MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 25 No. 23
Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, July 29, 2013
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By  XIAN  CHIANG-ÂWAREN BRISTOL  —  Anne  Myrick’s  sprawling  property  off  of  Route  17  west  of  Bristol  village  is  covered  ZLWK LQWULFDWH JDUGHQV ZLGH ÂżHOGV and  a  pond. In  recent  years,  her  son  Tony  Myrick  has  added  to  the  view.  Myrick,  39,  has  been  farming  on  a  few  acres  near  his  childhood  home  and  selling  what  he  produces  at  the  Bristol  Farmers’  Market  for  four  years.  Yore  Fare  Farm,  as  he  titled  WKH HQWHUSULVH LV WXUQLQJ D SURÂżW WKLV \HDU IRU WKH ÂżUVW WLPH The  old-Âfashioned  name  came  out  of  a  brainstorming  session  with  wife,  Leah  Jamieson.  The  duo  wanted  a  name  that  “brought  to  mind  the  food  from  the  times  when  everyone  had  a  garden,  when  nobody  used  chemi- cals  because  they  weren’t  there.â€?  What  began  as  a  gardening  hobby  KDV HYROYHG LQWR D VPDOO SURÂżWDEOH farm  with  pigs,  ducks,  chickens  and  (See  Farmers,  Page  21)
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State softens emergency housing rules
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Bristol native farms the family land
Flute, guitar join forces
Couple braving extreme challenge
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BICYCLISTS  RIDE  OVER  the  Lake  Champlain  Bridge  from  Vermont  to  New  York  last  Thursday  after- noon.
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By  JOHN  FLOWERS ADDISON  COUNTY  —  Local  human  services  advocates  last  week  KDLOHG D GHFLVLRQ E\ VWDWH RI¿FLDOV to  substantially  temper  a  series  of  temporary  rules  that  would  have  barred  a  large  segment  of  the  state’s  homeless  population  from  accessing  emergency  stays  in  motel  rooms. The  Vermont  Department  of  Chil- dren  &  Families  (DCF)  had  drafted  some  emergency  rules  —  which  were  to  have  taken  effect  July  1  and  lasted  for  120  days  until  more  per- manent  rules  were  established  —  in  (See  Homeless,  Page  35)
Mosquito  expert  –  is  worst  yet  to  come? By  JOHN  FLOWERS ADDISON  COUNTY  —  An  un- usually  wet,  hot  and  humid  summer  has  been  miserable  for  humans  but  a  veritable  utopia  for  mosquitoes,  which  have  been  multiplying  in  vast  numbers  in  many  areas  of  Ad-Â
dison  County. “This  is  going  to  be  one  of  the  worst  (mosquito)  years  we’ve  had  in  a  while,�  state  Entomologist  Alan  Graham  said  on  Thursday. “They  have  been  very  abundant,  because  of  the  rain.�
Steady,  soaking  rains  have  crated  an  ideal  habitat  for  many  of  the  45  different  species  of  mosquitos  that  call  Vermont  home,  Graham  said,  particularly  those  that  originate  in  ZDWHUORJJHG Ă€RRGSODLQV “We  are  seeing  some  species  that Â
come  out  only  when  the  water  is  re- ally  high,�  he  said.  So  thousands  of  acres  of  wetlands  and  agricultural  ¿HOGV KDYH EHFRPH EUHHGLQJ VSRWV for  the  pesky  insects. Graham  has  been  collecting  thou- (See  Mosquitoes,  Page  16)