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Wastewater plants to get attention By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
MIDDLEBURY | A new rural wastewater infrastructure program will pump $350,000 into Vermont’s economy while protecting the environment, according to Neil Kamman of the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC). In a news statement released last week, Kamman announced that the program is being spearheaded in collaboration with several state agencies, federal partners and several home-based organizations. For the next three years, data will be collected through the DEC’s pilot program effort. Information gleaned during the pilot operation will then be used to all future rural wastewater infrastructure projects. The DEC pilot program began this month in Wolcott, East Burke and West Burke. » Wastewater Cont. on pg. 7
FIRE RAVAGES COMMODITIES FEED: A fire on the night of Dec. 7-8 ravaged the grain-filled Commodities Feed complex
in Ferrisburgh. Vergennes Fire Chief Jim Brewer said that the blaze even disrupted a water main pipeline. “We wound up having to switch to a tanker shuttle ... to maintain the water supply to put this out,” Brewer said. Photos by Peter Kellerman
2019: A new session in Montpelier By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
COMET TO PASS BY EARTH: Area residents will get to see Comet 46P/Wirtanen on the
night of Dec. 15, weather permitting. Discovered in 1948 by American astronomer Carl Wirtanen, the comet will be visible best through binoculars. According to the Earth-andSky website, Vermonters should, “first, in the early evening, look at the stars of Orion, then look up to the stars that compose the Pleiades cluster in Taurus. By mid-December, the comet is located very close to this easy-to-find group of stars.” Viewers should face east shortly after nightfall to view the comet. Photo provided
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According to Bray, “I’ve always believed that elections are a form of job interview, and that incumbents must run on their record — after all, we are asking to be rehired, so the natural question on the part of constituents is ‘Before you ask for another term, tell us what you got done while you’ve already had the job?’” » 2019 session Cont. on pg. 3
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MIDDLEBURY | With the 2018 midterm campaign and election season now over, Vermont legislators are enjoying a late-year respite before the start of a new legislative session in Montpelier starting in January. This reporter asked three senior legislators — Democratic incumbent Sen. Chris Bray, of Addison County, Republican incumbent Sen. Brian Collamore, of Rutland County and incumbent Rep. Harvey Smith, of the Addison-5 district — for their views and analysis of how the election results will impact the 2019 session’s legislative agenda. The economy, affordability and the environment loom large on both sides of the aisle although ideas on what to do vary. While school mergers (Act 46) occupied some of the 2018 legislative focus, the three legislators we talked with were more concerned about other issues. Sen. Bray is chair of Senate Natural Resources and Energy; Sen. Collamore is clerk of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, clerk of the Senate Committee on Health and Welfare and member of the Government Accountability Committee; and Rep. Smith is a