MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 25 No. 18
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Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, June 24, 2013
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32 Pages
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Cornwall  pushes  back  on  pipeline 100-Âplus  pan  gas  project
dent  Mary  Martin,  who,  with  her  husband  Randy,  owns  one  of  the  properties  through  which  a  natu- By  JOHN  FLOWERS ral  gas  transmission  line  would  travel  on  its  way  CORNWALL  —  More  than  100  Cornwall  resi- from  Middlebury  to  the  International  Paper  (IP)  dents  packed  their  school  cafeteria  on  Wednesday,  mill  in  Ticonderoga,  N.Y. June  19,  to  send  a  collective  message  to  Vermont  ³, GRQÂśW ZDQW WKLV IRU DQ\ RI XV RQ DQ\ OHYHO ´ Gas  Systems:  We  don’t  want  your  proposed  pipe- she  added. line  and  we  are  prepared  to  go  to  the  courts  and/or  The  Martins  on  Wednesday  presented  the  Corn- engage  in  civil  disobedience  to  stop  it. wall  selectboard  with  a  petition  bearing  the  names  ³, ZLOO ÂżJKW \RX WRRWK DQG QDLO ´ YRZHG UHVL- of  three  of  the  estimated  eight  Cornwall  property Â
owners  whose  lands  would  be  directly  affected  by  Vermont  Gas’s  preferred  pipeline  route.  That  petition  states  the  landowners’  opposition  to  the  company’s  $70  million  plan,  calling  for  24  miles  of  buried  transmission  conduit  through  portions  of  Middlebury,  Cornwall  and  Shoreham.  The  line  would  then  be  directed  at  least  30  feet  under  the  /DNH &KDPSODLQ ÀRRU LQWR WKH ,3 PLOO In  phase  one  of  its  Addison  Natural  Gas  Project,  (See  Cornwall,  Page  18)
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Second  helping RUBY  LITTLE,  2,  of  Orwell  reaches  for  some  strawberry  shortcake  after  sampling  some  strawberry  pie  at  the  Shoreham  Strawberry  Fes- tival  last  Thursday  evening.  The  all-Âstrawberry  event  was  held  in  the  basement  of  the  Congregational  Church.
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Monkton  school  regroups  after  half  its  staff  departs By  XIAN  CHIANG-ÂWAREN MONKTON  â&#x20AC;&#x201D;  Though  10  staff  members  will  not  be  returning  to  the  Monkton  Central  School  next  fall,  Superintendent  David  Adams  said  the  Addison  Northeast  Super- visory  Union  is  well  on  its  way  WR PHHWLQJ WKH VFKRROÂśV VWDIÂżQJ needs  for  the  upcoming  academic  year. Two  positions,  a  kindergarten Â
classroom  position  and  a  technol- RJ\ SRVLWLRQ ZLOO QRW EH ÂżOOHG Several  other  vacancies  have  been  ¿OOHG $GDPV VDLG LQ D :HGQHVGD\ interview  with  the  Independent.  The  school  district  hoped  to  hire  a  person  for  one  classroom  position  by  the  end  of  last  week,  leaving  Monkton  Central  with  only  one  full-Âtime  and  one  part-Âtime  posi- (See  Monkton,  Page  19)
Local apple, meat projects receive grants from state Effort  to  compost  food  scrap  also  nets  funds By  JOHN  FLOWERS and  XIAN  CHIANG-ÂWAREN ADDISON  COUNTY  â&#x20AC;&#x201D;  Nearly  $100,000  in  grants  to  two  local  ap- ple  operations  announced  last  week,  plus  additional  grants  supporting  meat-Âcutting  and  composting  ef- forts,  aim  to  help  businesses  culti- vating  the  local  foods  market. Â
Ultimately,  the  awards  through  the  highly  competitive  Working  Lands  Enterprise  Fund  should  make  locally  grown  and  processed  foods  more  readily  available  to  Vermont  consumers. 6WDWH RIÂżFLDOV ODVW ZHHN DQ- nounced  16  Enterprise  Fund-Ârelated  (See  Grants,  Page  31)