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TAKE ONE July 27, 2019
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Brandon: Frogs invade Middlebury, Salisbury Highest gasoline prices By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
BRANDON | According to GasBuddy’s report on Vermont gasoline prices published last week, prices are averaging $2.73 per gallon, a few pennies below the national average of $2.79 per gallon. The per-gallon price was up 3 cents last week and up 5 cents for July, so far. Compared to this time in 2018, the fuel price is 16 cents lower now. “Burlington gas prices have fallen 1.8 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $2.71/g,” according to GasBuddy’s daily survey of 100 stations. “Gas prices in Burlington are 3.8 cents per gallon lower than a month ago, yet stand 22.2 cents per gallon lower than a year ago.” » Gas prices Cont. on pg. 2
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This little fellow, the northern leopard frog, is invading fields and roadways in the Middlebury-Salisbury area along the Middlebury River and Otter Creek. Photo by BuBz By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
MIDDLEBURY | For Jim Andrews of the Vermont Reptile and Amphibian (Herp) Atlas project, last week marked a biological watershed for the hatching of
the northern leopard frog. Being the state frog of both Vermont and Minnesota, the northern leopard made its spectacular summer emergence along the Otter Creek and Middlebury River last week. Residents of Middlebury, Salisbury and
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MIDDLEBURY | The news wasn’t surprising to environmental experts monitoring the waters of Lake Champlain this summer: There’s a lot of
Former Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas spoke at a gathering of Addison County Republicans at the River’s Edge Campground in Vergennes on July 18. Douglas, who lives in Middlebury and was a long-time town moderator, discussed his personal disappointment over the Democrats’ super-majority hold in Montpelier and how the GOP can reverse recent defeats at the ballot box in 2020. Photo by Lou Varricchio
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phosphorus runoff in the big lake and blue-green algae blooms are the result. The death of two canines last week, blamed on cyanobacteria “blooms” in a local pond, has again focused attention on runoff raising phosphorus levels and the blooms in local waterways. » Algae Cont. on pg. 3
Otter Creek basin contributes 35 percent of all agriculture-related phosphorus and 21 percent of stormwater-related phosphorus. Stock photo
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» Frogs Cont. on pg. 2
Otter Creek basin adds 35% of lake’s pollution By Lou Varricchio
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Leicester contacted the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department to report thousands of young frogs, both alive and dead, were peppering the surface and brushy sides of Halladay, Three Mile Bridge, Blake Roy and Middle roads, and elsewhere in the watershed area. Andrews’ atlas reports up to 6,500 frog eggs are laid in water; tadpoles complete development within the pond where breeding first took place. Following emergence, the tadpole development takes between 70 and 110 days. “In the early spring, Northern Leopard Frogs travel out into the shallow and warmer waters of the flooded fields, backwaters, and ditches along the creek where they lay egg masses of 1,000 eggs or more per mass. In most years, a large percentage of the fields and back waters would dry out before the young tadpoles were ready to leave the water,” according to John Hall of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. Both Hall and Andrews confirmed that this summer’s almost tropical-like rainfall amounts helped spur the northern leopard tadpoles to transform into frogs and hop out of their watery nursery.
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