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2017

ARTS+LEISURE It’s time to look back and reflect on our community’s incredible

ARTS FOOD MUSIC GARDENS BOOKS MOVIES EVENTS THEATER DANCE

Art, music, fun

Year in sports

Beards 4 kids

In 2017 we dedicated 52 issues — 820 pages—to arts in our county.

See a recap in Arts + Leisure.

We saw many state titles and an NCAA crown in an entertaining 2017. See our recap on Page 1B.

Area police grew beards this deer season and raised $2,200 to help children with cancer. See Page 4B.

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Middlebury patrolman caps a ‘Sweet’ career Veteran officer built lasting relationships

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Police Officer Donnie Sweet’s beard is still fairly brown. And while his bullet-proof vest provides some padding, it doesn’t add quite enough girth for him to be mistaken for Santa Claus.

Still, the loquacious lawman epitomized the true spirit of giving among the younger officers on Christmas Day when

he worked a double shift. Sweet’s kids are all grown, so the 31-year veteran of the department decided to help cover that coveted day on the calendar so greener folks on the force could share the holiday with their kids.

“They want to be home with the kids,” Sweet said during a recent interview. “(My family) has Christmas on another day.”

(See Officer Sweet, Page 7A)

VERGENNES UNION HIGH School students Megan Vorsteveld, left, Cyrus Devine, Kaitlyn Brace and Emma Husk enjoy each other’s company during lunch at the school recently. The school’s food is better and more students are buying it after a recent food service merger between Addison Northeast and Addison Northwest school districts.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

ANWSD food earning higher marks

Changes at schools lauded

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Earlier during her Vergennes Union High School years, senior Emma Husk was not exactly thrilled with the school food — either its taste or its quality.

“It wasn’t just that I didn’t like it, but it made me feel like gross and slow and groggy,” Husk said.

Her friend and classmate Kaitlyn Brace, one

of a group of seniors and juniors that usually eats lunch in a room off the school library, also gave a thumbs-down review of what used to be served in the VUHS cafeteria.

“I used to bring my own lunch so I didn’t have to eat the school food,” said Brace.

But they and their friends offered a different take on this year’s cafeteria offerings — and the service they receive from the workers there.

“It’s a big step up from last year. The food’s better. The lunch ladies are super,” said junior

Bristol lumber company adopts high-tech vision

LONG-TIME MIDDLEBURY Police Officer Don Sweet is retiring this month after more than three decades of service.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By the way Please drive safe and sober this holiday season, and rest assured, Addison County law enforcement will be watching to make sure you are. The Addison County Sheriff’s Department, Middlebury police, Vermont State Police and other local law enforcement agencies will be conducting sobriety patrols and checkpoints throughout the (See By the way, Page 6A)

Index Obituaries................................. 6A Classifieds.......................... 5B-8B Service Directory............... 6B-7B Entertainment.........Arts + Leisure Community Calendar............... 8A Arts Calendar.........Arts + Leisure Sports................................. 1B-3B

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By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — State-wide renewable-energy mandates that kicked in this year are helping an important local industry — production milling of trees — upgrade its energy infrastructure so that it can modernize equipment and increase capacity.

“Technology is playing a more and more important part in our industry,” said A. Johnson Lumber Co. General Manager Ken Johnson.

“If you’re going to be competing in

Chronology 2017 - A year in review

the production (milling) industry it’s kind of a technological arms race.”

State-of-the-art machinery now computerizes where and how to make the most effective cuts to turn logs into lumber. Part of this technology “arms race” includes machines like an “optimizing edger,” which cuts the edges off boards by first scanning them with lasers to analyze their geometric profile.

A recent report from the North East State Foresters Association estimates (See Lumber technology, Page 9A)

Cyrus Devine. “It’s a different culture going on.

They like what they’re doing.”

And they enjoy more than just the lunches, which have a list price of $3 but are offered at no cost to students eligible for free or reduced price meals — $1.85 breakfasts are also popular.

“Breakfast has picked up,” Devine said. “They used to have nasty breakfast sandwiches, and now they have smoothies every day.”

The mention of those smoothies, and the variety (See School food, Page 9A)

How a town found a dog

Dogs go missing all time. If Someone glimpsed him running they’re very, very lucky, they past the high school — and then get lost in a community like he disappeared. The traumatized Middlebury, Vt. animal was lost On Monday, Dec. and alone, hungry 18, my three-yearand terrified, in the old golden retriever wilderness for the Willie and I were in a first time in his life.

This week’s downtown crosswalk You need not when we were hit community forum is be a dog owner to by a car. I received by Doug Anderson of understand the agony only minor bruises. East Middlebury. that Debby and I felt.

Willie was hit as If we had to face well and took off in a panic across this alone I don’t know how we the green. Within seconds he had could have coped. But we had a passed Town Hall Theater and was secret weapon: a caring, selfless (See Willie, Page 9A) seen racing down Water Street.

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Year marked by news of schools, bridges, pipeline and protests Editor’s note: If change is good, we had plenty of it in Addison County over the past 12 months.

Faces came and went, news stories flamed up and died out. 2017 was quite a year on many fronts. Relive some of those memories in this round up of the year that’s ending and then have an awesome 2018.

January On Jan. 1, 2017, the Vermont minimum wage increased from $9.60 to $10 an hour.

In a spot of good news to usher in the new year, the Otter Creek Audubon Society announced that its 2016 Christmas Bird Count

tallied the highest numbers ever.

Local birders identified 24,073 birds of 72 species. Fifteen bald eagles were counted — a record number.

Later in the month, state Fish and Wildlife officials, announced nearrecord numbers of turkeys culled in 2016 plus very big numbers for bear and deer.

Middlebury-based Connor Homes announced early in January that it was laying off its entire 65-person workforce. By the end of the month, owners/investors of the reproduction “kit” homes company made those layoffs permanent, and put the company’s 115,000-square-foot headquarters on Route 7 up for sale.

Founder and previous owner Mike Connor began negotiating in January (See January, Page 10A)

Jan. 9

JOHN AND MARGO Roleau, seen here with their son Lincoln, purchased the Village Green Market in New Haven and renovated it for a late January 2017 reopening.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, December 28, 2017

Bus stop back on Merchants Row

MIDDLEBURY — To improve public safety, Addison County Transit Resources, or ACTR, will make use of the dedicated bus pull-off near St. Stephen’s Church after the New Year.

ACTR had temporarily delayed this action until after the busy holiday shopping season.

The temporary delay necessitated heightened caution by car drivers and bus drivers while passenger activity took place in the travelled lane. An average 40 riders per day have relied on the post office stops since they were added to bus schedules on Dec. 1, ACTR officials said. This access makes the downtown reachable by transit riders, ensuring the

town and ACTR meet Americans with Disabilities Act and Title VI requirements for accessibility (similar to handicapped-accessible parking spots).

ACTR officials note that commuters and shoppers who choose to ride the bus are helping to alleviate downtown congestion, not adding to it with personal vehicles, which also reduces the pressure on parking spots.

The accommodation by ACTR to use the travel lane during December was made with the intention for extreme diligence and a limited period to reduce risk.

“The temporary holiday configuration has led to some riders darting across both lanes of traffic, rather than waiting on the

St. Stephen’s side behind parked cars where sight lines are poor,” noted Jim Moulton, ACTR executive director.

Bus pull-offs at busy locations are safer for all: pedestrians, car drivers and bus riders. Pulling out of traffic at this spot helps car drivers because it is less disruptive to traffic flow, which improves safety and reduces driver inconvenience and frustration.

ACTR’s mission is to enhance the economic, social and environmental health of the region by providing public transportation services that are safe, reliable, accessible and affordable for everyone. For service information visit actr-vt.org or call 388ACTR(2287).

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Panton to repair town hall steps

Voters to rule on more complete fix

By ANDY KIRKALDY PANTON — When Panton residents arrive at town hall on Town Meeting Day, they will find safe new stairs leading up to the main gathering space — and a decision to make on other renovations to Panton Town Hall.

The decision to fix the deteriorating exterior stairs was made on Dec. 19, when Panton’s selectboard and Town Hall Committee met with representatives of Brandon’s McKernon Group and accepted that firm’s bid of roughly $29,000 for the work, with the provision it be done by March.

“It is supposed to be done by Town Meeting Day. That was one of our biggest concerns,” said Selectboard Chairman Howard Hall. “Our biggest priority is safety.”

Because of the uncertainty of working on a building that dates back to the mid-1800s, the board set aside another $4,000 for a project that Hall said would at least slightly change the stairs’ appearance, but not, in the board’s opinion, for the worse.

“It’s going to have a different look to it, but it will mimic the look of the building,” Hall said.

At the same Dec. 19 gathering Hall said the board reached a consensus to ask residents whether they wanted to support a construction loan for second, larger project. That work’s list price might land in the range of $200,000, but the town has some funds already set aside for it.

That further work could replace town hall’s now unusable handicap access ramp, install handicap-accessible bathrooms on each level, and finally put the building’s cupola back on its roofline after seven years. It was taken off in 2011 to keep costs down on a roofing project.

Hall said selectboard members did not want to make the call on their own on the full project.

“We definitely want the voters to decide,” he said.

The money already set aside toward the work comes from two sources. In 2016 the town received a $25,000 Walter Cerf Community Fund grant from the Vermont Community Foundation toward restoring the cupo-

THE STAIRWAYS TO Panton Town Hall’s main meeting space are deteriorating and town officials believe they need to be repaired to make them safe. The selectboard plans to get them fixed before Town Meeting Day. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

la and putting it back on its former perch, a project that Howard said is now estimated at around $90,000.

Panton also has about $55,900 to address town hall renovations from annual Town Meeting Day contributions to a capital fund for that purpose. The selectboard will dip into that money to pay for the stairs, and the remainder can be put toward a larger project if voters back it.

The board had initially hoped that fund would be also be enough to pay to replace the handicap ramp, but after the estimate for that work came in at more than $60,000 board members decided to focus on the stairs.

Hall said replacing the ramp and providing access remains a board

priority.

“We are not up to code by ADA standards. This is something I am concerned about,” he said.

Panton officials are looking at ways to allow those who would normally use the access ramp to participate at town meeting. The town clerk’s office on the lower level is accessible, and Hall said the town could provide a two-way closed circuit TV or Skype feed to that space.

Officials upstairs could monitor the feed to see if residents downstairs had questions or wanted to make comments, Hall said, and they could also vote.

“We want to make sure people are able to access the building,” he said.

Addison Independent, Thursday, December 28, 2017 — PAGE 3A

Mount Abe forum set for Jan. 6

BRISTOL — A group of citizens from the Five Town area will host a community forum to share ideas and discuss the future of the district’s middle and high school on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Bristol Elementary School in Bristol.

The goal for this forum is to get the whole Five-Town Community actively engaged and empowered in reshaping the school, to hear from people in the community about their ideas about how to make the school a community asset and to bring out the range of concerns and thoughts community members have.

“As a lifelong Five-Town resident, I know there are many valuable ideas out there that need to be heard,” says Diane Cushman, one of the local residents on this committee. “Our success as a community depends on input from as many people as possible.”

The committee organizing this event

is not affiliated with the school or the renovation committee who have been working on the bond plan to upgrade the school.

The intent and goal of the forum is for community members to bring their voice to a different process in considering reshaping the school, to think creatively about how to support the school so it meets the needs of all community members and for the Five Town residents to join together to discuss the realities of helping students while enhancing the well-being of all area residents.

“This is our chance to more fully involve the community in elevating the Mt. Abe learning environment to greatness,” remarks Ed McGuire, former Mt. Abe teacher of 30 years and committee member. This event will feature small group brainstorming and open conversations that include:

• Health and Wellness in the Mt Abe School Environment; • Unified School District Space Needs and Use; • Learning through Experience programs for students and the community; and, • Mt. Abe as a “Five Town Community Center.”

Ideas generated as a result of these sessions will be presented to the Mt. Abe School Board Community Engagement Committee and District Board for further consideration and study.

There will be a community pizza oven with flatbreads for all at the end of the event. Come meet your neighbors, friends and fellow district members to talk about local education and the future of our school.

For more information go to the event facebook page: facebook.com/ events/315029522331435.

Middlebury Fire Dept. honors those who serve MIDDLEBURY — Current, former, and life members of the Middlebury Fire Department and Battell Hose Company board held their joint annual awards dinner on Dec. 2, at the American Legion Post 27 in Middlebury. Chief David Shaw presided over the awards presentation.

This year, each life and current member of the department and each member of the Battell Hose Company board received a challenge coin to acknowledge membership in and service to the two organizations.

Service awards were presented to: • Firefighters Dan Cioffredi and Brian Hayes for 5 years of service.

• Capt. Donald Mason for 10 years.

• Firefighter Donald Patterson for 20 years.

• Firefighter Laurent Lussier for 30 years.

Capt. Mason also received the Capt. Richard E. Hayes Training Award for the most hours of training in the department for the prior year (2016) at 172 hours. Capt. Hayes passed away in 2001.

Firefighter and former Capt. David Broughton received the chiefs’ award for outstanding service throughout his 37 years of service.

The Middlebury Fire Department extended honorary membership to: Retired Chief Mark Bouvier of the Bristol Fire Department and Chief Tom Estey of the Starksboro Fire Department. Chief David Shaw noted their individual longtime support of and friendship with the Middlebury Fire Department as key reasons for extending this honor.

Making tracks

A CROSS COUNTRY skier and his dog enjoy fresh snow at the Rikert Nordic Center in Ripton Tuesday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Aerospace plant probing explosion

By ANDY KIRKALDY UTC had not pinned down the cause.

VERGENNES — According to a The Vermont State Police investigaUnited Technologies Corp. spokes- tor working on the case did not reperson last week the company has spond to an email sent on Monday taken steps to prevent a recurrence of before the Wednesday deadline for the Dec. 8 explosion that injured four this newspaper; that email sought the UTC employees status of the probe at its Panton Road from the VSP point plant in Vergennes, “The employees who of view. but the exact cause received treatment “At this time, the of the event remains at the hospital have investigation is still under investigation. ongoing,” DonnelAs was quick- all been released ly wrote. “We exly determined, the and are at home pect it will be comexplosion shortly recovering. We are pleted in January.” before noon that regularly monitoring Donnelly said Friday occurred in a their progress and after the incident dust collector on the UTC stopped using remain committed to outside of the buildnot only the sander ing, one that works providing them with and exhaust sysin tandem with an support during their tem, but also simiinterior sanding ma- recovery from this lar equipment. chine. A witness re- unfortunate event.”

“The sanding ported that a portion — UTC spokesperson machine, its assoof the roof of the Annie Donnelly ciated exhaust sysPanton Road plant tem, and any simwas damaged, and ilar systems have there was a fire. been removed from UTC spokesperson Annie Don- service and are being evaluated to ennelly reconfirmed the source of the sure that they are safe for use,” she event. wrote. “Our primary focus remains “The explosion at the Vergennes the safety of all our employees while facility occurred in the dust collection providing support to those impacted system used to exhaust aluminum by this incident.” dust from a sanding machine. The After the explosion four workers sanding machine is used in the pro- were hospitalized, although three duction of aircraft sensors manufac- were released later that evening. Dontured in Vergennes,” Donnelly wrote nelly said all four remain off the job. in an email.

“The employees who received Despite rampant local speculation treatment at the hospital have all been about the incident, Donnelly said released and are at home recovering,”

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The Vergennes Sensors and Integrated Systems plant on Panton Road employs 775 people. UTC makes equipment for the aerospace and defense industry.

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In 2014, UTC won a $6.7 million Department of Defense contract to develop and test improved guidance systems for U.S. munitions, which would allow greater precision and avoid damage to innocent bystanders and property.

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Firefighters were helpful, cheerful

Was it all connected to Trump, or did it just seem like it?

Following the traumatic elections of 2016, it is no surprise that 2017 was a year fraught with chaos, protests and change. Trump was at the political center of much of that chaos as he sought to carry out promises made on the campaign trail, including banning Muslims from certain countries from entering the U.S., repealing the Affordable Care Act, reforming the tax code, pulling the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Accord and passing regulations that favored big business, big banks and the fossil fuel industry.

Those strident political actions were met by an equally strident crowd of protesters, who have denounced Trump and this Republican Congress at each step of the way. It started right from the get-go.

Trump, the oldest and wealthiest person ever elected as president, and also the first to have never held public office or serve in the military prior to being elected, was inaugurated on Jan. 20, 2017 with a crowd estimated at 300,000 to 600,000; about a third of the size of President Obama’s first inauguration.

The next day the Women’s March drew three times as many protesters as had attended Trump’s inauguration with an estimated 5.25 million protesters in more than 400 marches across the country. In Washington, D.C. alone, 440,000 to 500,000 people protested Trump’s election, and specifically his crass comments about women he made on the campaign trail. The protests in D.C., which busloads of Vermonters attended, were the largest single political demonstration in the nation since the anti-Vietnam War protests in the late 1960s. The color pink, pussy power and pussy hats became a mocking symbol of rebellion. It was a stunning repudiation of a newly elected American president.

In many ways, those protests and Trump’s reaction to them were a harbinger of things to come.

First came the Trump’s team’s infamous declaration that their exaggerated estimates of the crowd size were “alternative facts,” rather than bald-faced lies. Since then Trump has launched a consistent assault on the truth via Twitter with his allegations of “fake news,” and is telling an average of 5.5 falsehoods a day, which is on track to reach almost 2,000 lies in just his first year in office.

Why all the lies? It’s part of Trump’s game plan. “Fake news” has been Trump’s weapon to undermine truth and to reinforce the message (called propaganda in any other country) he wants his supporters to believe. And Trump’s right-wing media supporters have provided the cover he needs to keep his supporters confused and in the fold.

Then there’s the investigation about the Trump campaign’s collusion with Russia meddling in the election, Russia’s influence over Trump, his potential obstruction of justice, grounds for impeachment and on and on. But enough about Trump. The pattern is set: He will push through what he can and the political pendulum will swing back the other way with an opposing force in the 2018 elections. How far the pendulum swings will be measured by how far askew Trump and the GOP take the country. ********* In Middlebury, the big news was the demolition of rail bridges on Main Street and Merchants Row and the construction of two temporary bridges.

That step was the first in a four-year project that is slated to create a 21-foot high clearance under the two bridges and build a tunnel between them.

The $52-million project is not without controversy and opponents have maintained a consistent appeal to Gov. Phil Scott’s administration and the Vermont Agency of Transportation to reduce the 21-foot clearance to its current 18-19 feet — a move that could remake the project, saving tens of millions of dollars and significantly reduce the proposed three years of disruptive construction downtown. Whether that alternative plan has wings is a battle that will be played out in the first few months of 2018.

Elsewhere in Middlebury, the new Middlebury College park was built at the intersection of College and Main Streets; and Porter Hospital officially merged with the University of Vermont Health Network in mid-February, and would later open a new Express Care facility on campus. The transition has been smoother than many anticipated and the results have brought greater stability and profitability to the hospital — a big contrast to the tumultuous year Porter Medical Center experienced in 2016.

In other business news, Vermont Gas would finish its natural gas line into Middlebury and Vergennes — after a couple years of protests and construction delays — and begin residential and commercial hook-ups.

However, with renewable energy becoming less expensive, and the carbon footprint of natural gas being compromised by the extraction process, as well as the higher-than-expected cost to lay the pipeline to Middlebury, this project may be among the last sections built in Vermont. Vermont Gas had originally planned to extend the pipeline to Rutland, but that prospect has dimmed over the past year. ********** A bombshell would hit Middlebury College in early March as college students protested a speech by controversial author Charles Murray.

Students turned their backs on Murray in Mead Chapel as he began to speak and then shouted him down with chants that prevented him from delivering his remarks. Insult turned to injury, however, when some protesters in black hoods covering their face, along with students, physically threatened Murray and an accompanying professor and college official as they left the college facility to get into a waiting car. The incident — which added fuel to the fire in the national debate over racism, hate speech and the open exchange of ideas on college campuses — put Middlebury College in the national spotlight for weeks and will serve as a historical footnote in what became a resurgence of white supremacist views spurred on by Trump and some of his extremist supporters throughout much of the year.

The culminating event was the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in mid-August. That rally attracted white supremacists representing the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, neo-Confederates and selfproclaimed white nationalists and various right-wing militias. The marchers chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans and carried semi-automatic rifles, swastikas and Trump-Pence signs (as well as Trump’s Make America Great Again hats and t-shirts) as they marched through the University of Virginia with burning torches. Counter protesters confronted them at times and fights broke out causing several injuries. Tragedy occurred when one of the right-wing protesters ran his car into a crowd of counter-protesters killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring 19 others.

Trump was not only slow to respond to the tragedy, but was widely condemned for suggesting a false equivalency between the white supremacists and counter protesters. Several moderate Republicans openly condemned Trump, including Mitt Romney, Sen. John McCain, and former President George W. Bush. In the aftermath, Trump has backed off his race-baiting rhetoric, but the black community is more galvanized than ever against him, as was demonstrated by the election of Democrat Doug Jones over Republican Roy Moore for the U.S. senate in Alabama. ********* In other statewide news, Gov. Phil Scott’s main initiative in his first year has been to spearhead cost-cutting measures in the state’s public school system. With declining student enrollments in many schools and escalating costs, it is the number one issue for state and local governments.

News is more pleasant at the community level because the focus is on making the most of what we have — and we have a lot for which to be grateful: a relatively pristine and beautiful environment, wonderful communities (see the story of how a town found a dog by Doug Anderson on the front of today’s paper), reasonably good public schools and communities that care to make them better, world-class recreation, low crime, a vibrant platform for charitable giving and the good that comes from that, a growing arts and entertainment scene, a great place to raise a family and, in general, a high quality of life.

The goal in 2018 is simple enough: To build on those blessings and do our part to change the national dynamics in ways that reinforce the values we have in abundance in Vermont.

Happy New Year to all.

Angelo Lynn

At 6:30 on the morning of Christmas Eve our fire alarms went off.

We searched the house, but could not find anything wrong. It then shut off so we went back to bed. Fifteen minutes later it went off again, this time not stopping. We decided to call the Cornwall Fire Department, telling them that it was not an emergency because there was no sign of smoke anywhere.

Four fire fighters arrived within 15 minutes, and went through the house with a fine tooth comb. They eventually put the blame on dust accumulating in one of the fire alarms and two being defective.

Everyone was cheerful, comforting, efficient and thoroughly professional, in spite of it being Christmas Eve and so early in a Sunday morning.

We both feel grateful to have such a marvelous group of volunteers in our community and thank them very much for their skill, time and trouble.

Our Christmas would now be worry free.

Bob and Juliet Gerlin Cornwall

Better business climate needed

Disappearances

A SNOWBOARDER AND two skiers slowly disappear into a cloud of manmade snow as they ride a chairlift at the Snow Bowl Tuesday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

There’s no racial justice in tax bill Walking in Middlebury today, I started wondering about how the Republican tax bill would affect my life.

How much will our health care premiums go up? Will our self-employed family even be able to afford insurance? How are we going to pay for college? I feel worried about the future, and at the same time I am aware that every one of these challenges is way more difficult if you are a Black person in America.

This is because Black Americans have been systematically excluded from the paths toward prosperity that many white families have accessed for generations. In my own family, my first year of college was funded by a small inheritance when my paternal grandmother died.

The house in San Francisco where I grew up, and where my parents still live, was purchased with help from

By Joanna my maternal grandparents.

Colwell When my father’s mother was a small child, her family traveled from Russia through Poland seeking freedom from poverty and oppressive laws. It’s hard for me to even imagine what her early childhood was like. I’m pretty sure the first three years of her life were spent moving from place to place, before finally boarding the ship that would bring her, along with her sister and parents, to Ellis Island in America. Like the 2 million other Jewish people who emigrated to America from Eastern Europe between 1880 and 1924, my grandmother faced obstacles like not being able to speak English, but by the end of her life she was an English teacher and a published poet.

Just as today’s U.S. population contains a lot of people who think we should stop allowing people to immi-

Ways of Seeing

grate here, in the early 1920s many citizens and politicians (including Vermont Republican Sen. William P. Dillingham) sought to put immigration quotas in place, strictly limiting who would be allowed to build a new life here. It appears that my grandmother and her family barely squeaked in, since they arrived in 1926, and the Immigration Act, which was primarily aimed at restricting the immigration of Italians, Slavs and Eastern European Jews, passed in 1924.

Now unlike some other American Jews, my family has never been particularly good at amassing wealth. In addition to our one lawyer and one doctor, I count two college professors, an air conditioning repair expert, and a lot of teachers, writers, artists and musicians. But most of my family members own their home, or live in a rent-stabilized apartment in New York City. No one is at risk of becoming homeless.

At the same time as the waves of immigration from Eastern Europe were occurring, another mass migration was taking place. Black Americans who lived in the Southern states, with their brutal Jim Crow laws, were fleeing to the north. As Isabel Wilkerson writes in her epic study, “The Warmth of Other Suns,” these migrants were refugees from violent political persecution. Although they arrived in the north with full United States citizenship, and speaking the common language, Black Southerners faced many of the same barriers to success that immigrants from other countries did. They too were forced into overcrowded and often unsanitary neighborhoods. They too worked (See Clippings, Page 5A)

Trump tax cuts will affect Vermont The Vermont Legislature will reconvene next week for the second session of the 2017-18 biennium.

Responding to the impacts of recent changes in tax and health care policy enacted by the Republican Congress or announced by the Trump Administration will be a major item on the Legislature’s agenda for 2018.

The highest income Vermonters, those with incomes of $300,000 or more, will see their federal taxes significantly reduced by the Republicans’ tax bill. Most middle-income Vermont households will see small federal tax cuts in 2018, but between 5 and 10 percent of this group could see their federal taxes increase.

The most adversely affected taxpayers will likely be two-earner households whose income comes from salaries (as opposed to business or self-employment earnings), and whose combined state income taxes and property taxes are more than By Eric L. Davis $10,000 annually.

How will these changes in federal tax law affect Vermont revenues in 2018? While the state income tax system has decoupled from the federal system in many ways, there are still some connections between the two.

Vermont uses federal taxable income as the basis on which state income taxes are calculated. Because of the increase in the federal standard deduction in the new tax bill, many middle-income Vermont households will see their taxable income decline. Under current law, their state income taxes would decline slightly as well.

However, those households with large deductions that are being eliminated or restricted could see their state,

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as well as federal, taxes go up for 2018.

How will the Legislature and the Scott Administration respond to these changes? Will they allow the federal changes to be passed through in full? Will they try to “hold harmless” for state income tax purposes those households whose federal taxes will go up because of the changes? If many households will see their taxable incomes decline, will the declines be large enough to threaten the state’s revenue base? Will legislators attempt to raise state income taxes on the highestincome households, arguing those households will have the capacity to contribute more to Vermont’s coffers?

The federal tax bill repeals the mandate that all individuals must have adequate health insurance or pay a tax penalty. How will this change affect enrollment in health insurance plans in Vermont — the individual market, employerprovided insurance, and Medicaid?

If large numbers of younger and healthier Vermonters drop insurance coverage, that could lead to premium increases for older and less healthy participants in insurance plans.

Another consequence could be providers’ having to absorb the costs of more uncompensated care for the uninsured, which would also lead to premium increases. One way of avoiding these impacts would be for the state to impose an individual insurance mandate.

Massachusetts took this approach prior to Congress’ enactment of Obamacare, and the state mandate did result in a reduction of the rate of increase in insurance (See Davis, Page 5A)

Gov. Scott dodged the fundamental issues with funding education in Vermont. Stating that delivery to students was the big issue is a cop out and a lie. In the Dec. 21 Independent article on the subject the real issues “a declining workforce, sluggish economic growth and nearly stagnant tax revenues” are mentioned but dodged by the governor.

In recent years “changing the way education is delivered” translates into slashing budgets, consolidating classrooms and gypping the next generation of Vermonters who are increasingly unprepared compared to peers in other more economically progressive states. Years of antibusiness policies, overzealous bureaucrats and oppressive taxation have done exactly what history has clearly shown in the past with similar results. There is a trickle down to the most vulnerable among us. A similar unintended consequence of anachronistic business policies is being seen in the disastrous Department for Children and Families fiascos that are increasingly prevalent with no end in sight.

Rather than continuing to deplete the delivery of resources to the next generation, how about Vermont gets with the program and joins other progressive states in judicious pro-business policies, responsible and attentive bureaucrats (possibly mutually exclusive terms), and priority to safety and education of children.

Vermont is in a death spiral of an exodus of productive Vermonters and the dilution of vital services to the next generation, which will only make the problem exponentially worse. Only when we deal with the fundamental economic struggles created by years of bumbling can Vermont hope to compete in attracting, retaining and creating a workforce and student body competitive with more progressively minded states.

Anders Holm Middlebury

New MAUHS project in works In late November, the five-town community came together for a consensus building exercise to establish priorities for renovating the aging Mt. Abraham facility. The Independent covered the event and you can find the story in their archives, along with many other articles about this project.

To summarize the November meeting, survey data gathered from the users of the building (students, faculty and staff) was distributed and independently reviewed by those present. Facilitated by Jess Barewicz, school principal, each person present was invited to speak their own priorities for this renovation project and lists were created. Following several rounds of voting on the lists, and subsequent compilation, the items were ordered.

The physical needs of the building identified as important were not surprising and didn’t vary much from prior survey results; additional gym space, improved air circulation, natural/improved lighting, updated science classrooms, safety (building, (See Letter, Page 5A)

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Letters to the Editor

Ways of Seeing

An ode to Christmases past, present and future

(Continued from Page 4A) the worst jobs, were often exploited by their bosses, and frequently were overcharged for the necessities of life.

So how is it that in just two generations, my family has come from arriving at Ellis Island, suitcase in hand, to a comfortable, middle class life, while so many Black families, even those with college educations and/or working several jobs, are still renting and still at risk of eviction? The Boston Globe’s famous Spotlight Team is doing a series of articles on whether Boston deserves its racist reputation. In their study of wealth disparities the reporters found that while the household median net worth for white people in Boston is $247,500, for Blacks it is $8. No, that is not a typo. $8.

In a nutshell, while it is certainly true that anti-Jewish ideology still exists in the U.S. (see swastikas on Havurah House; see Charlottesville), in general Jewish people, once they learned English and assimilated into American culture have been allowed entry into the nebulous construct called “Being White.” For Black

’Twas the night after Christmas and all through the house Not a creature was stirring, except for a mouse.

Piles of debris and throwaway toys Is all that remained from the wee girls and boys.

Children were nestled all snug in their beds With cell phones and new apps tucked under their heads.

We’d just hit the box stores, or get it online.

Worship in public has long since been banned.

Pagan rooted flames now briskly are fanned.

No child in a manger, it violates code.

We’ll just make do with another abode.

Per health codes a manger is no place to lie.

So to that poor babe we’ll just say goodbye.

Sacred icons once shaped with our hands Now pour in by truckloads from distant lands.

From holiday to hollow day, what we once enjoyed, Cheap imports and nonsense now fill that void.

Sadly a setback did Santa befall As Santa’s new sleigh had just been recalled.

With cultural, spiritual and historical nonsense finally away, To one and all, Merry X-Mas and a Happy Hollow Day.

No sledding on hilltops for fear of the vanes.

No landing in meadows, they’re loaded with panes.

If Santa couldn’t make it that would have been fine.

Rustan Swenson Shoreham

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) student, ADA, fire code, security), consolidating tech education classrooms on the main level, etc. Priorities related to the process but not the physical space were predominately fiscal responsibility and community involvement.

The renovation committee has employed many tools to engage the community: public meetings, availability of the agendas, meeting minutes and updates through the ANESU website, Northeast Addison TV videos, Front Porch Forum (FPF) postings, and Facebook.

Despite this, the voter turnout for the last bond request was low.

A group of community members has also begun meeting to discuss the project within the context of a larger vision for the future of the five-town area. All of this work is in hopes of increasing community involvement in the Mt. Abraham renovation process and enticing voters to the polls.

The next vote on a revised project budget is anticipated on Town Meeting Day, March 6, 2018. The amount of the bond request is still being debated and new meeting dates are being sorted out now. A meeting to review recent discussions with the architect and the most current survey results has been added to the schedule for Dec. 14, at 6 p.m. Watch for additional postings on FPF and Facebook as more meetings are scheduled. Share this information with your friends and neighbors in the community and encourage them to attend these important events with you.

Fiscal responsibility is a catch phrase that, at its heart, covers the wide variety of considerations applicable when it comes to spending money. For some people, it’s as simple as spending a small amount of money and “making do” with any shortcomings of the project caused by this perspective. For others, it is a complicated process of discovering needs, identifying possible solutions, and determining a budget in order to establish the most detailed and inclusive plan possible.

While both approaches have been discussed, the renovation committee has grappled with this project from the latter of these two approaches.

Here I explore several topics integral to financial discussions of the renovation project.

1. Scope of Project: The discussions include a wide variety of possible projects that could be included in the Mt. Abraham renovation. Sizing this project adequately to carry the

school through the next 50 years is believed prudent. If we don’t utilize this approach, we will need to come back to this same table in 10-15 years because we shortchanged this project. Construction cost escalation averages about 5 percent per year and this same work will cost significantly more at that time.

2. Wants versus Needs: This is a term that adds complications to determining the appropriate scope for the project. I will borrow the succinct words of community member Jill Jemison, who spoke during the public comment portion of our last meeting. “Your want is another person’s need.”

To highlight this, an article recently written for the school newspaper by a student who must use the elevator multiple times a day was shared with those assembled. This student discussed how the location and condition of the single elevator adds to the difficulties caused by her mobility challenges.

For example, if she must move from a classroom on the first floor to one on the second floor, she needs first to travel to the building entrance to use the elevator before making her way to the second classroom. If both classrooms are on the south end of the building, this means a total distance of approximately a quarter mile. The negative impact of this on her ability to focus on learning was also discussed in her article. Will we serve our children if we term a second elevator as a “want” rather than a “need?”

3. Debt: Especially with a large project, locking in the lowest interest rate possible is an absolute necessity.

There is a discussion floating around that the interest rate attached to the last bond proposal was 5 percent.

This is inaccurate. At the time of the last bond vote, the interest rate used to calculate the impact of the bond was 3.75 percent. As economists expect the Federal Reserve to continue raising interest rates, this number will move up.

As it does, less of the eventual amount bonded will be available for actual construction as it shifts to interest payments. In this regard, time is expensive.

4. Value: One of the ways to maximize value for the budget requires seeking multiple quotes for the work. Once the community has agreed on the amount of funds available and the building design is finalized, the project goes out to bid.

This process employs competition and the best bid for each piece of the project is chosen. The more local

contractors whose bids are selected, the better for our community.

5. Transparency: As I wrote above, the community has been invited to the table during every step of the process and information has been distributed in a variety of ways. It is heartening to have our fellow community members filling the chairs and speaking up during the meetings.

Of course, the conversations go further than a single letter to the editor can hope to contain. Please come take part in the process and help us find the right solutions for our middle/high school.

Denise Dalton Monkton

Americans, that door is barred. No level of education, no professional attainment, not even reaching the highest office in the land will grant you freedom from being thought of as less than human by a certain segment of white America. But even putting aside that most whites do NOT harbor animosity toward folks with darker skin tones, the fact remains that the society as a whole is aggressively hostile to people of color. By every measure, be it health care, education, infant mortality, police brutality, or housing, things are more difficult if you are Black.

I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that if more white Americans understood deeply (I mean not just the data, but really letting it into their hearts) that we all want the same things for our families, the election of 2016 would have gone very differently. We all want to feed our kids nourishing food and send them to good schools. We all want to be able to see a doctor (who will treat us with dignity and respect!) when we are ill. We want to live in a safe neighborhood. Everyone deserves these things, whether their ances-

tors are Native American, first-, second- or third-generation Americans, or Americans who are descendants of enslaved people. We should all be in solidarity with one another.

A tiny sliver of the citizenry wants to hoard most of the resources for themselves, at the expense of everyone else. Unfortunately that tiny sliver controls the government right now. But the moment the rest of us get our act together and realize how intertwined our destinies are, the 1 percent is going to have to share, just like most of us learned to do in kindergarten, and we can get busy building the America we want to live in.

Joanna Colwell is a certified Iyengar Yoga teacher who founded and directs Otter Creek Yoga, in Middlebury’s Marble Works, and lives with her family in East Middlebury. When not practicing or teaching yoga, Joanna enjoys taking walks, cooking, serving on the board of WomenSafe, and working with the Middlebury chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice. Feedback welcome at: joanna@ottercreekyoga. com.

January, federal funding could well be reduced from current levels.

In the short term, the state has sufficient funds on hand to cover the CHIP-eligible children through February. If partisan wrangling in Washington further delays the reauthorization of the program, policymakers in Montpelier will need to find almost $2 million to sustain the program for the rest of

the fiscal year, through the end of June.

In the longer term, reauthorization of CHIP at reduced levels could result in the loss of up to $20 million in federal funds coming to Vermont for this program that has strong support throughout the state.

Eric L. Davis is professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College.

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) premiums in the Bay State.

Finally, Congress adjourned for the year without a long-term reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, which covers about 4,600 children in Vermont through Dr. Dynasaur.

While the Republican leaders in Congress say they will reauthorize CHIP when Congress returns in

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Lorraine Quenneville, 78, Leicester LEICESTER — Lorraine Gail Quenneville, age 78, passed away Tuesday, December 19, 2017, at the Rutland Regional Medical Center, with her family by her side. Lorraine was born November 20, 1939, in Bridport, VT, the daughter of Percy and Maude (Munger) Goodspeed.

Lorraine received her early education in Bridport and Whiting elementary schools and graduated from Brandon High School.

She married the love of her life, Rene G. Quenneville, in 1957. The couple celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this year. In their early years together, she and her husband farmed in Whiting. They later owned Quenneville Trucking and hauled U.S. Mail. Lorraine also worked as a telephone operator for New England Telephone in the Rutland and Middlebury offices.

Lorraine was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother who enjoyed watching her grandchildren play sports. She was a gracious hostess who would welcome anyone into her beautifully-kept home and made sure no one left hungry.

Lorraine is survived by her husband; three children, daughter Cheryl and her husband Wesley Wheeler, daughter Pamela Quenneville and her companion Todd

LORRAINE QUENNEVILLE Ross, and son Mark Quenneville and his wife Jennifer, all of Brandon; two sisters, Carolyn Hayes and her husband Ronnie of Brandon, and Elita Ranney and her husband Irvin of Rutland; three brothers, Edgar Goodspeed of Ontario, Arlan Goodspeed of Wisconsin, and Orville Goodspeed and his wife Nancy of Rutland; and three sistersin-law, Barbara Quenneville, Lillian Quenneville and Judy Goodspeed.

She leaves her grandchildren, Jodi Wheeler, Essex, VT; Kristle Wheeler, Brandon; Craig Lonergan, Leicester; and Tyler Quenneville and Shane Quenneville, both of Pittsford.

She also leaves behind a very special granddaughter, Adyson, whom she loved dearly, and a great-grandson who is on the way, as well as a very special friend, Joan C. Gittens of Leicester. Several nieces, nephews and cousins also survive her.

Lorraine is preceded in death by her parents and a brother, Roderick Goodspeed.

Lorraine’s family wishes to thank the nurses in the ICU and on the 5th Floor Oncology Unit at RRMC for the exceptional care they provided.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury on Saturday, December 30, 2017, at 11 AM. A reception will follow the Mass at the Middlebury American Legion Post No. 27.

The interment will be at a later date in St. Mary’s Cemetery in Brandon.

There are no calling hours.

Memorial gifts may be made, in her memory to The American Cancer Society, Vermont Chapter, 55 Day Lane, Williston, VT 05749.

Miller and Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon is in charge of arrangements. ◊

Ronald H. Gilbert, 86, formerly of Middlebury YORK, Pa. — Ronald H. “Ron” Gilbert, 86, died on December 12, 2017, at his home in York, PA. He was the husband of Marilyn R. (Riffle) Gilbert, to whom he was married for 63 years. Born in York on August 10, 1931, he was the son of the late Arthur Gilbert, Sr. and the late Ruth (Norris) Gilbert.

Ron was a 1949 graduate of West York High School and a graduate of York Junior College. He served in the United States Navy during the Korean War. He was a member of Luther Memorial Church.

Ron was a manufacturing planning engineer for Standard Register Company, and worked for many years at the plant in Middlebury, VT. He enjoyed bowling and golfing.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two children, Stephen

Gilbert of San Francisco, CA, and Susan Johnson and her husband, Stuart of Cornwall, VT; three grandchildren, Joseph and Benjamin Cadoret, and Martha Johnson; three great-grandchildren, Spencer, Sawyer and Seaver; a sister, Nancy Althoff of Summerville, SC; a sister-in-law, Doris Gilbert of York; and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by a brother, Arthur Gilbert, Jr. Services will be private at the convenience of the family.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to LifePath Christian Ministries, Attn: Engagement Office; PO Box 1968, York, PA 17405.

Arrangements by the Etzweiler Funeral Homes and Cremation Service, 1111 East Market Street, York, PA 17403. www.etzweilerfuneralhome.com ◊

SAUDI ARABIA — Stephen Bougor died unexpectedly on December 19, 2017.

He was born February 5, 1972 in Middlebury, VT, the son of Anthony J. and Tena (Conway) Bougor.

Stephen was a graduate of Middlebury Union High School class of 1990.

Survivors are his mother Tena Bougor of York, S.C.; his two brothers, Michael Bougor of Middlebury and Kurt Antonanteli and wife Eve of Lake Wylie, S.C.; his nephews, Jeremy Bougor of Middlebury, Nicholas and Andrew Antonanteli of Lake Wylie, S.C.; a niece, Isabella Antonanteli of Lake Wylie, S.C.; and several other relatives.

Stephen loved traveling and visited all 7 continents and 152 countries. His goal in life was to visit all of them. He was beloved by faculty, students and parents.

Stephen started his career at Christ the King in Rutland; taught at Proctor and then moved to Dubai, where he taught for 13 years.

Currently he was teaching in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Last year he took a sabbatical and traveled around the world living his dream. He spent 4 months on a cruise ship and said he missed the boat rocking him to sleep at night.

He was an avid collector of

STEPHEN BOUGOR antiquities and oriental carpets.

His room in South Carolina is compared to a museum.

Even though he was gone a lot, his summers were devoted to connecting with family and friends.

He was a kind, caring, loving and adventurous (even climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro) young man.

He will be greatly missed by colleagues in the U.S. and around the world.

To honor Stephen’s legacy as a teacher, a fund is being established at the American School of Dubai

By the way more efficient and energy efficient ways to get to school. The winning school, Hartland Elementary, won A group of citizens from the the grand prize of an AllEarth five-town area will host a commu- Renewables Solar Tracker. nity forum to share ideas and discuss the future of the ANeSU Vermont PBS will re-broadcast district’s middle and high school “Christmas in Vermont” on Dec. on Saturday, Jan. 6, from 8:30 28 at 8 p.m. Vermont Educational a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the Bristol TV taped the 1984 “Lessons and Elementary School. The goal for Carols” with the Middlebury this forum is to get the whole five- College Choir — featuring the town community actively engaged dynamic duo of Emory Fanning and and empowered in reshaping the Chaplain Charles Scott — in Mead school, to hear from people in the Chapel three decades ago. After it community about their ideas about was first shown in Vermont, it was how to make the school a commu- picked up by national PBS and nity asset and to bring out the range broadcast throughout the country for of concerns and thoughts commu- several years. It has not been shown nity members have. Ideas generated recently, so now’s your chance to as a result of these sessions will be see a slice of local holiday history. presented to the Mount Abe School Board Community Engagement Gov. Phil Scott recently Committee and district board announced the state will award for further consideration and matching grants to the Schooner study. There will be a commu- Lois McClure and the General nity pizza oven with flatbreads George Stannard House. The for all at the end of the event. For grants, totaling $80,000 and more information go to the event funded by the Legislature, Facebook page: facebook.com/ support the restoration and rehaevents/315029522331435. bilitation of these two important resources that are vital to the Middlebury’s Mary Hogan telling of Vermont’s maritime Elementary School has won and Civil War histories. The Lois a carbon-cutting trophy for McClure is a full-scale replica “Leadership & Safe Routes of an 1862-class sailing canal Achievement” through the annual schooner, constructed in 2002.

“Way to Go!” school challenge Since launching in 2004, the that drew participation from 48 Lois McClure has traveled the schools throughout the state. The Champlain and Erie canals as Way to Go! Challenge encour- Vermont’s ambassador for Lake ages communities to promote Champlain’s special history and (Continued from Page 1A) county through Friday, Jan. 5.

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(ASD) to ensure students, regardless of financial need, are able to participate in ASD’s global and service learning programs and to ensure such experiences remain a pillar to an ASD education.

Stephen was a dedicated Middle School faculty member at ASD for 11 years from 2005-2016 where he was known for his adventurous spirit, deep connections with students and the love of travel.

He volunteered regularly with the Habitat for Humanity student program and led many global learning experience trips. To make a gift in memory of Stephen, please make (USD) checks payable to Friends of the American School of Dubai (please make note: In memory of Stephen Bougor), a registered charitable organization. Please mail to: Friends of the American School of Dubai Foundation c/o ISS P.O. Box 5910, Princeton, NJ 08543-5910 (609) 452 0090.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, Jan. 5, 2018, from 4-7 P.M. at the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home, 117 South Main St., Middlebury.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2018, at 11 A.M. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, with the Rev. Luke Austin as the Celebrant.

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to raise awareness of the extraordinary collection of shipwrecks still resting on the lake bottom.

The vessel and her crew of mariner-interpreters from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh have traveled to more than 200 communities and hosted more than 250,000 visitors on board. The $50,000 grant will be a significant investment in her restoration and allow the Lois McClure to return to the hardworking interpretive platform in a “like-new” condition.

Vermont Secretary of Administration Susanne Young has ordered all executive branch employees to participate in sexual harassment training classes offered through the Vermont Department of Human Resources. This directive, according to state officials, is in response to the national dialogue around the prevalence of sexual harassment. Gov. Phil Scott recently called on the Department of Human Resources to review the state’s sexual harassment policies and procedures and recommend any necessary changes. All state employees will be required to take sexual harassment training, which will be provided through the Center for Achievement in Public Service.

The training, “Preventing and Addressing Sexual Harassment,” is designed to educate state employees on how to identify, prevent, and address sexual harassment issues in the workplace.

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Officer Sweet practice of “community policing.” was not real friendly for me,” said (Continued from Page 1A) Middlebury police recently Each officer was assigned a section Sweet, though he has adapted out of learned they will ring in the new of town with which he or she would necessity. year without their veteran colleague, become particularly familiar. The Back in the day, Middlebury longtime friend and occasional idea was for neighborhoods to police were headquartered in the comedian. Sweet, 65, is retiring — become more comfortable with, and dank, leaky basement of the old effective this Friday, Dec. 29. trusting of, specific officers. municipal building on College St. Sweet began his career in law CHANGES IN TACTICS Prisoners had to be led up the steps enforcement back in 1983, as a Community policing suited to the public restrooms. deputy game warden for Addison Sweet just fine. He quickly forged “That building was condemned County. strong bonds with folks in the before we left it,” he quipped.

He had been working at the neighborhoods he served, which The department has since former Polymers plastics company included the Middlebury College moved to a more modern, spacious off Route 116. It campus and the facility off Seymour Street. A new so happened that Seymour Street municipal building now stands at 77 Ed Cyr — who area.

Main St. The Middlebury retired from the His domain SWEET STORIES Police Department Middlebury Police included the When you’ve been on the beat for will host a getDepartment as a Pine Meadows as long as Sweet, you come away together for retiring apartments, which with some stories. sergeant in 2009 officer Don Sweet — was also toiling around 25 years Sweet has a bunch. at 3 p.m. this at Polymers at the ago became a On more than one occasion, time. destination for Sweet has seen drunken driving Friday, Dec. 29, at “We were sworn many immigrants suspects call a relative or a friend the police station enemies,” Sweet — primarily from for a ride home after having been off Lucius Shaw recalled with a Bosnia.

These booked at the station — only to see Lane. chuckle. “He was Bosnian Muslims the “designated driver” show up a deputy game sought refuge more intoxicated than their wouldwarden and I was in Middlebury be passenger.

There was that time years ago a bit of a wild child, in my early from a genocidal campaign in their 20s. We didn’t see eye to eye on homeland. Sweet sipped more than when he chased down a youth anything.” a few cups of tea and coffee at the whom he had busted for possession But as the years went by, Sweet dining room tables of these new of marijuana. That youth was — an avid hunter — got to thinking transplants, some of whom couldn’t angry, and wanted to get even it might be neat to spend time in the speak a sentence in English. with Sweet. One night, Sweet was woods in a state job.

But when you’re a people person working the night shift at the old “I thought, ‘Maybe (Ed Cyr’s) like Officer Sweet, there really isn’t PD headquarters when he heard the ideas weren’t so bad,” Sweet said. a language barrier. front door open and a commotion He got to know the game warden Pine Meadows was the site of at the top of the stairs. He spotted for the Addison County area, a man one of the most tragic crimes in the youth, who bolted out the door, named Densmore Gaiotti, who had Middlebury history around 27 but not before leaving Sweet a the colorful nickname of “Bigfoot.” years ago — a doublepresent. It’s a handBigfoot encouraged Sweet to sign murder/suicide. A man sewn pig, with Sweet’s shot and killed another “It’s the people name on it. up as a deputy warden.

“I laughed and set And he did. man and woman before of this town But first, Sweet had to get his turning the gun on who have made it on my desk as a educational house in order. He had himself. Sweet was it possible to keepsake,” Sweet left high School at age 16, figuring called in to work that enjoy what I chuckled. he “knew everything, just like every day.

A few years ago, do.”

“I had duty at the Sweet was interviewing 16-year-old.” He of course didn’t, and was told he needed a high school hospital, watching — Officer Donnie a woman at a local Sweet bank, who happened diploma or GED in order to become over the wounded,” qualified as a deputy warden.

Sweet recalled. “The to be married to the “I took all the course work to get lady who died — I infamous pig-gifter. my GED, thanks to my lovely wife knew her and knew her family. The “I said, ‘Tell your husband I’ve (Cindi), and passed it within three doctors asked if I would give the still got that keepsake, and see what months with very high scores,” notification (to next of kin), and I he tells you,’” Sweet said.

Sweet said. “I was very proud of did. That was a hard time. People Indeed, not all of Sweet’s calls were scared.” have involved people. that.”

He recalled an alert to a former He then earned his certification It was during the aftermath of the as a deputy game warden. It was incident, which included counseling beauty salon at 56 College St. far from a glamor job. A lot of for Pine Meadows residents, that Some frightened people in the part-time, fill-in work with little Sweet really got to know some of salon reported a deer trapped in the compensation. But Cyr enjoyed the local Bosnian families. restroom. So Sweet cleared a lane it. It was about safety, communing He quickly learned that (a) these to the back door and opened the with nature and making sure there folks had seen and endured such bathroom door. was a level playing field for all violence on an almost daily basis in “That deer almost bowled me hunters. He would occasionally their homeland and, (b) they treated work with uniformed police on law enforcement with a respect akin suspected deer jackings and other to reverence. criminal cases.

Sweet was given the chair of Sweet was content to stick with honor, in the center of a Bosnian Polymers and his part-time Fish & family’s living room, during the Game gig — until Cyr suggested meetings with counselors. He was he broaden his law enforcement offered coffee, tea or “fine cognac,” experience. Cyr at this point had which he of course declined as he signed on with Middlebury PD. was on the job.

“He said, ‘Why don’t you come “I got some insight into what they up and apply with us? We’re looking had been through in Bosnia,” Sweet for part-timers,’” Sweet said. recalled. “One young fellow said, ‘I He wasn’t immediately sold, but don’t know what the big deal is, we was after going on some ride-alongs saw dead people all the time.’ with Middlebury officers.

“Some of the people said, ‘We And a career that once seemed are not afraid as long as you are anathema to Sweet had suddenly here; we know you will protect become a must-do. us,’” Sweet added. “I had to remind Sweet applied, was accepted, them, ‘Wait a minute, I’m not here went through the all the time.” requisite Vermont State He got to be close Police Academy training “He was an friends with some of his and became a part-time old-school Bosnian constituents, Middlebury officer on police officer. and developed an July 18, 1986. He joined This was a equally tight rapport the force full-time on job he loved with some of the May 14, 1989.

Middlebury College doing and Academy training students while he was has given Sweet a he devoted on the campus beat. foundation in policing, himself to it...” Sweet became their but he brought with — Police Chief go-to person when him some natural interTom Hanley anything went awry. personal skills you just “The things I learned can’t teach. from the college kids; A gregarious and they accepted me,” fair man, Sweet’s sidearm is Sweet said. “I could go anywhere at delightfully ornamental. He’s the college with their blessing… ” able to calm a potentially volatile While Sweet hadn’t continued situation with a grin, a joke, a pat his education beyond high on the back, or a short story. He not school, he attended many college only knows every local, he knows commencement ceremonies — to their parents, their grandparents, provide security, traffic control and and that day their kid lost a tooth to send off the new graduates who in a snow bank. He should charge had confided in him their personal an entertainment fee for his and professional goals. homespun anecdotes, though his “It was a wonderful experience,” wife probably makes him pay for he said. her to listen, at this point.

Don Sweet has rolled with the Sweet credits Bigfoot for instilling punches throughout the years and in him the law enforcement virtues has adapted to the various changes of patience, fairness and empathy. in law enforcement.

“You do as you’re supposed When he first started with to by people,” Sweet said. “No Middlebury PD, the officers wrote vengeance; none of that stuff. their incident reports by hand.

(Gaiotti) said, ‘I won’t tolerate that Computers would come later. when you work for me.’ His advice “We had pencils and a good has served me well the last 30-some sharpener,” he said with a grin. years I’ve been doing this.”

Officers have also graduated The late Al Watson was from revolver side arms to semiMiddlebury police chief when automatic weapons. Pepper spray Sweet became a full-timer. Current replaced mace, which is giving way Chief Tom Hanley began his tenure to Tasers as the main non-lethal tool in 1991, an era that ushered in for subduing the most uncooperative new technology, more modern offenders. law enforcement tactics, and the “Going into the computer age

OFICER DONNIE SWEET over getting out of there,” Sweet he’s mad,” Sweet said of the feline. grinned.

Then Bigfoot comes to the Some of his best stories date back rescue. to his deputy game warden days.

“He pokes the bobcat in the ribs There was that time Bigfoot and tells him, “Get outta here!’” called him to Sudbury to help him Sweet said. capture a bobcat.

Amazingly, it worked.

He arrives at the scene and Bigfoot “I told (Gaiotti) ‘I’ll never trust and another guy are standing next you again,’” Sweet laughed. to the large, pissed-off pussycat Not all the stories are funny. who has been caught by the leg.

Sweet recalled the day he was Bigfoot grabs a stick and tells his asked to check on some alleged deer two nervous assistants to spread a jackers in Salisbury. He located canvass over the snarling feline and a group of suspects, but couldn’t hold him down. The plan: Bigfoot reach his partner by radio. He is going to release the bobcat’s leg, figured he’d handle the case on his then the guys are going to remove own. He turned on the blue lights to the canvass so the animal can walk his vehicle and started walking up back into the woods. to the car where the deer jackers are Sweet and his buddy do as they’re located. told.

Suddenly, he hears a truck roar The bobcat doesn’t. and it’s bearing down on him. Sweet “He starts walking over to us, and dives to safety.

“There were seven of them and one of me,” Sweet said. “One of them had a gun in his hand.”

The suspects make their getaway.

Fortunately, Sweet and assisting police officers were able to track down all but one of the seven men.

Bigfoot advised him not to personally serve complaints to the suspects, but Sweet said it was something he had to do.

“If I don’t, I’ll never work alone in this county again,” Sweet said of his feeling at the time.

Well, it’s small county. One of the defendants in that caper delivered some firewood to the Sweet residence earlier this winter. And that was OK with Sweet.

The past is water under the bridge.

“Like anybody else I’ve ever dealt with, when it’s over, it’s done,” Sweet said.

He’s enjoyed every minute of his law enforcement career, but he believes it’s time to move on.

“If I could, I’d stay another 30 years,” Sweet said, but added his body isn’t recovering as fast from the rigors of police work.

He’ll have plenty to do in retirement.

In addition to traveling with wife Cindi, fishing and hunting, he’ll spend more time with their three grown children and his grandkids.

Sweet will miss his colleagues and his daily interactions with Middlebury residents.

“It’s the people of this town who have made it possible to enjoy what I do,” he said.

Hanley said Sweet will be missed.

“Don was ‘Old Reliable,’ never shirked a duty assignment, was always willing and able to take extra shifts and duty assignments — especially when the department was short-handed or during emergencies,” Hanley said. “He was an old-school police officer.

This was a job he loved doing and he devoted himself to it...

“Having been raised in this area, he had a wealth of knowledge of the geography and of the many families who lived here. He had an uncanny ability to communicate across the generations with many of the area residents, and was thus trusted and respected as one of them.

“He never sought promotion, as doing the work of a patrol officer was something he loved and was good at.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Green Mountain Club Spirit in Nature walk or snowshoe in Ripton. Friday, Dec. 29. Easy 2‑3 miles; gently rolling terrain at a moderate pace. Wear appropriate clothing; bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. Contact Ruth Penfield for meeting time at 802‑388‑5407 or ruthpenfield@ gmail.com. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

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Green Mountain Club Abbey Pond hike in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 30. A moder‑ ately difficult hike: about 4.5 miles round trip with an elevation gain of 1,160 feet (1,000 feet in the ONCE-UPON-A-TIME TIGER HOCKEY players, possibly including these in this 2007 archive first mile). Trail ends at Abbey Pond, a quiet wilder‑ photo, will take part in the 18th annual Middlebury Union High School alumni hockey games that ness pond with an unobstructed view across the pond will be played on Saturday, Dec. 30, between 5:15 and 10:45 p.m. at the Memorial Sports Center.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell of Robert Frost Mountain. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. This is a dog‑friendly hike. More info: contact St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon Ivor Hughes at brhughes@gmavt. and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite commu‑ net or 802‑453‑4412. For more nity members to help survey birds and other wild‑ activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org. life. Birders of all ages and abilities Tiger Alumni Hockey games in welcome. More info call 802‑388‑6019 MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult: Ashley Wolff Block or 802‑388‑1007.

Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 30, 5:15‑10:45 p.m., Memorial Sports Printing, Weds AM Paint/Pastels, Mon PM & Thurs AM Oils, Green Mountain Club Skylight Pond Center. The 18th Annual Middlebury Mon & Weds PM Wheel, Thurs Pastels, Clay Sculpture, Garden and Skyline Lodge hike in Ripton.

Tiger Alumni Hockey Games will Planters, Joe Bolger Landscapes. Children: After School Saturday, Jan. 13. A moderate 5.2‑mile feature a competitions for Middlebury hike or snowshoe up to the ridge on Union High School graduates includ‑ Clay‑Mon Wheel, Tues Clay Hand Building, Do‑It‑Yourself switchbacks for a gradual ascent to ing a women’s game at 5:15 p.m., Room Décor & Paint It! middleburystudioschool. Skylight Pond and Skyline Lodge. a “slower” game at 7 p.m. and a Lunch at the Lodge. Optional short org Contact Barb 247‑3702, ewaldewald@aol.com “faster” game at 9 p.m. All former spur trail for great western overlook.

MUHS hockey player are welcome VERGENNES OPERA HOUSE — Beginning Swing Dance. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, to play. $25 recommended donation Partner dancing keeps both brain and body fit while having a food and hiking poles if desired. This is per player; spectators free. More dog friendly hike. More info contact great time. Presenting East Coast Swing in a friendly, easy aIvor information from Dan McIntosh at Hughes at brhughes@gmavt.net fngdan@mac.com or 802‑388‑3444. format. Classes are 6:30‑7:30pm with a practice session, open or 802‑453‑4412. For more activities

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All‑you‑can‑eat break‑ fast in Vergennes.

Saturday, Dec. 31, 7:30‑10 a.m., Vergennes Masonic Lodge, 54 School St. Start off New Year’s Eve with a grand breakfast. Admission $8.

Countdown to Noon‑Year in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 31, 11 a.m.‑12:30 p.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 74 Main St. A celebration for kids who won’t be up at midnight. Crafts, stories, face paint‑ ing, photo booth and fun.

Mark LaVoie in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 31, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. For more than 30 years Mark Lavoie has been performing for crowds both large and small. His passion for and commitment to music, particularly blues harmonica, is admired by the many musicians who have played with him. Free, and open to the public and handicap acces‑ sible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802‑388‑1220, or pryan@ residenceottercreek.com.

Best Night New Year’s Eve celebration in Bristol.

Sunday, Dec. 31, 5 p.m., downtown. Come out to enjoy this community celebration of the New Year ahead.

Three venues with music, dancing and children’s activities. $10 before 12/25, $12 at the door, children under 12 and seniors over 75 are free. Information at bestnight.org or 802‑453‑4613.

Artist Mark Benton in Bristol. Sunday, Dec. 31, evening, WalkOver Gallery, 15 Main St. Benton will be on hand to talk about his current exhibit during the Bristol Best Night celebrations on New Year’s Eve. New Year’s Eve dinner dance in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 31, 5 p.m., VFW Post 7823, 530 Exchange St. Welcome the new year with cocktails and a prime rib dinner with all the fixings, then dance to the music spun

by Triple B D.J. Tickets are $20 per person or $25 at the door. R.S.V.P. at 802‑388‑9468.

New Year’s Eve Fireworks and Ice Skating. Sunday, Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m., Middlebury Recreation Field, Mary Hogan Dr. Hot Cocoa hut too. After fireworks, free ice‑skating at Memorial Sports Center from 8‑9:30 p.m.

Rockin’ New Year’s Eve party in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Two local favorites, The Grift and Otter Creek Brewing, team up for this dance party to ring in the New Year with music and Otter Creek brews. Doors open at 8 p.m. The Grift takes the stage at 9 p.m. Free midnight champagne toast. Tickets $15 in advance, $18 at the door, and may be purchased at townhalltheater. org, 802 382‑9222, at the THT Box Office, Mon.‑Sat., noon‑5 p.m., and at the door.

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First Day bird walk in Ferrisburgh.

Monday, Jan. 1, 9 a.m., Button Bay State Park. New Year’s Day birding trips are a tradi‑ tion held by many in the bird‑watching world as they begin to fill their annual bird lists. Join Otter Creek Audubon as they combine that tradition with the fairly new tradition of First Day Hikes held at State Parks across the country.

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Blood pressure/foot care clinic in Brandon. Tuesday, Jan. 2, 9:30 a.m., Brandon Senior Center in Forestdale.

Sponsored by VNA & Hospice of Southwest Region; $10; no appointment necessary. More info: 802‑770‑1536.

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WEDNESDAY

“In This Here Place”: Race, Nation, and Toni Morrison’s Beloved,” in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Jan. 3, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. UVM professor Emily Bernard will discuss the significance of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize‑winning novel “Beloved,” exploring how the novel argues that America must reckon with the conse‑ quences of our nation’s original sin — slavery.

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Merry Mulch in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 6, begins 8 a.m. Have your Christmas tree at the curb by 8 a.m. free of decorations, tinsel, etc., for Rotary Club of Middlebury to pick up.

Traveling Sightseeing Associates planning meeting in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 6, 12:30‑2 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Join in the planning for 2018

trips to places of interest around Addison County. A visit to the Henry Sheldon Museum will follow. More info contact Jan Walker at 802‑388‑4220 or janwalkervt@ together.net.

Night Tree on stage in Ripton. Saturday, Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, 1305 Rt. 125. Open mic followed by featured performers. $10 general admission/$15 generous admission/$3 kids under 12. Doors open at 7 p.m. Open mic sign‑up and info at 802‑388‑9782 or rcch.org.

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“California Typewriter” on screen in Middlebury. Sunday, Jan. 7, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The MNFF Winter Screening Series presents this documentary directed by Doug Nichol. Jay Craven, MNFF artistic director, will give an introduction and Q&A. Watch the trailers, read more about the films and buy tickets at middfilmfest.org. A series pass, covering admission to all six films, is available for $60. Individual tickets to the films are $12. Also available on the THT website, at the THT box office or day of show.

Skate with the Panther ice hockey team in Middlebury.

Sunday, Jan. 7, 5 p.m., Kenyon Arena. Fans young and old are invited to join Middlebury College men’s hockey team on the ice after their 3 p.m. game vs.

Trinity. Team pictures will be provided. The event is sponsored by Friends of Panther Hockey.

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10

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Tobacco Cessation Program in Middlebury. Begins Wednesday, Jan. 10, 5 p.m., at Porter Medical Center. The first session in a five week program designed to help you decide to quit, develop a plan to quit, prepare, rehearse and know what to expect on your “Quit Day”, and more.

Free. Registration required. Contact Michele Butler, Community Health Team, 802‑388‑8860 or mbutler@ portermedical.org.

Festival‑On‑The‑Green annual meeting in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Jan. 10, 6:30 p.m., Middlebury Union Middle School, 48 Deerfield Ln. Enthusiastic volun‑ teers wanted to help plan the Middlebury’s annual summer music event. This will be the Festivals’ 40th year. Come to this meeting and find out how you can get involved.

Jan

11

THURSDAY

“Animals of the North: What Will Climate Change Mean for Them?” presentation in Addison. Thursday, Jan. 11, 9 a.m. – 1:30 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, 966 VT Route 17. Naturalist Sue Morse, founder and science director of Keeping Track, a wildlife conservation nonprofit based in Jericho, will give a lecture and slide presentation from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and then she will lead the group on a nature walk at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area until 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the first 20 people who contact Amy Alfieri at amy.alfieri@ vermont.gov or 802‑759‑2398.

Crows and ravens lecture in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 11, 7‑8 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. These birds are considered harbingers of evil by some, and for others endless curiosity. In Otter Creek Audubon’s Cabin Fever lecture series, bird Diva Bridget Butler pulls back the shroud on these birds known as corvids. Free.

Jan

12

FRIDAY

Shai Wosner performs in Middlebury.

Friday, Jan. 12, 8‑10 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Pianist Wosner has attracted international recog‑ nition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity, and creative insight. He returns to Middlebury with a program of late Schubert sonatas, including opuses 42, 51, and 78, the “Fantasie.” Reserved seating.

Jan

13

SATURDAY

Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury.

Saturday, Jan. 13, 8‑11 a.m. Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland, corner of Weybridge

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Invasive insect presentation in Shoreham. Saturday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Learn about invasive insect species with Meredith Whitney, Forest Pest Education Coordinator with the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program. A kid‑friendly, insect‑heavy experience. An insect craft and a snack are included.

“Beach Rats” on screen in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan.13, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, 356 College St. Frankie, a teenager from the outer edges of Brooklyn, struggles to escape his troubled home life and reconcile his conflicting sexual desires. Free.

Contra dance in Cornwall. Saturday, Jan. 13, 7‑9:30 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall, Route 30. Featuring Don Stratton calling to live banjo and fiddle music by Red Dog Riley. $5‑10/person (sliding scale). All are welcome. No experience or partner necessary. More info at 802‑462‑3722.

Joel Cage performs in Brandon. Saturday, Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come hear this award‑winning veteran singer/songwriter from Boston, once a member of the internationally acclaimed rock and roll group Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. Tickets $20. Pre‑concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802‑247‑4295, info@brandon‑music, or Brandon‑music.net.

Jan

14

SUNDAY

Green Mountain Club Young Adventurers Mt. Independence hike in Orwell. Sunday, Jan. 14, 10 a.m. Geared towards adventurers 4‑8 but all are welcomed. Outings are tailored to individual participants. More info contact YAC Leader Lauren Bierman at 802‑349‑7498 or laurenbierman1218@gmail.com. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Jan

16

TUESDAY

Blood pressure/foot care clinic in Brandon. Tuesday, Jan. 16, 11 a.m., Conant Square. Sponsored by VNA & Hospice of Southwest Region; $10; no appointment necessary.

More info: 802‑770‑1536.

Talk by Addison Godine in Middlebury. Tuesday, Jan. 16, 4:30 p.m., Room 304, Johnson Memorial Building.

Godine is director of construction for Getaway, a “tiny house hotel” company in Brooklyn. He also created the uhü (urban housing unit), a compact apartment space on wheels that traveled through Boston as a pop‑up exhibition. As an architectural studies major at Middlebury, Godine was a leader of the 2011 Solar Decathlon team. Free.

L IV E M U S I C Gerry Dineen in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 29, 10 p.m., Notte (Two Brothers Tavern).

Mark LaVoie in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 31, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd Best Night in Bristol, with musicians Patrick Fitzsimmons, Greg Ryan, The Insiders, Too Tall String Band, Karen Lueders, Cut, Split and Delivered, Encanto, Richard and Beth Duquette, MAUHS Sweet Transition A Capella Group and more. Sunday, Dec. 31, 5‑9:30 p.m. Downtown.

New Year’s Eve with The Grift in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater.

New Year’s Bash with Del Rue in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 31, 10 p.m.‑1 a.m., Notte (Two Brothers Tavern) The Mangroves in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 5, 10 p.m.‑1 a.m., Notte (Two Brothers Tavern) Night Tree in Ripton. Saturday, Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

Shai Wosner at Middlebury College. Friday, Jan. 12, 8‑10 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Joel Cage in Brandon. Saturday, Jan. 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Hamjob in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 13, 10 p.m.‑6 a.m., Notte (Two Brothers) Swing Noire in Brandon. Saturday, Jan. 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

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Lumber technology (Continued from Page 1A) that Vermont’s forest products industry “employs 10,555 people and has $1.4 billion in economic output” annually. A. Johnson Lumber Co. has 45 employees, making it among Bristol’s largest businesses. It’s also among the state’s largest sawmills, though it is midsize compared to other production sawmills in New York and New England.

Vermont Forests, Parks and Recreation Wood Utilization Leader Paul Frederick maintains that the Vermont forest products industry has a key role in keeping Vermont green.

“Eighty percent of forestland in Vermont is privately owned, and local markets for forest products help make ownership of that land by individuals affordable,” Frederick said. “Harvesting and selling trees helps us keep forests as forests.”

TIME TO UPGRADE A year ago, Johnson and other owner/managers at A. Johnson Lumber were touring sawmills in Vermont, New York and New Hampshire, looking to see how their mill measured up and what could be done to make it more competitive in an increasingly global marketplace.

“We hadn’t done as much as we should have in the past 10 years,” said Johnson.

One key problem? Energy.

Johnson and others knew what they needed to do, but the mill lacked sufficient energy to power those upgrades.

“Last year we started talking about upgrading the mill because we hadn’t been doing much investing in machinery in a while,” he said.

“From visiting other mills, we’d begun to see that we were falling behind the curve, that we were not as competitive as we wanted to be.

So in order to basically survive and compete in a global marketplace we realized we needed to spend money on mill upgrades. And to do that we needed to increase the electrical capacity.”

They also knew they needed to trim energy costs to stay competitive.

Among A. Johnson’s first steps was to purchase a reconditioned, used

transformer from a company in the Midwest, using typical commercial channels. They then started to think about what to do about their main generator.

FEELING STUCK For the past 15 years, the company had been using a diesel-powered generator to run its green and dry lumber sorters, planers, ring debarker and sawdust handling blowers, said Johnson. Other parts of the mill were already powered by electricity from the commercial power grid. Still other energy demands are supplied by a boiler that uses bark removed from the logs at the sawmill as well as scrap lumber, processed into smaller chips. Smaller generators are on hand as backup for the large generator and for emergency power for the boiler at the drying kilns.

The main diesel generator itself used around 31,000 gallons of diesel a year. The generator had been purchased when burning diesel was a more cost-effective option. It was also getting old and was in need of an estimated $60,000 in repairs.

“We were feeling a little trapped, really,” Johnson said. “We were trying to figure out: Do we rebuild the generator and stick with diesel, or do we spend $60,000 to $80,000 and put in a transformer? We were unsure how to resolve the problem.”

ACT 56 AND ‘ENERGY TRANSFORMATION’ What opened up the company’s option, said Johnson, was when he and the other owners realized that Green Mountain Power has a program for helping to move larger users off fossil fuel, and A. Johnson qualified for that.

GMP’s program is part of its response to Vermont’s Act 56, signed into law in June 2015. The law creates renewable energy standards that raise the bar over the next 15 years for how much renewable energy Vermont’s utility must purchase.

Among the various aspects of Act 56 is a separate “energy transformation” category that utilities can meet by purchasing additional distributedgeneration renewables or by undertaking “energy transformation

KEN JOHNSON, A. Johnson Lumber Co. general manager, stands near piles of wood chips that the mill makes from bark and scrap lumber. The chips help power the Bristol sawmill, which is among the state’s largest.

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projects.” The mandate for the energy transformation category kicked in in 2017.

For Green Mount Power, A. Johnson’s situation with its aging diesel generator provided a perfect opportunity for one such Act 56-mandated energy transformation project. For A. Johnson, partnering with GMP and with Efficiency Vermont meant that costs for installing a new, energy-efficient transformer and connecting to GMP high-voltage lines already running through the mill’s property were largely covered.

That’s right, covered.

The switch from diesel to electricity will reduce A. Johnson’s carbon dioxide output by close to 6,176 metric tons over 20 years, according to Green Mountain Power.

GMP’s Jeff Monder, who worked closely with A. Johnson on the project, said that well over 80 percent of the electricity GMP purchases is from renewable sources (which he listed as hydropower, biomass, nuclear, wind and solar). Monder said the amount of renewables in GMP’s energy mix varies year to year, depending on where the company purchases energy on the open market.

A. Johnson also lowered its electricity rates by joining GMP’s curtailment program.

“As part of helping GMP manage their electrical purchasing in the marketplace, we get a day’s warning by email and we shut down to reduce the overall demand on the grid,” said Johnson.

During those hours it’s off the grid, the company returns to running its main diesel generator.

Monder explained that curtailment has larger eco-benefits. Reducing peak load reduces the need to build larger energy infrastructure and helps GMP make cleaner energy choices.

He said buying additional energy to meet peak demand is often when utilities turn to the dirtier sources like natural gas, gas turbines, or, in some parts of the country, coal.

SURVIVE AND GROW Johnson said that A. Johnson estimates that the two measures — getting a better electrical rate by joining the curtailment program and switching from the main diesel generator to electricity from the grid via the transformer — will reduce

the company’s energy costs by 30 percent.

And with the new transformer, the company has access to the energy it will need to run new equipment.

“In 2018, we’re going to be installing an optimizing edger ...

And over the next five years we hope to upgrade the material handling system around the resaw, do some work with the trimmer, replace the controls on our sorters. The dry kilns need work, the planers, the sorters.

There’s a never-ending stream of things that can be improved.”

Johnson is optimistic when he looks to the future.

“If we’re going to survive as a sawmill we need to grow,” he said.

Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

School food (Continued from Page 1A) feed kids well. However, initial data, post of Agriculture guidelines.

“In essence, USDA does not set prices and care with which they are made, drew consolidation, shows maintenance of last nods of approval from the lunch group. year’s numbers with slightly increased for school meals, but does establish rules Junior Megan Vorsteveld chimed in on numbers in some schools,” she wrote. “A to help schools make sure there is enough the smoothies. more dramatic increase in participation money between federal reimbursements “Some of those staff put in their is seen at the Vergennes High School for free meals and paid meals to cover own time to make those where delivery models, a reasonable cost of meals,” she wrote. smoothies and make and overall program “Each year schools are required to use a “It’s a big step up menus, calculation tool to determine if the price different smoothies and add changes were made.” different things to them, from last year.

Many school food service of school meals meets the requirements. and to create different The food’s better. programs run in the red, and ANWSD is in full compliance with this flavors and make them The lunch ladies as well as providing good rule. Meal pricing will be reviewed each better for the students,” are super. It’s a nutrition, administrators try year to determine appropriate pricing said Vorsteveld. to maximize the number levels to maintain a financially stable different culture Husk, Brace and Devine of students eating meals in program that operates well within schools all said they went from going on. They order to minimize losses. and supports families.” buying no meals at VUHS like what they’re ANWSD administrators Given the positive reviews, possibly at last year to becoming daily doing.” busy before the holidays did least at VUHS students — and staff — purchasers this year, while — VUHS junior not have time to pin down would tolerate a price increase.

Vorsteveld said she buys district Administrative Cyrus Devine the more meals. deficit for this assistant Betsy Sullivan What has changed? The article. But, “We have spoke enthusiastically newly unified Addison for example, increased about the food when Northwest School District (ANWSD) in early 2015 the VUHS participation (in answering a question essentially merged its food service food service deficit stood related to the story, and with that of the also recently unified at about $150,000, and in school lunches and Principal Stephanie Addison Northeast Supervisory Union. early 2016 the Addison breakfasts), and Taylor said she and Kathy Alexander, credited locally with Central School deficit was when you increase teachers are buying more improving the Ferrisburgh Central School about $100,000. participation you’re meals and leftovers to food program, now supervises both the ANWSD Superintendent going to bring in take home.

Vergennes-area and Bristol-area districts’ JoAn Canning said it’s “The number of meals revenue.” nutrition programs. too early to measure the served is up dramatically.

— Superintendent The number of meals Husk, Brace and Devine ate financial impact of the food JoAn Canning served to faculty is up Alexander’s food as elementary students service merger, although an and were happy to hear of her return to impending audit should pin dramatically,” Taylor their district. it down. In the meantime said. “I’ve brought it “We know all about it,” Devine said. she is confident the merger has helped. home for our supper, too. I was excited “She was the bomb.”

“We have increased participation, and they had eggplant parmesan today.”

Husk laughed that many of their friends when you increase participation you’re Of course not all students enjoy all the were puzzled by their enthusiasm about a going to bring in revenue,” Canning said. food. That eggplant dish generated mixed district-level food-service merger.

She also emphasized finances were reviews.

“No one else from other schools quite only one goal of the merger — nutrition “Some things are better than others,” understood what we were so excited matters.

Devine said. “I’m not sure how I feel about,” she said.

“We’re having common training, so about the eggplant thing,” NUMBERS AND MONEY we’re systematizing the food service But all agreed they liked side salads The food service across the four schools,” and the variety of fruit, with local apples a merger has made the most Canning said. “By doing favorite. Other options Taylor mentioned impact at VUHS. Lunch “The number of that we’re able to establish were cups of grapes, fresh pineapple participation has risen meals served is up high quality food across chunks and even sliced kiwis. from 40 percent last year dramatically. The the four schools.”

“It seems like there are more options to 56 percent this year, and PRICING for fresh fruit,” Taylor said. the percentage of students number of meals Canning also noted meal And the students in the group said their who buy breakfasts served to faculty prices will probably rise peers at VUHS generally shared their has gone from 13 to 22 is up dramatically gradually over the next favorable opinion of the cafeteria. percent. few years.

“All the feedback I’ve got, from people … I’ve brought Alexander noted in an it home for our “The other thing we talking about it, they say it’s a lot better,” email the three ANWSD have to keep our eye on Devine said. “It’s definitely a big change.” supper, too.” elementary schools is the cost,” she said.

And, they emphasized, the entire — Principal “There is a gap between experience is better, thanks to the staff. were already operating Stephanie Taylor the federal guidelines and more successfully than “It’s the atmosphere, too, not just the VUHS, although there what we’re charging. But food. I think it’s their willingness to we don’t want to take such be, like, ‘Yeah, I can do that for you, or has been a 5 percent rise in breakfast participation at Vergennes a big jump that people get upset with that, change it up a little bit,’” Brace said. “I Union Elementary School and a 3 percent so we’re going to slowly close that gap.” don’t eat red meat. I just eat poultry and Alexander said prices would only fish, and I haven’t had one day where I rise in lunch participation at Ferrisburgh change after a process that includes haven’t been able to eat. They’re very Central.

“All school meals have for a long “careful consideration to what families accommodating.” time been prepared by a dedicated and can reasonably pay for school meals” that Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at skilled group of staff who work hard to must take into account U.S. Department andyk@addisonindependent.com.

MIDDLEBURY ANIMAL HOSPITAL’S Dr. Scott Sutor and Carrie Lewis care for a gouge on Willie’s leg Saturday morning as Doug Anderson looks on. Willie was found after a six-day search by an untold number of local people.

Photo credit: Cindi Duff

Willie There were ups and downs, false sightings, (Continued from Page 1A) community that leapt into action to find this dog. moments of great hope and moments when that The phone rang constantly with people asking hope was cruelly dashed. Willie showed up at how they could help. Bruce Zeman at WVTK the theater on Friday night, only to be frightened radio made it his personal mission to find the away by people who wanted to nab him for the dog, giving updates on the radio but also joining reward we were offering. The break-through the search on the ground. John Flowers rushed an came six days into the search on Saturday article into the Addison Independent. Complete morning, when a young lady who was housestrangers bundled up to look for Willie, and sitting on South Street saw a stray dog in the backyard. Brittany Baker doesn’t by the end of the week literally even live in Middlebury. She’s from hundreds of people were on the Bridport, and it wouldn’t have been lookout for him. WCAX-TV aired surprising if she thought it was just a story on Willie’s disappearance another neighborhood dog. that went viral; we began to hear It quickly became But because the community took from people across the country. this search to heart, publicized It quickly became apparent that apparent that it on social media, talked it up, social media can be a great power social media shared information, worked and for good. Front Porch Forum, can be a great sacrificed and generally made Homeward Bound, Middlebury power for good. this a high priority, Brittany knew Agway and other organizations exactly what she was seeing. And sent out blasts to their mailing she knew who to call. In less than lists. Our Facebook posts were 15 minutes, Willie was safely in read, liked, shared and commented my car. on, creating a literal web of His right rear leg is gouged, but concerned people that numbered in the hundreds, and eventually in the thousands. we’re told he’ll be just fine. We’ll never know how he survived six days in the cold and snow We had eyes all over Addison County.

A tight group of people dropped everything for with no food, but somehow he managed it. Dogs, the entire week to help us create a coordinated even pampered ones like our Willie, are tough.

Debby and I haven’t processed all of this yet, search. These people, several of them complete strangers to us, put in 12-hour days in search of and to have him next to us on the bed still brings Willie. We wish we could salute everyone who up an overwhelming mix of emotions. But one helped, but these people were our rock: Walter thing is certain: This community got us through Stugis, Jennifer and Henry Johnson, Ashley it, and we are eternally grateful. It’s our best Hansen, Jory Brush, Cindi Duff, Beth Karnes Christmas ever, not merely because we have our Keefe and Holmes Jacobs. Debby stayed home dog back, but because we see more clearly than all week, serving as command central from ever the compassion, strength, determination and just plain goodness in the people around us. morning till night.

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(January continued from Page 1A) to reacquire the company and to relocate it to a smaller space.

In Orwell, a landmark family business changed hands — coming back into the family. Andy and Mary Buxton purchased Buxton’s Store from Doug Edwards. Edwards bought the store in 2006 from Buxton’s grandparents, Dick and Thelma Buxton, who ran the business for 40 years.

In New Haven, John and Margo Roleau announced their purchase of the Village Green Market, which has been in operation as a store for close to 200 years. Both Roleaus grew up with deep connections to the establishment on the New Haven town green.

New leaders took the reins in both Montpelier and Washington.

On Jan. 5, Republican Phil Scott was sworn in as Vermont’s 82nd governor. In his inaugural address, Scott highlighted four major policy areas: fighting the opiate epidemic, revitalizing economic development, transforming education and creating sustainable state budgets.

In the first week of January, local state legislators received their committee assignments. There were two new faces in the Addison County delegation to the state Legislature that took office just before Gov. Scott. Democrat Robin Scheu, longtime executive director of the Addison County Economic Development Corp., took over as one of two state representatives from Middlebury, and Peter Conlon, also a Democrat, took the House seat that represents Cornwall, Goshen, Hancock, Leicester, Ripton and Salisbury.

Meanwhile, Veteran Republican Rep. Alyson Eastman of Orwell won re-election the previous November, but in late December Gov.-elect Scott tapped her to be deputy secretary of agriculture. As of the end of January Scott had not named a replacement.

Following the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, hundreds of Addison County residents took to the streets in protest, both in Washington, D.C., and in Montpelier, many sporting pink “pussy hats” specially knitted for the occasion. Two busloads took men, women and children to the nation’s capital for the Women’s March on Washington. Other area citizens joined the Women’s March on Montpelier, including Middlebury Union High School student Greta Hardy-Mittell, who was the gathering’s 10th speaker. Vermont State Police estimated that 15,00020,000 gathered in Montpelier, making it the state’s largest protest.

Over half a million citizens gathered in Washington. Nationwide, the Women’s March has been tallied as the “largest single-day protest in American history.” An estimated 3 million-5 million marched in 654 towns and cities across the United States.

Starksboro saw an energized campaign for selectboard shaping up, following a December 2016 vote to expand that body from three to five members. In towns across the county, prospective candidates were filling out official paperwork, shaking hands and getting required signatures in anticipation of the Jan. 30 deadline to declare their candidacies.

In mid-January Vermont Secretary

of State Jim Condos reminded Vermonters that starting in 2017 Vermont residents would be able to register and vote on the same day.

Towns and schools spent much of January fine-tuning their budgets in time to be warned for town meeting.

The Addison Central and Addison Northwest school districts, both newly unified, presented their first multi-school budgets in 2017.

The proposed budget for Mount Abraham Union High School, part of

the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union, showed what would become a central concern throughout 2017: renovating the 49-year-old Mount Abe building. The budget for fiscal 2018 allocated around $1 million in repairs. ANESU officials said the building would continue to need that amount in its annual repair kitty indefinitely. At its Jan. 17 meeting, the Mount Abe board created a new Mount Abe renovation committee to study the building’s needs and consider a possible bond. The committee was charged with making its recommendation to Superintendent Patrick Reen by early August.

On Jan. 26, the Champlain Valley Farmer Coalition celebrated a year of accomplishments at its annual meeting. The farmer-to-farmer peer group has been instrumental in engaging farmers in best management practices to improve water quality.

More than 40,000 acres are under the stewardship of CVFC members, mostly in Addison County. Gov. Scott and Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts spoke at the meeting.

Scott vowed to protect the state’s immigrant workers, saying, “We will take action to protect the rights of all who live within our borders.”

Toward the end of the month, Addison County Transit Resources announced it was seeking to merge with Stagecoach Transportation Services, which serves Orange and north Windsor counties. The two transportation nonprofits had been working in partnership since January 2014, when ACTR was called in by the Vermont Agency of Transportation to provide leadership after Stage Coach’s executive director stepped down. ACTR Executive Director Jim Moulton said that merger into one

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A coyote hunt scheduled for the second week in February in Bristol drew heated criticisms and a day of protest. “It’s not that we object to hunting,” said one coyote hunt opponent. “It’s that we object to this kind of hunting.” Coyotes can be hunted any time of year in Vermont, with no limits for number of animals killed. Some hunters claimed that coyote hunts help limit the local deer herd, but this assertion was disputed by Fish and Wildlife’s top deer expert Nick Fortin. The hunt brought renewed pressure on state officials to regulate the hunting of coyotes. Because such hunts have little impact, statistically, on the coyote population, state officials continued to maintain that there is no scientific basis on which to regulate coyote hunting.

On Feb. 16, the Porter Medical Center and University of Vermont Health Network (UVMHN) boards announced an affiliation agreement.

The decision to affiliate came after a stormy few years at Porter, marked by layoffs, accelerated staff turnover, financial challenges and a controversial CEO who resigned abruptly. After long-time emergencycare physician Fred Kniffin took over leadership of the hospital, Porter began investigating possible affiliations with larger institutions as a way to stabilize finances and improve patient services. The boards’ Feb. 16 agreement would be formally finalized at the March 16 Porter annual meeting.

The Addison Northeast School District (later renamed the Mount Abraham Unified School District) held its first official meeting on Feb. 16. The five towns within the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union — Bristol, New Haven, Starksboro, Monkton and Lincoln — agreed to form one school district in a vote the previous November.

Following the state-ordered closure of the Underhill Maple Leaf Treatment Center earlier in the year, Valley Vista announced mid-month it would be opening a residential treatment center in Vergennes on a faster timeline than previously anticipated. Maple Leaf’s closure reduced the state’s in-patient capacity by 30 percent, making the expansion of the Bradford-based Valley Vista to Vergennes more urgent. Valley Vista said the Vergennes facility would hold 19 beds and serve either men or women with drug and alcohol addictions, and estimated the facility would employ around 30.

The state’s struggle to transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy hit the news in various ways throughout February. The Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Energy heard testimony regarding a renewable energy bill introduced

by Sen. Chris Bray, D-New Haven.

Bray’s bill would to write into law the state’s goals to have 90 percent of Vermont’s energy from renewables by 2050, first introduced in 2011.

In Panton, a Green Mountain Power partnership to assist the town with energy efficiency upgrades as part of the installation of a 40-acre, 4.99 megawatt solar array hit some bumps. Town officials were unhappy with GMP’s delivery on promised aspects of the upgrades. GMP said the difficulties were part of “growing pains” in implementing a new initiative.

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years of making music together with a concert in late February at Mead Chapel. The two first performed together in 1976 at Mead Chapel, and went on their first European tour in 1978. February’s Mead Chapel concert kicked off a smaller tour of Vermont and New York, leading up to Davydov and Fanning’s eighth performance tour of Europe.

Vergennes this month marked the 20th anniversary of the re-opened Vergennes Opera House, and in Bristol the selectboard considered three proposals for individuals interested in buying and renovating the town’s historic 1897 firehouse.

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of the 41-mile Addison Natural Gas Pipeline by capping it to an 8.5 percent return on capital assets through 2019. The pipeline was originally projected to cost $86 million but had risen to $165.6 million. In New Haven, which felt under siege by a large number of solar energy projects, town officials readied for a vote on a new energy plan that if approved could give the town “substantial deference” in the siting of renewable energy projects.

Local farmer/author Eugenie Doyle’s first picture book, “Sleep Tight Farm,” won the American Farm Bureau Foundation’s Agriculture Book of the Year award.

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Former Middlebury College women’s lacrosse and field hockey coach Missy Foote was inducted in the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame.

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Middlebury College was thrown into the national spotlight on March 2 when student protestors shouted down right-wing speaker Charles Murray with boos, jeers, stomps and chants, claiming that Murray was a racist who had no right to speak.

Administration relocated and telecast an exchange between Murray and event moderator and political science professor Allison Stanger.

Later, a group of masked protesters violently confronted Stanger and Murray as they exited the building, sending Stanger to the emergency room. Murray had been invited by a student group to speak on his 2014 book “Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010.” He has been branded a white supremacist for his 1994 bestseller, “The Bell Curve,” which argues that white men are innately more intelligent than women or people of color. The explosion added fuel to the fire in a national debate over racism, hate speech, the open exchange of ideas on college campuses and the limits of free speech.

On Town Meeting Day, Orwell voted 219-137 against joining Benson, Castleton, Fair Haven, Hubbardton and West Haven as part of the Slate Valley Unified Union School District. This third “no” vote against a school district merger positioned the town for a potential showdown with the state. Under Vermont’s Act 46, single-school school districts have until Nov. 30, 2017, to make their proposals to the state’s Department of Education.

New Haven voters approved what is likely the first energy plan designed to win the town “substantial deference” in Public Utility Commission proceedings. The “substantial deference” category was created in a 2016 law that is intended to give towns with satisfactory plans for achieving the state’s renewable energy goals a greater say before the utility regulator in its decisions regarding renewable energy projects.

Middlebury residents gave the nod to $30,620 to reinstate its police dog program.

In Ferrisburgh, embattled town treasurer Garrit Smits lost to challenger Deb Healey. The selectboard had raised a number of questions about Smits’s actions as treasurer. Professional auditors looking at his work had found patterns of unreconciled accounts, late deposits, unrecorded balances and late fees assessed by the IRS. Voters in the newly unified Addison Central, Addison Northwest, and Otter Valley Unified Union school (See March, Page 12A)

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OFFICIALS FROM PORTER Medical Center and UVM Health Network unveil the new sign on the Porter campus in Middlebury Thursday, which solidifies for the community Porter’s move to join with the five hospitals in the network.

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(March continued from Page 11A) districts approved their first multischool budgets. ACSD voters said yes to approximately $37.7 million in spending; ANWSD OK’d a $21.1 million unified budget; Otter Valley approved a $19.1 million spending plan. Voters in Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro passed their last budgets as individual schools and approved a $12.3 million budget for Mount Abraham Union High School.

Former Vergennes Mayor Mike Daniels defeated incumbent Bill Benton by a slim margin. In contested selectboard races, the winners included: Tim Howlett, Bridport; Michelle Perlee, Bristol; Rick Ebel, Ferrisburgh; Taborri Bruhl, New Haven; Thomas Audet, Orwell; and Alix O’Meara, Weybridge. Running for Starksboro’s newly expanded selectboard, incumbent Peter Marsh retained his seat against challenger Dan Baker; Keegan Tierney ran unopposed for one of the two new seats; and Koran Cousino defeated Jeff Dunham to win the other.

The newly formed Renovation Committee for Bristol’s MAUHS began its work on March 22. The 17-member committee was charged with determining the needs of the close-to-50-year-old facility and with shaping a potential bond measure.

In 2014, ANESU voters defeated a $32.6 million bond proposal, when the SU was under the leadership of the divisive and unpopular David Adams. Just months before the committee began its work, leaky pipes forced closure of the school’s only gym for months to the tune of close to $165,000 in emergency repairs. The annual budget just passed by ANESU voters included fully $1 million for repairs. School officials said that without a bond that amount would likely remain in the budget annually for the foreseeable future.

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A LARGE YELLOW “X” marks the north end of the Middlebury Airport runway Tuesday morning. The marking indicates that the runway is closed during work to extend and widen it. The entire airport project, which also includes work on the taxiways, should be complete in August, but the runway portion should be done much sooner.

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Festival on Mar. 11 in Middlebury.

The Best Chili Overall prize went to The Lobby’s pork chili.

Middlebury residents got a first look at a proposed $10 million renovation to the Ilsley Public Library that would expand the building from 19,000 to 25,000 square feet; offer more and better space for children’s and youth programs; fix water infiltration, heating and ventilation problems; create more accessible, secure and welcoming entries; and improve access to technology and community work space, while keeping the library downtown and retaining all public parking behind the current structure.

Dairy farmers grew increasingly concerned as to how President

Trump’s immigration policies could affect their labor force of mostly migrant foreign workers, many undocumented. Workers themselves, meanwhile, reported becoming increasingly isolated on the farm, as concerns over deportation made them less likely to venture out for health care visits or groceries. Dairy pumps an estimated $2.2 billion a year into Vermont’s economy and creates an estimated 6,000-7,000 jobs statewide. Loss of these workers, experts said, could be “devastating to our farm economy” statewide and in Addison County, which is the state’s top county for milk sales, at $132.1 million a year. It’s also the state’s top county for all agricultural sales, at $191 million a year.

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Early in March, the Vermont Agency of Transportation reported that the estimated cost of replacing the rail bridges in downtown Middlebury had grown from $40 million to $52 million. Later in the month, VTrans made an Emergency Declaration that it would be installing temporary spans in downtown Middlebury, likely sometime in June.

The Bristol selectboard chose master carpenter William Gibbs’s proposal to renovate the town’s historic firehouse as a wood shop and private dwelling.

Addison County Readers celebrated its 10th year of sending free books to the county’s infants and preschoolers. The nonprofit group is the local sponsor of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library, which now reaches about 1,150 children — close to 70 percent of the county’s eligible population.

March closed with a sweet reminder of one of the best parts of mud season in Vermont, as county sugarmakers took part in the statewide Maple Open House Weekend, March 25 and 26.

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The Addison Central School District board in April briefly toyed with the notion of having Middlebury Union Middle School absorb the ACSD’s 6th-grade population. Some touted the move as a way of better integrating the International Baccalaureate program into ACSD schools. But the board ultimately balked at the idea, noting — among other things — that some of the ACSD’s seven elementary schools might not be able to survive the corresponding loss of students in a district already contending with (See April, Page 13A)

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(April continued from Page 12A) declining enrollment.

Meanwhile, teachers’ unions and school directors in the Addison Northwest and Addison Northeast school districts declared impasses in their respective efforts to hammer out new labor contracts. The ACSD board and local teachers had declared impasse the month before. The sticking points: Wage increases and how much of the health insurance premiums teachers should have to absorb.

April also saw a re-boot of the Mount Abraham Union High School renovation committee, which began work on a new plan to refurbish the almost 50-year-old building.

The committee recommended that five-town residents vote on a new renovation bond during the 20172018 academic year.

Also in Bristol, Mount Abe students and the local police department teamed up on an outreach program aimed at preventing sexting — the practice of texting naked photos.

The Middlebury selectboard unanimously approved a plan to demolish the deteriorating Main Street and Merchants Row rail bridges and replace them with temporary spans by early August.

Officials announced both bridges would be closed for at least a week in July. Ultimately, plans call for the two spans to be replaced by a concrete tunnel, a $52 million project expected to last into 2020.

Natural gas began flowing to Middlebury’s industrial park in midApril, and Vermont Gas was readying hundreds of other connections throughout the village. It was the culmination of the company’s $166-million Addison Natural Gas Project. The much-debated pipeline project will deliver natural gas to Middlebury, Vergennes and some of the more densely settled areas of several other Addison County communities (probably including Bristol) in the coming years.

Porter Medical Center officials turned their attention to future growth at the South Street hospital and nursing home campus. Affiliation with UVM Health Network brought promises of a new medical office building. Porter leaders hired a consultant to help prepare a facilities master plan to chart future, potential growth during the next five years and beyond.

Addison County sugarmakers heralded a decent maple syrup season in April, but some voiced concern about how climate change could affect future returns. Sugarmakers depend on cold nights and mild days to get maple trees to surrender their sap. A recent trend of rising temperatures and more aggressive storms has left some producers worried the sap flow could lessen in the coming years.

April brought some pleasant financial news to Middlebury. The town’s local option taxes on sales, rooms, meals and alcohol had yielded an accrued surplus (since 2008) of around $1 million, sparking debate on how the community should use

July 27

DOWNTOWN MIDDLEBURY HAS undergone some dramatic changes in the last week since the rail bridges work started up again. The Main Street bridge was demolished at the end of last week and work on the temporary span began early this week. Merchants Row was scheduled to close Thursday so work could begin on that span over the railroad tracks. Both streets are closed now.

Main Street will open on Aug. 5 and Merchants Row by Aug. 12.

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that money. The local option money at this point can only be used to retire debt on the Cross Street Bridge and pay for its upkeep.

The Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center board launched a search for

an interim director, in the wake of an unsuccessful effort to find a replacement for top administrator Lynn Coale, who would step down in June.

April is a month in which state

lawmakers start working, in earnest, toward adjournment of the legislative session. Local legislators reported on plans to re-examine Act 250, the state’s land-use law, which is now 47 years old. They said efforts to institute publicly financed primary health care had stalled, a fate also suffered by a bill calling for legalizing possession of small amounts of recreational marijuana.

Middlebury College alum Cam MacKugler’s “Seedsheet” business received national attention — and a $500,000 infusion of capital — during an April 7 appearance on a reality TV show called “Shark Tank.” Seedsheet features a weed-blocking fabric sheet that is embedded with dissolvable pouches, similar to laundry detergent pods, that contain organic and non-GMO seeds with a buffer of soil. It’s a product that allows anyone, virtually anywhere, to grow their own food. The national exposure and financial assistance helped MacKugler ramp up Seedsheet production and sales from his Middlebury headquarters.

Middlebury Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7823 announced it would host the Middlebury Farmers’ Market at its 530 Exchange St. property. The market was looking to move from its location in the Marble Works in light of impending replacement of the Main Street and Merchants Row rail bridges.

Doug Nedde, new owner of Middlebury’s Battell Block, confirmed a series of renovations to what is downtown Middlebury’s tallest and largest residential/ business hub. He launched a series of interior renovations to the 68,000-square-foot complex, which included an overhaul of the thirdfloor apartments.

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May Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater drew a full house on May 11 for a real-life drama — discussion of the potential economic and environmental impacts of the impending $52 million replacement of downtown Middlebury’s Main Street and Merchants Row rail bridges. The Vermont Agency of Transportation sponsored the public hearing, at which numerous downtown property owners, merchants and residents voiced concern about how the projected three years of construction might affect commerce, tourism, quality of life, nearby historic structures and the adjacent Otter Creek.

In Bristol, an Eagle Scout’s proposed community service project drew both praise and criticism. The Scout — Victor Hinojosa — sought permission to build an information kiosk in front of Holley Hall in the center of Bristol. The design of the wooden display garnered great reviews, but was also panned for its message display: A 5-foot-6inch-by-2-foot-7-inch Daktronics electronic message center. Some saw the modern message display as being out of character with its historic surroundings.

Proprietors of a fine art gallery in Rochester this month opened a satellite operation on Main Street in Vergennes. Anni Mackay brought her connections to the New York art world and her experience selling high-end art to BigTown Gallery Vergennes, which is located next to Vergennes Laundry.

The Turning Point Center of Addison County in May filed plans with the Middlebury Development Review Board to transform the Greystone Motel at 1395 Route 7 South into a recovery center for men struggling with drug addiction. The eight-room center was to provide stays of up to six months, and a variety of support services, for people trying to rebuild their lives as they recover from addiction. Turning Point’s application faced a major hurdle, however, as social service facilities are not allowed in the town’s protected highway district.

Richard Rawson, a Whiting native who left the area nearly five decades ago to pursue a successful career in psychology and addiction treatment, returned to Vermont for retirement.

But he was pulled back into his old career and this month continued work educating locals about opiate addiction and treatment.

A newly resurrected Connor Homes reopened its doors in a portion of the Good Point Recycling building in Middlebury’s industrial park. It was around four months earlier that Connor Homes had laid off its entire workforce of 63, citing financial reasons. An investment group led by local businessman Sam Pryor assumed ownership of the company’s assets, including its former 116,000-square-foot headquarters at 1741 Route 7 South.

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THE ADDISON COUNTY Fair and Field Days kicked off its five-day run Tuesday in New Haven with plenty of warm sunshine and an uncharacteristic cool breeze. The 4-H Youth Dairy Show conformation classes filled the animal show arena all day.

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Company founder Mike Connor made a deal with Good Point CEO Robin Ingenthron to occupy around one-third of Good Point’s facility at 227 Pond Lane.

Planning continued on a major project aimed at protecting East Middlebury residents from future flooding of the Middlebury River.

The “East Middlebury Flood Resiliency Project” involves study of a 1.7-mile segment of the river stretching from the Sand Hill Bridge to Route 7 Bridge. A task force leading the study is advancing several remedies, including armoring 1,400 feet of the protective berm off Ossie Road, repairing the existing floodwall downstream of the Grist Mill Bridge and restoring roughly 5 acres of floodplain between Lower Plans Road and Grist Mill Road.

Officials said local residents will likely face a bond vote next year to help finance the project.

Leaders of several Addison County fire departments in May began discussing ways to deal with declining membership on their respective forces. The growing time commitment and extensive training requirements have been thinning the volunteer ranks on local fire departments. Local officials were exploring a new certification process that could allow firefighters to cut their mandatory training hours from the current 200, to around 80.

May also saw workers put the finishing touches on a two-story, 8,000-square-foot addition to the historic Congregational Church of Middlebury at the intersection of North Pleasant and Main streets.

The project was designed to provide much-needed program space for the church’s growing membership, its youth education classes and its humanitarian outreach efforts.

Ferrisburgh residents on May 11 voted 61-59 in favor of a town charter change that would allow the local selectboard to appoint future town

clerks and treasurers. Town clerks and treasurers have historically been elected in Ferrisburgh and most other Vermont communities. The Ferrisburgh charter change still has to be approved by the Legislature.

Two longtime Middlebury farms received conservation offers in May. The Vermont Land Trust sought a combined total of $814,000 to permanently protect the 148 acres of the Butler Farm off Munger Street and 210 acres of the Pominville Farm off Quarry Road. The Middlebury selectboard agreed to give $55,000 from the municipal conservation fund to help finance the deal.

Fourteen-year-old Ferrisburgh resident Kobe Kessler and his mom, Denise, and a Barre veterinarian announced plans to make a 4,200mile bike ride across the United States to raise money for Christian Veterinary Missions.

Middlebury College and Middlebury police announced in May that none of the demonstrators at protest of controversial speaker Charles Murray would face criminal charges in connection with the March 2 event, which had turned rowdy.

Friends of Vergennes Union High School alum Dustin Dattilio were blown away by the realism in his nature drawings, so the Castleton State College grad started really applying himself to the craft. The 24-year-old Bridport native in May found out that the National Wild Turkey Federation had chosen one of his paintings as its 2018 Stamp Print of the Year, which means it will receive national distribution and bring Dattilio not just recognition, but a little money.

Late in the month very high winds and thunderstorms struck the northern half of the county. In the lakeside neighborhood of Potash Bay in Addison winds lifted a pickup truck over a barn, ripped roofing and siding off an estimated 10 homes, and blew a home off its foundation

causing it to crash down around its 75-year-old resident, who was trapped under her ceiling but was rescued and recuperated.

During their Memorial Day activities, Orwell residents unveiled a new memorial in the town park.

The granite monument — which stands about 4 feet tall by 30 inches wide — pays tribute to Orwell’s 40 Vietnam-era veterans, as well as a combined total of around 60 local soldiers who served in World War II and Korea. The tribute supplemented a monument in the park that pays homage to Orwell’s World War I veterans.

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ACSD directors and teachers brought in a mediator to help settle an ongoing disagreement over terms of a new, two-year contract. Veteran arbitrator Ira Lobel stepped into the role. The move worked, as just a few weeks later teachers ratified a new pact that included a 3-percent annual increase in new money for salaries and a requirement that educators pick up a greater share of their health insurance premiums.

Longtime Woodstock Union Middle School Principal Dana Peterson agreed to a two-year contract (See June, Page 15A)

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(June continued from Page 14A) to serve as interim superintendent of the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center, which provides vocational and technical education to students in three of the county’s four supervisory unions. But career center officials were hopeful Peterson’s interim status could evolve into a permanent gig. Peterson was picked from among three candidates vying for the position that Lynn Coale held for the previous 15 years The Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union, which includes the town of Orwell, named a new superintendent to succeed Ron Ryan. Brooke Farrell arrived after having served a stint as assistant superintendent of the Mill River Unified Union School District.

Farrell knew she would need to hit the ground running in her new job, as the ARSU continued to sort out a plan to unify school governance in the 6-town district. Orwell was still on the record as rejecting an offer to join the newly proposed Slate Valley Modified Unified Union School District.

June brought many school graduations — not only for students, but for some veteran teachers as well. New Haven’s Beeman Elementary School bade goodbye to its 6th-grade class and three teachers with a combined 117 years of classroom experience.

Linda Kulhowvick, Margaret Benn and Arnell Paquette all retired together when the final bell rang on graduation day, and they will be missed.

The Vergennes Union Elementary School community said “goodbye” to social studies teacher Joe Samaritoni, who capped a 48-year career serving Vergennes, Waltham and Panton students. Along with teaching, he coached and refereed countless youth soccer and basketball games during his tenure.

It was also the end of an era at the United Church of Lincoln. The Rev. Dave Wood announced his retirement after 38 years of shepherding the vibrant, popular church in the picturesque mountain town.

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MIDDLEBURY FIREFIGHTERS GATHER on the roof of a structure on Seymour Street last Wednesday night for a training exercise. The former three-unit apartment building located at 51 Seymour St. will soon be removed and replaced with one, or possibly two, affordable homes to be built by Habitat for Humanity of Addison County.

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within Porter’s Collins Building.

Middlebury police in June put a little bite into its long-dormant K-9 program. Thanks to Town Meeting Day support from local residents, the department welcomed new police dog Neila, a Belgian Malinois. At 12 weeks old, Neila was only equipped to disarm crooks with her cuteness.

But she would quickly grow and team up with her handler, Officer Bill Austin, for a 16-week course at the Vermont State Police Academy in Pittsford.

Middlebury Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7823 members were counting their blessings after some shaky times for the nonprofit organization. Only three years ago, Post 7823 was facing a $30,000 budget shortfall and members were considering selling their meeting hall and property at 530 Exchange St. But thanks to new leadership, including Quartermaster Bub Crosby, Post 7823 mopped up its red ink and

emerged in good health.

The very popular Meals on Wheels food program experienced a setback when its Addison County coordinator position, held for years by the popular Tracy Corbett, was eliminated as part of a cost cutting move.

The cutback left area seniors concerned about ongoing home delivery of meals through the program.

More than 110 people donated to a GoFundMe campaign in support of Juan De La Cruz, a Panton resident of Mexican birth, farm owner and father of six, who had been told he would be deported on July 6. The approximately $8,000 in donations were to be used to help pay his family’s legal fees.

Work on an estimated 5-month, $1.1 million project to improve Bristol’s water system infrastructure got going in June. Scheduled work included replacing the aging water line on West Street, from Airport Drive to Maple Street.

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July As July opened it became public that longtime Bristol Police Chief Kevin Gibbs would retire in August.

Gibbs served the town in its police department for 31 years, beginning in 1986 and taking over as its leader in 1997.

Also in Bristol, Addison Northeast Supervisory Union teachers and support staff ratified a new two-year deal that would give them pay hikes, but require them to chip in more for the cost of the health insurance benefits.

In Vergennes, residents early on learned the combined new school and municipal tax rate would mean a reasonable 1.8-percent increase of about 4.25 cents on their overall tax rate. A little later the Middlebury selectboard pegged a new tax rate with an even more modest 2-cent increase.

Brandon wasn’t so lucky in another matter: the town was hardest hit in the area by flooding when heavy rains struck in early July after a wet June. Several area roads saw flooding, although officials said a recent $2.3 million project to protect downtown from the Neshobe River prevented damage there.

In Middlebury local businessman Tony Neri closed a deal for the longvacant Greg’s Meat Market property and pledged to re-establish a grocery store there. The project is still in the permit process at year’s end.

United Way of Addison County officials announced in early July that their just-concluded 2016 campaign raised $651,364, slightly more than its $650,000 goal.

In major July 4 sports news, the Bristol Financial team of Coleman Russell, Chris Wood and Sophie Wolak prevailed in the Great Bristol Outhouse Race after falling a few feet short in the 2016 final.

Stop the presses: school tax rates dropped in Addison and Waltham by 13 and 10 cents, respectively. The 10-cent discount for Addison Northwest School District unification was largely responsible. Later in the month Ferrisburgh adopted a new tax rate that for homeowners was almost 15 cents lower.

Cooperation between the Addison Northwest and Northeast districts took a step forward when a deal to share food services, purchasing, and a director, Kathy Alexander, became official. Food reviews, already positive in Bristol, improved in Vergennes.

Controversy struck usually quiet Whiting. Neighbors of a gun range that town officials said was illegal complained about noise and safety and about two dozen showed up at a zoning board hearing to oppose ongoing shooting there. The owner said he no longer runs the range as a business, although he would accept donations. An Aug. 2 site visit was scheduled.

Guns made news in Bristol, too. A proposed law to regulate firing guns in Bristol drew about 70 residents to a selectboard hearing, with most opposed to anything that would limit rights to fire weapons. The proposed law, banning discharging weapons within 500 feet of someone else’s property, had been suggested after spring incidents of guns being fired near homes. The board decided to do (See July, Page 16A)

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Two local sports figures made news in late July. Fish & Wildlife officials certified as a state record a 33.25-pound carp caught in April by 10-year-old Ferrisburgh resident Chase Stokes, and former Middlebury College basketball player Koby Altman was named the general manager of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers (translation: Altman is technically LeBron James’ boss.)

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August On Aug. 1 the Ferrisburgh selectboard signed a $337,500 purchase and sale agreement to sell the townowned 34.91-acre parcel at the junction of Routes 7 and 22A to Monkton malt maker Andrew Peterson.

Peterson hopes to move his business, which processes a major beer ingredient for Vermont microbrewers, from a Monkton barn to the site.

The board just hopes the deal, which was pending at year’s end, closes — unlike two previous sales, both of which fell through.

On Aug. 2 the Whiting zoning board held a site visit and hearing on the zoning notice of violation issued to a Stickney Road gun range. The violation alleges it is an illegal commercial range, and neighbors complain it is loud and unsafe. Its owner maintains he accepts only donations, its hours are reasonable, and its topography makes it safe. The board held another hearing on Aug. 18 with no immediate resolution. Neighbors have also complained about informal shooting ranges in Goshen, Lincoln and Ripton.

The Bristol selectboard, however, put an end to discussion of the town’s proposed gun ordinance. All board members voted against adopting the law, saying it was unwieldy and unnecessary. They noted public opposition and said the spring incidents that prompted the proposal had not been repeated.

Ilsley Library officials released a study from an architectural firm that they said supported the need for a $9.6 million project that would renovate the building’s existing 19,000 square feet and add 6,600 more. According to library board representatives, that investment, hopefully paid for by grants and fundraising as well as by residents’ wallets, would serve Middlebury for the next 50 to 100 years. The project, if approved as proposed or scaled back, remains several years away.

Vergennes and Middlebury youth swimmers capped an enjoyable summer by taking titles and setting records at the Vermont championship meet. Vergennes swimmer Will Clark won four races and set a record in the 50-yard freestyle, and the Middlebury boys’ 14-and-under relay team of Fraser Milligan, Nathan Stone, Oliver Poduschnick and Will Carpenter set a state mark in winning

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Local displays of Confederate flags on private properties in Middlebury and Vergennes triggered protests and heated debate in the county, especially after violence triggered by self-proclaimed white supremacists and neo-Nazis in Charlottesville, Va. About 100 protesters gathered in Middlebury to express solidarity with Charlottesville counter-protesters.

Officials responded to the issue of racism and bigotry in all its forms.

Addison Central School District created a task force to recommend ways of creating a more racially sensitive environment in its schools following incidents among students. In Vergennes, the city council adopted a resolution supporting inclusivity, tolerance and universal rights, and rejecting hatred.

One thing seemed to unite county residents in August: Many gathered one warm and sunny afternoon to watch the sun — or more specifically the partial eclipse of the sun that could be seen from this region of our planet.

Many also agreed that the third annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival was a success: record numbers of viewers checked out the offerings, and directors enjoyed enthusiastic give-and-take sessions after many showings.

As the month closed the sun was back in the news. The Vermont Supreme Court overturned the Public Utilities Commission’s approval for a New Haven solar array off Route 7, ruling the commission had to consider comments its members had ruled were filed too late. According to a town attorney the decision marked the first time Vermont Supreme

Court had reversed a utility commission Certificate of Public Good for a solar array. The town, the commission and the owners of the already operating array were still talking at year’s end about the next steps.

September As September opened the Mount Abraham Union board decided to ask Addison Northeast voters to approve a $35 million bond to overhaul the high school, with big ticket items to include more gym space, a bigger lobby and main office, better ventilation, and renovations to the science classrooms, library, auditorium and locker rooms, plus a laundry list of mandated items and other improvements. The board scheduled a vote for Nov. 2.

Officials from Addison Central School District and Middlebury College forged a partnership wherein college students would help the primary and secondary schools in the area transition to an International Baccalaureate program.

For the first time in more than 20 years, the Aurora School, an alternative K-8 school in Middlebury, did not open its doors for the school year. Declining enrollment made it financially impossible for the school to continue, officials said.

Another long tenure of more than 20 years was ending in Ferrisburgh.

Jane Williamson said she would be stepping down as executive director of the Rokeby Museum at the end of the year.

While preparing to say goodbye to Williamson, Kathleen Haughy began

her tenure as the new executive director of the Vermont Folklife Center, a Middlebury institution that is the repository for thousands of Vermonters’ stories.

Addison Northwest became the last local district to reach a new two-year deal with its teachers. But a mysterious holdup prevented the board from signing the deal for a couple of months, to the frustration of educators, who were kept in the dark. It proved to be a technicality about the beginning and ending of workday hours that negotiators on both sides worked to smooth over by the end of November, and the contract was made final by the end of the year.

Other labor agreements were inked: Porter Medical Center nurses and Porter’s University of Vermont Health Network managers reached terms on a new three-year deal, and Hannaford Career Center teachers signed a two-year pact.

The Northlands Job Corps director left after less than a year, with no clear explanation. News broke only in an email to the Vergennes City Manager just after the company that runs the federal job training center, Chugach Alaska Corp., denied any change was in the offing. Sources and documents obtained by the Independent said the director was not popular among the center staff and students.

Bristol hired a new town administrator, poaching Valerie Capels from Waitsfield, where she had served as that town’s administrator since 2006.

Bristol selectboard member Peter Coffey was especially happy to see Capels sign on — he had been serving as interim administrator.

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The Independent spoke with Middlebury dairy farmers Joel Pomainville and Sam Berthiaume about their hemp harvest. The farmers hope that hemp will soon be a widely used supplemental cash crop for Vermont farmers. Interest in hemp is growing: in 2014, nine farmers registered their intent to plant a total of 17 acres of hemp. This year, 91 farmers registered the intent to plant 562 acres; Pomainville and Berthiaume harvested 13 acres.

In light of recent sewer overflows in Vergennes, City Manager Mel Hawley recommended that Vergennes seek an $8,000 planning grant to pay for an engineer to study how the Macdonough Drive pump station could operate more efficiently.

For the second straight year, Vergennes Union High School sophomore Michael Davis, from Addison, earned $1,000 and the title of NRA Junior World Champion at the NRA World Shooting Championships.

A report commissioned by the Addison County Central School District found that the district’s 11 buildings, spread throughout seven Middleburyarea communities, could require a combined total of $31 million in upgrades and repairs over the next five years.

In a community forum on early childcare held at Middlebury College, participants reported that Addison County lacks sufficient childcare that is affordable and available to parents.

Child advocacy groups estimate that more than 79 percent of Vermont’s infants and toddlers likely to need childcare don’t have access to programs considered to be high quality.

Middlebury residents Andy and Bronia Van Benthuysen moved to Puerto Rico for their retirement, despite Hurricane Maria’s devastating impact in late September. The couple encouraged friends and family to donate money to the relief effort.

Matt Baldwin and his family officially bought a 218-acre farm in Monkton. The original owners, the Cota brothers, with help from the Vermont Land Trust, conserved much of the land so it would not be developed, before selling it to the Baldwins.

Under the town’s tax stabilization policy, the Middlebury kombucha company Aqua ViTea asked to be excused from paying municipal property taxes during the next five years.

With the exemption, the company hoped to attract new tenants to share its workspace in the 63,454-squarefoot building in the industrial park.

The request came to Middlebury’s selectboard as its members struggled to recruit participants for a new “Economic Health Committee.”

In mid-October, three weeks away from the vote on the Mount Abraham Union High School renovation bond, school officials, board members and community supporters reached out to

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the community to draw support for the $35 million proposal. Later in the month, Monkton residents at an information session on the bond openly struggled with the increased taxpayer cost caused by the renovation. Independent reporter Gaen Murphree talked to students about the renovation: “It’s pretty bad because there’s not really good ventilation, and it gets really hot in here. It makes it hard to focus,” 8th-grader Elliot Nezin said.

The Middlebury selectboard pledged support for renovations to the Ilsley Public Library, though they did not fully endorse the tentative $9.6 million price tag affixed to the job.

Vergennes Union High School considered security changes, including new locks and improved visitor identification, after two male Northland Job Corps students snuck into the school. The intruders posed as visiting German exchange students and entered a classroom, and they made two female students feel uncomfortable in the hallway.

Middlebury and Ferrisburgh fire departments were awarded $295,985 from FEMA to buy equipment, such as turnout gear, breathing apparatus and radios, to keep their firefighters safe.

The Mountain Health Center in Bristol began offering free vegetables to residents whose income was a barrier to buying healthy food. The program is called the Health Care Share pilot.

Twenty-eight animals were rescued from a Ferrisburgh property where their living conditions were determined to be poor by the Vermont State Police, members of the Burlington Emergency and Veterinary Specialists and the Addison County Humane Society. Later, two Ferrisburgh residents — Katherine Ferguson, 61, and Thomas Ferguson, 51 — and one Bridport resident, Roxanne Clark, 36, were accused of animal cruelty. Each charge included depriving an animal of “adequate food, water, shelter, rest, sanitation or necessary medical attention.” The animals included 11 dogs, nine birds, some cats, ferrets, guinea pigs, a hamster and a bearded dragon.

On Oct. 16, ACSD Board members asked administrators to draft a levelfunded fiscal year 2019 budget for the district’s nine public schools. Due to contracted personnel expenses and other fixed costs, the budget would require $2.2 million in cuts. Officials hoped to satisfy Gov. Phil Scott’s recommendation that school districts strive for level spending next year. “I don’t need to tell you $2.2 million is a lot of money,” Steve Orzech, leader of the ACSD board’s finance committee, told his colleagues. “I think it would be devastating to our school. But we at least need to see what it looks like and make a good-faith effort to meet (Scott’s) request.”

On Oct. 23, the Middlebury Development Review Board looked for the first time at local businessman Tony Neri’s proposal to re-establish a community supermarket at the for-

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A year after the Boy & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes finished its $100,000 renovation of its School Street headquarters, attendance has risen steadily from a 75-person membership last year to 109 members this fall.

In an online survey about this summer’s temporary rail bridge project in downtown Middlebury, an overwhelming majority of respondents said they were satisfied with the results and believe the construction impact was less onerous on their lives than they anticipated.

The Independent profiled Fred Kenney, who would become the executive director of the Addison County Economic Development Corporation in November. Kenney spent 16 years administering Vermont Economic Progress Council programs that funnel millions of dollars each year in tax incentives to qualifying Vermont businesses.

In late October, Middlebury police voiced concerns about three separate reports of “racial epithets directed at non-white pedestrians.” The victims were all members of the Middlebury College community.

A group of more than 50 Middlebury leaders, entrepreneurs and residents mapped out priorities for the town during a gathering of the Greater Middlebury Climate Economy Initiative. Ideas included advancing public transportation, hiring more local staff to coordinate energy-related activities and helping farmers transition to organic and more sustainable agricultural practices.

The Independent spoke with Dale Tucker about Vermont Paws & Boots, a program he created in 2015 that trains service dogs to aid military veterans and first responders. The program has already graduated four service dog teams.

November November began with many Vermonters dealing with a record-breaking number of statewide power outages and cleaning up after a major windstorm. The winds started to blow on the night of Oct. 29 and continued on Oct. 30, with winds topping 120 miles per hour on Mount Mansfield and reaching 80 miles per hour in Addison County. Schools closed that Monday due to impassable streets (and some didn’t open again until Wednesday), roughly 12,200 Addison County residents lost power, and a shelter opened in Monkton for those who just wanted a warm place to rest and take a shower.

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Legislators resumed the debate over a carbon tax at a Middlebury forum called “Everyone’s Economic Opportunity in Climate Action.” The tax would encourage consumers to move away from fossil fuels and generate funds to help low-income residents make their homes weather-tight.

In a 93-vote margin of defeat, Addison Northeast Supervisory Union residents on Nov. 2 rejected a $36.6 million renovation plan for Mount Abraham Union High School. The close vote gave project proponents hope that a third vote could be the charm for getting five-town residents to endorse major repairs to their almost-50-year-old secondary school building. Later in the month, a group of citizens urged members of the MAUHS board to delay any new bond vote until Town Meeting Day in March. They hope to see 60 percent voter participation, and a 60 percent voting yes.

After the federal government cut this year’s Vermont Health Connect open enrollment period in half, from 12 weeks to a six-week period, Vermonters rushed to enroll. Those who missed the Dec. 15 deadline could have to wait until 2019 to get their health insurance coverage.

Nine percent of Middlebury voters turned out in early November to green-light three free easements on public land that Vermont Gas needed to serve roughly 15 potential downtown natural gas customers. Those who petitioned for the vote felt that Vermont Gas should negotiate a price for the use of town-owned property, but Vermont Gas officials said Middlebury would be setting a precedent if it required the company — a utility — to pay for the easements.

Fifteen people from all over the world became United States citizens at the Ripton Elementary School in mid-November. “I’ve wanted to be an American citizen because I love American people and America,” said Mary Magot from Sudan as she clutched a small U.S. flag and her citizenship certificate after the ceremony.

Porter Medical Center and three other hospitals in the UVM Health Network — University of Vermont Medical Center, Central Vermont Medical Center, Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital — plan to purchase an Epic-brand electronic medical record system that will allow patients’ histories — including medical lists past procedures and hospital stays — to be seamlessly transferred and viewed by health care professionals within the network.

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A Vermont company proposed to build a 40-acre solar farm on a 112-acre parcel of land off Halladay Road in Middlebury. Developers promised the arrays would be tucked away from street views.

Shortly before Thanksgiving, turkey producers in Addison County had raised tens of thousands of turkeys that were ready for processing. Orwell’s Stonewood Farm contained 2,500 turkeys in each of their eight massive turkey barns.

Middlebury College looked to push its campus beyond carbon neutrality with the announcement of an anaerobic digester with would process 100 tons of manure and 165 tons of food waste every day to create a kind of natural gas. The gas would be piped from the digester on the Goodrich Farm to the college campus in Middlebury.

The Independent reported that organizers of Middlebury’s late winter Chili Fest have decided to temporarily suspend the event, citing a shrinking downtown footprint and burnout experienced by regular entrants. Instead, the Better Middlebury Partnership will replace Chili Fest with an inaugural “Winter Fest,” to be held at the Middlebury Recreation Park on Feb. 24, 2018.

At the end of November, Cindy Peet concluded a 45-year run on the Bingham Memorial School Board in Cornwall. Her husband’s grandfather donated the 5-acre parcel on which the school sits, and that parcel was carved from the farm where Peet resides with her husband.

“I felt I brought some history to the school,” Peet said.

Dana Hart, a New York City transplant who dreamed of relocating closer to some family in Vermont, was appointed as the new director of the Ilsley Public Library.

Hart, 28, served as administration manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library.

Norman L. Baker, an 89-yearold Massachusetts man who led an extraordinary life of exploration and excitement, died while traveling to see his family in Starksboro for Thanksgiving. He was piloting a four-seat Cessna airplane when it crashed in Pittsford.

Area deer hunters claimed success after taking 554 bucks in the secondbest rifle season in 13 years.

The Vermont Green Line, a high voltage direct current electric transmission project designed to harness renewable energy in New York and deliver it to southern New England, hit a major roadblock that could result in its demise. The companies heading the project withdrew their request for a permit to build.

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After learning of her pregnancy, her shelter-mates supported her, and the shelter guided her to the Addison County Parent-Child Center. In late November she was ready to start a job in a Vergennes food service business while another former shelter-mate, who now lives in an apartment, will serve as a caregiver to her son, Hunter.

This Christmas season will be the last in the business for 72-year-old Phil Kivlin, a veteran Christmas tree farmer located in Shoreham.

After 33 years selling trees, Kivlin is ready to move on. “I’m starting to recognize the limitations of what my body can do,” he said. “It’s been really fun.”

December As December began, stewards of Middlebury’s Memorial Sports Center started a fund drive that could result in the completion of the 24-year-old community recreational facility’s second floor.

Boosters of the sports center look to raise $350,000 for a heated viewing area, elevator access and public restrooms for the top floor of the facility.

Green Mountain Power and groSolar filed jointly to the Vermont Public Utility Commission for a Certificate of Public Good to allow the companies to install a 4.99-megawatt solar array on a 40acre parcel that lies at the junction of Route 7 and Greenbush Road in Ferrisburgh. The array, called the GMP MicroGrid-Ferrisburgh Project, would be 800 feet west of the state highway at its closest point, be among the state’s largest, and could power the equivalent of about 1,300 homes.

Right-wing provocateur James O’Keefe visited Middlebury and spoke at the Courtyard by Marriott in early December. His appearance in town came the same week that O’Keefe and Project Veritas, the organization he founded, were under fire for trying to plant what they admit is fake news in a prominent national newspaper.

After Middlebury students protested author Charles Murray’s appearance on campus in March, O’Keefe’s talk, titled “Middlebury’s Free Speech Problem,” was expected to prompt unrest. As Independent reporter Gaen Murphree summed up after O’Keefe’s appearance, “Nothing happened.”

Sen. Chris Bray, D-New Haven, suggested that Vermont adopt a perparcel fee to push along the state’s effort to clean up Lake Champlain and Vermont’s other waterways.

Despite a growing amount of talk in Montpelier, legislative action on funding for those efforts has been moving at a glacial pace. Bray said his proposed fee would yield $18.8 million of the estimated $30 million the state will need to raise during each of the next 20 years as its share of a federally mandated, $2.6 billion cleanup.

Addison County firefighters gathered in Ferrisburgh on Dec. 3 to honoring Bob Jenkins, who had served the county as a firefighter in Vergennes, New Haven and Ferrisburgh for five decades. The 74-year-old, who was battling cancer, helped train generations of area firefighters. “He was like a father to the firefighters of the county,” Dean Gilmore, New Haven’s assistant fire chief, said of Jenkins. Sadly, Jenkins died four days later.

Town Hall Theater officials went public with a $2.5-million fund drive, which they are calling the Doug and Debby Anderson Endowment, that would permanently endow a new “artistic director” position as well as ongoing maintenance at Middlebury’s historic downtown hub for community arts and entertainment.

Addison Central School District administrators drafted a levelfunded spending plan for the 20182019 academic year, which they presented to board members on Dec. 11. The budget for the district’s nine schools could translate into a reduction of 14 licensed teachers, 18 paraprofessionals, a principal and a central office worker. One hundred people, including teachers, packed the Middlebury Union High School band room and engaged in a passionate discussion, during which board members ultimately decided to pursue the cuts.

A handful of people were taken to hospital for treatment of nonlife-threatening injuries sustained in an explosion at the United Technology Corp. Aerospace plant in Vergennes. The explosion rocked the Panton Road plant that employs 775 people who make equipment for the aerospace and defense industry.

Four workers were hospitalized; three went home that day and the four was home and recuperating as this report went to press.

Brad and Blanca Jenne, longtime owners of Middlebury Sweets, are closing in on a deal to buy the Greystone Motel on Route 7 in Middlebury and make it the new home of “Vermont’s largest candy store.” They plan not only to host the huge store there, but also operate a motel with candy-themed rooms.

Despite their involvement in the process, immigration advocates protested the Vermont Criminal Justice Council’s updated language in a state law designed to encourage fair policing. By updating the language, the VCJC was trying to bring current legislation into

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CAST MEMBERS REHEARSE a scene from the Middlebury Community Players’ production of “How to Eat Like a Child” Tuesday night. The show opens Friday night in the Middlebury Union High School auditorium and runs through Sunday.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

compliance with federal law. Not doing so would categorize the state as a “sanctuary state” and would, they feared, result in the loss of federal law enforcement grant funding.

After 14 years spent improving human services in Addison County, United Way of Addison County Executive Director Kate McGowan announced that she would step down as the organization’s leader. Instead, she’ll become the interim director of the Center for New Leadership, run out of Marlboro College Graduate School in Brattleboro.

Nancy Luke, Unite Way’s manager of development and marketing, will slip into McGowan’s role at least until the 2017 fund drive wraps up at the end of next June.

As the year came to a close residents all around Addison County were being told they will have to make some important bigdollar budgeting decisions for their schools in the coming year.

In light of the five-town voters rejection of a $35-million bond to update the Mount Abraham Union High School building last month, the school board decided to hold

a vote on smaller bond issue on Town Meeting Day in March. They are waiting from more information from the architect, but board members in January will consider floating a $29.5 million price tag for the Mount Abe repairs.

Over in the Addison Northwest School District, school directors are also mulling over a bond that would fund school facilities updates.

However, they are not looking at one school, but fixes for all four school buildings in the district — Addison Central, Ferrisburgh Central, and Vergennes Union Elementary and High schools. They will nail down a number in January, and it will probably be $7.6 million, but it is hoped to be floated without a tax hike.

In Addison Central School District, directors got late word that the Middlebury-area schools could get a little more state aid than expected and therefore would need to cut only $1.3 million in its upcoming budget, not $1.9 million as was thought earlier in the month.

Teachers, administrators and parents looking at cuts were not relieved.

The Brandon-area school district

also is trying to balance the books; Superintendent Jeanne Collins at year’s end was suggesting merging operations of the elementary schools in Leicester, Whiting and Sudbury.

The latest plan would have the youngest kids go to one building, middle students to another, and the oldest grade schoolers attend classes at the third.

Finally, this month the Rokeby Museum welcomed a new museum director to replace the retiring Jane Williamson. Fortunately the Rokeby board didn’t have to look far, they hired Catherine Wood Brooks, a Vergennes resident. Brooks, who served as the Cultural Heritage Tourism Coordinator for the Vermont Department of Tourism & Marketing, should be right at home at Rokeby, a Route 7 heritage site known not only for being a stop on the Underground Railroad, but also as the well-preserved farmstead of the Robinson family of Quaker abolitionists.

With that, we all were waiting for fireworks, music and conviviality on New Year’s Eve and the dawning of a fantastic 2018. Happy New Year, everybody!

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2017

KARL LINDHOLM

Sir Alf, Nobby, & Johnny America Reminiscing: It was not so much a lonely existence as it was solitary.

During the week, I was surrounded by people, co-workers in the factory, Italians mostly, though we were in the German part of Switzerland in the town of Brugg, 25 kilometers from Zurich, and I could speak neither Italian nor Swiss-German.

I quickly learned the standard greeting, “Gruezivol!” and the universal valediction, “Ciao.”

After I had been there for a couple of weeks, I was greeted daily by a hearty call of “Johnny America!” when I punched in in the mornings at 7:00.

And when we punched out at 5:00, I was designated to announce loudly “Quittin’ time!” in the Swiss-German I was taught: “Schluss fur huete!”

This was 1966, between my junior and senior years at Middlebury College. After eight summers working on a golf course in Maine, I was 21 years old and desperate for an adventure, expand my horizons, but my dad was reluctant to subsidize “mere” travel.

So we managed to find this factory job in Europe that would allow me to break even financially for the summer, mid-June to mid-August. A change indeed.

(See Lindholm, Page 3B)

In boys’ hoop

OV nips Tigers; other teams fall ADDISON COUNTY — Before bad weather wiped out weekend boys’ basketball games, in Wednesday action last week Otter Valley held off a challenge from Middlebury to highlight local play. In other Wednesday action both Mount Abraham and Vergennes came up short.

MUHS AT OV On Wednesday at OV the Otters bolted to a big lead, but had to withstand a late Tiger charge to earn a 61-57 victory. OV took a 32-17 advantage built with help from the three-point marksmanship of guards (See Boys’ hoop, Page 3B)

SPORTS

ScoreBOARD

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Hockey 12/20 BFA vs. MUHS................................6-0 12/23 Essex at MUHS..................Postponed Boys’ Hockey 12/23 U-32 at MUHS....................Postponed Girls’ Basketball 12/20 VUHS vs. Harwood.....................43-34 12/22 OV at MUHS.................... Ppd. to 1/15 12/22 Mt. Abe at F. Haven Tourn........... Ppd. 12/23 Winooski at VUHS................. 2:30 PM 12/23 Mt. Abe at F. Haven Tourn..... 2:30 PM 12/27 MUHS at Mill River.......................Late 12/27 Mt. Abe vs. B&B at FHUHS..........Late Boys’ Basketball 12/20 Winooski vs. Mt. Abe..................57-39 12/20 OV vs. MUHS.............................61-57 12/20 Fair Haven vs. VUHS.................71-40 12/22 OV at VUHS.................... Ppd. to 1/22 12/22 MUHS at Mill River.............Postponed 12/27 OV vs. MRU at Woodstock...........Late 12/27 Randolph at Mt. Abe.....................Late

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

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2017 brought drama, heartbreak, achievement The year in sports saw excitement

By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — As 2017 closes, the Independent takes a look back at the top local sports stories of the year.

JANUARY In our first paper of the year we reported that the Mount Abraham and Middlebury union high school wrestling teams finished second and third at the Tigers’ 45th annual Hubie Wager Invitational Tournament.

Three Eagles — sophomores Roman Mayer and Gary Conant and senior Ben Murray — and one Tiger — junior Dustin Davio — won titles.

Early in the month Tiger junior girls’ hoop standout Keagan Dunbar scored 18 in the first quarter on the way to a program-record 37 points in a win at Milton.

Vergennes senior Brandon Cousino earned the Outstanding Wrestler Award at Essex High School’s Michael Baker Classic. He topped previously undefeated Concord, N.H., 182-pounder George Tarwo, 4-3, with a late takedown, avenging his only loss of the season. Cousino earned his 100th career pin in the semifinal and improved his record to 155-27, setting a new school mark.

The Middlebury College men’s basketball team lost at Williams, 8965, on Jan. 22. Late in the season the Panthers admitted Coach Jeff Brown spoke to them forcefully after the game. Notably, the team then won 14 straight.

The Tiger Nordic team gave a preview of things to come at a meet at Rikert Nordic Center. The Division II MUHS girls’ team placed all four scoring skiers in the top seven to defeat visiting D-I power Champlain Valley, 15-23, and Tiger senior Ursula Volk won the 5-kilometer classic-style race by more than a minute.

CVU edged the Tiger boys, 18-21, but Tiger Sam Hodges posted an individual win.

FEBRUARY Early in February Mount Abe junior Lydia Pitts won three times and Middlebury senior Henry Ganey won once at the D-II indoor track

THE MIDDLEBURY UNION High School girls’ lacrosse team celebrates winning the state Division I title in June. Middlebury beat Mt. Anthony, 10-8, in the championship game.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

and field championship meet at Norwich University. Pitts swept the girls’ 55-meter hurdles, long jump and triple jump for the second straight year, and Ganey won the boys’ 600-meter race.

Eagle 126-pound junior wrestler Ben Murray, who began his career at MUHS, reached the 100-win milestone on his home mat. Murray defeated Middlebury’s Justin Jackson, 11-2, for the landmark victory.

In a home basketball game vs.

Mount Abe, Tiger Keagan Dunbar scored her 1,000th point during a 25-point night. But her friend, Eagle junior Emma Carter, had a bigger night, scoring 40 points in the Eagles’ 56-50 victory.

Commodore senior Adam

Gill soon joined Dunbar in the 1,000-point club. In a home game vs.

Missisquoi, Gill sank a free throw to reach 1,000 points during a 25-point effort.

Then Carter entered the 1,000-point club in late February, during a typical 28-point, 10-rebound night in a win over Missisquoi.

The Panther women’s hoop team clinched a winning NESCAC season, its first since 2001, and a home playoff game with a 65-59 victory over Trinity in their final regular season game. But Colby upset Middlebury in that playoff match.

Meanwhile the Panther men’s winning streak extended to NESCAC championship game, where they avenged their earlier defeat

VUHS, storms win in girls’ hoop ADDISON COUNTY — In the only local high school girls’ basketball action late last week, Vergennes broke into the win column with a home victory.

Middlebury’s home game vs. Otter Valley was postponed until Jan. 15, and Mount Abraham’s annual appearance at Fair Haven’s holiday tournament was moved from last week to this Wednesday.

On Wednesday, Dec. 20, VUHS took a 14-4 first-quarter lead and cruised to a 43-34 victory over visiting Harwood. Brianna Vanderway and Emily Gosliga paced the Commodores with nine points apiece.

Harwood’s Ellie Rochford also scored nine points.

Vanderway added eight rebounds and three blocks for VUHS, Kate Gosliga chipped in 10 rebounds, and Morgan Lynk contributed five steals.

Coach Billy Waller noted six Commodores sank three-pointers.

ALSO IN THIS SECTION:

THE MIDDLEBURY UNION High School boys’ and girls’ Nordic teams both won Division II state titles at the end of February.

Photo by Bruce Ingersoll

to Williams with an 84-62 victory. painful. The 19-7-2 Panthers led They weren’t done winning yet, but Norwich by 4-2 late in regulation, nor were they done with the Ephs. and but lost, 5-4, in double overtime.

Three area high school wrestlers, The Panther men’s basketball senior Brandon Cousino of VUHS team won three NCAA tournament at 182 pounds, senior games, all at home in Tyson Cram of Otter a packed Pepin gymValley at 145, and Eanasium. But Williams, See related stories gle sophomore Roman on a remarkable run in an edition next Mayer at 120, earned of its own, upset them week for a close championships at the one game short of look at some of state meet at VUHS. the final four, 79-75, the top games and Tiger junior Dustin Daending the MiddleAddison County vio was second at 138. bury careers of former high school The Tiger Nordic Missisquoi standout athletes of 2017. teams swept the D-II Matt St. Amour and titles in the two-part of point guard Jake championship meet Brown, Coach Jeff held at Craftsbury and Rikert. Ti- Brown’s nephew. ger Ursula Volz won both individuLongtime MUHS football coach al events, and Sam Hodges claimed Peter Brakeley and former Mount the classic crown. Malia Hodges and Abraham baseball standout Tyler Amelia Ingersoll cracked the top 10 Pelland were among the 14 inductfor the Tiger girls in both races, as ees into the Vermont Principals’ Asdid Hodges, Tom Hussey and Cade sociation Hall of Fame announced in Christener for the boys.

March, and OV running back Brent MARCH Nickerson was the only local footThe Tiger ice hockey teams had ball player named to the Vermont fine seasons, but came up short in Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl squad. the playoffs. No. 3 Rutland upset the SPRING host No. 2 girls’ hockey team, 1-0, Although it was spring on the in a D-I semifinal, despite a huge calendar, three Middlebury-area ice MUHS edge in play. Rutland went hockey players were still competon to win the title. The Tiger boys, ing in April. Abby Gleason, Lexi back in D-I, won one playoff game Bartlett and Kate Donahue played and then lost a one-goal semifinal. on Vermont Shamrocks team that Also winning playoff games were reached 2017 USA Hockey Tier II the OV boys’ and Eagle girls’ basket- 16-and-under girls’ national chamball teams. pionship game before losing, 3-1, For the second straight winter in Troy, Mich. Gleason scored the and ninth time since the NESCAC Shamrock goal in the final. created its postseason tournaments In April the ties between Mount in 2002, the Middlebury women’s Abe and VUHS, which already hockey team earned the league’s shared a football team, grew closer: playoff championship. The Tigers Both schools’ boys’ and girls’ labeat Amherst in the final, 4-1. Jessica crosse programs began cooperative Young picked up a goal and an assist play. in each tournament game.

First-year Coach Mike Becker’s But the NCAA tournament proved (See Sports ’17, Page 2B)

Mount Abe wrestlers defeat CVU and OV

HINESBURG — Mount Abraham wrestlers made history on Dec. 20 when they traveled to Hinesburg for dual meets with host Champlain Valley and also with Otter Valley.

For the first time in many years Eagles wrestlers defeated CVU in a head-to-head dual, 54-24. A total of eight matches were contested, with the rest of the weight classes decided by forfeit. Mount Abe won five of the matches wrestled and CVU won three.

In other sports CVU is generally a Division I school whereas Mount Abe is generally D-II or D-III. This victory put Mount Abe in the top three squads in the state, coach Nick Mayer said, behind No. 1 Mount Anthony and No. 2 Essex.

Eagles who pinned their CVU opponents were John Bent at 145 pounds, Matt Cotta at 170, and Kevin Pearsall at 195.

Mount Abe wrestlers also prevailed over Otter Valley on Dec. 20;

the score was 58-12.

A total of six matches were wrestled with the Eagles claiming four victories (scoring pins were Gary Conant at 138, Pearsall at 182 and Ryan Durfee at 285) and the Otters claiming two wins (Levi Cram at 113 and Josh Beayon at 170 both by pins).

The Eagles’ match against Milton on Dec. 23 was snowed out. Some Mount Abe wrestlers will be competing at the Middlebury tournament on Dec. 28-29 and some will travel to Lowell, Mass., for a tournament on those dates.

In Mount Abe vs. CVU:

106 pounds Izzy Emmons of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

113 Riley Brown of CVU pinned Darius Kodis of Mt. Abe, 0:23.

120 Jacob Graveline of CVU pinned Parker Gero of Mt. Abe, 4:59.

126 Ben Murray of Mt. Abe received a forfeit.

132 Roman Mayer of Mt. Abe re-

(See Wrestling, Page 2B)

EAGLE 126-POUNDER Ben Murray, right, wrestles Otter David Williams in a triple dual at Champlain Valley Union on Dec. 20. Murray scored a 10-2 major decision and Mount Abe defeated Otter Valley, 58-12.

Photo credit: alfreyphotography.com

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, December 28, 2017

Sports ’17

MIDDLEBURY FORWARD TULLEY Hescock carries the puck around a Comet defender in a game played in St. Albans last week. BFA beat the Tigers, 6-0.

St. Albans Messenger photo/Josh Kaufmann

BFA tops Tiger girls on ice MIDDLEBURY — Host BFASt. Albans blanked the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team on Wednesday, Dec. 20, 6-0.

The Tigers dropped to 1-2. Their Saturday home game vs. Essex was postponed.

MUHS will host its annual holiday tournament this Thursday and Friday. The Tigers have a pair of 5 p.m. games, vs. Champlain Valley/ Mt. Mansfield on Thursday and vs.

Spaulding on Friday.

The Tiger boys’ Saturday home game vs. U-32 was also postponed.

The 3-0-1 Tiger boys will share the

Memorial Sports Center with the girls’ team this Thursday and Friday, hosting Milton and Lake Placid, respectively, at 7 p.m. both nights.

On Dec. 20 the Comets improved to 3-0 at the Tiger girls’ expense, with all three wins coming by shutout. The Tigers stayed close for a period, trailing by only 1-0 entering the second, but BFA broke it open in the second period with three goals.

Lizzie Hill sparked BFA with a hat trick, and goalies Maddie Hungerford and Macey Boissonneault combined for 19 saves. Abby Hodsden stopped 22 shots for the Tigers.

GARY CONANT OF Mount Abraham manhandles Dan Whitney of Otter Valley in a 138-pound match at CVU in Hinesburg last Wednesday.

Conant pinned Whitney in 1:35.

Wrestling (Continued from Page 1B)

ceived a forfeit.

138 Gary Conant of Mt Abe defeated Lucas Brown of CVU by minor decision, 9-2.

145 John Bent of Mt Abe pinned Nate Hoffman of CVU, 0:39.

152 Ulysses Suazo of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

160 Nate Lavoie of Mt Abe defeated Will Murphy of CVU by minor decision, 8-1.

170 Matt Cota of Mt Abe pinned Hunter Paquette of CVU, 1:28.

182 Nick Parker of CVU pinned Kyle Beatty of Mt Abe, 0:24.

195 Kevin Pearsall of Mt Abe pinned Jared Forsythe of CVU, 2:45.

220 Jayvon Whitlock received a forfeit.

285 Ryan Durfee of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

In Mount Abe vs. Otter Valley: 106 Izzy Emmons of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

Photo credit: alfreyphotography.com

113 Levi Cram of OV pinned Darius Kodis of Mt Abe, 1:07.

120 Parker Gero of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

126 Ben Murray of Mt Abe defeated David Williams of OV by major decision, 10-2.

132 Roman Mayer of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

138 Gary Conant of Mt Abe pinned Dan Whitney of OV, 1:35.

145 John Bent of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

152 Ulysses Suazo of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

160 Matt Cota of Mt Abe received a forfeit.

170 Josh Beayon of OV pinned Nate Lavoie of Mt Abe, 1:34.

182 Kevin Pearsall of Mt Abe pinned Gadge Paro of OV, 1:24.

195 Double forfeit.

220 Double forfeit.

285 Ryan Durfee of Mt Abe pinned Jared Denis, 1:24.

Schedule HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Hockey 12/28 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS............... 5 PM 12/29 Spaulding at MUHS.................... 5 PM 1/3 MUHS at Rutland............................ 4 PM Boys’ Hockey 12/28 Milton at MUHS.......................... 7 PM 12/29 Lake Placid at MUHS................. 7 PM 1/3 MUHS at South Burlington........ 5:20 PM 1/6 MUHS at Burr & Burton.................. 5 PM Girls’ Basketball 12/28 West Rutland at OV.................... 7 PM 12/30 MUHS at Milton....................11:30 AM 12/30 Montpelier at VUHS............... 2:30 PM 12/30 Mt. Abe at U-32...................... 2:30 PM 1/2 South Burlington at Mt. Abe............ 7 PM 1/3 MUHS at Mt. Mansfield................... 1 PM 1/3 OV at Mill River............................... 7 PM 1/3 VUHS at Harwood..................... 7:30 PM 1/5 MUHS at Mt. Abe............................ 7 PM 1/6 VUHS at Mt. Mansfield............ 12:30 PM 1/6 OV at Springfield....................... 1:30 PM Gymnastics 12/28 St. Johnsbury at MUHS.............. 6 PM 1/3 MUHS at Randolph......................... 6 PM Boys’ Basketball 12/28 VUHS at Harwood...................... 7 PM 12/29 MUHS at S. Burlington.......... 6:30 PM 12/29 OV vs. TBD at Woodstock............TBD 1/3 Mt. Abe at OV................................. 7 PM 1/5 Mt. Abe at Winooski........................ 7 PM 1/5 MUHS at Colchester....................... 7 PM 1/5 VUHS at Fairfax.............................. 7 PM

1/6 OV at Brattleboro............................ 1 PM Wrestling 12/28&29 ….Mt. Abe/VUHS at MUHS Tourn.

12/30....................................OV Tournament 1/3 Mt. Abe Hosts................................. 7 PM 1/3 VUHS Hosts................................... 5 PM 1/3 OV at Springfield............................ 6 PM 1/4 MUHS at Essex.............................. 6 PM 1/5&6 ................ MUHS/Mt. Abe at Peru, NY 1/6....................................OV at Mt. Anthony COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Hockey 12/30 St. Michael’s at Midd.................. 1 PM 12/31 Oswego/Neumann at Midd...... 1/4 PM 1/6 Wesleyan at Midd........................... 7 PM 1/7 Trinity at Midd................................. 3 PM Men’s Hockey 1/5 Midd. at Amherst............................. 7 PM 1/6 Midd. at Amherst............................. 3 PM Women’s Basketball 12/29 Midd. at Claremont M-S.............. 8 PM 12/30 Midd. at Pomona-Pitzer.............. 8 PM 1/5 Conn. at Midd................................. 7 PM 1/6 Wesleyan at Midd........................... 3 PM Men’s Basketball 12/29 Midd. vs. York @ Wash&Lee...... 4 PM 12/30 Midd. vs. TBD @ Wash&Lee........TBD 1/5 Midd. at Conn................................. 7 PM 1/6 Midd. at Wesleyan.......................... 3 PM Late events occurred after deadline. Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

(Continued from Page 1B) Panther baseball team reached the 20-win plateau for the first time since 2006. Middlebury reached the NESCAC tournament final before falling.

The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team excelled, but failed to repeat as NESCAC or NCAA champions. The 16-5 Panthers fell to The College of New Jersey in an NCAA quarterfinal.

Middlebury men’s tennis player Lubomir Cuba became the first Panther to win the NCAA Division III singles title, and also teamed up with William de Quant to win the program’s first doubles crown later.

Both the men and women’s teams reached the NCAA final four before falling.

The first-year VUHS girls’ laIN NOVEMBER THE Middlebury College field hockey team won the NCAA Division III championship and crosse team concluded its regular senior Lauren Schweppe, above, was named the NCAA Tournament’s most outstanding player. season with a big win on May 26 — Independent file photo/Trent Campbell the Commodores defeated visiting Coach David Saward’s men’s socall earned the right to host games, Panton.

Harwood, 14-8, for the program’s The Addison County American while OV, despite an 8-5-1 mark cer team reached the NESCAC final, first-ever varsity victory. The ComLegion baseball team finished a believed to be a program record a performance good enough for his modores got five goals, an assist 6-15 season in style at the Middle- for wins, had to open on the road. squad to get an NCAA berth in his and eight ground balls from Ashley bury College field, knocking visiting MUHS, Mount Abe and VUHS all last season. He leaves Middlebury Turner. on Dec. 31 after 33 years having Essex out of the playoffs with a 6-2 won once, while OV fell short.

JUNE In D-II field hockey the No. 9 Ti- earned the 2007 NCAA crown, sevvictory.

Lydia Pitts added to her trophy Vergennes and Middlebury youth gers upset No. 8 U-32 on the road eral NESCAC and ECAC titles, and case by winning the girls’ 100-meter swimmers capped an enjoyable sum- for their first win of the season be- a 359-126-59 record. Assistant Alex hurdles, long jump and triple jump at mer by winning titles and setting fore falling to No. 1 Bellow Falls. Elias, an all-American central midthe D-II state championship meet at records at the state meet. Vergennes No. 6 Mount Abe ousted No. 3 OV, fielder on the 2007 team, takes over U-32. Also winning events were Easwimmer Will Clark won four rac- but then lost to No. 2 Spaulding in a in January. gle senior Finn Clements in the boys’ Coach Peter Kim’s young womes and set a record in the 50-yard semifinal. javelin, and Eagle junior Emma In D-I football, the young Tigers en’s soccer team won one game in freestyle, and the Middlebury boys’ Radler in the girls’ pole vault.

14-and-under relay team of Fraser earned the No. 5 seed with a 5-4 the NCAA tournament and shouldn’t In postseason action the Tiger and Milligan, Nathan Stone, Oliver Po- mark, but were ousted in the quar- be too harshly treated by graduation.

OV boys’ lacrosse teams won playCoach Bob Ritter’s football squad duschnick and Will Carpenter set a terfinals. off games, as did OV softball, Eagle The Panther women’s soccer team excelled again, with a 6-2 campaign state mark in winning their race. baseball and Tiger softball. The Eaupset top-ranked Williams, 1-0, to good for a second-place tie in NESSEPTEMBER gle nine and both softball teams fell Brandon driver Vince Quenneville conclude its regular season. And CAC. in quarterfinal heartbreakers.

The month-long deer archery seaJr. clinched the final Devil’s Bowl then promptly lost to Hamilton in the Then the titles came. In Poultney Speedway asphalt track champion- first round of the NESCAC playoffs. son ended on Nov. 5, and reporting the No. 1 Eagles (15-5) took a 3-0 ship when he finished second be- But that win over Williams gave the stations had been busy already. By lead over No. 2 Randolph in the D-II the time Youth Hunting Weekend hind Fair Haven’s Billy Lussier in Panthers an NCAA bid. final and held on for a 4-2 win beThe men’s soccer team won its had wrapped up, numbers of deer the evening’s main event, the 40-lap hind the pitching of Rachael McCorquarterfinal game and advanced weighed in the county were running Sportsman Modified Feature. mick and RBI hits from Katelynn Injuries made news in September. to the league final four, as did the well ahead of the past year’s record Ouellette, Ruby Ball and Savannah First the VUHS girls’ soccer team top-seeded field hockey team, which pace.

Earley. The title was the program’s Rifle season did not disappoint, learned it would be without junior as it turned out was just getting first. and heading into December it looked leading scorer Ciara McClay for the warmed up.

Next up was the D-I girls’ lax colAs the month ended the MUHS all but certain 2017 would be the season due to a serious hip problem. lision at UVM between No. 1 MidThen Tiger senior all-star midfield- girls’ cross-country team and Tiger county’s most productive year for dlebury and No. 2 Mount Anthony, er Andi Boe went down with a torn Sam Hodges in the boys’ race each local hunters since 2005, when Verboth 17-0. mont wildlife regulations The Tigers entered alchanged to ban shooting lowing only 5.4 goals per spikehorn bucks during game, while the Patririfle season. ots were averaging 17.0 DECEMBER goals per game. The TiDecember muzzlegers won, 10-8, for the loader season numbers program’s first title since clinched it: 2017 became 2008. Satchel McLaughthe best year for local lin (four goals) and Andi deer hunters since the Boe (three) led the atpivotal year of 2005. In tack, and the back line of all 1,189 hunters took goalie Raven Payne and deer to one of the coundefenders Riley Fenster, ty’s eight reporting staKeagan Dunbar, Abby tions in 2017, smashing Gleason and Lacey Greethe mark of 1,064 set just namyre stood strong. a year ago.

Then it was OV baseHunters killed 261 ball’s turn at Centennial deer in the opening arField. The No. 3 Otters chery season, the best to(14-6) completed their tal in at least five years; run through the DiviTHE OTTER VALLEY Union High School baseball team celebrates on the field immediately 110 during Youth Huntsion II tournament when after winning the Division II state championship game in June. ing Weekend, the secIndependent file photo/Trent Campbell sophomore outfielder ond-best total in eight Nate Hudson lined a years; 554 in rifle seatwo-out, bases-loaded walkoff single ACL, soon to be followed by Com- finished second at the state champi- son, a total exceeded only by 2016 in the bottom of the seventh to score modore sophomore all-star midfield- onship meet in Thetford as the se- among the past 13 years; and 264 senior Colby McKay, who led off mester ended with no titles for any during December’s muzzleloader/ er Emily Rooney. the inning with a double, and deliver archery season (only a handful were Addison resident and Vergennes local high schools. a 3-2 victory. OV senior ace Derek The Tiger girls’ loss was a heart- bow kills), the best in at least the past Union sophomore Michael Davis Aines tossed the complete-game went to Glengary, W.Va., and earned breaker: They finished tied with six years. win, his third of the playoffs.

Another mild winter contributed $1,000 and the title of NRA Junior U-32 with 64 points, and officials SUMMER World Champion at the NRA World awarded first place to the Raiders to good numbers of deer and plenThe Bristol Financial Services Shooting Championships — for the based on the performance of the tiful feed, according to wildlife ofteam of pullers Coleman Russell and team’s sixth-place finishers. And the ficials. Warmer than typical weathsecond straight year.

Chris Wood and rider Sophie Wolak Tigers were without injured fresh- er also probably encouraged more OCTOBER raced to victory in the annual Great While the Tiger cross-country man Camille Malhotra, their top hunters to take to and stay in woods Bristol Outhouse Race. teams kept winning meets, other runner in many races this fall. Senior and fields.

A Babe Ruth all-star team includAmong high school teams off to teams jockeyed for playoff position- Caroline Kimble led the Tigers by ing five Addison County residents promising starts through Dec. 26 taking fourth place. ing in October.

— Barret Barrows, Neil Guy, Carter were Tiger boys’ hockey (3-0-1), EaIn girls’ soccer Mount Abe closed NOVEMBER Monks, Cameron Sprigg and TuckCoach Katharine DeLorenzo, who gle girls’ hoop (2-0) and OV boys’ the regular season with six straight er Stearns — won the Vermont Unwins to finish 10-4 and earn the No. had won her 250th collegiate game basketball (2-1). The Tiger Norder-14 championship.

4 seed in D-II. But MUHS in D-I and as a coach earlier this fall, watched dic teams were also expected to be A former Middlebury College OV and VUHS in D-III all opened her field hockey team storm through strong again. men’s basketball point guard beAt the end of first-semester play at the postseason after winning the regon the road. came LeBron James’ boss — Koby the college the men’s hockey team The Eagles won twice, once in ular season NESCAC title.

Altman, a 2004 graduate was in July Only one game in either the NES- was struggling to find its footing, and dramatic fashion in overtime, but named the general manager of the fell in the semifinal round. The CAC or NCAA tournament was the women’s hockey squad stood at NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. shorthanded Commodores also were close: The second-ranked Panthers 4-3 against a tough schedule.

A carp caught in April by a young The women’s hoop team was off to surprise winners, earning two upsets needed overtime to subdue Franklin Ferrisburgh resident was in July fibefore losing to an undefeated squad & Marshall in the NCAA semifinal. its best start in years at 8-1. And denally certified by the Department Senior forward Annie Leonard swat- spite the loss of two starting guards in a semifinal. of Fish & Wildlife as a state record.

In boys’ soccer MUHS (9-1-3 and ted in the winning goal from midair. the Panther men were 6-0 and, thanks Chase Stokes, then 10, caught the No. 5 in D-I), Mount Abe (9-5 No. 5 In the final Middlebury steamrolled to last year’s Elite Eight appearance, 33.25-pound carp in Otter Creek in in D-II), and VUHS (6-6-1 in D-III) No. 1 Messiah, 4-0. Leonard, de- ranked No. 2 in NCAA Division III. fender Lauren Schweppe and wing Tough tests awaited both, and more Grace Jennings became all-Ameri- fun awaits fans and athletes alike as the calendar is poised to flip. cans.

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Boys’ hoop (Continued from Page 1B) Josh Letourneau (21 points for the game) and Dylan Mackie (20). A three from Tiger Cody Pomainville (14 points total) made it 37-25 at the break.

The Tigers closed to within 48-40 after three periods, thanks in part to the work of Bastiaan Phair (13) inside. Finally, a three by Zach Dunn (10 points) gave the Tigers the lead at 55-54 late in the fourth.

But Mackie then fed Marcus McCullough for the go-ahead hoop, and OV held on for the win and improved to 2-1.

The Tigers dropped to 0-2. They were set to host Colchester on Wednesday after the deadline for this edition and will visit South Burlington on Friday.

EAGLES Last Wednesday visiting Winooski rolled to a 29-15 halftime lead on the way to a 57-39 victory over Mount Abe. Abdullah Sadik scored 16 to lead three Spartans in double figures.

Logan Rodriguez (13 points) and Jackson Counter (12) led the Eagles, who dropped to 1-2 heading into a Wednesday home game vs.

Randolph. They will host OV next Wednesday.

VUHS AT FHUHS On Dec. 20, host Fair Haven ran past the Commodores, 71-40, improving to 2-1 in the process. Cam Coloutti (19) points led four Slaters in double figures, followed by Aubrey Ramey (15), Andrew Farrara (11) and Brandon Parker (10).

The Commodores dropped to 1-1 and will next visit Harwood this Thursday and Fairfax next Friday.

Vergennes Police Log

Grinch breaks into vehicles on Christmas

VERGENNES — Vergennes police are investigating a rash of car break-ins, thefts and vandalism that they said stretched from late Christmas Eve through early Christmas morning.

On Tuesday police said they were still cataloguing items taken from at least 14 cars, including cash, credit cards, personal information, a camera and more. They described the investigation of the bad-weather holiday crime spree as active.

In other actions between Dec. 18 and 24, Vergennes police: • On Dec. 18 were told a wallet that a woman had left at Kinney Drugs was missing cash and a credit card; police said they are investigating.

• On Dec. 18 responded to an accident in the Green Street area in which police said a school bus struck a riding lawnmower being operated by a man who, police said, suffered no serious injuries.

• On Dec. 18 helped a motorist get into a locked car on Main Street.

• On Dec. 19 responded to a report of a propane smell on Adele Drive; police said fire department personnel checked it out and found no problem.

• On Dec. 20 ticketed a car parked in violation of the city’s wintertime ban on overnight parking on city streets.

• On Dec. 20 responded to a 911 call in which they could hear a voice saying someone was lying on the floor covered in blood. Police kicked in the door of a South Maple Street residence and discovered a woman had cut herself badly and called the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad, who transported the victim to the UVM Medical Center.

• On Dec. 20 cited Clint Barnes for driving with a civilly suspended license and for providing false information to police at a Main Street traffic stop; police allege Barnes falsely identified himself during the incident.

• On Dec. 21 searched a home on Bristol Road in Monkton for a car allegedly driven by an unlicensed minor, an act police did at the request of Vermont State Police in Rutland.

• On Dec. 21 responded to a report of an emotionally distraught woman at Hillside Drive apartment; she had been calmed before they arrived.

• On Dec. 22 ticketed three cars parked in violation of the city’s wintertime ban on overnight parking on city streets.

• On Dec. 24 backed up state police at a domestic dispute in Bridport in which a knife was allegedly held to a victim’s throat.

• On Dec. 24 checked the welfare of a Main Street resident and called VARS to make sure he was OK; VARS personnel said he was, according to police.

• On Dec. 24 helped a motorist get into a locked car at Shaw’s.

Shoreham memory Tree 2017 Memory Tree is dedicated to Ellen Young who started this memory tree years ago.

QUEEN ELIZABETH II presents the 1966 World Cup to England Soccer Captain Bobby Moore after England beat West Germany in a match that our columnist watched on TV in a bar in Switzerland among a crowd of German fans.

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(Continued from Page 1B) Though I was playing sports at Middlebury, sports were hardly the centerpiece of my life that summer (this is a sports column after all — time to make the connection).

I did try to follow the Red Sox from a distance. At the end of my workday, I rode my bike from the Fabrik Fischer the two miles back to the train station in town where I bought the Paris Herald-Tribune.

Sitting on a bench with the trains coming and going, I read in English the news of the day and checked the ball scores, though they were three days old.

I didn’t miss the Red Sox particularly as they were terrible that summer, ultimately finishing ninth in the 10-team American League, 26 and a half games out of first. The consolation was that the Yankees finished 10th, 27 games out.

I fell in love with a different sports team that summer in Switzerland.

1966 was a World Cup summer, so all the news was about that grand event, hosted by England. Pele was in mid-career, but he was marked very closely (“beat up,” many said) and Brazil was eliminated early.

I found, not quite by accident, a bar in the middle of this small town of about 6,000, where I could join many football fanaticos on Saturdays in July and watch games in grainy black and white on a TV mounted on the bar.

I was the solitary American in the

room, a familiar face by this time, acknowledged with a nod or smile and a lifted bottle of beer.

England and West Germany were fated to meet in the championship game in London’s enormous Wembley Stadium on July 30.

There was no neutrality among the Swiss in this bar: they were rooting hard and loudly for the Germans. Not me. I was rooting hard and quietly for the lads on the englische side.

They were irresistible, the English side, a motley crew of personalities and body types, all terrific players, coached by Manager Alf Ramsey, a tactical master.

The heart and soul of The Three Lions (the national team nickname) was a player even more gnomelike than the 5’8” Ramsey: Norbert “Nobby” Stiles. Though only 5’6”, balding and appearing much older than his 26 years, Stiles was nonetheless a ferocious defender.

One of the definitions of “knob” is a “small lump of a substance.” And Stiles was “nobby” indeed, though courageous in the extreme. He smothered the magnificent Eusabio in England’s 2-1 defeat of Portugal in the semi-final game.

The English team had the storklike 6’3” Jackie Charlton (quite a contrast to Nobby), and Jackie’s brother Bobby, an attacking mid-fielder with a terrific long-range

shot, and their nonpareil goalkeeper, Gordon Banks, one of the best ever to play the position.

The championship game was an epic 4-2 win for the Brits. The winning goal by unheralded Geoff Hurst in extra time, the 98th minute, is disputed to this day — a blast off the crossbar which ricocheted straight down to the goal line.

There were no video reviews in ’66: the referee and linesman huddled and declared that the ball had crossed the line, to the hysterical delight of the 98,000 at Wembley, — and to the fury and despair of a few dozen Swiss partisans in a bar in Brugg. Hurst scored another goal in the game’s waning minutes to become the only player ever to score a hat trick in a Cup final.

That 1966 World Cup team is legendary. Of course they weren’t legendary that summer — they were in the process of becoming legendary.

In the aftermath, all the players were honored, with Ramsey, Charlton, and Hurst being knighted: Sir Alf, Sir Bobby, Sir Geoff.

They gave their country a lift in the mid-1960s when England was down and divided, losing its imperial authority in the world.

They also gave a lift to a lonely American — check that, a solitary American, a young man on the cusp of the rest of his life.

Raymond Allen (2) Walter Alexander Alyce Anderson George Anderson, Sr. Alonzo Audet (4) May Audet (4) Megan Barber Kate Bassney Kenneth Bishop Lawrence Bishop, Jr. Lawrence Bishop, Sr. Loretta Bishop Maudie Bishop Nancy Bishop Norman Bishop Blair daughters Betty Blair (2) Pat Blair (3) Paul Blair, Jr. (3) Paul Blair, Sr. (3) Steve Blair (5) Teresa Blair (3) Tom Blair (2) Sean Blair (2) Cherry Bohne Paul & Ethel Bohne James & Josephine Bohne Paul Bohne, Jr. Gene Brisson Family Gene Brisson (3) Jerry Brisson (3) Jim Brisson (3) Clarence Burgess Joseph & Ada Burgess Walter Burgess Christopher Clark Daniel Clark Joseph Conwill Frank D’Andrea Nellie Desjadon Simon Desjadon Daniel Doane Pearl Doane

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Juliette & Victor Pomainville (2) Stevie Pope (2) Eric Pope (2) Ralph Porter, Jr. Elsie Quesnel Xavier Quesnel Gloria Rathbun Elsie Rice Harley Rice Mark Rice Ron & Peg Rood Bob Russ (2) Ned & Nelda Russ and Family Eleanor Russell George Russell Bob Shackett (5) Quentin & Clarice Shackett Joshua Sherman Corey Torrey Duane Torrey (2) Ma Torrey (2) Pa Torrey (2) Tim Torrey (2) Don Treadway (3) Irene Treadway (3) Albert Turpin .

Mary Ann Turpin Ruth Turpin James Walker Katherine Walker Mary Walker Lenard Willey Ellen Young (6) John Young, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. John Young, Sr.

Special thanks to: Tim and Lorraine of Vermont Trade Winds Farms for the donation of the 2017 Shoreham Memory Tree and the 2 wreaths for the front doors of St. Genevieve’s Church in Shoreham, VT. Ellen Young for originally starting the Shoreham Memory Tree many, many years ago to benefit The St. Genevieve’s Women’s Guild. We thank her and everyone who has contributed to keep this Annual Memory Tree continuing for all these years.

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Students try turning apples into products using math BRISTOL — This fall, students in grades four through six at the Red Cedar School in Bristol undertook an in-depth and tasty series of hands-on experiments with the school’s apple crop. Every year the students produce about a dozen gallons of cider along with other apple treats such as applesauce and apple crisp with fruit from the school’s orchard and a cider press.

This integrated math and science project began with students picking apples and gathering drops — 1,334 apples from eight trees in all. A series of questions quickly took shape. How many apples on average are needed to press a gallon of cider? Does the color or kind of apple affect this? Does air temperature affect cider production?

What is the density and sugar content of cider? Do tree apples produce more cider than drops?

Math and science teacher Brendan Collins led the kids through the hard work of recording all their measurements and experiments, and analyzing their data. Fifth-grader Ruby Hellier commented, “I like that we

went outside most days. Then we would come inside and do all the measurements and math.” In the end, they produced 11.5 gallons of cider that weighed 96.16 pounds. They found that on average it took 102.7 apples to produce 1 gallon of cider.

Because of the hands-on nature of the project, student Roman McGarvey commented, “I learned to do long division with decimals much faster.”

The students determined that drops and tree apples produced the same quantity of cider. They did not find a correlation between air temperature at time of pressing and the quantity of cider produced, and they determined that the color and type of apple they used from their orchard had no impact on the volume of the cider.

Eliot Heminway summed it up by saying, “I liked the project because it’s hands on and a lot easier to learn that way and we can learn while having fun.” Students presented their findings and served the cider they made to parents at a sharing of learning at the end of the project.

THE MIDDLEBURY POLICE Department this year organized another successful fundraiser for South Hero-based Camp Ta-Kum-Ta, which provides recreational experiences for children with cancer and their families. Participating Addison County law enforcement officials grew their beards throughout deer season while accepting donations. The second annual “Deer Camp Beard’s for Kids with Cancer” raised more than $2,200.

Police grow beards to give kids a cancer respite

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Police Department’s second annual “Deer Camp Beard’s for Kids with Cancer” campaign has raised more than $2,200 for programming at Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. Middlebury police Officer Darrin Hinterneder once again coordinated the effort, which included participation from other Addison County law enforcement agencies, including the Addison County Sheriff’s Department.

Participants were granted a temporary reprieve from their respective agencies’ grooming standards and were allowed to grow beards through deer hunting season — provided each contributed at least $30 to Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. Based in South Hero, Camp Ta-Kum-Ta provides great recreational experiences for children battling cancer, and their families. The camp is an independent, tax-exempt organization. Thanks to the community support and

approximately 120 staff volunteers, Ta-Kum-Ta has expanded from its one week summer camp to offering programs year round.

It has an annual budget of around $900,000, derived from grants, foundations, private donations and from around 70 events each year.

The police officers didn’t actively solicit contributions from the folks they encountered while on duty, but offered the donation opportunity to those who inquired.

The department designed and

passed out a custom-made badge to those who contributed at least $30. Hinterneder gave a particular shout-out to the Addison Independent, 92.1 WVTK, the Addison County Sheriff’s Department and the Bristol Police Department for their support during the campaign.

Officers were allowed to grow their facial hair through muzzle loader season.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

State parks offer free guided family hikes on Jan. 1 MONTPELIER — Start the New Year on the right foot with a hike in a Vermont state park. On Jan. 1, everyone is invited to join a free, guided, family-friendly hike taking place at many state parks and forests across APPLE CIDER POURS from the Red Cedar School cider press as students make the fall staple drink from apples from the school’s own orchard. Vermont.

Hikes will be led by professional Photo courtesy Red Cedar School

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guides and outdoor educators eager to share their knowledge and love of Vermont’s outdoors. Don’t need a guide? A state park or state forest is always close by for people to get outside and enjoy. State park entry is free on New Year’s Day (and all winter long). It’s a whole new world

in winter.

Dress for the weather and bring snowshoes if the snow is deep. Also bring beverages and snacks. Dogs are welcome on leash unless otherwise noted. There is no need to pre-register, just show up. Check out the list of hikes at bit.ly/VTFirstDayHikes2018

and the Vermont State Parks Facebook and Twitter feeds for more information and more hikes as they are added.

To check the status of the hikes, call the First Day Hikes Hotline at 802-249-1230. Updated messages will be posted to the Hotline on Dec. 31 and Jan 1.

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ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders.

Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S S AT U R ‑ DAY: Discussion Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Mid‑ dlebury United Methodist Church. Discussion Meet‑ ing 10:00‑11:00 AM. Begin‑ ners’ Meeting 6:30‑7:30 PM. These two meetings are held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

SPIRITUAL AWAKEN‑ INGS MEETING of Alcohol‑ ics Anonymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Friday, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middle‑ bury, VT.

AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anony‑ mous, confidential and free.

At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRANDON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Came to Believe Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Ste‑ phen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUESDAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS FRIDAY: Dis‑ cussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S M O N D AY: As Bill Sees It Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES MEETINGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Discussion Meeting 8:00‑9:00 PM. Both held at St. Paul’s Church, Park St. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congregational Church, Water St. ARE YOU BOTHERED

BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs).

Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems.

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GRIEF ANONYMOUS MEETING every Tuesday @ 6:00 pm at Grace Baptist Church, 52 Merchants Row, Middelbury, Vt. A support group for those grieving the loss of a love one.

MAKING RECOVERY EAS‑ IER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and dis‑ cussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understand‑ ing of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NORTH FER‑ RISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services

Services

OA (OVEREATERS ANON‑ YMOUS) MEETS on Thurs‑ day’s at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT.

Opportunities

WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services

( O A ) O V E R E AT E R S ANONYMOUS Saturday’s at 1:00pm. Located at Law‑ rence Memorial Library, 40 North St. in Bristol, VT.

C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) big book meet‑ ing. Thursday’s, 2 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

HOUSE CLEANING ‑ SMALL or large jobs.

References available. Call 802‑558‑6136 or email at: ennis987@gmail.com.

PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

PROFESSIONAL PAINT‑ ING; interior/exterior, resi‑ dential/commercial, pressure washing. 20 years’ experi‑ ence. Best prices. Refer‑ ences. 802‑989‑5803.

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BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

HOPE IS HIRING‑ HOPE’s growing resale store seeks a 29.5 hour per week retail associate. Position requires the ability to stand, walk, and lift up to 25 pounds, be self‑motivated and detail oriented. To apply, send re‑ sume and letter of interest to receptionist@hope‑vt.org.

HOPE’S RESALE STORE seeks a 29.5 hour/week warehouse assistant. The position requires the ability to stand, walk, and lift up to 25 pounds, be self‑mo‑ tivated and detail oriented.

To apply, send resume and letter of interest to receptionist@hope‑vt.org.

SHOVELING HELP NEED‑ ED this winter. Must be avail‑ able anytime, day or night to salt, shovel accounts. Could lead to landscape work in the spring. Call 388‑4529.

Full & Part-time positions available with flexible scheduling. Must be willing to work some nights & weekends.

Full & Part-time Cashiers & Deli Employees needed.

Apply in person or pick up an application at: Maplefields –– Shoreham Service Center

Corner of Routes 22A and 74 • Shoreham, VT EOE

Services

Provide caring support and lend a hand to our neighbors in need

As the nights get colder, those in our community who are sleeping under the stars, in cars, or in make-shift enclosures need the support of our community for shelter and food. On any given day in Addison County there are typically about 125 adults and children who are homeless.

If you are 55 Charter House Coalition is a volunteer based non-profit founded 12 years ago to support our neighbors in need. The Coalition has been and older, contact RSVP @ 388-7044, providing food and winter shelter at Charter House since 2008. This work is accomplished largely by volunteers in the Vermont tradition of rsvpaddison@ neighbor helping neighbor. This year Charter House can accommodate up to 22 individuals and 5 families each night. volunteersinvt.org Volunteer shifts are typically 3 hours long and volunteers are needed 7 days a week. Evenings and weekends shifts are typically harder to or visit find volunteers to staff. Some shifts are more active than others; all shifts will include some interaction with our guests, light housekeeping www.volunteermatch.org. tasks, and/or some cooking and serving of meals. Donʼt let a lack of experience intimidate you, training is provided!

Volunteers of any age “Volunteering at the Shelter reminds us how lucky we are, and the huge need for compassion and understanding in our society.” can contact The United Way of Addison County’s For more information please call Tracy Corbett at 802-388-7189 or visit our volunteer site at: Volunteer Center at www. unitedwayaddisoncounty.org www.unitedwayaddisoncounty.org and click on VOLUNTEER and click on VOLUNTEER! Volunteering at Charter House is an enriching experience. As many volunteers have said, “I get more out of it than I put into it.”

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Seeks To Fill The Following Positions: MACHINERY OPERATOR for skilled lumber mill positions due to employee retirement. You must be in good physical condition, have a desire to learn, be reliable, have a strong safety awareness and work well with others. We will teach you the skills you need to use the technology investments we are putting in place. Mill work has a production bonus.

SKILLED FORKLIFT OPERATOR to run large forklifts at our operation in Bristol. Other work includes light construction, planing, lumber stacking. Must be reliable, energetic, work well with others and have good safety awareness. Previous experience operating heavy machinery is a plus but not required, we will teach you the skills you need.

Call 802-453-4884 or visit The A. Johnson Co., 995 S 116 Rd, Bristol VT 05443 for an application.

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THE ADDISON INDEPENDENT IS SEEKING A WEB PRODUCER/REPORTER The Addison Independent in Middlebury, Vt., is seeking an energetic multimedia journalist to join the award-winning, twice-a-week newspaper’s staff. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated excellence in reporting and producing stories in text, audio and video formats.

This position will feature a mix of classic print media and cutting-edge online news. As such, those applying should have a demonstrated experience in journalism and understanding of news writing and feature writing, as well as be interested and engaged in social media with an eye toward understanding the community and building reader loyalty. Some knowledge and experience with posting multimedia stories and content management systems a big plus. The job will include a lot of hands-on work improving the website, so candidates should bring ideas for doing that. Addisonindependent.com has been named the best news site in Vermont many times — our new hire will be responsible for making sure we continue and improve upon this tradition of excellence.

The person we hire will be intelligent, curious, indefatigable and work well as part of a team. Also, the candidate must have a car, as in-person interviews are a must.

Send a letter outlining your qualifications, resume and examples of your work to: news@addisonindependent.com.

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Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

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RIPTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Tutor Ripton Elementary School is seeking a Tutor to work one-on-one with a student in language and math skills.

The tutor will need to travel to the student’s home in Ripton and provide instruction five days a week for approximately 2.5 hours per day. Candidates must have experience working with children, be patient and willing to collaborate with the classroom teacher, special educator, speech-language pathologist and other team members.

Experience working with students with special needs is preferred.

Apply by sending a letter of interest, resume, three current reference letters as complete transcripts to: Peter Burrows, Superintendent Addison Central School District 49 Charles Avenue Middlebury, VT 05753

For Rent

Wood Heat

1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease.

The entrance door measure‑ ments are 8’ wide by 7’ high.

For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Ver‑ gennes. All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. Elderly or dis‑ abled only. W/D onsite. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg. com. Equal Housing Op‑ portunity.

FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green.

802‑282‑9110.

2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, 1 mile south of Brandon. $700/mo. plus utilities. Ab‑ solutely no pets or smoking.

802‑352‑6678.

2 CAR GARAGE in Brandon.

24’x24’ with two 7’8”x6’8” high garage doors. Electricity and snow plowing included. $250/mo. Available immedi‑ ately. 802‑352‑6678.

F O R R E N T: B R I D ‑ P O R T, C o m m e r c i a l / retail office. 1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. tbrought@middlebury.edu.

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BRIDPORT 1 BEDROOM, 4 room apartment with porch/ lawn. Washer/dryer, heat/hot water included. No smoking, no pets. References and credit check. $700/mo. plus security deposit. For more info, David 802‑758‑2546.

NOW HIRING:

Full- and Part-Time Sales Associates for flexible shifts Nights & Weekends included

BGS Master Plumber needed to fill position with great benefits working with the State of Vermont in our Southwest District Buildings and General Services Department!

YOU must be a Highly skilled Master Plumber licensed in State of Vermont for plumbing installation and maintenance work for the State of Vermont involving the design, installation, and maintenance of routine and complex plumbing work and oversight of contracted work.

For Rent

BRANDON, GARAGE STORAGE. 10’x25’. Dry, secure. 802‑349‑4212.

Applications will be accepted until the positions have been filled.

BGS Master Plumber BGS Southwest District Maintenance

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

For Rent

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OPENING FALL 2017 Newly Constructed Loft, One Bedroom and Two Bedroom Apartments in Downtown Middlebury Historic Building | Air Conditioning European Appliances, Quartz Countertops & Washer/Dryer Off-Street Parking | Pet friendly Walk to Middlebury College campus

Position will be based out of • Middlebury/Mahady courthouse,

Contact: Christine Golden Nedde Real Estate 802-373-5893 battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

• Base pay is 20.60 hourly, can be Hired into Range.

• Hours are 6:30am to 3:00 pm with a half hour lunch.

• Work Travel will be done with a state provided vehicle.

If this describes you please go to the website below If you have questions please contact DFM Bill Eroncig at 802-324-5416 or bill.eroncig@vermont.gov

Help Wanted

For Sale

WHISTLEPIG CURRENTLY HIRING FOR full time bottler.

Eye for detail and accuracy.

Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday. Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unassisted lifting of 25 pounds. Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whis‑ tlepigrye.com.

U S E D R E S TA U R A N T EQUIPMENT plus chairs, tables and hood systems.

802‑388‑4831.

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1998 DODGE VAN from California. Not rusted and well kept. All Seats. $3,300.

Please call and leave mes‑ sage or text 802‑349‑4230.

4 BURNER GE RANGE and oven. Set up for propane, but comes with natural gas con‑ version kit. Perfect working condition and less than two years old. $100 OBO. Call Christy. 349‑4778.

4 WINTER TIRES 215/55 R17. Used maybe 5,000 miles. $200 for all. 388‑7124.

YARD MACHINE 23” TWO stage snow blower. 8 Hp electric start, 2 stage 12” impeller. Teaumsen motor.

Gears 5 forward, 2 reverse.

Use very little. $250 firm.

Contact 802‑989‑5091.

Leave message.

For Rent

Income Limits Apply. No Utilities Included. Modern apartment, carpet/tile, W/D connections plus onsite laundry facility. Efficient gas heat/hot water.

Ample parking and storage. Includes trash, lawn care, snow removal, professional management and 24-hour emergency maintenance. In quiet Middlebury neighborhood. References Required.

STARKSBORO SMALL HOUSE, 1 bedroom with extra room. House on shared owner’s property. $700/mo. plus all utilities. Security de‑ posit, references required.

No smoking, no animals.

453‑5526.

ONE BEDROOM UPSTAIRS apartment located in Shore‑ ham village. $700/month plus security deposit. Heat, water and all appliances included.

No pets and no smoking.

Please call 759‑3119.

PROCTOR, VT, AVAILABLE 1/1/18, 2 br. townhouse. Ga‑ rage, washer, dryer, hookup. $900/mo. Includes heat. Call Kathy at 855‑1570 or Tony at 855‑1531. References and criminal background check required.

Att. Farmers 2016 FIRST CUT HAY, nice quality. If you get 100 bales or more it’s $3 per bale.

Otherwise $3.50 per bale.

802‑349‑8891.

BUY YOUR ANIMAL lover the gift of hay this holiday.

Excellent quality, 35 pound, 2nd cut small square hay bales. Delivery available.

Call Shawn at 802‑349‑8938.

FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

HAY FOR SALE small first cut, $3.00. Small second cut, $4.00. 802‑377‑5455.

SECOND AND THIRD CUT baleage. 18‑23 percent pro‑ tein. 45 percent moisture.

759‑2135.

WH ITN EY’S C U STOM FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Wanted TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer special‑ izing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collectibles, etc. Visit www. bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Con‑ sulting/appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.

To request an application, call 802-472-5016 or e-mail pinemeadow@maloneyproperties.com.

Equal Housing Opportunity.

For Rent

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It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

ANTIQUE DOUBLE BAR‑ REL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage fire‑ arm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

FORD TRACTOR CIRCA 1950’S Model NAA. Good tires, two speed rear end with 6’ brush hog. Runs like a charm. $4,400. Please call and leave a message or text 802‑349‑4230.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law.

SAWMILLS FROM ONLY $4,397. Make & save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info/DVD: NorwoodSaw‑ mills.com. 1‑800‑578‑1363, Ext. 300N.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BEDROOM ranch. Two car attached ga‑ rage with automatic opener.

Fully furnished, even beds and bedding. Big screen Sony. Central vacuuming, central air, 2 bathrooms, dishwasher, garbage dis‑ posal, all appliances, includ‑ ing washer and dryer. Front and back porch. Paved drive‑ way. Nice lot, nice neighbor‑ hood. 3 miles or 7 minutes to Middlebury College, or Porter Hospital. Lawn mowing, snow, and satellite dish in‑ cluded. $2,000 plus utilities.

One month security deposit.

(802) 388‑5474.

NEW HAVEN VILLAGE APT. Bright, hard wood floors, possible home office space. No pets, no smoking.

References, security deposit, lease. $895/month plus utili‑ ties. 802‑236‑2040.

MIDDLEBURY, VT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT

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REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Only three lots remain in the Daisy Lane Residential Development. One is a beau‑ tiful wooded 1 1/4 acre with a small year round stream.

Lots are supported with vil‑ lage water and approved for simple in‑ground septic.

Located in East Middle‑ bury, just 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, 2 golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore. 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

MIDDLEBURY: RETAIL/ OFFICE space for rent.

1,303 square feet. Front door parking. Contact Eric at 388‑6054. (Countryside Carpet and Paint)

Apply in person at:

In addition to plumbing responsibilities, duties will include general maintenance for other facilities as required.

Searching for someone to complete your team?

CORNWALL, VT‑ A BEAU‑ TIFUL building lot for sale.

Amazing view. Septic permit in place. Please call between 9a.m‑10a.m 802‑349‑4230.

MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE for rent. 400 sq.ft., second floor. Available Janu‑ ary 1, 2018. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

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NEXT WINTER’S WOOD, cut, split. Truck your own. $200 per cord.

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Addison Independent, Thursday, December 28, 2017 — PAGE 9B

Public Notices Index Public notices for the following can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on this Page 9B.

Addison Northwest School District-Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham (1) Addison (1) Addison County Courthouse (1) Addison County Superior Court (2) Bridport (1) East Middlebury Fire District (1) Middlebury (1) Notice to Creditors (1)

ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

The following schedule of the Board of School Directors’ meetings is announced for the month of JANUARY, 2018.

6:00 PM

Friday, January 5 Wednesday, January 10 Wednesday, January 17

7:30 AM 6:00 PM 6:00 PM

Thursday, January 18

6:00 PM

Wednesday, January 24

6:00 PM

ANWSD Board Special Budget Meeting at VUHS Library Facilities Committee Meeting at ANWSD Office ANWSD Regular Board Meeting at VUHS Library ANWSD Board Special Budget Meeting at VUHS Library Community Engagement Committee Mtg. Bixby Library ANWSD Board Special Budget Meeting at VUHS Library

12/28

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

802-388-1966

PUBLIC HEARING and INFORMATION MEETING on PRELIMINARY PROPOSED TOWN GENERAL FUND BUDGET (Includes capital project funds) for FY19 (July 1, 2018 – June 30, 2019) Your comments, suggestions and input are important and appreciated. If you can’t make the meeting on the 9th, we invite you to submit your input via e-mail, kramsay@townofmiddlebury. org, or mail, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, Vermont 05753.

Copies of the proposed budget may be obtained from the Town’s website, www. middlebury.govoffice.com, at the Town Manager’s office, 77 Main Street, or by calling 802-458-8000.

If you need special accommodations to attend this meeting, please contact the Town Manager’s Office as early as possible.

12/28

Bids are being accepted for the following: Exterior painting of; Masonic Hall, Hearse House & DPW Salt Shed (with minor repairs needed). Bids may be sent to: Town of Bridport, P.O. Box 27, Bridport, VT 05734. Bids must be received no later than January 15, 2018.

For questions contact Dusty Huestis at 758-2113 with any questions.

12/28

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WARNING ANNUAL MEETING, FIRE DISTRICT #1 EAST MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT

The legal voters of Fire District #1 in the Town of Middlebury are hereby warned and notified to meet at the East Middlebury Community House on Monday, January 8, 2018, at 7:00 PM to transact the following business, to wit: FIRST: To hear, discuss and act upon the reports from the Prudential Committee, the Treasurer/Collector of Water Rents, and the Auditor SECOND: To hear reports from the Fire Department, the Historical Society, the Sarah Partridge Library, and the Town of Middlebury.

THIRD: To elect Officers of the District as follows: A Moderator A Clerk A Treasurer/Collector of Water Rents An Auditor A Member of the Prudential Committee to serve for three years FOURTH: To vote a tax on the taxable property within the District sufficient to defray maintenance and other expenses of the Sarah Partridge Community House, the Sarah Partridge Library, the Curtiss Recreation Area, and the Harry Goodro Recreation Area.

FIFTH: To see if the voters of the Fire District will give the Prudential Committee authority to borrow money on the credit of the District to make emergency repairs on the water system.

SIXTH: To transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting.

Dated at East Middlebury, Vermont December 16, 2017 Peggy Jean Peabody, Clerk 12/21

STATE OF VERMONT

SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. Plaintiff v.

ROBERT T. DEGRAAF; OCCUPANTS RESIDING AT: 5018 HIGHWAY 22A ADDISON, VT 05491-0000 Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE

CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 4-1-17 Ancv

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Robert T. Degraaf to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for W.J. Bradley Mortgage Capital Corp., its successors and/or assigns, dated April 12, 2011, and recorded in Book 97 at Page 586 of the Town of Addison Land Records, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by Assignment of Mortgage recorded in Book 99, Page 231, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 12:30 PM on January 23, 2018 at 5018 Highway 22a, Addison, VT all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises to be conveyed to Robert T. DeGraaf by Warranty Deed of Allen & Olsson Addison House, LLC to be recorded in the Town of Addison Land Records. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Allen & Olsson Addison House, LLC by Quit Claim Deed of Craig W. Allen, Brian D. Allen and Sandra Allen Olsson dated November 23, 2005 and recorded November 30, 2005 at Book 88 Page 108 of the Town of Addison Land Records and being more particularly described therein as follows: “Being a Portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to Craig W. Allen, Brain D. Allen and Sandra Allen Olsson by the Decree of Distribution of the Addison Probate Court in the Estate of Carolyn W. Allen, Docket No. 13291, dated March 25, 2005 and recorded in Book 86 at Page 529 of the Addison Land Records, and being more particularly described as follows: Being a Portion of the same lands and premises conveyed to Carolyn W. Allen by the Decree of Distribution of the Addison Probate Court in the Estate of George M. Willmarth dated December 12, 1979, and recorded at Book 39 Pages 462-464 Addison Land Records, and being further described as follows: It being three parcels of land: Parcel No. 1, being situate at Addison Corners, so called, and being bounded on the North by lands of the Baptists Society, on the East by the highway leading from Bridport to Vergennes, on the South by lands of Henry Bodette and on the West by lands of Chas Seeger. Being all and the same land and premises as set forth in the deed from Harold Crane to Anna Crane dated Feb. 26, 1916 and recorded in the Addison Land Records Book 24, Page 269.

Parcel No. 2, adjoins parcel No.1, beginning at the Southwest corner of land owned by Mrs. Cornelia Gage which is back of the Baptist Church sheds, thence south in the west line of land owned by Anna G. Crane, 9 rods, 2 ½ ft: thence westerly 16 rods, 13 ft, thence northerly 8 rods, 16ft to the South line of land owned by Cornelia Gage; thence Easterly 18 rods to place of beginning…

Being the same lands and premises conveyed to Anna Crane from Charles L. Seeger, dated June 16, 1926 and recorded in the Addison Land Records Book 25, Page 80.

Parcel 3 being all of the same land and premises conveyed to Harold Green by the Warranty Deed of Erwin S. Clark dated April 2, 1946, and recorded in Volume 28, at Page 96, of the Town of Addison Land Records, the property herein conveyed being described in said deed as follows: “It being all of the same property deeded ot the Grantor hereof by J. Ephrem Hebert, record of which deed may be found in Volume 28, Page 67, of Addison Land Records and bounded as follows – on the south and west by lands of Charlie Seeger, on the north by lands of Anna C. Crane, on the east by the highway leading from Vergennes to Bridport, -To said deed, the records thereof, and to the deeds and records therein referred to, reference is hereby made in further aid of this description.”

The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.

The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and without publication or service of a new notice of sale, by announcement of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment or by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or by certified check by the purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

The Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at sale.

Bank of America, N.A., Jennifer L. Maynard, Esq. Shechtman Halperin Savage, LLP 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 877-575-1400 Attorney for Plaintiff jmaynard@shslawfirm.com Dated: December 22, 2017 12/28, 1/4, 1/11

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MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for December 21 & December 26 BEEF Conants Riverside Vaughan Farm C. Scribner Stoneholm Farm Monument Farm Goodrich Farm Gosliga

Costs Lbs. per lb 1420 .61 1360 .60 1170 .585 1645 .58 1160 .57 915 .57 1280 .565

CALVES J. Fifield Woodnotch Farm D. Pouliot Kayhart Bros.

Costs Lbs. per lb Dollars 123 1.30 159.90 102 1.05 107.10 103 .90 92.70 103 .90 92.70

Dollars 866.20 816.00 684.45 954.10 661.20 521.55 723.20

Total # Beef: 230 • Total # Calves: 415 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

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INVITIATION TO BID TOWN OF BRIDPORT

Vermont Secretary of State (1)

Wednesday, January 3

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY SELECTBOARD TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 2018 7:10 P.M. TOWN OFFICE CONFERENCE ROOM

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 458-10-16 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF SALLY ANN MUNNETT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Sally Ann Munnett late of Ferrisburgh, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court.

The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: December 20, 2017 Kristina M. Munnett 226 Slate Drive Gibsonville, NC 27249 336-449-6956 woodymarie@live.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: December 14, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 12/28

PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN OF ADDISON

The Addison Planning Commission will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, January 15, 2018 at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office.

To consider the following: 1. To approve the meeting minutes of the November 20, 2017 meeting.

2. To transact any business found necessary before the board: 3. To allow time for public comment interaction at beginning of meeting.

4. The Zoning Regulations for discussing a future presentation of the 2013 copy of revisions. We will begin working on the “Subdivision” Regulations so to bring them into compliance. We have updating to do pertaining VSA24, Chapter 117 for making correct referencing.

5. Continue working on items that are considered to be projects in progress.

We will read and discuss the rough draft for “Density-zoning” as prepared as a suggestion from the Z.A. for our town to implement into the Town Plan. We will continue looking over the first 29 pgs. for the next meeting.

6. We will continue working on Zoning Regulations (2013 copy) & Subdivision Regulations to bring them into compliance with the revised Town Plan.

Frank Galgano, Chair Starr Phillips, Secretary 12/28 Addison Planning Commission

PROPOSED STATE RULES By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record.

The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/ rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Environmental Regulations - Day Care Facilities.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P053 AGENCY: Human Services, Department of Health CONCISE SUMMARY: Child care licensing is no longer within the authority of the Department of Health and is overseen by the Department for Children and Families (DCF). DCF regulates registered family child care homes and licensed programs to make sure they provide safe and healthy environments for children and contribute to their development. This rule has been subsumed into DCF’s Childcare Licensing Regulations: Center Based Child Care and Preschool Program; Child Care Licensing Regulations: Registered and Licensed Family Child Care Homes; and Afterschool Child Care Program Regulations.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: David Englander Vermont Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 05402 Tel: 802-863-7280 Fax: 802-951-1275 Email: ahs.vdhrules@vermont.gov. URL: http://healthvermont.gov/regs/index.aspx.

FOR COPIES: Lillian Colasurdo, Vermont Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 05402 Tel: 802-951-1017 Fax: 802-951-1275 Email: ahs.vdhrules@ vermont.gov.

Services to Incapacitated Inebriates.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P054 AGENCY: Human Services, Department of Health CONCISE SUMMARY: Statutory amendments and systematic changes have rendered the rule redundant and obsolete. This rule outlines specifics regarding the detention of individuals who are inebriated in public. Sections 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 of this rule are now explicitly stated in 18 V.S.A. § 4808 - rendering them redundant.

Section 3 is obsolete, as the services once provided by Alcohol Crisis Teams are now furnished through other substance abuse providers, which are licensed under the Substance Abuse Treatment Certification Rule.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Shayla Livingston, Vermont Department of Health 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 05402 Tel: 802-863-7280 Fax: 802-951-1275 Email: ahs.vdhrules@vermont.gov. URL: http://healthvermont. gov/regs/index.aspx.

FOR COPIES: David Englander Vermont Department of Health, 108 Cherry Street, Burlington, VT 05402 Tel: 802-863-7280 Fax: 802-951-1275 Email: ahs.vdhrules@ vermont.gov.

07-027, Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council Rules & Regulations.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P055 AGENCY: Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council CONCISE SUMMARY: The rule is outlined in twenty-one (21) sections. The rule governs how the Council operates relative to its composition and provides standards for all levels of law enforcement training.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Cindy Taylor-Patch, Director of Training, Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council 317 Academy Road, Pittsford, VT 05763, Tel: 802-483-2741 Email: cindy.taylor@vermont.gov. URL: http://vcjtc.vermont.gov.

FOR COPIES: Drew Bloom, Director of Administration, Vermont Criminal Justice Training Council 317 Academy Road, Pittsford, VT 05763, 802-483-2736 Email: drew. bloom@vermont.gov.

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Deadline for the Monday edition is the previous Thursday at noon. Deadline for the Thursday edition is the previous Monday at 5pm.

STATE OF VERMONT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 8-1-14 ANCV

WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, D/B/A CHRISTIANA TRUST, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT AS TRUSTEE FOR PRETIUM MORTGAGE ACQUISITION TRUST, PLAINTIFF V. LINDA OLDENBURG, MITCHELL S. OLDENBURG, CITIFINANCIAL, INC. AND OCCUPANTS RESIDING AT 121 TI VIEW LANE, SHOREHAM, VERMONT, DEFENDANTS NOTICE OF SALE By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Linda Oldenburg and Mitchell S. Oldenburg to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as nominee for E-Loan, Inc. dated April 20, 2006 and recorded in Volume 65, Page 609, which mortgage was assigned to Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as Trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust by an instrument dated January 8, 2016 and recorded on February 8, 2016 in Volume 83, Page 286 of the Land Records of the Town of Shoreham. Pursuant to the power of sale in the subject mortgage, of which Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purposes of foreclosing the same, the collateral property will be sold at Public Auction at 11:30 A.M. on January 16, 2018, at 121 Ti View Lane, Shoreham, Vermont all and singular the premises described in said mortgage: To Wit: A certain piece or parcel of land in Shoreham in the County of Addison and State of Vermont and more particularly described as follows: Parcel One: Being all and the sale lands and premises conveyed to James A. Oldenburg and Zelda A. Oldenburg, by Warranty Deed of John H. Oldenburg and Grace B. Oldenburg dated 26 January 1968, recorded 31 May 1968 in Book 26, Page 378 of the Shoreham Land Records and more particularly described therein as follows: Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or cashier’s check by purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing.

The sale is subject to taxes due and owing to the Town of Shoreham and any liens against the property.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale or inquire at Grant C. Rees Attorney, PLC, 30 Kimball Avenue, Ste. 307, South Burlington, VT 05403, (802) 660-9000. This sale may be cancelled at any time prior to the scheduled sale date without prior notice.

Dated at South Burlington, Vermont this 7th day of December, 2017.

Wilmington Savings Fund Society, FSB, d/b/a Christiana Trust, not individually but as Trustee for Pretium Mortgage Acquisition Trust, Grant C. Rees, Esq. Grant C. Rees Attorney, PLC 30 Kimball Ave., Ste. 307 South Burlington, VT 05403 Attorney for Plaintiff 12/21

PAGE 10B — Addison Independent, Thursday, December 28, 2017

DUIs, crashes keep troopers busy ADDISON COUNTY — On Saturday, Dec. 23, at a few minutes past 9 a.m. Vermont State Police stopped a motor vehicle on Main Street in Bristol after observing a driving infraction. During the stop troopers detected signs of impairment in the driver, identified as 35-year-old Ira Beaver of Bristol.

Police screened Beaver for driving under the influence, took him into custody, transported him to the New Haven state police barracks for processing, and released Beaver after citing him for DUI. In other recent activity, state police: • On Dec. 19 at approximately 7:30 a.m. clocked a Chevy Silverado pickup traveling at 85 mph in a posted 50 mph zone on Route 7 in New Haven and cited driver Jacob King, 18, of Salisbury for speeding.

• On Dec. 21 at a little past 9:30 p.m. responded to a reported assault at a residence in New Haven. After investigating, state police cited Shane McGrath, 23, of New Haven for aggravated domestic assault.

• On Dec. 22 at around 7 a.m. were notified of a single-vehicle crash on Route 116 near Sunny Valley Drive in Starksboro. It was snowing. Police report that Peter McDurfee, 25, of Vergennes was driving a 2006 International truck down a hill and when he tried to slow down the truck started to

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slide. The truck struck a guardrail, causing damage to the truck but no injuries. Police shut down Route 116 for several hours to clean up the debris. Neither alcohol nor drugs were determined to be contributing factors in the collision; police blamed the slippery road.

• On Dec. 22 at around 10:30 a.m. went to a one-car rollover crash on a snow-covered Silver Street in Monkton. Police report that 26-year-old Laura Khouri of Burlington lost control of the 2005 Honda CRV she was driving, overcorrected and then flipped the vehicle off the road. Police cited Khouri for driving with a criminally suspended license. The driver was not injured; the car was a total loss.

Vermont State Police release a daily log of a selection of their activities. In Addison County, those activities included: • Dec. 18, driving with a criminally suspended license, Panton Road, Panton.

• Dec. 18, directed patrol, Routes 22A and 17 in Addison.

• Dec. 18, motor vehicle disturbances, North Main Street at Stickney Road, Whiting.

• Dec. 18, DUI, States Prison Hollow Road, Monkton.

• Dec. 18, directed patrol, Routes 7 and 22A, Ferrisburgh.

• Dec. 18, driving with a criminally suspended license, Route 7, Ferrisburgh.

• Dec. 19, motor vehicle disturbances, Routes 7 and 17, New Haven.

• Dec. 19, minor traffic crash, Monkton Road, Ferrisburgh.

• Dec. 21, directed patrol, Monkton and Middlebrook roads, Ferrisburgh.

• Dec. 22, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 7 and Lime Kiln Road, New Haven.

• Dec. 22, agency assist, Route 7, New Haven.

• Dec. 22, larceny from a building, Whitman Road, Ripton.

• Dec. 22, motor vehicle disturbances, North Cream Hill Road and Route 22A, Bridport.

• Dec. 22, traffic hazard, Route VERMONT GAS EMPLOYEES Sheila Ashline, left, Kathy McCann, Karen Kotecki and Jennifer Lucia 22A and Brown Lane, Orwell. present a gift to Vergennes Residential Care Home and its owners Barbara and Tim Buskey. Every year • Dec. 24, vehicle crash with VGS employees collect gifts and make a financial contribution to a nursing home, and this year Verdamage, Route 125, Addison. gennes Residential Care Home was the recipient. Every resident was presented with a gift and the home • Dec. 24, agency assist, West was given a $500 donation for its recreation program.

Shore Road, Salisbury.

• Dec. 24, directed patrol, Route 7 and 17, New Haven.

• Dec. 24, medical assist, Upper Meehan Road, Bristol.

• Dec. 25, citizen dispute, Sand Road, Ferrisburgh.

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Ryan Murphy was found deceased.

• Dec. 25, motor vehicle distur- police responded to a car-pedestrian The Office of the Chief Medical bances, Route 7, New Haven. accident in Court Square on Dec. 18.

Examiner conducted an autopsy and As previously reported in the the death is not considered suspiAddison Independent, Town Hall cious, according to police.

Theater Executive Director Doug • Helped Vermont State Police Anderson had been walking his dog, with a mental health patient in the Willie, when Anderson was struck alleged he had been threatened by Route 125 East area on Dec. 21. by a car. another driver whom he had passed • Helped mediate a landlordAnderson sustained minor inju- on Route 7 South on Dec. 19. Police tenant dispute in the Painter Hills • On Dec. 13 met with school staff related to emergency ries, but Willie bolted from the contacted the suspect, who alleged Road area on Dec. 21. scene. The Middlebury community the complainant had been tailgating management planning.

• Seized a small amount of mari• On Dec. 13 looked into a rallied on behalf of the Andersons him. Police said the matter has been juana from the vehicle of a driver report of an injured animal that in the search for Willie, a golden resolved. whom they had stopped for a traffic appeared to have been struck by retriever. The elusive dog was spot• Were informed that someone violation on Bakery Lane on Dec. a vehicle on Liberty Street. The ted a few times during the ensuing had stolen a Dell desktop computer 21. owner was notified and the animal days, but avoided capture — until from Middlebury College’s Munroe • Cited Marley Heath, 29, of was provided care at Bristol Saturday, Dec. 23, when some folks Hall on Dec. 19.

Middlebury for retail theft following saw the pup on South Street and Animal Hospital.

• Referred to the Vermont an alleged incident at the TJ Maxx • On Dec. 14 assisted with a alerted Anderson.

Department for Children & Families store off Court Street Extension on A complete report of Willie’s saga on Dec. 19 a combined total of nine Dec. 21. sexting presentation to professionals involved in the field of sexual can be found in the A section of this truancy complaints involving area • Served a temporary restraining abuse investigation related to edition of the Independent and at students who had recently been order on a man in the Washington the development of an education addisonindependent.com. absent from classes at Middlebury Street area on Dec. 21. program to youth in the area.

In other action last week, Union middle and high schools.

• Served a temporary restraining • On Dec. 14 attended a multi- Middlebury police: • Returned a mental health patient order on a man in the Court Street disciplinary-team meeting at • Restored peace on Dec. 18 at who had left the Porter Hospital Extension area on Dec. 22.

Addison County Unit for Special a Sydney Way home at which there without permission on Dec. 19.

• Responded to a domestic disturInvestigations. was a family dispute.

• Cited Christopher Allen, 34, bance at a Commodore Way resi• On Dec. 14 responded to a • Helped the Counseling Service of Middlebury for embezzlement, dence on Dec. 24.

Mountain Street residence for a of Addison County get a patient to following an alleged incident at the • Helped mediate a child custody report of a dispute between room- Porter Hospital on Dec. 18.

TJ Maxx store on Dec. 20. dispute between some parents at the mates, and resolved the situation • Helped Porter Hospital officials • Served court-related paperwork Middlebury police station on Dec. with officer assistance. calm an out-of-control patient on on Dec. 20 to a South Pleasant Street 24. Police advised the former couple • On Dec. 14 responded to a Dec. 18. resident on behalf of the Chittenden to get further help from Addison minor two-vehicle crash on Main • Assisted a driver whose vehicle County State’s Attorney Office.

County Family Court officials.

Street. had broken down on Court Street on • Served a restraining order on an • Responded to an untimely death • On Dec. 15 was contacted by Dec. 19. individual at the Residence at Otter at a Route 7 North home at around the state police dispatch center • Investigated a report of a 911 Creek retirement community on 1 a.m. on Dec. 25. Police said April about a vehicle operating errati- hang-up call in the East Main Street Dec. 20.

Duclos, 43, was found deceased. cally traveling east on Route 17 on Dec. 19. Police determined a child • Responded to an untimely Middlebury police said there was near the entrance to Mount Abe. had been playing with the phone. death at a Court Street residence nothing suspicious regarding the Bristol police officers were unable • Interviewed a driver who on Dec. 20. Police said 46-year-old nature of Duclos’ passing. to locate the vehicle.

• On Dec. 16 responded to a two-vehicle collision on West Street without injuries.

Bristol patrols area for violations BRISTOL — Between Dec. 11 and 17, Bristol police conducted a lot of patrols in and around the village.

During that period police completed directed patrols on North Street, West Street, Lower Notch Road, Upper Notch Road, Notch Road, Briggs Hill at the intersection of Lincoln Road, and twice in an area a Bristol police log noted as “an area of concern within (the police) district.” The patrols resulted in a ticket for a stop sign violation and several warnings.

On Dec. 16 a Bristol officer completed a 45-minute saturation patrol with the Vermont State Police in the area of Plank Road and Burpee Road and issued one warning for speeding.

Officers got out of their cars and completed patrols on foot on Main Street, Mountain Street or in areas near Bristol elementary School several times on Dec. 11-15. On Dec. 17 an officer conducted foot patrol on the town park during the live nativity event.

Police performed security checks at Mount Abraham Union High School every day except one between Dec. 11 and 17.

In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On Dec. 11 attended a truancy meeting without incident.

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• On Dec. 11 performed 30 minutes of traffic enforcement on North Street near Plank Road and saw no violations.

• On Dec. 11 assisted state police with an investigation without incident.

• On Dec. 11 had one vehicle towed for being in violation of the winter parking ban.

• On Dec. 12 provided courtesy transportation to a person to retrieve a vehicle towed because of the winter ban.

• On Dec. 12 completed a fingerprint request for an individual for volunteer purposes.

• On Dec. 12 assisted in resolving a roommate dispute at a Mountain Street home.

• On Dec. 13 at 12:58 a.m. had a vehicle towed from Park Place; it was parked in violation of the winter parking ban.

• On Dec. 13 serviced truancy related paperwork.

• On Dec. 13 responded to a reported juvenile problem. No law violations were discovered and the situation was calmed without incident.

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StudentBRIEFS Champlain President’s and dean’s lists revealed for ’17 BURLINGTON — Champlain College has announced its list of students achieving presidents list and dean’s list for the fall of 2017.

For the president’s list students must achieve a grade point average of 4.0 or higher. Addison County students included in the list are: Satinder Kaur Pabla of New Haven, Amelia Payne of North Ferrisburgh and Kayla Sawyer of Vergennes.

To be named to the dean’s list, students must achieve a grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Addison County students included on the deans list are: Jeremy Stocker of Bridport; Morgan Salter of Bristol; Baxter Clements of Lincoln; Stirling Adams, Alexander Dalton, and John HO Eastman DO YOUof Middlebury; Kaylee Mumford and Austin Roorda of New Haven; and Paige Coyle, Jaymee Fulcher and River Hoffmann of Vergennes.

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ARTS+LEISURE It’s time to look back and reflect on our community’s incredible

ARTS FOOD MUSIC GARDENS BOOKS MOVIES EVENTS THEATER DANCE and so much more!

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Looking back at a full year’s worth of arts and leisure

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rts+Leisure celebrated it’s first full year in 2017.

Twelve months, 52 issues, over 830 pages, all dedicated to arts and events going on in Addison County.

Having launched the new arts section as a supplement to the regular Thursday Addison Independent in May 2016, we only had half a year to review last year.

This year reviewing all that went on left me breathless.

In 2017, we’ve had the opportunity to highlight the work of more than 30 local artists and craftspeople; meet 25 chefs, bakers, farmers and food producers; suggest more than 230 don’t-miss events happening right here in Addison County; learn 14 valuable gardening lessons from our own Master Gardener Judith Irven; and recommend 52 books and 51 movies.

We’ve also had the privilege this year of celebrating major milestones like the United Way of Addison County’s 50th year, Diana Fanning and Dieuwke Davydov’s 40 years as a duo, Emory Fanning’s 50 years at Middlebury College, Three Squares Cafe’s 10th birthday, the Vermont Choral Union’s 50th year, Night Fires’ 35th anniversary, and more! Some of our favorite feature stories of 2017 are featured on pages 8-11.

Looking ahead to the New Year, we’re exited to continue publishing the Addison Independent’s Arts+Leisure section, and rely on your support and participation to help make it an engaging, creative and fun companion every Thursday.

— Elsie Lynn Parini, editor Arts+Leisure

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Email Elsie, elsie@addisonindependent.com.

One of my favorite moments this year was interviewing Hannah Sessions and Greg Bernhardt at Blue Ledge Farm in Salisbury. There’s nothing cuter than baby goats!

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ART OVER THE YEAR WE FEATURED MORE THAN 30 LOCAL ARTISTS AND GALLERIES. HOPEFULLY YOU WERE ABLE TO SEE THESE THREE ARTISTS ON EXHIBIT. IF NOT, HERE’S A RECAP.

Deborah Holmes Deborah Holmes has been painting the Vermont scene for the past 25 years. She settled into her new home in Bristol this August, where she hopes to re-establish an at-home gallery. Known for her miniature paintings, these days Holmes is making everything a little larger. Still her watercolors offer a sense of calm and healing.

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The New Yorker cover and cartoon artist Harry Bliss showed his books and paintings at the Henry Sheldon Museum in Middlebury this fall, as part of the museum’s exhibit “Draw Me a Story – Tell Me a Tale.” Bliss gave a special presentation in September detailing “his growing up in a family of artists in the pervasive dysfunction of the suburban 1970s and his subsequent path from nearly incarcerated realist painter to drawing cartoons and covers for The New Yorker Magazine.”

Northern Daughters Gallery up in Vergennes opened this spring with an exhibit by Rutland native Grace Mellow.

The show featured a selection of the artist’s more experimental figurative drawings. Co-owners of the gallery Justine Jackson and Sophie Pickens were drawn to Mellow’s work because of her unique “comfort in her own skin.”

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IN TOWN Where to party on Dec. 31

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he New Year is right around the corner and Addison County is ready to celebrate.

Sunday, Dec. 31, is packed with festivities like Bristol’s Best Night, partying with The Grift at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater, enjoying a prime rib dinner and dancing at the VFW, ice-skating and fireworks at the Middlebury Rec Field, or lounging at Notte with music by DJ Del Rue. Whatever you choose, don’t forget to raise a glass to all the amazing artists in our county.

Tickets to Best Night come in the form of buttons which can be purchased ahead of time at local shops in Bristol and also at the door.

Buttons: $10 in advance / $12 at the door.

Children under 12 and seniors over 75 are admitted free.

Here’s a line-up of activities this Sunday, Dec. 31: Holley Hall Schedule 3:30 p.m. Kids Activities 5 p.m. Magicians without Borders 6 p.m. Sweet Transition 9 p.m. Coffee House / Open-Mic Sessions

BRISTOL BEST NIGHT Bristol Best Night is a community-wide New Year’s Eve celebration at three venues in downtown Bristol, Vermont.

Best Night is a project of The Watershed Center.

The Watershed Center is a non-profit corporation supported by local citizens.

It was founded in 1995 to promote conservation and stewardship of the land. TWC provides public access to over 1,000 acres of healthy, beautiful, productive land – the 664-acre Waterworks Property, the 94-acre Lost Pond Forest, the 194-acre Middle Forest, the 50-acre Merritt Heights, and the four-

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acre Edith Stock Community Forest in Bristol Village. Enjoy the land!

The Walkover Gallery & Concert Room Schedule 5 p.m. Karen Lueders 6 p.m. Encanto 7 p.m. Richard Ruane and Beth Duquette 8 p.m. Patrick Fitzsimmons Bristol Baptist Church Schedule 5 p.m. Cut, Split, & Delivered 6 p.m. Too Tall String Band 7 p.m Greg Ryan 8 p.m. The Insiders

YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK

NIGHT TREE PLAYS AT RIPTON COMMUNITY COFFEE HOUSE SATURDAY 6 JAN.

Night Tree will take the stage at the Ripton Community Coffee House on Saturday, Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m. This band is unique, not only for its abnormal instrumentation of two fiddles, cello, accordion, saxophone, percussion, and the occasional viola and mandolin, but for their collective representation and incorporation of traditions from Irish, Classical, Swedish, Jazz, Klezmer and Afro-Cuban music.

Refreshments available.

Night Tree will perform at the Ripton Community Coffee House next Saturday evening.

An open mic set will start the evening at 7 p.m. Call ahead for a slot on the open mic list. Admission: $15 generous admission; $10

general admission; $3 for children. For more information: 388-9782.

Eight untitled oil paintings will be on view at the WalkOver Gallery in Bristol through January. Meet artist Mark Benton during Bristol’s Best Night celebrations.

Mark Benton exhibits at the WalkOver Gallery Local artist Mark Benton poses the question: “Rural Industry: An Embellishment or Blemish on the Landscape?” In a series of eight oil paintings, all of which are untitled but many of which are recognizable locations, the artist takes his inquiry to the rural industrial landscape.

“I began this series by simply being caught in the moment,” he said, “prevalently a melancholy moment of catching the light at just the right angle reflected off a lonely piece of utilitarian metal.”

Benton’s use of light and color, sometimes playful but more often somber, reveals remnants of our past, or vestiges of the present time barely hanging on. When did these very particular structures slip into the past? It was not that long ago when, many can remember, these structures, mechanical equipment and places were fully active and utilized. The forms and shapes of “the architecture of utilitarianism” posed challenges in the translation, said the artist, but “the indifference to style or appearance in architecture also lends itself to my personal appeal of the imagery.”

The viewer is free to decide whether there is an aesthetic here. Two vents on a rooftop suggest a futuristic time with robot-like forms reflecting a golden sheen on metal and playful plumes of clouds dancing above. In one glorious piece a luminous sky filters through dizzyingly high pipes connected at a variety of angles.

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See the exhibit at the WalkOver Gallery, 15 Main Street in Bristol. It will be on view through January 2018. The gallery is open Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and on weekends and evenings by appointment. Call (802) 453-3188 x 2 or email walkover@mac.com for more information.

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EXHIBITS AN INSTALLATION OF FOLK, ETHNIC, VINTAGE & CONTEMPORARY ART INSPIRED BY ANDRÉ BRETON’S STUDIO AT THE CENTRE POMPIDOU. On exhibit through Jan. 31, featuring a layered show of sculpture, painting and text, from beautiful African and European objects to the work of BigTown Gallery artists, including three artists new to the Gallery — Lou Fink, Alison Weld and Jason Horwitz. BigTown Gallery, 245 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 349-0979 or bigtowngallery.com.

ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury.

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FIRE AND LIGHT. The gallery will be open by appointment. ARTSight, 6 South St., Bristol. (802) 989-1333.

HOLIDAY SHOW. On exhibit Nov. 18-Dec. 31, featuring work by 22 area artists in a variety of mediums and genres. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

NEW YEARS EVE WITH THE GRIFT

Middlebury’s favorite band rocks the region’s biggest dance floor for a New Year’s Eve Party with a free champagne toast at midnight (for 21+). Cash Bar on site.

In the Carolyn & Will Jackson Gallery thru 12/31

TENTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW

ORIGINAL WORKS BY LOCAL ARTISTS Original, handmade and hand printed art and fine crafts by talented regional artists comprise THT’s holiday show that has become a tradition – featuring unique and affordable works available for immediate purchase.

Sun 1/7 2pm $12/$60 Series Pass MNFF WINTER SCREENING SERIES

CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER

A documentary portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter. Featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, the late Sam Shepard, and more.

Fri, Sat & Mon 1/26, 1/27 & 1/29 @ 7:30pm Sun 1/28 @ 2pm MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE J-TERM MUSICAL

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MORE LIGHT. On exhibit Dec. 1-Jan. 28, featuring small works by Anne Cady, Edward Holland, Julia Jensen, Molly Bosley, Pamela Smith & Sobelman Cortapega. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

“RURAL INDUSTRY: AN EMBELLISHMENT OR BLEMISH ON THE LANDSCAPE?” On exhibit through January, 2018, featuring eight untitled oil paintings by Mark Benton. The artist will be on hand during the Bristol Best Night celebrations on New Year’s Eve. The WalkOver Gallery, 15 Main Street in Bristol. (802) 453-3188 x 2 or walkover@mac.com.

SMALL WORKS. On exhibit for the month of December, featuring small works inspired by the holiday season by a variety of artists.

Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill Street, Middlebury. (802) 4580098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

STEPHANIE STOUFFER’S “HOLIDAY LEGACY.” On exhibit Nov. 17-Dec. 31, featuring original paintings and commercial products over this Vermont artist’s 35-year career. Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr., Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or cmacvt.org.

WINTER IN VERMONT. On exhibit, Nov. 3-Jan. 3, 2018. Featuring an ensemble show by the membership of season-appropriate artwork. The show includes a Christmas tree full of ornaments (for sale). Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Sun 12/31 8pm Doors/9pm Show $18 Doors/$15 Advance

DRAW ME A STORY, TELL ME A TALE. On exhibit June 13-Jan. 13, 2018, featuring original artwork, sketches and more from 17 Vermont children’s book illustrators/authors. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

DRIVING THE BACK ROADS: IN SEARCH OF OLD-TIME VERMONTERS. On exhibit, Sept. 23-Jan. 6, featuring photographs and stories by Ethan Hubbard. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

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Vivacious, wounded cabaret performer Sally Bowles and American writer Cliff fall in love in the looming shadow of Nazi Germany.

Tickets are $20/$15 staff/$6 students On Sale 1/10 at 8am online or call 802-382-9222

Sat 1/27 1pm $24/$10 Students MET LIVE IN HD

TOSCA

Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production offers a splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of the jealous prima donna: Sonya Yoncheva and Anna Netrebko.

A free talk about Tosca will be given at 12:15 – in the studio.

Sat 2/3 2pm $15/$10 Students

THE OPERA HOUSE

The Opera House surveys a remarkable period of the Metropolitan Opera’s rich history and a time of great change for New York.

Featuring rarely seen archival footage, stills, recent interviews, and a soundtrack of extraordinary Met performances, the film chronicles the creation of the Met’s storied home.

Thu–Sat 2/8–10 @ 7:30pm; Sun 2/11 @ 2pm $12 Thu/$17 Fri–Sun MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY PLAYERS

PICASSO AT THE LAPIN AGILE

Comedian Steve Martin’s absurd comedy of historical fiction finds Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meeting in a bar in Paris in 1904, the year before Einstein’s theory of relativity and Picasso’s transition into cubism.

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CALENDAR ACTIVE

FIRST DAY BIRD WALK IN FERRISBURGH. Monday, Jan. 1, 9 a.m., Button Bay State Park.

New Year’s Day birding trips are a tradition held by many in the bird-watching world as they begin to fill their annual bird lists. Join Otter Creek Audubon as they combine that tradition with the fairly new tradition of First Day Hikes held at State Parks across the country.

MONTHLY WILDLIFE WALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan. 13, 8-11 a.m. Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland, corner of Weybridge

St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife. Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. More info call 802388-6019 or 802-388-1007.

DANCE CONTRA DANCE IN CORNWALL. Saturday, Jan. 13, 7-9:30 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall, Route 30. Featuring Don Stratton calling to live banjo and fiddle music by Red Dog Riley. $5-10/ person (sliding scale). All are welcome. No experience or partner necessary. More info at 802-462-3722.

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FILM “WONDER WOMAN” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Dec. 28, 12:30-3 p.m.

Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Free. Adults and youth 13 and older independently, 9-12 with adult or adult permission, 8 and under with adult caregiver.

“CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Jan. 7, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. The MNFF Winter Screening Series presents this documentary directed by Doug Nichol. Jay Craven, MNFF artistic director, will give an introduction and q&a. Watch the trailers, read more about the films and buy tickets at middfilmfest.org.

A series pass, covering admission to all six films, is available for $60. Individual tickets to the films are $12. Also available on the THT website, at the THT box office or day of show.

“BEACH RATS” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan.13, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center, 356 College St. Frankie, a teenager from the outer edges of Brooklyn, struggles to escape his troubled home life and reconcile his conflicting sexual desires. Free.

LECTURE “IN THIS HERE PLACE”: RACE, NATION, AND TONI MORRISON’S BELOVED,” IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Jan. 3, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. UVM professor Emily Bernard will discuss the significance of Toni Morrison’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “Beloved,” exploring how the novel argues that America must reckon with the consequences of our nation’s original sin — slavery.

“ANIMALS OF THE NORTH: WHAT WILL CLIMATE CHANGE MEAN FOR THEM?” presentation in Addison. Thursday, Jan. 11, 9 a.m.

– 1:30 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, 966 VT Route 17. Naturalist Sue Morse, founder and science director of Keeping Track, a wildlife conservation nonprofit based in Jericho, will give a lecture and slide presentation from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. and then she will lead the group on a nature walk at Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area until 1:30 p.m. Free and open to the first 20 people who contact Amy Alfieri at amy.alfieri@vermont.gov or 802-759-2398.

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CROWS AND RAVENS LECTURE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Jan. 11, 7-8 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. These birds are considered harbingers of evil by some, and for others endless curiosity. In Otter Creek Audubon’s Cabin Fever lecture series, bird Diva Bridget Butler pulls back the shroud on these birds known as corvids. Free.

INVASIVE INSECT PRESENTATION IN SHOREHAM. Saturday, Jan. 13, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. Learn about invasive insect species with Meredith Whitney, Forest Pest Education Coordinator with the Vermont Urban and Community Forestry Program. A kid-friendly, insectheavy experience. An insect craft and a snack are included.

MUSIC GERRY DINEEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Dec. 29, 10 p.m., Notte (Two Brothers Tavern).

THE MANGROVES IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Jan.5, 10 p.m.-1 a.m., Notte (Two Brohters Tavern) NIGHT TREE ON STAGE IN RIPTON. Saturday, Jan. 6, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, 1305 Rt. 125.

Open mic followed by featured performers. $10 general admission/$15 generous admission/$3 kids under 12. Doors open at 7 p.m. Open mic sign-up and info at 802-3889782 or rcch.org.

FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN ANNUAL MEETING IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Jan. 10, 6:30 p.m., Middlebury Union Middle School, 48 Deerfield Ln. Enthusiastic volunteers wanted to help plan the Middlebury’s annual summer music event. This will be the Festivals’ 40th year. Come to this meeting and find out how you can get involved.

SHAI WOSNER PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Jan. 12, 8-10 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Pianist Wosner has attracted international recognition for his exceptional artistry, musical integrity, and creative insight. He returns to Middlebury with a program of late Schubert sonatas, including opuses 42, 51, and 78, the “Fantasie.” Reserved seating.

HAMJOB IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan. 13, 10 p.m.-6 a.m., Notte (Two Brothers).

JOEL CAGE PERFORMS IN BRANDON. Saturday, Jan 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come hear this awardwinning veteran singer/songwriter from Boston, once a member of the internationally acclaimed rock and roll group Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes. Tickets $20.

Pre-concert dinner available for $25.

Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295, info@brandonmusic, or Brandon-music.net.

NEW YEAR’S EVE COUNTDOWN TO NOON-YEAR IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Dec. 31, 11 a.m.12:30 p.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 74 Main St. A celebration for kids who won’t be up at midnight. Crafts, stories, face painting, photo booth and fun.

MARK LAVOIE IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Dec. 31, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. For more than 30 years Mark Lavoie has been performing for crowds both large and small. His passion for and commitment to music, particularly blues harmonica, is admired by the many musicians who have played with him.

Free, and open to the public and handicap accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-3881220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS FOR FRIDAY, JAN. 12 WHEN SHAI WOSNER COMES TO THE MAHANEY CENTER FOR THE ARTS FOR AN EVENING OF SCHUBERT’S SONATAS.

org, 802 382-9222, at the THT Box Office, Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m., and at the door.

NEW YEAR’S BASH WITH DEL RUE IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Dec. 31, 10 p.m.-1 a.m., Notte (Two Brothers Tavern).

BEST NIGHT NEW YEAR’S EVE CELEBRATION IN BRISTOL. Sunday, Dec. 31, 5 p.m., downtown. Come out to enjoy this community celebration of the New Year ahead. Three venues with music, dancing and children’s activities. $10 before 12/25, $12 at the door, children under 12 and seniors over 75 are free. Information at bestnight.org or 802-453-4613.

ARTIST MARK BENTON IN BRISTOL. Sunday, Dec. 24, evening, WalkOver Gallery, 15 Main St. Benton will be on hand to talk about his current exhibit during the Bristol Best Night celebrations on New Year’s Eve. NEW YEAR’S EVE DINNER DANCE IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Dec. 31, 5 p.m., VFW Post 7823, 530 Exchange St. Welcome the new year with cocktails and a prime rib dinner with all the fixings, then dance to the music spun by Triple B D.J. Tickets are $20 per person or $25 at the door. R.S.V.P. at 802-388-9468.

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NEW YEAR’S EVE FIREWORKS AND ICE SKATING. Sunday, Dec. 31, 7:30 p.m., Middlebury Recreation Field, Mary Hogan Dr. Hot Cocoa hut too. After fireworks, free ice-skating at Memorial Sports Center from 8-9:30 p.m.

ROCKIN’ NEW YEAR’S EVE PARTY IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Two local favorites, The Grift and Otter Creek Brewing, team up for this dance party to ring in the New Year with music and Otter Creek brews.

Doors open at 8 p.m. The Grift takes the stage at 9 p.m. Free midnight champagne toast. Tickets $15 in advance, $18 at the door, and may be purchased at townhalltheater.

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January ETHIOPIAN FOOD COMES TO BRISTOL Alganesh Michael brought her second authentic Ethiopian and Eritrean dinner to Tandem in January. Now the South Burlington chef is a regular at the Bristol eatery, offering community style meals and take out.

“When you sit together and eat, that’s when conversation comes...I’ve met more people doing this in the past three years,” Michael said.

WOODEN PENS TURN INTO A CAREER Jim Cunningham shared his story of how handcrafted pens became his full-time business in January. One fateful day 16 years ago the National Wildlife Foundation asked him to make pens. At the height of his penbusiness, Cunningham estimated he was making 1,000 pens or more in a year.

“I’m a maker of need-full things,” Cunningham said. “I’ve always made and done things that people use every day.”

MIDDLEBURY WINTER FILM SERIES SCREENS ‘OFF THE RAILS’ The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival presented “Off the Rails” in this year’s Winter Screening Series in March. Since January, MNFF showed one film a month that focused on prominent work by first and second time filmmakers; the series concludes with the sixth and final film in May. “Off The Rails,” directed by Adam Irving, is “a riveting documentary that tells the incredible true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger’s syndrome whose overwhelming love and comprehensive knowledge of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for the criminal impersonation of NYC subway drivers, conductors, bus drivers, token booth clerks and track repairmen,” read the Winter Screening Series promo for this film.

February MARK PERRIN OF GREEN PEPPERS Green Peppers has been a staple in Middlebury since 1993. Owner Mark Perrin shared the story of how he came to open Green Peppers with his wife Donna and what it means to run a restaurant in a small community in February.

“My wife and I have always viewed the restaurant business as a form of income, but also a way to do good in our community,” said Perrin.

DUO OF 40 YEARS TAKES THE STAGE Cellist Dieuwke Davydov and pianist Diana Fanning celebrated their 40th year performing together with a concert on Feb. 26 at Mead Chapel. The duo has had a special connection since the very first time they played together back in September 1976.

The two Addison County residents took their 40th anniversary celebration on tour around Vermont and over to the Netherlands and France for their eighth European tour.

CARNEVALE CELEBRATES 3RD YEAR The Little City celebrated it’s third annual Carnevale Vergennes at the Opera House in early March. The evening was packed with performances, creative attire, music, and food and drink provided by Vergennes restaurants Park Squeeze, Bar Antidote, Black Sheep Bistro and 3 Squares Cafe. Charlotte resident and professional clown, Woody Keppel (above), was in charge of all entertainment.

To make it even more authentic, Vergennes City Mayor Bill Benton proclaimed Venice, Italy, a sister city to Vergennes ―— a gesture that Venice dignitaries are expected to reciprocate.

The event is held as a fundraiser for three area nonprofits.

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April JIM GEIER ROCKS INTO PERFECTION Back in 1975, Jim Geier made his first Vermont Folk Rocker. He spent the first 15 years in Burlington before moving his operation to Starksboro, where he continues to make the iconic rocking chairs.

“Over the years, the angle of the seat and the armrests have changed,” Geier said. “But now, it’s perfect.”

VERMONT CHORAL UNION WINGS INTO 50 YEARS This April, the Vermont Choral Union celebrated 50 years with three anniversary concerts, including one at the Mahaney Center for the Arts at Middlebury College.

Originally founded by UVM professor James G. Chapman, the ensemble of 36 singers is still going strong with Jeff Rehbach at the helm.

The anniversary performances featured works from five decades of repertoire.

FOODAROO MOVES TO MARBLE WORKS This June, Foodaroo moved its festivities to the Marble Works. For the past two years, the event closed down Merchants Row for an evening of Vermont food, music, activities and fun. But the downtown construction this summer presented a number of challenges, so Lisa and Andy Mitchell (who put on the event with their company Middlebury UndergrounD, or MUD) relocated.

Attendees tasted their way through the festival while enjoying leading local bands, street performers, kids activities, a fortuneteller, fire circus, King Arthur Flour baking contest and more.

“It was an intentional choice to focus on street performers this year,” said Lisa. We hope it will make the event even more family-friendly.”

May THE INNER GARDENER’S SECRETS Joan Lynch shared her secrets of gardening in May. Thirteen years ago, she launched The Inner Garden — a horticultural services company in Cornwall.

To achieve the right balance, she said, it’s about scaling ideas and suggesting plants or designs that will make a dream-garden feasible.

MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL SETTLES IN ON ROUTE 7 This May, Mary McKay Lower, Kathy Clarke and Barbara Nelson showed off the Middlebury Studio School’s new location on Route 7. Two years ago the trio helped move this business from its former location on Mill Street where they operated as Frog Hollow (Vermont State Craft Center) for nearly 40 years. Now, people flow through the school as if it were their own living room — at ease with the clay-dust and happy to share space, stories and snacks.

‘IL TRITTICO’ PERFORMED IN MIDDLEBURY The Opera Company of Middlebury presented Puccini’s “Il Trittico” this June. The performance of this seldom-seen piece was presented as three separate and distinct operas at the Town Hall Theater.

The opener is “Il Tabarro” tells the story of a failing marriage and an ill-fated affair. Midway is the comic opera “Gianni Schicchi.” The finale is the sublime “Suor Angelica.” Sister Angelica was banished to the convent seven years prior to giving birth to her illegitimate son, and learns that the child has died.

“The shimmering moment when she is reunited with her son in death’s embrace sent an unforgettable surge of shared emotion throughout the audience,” read Nancy Maxwell’s review. “Beyond thrilling, it was transcendent.”

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July MIDDLEBURY CONSTRUCTS A DOWNTOWN CELEBRATION This July, construction ripped up downtown Middlebury, which meant less traffic for shops on Main Street and Merchants Row. To ease the tension of the construction, the Better Middlebury Partnership invited the public to come see what was going on and support businesses in the construction zone.

FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN COUNTS 39 YEARS THIS SUMMER The 39th annual Festival On-The-Green kicked off the first Sunday of July, with the help of many volunteers. Headlinig the festival this year was the Emily Braden Trio.

The week-long celebration of summer was another smashing success with the live music and entertainment, local food, drinks and vendors, and dancing!

RECESS IS BACK, FOR ADULTS Andrew Peterson, of Peterson Quality Malt in Monkton, was looking for a way to say thank you to his customers this summer, so he decided to throw an outdoor party of food, drink and games at the fairgrounds in New Haven.

The first 21-and-over Recess for Adults took place in early September. There were all sorts of free games like kickball, three-legged races, sack races, a water balloon toss and board games if you get tired. There were also be some higher stakes, pay-to-play games like the pro and amateur tournaments of disc golf, the Vermont State Championship of foursquare, the Vermont State Championship of corn hole and the legendary Beer Mile.

August MNFF CELEBRATES THIRD YEAR The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival has served for the past two years as a venue for first and second time filmmakers from all over the world, and this August was no exception.

Sixteen of the more than 90 feature and short films screened were submitted by international filmmakers, who come from places like France, India, Lebanon and the United Kingdom.

MEET THE WRITERS AT BREAD LOAF Ninety-one years ago, Robert Frost had the impulse to establish the “Conferences on Writing.” Soon Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf campus became home to a writers’ conference when it was vacant at the end of each August.

This year, Bread Loaf invited writers from all over for a variety of conferences. Ten participants shared who they are, where they came from and what they’re working on. It’s nice to get to know your neighbors!

DANCERS GO VERTICAL FOR BANDALOOP BANDALOOP returned to Middlebury to kick off the 25th anniversary season of the Mahaney Center for the Arts this September. BANDALOOP seamlessly weaves dynamic physicality, intricate choreography, and the art of climbing to turn the dance floor on its side.

The group first came to Middlebury in 2004 to perform at the opening of the Davis Family Library and thenPresident Ron Liebowitz’ inauguration. This year’s anniversary performance ushered in a season of music, plays, films and exhibits.

“We have an impressive season of world-class concerts, plays, exhibitions, films, and more,” said Liza Sacheli, director of Mahaney Center for the Arts. “We have over 300 public arts events every year.”

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October COMEDY COMES TO MIDDLEBURY Tina Friml and Katie Gillespie initiated a monthly comedy show to the Middlebury Marquis, where audiences will see standup, conversations, games, storytelling, improv and inevitable small talk. The first show came in the middle of October highlighting comedians Sky Sandoval, Tim Bridge and Kendall Farrell.

“Everyone is funny,” Gillespie reminded, “you just have to find your humor.”

MADAILA ON THE MOUNTAIN With the help of Middlebury UndergrounD (MUD), the United Way of Addison County threw a 50th birthday bash in early October.

The Middlebury College Snow Bowl hosted the event with food trucks, all sorts of beverages, kids’ activities including a bounce house, youth bands from the area and the psych-pop juggernaut Madaila.

“There’s still need in Addison County,” said Nancy Luke of UWAC.

DOUG ANDERSON REMEMBERS Doug Anderson announced this December during a retrospective on his life at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury that he would be stepping down as executive director and into a new role as artistic director.

The talk chronicled his life from his high school days of directing a traveling children’s musical theater group, to his first acting job out of college and his first production in New York City. He elaborated on the fateful moments that landed him teaching jobs at Middlebury College, the University of Nebraska and Amherst, and his experiences writing for Guiding Light. Finally he arrived in Middlebury and his vision for Town Hall Theater.

Throughout his life Anderson marked his success with a several mottos: “Make work; always be professional; know your limitations; and take the long view.”

November BROADWAY DIRECT MARKS 12 YEARS Bill Carmichael, a Vergennes resident and owner of the Emerson Guest House on Main Street, brought Broadway Direct to the Vergennes Opera House for the 12th year this November. As a Broadway veteran himself, Carmichael called on his Broadway friends and several local students to bring a professional song and dance show to the Little City.

QUEEN COMES TO MIDDLEBURY The famous 1970s British rock band Queen was reincarnated in November at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. Rockers Clint Bierman, Peter Day, Tyler Mast and Steve Hadeka created that infamous Queen sound with Josh Panda up front as Freddie Mercury.

“Performing Queen is another level of technical ability and weirdness,” Bierman said. “They were so theatrical and odd, but at the same time accessible. Their music is ageless.”

NIGHT FIRES CELEBRATES 35 YEARS This December, Night Fires, the annual winter solstice play, celebrated its 35th year, with a big shout of hope inside a passionate prayer for this beautiful, aching country of ours. With a completely new script and story each year, the theme has always remained the same: that of setting out, at the darkest time of year, on a journey into and through a fruitful darkness in order to arrive at the “light.”

Marianne Lust, the creator of Night Fires, has been the show’s producer, writer and director for all but a few of the 35 years.

“I love doing Night Fires more than any other theatre I do,” said the 70-year-old Lincoln resident. “I love ALL of it!”

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the movie STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI — RUNNING TIME: 2:32 — RATING: PG-13 “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” unfolds in two utterly different locations: an austere, treacherous island in the most remote part of the Galaxy and the vast, infinite sky that is the setting for war. The steep, rocky island establishes a mood of danger while Rey (Daisy Ridley) tries to lure Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) away from his isolation (“It’s time for the Jedi to die”) and back to the life in the sky that he left.

That sky is alive with the turmoil of war that roars at the audience in superb designs of modern abstractions. The sound designers have created aerial turmoil, death and danger in nearly constant fiery explosions that blow up all manner of futuristic space vehicles and men. The ability to create this spatial chaos has grown since the first Star Wars movie in 1977 to the point where we feel nailed to our seats as the screen morphs into fiery orange violence. We marvel at what artists in 2017 can do to bring a digital story alive.

The visuals are extraordinary, the acting excitingly appropriate. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) and General Leia Organa (Carrie Fisher) are terrific as the alienated brother and sister who are older and wiser than the younger warriors. Laura Dern endows Vice Admiral Holdo with the great dignity that comes from calm presence. Daisy Ridley turns Rey into a young woman who injects intelligence and power into her violent trade along with an underlying sense of fair play and kindness. She is enormously appealing.

Because the whole thing is imagined, writer/director Rian Johnson was free to create a marvelous mix of humans and animals who navigate the violent warfare. There are no rules in this world of the imagination and Johnson’s work is creative artistry.

But there is something else going on here. In this year’s other big success, “Wonder Woman,” the terrific actor Gal Gadot stamped the women’s

Peter Mayhew and Daisy Ridley in Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017).

movement with approval and encouragement and gave young girls the super hero they’ve never had. Ask any teenager; they love their new role model. After that unexpected twist, women began to get stronger roles in movies just as they have begun to assert themselves powerfully in real life.

Now, in this Star Wars episode, three good actors portray three strong women leaders. Daisy Ridley, Carrie Fisher and Laura Dern have created characters whose attitudes establish the tone of the story. This is another movie that has stepped into the tide with public recognition of the strength of women. Along with the new “#MeToo” movement, this is what’s happening in the real world at a fast, long overdue, and exciting clip.

There is one possible cause for worry: the dark side of the explosive expansion of Star Wars style robotics. How soon will we see robotic tools of warfare and relationships erupt in our own life on earth? Perhaps next year’s Star Wars will give us some answers. Until then, they’ve given us the questions.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book BREAD AND ROSES, TOO — BY KATHERINE PATERSON (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)

The Vermont Humanities Council has selected Vermont author Katherine Paterson’s book “Bread and Roses, Too” as its Vermont Reads book for 2018.

Vermont Reads is a statewide one-book community reading program that began in 2003. VHC provides books for free to communities through an application process as well as resources for developing community bookrelated activities. Since the beginning of the program, Vermont Reads events have taken place in over 200 Vermont towns.

“Bread and Roses, Too” is a novel of historical fiction that tells the story of the 1912 “Bread and Roses” strike in the Lawrence, Massachusetts textile mills through the eyes of an Italian-American girl and a runaway boy. The novel relates the journey of Rosa, who, along with Jake and other children, are sent temporarily out of harm’s way to foster families in Barre, Vt., as children actually were during the strike.

This book is available at The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury and will be throughout 2018.

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HOME How to find time to exercise in the New Year

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A new year marks a great time to embrace change, and New Year’s is right around the corner. Many people do just that by making resolutions designed to improve their lives in the year and years ahead.

Resolutions regarding personal health are annually among the most popular changes people hope to make at the dawn of a new year. In fact, a quick scan of annual lists citing the most popular resolutions found that pledges to eat healthier and exercise more can be found at or near the top of such lists.

It’s no secret that getting healthier and looking better is a goal many people strive for upon the arrival of Jan. 1. Unfortunately, a 2015 report from U.S. News & World Report suggested that 80 percent of resolutions fail, oftentimes as early as February. For those who don’t just want but need to get healthier, failure to live up to a resolution to exercise more can have potentially devastating consequences.

If exercising more is a goal in the year ahead, the following are a few strategies to make that happen.

EXERCISE IN THE EARLY MORNING As the day progresses, unforeseen challenges or forgotten commitments have a way of devouring time initially earmarked for exercise.

Exercise first thing in the morning before any commitments to work and family hijack the time you have committed to exercising.

TAKE ON LESS RESPONSIBILITY Professionals and parents often cite commitments to work and family as the primary reasons they aren’t getting enough

exercise. While those are perfectly reasonable excuses to skip a workout, men and women who recognize the long-term benefits of routine exercise may be compelled to take on less responsibility at work while also making an effort to divvy up responsibilities at home more equitably.

DO EFFICIENT EXERCISE ROUTINES

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, ongoing exercise can reduce risk for cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and some cancers. The CDC also notes that routine exercise strengthens bones and muscles while improving mood. Taking on more responsibility at work might be great for your career, but that may prove a Pyrrhic victory if your longterm health is jeopardized. Parents can discuss with their spouse how to better share responsibilities at home so both moms and dads can get regular exercise.

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Rather than working a single muscle group at a time, which can be both time-consuming and boring, men and women can adapt their workout routines to focus on multi-muscle exercises. Work with a personal trainer to make your workout as efficient as possible.

Each week is different, so while it may be ideal to establish a workout routine in which you exercise at the same time each day, that’s not always going to be possible. Failing to exercise on a day you had intended to workout can compromise your motivation to workout in the future, so sit down at the beginning of each week to examine your commitments for the days ahead and schedule times to exercise.

This can keep you on track and help you avoid the disappointment of missing a workout.

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