Thursday, April 12, 2018

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Aiming high

The co-founder of the A.R.T. theater arts program is returning to acting. See Arts + Leisure.

One of Mount Abe’s best athletes ever has an amazing résumé and a sense of humor. See Page 1B.

Mentors Grown-ups are giving some Mount Abe students a little gentle direction. See Page 2A.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 72 No. 15

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Students endure lockdown drills

Shooter preparation can be stressful

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS the drill had been longer, so they ADDISON COUNTY — On could nap. It wasn’t until after class, March 28 Mount Abraham Union as she was walking down the hall Middle/High School conducted a with a friend, that she realized the lockdown drill — “locks, lights and extent of the fear she’d felt. out of sight.”

“I then went and Tenth-grader Mae took a math test,” she Peterson knew it was “I turned my said. a drill, she said.

Mount Abe phone brightness “My teacher asked all the way down eleventh-grader Evan us, ‘Which one is this?

Laurent was afraid to and became Is this the one where sit with his back to the you go in the corner?’ super aware of door, he said.

He didn’t know. all my classmates “I turned my phone Someone said it was, doing the same. brightness all the way so we turned the lights My heart was down and became off and huddled in the beating pretty super aware of all my corner. As I sat in the classmates doing the dark, hearing others fast and I was same. My heart was whisper and giggle, pretty stressed.” beating pretty fast and — Mount Abe I was pretty stressed.”

I began to think. I began to wait for the Fellow junior 11th-grader Evan gunshots. A part of me Jackman Laurent Chessley knew they wouldn’t found herself in a come, but a part of me double room near the screamed, ‘But what if they do?’” library when the drill began. The When the drill ended, Peterson room had four doorways. said, she had a hard time laughing “We quickly realized we needed with those classmates who wished (See Shooter drills, Page 13A)

Thorn to leave CSAC after 40-year career

Helped bring agency into 21st century

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Counseling Services of Addison County Executive Director Robert Thorn has come to work each day for the past 39 years with a simple professional priority that’s had a huge payoff.

“It’s not hard in this job to do good; there are opportunities each day,” Thorn said.

The thousands of people Thorn’s efforts have touched over the years — whether they be colleagues or mental health clients — would undoubtedly acknowledge he has accomplished his daily mission, and much more.

But starting next fall, someone will have to carry on for Thorn, who at age 69 has given his one-year notice.

The Counseling Service has created a committee to ask constituents about the qualities they’d like to see in a new director.

He’s confident the agency will have a replacement by next spring, but has offered to stay on for a while if there’s a hitch in the hiring process.

“I’m not going anywhere,” said the New Haven resident. “The board has a very thoughtful process that will ensure client services will go on uninterrupted.”

One could argue that Thorn’s appearance and demeanor were made for the profession he has chosen. He has a very kind visage, crowned by a full head of gray (See CSAC’s Thorn, Page 10A)

RUNNING A COUNTRY store is more than a job — it’s a way of life. Dick Collitt and his spouse, Sue, know that; they have owned and faithfully operated the Ripton Country Store since 1976. Now in their early 70s, they are ready to retire and looking to sell the iconic store on Route 125 in the heart of the Green Mountains.

Ripton store comes with slice of history Collitts ready to retire; McKibben article in N.Y. Times spurs nationwide interest

By JOHN FLOWERS a rustic wood stove, a hot cup of said of the national exposure the RIPTON — If nationally coffee and the reminiscences of a Ripton County Store has received renowned environmental activist friendly store-keep to warm your during the past few weeks. and bestselling author Bill heart on a frigid winter morning. “(Our real estate agen) has been McKibben ever decides to do some “Residents are supportive; they getting so many calls right now that moonlighting, he might consider think it’s pretty cool,” Dick Collitt he’s asking (buyers) to email him,” donning a Realtor’s jacket.

When the Middlebury College scholar in residence learned Dick and Sue Collitt were having some trouble finding a solid buyer for the Ripton Country Store, he offered to write an editorial on their behalf for The New York Times.

Less than a week after McKibben’s editorial appeared in the March 30 issue of the Times, the Collitts had received 50 offers deemed credible enough to warrant follow-ups. The couple’s phone has been ringing virtually non-stop with calls from people hoping to acquire the property.

Others have been stopping by the big red clapboard building right on Route 125 in Ripton village wanting to simply have a folksy conversation with them about what it’s like to run a small country store. There’s THE STORE HAS boasted 215 post office boxes for around three something particularly inviting decades. Store owners say many folks buy something while picking about a non-descript rocking chair, up their mail.

Vote online to win big More sewage spills prize for hockey rink into Neshobe River

ROBERT THORN, LONGTIME executive director of the Counseling Service of Addison County, will retire next spring after 40 years with the Middlebury-based mental health services agency.

Independent photo/John S. McCright

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY — Backers of the bid to win $150,000 for renovations of the Memorial Sports Center in Middlebury have organized a viewing party for the 3 p.m. Saturday afternoon NHL game during which the winner of the Kraft Hockeyville contest will be announced.

The rink is guaranteed at least $10,000, but could win $30,000 for a second-place finish. And the grand prize also includes an NHL preseason game at the winning rink.

Friends of Middlebury Hockey have arranged for a food truck at the rink at the viewing party, plus free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. According to organizers, the Boston Bruins also donated a team-autographed jersey that they’ll be giving away.

And anyone, whether they can make it or not, can support the effort by voting between 12 a.m. Friday (that is very early in the morning) and 11 a.m. on Saturday. Just log onto krafthockeyville.com and follow links to vote through the website as often as possible, according to organizers, who hope to use the winnings to fund public restroom and a heated familyfriendly viewing area overlooking the ice.

This community must outvote supporters of rinks in Shreveport, La.; Brandon, S.D.; and Clinton, N.Y.

Brandon has 2nd big incident

By POLLY MIKULA BRANDON — Old pipes and erosion led to a break in a Brandon sewer pipe, spilling over 1 million gallons of sewage into the Neshobe River last week.

This is the second time in a month that over a million gallons of wastewater has dumped into the river, which leads into Otter Creek and ultimately into Lake Champlain.

The most recent break occurred April 4-5 in two locations. At 500 Union St. over 1 million gallons of discharged treated and partially disinfected effluent spilled into the Neshobe, and at Mill Street and Conant Square 500,000-1 million gallons of discharged untreated sewage spilled into the river.

Less than a month earlier, on March 7, another spill of over a million gallons of raw sewage went into the Neshobe. Brandon Town Manager Dave Atherton then said the area around the pipe, down past Mill Lane almost to the post office, had eroded and exposed the 12-inch concrete sewer pipe, which dates back to the 1930s. The pipe was broken open in two places where it runs along the Neshobe between two manholes.

That pipe was repaired but the patch broke less than (See Brandon sewage, Page 10A)

Collitt added.

Dick Collitt was a banker living in suburban Philadelphia in 1976 when he saw the Ripton store advertised for sale in the Wall Street Journal. He and Sue went to check the place out. Two months later they and their two sons, Michael and Matthew, had moved into the apartment above the store.

“We just fell in love with it and bought it,” he said.

The previous two owners had parted with the property after only three years each. Some townspeople saw it as trend likely to be repeated.

“People were skeptical about our being able to stick with it,” Collitt said. “A lot of people at that time bought little country inns and stores, stuff like that, and they thought it would be cool to be in the boondocks. And a lot of those people didn’t stick.”

But the Collitts knew they wouldn’t be short-timers.

“We were here for the duration,” Collitt said of the couple’s dedication to the small enterprise that first opened in 1879. “We (See Ripton, Page 14A)

By the way Beeman Elementary School in New Haven will host a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony this Thursday, April 12, at 1 p.m., at (See By the way, Page 10A)

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Program connects Mt. Abe students, adults Weekly mentoring paying dividends

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS BRISTOL — “You know you changed my life, right?”

Short and sweet, these words spoken by a recent Mount Abraham Union High School graduate to his Starksboro mentor of 10 years capture the essence of mentoring programs.

The mission of the Mount Abraham Mentoring Program is to invest in, support and encourage healthy relationships between Mount Abe kids and adults. It’s a mission the program’s coordinator, Brenda McKean, feels is growing more important.

“We need to create a culture of mentoring,” McKean said in a recent interview. “Kids thrive. They have hope, they do better in school, they’re less likely to get involved in risky behaviors.”

In its fourth year, the Mount Abe program supports 18 mentor-student “matches,” who meet for a minimum of one hour per week, mostly outside of school in places like Cubbers, the bowling alley or the library, McKean said. A lot of matches also stay in touch through social media sites like Facebook.

These are not academic relationships, she stressed. They’re friendships, many of which were formed at the elementary school level, when kids are more likely to develop deeper and more sustained bonds with their mentors. A lot of care goes into that matching, McKean said.

In fact, it was an elementary school program that provided the model for Mount Abe. The Starksboro Mento-

ring Program was founded in 2005

by Robinson Elementary School counselor Amy Johnston and went on to become a huge success. It had one problem, though: It ended after sixth grade.

Recognizing the benefits of supporting mentor relationships right up to the moment of graduation, Johnston won approval from the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union to establish a program at Mount Abe and asked McKean, then one of her Starksboro mentors, to lead it.

Now McKean mentors other mentors, focusing especially on easing the transitions into middle school and high school.

“One of the most common concerns for mentors is feeling out of place once their mentees start seventh grade,” she said. “There is a lot of change at that age. Kids are deciding who they are.”

So in addition to providing training for mentors — on setting boundaries and developing healthy relationships — McKean provides them with opportunities to support one another. Mentors gather three times a year to share their wisdom and their worries.

“Mentors can be hard on themselves,” McKean said. “My job is to back them up and to help them stick with it.”

Starksboro resident Susan Klaiber is sticking with it. She’s been mentoring Izzy, a Mount Abe ninth-grader, for nine years.

“It’s rewarding to feel like I’m making a difference,” Klaiber told the Independent. “It feels great to have that relationship with a child, and it’s made me appreciate my own growing up a little more.”

In addition to navigating Google

IZZY, A MOUNT Abe ninth-grader, is in her 10th year with her mentor, Starksboro resident Susan Klaiber the two connected over crafts and seem to both gain from the relationship.

Independent photo/John S. McCright

Hangouts and attending her very first girls’ wrestling match, Klaiber has learned a lot about educational logistics and structure, especially the importance of fostering oneone-one relationships in school.

“Sharing in the life of a teen in this complex world has been instructive,” she said.”

Klaiber said she connected with Izzy through crafts.

“I would bring a ‘magic bag’ of art supplies and we would work on holiday crafts or other projects,” she said. A Mount Abe science class unit involving olive oil led to Izzy’s first small business. She sold homemade lip balm and soap products and used the proceeds to fund her Christmas shopping.

“She’s a little entrepreneur,” Klaiber said.

This year Klaiber began mentoring a second child, as well — a first-grader at Robinson Elementary.

“It’s a little bit like having substitute grandchildren,” the 72-year-old said with a laugh.

Although mentoring programs often focus on the benefits to children, McKean emphasized that there is great value for adults, as well. Mentors get opportunities for both professional and personal development.

McKean, a paraeducator at Mount Abe who has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, knows a thing or two about professional development.

Two resources she finds especially helpful are Burlington-based Mobius: Vermont’s Mentoring

Partnership, an umbrella organization that provides resources for the state’s mentoring programs, and the Search Institute, a research organization that studies and works to strengthen youth success in schools, youth programs, families and communities.

Mobius has been instrumental to Mount Abe’s success, McKean said, not least because it matches her organization’s fundraising up to $5,600 a year. The Mount Abe Mentoring Program receives no funding from the school district, so McKean organizes fundraisers throughout the year. On March 30, for instance, local band The Grift headlined an event at New Haven restaurant Tourterelle. About 75 people attended, McKean said.

The Search Institute has created what it calls the Developmental Relationships Framework, based on 70 years of research.

A March 22 article written by the Institute’s vice president for research and development, Gene Roehlkepartain, applies that framework to “March for Our Lives,” a national movement to end gun violence in schools and elsewhere: • Listen. “Rather than assuming we know what young people are thinking about the issue and why it matters to them, we need to hold the

space for them to tell us.”

• Respect. “To find their voices, young people need us to take them seriously and treat them fairly (even if we disagree with their position).”

• Navigate. “An important way adults (can support young people) is to help them figure out how to work through the system, challenge injustices, and try new approaches when one strategy doesn’t work.”

• Reflect on failures. “Working through setbacks sets young people up to continue being active participants in and contributors to civic life.”

• Collaborate. Adults sharing power instead of “taking over” helps young people “learn critical skills for working together to create impact.”

• Let me lead. “The power comes in young people’s own voice and leadership.”

Mentors in the Mount Abraham Mentoring Program must be at least 21 years old and commit to at least one hour per week for a minimum of one year. Online applications for interested 5-Town residents are available online at tinyurl.com/ yd6zdgxy. Program coordinator Brenda McKean can be reached at bmckean@anesu.org.

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent.com.

Authorities still probing woman’s death

HANCOCK — Police are trying to determine the circumstances around the death of a Middlebury woman whose lifeless body was discovered in the waters at Texas Falls in Hancock Monday afternoon.

A concerned citizen contacted Vermont State Police at around 5 p.m. on April 9 and reported a human body in the water at the Texas Falls Recreation Area of the Green Mountain National Forest. The falls are accessed via Texas Falls Road off Route 125 in Hancock.

Members of the Vermont State Police, U.S. Forest Service Police,

Hancock Volunteer Fire Department, Colchester Technical Rescue and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (assistant medical examiner) responded to investigate. By about 9 p.m. Colchester Technical Rescue Team members were able to recover a female body from the water located at the bottom of the falls just below the foot bridge that crosses the falls.

Police identified the woman as 35-year-old Kate E. Nicholson. Next were notified.

Nicholson’s body was sent to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Burlington for an autopsy. The

Addison County State’s Attorney’s Office was notified and assisted in the investigation.

As of Wednesday, the investigation into the cause and manner of her death is ongoing and pending autopsy results.

Anyone with any information regarding this incident is asked to contact the Vermont State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation-Troop B-East at 802-722-4600.

Det. Sgt. Eric Albright issued a press release on this investigation; Det. Trooper Daniel Bennett is also involved in the investigation.

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 12, 2018 — PAGE 3A

ACSD gets new business head Mediation set for Ferrisburgh, farmers Rutland Central manager hired

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District has a new business manager: Brittany Gilman, who currently serves in that capacity for the Rutland Central Supervisory Union (RCSU).

Gilman will officially begin her new job on June 1, taking over for Josh Quinn, who is stepping down to become an audit manager with a Maine-based accounting firm, RHR Smith & Co. Peter Burrows, Addison Central superintendent, said Gilman had the right credentials and emerged as the top candidate during interviews.

“Brittany comes to ACSD with significant experience in both accounting and business management leadership with a degree in accounting from Castleton State College, which will allow her to hit the ground running here in ACSD,” Burrows said.

“Brittany’s experience within education, her proven leadership of supervisory union fiscal

management and her background ACSD, which includes Middlebury in accounting made her an ideal fit Union Middle and High Schools to continue to build on the strong and the elementary schools in foundation that Josh helped us Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, create in ACSD.” Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Gilman’s talents go beyond Weybridge. numbers. She also “I am thrilled earned a bachelor to be joining the of arts in music team at ACSD,” performance with Gilman said a concentration in through an email. voice, during her “The welcome studies at Castleton I have already State. received has She’s served as been incredible, business manager and I am looking for RCSU since forward to hitJune of 2016. The ting the ground RCSU includes running. It is imProctor Jr./Sr. High mediately clear School and the that the team elementary schools here is dynamic in Proctor, Rutland and cohesive and and West Rutland.

I am excited to Prior to her stint be a part of that. with the RCSU, A d d i t i o n a l l y, Gilman worked the community BRITTANY GILMAN as an accounting support for the manager with The schools in ACSD Royal Group (2013-2016) and as is obvious and very encouraging.” an accounting clerk and recoding She added she’s enjoyed her secretary for the town of Castleton time with the RCSU, and is now (2012-2013). “excited for this new opportunity.”

In her new job, Gilman will be Reporter John Flowers is at the top numbers-cruncher for the johnf@addisonindependent.com.

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — Ferrisburgh town officials, the owners of the Vorsteveld Farm LLP, and representatives of both parties will sit down on April 27 with Middlebury mediator Michael Marks and try to resolve the dispute that arose when the farm a year ago hired a contractor to clear-cut trees and brush from a three-quarter stretch of Arnold Bay Road.

Ferrisburgh selectboard Chairman Rick Ebel earlier this week confirmed the meeting had been scheduled and said he hoped the process could produce a resolution with which both sides could be happy.

“The Ferrisburgh selectboard going into this is very hopeful,” Ebel said.

Neighbors complained to the board after the cutting, which was done along the east side of the road, heading north from the Panton town line, and removed a canopy from much of that stretch.

At issue is the fact the land in question is within the town road’s right of way, and according to Ferrisburgh officials the Vorstevelds had “public shade trees” removed.

A letter written to the farm owners by town attorney John Carroll cited law that he said meant the farm owners “as individuals and partners of Vorsteveld Farm, LLP, are subject to a fine of not more

than $500 for each tree so injured or removed, as well as an award of damages … for the trespass and removal of the shade trees, as well as other injunctive relief to assure that the damage caused is mitigated through a replanting plan.”

Per the letter, the contractor removed 306 shade trees with trunks at least 6-inch diameters and another 1,870 trees and shrubs along Arnold Bay Road.

The Vorstevelds maintain they were within their rights to remove what Hans Vorsteveld described as an “overgrown hedgerow,” something they had done to expand cropland and improve drainage.

Vorsteveld also said the work improved views from the road.

And another state statute, 19 V.S.A. § 901, on “Removal of roadside growth,” seems to suggest

a landowner along a road has rights.

It reads: “A person, other than the abutting landowner, shall not cut, trim, remove, or otherwise damage any grasses, shrubs, vines, or trees growing within the limits of a State or town highway, without first having obtained the consent of the Agency for State highways or the selectmen for town highways.”

Ebel said neighbors also should be considered when right-of-way ownership is not unique to one party.

“We share the right-of-way.

That’s the whole idea of it,” he said.

Ebel believes the April 27 gathering will move things forward.

“We’re hoping through mediation we can come up with some understanding, at least,” he said.

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

Supreme Court says no ‘attempt’ in Sawyer case

By COLIN MEYN, VT/Digger RUTLAND — The Vermont Supreme Court ruled this week that the alleged actions of a former Fair Haven High School student, who has been charged with plotting to shoot up the high school, do not meet the legal definition of “attempt.” On the basis of that finding, Jack Sawyer, 18, could be released from jail ahead of his trial.

The question of whether Sawyer’s actions — which police and prosecutors have said included keeping a journal outlining his plans, and buying a shotgun — amounted to an “attempt” has been a central issue in the early stages of the case.

Sawyer pleaded not guilty in February to four felony charges, including counts of attempted first-degree murder and attempted aggravated murder. The Supreme Court said the severity of the charges was not justified.

“The sole question before this Court is whether the evidence of guilt is great that defendant attempted to commit any of the four charged crimes given the definition of ‘attempt’ under Vermont law,”

judges wrote in their decision.

“We hold that the weight of the evidence is not great that defendant has committed any act or combination of acts that would satisfy Vermont’s definition of an attempt to commit any of the charged crimes. We reverse the trial court’s hold-without-bail order and remand for further proceedings,” the decision said.

The clearest precedent for whether Sawyer’s actions constituted an attempt under Vermont law is State v. Hurley, a hundred-year-old case in which a prisoner obtained the tools to saw his way out of jail but never actually started sawing. The courts ultimately decided that this did not constitute an attempt at an escape.

The decision was cited in motions

by Sawyer’s defense and state prosecutors during deliberations before the Rutland Superior criminal court.

“Just as the defendant in Hurley did not commit an attempt to break out of jail based on the mere possession of the hacksaws to saw through the jail window bars, defendant in this case took no action so proximate

to the commission of the school shooting as to constitute an attempt,” the judges wrote.

“Each of defendant’s actions was a preparatory act, and not an act undertaken in the attempt to commit a crime,” it said.

Rutland County State’s Attorney Rose Kennedy said she was “incredibly disappointed” by the decision, and the legal interpretation underlying it.

“The State believes that Mr. Sawyer did commit an ‘overt act’ in satisfaction of the attempt statute and as determined by the trial court judge. Nevertheless, the State respects the Supreme Court’s authority and is bound by its ruling,” she said in an emailed statement.

Judge Thomas Zonay, who is presiding over the trial, ruled last month that Sawyer could be held without bail, and that there was enough evidence for a jury to convict Sawyer of the charges against him.

Steps allegedly taken by Sawyer in planning the crime included buying a shotgun and ammunition in Rutland days before his arrest, doing target practice with the shotgun, securing

$500 in Bitcoin online currency to anonymously buy an AR-15 on the “dark web,” and researching the school’s calendar to pick a date, March 14.

“When considered in light of the evidence concerning his focus and commitment to conduct the shooting, as well as his past actions to accomplish a goal that he sets his mind to, absent the police interruption the Defendant’s acts were likely, if not assured, to end in the consummation of his crimes,” Zonay wrote.

The Supreme Court said that wasn’t enough to justify an attempt charge under Vermont law.

“Beginning with Hurley over a century ago, this Court has consistently held that preparation alone does not satisfy the high bar required to prove an attempt,” the judges wrote. “The Legislature can, if it chooses, deviate from this longestablished standard by passing a law revising the definition of attempt.”

Rack ’n Reel to add archery range

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS NEW HAVEN — Outdoor enthusiasts feeling the squeeze of short winter days will soon have reason to celebrate.

Rack ’n Reel Sporting Goods is adding an indoor archery range to its property at the junction of Routes 7 and 17 in New Haven.

The range has been part of the plan from the beginning, said Rack ’n Reel co-owner and New Haven resident John Kipp, who bought the property in 2014.

“You’re sitting on the couch at five o’clock. It gets dark at 4:30 in the winter. Where do you go? What do you do?” Kipp said. There is an indoor archery range in St. Albans, he added, “but sometimes you just don’t feel like getting home from work and turning around and driving a couple of hours.”

The 2,800-square-foot building will accommodate target practice for roughly eight to ten archers at a time, making it possible to create leagues and host tournaments.

Other things on tap for the new

The foundation is set for a 2,800-square-foot do-it-yourself building that will soon accommodate an archery range in New Haven.

building: hunter safety courses, fly-tying classes, birthday parties and other entertainment, especially events that will help get more kids involved in outdoor sports, he said.

“Get them off their cellphones and computers, and get them out in the woods,” Kipp said. “We’re open to suggestions.”

Assembly of the building, which is

a do-it-yourself component-built system by AmeriBuilt Steel Structures, is scheduled to begin in early April.

AmeriBuilt representative Michael Giorgio, who designed the building, said it would be “completely modern on the outside and completely oldschool on the inside.”

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent.com

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A DDIS ON INDE P E NDEN T

Letters

Editorials

to the Editor

Governor Scott is spot on

Assault weapons aren’t ‘Vt. way’

As Gov. Phil Scott courageously held a very public signing of three gun control measures that increase oversight and inspection but only modestly restrict gun access, gun right hecklers called him “traitor” and booed at the mention of his administration also allocating $5 million for school safety.

Scott turned on those hecklers, confronting them directly: “If you want to boo on that, go ahead and boo.”

Scott could say that knowing he has the public fully on his side. Indeed, he has the majority of Vermonters approving of the three bills he signed. Even a group of gun owners came out in support of Scott’s actions. But Scott wisely took it a step further in his prepared comments at the signing.

“Our national dialogue has been reduced to angry hateful social media posts that you can either like or not with no room for conversation or respect or disagreement and where facts and details no longer seem to matter,” Scott said, and then asked this pointed question: “Do we honestly think that the erosion of civility and respect of others in some way is unrelated to this type of violence and disregard for human lives we are seeing?”

Gun rights extremists and those who vehemently oppose gun rights need to think hard about that to be sure their anger and intolerance isn’t part of the problem. Civility is a lesson for all to learn — and practice.

I am a teacher in an Addison County school. I come from two very large families that needed hunting and nature to sustain them. I am familiar with guns and know how to shoot them. My founding families did not need assault weapons to put food on their table. If you feel that you need assault weapons to provide for your family maybe you need glasses and shouldn’t be driving, as well.

Assault weapons are not the Vermont way. I did not become a teacher to be able to carry weapon to work.

Beth Ekroos Bristol

Angelo Lynn

Wedding article unfair to singles

China rises as Trump falls Will Trump fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller? Can he? Or will Trump fire Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein so his successor can fire Mueller, as Rosenstein, a Republican appointed by Trump, has said he wouldn’t fire Mueller, another Republican, even if his boss, Trump, asked him. Would the obsequious Attorney General Jeff Sessions be allowed to stay? More importantly, will Robert Cohen, Trump’s fixer and one of his personal attorneys, take the fall for his boss or will he squeal in exchange for leniency?

These are the questions that dominate the news cycle in America because of the chaos the ethically challenged Trump conjures.

Meanwhile, on a more professional and strategic level, China is making convincing moves to become the world’s economic power and President Xi Jinping is projecting an image of himself as the stable, rational world leader of a new era that is largely absent of American leadership. While Trump is fuming and hurling angry tweets as he digests Fox news on cable television, President Xi is demonstrating every day how reasonable he can be and how willing he and China are to be the responsible arbiters of power in a world in which Trump’s America is increasingly seen as a bad actor led by an unstable and threatened autocrat.

Trump continues to see unprecedented turnover in his cabinet and staff (as well as his legal team), and Republicans in Congress, including House Speaker Paul Ryan’s announcement on Wednesday, are leaving what political analysts are calling “a sinking ship” as the 2018 mid-term elections near.

On the list of Trump’s few dubious accomplishments, Republicans weren’t able to repeal Obamacare but they weakened it and cut millions of Americans off sustainable health care insurance, and they passed a massive tax cut that grossly favors the rich and creates a burgeoning national deficit that is truly stunning in its hypocrisy after railing against deficit-spending during President Obama’s two-terms.

One thing Trump has right, is that he is doing “the unthinkable” — but not how he means it. Like any adroit dictator, he is systematically tearing down our checks and balances within the justice system, he is attempting to delegitimize his critics — the courts, Congress, law enforcement and, of course, the press — and he has so muddied the swamp with his ethically challenged cabinet choices and family members that we appear to the world to operate as an inept and corrupt third-world country.

And he’s only been in office 15 months. ********** But back to this week’s news about the FBI’s raid on Mr. Cohen’s office that Trump dubbed as an attack on our very country. Others see it differently.

The New York Times editorial put it this way: “Why don’t we take a step back and contemplate what Americans, and the world, are witnessing?

“Early Monday morning, F.B.I. agents raided the New York office, home and hotel room of the personal lawyer for the president of the United States.

They seized evidence of possible federal crimes — including bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance violations related to payoffs made to women, including a porn actress, who say they had affairs with the president before he took office and were paid off and intimidated into silence. That evening the president surrounded himself with the top American military officials and launched unbidden into a tirade against the top American law enforcement officials — officials of his own government — accusing them of “an attack on our country.”

Oh, also: The Times reported Monday evening that investigators were examining a $150,000 donation to the president’s personal foundation from a Ukrainian steel magnate, given during the American presidential campaign in exchange for a 20-minute video appearance.

Meanwhile, the president’s former campaign chairman is under indictment, and his former national security adviser has pleaded guilty to lying to investigators. His son-in-law and other associates are also under investigation.

This is your president, ladies and gentlemen. This is how Donald Trump does business, and these are the kinds of people he surrounds himself with.

Mr. Trump has spent his career in the company of developers and celebrities, and also of grifters, cons, sharks, goons and crooks. He cuts corners, he lies, he cheats, he brags about it, and for the most part, he’s gotten away with it, protected by threats of litigation, hush money and his own bravado. Those methods may be proving to have their limits when they are applied from the Oval Office. Though Republican leaders in Congress still keep a cowardly silence, Mr. Trump now has real reason to be afraid. A raid on a lawyer’s office doesn’t happen every day; it means that multiple government officials (of his own party), and a federal judge, had reason to believe they’d find evidence of a crime there and that they didn’t trust the lawyer not to destroy that evidence.”

What about the possibility of Trump’s problems going away if Mueller is fired? Won’t happen.

As Paul Waldman writes in the Washington Post: “Mueller didn’t raid Cohen’s office. Instead, the raid was conducted by the Southern District of New York… The privileged information (gathered) will then go to what’s sometimes referred to as a “taint team,” a group of Justice Department officials who will review it and decide whether it shows enough evidence of a crime that it falls outside attorney-client privilege. They will then pass that information on to a judge, who could then permit it to be used by Mueller, the U.S. Attorney’s office, the New York state attorney general, or the Manhattan district attorney. In other words, Cohen — and by extension, Trump — has to now worry about more than just Mueller.”

The poetic justice in what may come is bittersweet, spoiled by the damage done to the country and a once-reputable political party.

Angelo Lynn

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Sign of spring

THE BRANCHES ON this Middlebury tree are still bare, but buds are clearly visible. Can spring be far behind?

Independent photo/John S. McCright

Internet has changed curating rules Language evolves. You can find any number of interesting articles on words whose meanings have changed radically over time (“awful,” “clue,” “naughty,” are good examples). With the Internet insinuating itself into most aspects of our lives, slews of words have changed in the brief span of pre-internet time to internet-now: “troll,” “ping,” “handle,” “cloud,” “catfish,” “tablet,” “pad” come to mind.

“Curate” is the word on my mind today.

Not the noun, whose meaning is connected to the verb that has me in its grip — a curate being a member of the clergy whose job is the spiritual oversight and care of parishioners and lay-folk. But the verb, which means to select, organize and look after items in a cultural heritage institution,

By Kate say, a museum or a gallery, an archive Gridley or a collection. Curators, who are often specialists in a chosen field, work in such institutions with a mission to store and care for, preserve, and possibly exhibit items of interest. They educate and facilitate as well.

The Internet, more specifically social media, has had a profound influence on the meaning and use of “to curate” and on who now counts as a curator.

Up until now, curators have been educated in their chosen field, and by and large, are chosen for an area of expertise.

But in our digital world, land of social media, where we are experts on ourselves, we curate our public (and dare I say private) selves as we present to the world whatever it is we wish to present.

In some sense the notion that we curate what we present of ourselves is not new — it is just that the field of vision is potentially much larger. While what we chose to present of ourselves before was only evidenced by our peers, col-

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leagues and family members, now it can be out there for all the world to see (and hear and read).

So curators are no longer found only in museums, we are everywhere. And anything —absolutely anything — can be curated. We choose what to present and share online: via Face Book, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, Grinder, and online dating sites. Any place where the intentional crafting of an image or text is relevant, we curate what goes up.

Sometimes what comes down.

And anything can be curated: a concert can be curated, a wine list, a meal, heck, you can curate the napkins at a fancy party.

The young artists I know are masters of their own curation. Frequent postings are required: a new work, an account of process, evidence of progress, an observation, a description of a current mood, or emotion, a fleeting thought, it is all part of crafting one’s image — and then burnishing it.

Curating is all about creating buzz, getting the work “out there,” getting one’s self “out there,” generating interest.

A gallery owner recently said to me, “You have to do it all. The market has changed, and how people access an artist’s work has completely changed. The access can come from almost anywhere.”

Those of us who make art must therefore manage our image, our publicity, our sales. We must now all “do camera” which means photograph, create video, and edit sound and text as we upload and edit content on multiple digital platforms.

In New York recently, I had the pleasure of dining with two folks who do not use their computers for anything oth(See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Growing flax puts new spin on linen

This year, I’m growing flax. Not for flowers, not for board, two feet long by about five inches wide, with a flaxseed, but for fiber to make linen; you know, like they square section in the middle studded with an array of updid in the olden days. ward-pointing 3-inch iron spikes about a half-inch apart. I Humor me. This is the kind of thing I do. had to get a tetanus booster before I dared to look directly I’ve always had this weird fascination with learning at it. obsolete skills once used on the homestead. According I accepted it enthusiastically because I like anything old to my psychic, this isn’t surprising; in a past life I was and worn out (insert husband joke here) and anything that assistant manager of the Sturbridge Village gift shop. looks vaguely fiber-related. I just wasn’t sure what it was.

I just feel that, as a society, we’re too A quick Google search revealed it disconnected from history. I like to try to be a flax heckle (sometimes called things the old-fashioned way; it helps “hetchel,” because English used to be me learn about the past and makes me a lawless free-for-all). How sad that appreciate the easy life I have today. I I didn’t know what a flax heckle was don’t need to spin yarn, or make my for; just a century or two ago, any Verown beeswax candles, or render lard monter would have. And here was this over an open fire. I just like to. In other well-used, once-functional item that I words, your hell is my fun Saturday would have no opportunity to ever use.

By Jessie Raymond afternoon.

Unless, of course, I grew flax.

Nobody who lives in the 21st centuOnline, I found a vague but intimry (or who has the faintest semblance idating overview of the traditional of a social life) grows flax for fiber; most people don’t linen-making process: people would grow flax all summer even know this was once a thing. All I knew until recently and then, at harvest, pull up the plants by their roots and, is that for hundreds of years, pretty much every rural fam- weather permitting, let them dry. ily grew flax to make linen thread, which could be woven Then, over several weeks, they would go through a into rope or into cloth for sails, clothes and — obviously series of exhausting steps to break down the woody stems — linens. surrounding the long, nearly unbreakable fiber inside.

I wouldn’t have given flax another thought if, a few This involved rotting the stems in water or dew and then weeks ago, a friend hadn’t given me a mysterious antique re-drying them; scraping and smashing them with various tool. implements of torture; and telling them that they would The thing looked like a small bed of nails: a very old (See Raymond, Page 5A)

Around the bend

I am so offended by the article “What’s the etiquette when inviting singles to your wedding?” in the most recent “Wedding Planner,” that I feel compelled to write this letter.

Why the need to treat single people differently than couples?

Why would you want to make your single friends/family members feel “othered,” to feel like they are not as valued as married guests?

There’s a whole paragraph on “length of relationship” as a consideration for whether to allow them a guest. Why should it even be a consideration of whether someone is “unmarried” or in a relationship (however defined) and for how long?

Why is it just a courtesy to think of recently divorced or widowed guests, who “may not feel comfortable bringing a date along,” and thus “it may be worth the courtesy to allow these types of guests to bring someone along so they can feel more comfortable” (my emphasis added).

Why the emphasis on “date” with its implied meanings, and not simply “guest”? Why is it rude for someone single to bring a guest uninvited, but not considered rude of the hosts to not allow them that option?

It is courtesy to think of the comfort level of any of your guests just as you would consider their dietary needs, accessibility needs, etc. The emphasis in the article comes down to value, as in money. Is it worth the cost to allow an extra person?

If money is more of a consideration than a focus on the celebration by all of a wedding, there are so many other ways to save money. Is it more important to spend money on all those little party favors on the table that end up getting left behind? Is it more important to have an elaborate display of flowers when less or more simple ones would do?

Could you have a nice buffet (there’s always leftover food) instead of a full course sit down dinner? Beer and wine versus a full unlimited bar?

How about this simple advice: Make everyone you invite feel welcomed to bring another person, whether it be a spouse, partner, or someone else. Plan on the fact that some spouses/partners won’t be able to make it, some single people will come solo by choice or circumstance, and budget accordingly. Really, this is the 21st century!

Brenda Ellis Middlebury

Is it now time for ‘fair trade milk?’

Thank you for giving James Maroney the space needed to make a very well documented argument for transitioning to organic milk production in Vermont.

It appears that milk pricing at the farm gate is the great unknown and unsolved problem even in the world James imagines. Perhaps we need to recognize that the market economy is simply not able to currently solve this problem, absent a quota system as in Canada.

Could we not then address the issue of the economic viability of Vermont dairy farms by replicating Fair Trade mechanisms used to insure the sustainability of coffee and banana producers? If the public is willing to pay a premium to support farmers in distant Central and South American countries, might it not do the same for neighbors here in Vermont? Surely we can all relate to paying a small premium to preserve our iconic farms, a lifestyle that epitomizes New England values, and our landscape and waterways.

Perhaps one of the organic milk producers could market a special (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 12, 2018 — PAGE 5A

A bolt from the (Chevy) blue In the meantime, I like my SubIf you believe, as many of us do, that climate change means aru Legacy. It’s comfortable, and our children will live in a more loaded with technology designed dangerous and chaotic world, then to keep an occasionally inattentive at some point you’ve got to look in driver like me out of the ditch. It the mirror and wonder about the car gets 30 mpg and is partial zero emission. It appears to be able to you’re driving. see around corners, Transportation acwhich is especially nice counts for Vermont’s if you’re trying to back greatest contribution out of a parking space to climate change. onto 22A in downtown Carbon pollution Vergennes. from cars and (espeBut the all-gas-burncially) trucks means ing Legacy is like almost that for every hiseverything else on the torically destructive road: It still pumps out hurricane — think carbon dioxide.

Puerto Rico — every Start exploring driver is driving those the alternatives and storms to be a little you’ll enter a world bigger. of acronyms: ICE Combine worrying (internal combustion about climate change engine); PHEV (plug-in with a love of cars, hybrid vehicle), BEV and what do you get?

Apparently what by Gregory Dennis (battery-electric vehicle, more simply called an you get is the Chevy EV).

Bolt.

I bought my first (used VW Bug) At least that’s what I’ve concluded after many hours of online vehicle at Weybridge Garage in reading about hybrids, plug-ins 1970. Since then, I’ve never seen a and electric vehicles — doing the time when there were more choices work so you don’t have to. But also than there are today.

Even for the new class of plug-in because I’m obsessed with cars, hybrids — meaning most of them trucks and online shopping.

It’s true that driving is one cause can go more than 15 miles on of climate change. But we drivers battery alone — there are multiple can only occasionally wear that options.

You can, for example, get a particular crown of thorns.

Most of the time we want to hit hybrid plug-in with all-wheel drive: the open road. Or at least enjoy a the PHEV version of the Mitsubishi pleasant commute cocooned in our Outlander. Imagine that. An AWD little world, coffee in hand, weather vehicle that runs partly on greener, report on the radio and, at last, a few electric power.

Now here’s the bad news. Conminutes to ourselves.

The slow solution to vehicle pol- sumer Reports calls the Outlander lution has been for the government “outdated and outclassed” with to force manufacturers to produce a “buoyant” ride and clumsy handling. It has a transmission that higher-mpg conveyances.

But thanks to the Electoral “amplifies the engine’s howl.”

One of the pleasures of online veCollege, U.S. policy is now headed in the wrong direction. The Trump hicle shopping is the colorful prose Administration plans to roll back adopted by automobile writers. We policies that would improve gas used to say that only sports writers mileage and result in cleaner, got to work in the toy department. healthier air. Effective carbon taxes Apparently the auto press has remain a politically difficult dream, joined them. and we’re pumping out toxic tar Take Car and Driver’s assault on sands at a record rate. the Prius Prime.

But America is not an island, The Prime’s spirit animal must be and vehicle production is a global an anteater or platypus, the magaindustry. Even China is striving to zine said, calling the car “graceless, stem climate change, and there’s an gawky, and odd,” with a design so emerging shift to electric vehicles. off-putting “it’s almost an anti-car Volvo, for example, plans to go statement” that looks like “a protest all-electric. against taste.”

Between The Lines

Its basic Prius predecessor, the magazine said, was “obviously designed by people on psychotropic drugs.” The Prime’s one saving grace? “At least when you’re in it, you can’t see it.”

But for those of us who value car prose that is both funny and informative, the king of snark is Dan Neil, of the Wall Street Journal. To read him is to wish you could drive all the cars he gets to sample, while realizing you’d never be able to describe them as entertainingly as he does.

Neil, for example, loves operating the gear selector on the BMW i3, because it’s “like turning the right bolt on Frankenstein’s neck.”

Which brings us back to the Chevy Bolt.

While Tesla expects people to make a down payment and wait 18 months for an all-electric car (the Model 3) that nets at just under $30K, Neil points out that GM already has the Bolt on the market.

(Which is, to clear up the frequent confusion, a different car than the hybrid Chevy Volt.)

In a review that should be pasted to the wall of every Chevy showroom, Neil called the diminutive, all-electric Bolt “a absolute hoot in the sack” and “the Prozac of range anxiety.”

With a range of 238 miles on a full charge, he wrote, “If I owned a Bolt I’d charge it about as often as I take the family van to the gas station. And the bathrooms at home are cleaner.”

The Bolt is so fast from a dead stop, he said, it “should come with a traffic attorney on retainer.”

And here’s where things get really interesting: For a general audience, Neil concluded that electric vehicles offer a better driving experience than internal combustion engines, “no matter how much Big Oil spends propagandizing against electric cars or if gasoline goes back to 30 cents a gallon.”

But trying to buy a car online is like trying to find true love on an Internet dating site: You’ll never know what that person is really like until you take them out for a spin.

OK, I’m ready for a test drive.

Gregory Dennis’ column appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at gregdennis. wordpress.com. Email: gregdennisvt@yahoo.com. Twitter: @ greengregdennis.

Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) er than occasional email communications, word processing, data retrieval and storage. Barely any Internet. One, a scientist at Rockefeller University, only puts his phone on when he is expecting a call from his wife. He never shops online. He barely uses his search engines. And the camera on his computer is covered. No one can track him. The other, an author, never shops online, barely ever uses research engines, and emails only sporadically.

No social media ever. What are they curating? In the digital world, they wish NOT to exist.

I find their attitude refreshing.

I have younger friends, painters, who share every mood shift, every experiment in paint, the preparation of canvasses, their food, their social gatherings, what they look at in museums, with photos and text.

Are they/we sharing truth?

I know we create truths. But truths, like words, are alive, and shape shifting. If my young brilliant artist friend’s marriage is in trouble, is that evident in the paintings posted, the poetic musings about life and happiness?

Or should I read into the evidence of weight lost in a selfie portrait, the sudden absence of a family member in

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photos that are re-curated and rushed back into the public eye? As in any form of deep reading, I believe we read into what is curated and what is not, and we wonder what is real and what is not?

Curating is, after all, choosing what to present, which means it is also about choosing what NOT to present.

A means to an end — whatever that might be: an idea, a product, or an experience. Is the medium itself ever the message? Have we become too precious if we speak of curating napkins at a party, rather than the fact that the food products curated for the shelves of the specialty food shop are too expensive for many to buy? What are we choosing to believe if the kid who does not yet have a job announces on social media that they have become a philosopher and then assiduously

curates a believable facsimile of this persona?

How do we know what we know?

What do we think we know?

It seems that media literacy — in an age of fake news — is more important than ever.

How do we decipher what has become a consuming social construct?

And how do issues of truth and privacy overlap?

To wish to connect is human. To wish for transparency and truth is human.

To hope for understanding is human. I feel a bit at sea with the digital possibilities.

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

Condorcet: A Tale of Two Revolutions

Editor’s note: This is the tenth let loose the irresistible force of in a series of essays about political revolution; it was inevitable that it liberalism and conservatism and the would move next to France. He was not mistaken. two-party system.

In fairness to the government

BY VICTOR NUOVO Condorcet, a leading philosopher in of France, Louis XVI was not a the French Revolution, believed that tyrant, nor was he or his ministers he was living in a revolutionary age ignorant of the needs of reform and of strategies to achieve — the “rights of man,” of it. The king was aware life, liberty, equality and of the increasing social property had so caught unrest, and he was fire in the minds of persuaded that he must people that they could no act to relieve it. It was longer ignore or endure his right and duty. the oppressive wrongs of Therefore, he their governments. convened a national He viewed the assembly, the Estates American and French General. An estate is revolutions in this a social class. This light and saw a causal assembly was made up connection between of delegates from three them. He celebrated Liberalism vs classes: the nobility, the the heroic victory of the American colonies Conservatism clergy and the middle class — the poor and against the great imperial An essay by the peasantry were power of Great Britain, excluded; their time had and he was certain that Victor Nuovo it would embolden other Middlebury College not yet come.

The assembly’s task peoples to do the same. professor emeritus was to propose a new In France, the of philosophy constitution for the conditions were ripe for nation. There was an revolution. It was, he expectation among the thought, a country that was at once the most enlightened moderate members of the assembly and the most enslaved, whose that this would lead to the formation philosophers “had reached the highest of a constitutional monarchy and level of intellectual achievement,” a mixed constitution, like the one but whose government “was sunk established in Great Britain after in the deepest and most intolerable the Glorious Revolution of 1688.

The king was agreeable to this, but ignorance.”

The American Revolution had neither he, nor his supporters in the

assembly, nor his ministers were able to achieve it.

The assembly remade itself into a constitutional convention and revised its membership; the number of delegates of the third estate (the middle class) was doubled, so that it equaled the combined membership of the clergy and nobility, and a decision was made to vote not by estate but by individual delegate; moreover, the lower clergy, parish priests, sided with the third estate. Thus the means were in place for a more popular and hopefully peaceful revolution.

But the situation became unstable, society had become unsettled, and the king was unsure how to respond to it. He vacillated between conciliation and intimidation and failed at both, and, when all seemed lost, he attempted to flee the country, was captured and returned under arrest to Paris. He was deposed, tried, convicted, sentenced to death, and, on January 21, 1792, he was guillotined.

There followed a series of coups and counter-coups, assorted power plays, popular uprisings, mob violence, and an official reign of terror, whose victims included Condorcet, and not long after him, his accuser, Robespierre. This unhappy sequence of events ended in November 1799 in a coup.

A new constitution was adopted or imposed, and Napoleon assumed leadership as “first Consul” of France. The title of consul was of (See Nuovo, Page 7A)

Raymond (Continued from Page 4A) never amount to anything and that everyone was embarrassed to be seen with them.

Once they had thrown their backs out reducing the flax stems to bundles of emotionally damaged but intact fiber several feet long, they’d switch to a new grueling process: dragging the strands through a series of ever-finer flax heckles (like mine!), until the fiber became smooth and hairlike. At this point, if they had any remaining energy (or upper-body strength), they’d spend the winter spinning the fiber into linen thread and then weaving it into cloth.

It sounds like a ridiculous amount of work for a dish towel or two. I can’t wait to try it.

Upon reading this, you may have thought of how today, with just a few clicks, you can get factory-produced dish towels for $1.99 apiece (including free two-day shipping), which seems like a better deal than 10 months of unrelenting labor.

I, on the other hand, immediately ordered a large packet of flaxseed, which I found on an obscure website

JESSIE’S NEW ANTIQUE flax heckle has inspired her to take on another ridiculously strenuous and time-consuming task from the 19th century.

for people who refuse to accept that certain practices went out of fashion for a reason.

Resources about growing and processing flax, however, are hard to come by, and I think I know why: The last people to process flax probably burned all of their books and tore

up their notes so future generations would never have to endure what, for them, was a grueling part of an already rough life.

Yet here I am, hoping to recreate their hard labor just for fun.

This, in case you missed it, is the kind of thing I do.

where our food comes from and the choices we make as consumers.

James Maroney’s proposal is well thought out, but it will take several years to implement. Meanwhile farmers and Vermonters need an

immediate solution before more farms vanish. And perhaps “Fair Trade Milk” is part of the long term solution as well.

Randy Kritkausky Whiting

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) sub-brand of “Vermont Organic Fair Trade Milk.” I can imagine a carton that simply notes “Good Cents for the Farmer, Good Sense for the Environment.” Such a carton might also stimulate much needed breakfast table discussions about

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Obituaries

Barbara Fitz-Gerald, 86, Waltham

WALTHAM — Barbara M. FitzGerald, 86, died Monday, April 9, 2018 at the Myrick Care Home in Bristol.

She was born Sept. 15, 1931 in Newport, Vt., the daughter of Ralph E. and Ada Alberta (Gage) Reed.

Barbara spent the summers growing up in Shaftsbury on her grandparent’s farm, which was a very important part of her life.

She was a graduate of Essex Junction High School class of 1948 and the University of Vermont with a Bachelors Degree.

Barbara married Gerald “Tim” Fitz-Gerald in Essex Junction on August 30, 1952. The couple moved to Michigan and then Ohio, returning back home to Vermont in 1969 and establishing Fitz-Gerald Antiques.

She was an avid bridge player receiving the life Master certificate in 1993 and achieving the rank of Silver Life Master in 2001 from the American Contract Bridge League.

She also enjoyed traveling the world with her brother Morrison and sisterSTANISLAW E. PIETKIEWICZ in-law Shirley.

She is survived by her children; Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home Ruth Gould and husband Doug, in Middlebury, Vt., with internment of Addison and Ralph Fitz-Gerald in New Bedford, Mass. In lieu of and wife Teri, of Monkton; by her flowers, consider a donation in his name to either Homeward Bound at homewardboundanimals.org or 236 Boardman Street Middlebury, VT 05753, or Addison County Home EVANSVILLE, Tenn. — Louis Health & Hospice, ACHHH.org, Breo, formerly of Middlebury, died or P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT unexpectedly of natural causes on April 05753.◊ 9, 2018. He was living in Evansville,

Stanislaw Pietkiewicz, 92, Bristol BRISTOL — Stanislaw E. Pietkiewicz, 92, attended by his wife, passed away peacefully at home on April 6, 2018, after a short illness. Son of Edward and Katarzyna (Lakawa) Pietkiewicz, he grew up in New Bedford, MA. He was in the Merchant Marines during WWII, was a commercial fisherman, then worked for many years at Continental Screw Co. and Morse Twist Drill. After attaining his teaching credentials, he ended his working years as a devoted teacher at New Bedford’s Middle schools.

He was a member of the American Legion and a past member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary. His hobbies of model trains, salt water fish and working on projects in his workshop gave him many hours of enjoyment.

His true joy was his RV-ing around the country and camping with the Otter Valley Sams.

He is survived by his loving wife, Marilyn, his sister Josephine, and daughters Donna (and Jack) Johnson, and Kathie Pietkiewicz; and step-children Steven (and Sherri) Gadbois, Marilyn Gadbois, Donna Drouin, and Lee (and Tim) Loisel, as well as many grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Services were held on April 11, at

Louis Breo, formerly of Middlebury

John Rizner, 88, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — John A. Rizner, 88, died peacefully Friday, April 6, 2018 at Helen Porter Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Middlebury with family at his bedside.

He was born on April 10, 1929, in Worcester, Mass., the youngest of six sons, to John J. Rizner and Anna (Knapp) Rizner.

After working several months as a stock clerk/cashier at Thomas’ Variety store in Dudley, Mass., he enlisted with some buddies in the U.S. Army at the age of 17, with his parent’s approval, to help the WWII efforts.

He received his GED while in the military and traveled the world serving our country. He began as an orderly at Osaka (Japan) General Hospital in 1946, then to a MASH unit and U.N. prisoner of war camp in Korea, and back to Osaka Hospital until 1953. It was at that hospital that he met and married his devoted wife, Tsumiyo, also known as “Mickey.” They then moved to Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md., where his oldest son, Ray, was born. The couple moved back to Japan for the birth of their last two sons, Gene and Mike, before moving the full family stateside to Fort Riley, Kan. While based in Kansas, John was deployed to Berlin, Germany during the Cold War and later in Vietnam with the 1st Infantry Division (The Big Red One). In 1966, John and his family were relocated for the final time to Middlebury, where he served his last two years of military duty as an assistant professor of military science with ROTC at Middlebury College. He retired at the rank of First Sergeant in 1968 with 22 years of active service.

He retired from the payroll department at Simmonds Precision in Vergennes, and dabbled in several ventures including selling ads for WFAD radio and helping his two sons and Mike’s wife, Nancy, at The Whiting Country Store. Later, he drove school buses for Bet-Cha student transit in the Salisbury area.

He loved watching the Red Sox and Patriots, golf, fishing and deer hunting. He volunteered his time as

grandchildren Jennifer GouldDunbar and husband Klancy, Timothy Gould and wife Amanda, Dr. Gwendolyn Fitz-Gerald-Gravelie and husband J.T., Dr. Jillian FitzGerald and Spencer Fitz-Gerald; by her great grandchildren Kallen, Theodore and Anderson; and by several nieces and nephews and her sister-in-laws Geraldine (Bonnie) Claren and Shirley Reed.

She was predeceased by her parents and her husband Gerald “Tim” Fitz-Gerald on Sept. 11, 2007 and by her brother Morrison Reed.

Funeral Services will be held on Sunday, April 22, at 2 p.m. at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Vergennes, with the Rev. Alan Kittelson as the celebrant.

Burial will be in Sunset View Cemetery in Waltham.

Memorial contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice at P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753, to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church at 6 Park Street, Vergennes, VT 05491 or to the American Cancer Society at P.O. Box 42040, Oklahoma City, OK 73123 Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

JOHN A. RIZNER an ambulance driver, was a founding member of the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association, a greeter at Porter Hospital, and was commander at American Legion Post 27. His pickup truck had a snowplow for offering free clearing of drifts for neighbors and friends.

He is survived by his sons; Eugene and his partner Rita Easter and their son, Andrew, of Brandon, and Ray of Brandon; grandsons Everett of Middlebury, Stephen and Sarah and great grandson Ronin of Essex Junction, and Matthew and Kathryn of Stamford, Conn.; brother Harold, of Dudley, Mass.; and many caring nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his wife Tsumiyo “Mickey” Ishita Rizner, his son Michael, brothers James (his twin), Albert, George and Edward.

Visiting hours will be held on Saturday, April 14, from 9-11 a.m., at Sanderson Ducharme Funeral Home in Middlebury. Graveside service will follow at 11:30 a.m. at Holman Veteran’s Cemetery in Salisbury, Vt. Memorial contributions may be made to Elderly Services Project Independence at 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. The family acknowledges the wonderful care at Helen Porter Memory Care.◊

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Tenn., when he passed. He leaves his siblings in Florida and Virginia and many friendships he created in his travels. He served in the U.S. Navy.

Marguerite ‘Peg’ Holdman, 90, Middlebury, MIDDLEBURY — Marguerite “Peg” S. Holdman, 90, of Middlebury, Vt., passed away at home surrounded by members of her family on April 10, 2018. Born in Arlington, Vt., she was the daughter of William Oscar and Bessie Louise Labadie Secoy.

Peg grew up in various communities in Vermont and graduated from the Middlebury High School. In 1948 she married Maurice “Moose” Provoncha. He passed in 1968. She married William P. Holdman in 1972.

She was a secretary for Middlebury College for over 25 years.

She was also a key factor, with her husband, in the development of the William P. Holdman Inc. Trucking Company, a milk transport firm that grew from a single small milk truck to a firm of over 38 trailers and 62 people. It served the milk and dairy business all over the northeast. Peg was an avid reader, excellent cook and she dearly loved her family and many friends.

Surviving her are her daughters Marcia Provoncha of New Haven, Vt., Mary Provoncha of Greybull, Wyo., and her son, Charles Provoncha of Minneapolis, Minn. Also surviving are step-children Jane Smith of Brandon, Vt., Sally Holdman Bellavance of Hardwick, Vt., Joan Breen of Ocala, Fla., and Susanne Holdman of Bridport, Vt. and a sister, Doris Fisher of Arlington, Vt. She is also survived by 15 grandchildren

MARGUERITE ‘PEG’ HOLDMAN and 14 great grandchildren along with many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her husbands, as well as her son Joseph Provoncha and step-son Steven Holdman, and her brothers Paul Secoy and Roger Secoy.

A private graveside service and burial will be held in June 2018 in the Seeley District Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers, contributions to Addison County Home Health and Hospice Inc. would be welcome; P.O. Box 764, Middlebury, VT 05753.◊

Carol Lewis, 77, formerly of New Haven WILLISTON — Carol Pearson Lewis, 77, passed away in her sleep on the night of Monday, April 2, 2018.

She was born Nov. 3, 1940. She grew up on a farm in New Haven, Vt., and began making dear friends. She left the farm and graduated from Champlain College, where she met and married Donald Lewis. They raised two sons, Ken and Tim, in Shelburne.

She became a secretary at the Shelburne Elementary School, where she made friends who loved her for her entire life. Years later, she left the school and became a secretary at the Eleanor M. Luse Center at the University Of Vermont. She scheduled clients to help them be able to hear and speak more clearly. She watched after the professors and students in a professional manner and made more lifelong friends.

She joined the Vermont Association Of Educational Office Professionals and she and Don went to many national conventions all around the United States. She became the president of the Vermont chapter and made more lifelong friends. She later became a secretary at Wake Robin and watched after residents who were entering the final chapters of their lives.

After she retired, she volunteered in the Emergency Room at the UVM Medical Center. She also volunteered as a spirit at The Flynn Theater until cancer made it impossible to serve.

She battled cancer several times and went through surgery on her tongue and chemotherapy when she had breast cancer. She joined a cancer support group and made more lifelong

friends. Whenever she would hear of anyone battling cancer she would give them a Big C Survival kit to ease their burdens.

She was a deeply religious woman and attended the Methodist Church in Shelburne and the Williston Federated Church, and made more lifelong friends. She sang in the choir and played organ over the years. She and Don expanded their faith in weekend retreats such as Cursillos and Walk To Emmaus. She and Don taught courses in making decisions in local prisons.

They would invite prisoners into their home for holiday dinners in hopes of showing them that they could have normal lives. Some of the people they worked with became exemplary citizens.

Her brother David and husband Don passed away in 2015 and she gracefully became the family matriarch. She loved to travel and took many bus trips, some with her sons and some with her many friends. The cancer returned in the fall of 2017.

She fought through radiation therapy, but the cancer continued to spread.

In February of 2018 she entered the VNA Respite House where she was well cared for. Her many visitors almost inundated the wonderful staff.

She spent her final weeks in comfort and peace. She will be missed dearly by her family and an army of friends.

A service to honor her memory will be held at the Williston Federated Church at 11 a.m. on April 21. Instead of flowers, send a donation to The Vermont Youth Conservation Corps, which was near and dear to her heart.◊

Gov. Scott signs three gun laws amid cheers, protests at statehouse Vt. Republican governor acts rather than waits

improvements. Scott addressed them directly: “If you want to boo on that, go ahead and boo.”

Scott said he was “jolted” two months ago by details released in court records in the case of Jack Sawyer, who is accused of planBy ALAN J. KEAYS ning a mass shooting at Fair Haven VTDigger.org MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Union High School. During a press Scott took to the Statehouse steps conference the week of that arrest, Wednesday to sign into law three the governor said “everything’s bills that make historic changes to on the table” when it came to gun state gun statutes. As he walked out restrictions that he believed would in front of the crowd, gun rights protect children and the public at large against mass activists shouted shootings. “traitor,” while The thwarted s u p p o r t e r s “Today we choose action school shooting of new legal over inaction, doing restrictions on something over doing spurred an aboutfirearms coun- nothing, knowing there face by Scott on gun tered, “thank will always be more work issues. During the to do, but today we chose 2016 election and you.”

Those chants to try.” the 2017 legislacontinued — Gov. Phil Scott tive session, Scott intermittently showed no interest throughout his in making changes 25-minute speech. The Republican to the state’s gun laws. The govergovernor, who as a candidate nor’s about-face set off calls of opposed new gun laws, put his betrayal from gun rights groups signature on the three bills shortly who supported him when he was after 2 p.m. elected to his first term in office.

The governor began his speech Early in the legislative debate, talking about how his stance on Scott said he was open to even the gun control changed two months most controversial provision in ago after he read details in the case the bill — a ban on high-capacity of an 18-year-old Poultney man magazines. That position opened accused in a foiled school shooting the way for the landmark legislation to move swiftly through the plot.

“We had a close call,” he said. Statehouse.

Two of the bills, S.221 and “But just like the ones we all H.422, which allow experience in our law enforcement own lives, like to seize firearms a near miss on “Our national dialogue in certain situathe highway, we has been reduced to tions from those say to ourselves angry hateful social ‘I’ll never do that media posts that you can deemed dangerous again.’ This is one either like or not with no or charged with of those moments room for conversation or domestic assault, both gained broad where as a state respect or disagreement we have the oppor- and where facts and support in the tunity to do things details no longer seem to D e m o c r a t i c a l l y matter.” controlled House differently.”

As detractors — Gov. Phil Scott and Senate.

The third bill, jeered, the goverS.55, set off nor said he realized the political consequences of protests and pleas to the governor that change. “Many who voted for from gun rights supporters to veto me are disappointed and angry. I the legislation. Few Republicans understand I may lose support over voted for it.

Supporters of S.55 say the legismy decision to sign these bills today, but those are consequences lation’s provisions are aimed at I’m prepared to live with,” he said. taking guns out of the hands of “Today we choose action over people who shouldn’t have them inaction, doing something over and reduces the “lethality” of firedoing nothing, knowing there will arms in potential violent situations.

Opponents of the bill said many always be more work to do, but today we chose to try,” Scott said. of its provision are unenforceable, In the middle of his speech, Scott ineffective, and in some cases, spoke more broadly about the dete- unconstitutional, setting the stage rioration of discourse in America, for possible challenges in court. and how anger Provisions of S.55 was contributinclude: • Expands backing to a rise in “Do we honestly think that the erosion of civility ground checks to violence. private sales. The bill “Our national and respect of others in dialogue has some way is unrelated to requires the seller and buyer to go to been reduced this type of violence and to angry hate- disregard for human lives a federally licensed firearms dealer to ful social media we are seeing?” posts that you — Gov. Phil Scott conduct that check.

• Raises the age to can either like purchase a firearm or not with no room for conversation or respect or to 21, with exceptions for law disagreement and where facts and enforcement and military persondetails no longer seem to matter,” nel as well as those under 21 who complete a hunter’s safety course.

Scott said.

• Limits magazine size for “Do we honestly think that the erosion of civility and respect of handguns to 15 rounds and 10 for others in some way is unrelated to rifles. Magazines over those limits this type of violence and disregard that people already possess are for human lives we are seeing?” he “grandfathered,” or exempt from the legislation. said.

• Bans bump stocks, devices Orange-clad protesters heckled the governor after he mentioned that speed up the firing ability of a that the state would be invest- gun. ing $5 million in school safety

Vergennes Food Shelf asking for help to feed those in need VERGENNES — The Vergennes will earn $500 from the Supreme Food Shelf is in need of supplies to Council of Knights of Columbus, fill its pantry so it can provide strug- which will be donated to the gling families with much-needed Vergennes Area Food Shelf as well. meals. In an effort to help, the Last December the Knights’ and St. Vergennes Council of the Knights Peter’s “Christmas Food Boxes” of Columbus project weighed is spearheadin at over 2,400 ing a “Food pounds of turkey The Knights of for Families” with all the Columbus are campaign in coopfixings as the first spearheading a eration with the part of the “Food ‘Food for Families’ for Vergennes Rotary Families” Club, and local yearly program. campaign.

Boy Scouts.

Non-perishable Members of items such as each of the three organizations canned meals, baked beans, will be at Shaw’s Supermarket spaghettios, ravioli, and similar and Kinney Drugs in Vergennes items, any canned fruit and vegeon Friday, April 13, from 3 to 7 tables, soups (no tomato or chicken p.m. and Saturday April 14, from noodle please), evaporated milk, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to collect powdered milk, potatoes, carrots, squash, tooth brushes, toiletry donations.

This cooperative effort will round items and cash donations will be out the Knights’ yearly project that accepted.

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Mr. Lynn, Legislature miss the boat on agriculture

Letters to the Editor Vermont’s gun safety law will not achieve its purpose The unfortunate passage of S-55 and soon to be signed by Gov. Scott is nothing more than a feel good law. This will please the liberals who think that this law will change/reduce gun violence in this State and Country. Fortunately for Vermont, although we have some gun violence, we are by far very low on the scale compared to many States. Many of those states, such as Illinois, New York, and Massachusetts have some of the strictest gun laws but have the highest homicide and gun violence rates. So clearly the laws are not working.

But lets be very clear, this new law will only affect responsible gun owners because irresponsible people and criminals are not going to follow the rules.

This will not deter anyone who is trying to hurt, kill or commit another type of crime involving a weapon. If they can’t use a gun they will find other methods that have been in the news, such as knives, cleavers, bombs, cars, trucks, and chemicals.

I have been a responsible gun owner since I purchased my first gun in a private sale when I was 16. I was taught by my father and then as a police officer learned and practiced gun safety, responsibility,

target and background awareness, retention and protection. I am a hunter and enjoy target shooting.

None of the new law will affect me other than the bump stock, which I don’t have a problem with.

I will still own many high capacity magazines. I will still continue to buy them thru multiple sources, however this wont help the gun businesses in Vermont.

I will never seek a background check on a person who might buy a gun from me, I know my friends well enough that if I was concerned about them buying a gun I wouldn’t sell it to them. I still haven’t figured out how the State thinks they will enforce this.

How will they know when private sales occur?

The 21-year-old requirement is only going to make underage buyers go to someone who is over 21, go to a different state or buy it privately. This is no different than the 21-year-old drinking age and we all know how unsuccessful that is.

I am disappointed that Gov. Scott campaigned saying he would not sign or advocate for any new gun laws. He will not get my vote in the future. This is only hurting responsible gun owners, gun businesses, shooting competitions,

gun shows and other businesses that would benefit such as stores, hotels, motels and restaurants.

The incident in Parkland is tragic however there were a lot of failures that led to the loss of life but the main focus has been on the gun. The gun doesn’t work without a human pulling the trigger. Not to mention the failure of ignored intelligence and police failing to act immediately. As tragic as that event is it did not happen in this State. The passage and signing of this bill is only going to disillusion both students and adults because it will not deter gun violence.

We have thankfully never had a school shooting. The incident in Essex several years ago was before the start of the school year, there were no students and it was a result of a domestic situation. Had the victim not worked at the school it would not have happened there?

It concerns me that this is just the first step in trying to limit the type of guns we can own. There already is a law that prohibits automatic weapons. Unfortunately the liberals that know nothing about guns think that an AR15 is an automatic weapon based on how it looks not how it works.

Tonya Lawyer Bristol

In Thomas Jefferson’s day, America’s — and by extension, Vermont’s — preeminent occupation was agriculture. But in the 1820’s, the opening of the Erie Canal, which would provide a far more efficient link between western farms and eastern markets, adumbrated the future prospects of food production in the relatively inhospitable soil and climate of Vermont.

The coming of the railroads in the mid-nineteenth century furthered the home industry’s decline and the huge federally funded water reclamation projects like the Hoover Dam in the 1930s drove one more nail into its coffin.

The introduction in the aftermath of WWII of toxic chemical substances to replace the ages-old methods for achieving soil fertility and weed control would give western agriculture one last insurmountable advantage and sound the death knell for conventional New England farming.

Except for the last, these facts were salient by 1938. Today Vermonters import about 95 percent of their food from the west or Midwest and there is no reason to expect that this will change. But facts did not dissuade the satraps in Montpelier from commissioning Statehouse Sergeant of Arms Dwight Dwinell to carve a graven image — the Hebrew word for an idol — of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture that they would cause

to be hoisted to the pinnacle of the statehouse, where for eighty years she would represent an ideal we hold in highest esteem.

Mr. Lynn does not find persuasive my argument that Vermont agriculture is rotten and should be replaced. He faults my proposal (Addison Independent April 5, 2018) that the state should withdraw its support from “conventional” dairy, Vermont’s preeminent form of agriculture, and shift its support to organic, a socially, environmentally and economically friendlier paradigm.

Neither does he find any irony in the fact that on April 1 (April Fool’s Day), the same day that I was writing my article — an article he had invited me to write and for which he offered me a full page — the Vermont legislature had commissioned a rigger to remove Dwinell’s sculpture from its perch atop the statehouse because it too was rotten. Neither does Mr. Lynn see any irony in the fact that when evidence is clearer than ever before that Vermont’s support for conventional agriculture has not met its objectives but has produced very problematic ones instead, the legislature plans to commission a new graven image of Ceres to take this one’s place.

Mr. Lynn finds my policy prescription “vexing” because, he says, it does not “fit every farm,” because there is not “a viable market if every conven-

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tional operation were to move to [organic]” and because “many small, conventional dairy farms would need to be culled.” I don’t know how he could possibly have missed them but I provide clear and brief answers to these objections in my article.

More to the point, Mr. Lynn appears not to understand that the state has no duty to support industry, and fixing conventional farming’s failing business model was not the problem I set out to solve. The state has a duty, an absolute duty, to protect the commons and this duty the state has consistently subordinated to agriculture, a pretty clear example of putting one’s cart before one’s horse. Accordingly, my objectives were first to help Vermont attain its water quality standards and second to reform agriculture so that it could become profitable and non-polluting. I have these goals in the right order and I stand by my prescription for attaining them.

I think before Vermont’s legislators hoist up another graven image to the pinnacle of the statehouse, where it will spend the next century representing Vermont’s highest ideals, they should perhaps think about how to represent a legislative body that seems unable to admit to a mistake it is apparently in danger of making again.

James Maroney Leicester

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(Continued from Page 5A) complete, more entire than that of Roman ancestry, signifying the America, and of consequence was head of government, with supreme attended with greater convulsions in executive power. So it could be said the interior of the nation, because the that the French Revolution began Americans, satisfied with the code of with a rebirth of freedom and ended civil and criminal legislation which in a military coup d’état. they had derived from England, In spite of the continuity that having no corrupt system of finance Condorcet supposed existed between to reform, no feudal tyrannies, no the two hereditary revolutions, he distinctions, was also aware “The American no privileges of differences Constitution was designed of rich and between them, powerful and he was to manage competing corporations, too honest an interests by combining no system intellectual to them in a system that of religious ignore them. intolerance to The American could become adversarial destroy, had R e v o l u t i o n without becoming divisive. only to direct was not all attention Condorcet worried that this their sweetness to the and light. balancing act of diverse establishment Nevertheless, interests was inimical of new from the Battle powers to be of Lexington to the achievement of substituted in to the British full equality, for once the place of surrender at the special interests of those hitherto Yo r k t o w n , exercised or from the competing groups are over them by Declaration of balanced and secure, they the British Independence could and probably would government. to the U.S. In these Constitution, continue to enjoy them, innovations the founders while ignoring the universal there was of the nation nothing that rights of the people.” were able extended to to maintain the mass of a relatively steady course. As the people, nothing that altered the Condorcet saw it, the colonies had subsisting relations formed between only to win their independence to individuals: whereas the French achieve their revolutionary purpose. revolution, for reasons exactly the They were already well practiced in reverse, had to embrace the whole governing themselves. economy of society, to change In contrast, he saw that the French every social relation, to penetrate had to remake their civil society from to the smallest link of the political top to bottom. His summary of the chain, even to those individuals, situation says it best: who, living in peace upon their “The French Revolution was more property, or by their industry, were

equally unconnected with public commotions, whether by their opinions and their occupations, or by the interests of fortune, of ambition, or of glory.”

There was another difference that Condorcet observed between the two revolutions. The U.S. Constitution was adopted in 1787 and ratified in 1788. Condorcet had read it along with several new state constitutions.

He had serious misgivings with them because of their provision for the separation of powers, and here he meant not only the various powers of government, but of special interest groups, especially those with elite qualifications.

He clearly saw that this provision was founded on interest rather than principle; or as we might say in current terms: the revolutionary

founders of the American republic favored pragmatic resolutions of differences over principled ones.

Condorcet steadfastly stood on principle.

The American Constitution was designed to manage competing interests by combining them in a system that could become adversarial without becoming divisive. Condorcet worried that this balancing act of diverse interests was inimical to the achievement of full equality, for once the special interests of competing groups are balanced and secure, they could and probably would continue to enjoy them, while ignoring the universal rights of the people.

It is a point well taken. Condorcet still speaks to today’s divisiveness in America.

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Admission is a dessert to share Karl Lindholm in Middlebury. Wednesday, or donation to the local food April 12, 3‑4 p.m., Community Room, shelf. More info/RSVP contact EastView at Middlebury. In celebration of Charlie Roy at 802‑989‑3728 the new season, local baseball historian or maple05472@yahoo.com.

Lindholm entertains with stories and slides Mom Prom in New Haven. about some of the leagues well‑known and Wednesday, April 14, 7‑10 underappreciated players. p.m., Tourterelle, Route 7. Bee *NEW DATE* “Mark Dion: Misadventures of Friends, the PTO for Beeman a 21st‑Century Naturalist” in Middlebury.

Academy, invites moms to Thursday, April 12, 4:30 p.m., Twilight Hall, the ultimate ladies night fund‑ College St. Known best for his elaborate raiser. Dig into your closet, get installations and fantastical curiosity cabi‑ dressed up, and come dance. nets, Cameron Visiting Artist Mark Dion’s art DJ, door prizes, appetizers questions distinctions between “objective” and cash bar. Tickets $25 (“rational”) methods and “subjective” (“irra‑ on sale at Tourterelle, Bristol tional”) influences. Free. More info at middle‑ Beverage, Junebug, Paragon bury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

Design in Shelburne, Daily Jane Lindholm speaks in Middlebury.

Chocolate and New Haven Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m., Champlain Valley Village Green Market.

Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Spring Thaw Chili Challenge Celebrated and respected radio journal‑ in Middlebury. Saturday, April ist, host and commentator Jane Lindholm 14, 7‑10 p.m., Carol’s Hungry of Vermont Public Radio’s award‑winning Mind Café, Merchants Row. “Vermont Edition” will reflect on her 11 years Help raise fund for the Addison with that show in her talk entitled “Let Me Ask Central Teens as folks taste You This: A Decade of Interviewing Interesting and rate competitors’ chili, Vermonters.” Free and open to the public. sample delicious local bever‑ “There and Back Again: Migration Patterns ages, and enjoy live music. of Golden‑winged and Blue‑winged Door and raffle prizes include: warblers in the Champlain Valley” in $50 gift card to Tinker and Middlebury. Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m., Ilsley Smithy Game Store, $25 gift Public Library, 75 Main St. Join Audubon card to Rough Cut and two Vermont’s Mark LaBarr and Margaret Fowle passes to the Marquis Theater, for a discussion on migration and wintering a round of golf for four at locations of golden‑ and blue‑winged warblers Middlebury College, and more. fitted with geolocators in the Middlebury area Open to all. 21+ bring ID. and across the Champlain Valley.

Rehab Roadhouse & The “Spring Awakening” on stage in Middlebury.

Justin Panigutti Band in Thursday, April 12, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, Vergennes. Saturday, April 68 S. Pleasant St. A cast of 13 uber‑talented 14, 8 p.m., Vergennes Opera Middlebury College students stage this musi‑ House, 120 Main St. A mix of cal adaptation of Frank Wedekind’s story of original and cover songs in the adolescents navigating their coming of age in jam and blues tradition. Tickets 1890s Germany. Part period play, part high $15 at the door or in advance power rock concert. Contains mature mate‑ at Hired Hand Brewing in rial. Audience discretion is advised. Tickets NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTOGRAPHER James Blair will discuss some Vergennes. are $15 gen/$12 Middlebury ID cardholders of the 36 photographs — like this one of a special delivery — from “Our Town: Miles Donahue Quintet in and parents/$6 students. Available through Love, Joy, Sadness, and Baseball — 100 Years of Photography from the Shel‑ Middlebury. Saturday, April the Middlebury College Box Office or at 14, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, don Museum,” on Wednesday, April 18, noon, at the Museum, 1 Park St. 802‑443‑MIDD (6433).

Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Celebrate Wear appropriate clothing; bring water, food and Jazz Appreciation Month with Donahue and his group hiking poles if desired. More info contact Ruth Penfield of consummate jazz musicians as they play a concert at ruthpenfield@gmail.com or 802‑388‑5407. More of jazz standards, including selections by Thelonius activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

Rummage Sale in North Ferrisburgh.

Monk, Wayne Shorter, John Lewis, John Coltrane Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, April Friday, April 13, 9 a.m.‑6 p.m., North and Dave Brubek. Free.

14, 7 a.m., Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland, Ferrisburgh Methodist Church, 227 Old Hollow Blues Jam in Brandon. Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., corner of Weybridge Street and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Proceeds benefit children and youth attending Sister Wicked, 3 W. Seminary St. Local and statewide Road. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury church summer camps. blues musicians take the stage and invite you to join Area Land Trust invite community members to help “Food for Families“ collection in Vergennes. the jam. Free and open to the public. Sign up to jam survey birds and other wildlife. Birders of all ages Friday, April 13, 3‑7 p.m., Shaw’s Super Market, 115 when you get there. More info at tomcaswellblues@ and abilities welcome. More info call 802‑388‑1007 Monkton Rd. Help fill the pantry at the Vergennes food gmail.com or on Facebook at tomcaswellblues. or 802‑388‑6019. shelf. Bring non‑perishable items such as canned “Spring Awakening” on stage in Middlebury.

Rummage Sale in North Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April meals, baked beans, spaghettios, ravioli, etc., any Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. 14, 8‑11 a.m. “Take‑Whatever‑You‑Want‑Day” for a canned fruit and vegetables, soups (no tomato or Pleasant St. A cast of 13 uber‑talented Middlebury flat fee of $5 per person. Proceeds benefit children chicken noodle please), evaporated milk, powdered College students stage this musical adaptation of and youth attending church summer camps and milk, potatoes, carrots, squash, tooth brushes, Frank Wedekind’s story of adolescents navigating mission trips. toiletry items or cash donations for members of the their coming of age in 1890s Germany. Part period “Food for Families“ collection in Vergennes.

Vergennes Knights of Columbus, Vergennes Rotary play, part high power rock concert. Contains mature Saturday, April 14, 8:30 a.m.‑12:30 p.m., Shaw’s Club and local Boy Scouts to collect. material. Audience discretion is advised. Tickets Super Market, 115 Monkton Rd. Help fill the pantry at Spring Knoll and labyrinth opening in Middlebury. are $15 gen/$12 Middlebury ID cardholders and the Vergennes food shelf. Bring non‑perishable items Friday, April 13, 4:30‑6 p.m., The Knoll, 152 Route parents/$6 students. Available through the Middlebury such as canned meals, baked beans, spaghettios, 125. Celebrate spring with a Tai Chi demonstration College Box Office or at 802‑443‑MIDD (6433). ravioli, etc., any canned fruit and vegetables, soups and spring meditation led by Christopher Kiely, Falling (no tomato or chicken noodle please), evaporated Water Tai Chi School. Fire circle, hot apple cider and milk, powdered milk, potatoes, carrots, squash, tooth cookies. Open to the public. brushes, toiletry items or cash donations for members Wood‑fired pizza bake in Ripton. Friday, April 13, of the Vergennes Knights of Columbus, Vergennes All‑you‑can‑eat pancake breakfast 5‑6:30 p.m., Ripton Elementary School, 753 Lincoln Rotary Club and local Boy Scouts to collect. in Addison. Sunday, April 15, 7‑11 a.m., Rd. Support enrichment activities for the students of Soup and bake sale in East Middlebury. Saturday, April Addison Fire Station, junction Routes 17 & the school and enjoy a homemade pizza at the same 14, 9 a.m.‑1 p.m., East Middlebury United Methodist 22A. Menu includes plain and blueberry pancakes, time. Order Cheese $12 / pepperoni $15 / spring Church, Jct. Routes 125 and 116. Breads, doughnuts, sausage, bacon, home fries, coffee, hot chocolate, special with spinach, mushrooms and feta $15. Order cookies, baked beans, soups and chowders. and orange juice. Funds will be used to purchase by noon on April 13 at 388‑2208. Eat in or take out.

Edible book and tea party in Vergennes. Saturday, equipment. Last breakfast until the fall. Tickets $6 Knights in Italy spaghetti dinner in Bristol. Friday, April 14, 11 a.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Celebrate adults/$4 kids under 12. More info at 802‑759‑2237.

April 13, 5‑7 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish Hall, School Library Week with this unique party. Join the fun and Annual pancake breakfast fundraiser in Salisbury.

St. Menu includes all‑you‑can‑eat spaghetti with make an “edible book” to share. Bring your entry to Sunday April 15, 7:30‑11 a.m., Salisbury Community sauce, garlic bread, salad, beverages, and dessert. the Library and enjoy the tea and fun.

School, 286 Kelly Cross Rd. All proceeds support All proceeds will go toward furthering the Knights’ “Make a Sleeping Fox” felting workshop in the Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department. Tickets mission of aiding the community in a variety of ways Vergennes. Saturday, April 14, 1‑4 p.m., Creative $10 adults/$5 children 12 and under, available prior from Coats for Kids to the Special Olympics. Cost $10 Space Gallery, 214 Main St. Join guest instructor to or at the door. More info call 802‑388‑1407 or adults/ $5 children 12 and under/ $25 for a family.

Susi Ryan and learn how to needle felt. Workshop 802‑734‑7771.

Brandon Rec Odyssey of the Mind dinner dance fee of $50, includes all materials, printed directions, Champlain Valley fiddlers in Middlebury. Sunday, in Brandon. Friday April 13th from 6‑8pm at the and three hours of instruction. Space is limited.

April 15, 11 a.m.‑5 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. American Legion, 550 Franklin St. Spaghetti dinner Registration at info@creativespacegallery.org.

Jam session from 11 a.m.‑noon, music and dancing and dessert, with vegetarian and gluten free options.

“Antiques Road Show” style collectible and antique from noon‑5 p.m. All fiddlers welcome. Refreshments Live music the Threatles. Silent Auction and Raffle. appraisal in Brandon. Saturday, April 14, 1‑4 p.m., 4 available. Donation $3.

Odyssey of the Mind info table and games. All Grove St, across from Brandon Lumber. The Brandon Woodchucks’ Revenge plays in Middlebury. Sunday, proceeds to benefit Brandon Rec’s Odyssey of the Museum at the Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace invite April 15, 2 p.m. The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Mind 2018 team, to fund their trip to World Finals in you to meet with experienced antique dealers and Lodge Rd. Formed in front of the fire on a winter’s Iowa. Tickets $10 adults/$7 for seniors and kids under appraisers and learn about the history and value in night in 1990, Woodchucks’ Revenge brings together 12. today’s market of your treasures. Cost is $6 per item, three friends who have combined their lifelong love of Bullhead fishing clinic in Addison. Friday, April or three for $15. All proceeds benefit of the Brandon music to offer their audiences an eclectic and refresh‑ 13, 6:30‑9 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Museum acquisition fund. ing mix of traditional and contemporary folksongs Area, 966 Route 17. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Dairy Revenue Protection information session in played with spirit and an old time country sensibility.

Department’s “Let’s Go Fishing Program” offers this Middlebury. Saturday, April 14, 3‑6 p.m., VFW, 530 Free, open to the public and fully accessible. Part introductory course, including basic techniques for Exchange St. Join John Newton, Director of Market of The Residence’s Sunday music series. RSVP to targeting bullhead with live bait, casting basics, knot Intelligence for the American Farm Bureau for discus‑ Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220 or pryan@residenceot‑ tying, filleting, aquatic ecology, and biology. Contact sion of this new insurance program for dairy farmers. tercreek.com.

802‑265‑2279 or letsgofishing@vermont.gov to More info/RSVP contact Charlie Roy at 802‑989‑3728 Award‑winning organist Jennifer Bower register by April 12. Space is limited. or maple05472@yahoo.com. in Middlebury. Sunday, April 15, at 2 p.m., *CANCELLED* Kittel & Co. perform in Middlebury.

“Agency and Opportunity in the Golden Age of Congregational Church of Middlebury, 2 Main St. Friday, April 13, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney American Television: A Public Conversation with Bower will perform pieces by J.S. Bach, Dieterich Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Come hear this young Piper Perabo and Stephen Kay” in Middlebury.

Buxtehude, Nadia Boulanger, Maurice Duruflé and trio of fiddle, mandolin, and guitar.

Saturday, April 14, 4:30 p.m., Axinn Center 232, Eric Schmidt. She will be joined by trumpeter Jim “Spring Awakening” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, Middlebury College. A conversation with actor/ Duncan for several selections. Free and open to April 13, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant producer Piper Perabo (“Coyote Ugly,” “Cheaper by the public. More info at 802‑388‑7634, mid‑ducc@ St. A cast of 13 uber‑talented Middlebury College the Dozen”) and writer/director Stephen Kay (“Friday comcast.net or midducc.org. students stage this musical adaptation of Frank Night Lights,” “Sons of Anarchy”) about the oppor‑ Piano recital in Middlebury. Sunday, April 15, 3‑4 p.m., Wedekind’s story of adolescents navigating their tunities and challenges of navigating careers in the Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. Gloria coming of age in 1890s Germany. Part period play, golden age of American television. Moderated by Alex Breck, piano pupil of Diana Fanning, will perform part high power rock concert. Contains mature mate‑ Draper, Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance, and a piano recital featuring works by Bach, Chopin, rial. Audience discretion is advised. Tickets are $15 Jason Mittell, Chair, Department of Film and Media Rachmaninoff and Chinese composer Tan Dun — a gen/$12 Middlebury ID cardholders and parents/$6 Culture. culmination of her independent work and four musical students. Available through the Middlebury College Roast Turkey Supper in Vergennes. Saturday, April years at Middlebury. Free and open to the public.

Box Office or at 802‑443‑MIDD (6433).

14, 5‑6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, “Finding Friends and Community as an Adult” Main St. across from the Opera House. The menu in Middlebury. Sunday, April 15, 5 p.m., Marquis includes roast turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, Theater, 65 Main St. Presenter Ryan Kriger thinks a vegetables, cranberry sauce, dessert and beverage lot about making friends, and now he is sharing his served buffet style. Cost $9 adults/$5 children. Takeout Green Mountain Club hike in Bristol. insights around Vermont speaking about a thorny orders available. More info call 802‑877‑3150.

Saturday, April 14, 4783 Plank Rd. Moderate issue with which many Vermonters struggle — how to King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday April three‑mile hike to an eastern ridge. Option for find friends and community, and avoid social isolation, 14, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community a 5‑mile loop hike. Meet at Watershed’s parking area. as an adult. Free and open to the public.

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Legislative breakfast in Weybridge.

Monday, April 16, 7‑8:45 a.m., Congregational Church, 2790 Weybridge Rd. Meet with Addison County legislators and discuss issues important to Addison County. Purchase of breakfast not required to attend but helps our hosts to defray the cost of opening their hall. Sponsored by Bridport Grange 303 and the Addison County Farm Bureau.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Bristol. Monday, April 16, 10:45 a.m., Cubbers, Main St. Chef’s choice — always delicious — includes beverage and dessert. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity.

Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age.

“Objectivity in the Fake News Era” lecture in Middlebury. Monday, April 16, 4:30‑6 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center 356 College St. Jane Lindholm of Vermont Public Radio will deliver the 2018 Robert van de Velde Jr. Memorial Lecture on the challenges facing the public, the news media, and others in the current climate of fabricated news.

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ANWSD fine arts festival in Vergennes.

Tuesday, April 18, 8:30 a.m.‑3:30 p.m., Gymnasium, Vergennes Union High School, Monkton Rd. This K‑12 exhibit is open to visitors, classes and the community.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Tuesday, April 17, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Lane. Bingo, tai chi and coffee hour followed by a SASH Health Awareness Program at 11:15 a.m. and a noon meal. Bring your own place setting. Free transporta‑ tion may be provided. Call ACTR at 802‑388‑1946. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419.

Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age.

CCV info session in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 17, 12:15‑1:15 p.m., CCV Middlebury, 10 Merchants Row. At “Getting Started at Community College of Vermont (CCV)” learn about translating years of experience into college credit, admissions path‑ ways to UVM, VTC, Castleton, and other Vermont colleges, Tuition‑free opportunities for high school students and more. More info at 802‑388‑3032.

Lecture with Ashley Wolff in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 17, 3 p.m. The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. An informative talk with local author and illustrator Ashley Wolff, who is eager to share what she has discovered from 30 years of playing with color and light. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Writing Practice in Middlebury. Begins Tuesday, April 17, 4:30‑5:30 p.m., Art Room, EastView at Middlebury, EastView Terrace. Johanna Nichols, blogger and former contributor to the “Ways of Seeing” column in the Addison Independent offers Natalie Goldberg’s model: given a prompt, first write and then read. Free and open to the public. Space is limited. Phone or e‑mail to register or for more infor‑ mation. Tuesdays through May 8.

Tobacco cessation workshop in Vergennes.

Begins Tuesday, April 17, 5 p.m., Armory Ln. Senior Housing. A free workshop to help create a plan to succeed. Free nicotine replacement therapy avail‑ able. Registration required at 802‑388‑8860 or mbutler@portermedicalcenter.org.

Addison Central Teens community conversation in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 17, 5:30‑6:30 p.m., Teen Center, 77 Mary Hogan Dr. Parents are invited to share their ideas for making the teen center acces‑ sible and exciting for all teens in Middlebury. This will be the first in a series of Community Conversations.

Childcare and snacks provided.

“Coming Soon: The Cougar Returns to the East” presentation in Bristol. Tuesday, April 17, 6:30‑7:30 p.m., Holley Hall, Main St. Come hear natural history and tracking expert Susan Morse as she talks about cougar biology and ecology in the broad diversity of habitats where Sue has studied them. She will also talk about the latest confirmations of cougars in the east. Free and open to the public.

Author Jack Mayer on writing in Middlebury.

Tuesday, April 17, 7‑8:30 p.m., Community Meeting Room. Ilsley Public Library. 75 Main St. Join Mayer as he discusses his writing process and inspiration for his two books, “Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project” (creative nonfiction about the Warsaw ghetto) and “Before the Court of Heaven” (histori‑ cal fiction inspired by the history of how Germany’s Weimar democracy became the Third Reich). “‘Where Do We Go From Here?:’ Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unanswered Question” in Middlebury.

Tuesday, April 17, 7:30‑9 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. Clayborne Carson of Stanford University and director of the King Papers Project will reflect on Dr. King’s legacy and the current challenges facing civil rights proponents today.

A book signing will follow the lecture.

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More info at middlebury.edu/ arts or 802‑443‑3168.

Faculty dance concert in Middlebury. Thursday, April 19, 8 p.m., Dance Theater, Mahaney Center for the arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Come see samples of faculty choreog‑ raphy, featuring works by Julian Barnett, Christal Brown, Scotty Hardwig, and Laurel Jenkins.

Tickets $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students available at middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

“4.48 Psychosis” on stage in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 19, 8 p.m., Hepburn Zoo, Middlebury College. A suicidal woman fights for sanity as the lines between reality and her mind disap‑ pear. Senior work of Roxy Adviento in directing/ choreography and of Stephen Chen in lighting design. Tickets $6, avail‑ able at middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

ANWSD fine arts festival in Vergennes.

Wednesday, April 18, 8:30 a.m.‑3:30 p.m., Gymnasium, Vergennes Union High School, Monkton Rd. This K‑12 exhibit is open to visitors, classes and the community.

Instrumental and vocal concert by students in grades 5‑8 at 6:30 p.m.

Age Well Senior Luncheon in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 18, 11 a.m., Middlebury Rec Center, Creek Rd. Socializing and entertainment followed by a noon meal of pan‑seared chicken Marsala with portobello mushroom sauce, oven roasted potatoes, winter mixed vegetables, dinner roll and birthday cake. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Advanced reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age.

James Blair on photography in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 18, noon, Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Join James P. Blair, retired “National THINK IT MIGHT be a Tiffany Geographic” photographer, as lamp? Bring your treasures to the he discusses some of the 36 Antiques Road Show-style ap‑ photographs from the Sheldon praisal in Brandon on Saturday, Age Well Museum’s collection now on view April 14, 1-4 p.m., at 4 Grove St, S e n i o r in the exhibit Our Town: Love, across from Brandon Lumber.

Luncheon in Joy, Sadness, and Baseball — Middlebury. Friday, April 100 Years of Photography from 20, 11:15 a.m., The Glass the Sheldon Museum. More info Onion, Hannaford Career Center, 51 Charles Ave. at 802‑388‑2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Meal is chef’s choice prepared by Chef Woody Global Family Initiative benefit bake in Middlebury. and his Culinary Arts students. $5 donation does Wednesday, April 18, 6:30‑9 p.m., American not include gratuity. Space is limited. Advanced Flatbread, Marble Works. Help raise funds for GFI’s reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve Betasab Project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, aimed 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and at improving the social and economic conditions their spouse of any age. of vulnerable children and women through self‑reli‑ “The Art of Storytelling: Folktales for the ance and sustainability. Proceeds from pizzas, Imagination” talk in Middlebury. Friday, April 20, raffle tickets, and direct donations will support 3 p.m. The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge the children and women who gain a family, a safe Rd. Come experience the art of live storytelling home, an education, and freedom from abuse in with librarian Ruth Gilbert. Free, open to the public the programs. Music provided by local band the and fully accessible. Refreshments and social hour Avant‑Garde Dogs. to follow. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220 or Anne Wallace and Howard Russell in Middlebury. pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Wednesday, April 18, 6:30 p.m., The Vermont Book Addison County Right to Life annual dinner in Shop, 38 Main St. Wallace and Russell will read Vergennes. Friday, April 20, doors open at 6 p.m. for from, discuss and sign “I’m Home!!: A Manual for 6:30 start, St. Peter’s Church. Adults $15, students Providing Therapeutic Childcare.” Donna Bailey, $6, up to 5 years old free. Reserve pork or mac & co‑director of the Addison County Parent/Child cheese dinner by sending list of names and a check Center will facilitate discussion. payable to ACRTL to Mr. Lee Comly, 2012 Carlstrom Spring birding presentation in Orwell. Wednesday, Road, Bristol, VT 05443. More info: call Lee at April 18, 7 p.m., Orwell Free Library, Main St. Spring 453‑6302. migration is prime time for bird watchers as birds Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble cele‑ return to their local nesting areas or pass through to brates spring in Bristol. Friday, April 20, 7‑8 p.m., places further north. Join Ron Payne, bird watcher Auditorium, Mt Abraham Union High School, Airport and president of the Otter Creek Audubon Society, Rd. Come hear Copland, Ticheli, Grundman and as he speaks about which birds are coming and Gjeilo. The Middlebury College Community Chorus where to go to find them. will also perform at the event. Free.

MUHS student showcase in Middlebury.

Danika & The Jeb on stage in Brandon. Friday, Wednesday, April 18, 7 p.m., Auditorium, Middlebury April 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Union High School. Come support local student Club Rd. Come hear this dynamic, uplifting, and bands, solos, dances, skits, and stand‑up. Tickets fun duo, whose music is a soulful combination of $2 or $1 plus a non‑perishable food item. artfully written songs and powerful musical phrasing.

Concert tickets $20. Pre‑concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recom‑ mended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info call ANWSD fine arts festival in 802‑247‑4295 or e‑mail info@brandon‑music.net.

Vergennes. Thursday, April 19, 8:30 “4.48 Psychosis” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, a.m.‑3 p.m., Gymnasium, Vergennes Union April 20, 8 p.m., Hepburn Zoo, Middlebury College. A High School, Monkton Rd. This K‑12 exhibit is open suicidal woman fights for sanity as the lines between to visitors, classes and the community. reality and her mind disappear. Senior work of Roxy Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, Adviento in directing/choreography and of Stephen April 19, Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Chen in lighting design. Tickets $6, available at Senior Housing, 50 Armory Lane. Bingo, tai chi middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168. and coffee hour followed by a noon meal of beef & mushroom stroganoff over seasoned cavatappi pasta, carrot raisin salad, blueberry muffin and cantaloupe. Bring your own place setting. Free *Cancelled* Kittel & Co. in Middlebury. Friday, April 13, transportation may be provided. Call ACTR at 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts.

802‑388‑1946. $5 suggested donation. Advanced Josh Pinkham Trio performs in Middlebury. Friday, reservations required. Call Michelle to reserve April 13, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center 802‑377‑1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and Old Bones in Bristol. Saturday, April 14, 6:30 p.m., First their spouse of any age.

Baptist Church of Bristol.

A Walk in their Shoes: Dementia Simulation in Northern Flyer in Lincoln. Saturday, April 14, 7:30‑9 Middlebury. Thursday, April 19, 4‑5 p.m., The p.m., Burnham Hall.

Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. This simu‑ Sarah Blacker in Brandon. Saturday, April 14, 7:30 lation helps participants understand how it feels to p.m., Brandon Music. manage the many challenges dementia presents.

Rehab Roadhouse & The Justin Panigutti Band in Certified Dementia Practitioners guide you through Vergennes. Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., Vergennes the challenges of compromised vision, hearing and Opera House dexterity which all affect cognition. Free, open to Miles Donahue Quintet in Middlebury. Saturday, April the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 14, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts.

802‑388‑1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Blues Jam in Brandon. Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., Sister U.S. Middle East policy lecture in Middlebury.

Wicked Thursday, April 19, 4:30‑6 p.m., RAJ Conference Flpside in Middlebury. Saturday April 14, 10 p.m.‑1 Room, Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, a.m., Notte.

Middlebury College. Journalist and author Ahmed Woodchucks’ Revenge in Middlebury. Sunday, April Rashid will deliver a talk titled “From Afghanistan 15, 2 p.m. The Residence at Otter Creek to Iraq and Syria: The Failures of U.S. Middle Jennifer Bower in Middlebury. Sunday, April 15, at 2 East Policy.” Rashid has been a prominent voice p.m., Congregational Church of Middlebury of criticism of the U.S. involvement in the Middle The Avant‑Garde Dogs in Middlebury. on Wednesday, East, especially Afghanistan in the aftermath of the April 18, 6:30‑9 p.m., American Flatbread.

September 11 attacks.

Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble in Bristol.

Capoeira performance in Ripton. Thursday, April Friday, April 20, 7‑8 p.m., Mt Abraham Union High 19, 6 p.m., Ripton Elementary School. Come see School the culmination of what students learned during Danika & The Jeb in Brandon. Friday, April 20, 7:30 a weeklong residency of Capoeira performer and p.m., Brandon Music. teacher Fabio Nascimento. Capoeira is a blend of The Eschatones in Middlebury. Friday, April 20, 10 dance and martial arts originating from Brazil and p.m.‑1 a.m., Notte. continuing today as an important practice and way Anna & Elizabeth, with special guest Moira Smiley of life in Brazilian culture. in Middlebury. Saturday, April 21, 6 p.m., Champlain “Learning about Starksboro through Maps” in Valley Unitarian Universalist Society.

Starksboro. Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m., Starksboro Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble in Village Meeting House, 2875 Route 116. Enjoy an Middlebury. Saturday, April 21, 7‑8 p.m., Middlebury illustrated presentation showing images of maps Union High School over time and what they can reveal about Starksboro Michele Fay Band in Brandon. Saturday, April 21, 7:30 and its history. All are welcome. Light refreshments. p.m., Brandon Music.

Donations to the Starksboro Historical Society for Twist of Fate in Middlebury. Saturday, April 21, 10 map conservation work and to the Meeting House p.m.‑1 a.m., Notte. for the restoration project appreciated.

Jenni Johnson Jazz in Middlebury. Sunday, April 22, 2 “The Jungle Book Kids” on stage in Vergennes. p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

Thursday, April 19, 7 p.m., Auditorium, Vergennes Carlos Odria Ensemble in Middlebury. Tuesday, April Union High School, Monkton Rd. A high‑energy 24, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts.

30‑minute musical designed for elementary Steven Isserlis and Richard Egarr in Middlebury. school‑aged performers, full of jazzy dancing and Friday, April 27, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. singing. Tickets $5 adults/$20 families at the door.

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CSAC’s Thorn

(Continued from Page 1A) a month later causing the recent spill.

According to a report by Stephen Cijka, chief wastewater operator on anrweb.vt.gov: “The 30 feet of polyethylene pipe that was replaced earlier this year at this spot broke away from its couplings due to the river water overflowing its bank at that spot and floating the pipe up and out of its couplings and into the water downstream.”

A new bypass pump, hose and iron pipe has been ordered, which will reduce the chances of the pipe floating out of position in the future, Cijka continued.

At the second location, “High flow due to broken sewer pipe at bottom land of Mill Street and Conant Square next to the Neshobe River took in a 12-inch pipe of river water that overwhelmed the disinfection system at present flow proportioning setting,” he reported.

The pipe was repaired early Thursday evening, April 5, and the flow went down immediately, Cijka said.

The river had been running high for days during both breeches due to warmer temperatures and snowmelt after the March 30 storm.

At the time of the March overflow, Brandon was not the only town to experience wastewater spills.

According to the monthly Watershed Management Report from the Agency of Natural Resources (ANR), which covers Feb. 12-March 12, sewer overflows were listed in Manchester into the Battenkill and

(Continued from Page 1A) with their own shoes because they hair always immaculately coiffed. had nothing to do. The shoes were His voice is steady and gentle, knocking tiles from the dorm ceiling.

One day, a human services agency always reassuring. While he’s an administrator, one could easily truck pulled up to the MTS doors. imagine him subbing for any one of But instead of the therapeutic objects his employees, notebook or phone in he’d requested, workers unloaded hand, guiding troubled souls through a large net that they fastened to the ceiling to prevent the tossed shoes mental anguish.

“I’ve had immense satisfaction from causing further damage.

“We saw then what we were up with coming to work each day with the goal of trying to make against,” Thorn said. people’s lives better,” Thorn said. A BETTER PATH FORWARD Fortunately, Connecticut “I do believe it is important to have would soon get on a path of depurpose and meaning in your life.” institutionalizing its mental health CHANGING THE WORLD Thorn developed an affinity patients — something that Vermont for the mental health field during would also embrace during the 1980s his undergraduate studies at the and early 1990s with the Brandon University of Connecticut. He Training School. Officials saw the started as a philosophy major, merits of creating smaller group but eventually saw the greater homes for patients who could benefit potential in helping people through from the more intimate socialization and delivery of services. a psychology degree.

Thorn would leave MTS during “I always had an interest in who we are as human beings,” Thorn the mid-1970s for a job at the former said. “I got into psychology and Seaside center in Waterford, Conn.

He was part of a team that taught loved it, academically.”

He and other UConn psychology behavior modification to mental students were given a hands-on health patients. It was a program introduction to mental health care largely funded by grants, so Thorn in through the former Mansfield 1979 began looking for more secure Training School (MTS), located employment.

As luck would have it, the just 10 minutes from the campus.

This was sadly a period in time Counseling Service of Addison (late 1960s/early 1970s) when the County was looking for someone mentally ill were warehoused in to run its new program for people shameful conditions, and the MTS with developmental disabilities.

That much-respected was no exception, program is now according to Thorn. known as “Community He recalled the MTS “There’s campus hosting four evidence of more Associates.”

Then-CSAC Director dorms, each lined with anxiety and Neil McLaughlin rows of beds strung less resiliency called Thorn in for two side by side. Patients interviews, and hired had to literally crawl among schoolhim after the second. over each other to exit age kids today.

“Neil was a character, the dorm hall, he said. And what does and still is,” Thorn said Patients — suffering that mean, in with a smile. “He told from a variety of mental terms of what’s me I had the job, but afflictions — were only if I promised to hosed down in lieu of coming in the ‘never wear that suit a conventional shower. future?”

— Robert Thorn again.’”

Thorn was a part It was what Thorn of the hippy youth called a 1970s-era movement of the ‘60s, and he altruistically wanted “Brady bunch” suit, which he to improve conditions for MTS summarily discarded. patients. So he took a job there. His COMING TO CSAC Once hired, Thorn turned his duties included supervising a group of more than 30 UConn psychology attention to establishing and students who wanted to work with fortifying group homes in the Middlebury area. The Elm Street MTS patients.

“There were endless opportunities group home, established just prior to to do good and improve people’s his arrival, was the first in the state. lives,” Thorn said. “We were going He helped create an additional group home in the Peterson Heights area to change the world.”

His enthusiasm was soon (which has since closed).

He enjoyed direct contact with tempered by the recalcitrance of the patients, and his CSAC bosses mental health system of that era.

For example, Thorn requested were pleased with his work — so that patients be given some basic much that they asked him to serve therapeutic objects, such as toys, as co-director of the agency in as some of the MTS residents were 1994. Then-director Bill Lippert spending their day playing catch had just accepted an appointment

Shelburne into Lake Champlain. The Manchester spill was only 100-1,000 gallons, and Shelburne was estimated at 100,000-500,000 gallons.

In April, the ANR report from March 10-April 10, showed Brandon reporting the only significant spill.

The town of Pawlet reported 1,00010,000 gallons of discharged treated and partly disinfected effluent into the Indian River and the city of Montpelier reported 1,000-10,000 gallons of sewage and stormwater into the Winooski River (which was authorized in order to protect the sewer system, prevent overflows from other parts of the sewer system, and to prevent backups into homes and other buildings, according to Christopher Cox, chief operator).

Many Vermont towns struggle to keep up with their aging municipal infrastructure and Brandon is no exception. Brandon’s wastewater plant was built in 1960, and there are 22 miles of sewer pipe running through town, much of which dates from the 1930s to the 1960s.

Atherton said the fact that the pipes often run along the river makes potential breaks even more dangerous.

“Why they would run a sewer pipe along the river, I have no idea,” he said, after the March breech.

“It’s ridiculous. This is a problem statewide. We all have aging infrastructure. We just fixed a halfmile of pipe out of 22 miles, so we have a ways to go. There has been years of not-so-good maintenance and we’re playing catch up.”

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) which 26 people will be welcomed as new Americans. Presiding over the ceremony will be the Honorable John M. Conroy, U.S. Magistrate judge with the U.S. District Court of Vermont. The citizenship candidates represent 18 countries: Australia, Belarus, Bhutan, Burma, Burundi, Canada, Chile, People’s Republic of China, Congo, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Italy, Jamaica, Macedonia, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Vietnam.

Beeman Principal Kristine Evarts and staff member Annsunee Swift will offer welcoming remarks to the new U.S. citizens and their guests.

Beeman students and the Mount Abraham Union High School singing group “Sweet Transition” will perform musical selections.

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making friends, and now he is sharing his insights around Vermont. Coming off a packedroom event in February, Kriger has started speaking throughout the state about a thorny issue with which many Vermonters struggle — how to find friends and community, and avoid social isolation, as an adult. On Sunday, April 15, he will be giving a free talk in Middlebury, after which will be an opportunity to socialize and meet and make new friends. The talk begins at 5 p.m. at the Marquis Theater on Main Street.

On Monday, April 16, there will be a Middlebury Brain Injury Support Group meeting at the Middlebury Union Middle School library, at 43 Deerfield Lane, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. The topic will be “Awareness and Empathy, and They Go Together.” For more information, contact Lisa at 3882720.

to the Vermont House, a position of state and federal funding, he the Hinesburg Democrat would win said. Thorn believes mental health outright in the next election. Thorn agencies could and should be doing accepted the job, though he had more preventative programming — no real plans to stick with it. He particularly for youths, to address pictured the next phase of career as problems that could resurface and including teaching require more time and and consulting in expense in the future the mental health if left unchecked. field, which he was “We’re dealing already doing on with more and more some weekends while issues,” Thorn said not on the clock at of CSAC’s growing CSAC. client base.

Thorn could no It’s a surge that is longer put off his partly attributable decision by 1996, to opioid addiction, when Lippert decided a problem that is to move on from touching all corners of CSAC. He recalled the nation. going into the Youth have become agency’s management a larger portion of the team meeting soon agency’s client base, after Lippert’s “I’ve had immense Thorn added. When announcement and satisfaction with asked to explain that he could see, from coming to work trend, he offered some the expression on his prevailing theories: each day with colleagues’ faces, that Violent video games something was afoot. the goal of trying and TV and food “They said, ‘We to make people’s additives. Whatever have something lives better.” the reasons, kids and serious to discuss — Robert Thorn their families are with you,’” Thorn reaching out for more recalled. Then they help. each told him why they wanted him “There’s evidence of more anxiety to stay on as the CSAC’s full-time and less resiliency among schoolexecutive director. age kids today,” Thorn said. “And He jokingly compared the what does that mean, in terms of moment to a scene in the 1995 film what’s coming in the future?”

“Dangerous Minds,” when Louanne He noted there’s a group of CSAC (Michelle Pfeiffer) is asked by a officials currently studying drug colleague how she was convinced to addiction and mental health, with the stay on as a teacher in a tough urban goal of creating an early intervention high school in Northern California. plan to help prevent these problems “They gave me candy and called from getting more serious.

Meanwhile, CSAC and other me their light,” Thorn said, repeating agencies will try to get a handle on the movie line.

And it’s a decision he’s never an explosion of clients seeking outpatient services and the lack of state regretted.

“Thank God they asked me, hospital beds for the most seriously because increasingly, I’ve loved mentally ill. The current shortage of beds has seen the overflow of mental being in this role,” Thorn said.

Just like when he was at the health patients stay — in some Mansfield Training School, Thorn cases — for weeks and months in the sees it as a chance to do good things emergency departments of hospitals, for people, many of whom are in a including Porter Medical Center in bad place. His talent, he believes, Middlebury.

It used to be that Thorn’s pleas has been in maintaining a tradition of excellence at CSAC while being for more mental health resources tenacious and creative in looking for were met with a shrug of the funding to maintain the most critical shoulders from state officials, who are facing many competing requests services. for limited funds. That’s changing BIG IMPROVEMENTS The Counseling service has, under a paradigm shift in how during Thorn’s tenure, grown from Vermont delivers health care, Thorn 55 staff and a budget of $690,000 acknowledged.

“There are incentives for keeping to 300 employees and an annual budget of $22 million. Agency people well instead of treating them staff provided a combined total of later” when an illness becomes 1,029,133 service hours to patients acute, Thorn said. “Vermont is doing an amazing job.” during fiscal year 2017.

He cited Sen. Claire Ayer, Thorn is proud of CSAC’s work, but believes it could be doing even D-Addison, as a particularly valuable more. And the only reason it isn’t ally for mental health services. doing more is because of a lack Ayer is chair of the Senate Health & Welfare Committee. He credited Ayer for championing recent bills that have, among other things, raised the base pay for mental health workers to $14 per hour. CSAC has been carrying many vacancies due in large part to the lack of a competitive wage, Thorn noted.

“The whole system is so fragile,” he said of the tight budgeting and low reimbursement rates that organizations like CSAC must navigate. “It requires constant juggling.”

Thorn will miss the people with whom he’s worked, noting several have been with CSAC for more than two decades. He’ll miss his board of directors, who each brought business and real-life skills to collectively make the agency work better.

He won’t take credit for any specific CSAC accomplishments, though there have been many during his tenure. He said all at the agency deserve accolades for the new programs and the consolidation of CSAC’s facilities, including the new campus at Middlebury’s Catamount Park.

“The approach I bring to this is ‘steward leadership,’” Thorn said.

“The strength of this agency is its culture, and that was here long before I got here. I just didn’t mess anything up.”

STILL MORE TO DO He’ll have plenty to do in retirement.

He plans on helping people dealing with chronic pain. His wife, Suzanne Wise-Thorn, has encountered such health challenges of late, and he wants to spend more time at her side.

He started writing a book he’d like to finish.

Thorn also has a motorcycle he hasn’t spent enough time riding.

He has another priority he’ll be able to quickly strike off his retirement bucket list.

“I want to be able to wash dishes after a Friday community supper,” he said of the free meals offered by a coalition of Middlebury religious groups.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 12, 2018 — PAGE 11A

VPR’s Lindholm to weigh in on ‘fake news’

MIDDLEBURY — On Monday, April 16, at 4:30 p.m., Jane Lindholm of Vermont Public Radio will deliver the 2018 van de Velde lecture in Dana Auditorium on the campus of Middlebury College.

Her topic will be: “Objectivity in the Fake News Era.” In her lecture, Lindholm will explore the debate about what it means to be a journalist in 2018 and the various forces and pressures that are shaping that debate.

Lindholm shares something in common with Robert van de Velde

Jr., for whom the lecture is named.

She is a mainstay on VPR, where she hosts the award-winning program “Vermont Edition.” He was an active member of the staff of WRMC-FM, the college radio station at Middlebury College in the early 1970s.

Van de Velde majored in Sociology at Middlebury. Not long after his graduation, he died suddenly. Shortly after his death, family members and friends established the Robert W. van de Velde Jr. ’75 Memorial Lecture. This lecture provides an annual opportunity for a searching

examination of the confluence of public affairs — both foreign and domestic — and journalism.

In addition to hosting “Vermont Edition,” Lindholm also hosts “But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids.”

Before joining VPR a decade ago, she worked for National Public Radio and then served as the director/ producer for the American Public Media program “Marketplace.”

For further information contact Middlebury Dean for Faculty Development and Research Jim Ralph at ralph@middlebury.edu or 443-5320.

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PORCUPINES CRAVE SALT.

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Porcupine Salt Cravings

By SUSAN SHEA When I was growing up, my family rented a vacation home on a mountain in southern Vermont.

One night our dogs barking awakened us. Soon we heard a persistent gnawing on the outside of the house. My Dad went to investigate. His flashlight beam revealed a large porcupine with black, beady eyes. My father scared it away, but it returned other nights.

Why would a porcupine chew on a house? It’s not so much the wood they’re after; it’s the finish. Most paints, stains, and wood glues contain salt, and porcupines crave it, just as we humans crave potato chips and roasted peanuts.

A porcupine’s yen for salt kicks in as they transition from a winter to a spring diet. During winter, porcupines become somewhat sedentary, holing up in rock caves, hollow logs, or abandoned buildings, and making only short forays from their dens to feed on the inner bark of trees; hemlock and white pine are favorites.

Porcupines are able to extract nutrients from this low-quality food because of their large caecum, a sac at the junction of the small and large intestines. The caecum contains digestive bacteria that ferment the finely ground plant fiber so the body can absorb it.

Even with this special ability to use bark for food, the animals lose weight in winter.

As spring warms the forest, a porcupine’s diet and behavior change rapidly. The animals spend much of their time in trees feasting on swollen buds. They chew off a branch and hold it with their forepaws while they

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nip off the buds. You can find these “nip-twigs” littering the ground below a porcupine feeding tree. When the vegetation returns, porcupines will often leave the trees to feed on the ground. Grasses, clover, violets, dandelions, and raspberry leaves and canes are favorite foods.

All the spring and early summer feasting leads to rapid weight gain, but also a sodium deficiency. Green plants are low in sodium and high in potassium.

According to Uldis Roze, author of “The North American Porcupine,” porcupines and other herbivores need both sodium and potassium to activate nerves and muscles, but must maintain a 1:1 ratio of these two ions. If the amount of potassium significantly exceeds the amount of sodium, the animal can die. Plants contain potassium to sodium ratios as high as 500:1.

So porcupines feeding on green vegetation must excrete excess potassium and seek out salt. For the same reason, other herbivores like moose and snowshoe hare often congregate at roadsides in spring to feed on salt left over from the winter.

Roze has studied porcupines extensively in the Catskills. In one experiment, he attached salt-impregnated wooden pegs to a cabin, then observed porcupines through the windows as they came to chew on the wood one night: “I felt trapped inside a bass viol as the house vibrated under their powerful teeth. This was porcupine music, the sound of the wood saws.” Roze discovered that porcupines preferred the wooden pegs with the highest concentrations of sodium. When he added potassium, they chose

pegs with the most balanced sodium to potassium ratios. In his study, females came to the cabin in search of salt more often than males. He attributed this to hormones associated with pregnancy and lactation, which prompt a craving for salt; nursing mothers lose sodium in their milk.

Roze observed the rate of salt feeding by his porcupines peaks in May and June, with a second minor peak in August and September, when they were feeding on large numbers of apples.

Apples are acidic, impairing sodium resorption in the kidney and causing the animals to lose sodium in their urine. The salt drive dissipates in winter, when the animals are less mobile and get by on sodium that’s stored in their caecum.

Before plywood outhouses and sweaty axe handles were available for porcupines to chew on, where did they find salt? Early naturalists observed the animals swimming to reach yellow pond lilies and other aquatic plants, and even quarreling over the sodium-rich leaves. Porcupines eat mud at natural salt licks along riverbanks and gnaw on fresh bones in animal carcasses, which contain both sodium and calcium.

So if a mother porcupine begins to chew on the salty handle of your favorite canoe paddle, perhaps you’ll be more sympathetic – and remember to put it out of the animal’s reach.

Susan Shea is a naturalist, conservationist, and freelance writer who lives in Brookfield, Vt. “The Outside Story” is assigned and edited by “Northern Woodlands” magazine, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: wellborn@nhcf.org.

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MIDDLEBURY — Today’s political climate has forced us to re-examine the issue of race in America. Luckily for Addison County residents, scholar Clayborne Carson will be at Middlebury College’s Dana Auditorium on Tuesday, April 17, at 7:30 p.m. to share his perspective. In “Where Do We Go From Here? — Martin Luther King Jr.’s Unanswered Question” Carson will use his years at the King Papers Project and at Stanford University to address what is next for civil rights in the U.S. Carson was selected by members of Middlebury College’s Charles S. Grant lecture committee as this year’s lecturer. Carson is the Martin Luther Jing Jr. Centennial professor of History and Ronnie Lott Founding director of the Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute.

In 1985, the late Coretta Scott King asked him to oversee the King Papers Project, a long-term project to edit and publish an authoritative edition of King’s speeches, sermons, correspondence, publications and unpublished writings. The project has produced seven volumes of “The

PROFESSOR CLAYBORNE CARSON of Stanford University will speak about Martin Luther King Jr.’s dreams and legacy on Tuesday, April 17 at 7:30 p.m. at Middlebury College’s Dana Auditorium.

Papers of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” Carson is also well known for his own writings. His book “In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s” won the Organization of American Historians Frederick Turner Prize. More recently, he is

the author of “Martin’s Dream; My Journey and the Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.” A book signing will follow the lecture.

For more information contact Jim Ralph, Department of History, Middlebury College, at 802-443-5320 or ralph@middlebury.edu.

Input sought for Mt. Philo State Park plan CHARLOTTE — The Vermont Agency of Natural Resources will accept public input on the draft long-range management plan for Mt. Philo State Park during a meeting on Thursday, April 19.

The meeting will be held 6-8 p.m. at the Charlotte Central School on Hinesburg Road in Charlotte.

The format for this meeting will be an open house. At 6 p.m. participants will have the opportunity to review the draft plan, view maps, discuss goals and strategies with staff from the Departments of Forests, Parks & Recreation and Fish & Wildlife, and provide written comments. At 7 p.m. there will be a brief presentation providing a planning overview, highlighting portions of the plan and outlining next steps.

Following the presentation, participants can continue to meet with ANR staff and provide comment.

Visitors are welcome to arrive and depart at any time during the two-hour meeting.

The draft long-range management plan can be viewed online at

http://fpr.vermont.gov/state_lands/ management_planning/documents/ district_pages/district_2/mt_philo.

Drafted and reassessed periodically with collaboration among agency experts and public input, long-range management plans for ANR lands represent an important

framework for providing responsible stewardship of public land.

The Mt. Philo plan sets a long-term outline for management, but also takes into account the nature of this unique state park and incorporates some short-term considerations not (See Mt. Philo, Page 12A)

Dairy program proposal to be explained April 14 MIDDLEBURY — John Newton, Ph.D. Director, Market Intelligence for the American Farm Bureau will discuss the proposed changes to the dairy margin protection program in the 2018 disaster package. The Addison County Farm Bureau welcomes Newton to Middlebury on Saturday, April 14, at the VFW on Exchange Street from 3-6 p.m.

Newton will review other potential modifications to the

dairy safety net in the next farm bill. He also will cover the dairy farm bill issues, such as Class I milk pricing or the Dairy PRIDE act, and discuss in some detail the Dairy Revenue Protection insurance product developed by the Farm Bureau.

Newton has worked in the agricultural sector for nearly 15 years.

From 2004 to 2014 he worked for the United States Department (See Dairy, Page 12A)

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Police say a Bristol driver lied to officer BRISTOL — On Tuesday, March 27, Bristol police cited Eric M. Loyer, 26, for driving with a criminally suspended license and providing false information to law enforcement.

While investigating a report of erratic driving, police discovered that Loyer’s license is under criminal suspension. Loyer allegedly told police another person had been driving erratically, but police determined that he was attempting to deflect the investigation and ordered him to appear in Addison County Superior Court, criminal division, on April 23 to answer the driving with a suspended license charge.

Between March 26 and April 1, Bristol police completed 13 foot and car patrols at various locations, namely on Mountain Street, Main Street and surrounding areas including near Bristol Elementary School.

Officers also completed 2 hours and 5 minutes of directed patrol, traffic enforcement and patrols of the police district and the town under a contract funded by Vermont Governor’s Highway Safety Program.

During that same period, officers checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School five times.

Bristol police completed a total of six fingerprint requests between

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In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On March 26 an officer completed one hour of online active-shooter training.

• On March 27 checked on the welfare of juveniles in an ongoing investigation.

• O n March 28 attended two truancy meetings with families and school officials.

• O n March 28 recovered from a local residence a civil amount of marijuana and paraphernalia.

• On March 29 assisted a local agency with a medical emergency.

• On March 29 assisted a local agency with an active investigation.

• On March 29 assisted another local police department with a computer review for an active criminal investigation.

• On March 30 took into protective custody and referred to a detoxification facility someone who was being disorderly via an electronic communication device.

• On March 30 investigated the report of a suspicious occupied vehicle parked on Pine Street but upon arrival found no such vehicle.

• On April 1 received a phone that had been found in town and contacted the owner, who retrieved it.

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TWO SIGN BOARDS that appeared in front of the Middlebury Post Office this week provide passersby detailed information about plans for the downtown rail bridge replacement project, which will swing into action later this month.

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Deer teeth tell stories for the hunters who got them RUTLAND — Hunters who provided the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department with a tooth from their deer last year can now find out how old their deer was by visiting the department’s website, vtfishandwildlife.com.

Hunters submitted 2,808 teeth from the bucks they took during the November rifle deer season. Combined with the 1,207 deer examined by biologists at reporting stations during the youth and rifle seasons, biologists were able to get accurate ages for 4,015 deer.

“We are thankful to the thousands of hunters who were willing to support our deer management efforts by bringing their deer to a biological reporting station or providing us with a tooth from their deer,” said Deer Project Leader Nick Fortin. “We are

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If a hunter’s deer was three years old or older and wasn’t examined by a biologist at a reporting station, Fish & Wildlife would like a picture of its antlers. To help, hunters can send a picture (or two) to AntlerPics@ vermont.gov. Pictures should clearly show all antler points. Hunters need to include their name and Conservation ID, or other identifying information in the email.

Avant-Garde Dogs busking for Ethiopia MIDDLEBURY — Local favorites the Avant-Garde Dogs will fill American Flatbread in Middlebury with danceable rock ’n’ roll next Wednesday, April 18, in a benefit from 6:30-9 p.m. that aids Ethiopian children in need.

For every pizza purchased from 5 p.m. through the evening, a portion will be donated to the Global Family Initiative’s Betasab Project, which provides permanent homes for orphaned and vulnerable children in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. The project also supports underprivileged children in the city as they struggle to stay in school.

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Mt. Philo (Continued from Page 11A) typically included in other plans.

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Addison Independent, Thursday, April 12, 2018 — PAGE 13A

A POSTER HANGING on the wall of a Mount Abraham Union High School classroom lists procedures for four different safety drills. The Vermont Agency of Education encourages schools to display these posters for quick reference.

Shooter drills

(Continued from Page 1A) to locate ourselves in a different room. We filed through the library into the next nearest room and that movement alone seemed to put us in a vulnerable position.”

After they locked that room’s three doors, Jackman sat as far away from them as she could. It was the first time she’d ever thought “strategically” in that situation, she said.

School safety has become a hot topic in Vermont since the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and the arrest in Vermont, a day later, of a Poultney man accused of planning a school shooting at Fair Haven Union High School. Schools around the county, including Middlebury Union middle and high schools and Vergennes Union High School, as well as elementary schools, carry out shooter drills.

In a memo released the week after the Fair Haven arrest, Gov. Phil Scott announced that he was directing state agencies, along with the state police, to conduct security assessments of every school in Vermont.

A month later, Vermont Public Radio host Jane Lindholm wanted to know how that was going. For an episode titled “Making Sure Schools Are Safe,” she invited Emily Harris of the Vermont School Crisis Planning Team and Vermont State Police Lt. Matt Amadon for a discussion. Toward the end of that March 20 episode she asked her guests if they ever talked directly to students about school safety drills.

No, they acknowledged, they did not.

Nor does Gov. Scott’s school security memo suggest they do so.

His memo addresses “adverse childhood experiences” and ways to “measurably reduce” them, but it doesn’t mention ways to reduce the stress kids feel during regularly scheduled active shooter drills in the state’s schools.

ASSESSMENTS A comprehensive school security assessment might reasonably be expected to identify: • Building damage: “Our classroom door wouldn’t lock,” reported Mount Abe senior Casey Ober, “so my teacher shoved a table in front of it.”

• Protocols that need refinement: “We didn’t know it was only a drill,” said Mount Abe art teacher Bruce Babbitt. In the dark “we quietly talked about what it would be like if this wasn’t only a drill. Despite our efforts at securing ourselves, we were all feeling vulnerable and a bit helpless.”

• Policies that need updating: “There really aren’t clear requirements that come down from the state in terms of how we respond in emergency situations,” said ANeSU Superintendent Patrick Reen. “There are lots of resources and advice but not clear mandates.”

And there’s every reason to believe such issues, once identified, would be fixed.

Less clear, however, is how anyone intends to assess the effects on students of the security measures that are meant to protect them.

TALKING WITH CHILDREN Much has been made of the need to discuss mass shootings and other traumatic events with children.

After Parkland and Fair Haven, the Vermont School Safety Center posted to its website a document

called “Talking to Children About the Shooting,” which some Addison County schools mailed home to the families of their students. Prepared by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN), the ninepoint memo addresses, among other things, typical reactions to mass shootings: “In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, (children) may have more problems paying attention and concentrating,” it reads. “It’s common for young people to feel anxious about what has happened, what may happen in the future, and how it will impact their lives.”

The document does not mention talking to students about lockdown drills.

It also does not specify which “shooting.” When asked if the memo was referring to Parkland, a spokesperson for the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at Duke University said, “Sadly, we’ve stopped specifying which shooting we’re referring to, because it happens too often.” The document has been on their website since 2014, she added, though it’s “completely up to date.” At the time of the interview the NCTSN had just completed a mailing to California in the wake of a deadly shooting at the Veterans Home in Yountville, she said.

Some Addison County students seem to take the lockdown drills in stride.

For Monkton Central School siblings Sam, Molly and Ben Mangini the drills have been a fact of life since day one.

“I’ve been in a lot of them, so I know it’s just a drill,” said sixthgrader Sam.

Molly, in fourth grade, said, “I actually kind of like it because it’s quiet.”

Their brother, Ben, a first-grader, said, “I don’t really think about anything.”

Their schoolmate, fifth-grader Nola Roberts, described a recent drill at the school.

“We were in the library, so we went to a corner where there were a ton of books,” she said. “We went to the corner as fast as we could.”

Roberts thinks people should take the drills seriously: “Teachers should keep doing the drills. They know what to do.”

MUMS held a lockdown drill on March 27. Seventh-grader Dahlia Harrison-Irwin said her class “stayed silent (for the most part), and squeezed into the corner. Some people lined up against the wall, and our teacher was sort of angry because she said they were in plain sight and too exposed.”

“It is sad that from a young age we are just trained to be silent and sit in a corner for fear of a shooter coming for us,” she added.

In another class a teacher handed out Jolly Rancher candies during the drill. When asked if the teacher had offered them as a plea or a reward for silence, seventh-grader Carter Lee said he wasn’t sure. “Probably a little bit of both.”

A few people in Lee’s class “pretended to pretend” the drill was real, he said, “but maybe they were nervous and trying to cover it up.”

In a previous lockdown drill, some of Lee’s classmates had made what he called “finger guns” and pretended that they were going to confront a potential shooter. Lee said he wasn’t sure what to make of that.

With or without candy, it’s hard for some students to stay quiet during drills.

“I was telling someone how loud my class was during the drill,” said seventh-grader Vivian Ross. “They said their class was so loud that if there had actually been a shooter in the school at the time, they’d probably all be dead.”

A TROUBLING TREND When Addison County high school seniors graduated in 1983 more than 80 people had been shot to death in U.S. schools during their lives.

For the classes of 2001, that number climbed to more than 120.

During the life of the average Addison County high school senior this year that number has more than doubled to 255.

These teenagers have also experienced during their gradeschool careers the implementation of lockdown drills in their schools, with protocols designed specifically to address the threat of an active shooter.

How, and to what extent, this has altered their learning environments remains to be seen.

(The Addison Independent contacted Mount Abe tenth grader Mae Peterson to find out how she did on the math test she took immediately after March 28’s lockdown drill. As the story went to press Peterson had not yet gotten the test back.)

Reach Christopher Ross at christopherr@addisonindependent. com.

Asked about their feelings toward shooter drills local students gave these responses: Crackle “At this time please secure the school” Crackle Pause Panic Adrenaline Fear Questions Analyze her tone A drill?

Hope Scared Hug your knees to your chest Footsteps Door handle rattles Freeze Heart races Fists tighten What if it’s real this time?

— Zora Duquette-Hoffman, 8th grade, MUMS

We locked the door and left the lights on. We mostly just talked the whole time and stayed in the circle we were originally sitting in.

— Mhairi McMurray, 11th grade, MAUHS

At one point we heard a voice in the hallway, and everybody was confused because no one should be out there. It was a bit scary because for a second I thought it was a shooter.

— Dahlia Harrison-Irwin, 7th grade, MUMS

I know 99.9 percent of the time it’s just a drill, but when your teachers don’t even know if it is or not, it’s impossible not to think of that 0.1 percent. I kept telling myself that somebody was going to wiggle a door handle to see if it was locked — it was the drill protocol. But for some reason, I still jumped when I heard the “checker” touch our doorknob.

— Chloe Lyons, 12th grade, MAUHS

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DICK AND SUE Collitt’s year-long effort to sell the Ripton Country Store has received a big assist from nationally renowned environmentalist and local resident Bill McKibben, whose recent New York Times op-ed about the important rural enterprise spurred 50 serious inquiries about the property as of last week.

Ripton store

(Continued from Page 1A) bought the store to run it for real.”

They quickly learned the store would become more than a daytime job. It would become a way of life.

They are the most recent stewards of what has been a beloved townwide amenity for tourists and locals alike in need of anything ranging from a gallon of milk to a hunting knife.

“The local folks would expect us to give them gas at 10 p.m.,” Collitt chuckled. “That happened a lot…”

After a while, though, the locals respected the store hours and the Collitts moved out of the on-site apartment to allow separation

between their personal and professional lives.

Still, until recently, the couple covered all 12 hours of each working day themselves. They’ve allowed themselves one day off per year: Christmas.

“The last time Sue and I went away was around 15 years ago when our son was married out in Colorado,” Dick recalled. “We went there for a long weekend.”

The Collitts’ dedication to Ripton’s store and its residents earned the couple a touching tribute in this year’s Ripton annual report.

“They are not only interested in

SUE AND DICK Collitts’ dedication to Ripton’s general store and to its residents earned the couple a tribute in this year’s Ripton Annual Report.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

preserving the store’s past, but also in the store’s future,” reads the essay, penned by residents Jorene Doria and Jane Phinney.

“Dick and Sue have never forgotten old-fashioned caring for their neighbors.”

That caring has included a landline to help for stranded motorists — essential in a town that offers next to no cell service. The store has been a clearinghouse for important town news, such as during flooding from the adjacent Middlebury River.

And the Collitts have also become confidants to many in town, receiving news they’re careful not to repeat.

Along with serving as the town’s official market and its unofficial clearinghouse for information, the Ripton Country Store has subbed as a local post office for around

three decades. It put the 215 oldschool P.O. boxes into service after a the town’s last commissioned postmistress, Hilda Billings, decided she couldn’t host them in her home anymore.

The Collitts set up the small wall of P.O. boxes where their gift section used to be. Fortunately, sales haven’t really suffered as many folks buy something while picking up their mail, Collitt noted. They also sell stamps, weigh letters and offer a flat rate for packages, thus saving people a trip to East Middlebury, four miles down the mountain.

While they’ve enjoyed their time with the store, both are in their early 70s and are ready to move out from behind the counter. It was around a year ago that they decided to put the store on the market, after Dick

began having some health problems. town, because it seems likely the He’s now on the mend, but they still store will stay open, and indeed be believe it’s time to bid farewell to run in the right spirit,” McKibben their old friend. said through an email. “I tried to Unfortunately, neither of their two not be overly romantic in the article grown children are keen on becoming — to emphasize that it was a lot of a second-generation owner/operator hard work, and that you’d have to of the Ripton Country Store. So be serious about it, because the town they’re resigned to selling it to a would be depending on you. stranger who can meet the $225,000 “It also makes me happy to think asking price and convince that there’s a sizable them they’ll fully commit group of people out in “We just to the enterprise. the world who yearn for McKibben, a frequent fell in love something other than customer and longtime with it and texting each other,” Ripton resident, made a McKibben added. “Even, bought it... wonderful pitch for the or maybe especially, in store in his Times op-ed. People were an America where our He portrayed it in the skeptical president demonstrates style of a personal ad about our meanness daily, I think with this throwback of a being able to there are lots of people store offering a true slice stick with it... looking for community. of Americana and seeking And Ripton is a very fine the perfect match for an (but) We were community.”

The extra publicity owner attuned to that here for the duration.” has also been good for lifestyle.

“So here’s the pitch,” — Dick Collitt business. Those who come over to check out he wrote. “$225,00 gets the store invariably end you the most classic of country stores, not in a Colonial up making a purchase.

Collitt thanked McKibben for his Williamsburg kind of way but in a slightly sagging kind of way — literary assist.

“He’s is very fond of the town and there’s a potbellied wood stove up against the deli counter, right next to the town is real fond of the store,” the coffee pot. There’s penny candy Collitt said. “It was wonderful. It against the wall (Atomic Fireballs!). was a super piece. His writing is And pretty much everything else: fantastic.”

On this particular day, a regular brake fluid, animal crackers, 3-inOne oil, leather boot laces. The latest customer came in for an 18-pack of issue of North American Whitetail Bud. As she exited, she says to Dick (‘the big buck authority’). Eggs from Collitt, “My daughter wants to buy local hens; pickled beets and sweet the store.”

Without missing a beat, Dick relish that some of the neighbors have put up. Lasagna noodles, replies jovially, “Send her over with rock salt, kitty litter, meatloaf mix, cash. Money talks.”

Any serious inquiries about the clothespins, starch, cupcake papers.”

McKibben is pleased his New Ripton Country Store should be York Times piece has drawn potential emailed to wbrmab@aol.com.

Reporter John Flowers is at buyers.

“It makes me very happy for the johnf@addisonindependent.com.

DICK COLLITT SITS next to the Ripton Country Store wood stove that has warmed many visitors’ hands and hearts for generations.

Independent photo/ Trent Campbell

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2018

SPORTS

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Eagle senior takes wing in many ways Boys’ lacrosse teams

find going challenging

Pitts has legacy on & off the track

By ANDY KIRKALDY NEW HAVEN — One of the most talented athletes in Mount Abraham Union High School history found her calling, she said, because she lacks an athletic skill.

Mount Abe senior Lydia Pitts recalled as a 7th-grader at the Bristol high school she wanted to play a spring sport. Softball, girls’ lacrosse, and track and field were offered.

Pitts, a New Haven resident, chose track and field. Why? “My hand-eye coordination is not good,” said the athlete who has won 17 individual Vermont Division II track and field titles, and is a three-time D-II all-state soccer player who has led the Mount Abe girls’ soccer team in scoring twice and helped the Eagle girls with the 2014 D-II title.

When questioned on that point, Pitts laughed and insisted it’s true: “My friends like to throw things at me because I can’t catch them.”

Certainly it didn’t take long for Pitts to catch onto track. She remembered the coach asking the 7th-graders to jump over a single hurdle.

When Pitts did she was quickly hooked on a discipline that blends speed, jumping and precision.

“I was really afraid to get over it. But once I was over it, I was, like, ‘I want to do that again,’” Pitts said. “I wanted to learn how to do it right. There were all sorts of pieces that I felt I was constantly learning, which really appealed to me.”

Pitts may laugh at her handeye coordination, but accurately described her athletic pluses.

“I’ve always been a little bit of a natural,” Pitts said. “I’ve always been kind of tall and boundy.

Height does matter in hurdles.”

And that jumping ability and technique also translated to success in the long jump and triple jump. She owns multiple D-II titles in both jumping disciplines, the school records in two hurdling distances and the long jump, and the D-II record in the 55-meter indoor hurdles.

‘A NATURAL LEADER’ But all that doesn’t begin to tell the story, according to her coaches and to a résumé that includes a long list of community service, leadership accomplishments and positions, extra-curricular activities and awards. (See related story for details).

ADDISON COUNTY — The Middlebury, Mount AbrahamVergennes and Otter Valley boys’ lacrosse teams all suffered losses in action earlier this week.

EAGLES On Tuesday, visiting Milton topped the Eagles, 10-2, in what was the cooperative Mount Abe-VUHS team’s opener. Lucas Livingston and Will Crawford scored for the Eagles, and goalie Grady Brokaw stopped seven shots. Owen Perry led Milton (1-1, with the loss to Division I Colchester) with three goals, and goalie Chris Lefebvre made four saves.

TIGERS Host Essex pulled away late to deal the Tigers their first loss, 13-0.

Local helps team make U.S. hockey title game

MOUNT ABE SENIOR Lydia Pitts is one of the most decorated athletes in the school’s history. She has won 17 track and field titles and is a three-time all-state soccer player who played on the 2014 Eagle girls’ title team. Pitts is also an outstanding student with a long list of leadership positions and community service achievements who likes math, science, art and music. And she insists her friends would say she is a “goofball.”

Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy

Eagle girls’ soccer Coach Dustin Corrigan calls Pitts “a natural leader” and offered examples.

When Pitts was a sophomore Mount Abe had trouble finding outdoor track coaches, and before one was hired Corrigan entered the gym day after day to find Pitts in charge.

“It’s the toughest time to coach track as well, because

you can’t get outdoors. They’d have practices in the gym, and there’s this group, 40 high school kids, very well organized, doing sideline-to-sideline dynamic stretches,” Corrigan said. “And who’s coaching them, leading it? A sophomore, Lydia.”

When Pitts was a sophomore on the soccer team she was as the

team’s co-leading scorer. But the Eagles got off to a slow start the next fall due to shaky defense. Corrigan moved both Pitts and standout senior Nesta McIntosh to defense without a word of complaint.

“A lot of kids, particularly if they were as prolific a goal-scorer as she was as a sophomore, might balk at (See Pitts, Page 3B)

ScoreBOARD Panther softball wins two out of five

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 4/9 Lamoille at VUHS............................ Ppd. 4/10 MUHS vs. Rutland..........................17-6 4/11 VUHS at U-32.................................Late Boys’ Lacrosse 4/9 Rutland vs. OV.................................15-3 4/9 Essex vs. MUHS...............................13-6 4/10 Milton vs. Mt. Abe...........................10-2 4/11 Randolph at Mt. Abe.......................Late 4/11 Woodstock at MUHS......................Late Baseball 4/9 Rutland vs. OV................................ Ppd. Softball 4/10 Rutland vs. OV.............................11-10 COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 4/11 Midd. at Springfield.........................Late Baseball 4/10 Southern VT vs. Midd...................12-11 Softball 4/10 Midd. vs. Castleton...........................8-1 4/10 Midd. vs. Castleton.........................10-2

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 4/13 MUHS at Hanover................... 4:30 PM 4/13 Chelsea/Randolph at VUHS.... 4:30 PM 4/17 CVU at MUHS.......................................

4/18 Hartford at VUHS..................... 4:30 PM 4/20 MUHS at Essex....................... 4:30 PM 4/21 Milton at VUHS............................11 AM Boys’ Lacrosse 4/13 Rutland at MUHS.......................... 4 PM 4/16 MUHS at South Burlington........... 4 PM 4/18 CVU at MUHS.............................. 4 PM Baseball 4/12 MUHS at Essex....................... 4:30 PM 4/12 VUHS at Rice.......................... 4:30 PM 4/14 VUHS at MUHS...........................11 AM 4/16 OV at Rutland............................... 4 PM 4/17 Mt. Abe at Colchester.............. 4:30 PM 4/17 Milton at MUHS....................... 4:30 PM

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

The Hornets broke open the game with three fourth-quarter strikes to win their season opener.

The Tigers dropped to 2-1 despite two goals and two assists apiece from Jack Donahue and Sam Hodges. Goalies Jack Rizzo and Cam Devlin each made seven saves for Middlebury, while Essex goalie Aidan Haggerty stopped five shots in the D-I matchup.

OTTERS Host D-I Rutland coasted past the D-II Otters, 15-3. Hayden Gallo scored twice for OV, and Justin Tremblay also found the net. Alec Stevens came up with 14 saves in the OV goal in the Otters’ season opener.

AMHERST — Host Amherst swept three games from the Middlebury College softball team this past Saturday and Sunday, but the Panthers bounced back by sweeping Castleton on Tuesday in their first home action of the season.

The Panthers are 9-7 and 0-3 in NESCAC after the losses to Amherst, then ranked No. 17 in

NCAA Division III, which improved to 16-2 and 5-0 in NESCAC play.

Middlebury will host league foe Hamilton this weekend in a threegame series, Friday at 4 p.m. and then a Saturday doubleheader set for noon.

On this past Sunday, Amherst swept a doubleheader, 3-0 and 7-2. Amherst hurler Gina Pagan

tossed a four-hitter, striking out 11, while Emily Morris took the loss, allowing three runs, all in the fifth, on six hits in six innings. Liza Tarr led the Panthers with two hits.

In the nightcap, Middlebury loaded the bases in the first inning but failed to score, and Amherst scored once in the first and three (See Panther softball, Page 2B)

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — A that game Bartlett scored twice, 16-and-under Vermont Shamrocks including the overtime gamegirls’ hockey squad that included winner.

Middlebury’s Alexis Bartlett lost Bartlett finished the tournament as in the Tier II the Shamrock’s national final top goal scorer on Monday in with four goals Marlborough, and three assists.

Mass.

That four-goal The Shoreline total tied for the Sharks of tournament high Connecticut and her seven scored in the points tied for third period second in the to deal the tournament.

Shamrocks a 1-0 Annika LaGue loss, their first in paced the the tournament.

Shamrocks with It was the second eight points straight year (three goals, five the Shamrocks assists). carried an The Shamrocks undefeated outshot the ALEXIS BARTLETT record into the Sharks, 32-22, national Tier II in the final, final, only to come up short. but Sharks goalie Carina Mancini The Shamrocks had gone 5-0 in stopped all 32 of the Shamrock the tournament prior to Monday, shots. Kate Hagness scored the including a 3-2 overtime victory game-winner. Leo Clark made 21 in a Sunday semifinal game. In saves for the Shamrocks.

In girls’ lacrosse

Tigers tame Rutland, 17-6

By ANDI BOE juniors Ada Anderson and Lacey RUTLAND — The Middlebury Greenamyre contributed two goals Union High School girls’ lacrosse apiece, with Anderson adding an team cruised to a 15-6 victory over assist. Senior Olivia Beauchamp also host Rutland on Tuesday, scored as seven Tigers a game highlighted by found the net.

Tiger senior midfielder A disciplined A disciplined Tiger Satchel McLaughlin’s Tiger defense defense allowed just 100th career goal.

12 shots on goal, and Junior middie Emily allowed just senior goalie Raven Laframboise paced 12 shots on Payne finished with six the Tigers with five goal, and senior saves. goals and an assist, and goalie Raven Rutland was led by senior middie Isabel Payne finished two goals apiece from Rosenberg chipped in a Ettori and with six saves. Francie hat trick to help secure Logan Kinsman. Goalie Middlebury’s win.

Leah Zmurko stopped McLaughlin buried 10 shots. two goals in the second half to hit The Tigers improved to 2-0 and the 100-goal milestone and added an will next take on New Hampshire’s assist.

Hanover High School on the road Senior Ella Nagy-Benson and this Friday.

San Antonio and all that hoopla!

— SPORTS COLUMN BY KARL LINDHOLM­—

It was a giant basketball party, a fiesta de hoop: just so much hoopla in San Antonio the weekend before last — March Madness, the Final Four: And we were there.

This was the second trip to the Final Four for the four of us, a reprise of an Atlanta adventure in 2013 when we witnessed Louisville defeat Michigan in the national championship game in a cavernous football stadium, the Georgia Dome, along with 70,000 of our closest friends.

Local basketball maven Peter Hare, the impresario of that affair, proposed this junket as a high school graduation present for our basketballmad sons, my Peter and his James.

Now, in 2018, our sons are 22 — so Pete Hare suggested we splurge and do it again, based on our earlier success, this time in San Antonio and the Alamodome, a reward for their graduating from college.

Do you know Peter Hare? His exuberance is contagious.

I’m not big on crowds, nor air travel, but I like being in interesting new places if not the actual process of getting there. The Hares had already proven themselves hardy and congenial travel companions, and San Antonio gets a good press: so it was “Look out, San Antone, here come the Green Mountain Boys.”

In fact I had been to San Antonio before, 51 years ago, working for my Uncle Sam, learning to be a medic at Fort Sam Houston. When I revealed to Pete Hare my previous San Antonio experience, he responded with enthusiasm, “We’ll go visit all of your old haunts!”

“Pete,” I said, “I was making $79 a month! I don’t want to go to any of my ‘old haunts,’ even if they’re still around.”

San Antonio was the perfect place for this basketball celebration. It’s the sixth most populous city in the country, but it didn’t feel large and (See Lindholm, Page 2B)

THE FOUR AMIGOS do some sightseeing at the Alamo before the Final Four basketball games at the Alamodome late last month. From left are Pete Hare, Karl Lindholm, Peter Lindholm and James Hare.

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Local female athletes get league honors

In girls’ softball

OV rally falls short at Rutland RUTLAND — Rutland hung on for an 11-10 victory over the Otter Valley Union High School softball team on Wednesday in a game moved to Rutland because of field conditions at OV; the Otters still served as the home team.

The Raiders took a 10-1 lead as OV pitchers Mallory LaPorte and Gabriela Paolino struggled with their control. In all, the Raiders had a combined seven hits and 13 walks off the two

hurlers. Rutland scored eight times in four innings off LaPorte and three times in three innings off Paolino.

But the Otters rallied after trailing by 10-1 in the fifth. Their early run came on singles by Livia Bernhardt, Shayla Phillips and Katie Coolidge.

Pinch-hitter Mia Politano’s double then keyed OV’s fourrun fifth that made it 10-5. The Raiders led entering the bottom of the seventh, 11-6, but OV

scored four times, including on RBI hits from Livia Bernhardt and Coolidge and hits by Paolino and Bell Falco, but the Otters left the tying run in scoring position.

Falco and Bernhardt both finished with three hits to lead OV. Rutland pitcher Skyler Bird earned the complete-game win, allowing 13 hits and three walks while striking out eight.

Boys’ basketball players named all-stars

ADDISON COUNTY — Seven local high school basketball players and one coach have received postseason honors from their leagues.

Otter Valley senior guard Josh Letourneau and OV junior guard Dylan Mackie were named First Team Marble Valley League B

Division All-Stars, while senior forward Payson Williams earned honorable mention. OV Coach Greg Hughes, who led the Otters to the Division II semifinals and 15 wins, was recognized as one of two MVL B Division Coaches of the Year.

Vergennes senior forward Lance

Bergmans and Mount Abraham senior forward Jackson Counter were named Lake Division FirstTeam All-Stars. Earning SecondTeam honors were Middlebury senior guard Cody Pomainville and Mount Abe senior forward Dustin Whitcomb.

Panther softball game in the fourth on a two-run (Continued from Page 1B) homer by Kaylee Gumm, driving in times in the second.

The Panthers answered in the top Kati Daczkowski. Allison Quigley, of the third when Tarr singled home who also singled, added a two-run Olivia Bravo and Emily Moore, who homer in the fifth to make it 5-4.

The Mammoths then scored three reached on an error. But Amherst added two more runs in the third runs in the fifth on four hits, and added a pad run in the and added its final run sixth. Ukanwa picked in the fifth. up the win.

Lorena Ukanwa Middlebury On Tuesday, the (10-0) picked up the answered in the Panthers defeated win, allowing two bottom of the Castleton in a unearned runs and six inning with four doubleheader, 10-2 in hits in six innings with runs on four hits five innings and 8-1, 13 strikeouts. Morris off losing pitcher facing two former took the loss, giving County up five earned runs Loretta Blakeney, Addison pitchers and eight hits over including doubles standout in the process. three innings. Irene by Daczkowski Middlebury roughed Margiotta tossed three and Moore up former Eagle innings of one-run and singles by hurler and Spartan relief. freshman Rachael On Saturday, Mandell and McCormick in the Amherst scored five Quigley. opener, starting with runs on five hits off a five-run first keyed losing pitcher Allison Quigley in the first inning in a 9-4 by a Gumm three-run double and victory. Quigley (3-1) allowed 12 Mandell’s two-run homer.

In the Panthers’ four-run fourth hits and eight earned runs over six Bravo and Daczkowski poked RBI innings.

Middlebury got back into the singles and Moore doubled in a run.

Moore’s RBI single ended the game in the fifth on the eight-run mercy rule.

Morris picked up the win.

Daczkowski finished with three hits and two RBIs, Bravo had two hits and two runs, and Moore had two hits and two RBIs. Castleton took the lead in the game two when Calli Van Gorden doubled to drive in former Middlebury Union hockey player Timi Carone, who had doubled.

Middlebury answered in the bottom of the inning with four runs on four hits off losing pitcher Loretta Blakeney, including doubles

by Daczkowski and Moore and singles by Mandell and Quigley.

Moore drilled a three-run homer in the second, and in the fifth Gardner singled and Bravo doubled her home. That run came off former Vergennes hurler Taylor Paquette, the only one she allowed in four innings. McCormick also tossed a scoreless relief inning.

Quigley got the win, allowing five hits over seven innings with eight strikeouts.

ADDISON COUNTY — Eight local girls received postseason honors from the Lake Division or Marble Valley League basketball or Division I hockey coaches, and one area coach was honored.

The Lake Division hoop coaches named Middlebury senior guard Keagan Dunbar the league’s Player of the Year, and Mount Abraham

senior forward Emma Carter joined her as a First-Team Lake All-Star.

Senior guard Emma LaRose was named a Second-Team Lake All-Star, and Vergennes junior forward Emma Bryant earned honorable mention.

Mount Abe’s Connie LaRose was named the Lake Division Coach of the Year.

The Marble Valley League coaches

named senior forward Gabriela Poalino a First-Team MVL B Division All-Star, and two OV sophomore forwards, Livia Bernhardt and Alia Edmunds, were named to the MVL B Division Second Team.

The D-I girls’ hockey coaches named Tiger senior defender Abby Gleason to the Second Team D-I All-State Team.

Lindholm (Continued from Page 1B) imposing to this country mouse from Vermont.

It was easy to negotiate, with the Alamo itself the centerpiece, right smack in the middle of downtown.

All the adjacent areas and venues — hotels, restaurants, bars — were festooned with banners and posters celebrating the four teams there to compete for the national championship. Throngs of hoop fans everywhere.

The serpentine River Walk for which San Antonio is justly famous was full of basketball zealots in the team colors of the final four: scarlet and gold for Chicago Loyola, bright red and blue for Kansas, maize and blue for Michigan, and navy for Villanova.

They strolled along its meandering length in sunny, high 70s weather, dining or having a cold drink at one of the outdoor restaurants concentrated near city center.

When partisans of one team met fellow partisans, they gloried in their immediate bond, exchanging high fives and noisy greetings. There were more men 6’6” or taller in San Antonio the weekend before last than any city in the world.

James and Pete Hare were decked out each day in their Villanova gear. Pete grew up in Philly and has maintained a keen allegiance, and James was born there — loyalty to Philadelphia teams is his birthright.

Son Peter and I found ourselves in the midst of “Go ‘Nova” fervor.

San Antonio was entirely given over to basketball, and such a positive atmosphere prevailed.

Lots of families were taking it all in. At “Fan Fest” in the enormous convention center, hordes of kids

THIS IS WHAT it looks like when you are watching a basketball game with 68,000 of your closest friends.

participated in basketball events and activities all day long.

Oh yes, the basketball games.

When I suggested to Pete Hare that the games really were secondary to the spectacle, he vigorously disagreed. After all, his Villanova Wildcats were playing, first knocking off Kansas, and then Michigan in the National Championship game.

Villanova proved decisively they were the best team in the country.

There was great joy in section 312, our section, the nosebleed seats, third tier. We were a long way indeed from the action on the floor, but that really didn’t matter.

There were 68,000 people at the game. Imagine that. It was actually possible to watch the action down below us on the court. Or, if we chose, we could watch the game on the big screen suspended high above the action, about eye level for us.

The atmosphere in the arena was electric. I didn’t even object to the “media timeouts,” eight in all, each

three minutes or longer, 24 minutes in a 40-minute game. At home, when I watch tournament games on television, I am infuriated by these interruptions of play, as commercial after commercial comes on. Makes me want to kill my TV. In the actual arena, there was lots going on: the college bands were playing lively music, cheerleaders were doing their acrobatic thing on the court, interesting basketball stuff was projected on the big screen: the time went by fast.

All in all, we had a great time.

Peter, my son, will be 23 next month. A child of my second marriage, I was 50 when he was born. He is out of school now, his adult life lies ahead of him, and he’s talking about starting out come fall in a place far from Middlebury, his home.

So was this father-son basketball adventure in San Antonio a good idea?

It was a blessing.

4/19 Mt. Abe at VUHS..................... 4:30 PM 4/20 OV at Springfield..................... 4:30 PM Track 4/17 Mt. Abe at Burlington............... 3:30 PM 4/17 MUHS at South Burlington...... 3:30 PM 4/19 VUHS at CVU.......................... 3:30 PM COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse 4/14 Trinity at Midd............................... 2 PM 4/15 Hamilton at Midd........................... 1 PM 4/21 Midd. at Tufts................................ 2 PM Baseball 4/13 Amherst at Midd............................ 4 PM 4/14 Amherst at Midd. (2)..................... Noon 4/15 Midd. at Plymouth St.................... 1 PM

4/17 Midd. at Norwich...................... 3:30 PM 4/19 Midd. at Castleton......................... 4 PM 4/21 Bowdoin at Midd. ......................... 4 PM 4/22 Bowdoin at Midd. (2)..................... Noon Men’s Lacrosse 4/14 Midd. at Trinity.............................. 2 PM 4/21 Tufts at Midd................................. 1 PM Softball 4/13 Hamilton at Midd........................... 5 PM 4/14 Hamilton at Midd. (2).................... Noon 4/16 Midd. at Johnson (2)................ 3:30 PM 4/18 Union at Midd. (2).................... 3:30 PM 4/20 Midd. at Williams.......................... 5 PM 4/21 Midd. at Williams (2)..................... Noon Late events occurred after deadline.

Schedule (Continued from Page 1B)

Baseball 4/17 VUHS at Fairfax....................... 4:30 PM 4/18 OV at Fair Haven..................... 4:30 PM 4/19 MUHS at Spaulding................. 4:30 PM 4/19 Mt. Abe at VUHS..................... 4:30 PM Softball 4/12 MUHS at Essex....................... 4:30 PM 4/12 CVU at VUHS.......................... 4:30 PM 4/14 VUHS at MUHS...........................11 AM 4/17 Mt. Abe at Colchester.............. 4:30 PM 4/17 Milton at MUHS....................... 4:30 PM 4/17 VUHS at Fairfax....................... 4:30 PM 4/18 OV at Fair Haven..................... 4:30 PM 4/19 MUHS at Spaulding................. 4:30 PM

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and “Dexter.” But she is more likely to take the family dogs for a walk, paint or pick up her saxophone — she successfully auditioned for a Castleton University festival and is (Continued from Page 1B) a Mount Abe music program officer. the idea of playing at outside back.

“In my free time I’ll practice for But they saw it as what was going fun.

I also play a little piano, so it’s to be best for the team, and they something that I enjoy. It’s not like embraced the role,” he said. work for me. It’s the same deal with Track Coach Julie Potter praised art. I took AP Art last year. There Pitts for being “humble,” hardwas a lot of homework, but it was working and smart. something I enjoyed, so it didn’t “She takes the extra time to, seem I was working that hard,” Pitts obviously, train, but also to look into said. different strategies and techniques Her artwork, particularly a snow for certain events that she does,” sculpture of a horsehead seen by her Potter said. “She’s open to any ideas godfather, Richmond dentist Howard we have, and she’s quick to think of Novak, led in part to her interest in something. If we’re trying to throw dentistry. Pitts ended up shadowing in something different for a workout Novak. she’s right there to say, ‘OK, why “He saw some of my artwork. And don’t we try this?’” he said you would Corrigan called Pitts “very positive make an amazing and encouraging of her teammates,” dentist because and he entrusts her with organizing you are math and team activities. science-y, but “She’s got all those traits of a also you have the student athlete that you want them artistic eye and to come out of here with. She just can work with had them early on in her high school LYDIA PITTS HAS earned eight Division II hurdling titles and another nine in long jump and triple jump. She your hands,” Pitts career,” Corrigan said. hopes to add to those totals this spring and plans to compete in track and field for Bowdoin College over the said.

STEM, DENTISTRY, PEOPLE People also next four years.

In the classroom part of that Independent file photos/Trent Campbell fascinate Pitts. career, Pitts, who is third in her class She has traveled afterwards.” her? in terms of grades, said her favorite interpretation.

“I do like having answers,” she Even her mother gently teases her “They would tell you that I’m a with her family course has been AP Biology. said.

“It’s fun to come to a conclusion for not fitting the stereotype. goofball and extremely awkward, to the Galapagos “I definitely love math and science. and “It’s funny. Whenever I go out and both in social interactions and Islands I struggle a little more in history that I figured out myself.”

Nicaragua and If Pitts already does not sound like hang out with friends or something, physical activities,” Pitts said. “I like and the languages,” she said. “I like worked with understanding why things work. And a typical student, there is also this: my mom is like, ‘Lydia, you’re being to think my awkward is charming.” residents Pitts likes some popular music local with math you can figure things out.” “My ideal job is to be a dentist, so I a normal high-schooler. Congrats,’” on her friends’ Spotify lists, citing on school and Pitts agreed she might prefer things think I will continue on the math and Pitts laughed.

How would her friends describer Drake and Lorde. But when asked housing projects, cut-and-dried rather than subject to science route through college and what she has on her phone she and spent a month in China on a cultural exchange trip. changed directions midstream.

“I really like things I can sing The people were more interesting to. I’m not very tuneful, but oldies than the places, she said.

“It’s really cool to be able to see NEW HAVEN — Over the past three-and-a-half years • Earning several academic awards, including those are fun, like ‘Come On, Eileen’ or interesting things, ‘Runaround Sue,’” Mount Abraham Union High School senior Lydia Pitts for “Exemplary Scientific Mind” and “Outstanding but it’s even cooler Pitts said.

“There’s has established herself as one of the most accomplished Mathematician.”

“She’s got all those to connect with athletes in the school’s history.

• Playing alto and tenor saxophone in the Mount Abe also some pop music them on a personal Pitts, who will attend Bowdoin College this fall, has jazz band and being selected to play in the Castleton I’m interested in, but traits of a student level,” Pitts said. “I I kind of like books athlete that you earned 17 Division II indoor and outdoor track and University Honors Band Festival and serving as a music like hearing people’s on tape more.” want them to come stories and learning field titles (and counting as she enters her final outdoor department officer.

The last book she out of here with. season), is a four-year starter for the Mount Abe girls’ • Founding the Mount Abe Athletic Leadership about them.” read was “Beneath a soccer team who helped the team win the 2014 D-II title, Council, which promotes attendance at home games and She just had them LOOKING Scarlet Sky,” about a and has a grade-point average that puts her third in her leadership on school teams.

AHEAD early on in her high teenage boy in World class.

• Serving as current president of Mount Abe’s National Pitts will attend school career.”

War II Italy who Her résumé also includes a long list of other Honor Society and her class during her freshman year.

Bowdoin College resists the Nazis.

— Coach Dustin accomplishments and community service projects, • Captaining the Eagle outdoor track team for four “He becomes a including: years and the girls’ soccer team for two years. She is a Corrigan this fall. Her track ability will translate • Earning D-II outdoor track and field titles in the long three-time D-II all-state soccer player and has twice led spy and leads Jews well to NESCAC across the border … jump and triple jump in 2016 and 2017; in the 100-meter or tied for the team lead in scoring. competition: Her I really liked it,” she hurdles in 2015, 2016 and 2017; and in the 300 hurdles • Attending the American Legion Auxiliary Green results in her events would place her in 2015. She holds school records in all those events, Mountain Girls State and Vermont State Athletic said.

In her rare free time she might play in the league’s top 10. except the triple jump, and has qualified for the New Director’s Student-Athlete Leadership conferences, and Bowdoin means the end of a game on her phone, and on TV she England meet in all those events at least once. serving as a HOBY (Hugh O’Brian) Youth Leadership her soccer career. The sports are has enjoyed “Bones,” “White Collar” • Earning D-II indoor track and field titles in the 55 Conference Ambassador. hurdles, long jump and triple jump in 2015, 2016 and • Traveling to the Galapagos Island and Nicaragua on 2017. She owns the D-II indoor records in all of those service projects and to China on a month-long cultural events and was named the “Indoor Track and Field exchange.

Female Athlete Of The Year” by track coaches in 2016.

• Being certified in First Aid and CPR.

Pitts

Pitts possesses long, diverse résumé

EAGLE SENIOR LYDIA Pitts, seen here in action against Middlebury, was a four-year starter and three-year Division II all-state player for the Mount Abe soccer team. Pitts mostly played forward and tied or led the Eagles in scoring twice, but also willingly moved back to defense as a junior.

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different, Pitts said, and she has cherished both.

Track and field is social, with downtime between events, and athletes tend to cheer for each other because they most often do not directly compete with each other.

“Everyone wants you to do your best, and you want other people to do their best. It’s friendly,” Pitts said. “That leaves a lot of room for me to be excited when other people do well. I definitely feel I’ve made a lot of friends through track from other schools.”

Pitts also enjoys track’s variety, and its self-reliance.

“You can find something you love.

I don’t particularly love running, just alone, but there are events that distract me, like hurdling and jumping,” Pitts said. “And I liked to be able to push myself, and not have my success directly dependent on other people’s hard work as well.”

In soccer s u c c e s s depends on competitiveness and teamwork; it offers different rewards.

“Scoring a goal, or having a teammate score a goal, and everyone runs in, that’s a feeling that you won’t necessarily get in track and field. Because there’s a sense of togetherness where your team is like, ‘We just did that,’” Pitts said.

Pitts is thrilled she did both sports.

“I appreciated how different they were, and I loved them each for their own reasons,” she said.

For her last weeks at Mount Abe Pitts said she has modest goals.

“I’d just like to have fun. I’d like people to remember me for the good things that I’ve done. I’d like to leave with people being happy, me included,” she said.

And for the great beyond?

“I’d like to have experiences in cities and suburbs, but I can see myself coming back to Vermont. I thought it was a good place to grow up,” Pitts said. “I foresee playing music and doing art and meeting interesting people. I’m very excited for what the future holds.”

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Ackermann, Sutton AVON, Colo. — Megan and Clark Sutton of Weybridge, Vt., and Jeff and Stephanie Ackermann of Huntley, Ill., are pleased to announce the marriage of Graham Sutton and Kelly Ackermann.

On March 20, 2018 Sutton and Ackermann were married on the Strawberry Park deck at Beaver Creek Ski Resort in Avon, Colo., followed by an intimate reception at Vin 48. The couple met in Avon, shortly after Sutton moved there in 2015. They share a love of the Rocky Mountains, attending concerts at outdoor venues, and snowboarding.

Sutton graduated from Middlebury Union High School in 2008 and Castleton State College

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LINCOLN — Calling all Green Up Day volunteers: Green Up Day will be held on Saturday, May 5, from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Lincoln Fire Station. Green Up Day is a statewide event that brings together community volunteers of all ages to help cleanup Lincoln’s roads.

This family-friendly event is a great way to get involved in our community. By working together with our friends and neighbors, we can help keep Lincoln beautiful.

After roadside cleanup is completed, there will be a Volunteer Appreciation Lunch, a table full of raffle items, and the ever-popular Kids Only Raffle, where we will again give away two Razor Kick A Scooters! (To be eligible for the raffle, kids must have participated in roadside cleanup.)

For the regular raffle, volunteers will receive one raffle ticket per bag that is brought back after cleanup.

The raffle will be held promptly at 12:45 p.m. You must be present to win raffle items.

I am looking for volunteers to help with roadside cleanup. If you are able to help this year, please email me at dawnyanks@gmail.com to ensure that you get the road/s that you want to cleanup. Haven’t participated in Green Up Day before?

Come join us, it’s always a fun time.

LCS NEWS: Tuesday, April 17, is an early release day. Dismissal is at 11:45 a.m. There will be no Expanded Learning Program.

REMINDER: Northern Flyer will be performing for the Burnham Hall Music Series on Saturday, April 14, at Burnham Hall. Doors open at 7 p.m. and showtime is 7:30 p.m. The cost is $10 for adults, kids and teens are free.

Until next time ... Enjoy the Little Things. Be Daring. Encourage One Another.

Vergennes Lions donate $2,000 to VARS VERGENNES — At the last meeting of the Vergennes Lions Club, President Debbie Brace presented a check for $2,000 to the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad to help them acquire a Nitronox Field Unit for administering nitrous oxide for pain control. Tom Leeman talked about how this will replace, in large part, the need for using

opioids for pain.

Nitrous oxide is an analgesic well suited for short scene times and rescue environments because the administration is by inhalation, and is used for short-term treatment of minor to moderate pain, and serves as a bridge to other pain management options. Administration of nitrous oxide provides significant

reduction in pain and anxiety, and it doesn’t require an IV. Leeman said that the unit costs about $3,750 plus another $2,250 for storage of the material.

Normally, one canister would be used three to four times, but on long drives it could take two canisters.

Having this unit will save the squad — and patients — money as well as reduce the need for addictive forms of pain control. Sara Rivers, the VARS chief, thanked the club for being the first donors toward this effort.

Meanwhile, Sara Audet of Addison County Home Health and Hospice was also at the meeting to talk about her agency’s efforts to help folks throughout Addison County remain in their homes as their health declines. Last year, workers put on over 731,000 miles helping care for patients, including 182 patients in Vergennes.

A few years back, Wayland’s Wish was started to help meet a wish of folks in hospice care, Audet explained. She said the funds donated helped fulfill last wishes of several folks. This included a desired last meal, a toy for a grandchild who was no longer going to have her grandmother around, gas to help get a daughter home to see her passing parent and Christmas lights to help brighten a home.

At the end of Audet’s comments, President Brace presented her with VERGENNES LIONS PRESIDENT Debbie Brace, left, presents a check a check for $1,000 to continue to for $2,000 to Sara Rivers and Tom Leeman of the Vergennes Area Res- help meet final wishes. cue Squad.

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SALISBURY — Landfill admin- more information and to arrange drop istrator Pedie O’Brian announces off of items call Nancy at 352-4375. that the town will have a hazardous Acclaimed pianist Diana Fanning waste collection on Saturday, April will present a concert at the Salisbury 21, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the land- Meeting House on Saturday, May fill. Information regarding acceptable 5, at 7:30 p.m. She will play music items will be sent to each house- by composers Beethoven, Chopin, hold and will also be available this Debussy and Villalobos. This concert, Saturday, April 14, at the landfill. sponsored by the Salisbury Summer Green Up Coordinator Chris Series and Camp Point Counter Turner reminds folks that Green Up Point will benefit the restoration of Day is Saturday, May 5. She will be the Meeting House with a suggested at Kampersville Store on Route 53 donation of $20 at the door. from 8 to 10 a.m. to pass out route Students, teachers and support staff assignments and bags. at the Salisbury school are covering The Salisbury Congregational the walls with slips of paper listing Church is seeking donations for a things each individual is grateful for the hours of 7:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. rummage sale to be held at the church in their life. The walls are disappearMonday through Friday. on Friday, May 4, and Saturday, May ing as more and more pieces of paper PRE-SCHOOL PROGRAM 5, beginning at 9 a.m. both days. For appear.

There are limited openings for the 2018/2019 school year, so attendees will be chosen by lottery. To be eligible, students must be three

by Sept. 1, 2018. Middlebury and East Middlebury applications will be given priority consideration. For a lottery application contact Mary Hogan School. All applications must be received by May 1 to be consid- • Erin and John Eugair Jr. of Florence, March 20, a girl, Elizabeth ered. The Mary Hogan Preschool is a Walker Eugair. no-fee program that operates between • McKinzie Gilbert of New Haven, April 4, a boy, Wryker Raszmus the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m., Gilbert.

Monday through Thursday, and • Mollie (Zanoni) and Lincoln Sprague of Monkton, April 7, a boy, follows the school year calendar.

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Mary Hogan registration open MIDDLEBURY — Registration is now open for Mary Hogan School Kindergarten and its school-based 3and 4-year-old preschool program for the 2018/2019 school year.

KINDERGARTEN If you have a student who will turn five on or before Sept. 1, 2018, and you have not received enrollment paperwork from the school, please contact Mary Hogan School to register. Appointments to visit the classrooms on May 16, are being scheduled now and there will be a parent information night on May 31.

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SARA AUDET, receives a $1,000 check to for Addison County Home Health and Hospice.

for the Annual Lions Car Raffle would soon be available. Members were encouraged to sell their 50/50 Scholarship Tickets for a May drawing to help graduating seniors with scholarships. Members were also reminded to start looking for items for the Annual Lions’ Charity Auction in July.

Attorney general to tour state, listen to seniors MONTPELIER — Vermont Attorney General TJ Donovan has announced that his office will be undertaking a statewide listening tour to engage older Vermonters about their most pressing concerns. That tour will bring Donovan or his representatives to Addison County on Monday, April 16; the time and place were not available by press time.

Currently, over one-third of Vermonters are 55 and older. Many older Vermonters are thriving. Others suffer from financial insecurity, isolation, lack of access to needed care and services, and memory loss, among other challenges. Some suffer from neglect, exploitation, and abuse.

To better understand and respond to the most urgent concerns of older Vermonters, Donovan has asked representatives from his Human Service, Public Protection and Criminal divisions to visit each of Vermont’s 14 counties this April and May to explore the same two questions: 1.

What are older Vermonters’ greatest vulnerabilities and needs?

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How can Vermont’s systems for elder support and protection be improved?

Throughout their listening tour, AGO staff will meet with older Vermonters at senior centers, senior meal sites, and elderly housing facilities. Additionally, they will meet with individuals and organizations that provide services to older Vermonters: case managers and social workers from Area Agencies on Aging, Support and Services at Home (SASH), home health agencies and hospitals, and elder advocates, among others.

“Our goal is simple,” Attorney General Donovan said. “We want to understand the most pressing challenges of our state’s aging population, particularly those who are most vulnerable. It’s our responsibility to protect and support older Vermonters.

Based on what we learn and the relationships we form and strengthen in the process, our office will seek to refresh and refine its elder protection efforts.”

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm.

Women of AA (Step/Speak‑ er), Middlebury, The Turn‑ ing Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. 7:30‑8:30pm. Big Book Meeting, New Haven, Con‑ gregational Church, Vil‑ lage Green, 7:30‑8:30pm.

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

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Daily Reflection Meeting, Ver‑ gennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm.

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

Spiritual Awakening Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, St. Ste‑ phen’s Church, Main St. (on the Green) 7:30‑8:30am.

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. (en‑ ter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confidential, we share our experience, strength and hope to solve our com‑ mon problems. Babysitting available.

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

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 4 WEDNESDAY. Big Book Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 7:15‑8:15am. Discus‑ sion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. 12 Step Meeting, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7‑8pm. 12 Step Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 7‑8pm.

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

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

Big Book Meeting, Bristol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 6‑7pm. Discussion Meet‑ ing, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm.

M A K I N G R E C O V E RY EASIER (MRE). Wednes‑ days, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turn‑ ing Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facili‑ tated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and discuss‑ ing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understanding 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.

VA L L E Y H A N D Y M A N SERVICE: electrical, plumbing, carpentry. Re‑ solve projects and that hon‑ ey‑to‑do list today. Property management upon request.

Mowing, landscaping, snow removal. Quality work‑ manship and references.

802‑458‑2402.

FREE; LARGE AMOUNT of pressure treated lum‑ ber currently in a struc‑ ture. Must take all, week of April 23. Call for details.

802‑545‑2348.

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

References and insured.

802‑458‑2402.

MOVING; CLEANING OUT house and sheds be‑ fore moving. Most items free. Saturday, April 14, 9am‑3pm. 36 Wing Road, Ferrisburgh.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

O P I AT E O V E R D O S E RESCUE KITS are dis‑ tributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turningpointaddisonvt.org.

Services

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PROFESSIONAL PAINT‑ ING; interior/exterior, resi‑ dential/commercial, pres‑ sure washing. 20 years’ experience. Best prices.

References. 802‑989‑5803.

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

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services

Learn more about local volunteer opportunities!

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

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) Monday’s at 5:30pm. Located at the Bristol Federated Church in the conference room, 37 North St., Bristol. Enter the church from Church St.

Free

B E E K E E P IN G C LA S S ‑ MAY 19‑20 in Lincoln taught by Ross Conrad. $120 fee includes Natu‑ ral Beekeeping book. Call 802‑349‑4279 to register.

STOREFRONT LOCA‑ TION, LOCATION, LO‑ CATION. In the heart of downtown Middlebury.

Approved for seating for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of possibilities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

Help Wanted 802 FENCE IS hiring. We are looking for seasonal fence installers; experience a plus but willing to train.

Solid, competitive wages.

Must have a valid driver’s license/CDL a plus. Heavy equipment operation a plus.

Solid work ethic. Consent to background check. Please call 1‑802‑897‑5658 for more information.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

EVERGREEN PRE‑ SCHOOL IS hiring a f u l l t i m e Te a c h e r ’s Aide for the 2018‑19 s c h o o l y e a r. D e t a i l s : evergreenpreschoolvt.com/ teachers or contact Ashley Bessette at 877‑6702.

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FULL TIME COOK 40 hr position. Pay based on ex‑ perience. Benefits pack‑ age, health, life, dental, vi‑ sion, 401k, paid vacations.

Applicant must pass drug and background check. In‑ terested applicants should send their resumes to: ma1104@metxcorp.com.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

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GREEN MOUNTAIN ELEC‑ TRIC Supply is looking for a full‑time driver in our Middlebury, VT store. In‑ dividual needs to have a current license, a clean driving record, able to lift and/or move up to 50 lbs. and be self motivated.

Please apply online at: gmes.com/careers.

Help Wanted

DR Power JOB FAIR! Wednesday, April 18th 2pm - 6pm 75 Meigs Rd. Vergennes, VT

Entry Level, full time

EXECUTIVE CO-DIRECTOR The Addison County Parent/Child Center (ACPCC) is seeking a new CoDirector to lead this well-known and highly respected non-profit located in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1980, the ACPCC is a member of the Vermont Parent Child Center Network dedicated to providing family support services, therapeutic childcare and education, prevention and support for youth, adults and children in Addison County.

This is a great opportunity for an energetic and engaged community leader who is passionate about making a difference in the community by leading an organization in a co-directorship model. The successful candidate will possess strong communication skills, a team-oriented work style, a passion for working with families and children, and a dedication to social justice issues. The candidate will have experience working with human services and state agencies, experience in all aspects of human resource and personnel management and experience in managing and overseeing data collections and analysis. Candidates must also demonstrate understanding of financial management of multiple funding streams and fund development.

Preference will be given to candidates with a graduate degree in social work, nonprofit management, education, or a related field.

For more information, including a full job description, please contact Donna Bailey at dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org

On the spot interviews Paid holidays & time off Product discounts!

Questions?

802.870.1491 -orjobs@drpower.com

Services

Can’t make it?

Apply online! www.chp.com/careers

Looking for something different?

Your local newspaper is your BEST RESOURCE for local job opportunities!

Interested applicants are expected to submit their letter of interest, resume, and contact information by April 30, 2018, sent by regular mail to: ACPCC Search Committee, P.O. Box 646 Middlebury, VT 05753 or by email to: dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org

Services

SIGN N BONUO S!

Services

Rokeby Museum Guide Training Begins April 28th

If you are 55 and older, contact RSVP @ 388-7044, rsvpaddison@ volunteersinvt.org or visit www.volunteermatch.org.

Volunteers of any age can contact The United Way of Addison County’s Volunteer Center at www. unitedwayaddisoncounty.org and click on VOLUNTEER!

Four generations of the Robinson family lived in the house that is now central to Rokeby Museum, a National Historic Landmark comprised of nine historic buildings, miles of walking trails and a new gallery and education center. Robinson family members, generation by generation, made significant contributions as Abolitionists, farmers, writers, artists and active members of their community. Today their stories are being told – via exhibits, programs and guided tours - to inspire respect for human potential and the environment. Volunteers can make a difference too, by helping to tell the Robinson family stories. The museum is now accepting new volunteers to conduct guided tours for the 2018 season.

Tours are given Fridays through Mondays beginning May 20 and running through October 28. Volunteer tour guides need only commit to providing tours two days a month, but once youʼve attended the intriguing three-session guide training program, Rokeby thinks youʼll want to do more – and learn more. To learn more about this opportunity, please contact RSVP of Addison County at 388-7044 or rsvpaddison@volunteersinvt.org.

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Seasonal positions in our Vergennes call center!

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) big book meet‑ ing. Thursday’s, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services

Services

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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

Opportunities

Public Meetings

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DIRECTORY

Accounting

• accounting • advertising • appliance repair • auto glass • automotive • business cards

Masonry

Equipment Rentals

Rene Many - CTPA, Inc. Tax Preparation & Accounting

Corporate Partnerships, Small Businesses & Personal Returns

Call 758-2000 Today!

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WINNER of “Best Local Contractor”

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• concrete compactors • backhoes

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Advertising

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A friendly, professional, Waste Management – Roll-off container service We have the lift for you!

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We haveScissor the Lifts liftupfor Fast, friendly, reliable service & competitive rates.40’ to 80’ manlifts to 32’ you! mini excavator Estimates Windows • Vinyl siding • Garages Roofs • Additions • Decks

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Heating &uptoAC Scissor Lifts Lifts up to 32’ 32’ Scissor

42’ material forklifts 42’ material Fork lifts up forklifts to 15,000 lbs.

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mini excavator References mini excavator excavator air Compressor Fully excavator air Compressor Compressor excavator air Skid Steer Insured Ductwork Design • Sealing Skid Steer Steer Skid Fabrication • Installation

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Washers Refridgerators Dishwashers Disposals

Dryers Ranges Microwaves Air Conditioners

Jack Alexander

982 Briggs Hill Road • Bristol

DaviD vaillancourt Painting & Carpentry

802-352-4829

New Construction Remodels and Additions Window and Siding Installation Smaller Home Repairs

2321 W. Salisbury Rd.Salisbury, VT davama53@myfairpoint.net

• Interior/Staining • Drywall • Taping • Building Maintenance • Fully Insured Dense Pack Cellulose • Blown In Insulation Complete Air Sealing

Plumbing

802-545-2251 • Maurice Plouffe 1736 Quaker Village Road, Weybridge, VT 05753

Desabrais Means Glass & Affordable Service

• Windshield Repair • Insulated Glass • Plate Glass • Window Glass • Plexiglass • Safety Glass • Mirrors • Auto Glass • Storm Windows • Screen Repairs • Custom Shower Door Enclosures Vinyl Replacement windows and Complete Installation

Lumber

Insurance Approved discounts

Middlebury, VT 05753 • 388-9049

Consignment Business Cards ards Business C der r Made to O

Labels & Letterhead too!

COMPASS TREASURE CHEST

Where you’ll find a treasure in every corner.

We sell and consign collectibles, antiques, dishes, tools, furniture, re-usable, re-purposed, art/craft/jewelry items and so much more!

333 Jones Drive, Brandon, VT 05733 802-465-8436 • compasstreasurechestconsign@gmail.com

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Call Vicki at 388-4944 or stop by our office in the Marble Works between 8am & 5pm Monday- Friday.

Quaker Village Carpentry Siding, Windows, Garages, Decks & Porches New Construction, Renovations and Repairs

Maurice plouffe

802-545-2251 1736 Quaker Village Road Weybridge, VT 05753

 Rough Lumber Native Vermonter

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 Pine Siding

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Masonry Fine Dry Stone Masonry

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Engineering 1438 S. Brownell Rd. • PO Box 159 • Williston, VT 05495 802-862-5590 • www.gmeinc.biz

Jamie Masefield

Certified by the Dry Stone Wallers Association of Great Britain

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“INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS WITH A COMMON SENSE APPROACH DELIVERED TO OUR CLIENTS IN A PROFESSIONAL, COST EFFECTIVE AND PERSONAL MANNER”

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Alan Huizenga, P.E., President Kevin Camara, P.E. Jamie Simpson, P. E. • Middlebury Brad Washburn, P. E. • Montpelier

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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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DIRECTORY

Business Service Roofing

• renewable energy • roofing • septic & water • siding

STORAGE 4 Sizes ~ Self-locking units Hardscrabble Rd., Bristol

Monthly prices

Celebrating 31 Years

6’x12’ $30 • 8’x12’ $45 10’x12’ $55 • 12’x21’ $75

Environmental Consultants – Licensed Designers Steve Revell CPG, LD#178 BW Jeremy Revell LD#611 BW • Tyler Maynard LD#597 B • Water Supply - Location, Development and Permitting • On-Site Wastewater Design • Single & Multiple Lot Subdivision • Property Development & Permitting • State and Local Permitting • Underground Storage Tank Removal & Assessment

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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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Brownswelding.com

Also a good selection of used vehicles

25 Yrs Experience 60’ bucket truck wood chipper available Fully Insured Free Estimates

44 School House Hill Road, E. Middlebury

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roofing Michael Doran

Brett Sargent owner/operator

Marcel Brunet & Sons, Inc.

• Standing seam • Standing seam ••Asphalt shingles Asphalt shingles Slate •• Slate

Short Surveying, inc.

Windows & Siding Vergennes, VT

as seen at Addison County Field Days!

Serving Addison County Since 1991

Siding • Windows Additions • Garages • Decks

Timothy L. Short, L.S. Property Line Surveys • Topographical Surveys FEMA Elevation Certificates

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Free estimates estimates •• Fully Fully Insured Insured Free

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Stamps

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Phone (802) 537-3555

LAROSE SURVEYS, P.C. Ronald L. LaRose, L.S. • Kevin R. LaRose, L.S.

Land Surveying/Septic Design “We will take you through the

Rubbish & Recycling Moose Rubbish and Recyling Randall Orvis

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permitting process!”

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Window Treatments

Available at the Addison Independent in the Marble Works, Middlebury

388-4944

Need it...

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Barnard & Gervais, LLC Land Surveying - Water & Septic Designs State & Local Permitting Environmental Consulting

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Tree Service

Septic & Water

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• specialized services • stamps • storage

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Licensed Designer

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Laundromats

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Odd Jobs

Call today to list YOUR ad in our Business & Service Directory

388-4944

Painting

Sawmills

Winter Products & Services

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Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

ADDISON COUNTY COM‑ MUNITY Trust (ACCT), a nonprofit committed to providing quality afford‑ able housing, is seeking a full‑time Property Man‑ agement Assistant in Ver‑ gennes. This articulate self‑starter provides sup‑ port to the property man‑ agement team, processing applications, managing the wait‑list, and documenting requests for work orders.

The Assistant generates a variety of mailings and assists in the resolution of resident issues in order to provide a high‑quality living experience. The ideal candi‑ date will be self‑motivated, flexible, team‑oriented and provide excellent customer service. 1‑3 years of ad‑ ministrative experience required; associates de‑ gree preferred. Excellent benefits. Send cover letter and resume to jobs@addi‑ sontrust.org by 4/15. EOE.

ADDISON COUNTY COM‑ MUNITY Trust is seeking a full-time Maintenance Technician for our afford‑ able residential properties in Middlebury and Vergennes.

Individual must be able to perform maintenance & re‑ pair work, respond at odd hours, work within budgets & time constraints & maintain records. High School and minimum 3 years related experience, reliable trans‑ portation & insurance, valid driver’s license, clean driving record, your own hand tools & ability to move appliances & lift up to 100Ibs up or down stairs. For details visit ad‑ disontrust.org/news-events/ maintenance-tech-opening.

Cover letter and resume to: PO Box 156, Vergennes, VT 05491 or jobs@addisontrust. org. EOE.

BOOKKEEPER (VER‑ GENNES, VT): Immediate opening for full‑time book‑ keeper in support of Ad‑ dison County Community Trust’s (ACCT’s) mission of providing affordable hous‑ ing. Under the supervision of the Director of Finance, the bookkeeper is responsi‑ ble for maintaining financial records of the organization and affiliated housing enti‑ ties. Proven bookkeeping experience required; As‑ sociate’s Degree or higher preferred. Must have a strong sense of teamwork with the ability to work both independently and as part of a team; flexibility and good judgment; ambition to develop new skills and be highly organized. EOE. Respond with resume and cover letter by 4/15/18 to jobs@addisontrust.org.

BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

Help Wanted

ORGANIC GREENHOUSE‑ full‑time job. Starting now in Charlotte. Harvesting and delivering. Email resume to: misktome@gmavt.net.

DENTAL OFFICE SEEK‑ ING per diem hygienist in Vergennes to fill in periodi‑ cally. Please email your CV and availability to drcongal‑ ton@yahoo.com .

Help Wanted

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POSITION OPEN FOR general farm work. Focus on crops, machinery and young dairy calves. Ex‑ perience and references required. 6 day work week.

Salary reflective of perfor‑ mance. Call 802‑349‑8520.

Help Wanted

city Manager Needed

The City of Vergennes, Vermont (population 2,500) provides a talented city management professional the opportunity to lead the day-to-day operation of Vermont’s oldest city. Close to the shores of Lake Champlain and an easy drive to the college towns of Burlington and Middlebury, Vergennes is a thriving community situated in the heart of the Champlain Valley operating under a City Charter with a CouncilManager form of government. The City Council is comprised of a Mayor and six Council Members who appoint and supervise a City Manager to manage operations. The City Manager has authority over the City’s 17 full-time employees and is responsible for an annual operating of budget of $2,138,942. To view the complete posting, the job description for this position and application instructions, visit: www.vergennes.org.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

For Rent

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THE LARGEST, FAMILY owned, Commercial Clean‑ ing Company in Addison County is continuing to grow. We are looking to hire independent, self moti‑ vated and reliable individu‑ als who are able to work nights. All applicants must pass a background check.

Applications are available online at mrmikescleaning‑ servicevt.com or in person at Mr. Mike’s Cleaning Ser‑ vice, Monday‑Friday from 9am‑3pm. $1,500 Sign on Bonus to eligible individu‑ als.

1,800 SQ. FT. WARE‑ HOUSE commercial space.

As is or renovate to suit.

Creek Road, Middlebury.

802‑558‑6092.

FARM HANDY‑PERSON needed at our fruit and veg‑ etable farm, Brandon, VT. Seeking mechanically inclined individual. Job involves an ever‑changing range of activi‑ ties: shop work, maintaining equipment, light construction, tractor field work. Flexible part or full‑time depending on right applicant. Must be self‑motivated, reliable, have valid drivers license. Submit resume to: woodsmarketgar‑ den@me.com or email for an application.

K.A. BAGLEY INC. is hiring for lawn care/landscaping.

Need to be honest, reliable, valid driver’s license. Call 352‑9088 to apply.

RETAIL SALES STAFF‑ Looking for two friendly salespeople to work in a Vermont products/gift shop in Bristol Suites in down‑ town Bristol. Meet new peo‑ ple, help with re‑stocking and store displays. Hours would be generally from 2 to 6 pm three or four days a week, including some weekend hours. Approxi‑ mately, 12‑16 hrs/week.

Starting pay is $12/hr.

Send resume to carol@ wellsmountain.com.

SEEKING AUTO TECH for general service work, tire work, brakes and sus‑ pension. Candidate must be responsible and work well with others. Requires a clean driving record and Vermont state inspection license or able to obtain an inspection license and own basic tools. Interested candidates should contact Randy at Randy’s Middle‑ bury Service Center by phone at 802‑388‑2067 or via email to Randys.rf@ gmail.com be sure to in‑ culde your name and phone number.

SUMMER GARDENING HELP NEEDED for Pan‑ ton Ridge. Raking, mulch‑ ing, planting and care of flowers and garden. Also, looking for lawn care maintenance. Full time.

Drivers license a must.

May call 802‑475‑2974 or 802‑363‑0082.

Help Wanted

WHISTLEPIG CURRENT‑ LY HIRING FOR full time bottler. Eye for detail and accuracy. 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 Sale DEBBIE MEYER’S GREEN BOXES, food storage con‑ tainers. Never used. 20 containers with lids. $20.

802‑382‑9105.

FOR SALE: LAZY BOY sectional sofa, excellent condition. Color blue, Lshape. 10ftx8ft. Has both a recliner and sofa bed.

Must pick up. Price: $100.

Call 388-8035.

T E R R A C O T TA C O L ‑ ORED, food grade 55 gallon pickle barrels with spin‑off covers. Hundreds of uses. On sale for $25. each. 802‑453‑4235.

THE BARREL MAN; plas‑ tic and metal barrels, 275 gallon food‑grade totes. 55 gallon plastic food‑grade barrels with spin‑on cov‑ ers. Great for rain barrels.

A barrel for every need.

802‑453‑4235.

U S E D R E S TA U R A N T EQUIPMENT plus chairs, tables and hood systems.

802‑388‑4831.

Help Wanted

PT/NIGHTS & WEEKENDS We are seeking people with winning personalities and great attitudes to join our team.

Part-time positions available with flexible scheduling.

Must be willing to work nights & weekends.

Part-time Cashiers & Deli Employees needed.

Apply in person or pick up an application at: Maplefields –– Shoreham Service Center

Corner of Routes 22A and 74 • Shoreham, VT EOE

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Full-time Delivery Driver CDL-Clean Record Apply in person: 2107 James Road • Weybridge, VT 802.545.2119

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2 BEDROOM CONDO‑ Country Commons, Ver‑ gennes. 1 bay in garage.

No pets. No smoking. $1,300/mo. plus heat and utilities. 347‑443‑1682.

CHARMING STUDIO APARTMENT in the heart of downtown Middlebury.

Tile bath and kitchen. Avail‑ able immediately. Baba, 802‑388‑6456.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit. Some utilities in‑ cluded. 388‑0401.

MIDDLEBURY 1, 2 AND 3 BR apartments available.

All inclusive except inter‑ net/TV. $1250. ‑ $1800.

Call 802‑388‑4831.

P.O. Box 156 • Vergennes, VT 05491 MIDDLEBURY, VT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT Income Limits Apply. All basic utilities included except electricity.

Modern apartment, carpet/tile/hardwood floors, laundry facility and elevator onsite. Covered parking garage. Includes trash, recycling, lawn care, snow removal, professional management and 24-hour emergency maintenance. References required.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Ad‑ dison. Available storage space in my barn for sum‑ mer/winter storage. The barn is structurally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or run‑ ning water. The barn is also available for lease. The en‑ trance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

EXECUTIVE 1 BEDROOM APT with office (not a bed‑ room) in Brandon. Beauti‑ ful location, close to town.

All brand new. Complete with all appliances: stove, refrigerator, microwave, dishwasher, washer and dryer; energy star rated.

Long term lease. No smoking and no pets on property. $850/mo. plus utilities. Credit check, refer‑ ences and deposit required.

802‑352‑6678.

FOR RENT: BRIDPORT, Commercial/retail office.

1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. tbrought@middle‑ bury.edu.

F U R N I S H E D A PA R T‑ MENTS. BEAUTIFULLY furnished 1 and 2 bedroom suites in restored 1840 home. Private baths. 1 suite with private entrance and deck. Shared kitchen. Situ‑ ated in stunning wooded area overlooking the Mid‑ dlebury river and adjacent to the National Forest. 5 miles to downtown Middle‑ bury. Included; utilities, wifi, w/d, parking. $800.‑$1000./ month. Security and refer‑ ences required. Call/text Susan at 802‑989‑8941.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown.

A p p l i a n c e s , o ff s t r e e t parking, lease. No pets.

Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

Monument Farms

For Rent

To request an application visit www.addisontrust.org, call (802) 877-2626 or email info@addisontrust.org Equal Housing Opportunity

For Rent MIDDLEBURY: IN TOWN 2 bedroom ground floor apartment with porch near Marble Works. Includes heat, off‑street parking, large lawn/garden space, storage, plowing and lawn maintenance. No pets or smoking, requires lease, references and security deposit. $900/month. Avail‑ able May 1. Call or text 802‑355‑4164 for more information.

NEW HAVEN, VERMONT ‑ s p a c i o u s 2 n d f l o o r, one‑bedroom apartment located on 12 private acres on the New Haven River.

Includes bedroom, small office, living room, dining space, kitchen and full bath.

Building is separate from main house. Small pond on property. Includes heat and electricity – shared laundry.

Private driveway. Located only 5 minutes north of downtown Middlebury.

Available May 15th. Can show after April 8th. Call for appointment and details – 2 days’ notice for show‑ ing, please. Photos avail‑ able. Monthly rental: $1095 Deposit $1095. No pets, please. No smoking. Call 802‑388‑0504 for appoint‑ ment and details or email: percival@madriver.com.

MIDDLEBURY: RETAIL/ OFFICE space for rent.

1,303 square feet. Front door parking. Contact Eric at 388‑6054. (Countryside Carpet and Paint)

MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE for rent. 400 sq.ft., second floor. Available Jan‑ uary 1, 2018. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

For Rent

For Rent

Newly Constructed Loft, One Bedroom and Two Bedroom Apartments in Downtown Middlebury Historic Building | Air Conditioning European Appliances, Quartz Countertops & Washer/Dryer Off-Street Parking | Pet friendly Walk to Middlebury College campus Short term leases available Contact: Christine Golden, Nedde Real Estate 802-373-5893 • battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

For Rent

For Rent

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ONE BEDROOM, FIVE‑STAR energy efficient apartment in Salisbury, close to Lake Dunmore.

One half of duplex. Large bedroom with full bath up.

Living room and kitchen with all appliances on first floor. Heated basement with W/D. Private sun deck. $850/month, plus utilities.

Absolutely non‑smoking, no pets on premises. Deposit and references required.

One year minimum lease.

Available 4/1/2018. Call 802‑352‑6678.

NEW HAVEN, SUNNY, ef‑ ficient apartment. Views, hard wood floors. No pets, no smoking. References. $925/month plus utilities.

802‑236‑2040.

ONE ROOM, PRIVATE bath, private entrance. New Haven, VT. $600/mo. Rent and $300 security deposit.

802‑453‑4525.

For Rent

For Rent

MONKTON ‑ HARDWOOD FLOORS, tile bathroom and lots of natural light.

Open floor plan with lg. bedroom and 1 full bath.

Upstairs over property owners garage with high ceilings, open views, pri‑ vate entrance, parking and yard. Garbage,recycling, snowplow, and lawn inc, as well as garden space. Full laundry and well insulated.

Tenant pays propane and electric. Deposit and 1 year lease. $1100 per month.

802‑598‑4105.

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Call 388-4944 today

TOWN OF MONKTON HIGHWAY ROAD FOREMAN The Town of Monkton is seeking qualified applicants for Highway Department Road Foreman. This position is to serve as the working supervisor of the Highway Crew and is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Highway Department. Experience in highway maintenance and repair, mechanical ability, record keeping and communication skills required. The position is full-time, 40 hours per week, requiring a flexible schedule which may include nights, weekends and holidays, as well as overtime.

Must have CDL, pass of a drug test, and be dependable and willing to be on call during winter hours and live within 15 minutes of the Town Garage. Full job description is available at Town Hall or online at monktonvt.com/road-foreman.

For more information or to submit a resume please contact Sharon Gomez, Town Clerk at 802-453-3800, email TownClerk@monktonvt.com or mail P.O. Box 12 Monkton, VT. 05469-0012 Addy Indy Classifieds are online: addisonindependent.com/classifieds

It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

Talk to our sales professionals.

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CLASSIFIEDS For Rent

Wood Heat

Att. Farmers

PROCTOR, VT: $850 per month, 2 bedroom town‑ house duplex, washer/dryer hookups. Parking, snow and trash removal includ‑ ed. Available early to mid April. Call Kathy 855‑1570 or Tony 855‑1531.

WEST ADDISON: 2 STO‑ RY, furnished house on lakefront. Washer, dryer. No smoking. Available Septem‑ ber through May. $1,000/ month. 860‑878‑9580.

H AY F O R S A L E 4 X 4 round bales. Certified or‑ ganic, first cut. Bump Farm, Orwell. 802‑948‑2946.

SHOREHAM 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment with all appliances. Electric and heat included. $1,000 a month plus security de‑ posit. No smoking. No pets.

802‑236‑2656.

FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802‑282‑9110.

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SHOREHAM 2‑BEDROOM, 2nd floor apartment. 920 Square feet. Pine floors.

Eat‑in kitchen. Huge liv‑ ing room. Propane heat & stove; electric hot wa‑ ter. Walking distance to elementary school. 20 min‑ ute ride to Middlebury. No smoking. No pets. Available April. $775/mo + utilities.

802‑388‑5411.

SUGARWOOD APART‑ MENTS is currently ac‑ cepting applications for 2, 3 and 4 BR apartments in Middlebury. All income/ assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent.

NP/NS. W/D hook‑ups. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg. com. Equal Housing Op‑ portunity.

Wood Heat

SIMPLY READY‑2‑BURN™ Everyday low prices; free delivery ‑ free kindling; sea‑ soned, clean, split, mixed hardwood. Small orders OK. Click www.MIDDMEN. com or call 1‑855‑MIDD‑ MEN™.

Real Estate NEW 2018 ENERGY Star display models, modular, doublewides and single‑ wides. Open 7 days a week. Beanshomes.com.

600 Rte. 7, Pittsford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflan‑ ders@beanshomes.com.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. The building season is upon us. If you’re considering a new home you should look at our two remaining lots on East Middlebury’s Daisy Lane. This is an established residential development with town water, nearby tennis courts, playground and only minutes away from the Snow Bowl and Lake Dunmore. Call Jack at 388‑2502 or 388‑7350.

Att. Farmers 2ND CUT HAYLAGE for sale. Call Singing Brook Farm at 758‑2445.

CORN SILAGE, SAWDUST at the farm. Book Bros.

West Haven, Vt. Call after 7pm, 802‑265‑8698.

FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

HAY FOR SALE small first cut, $2.50. Small second cut, $3.50. 802‑377‑5455.

H AY / S T R AW R O U N D BALES quantity discount.

518‑321‑2886.

LUMBER AT SAWMILL, hard and softwood, saw‑ dust. Book Bros. West Ha‑ ven, Vt. 802‑265‑3675.

ROUND BALES BALE‑ AGE for sale. First cut.

Proctor,Vt. 802‑558‑8370.

W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Cars PUBLIC AUTO AUC‑ TION 300+ vehicles ex‑ pected. Saturday, April 14 at 9AM. Repos, trades, cars, trucks, SUV’s. Wil‑ liston, VT. 1‑800‑474‑6132.

THCAuction.com.

Wanted LIONS CLUB NEEDS ‑ stuff for their annual auc‑ tion. Please NO appliances or electronics. Call for pick up, 388‑7124. Help us, help others.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collect‑ ibles, etc. Visit bittneran‑ tiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Consulting/ appraisal services avail‑ able. House calls made free of charge.

WA N T E D T O B U Y: Food grade 275 gallon plastic totes, wholesale.

802‑453‑4235.

FOR SALE: KILN dried pine shavings and pine sawdust. Delivered in 50 cubic yard loads. Call and leave a message at 802‑623‑6731.

Massachusetts man cited for simple assault

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Drew H. Goulart, 20, of Weston, Mass., for simple assault, stemming from an alleged incident on Middlebury College campus on April 7. Police said Goulart is scheduled to be arraigned on April 23.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Responded to a report of someone destroying a campsite off Route 7 on April 3. Police investigated the campsite and determined it was on town property and thus had to be moved. Authorities also interviewed the person who allegedly vandalized the campsite. That person told police he went to the campsite because the resident has been sleeping with his girlfriend, according to authorities.

• Continued their investigation on April 3 into an alleged sexting case.

• Removed hazardous debris off the travel portion of Route 7 south on

April 4.

• We r e i n formed of a suspected retail theft from an Exchange Street store on April 4.

• Investigated a report of someone allegedly smoking marijuana in the bathroom of an Exchange Street business on April 4. Police said they interviewed the customer, who said she had been smoking cigarettes and not marijuana.

• Investigated a suspected breakin at a sugar house off Quarry Road residence on April 4. Police said the victim just wanted to report the incident and did not offer details.

• Responded to the scene of an accident on East Main Street on April 5.

Police said a vehicle had left the road and hit a tree. The driver was taken to Porter Hospital to be treated for

lacerations to his knee and face, according to police.

The driver agreed to have his blood drawn for an evidentiary test, said police, who added the case is still under investigation.

• Began an investigation into alleged sexual misconduct at a Court Street address on April 5. Police said they could not provide any details at this stage of the investigation.

• Determined that some cash that had been reported stolen from an Eastview Terrace residence had been found on April 5.

• Received a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Bakery Lane on April 5.

• Brought a truant student to school on April 5.

• Found a syringe off Morse Road

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on April 5. Police disposed of the syringe.

• Investigated a report of someone staying in a Court Street apartment that was supposed to be vacant on April 5. Police said they found no signs of anyone staying there.

• Spoke with a Champlain Valley Academy student who was exhibiting bad behavior on April 6.

• Continued an ongoing investigation on April 7 into a recent burglary at the Memorial Sports Center. Police said someone got into the center through an unlocked door and damaged an ATM. Police said it doesn’t appear the culprit was able to get any cash out of the machine.

• Assisted a Quarry Road resident who said her ex-boyfriend was refusing to return some of her property on April 8. Police said they couldn’t find any of the complainant’s property at the man’s home.

Arguing sisters calmed four times by police VERGENNES — Four times between April 4 and 8 Vergennes police were called to a West Main Street residence to calm arguing sisters.

At the first visit on April 4 city police helped family members make plans for one of the sisters to move out on April 7, including removing all her possessions. On April 5 and 6 police calmed disputes between the two women.

On April 8 they returned to mediate a dispute between the sister who remained behind and the sister who left, who they said refused to turn over a key until a cell phone was returned to her. Police said they planned to issue a no-trespass order to the sister who had moved out and told the sister who remained behind it might be a good

idea to change the locks.

In other incidents between April 2 and 8, Vergennes police: On April 2: • Calmed a landlord-tenant dispute at a Hillside Drive apartment.

• Accepted a wallet that had been found at Vergennes Union High School and returned it to its owner.

On April 3: • Disarmed at VUHS student who had brought a knife to school to whittle wood and then refused to turn it over to teachers and school officials when asked; police also removed her from the school and worked with the school on a safety plan.

• Calmed a dispute between patrons of the bank on the United Technology premises on Panton Road.

• Worked with officials from VUHS and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes to resolve an alleged ongoing bullying issue. A meeting is planned with police, officials and families involved.

• Were told by Northlands Job Corps officials that a year-end inventory had revealed that a DVD player and power saws were missing from a supply building and presumed stolen.

On April 5: • Helped Vermont State Police at a

Vergennes Police Log

reported domestic assault on Satterly Road in Ferrisburgh.

• Responded to a barking dog complaint in Booth Woods; police said it is an ongoing issue and they spoke to the dog owner.

• At a West Main Street traffic stop ticketed the driver for possession of marijuana and speeding and issued him court diversion paperwork for being a minor in possession of alcohol.

On April 6 helped Bristol police and state police at a reported domestic assault on Hardscrabble Road in Monkton.

On April 8 helped the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad at a call on South Maple Street and helped state police by responding to a complaint on McKnight Lane in Waltham.

High school students sought for video contest CASTLETON — Castleton University invites Vermont high school students to participate in the 23rd annual Castleton VideoFest.

High School students throughout Vermont and the surrounding area are encour-

aged to enter submissions in any of four categories: documentary, experimental/ animation, narrative fiction, and public service announcements/advertisements.

Scholarships of $1,000 will be awarded for first place in each category. Video

professionals will judge the entries on creativity, content, and execution.

Submissions must be digitally submitted or postmarked by Tuesday, May 1. A public screening of the winning videos and an award ceremony will be held at

Public Notices Index Addison County Courthouse (1) Addison County Probate Court (2) Cornwall (1)

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Ethan Allen Highway Storage (1) Green Mountain Power (2) Salisbury-Notice of Abandonment (1)

Castleton University in the Casella Theater on Thursday, May 10.

For more information and contest rules, contact Video Broadcast Technician Samantha Green at samantha.green@castleton.edu or visit castleton.edu/videofest.

REQUEST FOR BIDS: ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Addison Central School District is accepting bids for window replacement at Mary Hogan School. Bid packets are available at the Superintendent’s Office, 49 Charles Avenue, Middlebury, VT. Bids are due by April 20, 2018. A walk through will be on April 11th at 3:30 pm at Mary Hogan School. For more information contact Eric Warren at 802-382-1459 or ewarren@acsdvt.org.

ACSD reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bids in accordance with Vermont Statutes.

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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 122-3-18 ANPR

Auctions Tom Broughton Auctioneer • Home • Estates • Commercial • Consignments Bridport, VT • 758-2494 tombroughtonauctions.com

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for April 5 & April 9 BEEF A. Brisson Gosliga R. Mack T. Correia Hatch Farm Blue Spruce Farm

Costs Lbs. per lb Dollars 1495 .65 971.75 1460 .65 949.00 1460 .63 919.80 1720 .62 1,066.40 1755 .60 1,053.00 1300 .58 754.00

CALVES David Ainsworth Quarry Rd. Farm Nea-Tocht Farm Four Hills Farm J. Butler

Lbs. 100 104 106 111 107

Costs per lb Dollars 1.275 127.50 1.10 114.40 1.05 111.30 1.025 113.78 1.00 107.00

Total # Beef: 330 • Total # Calves: 310 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF BRADBURY FULLER

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 99-3-18 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF LYNN O. WILLIAMS-WING

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Bradbury Fuller of Addison, 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: April 4, 2018 Eileen D. Fuller 3766 Lake Street Addison, VT 05491 802-759-2286 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: April 12, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 4/12

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 The Public Notices section appears every Monday & Thursday in the

Addison Independent

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Lynn O. Williams-Wing of Orwell, 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: April 6, 2018 Martha Williams- Greene 361 Col. Williams Way Charlotte, VT 05445 (802) 425-3459, martha679@gmavt.net Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: April 12, 2018 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 4/12

NOTICE TOWN OF CORNWALL LAWN MOWING BIDS The Town of Cornwall is accepting bids for all town lawn mowing, which includes; 3 cemeteries, the town green, DAR building, land adjacent to the town hall and the athletic field on Peet Road.

Bids will be opened at the Selectboard Meeting on Tuesday, May 1, 2018.

For further information, please contact Sue Johnson, Town Clerk at 462-2775.

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ETHAN ALLEN HIGHWAY STORAGE NOTICE OF SALE

Here is notification of sale of property of Andy Neil – unit #197, Stephanie Morrill – unit #93 and Joy Alexander – unit #132 at Ethan Allen Highway Storage at 229 Ethan Allen Highway in New Haven, VT 05472. To be sold at public auction on April 28, 2018 at 9:00 am to the highest cash bidder. All sales are final. Unit must be broom cleaned.

PUBLIC NOTICE INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES

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Green Mountain Power Corporation, 2152 Post Rd Rutland, Vermont 05701 has applied for a permit from the Vermont Secretary of Agriculture to apply herbicides. All herbicides will be applied by ground-based, hand-held equipment. This notice constitutes a warning to residents along the right-of-way that water supplies and other environmentally sensitive areas near the right-of-way should be protected from spray and that it is the resident’s responsibility to notify the contact person of the existence of a private water supply near the right-of-way. The contact person at GMP is Jarod Wilcox, Transmission Arborist, (802) 770-3231. Further information may also be obtained from Plant Industry Division, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, 116 State Street, Montpelier, Vermont 05620-2901, telephone (802) 828-2431.

Operations will commence on or about May 21, 2018 using one or more of the following herbicides: Garlon 4 Ultra (triclopyr), Escort XP (metsulfuron methyl), Polaris (imazapyr), Rodeo (glyphosate) & Method 240SL (aminocyclopyrachlor) Maintenance will be conducted on the following transmission lines in the following towns: Lines: Town(s): Huntington Falls-Florence Weybridge, New Haven, Middlebury, Salisbury, Leicester, Brandon, Pittsford Salisbury-Brandon Salisbury, Brandon, Leicester Smead Rd.-Leicester Salisbury, Leicester Middlebury Upper-Lower Middlebury Middlebury Lower-Weybridge Middlebury, Weybridge Weybridge-New Haven Weybridge, New Haven New Haven-Bristol New Haven, Bristol Quarry Rd.-Middlebury Lower Middlebury Smead Rd.-Salisbury Salisbury Smead Rd.-Silver Lake Salisbury Vergennes Tap Vergennes, Ferrisburg Agrimark Tap Middlebury Green Mountain Power 2152 Post Rd. Rutland, VT 05701 4/5

PUBLIC NOTICE NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT OF OIL, GAS, AND MINERAL LEASES PURSUANT TO 29 V.S.A. §563(G) AND (H)

Name of Record Owners of Interest: Cambrian Corporation RD No. 1 Fowler, Ohio 44418

Cambrian Associates, Ltd. c/o Anthony F. Abatiell, President One Justice Square Rutland, VT 05701

Ohio Oil & Gas R.D. No.1 Fowler, OH 44418 Description of the Land: Being all lands owned by Joanne M. Desabrais and R.J. Desabrais & Sons, Inc., located in the Town of Salisbury, including but not limited to lands described in deeds recorded in Book 27 at Page 43, Book 30 at Page 292, and Book 47 at Page 220 of the Salisbury Land Records.

Nature of the Interest: 1. Oil, Gas and Mineral Lease of Moses J. Desabrais and Julia R. Desabrais to Cambrian Corporation dated September 8, 1964, and recorded in Book 25 at Page 609 of the Salisbury Land Records, and modified by a Modification Agreement, dated April 29, 1982, and recorded in Book 31 at Page 77 of the Salisbury Land Records.

2. Oil and Gas Lease of Moses E. Desabrais and Norman Desabrais to Ohio Oil & Gas, dated August 4, 1981, and recorded in Book 30 at Page 454 of the Salisbury Land Records.

Name and Address of the Person Giving Notice: Joanne Desabrais and R.J. Desabrais & Sons, Inc. c/o Neuse, Duprey & Putnam, P.C. One Cross Street Middlebury, VT 05753 It is presumed that these Oil, Gas and Mineral Leases are abandoned.

Dated at Middlebury, Vermont, this 12 day of April 2018.

Joanne Desabrais and R.J. Desabrais & Sons, Inc. 4/12

PUBLIC NOTICE INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES SELECTIVE VEGETATION CONTROL

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — Coach Brian Carpenter’s Middlebury Union boy’s lacrosse team was competitive a year ago, following an 8-7 season with a first-round playoff victory before running up against Division I champion Champlain Valley in the quarterfinal round.

It might be tough to duplicate that record this year: Eight seniors graduated, two contributors opted for prep school, two key defenders’ status is uncertain due to injury, and not enough players signed up for the program to field a JV team.

But Carpenter said the Tigers’ 18 sophomores and freshman have talent, and many will contribute either right away or through the course of the spring. Still, during a preseason interview he described the season as a process.

“We’re really happy with the freshman and sophomore classes and their participation. They’re competitors,” Carpenter said. “We’re going to have to look to improve every game and take each game as it comes, because a lot of these kids we haven’t seen play yet.”

Some of the sophomores did gain experience this past spring, such as goalie Cam Devlin, who started in

2017.

“He gave us a hell of a year, and we’ve got a real strong freshman who is joining us,” Carpenter said. “We’re going to be solid in goal.”

Even with the injuries, Carpenter said a low defense led by four-year starter Fyn Fernandez should hold up.

“Even though two of our defensemen got hurt, we still have Fyn, who will be captaining the D,” Carpenter said.

Sophomores Quinn Berry and Hunter Gale gained experience in the back a year ago, and junior Derek Felkl returns to the sport after a season off and should also be in the mix on defense.

At midfield Carpenter plans to have seniors Sam Hodges and Lane Sheldrick and junior Ben Crawford, all veterans, team up on one line, and pick a second line from a group that includes sophomores James Jette, Ethan Kent and Ian Ploof and junior newcomer Ben Turner. Others could emerge in the course of the season, but to start with the Tigers will go with those two units.

“We’re probably going to go back to running two lines,” Carpenter said.

At attack, senior Jack Donahue and junior Kolby Farnsworth are returning starters, and several

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Girls’ Lacrosse

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union girls’ lacrosse team is coming off a dream season: The Tigers went undefeated a year ago and knocked off another unbeaten team, Mount Anthony, in the Division I final to win the perennial contender’s first title since 2008 and breaking a five-game championship-game losing streak in the process.

Many key players return from that undefeated group, but not as many as originally expected: Senior Andi Boe is still out with a knee injury, and two other contributors opted for prep school.

But 14 members of that team do return, most of whom either started or saw significant minutes, and those numbers include an All-American goalie, three starters on the state’s stingiest defense, and two of the team’s top three scorers and several other offensive contributors.

Coach Kelley Higgins does not return, but program assistant Brandi Whittemore takes over with her own strong pedigree: Whittemore, 23,

Middlebury Union High School Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Date Opponent/Event Time 4/6 @ South Burlington 4:30 p.m.

4/10 @ Rutland 4:30 p.m.

4/13 @ Hanover 5 p.m.

4/17 CVU 4:30 p.m.

4/20 @ Essex 4:30 p.m.

4/30 Rice 4:30 p.m.

5/2 @ Burlington 7 p.m.

5/4 @ Mt. Mansfield 4:30 p.m.

5/7 Mt. Anthony 4:30 p.m.

5/10 South Burlington 4:30 p.m.

5/12 @ CVU 10 a.m.

5/14 Burr & Burton 4:30 p.m.

5/16 Essex 4:30 p.m.

5/19 Burlington 11 a.m.

5/21 BFA-St. Albans 4:30 p.m.

5/23 Mt. Mansfield 4:30 p.m.

youngsters are in the running for the third position.

“That’s a battle. We’ve got two or three guys all fighting it out,” Carpenter said. “We’re going to have to see them in a game situation.”

He is confident the Tigers will get better, and younger players will earn their stripes as the season progresses.

“We could be a different team at the end of the season than the one we start with,” Carpenter said. “It’s a really coachable group. They pay attention. They work at it.”

But the schedule will provide a challenge.

“This group is going to have to earn respect every week,” Carpenter

is a former four-year Tiger lacrosse standout, was a member of Higgins’s state championship Tiger field hockey team, and played for Castleton University’s league championship lacrosse and field hockey squads that made NCAA tournament appearances.

Whittemore saw a lot to like during the Tigers’ preseason.

“There’s a lot of positives, their intensity, their work ethic. They hold themselves accountable, which is great,” Whittemore said. “They’re all ready to fight, and their expectations are just as big as mine.”

She is happy to be able to build a (See Tiger Girls’ Lax, Page 9C)

Middlebury Union High School Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Team Coach: Brandi Whittemore Assistant Coaches: Joanie Donahue and Julie Neuberger Name Grade Olivia Beauchamp 12 Sarah Broughton 12 Keagan Dunbar 12 Ciara Eagan 12 Abby Gleason 12 Tulley Hescock 12 Anna Hodson 12

Satchel McLaughlin Ella Nagy-Benson Raven Payne Isabel Rosenberg Ada Anderson Lacy Greenamyre Emily Laframboise Malia Hodges Phoebe Smith Ella McKhann Kaitlyn McNamara

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Middlebury Union High School Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Team Coach: Brian Carpenter Cam Devlin Name Grade Hunter Gale Jackson Donahue 12 James Jette Fyn Fernandez 12 Ethan Kent Tyler Giorgio 12 David Peters Sam Hodges 12 Logan Pierson-Flagg Brian Kiernan 12 Ian Ploof Lane Sheldrick 12 Trysten Quesnel Ben Crawford 11 Thatcher Trudeau Kolby Farnsworth 11 Antonio Abdul-Sater Derek Felkl 11 Charles Hodson Ben Turner 11 Mason Kaufmann Kamrin Bartlett 10 Jackson Rizzo Quinn Berry 10 Bode Rubright Eli Billings 10

10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 9 9 9 9 9

said. “The goal this year is just to play basic, solid lacrosse and try to

improve every single week and let the chips fall where they may, and

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Baseball

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — A year after the Middlebury Union baseball team failed to win enough games to qualify for the 16-team Division I playoffs, Coach Charlie Messenger is expecting better things this spring for a squad that he describes as deeper on the mound and in the field.

A key, Messenger said in the preseason, will be developing some run production to complement what he believes will be a strong defense and

improved pitching.

“The kids have been working hard on their hitting,” he said. “If we start to get some runs I think things will go well for us. Last year we didn’t and it seemed to snowball the other way.

Everybody started getting tight and tried to do too much.”

On the mound Messenger expects junior Wyatt Cameron and sophomore Hale Hescock to be the Nos. 1 and 2 starters, with senior Skyeler Devlin and junior Jordy Stearns right behind

Middlebury Union High School Varsity Baseball 5/8 @ Missisquoi Time 5/10 @ Milton 4:30 p.m.

5/12 South Burlington 11 a.m.

5/15 @ Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

5/17 Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

5/19 @ BFA Fairfax 11 a.m.

5/22 Mt. Abraham 4:30 p.m.

5/24 Missisquoi 4:30 p.m.

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Middlebury Union High School Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Date Opponent/Event Time 4/4 @ Burlington 4 p.m.

4/7 @ Burr & Burton 11 a.m.

4/9 Essex 4 p.m.

4/11 Woodstock 4 p.m.

4/13 Rutland 4 p.m.

4/16 @ South Burlington 4 p.m.

4/18 CVU 4 p.m.

5/1 Rice 4 p.m.

5/4 @ Mt. Mansfield 4 p.m.

5/8 Colchester 4 p.m.

5/11 @ Essex 4 p.m.

5/15 South Burlington 4 p.m.

5/17 @ Woodstock 4 p.m.

5/19 @ Hanover 10 a.m.

5/22 BFA St. Albans 4 p.m.

5/25 @ CVU 4 p.m.

to make it a good experience for everybody.”

them in the mix.

Seniors Jack Waterman and Nik Kaufmann and sophomores Devon Kearns and Tyler Buxton could also take the mound if the starters need (See MUHS Baseball, Page 9C) Middlebury Union High School Varsity Baseball Team Coach: Charlie Messenger Name Grade Skyeler Devlin 12 Brian Foote 12 Nicholas Kaufmann 12 Jack Waterman 12 Wyatt Cameron 11 Nick Clark 11 Sean Deering 11 Simon Fischer 11 Aaron Larocque 11 Jordy Stearns 11 Tyler Buxton 10 Hale Hescock 10 Devon Kearns 10

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — Coach Ed Blechner will field a slightly smaller MUHS track and field team this spring, but one that he believes will be more focused and dedicated.

Some athletes didn’t fully commit to the team a year ago, Blechner said, while this spring, he believes all 55 are on board with a program that is being stricter on such things as attendance and promptness.

“We’re definitely asking a lot more of them this year in terms of accountability, of challenging them with some real strong goals,” he said, adding, “We’re trying to be more team-oriented.”

As was the case a year ago, he expects the girls’ side of the team to score more points: The Tiger girls were fourth in Division II and return a number of scorers, such as senior sprinter Chloe Kane, senior middle distance runner Caroline Kimble, sophomore middle-distance and distance runner Isabel Olson, and the four-by-800-meter relay team of Kimble, seniors Helen Anderson and Katherine Koehler, and junior Ailey Bosworth that set a school record a

year ago.

“I think the girls are going to be strong. Our goal this year is to compete in all the events, which we’ve been lacking at times in the past,” Blechner said.

He expects newcomers and sophomores to emerge on both sides of the team and provide competitors in some of those events. One such newcomer on the girls’ side, for example, is freshman Camille Malhotra, who was the Tigers’ top finisher in several cross-country meets and could challenge for a spot on the 4x800 team, which Blechner hopes will break the record again.

“Some of the younger kids I know about from what they did in middle school are going to make a contribution, but I just don’t know where yet, or how,” Blechner said.

On the boys’ side senior Ben Balparda is the only returning scorer in an individual event. He also joined up with junior Tristan Durante and sophomore Anthony Garner and a graduate to set a school record while finishing second in the 4x100 relay.

Freshman C.J. Bryant will slide right into the opening on that 4x100

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Softball

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — Coach Polly Rheaume’s Middlebury Union softball program is coming off another strong season — 13 wins a year ago — and another playoff heartbreak — an extra-inning playoff loss for the second straight spring.

Although multi-year starters graduated from three key positions, pitcher, shortstop and third base, Rheaume believes there is no reason this season cannot be another good one.

“We’re very happy with the returning girls,” Rheaume said.

On the mound, senior Bridget Audet fared well in limited duty a year ago backing up graduated ace Payton Buxton (who is off to a good start pitching and hitting for Bates College). Rheaume said Audet, junior Abby LaRock and sophomore Gwen Stafford all looked good on the bump in the preseason.

“We have three returning players that pitched summer ball, and Bridget

was my backup pitcher. She did well last year when she did pitch,” “All three are very strong, so I’m happy with what we have returning.”

LaRock returns as the No. 1 catcher, with junior Katelyn Stearns (also an outfielder) as her backup.

In the infield, Rheaume said Plan A is to move senior Ella Beattie from first base to third base and junior Taylor Sylvester from second to short to fill those openings.

“We lost our shortstop and third baseman, but we’ve got two returning players that both played infield last year,” she said.

Junior Ashley Sunderland is the top candidate to take over at first base, and Rheaume was looking at both junior Carly Larocque (also an outfielder) and senior Hailey Quenneville at second base. Junior Kyra Roberts could also get a look at third base.

Stafford will take over in center field, with Roberts and juniors Harley Williams and Lauren Sylvester vying

team, Blechner said, and could score as an individual.

“C.J. Bryant is going to be a real force come the state meet, and at the same time we have three of the four of our boys’ four-by-one coming back,” Blechner said. “So one of the things I’ve set as a goal for them is to set a school record. And last year they came in second in the states.

So hopefully this year they’ll have a good shot to win.”

Middlebury Union High School Varsity Track and Field Date Opponent/Event Time 4/11 Mt. Abraham, Vergennes 3:30 p.m.

4/17 @ S. Burlington v Winooksi, Rice

Colchester 3:30 p.m.

4/25 @ Essex Vacational 10 a.m.

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for the other spots with Stearns and possibly Larocque, depending on which directions Rheaume goes in the infield.

The lineup that starts the season will not be set in stone: Rheaume said she will keep an open mind.

“It’s the beginning. There might be some changes,” she said.

Rheaume noted the Tigers lost a number of close games, including the 2-1 quarterfinal setback to Essex.

She said the Tigers were putting the bat on the ball early in the preseason, and just a little more offense could make a big difference.

“Our bats look good,” she said.

“Last year we had a few games that one more hit could have done the job, so I’m hoping our bats will be a little stronger this year.”

In all, Rheaume is optimistic about a group she said was also bonding well.

“It’s a very promising season this year as long as everybody stays healthy,” she said.

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Others on the boys’ team to look out for include sophomore William Carpenter in the pole vault, sophomore Hunter Heffernan in the long jump, and senior newcomer Bastiaan Phair in events to be determined, possibly sprints and throws.

“Bass has shown he’s a real good

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all-around athlete. There are a lot of different events I think he’ll be able to do. I think he’s going to make a strong contribution,” Blechner said.

Blechner is confident with a renewed commitment the Tigers will post solid results.

“What we’re trying to do is to

make track and field a real legitimate sport for a whole range of kids who don’t fit in with baseball or softball or lacrosse,” he said. “By really challenging the kids this year, holding everybody accountable, and making this a really strong team effort, I think we’re going in the right direction.”

Middlebury Union High School Varsity Track and Field Team Coach: Ed Blechner Kelsey Buteau 10 Miguel Agra Lopez Name Grade Mary Ann Eastman 10 Ethan Reiderer GIRLS Annie Lapiner 10 Carson Yildirim Helen Anderson 12 Journey LaRose 10 Silas Wisell Lucy Groves 12 Anna McIntosh 10 Caleb Benz Greta Hardy-Mittell 12 Isabel Olson 10 William Carpenter Chloe Kane 12 Meredith Kimble 9 Gabriel Cason Caroline Kimble 12 Camille Malhotra 9 Joseph Findlay Katherine Koehler 12 Sofia Stefani 9 Anthony Garner Waseya Lawton 12 Hunter Heffernan Sophia Marks 12 BOYS Peter Wolosinski Meilena Sanchez 12 Benjamin Balparda 12 C.J. Bryant Aileen Bosworth 11 Matthew Ouellette 12 Adin Girard Audrey Huston 11 Bastiaan Phair 12 Alex Mencel Maisie Newbury 11 Jebadiah Plouffe 12 Fraser Milligan Virginia Patz 11 Julian Schmitt 12 Lucas Nelson Emily Pottinger 11 Isaac Buttolph 11 Thomas Nevins Natali Sullivan 11 Tristan Durante 11 Sutton Perry Katherine Wallace 11 Ian Fenster 11 Griffin Schneider Carly Burger 10 Connor Harris 11 Nicholas Suchomel

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Boys’ Tennis

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — A year ago Coach Ken Schoen said his Middlebury Union boys’ tennis team pleasantly surprised him in 2017 by exceeding expectations to post an 8-4 record despite heavy losses to graduation.

This spring Schoen expects to be pleasantly surprised again, in part because two exchange students joined the team to add strength and depth to the lineup.

“I think we’ll have a really strong singles lineup, and our doubles will be OK. It’s surprising to me that I think this will be a much stronger team than last year,” Schoen said.

“And last year’s team surprised me.”

Senior Ziven McCarty and one of the exchange students, junior Mauricio Gonzalez, will occupy the Nos. 1 and 2 slots in the Tiger singles ladder in some order. And Schoen said junior No. 3 player Jesse Rubin is solid enough to play atop many opponents’ ladders.

“Our 1, 2 and 3 singles players are going to almost always win two of those three matches, if not all three.

Anyone of the first three could be a No. 1 singles player on another team,

and Ziven and Mauricio are wicked good,” Schoen said.

Competition is close for the Nos. 4 and 5 singles slots among juniors Sam Daly, Drew Kiernan and Loke Lonneskog (the second exchange student), and sophomores Spencer Doran and Hunter Monteanu, Schoen said.

“They’ve got good games,” he said. “For the level of 4 and 5 players, they’re going to be real strong.”

Three of that group will form doubles teams along with senior Tre Bonavita.

Schoen said freshmen Abel Anderson, Alexander Bleich, Aiden Cole and Andy Giorgio are learning the game and showing promise.

“The freshmen will fill in whenever they need to,” he said.

“They are good, so they will see some playing time, for sure.”

As well as talent, Schoen praised the Tigers’ attitude and approach to the sport.

“This is also one of the coolest teams in terms of how they’ve gelled together,” Schoen said. “They’re focused. The team chemistry is awesome.”

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Middlebury Union High School Boys’ Varsity Tennis Team Coach: Ken Schoen Jesse Rubin Name Grade Spencer Doran Tre Bonavita 12 Hunter Munteanu Ziven McCarty 12 Abel Anderson Samuel Daly 11 Alexander Bleich Mauricio Gonzalez 11 Aiden Cole Drew Kiernan 11 Andrew Giorgio Loke Lanneskog 11

Girls’ Tennis

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — Newness is the theme for the Middlebury Union High School girls’ tennis team this spring.

There is a new coach, Jill Dunn, who did assist the program this past season; only two returning players, senior Sierra Barnicle and junior Nora Draper, both of whom were new to the sport a year ago; and 13 newcomers, and many of them are new to the sport.

Dunn, a mother of two MUHS students who works out of home on a family financial services business, said given the team’s inexperience her approach has been to emphasize the basics.

“We’re practicing with the spirit of ‘We’re learning, we’re beginning,’” she said. “We’re focusing on sportsmanship, teamwork, fitness.”

Dunn, a former high school player in Syracuse, N.Y., is also taking a long Middlebury Union High School Girls’ Tennis Date Opponent/Event Time 4/14 @ Colchester 10 a.m.

5/1 @ Mt. Mansfield 3:30 p.m.

5/5 @ Harwood 3 p.m.

5/7 Spaulding 3:30 p.m.

5/9 @ BFA St. Albans 3:30 p.m.

5/11 @ U-32 3:30 p.m.

5/14 North Country 3:30 p.m.

5/16 Montpelier 3:30 p.m.

5/18 @ Lake Region 3:30 p.m.

5/21 @ Spaulding 3:30 p.m.

5/23 @ BFA St. Albans 3:30 p.m.

5/25 Harwood 3:30 p.m.

view. She would like to stay on for at least four years while the team’s eight freshman make their way through MUHS and develop their tennis skills, and beyond that she would like the Tigers to think of tennis as a lifetime sport.

She noted she didn’t play for more than two decades after high school, but now takes to the court regularly, often against players older than she.

“I’ve let the girls know you can have four years of Middlebury tennis and then go away from it, but come right back. It’s like riding a bike. It’s a game for life,” she said.

As for this spring, Dunn expects Barnicle and Draper to be the Nos. 1 and 2 on the singles ladder. One of the newcomers, freshman Elizabeth Bright, attended clinics at Middlebury Indoor Tennis and played some at summer camp, and she should be the No. 3 singles player.

The rest is wide open, Dunn said, and the final two singles slots and the doubles teams will be decided by ongoing competition.

“I’ll set up some challenge matches and let them know it will determine the order. After a few matches we might revisit that,” she said.

Dunn hopes other teams will agree to play exhibition doubles matches to give everyone court time, and will rotate players through to allow them to gain match experience.

“We might be rotating some of the exhibition doubles teams into first and second doubles, because we have a big team,” she said.

Dunn noted inexperienced players on the 2017 team developed quickly, and she believes the same will happen this spring. But she is more concerned with the quality of their play and their enjoyment of the sport than the results on the court.

“We’re just trying to present this as a fun opportunity, and we’re not really worried about the season record. They will win games and they will win matches,” she said. “But I don’t think honestly the expectations are of having a strong season or a winning season. It’s been fun, fitness and learning tennis.”

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OTTER VALLEY UNION

Baseball

OVUHS

Otter Valley Union High School Varsity Baseball Team Coach: Michael Howe Name Grade Daniel Allen 12 Zachary Bruce 12 Payson Williams 12 Jack Adams 11 Joshua Beayon 11 Kolin Bissette 11

Nathaniel Hudson Marcus McCullough Patrick McKeighan Reilly Shannon Nathanial Blake Logan Trombley Alexander Polli

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Madeline Fuller Brenna McCullough Heather Wood Madilyn Morgan Anoushka Pschorr

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Otter Valley Union High School Varsity Baseball Date Opponent/Event Time 4/9 Rutland 4:30 p.m.

4/18 @ Fair Haven 4:30 p.m.

4/24 @ Mill River 4:30 p.m.

4/26 Windsor 4:30 p.m.

4/28 Brattleboro 11 a.m.

4/30 Mt. Anthony 4:30 p.m.

5/2 @ Windsor 4:30 p.m.

5/4 Bellows Falls 4:30 p.m.

5/8 @ Springfield 4:30 p.m.

5/10 @ Mt. Abraham 4:30 p.m.

5/14 Springfield 4:30 p.m.

5/16 @ Hartford 7 p.m.

5/18 @ Bellows Falls 4:30 p.m.

5/23 Fair Haven 4:30 p.m.

5/25 Mill River 4:30 p.m.

We regret that this year’s Spring Sports Report does not include stories previewing the Otter Valley teams’ seasons. Our staffer who normally produces these stories is out on medical leave.

We have plans to cover Otter Valley games this spring and hope to give OVUHS the same number and quality of stories that we always do during the regular season and playoffs. Good luck to all the Otters!

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Otter Valley Union High School Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Team Coach: Jesse Milliman Name Grade Jonathan McKeighan 12 Wesley Smith 12 Justin Tremblay 12 Cody Young 12 Chandler Corey 11 Hayden Gallo 11 Timothy Kittler 11 Jacob O’Connell 11

Zachary Scarborough Alec Stevens Kameron Strickland Ethan Sulik-Doty Jacob Young Levi Cram Ross Fiske Jakob Stevens Parker Swain David Williams

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Otter Valley Union High School Girls’ Varsity Tennis Date Opponent/Event Time 4/23 Woodstock 4:30 p.m.

4/26 Burr & Burton 4 p.m.

4/28 @ Brattleboro 11 a.m.

4/30 @ Rutland 4 p.m.

5/2 Bellows Falls 4 p.m.

5/4 @ MSJ 4 p.m.

5/7 Springfield 4 p.m.

5/9 @ Mt. Anthony 4:30 p.m.

5/11 @ Bellows Falls 4:30 p.m.

5/14 @ Springfield 4 p.m.

5/16 @ Woodstock 4:30 p.m.

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Softball

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4/24 @ Lamoille 4 p.m.

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4/28 Hartford 11 a.m.

4/30 @ Randolph 4 p.m.

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Otter Valley Union High School Varsity Softball Team Coach: Pattie Candon Name Grade Kathryn Coolidge 12 Gabriela Poalino 12 Christa Wood 12 Jordan Laraway 11 Livia Bernhardt 10 Isabella Falco 10 Madison French 10 Carolynn LaFountaine 10 Morgan LaPorte 10 Renee O’Connell 10 Stephanie Palmer 10 Shayla Phillips 10 Mia Politano 9

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MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION HIGH SCHOOL

Mt. Abe

Softball

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — A number of players graduated from the Mount Abraham Union softball team that won the Division II title game at Poultney in 2017 after knocking on the door for years.

But Coach Don McCormick is not singing the blues, even though a four-year starting pitcher and the catcher she threw to were among the graduates.

McCormick sees plenty to like in the field, at the plate and on the mound in this year’s Eagle outfit.

The team returns senior multi-year starters and All-Metro players at shortstop, Katelynn Ouellette; second base, Emily Aldrich; and center field, Jenna McArdle. And McCormick believes junior Jess Murray will excel behind the plate, with sophomore Abigail Hoff in reserve.

“I know our defense is going to be better than it was last year,” he said.

“I’m thrilled with our infield, and I’m thrilled with our defense up the middle.”

The rest of infield defense will include junior first baseman Cora Funke, who has a good glove and what NFL commentators like to call a large catch radius; and slugging junior third baseman Erika Tracey.

McCormick expects junior Molly Murray to hold down left field, and right field could be whichever one of senior Audrey Shahan or junior Ruby Ball is not on the mound; junior Shealyn Layn, who can also back up the infield; sophomore Addy Harris, another potential infielder; or freshman Camilienne Masse, who will also back up Funke at first.

Several of those players are also candidates to take turns as flex players in order to get their bats in the lineup, McCormick said — he expects the Eagles to dangerous offensively.

“This year we’ve got our most solid athletic line-up. We can bunt. We can steal. We’ve got kids who can drive line drives,” he said.

And McCormick expects Shahan, who has held her own as the No. 2 pitcher the past two seasons, and Ball, who he said has worked hard in the offseason, to do their part on the mound, with Masse also available there.

“I think our pitching is going to be OK,” he said.

In all, McCormick expects the Eagles to contend in D-II once again.

“I think we definitely have a shot at getting back to Poultney,” McCormick said. “I feel like we’re a top-three seed for sure.”

Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Softball Date Opponent/Event Time 4/17 @ Colchester 4:30 p.m.

4/19 @ Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

4/21 Burlington 11 a.m.

4/24 Middlebury 4:30 p.m.

4/26 @ Mt. Mansfield 4:30 p.m.

4/28 @ Missisquoi 11 a.m.

5/1 BFA Fairfax 4:30 p.m.

5/3 @ Milton 4:30 p.m.

5/7 Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

5/8 Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

5/10 Otter Valley 4:30 p.m.

5/15 Missisquoi 4:30 p.m.

5/17 @ BFA Fairfax 4:30 p.m.

5/19 Milton 11 a.m.

5/22 @ Middlebury 4:30 p.m.

5/24 @ Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Softball Team Coach: Don McCormick Name Grade Emily Aldrich 12 Jenna McArdle 12 Katelyn Ouellette 12 Audrey Shahan 12 Ruby Ball 11 Cora Funke 11 Shealyn Layn 11 Jesslyn Murray 11 Molly Murray 11 Erika Tracey 11 Jessica Frey 10 Justice Green 10 Abigail Hoff 10 Camilienne Masse 9

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Baseball

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union baseball team did not repeat its 2016 Cinderella run to the Division II title in 2017, but a senior-laden team compiled a respectable eight-win campaign before losing a quarterfinal heartbreaker to D-II finalist U-32.

The Eagles will have a different look this spring, and play a different schedule. Gone are the days when Mount Abe will lock horns almost every game with D-I Metro Conference powers from Chittenden County. Instead, the Eagles will join Middlebury, Vergennes, Missisquoi, Fairfax, Milton and Spaulding in the newly created Lake Division.

Teams will play each other twice, with four at-large contests — Mount Abe has added Burlington, Mount Mansfield, Colchester and defending D-II champ Otter Valley to make what Coach Jeff Stetson called “a real good competitive schedule.

“It’s going to interesting now that we’re not in the Metro any more,” Stetson said. “We have a new league, and I think it’s going to be a good league.”

The team will also have a new look after so many seniors graduated, although six return — Foster Collette, Jared Forand, Jon Jennings, Eli Rickner, Dustin Whitcomb and Brice Winchester — and all should play significant roles.

Whitcomb will lead the pitching rotation, with junior Jacob Hoag the No. 2 starter. Stetson said sophomores Eben Clifford and Nolan Whitcomb might have the inside track as the Nos. 3 and 4 starters, but there would be an “open competition” for the other starting and relief roles that will include Collette and Jennings and junior Jacob Thomas.

Forand and junior Parker Hines are vying for the starting catching job and could share the position, at least early on.

Collette will play first, but Hines could push for time there.

Second base was up in the air in the preseason, with Winchester, junior Quinn Casillas and possibly Forand all in the mix. Whitcomb and Hoag will share shortstop, and Jennings and Thomas are at third.

Junior Isaiah DiNapoli and seven sophomores join that crew on the varsity roster, although some of the sophomores will play JV on any given day. Stetson said in the preseason they will also be given every opportunity to win starting jobs, especially once the Eagles finally start playing outside.

“It will be interesting to see which ones step up when they get a shot at it. They’re pretty talented and they’re working hard,” Stetson said.

“So those older guys better be sure they’re bringing their A games.”

One of the sophomores probably will start, though, Silas Burgess. He and Rickner will patrol center and left in some configuration, with Stetson set to make that determination once the Eagles got in some outdoor action.

Right field, Stetson said, “may end up being somebody who is putting the bat on the ball and I’ve got to find a place to put him in the lineup.

That might be any of the seniors and juniors who don’t win out a position in the infield and are hitting the ball, or a young kid could emerge.”

Stetson’s sees positives heading in despite inexperience.

“I’m really excited about our work ethic and attitude. This is a great group of kids,” he said. “The goal for this group is really to get better

Mt. Abe

Boys’ Lacrosse

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — Ed Cook, coach of the Mount Abraham-Vergennes cooperative boys’ lacrosse team, was happy about several things this spring.

For one, despite seeing nine of 28 athletes graduate at the end of last season, including his two leading scorers, the Eagle roster grew to 34 this season.

“I tasked my team to go out and kind of sign players, and they did,” Cook said. “They went out and found athletes.”

Those numbers, and the athletic ability of some of the newcomers as well as they depth they provide, should help the Eagles be more competitive, he said.

“We’re going to be able to outrun teams,” Cook said. “We shouldn’t be tired at the end of games, that’s for sure.”

For another, Cook was pleased with the team’s preseason chemistry.

“The team has gelled amazingly over the last three weeks. They’re just a great bunch of guys,” Cook said.

“They all are working really hard.”

If there is a downside it is that the Vermont Principals’ Association eliminated the boys’ lacrosse Division III, meaning the Eagles are back in the much more competitive D-II. Cook said he and Otter Valley officials opposed the change, and hope in the future if schools with clubs or JV programs move to the varsity level the VPA will reconsider.

“We hope that if we can make the

jump, get back to 30, 31 teams in the state, we can revisit the D-III thing,” Cook said. “It’s tough for small teams like us to compete with teams like Milton that have 50 kids coming into the program.”

But he said the Eagles will happily play whomever the schedule dictates, in part because he identified defense as a strength. Senior Mason Wood will bring experience to a group of low defenders that will probably include sophomore Jonas Schroeder and freshman Quincy Cook as starters, backed up by sophomores Max Doherty-Konczal and Alder Donovan-Cook and freshman Aidan Danyow.

(See Boys’ Lacrosse, Page 7C)

Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Baseball Team Coach: Jeff Stetson Name Grade Foster Collette 12 Jared Forand 12 Jon Jennings 12 Eli Rickner 12 Dustin Whitcomb 12 Brice Winchester 12 Quinn Casillas 11 Isaiah DiNapoli 11 Jacob Hoag 11 Parker Hines 11 Jacob Thomas 11 Max Breault 10 Silas Burgess 10 Eben Clifford 10 Jackson Gepfert 10 Jacob Sturtevant 10 Wyatt Thompson 10 Nolan Whitcomb 10

Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Baseball Date Opponent/Event Time 4/17 @ Colchester 4:30 p.m.

4/19 @ Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

4/21 Burlington 11 a.m.

4/24 Middlebury 4:30 p.m.

4/26 @ Mt. Mansfield 4:30 p.m.

4/28 @ Missisquoi 11 a.m.

5/1 BFA Fairfax 4:30 p.m.

5/3 @ Milton 4:30 p.m.

5/7 Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

5/8 Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

5/10 Otter Valley 4:30 p.m.

5/15 Missisquoi 4:30 p.m.

5/17 @ BFA Fairfax 4:30 p.m.

5/19 Milton 11 a.m.

5/22 @ Middlebury 4:30 p.m.

5/24 @ Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

every day competing at a high level.

Because of that big group of seniors who graduated last year there are only three or four guys on this roster that have any sort of reasonable varsity experience. It’s a whole other level stepping up to play varsity, so I’m hoping we can quickly adjust to that next level and get better and get competitive every day.”

Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Boys’ Lacrosse Date Opponent/Event Time 4/9 Randolph 4 p.m.

4/20 Milton 4 p.m.

4/30 @ U-32 4 p.m.

5/2 Harwood 4 p.m.

5/5 @ Randolph 11 a.m.

5/7 @ Otter Valley 4 p.m.

5/9 Spaulding 4 p.m.

5/12 @ Stowe 10 a.m.

5/14 @ Lamoille 4 p.m.

5/16 @ St. Johnsbury 4 p.m.

5/19 Otter Valley 11 a.m.

5/21 @ Milton 7 p.m.

5/24 Lamiolle 4 p.m.

5/26 U-32 11 a.m.

Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Boys’ Lacrosse Team Coach: Ed Cook Name Grade Ryan Bonar 12 Christopher Boyer 12 Toby Bunch 12 Nick Catlin 12 Brody King 12 Phoenix King 12 Lucas Livingston 12 Samuel Paradee 12 William Schoenhuber 12 Mason Wood 12 Grady Brokaw 11 Tom Carlton 11 Kaelen Dobson 11 Jack Halpin 11 Erik McLysaght 11 Ryan Rougier 11

Angus Schwaneflugel Neo Weaver Nathan Wojciechowski Andrew Woods Ethan DeWitt Maximlion Doherty-Konczal Alder Donovan Cook Ryan Lathrop Sam Schoenhuber Jonas Schroeder Asa Shlansky Louis Beauchaine Quincy Cook William Crawford Aidan Danyow Grayson Lions Liam Oxford Griffin Paradee

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Addison Independent, Thursday, April 12, 2018 — PAGE 7C

MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION HIGH SCHOOL

Mt. Abe

Track and Field

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union track and field coaches were feeling happy in the preseason, according to Co-Coach Julie Potter, speaking on behalf of colleagues Todd Goodyear and Cam Perta.

Turnout was up, with 47 athletes signing on, up from 30 a couple years

ago; almost all of the team’s Division II state meet qualifiers from a year ago are back; and the team has new uniforms, high jump and pole vault equipment, and hurdles.

“The track team has come a long way the last two years,” Potter said.

“Last year we had over 25 athletes that qualified for state’s, and that’s

Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Track and Field Team Coach: Julie Potter Shain Sargent Name Grade Elizabeth Siminitis Robyn Arena 12 Jasmine Stalcup Emma Carter 12 John Bent Jackson Counter 12 Jnana Breck-Arndt Brian Cousineau 12 Wisdom Edwards Derek Jackson 12 Lucy Guy Bryson Knight 12 Cassie Melchior Isabella Lucarelli 12 Sean Meyer Abigail Perlee 12 Dawson Phillips Lydia Pitts 12 Ulysses Suazo Emma Radler 12 Jack Beauchaine Gilliane Ross 12 Bridger Counter Maria Sanchez 12 Shea Cravens Ryan Adams 11 Liam Davison Weston Alfred 11 Isabella Emmons Ross Carr 11 Sam Forbes Casondra Dykstra 11 Louisa Funk Thomas Howard 11 Emmaline Heilman Nevin Jemison 11 Branden Reynolds Althea Kane 11 Abigail Roy Peter Koenig 11 Isaiah Szczecinski Mhairi McMurray 11 Hannah Zimmer Oliver Roy 11

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over half our team that’s returning.

There’s only one that didn’t return, and he graduated.”

The equipment and uniforms, for which Potter credits Mount Abe Athletic Director Devin Wendel, have added to the enthusiasm, she said.

“We’re very encouraged,” Potter said. “The kids are pumped, and myself and Todd and Cam, we’re all really excited about this year.”

The Eagles are also looking to score some more points at the D-II meet.

“We have a well-rounded team. We have a great group of sprinters. We have more jumpers this year. Some of the freshman that have come up (will Mount Abraham Union High School Varsity Track & Field Date Opponent/Event Time 4/11 @ Middlebury 3:30 p.m.

4/17 @ Burlington 3:30 p.m.

4/25 @ Essex Vacational 10 a.m.

5/2 @ Mt. Mansfield 3:30 p.m.

5/5 @ South Burlington 3 p.m.

5/7 Home Meet 3:30 p.m.

5/12 @ Burlington Invitational 9 a.m.

5/16 @ Middlebury 3:30 p.m.

5/17 @ U-32 3:30 p.m.

5/24 @ Rice 3:30 p.m.

5/26 @ Essex 9 a.m.

5/29 @ Mt. Mansfield 3:30 p.m.

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emerge). We’re very excited,” Potter said. “We have a home meet this year first time in several years.”

Certainly there are some reliable sources of points coming back. Senior Lydia Pitts will be favored in two jumping and one hurdling event as she looks to reach 20 career indoor and outdoor state titles.

Also Senior Emma Radler won the D-II high jump this past spring and was second indoors this winter, and others who are likely to contribute include pole vaulters Lucy Guy, Abby Perlee, Mhairi McMurray, Oliver Roy and John Bent; throwers Jackson Counter, Emma Carter, Peter Koenig, Derek Jackson and Nevin Jemison; and runner Ross Carr.

Many other athletes could emerge, Potter said, including the team’s corps of sprinters or any number of the squad’s eight sophomores and dozen freshmen.

And regardless of the results Potter described the coaches as “really lucky” to be working with this group of student-athletes.

“One of the things we notice is track athletes encourage each other and we work as a community. The older athletes, the seniors and juniors, will take the younger ones under their wings,” Potter said. “Everyone helps each other out. Everyone looks out for one another.”

Boys’ Lacrosse (Continued from Page 6C) Senior Sam Paradee is the top long-stick middie in the back, while sophomore Ethan DeWitt will also see plenty of time in that role, Cook said, with junior Kaelen Dobson also ready to step in there.

Senior Brody King and junior Tom Carlton will line up as short-stick defensive midfielders in front of junior goalie Grady Brokaw.

“Our close D and our LSMs, with Ethan DeWitt coming in and Sam (Paradee) bringing his experience, are really going to lock up their attacks,” Cook said.

Cook also expects to run multiple lines at midfield, with two especially strong groups. Among the top candidates for the first two lines are seniors Nick Catlin, Ryan Bonar, Christopher Boyer, Lucas Livingston and Toby Bunch; juniors Nathan Wojciechowski and Jack Halpin; and freshmen Will Crawford and Griff Paradee.

“Our middies, our top six with Nick Catlin and Wojo (Wojciechowski), and the new guys, Will Crawford and Griff

Paradee, they have some scoring punch in there,” Cook said, adding that senior William Schoenhuber, juniors Erik McLysaght and Angus Schwaneflugel, sophomores Sam Schoenhuber and Asa Shlansky, and freshmen Louis Beauchaine and Liam Oxford will be looking to break into the middie rotation.

Senior Phoenix King and juniors Neo Weaver and Ryan Rougier bring experience to the attack and will probably start, with junior Andrew Woods, sophomore Ryan Lathrop and freshman Grayson Lyons ready to step in.

“Neo’s really coming on,” Cook said.

Cook noted the Eagles were only 4-9 a year ago, but that five of those losses came in close games.

It won’t take much to turn things around given what he saw in the preseason, he said.

“I’m shooting for a .500 or better season,” Cook said. “Coming back into D-II this season, I’d love to get a home playoff game, to get back into that top eight or above in the standings.”

PAGE 8C — Addison Independent, Thursday, April 12, 2018

VERGENNES

VUHS

Softball

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The graduation of 10 players from the 2017 Vergennes Union softball team and an off-field injury to starting sophomore pitcher Maranda Aunchman means Coach Mike Martin’s program will have a different look this season — and no JV team.

Joining the team’s lone senior and four juniors on the roster will be 11 freshmen, many of whom by necessity will play varsity roles immediately.

The group has talent, Martin said, but they are being asked to make a major leap.

“They’re a little raw,” he said.

“They’re skipping JV and not getting that JV experience a lot of kids get.

They’re getting thrown into the fire.”

All are doing their best to make the transition, he said.

“The younger girls have picked it up,” Martin said. “They’ve settled in nicely. They’ve come in and they’ve worked hard while they’re here.

They’ve listened. They’ve been attentive.”

The lone senior is Megan Tarte, who returns to play shortstop. Junior Cheyenne Jewett will probably get the first shot on the mound, with freshman Ema Gernander in the mix.

They will throw to junior catcher Sarah Rathbun, coming off a strong all-around season in 2017; freshman Bethany Cram can also catch. Junior Sidney Tarte will play first base, where Gernander will back her up, and the team’s final junior, Emily Jackson, will see time at right field

Vergennes Varsity Softball Date Opponent/Event Time 4/12 @ CVA 4:30 p.m.

4/14 @ Middlebury 11 a.m.

4/17 @ BFA Fairfax 4:30 p.m.

4/19 Mt. Abraham 4:30 p.m.

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Vergennes Union High School Varsity Softball Team Coach: Mike Martin Name Grade Megan Tarte 12 Emily Jackson 11 Cheyenne Jewett 11 Sarah Rathbun 11 Sydney Tarte 11 Karrie Ayer 9 Bethany Cram 9 Ema Gernander 9 Kimmie Jerome 9 Jordan Kimball 9 Jenna Lowell 9 Chloe Mailloux 9 Maria Malaney 9 Jordan Norris 9 Sky Thayer 9 Riley Towle 9

and DH. Around the infield, Martin said (See VUHS Softball, Page 9C) 5/10 5/15 5/17 5/19 5/22 5/24

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By ANDY KIRKALDY The perennially strong Commodore VERGENNES — Vergennes Union boys’ four-by-800-meter team should track and field coach Brad Castillo saw be the program’s headliner. Juniors a lot to like in the preseason. Plenty of Spencer Hurlburt and Wade Mullin veterans returned, have anchored and a number of that unit, which Vergennes Union High School former members won the indoor Varsity Track of the high school D-II title in Date Opponent/Event Time and middle February (with 4/11 @ Middlebury 3:30 p.m. school teams also senior Gabe 4/19 @ CVU 3:30 p.m. elected to come Praamsma and 4/25 @ Essex Vacational 10 a.m. back, giving the freshman Xander 5/2 @ Mt. Mansfield 3:30 p.m. program its best DeBlois running 5/5 @ S. Burl. Twilight Meet 3 p.m. numbers in a few with the two 5/8 @ Colchester 3:30 p.m. seasons, just short juniors) and 5/12 @ Burlington Invitational 10 a.m. of a couple dozen. finished fourth 5/15 @ Milton 3:30 p.m.

“I’ve got a outdoors a year 5/22 @ CVU 3:30 p.m. great turnout. ago with Erich 5/26 @ Essex Invitational 10 a.m.

I’ve got some Reitz, now a strong hard sophomore, and a workers. And I’m excited to get on graduate joining Hurlburt and Mullin. the track, for sure. It should be real But Castillo said senior Lance fun,” Castillo said.

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“It’s good to have that year under our belt, but in some ways with so many ninth-graders it’s kind of like starting all over again,” Kelley said.

“But we do have some upperclassmen who do know the routine, so that helps.”

Co-captains Norah Deming, a senior midfielder, and Jalen Cook, a junior midfielder, will provide leadership, while Kelley said she will look to senior Ally Atkins to help anchor the defense.

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Despite the inexperience, Kelley does expect the Commodores to be competitive.

“We’ve got some good speed in the midfield, and we’ve got some talent that will develop over the course of the season,” she said.

As well as Deming and Cook, who will be expected to defend and transition the ball up the field as well as score, the Commodores will look to sophomores Leah Croke and Emma Beauchemin and freshman Sydney (See VUHS Girls’ lax, Page 9C)

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By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — In 2017 the joint Vergennes-Mount Abraham girls’ lacrosse team had predictable growing pains in its first varsity season, waiting until its last regular-season game to post its first victory.

Coach Marikate Kelley this spring saw a number of seniors who got to finally play varsity a year ago replaced by 14 freshmen who will constitute two-thirds of the Commodores’ roster, meaning no matter what the talent level that this spring will be another

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By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Things are looking up for the Vergennes Union baseball program, according to Coach Dwight Burkett.

Consider the following: • Although two long-time mainstays did graduate, 10 veterans returned to the varsity team.

• Enough freshmen signed up to allow the program to field a JV team for the first time in six years.

• Reportedly 17 athletes signed up for the VUHS middle school baseball program, offering hope for the high school program’s sustainability.

• The Commodores will compete in the newly formed Lake Division, meaning their schedule is no longer loaded with almost unwinnable games against Chittenden County Division I powerhouses.

And Burkett likes his team just about as much as he likes the program’s health.

“Across the board I’m cautiously optimistic. We have more potential evenly across the board than we’ve had in some time. The numbers speak to that,” Burkett said. “That’s the first step toward making the program whole again right there, keeping a JV team.”

Of course, pitching is critical in baseball, and Burkett believes a rotation fronted by senior veteran lefty Will Wormer, junior Jake Gonyeau, and promising freshman Tucker Stearns should keep the Commodores in games. Senior Casey Kimball and

Baseball junior Ethan Bissonette are among others he said could take the mound.

“We have the possibility of having decent pitching this year,” Burkett said.

In the preseason he preferred not to pin down exact positions, in part because field conditions had not allowed the Commodores to practice outside when he discussed the season.

He was sure sophomore Jeffrey Stearns would handle the bulk of the catching, with Tucker Stearns backing him up, and that Wormer would play center field when not pitching.

Corner infielders included senior Samir Kadric, junior Cooper O’Brien, Gonyeau, Jeffrey Stearns and sophomore Robbie Bicknell, while Kimball, senior Tom Richards and Tucker Stearns are the middle infielders.

As well as Wormer, outfielders include sophomore Aidan Galdner, Bissonette, Kadric and O’Brien.

At the plate, Burkett is looking for a step forward.

“I’ve seen a lot of growth offensively in the returning players,” he said. “I think we have a lot of potential there.”

And Burkett believes winning more games is a realistic goal.

“I’m excited that we’re playing in this new league. I think that will be a more competitive league for us,” he said.

But Burkett said as much as he and the Commodores are looking forward to the season, they will have to earn

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their success.

“We’re back. Numbers are good.

We’ve got two teams,” he said. “Now it’s up to us to make the best of it.”

(Continued from Page 8B) freshman Sky Thayer could have the inside track at second base, with Jewett and freshman Chloe Mailloux also in the running there. Hardworking freshman Jordan Norris won the third-base job, he said.

In the outfield, freshman Jordan Kimball looked set to start, Martin said, while in the preseason he said he would wait until the team could spend more time outdoors before making further decisions among a group of other freshman candidates: Karlie Ayer, Cram, Kimmie Jerome (who might also pitch), Jenna Lowell, Maria Malaney and Riley Towle.

The Commodores will play in the newly created Lake Division, consisting mostly of the D-II teams that formerly competed in the Metro Conference.

Martin said that change could give

the Commodores a fighting chance.

“It all depends on the pitching really,” he said. “If they develop into throwing strikes, we certainly can compete with the D-II teams.”

Martin also said the long-term outlook is healthy. VUHS middleschool softball has good numbers, and the program should be able to field a JV team again next year.

And he noted that only one senior will graduate from this year’s team, which has a spring to gain valuable seasoning.

“That’s going to be our mantra, improving every day and hopefully into next year we have something to build on,” he said. “We’ll have a ton of 10th-graders with a whole year of experience on varsity going into next year, and there will be a few seniors.”

“We’ll start to build something,” Martin added.

VUHS Girls’ Lax (Continued from Page 8B) Weber as key players at midfield.

Joining Atkins seeing time in the back will be a handful of freshmen: Harriet Anderson, Sophie Davis, Hannah Kelly, Savannah Scrodin and Ava Young.

They will line up in front of freshman goalie Ashley Tierney, who chose the position this spring and, according to Kelley, is picking it up fast.

Competition for playing time up front will be crowded. It includes senior Erin Lawrence, who will start; sophomores Siobhan Eagan and Maya Praamsma; and, unsurprisingly, a group of freshmen: Kate Anderson, Becca Dupree, Emma Huestis, Marley Keith, Anna Rakowski, Isabella Seissen and Sadie Thomas. Injured junior Lilly Goodyear, if healthy, could join the mix.

Kelley said some of the freshmen will hit the ground running after years of youth lacrosse in Monkton and

Middlebury.

“These ninth-graders are sort of the first group that have played a few years coming in,” Kelley said. “Some of these ninth-graders are pretty good.”

Given there are talented players returning, Kelley wouldn’t be surprised to see a better quality of play this spring.

“I think we’re going to be stronger than last year,” she said.

But overall a preseason survey showed the coaches and athletes were on the same page about what might be more important outcomes.

“The No. 1 goal from the players was to improve as players. That’s a perfect fit for what our goals are coaching,” Kelley said. “Their second goal was being good teammates. So if we can get them to improve this year and start playing as a team, learn to work together, that would be great.

It’s a good group of kids, so hopefully everything will fall into place.”

Track (Continued from Page 8B) a contender in Division III, where VUHS will compete this spring.

“Wade and Spencer, I think their success definitely sparked those additions, with Lance and Zeke especially, and our wonderful chance to do something pretty great,” Castillo said.

Individually, Mullin in the 800 and Hurlburt at 1,500 meters will do well, Bergmans will compete at both those distances, and Palmer will run the 800.

The Commodore boys have plenty of depth in the middle distances: Praamsma will compete at 800 and 1,500 meters, senior newcomer Ethan Sausville will run the 400 and 800, and Reitz, sophomore Rory Patch and freshman Gabe Praamsma will all run the 800 and 1,500, with Castillo calling Reitz and Praamsma also capable of challenging again for the 4x800 squad.

Also on the boys’ side sophomore Josias Salomao could make an impact at 100 and 200 meters, while sophomore Luke Bergmans and DeBlois will run the 200 and 400.

The smaller girls’ side of the team features two members of a 4x100 team that finished seventh at the D-II meet a year ago and broke a minute: senior Munro McClaren and junior Cedar Winslow. Senior Olivia Hawkins and sophomores Marlie and Amber Krumrie are in the running to join a 4X100 team that Castillo said should do some damage this spring, including another sub-minute time.

“I’m excited about the girls’ four-by-one I’m hoping to piece together,” he said.

Individually, those five plus junior Marin Howell will also compete at 100 and 200 meters, while Hawkins will add the high jump to her to-do list.

Junior Ashley Cray will run the 800 and 1,500, and junior Bess Gramling will run at 200 and 400 meters.

Early on, Castillo had an overall favorable take with the Commodores’ work ethic and attitude.

MUHS Baseball (Continued from Page 2C) relief help or if the games stack up due to postponements. “We’ve got some arms,” Messenger said.

Senior Brian Foote returns for his third year behind the plate, with Kearns backing him up and showing promise.

Devlin will probably start at first when not at the mound, with Waterman and Kaufmann ready to fill in there.

Hescock will play second base and move to shortstop when Cameron

takes the mound, and Messenger plans to insert Buxton at second base when Hescock plays elsewhere. Stearns is probably the No. 1 third baseman, with either Kaufmann or Kearns available there when Stearns pitches.

Junior Sean Deering will take over in center field, with junior Aaron Larocque playing one of the outfield corners. Kaufmann, Waterman and junior Nick Clark will vie for the third outfield spot, and junior Simon Fischer could also work into the mix if and

when he returns from injury.

Messenger is pleased with the Tigers’ versatility and quality depth.

“We have a lot of options this year, a lot of athletes who play different positions,” he said.

And if they start to hit the ball well the wins should follow.

“We’ve got some athletes who can swing the bat,” Messenger said. “So we’ll see. I think we’ll take a big step forward on all aspects. We’ve just to get things rolling, that’s all.”

Tiger Girls’ Lacrosse (Continued from Page 2C) team from the back, where senior standout goalie Raven Payne returns, as do senior defenders Abby Gleason and Keagan Dunbar, senior defensive midfielder Olivia Beauchamp and junior defensive midfielder Lacy Greenamyre. Sophomore Phoebe Smith, also an attacker, could also see time on defense, as could freshman defensive midfielder Kaitlyn McNamara.

It’s a strong group, Whittemore said.

“It’s starts with defense. Our communication is one thing we are going to work on, and I already notice

the changes,” she said.

High-scoring seniors Satchel McLaughlin and Isabel Rosenberg return to lead the midfield, where also seniors Tulley Hescock and Ella Nagy-Benson and juniors Emily Laframboise and Ada Anderson were significant contributors in 2017.

Senior Sarah Broughton, sophomore Malia Hodges and freshman Ella McKhann will also see time at midfield.

Nagy-Benson, Hescock, Broughton and Smith are also available at attack, which could be thin at least early in the season with seniors Ciara Eagan and Anna Hodson ailing.

Whittemore expects the younger players to work their way into the mix.

“By having the upcoming underclassmen learn from the leaders we already have, they’ll see time,” she said. “They’re going to develop.”

Whittemore did not directly discuss a repeat title in a preseason interview.

“There’s always room for improvement,” she said. “They’re all willing to work and they’re just as ready and they want it just as much as they did last year. So I think by keeping up the intensity we have in practice every day and working hard hopefully we’ll achieve our goals.”

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A.R.T. CO-FOUNDER Steve Small stands in the Patricia Hannaford Career Center’s Black Box Theater with some of the hundreds of young theater professionals he has trained over 24 years. This weekend the troupe will stage Small’s last A.R.T. production before he goes off to do more acting himself.

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Middlebury playwright Dana Yeaton were writing the want ad for the next director of the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center’s Addison Repertory Theater, known as A.R.T., he’d start with a photo of the person who is about to step down from that position.

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“If God were to design the perfect guy to run a vocational theater program, it would be Steve Small,” Yeaton said of the co-founder of A.R.T., who at the age of 61 is preparing to do what he’s taught hundreds of his students during the past 24 years: Go out into the bright lights and perform.

“I want to put myself out there and practice what I’ve been preaching,” Small said of reason to leave the program that serves students at Middlebury, Vergennes and Mount Abraham union high schools.

Small has always been interested in acting. He took to the stage in plays while attending MUHS, from which he graduated in 1974. After a brief stint in the military, Small enrolled at the North Carolina School of the Arts, specifically for acting.

decades.

He enjoyed his time there and it only reinforced his desire to become a professional actor. Upon graduation, he kept a promise to himself: He’d spend four years each in the acting hubs of New York City and Los Angeles to ply his trade.

“I had never directed before, but I said I’d give it a try,” Small recalled.

After a productive, educational experience as a working actor, Shoreham — and specifically his family’s orchard — called Small home. But he never lost the acting bug, and got a chance to feed his urge through roles in local and statewide theater productions. He was a regular with the Middlebury-based Vermont Ensemble Theater, and has often taken the stage at the Town Hall Theater.

Then, in 1993, came a casting call for a part he would play to rave reviews for more than two

Small was in Middlebury’s Frog Hollow district one day and bumped into Yeaton, who asked him to direct a show he had written called “Alice in Love.”

It proved to be a wise decision. “Alice in Love” got a wonderful reception, winning local, regional and statewide accolades before opening a lot of eyes during a New England competition.

Yeaton saw in Small some great potential — not only as an actor, but as someone who could impart those skills to those wanting to break into theater.

“He called me and asked if I could sit in on a meeting about putting a theater program at what was at that time called the ‘vocational center,’” Small said. “I said ‘Sure.’”

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Steve’s A.R.T. alumni Addison Repertory Theater isn’t exclusively about acting. Far from it. It also caters to Career Center students who want to make their living behind the scenes — ­ manufacturing sets, lighting, stage management, makeup and other services essential to the theater.

A.R.T. has been able to add to its offerings as its space in the career center on Charles Avenue in Middlebury has grown. “We used to build our sets in the building trades lab on the weekends, and because we didn’t have a theater, we toured our shows to the various high schools,” A.R.T. cofounder Steve Small explained.

Around 1998 A.R.T. finally got its own theater space, in the former wood shop. It then became a true one-stop-shop for aspiring actors and theater technicians.

Small has prided himself on the fact that A.R.T. grads who want to further their drama education — or jump right into the industry — have been able to do so.

“The most difficult part of this business is getting the job,” Small said.

Students are taught how to prepare their auditions and portfolios to showcase themselves to colleges, studios and theater companies. Small takes his young protégés each year to New York to do live auditions for representatives of the approximately 40 colleges who gather to select incoming students.

“We have 100-percent placement for our technicians and 100 percent for our actors since 2001 (in post-secondary education),” Small said.

“One of the most wonderful things for me is that students get back in touch with me and they tell me where they are,” Small said.

“Some are embarrassed because they’re not in theater. But I’m just glad they’re happy and doing some wonderful things. I have heard that some have used the skills they’ve learned in their (nontheater) jobs, whether it’s building toys or working in a gallery.”

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He listened for a while, but didn’t like the initial talk of the program being geared to “gifted and talented” students.

“I said, ‘Excuse me, that doesn’t mean a lot in the business; everybody’s got gifts and everybody’s got talents,’” he said.

Small agreed to participate when it became clear the new Addison Repertory Theater would be open to all students.

A.R.T. started in 1994 as a half-day offering, co-led by Small and the late Candace Burkle. Burkle was in charge of English instruction, costumes, arts management and producing the plays, while Small served as director, acting coach and supervisor of sets and lights.

It proved a very fruitful collaboration, and the new program caught on. It wasn’t long before A.R.T. expanded from a half-day to a full-day offering in 1996. At one point, it catered to more than 20 students.

“She was an incredible teacher and an incredible partner,” Small said of Burkle, whose life was cut short by leukemia in October of 2011.

Her obituary, which ran in the Addison Independent, stated “her most special years (1994-2011) were spent teaching in the A.R.T. program ... It is here she left her mark on hundreds of students who passed through the program. It is impossible to measure the degree to which parents, faculty and students loved Candace, as she created her magic in this role.”

Small recalled how Burkle had calmed his nerves when he was told about the hoops he would have to jump through in his new teaching role.

“Candace tapped me on the leg and said, ‘You don’t have to do this alone.’”

The pair developed a solid curriculum that allowed students to learn how actors move, orate, emote and write.

And they’re given ample opportunity to showcase their talents on the

A.R.T. stage. There are original shows geared to children, as well as studentwritten, one-act plays in which each player acts out a colleague’s written material. There’s always a major production in the spring, and this year’s offering is (catch your breath) “The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen’s Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery,” to be staged at A.R.T. this Thursday through Saturday, April 12, 13 and 14.

“That’s where our actors and technicians really put their money where their mouth is,” Small said of the spring performances.

A BIG GUY “Small” is actually a misnomer for Steve. He’s a big, burly dude with a booming voice, which has served him well on the stage. It’s also come in handy while barking directions at the aspiring thespians who each year place themselves in his artistic hands, which incidentally “can literally build anything,” according to Yeaton. Many an A.R.T. production scene has borne the telltale signs of Small’s handiwork.

And Small has a pretty good acting resumé of his own.

“Let’s not forget that he has performed on the Town Hall Theater stage many times, always brilliantly, and people still talk about his magnificent Lenny in ‘Of Mice and Men,’” THT Executive Director Doug Anderson said.

He was on an episode of the “L.A. Law” television show, and was in a film with Jon Cryer called “Hiding Out.” Small also gained a great reputation for building sets. He did such work for well-known films like “The Abyss” and “Edward Scissorhands.” You also might have seen him in some television commercials.

He’ll resurrect those finely honed skills in what he hopes will be a triumphant return to professional acting and related technical work. Small still has some connections in the industry — some of whom, ironically, are former students.

“I have learned a lot about acting through teaching kids,” Small said.

While he’ll be leaving A.R.T., Small wants to keep Vermont his home base even as he searches for work in the

theater and movie industries. So he’ll continue to be a supporter of ART and the local theater scene.

He’ll be asked frequently to take a bow for his A.R.T. contributions. “Here at Town Hall Theater we’ve really benefited from Steve’s contribution to the arts,” Anderson said. “His students have worked here as performers and technicians, some of them becoming regulars, and they’ve always been very well prepared and professional.”

“Steve’s a Vermont original — one of the most inventive people you’ll meet, but totally practical,” Yeaton said. “He knows what kids are capable of when you challenge them, and he knows they sometimes mess up. As a parent, you feel lucky if your child has just one teacher like Steve.”

Lynn Coale, former superintendent of the career center, praised Small for his contributions. “He always put on professional shows,” Coale said.

“I run into someone almost every day who tells me how (A.R.T.) changed their kid’s life,” he added. “Steve Small is a passionate and compassionate man.”

Small has enjoyed his long run at A.R.T., and he thanks the community, parents and students for the long, enjoyable ride. He’ll bring with him some fond memories. “The greatest thing for me is when a student has an ‘a-ha!’ moment, and you get to be there for it,” Small said. “And I’ve had a lot of those, almost daily.”

He compared teaching to “helping (students) navigate through a thicket.

You know where the water is where they need to get to. You could lead them all the way to the water, but all they’ll learn to do is follow.

But if you can help them navigate through the thicket and step aside just prior to them breaking through and discovering the water, they will remember the journey and how they got there, as opposed to who they followed.”

The career center is currently interviewing for the A.R.T. director’s position. While enrollment is currently rather low (13), Small said interest is picking up for this fall.

“It’s a great program and needs someone with youthful energy,” Small said. “The program will live on.”

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Folk music isn’t just old-timey tunes your ancestors sang while darning socks on the porch swing.

OK, well, maybe the lyrics come from way-back-when, but the songs are making a comeback in the avant-guard folk music scene today.

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See for yourself on Saturday, April 21, at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury, when duo Anna & Elizabeth perform tracks from their latest album, and New Haven native Moira Smiley adds her solo flare.

Ever wonder how musicians create a folk album?

First they have to go find the original songs. Anna Roberts-Gevalt (who was raised in Vermont) and Elizabeth LaPrelle spent a year collecting songs, including time spent exploring the Margaret MacArthur Collection at the Vermont Folklife Center Archive and the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection at Middlebury College.

The result: “The Invisible Comes to Us” — the duo’s new album released by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

“The record is a spellbinding reconfiguration of ancient folk ballads that sees the duo’s immersion in Appalachian music move to a place of boundless experimentation,” reads the duo’s bio on their website (annaandelizabeth. com). “They combine two powerful and very distinct voices.

Elizabeth was raised in rural Virginia and is frequently lauded as the finest traditional singer of her generation. Anna is a multi-instrumentalist whose musical curiosity has taken her from old time fiddling in Kentucky to a more recent immersion in Brooklyn’s avant-garde community. Together they find new ways to

tell old stories of love, loss and intrigue, while relishing the tension that arises between their very different backgrounds and orthodoxies; holding firm to the roots of the music while removing the limits of how that music can be played and presented.”

The Vermont Folklife Center’s archivist Andy Kolovos met Anna when she visited several years ago to explore the traditional ballads and songs from Vermont and the surrounding regions, explained Kathleen Haughey, executive director of the Folklife Center.

“One of the tunes on their new album is a reinterpretation of a song ‘Mother in the Graveyard’ in our archive, that was collected by folk singer and song collector Margaret MacArthur in the 1950s,” Haughey said.

Though she’s never heard them live herself, Haughey said that many friends and partners of the Folklife Center have — and they rave about the duo’s dynamic reinterpretation of traditional Vermont repertoire.

“Anna & Elizabeth take traditional music and reinterpret it to keep it relevant to contemporary audiences,” she said. “This is an exemplar of our mission and the work we do. We at the Folklife Center are interested in documenting, sustaining and presenting the diverse cultures of Vermont, and Anna & Elizabeth are doing just that. Not to mention bringing the materials in our archive to

life for audiences around the world.

“Anna & Elizabeth wanted to book Middlebury — the only Vermont venue on their international tour — because many of the tunes on this new album are from Vermont and surrounding regions,” Haughey added. “We are thrilled to be part of the effort to bring Anna & Elizabeth back to Middlebury.”

Adding to the evening of folk, will be Moira Smiley. She promises to bring elegance and grit to folk songs both original and ancient. Expect soul-stirring arrangements of Anglo-Celtic ballads, American spirituals, European folklaments and sharp, poignant originals that call effortlessly upon the audience to whisper, clap or sing along.

Smiley will draw songs from her new album (released April 7) — “Unzip the Horizon” — at Saturday’s concert. The record “straddles Americana, indie rock and folk,” and includes Anna & Elizabeth as two of several special guests.

“Folk music is about the present, not just the past,” Haughey emphasized.

The concert on April 21 starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $30 in advance and $40 at the door.

Proceeds support the Vermont Folklife Center.

Tickets are available at brownpapertickets. com/event/3357710. For more information visit vermontfolklifecenter.org.

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OUT OF TOWN Film Festival explores our cultures with ‘Disability’

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AT BURLINGTON’S MAIN ST. LANDING The Global Roots Film Festival presents “Disability” — a series of 10 films that will be screened at Main Street Landing in Burlington From April 13-15. The Global Roots initiative is part of the Vermont International Film festival and began in 2013 as a means of bringing great films from the countries of many of the New American communities in Vermont, to foster a greater understanding of our diverse cultures. In 2015 it expanded to encompass other types of films made by the mosaic of cultures and persuasions we live in.

Here’s a line up of the films: “My Hero Brother.” April 13, 5-6:30 p.m. (showing with short: “A is For Autism”) “Keep the Change.” April 13, 7:15-9 p.m.

“Latest News From the Cosmos.” April 14, 12:30-2 p.m.

“Crazywise.” April 14, 2:30-4:30 p.m. (followed by panel discussion) “Dina.” April 14, 4:45-6:30 p.m.

“Kills on Wheels,” directed by Attila Till, will screen on April 14, 7:15 p.m., at Main Street Landing in Burlington as part of the Global Roots Film Festival. Catch 10 films and two shorts between April 13-15 exploring this year’s theme: “Disability.”

“Kills on Wheels.” April 14, 7:15-9 p.m.

“Life Animated.” April 15, 12-1:30 p.m.

“How Sweet the Sound: The Blind Boys of Alabama.” April 15, 2-4 p.m.

“Defiant Lives.” April 15, 4:30-6:30 p.m.

“Living and Other Fictions.” April 15, 7:15-9 p.m. (showing with short: “The Making of Viktoria Modesta”) A Single Pebble and Zero Gravity Brewery will host receptions before the evening screenings.

All feature length films will have closed or open captions except those with subtitles. The venue is wheelchair accessible. The festival will be a scentfree environment and we are discouraged from wearing perfumes or scented lotions.

Festival passes are available for $40, which gives you entry to all films. Or buy tickets individually for $10. Discounts are available for students, seniors and VTIFF Patron members. For more info call (802) 660-2600.

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IN TOWN Bluegrass quartet plays the Burnham Music Series

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Four veteran Vermont musicians joined together as Northern Flyer — a contemporary bluegrass band — in 2017. They combine first-rate harmonies with extensive instrumental expertise. Their repertoire includes original songs, unique adaptations of exciting material and traditional bluegrass. And they’re coming to Burnham Hall in Lincoln on Saturday, April 14, or the Burnham Music Series.

Together Andy Sacher (mandolin), Mark Struhsacker (guitar), Andy Greene (banjo) and Kirk Lord (bass) make up this bluegrass quartet you won’t want to miss on Saturday.

ANDY SACHER Northern Flyer, a four-part bluegrass band, will play at the Burnham Music Series on Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m.

Sacher started playing the mandolin in the 1960s.

After moving to Vermont in the 1970s, he played in numerous bands including: Dealers Choice, Bob Yellin and the Joint Chiefs of Grass, Stone Coane and Sacher, Bob Degree and the Bluegrass Storm, and was a founding member of Breakaway.

In addition to writing original songs for the band, Sacher has a reputation for gathering material from other genres and smoothly integrating it into the bluegrass framework. He sings lead and various harmony parts.

MARK STRUHSACKER Struhsacker nails the demanding role of a bluegrass rhythm and lead guitarist and has mastered the cross-picking solo style made famous by George Shuffler. Raised in New Hampshire, Struhsacker moved to Vermont in the 1970s. He founded the WDEV Radio

Rangers. In addition to 26 years of weekly broadcasts, they opened shows for Asleep at the Wheel, Kathy Mattea, and Jim & Jesse.

When he was working with Elizabeth Von Trapp, Struhsacker sang the national anthem at Fenway Park. Like Sacher, Struhsacker sings lead and various harmony parts and contributes about half the band’s material.

ANDY GREENE Greene is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter. In his youth, he played banjo in Up the Creek before becoming the guitarist and a founding member of Breakaway. He was part of the original Bluegrass Gospel Project and most recently, the founder and guiding light of The Modern Grass Quintet. Greene’s sparkling banjo picking and tenor and baritone harmonies are key

elements of the Northern Flyer sound. He is an astute musician and a major contributor to song arrangements. Greene is also a music teacher.

KIRK LORD Lord’s professionalism is evident with every solid bass note. Lord has worked in many of the best known bluegrass bands, including Big Spike, the Bluegrass Gospel Project, The Modern Grass Quintet, and Bob Degree and the Bluegrass Storm.

Perhaps Lord’s rock-solid bass playing springs from his family’s deep ties to Vermont’s granite bedrock.

Catch Northern Flyer on Saturday at Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd., in Lincoln. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Admission is $10 (teens and kids are free). For more info, call (802) 388-6863.

Dance Program showcases new work on April 19 The Middlebury College Dance Program offers samples of faculty choreography on Thursday, April 19, 8 p.m., in the Dance Theatre of the Mahaney Center for the Arts. This year’s new works from Julian Barnett, Christal Brown, Karima Borni, Laurel Jenkins and Lida Winfield offer a wide range of aesthetics and artistic voices, representing the breadth and depth of the college’s resident dance scholars and creators.

“Slow Dance,” choreographed by Barnett in collaboration with the performers, is focused on the lives

of three bodies and a storyteller.

Performed by fifth-grader Kian Amadora, Sam Kann ’20.5, Anja Kuipers ’18, and Lida Winfield, “Slow Dance” opens up other spaces for reflection and gratitude by using the characters’ reliance on each other, as well as the themes of time-travel, friendship, desire and nature.

Brown, assistant professor and dance program chair, has made a new work showcasing the talents of dancers Esteban Arenas-Piño ’18 and Esme Fahnestock ’21.

Borni, scholar in residence,

presents “Crossroads Revisited,” an investigation into the unfolding intersections of people, events and time. Her dancers are Asia MylesFunches ’18, Tess Weitzner ’18.5, Nick Zelle ’18.5, Maduabuchukwu Udeh ’21, and Ami Furgang ’20.

Jenkins, assistant professor of dance, collaborated with Chi Chi Chang ’18, Deborah Grace Leedy ’18, Matea Mills-Andruk ’18.5, and Vermont performer Hanna Satterlee to create a retro science-fiction inspired work with live original music by Fiona Roth Sullivan ’19.

Visiting assistant professor of dance Winfield presents a piece based on her expertise in storytelling and improvisation.

Expand your mind at this annual faculty concert on Thursday, April 19. A discussion will follow the performance. Tickets are $15 for the general public; $12 for Middlebury College faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card holders; $8 for youth 18 and under; and $6 for Middlebury College students, and may be purchased by calling 802-443-MIDD (6433) or visiting go.middlebury.edu/arts.

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CALENDAR

ACTIVE

BULLHEAD FISHING CLINIC IN ADDISON. Friday, April 13, 6:30-9 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, 966 Route 17. The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s “Let’s Go Fishing Program” offers this introductory course, including basic techniques for targeting bullhead with live bait, casting basics, knot tying, filleting, aquatic ecology, and biology. Contact 802-265-2279 or letsgofishing@vermont.gov to register by April 12.

Space is limited.

GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB HIKE IN BRISTOL. Saturday, April 14, 4783 Plank Rd. Moderate three-mile loop hike to an eastern ridge. Meet at Watershed’s parking area. Wear appropriate clothing; bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. More info contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@gmail.com or 802-388-5407. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

MONTHLY WILDLIFE WALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 14, 7 a.m., Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland, corner of Weybridge Street and Pulp Mill Bridge Road. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife.

Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. More info call 802-388-1007 or 802-388-6019.

ARTS

*NEW DATE* “MARK DION: MISADVENTURES OF A 21ST-CENTURY NATURALIST” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 12, 4:30 p.m., Twilight Hall, College St. Known best for his elaborate installations and fantastical curiosity cabinets, Cameron Visiting Artist Mark Dion’s art questions distinctions between “objective” (“rational”) methods and “subjective” (“irrational”) influences. Free. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

“MIGRATION OF MEMORY: ANNU PALAKUNNATHU MATTHEW” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 12, 4:30 p.m., Sabra Field Lecture Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Annu Palakunnathu Matthew will present her photo-based work — a striking blend of still and moving imagery. Free. More info at middlebury. edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

EXHIBIT RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 13, 5-7 p.m., Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Come see the three dozen photographs chosen for “Our Town: Love, Joy, Sadness and Baseball — 100 Years of Photography from the Sheldon Museum” selected by award-winning

National Geographic photographer Jim Blair.

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE IN CORNWALL. Saturday, April 14, 7-9:30 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall, Route 30.

Featuring Luke Donforth calling to live banjo and fiddle music by Red Dog Riley. $5-10/person (sliding scale). All are welcome. No experience or partner necessary. More info at 802-462-3722.

FILM

“LUISA MILLER” LIVE IN HD IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 14, 12:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Plácido Domingo adds yet another role to his legendary Met career in this rarely performed Verdi gem, a heart-wrenching tragedy of fatherly love. A free talk about this opera will be given in the studio on the lower level before the broadcast at 11:45 a.m. by Jim Pugh. Tickets adults $24/$10 students (plus $2/$1 ticket fee) and may be purchased at townhallteater.org, by calling 802 382-9222, at the THT box office (Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m.) or at the door, if available.

“CERTAIN WOMEN” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 14, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, 356 College St. A close look at several women attempting to find their way in the wide-open landscape of America’s Northwest. Free. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

JUST FOR FUN

ANCIENT GREEK COINS AT THE MUSEUM OF ART IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 13, 12:30 p.m., Sabra Field Lecture Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Simone Edgar Holmes, intern in ancient art, will present her numismatic research and display proposal for the impressive collection of Ancient Greek coins that the museum has been expanding in recent years. Part of the Fridays at the Museum series. Free. More info at middlebury. edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

PAINT N YUM FUNDRAISER IN BRISTOL. Friday, April 13, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Cafeteria, Mt Abraham Union High School, Airport Rd. Come support the Addison Otters swim team at a fun-filled evening of painting, yummy snacks, and lots of laughs.

Snacks and all painting materials. No experience required, just a willingness to have fun. Advance tickets $35.00 or $40.00 at the door. More info at 802-349-9315 or tinyurl.com/ybbbljxe.

EDIBLE BOOK AND TEA PARTY IN VERGENNES. Saturday, April 14, 11 a.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Celebrate Library Week with this unique party.

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Join the fun and make an “edible book” to share.

Bring your entry to the Library and enjoy the tea and fun.

CHARLOTTE’S ANGELS RELAY FOR LIFE PAINT N SIP FUNDRAISER IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 14, 1-3:30 p.m., American Legion, 550 Franklin St. Come join the fun for a great cause. All painting materials provided for this fun-filled step-by-step class. You bring home a masterpiece on an 11 x 14 canvas. Ticket price is $35.00. More info at 802349-9315 or tinyurl.com/yaketr4f.

LECTURE

JANE LINDHOLM SPEAKS IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Celebrated and respected radio journalist, host and commentator Jane Lindholm of Vermont Public Radio’s award-winning “Vermont Edition” will reflect on her 11 years with that show in her talk entitled “Let Me Ask You This: A Decade of Interviewing Interesting Vermonters.” Free and open to the public.

“THERE AND BACK AGAIN: MIGRATION PATTERNS OF GOLDEN-WINGED AND BLUEWINGED WARBLERS IN THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 12, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Join Audubon Vermont’s Mark LaBarr and Margaret Fowle for a discussion on migration and wintering locations of golden- and blue-winged warblers fitted with geolocators in the Middlebury area and across the Champlain Valley.

“SEASONS OF THE CANADIAN MOOSE” TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 13, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Join Monkton resident Russ Baker for an informational slideshow and discussion of moose and other wildlife, along with a number of animal artifacts he has collected over the years. Refreshments and social hour to follow. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-3881220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

“AGENCY AND OPPORTUNITY IN THE GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICAN TELEVISION: A PUBLIC CONVERSATION WITH PIPER PERABO AND STEPHEN KAY” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 14, 4:30 p.m., Axinn Center 232, Middlebury College. A conversation with actor/producer Piper Perabo (“Coyote Ugly,” “Cheaper by the Dozen”) and writer/director Stephen Kay (“Friday Night Lights,” “Sons of Anarchy”) about the opportunities and challenges of navigating careers in the

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golden age of American television. Moderated

by Alex Draper, Chair, Department of Theatre and Dance, and Jason Mittell, Chair, Department of Film and Media Culture.

MUSIC

*CANCELLED* KITTEL & CO. perform in Middlebury. Friday, April 13, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Come hear this young trio of fiddle, mandolin, and guitar.

JOSH PINKHAM TRIO PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 13, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Come hear this young trio of mandolin, acoustic bass, and guitar that will inspire concert-goers with their talent and range. Tickets purchased for the Jeremy Kittel Trio/Kittel & Co. concert originally scheduled for this date will be honored. Tickets $22 adults/$16 Middlebury College faculty, staff, emeriti, and alumni/$10 youth 18 and under (new youth ticket price)/$6 for Middlebury College students. On sale at 802-443-MIDD (6433) or middlebury.edu/arts/tickets.

“OLD BONES” VILLAGE2VILLAGE FUNDRAISER IN BRISTOL. Saturday April 14, 6:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Bristol, Park St. Come hear some feel-good country and gospel music from this talented group of local country musicians and help raise funds for the Village2Village Project, a 15-year-old organization born in Bristol that now supports more than 134 orphaned and needy children and HIV+ guardians in northeastern Uganda.

A shepherd’s pie supper will be served before the concert at 5:30 pm. All funds will also benefit Village2Village. Suggested donation for supper is $10 for adults/$5 for children 6-11/children 5 and under are free.

NORTHERN FLYER ON STAGE IN LINCOLN. Saturday, April 14, 7:309 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Come hear this contemporary four-man bluegrass band. Their repertoire includes original songs, unique adaptations, and enough traditional bluegrass to testify to their skills playing this demanding style. Part of the Burnham Music Series. Tickets $10/ teens & kids free. More info call Burnham Music Series at 802-388-6863.

SARAH BLACKER PERFORMS IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Blacker brings her full band sound to Brandon Music with New England Groove Association. With roots in the folk, rock, jam-band and funk scenes, the group fuses their vibrant musical worlds together to create an original, soulful sound. Concert tickets $20. Preconcert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info call 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net.

REHAB ROADHOUSE & THE JUSTIN PANIGUTTI BAND IN VERGENNES. Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St. A mix of original and cover songs in the jam and blues tradition. Tickets $15 at the door or in advance at Hired Hand Brewing in Vergennes.

MILES DONAHUE AND FRIENDS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month with Donahue and his group of consummate jazz musicians as they play a concert of jazz standards, including selections

by Thelonius Monk, Wayne Shorter, John Lewis, John Coltrane and Dave Brubek. Free.

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CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 15, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Jam session from 11 a.m.-noon, music and dancing from noon-5 p.m. All fiddlers welcome. Refreshments available. Donation $3.

THEATER

“THE FARNDALE AVENUE HOUSING ESTATE TOWNSMEN’S GUILD DRAMATIC SOCIETY MURDER MYSTERY” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 12, Friday, April 13, Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theater, Hannaford Career Center, Charles Ave. Hilarity will ensue in this comedy performed by Addison Repertory Theater — the final Mainstage production under the direction Steve Small. Tickets $10 adults/$7 students at 802-382-1036. More info at overplayers.uk/html/farnsynopsis.html.

“WILDFLOWERS, GUNS, AND BEARS, OH MY!” on stage in Ripton. Friday, April 13, Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community House, 1305 Route 125. For the 16th year, North Branch School students present this collaborative play they wrote based on the year’s experiences at North Branch. Tickets $7. Open to the public. More info call 802-388-3269 or go to northbranchschool.org.

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“No winter lasts forever; No spring skips its turn.”

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Clear White Trillium flowers along a quiet road in Salisbury.

his wonderful saying by the American nature journalist, Hal Borland, perfectly captures my attitude at this time of year.

And, while this has surely been an ornery winter, spring is officially here (technically it arrived on March 20 even if the temps might still need to climb a bit).

BY JUDITH IRVEN

The bitter cold of January with almost no snow — deep snow actually helps by insulating the ground — I worry that the cold snap could have damaged the roots of particularly vulnerable perennials. We’ll find out soon.

Then a warm spell in February started the maple sap flowing, and everyone predicted an early spring.

But that turned out to be an illusion. As we passed the Spring Equinox with the sun riding high across a brilliant blue sky, once again nighttime temperatures were dropping below 0 degree F. And, after three successive nor-easters, the snow in my garden was almost three feet deep.

But enough of my grumbles — I am ever the optimist!

The buds on the serviceberries outside my kitchen

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window are starting to swell and in a few short weeks the wood-frogs will be croaking in the pond — a signal for me to head outdoors to enjoy the flowers of spring.

SPRING IN THE WOODS Nothing beats walking through the woods in springtime. As the sun shines through the leafless trees it warms the soil, triggering a profusion of wildflowers as far as the eye can see.

Around my home, as in much of Vermont, the woodland soil is predictably acidic, which perfectly suits many of our loveliest spring wildflowers, including Spring Beauties (Claytonia virginica), Trout Lilies (Erythronium americanum), Bellflowers (Uvularia sessilifolia) as well as the Red and Painted Trillium (Trillium erectum and T. undulatum).

And I am always delighted when I find sizable clusters of Squirrel Corn (Dicentra canadensis) and its close relative Dutchman’s Breeches (Dicentra cucullaria), where the little flowers dangle from the stem like laundry hung out to dry.

I will also be watching for some less-common beauties, including Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis), Goldthread (Coptis trifolia), and

Starflower (Lysimachia borealis).

And, if you drive the back roads in the limestone regions of state, be sure to watch for vast colonies o Large-flowered trillium (Trillium grandiflorum) — the pure-white flowers are truly an unforgettable sight.

Since Large-flowered Trillium prefer an alkaline soil, they are picky about their location; but in the right spot they seem to multiply without end.

NATURE’S OPPORTUNISTS

Many of our earliest woodland wildflowers like Sprin Beauties, Trout Lilies, Squirrel Corn and Bellflowers are truly nature’s opportunists. Known as spring ephemerals, their annual emergence is precisely timed to coincide with that brief window in late April and early May when the ground has thawed but before the trees have fully leafed out, and the sun st illuminates the ground.

In just a few short weeks spring ephemerals complete their entire annual cycle — from flowering to setting seed, as well as manufacturing food in the leaves (via photosynthesis) and storing it in their root Once this cycle is complete they vanish below the ground until next spring.

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Other spring wildflowers, notably Dutchman’s Breeches, Bloodroot, Trillium and Jack-in-thepulpit, are partially ephemeral. After flowering their leaves will last awhile before dying back, but eventually they too will disappear from sight until the following spring.

SPRING IN THE GARDEN We have nature’s opportunists in our gardens too.

Most notably, our common bulbs — snowdrops, crocuses, daffodils, tulips and many more — are all spring ephemerals.

So plan accordingly: to avoid empty patches in your beds during the summer months, be sure to position other perennials around the areas where ephemerals grow.

You can also use the short interval after the flowers have faded, but while their leaves are still green, to move some of your bulbs to new places and thus expand your spring extravaganza for the years ahead.

I have used this technique to gradually relocate many of my daffodils to the rough grass along our roadside and at the edge of the woods. Here their leaves can mature without disturbance in the long grass before finally going dormant in July.

There are so many flowers to celebrate spring in our gardens. Some are ephemeral while others keep their leaves all season-long. Here are just a few of my favorites:

BRIDAL WHITE White seems the perfect color to welcome a New Year in the garden. And fortuitously there are plenty of glistening white flowers to help us do just that.

Snowdrops have a lovely but lesser-known relative (also a member of the lily family), the beautiful Summer Snowflake (Leucojum aestivum), shown in this photograph. Like snowdrops, they too have glistening white bells on delicate stems, but Summer Snowflakes are quite a bit taller — a foot or more high. And, despite their name, Summer Snowflakes do actually bloom in the spring.

And finally, if you like to welcome spring with pure white flowers, there are several varieties of white Narcissi, including the large-flowered Mount Hood and the fragrant “Tardiva.” I am also very partial to one called “Salome,” with subtle peach-colored trumpets offsetting its outer ring of white petals.

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Virginia Bluebells are native to damp spots in the eastern parts of the United States, and, given similar conditions in our gardens, they will also spread themselves around by self-seeding. Their beautiful blue flowers are like nodding bells on 18 inches stems. They are true ephemerals; once they have finished flowering the foliage gradually yellows, a signal you can replant pieces of their roots in new places to enlarge your collection.

English primroses used to grow wild in the woods around my childhood home in Kent, England and they still hold potent memories for me. Since their crinkled leaves persist all summer long, by planting them in combination with Virginia Bluebells I avoid those annoying empty spaces later in the summer.

If you look at an Artist’s Color Wheel you will see that blue and yellow appear on opposite sides of the circle, telling us that, when these colors are put together, the result will be a strong and pleasing contrast.

So as the long winter slowly, but surely, comes to an end, it is time for us all to savor the New Year in our gardens.

I often use this idea as I think about which flowers will combine well together. And, in my mind, nothing beats clumps of yellow Jonquil Narcissi amongst a sea of bright blue Scilla.

Judith Irven and her husband Dick Conrad live in Goshen where together they nurture a large garden.

Judith is a landscape designer and Vermont Certified Horticulturist. She also teaches Sustainable Home Landscaping for the Vermont Master Gardener program. She writes about her Vermont gardening life at northcountryreflections.com.

Although the actual flowers of Scilla are quite small they make up for it in sheer numbers by self-seeding.

And, for another great blue/yellow combination, plant a few Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica) among some clumps of yellow English primroses (Primula vulgaris).

Dick is a landscape and garden photographer; you can see his photographs at The Brandon Artists Guild and at northcountryimpressions.com.

You can reach Judith at judithirven@gmail.com.

About 15 years ago I decided to clear our “barn slope” and plant a garden. Little of interest grew there, apart from one tiny patch of Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) which, each April, miraculously pushed its way through the thick ferns and grasses.

Carefully I harvested some pieces of rootstock and tucked them into various shady corners of my garden.

They did indeed exude a reddish liquid somewhat reminiscent of blood and I believe to this day Native American basket weavers like to use it as a dye.

Now every April I am rewarded as swaths of pure white flowers with yellow stamens suddenly emerge from the bare earth. Bloodroot is actually semi-ephemeral often keeping its scalloped leaves throughout the summer.

Summer Snowflakes

Bloodroot flowers

English Primroses

Blue Scilla surround some yellow Jonquil narcissi

Then I nestled approximately 50 snowdrop bulbs across the newly-cleared barn slope. Soon each little bulb became a small colony and now, every April, the whole slope is covered in dainty white flowers.

Snowdrops originated in Europe and Wikipedia will tell you they typically flower before the Vernal Equinox. However here in Vermont they postpone their flowering until the snow has gone and the spring sun has warmed the ground.

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T HEATER

OWN HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Thu–Sat 4/12–4/14 8pm $14/$12 MC Staff/$6 Student MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSICAL PLAYERS

SPRING AWAKENING

An electrifying fusion of morality, sexuality and rock & roll that’s exhilarating audiences across the nation.

Tickets: available through Middlebury College Box Office or call 443-MIDD

Sat. 4/14 12:30pm $24/ $10 MET LIVE IN HD

LUISA MILLER

Plácido Domingo stars in this rarely performed Verdi gem. “...not to be missed” New York Times.

Jim Pugh gives a pre-show talk in the studio at 11:45 PM.

Sat. 4/21 7:30pm $12/$5 students SWING DANCE WITH

SOUND INVESTMENT JAZZ ENSEMBLE

A benefit for Elderly Services. The Joint will be jumpin’ when Middlebury’s swingin’ big band returns to THT for another sparkling evening! Bring your dancing shoes!

Thu-Sat 4/26-4/28 @ 7:30pm; Sun 4/29 @ 2pm $22/$12 Students MIDDLEBURY ACTORS WORKSHOP

THE CHRISTIANS

Pastor Paul is about to preach a sermon that will shake the foundations of his church’s belief. A big-little play about faith in America – and the trouble with changing your mind.

Sat 4/28 1pm $24/ $10 Students MET LIVE IN HD

CENDRILLON

Massenet’s sumptuous take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met for the first time, with Joyce DiDonato in the title role.

Scott Morrison gives a pre-show talk in the studio at 12:15pm.

Fri. 5/4 7pm $18/ $10 Kids 12 and under

CASHORE MARIONETTES:

LIFE IN MOTION In the performance Life in Motion, Joseph Cashore presents his collection of marionette masterworks. Characters of depth, integrity, and humanity are portrayed in a full evening unlike anything else in theater today.

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EXHIBITS 10 YEARS: THE CAMERON PRINT PROJECT. On view Jan. 9-April 29, featuring 29 works of art produced over the past decade in a series of annual collaborations between visiting artists and advanced printmaking students. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum. middlebury.edu.

AMERICAN WOOD SCULPTOR JOHN CROSS: A CONTEMPORARY FIGURATIVE FOLK ARTIST. On view March 20-July 8, featuring the whimsical wood carvings of folk artist John Cross. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury.

(802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

ART FROM FARM TO TABLE. On view March 2-April 30, featuring a fresh exhibit of pastel paintings by Middlebury artists Judy Albright and Cristine Kossow. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St., Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

BARN ART. On view April 6-June 16, featuring a juried collection of works from 31 different artists in celebration of barns.

Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr., Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or cmacvt.org.

EVERYTHING ALL TOGETHER. On view March 15-April 29, featuring a solo exhibit from Maine contemporary artist Hannah Secord Wade. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

THE LAST OF THE HILL FARMS: PHOTOGRAPHS BY RICHARD BROWN. On display April 10-June 23, this exhibit offers the chance to experience the Vermont that Brown entered and began to photograph in the 1970s. Fifty years later, the lives, landscapes and time period he so lovingly captured are available for viewing through these large-format, finely detailed, photographic prints. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

OUR TOWN OUR TOWN: LOVE, JOY, SADNESS AND BASEBALL — 100 YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE SHELDON MUSEUM. On view March 20-July 8, featuring three dozen photographs from the museum’s Research Center curated

by James Pease Blair. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Reception, Friday, April 13, 5-7 p.m.

PASTEL, PASTEL, PASTEL... Three Artists and their Pastel Journey. On view April 6-May 11, featuring work by Judy Albright, Cristine Kossow and Norma Jean Rollet. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

SPRINGTIME. On exhibit for the month of April, featuring work

by Helen Shulman and Karen O’Neil at Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchant’s Row, Middlebury. And work by Jill Matthews and Kay Flierl at Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill Street, Middlebury. (802) 989-7419, (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

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MUSIC Sophie Blacker & friends: More than a jam band

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NEW ENGLAND GROOVE ASSOCIATION JOINS SOULFUL ROCKER IN BRANDON Sarah Blacker and New England Groove Association will play at Brandon Music this Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m.

Live at Brandon Music: Sarah Blacker & New England Groove Association

Sarah Blacker brings her full band sound to Brandon Music on Saturday, April 14 with New England Groove Association. With roots in the folk, rock, jam-band and funk scenes, the group fuses their vibrant musical worlds together to create an original, soulful sound.

The collaboration, which often features special guests, is comprised of award-winning, internationally touring singer-songwriters and multi-instrumentalists, Blacker and Aaron Z. Katz, and Phil Selesnick on keyboards.

Sarah Blacker and New England Groove Association will play at Brandon Music this Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Blacker was named “Female Performer of the Year” in the 2013 New England Music Awards, and has built a devoted following both nationally and internationally via extensive touring, passionate singing and songwriting, and belief in the power of music. Her motto, #SongsSaveLives speaks to her work as a Music Therapist, and her rise on the jam-band concerts and festival scene. She feels enthusiastic about re-connecting/moving with this fun-loving group of people, now as an accomplished musician and performer.

Katz, with over 20 years of national and international touring experience, is the singer/ songwriter/producer/drummer from the successful jam-band, Percy Hill. Percy Hill won the Jammy Award for “Album of the Year” in 2000 and continues sell-out rooms on the jam club and festival scene. The band recently reunited after an eight-year hiatus, to sold-out shows at Port City Music Hall in Portland, Maine and The Paradise, in Boston, Mass.

live music JOSH PINKHAM TRIO PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 13, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center OLD BONES IN BRISTOL. Saturday, April 14, 6:30 p.m., First Baptist Church of Bristol.

NORTHERN FLYER IN LINCOLN. Saturday, April 14, 7:30-9 p.m., Burnham Hall.

SARAH BLACKER IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 14, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

REHAB ROADHOUSE & THE JUSTIN PANIGUTTI BAND IN VERGENNES. Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., Vergennes Opera House Miles Donahue and friends in Middlebury. Saturday, April 14, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts.

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Saturday’s concert in Brandon begins at 7:30 p.m.

Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an extra $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, email info@brandon-music.net or visit brandon-music.net for more info.

DID YOU KNOW? Long before the Walkman and the iPod, there was the Peter Pan — one of the smallest ultra-portable folding gramophones.

It folded ingeniously into a space little larger than a box camera, and was therefore often known by the nickname “cameraphone.” It was cleverly designed to fold in itself so that all the pieces fit inside the box which measures just 4 inches x 6 inches.

The Peter Pan was invented by Frederick Ferris and made by the Peter Pan Gramophone Company Ltd in London from 1920 to 1927. It was used mostly for picnics and outings.

The turntable is only two crossed rods of chromed metal that fold up and pack up inside the box with the crank, tone arm and reproducer. Later models have a pop-up horn but the earlier models like the one at Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon have a telescopic horn. Go check it out.

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the movie CHAPPAQUIDDICK — RUNNING TIME: 1:41 — RATING: PG-13 Your interest in “Chappaquiddick” — or lack thereof — is likely to be determined by your age and your politics. The younger you are, the less likely you are to be emotionally involved. Director John Curran and writers Taylor Allen and Andrew Logan have made a fine film of a terrible story.

They chose wisely to deal with things that were known and factual. No theories here.

Of the four sons of Rose and Joseph Kennedy, Joe Jr. was killed in Europe during World War II. John F. Kennedy became president in 1960 and brought a new generation into the political world; he died by a bullet in Dallas in 1962. His brother Robert was shot dead while running for President in 1968. Their supporters, I among them, reeled when the Chappaquiddick incident unfolded.

Jason Clarke and Bruce Dern in “Chappaquiddick” (2017).

Ted Kennedy, the youngest brother, was elected to the senate and plunged into controversy when he drove a car off a narrow bridge in Chappaquiddick, Mass., that caused the drowning death of his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne (Kate Mara), a strong, bright campaign worker in the Kennedy organization. Now we have a movie that offers the first filmed interpretation of that accident. Whatever your political persuasion, you will see a weak man who never measured up to that major crisis. He left the scene while Mary Jo Kopechne struggled for breath as she drowned in the car whose doors she couldn’t open.

Director John Curran has done a fine job with a tough subject. He doesn’t pretend to know how Kennedy escaped from the car and left the scene while Kopechne drowned inside so he concentrates on the known facts.

Kennedy escaped, left the scene, and waited far too long to report the accident while trying to figure out how to make it all go away.

It is enough to say that because of his family’s fame, he fell immediately into the public spotlight while one loyal family friend, Joe Gargan (played by an excellent Ed Helms), tried unsuccessfully to convince him to do

the right things. Bruce Dern stuns as patriarch Joseph Kennedy stricken speechless by a stroke who still tries to control his son. The screen fills with an ugly bunch of former loyalists who want to take Kennedy’s place as a presidential candidate.

At the center of it all, actor Jason Clark creates Kennedy in a remarkable creation of a man without a moral center caught in a crisis of his own making. In a powerful, understated performance, Clark conveys the center rot of a spoiled man whose dark, selfish instincts and ambitions governed his own behavior after the accident.

The supporting cast does a fine job of creating a mob of former loyalists who suddenly tried to seize the opening Kennedy had planned to use to run for president. Many in the audience were joined in disgust. The man who followed his three brothers into politics failed as a human being when he drove off a bridge, left his friend in the car — and tried to erase it.

the book

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

RICH MYTHOLOGICAL FICTION

CIRCE— BY MADELINE MILLER

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

(Lee Boudreaux Books)

Circe, as readers of “The Odyssey” will know, is the sorceress (goddess) who was exiled to the island Aeaea by her father, Helios, the god of the sun. Circe was renowned for her vast knowledge of potions and herbs. When rogue bands of sailors came on shore, she turned them into pigs, and that is what she did to the men who came with Odysseus, but he forced her to reverse the spell. A mythical cast of characters — Hermes, Helios, Perse, her brother Aeetes, the keeper of the Golden Fleece, Scylla, Penelope and Telemachus, her sister Pasiphae, wife of King Minos and mother of the Minotaur, and Daedalus — all feature prominently in the story, each torn between mortals and gods. Circe herself is complicated, passionate, unnerving, vulnerable, selfish, hotheaded — all traits to love in a fictional, mythical character. I devoured “The Song of Achilles” when it came out a few years ago and have been waiting, not so patiently, for the incredibly talented author Madeline Miller to publish again! “Circe” is smart, fresh and authentic; a beautiful literary Greek mythology tale. I loved every word. Miller’s depth of knowledge makes it possible for her to spin a rich and believable tale that readers will love.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury

The Map of Salt and Stars

by Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar The City of Lost Fortunes

by Bryan Camp House of Names by Colm Tóibín The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller The Odyssey, translated by Emily Wilson The Tiger’s Wife by Téa Obreht

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Spring cleaning is a ritual that many people participate in as the last vestiges of winter disappear. Spring cleaning is a time to open windows, deep clean rooms and closets and take down and launder window treatments and linens.

Others use spring cleaning as a time to sort and donate or discard clutter that might have accumulated over the winter.

Even though spring cleaning seems like a modern invention, the act of spring cleaning is believed to have originated centuries ago. Some say that the ancient Chinese cleaned in preparation for their New Year as they hoped to wipe away any bad luck and misfortune from the previous year. Similarly, the ancient Hebrew practice of thoroughly cleansing a home before the springtime feast of Passover may have evolved into the spring cleaning we know today.

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Another possible connection is the tradition of “shaking the house clean” in Iran. Iranians celebrate Now Rouz (Persian New Year) with many different rituals, one of which involves buying new clothes and cleaning every corner of the family home to signify renewal.

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All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Tollfree at 1-800-424-8590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.

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P.O. Box 311 • Vergennes, VT 05491

$128,400* 7B Country Commons Vergennes, VT 05491 Bedrooms: 2

Bathrooms: 1.5

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Market Value: $171,000 ACCT/VHCB Investment: $42,600 Buyer’s Price: $128,400* 0% Closing Cost Assistance available

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Estimated Property Taxes of $3,166.28 per year.

Home Owner’s Association Fees of $155 per month.

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Family of 5: $98,280.00