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‘Sins of our past’ Church report names 39 priests ‘credibly’ accused of child sex abuse in Vermont

By COLIN FLANDERS

More space brings an opportunity to better serve patients, Leffler said, noting the new building will make room for services like mental health providers, dietitians, social workers and wellness coaches that have become a common pillar of the teambased primary care approach.

The medical center has also assigned an additional physician and physician’s assistant to the practice, which Leffler said will increase its capacity up to 3,000 patients a year.

And the Essex location has long been

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington last week released a report naming 39 priests who dating back to 1950 have been credibly accused of sexually abusing children in Vermont.

Five of the accused served in Essex for at least a portion of their careers.

A seven-person lay committee wrote the report after months of combing through thousands of clergy personnel files at the request of Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, who at a press conference called the extent of the Church’s sex abuse crisis in Vermont “staggering.”

“The victims of these priests are still bearing the wounds of what happened to them,” Coyne said last Thursday, reading from a prepared statement. “Until now, the scope of all of this has been our ‘family secret.’”

“If only a list of priests with credible allegations of sexual abuse of a minor had been released 15 years ago, perhaps we would be farther along our collective path of healing,” he later added. “But for many reasons, this was not able to happen.”

The committee, led by former state prosecutor Robert Simpson and Spectrum Youth & Family Services executive director Mark Redmond, found that the statewide diocese allowed abuse allegations to go unreported for decades. In some instances, priests were transferred to other parishes, or sent to treatment before being returned to duty, the committee wrote.

The 39 priests named in the report represent 9.3 percent of the 419 or so

See PRIMARY CARE, page 15

See REPORT, page 5

PHOTO BY COLIN FLANDERS

Selectboard chairwoman Elaine Haney, left, joins officials from the University of Vermont Medical Center for a ground-breaking ceremony marking the start of construction on a new primary care facility along Route 15.

UVMMC ‘breaks ground’ on Essex Primary Care project

By COLIN FLANDERS Officials from the University of Vermont Medical Center and the town of Essex threw on hard hats and moved around a bit of dirt last week to celebrate breaking ground on a new primary care facility along Route 15 and Essex Way. The event commemorated the start of construction on a building that will soon become the new home of the Essex Primary Care, relocating the practice from its current home inside a squat brick facade along Main

Street that hospital officials describe as antiquated and undersized.

“The previous space didn’t meet the current needs for the population that we’re serving, and didn’t meet our promise of keeping people in Vermont as healthy as possible,” said Dr. Stephen Leffler, interim president of the medical center.

At nearly twice the size of the practice’s current location, which UVMMC has leased since 1985, the new building will have 14 exam rooms and enough space to add up to eight more, if needed.

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UPBEAT NEWS Thomas Fleming School unveils new playground PHOTOS BY COLIN FLANDERS

Thomas Fleming School Principal Daniel Ryan (above) cuts through a ribbon Monday celebrating the official opening of a new playground. The playground, which sports the only “bamboo jungle gym” at any school in the state, was designed with the help of various student, parent and faculty groups, Ryan said. The school has also ordered features for the playground that will make it easier for those with disabilities to use, Ryan said. He then touted the benefits of incorporating play into the school day. “We need to acknowledge the value of play in students development and also the social emotional investment that they make – making friends, making connections with kids who aren’t in their classroom. That’s really important: to be a part of a school community,” Ryan said.

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Restoration work underway at Essex Commons Burial Ground

By COLIN FLANDERS A historical burial ground in Essex is undergoing a massive restoration project, breathing new life to the final resting place of more than 150 years of local residents.

Located at 1 Jericho Rd., the Essex Commons Burial Ground contains plots dating back to the late 1700s and up through the early 1960s, when it was replaced as the town’s main burial ground by the nearby Mountain View cemetery. Samuel Bradley, born in 1791 and buried in 1792, marks the oldest grave at more than 225 years old.

But time, as it does, has taken its toll on the grounds, with once bright and inviting gravestones now stained to the point some are barely legible.

So the town, assisted with a $25,000 preservation grant made possible by a partnership between the Freeman Foundation and the Preservation Trust of Vermont, has contracted with local Bianchi Stone Crafters to restore the burial grounds.

“Once every hundred years we get to do something like this,” Fran Kinghorn, chairwoman of the Essex Cemetery Commission, said last week as she surveyed the burial grounds.

Tim Jerman, board member of the Essex Community Historical Society, said many of the town’s founding fam-

ilies are buried in at the cemetery.

“There’s some great history going all the way back to the Revolutionary War,” Jerman said. “It’s fabulous to see them doing this.”

Jerman also praised the Freeman family, some of whose ancestors are buried at the cemetery, for their donations over the years.

The town fielded three bids for the project before awarding the work to Eric Bianchi, who has split the cemetery into four sections. He starts by cleaning the stones with a power wash mixture of environmentally-friendly chemicals before straightening up and repairing the stones individually.

Kinghorn said the commission has been very pleased with Bianchi’s work thus far, noting he even dedicated an engraving on a stone that wasn’t budgeted for.

“He says [the project] is his Mona Lisa,” Kinghorn said.

The restoration project is among a handful of others spearheaded by the local cemetery commission, on which Kinghorn has served for about six years. She recently retired from the University of Vermont and now splits time between local food shelf Aunt Dot’s Place and the commission.

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Bill Kalanges has filed a civil lawsuit against the village of Essex Jct. alleging it has repeatedly failed to articulate what the Crescent Connector road will look like when it’s finished, curbing his ability to challenge the taking of his land through eminent domain.

Kalanges has argued the project unnecessarily infringes on his Maple St. land and will negatively impact the business of one of his tenants by removing parking spaces and making it difficult to navigate for tractor trailers.

But in a suit filed earlier this month, the local business owner says the village’s information about the planned bypass road has been insufficient to date, making it impossible for him to determine how much of his land it impacts.

Without such information, the filing says, Kalanges cannot determine whether the village needed to take his land or determine how much he believes he should be owed. Eliza van Lennep, Kalanges’ attorney, could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.

The suit is a last-ditch effort to prevent the village from condemning the land along following a July order from the board of trustees.

At recent hearings over the summer, village officials have challenged Kalanges’ claims of ignorance about

the road’s design, arguing they have provided him all the necessary documentation.

Kalanges’ property was one of four being sought as a permanent village right-of-way this winter. The municipality had already reached agreements with three other property owners, but Kalanges remained the lone hold out despite an offer of $82,595, prompting the village to pursue eminent domain.

That process requires the village to judge if the project is in the public’s best interest, and whether inconveniences placed on property owners warrants changing the plans.

The village’s condemnation order outlines the project’s expected benefits. It points to an estimated 30-second wait time reduction at Five Corners traffic, resulting in a 20 percent reduction in CO2 emissions. And it says the road will improve pedestrian and bicycle travel, enhance economic opportunities by freeing up land around the road for development and provide new safety measures for railroad crossings.

But perhaps most pressing for the village: the project is paid for entirely by state and federal funds. If the project does not proceed, however, the village will need to repay the $1.85 million spent thus far.

The trustees planned to discuss whether to postpone Thursday’s hearing during an expected executive session at their regular meeting Tuesday night, after The Reporter’s deadline.

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REPORT from page 1 clergy assigned to the diocese over the last seven decades (An additional priest named in the report was found to have a credible accusation in Iowa, but the committee said it was unaware of any allegations in Vermont).

“What is particularly painful is knowing how lives were changed irreparably by what happened to the victims when they were young,” the committee wrote. “For some there might have been the opportunity for healing, but for many there may have been a series of life choices intended to cover scars that only resulted in more pain and disappointment. Lives have been lost because of the abuse that occurred.”

The report detailed no recent cases of misconduct, with all but one of the allegations occurring before 2002.

None of the 40 priests are still active clergymen, the report says.

Thirteen are still alive. That includes Charles Many, a former priest with the Colchester-based Society of Edmundites who was accused of sexually abusing at least two young boys during the 1980s.

In 2018, the Edmundites settled a lawsuit alleging it had failed to protect children from Many by moving the priest from a Church in Connecticut, where he allegedly raped an altar boy, to the St. Lawrence Church in Essex Jct., where another accusation came to public light years later.

The plaintiff ’s attorney in that case told The Sun last year that she had documents proving other priests knew about Many’s actions even before he arrived in Connecticut. Edmundite leaders, meanwhile, said the decisionmakers at that time are no longer alive, “so there was no way of knowing” what the society knew.

The plaintiff ’s attorney told The Sun that Many had countered the allegations against him by claiming the altar boy had initiated the inappropriate touching.

Bishop Coyne said last week he had attempted to speak with living priests named in the report before its release, contacting eight in total. He recalled receiving “all different kinds of emotions.”

The committee said while publication of the list may harm the legacy of the accused, it may also offer “longmissed consolation” to the victims and their families.

Coyne commissioned the citizen panel in October 2018, a month after state leaders announced they would be creating a task force after reading a Buzzfeed News article that documented allegations of abuse at Burlington’s St. Joseph’s Orphanage. In a statement last week, Vt. Attorney General TJ Donovan said he had reviewed the report and his office’s criminal investigation is ongoing.

The bishop said he met with the independent citizen panel twice since – once at the beginning of the process

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Burlington Bishop Christopher J. Coyne at a press conference last week called the extent of the Church’s sex abuse crisis in Vermont “staggering.”

and once near the end – and stressed the final document was published just as the committee wrote it.

Redmond, an Essex resident, reached out to Coyne after hearing about the bishop’s plans. Citing his extensive background in working with youth, many of whom have suffered from abuse, Redmond said his main hope was to aid victims.

“To be believed, to be listened to, is a healing thing. And I think there are people who were abused who will find some source of healing,” Redmond said.

Some names had already been publicized over the years through civil lawsuits, their personnel files becoming public when introduced as evidence; VtDigger reports that more than 50 Vermont men and at least 2 women have sued the diocese over the last two decades, winning more than $31 million in damages.

Others in the report were named for the first time.

The committee did not detail specific allegations. Nor did it say how many accusations it found against the priests, only noting that each faces at least one credible accusation.

Committee member Mike Donoghue, longtime Vermont journalist and head of the Vermont Press Association, said the group left out such numbers because it knew there was no way to be sure that it would capture the full extent of the allegations.

The committee said it received 52 personnel files of priests identified by the dioceses as having some type of complaint. From there, it tried to

determine the credibility of the accusations, judging the plausibility and probability of the claims, whether they could be corroborated with another source or evidence and whether the accused admitted the abuse.

The files ranged in length, with some more than 1,000 pages long, covering everything from academic records and vacation requests to correspondence between the priest and the Bishop at the time and documents associated with the allegations. Records for priests belonging to other religious orders or communities, meanwhile, like the Edmundites or Maryknoll, were less comprehensive.

The committee recommended the diocese adopt a more formal system moving forward that could make it easier to keep track of complaints.

“Additional files are and will need to be reviewed as more allegations surface,” the committee wrote.

“Formalizing the reporting process and including independent citizen panels are steps toward ensuring these crimes are no longer hidden. We all need to protect our children.”

Some committee members have also agreed to continue stay abroad if more allegations come because of the report going public, Coyne said. Redmond, an Essex resident, said he plans to continue with the committee. He said he expects there will be more allegations.

Coyne said there has been only one allegation of misconduct since the diocese adopted the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People in 2002. The charter implemented mandatory reporting and removal

policies for any credible allegations as well as proactive measures like abuse recognition and prevention training and background checks.

Asked if he believed the Church could ever regain the trust of parishioners who left because of the sex abuse scandal, Coyne said many will probably never return.

“The wound of this is generational,” he said. “I think it’s going to haunt us for decades still to come. All we can continue to do as a Church is to do the right thing for the right reasons, one person at a time.”

Six people are currently suing the diocese over abuse claims, Coyne said, and he acknowledged the report may lead to more litigation, especially since Vermont no longer has a statute of limitations for civil cases involving sex abuse of children thanks to a bill Gov. Phil Scott signed into law last year.

The bishop said he hopes any victims seeking compensation will contact his office rather than file a lawsuit, which “gets expensive on both sides.”

But he said he also hopes there’s “not a lot of victims out there that haven’t already come forward.”

“We don’t have any money,” he said.

“There’s no more insurance and we have very limited unrestricted funds.

I hope we can settle, but I don’t know what we’re going to do.”

“I don’t know,” he said again moments later. “I just trust in God. I just have to trust.”

The full report can be found at vermontcatholic.org/promise.

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Letter to the editor Educators must act against climate change According to a new study in the journal Science, planting billions of trees around the world would be the cheapest and most effective way to tackle the climate crisis. The study suggests that if all nations throughout the world planted 1.2 trillion trees it would reduce the Co2 emissions in the air throughout the world and prevent the continuous global warming of our planet. See this site: https://www. cbsnews.com/news/planting-a-trillion-trees-couldbe-the-most-effective-solution-to-climate-change/ Recently during the Democratic Presidential debates literally every candidate for President suggested that if elected they would immediately sign the Paris Global Warming treaty and take steps to stop global warming. Unfortunately President Trump does not believe in global warming and has put our nation and the world at great peril.

Just 2 days ago the news broke out that within the Amazon there have been 40,000 fires in 2019. The

Amazon rainforest alone creates 20% of the world’s oxygen and absorbs as much if not more of the world’s carbon dioxides.. Our world is in crisis.

As educators we cannot sit back and watch the earth reach a tipping point of no return. We just experienced the warmest July in the history of the earth since thermometers began keeping track of world temperatures in 1888. We must right now start working on correcting global warming by planting trees. We owe it to our children and our children’s children to make the world livable for future generations. We cannot sit back at our desks and wait for Washington to take care of us.

Today I am proposing that all of the educators in the United States help their school children and community to plant trees. I call this the “Plant Trees for Life” campaign. Every school and every school district in the United States needs to work with their community and their local and state politicians and figure out a way to plant trees throughout their

school property and throughout their communities right now.

Please help our planet to turn things around by reducing our global warming emissions into the atmosphere and by planting trees to help absorb the Carbon Dioxide and create clean Oxygen.

Keep in touch and drop me a line from time to time letting me know how many trees you have planted within your own school and community in the upcoming months. Every tree helps our children to breathe clean fresh air and live in an area that is safe and comfortable. We might not be able to plant over a trillion trees by ourselves but I do believe we can plant millions across Vermont and billions across our country and start to clean up our air and prevent global warming in the process.

Peter Gustafson, 40 year educator at Albert D. Lawton

Into the Woods: Mast years

By Ethan tappEr If you’ve been walking through the woods this late summer, you’ve probably noticed acorns: in treetops, hanging from low branches, littering the ground. Acorns, the fruit of oak trees, are the most visible of our tree seeds, but they’re just one example of “mast.”

“Mast” are the fruits, seeds and nuts of trees and shrubs, which are eaten by wildlife. “Hard mast” are nut-like seeds, such as acorns, hickory nuts, beech nuts, and beaked hazelnuts (our native hazelnut).

“Soft mast” are fruits and berries like blackberries, blueberries and apples. While there are many green plants, insects and other seasonal treats to eat in the summertime, many wildlife species rely on mast in the late summer and fall to fatten up for the winter or to migrate.

Mast-producing trees have a love-hate relationship with wildlife --- they may rely on birds and animals to disperse their seeds, but can suffer if too many of them are eaten or destroyed. An example of this is the acorn; while squirrels, other mammals and even blue jays help spread them far and wide, acorns are such a valuable food source that few of them ever get to sprout. In the two years that it takes red oak acorns to develop and mature on the tree, about 50% of them are parasitized, eaten, or otherwise destroyed. Once they fall to the ground about 98% of them succumb to a similar fate, eaten by deer, bear, squirrels, turkeys and pretty much everything else in the woods.

Trees that produce mast, like oaks, spruces, maples, ash and pines have developed a clever strategy for dealing with this --- instead of producing mast every year they produce it at irregular intervals, withholding production for several years and then producing a massive abundance of seed. This method allows trees to “starve” the predators of their seed for several years, lowering their populations, and then overwhelm them with more mast than they can eat. The intervals at which these “mast years” occur varies by species, from red oaks (every 2-3 years) to sugar maple (every 2-5 years) to red spruce (3-8 years).

The key to this strategy is coordination --- it only works if everyone does it at once. How tree species coordinate mast years is still somewhat of a mystery, but this “synchrony” is probably aided by some combination of chemical signals passed through the air and/or through underground root/fungal connections, and weather cues. In some parts of the world, mast coordination between trees of a given species may stretch for hundreds or even thousands of miles.

Populations of many wildlife species reliably spike following a mast year. A local example of this is when sugar maple, white pine, red oak, red and white spruce and others all “masted” simultaneously in 2017, leading to an extreme abundance of squirrels reported in Chittenden County and beyond in 2018. While lots of mast in the woods means that our wildlife will be in better shape going into the winter, there are also unfortunate side-effects; mast

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years increase the populations of rodents and deer, which transport and host ticks and contribute to the spread of tick-borne diseases.

Foresters are on both sides of this push-pull between wildlife and mast-producing trees. On one hand, part of our job is to manage forests for great wildlife habitat. At the same time, we rely on natural regeneration --- rather than planting --- to create future generations of trees, and mast are our future oaks, maples, pines and spruces. Human-created problems like invasive plants and the overpopulation of deer in much of Vermont challenge our ability to regenerate healthy, resilient forests, and so we often go to great lengths to help acorns and other mast make it past the critters to become trees.

Consider “releasing” the healthiest mast trees on your property by cutting less-healthy trees on 2-4 sides of them. This will allow their crowns to expand, which will help them produce more mast; meaning more food for wildlife and an increased chance of those seeds reaching the ground to sprout.

From a forest management perspective, timing timber harvests with mast years can help regenerate mast trees like red oak and white pine by creating conditions amenable to the regeneration of these species, like gaps in the canopy and disturbing the “duff ” at the surface of the soil.

Ethan Tapper is the Chittenden County Forester.

He can be reached at ethan.tapper@vermont.gov, (802) 585-9099, or at his office at 111 West Street, Essex Junction.

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GMCB’s letter to governor expands burden of Vt.’s health care future

By EMERSON LYNN The letter sent to Gov. Phil Scott from Green Mountain Care Board [GMCB] chairman Kevin Mullin last week may be the best representation of penny-wise pound-foolish that Vermonters will ever see. If not picked apart, and understood, and responded to, it may also mark the beginning of the end for Vermont’s experiment to flip from our traditional fee-for-service to one based on health care outcomes.

His letter was short, and pointed. He told the governor if the state did not increase its Medicaid funding Vermonters would continue to see double-digit increases in health insurance costs, and that our hospitals’ struggles would intensify.

We are where we are because, as Mr. Mullin explains in his letter, 45 percent of the health care delivery in Vermont deals with Medicaid and Medicare patients. The programs do not come close to matching a hospital’s costs, which results in a cost shift, meaning, from the state’s perspective, that the unmet Medicaid costs are made up by those not on Medicaid, or the commercial market. That cost shift for FY 2019 is being estimated at $493 million with Medicaid constituting $217 million of that cost-shift total.

The in-between-the-lines message is that the GMCB can’t be held solely responsible for the hospitals’ misery; the governor and the Legislature are also part of what is arguably the most complicated, time-sensitive, and far-ranging challenge the state faces.

But the cost shift itself isn’t news.

Nor is its size. It’s been recognized and talked about by Mr. Mullin and his board before. Why the drama now, right in the midst of the board’s interrogation of the state’s hospitals and their proposed

budgets?

Perhaps because this is the only time of the year the state’s attention is focused on the issues most relevant to the GMCB, which is the health of the state’s hospitals as they prepare for the move to a new payment reform system. What Mr. Mullin and his board did was to shift some of that burden on the governor. If Mr. Scott agrees and ups the state’s Medicaid payment, then some of the pressure is off the GMCB and the state’s health care system.

The way forward is a little easier.

Here is the telling paragraph from Mr. Mullin’s letter: “We understand that limited revenue, tight budgets and limits on investment funds make it challenging to choose to invest Medicaid funds in health care reform at this time. Without Medicaid support, however, the investment in health care reform falls disproportionately on hospitals, Vermonters and employers in the commercial market, and those who self-pay. We urge you to consider these impacts and to prioritize affordability and health care reform by considering increasing your investment in Medicaid and DSR [delivery system reform.].”

So now, it’s an issue of how much of a Medicaid increase, which becomes an issue of all the various encumbrances when it comes to additional spending, state limits on borrowing, federal requirements, etc.

To eliminate the cost-shift would require additional spending of over $200 million, which, obviously, isn’t going to happen. But, as Mr. Mullin noted, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services [CMS] have made federal matching funds available, but the state’s leaders, including those in the Legislature, have not agreed to the match, which is nuts. Over $56 million remains available over 2020 and 2021. Why is this money

being left on the table if it’s matched federally and if used would soften the costshift, which prompts part of the increase in health insurance rates?

Why is all this such an unexplainable mess?

It’s a mess for several reasons; It’s almost unbearably complicated to explain because it’s so transformative, it’s enormously expensive, which makes it easy to demagogue, and there are players in the process who fervently believe the only way forward is a single payer [Medicare for All] system, and any other “reform” subtracts from that effort. It’s an instance where the administration’s natural reluctance to spend money lines up with the progressive’s opposition to anything other than getting rid of the health care system as we know it, replacing it with a single payer system.

That puts the state’s health care system in a precarious position going forward. Almost half the state’s hospitals are operating in the red. All of them struggle with the prospect of filling empty positions. And almost no one understands the details of moving from a fee for service system to one based on health care outcomes.

Mr. Mullin may not have intended such, but his letter to the governor should be seen for the clarion call that it is to Vermont: We are in a transition period that is not being adequately supported or understood, which is ridiculous considering our health care system is the one thing that affects every single Vermonter and a force that constitutes 20 percent of the state’s economy.

Anyone who believes this uncertainty is contributing positively to Vermont’s well being and to its reputaton beyond our borders is shopping in the wrong aisle.

United Way volunteer listings Submitted by Sue Alenick United Way Volunteer Columnist RUNNING FOR A CAUSE – Run Vermont is gearing up for two “on the road” events: the Pine Street Mile will be run in Burlington on September 8th,, and the 10K Island Vines Road Race will take place in South Hero on September 22nd.

Volunteers are needed at both events for packet pick-up, course support, finish line and water support. In South Hero, volunteers can also help with parking, food, and post-race clean-up. Use these links to sign up: https://runsignup.com/ pinestreetmile/volunteer and https:// runsignup.com/islandvines/volunteer ANNIVERSARY EVENTS – ReStore is looking for a business, community

group, or faith organization that can provide them with 7-15 volunteers during their anniversary events on Saturday, September 7th in Williston and Saturday, September 21st in Milton. Volunteers can help with carry-outs, donation processing, restocking, ice cream scooping, and even hot dog grilling! Contact Allison DeVoe at 318-7533 or email adevoe@vermonthabitat.org.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT – Mercy Connections is looking for a dynamic kitchen partner to join their core team and help with set-up, preparation and clean-up of a family-style lunch for 35-40 people on Thursdays. You don’t have to be a master chef, just collaborate to create a warm, welcoming experience and enjoy the meal with the guests. Contact Darrell

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ACROSS THE ROAD – City of Winooski has need of Crossing Guards to ensure safe road crossing for folks attending events at Rotary Park on Wednesdays, September 4th and October 2nd, from 5:508 p.m. Contact Olivia Miller at 655-6410, Ext. 12, or email volunteer@Winooskivt. org.

CAMP WORK DAYS – YMCA Vermont invites groups of volunteers to Vermont Camp Hochelaga to help close up camp for the season and build and repair parts of their facilities for next season. Tasks include taking down platform tents, preparing the garden for winter, packing up arts and theater spaces, See VOLUNTEER, page 9

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CORRECTION A story in last week’s issue about the Essex firearm discharge ordinance incorrectly attributed part of a quote to Bruce Post. It was Mark Redmond who said, “We’re past the point of saying I’m sorry that happened,” about the 2008 death of St. Michael’s College professor John Reiss. We regret the error.

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Working toward a greater Essex

SELECTBOARD

Why isn’t there a special board that exclusively represents the Town outside the Village?

President Andrew Brown

Vice president George Tyler

Dan Kerin

Raj Chawla

Amber Thibeault

The Village of Essex Junction is an incorporated municipality within the Town of Essex. The governments of the two municipalities, the Town and the Village, have been consolidating services and departments since 2013, and are now exploring the concept of a complete merger.

By ELAINE HANEY & GEORGE TYLER Seventy years ago, the residents of the Town of Essex in the area near the Essex Free Library realized they needed to create a water district. The population had grown so that sewers and a fire department were necessary. Vermont House bill 150 of 1949 enabled properties belonging to about four dozen specific landowners to comprise a new village. The Vermont Legislature approved the formation of the Village of Essex Center on March 31, 1949.

The new Village’s sole purpose and authority was for the creation and maintenance of a water system and fire department--essentially, a water district. It had the authority to tax its citizens for the purpose of establishing the water system (and, specifically, nothing else), and also could bond for up to $200,000 for the same purpose. It had a board of trustees and was required to hold an annual meeting. In the same bill the new Village was also empowered to maintain a fire department. The new Village was to officially form once the voters approved it at a special meeting, which happened on April 27, 1949. The creation of the Village of Essex Center was approved by a vote of 27 to 15.

By the 1970s, surrounding towns had also created their own water districts, and water management became a regional concern.

The Chittenden Water District (CWD) was chartered by the Legislature in 1971 and went online in 1973, serving 12 municipalities including Essex and Essex Junction.

With the creation of the CWD, the Village of Essex Center water district was no longer needed. Town voters approved the merger of the Village of Essex Center and the Town of Essex (including assuming existing debt of $48,000) on March 1, 1976. CWD became the Town’s official water district, the fire department became part of the Town, and the Village of Essex Center was dissolved.

Some have said that the residents of the rural areas of the Town of Essex once governed themselves, and the Village of Essex Center should be revived. But the Village of Essex Center was never a multi-service municipal government; it was strictly intended to provide a limited service to a limited area of the town that the Essex Town government couldn’t provide without placing an undue burden on the rest of the community to pay for a service that wouldn’t be available to them. It was quickly eliminated by the voters when it was no longer needed.

There are some who suggest that if the rural area of the Town had its own board, representation would be more fair. After all, residents of the Village of Essex Junction have their own board.

The Village of Essex Junction was first formed so residents could tax themselves for necessary services--just like the Village of Essex Center. But over time Essex Junction grew, its residents wanted more services, and they increased the amount of taxes they paid to get those services. Eventually those services included a public works department, administrative management, community planning, a library--all things a growing community needs. The Village of Essex Junction was not getting these things from the Town of Essex, which for the first several decades of the Village’s existence was fine, since the Town had a significantly smaller population and did not need to provide all those services for itself.

Village of Essex Junction residents taxed themselves for the things they needed and were not getting. The Village of Essex Center residents did the same--until CWD provided the water management they needed. Once CWD took over, residents voted to dissolve the Village of Essex Center because all their other needs were being provided by the Town. They no longer needed another governmental body with its own board taxing for a service being provided by another entity.

Creating a new legislative body that solely represents the rural parts of the Town is not as simple as just “creating a new board.” It must have a particular, currently unmet need or purpose, because this area of the Town is already part of an established municipality, already pays taxes for the services it receives, and is already represented by the Selectboard. A new board would have no actual legislative or policy making authority, no taxing authority or fiduciary responsibilities, and thus no accountability to the voters. Nor could it take this authority away from the Town to wield it itself.

Another recent suggestion is that the Town and Village should simply be split into two separate municipalities, the logic being that since the Village is its own municipality, the rural area outside the Village could also become one. Remember however, that Village residents are also Town residents, and 42% of the total Town budget is paid for by Village residents. So if a second municipality were to be formed in the same area as the former Village of Essex Center, and it didn’t include Village of Essex Junction residents, then taxes for the residents of the new municipality would have to increase to cover the 42% no longer being supplied

by Village residents. That is a very expensive proposition, far more expensive than a See GREATER ESSEX, page 16

Chair Elaine Haney

Vice chair Max Levy

Andy Watts

Patrick Murray

Annie Cooper

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Thursday, August 29, 2019

Youth on

Board To engage, inspire and empower our youth!

By DAVID VOEGELE Executive director of Essex CHIPS This is the time of year again when Essex CHIPS is actively seeking young adults to join our team for a year of service to area youth. Our community service programs are call VISTA and AmeriCorps, and they are not for the faint of heart. Neither “pay” what we consider to be a living wage. That is because they are modeled after the Peace Corps program, in which caring, idealistic, and brave souls commit themselves to a year of service within a community, serving those in need. One such adventuring spirit is Josh Wolf. This is his story.

“Essex CHIPS has provided me many an opportunity to grow as an individual and as a professional.

Specifically, I find that through my service I’ve changed the way I think about civic engagement, youth, and community.

My service at CHIPS has been focused primarily on helping both expand its youth programming and enhance its capacity to support youth outside the Essex/Westford school district. This has included…TeenLine, an information and referral service primarily for youth and those serving youth…the development and launch of the CHIPS YES! (Youth Employment Service) Program…as well as the promotion of the Quality Youth Development (QYD) Project.

I feel as though my biggest takeaway thus far has been the importance of cultivating a connection with community. Through all the service and projects I’ve been a part of, I’ve worked alongside and engaged with community partners. When I first started at CHIPS, I felt a bit out of place in the Essex community—which makes sense, because I was entering it with little knowledge of the place and people I was serving. But as I’ve participated in community events such

JOSH WOLF as the Essex Junction Block Party and CHIPS’ annual awards ceremony, I’ve come to feel like I am creating a connection with the community I’m serving.

I’m engaging with other members of the service community, community members, the youth I serve, and teachers and school staff. Through these interactions I’ve not only learned more about how to serve effectively, but also more about the culture of Essex/Westford. These connections have helped bring me closer to the people I serve, and because of them I feel like I’m able to better further CHIPS’ mission of promoting a youth positive community. Serving at Essex CHIPS has been a fantastic learning experience, and I look forward to cultivating stronger connections with the community I’m serving as the school year begins.”

Josh Wolf has been a great asset for CHIPS and the youth we serve.

Someone at some time inspired him to help others, and specifically to help youth. We are glad they did. Josh’s term will end in the coming months, so we are eager to talk with other caring, idealist, and brave souls ready to serve others - and in doing so, to grow personally and professionally.

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2. Variance: Stephen Hill & Megan Kiernan are proposing to construct a 6’x 8’ mudroom 34’ off the front yard setback for property located at 16 Abare Avenue in the Medium Density Residential (R2) Zone. Tax Map 55, Parcel 8, Lot 93.

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EssEx sport shorts

By JOE GONILLO Barely hanging on to August. EHS fall sports are now in full swing. School actually began Wednesday. Almost forgot as we DVR everything and have missed just about every back-to-school add… Essex XC Invite this Saturday.

Fair in town too. Look out but have fun!

A couple of warm-up cross country meets, CVU relays boys and Red Rocks class races girls, kicked off the season before the storied Essex Invitational Saturday. It’s an all-day event with the Citizens’ Race staring @ 8:30. Here’s the rest of the day’s race schedule: 5K JV Girls 10:30 am, JV Boys 11:15 am, All Divisions Girls Varsity 12:00 pm, All Divisions Boys Varsity 12:45 pm, and Awards Ceremony 1:30 pm. Good luck Hornets!

The football team put on a fine scrimmage Saturday. Heard Chris Davis caught a TD pass off a beauty corner route on a pass from Ben Serrintonio. They kick off the season Saturday @ St.J 1pm. The jv’s play Tuesday 9/3 at home vs CHS. The field hockey team scrimmaged CHS Tuesday before starting their fall Saturday home vs Burr& Burton at 11.

The jv’s follow at 12:15.

The soccer teams debut this weekend as well. The Hornets host Mt. Anthony Saturday at 12 and 2; boys and girls respectively. No jv games.

The volleyball teams play next week with the boys traveling to Enosburg and the girls hosting St.J. The golfers hit the Links, literally,

as the boys tee off Tuesday 9/3 with the girls traveling to Enosburg Wednesday 9/4.

The bass fishermen don’t cast off for another few weeks.

MLB season finished off a great weekend. Yanks took 2 of 3 from the NL leading Dodgers after being swept by the A’s. Sox fighting for their playoff lives. Indians dealt a blow. Nats heating up. Cubs and Mets fading but hanging in. By the way, Aaron Judge hit a HR in each game in LA and on Sunday promised an older Yankee fan in a wheelchair during a pregame meet (caught on video and sent viral) that he’d “hit one for you tonight” and did. He just barely missed another!

Sand Hill Pool closed its doors last Friday afternoon for the season.

Thanks to Oliver and Luke Austin, Jake Crock, Sam Phillippo, Katie Miller-Johnson, Sage Harris, and Bev Briley for their help in clean up and putting pool cover on. Thanks to Carol Krug for last-day-of-the-pool pizza!

Sad news to report. Condolences to the Dattilio family as dad, Mickey, passed last week. As a VT National Guardsman he earned the rank State Command Sergeant Major, the highest rank a noncommissioned officer can achieve. He loved his huge family, their camp, the lake, supported his kids an all their activities, and spending time with grandkids. He will be missed!

Happy Birthday wishes to Margie Koval, Nick Lavalley, Kristen Chalmers, Phil Lucier, Andy Beach, Kyle Piche, Salko Hadzic, Liz Kearns.

Happy 35th anniversary to my brother Vince and wife Karen. Congrats!!

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Children: I would do best with older children Cats: I may do best as the only cat in my next home Dogs: I lived with a dog before and they scared me

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CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH - 61 Main St., Essex Jct., 878-8341.

James Gangwer, pastor. Sunday School: 10 a.m., Worship Service: 11 a.m., Sunday evening worship: 6 p.m., Wednesday evening youth groups, Adult Bible study and prayer: 7 p.m.; Fundamental-Independent.

CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH - Route 2A, Williston, just north of Industrial Ave. 878-7107. Wes Pastor, Senior Pastor.

Summer Worship Service Times (June-September): Sundays at 9:30 a.m. Nursery is provided for infant-K. Also check out our other summer offerings: Wednesday Gatherings, Ultimate Frisbee, Play Dates in the Park, Summer Bible Camp, and more! www.cmcvermont.org; also on Facebook & Instagram.

COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCH - 1 Whitcomb Meadows Lane, Essex Jct. 879-4313. Rev. Jeannette Conver, pastor. Adult bible class: 9 a.m., Sunday service: 10 a.m. with fellowship following. Infant through pre-K childcare provided, cccpastorjeannette@gmail.com; Facebook page: bit.ly/2rDz4NE DAYBREAK COMMUNITY CHURCH - 67 Creek Farm Plaza, Colchester. 338-9118. Jesse Mark, lead pastor. Sunday service: 10:30 a.m., www.daybreakvermont.org; brentdaybreak@gmail.com ESSEX ALLIANCE CHURCH - 37 Old Stage Road, Essex Jct. 878-8213. Sunday services: 8:00am, 9:30am & 11:00am, www.essexalliance.org.

ESSEX CENTER UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 119 Center Rd (Route 15), Essex. 878-8304. Rev. Mitchell Hay, pastor. Service 10:00 am with Sunday School and childcare provided. We offer a variety of small groups for prayer, Bible study, hands-on ministry, and studying contemporary faith issues. Please join us for worship that combines the best of traditional and contemporary music and spirituality. We are a safe and welcoming space for all people to celebrate, worship, ask questions and plant spiritual roots.

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ESSEX JUNCTION - UCC, an Open and Affirming Congregation, embracing diversity and affirming the dignity and worth of every person, because we are all created by a loving God. 1 Church Street, Essex Junction, VT 05452. Telephone (802) 878-5745; Website: www.fccej.org ; Email: welcome@fccej. org Senior Pastor, Rev. Mark Mendes, Assoc. Pastor, Rev. Josh Simon. Summer Worship One Service 9 am, June 2 – September 1.

Communion: first Sunday of every month. School Year Faith Formation.

Jr. & High School Youth Groups. Heavenly Food Pantry – second Monday, 5:30-7:30pm; fourth Thursday, 2-6pm, except for Nov & Dec when it is the third Thursday. Essex Eats Out Community Dinner – 1st Friday of the month, 5:30 – 7pm. Music includes Sanctuary Choir, Finally @ First Band, Joyful Noise, Cherub Music, Handbell Choir, Men’s Acapella and Ladies’ Acapella groups.

GRACE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 130 Maple Street, Essex Jct., 1 mile south of the Five Corners on Maple Street / Route 117. 8788071. Worship Sundays: 9:30 a.m., with concurrent church school pre-K to grade 6. Handicapped-accessible facility. Adult choir, praise band, women’s fellowship, missionally active. Korean U.M.C. worship Sundays: 12 p.m., come explore what God might be offering you!

HOLY FAMILY - ST. LAWRENCE PARISH - St. Lawrence: 158 West St., Essex Jct. 878.5331. Saturday Vigil: 4:00 p.m.; Sunday Morning: 8:00 a.m. Holy Family: 36 Lincoln St., Essex Jct., Sundays: 11 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. For more information visit www.hfslvt.org.

MT. MANSFIELD UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP - 195 Vermont Route 15, Jericho, the red barn across from Packard Road.

899-2558. Services are held 9:30 a.m. on the second and fourth Sunday of each month from September through June. Visit www.mmuuf.org.

ST. JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 4 St. James Place, Essex Jct., off Rt. 2A at the Fairgrounds Gate F. 878-4014. Rev. Kim Hardy. Holy Eucharist, Sundays: 10 a.m. Visit www.stjamesvt.org; office@stjamesvt. com.

ST. PIUS X CHURCH - 20 Jericho Road, Essex.

878-5997. Rev. Charles Ranges, pastor. Masses: Saturday, 4:30 p.m. & Sunday, 9:30 a.m. Confessions: Saturday, 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. or please call 878-5331 for an appointment.

Food ShelF 9 - 11 a.m. Thursdays and Saturdays, 6 - 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays, Aunt Dot’s Place, 51 Center Rd. Essex Jct. Serving the communities of Essex, Westford, Jericho and Underhill. Visit auntdotsplace.com for more information.

Seated Yoga 10 - 10:30 a.m., Essex Area Senior Center.

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KNIttINg & CroChetINg 1 - 3 p.m., Essex Area Senior Center.

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SpaNISh/eNglISh INterCambIo Noon - 2 p.m., Essex Free Library. If you are a native English speaker who wants to learn or improve your Spanish or if you are a native Spanish speaker who wants to learn or improve your English, our intercambio may be for you!

For the first hour of every session we will speak exclusively in Spanish and for the second hour we will speak exclusively in English.

drop-IN KNIttINg Club 1 - 2 p.m., Essex Free Library.

Vermont Integrative MD Dr. Sepinoud Bazel

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eSSex eatS out 5:30 - 7 p.m., St. Pius X Church, Essex Jct. Free community dinners for all! If you need a ride, please email essexeatsout@ gmail.com

teCh tIme 10 - 11 a.m., Essex Free Library. Drop in with your device and questions! teCh help wIth ClIF Noon - 1 p.m., Brownell Library. Offering one-on-one technology help. Reservation required. Please call 878-6955 at least 24 hours in advance. rotarY Club oF eSSex Noon - 1:15 p.m., The Essex.

The Rotary Club of Essex serves the communities of Essex, Essex Junction, Jericho, Underhill, and Westford.

We are known for offering a superb lunch, with speakers on topics of interest to the community at large. Visitors are always welcome.

noTICe: The Brownell Library will be closed on Thursday, August 5 for staff development.

LOCAL MEETINGS thu., aug. 29 6 p.m.,public hearing to Consider damages relative to railroad St., Lincoln Hall, 2 Lincoln St. tue., Sep. 3 6:30 p.m.,School board, Essex High School Library, 2 Education Dr.

UPCOMING EVENT DIVORCE CARE SUPPORT GROUP Sundays, September 8 - December 1 Divorce is a tough road. Feelings of separation, betrayal, confusion, anger, and self-doubt are common. But there is life after divorce. Led by people who have already walked down that road, we’d like to share with you a safe place and a process that can help make the journey easier. This free 13-week group for men and women will be offered on Sunday evenings, 5:30-7:30, Sept. 8 through Dec. 1 at the North Avenue Alliance Church, 901 North Ave., Burlington, Vt. Register for class at essexalliance.churchcenter. com. For more information call Sandy 802-425-7053.

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COURTESY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER

A birds-eye view of the 12,500-square foot primary care facility, which UVMMC expects to start welcoming patients next spring.

PRIMARY CARE from page 1 a popular landing spot for medical students seeking outpatient experience, with a course director serving as a physician at the practice, according to Jennifer Gilwee, division chief for general internal medicine and geriatrics who oversees five primary care sites, including Essex.

The prospect of more room to maneuver was welcome news for Barbara Lindberg, a RN triage nurse who said the practice has grown when she started 13 years ago. Essex Primary Care used to have one nurse on site most days, she said. Now there’s typically three, but the staff ’s growth has not been matched by the building.

“On a busy day when there’s a lot of patients coming in to see providers, there isn’t always a spot for a nurse to meet with a patient who comes in with questions,” Lindberg said.

The new facility will provide more privacy for patients, especially families, who sometimes need a larger space to have discussions about plans of care for a loved one, Lindberg said.

Approved by the Green Mountain Care Board earlier this year, the $8.6 million project will be paid out of UVMMC’s capital funds, covering the price of the land and construction of the 12,500-square foot building.

UVMMC expects the new facility to be open to patients starting spring 2020.

It will be built to conform to current standards for clinical practice sites, with upgrades like bigger exam rooms

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GREATER ESSEX from page 8 merger would be.

Being an incorporated village within a town has financial implications: you must pay to be in it. Reviving an old, single-purpose municipality simply to form another board is duplicative and expensive because the Town already provides (and Town taxpayers already pay for) all the services its residents need. Adding another government is the opposite of what we are trying to achieve with merger. It will be far more efficient and less costly to create a single governing board that represents the entire greater Essex community, maintains a single grand list, taxes residents based on that single grand list, and operates a single administration with a minimum of duplication. Appropriate representation will be an essential component of any proposed merger plan.

Let’s not forget how much savings and operational efficiencies we’ve already achieved through collaboration and consolidation. Remember that all our discussions about merger (and all municipal board meetings) are open to the public and offer ample opportunities for citizens to participate and tell us what’s on their minds.

Many thanks to Town and Village wastewater, public works, and clerk’s office staff who provided information on the formation of the CWD and history of the Village of Essex Center. Dates and other details were located in old Town of Essex annual reports and The Suburban List (our local paper before The Essex Reporter). And many thanks to the Vermont Department of Libraries for locating the original charter of the Village of Essex Center.

Visit www.GreaterEssex2020.org for ongoing updates.

Stay tuned for next week’s column, and as always, send your questions, thoughts, and concerns to us at ehaney@essex.org, abrown@essexjunction.org, and eteich@essex.org.

PHOTO BY COLIN FLANDERS

The Essex Commons Burial Ground features burial plots dating back to the late 1700s, including some of Essex’s founding families.

CEMETERY from page 3 served: meetings every few months at someone’s house. But she said “a whole new young crew” at the town offices have kicked things into gear, requiring the commission now meet monthly (in a public setting, no less).

While it took some adjusting, the more frequent gatherings have also helped the commission get more done than ever before. Kinghorn led a push to get signage at the Mountain View cemetery to aid families looking to locate their loved ones. And the commission recently oversaw

the opening of a new section there, with burial plots now being sold.

“We’re just working on a lot of little things, but things that were driving me crazy,” Kinghorn said. “It takes time. It takes a lot longer than I want it to be, but that’s true of anything.”

She added that she’s been surprised to see how many people frequent the town’s cemeteries.

“It gives me more incentive to make sure it’s the best cemetery that it can be,” she said.

WE JUST DID A DOUBLE TAKE. Thank you, Vermont, for voting us one of the best in the state two years running.

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