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Rep.  Sharpe  pushes  change   in  education  through  H.361 By  ZACH  DESPART ADDISON  COUNTY  —  Rep.  David  Sharpe  doesn’t  give  off  the  aura  of  a  sales- man.  His  elbow-Âpatched  blazers  may  echo  Willy  Loman,  but  the  soft-Âspoken,  veteran  legislator  isn’t  in  the  business  of  sweet-Âtalk- ing  his  way  to  a  few  bucks.
But  however  unnatural  it  may  come  to  him,  selling  was  exactly  what  Sharpe  set  out  to  do  at  town  meetings  in  his  district  this  week.  It’s  not  goods  the  Bristol  Democrat  is  hawking,  but  an  education  bill  that  would  drastically  change  the  organization  of  (See  H.361,  Page  22)
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ANeSU, ANwSU school boards regroup after budgets go down By  ZACH  DESPART  and  ANDY  KIRKALDY ADDISON  COUNTY  —  Five  school  boards  in  northern  Addison  County  will  meet  in  the  coming  weeks  to  draft  new  budget  proposals  after  voters  said  “no�  to  initial  proposed  spending  plans  on  Town  Meeting  Day.  The  Vergennes  Union  High  School  board  will  meet  on  Monday  at  6  p.m.  in  the  school  library  to  consider  its  next  move.  Its  $10.47  million  budget  proposal  (See  Budgets,  Page  23)
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Local author’s pie cookbook selling like hotcakes By  JOHN  FLOWERS CORNWALL  —  Anne  Collins  didn’t  think  she  was  wired  to  be  a  baker  —  or  a  cookbook  author,  for  that  matter.  She  had  spent  her  professional  ca- reer  as  a  civil  engineer,  working  for  Dow  Chemi- cal  and  eventually  in  the  aerospace  industry. But  her  life  circumstances,  her  love  of  history,  a  keen  ear  and  a  fertile  sweet  tooth  led  her  to  write  and  complete  what  she  insists  will  be  her  only  book:  “Vintage  Pies.â€?  It’s  a  book  that  has  been  selling  like  hotcakes,  thanks  in  part  to  some  re- cent  exposure  on  the  QVC  home  shopping  net- work,  which  sold  6,000  copies  of  “Vintage  Piesâ€? Â
in  just  8  minutes. Pearl’s  own  grandmother  —  Nancy  Stone  —  had  “So  you  see,  it  does  take  a  rocket  scientist  to  passed  down  to  her.  In  fact  it  is  Nancy  Stone’s  make  a  pie,�  she  joked  of  her  serendipitous  suc- original  pie  crust  recipe  that  forms  the  founda- cess  with  sweets  in  spite  of  an  tion  of  all  50  pies  featured  in  engineering  background. Collins’  book. Collins’  interest  in  pies  be- But  not  all  of  the  featured  gan  some  50  years  ago.  She  pies  were  handed  down  from  recalled  how,  as  a  young  child,  Collins’  family.  Many  recipes  pies  were  a  frequent  adorn- have  been  gleaned  from  elderly  ment  of  her  family’s  dinner  folks  that  Collins  has  met  dur- table.  Collins’  grandmother  ing  her  travels  since  she  began  Pearl  Thomas  was  a  frequent  collecting  recipes  around  40  architect  of  those  pies,  which  (See  Pie  recipes,  Page  35)