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MONDAY Â Â EDITION

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

Vol. 27 No. 22

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EPA,  state  plan  huge  new  cleanwater  effort Comprehensive  plan  to  effect  all  of  Vt. By  MICHELLE  MONROE St.  Albans  Messenger  ST.  ALBANS  â€”  Vermont  will  in-­ vest  millions  of  state  and  local  funds  in  Lake  Champlain  cleanup  efforts  over  the  next  few  years  as  part  of  Vermont’s  Clean  Water  Act  passed  by  the  Legislature  this  session  and  signed  into  law  by  Gov.  Peter  Shum-­

lin  in  June.  To  restore  the  quality  of  Lake  Champlain’s  waters,  Vermont  will  have  to  reduce  phosphorous  loading  in  the  lake  by  33.8  percent. On  Friday,  the  EPA  released  new  standards,  known  as  Total  Maxi-­ mum  Daily  Loads  (TMDL),  for  the  (See  Clean  up,  Page  7)

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Seasoned educator takes helm at Starksboro’s Robinson School By  GAEN  MURPHREE STARKSBORO  â€”  â€œI  love  being  a  principal,â€?  says  new  Robinson  Elementary  School  Principal  Edorah  Frazer.  â€œIt’s  kaleidoscopic.  It  changes  every  single  day.â€? Frazer  took  the  helm  at  the  Starksboro  primary  school  July  1,  and  has  been  preparing  for  the  start  of  classes  next  week.  She Â

took  a  breather  last  week  to  in-­ troduce  herself  to  the  communi-­ ty  and  discuss  her  background.  â€œThere’s  always  a  combina-­ tion  of  the  long-­term  things  you  want  to  work  on  (as  a  principal)  and  build  in  the  school  and  the  daily  things  that  come  up,  the  problem  solving,â€?  she  said.  Frazer  is  clearly  a  people  person. (See  Frazer,  Page  18)

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Amazing  mazer NOAH  ENGVALL,  11,  of  Bristol  uses  chalk  to  create  part  of  a  maze  on  a  Bristol  sidewalk  last  Thursday  afternoon  during  the  Bristol  Rec-­ reation  Department  summer  camp  class  â€œAmazing  Mazes  and  Labyrinths.â€?

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Book tells of adventures gold mining in Klondike By  JOSEPH  BROWN BRIDPORT  â€”  It  all  started  at  the  Bixby  Me-­ morial  Library  in  Vergennes,  where  Monkton  res-­ ident  and  author  Ivor  Hughes  was  giving  a  Pow-­ erPoint-­driven  lecture  about  the  Klondike  Gold  Rush  in  northwestern  Canada,  which  reached  its  apex  at  the  end  of  the  19th  century.  At  the  lecture,  Hughes  was  approached  by  Bridport  resident  Gary  Payne,  a  grandson  of Â

George  G.  Shaw,  who  in  the  mid-­1890s  ventured  to  the  West  Coast  from  Long  Lake,  N.Y.,  where  he  eventually  heard  of  the  gold  rush. Payne  was  excited  to  talk  about  the  gold  rush. “A  guy  came  up  to  me  afterward  with  this  frickin’  big  pile  of  paper,  and  that  was  Gary,â€?  said  Hughes.  â€œHe  said  that  his  grandfather  had  gone  on  the  gold  rush,  and  I  thought,  â€˜Whoa,  no  way!’â€?  That  evening  at  the  Bixby,  Payne  gave  Hughes Â

his  grandfather’s  autobiography,  which  today  is  titled  â€œTo  the  Klondike  and  Back  (1894-­1901),â€?  adorned  with  the  quote  â€œI  am  in  here  to  get  all  I  can.â€?  The  story  of  Shaw’s  travels  in  the  Canadian  Yu-­ kon  had  been  handwritten  by  his  family  and  later  typed  in  1980  by  George  G.  Shaw’s  son,  George  B.  Shaw,  and  George  B.’s  daughter,  Erin  Shaw  (See  Klondike,  Page  13)


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