MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 27 No. 33
Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, November 2, 2015
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Middlebury launches new voluntary program
Hang up & drive
By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  Middlebury  police  and  some  local  human  servic- es  organizations  are  teaming  up  “Rather on  a  new  program  than just through  which  drug  addicts  will  enforce be  invited  to  vol- the laws untarily  turn  in  for drugs their  drugs  with- — which out  fear  of  facing  you still criminal  charg- es,  providing  have to they  agree  to  be  do — you steered  toward  re- need to covery  programs  give people and  services. places to It  is  an  offer- go if they ing  that  is  be- ing  patterned  need help.� — Police after  the  Police  Chief Assisted  Addic- Tom Hanley tion  and  Recov- ery  Initiative  (PAARI)  established  earlier  this  year  in  Gloucester,  Mass.  It  is  now  (See  Amnesty,  Page  19)
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ANwSU  takes a  new  look DW XQLÂżFDWLRQ JENNIFER  ALLRED,  MUSIC  director  for  the  Mount  Abraham  Union  High  School  fall  musical,  sits  at  the  piano  in  front  of  members  of  the  cast  as  they  rehearse  a  scene  from  “Seussical  the  Musicalâ€?  last  week  in  the  school  auditorium. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
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Amnesty offered to recovering drug addicts
See how the brain works
Neil Simon takes on Anton Chekhov
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Play brings people together Mount Abe musical builds kids and communities By  GAEN  MURPHREE BRISTOL  —  It’s  7  p.m.  on  a  Tuesday  night  in  the  Mount  Abra- ham  Union  High  School  auditorium,  and  rehearsal  is  about  to  begin.  Ste- ven  Spielberg  and  George  Lucas  with  their  stratospheric  budgets  and  their  Hollywood  casts  of  thousands Â
would  eat  their  hearts  out! “Seussical,â€?  this  fall’s  musical,  brings  together  close  to  100  students  and  more  than  100  adults.  And  judg- ing  from  the  wild  progression  of  col- RUIXO FRVWXPHV WKDW Ă€LW E\ IRU ÂżWWLQJV DQG WKH ÂżWWLQJO\ 6HXVVDOO\ VNHZHG set-Âin-Âprogress,  this  year’s  produc-Â
tion  also  promises  its  full  measure  of  dazzling  spectacle. The  scene  is  no  surprise  to  those  familiar  with  the  spirit  that  somehow  magically  rises  out  of  the  annual  ex- travaganza,  year  after  year,  that  has  seen  generations  of  young  kids  grow  (See  Seussical,  Page  14)
By  ANDY  KIRKALDY VERGENNES  —  The  third  effort  to  unify  governance  of  Vergennes- area  schools  formally  kicked  off  this  past  Wednesday,  when  about  20  resi- dents  met  at  Vergennes  Union  High  School  with  the  Addison  Northwest  Supervisory  Union  Study  Commit- WHH WKDW PXVW FUHDWH D XQL¿FDWLRQ plan  by  the  end  of  the  year. Act  46,  made  law  this  past  spring  by  the  Vermont  Legislature,  offers  ¿QDQFLDO EHQH¿WV WR VFKRRO GLVWULFWV that  unify  before  this  coming  July. And  it  threatens  those  that  don’t  FRPH XS ZLWK D XQL¿FDWLRQ SODQ E\ 2017.  After  that,  the  Vermont  Board  of  Education  can  impose  a  plan  of  its  own  design  on  districts  that  have  failed  to  act. Stephen  Dale,  the  former  Vermont  6HH 8QL¿FDWLRQ 3DJH 7)