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Classic Tiffany windows at Shelburne church
Disease threatens local tomato, potato plants Cool summer, rains cause ‘Late Blight’
Weight limit reduced, delays
Dr. Vern Grubinger University of Vermont Extension Vermont’s early summer cloud cover and wet weather are killing local crops. If you grow tomatoes or potatoes for farmers markets or for personal consumption, take heed. This is shaping up to be one of the worst years for Late Blight, the fungal disease made famous as the cause of the Irish potato famine of the mid-1800s. Today, this disease doesn’t pose the threat of famine, since we don’t depend on one or two local crops for our food, but it could ruin potato and tomato crops for local farmers and gardeners unless they are alert and take appropriate action. Note that this disease poses no threat to people--except for the loss of these crops. Late blight is caused by the fungus called Phytophthora infestans, and it’s actually not uncommon in the northeast, since it thrives in cool summer temperatures and frequent rains. But usually its occurrence is limited to later in the growing season and only certain areas of the region, typically in a few
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Tomato tissue infected with late blight is firm and appears tan to copperbrown with a granular texture.
Shelburne’s Trinity Episcopal Church, a neo-gothic church constructed of local redstone quartzite, boasts classic Tiffany windows. By Lori Wilson Special to The Eagle In view of the Shelburne Museum’s new exhibit, “Louis Comfort Tiffany: Nature by Design,” Trinity Episcopal Church in Shelburne is offering tours of the sanctuary, which features classic Tiffany windows. The church is open for worship on Sunday morning at 8 a.m. or 10 a.m. For those who cannot come them, there will be volunteer tour guides available from 2:30-6:30 p.m. through Oct. 17, on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, except for Aug. 15, 22, 29, and Sept. 19. On July 18 and Oct. 3, a guide will be available from 11:30 a.m. - 1 p.m.. However, this schedule may change, in the event of additional weddings, or of funeral arrangements. All of the windows in the sanctuary at Trinity Church come from Tiffany studios, including six memorial windows featuring saints and angels. These show less of the “Nature by Design” elements of Tiffany’s glass art and more of the human-figure elements, such as folding glass that accentuates drapery in robes, and opalescent streaks and ripples accentuating dove and angel wings. Trinity Episcopal Church is the little redstone neogothic church with porte-cochere and bell tower in Shelburne village located on the east side of Route 7, south of the intersection with Webster Road and north of the intersection with Falls and Harbor roads.
Emergency repairs to neglected bridge
OFF ROAD—Just north of Greenbush Road in Ferrisburgh, this vehicle went off the road and slid down an embankment. The vehicle narrowly missed trees and came to rest at the bottom of a slope at approximately 3:30 p.m. June 26. The driver suffered minor bumps and bruises. Photo by J. Kirk Edwards
The New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) announced July 2 that, as a result of a bridge inspection completed a few weeks ago, repairs are being made to the Lake Champlain Bridge, also known as the Crown Point Bridge, spanning two states and Lake Champlain between Crown Point,and Chimney Point. Work is incorporating the use of a temporary signal system to control one-way, alternating traffic operations which began July 3. Motorists are encountering significant travel delays. During the inspection, completed in June, several areas of steel deterioration to the bridge’s truss system were discovered. The weight posting on the bridge has been reduced to 40 tons, the legal maximum load on a New York State bridge without a special permit. Legally-loaded tractor trailers will be permitted to use the bridge; however, overweight vehicles will be prohibited. Built in the 1920s, the bridge consists of 14 spans totaling 2,184 feet. It is made up of a combination of a thrutruss, deck-truss and deck plate girders. It accommodates approximately 3,400 vehicles per average day. A project to either rehabilitate or replace the long-neglected bridge is being progressed by both NYSDOT and the Vermont Agency of Transportation under an agreement between the states. The current project schedule calls for construction to begin in 2013. See The Eagle, page 1, July 4 issue, for details.
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