Monday, June 17, 2019

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MONDAY EDITION

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT Vol. 31 No. 5

See some special pets

• The winners are in! See photos from our Animal Families Pet Contest on Pages 19-22.

Middlebury, Vermont

8-year-old local artist earns statewide honor By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Eightyear-old Daisy Madden was drawing before she could walk. Her mom, Meg, has marveled at the way she can

pick up a crayon or marker and spontaneously draw whatever comes to mind. Her artistic abilities aren’t being exaggerated by a (See Madden, Page 28)

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Mary Johnson is hopeful about city childcare plans By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — A longawaited childcare center in Vergennes in Armory Lane that could provide care for up to 40 children, including infants, could

be built within the next few years, the Vergennes City Council was told last week. Barbara Saunders, executive director of Middlebury’s Mary (See Childcare, Page 29)

World Cup inspires girls

• Young women and their families are among those entranced by the U.S. national team. See Page 24.

Starksboro-style shopping

A SATISFIED CUSTOMER leaves with a plant she purchased at the Jerusalem schoolhouse flea market in South Starksboro on Friday. A group that hopes to restore the 145-year-old building staged the flea market as a fundraiser. See more photos and a story on Page 30.

Independent photo/Steve James

Play catalogs life’s beauties

• Aly Perry will enumerate reasons to live during three performances in Middlebury. See Arts Beat, Pages 10-14.

OV plans for fewer students

After 18 months of meetings, plan of action unveiled By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — After holding 27 meetings since January of 2018, and sifting through 90 pages of district data, the Otter Valley Unified Union (OVUU) Planning Task Force has come up with a road map for future planning in the school district that includes Brandon, Leicester, Whiting, Goshen, Sudbury and Pittsford. Faced with continuing decline in the number of students, the task force settled on identifying triggers that would prompt changes to be made in

the makeup of the school district. Among those triggers are the current and projected enrollments in the schools, budgetary limitations the district may face and legislation that may be handed down from Montpelier. “We are proposing a series of actions that the board can take, some immediate and some farther down the road,” task force communications consultant Alyson Popa said at a June 5 meeting of the OVUU board at the Neshobe Elementary (See Brandon-area schools, Page 16)

Bristol town leaders take a road trip By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — Late Thursday afternoon, aboard a yellow Bet-Cha Transit bus traveling 35 mph in the northbound lane of Burpee Road, with George Michael singing “Wake me up (See Bristol, Page 17)


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