Thursday, May 31, 2018

Finally here!

Prepare for the season with stories, a calendar and dining info in our 64-page Summer Guide.

Super Tuesday

Made on stage

Most local teams won their firstround playoff games, and not just the favorites. See Sports, Page 1B.

A local couple has perfected the art of creating magical sets for operas & plays. See Arts + Leisure.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 72 No. 22

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

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Thursday, May 31, 2018

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106 Pages

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Opioid warriors seeing rays of hope

Panel members report from front lines

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — Therese Giles, a registered nurse at Primary Care Bristol and case manager for its Medication-Assisted Treatment program, is fighting on the front lines of the opioid crisis, and she is seeing some small signs of hope in the battle.

Helping patients deal with what medical professionals are calling “Substance Use Disorder” get treatment is “like playing a Country and Western song backwards,” Giles said. “They get their life back. They get their kids back. They get their car back. They get their license back.

Consequently they get their selfrespect back.”

Eight medical, law enforcement

class of drugs that include heroin, the synthetic drug fentanyl, and painkillers like and community professionals — prescription including Giles — along with two OxyContin and Vicodin. According patients in long-term recovery to the Vermont Department of Health, in 2010 there were 41 from substance use opioid-related deaths disorder, considered statewide. In 2016 the state of the “The main that number jumped opioid abuse crisis in objective of the to 106. Last year the Vermont at a May 23 panel discussion number increased panel discussion at the was to be aware slightly, to 107, Bristol Fire House. of the opioid crisis suggesting to hopeful “The main health officials a objective of the panel and to know the leveling off. discussion was to be local resources A report by the aware of the opioid available.”

Department of Health crisis and to know — Linda Andrews released this month the local resources suggested that “the available,” said panel organizer Linda Andrews, chair of data for opioid-specific fatalities appears to show we are beginning to the Bristol Vermont Democrats.

Opioids are a highly addictive bend the curve on the upward spiral

of opioid-related fatalities.”

HUB AND SPOKE MODEL Vermont’s Medication-Assisted Treatment programs, which use FDAapproved medications, along with counseling and other therapies, to provide a “whole-patient” approach to the treatment of Substance Use Disorder, are organized into a Hub and Spoke network.

Nine Hubs (usually in larger population areas) provide daily treatment for complex addictions, while more than 75 local Spokes, consisting of doctors, nurses and counselors, integrate Substance Use Disorder treatment with general healthcare and wellness services.

Bristol has two Spokes: Primary Care Bristol, where physicians Emily Glick and Will Porter treat (See Opioids, Page 13A)

Top of the class

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE CO-VALEDICTORIAN Naomi Eisenberg receives her diploma during the college’s commencement ceremony Sunday morning. For full coverage see Page 14A.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Kulhowvick to retire after 47 years at MUMS

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — George Kulhowvick was an intimidating force on the football field during his high school and college years. He’d just as soon run you over as go around you to get into the end zone.

It’s a far cry from the classroom persona that “Mr. K” exudes in his Middlebury Union Middle School social studies class. While he practices some of the leadership principles he learned on the football field, Kulhowvick is known for being a fun-loving guy with a genuine interest in the subject matter he’s teaching.

Kulhowvick joined the MUMS faculty in 1971, back when the 26th Amendment to the Constitution lowered the voting age from 21 to 18.

Richard M. Nixon was president. The U.S. was steadily pulling its troops out of Vietnam. Intel released the world’s first microprocessor, ushering in the digital age. A Dodge Charger sold for $3,579, and “All in the Family” was the top-rated TV show.

Kulhowvick, now 68, grew up in Torrington, Conn., where his parents ran a small grocery store. He and his four siblings all worked at the store at one time or another.

“They worked their entire lives building up that business,” Kulhowvick said. “Their total motivation was (their children). They gave us all the opportunity to go to college. We were not rich people.”

Knowing the sacrifices his parents were making, Kulhowvick wanted to (See Kulhowvick, Page 15A)

Soule brings classroom experience to ANWSD

New leader speaks of a ‘collaborative’ style

Memorial march

THE MIDDLEBURY AMERICAN LEGION Color Guard marches at the head of the Middlebury Memorial Day parade Monday. For more from the Middlebury and Vergennes parades, see Page 12A.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Big plans afoot for 2018 Middlebury film festival

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The fourth annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, set for Aug. 23 to 26, will break its record for film submissions and boast a stellar lineup of industry guests, including some recent Academy Award winners.

“This has been a marvelous experience to build

this festival into something that really does serve the community, nurture film culture and develop a network of filmmakers who really love us and want to come back — whether they have a film or not,” Festival Producer Lloyd Komesar said. “It’s a great thing.”

Before setting the stage for this year’s festival,

let’s recognize how far the MNFF has come in just one year.

Organizers have received a whopping 475 film submissions, ranging from shorts to feature films.

That’s a 27-percent increase over two years ago — the previous high-water mark — and a 32-percent (See Filmmakers, Page 11A)

Runners make friends during 550-mile race

Blueberry Hill hosts endurance events

JORDAN WIRFS-BROCK LEADS Greg Salveson and a host of other ultra runners at the start of the Infinitus 888K race at Blueberry Hill Inn and Ski Center on May 24. As of Wednesday afternoon they were still running in the 550-mile/10-day race.

Photo by Jennefer Paquette

By ABAGAEL GILES GOSHEN — “It’s day two, and I’ve got stomach pains and hives,” Rachel Dunai said while resting on an inflated pool lounger on the floor of the Blueberry Hill Ski Center in Goshen this past Friday afternoon.

Then she rose and headed back out onto the trail to run her second marathon of the day.

“I’m a little allergic to exercise, so I’m doubling up my allergy pills,” she added.

The Fredericksburg, Va., resident had run pretty much nonstop for two days, through the night, as part of the Endurance Society’s 888 km Infinitus Challenge, the longest in a series of trail races at Blueberry Hill that began this past Thursday, May 24. Dunai is one of 15 ultra runners participating in the Endurance

Society’s 2018 Infinitus 888K race — more than 550 miles that must be completed within 240 hours (that’s 10 days). It is one of seven endurance events in the week-long Infinitus series.

Those running the Infinitus “Deca-Marathon” (10 marathons in 10 days), started with the 888K racers on May 24; the 250-mile race started this past Tuesday. A 100-mile race will start at 8:08 a.m. on Friday, June 1. An 8-mile race, marathon and 88K race will start at 8:08 a.m. on Saturday, June 2. All races finish on Saturday.

Participants run the entire race around two trail loops — one seven miles long and one 20 miles long.

More than 100 runners, among them several Addison County residents, (See Runners, Page 16A)

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The new Addison Northwest School District superintendent traces her interest in education leadership to her first job in the field: teaching in multi-age classrooms for five years in Fayston Elementary School.

Sheila Soule, now 53, was then fresh out of Johnson State College with a Bachelor of Education degree.

Soule said the collective approach to getting things done at Fayston Elementary made an important impression.

“I was inspired and encouraged by my colleagues at that teeny, tiny little school to assume a leadership role, because everyone at the school really was a leader,” Soule said.

In 1997 Soule left for a larger elementary school in Waterbury, the Thatcher Brook Primary School, where she taught for two years, also serving the second year as a teacherleader. She said there she discovered that not all schools embraced the same shared approach to decisionmaking that she had come to believe was best for schools — and their students.

“I saw that not all schools operated in that same way, and that really motivated me to want to get into leadership, because I’m highly collaborative and really felt that shared collaborative leadership is the (See Soule, Page 13A)

By the way Attention, Addison County Transit Resources bus riders. The Middlebury selectboard recently approved a revised plan for the (See By the way, Page 15A)

Index Obituaries................................. 6A Classifieds.......................... 4B-8B Service Directory............... 6B-7B Entertainment.........Arts + Leisure Community Calendar......... 8A-9A Arts Calendar.........Arts + Leisure Sports................................. 1B-3B

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‘Desire’ on stage

THE OPERA COMPANY of Middlebury’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Andre Previn’s take on the classic Tennessee Williams play, opens at the Town Hall Theater on June 1 with more performances on June 3, 7 and 9. Pictured from Tuesday night’s dress rehearsal are, clockwise from top left, Meredith Lustig and James Flora; Lustig and Flora; Gregory Gerbrandt and Cree Carrico; Lustig, Carlos Velez, Gerbrandt, Joshua Collier and Carrico; Cameron Steinmetz and Lustig; Carrico; and Lustig.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Vermont Legislature calls a halt to coyote killing competitions

By ELIZABETH GRIBKOFF VTDigger.org MONTPELIER — Vermont has become the second state in the nation to ban coyote killing contests, following in the footsteps of California.

The tournament ban was included in a general fish and wildlife bill, H.636, which Gov. Phil Scott allowed to become law on May 22, but declined to sign.

Scott said he saw the ban as unnecessary and confusing, since coyote hunting remains legal in the state.

“This bill sends a mixed signal to hunters, farmers and landowners

that hunting coyotes is a bad thing when, in fact, that activity is likely a major reason coyotes remain wild and wary of people, which keeps human-coyote conflicts to a minimum,” Scott wrote in a letter to the House clerk last week.

Scott called the bill an example of legislative overreach, and said the Fish and Wildlife Board, a 14-member governor-appointed board that votes on the state’s fish and wildlife regulations, would have been the appropriate authority for deciding upon and enacting a ban.

“Further, I am concerned that once the Legislature has taken this path, it will begin to revisit all other

wildlife hunting and when coyotes were fishing competitions “This isn’t hunting considered “vermin” in the state,” he wrote. for sustenance — by white settlers of “These competitions this isn’t taking the state, according are enormously popto a report prepared an animal to eat ular among sportsmen

by Fish and Wildlife and encourage our it. This is thrill Commissioner Louis Vermont youth to killing.”

Porter. take part in permitted Porter said in an — Brenna Galdenzi, fishing and hunting president of Protect interview that the activities.”

Our Wildlife department did not But, he wrote, “I regard the ban as necam reluctant to veto essary from a wildlife this bill, as it does make significant conservation perspective. Coyote improvements to fish and wildlife tournaments have not been nearly law.” as popular in Vermont as they have Vermont still has an open season been in other states. on coyotes, dating back to the days Porter said that without another

act of the Legislature, the Fish and Wildlife Board would not, in fact, have had the authority to ban coyote tournaments.

After two days of debate on the House floor last February, the possibility of a prison sentence for organizing or participating in coyote killings contests, was replaced by a fine of $400 to $1,000 for first-time offenders. Second-time offenders would face fines of $2,000 to $4,000.

Those caught participating in a coyote tournament would lose their hunting license for at least a year, depending on whether there had been previous wildlife offenses; organizers of tournaments would face

longer license suspensions.

Brenna Galdenzi, president of Protect Our Wildlife, said her organization began to push for the coyote killing contest ban after learning of a statewide contest planned for last February.

“This isn’t hunting for sustenance — this isn’t taking an animal to eat it,” Galdenzi said in an interview.

“This is thrill killing.”

Protect Our Wildlife and other activists succeeded in shutting down the February contest and in getting the Legislature to take up the ban.

Galdenzi said she had felt that convincing the Fish and Wildlife (See Hunt, Page 7A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 31, 2018 — PAGE 3A

Honoring the fallen

FOR OVER 20 years, on the Tuesday after Memorial Day, students from the Leicester Central School walk a mile to Brookside Cemetery to pay tribute to those fallen in conflict. This year fifth- and sixthgrade students ended the memorial with playing “Taps” on their trumpets. The students then placed flowers that they brought upon various graves.

Photos by Diane Randall

Middlebury police look at space needs; new storage facility likely Some materials now stored outside

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury officials are discussing ways to solve the local police force’s current lack of reliable storage space, a problem that could drive the need for a new building near the department’s headquarters off Seymour Street.

The silver lining to the problem is the community already has money on hand that could at least partially bankroll a solution.

It was on May 13, 2003, that Middlebury residents voted 477-324 in favor of building a new, $1.78 million police headquarters at the site of the town’s former wastewater treatment plant on Lucius Shaw Lane, a short street off Seymour Street. Original plans had called for maintaining police services within an expanded municipal building complex at the

intersection of South Main and College streets. But voters rejected that more ambitious, $6 million project in November of 2002.

So police and town officials went back to the drawing board, deciding to make do with the old municipal building while agreeing to solve the police department’s space needs offsite. Police had been housed in the basement of the old municipal building in dark, damp and cold conditions with little natural light.

In deference to cash-strapped voters, officials designed a new police station that would meet the department’s basic needs for 21st-century law enforcement. The new facility includes a lobby, multiuse/training room, conference room, patrol offices, evidence storage area, investigation office, garage entrance

and training room housing donated equipment. It was also designed for potential expansion, should the need arise.

While Police Chief Tom Hanley remains very satisfied with the new police headquarters 15 years later, he’s concerned about the lack of weather-tight outbuildings to house the department’s varied — and in some cases expensive — vehicles, equipment and supplies, as well as hazardous materials taken into evidence.

Police officials back in 2003 elected to forego equipping the new station with substantial garage and storage space in order to keep the construction price down. The department had already been repurposing, for police vehicles and equipment, three vacant outbuildings that had been used by the old wastewater plant until it was decommissioned in 1994. Those out-

THE TOWN OF Middlebury is looking to solve storage space efficiency problems at its police headquarters.

The department currently must store vehicles and other items in some deteriorating outbuildings, like the former sand filter building, left, that was once part of the old waste-water treatment plant.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

buildings include a former sand filter roof and it’s spongy,” Hanley said.

That’s especially not good for the facility, a control building and a small department’s mobile command vehibrick structure.

“We came to the realization we had cle, which is essentially a miniature this storage space on site, so we could police station on wheels, deployed to reduce the scale of this new (police major crime and accident scenes. The headquarters) and thereby reduce the department will now have to store the mobile command vehicle cost,” Hanley recalled. outdoors during warmer “We would continue to months to prevent the use existing storage and “ooze” from ruining the then have a plan. ” vehicle’s paint job, HanThat plan included ley explained. fixing the garage portion The third outbuilding of the treatment plant’s police use is a little former sand filter buildbrick building that stores ing to extend its useful hazardous waste and life as an adjunct storage potentially combustible facility for the police materials. department.

“If something ever “None of those plans exploded in there, you’d came to fruition,” Han“If something have these missiles going ley said of the repairs.

The old sand filter ever exploded all over the place,” Hanbuilding has no heat or in there, you’d ley warned.

Police officials aren’t electricity, and doesn’t have these willing to risk placing a have a functioning door.

It houses cruisers, traffic missiles going lot of weather-sensitive items in the current, deficones, some office sup- all over the cient storage space. That plies, street signs and place.” bikes. It’s a structure — Police Chief means the headquarters that was unusable until Tom Hanley is filling up with things it wasn’t intended to around six years ago, handle. when public works “The building was not designed crews filled in and leveled (with clean fill and stone) a deep chasm capacity-wise for the storage of in the structure that had limited its material we have, like ceiling tiles, spare carpet patches,” Hanley said. usefulness, according to Hanley.

“It’s a shelter, is all it is,” Hanley “That shouldn’t be kept in ice-cold said. “But the roof and structure are storage, so we have to displace things in good shape. That at least allows in here.”

Ideally, Hanley would like to have us to keep cars out of icy and snowy a three-bay garage with a carport for weather for the most part.”

Of less use is the former sewer police vehicles. The facility should plant control building, now employed have electricity and heating, with for bulk storage, training materials, enough storage for found bikes and emergency lights and spare parts for police vehicles.

“The building is so bad right now — you may as well not have a roof on it, because whatever the roof is made of is turning into ooze that falls and covers everything… You walk on the

the department’s miscellaneous equipment and supplies that can’t be accommodated in police headquarters, he said.

Police are working with the town’s Infrastructure Committee to plan for a new structure, for which there’s no firm timeline, according to Hanley.

Siting a new building could be somewhat of a challenge. While the former sewer plant property includes 12 acres, part of it is dedicated to a solar farm. And a vast array of underground pipes and other wastewater infrastructure still permeates the land.

Fortunately, the town has around $500,000 set aside from a legal settlement with manufacturers of the Middlebury’s current wastewater treatment plant in the industrial park.

That money, according to Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay, could be applied to clearing the old sewer plant outbuildings and erecting a new police department storage facility.

Meanwhile, the Middlebury Department of Public Works could also use some new storage for its vehicles and equipment, according to Director of Operations Dan Werner. Public works is currently headquartered off Route 7 South, and solving the problem on-site doesn’t look like an option, officials said.

“The site here is encumbered by right-of-ways to adjacent and rear properties,” Werner said.

Public works officials explored the United States Forest Service’s former Middlebury station, also off Route 7 South, but the land is too steep and the buildings are too small, according to Werner.

“We’ll keep working on it,” Werner said of facilities planning.

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A D D IS ON INDE P E NDEN T

Letters

Editorial

to the Editor

A challenge you’ll likely fail Here’s a challenge in which many of you won’t succeed: In today’s issue of the Addison Independent, we challenge you to get to know your community thoroughly through the window offered in these pages. Sounds simple, right?

But today we offer 106 pages, all for a buck; less than a penny a page. Considering the extraordinary work that goes into assigning, editing and writing those stories, taking the photos, selling and designing the ads, designing the pages, printing it and then distributing it to our 20,000-plus readers — as well as by mail to locations as distant as Florida, California and Alaska — that’s a helluva bargain. But that’s not the point.

Rather, the point is what the stories on these pages tell you about the place you live. The challenge, specifically, is as follows: • Read the main news stories on the first three pages and those stories that apply to your district town (Bristol, Brandon, Middlebury and Vergennes), and at least one story on every news page of A and B section (just 26 pages); • Read (if you don’t already) the police logs, at least one sports story (even if you don’t know anyone in school any more) and pore over the community calendar of events, reading or skimming every item. You’ll be amazed at how much is going on right in your backyard.

• Then read the lead feature story in our 16-page Arts + Leisure section, also read the gallery section, the movie review by Joan Ellis (she frequently offers astute observations, rather than the shorthand ratings of one to four stars), the centerfold feature and check out the real estate ads to see what’s for moving in that marketplace.

• On Page 4A (you’re here) read an excellent piece by Eric Davis (bottom center) and each of the letters, then on Page 5A, read this week’s column

by Middlebury College Professor Emeritus Victor Nuovo on Stuart Mill’s Utilitarianism (his 17th in a series on the liberalism vs. conservatism and the two-party system), and today’s installment of Ways of Seeing. Admittedly, this reading on Page 4-5 is extra credit as it doesn’t necessarily teach you about your community, but if you read these pages and columns consistently, they will hopefully open your mind to new ideas, new ways of thinking and you’ll gain understanding of our county, state and each other.

We know that’s asking a lot. And you haven’t yet started the 64-page Summer Guide that features hundreds of events, recreational activities and interesting profiles of the people and places who make it so much fun to live, work and play in Addison County. But because you’re already overloaded with things to read in this issue, the challenge in the Summer Guide is to pick five stories to read, pore over the calendar of events, and check out the advertisements that feature places to go, restaurants to enjoy, and interesting, fun and thoughtful things to do. ********** If you accept the challenge, start reading Page 1A. If you’re waffling and not sure you’re ready to learn that much about the people and places around you (ignorance is bliss, right?), here’s the shorthand version of a tiny bit of what you would have learned: • Our lead Page 1A story is an update, via a panel discussion in Bristol, on how the war on opioids is going, which is better than you might have feared. It’s still a deadly problem for far too many, but those involved are optimistic that they’re starting to get a handle on the crisis.

• In Vergennes, we profile Sheila Soule, the newly hired superintendent of the Addison Northwest School District. She traces her interest in education management back to her first job teaching in a multi-grade elementary classroom in the small Vermont town of Fayston. It’s an interesting profile that explores the experiences that have framed her vision for the district.

It’s a story district residents will want to read.

• Reporter John Flowers writes a fond retirement story of George Kulhowvick, who is stepping down as a teacher at Middlebury Union Middle School after 47 years. His story is but one of almost 20 retiring teachers (all named) in area schools that we could have profiled, only you wouldn’t have time to read them all, nor, honestly, would we have time to write them.

Mr. Kulhowvick’s story, then, serves as a tribute to area teachers who have given so much to so many students throughout the years.

• Also on the front page, we catch up with what’s going on with the fourth annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, set for Aug. 23-26.

They’ve added a fifth movie venue, they have broken their record for film submissions (475 films from 37 countries) and the celebrity talent they’re bringing to town is as exciting as it is fantastic. Read the story to find out why the husband-wife team who won a 2017 Academy Award for “La La Land” consider the festival important enough to be guest speakers, as well as nationally acclaimed documentarian Steve James.

• To stir things up, we profile a series of seven running races — from the 888K Infinitus (550 miles over 10 days) down to a relatively sane 8-miler on June 1 — held at Blueberry Hill in Goshen. Hundreds are attending, but of the nearly two dozen who signed up for the 888K, most aren’t the super athletes you might think they would be. On the contrary, most are, in one runner’s words, “just ordinary people who want to accomplish extraordinary things.” Read why they do it, and the camaraderie they find.

• Front page photos lead you to stories on Middlebury College’s graduation, and shots from Memorial Day parades.

• On Page 2A, you’ll read a state report about the Legislature passing a bill to ban organized coyote hunts (an issue we have covered extensively in the past few years), and be captivated by photos of the upcoming Middlebury Opera Company’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

• On Page 3A, Middlebury residents will discover the police department is looking at adding more space to its facility for storage in the hopes of preventing, according to Chief Tom Hanley, “missiles going off all over the place” if something ever exploded in the current offices.

• Elsewhere there a dozens of photos of the Memorial Day Parades, a story featuring the construction of a $900,000 project at Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing center to provide a state-of-the-art post-acute care unit and a new end-of-life suite, and you would have learned that Paul Ralston, founder and CEO of Vermont Coffee Company and a former state representative of Middlebury, is considering entering the race for state senator representing Addison County as an Independent.

And that’s just what’s found on seven pages. There’s 99 more to go. ********** The challenge is tough. Like the Infinitus, it’s a test of endurance and focus, but also of desire and passion. The question is this: Are we passionate enough to read the county newspaper cover-to-cover, to learn about our neighbors and friends, to explore and understand the breadth and depth of our community? Most of us are not. We say we don’t have the time, and, myself included, we often don’t.

But we challenge you this week, if not every week, to try.

Just once.

What do you get if you do? Well, I could go hook-line-and-sinker with this challenge and offer a prize — a free six-month subscription and a 10-pound bag of freshly roasted Vermont Coffee (you’ll need it to read this cover-to-cover) to anyone who successfully answers 10 questions about the stories in this issue, but when we tried that in-house, not even John McCright, our editor, got them all right. So let’s just keep it as a challenge for fun and know that if you do succeed, you’ll have the immense satisfaction of knowing your community and county that much better, which is the real prize this newspaper offers every week of the year.

Angelo Lynn

ADDISON COUNTY

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Family thanks area firefighters On May 16, our home in Weybridge sustained extensive damage from a fire. We write to express our most sincere thanks for the valiant efforts that members of the fire departments from Weybridge, Middlebury, Addison and New Haven made to deal with this unfortunate fire. We were travelling in Europe at the time of the fire but were kept informed by our two daughters, who travelled to Weybridge on the 17th, and by our good friend Ingrid Jackson who was at the house for much of the time on Wednesday.

We also want to thank the folks at Coop Insurance in Middlebury and their contractor Puroclean from Williston who have been at the house much of the time since the fire and have been doing wonderful work on our behalf. We have heard several times that the outstanding effort put forth by all of the firefighters made all the difference in keeping the damage to the affected areas.

Finally, we want to thank our neighbors, the Bagleys, who not only saw the fire early on and assisted the first to arrive on the scene, but also provided food to the firefighters as they labored at the scene.

Betty and Pieter Schiller Chatham, Mass.

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Leading the way

A BAGPIPER LEADS the Middlebury College 2018 graduating class as they process to Sunday’s commencement ceremony. The college graduated 532 seniors Sunday.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

The tick conundrum looms large As my family and I navigate the hazards of being outdoors this spring, I must echo my older daughter’s question: What possible good purpose do ticks serve?

Oh, they kill off weak members of wildlife populations, a kind of natural culling, but after detaching six of the little parasites from my arms, back and neck in the past two weeks, I’m not generating any love, much less understanding, for the little beasts.

As a work colleague said, “Ticks ruin everything.”

It’s a battle against fear every time we go outside — will I get a tick? Will I get Lyme disease? They could be anywhere — in the leaves we’re raking up, in the grass that’s just beginning to grow, just laying in wait on tree branches or budding garden plants. And for people like us, who have big, very furry

By Sarah dogs, the hazard grows. The dogs Pope have their three-month pill treatment, which causes any flea or tick that bites to expire. If they don’t bite, however, they lurk in the fur and jump ship at any opportunity. This is heartbreaking to people like me, who take so much pleasure in hugging their pets.

An added frustration for those of us who have had enough of the long Vermont winter is that it’s finally spring, and time to frolic outside, walk in the green grass, smell the flowers, plant the garden and clean up after winter, and all this has to be done with the niggling anxiety that those little blood suckers are just waiting to pounce. Speaking from experience, it feels similar to the niggling anxiety that comes with cancer: The treatment was successful, but there’s always that little voice that asks, “What if?”

What really nails it for me is that a tick bite has the

potential to be so much more than an achy or itchy red mark to be tolerated for a few days. It’s the tick-borne illnesses that take the cake. I’ve seen the havoc Lyme can wreak on friends and colleagues.

So I ask again, what possible valid purpose do these critters serve in our ecosystem? Believe it or not, there are people who don’t necessarily champion the tick, but at least can find a few reasons they deserve a bit more respect than they get. For one thing, they have reportedly been around since the Cretaceous Period, terrorizing fauna for millions of years, so kudos to them for such longevity. I’ve also seen the argument that while they transmit horrible diseases, they also maintain and transport all sorts of life on the microscopic level — viruses, bacteria, protozoa and other tiny things — and this is a good thing if you look at the Grand Ecological Food Chain Scheme. They do serve as food for other wildlife. Reptiles, birds and amphibians consume lots of ticks. Apparently guinea hens and opossums are champion tick consumers. So there’s an argument for getting some guinea hens and encouraging ’possums to visit your yard.

A friend and I were chatting and we both agreed that since there is an oral treatment for dogs that prevents tick bites for three months, there should be the same thing for people. Seems pretty simple. From what I can gather, the chemicals found in dogs’ tick treatments can cause severe damage to the nervous system and kidneys. While a dog’s lifespan is relatively short and thus there isn’t enough time for lots of toxins to accumulate before their natural deaths, (so say some), such is not the case for (See Clippings, Page 5A)

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On bending the arc towards justice

There is a long history in America of religious voices speaking out for societal improvement and reform within the context of the Judeo-Christian faith tradition.

In the years before the Civil War, Theodore Parker, a Unitarian minister in Boston, often preached to congregations of more than 2,000 people. They came to hear him oppose the Fugitive Slave Act and advocate for abolition. Parker also wrote, and preached, in favor of temperance, women’s rights, penal reform and society’s responsibility to improve the condition of the poor.

During the Progressive Era, early in the 20th century, Walter Rauschenbusch, a Baptist minister, became a leading proponent of what he called the Social Gospel.

He advocated that Christians had an obligation to bring the world’s condition closer to the Kingdom of Heaven about which Jesus spoke.

Christians could not remain aloof from society. They needed to work By Eric L. Davis to improve the lives of the “least among us.”

Reinhold Niebuhr, the leading American theologian of the 20th century, started his career committed to working for pacifism and socialism, in line with the Social Gospel. Following the rise of Nazism and Fascism, and World War II, Niebuhr questioned the optimism of the Social Gospel, and wondered whether it truly reflected human nature. In his book “Moral Man and Immoral Society,” Niebuhr argued that organizations, both private and public, would be more likely to engage in sinful behavior than would individuals. Religiously motivated leaders should thus speak out against the sins of society and,

Politically Thinking

by acting as the conscience of the community, urge a return to the principles of the Judeo-Christian tradition.

In the years after World War I, Dorothy Day was a journalist and activist, working for pacifism, women’s suffrage and social justice. In the early 1930s, she converted to Roman Catholicism, influenced in part by the social teachings of several European Catholic writers and scholars. In 1933, Day co-founded the newspaper Catholic Worker, which she edited until her death in 1980. She used this publication to advocate for wide-ranging improvements in workers’ economic position, for civil rights legislation to end discrimination against African-Americans and women, and for pacifism.

In the mid-20th century, Martin Luther King Jr., drawing upon several of the writers and preachers mentioned here, developed a theology of civil rights, and of civil disobedience, that was based on philosophical conceptions of human rights, American founding principles, the Hebrew Bible, and the New Testament. Two of King’s 1963 works, the “Letter from the Birmingham Jail” and the “I Have A Dream” speech, are perhaps the best modern statements in favor of social action within a Christian perspective.

As American society has become more secularized over the last half-century, there have been fewer voices from the “Christian left” since King’s death. However, we may now be seeing the emergence of a new leader speaking in this tradition. In a 14-minute sermon at (See Davis, Page 5A)

I think the train station/and or platform in Middlebury is an open discussion and all points of view should be considered.

For those who wish for a train station and actual Amtrak service in Middlebury, it may only be a wishful dream.

As I write this I am on the Lake Shore Limited train about to arrive in Chicago soon. In the dining car I just learned from the waiter that dining service is ending on all but three Amtrak trains next month.

After 25 years he is losing his job, as is the chef and many others of the train staff due to Amtrak cutbacks.

I believe instead of cutbacks we need to make an investment in rail travel here in the United States — both on a local level and a national level.

The thought of standing on an exposed concrete platform in Middlebury, in January at minus-30 degrees for a train that might be late will hardly encourage riders. And I would think adequate protection from the elements is one of the primary concerns.

And there is the hope that local companies might support the train station — I am thinking of the Waterbury station with the Green Mountain Coffee Roasters location in the station — where the train station is actually used by many not even riding the train.

David Carlson Middlebury

Scott ‘childish’ in veto actions

This is Vermont — where we have remarkable people in our legislature, who have worked with thorough and respectful diligence to form a responsible budget.

Gov. Scott’s childish and irresponsible veto is an embarrassment to us all. I have been frustrated that our elected officials, who, have worked so hard to come to an agreement on tough issues, and Scott and his administration have refused to work with our legislators before a bill is presented and just lazily vetoed.

Gov. Scott, it is time for you to go back to car racing. You are of no constructive help to your state.

Terry Racich Lincoln

Governor right to reject S.105 I want to thank Gov. Scott for vetoing S.105. I also thank all of the individuals, businesses and organizations who supported VOGA (Vermont Outdoor Guide Association, of which I am executive director) in our movement against it. We had 76 businesses including nine statewide organizations sign our letter to Gov. Scott and many sent their own letters urging him to veto this waiver busting bill.

S.105 was a regulation regarding consumer justice enforcement and (See Letter, Page 5A)

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School-fortresses not a solution Mill’s persuasive view of utilitarianism

On a spring morning during my sophomore year of high school, our P.E. class headed to the field for a game of softball. As we divided into teams, the ground began to roll in visible waves. Somebody screamed.

Grabbing the backstop fence, we instantly realized it was an earthquake.

We knew about earthquakes. This was Seattle, so we had dutifully

By Laurie crawled under Cox our desks since kindergarten whenever an earthquake drill was declared, but the last significant earthquake took place the year we were born. Inside the school, students were indeed crouching under their desks as light fixtures and ceiling tiles rained down.

Out on the playing field, the sensation was weird, but that wasn’t what scared me. The fear came from stories of the Alaskan earthquake just a couple of years earlier. My neighbor, a ship captain, had described his huge ship being thrust onto the land and streets opening up, swallowing cars and people. That was what I was imagining: the ground where we stood splitting open before us.

So yes, we clung to that chain-link fence.

We did not fall into an abyss that day. Instead, we all got to go home early and have two days off while city engineers assessed the building’s integrity. On the whole, it was intact because there were strong building codes and regular inspections.

Those earthquake drills had proved their usefulness for students inside the building, and of course they were not the only sorts of drills we knew. There were routine fire drills and, when I first began school, air raid drills continued as a vestige of World War II alertness. At some point, maybe around second grade,

Ways of Seeing

they morphed into nuclear bomb drills. For those, we went into the hallways, lining up on the floor with our arms crossed over our heads. I am not sure when I first became aware of the futility of that exercise.

Perhaps it was after seeing the movie “On the Beach”, but I think it was even earlier. I paid attention to things as a kid, and definitely knew what occurred when a nuclear bomb detonated.

Imagine yourself as a child now, maybe six years old or even 16.

Imagine being in your classroom and practicing hiding in a corner, or the teacher taking you outside and showing you where you could run.

Not run for fun or for a relay race.

Run because there is someone with a gun in your school killing other children like you. It might seem a little scary if such a thing were purely an exercise or a vestige of something you had heard of from long ago.

What, however, if you had recently seen images of slaughter actually happening in other schools?

I know how I felt in the earthquake, watching to see if the earth would split open while knowing full well that was highly unlikely. I know how it felt to grow up with the threat of a mushroom cloud overshadowing my everyday life. That is nothing like the specter of someone invading your space — your safe space — with an assault rifle.

I worked as an elementary school counselor for 34 years. I know how difficult it is to carry out the necessary drills in a way that conveys their seriousness without also communicating the trauma. And I can’t help but think of a child whose handicap makes the act of running an impossibility. What do you tell that child to do? Some schools are

providing each classroom with a bucket of rocks for the children to throw at a shooter.

I understand hunting and the need to own guns to pursue that activity.

I do not understand someone’s ability to ignore a child’s terror — or anyone’s terror — so that they can have a weapon solely designed for killing people, obtain a gun without background checks, or own a gun regardless of their behavior.

Imagining power or terror in a video game or a movie is a choice that may give some people pleasure but let us hope that no child ever finds pleasure in strategizing how to escape an active shooter in their classroom. The unfortunate reality is that their chances are about what mine would have been in a nuclear strike. Maybe my school should have given us rocks to throw at an incoming missile.

We have had decades of propaganda selling us on the benefits of gun ownership without restrictions.

State officials are now assessing schools’ security against gun-wielding murderers. Police departments are training individual officers with the best ways to approach an active school shooter.

Strong, fireproof buildings keep us safe without being restrictive. Turning schools into secure fortresses is like giving up our freedoms. Robert Frost wrote, “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know/What I was walling in or walling out.” Let’s not wall in our children, who need to run and play explore and discover. I have a better vision: no assault weapons allowed.

Which is the greater freedom?

Laurie Cox is a retired school counselor and long-time Ripton selectboard member. Besides occasional writing, she sings with Maiden Vermont, pursues art, takes long hikes with her dog(s) and seasonally gardens. She also is about to become more actively involved in things political, environmental, and just.

training and educational programs, college outdoor programs, fundraising events for charities, recreation-based venues and competitions involving sports to name a few.

If S.105 had passed, a perfectly legal contract or waiver might be considered unconscionable and thus unenforceable based on the way that one party obtained the other’s signature.

The Vermont Supreme Court has applied a common-sense test in determining whether waiver clauses are enforceable. Contracts and waivers are already subject to

contract law judgments and S.105 would have added a new level of scrutiny, making Vermont businesses more vulnerable to frivolous lawsuits.

If Vermont wants to pass legislation that is first in the nation, let us be first in protecting small businesses, our citizens and their jobs as well as we in the recreation industry try to protect our visitors and customers.

You can thank the governor by going to: governor.vermont.gov/ contact-us/message.

Graydon B. Stevens North Ferrisburgh

Theodore Parker once said, in a quote much liked and frequently cited by both President Barack Obama and Dr. King, that “I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And

from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.”

Perhaps, after Bishop Curry’s recent sermon, that arc is bending just so slightly greater in the direction of justice.

Eric L. Davis is professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College.

with permethrins for a fee. It’s a case of cover yourself with nasty toxic chemicals so that you don’t get a nasty tick-borne disease. For people who just can’t stomach this idea of robbing Peter to pay Paul, the CDC lists garlic oil as a good repellent, as well as a combination of rosemary, lemongrass, cedar, peppermint, thyme and geraniol essential oils.

These kinds of repellents can often be found alongside the DEET-filled ones, or you can make them yourself.

As for me, given that I had the telltale bull’s eye last year, for which I was subjected to four weeks of gut-irritating antibiotics, and given that I live in the woods, and that I have a very big, very fluffy dog, and that I like to garden, and that ticks seem to really like me, I’m going to go with the nasty chemicals. They sit on the bench by the front door, where, if we’re smart, everyone will use them as they leave for outdoor adventures and work.

Thanks to climate change, Vermont and other states in the Northeast are becoming warmer and more humid, creating a better environment for both tick growth and the spread of Lyme and other diseases.

If we were hoping for a drop in tick numbers around here, it doesn’t look highly likely. It’s a reality none of us like to think about.

Nevertheless, we persist. We love to garden, we love to spend time out-

doors, we love our pets. We choose to live in Vermont in part because of its natural beauty and rural lifestyle.

Ticks are now part of that equation. I loathe them, I fear them, but dammit, they are not going to stop me from enjoying the outside.

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) prohibited unconscionable terms in contracts.

If passed, Vermont would be the first in the nation to implement this regulation. While other states support their recreation-based industry with laws supporting waivers and release forms, our elected officials seem oblivious to the needs of our industry.

Recreation providers use contracts called waivers or release agreements to allow people to participate in outdoor activities.

These forms are used in the guiding industry, summer camps, outdoor

Editor’s note: This is the 17th in Why? Because the principles a series of essays about political of morality are not descriptions liberalism and conservatism and of how things are, but how they ought to be: they are rules to be the two-party system. followed, not statements of fact.

By VICTOR NUOVO What is Utilitarianism? If you’re The principles are to be obeyed by curious, there is no better way to individuals who are free to ignore find out than by reading Stuart them, in some instances with little harm to themselves except their Mill’s work so titled.

But there is an even better self-respect. The art of morality makes no predictions. reason to read it. This Nevertheless, Mill little book offers a insisted that the clear and persuasive methods of ethics must account of how to be no less rigorous and live a purposeful and rational than those of rewarding life, and it is any science. worth reading even if, He begins by after much reflection, asserting that since one rejects its main morality has to do with conclusions.

For purposeful actions, Mill’s aim in writing is there must be some not to convert or make goal in life that can disciples who must be made the standard obey their master, but of them all, a highest to persuade by rational Liberalism vs good; and it must be discourse; the effect otherwise is to open the mind to Conservatism singular, our moral principles other possibilities and An essay by would have us heading other reasons about Victor Nuovo every which way. how to live.

Mill is certain that Middlebury College This supreme good is human happiness, the decision on how professor emeritus one’s own as well as to conduct oneself of philosophy the happiness of others. in life must be one’s He is aware that own, and he does not trespass on that personal privilege. there are competing standards.

Yet he is also certain that morality Other moralists insist that the goal is not merely a private matter, is always to cultivate in oneself a for how we choose to conduct virtuous character that disposes ourselves affects not only ourselves one always to do the right thing, regardless of the consequences. For but others, as well.

It is commonly accepted that them, morality consists of duties the moral worth of our actions not of pleasant consequences.

Mill notes that the proponents is determined not only by how they benefit us individually, but of this alternate standard look also the many others with whom contemptuously on Utilitarianism we interact directly or indirectly. because it reduces good and evil Thus, our moral responsibility has to pleasure and pain, which are no boundaries—it extends from the best indicators of whether ourselves to our neighbors, to all one is happy or not. They argue humanity, to all animals, to plants, that this deprives morality of any the environment, and, perhaps, to nobility. Utilitarianism is, they say, a doctrine only fit for swine. Mill’s the cosmos.

Moral values are social values. account is largely a response to this Thus, it would seem, ethics is a charge.

In his response, Mill observes practical social science that, like all other sciences, relies solely on that there is a vast range of pleasures that bring satisfaction. experience and reason.

Yet elsewhere Mill prefers to And this is a good place to begin. call ethics an art and not a science. There is the pleasure of breathing

clear air, or of not so clear air if you are pleased by the smell of it; of eating a good breakfast—bacon and eggs, of course, only if your health allows it; of sharing a private joke with friends, of observing the movements of a dancer or an athlete, of settling in bed at night after a long hard day, of reading, reflecting, painting a picture, riding a bike, walking in the woods, of working—if you love your job, or relaxing at home at the end of the day, or winning at sports, or at chess, or solving a puzzle.

There are pleasures of family love and friendships, and for some contemplating absolute being or beauty, listening to music according to one’s taste, or whistling a happy tune, or biting into a donut filled with jelly or a donut dipped in hot coffee.

These are all innocent. But there are other pleasures that may bring delight to the doer at someone else’s expense. Some general rule is needed. If the good of all is one’s goal, then any pleasures that cause harm to others must be excluded.

Mill is insistent also that we must consider our higher nature.

We are animals, to be sure, but Mill supposed civilization has raised us to a higher level, and a primary motive must be to develop this nature; to cultivate good taste so that we may enjoy the more ethereal forms of beauty; and also to develop our intellect, not in a private way, but by filling our minds with ideas of universal good and a love of truth.

Furthermore, Mill said, we must be willing to sacrifice our own individual desires and satisfactions for the good of others, if this will increase the amount of happiness in the world, and if others benefit as much or more than ourselves. In this respect, Utilitarianism is not bestial, crude, nor selfish, but noble. It is a discipline that fits so-called higher beings like ourselves—although I confess an uneasiness with this notion. And there is a danger here in the opposite direction, towards elitism.

Elitism can be avoided, but Nuovo, Page 7A)

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, the Rev. Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, preached about Jesus’ command to “love your neighbor as yourself” in a way that resonated with millions of listeners around the world, some of them Christians, many of them not.

Clippings (Continued from Page 4A) humans. Over the human lifespan the accumulation could, and some say would, cause a great deal of damage. GlaxoSmithKline did come up with a Lyme vaccine they called LYMErix in the early 2000s, but if a patient took the vaccine after contracting Lyme and had a specific genotype, it caused severe autoimmune dysfunction like rheumatoid arthritis. They were sued by a lot of people and pulled the vaccine off the market in 2002. No much has been done about it since.

I have heard that there is a pill out there somewhere, but the pharmaceutical company that makes it won’t put it on the market because they wouldn’t be able to turn a profit — despicable, if not surprising given what we know of pharmaceutical companies. If there isn’t, I think there are enough people out there suffering from Lyme or worried about contracting it (or anaplasmosis, another tick-borne disease) who would be very excited to have a pill as preventative treatment.

In the meantime, you can go to the hardware store or Agway or anywhere that sells repellent and buy your DEET-loaded Ben’s or Off. The companies who market these things now also sell a permethrin clothing treatment you can spray on yourself, and there are businesses online that will treat your clothes

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ADDISON COUNTY

Obituaries

Edwin Douglas, 97, Shoreham

Rolland Dagenais, 92, Montpelier

ROLLAND DAGENAIS

MONTPELIER — Rolland Dagenais, 92, resident of Heaton Woods, Montpelier, Vt., died on May 24, 2018, at Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin.

He was born in Marionville, Ontario, the son of Joseph Dagenais and Alice Marion, in 1926. He married Bernadette (Benoit) in 1946.

He was a successful dairy farmer who could fix any piece of machinery and, upon retirement from farming, was a foreman at an industrial plant.

He is survived by his wife of 72 years, his sister Rejeanne, and five children: Andre (Susan); Dianne (Richard) Bilodeau; Claudette (Kenneth) Potter; Lina Smith and Bernard; nine grandchildren, Aaron and Elizabeth Potter, Beau (Ashley) Dagenais, Jonathan and Elena Bilodeau, Kendra and Alden Smith, Dylan and Katrina Dagenais; two great

grandchildren Owen and Penelope Dagenais and many nieces and nephews.

He was a quiet, determined and resilient man, part of a robust French Canadian community that enjoyed many 500 card games, in the Vergennes and Middlebury area, and a longtime parishioner of St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury.

The family expresses its thanks for the care given by the conscientious staffs of Heaton Woods and Central Vermont Medical Center.

A mass of Christian burial was held at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Waterbury on Tuesday, May 29, at noon, with a lunch to follow.

Donations in lieu of flowers will be made to the Central Vermont Medical Center Palliative and Spiritual Care Unit; 130 Fisher Road, Berlin, VT 05641.◊

Huguette-Laure Knox, Rockville, Md. ROCKVILLE, Md. — HuguetteLaure Knox passed away May 11 at her home in Maryland.

A native of Beaulieu-sur-mer in France, she studied at the Université d’Aix-Marseille, and held the national CAPES degree in English. She joined

the Middlebury French Department in 1969 and taught through retirement, preparing hundreds of students for study in France.

She leaves her husband Edward; sons Olivier and Christophe, daughters-in-law Jennifer Lewis and

Gabrielle Laurens; and grandsons Oscar, Félix and Marcel.

A memorial is scheduled for July 22 at 3 p.m. in Middlebury’s Mead Chapel. Gifts in her memory may be made to the Montgomery Hospice of Rockville, Maryland.

MUHS competes in national quiz bowl ATLANTA, Ga. — Middlebury Union High School joined 351 of the top high school quiz bowl teams on the weekend of May 26, at the Atlanta Marriott Marquis for the 2018 High School National Championship Tournament. The field featured teams from thirtyfive states, Canada, and China.

Ken Barkdoll, Nico Brayton, Silas Conlon, Lucy S. Groves, Greta Hardy-Mittell and Sophia M. Marks represented MUHS at the event,

along with coach Perry Lessing.

One of only two Vermont schools at the competition, MUHS finished 4-6 in the preliminary round. Their shot at the playoffs ended when they lost to Fort Osage High School from Independence, Mo., in round 6.

The national version the Scholars’ Bowl, Quiz Bowl is a competitive, academic, interscholastic activity for teams of four students. Teams use buzzers to answer questions

about science, math, history, literature, mythology, geography, social science, current events, sports, and popular culture. The matches feature a blend of individual competition and team collaboration, since no individual player is likely to be an expert in all subject areas. Participation in quiz bowl both reinforces lessons from the classroom and encourages players to develop new intellectual interests.

WALTER H. AND SHERRY A. GIBBS

Walter Jr. and Sherry Gibbs Burial services HAGUE, N.Y. — Burial services for Walter H. Gibbs Jr. and Sherry A. Gibbs, both formerly of East Middlebury/Cornwall, will be held Saturday, June 9, at 11:30 a.m., at Evergreen Cemetery, Route 74, West Cornwall. A gathering will be in Ticonderoga, N.Y., at the American Legion Post 224, 104 Montcalm St., following the service.

SHOREHAM — Edwin C. Douglas, 97, of Shoreham, Vt., died peacefully in his sleep, on May 10, 2018, at Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing. He was born in Shoreham on Nov. 26, 1920, and lived there for most of his life.

Edwin belonged to the Shoreham Congregational Church, the Farm Bureau and the Masons and other area organizations. He was a Justice of the Peace, Deacon of the Church and helped his community in many other ways.

He is survived by his wife of 75 years, Marjorie P. Douglas, his sister, Margaret D. Hall, his three children and their families; Bruce Douglas (Molly Pratt), Bonnie Douglas, Betsy Ainsworth (Galen); his four grandchildren and their families; Andrew (Andy) Douglas, Anne Manuel (David), Amanda Lamoureux (Shawn), Caleb Ainsworth (Kelly); five great grandsons, Grayson, Killian, Luc, David and Andrew; and his nieces, nephews, cousins and good friends.

Edwin was a man outstanding in his field, whether it was corn, hay or his orchard. He loved being outdoors working in his garden, on the land, with the cows or doing construction.

A good joke (or a bad one) would always make him laugh. Then he would share it with anyone else ready for a laugh. He would remind his family, as they left from a visit, to wait until they got home to have their nap. A family joke was golden.

The family thanks Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing, Addison

EDWIN C. DOUGLAS County Home Health and Hospice, Project Independence, ACTR and other area services for their help in making Edwin’s last years as healthy and enjoyable as possible. A memorial service will be held on June 20, 2018. Details will be announced when finalized.

A special thank you to E.C. James.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing, 30 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT 05753 or The Shoreham Congregational Church, School Street, Shoreham, VT 05770.

Thank you to Stephen C. Gregory and Son Cremation Service.◊

Janet Banner, 58, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Janet Banner, 58, died peacefully in Middlebury on Wednesday, May 23, 2018.

She was born Aug. 10, 1959, in Middlebury, the daughter of Frank and Florence (Forbes) Banner.

Janet was a graduate of Middlebury Union High School, class of 1977. She graduated from UVM with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, class of 1981.

She traveled extensively throughout the U.S. She specialized in the cardiothoracic arena.

Janet was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

She enjoyed the outdoors, especially her annual family vacations to the White Mountains in N.H., and treasured her Labrador Retrievers.

Janet is survived by her brothers Michael Banner and his wife Cathy of Agawam, Mass., and Albert Banner of Middlebury; sisters Catherine Barter of Warwick, R.I., and Elizabeth Banner and her wife Kobie, of Arlington, Mass., and also

several special nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her parents.

A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Friday, June 1, 2018 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, with the Rev. Luke Austin as the celebrant.

Burial will follow at St. Mary’s Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Homeward Bound Addison County’s Humane Society.◊

The Family of Anne Pidgeon would like to thank everyone who attended the memorial services, who sent cards, flowers and food for her celebration.

-John, Irene, and Family

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departmental research.

(Continued from Page 2A) • Clarifying terms under which Board to ban coyote killing contests the ANR secretary can convey, exwould have been a futile effort.

“If you’re not a hunter or a trap- change, sell, or lease land on behalf per, they don’t listen to you,” said of the department of Fish and Wildlife — to resolve trespass, boundary, Galdenzi. “They report to no one.”

Rep. Brian Smith, R-Derby, right of way and deed issues, or for proposed an amendment to delete conservation and recreation.

• Allowing the Department of the coyote contest ban from the fish Fish and Wildlife, in and wildlife bill in Feblimited circumstances, ruary. The amendment to correct boundary was defeated on the “These competitions issues with neighbors House floor, 100-38.

Smith said in an are enormously who live next door to department land. interview last week that popular among • Allowing retail he felt the ban unfairly sportsmen and outlets and others who singled out one kind of sell fishing and hunting hunting contest. The encourage our licenses also to provide state allows organized Vermont youth customers with appliturkey hunts, he said, to take part cations for lotteries for and the Orleans Rod in permitted doe tags and moose and Gun Club’s annual fishing and permits. rabbit hunt also remains hunting • Clarifying which legal. animals cannot be trans“The ban singles out activities.”

— Gov. Phil Scott ported into the state a very small amount without department of hunters that enjoy approval. going out and making • Requiring trappers to notify the a sport of it,” said Smith. “It’s not Department of Fish and Wildlife about watching the bloodshed.”

Galdenzi said her group is not within 24 hours of accidentally seeking to ban competitions like fish trapping a cat or dog.

Scott expressed dissatisfaction derbies or deer pools. Protect Our Wildlife has already been contacted with the new trapping requirement, by activists in New Hampshire who calling it “poorly written and unwant to ban their state’s coyote clear.”

“The bill does not define whether killing contests, she said.

In addition to the ban on coyote this provision applies to wild types contests, H.636 makes various im- of cats and dogs, or only to domestic. provements to state fish and wildlife Given that bobcats can, in season, be legally trapped in Vermont and laws including: • Allowing the commissioner to given that coyotes may also be, this contract with consultants to conduct provision is problematic,” he wrote.

Nuovo (Continued from Page 5A) only if a proper system of universal education is designed to guard against it. It must be a system premised on full equality and an effective social and cultural leveling as well. I am not well versed in the history of education to know whether this has ever been successfully tried, and whether it is possible to achieve.

I am sure that we, here and now, are far from having achieved it, although we repeatedly pay lip service to it.

In this respect, Mill assures his readers that Utilitarianism does not prize selfishness above altruism. Its goal is the good of all, not of the few, and least of all one’s self.

Just here there is a critical distinction that sets Utilitarianism apart from other systems of ethics, philosophical and religious. For these others, whether they emphasize virtue, or duty, especially our duty to

God, are selfish in this respect, that they are perfectionist, the perfection of the individual is their goal.

Although I do not consider myself a utilitarian, I find that Mill’s version of it has great merit, perhaps just because it avoids this sort of selfinterest.

Utilitarianism as a theory of human behavior has the virtues of clarity and simplicity. But critics of it have argued that it is simplistic rather than conceptually vague.

Perhaps the most telling criticism is that it fosters individualism to the point where it becomes socially counterproductive, that for all its talk of social responsibility, it fails to harmonize individual and universal happiness.

Perhaps solutions to these problems are to be found in his work On Liberty. Please stay tuned in next week’s essay.

$900K effort to fund upgrades

MIDDLEBURY — After many months of planning, fundraising and anticipation, work on a major renovation project began is under way at Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing in Middlebury.

This $900,000 project will result in a state-of-the-art, post-acute unit for residents recovering from surgery or other conditions requiring short-term rehabilitation, and a new end-of-life suite offering a comfortable and family-centered environment for residents and their loved ones which, for the Addison Respite Care Home (ARCH) organization, represents the realization of their founding mission.

“These two distinct but equally important initiatives have been combined into one major renovation project thanks to the outstanding financial support of our general community, the Porter Medical Center Auxiliary and the Addison Respite Care Home organization,” said Dr. Fred Kniffin, president and CEO of UVM Health Network/Porter Medical Center.

“Helen Porter is an invaluable part of Porter’s ability to provide a full spectrum of comprehensive health care services to the people of our community, and this investment of almost a million dollars to create outstanding new resident care facilities is essential to supporting that key strategic goal.”

Working closely with the ARCH board of directors, Porter raised more than $350,000 of the overall cost of the project from local citizens, with a major boost from the Porter Medical Center Auxiliary, which capped the campaign with a two-year commitment of

Work is in full swing on a $900,000 renovation project at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.

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$150,000 as well as a significant contribution from ARCH. “Our community and our partners at ARCH stepped up last fall in a major way, as they recognized the importance of taking Helen Porter to the next level in terms of both palliative and end-of-life facilities and a modern rehabilitation unit designed to help folks to recover and achieve the highest level of independence possible and return to their community setting,” Kniffin added.

The renovation project, which started in late April, is slated to run for approximately five months, and Porter is planning a community celebration and open house in September.

PORTER MEDICAL CENTER Vice President Ron Hallman, left, and Breadloaf Construction Project Supervisor Mark Harris check on plans on the site of a Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center renovation project. The project is scheduled to be completed at the end of August.

Ralston considers Senate bid as independent

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Coffee Company founder and CEO Paul Ralston of New Haven will likely run as an independent for the state Senate, should he decide to officially enter the race.

The former Middlebury state representative, who now lives in New Haven, continues to weigh the pros and cons of committing to a run for one of the two Senate seats representing Addison County, Huntington and Buel’s Gore. Incumbent Sen. Chris Bray, D-New Haven, Middlebury Democrat Ruth Hardy and Addison Republican

Peter Briggs are already confirmed candidates.

The election picture will become clearer on Thursday, May 31, the deadline for major party candidates to file their primary petitions with the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office. Independent and minor party candidates have until Aug. 9 to file their statement of nomination and consent forms with the office.

“At this point, I am considering a run for the Vermont Senate as an independent,” Ralston declared in a May 29 email.

Running as an independent,

Ralston believes, would allow him to work more effectively with Democrats and Republicans on some of the major issues confronting the state.

He promised to reach out to area residents and officials to gauge the potential success of an independent bid in Addison County, where Democrats hold the vast majority of available legislative seats.

Ralston represented Middlebury as a Democrat in the Vermont House from 2011 through 2014. He decided not to run for re-election in 2014, citing mounting professional commitments.

But Ralston, 65, has put together a management team for his business that he believes would free him up to serve in Montpelier during the next biennium, should he run and be elected. He acknowledged his interest in the position comes in wake of incumbent Sen. Claire Ayer’s May 3 announcement to not seek another term.

Ralston served on the House Commerce and Economic Development Committee, dealing with programs and policies to stimulate business growth in the state.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Gala Dinner JUNE 15, 2018

An evening at the Middlebury Inn with a four course dinner beginning with a cash bar from 6:00pm to 7:00pm and dinner commencing at 7:00pm. $65.00 per person.

Grants being given to Addison County nonprofits Featured speaker: Robby Mook Campaign Manager for Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign and CNN Commentator

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Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes.

Thursday, May 31, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Lunch of Shepherd’s pie, broccoli florets, dinner roll, and cantaloupe served at noon. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287 to inquire.

Addison County Bike Club Annual Meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, May 31, 6:30 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury.

Friday, June 1, 11 a.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Menu includes baked meatloaf with mush‑ room sauce, mashed potatoes with cheddar, green beans, coleslaw and pineapple mousse with cream. $5 suggested donation. Advanced tickets required.

Call Michelle Eastman at 802‑377‑1419. Bring your own place setting. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287.

VUHS Pops Concert in Vergennes. Friday, June 1, 6 p.m., Auditorium, Vergennes Union High School, Monkton Rd. “A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in Middlebury.

Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz‑inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting.

A pre‑performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the Memorial Baptist Church. Tickets: rows B & C $55, Rows D‑M $65, Balcony $80/ avail‑ able at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802‑382‑9222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

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Sip to Support Housing in Middlebury. Saturday, June 2 5:30‑7:30 p.m., Woodchuck Cider House, 1321 Exchange St. Help support Addison County Community Trust’s affordable housing programs.

Free cider samples, light fare, music, and a raffle/ silent auction. Mingle with staff and Board members and learn more about what ACCT is doing to increase housing affordability in Addison County. Tickets $12 in advance/$15 at the door, available at addisontrust. org/Sip2018.

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Garden sale and silent auction in Bristol.

Sunday, June 3, 10 a.m.‑4 p.m., 3319 Route 116 South. Help raise funds for the Brendon P. Cousino Med47 Foundation. There will be a plant sale, bake sale, and a unique selection of home and garden décor.

The greater East Middlebury community picnic in East Middlebury. Sunday, June 3, noon, behind the Community House, E. Main St. Table settings, bever‑ ages, burgers, hot dogs, cake and ice cream are provided. Bring a dish to share. Lifelong residents of East Middlebury will be honored.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in Middlebury.

Sunday, June 3, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz‑inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting.

A pre‑performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the Memorial Baptist Church. Tickets: rows B & C $55, Rows D‑M $65, Balcony $80/ avail‑ able at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802‑382‑9222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

“The Big Meal” on stage in Middlebury. Sunday, June 3, 4 p.m., Stonecutter Spirits, 1197 Exchange St. Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet. Sparks fly. And so begins an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye. A Middlebury Actors Workshop production.

Free Community Meal in Vergennes. Sunday, June 3, 5‑6:30 p.m., Parish Hall, St. Peter’s Church, 85 South Maple St. Menu includes pulled pork, coleslaw, baked beans, assorted desserts and beverages. All are welcome.

Reeve Lindbergh: “Two Lives” in Middlebury.

Tuesday, June 5, 7 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Lindbergh, daughter of Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, will read from, discuss and sign her new book, in which she reflects on navigating her role as the public face of her family while, at the same time, leading a very quiet existence in rural Vermont.

Book signing to follow.

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Free diabetes prevention workshop In Vergennes. Begins Wednesday, June 6. The Diabetes Prevention program offers education and support to help you adopt healthier eating and exercise habits that can lead to weight loss and reduce your risk of getting diabetes. You may qualify if you have a diagnosis of pre‑diabetes or are at risk for diabetes. Registration required as class size is limited. More info and registration contact Michele Butler at 802‑388‑8860 or mbutler@portermedical. org.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 6, 11 a.m., Middlebury Rec. Center, 154 Creek Rd. Doors open at 11 a.m. Meal of salisbury steak with gravy, home fried potatoes, broccoli salad, roll and baked apple slices with cinnamon served at noon.

Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested dona‑ tion. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287.

Choral workshop with Roomful of Teeth in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 6, 4:30‑6 p.m., Congregational Church of Middlebury, 2 Main St. Part of the New Music on the Point Series. Suggested donation $10.

“Churchill and Roosevelt: The personal element in their partnership” in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 6, 7 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. In the final First Wednesday talk of the year UVM History Professor Mark A. Stoler examines the important personal relationship between Britain’s Prime Minister and America’s President during their World War II alliance.

“Josiah” documentary on screen in Shoreham.

Wednesday, June 6, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, Main St. As part of the June meeting of the Shoreham Historical Society will view this film about Josiah Henson, who spent 41 years as a slave and overcame incredible odds to escape with his family to Canada.

Said to be the inspiration for “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”

View the trailer at josiahhenson.com.

“Women and Our Woods – Seeing the Forest for the Birds” in Starksboro.

Saturday, June 2, 7‑9 a.m., Vermont Land Trust Hill‑Robert property, South Starksboro. Join fellow women woodland owners for a bird walk to learn about which birds are singing and how to enhance habitat for Legislative breakfast in Bridport. these fine‑feathered creatures. Free. Pre‑registration Monday, June 4, 7‑8:45 a.m., Grange Hall, required. Contact Caitlin Cusack at 802‑861‑6504 or Routes 22A and 125. Meet with Addison caitlin@vlt.org.

County legislators and discuss issues important to 5 Town Community Forum in Bristol. Saturday, June Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

Addison County. Purchase of breakfast not required to 2, 9‑11:30 a.m., large cafeteria, Mount Abraham Thursday, June 7, 10 a.m., Vergennes attend but helps our hosts to defray the cost of open‑ Union High School, Airport Rd. The third Five Town Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, ing their hall. Sponsored by Bridport Grange 303 and Community Forum will address community engage‑ 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo, and the Addison County Farm Bureau. ment and involvement in the 5 Town local schools. coffee hour. Meal of chicken and biscuit, Italian green Information about current projects and ideas will be James Blair talks in Middlebury. Monday, June 4, 3‑4 beans with red peppers, tossed salad, cranberry sauce p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 11 shared. All are invited to attend. Snacks provided. and peach crisp served at noon. Bring your own place Eastview Ter. In “Pollution: A Threat to Man’s Only More info at the 5 Town Community Forum Facebook setting. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle Home … ‘The Past is Prologue,’” well known free‑ page. to reserve at 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 lance photojournalist Blair will share his experience TAM Trail work day in Middlebury. Saturday, June 2, and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be and photographs on the subject. Free and open to the 9:30‑11:30 a.m., Wright Park, Seymour Street Ext. provided. Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287. public.

Celebrate National Trails Day with MALT, improving Senior meal in Bristol. Thursday, June 7, noon, First trail drainage, laying gravel in wet areas, and using Baptist Church of Bristol, 10 Park St. Menu: roast pork, hand tools to trim back brush in Wright Park and Otter sweet potatoes, coleslaw, applesauce, homemade Creek Gorge. Volunteers should wear sturdy shoes bread and rhubarb dessert. Suggested donation is $4. and dress for inclement weather. MALT will provide all Age Well Senior Luncheon in Please phone Nancy at 453‑5276 to put your name on tools including gloves, handsaws, and shovels, and Vergennes. Tuesday, June 5, 10 a.m., the list. Come early to talk with friends and make new most importantly, snacks. RSVP to info@maltvt.org or Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior ones. call 802‑388‑1007.

Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m.

“All the King’s Men” on Screen in Middlebury.

Branch to Spoon: Carving Workshop in Ferrisburgh. for bingo, and coffee hour. Meal of chef salad with Thursday, June 7, 3:30 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Saturday, June 2, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 turkey, ham, eggs, and croutons, three bean salad, Public Library, 75 Main St. The Middlebury Community Route 7. Join instructor Robert Palmer for a day wheat roll and pear slices served at noon. Bring your Classic Film Club will show this academy award winning of spoon carving at Rokeby Museum using hand own place setting. Advanced reservations required. film from 1949 — a story of power, corruption and politi‑ tools and traditional Swedish methods. Register at $5 suggested donation. Call Michelle to reserve cal upheaval in Depression Era America. A discussion Shelburne Craft School. Cost: $100 plus $75 Hand 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and of this timely classic will follow immediately afterwards. tool cost (you will keep the hand tools). their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

Carnival in Brandon. Thursday, June 7, 5‑9 p.m., Rhubarb Festival in Middlebury. Saturday June 2, 10 Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287.

Estabrook Field, Route 7. Come to Brandon’s summer a.m.‑2 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist kick‑off event. Concerts, rides, vendors, food and more.

Society, 2 Duane Ct. Its’ time for everything rhubarb. “Understanding American Politics in the Age of Trump” in Middlebury. Tuesday, June 5, 12:30‑2 Carnival kick‑off fun run 5 p.m. World of Hurt Wrestling For $10, festivalgoers get a freshly made sandwich, p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 takes the stage at 7 p.m. Free admission and parking. a green salad with raspberry‑rhubarb dressing and Eastview Ter. Join Middlebury College Professor of More info at townofbrandon.com. rhubarb pie with whipped cream. Homemade rhubarb Political Science Matt Dickinson for the first in a series Twist O’ Wool Spinning Guild meeting in Middlebury. and rhubarb‑strawberry pies for sale, and sweets of biweekly talks. Free and open to the public.

Thursday, June 7, 6 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson and savories; gently used bling, scarves, ties, books; Rd. Join the guild for its annual potluck at 6 p.m. followed wide variety of plants and seedlings. Games and face Wildlife photography presentation and bird walk in Addison. Tuesday, June 5, 5:30‑7:30 p.m., Dead by a show and tell, general meeting, and spin/knit‑in at painting for kids, and live music throughout the day.

Creek Wildlife Management Area headquarters, 7 p.m. All are welcome. More info call 802‑453‑5960.

Half the proceeds go to HOPE. Handicapped parking Route 17. Spend an evening with Vermont wildlife Piano recital in Middlebury. Thursday, June 7, 7‑8 behind the church or at nearby high school. More info photographer Brian Machanic when he presents ‘The p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, at 802‑388‑8080 or cvuus.org.

Art in Birding.’ The presentation will be followed by a 100 EastView Ter. Come hear Alex Larrow and Nico Garden sale and silent auction in Bristol. Saturday, one‑hour photography bird walk at the Dead Creek Brayton, two outstanding young piano students of June 2, 10 a.m.‑4 p.m., 3319 Route 116 South.

WMA. Limited to the first 25 participants. To register, Cynthia Huard. Free and open to the public.

Help raise funds for the Brendon P. Cousino Med47 contact Amy Alfieri at amy.alfieri@vermont.gov or “Bobcats in Our Backyard” in Starksboro. Thursday, Foundation. There will be a plant sale, bake sale, and 802‑759‑2398.

June 7, 7 p.m., Starksboro Public Library, 2827 VT a unique selection of home and garden décor.

Route 116. Join wildlife biologist Laura Farrell for this “Punch and Judy” puppet show in Middlebury. illustrated program offered by the Starksboro Historical Saturday, June 2, 11 a.m.‑noon. Champlain Valley Society, Public Library, and Conservation Commission.

Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Modern Learn more about these secretive creatures. Where Times Theater will present the troubles and travails do they live? What affects their population? What are of puppetry’s favorite loudmouth, Mr. Punch. This is their habits? Do they prey on our livestock and pets? hand‑puppetry at its best in a style that has enter‑ Free. All are welcome. Lights refreshments. tained children for centuries. The program “A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in also features live music, sing‑a‑longs, clas‑ Middlebury. Thursday, June 7, 7:30 p.m., sic jokes and gags, and audience partici‑ Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The pation. Free admission. Appropriate for Opera Company of Middlebury presents ages 1‑100.

André Previn’s faithful opera adapta‑ Eugene Charleboise and Friends tion of Tennessee Williams’ classic in Bridport. Saturday, June 2, play, its jazz‑inflected score evok‑ noon‑3 p.m., Bridport Town ing a highly charged New Orleans Hall, 82 Crown Point Rd. Join setting. A pre‑performance talk will Bridport Seniors for a BBQ by take place one hour before curtain Pratt’s Store, country music at the Memorial Baptist Church. and a room full of raffle and Tickets: rows B & C $55, Rows silent auction items featur‑ D‑M $65, Balcony $80/ avail‑ ing plants and flowers from able at townhalltheater.org or at Golden Russet Farm. 50/50 the box office at 802‑382‑9222. raffle. Proceeds to benefit More info at ocmvermont.org.

Town Line First Response.

All ages welcome. Tickets $5. Advanced purchase recommended. Call Michelle to reserve at 802‑377‑1419.

Age Well Senior National Trails Day Hike into Luncheon in History in Orwell. Saturday, Bristol. Friday, June 8, June 2, 2‑3:30 p.m., Mt. 11:30 a.m., Mary’s at Baldwin Creek, Independence State historic 1868 N. Route 116. Doors open at Site, 472 Mt. Independence 11:30, meal served at noon. Lunch Rd. It’s National Trail Day. Mount will feature chilled strawberry soup, Independence Coalition board summer salad plate with BBQ chicken, member Mark Brownell leads this guided and carrot cake with cream cheese icing. hike into Revolutionary War history.

Advanced reservations required. Call Saturday night dinner in Brandon.

Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. $5 Saturday, June 2, 5 p.m., Our Lady suggested donation does not include of Good Help Catholic Church, 38 gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and Carver St. Menu includes pot roast, up and their spouse of any age. Free potatoes, carrots, sweet kale, salad, ride may be provided. Call ACTR at rolls, beverage and dessert. Tickets IT’S TIME FOR the annual clean up and repair of the Trail Around Mid802‑388‑2287. $8 adults/6‑12 years $5/under 5 dlebury on Saturday, June 2, from 9:30-11:30 a.m., at Wright Park, SeyArtists’ opening celebration in free, available at the back of the mour Street Ext. In honor of National Trails Day, join in and help MALT Middlebury. Friday, June 8, 5‑7 church before and after each mass. improve trail drainage, lay gravel in wet areas, and use hand tools to trim p.m., The Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Walk‑ins welcome. More info at back brush in two TAM treasures — Wright Park and Otter Creek Gorge.

Photo courtesy TAM Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. In “Birds, 802‑247‑6351.

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community Bees and Butterflies in the Land of Milk and Honey,” Clara Kalitri’s paintings will be on display. Local artists, poets and writers will donate their work in this fundraiser for the Audubon Society to help protect pollinators.

Carnival in Brandon. Friday, June 8, 5‑9 p.m., Estabrook Field, Route 7. Come to Brandon’s summer kick‑off event.

Concerts, rides, vendors, food and more. MSJ Rock band 6 p.m., Arthur Cantrell and the What Dudes at 7 p.m. Free admission and parking.

More info at townofbrandon.com.

Photography opening reception in Middlebury. Friday, June 8, from 5‑7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Come meet photographer Peter Wildey, a former Cornwall resident and MUHS class of ’82 graduate and view his exhibit of landscape photog‑ raphy, on display through July 7.

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part clear‑eyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont.

Discussion and book signing to follow.

Free and open to the public.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Shoreham.

Wednesday, June 13, 11 a.m., Halfway House, Route 22A. Enjoy a lunch of spaghetti & meat‑ balls, hot vegetable, garlic wheat toast and dessert. Advanced reser‑ vations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287.

Book Discussion in Middlebury.

Wednesday, June 13, 6 p.m., Shafer’s Market & Deli, 54 College St. The Mystery Reader’s book club will meet and discuss “Istanbul Passage” by Joseph Kanon. Open to everyone.

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Vermont Days. Saturday, June 9. Free admission to all state‑owned historic sites and day‑use state parks.

Affix geolocators in Weybridge. Saturday, June 9, 8 a.m., Bob Collins Conservation Farm,.

Net and affix geolocators on Golden‑winged Warblers. Park at 8 a.m. at the TAM kiosk on the southwest side of Route 23, just west of Sheep Farm Rd. Joint event of Audubon Vermont, MALT and Otter Creek Audubon Society. More info. call Ron Payne at 802‑388‑6019.

Mount Independence Coalition Annual Meeting in Orwell. Saturday, June 9, 10:30 a.m.‑noon, Mt. Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. The site friends group host their annual meeting. All are welcome.

“From Farm to Forest” at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, June 9, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 Route 7. In 1830 hundreds of acres had been cleared on the Rokeby farm for sheep grazing. Now nature has reclaimed much of this, but the subtle signs of human use still remain. On a guided walk, master naturalist Jacob Holzberg‑Pill will provide insights into the transition of the land, the many different types of trees and plants that have arisen, and point out the often hidden “footprints” of man. Sturdy or waterproof boots and insect repellent are recommended.

Senior Meal in Bristol. Thursday, June 9, noon, the First Baptist Church of Bristol, Park St. Menu includes roast pork, sweet potatoes, coleslaw, applesauce, homemade bread and rhubarb dessert. Suggested donation $4. Call Nancy at 802‑453‑5276 to reserve a spot. Come early to talk with friends and make new ones.

Carnival in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, noon‑11 p.m., Estabrook Field, Route 7. Come to Brandon’s summer kick‑off event. Concerts, rides, vendors, food and more. Battle of the bands at noon, One for the Road at 5 p.m., Ben Fuller at 7 p.m., and Jamie Lee Thurston at 9 p.m. Free admission and parking. More info at townofbrandon.com.

“Rabble in Arms” book discussion in Orwell.

Saturday, June 9, 12:30‑1:45 p.m., Mt. Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. The Orwell Free Library offers a group book discussion of this noted 1933 historical Revolutionary War novel by Kenneth Roberts. A key character is Benedict Arnold.

Much of the action is about the Northern Campaign and takes place in this area. Bring your book and a picnic lunch. More info at 802‑948‑2041.

Benedict Arnold in history and fiction in Orwell.

Saturday, June 9, 2‑3:30 p.m., Mt. Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Historian and Benedict Arnold biographer Willard Sterne Randall will offer the annual J. Robert Maguire Lecture. Randall will talk about how the fictional Benedict Arnold stacks up against the historic Arnold.

In preparation you might like to read Randall’s book, “Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor.”

New England Review annual gathering in Middlebury. Saturday, June 9, 2:30‑3:30 p.m., Room 229, Axinn Center, Route 30. Come to the NER’s annual gathering of Middlebury College alumni and faculty authors, including Salena Casha, Laura Irei, Peter Knobler, and J. T. Price, along with Russian translator and Middlebury College professor emeritus Michael R. Katz. The authors will read from a range of poems, stories, essays, and translations. More info at nereview.com.

Otter Romp in Middlebury. Saturday, June 9, 5‑8 p.m., Tail Feather Farm, 1740 Route 7N. The annual fund‑ raiser for Otter Creek Child Center with music by The Kowalskis, a 50/50 raffle, buffet‑style burger night food and homemade pies. Adults $18/kids ages 9‑12 $10/kids ages 5‑8 $6/kids under 5 free. Reservations not required, but appreciated at 802‑683‑6436.

Chicken and Biscuit Supper in Vergennes. Saturday, June 9, 5‑6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, Main St. across from the Opera House. Menu includes chicken and biscuits, stuffing, vegetable, roll, and dessert. Adults $9/children $5. Served buffet style. Takeout available. More info at 802‑877‑3150.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in Middlebury.

Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz‑inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting. A pre‑performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the Memorial Baptist Church.

Tickets: rows B&C $55/rows D‑M $65/balcony $80/ available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802‑382‑9222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” on screen in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Pampered Buster returns home from college to help his father, a tough river‑ boat captain, battle to save the business; falling for the archrival’s daughter doesn’t make things easier.

Climaxed by an eye‑popping cyclone sequence.

Silent film expert Jeff Rapsis will play live accompa‑ niment. Free. Donations accepted, with proceeds to help continuing preservation work.

Northern Flyer on stage in Lincoln. Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Rescheduled from April 14. Come hear the first‑rate harmo‑ nies and extensive instrumental expertise when this contemporary bluegrass band composed of four veteran Vermont Musicians takes the stage.

Admission $10/teens and kids free. Doors open at 7 p.m., concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Part of the Burnham Music Series.

All Types of Kinds in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. This a quartet of alternative singer‑songwriters made up of guitarists Billy Conahan, Ray Rubio, and Rocco Stoker, with Berk O on percussion are known for how they engage with the audience, giving highly entertaining concerts. Show $20. Dinner & show $45.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, June 14, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Singers JOSIAH HENSON, WHO inspired the protagonist from VUHS at 11:30. Meal served at 12 noon. in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” Enjoy potato and leek soup with chicken and will be the subject of the documentary “Josiah” bacon, crackers, spring vegetable mix, roll and shown at the Platt Memorial Library on Main Street pineapple chunks. Bring your own place setting. in Shoreham on Wednesday, June 6, 7 p.m., by the $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations Shoreham Historical Society. required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419.

Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse for the show. BYOB. Call 802‑247‑4295 or email of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR info@brandon‑music.net to reserve. at 802‑388‑2287.

Park bench dedication ceremony in Vergennes.

Thursday, June 14, 11 a.m.‑noon, McDonough Park.

The Seth Warner ‑ Rhoda Farrand Chapter of the DAR has placed a park bench honoring our Korean War Vermont Days. Sunday, June 10. Free veterans in Macdonough Park. The public, particularly admission to all state‑owned historic sites veterans of the Korean conflict, are invited to attend and day‑use state parks. this ceremony.

New exhibit celebration in Addison. Sunday, June 10, Party like it’s 1968 in New Haven. Thursday, June 14, Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Vt. Route 17.

6‑9:30 p.m., Tourterelle, Route 7. Get out those bell Time to celebrate Chimney Point’s two new perma‑ bottoms and tie dye for this groovy event in support of nent exhibits, “Crossing Paths” and “Point of Contact.” the United Way of Addison County. Dinner and music Come visit, meet the Vermont State Archaeologist and the chance to bring out your inner hippie. Early Jess Robinson, bring your artifacts for identification, bird tickets $35 until May 15, then $50, available at and enjoy light refreshments. app.mobilecause.com/form/Bs6gQw. Race for Sundaes in Middlebury. Sunday, June 10, Clarinet Quartet of the USAF Heritage Band of 9 a.m.‑noon, Battell Woods/Trail Around Middlebury, America in Vergennes. Thursday, June 14, 7 p.m., Route 7 trailhead, across from Deneker. MALT, Vergennes Opera House. 120 Main St. Four accom‑ Addison County Bike Club and The Better Middlebury plished musicians will be presenting an exciting and Partnership host this family run/bike race, including polished program that captivates audiences of all trail bike or run, ice cream sundaes, music, games, ages, including traditional classical, rousing patriotic raffle prizes and more. Registration 8:20 a.m. the day marches, Klezmer music, Broadway, Jazz, Latin and of the race. Adults $8/children $5.

South American music as well as their own original Carnival in Brandon. Sunday, June 10, noon‑3 p.m., arrangements. Free.

Estabrook Field, Route 7. Come to Brandon’s summer kick‑off event. Concerts, rides, vendors, food and more. Cosplay at noon, YouTube karaoke begins at 1 p.m. Free admission and parking. More info at townofbrandon.com.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in “From Revolution to the Bill of Rights” in Ferrisburgh. Friday, June 15, 10:30 a.m., Hubbardton. Sunday, June 10, 2‑3 p.m., Hubbardton Basin Harbor Club, Basin Harbor Rd. Grounds Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Historian and open at 10:30 a.m., dining room open at 11:30 a.m., site interpreter Paul Andriscin traces the road from meal served at noon. Enjoy minestrone soup, fresh the American Revolution to the U.S. Constitution and dinner roll, chicken breast, mashed potatoes, local Bill of Rights. Questions and moderated discussion to vegetables and fruited pie. Advanced tickets required. follow.

Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. $5 suggested Addison Town Historical Society meeting in West donation does not include gratuity. A collection for Addison. Sunday, June 10, 2 p.m., DAR John Strong Meals on Wheels will be taken up at this meal.

Mansion Museum, 6656 Route 17. Take a guided Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of tour of the building. The ground floor is handicapped any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at accessible, the second floor is not. Those planning to 802‑388‑2287. attend contact Geoff Nelson at 802‑759‑2399 before Robby Mook speaks in Middlebury. Friday, June 15, June 10.

6‑9 p.m., Middlebury Inn, Court Sq. Mook is the former Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series in campaign manager for Hilary Clinton’s presidential Rochester. Sunday, June 10, 5‑8 p.m., Big Town bid and a political commentator on CNN. He will talk Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Come hear authors Sydney about his part in the 2016 campaign at Middlebury Lee and Chard deNiord read from their work. More Rotary Club’s annual gala dinner. Seats still avail‑ info at bigtowngallery.com. able and include hors‑d’oeuvres and a four‑course dinner for $65. More info contact Scott Needham at 802‑349‑0001 or scottneedham@mac.com.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Monday, June 11, 11: 15 a.m., KB Café, Kennedy Bros, Main St. Enjoy a chicken sandwich on a brioche bun with lettuce and tomato, potato salad, fruit salad, and a pecan sandy cookie. Advanced reservations required, call Michelle to reserve at 802‑377‑1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287.

Fall 2018 musical comedy auditions in Middlebury.

Monday, June 11, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Middlebury Community Players will hold auditions for their fall production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Auditioners should be prepared to spend 2‑3 hours. A perusal copy of the script will be available at the Town Hall Theater box office two weeks before auditions. More info at middleburycommunityplayers. org.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

Tuesday, June 12, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. VASA meeting at 11:30. Meal of Swedish meatballs with mushroom sauce over rotini noodles, green beans, wheat bread, and mandarin oranges with cream served at noon. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reserva‑ tions required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419.

Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802‑388‑2287.

Fall 2018 musical comedy auditions in Middlebury.

Tuesday, June 12, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Middlebury Community Players will hold auditions for their fall production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.” Auditioners should be prepared to spend 2‑3 hours. There are nine male roles and five female roles, as well as a flexible number of ensemble parts.

A perusal copy of the script will be available at the Town Hall Theater box office two weeks before audi‑ tions. More info at middleburycommunityplayers.org.

Author Yvonne Daley in Middlebury. Tuesday, June 12, 7 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Daley will present her new book, “Going Up the Country,” part oral history, part nostalgia‑tinged narrative, and

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LIVEMUSIC VUHS Pops in Vergennes. Friday, June 1, 6 p.m., Vergennes Union High School.

Eugene Charleboise and Friends in Bridport.

Saturday, June 2, noon‑3 p.m., Bridport Town Hall.

Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio in Ripton. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

Caroline Cotter in Brandon. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Diana Fanning piano students in Middlebury. Sunday, June 3, 7 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Alex Larrow and Nico Brayton in Middlebury.

Thursday, June 7, 7‑8 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Jeff Salisbury Band in New Haven. Friday, June 8, 6‑8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery.

Northern Flyer on stage in Lincoln. Saturday, June 9 at 7:30 Burnham Hall.

All Types of Kinds in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Toast in Middlebury. Saturday, June 9, 10 p.m.‑1:30 a.m., Notte.

Blues Jam in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, 8 p.m., Sister Wicked.

USAF Heritage Band of America Clarinet Quartet in Vergennes. Thursday, June 14, 7 p.m., Vergennes Opera House.

The JACK Quartet and Soprano Tony Arnold in Brandon. Saturday, June 16, 2 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

Pocock Rocks in Bristol. Saturday, June 16, 3‑8 p.m., Main St. Northern Third Piano Quartet in Brandon. Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

O’hAnleigh in Brandon. Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

New Music on the Point in Salisbury. Sunday, June 17, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, June 18, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Vergennes Lions raised generous contributions for three local charities VERGENNES — The Vergennes Lions Club has been very active and generous in recent weeks with donations to three Vergennes organizations.

First on the list to receive a donation was Addison County Special Olympics. Jim Wacker, Addison County Special Olympics Activity Coordinator, spoke at a recent Vergennes Lions Club meeting/ dinner. Jim reported that there are 61 people, ranging in age from 10 to 64, involved in Special Olympics in the county. One third of them live at home, one third live independently and the other third live in group homes.

Special Olympian Shawn Fahey, also spoke about what the program has meant to him. Both Wacker and Fahey thanked the Lions for what they have done to assist their programs.

Bixby Library was the second organization to receive a gift from the Lions to the tune of $950. The

funds will go toward ongoing Bixby programs.

Third on the Lions’ list was Vergennes Union High School Project Graduation.

Mason Charlebois, Senior Class President, accepted a donation of $250. He thanked the Lions for their continued support to help make graduation a safe and enjoyable time for graduating VUHS seniors.

The club has more fundraising plans, including the current 50/50 raffle tickets for $10 each, with a planned drawing on June 6. The money made in this raffle goes for college scholarships for graduating VUHS seniors.

Tickets for the Lions’ Annual Vehicle Raffle are also being sold, for $30 each, with the winner’s name being drawn on Memorial Day. The vehicle this year is a 1996 Ford Mustang convertible with 63,000 miles, and can be seen at the junction of Main Street and Monkton Road.

End of an era

THE DINER IN downtown Middlebury was filled with shoppers Monday for the restaurant’s closing yard sale. The long-time eatery was sold last month and used the Monday yard sale to sell off tables and chairs, pots and pans, dishware and even some food supplies.

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BIXBY LIBRARY TREASURER Donna Corcoran, right, accepts a $950 check from Vergennes Lions Club President Debbie Brace with thanks and gratitude.

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MASON CHARLEBOIS, VUHS Senior Class President, accepts a $250 donation from the Vergennes Lions for this year’s Project Graduation.

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East Midd. community picnic will honor lifers EAST MIDDLEBURY — At its annual Community Picnic on Sunday, June 3, East Middlebury will honor its lifelong residents. In conjunction with the celebration, the East Middlebury Historical Society is conducting a project to record these citizens. Local resident and film Starting professional at noon, C o r e y lifelong Hendrickson residents has offered are invited to take to visit the i n d i v i d u a l pictures for parlor of a permanent the Sarah record of Partridge those being Community honored.

House to Starting at noon, lifelong have a residents are picture invited to taken. visit the parlor of the Sarah Partridge Community House to have a picture taken. They are asked to provide their name, the number of years of residence, and the street addresses of their homes.

To be included in the project, residents’ parents should have lived in East Middlebury when he/she was born. It is possible that the youngest resident could be less than a month old.

Children through college age will make up the first category.

The middle category will include people who might have left for college or employment, but who are now permanently settled in the community. The last category is for those who have spent long lives in East Middlebury — a number of whom are 80 years plus. Our oldest resident is over 100 years old and is included in the project based on the number of years spent living in the community.

The East Middlebury community is now composed of people in all age groups and from diversified populations.

Filmmakers (Continued from Page 1A) bump compared to last year’s festival, according to Komesar.

“It’s smashed all of our previous records,” he said. “These are huge jumps for us.”

Filmmakers from 37 different countries have sent in entries, according to Komesar.

“We’ve really broken through here,” Komesar said of the still-nascent venture, designed to recognize and showcase the best work from budding filmmakers. “In some way, we’ve gotten traction that’s significant all across the globe.”

He attributed the success to four factors: • The MNFF is now a top-100 bestreviewed festival on “FilmFreeway,” a website through which enthusiasts can learn about, promote and rank film festivals. FilmFreeway has placed the MNFF in the top 2 percent of the 6,000 festivals it includes as part of its platform.

“When filmmakers get ready to spend their dollars to send films, they look at our listing… and I think it helps their decision,” Komesar said.

• European companies have become increasingly aware of MNFF and have been sending in their film slates, thus increasing the influence of the festival.

• College theater, fine arts and filmmaking programs have become more aggressive about getting their students to submit to the festival.

• The growing number of MNFF alumni have been spreading the word about the Middlebury festival, and this word-of-mouth has translated into more film submissions.

“Our alumni network is really hard at work out there helping us,” Komesar said.

This year’s MNFF will again be a four-day affair, kicking off on Thursday, Aug. 23, with an opening night film at the Town Hall Theater, followed by a party at the Swift House Inn. Festival films will be shown on five screens (instead of the usual four) this year, with one at the THT, two at the Marquis, one at Middlebury College’s Dana Auditorium, and another to be announced.

As usual, the MNFF will be a juried competition and winning filmmakers all receive coveted VTeddy Awards in the following categories: Best Feature Narrative, Best Short Narrative, Best

Feature Documentary, Best Short Documentary, Audience Award Feature and Audience Award Short.

The festival will also confer multiple cash prizes and in-kind awards to feature and short film directors.

Along with the customary Hernandez-Bayliss $1,000 award for best feature film to capture the human spirit and the Clio $1,000 prize for the advancement of women in film, the film festival will debut a new cash award this year: The Gaia prize for environmental filmmaking. That award is also $1,000.

Participating filmmakers are now waiting anxiously as MNFF’s screening committee whittles the 475 submissions to the roughly 95 finalists that will be shown on five screens from Aug. 23-26. And Komesar said the triage has never been tougher, owing to the overall quality of films submitted this year.

This year’s festival will feature a bonus day — Aug. 22 — that will be devoted to children’s themes that will all be shown at the Marquis Theater on Main Street.

“We want to reach out to a (demographic) here in Middlebury that has not really been able to attend the festival, really, and that’s kids and families,” Komesar said. Past festivals have offered some kid-friendly fare on the Saturday morning of the event, but nothing as coordinated and comprehensive as will be seen on Wednesday, Aug. 22.

“It’s a demo we felt we needed to make a STEVE more concerted effort to attract,” he said.

Organizers will look within this year’s MNFF submissions, and curate films, in order to come up with three feature offerings for families and children between the ages of 6 and 16, according to Komesar. The mix is likely to include a feature animation, a documentary and a G or PG-rated drama, all by first- or second-time filmmakers. Plans call for face painting and other kid-friendly activities at the Marquis on that day.

BIG NAME MOVIEMAKERS Komesar and MNFF Artistic

THE HUSBAND-AND-WIFE film production design team of David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, who won a 2017 Academy Award for “La La Land,” will speak at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in August.

Director Jay Craven, a renowned filmmaker in his own right, confirmed the participation of four prominent guests in this year’s festival. They include: • Noted documentarian Steve James, who produced, edited and directed “Hoop Dreams,” and the winner of multiple prizes, including a Peabody and Robert F. Kennedy Award.

Other examples of his work include “Stevie,” “Death House Door” and “Life Itself.”

His most recent documentary, “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail,” earned an Academy Award nomination this year and will be screened at the festival, along with a JAMES film James executive produced, called “Minding The Gap.” Festival organizers will give James an award for “sustained excellence in documentary filmmaking” for his considerable achievements.

In what is quite a coup for the MNFF, this year’s festival will premier the first two episodes of James’ 10-part docuseries, “America To Me,” which follows students, teachers and administrators in suburban Chicago’s Oak Park and River Forest High School over the course of a year as they grapple with

racial and educational inequities. The series will debut on the Starz cable network this fall.

“Steve James will have a very significant presence while he’s here,’ Komesar said. “(James) is absolutely a perfect choice for us,” Craven added.

• The return of Barbara Kopple, also a renowned documentarian.

Kopple, an attendee of the past two festivals, will be on hand this year for a screening and Q&A for her new film, “A Murder in Mansfield,” which explores the 1989 murder of Noreen Boyle in Mansfield, Ohio.

“She’s become a fixture at the MNFF, and we’re thrilled to have her back,” Komesar said. “She loves coming here.”

• Mo Naqvi, a Pakistani filmmaker to whom the MNFF will be bestowing a “Courage in Filmmaking” award.

One of Naqvi’s films, “Shame,” relates the story of 30-year-old Mukhtaran Mai, a Pakistani village woman who, in 2002, was publicly gang-raped in retribution for an offense for which her brother was falsely accused.

Naqvi also made the documentary “Among the Believers,” which chronicles the spread of the radical Islamic school “Red Mosque” in Pakistan, a school that trains children to devote their lives to holy war.

“Both these films were films where Mo quite frankly could have been killed for the role he played in digging into these subjects,” Craven said.

“He’s a very important filmmaker

and a mentor to particularly women filmmakers.”

• David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco, a husband-wife duo of production designers and art directors. They won a 2017 Academy Award for their production design work on the film “La La Land.” They have also worked on such films as “Pulp Fiction,” “Kill Bill: Volumes I and II,” and “Inglourious Basterds.”

David Wasco, a Bennington native, also did production work on Craven’s celebrated film, “Where the Rivers Flow North.”

“Production design is what we see when we go to the movie theater,” Craven said. “It’s building the visual world of the film.”

“It’s one of the pivotal crafts that makes Hollywood special,” Komesar added.

David and Sandy will be on hand for a screening of “La La Land” and perhaps one other film, Komesar said.

The Independent will provide more details on the 2018 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival as the event gets closer. In the meantime, check out middfilmfest.org for more information and for ordering tickets to individual shows and multi-day passes.

“Our goal is to do two things: serve the community and to help foster community,” Craven said. “This is the ultimate challenge of a nonprofit — to serve the community and given dimension to the communities it serves.”

DID YOU KNOW WHAT ACORN ENERGY CO-OP IS TRYING TO DO IN SHOREHAM? If you are considering buying into this community solar project, here are some things you should know.

Good Solar - When Acorn Energy Co-op partnered with Cooperative Insurance Companies and the Town of Middlebury in 2011 to build a solar plant on the site of a decommissioned sewage treatment plant behind the Middlebury Police Station, it was a project that made sense. The site was in an industrial area, shielded from view by industrial buildings and trees. The Middlebury project was a great example of good solar.

Bad Solar – The solar site currently proposed by Acorn Co-op at 869 Watch Point Road in Shoreham is an example of bad solar. The landscape is rural and scenic, with long-range views of farmlands, Adirondack Mountains and Green Mountains. The proposed site is in the agricultural district, on a highly visible scenic hillside. According to Acorn’s application to the Vermont Public Utility Commission (PUC), this hillside will be extensively altered in order to place 612 glass and aluminum panels on top of galvanized steel racks in 8 rows, each 128 feet long. The proposed excavation will involve removal of 1,830 cubic yards of native material from the ridgeline, including primary agricultural soils, along with removal of several mature maple trees.

Shoreham’s Guidelines for Solar Projects – Shoreham’s town plan stresses the importance of maintaining Shoreham’s rural, agricultural character and quality of life and protecting primary agricultural soils. It also specifies that new solar projects should be sited in a way that seriously considers the interests of adjoining landowners, environmental impacts and the impacts on Shoreham’s rural and agricultural character.

Status of the PUC Case – In March, the PUC granted neighbors and adjoining landowners who oppose the project a technical hearing on the case. As part of the hearing process, the PUC will be conducting a site visit at 869 Watch Point Road on Friday, June 1 at 2 p.m. The site visit is open to the public.

Good Alternative for Acorn Project Siting - The town of Shoreham’s wastewater treatment facility is located on town owned land referred to as the Farnham Property. The Town is looking for other uses for the Farnham Property, and this could be a good alternative for the proposed Acorn project. Such a collaboration between Acorn Energy Cooperative, Cooperative Insurance and the Town of Shoreham would be very similar to the Middlebury project and might be a win-win for all.

1. Contact the Shoreham Selectboard and the Addison County Regional Planning Commission to let them know that a solar plant at 869 Watch Point Road will negatively impact the rural, agricultural character and quality of life of the area and will not protect primary agricultural soils.

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2. Contact Acorn Energy Co-op and Cooperative Insurance and ask them to consider alternative sites for the project that won’t negatively impact the rural, agricultural character and quality of life of the area and that will protect primary agricultural soils.

3. Go to www.keepshorehambeautiful.org or call Therese Marie Holmes at 802-235-4349 for updates on the case and additional information about how you can get involved. This initiative is led by a group of neighbors and adjoining landowners working together to protect the beauty of Watch Point Road.

HELP KEEP SHOREHAM BEAUTIFUL!

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Memorial Day 2018

COOL TEMPERATURES AND a mix of clouds and sun made for very pleasant parade-watching in Middlebury and Vergennes Monday. The parades featured the usual suspects of marching bands, firefighters, politicians, Shriners and reenactors. Both parades were followed by moving ceremonies dedicated to fallen soldiers.

Also Monday, Bristol American Legion Lt. Col. Ron LaRose and Sgt. at Arms Loren Lathrop, far right, laid a wreath at the veterans memorial in Bristol.

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Car accident claims man’s life ADDISON COUNTY — Kassach Alaymau, a 70-year-old man from Ethiopia, died as the result of injuries he sustained as a passenger in a twovehicle crash in Bristol this past Friday afternoon.

Vermont State Police report that Kibreab Gebrehiwot, 25, of Montgomery Village, Md., was driving a 2017 Ford Edge SUV westbound on Hewitt Road at a little before 1 p.m. on May 25 and stopped at the intersection with Route 116. Passengers in the car were Alaymau; Tigist Gebru, 44, of Ethiopia; Gebru Gebregziabher, 70, of Ethiopia; and Annette Schiller, 64, of Missouri.

Police said Gebrehiwot signaled a left turn, entered Route 116 and his Edge was struck by a northbound Ford F-250 Super Duty pickup driven by Ryan Suchan, 30, of Granville, N.Y. Neither Gebrehiwot nor Suchan and his passengers were injured, but the four passengers in the SUV sustained serious injuries and were taken to area hospitals. State police were notified at 11 p.m. that Alaymau had died at UVM Medical Center as a result of his injuries.

Police said it did not appear as though alcohol or drugs were factors in the incident.

Vermont State Police was assisted

by Middlebury police and New Haven firefighters, Bristol Rescue Squad and Middlebury Regional EMS. This crash remains under investigation.

Anyone with information on the crash is asked to contact Vermont State Police, New Haven barracks at 802-388-4919, or to submit a tip anonymously online at vsp.vermont.gov/tipsubmit.

In other recent activity, troopers: • On May 23, a little before 5 p.m., were dispatched with Bristol police to a Route 17 home in Starksboro for a reported family fight. Police said they found Megan Webbley, 29, of Starksboro and determined that there was a New Hampshire warrant out for her arrest. State police took Webbley into custody cited her for being a fugitive from justice and for unlawful trespass and lodged her at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility for lack of $5,500 bail.

• On May 25 at approximately 4:28 p.m. went to the scene of a crash involving a car and a motorcycle at the Jiffy Mart on Route 7 in New Haven.

State police were told that the at-fault vehicle, described as a small silver car, had left the scene and the driver of the motorcycle attempted to flag them down. Local agencies were notified of the incident and asked to be on the lookout for a vehicle matching the description.

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the vehicle consistent with the crash reported. Shelburne police officers also reportedly detected signs of impairment in the driver, identified as Alexander Lucci, 29, of Pittsford.

Police cited Lucci for leaving the scene of an accident.

• On May 28 at approximately 4:30 a.m. responded to a 911 call from a home on Schoolhouse Road in Ferrisburgh. After investigating, state police cited Zachery Devers, 27, of Pascagoula, Miss., for domestic assault and for driving under the influence of alcohol. He was lodged at Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility for lack of $500 bail.

State police operating out of the New Haven barracks release a daily log of a selection of their activities.

In Addison County, those activities included: • May 8, threatening, Watch Point Road, Shoreham.

• May 8, suspicious person or circumstance, Market Road, Bridport.

• May 9, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 7 and Maple Run Road, Leicester.

• May 9, citizen assist, Bull Run Road, Lincoln.

• May 9, citizen assist, Route 7, New Haven.

• May 9, motor vehicle disturbances, South Lincoln Road, Lincoln.

• May 9, directed patrol, Otter Creek Highway and Route 7, New Haven.

• May 10, citizen assist, Lake Dunmore Road, Leicester.

• May 10, motor vehicle accident with injury, Route 7 and Monkton Road, Ferrisburgh.

• May 11, abandoned vehicle, Downingsville Road, Lincoln.

• May 11, alarm, Route 74E, Shoreham.

• May 12, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 53, Salisbury.

• May 12, motor vehicle disturbances, Crown Point Road, Bridport.

• May 12, directed patrol, Route 7, New Haven.

• May 12, phone offenses, North Main Street, Whiting.

• May 12, citizen assist, Morgan Horse Farm Road, Weybridge.

• May 13, directed patrol, Routes 22A and 17, Addison.

• May 13, consent search, Route 7 and Greenbush Road, Ferrisburgh.

• May 13, citizen assist, Downingsville Road, Lincoln.

• May 13, alarm, Route 22A,

Bridport.

• May 13, directed patrol, South Middlebrook Road and Green Street, Waltham.

• May 13, driving with a criminally suspended license, Green Street, Waltham.

• May 14, citizen assist, Stove Pipe City Road, Panton.

• May 14, burglary/breaking and entering, Middlebrook Road, Ferrisburgh.

• May 14, lost or found property, Route 7, New Haven.

• May 14, larceny, Hooker Road, Leicester.

• May 14, citizen assist, Route 22A, Addison.

• May 14, alarm, Monkton Road, Ferrisburgh.

• May 14, agency assist, Kountry Trailer Park, Bristol.

• May 15, citizen assist, Upper Plains Road, Salisbury.

• May 15, suspicious person or circumstance, Route 116, Starksboro.

• May 16, suspicious person or circumstance, Lake Road, Panton.

• May 16, citizen assist, Shard Villa Road, Salisbury.

• May 17, citizen assist, Route 7, Leicester.

• May 17, larceny, Route 30, Cornwall.

• May 17, citizen assist, Satterly Road, Ferrisburgh.

• May 17, accident with damage, Hooker Road, Leicester.

• May 17, citizen assist, James Road, Cornwall.

• May 17, agency assist, Route 7, New Haven.

• May 18, simple assault, Shoreham Depot Road, Whiting.

• May 19, welfare check, Route 125, Bridport.

• May 20, aggravated assault, Meadows Edge, Starksboro.

• May 20, agency assist, Main Street, Vergennes.

• May 20, family disturbance, Crosby Heights, Waltham.

• May 21, motor vehicle disturbance, Route 7, New Haven.

• May 21, agency assist, Kountry Trailer Park, Bristol.

• May 21, communications offense, Knox Hill Road, Orwell.

• May 21, citizen assist, South Street, New Haven.

• May 22, burglary/breaking and entering, Maple Street, Salisbury.

• May 22, citizen assist, Hemenway Road, Bridport.

• May 22, traffic crash, Weybridge Road, Weybridge.

• May 22, arrest on a warrant, Route 7, New Haven.

• May 22, traffic crash, Route 22A and Carr Road, Addison.

• May 22, agency assist, Green Meadow Acres, Vergennes.

Opioids (Continued from Page 1A) 116 patients, and Mountain Health Center, where Dr. Frank Provato treats roughly 30 patients.

It seems to be working.

“At any given time, 95 percent of our patients are free from illegal opiate use,” Giles said.

“I found that most (MAT patients) are just so appreciative that they’re in a family practice, where they don’t feel a stigma attached to their care,” said Marion Atocha, a registered nurse at Mountain Health.

Dr. Provato’s announcement during the panel discussion that “there is no longer a waiting list” for Mountain Health’s MedicationAssisted Treatment program was greeted with applause and gratitude by the roughly 30 people in attendance.

PREVENTION “We’re not going to arrest our way out of this,” said Vermont State Police Lt. Jeffrey Danoski, the New Haven station commander.

Danoski and Jesse Brooks, the United Way of Addison County’s regional prevention partnership coordinator, discussed their work together on projects like the Heroin Epidemic Learning Program (known as HELP) and the Addison County Substance Abuse Prevention Committee.

Danoski’s troopers must carry in their cars or on their persons a Heroin/Opioid Prevention Resource Guide designed by Brooks. The size of a large business card, the guide lists contact information for prevention, treatment, recovery and law enforcement agencies in Addison County. Troopers will often pass along the cards to people they encounter, even in exchanges where drugs are not involved.

“It’s had extremely positive effects,” Danoski said.

But there is still much work to be done.

“Prevention does not get mentioned as much as it should,” Brooks said, then recalled her own childhood with a mother who struggled with an opiate disorder.

“I was exposed to that from a very young age — 13. I watched my mom overdose multiple times. I walked in on her. I had to go to the hospital at Porter and say goodbye to her one day because they told me that she was not going to come out of it. We were pulled out of Mount Abraham High School, my brother and I, and we were told to go say goodbye to our mom. This was before we had an ‘epidemic.’”

Brooks went on to explain that it took her years to get her own life in order after these experiences.

“How we treat our youth now will determine whether or not we have an opioid epidemic in 10 years,” she said.

Part of the effort to combat substance use disorder is providing places where people can get away from pressures that otherwise might drive them to drugs.

“The Turning Point Center of Addison County is a place where people can drop in, be safe and won’t encounter anyone under the influence of drugs,” said executive director Stacy Jones.

The TPC’s offerings include not only peer-support resources and meetings, such as 12-step, smartrecovery, all-recovery and even Buddhist-based programs, but also programs that help people reestablish daily routines and work habits.

“Peer support is different from counseling,” she acknowledged, “but it’s still a powerful and critical tool for relearning how to communicate effectively in recovery.”

SOBERING NUMBERS While the number of opioid deaths in Vermont may be leveling off, other numbers are sounding alarms.

Fentanyl use, for instance, is on the rise in Vermont, accounting for more than half of opioid-related deaths last year, said Bristol Police Lt. Bruce Nason. Fentanyl-related deaths in the state have doubled since 2015.

Because the synthetic painkiller is cheaper than heroin, it’s often mixed with or used as a substitute for it — often without the user’s knowledge.

Its danger lies in the fact that it is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin and kills people much more quickly.

In April police in Nebraska seized nearly 120 pounds of fentanyl, which the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency said was enough to kill 26 million people.

Nason pointed out that not only are medical first responders administering the opioid antagonist Narcan to overdose patients more often, but they are having to administer multiple doses more often.

The number of people requiring more than one dose increased by 16 percent between 2014 and 2015, according the Vermont Department of Health — likely a result of the increase in fentanyl use.

Still, Nason remains hopeful and committed.

“There are towns and cities that have a more serious problem with opioid use than we do in Bristol,” he told the Independent the day after the panel discussion. “I would not view it as a crisis level here. We are grateful for the community forum last night and are focused on becoming more proactive in assisting those in crisis. I agree with VSP Lt. Jeffrey Danoski: we are not going to arrest our way out of this problem. It is going to take the cooperative efforts of all community stakeholders to achieve better solutions.”

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent. com.

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Soule (Continued from Page 1A) difference-maker in helping schools really become high-performing,” Soule said. “That’s really always been my platform, that and educational equity for all learners.”

Soule, who for the past eight years has served as Harwood Unified Union School District’s curriculum director, left Thatcher Brook to work for Vermont Institutes as a mathematics instruction consultant.

During that four-year stint she also obtained her Master’s in Educational Leadership from the University of Vermont.

TIES TO DISTRICT After eight years in the Harwood district, a superintendency was the next logical step, and Soule (it’s pronounced “sole”) said she found the ANWSD opening especially attractive.

“I had a couple of connections to the community already,” said Soule, who will start at ANWSD on July 1 at a salary to be made final this week.

“I already knew some of the staff members, and they’re fantastic.”

Among the faculty members she knows are the three Vergennes Union High School Rowland Fellows, whom she has met at curriculum conferences, and other teachers who have taken a course from her in her capacity as a Southern New Hampshire University adjunct professor. And one of her best friends from childhood is Ferrisburgh resident Carolyn Tatlock.

Soule has also worked on proficiency-based education in the Harwood district, and is familiar with the pioneering work done at VUHS on Proficiency Based Graduation Requirements.

“I knew Vergennes by reputation.

They were leaders early on in the proficiency work. The staff from Harwood went over to visit them.

I had familiarity with some of the work and the culture there,” Soule said.

According to ANWSD Board Chairwoman Sue Rakowski, Soule’s collaborative approach, background in curriculum and proficiencybased education, and commitment to educational equity were among the factors that made her stand out among the three finalists that the search committee put forward early last week.

“Sheila’s background in curriculum development, proficiency-based learning, community engagement, and

SHELIA SOULE strategic planning align closely with current goals and initiatives of our district. Her confidence and expertise in these areas will be invaluable as our communities work together to shape the future of ANWSD,” Rakowski wrote in an email.

In an earlier email to ANWSD staff, Rakowski wrote, “We appreciate Sheila’s commitment to maintaining the best possible learning environment and promoting student achievement and equity.

She articulated support for a model of shared and collaborative leadership, community engagement, and promotion of our communities’ values and strengths.”

GOALS When Soule arrives on July 1 — replacing JoAn Canning, who is moving on to a job in Kuwait — she hopes to get off to a quick start.

“My short-term goals are to begin building relationships with folks.

I’m eager to begin establishing all of those relationships and hit the ground running … and focus on student outcome and student achievement,” Soule said. “But I know we also have to deal with the fiscal realities of declining enrollment, so I think those three things I would identify as the top priorities, focusing on relationships, focusing on academic excellence, and working with the board and the communities to figure out how we’re going to get through these challenging fiscal times.”

Asked for what else residents should know about her, Soule said she grew up the youngest of six siblings in Randolph, where her parents, both Vermont natives, settled when her father retired from the Air Force; she is a mother of three, two recent college graduates and one recent high school graduate; when she has free time she enjoys hiking, kayaking and quilting; and that she is trying to train her young Australian shepherd mix to be a therapy or agility dog.

As for how she got into education in the first place, Soule told the story of an immigrant family she met in her youth.

“I got to know a family that had moved here from Germany. I would see them from time to time. And in a short amount of time the kids picked up the English language so quickly. And the parents always struggled still because it wasn’t their native language. And it absolutely fascinated me watching kids learn, and I loved kids. So it was just a curiosity about how kids learn, and a desire to be able to work with kids in that way and see that on a day to day basis in a classroom.”

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Noted journalist urges emerging adults to practice ‘radical empathy’ Editor’s note: Thousands of family and friends were on the Quadrangle at Middlebury College this past Sunday, May 27, to recognize a rite of passage for 532 members of the class of 2018 (including those who will graduate next February). The college hosted a commencement ceremony that was momentous for Rachel Cohen, herself a member of the class of 2018 and an intern at the Addison Independent this summer. Here she gives her first-person account of the big day.

By RACHEL COHEN shoulders, exhausted from the MIDDLEBURY — On Sunday, night before. Like at other colleges, May 27, just before 9 a.m., I descended Middlebury seniors have a tradition down College Street along with my of staying awake all night the evening suitemates and the rest of the graduat- before graduation. ing senior class, After dances clad in a black and parties that cap and gown. seemed to have no “We are transitioning We gathered into a world where time limit, we had in front of Davis harsh views and fake walked in packs Family Library, to Youngman received our news seem the norm, Field at 4:30 a.m., tassels, and lined where people are and around 300 up by academic unashamed to spew members of the class department in hate. But now we have of 2018 slumped a l p h a b e t i c a l the tools to engage onto the grassy order. At the to watch the with this world, leaving slope same time, famisunrise over the lies scrambled it a little more truthful, Green Mountains. to secure seating a little more kind.”

As soon as students close to the stage, — Sebastian Sanchez, had decided that the while others Class Speaker sun was sufficiently were content to visible, albeit sit on the lawn behind some clouds, below Mead Chapel, or to lounge in waves of seniors trekked downAdirondack chairs in the back. town for a free breakfast courtesy of While waiting for line-up, students College President Laurie Patton. rested their heads on their peers’ Middlebury Bagel and Deli, The

Diner, Otter Creek Bakery, and Shafer’s all opened their doors early — at 5:30, 5 or even 4:30 a.m. — for the seniors to enjoy their last breakfast as students of the college.

I was lucky enough to squeeze into a wooden booth at The Diner to eat a

breakfast burrito on the Middlebury institution’s last day of operation.

Then, many of us retreated back to our dorms to catch a couple of hours — two for me! — of sleep before having to get dressed and out the door before 9 o’clock.

After processing out onto the lawn, lining a sidewalk and greeting our professors as they passed through our cheering tunnel on their way to the graduation exercises, we continued to our seats on the Quadrangle between Voter Hall and McCullough Student Center.

One of our own, Sebastian Sanchez, a political science major from Brooklyn, N.Y., addressed us as the 2018 class speaker. He talked about what he loved most about his time at Middlebury, and why he believes that this class is particularly able to tackle the issues of our world today.

“We are transitioning into a world where harsh views and fake news seem the norm, where people are unashamed to spew hate. But now we have the tools to engage with this world, leaving it a little more truthful,

a little more kind,” Sanchez said.

In her keynote commencement address, Isabel Wilkerson, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of “The Warmth of Other Suns,” also spoke to us about the gravity of the particular political moment. She made the case for radical empathy as a solution to division.

For Wilkerson, radical empathy means “putting in the work to learn and to listen with a heart wide open, to understand another’s experience well enough to know how they are feeling it, not as we imagine we would feel.”

Wilkerson’s promotion of radical empathy reminded me — an aspiring journalist emerging into the workforce during a polarizing time — of the power of listening, of really trying to understand someone else’s story from their own perspective.

Wilkerson was granted an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Middlebury, along with Jeanne A. Brink, Elaine Ostroff, Velcheru Narayana Rao, and William P. Stritzler, who also received honorary doctorate awards.

Then, under the overcast skies, we 532 undergraduates received our diplomas and, with a handshake and a piece of paper, became alumni.

Department by department, from American Studies through Theater and Dance, students rose and lined up in front of the stage. Being in the Sociology and Anthropology Department meant that I received my diploma toward the end. As the clock approached noon I sat in my seat waiting eagerly. Surprisingly, despite my lack of sleep, I was not bored or unenthused; I cheered on all of my friends as their names were announced and they walked across the stage, thinking about how proud I was of their accomplishments, and that they were my peers.

When it was finally my turn to walk, I shook the president’s hand, received my diploma and my own replica of Gamaliel Painter’s cane, and smiled for a photograph at the far end of the stage.

Gamaliel Painter, a founder of the town of Middlebury and the institution of higher education that took the town’s name, left a major gift to the college, along with his cane, when he died. Seniors have been receiving replicas of the cane at their graduation ceremonies since 1995, and singing the song written in 1917 about Painter’s cane.

Although few seniors — except for the ones leading the charming song on stage — knew the tune beforehand, we chanted the “rap rap raps” and “tap tap taps” with a playful passion. Then, up Mead Chapel we went as graduates of Middlebury. Along the way, we were hugged by professors, and cheered on by families and friends, until we made it to the top.

During rest of the afternoon, parents took photographs of their graduates with roommates and siblings, families helped to clean out cluttered dorm rooms — must be out by 11 p.m. — and friends tried to delay saying their goodbyes. By early evening on Sunday, Middlebury’s streets, which had been bustling with excitement just hours earlier, sat quiet, waiting for the next bout of activity, the Memorial Day Parade the next morning.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE GRADUATED 532 students Sunday morning during commencement exercises.

The seniors were recipients of the usual pomp and circumstance as well as remarks from invited speaker Isabel Wilkerson, top, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

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Kulhowvick (Continued from Page 1A) make sure he didn’t let them down.

He put a lot of effort into his studies, and into his favorite sport — football.

He parlayed a successful high school football career into a starting position on the Norwich University varsity squad — as a sophomore.

And Kulhowvick paid instant dividends. As a running back he scored three touchdowns in his first game. His 34 career TDs is still tied for second all-time for Norwich. He’s a member of the Norwich University Athletic Hall of Fame. “(Football) has always been something that’s given me opportunities and advantages,” said Kulhowvick, who would go on to coach that sport (stints as assistant and head coach), along with basketball and baseball, at Middlebury-area schools.

MENTORS He was fortunate to spend time with legendary Vermont coaches, leaders who inspired him to pursue a teaching career. Among them were Joe Sabol and Roland “Lefty” Lyford, Norwich’s head football and basketball coaches, respectively.

Lyford helped Kulhowvick land his first coaching gig — for JV basketball at Northfield High School — while he was still a student at Norwich.

“Lefty had faith in me and knew I would do a good job because I had a good work ethic,” Kulhowvick said.

Sabol helped him land his teaching and coaching positions at MUMS, and Kulhowvick said he learned from both men to use positive reinforcement to get young people to give their best effort.

“Both Joe and lefty had many teaching talents, but the one I admired most was their ability to motivate students,” Kulhowvick said .

Little did Kulhowvick know that his first teaching job out of college would become his dream job that would command his devotion and enthusiasm for almost a half century.

At one point, he’d considered teaching physical education. He tried it out as a student-teacher, but didn’t like it.

“I found it repetitive; I wasn’t challenged,” he recalled.

He found himself drawn to history and social studies.

“I found I cold talk today’s events and connect them to the past,” Kulhowvick said. “I found it so interesting.”

Fortunately, MUMS was looking for a social studies teacher at around

the same time Kulhowvick graduated from Norwich. His Bachelor of Science degree in history qualified him for a teaching certificate. He would later earn a Masters degree in education from Castleton State College.

“The rest of the story is, ‘I’m here,’” he said with a smile.

CHANGING TIMES It’s been a long, fruitful and interesting story, as Kulhowvick has been part of big changes in how and where education has been delivered at MUMS. When he arrived back in 1971, MUMS and MUHS were located in the same building on Charles Avenue.

The in the early 1990s Addison Central voters approved a bond to repair the Charles Avenue building exclusively for MUHS and move MUMS into a new structure off Middle Road.

It was clear to students that “Mr. K” really enjoyed the subject matter he was teaching.

Former MUMS social studies teacher Mary Goodale talked to the Independent back in 2015 about some of the innovative teaching methods she, Kulhowvick and Peter Brakeley brought to the social studies program. She recalled 8th-grade classes occasionally convening at the Cornwall Congregational Church for role-playing, in costume, for a mock debate among 18th-century Torreys, Radicals or Moderates.

“It’s really the team approach here,” Goodale said at the time. “It’s been a great department to work with. We trade materials around all the time.

Pete and George couldn’t have been

any greater.”

Kulhowvick said social studies plays into students’ inherent interest in current events.

“The kids today really want to know what’s going on — even the political stuff,” he said, noting the age of smart phones and instant data. “I use that as a motivation. ‘How did we get to where we are right now? What is a Republican? What is a Democrat?

Why do they feel the way they do, and what’s the political spectrum all about?”

Kulhowvick somewhat regrets leaving on the cusp of a major educational transition in the ACSD, as it switches over to the International Baccalaureate program. The program, he noted, emphasizes “concept teaching,” which he believes he and many colleagues have been putting into practice in classrooms for years.

If he were starting his teaching career today, it’s safe to say Kulhowvick would have taken full advantage of the latest technology.

But he did the best he could with the tools he was given. During the 1970s, he’d rent educational films from a company to show to his classes. Those films would sometimes take a month to arrive at the school and break while being shown.

As he leaves, the technology has almost become overwhelming. There are iPads in every class and quality educational materials are only a couple of key strokes away.

“In today’s teaching world a teacher would not be able to do their job without some high-tech computer,” he said. “Our grading system is

MIDDLEBURY UNION MIDDLE School social studies teacher George Kulhowvick is retiring next month after 47 years at the school.

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computerized. We take attendance with our computers. We have to check our email two or three times a day. I now have a phone in my room and I have to check it for messages.”

But Kulhowvick cautioned that technology has its negative aspects.

He believes some students are becoming too immersed in their phones, computers and video games, to the point where they’re becoming too sedentary.

He’s proud of the many students — at least two generations of some local families — who’ve come through his

ACSD teachers who are retiring this year

George Kulhowvick is among several long serving Addison Central School District teachers who’ll be retiring this year. They include: • Salisbury Community School Interventionist Diane Benware, with 40 years of service.

• Shoreham Elementary School teacher Patricia Bolger, with 40 years in the district.

• Susan Sears, who’s taught 39 years at Cornwall’s Bingham Memorial School.

• Sally Mailloux, a speech language pathologist of 36 years at Mary Hogan Elementary.

• MUMS English teacher Garreth Parizo, with 35 years in the district.

• Lisa Beck, 34 years as a teacher at Bingham Memorial.

• Susan Hornbeck, 33 years as a teacher at the Salisbury Community School.

• Paul Scaramucci, 33 years as an MUHS science teacher.

• Barbara Karle, 32 years with the Library/Media department at MUMS.

• Wesley McKee, Mary Hogan Elementary guidance educator, 31 years.

• Kathryn Purcell, Mary Hogan Elementary special educator, 31 years.

• Donna MacKenzie, Mary Hogan Elementary interventionist, 30 years.

• Sandra Hall, Mary Hogan Elementary special educator, 29 years.

• Phyllis Laliberte, Mary Hogan Elementary teacher, 28 years.

• Xaveria Atkins, guidance educator at the Salisbury and Shoreham schools, 27 years.

• Wendy Whaley-Sauder, guidance educator at the Cornwall, Ripton and Weybridge Schools, 27 years.

• Christine Jenkins, art teacher at the Salisbury and Ripton schools, 22 years.

• Cheryl Junkins, Mary Hogan Elementary special educator, 20 years.

• Jane Shephard, Mary Hogan Elementary educator, 20 years.

classes.

Kulhowvick recalled a former student who visited his classroom after earning a degree at Yale. He was away from the classroom, so the young woman left him a note giving him thanks for teaching her the “SQ3R” method of note-taking while she was a middle schooler. The SQ3R method stands for survey, question, read, recite, and review.

His students have included twotime Olympian Doug Lewis and Dennis Burnham, who now owns a construction business. Colleague Jan Broderson is a former student of his, as are MUMS math teachers Pam Quinn and Katie Ford.

MUMS administrative assistants Shelley Harrison and Kandy Kinney also took social studies with Mr. K. One of his best friends, Derek Bartlett and his wife, were both in his class.

“It’s very rewarding for me to look back and be able to say I was a part of their education,” Kulhowvick said.

LOOKING AHEAD Now it’s time for Kulhowvick to be rewarded for his dedication. He’ll be joining in retirement his wife, Linda Kulhowvick, who’s also a member of the exclusive club of educators who’ve served four-plus decades in Addison County schools. She retired last year after having served 44 years

as a kindergarten teacher at Beeman Elementary School in New Haven.

The couple will now have more time to travel, pursue hobbies and play gleefully with their two grandsons, Liam and Owen.

He’ll miss the students, parents and colleagues he’s cultivated as friends during his long career.

“It has been absolutely wonderful to work in a school where the community provides so much support to the teachers and also for our educational programs,” he said.

“I have thoroughly enjoyed working as a teacher at MUMS and I have been privileged to work with many excellent and professional educators. My colleagues realize that we must teach in a nurturing environment that recognizes the diversity of our students. Here at MUMS the emphasis is always on providing students with the important tools and skills to help them to be successful. It has been my pleasure to teach in a school where the teachers challenge the students to reach their highest potential. The people of this community are lucky to have some of the best and the brightest teachers for their children.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@ addisonindependent.com.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) ACTR bus stops in front of the Middlebury Post Office. Here are the details, courtesy of Jim Gish, community liaison for the downtown Middlebury rail bridges project: The ACTR bus stop on the town green side of Main Street will be eliminated and those three parking spots returned to the town for public parking. Meanwhile, the ACTR bus stop on the post office side of Main Street between the crosswalk and the post office driveway will remain in place.

ACTR drivers will stay back from the crosswalk to improve the sight line for pedestrians and drivers.

The handicapped parking space lost with this arrangement has been moved to the other side of the crosswalk and will be marked in the street. Finally, the ACTR bus moving eastbound on Main Street (toward the Congregational Church from the Cross Street

roundabout) will no longer stop in front of Ilsley Library, but will instead stop on Main Street next to the Battell Block, 20 feet back from the crosswalk. This will become a signed bus stop but the bus will stop only if a rider has asked to get off or someone is waiting for the bus at the stop.

Good Samaritans and wildlife enthusiasts please take note: Deer fawns are being born this time of year and these animals should be left alone, according to Vermont Fish &Wildlife Department officials.

This means don’t pick them up or disturb them in any way. Fawns do not attempt to evade predators during their first few weeks, instead relying on camouflage and stillness to remain undetected. During these times, fawns learn critical survival skills from their mothers. Bringing a fawn into a human environment results in separation from its mother,

and it usually results in a sad ending for the animal. Deer nurse their young at different times during the day and often leave their young alone for long periods, officials noted. In other words, these animals are not lost; their mother knows where they are and will return. Deer fawns will imprint on humans and lose their natural fear of people, which can be essential to their survival. Keep your domestic pets under control at all times, as dogs often will kill fawns and other baby animals. For the safety of all wildlife, taking a wild animal into captivity is illegal in Vermont.

If your Middlebury High School/Middlebury Union High School class reunion is this year, your class would like to publish the announcement in the Alumni Newsletter. Reunion organizers are asked to please send the announcement to PO Box 1034, Middlebury, VT 05753 so the

alumni association can help get the word out.

In Middlebury, workers will be paving a portion of South Main Street (Route 30) and a small area on Washington Street beginning this Thursday, May 31. The area to be paved extends from Academy Street south to Porter Field Road. On-street parking in this area will be prohibited from 6 a.m. on Thursday until the end of the project. Cars parked on this portion of South Main Street at the start of the paving will be towed.

Work is anticipated to begin by 7 a.m. and will continue into the afternoon on workdays. Also, workers will repave a portion of Washington Street that was altered to repair a water leak. The work site is in the area of the entrances to Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op and Shaw’s Supermarket. One-way traffic will be maintained and flaggers will be present to help traffic through the project areas.

Thanks for 10 years of success!

Ten years ago, Andrea Solomon and Sue Hoxie were part of a group of community leaders who decided Middlebury would benefit from a major running event. The group of about eight formed a board of trustees, and launched the Middlebury Maple Run. It grew from a couple hundred runners that first year to more than 800 at its peak, and now features a relay division and a 5K fun run, drawing on average over 750 people.

Through it all, Sue and Andrea have played an integral role in organizing the event, and for the past several years they have been co-directors of the race, managing all the volunteers and race details. Over the years, more than $36,000 has been donated to local nonprofits from race proceeds.

As Sue and Andrea step down as race directors, we offer a heart-felt THANKS for their leadership and the many hours of work they contributed to make this event so successful!

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Runners (Continued from Page 1A) will join the course to compete against the others and, particularly in the vey long races, against themselves.

One of these competitors is Brian Ladeau, a Bristol resident who owns Otter Creek Custom Framing in Middlebury. Ladeau has competed in three Obstacle Course World Championships. This will be his fourth year competing in the Infinitus event. He will run the 100-mile race, which starts on Friday. His goal is to finish in 35 hours. He said he trains by going for 16-mile trail runs in the middle of the night with a headlamp.

He said he loves the people who come to the events, and the challenge of doing something he’s not sure his body can do.

Most of the competitors in the Infinitus series are not professional athletes. Most are between the ages of 30 and 50.

“The average person who does it around here (Addison County) just does it for fun,” Ladeau said, adding that he doesn’t really consider himself a runner.

Bill and Karen Root of Charlotte also love the Endurance Society community of racers. They will be NEARLY TWO DOZEN ultra runners pose for a photo at the Blueberry Hill Inn and Ski Center on May 24 before they start the Infinitus Deca-Marathon and 888K races — 262- and 551competing in the 88K event this year. mile races, respectively.

Photo by Jennefer Paquette “There’s a great community around this race,” said Bill, who is a and when asked why he does events fourth 888K. Last year she ran 515 mechanical consulting engineer. The like this, he said, “I’ve been active miles before dropping out. She hopes Roots spend at least 12 hours a week in a range of sports and until ultra, to finish this year. training for ultra runs. They are in their handball had the best camaraderie.”

“Here, people compete against early 60s, and say they see a lot of Jesse said he got bored with ultra the course, not each other,” she people their age competing Ironman triathlons and said. “You go through this ordeal in ultra trail running events “Here, other road races. together. This event attracts the like those hosted by the “The friends you make craziest of the crazy, the fringes of people Endurance Society. Bill said on the trail are real,” he an already fringe group (of ultra it helps to have a flexible compete added, saying he came to runners). It’s exciting to be around work schedule. against the 888K to “find himself other people who are intrigued by “I can outrun people half the course, out on the trail.” the unknown.” my age on a good downhill, Francis Twomey of Helene Dumais was back for her especially if it’s a soft not each Oneonta, N.Y., is also third race this year. The running surface, like grass on a ski other.” competing in the 888K. coach from Montreal hopes to finish, trail,” Bill said this week.

— Jordan “I’m the worst one here. and called the 888K “the black hole Endurance Society Wirfs-Brock I just came to see what I of ultra marathons.” founder and race organizer could do and have a good When asked why she keeps Andy Weinberg said ultratime,” said the self-professed non-trail coming back to the same race, running and trail running seem to be runner during a similar rest.

Dumais said simply, “to finish.” growing in Vermont.

“A lot of people come to race “We’re just ordinary people who “A lot of our people come on knowing they’re not going to finish,” want to accomplish extraordinary their vacation,” Weinberg said. “It’s Weinberg said of the 888K event. things. Honestly, it’s more mental different from a road race. Here, “That’s really impressive, because than physical,” Dumais said. people stop to help you out. People people want to succeed.”

“You get to leave your bills, your look out for each other.”

Jordan Wirfs-Brock is a Science kids behind,” Ladeau said. “For me GREG SALVESON TAKES a popsicle to go while maintaining his lead in the 2018 Endurance Society Infinitus Dave Jesse is a competitor in the Information PhD student from it’s about peace of mind. People get 888K race in Goshen earlier this week.

888K race. He came from Milwaukee, Colorado. She is competing in her addicted to that.”

Photo by Jennefer Paquette

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, MAY 31, 2018

MATT DICKERSON

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Acadia part 2: Of salters, alewives, and estuaries We parked the Outback at a little dirt pull-off by a highway bridge.

Based on several different guides and personal recommendations, this tidal marsh was high on my list of paddling destinations during my three-week residency at Acadia National Park, and the bridge at the outlet of the marsh where it flowed out into a harbor was the recommended put-in. My wife and I arrived about three hours before high tide in hopes of riding the incoming tide all the way upriver to the very start of the marsh — the estuary where several cold water streams flowed into the brackish saltwater.

It turns out we were a little too early. Downeast Maine near the entrance to the Bay of Fundy has some of the highest tide swings in the world.

Though the tide had been rising for over three hours, the water level outside the marsh was still several feet lower than the water above the bridge. To put in here, we would have to set our beautiful new canoe onto a landing of rocks and then paddle uphill over more rocks through shallow water against the swift current still draining the marsh.

Fortunately, I had noticed another possible put-in a half mile back the road by a bridge over a little side tentacle of the marsh. Walking down to the shore from the alternate entry point, I caught sight of the long neck of a great blue heron — the namesake of our new Wenonah canoe model — wading through the marsh grass just 40 yards away. It was a good sign.

An even better sign was the nice soft grassy bank beside water, just deep enough to float our canoe. Under the watchful eye of four Canada geese browsing in the grasses, we carried the canoe to the water. A few minutes later we were paddling up the river.

The first few hundred yards brought us across a wide marshy area, where our soundtrack was composed of a strong wind blowing off the harbor through trees and grass, mingled with more distant sounds of surf, and the occasional passing truck engine. In the distance ahead, we could see the wooded slopes of Bernard Mountain, Great Notch and Mansell Mountain, the source of the cold streams that fed this estuary.

Soon we rounded a bend and found ourselves in a much narrower stream winding through one tight oxbow after another with wooded shorelines (See Dickerson, Page 2B)

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 5/25 MUHS vs. Rice...............................18-7 Division II Playoffs 5/29 #8 Colchester vs. #9 VUHS..........15-11 Boys’ Lacrosse 5/25 Montpelier vs. OV...........................15-9 5/25 CVU vs. MUHS........................ 7-6 (OT) 5/26 U-32 vs. Mt. Abe.............................11-2 Division I Playoffs 5/29 #8 MUHS vs. #9 Mt. Mansfield.......11-5 Division II Playoffs 5/30 #11 OV at #6 Milton........................Late 5/30 #13 Mt. Abe at #4 Stratton..............Late Baseball 5/25 Milton vs. VUHS...............................7-6 5/25 OV vs. Mill River.............................12-3 5/26 MUHS vs. Spaulding........................5-3 Division I Playoffs 5/29 #11 MUHS vs. #6 Spaulding.............5-4 Division II Playoffs 5/29 #3 OV vs. #14 Milton.......................7-1 5/30 #12 Mt. Abe at #5 Fair Haven.........Late Division III Playoffs 5/29 #9 VUHS vs. #8 Fairfax....................6-1 Softball 5/25 Randolph vs. VUHS......................14-10 5/26 Spaulding vs. MUHS........................9-4 Division I Playoffs 5/29 #13 MUHS vs. #4 Lyndon.................9-8 Division II Playoffs 5/29 #1 Mt. Abe vs. #16 B. Falls............24-0 5/29 #7 OV vs. #10 Harwood.................10-3 Boys’ Tennis Division I Playoffs 5/31 #11 Burlington vs. #6 MUHS............5-2 COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse NCAA D-III Final Four In Salem, VA 5/26 Midd. vs TCNJ................................13-9 5/27 Gettysburg vs. Midd........................11-9 HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse Division I Playoffs 6/2 TBD at #1 MUHS...........................11 AM

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Sports BRIEFS Panther doubles team claims title CLAREMONT, Calif. — Middlebury College men’s tennis players Lubomir Cuba and Kyle Schlanger on Saturday won the NCAA Division III doubles titles at the Biszantz Family Tennis Center in Claremont.

Cuba won the crown for the second straight season after winning the doubles title a year ago with William de Quant In the final against Scott Rubinstein and James Spaulding from Emory, the top-seeded Panthers cruised in the first set by 6-0. In the second set Cuba and Schlanger won the final four games for a 6-2 victory.

During the semifinals, Cuba and Schlanger defeated Wabash’s Patrick McAuley and William Reifes, 6-1, 6-2.

Cuba and Schlanger finished the season with a 28-3 record and winners of 19 straight matches.

TIGER JUNIOR KOLBY Farnsworth avoids the long stick of Mt. Mansfield defender Trevor Grab during Middlebury’s 11-5 win Tuesday. Farnsworth had four goals and an assist in the game.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MUHS boys ground Cougars; Redhawks next Tigers’ hustle key in playoff victory

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — Sometimes statistics can be misleading. But when a high school boys’ lacrosse team earns advantages of 29-9 in shots on goal and 43-19 in ground balls those numbers usually show

it is carrying play and probably outhustling its opponent.

And in its first-round Division I playoff game on Tuesday, No. 8 Middlebury Union High School racked up those stats against No. 9 Mount Mansfield on the way to a convincing 11-5 victory, one that could have been bigger if not for the 18 saves racked up by senior Cougar goalie Ben Mutolo.

The win gives the 8-8 Tigers another shot against No. 1 Champlain Valley (14-1) this Friday. CVU is the defending champion, the team that has knocked them out of the playoffs each of the past three years, and the Tigers’ most recent opponent before Tuesday — on May 26 in Hinesburg MUHS took the Redhawks into overtime before falling, 7-6.

The same kind of effort as Tues-

day’s will be critical against CVU, said senior co-captain and four-year defensive starter Fyn Fernandez.

“It’s going to take a lot of grit.

We’re a more blue-collar team, and we always have been. I think that’s the big difference, getting the ground balls and really fighting for it,” Fernandez said.

Coach Brian Carpenter was (See Tigers, Page 3B)

Softball teams prevail in first-round games

By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — In first-round high school softball postseason play on Tuesday, Mount Abraham, Otter Valley and Middle-

bury all picked up wins.

Vergennes elected not to participate in the Division III playoffs.

EAGLES The top-seeded Eagles opened

the defense of their D-II title by thumping visiting No. 16 Bellows Falls, 24-0. Audrey Shahan (four innings) and Ruby Ball (three innings) teamed up on the shutout,

and Ball homered, singled three times and drove in five runs to lead the attack.

Shahan tripled, doubled and drove (See Softball, Page 2B)

Tiger boys’ tennis falls to BHS in playoffs MIDDLEBURY — A successful Middlebury Union High School boys’ tennis season came to an end on Tuesday, when No. 11 Burlington defeated the No. 6 Tigers, 5-2, in a first-round Division I playoff match.

Prevailing for the 8-4 Tigers against the 8-7 Seahorses were Mauricio Gonzalez at No. 2 singles and the No. 2 doubles team of freshmen Andy Giorgio and Abel Anderson.

The complete individual scores were: • At No. 1 singles, Henry Wool, (BHS), defeated Ziven McCarty, (MUHS), 6-4, 6-1.

• At No. 2 singles, Gonzalez (MUHS) defeated Issac Jeneman (BHS) 6-0, 6-1.

• At No. 3 singles, Alex Dinklage (BHS) defeated Jesse Rubin (MUHS), 6-2, 6-4.

• At No. 4 singles, Sam Silberman (BHS) defeated Spencer Doran (MUHS), 6-2, 6-3.

• At No. 5 singles, Sabin Hart (BHS) defeated Loke Lanneskog (MUHS), 6-0, 6-1.

• At No. 1 doubles, Henry Hood and Julius Dodson (BHS) defeated Hunter Munteanu and Sam Daly (MUHS), 6-2, 6-0.

• At No. 2 doubles, Giorgio and Anderson (MUHS) defeated Diego Paroli and Louis Berlin (BHS), 1-6, 6-3, 10-6.

On May 25 the Tigers wrapped up their regular season with a 6-1 win at Harwood. The individual results were: • At No. 1 singles, Jesse McDougal (Harwood) defeated (See Tennis, Page 2B)

Panton driver nets first Bowl victory WEST HAVEN — Panton’s Mike Preston scored an exciting career-first victory in the Portland Glass Mini Stock division this past Saturday as Devil’s Bowl Speedway opened for the season.

The race distance was trimmed from 20 laps to 10 as the 15-minute time limit ran out shortly after Preston made an incredible three-wide pass to the take the lead.

Kyle Rogers and Tim Simonds scored career-best finishes in second and third, respectively, after original runner-up Kaleb Shepard’s car failed inspection with an unapproved air intake and an unapproved wheel.

Chris Conroy and rookie Tanner Lunt completed the top five.

Preston was the only local winner on the card.

Friday golf ends with tie for first

MIDDLEBURY — The May 25 Friday Evening Golf Mixer at Ralph Myhre Golf Course finished in a tie between two threesomes. The team of Cindy Wemette, Dave Wemette and Jay Best shared first-place honors with the group of Bernie Andrews, Liz Andrews and Nicole Laberge On the day before there was a clear winner in Bill Davidson Thursday Men’s Golf, as the trio of Marsdin Van Order, Dayton Wakefield and Tom Maxwell prevailed. Wakefield was also the competition’s low net winner.

Finishing second was the foursome of Fred Belanger, Don Dayton, Jim Rubright and Pete Damone, while Mike Davis. Rick St. Peter and Bill Brown took third.

Mount Abe boys’ lax set for Stratton BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham-Vergennes boys’ lacrosse team lost at U-32 at Saturday to finish the regular season with a record of 1-10-1 and earn the No. 13 seed in Division II. The Eagles were set to open the postseason at No. 4 Stratton (7-4) on Wednesday afternoon.

If the Eagles pulled off the upset in that contest they will travel to meet either No. 5 Spaulding or No. 12 Spaulding on Friday at 4:30 p.m.

Otter lax seeded to travel to Milton

TIGER JESSE RUBIN eyes a return shot during Middlebury Union High School boys’ tennis action against Burlington Tuesday. Middlebury lost the match, 2-5.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MILTON — The Otter Valley Union High School boys’ lacrosse team finished the regular season at 2-8-1 and earned the No. 11 seed in Division II. The Otters were set to play at No. 6 Milton (7-8) on Wednesday, and a win would mean a quarterfinal at No. 3 Hartford on Saturday at 11 a.m.

The Otters concluded their regular season with a 15-9 home loss to Montpelier (4-5) on May 25, when OV was assessed with 17 penalties.

Ethan Sulik-Doty and Tim Kittler netted three goals each for the Otters, while Josh Tremblay scored two and Hayden Gallo added one.

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, May 31, 2018

Tiger girls’ lacrosse seeded third MIDDLEBURY — The defending Division I champion Middlebury Union High School girls’ lacrosse team finished the regular season at 11-3 and enters the playoffs with the No. 3 seed.

The Tigers will open the postseason by hosting a quarterfinal on Saturday at 11 a.m. against either No. 8 St. Albans (6-7) or No. 9

Mount Mansfield (6-8), who were set to meet on Wednesday afternoon.

The Tigers defeated both teams this spring. No. 2 Brattleboro (13-3), a team the Tigers did not play this spring, is their likely road opponent in a semifinal next Wednesday. The final will be played the following weekend at a time to be announced at the University of Vermont.

MUHS nailed down the No. 3 seed this past Friday with an 18-7 win over visiting Rice (7-8). Isabel Rosenberg led the attack with six goals and an assist, and Ella Nagy-Benson scored four times and set up two goals.

Emily Laframboise, Ada Anderson and Satchel McLaughlin added two goals, and goalie Raven Payne made seven saves.

Commodore girls fall to Lakers in battle COLCHESTER — No. 8 Colchester on Tuesday defeated the Vergennes-Mount Abraham collaborative girls’ lacrosse team, 15-11, in a first-round Division II playoff game.

The Commodores finished their second season of varsity play at 4-11, quadrupling their first-season win total.

Colchester improved to 5-11, a misleading total considering the Lakers played a number of D-I games and had recently defeated D-I

St. Albans, 14-12.

Coach Marikate Kelley said the Commodores gave the Lakers a battle, and Colchester earned just a 29-27 edge in shots on goal.

“This group never gave up all season and stayed in the game right to the end. (I’m) very proud of them,” Kelley said.

Norah Deming, one of just three seniors on the team along with attacker Erin Lawrence and defender Ally Atkins, scored three goals to lead the Commodores. Sydney

Weber contributed two goals and an assist, Jalen Cook had goal and two assists, and Lawrence recorded a goal and an assist.

Leah Croke, Siobhan Eagan, Ava Young and Hannah Kelly also found the net for the Commodores, and Harriet Anderson and Ashley Tierney each played a half in goal and made six saves.

Gabby Gosselin poured in seven goals and set up two scored to lead the Lakers, and two goalies combined for 14 saves.

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(Continued from Page 1B) in three runs; Addy Harris tripled and picked up three RBIs; doubled twice; Cora Funke and Jess Murray had RBI doubles; Katelynn Ouellette Brooke Perlee, Molly Murray and Emily Aldrich had two hits apiece; and Justice Green, Jenna McArdle and Perlee drove in two runs apiece.

The Eagles are now scheduled to host No. 8 Mill River (8-9) on Thursday at 4:30 p.m.

OTTERS Also in D-II, the No. 7 Otters knocked off visiting No. 10 Harwood, 10-3, improving to 8-9 and setting up a Friday rematch with No. 2 Fair Haven (14-3). The Otters and Slaters split two games this spring, the Slaters winning by 41-1 early on, and the Otters gaining revenge at Fair Haven recently, 6-2.

OV took a 10-0 lead before Harwood bunched three of its five hits off winning pitcher Morgan LaPorte to score three times in the sixth.

Gabby Poalino poked three hits and scored three runs to lead OV’s attack. Bella Falco, Livia Bernhardt, Poalino and Stephanie Palmer singled in OV’s three-run first. In the third Katie Coolidge singled in Poalino and scored on a Shayla Phillips bunt, and Coolidge also singled in a run in the fourth.

Harwood miscues and a Phillips double led to four more runs in the fifth.

TIGERS The No. 13 Tigers took a 6-0 lead at No. 4 Lyndon, saw the Vikings roar back to tie the game, and then won the contest late, 9-8, for the upset. MUHS moved to 8-8 and is set to visit No. 5 Colchester on Friday at 4:30 p.m., while Lyndon dropped to 14-2.

Bridget Audet shrugged off an injury to earn the pitching win in relief of Gwen Stafford. Coach Polly Rheaume said she hopes Audet, her No. 1 hurler, will be ready to start vs. the Lakers. Stafford and Abby LaRock had multi-hit games, Audet tripled, and Carly Larocque and Harley Williams added key hits for MUHS on Tuesday, Rheaume said, who also praised her team’s defense against the hard-hitting Vikings.

“They played like they knew they could,” she said.

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School senior Ziven McCarty swings into action against Burlington Tuesday.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Tennis (Continued from Page 1B) McCarty, 3-6, 7-6, 1-0 (10-8).

• At No. 2 singles, Gonzalez (MUHS) defeated Peter Laino, 6-1, 6-3.

• At No. 3 singles, Rubin (MUHS) defeated Asher Martley, 6-3, 6-1.

• At No. 4 singles, Doran (MUHS) defeated Owen Labombard, 6-3, 6-4.

• At No. 5 singles, Lanneskog (MUHS) defeated Zak Wing, 6-0, 6-1.

• At No. 1 doubles, Munteanu

and Daly (MUHS) defeated Ryan Dessarau and Michael Fuller, 6-0, 6-2.

• At No. 2 doubles, Giorgio and Aiden Cole (MUHS) defeated Nathan Hamel and Colin Kendrick, 6-0, 6-0.

groups to replace old road culverts in and around the park may even be improving the habitat and migration of these fish.

Earlier in the morning, I had stopped to take some photos of alewives successfully working their way up a fish ladder around a dam in Somesville that might otherwise have blocked their annual spawning migration. Another diadromous species — alewives — are vitally important to the ecology of coastal Maine.

Indeed, as a primary food source for many other marine species, they are both far more abundant and thus more important to the marine and freshwater ecosystems than salters.

But like salters they also depend on these coastal streams. Much of the restoration work around the island focuses on the alewives, but salters are a fortunate beneficiary of several projects as well, along with rainbow smelt, an anadromous species that migrates up some of the same streams.

So are American eels, a catadromous species whose migration is in the opposite direction: they spawn deep in the ocean, but then come into fresh water as adults. The fates of all these diadromous are intertwined.

Eventually our paddle upriver came to an end. The stream had been growing narrower, and the woods closer. Though it was still plenty deep enough for paddling, soon it was only half again wider than the canoe was

long. What blocked our progress, however, was neither width nor depth, but a beaver dam spanning the narrow stream. Had we reached the end of saltwater? I wondered.

We pulled the canoe onto the grassy bank and I got out to investigate. I soon saw that three streams came together here. I recognized the spot from the satellite photos. We had reached our destination. After a picnic lunch, I pulled out my fly rod hoping to find a trout willing to pose for a photo. It didn’t take long for one to rise near the bank just above the dam.

It obliged my request for a photo and I soon had pulled in a little mountainstream-sized brook trout, no more than six inches long.

As I sat holding it in the cold water while my wife snapped photos. I thought it had the distinctive purple-mottled coloration I had seen in photos of salters. But could it be my first one? We were above the beaver dam, and seemingly above the reach of the tide. Maybe this was just another freshwater brook trout like hundreds I had caught in Vermont over the years.

I cast for another hour or so, caught glimpses of a few more trout rising for — but missing — my fly, and I landed one more, even smaller than the first.

Then I noticed that the water had suddenly turned dark and risen around my feet. The dry grass I’d walked along was underwater. I looked back where the canoe sat on the shore. The beaver dam that had blocked our passage was now half a foot underwater. Tide was pushing in over it, carrying a few stray bits of seaweed.

I was casting into the brackish saltwater where the incoming tide met the outflowing water of three cold mountain streams. The fish I had held in my hands were, indeed, my first salters.

Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) on both sides. All sounds of traffic had faded. Kingfishers flitted from tree to tree. Two ospreys flew overhead. Ducks paddled to stay ahead of us, or took off in an angry huff, and disappeared into some quieter backwater. Still the stream narrowed.

The tide had not yet risen enough to give us any push upstream, and we seemed to be paddling against a slight current, but the gentle breeze was a greater factor.

One of the reasons I had chosen this particular marsh was the purported presence of diadromous brook trout known as “salters”: a strain of native coastal trout that move back and forth between saltwater and fresh water, or which just live in that zone of brackish water where the two come together. Though the fish has not been as widely studied as many other native fish, they once inhabited coastal streams from Long Island all the way up the coast of Maine. Development and habitat loss along with a mix of dams and culverts that block migration, have extirpated these salters from much of their native range.

Thanks to the conservation made possible by the century-old Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island is now one of the best remaining refuges for this fascinating little trout.

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(Continued from Page 1B) Boys’ Lacrosse Division I Playoffs 6/1 MUHS at #1 CVU........................... 4 PM Division II Playoffs 6/1&2........................................ Quarterfinals Baseball Division I Playoffs 6/1 #11 MUHS at #3 Colchester...... 4:30 PM Division II Playoffs 6/1 #6 Lake Region at #3 OV.......... 4:30 PM Division III Playoffs 6/1 #9 VUHS at #1 Windsor............ 4:30 PM Softball Division I Playoffs 5/31 #13 MUHS at #5 Colchester.... 4:30 PM Division II Playoffs 6/1 #8 Mill River at #1 Mt. Abe......... 4:30 PM 6/1 #7 OV at #2 Fair Haven............. 4:30 PM Late events occurred after deadline. Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 31, 2018 — PAGE 3B

Baseball teams post first-round victories

Tigers (Continued from Page 1B) pleased with the effort on ground balls vs. the 6-10 Cougars, but also pointed out other areas of improvement that will be vital if the Tigers are to continue to advance in the postseason. Carpenter said the Tigers showed better poise on offense, and after struggling to clear the ball, particularly in a recent home loss to St. Albans, really clicked in that department against Mount Mansfield.

“Patient offense, we’ve been preaching that all year, and one time we had a five-minute possession,” Carpenter said. “I think we missed one clear all day, “Patient and that offense, we’ve was one h i n g been preaching tmidseason that all year, w h e n we were and one time slumping we had a we had five-minute r e a l possession. problems with.”

I think we Early missed one on in clear all day, Tuesday’s game Muand that was tolo kept one thing the Tigers midseason at bay, when we were and MMU took the slumping lead on we had real the first of problems three Jared with.”

Elsinger — coach Carpenter g o a l s , this one with the Cougars a man up. Tiger senior co-captain Jack Donahue broke loose from the tight checking of MMU defender Bryce Dinardo to equalize from close range at 2:02, and Kolby Farnsworth (four goals, one assist) whipped a shot home from the left

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School senior Jack Donahue moves in on Mt. Mansfield goalie Ben Mutolo Tuesday afternoon. Donahue scored two goals in the 11-5 Tiger win.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

side in the first period’s final minute to put MUHS on top.

Elsinger equalized early in the second, but the Tigers pulled away to lead at the half, 7-3, with help from middie Lane Sheldrick’s faceoff dominance. Donahue’s angled shot from the right, assisted by Fernandez, put the Tigers on top for good at 10:26, and unassisted goals by Farnsworth and Bode Rubright made it 5-2.

Cougar Eamon Heaney interrupted the run at 3:47, but Farnsworth, from middie Ben Crawford, made it 6-3, and then the Tigers beat the halftime horn to take a four-goal lead: Middie

David Peters set up Crawford out front at 0:2.9.

In the third period Sheldrick whipped home a loose ball at 6:53 before goals by Ryan Peoples and Elsinger made it 8-5 and gave MMU some hope. The Tigers answered with three goals between 2:15 and 1:08 of the third: Kam Bartlett went behind the back on a nice Crawford feed, Sheldrick picked up another ground ball and found the net, and Farnsworth wrapped up the day’s offense with a solo move.

Tiger goalie Cam Devlin made four saves as defenders Fernandez, Quinn Berry, Derek Felkl and long-

TIGER SENIOR LANE Sheldrick scored two goals in Middlebury’s 11-5 win over Mt. Mansfield Tuesday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

stick middie Tyler Giorgio limited the Cougar shots. Senior middie Sam Holmes scooped eight ground balls to lead MUHS, and Giorgio and Sheldrick added seven apiece.

Carpenter said he was proud of the Tigers’ effort against a team they defeated on the road, 12-10, not long ago.

“They came out and played a full four quarters. They might have made a couple mistakes, but you look at the stats and they didn’t make a whole lot of mistakes,” Carpenter said.

“When we played them up there the game was a lot closer because we lost the ground-ball battle. Today we had two-to-one ground balls over what they had. We were killing it.”

Fernandez called it a true team victory.

“It was a really good game from everyone, and the bench support was there,” Fernandez said. “That’s something that’s been present throughout the season.”

Now the Redhawks loom, and Carpenter said the Tigers will need more poise and ground balls.

“They are a very talented team and are used to winning. But I think the guys are peaking at the right time.

I think the big thing is if the guys come out and make those good decisions and don’t try to do too much individually, play as a team,” he said.

“We’re just hoping the guys bring it on Friday.”

Fernandez said that’s the plan.

“It’s by far the most confidence we’ve ever had going into the playoffs against them,” he said. “I’ve been kicked out the last three years by them, so it’s certainly a chip on our shoulder to get that final win.”

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

By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — In firstround high school baseball playoff action on Tuesday Otter Valley, Middlebury and Vergennes all picked up victories.

Mount Abraham (5-11) earned the No. 12 seed in Division II and was set to visit No. 5 Fair Haven on Wednesday. The winner of that game was set to advance to a Saturday afternoon quarterfinal.

OTTERS OV, the No. 3 seed in D-II, began its defense of the division title by cruising past visiting No. 14 seed Milton, 7-1. Josh Beayon earned the win with five innings of no-hit, 11-strikeout pitching, and Marcus McCullough allowed two singles and an unearned run in two relief innings.

Leading by 3-0 in the fifth, the Otters broke the game open on a Jack Adams RBI triple, a Nate Hudson single and a Beayon double to make it 6-0. Reilly Shannon contributed two hits and two runs to the OV attack, Patrick McKeighan doubled and scored, Kollin Bissette drilled two RBI singles, and Payson Williams singled in a run.

The 13-4 Otters are set to host No. 6 Lake Region (10-4) on Friday at 4:30 p.m. Milton finished at 2-14.

TIGERS The Tigers, No. 11 in D-I, pulled off their second straight upset of No. 6 Spaulding (11-6) to advance, this

time by 5-4. Wyatt Cameron tossed a complete-game six-hitter to earn the pitching win and also keyed the attack with a double and single. Sean Deering tripled and scored on a passed ball for an early Tiger run.

Coach Charlie Messenger said the Tigers made three fine defensive plays in the seventh to protect the one-run lead, by Hale Hescock at shortstop, Aaron Larocque in left field and Devon Kearns at second base.

This past Saturday the Tigers had rallied for four runs in the sixth to defeat Spaulding, 5-3, in their regular season finale. Jack Waterman’s three-run double keyed the rally, which made a winner of Hescock, the starting pitcher. Skyeler Devlin tossed two scoreless innings for the save, and Larocque and Jordy Stearns added two hits apiece. The victory gave the Tigers a tie with the Tide for the Lake Division championship.

The 11-6 Tigers are set to visit No. 3 Colchester (14-3) in a Friday quarterfinal.

COMMODORES The No. 9 Commodores knocked off No. 8 Fairfax, 6-1, behind Ethan Bissonette’s complete-game four-hitter. Thomas Richards led the offense with two doubles and two RBIs as the 6-10 Commodores avenged two regular-season losses to the 6-11 Bullets.

VUHS is next set for a Friday afternoon date at top-seeded Windsor (12-4).

Middlebury women’s lax falls short in NCAA final SALEM, Va. — Gettysburg College held on to edge the Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team, 11-9, in Monday’s NCAA Division III final played on the campus of Roanoke College.

Middlebury saw its 11-game winning streak end and finished 203. Panthers Georgia Carroll, Hollis Perticone and Emma McDonagh all earned spots on to the all-tournament team.

Gettysburg won its second straight title and improved to 21-2 with the win over the 2016 champion Panthers.

The game was tied at 5-5 until Liza Barr scored late in the first half to give the Bullets a 6-5 lead at the break.

Gettysburg then went on a 5-1 run to open the second half that made it 11-6.

McDonagh helped Middlebury cut into the deficit with two goals just 15 seconds apart. Her first came in an unsettled situation, while on her second she faked high and slid a low offering home.

Kirsten Murphy made it 11-9 with 4:09 remaining by working her way around the crease and putting a low shot past Bullet goalie Bailey Pilder, who played an outstanding game. The Panthers had only one more possession after that goal, and were unable to score and the Bullets ran out the remaining time.

McDonagh finished with three

goals and an assist, concluding the tournament with 18 goals in five games. Murphy added two goals and an assist, while O’Neill netted a pair. Perticone collected five draw controls, while Evie Keating and Addy Mitchell each scooped up three ground balls. Goalie Kate Furber finished with five saves in goal.

Barr netted five goals for Gettysburg. Pilder, the only player in all three NCAA divisions with a save percentage over .600 (.611), finished with 12 saves in a game postponed from Sunday by thunderstorms.

On Saturday the Panthers bested top-ranked The College of New Jersey, 13-9, in the semifinal round.

TCNJ, which defeated Middlebury during the regular season, finished at 20-3.

The Panthers scored three goals in the first eight minutes and held on to lead at the break, and then scored three goals early in the second half to take command. They led, 11-5, midway through the second half.

Carroll paced Middlebury with four goals and one assist, and McDonagh scored four times. Perticone chipped in with three goals, an assist and a game-high 11 draw controls, while Erin Nicholas and Mitchell each collected four ground balls. Evie Keating caused three turnovers and Furber finished with six saves.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Rip‑ ton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Women of AA (Step/Speaker), Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm.

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Daily Reflection Meeting, Vergennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm.

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GARAGE SALE‑ SATUR‑ DAY June 2nd. 9am ‑ 2pm.

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HUGE GARAGE SALE Cot‑ tage Lane (Behind Peoples Bank), Middlebury. Two families (possibly more).

Sat/Sun. June 2 & 3, 8am ‑ 3pm. Wheelbarrow, some furniture, stero w/ speakers, vaporizer, hand held mas‑ sager, handbags, beautiful clothing, shoes, books, dvds, cds, kids stuff, glassware, model kits, candleholders and a whole lot more. Free stuff too.

MOVING SALE‑ June 2nd and 3rd. 9 to 3. 3210 Case St., Middlebury.

MULTIPLE YARD SALES at Cottage Lane, Middlebury.

June 2, June 3. Follow signs from Route 7 South.

NEIGHBORHOOD SALE, Chipman Park, Middlebury, Sun June 3rd 9 ‑ 2. Lots of stuff incl. baby items (crib, changing tables, stroller, cloth diapers, etc), furniture, rugs, lamps, loom, blinds and much more.

THREE‑FAMILY YARD SALE. Saturday, June 2, 9 a.m.‑3 p.m. No early birds, please. Kitchenware, furni‑ ture, select books and cloth‑ ing, kids’ bicycles, games, toys, linens and unique brac‑a‑brac. 560 Route 30, Cornwall, across from the silo with no top. Rain or shine.

YARD SALE ‑ INSIDE old VT general store. 3 South Main St., (Rte 30) Whiting.

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HUGE PLANT SALE. Over 100 varieties and more daily. Perennials, herbs, bushes, fruits, limited veg‑ etables and annuals. Yard sale items also. 9:00 ‑ 1:00; Saturday, May 26. 400 Jokey Lane, Monkton; Saturday, June 2. 91 Seymour St., Middlebury (limited selec‑ tion) or by appointment starting May 18. Wildflow‑ er Estate, Jenne Morton. jennemorton@gmail.com.

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Experience and Class B or higher CDL required. Year-round position, mechanical ability a plus. Benefits included. Call (802) 482-2335 for more information or send resume to: Hinesburg Sand & Gravel, Co., Inc., 14818 Route 116, Hinesburg, VT 05461.

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• Keep the bus litter free and cleaned up after each bus run.

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• Meet and maintain all state licensing requirements/qualifications • Comply with all ANWSD Policies and Procedures at all times • Attend all staff training • Maintain flexibility regarding the program demands, including scheduled working hours and assignments • Be able to properly/safely lift amounts in accordance with the guidelines outlined in the Standard Operating Procedures • Maintain a professional relationship with all personnel and business-related associates Contact: Tara Brooks, Director of After School and Summer Programs tbrooks@anwsd.org 802-458-2023

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For more information about this position or other employment opportunities at Agri-Mark / Cabot Creamery, please visit our website at www.cabotcheese.com.

Position Requires: • Basic Maintenance Technician skills • Experience with tires, brakes, exhaust

and other preventative maintenance desired, but we are willing to train • Bus detailing • Ability to lift up to 25 pounds

The Summer Fusion Program is currently seeking qualified Bus Drivers & Joint Team Member(s) for our daily childcare program.

Join our team of caring adults. You will have a chance to be part of a supportive team and make a difference in the lives of children. Our primary objective this summer is to provide safe transportation and a fun atmosphere that supports the education of the children in our care.

The Summer Fusion Program staff takes pride in their professional conduct. We are a family of workers who are dedicated, disciplined, and committed to the pursuit of excellence. Individual judgment is encouraged and is a valuable part of an employee’s job performance. It is our team’s expectation that all team members have a high standard of ethical and moral conduct and it is the expectations of our staff to be honest, reliable, hard-working people who provide first-class service.

Requirements • Experience in supervising children in small and large groups • Ability to help to facilitate group activities • A minimum of 2 years of bus driving experience • Valid Driver’s License and excellent driving record • Ability to resolve conflicts between children • Excellent communication and people skills • First Aid and CPR certified or willing to become certified • Must pass a criminal background checks

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Preferred candidates will have a Bachelor’s degree or an Associate’s degree with at least five (5) years of experience in a warehouse/logistics management capacity, preferably in the refrigerated food industry. Individual must have demonstrated skill using Microsoft programs, and be a strong leader and team member who can work across multiple functions and disciplines.

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• CDL Class C with Passenger Endorsement, Onsite CDL training available for the right candidate • Back up driving of routes when necessary • Willingness to learn new skills • A high level of professionalism • Long term disability • 403B retirement plan • Vision insurance

For more information and for an application, please visit us at http://actr-vt.org/job-openings/.

Employment is contingent upon passing required background checks and preemployment drug testing.

TVT/ACTR is an AA/EO Employer Addison County Transit Resources, Human Resources 297 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT 05753

Contact Your U.S. Senators Sen. Patrick Leahy 1-800-642-3193

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Help Wanted

CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Mary Johnson Children’s Center Farm to Preschool Position: COOK Busy early childhood program with a progressive farm to school food program is seeking a cook to prepare and serve nutritious lunches to children and staff. 30 hours per week, preparing scratch-cooked meals using as many unprocessed local foods as possible. Yearround position. Knowledge of food preparation, federal nutrition guidelines, meal planning, purchasing, daily record keeping, ability to work in a busy environment.

Competitive wages, benefit package.

Please send letter of interest or resume to:

Search MARY JOHNSON CHILDREN’S CENTER 81 Water Street; Middlebury, VT 05753 or e-mail office@mjccvt.org

Help Wanted

ELDERLY SERVICES

Do you enjoy older people? Are you committed to helping frail elders enjoy life and live at home with our support?

Help Wanted

Summer Job with Professional Training for Youth 18-24 years old Earn $2,000 this summer!

Hands on work experience • Agriculture • Automotive APPLY NOW! • Building Trades 802-388-4392 • CAD (Computer Aided Design) A partnership between Vermont Adult Learning, ReSOURCE, United Way of Addison County, The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center and Vermont Department of Labor

Addison Central School District is seeking a parttime Custodian, Monday through Friday. Experience is a plus, but not required.

Apply by sending a letter of interest, resume, three current reference letters and complete transcripts to: Peter Burrows, Superintendent Addison Central School District 49 Charles Avenue Middlebury, VT 05753 Applications will be accepted until the positions have been filled.

E.O.E.

Love Cooking?

Can you provide caring supervision to others? Any experience cooking for a large group?

7:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., Tuesday - Friday

Eric Covey Elderly Services, P. O. Box 581 Middlebury, VT 05753 or mail@elderlyservices.org

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Accountant Needed WhistlePig is growing and needs an accountant with good analytical skills. Experience with SAP Business One or similar ERP software and/or manufacturing process/COGS/inventory experience preferred. Would also help with GL reconciliations, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and expense account audits and general office tasks.

Please send resume and three professional references to: info@whistlepigrye.com with the subject line “Accounts Position”.

A member of the WhistlePig Operations team is reliable, flexible, and industrious. The successful applicant is an assertive identifier and solver of problems, and an effective communicator and leader. He or she must also have a keen eye for aesthetic and practical detail, and be willing and able to contact and work with outside agents. Practical knowledge of hand and power tools is necessary, as is knowledge and experience in construction and maintenance of all manner of structures.

Interested individuals, please email your résumé and three professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com No phone calls please.

WhistlePig Straight Rye Whiskey is looking for a part time Activities Guide for WhistlePig Farm Stay. WhistlePig Farm Stay is a tailored program including guided tour of the farm and distillery, superb meals, and outdoor adventures for our brand advocates. The objective of this program is for our visitors to establish a deeper sense of the Vermont lifestyle by experiencing everything our farm and community has to offer. This highly energetic and positive person will oversee all activities and curate a one-of-a-kind experience on our farm in Shoreham, Vermont.

You must be willing to work an irregular schedule over a seven-day week, however you will be given varying days off during the week/weekend. Having an interest and knowledge in craft whiskey and farm-to-bottle movement is favorable.

Responsibilities: • Planning and scheduling farm-based outdoor activity programs and products for different groups • Leading/instructing individuals or groups on a particular activity (e.g. hiking, kayaking, biking, etc.)

• Driving groups and equipment to the activity site • Cleaning, maintaining and preparing equipment and vehicle • Assisting with catering and housekeeping duties Requirements: • Sound knowledge of the area • Must be 21+ year of age • High school diploma or equivalent • Current driver’s license and excellent driving record • Excellent leadership, group management, and communication skills • Reliability and time-keeping skills • Excellent physical fitness • Passion for the outdoors • High level of customer service and the ability to build rapport • Intermediate skills with Microsoft Office Compensation: • Hourly wage $18 per hour Please send resume’ and cover letter to info@whistlepigrye.com No phone calls, please.

Please send resume with 3 references

by June 1st to:

IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR part time AM house‑ keeper, weekends and some midweek days. Looking for stable work history. Call the Strong House Inn at, 802‑877‑3337.

ATTENTION PCA’S: PART TIME and full time, day shift.

On the job training, com‑ petitive wages and flexible scheduling. Call Marlene at 802‑877‑1363 or e‑mail ringerhomecare@gmail. com.

AUBUCHON HARDWARE, MIDDLEBURY part‑time positions available. Please apply in person. 40 Court Street. Please ask for man‑ agement.

FARM MARKET MANAG‑ ER ‑ Champlain Orchards.

June‑November; should be willing to commit to the full duration of the market sea‑ son. Full‑time, most week‑ ends expected. Outgoing, enthusiastic, self‑motivated, dedicated and dependable with an interest in working with people. An interest and knowledge of local foods desirable, work with team and as leader, enjoy retail and multitasking. Coor‑ dinate orchard tours and serve customers on a daily basis. Maintain the beauty of the landscaping around the market. Manage Farm Market inventory. Keep all items stocked – displays full and interesting, oriented to sales. Help organize Pick Your Own and other on site events. Visit our website for a more comprehensive de‑ scription champlainorchards. com. Please email your re‑ sume and 3 references to: hr@champlainorchards. com.

MCDERMOTTS HAS OPENINGS for CDL Class A Drivers at our Enosburg, Irasburg and Shoreham lo‑ cations. Full time, part time and seasonal positions avail‑ able. Position responsible for the assembly of milk at various farms or delivering milk to customers. Drivers will be home daily. McDer‑ motts offers a full benefit package including $2,500 Sign on bonus, health insur‑ ance, safety bonus, vaca‑ tion, 401K match and more.

Please send resumes to: hr@mcdermottsinc.com or mail to McDermott’s, Inc. Attn: HR 138 Federal St., St. Albans, VT 05478.

THE LARGEST, FAMILY owned, Commercial Clean‑ ing Company in Addison County is continuing to grow.

We are looking to hire in‑ dependent, self motivated and reliable individuals who are able to work nights. All applicants must pass a background check. Applica‑ tions are available online at mrmikescleaningser‑ vicevt.com or in person at Mr. Mike’s Cleaning Ser‑ vice, Monday‑Friday from 9am‑3pm. $1,500 Sign on Bonus to eligible individuals.

VERMONT SOAP IS hir‑ ing a full time Accounting Assistant. Candidate must possess a background in accounting. Knowledge of spreadsheets is a must.

Attention to detail is cru‑ cial. We offer competitive wages, paid vacation time and free gym membership after a satisfactory introduc‑ tory period. Please email cover sheet and resume to nichole@vtsoap.com.

VERMONT SOAP IS hir‑ ing a full time, entry level, Factory Floater. This per‑ son would work in both our production and packaging departments. Candidates must be able to lift 50# and sit or stand for 2 hours at a time. Reliable team players and attention to detail is crucial. We offer competitive wages, paid vacation time and free gym membership after a satisfactory introduc‑ tory period. Please email cover sheet and resume to: nichole@vtsoap.com.

WE HAVE IMMEDIATE opening for a Land Survey‑ ing Professional to work in our office in Bristol. Profes‑ sional will perform data col‑ lection, CAD, and fieldwork for topographic, boundary, construction, and septic design surveys. Preferred applicants will have a BS or AS and/or related ex‑ perience. We offer a com‑ petitive salary, paid time off, and retirement plan.

Please send resume to larosesurveys@gmail.com.

WOMENSAFE OUTREACH ADVOCATE‑ Full time posi‑ tion to provide direct ser‑ vices to survivors & outreach to underserved populations.

Strong advocacy & orga‑ nizational skills required.

Bilingual (Spanish/Eng‑ lish) skills desired. Letter of interest and resume to: cg@womensafe.net or Hir‑ ing Committee, WomenSafe, PO Box 67, Middlebury, VT 05753. People of all genders and diverse communities encouraged to apply. Wo‑ menSafe is an Equal Op‑ portunity Employer.

BRANDON: PARK VIL‑ LAGE is now accepting applications for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Rents starting at $700, includes heat and trash. No pets.

Laundry on site. Income restrictions apply. Call Sum‑ mit Property Management Group at 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website, summitpmg.com.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease.

The entrance door measure‑ ments are 8’ wide by 7’ high.

For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

F O R R E N T: B R I D ‑ P O R T, C o m m e r c i a l / retail office. 1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. tbrought@middlebury.edu.

Melissa Brown Elderly Services, P. O. Box 581 Middlebury, VT 05753 or mail@elderlyservices.org

ADMINISTRATIVE PRO‑ FESSIONAL/ Paralegal.

WhistlePig Whiskey Distill‑ ery is growing and needs an administrative profes‑ sional/paralegal to work at our lovely farm location in Shoreham, Vermont. Ap‑ plicants must be organized, proficient with Excel and Word. The individual will be our CEO to support our regulatory and shareholder reporting requirements. Our employees enjoy our infor‑ mal surroundings and vari‑ ous benefits, including 401k and medical benefits. Send resume and 3 references to: info@whistlepigrye.com.

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

Activities Guide

Elderly Services is looking for a good-natured and skilled cook for Project Independence noon dinner.

Our cook is retiring after 29 years. Must provide caring support, guidance, and training to Kitchen Assistants. Enthusiasm for eldercare and a flexible positive attitude essential. Will train the right person.

Help Wanted

Maintenance Supervisor We are seeking a Building and Grounds Maintenance Supervisor to assist our Shoreham Operations team with special projects and ongoing upkeep around the farm. This position can be part time, but full time includes a generous benefits package, paid time off, and 401K.

(Part-time or full-time)

Help Wanted

ALL‑ AROUND FARM HAND, 802‑233‑1249 or 802‑233‑3849.

For Rent

ELDERLY SERVICES

Join our team of eldercare caregivers in our elderly day care center. Bring fun and connection into elders’ lives by leading musical programs (no music skills necessary), discussions, exercise and sports activities. Assist with walking, wheelchairs, toileting needs. Hours fall between 9 a.m. and 7 p.m. B.A. or equivalent experience.

Candidates should be patient, flexible, goodhumored, and creative. Rewarding work in a caring environment.

EOE employer

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Custodian

Help Wanted

COOK/SHIFT LEADER

Please send letter of interest, resume, and references by June 1st to:

July 9 - Aug. 16

Help Wanted

ACTIVITY LEADER/CAREGIVER (Part-time or full-time)

VT YouthWorks

32 hrs./wk

Help Wanted

For Sale INTEX EASY SET POOL, 15’x48” includes 1 ladder used, 1 new ladder still in box, 1 pump, 3 pool cov‑ ers, 2 skim nets, 8 filters, various inflatables and noodles. $125. Also, Savior NCSF55 solar pool pump and filter system, $225.

802‑388‑6967.

FOR RENT: WALK TO town from a quiet neighborhood off South Street. Lovely, recently renovated, ener‑ gy‑efficient colonial in Chip‑ man Park 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. $3350 per month Start your lease between Aug 1 and September 15, 2018. Minimum lease period of 8 months. No maximum lease period. Call Christina at 802‑458‑2558 more infor‑ mation and pictures.

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 1,800 SQ. FT. WARE‑ HOUSE commercial space.

As is or renovate to suit.

Creek Road, Middlebury.

802‑558‑6092.

3 BEDROOM RANCH in Cornwall. 1 and 3/4 baths.

Full heated basement.

Very large yard. Country setting with beautiful views.

352‑4424 for more details.

Leave message with contact information.

BRANDON ‑ IN THE VIL‑ LAGE, large 2 bedroom duplex. Sunny three level living. South facing deck.

Washer/dryer. $1,150/mo.

Includes heat, water and sewer. batesproperties@ yahoo.com.

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit. Some utilities in‑ cluded. 388‑0401.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown.

Appliances, off street park‑ ing, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

For Rent

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

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.

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CLASSIFIEDS For Rent

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE for rent. 400 sq.ft., second floor. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

NEW HAVEN VILLAGE, large sunny kitchen. East/ West views, garden space, porch and deck, hard wood floors. No pets, no smoking.

References. $925/month plus utilities. 802‑236‑2040.

M I D D L E B U RY‑ F U R ‑ NISHED ONE or two room suites. Private entrance, private baths, kitchen. All included; w/d, wifi, internet, utilities, off‑street parking.

Tasteful. Immaculate. Se‑ rene. In classic 1840 home. $400‑$500. Call/text Susan, 802‑989‑8941.

MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., cen‑ tral location, parking. Can be subdivided. Real‑Net Man‑ agement Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY: ONE BED‑ ROOM apartment, within walking distance of down‑ town and college. Second floor, above professional office. No smoking and no pets. Off street park‑ ing. $1100.00 per month, includes heat and rubbish removal. References and deposit required. One year minimum lease. Contact: 388‑7268.

MIDDLEBURY: RETAIL/ OFFICE space for rent.

1,303 square feet. Front door parking. Contact Eric at 388‑6054 (Countryside Carpet & Paint).

MIDDLEBURY: SHARE A lovely home w/ active, re‑ tired professional who en‑ joys cultural events. $400/ mo, plus utilities. Seeking a housemate who might enjoy walking together & sharing occasional meals. 863‑5625, HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background check required. EHO. ONE BEDROOM, FIVE‑STAR energy effi‑ cient apartment in Salis‑ bury, close to Lake Dun‑ more. One half of duplex.

Large bedroom with full bath up. Living room and kitchen with all appliances on first floor. Heated basement with W/D. Private sun deck. $850/month, plus utilities.

Absolutely non‑smoking, no pets on premises. Deposit and references required.

One year minimum lease.

Available 4/1/2018. Call 802‑352‑6678.

Real Estate

WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront.

Washer, dryer. No smok‑ ing. Available September through May. 860‑878‑9580.

SHOREHAM 2‑BEDROOM, 2nd floor apartment. 920 Square feet. Pine floors.

Eat‑in kitchen. Huge liv‑ ing room. Propane heat & stove; electric hot water.

Walking distance to elemen‑ tary school. 20 minute ride to Middlebury. No smoking. No pets. Available April. $775/ mo + utilities. 802‑388‑5411.

WEYBRIDGE: SHARE A home w/ a senior man who enjoys VPR, read‑ ing, cross country skiing. $450/mo, plus utilities. No pets/smoking. 863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks required. EHO.

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

802‑282‑9110.

SIMPLY READY‑2‑BURN™ Everyday low prices; free delivery ‑ free kindling; sea‑ soned, clean, split, mixed hardwood. Small orders OK. Click www.MIDDMEN.com or call 1‑855‑MIDDMEN™.

Real Estate HOUSE FOR SALE ‑ Ver‑ gennes area. 5 acres. 3,330 sq. ft., 3 bedroom, 3 bath, 2.5 garage. Solar. $415k.

802‑877‑3971. Craigslist ‑ Vermont/housing/real estate by owner/2437.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. The building season is upon us. If you’re considering a new home you should look at our two remaining lots on East Middlebury’s Daisy Lane. This is an established residential development with town water, nearby tennis courts, playground and only minutes away from the Snow Bowl and Lake Dunmore.

Call Jack at 388‑2502 or 388‑7350.

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Wanted LIONS CLUB NEEDS ‑ stuff for their annual auction.

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OLD LICENSE PLATES. If you have very old Vermont plates that the new genera‑ tion does not cherish, why not sell to a life long collector.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service

Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self-storage units listed below will be sold at public auction. This sale is being held to collect unpaid storage unit occupancy fees, charges and expenses of the sale.

The entire contents of each self-storage unit listed below will be sold, with the proceeds to be distributed to Smart Move Storage Middlebury, LLC for all accrued occupancy fees, sale expenses, and all other expenses in relation to the unit and its sale.

Contents of each unit may be viewed on SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 2018 commencing at 10AM. Bids will be taken on the entire contents of each self-storage unit. The highest bidder must remove the entire contents of the unit within 48 hours after notification of their successful bid. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50.00 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned. Smart Move Storage Middlebury, LLC reserves the right to accept or reject bids.

The contents of the following tenant’s self-storage units will be included in the sale: Lawrence “Chip” Gamache, Unit 102 Deb Anderson, Unit 100 71 A South Pleasant Street 3 Union Street Middlebury, VT 05753 Brandon, VT 05733 Dawn Anderson, Unit 116 308 Cram Road #2 Leicester, VT 05733

Kayla Sears, Unit 74 2989 Lake Dunmore Road Leicester, VT 05733

Skye Roll, Units 112 & 156 2339 NE Rustic Way Jensen Beach, FL 34957

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ADDISON-RUTLAND SUPERVISORY UNION

CHILD FIND AGES 0-21 YEARS The Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union — Benson, Orwell, West Haven, Fair Haven, Hubbardton and Castleton — in meeting requirements of its Local Education Agency Plan, is attempting to identify any and all area resident children between the ages of 0-21 years who may have a disability. These children are entitled to receive, at public expense, an education regardless of disability. It is possible that the Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union may not be aware of the residence of all handicapped children.

If you know of a child who might be eligible for education services and is not in school, please notify either your local school or the Director of Special Services in the Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union, 49 Main Street, Fair Haven, VT 05743, or phone 265-4905.

EDUCATION FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN AND YOUTH The McKinney Vento Homeless Assistance Act ensures educational rights and protections for children and youth experiencing homelessness. The legislation requires that all homeless children and youth have the same access to a free, appropriate public education as other children and youth in Vermont. If you know of a child or family who are homeless in the Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union district and might need educational support and assistance, please notify the Director of Special Services in the Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union, 49 Main Street, Fair Haven, VT 05743, or phone 265-4905.

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REQUEST FOR BIDS ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Addison Central School District is accepting bids for the following: • Replacement of HVAC controls in two elementary schools • Replacement of the main electrical service at Cornwall Elementary School • Video surveillance system in its elementary schools • Replacement of the fire alarm systems in two elementary schools Bids are due by June 1, 2018. Please contact Bruce MacIntire for details at 802-382-1198.

ACSD reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids in accordance with Vermont Statutes.

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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 77-2-18 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF MABEL M. FAY NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Mabel M. Fay of Vergennes, 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 24, 2018 Bruce Bushey P.O. Box 7 Franklin, VT 05457 (802) 355-1969 lionbruce@gmavt.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: May 31, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 5/31

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

Agreeably to the provisions of Title 32, Vermont Statutes Annotated, Section 4111, notice is hereby given that the undersigned listers within and for the Town/city of Middlebury have that day completed the abstract of individual lists of persons, co-partnerships, associations and corporations owning taxable property in said town/city on the first day of April, 2018; that they have this day lodged the same in the office of the Clerk of said town/city for the inspection of taxpayers; that on the 6th day of June 2018 at 9:00 in the forenoon, said town/city, to hear grievances of persons, co-partnerships, associations, and corporations aggrieved by any of their appraisals or by the acts of such listers, whose objections thereto in writing shall have been filed with them by noon Wednesday June 6th, as prescribed by statute, and to make such corrections in said abstract as shall upon hearing or otherwise be determined by them; and that unless cause to the contrary be shown, the contents of said abstract will, for the year 2018-2019, become the grand list of said town/city and of each person, co-partnership, association or corporation therein named.

Given under our hands at Middlebury, in the County of Addison, this 23rd day of May, 2018. Call Beth Dow for appointments, 388-8100 x 202.

Middlebury Board of Listers

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Check out the Public Notices every Mon. & Thurs. in the

Addison Independent NORTH FERRISBURGH CEMETERY ASSOCIATION

The North Ferrisburgh Cemetery Association will hold its annual meeting on Saturday, June 2 at 9:00am at the North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church on Old Hollow Road. 5/31

Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

802-388-1966

TOWN OF PANTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Development Review Board will convene a public hearing in the Town Clerk’s Office on Jersey Street beginning at approximately 7:15 p.m. on Thursday, June 14, 2018 in accordance with the provisions of §340 of the Town’s Zoning Regulations and 24 V.S.A. 117 §§4464 to consider an application from the Town of Panton (#1719) for approval of a side / rear-yard setback waiver to permit the replacement of an access ramp on their property on Jersey Street (parcel ID# 01-01-37.000) The applications are available for inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office. Interested parties who wish to appeal or be heard at the hearing may do so in person, or may be represented by an agent or an attorney. Communications relating to the application may be filed in writing with the Board either before or during the hearing.

N.B.: Participation in the hearing is necessary to establish status as an ‘interested person’ and the right to appeal a decision rendered in that hearing, according to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. 117 §§4465(b) and 4471(a). Participation consists of offering, through oral or written testimony, evidence or a statement of concern directly related to the subject of the hearing.

Respectfully submitted, David Raphael, Chair 5/31

To publish a legal notice in the Addison Independent please email information to legals@addisonindependent.com or fax it to (802) 388-3100.

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, June 18, 2018 at 7 p.m. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Dr. Maja Zimmerman and Peter Voorhees (Owner), Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes (Applicant) for site plan review and conditional use review to change the use of the property at 20 Armory Lane from a medical services facility to a community center and office. The request will be reviewed pursuant to Articles VII and VIII of the zoning and subdivision regulations.

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

May 25, 2018 Mel Hawley, Administrative Officer 5/31

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

NOTICE OF SELF-STORAGE LIEN SALE SMART MOVE STORAGE MIDDLEBURY, LLC 1485 ROUTE 7 NORTH ~ MIDDLEBURY, VT 05753

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS THE TRIAL COURT

Probate and Family Court Department Docket No. NO 18W0058-WD ORDER FOR SERVICE BY PUBLICATION ALYSSA M. DIAZ, Plaintiff v.

BRYAN T. BAILEY, Defendant Upon motion of plaintiff for an order directing Bryan T. Bailey, the defendant herein, to appear, plead, or answer, in accordance with Mass.R.Civ.P./Mass.R.Dom.Rel.P.Rule 4, it appearing to the Court that this is a complaint for custody-support-parenting time.

It is Ordered that said defendant is directed to appear, plead, answer or otherwise move with respect to the complaint herein on or before 8/23/18. If you fail to do so this Court wil proceed to a hearing and adjudication of this matter.

It is further Ordered that the summons be published in a local newspaper in Vergennes, VT on or before 6/20/18, the publication to be 60 days at lead before said return day. It is further ordered that a copy of the summons be mailed to the defendant’s last known address by certified mail.

Date: 5/21/18 Honarable Virginia M. Ward Justice of Probate and Family Court

Norfolk Division

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Notice is hereby given in accord with 32 V.S.A. § 4111, that the undersigned listers within and for the City of Vergennes have this day completed the abstract of individual lists of property owners as of the first day of April, 2018.

The listers have this day lodged the abstract in the office of the clerk of said City for the inspection of taxpayers.

On the 13th day of June, 2018 at 5:00 p.m., the undersigned listers will meet at City Hall in Vergennes to hear appeals of taxpayers aggrieved by actions of such listers from whom timely grievances have been received.

To be timely, such grievance must be in writing and received (postmarks not accepted) by the close of business on the 13th day of June, 2018.

At the close of grievance hearings, the listers shall make such corrections in the abstract as were determined upon hearing or otherwise Unless cause to the contrary is shown, the contents of said abstract will, for the year 2018, become the grand list of said city and of each taxpayer named therein.

Signed at Vergennes in the County of Addison this 29th day of May, 2018.

Listers of the City of Vergennes Karen Quigley William Poquette Christopher Bearor Please call the City Clerk’s Office at 877-2841 for an appointment.

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TOWN/VTRANS TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON MIDDLEBURY BRIDGE AND RAIL PROJECT LANDSCAPE DESIGN The Town of Middlebury and Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) officials will discuss and seek input on the landscape design aspects of the Bridge and Rail Project focused on the Village Green and Printer’s Alley Park areas at a public meeting on Tuesday, June 5, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. in the Municipal Offices, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, Vermont.

The project includes replacement of bridges on Main Street and Merchants Row spanning over the Vermont Western Railroad Corridor. The project will create new public park spaces within the Village Green and Printer’s Alley. The intent of the meeting is to briefly review the project parameters, discuss potential park uses, and seek input to shape the design of public park spaces. The meeting will include a short presentation and an interactive session to brainstorm, sketch, and conceptualize landscape design ideas.

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NOTICE OF SALE

Notice is hereby given pursuant to Chapter 92 of Vermont State Lien Law, Prime Storage- Middlebury located at 220 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 will sell the contents of the following units online for CASH only, if payment is not received. Unless otherwise stated the description of the contents are household goods and furnishing, boxes, misc.

Auction to be held online at www.StorageStuff.bid beginning Monday May 28th 2018 and ending Wednesday June 6th 2018.

Unit 230G, Travis Mason Owner reserves right to bid at sale, reject any/all bids, cancel or adjourn sale.

All purchased goods are sold “as is”. For more details or to pre-register go to www.

StorageStuff.bid. Any parties having an interest in said Units, for more information or to make payment, may call 802-388-7920.

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for May 24 & May 28 BEEF Wilcon Farm H. Veldman Elysian Fields Gosliga Farm M & L Quesnel T. Correia

Lbs. 1270 1900 1465 1530 1625 1445

Costs per lb .65 .65 .64 .63 .61 .605

CALVES Champlainside Laduc Acres Nop Bros & Sons M. Wilbur P. Saltis

Lbs. 105 116 105 94 103

Costs per lb 1.225 1.40 1.20 1.15 1.10

Dollars 825.50 1235.00 937.60 963.90 991.25 874.23 Dollars 128.63 162.40 126.00 108.10 113.30

Total # Beef: 234 • Total # Calves: 303 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

Auctions Tom Broughton Auctioneer • Home • Estates • Commercial • Consignments Bridport, VT • 758-2494 tombroughtonauctions.com

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Middlebury man cited for first-degree aggrivated domestic assault MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Whitney L. Grady, 38, of Middlebury for first-degree aggravated domestic assault and violation of probation, following an investigation at a Munger Street home on May 22.

Police said Grady was lodged at Marble Valley Correctional Facility without bail pending his court arraignment.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Responded to the May 21 report of a blood trail off Court Street Extension, which authorities followed to an apartment on Court Street.

There, police found a resident who had attempted suicide. Police said the woman was taken to Porter Hospital for evaluation.

• Investigated a death at a Stonegate Drive residence on May 21. Police said Jacob Emmons, 87, appeared to have died of natural causes.

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• Served a temporary restraining order on a man in the Seymour Street area on May 21.

• Responded to a report of a vehicle striking a deer on Case Street on May 22. Police said they couldn’t find the deer.

• Interviewed a Buttolph Drive resident who said her vehicle had been keyed on May 22.

• Were informed of the theft of three chainsaws — a Husqvarna and two Jonsereds — from a vehicle parked off Creek Road on May 22.

• Were informed a multi-colored umbrella had been stolen from a porch on North Pleasant Street on May 23.

• Responded to a reported bicycle

accident on Bakery Lane on May 23.

Police said the rider was eventually taken to the Porter Hospital Emergency Department.

• Assisted Counseling Service of Addison County caseworkers with a mental health patient who was refusing to leave Catamount Park on May 23. Police stood by as the patient left without issue.

• Notified the parents of a youth who was damaging signs on Middle Road on May 23.

• Ticketed a driver for being in possession of marijuana following a traffic stop on Court Street Extension on May 23.

• Were informed a car had been vandalized while parked in the Middlebury College parking lot off Shannon Street on May 23.

• Assisted a Middlebury Union High School student who reported receiving unwanted texts on May 23.

• Responded to the untimely death of a Court Street resident on May

23. Police identified the deceased as 58-year-old Janet Banner, whom they said died of natural causes.

• Told a Weybridge Street resident to dial down the music on May 23.

• Responded to a single-vehicle rollover crash on Quarry Road on May 24. Police said the driver did not require hospital treatment.

• Assisted a man who said he’d been harassed by his ex-wife on May 24.

• Served a no-trespass order on May 25 on a local resident for a Washington Street address on May 25.

• Heard from a Lindale Circle resident on May 25 who alleged someone had stolen medication from her home.

• Helped with traffic control while Green Mountain Power workers replaced a power pole that has been knocked over during a windstorm on May 25.

• Tried in vain to locate a man allegedly seen carrying a handgun

tucked in his pants on Main Street on May 25.

• Investigated an attempted burglary at the Exchange Street car wash on May 25. Police said someone used a pry bar to try get into the building from the north side, breaking a light in the process.

• Served a no-trespass order on May 25 on a person not wanted on Middlebury College campus.

• Found a very drunken man vomiting at the side of Shannon Street on May 25. Police said a sober friend agreed to care for him.

• Received a report about a fight in progress on Munger Street on May 26. Police said the dispute was verbal only.

• Were alerted to some litter off Creek Road on May 26.

• Were informed a farm truck had been stolen from the Munger Street area on May 26. It’s a red Dodge truck with license plate number 314A433.

Anyone with information is asked to

Roadside invasive pulling party to be held in Lincoln June 2 Lincoln LINCOLN — Food! Prizes!

Exercise!

Satisfaction!

Please join the Lincoln Conservation Commission on Saturday, June 2, for a roadside invasive pulling party.

Wild chervil and poison parsnip are two invasives that have taken up residence in Lincoln but are still limited enough in their distribution to eradicate.

Meet at the Lincoln sports field pavilion at 9 a.m. Wear a long sleeve shirt, long pants, and closed-toed shoes. Bring a water bottle, gloves and a small shovel, if you have them. There will be ID sheets, plus

Have a news tip? Call Dawn Mikkelsen at 453-7029 NEWS

live plants, so you’ll know what to pull. Lunch will be provided from 12-1 p.m. and will feature Vaneasa’s fabulous soup, cornbread and cookies. Please bring your own bowl for the soup.

Handmade mugs, Nancy Stevens’ homemade pie, creemee gift

certificates, a hand-crafted wooden cutting board and a pony ride are just a few of the thank-you prizes for participants. Prize markers will be scattered among the patches of roadside exotic that participants will be pulling.

In just a few hours, we made a big impact with last year’s pulling party.

Since the seeds remain viable for up to 5 years, we need to keep at it for a few more years. See you there.

The Lincoln Community School’s annual Spring Festival will be on Friday, June 8. Schedule of Events: 7:45-8:25 a.m., Readers’ Restaurant

for families; 8:30-9:15 a.m., an all-school assembly featuring the famous First Grade Red Clover Play; 9:30-10:30 a.m., Garden Tours and Plant Stations, a second helping of Readers’ Restaurant, Weather and the Playground Display, Chicks and Eggs, Musical Performances, and an Interactive Mosaic. The Boat Rally will take place at 11:15 a.m. and the Festival will conclude with a cookout at 11:30 a.m. prepared by grill masters from the Lincoln Volunteer Fire Department. Lunch is $5. Email LCS at dzele@anesu.org or call 802453-2119 to make a reservation for

the cook-out.

Northern Flyer Bluegrass will be performing as part of the Burnham Music Series on Saturday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at Burnham Hall. $10 for adults, teens and kids are free.

A memorial service celebrating the life of Ruth Coyle will be held on Tuesday, June 12, at the United Church of Lincoln at 11 a.m. Ruth passed away on April 24. All are welcomed.

Until next time ...

Learn From Yesterday. Live For Today. Hope For Tomorrow.

-Albert Einstein

call Middlebury police at 388-3191.

• On May 26 found, parked on Munger Street, a truck that had been reported stolen from Shelburne.

• Responded to a report of a loud argument between a man and a woman on South Pleasant Street on May 26.

• Received a report of a bear sighting in the Buttolph Drive area on May 26.

• Responded to a May 27 report of a local woman trying to take her own life by cutting her arm. Middlebury Regional EMS officials took the woman to Porter Hospital.

• Served a no-trespass order on a man who had allegedly been seen going through a student’s belongings on May 27.

• Responded to a report of a tree blocking Halpin Road on May 27.

• Responded to a report of a patients threatening staff at Porter Hospital on May 27.

• Warned a group of college students who were littering and holding open containers of alcohol on Seymour Street on May 27.

• Responded to a noise complaint on South Main Street on May 27.

Police told the culprits to turn their music down.

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VERGENNES — Vergennes police last week took reports of several thefts from parked cars, most of which they said were left unlocked.

Police are reminding residents to lock cars left in driveways or parked on streets, especially overnight.

On May 22 change was taken from a car parked on Green Street, and a portable speaker and related equipment was stolen from a car on South Maple Street.

On May 24 a radio and speaker was removed from a pickup on Walker Avenue, and on May 26 $25 was stolen from a car on West Main Street.

Police also last week participated on several special grant-funded Click-It-Or-Ticket details, some outside of the city. In one such detail, in Middlebury on May 22, city police cited Ian J. Kyhill, 31, of Castleton for driving with a criminally suspended license after pulling him over for a cell phone violation.

In other action between May 21 and 27, Vergennes police: On May 21: • Helped the Addison County Sheriff’s Department with an uncooperative driver at an Addison traffic stop.

• Arrested Eddie Mulliss, 24, of Vergennes on an outstanding warrant for failure to appear in court to answer to a simple assault charge.

Police said Mulliss came to the station and turned himself in, and they turned him over to a sheriff’s deputy to be lodged at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility.

• Searched unsuccessfully for a man reported to be walking around Vergennes Union High School and looking in windows.

On May 22: • Helped the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad with an uncooperative patient on Panton Road.

• Spoke with a VUHS student and administrators about an unwanted Instagram picture the student had received from an unknown person; police said there was nothing lewd or threatening about the picture and advised it be deleted.

• Cited a mother and two daughters for domestic assault following a family fight at a Green Meadow Acres resident in which all three received minor injuries, according to police. Cited were Sybil Saunders, 44; Lydia Raymond, 27; and Gabrielle Saunders, 20.

• Helped Vermont State Police stop an elderly driver police called delusional who was driving erratically, was apparently lost, and refused to pull over for state police.

On May 24 tried to find an erratic driver reported heading into the city on Route 22A. On May 25: • Dealt with a minor two-car accident at the intersection of Main and South Water streets.

• Helped VARS at a First Street call.

• Took a report from two people that a third party was threatening them; the third party said he was the lessor of record in an apartment and the other two were refusing to leave or pay, denied threatening them, and said he would pursue their eviction.

On May 27: • Accepted a wallet that a citizen found on Monkton Road in Ferrisburgh and returned it to its owner.

• Investigated an accident on Green Street in which a vehicle drove into a building.

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May 31, 2018

The Addison Independent

Bill and Ellie Friml, who serve as The Opera Company of Middlebury’s technical director and scene artist and designer, respectively, take a brief rest while creating the stage scenery for the company’s production of “A Streetcar Named Desire,” which opens Friday, June 1.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Setmakers’ magic turns illusion into reality

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or a few weeks every year, Middlebury Town Hall Theater Box Office Manager and Jackson Gallery Director Ellie Friml steps out of the box office and onto the stage — not to sing, but to paint.

Together, she and her husband, Bill, craft the scenery behind The Opera Company of Middlebury’s productions. Ellie is the company’s scene artist and set designer; Bill serves as technical director. Together, they were responsible for a set of one-way mirrors that created ghostly apparitions in the opera company’s 2012 production of “Thaïs”; a looming, gold-paneled palace wall of old ceiling tiles

BY ABAGAEL GILES

for “Macbeth” in 2016; and once, for the opera company’s 2014 production of “The Italian Girl in Algiers,” a life-size, operational Greyhound bus that burst across the stage.

“I lost a few years watching that one,” said Bill of the Greyhound scene.

This year, from June 1 to June 9, The Opera Company of Middlebury will perform “A Streetcar Named Desire,” André Previn’s operatic interpretation of Tennessee Williams’ play of the same title.

The Frimls, New Haven residents, have been making sets together since 1982. Ellie grew up in Charlotte and designed her first theater set while she was a student at Champlain Valley Union

High School. When she’s not designing sets, she makes hand-woven tapestries. Bill works in technology and construction. Ellie and Bill, now in their 60s, met in the Mad River Valley while they were young. The pair married and raised two kids together, Nicholas and Tina.

The Frimls have only ever worked in small theaters in Vermont, but theater professionals say the sets they design are extraordinary.

“Bill and Ellie could work for any professional theater in the country. We’re so lucky that they live here and work here,” Opera Company of Middlebury Artistic Director Doug Anderson said this week.

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HEALTH LESSONS IN

LISTENING R E F L E C T I O N S O N H E A LT H & L I F E S T Y L E

GETTING TO YOUR ROOTS

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las! The chance of a frost has diminished, the earth has begun to warm and moisten, and planting season is here! For the ambitious gardener, this process likely started weeks ago with seeds and grow lights. Yet for many of us, it is time to dig in and get dirty.

BY LAURA WILKINSON

In our home this process begins at the kitchen table with my daughter and me creating an overzealous list of flowers and vegetables.

Tomatoes, cucumbers, basil, pumpkins, beets, carrots, watermelon! Rutabaga! But, of course!

My realistic and temperate partner then appropriately culls our list.

Then we are off to Green Haven to buy seeds and starter plants and start baking a banana bread for the kind neighbor who tilled our garden.

The next step is getting in the dirt and planting our treasures. Then we water and wait. And water, and wait.

And weed, and water. And wait.

This process of growing a garden is not unlike the process of change or integration of a new habit into our lives. When we plant a tomato seed, we aren’t eating a BLT the very next day. Likewise, when we decide to train for a marathon, we aren’t running it the following day. Change is a growth process and much of the early change happens internally, just

as the early growth of a seedling occurs underground.

As a health coach, I regularly steer away from giving advice. My job is to create an environment in which my clients are able to tap into their own wisdom. That said, if I were able to give just one piece of advice to get them started, it would be this: Be patient and give yourself time to grow your roots. Your success in creating a sustainable behavior change is directly linked to your willingness to build the foundation for that change.

The roots of change start with your vision, or your “why.” What inspires you about this change? How does integrating this change open you up to new possibilities? How will you feel when this change is a regular part of who you are and how you choose to live your life?

The roots are also grounded in your values: who you are and what really matters to you.

When in your life do you feel most alive and fulfilled? How does this change support or connect to these feelings? I liken this exploration to the time in which your seed is germinating underground. On the surface you see nothing, but what is going on just beneath the surface is absolutely essential if your plant is to come to fruition.

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In addition, roots need nutrients from the soil to grow. Ask yourself, what nutrients of support, encouragement, and practical elements do you need in order to grow? This need for support continues, even as your progress forward has started. In the seedling stage, be gentle with yourself as your roots are not deep and strong yet. Our plants need just the right amount of sunshine, shade and water. They might also need a cage or trellis, as they grow strong and hardy.

As we journey forward, it is not only OK, it is necessary to ask others and ourselves for patience and nourishment.

That is how we give ourselves the opportunity to grow into our best selves.

With that, out to the garden.

Dreaming of the first bite of my August BLT, and embracing the growth of my little plant!

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FRIMLS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

Working for a small-town theater poses unique challenges. At Town Hall Theater — a 134-year-old building — every prop has to fit through a door no larger than the average mudroom entrance. The sets must be pre-built in pieces that are then assembled onstage.

The iconic New Orleans balcony from which Marlon Brando howled, “Stella!” in the 1951 screen adaptation of “Streetcar” had to be built in pieces and meticulously hung from the rafters while the tech crew assembled it.

This year the Frimls also had to contend with the Middlebury Union High School Junior Prom, which was held in the theater on May 12 and required different scenery than that being put together for “Streetcar.” The Frimls and a crew have been working around the clock since then to build the set.

“Theater crafts are tricky,” Anderson said. “You want everything to look great, but you’re working with limited time and an extremely limited budget.”

The Frimls have worked with Anderson for years to bring his theatrical ideas to reality.

Once Anderson formulate his vision for the set, Ellie and Bill execute it. They source materials from local lumberyards and basements and transform them into palaces, small town parks, busy Main Streets — whatever is required.

For each set in each show they get to wrestle with the demands of giving scenes the illusion of reality while working with some real-world constraints that test their ingenuity and creativity, and perhaps their patience. For set of “A Streetcar Named

For the OCM’s 2012 production of Massenet’s “Thaïs” the Frimls constructed a set of one-way mirrors that became a variety of locales, including this one of the church with stained-glass panels.

Photos courtesy Town Hall Theater

Desire,” Bill constructed a staircase and balcony in the style of a home in New Orleans’s French Quarter, which Ellie painted to look distressed and hung with Spanish moss.

For many shows Ellie has created dramatic floors — “Doug likes a decorated floor,” she said. So she paints the floor. But that means the floor can’t be wet while the actors are rehearsing or while Bill is building on stage during the day. So she spends late nights alone in the theater, painting cobblestones and kitchen tiles and creating optical illusions of depth. She prefers to listen to electronic dance music while she’s paints.

opera,” he said.

otherwise,” Ellie added.

The Frimls said they build sets because they love the creative challenge and the people who come to be part of the opera company.

“There’s a strict no diva policy written into the bylaws,” said Bill. He said that the technical staff get an inside look at how professional singers and directors work. “You get to see the real people behind the voices,” Bill added. “We’d never be this close to it all

Anderson said the Frimls’ all-nighters and late nights are a big part of what sets The Opera Company of Middlebury’s productions apart from those of other small theaters. “Our shows have a professional sheen that any opera company would be proud of, and our ‘Streetcar’ is no exception.

There will be a real ‘wow’ factor when audiences see it for the first time.”

Ellie and Bill are looking forward to watching the audience on opening night. “I feel special that I was here at the creation of some of these beautiful moments,” said Bill.

“To witness the birth of an opera, that’s a beautiful thing.”

See the Frimls’ beautiful sets and enjoy the wonderful music and acting in “A Streetcar named Desire” on Friday, June 1; Thursday, June 7, and Saturday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, June 3, at 2 p.m.

“Ellie paints surfaces you swear are 3-D, the real thing,” Anderson gushes. He is equally impressed with the scenery that rises up off the floor: “And how do you build a wall that looks like it has been there forever when it’s just canvas and pipe and plywood? Bill is a structural genius.”

For this summer’s opera, Bill has dealt with more than demands of building a balcony. The stage for “Streetcar” extends to just a few feet from the first row of theater seats. “You just don’t get this close to professional

A massive wooden wall that captures the mood of the ill-fated king in 2016’s “Macbeth” was built by the Frimls and their team using plastic ceiling tiles painted to look like wood.

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ACTIVE Get out and hike, but, be sure you’re prepared!

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iking is one of Vermont’s top summer tourism draws and the Green Mountain Club (GMC) estimates 200,000 people visit the Long Trail system each year. The official protectors and maintainers of the Long Trail, the 108-year-old Green Mountain Club is the premier Vermont hiking organization with numerous hiking guides and maps available to Vermonters and visitors alike.

New this hiking season, the mile-long Long Trail relocation in Smuggler’s Notch is open, featuring an accessible boardwalk, new parking area, and relocated trail that passes right by the historic Barnes Camp Visitor Center, open on weekends through the summer and staffed by dedicated volunteers.

From its rocky summits to gentle valleys, Vermont is home to hundreds of miles of hiking opportunities. This is a great time of year to get outside and enjoy a favorite hike or explore a new trail. Higher elevations may still have snow and muddy conditions, so please be prepared to walk through puddles and mud to avoid damaging the surrounding vegetation.

Henry Wagner, left, Oscar Downing and Will Crawford enjoy a break and a magnificent view from Sunset Rock in Lincoln during a recent hike.

Photo courtesy of North Branch School

chilly year-round and Vermont’s weather can quickly change.

• Stay hydrated and bring food for long hikes.

GMC offers a few tips for hikers:

• Bring rain gear; even an emergency poncho or garbage bag will help in a pinch.

• Plan ahead and let someone know where you will be hiking.

• Carry out what you carry in and help protect Vermont’s special places.

• Carry a map and know which trailhead you need to return to.

The Vermont Department of Public Safety reminds hikers that they can find themselves trudging in snow and ice despite warm weather and green grass at the trailhead. Spring showers

• Bring a warm extra layer as mountain tops are

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at lower elevations can turn into a wintry mix of snow, sleet and rain in the hills. Rain and melting snow can cause rapidly rising streams and challenging stream crossings. The longlasting snowpack at higher elevations keeps the air temperature cool, soaks your boots and can make trails difficult to follow.

Waterproof boots (not sneakers) with traction devices, extra layers of warm clothes, a headlamp, map and compass might become necessary for a safe and successful hike. Consider turning around when you hit icy or snow-covered trails if you are not properly equipped, or if travel and route-finding becomes difficult.

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ART Sheldon Museum silhouettes travel to D.C.

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ylvia Drake and Charity Bryant lived a respectable, relatively quiet life together as essentially married partners out of the spotlight in Weybridge, Vt., in the first half of the 19th century. This month a picture of the two women was placed in a spotlight — literally — in one of the most high-profile venues in the world: the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. A silhouette of the two women that has been safeguarded in the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury was hung in a new exhibit called “Black Out: Silhouettes Then and Now,” at the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery in celebration of the NPG’s 50th anniversary.

On May 10, William F. Brooks Jr., executive director of the Sheldon Museum, and Eva Garcelon-Hart, archivist at the museum’s research center, attended the opening reception of the exhibition. The gallery borrowed from the Sheldon the unique double silhouette of Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant, the first documented same-sex couple in the United States. The striking piece of art not only shows the two women in profile, but also includes strands of hair from the two women braided together into the shape of a heart. It is displayed prominently in the National Portrait Gallery’s exhibition space and in the catalogue for the show.

Sheldon Archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart and Executive Director Bill Brooks stand with a Sheldon silhouette on display in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.

NPG exhibition. The “Sylvia & Charity” silhouette complements a number of the silhouettes on display in the “Black Out “ exhibit of individuals

who have been rendered voiceless historically, including women, the enslaved, and free people of color. It also constitutes an important link to the works of current-day silhouette artists on display, including that of Kara Walker, Kristi Malakoff and Kumi Yamashita.

Sylvia Drake and Charity Bryant became the subject of the book, “Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America” by Rachel Hope Cleves available for purchase through the Sheldon Museum.

Some time ago Garcelon-Hart contacted the Harvard Art Museum conservator and silhouette specialist Penley Knipe in search of further information regarding the silhouettes. Knipe, in turn, conveyed her knowledge about this unique piece to Asma Naeem, the curator of the

The local silhouette will be on exhibit until March 10, 2019, and shortly thereafter it will return to the Sheldon unless the gallery is successful in arranging “Black Out” to travel to other venues.

one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK PUPPETS

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Modern Times Theater will present the troubles and travails of puppetry’s favorite loudmouth, Mr. Punch, in a Punch and Judy puppet show at SATURDAY JUNE the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct, Middlebury.

The 11 a.m.-noon show will features live music, sing-a-longs, classic jokes and gags, and audience participation. Free admission.

Appropriate for all ages.

Spend an evening with Vermont wildlife photographer Brian Machanic when he presents a talk on taking pictures of birds and then takes you on JUNE a bird walk in the TUESDAY Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area. Starts at 5:30 p.m. at the Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area headquarters off Route 17 in Addison. Limited to the first 25 participants. Register: email amy. alfieri@vermont.gov or call 802-759-2398.

The highly acclaimed choral ensemble Roomful of Teeth will present a singing workshop at the Congregational Church of Middlebury, 4:30-6 p.m. Learn from JUNE group members’ WEDNESDAY extensive experience with choral traditions from around the world and from contemporary classical music. Learn about yodeling, throat singing and more. No experience necessary. Suggested donation is $10.

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RHUBARB FESTIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday June 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Court. Its’ time for everything rhubarb. For $10, festivalgoers get a freshly made sandwich, a green salad with raspberry-rhubarb dressing and rhubarb pie with whipped cream.

Homemade rhubarb and rhubarb-strawberry pies for sale, and sweets and savories; gently used bling, scarves, ties, books; wide variety of plants and seedlings. Games and face painting for kids, and live music throughout the day. Half the proceeds go to HOPE. Handicapped parking behind the church or at nearby high school.

More info at 802-388-8080 or cvuus.org.

CARNIVAL IN BRANDON. Four days: Thursday & Friday, June 7 & 8, 5-9 p.m.; Saturday, June 9, noon-11 p.m.; and Sunday, June 10, noon3 p.m. At Estabrook Field of Route 7 north of the village. Come to Brandon’s summer kick-off event. Concerts, rides, vendors, food and more. Music includes Thursday: World of Hurt Wrestling; Friday: MSJ Rock band, Arthur Cantrell and the What Dudes; Saturday: Battle of the Bands, One for the Road, Ben Fuller and Jamie Lee Thurston; and Sunday: YouTube. Free admission and parking — rides and games cost money. More info at townofbrandon.com.

ACTIVE NATIONAL TRAILS DAY HIKE INTO HISTORY IN ORWELL. Saturday, June 2, 2-3:30 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mount Independence Road. It’s National Trail Day. Mount Independence Coalition board member Mark Brownell leads this guided hike into Revolutionary War history.

ARTS OPENING AND ARTIST TALK IN ROCHESTER. Sunday, June 3, 4-5 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Edward Koren (you’ve definitely seen his cartoons, probably in The New Yorker magazine) talks about his work. More info at bigtowngallery.com.

ARTISTS’ OPENING CELEBRATION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 8, 5-7 p.m., The Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Meet the artists and view their

work in the group exhibition of poetry and art called, “Birds, Bees and Butterflies in the Land of Milk and Honey.” The event is a benefit for the Audubon Society.

FILM “ALL THE KING’S MEN” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, June 7, 3:30 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. The Middlebury Community Classic Film Club will show this academy-award winning film from 1949 — a story of power, corruption and political upheaval in Depression-era America.

A discussion of this timely classic will follow immediately afterwards.

MUSIC EUGENE CHARLEBOISE AND FRIENDS IN BRIDPORT. Saturday, June 2, noon-3 p.m., Bridport Community Hall. Join Bridport Seniors for a barbeque by Pratt’s Store, country music and a room full of raffle and silent auction items featuring plants and flowers from Golden Russet Farm. 50/50 raffle. Proceeds to benefit Town Line First Response. All ages welcome.

Tickets $5. Advanced purchase recommended.

Call Michelle to reserve at 802-377-1419.

PIANO RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 2, 7-8 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. 100 Eastview Terrace. The younger piano students of Diana Fanning perform a recital. Free and open to the public.

CAROLINE COTTER IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Road. With a captivating soprano voice and award winning songwriting, Caroline Cotter’s travel inspired songs take listeners all over the world and into the depths of the human heart.

Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@ brandon-music.net to reserve.

HEATHER PIERSON ACOUSTIC TRIO IN RIPTON. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, Route 125. This trio slides “from sweet acoustic Appalachian old-timey vibe with Patty Griffinesque lyrics to brassy New Orleans blues piano with a bone thrown to Bessie Smith.”

Open mike followed by featured performers. $10 general admission/$15 generous admission.

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CHORAL WORKSHOP WITH ROOMFUL OF TEETH IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, June 6, 4:30-6 p.m., Congregational Church of Middlebury, 2 Main St. Part of the New Music on the Point Series. Calling all choral singers! The Grammy-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth will give a community choral workshop.

Learn from group members’ extensive experience with choral traditions from around the world and from contemporary classical music. Ever wondered how to really yodel? Have you tried throat singing? Now’s your chance!

No experience necessary. Just a willingness to experiment with your voice! Pay as you wish — suggested donation is $10.

JEFF SALISBURY BAND IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, June 8, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Road. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

THEATER “A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE” OPERA IN MIDDLEBURY. Three performances at 7:30 p.m.: Friday, June 1, Thursday, June 7, and Saturday, June 9. Matinee on Sunday, June 3, at 2 p.m.

Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz-inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting. On June 1, a pre-performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the nearby Memorial Baptist Church. Tickets: rows B & C $55, Rows D-M $65, Balcony $80/ available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

“PUNCH AND JUDY” PUPPET SHOW IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 2, 11 a.m.-noon.

Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Modern Times Theater will present the troubles and travails of puppetry’s favorite loudmouth, Mr. Punch. This is hand-puppetry at its best in a style that has entertained children for centuries. The program also features live music, sing-a-longs, classic jokes and gags, and audience participation. Free admission.

Appropriate for ages 1-100.

“THE BIG MEAL” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, June 3, 4 p.m., Stonecutter Spirits, 1197

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Exchange St. Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet. Sparks fly. And so begins an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye.

A Middlebury Actors Workshop production.

LECTURES JAMES BLAIR TALKS IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, June 4, 3-4 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 11 Eastview Ter. In “Pollution: A Threat to Man’s Only Home … ‘The Past is Prologue,’” well known freelance photojournalist Blair will share his experience and photographs on the subject. Free and open to the public.

WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHY PRESENTATION AND BIRD WALK IN ADDISON. Tuesday, June 5, 5:307:30 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area headquarters, Route 17. Spend an evening with Vermont wildlife photographer Brian Machanic when he presents “The Art in Birding.”

The presentation will be followed by a one-hour photography bird walk at the Dead Creek WMA. Limited to the first 25 participants. To register, contact Amy Alfieri at amy.alfieri@vermont.gov or 802-759-2398.

Great Britain’s Prime Minister and America’s President during their World War II alliance.

“FROM FARM TO FOREST” AT ROKEBY MUSEUM IN FERRISBURGH. Saturday, June 9, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 Route 7. In 1830 hundreds of acres had been cleared on the Rokeby farm for sheep grazing. Now nature has reclaimed

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much of this, but the subtle signs of human use still remain. On a guided walk, master naturalist Jacob Holzberg-Pill will provide insights into the transition of the land, the many different types of trees and plants that have arisen, and point out the often hidden “footprints” of man. Sturdy or waterproof boots and insect repellent are recommended.

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REEVE LINDBERGH: “TWO LIVES” IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, June 5, 7 p.m. Vermont Book Shop. Lindbergh, daughter of Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, will read from, discuss and sign her new book, in which she reflects on navigating her role as the public face of her family while, at the same time, leading a very quiet existence in rural Vermont. Book signing to follow.

“CHURCHILL AND ROOSEVELT: THE PERSONAL ELEMENT IN THEIR PARTNERSHIP” IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, June 6, 7 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. In the final First Wednesday talk of the year UVM History Professor Mark A. Stoler examines the important personal relationship between

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Meet the writers

Bread Loaf Campus to host public talks by the pros

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readings, discussions, lectures, and specialized classes focusing on the craft of writing at the Environmental Conference, or, in the case of the Translators’ Conference, on the art of literary translation. Each morning there are lectures in the Barn and Little Theater on the Bread Loaf campus given by faculty from the Translators’ and Environmental Conferences, respectively. Each evening there are readings offered by both conferences in the Little Theater.

rofessional writers are returning to Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf Campus in Ripton this week for two distinct — but related — gatherings: The Middlebury Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. Both conferences are modeled on the oldest writers’ conference in the country, the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, which is slated for Aug. 15-25.

The 5th annual Environmental Writers’ Conference is designed to hone the skills of people interested in producing literary writing about the environment and the natural world. The 4th annual Translators’ Conference provides training and community to beginning as well as experienced translators in the pursuit of translating literary texts into English — or to those aiming to be more sophisticated readers of literary translation and to incorporate it into the classroom. The two conferences will each offer free lectures and readings

Susan Bernofsky to the public when they are in session June 1–6.

The intensive weeklong sessions incorporate the Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference model of small, focused workshops coupled with

The Translators’ Conference will feature such faculty as Susan Bernofsky, Sora Kim-Russell and special guest Emily Wilson. Bernofsky directs the Program in Literary Translation in the MFA Writing Program at the Columbia University School of the Arts. Among her many published translations are retranslations of Hermann Hesse’s “Siddhartha” (2006) and Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (2014). A winner of numerous translation awards, she specializes in the work of the Swiss-German modernist author Robert Walser, and is currently writing his biography for Yale University Press.

She will give a lecture on June 2 and a

reading on June 5.

Kim-Russell lives in Seoul, South where she teaches literary transla at Ewha Womans University and a Literary Translation Institute of Ko Translation Academy. Her translat include “I’ll Be Right There” by Sh Kyung-sook (2013) and “Our Happ Times” by Gong Ji-young (2014). S give a reading on June 3 and a le on June 5.

A professor in the Department of Classical Studies and chair of the Program in Comparative Literatur and Literary Theory at the Univer of Pennsylvania, Wilson has serve as the classics editor of the “Nort Anthology of World Literature” for years. Her books include “The De of Socrates” (2007) and a translati selected tragedies by Seneca (20 She will discuss and read from he groundbreaking translation of “Th Odyssey,” followed by a Q & A, on 2.

Ginger Strand and Luis Alberto Urrea are among the faculty of th

Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference & Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference Events are on Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus off Route 125 in Ripton. Events noted as “TC” are part of the Translators’ Conference, “EW” are part of the Environmental Writers’ Conference, and “EW&TC” are joint presentations.

Friday, June 1 8 p.m., Little Theater (EW) Welcome to the Environmental Writers’ Conference by Megan Mayhew Bergman Reading by Scott Russell Sanders 8 p.m., Barn (TC) Welcome the Translators’ Conference by Jennifer Grotz Reading by Bill Johnston Saturday, June 2 8:45 a.m., Little Theater (EW) Lecture by Ginger Strand, “On Failure” 4:30 p.m., Little Theater (EW&TC) Reading by Emily Wilson, “The Odyssey: A Reading and Discussion” 8:45 a.m., Barn (TC) Lecture by Susan Bernofsky, “Translating in Rhythm, with Gass”

8 p.m., Little Theater (EW&TC) Readings by Brooks Haxton, Kazim Ali, and Deirdre Heekin Sunday, June 3 8:45 a.m., Little Theater (EW) Lecture by Scott Russell Sanders, “What We Write About When We Write About Nature” 8:45 a.m., Barn (TC) Lecture by Kazim Ali, “Intentional Mistranslation: Locating the Transnational and Polylingual in Anglophone Postcolonial Writing” 8 p.m., Little Theater (EW&TC) Readings by Ted Genoways, Sora Kim-Russell, and Amber Flora Thomas

Lecture by J. Drew Lanham, “Convergences - Findin Common Flow between Conservation Science and 8:45 a.m., Barn (TC) Lecture by Sora Kim-Russell 2:00 p.m., Little Theater (TC) Lecture by Karin Hanta, “Translating Stefan and Lot Zweig: A Case for Domestication” 8 p.m., Little Theater (EW&TC) Readings by Susan Bernofsky, Ginger Strand, and M de la Torre

Monday, June 4 8:30 p.m., Barn (EW&TC) Music at the Barn Pub with Caleb Elder (may have an admission fee)

Wednesday, June 6 8:45 a.m., Little Theater (EW) Lecture by Brooks Haxton, “Images” 8:45 a.m., Barn (TC) Lecture by Bill Johnston, “Epic Foolishness: Translat Epic Narrative for the 21st Century” 8 p.m., Little Theater (EW&TC) Readings by Megan Mayhew Bergman, Jennifer Gr and Luis Alberto Urrea

Tuesday, June 5 8:45 a.m., Little Theater (EW)

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+SPA Emily Wilson Environmental Conference. Strand is the author of one novel and three books of narrative nonfiction, including “The Brothers Vonnegut” (2015) and “Inventing Niagara” (2008). Her work has appeared in a wide range of publications, including Harper’s, Tin House, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Pacific Standard, the Believer, OnEarth and Orion. Strand will give a lecture on June 2 and a reading on June 5.

Urrea is the best-selling author of 16 books, including “The Devil’s Highway” and “The Hummingbird’s Daughter.” He has won a number of awards, including an American Book Award and an Edgar Award. He will give a reading on June 6 at the final event of the conferences.

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The complete schedules of the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference and Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference lectures and readings follows below. Events are subject to change.

To confirm dates and times, contact the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences at 802443-5286, blorion@ middlebury.edu, or blt@middlebury.edu.

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Fri 6/1 7:30pm & Sun 6/3 2pm; Thu 6/7 & Sat 6/9 both @ 7:30pm $55–$80

A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE

OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY – 15TH SEASON Douglas Anderson directs André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz-inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting. Michael Sakir conducts the OCM orchestra.

Fri 6/8 5-7pm In the Jackson Gallery

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BIRDS, BEES AND BUTTERFLIES IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY A Group Exhibition of Poetry and Art – Benefit for the Audubon Society.

On display June 1 – July 8, 2018.

SUMMER CLASSES

Classes for Rock-Stars, Actors, Dancers, Warthogs and Meerkats: The Lion King Summer Camp Rock-It Science The Glass Menagerie A Spoonful of Sugar THT Kids Hip Hop and Broadway Dance

EXHIBITS Peter Wildey’s landscape photography on display at Ilsley Public Library. Beautiful, one-of-a-kind scenes from Vermont and beyond by the former Cornwall resident and 1982 MUHS graduate are on display at the library on 75 Main Street in Middlebury through July 7. Meet the photographer at a reception on Friday, June 8, 5-7 p.m. (802) 388-4095 or ilsleypubliclibrary.org.

1968: The Whole World is Watching at Middlebury College. A year of upheaval and transformation in the U.S. and the world is portrayed through the lens of art, music and literature with prints, photographs, videos, paintings, and sculpture from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s. Also included is a snapshot of Middlebury College in 1968. Christian A. Johnson Memorial Gallery, May 25-Aug. 12.

“Just Kids: Photographs from the Nicholas Gift” at Middlebury College.

Children have always been a magnet for photographers. Drawn from every corner of the globe and representing a broad spectrum of social and economic circumstances, the images here portray children in good times and bad, in states of blissful play or harrowing isolation. College Museum of Art, Overbrook Gallery, May 25-Aug. 12.

American Wood Sculptor John Cross: A Contemporary Figurative Folk Artist. On view March 20-July 8, featuring the whimsical wood carvings of folk artist John Cross. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

The New Paintings of David Fifield: Head in the Clouds. On view May 4-June 26 at the Brandon Artists Guild. Fifield, who grew up in Vermont, says he is fascinated by the infinite possibilities of abstract art, believing it is more about discovery than creation. The BAG is at 7 Center St., Brandon.

(802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

“Where to Land” at Northern Daughters Gallery. A solo exhibit of oil paintings by Bonnie Baird is on view at 221 Main St., Vergennes, from May 3 through June 10. Baird is known for her authentic, personal paintings of the Vermont landscape. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

Visit townhalltheater.org or call 382-9222 to register.

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The Last of the Hill Farms: Photographs by Richard Brown. On display April 10-June 23, this exhibit offers the chance to experience the Vermont that Brown entered and began to photograph in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the lives, landscapes and time period he so lovingly captured are available for viewing through these large-format, finely detailed, photographic prints. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

Our Town Our Town: Love, Joy, Sadness and Baseball — 100 Years of Photographs from the Sheldon Museum. On view March 20-July 8, featuring three dozen photographs from the museum’s Research Center curated by James Pease Blair. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

“Impressions” at Edgewater at the Falls Gallery. Lithographic print artist Daryl Storrs will be the featured artist for the month of May. 1 Mill St., Middlebury. (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

“Fish and Feather: The Wildlife Artistry of Painter Nick Mayer and Carver Gary M. Starr.” This exhibit at Art on Main in Bristol reflects the exceptional artistry and technique of a master carver and an award-winning painter, and reveals their passion about the natural world. On display until July 1. 25 Main St. (802) 453-4032.

Barn Art. On view April 6-June 16, featuring a juried collection of works from 31 different artists in celebration of barns. Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr., Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or cmacvt.org.

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MUSIC Heather Pierson Trio bring sweet sounds to Ripton

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usic critic DC Blom says that the Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio gives audience two for one.

They slide “from sweet acoustic Appalachian old-timey vibe with Patty Griffinesque lyrics to brassy New Orleans blues piano with a bone thrown to Bessie Smith,” Bloom writes in Lone Star Music

Magazine.

Judge for yourself when the Ripton Community Coffee House welcomes the Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio to the Ripton Community House this Satruday, June 2, at 7:30 p.m.

Shawn Nadeau, Heather Pierson and Davy Sturtevant will come together as the Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio at the Ripton Community Coffee House this Saturday night.

live music VUHS Pops in Vergennes. Friday, June 1, 6 p.m., Vergennes Union High School.

Eugene Charleboise and Friends in Bridport. Saturday, June 2, noon-3 p.m., Bridport Community Hall.

Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio in Ripton. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

Caroline Cotter in Brandon. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Diana Fanning piano students in Middlebury. Sunday, June 3, 7 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

Jeff Salisbury Band in New Haven. Friday, June 8, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery.

Northern Flyer on stage in Lincoln. Saturday, June 9 at 7:30 Burnham Hall.

All Types of Kinds in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

The Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio is unusual in some respects. It is comprised of three virtuoso musicians from three very different backgrounds, bringing their skills, their quiet charm and their down-to-earth honesty to bear on songs that bring to life the sounds of the streets of New Orleans and the valleys of Appalachia. Their recordings (2015’s “Still She Will Fly” and 2017’s “Singin’”) and live performances feature Pierson’s multi-genre songwriting, their instrumental virtuosity and stirring three-part vocal harmonies.

Pierson’s live performances feature her amazing talent on piano, her bell-tone vocals and her commanding yet playful stage presence while wielding a tenor banjo, melodica or acoustic guitar.

The acoustic trio is rounded out by Davy Sturtevant on strings/cornet and Shawn Nadeau on upright bass.

As always, the concert begins at 7:30 p.m. with an open mic set, followed by the featured performers.

Open mic performers are encouraged to call in advance and reserve one of the four open-mic slots.

Admission to the coffeehouse is $3 kids (12 and under), $10 general admission and $15 generous admission. The economically challenged may pay what they can afford. Refreshments are available.

The coffeehouse is held on the first Saturday of each month, except August. For more information, contact Richard Ruane or Andrea Chesman at 388-9782.

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the movie LIFE OF THE PARTY — RUNNING TIME: 1:45 — RATING: PG-13 “Life of the Party” wins a Gold Star in the race for being the worst movie of the year. It was released with a swish of pre-release publicity that promised Melissa McCarthy and her director husband Ben Falcone were coming up with a fine comedy. In a year that so far has given us relatively few standout movies along with a mountain of weak ones, this one goes to the bottom of the heap.

The sad part of this is that Melissa McCarthy is a talented comedienne who has drawn appreciation in the past, and here she is surrounded by a number of teenage girls who obviously have talent. But what they are asked to deliver reduces them to ashes. There’s no excuse for submerging talent in terrible material. Using the actors’ real names, let’s take a look.

Melissa McCarthy is married to Matt Walsh who announces during a car ride that he is filing for divorce and is marrying real estate agent Julie Bowen, who creates a neatly dressed blonde pole without a drop of personality. Molly Gordon does a fine job as Melissa’s daughter, who is a college senior, loves her mother and offers emotional support. Mom announces that because she lost her senior year at college to pregnancy, she is returning to take her senior year alongside her daughter. OK, you have the bare bones. Now look what the writers and director do.

Much to her daughter’s surprise, though not to that of the audience, Mom blends in immediately with her daughter’s group of friends and becomes not just one of them but the one they all want to help. This is as unlikely a premise as anyone could conjure.

You will endure the following: First, a perfectly terrible scene when Melissa McCarthy tells her own parents about the divorce while the scene dissolves into embarrassing silliness. Second, she moves out of the marital home in ridiculous scenes where she falls and trips repeatedly as she loads her belongings into her car.

Melissa McCarthy (right) stars as a mom who returns to college with her daughter, played by Molly Gordon (left) in “Life of the Party” (2018).

Suddenly, mother and daughter are classmates as college seniors where Mom is involved in a long series of ridiculous situations that she tries to save by overacting as the comic target of all the jokes. Determined to save a bad script, McCarthy exaggerates both her lines and her situations.

Several ghastly parties unfold to make everything even worse. At one, she laces the chocolates unwittingly with a drug that puts everyone in outer space while they dance so embarrassingly that you may well close your eyes to avoid the sight.

Whether she is addressing the class incoherently about archeology or announcing she has just had sex with the 22-year-old who has taken a shine to her, the talented Melissa McCarthy tries and fails absolutely to save this genuinely awful movie. The audience wants to like it but the premise, the script and the overacting make that an impossible task. It’s an insult to both the cast and the audience — Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book TWO LIVES — BY REEVE LINDBERGH (Brigantine Media)

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VERY PERSONAL MEMOIRS Educated by Tara Westover

Born a Crime by Trevor Noah

Reeve Lindbergh’s latest memoir explores the intersection of her “Two Lives”: one as a daughter of aviator-authors Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and her other, “normal life in the country.” The responsibility for her mother’s and father’s letters, manuscripts and historical archives came to her after they died because of her experience with editors and publishers in her own writing life. “Their written words,” she writes, “continue to reverberate in my consciousness and their lives still trail long tendrils across mine.” She regularly receives correspondence related to their careers, personal lives, or archives.

Then, pulling herself away from the sheep and the chickens, her family and her dogs, she steps into her “Lindbergh” self, appearing at galas, attending meetings and giving talks. Her comfortable existence in rural Vermont quietly waits for her return. Her perspective, and the division between her two lives, is decidedly unique. She speaks candidly and honestly about how she feels to be the spokesperson for one of the most famous families of the twentieth century while also ruminating about daily life on the farm, family matters, aging and community. Lindbergh manages to find the good in these intersections of her life. (Reeve Lindbergh will read from, discuss and sign her book at the Vermont Book Shop on Tuesday, June 5, at 7 p.m.)

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy The Girl Who Smiled Beads

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My Dead Parents by Anya Yurchyshyn The Fact of a Body

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The Distance Between Us by Reyna Grande Implosion by Elizabeth W. Garber Mayhem by Sigrid Rausing Lit by Mary Karr

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Middlebury Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay, center, accepts the “Greenest Building Award” for the new town offices in a May 17 ceremony. With her are, from left, Nick Thiltgen, Efficiency Vermont; Chris Huston, Bread Loaf Corp. vice president of architecture; Middlebury Selectman Victor Nouvo; John Dale, Bread Loaf project architect; and Paul Wyncoop, Bread Loaf client service manager.

Middlebury receives Vt. Green Building award

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hursday, May 17, the Vermont Green Building Network (VGBN) bestowed on the town of Middlebury the Greenest Building Award for 2017 for the Middlebury Town Office Building. The award was given in a ceremony at the town offices that coincided with a tour of the town office building by attendees of the Vermont Town and City Management Association’s Spring Conference.

Chris Huston, John Dale and Paul Wyncoop from Bread Loaf Corporation; Middlebury selectboard member Victor Nouvo; and Efficiency Vermont’s Nick Thiltgen presented the award to Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay,

who accepted the award on behalf of the town. The building was recognized for its performance over the entire operating cycle of 2017, for exemplary energy efficiency and as a net zero-ready facility. “Net zero” means it uses no more energy than it creates; the building will be officially net zero once the town controls the renewable energy credits from its solar array.

Huston thanked the entire team for the highly collaborative approach, which he said was fundamental to the success of the project.

Middlebury-based Bread Loaf was the principal contractor on the building. He also read the following statement from Jenna Antonino DiMare, the executive director of VGBN:

“I am proud of the excellent work Bread Loaf Corporation is doing to push the market towards more sustainable building practices. The Vermont Green Building Network was delighted to award its net zero-ready Middlebury town office project the Vermont’s Greenest Building Award in the commercial category this year.

Congratulations to their entire team for helping to ensure this building exemplifies best practices in municipal buildings, and creates a new standard for environmentally responsible construction and operations in Vermont.”

Middlebury College was also recognized for its significant contributions to the ambitious project and for its specific support of the net zero features of the new Middlebury town offices.

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through the moving process before can make for easier work for buyers and sellers.

Ask for recommendations regarding real estate companies, real estate attorneys, home inspectors, insurance agents, and all of the other people who will assist with buying, selling and moving. Carefully vet these professionals, relying on third-party reviews as well as any information provided by the Better Business Bureau.

Secure temporary storage It can help to put some belongings into a storage center prior to moving, and then gradually take items from the storage unit to your new home. This will free up space to make repairs to your new home and give you time to figure out decorating schemes while ensuring clutter won’t get in the way of renovation projects. New homeowners also can take their time sorting through boxes and getting rid of items they may not need in their new homes.

Get estimates and verify licensing The BBB advises consumers to verify all licensing for movers. Solicit at least three in-home estimates and get those figures in writing. Confirm insurance coverage for the company chosen, and be sure to have all agreed upon information spelled out explicitly in a written contract. Red flags to consider include movers who don’t make on-site inspections for estimates and those who demand payment in advance before the move.

Have a first-week survival kit New homeowners can pick up takeout restaurant menus and premade grocery store meals. In addition, stock up on staples such as paper plates, toilet tissue, light bulbs, and cleaning supplies in advance of the move so you won’t have to unpack everything at mealtime or when you want to clean after arriving at your new home.

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Food trucks, entertainment rolling in for Foodaroo Stone Leaf Teahouse Aqua ViTea Kombucha … and more!

American Flatbread will offer beer, wine, hard cider, and summer cocktails, featuring event local names like Woodchuck Cider, Stonecutter Spirits, WhistlePig Whiskey, Halyard Brewing, and Drop-In Brewing.

A FEAST FOR ALL SENSES Foodaroo is about food and performance that exhilarates and engages all ages. This year’s festival is proud to welcome internationally acclaimed identical twin street performers the Kif-Kif Sisters, a hilarious vaudeville-style duo. The Grift will rock a specially designed performance, including an appearance by special guest star Laura Thomas. A fortuneteller will unveil great mysteries. Spectacles of light and fire will unfold. Many interactive games, activities, raffles and creative pop-ups will delight children and adults alike.

SOMETHING NEW: BAKING CONTESTS! Foodaroo 2018 is honored to host two King Arthur Flour Baking Competitions this year — one for kids, and one for adults. For contest rules, prizes and to enter visit middunderground.org/kingarthur. A Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op kids’ cooking class will also feature beloved local chef Suzanne Young from Mary Johnson Children’s Center.

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Green Mountain Mangalitsa Local Source Produced by Middlebury Underground Back Road Barbecue Lulu Pouf (MUD), Foodaroo 2018 is a family-friendUnbound Kitchen Benito’s Hot Sauce ly festival that has grown in size and Broccoli Bar Elmer Farm sophistication. It celebrates Vermont’s Aromatica Juice Amour culinary artisans and beverage makers, LuLu Savoure Soda with an emphasis on Addison and Chittenden county vendors and farms. From food trucks to brick-and-mortar operations, this event is dedicated to showcasing creative, farm fresh cuisine. Attendees taste their way through the festival while enjoying leading local bands, internationally acclaimed street performers, kids’ activities, a fortuneteller, baking competitions and much more.

The cover charge is $3, but kids 12 and under are free. Food and beverages for everyone are available for purchase.

The event on June 24, 4-8 p.m., in Middlebury’s Marble Works will feature all-time festival favorites, as well as newcomers, providing a delicious taste of the farm-to-table lifestyle that is a hallmark of our state. Food and beverage vendors signed up for Foodaroo 2018 include: Farmers and Foragers ArtsRiot American Flatbread Cadja Madera The Skinny Pancake EATERS ON THE banks of the Otter Creek falls in Middlebury’s Marble Works district enFork in the Road joy an early evening picnic gleaned from the food trucks at last year’s Foodaroo. The festival Taco Truck All Stars returns to the Marble Works on June 24.

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THE 2018 CIDERSTOCK music festival is expected to draw as many as 10,000 music fans, like these at the 2016 show, to the Woodchuck Cidery back yard in Middlebury.

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MIDDLEBURY — Woodchuck Hard Cider doesn’t do anything halfway. When the company needed more brewing and bottling space a few years back, it didn’t just add on to its existing facility, it built a beautiful new, 100,000-square-foot plant that looks (somewhat) like a big red barn.

When it wanted to show off the space and treat its customers a good time it threw a party — a really big party. They called the music festival and hang-out event “Ciderbration” that first go-around in August 2014, and around 8,000 people came to Woodchuck’s backyard — a grassy expanse behind the cidery off Exchange Street in Middlebury — and listen to the bands, eat great food and party.

The event has got better every year since then — drawing thousands of cider aficionados and music fans every August.

This year’s music festival, now dubbed “Ciderstock,” will take place Aug. 18, and it promises to be at least as fun as the four that preceded it. .

Ciderstock guests will have opportunity to meet the cider makers, sample new styles of cider, and kick back and enjoy lawn games with friends. Local food vendors will be on hand to sell their wares — almost a dozen are signed up this year, including lulu Ice Cream of Vergennes and Bristol, and Thelma’s Bread Dough (do you may remember them from Field Days?).

“We are very excited that Ciderstock is celebrating its 5th year,” said Woodchuck Marketing Vice President Bridget Blacklock. “We have a great line up to help us mark this anniversary of bringing cider and music together. Many save this date on the calendar each year, and we look forward to welcoming these enthusiastic fans and more to celebrate Woodchuck in our backyard!”

And the bands. The headliner this year will be “311,” a band formed in Omaha, Neb., (now based in L.A.) that mixes rock, reggae, hip-hop and funk into their own unique sound. The quintet has charted three No. 1 singles on Billboard’s Alternative Radio Chart — “Down,” “Love Song” and “Don’t Tread On Me” — and sold more than 9 million albums.

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Moon Taxi is a five-piece band hailing from Nashville with three albums under their belt, appearances on all the big light night shows (Seth Meyers, Conan O’Brien and David Letterman) and performances at many music festivals, including Bonnaroo, Coachella, Lollapalooza and more.

Jukebox of Ghosts has been described as a trio of piano pop wizards. Probably most familiar is the Seth Yacovone Band, the original bluesy hard rock improv power trio from Burlington.

Ciderstock 2018 will take place Saturday, Aug. 18, 2-10 p.m. at 1321 Exchange St. in Middlebury. Tickets — $35 now and $40 day of the show — can be had at the cider house or online at woodchuck.com.

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Bristol’s Outhouse Race will have you ‘flushed’ with excitement

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from fans betting on the four heats and final.

Organizers sell $1 colored tickets to backers of each team, and winning tickets are drawn from among those sold to supporters of the first-place teams.

The committee provides outhouses to each entrant, complete with two-inch casters that rotate 360 degrees, meaning that keeping the unit rolling in a straight line is challenging — and critical. Competitors can replace casters with up to three-inch units. Outhouses must be decorated with three sides, a roof (See Outhouse race, Page 11A)

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Big Band Concerts – each Wednesday evening at 7pm (6/20 to 8/29) A Bristol tradition that goes back centuries

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BRISTOL — Addison County’s strangest athletic competition involves tugging or pushing makeshift “outhouses” down the main drag in Bristol. It happens every year on the Fourth of July, and it attracts crowds numbering in the thousands.

In this annual spectacle, racers sprint the length of West Street from Howden Hall to the street’s four-way intersection with Main Street pushing or pulling an outhouse — really a wooden crate atop creaky casters. The teams of three include two runners and one rider, whose job is to hold on tight while the outhouses rattle and bump down toward the toilet-paper bedecked finish line.

The going is hard, racers agree: West Street takes on monumental proportions when traversed by an outhouse racer.

“I’m not even running and it feels long,” rider Moriah McGlenn told the Addison Independent after she took part in the 2010 race.

The Great Bristol Outhouse race kicks off the Bristol Fourth of July celebrations every year. As people gather for the 10 a.m. start to the ever-lovely Bristol parade, they are treated to a quirky but charming sporting — sort of — event. The participants really do work up a sweat, and there have been finishes so close that the judges have had to look at photos to determine the winner, but its always a friendly competition.

Race announcer Shawn Oxford in 2015 told us that the outhouse race kicks in about $900 to $1,300 a year to help stage the Bristol Fourth activities. Entry fees make up some of that amount, but most comes

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THE GOODPOINT RECYCLING South team with rider Crystal Johnston and pushers Patrick Bilodeau, left, and Sean Fahey races down a fan-lined West Street on July 4, 2017, in Bristol.

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The road tilts toward the crowd there, and Perta said he and McDonough were battling their wooden rest room’s wheels as well as Bristol Financial.

As the teams headed east toward the finish line just before the downtown traffic light, Hatch 31 started veering ever closer toward the crowd. Finally the pullers had to slow to avoid injuring onlookers as the cart hit the fans right at the finish line. It appeared as if Bristol Financial might have had a slight lead, but anything could have happened.

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Despite the frustration, Perta said he and McDonough plan to return.

“It was an absolute blast. It was a great time. I can’t wait until next year. Last year we didn’t win our heat, and this year we won our heat. We’re moving in the right direction for sure,” Perta said. “Next year’s our year.”

Be in Bristol at 9 a.m. on July 4 and you can find out if he was right. In any event, the Great Outhouse Race should be a great time for participants and spectators alike.

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Russell’s response: Well, not exactly.

(Continued from Page 9A) “We picked up the outhouse last night and and a door. Riders must wear helmets, and contestants may not modify frames or pull showed up this morning,” he said.

Russell and Wood — both 2017 graduates them with ropes.

The rules do not tell competitors to dress of Mount Abraham Union High School, up for the occasion, but such a measure where they were multi-sport athletes — admitted to being motivated by their seems unnecessary.

One team’s command of West Street’s second-place finish a year earlier, by about five feet in the final, which central crown might have defollowed four preliminary cided the outcome of the 2017 heats.

Great Bristol Outhouse Race. Race announcer But Wood said even earnIn the championship heat of Shawn Oxford in ing a world championship what Bristol Fourth of July 2015 told us that celebration organizers unof- the outhouse race outhouse race victory and avenging that loss, while ficially (and not so modestly) kicks in about plenty of fun, was not as call the World Championship sweet as starting for the Outhouse Race, the winning $900 to $1,300 a year to help stage 2016 Eagle baseball team Bristol Financial Services team of pushers Coleman the Bristol Fourth that won the Division II Vermont title.

Russell and Chris Wood and activities.

“But a win is a win,” Wood rider Sophie Wolak lined up said.

“We’ll take it.” their rolling port-a-potty right While Bristol Financial cruised down the next to the street’s double yellow lines.

From there, they pushed a straight and middle, the Hatch 31 team — pullers Cam true course through the big crowd lining Perta and Jake McDonough and rider Sara both sides of Bristol’s main thoroughfare, Wisell — that proved to be its main comcruised under the giant American flag lofted petition in the final struggled to maintain a between two cranes, and then broke the direct course from start to finish.

Hatch 31 and Bristol Financial ran neckpaper-towel barrier at the finish line held and-neck down the roughly 300-yard course between volunteers wielding the towel roll (According to the Bristol Fourth website, and a toilet plunger.

As was the case with all great champion- “The actual course length has never been ships, hard work, dedication and practice measured”; apparently some things are best certainly must have been behind the team’s left unknown) until about 30 or 40 yards two perfect runs that morning, Russell was from the finish, with Hatch 31 on the south side of West Street. asked.

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ADDISON COUNTY/BRANDON — Americans love to shop. Vermonters love to get a bargain. The summertime activity of yardsaling combines the best of both. Every weekend in the summer there are some folks in Addison County who haul their old stuff out into their yard, or driveway, or garage and put up a “Yard Sale” sign. Many weekends there are BIG yard sales organized by community groups or even whole towns.

Check out the calendar in this guide to see what community sales are going on and then go poke around and see what treasures you can find.

The streets in downtown Middlebury are choked with construction this summer, but one of the best community yard sales will go on. The St. Stephen’s Church Peasant Market is slated for Saturday, July 7, 9 a.m.3 p.m., on the town green.

Organizers of the Peasant Market will be busy taking in a lot of donated items that will be sold to raise money for local charitable causes. The market, which features all sorts of stuff from antiques and fine furniture, to gently used home goods and clothing, annually raises $20,000 to $30,000 for such organizations as Addison Central Teens, Episcopal Relief & Development, Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects, area homeless shelters, Middlebury Parks and Recreation, Open Door Clinic and Vermont Food Bank.

One big tent goes up on the green (plus several smaller ones) and the church opens its basement and upstairs for more sales — it’s all very organized. Every year there are at least a few diehards who loiter near the tents waiting for the 9 a.m. start; you may miss a couple bargains if you arrive after 10 a.m., but there’s so much good stuff that it’s never too late.

THREE DAY STAMPEDE One of the state’s biggest fundraisers is held each year in Bristol to raise money to battle a dreaded disease.

The Three Day Stampede toward the Cure for Cystic Fibrosis features three days at the end of July jam packed full of activities.

The centerpiece of the July 27-29 event, as usual, will be the huge lawn sale under almost three dozen tents on the Bristol Recreation Field. It also includes a used book sale, craft and flea market, food bunk, bake sale, silent auction, motorcycle ride and 5K

running race.

Volunteers ranging in age from 4 to 85 with the young people being the largest in attendance.

Last year, five tractor-trailer loads of donated items were collected every Saturday starting June 1 until the event.

An incredible $125,000 was raised just in 2017; that will go directly to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation for research and programs. Stampede organizer Bonita Bedard said that brings the total raised over 26 years to $1.9 million.

“This event renews your faith in the human spirit, you have folks giving their whole weekends to unload trucks, sort goods, cook food, take care of trash, put up and take down tents and just be an overwhelming source of support,” Bedard said.

Don’t think you’re done with big townwide sales yet. Brandon hosts its annual town yard sale day the first Saturday in August. Brandon will be packed with scores of yard sales all around town. Although most sales will not start until 9 a.m., some start earlier and the official listings, regular and enhance, will be available starting at 7 a.m. online at Brandon.org and at the Visitor Center at the historic Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace & Brandon Museum, located next to the Baptist Church at the corner of Routes 7 and 73 West.

Pick up a map and listing sheet and follow the sales. Downtown Brandon will be a busy place so make plans to head out to sales on the side streets and back roads. Enjoy the views and find the bargains that others are missing. Sales will be held rain or shine.

Public bathroom in the visitor’s center and a portalet in front of the library on Park Street.

Those who are really committed — or who are busy those days — can take heart.

Bristol will hold a similar townwide lawn sale on Saturday, June 23. Bridport hosts its townwide yard sale on Saturday, Aug. 18, and Sunday, Aug. 19.

Big sales concentrate the mind, but there are lots of yard sales, garage sales, porch sales and tent sales at private homes and public venues all summer. Check out the Yard Sales listings in the twice-a-week Addison Independent for what’s going on this coming weekend.

And have fun!

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BRANDON — If you plan to attend one auction this summer, know that a big one is coming up the third Tuesday in July.

The 30th Annual Great Brandon Auction will be held Tuesday, July 17, at Central Park in downtown Brandon. The venue will be open for previews at 2 p.m.; bidding with auctioneer Barb Watters starts at 4 p.m.

Terms: cash or good check.

The event is sponsored by the Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce and will benefit the community projects of the chamber.

The auction offers antiques, collectibles, new merchandise, services, original art and more. Look for surprises and treasures from attics and barns throughout the area. Some of the merchandise is new from many local businesses.

AUCTIONEER BARB WATTERS works There will also be lots of gift certificates to her magic at the 2016 Great Brandon Aucdozens of state and local businesses, includ- tion. This year’s auction will take place on ing restaurants, museums, fuel oil vendors, Tuesday, July 17, at 4 p.m. in Central Park. massages, dinner for eight at a beautiful inn Pre-viewing of items will begin at 2 p.m.

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Food will be available from the Brandon Lions Club.

Resellers will be required to sign an exempBring your chair; this auction will be held tion form so they are asked to remember to rain or shine under the tent. bring their exemption number.

Vermont sales tax will apply to all purchasFor more info call 247-6401 or log onto es, excluding gift certificates. brandon.org.

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PADDLERS TAKE THEIR canoe out from the LCMM docks at Basin Harbor on their way to the Lake Champlain Challenge Race.

Everyone welcome in this big lake race FERRISBURGH — Calling all paddlers, rowers, and on-water adventurers! The annual Lake Champlain Challenge Race is coming up on Sunday, July 8, at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh. The Challenge Race follows a three-mile triangular course that includes some of most beautiful scenery on Lake Champlain.

The race is open to all types of human-powered boats: single sculls, double sculls, kayaks, paddleboards, paddleboats, and even 6-oar or 20-oar craft! Minors can participate with parental permission. Bring your own boat, or sign up to reserve one of the museum’s — LCMM gigs are available for teams of 4 or 6 on a first-come basis; contact Nick Patch for availability, nickp@lcmm.org or 802-475-2022 ext. 113.

All boaters must provide their own lifevests or other personal floatation devices (required).

Registration starts at 9:30 a.m. and the race begins at 11. The $25 per person registration also admits two people to the museum.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Community Rowing Club will provide a free buffet lunch on the museum grounds off Basin Harbor Road for all participants after the race.

In recent years, the Sunday Challenge Race

has become a destination for rowers coming from across New England and Canada to camp at nearby campgrounds for three days.

They assemble at the museum on Saturday for informal racing and social gatherings before retiring to their campsites and hotels for the night.

In the past the race has seen teams from New Haven, Conn.; Plymouth, Hull and Gloucester Mass.; and Picton, Ontario, Canada, according to Lisa Percival, who coordinates LCMM’s Community Rowing Club.

“There will be teams from our local adult community rowing club, current students and alumni from our high school rowing program, and of course lots of people who just love to kayak or canoe,” Percival said.

Challenge Race participants have gone on to compete in Ireland.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Community Rowing Club and Rowing For Racing meet weekly at the museum’s Ferrisburgh campus. For information contact Lisa Percival via email at lisap@lcmm.org. The museum is open daily from 10-5 through Oct. 14. Additional rowing and racing events take place in the autumn and early spring.

Find out more about LCMM at lcmm.org, on Facebook, or call (802) 475-2022.

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Brandon Carnival boasts rides, music & fair food

Entertainment starts June 7, runs through the 10 BRANDON — The Brandon Recreation Department and Brandon Area Toy Project will stage their second annual Brandon Carnival to kick off summer on June 7-10.

The fun happens at Estabrook Field off Route 7 just north of Brandon village.

Just like last year, the carnival will feature a full slate of rides and carnival offerings — ride The Zipper, eat some fair food, enjoy a concert and play Bingo. It aim is provide a fun time that won’t break

people’s budgets.

Events begin on Thursday, June 7, at 5 p.m., with the foot race — a fun, easy 1K run/walk for everyone. Entries are due in as soon as possible and are available online at townofbrandon.com/brandon-carnival.

The $25 race fee includes a free t-shirt and a ride bracelet for one of the bracelet times.

The race will be followed by something organizers are calling “World of Hurt

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The carnival will reopen at 5 p.m. of Friday, June 8, with vendors and rides. The MSJ Rock Band will perform at 6 p.m., and Arthur Cartrell and the What Dudes playing tunes for a community dance beginning at 7 p.m.

A full afternoon and evening of music begins at 12 noon on Saturday, June 9.

As the midway opens, there will also be a local Battle of the Bands. At 5 p.m. the professional musicians take over with One for the Road, followed by Ben Fuller at 7 p.m. and Jamie Lee Thurston at 9 p.m.

Sunday, June 10, will commence with more midway fun beginning at noon, A “Cosplay” event also starts at noon. Look for karaoke at 1 p.m.

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Memories build in these treasured spots, where folks linger with others they love and the flavors each year help them return to the good old days.

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By CHRISTY LYNN One of Vermont’s most treasured qualities is the freshness of its flavors. Whether the rich and creamy dairy, the crisp, juicy apples, sweet and simple maple syrup straight from the boiler, or the freshly roasted free-range turkey, each season boasts flavors that challenge the rest.

But to me, summer’s flavors outdo them all.

I love the first micro-greens that we yield from the young garden beds, not yet bitter with age. There’s little that can beat the sweet of a warm strawberry picked right from the patch on a hot June day. The farmers markets bulge as the season progresses, each week bringing more of the area’s bounty than the week before until its hard to imagine how such a small state can produce such an impressive variety of foods.

Then there’s that day each spring when the sun is shining just hot enough to send you to the nearest creemee stand. That might be my favorite day of the year.

From that first day it becomes a game to see how many different creemee stands you can hit in one summer. Each has a slightly different mix, a slightly different cone, varied sizes and toppings, and, of course, the ever-important creemee-eating view.

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Junior fishing derby on tap at the City Falls Basin This year’s events will run June 22 and 23

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The 2018 Junior Fishing Derby will be held on June 22 and 23 at the Vergennes Falls Basin. After that Friday and Saturday of fishing, an awards ceremony will be held on Sunday, June 25, at the American Legion.

Plans are under way to make this event a fun, safe, free event for kids ages 3-15.

Bring your bait and tackle down to the Vergennes Falls Basin on the weekend of June 22-23 for this year’s Junior Fishing Derby.

The Vergennes Junior Fishing Derby is a 2-day event packed with learning activities, boat rides, music, food and — of course — lots of fishing. It is sponsored by the city of Vergennes, and it is free for kids ages 3-15.

• FRIDAY: Fishing from 5 a.m.-9 p.m.

• SATURDAY: Fishing from 5 a.m.-9 p.m. Plans are in the works for a free barbecue at 1 p.m., sponsored by the Lions Club of Vergennes.

• SUNDAY: An awards ceremony will be held at the Vergennes American Legion, 100 Armory Lane, at 1:30 p.m.

Due to the cost of keeping the Derby free and safe for all participants, camping is no longer allowed during the derby. A Vergennes City Ordinance closes both sides of the Basin at sunset, and that ordinance will be strictly enforced. Anyone caught on the premises after hours will be disqualified from the Derby.

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The permission form can be emailed to the event registrar, Judi Daniels at mjdaniels@ gmwireless.net, or mailed: Judi Daniels 30 Mountain View Lane, Vergennes, VT 05491.

You can also preregister at the day of baseball on Saturday, June 2 at the American Legion.

Preregistration will end on Wednesday, June 6, as the T-shirt order has to be in on the June 8.

After the derby was led for years by Martha DeGraaf, Jamie Lee Blanchard has volunteered to head up the 2018 Vergennes Junior Fishing Derby. Jamie Lee participated in this derby as a youth, has volunteered at this event for several years and is eagerly learning the ropes, carrying on old traditions, and introducing new ideas to benefit the anglers. Jamie Lee is the granddaughter of one of one of the past derby organizers Robert Karzmarczyk, and comes from a family full of talented fisherman and women.

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FERRISBURGH — A special exhibit at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum this summer provides depth to non-native people’s understanding of some of the first residents of this region.

“Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage” was developed in partnership with the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association. This special exhibit brings together garments and accessories made by contemporary Abenaki artists with rare images of previous generations.

Examples of historic and contemporary beadwork on loan from members of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association shows the enduring legacy of beadwork for the region’s native people.

The vibrant culture of the Abenaki peoples continues into the 21st century, even as the tribe had been living in the Champlain Valley for 11,000 years.

In talking about efforts last summer to improve the broader community’s understanding of the Abenaki, Vera Longtoe Sheehan, director of the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association, said, “Now we are trying to bridge the gap between the native and non-native communities through the ‘Wearing Our Heritage’ project. Our goals are to reclaim our place in New England history, to make connections between our shared past and the present, and for the region’s Native people to be recognized as experts in their own history and culture.”

“Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage” is view at LCMM from June 23 through Aug. 19;

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CONTEMPORARY ABENAKI ARTISTS share their artwork and family photographs in the special exhibit “Alnobak: Wearing Our Heritage,” which is on display at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh through Aug. 19.

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1968: The Whole World is Watching May 25–August 12, 2018 The year 1968 is generally regarded — both globally and in the United States — as one of the most tumultuous moments in American history. Even in a decade of such radical change, 1968 marked a distinct turning point for the attitudes of many Americans. This exhibit takes its subtitle, “the whole world is watching,” from the chants of Vietnam War protesters at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on August 28, 1968, as their battles with police were recorded by the media.

Politically, violent acts such as the assassinations of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, shook the fabric of American society. Simultaneously, the “quagmire” of the Vietnam War dragged on with no end in sight. Student demonstrations at Columbia University seeded a protest movement that would sweep across American college and university campuses in the next two years.

The art world was at once isolated from, and reflective of, the chaos felt in society at large. Art was exploring new media and taking unprecedented steps toward something never seen before. Some artists became activists, pushing the limits of political art. Exhibits, theoretical writings, and radical aesthetic initiatives challenged the premise of modernism, as “a generation of young iconoclastic artists Robert Rauschenberg, Signs, 1970, color suggested the emergence of a new sensibility.” As Craig Owens wrote a few years later, “Appropriation, site-specificity, impermanence, screenprint on paper accumulation, discursivity, hybridization . . . characterized much of the art [of the 1960s] and distinguished it from its predecessors” (October, Spring 1980). All this is to say, the seismic waves rocking American society marked a radical shift in the definition of art.

This exhibition assembles prints, photographs, videos, paintings, and sculpture from the mid-1960s through the early 1970s that reflect some of the more visible divisions within the art world of the time. Also included in this exhibit is a snapshot of Middlebury College in 1968, which, like most American academic institutions, was just beginning to experience the changes that would dramatically transform campus life over the next few years.

1968 was organized by Maddie Hampton ’18 and Sophie Taylor ’20 who worked as museum interns during the past academic year. The presentation of this exhibition is made possible in part with support from the Christian A. Johnson Memorial Fund and the Charles F. Kireker III and Sarah Kireker Faulkner ’79 Fund.

Just Kids: Photographs from the Nicholas Gift May 25–August 12, 2018

Whether it was a time of joy or a time marked by turbulence, every adult has survived childhood.

Whatever the circumstances, one thing is certain: children have always been a magnet for photographers, ranging from elated first-time parents to cooleyed professionals with decades of experience. For whatever reason, children are likely to be more photographed than any other single subject. Indeed, some of the most universally beloved images to be found in art and literature—from Gainsborough’s Blue Boy and Degas’s Little Dancer to Pinocchio and Huckleberry Finn—present us with a vision of the state of childhood, a vision constantly Jacques Lowe (American, b. Germany, 1930- evolving and reflecting changes in 2001), Portrait of Young Girl with Doll, c. historical experience.

1960, gelatin silver print Thanks to the magnanimous gift of Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Nicholas, the Museum now holds many hundreds of photographs of children. Drawn from every corner of the globe and representing a broad spectrum of social and economic circumstances, the images portray children in good times and bad, in states of blissful play or harrowing isolation, or just being kids in a world that either answers their expectations or exceeds their comprehension.

Some of the photographs in this exhibit invite us to imagine lives and situations very different from our own, and some may remind us of moments in our own earlier existence, in another time, another place.

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T HEATER HEATER

OWN OWN HALL HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org www.townhalltheater.org

Something Something for for Everyone Everyone

To get a complete look at Town Hall Theater’s offerings and to buy tickets, visit To get a complete look at Town Hall Theater’s offerings and to buy tickets, visit www.townhalltheater.org. www.townhalltheater.org.

SUMMER HIGHLIGHTS Fri 6/1, Thu 6/7 & Sat 6/9 @ 7:30pm; Sun 6/3 @ 2pm $55 – $80 THE OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY

STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE In the Jackson Gallery Fri 6/1 – Sun 7/8

BIRDS, BEES AND BUTTERFLIES IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY

This Group Exhibition of poetry and art benefits the Audubon Society.

Reception: Fri., June 8, 5-7pm

Sun 7/15 2pm & 7pm $10/$5 students

THE BEATLES’ YELLOW SUBMARINE

Restored version of this colorful musical spectacle is a joyful visual experience for all ages.

THT’s Young Company THE LION KING JR. Douglas Anderson directs teens and tweens in Disney’s hit Broadway musical. Fri 7/27 at 7pm & Sat/Sun July 28 – 29 at 2pm $12

&

THE GLASS MENAGERIE THT Education Director directs the Young Company in a new interpretation of Williams’ American classic. Tue & Wed August 21 – 22 $12

Thu 8/23 – Sun 8/26, 2018 $12- $60

MIDDLEBURY NEW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL Dedicated to the work of first and second time filmmakers, MNFF is celebrating its 4th season.

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cultural.historic.sites Henry Sheldon Museum Celebrates Summer!

Monday, July 2nd Annual Pops Concert featuring the Vermont Philharmonic followed by fabulous fireworks. New this year will be a display of vintage cars, a raffle of picnic baskets painted by local artists such as Warren Kimble, and pulled pork from Pratt’s Store in the food tent! The Concert will take place at Middlebury College in the field behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts (rain site: Kenyon Arena).

The grounds open at 5:30 for picnics; Concert at 7:30. Bring chairs, blankets, and flashlights. Tickets: Adult $25, youth $10; children under 12 admitted free. Adult tickets purchased by June 26: $20.

Tickets available by calling the Sheldon, 802-388-2117, at the Museum, the concert, or online at henrysheldonmuseum.org where you will also find an events calendar.

Museum Hours: Tues-Sat 10 am — 5 pm And Sun 1-5 pm (through Oct. 14) Research Center: Thurs & Fri 1-5 pm Browse our Museum Shop or picnic in the garden tended by the Middlebury Garden Club.

Warren Kimball’s Watermelon painting is on top of one of the six picnic baskets being raffled at the concert.

One Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-2117 www.HenrySheldonMuseum.org

Henry Sheldon Museum presents Four Summer Exhibits Summer is the perfect time for a visit to the Sheldon Museum — featuring fine & folk paintings, sculpture & the decorative arts.

Our Town: Love, Joy, Sadness, and Baseball — 100 Years of Photographs from the Sheldon Museum 36 remarkable photographs selected by retired National Geographic photographer Jim Blair in collaboration with Sheldon Museum Archivist Eva Garcelon-Hart. Through July 8, 2018.

Jessica Stewart (future Mrs. Charles M. Swift), c. 1890s. Henry Sheldon Museum Collection.

American Wood Sculptor John Cross: A Contemporary Figurative Folk Artist The Henry Sheldon Museum offers a retrospective of the whimsical wood carvings of John Cross, a masterful contemporary folk artist in celebration of his 60th reunion at Middlebury College. Through July 8, 2018.

John Cross, Man with Cigar, ca. 1990. Photo: Christian Carone.

Waterfowl Wonders and Amusing Animals by Three Self-Taught Addison County, Vermont Carvers Interpretive bird, wildfowl, and animal carvings by Gary Starr, Chuck Herrmann, and William Holway. Through November 11, 2018.

Bill Holway, Elelphant and Zebra. Private Collection.

Doughboys and Flyboys: WWI Stories by Vermonters from the Home and Battlefront November 11, 2018 marks the 100th anniversary of the Armistice that ended World War One. The Sheldon Museum has combed its collection and archives along with the help of Addison County private collections to mount an exhibit that features roles played by Vermonters in what was called the “War to End All Wars.”

July 31-November 11, 2018.

Dr. Jacob Johnson Ross of Middlebury, VT, flight surgeon for the 17th Aero Squadron.

Museum hours through October 14: Tues-Sat 10 am – 5 pm, Sun 1-5 pm • Research Center: Thurs & Fri 1-5 pm One Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-2117 www.HenrySheldonMuseum.org

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This summer, Town Hall Theater turns 10 This summer, Town Hall Theater turns 10 years old! Join us for a festive, free birthday years old! Join us for a festive, free birthday party on July 31 from 5-7pm. In ten years, party on July 31 from 5-7pm. In ten years, we’ve welcomed thousands through our we’ve welcomed thousands through our doors and made tons of new friends. Share doors and made tons of new friends. Share some cake, take a walk down memory lane some cake, take a walk down memory lane and catch some live entertainment as we and catch some live entertainment as we celebrate 10 years of culture, community celebrate 10 years of culture, community and creativity at Town Hall Theater. and creativity at Town Hall Theater.

Free and open to everyone.

Free and open to everyone.

During the last decade we have produced During the last decade we have produced plays, musicals, opera and dance; as well as plays, musicals, opera and dance; as well as events for fisherman, banjo fans, skiers, cat video fans and young rock stars. events for fisherman, banjo fans, skiers, cat video fans and young rock stars.

Then there are the weddings, conferences, book readings and memorial services.

Then there are the weddings, conferences, book readings and memorial services.

And we’re the venue that other non-profits use for their fundraising events!

And we’re the venue that other non-profits use for their fundraising events!

This summer The Beatle’s visionary feature film Yellow Submarine celebrates its This summer The Beatle’s visionary feature film Yellow Submarine celebrates its 50th birthday with a world-wide release of the remastered original film. Illustrated 50th birthday with a world-wide release of the remastered original film. Illustrated with mind-bending moving images, Yellow Submarine is a landmark cinematic with mind-bending moving images, Yellow Submarine is a landmark cinematic experience for all generations that is even more fun and vibrant than it was in ’68. experience for all generations that is even more fun and vibrant than it was in ’68.

Disney fans will have a blast with The Lion King Jr. The African savannah comes Disney fans will have a blast with The Lion King Jr. The African savannah comes to life in this inspiring, coming-of-age story. For The Glass Menagerie, Williams’ to life in this inspiring, coming-of-age story. For The Glass Menagerie, Williams’ memory play is given the Young Company treatment. Using physical theater, memory play is given the Young Company treatment. Using physical theater, non-traditional casting and character exploration, Young Company students non-traditional casting and character exploration, Young Company students bring a fresh perspective to this classic piece. bring a fresh perspective to this classic piece.

The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival is back for a fourth season with The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival is back for a fourth season with thrilling, funny and heart-warming films from all over the world directed by first thrilling, funny and heart-warming films from all over the world directed by first and second-time filmmakers. and second-time filmmakers.

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cultural.historic.sites Quality Wooden Products that Last a Lifetime!

Maple Landmark is your one-stop shop for wooden toys, games, décor, and gifts to fit any occasion! The showroom features hundreds of products including numerous seconds and discontinued items with deep discounts. Every weekday, over 40 local craftspeople utilize modern techniques and old-fashioned expertise to create these high-quality products.

At 10am and 1pm throughout the week, a knowledgeable tour guide will take you out onto the shop floor where you can see everything being made and learn the history behind this classic 39-year-old family business. The tour and store are handicapped accessible.

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Kids can play on the 45’ wooden train on the front lawn!

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Support local business!

recreation.destination Middlebury Farmers Market Come to the market to shop, visit with neighbors, or have breakfast or lunch with friends! Cut out this calendar, visit our website, and “friend” us on Facebook to learn about special events, demos, tastings and live music.

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In a departure from the Museum’s usual, more strictly historical and local focus, this year Rokeby Museum hosts The Fabric of Emancipation, an exhibition from Harlem Needle Arts in New York City, July 15 through October 28.

Curated by Harlem Needle Arts founder and director Michelle Bishop, the exhibit features the work of eight of the country’s preeminent fiber, textile and needle artist’s expressing what it means to be of African descent Marie schollThe works share and are defined by inHeather the Americas.

American history is always tied to the history of white supremacy and racism. It is extraordinarily important for us to have more exhibisome element of thread construction incorporating tions that address this in the same place. Discussing racial justice in the Morris Jumel Mansion, a historic colonial house, is invigorating to me. Both because of thefolk, historical and element and its associationconcepts, with home. My currentbut projectare “whitework” explores how whitecontemporary, abstract diverse SARA BUNN ness – racially speaking – is constructed, specifically looking to white women’s roles. How have women contributed to the ways racin presentation, including quilting, embroidery, mixed media, costume, and fiber ism become palatable to white people? How is women’s work reimagined with this eye towards white supremacy? Materially all pieces MICHAEL CUMMINGS constructed with whitework embroidery, white African thread on white fabric.

The subtle andidentity invisible quality and of the image echoes the fusion. Each work speaks toarethe artist’s view of the Diaspora, the IFE FELIX ways racism/white privilege feels invisible for many white folks.

L’MERCHIEnature FRAZIER socio-political of history in the Americas.

The Heroine’s Veil addresses the white savoir role. This piece works to talk about the ways white people ‘helping’ black communiR. GADSON Curator LAURA Michelle Bishop described The Fabric of Emancipation during its original ties often contributes to the same racial systems. By being more concerned with ego, and with the belief that as white people we DINDGA McCANNON showing at New York’s Morris-Jumel Mansion in 2016, artists are know what is best for everyone we re-establish otherness.“The We re-establish a division basedgriots on paternalism and helplessness, while HEATHER MARIE SCHOLL being convinced of our goodness. This is one trap of white supremacy for white people, even those wishing to make change. using thread as their base medium and their collective LASHAWNDA CROWE STORM work represents the intersection of the invisible, the interpretation of oral history, the trauma of silence, African rituals and the continuous struggle for liberation.”

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About Rokeby J U LY 1 5 – O C T O B E R 2 8 , 2 0 1 8 Rokeby Museum, a National Historic Landmark, was for nearlyROKEBY two centuries a Quaker family farm. Exhibits and MUSEUM Woman’s Work uses the scene of a picnic lynching to discuss the white woman’s role in nurturing white supremacy. In programs highlight the notedAthe(white) accomplishments of family past and in the present, as white women we have separated ourselves from the brutality of racial violence while at the same members who were talentedtimeartists, writers, andlooking ardent Abolitionists. our actions have normalized it.naturalists, By not intervening but rather away as we continue daily tasks we teach our children the brutality enacted on the black community is acceptable, is normal. Our role in the home has been to tidy up brutality, to make Because of the efforts of Rowland T. and Rachel G. Robinson, fugitives from slavery excuses for it, to both separate ourselves from the violence while justifying it. found safe haven at Rokeby over decades leading to the Civil War. Explore awardAs we are in a historical home, its important we talk about the ways homes function in the midst of white supremacy. It is in homestours, that we learnmore many of ourthan lessons often how to live, our moral compass, the ways weand express agricultural emotions and ideas, and what winning exhibits, guided house historic buildings is/isn’t acceptable to express. As white people it is through dissecting both the physical violence and the emotional violence that features, and 50 acres of interpreted nature trails. has been woven into white supremacy that we can begin unpacking how it shows up in ourselves.

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Open daily through October 28th, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Special guided house tours Fridays through Mondays at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. For more information www.rokeby.org .

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produce flowers meats cheeses crafts jewelry eggs apples bread maple syrup honey yarn baked goods prepared foods & more!

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Area Land Trust gears up for summer races

15TH ANNUAL

TRAIL RACE

9-16

2018

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 16 2018

COURSE

19-mile & 10k timed runs, 2-mile family fun run/ walk. All courses are loops on pristine trails through woods, farmland, meadow and river valleys, circumnavigating the town.

LOCATION

Start & end at Wright Park in Middlebury, VT. Postrace celebration with refreshments, prizes & music.

All welcome, any ability.

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Event hosted by the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT). All proceeds help to maintain & improve the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM).

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Land Trust

Registration open now at http://www.maltvt.org

THE SWIM 600 YARDS

MIDDLBURY — The Middlebury Area ing event of the year for the Trail Around Land Trust (MALT) is preparing for a new Middlebury (TAM). race this summer, in addition to their classic This trail race event is meant for runners trail fundraiser, the TAM Trek. or walkers with distance offerings of the RACE FOR SUNDAES full 19-mile TAM, a 10-km loop and a twoRace for Sundaes will take place on Sun- mile fun run or walk. All races begin and day, June 10, and will be hosted by MALT end in Wright Park. The full 19-mile TAM in collaboration with the Better Middlebury consists of single-track and double-track Partnership and the Middlebury Bike Club. trails and a few short connecting sections The races and celebration will on asphalt that encircle the take place from the Battell Organizers are village of Middlebury and Woods parking area off Route link several hundred acres of 7 south, across from Deneck- planning for a town land, conserved properfun and low-key ty, schools (including Middleer Chevrolet in Middlebury.

Organizers are planning one-mile trail run bury College) and other local for a fun and low-key one- as well as a two- landmarks. The TAM is mainmile trail run as well as a mile bike race on tained and stewarded by the two-mile bike race on the Middlebury Area Land Trust the trails, both trails, both starting at 9 a.m.

(MALT) and all proceeds Racers can be all ages. Entry starting at 9 from the TAM Trek contribute fees for adults is $8, children a.m. directly to the maintenance of are $5 and families enjoy a these properties. maximum registration fee of The challenging course $26. Pre-registration can be done online at gains over 1,000 feet in elevation and ofmaltvt.org and will ensure fast check-in on fers stellar views of the sweeping vistas of race-day. the Champlain Valley and the surrounding All participants will receive a free race Green Mountains as well as stretches of evbib and finishers can enjoy free ice cream ergreen and hardwood forests. The course sundaes, music, lawn games and raffle priz- is well marked and easy to follow, but there es. Bikes will not be provided, so plan to are a few street crossings that will be unatbring your own if you wish to cycle. tended, so runners must use caution when 15TH ANNUAL TAM TREK traversing roads.

Sunday, Sept. 16, will mark the 15th anThe 10-km course travels through Wright nual TAM Trek, MALT’s largest fundrais(See TAM, Page 25A)

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GOLF COURSE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! One of Middlebury’s Best Kept Secrets • 18 Picturesque Holes with Stellar Views • Family Friendly • Reasonable Rates • Lessons Available • Fully Stocked Golf Shop • Golf Club Rentals Available • Walking Distance from Downtown Middlebury THE VIEWS FROM the roof of McCardell Bicentennial Hall on the Middlebury College campus are spectacular; on five nights this summer you can go up and look at the stars with helpful guides on hand.

• Brand NEW Bar and Grill with beverage cart service

Independent file photo/John S. McCright

Behold the heavans!

Stargazing at Middlebury College MIDDLEBURY — Mittelman Observatory and Middlebury Physics will again host stargazing open house nights this summer.

These Observatory events are scheduled for five Wednesday evenings: June 27, July 18 & 25, and Aug. 1 & 8. The observatory atop McCardell Bicentennial Hall (the big science building) will be open from 9 until 10:30 p.m. those evenings — weather permitting.

Jupiter and Saturn will be in the evening sky on many of these dates. A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae will

also be visible through the observatory’s telescopes. The facility includes a 24-inch telescope in a dome and smaller telescopes on the roof.

To reach the observatory in McCardell Bicentennial Hall, follow Route 125 west from the Middlebury village center, through campus, and down the hill. Turn right on Bicentennial Way towards the parking lot, enter the building, and take the elevator to the 7th and top floor.

Observatory open house nights are free (See Stargazing, Page 28A)

TAM (Continued from Page 24A) Park and the Gorge Loop, following the Otter Creek for much of the course. The figure-eight loop has roughly 400 feet of elevation gain and several slightly technical sections.

The two-mile fun run stays exclusively within Wright Park and offers a relatively easy-to-follow and flat course, perfect for the novice trail runner.

Aid stations will be available along the timed courses and a celebration at the start/ finish will be open to all finishers and fans.

Refreshments, music, food and generous raffle prizes donated by local businesses and restaurants will entice all to stay and relax and enjoy the river-side beauty of Wright Park.

Early bird registration is open through July 4, 2018 at maltvt.org.

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ADDISON COUNTY FAIR & FIELD DAYS 2018 DAILY SCHEDULE OF EVENTS DAILY ACTIVITIES

10:00-10:00 10:00-10:00 10:00-10:00 9:00 - 9:00 10:00-6:00 10:00-10:00 10:00-10:00 10:00-10:00 10:00-10:00 10:00-5:00 Daily 12:00-12:00 1:00-4:00 1:00-6:00

Please Note: Most exhibits will be removed on Saturday night at 10:00.

Children’s Barnyard Open 4-H & Youth Building Open Antique Equipment Building Open Maple Sugar House Open Twist O’Wool Guild Demos (Twist O’Wool Guild tent) Forest Festival Exhibits & Demonstrations (forestry building) Antique Equipment Demos (antique equipment area) Home & Garden Building Open with continuous craft demos Lucien Paquette Exhibit Building Open Wood Carving (antique equipment area) Maple Products Demonstrations (maple sugar house) Midway Open (approximately) Milking Parlor Demonstrations Cairo Northern Clowns (walk around entertainment)

TUESDAY, August 7, 2018 Addison County Day

MORNING 8:30

Western Only 4-H and Open Youth Junior Horse Show (horse area) 9:00-5:00 4-H Dairy Conformation Classes (animal show arena) 10:00 Open Miniature Donkey Show (Butterfield Arena) 10:00-10:00 Antique Equipment Demos (antique equipment area) 11:00 Tom Joyce, The Magic Man (bandstand) 11:00-7:00 Kindness Bears (Connor Home Stage in Paquette Bldg)

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10:30 Ox Pulling (Butterfield arena) 11:00-7:00 Kindness Bears (Connor Home Stage in Paquette Bldg) 11:00 Tom Joyce, The Magic Man (bandstand)

AFTERNOON & EVENING 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:00 1:30 1:30 2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00 5:30 6:00 6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00

Midway Opens (approx., All day/night bracelet-$20) Dig For Treasure! (youth activity area) - FREE Peterson Quality Malt Men’s Caber Toss (tractor pad) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) Peterson Quality Malt Ladies Iron Skillet Toss (tractor pad) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) 4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) Pirate Man Dan (show tent) Sheep Shearing/Handling Demonstration (sheep show tent) Tom Joyce, The Magic Man (bandstand) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) 4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) 4-H & Other Youth Rabbit Showmanship (4H Exhibit Building) Pirate Man Dan (show tent) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) Miniature Horse Team Hitching Demo (children’s barnyard area) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) VINS Cold Blooded Critters (bandstand) VINS Raptor Encounter (bandstand) Karaoke Talent Night with DJ Amanda Rock (signup at 6:30) (show tent) #1 Auto Parts Demolition Derby (tractor pad)

THURSDAY, August 9, 2018 Vermont Agricultural Day

AFTERNOON & EVENING

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12:00 12:00 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:00 1:30 2:00 2:00-4:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 3:30 3:30 4:00 4:45 5:00 5:30 6:00-11:00 6:00 6:00 6:00 6:15 7:00 7:00 7:00 7:00 8:00

Midway Opens (approximately) Dig For Treasure! (youth activity area) - FREE Pirate Man Dan (show tent) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) VTPA-Garden Tractor & ATV Pulls & Antique (tractor pad) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) 4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) Sheep Shearing/Handling Demonstration (sheep tent) Children’s Activities (children’s barnyard area) - FREE Pirate Man Dan (show tent) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) 4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) Tom Joyce, The Magic Man (bandstand) Vermont Products Dinner-1st Sitting (dining hall) Gymkhana (horse area) Vermont Products Dinner-2nd Sitting (dining hall) BRACELET NIGHT for rides ($15 - rides unlimited) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) Good Time Line Dancing (bandstand) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) Vermont Products Dinner-3rd Sitting (dining hall) Good Time Line Dancing (bandstand) Miniature Horse Team Hitching Demonstration (children’s Barnyard area) Vermont Products Dinner-4th Sitting (dining hall) Addison County Gospel Choir (show tent) Field Days Opening Parade - “Building Dreams, Friendships and Memories”

WEDNESDAY, August 8, 2018

MORNING 8:00 9:00 9:00 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 11:00-7:00

6:00 7:00 7:00 7:00

4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) Armwrestling-Kids 16 & under (sign up at 4:00)(show tent) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) Miniature Horse Team Hitching Demo (children’s barnyard area) BRACELET NIGHT: for rides ($17-rides unlimited) RE/MAX Tethered Hot Air Balloon Rides (parking lot, weather permitting) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) VTPA-Farmstock, NYPTA Super Farm, VT V8 Minis, 2WD Minis (tractor pad) Armwrestling-Adults (weigh-ins 5:00)(show tent) Pitz Quattrone & The Freelancers (bandstand)

SATURDAY, August 11, 2018 Champlain Valley Equipment Day

MORNING 9:00

Open Dairy Show-Ayrshires, Jerseys & Milking Shorthorns ( animal show arena) 9:00 Draft Horse Show (horse area) 9:00 4H & Other Youth Poultry Showmanship 10:00 - 2:00 Children’s Activities (children’s barnyard area) - FREE 10:00 Baked Bean Bonanza Contest & Samples (solar barn) 10:30 Youth Sheep Blocking and Fitting Contest (sheep tent) 11:00 VTPA-Pure stock, Modified, Super stock 4x4, Altered Farm Street Legal Semi (tractor pad) 11:30 Pirate Man Dan (show tent) 11:00 - 7:00 Kindness Bears (Connor Home Stage in Paqu

12:00 12:00 12:00-4:00 12:30 1:00 1:30 1:30 2:30 3:00 3:30 3:30 4:30 5:00 5:30

Midway Opens (approximately) Dig For Treasure! (youth activity area) - FREE Children’s Activities (children’s barnyard area) - FREE “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) Pirate Man Dan (show tent)” 4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) Tom Joyce, The Magic Man (bandstand) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (children’s barnyard area) 4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) Pirate Man Dan (show tent) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (children’s barnyard area) Miniature Horse Team Hitching Demonstration (children’s barnyard area) 6:00-11:00 BRACELET NIGHT for rides ($17 - rides unlimited) 6:00 CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) 7:00 #1 Auto Parts Demolition Derby (tractor pad) 7:00 Reflection Band (show tent) 7:00 Bill Torrey, Storyteller (bandstand) 7:30 Animal Costume Class (animal show arena)

FRIDAY, August 10, 2018

MORNING

Youth Day

8:30

MORNING 8:30 9:00 9:00 10:00-2:00 10:00

Exhibitors’ Breakfast (dining hall) Draft Horse Show (horse area) Open Sheep Show (sheep show tent) Children’s Activities (children’s barnyard area) - FREE Youth & Open Working Steer and Ox Show (beef/working steer show tent) 10:00 Horse Pulling (Butterfield arena) 11:00 Tom Joyce, The Magic Man (bandstand) 11:00 - 7:00 Kindness Bears (Connor Home Stage in Paquette Bldg)

AFTERNOON & EVENING 12:00 12:00-6:00 12:00 12:00 12:00 12:30 1:00 1:00 1:30 2:00 4:00 3:00 3:00

Dig For Treasure! (youth activity area) - FREE BRACELET TIME for rides ($12 - rides unlimited) VTPA-Farmstock (tractor pad) Pirate Man Dan (show tent) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area) PeeWee Dairy Showmanship (animal show arena) 4 Abreast, Show Division (horse area) CWTrails Bike Stunt Show (show area) 4-H Hands on Workshop (4-H exhibit building) Pirate Man Dan (show tent) Tom Joyce, The Magic Man (bandstand) Open and Youth Beef Show (animal show arena) “Robinson’s Racing Pigs” (dairy area)

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SALISBURY — A new paddle, bike, run event has been added to the Vermont Sun Triathlon Series this summer.

The Branbury Classic Triathlon will be held on Sunday, July 15, at Branbury State Park on Lake Dunmore. Vermont Sun Fitness Centers will donate 25 percent of entry fees to the Lake Dunmore Fern Lake Association’s “Lakes Alive Now And Forever” Capital Campaign.

Compared to the other triathlons in the series, this new event starts with a paddle rather than a swim. Participants may choose to canoe, kayak or paddle board, according to their comfort. The 1.5-mile paddle (kayak, canoe or paddle board), 14-mile bike, 3.1-mile run event is open to teams and individuals.

Vermont Sun is committed to continuing its support of the Lake and the Association. The Fitness Center located in Middlebury and Vergennes has contributed to the Lakes Alive Campaign and has been corporate Lake Association members for many years. This will be the 33rd year of the Vermont Sun Triathlon series and the events have become a favorite summertime event for locals as well as visitors from out of town.

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GRAND ISLE’S ERIC Cochran was the first out of the water at the June 25, 2017, Vermont Sun triathlon in Lake Dunmore and won the overall race. More triathlons are scheduled for this summer.

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(Continued from Page 25A) and open to the public. As these are minimal language events, they are also appropriate for Middlebury Language Schools students.

These events will take place only if the sky is expected to be mostly clear, so please check the observatory web site at go.middlebury. edu/observatory or call the observatory at 443-2266 after 7 p.m. on the evening of the event for weather status.

A few summers back, Addison Independent intern and Middlebury College junior Lauren Davidson wrote about the excitement she felt at seeing the cosmos through the lens of the college observatory high atop McCardell Bicentennial Hall. We reprint it here to spark the same kind of wonder and enthusiasm in readers of this summer guide.

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By LAUREN DAVIDSON My Vermont summer is rapidly coming to a close, and with that, I am happy that I finally made it to one of the most elusive places on my list: the roof of McCardell Bicentennial MITTELMAN OBSERVATORY ON the Middlebury College campus will host stargazing open house nights from late June through early Hall on the Middlebury College campus. The August. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the sky during these open house — cross your fingers for good weather. looming presence of the building is one that I know very well, but its top floor is another coming around to supporting NASA after Hercules. Barely seen with the naked eye on story. this successful mission. Has science bea very clear night, the telescope focused in on One may not think the roof is particularly come cool again? the cluster that is 145 light years in diameter hard to get to, but it is nearly always locked With the world primarily focused on the and 25,100 light years away from the spot for security purposes. It is opened only for Olympics, featuring the pinnacle of human from which I was looking. special occasions and astronomy classes. I physical ability, perhaps Curiosity can Seeing the speckling blobs through the say nearly always because on rare occasions remind us of the possibilities of the human eyepiece of the telescope, it was hard to the roof will be left unsecured; it then serves mind. And on a much more tiny scale, comprehend these numbers. How old is as a haven for curious college students without spending billions of dollars, one this thing and how many miles did its light willing to take the risk of being caught by can be reminded of this by simply taking travel to meet my eye? These numbers are campus safety. the elevator up to the roof of BiHall on a far more impressive than any Olympic Always worried of being caught and often special Wednesday night. record. avoiding hard science classes, I don’t need Stepping out onto the roof I realized While I have had many new summer exto say that I had never experienced the views that the Vermont sky is like no other. The periences during my time in Vermont, this THE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Physics one I was particularly fond of. In talking from the top of the building. But its presence wonders of the crystal clear views that we always sparked my curiosity. I was sure that have the privilege to view are multiplied at Department hosts a number of open houses about ways to “escape,” space offers the where anyone can come look at heavenly the powerful telescopes and uninterrupted such heights. I was able to count the lights bodies. This boy was viewing the transit of ultimate form of freedom. A view of the views would provide a window unlike any from the ground. There were only five Venus in 2012. stars can remind us of our place. Whether Independent file photo/John S. McCright perched on top of a mountain or the roof other. visible. The dearth of man-made distraction So when the infrequent opportunity to is almost unique to Vermont; it would be of a building, the stars at night are a great view the stars from the top of BiHall arose incomprehensible in cities and even in the available, explaining the brightness and reminder of the innate beauty of nature. magnitudes of the stars so easily visible one summer night, I jumped at it. I would suburbs.

Because of this realization, I can now finally get to see what all the hype was about.

In addition to the dark skyline, stargaz- above. The numbers on the map, as you understand the “science is cool” attitude.

Space, and all of its infinite possibilities, ers had access to amazing telescopes to could imagine, were extremely specific. And although I have not invested years of is the subject of conversation on a much further enhance the views. Four different Giving precise values to the stars was an my life into crafting a rover set for a distant larger, national level, too. With the landing telescopes, including the large hub, were interesting juxtaposition for me — beauty land, I can begin to understand the passion of NASA’s newest project, the Mars rover pointed at different celestial bodies millions can interact with science. of those working in the space program.

One of the constellations a telescope was Curiosity, people are once again being made of light years away. To think, all on top of And all of this possibility is located right aware of the mysteries of space. After years a roof that I have spent numerous hours focused on was Messier 13, also known as on top of a building I see every day. A Hercules Globular Cluster, which is made up familiar place can provide you with some of discussion on whether the space program under. is deserving of federal funds, the public is Maps of the constellations were also of about 300,000 stars in the constellation of pretty foreign sights.

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a. Rokeby Museum, Route 7, Ferrisburgh. Underground Railroad site and prominent Quaker family farm. rokeby.org. b. Kingsland Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh. Day use, nature path. vtstateparks.com/ kingsland.html. c. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Ferrisburgh. Traces the history of Lake Champlain, extensive indoor and outdoor exhibits, including boats. lcmm.org. d. Button Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh. Overnight camping, nature trails. vtstateparks.com/buttonbay.html. e. Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Route 17, Addison. Home to migratf. g.

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Bixby Library, 258 Main St., Vergennes. Stained glass ceiling illuminates historic library and extensive collection of early arrowheads and other artifacts. bixbylibrary.org.

Lord’s Prayer Rock, Bristol. In 1891, Joseph C. Greene paid a carver to engrave the Lord’s Prayer on a huge rock sitting next to what is today Route 116. It’s still an unusual roadside attraction.

Snake Mountain. Parking lot on Mountain Road in Addison. Family-friendly hike to beautiful vistas of Champlain Valley and Adirondacks. Don’t leave valuables in the car. tinyurl.com/ybhkstdd.

Mount Abraham trail access, Long Trail, Lincoln. Strenuous hike to summit nets 360-degree panorama. greenmountainclub.org.

University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm, Morgan Horse Farm Road, Weybridge. Beautiful grounds featuring a leading breeding program for official state animal. Tours daily. uvm.edu/morgan.

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park St., downtown Middlebury. Tour the Judd Harris House, ongoing exhibits and events. henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Middlebury College. Campus tours available at admissions office. Event listings available at arts center ticket office. Friday afternoon carillon performance in the summer. middlebury.edu.

Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. Rotating exhibits. vermontfolklifecenter.org.

Trail Around Middlebury. The “TAM” is an 18.8-mile footpath that encircles Middlebury and links several hundred acres of town land, conserved properties and other local landmarks. maltvt.org/tam.html.

Falls of Lana, Rattlesnake Cliffs, Silver Lake trails access, Salisbury-Leicester town line. newenglandwaterfalls.com/vermont.php.

Branbury State Park, Salisbury. Day use and overnight camping, kid-friendly sandy beach and extensive grass lawn, boat rentals. vtstateparks.com/branbury. html.

Spirit in Nature Path, Goshen Road, Ripton. Immerse yourself in nature by walking any of the 11 different paths. spiritinnature.org.

DAR State Park & Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison. Overnight camping in tent sites at park plus historic DAR John Strong Mansion Museum at state park entrance. vtstateparks.com/dar.html. Chimney Point is the site of Native American, early French, and Revolutionary War-era settlement. Historic tavern was an important meeting place. Ongoing exhibits and tours. historicsites.vermont.gov/directory/chimney_point.

Fort Ticonderoga (take ferry from Shoreham across Lake Champlain to New York). Preserved Revolutionary War fort with extensive interpretation, guides, re-enactors, gift shop and many events. fort-ticonderoga.org.

Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell. A largely undisturbed Revolutionary War site. Visitors center with extensive exhibits and many interpretive trails. historicsites.vermont.gov/directory/mount_independence.

Brandon Museum at the Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace, Route 7, Brandon.

Town of Brandon museum located in historic birthplace of statesman Stephen A. Douglas. Enjoy local history including architecture, industry, business, tourism, and immigration. brandon.org/the-brandon-museum.

Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St., Brandon. Gallery shows work from a diverse group of more than 50 artists in various media. brandonartistsguild.org.

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Calendar of Events tes Prevention program offers education and support to help you adopt healthier eating and exercise habits that can lead to weight loss and reduce your risk of getting diabetes. You may qualify if you have a diagnosis of pre-diabetes or are at risk for diabetes. Registration required as class size is limited. More info and registration contact Michele Butler at 802-3888860 or mbutler@portermedical.org.

Choral workshop with Roomful of Teeth in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 6, 4:30-6 p.m., Congregational Church of Middlebury, 2 Main St. Part of the New Music on the Point Series.

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VUHS Pops Concert in Vergennes. Friday, June 1, 6 p.m., Auditorium, Vergennes Union High School, Monkton Rd. “A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in Middlebury. Friday, June 1, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz-inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting. A pre-performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the Memorial Baptist Church. Tickets: rows B & C $55, Rows D-M $65, Balcony $80/ available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-3829222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

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june Saturday Branch to Spoon: Carving Workshop in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, June 2, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 U.S. Route 7. Join instructor Robert Palmer for a day of spoon carving at Rokeby Museum using hand tools and traditional Swedish methods. Register at Shelburne Craft School. Cost: $100 plus $75 Hand tool cost (you will keep the hand tools).

Rhubarb Festival in Middlebury. Saturday June 2, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Its’ time for everything rhubarb. For $10, festival-goers get a freshly made sandwich, a green salad with raspberry-rhubarb dressing and rhubarb pie with whipped cream. Homemade rhubarb and rhubarb-strawberry pies for sale, and sweets and savories; gently used bling, scarves, ties, books; wide variety of plants and seedlings. Games and face painting for kids, and live music throughout the day.

Half the proceeds go to HOPE. Handicapped parking behind the church or at nearby high school. More info at 802-388-8080 or cvuus. org.

Garden sale and silent auction in Bristol.

Saturday, June 2, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3319 Route 116 South. Help raise funds for the Brendon P. Cousino Med47 Foundation. There will be a plant sale, bake sale, and a unique selection of home and garden décor.

Eugene Charleboise and Friends in Bridport.

Saturday, June 2, noon-3 p.m., Bridport Town Hall, 82 Crown Point Rd. Join Bridport Seniors for a BBQ by Pratt’s Store, country music and a room full of raffle and silent auction items featuring plants and flowers from Golden Russett Farm. 50/50 raffle. Proceeds to benefit Town Line First Response. All ages welcome.

Tickets $5. Advanced purchase recommended. Call Michelle to reserve at 802-377-1419.

National Trails Day Hike into History in Orwell. Saturday, June 2, 2-3:30 p.m., Mt. Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. It’s National Trail Day. Mount Independence Coalition board member Mark Brownell leads this guided hike into Revolutionary War history.

Piano recital in Middlebury. Saturday, June 2, 7-8 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. 100 Eastview Ter. The younger piano students of Diana Fanning perform a recital.

Free and open to the public.

Caroline Cotter in Brandon. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. With a captivating soprano voice and award winning songwriting, Caroline Cotter’s travel inspired songs take listeners all over the world and into the depths of the human heart.

ANNIE GARNER GETS a lift from Dace Eaton and fellow dancers during Spotlight on Dance’s recital in the Middlebury Union High School auditorium in June 2017.

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Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve.

Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio in Ripton. Saturday, June 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, Route 125. This trio slides “from sweet acoustic Appalachian old-timey vibe with Patty Griffinesque lyrics to brassy New Orleans blues piano with a bone thrown to Bessie Smith.” Open mic followed by featured performers. $10 general admission/$15 generous admission.

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Garden sale and silent auction in Bristol. Sunday, June 3, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 3319 Route 116 South. Help raise funds for the Brendon P. Cousino Med47 Foundation.

There will be a plant sale, bake sale, and a unique selection of home and garden décor.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in Middlebury. Sunday, June 3, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz-inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting. A pre-performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the Memorial Baptist Church. Tickets: rows B & C $55, Rows D-M $65, Balcony $80/ available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

“The Big Meal” on stage in Middlebury.

Sunday, June 3, 4 p.m., Stonecutter Spirits, 1197 Exchange St. Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet.

Sparks fly. And so begins an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye.

A Middlebury Actors Workshop production.

Opening and artist talk in Rochester. Sunday, June 3, 4-5 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Edward Koren talks about his work. More info at bigtowngallery.com.

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Legislative breakfast in Bridport. Monday, June 4, 7-8:45 a.m., Grange Hall, Routes 22A and 125.

Meet with Addison County legislators and discuss issues important to Addison County. Purchase of breakfast not required to attend but helps our hosts to defray the cost of opening their hall. Sponsored by Bridport Grange 303 and the Addison County Farm Bureau.

James Blair talks in Middlebury. Monday, June 4, 3-4 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 11 Eastview Ter. In “Pollution: A Threat to Man’s Only Home … ‘The Past is Prologue,’” well known freelance photojournalist Blair will share his experience and photographs on the subject. Free and open to the public.

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Wildlife photography presentation and bird walk in Addison.

Tuesday, June 5, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area headquarters, Route 17. Spend an evening with Vermont wildlife photographer Brian Machanic when he presents ‘The Art in Birding.’ The presentation will be followed by a one-hour photography bird walk at the Dead Creek WMA. Limited to the first 25 participants. To register, contact Amy Alfieri at amy. alfieri@vermont.gov or 802-759-2398.

Reeve Lindbergh: “Two Lives” in Middlebury.

Tuesday, June 5, 7 p.m. Lindbergh, daughter of Charles A. and Anne Morrow Lindbergh, will read from, discuss and sign her new book, in which she reflects on navigating her role as the public face of her family while, at the same time, leading a very quiet existence in rural Vermont. Book signing to follow.

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Artists’ opening celebration in Middlebury. Friday, June 8, 5-7 p.m., The Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Meet the artists and view their work in the group exhibition of poetry and art called “Birds, Bees and Butterflies in the Land of Milk and Honey.”

The event is a benefit for the Audubon Society.

Jeff Salisbury Band in New Haven. Friday, June 8, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

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Vermont Days. Saturday, June 9. Free admission to all stateowned historic sites and day-use state parks.

Affix geolocators in Weybridge. Saturday, June 9, 8 a.m., Bob Collins Conservation (See Calendar, Page 4B)

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Senior meal in Bristol. Thursday, June 7, noon, First Baptist Church of Bristol, 10 Park St. Menu: roast pork, sweet potatoes, coleslaw, applesauce, homemade bread and rhubarb dessert. Suggested donation is $4. Please phone Nancy at 453-5276 to put your name on the list. Come early to talk with friends and make new ones.

Twist O’ Wool Spinning Guild meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, June 7, 6 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. Join the guild for its annual potluck at 6 p.m. followed by a show and tell, general meeting, and spin/knit-in at 7 p.m.

All are welcome. More info call 802-453-5960.

“All the King’s Men” on Screen in Middlebury. Thursday, June 7, 3:30 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. The Middlebury Community Classic Film Club will show this academy award winning film from 1949 — a story of power, corruption and political upheaval in Depression Era America. A discussion of this timely classic will follow immediately afterwards.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in Middlebury. Thursday, June 7, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz-inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting. A pre-performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the Memorial Baptist Church. Tickets: rows B & C $55, Rows D-M $65, Balcony $80/ available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-3829222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

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Farm,. Net and affix geolocators on Golden-winged Warblers. Park at 8 a.m. at the TAM kiosk on the southwest side of Route 23, just west of Sheep Farm Rd. Joint event of Audubon Vermont, MALT and Otter Creek Audubon Society. More info. call Ron Payne at 802-388-6019.

Mount Independence Coalition Annual Meeting in Orwell. Saturday, June 9, 10:30 a.m.noon, Mt. Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. The site friends group host their annual meeting. All are welcome.

“From Farm to Forest” at Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, June 9, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 U.S. Route 7. In 1830 hundreds of acres had been cleared on the Rokeby farm for sheep grazing. Now nature has reclaimed much of this, but the subtle signs of human use still remain. On a guided walk, master naturalist Jacob Holzberg-Pill will provide insights into the transition of the land, the many different types of trees and plants that have arisen, and point out the often hidden “footprints” of man. Sturdy or waterproof boots and insect repellent are recommended.

Senior Meal in Bristol. Thursday, June 9, noon, the First Baptist Church of Bristol, Park St. Menu includes roast pork, sweet potatoes, coleslaw, applesauce, homemade bread and rhubarb dessert. Suggested donation $4. Call Nancy at 802-453-5276 to reserve a spot.

Come early to talk with friends and make new ones.

“Rabble in Arms” book discussion in Orwell.

Saturday, June 9, 12:30-1:45 p.m., Mt. Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. The Orwell Free Library offers a group book discussion of this noted 1933 historical Revolutionary War novel by Kenneth Roberts. A key character is Benedict Arnold.

Much of the action is about the Northern Campaign and takes place in this area. Bring your book and a picnic lunch. More info at 802-9482041.

Benedict Arnold in history and fiction in Orwell. Saturday, June 9, 2-3:30 p.m., Mt. Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Historian and Benedict Arnold biographer Willard Sterne Randall will offer the annual J. Robert Maguire Lecture. Randall will talk about how the fictional Benedict Arnold stacks up against the historic Arnold.

In preparation you might like to read Randall’s book, “Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor.”

New England Review annual gathering in Middlebury. Saturday, June 9, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Room 229, Axinn Center, Route 30. Come to the NER’s annual gathering of Middlebury College alumni and faculty authors, including Salena Casha, Laura Irei, Peter Knobler, and J. T. Price, along with Russian translator and Middlebury College professor emeritus Michael R. Katz. The authors will read from a range of poems, stories, essays, and translations. More info at nereview.com.

“A Streetcar Named Desire” opera in Middlebury. Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents André Previn’s faithful opera adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ classic play, its jazz-inflected score evoking a highly charged New Orleans setting. A pre-performance talk will take place one hour before curtain at the Memorial Baptist Church. Tickets: rows B&C $55/rows D-M $65/balcony $80/ available at townhalltheater. org or at the box office at 802-382-9222. More info at ocmvermont.org.

Buster Keaton’s “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” on screen in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Pampered Buster returns home from college to help his father, a tough riverboat captain, battle to save the business; falling for the archrival’s daugh-

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Fall 2018 musical comedy auditions in Middlebury. Monday, June 11, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Middlebury Community Players will hold auditions for their fall production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

Auditioners should be prepared to spend 2-3 hours. A perusal copy of the script will be available at the Town Hall Theater box office two weeks before auditions. More info at middleburycommunityplayers.org.

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Fall 2018 musical comedy auditions in Middlebury. Tuesday, June 12, 6:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Middlebury Community Players will hold auditions for their fall production of “The Drowsy Chaperone.”

Auditioners should be prepared to spend 2-3 hours. There are nine male roles and five female roles, as well as a flexible number of ensemble parts. A perusal copy of the script will be available at the Town Hall Theater box office two weeks before auditions. More info at middleburycommunityplayers.org.

Author Yvonne Daley in Middlebury. Tuesday, June 12, 7 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Daley will present her new book, “Going Up the Country,” part oral history, part nostalgia-tinged narrative, and part cleareyed analysis of the multifaceted phenomena collectively referred to as the counterculture movement in Vermont. Discussion and book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.

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RADIO FREE HONDURAS band member Alex Austin plays a rock-steady bass line behind the lead of virtuoso guitarist Charlie Baran in the opening act of the 2017 edition of Middlebury’s Festival on-the-Green. This summer the Festival on-the-Green runs July 8-14.

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ter doesn’t make things easier. Climaxed by an eye-popping cyclone sequence. Silent film expert Jeff Rapsis will play live accompaniment. Free. Donations accepted, with proceeds to help continuing preservation work.

Northern Flyer on stage in Lincoln. Saturday, June 9 at 7:30 Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Rescheduled from April 14. Admission $10 (Free for Teens and Kids!). Part of the Burnham Music Series.

All Types of Kinds in Brandon. Saturday, June 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. This a quartet of alternative singer-songwriters made up of guitarists Billy Conahan, Ray Rubio, and Rocco Stoker, with Berk O on percussion are known for how they engage with the audience, giving highly entertaining concerts. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve.

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Vermont Days. Sunday, June 10. Free admission to all stateowned historic sites and day-use state parks.

New exhibit celebration in Addison. Sunday,

Book Discussion in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 13, 6 p.m., Shafer’s Market & Deli, 54 College St. The Mystery Reader’s book club will meet and discuss “Istanbul Passage” by Joseph Kanon. Open to everyone.

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Park bench dedication ceremony in Vergennes. ThursJune 10, Chimney Point State Historic Site, day, June 14, 11 a.m.-noon, Mc31 Vt. Route 17. Time to celebrate Chimney Donough Park. The Seth Warner Point’s two new permanent exhibits, “Cross- Rhoda Farrand Chapter of the DAR has ing Paths” and “Point of Contact.” Come visit, placed a park bench honoring our Korean meet the Vermont State Archaeologist Jess War veterans in MacDonough Park. The Robinson, bring your artifacts for identificapublic, particularly veterans of the Korean tion, and enjoy light refreshments. conflict, are invited to attend this ceremony.

Race for Sundaes in Middlebury. Sunday, June 10, 9 a.m.-noon, Battell Woods/Trail Around Party like it’s 1968 in New Haven. Thursday, June 14, 6-9:30 p.m., Tourterelle, US Route Middlebury, Route 7 trailhead, across from 7. Get out those bell bottoms and tie dye for Deneker. MALT, Addison County Bike Club this groovy event in support of the United and The Better Middlebury Partnership host Way of Addison County. Dinner and music this family run/bike race, including trail bike or and the chance to bring out your inner hiprun, ice cream sundaes, music, games, raffle pie. Early bird tickets $35 until May 15, then prizes and more. Registration 8:20 a.m. the $50, available at app.mobilecause.com/ day of the race. Adults $8/children $5. form/Bs6gQw. “From Revolution to the Bill of Rights” in Hubbardton. Sunday, June 10, 2-3 p.m., Clarinet Quartet of the USAF Heritage Band of America in Vergennes. Thursday, June Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill 14, 7 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. 120 Rd. Historian and site interpreter Paul AnMain St. Four accomplished musicians will driscin traces the road from the American be presenting an exciting and polished proRevolution to the U.S. Constitution and Bill of gram that captivates audiences of all ages, Rights. Questions and moderated discussion including traditional classical, rousing pato follow. triotic marches, Klezmer music, Broadway, Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series Jazz, Latin and South American music as in Rochester. Sunday, June 10, 5-8 p.m., well as their own original arrangements.

Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Come hear Free. authors Sydney Lee and Chard deNiord read from their work. More info at bigtowngallery.

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Saboutouma in New Haven. Friday, June 22, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking.

Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music.

Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Bixby Library Gala in Vergennes. Friday, June 22, TBA, Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Save the date for Bixby’s annual fundraiser. Details are still being pulled together for this special annual event so stay tuned.

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Robby Mook speaks in Middlebury. Friday, June 15, 6-9 p.m., Middlebury Inn, Court Sq. Mook is the former campaign manager for Hilary Clinton’s presidential bid and a political commentator on CNN. He will talk about his part in the 2016 campaign at Middlebury Rotary Club’s annual gala dinner. Seats still available and include hors-d’oeuvres and a four-course dinner for $65. More info contact Scott Needham at 802-349-0001 or scottneedham@mac.com.

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THE THIRD-ANNUAL Foodaroo Festival presented last summer by Middlebury UndergrounD in Middlebury’s Marble Works complex drew big crowds for a variety of food vendors in addition to music and street performances. Organizers were thrilled with the event’s success. Foodaroo returns to the Marble Works on June 24.

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explore the sun before it sets and the moon, which will be visible until 11:19 p.m. Bring a flashlight and blanket if you like. Call 802-2732282 to confirm. Admission by donation.

O’hAnleigh in Brandon. Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. This Middlebury trio with traditional Irish Folk style is injected with U.S. immigrant influences producing music with depth and character Tom Hanley, Becca Hanley and Cindy Hill all play a multitude of instruments, their individual vocals and harmonies are superb. Tickets adults, $8/seniors & students $6.

“Moth Event!” in Middlebury. Saturday, June 16, 8 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Enjoy the huge diversity and abundance of moths in Vermont with an outdoor black light session to see what moths are active in early summer. Local moth experts will be on hand to help us with moth identification and biology. More info contact Ron Payne at 802-3886019.

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Campaign for Smart Justice — ACLU Vermont in Ferrisburgh.

Sunday, June 17, 3 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 U.S. Route 7. Nationwide, Black and Latino communities are over-represented in the prison system. Come hear about the national initiative that seeks to cut the number of people in prison by half. Learn about a variety of solutions in this screening of three short films telling the first-hand stories of three people who have been incarcerated.

New Music on the Point in Salisbury. Sunday, June 17, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come hear this Camp Point Counterpoint composers’ concert overlooking Lake Dunmore. Free.

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New Music on the Point in Salisbury. Monday, June 18, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come hear this Camp Point Counterpoint composers’ concert overlooking Lake Dunmore. Free.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, June 18, 7 p.m., City Park.

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James Blair on photography in Middlebury. Wednesday, June 20, noon, Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Join James P. Blair, retired “National Geographic” photographer, as he discusses some of the 36 photographs from the Sheldon Museum’s collection now on view in the exhibit Our Town: Love, Joy, Sadness, and Baseball — 100 Years of Photography from the Sheldon Museum. Limit 20. Reserve your spot at 802-388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Chicken Barbeque in Bristol. Wednesday, June 20, 5:30-8 p.m., on the town green. More info contact Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or cecil@gmavt.com.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, June 20, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

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Vermont Civil War historian Howard Coffin in Bristol. Thursday, June 21, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St. Join Coffin and The Bristol Historical Society, in cooperation with the Vermont Humanities Council, for a discussion of “Vermont’s Remarkable Sharpshooters.” Free and open to the public. More info call Steve Ayotte at 802-453-7709.

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Preschoolers at the Point in Addison. Friday, June 22, 10:3011:15 a.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Vt. Route 17. Bring your preschooler to enjoy story and craft time.

Topics relate to the history of Chimney Point, and may include archaeology, bridges, boats, clocks, post offices and lighthouses. A parent or other responsible adult must be with the child. Ages 3 to 5. Well-behaved siblings welcome. Bring snacks if you like. Call (802) 759-2412 for the topic. Suggested donation $5 per family.

Table of Grace community meal in Vergennes. Friday, June 22, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church, 30 S. Water

Lake Dunmore Triathlon in Salisbury/Brandon.

Sunday, June 23, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. A .9mile swim, 28-mile bike and 6.2-mile run nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up 6:40-7:30 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries.com.

Vermont Sun triathlon in Salisbury/Brandon.

Saturday, June 23, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. A 600 yard swim, 14 mile bike an | 3.1 mile run, nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up between 6:40 and 7:45 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries.com.

Beginners bird walk in Middlebury. Saturday, June 23, 9-10:30 a.m., Seymour St. Ext. A great opportunity for aspiring birders. Cosponsored by Otter Creek Audubon Society & MALT. More info call Carol Ramsayer at 802989-7115.

Town-wide lawn sale in Bristol. Saturday, June 23, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., locations across town.

Treasures abound in what has become a Vermont tradition.

Abenaki Heritage Weekend in Ferrisburgh.

Saturday, June 23, all day, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road.

Get an Abenaki perspective on life in the Champlain Valley from past centuries to the present day. Dancing, singing, drumming, storytelling, wampum readings, craft and cooking demonstrations are presented by members of Vermont’s Abenaki tribes. Shop the marketplace or take in the gallery talk on the special clothing exhibition. All fees included with museum admission. More info at www.facebook.com/AbenakiHeritageWeekend/, lcmm.org, or 802-475-2022 ext. 107.

Bixby Library Gala in Vergennes. Friday, June 22, TBA, Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Save the date for Bixby’s annual fundraiser. Details are still being pulled together for this special annual event so stay tuned.

Renee Dion Trio in Brandon. Saturday, June 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Dion’s music is a beautiful blend of soul, R&B, and contemporary jazz. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve.

Onion River Jazz Band in Brandon. Saturday, June 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Come hear this seven piece traditional Dixieland jazz band. For over 30 years the Onion River Jazz Band has been presenting traditional New Orleans Dixieland Jazz.

Brandon’s own Gene Childers is a member of the band. Tickets adults, $8/Seniors and Students $6.

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Shorter and longer routes possible. Beginning birders welcome. More info at 802-388-1007 or 802-388-6019.

Book, plant, and pie sale & summer reading kick-off party in Shoreham. Saturday, June 16, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, Main St. Join Platt Memorial Library for their annual book, plant, and pie sale, this year combined with a kick-off for our summer reading program. Register for summer reading, pick up reading logs, do an activity, get a prize. Thousands of books for sale by donation. Rhubarb pie, and a few plants to fill in your garden.

Non-fiction comics mini-fest in Middlebury.

Saturday, June 16, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St. Join the Vermont Folklife Center as they present a diverse group of Vermont and New Hampshire cartoonists engaged in non-fiction work, including political cartoons, memoirs and diaries, and covering such topics as science, graphic medicine, history, cooking and much more.

Free and open to the public, and ADA accessible. More info at vermontfolklifecenter.org/ non-fiction-comics-minifest.

The JACK Quartet and soprano Tony Arnold in Brandon. Saturday, June 16, 2 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Part of Point Counterpoint’s New Music on the Point festival, these musicians will perform cutting-edge works by Vermont composer Eve Beglarian, George Lewis, Juraj Kojs and Amy Williams.

Free will donation. Limited seating.

Pocock Rocks music festival & street fair in Bristol. Saturday, June 16, 3-8 p.m., downtown. Celebrate Bristol as a great place to shop, dine, live, work, and visit. Live musical performances from six bands — The Starline Rhythm Boys, The Eames Brothers Band, Steady Betty, The Welterweights, Tim Brick, and Richard Ruane & Beth Duquette. Over 30 vendors from microbrews, hard ciders and spirits, to specialty foods, gifts, and crafts.

More info at 802-760-6076 or facebook.com/ pocockrocks.

Northern Third Piano Quartet in Brandon.

Saturday, June 16, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. This quartet returns to Brandon Music for the fifth year in a row, with music by Schubert, Honegger, Britten, and Fauré. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve.

Solar and lunar astronomy night in Hubbardton. Saturday, June 16, 7:30-11 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Join the Green Mountain Astronomers to

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Shop the marketplace or take in the gallery talk on the special clothing exhibition. All fees included with museum admission. More info at www.facebook.com/AbenakiHeritageWeekend/, lcmm.org, or 802-475-2022 ext. 107.

Military road hike in Hubbardton. Sunday, June 24, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Walk in the footsteps of history along a section of the 1776-77 military road that ran from Rutland through Hubbardton on the way to Mount Independence. Site interpreter Bob Franzoni is your guide for this hike, rugged in places. Dress for the weather and wear boots, as one section may be wet.

Foodaroo in Middlebury. Sunday, June 24, 4-8 A GROUP OF bikers start their leg of the Vermont Gran Fondo in front of the Woodp.m., in the Marbleworks. The fourth year of Middlebury Underground’s food festival. Sam- chuck Cidery in Middlebury last summer. Hundreds took part in the fourth annual ride, which ple more than 20 Vermont food and beverag- crossed four Green Mountain passes and traversed up to 109 miles. The 2018 Gran Fondo es, hear great music, watch street performers, is June 30. participate in a baking competition and more.

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Opening and artist talk in Rochester. Sunday, screen in Brandon. Saturday, June 30, 7 p.m., June 24, 4-5 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Taken from June 27, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont Main St. New show of work by Alison Weld.

‘The Arabian Nights,’ the first full-length animattradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a More info at bigtowngallery.com. ed feature tells the story of a wicked sorcerer pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a in Rochester. Sunday, June 24, 5-8 p.m., Big Music and Movies series in Middlebury. magical flying horse, sending him off to a series Wednesday, June 27, 8 p.m., College Park, Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Come hear authors of wondrous and romantic adventures. Silent across from Shafer’s. The Better Middlebury Michael Collier and Char Gardener read from film aficionado Jeff Rapsis provides live acPartnership’s series kicks off with a free movie their work. More info at bigtowngallery.com. companiment. Free. Donations accepted, with (title tba). proceeds to help continuing preservation work.

Stargazing open house in Middlebury.

Wednesday, June 27, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the Vergennes City Band in Verevening sky on many of these dates. A variety gennes. Monday, June 25, 7 p.m., Champlain Valley Fiddle Club of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae City Park. concert in Middlebury. Friwill also be visible through the Observatoday, July 1, 2-3 p.m., Community ry’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, Room, EastView at Middlebury. 100 weather permitting. Check the Observatory Eastview Ter. The Fiddle Club, led by Scottish web site at go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ or Fiddler Peter McFarlane, performs a concert call 802-443-2266 after 7 PM on the evening of traditional Scottish fiddle music. Free and of the event.

Children’s Revolutionary Mornopen to the public. ing Camp in Orwell. Wednes“What to the Negro is the 4th of July?” in day, June 27-Friday, June 29, 9:30 Ferrisburgh. Sunday, July 1, 3 p.m., Rokeby, a.m.-12:30 p.m., Mount Independence State 4334 U.S. Route 7. Experience history when historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Chilparticipants read aloud Frederick Douglass’s Point Counterpoint Faculty Endren will enjoy Revolutionary times learning most famous speech, originally delivered on semble in Salisbury. Friday, June about Mount Independence, archaeology, and July 5, 1852. Come and add your voice to this 29, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregamore, with walks and new hands-on activities. statewide public reading sponsored by the tional Church, 853 Maple St. Come Attendees will make special items to bring Vermont Humanities Council. Free. hear these talented musicians as they play home. Ages 6 to 11. Limited space. Pre-regchamber music. Part of the Salisbury Summer istration required. More info at 802-948-2000.

Performance Series. Free-will donation.

Teddy bear picnic in Bristol. Wednesday, June 27, noon, on the town green. Ted E. Bear of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company is coming Fireworks and Pops Concert for a picnic. Bring your favorite bear and meet in Middlebury. Monday, July 2, at the Veterans Memorial for a parade to the grounds open at 5:30 p.m., behind 2018 Vermont Gran Fondo playground for stories, songs, and games.

Mahaney Center for the Arts 72 Porter in Middlebury. Saturday, June Free lunches for the first 30 children. Rain loField Rd. The Henry Sheldon Museum’s an30, 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Woodchuck cation Holley Hall. nual Pops Concert with the Vermont PhilharCidery, 1321 Exchange St. Want a “Country Mouse/City Mouse and The Prinmonic. Lou Kosma will conduct a medley of challenge? Here’s an opportunity to bike four cess & The Pea” on stage in Brandon. contemporary music, light classics, Broadway Vermont gaps, clocking up to 114 miles and Wednesday, June 27, 3:30 p.m., Brandon and film favorites, and WWI patriotic songs. climbing 10,736 feet in this annual Gran FonTown Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Backpack Theater, New this year — vintage cars and a raffle of do ride. Shorter rides — the Medio, Facile and 20 young actors ages 6-17, will present these picnic baskets painted by local artists. Concert Piccolo Fondos — are an option for those less this production, which melds these two iconic begins at 7:30. Bring chairs, blankets, and ambitious. Après-ride party at Woodchuck fairy tales into one. Tickets adults, $4/seniors flashlights. Tickets, $25/youth $10/children Cidery 2-7 p.m. Live music, food, locally-proand students, $3/Children 5 & under accomunder 12 free/ prior to June 26 adult $20, and duced beverages and farm-to-spoon ice panied by an adult free. more info available at Sheldon at 802-388cream. More info at vermontgranfondo.com.

History of Waterhouse’s boat dock & mari2117, online henrysheldonmuseum.org or in na talk in Salisbury. Wednesday, June 27, “Coco” on screen in Shoreham. Saturday, person at the museum, 1 Park St. Rain site: June 30, 1 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, Main 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Kenyon Arena.

St. Bring your lunch to the library and enjoy a Maple St. Jean Edgerton will give a talk on Music tech playground in Shoreham. Monhit movie in our air-conditioning. Free. this Lake Dunmore institution for the Salisbury day, July 2, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” on Historical Society. Free.

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Independence Day fireworks and party in Bristol. Tuesday, July 3, 6 p.m.- dusk. Bristol Recreational Fields, Airport Rd. DJ Jam Man will be on hand to spin tunes. Food and craft vendors, games, raffles tickets and fireworks at dusk. More info contact Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or cecil@gmavt.com.

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July 4th celebration in Bristol.

Wednesday, July 4, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m., Main St., the town green, and other points around town. A road race, the Great Bristol Outhouse Race, parade, and a party on the green. Join the fun. For the comfort of those around you, we ask that you please leave your pets at home. More info contact Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or cecil@gmavt.com.

July 4th Parade in Bristol. Wednesday, July 4, 10:30 a.m., Main St. Come see the oldest continuously run parade in Vermont.

43rd annual ice cream social in Salisbury.

Wednesday, July 4, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Cones, sundaes, homemade desserts, rain or shine.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Big Hat, No Cattle in Brandon. Wednesday, July 4, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. With guitars, fiddle, steel guitar, upright bass, drums. and vocals, Big Hat, No Cattle swings out western style. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@ brandon.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, July 4, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

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Music and Movies series in Middlebury. Thursday, July 5, 6 p.m., Riverfront Park, the Marbleworks. The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series continues with a free concert (performer tba).

“The Birds of Summer” lecture in Salisbury.

Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Bridget Butler, Salisbury Conservation Commission and the Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association will give this free talk.

“National Treasure” on screen in Bristol.

Thursday, July 5, dusk, on the town green.

The first of Bristol’s movies in the park for 2018. Bring a chair, a blanket and some popcorn for plein aire movie viewing. Rain location Holley Hall.

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Street Dance in Brandon. Friday, July 6, 6-10 p.m., Seminary Park, around the corner and up the hill from Town Hall. A family-friendly gathering with music for all ages by DJ Jam Man Entertainment & food vendors. Off street parking available with free shuttles. Part of Brandon’s Independence Day festivities.

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Calendar of Events Mellow Yellow in New Haven. Friday, July 6, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music for the golden era of top 40 hits. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Twangtown Paramours in Salisbury. Friday, July 6, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come hear this Nashville/Austin acoustic duo. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

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Jon Gailmor sings in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 10, noon, on the town green. Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with Vermont’s own troubadour.

Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Night Tree performs in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 10, 7 p.m., on the town green. Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with one of the most exciting roots-based music groups offering Celtic-tinged fusion. Free. More info at 802462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Genticorum on stage in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 10, 8:30 p.m., on the town green. Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with this energetic and original Québécois musical trio. Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen. org.

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Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations Lake Champlain Challenge Race in FerrisSt. Stephen’s Peasant Market in Middlebury. burgh. Sunday, July 8, registration 9:30 a.m., required for dinner and recommended for the Saturday, July 7, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., on the town race 11 a.m., Lake Champlain Maritime Museshow. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email green. A local favorite. Come and find some um, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. For boaters of all info@brandon-music.net to reserve. treasures. Proceeds benefit area non-profits ages! Join the fun, or just come to watch. Bring Va et Vient in Ripton. Saturday, July 7, 7:30 and service organizations. your own non-motorized boat, kayak, or canoe p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, Route Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War Ento row or paddle in this three-mile race across 125. These musiciennes will take you from campment in Hubbardton. Saturday, July the lake. LCMM gigs are available for teams 16th century France to New Orleans and 7, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, of 4 or 6, first come, first served. Contact Nick Québec with lively dance numbers, touching 5696 Monument Hill Rd. In honor of the 241st Patch for availability, nickp@lcmm.org or 802love songs, kickin’ Cajun tunes, and rollicking anniversary of the July 7, 1777, Revolutionary 475-2022 ext. 113. Registration fee admits two Québecois favorites. 7:30-open mic followed War battle fought in Hubbardton, reenactors to the museum. LCMM’s Community Rowing by featured performers. $10 general admisportray the American, British, and German Club hosts a free buffet lunch for all race parsion/$15 generous admission. More info at soldiers. Tactical military and other special ticipants. More info at lcmm.org. rcch.org. Open mic sign up at 802-388-9782. demonstrations, guided camp and interactive Mokoomba plays in Middlebury. Sunday, July battlefield tours, camp life activities, children’s 8, 7 p.m., on the town green. Celebrate the activities, sutler’s row shopping, and illustratopening of thev40th Annual Middlebury Sumed talks. Food stand on site. Tickets $6. More mer Festival on-the-Green in Middlebury with info at 802-273-2282. vibrant Afro-fusion and tantalizing traditional Battle of Hubbardton RevoIndpendence Day parade in Brandon. SaturTonga rhythms. Free. More info at 802-462lutionary War Encampment in day, July 7, 1 p.m. Fun for all.

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Hubbardton. Sunday, July 8, 8 Point CounterPoint final camper concert in a.m.-4:30 p.m., Hubbardton BattleSalisbury. Saturday, July 7, 1 p.m., Salisbury field, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. In honor of the Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Free.

241st anniversary of the July 7, 1777, RevoJon Gailmor in concert in Shoreham. Saturlutionary War battle fought in Hubbardton, day, July 7, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Rik Palieri plays in Middlereenactors portray the American, British, and Main St. Come rock out with one of Vermont’s bury. Monday, July 9, noon, on German soldiers. Tactical military and other favorite musicians. the town green. Celebrate the 40th special demonstrations, guided camp and inGypsy Reel in Brandon. Saturday, July 7, 7:30 Annual Middlebury Summer Festival teractive battlefield tours, camp life activities, p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd.

on-the-Green with Palieri, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, storyteller and member of “The Mythical Order of The Rose Tattoo.”

Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

James Hill and Anne Janelle in Middlebury.

Monday, July 9, 7 p.m., on the town green.

Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with this Canadian Folk Music Award-winning ukulele/cello duo.

Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

“School of Rock” on screen in Shoreham.

Monday, July 9, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Check out a movie in our air conditioned library. Popcorn will be served. Free.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 9, 7 p.m., City Park.

The Bengsons on stage in Middlebury. Monday, July 9, 8:30 p.m., on the town green.

Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with this indie-folk band with a foot-stomping, feel-good folk vibe. Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

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brate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green in Middlebury with No String’s annual festival appearance. Free.

More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Middle Grade Book Club in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 11, 5 – 5:45 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. For kids ages 8 to 12. Read “See You in the Cosmos” by Jack Cheng and come to discuss over Nino’s pizza.

First of three. Come to one or all three meetings. Parents are welcome (but not required) to attend. Contact jenny@vermontbookshop. com to RSVP or for more info.

Rebecca Makkai in conversation with Stephen Kiernan in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 11, 6 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. The Vermont Book Shop and Pride Center of Vermont invite all to hear Makkai, discuss her third novel, “The Great Believers,” a tale of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss during and after the AIDS crisis, with Kiernan, a Middlebury College and Iowa Writers’ Workshop alumnus, novelist, and award-winning journalist. Books, food & drink will be available for purchase. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Pride Center of VT’s Health & Wellness program.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Extra Stout in Brandon. Wednesday, July 11, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. The Brandon Town Band will open the concert at 6 p.m. Extra Stout brings all of the variety that Irish music has to offer from raucous drinking songs to ballads of home and county; from slow and haunting airs to rocking reels, jigs and polkas.

More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@brandon.org.

“The 1957 Dunmore-area Plane Crash” in Salisbury. Wednesday, July 11, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come experience this illustrated lecture by Bill Powers and Brian Lindner of the Salisbury Historical Society. Free.

Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman on stage in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 11, 7 p.m., on the town green. Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-theGreen with this pioneering harp/guitar duo rooted in the Irish tradition. Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, July 11, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

The Barbra Lica Quintet in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., on the town green. Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with this fast-rising star in the Canadian Jazz scene.

Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

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The 24th annual Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon.

Thursday, July 12, 5 p.m., Basin Rd. Corey Zink and County Line open this year’s festival. Lots of events, activities and above all, music. Day and weekend ticket prices. Celebrate all things Bluegrass in the Basin. On the web at: basinbluegrassfestival. com. More info at 802-247-3275 or basinbluegrass@yahoo.com.

Robert and Gigi: Sing-a-long in Middlebury.

Thursday, July 12, noon, on the green. Bring the kids and celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with festival regulars Robert & Gigi. Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen. org.

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YOUNG KIDS HAD some summer fun on a slip-and-slide and in a foam pit at the Middlebury Fire Department Mini Muster on the town green this past August.

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cy Room” in Middlebury. Thursday, July 12, 3 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 Eastview Ter. Paul Seward, M.D., has been a physician for nearly fifty years, and has spent the majority of those years working in Emergency Rooms on both coasts. Seward is an Emeritus member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American College of Emergency Physicians. “Patient Care” is his first book.

The Ballroom Thieves play in Middlebury.

Thursday, July 12, 7 p.m., on the town green.

Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with this harmony-driven spirited blues, folk and rock trio.

Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Composting in your backyard workshop in Shoreham. Thursday, July 12, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Annina Seiler of ACSWD will lead this workshop on creating garden gold.

The Mammals on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, July 12, 8:30 p.m., on the town green.

A festival favorite, come celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival onthe-Green with this Indie-roots trailblazing, high-octane Americana quintet. Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen. org.

“Beauty and the Beast” on screen in Bristol.

Thursday, July 12, dusk, on the town green.

The next installment of Bristol’s movies in the park for 2018. Bring a chair, a blanket and some popcorn for plein aire movie viewing.

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The 24th annual Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Friday, July 13, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Basin Rd. Lots of events, activities and above all, music. Day and weekend ticket prices. Celebrate all things Bluegrass in the Basin. On the web at: basinbluegrassfestival. com. More info at 802-247-3275 or basinbluegrass@yahoo.com.

Magician Tom Verner in Middlebury. Friday,

July 13, noon, on the town green. Verner returns once more to entertain and delight as part of the 40th Annual Festival on the Green.

Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Artist’s reception in Middlebury. Friday, July 13, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater on the Green, 6 Merchants Row. opening reception for “Jonathan D. Ebinger: Breathing Life Into Metal” In conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Falls.

Artist’s reception in Middlebury. Friday, July 13, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater at the Falls, 1 Mill St. Opening reception for “Scott Addis: Solo Exhibition” In conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Green.

The Welterweights play in Middlebury. Friday, July 13, 7 p.m., on the town green. Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with Kelly Ravin and Lowell Thompson-fronted Vermont-based rockin’ country band. Free. More info at 802-4623555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Stone Cold Roosters on stage in Middlebury.

Friday, July 13, 8:30 p.m., on the town green.

Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green with this Modern, old-school, swing and honky-tonk band. Free.

More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

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Monthly Wildlife Walk in Middlebury. Saturday, July 14, 7-9 a.m., Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland, Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife at Meet at Otter View Park parking area.

Shorter and longer routes possible. Beginning birders welcome. More info at 802-388-1007 or 802-388-6019.

The 24th annual Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Saturday, July 14, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Basin Rd. Lots of events, activities and above all, music. Day and weekend ticket

prices. Celebrate all things Bluegrass in the Basin. On the web at: basinbluegrassfestival. com. More info at 802-247-3275 or basinbluegrass@yahoo.com.

Instrument petting zoo with Miss Cusson in Shoreham. Saturday, July 14, 1 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Come explore some brass, woodwind, and stringed instruments with the music teacher at Shoreham and Bridport Elementary Schools. Fun for all ages.

Opening Receptions in Rochester. Saturday, July 14, 5-7 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Meet the artists and see the new shows — Hyper Flora – JoAnn Carson and Light & Paper/Mes Plantes – Peter Moriarty.

More info at bigtowngallery.com.

Mars astronomy night in Hubbardton. Friday, July 14, 7-11 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Mars will be at its best for viewing in mid to late July as it approaches Earth. Enjoy seeing a sliver of the moon set before 10 p.m. The Green Mountain Astronomers are on hand to share their telescopes and knowledge as you explore the night sky. Bring flashlights and a blanket if you like. Call 802-273-2282 to confirm. Admission by donation.

Vermont Jazz Ensemble street dance in Middlebury. Saturday, July 14, 7 p.m., Main St. The final event the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green, with Big Band tunes to dance the night away; come early for swing-dance lessons with Jim Condon. Free.

More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

Brillhart and Smith in Brandon. Saturday, July 14, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. This duo is the project of fiddler Jake Brillhart and singer-songwriter Alex Smith.

The two have toured extensively for the past five years performing Brillhart’s Cape Breton-influenced fiddle tunes and Smith’s finely-crafted folk ballads. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music. net to reserve.

Two Forrests & Three Sues in Brandon. Saturday, July 14, 7:30 p.m. Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. The Three Sues, Sue Clarke, Sue Ribaudo and Susan Rule, unique singers each with a solid and varied musical history, meet on common ground to deliver a unique sound that is by turns mellow, energetic, nostalgic and jazzy. They join the Two Forrests: Michael and Scott for an evening of great music. Tickets adults, $8/seniors and Students $6.

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Challenge for Cystic Fibrosis in Vergennes. Sunday, July 15, time TBA, Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Rd. Walk, ride or run to benefit Cystic Fibrosis Lifestyle Foundation.

Scenic 40-mile and a 8-mile cycling options as well as a 5K run/walk through the private Basin Harbor Club property. Participants will be treated to a lakeside BBQ lunch reception, raffle and give-away drawings. More info at ChampsChallenge.org.

Vermont Sun triathlon in Salisbury/Brandon.

Sunday, July 15, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. A 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike and 3.1-mile run, nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up 6:40-8 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries.com.

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Great Brandon Auction in Brandon. Monday, July 16, viewing at 2 p.m., auction at 4 p.m. If you can only attend one auction this summer, make it this benefit auction offering quality goods and services. Items up for auction include a van, a motorcycle and the regular collection of attic treasures and barn bargains. New art, merchandise, gift certificates, antiques, furniture and lots of surprises. Auctioneer: Barb Watters. Rain or shine.

More info at 802-247-6401. Watch Brandon. org for location.

Yoga Night in Shoreham. Monday, July 16, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Bring a mat and comfortable clothes and practice along with a yoga flow for beginners streamed instruction.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 16, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Point CounterPoint faculty concert in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 17, 5:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Come hear these talented musicians as they play chamber music. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series

p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St. The Bristol Historical Society welcomes Jane Williamson, former director of the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh to will explore the Underground Railroad and its effect on the abolitionist movement and life in Vermont. Free and open to the public. More info call Steve Ayotte at 802453-7709.

“Rogue One” on screen in Bristol. Thursday, July 19, dusk, on the town green. The next installment of Bristol’s movies in the park for 2018. Bring a chair, a blanket and some popcorn for plein aire movie viewing. Rain location Holley Hall.

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Preschoolers at the Point in Addison. Friday, July 20, 10:3011:15 a.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Vt. Route 17. Bring your preschooler to enjoy story and craft time at Chimney Point. Topics relate to the history of Chimney Point and may include archaeology, bridges, boats, clocks, post offices or lighthouses. A parent or responsible adult must be with the child. Ages 3 to 5. Well-behaved siblings welcome. Bring snacks if you like. Call 802-759-2412 for topic. Suggested donation $5 per family.

Snake Mountain Bluegrass in New Haven.

Friday, July 20, 6-8-p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great bluegrass music. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Michele Fay Band in Salisbury. Friday, July 20, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Fay and her band bring their Americana folk to the church as part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series.

Free-will donation.

COMMUNITIES AROUND THE COUNTY celebrate the Fourth of July in a variety of ways, but the 2017 festivities culminated with Bristol’s annual parade. A wide range of acts marched through downtown, including this spiffy tuba player.

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Middle Grade Book Club in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 18, 5 – 5:45 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. For kids ages 8 to 12. Read “Well, That Was Awkward” by Rachel Vail and come to discuss over Nino’s pizza. Second of three. Come to one or all three meetings.

Parents are welcome (but not required) to attend. Contact jenny@vermontbookshop.com to RSVP or for more info.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Phineas Gage in Brandon. Wednesday, July 18, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Mad River Valleys pherocious pholkgospel grassicana band, Also known as “Music for Happy Brains.” More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@ brandon.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, July 18, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

“Les Mis” on screen in Shoreham. Wednesday, July 18, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. It’s the Hugh Jackman version.

Check out the movie in the air conditioned library. Popcorn will be served.

Music and Movies series in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 18, 8 p.m., College Park, across from Shafer’s. The Better Middlebury

Partnership’s series continues with a free movie (title tba).

Stargazing open house in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 18, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the evening sky on many of these dates. A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae will also be visible through the Observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, weather permitting. Check the Observatory web site at go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ or call 802-443-2266 after 7 PM on the evening of the event.

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Kids Can! Learn to make a 3-minute video in Hubbardton.

Thursday, July 19, 10:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Children ages 11 to 15 are invited to this workshop with Bob Franzoni to learn how to write, direct, act in and produce a 2 to 3-minute video. Bring lunch and snacks. Fee includes materials. Pre-registration required. Information on sibling discounts and scholarships available. Cost $15. Call 802-273-2282 by July 12 to register. Limit 10 students.

Vermont and the Underground Railroad presentation in Bristol. Thursday, July 19, 7

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40th annual Goshen Gallop race in Goshen. Saturday, July 21, Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen-Ripton Rd. Register by April 4 for $40 to celebrate the race’s 40th Anniversary at goshengallup.com.

Mary Poppins on screen in Shoreham. Saturday, July 21, 1 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Bring lunch to the library and enjoy a hit movie in our air-conditioning.

Point CounterPoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, July 21, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Steven Kirby Group in Brandon. Saturday, July 21, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Kirby’s Group plays richly textured, multi-layered, ebullient and lyrical jazz with evocative and exciting compositions and stellar musicianship. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music. net to reserve.

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Lake Champlain Bridge Guided Walk in Addison/Crown Point, N.Y. Sunday, July 22, 1-3 p.m., Crown Point, N.Y., State Historic Site museum, Just over the Crown Point Bridge.

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1.5-mile paddle, 14-mile bike and 3.1-mile run nestled against the Green Mountains. The 1.5 mile paddle portion of this event may be completed in a Kayak, Canoe or on a Paddleboard. Bib pick-up 6:45-8 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries.com.

The 24th annual Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Sunday, July 15, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Basin Rd. Lots of events, activities and above all, music. Day and weekend ticket prices.

Celebrate all things Bluegrass in the Basin.

On the web at: basinbluegrassfestival.com.

More info at 802-247-3275 or basinbluegrass@yahoo.com.

War games afternoon in Orwell. Sunday, July 15, 1-4 p.m., Mount Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Come to the Mount for the inaugural afternoon of Revolutionary War tabletop war-gaming. Several strategy games and scenarios. For ages 12 and up. Included in museum admission. More info at 802-948-2000.

The Beatles’ “Yellow Submarine” on screen in Middlebury. Sunday, July 15, 2 and 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. John, Paul, George and Ringo have an animated adventure and foil the Blue Meanies in this classic 60’s animated film. Tickets $10- $15, available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

Exhibit opening in Ferrisburgh. Sunday, July 15, 3 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 U.S. Route 7. The Fabric of Emancipation: The African Diasporic Lens of American History through Contemporary Fiber Arts features the work of eight of the country’s preeminent fiber, textile and needle artists expressing what it means to be of African descent in the Americas.

Curator Gallery Talk in Ferrisburgh. Sunday, July 15, 3 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 U.S. Route 7.

To open Rokeby’s 2018 special exhibit “The Fabric of Emancipation,” Harlem Needle Arts director and exhibit curator Michelle Bishop will speak about the influence of textile art as resistance for social change.

Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series in Rochester. Sunday, July 15, 5-8 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Come hear authors Florence Fogelin & Tracy Winn read from their work. More info at bigtowngallery.com.

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Calendar of Events as Hughes and Chimney Point administrator Elsa Gilbertson lead this round-trip guided walk. Rain or shine, dress for the weather. Includes admission to both museums.

Farm to Ballet in New Haven. Sunday July 22, Golden Well Farm & Apiary, 1089 River Rd. Farmers, food, community, live classical musicians, and the graceful art of ballet. This is what makes Vermont’s Farm to Ballet so unique. Designed to tell the story of a Vermont farming operation from spring to fall, the performances serve as fundraisers to support and honor the work of local farmers and conservation organizations. Tickets in advance $20 adult/kids 12 and under free, available online at farmtoballet.org., $25 at the door.

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“Music & Lyrics” on screen in Shoreham. Monday, July 23, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Check out this movie in our air conditioned library. Popcorn will be served.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 23, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Middle Grade Book Club in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 25, 5 – 5:45 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38

Main St. Read “Just Like Jackie” and welcome salads, rolls and dessert. Free. will also be visible through the Observatospecial guest author Lindsey Stoddard. “Just ry’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, The Lion King Jr. on stage in Middlebury. FriLike Jackie” has appeared on some great book day, July 27, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. weather permitting. Check the Observatory lists, like the Indies Introduce and the Indies Pleasant St. THT’s Young Company returns to web site at go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ or Next TOP TEN. It also received starred reviews the stage, bringing the story of Simba, Nala, call 802-443-2266 after 7 PM on the evening from Kirkus and Publishers Weekly. Of course, Mufasa and Scar to life. Tickets $12, available of the event. there will be Nino’s pizza. Third of three meetat townhalltheater.org or at the box office at ings. Parents are welcome (but not required) to 802-382-9222. attend. Contact jenny@vermontbookshop.com Deb Brisson & the Hayburners in Salisbury. to RSVP or for more info Friday, July 27, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congre“Music at the Riverbend” presents EmaLou gational Church, 853 Maple St. As part of the Music and Movies series in and the Beat in Brandon. Wednesday, July Salisbury Summer Performance Series, BrisMiddlebury. Thursday, July 26, 25, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. EmaLou son and her band bring their blend of rock, 6 p.m., Riverfront Park, the Marand The Beat play a mix of contemporary and folk and country to Salisbury’s historic church. bleworks. The Better Middlebury Partclassic folk, rock ‘n roll, and funk music as well Free-will donation. nership’s series continues with a free concert as originals. More info contact the Brandon (performer tba).

Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or “Up” on screen in Bristol. Thursday, July 26, info@brandon.org. dusk, on the town green. The next installment Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, of Bristol’s movies in the park for 2018. Bring July 25, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont Three Day Stampede Toward a chair, a blanket and some popcorn for plein tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a the Cure for Cystic Fibrosis in aire movie viewing. Rain location Holley Hall. pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

Bristol. Saturday, July 28, Bristol Craft night: fiber arts in Shoreham. WednesRecreation Field, Airport Rd. A sumday, July 25, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, mer must.

279 Main St. Bring a current project or use our Vermont Breakfast on the Farm in West Addicollection of yarn, crochet hooks, and needles son. Saturday, July 28, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Kayhart Three Day Stampede Toward to start something of new. Light refreshments Brothers Dairy Farm, 7429 Rt. 17 West. Want the Cure for Cystic Fibrosis will be served.. to know where your food comes from? This in Bristol. Friday, July 27, Bristol Stargazing open house in Middlebury. summer, you can go straight to the source.

Recreation Field, Airport Rd. A sumWednesday, July 25, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Enjoy a free pancake breakfast and self-guidmer must.

Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Table of Grace community meal in Vergennes. ed farm tour to see first-hand how dairy farmRoute 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the ers care for their animals, the environment, Friday, July 27, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes evening sky on many of these dates. A variety and contribute to our local communities. A Congregational Church, 30 S. Water St. Menu of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae includes rotisserie chicken, assorted summer (See Calendar, Page 11B)

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Three Day Stampede Toward the Cure for Cystic Fibrosis in Bristol. Sunday, July 29, Bristol Recreation Field, Airport Rd. A summer must.

Descendants of the Green Mountain Boys in Hubbardton. Sunday, July 29, 10:30 a.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. Members of the descendants of the Green Mountain Boys will be on hand to discuss how this group came about, share stories about their own Green Mountain Boys family tree discoveries, the importance of honoring them, and offering guidance on how to search for them.

Blast from the Past: Historic Clock and Watches Afternoon in Addison. Sunday, July 29, noon-4 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 32 Vt. Route 17. Green Moun-

pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

Point CounterPoint Faculty Concert in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 1, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Come hear these talented musicians as they play chamber music. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

Music and Movies series in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Aug. 1, 8 p.m., College Park, across from Shafer’s. The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series continues with a free movie (title tba).

Stargazing open house in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Aug. 27, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the evening sky on many of these dates. A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae will also be visible through the Observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, weather permitting. Check the Observatory web site at go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ or call 802-443-2266 after 7 PM on the evening of the event.

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tain Timekeepers Society members are in residence on the Chimney Point porch to talk with you about the history of your clocks and watches and how they can be repaired. Bring your clocks and watches or photographs and learn more about your timepieces.

The Lion King Jr. on stage in Middlebury.

Sunday, July 29, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. THT’s Young Company returns to the stage, bringing the story of Simba, Nala, Mufasa and Scar to life. Tickets $12, available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

Opening and artist talk in Rochester. Sunday, July 29, 4-5 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. New show of work by John Kemp Lee. More info at bigtowngallery.com.

Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series in Rochester. Sunday, July 29, 5-8 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Come hear authors Jenson Beach & Bianca Stone read from their work. More info at bigtowngallery. com.

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Book Discussion in Shoreham.

Monday, July 30, 6:30 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. From her youth in Somalia to her current life, come discuss “Infidel,” the gripping biography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the library. Light refreshments will be served.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 30, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Find Waldo local prize drawing and final party in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 31, 5-6 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Find Waldo returns to Middlebury for the month of July.

He may be harder to find this year with all the construction but the elusive character will be hidden in over 20 businesses and one library.

Complete the Waldo passport for prizes and Middlebury money and join the party.

Town Hall Theater’s 10th Birthday Bash in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 31, 5-7 p.m., Come to THT for this free celebration of bringing the arts to Middlebury. More info available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

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Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 1, 10 a.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. It’s the Brandon Library Summer Reading Program grand finale. Ron Carter, aka Rockin’ Ron the Friendly Pirate, sings to his own guitar accompaniment and to tracks from his stylistically diverse albums His approach is Sesame Street meets Monty Python. Free will donation Event with all donations going to the Library and Town Hall for upcoming projects.

Revolutionary Day Camp in Orwell. Wednesday Aug. 1-Friday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. A five-hour camp for ages 12 to 15. Learn about the Revolutionary War soldiers, cooking how the soldiers and colonial settlers did it, starting a fire, hands-on activities, and exploring the Mount. Campers will make at least one special item to bring home.

Limited space. Pre-registration required.

Bring your own lunch. Information on sibling discounts and scholarships. Call 802-9482000 to register.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Mad Mountain Scramblers in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Brandon Town Band opens at 6 p.m. followed by the Mad River Valley’s Premier Bluegrass Band. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@ brandon.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 1, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a

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“The Wizard of Oz” on screen in Bristol. Thursday, Aug. 2, dusk, on the town green. The final film of Bristol’s movies in the park for 2018. Bring s chair, a blanket and some popcorn for plein aire movie viewing. Rain location Holley Hall.

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Sidewinders in New Haven.

Friday, Aug. 3, 6-8 p.m., Free.

Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Joshua Collier, tenor, in Salisbury. Friday, Aug. 3, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. As part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series, Collier will perform songs from opera, operetta and musical theater. Free-will donation.

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Town-wide yard sale in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 4, 9 a.m., locations around town. Sidewalk sales and town-wide yard sales start at 9 am and last as long as there are still bargains available. Rain or shine. Official yard sales make it on The Map, which will be available the morning of August 4 at the Brandon Museum and Visitor Center, 4 Grove St. More info call 802-247-6401. For renting space at Brandon Town Hall contact Debbie Jennings at 802-345-3033 or debrajennings@aol.com.

Point CounterPoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, Aug. 4, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Julia Mark in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. The endearing warmth and charm of Mark’s music and voice has quickly made her a favorite in the Boston music scene. Show $20.

Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show.

BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@ brandon-music.net to reserve.

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kid-friendly scavenger hunt included. Free.

Tickets must be reserved at VermontBreakfastOnTheFarm.com.

Natural Basketry Workshop in Ferrisburgh.

Saturday, July 28, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 U.S. Route 7. Join Catherine Brooks to forage materials in the Rokeby woods and weave them into a simple melon basket that you’ll take home the same day. After this, you’ll be able to make more baskets on your own. Participants will need to bring simple household tools and wear protective clothing.

For more information and to register, email director@rokeby.org. Cost: $60/person.

“Inquiry into the Revolutionary Mind: What Were You Thinking Philip Schuyler and Seth Warner?” in Orwell. Saturday, July 28, 2-3:30 p.m., Mount Independence State historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Modern day historian Paul Andriscin turns back the time machine to interview two very different American Revolutionary War officers — Maj. Gen. Philip Schuyler, American Army commander of New York, and Col. Seth Warner, leader of the Green Mountain Boys Youth Escape Room Challenge in Shoreham.

Saturday, July 28, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Solve the clues and unlock the box before the timer runs out. Ages 8 and up. RSVP to the library at (802) 897-2647 by Friday, July 27.

The Lion King Jr. on stage in Middlebury.

Saturday, July 28, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. THT’s Young Company returns to the stage, bringing the story of Simba, Nala, Mufasa and Scar to life. Tickets $12, available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

L.C. Jazz Dance Band in Brandon. Saturday, July 28, 7-10 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. L.C. Jazz Swing Dance Band is a 17 piece volunteer Big Band with a mission, have a great time, play fantastic music and support continuing music education of area students through scholarships. A benefit for the Brandon Town Hall and the L.C. Jazz Scholarship Fund. Tickets adults $8/seniors and students $7/couples all ages $14.

Britt Connors & Bourbon Renewal in Brandon. Saturday, July 28, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come hear this unique brand of “Y’all-ternative.” Before heading into the studio in September, they’ll debut some brand-new songs and have fun with new arrangements of older songs. The band is comprised of some of Boston’s finest jazz and Americana musicians. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or email info@brandon-music. net to reserve.

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Calendar of Events Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife at Meet at Otter View Park parking area. Shorter and longer routes possible. Beginning birders welcome. More info at 802-388-1007 or 802-388-6019.

Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Saturday, Aug. 11, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes.

Building Fairy and Other Imaginary Houses in Orwell. Saturday, Aug. 11, 1-4 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Children and parents can drop in for this activity in the picnic area.

Be inspired by nature, the history of Mount Independence or flights of the imagination and use natural materials to build small “fairy houses.” Children under 15 free; accompanying adults pay regular admission.

“Laurel & Hardy: A Silent Fine Mess” on screen in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 11, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. The beloved comedy team got their start in silent film. Get ready to laugh as Stan and Ollie make fine messes out of everything from a day in the country to a night on the town.

Silent film aficionado Jeff Rapsis will provide live accompaniment. Free. Donations accepted, with proceeds to help continuing preservation work.

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Hike into History in Orwell. Sunday, Aug. 5, 2-4 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. On this guided tour, walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary War soldiers. Mount Independence Coalition president Stephen Zeoli is your guide. Wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.

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Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 6, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Tuesday, Aug. 7, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes.

Very Merry Theater in Bristol. Tuesday, Aug. 7, 6:30 p.m., town green. The Theater’s Teen Troupe will stage their summer production.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Wednesday, Aug. 8, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents Enerjazz in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. The eighteen members of EnerJazz are dedicated to playing your favorite hits of the Swing Era in their original style. The music of Ellington, Basie, Dorsey, Miller and more. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@brandon.org.

“The Legendary Nettie Jones (1834-1924)” in Salisbury. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7:00 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Join the Salisbury Historical Society for this illustrated lecture by Bill Powers.

Free.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 8, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

Stargazing open house in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Aug. 8, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. Jupiter and Saturn will be in the evening sky on many of these dates.

A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae will also be visible through the Observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the public, weather permitting. Check the Observatory web site at go.middlebury.edu/ observatory/ or call 802-443-2266 after 7 PM on the evening of the event.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Thursday, Aug. 9, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes.

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A CONTESTANT IN the popular ladies’ iron skillet toss at the 2018 Field Days sends a skillet skyward as her hair shoots off to her right. The 2018 iron skillet toss is slated for Aug. 8.

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Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 10, Fair Ground Rd. ACTR will provide free fares to the fair, connecting the fair to Bristol, Middlebury, New Haven and Vergennes.

Artist’s reception in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 10, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater on the Green, 6 Merchants Row. Opening reception for “Timothy Horn: The View From Here.” In conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Falls.

Artist’s reception in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 10, 5-7 p.m., Edgewater on the Falls, 1 Mill St. Opening reception for “Ellen Granter: Solo

Exhibition.” In conjunction with reception at Edgewater on the Green.

Point Counterpoint Faculty Ensemble in Salisbury. Friday, Aug. 10, 7:30, p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come hear these talented musicians as they play chamber music. Free-will donation. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series.

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Monthly Wildlife Walk in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 11, 7-9 a.m., Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland, Weybridge St. and

Vermont Sun triathlon in Salisbury/Brandon.

Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. A 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike and 3.1-mile run, nestled against the Green Mountains.

Bib pick up 6:40-7:45 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries. com.

Lake Dunmore Triathlon in Salisbury/Brandon. Sunday, Aug. 12, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park, 3570 Lake Dunmore Rd. A .9mile swim, 28-mile bike and 6.2-mile run nestled against the Green Mountains. Bib pick up 6:40-7:30 a.m. More info and registration at vermontsuntriathlonseries.com.

Pie Social in Ferrisburgh. Sunday, Aug. 12, 1-4 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 U.S. Route 7. Bring the kids or your friends to Rokeby for music, lawn games and pie. Homemade pies of every type, served plain or with scrumptious Vermont ice-cream, in the Museum’s shady back yard. The jazz trio Abby’s Agenda will perform. Proceeds support the Museum’s work, so have a second piece.

Ethnic & Cultural Diversity at Mount Independence in Orwell. Sunday, Aug. 12, 2-3:30 p.m., Mt. Independence State Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. This program, led by historian and site interpreter Paul Andriscin, looks at how a rag-tag force from Vermont and six other states managed to maintain the Northern American Army during the Revolution while facing lack of supplies, disease, starvation and weather conditions and having to overcome prejudices against their fellow soldiers.

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Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 13, 7 p.m., City Park.

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Bennington Battle Day in Vermont. Thursday, Aug. 16. Free admission at all Vermont StateOwned Historic Sites.

Block Party in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 16, Main St. Food, music and fun as Middlebury closes off Main St. “History of the Greenwood Cemetery” in Bristol. Thursday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St. The Bristol Historical Society will present local residents Donald Lathrop and Reg Dearborn to discussing Bristol’s cemetery, past and present. Free and open to the public. More info call Steve Ayotte at 802-453-7709.

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ology, bridges, boats, clocks, post offices or lighthouses. A parent or responsible adult must be with the child. Ages 3 to 5. Well-behaved siblings welcome. Bring snacks if you like. Call 802-759-2412 for topic. Suggested donation $5 per family.

LC Jazz in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 17, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great big band music.

Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Friday night family performance and woodfired pizza in Rochester. Friday, Aug. 17, 6-8 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Magicians Without Borders entertains the family.

More info at bigtowngallery.com.

Preschoolers at the Point in Addison. Friday, Aug. 17, 10:3011:15 a.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Vt. Route 17. Bring your preschooler to enjoy story and craft time at Chimney Point. Topics relate to the history of Chimney Point and may include archae-

Town-Wide Yard Sale in Bridport. Saturday, Aug. 18, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Point CounterPoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, Aug. 18, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Ciderstock in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 18, gates open at 2-10 p.m., the Woodchuck Cidery, 1321 Exchange St. Come hear head-

liner 311, with special guests Moon Taxi, Jukebox the Ghost, along with Vermont’s Seth Yacovone Band. The musical lineup will be supported by great food trucks, a Firkin Frenzy, and of course, Woodchuck cider. Tickets $35, are available via Ticketfly, woodchuck.com/ciderstock/index.php or at the Woodchuck Cider House in Middlebury, or $40 day of.

Solar, deep sky, and Mars astronomy night in Addison. Saturday, Aug 18, 7:30-11 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Vt. Route 17. Members of the Green Mountain Astronomers come to Chimney Point will share their telescopes and knowledge as we explore the night sky. Discover the wonders of the solar system, deep sky, and take a special look at Mars. Dependent on night sky conditions. Call 802-759-2412 to confirm. Bring a flashlight, and blanket or lawn chair if you like. Admission by donation.

Melissa D. & Friends in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall, 1 Conant Sq. Come hear singer Melissa D. Moorhouse’s distinct voice. Sit back, relax and experience the coffeehouse vibe with the warm ambient music of Americana folk/ rock. Tickets adults $8/seniors and students $6.

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“Get Lit!” in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Aug. 15, 6 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Join Vermont authors Robin MacArthur (“Heart Spring Mountain”) and Meg Little Reilly (“Everything That Follows”) for a literary discussion and margaritas. Friends since high school, these two authors will have a lot to talk about. Books, food & drink will be available for purchase.

“Music at the Riverbend” presents The Eames Brothers Band in Brandon.

Wednesday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m. behind the Brandon Inn. Vermont‘s foremost purveyors of “mountain blues,” The Eames Brothers Band are known for their late night sets that drift seamlessly through lowdown psychedelic blues funk to uplifting soul songs and back again. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@ brandon.org.

“Aquatic Invasives,” lecture in Salisbury.

Wednesday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Join the Salisbury Conservation Commission and the Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association for this talk by Ann Bove. Free Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 15, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont

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Town-Wide Yard Sale in Bridport. Sunday, Aug. 19, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

“Blast from the Past: Working with Fiber” in Addison. Sunday, Aug. 19, 2-4 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 31 Vt. Route 17. Members of the Twist O’Wool Guild and others will be in residence on the Chimney Point porch to demonstrate a variety of fiber skills, crafts, and arts important historically and relevant today. Bring your project or ask questions. Light refreshments.

Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series in Rochester. Sunday, Aug. 19, 5-8 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Come hear authors Rebecca Godwin and Cynthia Huntington read from their work. More info at bigtowngallery.com.

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Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 20, 7 p.m., City Park.

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The Glass Menagerie on stage in Middlebury. Tuesday, Aug. 21, TBA, Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. THT’s Young Company performs one of Tennessee Williams’ most acclaimed plays. Tickets $12 available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

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“Music at the Riverbend” presents Hot Box Honey in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Brandon Town Band opens at 6 p.m. followed by Burlington-based swing & jazz supergroup Hot Box Honey, offering an eclectic mix of swing, latin, funk, reggae and soul rhythms to keep it groovin’. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@brandon.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 22, 7-8:30 p.m., town green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

The Glass Menagerie on stage in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Aug. 22, TBA, Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. THT’s Young Company performs one of Tennessee Williams’ most acclaimed plays. Tickets $12 available at townhalltheater.org or at the box office at 802-382-9222.

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Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 23, Town Hall Theater, Marquis theater, Dana Auditorium and other locations around town. The MNFF returns for its fourth year. More info at middfilmfest.org.

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Table of Grace community meal in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 24, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes

ALICE LIVESAY, LEFT, Isabel Quinn and Maddie Shutterworth, all eight-year-olds, work on computer art projects at the Middlebury Rec. Department S.T.E.A.M. Girls camp in August 2017. S.T.E.A.M. stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math.

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Congregational Church, 30 S. Water St. Menu includes hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, another salad and dessert. Free.

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival opening Night in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 24, Town Hall Theater, Marquis theater, Dana Auditorium and other locations around town. The MNFF returns for its fourth year. More info at middfilmfest.org.

Street Dance in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 24, 7-10 p.m., Vergennes City Park. Kick- off Vergennes Day and dance the night away with music by the Hitmen.

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Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 25, Town Hall Theater, Marquis theater, Dana Auditorium and other locations around town. The MNFF returns for its fourth year. More info at middfilmfest. org.

37th Annual Vergennes Day in Vergennes.

Saturday, Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Vergennes City Park. Celebrate all things Vergennes with a pancake breakfast, crafters, music, children’s venue, horse drawn wagon rides, Lions Club chicken BBQ, rubber duckie race and more. Sponsored by the Addison County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Vergennes. More info at vergennesday.com.

Mount Independence-Hubbardton Military Road Car Tour in Orwell. Saturday, Aug. 25, 12:30-3:30 p.m., Mt. Independence Sate Historic Site, 472 Mt. Independence Rd. Jim Rowe leads the first leg of this tour of the 1776 Mount Independence-Hubbardton Military Road. Meet at the Mount Independence museum. The tour will end at the Hubbardton

Battlefield State Historic Site.

Point CounterPoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, Aug. 25, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St.

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Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Sunday, Aug. 26, Town Hall Theater, Marquis theater, Dana Auditorium and other locations around town. The MNFF returns for its fourth year. More info at middfilmfest.org.

East Hubbardton Cemetery walk in Hubbardton. Sunday, Aug. 26, 2-4 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5695 Monument Hill Rd. Site interpreter Carl Fuller leads this walk in the East Hubbardton Cemetery to talk about the early settlers of Hubbardton, their roles in the 1777 Battle of Hubbardton, and life after the war. If inclement weather shorter inside program.

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Music and Movies series in Middlebury. Monday, Aug. 27, 8 p.m., College Park, across from Shafer’s. The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series continues with a free movie (title tba).

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“Music at the Riverbend” presents Locally Grown Music in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. An

evening of local talent & Battle of the Bands winner. More info contact the Brandon Chamber of Commerce at 802-247-6401 or info@ brandon.org.

Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 29, 7-8:30 p.m., Town Green. A Vermont tradition since 1870, Come early and enjoy a pre-concert dinner in town or bring a picnic.

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Starline Rhythm Boys in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 31, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard, 142 River Rd. Vineyard opens at 5:30 for picnicking. Bring a lawn chair and relax at the end of your week with a glass of wine and great music by Vermont’s beloved vintage country and rockabilly band. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

Friday night family performance and woodfired pizza in Rochester. Friday, Aug. 31, 6-8 p.m., Big Town Gallery, 99 N. Main St. Dinoman entertains the family. More info at bigtowngallery.com.

Point CounterPoint Faculty Concert in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 31, 7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Come hear these talented musicians as they play chamber music. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

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local grass-fed Swift Burger: rub, ipotle espresso ground beef, ch , se ee ch her Blue char grilled, Bouc of ce oi ch n, bu lah onion rings, chal 6 side salad ....... $1 Belgian fries or bles sautéed vegeta Peanut Pasta: uce sa ut an pe y m tossed with crea 15 ...$ ..... ..... ..... ............... and noodles.......... breast ........ $21 en ick add grilled ch ble Stack: Grilled Vegeta , ella mushroom zucchini, portab sweet bell Spanish onion, , layered with nt la gp eg , pepper zarella, atop oz Maplebrook m ___$18 o_ st pe sil fresh ba

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Pad Thai with Chicken & Shrimp

Thai Duck Salad

HOUSE SPECIALS...

Choose from Duck or Fish Specialties, prepared in a variety of Thai Sauces.

SUSHI CHEF SPECIALS including the delightful Lava Roll, Psycho Roll and OMG Roll.

DAILY SPECIALS...

Sensational Thai flavor in an off-the-menu Thai Surprise dish!

ROTATING SUSHI SPECIALS with delicious fresh ingredients.

CLOSED TUESDAYS M,W,Th,Fri. lunch 11:30am-2:30pm, dinner 4:30-9pm Sat & Sun dinner menu all day 12:30-9pm Please make reservations for parties of 6 or more.

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Black Sticky Rice w/Thai Custard or Mango Sticky Rice

Check us out at Sabai Sabai Thai Cuisine

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WASABI PANKO TUNA Sushi grade Ahi tuna hand-breaded to order with wasabi powder and panko bread crumbs, served crispy on the outside, rare in the middle! Served with house-made citrussesame-soy sauce and a sesame seaweed salad garnish, adorned with wasabi peas.

WHEN PIGS FLY Chef Mike’s BBQ pork, cole slaw, Cabot Cheddar and crispy fried onions, stuffed into a wrap and grilled.

PRIME RIB We are known for this! USDA Choice Ribeye, heavily marbled to maximize flavor, slowroasted overnight in our special ovens to medium rare, or therabouts. Hand-carved to order and served with au jus.

EPIC BURGER 1/2 lb. local ground beef, topped with apple wood smoked bacon, Blue Ledge Farm “Middlebury Blue” cheese and Tabasco fried onions.

CHAMPAGNE CHICKEN A Fire & Ice favorite! Twin 5 oz. boneless skinless chicken breasts, sautéed with mushrooms, and finished in a rich white wine sauce, demi glaze and Monument Farms cream.

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MOOSE PUB WINGS A dozen large wings fried until crispy and tossed with one of our 5 house made sauces!

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AMERICAN FLATBREAD – Gather at our hearth; enjoy the magic & movement of our team baking each flatbread to order in this open kitchen setting. We keep our menu simple and put all our efforts into the quality and integrity of our food. We cook with the finest ingredients available, from the imported

p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Marble Works, Middlebury 802-388-3300. Visit us at www.americanflatbread.com.

Grana Padano Parmesan sprinkled on top of each Flatbread, to the seasonal organic veggies we source from local farms. Guests can choose salads, flatbreads, small plates and desserts from our menu or check out the Chef’s Seasonal Specials that evening. Whether you bring the whole gang for a relaxed, family-style feast or come with your favorite person for an intimate candlelit dinner, we’ll be happy to have you here. Tuesday through Saturday, 5:00

BLACK SHEEP BISTRO – Chef Mahe’s talented staff welcomes you to the Black Sheep Bistro in Vergennes, Vermont.

Our menu has been prepared with fresh, local ingredients and inspired by traditional French flavors.

Call for reservations.

Located at 253 Main Street, Vergennes, VT. 802-877-9991. www.blacksheepbistrovt.com.

THE BOBCAT CAFE – The Bobcat Cafe in the heart of Bristol offers contemporary comfort food and hand-crafted beers. Homemade food is fresh and creative, and the beers are flavorful and accessible to many palates. As part of America’s craft beer revolution, the Bobcat’s brewmaster uses only the highest quality ingredients. In the kitchen, the goal of chef/owners Erin & Sanderson Wheeler is to create food that is wholesome and

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A&W – If you’re looking for a destination restaurant, steeped in nostalgia, kids and pet friendly, the last carhop and A&W in Vermont and most of New England is here. From the homemade root beer to the tray on the window not much has changed in 60 years. Double bacon cheeseburgers, the best all-beef hot dogs, fried chicken, clam and shrimp dinners with fries or A&W famous onion rings with a side of slaw go great with the authentic root beer float or our 4 scoop milkshake. Vegetarian options are available as well as a man’s best friend menu. Open at 11:30 a.m. Everyday, closing at 8 p.m., and 9 p.m. on Friday and Saturday.

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interesting, ensuring locals and visitors will return often. Menus are designed around the seasons and what is freshest locally in Addison County, while borrowing a range of international techniques. Informal enough for a quick meal; or worthy of an important celebration. 5 Main St., Bristol, 802-453-3311.

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COSTELLO’S MARKET – For gourmet lunches and dinners to go, Costello’s Market can’t be beat! Amazing sandwiches, salads, and the freshest seafood dishes.

Costello’s is a topnotch fish market, receiving daily deliveries. Plus they offer a great selection of authentic Italian specialty items: San Marzano tomatoes, Illy coffee, pastas, meats, cheeses, olive oils and fabulous domestic and imported wines to accompany any meal. Open Tuesday through Saturday at 10 a.m., Costello’s is “Where the Best Meals Begin!” Marble Works, Middlebury.

802-388-3385. www.costellosmarket.com.

FIRE & ICE RESTAURANT AND BIG MOOSE PUB – Longtime local favorite steak & seafood dinner house. From a stunning museum-like atmosphere in the dining rooms, to a casual scene with six TVs in the pub; romantic nooks for your anniversary to elegant dining rooms for larger parties. 55+ item salad bar featuring all-you-can-eat shrimp.

Hand-cut steaks, prime rib, and the freshest seafood along with much more. Vegetarian & gluten-free entrees available. See entire menu online. Pub fare with burgers, wraps & lighter fare. Kid’s menu & children’s theater (to entertain while you enjoy dinner!). Happy Hour every day with daily drink specials. Din-

ner every evening; weekend lunches Friday, Saturday and Sunday. One block off Route 7, and only a short walk from the village green, 26 Seymour Street, Middlebury. 802-3887166. 800-367-7166. Please visit us online at www.fireandicerestaurant.com.

artisans, and vegetarian options too. We are proud to partner with local producers whenever possible to feature some of the best ingredients Vermont and the region has to offer. Our local partners include Green Pasture Meats, Otter Creek Heritage Pork, Bristol Bakery, Klingers Bakery and more! Serving lunch daily from 11:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., dinner nightly starting at 5:00 p.m. The bar is open starting at 4:30 p.m. The Lobby, 7 Bakery Lane, Middlebury, VT, 802-989-7463. www.lobbyrestaurantvt.com.

MARY’S INN AT BALDWIN CREEK – Since 1983 Vermont’s seasons have inspired Mary’s farm-to-table menus.

Chef-owner Doug Mack picks the highest quality ingredients JESSICA’S AT SWIFT HOUSE as the basis for Mary’s evolving menus, INN – Dining at Jessica’s brings focusing on locally raised products from his friends and family together in on-site organic farm and other small scale a casual setting guaranteed to artisan farmers. Whether you are sipping on summon warm memories. Jes- a hand-crafted cocktail at the bar or savoring sica’s culinary team infuses the world-famous Cream of Garlic Soup before character of the countryside your dinner, a visit to Mary’s is well worth into the best of locally produced the trip. The best reason to visit is to meet ingredients. Whether you are the people that make it happen. The faces looking for a casual evening of Mary’s are talented, happy and dedicated dinner or celebrating a special to serving great food and drink. From houseoccasion, we will take care of made Boyden Farm burgers to Atlantic salmyou. Enjoy a conversation at our on to Brome Lac duck, there is something for intimate full bar offering liquors, everyone. Awarded the Slow Food of VT Snail local draft beer and wines from our 2017 of Approval Designation. Mary’s is a founding Wine Spectator Award winning list. Outdoor member of the Vermont Fresh Network. Locatdining on the deck. Located at 25 Stew- ed at 1868 North 116 Road, Bristol. Online at art Lane in Middlebury, Jessica’s is open baldwincreek.net. Call 802-453-2432.

Wednesday through Sunday night, with seating from 5:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Reservations are suggested by calling 802-388-9925 or online reservations at www.jessicasvermont.com or at www.opentable.com.

THE LOBBY – Welcome to the Lobby—a fun restaurant & bar on Bakery Lane in downtown Middlebury, Vt. Serving eclectic local fare from Vermont

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S A B A I SABAI – Comfortable and cozy, with a colorful flare of South Asia, Sabai Sabai offers sumptuTHE PARK SQUEEZE – Locatous Thai cuied on Main Street in historic sine and fresh downtown Vergennes, Vermont. sushi. With Open seven days a week. We an extensive invite you to stop in for a bite and menu adapta beverage – bring the family or able for a varimeet up with friends. Check us ety of palates, out on Facebook for specials there is something for everyone. Located at like our half-price burger night and margarita 22 Merchants Row in downtown Middlebury Mondays. Walk-ins welcome...we’ll squeeze and open for lunch and dinner. M, W, Th, F you in! Find us at 161 Main Street, Vergennes, lunch hours 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.; dinner VT. 802-877-9962. www.parksqueeze.com. hours 4:30 p.m. to 9 p.m. Closed Tuesdays.

Weekend and holiday hours 12:30 p.m. to 9 RICE - Excellent Chinese takeout and authen- p.m. For more information call 802-989-7376 tic cuisine from Thailand and Malaysia. Great or visit www.sabaisabaithai.com. Check out chef specialties, dinner combinations and Sabai Sabai Thai Cuisine on Facebook. daily lunch specials. Many healthy steamed options. Over 25 soups and appetizers and TOURTERELLE – At Tourterelle, the fusion menu items including beef, pork, poultry, of classic French dishes made with local tofu, fresh seafood and seasonal vegetables.

Dine in or take out Monday Thursday 11 a.m. - 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11 a.m.

- 10:30 p.m., closed Sunday.

Located at 20 ½ Seymour St, Middlebury. Visit www.ricemiddlebury.com or call 802-388-3883.

Vermont products delivers distinctive flavors to the Champlain Valley.

Whether you’re in the mood for a burger and beer at the bar or a romantic dinner for two featuring traditional French dishes with modern twists, Tourterelle has what you’re looking for.

Tourterelle also caters and is a beautiful wedding venue for a ceremony and reception.

Tourterelle, located in New Haven, is open for dinner Wednesday to Saturday, from 5:30 to 9 p.m., and Sunday 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Brunch on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Call us at 802-453-6309 or visit www.tourterellevt.com today.

WAYBURY – In addition to elegant dinners or casual pub fare, the Waybury Inn also invites guests and locals alike to partake in our daily breakfasts, Sunday brunches and lunches on Friday and Saturdays. Enjoy a peaceful respite on our terrace, or tuck yourself into the Pine Room or Pub for delicious fresh local fare that will make you want to come back again and again. 457 East Main St., East Middlebury, 802-388-4015 or 800-3881810, info@wayburyinn.com.

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MORGAN’S TAVERN The Morgan’s Tavern at the Middlebury Inn uses only the freshest ingredients, sourced locally, through the Vermont Fresh Network Partnership to create a unique and inspired dining experience that you can’t get anywhere else.

From the moment you arrive and are warmly welcomed back and throughout your meal, your satisfaction is our only goal.

Every plate is prepared with you in mind. Each time you dine with us, whether you’re here for business or pleasure, we know you will rediscover why the Morgan’s Tavern is the best kept secret in Central Vermont.

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“a little out of the way, a lot out of the ordinary”

SUMMER EVENTS Burger & Beer Every Wednesday $15 Addison County Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser Friday June 8 Tuscan Wine Pairing Dinner Saturday June 9 Negroni Week Fundraiser June 6-10

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Small batch ice cream, hand-crafted the old-fashioned way, Classic and quirky flavors using local and seasonal ingredients.

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SEAFOOD SUBS AND DINNERS

Tuna Melt .....................................................$7.95 California Fish Taco ...................................$8.95 Salmon Patty Ciabatta................................$8.95 Seafood Salad Sub Small .. $10.95 Large $12.95 Tuna Salad Sub Small ........... $8.95 Large $9.95 Fish & Chips..............................................$10.95 Blackened salmon sub Small$8.95..Large $9.95 Fried Shrimp Po Boy ................................$13.95 Fried Oyster Po Boy .................................$13.95 Fried Fish Filet Sandwich ........................$10.95 Fried Scallops Dinner................................. $ MP Fried Calamari Dinner ..............................$14.95 Fried Oysters Dinner .................................. $ MP Fried Shrimp Dinner .................................$18.95 Fried dinners above served with cole slaw & fries

Pan Seared Swordfish, Tuna or Salmon olive oil, lemon, sea salt & fresh herbs, over a medley of roasted vegetables $15.95 Baked Filet of Haddock or Flounder topped with fresh basil lemon aioli over medley of roasted vegetables $15.95 with crab & shrimp stuffing $18.95

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MEAT ENTREES

Herbed Roasted Duck Leg - fennel & balsamic cippolini onion glaze…..............................$15.95 Chicken Cacciatore - peppers, onions, mushrooms in wine tomato sauce over pasta….....................................................$13.95 Pork & Pappardelle - tender boneless pork in a rich tomato sauce with mushrooms & peppers over pappardelle pasta….........................$14.95 Chicken Parmesan - over angel hair pasta….....................................................$11.95

DEEP FRIED DINNERS

Sea Scallops…...........................................$ MP Gulf Shrimp…........................................$18.95 Belly Clams............................................... $ MP Calamari..................................................$14.95 Filet of Fish.............................................$10.95 Oysters...................................................... $ MP

SALADS

Mixed garden Salad..................................$6.95 Caesar Salad ............................................$6.95 Chicken Caesar .......................................$9.95 Salmon Caesar.......................................$12.95 Shrimp Caesar ...................................... $14.95 Fresh Yellow fin Tuna salad celery & mayo, served on bed of fresh greens with tomato & cucumber salad.................$10.95 Mediterranean Salad fresh greens, roasted peppers, onion, cucumbers, mozzarella cheese,tomato, kalamata olives & feta cheese dressing......................$9.95 with chicken $11.95 with shrimp $15.95 Sicilian Salad fresh greens, marinated roasted eggplant, artichokes, olives, roasted peppers, mozzarella, sun dried tomatoes, lemon & olive oil......$10.95 with tuna $12.95 with shrimp $15.95 Arugula goat cheese Salad eggplant caponata, baby portabella, Vermont goat cheese, romaine, roasted peppers, olive oil balsamic vinaigrette…..............................$10.95 Antipasto Salad fresh greens, marinated mushrooms, artichokes, Tuna, provolone, roasted peppers, mozzarella, salami, banana peppers, balsamic & olive oil..................................................$11.95

• Olive Oil & Cheeses • Proscuitto di Parma • Mozzarella di Bufalo

Fried dinners include fries & cole slaw

99 Maple St., Ste. 13A, Marble Works, Middlebury • 388-3385 • www.costellosmarket.com Open Tuesday - Friday 10am to 6pm • Saturday 10am to 5pm

Check out our daily specials online!

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Cheese Lasagna…....................................$9.95 Cheese Ravioli…marinara sauce............ $9.95 Angel Hair Pasta & Marinara..........……..$8.95 add meatballs or sausage $5.00 Potato Gnocchi marinara sauce......….. $10.95 add meatballs or sausage $5.00 Gnocchi, Portabellas & Peppers...........$11.95 Eggplant Parmesan & Pasta..................$11.95 Shrimp Scampi & Angel Hair............….$18.95 Mussels Marinara & Pasta.....................$15.95 Roasted Vegetables & Pasta medley of roasted fresh veggies tossed with fresh garlic, basil & tomato sauce….….............$13.95 Butter Browned Sea Scallops & Pasta...$19.95

BIGGEST MENU IN TOWN!

SUBS

Classic Italian Sub- salami, tomato, provolone, lettuce & seasoned olive oil ..................................Small $8.95 Large $9.95 De Pasquale’s Favorite – proscuitto di Parma, provolone, tomato, lettuce & seasoned olive oil .................................Small $9.95 Large $11.95 The “Don Corleone” - oven baked sub with cappicola provolone, roasted peppers & onions, tomato..........Small $9.95 Large $10.95 The Veggie - aged provolone, tomato, romaine, onion, banana peppers, cucumbers …………………………Small $6.95 Large $7.95 The “Don Barzini” - oven baked sub with salami, roasted peppers & onions, tomato, provolone..................Small $9.95 Large $10.95 The “Fredo” - veggie sub with fresh mozzarella, romaine lettuce, tomato, onion & seasoned olive oil........Small $6.95 Large $7.95 Baby Bella & Roasted Pepper Sub - oven baked sub with fresh basil aioli, Vermont goat cheese & arugula........Small $8.95 Large $9.95 Eggplant Caponanta & mozzarella - oven baked sub of Sicilian eggplant salad & fresh mozzarella...................Small $6.95 Large $7.95 Turkey Sub – tomatoes, lettuce, mayo............... ....................................Small $8.95 Large $9.95 The Roma Sub - capicolla, provolone, tomatoes, lettuce, seasoned olive oil & banana peppers.......................Small $8.95 Large $9.95 The “Sicilian”- oven baked sub with homemade meat balls, marinara, Parmigiano Reggiano & aged provolone................................ ....................................Small $8.95 Large $9.95 The “Italian Stallion” - oven baked sub with sweet sausage, roasted peppers, onion, marinara sauce & provolone..................... ..................................Small $9.95 Large $10.95 “Tutto Italiano” - all our fresh sliced Italian meats, provolone, lettuce, tomato, banana peppers & onion......Small $10.95 Large $11.95 The “Scarface” - based on the “Cuban Sandwich” pulled pork, mustard, pickles,cheddar cheese,onion . . . . . . . . Small $9.95 Large $10.95 Tonno & Salami Sub - Italian canned tuna & salami, basil aioli, roasted peppers, arugula, romaine & aged provolone.................................. ..................................Small $9.95 Large $10.95 Eggplant Parmesan Sub - oven baked sub of breaded & fried eggplant w/tomato sauce, provolone & parmesan cheese............................ ..................................Small $9.95 Large $10.95 BBQ Chicken Sub - pulled chicken meat in BBQ sauce................Small $9.95 Large $10.95 “The Soprano” - proscuitto di Parma, fresh mozzarella, lettuce, tomato & seasoned olive oil ............................. ...Small $9.95 Large $11.95 Pancetta & Capicola Sub - oven baked sub with fresh mozzarella, seasoned olive oil, tomato & romaine..... Small $9.95 Large $10.95 Roast Beef & Provolone Sub - beef with aged provolone, lettuce, tomato,onion & horseradish mayo...........................Small $8.95 Large $9.95

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APPETIZERS /ANTIPASTI / SALADS

Clam Chowder…......................................$3.95 Caesar Salad….........................................$6.95 Mixed Garden Salad…..............................$6.95 Mediterranean Salad fresh greens, roasted peppers, onion, cucumbers,mozzarella, tomato, kalamata olives& feta cheese dressing…................................................$10.95 Scampi Shrimp Salad large shrimp in garlic, lemon & olive oil over fresh greens, tomatoes & marinated broccoli florets…..................$16.95 Mussels Marinara…................................$12.95 Antipasto Salad roasted peppers, grilled portabella, salami, tuna, provolone, fresh mozzarella, romaine, banana peppers, olive oil balsamic viniagrette….................$11.95 Misto Verdue medley of roasted & marinated vegetables with fresh herbs, olive oil & balsamic…................................................$11.95 Vermont Goat Cheese Salad w/ Eggplant Caponata & Arugula…..........................$10.95 Crispy Calamari with fresh basil aioli.....$12.95 Toasted Garlic Bread with fresh tomato & mozzarella …..........................................$6.95

John & Carolyn

Fine gourmet specialties direct from Italy

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Chef’s Specialties with white rice

H1. General Tso’s Chicken ..............................................10.45 H1a. General Tso’s Shrimp ..............................................12.45 H2. Sesame Chicken.......................................................10.45 H2a. Sesame Beef ..........................................................11.45 H2b. Sesame Shrimp ......................................................12.45 H3. House Crispy Chicken Lightly battered and fried chunk breast, stir fried in ginger honey sauce ...................10.75 H4. Basil Triple Medley Chicken, beef, shrimp with Fresh green sauteed with basil sauce ...............................12.25 H5. Hunan Twin Delight Beef, chicken & veggie ............10.75 H6. Walnut Shrimp .........................................................12.45 24

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H9. Happy Family ...........................................................13.25 H10. Seafood Platter White Sauce .................................13.25

Chinese • Thai • Malaysian

H11. Basil Chicken ............................................................9.95 H12. Massaman Shrimp ..................................................12.25 H12a. Massaman Chicken Thai curry ................................9.95 H13. Salt & Pepper Shrimp.............................................12.25 H14. Tangerine Beef .......................................................11.25 H14a. Tangerine Chicken ...............................................10.25 H15. Red Curry / Green Curry Chicken ............................9.95 H15a. Red Curry / Green Curry Shrimp ..........................12.25 H16. Black Pepper w. Onion Pork ..................................10.25 H16a. Black Pepper w. Onion Beef ................................11.25 H17. Coconut Shrimp .....................................................12.45 H18. Duck w. Mixed Vegetable ......................................14.95

20 1/2 Seymour Street Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-3883 802-388-8646

Hot & Spicy BUSINESS HOURS Monday - Thursday 11am - 10pm Friday and Saturday 11am - 10:30pm Closed Sunday

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Contemporary Comfort Food and Hand-Crafted Beers

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Seasonal Menus from the Freshest Local Ingredients

THURSDAY – SATURDAY 4:00 - 9:30PM • SUNDAY – WEDNESDAY 4:00 - 9:00PM 5 Main Street | Bristol, VT | 802.453.3311 | thebobcatcafe.com

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WE ARE PROUD TO PARTNER WITH LOCAL PRODUCERS TO FEATURE THE BEST INGREDIENTS VERMONT AND THE REGION HAVE TO OFFER.

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Wed - Sun : Lunch 11am-2:30pm & Dinner 5pm • Bar 4:30pm • Brunch Sat & Sun 11am-2:30pm

7 Bakery Lane • Middlebury, VT • www.lobbyrestaurant.com 802.989.7463

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IN THE HEART OF VERGENNES

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COMFORTABLE PUB FARE

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OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK • 802.877.9962 161 Main Street • Vergennes, VT • www.parksqueeze.com

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THE

BLACK SHEEP BISTRO Great food • Casual atmosphere • Exceptional value

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o GIFT CERTIFICATES ALWAYS AVAILABLE Your cozy table awaits...

Call ahead to make your reservation.

253 Main Street • Vergennes, Vermont • 802-877-9991 blacksheepbistrovt.com

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The Waybury Inn is always delighted to welcome the public for breakfast, dinner, Sunday brunch, plus Friday and Saturday lunch.

Dine in the beautifully renovated Pine Room. Lunch on the patio or enclosed porches, or step into our cozy Pub. Reasonably priced Sunday brunch is a delectable array of everything you might want to savor – including craft cocktails should you wish. Make your reservation today; walk-ins welcome!

FRIDAY & SATURDAY LUNCHES include:

SUNDAY BRUNCH BUFFET includes:

NIGHTLY DINNERS include:

Shrimp, smoked salmon, cheese omelettes, quiche, stuffed French toast, fresh fruit, delectable meats, roasted potatoes, caesar salad plus pasta and rice salads, rolls & scones. Dessert table: cookies, fresh baked pies & cakes, creme brûlée, and much more!

Shrimp & artichoke gratin, nachos, oysters, calamari; Seasonal soups, clam chowder; Salads galore; Burgers & sandwiches served with home-made waffle chips & coleslaw.

Creative appetizers, salads & soups galore! Filet Mignon & NY Strips; rack of lamb & venison au poivre; Rainbow trout, sea scallops & salmon; Pastas; Veggie & vegan delights; Burgers & sandwiches; Amazing desserts!

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BREAKFAST includes:

Buttermilk pancakes with fresh Vermont Maple Syrup, choices of ham, sausage, bacon; Maple Meadow eggs cooked to order; English breakfast sandwich with egg and prosciutto; smoked salmon salad; fruits and cereals, and more!

All dishes subject to change based on our desire to serve you the finest and freshest local ingredients! Specials and special requests!

JOIN US FOR THE FINEST VERMONT HOSPITALITY AT THE WAYBURY INN

Call today for info and a reservation (walk-ins welcome)!

802-388-4015 or 800-348-1810• 457 East Main St., East Middlebury

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We’re Kid & Pet Friendly Special Pet Menu!

For an authentic American dining experience – come by the A&W!

A Few Menu Favorites

BIG BURGER

32

Cyan Magenta Yellow Black

Bacon, cheddar, grilled onions & mushrooms, lettuce, tomato & mayo

CLASSIC GRILLED DOGS Coney Chili Cheese Dog Michigan Dog

The Last Carhop in the State of Vermont

RT 7 South • Middlebury 802-388-2876

Sat - Thur 11:30am - 8pm • Fri - Sat 11:30 am - 9pm Located just south of Middlebury on Route 7, Middlebury’s A&W is the last one in Vermont!

Classic Sides Cheddar Cheese Curds Onion Rings

Dinner Specialties Fried Chicken Uncle Sal’s Chicken Wings Breaded Shrimp Fried Clams

Classic Root Beer Float ORIGINAL

BACON DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER

Monday Night

Bike Night 2 or 3 wheels

FREE RB FLOAT!

Tuesday Night

Classic Car Night FREE RB FLOAT! w/classic car

Prices subject to change