Thursday, August 10, 2017

On the stage

On fire

From the pool

One man tells the story of an 1812 murder from many points of view. See Arts + Leisure.

Bristol firefighters spent much of last weekend battling a blaze on Deer Leap. See Page 2A.

Local youth wrapped up a fun and competitive season at the state swim meet. See Page 1B.

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Addiction treatment options expand Bristol leaders say

Services growing in 3 area towns

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Addison County will soon see a substantial expansion of Medication Assisted Treatment services for locals who are addicted to narcotic painkillers.

That treatment — which includes the prescribing of Suboxone — is now being offered in Middlebury and will soon take root in Vergennes.

And leaders of Mountain Health — a Federally Qualified Health Center in Bristol — confirmed that beginning next month it also will dispense Medically Assisted Treatment, known as MAT.

The Primary Care Vergennes Office — formerly known as the Little City Family Practice — is preparing to provide MAT services “in the near future,” according to UVMHN, Porter Medical Center spokesman Ron Hallman.

These are major new developments in the county’s war on opioid addiction, which continues to claim

victims. Until last month only the UMVNH, Porter Primary Care Bristol (formerly known as Bristol Internal Medicine) was offering MAT. Its enrollment has been limited to 110 patients, which is a fraction of the number of area residents who are addicted to illicit narcotics and must currently travel many miles north (See Addiction, Page 14A)

‘no’ to gun ordinance

By WILL DIGRAVIO BRISTOL — Members of the Bristol selectboard unanimously rejected a proposed gun ordinance at their meeting this past Monday, agreeing that the proposal

would do nothing to prevent irresponsible gun ownership and may create more of a liability for the town.

“Throw it out. It’s completely (See Gun ordinance, Page 16A)

Study committee recommends $35M rehab for Mount Abe

By GAEN MURPHREE Chief Financial Officer Howard BRISTOL — Monday night the Mansfield told the Independent. His Mount Abe Renovation Committee estimate is based on a 3.75 percent voted to recommend bringing a $35 interest rate. million renovation bond to voters this He said this year’s budget already coming November. The committee’s allocates $1 million for school recommendation now goes before renovation; that same money could be Addison Northeast Superintendent applied to repairs on their own or to a Patrick Reen and the bond project.

Addison Northeast “Structurally “We can keep spending Supervisory Union board $1 million a year to do to the school repairs or we can take this for official consideration.

If voters agree to fund this is the bond and complete the the bond payments, work that project,” said Mansfield. construction to overhaul we’ve been The vote to recommend the nearly 50-year-old saying for 10 the $35 million bond Bristol school building a presentation by years needs followed would begin the summer architects Dore & Whittier, to be done.” of 2019. which outlined a $36.7 — committee million renovation plan.

“Structurally to the member The committee decided school this is the work Troy Paradee on a $35 million bond for that we’ve been saying for 10 years needs to be work beginning in two done,” said committee member Troy years with the assumption that the Paradee, one of the few committee other $1.7 million in the plan would be members who served on the previous paid for out of the $1 million annual committee. “I don’t know how we can appropriation in the Mount Abe do less than this without just nickel budget already earmarked for repairs. and diming all the little stuff. This is THE RENOVATION PLAN what it costs to do this work.”

Dore & Whittier tailored their Residents would pay an extra $87 renovation proposal to meet the needs per $100,000 on the value of their and goals articulated by the committee. home in the first year of payments on a Overall goals included making the $35 million bond, Addison Northeast (See Mt. Abe, Page 15A)

Whoosh!

FAIRGOERS HANG ON while having fun on the Midway during the first day of the 2017 Addison County Fair and Field Days in New Haven Tuesday. The annual fair runs through Saturday. See more photos on Page 13A. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Orwell farm gets corn harvest to pop Stonewood expands popcorn production

By GAEN MURPHREE ORWELL — Best known for its holiday turkeys and year-round frozen turkey sausage, Stonewood Farm is experimenting with something new.

Popcorn.

“We’ve been fooling around with it off and on for 10 years on a small scale, just for home use,” said Paul Stone. “Two, three years ago we got serious about it and grew an acre and

started selling it at the (Middlebury Natural Foods) Co-op. So now we’re up to 3.5 acres this year.”

Paul and Francis Stone started Stonewood Farm in 1976. After dairying for a number of years, they switched to turkeys. In 2009, son Peter Stone and his wife, Siegrid Mertens, took over the business.

But the popcorn sideline is all “Grandpa” Stone’s, as the farm’s founder is affectionately identified on the Stonewood Farm website.

“He started growing more and more and he couldn’t give it away,” said Peter Stone. “So he had to figure

out what to do with it. That’s how it got started.”

Paul Stone has been selling his popcorn at the natural foods coops in Middlebury and Montpelier. The popcorn is delivered in 25-pound bags, and the two stores sell it in their bulk departments. Each co-op sells about 50 pounds of Stonewood popcorn a week, said Stone.

This May, he won a $13,750 grant from the Working Lands Enterprise Fund to expand the business. The grant will be used to expand the farm’s ability to grow, process and (See Popcorn, Page 16A)

By the way Green Mountain Power is warning customers about a bill payment phone scam that threatens customers with disconnection within 15 minutes if they do not pay immediately. In a recent wave of calls, customers received calls claiming to be from GMP and giving the customer a fake, toll-free number to call. That call is answered by a recording purporting to be the power company. These calls are not from GMP. Customers should hang up and call GMP, toll-free, at 1-888835-4672 if they have any payment questions. Kristin Carlson, vice president strategic and external affairs said GMP, is working with all utilities and the Vermont Attorney General’s Office to stop this scam. Affected customers are also encouraged to report the (See By the way, Page 16A) HANDLER KENNETH BESAW congratulates Faith, his miniature donkey, who placed second in the Addison County Fair & Field Days Miniature Donkey & Mule Show on Tuesday.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Mini donkey contest kicks off Field Days PAUL STONE, LEFT, and son Peter Stone stand in Stonewood Farm’s popcorn field in late July. Paul Stone has been experimenting with growing popcorn commercially for the past few years. He won a $13,750 grant this past May from the Working Lands Enterprise Fund to expand the popcorn business. Stonewood is best known for its turkeys; it raises some 30,000 turkeys a year.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By WILL DIGRAVIO MIDDLEBURY — As the sun shone down on the opening day of the 2017 Addison County Fair & Field Days, several miniatures

donkeys earned class titles and one became overall champion.

But ascertaining which deserved the crown was not as easy as it (See Mini donkeys, Page 12A)

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PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, August 10, 2017

LINCOLN FIREFIGHTER Andrew Cousino (wearing a forest service backpack pump) and Bristol firefighters Carl Gile and Anthony Robideau haul six-foot segments of a smoldering tree up the mountainside. In the cloud of smoke below, Bristol firefighter James Robideau is part of a team cutting the 50-foot smoldering log into segments to be dragged away from flammable areas.

Photo courtesy of Bristol Fire Department

Firefighters contain Deer Leap fire Spend two days on Hogback Mountain

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — Firefighters worked for close to 48 hours over the past weekend to contain and control a fire just north of Deer Leap atop Hogback Mountain. The fire burned across two to three acres in an area near the mountain summit at an elevation of around 1,800 feet.

“We were essentially operating for 48 straight hours from first sighting until we wrapped up yesterday and declared it under control,” Bristol Fire Chief Brett LaRose said on Monday. “You can continue to dig up there and keep finding these hot spots. But unless you have thousands of gallons at your disposal you’re not going to completely extinguish it. We’re counting on Mother Nature to help us out.”

Atop the mountain, the area within the burn has been scoured by fire.

“It’s black. Everything is black on the surface. All the trees up there they’re burned partway up. They’re charred or just blackened from the heavy smoke and heat.”

LaRose said the department is continuing to keep an eye on the area within the fire line, and expects the fire to extinguish itself completely over the next few days.

Local and state fire experts were unable to verify the source of the fire. Likely possibilities for this time of year include lightning striking a tree or an unattended campfire, said State Fire Supervisor Lars Lund. But firefighters found no evidence at the scene to definitively support either explanation, Lund said.

Both Lund and LaRose described the fire as a “ground fire,” one that burned close to the ground, driving itself deep towards the rock ledges under the soil. Lund noted that one of the main sources of fuel for the fire were densely packed layers of pine needles under the stands of red pine atop the mountain.

LaRose said that Bristol firefighters were alerted to “heavy white smoke coming from Hogback Mountain” at around 6 p.m. Friday evening.

“You didn’t see flames you saw heavy white smoke,” he said, noting that the smoke was visible from much of Bristol.

As firefighters assembled Friday

FIREFIGHTERS TAKE A break Saturday morning after battling the fire for a number of hours.

BRISTOL FIREFIGHTER AMOS Martin takes a chainsaw to a flaming tree so that it can be moved to the “black area,” where charred remains are pulled to prevent further spread of the fire. Martin wears full wildland fire protective gear and chaps while working with the chainsaw.

evening, the planning began.

“Responding to wildland fire fighting, at least around here, is slow and methodical,” said LaRose. “It takes planning. You don’t just race up the side of a mountain. You have to be prepared. You have to have the appropriate equipment.”

After consulting with Lund and other state wildland fire experts, LaRose dispatched four “runners” up the mountain to assess the situation. Experts could tell that the fire would not be fast moving, so at 7:45 p.m. the decision was made to pull the “hasty team” off the mountain, set a watch overnight and resume more safely with the sun’s first light.

ging down into the soil looking for the hot spots that could potentially spread the fire further.” Sunday that task continued, including cutting apart and removing a large smoldering tree that had begun to spew ash down the mountainside.

Both Lund and LaRose described the area of the blaze near Deer Leap as one that presented considerable safety concerns for firefighters.

“It’s extremely steep terrain. Very difficult,” said LaRose. He noted that the western and southern edges of the fire line ran right along the edge of the cliffs, 30 to 40 feet straight down.

“If you slipped, you’re going for a

Photo courtesy of Bristol Fire Department

Fire officers began planning at around 5 a.m. Saturday morning, said LaRose. And firefighters returned to the mountain at around 6:30 a.m.

Vehicles could access the area only as far up as the Bristol reservoir, said LaRose. So the department used the Bristol reservoir as its main staging area. From the reservoir, firefighters hiked to the top of the mountain to get to the fire itself.

Saturday’s first task was to cut a fire line. Then crews began working inside the fire line to remove organic matter and starve the fire out, scraping away organic matter with special “rakes on steroids,” cutting down any trees that were on fire, “dig-

Photo courtesy of Bristol Fire Department

ride. You have to be on alert and well rested just to be up there working,” LaRose said.

LaRose praised the efforts of the Bristol and surrounding crews in controlling the fire, from those handling logistics at the Bristol fire station to those wielding heavy tools and trudging 50 pounds of water in special backpack water pumps into the fire-containment area.

Over 50 people were deployed over the weekend, Larose reported: 23 Bristol firefighters; 24 firefighters, in total, from departments in Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro; three wildland fire experts from the Vermont Department

of Forests, Parks and Recreation (including Lund); and four volunteers from the Red Cross. Additionally, the Middlebury Fire Department’s rescue team was on alert. Vermont Emergency Management (from the Department of Public Safety) coordinated state resources. And the National Weather Service in Burlington played a critical role in providing real-time information every 30 minutes of operations and as needed, LaRose said.

“Everybody came together and did their part,” said LaRose. “It couldn’t have gone any smoother.”

Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

SMOKE BILLOWING UP from atop Hogback Mountain alerted Bristol residents of a fire at around 6 p.m. last Friday. Firefighters worked through the weekend, on steep terrain and often during dangerous conditions. They contained the fire by late Sunday afternoon.

Photo courtesy of Bristol Fire Department

Addison Independent, Thursday, August 10, 2017 — PAGE 3A

Youth learn how to succeed in workplace Unique curriculum teaches host of skills

By WILL DIGRAVIO MIDDLEBURY — More strict than school, less strict than a traditional job. That’s the mantra of YouthWorks, an initiative sponsored by several Addison County and statewide organizations aiming to make area youth career ready.

This summer, 11 students ages 16-21 have been taking part in a YouthWorks program at Hannaford Career Center and at worksites to develop a variety of personal and professional skills. The goal is to teach them not only how to land a job, but to do well once they’re employed.

The YouthWorks program is run like a workplace, where students learn for 32 hours a week and receive a wage of $10 per hour. The program runs six weeks, until Aug. 17.

“It’s an educational job,” said participant Jake Gorton, 19, of Brandon.

The program is a collaboration between the Career Center, Vermont Adult Learning, and ReSOURCE. A Burlington nonprofit, ReSOURCE received a $71,668 grant from the Vermont Department of Labor to fund a number of youth employment training programs throughout the state. The organization partnered with the Addison County office of Vermont Adult Learning to administer the program in Middlebury. Financial support for the program also came from the United Way of Addison County.

According to ReSOURCE Training Director Bethany Johnson, the Addison County program, one of six throughout the state, is particularly strong. She said that Vermont Adult Learning, ReSOURCE, and the Career Center are able to complement one another to deliver a unique curriculum.

“This program in particular is really special,” she said. “The partnership has been able to develop this unique six-week program ...

The delivery of instruction and curriculum is so tied together.”

Each week of the program is designed to introduce participants to a new skill. During the first week, students go through orientation where they get to know one another and work on their interpersonal skills.

The second, third, fourth and fifth weeks are dedicated to learning automotive, culinary, graphic design and construction skills, respectively. During the sixth and final week, students receive forklift training and spend time touring community businesses.

Throughout the course of the program, students earn six different certifications, including CPR, OSHA and ServSafe certifications.

Michaela Sylvain, 18, of Middlebury said one of the most appealing parts of the program was the widerange of skills it teaches. A 2017 graduate of Middlebury Union High School, Sylvain said she has learned valuable skills that, now that she has graduated, will help her

JUSTIN JACKSON, 17, of Ripton is a student this summer in the Youth Works program at Hannaford Career Center.

land a job.

“I knew I wanted to do something that would broaden my horizons,” she said of the program. “Cool teachers make it all worthwhile.”

One of those cool teachers is Katy Arend, a summer work experience coordinator at ReSOURCE. Arend said that one of the most important parts of the program is that instructors create a genuine workplace environment where students can make mistakes.

She said one day a few students were acting unprofessional and she asked them to leave for the day and come back the next day. A few days later, when the students received their paychecks, they noticed they were paid less because they didn’t work the full day. She said this helped teach students how to be-

JAKE GORTON, LEFT, and Justin Jackson work together in a Hannaford Career Center computer lab during a Youth Works class last week. Youth Works is a program facilitated by Vermont Adult Learning, Hannaford Career Center and ReSOURCE, a state-run program.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

have in the workplace and how, unlike school, there are monetary repercussions as well.

“You get a chance to learn, you get a chance to improve your behavior. We give them more chances (than a traditional workplace) but not an excessive amount” she said.

“They can experiment and feel safe knowing they can make mistakes and get feedback.”

At the end of the day, the feedback and training students receive is designed to provide them with the confidence they need to succeed. Participant Justin Jackson, 17, of Ripton said the program has

helped him realize his goal of becoming a mechanic. Jackson, who has a speech impediment due to deafness in one ear, said that prior to the program he was nervous to work because he was afraid to speak with customers.

According to Arend, Jackson is one of the most talkative program participants. Now, after going through the program, he said he now feels more prepared to enter the workforce.

“I didn’t want to talk to customers because I didn’t want them to misunderstand me,” Jackson said.

“I feel more confident.”

MICHAELA SYLVAIN, 18, of Middlebury and Jake Gorton, 19, of Brandon have participated in the Youth Works program this summer at the Hannaford Career Center. The program pays students to learn job and job hunting skills.

Tractor Supply eyes Middlebury location

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Tractor Supply, which bills itself as “the largest operator of rural lifestyle stores in the United States,” is proposing to build a 19,000-square-foot store off Foote Street in Middlebury, on a 6.5acre parcel located behind the A&W Restaurant.

The Middlebury Development Review Board is scheduled to take an initial look at the plan at its Aug. 28 meeting, according to Town Planner Jennifer Murray. Retail stores are allowed as a conditional use in Middlebury’s Protected Highway District. If the Tractor Supply store earns local approval, it would then move on to Act 250 review, Murray noted.

Frank S. Alexander, Jr. is a project director for Primax Properties LLC, which is pursuing the project on behalf of Tractor Supply. During a phone interview on Monday, Alexander said the new building will be a single-story structure that will be in keeping with the town’s aesthetic tastes. Middlebury has over the years crafted development rules that discourage franchise prototype architecture.

As the Addison Independent went to press, Tractor Supply was still working on the design for its Middlebury store.

“Everyone wants to see something that fits the ‘Vermont look,’” Alexander said. “(Our building) will look almost like something you would see on a farm.”

The new Tractor Supply would

have 75 parking spaces, a number that Alexander believes should be more than enough. He said the typi-

cal Tractor Supply customer tends to know exactly what he or she wants, thereby contributing to a quick turn-

over in parking spaces.

“Tractor Supply is not a big traffic (See Tractor Supply, Page 7A)

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A DDIS ON INDE P E NDEN T

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Tough questions for 3 towns demand thorough discussion We won’t get into the weeds of local board decisions, but perhaps a few questions and observations might help stimulate upcoming discussions about a few crucial town issues. Those issues affect the Mount Abraham Union school district, where building committee members have proposed a $35 million bond to renovate the high school; in Orwell, where that community has rejected merging with the Fair Haven Union School district under Act 46; and Middlebury taxpayers and patrons of Ilsley Library where board members have proposed a $9.6 million expansion. ********* MOUNT ABE’S PROPOSED $35 MILLION BOND At Mount Abe, the proposed $35 million bond would be put before voters this November, just three years after voters firmly rejected a $32.6 million bond for similar renovations. First, however, the committee’s proposal goes to the school board for consideration. That board should resist rubber-stamping the committee’s proposal and take ample time vetting the proposal, pursuing its own due diligence concerning what is essential to the student’s academic outcomes as well as a realistic assessment of what the school community will approve. It does no good to adopt a proposal that is “best for students,” if voters shoot it down for a second time.

Committee members are right (see story on Page 1A) that one of their challenges is to wage a better public relations campaign to explain why it cost so much to rehab the school, but that’s not enough. They must also explain how and why local residents can afford such increases — not only does the property tax rebate system currently favor those least able to pay based on their income, but also because up-to-date school facilities attract stronger growth in a community. The likelihood of future growth, however, poses another sticking point: What are the growth trends of the five towns in the school district, and how easy will it be to convince voters that Chittenden County’s southward expansion would benefit those communities if their educational facilities are up to snuff — and what’s the potential loss if they are not?

We personally toured the school three years ago, and understand the fundamental needs that must be made to that facility. In many respects, it is in dire shape and requires a makeover. But at the end of the day, voters need to believe in the math and how that affects the future of their community. They must also believe their investment is a necessity, and that there is a reasonably good return on that investment.

What they don’t want are namby-pamby explanations that additional sunlight in hallways, or other amenities, makes students miraculously comprehend physics. If there is proof that is so, show them; if not, better think twice about putting such things on the bill for taxpayers to foot, or come up with a darn good explanation for the cost. ********* ILSLEY LIBRARY’S $9.6 MILLION UPGRADE Board members at Middlebury’s Ilsley Library face a similar task: convincing Middlebury residents that a $9.6 million expansion, or a portion of that expense, is the best use of their tax dollar. Ilsley board members, however, have time on their side and the likelihood that the request from the town will be much lower than the full freight. That’s because the board’s first move is to commission a fundraising feasibility study to see how much of that total can be raised privately.

In previous conversations with committee members studying the library’s renovation, committee members were hopeful they could raise at least a few million to reduce the cost to taxpayers. Even so, Middlebury residents have faced a continual barrage of municipal projects in the past decade (firehouse, police station, municipal building, gym and Cross Street Bridge to name a few of the major expenses) and local taxes are among the highest in the state.

Questions voters will ask are: How much of the $9.6 million is critical to the library’s success? If the bond was rejected, would library services fail, be diminished, or just not be able to grow? What’s wrong with maintaining the status quo? And what new benefits are gained by having a state-of-the-art library?

The decision to even put the issue before voters is a couple of years away, which is good news for the library board as they will need a Herculean effort to educate enough residents to the needs of the facility — which is indeed shoddy in places — and to explain why such a significant investment is more than just a nice thing to do for our kids. ********* ORWELL VILLAGE SCHOOL’S ACT 46 CONUNDRUM Orwell residents are in a battle against the state’s changing demographics.

The undeniable fact of the past several decades is that Vermont’s student population is shrinking. That has placed a growing number of schools in a tough spot: trying to retain local control of schools that often see their annual budgets diminish as student population dwindles. At issue is Act 46’s requirement that school governance consolidate into a district board. Across the state, many towns have made the transition, including all of the towns in Addison County, except Orwell.

What’s different about Orwell is that it has a viable school population of about 140, K-8, with just under 100 K-5 students. Like many schools and towns of Orwell’s size (poulation about 1,250), it has a grand tradition, dating back to 1782.

We won’t argue that Orwell should not keep its school intact. We believe it should. But there is an argument to be made that the best way for that to happen is for Orwell to be part of a larger system that brings those greater resources to its aid.

The questions Orwell residents might consider spring from what there is to gain from the unified governance, rather than what there is to lose: What programs can be strengthened? Will students be better aligned for high school programs under unified governance? Are there programs in the district that are missing at Orwell, and how could those be provided?

Alternatively, if Orwell insists on going it alone, the town and school board should make the case to the Secretary of Education that it can meet the state’s academic requirements, and should look for ways to mitigate the loss of state aid they might otherwise receive if part of a consolidated district.

Above all, what residents must avoid is allowing the fear of change to overshadow the conversation before these and other questions can be explored.

Angelo Lynn

ADDISON COUNTY

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Sports column a joy to read Karl Lindholm’s article on the great black baseball player Spottswood Poles captures a time when African Americans had to fight on two fronts — one at home against racial discrimination and the other on the bloody battlefields of the Western Front in World War I, ironically, to keep the world safe for democracy. Karl’s scholarship on black baseball players is a treasure.

Thanks, Karl.

Stephen L. Harris, Anthem, Ariz.

Trapping ban is long overdue

Farm lines

RUST LINES ON a Panton barn mimic the lines of a fence across the road last week.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Music without words speaks loudly

I have been thinking a lot lately about music, especially music without words.

As a young child, the sound of a violin seemed so sad it made me cry. It hurt so much that I could barely listen to it. The sound of a group of violins was unbearable.

Yet, music with a deep pulse was comforting.

Trombones were somehow humorous; French horns the most beautiful mellow sound in the world; flutes were birds; and cello sounds comforting. And there was Tubby the tuba.

Piano sounds were both reassuring and uplifting. And playing the piano every day after school was a refuge, a place in which to unwind and then come back.

The feel of organ music, deep and

By Kate vibrating, was indescribably delicious.

Gridley Early childhood, I was raised on the sounds of Bach, Charles Ives and the Modern Jazz Quartet — which is to say that when my father wanted to rouse us in the morning, he chose a recording of one of the above, dropped the needle and turned up the volume.

Way up.

I used to croon to my boys when they were babies to help them settle.

Bundled in their soft blankets, while I rocked and sang, they would drift off.

The same thing happened when I found myself singing to my father-in-law in his final moments of life. That clear fall day, as my son played his final sixth-grade soccer game of the season over at Mary Hogan, my fatherin-law, who had been actively dying for a couple of days, wouldn’t calm. He had ripped away his oxygen tube, his breathing had slowed and he was very close to death, but

Ways of Seeing

he wouldn’t, he couldn’t, relax.

I found myself singing into his ear. First the humming of a couple hymns that I thought he would be familiar with; perhaps he would drift back in his mind to singing in the white clapboard church on the green. Other songs emerged, threads from the universe, while I imagined the flight of a bird and riffed off the familiar sounds of more hymns, lullabies, even songs he might have danced to when he was a young married doctor with beautiful wife, and five little children. A tapestry of notes. I held his hand. No words, just soaring, dipping melodies.

He settled. He floated away.

What is it that music does?

So many things. It provokes, it inspires, it brings us to tears, it calms, it agitates, it celebrates, it causes us to move, it makes our hearts beat faster.

Driving down a road in Scotland 35 years ago in an old van, listening to a classical station on BBC, a piece of music came on that I found so exciting I couldn’t handle the force of the music and drive at the same time. I pulled over to the side of the road to finish the listening — and experiencing — of an exhilarating trumpet and organ piece. Emergency lights blinking (the road was narrow, hedgerows either side), I scrabbled for a pencil and a piece of paper while the trumpet continued to soar, so that when the announcer came on, I could write down the composer and the recording. Charpentier.

Was it the sun, the day, the fields outside the van dotted with sheep and old stone buildings, the fact that I was in my early 20s, independent, painting and exploring in a beautiful place? Or was it the energy of the music? What pierced my heart?

(See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Health insurance hikes are unsustainable Later this month, the Green Mountain Care Board will announce its decision about Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont’s request to increase premiums by 12.6 percent for about 70,000 Vermonters enrolled in the insurer’s individual plans. The GMCB must balance BCBS’s need to maintain financial solvency with the crisis of affordability in the individual health insurance market in Vermont.

BCBS insures about 90 percent of the participants in this market. In recent years, its premiums have increased considerably faster than Vermont’s overall economy, or the growth of wages and salaries in the state.

Between 2014 and 2016, premiums increased at 239 percent of Vermont GDP growth and 294 percent of Vermont wage growth.

In other words, BCBS health insurance premiums increased nearly three times as fast as the wages earned by Vermonters. If GMCB were to approve the full increase requested by BCBS for 2018, insurance rates since 2014 will have risen by more than 37 By Eric L. Davis percent.

The office of the Vermont Health Care Advocate, which represents consumers in insurance rate proceedings, has noted that the proposed rate increases would make health insurance unaffordable for many Vermont households. One criterion for affordability is that a household should not pay more than 10 percent of its income on premiums, or more than 5 percent of its income on deductibles and other out-ofpocket costs.

Using this definition, BCBS’ proposed cost of a “silver-level” health plan would be unaffordable for singles with incomes less than $64,500, two-person households

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with incomes below $129,000, and families with incomes below $181,300. These numbers encompass most households in Vermont. The statewide median household income last year was $71,600, or $66,300 outside of Chittenden County. For many Vermont households, the cost of health care is a greater challenge than the cost of property and other taxes that receives so much attention in Montpelier.

BCBS’s rate filing assumes continuation of the federal “cost sharing reduction” payments for all of 2018, even though President Trump and others in his administration periodically threaten to stop making these payments, claiming they are “bailouts” for insurance companies. What these payments do is enable insurers to reduce deductibles, co-pays and other out-of-pocket costs for middle-income households. In effect, Trump is threatening to raise health insurance costs for millions of consumers because Congress has so far refused to take health insurance away from millions of consumers. If the cost sharing reduction payments were not continued, BCBS estimates premiums would go up by an additional 1.5 to 2 percent.

On the basis of previous years’ decisions, the GMCB will probably reduce BCBS’s requested premium increases below 12.6 percent, but probably not all the way down to the 8.6 percent recommended by the Health Care Advocate. Even at the lower level, premiums in the individual market would increase much faster than either hospital budgets, which are projected to rise by (See Davis, Page 5A)

Protect our Wildlife opposes a petition by trappers that seeks to extend the season in which otter can be killed in inhumane body-gripping traps for their pelts. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department has proposed a rule that would grant the trappers’ request, yet the department has still not provided adequate justification for their support of the proposal.

The department’s lack of justification reflects a history of pandering to trapping interests. When asked to provide justification for this particular rule change, the department has admitted that their position is based solely on anecdotal information from trappers — hardly a reason to support extending trapping season on one of Vermont’s most cherished animals. The department offers the flimsy explanation that they want to extend otter season so that the pelts of otters that are currently killed out of season, by accident in traps set for beavers, can be sold by the trappers. Yet, when we asked the department how many otters are killed out of season, they tell us the average is 0-1. This is a “solution” in search of a problem.

The Fish & Wildlife Department supports this extension for trapper convenience alone — the current rule requires trappers to make minor modifications to traps set for beavers in order to avoid trapping otter out of season, yet the department denies that this is the catalyst. To elevate wildlife management into the 21st century, the department would be well-advised to consider the views of all stakeholders, including those who recognize the intrinsic value of Vermont’s wildlife. Seventy-five percent of Vermonters who were recently polled by the University of Vermont’s Center for Rural Studies want to ban trapping altogether — Fish & Wildlife, are you listening?

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Coverage of lake gets high marks Many thanks to the Addison Independent for the truly comprehensive coverage last week of the ongoing cleanup efforts on Lake Champlain. While it is a shame to see the chaotic Trump administration threatening longstanding work, it is useful for all of us to know the details.

I note that in the same issue Victor Nuovo explains that the philosopher Spinoza insisted that “the peace and piety of a society depends entirely” on the “freedom to publish one’s thoughts and discoveries.” It seems to me the Addison Independent is pulling its weight and more in this regard.

Bill McKibben Ripton

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Bread Loaf draws hundreds of writers RIPTON — The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, the oldest writers’ conference in the country, will hold its 92nd session from Wednesday, Aug. 16, to Saturday, Aug. 26. Held every summer since 1926 on Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus in Ripton, the conference remains one of America’s most respected literary institutions.

Ten days of workshops, lectures, classes, and readings provide writers with rigorous practical and theoretical approaches to their craft.

The mountain campus has attracted many renowned authors and poets such as Robert Frost, Carson McCullers, John Irving, Terry Tempest Williams, Ted Conover and Julia Alvarez.

Conference lectures and readings are free and open to the public; see a listing online at tinyurl.com/ y92gtq2b.

This summer the conference faculty will include such literary figures as Luis Alberto Urrea, the best-selling author of 16 books, including “The Devil’s Highway” and “The Hummingbird’s Daughter.” The winner of numerous literary prizes, including the American Book Award, Urrea is a distinguished professor of creative writing at the University of Illinois-Chicago.

Faculty member Lauren Groff is the author of the novel “Fates and Furies,” a New York Times bestseller.

Other books by Groff are “The Monsters of Templeton,” “Delicate Edible Birds” and “Arcadia.” Her short fiction has appeared in literary journals and magazines, including the New Yorker and the Atlantic, as well as four editions of “The Best American Short Stories” anthology.

A number of distinguished writers, including fiction writer Lesley Arimah, will also attend the conference as fellows. Fellowships are awarded to applicants who have published their first or second book in English within the last four years in the genre in which they are applying — poetry, fiction or nonfiction.

Arimah, the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellow in Fiction, is the author of the short story collection “What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky.” Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper’s, Granta, and other publications. She is the recipient of a Commonwealth Writers Short Story Prize and a MacDowell Fellowship.

“Young writers who are newcomers to Bread Loaf are astounded by its beauty,” said Michael Collier,

LAUREN GROFF, AUTHOR of The New York Times bestseller “Fates and Furies,” will be a member of the faculty at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference in Ripton next week.

director of the conference. “Those who are familiar with the conference are happy to return to its natural setting in the Green Mountains. Both groups enjoy a diverse community of writers in an environment that stimulates and supports them as they pursue the craft of poetry, fiction or nonfiction.”

This session will mark the end of Michael Collier’s role as director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences.

In May 2017, Collier announced he was stepping down. He has served as director since 1994. Poet and translator Jennifer Grotz, director of the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, will serve as the new director.

This year, more than 285 writers, students, faculty, literary agents and editors will gather to participate in the 92nd session of the conference.

The general public is invited to attend a daily schedule of free readings and lectures that take place in the Little Theatre, located on the Bread Loaf campus on Route 125.

The 2017 series of public events will begin on Wednesday, Aug. 16, at 8:15 p.m., with a welcome by Middlebury President Laurie Patton and Collier, who is the author of six books of poems, including “The Ledge,” a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, and, most recently, “An Individual History.” After Collier’s opening remarks, Groff and poet and writer Edward Hirsch — also a Bread Loaf faculty member — will give readings. The public events will wrap up with a reading by Collier on Friday, Aug. 25, at 8:15 p.m.

The Middlebury Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences include the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference, designed for those who want to bring more depth of knowledge to their writing about the environment, and the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference, which highlights the important role that literary translators of poetry and prose play in the United States and beyond.

Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) There’s a wonderful book, “Music, The Brain, and Ecstasy: How Music Captures Our Imagination” by Robert Jourdain, that explores how music affects us, through neuroscience, acoustics, psychoacoustics, history, culture, philosophy, perception, musical perception and performance.

He describes the etymology of the word “ecstasy.” “Ex” is the Latin prefix for outside, and “stasis” is the Latin word for “standing.” Music can literally take you out of yourself.

As Jourdain writes: “(Ecstasy) …

Sounds that leave you standing outside yourself. Sounds like those that called Ulysses to the Sirens’ rocks.

Sounds whose potency lies beyond pleasure and even beyond beauty.

Sounds that reveal to us truths we have always known yet won’t be able to recount when the last echo has subsided.”

I love the fact that live music evaporates. We hear it — it embraces us — it affects us — and it’s gone.

We cannot reread what we have just heard, as we might a passage in a book. We cannot run our hands over

it, as we might a piece of sculpture.

We cannot gaze on it again, as we might a passage in a painting.

While we make music, we are inside it, and then when the pulses fade, the waves of sound ripple away, it floats away. What is left? Feelings, memories, something indescribable.

I sometimes find intimations of mortality and glimpses of infinity.

Kate Gridley is an artist residing in Middlebury. She is currently working on a new series of paintings, “An Iconography of Memory.”

pay an income tax penalty. If so, some younger and healthier Vermonters may decide that the cost of health insurance is simply too high, and drop their coverage. If that happens, the pool of people insured by BCBS will become older and sicker over time, resulting in a spiral of larger premium increases and more people dropping coverage. In the absence of a bipartisan congressional

response in the short term, and the establishment of a publicly financed universal health care system in the longer run, the sustainability of the individual health insurance market in Vermont is very much an open question.

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

Truth and the foundations of civil society unnatural, like the eye trying to Editor’s note: This is the 19th in major political work.

In the preface, he writes observe itself, and therefore the a series of essays by Middlebury College Professor Emeritus that it was his purpose to offer hunt is all the more daring and Victor Nuovo on the origins of arguments “sufficient to establish rewarding. The prize is truth. the Throne of our Great Restorer, Locke wrote his book on behalf western political thought.

Like Thomas Hobbes, John our present King William; of lovers of truth, whose pursuit Locke (1632–1704) witnessed to make good his Title in the is our great adventure.

In the light of the previous civil war and revolution. He out Consent of the People … and to did his illustrious predecessor justify to the World, the People of essay, the strong connection by doing so not once but twice. England, whose love of their Just between Locke’s essay and his He was a youth during the first and Natural Rights, saved the political writings should be English Civil War (1642–49) and Nation when it was on the brink obvious. Locke had read Spinoza and Spinoza’s claim that the came of age during the regency of slavery and ruin.”

The contrast between Locke’s search for truth, the freedom to of Oliver Cromwell. In 1660, shortly after the restoration of the earlier and later comments philosophize, was essential to any English monarchy, he recorded could not be greater. The former well-established civil society was is the speech of well known to him. Like Spinoza, his sentiments of it. a conformist and he believed that it was the basis “I no sooner royalist; in the latter, of true piety; and of peace also, perceived myself in we hear the voice of a because the truth is something the world, but I found radical and populist. about which all who make honest myself in a storm, I will attempt to use of their intellectual faculties which has lasted explain this change in can agree on and revere. Truth’s almost hitherto, and a subsequent essay. decisions end conflicts; they therefore cannot In the same year, make peace. but entertain the Locke published But Locke discovered another approaches of a calm a second book, benefit about the operations of with the greatest which also brought the mind that enhance the bonds joy and satisfaction him fame and of civil society. It might be called … and do what lies recognition. It was the joyous contagion of searching in me to endeavor its continuance, by Thinking about entitled, An Essay after truth. Genuine searches after Concerning Human truth do not indoctrinate, rather disposing men’s politics — Understanding. It is they are open invitations to join minds to obedience the origins a long and thoughtful in the search. After long enquiry, to that government work—over 700 Locke concluded that the mind is which has brought An essay by pages in the modern a natural thing, connected to an with it that quiet and Victor Nuovo standard edition. organ of the body. settlement which Middlebury College Locke began writing Thinking after truth is our own giddy folly it almost 20 years a physical action, Locke had put beyond the professor emeritus before, in 1671. And, determined, and the interaction reach, not only of of philosophy once published, he of thinking is like animal our contrivance continued to revise play: “This, Reader, is the [ability to act], but it, bringing out second, third and Entertainment of those, who our hopes.”

On the second occasion, fourth editions; he was preparing let loose their own Thoughts, Locke was well into his middle a fifth edition when he died. It and follow them in writing [NOTE: here again Locke uses age. Once again, the cause of was his life’s work.

Its theme is the the metaphor of civil unrest was religion. Charles or the hawking]; which II, whose restoration Locke had intellect, or “Its theme is though thou celebrated, had no legal heir understanding oughtest not to (although many illegal ones); mind—he used the the intellect, envy them, since hence the right of succession terms synonymously. or the they afford thee an resided in his brother James II, In it, Locke enquires about how the understanding Opportunity of the who was a Roman Catholic. like Diversion, if Parliamentary leaders sought human mind works; or mind… in thou wilt make use to deprive him of this right and to how it gathers all which Locke of thy own Thoughts establish a Protestant succession. of its content; how enquires arranges this in reading. ’Tis to Chief among them was Anthony it Ashley Cooper, the Earl of heady content into a about how the them, if they are thy own, that I referr Shaftesbury, who was Locke’s rational order; and human mind myself: But if they patron and employer. Political above all, how it goes works, how it are taken upon Trust crises and war followed. In 1683, about searching after from others, ’tis no Shaftesbury was forced into truth. Locke’s essay gathers all of great matter what exile, Locke followed. He found is intended for lovers its content… they are, they not sanctuary in the Netherlands, and adventurers. He and, above following Truth.” whose ruler was William III of likens its narrative all, how it From Locke, and Orange, and whose wife, Mary, to “Hawking and Spinoza before him, was the eldest daughter of James Hunting, wherein the goes about II —though she had been raised very pursuit makes searching after we may derive this a great part of the truth.” maxim: The only a Protestant. durable and lasting Mary had been James II’s Pleasure.” And just ­— On Locke’s foundation of civil presumptive heir until 1688, as the eye, searching book, An Essay society is truth; the when James’s second wife gave after things, takes Concerning search for it, and the birth to a son, who displaced his pleasure in what Human discovers, so relentless pursuit elder sister as heir to the throne. it Understanding of it, is a duty of So, in 1688, William invaded the understanding, all the people and England and easily defeated the setting out on a army of James II, who fled the course “to find and follow every institution of government. country. Thus followed the reign Truth, will not miss the Hunter’s It follows that a primary task of government is to establish public of William and Mary. Locke satisfaction.”

Here, however, the mind’s educational institutions that are returned from exile, and soon after, in 1689, published Two object of pursuit is its very own free and accessible to all.

Treatises of Government, his nature. The task is difficult,

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ADDISON COUNTY

Obituaries

Walter Murray, 84, Ripton

Alice Kalandros, 79, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Alice J. Kalandros, 79, of Middlebury, VT, passed away on Monday, July 31, 2017, at the Groton Community Health Care Center in Groton, NY, due to the effects of dementia. She was surrounded by her 3 daughters and 2 granddaughters with much love as she passed peacefully.

Born February 2, 1938, in Pennsylvania, she was the daughter of the late Carl and Virginia Shanaberger. She lived over 30 years in San Francisco, CA, and worked and retired from the Cow Palace in San Francisco in 1993. She worked parttime at McDonald’s in Burlington, VT, where she was always a smiling face welcoming everyone. She attended the McDonald’s Olympics in Chicago and won a silver medal while competing there.

She enjoyed gardening, scapbooking and other crafts, puzzles and had

a passion for music.

She is survived by her children, Blanca Jenne of Cornwall, VT, Athena Kalandros of Groton, NY, Regina Kalandros of Portland, Oregon, Rudolpho Kalandros of San Rafael, CA and Michael Kalandros of Clear Lake, CA; and 12 grandchildren; several great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.

Besides her parents she was also predeceased by her son Steve Kalandros.

She was an amazing woman with a kind, funny and generous spirit. We will love her forever and for always in our hearts and souls.

A memorial service will be held at a later date in Cornwall, Vermont.

She had lived in Vermont for over 20 years. Condolences may be made at blanca@middleburysweets. com or mailed to PO Box 547, East Middlebury, VT 05740. ◊

Warner and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her parents and her husband, George Warner, in October of 2009.

A memorial service will be held on Thursday, August 10, 2017, at 11 A.M. at the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home, located at 117 South Main St., Middlebury, with the Rev. Matthew Wollam-Berens officiating.

The family will receive family and friends from 10 A.M. until the time of the service at 11 A.M. on Thursday.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Addison County Human Society Homeward Bound at 236 Boardman St., Middlebury, VT 05753.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home.

Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com. ◊

ALICE J. KALANDRO

PAULINE G. WARNER

Michael Miller, 60, Vergennes VERGENNES — Michael Miller, 60, of Vergennes died unexpectedly on Aug. 2, 2017.

He was born Feb. 2, 1957, and graduated from Vergennes Union High School in 1976.

He joined the U.S. Navy, where

he served six years. He was an avid fishermen, and family said you could always find him on the shores of Lake Champlain.

He was predeceased by his mother, Julia Collette, and a brother, Lawrence Miller.

He leaves behind three sisters, Lana Delorme, Julia Skeldon and Cynthia Grant; seven nephews; and one niece.

Graveside services will be later this fall.

The annual Vergennes Lions Charity Auction held on Wednesday, July 12 raised over $6,000 toward the 2017-2018 Lions year. Each year the Vergennes Lions Club raises over $25,000, which is then donates to worthwhile causes and organizations in the Vergennes, Bristol and New Haven areas. Accessibility ramps, eyeglasses and hearing aids for the needy, scholarships, and support for other organizations would not be possible without the support from the area communities and businesses. Thank you for making the event a success!

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MIDDLEBURY — Charles John Mitchell died on Aug 5, 2017, in Middlebury, Vermont, surrounded by his wife, Nancy (Kretzer) Mitchell (Reading, VT), and his beloved children, Kim of Maine and Sean of California.

John was born Christmas Day, 1932, to James Stuart Mitchell and Francis (Saddington) Mitchell. John was a graduate of Westdale Secondary School in Hamilton, Ontario, and the University of Western Ontario’s School of Business (1956). His career in Marketing took him from Montreal to London, England, and then to New York City, where he enjoyed success as an Executive with Clairol followed by many years as an independent and successful Marketing Consultant.

He met Nancy at a pool party on Long Island in 1962 and they married in May 1963. They raised their family in Stamford, CT, amid a myriad of pets: dogs, cats, rabbits, geese, peacocks, 2 memorable parrots, a horse and even a goat! John loved all animals but his dogs were special.

Several of John’s friends commented over the years that if they were to be reincarnated, they would like to come back as one of John’s dogs.

In 2000, he and Nancy retired to Alder Meadow Farm in central Vermont.

He was the proud Gan-Pop/Papa to granddaughters Kristina (Maine) and Sydney and Addison (California) and caring father-in-law to Sean’s wife, Terry (Roth) Mitchell.

John was predeceased by his parents James Stuart Mitchell (1953), Frances (Saddington) Mitchell (1997), his older brother, David (2013), his brother-in-law Frederick Kretzer (2006) and sister-in-law Carolyn Kretzer (2011).

In addition to his wife Nancy and children, Kim and Sean, John is survived by David’s widow, Audrey (Nelson) Mitchell (Mississauga, ON), and brother Peter (Beverley) Mitchell (Ancaster, ON), five nieces, four nephews and their spouses and children.

John was a complicated, intelligent, and deeply caring man with a quick intellect, dry sense of humor, and on occasion, sharp temper. He held himself and others to a very high standard. He cared deeply about his family and community and saw hard work, good table manners, and giving back as requirements of a worthy and respectable life. He passed all of these qualities to his children along with his square jaw and fierce sense of determination and independence.

While reserved most of the time, he loved a good joke, evenings with small groups of friends, and long walks through fields or woods with his dogs.

John loved his life in the U.S. even becoming a citizen in 2002, but never forgot his Canadian roots. Spending time on Lake Muskoka in Ontario with the family was among his greatest joys.

The family wishes to thank the

CHARLES J. MITCHELL incredible staff at the Residence at Otter Creek for the care and compassion they showed John in his last months. He found true friends and a community of support at the end of his life affording him moments of joy and laughter as his mind and body slowed.

Cremation has taken place and a celebration of John’s life will be held at a later date.

Any contribution of either time or money in his memory to an animal shelter would put a (small) smile on his face. ◊

Louise Mosher memorial celebration

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Claire Desautels, 81, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Claire M. Desautels, 81, died Saturday morning, August 5, 2017, at Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.

She was born November 27, 1935, in Middlebury, the daughter of Elzear and Florestine (Marleau) Quesnel.

Claire enjoyed cooking, playing games, traveling, and spending time with her friends and family.

Survivors are her sons Anthony Desautels (Louise), André Desautels (Laurie), and Shawn Desautels (Lucinda); grandchildren Athen Desautels (Tasha Dufrene), Brianna Dempsey (Patrick), Shannon Francis (Jeremy), Mallory DeCoff (Matt), Dana Desautels, and Raphael Desautels; great-grandchildren

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WALTER L. MURRAY

MIDDLEBURY — The time Mosher, who died at age 98 Universalist Society on Saturday, has changed for the memo- on July 27. The celebration at Sept. 16., has been changed to 11 rial celebration of Louise B. the Champlain Valley Unitarian a.m.

Thank You Vergennes Lions Charity Auction Contributors

Addison 4-Corner Store American Flatbread Antidote Restaurant Appalachian Gap Distillery Aubuchon’s Auto Creek Big Barn Home Center (Bub’s Barn) Big River Bait & Tackle BJ’s Farm Supply Bridge Restaurant Carol’s Hungry Mind Café Champlain Bridge Marina Champlain Discount Foods Champlain Farms Cloud 9 Fishing Charters Comfort Hill Kennel D&L Sugar Works Daily Chocolate Dakin Farm Denecker Chevrolet Ditwhitts Snack Shack Drop In Brewery Dutch Mill Family Restaurant Ferrisburgh Bake Shop Ferrisburgh Jolley Field Automotive Goodies Snack Bar (Addison, VT) Green Mountain Pet & Tack Shop Green Peppers Restaurant Hollyhocks Flowers and Design J.W.&D.E. Ryan, Inc. Jackman Fuels Joy’s Lakeview Hair Design Junction Auto KB Café @ Kennedy Bros Kinney Drugs LaLumiere’s Farm Larry & Connie Simino Lester Farm Linda’s Apparel

hike the trail around Middlebury and was always up to breakfast, lunch or dinner out.

Survivors include his two sons, Brian and Gerry Murray, Nephews Richard Cole and wife Judy of Middlebury, Gary and his niece Susan. Also by several great nieces, great nephews and cousins.

He was predeceased by his parents and his sisters Barbara Cole and Lillian.

A private committal service was held in St. Mary’s Cemetery with Military Honors by the Vermont National Guard Military Funeral Honor Guard.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home.

Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com. ◊

Charles John Mitchell, 84, Middlebury

Pauline Warner, 76, Shoreham SHOREHAM — Pauline G. Warner, 76, of Shoreham, VT, died Thursday evening August 3, 2017, at Porter Medical Center.

She was born April 30, 1941, in Salisbury, the daughter of Lester and Helena (Dragon) Whittemore.

Pauline enjoyed cooking, playing cards, gardening and taking care of the elderly.

She is survived by her daughter, Sharon Bortell and her companion Neil Freeman Jr., of Shoreham, by her siblings, Helen Cloutier of Panton, Lester Whittemore and his wife Marjorie of Salisbury, Chester Whittemore and his wife Margaret of Fair Haven and Peter Whittemore of Hinesburg, by her three grandchildren, Charlie Bortell who was her pride and joy, Hunter and Alex Freeman. Also by several step children and step grandchildren and a special step granddaughter Stazy

RIPTON — Walter Leonard Murray, 84, of Ripton, VT, died Monday evening July 24, 2017, at Porter Medical Center after a brief illness.

He was born July 19, 1933 in Hempstead, NY the son of Walter A. and Elizabeth (Moran) Murray.

Walter enlisted in the United States Army and served in Korea from 1951 to 1954.

He worked for The Addison Independent, then moved to California and worked in the printing business.

Then he worked as a custodian for many years at the Escondido Union High School retiring in 1995. Walter moved to Vermont in 2001 to be close to his family.

Walter enjoyed living in Ripton relaxing by the calming river, liked to

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Soleia Desautels, Rosalie and Isabella Francis.

She was predeceased by her parents and her husband, Maurice V. Desautels, who died February 28, 2017. Also by her siblings, Lorenzo and Gerard Quesnel, Jeanine McDougal, Fleur Ange Page, Mary Jane Deline, and infant granddaughter Amber.

Per Claire’s request, no services will be held. Memorial contributions may be made to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, 114 Perimeter Road, Nashua, NH 03063.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home.

Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com. ◊

CLAIRE DESAUTELS

Addison Independent, Thursday, August 10, 2017 — PAGE 7A

Middlebury bus stop is moving

Bridging the gap

WORKERS START TO assemble the temporary bridge last Tuesday that will span the railroad under Merchants Row in Middlebury. The bridge is scheduled to be completed and the street opened on Aug. 12.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Workplace wellness workshops on tap BURLINGTON — Employers programs, active workstations and looking to create or improve a work- installation of water stations. Over place wellness program can apply for the past three years, the department a financial boost from the Vermont awarded $60,000 in wellness grants to Department of Health.

20 worksites across Vermont.

The Health Department is offerEmployers can apply for a grant ing grants of $3,000 to six worksites and find a full program description around the state to build sustainable and submission requirements at wellness programs that www.vermontbidsystem. focus on increasing phys- “When you com/BidPreview.aspx?Biical activity and healthy think about dID=22832. The deadline eating opportunities for to apply is August 15. employees. The grants are how much of The grants are funded supported through the de- our lives are by the Centers for Dispartment’s local health of- spent in the ease Control and Prevenfices. Because of limited workplace, it tion program State Public funding, the department becomes an Health Action to Prevent alternates which areas of Control Diabetes, opportunity to and the state are eligible for a Heart Disease, Obesity grant each year. This year, improve our and Associated Risk Facworksites with between health and tors and Promote School five to 100 employees in wellbeing.”

Health. This national effort the local health service ar— Julie Arel focuses on chronic disease eas of Bennington, Bratprevention by promoting tleboro, Burlington, Midhealthy environments in dlebury, Morrisville and Newport are workplaces, schools, early childeligible to apply. The other regions hood education facilities, and in the were eligible in 2016. community. In Vermont, more than The Working Toward Wellness 60 percent of adults employed outgrants provide businesses with fund- side the home are either overweight ing and technical assistance to design or obese, and more than half have at a wellness program that fits the scale least one chronic condition. and culture of their organization. The “When you think about how much programs would support activities that of our lives are spent in the workplace, promote employee physical activity it becomes an opportunity to improve and healthy eating, such as bike share our health and wellbeing,” said Julie

Arel, the Health Department’s director of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. “When workplace culture and policies promote employee health — such as encouraging physical activity like “walking meetings” and offering smart food choices — there is a huge return on investment for both individuals and the company,” Arel explained.

Arel said that not only do small lifestyle changes in the workplace help improve employee health, but they also make good business sense.

“The data shows that worksites with sustained wellness programs see significant benefits to their bottom line.” According to the CDC, lost productivity due to absenteeism costs employers an estimated $1,685 per employee. And costs due to employees who are at work but not able to perform fully because of sickness or stress, are even higher.

In addition to funding, Health Department staff will work throughout the year with grantees to develop, implement and evaluate a sustainable worksite wellness program.

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Tractor Supply (Continued from Page 3A) generator,” Alexander said.

Rollason Properties LLC owns the land on which the Tractor Supply would be built. It would be subdivided from a larger parcel of Rollason property — a sweeping field behind the A&W and Magic Wok Restaurants that can be seen from Route 7.

Alexander said the Tractor Supply project would encompass only around 4.5 acres of the 6.5 acres it is seeking to acquire, due to wetlands and other factors.

“It’s kind of jigsaw-shaped,” he said of the parcel.

Headquartered in Brentwood, Tenn., Tractor Supply operates more than 1,600 retail stores in 49 states.

There are currently six Tractor Supply stores in Vermont, including in Bennington, Derby, Montpelier, North Clarendon, Shelburne and St. Albans.

The company was founded in 1938 as a mail order catalog business offering tractor parts to America’s family farmers. But today,

Tractor Supply offers what its website describes as “unique products to support their customers’ rural lifestyle,” including clothing, footwear, pet supplies, trailers and accessories, lawn and garden supplies, propane and heating supplies, tools, gun safes, fencing, welders and welding supplies, lawn mowers and power generators.

Locally, Alexander cited Agway as a similar store to Tractor Supply.

But he said Tractor Supply has not branched out into “green space” products — like flowers — as Agway has done.

“There is some product overlap” between the two stores, Alexander acknowledged, though he expects there will be enough business for both Agway and Tractor Supply to do well.

“I think at the end of the day everyone will do quite well,” Alexander said.

Tractor Supply does around $6.8 billion in sales each year, according to its website. The company locates

its stores mainly in towns outlying major metropolitan markets and in rural communities. The typical Tractor Supply store has about 15,500 square feet of selling space inside, with a similar amount of outside space, according to a corporate narrative.

Traditional Tractor Supply clients, according to the company, include farmers, horse owners, ranchers, part-time and hobby farmers, suburban and rural homeowners, and contractors and tradesmen.

Alexander hopes construction on the new Middlebury store can begin next spring, with an August/September 2018 opening. He believes the Middlebury Tractor Supply will employ around 12 full-and-part-time workers.

“Tractor Supply is excited to be coming to town,” Alexander said. “I think it’s a great market. Everyone has been very welcoming.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) is preparing to move its Middlebury bus hub from South Pleasant Street to Academy Street in November.

The planned switch comes after several weeks of discussion between ACTR and town officials about where to put Middlebury’s central bus stop — which serves as a nexus for buses and riders traveling within Addison County, along with points south and north. It needs to be shifted in advance of an upcoming, three-year effort to replace the Main Street and Merchants Row bridges.

Moving the stop to Academy Street, near to the newly created park where Middlebury’s old municipal building once stood, will require ACTR to make some bus scheduling changes and devise some new stops in town in order to ensure smooth connections for people who take multiple buses each day.

Headquartered in Middlebury, ACTR in fiscal year 2016 provided almost 116,000 rides through six bus routes. Those routes include the TriTown Shuttle between Middlebury, Bristol and Vergennes; the Middlebury Shuttle; the Route 116 Commuter; the Rutland Connector; the Burlington Link; and the Snow Bowl Shuttle.

Until recently, ACTR’s central Middlebury stop was on Merchants Row. But the public transportation organization earlier this year relocated that stop to South Pleasant Street (in front of the former Cole’s Flowers store) in anticipation of the installation of a temporary rail bridge on Merchants Row. That work is wrapping up this week, but construction will begin next spring on a tunnel project that will replace both of the new temporary bridges over the railroad in downtown.

South Pleasant Street was been deemed a “short-term” temporary spot for the ACTR bus hub. This past spring, ACTR and town officials began to consider three possible spots that could accommodate the Middlebury stop for at least the three-year duration of the rail bridges project.

Under consideration were locations on Seymour Street, Academy Street and the South Pleasant Street spot.

The town of Middlebury formed an “ACTR Relocation Working Group” that evaluated the three spots and ultimately recommended Academy Street as the preferred location for reasons that include passenger safety, visibility and adequate space for buses.

ACTR is now working with a company to design the new bus stop, according to Bill Cunningham, the organization’s regional director. Here are the basic features of the proposed Academy Street stop, based on a conceptual drawing: • All street parking would become a dedicated bus zone.

• The current curb would be cut back 8 feet, to the existing sidewalk, to get buses further away from the traffic flow.

• A small shelter for passengers, fronted by a concrete apron, would be installed at the intersection of Academy and Franklin streets.

• Flashing beacons and a stoplight interrupter would be installed at the head of Academy Street, just before Franklin Street, to give priority passage to buses exiting to South Main Street.

The Academy Street plan also calls for the use of two parking spots on South Main Street to create a new bus stop near South Street. Planners are also eyeing two spaces on Main Street for a stop near the Community House.

Parking is at a premium in downtown Middlebury — and will be even more so during the next few years with construction disruption. So Middlebury officials will be sensitive to any bus stop plans that might significantly reduce the number of downtown spaces.

“There’s a lot less parking,” Cun-

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ACADEMY STREET BUS STOP ningham said. “So what was valuable parking to folks before (the rail bridges project) is even more valuable to people now.”

On the plus side, Middlebury Director of Operations Dan Werner noted at a recent working group meeting that Academy Street is close to two longterm parking areas. He added the stop would be more convenient to Middlebury College campus.

The Middlebury Infrastructure Committee and town selectboard have both endorsed the Academy Street bus stop location, though members will get a chance to review final plans.

In the meantime, ACTR officials will need to study and tweak its schedule to ensure smooth connections between all of the bus routes, according to Cunningham. There’s also the mat-

ter of adding new stops to accommodate riders who want to run errands in the downtown.

“Moving the transfer point across town disrupts our schedule and does not allow us to be able to service the heart of the downtown as well as Merchants Row did,” Cunningham said.

“So we have to identify some drop-off and pick-up spots in the downtown area to complement what will be a system re-do.”

Cunningham said ACTR is prepared to make Academy Street the permanent bus hub location in Middlebury if it works as well as officials believe it can. He’d like to see the stop in place

by Thanksgiving, and certainly before winter takes hold.

“We need to be in before the snow flies,” Cunningham said.

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PAINTING & PRINTS Benjamin Stone 1867 o/c – Boy with cigar o/c – lg. o/c landscape – prints by: Higgins (Stage coach) – Nancy Lunbeck – Deborah Holmes – Warren Kimble – several Ducks Unlimited prints by Scott Storms – Art Lemay – Bruce Miller – Rosemary Millett – Joe Daniel – lg. assortment of folk art by local Jim Bushey.

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Addison County Fair & Field Days in New Haven. Thursday, Aug. 10, all day. Fairground Rd. Vermont’s largest agricul‑ tural fair. Children’s barnyard, cattle judging, tractor pulls, kiddie rides, crafts, exhibits, live entertainment, pony and ox pulling, midway, parade, youth activities and Vermont products dinner. More info at addisoncountyfielddays.com.

Lap‑sit story time in Shoreham.

Thursday, Aug. 10, 11 a.m., Platt Memorial Library. Enjoy the library before we’re open for an hour of literacy‑rich playtime. Share stories, rhymes, songs and fingerplays. A great socialization opportunity for babies and toddlers in a low‑stress environment. For ages 0‑3 and their parents and caregivers.

Community HU chant in Middlebury.

Thursday, Aug. 10, 4‑4:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Terrace. All are invited to join in chanting HU, an ancient name for God. It could help you find joy, greater awareness and inner peace. Hosted by ECKANKAR, but all faiths are welcome.

Local sightseeing club organizational meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 10, 5 p.m., large meeting room, Ilsley Public Library. Anyone interested in orga‑ nizing a new group to travel around the area to see interesting sights is invited to this first meeting. The tentative name is the TSA – Traveling Sightseeing Associates.

More information from Jan Walker at 802‑388‑4220 or janwalkervt@together.net.

CCV Information Session in Middlebury. Thursday, Aug. 10, 5‑6 p.m., CCV, 10 Merchants Row. Find out about the opportunities at Vermont’s most affordable college, including, credit for life experi‑ ence, tuition‑free classes for high school students, online, day and evening classes, financial aid, and admission pathways to UVM, VTC, Castleton and other Vermont colleges and Universities. More info at 802‑388‑3032.

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Addison County Fair & Field Days in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 11, all day.

Fairground Rd. Vermont’s largest agricul‑ tural fair. Children’s barnyard, cattle judging, trac‑ tor pulls, kiddie rides, crafts, exhibits, live entertain‑ ment, pony and ox pulling, midway, parade, youth activities and Vermont products dinner. More info at addisoncountyfielddays.com.

Age Well senior luncheon in Bristol. Friday, Aug. 11, noon, Mary’s at Baldwin Creek, 1868 North Route 116. Arrive after 11:30. Fruit cup with honey yogurt sauce, Santa Fe Chicken Salad Plate, greens, potato salad, coleslaw, vanilla ice cream with cookie. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up.

Aug Call 453-5205 for more information

10:30‑11:30 a.m. Dining room opens at 11:40 a.m. Vegetable minestrone soup, half a Basin Harbor chicken salad club sand‑ wich with Dakin Farm bacon, apples, lettuce, tomato and mayo on whole wheat bread served with mixed greens with a light summer vinaigrette. Pastry Chef’s choice for dessert. Advanced tickets required.

Call Michelle at 802‑377‑1419. $5 donation does not include gratuity.

A collection for Meals on Wheels will be taken during the luncheon. Open to anyone age 60 and up.

Cider Tasting and Sunset walk in Shoreham. Friday, Aug. 18, 5‑9 p.m., Champlain Orchards, 3597 Route 74 West. Join head cider maker Jeren Stoneman at the orchard’s new tasting room, then head up to the Pinnacle at sunset for early apples, fresh peaches and a killer sunset. Tasting $6. Part of Vermont Open Farm Week.

“The Tarnation of Russell Colvin” in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, Exchange St. Middlebury Actors Workshop presents this one‑man show based on Manchester’s unsolved 1812 murder. Oliver Wadsworth brings local history to life, playing a motley medley of characters grappling with the slippery truth of the real life murder of eccentric Vermonter Russell Colvin. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at the THT Box Office: 802‑382‑9222 or townhalltheater.org.

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Addison County Fair & Field Days in New Haven. Saturday, Aug. 12, all day.

Fairground Rd. Vermont’s largest agricul‑ tural fair. Children’s barnyard, cattle judging, trac‑ tor pulls, kiddie rides, crafts, exhibits, live entertain‑ ment, pony and ox pulling, midway, parade, youth activities and Vermont products dinner. More info at addisoncountyfielddays.com.

Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 12, 7‑9 a.m., Otter View Park, intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Meet at the parking area. Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. For more infor‑ mation call 802‑388‑6019 or 802‑388‑1007.

Lake weed presentation in North Ferrisburgh.

Saturday, Aug 12, 9‑10:30 a.m., North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church, 227 Old Hollow Rd. Meg Modley, aquatic invasive species specialist for the Lake Champlain Basin Program will give a talk on what causes excess weed growth, what is being done, and by whom, and what we can do to mitigate the problem. More info contact Linda at 802‑7345‑2617.

Ham, baked beans and salad supper in Vergennes.

Saturday, Aug. 12, 5‑6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, Main St. across from the Opera House. Spiral cut ham, baked beans, broccoli salad, roll, blueberry crisp with ice cream, and beverage served buffet style. The cost is $9 for adults and $5 for children. Takeout orders are available. More info at 802‑877‑3150.

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SUNDAY

Vermont Sun Triathlon series in Salisbury. Sunday, Aug. 13, Branbury State Park. Sprint and Olympic Distance races. For more info or to register visit vermontsuntriathalonseries.com.

History talk in Lincoln. Sunday, Aug. 13, 1 p.m., Lincoln Town Office. The annual meeting of the Lincoln Historical Society will feature a talk by Lincoln storyteller Judy Witters beginning at 2 p.m.

The museum and barn will be open noon‑4 p.m.

More info: 802‑453‑7502.

Rokeby pie and ice cream social in Ferrisburgh.

Sunday, Aug. 13, 1‑4 p.m., Rokeby Museum, 4334 U.S. Route 7. Peach, apple, berry, pies of every kind with Wilcox’s ice cream on the side. Music courtesy Abby’s Agenda, who play jazz standards.

All proceeds support ongoing Rokeby programs.

More info at 802‑877‑3406 or rokeby@comcast. net.

Blueberry Fest in Cornwall. Sunday, Aug. 13, 1‑3 p.m., Cornwall Congregational Church, 2958 Route 30. Everyone is invited to come gobble down some blueberry cobbler a la mode! Pick up some baked goods to take home and enjoy live music. For more information contact the church at 802‑462‑3111.

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MONDAY Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 14, arrive after

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Paint the bucket

VERMONT ARTIST JACKIE Rivers will lead a Paint N Sip class at the VFW hall on Exchange Street in Middlebury next Wednesday, Aug. 16, 6-8 p.m. Admission, which will benefit the VFW Auxiliary and local veterans groups, will get you snacks, painting materials and a sap bucket like the one pictured or 11x14 canvas to paint on.

11:15 a.m., KB Café, Kennedy Bros., 11 North Main St. Chicken salad plate with fruit and crackers and banana bread for dessert. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve (802) 377‑1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity.

Open to anyone age 60 and up.

Book discussion in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 14, 7 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “A Man Called Ove” by Fredrik Backman. Volunteer‑led. Bixby provides copies for participants.

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Author Robert Finch in conversation with author John Elder in Middlebury.

Tuesday, Aug. 15, 7 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, Main St. New England author Finch will read from and discuss his latest book, “The Outer Beach” with Middlebury author and profes‑ sor John Elder.

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WEDNESDAY

Bennington Battle Day in Orwell.

Wednesday, Aug. 16, all day, Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Free admission at all Vermont State‑Owned Historic Sites.

Chicken barbeque in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 5 p.m.‑dusk, town green. St. Ambrose Parish hosts an evening of barbequed chicken and fixings, a pie contest and sale, fried bread dough, baked goods, white elephant table, face painting and dunking tank. More info at 802‑453‑2488.

Sucker Brook Sawmill presentation in Salisbury.

Wednesday, Aug. 16, 7‑8:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Bill Powers will bring this small sawmill community to life.

Sponsored by the Salisbury Historical Society.

Paint N Sip in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 6‑8 p.m., VFW Post 7823, 530 Exchange St. Local artist Jackie Rivers will lead a Paint N Sip class to benefit the VFW Auxiliary and local veterans groups. Cost: $35 in advance or $40 at the door.

Price includes snacks, a sap bucket or 11 x 14 canvas to paint on and painting materials during the two‑hour class. For more info call the VFW at 802‑388‑9468.

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THURSDAY

Cider Tasting and Sunset walk in Shoreham. Thursday, Aug. 17, 5‑9 p.m., Champlain Orchards, 3597 Route 74 West.

Join head cider maker Jeren Stoneman at the orchard’s new tasting room, then head up to the Pinnacle at sunset for early apples, fresh peaches and a killer sunset. Tasting $6. Part of Vermont Open Farm Week.

Ladies union salad supper in New Haven.

Thursday, Aug. 17, 6 p.m., New Haven Congregational Church, Town Hill Rd. Variety of salads, cold meats, rolls, desserts and beverages.

Adults $8, Children 6‑12 $4. More info contact Carol at 802‑453‑5059.

Religious aspects of the Revolutionary War talk in Bristol. Thursday, Aug. 17, 7 p.m. Howden Hall, 19 West Street. The Bristol Historical Society will host the one‑time Civil War re‑enactor Michael Blakeslee, who will discuss the religious aspects of the Revolutionary War. Open to the public. Call Steve Ayotte at 802‑453‑7709 for details.

Eagles and falcons return to Vermont in Salisbury. Thursday, Aug. 17, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church, 853 Maple St. Learn about the remarkable conservation success story as John Buck of VT Fish & Wildlife gives a presen‑ tation on the return of bald eagles and falcons to the Salisbury area and Vermont in general. Free and open to the public. 802‑352‑9080.

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Age Well senior luncheon in Ferrisburgh. Friday, Aug. 18, noon, Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Rd West. Enjoy the grounds and gardens from

SATURDAY

Green Mountain Club hike — Mt. Abraham in Lincoln. Saturday, Aug. 19. A strenuous 5.2 mile hike on the Long Trail with an elevation gain of approxi‑ mately 2,500 feet, some steep pitches, a few areas of flat hiking and an extremely rocky ascent to the summit. Rare arctic‑alpine plants and 360‑degree views. This is a dog friendly hike. Contact leader Mike at mike802vt@comcast.net or 802‑349‑5653 for details. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf. org.

Kids Pirate Festival in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m., Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. The Museum campus will be taken over by pirates, sailors, rogues and mutineers from distant shores for this family friendly swashbuckling good time.

Costumes, music, pirate‑themed activities, shows, sing‑alongs and make‑and‑take crafts for the whole family. Live pirate stage shows by Pirates of Fortune’s Folly, see the Pirate Fleet on Lake Champlain, visit the Pirate Camp to learn all about life on the high seas, find treasure, join in the Great Pirate Tug‑o‑War and more! Information: lcmm.org or 802‑475‑2022.

Farm tour and more in New Haven. Saturday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m.‑4 p.m., Lester Farm and Market, 2297 Ethan Allen Highway. Meet dwarf goats, sheep, chickens and geese in the petting zoo, taste the tomatoes and other produce and take a wagon ride tour of the farm. Part of Vermont Open Farm week.

Genealogy workshop in Vergennes. Saturday, Aug. 19, 11 a.m.‑1 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Genealogist Ann Watson will lead an infor‑ mation and instruction session on research‑ ing your family. Free. Call to RSVP. Part of the Bixby Library Cultural Events series. More info contact Muir Haman at 802‑877‑221 or muir.haman@bixbylibrary.org.

Diamond Island Regatta on Lake Champlain.

Saturday, Aug. 19, racing starts at 11 a.m. from Point Bay Marina in Charlotte. The fifth annual yacht race, hosted by the Royal Savage Yacht Club and Point Bay Marina, can feature two dozen boats or more racing 6‑14 miles from Charlotte in the north to Basin Harbor in the south. RSYC lobster dinner for $25 and awards ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. Race proceeds to benefit the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. More informa‑ tion online at rsyc.org/diamond‑island‑regatta.

Wagon rides, solar panels and peaches in Shoreham. Saturday, Aug. 19, noon‑2 p.m., Champlain Orchards, 3597 Route 74 West. Ride in the orchard’s wagon, see it’s solar trackers and finish up your visit with pick‑your‑own organic and eco‑certified peaches. Tour & wagon ride Free.

Peaches at pick‑your‑own price.

Ciderstock Music Festival in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 19, 2 p.m., Woodchuck Cidery, Exchange St. woodchuck.com.

Chicken barbeque in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Aug. 19, 4:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Fire Station, U.S. Route 7. Try Jerry’s world‑famous secret barbeque sauce recipe and help raise funds for the Ferrisburgh Fire Department.

King Pede in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Aug. 19, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall, 3279 U.S Route 7.

Sandwich supper followed by fun and cards. All are welcome.

Pancake Breakfast in Shoreham. Saturday, Aug. 19, 8‑10 a.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Road. Feast on plain or blueberry pancakes, sausages, scrambled eggs, home fries, beverages and a special surprise. Tickets: $8 for adults and older children, $4 for children under 12, and $20 for a family with small children.

Farm to table dinner and garden party in Goshen.

Saturday, Aug. 19, 6‑9 p.m., Blueberry Hill Inn, Goshen. Celebrate the tastes of Vermont summer with a meal featuring local farmers and artisans.

Appetizers in the garden, dinner with friends and wine from Lincoln Peak Vineyard. More info at blueberryhillinn.com/farm‑to‑table or 802‑247‑6735.

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SUNDAY

Green Mountain Bicycle Club Bound for Bristol Bakery ride. Sunday, Aug. 20, meet at 9:15 a.m., Clifford Lumber, Rt. 116 Hinesburg. A 40‑mile ride on the less traveled roads around Bristol, New Haven and Hinesburg.

Shorter 27‑mile ride to Bristol Bakery and back.

More info contact Jessica Barnum 802‑335‑1889, omsideofthings@gmail.com, or Amy Ross 802‑324‑2137, vtamy@comcast.net.

Kids Pirate Festival in Ferrisburgh. Sunday, Aug. 20, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m., Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. Continuation of event that started on Saturday.

Wagon rides, solar panels and peaches in Shoreham. Sunday, Aug. 20, noon‑2 p.m., Champlain Orchards, 3597 Route 74 West. Ride in the orchard’s wagon, see it’s solar trackers and finish up your visit with pick‑your‑own organic and eco‑certified peaches. Tour and wagon ride Free.

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JAN WALKER IS getting on a local bus and she wants you to join her in a group of lo‑ cal people exploring Addison County. Are you interested in taking a small risk and trying something different like exploring the nooks and crannies of this place we all call home?

A meeting for those interested in traveling and sightseeing within Addison County is being organized for this Thursday, Aug. 10, 5 p.m. at the Ilsley Library in Middlebury. Contact Jan at 388-4220 or janwalkervt@together.net if you are interested but can’t make the meeting or if you have travel ideas to suggest.

Peaches at pick‑your‑own price.

Zen meditation for everyone in Middlebury.

Sunday, Aug. 20, 4‑7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. For those new to meditation, or those with experience who would like a refresher. Meditation instruc‑ tion and discussion about Zen in today’s world.

Sensei Joshin Byrnes, vice abbot and president of Upaya Zen Center in Santa Fe, N.M. will lead the session. Bring a small dish and stay for a potluck dinner and dharma conversation afterwards from 5:30‑7:30 p.m. Everyone is welcome. Registration is not required. For more info email Sensei Joshin at joshin@upaya.org.

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WEDNESDAY

Justin Perdue jazz quartet in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m., new park corner of South Main and College streets. Part of the Middlebury Community Music Center/Better Middlebury Partnership Concerts in the Park series. Free.

Aikido Yoshokai demonstration in Brandon.

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. More info at brandon.org.

Mad Mountain Scramblers in Brandon.

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Mad River Valley’s premier bluegrass band.

Part of the Brandon Summer Music series. Free.

More info at brandon.org.

Marijuana legalization talk in Vergennes.

Age Well senior luncheon in Bristol.

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 7 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Monday Aug. 21, 11 a.m., Cubbers, 8 Main St. Vergennes. Police Chief George Merkel Main St. Arrive at 10:45. Chef’s Choice. will discuss some of the challenges and health Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at risks of legalization and how it might affect 802‑377‑1419. $5 suggested donation does not public safety. include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up.

Town Hall Theater’s Young Company perfor‑ Historical Society Meeting in Monkton. Monday, mance in Middlebury. Wednesday, Aug. 23, August 21, 7 p.m., Monkton Town Hall. Have 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. “The photos from the last half of the 20th century?

School For Scandal” is a fun cross between Come scan them and share your stories.

“Gossip Girl” and “I Love Lucy.” It’s a comedy Society members, Monkton residents, and with the perfect dose of wit, confusions, gossips others with photos and stories to tell about their and insults. Tickets are $10, $5 for children 12 Monkton photos are encouraged to attend. and under. Contact the theater for tickets or For more info call 802‑482‑2277 or email more info at 802‑388‑1436. monktonmhs@gmail.com.

Annual rummage sale and flea market in Vergennes. Wednesday, Aug. 23, 9 a.m.‑7 p.m., St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 85 South Maple St. Items are full price. Sale continues Thursday, Friday and Saturday. For more info Political Luncheon in Middlebury. call 802‑877‑2367.

Tuesday, Aug. 22, 12:30‑2:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury.

Middlebury College Professor Matt Dickinson will lead a discussion on political topics. Bring your own lunch or buy from our Bistro. Cash or check Middlebury New Filmmakers accepted.

Festival in Middlebury. Thursday, Town Hall Theater’s Young Company perfor‑ Aug. 24, at venues around town. mance in Middlebury. Tuesday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m., middfilmfest.org.

Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. “The School For Annual rummage sale and flea market in Scandal” is a fun cross between “Gossip Girl” and Vergennes. Thursday, Aug. 24, 9 a.m.‑7 p.m., “I Love Lucy.” It’s a comedy with the perfect dose St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 85 South Maple St. of wit, confusions, gossips and insults. Tickets are Items are half price. Sale continues Friday and $10, $5 for children 12 and under. Contact the Saturday. For more info call 802‑877‑2367. theater for tickets or more info at 802‑388‑1436.

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Board Member Spotlight Sara Marshall

“For years I have been in awe of the amazing things going on at the Parent-Child Center for the youth of Addison County. So when a chance to serve on the board came up, I jumped on it. Now that I’m on the board I realize I didn’t know the half of the sevices this organization offers young parents and families. From the childcare to the parenting education to the outreach and more, the center offers opportunities that would not otherwise be available to the county’s young parents. I’m proud to be a part of it!”

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Age Well senior luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 25, noon, Rosie’s, 886 Route 7 South. Arrive after 11:30. Picnic Platter featuring roast chicken and assorted side salads. Yellow cake with hard sauce for dessert. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle at 802‑377‑1419. $5 donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up.

Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Friday, Aug. 25, at venues around town. middfilmfest.org.

Arts Walk in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 25, 5‑8 p.m.

Art on view and for sale at participating locations throughout downtown Vergennes, including all along Main St. After‑hours events at art galleries and local businesses invite you to explore this walk able historic downtown. Browse shops, antiques and artwork. Information VergennesDowntown. org.

Artist’s Reception in Brandon. Friday, Aug. 25, 5‑7 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr. Show opening and reception for “Susan Bull Riley: Natural Affection,” a collection of paintings of the natural beauties in Riley’s surroundings. The exhibit runs through October.

Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 25, 5:30‑6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church. The menu will include hamburgers, hotdogs, potato salad, broccoli salad and dessert.

Come and bring your friends. Free.

Vergennes Day kick‑ off street dance in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 25, 7‑10 p.m., Vergennes City Park. Join us for a street dance featuring The Hitmen.

Annual rummage sale and flea market in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 25, 9 a.m.‑7 p.m., St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 85 South Maple St. Bring a bag to fill. Sale continues Saturday. For more info call 802‑877‑2367.

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Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Middlebury. Saturday, Aug. 26, at venues around town. middfilmfest.org.

Soldiers Atop the Mount in Orwell. Saturday, Aug. 26, 9:30 a.m.‑5 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Re‑enactors take over the Mount, honoring the 240th anniversary of the American, British, and German occupation of 1777. Includes interactive “walkabout” on trails and grounds and reading of the Declaration of Independence. Activities for chil‑ dren. Call 802‑948‑2000 for details.

Strong Ground 5K walk in Orwell. Saturday, Aug. 26, 9:30‑1 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Enjoy the trail system and support this fundraiser for educa‑ tion and special programming efforts by participat‑ ing in this 5K walk. $20 fee includes commemora‑ tive t‑shirt, admission to Soldiers Atop the Mount, and a simple lunch. Pre‑registration suggested.

Call 802‑948‑2000 for details.

36th Annual Vergennes Day in Vergennes.

Saturday, Aug. 26, 10 a.m.‑3 p.m. Pancake break‑ fast, crafters, music, children’s venue, horse drawn wagon rides, Lions Club chicken BBQ, Rubber Duckie race. Sponsored by the Addison County Chamber of Commerce and the City of Vergennes. vergennesday.com.

Fifth annual art festival in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Aug. 26, 3‑8 p.m., Milkhaus, 888 Botsford Rd. Design to Table sponsors this open competi‑ tion to all kinds of artists, makers and creatives, music, food and drink all day. To submit a piece email name, medium, title and delivery date to designtotable@gmail.com. Submission fee $8.

DaddyLongLegs in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come see this trio of well‑known Vermont musi‑ cians — David Gusakov, Rick Ceballos and Matt Whitten — play celtic and “old‑timey” melo‑ dies and early minstrel and jazz. Tickets are $20. A pre‑concert dinner is available for $25.

Reservations are required for dinner and recom‑ mended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802‑247‑4295, info@brandon‑music.net or brandon‑music.net.

Annual rummage sale and flea market in Vergennes. Saturday, Aug. 26, 8‑10 a.m., St. Peter’s Catholic Church, 85 South Maple St. Come take what’s left. Donations welcome. For more info call 802‑877‑2367.

The Rumpus in Proctor. Come for an evening of live storytelling. Saturday, Aug. 26, 7 p.m., Wilson Castle, 2708 West Street, Proctor. Suggested $10 donation. All proceeds benefit the Wilson Castle Restoration Fund. More info at 802‑773‑3284 or wilsoncastle.com.

L IV E M U S I C The Grift in Vergennes. Friday, Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House.

Alex Smith & Jacob Brillhart in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 14, 7 p.m., City Park.

Brandon Town Band in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 6 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. DC3 in Brandon. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug 16, 7 p.m., on the town green.

Greg Ryan and Rani Arbo in Hancock. Thursday, Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m., on the town green.

Bob Degree & the Bluegrass Storm in New Haven.

Friday, Aug. 18, 6 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery.

Old Bones Band of Addison County in Brandon.

Saturday, Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

Cooie’s Jazz Ensemble in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 19, 7 :30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Vergennes City Band in Vergennes. Monday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m., City Park.

Justin Perdue Jazz Quartet in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 6 p.m., new town park.

Mad Mountain Scramblers in Brandon.

Wednesday, Aug. 23, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, Aug. 23, 7 p.m., on the town green.

DaddyLongLegs in Brandon. Saturday, Aug. 26, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

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VOLUNTEERS DOLE OUT slices and entire pies at a previous Rokeby Museum pie and ice cream social in Ferrisburgh. The Route 7 museum will host this year’s social on Sunday, Aug. 13, 1-4 p.m. Listen to Abby’s Agenda play jazz standards while you sample a variety of pies.

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Glass-plates photos found in Brandon uncover Vt. history from 1850s to 1920s

By LEE J. KAHRS back to the 1860s up to the 1920s.

BRANDON — A quaint, old A PHOTOGRAPHIC LEGACY Vermont town is a great place to Turns out 6 Park St., built somelive for any historian, and Kevin time in the 1850s, has housed at Thornton knows that better than least five photographers in Brandon anyone. The Civil War and Vermont between 1865 and 1899. The plates history expert has been mining most likely belonged to the first the people, stories and archives of photographer to lease the second Brandon’s past for years. In fact, he floor space, James Cady. made a documentary film, “Death A detailed historic report by in the Wilderness — A Love Story,” Brandon historian Blain Cliver illuabout a Brandon widow who trekked minates the building’s history. Cady to a Civil War burial site to retrieve was a daguerreotype photographer her husband’s body and return it to who ran a photography business the Green Mountain State. The film out of 6 Park St. from 1865-68. is being screened at the Middlebury Daguerreotype was an early photoNew Filmmakers Festival, Aug. graphic process where a photograph 24-27. was taken using So it may be an iodineno surprise that s e n s i t ized “There’s a fine Thornton was able silvered plate art quality to that to bring to life and mercury some 150-year-old vapor. Cady was kind of photogglass-plate photos responsible for raphy that you that were found a well known in the walls of a photo of the don’t see. It has Brandon buildBrandon Town a very romantic ing a few years Hall and the ago. Now, 13 of now Brandon feel.” those plates have Town Office — Tony Rankinr been printed using building next a complex and to the Conant painstaking 19th building taken century photo development process from the top of the Smith Block and are being shown at the Brandon building in 1868.

Free Public Library through Aug. The other photographers to lease 11. the second-floor of the 6 Park St. How the faces of Brandon in the included Nathan S. Capen (18671850s ended up on the walls of the 1876), Sanford S. Smith (1882-87), library is a really good story.

J. and G.L. Parker (1886-89), and FOUND OBJECTS Frank H. Grimes (1890-99).

A few years ago, RoseAnn and Cliver suspects that because the Larry Johnson were renovating the brick building faces south, the second second floor of 6 Park St., across floor of the building was ideal for the alley from the Lake Sunapee photographers who needed sunlight Bank building. Workers gutting the to develop photos from glass plates floor discovered boxes of roughly in the 19th century. Old photos of the 200 glass plate photo negatives building show a small bay window in the walls. In the fall of 2014, was added in the 1890s, perhaps to RoseAnn Johnson took the plates to facilitate more solar exposure. the Stephen A. Douglas Museum on But when electricity came to Franklin Street. The boxes of plates Brandon in 1889, along with the ended up in the museum’s attic, and development of tungsten light bulbs that’s where Thornton, rummaging bright enough for photographic around like any good historian and developing, Cliver surmises that museum volunteer, found them last sunlight was no longer critical to the year. location of a photographer’s studio.

“Where did these come from?”

However, there is another piece of Thornton asked, and was told the historic fact that makes the discovery story of the find in the Johnsons’ of the glass plates even more remarkbuilding. “The negatives were so able. The brick walls of 6 Park St. filthy, I wasn’t even sure what they were built 24 inches thick, and when were at first.” a devastating fire swept through Once they were cleaned off, the Brandon’s business district on May plates revealed black and white 9, 1919, the building survived. In portraits of Brandon citizens dating fact, Cliver said, the building remains

the oldest commercial building in the Park Street business district.

ALL IN THE FAMILY So, what do you do when you have a few hundred 19th century glass photo plates and you don’t know what to do with them? Call your brother-in-law.

That’s what Thornton did last year. Tony Rankin is the brother of Thornton’s wife, Maureen. The Rankins come up to Vermont each summer for a few weeks from their home in Annapolis, Md. Rankin was a firefighter for 30 years before retiring as a captain in 2015. A former world-class sailor, Rankin always had an interest in photography, but never found the time to invest in it. In a recent phone interview, Rankin said his retirement offered the chance to finally delve into his love of photography.

“It’s kind of something that’s been there, but for one reason or another, I wasn’t able to dig into it,” he said. “ I fell in love with the concept of photography and telling a story through photographs.”

And dig into it, he did. Rankin has taken the adage, “You’re never too old to learn something new” to new heights. He didn’t just start taking photos. He pursued a degree in fine art, specializing in photography, and is a junior at the University of Maryland/Baltimore County. While in school, he developed an interest in old photographic development techniques, including wet plate development, which uses glass plate negatives.

“Kevin told me he had these glass plates,” Rankin said. “And he wanted to know what to do with them.”

Rankin happened to be looking for an independent study project for school, and knew exactly what to do with them.

The two men inspected and cleaned 200 of the plates last summer, then Rankin scanned 20 of them into a computer in order to preserve the image, but more importantly to preserve the plate.

“The more you handle these plates, the worse it is for them,” he said.

“This way, we only handled them once, then stored them away without touching them again. The numberone objective was to do no more harm.”

He then used Photoshop to correct some of the problems in the negatives and fix any damage to the images, rebuilding them as intended. He also

THIS IS JUST one of 13 wet-plate photos developed by Tony Rankin and on display at the Brandon Public Library this week.

resized the images, originally 4 x 5 inches, to 8 x 11 inches.

Rankin then printed out the digital negatives and developed the photos using the albumen process. Yes, it requires egg whites, as well as sunlight, silver and a gold chloride wash.

He was able to print 13 of the plates. It is those prints that now hang in the Brandon Library, Rankin’s first-ever solo photography show.

“I am by no means an expert on this,” he said, downplaying his craft.

“It’s all based on what your negative looks like. It takes 10,000 hours to become an expert, and I’m not there yet.”

But albumen printing takes an enormous amount of patience, time, impeccable timing and perfectionism, and Rankin clearly possesses those qualities.

“I think it’s a neat process and I anticipate learning more about the albumen process and other processes used in the past,” he said. “There’s a fine art quality to that kind of

photography that you don’t see. It has a very romantic feel.”

Visit the Brandon Library and feel the romance of the town’s history in the faces Rankin developed, thanks to a curious local historian, a wall find and fate.

Oh, and local photographer Don Russ? He is the current occupant of the second floor apartment at 6 Park St. The legacy lives on…

The show is also sponsored by the Brandon Museum at the Stephen Douglas Birthplace.

68 years later

FIVE MEMBERS OF the Middlebury High School class of 1949 gathered at Middlebury Inn on Aug. 2 for a minireunion. Five class members and two spouses gathered for lunch and after dinner conversation. Attending were Charlotte Phillips, Judy and Arthur Van Derbugh, Shirley Pominville, Anita Duclos, and Susan and Roger Cox. The group plans to meet again on Aug. 1, 2018, and they would love to have more classmates attending.

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IVY DORAN, A 13-year-old Middlebury resident stands in the back, fifth from right, with the rest of her American soccer team that late last month competed in — and won — the Dana Cup in Denmark, one of the world’s largest international youth soccer tournaments. Doran, who will be an eighth-grader at Middlebury Union Middle School this fall, competed on the girls’ 2004 GPS (Global Premier Soccer) national team with players from all around the country. These girls gave up one goal and scored 27 throughout the competition, were undefeated and won the cup in a 1-0 final against a team from Norway.

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County residents receive achievement awards for a Vermont radio station SOUTH BURLINGTON — Hall Communications Radio Group, which includes 20 radio stations in five states, recently announced winners of their annual achievement awards.

Two Addison County residents and employees of the Vermont radio stations received awards.

Kate Dubenetsky DUBONNET DUBENETSKY of Bristol is an account executive for WIZN-WBTZ- Dan Dubonnet of Starksboro was WJOY. She won the “Best promoted to executive vice president Commercial Spec Contest” for the for Hall Communications Radio entire Hall Communications Radio Group. Dubonnet was also awarded Group with an advertisement for the Hall Communications Presidents “Good Stuff.”

Award by owner Arthur Rowbotham In addition, Northeast Group for the second time during his 31Manager and Senior Vice President year career with Hall.

Jeff Olson named Realtor of the Year ADDISON COUNTY — The Addison County Board of Realtors has voted Jeff Olsen its Realtor of the Year.

Olsen has been a Realtor with Addison County Real Estate since 2015 and recently received his broker’s license. He has served as legislative affairs representative and vice president for ACBOR, where he is incoming president.

Active in the community, Olsen has been on the boards of Addison Central Teens and Middlebury Actors

Workshop, where he also served as development director. He held various positions at the Weybridge Congregational Church, including deacon, stewardship committee member and treasurer.

A past president of Toastmasters of Greater Burlington, Olsen currently serves as chair of the Weybridge Planning Commission.

With the county Realtor honor, his name is now in the ring for that Vermont Realtor of the Year award, which will be announced in November.

Monkton MONKTON — The Monkton Museum and Historical Society (MM&HS) invites members, Monkton residents, and anyone with Monkton photographs from the postWorld War II era to the present and stories about those photographs to its Aug. 21 meeting. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. at the Monkton Town Hall in Monkton Ridge.

MM&HS is looking for photographs that reflect life in and the look of Monkton in the last half of the 20th century up to today. We are almost 20 years into the 21st century already.

The Historical Society is seeking to capture the look, activities, social events, family events, community events and the stories of Monkton from the post-World War II era forward. For example, the Historical Society would like to hear from people who attended the dedication of the Monkton Central School on

State of Vt. offering Police respond to two motorcycle accidents help with tax code

MONTPELIER — The Business Taxpayer Outreach and Vermont Department of Taxes Education Working Group. “I hear will to on a statewide tour to listen from taxpayers every day who are to the concerns and questions eager for more information about of small businesses. The public how to comply. The department meetings, which will be held has made great strides recently, but this month in St. Johnsbury, there are still gaps. I look forward Montpelier, Burlington, Rutland to working with everyone to figure and Bennington, are designed to out how to handle those areas.” let the department leadership hear The department has planned from businesses. five locations across “We at the “We at the Vermont on three Department of Taxes dates for the listening are eager to hear Department tour: from businesses of Taxes are Aug. 11: 3:30 – 5 across Vermont about eager to hear p.m., Jeffords Hall, how we can help from businesses UVM, Burlington. them navigate the across Vermont Aug. 24: 10 a.m. sometimes complex – 12 noon, GMP about how we Vermont tax code,” Energy Center, said Commissioner can help them Rutlandl 2 – 4 Kaj Samsom. “This navigate the p.m., Fire Facility, listening tour and sometimes Bennington. the working group complex Vermont Feedback from will result in a report tax code.” these sessions will be to the Vermont incorporated in the — Commissioner Taxpayer Advocate’s legislature. This is Kaj Samsom annual report, as well an opportunity to express feedback to as in a report due the department and also suggest to the Legislature in November larger scale changes for the on specific recommendations for legislature to consider.” small businesses. Those unable to “The Legislature asked for a attend one of these sessions, may report on outreach and education submit feedback via email at tax. for small business owners. Instead taxpayeradvocate@vermont.gov. of just guessing about what For more information, visit businesses need, we decided to www.tax.vermont.gov and search go out and listen,” said Jeffrey “Small Business Listening Tour,” Dooley, the Vermont Taxpayer or contact the Commissioner’s Advocate and lead on the Small Office at 802-828-3763.

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Sept. 24, 1961. Did anyone take photos of the event?

Special events and everyday activities took place each day in Monkton over the past 70 years.

Any photographs taken outdoors in Monkton might show how an area of town looked in 1950 or 1960.

Photographs of farming activities might show how the landscape has changed. Were photos taken at school meetings or events, town meetings, church events, grade school graduations, weddings inside the Friends Methodist Church or the East Monkton Church, the building of the Russell Library as well as Monkton Central School or the fire station? The list goes on and on.

There were also tragic events that may have been captured in photographs, such as a house or barn fire resulting in a Monkton structure that is gone forever. However, if there

was a photo taken of the structure before the fire, that photo becomes a historic treasure of the Monkton of the past. The same can be said for structures that have been taken down and never replaced or replaced with a very different structure.

When looking through your photo collection, please consider whether a photograph captures some event, activity or view that Monkton residents 100 years from now would be interested in seeing and finding more information about. MM&HS will be scanning photographs and capturing stories about those photographs at our meeting on Aug. 21.

Please look through your photo collection and bring them, along with their stories, to the August MM&HS meeting.

For more information call 802-4822277 or e-mail monkktonmhs@gmail. com.

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LINCOLN — Thanks to everyone who helped make the Be Bop Car Hop the best ever!

Remember the annual meeting of the Lincoln Historical Society will be this Sunday, Aug. 13, at 1 p.m. at the new Lincoln town office.

The program featuring Lincoln storyteller Judy Witters will be at 2 p.m. The museum and barn will be open from 12 noon to 4 p.m.

Refreshments will be served. For additional information please call 453-7502.

I hope everyone is getting to enjoy the beautiful days when we actually have seen the sun! One benefit has been less watering of our gardens!

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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police responded to two separate carversus-motorcycle accidents, with injuries, on Aug. 6.

The first accident occurred at the intersection of Ossie Road and Route 7 in Middlebury. Police said a vehicle driven by 72-year-old David Williams of Bristol collided with the back-end of a motorcycle driven by James Perry, 65, of Hudson, Mass.

Police said a woman riding on the back of the motorcycle — Beth Ellen Ogden, 49, of Marlborough, Mass.

— was taken to Porter Hospital to be treated for non-life threatening injuries.

The second accident took place on Route 30, just short of the Cornwall town line. Police said a motorcycle driven by Cody Greene, 24, of Bristol collided with the left rear of a vehicle being driven by Carole Mariani, 74, of Suffern, N.Y. Greene was taken to Porter Hospital by Middlebury Regional EMS, and then to UVM Medical Center in Burlington for treatment of injuries sustained in the crash.

Police said Mariani was also taken to Porter Hospital, and the accident remains under investigation.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Helped a disoriented man found on Court Street during the evening of Aug. 1. Police said Middlebury Regional EMS took the man to Porter Hospital.

• Responded to a call regarding an injured fox on Weybridge Street on Aug. 1.

• Investigated the report of a man on a bike drinking beer and panhandling on Lodge Road on Aug. 1.

• Responded to a reported verbal domestic dispute on Aug. 1 involving a Woodbridge Lane couple.

• Heard from the employees of a North Pleasant Street business that someone had allegedly left a used needle and drug baggie in their restroom on Aug. 2.

• Were informed by Middlebury College Public Safety of a possible online fraud case on Aug. 2.

• Investigated a report of someone allegedly getting into the Mary Hogan School through an unlocked door on Aug. 2 and ransacking two classrooms. Police did not report anything missing from the classrooms.

• Investigated a dispute between some Washington Street neighbors on Aug. 2.

• Investigated a dispute between some Briarwood Apartments residents on Aug. 2.

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Mini donkeys jumping challenge and Best of (Continued from Page 1A) Breed. might seem.

In order to compete for Best of “It’s a lot harder (to judge) donkeys because when they get into Breed, a mini donkey or mule must place either first or second in their their stubborn or scared streak they class. There were nine classes in don’t always walk as straight as total, ranging from miniature they normally would,” said donkey foals that are six Kathy Kennett, this year’s to 12 months old, to jacks judge. (male) and jennets (female) Kennett explained that more than 36 months she looks at how well old. There was also these half-pint equines See our video of a mini donkey are put together, how leaping with this story online at a class for castrated donkeys, referred to as well they’re built, their addisonindependent.com geldings, more than 12 “conformation.” to the months old. standards of the breed.

This year’s grand champion was More than two dozen miniature donkeys and mules competed Shalimar, a 17-year-old jack from on Tuesday in the fair’s annual Saylorsburg, Pa. “We’ve been showing him since Miniature Donkey & Mule Show.

This year’s show featured a number he was probably two,” said Jim of competitions, including a coon Halterman, Shalimar’s owner and

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KENNETH BESAW STANDS with one of his miniature donkeys at Tuesday’s Miniature Donkey & Mule Show at Field Days. When they’re not competing Besaw’s donkeys work as therapy animals.

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handler. “We’ve done every kind of competition with him so he’s had years and years of experience.”

The second-place finisher was Faith, a miniature donkey from Butternut Ridge Farm in Peru, N.Y. Faith won the grand prize at last year’s Field Days.

“She’s been with me since birth,” said Ken Besaw, her handler. “My wife (Holly) is very good with animals, she trains very well and she can teach them to do just about anything.

In fact, it was Holly Besaw who handled Copper, another one of their miniature donkeys, who won the show’s coon jumping competition.

As the name suggests, coon jumping consists of a donkey or mule having to leap over a wood beam.

The challenge is comprised of several rounds, with each round featuring a higher beam. If a donkey knocks over the beam, it is eliminated.

By the time the final round came, the beam was more than 30 inches above the ground. That’s remarkable given that an average mini donkey is only 30 inches tall. After the other competitors were unable to clear the beam, Copper was declared the winner.

“I have a jump at home that we hand made,” Holly Besaw said.

“When we started, I’d throw a treat and he’d jump over to get the treat.”

“Some year’s he’s good and some years he’ll knock the wood over,” she added with a laugh.

In addition to competing at miniature donkey shows, Copper and Faith are also therapy donkeys. The Besaws run a program called TheraPets, where they bring miniature donkeys into nursing homes, schools and other places where people with disabilities may benefit from spending some time with the animals.

Their farm, Kickin’ Up Dust, houses several therapy donkeys that come from Butternut Ridge Farm.

“Just pet her for a minute and you can tell, it physically slows the heart rate for you. It brings your anxiety levels down,” Ken Besaw said. “They’re fantastic with people.

They’re so calm, so collected, and they watch where they walk — they’re really careful. They go right up to wheelchairs, to bedsides. Most of the elderly grew up on farms and there’s just a real connection there.”

HISTORY OF THE SHOW Marshlyn Reed of Addison can’t remember the year in which she

MINIATURE DONKEY HANDLER Willie Foote waits to hear the judge’s final results. Foote and his miniature donkeys took home two first-place ribbons at the Miniature Donkey & Mule Show at the Addison County Fair & Field Days on Tuesday.

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founded the fair’s Miniature Donkey & Mule Show.

“It was probably over 20 years ago,” she said. “It was a long time ago. Of course, I never pay much attention to dates anyway. We just keep doing it.”

At Tuesday’s show, attendees

honored Reed with a plaque thanking her for her years of devotion and dedication to the show.

“It is with appreciation that all of us who have participated in this great show acknowledge the love, passion, and joy for miniature donkeys and mules that you have so freely and generously shared,” reads the plaque.

Reed, now retired, served as the show’s first manager, and has raised miniature donkeys herself for more than 30 years. The impetus for starting the show, Reed said, was to teach folks about these animals.

“I thought, you know, we need to get these donkeys out so people can know what nice animals they are,”

she said. “Over the years, people have responded quite well.”

Her passion for educating people about miniature donkeys is something she shares with Ken Besaw. In addition to his farm’s animal therapy programs, he also brings mules and mini donkeys into schools to teach children about the animals.

“We try to get rid of all the myths that they’re stubborn or ornery,” he said. “At times they can be, but that’s no different than any other animal.”

If the joyous crowd at this past Tuesday’s show can serve as an indication, it seems as though folks are starting to agree.

RUBY JEWEL EARNED a third-place ribbon at the Miniature Donkey & Mule Show at the Addison County Fair & Field Days on Tuesday.

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That time again

THE ADDISON COUNTY Fair and Field Days kicked off its five-day run Tuesday in New Haven with plenty of warm sunshine and an uncharacteristic cool breeze. The 4-H Youth Dairy Show conformation classes filled the animal show arena all day. Ethan Bessette, Renee Bolduc and Sarah Hill, bottom right, chatted with Judge Ricky Hall about their Holstein winter calves while Michael Plouffe, above right, waited his turn to enter the arena and Karissa Livingston, below left, awaited a ribbon. The Western Only 4-H and Open Youth Junior Horse Show, right and lower right, started early in the Horse Area. And ribbons were on display in the Frances Monroe Home and Garden Center, above and below center. See Monday’s edition of the Addison Independent for more excitement from the fair.

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Local man uses Suboxone to help him kick the habit

By JOHN FLOWERS BRISTOL — Ethan was involved in an accident three years ago that continues to threaten his health, even though his physical wounds healed a long time ago.

Part of the “cure” at the time — some heavy-duty narcotic painkillers — has become the illness: An addiction that led to overdoses that almost took the young man’s life.

“When you first wake up in the morning, you’re thinking: ‘How can I get my fix so I can function?”

Ethan told the Addison Independent of his darkest hours.

“I think back to the things I used to do, and I’m amazed that I’m still alive.”

Ethan (not his real name) is not only alive, he’s starting to thrive, thanks to the help he’s receiving through a Medication Assisted Treatment program (MAT) offered

by University of Vermont Health Network/Porter Primary Care Bristol, formerly known as Bristol Internal Medicine. His treatment includes prescribed suboxone, a drug that helps patients wean themselves off of opioids.

“It’s gotten me back to where I can work,” Ethan said. “I’ve gotten some of my old friends back from before I used. I’ve gotten my family back. I feel like a good person and I try to do good things now.”

It’s been no easy task.

Ethan’s addiction became all consuming.

“It got to a point where my whole life was revolving around drugs,” he recalled.

But Ethan got to a point around three years ago where he wanted help. He enrolled in a 90-day suboxone trial study through the

University of Vermont. It helped curb his appetite for opioids. When that study came to an end, he reached out to Dr. Will Porter at Porter Primary Care Bristol. He was accepted into the MAT program that includes counseling, case management, regular exams, urinalysis and a suboxone prescription.

There have been bumps along the way, he concedes.

“I would relapse during hard times,” he said. “It takes time to start thinking clean again,” Ethan said.

Thanks to hard work and support, he’s now on the straight and narrow.

Come November, it will be two years without a relapse.

He’s now reaping the rewards of clean living.

“I just got my job back today,” he announced proudly during his recent chat with the Independent.

Ethan said suboxone has been “100 percent effective” in stemming his urge for opioids.

He said he doesn’t get a “high” from suboxone. Moreover, he knows the drug has a blocker in it that would substantially negate the high he could derive from heroin or opioid pills, if he were to relapse.

Thus, there is less incentive for him to seek out drugs while he is on suboxone.

“You spend the money and you don’t get the feeling you’re looking for because it’s blocking the endorphins in your system,” he explained.

Ethan is currently working with Porter on a plan to wean himself off of suboxone.

“I can’t tell you how much the program has done for me,” Ethan said.

“It’s saved my life.”

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“We’ve all learned a lot about the need to pitch in,” said Dr. Will Porter, who for the past three years has been offering MAT services through Porter Primary Care Bristol. His colleague, Dr. Emily Glick, was the first Addison County physician to offer a Suboxone-based MAT program.

But Dr. Porter is now able to offer MAT care to patients for one day a week (Thursdays) in Middlebury, thanks to an agreement with the folks at UVMHN/Porter Podiatry at 76 Court St. Porter stressed the Porter Podiatry Thursday sessions are for the convenience of some of the practice’s current 110 patients who find it difficult to get to Bristol. Around onethird of those 110 patients are now rotating into the Middlebury location.

“I gave my patients the option of being seen in Middlebury instead of Bristol, and many of them opted for that,” Porter said. “I thought, ‘(Middlebury) is the center of the county, most people live closer to Middlebury than Bristol. Most people with addiction struggle with transportation, so it makes total sense.

It’s been a long-term goal to do this.”

Still, Porter is optimistic he’ll soon be able to boost the number of patients to whom he’ll be able to offer MAT services, due to a recent, major change in the way he’s serving people. Rather than seeing patients individually, they have moved to seeing them in groups.

“Group medical visits are a phenomenon in diabetes care and other care; it’s well-recognized that this is therapeutic to have peer support in their treatment, because peers have a lot of perspective,” Porter said.

Here’s how it works.

The physician conducts medical visits with patients in a group, which then meets with a counselor and a case manager. The patients also submit to mandatory urine screening and receive their Suboxone prescription as part of their visit.

“This way, it’s more efficient,” Porter said. “We can see up to 10 patients in an hour and a half, whereas before, I would see three people in an hour and a half doing individual treatment.”

Put another way, instead of seeing 12-14 patients daily in Bristol, Porter will be able to see 16-18 using the group format.

Seeing patients as a group, officials believe, will eventually create additional capacity for local physicians to add to their MAT rolls.

“Medication doesn’t produce the recovery,” Porter said. “Medication

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DR. WILL PORTER, far right, is part of a team that is providing Medication Assisted Treatment in Bristol and now in Middlebury at UVM Health Network/Porter Podiatry. Pictured with Dr. Porter are team members, left to right, Shawn Thompson-Snow, Mary-Lynn Walkomen, David Payne and Therese Giles.

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gives people the space to do the real work of recovery, which occurs in their heart and in their mind.”

Incarceration isn’t the solution, according to Porter.

“Punishment doesn’t work; treatment works,” Porter said. “This is a condition in which people’s lives and their minds have been changed, and they need help. And medicine works.”

Dr. Porter cautioned, however, that not everyone is cut out for MAT services in a group setting. Above all, Addison County candidates must be motivated. Patients must submit to random urinalysis checks to ensure compliance.

“We very carefully select patients for the program,” Porter said. “Not everyone is appropriate for treatment in that setting. It’s a much less intensive, supervised setting than one of the hubs in Rutland or Burlington, where there’s daily contact between the treatment center and the patient.”

PATHS TO ADDICTION Porter’s patients have become addicted through various channels.

Some became hooked after having been prescribed painkillers following an injury. Others have found drugs in the family medicine chest and wanted more. Still others bought some on a street corner and couldn’t get enough. And once addicted, some people will do anything to get more.

“There are many paths to it,” Porter said. “But one thing you can say for sure is, no one ever set out to be addicted to opiates. It’s not what you want to do. It looks like a solution at first, then it becomes the worst problem you could create for a person.”

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Dr. Frank Provato is medical director at Bristol’s Mountain Health, which mainly serves residents of the five-town area of Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton New Haven and Starksboro. It recently added mental health services (through the Counseling Service of Addison County) and dental care.

Mountain Health prides itself in offering care for virtually all of a person’s health care needs, whether they be medical, mental or dental. So when it became clear some of the practice’s patients were struggling with addiction to opioids, it only made sense to offer an MAT program, Provato noted.

“We are aware there’s a waiting list (for MAT services) in Addison County,” Provato said. “We have identified some patients in our practice.”

This won’t be the first time Mountain Health has taken steps to serve people with addiction. The practice already has a drug/alcohol counselor on its staff. That person has not been in a position to issue prescriptions for Suboxone, however.

Some Mountain Health providers are currently receiving certification to be able to prescribe Suboxone.

Mountain Health’s staff also includes an acupuncturist who will be able to provide “acudetox” to supplement MAT services, according to Provato.

“This is well-established and uses acupuncture needles,” Provato said. “What it does is it serves as a form of relaxation. There is also evidence that it reduces the urge to use controlled substances.”

Mountain Health officials are not yet putting a specific number on the MAT patients they’ll be able to accommodate. But given the opioid addiction crisis throughout the state and country, it’s probably safe to say they’ll be able to fill all their spots.

THE NO. 1 PRIORITY A recent New York Times report placed drug overdose deaths in the U.S. at around 59,000 in 2016. That figure exceeds the number of U.S. service men and women who died during the entire Vietnam War, and is more than died during the peak of the AIDS epidemic in 1996.

“The surgeon general has declared (opioid addiction) the number one public health priority for the nation,” Dr. Porter noted. “That’s above dementia, diabetes, obesity, heart disease, stroke, and everything else.”

Still, fewer than 10 percent of people with severe opiate-use disorder are seeking treatment, according to Porter.

“That’s devastating,” Porter said.

“What can we do if we can only get

one out of 10? It’s invisible and hard to get at. It’s in the shadows.”

Fortunately, providers like Porter and Glick have induced many people to step out of the shadows.

“My experience, in doing this for three years in Addison County, is that when you provide treatment for addiction that is compassionate and high quality, it’s the best advertisement for others to come in for treatment,” Porter said. “I have had the direct experience of taking on patients and then having their family members, their acquaintances seeking treatment.”

How successful is the treatment?

Here’s what Porter has learned and seen during the past few years: If you take 100 people and put them through MAT, around 70 percent will emerge having conquered their addiction to illicit opiates. The success rate is around 5 percent for the same 100 people who go the abstinence only route, according to Porter.

Unfortunately, the domestic health care industry hasn’t made a big transition to MAT. “In the U.S., 80 percent of the (drug treatment) programs are abstinencebased,” Porter said. “We’re using the wrong tool, because of political, philosophical, judgment-based perspective.”

BUSY FAMILY DOCTORS Porter isn’t surprised there aren’t more Addison County health care providers in the MAT business. He knows they are extremely busy.

“I fully see that family doctors have been nearly submerged in Addison County,” Porter said. “And in general, everything flows downhill to primary care. Every last detail gets shuffled back to them. (Family doctors) are the dairy farmers of the medical world. They don’t have a moment to take a breath, and they don’t have the leeway to take on more.”

Nonetheless, there’s hope and progress on the horizon, Porter said, including the fact that: • Dr. Lynn Wilkinson is returning to UVMHN, Porter Medical Center this September to join the MAT program.

• Valley Vista has launched substance abuse treatment programs in Vergennes.

• New state guidelines, which took effect July 1, place limits on the amount of narcotic painkillers that can be prescribed to patients.

Dr. Porter plans to stick with it as an MAT physician.

“I have been practicing medicine for 25 years, and the last three have been the most rewarding of my career,” Porter said.

“The ‘golden age’ of treatment, I think, is coming.”

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Mt. Abe (Continued from Page 1A) facility more welcoming, improving air circulation, bringing in more natural light, better aligning the space to academic needs, making needed repairs to infrastructure, and bringing the building in line with current safety and handicap-accessibility regulations.

“This kind of gives you the benchmarks of where we’re at right now so we can have a good conversation about, ‘How do we align what our needs and priorities are with our ability to be able to afford a project that we can put in front of the voters?’” architect Lee Dore said.

Proposed changes to the building’s exterior include: • Renovating the main entrance.

• Adding a second gym toward the rear of the building, with its own event entrance/lobby.

• Creating a loop road so that traffic could circulate around the entire facility, including a rear bus dropoff and delivery docks for service vehicles.

• Adding two outside terraces for lunchtime use, accessed through the large and small cafeterias.

• Creating a number of skylights to bring in natural light.

Among the most dramatic exterior changes are those proposed to the building’s main entrance — replacing the heavy, brick façade with a wall of windows that would stretch from the current main office to the corner of the large cafeteria. This would bring in more light and make the front lobby more welcoming, First floor changes would include: • Adding more space for the main office and upstairs guidance area by eliminating front stairs in those areas.

Instead a staircase would run up the current trophy case wall and connect the lobby floor with the mezzanine above.

• Moving the library to the front of the building, across the lobby from the main office area.

• Consolidating the shop and design/tech areas on the first floor, taking up much of what is now the library.

• Relocating the maintenance area to the back of the building, with easy access to loading docks and outside.

• Situate new locker rooms between the pool and the proposed new gym, to do double duty serving both areas and to improve safety, cleanliness and access so swimmers in wet suits aren’t tracking water across a main hall.

• Reconfiguring the band room

floor to make it ADA-compliant and creating a larger, partitionable area at the back of the auditorium for chorus classes, which have now outgrown their rehearsal room.

• Upgrading the auditorium with new stage flooring, some new seating, new lighting and new sound equipment.

• Expanding the middle school art area.

Proposed changes to the second floor include adding hallways to provide direct access to classrooms now nested behind other classrooms and enlarging the science area.

Other changes to the school’s interior include restoring the windows at the ends of corridors, many of which have been walled off to create office spaces.

Dore and Tom Hengelsberg of D&W said that overall principles for devising the proposed renovation plans included moving as few interior walls as possible to keep costs down, keeping the same number of classrooms and anticipating a student body roughly the same size as at present (around 650 students).

Code, safety and maintenance items in the proposed renovation plan include: • Changes to stair railings and bathrooms for ADA compliance • A new sprinkler system to serve the whole building • New fire alarm and security systems • Cleaning, replacing and/or refurbishing of the entire heating and ventilation system • Removing and replacing lighting, the electrical system and plumbing fixtures.

The proposed $36.7 million price tag allots almost $29 million for construction; $7.2 million for what are called “soft costs,” which include architectural and project management fees and a 5 percent contingency; and $442,500 in a separate hazardous materials abatement category.

The $29 million in construction costs would be allotted: • $11.3 million(39 percent) for renovations per se • $10 million (34 percent) for required code and maintenance upgrades • $5.1 million (18 percent) for the new gym • $2.5 million (9 percent) for a category called “site related.”

ALREADY PAYING Community members had a

dramatic taste of the cost of repairs when leaky pipes forced the school to replace the gym floor last fall, at an emergency cost of around $165,000.

There have been ongoing repairs to the building since it first opened in 1969. Yet with the exception of an addition built in 2004, the structure has not undergone a major renovation.

Three years ago, the previous renovation committee considered options ranging from $11.6 million to $32.6 million; voters shot down a proposed $32.6 million bond.

The 2017 renovation committee acknowledged in their discussion that the district must start a community dialogue to convince people of the need for the bond. Committee members certainly expect sticker shock.

Nevertheless, Monday’s vote was strongly in favor of the $35 million amount. Voting “yes” were committee members Paradee of Bristol; Denise Dalton, Monkton; Dennis Casey, Brad Johnson and Dan Nugent, Starksboro; and Dustin Corrigan, Mount Abe faculty.

Mount Abe Athletic and Activities Director Devin Wendel voted no, because he felt the bond should be for the full amount recommended by Dore & Whittier.

Lincoln committee member Bob Patterson abstained, and said he felt the bond figure was too high.

Committee members Tom Adams and Otto Funke were absent.

Superintendent Reen, Mount Abe Principal Jessica Barewicz, ANESU Facilities Director Alden Harwood, and Mount Abe Facilities Manager Mike Kenyon are on the committee but are nonvoting.

In the discussion leading up to the vote committee members weighed their responsibility to carry the 48-year-old facility into the future.

“I look at this design and it does everything. It answers everybody’s questions,” said Paradee. “We’re adding the gym that everybody said is priority one, while keeping the pool.”

Paradee pointed out that in terms of the school’s interior, he felt the design makes the minimum changes needed to get maximum effect.

Several members asked how the current condition of the school affects prospective new residents.

Mansfield noted that attracting new families brings value to the community. When new families choose to move into the district, property values increase. When they

choose to go elsewhere, property values go down.

“We’ve had families stop by the school this summer looking to purchase in the area,” Barewicz said.

“And they’ve openly commented, ‘It looks like a prison.’ And you’ve got three different districts within 20-minutes’ driving range.”

OUTSIDER’S COMMENT At Monday’s meeting, Morrisville resident Peter Wilder recounted how his town went through this same, “very painful process” 15 years ago to renovate a school built in the 1930s.

He said that despite the tax hike, renovating the school has yielded positive benefits for the community.

Among these benefits is that property values have gone up.

Beyond the increase in property values, Wilder said that for Morrisville residents renovating the school was about leaving an important legacy for future students.

Mount Abe Committee member Dennis Casey asked how improvements to the Bristol facility would affect education, especially for students from challenging economic circumstances.

Barewicz shared her expertise on how the “hidden curriculum” — what the look and feel of a school tells students about their value to the community — translates into academic success.

“I think it’d be a slam dunk if we could lift these kids up,” Casey said.

4 fair workers killed in Route 22A crash

BRIDPORT — Four people driving to New Haven on Monday to work for a concessionaire at the Addison County Fair and Field Days where killed in a two-vehicle crash on Route 22A in Bridport.

Vermont State Police identified those who lost their lives as Jennifer N. Valdez, 34, of Westerville, Ohio; Steven Holmes, 20, of Chatsworth, Ga.; Amber Brewer, 19, of Dalton, Ga.; and Justin Hendrix, 38, of Bryceville, Fla. Police report that the four were driving northbound on Route 22A in Bridport early Monday afternoon when their 2001 Volkswagen Beetle crossed the center line and struck, head-on, a pickup truck driven by Lisa Nunez, 51, of Leesburg, Fla. She and her passenger, 27-year-old Thomas Sykes of Wilmer, Ala., were taken to the University of Vermont Medical Center for treatment of nonlife threatening injuries.

The accident occurred at around 12:40 p.m. near Route 22A’s intersection with North Cream Hill Road near the Shoreham town line. Because of the accident police closed Route 22A for several hours as multiple emergency responders tended to the scene.

All four individuals who died were employees of Dreamland Amusements, the company contracted to run amusement rides at Addison County Fair & Field Days,

which opened a five-day run in New Haven on Tuesday. Those at the fair said the midway didn’t open until late on the first day of the fair.

Dreamland Amusements of Nevada issued the following release on the tragedy on its Facebook page: “There are no words to truly comfort us, just our own strengths to support each other. Lots of emotions and tears for all of us. Good souls that impacted our daily life have left us memories and a big void “Remember to be good to yourself every day and drive safe on the roads of life ahead. Wear your seat belts, watch in all directions while you drive.

“Rest In Peace Steven Holmes aka Country Amber Brewer Justin Hendrix aka Redneck Jennifer “Nicki” Valdez” State officials, including Commissioner of Public Safety Thomas D. Anderson, issued a warning to Vermonters in light of this crash and several other fatal crashes that took the lives of eight people in the past week.

“While the cause of these crashes is still under investigation, we do know that seven of the eight people who died were not wearing seatbelts,” the joint statement said.

“Statistically, a person wearing a seatbelt is 50 percent to 70 percent more likely to survive a crash than an unbelted person.”

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Gun ordinance who spoke then opposed it.

(Continued from Page 1A) unnecessary,” Selectman Ted Lylis Selectboard members did not speak said at the meeting, attended by about their feelings on the proposal at about a dozen people. “It has just the July 24 hearing, but they did on resulted in an extremely divisive Monday. situation. I don’t see the need for it.”

Selectboard member Peter Coffey The agenda for the said those instances Aug. 7 meeting had reported by residents set aside 45 minutes “I was really this spring on their for discussion of the impressed two own did not merit proposal, but the weeks ago when an ordinance, since discussion by board we had a really they were one-time members and the public good community occurrences. lasted roughly half that “I think we need discussion. time. nothing. I don’t think The proposed Everybody was it’s a major issue. ordinance originated very civil with Neither one of these this past spring after each other. I just instances have been several Bristol residents don’t think an repeated,” Coffey brought concerns to ordinance is going said. “I think if we just the selectboard about continue as we have individuals discharging to fix it. I think we been we’ll be fine.” firearms near their ought to just put Selectboard Chair homes. State police a knife through it John “Peeker” said they could not and throw it out.” Heffernan agreed. intervene because there “I totally understand — Selectman was no town ordinance the safety concerns, Joel Bouvier regarding gunfire. but if somebody is The selectboard going to discharge a asked Bristol Police Chief Kevin weapon in village limits I doubt an Gibbs to look at similar ordinances ordinance is going to change that,” in other towns and draft a proposed he said. ordinance for Bristol. Gibbs’ proposal On Monday, members of the — which in general would have selectboard expressed concern prohibited discharging firearms that sending police officers to visit within a 500-foot safety zone around properties may not be an efficient someone else’s property with some use of the officer’s time and could exceptions — drew about 70 people pose a liability. to a July 24 hearing. Most of those “The ordinance as it stands, the

way it’s written, I’m not happy with it,” Heffernan said. “I’m very concerned about the town’s liability should we send an officer out to deem whether or not it’s safe to shoot. I just think there’s too much that can go wrong.”

While most of those who spoke at the July 24 hearing opposed to the proposed ordinance, all of the selectboard members were against it on Monday.

“I was really impressed two weeks ago when we had a really good community discussion. Everybody was very civil with each other. I just don’t think an ordinance is going to fix it,” Selectman Joel Bouvier said.

“I think we ought to just put a knife through it and throw it out.”

Virginia Burkowski, a Bristol resident who had advocated for the ordinance, spoke briefly at Monday’s hearing and expressed her frustration with the board’s decision.

“I’m a bit disillusioned by this whole process,” she said. “In all of these meetings I didn’t hear one constructive suggestion to (Police Chief Gibbs) about creating an ordinance, guiding him towards what you wanted. It was like from the beginning you decided ‘I own a gun, I’m not going to be limited, forget this.’ And it’s very upsetting to those of us who are looking for our safety, as well as the gun owners’ rights.”

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) scam to the Attorney General’s Consumer Assistance Program at 1-800-649-2424.

The Addison County Sheriff’s Department told us that it will be joining with other local law enforcement to patrol for drunken drivers and will organize a sobriety checkpoint during the weekend of Aug. 18 and 19.

PAUL STONE HEFTS a bag of his bulk-sales popcorn. Stone has been selling through the Middlebury and Montpelier natural food coops the past few years. With the grant, he hopes to expand his market to similar stores around the state. The Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op and Hunger Mountain Coop each sell about 50 pounds of Stonewood popcorn a week.

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Popcorn (Continued from Page 1A) package popcorn and to help the farm reach more wholesale markets.

This summer, Stone bought a corn planter. He plans to buy a corn sheller and another machine that cleans the popcorn (removing the chaff and what Stone calls “the small stuff”). He also plans to put in a new farm building for processing and packaging the popcorn. He’s been using a tractor-trailer and other farm buildings as available for part of his popcorn enterprise.

Stone, a former Vermont commissioner of agriculture, noted that as a crop popcorn presents a number of challenges. It needs a longer growing season than the kind of corn Vermont farmers grow to feed their cattle and other livestock. Corn for silage is normally harvested in September, said Stone, but popcorn has to stand in the field to dry down as long as possible and is harvested in October. The kernels have to be mature or they won’t pop (whereas less-mature feed corn can still be made into silage). If popcorn gets harvested too wet, it can mold and the crop is spoiled.

And in the same way that fine cheeses require affinage (the

right temperature, humidity and treatment for storing and ripening), harvested popcorn kernels need to be dried properly. Stone has devised ingenious mini “corn cribs” for this purpose. Each is built on a wooden pallet, about four foot square, on top of which is a mesh “corn drying cage” that goes about five feet high.

Using the palette, these corn-drying units can be easily moved around with a skid steer or a palette jack.

Even processing and packing the dried popcorn creates its own unique challenges.

“When you shell it, it’s like little marbles. It rolls and it goes all over the place,” said Stone.

Stone said he didn’t know of any other Vermont farms growing popcorn as a commercial crop. And he said that as a commercial crop “it’s likely better suited to a climate that has a longer growing season.”

He noted that most popcorn in the United States comes from Indiana, Illinois and Nebraska.

Asked how he sees popcorn fitting in to the family business, Stone replied: “I’d call it a small sideline.

This here is not going to replace turkeys.”

Stonewood is one of the largest

turkey growers in Vermont.

Although Stone expanded this summer from one to three-anda-half acres of popcorn, the wet weather and gray skies Addison County farmers have contended with all summer will likely reduce his yield by two-thirds.

“This is a very wet year for corn,” said Stone, as he stands looking out at this summer’s less-than-promising corn patch. “About one-third of it looks good. About one-third of it looks so so. And about one-third of it doesn’t look like anything I would want to brag about.”

Stone’s original plan in expanding from one to three-and-a-half acres was to focus this upcoming winter on selling bulk popcorn to more natural food coops throughout Vermont.

With what could be a drastically reduced harvest, he’s now going to wait and see.

When asked how the Stonewood popcorn tastes, Stone pops some up right on the spot.

“It tastes great,” he says.

And it does.

Then he jokes, “You’re asking the right person.”

Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

The Middlebury Union High School Class of 1962 will hold its 55th class reunion dinner on Sept. 9 at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7823 in Middlebury.

The classes of 1961, 1962 and 1963 are all invited. For further information, please call Barbara Blodgett at 802-388-8268.

The annual benefit dinner for the Lincoln Community Library will be held at the Bobcat Café in Bristol on Wednesday, Aug. 23.

The Bobcat will generously donate 20 percent of its food receipts that evening to the library. Come have dinner, buy a Red Sox raffle ticket, and support the Lincoln Library!

Two nonprofit organizations serving Addison County received a total of $4,000 in Small and Inspiring grants this year from the Middlebury-based Vermont Community Foundation for local projects. One of a number of competitive grant rounds at the Community Foundation, the Small and Inspiring grants program funds work that helps connect people to their neighbors,

their land, and their history in ways that strengthen community.

The Human Powered Parade and Festival received $1,500 to support the Bristol parade and festival celebrating bicycle and human power through art, place making activities, performances, and workshops organized through schools in Bristol and Middlebury.

The New Community Project received $2,500 to support the Starksboro Area Food Justice Garden Expansion Initiative’s new organic gardens that are increasing the supply of fresh produce available for individuals and families struggling with nutritional diversity and food security.

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2017

MATT DICKERSON

Bird watching on a trout stream Over the past few years I’ve been reading and learning a great deal more about the interconnectedness of stream and forest: the intimate interdependencies of terrestrial ecology and aquatic ecology. The dependencies go in both directions. Aquatic life depends on terrestrial life, and vice versa. Or to turn the motto of Las Vegas on its head, what happens on shore doesn’t necessarily stay on shore.

I’ve known for years about the importance of riverside trees both for shade and to stabilize the streambank. What I’ve learned more recently is how important it is that there are mature forests in which trees occasionally die and fall into the river.

It’s also important that the nutrients of fish die and end up on terrestrial soil. Or in the mouths of feeding creatures.

The introduction of non-native lake trout into Yellowstone Lake a few decades ago resulted indirectly in a catastrophic collapse of the osprey population. Rocky Mountain streams in which invasive brook trout displaced the native cutthroat may have only half as many spiders living in the trees along the shoreline, and also have many fewer songbirds.

Ultimately, though, I also prefer experiencing stream ecology to reading about it.

The afternoon sky was clear, but the air was not too hot. Between the thunderstorms rolling through Addison County and my own travels, I hadn’t been out on the local rivers for some time. I didn’t expect trout to be feeding at 3 p.m. in the afternoon on an early August day, but I knew I needed to get out on the water.

I drove to a favorite stretch of the New Haven River — not a particularly productive stretch, but one a little farther away from the road, where I expected a deeper quiet. For the next two hours I worked my way steadily upstream.

There are days when I’m feeling lazy, and will just keep the same fly on whether it’s working or not. If it’s working, no reason to change it. If it’s not, I figure nothing will. This was not one of those days. Despite my low expectation of finding feeding trout at this time, I kept trying new flies. I drifted nymphs below dry flies. I stripped streamers. I let wooly buggers sink into the depths around logs. Nothing drew any notice. The trout were all hiding.

The effort to find trout had me paying even more attentions to my surroundings. I noticed how much the stream has changed. In fact, it’s constantly changing. Sometimes the (See Dickerson, Page 2B)

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Swimmers wrap up season of competition, fun Champs and MST make mark at state

By EMMA COTTON HARTLAND — At the Vermont Swim Association 2017 Championship meet, held at the Upper Valley Aquatic Center in Hartland on Sunday, Vergennes swimmer Will Clark climbed up on the block. It was the last heat of the eight-and-under 50yard freestyle, and Clark’s seed time of 33.87 seconds was faster than the state record.

The starting buzzer beeped, and Clark flew into the water alongside five other boys. With a flurry of kicks and strokes, Clark pulled ahead of his competitors, touching the wall 33.75 seconds later, officially setting a new VSA record.

Behind the blocks, his coaches jumped up and down, and the crowd cheered up in the stands. His winning time flashed up on the scoreboard next to the letters “VST” — for Vergennes Swim Team. Down in the pool, the eight-year-old smiled shyly while the announcer’s voice boomed news of his record-breaking swim.

“It was sort of my goal for the year,” Clark said a few days after the race. He also holds the record for the boys’ six-and-under 25-yard backstroke and 25-yard freestyle.

Vergennes coach Ally Stearns was proud of Clark’s accomplishment, but she was also proud of the spirit that developed on the team, which was indicative of much of the spirit of youth swimming in Vermont.

“Even when we didn’t have anyone close to breaking the record — even when it wasn’t our kid, it was still so exciting to see it and hear everyone cheer,” Stearns said. “I think that’s such a good environment.”

The weekend-long championship meet marked a last chance for the Vergennes Swim Team (known as the Champs), along with 18 other teams, to compete, improve times and build

THE MIDDLEBURY SWIM Team boys’ U-14 200 free relay squad broke the state record with a time of 1:40.39 at the recent state meet. Pictured are, left to right, Fraser Milligan, coach Harper Smith, Nathan Stone, coach Brianna Foley, Oliver Poduschnick, coach Colleen Rueppel and Will Carpenter. The Middlebury Swim Team enjoyed a fun season.

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on relationships made during the sixweek season.

“The kids provide a lot of entertainment,” said Middlebury coach Colleen Rueppel on Sunday. “Even just sitting on the bench or under the tent, you hear some great stories. It’s just fun to hang out with them — like last night we had a two-hour pizza party at the hotel.”

Defending champion The Edge Swim Team from Burlington won the state meet with nearly a 2,000-point lead at 4,408.5 points. The Town of Essex Swim Team (TEST) followed, with 2,558.5 points. The Burlington Tennis Club placed third (1,804), followed by the Burlington Country Club, (1,548).

Vergennes narrowly missed fourth place, at 1,525.5 points, just 22.5 points behind BCC. The Champs brought in eight first-place finishes,

VERGENNES SWIM TEAM coaches Allyson Stearns, left, and Alex Vutech, far right, get swimmers Clark Crary, left, Juan De La Cruz, Will Clark and Quinn LeBeau ready for a relay at last weekend’s state championship meet in White River Junction.

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four of which were made by Clark, who can now rightfully be called the defending state champion in the boys’ eight-and-under 25-yard freestyle, 50-yard freestyle, 25-yard backstroke and 25-yard butterfly.

In his first season of swimming with Vergennes, Flint Crary won both his individual events: boys’ six-and-under 25-yard freestyle and 25-yard backstroke. Carson Hoffman took home gold for the 11- and 12-year-old boys’ 50-yard butterfly, and Quinn LeBeau, Clark Crary, Juan De La Cruz and Will Clark placed first in the boys’ eight-andunder 100-yard freestyle relay.

Middlebury finished in ninth place, earning 847.50 points with two individual first-place finishes and two first-place relay finishes. Molly Thalen won the girls’ 7-8 25-yard backstroke, and Oliver Poduschnick won the boys’ 13-14 100 IM. The two winning relay teams both included Poduschnick, Nathan Stone, Will Carpenter and Fraser Milligan; that quartet won both the 14-and-under 200-yard medley relay and the 200yard freestyle relay.

Rueppel called the relays a season highlight.

“We were jumping down, and I almost fell in the pool,” she said.

“We’re a small team from a small town, and we’re not really wellknown for swimming, so to come out and be number one in the state for the boys’ medley relay — that was a big deal for us.”

“I’m so proud of every Champ and every race they had this weekend,” Vergennes coach Alex Vutech added.

“We had a lot of fast and intense races, but more importantly, we had so much fun.”

Addison County results at the state meet were as follows:

BUTTERFLY • U-8 girls 25: 38. Kaitlin Sulik-Doty, M; 43. Amelia Giroux, V. • U-8 boys 25: 1. Will Clark, V, 18.42; 6. Quinn LeBeau, V; 7. Clark Crary, V. • 9-10 boys 25: 8. Ethan Croke, V; 14. Grey Fearon, V. • 11-12 girls 50: 5. Madelyn Giroux, V; 8. Natalie Rockwell, M; 15.

Acadia Clark, V; 23. Sydney Adreon, V. • 11-12 boys 50: 2. Carson Hoffman, V, 29.70; 13. Calder Rakowski, V. • 11-12 girls 100: 4. Madelyn Giroux, V.

• 13-14 girls 50: 11. Holly Staats, M; 13. Anna Rakowski, V; 14. Jordan Jewell, V; 16. Grace LeBeau, V; 17. Sydney Jewell, V. • 13-14 boys 50: 2. Nathan Stone, M, 27.14; 4. Oliver Poduschnick, M; 8. Will Carpenter, M; 12. Jarret Muzzy, V; 15. Andy Rockwell, M; 17. Noah Engvall, V. • 13-14 girls 50: 10. Anna Rakowski, V. • 13-14 girls 100: 8. Allie Croke, V. • 13-14 boys 100: 2. Nathan Stone, M. • 15-16 girls 50: 13. Rachel (See Swim teams, Page 2B)

VERGENNES SWIMMERS CARSON Hoffman, left, Acadia Clark, Madelyn Giroux, Reese Muzzy and Carlyn Rapoport celebrate with the teams’ fifth-place trophy after Sunday’s state swim meet in White River Junction. The Champs had a successful and, more importantly, fun season.

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Pro tennis returns to Vermont

Small venue brings top-ranked action up close, Aug. 22-24 STOWE — The last time Vermont was host to a major professional tennis tournament was a decade ago, in 2007. It was the Fed Cup semifinals and big stars like Venus Williams, Nadia Petrova and Elena Vesnina drew crowds of 4,500 for both days of the tournament at Topnotch Resort.

The man behind that event was Stowe resident and former tennis pro Andrew Chmura, who is now the president of Grand Slam Tennis Tours, a boutique tourism company in Stowe that specializes in travel to major tennis events around the world, including the Australian

Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open.

Chmura and his team at GSTT are bringing pro tennis back to Stowe this Aug. 22-24 with the Stowe Mountain Lodge Classic, but this time GSTT wants to make it an ongoing annual event, elaborate on it and bill it as something like a Stowe tennis week — set the week before the US Open in New York City.

“We proved with the Fed Cup that we can host a big tournament and do it well, and we’re eager to do it again,” Chmura said in a recent interview. “I’m also excited about what the tournament could mean for

ANDY CHMURA, CEO of Grand Slam Tennis Tours, hopes to bring an annual pro tennis tournament to Stowe the week proceeding the US Open in New York City. He formerly coached at Middlebury College.

the future of Stowe and the potential it has to grow and solidify itself into the tennis calendar. We want this to become an event the best pro players in the world want to come to a week ahead of the US Open… It could be a pretty cool contrast between the intimacy and outdoor space of Vermont, playing in spectacular scenery for a week of tennis and events, and then head to the city for the big show.”

This year’s tennis tournament will feature seven ranked pro men players, including Albert Ramos-Viñolas (ranked 22nd), teen sensation Frances Tiafoe, Tommy Haas (formerly ranked 2nd), NextGen player Reilly Opelka, Frenchman Jeremy Chardy, No. 2 Canadian Vasek Pospisil, and American NextGen player Jared Donaldson.

A 2,500-seat temporary stadium is being built for the tournament adjacent to the Stowe Performing Arts Center at Stowe Mountain Lodge at Spruce Peak with many of the seats looking directly at Mount Mansfield.

“I’ve been to a lot of tennis tournaments all around the world, and I can tell you this will be one of the most spectacular and beautiful backdrops of any tournament in the world,” Chmura said. “But we’re also excited about all the other things the resort and the town have to offer: the zip line, the tree-top course, great swimming holes just down the road and the

ALBERT RAMOS-VIÑOLAS is one of seven professional tennis players competing at the Stowe Mountain Lodge Classic, Aug. 22-24. The hosts are calling the venue one of the most scenic in the world.

luxurious Stowe Mountain Lodge.

It’s a great package and I think we’ll be able to provide a really wonderful experience.”

Stowe had been host to international tennis tournaments back in the 1970s when the Head Classic drew the likes of Jimmy Connors, Ilie Nastase and other top tennis players in the world. “You talk about Stowe to people who are now coaches and who have played here, and it’s like some of their fondest memories as

professional tennis players,” Chmura says.

Chmura grew up in Pittsfield, Mass., where he was a nationally ranked junior player, who later went on to play tennis at Notre Dame and on the professional circuit before settling in Vermont in 1999. Chmura first came to Middlebury where he coached the men’s tennis team for a year at Middlebury College and had a small role in developing the Middlebury Indoor Tennis facility, and

then moved to Stowe where he became the tennis pro at Topnotch Resort for several years. Along the way he started conducting small trips to tennis events around the world, and gradually formed the Grand Slam Tennis Tours business about two decades ago. He also serves on the board of the USTA New England.

In 2016, Chmura and GSTT partnered with Topnotch Management, one of the leading player represen(See Tennis, Page 2B)

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Swim teams (Continued from Page 1B) Merrill, M. • 15-16 boys 50: 5. Devon Kearns, M. • 15-16 girls 100: 4. Leah Croke, V; 8. Rachel Merrill, M. • 17-18 girls 50: 6. Calista Carl, M; 8. Sophie Rippner, V; 9. Ciara Eagan, M. • 17-18 boys 50: 8. Ethan Sausville, V; 12. Max Ratti-Bicknell, V; 14. Jacob Brookman, M. • 17-18 boys 100: 4. Ethan Sausville, V. BACKSTROKE • U-6 girls 25: 2. Annika Smits, V; 5. Reese Muzzy, V.; 6. Aurora Foley, M; 9. Mitzi Poduschnick, M.; 16. Casey Clark, V. • U-6 boys 25: 1. Flint Crary, V, 26.25.

• 7-8 boys 25: 1. Will Clark, V, 19.45; 13. Clark Crary, V; 24. Noah Smits, V. • 7-8 girls 25: 1. Molly Thalen, M, 21. 32; 3. Adrienne Smits, V; 11. Isabella Romond, V; 20. Ella Bearor, V; 30. Ellie Brooks, V; 46. Sophia James, V.; 47. Ellie Eckels, V; 51. Lily Allen, M. • 9-10 girls 25: 15. Lucy Poduschnick, M.; 59. Kaitlin Sulik-Doty, M. • 9-10 boys 25: 4. Ethan Croke, V; 38. Rudolf Vorsteveld, V; 43. Maxwell Goodfellow, V; 46. Julian Potter.

• 11-12 girls 50: 11. Hadley Harris, V; 14. Natalie Rockwell, M; 16. Madelyn Giroux, V; 24. Bee Eckels, V. • 11-12 boys 50: 12. Calder Rakowski, V. • 13-14 boys 50: 6. Will Carpenter, M; 12. Adam Clark, V. • 13-14 boys 100: 7. Andy Rockwell, M. • 15-16 girls 50: 7. Leah Croke, V; 14. Emma Beauchemin, V. • 15-16 boys 50: 11. Dylan Rapoport, V. • 17-18 girls 50: 4. Ciara Egan, M; 6. Calista Carl, M. • 17-18 boys 50: 3. Archie Milligan, M; 8. Jacob Brookman, M. • 17-18 boys 100: 3. Archie Milligan, M. BREASTSTROKE • U-8 girls 25: 7. Molly Thalen, M; 13. Mitzi Poduschnick, M; 14.

Ellie Eckels, V; 24. Reese Muzzy, V. • U-8 boys 25: 5. Clark Crary, V; 6. Noah Smits, V; 8. Juan De La Cruz, V; 14. Sebastian Giroux, V. • 9-10 boys 25: 25. Rudolf Vorsteveld, V; 33. Grey Fearon, V. • U-10 girls: 9. Amelia Giroux, V; 11. Kaitlyn Sulik-Doty, M; 12. L.

Poduschnick, M. • 11-12 girls 50: 5. Acadia Clark, V; 7. Hadley Harris, V; 9. Carlyn Rapoport, V; 14. Maddie Crowne, M; 19. Bee Eckels, V; 20. Sydney Adreon, V. • 11-12 boys 50: 1. Carson Hoffman, V, 35.14; 13. Aidan Chance, M;.

• 11-12 girls 100: 5. Acadia Clark, V; 6. Carlyn Rapoport, V. • 11-12 boys 100: 3. Nate Muzzy, V. • 13-14 girls 50: 5. Holly Staats, M; 14. Jordan Jewell, V; 15. Sydney Jewell, V. • 13-14 boys 50: 3. Oliver Poduschnick, M; 4. Nathan Stone, M; 5.

Fraser Milligan, M; 8. Noah Engvall, V. • 13-14 boys 100: 2. Fraser Milligan, M; 3. Nathan Stone, M; 6. Noah Engvall, V. • 15-16 girls 100: 9. Rachel Merrill, M. • 15-16 boys 50: 6. Devon Kearns, M. • 15-16 boys 100: 6. Devon Kearns, M; 10. Dylan Rapoport, V. • 17-18 girls 50: 2. Olivia Hawkins, V, 35. 25.

• 17-18 girls 100: 4. Olivia Hawkins, V; 5. Sadie Kass, V. • 17-18 boys 50: 8. Ethan Sausville, V; 9. Jacob Brookman, M. FREESTYLE • U-6 girls 25: 3. Reese Muzzy, V; 5. Mitzi Poduschnick, M; 6. Aurora Foley, M; 7. Annika Smits, V; 10.

Isabella De La Cruz, V; 14. Casey Clark, V; 18. Ella Maneen, V. • U-6 boys 25: 1. Flint Crary, V, 20.03.

• 7-8 girls 25: 1. Molly Thalen, M; 12. Ellie Brooks, V; 21. Petra Fearon, V.; 23. Adrienne Smits, V; 28. Ella Bearor, V; 34. Sadie Chance, M; 36. Ellie Eckels, V; 47. Lily Allen, M. • 7-8 boys 25: 1. Will Clark, V, 15.14; 4. Quinn LeBeau, V; 7. Juan De La Cruz, V; 8. Clark Crary, V; 17.

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Maneen, V; 18. Noah Smits, V; 35.

Sebastian Giroux, V. • U-8 boys 50: 1. Will Clark, V, 33.75; 5. Quinn LeBeau, V; V; 24.

Noah Smits, V. • 9-10 girls 25: 42. Lucy Poduschnick, M; 52. Amelia Giroux, V; 61. Kaitlin Sulik-Doty, M. • 9-10 boys 25: 5. Ethan Croke, V; 25. Grey Fearon, V; 49. Maxwell Goodfellow, V; 52. Rudolf Vorsteveld, V; 58. Julian Potter.

• 9-10 boys 50: 8. Ethan Croke,

V; 17. Grey Fearon, V; 43. Julian Potter, V. • 11-12 girls 50: 7. Hadley Harris, V; 18. Natalie Rockwell, M; 21. Maddie Crowne, M; 22. Bee Eckels, V. • 11-12 boys 50: 2. Carson Hoffman, V; 8. Aidan Chance, M; 13.

Patrick Stone, M; 15. Nate Muzzy, V. • 11-12 girls 100: 15. Bee Eckels, V; 20. Sydney Adreon V. • 11-12 boys 100: 16. Calder Rakowski.

• 11-12 girls 200: 9. Carlyn Rapoport, V. • 13-14 girls 50: 8. Jordan Jewell, V; 16. Allie Croke, V; 22. Holly Staats, M; 35. Summer Chabot, V;.

• 13-14 boys 50: 4. Oliver Poduschnick, M; 7. Will Carpenter, M; 8. Fraser Milligan, M; 11. Jarret Muzzy, V; 15. Noah Engvall, V; 17.

Andy Rockwell, M; 22. Adam Clark, V; 24. Derek Vorsteveld, V. • 13-14 boys 100: 9. Fraser Milligan, M; 11. Jarret Muzzy, V. • 13-14 girls 100: 7. Anna Rakowski, V; 9. Grace LeBeau, V. • 13-14 boys 200: 10. Adam Clark, V. • 13-14 girls 200: 2. Grace LeBeau, V, 2:19:45.

• 15-16 girls 50: 11. Leah Croke, V; 13. Emma Beauchemin, V. • 15-16 boys 50: 5. Devon Kearns, M; 14. Dylan Rapoport, V. • 15-16 girls 100: 10. Emma Beauchemin, V. • 15-16 girls 200: 7. Emma Beauchemin, V. • 17-18 girls 50: 2. Olivia Hawkins, V, 27.56; 5. Calista Carl, M; 6.

Sophie Rippner, V. • 17-18 boys 50: 7. Archie Milligan, M; 8. Max Ratti-Bicknell, V; 15. Jacob Brookman, M; 17. Ethan Sausville, V. • 17-18 girls 100: 3. Olivia Hawkins, V; 7. Calista Carl, M; 8. Sophie Rippner, V; 10. Ciara Eagan, M. • 17-18 boys 100: 6. Max Ratti-Bicknell, V. • Girls Open 500: 5. Anna Rakowski, V, 6:21:15.

• Boys Open 500: 2. Archie Milligan, M, 5:07:59.

INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY • 11-12 girls 100: 9. Hadley Harris, V; 13. Madelyn Giroux, V; 14.

Acadia Clark, V; 17. Natalie Rockwell, M; 21. C. Rapoport, V; 26.

Maddie Crowne, M. • 11-12 boys 100: 3. Aidan Chance, M; 4. Patrick Stone, M. • 13-14 boys 100: 1. Oliver Poduschnick, M, 1:01:21; 11. Jarret

Muzzy, V; 13. Andy Rockwell, M; 16. Adam Clark, V. • 15-16 girls 200: 7. Leah Croke, V; 8. Rachel Merrill, M. RELAYS • U-8 girls 100 free: 4. V (Petra Fearon, Isabella Romond, Adrienne Smits, Ellie Brooks); 6. V (Sophia James, Reese Muzzy, Ellie Eckels, Ella Bearor).

• U-8 boys 100 free: 1. V, 1:13.83 (Quinn LeBeau, Clark Crary, Juan De La Cruz, Will Clark).

• U-8 boys 100 medley: 2. V, 1:34:09 (Clark Crary, Juan De La Cruz, Will Clark, Quinn LeBeau,).

• U-10 boys 100 free: 8. V (Grey Fearon, Rudolf Vorsteveld, Julian Potter, Ethan Croke); 13. V (Flint Crary, Sebastian Giroux, Noah Smits, Maxwell Goodfellow).

• U-10 boys 100 medley: 7. V (Julian Potter, Rudolf Vorsteveld, Ethan Croke , Grey Fearon).

• U-12 girls 200 free: 4. V (Madelyn Giroux, Acadia Clark, Carlyn Rapoport, Hadley Harris).

• U-12 girls 200 medley: 3. V (Hadley Harris, Acadia Clark, Madelyn Giroux, Carlyn Rapoport).

• U-14 girls 200 free: 3. V (Anna Rakowski, Sydney Jewell, Grace LeBeau, Jordan Jewell).

• U-14 boys 200 free: 1. M, 1:40:39 (Nathan Stone, Will Carpenter, Fraser Milligan, Oliver Poduschnick); 6. V (Noah Engvall, Derek Vorsteveld, Adam Clark, Carson Hoffman).

• U-14 girls 200 medley: 5. V (Allie Croke, Anna Rakowski, Grace LeBeau, Jordan Jewell); 15. V (Bee Eckels, Sydney Adreon, Sydney Jewell, Summer Chabot).

• U-14 boys 200 medley: 1. M, 1:53:78 (Will Carpenter, Oliver Poduschnick, Nathan Stone, Fraser Milligan); 6. V (Adam Clark, Noah Engvall, Jarret Muzzy, Derek Vorsteveld).

• U-18 girls 200 free: 9. V (Emma Beauchemin, Sophie Rippner, Sadie Kass, Olivia Hawkins).

• U-18 girls 200 medley: 7. V (Emma Beauchemin, Olivia Hawkins, Leah Croke, Sophie Rippner).

• U-18 boys 200 free: 7. M (Andy Rockwell, Jacob Brookman, Devon Kearns, Archie Milligan); 9. V (Ethan Sausville, Dylan Rapoport, Jarret Muzzy, Max Ratti-Bicknell).

• U-18 boys 200 medley: 7. V (Dylan Rapoport, Carson Hoffman, Ethan Sausville, Max Ratti-Bicknell).

places I spotted a trout hiding below a log in armpit deep water at the bottom of a pool.

The most enjoyable moment came late in the excursion when some mayflies starting coming off the water. Another fallen tree laying across the shallows provided a perfect perching for a steady rotation of at least half a dozen waxwings that were picking off the mayflies one by one as they rose from the water. I suppose the lack of trout to take a fly I presented, which was a disappointment to me, was a boon to the birds because it meant all of those aquatic invertebrates escaped to feed the forest creatures.

Three days later I was out again, this time at 6 a.m. when my prospects for landing a fish were some-

what higher. And I did, indeed, land half a dozen trout, mostly small rainbows but also a pair of brown trout of 12 and 15 inches. Neither fish are native anywhere to eastern North America, so I wasn’t ruminating too much on stream ecology.

Nonetheless, a stream that holds even non-native fish is better than one that can’t support any fish. So I didn’t worry too much about the counts of spiders along the shoreline.

On this morning I was fishing a gorge, and though I enjoyed landing the trout, the most enjoyable moment came just five minutes into the excursion. As I stood on the trail 40 feet above the level of the river looking down into the morning shadows, a movement in the air caught my

eye. A big bird was swooping down the gorge almost directly below me.

About the time my eyes focused on it, and I realized it was an osprey, it folded its wings and dropped down into a plunge pool below a small cascade. For a few seconds it was hidden behind a big bolder. When it reappeared, it had in its talons a nice breakfast trout at least as big as all but two of the fish I would catch in my excursion.

With the extra weight, the osprey had to circle three times around the narrow gap before it had gained enough altitude to lift up over the trees and fly off to a quiet spot to eat that breakfast — or perhaps to feed it to its young. And as the bird lifted up out of the gorge, I dropped down in to continue my ecology lesson.

Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) changes come fast. Sometimes they come slowly. For the past 15 years I have been watching one of my favorite holes slowly fill in with sand and gravel. This was the trip I realized I could no longer call it a “hole.” A few other favorite spots had been changed more quickly and drastically over the winter or in a single one of the heavy early summer flows, and also for the first time I decided they were no longer worth fishing.

On the other hand, a couple beautiful new spots had been created — in both cases by the falling of a tree. Though I wasn’t able to entice a fish to chase a fly, before leaving I waded quietly to the very edge of these treefalls and peered in the clear deep water. In both

MEMBERS OF THE GDTT crew are, from left, Chris Campbell, Andrew Chmura, Kyle Ross, Chris Lyons, James Watson and Guillaume Hospod. Others who work at the Stowe office are Mark Spyrzynski and Laura Marttinen.

Tennis prise me?

(Continued from Page 1B) Chmura: First, the tennis is so fast. tation agencies in the tennis industry.

But besides creating tours spe- One of the things a lot of folks will cific to tennis, hosting a big event like get from being courtside is just how the upcoming men’s tournament and physical tennis is and has become. making it an event worthy of drawing These athletes train year around, and big tennis stars every year has its own the physicality of the sport is much unique set of challenges and rewards. greater than it used to be. The athletic We talked to Chmura about a few of ability of these guys is just mind-bogthose challenges and how he hopes gling... As a game, it’s the same strategy as many of us play, but at a very the tournament will evolve: Q: After being ranked as a junior different speed and with much greater player, and playing at Notre Dame, power.

As an athlete, it’s also a super menhow long did you play as a professional and when did you settle tal. Tennis is a game of accountability where the mistakes you make are all down in Stowe?

Chmura: I played for about a year yours, and the good shots you make and a half, mainly in Europe, African are yours too. But you have to stay and throughout U.S. I knew early on I positive and not let the missed shots wasn’t big enough or good enough to get you down.

As a spectacular, one of the coolcompete at that level, but I loved tennis and it was what I knew about, so est things is when you’re sitting that I started teaching tennis at Topnotch close to the action you can feel the around 2000, and I was already put- dynamics of the match change. It’s like being ringside at ting together tennis a boxing match. You tours for some of my What: Stowe Mountain can feel the energy, clients and friends, then eventually saw Lodge Classic, pro men’s the mood swings that happen after a the basis for a busi- tennis tournament When: Aug. 22-24, good shot or a missed ness there and foundhit… Matches can be ed Grand Slam Ten- 2017 Where: Stowe Moun- an emotional roller nis Tours. coaster, and watching I’m also a skier, tain Lodge resort Cost per ticket: $45, that as a spectator is and while I grew up something you don’t in Massachusetts, I $75 and VIP tickets.

You can purchase tick- get when watching a came here a lot as a kid vacationing and ets and get more info at match on television.

Q: Besides the attended Killington stowetennis.com beauty of the area Mountain School in and facilities at the eighth grade…

Since those early years I always knew Stowe Mountain Lodge, is there another characteristic that makes Vermont was where I wanted to live.

Q: Describe the venue and the Stowe a good place to host a tennis stadium of the Stowe Mountain tournament?

Chmura: The community is ripe Lodge Classic.

Chmura: “We’ll have 2,500 seats in with athletic active people that love the stadium and not a bad seat in the sport. And it’s a bit different than the house. Compared to the 26,000 seats mainstream in that Vermont folks love at the Arthur Ashe Stadium at the US their mountain biking, skiing, climbOpen, every seat in our stadium will ing, etc. And tennis falls in that catfeel intimate. All of our seats will be egory of an individual sport that you the equivalent to the courtside seats can play forever and actually improve at the US Open, which sell for $400 as you age. The proof is in the hunto $5,000. We’re selling our tickets dreds of miles of single track found at three levels: $45, $75 and $1,000 in Stowe, the best ski mountain in the VIP seats, which come with a party East, and the 350-plus tennis courts in the night before the tournament, a Stowe. That is about one tennis court chance to meet the players and other for every 12 people! It’s a tennis town benefits, in addition to the best seats and deserving of a big tennis tournament each year. in the house.”

Q: You mentioned that tennis is Q: How can viewers follow the match-ups to know who’s playing bigger internationally than in the U.S. Any idea why? the next day?

Chmura: Generally, I think there is Chmura: There’ll be a draw ceremony the day before the tournament a bit of saturation in the sports market begins, and then every day you’ll see in the U.S. With baseball, basketball six out of the seven players perform in and football dominating the sports landscape, its tough for tennis to realthree matches.

Q: If this were my first pro-tennis ly break through... However, internatournament to see, what will sur- tionally, tennis (in Europe and South America) is the second most popular sport to soccer. In towns like Stowe and Middlebury, with its incredible eed a little help indoor tennis facility (MIT), and othputting some er communities in Vermont that emexercise into your brace the sport, tennis takes a much life? Do you know you bigger stage, as do sports like skiing, need to exercise but snowboarding and mountain biking. you simply don’t know I think that’s why you see a pretty active and healthy older communihow or where to start? ty because it’s hard to play football Want to shed some when you’re over 40 (except for Tom pounds? Let me help! I Brady), but it feels good to peddle the land on your doorstep bike path or skin the mountain. And it and create a plan that definitely feels good to hit a topspin will work for you! What forehand. are you waiting for?

Q: Recalling your years in junior Now is this time to take nationals, what advice would you some steps toward your give aspiring, young tennis players GREAT health and in high school who love the sport well-being. but are not sure whether they want to pursue it at a higher level?

Chmura: There are many doors that open and levels of success that they one can achieve by sticking with tennis. Above all, it is such an accountable sport. One of the hardest things to do as a tennis player is to take the errors and winners and accept them mentally the same way. You’re going to hit great shots and you’re going to flub some up. Allowing yourself to Caroline Biddle McKenzie stay even, mentally, is a difficult thing ACE Certified Personal Trainer on the court and in life. I think that is Email: cbbmck@gmail.com the most important thing I have takcell: 802-233-0805 en from my years on the court. Also tennis opens doors, socially and otherwise. It’s a great way to meet new people, and it’s a skill you will have ACE CERTIFIED for a lifetime.

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Seeking waterfowl

HUNTERS AND OTHERS interested in the outdoors flocked to the first Green Mountain Waterfowl Festival at Rack ‘N Reel in New Haven on July 29. Webfoot Waterfowl sponsored this day of all things waterfowl, including duck and goose calling contests, kids games, raffles, food, wildlife artists, live decoy carving and duck call turning.

Event organizers Chris Ingram said people really seemed to enjoy our duck and goose calling contest. Pictured tooting their calls are John Ohlaynick, above, and Shaw Kipp, right.

Three cited in sexual assault case ADDISON COUNTY — On Wednesday, Aug. 2, Vermont State Police reported that they had wrapped up a sexual assault investigation that resulted in them filing charges against three Bristol residents.

On June 25, detectives with VSP Troop B West began a sexual assault investigation in Bristol. After what a state police press release from Det. Trooper Craig Hanson called “a thorough investigation,” state police detectives charged 24-year-old Tyler Ford of Bristol with sexual assault.

They also charged Glenn Cota, 53, and Suzanne Cota, 54, with enabling the consumption of alcohol by individuals under the age of 21.

In other recent activity, troopers: • On July 31 at five minutes to 7 p.m. went to the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Quaker Road in Starksboro. Police report that Gregory West, 26, of Bristol was driving a 2015 Dodge Ram southbound on Quaker Road, when the pickup truck struck a tree and came to rest on its side. Police coted West for driving under the influence.

• On Aug. 2 at approximately 7:30

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a.m. responded to a disturbance at a home in the Nichols Road neighborhood in Monkton. Troopers alleged that Teresa Gleason, 24, of Monkton had assaulted a family member, and they cited her for domestic assault.

• On June 23 began investigating a report of the theft of cash from the Shoreham Service Center on Route 22A in Shoreham. Store personnel told police that they discovered that a cash register was short $700 on June 18. At the close of the investigation state police on Aug. 2 reported that store employee Michael Raiche, 31, of Shoreham had stolen $700 in cash while working at the service center and they cited him for petit larceny.

• On Aug. 3 at a shortly before noon received a report of a dog that had been shot on Sand Road in Ferrisburgh. State police said their investigation showed that Michael Roberts, 57, of Ferrisburgh had shot the dog with a firearm. The dog was

being treated for its injuries late last week. Police cited Roberts for aggravated cruelty to animals.

• On Aug. 4 at approximately 10:25 a.m. were called to assist a citizen at a home on Route 125 in Bridport. Police said they investigated and determined that Tammy Burbo, 51, of Vergennes was involved in the incident and was en route to the residence at the time of the call.

State police attempted to stop Burbo before she got to the home, but she arrived on scene after failing to stop.

Troopers took Burbo was into custody after, they alleged, she attempted to back into a state police cruiser and almost struck a trooper. Burbo resisted arrest, police report; but they did get her into custody, took her to the New Haven barracks and cited her for aggravated disorderly conduct, reckless endangerment, impeding law enforcement and resisting arrest.

• On Aug. 7 at a little past noon shut down Route 22A in part of Bridport and Shoreham after a bad two-vehicle crash occurred. The crash claimed the lives of four people. Look for a full story in Section A.

BRISTOL — Bristol police spent several days in late July dealing with Bristol resident Darren Austin.

Following 36-year-old Austin’s July 22 arrest and citation for second-degree aggravated domestic assault, being a violent criminal in possession of a firearm, and committing an offense in the presence of a child, he was jailed at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility and served an abuse prevention order and assigned conditions of release.

Authorities alleged that while incarcerated on July 23, Austin violated these court orders by placing a collect telephone call to the residence of a person protected by the order. So, on July 24, Bristol police cited Austin on additional charges of violating an abuse prevention order and violating conditions of release.

Over the last two weeks of July, Bristol police conducted foot patrols downtown and environs on July 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24, 26, 27 and 28; the town green on July 19 and 26 during the town band concerts, Airport Drive and surrounding area on July 29 and the Three Day Stampede at various times on July 28, 29 and 30. On July 30 an officer also patrolled the Stampeded by bike.

Officers also conducted seven town-contracted traffic patrols covering Burpee, Hardscrabble and River roads and along Routes 116 and 17. Police issued one ticket for a stop sign violation and one ticket for speeding. Patrols were on July 18, 25, 26, 27, 29 and 30.

Police checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School on July 19, 20, 24, 25 and 27.

In other actions during that period, Bristol police: • Helped drivers exchange information following a minor two-car accident on East Street on July 17.

• Received a cell phone that had been found on Main Street on July 18. The owner has not yet been identified.

• Responded to the Living Well Residence for an accidental panic alarm activation on July 19.

• Responded to a two-car accident on Mountain View Street on July 19. Damage did not rise to the level of a reportable crash.

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• Assisted Vermont State Police with a traffic stop on River Road at the Bristol/New Haven town line on July 20.

• Received, on July 20, an iPad that had been found in the middle of West Street earlier in the month.

The person who found the iPad had tried to locate the owner, unsuccessfully, using social media. Police will try to access the devise in an attempt to identify the owner.

• Responded to Mountain and Spring streets, where it was reported that two young children were playing in the street on July 21.

• Responded to Main Street to check on a dog reportedly left in a vehicle with the windows up at 5:49 p.m. on July 21. Police found that the windows were open, including the sunroof, and that the animal was not in distress. Police then notified the owner that they had checked on the animal.

• On July 21, Bristol police cite Peter David Thibodeau, 36, of Bristol for violating conditions of release.

• Assisted Vermont State Police with a traffic stop on Route 116 on July 22.

• Between July 17 and 26 conducted quarterly sex offender registry checks of district residents.

All were found to be compliant.

• Responded to a district residence to help a person reported as suicidal on July 24.

• Led a computer training session at the Vermont Police Academy on July 24.

• Received a Braven BRV-X speaker on July 24. The speaker had been found on Main Street.

• Assisted with traffic management along the West Street construction zone on July 24.

• Assisted state police with a reported family disturbance on July 25.

• Began investigating a possible fraud on July 26. A man who had been hired online for a sales position contacted police to see if the position was legitimate. The man had been hired to solicit ads for

the production of Mount Abraham Union High School folders. Police determined that the school had not authorized any such project with any organization. The man had not sold any ads and he discontinued soliciting.

• Completed a fingerprint request on July 26.

• Checked on a stray dog hanging around a district residence on July 26.

• Assisted state police at an accident on south Route 116 on July 27.

• Were dispatched to a local bank for an ATM panic alarm on July 27. Police found that an employee had accidentally activated the alarm.

• Were dispatched to a district residence on July 27 for a report of an attempted theft. Police learned that around 11:30 p.m. on July 25, someone attempted to steal fuel oil from the residence. An investigation is ongoing.

• Attended a webinar on criminal interdiction on July 27.

• Participated in emergency medical training on July 26.

• On July 27 received a watch that had been found at Eagle Park around late May. • Investigated the reported death at a district residence on July 28.

Police found that the person had died by natural causes and then notified the next of kin.

• Investigated a report of someone camping in the woods off South Street on July 30. Police found a man camping there and told him he was not allowed to do so on town property.

• Assisted state police with a medical emergency at a non-district residence on July 30.

• Arrested Aaron O. Gould, 28, of Bristol on Aug. 1 on a felony count of failure to notify the Vermont Sex Offender Registry with required information. During a registry check, police found Gould had failed to notify the registry that there were children under the age of 18 living with him and that his employment status had changed.

Gould was taken to the Bristol Police Department for booking and was subsequently released with a citation to appear in Addison Superior Court, criminal division, on Aug. 21.

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ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders.

Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.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.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRANDON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS FRIDAY: Dis‑ cussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUESDAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES MEETINGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Discussion Meeting 8:00‑9:00 PM. Both held at St. Paul’s Church, Park St. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congregational Church, Water St.

MIDDLEBURY INDIVIS‑ IBLE WILL BE holding their monthly meeting at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalists Society in Fenn Chapel (4 Duane Court) on Monday August 14th.

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 www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

CLEANING SOLUTIONS. For your home, camp, or organization; weekly, bi‑weekly, monthly. Experi‑ enced, professional, reliable.

References available. Saige, 802‑458‑5635.

GIANT HONKIN’ MOVING SALE Saturday, August 12th, at 382 Hewitt Road, Bristol. 8am to 4pm. Furni‑ ture, rugs, art, lighting, decor and tableware. Craft sup‑ plies, and hand tools. Plumb‑ ing and electrical parts. Vin‑ tage house parts. Screw gun and Paslode framing gun.

Laptop and other electron‑ ics. Picnic table and outdoor screened room, 12x12. Lots of vintage apple crates. Gar‑ dening supplies. It all HAS to go, so we can go.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S M O N D AY: As Bill Sees It Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S S AT U R ‑ DAY: Discussion Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Mid‑ dlebury United Methodist Church. Discussion Meet‑ ing 10:00‑11:00 AM. Begin‑ ners’ Meeting 6:30‑7:30 PM. These two meetings are held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Came to Believe Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Ste‑ phen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NORTH FER‑ RISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd.

ARE YOU BOTHERED

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.

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.

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NEW SUPPORT GROUP ‑ Grief Anonymous Meeting every Thursday @ 6:30 pm at Grace Baptist Church 52 Merchants Row, Middelbury, Vt. First Meeting Thursday, December 1st, 2016 OA (OVEREATERS ANON‑ YMOUS) MEETS on Thurs‑ days at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT. ( O A ) O V E R E AT E R S ANONYMOUS Saturday’s at 1:00pm. Located at Law‑ rence Memorial Library, 40 North St. in Bristol, VT.

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.

SPIRITUAL AWAKEN‑ INGS MEETING of Alcohol‑ ics Anonymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Friday, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middle‑ bury, VT. WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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

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HUGE MOVING SALE lots of furniture, tools, house‑ hold items, building materi‑ als, clothing, books, some toys, Saturday, 8/12 from 9:00‑3:00. 708 RTE 7 North, Just south of Exchange St. Follow signs.

Opportunities LAST CHANCE‑ GREAT HUNTING Club. Members wanted. Also accepting rec‑ reational members. All wel‑ come. Family friendly. 700 acres, borders 50,000 acres NYS land. Crown Point, NY. Excellent hunting. Need 3 members A.S.A.P. Call Dick at 518‑597‑3270.

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.

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BRIDPORT TOWN‑WIDE yard sale. August 19th and 20th. 9:00‑4:00. Maps avail‑ able at sales, Pratt’s store, Boise’s Citgo.

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NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) step meeting.

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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.

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452 Leland Road, Salisbury, VT. Selling furniture, stools, storage bench, glider, desk, filing cabinet, jr. golf clubs, skates and more odds and ends.

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DIRECTORY

• accounting • advertising • appliance repair • auto glass • automotive • business cards

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Preventive Maintenance Brakes • Tune-ups Exhausts • Alignments Air Conditioning • State Inspections 62 Meigs Rd., Vergennes

877-9222

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Waste Management – Roll-off container service 275 South 116 Fast, friendly, reliable service & competitive rates.

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• concrete compactors • backhoes

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Specializing in Hardwood & Softwood Floors

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WINNER of “Best Local Contractor” THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS by READERS CHOICE AWARDS!

• Man lifts up to 80’ • man basket w/crane

Windows • Vinyl siding • Garages Roofs • Additions • Decks

Call Vicki at 388-4944 or stop by our office in the Marble Works between 8am & 5pm Monday- Friday.

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DIRECTORY

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• masonry • medical supplies • painting • plumbing & heating • renewable energy

• roofing • septic & water • siding • specialized services

• storage • surveying • tree services • window treatments

Septic & Water Barnard & Gervais, LLC Celebrating 31 Years

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Fax: 388-4146 Marble Works, Middlebury, VT

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• Interior/Exterior • Drywall • Taping • Building Maintenance • Fully Insured

Towing TREADWAY & RINGEY made you look.

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Specialized Services Motor Home Specialties, LLC 3025 Vt. Rte. 22A, Bridport, VT 05734

24 hr Heavy Towing & Recovery Heavy Truck Repair & Diagnosis Heavy Haul, Oversize, Local & Long distance Come see us at our new location!

110 Mt. Independence Rd., Orwell Call Jeff 802-948-2950

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Repairs & Maintenence Custom Built Trailers & Hitches, Transporting Cars & Compact Equipment, Specialized Landscaping & Retaining Walls

Tree Service 25 Yrs Experience 60’ bucket truck wood chipper available Fully Insured Free Estimates

STORAGE 4 Sizes ~ Self-locking units Hardscrabble Rd., Bristol

Kim or Jonathan Hescock hescock@shoreham.net

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Monthly prices

Plumbing & Heating

6’x12’ $30 • 8’x12’ $45 10’x12’ $55 • 12’x21’ $75

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Plumbing • Heating 125 Monkton Road Bristol, VT 05443 802-453-2325 cvplumbingheating.com

Fuel Delivery 185 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-4975 champlainvalleyfuels.com

Serving all your plumbing and heating needs.

Owned and operated by: Bill Heffernan, Jim & David Whitcomb

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CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

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roofing Michael Doran

as seen at Addison County Field Days!

• Standing seam Asphaltseam shingles ••Standing metal • Asphalt shingles • Slate • Slate

Free estimates • Fully Insured

Phone (802) 537-3555

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UNDON'S PORTABLE RESTROOMS

Plumbing & Heating

Rt. 22A, Orwell • 948-2082 Rt. 7 So., Middlebury •388-2705

FREE ESTIMATES FOR TREE SERVICES

WE HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT FOR THE RIGHT JOB – TO GIVE YOU REASONABLE RATES Dangerous Trees Cut & Removed Stumps Removed Trusses Set Trees Trimmed Land Clearing Reasonable Rates • Year-round Service • Fully Insured

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AIRPORT AUTO Self Storage • Low Rates

Also a good selection of used vehicles 44 School House Hill Road, E. Middlebury

Brownswelding.com

Dave’s Tree Removal Stump Grinding, Trimming, Tree Evaluation, Storm Damage, Firewood & Lot Clearing

388-0432 • 388-8090

Septic & Water FOR SEPTIC TANK PUMPING & DRAIN CLEANING SERVICE,

Serving Vermont for over 42 years!

Short Surveying, inc.

Serving Addison County & Area Lakes Dangerous trees our specialty!!

802-282-9110 Free Estimates • Fully Insured!!!

Serving Addison County Since 1991

Timothy L. Short, L.S. Property Line Surveys • Topographical Surveys FEMA Elevation Certificates

Window Treatments

135 S. Pleasant St., Middlebury, VT 388-3511 ssi@sover.net

SEPTIC SERVICE TANK & CESSPOOL PUMPING ELECTRONIC TANK LOCATING TANK & LEACH FIELD INSPECTIONS NEW SYSTEMS INSTALLED ALL SEPTIC SYSTEM REPAIRS DRAIN & PIPE CLEANING Full Excavation Service

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LAROSE SURVEYS, P.C. Ronald L. LaRose, L.S. • Kevin R. LaRose, L.S.

Land Surveying/Septic Design “We will take you through the permitting process!”

25 West St. • PO Box 388 Bristol, VT 05443 Telephone: 802-453-3818 Fax: 802- 329-2138

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Premium window treatments, retractable screens and awnings.

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Addison Independent, Thursday, August 10, 2017 — PAGE 7B

Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

FAMILY LUMBER OPERATION

Seeks To Fill The Following Positions:

MACHINERY OPERATOR for skilled mill positions due to employee retirement. Must be in good physical condition with good math skills, very reliable, have a strong safety awareness and work well with others. An ambition to learn and tolerance of heat and cold are important. The most challenging jobs such as sawing and grading take years to learn well and pay well for the skilled work. Mill work has a production bonus.

MAINTENANCE person to work on machinery in our mill, lumber sorters, planers and lumber drying kilns. There is a wide variety of work to do and many things to learn, particularly as machinery becomes more computerized. You must have maintenance or mechanical experience, have a strong commitment to safety and be interested in learning new skills. You must be physically fit and able to both lift and push/pull 50 pounds regularly throughout the day.

Monday to Friday, about 50 hours per week.

Call 802-453-4884 or visit The A. Johnson Co., 995 S 116 Rd, Bristol VT 05443 for an application.

AGENT ASSISTANT – IPJ Real Estate, a fast-paced, leading real estate firm in Middlebury, VT is seeking a professional and courteous employee to assist our top-producing real estate agents in day-today activities. Applicant must have a friendly and helpful attitude, be organized, resourceful and highly detail-oriented. Must also be proficient on Mac and PC and be able to honor the confidential details of real estate transactions. A reliable and clean vehicle and professional dress is also required. We will consider applicants with or without industry experience as we are willing to train the right candidate. This is a supportive role. Compensation based on experience and necessary training. Must be willing to take classes (Montpelier) and obtain a Vermont real estate license. Applications will be considered until September 1, 2017. Start day is flexible, but we’d prefer to have someone in place by October 1, 2017.

MARKETING COORDINATOR – IPJ Real Estate is seeking a motivated individual to handle all aspects of our marketing efforts.

Applicant must be resourceful and organized, have a very good telephone manner, be creative and be proficient on a computer. Must have knowledge of Microsoft Publisher, Word and Excel as well as InDesign, Photoshop, Facebook and Instagram. This is a 20-25 hour/week position with competitive compensation. Hours or days worked are flexible. Applications will be considered until August 21, 2017. Start day is flexible, but we’d prefer to have someone in place in early September.

Please submit a cover letter, your resumé & references, as well as compensation requirements to Amey@middvermontrealestate.com.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Receptionist Our busy pediatric office is looking for a reliable part-time receptionist to join our team.

Must have excellent phone & customer service skills and must be able to multi-task cheerfully.

Hours are Monday & Wednesday evenings 4:30 - 7 and Thursday & Friday 8-5. Occasional weekends required.

Please send resume and 3 references to:

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

ADDISON COUNTY HOME Health and Hospice, is seek‑ ing the right candidate to fill the role of VP of Clinical Services. This is a Senior Management position re‑ sponsible for overseeing the management of clinical service of both Home Care and Hospice. This position requires an RN Degree; BSN or Masters preferred, five+ years Home Care and Hos‑ pice experience, three years management or supervisory experience, excellent com‑ munication and organiza‑ tional skills a must. A VT RN License is required. To apply, please email or send resume to Kristen Smith, P.O. Box 754 Middlebury, VT 05753 or hr@achhh.org.

AFTERNOON MILKER WANTED on an organic dairy farm in Cornwall.

Experience preferred but willing to train the right person. Must be reliable and timely. 603‑359‑6504 or butterwickfarm@ standardmilk.com.

CARPENTERS‑FRAME AND FINISH Tired of short work weeks, no overtime and layoffs? Then join our com‑ pany today. Jobsites in the Burlington and Middlebury areas. 45+ hours/week, se‑ cure employment, opportuni‑ ty to advance. Call Sweeney and Belisle at 802‑644‑5695 or 802‑355‑0836.

VERMONT SOAP IS look‑ ing for an experienced Plant Engineer to keep our ma‑ chines running smoothly.

Production Assistant: we train, mix, measure and fill.

HR@vermontsoap.com.

Rainbow Pediatrics

Attn: Lisa Ryan 44 Collins Drive, Suite 202 Middlebury, VT 05753 OR Email them to: lisaryan@sover.net

Help Wanted

NOW HIRING - CONCRETE LABORERS NEEDED - MIDDLEBURY

A Laborer performs tasks involving physical labor on heavy precast projects.

Operating a variety of hand and power tools is a vital part of this process.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES INCLUDE: • Performing manual work in preparing surfaces.

• Placing cables, steel, and then concrete into precast forms.

• Leveling the top of the concrete using a flat tool and straightedge.

• Maintaining a clean job site each day in order to eliminate potential hazards.

• Material handling and storage, including cutting pieces.

• Loading and unloading trucks and hauling and hoisting materials using various hand and powered lifting machines.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: • Some knowledge of proper use of equipment, materials and supplies used in construction work.

• Ability to work independently and complete daily activities according to work schedule.

• Ability to lift heavy objects, walk and stand for long periods of time and perform strenuous physical labor.

• Ability to meet attendance schedule with dependability and consistency.

Our benefit package includes: Health Insurance/Paid Vacation 401(k) and Profit Sharing Retirement Plan/STD/Life Insurance.

Please submit resumes via email to lynn@carraraconcrete.com or apply in person at 2464 Case Street, Middlebury, VT 05753.

Equal Opportunity Employer

AMERICAN FLATBREAD IN Middlebury is hiring.

Sick of being a cog in the wheel? Employees are more than just “warm bodies” to us‑we want you to like your job as well as your peers.

This is a fun kitchen with a multigenerational staff and a focus on good food.

We thrive on cross‑training between all positions. No previous kitchen experience required for the right person.

Must be motivated, highly responsible with a positive attitude. Nights/weekends required. We foster a sup‑ portive work environment, prize open communication and take care of our em‑ ployees. Pick up an applica‑ tion or email middlebury@ americanflatbread.com.

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

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CALF MANAGER/FEEDER WANTED The Goodrich Family Farm is looking for someone to be manager and maintain the farm’s calf herd. Competitive compen‑ sation on a family farm at‑ mosphere. For more infor‑ mation please call Chase Goodrich at 802‑989‑8848.

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks enthusiastic and experienced caregiv‑ ers to provide hands‑on care in our dynamic re‑ t i r e m e n t c o m m u n i t y.

Email resume to acoyle@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 802‑989‑7507.

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR Director of Property Man‑ agement (DPM) in support of Addison County Community Trust’s (ACCT’s) mission of providing affordable hous‑ ing. The DPM oversees all aspects of property man‑ agement for 240 affordable apartments at 12 properties and 340 mobile home lots in nine parks. The DPM is responsible for supervis‑ ing staff, managing per‑ formance, and developing policy and strategy related to leasing and occupancy, maintenance, fair housing, capital planning, ect. At least seven years of proven supervisory and property management experience required; federally assisted housing program compli‑ ance preferred. Respond with resume and cover letter to jobs@addisontrust.org.

Position open until filled.

EEO.

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Help Wanted

MARY’S AT BALDWIN CREEK is hiring waiter‑wait‑ ress for full and/or part‑time position (employee choice).

Come join team committed to service excellence and outstanding farm‑to‑table cuisine. Experience pre‑ ferred, but will train enthu‑ siastic foodie. Great position for second job. Send resume to info@innatbaldwincreek. com or call 453‑2432 for interview.

PART‑TIME CAREGIVER FOR 17 year old disabled boy in Middlebury. Appli‑ cants must have child care experience, references and be reliable. Some lifting re‑ quired. Flexible hours. Crimi‑ nal background check. Send resume to: sstone7716@ gmail.com.

At Big Barn Furniture, employees are treated with respect, helped to succeed through support & training, and encouraged to grow personally and professionally. Come realize your potential. Your future is here!

NOW HIRING!

TREE CUTTING, CLEAR‑ ING and weed‑whacking work available. Please call 802‑349‑4230.

Guest Service Associate /Frontline - Support Sales Team by providing top quality face-to-face customer care, accurately record customer payments, review and confirm accuracy on customer orders, use basic problem solving and customer service skills in dealing directly with customers to resolve any issues.

Must be flexible. Weekends are a must.

For Rent

Warehouse Associate/Sales - Duties to include delivering merchandise, assembling furniture, preparing orders for delivery, inventory management, receiving merchandise, and the operation of an Isuzu box truck, plus assisting with sales when needed, direct customer involvement both in-person and taking orders over the phone.

YEAR ROUND WAITSTAFF needed for busy family res‑ taurant. Apply in person to Rosie’s Restaurant, Rte 7 South, Middlebury.

Store Manager, full time

Clay’s, a locally owned women’s clothing store, is looking for an energetic individual who loves fashion and sales. Stop into our Middlebury location to fill out an application or call Elke at 802-238-4200.

60 Main Street, Middlebury

MR. MIKE’S COMMERCIAL Cleaning Service has open‑ ings for part to full time.

Must have reliable trans‑ portation, be flexible and reliable. Available to work nights a must, and need to pass background check. Self motivated, able to work inde‑ pendently. E‑mail resume to: info@mrmikescleaningser‑ vicevt.com. Application also available online at: www. mrmikescleaningservicevt. com. No phone calls please.

We encourage all to apply.

E.O.E. PART TIME HELP needed for around the house and farm. Weekdays preferable.

760‑807‑6187.

WHISTLEPIG CURRENTLY HIRING FOR full time bot‑ tler. Eye for detail and ac‑ curacy. Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday. Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unas‑ sisted lifting of 25 pounds.

Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com.

For Rent 1 BEDROOM, SECOND STORY apartment with small office (not a bedroom). 85 Court Street, Middlebury.

Available August 1. Non‑pet, non‑smoking. $800/mo. plus utilities. Credit refer‑ ences and deposit required.

Snow plowing and lawn maintenance included.

802‑352‑6678.

For Rent

OPENING SUMMER/FALL 2017 Newly Constructed Loft, One Bedroom and Two Bedroom Apartments in Downtown Middlebury Historic Building | Air Conditioning European Appliances, Quartz Countertops & Washer/Dryer Off-Street Parking | Pet friendly Walk to Middlebury College campus

Applications available at the store or send or drop off your resume with references to: belinda@bigbarnhomecenter.com 16 New Haven Rd Vergennes, VT 05491-1336 EOE

TOWN OF FERRISBURGH Alternate/Assistant Zoning Administrator

The Town of Ferrisburgh has an immediate opening for a part-time (20 hours per week) alternate/assistant zoning administrator. The position of the Zoning Administrator is the town’s “Administrative Officer” as described in 24 VSA Chapter 117 and is responsible for processing permit applications, enforcement duties related to implementation of the Town’s Zoning and Subdivision regulations and serves as support staff in preparing for meetings of the Planning Commission and Zoning Board. Must be a good team player with the ability to work well with the public and all town boards; ability to communicate effectively with applicants and able to multitask. Knowledge or experience with land use planning or enforcement preferred but not required.

A job description can be viewed at www.ferrisburghvt.org.

To apply, please send a resume and cover letter to ferrisburghselectboard@comcast.net or to Ferrisburgh Selectboard, 3279 US Route 7, Ferrisburgh, VT 05456 EOE

Contact: Alice Quesnel 802-349-9901 battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

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

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

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

Equal Housing Opportunity.

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CLASSIFIEDS For Rent

For Rent

1,800 SQ. FT. WARE‑ HOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Mid‑ dlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

FOR RENT PRIME RE‑ TAIL space. 1,303 square feet. Location, location.

Front door parking.

Good visibility. Call Eric at 388‑6054.

2 BEDROOM, FIRST FLOOR apartment with full private basement.

W/D hookups. Located in Middlebury, close to town on Court St. Off street parking, lawn care and snow plowing included. $1,100 per month plus utilities. No smoking or pets. 802‑352‑6678.

2‑BEDROOM, 920 SQ. FT. 2nd floor apartment.

Pine floors. eat‑in kitchen.

Huge living room. Small 2nd floor porch. Walking distance to elementary school and across the street from the Shore‑ ham Inn and Pub. No Smoking. No pets. Avail‑ able September 15. $775/mo. plus utilities.

802‑388‑5411.

ADDISON ‑ 3 BED‑ ROOM, 2 BATH mobile home with garage on 22A. $1350 a month. Deposit, first month, last month and references required.

Call 802‑482‑3765, after‑ noons please.

BRANDON: TWO BED‑ ROOM duplex in the vil‑ lage. Three level living.

Washer, dryer, deck, yard. $1,150 includes heat. batesproperties@ yahoo.com.

LAKE DUNMORE: COZY, winterized, two bedroom cottages avail‑ able September or October to June 2018.

Fully equipped kitchens, bathrooms with showers, comfortable furnishings.

Wifi, satellite TV, plowing, trash collection, recycling included. Other cottages available now until late October. Ten minutes to Middlebury or Brandon.

References required.

802‑352‑4236 or karen@ northcovecottages.com.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown.

Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets.

Available Sept. 1. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY‑RTE 7 ef‑ ficiency apartment. Heat, water and trash removal included. No pets. No smoking. $650/month.

Available September 1.

802‑388‑1917.

For Rent VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently ac‑ cepting applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Vergennes. All income/ assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. Elderly or disabled only. W/D on‑ site. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg.com.

Equal Housing Oppor‑ tunity.

VERGENNES: SHARE A HOME A rural home with a senior woman.

Minimal rent in exchange for meal prep, overnight presence, and compan‑ ionship. 802‑863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, references, background checks required. EHO. WEST ADDISON: 2 STO‑ RY, furnished house on lakefront. Washer, dryer.

No smoking. Available September through M a y. $ 1 , 0 0 0 / m o n t h .

860‑878‑9580.

MIDDLEBURY, 1 BED‑ ROOM sunny ground level apartment within walking distance of downtown Middlebury. Off street parking. No smok‑ ing. No pets. $850. Tenant pays electricity. Lease and one month’s security deposit required plus first month’s rent. Call George: 802‑388‑9999.

Vacation Rentals

Real Estate

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.

PORT HENRY, NY 1,175 sq. ft. home. 3 BR, 2 baths. Totally remodeled 10 years ago. Small lot, minimum maintenance.

Lake and mountain views.

Detached garage with electric. $59,000. Pay‑ ment for 15‑year loan is approximately $650/ month, taxes included.

518‑572‑8800.

Wood Heat KILN DRIED‑ FREE DE‑ LIVERY Local biz – 24/7 online ordering MC/VISA/ AMEX/DISC – 16” split hardwood. Click: www.

MIDDMEN.com – Call: 1‑855‑MIDDMEN – cust‑ serv@MIDDMEN.com.

M A T C H L E S S SERVICE™‑FREE KIN‑ DLING Free kindling on every order of green, sea‑ soned or kiln dried fire‑ wood. Local biz – 24/7 on‑ line ordering ‑ MC/VISA/ AMEX/DISC – 16” split hardwood. Click: www.

MIDDMEN.com – Call: 1‑855‑MIDDMEN – cust‑ serv@MIDDMEN.com.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Only three lots re‑ main in the Daisy Lane Residential Development.

One is a beautiful wooded 1 1/4 acre with a small year round stream. Lots are supported with vil‑ lage water and approved for simple in‑ground septic. Located in East Middlebury, just 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, 2 golf courses and beautiful Lake Dun‑ more. 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

Att. Farmers FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

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METCALFE FIREWOOD. QUALITY, clean hard‑ wood for sale. Cut and split. $225/cord. Call Jason 802‑989‑8180 or email: metcalfefirewood@ gmail.com.

SUMMER SPECIAL‑ FREE FIREWOOD Free ½ cords – a $139 value – on 4‑cords order of seasoned firewood– Only $999. Local biz – 24/7 on‑ line ordering ‑ MC/VISA/ AMEX/DISC – 16” split hardwood Click: www.

MIDDMEN.com – Call: 1‑855‑MIDDMEN – cust‑ serv@MIDDMEN.com.

FIRST‑CUT HORSE HAY small square bales (50 lbs avg). $4 at barn. Delivery at cost. 802‑462‑3912. jwelkey7606@gmail.com.

HAY, STRAW. FIRST CUT dry round bales, 4x4, $35. First cut baleage 4x4, $35. Rye straw, 4x4, $40. Brad 802‑222‑7700.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating.

Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Public Notices

can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on Pages 8B & 9B.

Addison County Court House (1) Addison County Probate Court (3) Addison County Superior Court (2) Addison Northwest School District – Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham (4)

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Sealed Bids For: Ditching 6035 ft of Pearson Road. Sealed bids will be received at the office of the Town Clerk at 78 North Street, New Haven, Vermont, 05472 until 12 noon, Tuesday August 15, 2017.

Bids will be publicly opened at the Selectboard meeting on August 15 at 7:00 pm at the New Haven Town Clerk’s office.

Specifications for bidders and bid forms may be obtained without charge at the New Haven Town Clerk’s Office or from www. newhavenvt.com.

The Town of New Haven, Vt reserves the right to reject any and all bids, or to accept the bid deemed to be in the best interest of the Town of New Haven.

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Middlebury (3) New Haven (1) Vermont Secretary of State (1) ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

The following schedule of the Board of School Directors’ meetings is announced for the month of August, 2017.

Thursday, August 10 5:00 PM Negotiations Subcommittee Meeting At Vergennes Union Elementary School 6:00 PM Negotiations Subcommittee & Support Staff Association Meeting At Vergennes Union Elementary School Library Monday, August 14 6:00 PM ANWSD Board Regular Meeting At Vergennes Union High School Library Tuesday, August 15 8:00 AM Negotiations Subcommittee Meeting

At ANWSD Office Wednesday, August 16 5:00 PM Negotiations Subcommittee Meeting At Vergennes Union Elementary School 6:00 PM Negotiations Subcommittee & Support Staff Association Meeting At Vergennes Union Elementary School Library Thursday, August 17 4:00 PM Finance Subcommittee Meeting

At ANWSD Office 6:00 PM Community Engagement Committee Meeting At Bixby Library Friday, August 18 7:30 AM Facilities Subcommittee Meeting

At ANWSD Office 8/7

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 38-3-16 ANCV

WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. v.

ROBIN L. EPPERSON AND CARL L. EPPERSON, II 87 VOLVO SW will B R ID P OR T 1 B E D‑ OCCUPANTS OF: 35 East Ossie Road, Middlebury VT run. If not sold it will ROOM, 4 room apart‑ b e s c r a p p e d . Te x t MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 ment with porch/lawn.

703‑231‑2848. BO. V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

Real Estate Washer/dryer, heat/hot In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered September 19, water included. No smok‑ CORNWALL, VT‑ A 2016, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Robin ing, no pets. References MIDDLEBURY, 1,600 SQ WIFE SAYS GOTTA GO: BEAUTIFUL building lot L. Epperson and Carl L. Epperson, II to National Bank of Middlebury, dated May 31, 2007 and and credit check. $800/ FT office space. Court 1992 Polaris ATV 4x4, for sale. Amazing view. mo. plus security deposit. St., central location, park‑ 1992 E350 one ton van, recorded in Book 229 Page 265 of the land records of the Town of Middlebury, of which mortgage Septic permit in place.

For more info, Charlie ing. Can be subdivided.

1999 Chevy Silverado/au‑ the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) 760‑807‑6187.

802‑758‑2218.

Real‑Net Management tomatic, 2000 Buick, 1997 Assignment of Mortgage from National Bank of Middlebury to Mortgage Electronic Registration Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

GMC Suburban, 1996 Systems, Inc. as nominee for Merrimack Mortgage Company dated May 31, 2007 and recorded Jeep Cherokee, Utility in Book 229 Page 520 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration CROWN POINT, NEW DRY, WINTER/SUMMER trailer 8x8. 518‑597‑3270. Systems, Inc. as nominee for Merrimack Mortgage Company to Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. dated YORK 18.95 acres, beau‑ STORAGE SPACE in NEW HAVEN: UNIQUE September 24, 2015 and recorded in Book 279 Page 506, both of the land records of the Town tiful parcel, desirable Addison. Available stor‑ and recently renovated, For Sale of Middlebury for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing location.

Level terrain age space in my barn for fun filled apartment. the same will be sold at Public Auction at 35 East Ossie Road, Middlebury, Vermont on Wanted summer/winter storage. Includes many extras. A N T I Q U E D O U B L E surrounded by woods.

September 5, 2017 at 10:30AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, Electric, water and septic.

BARREL ACME Arms The barn is structurally No smoking. No pets.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT To wit: sound and weather‑tight References. $900 per Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful Minutes to Lake Cham‑ Antique dealer special‑ Being all and the same lands and premises to be conveyed to Carl L. Epperson and Robin with electricity. No heat month plus utilities. vintage firearm. $185. plain. Mobile home on lot. $78,000. 518‑597‑3823. izing in jewelry, watches, L. Epperson by Trustee’s Deed of Reginald E. Bishop and Nancy L. Bishop, Trustees of the 802‑989‑5803. or running water. The 802‑236‑2040. silver, art, military, an‑ Reginald Bishop & Nancy Bishop Revocable Trust dated January 12, 2005 and being more barn is also available tique collectibles, etc. Visit particularly described therein, in part, as follows: for lease. The entrance M O N K T O N B U I L D ‑ www.bittnerantiques.

ORWELL: SHARE A “Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Reginald E. Bishop and Nancy door measurements are 8’ ING LOT 5 acres, state com or call Brian at L. Bishop by Warranty Deed of Ermona McNally Austin, formerly Ermona McNally (a.k.a. wide by 7’ high. For more HOME with woman who sewer permit, private 802‑272‑7527. Consult‑ Mona McNally) dated September 8, 1982 and recorded in Book 99 at Page 210 of the info: 802‑363‑3403 or enjoys yoga, vegetar‑ HEADING BACK TO setting, brokers wel‑ ing/appraisal services Middlebury Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: rochon_m@yahoo.com. ian cooking, and dance. SCHOOL or setting up come. $37,895. Call available.

House calls $400/mo, could be re‑ a new place? Come to ‘PARCEL I - Being all the same lands and premises conveyed by Marcel J. Rheaume and 802‑236‑5144. made free of charge. duced in summer in ex‑ Compass Treasure Chest Anne M. Rheaume to Cleon McNally and Mona McNally by warranty deed dated 8 October CORNWALL: COZY ONE change for gardening Consignment Shop for 1968 recorded in Book 64, Page 168 of the Middlebury Land Records and being described bedroom apartment. 15 help. 802‑863‑5625 or your shopping needs. NEW 2017 ENERGY WANTED 55 GALLON therein as follows: minutes to college. $775 HomeShareVermont.org Lamps, desks, pots and STAR display models.

PLASTIC food grade bar‑ ‘Being a portion of the same lands and premises described in the deed of Edmund G. and includes all. batesproper‑ for application. Interview, pans, small fridge. We Modular, double and rels. Want to buy whole‑ Jean K. Wisnowski to Marcel J. Rheaume and Anne M. Rheaume dated 26 July 1967 and ties@yahoo.com. references, background have what you need. s i n g l e w i d e s . O p e n sale. Will take 30 per trip. recorded 28 July 1967 in Book 62 at page 583 of the Middlebury Land Records. The piece checks required. EHO. Open daily 10 to 5 lo‑ 7 days a week. Up to 802‑453‑4235, evenings. of portion herein conveyed is more particularly described as follows: cated in Compass Music $27,500 down payment BRISTOL LARGE ONE Commencing at an iron pipe in the northerly edge of the right of way of Vermont Route and Art Center 333 Jones assistance available on bedroom. One bath. In 116, which said pipe marks the southwesterly corner of lands conveyed by the Grantors new homes if you qualify.

Drive, Brandon VT. excellent condition. Ef‑ to Raymond M. Rheaume by deed dated 28 July 1967, recorded in Book 62, Page 584 of FactoryDirectHomesofVT. ficient gas heat with new the Middlebury Land Records; com.

600 Rte. 7 Pitts‑ windows, high ceilings thence N 01° 50’ E, 150.00 feet in the west line of lands of Raymond M. Rheaume to an ford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. and wood floors. Wifi, wa‑ iron pipe; tflanders@beanshomes. ter and sewer included. thence N 88° 10’ W, 145.00 feet to an iron pipe; com.

No pets or smoking. $745 thence S 01° 50’ W, 150.00 feet to an iron pipe in the northerly edge of the right of way per month. 802‑635‑9716. of said highway; thence in an easterly direction in the northerly edge of said highway right of way to the point or place of beginning.

The Grantees by the acceptance of this deed, agree and covenant that no house trailers or mobile homes shall be used as a permanent or temporary residence on the lands herein conveyed. This covenant is to be construed as running with the land.

For Rent For Rent For Rent For Rent For Rent Subject to applicable zoning ordinances of the Town of Middlebury.’

‘PARCEL II - Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed by Jessica Brush, widow and survivor of Chester and Jessica Brush to Cleon McNally and Mona McNally by warranty deed dated 27 August 1970 recorded in Book 67, Page 320 of the Middlebury Land Records and being described therein as follows: ‘Being a parcel of land situate on the northerly side of Route 116, also known as Ossie Street. Bounded on the South by the said Route 116, on the East by McNally and the north and west by lands now or formerly of Wisnowski. Reference is made to a survey map of the area drawn by Lee Lowell in aid of this description. Said lot having a frontage of 200 feet, more or less, on the said Route 116 and being 150 feet deep, more or less.

Being more specifically described as parcel Number One and Parcel Number Two in a deed to the Grantors from Edmund G. and Jean K. Wisnowski dated February 27, 1967 and recorded in Book 62 at Page 303 and also known as Lots 36 and 37 on a Plan of Lots of the Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

Hamilton Development dated July, 1954, drawn by Lee Lowell as aforesaid.’

Reference in aid of this description is made to a quitclaim deed of Cleon L. McNally to And it’s easier to break the law than you Ermona L. McNally dated 28 August 1981 recorded Book 96, Page 251 of the Middlebury Land Records. might think. You can’t say “no children” or SUBJECT TO easements and rights of way of record.’ “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

Reference is made to a Deed Into Trust from Reginald E. Bishop and Nancy L. Bishop The federal government is watching for such to Reginald E. Bishop and Nancy L. Bishop, Trustees of the Reginald Bishop and Nancy discrimination.

Bishop Revocable Trust dated January 12, 2005, said Deed into Trust dated January 12, 2005 and recorded in the Middlebury Land Records in Book 214 at Page 80.”

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references Let us help you sift through the complexities contained therein in further aid of this description. of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, 1) hed: 5/5/1 right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the ds (Publis A d e ifi s s Cla said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, llege.

Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944. co to For Rent T se N lo E C TM bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The OM APAR y, newly refurbished.

O R D E B 1 Talk to our sales professionals. t, Middlebur 0000. balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s Main Stree , includes heat. 000th check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. iddlebury . $750/mon T, north of M PARTMEN tric, rubbish, 1 mile us deposit. 000-0000 A M The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying O O R pl ec el th , 1 BED on at /m he cludes ly, $595 the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. upstairs, in Available immediate ference Other terms to be announced at the sale. on Route 7. osit and re ILE home o. plus utilities. Dep B O M M O DATED: August 2, 2017 /m 50 EDRO $6 B t.

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Garage an OM TOWN Bendett and McHugh, PC VERMONT’S TWICE-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER 2 BEDRO mons, Vergennes. heat. No pets. 000-00 d om 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Middlebury, VT 05753 • (802) 388-4944 • www.AddisonIndependent.com Country C excluding utilities an washer, etely pl $1,000/mo. m , satellite, gy Farmington, CT 06032 co , N ed internet er ODER TIMBERWOLF FIRE‑ WOOD: Dry or green. Call for prices. 802‑388‑7300.

TOWN OF NEW HAVEN, VERMONT INVITATION TO BID

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. 324-7-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF KATHRYN M. GAMMON NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Kathryn M. Gammon late of Bristol, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court.

The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: August 3, 2017 Lauren Beth Gammon 3423 Vermont Route 17 Starksboro, VT 05487 802-734-8698 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: August 10, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 8/10

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 335-7-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF AGNES MCGURK NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Agnes McGurk late of Middlebury, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court.

The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: August 1, 2017 Paul Almquist 225 Woodland Park Middlebury, VT 05753 (973) 945-7248 p_almquist@hotmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: August 10, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 8/10

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 343-7-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF GLORIA C. BIRD NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Gloria C. Bird late of Monkton, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court.

The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: August 1, 2017 Margaret B. Lesage c/o Jennifer R. Luitjens, Jarrett & Luitjens, PLC 1795 Williston Rd., Suite 125 South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 864-5951 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: August 10, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 8/10

The Public Notices and Real Estate sections appear every Mon. & Thurs. in the Addison Independent

Addison Independent, Thursday, August 10, 2017 — PAGE 9B

The Middlebury Planning Commission hereby provides notice of a public hearing being held pursuant to 24 VSA §4384 and §4441 for the purpose of hearing public comments concerning the proposed amendment to the Middlebury Zoning and Subdivision Regulations.

The public hearing has been scheduled for: DATE: September 7, 2017 at 6:30pm PLACE: Municipal Office Building, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 Large Conference Room Statement of Purpose: The proposed 2017 Amendment to the Middlebury Zoning and Subdivision Regulations will modify and replace the current Zoning and Subdivision Regulations.

The purpose of these regulations is to provide for orderly community development and growth, to further the purposes established in §4302 of the Act, and to implement the Middlebury Town Plan. The purpose of this hearing is to receive public comment on the amended regulations and to discuss any comments provided by the public.

The primary purpose of the proposed amendments is to clarify the existing zoning and subdivision regulations, meet the requirements of state planning laws (24 VSA, Chapter 117), and to comply with the Middlebury 2012 Town Plan.

No changes are proposed to the zoning map. The proposed amendments include clarifications and minor technical corrections to the following sections: Definitions; Section 510, What Requires a Permit; Section 520, Application and Administrative Review Process; Section 540, Conditional Review Process; Section 564, Plat Recording Requirements; Section 620, Lot Area, Width, Coverage, Height and Setback Requirements for Districts; Section 705, Lots Without Frontage; Section 724, Setback Waivers; Section 736, Accessory Apartment Unit; Section 766, Landscaping and Screening; Section 769, Lighting; Section 780, Agricultural and Forestry Uses – Special Regulations; Section 830, Resumption of Nonconforming Use; Section 835, Nonconforming Structures and Section 930, Certificates of Occupancy and Compliance. Content has been added to the landscaping and lighting review standards. Definitions have been added for Guest House, Hotel and Motel. The maximum allowable square footage for an accessory apartment has been increased. The minimum setback allowed by right in the central business district has been increased from 0ft to 5ft. Certain types of house-sharing have been added to the list of zoning exemptions. Standards have been added for the appearance of survey plats to be recorded with the Town. These amendments apply to all geographical areas of the Town.

Location where full text may be examined: A full report outlining proposed changes to the regulations, and the full text of the proposed regulations can be viewed in the Planning & Zoning Office or the Town Clerk’s Office at 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT. The proposed regulations may also be viewed online on the Town’s web site www.townofmiddlebury.org.

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ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL NOTICE OF IDENTIFICATION

The Addison Northwest School District has a duty to provide a free and appropriate public education to all qualified handicapped persons who, because of a handicap, require special education and/or related aids/services.

The Addison Northwest School District is seeking to identify and locate every handicapped child residing within their jurisdiction who is not receiving a public education. If you know of any person who may be a qualified handicapped person, and is not receiving a public education, please write or call your building principal (Local Section 504/ADA Coordinator), or the Director of Instructional Support Services, (District Section 504/ADA Coordinator), 11 Main St, Suite B100, Vergennes, VT 05491 (802) 877-3332.

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ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL NOTIFICATION OF RIGHTS OF PARENTS AND ELIGIBLE STUDENTS CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL RECORDS- CHILD FIND NOTICE

The Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD) wishes to inform interested parties that all people with disabilities from birth through the age of 21, who are in need of special education and related services, need to be identified, located and evaluated. Also, any person between the ages of 3 and 21, who resides in one of the member districts and is in need of special education and related services, is entitled to a free and appropriate public education. Eligible students who reside in other towns but attend approved independent schools within ANWSD districts may receive services at the discretion of the school district in which the independent school is located. Therefore, any person who has information about disabled people, who fit these descriptions, should contact the school district in which the person resides or attends school.

In accordance with the policies of the ANWSD and with 34 CFR Part 99, which is the Family Educational Rights Privacy Act of 1974, this public notice informs all parents within their jurisdictions about how information is cared for when it is collected during the identification, location, and evaluation of all people with disabilities.

• Each school possessing personally identifiable information will protect it.

• Personally identifiable information is kept on people eligible, referred, or considered for special education services.

• Parents have the right to know what types of information have been designated as directory information. “Directory information” means information contained in an education record of a student which would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy, if disclosed; it is the student’s name (unless the parent requests otherwise), address, telephone number, date and place of birth, major field of study, participation in officially recognized activities and sports, weight and height, membership in athletic teams, dates of attendance, degrees and awards received, and the most recent previous school attended.

• Parents have the right to know the types and locations of educational records kept by the school and the titles and addresses of officials responsible for the records.

• A list of the names and positions of employees within the school district who have access to personally identifiable information shall be available for public inspection.

• If anyone other than an authorized employee of the ANWSD looks at the educational record of a child, that person shall so indicate by signing his/her name, date and purpose for which (s)he entered the record on a form which shall become part of the educational record.

• Parental permission will be obtained prior to disclosing confidential information to anyone who is not an authorized employee of the school district.

• Information relevant to a child’s specific disability (example: medical information, intelligence test results, social or developmental history, comprehensive evaluation report and the individualized educational program) will be part of the educational record.

• Personally identifiable information will be gathered from screenings, qualified diagnostic centers and other sources, as deemed necessary, to complete a comprehensive evaluation.

• Parents or an eligible student will be able to access personally identifiable information and inspect and review their educational record(s) no later than 45 days after the request is made.

• Parents have the right to a response to reasonable requests for explanations and interpretations of the educational records.

• Parents may obtain a copy of the educational record without a fee for copying, if a fee will be a financial burden and/or will prevent them from obtaining the records.

• Parents have the right to request the educational record be amended. The school district will decide whether to amend the records within a reasonable time of the request. If the district decides to refuse to amend the record, it shall inform the parent of its decision and advise the parent of the right to a hearing. If, as a result of the hearing, it is found that the educational records must be amended, the school district will amend the records and inform the parent in writing. If as a result of the hearing, it is found that the disputed information is not inaccurate, misleading or otherwise in violation of the privacy rights of a child, the school district will inform the parent of his/her right to place in the educational record a written statement commenting on the information or stating any reasons for disagreeing with the results of the hearing. This written statement will become part of the educational record and will always be included whenever contents of the educational records are properly viewed or requested.

• Parents have the right to a hearing to challenge the educational record of their child.

• Parents will be notified prior to the school district’s destruction of personally identifiable information about their child.

•The parent has the authority to inspect and review records relating to his/her child unless the school district has been advised that the parent does not have the authority under applicable State Law governing matters such as guardianship, separation and divorce.

• Parents have the right to file a complaint with the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the school district to comply with this policy.

Note: if there are parents within the school districts who should have this information interpreted or written in other languages, please notify the school district.

The District’s detailed policy and procedures describing and implementing legal and policy requirements concerning educational records is available upon request from Superintendent of Schools, 11 Main St, Suite B100, Vergennes, VT 05491.Telephone 802-877-3332.

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

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).

Note: The seven rules listed below have been promulgated by the Agency of Human Services who has requested the notices be combined to facilitate a savings for the agency. When contacting the agency about these rules please note the title and rule number of the rule(s) you are interested in.

Health Benefit Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (HBEE) - General Provisions and Definitions (Part 1): 17P021 Health Benefit Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (HBEE) - Eligibility Standards (Part 2): 17P022 Health Benefit Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (HBEE) - Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements (Part 3): 17P023 Health Benefit Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (HBEE) - Special Rules of Medicaid Coverage of Long-Term Care Services and Supports - Eligibility and Post Eligibility (Part 4): 17P024 Health Benefit Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (HBEE) - Financial Methodologies (Part 5): 17P025 Health Benefit Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (HBEE) - Eligibility and Enrollment Procedures (Part 7): 17P026 Health Benefit Eligibility and Enrollment Rule (HBEE) - Fair Hearings and Expedited Administrative Appeals (Part 8): 17P027.

AGENCY: Human Services CONCISE SUMMARY: This proposed rulemaking and the six that are being filed separately but at the same time (HBEE Parts 1-5, 7-8 - all parts except part 6) amend HBEE which was last amended effective January 15, 2017. The eight parts of HBEE are as follows: General Provisions and Definitions (Part 1, Eligibility Standards (Part 2), Nonfinancial Eligibility Requirements (Part 3), Special Rules for Medicaid Coverage of Long-Term Care Services and Supports - Eligibility and Post-Eligibility (Part 4), Financial Methodologies (Part 5), Small Employer Health Benefits Program Rules (Part 6), Eligibility and Enrollment Procedures (Part 7), and Fair Hearings and Expedited Administrative Appeals (Part 8). Eligibility criteria for Vermont’s health benefit programs are set forth in HBEE. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Robin Chapman Agency of Human Services 280 State Drive, Center Building, Waterbury, VT 05671 Tel: 802-279-3996 Fax: 802-241-0958 Email: robin.chapman@vermont.gov URL: http://humanservices.vermont.gov/on-line-rules/hbee/ proposed-rules.

FOR COPIES: Danielle Fuoco, Agency of Human Services 280 State Drive, Center Building, Waterbury, VT 05671 Tel: 802-585-4265 Fax: 802-241-0958 Email: danielle.fuoco@vermont.gov.

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STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 77-3-15 ANCV HOMEBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES, INC. v.

LESLIE J. PAPA AND SECRETARY OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPMENT OCCUPANTS OF 85 TAYLOR MEADOW, HANCOCK, VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered July 7, 2016, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given

by Leslie J. Papa to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for Real Estate Mortgage Network Inc., dated November 22, 2011 and recorded in Book 31 Page 243 of the land records of the Town of Hancock, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for Real Estate Mortgage Network, Inc. to Real Estate Mortgage Network, Inc. dated March 25, 2013 and recorded in Book 32 at Page 409 of the land records of the Town of Hancock and further name change from Real Estate Mortgage Network, Inc. to Homebridge Financial Services, Inc. effective February 3, 2014, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 85 Taylor Meadow, Hancock, Vermont on August 22, 2017 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to Leslie J. Papa by warranty deed of Anthony Papa and Diane Papa, which deed is of even or approximate date herewith and to be recorded herewith in the Handcock Land Records. Being a parcel of land, containing 0.43 acres, more or less, together with dwelling house and other improvements thereon standing, identified by Hancock municipal parcel identification number 01-1088 and State of Vermont SPAN NO. 279-088-10310 and commonly known as 85 Taylor Meadow, Hancock, Vermont; and being more particularly described as all and the same lands and premises as conveyed to the said Anthony Papa and Diane Papa by Confirmation Order of the United States of America to Anthony and Diane Papa, is dated July 16, 2010 and recorded August 10, 2010 at Book 30, Pages 423-426 of the Handcock Land Records.

The parcel herein is .48 acre lot, shown as Lot 3E on a survey map entitled, “Property of Addison County Community Trust Hancock, Vt”, dated July 22, 2003, by Norman R. Smith, Inc., Plat Number 87-62A-02, recorded in Slide Number 151 of the Hancock Land Records.

The following easements shall run in with title to the land benefitted and burdened by each easement: A. An Easement for pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress and underground utilities over and upon a strip of land 33 feet wide extending from the easterly edge of Vermont Route 100 over and upon and contiguous to the southerly boundary of the lands of the Town of Hancock shown as Lot 2A on the Survey to other lands of the Town of Hancock shown as Lot 1 on the Survey.

B. An easement for pedestrian and vehicular ingress and egress and underground utilities over and upon a strip of land 12 feet wide extending from the easement described in the preceding paragraph, at the southeast corner of Lot 2A, as shown on the Survey, over and upon said Lot 2A and contiguous to the easterly boundary of said Lot 2A to other lands of the Town of Hancock as shown on the Survey.

C. SUBJECT to and together with the benefit of permanent setback easementsfor wastewater treatment systems and appurtenances, including but not limited to leachfields, constructed on or serving the herein conveyed lot, or any adjacent lot conveyed by Grantor, in accordance with said Permit #WW-3-0797. Meaning and intending hereby to provide that if any portion of any such wastewater system does not strictly meet the boundary line setback requirements of applicable local or state law or permits, the herein conveyed lot shall have the benefit of a setback easement over adjoining lots to the extent required to comply with setback requirements.

D. SUBJECT FURTHER to utility easements and rights-of-way appearing of record, including easements to be conveyed to Central Vermont Public Service Corporation and Verizon; provided, however, that any encumbrances otherwise extinguished by the Record Title Act are not hereby revived.

The lands and premises herein conveyed are subject to the terms and conditions of State of Vermont Permit No. WW-3-0797, dated August 8, 2003 and recorded at Book 25, Page 214 of the Hancock Land Records.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: July 3, 2017 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Rachel K. Jones, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

The Middlebury Planning Commission hereby provides notice of a public hearing being held pursuant to 24 VSA §4384 (Preparation of Plans) and §4447 (Public Hearing Notice) for the purpose of hearing public comments concerning the proposed 2017 Middlebury Town Plan Amendment.

The public hearing has been scheduled for: DATE: September 7, 2017 at 7:30pm PLACE: Municipal Office Building, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 Large Conference Room Statement of Purpose: Under Vermont State Law, town plans must be updated every 5 years (future versions of the plan must be updated every 8 years). The current 2012 Town Plan will expire in December 2017. The purpose of this hearing is to receive public comment on the updated, draft plan and to discuss any comments provided by the public.

Geographic Area Affected: This Plan shall apply to all areas in the Town of Middlebury, VT Table of Contents: (abbreviated) Context Goals and Themes Historical Development Natural and Scenic Resources Local Economy Housing Energy Transportation Education Colleges and Institutions Community Facilities, Services and Utilities Land Use Implementation Maps Appendices Location where full text may be examined: Copies of the full text of the proposed Town Plan amendment for the Town of Middlebury can be viewed in the Planning & Zoning Office or the Town Clerk’s Office at 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT. The proposed amendment may be viewed online on the Town’s web site www.townofmiddlebury.org.

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, August 28, 2017 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the Town Offices, 77 Main Street, to consider the following: 1. An application by Marbleworks Partnership and William F. Smith for conditional use review of a PUD Amendment to operate a coffee manufacturing business in the Marbleworks complex. The property is located at 137 Maple Street, parcel ID 24:122, and is located in the VRC zoning district.

2. An application by Rollason Properties for a final plat review of a two-lot subdivision. The property is on Foote Street, parcel ID 08:160, and is located in the HDR zoning district.

3. An application by Tractor Supply and Rollason Properties for a conceptual conditional use review to construct an approximately 19,100 sf retail store. The property is located on Foote Street, parcel ID 08:160, and is located in the PHD zoning district.

Plans and additional information regarding these applications may be viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office in the Town Offices or by calling 388-8100, Ext 210. Participation in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

Jennifer L. Murray Town Planner/Zoning Administrative Officer

TO PUBLISH A LEGAL NOTICE in The Addison Independent email information to legals@ addisonindependent. com or fax it to (802) 388-3100.

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

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

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ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT Model Notification of Rights under FERPA for Elementary and Secondary Schools

The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords parents and students over 18 years of age (“eligible students”) certain rights with respect to the student’s education records. These rights are: (1) The right to inspect and review the student’s education records within 45 days of the day the School receives a request for access.

Parents or eligible students should submit to the School principal [or appropriate school official] a written request that identifies the record(s) they wish to inspect. The School official will make arrangements for access and notify the parent or eligible student of the time and place where the records may be inspected.

(2) The right to request the amendment of the student’s education records that the parent or eligible student believes are inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the student’s privacy rights under FERPA. Parents or eligible students who wish to ask the School to amend a record should write the School principal [or appropriate school official], clearly identify the part of the record they want changed, and specify why it should be changed. If the School decides not to amend the record as requested by the parent or eligible student, the School will notify the parent or eligible student of the decision and advise them of their right to a hearing regarding the request for amendment. Additional information regarding the hearing procedures will be provided to the parent or eligible student when notified of the right to a hearing.

(3) The right to consent to disclosures of personally identifiable information contained in the student’s education records, except to the extent that FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent.

One exception, which permits disclosure without consent, is disclosure to school officials with legitimate educational interests. A school official is a person employed by the School as an administrator, supervisor, instructor, or support staff member (including health or medical staff and law enforcement unit personnel); a person serving on the School Board; a person or company with whom the School has contracted as its agent to provide a service instead of using its own employees or officials (such as an attorney, auditor, medical consultant, or therapist); or a parent or student serving on an official committee, such as a disciplinary or grievance committee, or assisting another school official in performing his or her tasks.

A school official has a legitimate educational interest if the official needs to review an education record in order to fulfill his or her professional responsibility.

[Optional] Upon request, the School discloses education records without consent to officials of another school district in which a student seeks or intends to enroll.

[NOTE: FERPA requires a school district to make a reasonable attempt to notify the parent or student of the records request unless it states in its annual notification that it intends to forward records on request.]

(4) The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the School District to comply with the requirements of FERPA. The name and address of the Office that administers FERPA are: Family Policy Compliance Office U.S. Department of Education 400 Maryland Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20202-5920 [NOTE: In addition, a school may want to include its directory information public notice, as required by § 99.37 of the regulations, with its annual notification of rights under FERPA.] 8/7, 8/10

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Oliver Wadsworth performs a one-man show retelling the story of Russell Colvin’s murder in 1812 through four perspectives on Friday, Aug. 18, 7:30 p.m., at the Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse in Middlebury.

PHOTO / RIIKKA OLSON

Manchester murder mystifies after 200 years

T

here was a murder in Manchester.

You haven’t heard?

It was tragic really. Russell Colvin was beaten by his brothers-in-law and then went missing. For seven long years, the townspeople did nothing to find him; no search party, no investigation, nothing. That is until, Russell’s ghost started haunting the town.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

Next Friday, Aug. 18, you can see Manchester’s very own unsolved murder case of 1812 reenacted by Oliver Wadsworth in a one-man show at Middlebury’s Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, at 7:30 p.m.

Wadsworth portrays a motley medley of

characters, as they grapple with the slippery truth of the real life murder of Russell Colvin — a mentally impaired, eccentric Vermonter.

“There are four points of view on this story,” explained Kirk Jackson, an acting teacher at Bennington College who directed the show.

One narrator is a staid elder relative of Russell Colvin; the second is Rufus, Colvin’s son, who is an eye witness to his father’s beating; the third is a French museum curator in Albany, N.Y., who set up a tableau vivant of Colvin and brought national attention to the case; and the final narrator is a British con-man, who looked at the story as a career goldmine.

“Ollie plays 15-20 characters,” estimated Jackson, a 1988 graduate of Yale School of Drama. “He tells the stories with multiple characters coming

out of him, which he does really well.”

For an hour and 10 minutes, Wadsworth blinks in and out of his characters and delivers strikingly different versions of reality.

“If you’re looking for an answer, don’t,” said Wadsworth, who is based in New York City as an actor, but calls Shaftsbury, Vt., home with Jackson. “We don’t know how this mystery is solved. History has given us many, many different versions.”

Wadsworth and Jackson would know too; they’ve been studying this case for more than five years. Admittedly, a lot of the research was done along side their other gigs, but about a year an a half ago that changed. Jackson received an Arts Endowment Fund grant SEE COLVIN ON PAGE 3

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ART Holmes’ sweet home; artist settles in Bristol

D

eborah Holmes is no stranger to Addison County. If you weren’t her neighbor in Weybridge or Shoreham, you might still know her from her watercolor paintings.

Holmes has been painting the Vermont scene for the past 25 years.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

Last Thursday, she turned the key in her new home on Garfield Street in Bristol. Now, most of us would probably take the next week or so to settle in, unpack a few boxes, put the kitchen together, see what’s volunteering out in the gardens. But that’s not what Holmes did.

She set up an exhibit at Art on Main.

Her work will be on view for the month of August at the Bristol gallery. To be fair, Holmes had an in. She first met Annie Perkins, the relatively new gallery manager at Art on Main, at Frog Hollow in Burlington (where Perkins used to work and Holmes sells paintings).

They became friends; so when Holmes moved to Bristol it was only natural to arrange an art opening at the gallery.

“Bristol” by Deborah Holmes.

An artist’s reception will be held at the gallery this Friday, Aug. 11, from 5-7 p.m.

“Art on Main is thrilled to invite artist Deborah Holmes back to the gallery with a feature exhibit for the month of August,” read a recent Art on Main newsletter (composed by Perkins).

“Deborah is a prolific painter who has been documenting the beauty and richness of Vermont for decades.”

“Bristol seemed like a good place to be,” said Holmes, who is thankful to be closer to Burlington, her sons and her 29-foot campergetaway in Craftsbury. “Bristol’s an awesome place to live. Everyone is really down to Earth and friendly.”

She picked a home right in the village, and plans to re-establish an at-home gallery that the public will be welcome to for open studios and open houses during the holiday season.

“After Labor Day I’ll be set up,” Holmes guessed.

“The house must be about 150 years old; it has a big new kitchen in the back with windows that look out to Deer Leap Mountain and a long strip of lawn — it’s like an oasis. There’s a good sense of space here.”

Come meet Deborah Holmes on Friday, Aug. 11, during an artist’s reception at Art on Main in Bristol from 5-7 p.m.

“Tractor” by Deborah Holmes.

And that’s important for Holmes and her art.

Sure, she has a certain technique — watercolors or acryla-gouache on dry hot press paper with layer upon layer — but what she’s really going for is capturing a sense of place.

1981 Vassar College grad. “I added in where the leaves would be, then took a picture. Now I’m home and can finish the painting.”

“I think that’s why I like going places,” she said, “because every place is unique.”

Like for example the morning of this interview, Holmes went for a walk with her dog at the Bristol watershed and saw an inspiring oak tree.

“I threw the outline of the tree on paper with an underpainting (kind of a sketch),” explained the

Other times inspiration can take a bit more work.

That’s when Holmes heads up to her camper in the northeast part of Vermont.

“I love the Northeast Kingdom,” Holmes said.

“There’s an energy there or something … it’s hard to describe. It’s so pristine and beautiful; and I love the outdoor activities.”

A year ago, she bought the “cheapest piece of SEE HOLMES ON PAGE 4

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from the Vermont Community Foundation in Middlebury, and the couple committed to developing the piece.

In researching, Wadsworth and Jackson learned about early 19th century Yankee solo performers, who they were and how they played and toured their shows; including some fascinating history on original curtains in Vermont theaters — if you’re curious ask Wadsworth…

But it’s not about the curtains, it’s about the story of Russell Colvin, his death, his ghost and the near hanging of his brothers-in-law, who eventually stood trial.

“Playing multiple characters, not only challenges my instrument as an actor — vocally, physically and emotionally — it is also fulfilling in a deeply personally way,” Wadsworth, a 1988 New York University Tisch School of the Arts grad, explains in the intro to the program. “Playing against gender, age and ethnicity, allows me to inhabit characters I would not normally

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“THERE ARE FOUR POINTS OF VIEW ON THIS STORY...

OLLIE PLAYS 15-20 CHARACTERS... WHICH HE DOES REALLY WELL.” — Kirk Jackson

be cast as. The result is empathy for people that I might not otherwise know.

It broadens my range of experience and I believe it could have the same effect on an audience. Arousing curiosity about all kinds of individuals is what I love about this kind of work.”

Wadsworth and Jackson opened the show at the Dorset Theater Festival where Melissa Lourie, artistic director of Middlebury Actors Workshop, saw the show and helped it come north to the Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse on Exchange Street in Middlebury.

Come share an intimate, exploration of this mystery on Friday evening. Tickets are $12 and available through the Town Hall Theater box office or online at townhalltheater.org.

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IN TOWN A frenzy of theatrical creation in Rochester BALD MOUNTAIN THEATER PRESENTS FOUR PERFORMANCES OF “THERE ONCE WAS...” AT SPICE STUDIO

P

ut together three fairy tails, six actors, two musicians, no rules and what do you get? Four days of creative theater fun!

Bald Mountain Theater is proud to announce the return of its family-friendly event “There Once Was …” with new stories for 2017.

“This is my chance to gather together some of my favorite performers,” said artistic director Ethan Bowen, “and unleash them on some of my favorite stories. The emphasis is on creative theater: How does someone ‘fly’ with two sticks and a long piece of fabric? How do we create

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property” she could find and “put a camper on it.” Plain and simple.

monsters and three-headed snakes? How do we tell these great stories in the most fun way possible?”

This year’s “There Once Was...” performance features three stories from Chechnya:

The ensemble of performers hails from Washington, D.C., Boston, Burlington and Rochester, bringing together a wide range of theater and musical talent.

“BOYISLAV, YOUNGEST OF TWELVE”

Bring the whole family for a wild, wonderful and playful performance, showing nightly on August 10, 11 and 12, at 7:30 p.m.; matinee on August 13, at 4 p.m. All performances will be held at Spice Studio — an intimate 45-seat theater on South Main Street in Rochester. Tickets, available at the door, are $10. For more info call (802) 767 4800 or visit baldmountaintheater.org.

“THE KING OF THE TOADS”

“There’s no electricity, no plumbing, no cell-service — you can’t be in touch,” said the mother of four sons, and owner of four cats and two dogs. “It’s detox time.”

But she’s not without all luxury in the camper. The

place just wouldn’t be home without her pink, cacticovered flannel sheets.

Marooned on an island by his jealous brothers, Boyislav enlists the help of a talking horse to guide him on an epic journey.

A king must right the wrong of a faithless queen who has run off with The King of the Toads.

“YELENA THE WISE” A hero falls in love with the wild Yelena and must pursue her by means of magic and tricks.

Recharged from the Kingdom, Holmes gets back to work.

running a business,” she explained. That’s what initially prompted her to start painting her well-known miniatures. “They’re small paintings that people could afford to buy.”

“What I’m really doing is

But these days, Holmes is

making everything larger.

“Doing miniatures is really hard work,” she explained.

“You have to hold your head really still. Plus I want to do bigger paintings.”

And as her own boss for the past 25 years, she can do just that.

“It’s really fun doing what you want to do,” Holmes said. “I just love painting; it’s a passion. I like meeting new people, being occupied and working at my own pace.”

It works. Since Day One, her a have sold wellenough to “pay the bills.”

“People like the paintings that offer a sense of calm,” Holmes said. “My paintings come from my heart and soul; it’s what I do. And if the color, composition or just the sense of peace makes people feel better and be happy, that’s great.

But it’s not what I’m aiming for; for me painting is like walking or eating or breathing.”

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IN TOWN ‘Go West’ with Buster Keaton at Brandon Town CLASSIC SILENT FILM COMEDY TO BE SCREENED WITH LIVE MUSICAL ACCOMPANIMENT

H

e never smiled on camera, earning him the nickname of “the Great Stone Face.” But Buster Keaton’s comedies rocked Hollywood’s silent era with laughter throughout the 1920s.

See for yourself with a screening of “Go West” (1925), one of Keaton’s landmark feature films, on Saturday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m., at the Brandon Town Hall and Community Center. Jeff Rapsis will accompany the film with live music.

In ‘Go West,’ Buster heads out to ranch country, where the comedian encounters romance with — a cow!

Can he save his love from a trip to the livestock yards? Rustle up some belly laughs as Buster once again proves himself worthy to all those in doubt.

Co-starring in the film is a mournfaced cow named Brown Eyes. Brown Eyes received a credit in the movie, and even got a salary — $13 a week.

Buster Keaton and “Brown Eyes” star in the classic silent comedy “Go West” (1925) screening with live music accompaniment on Saturday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m., at Brandon Town Hall.

Saturday’s showing will open with a Keaton short comedy to get the evening rolling.

at how engrossing and exhilarating they can be when shown as they were intended: in a theater, and with live music,” said Rapsis, who accompanies more than 100 screenings each year at venues around the nation.

“These films are audience favorites, and people continue to be surprised

“It’s kind of a high wire act,” Rapsis said. “But for me, the energy of live

performance is an essential part of the silent film experience.”

Admission to this Saturday night film is free, but donations are welcome. All proceeds support ongoing restoration of the Town Hall, which dates from 1860. The screening is sponsored by the Brandon/Forestdale Lions Club.

one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK MOZART PERFORMED IN GERMAN FOLK DUO BRINGS TUNES TO BRANDON

CAPE COD BOOK DISCUSSION

Students from Middlebury’s German Language School will perform AUGUST an abbreviated version of Mozart’s “Marriage of Figaro,” in German, of course, at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury on Thursday, Aug. 10, and Friday, Aug. 11, at 8:30 p.m. Running time approx: 90 minutes. A pre-performance talk begins at 7:45 p.m. (in English). Tickets: $15.

Call: (802) 388-1436.

Author Robert Finch will discuss his latest book, “The Outer Beach: A TUESDAY AUG. Thousand-Mile Walk on Cape Cod’s Atlantic Shore,” with Middlebury College professor emeritus John Elder on Tuesday, 7 p.m., at The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. The evening will include a reading followed by a conversation, Q&A and booksigning. Finch has lived on Cape Cod for over 40 years, and currently lives in Wellfleet, Mass. Call (802) 388-2061 or email Jenny@vermontbookshop.com.

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Alex Smith, folk singer-songwriter, and Jacob Brillhart, a Cape Breton and SATURDAY AUG. Scottish style fiddler, will perform a concert at Brandon Music on Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. Smith grew up in the heart of New York’s Adirondack Park, attended St. Lawrence University (where he met Brillhart) and soon after signed with folk label Wepecket Island Records. Tickets are $20. Reserve your seat at the preshow dinner for an extra $25. BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, email info@brandon-music.net or visit brandonmusic.net.

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T HEATER

OWN HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org

Thur 8/10 & Fri 8/11 8:30pm* $15 (limited seating available)

MOZART’S FIGAROS HOCHZEIT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE’S GERMAN FOR SINGERS SCHOOL

Featuring Middlebury College’s The German for Singers Language School presenting an abbreviated version of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Sung in German.*Talk in English at 7:45pm

Fri 8/18 7:30pm $12

THE TARNATION OF RUSSELL COLVIN AT THE VERMONT COFFEE COMPANY PLAYHOUSE

Based on Manchester’s unsolved murder case of 1812, local history comes alive in this one-man virtuoso tour-de-force. Oliver Wadsworth portrays a medley of characters as they grapple with the murder of Russell Colvin, an eccentric Vermonter whose ghost haunted the town of Manchester.

Tue 8/22 & Wed 8/23 7pm $10/$5 12 & under THT’S YOUNG COMPANY PRESENTS

THE SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL

A blisteringly funny comedy of manners that pokes fun at status and high society.

Thu 8/24 – Sun 8/27 A new slate of outstanding films from all over the world are featured at THT and other Middlebury venues. With special events, famous guests and rousing parties, this year’s MNFF is better than ever!

EXHIBITS ALNÔBAK: WEARING OUR HERITAGE. On exhibit June 24-Aug. 12, featuring wearable art, such as garments, regalia, and accessories, by contemporary Abenaki artists, together with photographs and prints that reflect previous generations. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes. (802) 475-2022 or lcmm.org.

DAILY ART BY SUSANNE PECK. On exhibit June 30-Aug. 13, featuring abstract and expressionist works as well as representational drawings. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

DEBORAH HOLMES. On exhibit Aug. 4-Aug. 31, featuring her paintings of classic farms, old barns, trees, mountains, long views, woodpiles and the occasional chicken. An artist reception will be held Friday, Aug. 11, from 5-7 p.m. Art on Main, 25 Main Street, Bristol. (802) 453-4032 or artonmain.net.

DRAW ME A STORY, TELL ME A TALE. On exhibit June 13-Oct. 15, featuring original artwork, sketches and more from 17 Vermont children’s book illustrators/authors. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

LAND, SEA & SKY. On exhibit July 27-Sept. 10, featuring shimmering, dreamlike oil paintings on panel and canvas by artist Peter Brooke. BigTown Gallery, 245 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 349-0979 or bigtowngallery.com.

SABRA FIELD, NOW AND THEN: A RETROSPECTIVE. On exhibit May 26-Aug. 13, featuring 70 prints that span six decades of Middlebury College alumnae and Vermont artist Sabra Field. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

SEE YOU AT THE LAKE. On exhibit July 13-Aug. 27, featuring paintings by Anne Cady. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 8772173 or northerndaughters.com.

SWIPES AND SLASHES: ABSTRACT MONOTYPES. On exhibit July 21-Aug. 31, featuring 10 abstract expressionistic monotypes by Ross Sheehan. Otter Creek Custom Framing, 3 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-2370 or visit Sheehan’s website at rosssheehanart.com.

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Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, a play in two parts, features Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane and Russell Tovey.

Accepting Donations for THT’s Fabulous Flea Market Town Hall Theater is accepting your donations of antiques, jewelry, art, collectibles and nice things on Friday and Saturday from 9am til noon on September 1, 2, 8, and 9 at the former Paquette Storage on Route 7 north of town, 1/10 a mile beyond the Exchange Street intersection. Now SMART MOVE STORAGE. Donated items will be sold at The Fabulous Flea Market on 9/16, with proceeds to benefit THT.

THE DAMES. On exhibit May 19-Aug. 19, featuring the oral history recordings and photographic portraits featuring 13 members of the Vermont Society of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

THE LOVINGS, AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREY VILLET. On exhibit May 26-Aug. 13, featuring 20 photographs by Grey Villet drawn largely from his germinal 1965 LIFE magazine photo essay telling the remarkable and epochal love story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

THE SELF. On exhibit July 7-Aug. 19, featuring a series of 10 large paired drawing installations by Bill Ramage. Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr, Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or cmacvt.org.

WARREN KIMBLE — FOLK ART 2017. On exhibit June 30-Aug. 29, featuring the universally appealing folk art that has made Warren Kimble famous since 1987, as well as a new body of folk art imagery. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

YOUNG AMERICA: ROY LICHTENSTEIN AND THE AMERICA’S CUP. On exhibit May 26-Aug. 13, featuring the 77-foot hull of Young America as well as several preliminary works by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) and other works illustrating the history of the America’s Cup. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443–5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

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EXHIBITS ‘Old Friends New Faces’ — on view at the Green

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dgewater Gallery will feature six artists between the gallery’s two Middlebury locations during the month of August in its group show “Old Friends and New Faces.” Edgewater at the Falls will be showing the work of two “old” favorites Woody Jackson and Homer Wells along with a new favorite, Philip Frey. Edgewater on the Green will be showing the work of three new artists, Timothy Horn, William B. Hoyt and Kim Alemian.

Last week, Arts+Leisure featured the three artists exhibiting at the Falls.

Here’s a snapshot of the three artists on view at the Green:

TIMOTHY HORN Ohio native Timothy Horn graduated from The Cooper Union School of Art in New York City.

After a career in graphic design, the Northern California resident now paints full-time and teaches painting workshops around the country and abroad. He joined Edgewater Gallery last year.

KIM ALEMIAN Kim Alemian is an award-winning, Boston-area artist who joined Edgewater Gallery this spring.

She received her Bachelors at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, her Masters in painting from the Boston University School of Visual Arts, and studied at the New York Studio School. In addition to her career as a painter, Alemian has curated exhibitions and taught drawing and painting in various venues.

Her fresh and vibrant still lifes and interiors, painted in oil and mixed media, are playful explorations of light and color.

“I am interested in the way light streams into an interior space, transforming it and the objects it hits for a fleeting moment,” Alemian explained. “The sun stream magically transforms whatever is in its path and makes it exceptional.

These liminal spaces are both real and remembered.”

WILLIAM B. HOYT

Walker Evans. Following a naval career, Hoyt settled in Vermont in the 1970s. He joined Edgewater Gallery earlier this year.

His detailed, often large-scale classical realism paintings bring to life the drama and beauty of rural New England.

“There is a challenge and a joy in seeing something ineffably beautiful or moving and resolving to make a painting of it,” Hoyt said.

“The threads of the canvas, the sea, Vermont, family, friends and Maine have woven themselves inextricably into my psyche and my work. Sometimes I go looking, often early in the morning before setting sail for the next harbor or toward the end of the day after we anchor and the harsh light softens.

Other times a subject recommends itself unsolicited with the realization that a painting is staring me in the face... No matter the motivation or the circumstance, to me painting is a kind of meditation that helps me focus on the simple joy of rendering well a chosen subject.”

Internationally collected artist Horn’s paintings are as much about William B. Hoyt grew up Newport, For more information about these the subjects as the effects of light R.I., in a family of avid sailors. In 1967, artists and the August exhibit, call within a particular scene. His work he earned his art degree from Yale, Edgewater Gallery on the Green evokes a nostalgic Americana and where he was influenced by the at (802) 989-7419, email info@ often features structural elements. work of Jack Tworkov, Josef Albers, edgewatergallery-vt.com or visit Horn often begins paintings en Sewall Sillman and photographer edgewatergallery-vt.com. plein air, on site, in his immediate surroundings of rural California, and other locations from his travels, such as Vermont, Maine, Ohio “Bristol Electronics makes it easy for you to go solar. and most recently, From the detailed, patient explanations, to the rebates, estimates and permits, Bristol Electronics takes care of it all. I obtained several Cuba.

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“Black Chrome” by Timothy Horn – 18” x 24” – oil on canvas – $3,800.

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CALENDAR

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT

WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AUGUST 10-20, 2017

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featured gallery show in Aug., will show and discuss his work.

Bristol’s Movies in the Park series. Free and open to the public. Bring a blanket and your bug spray.

Rain location Holley Hall.

VERMONT SUN TRIATHLON SERIES IN SALISBURY. Sunday, Aug. 13, Branbury State Park.

Sprint and Olympic Distance races. For more info or to register visit vermontsuntriathalonseries.com.

ARTISTS RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 18, 5-7 p.m., Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater. Sharp pencils and the tiniest brushes — these are the tools of four Addison County artists who specialize in realistic art in fine detail.

“Attention to Detail” features Gayl Braisted, Mike Mayone, Catherine M. Palmer and Reed A. Prescott. On exhibit Aug. 18-Oct. 1, 2017.

JUST FOR FUN

GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB HIKE — MT. ABRAHAM IN LINCOLN. Saturday, Aug. 19. A strenuous 5.2 mile hike on the Long Trail with an elevation gain of approximately 2,500 feet, some steep pitches, a few areas of flat hiking and an extremely rocky ascent to the summit. Rare arctic-alpine plants and 360-degree views. This is a dog friendly hike.

Contact leader Mike at mike802vt@comcast.net or 802-349-5653 for details. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

DIAMOND ISLAND REGATTA ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN. Saturday, Aug. 19, racing starts at 11 a.m. from Point Bay Marina in Charlotte. The fifth annual yacht race, hosted by the Royal Savage Yacht Club and Point Bay Marina, can feature two dozen boats or more racing 6-14 miles from Charlotte in the north to Basin Harbor in the south. RSYC lobster dinner for $25 and awards ceremony beginning at 6 p.m. Race proceeds to benefit the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. More information online at rsyc. org/diamond-island-regatta.

GREEN MOUNTAIN BICYCLE CLUB BOUND FOR BRISTOL BAKERY RIDE. Sunday, Aug. 20, meet at 9:15 a.m., Clifford Lumber, Rt. 116 Hinesburg. A 40mile ride on the less traveled roads around Bristol, New Haven and Hinesburg. Shorter 27-mile ride to Bristol Bakery and back. More info contact Jessica Barnum 802-335-1889, omsideofthings@gmail.com, or Amy Ross 802-324-2137, vtamy@comcast.net.

ARTS ARTIST’S RECEPTION IN BRISTOL. Friday, Aug. 11, 5-7 p.m., Art on Main, 25 Main St. A reception for Artist Deborah Holmes, whose work will be on display beginning Aug. 4.

ARTIST’S TALK IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 12, 11 a.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. Contemporary folk artist Warren Kimble will discuss his work. More info at 802-247-4956, art@ pattysgrecci.com, or BrandonArtistsGuild.org.

ARTIST LECTURE AND SLIDE PRESENTATION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 18, time TBA, Edgewater at the Falls, Frog Alley. Artist Philip Frey, whose pieces will be included in the

CRAFTS PAPER CUT BOOKMAKING WORKSHOP IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 9:30-11 a.m., Sheldon Museum, One Park St. Join “Where is Sam” creators Sandra Stillman Gartner and Marguerite Jill Dye at this workshop for children, families, and the young at heart. Free. Ages 6 and up, Reservations required. More info at 802388-2117. Part of the events during the Sheldon’s exhibit “Draw Me a Story: Tell Me a Tale.”

BLAST FROM THE PAST: WORKING WITH FIBER IN ADDISON. Sunday, Aug. 20, 2-4 p.m.

Chimney Point State Historic Site, 8149 Vt. Route 17W. Members of the Twist O’ Wool Guild will be in residence on the Chimney Point porch to demonstrate a variety of fiber skills, crafts, and arts important historically and relevant today. Bring your project or ask questions. Light refreshments.

FILM DOCUMENTARY FILM ON SCREEN IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Aug. 12, 10:30 a.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “Every War Has Two Losers” is based on the journals of poet William Stafford, WWII conscientious objector and National Book Award winner. Free.

BUSTER KEATON’S “GO WEST” ON SCREEN IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 12, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. In ‘Go West’ (1925) Buster Keaton heads out to ranch country, where the stone-faced comedian encounters romance with — a cow! Can he save his love from a trip to the livestock yards?

Part of Brandon’s silent film and live music series.

“THE SANDLOT” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 8 p.m., new college park, by the traffic circle. Part of the Better Middlebury Partnership outdoor movie and music series.

“THE WIZARD OF OZ” ON SCREEN IN BRISTOL. Friday, Aug. 18, dusk, on the town green. Part of

ADDISON COUNTY FAIR & FIELD DAYS IN NEW HAVEN. Thursday, Aug. 10, Friday, Aug. 11, and Saturday, Aug. 12, all day. Fairground Rd. Vermont’s largest agricultural fair. Children’s barnyard, cattle judging, tractor pulls, kiddie rides, crafts, exhibits, live entertainment, pony and ox pulling, midway, parade, youth activities, and Vermont products dinner. More info at addisoncountyfielddays.com.

LOCAL SIGHTSEEING CLUB ORGANIZATIONAL MEETING IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Aug. 10, 5 p.m., large meeting room, Ilsley Public Library.

Anyone interested in organizing a new group to travel around the area to see interesting sights is invited to this first meeting. The tentative name is the TSA – Traveling Sightseeing Associates.

More information from Jan Walker at 388-4220 or janwalkervt@together.net.

MISS DEBBIE’S FAMOUS TEA PARTY IN BRANDON. Friday, Aug. 18, 3 p.m., Brandon Public Library, 4 Franklin St. Wear your fancy hat or bow tie for a picnic on the lawn.

TOWN-WIDE YARD SALE IN BRIDPORT. Saturday, Aug. 19, and Sunday, Aug. 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Maps available at Boise’s Citgo, Pratt’s Store and sales around town.

KIDS PIRATE FESTIVAL IN FERRISBURGH. Saturday, Aug. 19, and Sunday, Aug. 20, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. The Museum campus will be taken over by pirates, sailors, rogues, and mutineers from distant shores for this family friendly swashbuckling good time. Costumes, music, pirate-themed activities, shows, sing-alongs, and make-and-take crafts for the whole family. Live pirate stage shows by Pirates of Fortune’s Folly, see the Pirate Fleet on Lake Champlain, visit the Pirate Camp to learn all about life on the high seas, find treasure, join in the Great Pirate Tug-o-War, and more! Information: lcmm.org or 802-475-2022.

MUSIC LINDA DZURIS, CARILLON, IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 11, 5 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns, Middlebury College. Linda Dzuris, Carillonneur for Clemson University, CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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performs as part of Middlebury College’s Summer Carillon Concert series. Free.

Learn more at go.middlebury.edu/carillon, middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

POINT COUNTERPOINT CHAMBER PLAYERS IN SALISBURY. Friday, Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Meeting House. Final Concert in the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free will donation.

THE GRIFT ON STAGE IN VERGENNES. Friday, Aug. 11, 7:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St. An evening of bootyshaking grooves and tight vocal harmonies.

The band will include their horn section.

Sponsored by the Hired Hand Brewing Co. ALEX SMITH & JACOB BRILLHART IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Folk singer Smith and Scottish-style fiddler Brillhart bring their blend to Brandon. Tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295, info@brandonmusic.net or brandon-music.net.

BRANDON TOWN BAND IN BRANDON. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 6 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Part of the Brandon Summer Music series. More info at brandon.org.

DC3 IN BRANDON. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 7 p.m. A rich blend of rock, country, folk and blues. Part of the Brandon Summer Music series. Free. More info at brandon.org.

GREG RYAN AND RANI ARBO IN HANCOCK. Thursday, Aug. 17, 6:30 p.m., on the town green. Bring a chair and a picnic, rain site available. Free and open to the public. Part of the Hancock Green summer concert series. Sponsored by Hancock Town Pride Committee.

GEORGE MATTHEW JR., CARILLON, IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Aug. 18, 5 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding lawns, Middlebury College. Matthew, Carillonneur for

top pick CIDERSTOCK IS COMING TO WOOKCHUCK CIDERY ON EXCHANGE STREET NEXT SATURDAY, AUG. 19, AT 2 P.M. THIS PARTY IS ALWAYS A FUN-TIME WITH TIE-DYE, LIVE MUSIC AND HARD CIDER!

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Middlebury College and Norwich University, performs music entirely composed by women as part of the college’s Summer Carillon Concert series. Free. Learn more at go.middlebury.edu/carillon, middlebury. edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

BOB DEGREE & THE BLUEGRASS STORM ON STAGE IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, Aug. 18, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery, 142 River Rd. Straight up wild bluegrass. Part of the Winery’s free Friday night concerts. Bring a picnic and something to sit on. Rain or shine. Wine and food available for sale. More info at 802-3887368 or lincolnpeakvineyard.com.

OLD BONES BAND OF ADDISON COUNTY ON STAGE IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. A group of mostly retired, mostly hobby musicians, mostly having fun. Older country with a bit of bluegrass and gospel mixed in. It’s a family show so bring everyone. Tickets: Adults $7; seniors, students & military $5; Kids 5 & under free.

COOIE’S JAZZ ENSEMBLE IN BRANDON. Saturday, Aug. 19, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Cooie Defrancesco and her band bring you iconic tunes from the Great American Songbook. Tickets are $20.

A pre-concert dinner is available for $25.

Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295, info@brandonmusic.net or brandon-music.net.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Aug. 20, 12-5 p.m., VFW, Exchange St. All fiddlers welcome.

Refreshments will be available, Suggested $3 donation.

THEATER “THERE ONCE WAS …” ON STAGE IN ROCHESTER. Thursday, Aug. 10, Friday, Aug. 11, and Saturday, Aug. 12, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 13, 4 p.m., Spice Studio, 432 South Main St. Three Chechnyan Fairy Tales interpreted by six actors and two musicians with no rules. Tickets $10. More info at baldmountaintheater.org.

MARRIAGE OF FIGARO IN GERMAN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Aug. 10, and Friday, Aug. 11, 8:30-10 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S Pleasant St. Students from Middlebury’s German Language School will perform an abbreviated version of Mozart’s opera. Preperformance talk in English at 7:45. Tickets $15. More info at 802-382-9222 or office@ townhalltheater.org.

AUDITIONS IN BRANDON. Sunday, Aug. 13, 2 p.m., Monday, Aug. 14, 6:30 p.m., and Tuesday, Aug. 15, 6:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. For Brandon Town Players Fall Production.

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ric Alvarez, a 36-year-old Ph.D. candidate in sociolinguistics studying heritage language acquisition at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, in Paris, is back for his third Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference. Alvarez first moved to Paris in 2009 to pursue his M.A. in French through Middlebury’s Language School.

He’s now trilingual, and working on translating “Lettre à Hervé,” by Eric Sagan — a coming out and coming of age story set in France that was Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference auto-published and self-promoted.

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aul Corrigan, a 65-year-old from Millinocket, Maine, is returning to the Bread Loaf Orion Conference for the second year. He has worked as a ranger in a wilderness park; an instructor in a wilderness therapy program for at-risk girls dealing with issues such as depression and substance abuse; and a high school English teacher. He’s now working on a family memoir set in the Maine Woods.

Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference

Paul Corrigan Unless you have memories from before 1926, it’s normal to have a bunch of perfect strangers take over the hills of Ripton for a week each summer. Who are they? Writers.

Where do they come from? All over the world. Why are they here? Bread Loaf.

Ninety one years ago, Robert Frost had the impulse to established the “Conferences on Writing,” as they were originally known. Several others supported the idea to use Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus as a writers’ conference when it was vacant at the end of each August, and the idea took hold.

The conferences quickly established a reputation and have fostered countless authors. For the past 24 years, Michael Collier has been director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences. But this year will be his last; he’s passing the torch on to 45year-old Jennifer Grotz — the first female director of the conferences, an English professor at the University of Rochester and a published poet.

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ichelle Whittaker, a 40-year-old teacher in the Program of Writing and Rhetoric at Stony Brook University, attended the Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference for the fist time this year. Previously, the Long Island resident attended three Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences to workshop poems in her manuscript, which she completed this year.

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Directing these summer conferences is no small task. More than 435 visitors will pass through Ripton this year, between the Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference and Translators’ Conference in June and the upcoming Writers’ Conference Aug. 16-26.

In an effort to meet our new summer neighbors, nine Bread Loaf participants have shared their stories and their favorite parts of these writers’ conferences.

— Elsie Lynn Parini

anessa Hua, a 42-year-old columnist for the San Francisco Chronical and author of “Deceit and Other Possibilities, is returning to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference for the third year. Hua is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, the San Francisco Foundation’s James D. Phelan Award, a Steinbeck Fellowship in Creative Writing, as well as honors from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Asian American Journalists’ Association.

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ary Hawkins, a 48-year-old, creative writing teacher and associate dean for faculty at Warren Wilson College, in North Carolina, returns to Bread Loaf with 20 under his belt. He first came to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference on a waiter’s-scholarship in 1997. Through connections made that summer he pursued his career as a poet and began his Ph.D. at the University of Houston. For the next four years he worked for the writer’s conferences in various roles.

Alvarez lives in a suburb of Pa and their feisty Bichon Frise, a partipoodle and quirky pink co

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and had many insightful que rememberd about the writer “Also, not only did I have grea workshops — my roommate one of my closest friends.

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lizabeth Armstrong, a 60-year-old professor of Japanese Language and Translation Studies at Bucknell University (Lewisburg, Penn.), participated in the Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference for the first time this summer. She was raised in Middlebury where her father (James Isbell Armstrong) was president of the college from 1963-1975, but hasn’t been back to the area since 1993. Aside from teaching she translates the work of Terayama Shuji, an avant garde Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference Japanese author popular in the 1970s.

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my Weldon, a 42-year-old associate professor of English at Luther College (Decorah, Iowa), has been to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference once and the Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference three times. Weldon’s first book, “The Hands-On Life: How to Wake Yourself Up and Save the World,” is forthcoming from Wipf and Stock / Cascade Books. Her second, “The Writer’s Eye: Observation and Inspiration for Creative Bread Loaf Orion Environmental Writers’ Conference

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heswayo Mphanza, a 23-year-old MFA student at Rutgers-Newark, is returning for his second year to the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

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Loaf again, where writing friends, me long after the “It’s a magical adition, and I’m ow this year.”

This Chicago resident and Middlebury College graduate has also attended Cave Canem, Callaloo and Hurston/Wright conferences. His work has been published in the New England Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, American Literary Review, Vinyl, Prairie Schooner and Rhino.

ichael Romary, a 69-year-old retired university librarian from Ada, Ohio, returns for his second year at the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

Michael Romary Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference

Romary attended Saint Cloud State, in Minnesota, for graduate school in 1970 but stopped short of defending his creative thesis.

He stopped writing for a time and focused on reading poetry while pursing his profession as a librarian.

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“My time at Bread Loaf was particularly moving.

My days were full of the ‘present’ at hand, and was also populated with memories of my youth as a kind of overlay, rather like a pentimento,” she said. “It can only be described as an affirming and transformative experience. The primary reason I attended the translators’ conference was because I wanted to work with other literary translators, get guidance and feedback on my own work, and engage in conversations about all manner of things related to literary translation.”

Writers,” is under contract with Bloomsbury and will publish at a later date. Her short fiction, creative nonfiction and reviews have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, most recently Orion Magazine, The Common, and Midwest Gothic.

“I love Bread Loaf,” she said. “In each case (knock on wood for this most recent one), my attending Bread Loaf/Orion has led to the project I workshopped there getting published.”

“I chose Bread Loaf because it means a lot to me to be back in Vermont,” said Mphanza. “Bread Loaf was the first writers’ conference I have ever been a part of and I appreciate the transformation and growth that occurred for me as a writer. I found my writing voice through the conference and haven’t look back ever since. I am grateful for the experience and looking forward to transcending as a writer.”

After retiring, Romary came back to his writing full-time. He has been published in Smoke Signals, Barefoot Review, Passager and Spitball; and has poems accepted for publishing in Aries: a journal of creative expression.

“Writing is hard work,” said Romary. “Bread Loaf has an intensity of learning and exchange between distinguished poets and writers and those emerging and accomplished poets and writers who wish to perfect their craft.”

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come full circle as ow this summer,” ers his grandparents Bread Loaf to hear ors read.

Writers will come to the Bread Loaf campus in Ripton for the 92nd annual Writers’ Conference Aug. 16-26.

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INTERNS

Cindy Xu, left, Julia Hower, center, and Elaine Velie, are three of the seven student interns of the MuseumWorks program at Middlebury College’s Museum of Art. This year, they curated a show celerating the centennial of Middlebury’s summer Spanish School with paintings by Alfredo Ramón.

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Students curate exhibit for Spanish School’s centennial

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ith a freshly painted yellow wall and mounted artworks, Middlebury College’s Center Gallery, likely more commonly seen as a hallway, has been transformed into an elegant art exhibition curated by student interns at the College Museum of Art. On Aug. 3, the space was filled with lively Spanish music and animated conversations, as the exhibit “From Madrid to Midd: Zarzuelas at the Spanish School” officially opened.

BY YVETTE SHI

In celebration of the centennial of Middlebury’s summer Spanish School, the exhibit tells the

significance of theater productions at the school, showcasing paintings by Alfredo Ramón, who taught at Spanish School between 1972 and 2001.

The Spanish professional artist spent almost 30 summers at the college, creating numerous posters, set and costume designs for the theatrical performances while teaching art history.

All of the pieces presented were painted for zarzuelas, which are “short, lighthearted musicals that originated in a palace near Madrid,” according to the bilingual exhibit labels.

Dating back to the 17th century, zarzuelas made their way to Middlebury in 1921, when students and faculty put on La revoltosa (The Troublemaker). The popular production was staged again in 1977 and 1997, and Ramón’s painted posters for them now hang on the yellow wall, which resonates and highlights Ramón’s vibrant use of colors.

The seven student interns of the MuseumWorks program collaborated on the entire curatorial process of the exhibit.

“We were trying to show how zarzuelas affect active learning in the Spanish School, and how they are part of the culture at the summer language school,” said rising junior of the Feb class Elaine Velie, an art history and Russian double major and one of the interns. “We also really wanted to showcase the artist, because he had a big impact on the zarzuelas.”

On each of the other two opposite walls are not only posters, but also Ramón’s set and costume designs for the two particular productions. The beautiful watercolors offer a glimpse into the professionality of the zarzuelas carried out at the Spanish School, and Ramón’s dedication to CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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ZARZUELAS ARE “SHORT, LIGHTHEARTED MUSICALS THAT ORIGINATED IN A PALACE NEAR MADRID.”

them, along other members of the school.

For rising junior Cindy Xu, an art history and math double major, zarzuela is something “very Spanish” that has set in and taken another role in Middlebury. As a former Spanish School student and a participant in last summer’s Spanish theater production, Xu finds the story of zarzuelas in the pre-digital times fascinating, perhaps more so than her personal experience.

From doing archival research, she learned that the school’s theater productions before around 2000 were very important and professional, but things changed a little with the older professors gone.

“The zarzuelas used to be a lot fancier,” she said. “Now we tend to do one theater production each summer, with a lot of singing and dancing in them, but they are not exactly zarzuelas.”

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Given Ramón’s deep influence on the Spanish School theater scene, the idea of the exhibit was brought to the College Museum by faculty of the Language Schools. According to Jason Vrooman, curator of education and academics outreach, the show was created “as much for Spanish School as for the museum.”

As a former intern himself at the College Museum of Art in 2001, Vrooman sees great value in MuseumWorks, which was started in 2015 when the College “wanted to have an enhanced internship program that would offer professional development and practical experience.”

The interns met every Monday to curate the exhibit, and worked on their own projects for the rest of the week, either at the College Museum or at a local institution, including the Henry Sheldon Museum and Vermont Folklife Center.

This poster was painted by Alfredo Ramón for a theater piece, or zarzuela, called “La verbena de la Paloma” 1993 (“The Paloma Festival”) which premiered in Madrid, Spain in 1894. PHOTO / YVETTE SHI “We are all small

At the center of the exhibition is a life-size painted stage background used for Spanish School’s theater productions, depicting the street view of Madrid. The curatorial team borrowed the piece from the theater department for the exhibit opening, because the artwork needs storage conditions not available at the gallery space. The piece is also unique as it shows what Ramón was especially known for — paintings of landscapes and streets — besides the other more character-oriented designs.

Part of the interns’ research was an interview with Professor Roberto Véguez, Associate Director for Non-Academic Affairs at the Spanish School. Having also spent many summers here, Véguez had worked closely with Ramón on the productions, and offered valuable personal memories.

During the opening remarks, Véguez showed a photo of Ramón, naked above the waist, painting a set design. “He would be painting … and of course sipping from his gin, and just having a great time,” Véguez said.

institutions,” Vrooman said. “So it’s a really wonderful benefit to have additional help from motivated students, and we are helping them think about next steps.” An important part of the program was also to learn about how to connect people in the community.

The exhibition will stay on at least through at least part of the fall 2017 semester at Middlebury College, when students of academic years can learn about what goes on at the College during the summers.

“It’s a different culture here altogether,” said Emmie Donadio, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Museum. Donadio, like all other participants, is pleased with how the exhibit turned out. She noted that the space has not been a gallery for too long, and although it is now dedicated to exhibits, “it doesn’t usually look like a gallery.”

Yvette Shi is a rising junior at Middlebury College and an intern at The Addison Independent.

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FILM Investigative writer Dick Lehr comes to film fest

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ulitzer Prize finalist Dick Lehr is a fearless investigative writer. He will appear at this year’s Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival to talk about his work, which has led to the production of two films (“Black Mass” and “The Birth of a Movement”) along with two more (“The Fence” and “Judgment Ridge”) that are now in development.

BY JAY CRAVEN

As a Hartford Courant cub reporter, during the late 1970’s, Lehr infiltrated the Connecticut Ku Klux Klan. “They (the Klan) were leafleting in high schools and factory parking lots,” Lehr told interviewer Tiffany Stawiarski. “The Grand Wizard, a guy named David Duke, was doing interviews, talking about how he found Connecticut to be a good place to recruit new members. So, I asked my City Editor, why don’t I join? Why don’t I see what’s really going on?”

David Duke boasted to the press that his Connecticut Klan had three hundred members.

But Duke wouldn’t provide press access to any of them, not even the leader. So, Lehr took on an assumed name and landed an invitation to a secret Klan meeting in Danbury, where only about 12 people attended.

What: Dick Lehr will appear after the screening of “Black Mass” When: Friday, Aug. 25, at 1:30 p.m.

Where: Marquis Theater, Middlebury More: Jay Craven will interview Lehr at the Middlebury Town Office meeting room later that day, 4 p.m.

ado about nothing.”

Lehr informed the local Klan head about his story before it ran. He described their conversation as “tense.”

Some years later, Lehr (with co-writer Gerard O’Neill) broke the explosive Boston Globe story that legendary Boston crime boss Whitey Bulger was also an FBI informant — and that the FBI protected this now-convicted killer in exchange for Bulger’s questionable service to them.

Lehr and O’Neill’s best-selling book, “Black Mass: The True Story of an Unholy Alliance Between the FBI and the Irish Mob,” was made into a motion picture starring Johnny Depp, Benedict

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Cumberbatch, and Peter Sarsgaard. It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and The London Guardian gave it four stars, calling it “big, brash, and horribly watchable.”

During the late ’90s, Dick Lehr took on another fraught investigation, into the Boston police department cover-up of a brutal beating by its cops of a black fellow plainclothes officer whom they mistook for a murder suspect.

Lehr offered these comments in an interview

by Ulrich Boser, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress: “From the start,” Lehr said, “when I first wrote about the beating for the Globe, the brutality of it certainly stood out. Many said it was the worst case of known police brutality in Boston. But then it was the cover-up that seemed so astonishing — the idea that the blue wall kicked in even when the victim was a fellow cop — that always stayed with me, and made me think that this is a story that warranted book-length treatment.”

Lehr’s resulting book, “The Fence” was published in 2009 and it is now in development by Fox Searchlight Pictures. Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Gone Baby Gone”) and George Pelecanos (“The Wire”) are writing the screenplay.

I first became aware of Dick Lehr when he covered the Dartmouth Murders story for the Globe. His spellbinding writing, with Mitchell Zuckoff, captured the Chelsea, Vermont setting and the twisted path that two local teens followed to this tragic end.

I knew the teen killers. I had taught the older boy, Robert Tulloch, during a 30-day playwriting residency at Chelsea High School. And I shot my film, “A Stranger in the Kingdom,” in Chelsea, where the younger boy, Jim Parker, auditioned as an extra. Jim’s dad worked in our art department and his sister assisted with costumes.

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Lehr’s thoroughness and intimately specific writing avoided sensation, to allow this crime’s multiple human dimensions to emerge. Dick contacted me after the book was published and asked me to consider taking it on as a movie project. I’ve spent five years (and have faced significant resistance) working to make the film.

But it’s a timely story that may go into production this fall.

Editor’s Note: Jay Craven is artistic director of the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. 2017 passes and schedules available at middfilmfest.org.

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the movie ATOMIC BLONDE — RUNNING TIME: 1:55 — RATING: R Two odd but interesting things have happened in an otherwise grim summer for movies. Wonder Woman, the summer’s biggest hit, gave women the comic book version of the hero they have wanted for so long.

And now Atomic Blonde has given them their own action hero. Together, they are an announcement that women have arrived.

Charlize Theron doesn’t kid around. Her action figure, Lorraine Broughton, uses every part of her body to kill enemies and when that’s not quite enough she uses whatever happens to be at hand. In grand collusion with director David Leitch, she levels the field.

Theron has trained herself to such a state of fitness and strength that the movie becomes a flaming announcement that women in movies can now say, “Don’t mess with me!” They no longer have to express rage just by being mean. The only problem here is that the action is so overwhelming it’s hard to track the plot. But does that matter? No. It is 1989. Lorraine Broughton is an MI6 agent with a new assignment: head for Berlin and recover a list of secrets hidden in a wrist watch that has been stolen. The plot, along with its various alliances, is secondary to the wallop of the sight of Lorraine dispatching every man who tries to kill her.

Three characters stand out. James McAvoy as her primary problem, Eddie Marson as a bundle of brilliance who she must protect because he has memorized the list, and Sofia Boutella, another spy, who joins Lorraine in a red hot sexual encounter that plays out in prolonged detail.

Through Lorraine, Charlize Theron is eyeing the decades of female roles screened by men and with a big smile is saying “Take this, you guys.”

The bulk of the film unfolds in absolutely brutal physical violence. What is it then that lifts it to high style? It’s Lorraine who we first see bruised and battered before learning why. All during the why of it, we have the abiding pleasure of watching her stride in perfect stern grace through the city in a

Charlize Theron in Atomic Blonde (2017).

different outfit for every scene.

Though brutalized by fists and weapons, short minutes later she is striding across Berlin in clothes of superb simplicity — no adornments.

Almost always in stark black and white, then suddenly a bright red coat — all covering perfect posture atop bright red heels that become, when required, weapons. She is looking ahead as if she weren’t in full time danger. And then in moments she will be plummeting down a staircase, hit from behind by an enemy.

In two terrific symbolic performances this year, Wonder Woman’s Gal Gadot gave us a fighter for moral rectitude and Charlize Theron shows us a battler against all odds. In grand exaggeration, they have handed women the recognition they want as they fight to transcend the supporting role that has been their lot for centuries. Comic book symbols? You bet. Earned, deserved and delivered in style.

the book MAGPIE MURDERS — BY ANTHONY HOROWITZ

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMERTIME MONEYMAKING SCHEMES (for your kids)

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A deft murder mystery within a murder mystery, Magpie Murders is the quintessential whodunit. When an editor, at a small publishing house in London, receives a manuscript of a book written by their bestselling author, she has little idea how impactful this particular title will be on her life. Susan Ryeland has worked with the esteemed writer, Alan Conway, for years, and while she was never really fond of him, she has always been a devoted fan of Atticus Pünd, the investigator at the heart of the crime writer’s series. However, the manuscript is incomplete, missing its crucial last chapters, and as anyone who reads mysteries knows, the true satisfaction comes in the astonishing wrapup at the end, where all is revealed. Susan finds herself trying to piece together more than the ending of what turns out to be the last Pünd book, she is caught up in a real-life murder investigation of her own.

The plotting is superb, the writing is clever, the pacing is quick. This is a perfect end of summer read — classic, smart, entertaining and thoroughly satisfying — with a vintage feel.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

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by Rachel Ren Russell The Lemonade War, by Jacqueline Davies Lunch Money, by Andrew Clements How to (Almost) Ruin Your Summer,

by Taryn Souders Sam the Man & the Chicken Plan,

by Frances O’Roark Dowell Middle School: Dog’s Best Friend,

by James Patterson Full of Beans, by Jennifer Holm Lawn Boy, by Gary Paulsen

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MUSIC Music Center picks up the tempo at Camp Adagio

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dagio, it means “slow tempo.” Camp Adagio, however, isn’t slow at all.

For the past four years, Middlebury Community Music Center has offered a week-long day camp program to music lovers ages 8 and up. And they stay busy.

Camp Adagio completed its fourth annual session last week. Students ages 8-14 spent five days practicing and having fun with their music coaches at Middlebury Community Music Center.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

Each day, the campers practice in two coached chamber music sessions, have daily choral and yoga instruction, and get individual instruction from one of the seven coaches — Sadie Brightman (director of MCMC), Emily Sundereman, Ali Gibson, Cynthia Huard, Jillian Reed, Simon Broucke and new this year Bear Irwin (manager of the Vermont Jazz Ensemble).

In between the music, they take field trips to the Middlebury College Art Museum and Music Library. In the past, Camp Adagio has watched (and joined) George Matthew, Jr. play the carillon; toured the Mead Chapel organ with Emory Fanning; researched special music manuscript collections with librarian Joy Pile; and explored quantum physics and sound with Professor Noah Graham. This year, Camp Adagio did an improv workshop with college music librarian, Joe Antonioli.

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Ben Graham, piano, Zach Burrows, flute, and Carter Lee, violin, practice together during Camp Adagio last week.

Instructor Emily Sunderman plays with Camila Blanco and Elsa Burrows (cello).

“We are very grateful to Middlebury College professors and staff who have worked with our children over the year,” said Brightman.

“In addition to the awesome field trips and chamber music, the campers have developed a new way to play croquet in the back yard at the school,” Brightman explained. “And we were (nearly) able to convince some of the new bridge workers to join us in a wild and intense wiffleball game. We play ping pong and board games and also dive into interesting art projects Emily dreams up… Ali inspires singing each day in harmonies, rounds and with original lyrics. And, oh yes, each day we have a popsicle break in the afternoon.”

Last Friday marked the final day of Camp Adagio this year. The students and faculty celebrated with a final performance at St. Stephen’s Church in downtown Middlebury.

Editor’s Note: Feeling like your kids get all the fun?

MCMC is hosting a chamber music festival for adults this week (Aug 10-13). For more information visit middleburychambermusicfestival.com.

Some of the Camp Adagio campers take a break from practice, pictured from left: Camila Blanco, Elsa Burrows, Andy Rockwell, Zach Burrows, Ben Graham, Carter Lee, Emily Sunderman (instructor) and Marwan Liebhaber.

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GARDEN

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plant a native pollinator meadow

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ave you heard the buzz about helping pollinators with native plants? Planting a meadow of native plants for pollinators is a rewarding way to enhance your local ecosystem with a lowmaintenance landscape feature.

On the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, two pollinator meadows have been planted at the Rochester and Hector, N.Y., ranger stations. Here are a few tips so you can plant one, too.

Native plants are plants indigenous to an area and have evolved over time with the other wildlife there. That makes them great at providing food and shelter for local wildlife, including pollinators, such as bees, wasps, moths, birds and butterflies.

In turn, the pollinators produce fruits and seeds important to people and animals.

“The meadow at the Rochester Ranger Station has been a big help in reducing mowing, increasing biodiversity and creating an eyecatching display that changes throughout the summer,” said MaryBeth Deller, Botanist for the Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests. “Compared to conventional lawns or ornamental plantings, these plantings save water, reduce pesticide use, don’t require fertilizer, and are resilient once established.”

FIND A LOCATION Native pollinator meadows can be established in sunny yards, parks, schools and public spaces; they are especially beneficial in areas with many lawns, or extensive corn, hay or other crop fields. After you select the site, delineate

the bed dimensions. A large swath usually looks more intentional and aesthetically pleasing than a small patch or fragments of planted areas. If you are concerned about the meadow looking too wild, a mown border will signal that the area is being cared for.

REMOVE TURF To prepare the bed, first remove the current vegetation. Without careful preparation, turf grasses will return each year and out-compete the newly planted native species, so take the time to do it right. To remove turf grass effectively without chemicals, till the bed beginning in early August and repeat every two to three weeks, totaling four times. After four repetitions, the grasses should have exhausted their energy re-sprouting and should not compete much with the new seedlings. Alternatively, smother the turf with newspaper; it takes six layers of newsprint (the Addison Independent is biodegradable and garden friendly) to prevent grass from growing up through it. Wet the newspaper and top it with a mixture of topsoil and compost, 4 to 6 inches is recommended. Because the layered method takes a lot of materials and labor, it is best suited for smaller patches.

SELECT SEEDS A seed mix from a nursery specializing in natives is a great place to start selecting plants. These mixes are crafted to provide a succession of nectar and pollen sources throughout the growing season. Generic “wildflower” mixes can be ineffective if they are not suited to your area and might contain non-native invasive species, for this reason, read the species list carefully and be sure that the plants included are native to

your region. A reputable nursery or seed-seller will be able to help you with this.

PLANT In mid-autumn it’s time to plant. Sow the seed mix that you have chosen at the recommended rate. Hand seed or broadcast the seed and rake it lightly or roll it to get good seed to soil contact.

Mulch lightly with straw (be sure there are no seed heads present) and skip the fertilizer — these plants are adapted to lower fertility and the fertilizer would encourage weeds.

MAINTAIN During the first growing season, when the vegetation reaches 18-24 inches, mow or string trim to a height of 8 inches. Repeat this high mowing technique as needed throughout the first season until September in order to give all the plants in the mix a chance to establish.

During the second season, look for weeds such as ragweed, and if you find them, trim once to a height of 8 inches to prevent them from flowering and going to seed. If weeds aren’t present, no trim is needed. Ongoing maintenance is achieved by burning or brush hogging the area every two to three years to prevent the succession to woody species.

Many of the plants will begin flowering in the second year and by the third year, the meadow should be expressing its full beauty.

Editor’s Note: To see established pollinator gardens visit the ranger station in Rochester (99 Ranger Road off of Route 100 north of Rochester village). For more info on the pollinator project email MaryBeth Deller at mdeller@fs.fed.us.

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