MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 26 No. 23
Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, August 11, 2014
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36 Pages
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LUCIEN  PAQUETTE,  WHO  turns  98  later  this  week,  takes  a  turn  last  Thursday  morning  in  the  hand  mowing  competition  at  Addison  County  Fair  and  Field  Days.  Paquette  founded  the  mowing  event  in  1978  and  the  fair  in  1948.  Independent  photos/Trent  Campbell
Annual Field Days does not disappoint By  INDEPENDENT  STAFF Editor’s  note:  Last  week’s  Ad- dison  County  Fair  and  Field  Days  ZDV ¿OOHG ZLWK D WKRXVDQG OLWWOH VWR- ULHV ² PRUH WKDQ FDQ EH UHFRXQWHG LQ RQH QHZVSDSHU /XFLHQ 3DTXHWWH WKH IDLUœV IDWKHU ¿JXUH ZDV WKHUH VHH VWRU\ 3DJH DV ZHUH WKRX- VDQGV RI YHQGRUV FRPSHWLWRUV DQG IDPLOLHV :H SUHVHQW KHUH D IHZ VQDSVKRWV IURP WKH 1HZ +DYHQ IDLU- JURXQGV WR JLYH \RX D WDVWH RI WKH
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WK DQQXDO )LHOG 'D\V NEW  HAVEN  —  Punctuating  WKH PXUPXU RI VKXIÀLQJ KRRYHV and  bleating  goats,  a  visitor  to  the  Children’s  Barnyard  at  the  Addison  County  Fair  and  Field  Days  hears  one  plaintive  phrase  time  and  time  again: ³0RP FDQ ZH JHW RQH"´ The  Children’s  Barnyard  has  long  KRISTINA  HOWLETT  GIVES  Cassidy  a  close  shave  before  showing  enchanted  children  and  adults  alike  the  cow  in  the  conformation  class  event  in  the  show  arena  at  Field  Days  (See  Field  Days,  Page  7) last  week.
Solar array advances net metering By  EVAN  JOHNSON MIDDLEBURY  —  Last  Wednesday  was  a  good  day  for  sun.  For  the  fourth  stop  of  his  an- nual  Summer  Solar  Tour  (which  so  far  have  all  recorded  sunny  weather),  Gov.  Peter  Shumlin  FXW WKH ULEERQ RQ D NLORZDWW VRODU DUUD\ ² WKH ÂżUVW DUUD\ RI LWV VL]H LQ WKH VWDWH GHGLFDWHG to  providing  electricity  through  a  net  metering  plan. Located  on  3.3  acres  in  Middlebury’s  South  Ridge  neighborhood,  just  south  of  the  Lodge  at  Otter  Creek  and  bordered  by  farmland,  the  south-Âfacing,  crystalline  panels  received  per-Â
mits  and  were  installed  last  year.  The  project  was  developed  by  Charlie  Kireker  of  Twin  %LUFKHV /WG ZLWK ÂżQDQFLQJ IURP WKH 1DWLRQDO %DQN RI 0LGGOHEXU\ (QFRUH 5HG HYHORSPHQW of  Burlington  helped  manage  the  project.  Con- VWUXFWLRQ ZDV FRPSOHWHG LQ 'HFHPEHU RI After  cutting  a  ribbon  with  a  pair  of  extra  large  scissors,  Shumlin  praised  the  project  as  an  example  of  Vermont’s  solar  prowess. “There  is  no  more  important  obligation  that  we  have  to  the  future  of  this  planet,  to  our  kids  and  our  grandkids,  than  showing  the  rest  of  (See  Solar,  Page  35)
Monkton  residents  welcome  return  of  local  rescue  crew By  ZACH  DESPART MONKTON  —  After  more  than  two  years  on  hiatus,  Monkton  First  Response  is  back  in  business. The  organization,  founded  in  1976  to  provide  emergency  medical  care  to  the  northern  Addison  &RXQW\ WRZQ ORVW LWV FHUWL¿FDWLRQ LQ GXH WR (See  Monkton,  Page  17)