Thursday, June 28, 2018

On the fence

4th Foodaroo

Fight to return

Artists and students are sprucing up the downtown Middlebury construction site. See Arts+Leisure.

Food trucks and entertainment satisfied the masses at Sunday’s festival. See Page 10A.

After injury, an athlete worked throughout a tough senior year to get back in action. See Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 72 No. 26

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

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Thursday, June 28, 2018  42 Pages

Middlebury eyes 2020 tax holidays

Infant care in county gets boost from grant

Boost for merchants sought during rail project

By JOHN FLOWERS waived at all Middlebury businesses, MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury according to a proposal drafted by officials will lobby the Legislature Neighbors Together, a local group for a series of tax holidays during the formed to rally support for the summer of 2020 to provide a boost downtown during the anticipated to downtown merchants three-years rail bridges during what’s expected “There will project. Workers this to be the most disruptive spring began drilling be economic period of the major rail a drainage system to hardship during serve the downtown rail bridges project.

The Middlebury the peak of bed. selectboard on Tuesday the railroad Middlebury, for its unanimously authorized construction part, would be asked to a local citizens’ group project and (a waive its own 1-percent to seek community and local option taxes on legislative support for tax holiday) is sales, rooms and meals what would be four tax a clever idea during the tax holidays. holidays of four days to offer an The town uses that local each (Thursday through incentive for option tax revenue to Sunday) during a 10- people to come pay down debt on the week period in 2020 Cross Street Bridge. into town.” of intense construction “We’ve been looking on a concrete tunnel to — Rep. Fred Baser for ideas like this,” said replace the Main Street Middlebury selectboard and Merchants Row rail overpasses. Chairman Brian Carpenter. “I don’t During each of the four holiday see a reason why we shouldn’t periods, the state’s sales tax (on endorse the activities Neighbors purchases of up to $2,000) and Together is doing to try and put a rooms and meals tax would be (See Middlebury, Page 15A)

MJCC to help relieve a ‘crisis’ shortage in spaces for babies

By RACHEL COHEN MIDDLEBURY — Mary Johnson Children’s Center will soon be able to open its doors to infants thanks to a $24,000 grant from Vermont Birth to Five’s “Make Way for Kids” program.

In 2018, Vermont Birth to Five, a program of the Permanent Fund for Vermont’s Children, began its initiative to create 500 new high-quality childcare spaces across the state every year until 2025.

A 2018 study conducted by Let’s Grow Kids, the advocacy project of the Permanent Fund, found that 51 percent of infants and toddlers in Vermont likely to (See Infant care, Page 13A)

Police anxious about pot law enforcement

By JAMES FINN and referendum. And because NICK GARBER of the compromises ADDISON COUNTY inherent to the legislative — Possession of a small process, Vermont’s form amount of marijuana will of legalization is more become legal in Vermont limited than those of this Sunday, July 1, and other states. The result, as the date approaches, according to local officials, local law enforcement is essentially an awkward officials are expressing stepping stone on the road continued concerns about to a fully regulated and ambiguities in the new taxed marijuana market.

MERKEL law that could make “I would anticipate enforcement and prosecution more that this is just a trial balloon, and difficult. that we’ll be looking at full-scale The law, Act 86, was passed by the legalization with a regulated legislature and signed by Gov. Phil marketplace in the next couple of Scott in January. Vermont is the ninth years,” said Addison County State’s state to legalize marijuana, but the Attorney Dennis Wygmans. first to pass legalization through the In the meantime, however, legislature, rather than by a statewide (See Marijuana, Page 11A)

Local mom strugges to find childcare

CHILDREN AT MARY Johnson Children’s Center sit on the steps of a small outbuilding on the center’s Middlebury campus. Mary Johnson will use money from a “Make Way for Kids” grant to convert the building for use as an infant care facility, which is badly needed in Addison County.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Start-up business seeks to simplify health care

National trail may soon be extended through area

By NICK GARBER ADDISON COUNTY — Ambitious local hikers may soon have a big new opportunity lying right in their backyards. The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously passed legislation that would officially extend the North Country National Scenic Trail from Crown Point, N.Y., into Addison County, Vt. The 4,600-mile North Country Trail was federally recognized in 1980, and currently runs through seven states from North Dakota to New York. Original plans for the trail called for it to continue all the way to Maine, but opposition from Vermonters who feared an influx of backpackers into the Green Mountain State halted the trail at the New York state line.

Now, it seems, such opposition has all but disappeared. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., co-authored the bill that was OK’d June 5. If passed by the Senate and signed by President Trump, it would fulfill the original dream for the trail. The bill would fund the connection of the North Country Trail to the Long Trail, which links to the Appalachian (See Trail, Page 12A)

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Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of profiles of new businesses launching through the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, a business incubator in Middlebury.

By RACHEL COHEN MIDDLEBURY — You know the drill. You feel sick or notice something might not be quite right and you go to the doctor. You receive your treatment, maybe a prescription, and then you may start to feel better, or you may not.

But what if your doctor was held accountable for your health outcomes?

Well, across the country, insurers are changing the way they pay doctors for delivering health services. Many are moving from a fee-for-service model, which emphasizes quantity of care, to a value-based model, which

emphasizes quality of care with an increased focus on prevention and outcome monitoring.

Value-based care sounds exemplary (who wouldn’t want health care centered around quality?), but it often presents challenges for providers.

That’s where Nick Lovejoy and Chris Eberly, co-founders of Staple Health, come in.

“Providers are now taking on greater risk for their patients,” Lovejoy said of the value-based models. Providers’ pay and bonusstructure is, in part, determined by their patients’ health outcomes under a value-based model.

“We help them by combining clinical and social determinants of health data to create predictive (See Staple Health, Page 15A)

City council gets creative, holds tax hike to 2.5 cents MIDDLEBURY AREA LAND Trust’s John Derrick and Jamie Montague pose on the Boathouse Bridge at Belden Falls on the Weybridge/New Haven town line. This section of MALT’s Trail Around Middlebury will serve as part of the North Country Trail, a hiking trail that stretches from North Dakota to New York, and may soon cross Vermont and continue to Maine.

Courtesy photo

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — After debate and a strong plea for more office help from City Clerk Joan Devine, the Vergennes City Council on Tuesday settled on a new budget and a 2.5cent increase in the municipal tax rate to 83.5 cents.

That change will translate to $25 in additional taxes per $100,000 of

assessed value on city property.

Devine and Assistant Clerk Melissa Wright said on Wednesday they expect to hear from the Agency of Education and the Department of Taxation early next week about the city’s final school tax rates.

Addison Northwest School District officials this winter estimated their (See Vergennes, Page 12A)

By RACHEL COHEN ADDISON COUNTY — You might imagine that securing childcare in New York City is especially challenging; after all, this is the world where you need a preschool admissions coach to get your young one into a “Baby Ivy.” Yet, Michelle Leftheris, a new assistant professor of studio art at Middlebury College who hails from Brooklyn, N.Y., is certain she would have been able to find childcare for her young daughter in the borough, but she has not been able to find it here in Addison County.

(See Search, Page 13A)

By the way Addison County veterans were among several honored and/or promoted to leadership positions during the American Legion Department of Vermont 99th Annual Convention held in Rutland on June 22-23, during which Legion members from 36 posts throughout Vermont helped conduct the organization’s business. Bristol Post 19’s Ronald LaRose was elected to the position of Senior Vice Commander.

Awardees included Middlebury Post 27’s Tom Scanlon, who was named “County Commander (See By the way, Page 12A)

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PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, June 28, 2018

Porter programs help residents quit tobacco products PMC invests $750K annually to keep population healthy

By JOHN FLOWERS groups, but was intrigued by an ad MIDDLEBURY — Randy Bige- he saw for a Porter Medical Center low in 1981 began smoking fancy smoking cessation course titled “A Turkish cigarettes to get into the Fresh Start.” good graces of a young “I wasn’t a fan of woman who enjoyed sitting in a group the same brand. He singing ‘Kumbaya,’” would move on from he said. “But I saw the that romantic interest ad and I said, ‘If I’m and consequently her not going to do this by expensive brand of cigmyself, I need to get arettes. He switched to together with a group. less costly Marlboros.

People behave differCheaper, but equally ently when they’re in a deadly and addictive. group, and that was the Early this past winter, key.”

Bigelow was smoking So late last year he between three and four joined Porter’s fivepacks of cigarettes week course, which per day. Health conwill be known as the “Imagine a sequences aside, the “Let’s Quit!” program nasty habit was costing world where the when it resumes this him around $150 per interests of our August.

Beginning week. local health care the first Wednesday Staring down the system align of each month, parbarrel of serious perfectly with ticipants will meet for medical problems and around five weekly potential financial the interests of sessions for 60 to 90 ruin, Bigelow knew the community minutes under the he needed to leave we serve.” leadership of a trained — PMC President tobacco treatment spetobacco in his rearview Dr. Fred Kniffin cialist. The program mirror.

Easier said than assists anyone addicted done. to tobacco, whether they smoke or He had tried a smoking cessation chew. drug called Chantix a few years ago, Participants are not judged and but stopped taking it when the pills can come in with varying goals, didn’t quickly curb his addiction to whether it’s to scale back their tonicotine. bacco consumption or kick the habit He was skeptical about support altogether. In addition to being given

Middlebury plants seeds for downtown block party

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — In addition to supporting a local tax holiday during the peak of construction during the downtown rail bridge replacement (See story on Page 1A), the Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday also backed a plan aimed at giving a bump to local merchants by bring more green downtown.

The panel OK’d a second annual “block party” on Wednesday, Aug. 15, that will close off a portion of Main Street for a series of family-friendly activities and extended shopping hours from 5 to 8 p.m.

The event will follow the same pattern as last year’s downtown block party, but with a major new twist: Sod will be laid on the closed portion of Main Street to create a temporary green space as a way of promoting outdoor play for children and families.

Organizers are calling it the “Green Street Challenge,” part of a North American program called “Come Alive Outside.” Rutland has participated in the Green Street Challenge; it’s already garnered

a substantial following among Canadian cities. Its main mission is to get people to live healthier lives outdoors. Ten Canadian cities and three U.S. communities hosted the Green Street Challenge last year.

Karen Duguay, a member of the Neighbors Together community group, and Come Alive Outside Coordinator Andy Paluch said a landscaper has agreed to provide the sod for free. The town will look for volunteers to help put down the sod and pick it up. Public works officials have offered a street sweeper to clean up the area after the event. Duguay estimated Main Street would be closed from 2 to 10 p.m. for the Aug. 15 block party, which includes set up and clean up time.

The block party will encompass Main Street from its intersection with Merchants Row, to just north of Bakery Lane.

The Independent will report more details on the block party and the Green Street Challenge as the event draws closer.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonidependent.com.

helpful tobacco cessation tips amidst others in the same boat, attendees can also access free medication and treatment to aid them in their quest to quit.

Bigelow decided this would be the time he’d send the Marlboro man riding off into the sunset. He again went on Chantix and, thanks to support from fellow “Fresh Start” participants and the tutelage of PMC Tobacco Treatment Specialist Jessica Stocker, he stopped smoking in January.

“There’s no impact when you break a promise to yourself, but there’s greater impact when you’re with a group and you make a commitment,” Bigelow said. “Then you are answerable to the group, and that’s a very strong bond.”

NEW APPROACH Porter officials said the new emphasis on tobacco cessation programming is part of a paradigm shift in the way health care is being provided in Vermont and nationally.

It’s no longer in a hospital’s best financial interest to see a lot of patients needing acute medical care.

Hospitals are now receiving incentives to keep their client population as healthy as possible.

That principle is ingrained in Vermont’s Blueprint for Health, a statewide effort to produce better health care services, a healthier population, and better control over medical care costs. Therefore hospitals like Porter have been ramping up programs and

PORTER MEDICAL CENTER in August will launch a new series of classes aimed at weaning Addison County residents off of tobacco products. Porter Tobacco Treatment Specialist Jessica Stocker, right, will lead the “Let’s Quit!” program. Michele Butler, left, Porter’s Chronic Disease Self-Management Program coordinator, was also instrumental in setting up the program.

Photo credit/Ron Hallman

services to steer people away from bad habits and dietary pitfalls so they’re less likely to need expensive, invasive procedures and long hospital stays later in life.

“Imagine a world where the interests of our local health care system

align perfectly with the interests of the community we serve,” said PMC President Dr. Fred Kniffin.

“Imagine a system of reimbursement which rewards Porter for working with our community to work with you to attain the best health possible.

This is where we are heading. Porter is receiving a broadening amount of our revenue in fixed payments, creating ever increasing incentives to: focus on the health of our community; to invest in wellness; to align (See Tobacco, Page 7A)

Longtime Middlebury assessor to step down Benton makes transition during reappraisal

By JOHN FLOWERS retire as soon as it’s over.”

MIDDLEBURY — Point to a He believes Joseph is equal to house on a map of Middlebury the task. and town Assessor Bill Benton “She’s very fair, has a great decan probably tell you not only meanor and is good at talking with how much the structure is worth, people,” Benton said. but approximately when it was Benton, 62, has been an appraisbuilt. He’s gathered that kind of er since 1981, when he hung out encyclopedic knowledge by being his “W.D. Benton Inc. Appraisers” smart and passionate about a job shingle in Vergennes. he’s held for three decades.

He’s done appraisal work excluWell, Middlebury is going to sively in Addison County, and has have to nurture another property an amazing knowledge of propervaluation encyclopeties in Bristol, Middia. dlebury, Vergennes “I view my Benton officially and many of the wraps up his duties role as doing smaller communities. as town assessor on the ground Middlebury hired June 29 and will be work and Benton as its assessor passing the baton to the numbers back in 1988. A town his current assistant, crunching, but assessor is a paid Alison Joseph. professional charged when it comes He’s doing it in the with assigning valuamidst of a two-year, to any appeals, tions to real property townwide reappraisal then I rely on in a community for of all properties in the board of tax purposes. The Middlebury, which listers to make assessor also overwill give Joseph some those decisions.” sees reappraisals and hands-on experience maintains the grand — Bill Benton dealing with one of list, which is the list the biggest responsiof the value of all bilities for a municipal assessor. property in town. He or she is asked “What I thought would be im- to appraise new homes, property portant was to have an opportunity improvements and do research on to step away and have a new asses- appeals each year. sor be a part of this reappraisal so Most communities have a board that when it goes public a year from of listers. Middlebury has for years now, (she) will have understood had a paid assessor and a board of the entire process and had a year listers. to assimilate to it,” Benton said. “I “I view my role as doing the will be around if they need me. But ground work and the numbers I thought it would be better to have crunching, but when it comes to someone who was coming in new any appeals, then I rely on the board to be a major part of the process, of listers to make those decisions.” rather than have me do it and then (See Benton, Page 3A)

MIDDLEBURY TOWN ASSESSOR Bill Benton, who for three decades has overseen the valuation of real estate in town for tax purposes, will step down from the job at the end of this week.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 28, 2018 — PAGE 3A

Bristol parade spotlights musicals

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — A week before Bristol’s annual Fourth of July parade the hills are alive with the sound of music.

And sawing and hammering and painting.

Inspired by this year’s parade theme — Broadway musicals — several area groups are hard at work creating parade floats.

This year’s participants include both veterans and first-timers.

For example, Pocock Entertainment has been creating July 4 parade floats since the 1970s.

Pocock Entertainment committee members develop their projects under a cloak of secrecy, and they take it very seriously.

“We begin planning in April, and by the end of May we begin to build it,” said a committee member, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

“We build it, then take it apart, bring it to town by 8 a.m., then reassemble it. We like keeping it a surprise until the last minute.”

People — especially the Independent — should not attempt to locate the group’s worksite in order to photograph their float, the source said. There might be “consequences.”

The source emphasized that, above all, Pocock Entertainment hopes people will enjoy their float and be entertained by it.

Zeno Mountain Farm, a summer program for children and adults of

Bristol’s Fourth of July

After food and music and fireworks at the Bristol Recreation Park on Tuesday evening, Fourth of July celebrations in Bristol get under way early Wednesday. A 5-kilometer road race at 7:30 a.m. will be followed by the famed Great Bristol Outhouse Race at 9 a.m. on West Street.

The parade kicks off at 10:30 a.m., followed by food and entertainment on the town green.

various abilities, has brought floats to the Bristol parade for a decade, but this one is special.

“We put on a show at Zeno every year, so Broadway is right up our alley,” said Zeno co-founder Peter Halby.

Zeno Mountain’s summer gathering begins this Saturday with the arrival of more than 70 friends and guests. Among the group’s first order of business will be deciding which four or five Broadway musicals to highlight.

“There will be dancing and choreography,” Halby said. “We’ll cruise the thrift stores to find costumes. We like to go big and do things beautifully.”

Because Zeno’s team members have a shorter window to work this year, they’ll probably be painting and adding the finishing touches right up until the morning of the parade.

The Fall Musical program at Mount Abraham Union High School is making its parade debut this year.

“This was a theme we couldn’t ignore,” said program co-director and float organizer Jennifer Allred.

At this year’s parade spectators can expect a preview of the program’s 2018 production, the smash Broadway hit “Newsies.”

Following a horse-drawn cart driven by Pat Palmer and Linda Malzac, about 20 kids in turn-ofthe-century caps and vests (the work of costumer Joanne Stetson) will distribute their “wares” along the parade route.

Cub Scout Pack 543 is also getting in on the action.

“We are doing a spin-off on the Broadway musical ‘School of Rock,’ except we are crossing out the ‘School’ and replacing it with ‘Scouts,’” said organizer Kristi Mount. “The boys will still wear their Scout uniforms, but we’ll add some cool sunglasses, guitars, microphones, maybe a drum set and keyboard or two. It’s a very popular event for us and we tend to get a lot of Pack participation.”

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent. com.

Benton a settlement.”

(Continued from Page 2B) In 2014, Woodchuck Hard Cider If a property owner is dissatisfied with the listers’ appraisal decision Co. appealed the town’s $8,895,000 on an appeal, he or she can take assessment of its new Exchange case to the town’s board of civil Street cidery. Company officials authority. If the property owner still had countered with a valuation of feels aggrieved, he or she may ap- $3.6 million. The two sides eventupeal the matter to Vermont Superior ally agreed to an assessment at $7.5 Court, and ultimately to the state’s million.

“I enjoy that part of it; it’s Supreme Court.

Middlebury last conducted a interesting,” Benton said of the townwide reappraisal in 2005. The back-and-forth and homework for state requires communities to per- assessment appeals.

The New England Municipal form townwide reappraisals when Resource Corp. its common level of (NEMRC) during appraisal (CLA) falls the coming months below 80 percent. If “It was a will inspect all 2,744 grand list values are pleasure Middlebury parcels to generally less than sale working with assign values to new prices for the recent all the various structures and existing sales, the town will end up with a CLA less than boards of listers ones that have been improved or have de100 percent. If grand over the years. teriorated. Benton is list values are generally They were all overseeing the project more than sale prices very thoughtful and going over the for the recent sales, the with their many numbers that town will end up with a deliberations are pouring into his CLA of more than 100 office. percent. Once the CLA and a joy to As of this writing, is determined, it is used work with.”

NEMRC appraisers to adjust the homestead — Bill Benton had visited roughly and non-residential one-third of the propeducation tax rates.

In essence, reappraisals are done erties in the community, largely in to set a fair market value that en- East Middlebury and the Route 116 sures every property owner is taxed corridor. They are working their for only their fair share of the town way toward the village, then it’s and school budget, no more and no on to the northeast section of town before concluding the project with less. a review of Middlebury College’s BIG APPRAISAL APPEALS This is the third Middlebury taxable properties. Benton believes reappraisal during Benton’s 30-year the appraisers will conclude their tenure as town assessor. He has work next spring and begin to helped the town build its case in release results in May. Meanwhile, inspectors are touchtwo the biggest property valuation ing base with property owners to appeals in Middlebury’s history.

In 2012, owners of the Lodge get access to buildings. If no one at Otter Creek (now known as is home, NEMRC officials leave the “Residence at Otter Creek”) postcard reminders. If multiple disputed the town’s assessment scheduling attempts prove fruitless, of the retirement community at the inspectors make their best esti$19,950,000. Lodge owners had mates based on the exterior of the placed the number at $11,276,900. building and past assessments.

“We’re hoping to get into as many Lodge officials took their case to Addison County Superior Court houses as we can,” Benton said.

While he’ll be stepping down as after failing to strike a compromise with the Middlebury Board of Civil town assessor, Benton will not be Authority. But the town and Lodge disappearing from Middlebury or continued to talk, and struck an any of the other Addison County accord with a $17 million valuation. communities in which he has either “We came very close to going to conducted, overseen or verified court,” Benton said of the Lodge appraisals. He will continue to opappeal. “We spent months and erate the Vergennes office that bears months with depositions and inter- his name. Leaving the Middlebury rogatories and we finally mediated assessor position will actually

CORRECTION: Our June 25 story about Potato Hill Park in Lincoln we misattributed the designer of part of the project. Like the rest of the park, the older children’s custom play structure with natural

components, multiple levels and inspiration for both imaginative and rigorous play was designed by landscape architect Deina Olstad.

We regret the error.

CORRECTION: We published the correct day for the Sheldon Museum’s Vermont Pops Concert in this past Monday’s newspaper story — Monday, July 2, 5:30 p.m. on the lawn behind the Mahaney

Center for the Arts at Middlebury College — but we had the wrong day and date in a caption for a photo that accompanied the story. So there is no confusion: It is this coming Monday. We’re sorry for the error.

CORRECTION: Our June 21 story on Vergennes Union High School graduation incorrectly noted only one senior earned high honors and belonged to all of the National Honor Society, the National Technical Honor Society, and

the National Arts Honor Society.

Graduate Lillian Clark also earned all four of those distinctions. The Independent apologizes for the oversight and offers her congratulations for her accomplishments.

free Benton up to do more private appraisal work in the county’s shire town, work that he has historically declined in order to avoid potential conflict of interest situations.

He also vowed to remain at the town’s disposal during the coming months to help out his successor during this latest reappraisal of townwide properties.

Benton said he has greatly enjoyed his experiences in Middlebury.

“It was a pleasure working with all the various boards of listers over the years,” Benton said. “They were all very thoughtful with their deliberations and a joy to work with.”

Benton credited Middlebury residents for being knowledgeable about the appraisal process, “The people of Middlebury have been very easy to work with, respectful and intelligent,” Benton said.

Still, he’s come to a point when he’d like a little less work on his plate.

“I love what I do, but I would like to be able to have a little more flexibility,” Benton.

For example, he and his family would like more time to travel, which can be difficult when working on a string of assessments that often come with deadlines.

“I can take a week off, but I can’t take a month off,” Benton lamented.

Middlebury Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay said Benton will be missed.

“The town of Middlebury has been very fortunate to have Bill Benton as its town assessor for so many years,” she said. “Bill’s background in residential and commercial, knowledge of municipal assessing, understanding of the Addison County real estate market and congenial, professional approach combined to create a top-notch assessing office for the town.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Puttin’ on a show

STUDENTS FROM THE Middlebury Community Music Center Musical Arts Camp perform their show “What a Tangled Web We Weave” at the end of their summer camp last Friday morning.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

FDA backs off maple labeling rule

By NICK GARBER VERMONT — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is backing down from a proposal that would have required producers of maple sugar and honey to label their products as containing “added sugars.”

This followed vocal opposition from 20 members of Congress and over 3,000 concerned citizens who submitted public comments to the FDA. The controversial plan had enraged sugarmakers across the country — and especially in Vermont, the nation’s biggest source of maple products. As part of the FDA’s quest to better inform consumers of their sugar intake, the agency used a definition of “added sugars” that would have included even sugars that arise naturally as food is processed.

But last week, the controversy appeared to end abruptly, as the FDA announced the outpouring of opposition would lead it to consider a “revised approach.”

Just how opposed were Vermonters? If the public comments viewable online are any indication, the answer is extremely.

Art Remick, who runs a computer assistance shop in Shoreham, was among the thousands of commenters.

“As a member of a Vermont family that has been producing 100 percent Pure Vermont Maple Syrup and 100 percent Pure Vermont Maple Sugar for over four generations, I am outraged that the FDA, or for that matter any government entity, would or could be so ignorant as to dream up this type of labeling idea, much less require it,” he wrote in a comment to the agency.

“To ask Vermont Maple producers to put anything on their product label that would insinuate that they were making anything other than 100 percent Pure Vermont Maple Syrup or Sugar is insulting to the Maple Producers and misleading to the people to whom they are selling their products.”

Blake Harrison, the orchard manager at Kent Ridge Orchards in Cornwall, couldn’t believe what he was reading.

“I cannot understand the logic behind using the word ‘added’ to products made from naturally occurring sugars that do not have sugar added to them,” he wrote. “That seems akin to putting the words ‘added water’ on a bottle of water.”

The plan’s dissenters weren’t limited to the maple industry. Kathleen Van De Weert, a dietician in Middlebury, registered her disagreement too.

“I help patients understand and read nutrition labels on a daily basis to inform their food choices for healthful eating,” she wrote. “Myself and other nutrition professionals teach consumers and clients to utilize the ingredients list to identify

added sugar sources. The ingredients for honey and maple syrup are honey and maple syrup, respectively.”

The dispute even reached the halls of Congress: Rep. Peter Welch and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy — Vermont’s entire Congressional delegation — were among the 20 signatories on a June 8 letter to the FDA Commissioner Scott Gottleib, urging him to exempt maple and honey from an “added sugars” labeling.

Two weeks later, the agency seems to be relenting, and Vermonters are expressing their relief. Welch, Sanders and Leahy released a joint statement on Thursday, applauding the FDA’s likely surrender.

“We are glad that the FDA has decided to take into account the thousands of comments from producers, consumers and from us pointing out that an ‘added sugar’ label makes no sense for pure maple syrup,” the statement read.

If the FDA winds up dropping the plan definitively, credit will go not only to those three elected officials, but also to the thousands of furious commenters who took to the web to voice their opposition.

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In Vt. budget standoff, who won what, and who lost?

As Gov. Phil Scott allows Vermont’s fiscal year 2018-19 budget to become law without his signature, it’s natural to question what all the fuss was about and what it means to Vermont residents.

In a nutshell, the fiscal news is mostly good.

It’s good because the budget posted a larger-than-expected surplus of about $55 million. The surplus, contrary to Gov. Scott’s attempts to claim credit for it, has much more to do with a world and national economy hitting on all cylinders than anything Scott (or President Trump) have done.

Nonetheless, the Democratic-led Legislature wanted to use the bulk of that surplus to buy-down debt on the teachers’ pension fund, saving Vermonters a guaranteed $100 million over 20 or so years, and to slightly increase the non-residential property tax to pay for the expenses to which the government was obligated. Gov. Scott wanted to use $40 million of the surplus to buy down the property tax increase, and postpone raising taxes for education until the following year—a move that would automatically leave the Legislature with a projected $40-$50 million shortfall at the beginning of the next fiscal year. That shortfall, if the state did not see surplus funds next year, would mean taxes would increase exponentially to make up for the annual increase plus the deferred $40 million — a somewhat risky and irresponsible way to fund education spending that was approved by voters at Town Meeting all across Vermont.

Gov. Scott, when he was Lt. Gov., advocated against using one-time funds for precisely this purpose, as did most Republicans in the Legislature.

The Democratically led Senate, on the other hand, compromised with the governor to keep the residential property tax rate flat using $20 million in one-time funds from the surplus, plus the budget bill creates a statewide teacher health benefit and sets up a task force to study how to reduce staffto-student ratios at PreK-12 public schools. The budget also allows about $4 million to buy down some of the tax increase for the non-residential and business category of property tax for the coming year, though that rate will still increase by 4.5 cents. About a third of nonresidential tax revenue, which is assessed on properties like second homes and small businesses, comes from Vermonters, while the other two-thirds come from out-of-state property owners. ********* The political ramifications, on the other hand, are mixed. Gov. Scott and his chief of staff Jason Gibbs have come under deserved criticism for their last-minute exploits to hold the budget process hostage to a take-it or leaveit ultimatum by the administration. They also deserve criticism for creating an increasingly hostile and partisan atmosphere in Vermont politics, something we didn’t expect from Gov. Scott and his team.

On a governance front, it’s less civil than when Gov. Scott came to office, but all is not lost. Ultimately, Scott backed off his high-stakes gambit; he accepted the Senate budget proposal that was backed by a unanimous Senate (Republicans and Democrats supported it and thought the governor should as well); and each side has their talking points for the campaign season ahead. Scott will run on his efforts to hold down school taxes (albeit with one-time funds that can’t be depended on going forward), and Democrats will champion their fiscal integrity, good governance and willingness to compromise.

But Gov. Scott also loses the belief that he would be an honest broker. On the contrary, he has twice held the budget hostage on needless last-minute shenanigans, reversed his position on gun rights (to his credit, but it’s a grave affront to gun rights advocates), and he has still not taken the lead on a substantive issue to the point that he’s become a candidate without a credible agenda to take the state forward.

And if he keeps practicing the art of contentious, partisan politics, he’ll lose his image as a nice guy (if he hasn’t already) as well. That’s a lot to lose in the past year and a half.

Angelo Lynn

Childcare beats $10,000 gift If Vermont and towns like Middlebury, Bristol, Vergennes and others throughout Addison County want to attract young entrepreneurs, professionals, skilled laborers and their families, they should heed the warning of Michelle Leftheris, a native of Brooklyn. N.Y., who moved to Middlebury last year as an assistant professor at Middlebury College. Her warning reflects her struggle to find adequate childcare for her young daughter.

Forget the state’s initiative to attract newcomers to the state with a $10,000 incentive to move, she says, if the state fails to meet reasonable expectations for childcare facilities.

“I wouldn’t recommend friends with kids to come here,” she told us in an interview in today’s paper (see Page 1A), and with good reason.

For the past year she and her husband have sought accredited childcare for their now two-and-half year old daughter, only to be disappointed with the lack of available openings. They are not alone. In a recent statewide study done earlier this year, the report found that in Addison County 67 percent of infants and 55 percent of toddlers likely to need care outside the home don’t have access to any regulated facilities, and 87 percent of infants and 70 percent of toddlers don’t have access to high-quality (4 or 5 star) programs.

That’s shockingly bad and a serious detriment to attracting new jobs and young people and families to our communities.

Gov. Phil Scott has given lip service to this issue through his repeated push to increase funding for pre-K and higher education, but only if he can take such funding from existing spending at the preK-12 system. That is, he recognizes the need for additional early childcare funding, but he’s not willing to spell out and fund a program to make it happen. It’s the same with other aspects of his campaign to make Vermont more affordable: it makes a good one-liner during the campaign, but the promise is meaningless if no programs are articulated, vetted in committee, and funded in a thoughtful budget.

And not every fix has to do with increased funding. The fact that supply is high and the market fails to meet that demand suggests that Vermont has imposed regulations that make it difficult, if not impossible, to operate early childcare facilities without significant state subsidies. The state should look at the causes for Vermont’s high childcare costs, compare that to other states, and suggest remedies to reduce regulatory restrictions and bring costs down.

One option might consider the excess capacity in many of the state’s elementary schools. That space could come at little cost if the state made any necessary modifications to existing regulations and perhaps encouraged such use through tax incentives.

Whatever the solution, it’s an issue that demands the state’s full attention, and any creative ideas that Addison County leaders might muster as well. As it is, all the good publicity gained from programs like giving away $10,000 incentives will more than be negated by stories of inadequate childcare that frustrate newcomers who might want to make Vermont their home.

Angelo Lynn

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Overpopulation issue overstated It is surprising — and not so surprising — that Mr. Van Vleck (“Nonprofit helps with pregnancies”, June 21) proposes the false dilemma of aborting children to save them from eventual starvation.

Apparently Yemen and South Sudan need Planned Parenthood more than they need Oxfam.

The specter of overpopulation and lack of resources continues to be repeated, despite evidence to the contrary. China relaxed its one-child policy because it distorted its own demographics; Italy paid ‘baby bonuses’ to stem its demographic slide. On the local level, we read in the Independent how the tiny state of Vermont produces more food and milk than it can collect or sell.

We get to the heart of the matter, in the letter, when Mr. Van Vleck focuses on the third world. Our attempts at cultural competence, however, will be enriched by voices from developing nations.

Nigerian-born Obianuju Ekeocha recently authored “Target Africa: Ideological Neo-Colonialism of the Twenty-first Century,” calling into question wealthy Western donors who are, in essence, re-colonizing Africa.

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Library story was imcomplete Making a splash

AIDAN CHANCE COMPETES in a backstroke event for the Middlebury swim team during Tuesday night’s meet against Burlington Country Club. For more photos and complete results, see Monday’s edition of the Addison Independent.

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U.S. has problems, but also love

Two weeks after I left America for a study abroad program in Sydney, Australia, 14 students and three staff members died in a shooting in Parkland, Fla. Ten thousand miles away in sunny, coastal New South Wales, I saw every media outlet in uproar, broadcasting the news of yet another tragedy. Ten thousand miles away, I felt the tremors of unspeakable anguish rippling out from my hurting homeland. Ten thousand miles away, that was what Australians were hearing about Americans.

I’m currently attending Kirrawee High School, in the Sutherland Shire of Sydney. As a foreigner, I get asked a lot of questions. The first few are usually about Australia, “Do you like Australia? Have you had a Tim Tam?” or “Do you think our accent is funny?” But that’s not what they really want to know, and soon they ask the

By Leeya real questions. “Does everybody have Tudek guns where you’re from? Are you scared of school shootings? Do you have lockdowns and drills for them?”

When people ask me if I am scared at school in America, it is hard to give a straight answer. I go to school with my friends, I know my classmates and teachers and I feel comfortable. Homework and lunch are usually what’s on my mind. That’s reality, but at the same time, the reality is also that students and teachers are dying in America, in an up swinging trend of terror that can’t be ignored.

So what I explain to them is this. As a child, I had two main fears: monsters in my closet, and scary men with guns. At the time, those fears were considered irrational — they were the fears of a silly five-year-old, completely illegitimate.

The problem is that one of them became rational. The

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once childish fear of a random guy shooting me is no longer childish — it aged with me, it grew into an occurrence. It became a fact of our country, one that has taken lives, torn apart families, and shocked communities. My Australian classmates listen raptly, shaking their heads, trying to understand.

They have more questions, too, about America. About gun laws, and black men being shot, about racism and hate, about the KKK, about politics and division, about Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, about the presence of Islamophobia and the building of the wall. So many questions, and I do my best to answer each one.

But at the end of the conversation, when I have satiated their curiosities on the mess that our country is, I also tell them this: America is so full of love. I know this because I have experienced it every day of my life growing up in South Lincoln, Vt. I’ve felt it in the nod of passing hikers on Sunset Cliffs, from the laughter of kids swimming in Garland Bridge, and the shout of teens jumping from the rocks at Bartlett Falls when Mt. Abe lets out in the afternoon. I know it because of the greetings from my neighbor Harriet when I see her at the library, from the warm smiles of the Lincoln General Store’s ever present group of men, and the smells of dinner at my sister’s house on the Gap. I know America is wonderful because of my friend Althea with her wild giggle and how easy it is to talk to her, and all my other lovely friends who live in America.

I am so grateful to all of you, because when people here (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Opportunity for fairer elections missed The Supreme Court recently issued four decisions about gerrymandered legislative districts. Taken together, the rulings are a major disappointment to those hoping that the high court would provide lower federal courts with guidelines showing how state legislatures can violate the Constitution when they draw district maps that make it very difficult for racial or political minorities to win legislative seats approximating their proportion in the population.

In three states, plaintiffs challenged maps drawn

by Republican legislative majorities. In Wisconsin, Republican and Democratic candidates each received 49 percent of the vote cast across all the districts in the state House of Representatives, but Republicans won 61 percent of the seats. In North Carolina, a Republican legislative majority drew a map that enabled GOP candidates to win 71 percent (10 out of 13) of the state’s By Eric L. Davis U.S. House seats with 53 percent of the aggregate vote cast for all House districts in the state.

In Texas, all the maps — for the U.S. House and for both houses of the state legislature — were challenged on grounds that Republican legislators packed African-American and Hispanic voters, who tend to support Democratic candidates, into a small number of districts that Democrats won by overwhelming majorities, in order to maintain majorities of white voters in the remaining districts, most of which were won by Republican candidates.

One of the cases before the Supreme Court involved claims of gerrymandering by Democrats. Republican voters in western Maryland alleged that Democratic

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legislators, and a Democratic governor, drew a congressional district map that dispersed them among several districts, rather than keeping them in a compact district in the state’s western panhandle. This map resulted in the election of Democrats to all eight of Maryland’s U.S. House seats.

In three of the cases — those from Wisconsin, Maryland, and North Carolina — the Supreme Court did not reach a decision on the major question at issue: does partisan gerrymandering violate the Constitution, either the Fourteenth Amendment’s command that states shall not “deny to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws,” or the First Amendment’s protection of the rights of political speech and assembly.

These three cases were sent back to the lower federal courts, either because the evidentiary record was inadequate for Supreme Court review, or because the plaintiffs had not demonstrated, in a particularized and individual way, that they were harmed by every one of the allegedly gerrymandered districts.

In the Texas case, by a vote of five to four, the Supreme Court ruled in an opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito that the challenged districts did not violate the constitutional or statutory rights of minority voters, with the exception of one district in the 150-member Texas House of Representatives. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote a vigorous dissent, noting that constitutional and statutory rights mean nothing if federal courts will not enforce them, and that there was a long record of racially(See Davis, Page 5A)

The recent article on the changes at Bixby Library in Vergennes does not tell the whole story. The article quotes only Jane Spencer and Ed Place in self-congratulatory remarks about these changes. No one from the general public was interviewed for this story, it seems. How do we know that “the five towns really like what they’re seeing here?”

Are there surveys to back that up?

Have the numbers of people coming in the door risen? Are the new computers finding constant use?

I would be interested to know the derivation of that finding.

Changes to keep up with the times are always necessary. I certainly applaud better internal communications systems and improvements to bring Bixby up to fire code and allow better handicap access. Other improvements are also welcome: the growing number of programs, for instance.

Many people (and I know them), however, lament that, for example, the technology changes are being put in place at the expense of what is termed in your article “older books.” The article states: “Eliminating some older books ... did create some pushback in the community, at least at first. ‘We’re open to criticism, and then we’ll explain why,’ Place said. ‘I think once people understand, most of them are good with it.’” It is not that simple. Vast numbers of books were de-accessioned to make room for computers. I would hesitate to name the percentage, but I have been told it was on the order of two-thirds. The “older books” — some of which I call not “old” but “literary classics” — are gone but are not being entirely replaced by newer books. So that statement is a bit disingenuous.

Moreover, as I stated earlier, I know plenty of people who are not “good with it.” Many of us had no idea that the technology changes would have this result.

The article also mentions the offering of e-books and e-magazines. All well and good for those who want to make the shift to computers. (I would ask here: What about the poorer among us who may not have access to technology at home? What about the elderly who may not be familiar with technology or just plain not like it?)

I myself have been to the library to look for a book and have been told that while it is not available at the Bixby, I can “borrow” it for Kindle or even go to one of the partner libraries to get it.

I vastly prefer to read paper after my long day in front of the computer has ended. I also prefer not to have to get in my car and take myself to another library to borrow a book and then get back in my car to return it. I believe that this suggestion was simply a method of diverting me from asking for an interlibrary loan. (Are those requests rising?)

Some library personnel will point to a survey conducted to ask (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, June 28, 2018 — PAGE 5A

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Accel-VT afforded us a foundational understanding of where we are currently as a start-up company, and tools for leveling-up our company as we go forward. The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund provided an amazing curriculum, instructors, access to stakeholders and investors, and a comfortable environment to refine our business model and value proposition. We sincerely thank all of our sponsors, and wholeheartedly recommend any Vermont start-up company participate in future accelerators to test your own assumptions about your business.

Letters to the Editor Citizens must become more involved in national affairs The U.N. Human Rights Council just released a report on Poverty in America.

Some conclusions: In America “40 million live in poverty, 18.5 million in extreme poverty, and 5.3 million live in Third World conditions of absolute poverty.”

The U.S. has the “highest youth poverty rate in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, and the highest infant mortality rates among comparable OECD States.”

Americans “live shorter and sicker lives compared to those living in all other rich democracies, eradicable tropical diseases are increasingly prevalent, and it has the world’s highest incarceration rate, one of the lowest levels of voter registrations in among OECD countries and the highest obesity levels in the developed world.”

And something we all know, “The United States has the highest rate of income inequality among

Western countries.”

These problems did not happen overnight — they have been decades in the making. How has the Trump administration responded to these conditions? The U.N. reports, “The policies pursued over the past year seem deliberately designed to remove basic protections from the poorest, punish those who are not in employment and make even basic health care into a privilege to be earned rather than a right of citizenship.”

Who commissioned this report?

The Trump administration. How did the Trump administration respond?

They withdrew from the Council and the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. said the report was politically motivated and it was “patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America.”

These conditions are not what I, nor, I suspect, most Vermonters, want for our country or our state. I believe only an increased involvement of “we, the people” in our government, our democracy and our

political process will turn around the slow slide America is headed in to become a fully third world country. Prior Democratic and Republican Presidents had it right: “Politics ought to be the parttime profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free men.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower.

“If you have a plan, we want to hear it. Tell your community leaders, your local officials, your governor, and your team in Washington. Believe me, your ideas count. An individual can make a difference.” — George Herbert Walker Bush.

“A government can be no better than the public opinion that sustains it.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt.

I invite you to find as many ways as possible to become involved in our local communities, our state government and our national democracy.

Paul Forlenza Lincoln

the 2018 elections, and probably in 2020 as well. In recent years, the Supreme Court had given hints that it might rule partisan gerrymandering unconstitutional, but this month’s decisions impose rather high procedural and substantive barriers for plaintiffs seeking to make that argument.

In many states, gerrymandered district maps have resulted in very few competitive elections for either

the U.S. House or state legislative seats. In effect, majority party legislators in those states — usually Republicans — have created a situation where the representatives determine who their voters are, rather than the voters determining who their representatives are.

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

returned from the five towns? I will also note that by the time the survey was conducted, for example, the piano in the community room was already on its way out the door.

On its face, that is puzzling if the goal of the survey was truly to take the pulse of the community. It seems that decisions had already been made and were being implemented. The survey itself also never hinted at the full scope of plans to

de-accession. Opinions were not invited.

It would sadly seem that the Bixby has forgotten the etymological derivation of the word library: “Middle English, from Anglo-French librarie, Medieval Latin librarium, from Latin, neuter of librarius of books” (quoting Webster).

Marcia Merryman-Means Vergennes

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) motivated decisions by the Texas Legislature to suppress minority voters’ ability to influence election outcomes in the state.

With the exception of the Maryland case, all of this year’s Supreme Court decisions on legislative districting ended up benefiting Republicans, by leaving in place the allegedly gerrymandered district maps for

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) the five-town residents what they wanted to see at the Bixby. I just happened to be at Shaw’s the day that was being handed out. I and others did not know in advance about that survey. Some of my friends never knew about the survey at all, and so their opinions were not counted. There are 7,812 people in the five towns, using 2016 figures. How many surveys were

Ways (Continued from Page 4A) ask me about my country, I can tell them that America is full of beautiful people. Warm, friendly, adventurous, accepting, loving people.

I’m not trying to tell Australians that America is fine, that everything’s good and we have no problems. We do, and I would never deny it. But I want these people on a different continent, in a different hemisphere, who only read our news and see hate and division, to know more than what tragedies made the headlines that day.

I’m not trying to convince Australians that America is perfect, I’m just making sure they know there’s so much more than what they hear.

There’s you guys. I know that, and now they do, too.

Leeya Tudek is a seventeen-year-old student from South Lincoln. She enjoys painting, writing, and being outdoors, and is currently studying abroad in Australia.

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It has been said many

By VICTOR NUOVO I began this series of essays times that politics is the art of confident that our nation would compromise, although it is mostly long endure, because it could said unknowingly and without always rely upon two institutions meaning. There is, however, a to sustain it, and, when needed, specific meaning that I should to serve as sure means of like to attach to this saying, and it renewal: those institutions are the derives from John Stuart Mill.

Mill, it will be Constitution and the recalled, was a liberal two-party system. and in his politics The former and his social thought prescribes a way of he maintained a managing competing consistent liberal interests and outlook. But he also ambitions through the displayed an openness separation of powers and sympathy with under the rule of the opposite side and law; the latter makes even, as his essay on possible a continual Coleridge shows, an exchange of opinion, ability to speak in its through political behalf and in its voice. debate, seasoned by Liberalism vs Mill defined a constant stream the political art political wit and Conservatism of compromise as wisdom proceeding An essay by a willingness of from opposite opposing parties perspectives, yet Victor Nuovo united in a common Middlebury College to settle for halfmeasures in order to national purpose. professor emeritus achieve a common The attractive of philosophy good that they may force of this common see differently. He purpose, or national added conditions: good, draws the opposing sides together and creates compromise is an acceptable policy a moderating center of discourse so long as there is real progress and opinion that facilitates towards a goal of universal good constructive engagements and so long as the adoption of such between them and thereby ensures measures does not regress. Thus, the continuation of a vital and he believed it would be wrong thoughtful political life, which is to adopt measures that increase essential for any civil society. In the wealth of a nation at the sum, I hoped that by reminding expense of the poorest and least ourselves of this legal and political advantaged among the people, and heritage there would always be a that political reform must always way available to us of ensuring give priority to rectifying injustice political stability, continuity and and removing the worst conditions — for example, the abolition of renewal.

In this hope, I chose my theme. slavery and of inequality.

It is this agreement on a Lately, I have been beset with doubts whether this confidence common goal that makes possible is any longer warranted. Current the establishment of a moderating political discourse on the left and center from which both parties the right not only failed to raise can retain confidence that they are my hopes, rather it plunged them moving forward and not backward, into the depths. Yet I was left with towards greater liberty, not less; a choice: to despair or to reassert towards more equality, not less. my hope. I have chosen the latter.

Now it may be asked, has this Presently, our national political discourse consists of slogans ever been achieved? Or, what is shouted from the extremes, or even more pertinent, has it ever lately, tweeted, or by the use been achieved in this country? of some other variety of the And, if so, is it still possible here auto-erotic social media, rather and now?

It is in search of answers to than calmly voiced hypotheses proceeding from a thoughtful these questions that I intend to begin a new phase in this series center.

The moderating center has of essays. A positive answer to

Middlebury raises town tax rate just a hair

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday approved a new municipal tax rate of 98.36 cents for fiscal year 2019, which begins on July 1 and runs through June 30, 2019.

The new rate represents a bump of 14-tenths of a penny compared to the current rate of 98.22 cents per $100 in property value.

Middlebury Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay is anticipating updated education property tax information from the state of Vermont as soon as June 30. That data will allow

the selectboard to set an overall property tax rate for the community next month.

Middlebury’s current (fiscal year 2018) residential property tax rate is $2.8059 per $100 of assessed value, and its non-residential rate stands at $2.7409.

On March 5, Middlebury voters approved an FY ’19 general fund operating budget of $10,547,426, with $7,331,905 of that to be raised by taxes. Voters also approved the use of $57,484 from the town’s Cross Street Bridge fund surplus to offset the increase in capital expen-

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the first question is requisite for a positive answer to the second, for unless there is a real heritage of principled compromise on which to build, the possibility of achieving it now is nil. Nation building from nothing is always doomed to failure.

What I have written thus far may be taken as preparation for what is to come. What I propose is a plain and accessible account of the political and intellectual history of this nation since its founding. I can claim no originality in recognizing the necessity for this task. What is original is the presentation of this theme in a local newspaper in a small town in in Vermont. ********* The contest of liberal and conservative politics is present from the beginning, for example, and evident in the competing interests of two of this nation’s most prominent founders, Adams and Jefferson, who engaged in the earliest contest of liberal and conservative politics.

But in this upcoming series, which will be selective, I will focus also on other lesser known seminal persons, whose political and intellectual accomplishments have been forgotten. For example, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935), who served as a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court for 30 years. Many took him for a liberal, others considered him a conservative, whereas he was neither. Rather he was a moral pessimist and political realist, so that all three traditions (i.e. conservative, liberal, pessimist) of American political thought converge in him. Holmes is proof of the vitality of our traditions.

He exemplifies an experimental political life. He saw clearly that this nation is an experiment, as are all of its laws and institutions, some of which succeed while just as many fail, after which it is only through calm judgment and resolve that it is possible to proceed.

To be continued.

Postscript: The saying “Politics is the art of compromise” is commonly attributed to the 19th century German politician Otto von Bismarck (1815–98). In fact, he never said it, but something like it, which is also worth noting: “Politics is the art of the possible— the art of the next best.” Bismarck meant something different from what is intended in this essay. For him, the give-and-take of politics was a play of power rather than one of principles, which is what Mill proposed.

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Stacey Ransom, 47,formerly of Ferrisburgh RUTLAND – Stacey Ann (Brace) Ransom, 47, passed away at Rutland Regional Medical Center surrounded by her family on June 19, 2018, as a result of medical complications after years of health issues.

Stacey was born on Jan. 18, 1971, to Sylvia (Kimball) LeClair and Whalen Brace of Vergennes, and was raised along with her five siblings by her mother and beloved stepfather Charles (PeeWee) LeClair in Ferrisburgh. Stacey attended Vergennes Union High School.

Stacey was a free spirit who was loved by many. She enjoyed spending time with her family, her husband Steve, and her dog Karma. Stacey was always up for a joy ride with the radio cranked up, and loved sight seeing around Vermont. She enjoyed hunting for treasures at local sales and sharing her finds with those closest to her. Stacey was a generous soul and would help others in need however she could. Her family will miss her fun-loving nature, her laughter, the wisdom that she shared with them, and the memories she created with them. She will forever be in their hearts.

Stacey was predeceased by her father Whalen Brace, her stepfather Charles LeClair, her sister Mary Walker of Benson, and her sister Cindy Barrows of South Hero.

Stacey is survived by her husband, Steve Ransom and their dog Karma; daughter Amanda Brace and her fiancé Myles Rounds and grandson Charles Rounds of Grand Isle; daughter Tanya Brace and her partner Jack Hopper and granddaughter

Madeline Burns, 94, formerly of Brandon MIDDLEBURY — Madeline B. Burns, 94, formerly of Brandon, died early Saturday morning June 23, 2018, at EastView Terrace in Middlebury.

She was born December 19, 1923 in Springfield, Mass., the daughter of Ralph and Louise (Beedle) Spaulding.

Madeline was a clerical worker in Chittenden Bank for many years and also at Co-Operative Insurance. She was a former member of the New Haven Congregational Church and former member of the Order of Eastern Star in Middlebury and Bristol.

Madeline enjoyed working the Hoffnagle Farm and also traveling to Greece, Europe, Germany, Australia, Turkey, Fiji, New Zealand and Hawaii.

She is survived by her friend

STACEY ANN RANSOM Jacklynn Rose and grandson Robert Jr. of Rutland; son Michael Strong Jr. and his wife Melissa Strong and grandson Odin Dwight Strong of Charlotte; sister Sherry Oullette and her husband Steve Oullette and their three children of Addison; sister Tammy Havens and her husband Edward Havens Sr. and their three children of Brandon; sister Wendy Begnoche and her partner Randal Tourville of South Hero and Wendy’s three children; and mother Sylvia LeClair of Vergennes.

A memorial service will be held at the Ferrisburgh Methodist Church on July 11 at 11 a.m., and an informal gathering to celebrate Stacey’s life will follow in South Hero for family and close friends.◊

and caregiver Beverly Burke of Middlebury, by her daughter-in-law Nancy Shea and her grandchildren, David Osgood, Kevin and Jason Shea.

Madeline was predeceased by her husbands: Earle W. Hoffnagle, who she married in 1946, predeceased her in 1957; her second husband, Francis O’Brien, who she married in 1958, predeceased her in 1979; by her daughters, Susan M. Shea in 2007 and Gail Perry in 1978; also by her brother Richard G. Spaulding; and her son-inlaw Roger Shea.

Graveside services were held in Evergreen Cemetery in New Haven on Wednesday, June 27, 2018.

Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

Michael Drescher, 61, Ferrisburgh FERRISBURGH — Michael J. Drescher, 61, passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by his family in Ferrisburgh, VT, on Monday, June 4, 2018. He was born on June 17, 1956, in Youngstown, Ohio, to Margaret (Modarelli) and Warren Drescher.

He was employed at J Hutchins, Inc. in Richmond as a Chief Estimator/ Sr. Project Manager. He was an avid Vintage Motorcycle Racer and leaves behind many beloved comrades. Michael was a brilliant engineer who enjoyed building motorcycles or tinkering on his projects. He was a very energetic soul who loved hiking, mountain biking and gardening.

He was the kind of man that if you told him he couldn’t do it, he would do it just to prove you wrong.

He leaves his one true love, best friend, soulmate and wife, Sheila R. Tourangeau, and his beloved daughter Andrea Drescher, and his devoted dog Sierra.

He also leaves his mother, Margaret Tompkins; stepmother, Nancy Drescher; sister and brotherin-Law, Christine and Kenny Warde; brother and partner William Drescher and Charlotte Williams; and brother Warren “Pete” Drescher.

Charles Adams, 80, native of Middlebury ELLICOT CITY, Md. — Charles (Chuck) Allen Adams, 80, of Ellicott City, Md., died June 21, 2018.

Born in Middlebury, Vt. to the late Charles and Catherine Adams (nee Allen), Chuck attended Middlebury College and earned his bachelors degree from the University of Vermont. He then earned his master’s at Syracuse University. After a career in Radio and TV, Chuck went from the VT Army National Guard to active duty Army, where he retired as a rank of Major.

Chuck’s military career led him to Ellicott City and after retiring from the military he worked for Baltimore Gas and Electric. He later went on to sell Real Estate full time with his wife. Chuck was an avid train enthusiast and loved spending his summers on the beach in Little Compton, R.I. He is survived by his wife of 28 years, Deborah LaTona Adams (nee Graves); his son Christopher Adams and wife Nicole of Essex Junction, Vt.; son Derek Adams of Georgia, VT; stepsons Thomas LaTona and wife Alix of Ellicott City, Md.; Kenneth LaTona and wife Karen of Granby, Conn.; and Josiah LaTona and wife Vanessa of Sparrows Point, Md. He is also survived by his ten grandchildren Katie, Jake, Christine, Celine, Cheryl, Stephen, Kate, Blaire, Taylor, and Andrea.

A memorial gathering will be held on Saturday, June 30, from 10 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., at the Sterling Ashton Schwab Witzke Funeral Home of Catonsville, Inc., 1630 Edmondson

CHARLES ALLEN ADAMS Ave., Catonsville, MD 21228, where a Memorial Service will immediately follow. Interment will take place in Little Compton, R.I. at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, gifts in memory of Charles Adams may be directed to support Dr. Jeff Meyer’s Cancer Research at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. Please make checks payable to Johns Hopkins University. Please mail gifts with memo indicating gift is in memory of Charles Adams to Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, PO Box 17029 Baltimore, MD 21297-1029.◊

Patricia Elzinga, 57, MICHAEL J. DRESCHER Michael is predeceased by his father, Warren Drescher, and stepfather, Jack “Pepper” Tompkins.

A memorial celebration will be held on Saturday, June 30, at 1 p.m. and will be held at 61 Windy Lane, Vergennes (Ferrisburgh), VT 05491. ◊

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ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Patricia (Pat) Elzinga was called to her heavenly home on May 11, 2018, in Alexandria, Va. Pat was born on July 5, 1960, in Goshen, N.Y., to Garry and Julia (Vander Ploeg) Elzinga. In August of 1966, the family moved to Ferrisburgh, Vt. Pat graduated from Vergennes Union High in 1978, and from Dordt College, in Sioux Center, Iowa, in 1982 with a degree in Agri-Business. She was employed in various capacities, at Georgia-Pacific and FHA/FSA both in Middlebury and St. Albans, Vt. In 2000, she moved to Alexandria, Va., where she has been a senior loan officer with the USDA until her passing.

Although born legally blind, it never defined her. Pat was fiercely independent, and had an uninhibited curiosity that fueled many adventures. She had an unquenchable thirst for knowledge, reading voraciously every day. Her bicycle was a vital part of her life. She traveled

extensively, and was never afraid to try anything new. She was loyal to those she loved.

Pat was predeceased by her parents and her sister, Wanda Holbrook. She is survived by her sisters, Grace Elzinga, Betty (Bert) Dykshoorn, Tena Elzinga, and brother-in-law, Bill Holbrook. Also surviving her are two nieces, Julie (Joseph) Mekhayel and Caitlin Veldkamp; two nephews, Oliver Holbrook and Theo Elzinga; a great nephew, Wyatt Reitz, and two great nieces, Mckenna Reitz and Rowan Mekhayel. She is also survived by several aunts, uncles, and many cousins, friends, and co-workers.

In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Alexandria Presbyterian Church, 2405 Russell Road, Alexandria VA, 22301 or World Renew, 1700 28th St. SE Grand Rapids MI, 49508.

A memorial service will be held at the New Haven United Reformed Church, 1660 Ethan Allen Hwy, on Saturday, July 7, at 11 a.m.◊

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MARIA SUZANNE KANE

Maria Kane, 51, formerly of Middlebury STARKSVILLE, Miss. — Maria Suzanne Kane, 51, lost her courageous battle with colon cancer on June 11, 2018, in Starksville, Miss.

Maria’s birth name was Nam Mi Sun. She was born in Inchon, Korea in 1967 and adopted by Maureen and Frank Kane of Middlebury, in 1977. She grew up in Middlebury and graduated from MUHS in 1987. After high school she worked various jobs, mostly in the restaurant trade managing restaurants in Connecticut, North Carolina and Mississippi.

She leaves behind daughters Alina Davison of New York City and Amanda Davison of Raleigh, N.C. and son Aiden Kane of Calabash, N.C. She is also survived by her parents Frank and Maureen Kane; siblings Patricia Kane Kelley (Jeff) of Middlebury, Michael Kane (Jen) of Bristol, Christopher Kane (Heather) of Weybridge, and Brian Kane (Julie) of Staunton, Va. Further, she leaves behind a large contingent of loving relatives in Connecticut and Ottawa, Canada, as well as many friends throughout the country.

Rest in peace Nam Mi Sun.◊

State budget battle resolved, gov’t shutdown averted Gov. Scott says he won’t veto 3rd budget

By XANDER LANDEN VTDigger.org MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott will let the Legislature’s third attempt at a budget bill become law, he announced Monday night, ending a weeks-long impasse over state spending and the looming threat of a government shutdown.

Scott’s decision to break the budget stalemate assures that Vermont will have a spending package in place

by July 1 — the budget deadline for the next fiscal year — and ends the legislative game of chicken that has played out during a special session that began last month.

“While I do not support raising any tax rates in a year we have a $55 million surplus, this debate has gone as far as it can responsibly go,” Scott said in an emailed statement.

“I’m left with no choice but to allow this bill to become law without my signature. Make no mistake, however, that I will be fighting to address these tax rates, and others, in the future — especially as our economy and our surplus continue to grow,” he said.

The governor’s decision breaks his pledge to hold the line on taxes next year, a stance that led him to veto the first two budgets the Legislature sent to his desk this session.

“I am frustrated, and disappointed for Vermonters, that Democrats in the House and Senate have forced through a non-residential tax rate increase in a year we have a growing surplus,” he said in the statement.

“But, I’m pleased to have achieved about 75 percent of the property tax rate relief I fought for this year, including a second consecutive year of level statewide rates for residential payers.”

The Legislature’s first budget proposal increased property taxes in 2019, the second created the possibility of a nonresidential tax hike, and the third moved about halfway between the Democrats initial position and Scott’s insistence on level rates.

The latest budget proposal was drafted in the Senate and passed in both legislative chambers on Monday. Scott could have signed it, vetoed it, or taken no action and let it automatically pass it into law after

Speaker of the House Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero, said the bill ceded ground to the governor five days. The bill was delivered to on property taxes, while allowing Scott on Monday, and will become lawmakers to make a large investlaw without the governor’s signature ment in paying down retired teachon Saturday, just a day before the ers pension debt, which they say will budget deadline. save taxpayers millions of dollars The bill over 20 years. harnesses $20 “We are not million of surplus so terribly far revenue to buy apart,” Johnson down the resisaid. “The goverdential tax rate nor gets a win next year, and in how far propalso includes erty taxes have language to come down. The create a statewide Legislature gets a teacher health win in how much benefit and a task we’re able to buy force to drive down our debt.” down staff-toW h i l e student ratios at Democrats preK-12 schools. touted the budget But while bill, House the bill would Republicans said prevent a resiMonday that dential property they were disaptax hike, it will pointed with the allow the nonreslatest proposal idential property “While I do not support because it comes tax to increase raising any tax rates in on the heels of a by 4.5 cents. The series of botched a year we have a $55 nonresidential budget negotiarate is assessed million surplus, this tions and a deal on properties like debate has gone as far spoiled by Senate camps, second as it can responsibly go leadership. homes and small ... I’m left with no choice On Friday, b u s i n e s s e s . but to allow this bill to Scott said that he About a third and House leadof nonresiden- become law without my ers had reached tial tax revenue signature.” a budget deal to — Gov. Phil Scott end the spendcomes from Vermonters. ing impasse. The Democratic plan would have leadership in the Legislature urged taken the Senate’s budget bill but Scott to sign the bill they passed also split a large pot of anticipated Monday, arguing that they had made surplus revenue — giving half to significant movement in the gover- the governor’s priorities and the nor’s direction since their initial other half to Democratic priorities proposal. in fiscal year 2020.

“This represents more comproThe governor, who had previously mise than the Senate would have refused to consider any agreement ever entertained from the starting that raised property taxes next year, point, and the House I think would said he was on board with the plan. say the same thing,” Senate President But Senate leadership rejected the Pro Tem Tim Ashe, D/P-Chittenden, idea of the use of more money from told reporters after Monday’s budget surplus tax receipts to buy down vote. property tax rates.

“So now we’re at the point where “We as a team said that the use of people should say both sides have further one-time money was somegotten out of their comfort zones thing that we were not supportive which reflects real compromise, and of,” Ashe said on Monday. it’s time to move on,” Ashe said.

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Tobacco (Continued from Page 2A) our organizational goals with the goal of our patients to be healthy.”

Ron Hallman, PMC spokesman, acknowledged the renewed focus on smoking cessation is also born out of a desire to help Porter employees. PMC is a smoke-free campus, though smokers have legally lit up on a public sidewalk in front of the hospital property.

Porter management received complaints from non-smokers about discarded cigarette butts and having to walk through tobacco smoke to get into the hospital. This prompted PMC to close that sidewalk-smoking loophole, but at the same time offer employees access to “Let’s Quit!” programming, including free nicotine replacement therapy.

“To make ‘population health’ work, we have to engage our patients out in the world where they live and work, providing support, education, and services that empower them to prevent new diseases, manage chronic diseases, and gain improvements in overall wellness,” said PMC Chief Medical Officer Dr. Carrie Wulfman.

“With teamwork and with patient engagement, and with more outpatient and transitional care management, Porter hopes to see our population become even healthier in the months and years ahead.”

Addison County already has a pretty good track record when it comes to public health.

According to the 2018 County Health Rankings & Roadmaps study produced by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, only 13 percent of Addison County’s residents smoke.

It has the second-fewest smokers out of the state’s 14 counties. The study also ranks Addison County first in the state in terms of average length of life and fewest premature deaths.

Porter has been offering community health programming since the late 1980s. But until recently, the programing didn’t always get the funding it needed, officials said.

Porter temporarily eliminated its community health programing in 2012 due to a budget crunch.

“When times were tough, it was always on the chopping block,” Kniffin said.

But state and federal governments

one-time money expected from “It was my own initiative, the this year’s large surplus to artifi- Senate wasn’t involved and for an cially buy down tax rates, dismiss- all-around deal that we know gets to ing the practice as bad fiscal policy. the governor’s desk, the Senate has Democrats in the past, however, at some point be on board.” have frequently used A second comproone-time money as mise amendment “This represents needed to fill budget was proposed by gaps.

Rep. Kitty Toll, more compromise The Joint Fiscal than the Senate D-Danville, on Office projected that would have ever Friday evening, Scott’s latest plan but Democrats to buy down tax entertained from the backed away from it before it made rates with about $40 starting point, and it to a vote on the million of one-time the House I think money would lead to would say the same House floor. Toll said they were passa $50 million hole in thing ... So now ing the bill to the the education fund we’re at the point Senate for further next year.

The bill passed on where people should negotiations.

The governor Monday would use say both sides have said in his stateabout $20 million in gotten out of their one-time funds and comfort zones which ment that he was by create a $35 million reflects real compro- disappointed the Democrats’ hole in the educaabout-face. tion fund next year, mise, and it’s time “By abandoning based on the JFO’s to move on.”

— Senate President two agreed-upon revenue and spending projections.

Pro Tem Tim Ashe compromises and rejecting multiple While Scott said proposals to fund Friday evening that government beyond there was “no doubt” that his administration and lawmak- July 1, legislative leaders have now ers had reached a deal that morning, pushed us to the brink of a shutJohnson said that no agreement was down, just to unnecessarily raise tax rates on non-residential property tax set in stone.

“I was very clear with the gover- payers, which includes renters, small nor that it was something I was will- business owners, camp owners and ing to work with, but that the Senate more,” Scott said. was not yet involved,” Johnson said.

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— along with Porter itself — are now making sure money is available to fund programs aimed at keeping patients healthy. PMC’s recent affiliation with University of Vermont Health Network has also helped greatly, according to Kniffin.

PMC is now spending around $750,000 annually on community health programming, most of it coming through a grant from the Vermont Blueprint for Health.

“We are really invested with our local community in making this a healthy place,” Kniffin said.

SUCCESS STORIES And it appears to be working.

Ana Macleod had been what she described as a “social smoker” for more than a decade. She could refrain from smoking for several days at a time and even through two pregnancies. But she always gave in to the temptation of smoking.

Last year, she decided she wanted to remain social — but without the smoking.

“I felt I had to make a change in my life, to have something to look forward to,” Macleod said.

She enrolled in “A Fresh Start” and, like Bigelow, emerged a nonsmoker in January.

Macleod was candid in crediting Stocker and her classmates — and particularly Bigelow — for giving her the extra push to stop smoking.

“I needed someone there to

motivate me,” she said. mbutler@portermedical.org, or call And she got the nudge from a 388-8860. gregarious Bigelow, who during one Reporter John Flowers is at class simply said “I did it, and I feel johnf@addisonidependent.com. great.”

It resonated with Macleod, who told herself, “I’m going to win this time.”

Six months later, she’s still a winner.

Michele Butler is Porter’s Chronic Disease Self-Management Coordinator through the Vermont Blueprint for Health. She too pointed to the advantages of a group setting for those wanting to quit tobacco.

“The group is very powerful,” Butler said. “Some people don’t want to come to a group because they figure they should be able to quit on their own, with the (tobacco cessation) products out there. But there’s a lot of information you learn through the class in order to be successful.”

Bigelow is now relishing his newfound health.

“I never had difficulty breathing, but I had forgotten what it was like to have a full lung of air,” Bigelow said. “I’ve got much more stamina than I had before … and it just feels good to step outside and take a breath of air and enjoy it.”

Anyone wanting to learn more about, or enroll in, the free “Let’s Quit!” tobacco cessation program should email Michele Butler at

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Middlebury. Thursday, July 5, Explore Makey-Makeys, Incredibox, and simple Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested dona7-8:30 p.m., community room, Ilsley Public Library, circuits. For ages 14-adult only. tion. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 75 Main St. Come teach and help each other use to reserve 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 Apple computers and devices. All levels of skills 2, 7 p.m., City Park. and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may are welcome. There are no dumb questions. be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287.

Demonstration of Apple Wallet iPhone photograParkinson’s support group in Middlebury. phy, along with questions, answers and problem info@addisoncountypcc.org • addisoncountypcc.org • 388-3171 Thursday, June 28, 10-11:30 a.m., The Residence solving. More info at MiddMUG2018@mail.com. at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. A group for those Blood pressure and foot care clinic in • Community Playgroups suffering from Parkinson’s or any other movement Forest Dale. Tuesday, July 3, 9:30 a.m., disorders and their caregivers. Free ride may be • Parent Education Classes Brandon Senior Center, 1591 Forest Dale provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Rd. • Home Visits Age Well Senior Luncheon in Continued meetings will run on the last Thursday Libraries Rock! kick-off in New Haven. Tuesday, Middlebury. Friday, July 6, 11 a.m., VFW, of each month.

• Pregnancy Prevention Programs July 3, 10 a.m., New Haven Community Library, 530 Exchange St. Menu includes Yankee Strawberry Festival in Shoreham. Thursday, June 78 North St. Exordium kicks off the New Haven • Parent Training & Child Center pot roast, vegetable gravy, mashed potatoes, 28, 5-7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, Library’s summer program with an educational and summer blend vegetables, broccoli slaw, wheat 28 School Rd. Feast on strawberry shortcake, entertaining program on the rock cycle. Free and dinner roll, and pecan pie. $5 suggested donation. strawberry sundaes, strawberry pie, ice cream with accessible. More info call Deborah Lundbech at Helping Young Families Get The Right Start Advanced tickets required. Call Michelle Eastman strawberries, just plain strawberries or the works.

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Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of limited number of whole strawberry pies will also Tuesday, July 3, 6 p.m.- dusk. Bristol Recreational any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at be for sale. Make strawberries your dessert or your Fields, Airport Rd. DJ Jam Man will be on hand to TODAY THROUGHentire JUNEmeal 13 that night and enjoy the fun and good 802-388-2287 to inquire. spin tunes. Food and craft vendors, games, raffles Artists’ opening reception in Bristol. Friday, July food. tickets and fireworks at dusk. More info contact 6, 5-7 p.m., Art on Main, 24 Main St. Come see Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or cecil@gmavt.com.

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June 29, 6-9 p.m., The Inn at Neshobe Street Dance in Brandon. Friday, July 6, 6-10 p.m., July 4th celebration in Bristol.

River, 79 Stone Mill Dam Rd. The first concert Seminary Park, around the corner and up the hill Wednesday, July 4, 7:30 a.m.-3 p.m., in the Inn’s Summer Concert series. Come hear from Town Hall. A family-friendly gathering with Main St., the town green, and other points this authentic blues and rock classics band featurmusic for all ages by DJ Jam Man Entertainment around town. A road race, the Great Bristol ing Tom Caswell playing a searing lead guitar, Tom & food vendors. Off street parking available with Outhouse Race, parade, and a party on the green.

Van Sant on lead vocals and guitar, Scott Totten on free shuttles. Part of Brandon’s Independence Day Join the fun. For the comfort of those around you, harmonica, Peter Kennedy, bass and Rob Zollman festivities. we ask that you please leave your pets at home. on drums. Free. Wine, beer and hot food available Mellow Yellow in New Haven. Friday, July 6, More info contact Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or for purchase.

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Mount Abraham/Vergennes alumni football game in Bristol. Saturday, June 30, 8 p.m., Bristol Rec Field. The Eagle football alumni group will stage its fourth annual flag football game with live blocking to benefit MAUHS and VUHS’ cooperate football program.

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Champlain Valley Fiddle Club concert in Middlebury. Sunday, July 1, 2-3 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. 100 Eastview Ter. The Fiddle Club, led by Scottish Fiddler Peter McFarlane, performs a concert of traditional Scottish fiddle music. Free and open to the public.

“What to the Negro is the 4th of July?” in Ferrisburgh. Sunday, July 1, 3 p.m., Rokeby, 4334 Route 7. Experience history when participants read aloud Frederick Douglass’s most famous speech, originally delivered on July 5, 1852. Come and add your voice to this statewide public reading sponsored by the Vermont Humanities Council. Free.

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Fireworks and Pops Concert in Middlebury. Monday, July 2, grounds open at 5:30 p.m., behind Mahaney Center for the Arts 72 Porter Field Rd. The Henry Sheldon Museum’s annual Pops Concert with the Vermont Philharmonic. Lou Kosma will conduct a medley of contemporary music, light classics, Broadway and film favorites, and WWI patriotic songs. New this year — vintage cars and a raffle of picnic baskets painted by local artists. Concert begins at 7:30.

Bring chairs, blankets, and flashlights. Tickets, $25/ youth $10/children under 12 free/ prior to June 26 adult $20, and more info available at Sheldon at 802-388-2117, online henrysheldonmuseum.org or in person at the museum, 1 Park St. Rain site: Kenyon Arena.

Music tech playground in Shoreham. Monday, July 2, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Come play with some cool tech this summer.

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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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Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section hike in Charlotte. Saturday, July 7, Mt. Philo State Park, 5425 Mt. Philo Rd. Easy/moderate two-mile hike and with an elevation gain of 636 feet with views of the Lake Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondack Mountains.

Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, a snack and hiking poles, if needed. More info contact Ralph Burt at rburt@gmavt.net or 802-355-4415.

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Independence Day celebration in Brandon.

Saturday, July 7, all day, Park Village Complex, Route 7 North. Activities include the annual silent auction, family games, variety of vendors and food, parade at 1 p.m., live music by Moose Crossing following the parade, a community supper from 5-7 p.m., DJ Jam Man spinning family favorites, and fireworks at dusk. Free shuttles from downtown run all day. More info contact Bill Moore at bmoore@ townofbrandon.com or 802-247-3635 or Debbie Boyce at bidcc@yahoo.com or 802-345-0056.

Peasant Market in Middlebury. Saturday, July 7, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., on the green. A free family festival with treasures for sale. Enjoy searching for treasures in the many tents: clothes, jewelry, linens, white elephant, furniture, children’s toys, plants and more. Buy a homemade pie, visit the food tent, enjoy the children’s activities and get a chance to win a handmade lightweight kayak. Proceeds benefit local charities. More info at ststephensmidd.org.

Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War Encampment in Hubbardton. Saturday, July 7, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. In honor of the 241st anniversary of the July 7, 1777, Revolutionary War battle fought in Hubbardton, re-enactors portray the American, British, and German soldiers. Tactical military and other special demonstrations, guided camp and interactive battlefield tours, camp life activities, children’s activities, sutler’s row shopping, and illustrated talks. Food stand on site.

Tickets $6. More info at 802-273-2282.

Lake Champlain Challenge Race in Ferrisburgh.

Saturday, July 7, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., A weekend of camaraderie, bragging rights, rowing, and plain good fun. All human powered boats are welcome.

Informal races starting at 11 a.m. Arrive by 10:30 a.m. After the races, rowers will be able to take LCMM boats on the lake to explore the area. More info at lcmm.org/challenge.

Jon Gailmor in Orwell. Saturday, July 7, 10 a.m., Orwell Free Library, main St. A free event for children and their families to kick off the library’s Summer Reading Program.

Annual Town Picnic in Weybridge. Saturday, July 7, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Weybridge Elementary School, Quaker Village Rd. The town provides meat, you provide a side dish. There will be kids’ games, yard games, music by Snake Mountain Bluegrass and the winners of the first Weybridge haiku contest will be announced. More info at kirstenhendy@gmail.com.

Independence Day parade in Brandon. Saturday, July 7, 1 p.m., Estabrook Park. Fun for all.

Point CounterPoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, July 7, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Free.

Jon Gailmor in concert in Shoreham. Saturday, July 7, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Come rock out with one of Vermont’s favorite musicians.

Cold roast turkey and salad supper in Vergennes.

Saturday, July 7, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, Main Street, across from the Vergennes Opera House. The menu includes cold roasted turkey, potato salad, broccoli salad, rolls, dessert and beverage served buffet style. The cost is $9 for adults and $5 for children. Take out orders available. More info at 802- 877-3150.

Va et Vient in Ripton. Saturday, July 7, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, Route 125.

These musiciennes will take you from 16th century France to New Orleans and Québec with lively dance numbers, touching love songs, kickin’ Cajun tunes, and rollicking Québecois favorites. 7:30open mic followed by featured performers. $10 general admission/$15 generous admission. More info at rcch.org. Open mic sign up at 802-388-9782.

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Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War Encampment in Hubbardton.

Sunday, July 8, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. In honor of the 241st anniversary of the July 7, 1777, Revolutionary War battle fought in Hubbardton, re-enactors portray the American, British, and German soldiers. Tactical military and other special demonstrations, guided camp and interactive battlefield tours, camp life activities, children’s activities, sutler’s row shopping, and illustrated talks. Food stand on site. Tickets $6. More info at 802-273-2282.

Green Mountain Bicycle Club Monkton Ridge Ride. Sunday, July 8, 8:45 a.m., Shelburne Village Shopping Center. Bike through Addison and Chittenden Counties. there are three options — 23 (E), 38 (M) and 48 (M) miles over familiar and less traveled roads. Lots of food stops available along the way. More info contact leader: Lou Bresee at 802-658-0597 or lakelou@comcast. net, or co-leader Holly Creeks at 802-233-9013 or creeksh@yahoo.com.

Lake Champlain Challenge Race in Ferrisburgh.

Sunday, July 8, registration 9:30 a.m., race 11 a.m., Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. For boaters of all ages! Join the fun, or just come to watch. Bring your own nonmotorized boat, kayak, or canoe to row or paddle in this three-mile race across the lake. LCMM gigs are available for teams of 4 or 6, first come, first served. Contact Nick Patch for availability, nickp@ lcmm.org or 802-475-2022 ext. 113. Registration fee admits two to the museum. LCMM’s Community Rowing Club hosts a free buffet lunch for all race participants. More info at lcmm.org.

Marguerite Schenkman Memorial Concert in Rochester. Sunday, July 8, 4 p.m., Rochester Federated Church, 15 N. Main St. The Rochester Chamber Music Society presents Julia Salerno, violin, Benjamin Gish, cello, and Cynthia Huard, piano in a performance of Beethoven’s “Piano Trio in D major, Op. 70, No. 1 ‘Ghost,’” HandelHalvorsen’s “Passacaglia Duo for Violin and Cello,” and Debussy’s “Trio in G major.” Free will donations gratefully accepted. More info at 802-7679234 or rcmsvt.org.

Community dinner in Bristol. Sunday, July 8, 5-6:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. Menu includes BBQ pulled chicken on a bun, cole slaw, baked beans, watermelon, and ice cream. A variety of beverages. Come and share with neighbors, family and friends. All are welcome. Free.

Mokoomba plays in Middlebury. Sunday, July 8, 7 p.m., on the town green. Celebrate the opening of the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival on-the-Green in Middlebury with vibrant Afrofusion and tantalizing traditional Tonga rhythms.

Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

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Rik Palieri plays in Middlebury.

Monday, July 9, noon, on the town green.

Celebrate the 40th Annual Middlebury Summer Festival 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.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Monday, July 9, arrive after 11:15 a.m., KB Café, Kennedy Bros., Main St. Enjoy pulled pork with coleslaw, vegetable pasta salad, wholegrain roll, and a flag cake with berries. 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 to inquire.

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 footstomping, feel-good folk vibe. Free. More info at 802-462-3555 or festivalonthegreen.org.

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Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, July 10, beginning at 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 a.m. Meal served at noon includes sweet-n-sour chicken over rice pilaf with vegetables, oriental sugar snap vegetable blend, wheat bread, and grapes. Bring your own place setting. Advanced reservations required. $5 suggested donation. Call Michelle to reserve at 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.

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 802-462-3555 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.

L IV E M U S I C The Silverbacks in Brandon. Friday, June 29, 6-9 p.m., The Inn at Neshobe River Point Counterpoint Faculty Ensemble in Salisbury. Friday, June 29, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Kai Stanley in Middlebury. Friday, June 29, 7-9 p.m., Notte.

Gypsy Reel in Brandon. Saturday, June 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

The Tom Caswell Blues Band in Middlebury.

Sunday, July 1, 6 p.m., Rough Cut. Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 2, 7 p.m., City Park.

Vermont Philharmonic in Middlebury. Monday, July 2, 7:30 p.m., behind Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Big Hat, No Cattle in Brandon. Wednesday, July 4, behind the Brandon Inn. Quinn and the Confluence in Middlebury.

Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m., Marble Works.

Mellow Yellow in New Haven. Friday, July 6, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Sergei Gratchev in Middlebury. Friday, July 6, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns.

Nodo Piano in Brandon. Friday, July 6, 6-9 p.m., The Inn at Neshobe River Twangtown Paramours in Salisbury. Friday, July 6, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Jon Gailmor in Orwell. Saturday, July 7, 10 a.m., Orwell Free Library.

Point Counterpoint final camper concert in Salisbury. Saturday, July 7, 1 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Jon Gailmor in Shoreham. Saturday, July 7, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library.

Va et Vient in Ripton. Saturday, July 7, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

Second Half in Middlebury. Saturday, July 7, 9:30 p.m.-12:30 a.m., Notte.

Marguerite Schenkman Memorial Concert in Rochester. Sunday, July 8, 4 p.m., Rochester Federated Church Mokoomba in Middlebury. Sunday, July 8, 7 p.m., on the green.

Rik Palieri in Middlebury. Monday, July 9, noon, on the green.

James Hill and Anne Janelle in Middlebury.

Monday, July 9, 7 p.m., on the green.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, July 9, 7 p.m., City Park.

The Bengsons in Middlebury. Monday, July 9, 8:30 p.m., on the green.

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By NICK GARBER MIDDLEBURY — Gray skies and mild temperatures didn’t prevent hundreds from turning out to the fourth annual Foodaroo Festival, held Sunday at the Marble Works in downtown Middlebury.

The food truck festival has been organized since its 2015 inception by Middlebury UndergrounD, an arts and events non-profit founded by Lisa and Andy Mitchell. For its first two years, the event was held on Merchants Row, but graduated last year to the picturesque park overlooking Otter Creek Falls.

“This space is really built for food trucks,” Lisa Mitchell said. “It’s so flat and open, and with the falls, having that picnicking opportunity — it felt like the

next important step.”

Attendees milled around the several dozen food vendors lined up along the site’s parking lot. A stage featured performances from The Grift, a local rock band that played to a crowd of mostly-stationary onlookers plus a small contingent of dancing moms and children. Also performing were the Kif-Kif sisters, an identical-twin vaudeville duo from Quebec, whose comedy routine captivated kids and was received with bemusement by parents.

As for the food, the selection was diverse, with heavy representation of burgers and tacos. This reporter enjoyed a pretty good burger from Burlington-based ArtsRiot, although his friend’s Korean pork gyro from the

same truck packed considerably more flavor.

Adam Fisher, a Middlebury College student in attendance, said he was impressed by the setup, although the costs of some dishes posed an accessibility problem.

“I think it’s cool,” he said, “but as a starving college student it’s sometimes out of my price range, considering the $3 cover.”

Yet if some vendors charged not-toocheap prices, others seemed exceedingly generous with their portions. Bo MIDDLEBURY’S FOODAROO DREW big crowds to its entertainment, above, and to its food offerings SunMuller-Moore (of “Eat More Kale” day afternoon. The event was celebrating its fourth year in Middlebury.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell fame) sold miniature apple cider

doughnuts at his “Doughnut Dude” stand. While his sign advertised nine doughnuts for $4, Muller-Moore tossed at least a dozen into the bag.

“I can’t have you guys starvin’ out here!” he told his happy customers.

The weather may have felt like late spring, but the atmosphere was pure summertime. Every local festivalgoer was bound to see several familiar faces, and a good number of adorable dogs and babies. Lisa and Andy Mitchell strolled around the grounds and were stopped frequently by wellwishers congratulating them on another successful Foodaroo.

“It’s been kind of building every year, and it’s great to see the turnout and the range of people — that’s always what we strive for,” Lisa Mitchell said. She noted that the $3 entry fee, a necessity to pay for overhead expenses, didn’t seem to reduce attendance from previous years.

Andy Mitchell reminisced on how far the event had come.

“Five years ago, Lisa was pining about wanting to throw a food truck festival, and then five years later, here’s the fourth annual Foodaroo,” he said.

Lisa nodded. “It’s a dream come true.”

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Marijuana is, necessarily. Does that mean a bud tasked with day-to-day Vermonters. if someone’s walking that some people like (Continued from Page 1A) “When you start “The revenues down the street smoking “The law leaves to think it is,” he said. law enforcement may be in for a in a pipe? Does that mean an open handling of the law. baggy? Does that mean somebody “A lot of the time saying that generated from tax and a joint, that they could a lot up to “Like, ‘Oh, we’ll just challenge. regulate could go to say, you know what, the opinions throw a lot of DREs “The law leaves a lot up to has some hanging out in a pocket of people aren’t willing to (the number of) their shirt, or something put aside the difference prevention activities,” that’s still not legal,” of the people at the problem and the opinions of the impaired drivers she said. “Illegal dealers she said. “Most people and make a law that will it’ll be fine.’ A lot of people that are using “We don’t know like that?” that are using One provision work because they’ve will not go up aren’t going to ask want to abide by the law, folks haven’t been to (marijuana) and the what an open states that “mature” been butting heads the as a result of kids in the junior high but it takes a little bit of (marijuana) and those car accidents that opinions of the officers marijuana plants are entire time,” Wygmans legalization — I parking lot how old time to understand what the opinions I’ve been to, where who are trying to container of female plants that have said. “It would be have a hard they are. And without the law is.”

I know the operator enforce it,” Middlebury marijuana is, of the officers flowered and have helpful if we were to time believing regulation there’s no CONCERNS was highly impaired Police Chief Thomas necessarily. who are trying way of knowing what’s REMAIN from marijuana and Hanley said. “Those Does that mean observable buds, while have a resource to be to enforce it. “immature” plants lack able to speak to people that. I’m in the marijuana — it Beyond issues of you’ve got a car of dead are bad precedents to a bud in a buds. Hanley pointed that are actually in the anticipating the could be laced.” ambiguity, several Those are bad people.” go on.” pipe? Does that out that this rule could field litigating these worst.”

Ayer said she officials also shared precedents to go Wygmans conceded FRUSTRATING mean an open easily be circumvented issues, as opposed that the issue is AMBIGUITY — Vergennes believed the Senate concerns about the on.”

— Middlebury complex, and noted that by growers tampering to figureheads of the Instead of the baggy?”

Police Chief would be willing to overall consequences of Police Chief an average citizen views with buds and flowers. various organizations enact changes to the legalization.

Vergennes regulated marketplace George Merkel — State’s Attorney Thomas Hanley the issue differently “The law says you who have their positions. new law if needed, Police Chief George enacted by other states, Dennis Wygmans can have mature plants Positional bargaining is including a renewed Merkel, who has been an than a law enforcement Vermont’s new law and it defines a mature never all that successful.” effort to tax and regulate the drug. outspoken opponent of officer would. legalizes only limited Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Addison, She couldn’t guarantee, the legislation, said he “As a citizen, I look at it as — there possession and growth of marijuana plant as one that has flowered and that the was especially worried are a lot of people that are being — selling it remains illegal. The has visible buds,” he said. “But what voted for the legalization bill, but however, about marijuana’s swirled into the criminal justice law stipulates that adults age 21 or happens when you have the mature didn’t dispute the flaws identified by House would be equally “A lot of folks haven’t been law enforcement. Ayer receptive. effects on highway system possibly unfairly because of older may possess up to one ounce plant, and someone has said her support was Kathy Blume, to those car safety. marijuana,” he said. “A lot of times, of marijuana and grow up to two taken the flowers and based on the assumption production and events accidents that “I’m fearful,” he said. though, law enforcement here in “mature” and four “immature” plants buds off it? Does that “Most people that this year’s limited manager for the “When you start saying Vermont gets painted with a brush in a space within their own home make it an immature want to abide I’ve been to, legalization would cannabis advocacy that (the number of) that has picked up paint from a screened from public view. Anyone plant or does that make by the law, pave the way for full group Heady Vermont, where I know impaired drivers will different jurisdiction.” who exceeds those quantities of it a mature plant that but it takes a regulation and taxation said she hopes police the operator not go up as a result of Local police hope that a meeting possession, or seeks to buy or sell somebody has cut the little bit of time flowers off of? That of marijuana in the will be understanding as was highly legalization — I have a with Wygmans scheduled for marijuana, faces criminal penalties. to understand future. citizens who might be impaired from hard time believing that. early next month to discuss new The law also includes penalties wasn’t dealt with by the what the law “I’m not in favor of unclear on the extent of marijuana and I’m anticipating the enforcement strategies will help for distributing marijuana to those legislature.”

Multiple officials said is.” the bill that passed,” the privileges afforded resolve some of their concerns. worst.” under 21, consuming marijuana you’ve got a car And not all officials are equally Wygmans expressed — Kathy Blume of she said. “But my by the bill become more (both smoking and eating) in public, that political concerns Heady Vermont understanding was — familiar with the new of dead people.” a similar sentiment, fretful about legalization. driving while under the influence may have weakened — State’s Attorney noting the thinking is that it law.

“I’m not ready to push the panic that the of the drug and possessing open the law’s coherence.

Dennis Wygmans state’s hiring of drug button yet,” said Addison County will pass that way, and “I would hope that containers of marijuana in a motor Wygmans said that the existence of “positional camps” then we’ll eventually get to tax and law enforcement recognition experts Sheriff Donald Keeler. “I’m not vehicle. would take a gentler (DREs) to assess taking a position for or against — Several Addison County law during the drafting process prevented regulate.”

Ayer said that a regulated market approach to how they engage with drivers’ impairment would not my job is to follow the law. We’ll see enforcement officers noted lawmakers from appreciating the how it goes, we’ll see what a year ambiguities in provisions pertaining input of litigators and enforcement would better ensure the safety of the general public as people become necessarily eliminate unsafe driving.

“It’s certainly not the magic wand brings.” to open containers and plant maturity personnel who would eventually be the marijuana being smoked by familiar with the law. For example, as potentially problematic. While the law institutes a $200 penalty for possessing an open container of marijuana in the passenger area of a car, prosecutor Wygmans noted that the definition of “open container” remains frustratingly hazy as it pertains to marijuana.

“I think we know what an open container of alcohol is because you can’t just leave it sloshing around in the car,” he said. “But we don’t know what an open container of marijuana

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SALISBURY — There will be a household hazardous waste collection this Saturday, June 30, at the landfill from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Refer to the town mailing for acceptable items.

This collection is for Salisbury residents only.

The first of the Salisbury church’s “Summer Series” program will be held on Friday, June 29. The faculty from Camp Point Counterpoint will perform compositions by Popper, Faure and Schubert. Then Nashville/ Austin acoustic duo the Twangtown Paramours will take the stage on Friday, July 6. Both performances begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Meeting House and are free and open to the public.

Salisbury’s 44th annual Ice Cream Social will be held on July 4 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Meeting House.

Cones, sundaes, pies and cakes will all be available.

On Thursday, July 5, at 7 p.m., the Salisbury Conservation Commission and the Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association will present “The Birds of Summer” with Bridget Butler. It is free and open to the public.

There are free and reduced price passes available to the public at the Salisbury Free Public Library. These passes are for admission to State Parks and Historic Sites, the Echo Museum and the Billings Farm. Visit the library on Tuesdays from 3 to 6 p.m., Thursdays from 2 to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon to sign out these passes.

At the Salisbury town office residents 62 years of age and older and veterans of uniformed services may receive a Green Mountain Passport which will give them free admission to all state-sponsored public events, exhibits, concerts, museums and state parks, historic sites and lands.

Overnight camping and other park fees are excluded. You must appear in person at the office to receive the passport. Office hours are Tuesdays, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursdays 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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By the way (Continued from Page 1A) of the Year”; and June Kelly of Brandon Post 55, who was named “Legionnaire of the Year.” This year’s convention was dedicated in memory of our past Department Commander John Heald from Poultney’s J. Claire Carmody Post 39, who passed away last December.

Middlebury’s community liaison for the rail bridges project. Those spaces will again be lost in order to provide safe access in and out of the Triangle Park area for contractors.

Gish said there are usually several open parking spots in the upper area of Merchants Row, so spaces are available to those willing to do a little hunting.

Work continues on a new drainage system for the downtown Middlebury rail bed, as part of a $72 million, three-year project to replace the Merchants Row and Main Street rail bridges with a concrete tunnel. The current drainage work will temporarily reduce downtown parking — including five spaces on Main Street along Triangle Park.

Kubricky Construction workers on Wednesday coned off those spots in preparation for delivery of drainage-related materials into the adjacent Triangle Park. Once the materials are safely stored in the park, those five spots will be restored, though probably not for long, according to Jim Gish,

This is the final call for book donations to benefit the Middlebury Dog Park, located of South Street behind the Middlebury Regional EMS headquarters. The book sale at Hannaford Supermarket is in its final week and going well.

However, more books are needed in order to continue it through the end of June. If you have any more books to donate, deliver them to Hannaford Supermarket or call 802-989-3701 for a pick up ASAP. Books must be in good to excellent condition. No textbooks, instructional books or children’s books; novels sell best.

School children look forward

to summer vacation, but it’s also a period when a lot of kids go hungry. Some low-income families depend on free/reduced-price breakfast and lunch programs at public schools to feed their children. The Vermont Department For Children And Families wants to remind families that there are free food programs available this summer for income-eligible households. Among them are 3SquaresVT — formerly known as the “Food Stamps” program — that provides resources for people to buy groceries at stores and farmers markets. There’s also the “Summer Meals for Kids” program that offers free lunches and snacks to children ages 18 or younger throughout the summer. And the Women Infants & Children program provides healthy foods and nutrition resources — such as breastfeeding support and nutrition education and counseling — to qualifying pregnant women or the parent/caregiver of a child under 5 years old. More information about these and other nutrition programs can be found at dcf.vermont.gov.

(Continued from Page 1A) “Over years of time, developing Trail (AT), running from Georgia to relationships with people, we might be Maine. able to get trails built, in those flatter In order to connect the New York farmland areas,” Montague said. terminus with Vermont’s Long Trail, North Country Trail devotees hope the North Country Trail’s national that the proposed extension would organizers had to look locally. In increase popular awareness of the 2013, they brought in the Middlebury relatively under-used trail.

Area Land Trust One such devotee is (MALT), which built “The North Luke Jordan, a hiker and maintains the Trail from Minnesota who Around Middlebury, Country (Trail) is in 2013 became only kind of unique in the fourth person known as the TAM. “We’re sitting in the sense that … to through-hike the the middle of this there’s nothing entire North Country really important gap,” specific that Trail. He’s excited to explained Jamie progress toward you’re following, see Montague, the executive completing the trail. director of MALT. The so it just strings “Having our TAM covers about 11 together the best terminus right there miles of the distance of the best in that with the Appalachian between the North region.”

Trail will be huge Country Trail and the — hiker Luke Jordan for bringing in more Long Trail. users,” Jordan told the Most of the brandIndependent. new trail that MALT still needs to He said hikers on the AT might construct lies between the New York notice the signage for the North state line and the TAM entry point near Country Trail, and that could spur Snake Mountain. But because that area them to traverse that trail, as well. is mostly privately owned farmland, “If it fully does pass, it’s definitely Montague acknowledged that this leg a good thing,” Jordan said. of the North Country Trail will likely The North Country Trail, according contain some road walks — at least in to Jordan, is distinguished from other its early stages.

American scenic trails by its free-form On the east side of Middlebury, path and its East-West orientation.

MALT would connect the TAM with “The North Country is one of the the Long Trail via the Oak Ridge Trail few that doesn’t follow a specific and some land for which easements land form,” he said. “On the AT are already in hand. you’re following the spine of the

Appalachian Mountains, but the North Country is kind of unique in the sense that … there’s nothing specific that you’re following, so it just strings together the best of the best in that region.” Highlights from his time on the trail included the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the Finger Lakes and Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.

Jordan feels confident that the Vermont extension will be a success, because he’s already hiked it himself: When he reached the New York terminus during his through-hike, he unofficially followed the same route that may soon become official, joining up with the Long Trail and continuing on to the Appalachian Trail.

“The portion in Vermont was very, very pleasant,” he said. “It’s definitely worthy of being incorporated into the national scenic trail system.”

Montague said that if the legislation is ultimately approved, the new trail and signage could be finalized quickly — within a year or two.

“But the idea of continuing to improve it, getting as much trail as possible and not using road connectors — that will be an ongoing process,” she said, noting it could easily take another 50 years.

If the extension passes Congress and that long process begins, MALT would assume responsibility for a small but important section of the longest national scenic trail in the country.

Vergennes (Continued from Page 1A) budget would add about 8 cents to local tax rates, but could not predict the impact of legislative decisions on their estimates. Those who pay based on incomes would eventually receive prebates on what would be an increase of $80 per $100,000 of assessed value based on the ANWSD estimate.

In limiting the increase in the municipal rate to 2.5 cents on Tuesday, the council chose to use $90,600 of a fund balance from the current fiscal year that outgoing City Manager Mel Hawley estimated would be at least $134,000.

Council members also chose to dip into the city’s Water Tower Fund for $72,500 to offset what otherwise would have been a larger increase.

That fund, fed by payments from cellphone companies to install broadcast on the city’s former water tower behind city hall, is limited by council policy to pay for capital improvements.

However, Hawley pointed out to council members that if they chose they could apply the Water Tower Fund to debt service for the police station, a $72,500 line item in the police department budget.

The council had not previously tapped the Water Tower Fund during budget and tax-rate deliberations, but had in 2013 voted to use the fund to make a $100,000 down payment on the police station.

The combination of tapping the surplus and the fund balance reduced a rate that otherwise would have been 90 cents, according to Hawley’s calculations.

Hawley told the council he could make cuts in services and project proposals to get down from 90 cents to the current rate of 81 cents, but that it wouldn’t be pretty.

“I can get to 81 cents very easily, but I can tell you it’s ugly,” Hawley said.

Typically the council has left more of the fund balance in place, with an eye toward the future. But council

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members Lynn Donnelly and David Austin argued for using more of the surplus immediately.

Donnelly suggested new housing developments would add to the grand list and lobbied for using even more.

“What is the damage of using $120,000 instead of $90,000?”

Donnelly said.

Austin suggested the council look to new sources of revenue in the year to come, specifically beginning to assess impact fees on developers, and said given the unknowns about the future more of the balance should be used now.

“There are a lot of the variables out there. I just think it puts us in a difficult position if we don’t use it,” Austin said.

Mayor Renny Perry and Alderman Matt Chabot said they were concerned the council could be hamstrung a year from now if there were no fund balance, especially without Hawley, who retires later this month, in charge.

“The only downside would there would be less surplus next year,” Perry said, adding, “We can take the pain today, or we can take it next year.”

Hawley advised some caution.

“What if the audit comes around and you’re off by 20 grand,” he said.

Alderman Mark Koenig, also member of the Addison Northwest School District Board, which is dealing with the same issue, pointed out the increasing cost of providing employee benefits is helping to push city spending higher and is out of council control.

“There’s nothing this group can do about the rises in health care,” Koenig said.

One item in council control — an administrative position — was put back in the budget after Devine spoke up. Hawley, unlike virtually any manager who will replace him, handles routine payroll chores — he said on Tuesday he has actually memorized the codes for data entry.

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“You are putting me and Melissa right up against the wall,” Devine said, adding, “I’m feeling panicked.”

Hawley backed her, saying he was “dumbfounded” the council had cut the position, which with withholding would cost $16,600.

“It’s not just about hiring a city manager. It’s about all of those hats (I wear),” Hawley said.

The council agreed to restore the line item.

Police spending also came under scrutiny. Chabot pointed out it represented 40 percent of the city’s budget, exclusive of user-funded sewer spending, and that police revenue was declining. He repeated support for a decision the council made last week to reject Police Chief George Merkel’s request to replace two of the department’s five cruisers.

Chabot said at some point police spending could not keep rising.

“That is an unsustainable model,” he said.

BUDGET DETAILS The total budget the council approved on Tuesday — again, not including the sewer budget that is funded by user fees — was $2,369,755. The increase over spending from the current fiscal year, which ends on June 30, is $137,755.

Of that total $865,680 is devoted to the police department, an amount that is essentially level with the current fiscal year. But without the infusion of cash from the Water Tower Fund to wipe out the $72,500 Bonded Debt line item, police spending would have increased by about $71,500.

The cost of health insurance alone is budgeted to rise by about $35,000.

Other factors include salary hikes and $10,000 for a capital purchase.

Public works spending is set to increase by about $24,000 to $778,850. Raises ($10,000 more), health insurance ($14,500 more), and sidewalk spending and vehicle maintenance ($5,000 more each) are among the line items that are rising, while the department’s debt service is dropping by about $28,000 to a little less than $17,000.

The category of General Expenses rose by about $34,000 to $235,206, largely because of increases in the city’s share of supporting its fire department, due to a new truck purchase; Bixby Library support, due to a higher per capita request approved by the council; and the cost of operating the city’s recycling center for the next six months, due to higher recycling expenses. The fate of the recycling center after this year is uncertain.

Administration expenses are also rising, by about $72,000 to $456,140.

Again, higher health insurance costs are triggering some of that increase.

The new position in city hall is contributing $15,600, not including benefits, and the budget includes a high-end salary for a city manager of $95,000, about $20,000 more than Hawley’s wages. Raises for other city hall employees, including a new zoning administrator to replace Hawley in that role, are also figured in.

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Infant care (Continued from Page 1A) Addison Couny. need care are projected to lack access “I’m grateful that Mary Johnson to a regulated early care program, is able to add infant spots, and to and 77 percent are likely to lack do so so quickly is great for this access to a high-quality program. community,” January said.

This year’s grants to January says that one 23 Vermont child care of primary reasons for programs throughout the “This is part the infant care shortage state total $455,500, and is that it’s they are really of a wholeallow these programs expensive programs to to offer almost 400 community run. new childcare spots effort to try “If a center can’t find and increase the quality to address staff to meet the needs of over 400 additional of the infant room, the lack of childcare spots. that’s the first room that As Addison County’s childcare.” tends to go. It’s a huge sole grantee, Mary — Mary Johnson cost,” she said.

Johnson will add eight Children’s Center According to infant spaces to its early Co-director Saunders, the grant childhood education Barbara Saunders will cover the cost of program. renovating a building “This is part of a for a new infant space, whole-community effort to try to plus investing in infant-specific address the lack of childcare,” Mary equipment, including cribs, sinks and Johnson Children’s Center Co- a diaper changing area. The building director Barbara Saunders said of the that will be renovated is adjacent to grant.

MJCC headquarters on Water Street Linda January, executive director in Middlebury. of Otter Creek Child Center in Mary Johnson purchased the Middlebury, agreed that professional building where the infant program care for infants is sorely needed in will reside in 2008. The space had

been used by the Aurora School, then the Gailor School, and most recently it has been occupied by offices for Mary Johnson’s Referral and Resource programs.

With the outfitted infant care space, the center, which currently provides programming for children 18 months to five years, will be able to expand its reach to include children three months to 18 months.

Saunders hopes that the construction will be completed in time for a September opening.

Although there is a waitlist for the infant program, the center has not completely finished enrolling the classroom, as the staff is working with families to navigate full-time and part-time options.

Saunders believes that while eight spots isn’t a ton, the additional infant care spaces represent “a step in the right direction” toward narrowing the childcare shortage in the county.

“The community has been talking about the crisis in infant care and the lack of infant care in Addison County,” Saunders said. “This grant is an opportunity to address this issue.”

MARY JOHNSON CHILDREN’S Center in Middlebury will use its Barrera House building to offer eight infant spaces in its early childhood education program this fall.

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Search together and brainstorm about how (Continued from Page 1A) “I’ve never seen a problem like to deal with capacity issues, but it’s this,” Leftheris said. “It doesn’t seem a slow process,” January added.

Many local childcare centers do like Middlebury is overrun with not have the internal capacity to children.”

But the numbers in a new report expand their services. Additionally, running early childcare show that the demand programs is expensive, for childcare in the and most programs county, and across “On a local rely on grants and level, we come the state, far outpaces donations. the total number of together and “We know the available spaces. brainstorm situation is dire, and Let’s Grow Kids, as a community, we’re an advocacy project about how trying to ease that of the Permanent to deal with pain,” January said.

Fund of Vermont, capacity FINDING released a statewide issues, but ALTERNATIVES analysis in February Leftheris interviewed 2018 of the supply it’s a slow for her job at Middlebury and demand of infant process.” and toddler care in the — Linda January, College last summer. At Green Mountain State. executive director the time she inquired In Addison County, of Otter Creek about childcare options the report says, 67 Child Center for her now two-and-ahalf-year-old, and was percent of infants and told, candidly, that it 55 percent of toddlers likely to need care outside the home can be difficult to find childcare in don’t have access to any regulated the area. Still, she was hopeful that facilities, and 87 percent of infants something would work out.

Now, after a full year on every and 70 percent of toddlers likely to need care don’t have access to high- center’s seemingly endless waitlist, Leftheris and her husband are about quality (4- or 5-star) programs.

Linda January, executive director to hire their second in-home nanny of Otter Creek Child Center in — their last resort.

“It can be tough to find the right Middlebury and a member of Addison County Early Childhood person, as it’s only for a few days Directors Network, said there per week,” Leftheris said about needs to be a greater investment, on finding an in-home nanny. In fact, federal and state levels, in financing Leftheris’ husband, a freelancer, has had to repeatedly adjust his schedule early childcare.

At the state level, January to cover for times when the nanny advocated for officials taking could not be there.

Their in-home nanny care for a closer look at eligibility for childcare subsidies, and bringing last year ended up being two the subsidies paid up to market rate. times the cost that they would’ve “That would be huge. It would be paid at a local childcare center.

On top of that, Leftheris sees her a game changer,” she said.

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a registered childcare center as a missed opportunity for the toddler to socialize with other children her age.

Leftheris has explored many avenues; she has listened to the experts’ advice.

There are in-home daycare centers, but Leftheris says it can be hard to get a lot of information about them, and most of them are at capacity. Then, there are the daycare centers 40-plus minutes away.

“I walk to work; it would be insane to drive 40 minutes to bring my daughter to daycare,” Leftheris said.

She also pointed out that for those lucky enough to get off waitlists, there is little choice available.

“You’re at the mercy of whoever has an opening,” she said.

ATTRACTING YOUNG PEOPLE TO VERMONT When Leftheris and some friends heard of Gov. Phil Scott’s recent announcement of legislation that would pay people up to $10,000 to move to Vermont and work remotely, she said they laughed about it together.

The state is interested in attracting young people, but it is not supporting them at all with access to good childcare, she said.

“I wouldn’t recommend friends with kids to come here,” Leftheris said.

Since Leftheris interviewed at Middlebury a year ago, she has become increasingly less hopeful about her daughter’s childcare situation.

“When I called last year, I took it for granted that we’d get into something. At this point, I’m not hopeful that she’ll get into a center before Pre-K.”

NEW HAVEN — The New Haven Fire Department and the town selectboard recently replaced two dry hydrants at the two major water sources close to the village.

The town-owned pond on Route 17/Main Street needed dam repair.

The selectboard also chose to dredge the pond to provide more storage.

The pond on Town Hill Road needed dry hydrant replacement as well as dam repair and erosion control.

This work was done with the help of the Vermont Rural Fire Protection Task Force, which provides matching grants to communities to install dry hydrants, making water more readily available when needed for fires.

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School Briefs Three local students received their bachelor’s degrees from Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y. at the Colleges’ Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 13.

Micah W. Lynch received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art Studio and Architectural Studies.

Lynch graduated magna cum laude and studied abroad in New Zealand while at Hobart and William Smith.

He is the son of Peter and Jessica Lynch of Shoreham.

His classmate Christian T. Higgins, of Cornwall, received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics during the Ceremonies.

Higgins is the child of J. C. and Kelley Higgins.

At the same time, Yared T. Lacey, son of Christopher Lacey and Julia Sturges of Ripton, garnered a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science.

At the recent commencement exercises at Springfield College in Springfield, Mass., Kathleen Connell of Brandon, earned a Master’s of Science degree in Art Therapy Counseling.

Brandon resident Olivia R. Bloomer has been named to Husson University’s president’s list for the spring 2018 semester. Bloomer is a senior currently enrolled in Husson’s bachelor of science in Criminal Justice/Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a Mental Health Rehabilitation Technician/Community Certification and an Undergraduate Certificate in Counter Terrorism and Security program. Students who make the President’s List must carry at least 12 graded credit hours during the semester and earn a grade point average of 3.80 to 4.0 during the period. Husson University is located in Bangor, Maine.

Brynn Mills of Ferrisburgh was one of 16 seniors to gradaute from Vermont Commons School in South Burlington on Friday, June 15.

Mills will attend Champlain College in the Fall.

Retired ER physician chronicles adrenaline-filled career Seward shares stories in book

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Dr. Paul Seward always wanted to become a pilot. But he ultimately settled into a long career as an emergency room physician, a vocation that provided him with as many thrills and as much of an adrenaline rush as any stunt pilot could ever experience.

Seward, a 75-year-old Middlebury resident, has captured many of those thrills — both the ups and the downs — in a non-fiction book titled “Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room.” The book will be available beginning July 3, at area bookshops and online.

Seward attended Stanford University, graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1968, and then did his internship and residency in pediatrics at UC San Francisco.

His entrée into the medical world and specialty of pediatrics during the early 1970s coincided with a paradigm shift within the hospital setting. Seward’s bosses at his first job at Ukiah (California) General Hospital saw his potential.

“I was happily practicing pediatrics when the emergency medicine field began to come into existence, and the first thing that happened was instead of just having random physicians being on call for the emergency room, they felt they needed to staff them with physicians who actually knew something about emergencies,” Seward recalled.

“Seeing I was a pediatrician who knew nothing about adults, I was obviously the best candidate,” he joked about his sudden recruitment as an ER doc.

Seward took to the emergency room work, which broadened his already strong skillset.

“When you practice in emergency medicine, you’re constantly inviting surgeons and internists to join you and they can’t help but want to teach you stuff,” Seward said. “So I had the best residency in emergency medicine I could ever have, just by following my mentors around.”

The American Board of Medicine began certifying emergency physicians in the early 1980s, and Seward joined the fold. Certified as both a pediatrician and an emergency physician, his skills were in high demand.

“I decided to get career-oriented … and started running around the country,” he said.

RETIRED PHYSICIAN PAUL Seward of Middlebury has penned a new book called “Patient Care: Death and Life in the Emergency Room.”

The book chronicles some of the more noteworthy cases Seward has experienced in his 50-year career as an E.R. doctor.

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He accumulated many destination stickers on his doctor’s bag, working in ERs and serving in leadership positions at hospitals far and wide.

His stops included Tucson, Ariz.; Tacoma, Wash.; Augusta, Ga.; Raleigh, N.C.; and Lake Placid and Plattsburgh, N.Y.; for a year, before donning his white coat and stethoscope for physician/administrator stints at Saranac Lake Medical Center and Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital in Plattsburgh.

In 2012 the Sewards again packed the moving van to New Hampshire to provide comfort and care to some ailing family members. They moved to Keene, N.Y., in 2015, and then to Middlebury in 2017.

Through it all, Dr. Seward accumulated a lot of stories based on his experiences in a variety of ERs. He decided he wanted to share them.

That meant getting some feedback and some training.

“I’ve been writing all my life in various ways,” he said, citing letters and articles in various medical journals.

He tried his hand at writing a novel he has yet to submit for publishing.

Having finally retired a few years ago, Seward at last had enough time to hone his writing skills. He took a non-fiction writing course at Southern New Hampshire University. He wrote the first two chapters of his new book as part of his course work.

Seward’s writing teacher gave him encouragement.

“She said, ‘You can write. You can do this,’” he recalled.

The final seal of approval came from his wife, Linda. She had given his novel writings a tepid reception, but gave a thumbs-up to his non-fiction work.

REAL-LIFE DRAMA So Seward gradually peeled off additional chapters, culled from vivid recollections of his experiences in emergency rooms. Individual cases stir a variety of emotions, predicated by outcomes and real-life drama.

Jubilation. Sadness. Wonder.

Included in “Patient Care” is a story about a child delivered by C-section who didn’t have a brain — but did possess enough of a central nervous system to breathe. The parents were delivered the devastating news and suddenly had to confront the most horrific decision — allow their child to die — on what should have been the one of the happiest days of their lives.

Seward offers an account of a surgeon reattaching the thumb of a newborn whose thumb was accidentally cut off by a nurse who had snipped it while changing a dressing.

There’s a heartrending narrative about trying to resuscitate a threeyear-old girl who has drowned in her family’s backyard pool.

ER team members try everything they can to bring the girl back, but to no avail. The father keeps rubbing her feet, hoping she will miraculously revive. In a cruel twist of irony, Seward learns the family brought the little girl to Ukiah, Calif., to keep her safe from the violence of a more urban setting.

And there’s a heartwarming anecdote about a nervous father whose fears are allayed when Seward properly diagnoses — and quickly fixes — his son’s arm he thought

was broken.

Ultimately, Seward sought to convey two main messages to readers.

First, a sense of what it feels like when confronting at-times life-ordeath medical emergencies when emotions are running high and time is of the essence.

Second, he wanted people to know that ER medicine is more than sutures and X-rays.

“The point to a lot of the stories is: This not just a job about patching people up, this is a job about human values in difficult situations, and I hope that came through,” he said.

Seward believes his book will appeal to the masses as well as fellow physicians who’ll be able to relate to the material.

“There are people who don’t know about an ER, know they might have to go there some day, and who are curious about what it feels like to work in an ER,” Seward said. “But I freely confess I wrote this for my peers, also. If I’ve done my job, then a working ER doc should read this and say, ‘I hope my patients read this, because then we’ll both know each other better.’”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Middlebury

CHRIS EBERLY, LEFT, and Nick Lovejoy of Weybridge are co-founders of Staple Health, a start-up business they operate out of Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies offices in Burlington and Middlebury.

Rep. Fred Baser, R-Bristol, (Continued from Page 1A) plan in place that drives business is a member of the House Ways activity. We have enough proof that & Means Committee that helps tax holidays would drive business formulate the state’s tax policy.

He provided sobering news for wherever that holiday is.”

Neighbors Together member and Middlebury officials given recent Addison Independent columnist Eric and past history on the topic of tax Davis is taking the lead in exploring holidays.

“As far as I know, there is no the Middlebury tax holidays. He presented the selectboard with some precedent for one community to statistics on estimated financial receive an exemption on rooms and impacts of the proposal. His findings meals, and sales tax,” Baser said in an email. “Our committee discussed included: the possibility of a • Lost tax revenue to statewide holiday; the the state would amount “Neighbors last time this occurred to between $400,000 Together would was in the Douglas and $500,000. administration, but our • Middlebury would work with chair had little appetite lose a combined total of businesses in for pursuing this around $62,000 in local town, and the option tax revenue over lodging industry measure.”

Baser also wonders if the 16 tax-free days. But in particular, to granting tax holiday(s) because the state retains to a single community 30 percent of the local try and market option taxes collected, Middlebury and might set a precedent that could open the plus a small fee, the things going on floodgates to similar estimated local effect in town during requests from other of the proposed tax those four towns. holidays would be about holidays.”

“If we make one $41,000. The difference — Eric Davis exception can we of $21,000 would be decline other requests an additional financial in the future?” he asked. impact on the state, he noted.

Baser also noted all sales tax Davis believes the benefits to Middlebury merchants of the tax- revenue and 25 percent of rooms and free holidays would outweigh the meals tax revenue are customarily lost tax revenue for the state and tabbed for Vermont’s education Cross Street Bridge fund, which fund. Lawmakers have been under currently carries a surplus of more great pressure to contain increases in public education taxes. than $1 million.

Still, Baser applauded Middlebury “The tax holidays could have a much greater impact in terms of for being proactive.

“There will be economic hardship economic development, both during the 2020 construction season and in during the peak of the railroad construction project and it is a the longer-term,” Davis said. clever idea to offer an incentive for PRECEDENT? Vermont implemented statewide people to come into town,” he said. sales tax holidays on Aug. 22, “More thought and information is 2009, and March 6, 2010, during required.”

Davis acknowledged Baser’s the administration of Gov. James Douglas, a Middlebury Republican. concerns, but believes Middlebury Supporters hailed the tax reprieves can still make a good case.

State economists, Davis noted, as a valuable economic development tool that increased receipts at many are projecting higher state revenues Vermont businesses. But lawmakers next fiscal year, on the heels of a $55 have been reluctant to back tax million surplus recorded for current holidays since 2010 in the wake of fiscal year. He also pointed to better-than-anticipated response to declining revenues.

incentives of $5,000 to $10,000 for out-of-staters who agree to relocate to Vermont and telecommute to their jobs.

The takeaway, according to Davis: The state’s relatively healthy revenue forecast could better allow it to sacrifice a little for a community facing major economic hardship by no fault of its own.

“What’s going to be happening here in Middlebury in 2020 is going to have a very serious impact on some of the businesses,” Davis said, “and there are some businesses for whom the difference of not having a tax on four weekends of the year might make the difference in their survival for the longer term.”

Davis also said he doesn’t believe other communities will line up behind Middlebury for tax holiday requests if they can’t prove a similar economic hardship caused by a major state road project.

Davis and his Neighbors Together colleagues want to continue their research into tax-free holidays and then get feedback from the community and lawmakers. The group’s ultimate goal is to formally pitch the four Middlebury holidays during the 2019 legislative session as part of the state’s miscellaneous tax bill.

“Neighbors Together would work with businesses in town, and the lodging industry in particular, to try and market Middlebury and things going on in town during those four holidays,” Davis said. “Our objective in all of this is to provide incentives for people to shop, stay and dine in Middlebury during the construction period.”

And he believes the benefits of the tax holidays will reverberate beyond the rail bridges project.

“I think this is a good idea of trying something to provide incentives for people to shop, dine and stay in Middlebury with the hope it will lead to a stronger Middlebury and a stronger economy — not just in 2020, but for many years after that,” Davis said.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonidependent.com.

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Staple Health (Continued from Page 1A) models that determine their patients’ risk,” Lovejoy said.

Staple Health provides a software platform that medical services providers use to identify and predict patient outcomes and risk.

Lovejoy and Eberly, both of Weybridge, split their time between the Middlebury and Burlington Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) offices. VCET is a co-working space and incubator with three locations — one on UVM’s campus, one in Burlington, and one in Middlebury.

Lovejoy, 31, and the CEO of Staple Health, calls himself a “converted medical school applicant.” He has worked in the health care industry for 10 years. He received a master’s in Health Care Management from Yale School of Public Health.

Throughout his career, including during a stint at Vermont Blueprint for Health, Lovejoy noticed the need for “wrap-around social services” in health care that go beyond just standard medical care.

Lovejoy started Staple Health in early 2017, before bringing on Eberly, who joined initially as a contractor.

Lovejoy and Eberly were set up by mutual friends who knew that Eberly had been working in information technology for years and that Lovejoy needed a tech arm for his business. They grabbed a few beers, and eventually Lovejoy thought, “Hey, this is cool. We could work together.”

Eberly, 36, now Staple Health’s Chief Technology Officer, grew up in a medical household — his father was a doctor. From his father, Eberly learned about the complexities of the health care system. He was also a Neuroscience major at Middlebury College, and completed most of his pre-med requirements.

But since he was young, Eberly said, his passion has always been technology.

“I grew up programming in elementary school and middle school and I went to high school during the first tech bubble,” Eberly said. He moved to San Francisco when he graduated from Middlebury in 2004 to grow his career as a software engineer.

With Lovejoy’s background in healthcare and Eberly’s in IT, the two are putting their talents together to increase the quality of care delivered to patients.

“In some ways, we’re playing matchmaker,” Lovejoy said. “We’re

showing how health care providers can play an active role in getting their patients to the social services that they need.”

Social determinants, Lovejoy explained, include where people live, what they eat, and what they do all day for work and leisure. These details greatly affect people’s health, but providers are not always aware of them.

Staple Health’s web app analyzes the data on patients’ social determinants to produce a patientspecific risk assessment that appears on providers’ electronic health records.

Staple Health works with customers all over the country, from independent practices to large health networks.

As with many early stage startups, the company has changed since its inception.

“It’s a winding path and we’ve been learning and iterating along the way,” Lovejoy said.

Some early conversations with doctors were instrumental to their evolving approach.

“We were forced to ask, ‘What is the real issue at hand? How can we add value without adding extra work?’” Lovejoy said.

“The health care industry is a difficult industry for a number of reasons. There are data security issues, specific architectural requirements, and it is a slow business. But for those reasons, there is a ton of opportunity for improvements,” he added.

BUSINESS INCUBATOR According to Lovejoy and Eberly, VCET’s Burlington office, where they spend half their time, is bustling; it typically has 40-60 people working there at a time, and there’s even a ping pong table. Comparably, they call the Middlebury office “The Library,” and it is easy to see why; on a recent visit and interviewer saw one other person in the office.

The Staple Health guys say each environment has its own function for their workflow.

Lovejoy and Eberly noted that the VCET network has been instrumental to their business.

“I’m one degree of separation from anyone I want to talk to,” Lovejoy said.

There are a substantial number of health technology companies in Vermont, and Lovejoy says it’s easy to see why.

“With an open regulatory environment, influential academic institutions, and a large health

network that is focused on innovation — UVM Health Connect — Vermont is an ecosystem ripe for health technology,” Lovejoy said.

In fact, with Gov. Phil Scott’s recent announcement of the “Remote Worker Grant Program,” more entrepreneurs may shortly be on their way to Vermont.

The program will pay people up to $10,000 to move to Vermont and work remotely in 2019. The funds could cover moving expenses and membership fees for co-working spaces like VCET, among other things.

Although they are not remote workers, Lovejoy and Eberly might as well be poster children for the state’s new initiative.

Both said they are hoping to bring a few people onto the team at Staple Health this summer, and are currently preparing for a new round of financing.

“We are always looking for local people to join Staple Health, whether they have experience in health care technology, software engineering, or marketing,” Lovejoy said.

If these two Green Mountain entrepreneurs have their way, you might find your healthcare needs more ably met in the future.

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THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 2018

MATT DICKERSON

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Important goals when fishing with friends This past week I had a chance to take two friends fly fishing. When I take somebody fishing, especially somebody new to the sport, I have multiple goals. I want to be safe. I want to practice and model good conservation ethic while enjoying the outdoors.

I want to teach something about fly fishing, including both the mechanics of fly casting and also the strategies for reading a river. Most importantly, I want to enjoy company with friends.

I also want my guests to catch fish.

The last point isn’t necessary for the enjoyable time, but it does help.

For the sake of this story, I’ll call my guests on this particular day Ira and Linda. Ira and Linda have lived in Middlebury for more than 15 years, and have embraced many aspects of the rural Vermont lifestyle including traditional outdoor shooting and water sports.

They are kayakers. They both love turkey hunting. Ira ran his first two primitive biathlons this year.

They had not, however, picked up fly fishing (despite owning kayaks). It’s not difficult to understand why. Prior to moving to Vermont, much of their growing up and early adult lives as a family (with two kids) had been spent in urban areas. And even after moving to a rural state, one can only pick up so many outdoor sports at a time. At the start of our morning together, Ira had never cast a fly rod before. And while Linda had gone out fly fishing once or twice, she had not yet managed to land her first fish on a fly.

So where should I take them? The water in my favorite smaller trout streams, the Middlebury and New Haven rivers, was running warm and low.

(See Dickerson, Page 3B)

Sports BRIEFS Boys’ lacrosse players honored

ADDISON COUNTY — Five local union high school athletes received Division I or II second-team all-state boys’ lacrosse honors, as voted by the leagues’ coaches.

Named as D-I second-team all-state players were Middlebury seniors Jack Donahue, an attacker, and Fyn Fernandez, a defender.

Mount Abraham-Vergennes senior midfielder Sam Paradee and two OV juniors, attacker Hayden Gallo and goalie Alec Stevens, were chosen as D-II second-team all-state players.

MUHS senior middie Sam Hodges joined Donahue, Fernandez and Paradee on the Vermont Twin-State lacrosse team that lost to New Hampshire on Saturday, 19-7.

Softballers named league all-stars ADDISON COUNTY — Nineteen members of the Mount Abraham, Middlebury, Otter Valley and Vergennes union high school softball teams earned postseason honors from either the Lake Division or Marble Valley League B Division.

Earning Lake Division First Team honors were six Eagles, senior second baseman Emily Aldrich, junior third baseman Erika Tracey, senior shortstop Katelynn Ouellette, senior outfielder Jenna McArdle, senior catcher Brooke Perlee and senior pitcher Audrey Shahan; and two Tigers, junior second baseman Carly Larocque and sophomore outfield Gwen Stafford.

The MVL recognized three Otters, senior third baseman Gabby Poalino, senior outfielder Katie Coolidge and sophomore second baseman Bella Falco.

Making the Lake Second Team were two Eagles, freshman first baseman Camilienne Masse and junior outfielder Jess Murray; senior Commodore shortstop Megan Tarte; and junior Tiger catch Abigail LaRock.

Earning honorable mention from the Lake Division were Tiger senior pitcher Bridget Audet, Eagle sophomore pitcher/outfielder Ruby Ball, Eagle sophomore outfielder Addy Harris, and Commodore junior catcher Sam Rathbun.

RECENT MIDDLEBURY UNION High School graduate Andi Boe was well on her way to soccer season-high goal and assist totals last fall before suffering a season-ending injury in the fifth game of her senior year. After surgery and challenging rehab Boe returned to action in time to help the Tiger girls’ lacrosse team win a state championship.

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When an athlete goes down

Like too many, Andi Boe tore her ACL — this is how she returned Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series.

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — It was just a routine play, according to recent Middlebury Union High School graduate Andi Boe. It happened in the fifth game of her final soccer season, on Sept. 19, 2017, at Rice Memorial High School. Boe, by her senior year already a multi-sport all-state athlete, had racked up seven goals and four assists in the Tigers’ first four games.

After soccer, Boe planned to add to her career totals of 51 goals and 62 assists in ice hockey, help the MUHS girls’ lacrosse team repeat as Division I champion, and then give college lacrosse a try.

The sky seemed the limit.

Then that afternoon Boe cut between two Rice opponents and touched the ball forward.

One Rice player challenged her from the left, making what Boe insists was clean contact that bumped the Tiger all-star off course. The other Rice player closed in from the right, leaving Boe no space to land properly.

“I had no room to step and prevent myself from falling,” Boe recounted. “So with my foot still planted I went down. And I heard it.

People on the sidelines heard it.

“People said it sounded like a pop. I heard more like a crack. It was a noise I’d never heard before from my knee.”

And she felt pain unlike anything she had ever known.

“I remember just lying on the ground screaming,” Boe said. “As I went off the field I remember having two separate thoughts

ANDI BOE in my head. One was my pet peeve — when people go down and are crying and screaming and then come back on 10 minutes later. And I was like, OK, you are not really hurt. One part

of my brain was saying, wow, I’m going to be that kid when I step back on the field and play.

“And the other part of me was like, wow, I just tore my ACL.” Just like that, Boe joined the surprising number of local athletes who have faced the multiple challenges of a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), a key component of the knee joint. The story of how Andi Boe tackled the physical and psychological pain of the injury speaks not only to the resilience of one elite competitor, but also shines a light on what “People said it all-too-many athletes sounded like battle when they are a pop. I heard taken off the field.

After that fateful more like a collision on the Rice crack. It was a soccer pitch last Sep- noise I’d never tember, Middlebury heard before orthopedic surgeon from my knee.” and family friend Ben — Andi Boe Rosenberg ordered an MRI that confirmed that Boe’s ACL, which runs horizontally through the knee joint, was torn.

As is often the case with an ACL tear there was other damage: Boe’s medial collateral ligament (MCL), which runs vertically, was strained, and she also had a tear in her meniscus cartilage, which helps cushion the knee joint.

Ultimately, after surgery, months of determined rehab, and one frightening setback, Boe’s senior year ended more happily than first expected: Another play that normally would have been routine for Boe bookended the Sept.

(See Boe, Page 2B)

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Legion nine takes two games out of three

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Addison County American Legion baseball team won two out of three recent league games to improve to 2-3 in the Northern Division in the early going.

AC defeated defending state champion Franklin County on Friday, June 22, 12-10 at home; fell to the visiting OEC Kings, 7-4, on Saturday; and defeated host Montpelier, 7-4, in 11 innings on Monday.

AC will host a non-league game vs. Bases Loaded at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday at the Middlebury College AC rallied to field, and take a 9-7 then visit lead with Franklin County for seven runs an 11 a.m. in the bottom d o u b l e - of the inning header on on three Saturday.

Franklin AC, 12-10 A g a i n s t errors; Franklin on singles June 22 AC

by George fell behind by 6-0 in Bailey, Hale the first as Hescock, the visitors Chris Wood reached s t a r t e r and Cooper Dustin Whit- O’Brien; comb for two and a Jeff doubles, two Stearns singles and a walk and AC double. committed two errors.

AC got two runs back in the first on singles by Chris Wood, Wyatt Cameron and Adam Whitcomb, but Franklin added a run in the second on a single, a hit batsman and another error, ending Whitcomb’s day after two innings.

AC then rallied to take a 9-7 lead with seven runs in the bottom of the inning on three Franklin errors; singles by George Bailey, Hale Hescock, Wood and Cooper O’Brien; and a Jeff Stearns double.

Bailey came on to pitch the next 4.2 innings and earn the win, keeping Franklin off the scoreboard until the sixth.

AC made it 12-7 with three more runs in the fourth on a Cameron walk, two errors and another O’Brien single.

Franklin scored one run in the fifth off Bailey on two singles and an error, and then two in the top of the seventh on two singles and a double to make it 12-10. Cameron came on to get the final out and earn a save.

OEC, 7-4 AC struggled defensively on Saturday behind starting pitcher Adam Whitcomb. Whitcomb tossed five innings, allowing two hits and one walk while striking out eight, but left the mound trailing, 7-4, on seven unearned runs.

(See Baseball, Page 3B)

Triathlons open with two Branbury events

MICHELLE MORRIS, LEFT, Jack Green, Heidi Higgins-Cutler and Heidi Thedwall compete in the running leg of the Vermont Sun Triathlon in Salisbury Saturday.

Photo courtesy of Vermont Sun

SALISBURY — The first two of six scheduled summer Vermont Sun Triathlons were held on Saturday at Branbury State Park in Salisbury in cool, overcast conditions that included light rain during the bicycle racing.

One was the sprint Vermont Sun Triathlon consisting of a 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike ride and 3.1mile run. Zack Silver of Short Hills, N.J., won the men’s race in 1:07:42, while South Burlington’s Michelle Rosowsky claimed the women’s top spot in 1:16:00.

The Olympic distance Lake Dunmore Triathlon featured a 1,600-yard swim, 28-mile bike-ride and 6.2-mile run. The winners, both from Burlington, were Jessica Ball for the women in 2:33:32 and Jesse Gourevitch in 2:31:4 for the men.

New Haven’s Kyle Flack took third in the men’s division.

The 26-year-old-Olympic men’s (See Triathlons, Page 3B)

JESSICA BALL COMPETES in the biking portion of Saturday’s Olympic distance Lake Dunmore Triathlon.

Photo courtesy of Vermont Sun

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, June 28, 2018

Ralph Myhre stages member tournament

MIDDLEBURY — The team of Donald Dayton and Bernie Andrews and the duo of Tom Maxwell and George Ramsayer were the Gold Flight winners on June 23 and 24 of the annual Ralph Myhre Men’s Member-Member Tournament.

Dayton and Andrews finished first in the Gold Flight Low Gross competition, with Chris Prickitt and Steve Maier taking second.

Maxwell and Ramsayer were the Gold Flight Low Net winners, with John Davis and Mike Davis the runners-up.

The White Flight Low Gross winning team was Carsen Sanchez and Brent Raymond, with Dale White and Robert Cameron finishing second.

The White Flight Low Net winners were Brett Barrett and Robert Clark.

In regular weekly action, last week’s Wednesday Men’s Scramble

League winner was the team of Bert Phinney, Dale White, Josh Newton and Richard Wheeler, with the foursome of Luther Tenny, Matt Curran, Kirk Goodman and Kyle Goodman taking second.

Finishing first in Bill Davidson Thursday Men’s Golf was the quartet of Deem Schoenfeld, Joe Bartlett, Jim Johnston and Russ Reilly, followed by Neil Mackey, Marsdin Van Order, Pete Damone and Hogan Beazley in second.

Schoenfeld fired the low net scored, and Don Dayton was closest to the pin.

In the Friday Evening Mixer the first-place team was Jill JessoWhite, Dale White, Karl Neuse and Diane Neuse, with Harold Strassner, Kurt Strassner, Jim Hadeka and Deb Hadeka taking second.

The closest to the pin winners were Dale White and Catherine Kowalski.

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ANDI BOE TALLIED 52 goals and 62 assists in her first three years on the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team. Boe missed her entire senior season on the ice due to an ACL injury suffered playing soccer in the fall.

Boe

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ANDI BOE WALKS onto the ice during the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team senior game. Boe did not play the entire season due to an injury, but she sat with her team all season and assisted the coach.

(Continued from Page 1B) 19 injury.

On May 23 Boe, with a brace on her knee, made a surprise return to the Tiger lacrosse lineup, a couple months after a scare almost triggered a second operation.

And 1:52 after the opening draw vs. visiting Mount Mansfield Boe curled clockwise from behind the opposing goal and did what she had done 70 times before, to go along with 57 assists — tossed the ball into the opposing net.

“My defender was out of position, and I crease-rolled and shot,” Boe said. “And the first thing I thought was, ‘I belong out here.’”

Although Boe remained at less than her full former speed, she went on to help the Tigers win that second straight D-I title, scoring three times as they prevailed in a 11-9 quarterfinal and once in a 13-10 final.

But just getting back on the field was a huge victory. Right after that first goal she saw Rosenberg, who was nearby with a camera because NOVEMBER SURGERY LEFT a his daughter, Isabel, was as usual on big scar on Andi Boe’s knee after suffering an ACL injury in a senior the field with Boe. “Ben Rosenberg was behind the year soccer game.

Courtesy photo net taking pictures, and he gave me two thumbs up,” she said.

Rosenberg explained his reaction, Rooney, like Boe a standout soccer which also included a yell. For years midfielder, and Middlebury College he had been watching Andi and quarterback Jared Lebowicz both Isabel play soccer and lacrosse, often tore their ACLs. with Andi’s parents, Kathy and the In the fall of 2015, in the case that late Kelly Boe, who three years ago most closely parallels Boe’s, Tiger died after being struck by a drunk senior three-sport standout Oakley driver while biking.

Gordon tore his ACL in Rosenberg spoke of a “a a D-I football semifinal; special responsibility” in “Andi gets the he missed the basketball ball on the caring for Andi Boe. and baseball seasons. In “Andi gets the ball on right side of the 2013 Otter Valley senior the right side of the net net where she soccer and basketball where she always is, and always is, and star Jessica Frazier boom! Ninety seconds, suffered the injury in the score. God, it was awe- boom! Ninety OV basketball opener. some,” Rosenberg said. seconds, score. In 2012 senior Tiger “She went right after it. God, it was girls’ lacrosse player It was pretty amazing.” awesome. She Liz Kelley went down ACL VICTIMS went right after during the D-I lax final But what it took for it. It was pretty much like Boe, after Boe to reach that happy being bumped while ending, both physically amazing.” carrying the ball. and psychologically, is — Ben Rosenberg Statistics say Boe, probably the real story Rooney, Kelley, and — for Boe and for the Frazier were more likely many other athletes who have torn to tear their ACLs. According to their ACLs. sports-health.com females are at up Just in recent memory many to six times a greater risk than males, local athletes have gone down a trend experts most often attribute to with the injury. Within a couple of muscular and structural differences weeks after Boe’s injury last fall in knees by gender.

Vergennes Union sophomore Emily The site states year-round female

athletes who play soccer or basketBoe said staying with her teams ball have an ACL tear rate of almost and friends helped.

5 percent, and about 70 percent “I don’t really know what I would of those are non-contact injuries have done otherwise. So that was a resulting from “cutting, pivoting or pretty easy decision,” she said. landing on one leg.”

Boe’s coaches also trusted her as The challenges to a successful an advisor, something that made her recovery start with a drastic surgery. feel like a valued team member.

“Basically you take an injured knee “All of my coaches from soccer, and then re-injure it when you do the hockey and lacrosse were good about ACL surgery,” Dr. Rosenberg said. telling me if I saw something to talk ACL surgeons replace the torn to people about it. I was still able to ligament by using cadaver tissue or a contribute,” she said. piece of either a patient’s hamstring Her coaches — Wendy Leeds in tendon (from the back of the thigh) soccer, Matt Brush in hockey and or patellar tendon (running below the Brandi Whittemore in lacrosse — knee and connecting to a lower leg talked about Boe’s input to them and bone). leadership for their teams.

Rosenberg said for “petite, young “This was a kid who played pretty female athletes” like Boe the patellar much every minute always,” Leeds tendon option is the best as it offers said. “Then all of a sudden she was a lower chance of another tear. The (next to me), and I just found her to downside is that using be incredibly valuable the patellar tendon “I’d been going that way. She’s just such means taking a small a smart athlete, and she piece of bone on either crazy sitting has such a game sense. end, a more invasive here having She has the ability to see procedure that in turn to watch things.” means a more painful, these games.

Brush said, “She made longer rehab. it very clear it was never It should be Rosenberg said he optabout her not playing. ed to leave the MCL tear that going to It was about supporting alone because it would hockey was her friends and her heal itself, and also not my release. teammates in any way to operate on the menis- And instead she could to help their cus tear because it was I would just experience, knowing small and hard to reach, that it was tearing her up build up more near an important nerve, inside not playing.” and probably would not frustration Boe’s input proved to having to pose a problem. be helpful, he added.

The procedure left Boe watch instead “Andi would come with the challenges all of play.” and whisper something ACL patients face: pain — Andi Boe in my ear, and be like, after surgery; at least hey what do you think six months of rehab and about that, and she therapy before a return to even lim- would have good insight,” Brush ited action; the loss of activities that said. provide sources of joy, even identity, Whittemore remembered a talk to athletes; uncertainty about the Boe gave to the team the day berecovery and future performance; fore a game, at about the time when and, often, feelings of isolation and it looked like she would return. frustration during the process.

“Just her message of never givHANDLING FRUSTRATION ing up and just being proud, and Facing those issues, Boe first the importance of being on a team chose to stay with her teams. She and how it was such a privilege to only missed a handful of their soccer, her, I think it touched the team,” hockey and lacrosse games. Experts Whittemore said. say that’s one healthy way to deal But just because Boe could be with the psychological challenges. with and help her teams didn’t For athletes a positive attitude and mean it was easy. Sometimes she “social support” during recovery is would talk to her mother or Brush critical, according to the American when she was unhappy, and she adCollege of Sports Medicine’s web- vised anyone in her shoes to reach site. It recommends “continued team out to friends, family or mentors. participation and the resulting main“I just had to let people know tained sense of athletic self-identity.” that I’d been going crazy sitting here having to watch these games.

It should be that going to hockey was my release,” she said. “And instead I would just build up more frustration having to watch instead of play. Anything that should have helped me out was doing the opposite.”

Boe also spoke of how supportive her teammates were and how much it helped ease her frustration.

“Even people who weren’t injured (were) able to empathize about how much it sucks to stand there and watch,” she said. “It was still really hard. Because every day I would stand there and I would want C L E A N E R E N E R G Y. C L E A N E R A I R. them to do well, but at the same time I didn’t want to miss out on all that. When it was going poorly I was so frustrated and just wanted to be able to help. And when it was going well I just wanted to be a part of it. There was no point where I was standing there and going, ‘Oh, this is so satisfying.’”

In Part Two Boe talks about going through lonely, strenuous rehab; she and Rosenberg discuss a major, disheartening setback late in her recovery process that led to a tough choice before her ultimate return; and Boe shares more about how those going through major injuries can deal with it and those around them can help them handle it.

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Triathlons

Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) The last month and a half had been relatively dry. I looked up the rainfall data at a couple government websites.

The city of Burlington had only about 55 percent of its average rainfall for the month of May. Middlebury was even farther behind. And June, with only one significant rainfall, had not come close to making up for it.

So I decided to work our way up a few favorite spots on the larger Otter Creek, where we could variously cast for trout, bass and pike. We met at 6 a.m. and made our way to Belden Falls. Through much of the year, Otter Creek is too deep to wade out very far there, but in low water stretches it become very fishable.

A high-pressure system had moved in recently. The good news was that we had gorgeous blue skies overhead, and lovely morning light as the sun slid down the trees across the river.

The bad news is that a sudden increase in the barometer and drop in the temperature usually isn’t great for insect hatches and fishing. Despite recent warm weather, and some record-breaking hot weather on its way across the country, the temperature overnight dropped down into the 40s.

That ruled out wet-wading. So we pulled on waders and jackets.

By the time our rods were rigged, another angler had moved into the spot I had hoped to grab, where a beginning caster could wade out and have room to back-cast without losing flies in the

trees behind. So we made our way downstream to another spot. With no insects hatching, and no sign of rising fish, I tied on for both Ira and Linda a streamer fly: an imitation of a small trout fished below the surface. I set them both up at spots 30 or so yards apart where they wouldn’t have to cast too far to reach good water. Then I went back and forth between them trying to help out.

Linda was the first to hook a fish.

Twenty minutes into the morning, a big brown swirled up out of a deep run and grabbed her fly. She had it on for at least a minute, battling both the fish and the swift current, before it broke over her line and disappeared.

Though no fish were landed, it was at least a good taste of what it’s like to play a fish. Ira picked up the rhythm of casting, but wasn’t able to elicit any strikes.

Eventually I waded Linda out mid-river, and we worked some more runs in the pockets behind rocks. In the process of giving her a casting lesson, I dropped my fly up against a big boulder where the water dropped to five or so feet deep. Another big brown trout swirled up from the depths and exploded out of the water chasing the fly as I retrieved it. The trout missed, but we got a good look at it as it flew two feet through the air. I handed the rod back to Linda, and she spent several more minutes casting the same fly, then a variety of other flies, into the same spot. She couldn’t elicit another

strike. When the air warmed after a couple hours, a few insects started coming off the water. We saw a couple fish rise, though not many. We cast dry flies for a while, but without success.

Four more anglers moved down into the river upstream of us, so we decided it was time to leave.

We stopped at another spot further up the river and took some casts for pike with a heavy rod and big flies.

When a boater walked down to the shore and started thrashing around in the water where we were fishing, we abandoned that spot and headed to our final destination for the morning: the falls in downtown Middlebury.

Nobody had yet landed a fish, and midday was approaching, so by this time the pressure was on.

Ira might be said to have saved the morning. While I took Linda up to the island below the falls, Ira worked his way down the shoreline below the footbridge and managed to land an aggressive and energetic bass — his first ever fish on a fly rod. Linda, however, was the one who saved the afternoon. When we gave up fishing at the noon, she pulled from her pocket a discount coupon for lunch at the cafe down the road at Otter Creek Brewing.

My wife joined us, and we had a very nice meal and beverages under the blue skies and cooler air brought about by the same high-pressure system that seemed to have shut the fishing down.

At least the most important goals were accomplished.

(Continued from Page 1B) race champion, Gourevitch, finished only 29th in the Lake Dunmore Triathlon in August 2017, but improved his overall time by an amazing 20 minutes. This past Saturday, he was first out of the water in 24:01. Jeff Schumann of Salisbury, 61, followed him a minute later. Schumann was one of three men who passed Gourevitch on the 28-mile bike ride.

James Harnish of Essex Junction, 46, used the second-fastest bike time (1:15:29) to take the lead into the run.

Schumann was second and Flack, having used the day’s best bike time (1:15:13) moved into third. Gourevitch had the fastest run (43:25) to overtake all three. Harnish held onto second (2:32:42) with Flack taking third (2:32:58) and Schumann fourth in 2:36:20.

Gourevitch said hard work paid off.

“I’ve only been racing triathlons for a few years. I put in a lot of training last fall and this spring. I really didn’t think I was going to get a win this soon. I am really happy,” he said.

Two other local 61-year-old men had strong races. Middlebury’s Steve Hare was the seventh man across the finish line and earned second in his age group in 2:39:35, and Doug Robinson of Brandon claimed third in the age group with a 3:00:27 finish.

In the Olympic race, Ball was the second woman to finish the swim, 40 seconds off the lead. Donna Smyers,

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MOTHER AND DAUGHTER Chris, left, and Kate Kogut of Charlotte sprint to the finish line of Saturday’s Vermont Sun Triathlon.

ZACK SILVER WAS the overall winner of Saturday’s Vermont Sun Triathlon held in Salisbury.

61, from Adamant trailed Ball by 1:20 and virtually tied her for the fastest ride of the day to stay there.

Ball posted the best run of the day (44:23) and stretched her lead as Smyers settled for second place in 2:38:48.

In the women’s sprint triathlon Rosowsky finished the swim in third place, 15 seconds off the lead. Wendy Mehaffey of Essex Junction outrode Rosowsky by 1:28, the second-fastest bike of the day (41:01), to get to within 45 seconds of the lead. But Rosowsky added 20 seconds to her lead in the transition to the run where to two had almost identical run times of 23:02 and 23:06. Mehaffey’s second place time was 1:17:17.

Three Bristol women did well in the sprint. Winning their age groups were 39-year-old Anne Rossier (3539) in 1:23:36 and Andrea Halnon (65-69 in 1:59:21), while Jennifer Hulbert was fifth in the 40-44 group in 1:34:47. Sharon O’Daniel of Vergennes took fourth at 40-44 in 1:32:00.

In the men’s sprint triathlon Silver was never challenged. He had the fastest swim (8:40) and bike (38:06) to hold a commanding four-minute lead going into the run. Second-place finisher Gabriel Robles of West Hartford, Conn., out-ran Silver with the fastest run (19:13) to finish in 1:11:20.

The races were supported by local businesses and benefit the Middlebury Union Middle School cross county team, athletes from which staffed the runs’ aid stations, as well as other local youth sports groups.

The next Vermont Sun Triathlon is Sunday, July 15. On that date the series brings back the Branbury Classic, which features a 1.5-mile canoe-, kayak- or stand-up paddleboard-race followed by a 14-mile-bike ride and 3.1-mile run. Both events are open to teams of two or three. Complete results and more information on how to enter or assist running these races is available at vermontsun.com or 388-3060.

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Horseshoes tournament draws many competitors BRISTOL — Brian Simmons of Bristol claimed the Class A crown in the Sodbusters Horseshoe Pitching Club’s competitive Father’s Day Open tournament in Bristol on June 16 and 17. The tournament at the Sodbusters’ home courts near the Bristol Recreation Field drew 93 competitors who mostly hailed from Vermont but also include participants from other New England states, New York and Quebec.

Simmons, a past world champion, amassed a record of six wins and one loss, which was identical to Quebec’s Sylvianne Moisan. But the local champ scored 225 ringers for an 80.36 ringer percentage, compared with the Canadian’s 222 ringers and 79.29 ringer average.

Sodbuster Tyler Howard was the only other pitcher to garner more than 200 ringers; he scored 205 for a 73.21 ringer percentage and third place in Class A. Other Sodbusters who won their divisions were Georgia McCormick, Class C; Destinnie Wilke, Class F; and Jennifer Bassette, Class K. Results for the Sodbusters pitchers who took part in the Father’s Day Open tournament, with place, win-loss record, and ringer percent-

age, were: Class A: 1. Brian Simmons, 6-1, 80.36; 3. Tyler Howard, 4-3, 73.21; and 8. Dan Gonyaw, 0-7, 42.50.

Class B: 5. Debra Brown, 2-5, 53.93; 7. John Remy, 2-5, 46.07; 8.

Michael Devino, 2-5, 43.21.

Class C: 1. Georgia McCormick, 6-1, 48.57; 5. Michael Brown, 3-4, 35.42.

Class D: 5. Vicki Pelletier, 3-4, 36.79; 6.

Dawn Coleman, 3-4, 36.07.

Class E: 2. Ron Williamson, 6-1, 28.21; 7. Juanita Ratta, 1-6, 8.57.

Class F: 1. Destinnie Wilke, 8-0, 41.88; 2. Brianna McCormick, 7-1, 37.81.

Class G: 2. Matt Coleman, 5-2, 28.93; 4. Leon Ross, 3.5-3.5, 27.14; 7. Nate Pelletier, 2.5-4.5, 26.07.

Class H: 3. Donna Lewis, 5-2, 17.50; 5. Zach Prescott, 3-4, 20.00; 6. Lou Cousino, 3-4, 12.50.

Class I: 3. Maurice Cyr, 3-2, 19.20; 4. Alan Curler, 3-2, 16.09.

Class J: 4. Jackie Gorton, 4-3, 12.24; 6. Thomas Brooks Jr., 2-5, 11.86.

Class K: 1. Jennifer Bassette, 6-0, 20.90; 3. Lisa Briggs, 4-2, 14.33; 4.

Beverly Forgues, 3-3, 2.43.

Class L: 5. Bob Briggs, 2-5, 10.56; 6. Christopher Hudson, 2-5, 5.17; 8. Steven Brown, 1-6, 5.29.

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Baseball (Continued from Page 1B) Winning pitcher Patrick Greenan was even more effective for OEC, tossing six innings of one-hit ball, walking one and fanning 10. Wood was involved in both of AC’s rallies, reaching on an error and scoring in the third, and hitting an RBI single as part of AC’s three-run fourth, during which Franklin made three errors.

AC, 7-4 On Monday AC scored three runs in the top of the 11th to snap a 4-4 tie and prevail, 7-4. Hescock drew a leadoff walk and moved to third on a Wood double. Hescock scored the winning run by beating the throw home on a Dustin Whitcomb roller to third. Wood then scored on a Stearns squeeze bunt, and Whitcomb capped the inning by trotting home on a passed ball.

Whitcomb also earned the pitch-

ing win with 4.1 innings of relief, allowing one run on four hits and a walk, striking out two. Cameron started and allowed three runs on seven hits in 6.2 innings, two in the first as Montpelier took the early lead, and one in the seventh as the home team rallied to tie.

AC scored its first run in the fourth on a Hunter O’Connor single, an error and Nicholas Kaufmann’s squeeze bunt. AC scored two more in the sixth to take the lead on a walk to Devon Kimball, singles by Hescock and Wood, and a Whitcomb squeeze bunt.

After Montpelier tied it at 3-3 in the seventh, AC took a 4-3 lead in the eighth when O’Connor reached on an error and scored on another bunt, this one by Kimball. But Montpelier singled twice and drew a walk off Whitcomb in the eighth to stay alive.

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Discussion Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. Women’s Meeting, North Ferrisburgh, United Methodist Church, Old Hol‑ low Rd. 6‑7pm. 12 Step Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, www.aavt.org .

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.

Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm.

Big Book Meeting, New Ha‑ ven, Congregational Church, Village Green, 7:30‑8:30pm.

Discussion Meeting, Bran‑ don, St. Thomas Episco‑ pal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30am.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm.

Daily Reflection Meeting, Vergennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm.

12 Step Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm.

Spiritual Awakening Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am.

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BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs).

Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems.

Babysitting available.

PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am.

We meet at The Resi‑ dence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anony‑ mous, confidential and free.

At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 5 THURSDAY. 12 Steps and Traditions Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Alternat‑ ing Format Meeting, Fer‑ risburgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm. Speaker Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiri‑ tual Awakening Meeting, Middlebury, St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am. Dis‑ cussion Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Discussion Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, The Turn‑ ing Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 10‑11am. Beginner’s Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, The Turn‑ ing Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 6:30‑7:30pm.

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MAKING RECOVERY EAS‑ IER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and dis‑ cussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understand‑ ing of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

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

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) big book meet‑ ing. Thursday’s, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) Monday’s at 5:30pm. Located at the Bris‑ tol Federated Church in the conference room, 37 North St., Bristol. Enter the church from Church St.

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Do you enjoy music? MCMC is looking for you!

Middlebury Community Music Center is a non-profit organization dedicated to dynamic and quality music education for all. Located in the magnificent 1817 Middlebury Community House, donated to the community of Middlebury in 1932, the home inspires beauty at every turn. Its initial donation by Jessica Stewart Swift and Phillip Battell Stewart was intended to educationally and recreationally better the people of Middlebury. Fulfilling that role, MCMC is offering classes Monday through Fridays for all ages as well as musical events. MCMC is seeking volunteers for a myriad of roles, from greeters to accompanists to audio/visual work and more. Whether you canʼt tune a fish, or retired from the Met, opportunities abound to help our musical community grow and thrive!

For more information please call Tracy Corbett at 802-388-7189 or visit our volunteer site at: http://unitedwayaddisoncounty.galaxydigital.com/

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C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

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

PAINTING SEASON IS here. Wet Paint, interior and exterior quality paint‑ ing. 30 years experience.

References and insured.

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PROFESSIONAL PAINT‑ ING; interior/exterior, resi‑ dential/commercial, pressure washing. 20 years’ experi‑ ence. Best prices. Refer‑ ences. 802‑989‑5803.

VALLEY HANDYMAN SER‑ VICE: electrical, plumbing, carpentry. Resolve projects and that honey‑to‑do list today. Property manage‑ ment upon request. Mowing, landscaping, snow removal.

Quality workmanship and references. 802‑458‑2402.

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INDOOR YARD SALE. New items added. Saturday 6/30, Sunday 7/1, and Wednesday 7/4, 10am‑3pm at Whiting 4‑Corners. Inside old 1800’s general store at USPS, 3 South Main Street (Rte 30).

REALLY HOT ‑ ESTATE sale at Lake Dunmore.

Sunday, July 1 from 9 to 2.

Consolidating two homes in one. Furnishings include quality bookcase and stor‑ age cabinet, large reproduc‑ tion Queen Anne dining table and 6 or 10 chairs, uphol‑ stered wing chair (green), 8 lamps (brass, copper and porcelain), silver plate flat‑ ware and serving pieces, glassware, small cabinet with inlay, China cupboard with glass doors and ad‑ justable shelves, pictures, mirrors, oriental rugs and runners, large blue/green carpet and pad, andirons, computer desk and lamp.

Directions: 231 Lakeview Drive, Leicester, on Lake Dunmore southwest shore.

Take Hooker Rd. north, 2+ miles from Fern Lake Road; turn right on Lakeview; follow signs. Lost ‑ Call 352‑4301.

LAWN SALE/STORAGE collectibles, dolls, cow col‑ lection, furniture, baby stuff, misc. Lots of good stuff.

Also, bunnies for sale. Sat., June 30 and Sun., July 1.

10‑5. Across from the Whit‑ ing fire station.

MOVING SALE‑ little bit of everything. 10am ‑ 3pm.

Saturday June, 30th. 2951 Munger St., New Haven.

Garage Sales M U LT I ‑ FA M I LY YA R D SALE. Furniture (some an‑ tique), bikes, nice kids toys, select clothing and books, kitchen and tableware, bee‑ keeping tools/gear, fabric, and lots of fun bric a bric.

Saturday, June 30, 9 a.m.‑2 p.m., 570 Route 30 in Corn‑ wall, across from the silo with no top. Rain or shine.

No early birds, please.

Opportunities STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown Middlebury. Approved for seating for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of possibilities.

Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

Help Wanted 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 working with finance and 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.

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CHEESE LINE OPERATOR Are you interested in working in a team-oriented environment where “The World’s Best Cheddar” is made?

Then we have the perfect career opportunity for you!

Cabot Creamery has full-time immediate openings for THIRD SHIFT (8pm4am) Cheese Line Operators. Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays.

This position works as part of a team, operating various pieces of machinery in the manufacture and packaging of bulk cheese, meeting or exceeding quality specifications while ensuring accurate records are completed & maintained.

Must have high school diploma or GED. Position provides 40+ hours per week, paid leave and holidays. We offer a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), pension plan, and much more. Apply in person, by email to ajacobs@agrimark.net or send your resume with cover letter to:

Agri-Mark Attn: Ashley Jacobs 869 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 EOE M/F/D/V For more information about this position or other employment opportunities at Agri-Mark / Cabot Creamery, please visit our website at www.cabotcheese.com.

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JOB FAIR

Explore RN, LPN, LNA, housekeeping, and laundry opportunities at Porter Medical Center!

Sign-on bonuses for select LNA positions available!

10–11am & 5–7pm Tuesday, July 10 115 Porter Drive, Middlebury For more information on available job opportunities, visit UVMHealth.org/PMC and click on “Careers.”

Mary Johnson Children’s Center Human Resources Specialist Established, growing social service agency serving families and children is seeking HR Manager to oversee, coordinate and implement human resources efforts. Energetic, friendly work environment, this new position is in an organization that has grown beyond its administrative capacity. Position responsibilities include the oversight of recruitment, hiring, scheduling, performance management. Flexible

Direct Care Provider Are you seeking an opportunity making a difference in peoples’ lives? Be a part of 24/7 team providing residential supports to CRT consumers in residential setting. Support consumers around daily living skills.

Experience in working with mentally ill preferred. Knowledge of, or desire to learn about, the needs and abilities of the mentally ill. Ability to deal with clients in all types of situations with patience, insight, and compassion. Ability to work effectively with other agency personnel in the implementation of client program and goals. Valid driver’s license, good driving skills, use of car necessary occasionally. Comprehensive benefits for full time employees.

Equal opportunity employer. Please apply at csac-vt.org

schedule. 25-30 hours.

Requirements: B.A./B.S., or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Please send letter of interest/resume to:

Search MARY JOHNSON CHILDREN’S CENTER 81 Water Street; Middlebury, VT 05753 or e-mail office@mjccvt.org

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Basin Harbor is now hiring for cooks, servers, massage therapists, reservations agent, night auditors, trash/recycling and maintenance!

We will train the right person for the job. If you are interested in the hospitality industry or starting a new career, we want to hear from you.

Interested applicants please apply online at: www.basinharbor.com/jobs/.

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Pre-K Teacher/Mentor Part-time position for Early Childhood Educator with VT Early Childhood Teaching License; working with 4 programs on Pre-K goals. School year, flexible schedule. For more information and to send resume:

sunshinecc@myfairpoint.net

HELP WANTED ADDISON RUTLAND SUPERVISORY UNION 2018-2019 School Year HOME SCHOOL COORDINATOR

Licensed teacher sought to serve as a liaison between schools and families working to increase family engagement, children’s readiness for school and improve social/ emotional outcomes for students..

For Additional information please contact Kris Benway, Director of Special Services at 802-265-4905 or email kbenway@arsu.org.

All applicants must apply on www.SchoolSpring.com.

Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union 49 Main Street Fair Haven, VT 05743 Position will remain open until filled EOE

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Paraprofessional-Intensive Needs 2018-2019 Addison Central School District is seeking a fulltime Intensive Needs Paraprofessional for the 2018-2019 school year at Middlebury Union High School. Job responsibilities include supporting basic skills in the areas of academics, communication, prevocational and personal care.

Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, and three current reference letters via School Spring.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Student Behavior Monitor 2018-2019 Addison Central School District is seeking a fulltime Student Behavior Monitor for the 2018-2019 school year at Middlebury Union High School.

Successful candidate must supervise and support students in designated area to optimize appropriate behavior, provide a healthy, educational, supportive environment; develop, implement and monitor behavior plans; maintain records related to behavior; provide academic support; supervise students in cafeteria before school, supervise students during bus dismissal time; ability to work with collaboratively with staff, strong writing, technological and communication skills. Procures substitute teachers on a daily basis and organizes/assigns substitutes on a daily basis. Also must assist with clerical duties as assigned.

Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, and three current reference letters via School Spring.

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HOPE has openings for the following positions.

Resale Store Associate, 29.5 hours per week. Solid cash handling and customer service skills required.

Warehouse Associate, 29.5 hours per week.

Solid communication skills, ability to multi-task.

Duties include answering phone, assisting donors, cleaning, repairing, and more.

Holiday Shop Coordinator, 20 hours per week. This new year-round position will include a variety of tasks, beginning this summer with assisting at HOPE’s reception desk, as well as holiday program prep, including soliciting items needed for the Holiday Shop. In the fall, the job will shift to focus solely on managing the setup and implementation of the Holiday Shop.

Strong interpersonal and organizational skills required.

Want to Make Difference in Your Community? Come Join our Team!

To apply for one of these jobs, send resume and cover letter to: receptionist@hope-vt.org or mail to 282 Boardman Street, Ste 1A, Middlebury.

Be sure to clearly indicate the position for which you are applying.

Experienced Millwork Finisher

Rutland County based high end custom millwork company is looking for an experienced finisher. This is not an entry level position, a minimum of 5 years’ experience with spray finishing lacquer, paint, and glaze is required. Our ideal applicant will have the ability to match colors, develop colors, understand production timelines, communicate effectively with the team, and abide by safety procedures required by OSHA. Additional requirements include; ability to work overtime as needed, ability to lift minimum of 50lbs, valid driver’s license.

Shard Villa

A Level 3 Residential Care Home Now Hiring Medicine Technician/Care Giver 3-11 shift – including weekends Full Time & Part Time 7-3 shift – Part Time, Fri-Sun Must be a reliable & compassionate team player. At Shard Villa we are a close knit team of caregivers who rely on each other to ensure our residents receive the highest quality of care. We only hire committed professional caregivers who love working with the elderly during all hours of the day and night.

Send resume to: Admin.assist@shardvilla.org Or apply in person.

1177 Shard Villa Rd. Salisbury, VT

Well-established, family owned insurance agency in Middlebury seeking ambitious team player.

Must hold or be willing to obtain Vermont property and casualty insurance license. Strong customer service and computer skills required.

Excellent benefits!

Email resume and references to bill@labergeinsurance.com or jim@labergeinsurance.com.

58 Maple Street, Middlebury, VT 05753

Year-round positions, experience required, mechanical ability a plus.

Benefits included. Call (802) 4822335 for more information or send resume to: Hinesburg Sand & Gravel, Co., Inc., 14818 Route 116, Hinesburg, VT 05461.

EOE employer

If you are a highly motivated individual interested in joining a team oriented company that offers a competitive compensation package, please email your resume to millwork.applicant@gmail.com.

Searching for someone to complete your team?

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HEAVY EQUIPMENT OPERATORS

NURSING & ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES JOB FAIR

Community Mental Health Nurse The CRT Program at CSAC is seeking an RN to be part of dynamic community based team working with adults coping with life impacting mental health conditions. The role would include oversight of medications at our residential programs, facilitation of healthcare follow-up for clients, and help with wellness engagement. We are looking for someone with excellent interpersonal and organizational skills and who welcomes being part of a collaborative and innovative work environment.

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We currently have an opening and are seeking a licensed service technician with experience troubleshooting, repairing, and maintaining plumbing systems, heating systems (oil/propane/natural gas), and air conditioning systems including air source and water source heat pumps. Sign-on bonus for qualified candidate.

We Offer: Competitive pay and full benefits package including: • Health Insurance • 401k with company match • Dental Insurance • Paid time off • Vision Insurance • Paid holidays • Life Insurance • Training/Education • Short and Long Term Disability • Company Vehicle Interested candidates may call 802-877-3118 or email tscuteri@jwderyan.com

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MIDDLEBURY ‑ PROFES‑ SIONAL office suite. 1,205 sq. ft. office space. Conve‑ niently located in Middle‑ bury ‑ Court St./Creek Rd. 2 private offices, large re‑ ception area, large central open space for additional offices/cubicles or board‑ room. Private bathroom.

Ready to move in. Call Eric at 388‑6054.

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M I D D L E B U RY 2 , 5 0 0 SQ.FT. Formerly food pro‑ cessing plant on Exchange Street. Loading dock, over‑ heard and passage door.

802‑388‑4831.

NOW HIRING FULL TIME Experienced …HVAC Technician/Installer/Troubleshooter … & …Licensed Master Plumber…

Get Paid to Work While Training for Your License

We Offer: • Excellent Pay • Training & Tuition Reimbursement • Paid Vacation & Holidays • Paid Sick Days

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401K & Retirement Short Term Disability Life Insurance Health Insurance Phone Reimbursement

A NEW CAREER IS JUST A PHONE CALL AWAY

802-388-2296

Forward resume to: Shannon.pbms@gmail.com or stop by at

1786 Route 7 S Middlebury VT 05753

FAMILY LUMBER OPERATION

Seeks To Fill The Following Positions: MACHINERY OPERATOR for skilled lumber mill positions due to employee retirement. You must be in good physical condition, have a desire to learn, be reliable, have a strong safety awareness and work well with others. We will teach you the skills you need to use the technology investments we are putting in place. Mill work has a production bonus.

SKILLED FORKLIFT OPERATOR to run large forklifts at our operation in Bristol. Other work includes light construction, planing, lumber stacking. Must be reliable, energetic, work well with others and have good safety awareness. Previous experience operating heavy machinery is a plus but not required, we will teach you the skills you need.

Call 802-453-4884 or visit The A. Johnson Co., 995 S 116 Rd, Bristol VT 05443 for an application.

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PERMANENT SALES PO‑ SITION Busy retail store looking for a customer fo‑ cused individual. Great work environment. Four day work week including one weekend day. Must be able to climb stairs, lift boxes and stand for extended periods. Drop off resume at Sweet Cecily, 42 Main St., Middlebury, VT. Or email resume to: nanciedunn@aol.com.

BASIN HARBOR IS now hir‑ ing for dishwashers, cooks, front desk, night audit, and an HR Coordinator! We will train the right person for the job. If you are in‑ terested in the hospitality industry or starting a new career, we want to hear from you. Interested appli‑ cants please apply online at: basinharbor.com/jobs/.

EXPERIENCED MECHAN‑ IC NEEDED. must have own tools. Wrecker rotation is involved. Pay comparable with experience. Apply in person or send resume to: Mike’s Auto and Towing, Inc. 19 1/2 Elm St., Middlebury.

FULL TIME ‑ YEAR ROUND deli position. Set hours Mon‑ day ‑ Friday 6am ‑ 2pm. Prior work experience with food preparation in commercial kitchen/deli required. Appli‑ cants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

K.A. BAGLEY, INC. is hiring for lawn care maintenance and landscaping. Need to be honest, reliable and motivat‑ ed. Must have a valid driver license. Wage based on ex‑ perience. Call 802‑352‑9088 to apply.

NEW HAVEN YARD WORK. Some mowing, trimming and raking. 802‑453‑4597.

PART TIME ‑ DELI position.

Set hours Saturday 5:45am ‑ 12 noon. Prior work experi‑ ence with food preparation in commercial kitchen/deli required. Applicants should apply in person at Small City Market or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

For Sale 2007 WRANGLER 5TH wheel 28ft, good awning, over all fair condition. $1,000. 802‑503‑4447.

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2018 1ST CUT large square bales ‑ Alfalfa/Orchard mix and Timothy/Brome/Orchard mix, 8ft. Very palatable.

Great horse hay. $60/bale.

Call for ton pricing. 2018 1st cut small squares ‑ Alfalfa/ Orchard mix. $4.50 each.

2018 1st cut wrapped square bales ‑ 6ft. $60/bale. Feed analysis available. Delivery available.

FOR SALE‑ 2 mahogany color barrels, chest freezer and gas/wood combination stove, lock safe, diesel/gas pump. 453‑3870.

LARGE CRANBERRY COL‑ OR chaise chair. Good con‑ dition. $50. 518‑546‑8622.

OVER 3,000 BASEBALL cards for sale. For more information call 453‑2920.

TERRA COTTA COLORED, food grade 55 gallon pickle barrels with spin‑off covers.

Hundreds of uses. On sale for $25. each. 802‑453‑4235.

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.

AVAILABLE 7/8/18 four room apartment with loft.

Walking distance to Middle‑ bury village. $700/mo plus security deposit. No smok‑ ing. No pets. 802‑897‑7861.

BRANDON ‑ IN THE VIL‑ LAGE, large 2 bedroom du‑ plex. Sunny three level living.

South facing deck. Washer/ dryer. $1,150/mo. Includes heat, water and sewer. batesproperties@yahoo. com.

BRANDON, BEAUTIFUL GROUND floor 1 bedroom apartment. Cable, wi‑fi, electric, heat, W/D, rubbish, plowing and lawn care all included. Enclosed porch. $1,100. monthly. Referenc‑ es. Deposit. 802‑989‑8399.

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.

BRIDPORT MOBILE HOME on quiet road. $900. month incl. water, elec. and heat.

No smoking, no pets. 1 month rent + security de‑ posit. References. Available June 22. 802‑758‑2369.

BRIDPORT: SUNNY, SPA‑ CIOUS 1/br. apartment.

Beautiful views, garden space. All utilities included except heat. Washer/dryer.

No pets. No smoking. $900 per month. 802‑349‑9624.

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.

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 N e t Ma n a g e me n t In c.

802‑388‑4994.

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MIDDLEBURY ‑ 1 BED‑ ROOM accepting applica‑ tions for 1 bedroom apart‑ ment in a quiet residential neighborhood near town.

Includes heat, appliances, trash and snow removal $825/month plus electric.

No pets, references re‑ quired. 802‑453‑3135.

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MIDDLEBURY RETAIL ‑ great location. Ollie’s other place. 13 Washington St. next to The Middlebury Ba‑ gel and the Co‑Op. Across from Shaw’s. Great parking and visibility. Light and ap‑ pealing space, easy to heat.

802‑425‑3400.

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: SHARE A lovely home with active, retired professional who enjoys cultural events. $400/mo, plus utils. Seek‑ ing a housemate who might enjoy sharing oc‑ casional meals. 863‑5625, HomeShareVermont.org; HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refs, background check req. EHO PENTHOUSE/ROOF TOP apartment. One bedroom roof top apartment avail‑ able for rent July 1st in a quiet, convenient location situated close to downtown Middlebury. Secure off street parking and laundry on site.

Heat included along with lawn care, trash, recycling and snow removal. No smoking, no pets. One year lease. 950.00 monthly with one month security deposit.

Please do not stop by. Call 989‑0337.

WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront.

Washer, dryer. No smok‑ ing. Available September through May. 860‑878‑9580.

Wood Heat 10 CORDS OF poplar wood for sale. $150/cord. Can be delivered. 802‑558‑1069.

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

802‑282‑9110.

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Real Estate NEW 2018 ENERGY Star display models, modular, doublewides and single‑ wides. Open 7 days a week. Beanshomes.com.

600 Rte. 7, Pittsford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@ beanshomes.com.

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.

Att. Farmers HAY FOR SALE Small square bales. First cut and mulch. Call 802‑349‑9281.

WANTED; JOHN DEERE 261 grooming mower in good condition. Call Steve, 802‑483‑9446.

W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Boats 14’ ALUMINUM STAR‑ CRAFT DEEP‑V fishing boat. 14’ metal trailer, new tires, all lights work. Includes: 2 anchors, 2 paddles, 2”x4” frame for winter storage. $400. OBO 802‑453‑4235.

Cars PUBLIC AUTO AUCTION ‑ Saturday, June 30 at 9am (register at 7:30am). 300± repos, trades, donations and more. 298 J. Brown Dr., Wil‑ liston, VT. 1‑800‑474‑6132.

THCAuction.com.

Wanted 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.

Cash buyer. Conrad Hugh‑ son, Putney. 802‑387‑4498.

Please leave a message or chughson@svcable.net.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer special‑ izing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, an‑ tique collectibles, etc. Visit bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Con‑ sulting/appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.

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It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

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

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

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

Talk to our sales professionals.

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ADDISON-RUTLAND SUPERVISORY UNION - INVITATION TO BID

The Orwell Town School District invites firms to submit a Bid Proposal for DESIGN (ARCHITECTURAL) SERVICES for the replacement of the existing Orwell Town Hall.

The District, located in Addison County, VT serves approximately 145 students in grades PreK-8. The existing town hall serves as the gymnasium, cafeteria, kitchen, as well as the meeting place for many community events. The Town Hall is located at 494 Main St. Orwell, VT Sealed Bids will be received at the Offices of the Superintendent of Schools, 49 Main Street, Fair Haven, Vermont, until 2:00 PM, 8/14/2018, at which time the bids will be opened and read aloud.

The complete RFP will be available at the Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union Office, 49 Main Street, Fair Haven, Vermont.

Please contact Chris Cole, Director of Operations, at 802-265-4905 or at ccole@arsu. org with any questions or for a copy of the complete RFP. The Orwell Town School District reserves the right to reject any or all Bids and accept informality and irregularity in the Bids.

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PROPOSED STATE RULES By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record.

The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/ rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Radiological Health Rule.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 18P028 AGENCY: Agency of Human Services, Department of Health CONCISE SUMMARY: This rule amendment establishes requirements for the safe handling of radioactive materials used in industry and medicine. It will allow the Department of Health to become the regulatory agency of such materials rather than the Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner (NRC).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: David Englander, Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 05401 Tel: 802-863-7280 Fax: 802-951-1275 Email: ahs. vdhrules@vermont.gov URL: http://healthvermont.gov/regs/index.aspx.

FOR COPIES: Shayla Livingston, Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 6/28 05401 Tel: 802-863-7280 Fax: 802-951-1275 Email: ahs.vdhrules@vermont.gov.

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT

SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION Addison Unit Docket No. 51-3-18 Ancv NATIONAL BANK OF MIDDLEBURY, Plaintiff v.

NORMAN W. STRICKHOLM, ET AL. Defendants NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Norman Strickholm to National Bank of Middlebury and recorded in Book 148, Pages 227-232 of the Bristol Land Records, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 338 Rockydale Rd, Bristol, VT 05443, at 11:00AM on the 19th day of July, 2018, all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, TO WIT: Schedule A - property description 338 Rockydale Road, Bristol, VT Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Norman Strickholm by Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure from Phyllis Strickholm, Successor Trustee of the Ruth G, Strickholm Revocable Trust, dated May 7, 2015 and recorded in Book 147 at Page 132 of the Bristol Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: “Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Ruth G. Strickholm, Trustee of the Ruth G. Strickholm Revocable Living Trust u/t/a dated March 28, 2007 by Quitclaim Deed of Ruth G. Strickholm dated March 28, 2007 and recorded in Book 123 at Page 567 of the Bristol Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to George E. Stricklholm and Ruth G. Strickholm dated April 21, 1971 and recorded in Volume 41, Page 64 of the Bristol Land Records and being more particularly described therein as follows: A portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to the here-in Grantors by Warranty Deed of Frank and Midred Lee dated March 25, 1964, and recorded in Book 37, Page 513, of the Bristol Land Record and more particularly described as follows: A parcel with apartment house thereon located on the southerl side of State Route 116 at the westerly end of that potion of the property conveyed to the Grantors by Frank and Mildred Lee as aforesaid and located on the south side State Route 116, said point of beginning being the northeasterly corner of lands of Lee; thence proceeding in a general southerly direction along the easterly edge of land of Lee following the north bank of the river 210 feet to a point at the southernly edge of the right of way of Route 116 which point is 110 feet from the point of beginning; thence proceeding westerly along the southerly edge of the highway right of way 110 feet to the point of beginning. Also conveyed herein, but by quit-claim only, arc any rights of the Grantors between the 210 foot southerly boundary line of the premises herein conveyed and the centerline of the river.

Reference is further made to a Corrective Deed in Lieu of Foreclosure from Phyllis Strickholm, Successor Trustee of the Ruth G. Strickholm Revocable Trust to Norman Strickholm dated September 2, 2015 to be recorded in the Bristol Land Records.

Terms of sale: The Property will be sold in its entirety to the highest bidder as a single unit. It is up to each bidder to perform its own due diligence with respect to the property prior to the public sale that a bidder deems sufficient.

The public sale of the Mortgaged Property will be AS IS, WITH ALL FAULTS, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, WITH NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER, with the purchaser taking all defects and risks associated with or connected to the property being sold, and subject to all easements, rights of way, covenants, permits, reservations and restrictions of record, title defects, superior liens, environmental hazards, unpaid real estate taxes, municipal liens, and matters of any kind and every nature which may take precedence over the lien of the mortgage being foreclosed.

The high bidder is responsible for the payment of the property taxes and municipal assessments, and any fire district taxes (delinquent and current, with all penalties and interest as of the date of closing on the sale of the property after confirmation of the sale by the Vermont Superior Court).

In order to qualify to bid at the public sale, at the time of sale, interested persons, other than from the mortgagee, must present to the auctioneer a deposit of $10,000 in the form of cash, a bank treasurer’s check, or certified funds. The deposit is subject to forfeiture. The mortgagee has the right to credit bid at the sale without producing any deposit. The remaining balance of the purchase price shall be paid in good funds at closing, to occur within thirty (30) days of the public sale or within ten (10) days of Court Confirmation of the Sale by the Vermont Superior Court, Addison Unit, Civil Division, whichever is later. The sale is subject to confirmation by the Vermont Superior Court, Addison Unit, Civil Division. The successful bidder, other than the mortgagee, will have to sign a purchase and sale agreement at the conclusion of the public sale. The purchaser at the sale shall pay in good funds by cash or certified funds or bank treasurer’s check or wired funds to the person holding the sale. If the Plaintiff makes the /11) funds only to the extent that its highest bid, Plaintiff shall be required to pay cash certified d: or5/5 e h s li b u (P bid is in excess of the d sum Addues it by the Defendant Mortgagor up to the date of sale under the sifie and lasDecree Cand Judgment the costs and expenses of the sale.

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Troopers make DUI arrests in Ferrisburgh, New Haven and Rutland ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police cited four people for driving under the influence in four separate incidents in Addison County on June 20, 23 and 24.

While troopers were conducting a sobriety checkpoint on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh on Wednesday, June 20, they pulled over a car driven by Randall Raymond, 56, of Salisbury at 9:25 p.m. for sobriety screening.

Police cited Raymond for DUI. The next incident took place on Saturday, June 23, at 1:35 a.m. on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh. Troopers stopped Thomas Gracie, 18, of Bristol, arrested him on suspicion of

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ADDISON INDEPENDENT on Pages 8B and 9B. To publish a legal notice, 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, July 16, 2018 at 7 p.m. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by Jordan and Stacy Raphael to demolish the existing accessory structure at 84 Green Street under Sections 1604.F.11 of the zoning and subdivision regulations.

A copy of the application and photos are available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

June 25, 2018 Mel Hawley 6/28 Administrative Officer

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

Notice is hereby given that the Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, July 16, 2016 at 7:15 p.m. in City Hall for the following purpose: To consider the request by the First Congregational Church of Vergennes to amend their zoning permit to replace the 6’ x 6’ roof over the entrance to Evergreen Preschool at 30 South Water Street with a 10’ x 6’ roof to a 27’ x 6’ roof. The request will be reviewed pursuant to Articles VII of the zoning and subdivision regulations subject to the limitations on development review set forth in Section 311 thereof.

The site plan and application are available for public review in the City Clerk’s Office.

June 25, 2018 Mel Hawley Administrative Officer 6/28

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service 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

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 256-6-18 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF BERNARD BALART NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Bernard Balart, late of Shoreham, Vt. 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: June 22, 2018 Paul A. Millette PO Box 254 Benson, VT 05731 paul.millette@greenmtn.edu Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: June 28, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 6/28

DUI and transported him to the New Haven barracks. Gracie was cited for DUI and released.

Then at 11 p.m. on June 23, troopers stopped Kyle Kowalczyk, 55, on Route 7 in New Haven. State police cited the Ripton resident for DUI at the New Haven Barracks and released him.

The fourth arrest, for DUI-drugs, took place on June 24 at 10:35 p.m. on Route 7 in Rutland. State police report that Amber Thomas, 22, of Shoreham showed signs of drug impairment during a traffic stop.

Troopers arrested Thomas, processed her at the Rutland barracks, cited her

for DUI-drugs and then released her.

In other recent activity, Vermont State Police: • On June 20 at 6:50 a.m. responded to a two-car, head-on collision on Route 30 in Cornwall. Police said that their preliminary investigation showed that the driver of the first car, 27-year-old Rosemary Jerome of Cornwall, had been stopped at the stop sign at the intersection of Route 30 and Sperry Road. The second driver, Keith Williams, 63, of Bristol,

was driving toward Jerome and unsuccessfully attempted to avoid her car, resulting in a collision. Both Jerome and Williams were transported to Porter Hospital with serious injuries. Police do not suspect that impaired driving was a factor.

• On June 18 at around 12:52 p.m. responded to a reported theft of money from a cash register at the Shoreham Service Center on Route 22A in Shoreham. Troopers arrested a store employee, Katherine O’Dell, 22, of Whiting, who police said

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY 77 MAIN STREET MIDDLEBURY, VT 05753

Separate sealed BIDS for the removal of trees in the Town Green and Court Square will be received by the Town of Middlebury, VT. The project consists of the removal of seven (7) trees and stumps.

The BIDS shall be received by the Town of Middlebury, Public Works Department, 1020 South Route 7, Middlebury, VT, until 11:00 a.m., July 31, 2018 and then at said office publicly opened and read aloud. If BIDS are forwarded by mail, the sealed envelope containing the BID must be enclosed in another envelope containing the BID addressed to the Town of Middlebury, Public Works Department, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. A mandatory pre-bid meeting is scheduled at the Public Works Department 9:00 a.m. on July 17, 2018.

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

June 25, 2018 Kathleen Ramsay Town Manager 6/28

PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN OF ADDISON

The Addison Planning Commission will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, July 16, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office. NO AUGUST MEETING To consider the following: 1. To approve the meeting minutes of the June 18, 2018 meeting.

2. To transact any business found necessary before the board: 3. To allow time for public comment interaction at beginning of meeting.

4. The Zoning Regulations for discussing a future presentation of the 2013 copy of revisions. We are working on the “Zoning” Regulations page by page & section by section. We need to work on updating & referencing correctly according to VSA 24 Chapter 117. Z.A. Ed Hanson will assist us with this and plan for him to attend. He will make a new list for the cross-referencing #’s to be corrected for the rough draft.

5. Continue working on items that are considered to be projects in progress. We will read and discuss the rough draft of “Density-zoning” as prepared with suggestions from the Z.A. for implementation in the Town Plan. We will invite him to other meetings. We will continue looking over the next 25 pgs. at the next meeting.

6. We will continue working on Zoning Regulations (2013 copy) & Subdivision Regulations to bring them into compliance with the revised Town Plan. We will review the revised copy of the PUDS section on rearrangement of the sequence order. We need to implement this in new rough draft of everything.

Frank Galgano, Chair Starr Phillips, Secretary Addison Planning Commission 6/28

NOTICE OF SALE BY THE TAX COLLECTOR STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS.

The resident and nonresident owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of the land and property in the city of Vergennes in the county of Addison are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by the City of Vergennes for the year 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described property in the City of Vergennes, to wit, being the mobile home located at 3 Second Street, Vergennes, Vermont, and being all and the same mobile home conveyed to Brenda Badger, formerly known as Brenda Carr by Uniform Bill of Sale from Robert P. and Kay M. Denno dated June 28, 1996, and recorded at Mobile Home File #2 in the Vergennes Records, and so much of such lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, a public place in the city of Vergennes, on the 16th day of July, 2018 at four o’clock p.m. as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

DATED at Vergennes, Vermont, this 18th day of June, 2018.

MEL HAWLEY Collector of delinquent taxes for the City of Vergennes 6/21

NOTICE OF SALE BY THE TAX COLLECTOR STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS.

The resident and nonresident owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of the land and property in the city of Vergennes in the county of Addison are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by the City of Vergennes for the year 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described property in the City of Vergennes, to wit, being the mobile home located at 16 First Street, Vergennes, Vermont, and being all and the same mobile home conveyed to Timothy J. Flynn and Erica L. Flynn by Town & Country Homes dated June 19, 2000, and recorded at Mobile Home File #3 in the Vergennes Records, and so much of such lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, a public place in the city of Vergennes, on the 16th day of July, 2018 at four o’clock p.m. as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

DATED at Vergennes, Vermont, this 18th day of June, 2018.

MEL HAWLEY Collector of delinquent taxes for the City of Vergennes 6/21

NOTICE OF SALE BY THE TAX COLLECTOR STATE OF VERMONT COUNTY OF ADDISON, SS.

The residents and nonresidents owners, lien holders, and mortgagees of the lands in the city of Vergennes in the county of Addison are hereby notified that the taxes assessed by the City of Vergennes for the year 2015, 2016, and 2017 and sewer charges for years 2016, 2017, and 2018 remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid on the following described lands in the City of Vergennes, to wit, being lands and premises located at 20 Maple Manor and being all and the lands and premises conveyed to Janet O. Funk and Sally Anne Barrett, Trustees of the Janet O. Funk 2002 Trust Dated November 6, 2002 by Warranty Deed of Holly C. Waller dated June 7, 2006 and recorded at Book 63 Pages 129-130 in the Vergennes Land Records and so much of such lands will be sold at public auction at City Hall, a public place in the city of Vergennes, on the 16herth day of July, 2018 at four o’clock p.m. as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

DATED at Vergennes, Vermont, this 18the day of June, 2018.

MEL HAWLEY 6/21 Collector of delinquent taxes for the City of Vergennes

NOTICE - REQUEST FOR BIDS RENOVATIONS TO PLEASANT HILLS APARTMENTS BRISTOL, VT ReArch Company has been hired by the Pleasant Hills Limited Partnership (c/o Housing Vermont) as the Construction Manager for the Pleasant Hills Apartments Renovation project in Bristol, VT. Letters of interest due back to ReArch on or before July 16th. ReArch will be issuing Bid Packages for all scopes of work on July 23rd, 2018 with proposals due August 6th, 2018. Project has a construction schedule of September, 2018 to April, 2019.

The project includes the renovation of 16 apartments, a common mechanical room, and a community room. Scopes of work include: selective demolition, site work, misc. metals, rough and finish carpentry, roofing, siding, doors, windows, GWB, finish flooring, painting, signage, countertops, kitchen and bath casework, mechanical, plumbing, and electrical.

Interested contractors, subcontractors and material providers should contact Danylo Whalen at (802) 863-8727 or danylow@rearchcompany.com for more info. Please note that this project is funded by federal and state sources and will adhere to Federal Procurement and Contracting Guidelines, including Fair Labor Standards. MBE, WBE, and Section 3 businesses are encouraged to apply. Housing Vermont is an equal opportunity employer.

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eventually admitted to stealing $200 from the register the night before.

State police cited O’Dell for petit larceny and released her.

• On June 20 between 8 and 9:30 p.m., conducted a DUI checkpoint on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh, resulting in eight screenings for possible impairment and two arrests for DUI and DUI-drugs. State police said they will continue similar types of enforcement through the upcoming Fourth of July holiday.

• On June 20 conducted a saturation patrol on Route 22A in the designated “Safety Corridor.” The purpose of the patrol was to detect

aggressive, distracted and impaired drivers, as well as to conduct speed enforcement and promote highway safety and reduce crashes. Troopers stopped 14 motor vehicles for various violations and screened two drivers for suspicion of DUI. VSP Lt. Jeffrey Danoski said these patrols will continue through the next few months.

• On June 25 at 1:30 a.m., stopped a car on Route 17 in New Haven driven by Benjamin Smith, 38, of Addison. Troopers found that Smith was driving with a criminally suspended license, and arrested and cited him.

Thieves take cash, a credit card and shoes from unlocked cars VERGENNES — Vergennes police reported more recent entries into and thefts from unlocked cars last week, this time concentrated on one evening — Saturday — and one area — First Street and nearby Panton Road.

In one case $250 in cash, a credit card and sneakers were taken from a car parked on First Street. Later, $10 was lifted from another car parked on First Street, and finally police were told that between $140 and $200 was stolen from a car parked on Panton Road.

Police Chief George Merkel once again emphasized residents should lock their cars and not leave money and valuables in their vehicles.

In other incidents between June 18 and 24, Vergennes police: On June 18: • Helped a motorist get into a locked vehicle on First Street.

• Dealt with a minor two-car accident on West Main Street.

• Began an investigation of the theft of office supplies, a camera and other items from Kinney Drug Store.

• Responded to vandalism at St. Peter’s Cemetery on South Maple Street and nearby on South Water Street. Police said gravestones had been defaced with red paint and

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slightly damaged, and a lattice on South Water Street was also hit with red paint.

• Dealt with a parking problem at Shaw’s Supermarket.

• Stood by to keep things calm while a man recovered belongings from a Main Street apartment.

On June 19: • Calmed a family fight at a South Maple Street home.

• Cited Isaac A. Graham, 23, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for simple assault and petit larceny. Police allege he choked a fellow Northlands Job Corps student and took his cellphone.

On June 20: • Advised Northfield police on how to find a city resident that department was searching for.

• Investigated an untimely death on Walker Avenue.

• While working a checkpoint with Vermont State Police in Ferrisburgh cited James T. Malloy, 35, of Vergennes, for driving under the influence of drugs.

• Unsuccessfully searched for a wallet reported lost in Shaw’s.

• Served a relief-from-abuse order to a Main Street resident on behalf of state police.

On June 22: • Checked the welfare of a Battery Hill resident, who was OK. • Calmed a dispute between participants in the annual Youth Fishing Derby in the Otter Creek basin.

On June 23: • Cited April Kady, 41, of Enosburg for DUI, fourth offense, after finding her sleeping at the wheel of her vehicle near Aubuchon Hardware with a key in the ignition and the windshield wipers running.

Police allege her blood-alcohol content tested at 0.143; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

• Dealt with a minor two-car accident on Main Street.

• Responded to a dispute between two Northlands students; police said one was terminated from the program.

On June 24 called the husband of a drunken woman walking on School Street to come pick her up; police were concerned about her safety after her blood-alcohol content tested at 0.219.

Two authors will discuss their new novels at Marquis Theater in Midd.

MIDDLEBURY — Book lovers and aspiring writers will have a great opportunity to hear two authors talk when author Rebecca Makkai discusses her third novel, “The Great Believers,” with fellow author Stephen Kiernan on Wednesday, July 11, at 6 p.m. at Middlebury Marquis Theater.

The event is co-sponsored by the Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury Marquis Theatre, and the Pride Center of Vermont.

“The Great Believers” is a tale of friendship and redemption in the face of tragedy and loss during and after the AIDS crisis in 1980’s Chicago. In the New York Times Book Review, Michael Cunningham, author of “The Hours,” said “The Great Believers” is “an absorbing and emotionally riveting story about what it’s like to live during times of crisis. And who among us believes

that, at any point in the near future, we’ll cease living in times of crisis, whatever form they may take?”

Becky Dayton of The Vermont Book Shop, wrote, “it’s a vast fictional landscape of both time and location, but Makkai works magic with themes of art, illicit love, and family bonds to braid it all together into a rich, cohesive, and deeply affecting narrative.”

Makkai is a graduate of Bread Loaf School of English and has taught at Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Northwestern University. She is the author of two novels, “The Borrower” and “The Hundred-Year House,” which won the Novel of the Year Award from the Chicago Writers Association. She has also published a book of short stories entitled “Music for Wartime.”

Her work has appeared in “The Best American Short Stories,”

“Harper’s” and “Tin House,” among others.

She lives outside Chicago with her husband and two daughters.

Stephen P. Kiernan is the critically acclaimed author of “The Hummingbird,” “The Curiosity” and “The Baker’s Secret.” He has also written two nonfiction books, “Last Rights” and “Authentic Patriotism.”

When not in his home in Charlotte, Vt., he travels the country speaking and consulting on how to expand use of hospice, palliative care and advance directives.

Books, food & drink will be available for purchase. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Pride Center of Vermont’s Health & Wellness program. For more information contact Jenny Lyons at 802-388-2061 or jenny@vermontbookshop.com.

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A GROUP OF TNR’d cats enjoy the afternoon.

Two women cited for retail theft in Midd.

Photo courtesy Homeward Bound

Trap, neuter and return targets cats on farms MIDDLEBURY — Part of what makes Addison County such a great place to live are the numerous farms that mark the landscape. Residents have all enjoyed viewing an old barn glowing in the setting sun and, as animal lovers, they also notice the cats sprawled out enjoying the same sun. In a program aimed at improving their lives, Homeward Bound offers free sterilization and rabies vaccination for stray, barn, and feral cats in the county.

Farms in rural areas provide an ideal territory for cats to thrive.

They offer a chance at food and shelter. With those resources available, cats reproduce at will and

populations can and barns are quickly become too Most cats that inhabit accustomed to life large. Historically, Addison County on their own and people have dealt farms and barns are serve to help by with unwanted cats rodent accustomed to life on controlling by dropping them populations. off at the shelter, their own and serve While they may but this solution to help by controlling appreciate the does not take into rodent populations. hand that puts out account the unique food for them, they nature of the cat don’t necessarily that has been living independently. want to be pet by it.

Cats are socialized to people in As an organization dedicated different degrees, depending on to the well-being of all animals, where they were born and whether whether that animal prefers to they were raised and handled by nap on a human lap or in a loft people as kittens. Most cats that of hay, Homeward Bound offers inhabit Addison County farms Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) to

address the needs of the cats themselves while curbing their reproduction and the resulting overpopulation. TNR not only helps feral cats to live healthier, safer lives, but also supports public health by increasing the number of free-roaming cats who have been vaccinated for rabies.

If you are feeding cats, or dealing with an overlarge population of feline friends, call Homeward Bound at 802-388-1100 to learn how to obtain a spay/neuter voucher. The shelter will provide trapping and transporting instructions and can also provide humane have-a-heart traps at no cost.

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Kayla Fitzgerald, 29, of Plymouth and Erica Fitzgerald, 29, of Pittsford for retail theft, after they allegedly tried to leave the Hannaford’s supermarket June 18 with a cart of merchandise they hadn’t purchased.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Temporarily grounded a trailer that was hauling some farm equipment on Route 7 North during the evening of June 18. Police said they took that action because the trailer had no functioning taillights or brake lights. The farmer was allowed to resume towing the trailer during daylight the next day.

• Were informed of the theft of two signs from a Case Street farm stand on June 18.

• Received a report of a bear eating from a bird feeder on the porch of a Dwire Circle home in Buttolph Acres on June 18.

• Investigated a report of a verbal dispute at a Methodist Lane home on June 18.

• Interviewed a Case Street resident who was allegedly the target of a phone scam on June 18.

• Received a report about an exspouse allegedly hacking into a local resident’s financial account on June 18.

• Investigated a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Brookside Drive on June 18.

• Assisted Vergennes police on June 20 in locating some people believed to have been involved in a theft in the Little City.

• Received a report on June 20 that a 3-year-old child was missing from his Brookside Drive home.

Police said the child was located safe at the Briarwood Apartments.

• Investigated a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Washington Street on June 20.

• Met on June 20 with a local citizen who complained of being harassed.

• Served a temporary restraining order on a local man on June 20.

• Helped Vermont State Police at the scene of a car crash on Route 30 in Cornwall on June 20.

• Cited Jason Bohler, 48, of Bristol

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for leaving the scene of an accident on June 21 after he allegedly drove into a ditch on South Main Street and in the process damaged a state sign and a mailbox.

• Assisted a Residence at Otter Creek resident who had received what is believed to have been a threatening drawing on June 21.

• Responded to a report of downed utility lines on Mead Lane on June 21.

• Received a tip about a “possible drug deal” taking place at the gazebo on the town green on June 21. Police interviewed the suspects, who were not selling drugs.

• Were informed that someone drove away from the Middlebury Mobil Short Stop on Court Street Extension without paying for gasoline on June 22.

• Arrested Shawna Thorpe, 37, of Pittsford on an outstanding arrest warrant on North Pleasant Street on June 22.

• Received a complaint on June 23 from a Lower Foote Street resident about a potential phone scam.

• Received a report about a person allegedly hanging out in the town gazebo outside of park hours on June 23.

• Received a report about a possible sexual assault in the Airport Road area on June 24. Police said the matter is under investigation.

• Launched an investigation on June 24 into an alleged domestic assault reported by a man in the Airport Road area.

• Were informed that a vehicle had been keyed while parked off Court Street on June 24.

• Issued a no-trespass order on June 24 on a local person.

• Searched in vain for a motorcyclist who had reportedly been driving erratically on Valley View Drive on June 24.

• Investigated a report of a man sleeping in the portico of a South Pleasant Street church on June 24.

Bristol Police Log BRISTOL — Between June 10 and 17, Bristol police completed 21 foot and car patrols at various locations, namely on Mountain Street, Main Street and surrounding areas, including near Bristol Elementary School.

Officers also completed 3 hours and 25 minutes of directed patrol, traffic enforcement and patrols of the police district and the town under a contract funded by Vermont Governor’s Highway Safety Program.

During that same period, officers checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School four times and completed two fingerprint requests.

In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On June 11 instructed a computer class at the Vermont Police Academy.

• On June 11 initiated a pornography investigation.

• On June 11 at 6:18 p.m. responded to the report of a suspicious object at a local address and determined that it was an object installed by the property manager.

• On June 11 completed business checks on Main Street and surrounding areas.

• On June 11 discovered an unsecured local business and contacted the owner, who secured it.

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• On June 12 delivered a presentation on sexting to the Addison County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence.

• On June 12 investigated a vandalism complaint.

• On June 12 at 8:50 a.m. responded to a report of damage inflicted on a vehicle parked at a local business and completed a report for insurance purposes.

• On June 12 at 12:47 p.m. responded to the report of a dog in a hot vehicle, determined that the dog did not appear to be in distress, and advised the owner, who had returned, of the potential dangers of heat exhaustion.

• On June 12 assisted the Vermont State Police.

• On June 14 assisted the Bristol Rescue Squad.

• On June 14 completed business checks on Main Street and surrounding areas.

• On June 16 responded to an alarm activation at a local business and determined it was the result of equipment malfunction.

• On June 16 assisted with closure of Main Street and traffic monitoring during the Pocock Rocks festival.

• On June 17 completed business checks on Main Street and surrounding areas.

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LINCOLN — School may be out for the summer, but the need for collecting Box Tops continues.

Box Tops are little coupons that are on hundreds of household products that you use everyday. You can drop them off this summer at the Lincoln Library. There is a canister on the table in the foyer to put them in. Each Box Top is worth ten cents and goes toward purchasing books for the LCS library. Tell your friends, family and neighbors about collecting Box Tops for the school. Box Tops do expire, so check your cupboards today.

Thank you so much for your support and participation.

The Bristol Band will be performing every Wednesday night from 7-8:30 pm on the town green.

As a note: there will be no Bristol Band concert on the 4th of July, but keep an eye out for them in the parade!

Need to clean out your closets or

your basement? Looking for a good cause to donate items to? The Three Day Stampede for the Cure Towards Cystic Fibrosis will be accepting yard sale donations Saturday, June 30, from 4:30-6 p.m. in the Bristol Works! parking lot on Munsill Ave. For more information on acceptable items, visit their website at threedaystampede.org. This year’s Stampede will be held July 27-29 at the Bristol Rec Field.

REMINDER: Fourth of July festivities start Tuesday, July 3, at the Bristol Rec Field at 6 p.m.

— food and craft vendors, games, raffle tickets for sale and live music will culminate with fireworks at dusk. Wednesday, July 4, festivities begin with outhouse races at 9 a.m., followed by the 10:30 a.m. parade, followed by live music, food and craft vendors on the town green.

Until next time...Enjoy the Fourth.

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Middlebury Union High School junior Owen Heminway fills a tire planter with topsoil in downtown Middlebury during construction of an art project. The tire planters were attached to the chain link fence surrounding part of the rail bridges replacement project by students and teachers from the school program formerly known as Diversified Occupations.

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Chain link gallery spruces up construction zone

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here are many beautiful paintings, drawings and photographs of downtown Middlebury with its iconic churches, a handsome stone arch bridge and quaint Main Street shops — it’s a nearly perfect advertisement for a New England village.

Unfortunately, those images are marred by a big building project that most would call anything by beautiful.

BY NICK GARBER

Middlebury is in the midst of a $71 million project that is replacing two downtown bridges over the railroad that passes under Main Street and Merchants Row with a tunnel that will improve the local infrastructure and even create a little more green space. The building will be

going on through the summer of 2020. While the goal is terrific, the process of getting there is not picturesque. Chain link fences have been set up in the heart of the village producing an atmosphere that says 21st century industrial more than 18th century bucolic.

But wait, less than two months after the fence went up, a first-class artist and some youngsters with an artistic bent came to the fences and covered them with imagery that beautifies the space and puts a whole new spin on a modern day New England village. They call it the new “Chain Link Gallery.”

“The idea was, downtown’s gonna be kind of ugly for the next two years,” said Doug Anderson, executive director of the Town Hall Theater, which

sits at the top of Merchants Row. “It’s the old thing of seeing a problem and seeing if you can turn it into a plus, or something exciting.”

The THT spearheaded the project and put out the open call for submissions. The project was made possible by the citizens’ group Neighbors Together, and a $75,000 grant that they secured from the Vermont Agency of Transportation.

Currently, the gallery consists of three fence panels, each six feet tall by 12 feet long — two by local artists and one by students. The panel on the right was designed by Jennifer Parmelee, a local artist and special education teacher at Middlebury Union High School. Titled “Gratitude,” it includes golden mannequin heads, metal clothes hangers SEE FENCE ON PAGE 3

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Fabrications of Clay: Deborah Goodwin’s work in Brandon

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Deborah Goodwin’s ceramic art pieces resemble fabric, there’s a good reason. “I’ve borrowed some techniques from apparel manufacturing,” explains the former fashion merchandiser, “making a pattern and embossing clay slabs with fabric textures.”

The combination of supple fabric details and hard clay makes a comfortable, casual fit. “All my pieces are functional, with a — hopefully — fun twist,” Deborah says.

The Brandon Artists Guild — “the BAG” to those in the know — on Friday opens a show of ceramic works by Goodwin, who lives and makes art in Stockbridge, Vt., which is just east on Route 73 over the mountains and south on Route 100 a couple miles. The exhibit, “Fabrications in Clay,” runs June 29 through Aug. 28. The public is invited to the opening reception Friday, June 29, from 5 to 7 p.m.

This show is part of Vermont Arts 2018 — a yearlong celebration highlighting arts events across the state — sponsored by the Vermont Arts Council. The largest piece in the BAG show, “Strata,” is a series of nine interconnected tiles, or trivets. “I envisioned each trivet as an individual work but wanted the textures and colors to flow throughout the whole installation,” Goodwin says.

Goodwin holds a B.F.A. in ceramics and sculpture from Denison University in Granville, Ohio. She discovered the Brandon Artists Guild on vacations in Vermont while working as a clothing designer in New York. In 2007 she and her family moved to Vermont and she rekindled her passion for ceramics. She joined the BAG as an exhibiting member in 2017.

The BAG, at 7 Center St. in Brandon, is open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Information: 802 247-4956.

“Vase” by Deborah Goodwin

Pastels depict Vt. scenes

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n exhibit of pastel works by Cristine Kossow, of Middlebury, is at the Storm Café from June 19 through August 19. In the past year, Cristine has exhibited locally at the Edgewater Gallery, the Jackson Gallery at the Town Hall Theatre, the Brandon Artists Guild, and the Southern Vermont Art Center in Manchester.

The Storm Cafe exhibit is an eclectic collection of farm animal portraits, local landscapes and unique perspectives of everyday objects. You can see more of her art at cristinekossow.com.

Cristine serves on the Board of Governors of the Pastel Society of America, and is currently on exhibit at the View Arts Center in Old Forge N.Y., where she just won the award for Best Still Life at the Northeast National Pastel Exhibition.

The Storm Café is located at 3 Mill Street alongside the river in downtown Middlebury.

“Jed’s Girl,” 11 x 14 pastel, by Cristine Kossow

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wrapped in yarn, and a dozen quotations printed on colored paper, encouraging kindness and contemplation. “It is an homage to wisdom, evolution, enlightenment and tolerance,” Parmelee said of her work. “A moment of reflection in these trying times.”

While “Gratitude” was Parmelee’s brainchild, she said “the kids were very much involved, especially the hands-on hanging the installation itself.” And the leftmost panel — entitled “Jardin D.O.” — is entirely the students’ creation, from idea to implementation. It consists of flower planters made from recycled tires, interspersed with hanging bunches of hand-painted CDs — the result of a full day’s work from Parmelee’s students in the Middlebury Union High School program formerly known as Diversified Occupations.

“They absolutely loved it,” Parmelee said. “These kids have their own challenges — a lot of them have intellectual disabilities, some of them have physical disabilities.

These are kids that definitely have some uphill battles, and to see them shine and be as happy as they can be creating art is absolutely, 150 percent gratification. As an educator,

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as a human, as a mother, as a parent, it’s just a beautiful thing.”

“The day that they were out there, out of school, people were driving by and honking and waving at them, and they were stars,” Anderson recalled.

“It was the process that was the most fun.”

Sandwiched between the works of Parmelee and her students is “Middlebury Boogie Woogie” by the Middlebury artist Kate Gridley — a colorful crosshatch of black lines and bright squares, recognizably imitating the Dutch painter Piet Mondrian.

Gridley’s piece is composed of hundreds of plastic cups that she found online, which are designed specifically to be inserted into the squares of a chain link fence.

Gridley sought to create “a graphic, big, bright piece of art that would obscure the toilet behind here,” she said, gesturing to the construction workers’ porto-potty behind the fence.

“This is an arrangement of shapes — it’s more geometric, because we’re dealing with transportation systems and corridors.”

“We felt strongly that whatever the art was, it had to acknowledge the chain-linkiness of the frame,” Anderson said. “It wasn’t just a matter of hanging art on it, it had to acknowledge it. Kate totally got that, she totally got that it worked in diagonals.”

Local artist Kate Gridley works on her Piet Mondrian-inspired contribution to the chain link fence art installation on part of the fence surrounding the rail bridges replacement project in downtown Middlebury. Gridley and local students and teachers worked on the project earlier this month.

Middlebury Union High School educator Jennifer Parmelee, left, and Neighbors Together Committee Chair Nancy Malcolm meet with VTrans Regional Construction Engineer Doug Bonneau, VTrans Resident Engineer Tim Pockette and rail bridges replacement project Community Liaison Jim Gish to discuss progress of an art installation along fencing surrounding the construction project.

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“You’ve got to let the fence speak, even when you’re hiding it,” Gridley agreed.

THE WORK CONTINUES All those involved with the gallery stress that the current installation is only the beginning. Each piece will be rotated out after two months, and Anderson hopes to expand onto other construction fences downtown. “Now that we’ve got the first installation up, other artists are coming forward — ‘Now I see what you’re talking about, I see how much fun that could be. Can I do one?’ Sure. We’re already

seeing more people applying,” he said.

Count Parmelee as one artist who remains interested.

“I’d love to be able to continuously be contributing, I have tons of ideas,” she said.

“There’s so many things that you can do, it’s just a matter of having the courage to put something out there, and working out all the kinks. So anything can be done.”

As for Gridley, who is a wellknown painter who has painted the official portrait of Gov. James Douglas among other notables, she hopes that her contribution helped “set

a bar for strong, graphically happy stuff” to ease the town through a difficult period in its history. “We’re worried about this downtown losing energy, we’re worried about stores closing, about tourists not wanting to come down here while it’s ugly and messy,” she said. “The thing is, it’s still our town center — there’s energy here.”

Anyone interested in submitting a design should email office@townhalltheater. org, where proposals will be accepted over the next two years.

Middlebury Union High School sophomore Jasmine Gero, left, and senior Lianna Sargent weave vines through the chain link fence surrounding part of the rail bridges replacement project in downtown Middlebury recently. Their work was part of a larger art installation done in collaboration with Town Hall Theater.

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OUT OF TOWN Goldsmith at Half Lounge

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ermont guitarist and singer Gordon Goldsmith returns to the Green Mountain State this weekend with a month-long summer residence at Half Lounge in Burlington.

Goldsmith, 33, toured Australia and the South Pacific in

2016, playing his blues and rock guitar accompanying his soulful vocals. Now he’ll be at the Half Lounge on the Church Street Marketplace every Saturday from June 30 through July 28, playing 8-10 p.m.

Hear his single online at GordonGoldsmith.bandcamp.com then see him live.

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Singer/songwriter Whetherman will deliver his singing contemporary commentary at Shelburne Vineyards next Thursday.

Whetherman to play at Shelburne Vineyards Music in a vineyard — you’ve probably done it around here, but how about in Chittenden County? Here’s your chance.

The musical act called “Whetherman” will perform at Shelburne Vineyard next Thursday evening, July 5, as part of the vineyard’s First Thursday Concert Series.

Whetherman, also known as Nicholas Williams, likes to deliver his commentary on America today with his singer/ songwriter repertoire that spans the sound of folk, blues, bluegrass and country in a style reminiscent of ’60s folk heroes. Bring along friends and family, a chair or blanket and settle onto the vineyard grounds for a memorable evening while you munch on supper specialties from Blue Donkey Food Truck. Wine and Fiddlehead beer will be available for sale by the glass and a portion of the beverage proceeds will benefit the Vermont Historical Society, which collects artifacts, books and documents that reflect the entire history of the state.

Admission is free and all are welcome, so pack up a lawn chair or blanket, gather a few friends and come start your weekend early. Start time is 6 p.m., but if you come before that you can grab a spot on the grass or patio, enjoy the music and watch the grapes grow. In case of rain, the concert will move indoors.

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IN TOWN First animated feature film to screen in Brandon

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‘THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED’, A LANDMARK OF EARLY CINEMA TO BE SHOWN JUNE 30 for the intertitles in his films. Leaving Germany prior to World War II, she settled in England and continued to work on animation and film projects until her death in 1981. In 2016,

inematic fantasy fans often cite Walt Disney’s “Snow White” (1937) as the first full-length animated feature film. But more than a decade earlier, German filmmaker Lotte Reiniger produced “The Adventures of Prince Achmed” (1926), a featurelength animated fantasy that thrilled audiences worldwide. The film will be shown with live accompaniment at the Brandon Town Hall at 7 p.m. on Saturday, June 30.

Unavailable and unappreciated for many years, Reiniger’s unique silent animation fantasy has now been restored so today’s audiences can once again enjoy it.

Reiniger was honored with her own “Google doodle,” in which the search engine featured Reiniger accomplishments on what would have been her 117th birthday.

“THE ADVENTURES OF Prince Achmed,” the first-ever animated full-length film, features a unique silhouette animation technique devised by the film’s creator Lotte Reiniger.

“The Adventures of Prince Achmed” features a silhouette animation technique that Reiniger invented that involved manipulated cutouts made from cardboard and thin sheets of lead under a camera. The technique she used for the camera is similar to Wayang shadow puppets, though hers were animated frame by frame, not manipulated in live action. The original prints featured color tinting, which has since been restored.

The story is based on elements taken from the “One Thousand and One Nights,” specifically “The Story of Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Paribanou” featured in Andrew Lang’s “Blue Fairy Book.”

In “Prince Achmed,” a handsome prince rides a

Two homages to “Prince Achmed” can be spotted in two Disney films: the duel between a witch and a wizard who both transform in various creatures is found in Disney’s “The Sword in the Stone” (1963), and a character named Prince Achmed makes a cameo at the beginning of Disney’s “Aladdin.”

flying horse to far-away lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.

Admission is free and the familyfriendly program is open to all; freewill donations will go to ongoing building renovation and restoration work.

All action is depicted in the at-times beguilingly intricate silhouette style of animation that Reiniger herself developed. Film was Reiniger’s passion; as a child she was delighted by the trick films of French illusionist Georges Méliès, and later the dreamy horrors of Paul Wegener. She was also an enthusiast for the Chinese art of shadow puppetry, creating her own silhouette spectaculars for a parental audience.

Musical accompaniment for the film with be provided by Jeff Rapsis, a New Hampshire-based silent film musician. The film is the third in this summer’s silent film series, which allows local moviegoers to experience silent film the way its makers originally intended: on the big screen, with live music, and with an audience.

As a young woman and keen to work with Wegener, she found a job designing silhouettes

Also on the bill will be several short animation films from the silent era. “Because we’re showing ‘Prince Achmed,’ we figured we’d make it an allcartoon night,” Rapsis said.

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Bicyclists riding in the 2018 Vermont Gran Fondo will pull away from the Woodchuck Cidery on Exchange Street in SATURDAY JUNE Middlebury Saturday morning on an odyssey that will take them on two wheels up the face of the Green Mountains on one of four loops.

Some will complete the longest loop — the Gran Fondo — 114 miles with 10,736 feet of elevation change over four mountain gaps. After party at Woodchuck, 2-7 p.m.

Vermont Philharmonic and some special guests will perform contemporary music, light classics, Broadway and film MONDAY JULY favorites, and World War I patriotic songs in the Henry Sheldon Museum’s annual Pops Concert behind the Mahaney Arts Center on the Middlebury College campus. Grounds open for picnicking at 5:30 p.m., music starts at 7:30 and fireworks with musical accompaniment get under way just after dark.

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FABULOUS FOURTH Start off your Independence Day with the Great Bristol Outhouse Race — a fun competition full of pageantry, WEDNESDAY JULY sweat and laughs — that is contested on West Street in Bristol right on the town green. Races start at 9 a.m. Stick around for the wonderful parade that will wind through the village beginning at 10:30 a.m.; this year’s theme is “Broadway Musicals.” Then head to the green for music plus food and craft vendors.

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2018 VERMONT GRAN FONDO IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 30, 6:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Woodchuck Cidery, 1321 Exchange St. Want a challenge?

Here’s an opportunity to bike four Vermont gaps, clocking up to 114 miles and climbing 10,736 feet in this annual Gran Fondo ride.

Shorter rides — the Medio, Facile and Piccolo fondos — are options for those less ambitious.

Après-ride party at Woodchuck Cidery 2-7 p.m.

Live music, food, locally produced beverages and farm-to-spoon ice cream. More info at vermontgranfondo.com.

“COCO” ON SCREEN IN SHOREHAM. Saturday, June 30, 1 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, Main St. Bring your lunch to the library and enjoy a hit movie in air-conditioning. Free.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB BREAD LOAF SECTION HIKE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 30, Abbey Pond Rd., off Route 116. Moderately difficult. 4.6 miles round trip with 1,260-foot elevation gain; the trail steeply climbs 1,000 feet in the first mile with stream crossing, followed by easier terrain. Trail ends at Abbey Pond with an unobstructed view of Robert Frost Mountain. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, lunch and hiking poles, if needed.

More info contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@ gmail.com or 802-388-5407. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

“THE ADVENTURES OF PRINCE ACHMED” ON SCREEN IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 30, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Taken from “The Arabian Nights,” the 1926 full-length animated feature tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse, sending him off to a series of wondrous and romantic adventures. Silent film aficionado Jeff Rapsis provides live musical accompaniment.

Free. Donations accepted.

“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 air movie viewing. Rain location Holley Hall.

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ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN BRANDON. Friday, June 29, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. Come meet the artist Deborah Goodwin and view her show “Fabrications in Clay.”

“PLEVNA” ON STAGE AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Thursday, June 28, 8 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. This Howard Barker play is a one-person meditation on the aftermath of the Siege of Plevna, a Turkish town taken by the Russians in 1877. Performed by Alex Draper and directed by Richard Romagnoli. Free. More info at middlebury. edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

ARTISTS’ OPENING RECEPTION AND WINE TASTING IN VERGENNES. Friday, June 29, 5-8 p.m., Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St. Come see “Working Metal, Creating Art,” which features the work of six Vermont artists: Kate Pond, sculptor; Chris Cleary, sculptor; Warren Rinehart, blacksmith; John Arthur, coppersmith; Kathy Mitchell, silversmith; and Meg Walker, sculptor.

“THE POSSIBILITIES” AND “THE AFTER-DINNER JOKE” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 29, 2 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater. “The Possibilities,” directed by Richard Romagnoli, is a quartet from an evening of parables. In “The AfterDinner Joke,” directed by Cheryl Faraone, a young idealist determines to do good and avoid the political; chaos ensues. Also free.

ART EXHIBIT RECEPTION AND POETRY READING IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, June 30, 4-6 p.m., Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Come see “Birds, Bees and Butterflies in the Land of Milk and Honey,” an art exhibition with accompanying poetry reading and reception to benefit the Otter Creek Audubon Society. Artwork by Klara Calitri and poetry by local writers.

“WORKS IN PROGRESS: BRECHT ON BRECHT” IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 29, 6 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater. A theatrical collage of writings and songs of Bertolt Brecht. Free as well.

VISUAL ARTS

MUSIC THE SILVERBACKS IN BRANDON. Friday, June 29, 6-9 p.m., The Inn at Neshobe River, 79 Stone Mill Dam Rd. The Inn’s Summer Concert series

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kicks off with this authentic blues and rock classics band. Featuring Tom Caswell playing a searing lead guitar, Tom Van Sant on lead vocals and guitar, Scott Totten on harmonica, Peter Kennedy, bass and Rob Zollman on drums. This Brandon-based band has quickly developed a loyal following from their lively and fun performances at Sister Wicked’s monthly open mic. Make sure to wear your dancing shoes.

MIDDLEBURY CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 29, 7-8:30 p.m., Unity Hall, Congregational Church of Middlebury, N. Pleasant St. Community players and participants in the Middlebury Music Festival Chamber Music Workshop will read chamber orchestra pieces including Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 and Handel Concerto Grosso Op. 3, No. 6 among others. Jon Weber will conduct.

MIDDLEBURY CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL CONTINUES. Saturday, June 30, and Sunday, July 1, both 7-8:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. On Saturday, Arturo Delmoni, violin, and Peter Sanders, cello, will perform a program of duets as well as a string quartet with violinist Emily Sunderman and violist Elizabeth Reid; there will also be virtuosic solo pieces accompanied by pianist Cynthia Huard. On Sunday, Olivia Hajioff, Marc Ramirez, Miho Weber and Jon Weber will offer a program including Shostakovich String Quartet No. 2 in A major, Op. 68, Overture: Moderato con moto, and Kodaly, duet for Violin and Cello, Alfred Schnittke “Moz-Art” duet for Two Violins, among others.

POINT COUNTERPOINT FACULTY ENSEMBLE IN SALISBURY. Friday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Come hear these talented musicians as they play Popper’s Requiem for Three Cellos and Piano; Faure’s Piano Quartet in C Minor, Op. 15; and Schubert’s String Quartet in D Minor “Death and the Maiden.”

Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free-will donation.

GYPSY REEL IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. A Celtic band that rocks. Show $20. Dinner & show $45. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. BYOB. Call 802247-4295 or email info@brandon-music.net to reserve.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLE CLUB CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, July 1, 2-3 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. 100

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Eastview Ter. The Fiddle Club, led by fiddler Peter McFarlane, performs a concert of traditional Scottish fiddle music. Free and open to the public.

“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: 802-247-6401 or info@brandon. org.

MUSIC AND MOVIES SERIES IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m., Riverfront Park at the Marble Works. The Better Middlebury Partnership’s series continues with a free concert by Quinn and the Confluence. American Flatbread by the slice and beer and wine for purchase starting at 6 p.m.

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 from the golden era of top 40 hits. Free. Wine by the glass and hot food and available for purchase.

SERGEI GRATCHEV CARILLON AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE. Friday, July 6, 6 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns. Gratchev is the carillonneur for the Middlebury Summer Russian Language School and also for the city of Hulst, Netherlands. Come hear this a staple of summer life on the Middlebury campus. Free. More info at go.middlebury.edu/carillon.

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.

JUST FOR FUN STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL IN SHOREHAM. Thursday, June 28, 5-7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Feast on strawberry shortcake, strawberry sundaes, strawberry pie, ice cream with strawberries, just plain strawberries or the works. Prices depend on the items purchased. A limited number of whole strawberry pies for sale. Make strawberries your dessert or your entire meal that night and enjoy the fun and good food.

FIREWORKS AND POPS CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, July 2, grounds open at 5:30 p.m., behind Mahaney Center for the Arts 72 Porter Field Rd. The Henry Sheldon Museum’s annual Pops Concert with the Vermont Philharmonic. Lou Kosma will conduct a medley of contemporary music, light classics, Broadway and film favorites, and World War I patriotic songs. New this year — vintage cars and a raffle of picnic baskets painted by local artists.

Concert begins at 7:30. Bring chairs, blankets, and flashlights. Tickets, $25/youth $10/children under 12 free/ prior to June 26 adult $20, and more info available at Sheldon at 802-388-2117, online henrysheldonmuseum.org or in person at the museum, 1 Park St. Rain site: Kenyon Arena.

INDEPENDENCE DAY FIREWORKS AND PARTY IN BRISTOL. Tuesday, July 3, 6 p.m. 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: 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 (9 a.m.), parade (10:30), and a party on the green (noon). Join the fun. For the comfort of those around you, please leave your pets at home.

More info: Cecil Foster at 802-453-4877 or cecil@gmavt.com.

43RD ANNUAL ICE CREAM SOCIAL IN SALISBURY. Wednesday, July 4, 1:30-4:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Visit with neighbors and enjoy ice cream with a wide range of toppings and home-baked pie or cake. The quantities are large, the prices are reasonable. Rain or shine.

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.

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION IN BRANDON. Saturday, July 7, all day, Park Village Complex, Route 7 North.

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APPROACHING LIFE WITH A BEGINNERS’ MIND

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omorrow I leave for Maine Fiddle Camp in Liberty, Maine.

It is an old style sort of camp, rustic, with kids age 5 to 99 playing tunes and gathering to eat by the sound of the bell.

My daughter and I will spend the week there camping and playing tunes, mostly of the Quebecois genre. She plays ukulele and I play fiddle. All day long. We will go to bed with sore fingers and wake with music in our souls.

BY LAURA WILKINSON

When acquaintances learn of our vacation plans, they often reply with, “You play fiddle?

I didn’t know that!” My rote answer has been, “well … not really, I’m just learning. I’m not really good; I’m just practicing and trying. I mean … the cats still run when I play.” Just recently, I have been reflecting on how differently my 10-yearold answers the same question. Her reply is definitive. “Yes, I play the ukulele.” Her reply embodies a quality of living that comes naturally when we I AM GRATEFUL are young. It is an attitude that allows us to be open THAT MY to new ideas and let DAUGHTER’S go of expectations. In my 45 years of growth, I UNABASHED realize that this attitude COMFORT has become a bit rusty WITH BEING for me. My interest and curiosity has not waned, yet A BEGINNER my comfort with not being PROVIDES ME THE “good” has diminished.

OPPORTUNITY TO REFLECT ON MY OWN JOURNEY AND HOW I WANT TO EXPERIENCE MY LIFE.

As people with more years under our belts, we are accustomed to being not only proficient, but also often experts in our realms of living.

Although this can be gratifying after spending years developing and studying a particular area of focus, I find that it can also be limiting in the approach to the acquisition of new skills and passions. I am grateful that my daughter’s unabashed comfort with being a beginner provides me the opportunity to reflect on my own journey and how I want to experience my life. It also brings to mind the advice of two friends that I will carry with me this week.

1. STOP PRACTICING THIS LIFE AND START PLAYING. A friend once called me out on my above statements, like only a true friend can. She said, “Laura, stop talking about practicing the fiddle

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and start playing.” Touché. Practicing and playing sure do have a different feeling, eh? Playing is living in the moment, being right there with the sweetness of a note well played as well as with the out of tune squeak. It is relishing in all that exists, without judgment. I know that is where I want to live my life, whether I am playing the fiddle or connecting with a friend.

I do not want to be rehearsing or getting ready for the performance. This moment is the performance of your life. Right here. Right now.

2. FAIL. FAIL AGAIN. FAIL BETTER. Chris Prickitt, my local fiddle teacher, quoted this to me during the winter when I was bemoaning my frustration regarding a playing plateau. I don’t believe he knew it, but the quote is actually attributable to Samuel Beckett, an Irish playwright and poet that Pema Chodron, a beloved Buddhist teacher, then quoted in a commencement

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speech she gave at Naropa University. Regardless of the proper acknowledgement, the wisdom of the quote prevails: Mistakes and failures are the portal to discovery, creativity, and learning something new. This thing we call life is a process, not a product. The product? That’s just our epitaph.

The process is the beautiful mess that we make along the way, with all those notes articulated with perfect intonation, as well as all those sounds that have the cats running for the hills. I am certain to play both of these this coming week at camp. One thing is for sure, though, I will be enjoying the adventure as I play. Because, yes, I play the fiddle.

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IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY An Exhibition of Poetry and Art featuring Klara Calitri.

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The African savanna comes to life with Simba and Nala, Pumbaa and Timon, Mufasa and Scar, and more unforgettable characters as they journey from Pride Rock to the jungle and back again in this inspiring, coming-of-age story.

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This summer Town Hall Theater turns 10 years old! Join us for a festive, free birthday party. Share some cake, take a walk down memory lane and catch live entertainment as we celebrate 10 years of culture, community and creativity.

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POINT COUNTERPOINT CONCERT The annual free concert by the talented staff of Point CounterPoint, the classical music school on Lake Dunmore, is always an exciting event. Join us for an evening of chamber music. *Donations to benefit Point CounterPoint will be accepted.

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Williams’ memory play is given the Young Company treatment. Using physical theater, non-traditional casting and character exploration, Young Company students bring a fresh perspective to this classic piece.

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EXHIBITS WATERFOWL WONDERS AND AMUSING ANIMALS BY THREE SELF-TAUGHT ADDISON COUNTY VERMONT CARVERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Work by three carvers with very different styles — Chuck Herrmann, Bill Holway, and Gary Starr — on display at the Sheldon Museum of Vermont History through summer 2018. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St., Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.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.

“BLADES WILL SPROUT” AT NORTHERN DAUGHTERS GALLERY IN VERGENNES. This summer show features the work of Anne Cady, Julia Jensen and Jessica Smith — three artists who use familiar landscapes as an entrance point to creating art, but otherwise have very little else in common. On view June 14 through July 29 at 221 Main St. Opening reception on Friday, June 22, 5-8 p.m. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

BIRDS, BEES AND BUTTERFLIES IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY. An exhibition of paintings by Klara Calitri at the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, June 1 to July 8. Jackson Gallery is on the lower level of Town Hall Theater, open Monday through Saturday noon to 5 p.m., and an hour before any public events in the building. 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

WORKING METAL, CREATING ART AT CREATIVE SPACE GALLERY. The exhibit features the work of six Vermont artists: Kate Pond, sculptor; Chris Cleary, sculptor; Warren Rinehart, blacksmith; John Arthur, coppersmith; Kathy Mitchell, silversmith; and Meg Walker, sculptor. Reception with the artists and wine tasting Friday, June 29, 5-8 p.m. On view June 29-Aug. 12. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St., Vergennes.

THE LAST OF THE HILL FARMS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD BROWN. On display through July, 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: 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.

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. (802) 388-4095 or ilsleypubliclibrary.org.

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.

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MUSIC Celtic music reigns at Brandon Music Saturday

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Celtic band that rocks, Gypsy Reel plays high energy, stirring music rooted in the Celtic tradition but garnered from the whole world.

Members of the quintet have “bags of originality” (so says Andy Cheyne of Folk Roots) and according to The Message in Chester, Vt., are “the hottest acoustic band around.” Gypsy Reel will perform at Brandon Music this Saturday, June 30. It will be the group’s fourth show here and they love the venue and acoustics so much that they recorded their last show. The resulting CD — “Gypsy Reel Live 2017” — will be on sale at Saturday’s show.

Their nine recordings feature music from the tradition and original material from the band.

The common theme is their joyous approach to music and the fun they share with the audience during live performances.

Gypsy Reel’s lineup includes hot banjoist, guitarist and vocalist

Gypsy Reel brings their high-energy celtic-rooted world music to Brandon Music on Saturday, June 30, at 7:30 p.m.

Claudine Langille, formerly of Touchstone, the sensational Irish/ American fusion band that won

critical acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic; Graham Parker, eclectic fiddler extraordinaire; Camille Parker

live music THE SILVERBACKS IN BRANDON. Friday, June 29, 6-9 p.m., The Inn at Neshobe River.

POINT COUNTERPOINT FACULTY ENSEMBLE IN SALISBURY. Friday, June 29, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

KAI STANLEY IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 29, 7-9 p.m., Notte.

GYPSY REEL IN BRANDON. Saturday, June 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

THE TOM CASWELL BLUES BAND IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, July 1, 6 p.m., Rough Cut. VERGENNES CITY BAND IN VERGENNES. Monday, July 2, 7 p.m., City Park.

VERMONT PHILHARMONIC IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, July 2, 7:30 p.m., behind Mahaney Center for the Arts.

BIG HAT, NO CATTLE IN BRANDON. Wednesday, July 4, behind the Brandon Inn. QUINN AND THE CONFLUENCE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, July 5, 7 p.m., Riverfront Park, Marble Works.

who has captivated the hearts of audiences across the globe with her mandolin, bodhran and vocals; and the young prodigy Silas Hamilton on standup bass and guitar.

Higher Ground Music says “Gypsy Reel have been perfecting their eclectic blend of Celtic and original music for over 20 years all over the world.” They add “Don’t miss this chance to hear these great entertainers”!

Concert begins at 7:30 p.m.

Show $20. Dinner and show $45.

Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show.

Venue is BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@ brandon-music.net for reservations or for more information. Brandon Music is located at 62 Country Club Rd. Brandon, VT 05733. brandonmusic.net.

This event is a part of Vermont Arts 2018, celebrating arts in Vermont.

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the movie OCEAN’S 8 — RUNNING TIME: 1:50 — RATING: PG-13 What’s the test of a good comedy? In the case of “Ocean’s 8” you know you’re having fun when you feel yourself rooting for the bad guys. When does that happen in this one? In the first scene. As Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean concocts a grand lie to convince the parole boss to let her out of jail, we realize she has already created an entire plan for her next heist. She invites us on board and we jump.

She goes straight from jail to a store where she steals a few things to get back in thieving shape before assembling her new team. Her first enlistee is former partner Lou (Cate Blanchett). The two take a research tour through the Metropolitan Museum of Art where they plan their heist of a necklace worth $150 million.

You will be confused, as I still am, by the number of thieves and their operating speed but credit them all: Anne Hathaway (public focus), Helena Bonham Carter (down-on-her luck fashion designer), Mindy Kaling (jewelry maker), Rihanna (sublime mechanic), Awkwafina (pickpocket) and Sarah Paulson (suburbanite thief).

When else would they plan the heist except on the night of the Met’s annual gala? The team does its thoroughly confusing work while we watch the staff setting the elegant tables for top tier New Yorkers. As they arrive, we follow the men in their unimaginative black as they escort their dates in designer dresses, all of them ready and striving for press coverage.

The fakery of that procession whets our appetites for the perfectly timed activities of the burglary team who are now executing their assignments — some in plain sight, some in hiding.

Following the robbers through the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a delight, and whenever Debbie Ocean’s intricate theft plan becomes confusing, just enjoy the glorious art. It’s all right there as background for the gang of smart, sophisticated crooks who blend in with the tourists

Sandra Bullock (left), Sarah Paulson, Rihanna, Cate Blanchett, and Awkwafina are among the stars in “Ocean’s 8” (2018).

while executing their complex assignments.

The gang of eight is after a necklace and their way of getting it is intricate and full of fun. But getting it, as you’ll see is just the beginning of the plan.

Each member of this unique gang has special skills along with a particular assignment from Ocean. The reason it adds up to wacky fun is that it never once pretends to be possible or serious. They give moviegoers a holiday from taking movies as seriously as most of us now do.

Sandra Bullock establishes all that in the first scene. “Here,” she is saying, “Take a rest from your serious life and have some wacky fun.”

That’s precisely what we do. Bullock doesn’t dominate the screen but captures us with her sly smile and sharp brain. She has a very adult, quiet sophistication that draws us into all the fun she designs as Debbie Ocean including a wonderful final surprise. Take two hours off from your serious life to chuckle at the craziness she gives us.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

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WHITE FRAGILITY: WHY IT’S SO HARD FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT (Beacon Press) RACISM — ROBIN DIANGELO Have you ever insisted, “I’m not racist?” If yes — and be honest — please read this book. Chances are, you are, in fact, racist — if entirely unwillingly. You’re still a good person! But if you want race relations in this country to improve, you are going to need to stop reflexively defending your deeply held biases and start trying to understand them. DiAngelo, a white educator, explains very clearly, in plain, non-threatening language, all the ideas standing in our way, many of which you’ve heard and dismissed as hyperbole or even nonsense — because you don’t want to be racist. Take “white supremacy”; to me this sounds applicable only to men in white hoods, but is, for the purpose of understanding race relations, “a descriptive and useful term,” which refers to, “an overarching … system of domination.” In other words, I may not be a White Supremacist, but I live in a white supremacy. It really does help to accept the existence of structural racism; from there we can begin to work as individuals to address our personal contributions, for good and bad. Undoing centuries of systems — of commerce, justice, education and belief — is going to take time and hard work, but at 150 pages and under $20, this powerful manual is an easy and inexpensive place for you and me both to start.

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CHAMBER MUSIC Stringed instrumentalists return for 4th festival

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he Middlebury Chamber Music Festival returns for its fourth year of in Middlebury.

The festival will include a concert series at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, a chamber music workshop hosted by the Middlebury Community Music Center and several free community events.

The opening concert, Saturday, June 30, from 7-8:30 p.m., features NYC Ballet orchestra virtuoso players Arturo Delmoni (violin) and Peter Sanders (cello) along with locals Cynthia Huard (piano), Emily Sunderman (violin) and Elizabeth Reid (viola).

The group will play a diverse program featuring chamber works by composers Haydn, Alessandro Rolla, Ravel, Schumann and Tchaikovsky at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society (CVUUS), 2 Duane Court, Middlebury.

The following night, Sunday, July 1, MarcOlivia (violinist Olivia Hajioff and violist Marc Ramirez) from Washington, D.C., will be joined by violinist Jonathan and cellist Miho Weber from New York, N.Y., for a concert of duets and

string quartets featuring works by Shostakovich, Kodaly, Alfred Schnittke, Beethoven and Mozart.

This concert is also from 7-8:30 p.m. at CVUUS. Concerts will not be the only offering at the festival. Community members and participants in the Middlebury Music Festival Chamber Music Workshop may sign up for a private lesson with cellist Miho Weber or violinist Jon Weber on Friday morning, June 29, before the workshop begins. You can reserve a lesson time by going to the festival website at middleburychambermusicfestival.com/privatelesson-registration. The lessons will take place at the Middlebury Community Music Center.

COMMUNITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA READING Community players and participants in the Middlebury Music Festival Chamber Music Workshop join together to read chamber orchestra pieces on Friday, June 29, from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

Selections include Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto

Violist Marc Ramirez and violinist Olivia Hajioff will perform at the Middlebury Chamber Music Festival this weekend.

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Then on Sunday morning, July 1, from 10 a.m.-noon, musicians are invited to reimagine and refresh their practice routine with tips, strategies and stories by world-renowned teachers and virtuosic players, violinist Arturo Delmoni and cellist Peter Sanders. This session is free and open to the public and will be held at Community Barn at 44 Main Street in Middlebury.

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The Bengsons

Monday, July 9, 7p.m.

Monday, July 9, 8:30p.m.

A ukulele and cello duo might seem like an odd combination, but only until you hear the music these two create. Canadian Music Award winner James Hill is widely regarded as one of the best ukulele players in the world and Anne Janelle is “A cellist of true beauty” (Ottawa Citizen) who has performed with Kanye West and Bruce Cockburn.

“The Posse was just across the pond playing the Shetland Folk Festival, and James Hill & Anne Janelle were there too… and I must say, absolutely spinechilling good, they were one of my favs!” Tristan Henderson, Pete’s Posse In short, a night out with James Hill and Anne Janelle is “The perfect evening of tunes, stories and musical virtuosity.” – Wellington Dominion-Post

Husband and wife duo, The Bengsons, blend rousing, all-join-hands group choruses, spry melodies and energetic, frenetic rhythms to create rock/art/theater performances.

“The band has to rise to every music journalists list as a must see band soon, because it is unlike anything you have ever seen. It’s as fast and furious as a punk show but as creative and clever as an Off-Broadway play.

Boundaries for The Bengsons do not exist and their shows are a testament to this.” - The Huffington Post For this special concert Middlebury native Abigail Nessen Bengson will be joined by sister Annie and brother Peter as well as Pam Karlin.

To see the full schedule, visit www.festivalonthegreen.org or “Middlebury Festival on the Green” on facebook.

Info: 802-462-3555

2018 Schedule Sunday, July 8 7 p.m. Mokoomba Monday, July 9 Noon Rik Palieri 7 p.m. James Hill and Anne Janelle 8:30 p.m. The Bengsons Tuesday, July 10 Noon Jon Gailmor 7 p.m. Night Tree 8:30 p.m. Genticorum Wednesday, July 11 Noon No Strings Marionette Company 7 p.m. Máire Ní Chathasaigh and Chris Newman 8:30 p.m. The Barbra Lica Quintet Thursday, July 12 Noon Robert and Gigi 7 p.m. The Ballroom Thieves 8:30 p.m. The Mammals Friday, July 13 Noon Magician Tom Verner 7 p.m. The Welterweights 8:30 p.m. Stone Cold Roosters

Saturday, July 14

7 p.m. Vermont Jazz Ensemble Street Dance Proudly supported by the Addison Independent