opera in Four Acts,” by Jules Massenet on May 31, June 2, June 6 and June 8 at the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. For the 16th year Middlebury welcomes professional opera singers to our hometown stage. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES
Fairy tales come true on Town Hall Theater stage
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he Opera Company of Middlebury, now in its 16th season, has mounted another classic opera, updated for the modern audience. Jules Massenet’s “Cendrillon, an Opera in Four Acts,” directed by OCM artistic director Doug Anderson, is a full production with orchestra, sung in the original French. Don’t speak French? Don’t worry. Every word of dialogue and song is translated into English, visible on a screen above the stage and synched to the action. But if you’d rather ignore the supertitles, rest assured that “Cendrillon” is the same Cinderella story you’ve heard since childhood.
theater preview BY DAVID WEINSTOCK Lucette, known as Cendrillon and sung by soprano Lindsay Ohse, has been reduced to little more than a servant in the home of domineering stepmother Madame de la Haltière (Tara Curtis) and two haughty stepsisters, Noémie (Abigail Paschke) and Dorothée (Heather Jones). Her own father, Pandolfe (Andy Papas) is helpless to shield his daughter from their
scorn and mistreatment. Then comes word that Prince Charming (tenor John Riesen) is hosting a grand ball and — if he obeys his father the King (Eric Kroncke) — will choose a wife from among the kingdom’s eligible high society young ladies. Lucette dutifully dresses her stepsisters for their royal audition. But when left alone, she sings about longing for love and wishes she had been allowed to go to the ball. Finally, exhausted, she takes a nap, and in comes La Fée, or Fairy Godmother (Cree Carrico) who does what only fairy godmothers do. She wakes Lucette to fulfill her heart’s desire, gowns her magnificently for her palace debut, and throws in a pair of enchanted slippers that will SEE OPERA ON PAGE 3
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magically conceal her identity from her jealous stepfamily. There’s only one catch: Lucette must leave the party at the stroke of midnight.
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details What: “Cendrillon” (Cinderella) An Opera in Four Acts, by Jules Massenet. Libretto by Henri Cain, based on Perrault’s 1698 version of the Cinderella fairy tale. Sung in French with English supertitles. Principal Guest Conductor Michael Sakir. Length: approx. 3 hours
Where: Town Hall Theater, Middlebury When: May 31, June 2, June 6 and June 8 Tickets: $55-80 (plus fees) available at the Town Hall Theater box office, by calling (802) 382-9222 or online at townhalltheater.org/ calendar-and-tickets.
As it turns out, Prince Charming is acutely bored with the whole dreary business of being a prince and has zero interest in marriage. He meets one wannabe princess after another, sees nothing he desires, dances with nobody, and dismisses every candidate, not at all charmingly; in fact, he is quite rude. Then, in walks Lucette, and it is mutual and sudden love at first sight. The rest of the company, quickly sensing that the party is over, leaves the pair alone together to sing, dance, and proclaim their love. Lucette flees at midnight, leaving behind in her haste one of the magic slippers, giving the prince his only clue to her identity. (In case you are wondering, Ohse wears a size 10 slipper.) It takes two more acts of glorious music to bring the two together, and they all live happily ever after. The Opera Company of Middlebury has put our small Vermont town on the national opera map. The company has become a highly desirable gig for opera singers nationwide. This year, when auditions for “Cendrillon” were announced, OCM heard from 500 singers and 33 talent agencies.
Soprano Cree Carrico, pictured center, plays La Fée (The Fairy) in Massenet’s “Cendrillon,” which will be performed at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater through June 8. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES
OCM’s auditions are unique and are an important element of the company’s success. “You go and sing an aria, that’s the normal part,” says Ohse, “but then they say, ‘Come on up, have a seat. We want to just talk to you! Which just doesn’t happen anywhere else.” Ohse revealed her hobby of privately playing all of her opera roles on her ukelele, and as you’ll see, Anderson incorporated ukeleles into the production. “I also had a dream audition,” Riesen said. “I sang Romeo’s aria from Gounod’s ‘Romeo and Juliet.’ But then they asked if there was anything else about me that they should know. I told them ‘I went to college to play baseball before I could sing at all.’” Then Riesen sang “What You’d Call a Dream,” a touching memory of a baseball player’s golden moment from the musical “Diamonds.” All six auditioners were left in tears, and he got the part as Prince Charming. Cendrillon opens Friday, May 31, at 7:30 p.m., at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury with a prosecco reception to follow. Performances continue on June 6 and June 8, at 7:30 p.m., and a 2 p.m. matinee on Sunday, June 2. Don’t miss it!
Cree Carrico and her ensemble look over a sleeping Cendrillon, played by Lindsay Ohse. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / STEVE JAMES
Heather Jones, left, and Abigail Paschke, right, play the stepsisters in “Cendrillon.” Debby Anderson made the costumes. PHOTO / MICHAEL KELLOGG, BELLA PHOTO ART
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ART Spring Open Studio Weekend celebrates 27 years
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right yellow signs compete with a multitude of greens along Vermont’s roads enticing visitors to the studios of craftspeople and other artists across Vermont during the 2019 Spring Open Studio Weekend taking place over May 25 & 26, Memorial Day Weekend.
Open Studio Weekend is a statewide celebration of the visual arts and creative process, offering a unique opportunity for visitors to meet a wide variety of local artists and craftspeople in their studios, and purchase high quality, hand made artwork. The self-guided Open Studio tour features the work of glassblowers, jewelers, printmakers, potters, furniture makers, weavers, ironworkers, painters, sculptors, quilt makers and wood carvers. Many participating galleries will host gallery talks and feature special exhibits in conjunction with this event. The Vermont Crafts Council publishes a free map booklet with directions to participating sites. The Vermont Open Studio Guide is available throughout the state at Tourist Information Centers, galleries and studios. Request a map on the VCC website, vermontcrafts.com/OSW/springmap.php or by calling (802) 223-3380.
A LIST OF ARTISTS TAKING PART — FROM NORTH TO SOUTH: Vermont Folk Rocker/Jim Geier. Handcrafted hardwood rocking chairs. 3820 Route 116, Starksboro. Judith Bryant. Functional and decorative pottery. 3056 Route 116, Starksboro. Ellen Spring Painted Silk. Dyed, painted, silk fiber wearables. 2476 Ireland Road, Starksboro. Robert Compton Pottery. Handthrown functional and decorative pottery. 2662 Route 116 North, Bristol. Art on Main. Cooperative gallery with works in many media. 25 Main St., Bristol. Deborah Holmes Watercolors. Watercolors, giclee prints and acrylagouache paintings. 24 Garfield St., Bristol. Anne Cady Paintings. Colorful Vermont landscape oil paintings. 653 Quarry Road, New Haven. True Water Gallery/Molly Hawley. Portraits, landscapes, abstracts, fabric art. 1266 Route 125, Ripton. Mike Mayone Fine Art. Paintings, prints,
note cards, realism, landscapes. 8 Case St., East Middlebury. The Oxford Rug Hooking School/Amy Oxford. Hooked rug demonstrations and mini lessons. 4174 Route 30, Cornwall. Mud Puppy Pottery/Andy Snyder. Pottery demonstrations, exhibits and sales. 2386 Sunset Lake Road, Orwell. Brenda Hall Wood Design. Organic, sculptural, sensuous, wooden furniture. 1516 Goshen Ripton Road, Goshen. Caleb Kenna Photography. Vermont photography, images, prints, notecards. 40 Old Farm Road, Brandon. Judith Reilly Studio and Gallery. Original pieced fabric art, artist designed hooked rugs, prints. 24 Conant Square (Route 7), Brandon. Brandon Artists Guild. Cooperative gallery for Vermont artists and artisans. 7 Center St. (Route 7), Brandon. Vermont Folk Art Gallery. Co-op gallery with Warren Kimble, Robin Kent and Medana Gabbard. Central Park, Brandon.
New folk art gallery opens in Brandon On Open Studio Weekend, May 25 and 26, artist studios and galleries in Brandon will offer well-loved, established, and brand new art venues ready to discover. Visitors are welcome, from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., on both Saturday and Sunday. The Brandon Artists Guild (The BAG) is an official Vermont Open Studio Information Center. The BAG’s current show, “The Art of Wood” is an all-member, all-media exhibit. The Judith Reilly Gallery and studio showcases Reilly’s original catawampus fabric art style. Brandon’s newest art establishment is the Vermont Folk Art Gallery, located right on the village’s newly renovated central park. Three popular artists, Warren Kimble, Robin Kent and Medana Gabbard, have joined to make up the gallery, each bringing their distinct folk art style and vision to create a charming center for viewing their whimsical and thoughtful works while sharing their new
“Summer Fields” by Judith Reilly
studio spaces for the very first time. “We’re happy to have a new Brandon gallery focusing
on bringing folk art to life,” says renowned Brandon folk artist, Warren Kimble.
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IN TOWN
Fairies flock to the Sheldon Museum for exhibit of mini homes
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he Sheldon Museum presents “Whimsical Wonders: Fairy Houses from Nature,” May 14 through Sept. 1, featuring a selection of fairy houses created by environmental artist Sally J. Smith. Smith started making fairy houses at a young age. She went on explorations in the woods of her Shelburne home with her father, the renowned photographer Clyde H. Smith.
a way to “[keep] the lines of communication open between [herself] and whatever natural forces may be present in the landscape.”
Smith now lives in Westport, N.Y., and works in many other formats, including watercolor, digital media and photography. She decided to reunite with her childhood passion of fairy house building about a decade ago. She now considers herself an environmental artist working to bring her viewers back to nature. Smith considers making environmental art
They take hours to make, yet Smith says, “It’s an art form, and like any art form, you can disappear into it and spend hours at it, and you don’t realize that time has gone by.”
Many of her sculptures are made out of materials that she finds and gathers herself in the forests near her Westport studio, located between the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain. Her fairy houses range from 3 ½ inches to 12 feet tall, but most fall within 12-18 inches.
From a Japanese-style teahouse made with ferns and flowers to a cottage using delicate autumn twigs, grasses and milkweed pods,
Adirondack Fairy Lodge, by Sally J. Smith — Greenspirit Arts
all of her homes are created with an equal level of precision and detail. Smith aims to invoke “a deeper respect and love for the Earth,” stressing the need for us to “reconnect with the Earth” in order to survive. This is part of the reason that she decided to write her book, “Fairy Houses: How to Create Whimsical Homes for Fairy Folk.” While building fairy houses has become a popular crafting method, Smith hopes to help people slow down and find a “meditative state” in a culture that’s increasingly “fast-paced.” The Sheldon Museum will offer several programs in conjunction with the Fairy House exhibit. Visit the Sheldon’s website henrysheldonmuseum.org for more information or call (802) 388-2117.
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EARLY BIRD NATURE WALK IN ORWELL. Saturday. May 25, 8-10 a.m., Mount Independence, 497 Mount Independence Rd. Sue Wetmore, Mt. Independence’s bird expert, will introduce walkers to the birds of spring and spring migration. Wear sturdy shoes and dress for the weather. No pets please. Meet in front of the Museum. AN EVENING BIRD-WATCHING PADDLE IN ADDISON. Tuesday, May 28, 5:30- 7:30 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Addison, 966 Route 17. The group will set out in canoes and kayaks hoping to catch a glimpse of the many bird species that are present at Dead Creek during the spring bird migration, led by Fish & Wildlife’s Ali Thomas and Tom Rogers. Participants must bring their own canoe or kayak, paddles, and life jackets. Backup date, May 29.
ARTS
ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 24, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. George B. Todd is Professor Emeritus of Music at Middlebury College. Upon his retirement in 1997, he decided to shift his compositional energies from the aural to the visual arts, a transition he made with surprising ease as many of the issues confronting a composer also challenge the painter. Free. Open to the public, but space is limited. Fully accessible. RSVP required to Suzanne Bennett at 802-377-3393 or sbennett@residenceottercreek.com. VERMONT CRAFTS COUNCIL SPRING OPEN STUDIO WEEKEND IN ADDISON COUNTY. Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26. Visits artists’ studios in Brandon, Bristol, East Middlebury, Middlebury, Orwell, Ripton and Starksboro. For more info and open studios in the area, go to vermontcrafts.com/OSW/addison.html. SPRING INTO THE ARTS IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, May 29 and Thursday, May 30, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Spring Into the Arts, a biennial event, showcases student artwork and performances from public, private, and homeschool settings in the communities of Addison Central School District. Students’ visual artwork displayed at MHC and businesses throughout Middlebury. The day is filled with student workshops and students’ own musical and theatrical
performances for their peers. Musical performances and art displays are free and open to the public. A free evening performance featuring a band of ACSD elementary students and music from guest artist Tim Cummings , at 7 p.m., at Middlebury Union Middle School.
BOOKS & AUTHORS
GARY MARGOLIS AND TAL BIRDSEY READING IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 24,⋅4:30-6 p.m., Vermont book Shop, 38 Main St. Margolis will read from his new book of poetry “Time Inside.” Birdsey will read from his book “Hearts of the Mountain.” Free and open to the public.
FILM
“JFK: THE LAST SPEECH” ON SCREEN IN RIPTON. Saturday, May 25, 4 p.m., Ripton Community Church, Route 125, village center. The Ripton Historical Society welcomes all to this screening. The film explores the dramatic relationship between Kennedy and poet Robert Frost. At its center is an extraordinary speech about poetry and power that inspired a group of college classmates to alter the course of their lives. Executive producer Neil Bicknell and wife Judy will be available at the screening to introduce the film answer follow up questions.
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MEMORIAL DAY PARADE IN ORWELL. Sunday, May 26, 1:30 p.m. The parade lines up on North Orwell Road and gets underway at 1:30 proceeding into the village and past the green. Mark Young is the 2019 Grand Marshal. MIDDLEBURY MEMORIAL DAY PARADE. Monday, May 27, 9 a.m., downtown. “Remembering Our Heroes.” Commemoration event at the Soldiers Monument at the top of Merchants Row follows the parade. POP-TARTS AT THE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, May 27, 8-11 a.m., BUNDLE @ 60 Main St. Come to the Middlebury’s new Pop-Up event space during the Middlebury parade and enjoy “Spring Into The Arts” student work. “Banoff & Such” will be selling her delicious homemade Pop-tARTS. MEMORIAL DAY PARADE IN BRANDON. Monday, May 27, begins at 10 a.m. MEMORIAL DAY PARADE IN VERGENNES. Monday, May 27, begins at 11 a.m. at Vergennes Union High School and finishes at the City Green. Commemoration event on the Green.
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT
WHAT YOU WANT TO DO MAY 23-JUNE 2, 2019
BIXBY LIBRARY ANNUAL GALA IN VERGENNES. Friday, May 31, 7-11 p.m., Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main St. Come to “All That Glitters,” one of the biggest nights in the little city every year, for an evening of fun, dancing and delicious food and dancing to the sounds of The Grift, all under Bixby’s glass dome ceiling. Tickets for the library’s largest and most important fundraiser are $60 each and include two drinks, all the food you can eat and dancing. Available at the Bixby or at Malabar, on Main Street in Vergennes. BRIDPORT SENIOR CITIZEN DAY IN BRIDPORT. Saturday, June 1, 12:30-3:30 p.m., Bridport Community Masonic Hall, Middle Rd. 50/50 raffle, silent auction and raffle featuring gift certificates from area businesses and plants and flowers. Live dancing music. Porky’s BBQ. $5 advanced tickets for the lunch. All proceeds benefits Bridport Senior Citizens, Inc. Open to anyone age 60 and over and their spouse of any age. Under age guests can get a ticket for an additional fee. COMMUNITY PICNIC IN EAST MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, June 2, noon, Sarah Partridge Community Center, 431 E. Main St. Gather at noon, eat at 12:30 p.m. Burgers, hot dogs, rolls, drinks, cake, ice cream and table settings are provided. Bring a dish to share. This year’s event honors Mike Mayone, resident artist and longtime firefighter. More info or to volunteer, call Marilyn Barbato at 802-989-7667.
MUSIC
SENIOR WEEK CHORAL CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 24, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. The Middlebury College Choir performs a program of favorites from their repertoire, chosen by members from the class of 2019. Free. More info at midddlebury.edu/arts or 802443-3168. CRADLE SWITCH IN BRANDON. Saturday, May 25, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. A perennial favorite, Cradle Switch is a five-piece acoustic Americana group, with a repertoire that promises something for everyone. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295 or edna@brandon-music.net. JOHN AND MARGE BUTTERFIELD IN CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 26, 2 p.m., CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. John and Marge Butterfield perform with vocals, acoustic guitar and bass, a wide variety of songs, including Popular, Jazz, Blues, Caribbean, Country and Folk Music. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220, or pryan@ residenceottercreek.com. INSTRUMENTAL POPS CONCERT IN VERGENNES. Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m., Auditorium, Vergennes Union High School, 50 Monkton Rd. Come hear the final VUMS and VUHS concert of the year. VA-ET VIENT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 31, 3:30-4:30 p.m., Bistro, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Va-et-Vient returns to EastView’s Bistro with songs from Québec, France, and Cajun Louisiana, accompanied by guitar, fiddle, flute, mandolin, penny whistle, harmonica, and a variety of percussion instruments. Free and open to the public. THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. The Rough and Tumble, two young and very talented singer songwriters and musicians complete with a menagerie of instruments ranging from acoustic guitars to mailbox snares to a banjolele return to Brandon Music to weave their magic. Tickets $20. Preconcert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. CAITLIN CANTY IN RIPTON. Saturday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, Route 125. Doors open at 7 p.m. Vermont native Caitlin Canty is an American singer/songwriter whose music carves a line through folk, blues, and country ballads. Refreshments available. Wheelchair accessible but the bathrooms are not. Call ahead for a slot on the open mic list. Admission $15 generous admission/$10 general admission/$3 for children. More info call 802-388-9782. THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCOTTISH FIDDLE CLUB IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, June 2, 1:302:15 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 Eastview Ter. Come hear this group play of traditional Scottish fiddle music, led by Peter McFarlane. Free and open to the public.
PLANTS
CHARLIE NARDOZZI ON SUMMER GARDENING IN VERGENNES. Thursday, May 23, 6-7:30 p.m., Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main St. Light refreshments will be served. Copies of Charlie Nardozzi’s books will be available for sale, cash/check only. Seating will be available on a first come, first serve basis. EMERALD ASH BORER TALK IN FERRISBURGH. Thursday, May 23, 7-9 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town
MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR FRIDAY, MAY 31. Why? Because that’s when the Bixby Memorial Library is hosting its annual gala. Come enjoy an evening of festivities under the dome, dance to the sounds of The Grift, enjoy local cuisine, libations, bid on items in the silent auction and enter the Red Sox Tickets Raffle. Your $60 ticket includes 2 drinks, all the food you can eat, dancing and a door prize. All proceeds go directly to the library’s operating budget. For more info call (802) 877-2211.
Hall. The Ferrisburgh Conservation Commission hosts this talk as part of National Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week. The week of May 1825 has been designated as a nationwide effort to raise public awareness of an invasive forest pest that has destroyed millions of acres of ash forests in the U.S. PLANT, BOOK, AND BAKE SALE IN ORWELL. Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Orwell Free Library, 472 Main St. Plants of all kinds — annuals, perennials, houseplants, herbs, vegetables, shrubs, container gardens, and hanging baskets — will be for sale as well as books, DVDs, home baked and canned goods, soups, and breads. All proceeds go directly to the Orwell Free Library for purchasing books, providing programming, updating technology and serving our community. PLANT AND BOOK SALE IN LINCOLN. Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., 222 W River Rd. Volunteers needed to help organize the books and plants on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday before the sale. The library is also looking for people to donate garden plants. If you need help digging them up or want them to be picked up, they can do that. Book donations will be accepted starting Saturday, May 18. No wet, moldy or mice infested books. PLANT AND BAKE SALE IN MONKTON. Saturday, May 25, 9 a.m.1 p.m. Monkton Friends Methodist Church, 78 Monkton Ridge. Call 802453-5192 for more info. ROSS DALY AND KELLY THOMA ON STAGE IN BRANDON. Friday, May 31, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. For all lovers of world, roots and acoustic music. The duo will perform Cretan and Mediterranean music and contemporary modal music Concert tickets $20. Pre-concert
dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295 or e-mail edna@brandon-music.net. GARDEN SHOPPE FUNDRAISER IN BRISTOL. Saturday, June 1 and Sunday, June 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3319 South 116 Rd. Silent auction, plant sale, pie sale, fairy gardens, handcrafted garden décor, garden stroll, gnome forest and cornhole area. All proceeds benefit the Brendon P. Cousino Med47 Foundation.
THEATER
OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY PRESENTS “CENDRILLON” IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 31, Wednesday, June 6 and Friday, June 8, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, June, 2 p.m. Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Maple St. Now in its 16th season of presenting full-scale productions in the intimate setting of Town Hall Theater, OCM presents Massenet’s “Cendrillon” (Cinderella) with a cast of professional singers directed by Douglas Anderson. The orchestra will be conducted by Principal Guest Conductor Michael Sakir. Sung in French with English supertitles. More info and tickets available at townhalltheater.org.
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IT’S TIME FOR
LILACS S Every May Judith’s lilacs, planted over 60 years ago, still bloom faithfully in her garden in Goshen.
pring arrived late this year. Then suddenly this week, and seemingly overnight, “Lilac Time” came to Vermont.
I am talking about the well-known Common Lilacs (Syringa vulgaris), those wonderfully hardy shrubs beloved by northern gardeners, with WITH PHOTOS BY their unforgettable fragrance and colors ranging from pure white to deep purple.
BY JUDITH IRVEN
DICK CONRAD
Over the years these lilacs have come to symbolize not only the emergence of spring after a long cold winter, but also the resilience of early settlers who carried small plants with them as they journeyed to a new life. Common Lilacs are incredibly long-lived plants, often found blooming around old Vermont farmsteads and even cellar holes. The four in my garden are at least 60 years old, and maybe older. Common lilacs, also called French Lilacs,
originated in south-eastern Europe and have been in cultivation for over five hundred years. They come in colors ranging from the pure white Madame Lemoine to the deep purple “Ludwig Spaeth.” I am particularly partial to the intensely fragrant cultivar “Sensation” with deep purple flowers edged with white.
Most are large shrubs growing to about 12-feet high, but there is a new cultivar, Tiny Dancer, that grows to only about 5-feet high.
Common lilacs do have their drawbacks. Their bloom time is brief — usually lasting no more than a week. And, for the gardener, they may not be the most well-behaved shrubs to have in a flower bed, as they tend to sprout thick suckers in quite a wide circle about the parent plant. But with their vibrant colors and intoxicating fragrance most of us will gladly put up with the inconvenience of having to keep the suckers at bay. And this week, while the lilacs are blooming and fragrant, it is the perfect time to visit your local nursery and let your nose help you choose one or more for your garden. Miller Hill Farm in
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Sudbury, with its wonderful old farm buildings and beautiful views, as well as Rockydale Nurser in Bristol renowned for its extensive gardens, are both very special places to visit and offer a number of lovely lilac cultivars to tempt you.
THE ‘OTHER’ LILACS
Lilac lovers also welcome those “other lilacs” tha wait until June to put on their show. By adding a few to your garden you can extend the lilac season to a full six weeks.
Besides, all lilac flowers are a magnet for the Tiger Swallowtail butterflies which, at least in my garden, generally do not arrive in any number until early June — thus mostly missing the common lilacs. But, once here, they swarm all over the June-blooming bushes — another reaso to grow some of these “other lilacs.”
DWARF KOREAN LITTLE-LEAF LILAC
The first of the “other lilacs” to flower in my garde is the dwarf Korean Little-leaf lilac, (Syringa meye ‘Paliban’). It has lots of smallish lilac-colored fragrant flowers and its rounded leaves are — true to name — petite and tidy, so it also makes a good backdrop for nearby perennials that flower later in the season.
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It is a gem of a small shrub, usually remaining about four feet high without excessive pruning, that works nicely when planted in groups. Some years ago I planted five of these shrubs along the bed outside our bedroom window. The bushes have gradually filled in by putting out suckers to create a low-growing hedge. However (unlike the common lilac) I have not found it a problem to keep these suckers contained.
MISS KIM LILAC The next to flower is “Miss Kim Lilac” (Syringa pubescens subsp. patula). I love her big floppy panicles of pale purple flowers which, like all lilacs, are butterfly magnets. Miss Kim is certainly deservedly popular among gardeners. Not only does she sport bountiful fragrant flowers in mid-June, but her leaves take on a beautiful bronze color in the fall. Maybe, lured by her diminutive name, gardeners tend to use Miss Kim lilacs to fill in small gaps around the place. But beware: Miss Kim is no diminutive lady! Left unpruned, eventually she will grow quite large — easily 7-feet high and wide. I have actually seen a very old unpruned Miss Kim growing 12-feet high and wide. So take this into consideration as you choose a spot for her. I planted three shrubs together, creating a single dense clump about twelve feet in diameter outside our kitchen window. Now each year a pair of catbirds chooses this safe space to build a nest and raise their family.
PRESTON LILACS Over 100 years ago the well-known plant hybridist, Isabella Preston, was busy at work hybridizing lilacs at the Ottawa Experimental Farm. Her crosses between Syringa reflexa and S. villosa resulted in a collection of late blooming “Preston Lilacs” that has earned her a place in gardening history.
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Preston lilacs are great garden shrubs for the back of a bed and — best of all — they do not sucker. I have the cultivar “Minuet” which grows about 7-8 feet tall, and every year during the last two weeks of June puts on an amazing display that conveniently coincides with the Siberian Irises and Catmint. The result is stunning — hikers walking along our road sometimes stop in to admire.
JAPANESE TREE LILAC Japanese tree Lilacs are, as their name implies, small trees that grow up to 30’ tall, and they bring the lilac season to a graceful close. You can see an amazing and beautiful mature specimen showing off its creamy-white flower panicles at the end of June at Rocky Dale Gardens. Tree lilacs lilac are also known as “tough trees” for “difficult sites.” And since they are also salt tolerant
At Rockydale Gardens in Bristol this glorious Tree Lilac closes out the springtime lilac season.
they are sometimes planted as street trees.
not tempted by Boomerang or its counterparts.
EVER-BLOOMING LILACS
But I do have room — both in my heart and in my garden — for those “other lilacs,” the ones that bloom in June alongside the irises and bring swarms of Swallowtail butterflies for us to enjoy.
Several years ago now Proven Winners introduced a newly hybridized cultivar called “Boomerang” which they claimed was everblooming. And suddenly a huge controversy erupted in gardening circles. For some people the very idea of having a lilac that bloomed in September was a complete travesty that would ruin the specialness of our brief spring season, and all that lilacs have come to signify. But for busy homeowners, perhaps juggling a career and little kids and looking for a splash of color in their gardens throughout the season, it clearly would be a blessing. I can certainly empathize with this point of view, as I have been there too. One also has to admire the tenacity and ingenuity of Tim Wood, the man behind Boomerang. The story of how he did this feat provides a fascinating insight into breeding techniques that can result in the whiz-bang plant introductions that drive today’s horticultural industry.
Judith Irven and Dick Conrad live in Goshen where together they nurture a large garden. Judith is a Vermont Certified Horticulturist and teaches Sustainable Home Landscaping for the Vermont Master Gardener program. You can subscribe to her blog about her Vermont gardening life at northcountryreflections.com. Dick is a landscape and garden photographer; you can see more of his photographs at northcountryimpressions.
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T HEATER
OWN HALL
Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket
Fri 5/31; Thu 6/6 & Sat 6/8 @ 7:30pm; Sun 6/2 @ 2pm $55–$80*
OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY
CENDRILLON
OCM presents Massenet’s Cendrillon (Cinderella) with a cast of professional singers directed by Douglas Anderson with Principal Guest Conductor Michael Sakir. Sung in French with English supertitles. *Rows B & C: $55, Rows D - M: $65, Balcony: $80
Wed 6/12 11am & 7pm $13/$8 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAY
VAN GOGH & JAPAN In the exhibition – Van Gogh & Japan – at Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum, one can see why Vincent wrote to Theo “I envy the Japanese.” It is the country that had the greatest influence on his art, though he never visited.
Thu 6/13 5-7pm Free
COMMUNITY WIDE CELEBRATION OF ADDISON COUNTY HOME HEALTH AND HOSPICE’S 50TH ANNIVERSARY ACHHH invites the community to help celebrate their 50th anniversary.
Fri 6/21 7:30pm $20–$25
TONY TRISCHKA An evening with the consummate banjo artist and perhaps the most influential banjo player in the roots music world. For more than 45 years, his stylings have inspired a whole generation of bluegrass music.
Sun 6/23 2pm $17/$10 Students NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE
ALL ABOUT EVE
Margo Channing’s a legend and true star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…? With Gillian Anderson as Margot and Lilly James as the devious Eve.
Wed 7/10 11am $13/$8 GREAT ART WEDNESDAY
KLIMT & SCHIELE: EROS & PSYCHE
Klimt & Schiele: Eros and Psyche, recounts the start of the Vienna Secession, a magical art movement formed in the late 1890’s for art, literature and music, in which new ideas are circulated. Freud discovers the drives of the psyche, and women begin to claim their independence.
EXHIBITS 50/50: FIFTY YEARS OF COLLECTING FOR MIDDLEBURY. On view Jan. 25Aug. 11, featuring one piece of art from every year Middlebury College has formally been acquiring art for its permanent collection. Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. ANWSD STUDENT ART EXHIBIT. On view May 15-June 7, featuring a sampling of the excellent work from K-12 students in art classes from Vergennes, Ferrisburgh, Addison, Panton and Waltham. Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main Street, Vergennes. (802) 877-2211 or bixbylibrary.org. ART OF WOOD. On view May 3-June 25, featuring pieces from the BAG’s exhibiting members, who work in diverse media including paint, fiber, glass, ceramics, collage — and wood. This is part of a series of themed exhibits honoring our planet and celebrating the BAG’s 20th anniversary. The Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org. AS IT WERE. On view for the month of May, featuring new works by Vermont painter Kathryn Milillo. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchant’s Row, Middelbury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery.co. GEORGE B. TODD EXHIBIT. On view May 28-June 30, featuring the work of George B. Todd, Professor Emeritus of Music at Middlebury College. Upon his retirement in 1997, he decided to shift his compositional energies from the aural to the visual arts, a transition he made with surprising ease as many of the issues confronting a composer also challenge the painter. Free. Open to the public, with an artists reception on Saturday, May 25, from 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Refreshments will be provided. Fully accessible. The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road, Middlebury. RSVP required for the reception to Suzanne Bennett at 802-377-3393 or sbennett@residenceottercreek.com. KEEP IT SIMPLE. On view April 4-May 31, featuring paintings with one subject by Salisbury artist and cheese maker Hannah Sessions. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com. PHOTOGRAPHS BY MAX KRAUS. On view May 17-June 16, featuring the work of retired engineer and businessman Max Kraus of Middlebury. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org. POETRY ON AND OFF THE PAGE. On view through the summer, featuring “Object Poems” by Vermont-based poet and translator, Jody Gladding along with fine press poetry broadsides and manuscripts by poets such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and William Carlos Williams. Middlebury College Special Collections, Atrium, Lower Level, and Special Collections, Davis Family Library. (802) 443-3028. TREES: LIFE IN THE SLOW LANE. On view May 16-June 15, featuring 35 images for the gallery and 35 more images for the online gallery selected by juror Kat Kiernan. This exhibit is a celebration of the lives and diversity of trees. PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-4500 or photos@photoplacegallery.com. WHIMSICAL WONDERS: FAIRY HOUSES FROM NATURE. On view May 14Sept. 1, featuring a selection of fairy houses created by environmental artist Sally J Smith. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.
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WORKING WITH WOOD AND WATER. On view in May, featuring a solo show of woodblock prints in the traditional Japanese manga method by Matt Brown over the past 20 years. Edgewater Gallery at The Falls, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.
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MUSIC Americana group Cradle Switch plays Brandon
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randon Music welcomes back firm favorites Cradle Switch to Brandon Music on Saturday, May 25. A five-piece acoustic Americana group, based in Cambridge, N.Y., Cradle Switch’s repertoire promises something for everyone. With ballads as well as uptempo rhythms, the group’s lyrics cover the emotional spectrum moving easily from spirited and gritty to some mellow love songs too. With each performance Cradle Switch balances contemporary songs and classic tunes drawing from bluegrass, country, folk, and a little blues with their own authentic compositions. Singer-songwriters Ferrilyn Sourdiffe and Dave Lawlor swap out guitars for banjo and mandolin, while group member Kate Ritter brings it on the fiddle, along with some angelic vocal harmonies to add to Ferrilyn and Dave’s robust vocals. Bruce Weatherby adds some bounce on the upright bass and David Norman keeps the beat on percussion (and has been known to wear his special washboard tie to gigs). Since 2010 Cradle Switch has played regularly at various concert series, music festivals, cafes and other venues in the northeast and released their debut album “Cradleswitch” in September 2017. Concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Concert tickets are
Cradle Switch, a five-piece acousic group, will return for a concert at Brandon Music on Saturday, May 25.
$20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an extra $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB.
Call (802) 247-4295, email edna@brandonmusic.net for reservations or visit brandonmusic.net for more info.
live music SENIOR WEEK CHORAL CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 24, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center.
VA-ET VIENT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 31, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.
CRADLE SWITCH IN BRANDON. Saturday, May 25, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.
ROSS DALY AND KELLY THOMA IN BRANDON. Friday, May 31, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.
THE ESCHATONES IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, May 25, 9 p.mmidnight, Notte. JOHN AND MARGE BUTTERFIELD IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 26, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek. MARK SIKORA IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, May 29, Notte. INSTRUMENTAL POPS CONCERT IN VERGENNES. Thursday, May 30, 7 p.m., Vergennes Union High School.
CAITLIN CANTY IN RIPTON. Saturday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House. THE ROUGH AND TUMBLE IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY SCOTTISH FIDDLE CLUB IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, June 2, 1:30-2:15 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.
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the movie LONG SHOT — RUNNING TIME: 2:05 — RATING: R In this season of movie mediocrity, you might try “Long Shot,” which I can recommend only by saying that it offers some good laughs. These are created by fine actors who could have made a grand comedy if the script had been better. As it is, they deliver beautifully whenever the writing is good though silence envelopes the theater all too often. This is the story of Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron) and her run for the presidency with Fred Flarsky (Seth Rogen) by her side. What makes this thoroughly unlikely pairing possible is that Charlotte babysat for Fred when he was nine and she was 12. Fred remembers her as an idealistic, serious young woman and when he meets her again, she is Secretary of State. She remembers him with affection. Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron in “Long Shot” (2019).
When they meet now, Charlotte is considering a run for the presidency of the U.S. When she decides it’s a go, she asks Fred to be her speechwriter knowing well from their past that he will be trustworthy. Charlotte surprises him with repeated invitations to practice speeches in the bedroom — all to the deep concern of her campaign manager who is played with understandable concern for her candidate by Maggie (June Diane Raphael). We have here two ambitious performances by the leading pair supported nicely by their assistant. But how do the three of them get past the weak script? They do it by infusing their roles with wacky personal takes whenever they are front and center. Fred becomes Charlotte’s reliable, first rate speechwriter and Charlotte, shuffling the demands of the campaign with great sophistication, lets down whenever she’s with Fred and takes to inviting him to her bedroom where, with comic humor, she asks him for sex as a relaxing measure. What turns all this into good fun is their deep trust in each other that is conveyed so well by each of them. They are good people. He’s a good writer. She’s a good campaigner, but for her it’s a performance, and her off screen life with Fred is what sustains her. Their
bedroom antics are fuel for her campaign performance. Each of the two gives an outstanding performance when the lines are good, and when words fail, we can pay attention to the sights they produce for us. Fred, who has a big sense of himself as a speechwriter/ thinker, wears just one set of grungy old clothes, messy hair, and is unimpressed by important people who — here anyway — are usually fake and ambitious. He has the trust of candidate Charlotte, and his deep honesty is the bone of his character. How can it be anything but fun to watch Theron handle perfectly the role of a beautifully dressed woman of great intelligence who loves calming down by having good sex with the speechwriter she trusts? It’s not an idle comment to mention her clothes. She changes often and every outfit is both starkly simple and beautiful. The glorious candidate and the speechwriting ruffian enliven a dull script by becoming who they really are. A salute to Theron and Rogen. — Reviewed by Joan Ellis
the book
TRUE-CRIME TALES
FURIOUS HOURS: MURDER, FRAUD, AND THE LAST TRIAL OF HARPER LEE — BY CASEY CEP
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, by Michelle McNamara Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe
(Knopf Publishing Group)
It’s no secret that Harper Lee was instrumental in the research behind Truman Capote’s groundbreaking non-fiction novel “In Cold Blood,” but what may be less well known is she was working on one of her own, a true-crime book she intended to title “The Reverend.” Seventeen years after “In Cold Blood” was published, Harper Lee was taking notes in the gallery at the trial of Willie Maxwell, the reverend from Alabama who held life insurance policies on his family members who then turned up dead. Uncannily, in almost every case, the deaths were ruled not suspicious and Maxwell was awarded payouts. At his final acquittal trial in 1977, he was murdered, after delivering the eulogy, right in the courtroom by a relative of his latest victim. Faced with certain conviction, Robert Burns hired respected attorney Tom Radney, the self-same attorney who defended Willie Maxwell himself against the very allegations which motivated Burns to kill him — a most intricate plot and Harper Lee recognized the potential. She never finished her book, but Casey Cep deftly sets the scene, in time and place, concisely characterizes the players, and perhaps most astonishingly, gives the reader a glimpse into Harper Lee after “To Kill A Mockingbird.” — Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.
The Feather Thief, by Kirk Wallace Johnson Killers of the Flower Moon, by David Grann The Devil in the White City, by Erik Larson The Queen, by Josh Levin The Last Job, by Dan Bilefsky The Trial of Lizzie Borden, by Cara Robertson Columbine, by Dave Cullen
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A LOOK INSIDE ADDISON COUNTY HOMES FOR SALE.
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Memorial Day A Salute to Those of Served
A Special Publication of the Addison Independent May 23, 2019
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THE MIDDLEBURY UNION High School band marches and plays at the head of the 2016 Memorial Day parade on its way down South Main Street. But Memorial Day is more than a parade with bands and floats; it is a reminder of the people who gave their lives protecting the freedom that we all enjoy.
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By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — Towns all over Addison County — and Brandon — this coming weekend will honor the memories of those who gave their lives in service of their country with not only parades, but also post-parade ceremonies. Those Memorial Day ceremonies will include traditional readings such as “In Flanders Fields” and President Abraham Lincoln’s stirring Gettysburg Address; music provided by school groups, bagpipe bands and fife-and-drum corps; prayers; and guest speakers who offer historical context and meaning for the day of memory. Middlebury ceremony organizer Ken Perine explained why those who come to the parade should not just pull up stakes and head back home when the last fire truck, Boy Scout Troop and classic car has gone past. “Why should people go to the ceremony? Because Memorial Day is more than a parade,” Perine said. “It is remembering those who served our country with their lives, a constant reminder that the freedom we enjoy has come at a cost and that we must be vigilant to protect our freedom in the future, a small way to honor and remember.”
RON LAROSE Middlebury’s ceremony on the steps of the Town Hall Theater offers a template. It will include the Seth Warner Fife & Drum Corps playing the United States’ first national anthem, “Chester”; the (See Memorial Day, Page 3)
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YOUNG PEOPLE, SUCH as this flutist in the Vergennes Union High School marching band in the 2016 parade, get a hand in the commemoration of our fallen servicemen and servicewomen.
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Memorial Day (Continued from Page 2) organizes Vermont’s largest Memorial Middlebury Union High School band Day parade every year. This year’s theme playing the national anthem; the St. is “Now and Forever, We Remember,” Andrew’s Pipe Band offering “Amazing and Bristol Legion Post 19 Commander Grace”; Middlebury Police Chief Thomas Ron LaRose will serve as Grand Marshal. Hanley speaking on the meaning of the LaRose served his nation in the U.S. day; a Mary Hogan School student reading Army and Vermont Army National Guard “In Flanders Fields”; and for 39 years and retired American Legion Post 27’s with the rank of Lieutenant Honor Guard presenting “Memorial Day Colonel. a wreath and saluting is more than As always, the parade deceased veterans. starts at Vergennes Union a parade. It is That ceremony follows a High School at 11 a.m. remembering parade that gets under way and winds its way along at 9 a.m. at Middlebury those who served Monkton Road and Main, College’s Mahaney Arts our country with South Maple, Victory Center and follows the their lives, a and Green streets until it traditional route north on constant reminder reaches and the city green, Main Street and around that the freedom where the post-parade the village green to the ceremony will be held. soldiers’ monument at the we enjoy has The parade will include top of Merchants Row in come at a cost.” an even larger mix than — Ken Perine Middlebury’s of floats, front of Town Hall Theater. Veterans, bands, floats, farm equipment, classic politicians, Shriners, cars, fire trucks, bands, antique cars and more will follow that Shriners, politicians and more; and Post route, and many of them will head a 14 will also stage its annual chicken dozen miles north at the conclusion of the barbecue on the green following the Middlebury parade to Vergennes. parade and ceremony. CITY PARADE At the ceremony, Fort Ticonderoga There, American Legion Post 14 Curator Matthew Keagle will serve as the
A special Thank You to those who have served and those who continue to serve.
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keynote Speaker. Keagle is a Vergennes resident who has spoken on the subject of 18th-century military history across the U.S., Canada and Europe, and holds a number of degrees. Keagle’s talk will focus on the conditions, sacrifices and struggles of the 18th-century military in this area, and how events in that era shaped today’s lives and freedoms.
ORWELL EVENTS Before those Monday events, Orwell will honor the memory of those who served with its traditional Sunday afternoon parade. The town’s 46th annual Memorial Day Parade will line up at 12:30 p.m. on North Orwell Road and step off at 1:30 p.m. Former Orwell Bank President (See Orwell, Page 4)
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Orwell (Continued from Page 3) and State Representative Mark Young will serve as the parade’s Grand Marshal. The Catamount Pipe Band has confirmed its 20th consecutive appearance, and the 45-minute parade also typically features American Legion color guards, local Shriners, the Fair Haven Union High School band, plenty of old and new classic cars, and veterans from many service branches. The parade route runs east on Main Street from North Orwell Road before turning onto Church Street, circling Roberts Avenue, and bending back west
onto Main Street. The parade concludes with a ceremony on the town green. BRANDON ON MONDAY The Brandon Memorial Day parade will again this change its traditional route because of downtown construction on Route 7. Organizer Jeanne Lamarre, Brandon American Legion Post 55’s treasurer, said this year the parade will gather at 9:30 a.m. at the three-way intersection of Park, High and Marble streets and at 10 a.m. head directly to the downtown monument. New Post 55 Commander Bert Reynolds, also the Post historian, will
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serve as the parade’s Grand Marshal and also open and close the ceremony that follows the brief parade with prayers. The Legion Post Color Guard and other veterans will march, and joining them will be the Otter Valley Union High and Neshobe Elementary school bands, who will both also play at the ceremony after the parade. Neshobe second-graders will lay flowers on the monument during the ceremony, and Neshobe students will read traditional selections. Lamarre said she hopes that many Brandon-area residents will take a little time to honor the memories of those who gave their lives for their country by attending a parade and ceremony that she expects will take only around a half-hour. BRISTOL WRAPS IT UP Finally, on Monday afternoon LaRose will return to Bristol to help lead a parade and ceremony in the county’s secondlargest village. “Bristol’s Memorial Day event was designed not to interfere with the Vergennes parade,” said LaRose, who added Vergennes organizers have made provisions to help him leave the city in time to meet his obligations in Bristol. LaRose described Bristol’s affair as “a small parade,” including the Post 19 Color Guard, Mount Abraham Union High School band, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, Little Leaguers, fire trucks,
FORT TICONDEROGA CURATOR Matthew Keagle will give the Memorial Day keynote address in Vergennes.
and Bristol police leading the procession. The parade will begin on Airport Drive at the entrance to Mount Abraham, at 1 p.m., and then head east on West Street to the town’s central park. LaRose will emcee a ceremony from the village bandstand. A wreath will be paced on park’s Veterans Memorial and LaRose was last week arranging to have Vermont National Guard officer to speak at the event, but he said details were not yet available as of the Independent’s deadline.
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Veterans get a hand up at ranch in Whiting By RUSSELL JONES WHITING — Although his dream got off to a slow start, Bruce Fowler says his project, which has lofty goals, is finally getting some traction. “It’s taken some time, had some rough patches, but we’re getting going now,” the stout ex-military man said. “I’ve been helping people and feeding people for years, but I wanted to create a place that served veterans.” Fowler’s thick mustache twitches with a smile as he claims to be 29 years old, although he was born in 1950. He retired from the Mountain Battalion of the Army in 2010 as a staff sergeant. After he retired due to health problems, he was taken advantage of by someone close to him and lost his home, his money and a store that he owned where he sold goods he grew on his farm. “I lost tens of thousands of dollars,” he said. “I went to cash a $20 check at the bank and the bank manager ended up giving me $20 out of his pocket because all my (See Whiting, Page 6)
BRUCE FOWLER, LEFT, who owns the Fowler’s R&R Ranch, was joined by Doug Davis, John George and Melissa Pierce from Comcast early this month to help get a few projects on the farm done. Some of the Comcast volunteers were veterans and some were military parents.
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Whiting (Continued from Page 5) accounts had been cleaned out and I needed money for gas.” Fowler, broke and homeless but not one for failure or self-pity, did not sit around lamenting his losses. Instead, he decided to provide a support system for other veterans who might find themselves in a similar position. No stranger to helping people, Fowler had fostered over 20 children in a 20-year period. After several successes, he began to foster the most violent of the children because he found that he could handle them when others couldn’t. After Fowler left the service, he wanted to help fellow veterans. So, he bought a farm off Route 30 in Whiting in October 2015 and renamed it Fowler’s R&R Ranch. The idea was to provide veterans who were homeless or had other issues they were working through with a place to stay while they learned new skills and transitioned back into civilian life. Fowler’s dream has been to have a working ranch that is self-sustaining, where two to three veterans stay until they find homes of their own, while 10 to 15 other veterans come and work on projects they enjoy each day. “I’ve always enjoyed helping people, especially cooking for people,” the grizzled Army cook says as he slowly walks through his home with a foot that was broken a week earlier. “If you haven’t eaten and I feed you,
BRUCE FOWLER SHOWS off two of the saws that were recently donated along with other woodworking equipment he will use to help train veterans and give them experiences they can use after leaving the military.
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that’s something. That means a lot to people when they don’t have anything.” The plan was to have younger veterans come to the farm and learn new trades
or learn how to take military trades and use them to succeed in civilian life. But Marilyn Davis, who does the paperwork for Fowler’s R&R Ranch, said that is not how
things have worked so far. “What we ended up having were older vets, Vietnam vets,” Davis said. “If they (See Ranch, Page 7)
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Fly the flag with respect (ARA) — One of the country’s most important patriotic holidays arrives this coming Monday — Memorial Day. Across the nation proud Americans will show their patriotism at this time of year by displaying the American Flag. But will they do it properly? “Fewer symbols inspire more patriotism and pride than the American Flag, and displaying it is a wonderful way to show respect not only for our country, but for all those in uniform who have defended it throughout our history,” says Larry Singleton, decor manager for Cracker Barrel Old Country Store, which displays an American Flag in every restaurant. “Honoring our nation’s Flag Code guidelines can make the display of the flag an even more poignant and patriotic gesture.” The federal law known as the “Flag Code” establishes a guide for handling and displaying Old Glory. If you’ll be
showing your American pride this year by displaying the flag or decorating with bunting, here’s a thumbnail review of the code’s guidelines so you can be confident in all you do: • It’s OK to display the flag ’round the clock, but you should illuminate it during nighttime hours. If you’re not able to light the flag at night, the code recommends displaying only between sunrise and sunset. • Hoist it briskly and lower it slowly and ceremoniously. • Be sure to bring your flag in out of rain or snow — unless it’s made of an allweather material, in which case it’s OK to leave it out in inclement weather. • If you would like to display a flag on your car or truck, affix it to the chassis or clamp it to the right front fender. • Many Americans are also proud of their ethnic origins and may choose to display the flag of their heritage along
with the American Flag. That’s fine; just be sure that the U.S. flag is displayed higher up, or if the flags are on the same level, the other flag should be placed to
the left of the American Flag, never to the right. • The blue and white stars field — (See Flag flying, Page 8)
Fowler said thanks to Davis’s help, they it has been a tremendous gift, Fowler said managed it fairly easy. he could have had a lot more done if he had “I just couldn’t believe it took almost two more help. He’d love to work something years,” he said. “In the Mountain Battalion, out with local schools to get children out there is no problem that takes more than a learning how life on a farm works. week to solve.” Two vets have already Since he bought the house Two vets transitioned from staying at four years ago, Fowler has have already his ranch to their own homes, added a heating system and including a female veteran provided electricity to the transitioned and her daughter, who stayed upstairs, which only had one from staying at Fowler’s ranch for several electric light, and is currently at his ranch months before moving to renovating another room with to their own Middlebury. the hopes of adding a bedroom homes, OUTSIDE HELP and bathroom. He has space for A group of Comcast including two vets now, and hopefully employees, some of whom will have room for three in the a female are veterans and some who veteran and future. are military parents, gathered Fowler currently has her daughter. at Fowler’s R&R Ranch in chickens, pigs and a pair of Whiting this on May 3 to get Scottish Highland cattle and recently was an early start on the company’s Comcast donated some woodworking equipment he Cares Day. is setting up in his barn. He has experience The Comcast employees are part of the building and repairing cupolas and will company’s Vet Net, and they came out to soon start work on repairing the cupola Fowler’s to help work on some projects he from atop the Whiting school. needed done. The group brought a load of Although he said he was very thankful for lumber to replace parts of the barn, planted all the help he has received, and he assured some flowers and was hoping to do some
painting if the rain let up. With Davis’s help, Fowler also received a $5,000 grant from the American Legion Foundation to build a new greenhouse. The grant requires a $1,000 match and Davis said she estimates the project will cost a total of $6,250. “We’ve already raised $350 for the greenhouse, and we only got the grant last week,” Davis said. “It’s a 20-foot-by-60foot greenhouse and we’ll need help to build it, but it’s going to have raised beds so people in wheelchairs can work on them too.” Fowler got some help in the form of a Kubota tractor that was donated last year, but which had a bad clutch that needed fixing. Fowler said he and some of the vets who learned with him figured it out and got it working. That tractor, much like his dream of providing a place for veterans to ease back into civilian life, is moving along now. “I feed about 50 mouths a week right here,” Fowler said as he waves an arm toward his table. “There is nothing better than the look on someone’s face when they enjoy the meal you serve them.”
Ranch (Continued from Page 6) just stay at home and don’t do anything, the war comes back for them.” NO PROBLEM TOO LARGE One of the biggest problems Fowler has faced with getting his project rolling is transportation. There is no easy way to get the veterans from where they are to his ranch. “When we first started this, there was transportation,” Fowler said. “Now, there is no transportation for veterans who need to get somewhere. If you’re a homeless veteran in the woods, there is no one you can call who would come get you, and that sucks.” This seems to be a topic that fires him up; he gets more passionate the longer he talks about it. “There is a bus that drives right by here to Brandon every day with one person on it,” he said. “They won’t stop here though because it’s not funded to stop, but they drive right by. We’re talking with them now so maybe some time in the future they’ll stop here.” The Act 250 process can be a long, difficult procedure for some businesses, but
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Flag flying
TYPICALLY, DRUMMERS LIKE these from the Middlebury Union High School marching band keep parade participants moving along in step with each other.
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(Continued from Page 8) known as “the union” — should always be up: at the top of the flag if it’s on a staff or pole, uppermost and to the observer’s left if the flag is being displayed horizontally or vertically against a wall. Displaying the flag with the union down is a signal of dire distress and reserved for instances of extreme danger to life or property. • The flag should be kept from touching the ground, floor, water or anything beneath it. • Flag-themed decor can add a welcome patriotic touch to your home, but it’s best not to get carried away and use the American Flag as bedding or drapery. • Bunting is an acceptable patriotic display; arrange it with the blue portion at the top, the white in the middle and the red at the bottom. • When a flag becomes worn and is in such a condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, it should be destroyed in a dignified way. One way to do that is to give the flag to a local VFW for proper disposal. “Americans show their patriotism and American pride in a number of ways, from buying red, white and blue products to placing flags and flowers on the graves of veterans,” Singleton says. “Displaying the American Flag in a respectful manner is one more way Americans can honor their country this summer and all year long.”
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American war casualties
Since the inception of the United States of America on July 4, 1776, every generation of Americans has been called on to defend freedom and liberty. Over the years more than 42 million American men and women have served their country in time of war. More than a million have secured the
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blessings of liberty with their lives. The Memorial Day Foundation compiled the following Department of Defense statistics detailing the casualties of all the major wars of our country’s history. Many smaller conflicts that saw loss of life are not necessarily included in these statistics.
Revolutionary War, 1775-1783 Franco-American Naval War, 1798-1800 Barbary Wars, 1801-1815 USS Chesapeake vs. HMS Leopard, 1807-1807 War of 1812, 1812-1815 Indian Wars, 1817-1898, All Conflicts Peru, 1820-1820 West Indies, 1822-1825 Mexican War, 1846-1848 Japan, 1853 Texas Border Cortina War, 1859-1860 Civil War North, 1861-1865 Civil War South, 1861-1865 Formosa, 1867-1867 & Mexico, 1870 Korea, 1871 Spanish-American War, 1898-1899 Philippines Insurrection, 1899-1902 China Boxer Rebellion, 1900 Moro Campaigns, 1902-1913 Mexico Campaign, 1911-1919 Nicaragua, 1912 & Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914 Haiti, 1915-1920 Dominican Republic, 1916-1922 World War I, 1917-1918 Russia North Expedition, 1918-1919 Russia Siberia Expedition, 1918-1920 China Yangtze Service, 1921-1932 Nicaragua, 1927-1932 North Atlantic Naval Conflict, 1941 World War II, 1941-1946 Italy Trieste, 1945-1947 China Civil War, 1945-1947 Korean War, 1950-1953 Matsu and Quemoy, 1954 Cuba Bay of Pigs, 1962 Panama Canal Riots, 1964 Dominican Republic, 1965-1966 Vietnam, 1965-1975 South Korea Border Incidents, 1966-1969 USS Liberty-Israel, 1967 USS Mayaguez-Cambodia, 1975 Iran Operation Desert One, 1980 Lebanon Peacekeeping, 1882-1984 Urgent Fury, Grenada, 1983 El Salvador, 1983-1991 Honduras, 1984-1989 Libya, 1986 USS Stark-Persian Gulf, 1987 Persian Gulf, 1987 Just Cause, Panama, 1989-1990 Persian Gulf War, 1990-1991 Restore Hope, Somalia, 1992-1994 Uphold Democracy, Haiti, 1994-1996 Khobar Towers / Saudi Arabia, 1996-1996 U.S. Embassy-Kenya, 1998-1998 Kosovo, 1999-1999 USS Cole-Yemen, 2000 Operation Endure Freedom, Afghanistan, 2001-2014 Operation Endure Freedom, Philippines, 2002 Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2003-2010 Operation New Dawn, 2010-2011
TOTAL DEATHS 4,435 20 35 3 2,260 1,000 2 3 13,283 5 5 364,511 199,110 1 each 4 2,446 4,273 53 130 19 5 & 19 146 144 116,516 246 170 5 136 141 405,399 6 12 36,574 3 9 4 59 58,209 89 34 18 8 29 16 20 1 2 37 148 22 382 31 3 19 3 1 17 2,352 64 4,425 66
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Memorial Day origins more complex than you might guess Though many people are quick to refer to Memorial Day as the unofficial beginning of summer, the day is much more than that. Initially known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day is a day to remember those military members who died in service of the country. The origins of Memorial Day remain a topic of debate. In 1966, President Lyndon Johnson declared Waterloo, N.Y., as the official birthplace of Memorial Day. However, the roots of Memorial Day likely run much deeper, as researchers at Duke University note that during the Civil War, organized women’s groups in the South had begun to decorate the graves of fallen soldiers.
Memorial Day as we know it today can likely be traced to Charleston, S.C., where teachers, missionaries and some members of the press gathered on May 1, 1865, to honor fallen soldiers. During the Civil War, captured Union soldiers were held at the Charleston Race Course and hundreds died during captivity. Upon their deaths, soldiers were buried in unmarked graves. When the Civil War ended, the May Day gathering was organized as a memorial to all the men who had died during captivity. The burial ground was landscaped, and those freed as a result of the Civil War played an integral role in the event at the Charleston Race Course. While the event in Charleston might
have been the first Memorial Day-type celebration in the southern United States, Gen. John A. Logan is often cited as inspiring similar events in the north. As commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, a veterans’ organization for men who served in the Civil War, Gen. Logan issued a proclamation just five days after the Charleston event that called for Decoration Day to be observed annually across the country. Logan preferred the event not be held on the anniversary of any particular battle, and thus the day was observed for the first time on May 30. Celebrating the day in May also was significant to event organizers because May is a month when flowers are in
bloom, making it easier for observers of the holiday to place flowers on the graves of fallen soldiers. In 1868, events were held at more than 180 cemeteries in 27 states, and those figures nearly doubled in 1869. By 1890, every northern state officially recognized Decoration Day as a state holiday. But southern states honored their dead on a different day until after World War I, when the holiday was changed to recognize Americans who died in any war and not just the Civil War. Nearly every state now celebrates Memorial Day, a name for the holiday first used in 1882, on the last Monday in May. — Metro Creative
On Memorial Day our flag should be at half-staff from sunrise to noon
Let’s never forget what they did and why.
Former Addison County Deputy Sheriff and High Bailiff of Addison County, Ron Holmes, would like to Salute all who have given their lives for our country on this Memorial Day.
When should the flag be flown at halfstaff? An easy way to remember when to fly the United States flag at half-staff is to consider when the whole nation is in mourning. These periods of mourning are proclaimed either by the president of the United States, for national remembrance, or the governor of a state or territory, for local remembrance, in the event of a death of a member or former member of the federal, state or territorial government or judiciary. The heads of departments and agencies of the federal government may also order that the flag be flown at halfstaff on buildings, grounds and naval vessels under their jurisdiction. On Memorial Day the flag should be flown at half-staff from sunrise until noon only, then raised briskly to the top of the staff until sunset, in honor of the nation’s battle heroes. In the early days of our country, no regulations existed for flying the flag at half-staff and, as a result, there were many conflicting policies. But on March 1, 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower issued a proclamation on the proper times. The flag should fly at half-staff for 30 days at all federal buildings, grounds, and naval vessels throughout the United States and its territories and possessions after the death of the president or a former president. It is to fly 10 days at half-staff after the death of the vice president, the chief justice or a
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retired chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, or the speaker of the House of Representatives. For an associate justice of the Supreme Court, a member of the Cabinet, a former vice president, the president pro tempore of the Senate, the majority leader of the Senate, the minority leader of the Senate, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, or the minority leader of the House of Representatives the flag is to be displayed at half-staff from the day of death until interment. The flag is to be flown at half-staff at all federal buildings, grounds and naval vessels in the Washington, D.C., area on the day and day after the death of a United States senator, representative, territorial delegate, or the resident commissioner from the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. It should also be flown at half-staff on all federal facilities in the state, congressional district, territory, or commonwealth of these officials. Upon the death of the governor of a state, territory or possession, the flag should be flown at half-staff on all federal facilities in that governor’s state, territory or possession from the day of death until interment. The president may order the flag to be flown at half-staff to mark the death of other officials and after other tragic events. The flag should be briskly run up to the top of the staff before being lowered slowly to the half-staff position.
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BRIDPORT’S JENNA HOWLETT, the first runner up in the Miss Vermont Teen USA 2018 competition, cruises through Middlebury’s downtown in last year’s Memorial Day parade. Later in the year, the Middlebury Union High School junior was crowned Miss Vermont Teen USA 2019!
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Memorial Day Scrapbook THE SETH WARNER Fife & Drum Corps, shown above, will play the United States’ first national anthem, “Chester,” in a Memorial Day ceremony on the steps of Town Hall Theater following the parade through downtown Middlebury that starts at 9 a.m. Right, former Gov. James Douglas gives the keynote address at the Middlebury Memorial Day ceremony last year. Below, a float filled with pageant contestants rolled up Main Street in Vergennes during a Memorial Day parade.
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Memorial Day Scrapbook VETERANS FROM VARIOUS branches of the United States armed forces, left, march proudly in the Orwell Memorial Day parade in 2017. Above, starspangled girls wave from the Rotary float in Middlebury’s Memorial Day Parade in 2016. Below, American Legion Post 27’s Honor Guard leads the 2018 parade. At the Memorial ceremony after the parade this coming Monday, the Honor Guard will present a wreath and salute deceased veterans.
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Memorial Day Scrapbook FLAGS ARE ALWAYS a big part of every Memorial Day observance. Above, Old Glory festoons the convertible in which two honored veterans accept applause; above right, Shriners carry an amazing number of flags in the Orwell parade; and this young lad at right is tasked with carrying the Stars and Stripes with the Mary Hogan Elementary School band in Middlebury.
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