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such an core of what makes Vermont Community is at the live. extraordinary place to banker, or car your grocer, dentist, Knowing your neighbor, what helps us stick together. knowing salesman by name is in public conversations, Volunteering and engaging a difference, is what keeps make that your voice can actually

is us engaged. section, Profiles in Community, That is what this special all about. or professional business, institution Each individual and each And through each of our efforts, unique. has a role to play that’s we create a vibrant community. with this thick special sit down We encourage you to day to reflect on the time out of your busy supplement and take towns and state a together to make our that one of importance of working work, while also recognizing another one great place to live and know to towns is getting the joys of living in small whole. are all part of a greater many differand the sense that we we greet each other in In our daily interactions professional, and retailer, client and chat on ent settings: as cutomer Sometimes it’s an impromptu a lively exneighbor and friend. it’s function; sometimes Main Street or at a school friendly wave or sometimes it’s just a interaction, change at town meeting; or in a store. It’s a common a nod at the post office personal, more it makes living here more often overlooked, but intimate, more rewarding. special section.

That’s the root of this (formerly called we have published it years, 29 past the For to help our Professional Community) play such Meet Your Business & who bit more about the people we visited readers know a little In this year’s section, communities. our in introduce a vital role to snap their photos, more than 175 area businesses stories. While the stories vary unique the their teams and tell their serves as a tribute to story each within each busiwidely, the focus and employers who make hard-working employees it is. the time to ness the success that pages and that you take We hope you enjoy these the names of these businesses — and reacquaint yourself with their employees. to offer, not only in much have Our close-knit communities in the smiles of those who greet but also products and services, we offer in return.

The Editors us each day and the thanks

..33 ........................... ........................... ...13 LLC .................................................................................

Misasi & Company, ...............22 .......32 Dairy ........................... ........................... ...........................

Monument Farms Service, Inc. ........................... ......................27 ........................... .......................9 M.A. ........................... ..........8 Mr. Mike's Cleaning Center ...................................................... ........................... .....8 Donna Belcher, ...........................

Corp ........................... & Car Wash ........................... ...........................

Northlands Job ........................... .......................45 ...........11 DT Speedi-Lube ........................... ........................... ........................... ...........................

Open Air Pet Repair .....................23 ........................... ...........................

EastView at Middlebury ......................15 ........................... ...........................

Optics Ltd. ........................... ...........................

Ellis Brothers, Inc. Framing ........................... ................................................22 ...............15 ........................... ....4 ...........................

Otter Creek Custom Inc............................ ......21 ...........................

Elmer Farm........................... ........................... ........................... ...........................

Otter Creek Engineering, and Electronics ........................... ............................41 ...........................

Fairy Tale Farm ....................5 ........................... ...................42 ...........................

Otter Creek Kitchenware ...................................................... .......................38 ...........................

Fire & Ice Restaurant Books ........................... ........7 .......................14 ........................... ........................... ........................... .........34 Otter Creek Used ........................... ...........................

Motors ........................... ...........................

Realty ......31 Foster School Parts ........................... ........................... .....16 International #1 Auto ...........................

Oxford Rug Hooking...................................................... ........................... ........................... ......................43 ........................... ......17 Four Seasons Sotheby's ........35 51 Main at the Bridge ...................................................... ........................... ........................... ........................... .....44 Packard of Vermont ...........................

Freedom Publications ...................................................... ..............................17 ...........................

Insurance........................... ...........................

A. Ginsburg Architects ...................29 ........................... .......27 Paige & Campbell LLC ........................... ........................... ...........................

G. Stone Commercial ...................................................... ........................... ..............17 .....8 A. Johnson Co. ........................... ...........................

It Shine Paquette Self Storage.........................................................................................21 ...........................

G. Stone Make ............41 ........................... ...........................

Care ...........41 Accent Travel........................... ........................... ........................... ...........................

Peak View Eye ...............45 ...........................

Chamber of Commerce .....44 ...........................

G. Stone Motors & Mechanical Service ........................... ........................... ..........39 Addison County ........................... ...........................

Plouffe's Boiler ........................... .................44 5 Commission Sales ...........................

Gaines Insurance Corporation ........................... ....7 ........................... ........................... ..........................4 Addison County ........................... ...........19 Quilter's Corner ........................... ...........................

Economic Development ......................................................

Gary Baker Insurance ........................... .........30 Addison County Hospice Repair ........................... ................................................15 ...........................

R & L Rubbish ........................... ...........................

Home Health & .......................45 Gill's Place Engine Service Center ...............40 28 ........................... ...........................

Addison County ........................... ...........................

Randy's Middlebury and New Construction ........................... ................46 Parent Child Center Good Earth Grows................. ........................... ..............35 ........................... ........................... ........2 Addison County ........................... ...........................

Raymond Renovation ...........................

– The Gridley Group ......................46 Solid Waste Management ......35 Goodro Lumber ........................... ........................... .......32 Addison County ...........................

Carpet Cleaning Re/Max North Professionals ...................................................... ....................46 ........................... ........................... ...........................

Green Mountain 9 ........................16 ...........................

Family Dentistry Addison Independent ...................................................... ...........................

Clover .........................2 ........40 Meats Red ........................... ...........................

CMT ......39 Green Pasture ........................... ...........................

Alexis Houston, ........................... .12 ...................23 ........................... ...........................

Restaurant ...........................

REV Fitness ........................... ........................... ............................22 ........................... ...........................

Green Peppers ...........................

Associates in Orthodontics ........................... ........................... .................32 ........................... ........32 Rikert Nordic Center ...........................

Greenhaven GardensInc. ...................................................... ...........................

Center ........................... .................15 ........9 Autumn Gold ........................... ...........................

Son, ........................... rk Miles ...........................

Crystal Rose Healing ........................32 H.J. LeBoeuf & ...........................

Middlebury ........................... ........................... ......................7 Betsy Spannbauer, ........................... ................9 ......44 Roger Marum Ph.D. Partnership – Experience 8 ...........................

(H.O.P.E.)........................... ...........................

Harwood Farm...........................

Massage ........................... ......42 ..........................1 Better Middlebury ...........................

Poverty's Effects ...........................

Roger's Relaxing ........................... ..................27 ........................... ...........................

Funeral Service Helping Overcome ................45 ........................... ........................... ..........20 The Bike Center ....19 Services ........................... ...........................

Sanderson Ducharme ...........................

Estate ........................... ........................... .........30 Holden Financial Construction ........................... ........................... ..........19 Center ...........................

BL Valley Real ........................... ...........................

Sargent Concrete ..............8 ........................... ...........................

3 ........................... ...........................

Home & Farm Appliance ........................... ........................... ..........................3 Bourdeau Brothers ........................... ...................14 ...........................

Sears ........................... ........................... ........................... .......................41 ........................... ...........27 Ilsley Public Library ........................... .....39 ...........................

Bourdon Insurance ........................... ........................... ........................... ...........15 Shacksbury Cider ........................... ........................... ...........................

IPJ Real Estate................. ........................... ..................24 ...........................

The Brandon Reporter.............

5 ..................31 Inc...................... ...........................

Shard Villa ........................... ........................... ........................... ..........................1 ........................... .......32 J.W. & D.E. Ryan, ........................... ...........................

Breadloaf Corporation ..............35 ........................... ...........................

Solar Haven Farm Farm ...................................................... ............15 ........................... ........................... ..........10 Jackman's Inc ........................... ...........................

Bristol Animal Hospital.............. ........................... ..............3 Foot Reflexology ........................... .........28 ...........................

South Hardscrabble ........................... ........................... ...........................

Katherine Windham, ........................... ........................... .....................30 ...........................

Bristol Beverage ...............16 ..40 ........................... ...........................

Story Time Foods ........................... ........................... ...........................

Laberge Insurance Services ......................................................

Conservation, Inc. ........................36 Bristol Electronics ........................... ........................... .....................22 Structural Energy ............33 ........................... ........................... ........................... ...........................

Landmark Financial 1 ...............41 ...........................

Bristol Financial LLP ...........................

7 Beauty Lounge ...........................

Wool .........................3 ........................... ...........................

Studio Sperry Service ........................22 Langrock ........................... ........................... ...................18 Service, Inc. Bristol Park Dental.................

Crane & Lift Rental ...................39 ......19 ...........................

Sunrise Orchards ...........................

Welding, Tree, Excavating & Septic ..47 ........................... ...........................

Larose Surveys ...........................

Brown's Certified ........................... ........................... .........................................23 ...........................

Tom Bodette Landscaping, ..................37 ........................... ........15 ...........................

Lester Farms ...........................

Cacklin' Hens........................... ........................... ........................... .......................3 Geology ...........................

Tom's Marine Service County ..........................................................................35 ........................... .20 ........................... ...........................

Lincoln Applied Carolyn's Closet ........................... ...........................

United Way of AddisonService ...................................................... ............33 Equipment ........................... ...............................................5 Little Hogback Farm LLC ...................................................... .......................43 ...........................

Champlain Valley 10 .......................16 Valleywide Veterinary Care Home ........................... ...........................

Motor Sports ........................... ...........................

MacIntyre Services, ...............20 .32 Clinic ...........................

Champlain Valley ........................... ...11 Woodcraft ........................... ........................... ...........................

Vergennes Residential Small Animal Mobile ...18 ...........................

Maple Landmark Education Association ........................... ........................... ....6 Champlain Valley ........................... ...........................

Farm................... ........25 Vermont – National PSYD................................................................................. ...........................

Maple Meadow ...........................

Surgery ........................... ..............................38 Learning .........9 Charlotte McGray, Adult Maxillofacial & ........................... ...........................

Vermont ........................... ......................11 ...........................

Maple View Oral ........................... ..............15 ........................... ........................... .................27 Co-Operative Insurance ........................... .................40 ...........................

Vermont Book Shop Bill Beck Real Estate ........................... .....23 Marbleworks Pharmacy Craftsmen ...........................

Coldwell Banker 8 ........................... ........................... .................23 Gardens Plus ...........................

Vermont Creative Architecture ...................................................... ........................... ..........................2 ...........................

Marijke's Perennial ................38 ...........19 Cole's Flowers ........................... ...........................

P.C. ........................... .......45 ...........................

Vermont Integrated of Vermont ........................... ........................... ....42 Marsh & Wagner, ...........................

Slaughter & Processing ...........................

Community College ...........................

2 ......................46 ...........................

Vermont Livestock ......................................................

Counselors ........................... ........................... ...42 ..........................4 Medicine Chest Shop ...........................

Community Investment .............41 ...........................

Co. ........................... ......................................................

Vermont Spineworks ...............43 Chest Consignment ...........................

Midd State Towing ..................39 Magazine ........................... ...........................

Compass Treasure ........................... & Gifts ........................... ........................10 Vermont Sports ........................... ........................... ........................... ........................3 Middlbury Floral Medicine Center .......................15 ..........21 ...........................

Costello's Market & Paint......................................................

Beverage ........................... ........29 Vermont Sports ........................... .....44 Center ...........................

Middlebury Discount Market ...................................................... ........................... ...........................

Countryside Carpet ................4 ...........................

Vermont Sun Fitness...................................................... ..............................28 ........................... ........................... ...........21 Middlebury Farmers ......................................................

County Tire Center ...........................

Co. ...........................

Village Spa & Salon Middlebury ........................... .......................................30 ...................32 ........................... ...........................

Middlebury Fence .............26 ........................... ...........................

Courtyard by Marriott, ........................... ........................42 ...........................

Wells Physical Therapy ...............4 ...........................

Middlebury Hybrid ........................... ........................... ................4 Acupuncture ........................... ........................... ........41 Cousino Financial 19 ...........................

Wendy Goodwin, ...........................

Interactive Languages...................................................... ........................... ........................... ........14 ...........................

Middlebury ........................... ...........................

Cyclewise ..............16 ........................... ...........................

Foods Co-Op Whistle Pig Farm ...........................

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Middlebury Natural Company ........................... ..................................................39 ...43 Daly Dental Practice ...........................

Filmmakers Festival Wimett Trading ........................... and Innovation........................... .....................11 ........................... ........................... ....45 Middlebury New ........................... .........48 Danforth Pewter ........................... of Business Development Woodware ........................... ...................................................... ........................... ........................... ...........................

Middlebury Office .....................43 ...........................

DeBisschop Excavating ..............44 & Yoga...........................

N Vac ...........................

Yarn Sew ........................... ........................... ...........................

Middlebury ........................... .......................9 ........43 Denecker Chevrolet ........................... ........................... ...........................

Mike's Fuels........................... ......................................................

Desabrais Glass and Dry Cleaning ........................... ........................45 Milne Travel ........................... ........................... ....22 Desabrais Laundry ........................... & Interiors ........................... ...........................

Distinctive Paint

by Pilar...........................

Doggone Style

New business

Fast track

The couple opening a shop in Vergennes brings a wealth of jewelry experience. See Page 3A.

Two local drivers dueled in one Devil’s Bowl feature on Saturday.

See what happened on Page 1B.

Index of Advertisers

Vol. 69 No. 27

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

Festival kicks off 37th year on Sunday

BY LIZZY WEISS MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury is gearing up for the 37th annual Festival on-the-Green, a week-long music festival featuring daily performances at Middlebury’s recreational park.

This year’s festival kicks off on Sunday, July 5, at 7 p.m. with a performance from Caroline Rose, who combines rockabilly, vintage country and blues to create her distinct sound. The 24-year-old songwriter

will be performing selections from her national debut album, “I Will Not Be Afraid,” alongside several musicians from the Burlington area. During the week, Middlebury will host 19 other artists from all over the country.

“We have an amazing line-up of performances,” said Pat Boera, one of the festival’s founding members.

“We’ve got great programs for the kids during the weekdays and a terrific array of music of many differ-

ent genres during the evenings.”

The festival, which runs from July 5 through 11, will also feature performances for children every weekday from noon to 1 p.m.

Young festival-goers are invited to bring their lunch to these afternoon “brown bag specials” for familyfriendly shows Monday through Friday.

The evening concerts, which all begin at 7 p.m., feature a wide (See Festival, Page 14A)

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Thursday, July 2, 2015

By JOSEPH BROWN ADDISON COUNTY — Massive parades. Awesome fireworks displays. Mouthwatering food.

And, of course, the Great Bristol Outhouse Race.

That’s what residents of Addison County and Brandon are preparing for the Fourth of July, which, this year, commemorates 239 years of American independence.

Index Obituaries........................... 6A-7A Classifieds.......................... 5B-9B Service Directory............... 6B-7B Entertainment......................... 13A Community Calendar....... 8A-10A Sports................................. 1B-3B

Bristol, Brandon, Vergennes and Salisbury are going to be showing their true colors — red, white and blue, that is — on and around the Fourth of July weekend by throwing a smorgasbord of fun and exciting activities, including the towns’ fireworks displays.

For those who are looking for an educational experience for the whole family this Independence

Day, look just across Lake Champlain to Fort Ticonderoga — once captured by Vermont’s own Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys — and Mount Independence in Orwell.

THE BUZZ IN BRISTOL Bristol’s Fourth of July activities start on the evening of July 3, where electro and hip hop DJ (See Celebrations, Page 15A)

$3.19 million bond proposal on the ballot

By EVAN JOHNSON BRISTOL — After nine months of evaluating sites, discussing plans and holding informational meetings, the town of Bristol has reached the time for a decision on a new firehouse.

Architects have designed an 11,000-square-foot facility to be built by local businessman Kevin Harper on a site off West Street.

Upon completion, the town hopes to purchase the building and a 9.03acre parcel of land through a $3.19 million bond.

On Tuesday, Bristol voters will decide if that price is right to replace the current firehouse at 32 North St., a facility that town and Bristol Fire Department officials say is simply no longer adequate.

Bill Elwell, co-chair of Bristol’s

Fire Facility Building Committee, has emphasized the new building will solve the problems presented by the existing firehouse.

In November, a study detailed that facility’s shortcomings. The report noted that the wooden structure was built to house hand-drawn hose carts from the 19th century, not 40,000-pound trucks used by the department today. Following the report, the department stopped using the building to hold staff meetings and house its equipment.

Since then, Bristol’s 35 volunteer firefighters have based training and deployment at several locations around the town, holding meetings at the American Legion clubhouse. In the past fiscal year, the town of Bristol spent $3,400 to house equipment (See Bristol firehouse, Page 12A)

Stony Hill grant opens door for industrial park in Bristol

By the way

Addison County Fair and Field (See By the way, Page 14A)

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Bristol to vote on firehouse on July 7

BY ANDY KIRKALDY MALONE, N.Y. — The 16-member Vermont State Police SWAT team, including two troopers now based in the New Haven barracks and one who operated out of that site until recently, joined the 1,300-strong law enforcement task force that ultimately brought two Clinton (N.Y.) Correctional Facility escapees to justice.

New Haven Station Commander Lt. Michael Manley also commands that statewide Tactical Services Unit, and received his orders on June 21 to head to Malone, N.Y., to help out New York State Police with what proved to be a three-week search for convicted murderers Richard Matt and David Sweat.

That search, of course, made national headlines and ended with a U.S. Border Patrol agent on June 26 shooting and killing Matt, 49, near Malone, and a New York trooper on June 28 shooting and arresting Sweat, 35, further north in Constable, N.Y., about one and a half miles south of the Canadian border.

Manley said his phone rang on the 21st with the team’s marching orders.

“Lt. Colonel (Matthew) Birming(See VSP, Page 15A)

Attention golfers: Stratton Mountain is offering free golf for Vermont residents on Wednesday, July 8. Vermonters with a valid Vermont driver’s license can enjoy 18 holes of golf at no charge, with carts available for $11 per golfer. Reservations are required, call 1-800-STRATTON to reserve your spot.

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Parades, events highlight July 4 holiday

Local VSP forces help track, pursue N.Y. escapees

Middlebury Union High School’s class of 1965 is holding its 50th reunion on Saturday, July 18, from 5:30-9 p.m. at the Middlebury VFW. Class of ’65 alumni who would like to attend should send checks for $25 per person, made out to Larry Quesnel, to Peggy Cox, 40 Schoolhouse Road, Salisbury, VT 05769. Checks must be received by July 8.

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Swing happy

LUCY GOETZ IS happy with her return during “Little Aces” tennis camp at the Middlebury recreation department courts Tuesday morning.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By JOHN FLOWERS BRISTOL — The town of Bristol has won a $25,000 federal grant that will allow the community to finally determine the development potential of a roughly 20-acre parcel of townowned land on the western edge of the village.

The land in question is referred to as the “Stoney Hill property,” which the state of Vermont conveyed to Bristol for $1 more than two decades ago. The property has remained unused for lack of an access point and in the absence of planning funds to determine the extent to which it could be used to host light industry and businesses.

Bristol officials were ecstatic to report on Monday that the access and financial obstacles have now finally been removed.

Local entrepreneur Kevin Harper has purchased the so-called Nelson property that fronts West Street (Route 17). Harper has expressed a willingness to work with the town to provide an access to the Stoney Hill property through that Nelson land.

And state officials have confirmed Bristol’s receipt of a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) that will be used to create a development and marketing plan for a potential mixed-use light industry/business park on what is a flat, 9-acre portion of the property.

“We are very excited,” Bristol Planning Commission member John Elder said of the CDBG grant award.

“This has been one of the biggest items on Bristol’s wish list for more than a quarter of a century.”

(See Stony Hill, Page 12A)

The firing line

Cannon used to protect crop has neighbors up in arms

By ANDY KIRKALDY else worked to keep birds away, not FERRISBURGH — Those in- scarecrows, owl sculptures or even volved in the dispute over Ferris- holographic owls provided by his burgh farmer Wayne Stearns’ pro- neighbors. pane cannon talk about shattered Many of those neighbors own dreams — and the summer homes on shattered peace in a “Agriculture Lake Champlain, neighborhood along and because of the does not have Lake Champlain. noise the FerrisFrom mid-July a free hand to burgh Board of Listthrough mid-August do anything ers granted all Stealast summer, Stearns, neighbors tax they want. They rns’ 43, fired the cannon breaks — contingent — which makes a cannot cause on whether Stearns sound his neighbors public harm.” fires up his cannon liken to a shotgun — — Charles Piasecki, again this summer, every minute or so Ferrisburgh resident something he won’t from dawn to dusk. reveal.

Stearns said the But the town’s secannon was the only thing that kept lectboard has declined to become a flock of starlings from eating his involved despite his neighbors’ recrop of sweet corn. He said nothing (See Farmer, Page 15A)

FERRISBURGH FARMER WAYNE Stearns, with his daughter Ashtin, 7, on his Crazy Acres Farm, regularly fired a propane cannon last summer to scare birds away from his sweet corn crop. Stearns said he hoped to dedicate crop sales to his daughter’s college fund. Neighbors complained about the repeated loud noise, which they likened to shotgun blasts, to Stearns and the town. Yet to decide is what will happen this summer.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, July 2, 2015

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F e r s e t m m u S d

THE FIFTH ANNUAL Midd Summer Fest drew about 1,000 people to its Saturday event in Middlebury’s Marble Works.

More than 40 vendors provided samples of beer, wine, spirits, cider and food. The festival is hosted by the Better Middlebury Partnership, and all money raised helps fund the BMP’s efforts to boost Middlebury as a vibrant place to live, work and play.

Outside games, live music and lots to sample kept the crowd entertained from 3 to 7 p.m.

Independent photos/ Victoria Provost and Angelo Lynn

Addison Independent, Thursday, July 2, 2015 — PAGE 3A

Vergennes store blends couple’s jewelry experience and diverse backgrounds

By ANDY KIRKALDY path had taken her to St. Thomas to VERGENNES — Between them, work for Rolex. “I found watchmakhusband-and-wife team Michael ing in my early 20s and realized that’s Tope and Shannon Mahoney’s road where I should have been all along.” to opening downtown Vergennes’s ON TO VERMONT newest shop, Raintree Handcrafted Both were designing jewelry on the Fine Jewelry, includes Texas, Penn- side when the news came in 2013 — sylvania, Los Angeles, San Francisco, soon after their daughter, Riley, was and, critically, St. Thomas in the U.S. born — that Passman’s parent comVirgin Islands. pany was shuttering the business.

Tope, 48, and Mahoney, 43, who That news accelerated their plans between them bring close to two and brought their focus to Vermont: lifetimes of experience in jewelry Mahoney already had family in Adand watchmaking to their new retail dison County and 25 acres in Ferrisventure, met through a mutual friend burgh. in St. Thomas, where they had both “We had this five-year plan for landed pursuing their careers. transitioning to the States, and when They hit it off quickly. the company closed it was perfect “We were married five months lat- timing for us to get out of there,” Maer. It was very cool. It was awesome,” honey said.

Mahoney said amidst their handmade They bought most of Passman’s jewelry in a renovated space at 165 black coral and some specialty equipMain St. next to the Park Squeeze. ment needed to work with the organic Tope had been workmaterial, and when they ing in the jewelry busiarrived in Vermont built “Everything ness since apprenticing a timber frame home. while attending high is handThen they rented space school in his native Tex- drawn, handin Kennedy Brothers and as. opened shop there in late hardened, “Basically I’ve been a hand-poured.

2013, staying until movjeweler ever since. That’s We do our own ing to Main Street. all I’ve ever done,” he They found when they casting. We said. opened in Vermont a Tope was recruited to do everything ready-made national climove to St. Thomas in from the sketch entele among Passman’s the late 1990s by Ber- to the final former patrons, who nard Passman, whose product by needed repairs, restoraunique black coral jeweltion, cleaning and their hand.” ry and statues have been expertise.

— Shannon given to British royalty.

“Black coral is such a Mahoney When Tope met Maspecialty medium in jewhoney, Passman had died elry that nobody works four years earlier, and a corporation with it,” Mahoney said. had taken over Passman Galleries.

Many of those clients also wanted Tope oversaw its manufacturing and to stop in and see them, and their 30 employees. space proved not to be ideal.

Mahoney grew up near Philadel“A lot of the collectors wanted to phia and discovered jewelry and visit us, which we hadn’t planned watchmaking in her early 20s. Like on,” Mahoney said. “Kennedy BrothTope, she realized she had come ers really wasn’t the right fit.” across her calling.

At the same time, Tope said, they “Luckily we found paths that realized a downtown presence could worked for us,” said Mahoney, whose help them better reach out to residents

MICHAEL TOPE AND Shannon Mahoney have opened Raintree Handcrafted Fine Jewelry in downtown Vergennes. The shop features their handmade jewelry as well as goods from other Vermont artisans.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

and visitors with their own designs.

“We wanted a little more one-onone with the local clients, too,” Tope said. “It’s nice to meet with people and become part of that story.”

Feedback they received while renovating their new space seemed to confirm their plans.

“Even when we were building and putting the cases in, stuff like that, people would walk by and give us a bunch of thumbs up,” Tope said.

Downtown Vergennes was not a hard choice for another reason: Two of Mahoney’s sisters have opened businesses nearby. Heidi Mahoney Markowski was a co-owner of the former Fat Hen grocery store on Green Street, and Fleury Mahoney co-founded Daily Chocolate, also on

Green Street, a business which she has since sold.

“Vergennes is such a great town,” Mahoney said. “I’ve always loved it.”

RAINTREE OFFERINGS As of last week, they had most of their own lines of jewelry ready for display. As well as their black coral work, they have different lines of jewelry, one developed on St. Thomas and one in Vermont, that are completely handmade. (Samples may be seen at raintreevt.com.)

“Everything is by hand. Everything is hand-drawn, hand-hardened, handpoured. We do our own casting,” Mahoney said. “We do everything from the sketch to the final product by hand.”

They said they have tried to offer a

Denecker seeks makeover for Middlebury dealership

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — It has indeed been a very eventful seven months for local businessmen Tom Denecker and Mike Capra.

This past December, the two owners of Denecker Chevrolet, Inc. in Vergennes completed the purchase of Shea Motors in Middlebury.

Now the duo are proposing a major reconstruction of their new acquisition at 510 Route 7 South in Middlebury in an effort to make it more user-friendly, energy efficient and in keeping with the style and color scheme of other General Motors buildings throughout the nation.

“We’re looking forward to it,” Capra said on Tuesday of the building improvements, which are part of a permit application under review by the Middlebury Development Review Board.

“We are hoping to have good luck with the town.”

Capra noted the current auto sales/service building, of suspected 1950s vintage, is made up of roughly 19,000 square feet.

“The building is highly inefficient,” reads a project narrative the applicants recently submitted to

the DRB. “For example, it requires 2,200 gallons of fuel per month to heat.”

Denecker and Capra promised the new building would feature “modern construction with LED lighting, energy efficient heating and air conditioning, insulation and radiant-heat floors. The project design will also be reviewed by Efficiency Vermont.”

The renovated/reconstructed building would include a new water service sized to accommodate adequate pressure flow for sprinklers.

New sewer service will provide for an oil-water separator for the floor drains in the service shop and modern, low-flow plumbing fixtures, according to the application.

Capra said the project also calls for the building to assume a slightly smaller footprint and to be equipped with a second floor for offices. It is a project that would also result in a modest shift of the building to a more southerly location on what is a 8.92-acre lot, according to plans submitted to the town.

Plans also call for a reduction in vehicle display parking spots in front of the building, from the current 56 to 24.

The existing business includes three curb cuts on Route 7 south.

Denecker and Capra are proposing to reduce that number to two.

The project will also improve the conformance of the site with the Middlebury zoning and subdivision regulations, according to the applicants. The developed portion of the property is located in the Village Residential Commercial (VRC) zoning district, and the rear undeveloped portion of the property is located in the Agricultural/Rural zoning district. The building is an existing nonconforming structure with respect to the 25-foot setback requirement for the VRC, according to the application.

Denecker and Capra are also seeking DRB permission to use Aluminum Composite Material (ACM) panels in the building construction.

As for aesthetics, they would like to use the gray and blue color scheme that denotes the GM brand.

If things proceed smoothly, construction is expected to last around eight months, according to Capra.

Work would take place in a manner that would allow the business operations to proceed uninterrupted.

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“We’ve got to pay for the building,” Capra said with a smile.

And business has been good these past six months at the Middlebury location where 26 fulltime workers and some additional part-timers see to the customers’ needs, according to Capra.

“The response from customers has been great,” Capra said. “It has given us a fantastic boost in our ability to serve customers to the south. The amount of Rutland customers has been surprising.”

The Denecker Chevrolet business at 14 Main St. in Vergennes will continue to offer sales of pre-owned vehicles, parts and service. The new Middlebury location provides those same functions in addition to the sale of new vehicles.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

variety of price points.

“A lot of stuff our starting prices are around $80, and then it goes up from there. So we have something for every pocket and every occasion in the jewelry,” Mahoney said.

Those who want to splurge can do so, however.

“We wanted to start out with a chorus of about 200 pieces that were very reasonably priced and handmade,” Tope said. “And then we could move on to a couple more avenues of doing a couple bigger, more pop pieces.”

They are complementing their work with other inventory. Since opening in the second week of June, they have added hats from Brandon’s Swan & Stone Millinery, wool felt gifts from Addison’s Carrie Root, leather items

Entries sought for new Con Hogan Award; $15,000 offered to creative, entrepreneurial community leaders MIDDLEBURY — The Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial Community Leadership is seeking nominations for its inaugural award.

The $15,000 cash award intends to recognize Con Hogan’s life’s work and commitment by encouraging and rewarding mid-career leaders who share his vision of a better Vermont — one that places the highest value on the public good — and who seize the responsibility for making that vision real.

The award honoree will be selected by a committee consisting of individuals who represent a broad range of activities, including health and human services, the arts, government service, early care and education, agriculture and civic duty. He or she will have demonstrated the following characteristics: A track record of making a difference, focus on results, community connection, generosity, and enthusiasm. The honoree must be an individual who is a Vermont resident and has not previously received the award.

Nominations will be accepted through the Vermont Community Foundation’s website through 5 p.m. on Friday, July 31. The award will be presented publicly at a ceremony on Oct. 8. For more information or to submit a nomination, visit www.vermontcf.org/conhoganaward.

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from Winooski’s Queen City Dry Goods, and, soon, but not yet, pottery from Waterbury’s Jeremy Ayers.

At this point, they have goods from each, but plan to have a full complement for a late-summer grand opening. They will also fix watches, and have a space carved out for jewelry repair and crafting.

Items are displayed on factory carts they refinished themselves. They are lit by ceiling light fixtures they made by combining old plumbing and electrical fixtures.

Yes, Mahoney, said, they’ve done a lot of work and come a long way to get to 165 Main St. “It’s been a labor of love,” she said.

“It’s been a long road, but it’s all been good so far.”

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Voters can take charge of the discussion in governor’s race Since Rep. Peter Welch’s announced last Friday that he would seek reelection to Congress and not be a candidate for governor, the governor’s race has become the horse race to watch. More importantly, the public has the opportunity to mold the debates — especially as it pertains to economic growth.

Leading candidates for the Democrats will likely be House Speaker Shap Smith, as well as former gubernatorial candidate and Google executive Matt Dunne. Sue Minter, Secretary of the Agency of Transportation, also has been mentioned as a possible candidate, and others will surely join come to the fore. Dunne promises to tout his experience in the high-tech field with Google and his experience with knowledge-based business. Smith will focus on his experience as a legislator who not only knows how to get legislation passed, but also where we’ve fallen short. Affordable housing is a key concern for Smith as is affordable health care and a livable wage.

Among Republicans, Lt. Gov. Phil Scott is now almost certain to jump into the race as the leading contender, along with mumblings from former gubernatorial candidate Scott Milne, who nearly defeated Gov. Peter Shumlin this past November. Franklin County state senator Randy Brock might try for the state’s highest position again, and Bruce Lisman, successful businessman and founder of the Campaign for Vermont, has also been mentioned as a possible candidate. Each will likely highlight their business experience and harp on the state’s regulatory environment, taxes and high expenses. Pressing them for solutions, not just gripes, will be mandatory.

Candidates from the Progressive Party might consider a run, as will candidates from Vermont’s fringe parties. The competition is healthy for Vermont’s democracy, of course, but this campaign also has the potential to advance the discussion on economic development. What’s different?

Notably, there are fewer issues to distract the conversation.

While growing jobs has been the highest priority for most state leaders over the past 25 years, that pledge has been diverted by dozens of major issues from the wisdom of Act 60 to civil unions, to terrorism and 9-11, and in recent years by the Great Recession of 2008-09-10; by Hurricane Irene in 2011; by the promise of health care reform in the past three terms; by the sudden emergence of opiate addiction; and many others.

Yet, throughout all that, progress has been made, sometimes in ways more fundamental (that is, laying a solid foundation on which to grow) than dollars in the bank.

For example: • Vermont has largely recovered from the 100-year storm damage caused

by TS Irene, and done so by building bigger so we withstand the next storm.

• We’ve confronted the challenge of opiate addiction and have openly laid out a plan to address it.

• We’ve struggled with implementing health care reform, but with the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling supporting the legality of Obamacare, we have the option to decide how best to move forward on a viable health care exchange and continue to keep a lid on health care expenses — all progress on issues that weren’t even on the table three years ago.

• We recently passed an economic development law that introduces more initiatives and money into job growth and tourism — significant accomplishments in an era of extremely tight budgets.

• We passed a revised renewable energy law that encourages our continued push for solar, wind and other alternative energy — keeping us in the forefront of an important job-producing industrial sector.

• We’ve passed a water quality bill that starts to address cleaning up our lakes, thus developing a stronger economy around tourism and our fisheries.

• School reform and improving student outcomes is also a big part of building a stronger economy, an issue that was helped by the recent passage of Act 48.

Naturally, there is much still to do; always is, always will be.

But those accomplishments set the state in a good position to put more of a razor focus on what the majority of Vermonters consider our biggest challenge: creating more jobs and recruiting workers and their families to live here.

It’s a multi-faceted effort that is not just about creating new jobs, but also tied closely to an affordable higher education, affordable housing and quality of life issues that are the basis of a growing economy. With Democrats and Republicans focused on that single issue, voters should be ready to press the candidates for well-conceived plans and not be content with sound bites.

Terms such as “business friendly” should be exposed for the empty rhetoric it belies. Republicans and Democrats have been actively advocating “business friendly” policies for the past 25 years. Voters must press candidates to go beyond slogans or blaming others for shortcomings.

Rather, there is no reason not to demand of candidates thorough business plans — set 20 pages as a minimum that are prominently displayed on each candidate’s website — that lay out the challenges of each economic sector and how they will address them; as well as new ideas they would launch.

To protests that voters don’t want such detail, we would counter that such specificity is exactly what Vermonters want to see in this upcoming election, and, most assuredly, they do not want to endure 12 months of meaningless sound bites.

How do Vermont voters take control of the election and force such discussion? By knowing the issues. By becoming educated about what the state has done in the past and how to move forward. By studying each candidate’s platform and pressing each candidate to explain why their approach is better. By demanding more thoughtful consideration of the issue and not letting the candidates skate by with generic platitudes.

Vermont is small enough to make that happen. Start now. Read. Research.

And be ready to grill the candidates when they come to town. If we do it well, we just might discover an economic game plan that works, and elect a leader who can build upon it for the next several years.

Angelo S. Lynn

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Library official gets into spirit Kudos to Ilsley Library children’s librarian Tricia Allen. She has hung the entire text of Virginia Lee Burton’s classic “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel” in plastic sleeves on the chain link fence around the construction site for the new municipal building.

What a wonderful way to engage children in the work that is being done in the community. Brilliant.

Mary Holland Bristol

Rail project a major concern

Brush up

A PAINTER CLIMBS down from his work on Middlebury College’s Center for the Arts last week.

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Court decision grants true equality Vermonters are generally known for keeping to themselves, not getting into their neighbors’ business and respecting each other’s privacy. Gay Vermonters are no exception.

For the past eight years, I have kept my personal life and opinions separate from my job as the editor of The Reporter. I am a pretty private person, and I maintain a clear line separating my journalistic life and my home life, as all good journalists should. A reporter’s worst nightmare is to become the subject of the news they report.

But it’s hard to be private this week, because I’m gay and the Supreme Court decided a few days ago that I am not a second-class citizen. By a vote of 5-4, the court ruled that I have

By Lee the right to marry the person I love in Kahrs any state I choose. It is a historic civil rights decision that I never thought I would see in my lifetime. It’s like the Emancipation Proclamation for gays and lesbians.

I came out 30 years ago this year. In 1985, I was a scared and uncertain 19-year-old college sophomore stuck in conservative Fort Collins, Colo. I fell in love for the first time in my life, that year, and then endured my first heartbreak, and I was completely alone in my struggle to figure out who I was.

But in the spring of that year, my housemates sat me down and gently outed me. These two straight, white girls from Colorado told me they knew I was gay and that it was OK. I just cried. I was still so worried about what my parents would say, but in that moment, I felt understood and accepted.

Last Friday, as I read Justice Anthony Kennedy’s remarkably sensitive and poignant closing summation of the decision, I felt it again, but on such an enormous,

national scale that hyperbole doesn’t justify it.

“No union is more profound than marriage,” Kennedy wrote, “for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. As some of the petitioners in these cases demonstrate, marriage embodies a love that may endure even past death. It would misunderstand these men and women to say they disrespect the idea of marriage. Their plea is that they do respect it, respect it so deeply that they seek to find its fulfillment for themselves.

Their hope is not to be condemned to live in loneliness, excluded from one of civilization’s oldest institutions.

They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right.”

There isn’t a word in that passage that doesn’t validate every gay cell in my body. I am 49 years old. When I came out, Ronald Reagan was president. For the eight years he was in office, from 1980-1988, Reagan refused to even acknowledge that AIDS existed and was killing thousands of gay men, and therefore refused to fund research into finding a cure.

Then in the 1990s, Bill Clinton was president. We thought things would get better. Economically, they did.

But his “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding gays serving in the military came up short in allowing gays to serve openly. Then again, it was seen as a victory for gay rights. I never understood how not being allowed to be yourself and still do your job could be a victory.

In 2004, I met my soul mate here in Vermont and we availed ourselves of the hard-fought Civil Union law legalized the year before.

(See Clippings, Page 5A)

Clippings

Fix a treadmill, strengthen a union

Sunday night, my husband Mark and I replaced the were four pages’ worth, but in a pleasant twist, they were stretched-out belt on our old treadmill. clearly illustrated and written in standard English. My Good news: We are still married. job was to read the instructions to Mark; his job was to Normally we get along, just not when it comes to put- follow them. ting things together. We’ve had so many assembly-relatThere were 30 steps, and they involved essentially dised conflicts over the years that the mere sight of a parts mantling every piece of the treadmill (“Step 1: Carefully list can cause me to start grinding my teeth. pry the decorative logo from the front housing”) and then In the summer of ’94, we set up a brand-new tent at reassembling it by doing the same steps in reverse order. an upstate New York campground on a The instructions were clear, but 92-degree summer day. It was our first deceptively glib. In “Remove bolts serious attempt at collaborating on a A and B from side deck rails G and H,” for example, the word “remove” manual task — and almost our last. implied a process less strenuous than Color-coded tent clips weren’t enough Mark having to contort himself into to keep us from turning a 10-minan inverted bound yoga pose to reach ute process into a two-hour, sweatunder the treadmill while I struggled soaked disagreement, complete with to hold one end off the floor and not comments about each other’s lack of spatial intelligence and snarky retorts

By Jessie Raymond drop it on his face.

All in all, however, things proabout where to put the tent poles. ceeded smoothly. Yes, I fumbled a The s’mores tasted mighty bitter vital screw that rolled under the machine to the one spot that night.

A decade later, we put together a now-discontinued neither of us could reach, but that always happens — the model of Vermont Castings barbecue grill, the Divorce inconvenient trajectory of all dropped hardware is govMaker 2000. Things got ugly at times, but, thanks to an erned by immutable laws of physics. And at one point I improvement in our communication skills since the tent lost the screwdriver; somehow it ended up in the kitchen incident, our emotional battle wounds cut less deep and after I had run downstairs for a moment (it’s hard for me healed faster. Though not yet on speaking terms, we slept to stay focused when there is ice cream in the house).

Still, we remained guardedly civil during the whole in the same bed that night.

So Sunday, all too aware of the potential discord it process and within about an hour and a half the machine could cause, we approached the treadmill project with had been put back together, right down to the decorative logo. trepidation.

Mark turned the treadmill on and we heard it fire up Early signs were promising: To our surprise, the new belt came with installation instructions. Granted, there (See Raymond, Page 5A)

Around the bend

I’ve become deeply concerned that the proposed railroad bridge/ tunnel project may prove to be a disaster for Middlebury. The original objective was to restore safety to the Merchants Row and Main Street bridges. Now, two years later, the project has changed dramatically in scale, shape, character and cost. As currently proposed this project risks incalculable damage to downtown businesses, to downtown activities and consequently to the very fabric of our community.

Middlebury officials recently confirmed that: • Construction is planned to start next April and continue for (at least) 3 years … yet no specific construction schedule exists; • 20-hour workdays are planned with accompanying noise, dirt and disruption; • 50 parking spaces will be lost; • Estimated costs have risen from an initial $10 million to $55 million; • Vermont Railway intends to continue to run two trains daily through the work site carrying 300,000 to 350,000 gallons of gasoline.

Unlike the successful Cross Street Bridge construction, this vastly more complex and risky project is under the control of the state Agency of Transportation (VTrans), not the town.

VTrans has done NO research on the impact of a comparable project in Vermont or elsewhere. “Similar projects” cited, i.e. Richmond and Bellows Falls, are trivial in both complexity and risk compared to this project.

The state has done nothing to address community impact leaving local project management to form committees and ask for ideas to mitigate the project’s consequences.

If my physician told me I should have life-threatening surgery I would seek a second opinion. The town needs to do the same. Middlebury officials should call “time out” and demand creative engineers with relevant experience determine how to fix the two bridges without three years of damage and disruption.

For example, in 2007 in Oakland, Calif., a gas tanker crash/ explosion destroyed a key freeway interchange. Facing an initial repair estimate of several months, city and state officials found the talent, know-how and imagination to restore the structure in less than 30 days. (See “McArthur Maze” in Wikipedia.) That’s precisely what Middlebury needs — talent, knowhow and imagination.

Town officials should immediately take whatever steps necessary to insist that: • Construction is completed within one year; • Rail traffic is diverted around Middlebury; • Businesses are compensated for their damages using the same standard as used for Vermont Railway.

In sum, the proposed project presents enormous physical and financial risks to Middlebury.

SAFELY running two trains a day carrying 300,000-350,000 gallons of gasoline while those same tracks are being lowered is beyond imagination. Another absurdity is that buildings will be eligible for compensation if they are damaged but businesses occupying the very same buildings will not be compensated. To my astonishment we’re told that if Vermont Railway were to incur extra costs by rerouting their trains around Middlebury those costs would have to be added to the already sky-high project cost. If Vermont Railway warrants protection from financial losses why would our local businesses not be?

(See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, July 2, 2015 — PAGE 5A

Letters to the Editor

Vermont addressing climate change On June 18, Pope Francis is- of 1990 levels by 2050. This year, sued an urgent plea for countries the Legislature continued on that across the world to address climate path with the passage of Act 56, a change. While Republican presi- law that will increase the ratio of dential hopefuls in the U.S. imme- renewable energy in Vermont rediately brushed aside Pope Francis’ tail electric sales from 55 percent call for action, Vermont legislators in 2017 to 75 percent in 2032, and took bold steps this session to move keep us on the cutting edge of inour heating, transportation and novation. And just as importantly, electric sectors away it will help us to betfrom carbon pollution. ter control our energy “Climate change is future and keep our a global problem with electric rates affordgrave implications: able.

This week’s environmental, social, With Act 56, Vereconomic, political column is by Rep. mont is also the first and for the distribu- Rebecca Ellis, vice state to address cartion of goods,” wrote chair of the Vermont bon emissions from Pope Francis in his House Natural the transportation papal encyclical. “It Resources and and heating sectors represents one of the Energy Committee. through its renewprincipal challenges She represents able portfolio stanfacing humanity in Waterbury, Bolton, dard. Transportation Huntington and our day.” and heating generate Vermonters under- Buels Gore. more than two-thirds stand the catastrophic of Vermont’s cardamage that severe storms can bon emissions. To meet the state’s wreak on housing, businesses and greenhouse gas goals, Vermonters social stability. Tropical Storm need to reduce their reliance on Irene was an uncomfortable and fossil fuel in the transportation and expensive wake-up call for any- heating sectors by moving to more one who downplays what climate energy-efficient technologies and to change will look like in the future. less carbon-intense energy sources.

In Waterbury, where I live, we saw Going forward, Vermont’s elecfirst-hand how severe storms can tric utilities will offer an increased ravage both buildings and lives. number of services and products Scientists predict that storms like that reduce fossil-fuel usage and Irene, with heavy rainfall, will be- carbon emissions in both the heatcome more frequent and destruc- ing and transportation sectors. Custive. The question is not whether tomers will be able to design their climate change will happen, but own carbon-reduction programs, whether we can mitigate against the choosing from a variety of options most damaging effects. Now is not that range from home weatherthe time for apathy. ization to electric vehicles, to air Ten years ago, the Vermont Leg- source heat pumps and electric storislature pledged to reduce green- age batteries. Total energy expendihouse gas emissions to 25 percent tures, along with carbon emissions,

U.S. is a great nation that must fix some major flaws

With so many terrible things happening in this world that we must address, each one seems a monumental task. I’m convinced that all these things are connected.

The action we take to address all these terrible circumstances seems to be on a downward spiral, treating violence with more violence.

Why are we alone in the developed world with capital punishment, which has never proved effective in deterring crime? We are a violent culture. We are a warring nation, history proves it.

I had the good fortune to have a brief conversation with Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges while he was signing a new book for me.

I commented that I had read his book “The Death of the Liberal Class” and I also said, “I think it’s the death of our culture.” He looked up and said, “I think so, too.”

I know a lot of people who would believe this conversation is unnecessary, that we should all have a positive attitude, help each other and everything will be all right. We must do this, but this never works by itself. We live in a corporate empire that is part of a global corporate empire that has taken control of our system of government, causing hardship and suffering to millions of Americans.

It’s accelerating. Only we can take this power and control away from these people.

These are not your average caring Americans, they are people who are only interested in their own personal gain at any cost.

We must get busy and educate ourselves with alternative media and stop doing nothing. It’s fast becoming a police state with militarized police in every state.

Privatization is replacing public schools, the post office, highways and bridges and the prison industry. We have more people in prison than any other country in the free world. The easiest punishment at this time is solitary confinement up to 30 years. Unarmed black men and children being shot dead on the streets, 8-year-olds being handcuffed and taken to jail by special squads of uniformed police that enter the classroom. Children going hungry, stagnant wages for 40 years Unions fast becoming obsolete, also the middle class.

So many young people cannot afford a college education. The infrastructure is similar to a Third

World condition. Only to mention a small number of very serious conditions that are getting progressively worse.

I’ve always considered myself lucky to have been born in a free country. I was free to learn my trade as a bricklayer as a union member with good wages for a good part of my life. At age 30 I returned to studying piano and started playing professionally.

Also, I studied and have a practice in health kinesiology, which I absolutely love. From a bricklayer to a musician to helping sick people is very gratifying. I owe this in part to living in this country.

But is it so free? The American people are not free when our corporate government sends our young men (kids) to these oil-rich countries to make one regime change after another to kill people and be killed while lying to these kids, their parents and all Americans that our goal is to spread democracy in the entire world. Also, we take the responsibility of being the world’s policeman. These two lies that I’ve been hearing my entire life are just a tiny fragment of the greatest propaganda system in the world.

To maintain global dominance we will do anything. Before invading Iraq based on a lie, there was no terrorism. Now it is common knowledge that we created ISIS. We supply Saudi Arabia with weaponry to bomb the civilians in Yemen. Our government sees the historic suffering and death and says nothing. We watch and assist Israel murder thousands of people in Gaza in an open-air prison and say nothing. One could go on and on.

We must believe what this reckless, powerful corporate force can do to the rest of the world, it can also do to us. The Centers for Disease Control has a long history of presenting false results on medical studies. A CDC scientist just went public admitting to not releasing important facts on research of certain drugs. Public radio on June 23 just released a report on a government admission of doing research using mustard gas on African Americans (50,000) during the Second World War. What frightens me most is the shootings killing innocent people.

All the reasons why these men and boys killed all these innocent people with such horrific anger

deserve to be considered. Racism certainly was a factor in some of the killings. Also, availability of weapons, mental illness and various other reasons.

But what is not being said this past year or more is the psychotropic drugs each and every one of the shooters was taking, according to CBS’s Mike Adams. In the past, the media always reported the name of each shooter and what psychotropic drugs he was taking.

One can see why the corporate media in bed with Big Pharma and the government stopped all reporting of these drugs as killings became more prevalent.

Over the past 20 years, each mass shooting was done by a man taking a psychotropic drug, 45 shootings not one time without these drugs. It is common knowledge now in the medical community these drugs have caused suicide and murder with some people. Too many to be sure.

If we think hard about what’s just around the corner with police enforcing mandatory vaccinations, we will remember the history of Nazi Germany. There will be a mass exodus from California if and when this happens.

I do think all of this is connected by one driving force: It is ownership of our country, of our political system, financial system, infrastructure, communications, and I’m sure they think they own us. And who are they? They are people who cannot live with us, think like us, care for and love other people like us. They are a small group of billionaires who can easily donate millions of dollars to politicians who will vote in their interest.

A perfect example is their complete ownership and control of the media. Not to interfere with their investment in the pharmaceutical industry by allowing the connection between drugs and these shootings.

I strongly suggest you go online to Natural News (Mike Adams).

CBS News reported the shooter (Dylann) was taking orange strips of Suboxone, a Schedule 3 narcotic. He has reported all the names and dates of shootings and the names of each drug taking before and at the time of the shootings, all 45 of them.

Fred Barnes Middlebury

the consequences to the downtown would be this dire, wouldn’t we have pressed for a better deal and not be the ones to effectively kill our own downtown?”

We need an answer before a shovel goes into the ground and we need to challenge the idea that

railroad interests trump all others.

Bruce Hiland Cornwall Editor’s note: Hiland is manager/owner of the Battell Block and former president of the Middlebury Business Association (now the Better Middlebury Partnership).

treadmill?”

Not that I recalled.

But when I flipped through the directions there it was, right at the top of page 3, step 18.

“Oops,” I said. “I must have skipped that part.”

With a muttered apology from me and a string of four-letter words from Mark (none of them “love”), we undid steps 30 through 19 in sequence — giving Mark a chance to practice some more yoga poses — until the drive belt could be slipped back in place. Forty minutes later we

reached step 30 again, and the treadmill was fixed.

Sure, my little oversight caused a bit of tension between us. But no one cried, no one threw a packet of 1-3/4-inch pan-head screws (10) or 1-7/8-inch countersunk screws (8) at anyone, and neither of us suggested that the other walk back to Vermont from an upstate New York campground on a 92-degree summer day.

Some might call it progress. After 23 years together, we’re calling it marital bliss.

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) The town’s paramount objective is to restore two bridges to safe condition. Our local officials have been presented with limited options for a highly complex, risk-laden project. Now it’s time to force the question: “If we knew then that

Raymond (Continued from Page 4A) just like old times. Success.

Except for one thing: The newly replaced running surface didn’t move.

Mark looked at the display. He bent his ear to the humming motor.

He tapped the decorative logo. He furrowed his brow, mentally ticking off each step we had just gone through.

Then he turned to me and said, “At some point, didn’t the instructions say to reconnect the drive belt between the motor and the

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will go down with the adoption of more energy-efficient and cleanenergy technologies.

Even good ideas face opposition.

Despite the cost savings and climate benefits of Act 56, House Minority Leader Don Turner sought to amend the bill and remove its costsaving, innovative, energy transformation program. John McClaughry of the Ethan Allen Institute, arguing against the bill, questioned the link between human activity and climate change. These actions are out of step with what Vermonters know. The Legislature, including many Republicans, understand the urgency of climate change and saw the need for this law, passing Act 56 with strong tri-partisan support.

Vermonters are eager to take action and join in the war against climate change. And, as Vermont’s energy policy has already demonstrated, energy efficiency and carbon reduction are compatible with stable electricity rates and job growth. Burlington Electric Department has not had a rate increase since 2009 and is now 100 percent renewable. Green Mountain Power reduced rates two of the last three years, including a 2.46 percent rate decrease in 2014. Compare that with the rates in the rest of New England, which rose 55 percent in 2013 and another 18 percent in 2014.

Pope Francis has called on each of us to do our part. Working together, our individual actions can make a difference. Act 56 creates a framework for individual action that will result in strong collective change, change that will benefit Vermont and, ultimately, humanity as a whole.

Clippings (Continued from Page 4A) In 2009, when Vermont legalized gay marriage, we had another wedding to celebrate.

When Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, it sounded great on paper. Legally and technically, it meant that black people held as slaves in the rebellious states were declared free.

As we all know full well, and in light of recent events, black people struggle every day against racism and the threat of violence it still carries — 152 years after the Emancipation Proclamation. They fought for their civil rights during the 1960s to bring about the end of the Jim Crow south, but here in 2015, we’re still talking about the Confederate flag and what it means.

Last week, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Committee gave landmark status to the Stone-

wall Inn in Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the modern gay rights movement touched off by the Stonewall Riots that began on June 28, 1969.

Our struggles have parallels, and it was never clearer to me than when the first black president of the United States stood in the Rose Garden on Friday and lauded the High Court’s decision.

“Our nation was founded on a bedrock principle — that we are all created equal,” President Obama said, saying that progress on the journey to equality “comes in small increments. Sometimes two steps forward, one step back.”

“And then sometimes there are days like this, when that slow steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt. When all Americans are treated as equal, we are all more free. Americans of good will

continue to hold a wide range of views on this issue. For all our differences, we are one people — stronger together than we will ever be alone. That has always been our story. Today, we can say in no uncertain terms that we made our union a little more perfect.”

I re-read Kennedy’s closing paragraph again and that same thunderbolt overwhelmed me. I put my head on my desk and wept. It was relief, it was disbelief, it was acceptance, it was real.

We as a society are far from perfect. Racism and homophobia will exist, and taking down Confederate flags or ruling in favor of nationwide gay marriage are not silver bullets.

Minds have to change before the behavior can. Last week, I dare say we took a leap in that direction. In 30 years, I can’t remember feeling as much as a first-class citizen of the United States as I do now.

Events to key on flying squirrels, photos SALISBURY — The Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association and the Salisbury Conservation Commission Commission are collaborating to host two public events in July.

The first is a nighttime photography course on Thursday, July 9, at 8 p.m. at Branbury State Park. Dan Lovell, owner of DGL Photography and instructor at the Stafford Career Center in Rutland, will lead this class. Participants should bring their equipment, mosquito repellent and a flashlight. Light refreshments will be served. The class will be about three hours long. The cost is $20 per person. The number of participants is limited so reservations are a must.

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The second is a free presentation, titled “The Flying Squirrels of Salisbury and other Regions of the World,” on Wednesday, July 15, at 7

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Obituaries

Justin Clayton, 25, Portland, Ore. PORTLAND, Ore. — Justin Adrain Clayton, 25, son of Sharon Lykins-Brown and Ben Brown of Sharon, died June 24, 2015, in a car accident. He and his beloved Anna were on their way to the Columbia Gorge in Washington, with work friends. In this tragic moment, he and Anna stopped moving forward in time.

Justin leaves his brother, Matthew, and his family, Alicia, Miles, and Corinna with memories of deep love.

His best friend, Liberty Stark-Rinder, shared his heart and soul in their deep connection. Justin leaves his sister, Courtney, his grandmother Priscilla (Grandma Gum), friends from the August Camp, friends from Hot Lips, friends from his many paths in life with memories of his smile, humor and his philosophy of living in the moment.

One of the first words he said was “ball.” From the time he could walk, a ball was attached to his foot.

He played soccer in the streets of Burlington, Vt., at Middlebury Union High School High and Johnson State.

He volunteered time with the kids at the Boys and Girls Club in Portland, sharing his passion for soccer and

Mary Brown, 95, Bristol BRISTOL — Mary Sue Brown passed away peacefully at the caring nursing home of Wayne and Emily Rainey of Salisbury, Vt., with her family at her side.

She was born in Success, Ark., on Nov. 24, 1919, the daughter of J.O. and Lelia Smith.

She graduated from Corning (Ark.) High School and directly went to work in Piggott, Ark. for several years at the Triple A office, which was known as the Agriculture Adjustment Administration, a needy farm project setup during World War II. She was connected with the insurance program.

Sue was introduced to her future husband, Brownie, by friends while he was stationed at Malden Air Force Base in Malden, Mo. After a twoyear courtship and her being transferred to several bases and a short leave they were married in Corning, Ark., by the Methodist minister Rev. Tedford on Aug. 12, 1945. After the reception they flew to Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland and then after a short time, he was honorably discharged, having volunteered for five years before.

Then back to civilian life in Bristol and Sue’s first time to meet Brownie’s family. It was a very pleasant and happy reunion. Sue worked at Merchants National Bank of Bristol, Van Raalte and the Ben Franklin Store. She then joined Brownie at the Park Filling Texaco Station which they operated together until they purchased back the station, which was the second time that Brownie had owned. Their son Michael worked with them for a while. My thanks to F.R. Churchill and Sons of Middlebury who owned the building for all their service and rebuilding after the terrible fire.

Sue was a very active member of the Bristol Federated Church, the Ladies Aid Society and so many services in the Sunday school, Outlook Club, Onawa Rebekah Lodge 43 of Bristol, Libanus Chapter No. 47 of the OES, and also on various committees in the town

which she enjoyed.

Sue is survived by two married children, a daughter, Trisha and her husband Al Ingallinera Sr. of California, and a son, Michael Brown and wife Debra of Bristol; also five grandchildren, Al Ingallinera Jr. and wife Wendy of Scottsdale, Ariz., Dr. David and Debbie Ingallinera of Chicago, Ill., Brian Ingallinera and wife Tristyn of California, Jeff Brown and wife Ginger of Conroe, Texas, and Lisa Roscoe and husband Shawn of Starksboro, Vt.; nine great-grandchildren, Luke, Mya and Paul Ingallinera, Michael and Lily Ingallinera, Jack Ingallinera, Colin and Logan Brown, and Ella and Leila Roscoe; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her loving and wonderful husband of 62 years on May 27, 2006; a brother, W.L. Smith and wife Irma of Sparta, N.C.; three half-sisters, Mildred Sauders, Dora Leon and Jeneue Beautee of St. Louis, Mo.; a brother-in-law, Cardell Brown and wife Alice of Parish, N.Y.; and many nieces and nephews.

In February 1976, Sue and Brownie retired to Regency Heights Mobile Home Park in Clearwater, Fla., for 34 years. She was very active in all of the many park activities, sport and various committees. Her specialty was shuffleboard that she enjoyed at other parks and tournaments and received several awards.

She was also an active member of the Northbay Community Church in Clearwater.

She loved and enjoyed her wonderful family and friends. She traveled to various states to see her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and she was very proud of them all.

The house on Mt. Terrace had a lot of happy memories of the family growing up together. My special thank you to Mike and Debra for their care the first two years back from Florida.

The family wishes to extend their sincere thanks and appreciation

the outdoors. If there was mountain to scale, a rock to climb, a sea to traverse, my son was there.

One of his great joys was August Camp, part of the Appalachian Mountain Club. He met the same friends there for the last two summers and planned to be there to hike Sisters with them. He was a vegetarian and rode his bike, choosing to reduce his own carbon imprint. He loved the beauty of this world, traveling extensively and making friends on his way.

He was born in New Jersey and grew up in Vermont, recently choosing Portland as his home. He traveled to Guatemala, spent months in Asia, Eastern Europe and many visits to Costa Rica, with the Stark-Rinder girls.

In lieu of flowers, Matthew is planning to set up a scholarship at Johnson College, for outdoor studies (contact mecclayton@yahoo.com).

For Justin, take a moment from his wisdom and live each day like it is your last. Hike that mountain, love the world, commit to personal change, find beauty and love in those people placed in your path.

We will celebrate his life on Sunday, July 5, at Mount Philo

JUSTIN CLAYTON State Park in Charlotte, Vt., from 2 p.m. to sunset. Please check Justin’s Facebook page for details or email Matthew(mecclayton@yahoo.com). ◊

MARY SUE BROWN to all of her caring persons Emily Rainey, Pat Tierney, Living Well, her many Home Health nurses and Patty Lewis and her medical needs. Mom spoke so many times how lucky she was in her lifetime and how grateful for all the good times that she had shared with others.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, July 10, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Bristol from 6 to 8 p.m. A memorial service will be held 10 a.m. on Saturday, July 11, at Bristol Federated Church in Bristol.

Interment will be in Greenwood Cemetery in Bristol at a later date.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753; Project Independence, 112 Exchange St., Middlebury, VT 05753; or Bristol Federated Church, 37 North St., Bristol, VT 05443. ◊

William Kershaw Jr., 91, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — William E. “Bill” Kershaw Jr. of Middlebury died peacefully on June 13, 2015. He was 91.

He was born Aug. 30, 1923, in Philadelphia and was raised in the area until World War II. In 1942 he joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and served until the end of the War. He was educated at Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, Temple University and Stanford, obtaining a BA in electrical engineering in 1948.

After a year working as an engineer, he decided that his life’s work should be in teaching instead. He taught both fourth and fifth grades at Chestnut Hill Academy and Meadowbrook School for the next 25 years. He founded one of the first wilderness travel camps for boys. Wilderness Travel Camp took boys ages 10-16 camping, hiking, canoeing and exploring all over the

U.S., Canada and worldwide for 30 summers. He never married, and friends say he was fulfilled by his teaching and his camp trips.

In 1977 he purchased a 1,000acre parcel near Goldendale, Wash., with his sister Meg and her husband, Larry. They subdivided and developed 190 five-acre homesites, calling it Ponderosa Park. He was part of the creation of the development. He was a substitute teacher in Goldendale, and a Scoutmaster with the local Boy Scout troop.

After his sister died, he left Washington state to move to Vermont to be closer to his surviving relatives, niece Wendy Bridgewater, and his grandniece. He lived in Shelburne before moving to the Lodge at Otter Creek.

A small family service is planned for later in the summer at the family camp on the Maine coast.

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Barbara Roberts, 73, Melbourne, Fla. MELBOURNE, Fla. — Barbara Ann (Russell) Roberts died April 9, 2014, at her home in Melbourne, Fla. She was born Jan. 13, 1942, in Bridport, the daughter of Harold and Christine (Scuderi) Russell.

She worked as a Cottage Parent for Weeks School in Vergennes then for the State of Vermont Health Department retiring after 20 years of service. Barbara and her husband spent many summers at Apple Island Resort.

She was predeceased by her first husband, Ralph Chase.

She is survived by her second husband, Richard Roberts, whom she married Sept. 13, 1960, and her children Michael, John and Brian BARBARA ROBERTS Roberts; and three grandchildren, Robert White III, Katelin Roberts She was predeceased by a daugh- p.m., followed by a memorial and Sierra Roberts. Also she is service at 4 p.m. Interment will be survived by her brothers and sisters, ter, Christine.

Visiting hours will be on Friday, in Prospect Cemetery in Vergennes Theresa Clark, Katherine Veysey, Elaine Whipple, Gary Russell and July 17, at Brown-McClay Funeral with a reception following at the Home in Vergennes from 2 to 3:45 American Legion in Vergennes. ◊ Craig Russell.

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Marie Hier, 79, Bristol BRISTOL — Marie Lucia Hier, 79, passed away Sunday, June 28, 2015, at the Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Memory Care Unit in Middlebury.

She was born Aug. 29, 1935, in Bristol, the daughter of John Lucia and Dorothy (King) Lucia.

Her relatives say she enjoyed fishing and turkey hunting with her husband. She also got pleasure from family, holidays (especially Christmas), gardening, reading, music, crafts and Victorian dollhouses. Her family says they will remember her most for her phenomenal cooking skills.

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She was predeceased by her father, John Lucia; her mother, Dorothy (Lucia) Mitchel; sister Yolan Litchfield; grandson Evan Payne; great-granddaughter Olivia Scott; and nephew Ryan Wendel.

A memorial service will be held at St. Ambrose in Bristol on Saturday, Sept. 19 at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center Memory Care Unit, 30 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT 05753.

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Carroll Rikert Jr., 97, Ithaca, N.Y. ITHACA, N.Y. — Treasurer emeritus Carroll Rikert Jr., who worked at Middlebury College from 1952 to 1983, died on June 12, 2015, in Ithaca, N.Y. at age 97.

He was born in Greenfield, Mass., on March 31, 1918, and was raised on the campus of Mount Hermon School, where his father was the director of the physical plant. He attended Mount Hermon, Harvard College, and Harvard Business School, and enlisted as an ensign in the United States Navy during World War II. He began his career at the New York accounting firm Haskins & Sells before accepting a job as controller at Brown University in Providence, R.I. In 1952, he moved to Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vt., as chief financial officer, and was appointed treasurer in 1964.

He retired in 1983, becoming treasurer emeritus. During these years, he also served in leadership roles in

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Eastern and National Associations of College and University Business Officers.

He maintained his lifelong association with Mount Hermon (later Northfield Mount Hermon), serving as president of the alumni association and as trustee (and later, trustee emeritus). He received the school’s Lamplighter Award at his 80th reunion in June 2014.

He married Jane Wilson of Ipswich, Mass., and a Smith College graduate, in 1943. They had four children. Following his retirement, they moved to Rockport, Maine; and then, in 2000, to Ithaca.

He is survived by his children, David Rikert (Margie) of Portland, Ore., Rachel Burbank (Doug) of Santa Barbara, Calif., Hannah Morvan (Ray) of Northfield, Vt., and Jon Corson-Rikert (Janet) of Ithaca.

A memorial service will be held at a later date.

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Cutler named Fulbright Scholar BRIDPORT — Stephen J. Cutler, professor of sociology emeritus at the University of Vermont and a resident of Bridport, has been selected for a Fulbright Specialists project in Romania at the University of Bucharest during October 2015, according to the United States Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

Cutler will work with the faculty of Sociology and Social Work at the University of Bucharest to initiate the university’s new master’s degree program on aging.

Cutler is one of over 400 U.S. faculty and professionals, selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, who will travel abroad this year through the Fulbright Specialists Program. The Fulbright Specialists Program, created in 2000 to complement the traditional Fulbright Scholar Program, provides short-term academic opportunities (two to six weeks) to prominent U.S. faculty and professionals to support curricular and faculty development and institutional planning at post secondary, academic institutions around the world.

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Bread Loaf Ensemble to perform two summer plays

RIPTON — The Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble will present two plays in the Burgess Meredith Little Theatre this summer: Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” adapted by Christopher Sergel, and “Blues for Mister Charlie,” by James Baldwin. The scaled-down production values will allow the plays to be explored for their overlapping themes, which arise from very different perspectives within each text.

Audiences are invited to participate in a brief discussion following each performance.

Performances run nightly at 8 p.m. from Tuesday, July 28-Sunday, Aug. 2, with additional 2 p.m. matinees on Aug. 1 and 2. Tickets are available to the public beginning July 20, and reservations can be made through the Bread Loaf Box Office at (802) 443-2771.

For more information, see THE 2015 BREAD Loaf Acting Ensemble will perform two plays on the Bread Loaf Campus in late July and the Middlebury Bread Loaf early August. The ensemble includes, from left, Ralph Adriel Johnson, Alexis Green, Craig Maravich, Cindy School of English website: www.

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Lincoln bridge will be closed for seven weeks LINCOLN — Some Lincoln residents will need to plan extra travel time into their routines this summer, as Lincoln TH 1 Bridge 19 will be closed for about seven weeks starting Wednesday, July 8. The bridge, located over the New Haven River on

East River Road about one-half mile south of TH 1 and Gove Hill Road, is scheduled to be closed to all traffic for 50 days, reopening on Aug. 27.

During the bridge closure period, a traffic detour will be in effect and marked with directional signs.

Motorists travelling from the north will take Gove Road, to West Hill Road, to Ripton Road, to Grimes Road, to South Lincoln Road. Motorists travelling from the south will take South Lincoln Road, to Grimes Road, to Ripton Road, to West Hill Road, to

Gove Road.

Contact Francine Perkins, Project Outreach Coordinator, FRP Enterprises, LLC, with any questions or concerns about this project at 802-479-6994.

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to make sure that all Medicareeligible Vermonters are aware of the federal and state financial programs available.

Locally, Addison and Chittenden counties have been identified as having a high percentage of

Medicare beneficiaries who may be eligible to receive financial help to pay for their Medicare Part B and Part D premiums but have not yet applied. The agency is reaching out to the community for help in reaching and assisting these individuals.

Anyone who knows someone struggling to pay for prescription drugs or premiums is asked to help.

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Future of Middlebury’s Creek Road in flux as erosion eats it away

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury is currently facing a costly decision about how — and whether — to fix a large swath of Creek Road, a choice that might mean taking on Mother Nature, or simply walking away.

Creek Road has already been closed for approximately two miles north of its intersection with Route 7 south, due to significant erosion and cracking of portions of the asphalt that border Otter Creek. Middlebury Public Works officials estimate it would cost nearly $1.2 million to properly fix and stabilize the road well enough to keep it open to through traffic.

“Around 100 feet of the road has fallen into the creek,” said Dan Werner, Middlebury’s director of operations, who added there is no room within the town’s public works budget to take on an extra, major road repair project. “Any significant work that has to be done (on Creek Road) will probably require a bond vote.”

But the problems surrounding Creek Road stretch well beyond the 100 feet that have fallen into the creek, Werner and his colleagues said.

Creek Road has a total gravel length of around 12,122 feet, according to Middlebury DPW Highway Supervisor Dale Hazzard. Around 7,491 feet of that length has less than a 10-foot separation from Otter Creek to the travel lane, he noted.

Only about 215 feet of that stretch has thus far been specially armored with erosion stone.

At this time, Creek Road has 1,080 feet that need “immediate repairs” to keep it open and safe for the traveling public, according to a recent memo

to the selectboard signed by Hazzard.

Those repairs would include bank stabilization and the placement of stone to prevent erosion.

Werner said the proximity of the road to the Otter Creek makes future erosion a real possibility.

“Rivers like to meander, and we shouldn’t try to control them,” Werner said. “Here we are at this crossroads. Do we try to control the river or not, and at what expense to taxpayers do you try to do that?”

Creek Road floods an average of three to four times per year, causing closures and damage to the driving surface, according to Hazzard. When the road floods, access to some of the residences is “non-existent,” while emergency services “cannot gain access to them without great risk, posing a danger to all involved,” he noted.

Creek Road currently serves four homes and gives three farms access to their respective crop fields, according to DPW officials. Some drivers also use it as a bypass for Route 7 en route to Shard Villa Road and Salisbury.

Others use it to access fishing holes and some use it for scenic trips.

“It is a pretty mellow drive,” said Mark Perrin, whose family has lived at their Creek Road home since 1990. His spouse grew up in the neighborhood.

“It is gorgeous; there is plenty of wildlife.”

Creek Road is closed from just south of the Perrin residence to where it intersects with Three Mile Bridge Road. Access is being assured to farm vehicles, cyclists and pedestrians, but it continues to be closed to through traffic.

Perrin realizes that a comprehensive fix for Creek Road could be

THE TOWN OF Middlebury is exploring renovation options for Creek Road, which was recently closed due to erosion south Creek Road Farm.

One option is permanently closing the road to through traffic.

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costly. At the same time, he does not relish the prospect of having the road permanently gated at his driveway, something that he said would result in some major detours for his family and continued “turnaround” traffic by people who discover they can’t go through.

Werner and other DPW officials will soon meet with the Army Corps of Engineers to get a better sense of what repairs might be possible for Creek Road. The town’s Public

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Works Committee will continue to discuss the status of the road and will ultimately recommend a course of action to the selectboard.

Options could range from permanently gating the road to proposing a

bond vote. If the ultimate decision is to proceed with repairs, Werner believes a comprehensive fix should be pursued rather than a piecemeal approach.

“To start and stop (work) in areas

may not be the best method of repair,” Werner said. “If you commit to doing it, you really need to commit all the way, and that’s big money.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Fourth of July parade in Brandon. Saturday, July 4, 1 p.m., downtown Brandon. Floats, bands, fire engines, antique cars and tractors and more. Food and craft vendors, silent auction, family activities and games. Info: bidcc@yahoo.com.

Fourth of July boat parade on Lake Dunmore in Salisbury. Saturday, July 4, 1 p.m., starts in North Cove at Kampersville Beach. Prizes for best-decorated boat. Sponsored by Kampersville. Info: 352-4501.

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Warren Kimble gallery talk in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 8, noon, Henry Sheldon Museum.

Vermont artist Warren Kimble talks about the exhibit “Warren Kimble All-American Artist: An Eclectic Retrospective.” Free with museum admission. Info: 802-388-2117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Recreation activities for kids in Bristol. Wednesday, July 8, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Bristol town park, near the playground. Join the Bristol Rec Department for “All About Bubbles.” Free lunch included. Weather permitting. Info: 453-5885.

Wednesday Workshop for kids in Bristol.

Wednesday, July 8, 2-4:30 p.m., Lawrence Memorial Library. Kids 8 and older are invited to take part in “Be a Garden Hero.” Create a miniature garden and enlist the magic of gnomes and fairies to help it grow. Snack provided. Sign up required at 453-2366 or lmlkids009@gmail.com.

Band concert in Bristol. Wednesday, July 8, 7 p.m., Bristol town green. Weekly summer band concert on the gazebo. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, and a picnic dinner.

Caitlin Canty on stage in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 8, 7 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. Vermont native who is “the next great Americana star.” Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green.

Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen.org.

The Mike & Ruthy Band on stage in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 8, 8:30 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. An exciting quintet mixing up fiddle and banjo with drums, bass and pedal steel. Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free.

Info: www.festivalonthegreen.org.

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Monday, July 6, noon, Middlebury Rec Park. A “brown-bag special” lunchtime show for kids, part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen. org.

Movie night in Shoreham. Monday, July 6, 6 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Enjoy a superhero movie (PG). Popcorn and drinks served. Info: www.plattlib.org or 802-897-2647.

Independence Day bake sale in Shoreland Protection Act training in Ferrisburgh.

Hancock. Friday, July Monday, July 6, 6:30-8 p.m., Kingsland Bay State 3, 10 a.m. until the food Park. Learn about the new state rules regarding runs out, JD’s Quickstop, 529 lakeshore development within 250 feet of the Lake Route 100.

Champlain shoreline.

Kids’ drop-in story time in Band concert in Vergennes.

MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Children: Middlebury. Friday, July 3, 10:30 Monday, July 6, 7 p.m., Vergennes Pottery-Wheel & Hand Building-Tues, Weds, Thurs. all a.m., Ilsley Library garden. Kids City Park. Weekly summer band summer. Monsters & Beasts Camp. Mon.-Draw and Paint. from birth to age 4 are invited concert by the Vergennes City Band. to enjoy a story in the library’s Ten Strings and a Goat Skin on Fri.-Nature Crafting. Adult: Mon. Artists & their Mediums, beautiful garden. Info: 388-4097. stage in Middlebury. Monday, July Tues.

Watercolors, Weds.

PM Wheel, Thurs.

AM Clay Hand Carillon concert at Middlebury 6, 7 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park.

Building, Thurs. Mixed Media Drawing, Weaving Fancy College. Friday, July 3, 5 p.m., Traditional/Acadian music.

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Mead Chapel and surroundof Middlebury’s annual Festival ing grounds. George Matthew on-the-Green. Free. Info: www.festicom, middleburystudioschool.org Jr., carillonneur at Middlebury valonthegreen.org.

College and Norwich University, The 24th Street Wailers on stage in performs the first in a summer-long series of caril- Ice cream social in Salisbury. Saturday, July 4, Middlebury. Monday, July 6, 8:30 p.m., Middlebury lon concerts featuring guest carillonneurs from 1:30-4:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Rec Park. Raw, gritty and funky young breakout around the world. Info: 443-3168 or www.middleForty-first annual event, featuring sundaes, cones, blues artists. Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival bury.edu/arts. pie and cake. Rain or shine. on-the-Green. Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen.

Street dance in Brandon. Friday, July 3, 5-10 p.m., Mark Mandeville and Raianne Richards in concert org.

Central Park. Bring the whole family for an evening in Ripton. Saturday, July 4, 7:30 p.m., Ripton of free family fun.

Community House. The Ripton Community Coffee Exhibit opening reception in Brandon. Friday, July House welcomes Mandeville and Richards sing3, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. ing harmony and playing ukulele, clarinet, guitar Blood pressure/foot care clinic in Celebrating the opening of “Colors of Summer,” and banjo. Refreshments available. The community Brandon. Tuesday, July 7, 10:00 a.m., an exhibit of works by fiber artist Althea Bilodeau house is handicap-accessible but the bathrooms Forest Dale Senior Center. Cost $10. Info: and painter Kathy Domenicucci. Exhibit runs July are not. Admission $10, $8 seniors and teens. Info: 802-775-0568.

1-Sept. 1. Info: 802-247-4956 or www.brandon388-9782. artistsguild.org.

Fireworks in Brandon. Saturday, July 4, 5 p.m., Park Pre-K/kindergarten story time in East Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 7, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Sarah Partridge Summer Performance Series in Salisbury. Friday, Village (the old Brandon Training School grounds).

Library, 431 East Main St. Weekly summer story July 3, 7:30-9 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Live music, food, fun, and float winner announceand take-home craft time for young children. Info: Church. The Camp Point CounterPoint Faculty ments. Fireworks at dusk. Donations appreciated.

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Ensemble performs music by Haydn and Info: bidcc@yahoo.com.

Ukulele lessons for kids in Middlebury. Tuesday, Mendelssohn. Free-will offering appreciated.

July 7, 10:30 a.m., Ilsley Library. Dayve Huckett of Fireworks in Vergennes. Friday, July 3, 8:45 p.m., the Middlebury Community Music Center will teach Vergennes athletic fields. kids in grades K-2, accompanied by an adult, to play Fireworks in Bristol. Friday, July 3, dusk, Bristol “Withdrawal from Mount ukulele. Advance registration required: 388-4097. ballpark.

Independence” event in Orwell. Sunday, Stephen Gratto on stage in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 5, 1 p.m., Mount Independence State July 7, noon, Middlebury Rec Park. A “brown-bag Historic Site. Commemorating the July 5, 1777, special” lunchtime show for kids, part of American withdrawal from the Mount. Period readMiddlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free.

Fourth of July celebration in Bristol. ings, re-enactors. Inside if weather is inclement. Info: Info: www.festivalonthegreen.org.

Saturday, July 4, 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m., down802-948-2000.

“Fabulous Felt” workshop in Middlebury. town Bristol. 7:30 a.m., 5K road race; 9 Reading of Frederick Douglass’ July 5, 1852, Tuesday, July 7, 1:30-3 p.m., Ilsley Library. Kids a.m., Great Bristol Outhouse Race; 10:30 a.m., speech in Ferrisburgh. Sunday, July 5, 3 p.m., of all ages (younger than 9 accompanied by an parade begins; noon, live music, food and vendors Rokeby Museum. Group reading of “What to the adult) are invited to join local craftsperson Danielle on the green. Parade theme: Mardi Gras.

Negro Is the Fourth of July?” in which Douglass castiGori-Montanelli to make fashionable felt creations.

Bristol Fourth of July 5K in Bristol. Saturday, July gates the United States for decades of slavery and Info: 388-4097.

4, 7:30 a.m., Mount Abraham Union High School. injustice. Free. Info: 802-877-3406.

Magic show in Orwell. Tuesday, July 7, 3 p.m., In memory of Pam Paradee who lost her battle with Caroline Rose on stage in Middlebury. Sunday, July Orwell Free Library. Popular magician Tom Joyce cancer in 2010. Race winds through Bristol and 5, 7 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. Rockabilly, vintage entertains families with his Magic Box. Free. Info: ends on the town green. Prize drawing. Info: www. country, blues. Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival 948-2041. bristol4th.com/road_race.html. on-the-Green. Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen.

Ukulele lessons for tweens in Middlebury.

Town hall open house in Brandon. Saturday, July org.

Tuesday, July 7, 7 p.m., Ilsley Library. Kids 9 or older (9-13 accompanied by an adult) are invited to learn to play ukulele with Lloyd H. Miller. Advance registration required at the Adult Circulation desk.

Info: 388-4097.

The Miles Donahue Quintet on stage in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 7, 7 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. “A jazz treasure.” Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen. org.

Documentary screening and talk at Middlebury College. Tuesday, July 7, 7:30-9:30 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center.

Screening “Drop City,” a documentary by Joan Grossman, independent filmmaker and faculty in the Middlebury School of the Environment. The film is about an artists’ community that became an icon for a global counterculture.

Darlingside on stage in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 7, 8:30 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. “A quartet with a rich line in acoustic textures and chamber-rock dynamics.” Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen. org.

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“DROP CITY,” A 2012 documentary about an artists’ community that in the 1960s became an icon for a global counterculture, will be screened by the Middlebury College School of the Environment on Tuesday, July 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the college’s Dana Auditorium.

THURSDAY

Rhythm and Rhyme drop-in program for kids in Middlebury. Thursday, July 9, 10:30 a.m., Ilsley Library. Kids from birth to 4 years are invited to this fun event led by Lloyd H. Miller. Info: 388-4097.

Lap-sit story time in Shoreham. Thursday, July 9, 11 a.m., Platt Memorial Library. For infants and toddlers from birth to age 3 and their parents or caregivers. Stories, rhymes, fingerplays, songs and

sometimes a game or activity. Info: www.plattlib.org or 802-897-2647.

PaDulabaum on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, July 9, noon, Middlebury Rec Park. Rebecca Padula and Gary Dulabaum entertain. A “brown-bag special” lunchtime show for kids, part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free.

Info: www.festivalonthegreen.org.

Kids’ craft and “book bites” drop-in time in East Middlebury. Thursday, July 9, 3:30-5 p.m., Sarah Partridge Library, 431 East Main St. Elementary-age children are invited for craft time, while tweens and teens are invited for “book bites.” Info: 388-7588.

Lego Night in Shoreham. Thursday, July 9, 5:30 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. For ages 5 and up.

Info: www.plattlib.org or 802-897-2647.

The Bluegrass Gospel Project on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, July 9, 7 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. Roots planted in the bluegrass tradition.

Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green.

Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen.org.

Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Thursday, July 9, 7 p.m., Basin Road. Four-day family-friendly festival with camping starting July 5. Festival opens with a classic country concert by Cannonball Express. Tickets and info: www.basinbluegrassfestival.com.

Nighttime photography course in Salisbury.

Thursday, July 9, 8 p.m., Branbury State Park.

Dan Lovell of DGL Photography leads this class.

Participants should bring equipment, mosquito repellent and a flashlight. Cost: $20. Space is limited. Registration required. Email mariondbauer@comcast.net.

Heather Maloney on stage in Middlebury.

Thursday, July 9, 8:30 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park.

“A quickly rising star, her music is riveting, her voice adventurous, her lyrics thought provoking.” Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free.

Info: www.festivalonthegreen.org.

“Annie” on screen outdoors in Bristol. Thursday, July 9, starting at dark, Bristol town park. The Bristol Rec Department brings another summer of Movies in the Park, film classics shown outside on a theater-sized screen. Free. Bring a blanket and bug spray.

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“Family Fridays” craft activity in Ferrisburgh. Friday, July 10, 10 a.m.-noon, Rokeby Museum. “Weekly summer make-and-take craft program. Cost $3 per participant or free with museum admission. Info: 802-877-3406 or rokeby@comcast.net.

Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Friday, July 10, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Basin Road. Four-day family-friendly festival with camping starting July 5. Stage concerts all day. Tickets and info: www. basinbluegrassfestival.com.

Kids’ drop-in story time in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 10:30 a.m., Ilsley Library garden. Kids from birth to age 4 are invited to enjoy a story in the library’s beautiful garden. Info: 388-4097.

Instrument petting zoo in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 11 a.m., Ilsley Library. For kids of all ages, but children younger than 9 should be accompanied by an adult. With the Middlebury Community Music Center. Info: 38-4097.

Senior luncheon in Bristol. Friday, July 10, 11:30 a.m., Join seniors 60 and older at Mary’s at Baldwin Creek for a noon luncheon of fresh fruit cup with honey yogurt sauce; tuna, fennel and bean salad with roll and butter; and strawberry shortcake.

Suggested donation $5. Reservations required: 1-800-642-5119, ext. 615.

Magician Tom Verner on stage in Middlebury.

Friday, July 10, noon, Middlebury Rec Park. A “brown-bag special” lunchtime show for kids, part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green.

Free. Info: www.festivalonthegreen.org.

Carillon concert at Middlebury College. Friday, July 10, 5 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding grounds. Gordon Slater, Canadian Dominion Carillonneur Emeritus, performs. Info: 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts.

Exhibit reception in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m., Arts Walk in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m., downtown Middlebury and Marble Works. Art, music, food and fun at participating businesses.

Event includes paintings, photography, performances and crafts. Info: www.business.addisoncounty.com/events/index/2015-05-08.

Exhibit reception and poetry reading in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m., Zone Three Gallery, 152 Maple St., third floor, Marble Works.

Showing Rachel Baird’s “Celestial Verses,” heavenly images with embedded verse, using paint, ink on paper and fabric. Multiple language poetry reading at 6 p.m. Info: www.zonethreegallery.com.

Author talk in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 5-7 p.m., National Museum of the Morgan Horse, Main Street.

Meet with a popular author of Morgan-related books. Info: 388-1639 or www.morganhorse.com/ museum.

Vance Gilbert on stage in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 7 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. Described as having “the voice of an angel, the wit of a devil and the guitar playing of a god.” Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free. Info: www. festivalonthegreen.org.

Summer Performance Series in Salisbury. Friday, July 10, 7:30-9 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. Atlantic Crossing performs, playing folk music of New England, Quebec, Maritime Canada and the British Isles. Free-will donation appreciated.

Ray Vega and Tales from the Boogie Down. Friday, July 10, 8:30 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. Known as one of the innovators of the international jazz and Latin music scenes. Part of Middlebury’s annual Festival on-the-Green. Free. Info: www. festivalonthegreen.org.

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Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury.

Saturday, July 11, 7 a.m., Otter View Park and Hurd Grassland. A monthly OCAS-MALT event inviting community members to help survey birds and other wildlife. Meet at Otter View Park parking area, corner of Weybridge Street and Pulp Mill Bridge Road. Beginning birders welcome. Shorter routes possible. Info: 388-1007 or 388-6019.

Craft fair and flea market in Starksboro. Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Starksboro Fire Department.

To benefit WomenSafe. Reserve a table for $20 and receive $5 off if you bring a new toy or old cell phone. Info: 453-6053 or 434-2559.

St. Stephen’s Peasant Market in Middlebury.

Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on the Middlebury green. Annual event featuring antiques, books, vintage clothing, baked goods, silent auction, children’s booth and midway, refreshments, live music and much more.

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ABOLITIONIST FREDERICK DOUGLASS, refusing to speak on July 4, presented a speech on July 5, 1852, titled “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro,” in which he castigated the United States for decades of slavery and injustice. As part of a Vermont Humanities Council effort to share the speech in communities across the state over Independence Day Weekend, the Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh will host a group public reading on Sunday, July 5, at 3 p.m.

encampment in Hubbardton. Saturday, July 11, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site. Two-day re-enactment with tactical military demonstrations, camp and battlefield tours, kids’ activities, music, and sutler’s row shopping. Battle maneuvers on Sunday morning. Info: 802-273-2282.

Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m.-9:30 p.m., Basin Road. Four-day family-friendly festival with camping starting July 5. Stage concerts all day. Tickets and info: www. basinbluegrassfestival.com.

Town picnic in Weybridge. Saturday, July 11, 11:30 a.m., Weybridge Elementary School. Current and former Weybridge residents are invited for great food, children’s activities and fun for all. Bring a salad or main dish to share. Info: 545-2000.

Garden tour in Lincoln. Saturday, July 11, noon-5 p.m., at seven gardens in Lincoln. The Sheldon Museum in Middlebury offers its fourth annual garden tour, this time at spectacular gardens in Lincoln, with local artists painting en plein air in the gardens. Tickets $25, available in advance at the museum, at www.henrysheldonmuseum.org after June 1 or at on the day of the tour at a Lincoln location to be announced. Reception follows at WildWind on Orchard Road in North Lincoln. The garden paintings will be for sale. Info: 802-388-2117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Artist talk in Rochester. Saturday, July 11, 3 p.m., BigTown Gallery, 99 North Main St. Susan S. Bank, one of nine artists featured in the current exhibition “¡Viva Cuba! presents “Cuba: Campo Adentro 2002-2007.” Info: info@bigtowngallery.com.

Silent movie screening in Brandon. Saturday, July 11, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall and Community Center, Route 7. “Hands Up!,” with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis. A Raymond Griffith Civil War comedy, in which a Southern spy must work every angle to prevent a shipment of Western gold from reaching Union forces. Part of the Brandon Town Hall’s summer silent film series.

Free, but donations to the town hall restoration fund appreciated. Info: www.brandontownhall.org.

Street dance with the Vermont Jazz Ensemble in Middlebury. Saturday, July 11, 7 p.m., Middlebury Rec Park. Wrapping up the 37th annual Festival on-the Green with a big band dance. Come early for dance lessons with Jim Condon.

Jocelyn Pettit Band in concert in Brandon.

Saturday, July 11, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Celtic and Canadian folk music. Tickets $20.

Reservations recommended at 802-247-4295 or info@brandon-music.net.

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Green Mountain Club walk in Addison. Sunday, July 12, time TBA, Dead Creek Wildlife Area. The GMC Bread Loaf Section hosts an easy walk at Dead Creek.

Info: 802-877-2263. More at www.gmcbreadloaf. org.

Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War encampment in Hubbardton. Sunday, July 12, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site.

Two-day re-enactment with tactical military demonstrations, camp and battlefield tours, kids’ activities, music, and sutler’s row shopping. Battle maneuvers on Sunday morning. Info: 802-273-2282.

Vermont Sun Triathlon Series in Salisbury.

Sunday, July 12, 8:30 a.m., Branbury State Park.

A sprint triathlon that includes a 600-yard swim, 14-mile bike ride and 3.1 mile run. Register at www. vermontsuntriathlonseries.com.

Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Sunday, July 12, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Basin Road. Four-day family-friendly festival with camping starting July 5. Gospel sing at 9 a.m., stage concerts 10 a.m-2 p.m. Tickets and info: www.basinbluegrassfestival. com.

Seeing Double violin duo in concert in Rochester.

Sunday, July 12, 4 p.m. Rochester Federated Church. The Rochester Chamber Music Society’s season kick-off concert, featuring violinists Sara Whitney and Julia Salerno playing music ranging from baroque to jazz. Info: 802-767-9234 or www. rcmsvt.org.

“Mike Sommers’ Comedy Show” in Middlebury.

Sunday, July 12, 5-7 p.m., Town Hall Theater.

Sommers returns to his hometown with his sketch comedy troupe, Uncle Buzzy’s Hometown Theater.

Tickets $15, available at the THT box office, 382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

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MONDAY Band concert in Brandon. Monday, July 13, 6:30 p.m., Central Park bandstand. Rain location: Brandon Town Hall.

To join the band, call 247-4559.

Band concert in Vergennes. Monday, July 13, 7 p.m., Vergennes City Park. Weekly summer band concert by the Vergennes City Band.

Addison County Right to Life meeting in Bristol.

Monday, June 8, 7-8 p.m., St. Ambrose Church.

Light refreshments. Visitors welcome. Info: 388-2898 or L2Paquette@aol.com.

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Pre-K/kindergarten story time in East Middlebury. Tuesday, July 14, 10:30-11:15 a.m., Sarah Partridge Library, 431 East Main St. Weekly summer story and take-home craft time for young children.

Info: 388-7588.

Ukulele lessons for kids in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 14, 10:30 a.m., Ilsley Library. Dayve Huckett of the Middlebury Community Music Center will teach kids in grades K-2, accompanied by an adult, to play ukulele. Advance registration required: 388-4097.

Garden club workshop for kids in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 14, 1:30-3 p.m., Ilsley Library.

Middlebury Garden Club members teach kids 9 and older how to make a beautiful flower arrangement. Advance registration required: 388-4097.

“Hero Skills: Archery” for kids in Orwell.

Tuesday, July 14, 3 p.m., Orwell Free Library.

School-aged children are invited to try their hand at the ancient hero skill of archery. Free. Info: 948-2041.

Ukulele lessons for tweens in Middlebury.

Tuesday, July 14, 7 p.m., Ilsley Library. Kids 9 or older (9-13 accompanied by an adult) are invited to learn to play ukulele with Lloyd H. Miller. Advance registration required at the Adult Circulation desk. Info: 388-4097.

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Dr. Gavin Noble

The providers and staff of Porter Cardiology are delighted to welcome Dr. Gavin Noble who will join the practice full-time in September.

After practicing for nine years at the Bend Memorial Clinic in Oregon, Dr. Gavin Noble is pleased to return to the northeast with his wife Mary Heather and their daughters Zoë and Maggie.

Dr. Noble is a non-invasive cardiologist skilled in all aspects of echocardiography, nuclear cardiology, inpatient, outpatient and preventive cardiology.

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Off-site story time for kids in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 15, 10:30 a.m., location TBA. Check with the library (388-4097) to find out the mystery location. Tickets available at the Youth Services desk two weeks in advance.

Senior luncheon in Bridport. Wednesday, July 15, 11:30 a.m., Bridport Grange. Bridport Seniors host this CVAA-sponsored noon luncheon of sliced beef, Swiss cheese, macaroni salad with crabmeat, spinach salad, dressing, rye bread and applesauce. For seniors 60 and over. Bring your own place setting. Suggested donation $4. Reservations required: 1-800-642-5119, ext. 615. Free transportation with ACTR: 802-388-1946.

Recreation activities for kids in Bristol.

Wednesday, July 15, 12:30-1:30 p.m., Holley Hall. Join the Bristol Rec Department for a celebration with the Lawrence Memorial Library.

Free lunch included. Info: 453-5885.

“Heroes & Tricksters, Wisdom & Wile” show in Bristol. Wednesday, July 15, 2 p.m., Holley Hall.

With Michael Caduto. A four-town family event.

Lions auction and chicken BBQ in Middlebury.

Wednesday, July 15, 4:30 p.m., Middlebury town green. Annual event, with chicken BBQ at 4:30 p.m. and auction at 6 p.m. Donations accepted; call 758-2813 or 388-0802; no garage sale leftovers or appliances. Rain location: Memorial Sports Center.

Carillon concert at Middlebury College.

Wednesday, July 15, 5 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding grounds. College carillonneur George Matthew Jr. will perform a special all-Beethoven program to help kick off the Language Schools’ centennial celebration. Free.

Info: 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts.

Band concert in Bristol. Wednesday, July 15, 7 p.m., Bristol town green. Weekly summer band concert on the gazebo. Bring a lawn chair or blanket, and a picnic dinner.

“The Flying Squirrels of Salisbury and Other Regions of the World” presentation in Salisbury. Wednesday, July 15, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. The Salisbury Conservation Commission and Lake Dunmore/ Fern Lake Association welcome UVM zoologist Dr. C. William Kilpatrick who will talk about this common but rarely seen nocturnal animal. Free.

Blues jam in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 15, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main. Dennis Willmott from Left Eye Jump will provide lead guitar, bass and drums if you need backup, or take a break and let you play. Bring your instrument and get ready to jam. Info: www.go51main.com.

For more information and to schedule an appointment with Porter Cardiology, please call (802) 382-3443 Porter Cardiology, Porter Hospital 115 Porter Drive • Middlebury, VT 05753 www.portermedical.org/cardiology.html

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Itsy Bitsy Yoga drop-in program for kids in Middlebury. Thursday, July 16, 10:30 a.m., Ilsley Library. Kids from birth to 4 years are invited to participate. Info: 388-4097.

PMC Farmers’ Market in Middlebury. Thursday, July 16, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Porter Medical Center cafeteria patio.

One in a series of monthly markets at offering fresh, local produce.

Storyteller from the Children’s Literacy Foundation in Middlebury. Thursday, July 16, 2:30 p.m., Ilsley Library.

For kids of all ages, but children younger than 9 should be accompanied by an adult. Info: 388-4097.

Kids’ craft and “book bites” drop-in time in East Middlebury. Thursday, July 16, 3:30-5 p.m., Sarah Partridge Library, 431 East Main St. Elementary-age children are invited for craft time, while tweens and teens are invited for “book bites.” Info: 388-7588.

Talk on environmental issues at Middlebury College.

Thursday, July 16, 4:30-5:30 p.m., McCardell Bicentennial Hall 216. Frank Sesno, director of the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, presents “Planet Forward: In Search of Solutions to the Biggest Challenges Facing Our Planet.”

Public Service Department public forum in Middlebury.

Thursday, July 16, 5:30-8 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Vermont PSD is seeking public input on the state’s long-range Comprehensive Energy Plan. Come share ideas on Vermont’s energy goals and energy needs. Info and comments: www.energyplan.vt.gov.

Historical society meeting in Bristol. Thursday, July 16, 7 p.m., Howden Hall. The Bristol Historical Society welcomes Judith Edwards, who will talk about the Civilian Conservation Corps. Info: 453-7709 or 453-2888.

“Freedom and Unity: The Vermont Movie” screening in Shoreham. Thursday, July 16, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Showing Part 3, “Refuge, Reinvention and Revolution.” Popcorn served. Info: www.plattlib.org or 802-897-2647.

Historical society meeting in Bridport. Thursday, July 16, 7 p.m., Bridport Historical Society House. Norma Stone and Linda Riley present “The Stones: A Bridport Founding Family and an Old House.”

Historical society meeting in Salisbury. Thursday, July 16, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. The Salisbury Historical Society welcomes Bill Powers, who will present “Aunt Jennie (1856-1934).” Aunt Jennie is a legend in the Lake Dunmore area, famous for her teahouse and restaurants at the lake and the Rutland fair. More than 50 images will be shown.

“Starry, Starry Night” astronomy event in Hubbardton.

Thursday, July 16, 8-11 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site. Stargaze with the Green Mountain Alliance of Amateur Astronomers, who bring their telescopes. Comet PanSTARRS, discovered in 2014, may be visible. Bring binoculars, blankets and flashlights.

Marshmallows provided. Rain event: Inside illustrated program. Call to confirm: 802-273-2282.

“Back to the Future” on screen outdoors in Bristol.

Thursday, July 16, starting at dark, Bristol town park.

The Bristol Rec Department brings another summer of Movies in the Park, film classics shown outside on a theater-sized screen. Free. Bring a blanket and bug spray.

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Kids’ drop-in story time in Middlebury. Friday, July 17, 10:30 a.m., Ilsley Library garden. Kids from birth to age 4 are invited to enjoy a story in the library’s beautiful garden.

Info: 388-4097.

Neshobe SOAR Summerfest in Brandon. Friday, July 17, 5 p.m., Neshobe School. Annual pig roast and live concert with music by Distant Thunder. A culmination of the SOAR after-school and summer programs.

Carillon concert at Middlebury College. Friday, July 17, 5 p.m., Mead Chapel and surrounding grounds. John Widmann, municipal carillonneur in Frederick, Md., performs. Info: 443-3168 or www.middlebury.edu/arts.

Family-friendly movie night in Middlebury. Friday, July 17, 6:30 p.m., Ilsley Library. Movies selected by patrons; stop by the children’s room to vote for your pick. Info: 388-4097.

Movie night in Orwell. Friday, July 17, 7 p.m., Orwell Free Library. Enjoy a superhero-themed movie. Popcorn and drinks served. Free. Info: 948-2041.

Summer Performance Series in Salisbury. Friday, July 17, 7:30-9 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

Metropolitan Opera mezzo-soprano Meredith Parsons McComb gives a Vermont farewell concert, remembering her career in story and song. Free-will offering appreciated.

L I V EM U SIC The Grift in New Haven. Friday, July 3, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Main Street Syndicate in Middlebury. Friday, July 3, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

FARMERS’ MARKETS Brandon Farmers’ Market. Fridays, mid-May through mid-October, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Brandon Central Park. Fresh produce, breads, jams, honey, maple products and crafts.

Info: 802-273-2655.

Middlebury Farmers’ Market. Summer hours: Saturdays, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m., outdoors at the Marble Works, May-October. Local produce, meats, fresh breads, granola, prepared foods, maple syrup and more. Info: www.middleburyfarmersmarket.org or on Facebook.

Vergennes Farmers’ Market. Thursdays, 3-6:30 p.m., City Park. Rain or shine.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS ACT (Addison Central Teens). Drop-in hours during the school years: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 3-6 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 3-7 p.m. 94 Main St. (Middlebury Town Office building), below rec. gym. Teen drop-in space for kids. Hang out with friends, play pool, watch movies, and eat great food. Baking: every Thursday from 3:30-5 p.m. Info: 388-3910 or www.addisonteens.com.

Addison County Amateur Radio Association. Sunday, 8 p.m.

On the air on club repeater 147.36/147.96 MHz, 100 Hz access tone. Nonmembers and visitors welcome.

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Wednesday, 5 p.m. State Police Barracks. Public invited.

Addison County Republican Party. Third Friday, 7 p.m., Ilsley Library, Middlebury. 897-2744.

American Legion Auxiliary Post 27. Fourth Monday, 7 p.m.

American Legion, Wilson Road, Middlebury.

Addison County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Fourth Tuesday, noon-1:30 p.m. Addison County Courthouse in Middlebury. 388-9180.

Brandon Lions Club. First and third Tuesday, 7 p.m., Brandon Senior Center.

Brandon Senior Citizen Center. 1591 Forest Dale Road.

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Bristol Historical Society. Third Thursday, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St., Bristol.

Champlain Valley Fiddlers’ Club. Middlebury VFW, 530 Exchange Street. Third Sunday (except Easter), noon to 5 p.m. Donation $3. Refreshments available. Looking for fiddlers young and old. Open to public. Info: 342-0079.

The Hub Teen Center and Skatepark. 110 Airport Drive, Bristol. Open mike night, first Thursday of the month, 5:30-7:30 p.m., free for all ages; reserve a spot at thehub@ gmavt.net. Info: 453-3678 or www.bristolskatepark.com.

LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer).

Youth support group meets Monday nights, 4-6 p.m., Turningpoint Center, Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: 388-4249.

Middlebury Garden Club. Second Tuesday. Location varies.

Pat Morrow, 802-462-3741.

NEAT (Northeast Addison Television) Channel 16. Fourth Monday, 5-7 p.m. NEAT studio in Bristol. Bruce Duncan, bduncan@madriver.com.

Neshobe Sportsman Club. Second Monday, 6 p.m. potluck; 7 p.m. meeting. 97 Frog Hollow Road in Brandon.

Otter Creek Poets. Open poetry workshop held Thursdays, 1-3 p.m. Ilsley Library in Middlebury. Poets of all ages are invited to share their poetry for feedback, encouragement and optional weekly assignments. Bring a poem or two to share (plus 20 copies). Led by David Weinstock. Free.

Orwell Historical Society. Fourth Tuesday, 7:30 p.m. Orwell Free Library.

PACT (People of Addison County Together). Third Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Vermont state office building on Exchange St. in Middlebury, Health Department conference room. 989-8141.

Salisbury Historical Society. First Saturday, 9:30-10:45 a.m.

Salisbury Congregational Church.

Samaritan’s Cupboard. Assembly of God Christian Center, 1759 Route 7, Vergennes. Third Thursday through October.

Vergennes Lions Club. First and third Wednesday, 6:45 p.m., American Legion. Club address: PO Box 94, Vergennes, VT 05491. Info: President Tim Cowan, 877-2382.

Vergennes Rotary Club. Tuesday mornings, 7:15-8:30 a.m., Champlain Valley Christian School, 2 Church St. Breakfast served at 7:15 a.m.

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LC Jazz in New Haven. Friday, July 10, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Second Half in Middlebury. Friday, July 10, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

The DuPont Brothers in Middlebury. Saturday, July 11, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main.

Rick Redington & Becca Kodis in Middlebury. Friday, July 17, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main.

The Paul Asbell Jazz Group in Middlebury. Saturday, July 18, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main.

Red Hot Juba in New Haven. Friday, July 24, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Abby Jenne & Bessette Quartet in New Haven. Friday, July 31, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

Shaded Gray in Middlebury. Thursday, July 30, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main.

The Eskimo Brothers. Friday, July 31, 6 p. m., Two Brothers Tavern.

David Bain and Mimi Bain: Roots, Family Style in Middlebury. Friday, July 31, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main.

The Horse Traders in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 7, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

BandAnna in New Haven. Friday, Aug. 21, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard.

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Exhibit to explore African-American lives Photos tell stories dated back 125 years MIDDLEBURY — This summer the Middlebury College Museum of Art has on display its latest installment in a growing tradition of museum exhibitions generated via the scholarship of Middlebury College students in their course work.

“Many Thousand Gone: Portraits of the African-American Experience, 1840–1965,” is an exhibition co-curated by Associate Professor of History William Hart and the students in his Spring 2015 “African-American History” course. It consists of nearly 100 photographs generously loaned to the museum by George R. Rinhart, a private collector, of Palm Springs, Calif.

The exhibit takes its title from a sorrow song dating from the Civil War sung by black Union soldiers and freedmen and freedwomen.

The lyrics to its opening stanza are: No more auction block for me, No more, no more; No more auction block for me; Many thousand gone.

Each stanza begins with the repeated rejection of a brutal practice inflicted upon the enslaved: “No more peck of corn for me”; “No more pint o’ salt for me”; “No more hundred lash for me.” Each stanza then concludes with the refrain “Many thousand gone.”

Initially, “many thousand gone” referred to the thousands of enslaved individuals who escaped to the northern states during the midnineteenth century. Over time, however, the expression embraced myriad thousands, including the hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans and African-Americans who never experienced the joys of freedom, and the thousands who fought on the front lines of the Civil Rights struggle. The photographic portraits of African Americans in this exhibition, assembled together for the first time, pay

“PARADER’S PETITION” BY UNDERWOOD AND UNDERWOOD homage to all those many thou- a New York photographer who photographed mixed-race emancisands gone.

Historians of photography re- pated children from New Orleans; mind us that photographs carry Civil War photographers James meaning. They literally frame a F. Gibson, Timothy O’Sullivan moment in the past, and thus, con- and Alexander Gardner; Herbert nect the past to the present through Gehr, whose photographs depicted us, the viewer. When we look at a black life in 1940s Harlem; myriphotograph, we are invited to imag- ad anonymous photographers who ine the past. This guiding principle snapped pictures between the latehas informed the process through nineteenth century and the 1960s which the students in the course for the large photographic firm of Underwood and Unhave approached the derwood; Carl Van organization of the Vechten, the renowned exhibit. Each student The images in has selected a photo- this exhibition white fixture of what was known as the Hargraph to research and represent a lem Renaissance, who will explain the mean- small fraction photographed famous ing and significance of Rinhart’s black artists, writers, of that photograph to and entertainers of the the African-American little-known 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s; past thus deepening the vast and rich Flip Schulke, wellstudents’ knowledge photographic known for documentof African-American collection. ing the Civil Rights history and affordMovement of the ing them a significant 1960s; and Charlotte Brooks and voice in the curatorial process.

The images in this exhibi- Margaret Bourke-White, the only tion represent a small fraction of women staff photographers for Rinhart’s little-known vast and Look and Life magazines respecrich photographic collection. tively.

The photographs in the exhibiSome of the photographers from his collection featured in this show tion cover more than 125 years include J. A. Palmer, known for of black life in the United States. his images of black southern life They begin with portraits of free during the era of Reconstruction blacks in the North and enslaved (1865–1877); Myron H. Kimball, blacks in the South in the 1840s

and 1850s. The 1850s was arguably the bleakest decade of the nineteenth century for free and enslaved African Americans. Several federal and state court decisions restricted the rights and options of free and enslaved African Americans as the nation fractured under the strain of expanding slavery to the new territories. In 1861, irreconcilable differences and the election of President Lincoln split the nation in two.

Several photographs in this exhibition capture black participation in the Civil War, both as soldiers and as contraband, as well as document the impact of the war on black southern civilians, many of whom were forced to relocate. Post-war Reconstruction, the Republican Party’s strategy to bring the Confederate states back into the Union without slavery and with the official recognition of former slaves as now free and “PLAYING ON THE STREET” BY HENRI LEIGHTON independent citizens, gave rise to a variety of photographs that in- African-American popular cul- dedication of the many thousands terpret variously ordinary black ture enjoyed an awakening. At who battled on the front lines of life. Portraits of black sharecrop- this time, several artists came the Civil Rights movement. per families, of black children liv- to prominence, including Bessie With such a broad range of iming in grinding poverty, of African Smith, Paul Robeson, Josephine ages, many of which have rarely Americans posed in minstrel-like Baker, James Weldon Johnson or never been shown publicly, this settings both empathize with and and Ethel Waters, to name a few. exhibit offers an uncommon opridicule free blacks. With the end Carl Van Vechten, whom Zora portunity to glimpse the spirit of of Reconstruction and Neal Hurston called a the exhaustive Rinhart collection the rise of Jim Crow, The white “Negrotarian,” and to contemplate the many faces intimidation of African photographs in photographed the veri- and facets of more than a century Americans accompatable “Who’s Who” of of the African-American experinied ridicule. Here we the exhibition black arts and enter- ence. “Many Thousand Gone” will see photographs cap- cover more tainment of this era. remain on view in the museum’s turing vigilante justice than 125 Concomitantly, Afri- Christian A. Johnson Memorial (lynchings) as well years of black can Americans strove Gallery through Aug. 9. as depicting the harsh life in the to go about their daily The Middlebury College Mutreatment of black lives quietly, shopping seum of Art, located in the MahUnited States. at local department aney Center for the Arts on Route prisoners.

African Americans stores, worshipping 30 on the southern edge of camhave been largely a patriotic folk. at the church of their choice, and pus, is free and open to the public They have answered the call of listening to black politicians and Tuesday through Friday from 10 military service in every American preachers. Meanwhile, from time a.m. to 5 p.m., and Saturday and war dating back to the American to time, a growing number of Af- Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. It is Revolution. Several photographs rican Americans protested acts closed Mondays. reveal African-American parades of injustice and discrimination For further information and to commemorating Armistice Day through individual acts of defi- confirm dates and times of sched(World War I), training for World ance and through peaceful group uled events, please call (802) 443– War II, and black officers relaxing action. A number of photographs 5007 or TTY (802) 443–3155, or at segregated officers’ clubs. on display capture movingly the visit the museum’s website at muIn between the two world wars, courage, the commitment, and the seum.middlebury.edu.

Professor to talk about ancient crops FERRISBURGH — The Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh welcomes Frederick Wiseman, emeritus professor of anthropology and ethnobotany and member of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation, on Sunday, July 19, at 3 p.m.

Wiseman will discuss the “Seeds of Renewal” project, recounting his

efforts to track down and reintroduce ancient crops that are now locally extinct, such as Abenaki rose corn, skunk beans and Algonquin squash.

He will share the project’s challenges and successes, including a developing “new indigenous” cuisine.

The program is $2, or free with museum admission.

milestones BIRTHS • Tori Fleury, June 17, a daughter, Storm Raye Fleury.

• Paige Dolback & Jacob Spring, Crown Point, N.Y., June 21, a son, Riley John Michael Spring.

• Amber (Frazier) & Jared Bourdeau, Salisbury, June 22, a son, Cameron Chase Bourdeau.

• Lianne & Kyle Lussier, Middlebury, June 22, a son, Charles Patrick Lussier.

• Wendy Palin & Brian Bowdish, Salisbury, June 24, a son, Michael Patrick Bowdish.

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A CONSTRUCTION CREW works Monday on Middlebury’s new recreation center being built off Creek Road.

Saturday, July 11, 2015 9:00 AM-3:00 PM

Antiques • Garden Greenery • Books • White Elephants • Vintage Clothing • Jewelry • Linens • Baked Goods & Homemade Pies • Silent Auction Children’s Booth & Midway Refreshments Treasures Old & New Enjoy Live Music and Fun Times!

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PAGE 12A — Addison Independent, Thursday, July 2, 2015

Stoney Hill Works, a business park that includes (Continued from Page 1A) Elder and his colleagues are anx- such enterprises as Mountain Health ious to hear what consultants and Center, Red Clover Family Denengineers will have to say about tistry, Bristol Internal Medicine, the overcoming some challenges in de- Marble Works Pharmacy and Bristol veloping the property. For example, Bakery and Café Wholesale.

Bottom line: There are now more around half of the land is made up of a steep slope leading down to the than 100 full-time-equivalent jobs Lathrop and Johnson lumber mills, provided through the Bristol Works Elder noted. There is also a protec- campus and Harper continues to tion area encompassing residences field phone calls from business ownon nearby Lover’s Lane that are ers who want to move in. But Bristol served by wells. That wellhead pro- Works is full. Harper believes the tection area figures to make it tricky space demand from budding businesses — particularly to create a septic systhose making their tem for the businesses “This has been mark in the processthat would locate on the Stoney Hill prop- one of the biggest ing of agricultural items on Bristol’s foods — is substanerty.

Local officials be- wish list for more tial enough to warlieve the solution might than a quarter of rant a second Bristol business park on the require extending mu- a century.”

Stoney Hill property. nicipal water service to Bristol Planning “The success of the homes on Lover’s Commission Bristol Works, LLC Lane, which could be a member John Elder has demonstrated the costly proposition that demand for additional would require some buy-in by developers of the new light manufacturing and professional office space,” Harper wrote in a letbusiness park.

“If you run the water line west ter of support for Bristol’s CDBG downhill to Lover’s Lane, then well- grant application. “Now there is mohead protection will not be an issue,” mentum and a clear vision from the Elder said. “But a water line is going town, backed by a voter-approved town plan that has identified this site to be expensive.”

Expensive, but potentially well for mixed-use development. There worth the investment, according to is clear support for a campus-style promoters of economic development business park that is walking distance from the core downtown area, in Bristol.

Bristol’s industrial park off Mun- across the street from the high school sill Avenue was once home to manu- and recreation park and surrounded facturing industries like Autumn by a vibrant, well-established resiHarp, a successful natural cosmet- dential neighborhood.”

And Harper is backing up his ics manufacturer. But Autumn Harp outgrew its space and relocated — words with currency.

He is managing member of Stoney along with its 200 jobs — to ChitHill Properties LLC, a real estate detenden County in 2009.

Things were looking bleak at the velopment enterprise that formed to industrial park until local entrepre- purchase the two Nelson lots that are neur (and Autumn Harp founder) adjacent to the town’s Stoney Hill Kevin Harper and some fellow inves- land. These are the lots that would tors led a renaissance of the six-acre give access to the new business park property that culminated in Bristol as well as provide a location for a

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Stoney Hill Properties also pledged a $6,250 local match to help Bristol land the $25,000 CDBG grant, written with a big assist from Adam Lougee, executive director of the Addison County Regional Planning Commission.

Those funds will specifically be used to define the infrastructure requirements and constraints, including water, wastewater, storm water, vehicle access and utilities for creation of a comprehensive plan for the new business park. Whatever entity is awarded the contract will also be expected to show how the land could be developed in accordance with Act 250 and how an ‘umbrella permit” could be obtained so that interested businesses could move forward quickly with their new facilities on the property.

“We’re thrilled,” Harper said of the grant award during a phone interview on Monday.

Elder believes development of the Stoney Hill property would help Bristol become more than just a place where businesses incubate before moving to more spacious quarters in Middlebury’s industrial park or to locations in Chittenden or Rutland counties. The Stoney Hill property is located in a commercial-residential zone that Elder said would allow for several buildings of substantial size, perhaps 25,000 square feet or larger. Business operations would take place within the buildings, thereby removing — or at least lessening — potential noise impacts for area homeowners, he said. Bristol is well known for being situated on gravel, thereby increasing the prospects for on-site septic service at Stoney Hill.

Bristol Town Administrator Therese Kirby added her voice to those pleased about the grant award.

“The town of Bristol has been working to create a business park on Stoney Hill for many years, so the selectboard is excited Bristol’s CDBG application was awarded,” she said.

“Stoney Hill will be a great location for a business park and a wonderful opportunity to bring jobs to Bristol. (The selectboard) would like to thank all of the people involved with preparing the grant application, as it was not an easy task.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Junior history winner

EMILY ROONEY OF Vergennes, a student at Vergennes Union Middle School, won a National History Day Award on June 18 at the 41st annual National History Day Contest at the University of Maryland in College Park, Md. Rooney’s winning Junior Exhibit project was titled “The Legacy of the Unstoppable Bradwell,” which reflected the contest’s 2015 theme, “Leadership and Legacy in History.”

Bristol firehouse (Continued from Page 1A) elsewhere. In the 2015 fiscal year, the town budgeted $7,400 to rent space at sites on North Street and Fitch Avenue.

Bristol Fire Chief Brett LaRose said coordinating responses from the two different locations costs the department two to three minutes in response time. LaRose said because a fire doubles in size every 60 seconds, that’s two to three minutes too long.

“In the emergency services, those minutes are absolutely critical,” he said.

Firefighters who work fulltime as plumbers and electricians have donated their time to keeping the North Street building in the best possible working order. And while no sewage has surfaced near the 128-year-old building, no one is certain where the sewage is going.

The building is not handicap-accessible, and it lacks smoke and carbon monoxide detectors and equipment for cleaning the equipment firefighters wear on duty. Without specialized washing machines, the department has budgeted $6,000 to send gear to New York City to be cleaned of carcinogens and other harmful chemicals.

“There’s nothing safe about the property on North Street that taxpayers pay for,” LaRose said at an information session last week. “Safety is the number one thing we look at in everything we do. We have to take care of our people and to do that we need a safe building to operate out of.”

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On the ballot on Tuesday to replace 32 North St. is a “drive-through fire station” that maximizes efficiency. It will house the department’s six pieces of equipment and include space for administrative offices, locker rooms and training, and a meeting room and kitchen.

The equipment areas will also include air scrubbers for exhaust from the trucks, and will offer washing machines for turnout gear.

While the firehouse provides for the needs of the department, Elwell said the building also was designed to keep construction and operating costs in check.

“There’s not a lot of wasted space in rooms and corridors,” he said. “A lot of work has gone into making sure everything is as compact and costefficient as can be.”

Bristol Fire Chief Brett LaRose said the bond would not include furnishings for the new firehouse, including gear lockers, kitchen appliances, personnel lockers and benches.

While the department would take what they could from the existing fire station, fundraising would have to be done for any new equipment.

PRICE TAG On May 17, Brandon general contractor Naylor & Breen Builders presented a $2,840,067 estimate for construction costs of the building.

Town officials hired a consultant to perform an independent evaluation of the estimate prepared by Naylor & Breen, finding a difference of just 1.8 percent.

That initial price tag increased a week later when the cost of the land was announced. On May 26, Bristol selectboard member Brian Fox presented the committee with a preliminary plan to purchase 9.03 acres for $350,000. About 3 acres would be used for the site and the firehouse, which will be built by Stony Hill Development.

An additional 2 acres has enough space for a septic system and could later be sold as a commercial lot to offset the bond for the property and the building.

In addition to the site of the build-

ing, the purchase of the lot would allow access to 30 additional acres located behind the 9.03-acre lot, land that the town hopes to develop into a campus-style business park.

“By buying this land from Stony Hill Development and building the firehouse, it’s a bonus because it gives us access to our piece of land that we can do something with,” Fox said.

Should the bond be approved, taxpayers would see an increase in property taxes. The increases detailed are the largest, early in the bond; the payments, and the increases, will shrink over the bond’s 30-year life.

• A home valued at $100,000 would see an increase of $79.30 per year.

• A home valued at $150,000 would see an increase of $118.95 per year.

• A home valued at $200,000 would see an increase of $158.60 per year.

• A home valued at $250,000 would see an increase of $188.25 per year.

Speaking at an informational meeting last week, LaRose said a new firehouse’s impact on property taxes would be less than contracting fire protection services with other towns.

Committee members say they’ve worked hard to get the word out about the need for a new facility and the upcoming bond vote through informational meetings, the town’s website and social media.

“We’ve done our best to engage the entire Bristol community on this,” Bill Elwell said. “This is a building the town can be proud of, that welcomes people to the town and that’s safe and productive for our fire department.”

In May, the firehouse committee also recommended selling the existing firehouse without restrictions on its future use. That recommendation will go before the voters as an exit poll on Tuesday. If the bond is approved, the question of what to do with 32 North St. will become an article on Bristol’s Town Meeting Day ballot.

Polls open at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, July 7 at Holley Hall.

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‘Inside Out’ is just right for teenagers Inside Out; Running time: 1:34; parents (Diane Lane and Kyle MacLachlan) and the fun of being a Rating: PG “Inside Out” presents an inter- good ice hockey player among close friends. When they move esting dilemma. In a rare to San Francisco for her twist on the PG rating, it is father’s new job, life for a movie that will probably the 11-year-old disintefly right over the heads grates. It’s at this point that of young children — not the movie focuses on Ribecause there is anything ley’s inner life, on everythey should not see or thing she cannot say out hear, but because it is a loud to anyone at all about very sophisticated concept her new unhappiness. that may well fly right over In an inspired move, the their heads. This is one that writers create animated teenagers and adults will characters to represent remember. the cauldron of emotions Peter Docter and Ron- By Joan Ellis swirling in Riley’s mind. aldo Del Carmen have Joy (Amy Poehler) is the co-directed and co-written a marvelously innovative look at positive force trying to keep Riley the inner self of an 11-year-old girl. on track; Sadness (Phyllis Smith) Pixar’s animators deliver the con- is the unavoidable reaction to the cept beautifully with the characters loss of her old life. Fear (Bill Hadspeaking in the voices of skilled live er) is the emotion that hangs over each new experience; Anger (Lewis actors, all recognizable names.

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After the fateful move West, Sadness’s role increases while Fear, Anger and Disgust pop up with disturbing regularity. Joy tries desperately to return to headquarters in order to overcome the negativity brought on by the misery of Riley’s new life and the loss of her old one. As the age of 12 approaches for Riley, Joy gets closer to headquarters.

Unless I’m way off base, I’d keep a DVD on hand for the young ones later on and recommend it now for adults and teenagers. Despite all its animated confusion, this is a subtle metaphor for our own inner adult complexity. You may well be surprised at how often you find yourself sorting through your own feelings long after you’ve seen “Inside Out.” That alone is worth the trip.

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Festival on the Green Schedule Sunday, July 5 7:00 PM Caroline Rose (rockabilly, vintage country, and blues) Monday, July 6 Noon Rik Palieri (folk) 7:00 PM Ten Strings And A Goat Skin (folk-fusion bilingual trio) 8:30 PM The 24th Street Wailers (blues) Tuesday, July 7 Noon Stephen Gratto (circus performer) 7:00 PM The Miles Donahue Quintet (jazz) 8:30 PM Darlingside (folk/indie-rock) Wednesday, July 8 Noon No Strings Marionette Company (puppeteers) 7:00 PM Caitlin Canty (folk, blues, country) 8:30 PM The Mike & Ruthy Band (folk) Thursday, July 9, Noon Robert and Gigi (sing-a-long) 7:00 PM The Bluegrass Gospel Project (bluegrass) 8:30 PM Heather Maloney (folk/indie-rock)

LE VENT DU Nord performs at last year’s Festival “off”-the-Green in Middlebury. This year’s festival, still off the green in Middlebury’s recreation park, opens Sunday night with a performance by Caroline Rose.

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Saturday July 11 7:00 PM Vermont Jazz Ensemble Big Band Lawn Dance (jazz)

Festival (Continued from Page 1A) variety of artists and musical genres, including folk, country, blues and jazz. Some highlights include a Monday night performance from Ten Strings and a Goatskin, a young trio of Canadian folk-fusion musicians. In addition, festival-

Friday July 10th Noon Tom Verner (magician) 7:00 PM Vance Gilbert (folk) 8:30 PM Ray Vega and Tales from the Boogie Down (jazz)

goers should watch for Darlingside, a Massachusetts-based group who combine ’60s folk with a “modern indie-rock sensibility.”

Now voted a Top Ten Summer event by the Vermont Chamber of Commerce, the Festival on-theGreen first got its start in the 1970s

when Middlebury College professor of dance Dana Holby organized a performance for her company, Coincidance.

“She discovered that it cost as much to have a tent for a day as it did for a week, so she built some other performances around the per-

formance of her dance company,” explained Boera. “That was the humble beginnings of the Festival on-the-Green.”

This year, the festival again will be held at Middlebury’s recreational park instead of the town green because of the planned construc-

tion project downtown. Boera says the change in location, which will occur for the second time this year, brings both new challenges and new opportunities. “(The rec park) is a great space that is very well used by the community. There’s plenty of space to spread out for those who come to see the festival, and there is plenty of parking,” she said. “The downside is that we lose the visibility of people just driving by and saying, ‘Oh, I wonder what’s going on under that big white tent on the green.’ We lose those people who sort of happen upon us.”

The festival will close on Saturday night with a street dance performance by the Vermont Jazz Ensemble. The 17-piece band, which is composed of musicians from all over the state, has been the festival’s closing act for over 25 years.

“Don’t hesitate to come and join us,” said Boera. “It’s fun to have a big crowd, and it is a free event.”

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) Days is running Aug. 4-8. Are you entering anything in the Home and Garden competitions? Amateurs can win prizes ranging from $5 to $100 in categories including handicrafts, art, folk art and photography, flowers, produce and foods.

This year, organizers are in particular seeking more entries for the Folk Art category. Check out all the categories in the Exhibitors’ Handbook: www.addisoncountyfielddays.com. Professional artists who would like to display their work but not compete can email acffhg@ gmail.com to make arrangements.

You may have noticed a recurring event missing from the community calendar this summer: Open House nights at the Middlebury College observatory. The Physics Department is performing upgrades to the observatory, and while renovations under way, the popular Open House nights will not be held. The observatory is expected to be operational in the fall.

Learn more at http://sites.middlebury. edu/observatory/.

Two local high school soccer standouts, both rising seniors, found themselves on the front page of the New York Times sports section yesterday. Middlebury Union defender Kelsey Smith and Mount Abraham goalie Zoe Cassels-Brown were among a strong local contingent of United States Women’s National Team supporters who went to Montreal’s Olympic Stadium to watch their team defeat Germany, 2-0, in a World Cup semifinal. A picture of them cheering enthusiastically appeared in the Times under a larger picture of U.S. team member Carli Lloyd celebrating her successful penalty kick. Both could also be seen on the Fox TV broadcast during the game. Also reportedly at the semifinal were former Tiger soccer players Marvie Avery, Sophie Ryan, Zaidie Barnard-Mayers and Katie Holmes. No word on whether any of them plan to attend Sunday’s World Cup final in Vancouver.

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Celebrations (Continued from Page 1A) Jam Man will kick off the entertainment. At 6 p.m. that evening, the ballpark opens with great food, exciting games, live music and, if you’re feeling lucky, raffle tickets. Be sure to catch the fireworks display after dusk.

Independence Day celebrations kick off early the next morning in Bristol with the 7:30 a.m. 5K road race, which begins at Mount Abraham Union High School. For those wishing to participate, a form is available online to sign up.

At 9 a.m., you’ll just have to see the Great Bristol Outhouse race.

The starting line is in front of Saint Ambrose Catholic Church on West Street. The participants have constructed a boxy “outhouse” that will be pulled, pushed and piloted in races down the street in four suspenseful heats. For those who aren’t participating, or for the faint of heart, observers can place bets on the outhouse they believe will win, with a top prize of $75.

At 10:30 a.m., one of the longest running parades in the state of Vermont, with color guards, firetrucks,

bands and lots of floats will begin.

This year’s theme is “Mardi Gras,” so don’t miss the exciting Cajun celebration led by Grand Marshals Ken and Vivian Weston beginning on Spring Street, crossing over on Mountain Street to Main Street, and down Main and West streets to end at the Rec. Field.

At noon, head to the town green to catch the upbeat music of Mango Jam, where there will be great music and great fun. And for the kids: pony rides.

WHAT’S DOING IN BRANDON Brandon will commence its Independence Day celebrations on Friday evening with a street dance with a rock, blues and country performance from the band Distant Thunder at 6 p.m. in Central Park. Then at 7 p.m. a DJ will take over. Great food will complement the festivities.

The next day, before the parade at 1 p.m., Central Park will have grilled food and karaoke in the gazebo starting at 10 a.m. Behind the Brandon Inn, residents can find a bounce house, a petting zoo, tons of games, a bike that creates smoothies when

ridden and stunt comedian Steve Gratto juggling, walking around on stilts and riding a unicycle — hopefully not all at once. At noon, also behind the Brandon Inn, begins the long awaited Pie Eating Contest.

At Fellowship Hall from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m., and then from 2 until 3 p.m. will begin Brandon’s biggest fundraiser: the silent auction. Bid big!

Then, at 1 p.m. Brandon’s signature event, the parade will begin at the intersection of Park, High, and Marble streets, which will feature floats, bands, fire trucks and antique tractors and cars.

After the parade, don’t forget to head to Central Park to catch the rock, reggae, ska, funk and blues music of The Keating Five. At Green Park the annual Ball Race will commence. For those who don’t know, the Ball Race is a fundraiser in which contestants purchase balls on July 3 and, the next day, throw them into the Neshobe River. The person whose ball is the first to plummet over the falls and be caught by the waiting firemen will win and receive

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Last, finish off Independence Day in Park Village at 5 p.m. for food and float winner announcements. A DJ will provide music and fireworks will commence at dusk.

VIVID SHOW IN VERGENNES On July 3, at 8:45 p.m., the Vergennes American Legion and Addison County Eagles will sponsor a fireworks show to kick off Independence Day at the Vergennes athletic fields. Parking will be available at Vergennes Union High School and Vergennes Union Elementary School. Don’t miss the Vergennes City Band playing some old-time favorites to introduce the show.

ICE CREAM SOCIAL Independence Day celebrations will also be a two-day affair in Salisbury. On July 3 at 7:30 p.m. the Salisbury Congregational Church will host a musical performance by the Point CounterPoint Faculty. The next day, at 1:30 p.m. and lasting until 4:30 p.m. the Salisbury Congregational Church will also host its 41st annual ice cream social. Come for ice cream sundaes, cones, cakes

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FORT TICONDEROGA For the history buffs out there, join the historic interpreters at Fort Ticonderoga for a three-day celebration of our nation’s military history from July 3 to July 5, where you’ll learn about the weapons and daily duties of the average Continental soldier during the American Revolution. Here you’ll learn about the great odds the North American Army had to overcome in restoring its sick, tired and hungry soldiers into a formidable fighting force against the British.

MOUNT INDEPENDENCE In Orwell, Mount Independence is celebrating our history with readings from German, American and British period sources that document the American withdrawal from Mount Independence. Largely considered an American loss, the excellence of the Continental Army’s rearguard is responsible for ensuring that British Brigadier Gen. Simon Frasier could not pursue America’s retreating army. Several re-enactors will be present to talk with visitors.

(Continued from Page 1A) night. We would just drive around in ham called me at home on Father’s the cruisers.”

Day and said get the team together It turned out all along they were and plan to go over to the Dannemo- not far from Matt and Sweat. Manra area,” Manley said. “We assem- ley remembered hearing the calls on bled at the Williston barracks, and that Friday that shots had been heard, we headed up, got on the ferry on shots that turned out to be Matt atthe Champlain Islands, and headed tempting to hijack a camper. Not long across the lake.” after that, Matt was confronted carryThey brought with them a full ing a shotgun and was shot and killed complement of rolling inventory, when he refused to put his hands up.

Manley said, including 14 cruisers Manley said his unit was about and “two big SWAT vehicles, one an 10 minutes from that fatal shooting, armored truck and the other a per- and his SWAT team was the third on sonnel carrier.” the scene, which was The team was glad about 20 miles west of to go, he said. the Clinton prison.

“We were trying to “They put those help out a neighbor, two (national) SWAT and it was the right teams in with a hething to do,” Manley licopter, and we resaid. “They’ve helped sponded and were on us out a lot in the perimeter while those past, especially with two teams were intheir air support, with vestigating that shotstheir helicopter divifired call,” Manley sion. We’ve utilized said. “And once Matt that a lot in the past, went down, then obviand other resources of ously we continued to theirs. It was nice to look for Sweat. Pretty give back.” much all the SWAT As well as Manley, teams that were deMANLEY the VSP SWAT team ployed up there came also includes Sgt. Matthew Daley, to the scene eventually.” who currently operates out of the The next day, Saturday the 28th, New Haven barracks, and Sgt. Eu- the VSP SWAT team returned to gene Duplissis — and his canine Vermont. It was the day before Argus — who worked out of New Sweat was shot twice by a lone New Haven until January, but who now is York trooper a few miles from the a trainer at the Vermont Police Acad- Canadian border; Sweat survived emy in Pittsford. and is in custody, answering quesThey stayed in Malone, and their tions about how much help from assignments revolved around that prison workers he and Matt received town, the town of Owl’s Head, and in their escape. the Lake Titus area.

Manley said it is hard to evaluate Manley said he split his team into whether Matt and Sweat were smart, two groups of eight, and they took lucky or both to elude capture for turns doing 12-hour shifts. three weeks, but he said the terrain “We were out doing missions made it hard work for the task force.

24/7. Sometimes we were clear“It’s definitely a challenge, with ing camps. One day we cleared the how thick the woods are. There are Malone fairgrounds. One day we swampy areas, there are mountainous cleared an apartment building in areas. It’s really rural up in that part of downtown Malone,” he said. “One the state,” he said. day we pushed a riverbank along Certainly, Manley was happy with (the Salmon River) for about five his team’s performance, especially miles. We did some roving patrols at given that he said the length and scope

of the deployment had no precedent.

“They did well. They didn’t get a whole lot of sleep, but we tried to get them back to the hotel when we could,” Manley said. “They’re motivated people. That’s why they’re on the team. That’s why I picked them to be on the team. We have a rigorous tryout to challenge what they’re made of, and they’ll get the job done no matter what it takes.”

Manley was also pleased with the team’s reception by Vermont’s neighbors.

“The people that live in upstate New York, up there in the north country, were real gracious to us, very receptive. They would be coming up to us when were gassing up the cruiser saying thanks,” Manley said. “There are just really nice people up there, helping us out.”

The team as a whole was happy to

be part of the effort, he said.

“It’s nice to help out a neighboring police agency, and we had a lot of support from our chain of command,” Manley said. “Gov. Shumlin called me one day on my cell phone and thanked us, the team, for being out there. So everyone is very thankful, and we were glad we were able

to help.”

And, he said, all’s well that ends well.

“Everyone worked as a team,” Manley said. “And at the end of the day, everyone came home safe, and no citizens got hurt.”

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

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(Continued from Page 1A) peated requests to deal with a problem they say has hurt their property values, health, peace of mind and right to enjoy their homes.

Charles Piasecki, who lives just south of Stearns’ Schoolhouse Road dairy farm, has lobbied the selectboard to act at recent meetings and described the repetitive cannon shots as more than just a nuisance.

“The first week it was annoying.

But as time went on it was really disturbing. It was like you couldn’t get it out of your mind,” Piasecki said. “Seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day. And after a while you start counting the seconds between the shots.”

But chairman Steve Gutowski said selectboard members believe options like town-wide noise laws or cannon bans are not practical, and the issue is best settled between the parties.

“We feel this is a civil issue, something that has to be dealt with between those people and Wayne Stearns,” Gutowski said. “How much do you expect the town to take care of, beyond them taking a civil action against a neighbor that is causing them grief?”

CANNON CUED UP Before this past summer, Stearns said he never used a cannon to protect what had been typically just an acre-plus of sweet corn on what he calls Crazy Acres Farm.

In 2014, he said he decided to take advantage of the fact his girlfriend runs a fruit and vegetable stand on Route 7. He expanded the crop to 3.5 acres, just a fraction of his 650acre spread, seeing a chance to make (See Cannon, Page 16A)

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PAGE 16A — Addison Independent, Thursday, July 2, 2015

Cannon

Three days old

KATHERINE DICK OF Salisbury captured these photos of a loon caring for a pair of three-day-old chicks on Lake Dunmore on June 27. During the first week after hatching a chick may spend more than half its time on its parents’ backs.

(Continued from Page 15A) some extra cash.

He wanted to earmark the proceeds, an amount he estimated at $8,000, for his 7-year-old daughter’s college fund. Stearns said when he later negotiated with his neighbors about buying his crop in exchange for turning off the cannon, he had that fund in mind.

“I didn’t even want the checks made out to me,” Stearns said.

Stearns, 43, said he has planted a smaller crop of sweet corn this summer. He said he stopped using the cannon last year at some point after 40 residents this past August petitioned the selectboard for a noise ordinance.

Eventually, neither his crop nor his daughter’s college fund grew.

“I turned it off last year,” Stearns said. “I didn’t get any appreciation for it. I lost the whole crop.”

Relations with his neighbors also soured, by varying degrees. One of them confronted Stearns when he was eating dinner with his daughter at the Red Mill Restaurant on the nearby Basin Harbor Club — an incident that upset not only him but also some neighbors.

Stearns said he used to welcome visitors at his farm, letting children pet his animals. Now? “Crazy Acres Farm is closed for business,” he said.

‘PAIN AND SUFFERING’ Meanwhile, last summer Stearns’ neighbors had dreamed of enjoying their stay on Lake Champlain, many on nearby Mile Point, where some homes have remained in families for generations.

Everyone who spoke to the Independent said they like Stearns and respect his work ethic — he takes care of his spread and 400 cows with one hired hand.

“I get along just fine with Wayne, by the way,” said Lee Weisman.

But they said the cannon made their lives miserable.

Neighbor Andrea Kerin — who said at one point she counted up to 42 blasts in 10 minutes — spoke at an Aug. 5, 2014, selectboard meeting and submitted a statement on behalf of a group of residents, one that said they “respect and appreciate farming” and “want to continue to work together as neighbors.”

It also stated, “The constant use of the cannon is affecting our use and enjoyment of our homes. Some people have left their summer home early, some are not coming at all knowing the constant noise will be too stressful … We are not able to have a conversation, to be able to have a quiet breakfast or dinner without the constant background of cannon blasts.”

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Another letter-writer said she had Acres Farm said they believe the seto increase blood-pressure medica- lectboard also promised to act. Mintion and go on an anti-anxiety drug: utes from an August 2014 meeting “I noticed my anxiety was increasing — at which Stearns’ neighbors preand I was teary, unable to concen- sented their petition — read: “For the long term, the board trate, unable to carry on a conversaagreed with residents who said the tion.”

Kerin last summer also made a town needs to have rules on noise financial case: “Mr. Stearns is not that can deal effectively with this the only one at economic risk here, kind of situation (the existing bylaws a lot of homeowners rely on rental on noise specifically exempt agriculincome to pay their property taxes.” tural operations). Steve Gutowski said he would get the According to May ball rolling, probably 2015 selectboard min- “If you took a beginning with a look utes, Patricia Kellogg, at how other towns whose summer home is town such as handle similar situaclosest to Crazy Acres Ferrisburgh tions.”

Farm, said property that supports But Gutowski said values could be hurt if agriculture, his research uncovered the cannon use persistnothing that would be ed: “She said it was sad I don’t feel enforceable in Ferthat a beautiful part of that (noise risburgh, especially the lakeshore had been ordinances) is against farms. destroyed, and didn’t “I looked at what know who would buy going to get any there was for noise property in the area in traction.” the future if they knew — Steve Gutowski, ordinances in other particularly about the cannon.”

Ferrisburgh towns, In a May letter to selectboard noise ordinances in the selectboard, Kelchairman towns like Ferrisburgh,” Gutowski logg also said she had said. “And I have not a greater concern: Illnesses for two of her family members found any that have anything to do that may make it their last summer on with agriculture. Noise ordinances seem to go with larger towns and citLake Champlain.

“We care about the great personal ies. It’s more about loud music and loss and the pain and suffering that loud neighbors and barking dogs and have resulted from his use of the cars.”

Gutowski said it would be difficult cannon which will continue if he is not stopped,” Kellogg wrote. “Our to find somebody to enforce a noise only chance of the situation chang- law, nor does he believe Ferrisburgh ing is a noise ordinance.” would support it.

LOOKING TO THE TOWN “If you took a town such as FerOne town board acted. The board risburgh that supports agriculture,” of listers lowered the appraisals of Gutowski said, “I don’t feel that’s 85 properties between the Basin Har- going to get any traction.” bor Club and Summer Point by a toNor does he think a simple cannon tal of about $1.6 million. According ban is appropriate. to town officials, the change would “That’s where I think you’re going add about $2.50 to the average prop- to have a problem, where you start erty tax bill of Ferrisburgh’s 3,761 telling the farmers you aren’t going taxpayers. to be able to use this tool,” Gutowski Those adjustments will be erased said. later this summer if Stearns does not Piasecki believes there is a middle use the cannon. course. He suggested in a June letBoard of listers chairman Carl ter to the selectboard making proCole said listers were under no ob- pane cannons a conditional use in ligation to make adjustments, but the town’s zoning laws, a rule that “common sense” told them that can- would allow both farmers and neighnon use affects property values. bors to make their cases before the “We felt it would be appropriate to towns’ board of zoning adjustment. do something,” he said.

“Agriculture does not have a free Residents who live near Crazy hand to do anything they want. They

cannot cause public harm,” Piasecki said. “What we’re saying is this cannon is beyond the point of what is reasonable, for agriculture or anyone. There’s got to be a point where something is unreasonable, or they could be blasting off dynamite there all the time.”

DIRECT TALKS? Of course, maybe Stearns won’t fire his cannon again. Or maybe discussions between Stearns and his neighbors will work out this year, although they did not in 2014.

Stearns and neighbors talked about crop insurance, which would pay him for his losses if he couldn’t harvest the corn.

But Stearns said he could not in good conscience accept the insurance.

“I’d feel like I’m committing fraud. I know the crop is going to fail,” he said.

Talks about neighbors buying the crop didn’t pan out either. Stearns said he based his $8,000 figure on an 80 percent failure rate overall, per stalk and per ear, and assumed one ear per stalk, an approach he called conservative.

According to Stearns, “I offered it to them. They laughed at me and told me they would give me $500.”

He said he has pictures of starlings perched on scarecrows and owl sculptures, and the holographic owls worked for two hours.

Still, some neighbors remain hopeful they can again meet with Wayne and explore options that work for other growers, a smaller sacrificial crop, humming strips of pie plates, or a rotating combination of solutions.

“The ideal situation is you sit down with Wayne,” Weisman said.

Stearns said he would probably agree to talk.

“I guess it would depend on who,” he said. “I’m fairly stubborn. I’m a good old Vermont boy. But I’m not so headstrong I’m not willing to listen. I want what’s best for everybody.”

At this point, the whole situation also has Stearns thinking of selling the farm he grew up on.

“There was a day when there wasn’t enough money in the world to get me to walk away,” he said. “But that’s not the case now.”

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

JULY 5 – 11, 2015

FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN at the Middebury Recreation Park

TUESDAY JULY 7 • 8:30 P.M.

Darlingside With four distinct voices clustered around a single microphone, Darlingside effortlessly draws audiences into their lush musical world. The band’s sound, characterized by classical strings, tight vocal arrangements, bluegrass and rock instrumentation and smart lyricism, is the product of complete collaboration among the four close friends. The group has no frontman; instead, lead vocals are traded from moment to moment, and each song features a new combination of instruments and textures, pulling heavily from folk, retro-pop, barbershop, and chamber music.

“Darlingside are doing something new in pop music [...] ground the Beach Boys, Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, Talking Heads, Prince, Phish and Radiohead didn’t cover.”— The Boston Herald “Darlingside, a Massachusetts quartet with a rich line in acoustic textures and chamber-rock dynamics [...] I played it again the other day – then again and again. Its melancholy pull – suggesting the Byrds’ choral flow [...] – is now in daily rotation.” — David Fricke, Rolling Stone Darlingside is Don Mitchell on guitar and banjo, Auyon Mukharji on violin and mandolin, Harris Paseltiner on cello and guitar and David Senft on bass.

THURSDAY JULY 9 • 7 P.M.

THE BLUEGRASS GOSPEL PROJECT Neshobe welcomes

Thomas E. Beauregard, PA-C to our practice

William Barrett, MD

Carrie Wulfman, MD

Maria Cabri, ARPN

Unparalleled vocal harmonies. Eclectic, stirring repertoire and roots planted in the bluegrass tradition that yield complex, inspiring music from this group of incredible musicians. This is the Bluegrass Gospel Project, a group that’s been doing something for over 15 years: exploring and expanding the tradition of bluegrass gospel, from U2 to the Stanley Brothers, Sam Cooke to Steve Earle. The group’s natural on-stage abilities sweep the audience off their feet with smooth, blissful vocal work, seminal musicianship, and a camaraderie that few bands exhibit. The Bluegrass Gospel Project is Colby Crehan on lead and harmony vocals,Taylor Armerding, lead and harmony vocals and mandolin, Steve Light, banjo, dobro, guitar, and vocals, Kirk Lord, upright bass, Paul Miller, lead and harmony vocals and guitar and Gene White, Jr., fiddle and percussion.

“A choir of top-notch vocalists…Just try to find a better group of singers.” — Robert Resnik, Seven Days “Whether your interests are sacred or secular, their music ripples with human emotion and imponderable mystery, beautifully evoking the plaintive pilgrim that wanders, yearning and hopeful, through the heart of American musical tradition.” — The Boston Globe

Heather Maloney will follow at 8:30

For a list of all Festival shows, visit www.festivalonthegreen.org