MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 27 No. 32
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Little  Free  Library  is OK’d  for  Bristol  green Town  balances  books  for  kids,  open  space By  GAEN  MURPHREE BRISTOL  —  Bristol  will  soon  join  Hanoi,  Vietnam;Íž  Chandigarh,  India;Íž  Auckland,  New  Zealand;Íž  and  over  30,000  other  spots  around  the  globe  in  hosting  a  Little  Free  Library. The  Bristol  Planning  Commission Â
on  Oct.  20  unanimously  approved  the  Lawrence  Memorial  Library/ Addison  County  Readers  proposal  to  place  a  Little  Free  Library  at  the  playground  on  the  town  green. The  “library�  will  be  an  attractive  (See  Bristol,  Page  16)
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County  trash  district  keeps fees  stable  for  next  year By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  Addison  County  Solid  Waste  Manage- PHQW 'LVWULFW $&6:0' RIÂż- cials  have  drafted  a  2016  spend- ing  plan  of  $2,818,754  that  would  require  no  increase  in  the  current  $123-Âper-Âton  tipping  fee  for  trash,  and  would  keep  level  the  rates  it Â
charges  for  receiving  household  hazardous  waste  and  recyclables  handled  at  its  transfer  station  off  Route  7  South  in  Middlebury. A  major  reason  for  the  district’s  ¿QDQFLDO VWDELOLW\ LV DQ XSWLFN LQ trash  the  transfer  station  has  been  receiving  —  a  trend  that  AC- (See  Trash,  Page  7)
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Another  solar  array  proposed  for  Ferrisburgh By  ANDY  KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH  —  The  Ferrisburgh  select- board  and  more  than  a  dozen  town  residents  at  a  meeting  last  week  heard  from  a  company  that  is  proposing  the  latest  solar  power  project  in  the  town,  a  500-Âkilowatt  array  near  the  intersection  of  Basin  Harbor  and  Button  Bay  roads. Green  Lantern  Group  has  an  agreement  with  the  Vorsteveld  Farm  on  a  20-Âyear  lease  for  about Â
4  acres,  said  the  company’s  director  of  project  de- velopment,  Sam  Carlson.  That  land,  at  the  rear  of  D FRUQÂżHOG ZRXOG KRXVH DQ DUUD\ WKDW ZRXOG DW LWV closest  point  be  about  650  feet  from  the  road  that  leads  to  the  Basin  Harbor  Club  resort. The  array  would  be  about  a  half-Âmile  from  a  1.55KW  array  owned  by  the  Basin  Harbor  Club.  That  project  has  upset  neighbors,  who  have  ap- SHDOHG LWV &HUWLÂżFDWH RI 3XEOLF *RRG WR WKH 9HU-Â
mont  Supreme  Court  and  won  a  recent  Supreme  &RXUW GHFLVLRQ FRQÂżUPLQJ WKHLU SDUW\ VWDWXV EH- fore  the  PSB.  The  Vorsteveld  Farm  has  also  agreed  with  Green  Mountain  Power  to  lease  40  acres  in  Pan- ton  for  a  5-Âmegawatt  array.  That  power  would  go  directly  into  the  grid  and  would  not  involve  the  sale  of  renewable  energy  credits,  as  does  Green  (See  Ferrisburgh,  Page  46)