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Police retrieve body from Shelburne Pond SHelburNe — On March 9, Shelburne Police and rescue were dispatch to the Shelburne Pond for a report of a game warden requesting assistance. On arrival, personnel discovered that the game warden went through the ice on Shelburne Pond and was in the water. The warden was able to communicate with responders on shore; he told them that there was a body in the water.

The warden was wearing a protective floatation collar and utilized hand spikes to eventually free himself from the water. He had been in the cold water for approximately 25-30 minutes. The warden, identified as dana Joyal, was assisted to shore and transported to uVM Medical Center by Shelburne rescue for evaluation.

Warden Joyal had been dispatched to the Vermont Fishing Access at Shelburne Pond to check on an unattended fishing gear on Shelburne Pond near an ice fishing hole. An unattended vehicle was also at the access suggesting someone had been fishing on the ice. ice rescue personnel recovered the body of the male subject, later identified as Kenneth Gaudette, 67, of Shelburne. it was not determined how long Gaudette was in the water.

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Goodwill opens big Rutland store

Goodwill officials announced that it is opening a thrift store located on u.S. route 7 in rutland in the storefront formerly occupied by laflammes Furniture Mall. The 10,000 square foot retail enterprise, located at 230 North Main St., Suite 6, will open Friday, March 4.

“We are very excited to be a part of the rutland neighborhood, bringing the Goodwill shopping experience to the area, and look forward to serving the community,” said Frank engels, CeO of Goodwill of the berkshires and Southern Vermont.

The nonprofit organization operates a total of four other stores in western Massachusetts and southern Vermont.

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Downtown Middlebury was ground zero March 12 with chili from top restaurants and caterers from around the state. The 8th Annual Vermont Chili Festival took place with award-winning recipes, all-ages entertainment and two after parties both with drink specials and live music from BandAnna and the Horse Traders. A panel of judges determined the best in six categories of chili: Veggie, Beef, Chicken, Game, Kitchen Sink and Pork. Winners received a cash prize and moved on to compete in the best-of-the-best Overall Winner category.

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Shumlin divestment could affect captive insurance companies

By Bruce Parker & Michael Bielawski Vermont Watchdog Report

Paul Burns, executive director of VPIRG, is on the defensive against Vermont lawmakers who say the group’s summer canvassing campaign uses deceptive tactics for lobbying and publicity purposes.

MONTPelier —Vermont Public interest research Group is seeking summer workers who can raise money and warn Vermonters about climate change. but some lawmakers claim that the group’s annual canvassing drive uses deceptive tactics. it’s the time of year when VPirG recruits college students and recent graduates to join its summer canvassing program.

According to the environmentalist group’s new job posting, workers can earn between $6,900 and $13,600 from May to September by biking, camping and walking door-to-door to sign up new members. Those accepted into the four-month-long program will be “leading the way on bold action to combat climate change and strengthen our local economy,” the posting states. but some lawmakers say VPirG used last

summer’s canvassing effort to falsely portray Vermonters as carbon tax supporters, both in a postcard-related lobbying effort and in a highprofile media event at the Vermont Statehouse.

“Some of (my constituents) said they absolutely did not remember anything about someone stopping by,” state rep. Mark Higley, r-lowell, told Vermont Watchdog. “Others had a vague remembrance of somebody possibly coming by on a bike, but they didn’t authorize them to put their name on a postcard.”

Higley became aware of the issue after he responded to postcards delivered to him by energy independent Vermont, a broad coalition of which VPirG is a member.

As Higley called constituents whose names were on the cards, some said they didn’t sign any cards. Others said they didn’t know the door-todoor solicitation had anything to do with supporting a carbon tax.

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Museum to look at imaginary life of Vermont artist Middlebury — The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History of Middlebury will present the exhibit “The Curious Cousins of Vermont Outsider Artist Gayleen Aiken”, from March 15 to May 21.

Gayleen Aiken (1934–2005) is recognized as an idiosyncratic 20th century folk and outsider artist by the American Folk Art Museum in New york City, the Visionary Art Museum in baltimore, Maryland, and the Abby Aldrich rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg, Va., and the American Art Museum of the Smithsonian in Washington, d.C. As a small child in barre, Vt., Gayleen Aiken created a family of fictional cousins, with the last name of raimbilli. She invented such first names for her cousins as leoallani, Scampi, Chioldio, and bimbaum. Gayleen told stories and envisioned hobbies for each one. The cousins are illustrated in oil and mixed media paintings and drawings, many with descriptive writings penned on the bottom or in a corner of the canvas. She also created life-sized card board cutouts of the cousins, colorfully painted and attired. The cutout cousins—which number 24, each individually named by Gayleen, have rarely been seen together, and are a highlight of the exhibit. equally important to her are the settings in which she chose to include the cousins—musicals, meals, fields, and barre’s granite sheds. The exhibit shows over a dozen of Gay-

leen’s drawings and paintings, with fine renditions of vernacular architecture of barre. The art in the exhibit is on loan from Grass roots Art and Community effort (G.r.A.C.e.) in Hardwick, Vermont and a private collection.

Her work has been subject of articles in Smithsonian Magazine and the New york Times, a 1997 fictional biography “Moonlight and Music: The enchanted World of Gayleen Aiken” by rachel Klein, and the 1984 documentary film Gayleen by Jay Craven. The film features her multiple creative talents. As a musician, she played the harmonica, the zylaphone, the drums, the piano, the organ, and she sang.

Her paintings and writings create a pretend music camp.

Jay Craven will present a gallery talk about the film and Gayleen in early May. Other guest speakers will be scheduled on Wednesdays at noon during the run of the show. refer to the Sheldon’s website for details.

The Henry Sheldon Museum is located at One Park Street in downtown Middlebury across from the ilsley library. Museum hours: Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.; research Center hours: Thurs. and Fri. 1-5 p.m. or by appointment. Admission to the Museum is $5 Adults; $3 youth (6-18); $4.50 Seniors; $12 Family; $5 research Center. For more information call 802/388-2117 or visit our website: www.HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History of Middlebury will present the exhibit “The Curious Cousins of Vermont Outsider Artist Gayleen Aiken”, from March 15 to May 21.

Traffic flagger killed in Middlebury

By Lou Varricchio

lou@addison-eagle.com Middlebury — A highway traffic flagger was struck and killed along u.S. route 7 in Middlebury, March 11. The accident occurred around 8:20 a.m. lawrence Kaminski, 75, of Wallingford, died after a truck— driven by Tommy Carrier, 50, of Jericho—accidentally backed over him in the southbound shoulder. Middlebury Police department Sgt. Michael Christopher said in a news statement. Kaminski died at the accident site.

The accident took place near Three Mile bridge road, Christopher said. Traffic on the highway was rerouted for several hours while police investigated the death.

Kaminski was an employee of Green Mountain Flagging. eustis Cable, based in brookfield, was in the process of stringing high cable when the accident happened.

The Middlebury Police department, Middlebury Fire department, Middlebury regional eMS and Vermont State Police responded to the scene, Christopher said.

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Green Line discusses power line proposal Community members and town officials ponder on supporting energy project

By Teah Dowling

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beeKMANTOWN, Ny — The developers of a proposed electric transmission line running from beekmantown to New Haven, Vt attended a February town board meeting here to layout details of the plan and how it might affect local residents.

The $600 million project — known as the Vermont Green line — requires 6.7 miles of underground cable in New york, 13.3 miles in Vermont and 40 miles underneath lake Champlain.

Power for the project would be generated by wind farms in New york’s northern tier.

A partnership between local power company National Grid and Massachusetts-based Anbaric, the proposal promises to deliver clean, carbon-free renewable energy to upstate New york as well as the New england states. lOCAl iMPACT The estimated $600 million project requires 6.7 miles of underground cable in New york, mainly in beekmantown.

The proposed underground cable routes in beekmantown would be constructed under roads such as Jersey Swamp, West Hill, Pardy, Monty, deyo, durand, burke, route 22 and route 9.

To bury the cable, the roads must be torn up, and, once installed, rebuilt.

Supervisor dennis relation’s main concern is the impact the project will have on residents who live along the roads.

Joe rossignoli of National Grid said a traffic management plan is currently being put together.

He said discussions are leading toward one lane closures instead of detours — working on 500 feet of road per day to put in a 4-foot deep, 2-feet wide trench for the cable.

“There will be no visible trace to the line,” he said. ‘iN My bACKyArd’ The proposal calls for two converter stations: one in New Haven, Vt and another in beekmantown.

The proposed location for the beekmantown station is in rodney and darlene Grigware’s backyard — located off of Jersey Swamp road.

“We bought our house for seclusion and privacy and now it’s being taken away from us,” darlene said. “We don’t want to see it and we’re hoping they’re going to listen to us.”

The couple said their main concern of living so close to a converter station is health risks.

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rossignoli said there are magnetic field effects from the station and the transmission line, but the only way to be affected is to be in close proximity, specifically inches.

The exact location of the converter station is yet to be determined, he said. if the station is close to the Grigware’s property, rossignoli stated there will be conversations moving forward to come up with a common ground, such as planting tall trees so that the station is not visible.

TAXAble ASSeTT because the transmission line is considered a taxable assett, rossignoli said the project not only will create approximately 300 jobs throughout the construction process, but will guarantee a tax payment to the town of $69,913,240 over the first two decades of use.

Over that time, the tax will be split upon the school district, town and its special districts.

The school district will receive approximately $62 million and the town will receive about $5 million. The remainder will go toward the town’s fire and water districts.

Clinton County will receive $22 million on top of the $70 tax payment to beekmantown — totalling a $90 million taxable as-

sett.

The project will also enable the construction of more wind farms throughout the North Country, primarily in the ellenburg area.

PrOJeCT TiMeliNe if the proposal is approved by the town, National Grid and Anbaric are looking at a 2017/18 start date and being in service in 2019/20.

Awards of the winning bids will be given out between April to July. Contracts will be executed June to September and submitted for state approval in december.

A second public hearing date is yet to be determined. However, it will take place sometime in March. “it’s an ongoing process,” said Mike relyea of Amanus, a consulting group working with Anbaric on the project. “However, we plan on working with the county and community and answer any questions they may have.”

Pictured above: Representatives of National Grid, Anbaric and other parties met with community members Feb. 16 to discuss potential concerns of the Vermont Green Line Project in Beekmantown.

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mong my favorite u.S. Presidents of the postCivil War period is Calvin Coolidge, one of our most underrated and understudied chief executives.

Coolidge was our 30th president, serving from 1923 to 1929. interestingly, with no deep or mystical meaning, is the fact that Coolidge was our nation’s only president to be born on July 4.

Counted on my personal fave list are republicans and democrats (President Kennedy is my no. 1 democrat, and President reagan is my no. 1 republican); making my list really has more to do with a particular President’s character, life story/achievements, thoughts and words (as well as unabashed display of American patriotism)— things more sweeping than mere party affiliation. in recent years, President Coolidge has emerged as one of my favorite chief executives for a number of the reasons just noted. but this also includes having personally met the late President’s son; that fact adds a rare, unique dimension to my budding interest in President Coolidge’s life. (Few people ever get to meet a President or his family member.) you might think that because President Coolidge was a Vermonter it must be a factor here—but, i assure you, it doesn’t. Where a favorite President was born or where he died are minor aspects to my biographical interests. back in the early 1990s, i had the distinct honor of spending several hours interviewing the late President’s son, John Coolidge, at the Coolidge family house in Plymouth Notch, Vt. John was nearly blind then, but his disability didn’t prevent him from giving me his undivided attention.

He was a gracious man and appeared to be genuinely happy to talk with me about his father and mother, as well as about his life growing up at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. during the 1920s. less than 10 years after i met John Coolidge, he died at the age of 93; he is missed and will be remembered for a successful career in business as well as a remarkable memory including the Coolidge familial wit. He told me several wonderful stories about the President and First lady Grace Goodhue Coolidge, as well as about his childhood in the White House.

John’s larger-than-life father was often painted by his cynical democrat foes as being just another uncaring, out-of-touch republican—a chief executive whose only interest was business and the nation’s isolationism—when, in fact, Coolidge had an expansive heart, a sense of fair play and tolerance, and a well-read, Kennedyesque quick wit. recalling my time spent with John Coolidge more than 20 years ago, he revealed this fact—of course, not just to me alone, but with others over the years—about his father, the President: “Of course my father was a bighearted man, but it is also true that he rarely displayed his range of emotions, like most men of the time. in 1924, when my brother Calvin died, and his casket was carried

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from the White House, my father wept openly and freely; he was seen by everyone. it was clear that the tragedy had affected him—and our entire family—very deeply.” related to renewed awareness in Coolidge’s legacy is the recently announced Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation’s “Coolidge Scholarship”, a full-ride presidential scholarship. The astonishingly generous scholarship will cover a college-bound student’s tuition, room, board, and expenses for four years of undergraduate study, including leadership training.

According to the Coolidge Foundation, “the scholarship may be used by recipients at any American university. Anyone of any background, pursuing any academic discipline of study, may apply to this non-partisan, need-blind, program.”

This new, Vermont-based scholarship program is especially unique and praiseworthy; it sounds exactly like something which the late President would get behind solidly, if he was alive today.

Our 30th President was a man who believed sincerely in every American having an equal crack at life’s chances and employment opportunities—and while he may nod in agreement with giving a student a “full ride” scholarship, he’d expect to see a return on the investment, too.

That is, the award recipient would be expected to make something of his/herself well beyond the generous gift of having paid the academic freight.

Students are asked to apply for the new Coolidge Scholarship while they are in their junior year of high school. Once announced, the finalists are then invited to spend a weekend at the Coolidge Historic Site in Plymouth Notch where they meet with a panel and learn about the ideals of the late President. Winners of the scholarship are then notified before the college application process begins.

Modeling President Coolidge’s commendable yet humble academic achievements, the new scholars must have demonstrated academic excellence, have a keen interest in public policy (and a sincere appreciation for the values Coolidge championed in his lifetime), as well as show personal humility and citizen-leadership skills.

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers,” Coolidge said back the 1920s—that’s why it’s nice to see that some Vermonters—even after their current state government has discarded the late President’s philosophy of championing small government, living within our means, opting for lower taxes, and minding our own collective business—still honor this conservative native son through a unique scholarship to inspire future leaders and citizens. beyond Montpelier’s current lost wandering in the wilderness of ill-conceived ideas, real American dreams—the satisfaction of honest, hard work, government by the people (not career politicians), and the down-to-earth principles of Calvin Coolidge—will always spring eternal.

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t a time when we would all hope the nation would take the up coming elections with a greater degree of importance, it now seems apparent that fighting in the streets, and back rooms, may forever taint the elections of 2016. last week thousands of protestors successfully shutdown a Trump rally in Chicago and at other events in Ohio and Missouri protestors disrupted campaign plans as security ramps up for upcoming Dan Alexander events.

Thoughts from Politics has always been a deeply comBehind the Pressline bative environment. Candidates can be arch rivals one minute and the best of allies the next. While we call it a “cut throat’ business, to my knowledge no candidate has ever actually cut another candidate’s throat. in everyday life we all say things like “i could just kill him” or “throw the baby out with the bath water”. even the term “throwing someone under the bus” are mere expressions of our language to reflect a high degree of frustration and overly emphasize making a point. but in this day and age our culture has gone so overboard on political correctness that it seeks to demonize anyone using terms and phrases that at one time, even to stiff collared TV censors of the 50’s and 60’s, would have considered more a comical expression.

Can you just imagine what would happen today if anyone dared to say things like ralph Kramden did on the Honeymooners when Jackie Gleason played ralph in the late 50’s popular TV comedy?

As a nation and a world have we become so sensitive to words that we can no longer differentiate between an actual threat and a figure of speech?

Trump is bombastic, no doubt, but his competitors both inside the republican Party and the democratic Party have gone just as far off the reservation twisting his words and phrases in an attempt to make him out to be far worse than the words he uses to reflect the anger he believes his supporters are feeling. let’s face, we’ve been heading down this path for some time and those who know how to spin the truth could make Captain Kangaroo look like Jack the ripper if they so choose.

Political passion is one thing but it just seems folks are getting a little too wound up over this stuff, which if we aren’t careful, will continue to boil over until some one really gets seriously injured or even killed.

We need to recognize the promises, claims and posturing candidates make during these races are primarily hyperbole and not to be taken too seriously.

Those running for office sadly use these tactics without always thinking about the effects they will have on people, in many cases from the opposing camps, but especially where unstable people can be easily affected. We’ve lost far too many national figures over the years due to ill phrased words or actions that caused unspeakable reactions. let’s hope everyone can calm down a notch or two and give these campaigns time to play themselves out before the violence and/or worse gets completely out of control.

Dan Alexander is associate publisher of New Market Press.

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WINGING IT — Student, 4-H Club member, and future farmer Raymond Bushey of Addison presented an informative public talk about pigeons at the 4-H Poultry Quiz Bowl and Skill-a-thon, sponsored by University of Vermont Extension 4-H at Johnson State College in Johnson on March 5. If there’s anything you want to know about the care, feeding and breeding of pigeons, Bushey is your man.

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Letters to the Editor Flagger death To the editor: regarding the death of a Green Mountain Flagging employee on route 7 March 11, this driver’s observation on flaggers is that quite a few, even though they wear the orange safety vest, will wear dark clothing and then stand so they blend in with the background. That vest can be close to the same value and color as the machinery. They’re not moving so they don’t attract the eye which notices movement. Perhaps those “slow/ stop” signs need flashing lights on them. Today, that is feasible.

One thing they can do is constantly check the background against which the driver will view them. laws make drivers responsible, that is true—but your going home at the end of your shift is also your responsibility An “at fault” driver will get out of jail; you won’t get out of the cemetery.

J.Kirk Edwards Ferrisburgh, Vt. & Inman, S.C.

Driver fell asleep, police said

Police Reports AddiSON — On March 3, at approximately 9:30 a.m., members of the Vermont State Police, bridport Fire department, and Middlebury rescue responded to a report of a single-vehicle crash on Vermont route 22A in Addison.

Witnesses reported the truck involved, a 2008 Nissan Frontier, was traveling northbound when it crossed over the center line and into a field, ultimately impacting a large tree. The operator, Jason breault, 39, of Shelburne, reportedly fell asleep while driving.

When breault struck the tree, he became entrapped in the vehicle. bridport Fire department and Middlebury Fire department Heavy rescue extricated breault from the vehicle and he was transported by Middlebury Ambulance to the uVM Medical Center for his injuries. investigation determined that breault was negligent in his operation of his vehicle at the time of the crash. He was cited to appear in court for Negligent Operation.

Asleep at the wheel

CASTleTON — On March 3, Vermont State Police responded to a report of a single vehicle crash on route 133 in the Town of ira. upon arrival, VSP troopers were informed that regional Medical Services had arrived on scene and had transported the operator to rutland regional Medical Center. during the investigation, Troopers learned that robert l.

Winchell ii, 20, fell asleep and drove off the road colliding with a tree. Winchell was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash.

Winchell was transported to rutland regional Medical Center where he was released with minor injuries. big Joe’s Hook and Tow, and regional Medical Services assisted on the scene.

Addison County DUI stops planned

NeW HAVeN — There will be a sobriety checkpoints conducted in Addison County by area law enforcement agencies during the next two weeks. This will be done in an effort to monitor the flow of traffic along Vermont’s highways in the interest of detecting and arresting persons under the influence of alcohol or any drug that has impaired their ability to operate a motor vehicle, according to VSP Sgt. Matthew daley of the VSP New Haven barracks.

Egg hunt in Vergennes

News in Brief VerGeNNeS —Cornerstone Preschool and Champlain Valley Christian School in Vergennes will be hosting an egg Hunt & Open House on Saturday, March 26, from 10 - 11 a,m. The hunt will begin at 10 a.m. Friends welcome. Tours of our facility will be provided.

UVM cows fed coffee, grape marc

burliNGTON — When it comes to dairy cows, in vino— and coffee—there’s certainly veritas.

According to laura Hardie of New england dairy & Food, university of Vermont agriculture researchers are experimenting with feeding coffee grounds, grape pomace, also known as marc, from wine, and other food by-products to cows to test the impact of diet on milk healthfulness.

Marc is the solid remains of grapes, olives, or other fruit after pressing for juice or oil. it contains the skins, pulp, seeds, and stems of the fruit. “it’s a critical job, to determine what a dairy cow eats, how it’s digested, and how it impacts the quality of the milk and overall health,” Hardie said.

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Middlebury officials and residents celebrate the grand opening of Middlebury’s new recreation center with an official ribbon cutting. Kathleen Ramsay, Middlebury town manager, and David Donahue of Middlebury College, held the ribbon cut by Nick Artim of the Middlebury Select Board and Chris Huston, architect of Bread Loaf Corporation.

Local firm created design touches to new rec center

By Leslie O’Halloran

Middlebury —A ribbon cutting ceremony was held on March 2 to mark opening of the new Middlebury recreation Center located at 151 Creek rd. bread loaf Corporation provided services for the design and construction of the building.

The 13,880 sq. ft. center is organized around a large, flexible main lobby with a regulation sized multi-sport gymnasium flanking one side and the support spaces - offices, multi-purpose room, and quiet studio on the other side. There are also four team rooms to serve the play fields as well as sports using the gymnasium. The building will provide much needed restroom amenities for the adjoining recreation Park as well as shelter from storms. interior and exterior colors are purposefully playful, bright and energetic. interior finishes feature a maple wood gym floor,

a polished concrete lobby floor and linoleum sports flooring in the multipurpose rooms. durable, painted concrete block walls are appropriately designed to ensure the long term durability of this multi-purpose sports facility.

The building features a robust, energy efficient and air tight exterior building envelope.

The load-bearing, cavity wall construction includes six inches of spray-foam insulation to reduce building energy loads. led lighting, daylighting and low-flow plumbing fixtures all contribute to energy and water conservation. The roof structure was planned for the town to add photovoltaic panels at a later date.

The building contains a balance of large windows with solar shading devises on the southerly facing office and multipurpose spaces, while the gymnasium features high windows on the northeast and northwest corners to minimize potential glare in the gymnasium during sporting events. This also helps with the overall building energy profile through a passive solar design.

Local farmers plan Small Farm Action Day MONTPelier — Following on the success of rural Vermont’s Small Farm Action day last month, rural Vermont and the Vermont young Farmers Coalition partner to host the second in this series of three Small Farm Action days at the Vermont State House on Wednesday, March 30. These events provide farmers the opportunity to engage legislators in thoughtful conversation about the unique challenges that small farms face and the need for flexible, scale-appropriate laws and regulations.

The focus of this month’s Small Farm Action day will be on-farm slaughter, a longstanding staple of Vermont’s local food system. in 2013, farmer activists backed by rural Vermont successfully advocated for the passage of Act 83, which recognized and legitimized this traditional practice that Vermonters rely on to feed themselves and their neighbors. However this law was passed with a “sunset” provision, which would automatically repeal the law on July 1 of this year. A bill is under consideration that would keep the law in effect. At Small Farm Action day, participants will send a clear message to lawmakers: we must preserve the Vermont tradition of on-farm slaughter –it has been essential to generations of Vermonters, and it is a critical component of Vermont’s food and farming future.

Small Farm Action day will include briefings on the on-farm slaughter issue along with other pending legislation affecting small farms and the communities they feed. Part of the day’s program is training and tips for effective citizen advocacy as well as assistance in arranging meetings with the participants’ own legislators. “rural Vermont’s Small Farm Action day brings farmers en masse to the Statehouse. What a brilliant idea! We get to meet our legislators, learn about and weigh in on issues that directly affect us every day. This is a productive (and fun!)

Vermont farming activist Peter Harvey speaking with State Rep. Teo Zagar at last month’s Small Farm Action Day. opportunity to come together with other farmers to catch up, share ideas and show strength in numbers,” said lindsay Harris of Mountain Home Farm in Tunbridge a previous Small Farm Action day participant. She invites other farmers to join her at the March event, “don’t let the people in power decide what is good for Vermont farmers, come on and tell them!” rural Vermont will continue to offer stipends to help make it possible for farmers to take time away from their farms and travel to Montpelier to participate in the legislative process. The stipends, made possible by a “Small and inspiring Grant” from the Vermont Community Foundation, will help farmers cover costs associated with child care, temporary farm labor, and transportation.

The final Small Farm Action day of the 2016 legislative session is scheduled for Tuesday, April 26. rural Vermont is a non-profit organization representing Vermont’s community

of family farmers, neighbors and citizens committed to supporting and cultivating a vital rural economy and community. rural Vermont believes family farms and the food that they provide are at the heart of thriving communities and environmental sustainability. Towards this end, rural Vermont strives for fair regulation for farmers and works to counter corporate consolidation of agriculture and our food system.

The Vermont young Farmers Coalition is an organization created by and for young Vermont farmers. Their areas of focus include policy change, network building, and farmer development. Find them on Facebook.

Small Farm Action Days are free and open to all farmers and their customers. More information, RSVP (highly encouraged), and farmer stipend applications can be accessed at www.ruralvermont.org or by calling 802223-7222.

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Vermont’s energy future V

ermonters want a greater voice in solving this century’s greatest challenge—how to change our economy from one powered by burning fossil fuels to one powered by clean, renewable energy.

Over the past several years, the legislature has struggled to find the right way to promote this energy transformation while also empowering Vermonters to help determine how we make the transition. We have brought our hearts and mind to this work, and now we’re offering an answer.

On Friday, March 11, after more than two months of gathering testimony from Vermonters—town, regional and state elected officials, citizens, planners, electric companies, renewable energy developers, electrical engineers, experts, and activists of all stripes— the Senate Natural resources and energy Committee unanimously passed Senate bill 230. This bill creates a way for towns and regions to work with the state in planning our renewable energy future.

This bill integrates, for the first time, land use planning with energy generation planning.

Currently, nearly all energy generation planning takes place at the state level, and nearly all land use planning takes place at the town and regional levels. As we move to renewables—solar, hydro and wind projects that are broadly distributed across the landscape—it is essential that we have a productive, respectful dialog between all the participants.

We need the state to lead in the orderly development of Vermont’s transition from fossil fuels to renewable fuels because it’s

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Guest viewpoint a large and complex changeover of our electrical grid that will be underway for decades and the work involves many, many projects that must work together in order to keep electricity safe, reliable, and affordable. We need towns to find the ways to site these projects in the locations that work best for the community.

Some Vermonters and many towns are telling us that too much of the energy discussion has been one-way, originating with the state and coming top-down. The committee listened. Our bill, S.230, creates a more balanced, two-way communication. every renewable energy project requires a permit, issued by the Public Service board (PSb). When an application is submitted, towns and regions have the statutory right to oppose or request changes to a project by arguing that it conflicts with their town plan. Currently, such plans are given “due consideration.” Some Vermonters think this is too little influence.

S.230 offers Vermonters—through their towns and regional planning commissions—a much higher level of influence, “substantial deference,” provided that the town or region has worked with the state and been certified as a partner working to meet Vermont’s overall energy goals. A certified town plan, when being considered by the PSb, must be honored unless the board determines that there is clear evidence that the general good of the state outweighs the the plan. This is a very high threshold for the board to surpass.

And it’s a game changer for our state.

Whereas now the burden is on a town to demonstrate that its plan should override the public good associated with a project, under S.230, the burden of proof shifts to require that the board demonstrate why a town plan that has already been certified as helping Vermont meet our renewable energy goals should be overridden.

This bill gives Vermonters the power to plot the course to renewable energy, and we know this can work. The state has been conducting a pilot program over the last year with three regional planning commissions interested in such coordinated energy development planning, and the results are very encouraging. Former potential opponents have been converted into working partners.

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lert viewers of a local television news broadcast may have noticed a March 4 segment calling attention to my completion of fifty years’ service as Kirby Town Moderator. Please allow me to use those four minutes of media fame as a springboard for defending the merits of Vermont’s tradition of town meeting government. early settlers from Massachusetts and Connecticut brought town meeting to the New Hampshire Grants before they created the republic of Vermont in 1777. unlike in most of the rest of the country, in Vermont – never a royal colony - the towns came together and created the state. both Federalist John Adams and democratic-republican Thomas Jefferson believed that Town Meeting ought to be the foundation of any democratic republic. When asked the reason for the political strength of New england, Adams replied “town, school, congregation, and militia”, the institutions of civil society at the local level.

Jefferson, who as a Virginian had little knowledge of the workings of grassroots democracy, nonetheless identified it as essential to liberty and self government. in 1816 he wrote “where every man is a sharer in the direction of his ward-republic [town], or of some of the higher ones, and feels that he is a participant in the government of affairs, not merely at election one day in the year, but every day; when there shall not be a man in the state who will not be a member of some one of its councils, great or small, he will let his heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a bonaparte.”

For decades Adams’ practical analysis and Jefferson’s shining vision elevated the status of town meeting democracy. but by the turn of the 20th century its luster had begun to fade. A major cause was the leakage of small town people to the larger towns and cities. Another was the appearance of public concerns that could not easily be dealt with by a thousand citizens in a forty square mile “republic”.

Frank bryan, of Newbury, capped his long career as uVM professor of political science by publishing his monumental work, real democracy in 2004. in it he recounts how the centralist

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thinkers of the Progressive era scorned grassroots democracy of all sorts. What did those yokels know? Public decisions should be turned over to the wise, educated, and public spirited, whose far seeing leadership would make government at all levels more efficient in carrying out ever more activities determined by the best and the brightest to be for the good of the people.

The result of this advanced thinking was the relentless movement toward consolidation. The Progressives’ only grudging concession to democracy was allowing the erstwhile citizens to vote every year or so on whether the experts had performed acceptably. in Vermont in the 1960s, a new generation of Progressives, exemplified by Gov. Philip Hoff (1963-68), ended equal town representation in the House, removed welfare (‘poor relief”) from the towns to Waterbury, imposed state land use controls, and set in motion a burgeoning state education bureaucracy that has worked ceaselessly for consolidation of public schools into large unified districts (finally triumphant in Act 46.)

This is not to say that all this centralization was abhorrent. but in “concentrating all cares into one body”, as Jefferson put it, we are steadily reducing the scope of local civic responsibility. before long the Australian ballot will reduce town meeting democracy to a remnant, surviving small town public schools will be managed – and many closed – by distant unified districts organized like waste management districts, and town duties will shrink down to maintaining town roads, keeping up the cemetery, and issuing zoning permits and dog licenses.

Whether or not this will result in a gain for society is debatable, but there can be no doubt but that the arena of citizenship will shrink, and the thousand year spirit of town meeting democracy will become a matter only for curious historians.

For 49 years since my first election as Moderator, i have penned a few thoughts on the inside cover of the Kirby town report. Many of those have been tributes to or eulogies of my fellow citizens, but one in particular, from the 1971 report, has long been my favorite.

After offering the Jefferson quote cited above, i wrote “Our job must be to strengthen and preserve town government, thus keeping as many of the functions of government as possible close to the people themselves. This can be a nuisance at times, and

in the midst of working through this challenging moment, i encourage all of us to pause and appreciate a number of positive facts about renewable energy development in our state: the vast majority of renewable energy projects are built without controversy—for example, there are over 5,000 net-metered solar projects in our state, a number that surprises most Vermonters precisely because so many have been inconspicuously blended into the landscape and placed on rooftops; our move to renewables has helped drive Vermont electric rates down; in fact, Vermonters now enjoy the second lowest—and most stable—rates in New england; every renewable project built reduces destructive emissions within the New england electrical system of which we are an integral part; our state now has over 16,000 people working in the clean energy industry, and the growth of jobs in this sector has outpaced the general economy by more than 2:1; and poll after poll tells us that Vermonters strongly support the move to renewables.

The legislature recognizes all these positives as well as the changes to our landscape that are controversial. under S.230, Vermonters are offered a means to avoid conflict by planning in advance. i predict that less and less often will Vermonters be saying “no” to projects because their focus will have shifted to saying “yes” to projects developed in the locations and sites they prefer.

We will be rebuilding our energy system for decades to come.

And throughout the decades required to undertake this work, S.230 will provide Vermonters with a greater voice and an opportunity to work together through an integrated energy and planning strategy. i have always believed that enduring, positive change is based on collaboration. This bill fosters the collaboration we so clearly need in this time of profound challenge.

Vermont State Sen. Christopher Bray (D) Christopher Bray is from Addison County and chairs the Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee.

EditorÕ s note: The Eagle welcomes opposing points of views by our readers as well as from other 2016 state senate candidates. it is easy to become frustrated and want to give it all up. but we should keep in mind that town government, like life itself, is one of the things that, once given up, we will never be able to recover.”

Those who believe in the importance of a vibrant communitybased democracy of self-governing citizens, coming together to make public decisions about their future, need to create new forms of that venerable institution to better meet modern requirements. That is the theme of bryan and McClaughry, The Vermont Papers: recreating democracy on a Human Scale (1989), available at your local library or online at abebooks.com.

John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute (www. ethanallen.org).

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Vermont Public radio journalist Jane lindholm will be presenting on women and their place in the media at College of St. Joseph on March 21. lindholm’s presentation will focus on her experience as a professional woman in Vermont, including the challenges she’s faced and how she’s been able to use occasions when she’s been underestimated as a reporter. it will also include a question and answer session.

The program will take place on March 21 at 6 p.m. in Tuttle Theater, located on the CSJ campus. it is free and open to the public.

Special Easter service in Ferrisburgh

FerriSburGH — North Ferrisburgh united Methodist Church, at 227 Old Hollow rd., has announced its easter service schedule: Palm Sunday, March 20, 9:30 a.m. easter egg hunt, 10 a.m. worship service.

Good Friday, March 25, ecumenical Addison County service, 4 p.m., NFuMC hosting this year. Shelburne uMC has a 7 p.m. service. easter Sunday, March 27, 6:30 a.m., sunrise service at Claflin Farm off Old Hollow road (park on Higbee road in sanctuary if raining), 7 a.m., pancake breakfast, in Fellowship Hall; 10 a.m., regular service in sanctuary.

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Careers, leadership skills focus of FFA programs

By Cheryl Werner Middlebury — The FFA, formally known as Future Farmers of America, is a national organization founded by a group of young farmers back in 1928.

The FFA helps young people develop career, leadership and life skills through agricultural education. Today agriculture is more than planting and harvesting—it’s a science, it’s a business and it’s an art.

FFA members from Addison County are typically students enrolled in agricultural courses such as the Sustainable Agriculture, Forestry and Natural resources, diesel Power Technology, Mechanical Science or Plant/Animal Science programs at the Hannaford Career Center or Vergennes union High School.

Students have the opportunity to compete in career development events (Cdes) with other FFA members from around the state. FFA teams that win these events are eligible to travel to the National FFA Conference in indiana represent-

ing Vermont to compete against teams from the other states.

This year the Hannaford Career Center Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry/Natural resources class attended the Vermont Farm Show in January. The Middlebury FFA forestry team placed first out of a field of 12 competing schools and will travel to nationals in the fall. Competing against 150 FFA students from around the state, the Middlebury FFA also received first place in soil judging. The team had 6 of the top 10 placing students.

Students are currently preparing for competitions to be held May 4 at Shelburne Farms, in the areas of dairy and Horse Judging, Farm business, tractor trouble shooting and Mechanics.

Pictured at right: The FFA in Addison County helps young people develop career, leadership and life skills through agricultural education. Today agriculture is more than planting and harvesting—it’s a science, it’s a business and it’s an art.

“Raiders” rip at MCTV meeting, March 16

Middlebury — At the March 8 Middlebury Slect board meeting, Susan Shashok noted that Middlebury Community Television’s annual meeting will be in the ilsley library Community Meeting room on Wednesday, March 16 from 4-5:30 p.m. The theme is “Archiving our community in the 21st century”.

Shashok mentioned that the screening of a feature length crowd-sourced ripoff of the cinematic classic, “raiders of the lost Ark”, at Middlebury’s Marquis Theater on Wednesday, March 16, at 5:30 p.m. during the summer of 2015, 40 teams from New england and beyond helped recreate Steven Spielberg’s “raiders of the lost Ark”, each scene unique and different from the next, but with the same action and dialogue as the original film.

Academy Award Nominee Mustang a Powerful Portrait of Empowerment, Sisterhood Vermont State Police received a report of a motor vehicle crash on Route 4 in Rutland Town, Feb. 20.

Further reports indicated that the vehicle involved was engulfed in flames.

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ruTlANd TOWN — Vermont State Police received a report of a single motor vehicle crash near 477 u.S. route 4 in rutland Town, Feb. 20 A secondary report indicated that the vehicle involved was fully engulfed in flames.

Troopers from the rutland barracks were dispatched to the scene. Police determined that the vehicle had crashed into a tree.

The tree was located in the front yard of a house at 477 u.S. route 4. The vehicle was unoccupied, and the operator, and possible occupants, could not be located.

Members of the rutland Town Fire department were able to extinguish the flames, and the vehicle was subsequently removed from the scene.

Further investigation revealed that the operator was a Kyle Fiedorczyk, 21, of Wolcott, Conn.

Fiedorczyk was found to be at fault for the crash and was issued a Vermont civil violation complaint.

Middlebury — New Filmmakers Festival presents the third in its Winter Screening Series, Mustang on Sunday March 20 at 7 pm. An extraordinary drama from first time director deniz Ganze erguven, and nominated for an Academy Award for best Foreign Film, Mustang is a film that works powerfully on so many levels. early summer in a village in Northern Turkey, five free-spirited teenaged sisters splash about on the beach with their male classmates. Though their games are merely innocent fun, a neighbor passes by and reports what she considers to be illicit behavior to the girls’ family. The family overreacts, removing all “instruments of corruption,” like cell phones and computers, and essentially imprisoning the girls, subjecting them to endless lessons in housework in preparation for them to become brides. As the eldest sisters are married off, the younger ones bond together to avoid the same fate. The fierce love between them empowers them to rebel and chase a future where they can determine their own lives in deniz Gamze ergüven’s debut. The film unflinchingly addresses the universal themes of female empowerment and the pursuit of human dignity in the face of moral rigidity. Sunday, March 20 at 7 pm. Tickets are $12 and may be purchased at townhalltheater.org, by calling 802-382-9222 or in person at the THT box office Mon-Sat, noon-5pm.

Contract awarded for sewer project

Middlebury — The Middlebury Select board accepted Public Works Operations director dan Werner’s recommendation to award a contract for engineering services to low-bidder Green Mountain engineering for replacement of 475 feet of sanitary sewer on Weybridge Street, for a total cost of $15,530.

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Goodwill

From page 1 used merchandise that will be restocked hourly, said engels. Shoppers will find seasonal clothing for children, teens and adults, prom dresses, shoes, jewelry, furniture, books, and household and media items, he added.

A grand opening celebration and ribbon cutting ceremony will be held at the Goodwill Store on March 4 from 10-11 a.m. T engels said that the public is invited to attend the event, which will feature remarks by engels, rutland Mayor Christopher louras, and Tom donahue, CeO of the rutland region Chamber of Commerce. refreshments will be served.

On Saturday, March 5 drawings for door prizes will be held at the store each hour, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Prizes include gift certificates for dining, lodging, salon and spa services, merchandise from area shops and more.

The Goodwill Store will be open daily, Monday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday from noon to 6 p.m.

“Goodwill provides a great thrift shop experience,” said engels. “And along with that will come our customized workforce development training programs.”

The new store will enable Goodwill to expand their skill development and job

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Cause of death was not immediately determined, but foul play is not suspected.

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by Shelburne Fire and rescue, Charlotte Fire and rescue, and the Vermont State Police.

Pictured at right: Shelburne Ice Rescue personnel recovered the body of Kenneth Gaudette, 67, of Shelburne, in Shelburne Pond. It was not determined how long Gaudette was in the water. Cause of death was not immediately determined, but foul play is not suspected. Pictured: Water rescue in Addison County in 2012.

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training services in the southern Vermont region and communities, providing job skill training that helps people strengthen their family’s economic status.

Goodwill worked closely with the rutland region Chamber of Commerce in selecting the store’s location and promoting its launch.

“We are thrilled that Goodwill has chosen to open a new store in rutland and we sincerely appreciate their investment and creation of new jobs in our area,” said donahue. “This large, well-organized store offers our residents a wonderful shopping experience. i thank Frank engels and Goodwill for their commitment to our community.”

The rutland store currently has 20 employees and Goodwill plans to hire four additional employees in March, said engels. Thomas G. Kessop Jr. of rutland was hired in November as the store’s manager.

The site also has a donation center where people are encouraged to drop off items for resale, including donations of gently used and new clothing, housewares, furniture, small electronics, and computer equipment and peripherals. donors can receive a tax-deductible receipt for their donations. donations to Goodwill are also accepted at four additional locations in southern Vermont.

For a list of donation locations and hours, see www.goodwill-berkshires.org/ wheretodonate.

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The week in Sports

2016 Shrine high school teams announced CASTleTON — The stage is set for the 63rd Annual Shrine Maple Sugar bowl with the announcement of two Shrine Teams representing the finest high school football talent of Vermont and New Hampshire.

The summer classic is scheduled to be played Saturday, Aug. 6, at Castleton university Spartan Field, on the Castleton campus, at 5:30 p.m.

Over 200 players from Vermont and New Hampshire, all graduating high school seniors, nominated by their head coaches and in each state “screening committees” chaired by the Shrine Head Coaches, selected the two teams.

The Vermont Shrine Team is coached by brian Grady of Fair Haven High School, the New Hampshire team will be coached by Justin leonard of epping High School. New Hampshire will be the home team for 2016.

Twenty-two high schools are represented on the New Hampshire Shrine team and 17 on the Vermont team. The two teams met with their respective coaches in lebanon at dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center to review game plan last week.

Formal practice will begin on Sunday, July 31, for both teams at Castleton university.

The Shrine Maple Sugar bowl is played for the benefit of the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crippled and burned Children and in its first 61 years has raised nearly five million dollars. The bowl Game is one of 30 Shrine games played every year across the country.

The twin state game is sponsored by the two Shrine Centers of Vermont, Cairo (rutland) and Mt. Sinai (Montpelier).

Vermont team: bellows Falls: Zachary Streeter; bFA-St. Albans: Tanner Cioffi; burr and burton: William baker, Jimmy loMuscio; burlington: Jason Chrisman, Connor Plante; brattleboro: Aleksander Harrison, Taylor King; Champlain Valley: Kienan Kittredge, richard lowrey; Colchester: dakota Navari; essex: Cole Picard; Fair Haven: ryan Alexander, lucas Czarnecki; Hartford: Justin Pero, Tanner Potter; Middlebury: Nicholas beauchamp, Wyatt laberge, Sawyer ryan; Mill river: dylan Shelvey; Milton: Kyle

The Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl summer classic is scheduled to be played Saturday, Aug. 6, at Castleton University Spartan Field, on the Castleton campus, at 5:30 p.m.

Pictured: 2015 star players and youth team royals.

Apgar, ian Kandzior; Mount Abraham: Matthew Mullin; Mount Mansfield: dominic Mosca; Otter Valley: Tyler Allen, Marcel John “MJ” denis ii, Carson leary, Trevor Peduto; u-32: Colby brochu; rutland: Andy Kenosh, Austin O’Gorman, Cam Slade, Caleb White; South burlington: Colby barrett; Springfield: benjamin Tubbs; St. Johnsbury: Xavier Giddings.

New Hampshire team: bedford: Willem Fargo; bishop brady: Mat-

thew Fogarty, Christopher Thurber; bishop Guertin: Thomas “TJ” Hart, Chase Hughes; Campbell: Conor Gannon; exeter: Sam Kalish, Salvatore Spinosa; Franklin: Patrick Kaplan; Goffstown: ian Pszenny; inter lakes: Nick brothers; Kennett: Nathaniel emerson; lebanon: Calvin Hunnewell; Manchester Central: dillon lindergren; Merrimack: ian Curtin; Milford: bryce Walker; Nashua North: Philip Pereira; Newmarket: Alex Souvannaseng, Alex

Toribio; Newport: Christian lawrence, Stephan Nix; Pinkerton Academy: darius St. Germain; Plymouth: Aaron evans, donald Hunter; Sanborn: Christian ehlers; Souhegan: Mike Mancini, Aaron Stonebraker; Spaulding: blake barbin, Nicholas bennett; Stevens: Collin belt; St. Thomas Aquinas: Stephen Hedberg, liam Middleton; Windham: benjamin emrick, Shane laFond; Winnisquam: Tim Harmon.

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Local 4-H club members win at Poultry Bowl STArKSbOrO — For 4-H members enrolled in the poultry project, March 5 was an “egg-citing” day as they competed for prizes at the annual university of Vermont (uVM) extension 4-H Poultry Quiz bowl and Skilla-thon.

The youths competed in groups based on their level of poultry knowledge. The top four finishers in each division received awards and prizes including poultry magazines and educational materials.

The quiz bowl consisted of three rounds of 20 questions each about poultry breeds,

health, anatomy, grading and storage of eggs and related topics. For the skill-a-thon, contestants had to answer questions at different stations on duck breeds; chicken, duck and turkey body part identification; comb identification; and chicken meat parts.

Quiz bowl winners, in order of placement, were: PeeP (NOViCe): Caleb Moran, Starksboro, (independent 4-H member); Griffin Preka, Milton (Feathered Friends 4-H) POulT (iNTerMediATe): Ava Carroll, South burlington (Feathered Friends 4-H);

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“The ones that had no recollection of this at all were upset that their name, address and phone numbers were used,” Higley said.

On Nov. 30, as the united Nations Climate Change Conference began in Paris, representatives of VPirG and energy independent Vermont stood on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse with 180 boxes of postcards and petitions addressed to lawmakers.

The roughly 25,000 postcards in the boxes — gathered during the summer canvassing drive — were said to show local support for a carbon tax. “i called six people and they all said no (they don’t support the tax),” said state rep. bob bancroft, another lawmaker who contacted people whose names were identified on the postcards.

“They said if they really knew (what the canvassers) were talking about, then they never would have signed it.”

The Westford republican said some people had strong reactions when they found out their names were used for VPirG’s carbon tax lobbying effort.

“Two of them were, to put it mildly, extremely upset. … it wasn’t emphasized to these people that they were talking about as much as an 88-cents tax on gasoline.”

William Moran, Starksboro (independent 4-H member); ryleigh Johnson, Tunbridge (Clever Clovers); Quincy boardman, bakersfield (lamoille localvores) HeNS ANd rOOSTerS (AdVANCed): Noelani rupp, South burlington (Feathered Friends 4-H); Keenan Thygesen, Tunbridge (Clever Clovers); Zach Johnson, Tunbridge (Clever Clovers); Annika Cooper, Colchester (Feathered Friends 4-H) in the skill-a-thon contest, winners were: PeePS (NOViCe): Griffin Preka, Milton (Feathered Friends 4-H), Caleb Moran,

Marilyn Thomas, one of the people VPirG used in its lobbying campaign, said she was misrepresented.

“They worded it in a way that i didn’t understand it — it was over the phone,” she said. “i would not have signed for a carbon tax — i don’t want any more taxes.”

While Thomas said she generally supports VPirG, she added, “Sometimes they go over the top — this is one of the things they go over the top with.”

Paul burns, executive director of VPirG, defended the summer canvassing program on Wednesday in an email to Vermont Watchdog. “each postcard and petition – including name, phone, email, address, town and zip – was filled out by the individual, or in rare cases, by the petitioner who got the information directly from the person whose name is on the petition,” burns wrote. burns pointed to language on the cards which asks lawmakers to “tackle global warming and save Vermonters money by reducing our dependence on fossil fuels.” Other language suggests “putting a price on carbon pollution and creating an energy independence Fund to help us save money, reduce our dependence on fossil fuels and create jobs.”

While such language might make obscure reference to VPirG’s carbon tax plan, it is unlikely that Vermonters outside the organization would see a connection. burns nevertheless called VPirG’s canvassing program “the type of democratic engagement envisioned over 200 years ago

Starksboro (independent 4-H member) POulTS (iNTerMediATe): Ava Carroll, South burlington (Feathered Friends 4-H); Katherine Moran, Starksboro (independent 4-H member); Nora Allen, Colchester (Feathered Friends 4-H); regan Johnson, Woodstock (Clever Clovers) HeNS ANd rOOSTerS (AdVANCed): Annika Cooper, Colchester (Feathered Friends 4-H); Noelani rupp, South burlington (Feathered Friends 4-H); Keenan Thygesen, Tunbridge (Clever Clovers); raymond bushey, Addison (Feathered Friends 4-H)

when the right to petition the government was enshrined in the First Amendment.” bancroft said VPirG’s canvassing isn’t a valid petition drive because people don’t understand what they are signing.

“To the extent that their hope was this would have some sort of influence on me, well, it failed, because it’s unreliable. based on just my limited conversations with some of the people around here, it is unreliable.”

Contact Bruce Parker at bparker@watchdog.org and Michael Bielawski at mbielawski@watchdog.org.

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Around the region: Town meeting 2016 results Ferrisburgh

Town budget: The town’s $1,803,427 budget, which was a 2 percent increase over last year’s budget was approved.

Select Board: Select Board incumbent Loretta Lawrence was elected to a two-year term.

Slect Board incumbent Steve Gutowski was elected to a three-year term.

Town school budget: The school budget of $3,432,273, a 4.3 percent decrease, was aproved 707-403.

Town school board: Katherine Yarbrough was elected to a two-year term on the local school board.

Union school board: All candidates elected for Union school board were unopposed: Finn Yarbrough was elected to a two-year term. Kristina Mackulin was elected to fill two years of a three-year term. George Garnder was elected to a three-year term. Laurie Gutowski was elected to a four-year term.

School: By 852-241, voters ok’ed to merge the town school district with Addison, Panton, Vergennes and Waltham under Act 46.

Middlebury

Town Meeting: Middlebury residents attended the annual Town Meeting event in downtown Middlebury, Feb. 29. Here’s how the voice and hand voting went: Article 1: Voters accepted the reports of the town officers as submitted by the Auditors and thanked Dean George for his 20 years of service on the Select Board. Parks & Recreation Director Terri Arnold presented the Bob Collins Award for outstanding achievement to Jutta Miska for her work in establishing the Teen Center and working with teens.

Article 2: After a presentation by Select Board Chairman Dean George on the proposed $10,116,165 budget for the Fiscal Year 2017 (July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017), with $6,943,658 to be raised by taxes, voters approved the proposed budget as presented. His presentation detailed the Board’s involvement in the development of the budget and outlined how the proposed budget meets the Board’s goals of maintaining the town’s high level of services and sustaining commitment to capital improvement spending for infrastructure and public buildings, while providing no increase in the tax rate estimated for FY17.

Article 3: After a presentation by Selectboard Member and Chair of the Public Works Committee Susan Shashok, voters authorized the Select Board to borrow up to $242,000 to replace the following town vehicles and equipment: a police cruiser, a bucket loader, a pick-up truck for the Public Works Department, a sprayer and powerdrive unit for line painting for the Public Works Department, and a trailer for the Public Works

Department.

Article 4: After a presentation by Gary Baker, voters approved the collection of taxes on real and personal property for fiscal year 2016/2017 in three equal installments, which are due in the Middlebury Treasurer’s Office on tof Aug, 15, 2016, the Nov. 15, 2016 and the 15th day of March 2017.

Currently, including this year’s final installment of taxes due on March 15 payments postmarked on or before the due date are accepted without penalty. Starting in the coming fiscal year beginning July 1, 2016, payments must be received in the Middlebury Treasurer’s Office on or before the due date to avoid a penalty.

Article 5: Voters approved a graduated penalty on late tax payments, after a presentation by Selectboard Member Gary Baker. Starting next fiscal year, beginning July 1, 2016, instead of the 8 percent penalty currently imposed on the final tax installment, which is due in March (an 8 percent penalty on a $1,500 installment is $120), there will be a 1 peercent penalty on any balance not paid by the due date for the third and final installment (a 1 percent penalty on a $1,500 installment is $15) and an additional 7 percet on any balance not made within 10 days of the due date of the third and final installment (a 7 percent penalty on $1,500 is $105). Although the end result is the same for payments not received within 10 days of the due date (i.e. a $120 penalty), this approach is more forgiving for those who simply miss the deadline by a day or two.

Article 6: Voters approved adding interest to all tax payments not received by the due date, after a presentation by Selectboard Member Gary Baker. Starting next fiscal year (beginning July 1, 2016), interest will be added to outstanding tax installments at a rate of 1 percent per month or fraction thereof for the first three months, and thereafter at a rate of 1.5 percent per month for each month or fraction thereof, whereas interest is currently added to tax payments outstanding after one month of the due date (i.e. interest will now be added immediately to outstanding installments vs. after one month).

Article 7: After a presentation by Select Board Member Laura Asermily, voters approved the elimination of the office of town Auditor. She stated that, because the town has retained professional auditors to audit the town’s finances for many years, the position of elected auditor has failed to attract candidates for the position and, therefore, the Town has not elected auditors in the last several years. She noted that this is the second step of a two-step process to eliminate the position of elected auditor: last year, voters approved a charter amendment giving Middlebury voters the option of eliminating the office of auditor under state statute as the first step and approved this article as the second and final

step.

Article 8: Under other business, Select Board member Laura Asermily invited residents to participate in the Town of Middlebury Town Meeting Poll to gauge awareness of Town surveys, events, communication options and preferences for various options in an easy “Doyle Poll” checkoff style and Middlebury Transportation Survey.

Surveys are available at Town Meeting, during elections and on-line, Laura noted.

Select Board member Nick Artim gave an update on the Middlebury Town Offices and Middlebury Recreation Facility Project, including the open house March 2, 5-9 p.m. and the open house at the Town Offices on Friday, April 29, 3-5 p.m.

Select Board Chairman Dean George & Community Liaison Jim Gish offered an update on the railroad bridges project and anticipated schedule, noting that the early, less-intense phase of construction will start in the fall of 2016, with the goal of wrapping-up construction before the holiday shopping season in 2018.

Steve Jewett of the Charter House Coalition presented the Charter House’s request for $6,500 to support their community food and shelter programs. The appropriation was voted

by Australian ballot on March 1.

Jamie Gaucher, director of Middlebury’s Office of Business Development & Innovation, updated residents on the efforts of the Middlebury Business Development Fund during the last year and areas of focus for the coming year.

Select Board: Winning candidates for the Select Board include Heather Seeley (with 1,234 votes), Victor Nuovo (with 1,052 votes), and Nick Artim (with 991 votes) for three-year terms.

Town vehicles: Ok’ed was the purchase of several municipal vehicles, totalling $242,000, including a police csquad car.

Town school budget: Voters ok’ed the Mary Hogan Elementary School budget $7,391,279 increased 9.1 percent. Voters ok’ed the Union 3 MUHS budget of $18,720,581 which was a 9.7 increase.

Mary Hogan School Board: Incumbents Jason Duquette Hoffman and Ruth Hardy were elected to three-year terms. Middlebury will merge with adjoining school districts dictated by Act 46.

Union School Board: Incumbet Lorraine Gonzalez won a full three-year term.

Monkton

Proposed town budget: The town’s $1,250,194 budget was approved, an increase of 6.9 percent above last year’s budget.

Select Board: Select Board incumbent Roger Parker was handily elected to a full three-year term. Henry Boisse was elected to a two-year term.

Town clerk and treasurer: Incumbent Sha-

ron Gomez was elected to a one-year term in the town office.

Agenda items: Voters ok’ed the purchase of a dump truck as well as spending on various local social service-related prgrams.

Town school budget: Voters ok’ed a budget of $2,813,290. Also ok’ed was the MAUHS budget which was down 4 percent from last year’s budget.

Monkton School Board: Incumbents Robert Radler and Markate Kelly and Sarah Rougier won variable terms.

MAUHS School Board: Incumbent Dawn Griswold was elected and Otto Funke was elected to variable terms.

Starksboro Proposed town budget: The town budget of $677,194 was ok’ed.

Select Board: Winner Tony Porter was elected to a three-year term.

Agenda items: A new tandem truck purchase was ok’ed for $142,000.

Town school budget: The $2,921,471 Robinson School budget was approved.

Robinson School Board: Starksboro resident Caleb Elder was handily elected to a full three-year term on the local school board.

MAUHS School Board: Board incumbent Jodi Bachand received strong support and was elected to a full, three-year term.

Vergennes

City budget: The Vergennes City budget was approved by City Council per city charter.

City Council: Mark Koenig, incubnet, was relected to one-year term. Mathew Chabot, uncumbents Lynn Jackson Donnelly and Renny Perry were elected to two-year terms.

Agenda: Residents, 588-244, will ask the Vermont Agency of Transportation to construct a northbound “bypass” truck route in an effort to redirect tractor trailer rigs from the city’s downtown.

Voters, 557-278, agreed to establish a reserve fund for funds collected from vaious cell phone providers using the former municipal water tower as a radio structure.

Town school budget: VUHS budget: 466395, voters ok’ed a budget of $10,026,00 down 2.3 percent from $10,258,933 this year. For VUES, voters ok’ed a budget of $4,750,241 up 1.05 percent from this year’s budget.

Town School Board: Resident John Stroup was elected to a full, three-year term.

Union School Board: Mark Koenig was elected to a two-year term, Christopher Cousineau and John Stroup for three-year terms, and Susan Rakowski for a four-year term.

Other items: By 553-298, voters ok’ed and apporprition of $100,000 for improvements at VUHS. By 661-214, voters ok’ed merger of the town school with Addison, Panton and Waltham as dictated by Act 46.

State plans town forum on flood preparation NeW HAVeN – The Vermont division of emergency Management & Homeland Security will be hosting its annual series of Springtime Flooding Forums across Vermont during the week of March 14. The meetings are designed to help community leaders and emergency responders prepare for possible problems, and advise what resources are available to them for a response to and recovery from such events.

The National Weather Service will review upcoming forecasts

and the spring flood outlook. This presentation will have specific information on rivers that run through areas in which the meetings will be held. deMHS will discuss what resources are available to communities during incidents like floods. deMHS staff will also talk about recovery from a disaster and the process of applying for federal disaster assistance in incidents where Vermont qualifies for a declaration.

CATTLE EXPERTS — Eight 4-Hers took part in the first University of Vermont Extension 4-H Working Steer Quiz Bowl, held Feb. 21 in Berlin. Participants were (standing, from left): Kameron Gallant, Amanda Ferris, Krystin Skoda, Madison Skoda, Kate Gallant, Landon Campbell, and Shawn Whitney. Front: Joey Ferris.

Photo by Wendy Sorrell

regional Planning Commissions will review protocols for information flow with communities during and after a disaster.

The Vermont Agency of Natural resources will discuss the particulars of emergency Protective Measures and when a permit may be required.

The Vermont Agency of Transportation will outline preparations for potential flooding and what the agency does during a flood response.

THEY GOT THE POWER — Middlebury Power Diesel students prepare for the FFA Tractor Trouble Shooting Contest by learning how to repair all the major tractor systems. Individual FFA students receive scholarship money, from $1,000 up to $10,000 for winning, sponsored by UNOH.

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Sponsored by Delta Kappa Gamma Society of women educators. Proceeds benefit the Rutland Community Cupboard and other local food shelves. Tickets: $15 Info/Tickets: Lynn Del Bianco Colomb 802-770-1113, Rutland High School Office 802-773-1955 or Ann Bannister 802-747-0569.

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Quaker Thomas Robinson left Newport, Rhode Island, to make his home in Vermont - a brand new state with a bright future - in 1791. For the next nearly 200 years, his descendants lived on and farmed the land he purchased in Ferrisburgh. Today, the Robinson family’s home, Rokeby Museum, is a 90-acre historic site and National Historic Landmark, designated for its exceptional Underground Railroad history.

Rokeby Museum Director Jane Williamson will tell the stories of Thomas and his descendants. Info: 802-865-4556. 86365

COOIE DEFRANCESO @51 MAIN, MIDDLEBURY.

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Pastry sale: 10am, Dinner 11am to 7pm.

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10:00 am - 5:00 pm

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Cooie DeFranceso brings lyrics to life, whether singing traditional tunes or popular songs. Her clear and vibrant vocal styling evokes a dollop of blues, hints of jazz, folk and some old time rock‘n roll.

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“How do you feel about winter - does it make you want to embrace its beauty or hibernate until spring?” Artists submitted their responses and the result is a stunning exhibit in multiple mediums, reflecting the spectrum of human emotions when it comes to the longest season of the year.

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Rutland County Humane Society

PiTTSFOrd — it’s that time of year again so the rutland County Humane Society (rCHS) would like to remind you to license your dog by April 1. you’ll need to have them up-to-date on their rabies shot so please check with your veterinarian and make an appointment, if necessary. did you know that Vermont state law requires all cats to have their rabies shots, too? if you’re not sure, please check with your vet to make sure your dog and cat are up to date on their shots. lillA Adult. Spayed Female. dutch. rabbit.

Gray and White.

Hi, it’s lilla. i know you’ve seen some beautiful bunnies out there hopping around from time to time but how about a beauty like me to be at your place full time. i know

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CHlOe 9 Month Old. Spayed Female. Jack russell Terrier Mix. Get ready for some fun when you meet me. i’m a very outgoing, on the go gal and i’m fun to be around. i heard the staff say i’m silly and i think they’re right. i love being with people and will happily wag my tail non-stop when i’m with you. i’m also a lap dog and look forward to snuggling with my new family. My coat is very soft which is great because i love when people pet me and give me lots of love and attention.

MidGy 7.5 year Old. Spayed Female . domestic Short Hair. Gray Tiger. i am not much of a lap cat, but i can be sweet and i do have fun with toys when i am in the mood. i have been known to play fetch. i am very close to Olivia, if you did not already guess that and we are hoping to find a quiet home

The Vermont Eagle • March 19, 2016 | 15 where we can get adopted together and be inside only cats since that is what we are used to. bAiley 3 year Old. Spayed Female. Pit bull.

Get ready to laugh because when you meet me you’ll smile with delight. i’m a super friendly, outgoing gal who is a big lug of a dog. i’m always on the go and i typically have a squeaky toy in my mouth (either that or a tennis ball) so i hope my new family stocks up on them for me. i love to give kisses so get ready for a smooch or two if you stop by to meet me. i love getting lots of love and attention and will sit happily while you pet me and scratch me behind my ears. Then i’ll bound off to find a toy. i will need a lot of exercise and play time in my new home to keep me happy and out of trouble.

Adrian Bernhard Rutland County Humane Society 765 Stevens Rd. Pittsford, Vt. 802-483-6700 www.rchsvt.org Adoption Center Hours: Tuesday - Saturday: noon-5, Sunday & Monday: Closed. DonÕ t forget to license your dog.

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Farm biodiesel report now online Tree, seedling sale ideal for home, holiday plantings From Staff & News Reports

Middlebury — A new report, titled “On-Farm biodiesel Production in Vermont: legal and regulatory Overview”, conducted by the iee, institute for energy and the environment, at Vermont law School reviews all Vermont state and federal regulations related to on-farm biodiesel production.

Commissioned by the Vermont bioenergy initiative at the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund, the report aims to inform farmers about the potential laws and regulations surrounding on-farm biodiesel production.

“As statewide partners begin to find new ways to achieve the goals of Vermont’s Comprehensive energy Plan, which identified biodiesel as a fuel that will help Vermont meet the 10-percent renewable transportation goal for 2025, the On-Farm biodiesel Production in Vermont report provides a timely review of the regulations that pertain to home-grown biodiesel production,” said ellen Kahler, executive director of the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.

According to the report’s findings, “while several of the federal regulations are only triggered by high levels of production, there are a number of state laws and regulations that may be triggered by small-scale biodiesel production, such as state air emission provisions that establish lower thresholds when compared to the federal Clean Air Act (CAA). in addition, it is critical to understand the role biodiesel production plays in the definition of ‘farm’ and ‘farming activities’ for the purpose of states laws, such as Act 250 and the Current use Program.”

“Our institute’s research should help Vermont farmers understand the regulatory hurdles to producing biodiesel on the farm and help them convert a locally grown resource into economic and environmental benefits for Vermont,” said VlS Professor Kevin b. Jones, deputy director of the institute for energy and the environment. iee researchers applied the legal review to three potential scenarios in the report, concluding with a convenient and accessible list of “do’s and don’ts” for farmers to use as a legal checklist as they move forward with producing biofuel in on-farm operations.

The complete report is available on the Vermont bioenergy initiative website along with other biofuel relevant reports and resources for local farmers.

Middlebury — The Otter Creek Natural resources Conservation district is sponsoring the Addison County Annual Tree/Seedling Program for area residents and cooperators. The program was developed for the convenience of area residents and to support on-going conservation projects.

Possible uses for the seedlings are home orchards, windbreaks, Christmas trees, ornamental, and wildlife habitat.

A partial list of trees and seedlings the district is offering are white pine, balsam fir, white cedar, white spruce, basswood, elderberry, lilac, apples and Vermont-hardy peach tree seedlings. Sugar maple, red maple, and white oak are also available.

This year’s sale promises a greater selection of blueberries, raspberries, strawberries and asparagus that thrives in heavy clay and a limited selection of maples, six to eight feet tall.

Sale proceeds help support scholarships for Green Mountain Conservation Camp, Conservation Field day for all Addison County sixth graders, resource information workshops, and planting trees alongside streams.

To receive your order form detailing selection and cost call 802-388-6746, extension 126, or e-mail: pam.stefanek@ vt.nacdnet.net.

Orders will be welcome throughout

April but those received by April 10 will get priority.

The district Tree Sale pickup will be held in Middlebury on the morning of April 30.

Pictured below: During the month of April, the Otter Creek Natural Resources Conservation District is sponsoring the Addison County Annual Tree/Seedling Program for area residents and cooperators. Below, an Addison County FFA student helps water seedlings in the Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury.

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