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GOV. SCOTT “As we mark this anniversary, our thoughts are with the communities in Texas currently facing the impact of Hurricane Harvey. Vermont stands ready to lend support and the knowledge gained through our experience recovering from Irene,” said Vt. Gov. Phil Scott Monday, Aug. 28, marking the sixth anniversary of Tropical Storm Irene.
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Celebrating Labor Day, the unofficial end of summer
By Paul Holmes
Labor Day is a bit of a misnomer. While the holiday is devoted to workers, many have the day off. Created by the labor movement in the late 19th century, Labor Day was established to highlight the achievements of American workers, both from a social and an economic perspective. Labor Day became a federal holiday in 1894. Labor Day is also known as the unofficial end to summer. Labor Day weekend tends to be the last big travel weekend of the summer, benefitting towns and businesses that cater to tourists. Road trips, backyard barbecues, and enjoying the last days on the water before the cool fall temperatures settle in are staples of Labor Day celebrations.
Killington town to vote on land purchase for new fire, public safety building
By Evan Johnson
LOU MARESCA Catch the final outdoor summer concerts this weekend Live at the Fillmore will perform the final concert of the Cooler in the Mountains Summer Concert Series in Killington this Saturday, Sept. 2. Page 35
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KILLINGTON—Killington is in need of a new firehouse and the town’s Fire Department Facility Review Committee is convinced they have found a location at a price that can’t be beat. On Sept. 5, they’ll need the approval from taxpayers to move forward with their plan to build on a site on Killington Road. According to Chet Hagenbarth, Killington’s highways and facilities department director, Killington is overdue for a firehouse by at least two years. To hear town officials describe the current structure, which has stood since 1978, the situation is grim. The building needs significant renovations due to age and deterioration. The current building does not meet current state requirements for universal access, or even — most ironically — state fire code. The building’s second floor, where the department holds meetings and trainings, lacks sufficient fire exits and even its weight-bearing ability is questionable. The building features other design flaws: exposed lightbulbs next to insulation, missing handrails on staircases and pump systems next to electronics. “You spring a pinhole leak and you’ve got water in your electrical
Program aims to ease transition to middle school
Vote will be held Sept. 5 An informational meeting will be held Thursday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. in the Killington Elementary School gymnasium. Voting will be held Sept. 5 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. at the Killington town office. system, which causes fires,” said review committee member Stephen Finneron. The current facility on Killington Road sits on 0.68 acres, hard up against abutting properties and Killington Road. When responders arrive at the station to suit up before going out a call, they must park on adjacent properties, such as the Killington Market. Firetrucks pulling out of the bays onto the road must contend with oncoming traffic from both directions and a narrow turning radius. “You have a 70-foot truck that comes out of the end of that building onto a road that’s only 50 feet across,” said Finneron.
State investigates 1 million gallon sewage spill in Rutland
By Lee J. Kahrs
By Alan J. Keays, VTDigger
BRANDON—A new program designed to help parents and kids communicate is being offered to fifth and sixth graders and their families in the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union (RNeSU). Those years bridging elementary school and middle school can be tough, and the PROSPER program has come to RNeSU to help parents and kids facilitate that time by improving communication and problem-solving skills. A USDA federally-funded program, PROSPER stands for Promoting School-communityuniversity Partnerships to Enhance Resilience. It ‘s being offered through a partnership between the University of Vermont Extension and RNeSU and
RUTLAND – The state is investigating a nearly 1 million gallon overflow of untreated sewage into East and Otter creeks earlier this month in Rutland City, according city Public Works Commissioner Jeffrey Wennberg. The state could fine the municipality for the spill. The treatment plant worker who was on duty at the time has been disciplined. “He basically didn’t respond in a manner that a trained and licensed operator should have responded to the circumstances that were happening at the time,” Wennberg said Saturday, Aug. 26. “He acknowledged the error, he apologized. … He didn’t make any excuses.” A 50 cent “lousy fuse” blew at the River Street pump station, kicking off a series of events that led to the spill that began in the early morning hours of Aug. 5 and continued for about nine hours before it was detected and stopped, Wennberg said. The sewer plant operator on duty at the plant, whom Wennberg would not name but said was experienced in his job, was placed on paid adminis-
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Jeff Wennberg, Rutland public works commissioner trative leave while the city conducted a review of the incident. The city then “negotiated” with the union representing the worker about the disciplinary action that would be taken, and reached an agreement Friday, Sewage spill, page 5
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The newly formed Killington World Cup Committee (KWCC) is a fundraising arm of the Killington Mountain School that was formed to help sustain World Cup racing at Killington as well as to inspire and support young athletes, according to Head of School Tao Smith. The KWCC was created by the school’s board of trustees in collaboration with trustees of U.S. Ski and Snowboard, the recently renamed governing body of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team (a.k.a. USST). Using the power of the draw of the prestigious World Cup events at Killington, the committee has two objectives, Smith said. One is to support the Women’s World Cup at Killington by helping with the hospitality component for the competitors. This includes assisting with housing costs for the competitors while at Killington. The committee will also host a VIP night at the Peak Lodge Friday night, inviting 250 guests who will include athletes, sponsors, large donors, members of the KMS board, and officials with Powdr Corp and Killington, Smith said. In assisting in this manner, Smith said, the goal is to help “make sure the event is sustainable year after year.” In doing so it also serves as inspiration for young ski racers, he added, noting that is a direct benefit for not just KMS students but for young competitors throughout the Northeast. The other goal is to support those youngsters and competition programs by facilitating competition and training infrastructure and increasing participation in competitive winter sports programs in the
Northeast. This will be done through the awarding of funding for qualifying projects. Tiger Shaw, CEO of US Ski and Snowboard; Phill Gross, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation trustee; USSA Youth Initiatives; and Tom Karam, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation trustee, and T2 Foundation will join several KMS trustees and Smith on the grant application committee. They will review requests and distribute the funds in the form of grants. To accomplish these objectives, the KWCC hopes to raise $300,000 to $400,000, Smith said. “Funds that remain after providing hospitality at Killington Resort — via supporting athlete housing and VIP events — will be used to benefit the
local and regional youth development programs. The fundraising committee will work through KMS, but the funds raised will not go to KMS,” Smith noted. (The only costs to be covered will be administrative fees.) Those served will also include adaptive skiers. “We’re trying to raise access at the grassroots level for all participants who are interested in the competition pipeline. There is a US Disabled Ski Team, and our purpose is to be broad enough in our grants to include adaptive skiers as well as able-bodied youth,” Smith explained. The committee will raise funds through direct solicitations and also by selling the premium grandstand tickets to the World Cup events, a portion of which
will go to the KWCC. “Last year the World Cup was incredibly well received, and I know there were kids who watched who will be future Olympians and World Cup skiers. By keeping the event here and by helping to keep ski racing strong and vibrant locally and regionally, we are helping to drive the future while inspiring students and athletes from around the East,” Smith noted. Leveraging the World Cup in this manner and increasing access to winter sports competition for youth as well as for disabled individuals will result in more life-long participants in winter sports throughout the Northeast, a win-win for snow-sport enthusiasts and ski areas, organizers say.
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Library ceiling collapse raises issue of payment RUTLAND—The Rutland Free Library’s main public meeting space, the Nella Grimm Fox Room, is closed to all public use until further notice, according to a new release Friday, Aug. 25. A portion of the ceiling collapsed on Wednesday, Aug. 16, and subsequent testing revealed a small amount of asbestos in the debris. Glue used in 1966 to affix acoustic ceiling tiles to the original plaster-and-lath ceiling contains 2.3 percent chrysotile or “white asbestos.” The test, performed by KD Associates of South Burlington, showed no hazardous materials in the plaster or tiles themselves.
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GLUE USED IN 1966 TO AFFIX ACOUSTIC CEILING TILES TO THE ORIGINAL PLASTER-AND-LATH CEILING CONTAINS 2.3 PERCENT CHRYSOTILE OR “WHITE ASBESTOS.” Library Director Randal Smathers announced that despite the small amount of asbestos, this will require full abatement during repairs to ensure the room is safe once the work is done. Smathers said he is gathering information on the comparative costs of the abatement, patching the roughly 50 square feet of damaged ceiling and redoing the entire ceiling. Community groups with events planned through the end of October have been warned to find alternative spaces. A few of the groups displaced by the closure are able to use a smaller meeting space in the building and the library is working with the remainder to find alternatives. The building at 10 Court St. is a city property, originally constructed in 1858-59 as a courthouse and post office, and has been home to the library since 1935. No formal lease exists, so it is unclear who will be responsible for the repairs. The building is insured but because the damage did not come from a single event like a storm or water leak, it is unclear whether the policy will provide any coverage.
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continued from page 1 The property, which is currently owned by Killington Fire and Rescue, also lacks the space required to meet storm water treatment and retention requirements. The space requires 3 to 4 acres to meet those requirements and to site a facility capable of housing fire, rescue and police departments. These factors earned Killington Fire and Rescue’s current home a “non-compliant” ruling by the state in 2013 but has been permitted to remain open as the town searches for a solution. Before a new firehouse can be built, the town needs land. To that end, the committee reviewed a total of 13 sites around Killington. The proposed new home for Killington’s fire, rescue and police departments is a four-acre lot just southeast of Woods Road. Members of the review committee have said the site offers good access to the rest of Killington Road, quick response times to the surrounding area, and value. Voters will cast ballots Sept. 5 on a 30-year, $634,000 bond, payable in annual installments of $30,000. Included in this original price tag is: purchase of the four-acre parcel from current owner Steve Durkee for $525,000; $21,500 in civil engineering designs; and $87,500 in fees for schematic architectural design and construction estimate. (Durkee will also provide $20,000 in-kind services to clear and grade the site and construct a roadway.) The informational meeting for the town vote will be held Thursday, Aug. 31 at 7 p.m. in the Killington Elementary School gymnasium. Voting will be completed by Australian ballot on Sept. 5 between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. at the Killington town office. Following an affirmative vote, the town will conduct a final site evaluation at an estimated cost of between $10,000 and $12,000, move to purchase the land, and issue a Request For Quotation (RFQ) for an architect. The design by the yet-to-be-selected architectural firm will be finalized before the town votes on the final facility construction bond. Finneron said another item on the wish list is to operate dispatch out of the space for all public safety needs. “If someone has a question that has to do with public safety, they’re going to have one place to call,” he said.
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Stern to challenge Scott in governor’s race By Stephen Seitz
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Splash! Pooches enjoy pool party Local dogs enjoy the pool at Northwood Park in Rutland Town for the annual Dog Days of Summer pool party, Sunday, Aug. 27, which benefited the Rutland County Humane Society in Pittsford.
Brandon Dunkin Donuts delays plans to build By Lee J. Kahrs
BRANDON — Plans to build a convenience store and Dunkin Donuts where the Mobil station currently sits have been put on hold as the Segment 6 Route 7 project gets underway. Property owner Midway Oil in Rutland received a permit from the Brandon Development Review Board in April 2016 to tear down the Mobil station and build a 3,380-square-foot Tenney Brook convenience store/gas station containing a Dunkin Donuts with a separate car wash. But as the massive two-year Segment 6 project geared up, Midway Oil General Manager Dan Dukeshire said the company decided to wait. “It just makes sense,” he said in a phone
interview Monday, Aug.28. “Some of the last portion of the work to be done is right in front of our property. It wasn’t anybody’s fault, but we got the permit last year. I don’t think anyone was aware of how involved this [Segment 6] project would be.” Dukeshire said the goal was to build the new store before the Segment 6 project began, but when the company started to look for bids, they realized that the timing would not work out. Another concern is the traffic that the Dunkin Donuts project is expected to generate. The number of vehicles entering and exiting the store during peak traffic hours is expected to increase three-fold compared to current traffic levels. In the DRB permit Dunkin delay, page 14
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SPRINGFIELD—Springfield resident Keith Stern has set his sights on the governor’s office. Stern, a Republican, said he plans to challenge Gov. Phil Scott in next year’s primary. “I’m challenging Phil Scott because I don’t like the job he’s doing,” Stern said. “I think he needs to look more at cutting government waste. That should be priority number one. We could eliminate Vermont Health Connect. My health care plan would eliminate the need for that, and we’d save $30 million right there.” Stern is a lifelong resident of Springfield, and he is the proprietor of Stern’s Quality Produce, which is in White River Junction. He previously ran for Congress in 2010. Asked why he’s running, Stern said, “The state of Vermont is so unaffordable. People keep saying, ‘We have to move. We can’t afford to stay here anymore.’ That has to change.” Stern said he would accomplish this by a thorough audit of government spending. “We’ll be going through the government, finding waste and inefficiencies,” he said. “I’m looking at $100 million in savings. Health care reform. I’ve got a plan to reduce the cost of health care by at least 20 percent.” According to his campaign website the plan works like this: “A healthcare provider performs a service and sends the list of services to this company who, in turn, would: first, create a bill that would then go to the insurance company, government agency, and/or patient as the situation calls for, and then second the company would send a payment electronically to the health-
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KEITH STERN care provider. This results in no billing cost to the healthcare provider and no delay in the healthcare provider being paid. No risk of delays, inability in receiving payment, and minimal billing costs for healthcare providers means lower overhead costs which can be passed along.” Stern said this wouldn’t cost any money. “It will be a nonprofit business owned by the health care providers. It will do the billing, collecting and procurement. If someone needs an MRI, they can shop around for the best price. It’ll create competition. Eventually, this will be a single-payer system, but it’s not government run. It’ll be privately owned.” Stern’s most radical proposal is to eliminate the Department of Education. “I would do away with the state Department of Education and the state school board,” he said. “Instead of having a state school board, I would have the local school boards meet a few times a year to get together and discuss issues. They’ll talk about what’s working for them,
what’s not, and generate ideas. Letting the school boards get together would be a lot more efficient. I don’t think we need statewide governance.” Stern did acknowledge he has some homework to do when it comes to energy. “I don’t really have an energy plan,” he said. “I haven’t talked to anybody. I can say I’m not for solar, because it’s heavily subsidized. I’d rather see that money put into research and development. I’m not really a fan of wind power. I don’t think we should chop down the mountaintops.” Stern said he would handle the opioid crisis by cracking down on offenders and expanding treatment. “We have to spend more money on treatment centers,” he said. “My plan is for drug dealers to go to prison boot camp. These people don’t have respect for others. They don’t have discipline, no sense of responsibility. People need to learn that to become useful citizens.” Stern’s complete set of proposals can be found at his campaign website, vermontgetsstern.org.
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Bernie Sanders’ book tour skims past Vermont By Kevin O’Connor
DUBLIN, Ireland — The Green Mountains are a 3,000mile stretch from the Emerald Isle. But when Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders scheduled a recent book reading in this European city, fans snatched up all 2,000 tickets in a scant three minutes. “His title has been huge for months,” said a salesclerk at Hodges Figgis, Ireland’s oldest and largest bookstore and a landmark in James Joyce’s celebrated novel, “Ulysses.” “He’s very popular here,” the staffer said. “Sanders’s presidential race ended a year ago, but his campaign never did,” Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote in the New Yorker magazine this month. “Since the election, he has staged events in Michigan, Mississippi, Maine, West Virginia, Arizona, Nevada, Ohio, Kentucky, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Montana, Florida, Iowa, Maryland, and Illinois.” Across the Atlantic he capped off an international tour for his New York Times bestselling book, “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In,” with a sold-out reading at Ireland’s biggest performance venue, the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre on the Dublin waterfront. “If things had gone another way, perhaps the world wouldn’t be hearing so much from Bernie Sanders,” the Irish website thejournal.ie went on to write. “Ever since Donald Trump’s shock win last November, the independent senator from Vermont has ramped up his activism, becoming a focal point for the ‘resistance’ to the new administration.” Part of the ramp up includes the release of an adaptation of his bestseller written especially for teen readers, “Bernie Sanders’ Guide to Political Revolution.” “It is my observation that the current generation of young people is the smartest, most idealistic, and least prejudiced generation in the modern history of the United States,” Sanders writes in the foreword. “This is your country. Help us take it back.” The author is set to promote the 240-page hardcover with appearances Monday, Aug. 28, in New York, Tuesday in Cincinnati, Ohio, Wednesday in Aurora, Illinois, and Thursday in Iowa City, Iowa. But inquire about readings back home and a publicist at
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Sewage spill: State investigates 1 million gallons of sewage spilled in Rutland continued from page 1 the public works commissioner said. Because it is a personnel matter, Wennberg said, he could not reveal what the disciplinary action will be. The fuse blew around 1 a.m. on Aug. 5, Wennberg said, and wasn’t detected until other employees came into work later that morning. They quickly changed the fuse, stopping the overflow. During the spill, alarms sounded in the control room, and the worker discovered that there was “very low flow” at that time, but that wasn’t all that unusual given that it was in the early morning hours, Wennberg said One of those key alarms did not sound because it was later discovered that the settings were wrong, the public works director said. Wennberg said the operator should have looked at monitors for the River Street pump station, but for some reason he didn’t. “The only explanation was, ‘It didn’t occur to me,’” Wennberg said the employee reported. There is “no evidence,” the public works director said, that the operator was asleep or impaired in any way. “He was on the grounds the entire time,” Wennberg said. “The responses to the alarms that he did make and the activities that were recorded were verified.” Rutland’s sewage treatment plant, Wennberg said, is the only one in the state that is staffed around the clock and has a 24/7 monitoring system. “We don’t just rely on one,” Wennberg said. “We rely on both.”
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Even if it were caught right away, he said, some amount of wastewater would still have spilled into the creeks before the problem could be corrected. James Ehlers, Lake Champlain International executive director, who has been advocating for more to be done to prevent overflows from occurring and to protect waterways, said Sunday Aug. 27 that he has questions about the incident. “It doesn’t make sense to me
over 3 million gallons, Wennberg said. The majority of that water is stormwater – water washing over streets, roofs and parking lots. The wastewater component of that combined storm overflow is very small, Wennberg said. During the Aug. 5 event, Wennberg said, it was only untreated sewage. Wennberg, vacationing in North Carolina at the time of the incident, was notified and posted a message to the department’s FaceIT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE TO ME HOW book page warning FOR 9½ HOURS THIS CONTINUED the public to avoid contact with water in UNABATED AND THE PROBLEM IS A the overflow areas for 50 CENT FUSE,” EHLERS SAID. two days. The state was notihow for 9½ hours this continued fied within an hour, he added. unabated and the problem is a 50 The Vermont Department of cent fuse,” Ehlers said. Environmental Conservation is The incident shows that more investigating. Officials with the redundancies need to be built into state agency could not be reached the system. for comment. “A multi-million dollar system The state could require the city intended to protect tens of thouto take corrective actions and imsands of people and the economy pose fines for the violation. Wenis placed in the hands of one frail nberg said steps are already being human being and a 50-cent fuse?” taken to correct the issues that led Ehlers asked. “A major, major to the overflow. frontline defense for public health, Ehlers, who is seeking the Demfor 9½ hours in one of our largest ocratic nomination for governor, cities, and no one was flying that said while the city complied with plane.” the legal notifications, more needs Sewer overflows, in Rutland and to be done to protect and alert the other communities in the state, public when incidents occur. have prompted calls for greater efThe city’s Department of Public forts to protect waterways. Works’ Facebook page shows the Typically during heavy rainposting about the spill went up storms in Rutland City, a large com- around noon on the day of the bined stormwater overflow from a incident — many hours after the big rain event in the city could total problem was first detected.
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OP-ED
Walls to divide, bridges to unite By Angelo S. Lynn
Walls to divide, or bridges to unite? On the campaign trail, politicians of all stripes promise big things — but few were as boastful, wasteful and wrong-headed as “The Donald” was during his run-up to the Republican convention and throughout the general election. After his first eight months in office, he’s accomplished very little of what he championed — and for that the nation is all the better. But few campaign promises were so central to his campaign as the graphic image of building a wall on the Mexican-US boarder to stop the illegal crossing of immigrants into the country. That whole notion is tied up in the factually incorrect premise that these Mexican immigrants are taking jobs away from American workers, bringing crime and drugs into the country, increasing social costs and a host of other far-right propaganda meant to give middle-America a scapegoat to blame for its own economic problems. Each premise is discounted by the hard facts presented by government agencies — the same government agencies that are now controlled by the Republican Party. That the proposed wall is anything but campaign nonsense, or as Sen. Patrick Leahy calls it “a bumper sticker boondoggle,” should be apparent to most Americans — that Trump continues to use the wall as a way to gin-up his most xenophobic, misguided supporters and make false threats about defaulting on the national debt unless Congress supports funding for the wall is nothing less than juvenile — once again, puts the nation’s reputation as a dependable world leader at risk.
“THIS IS NOT PRESIDENT TRUMP’S FIRST THREAT TO SHUT DOWN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT OVER HIS FOOLISH, COSTLY AND USELESS WALL, WASTING TENS OF BILLIONS IN U.S. TAXPAYER DOLLARS... A WALL THAT WOULD BE NOTHING MORE THAN A BUMPER STICKER BOONDOGGLE,” SAID LEAHY. But we’ll let Sen. Leahy, who is vice cairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, comment on Trump’s threat to shut down the government if Congress does not agree to force American taxpayers to fund a border wall. “This is not President Trump’s first threat to shut down the United States government over his foolish, costly and useless wall, wasting tens of billions in U.S. taxpayer dollars,” Leahy said in a statement issued Wednesday, Aug. 23. “A wall the president promised that Mexico would pay for, and a wall that would be nothing more than a bumper sticker boondoggle. “The last Republican shutdown in 2013 dealt a devastating blow to economic growth, amounting to an estimated $1.5 billion lost for each of the 16 days of the shutdown. That is economic growth we can never get back. “We cannot afford his brand of government by threats of manufactured crisis. I would urge the president to instead put the full force of his administration behind investing in the American people, like the investments Democrats have proposed in the Senate Appropriations Committee. We should be supporting medical research, rebuilding our infrastructure, providing quality education to our children – and we should be building bridges between communities and cultures, not walls to divide us.” Imagine that: building bridges to unite us, not walls to divide us. Do Trump supporters really believe walls to divide us are more useful than bridges to unite us, or has Trump undermined their sense of community so wholly that he’s corrupted their vision as well? Angelo Lynn is the editor/publisher of the Addison Independent, a sister publication to the Mountain Times.
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A bloated firehouse Dear Editor, The following is in no way to disparage those who put in their effort to select a site, nor negotiate the sale price for the proposed firehouse. The following are facts we the citizens need to consider. An acre of land is 43,560 square feet, times 4 it equals 174,240 square feet. Fifty percent coverage on the site, to and including front, rear and side yard setbacks would give you the ability to erect a 87,120 square-foot building, and it would leave approximately 1.2 acres for parking. On one acre you can park approximately 242 cars or 24 55-foot trailers. The price for the 4 acres is $550,000. Or $137,500 per acre. Do we need 4 acres? Consider this: if it were a 2.5-acre site, that would accommodate a building of 54,450 squarefoot with approximately 1.25 acres for parking. At the current negotiated price that would mean a cost of $343,750, or a saving of $206,250. There is also an add-on of approximately $84,360 which is for engineering investigation and design. We’ve been told that this expenditure will in no way affect our taxes. However, the estimated cost of the proposed structure is between $3.5 and $4 million dollars. That, of course, will not be free. So fellow citizens, be careful of this proposal. Do we need 4 acres? Do we need to absorb the possible total cost of some $5 to $6 million dollars for this project? Come to the meeting Thurs., Aug. 31, ask questions, be a concerned citizen. Richard Kropp, Killington
Vote “yes” on fire department bond
Dear Editor, Lately much has been made about the cost of the proposed land purchase for the new Public Safety Building. Having been on the Firehouse Committee I can state unequivocally the committee exhausted all possible sites available with the criteria of land cost, development cost, and location along with other more specific criteria within those categories. We physically inspected 13 sites and assessed their suitably for construction of the proposed building. After all was said and done the site we chose was the most cost effective when combined land and development costs were considered. Some parcels were less expensive but required extensive site work and mitigation of natural obstacles such as wetlands, ledge, untenable slopes (a 10 degree slope is the maximum allowable). Other sites were too small, too expensive, did not have viable access to traffic on Killington Road or Route 4. Some critics even say we don’t need the 4 acres. We on the committee went through several iterations of the building to try and fit it, the required travel lanes, and parking onto the various lot sizes and configurations. Some critics say there are better deals out there yet no one could point to one. I would challenge these critics to offer up a better more cost effective plan, on hopefully a more timely basis than on the eve Vote Yes, page 7
Live, let live and enjoy Dear Editor, Throughout the ages many attempts have been made to revise history. Some, such as the burning of books, have had mild success in encouraging some and intimidating others to join in the hateful venture. Others have bred the spreading of false or modified reports of events by way of angry opinion in ways to perpetuate divisiveness. Yet others have led to civil disobedience under the pretense of free speech and the “glory” of presumably patriotic dissent.
ANGRY RIVALS ASSEMBLE IN MASS AND PEACEFUL ENCOUNTERS TO ENJOY BEER, HOT DOGS... I prefer baseball, where angry rivals assemble in mass and peaceful encounters to enjoy beer, hot dogs, base hits, errors and walk away from loss or victory and engage in honest disagreement and no loss of friendship or disrespect ... or destruction of the game. This is all without violence, and anxious for the next opportunity to enjoy each other again on the field of battle. Although there is plenty of heated discussion there is no modifying the statistics of sport, the well organized terms of engagement or damage done to the love of the game. Royal Barnard, Rutland
Extent of racist groups in America is overblown
Dear Editor, Anyone watching the network news lately would think that Adolph Hitler, the entire Nazi Army and a legion of Civil War Reconstruction Klansmen had risen from from the dead and invaded the United States. I have never seen so much outlandish hysteria perpetrated by the media in my entire life. In trying to gain some semblance of perspective in all this madness I was compelled to do some research on the subject of hate groups in the United States. This is what I found: There may be 200-1,200 neo-Nazi members in 32 different states. “The National Socialist Movement (NSM), with about 400 members in 32 states, is currently the largest neo-Nazi organization in the United States.” The KKK itself claims it has “between 5,000 and 8,000 members nationwide. As of 2016, the Anti-Defamation League puts total Klan membership nationwide at around 3,000, while the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) puts it at 6,000 members. At its peak in the mid1920s, the KKK claimed to include about 15 percent of the nation’s eligible population, approximately 4-5 million men.” Today, we are a nation of 323.1 million people. In our republic, if the experts are to be trusted, there exists an estimated 9,200 philosophically committed militant racists. This
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CAPITOL QUOTES “If we have to shut the government down, we’re building that wall.” Said President Donald Trump, claiming that he’d allow the federal government to shut down if legislators fail to fund a wall along the nearly 2,000-mile long border with Mexico.
“The last Republican shutdown in 2013 dealt a devastating blow to economic growth, amounting to an estimated $1.5 billion lost for each of the 16 days of the shutdown. That is economic growth we can never get back. We cannot afford his brand of government by threats of manufactured crisis.” Said Sen. Patrick Leahy, responding to Trump’s threat.
“People who were not in a crisis state yesterday may find themselves in a crisis state today.” Said Houston, Texas Mayor Sylvester Turner, responding to developments in his city as Tropical Storm Harvey dropped record rainfalls over the weekend.
“Recovery will be a long and difficult road, and the federal government stands ready, willing and able to support that effort.” Said Finnish President Sauli Niiinisto, offering to send emergency help to the coast of Texas. Mexico has also offered to send aid.
“Goodbye, Whole Foods as we know it. The conventional supermarket has not evolved much in decades. But Amazon will likely drive drastically different shopping behavior in grocery. The survival of the fittest has begun.” Said Karen Short, an analyst at Barclays Capital Inc. in New York, said in a note published in an article titled “Amazon Cuts Whole Foods Prices as Much as 43% on First Day” on Bloomberg.com. The tech giant’s $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods has sent shock waves through the already changing $800 billion supermarket industry. The wedding between Amazon and the upscale grocery promises to upend the way customers shop for groceries. Cutting prices at the chain with such an entrenched reputation for high cost that its nickname is Whole Paycheck is a sign that Amazon is serious about taking on competitors such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Kroger Co. and Costco Wholesale Corp, the Bloomberg story continued.
LETTERS
Great article with a small problem Dear Editor, There’s a bit of a misrepresentation in the third sentence of Brett Yates’ otherwise excellent piece “Good things for bad people” published in the Aug.23-29 edition of the Mountain Times, in regards to the infamous Google memo. It reads: “The engineer, James Damore, asserted that the relative absence of women in Silicon Valley owed more to biology than to prejudicial hiring or the conditioning of a misogynistic society: according to the junk science propagated by Damore’s manifesto, it’s only natural that women
should ‘prefer jobs in social or artistic areas,’ given their ‘lower stress tolerance.’” This is false — Damore explicitly frames his argument as being against the proposition that the relative absence of women was wholly and completely due to social factors alone. To quote the background section from the beginning of his document: “For the rest of this document, I’ll concentrate on the extreme stance that all differences in outcome are due to differential treatment.” Given that Damore concedes that social structures are legitimate contributors
to the lack of equal representation multiple times throughout the memo, it seems fair to take him at his word that he’s mentioning biology as a counterexample to refute the claim that social factors alone explain the discrepancy, which he claims to be a popular stance at Google. Damore also does not make the claim that women prefer jobs in social or artistic areas due to lower stress tolerance — the author appears to be conflating two separate points. He argues that a larger proportion of women prefer jobs in social or artistic areas to Small problem, page 14
Overblown racism: continued from page 6 is .000028 percent of our population. In the last century the hearts and minds of an overwhelming majority of Americans have undergone a massive, positive paradigm shift in how we view one another. This is the good news. The bad news is how sad it is to see so many good citizens buying into
Vote “yes”:
White supremacist numbers small
the media narrative that anyone who has an opposing view is somehow a Nazi or a racist. I have my own solution to put out the raging fire that the media continue to pour gas on. I am shutting off my television, turning off the computer. I am going to call my black friends, my white friends,
my Indian friends, my conservative friends and my liberal friends and tell them how much I love them, not because of their color or political views but for simply being good friends. It is a small act. One has to start somewhere. Stu Lindberg, Cavendish,Vt.
Town is out of options
continued from page 6 of the vote. The current site search has run for close to three years. I would think that would have been more than enough time for any armchair real estate experts and town planners to come forward with a better proposal. Then there are people who are legitimately asking if an appraisal of this property was done. It was not. It’s questionable as to how much an appraisal would be worth in this situation. This property was not for sale. It was only through the site assessment of another parcel that the possibility of acquiring this parcel came to the fore. There are no comparable sites or current comparable sales. It is because the site was not for sale that an appraisal would be of limited use as leverage in price negotiations. We have already negotiated the price down from $550,000 to $525,000 to include $20,000 of site work (clearing, grading, and rough access road). For an appraisal to have negotiating value we would need to have an alternative to turn to if the seller decided to spurn the appraisal. Whether you feel the price is too high or not, no one can dispute the current firehouse needs to be replaced. It is well documented it does not meet fire or building codes and is not ADA compliant. It is only through the grace of State and Federal authorities it
has been kept open. I imagine they let us get away with a decrepit structure because of their concern in keeping a functioning firehouse open to serve the public. If the structure was subject to local building ordinances a large part of it would have to be torn down as it is nowhere near setback requirements. Virtually all of the current firehouse’s parking is on a neighbor’s property. Our community has been desperately fighting for economic development and to increase its full time population. This proposal is in keeping with that goal. A new building would reflect that interest to potential new businesses, investors and residents. It would reflect the economic vitality spurred by the Resort’s (and Town’s) investments in so called 4 season amenities such as mountain biking trails, zip lines, etc. Our off season business has taken off since the Resort made those investments. A new edifice reflecting our community’s commitment to our town’s safe and secure future would go a long way to attracting new businesses and residents. Additionally, ours is a volunteer fire department. These people respond selflessly to medical emergencies, car accidents, search and rescue missions, as well as fires, not only in our town in surrounding towns
as well. Oftentimes they put their lives on the line to keep other’s lives and property intact. Wouldn’t you think that these selfless people deserve a decent facility to work out of? Wouldn’t you think that maybe more volunteers would be attracted if they did not have to work in decrepit squalor? As much as the volunteers have done to keep up the current firehouse you can only do so much to “perfume the pig.” There’s no turning this sow’s ear into a silk purse. I know this is a difficult decision because it does involve a significant expenditure of taxpayer funds. However, analyses have been done which reflect that the current budget projections can absorb the cost of the project with “no net effect going forward on budget or taxes”. The town has been budgeting for capital improvements. That combined with significant amounts of debt being retired in the near future, golf course, etc., would allow the town to carry the cost without increases in future budgets. Finally there are no more parcels, at least that we could find, that would support the Public Safety Building project as well as this parcel. Please support the future of our community with an affirmative vote on the bond initiative. Vito Rasenas, Killington
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WHAT TO DO IN CENTRAL VERMONT Rutland Wellness
5 p.m. Education and support for people who are struggling emotionally. Focus on tools and methods for improving our lives mentally and physically. Wednesdays, 5-7 p.m., Grace Congregational Church, 8 Court St., Rutland. 802-353-4365.
Rotary Meeting
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6 p.m. The Killington-Pico Rotary club cordially invites visiting Rotarians, friends and guests to attend its weekly meeting. The club meets Wednesdays at the Summit Lodge 6-8 p.m. for a full dinner and fellowship. Call 802-7730600 to make a reservation. Dinner fee $19. KillingtonPicoRotary.org
Bingo
6:30 p.m. Bridgewater Grange Bingo, Wednesdays nights, doors open at 5:30 p.m. Games start 6:30 p.m. Route 100A, Bridgewater Corners. Just across bridge from Junction Country Store. All welcome. Refreshments available.
Music at the Riverbend
7 p.m. Brandon’s free concert series, Music at the Riverbend moves to back lawn of Brandon Inn this year. This week, The Threatles, Beatles tribute band, concludes the series. Bring a chair, no outside alcohol please. 20 Park St., Brandon.
PLYMOUTH FOLK & BLUES FEST
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPT. 2-3
WEDNESDAY Bikram Yoga **
AUG. 30
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Wednesdays: 6 a.m. Inferno hot pilates; 12 p.m. 1 hour Bikram; 4 p.m. power flow; 5:30 p.m. Bikram hot. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Story Time
10 a.m. Maclure Library offers two preschool story hours, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. Parents and care givers are encouraged to bring children from birth to 5 years old. This is a great chance for children to socialize and parents / care givers to make new friends, share concerns, joys, ideas, and experiences and to learn from other parents. Small, intimate group. Info, 802-483-2792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.
Wagonride Wednesdays
10 a.m. Billings Farm & Museum holds Wagon Ride Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Horse-drawn wagon rides 11 a.m.-3 p.m. included with regular admission. Info, billingsfarm.org, 802-457-2355. 69 Old River Road, Woodstock.
Active Seniors Lunch
12 p.m. Killington Active Seniors meet for a meal Wednesdays at the Lookout Bar & Grille. Town sponsored. Come have lunch with this well-traveled group of men and women. $5/ person. Info, 802-422-2921. 2910 Killington Road, Killington.
RAVNAH Clinic
12:30 p.m. RAVNAH blood pressure and foot care clinic: Godnick Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. $10 foot care. For info, call 802-775-0568.
Free Knitting Class **
1 p.m. Free knitting classes at Plymouth Community Center, by Barbara Wanamaker: 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Bring yarn and needles, U.S. size 7 or 8 bamboo needles recommended, and one skein of medium weight yarn in light or medium color. RSVP to bewanamaker@gmail.com, 802-396-0130. 35 School Drive, Plymouth.
Bike Bum Series
2 p.m. 2017 Killington Mountain Bike Club Bike Bum series runs Wednesdays, 2-5 p.m. on Lower Side Show Bob in the Bike Park at Killington Resort. Afterparties 5:30-7 p.m. Check Facebook for more details.
Dorset Theatre Festival **
2 p.m. Dorset Theatre Festival 40th anniversary summer season. Aug. 24-Sept. 2, “American Buffalo.” 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Explosive humor, frenetic energy, surprising tenderness. Strong language, violence, gun prop. 2 hrs., 10 minute intermission. Tickets at 802-867-2223 ext 2. or dorsettheatrefestival. org. 104 Cheney Rd, Dorset.
Farmers Market
3 p.m. The Rutland Downtown Farmers Market is back outside for the summer! Depot Park, in front of Walmart, downtown Rutland. 3-6 p.m. Info and vendors, vtfarmersmarket.org.
Market on the Green
3 p.m. Woodstock Market on the Green, weekly market of fresh agricultural products from local farmers. Plus, live music, kids activities. 3-6 p.m. Info, 802-457-3555, woodstockvt.com
THURSDAY
Smoking Cessation
AUG. 31
9 a.m. Rutland’s stop smoking program, including patches, gum, and lozenges, at Rutland Regional Behavioral Health, 1 Commons St., Rutland, Thursdays, 9-10 a.m. Register at 747-3768 or rrmc.org. Free!
Chakra Balancing Yoga
5:30 p.m. Chakra Balancing Yoga: Explore your seven chakras through the practice of yoga in this seven-week series at Mountain Top Inn, Chittenden. Aug. 17-Sept. 28, 5:30-6:45 p.m. Practice yoga and explore one chakra during each yoga class. Use Aveda chakra balancing oils to enhance this yoga experience. Teacher Cristy Murphy.
Alzheimer’s Awareness Series
6 p.m. RRMC holds free Alzheimer awareness seminars providing info on detection, causes, risk factors, and more. Tonight, “Effective Communications Strategies,” Pamela Biedler, Alzheimer’s Association Director of Programs & Outreach discusses the critical role communication plays throughout the Alzheimer’s journey. Listen to interviews from professionals and caregivers sharing valuable tips on how to communicate with someone suffering from this disease. RSVP required to 802-772-2400. 160 Allen St., Rutland.
Bridge Club
6:30 p.m. Marble Valley Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Godnick Center Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games. Info, 802-228-6276. 1 Deer St., Rutland. Please join.
Mt. Holly Music
7 p.m. Mount Holly Music on the Green free concert series, 26 Maple Hill Rd., Belmont. This week, Mt. Holly Folk Club concludes the series. Bring a chair or blanket and a picnic.
Public Informational Meeting
7 p.m. Public informational hearing at Killington Elementary School on Article 1: “Shall the bonds of the Town of Killington in an amount not to exceed $634,000 be issued for the purpose of purchasing 4+/- acres of land on Killington Road, and obtaining architectural and engineering design for the construction of a new Public Safety Building for the Town of Killington?” School House Road, Killington.
Dorset Theatre Festival
7:30 p.m. Dorset Theatre Festival 40th anniversary summer season. Aug. 24-Sept. 2, “American Buffalo.” Explosive humor, frenetic energy, surprising tenderness. Strong language, violence, gun prop. 2 hrs., 10 minute intermission. Tickets at 802-867-2223 ext 2. or dorsettheatrefestival.org. 104 Cheney Rd, Dorset.
Always ... Patsy Cline
7:30 p.m. ArtisTree presents “Always ... Patsy Cline” at The Grange, 65 Stage Rd., South Pomfret. The musical play based on a true story about Patsy Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in l961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her tragic death at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. Tickets at artistreevt.org.
FRIDAY
Bikram Yoga **
9 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Thursdays: 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. 1.5 hour Bikram hot; 6:15 p.m. 1 hour Bikram hot. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Poultney Farmers’ Market
9 a.m. Town of Poultney farmers’ market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursdays through the summer. Main St., Poultney.
Story Hour
10 a.m. Promoting early literacy and socialization skills in a fun setting. Stories, songs, movement, craft. No registration. Ages 2+. Fox Room, Rutland Free Library, 10-10:45 a.m. 773-1860.
Story Time
10 a.m. Story time at the West Rutland Public Library. Thursdays at 10 a.m. Bring your young children to enjoy stories, crafts, and playtime. Info, 802-4382964.
Killington Bone Builders
** denotes multiple times and/or locations.
Bikram Yoga **
SEPT. 1
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Fridays: 6 a.m. & 12 p.m. 1 hour Bikram hot; 4 p.m. Inferno hot pilates. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Level 1 Yoga
8:30 a.m. NO CLASS Sept. 1; returns next week. Level 1 Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. killingtonyoga.com.
RAVNAH Clinic
9:30 a.m. RAVNAH blood pressure and foot care clinic: Young at Heart Senior Center, Poultney. $10 foot care. For info, call 802-775-0568.
Foodways Fridays
10 a.m. Bone builders meets at Sherburne Memorial Library, 2998 River Rd., Killington, 10-11 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Free, weights supplied. For info, 802-422-3368.
10 a.m. Billings Farm & Museum holds Foodways Fridays. Discover how they use seasonal veggies and herbs from heirloom garden in historic recipes. Takehome recipes each week. Info, billingsfarm.org, 802-457-2355. 69 Old River Road, Woodstock.
Bone Builders
Story Time
Castleton Farmers’ Market
Rochester Farmers’ Market
10 a.m. Bone builders meets Thursdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. Info, 802-773-4854. 3:30 p.m. Castleton Farmers Market is up and running every Thursday through Oct. 5, 3:30-6 p.m. For more, call Lori Barker, 802-353-0498. On Main St., next to Citizen’s Bank, Castleton.
2017 Convocation Address - GMC
4 p.m. Green Mountain Colleges welcomes Lauret Savoy as featured speaker at 2017 Convocation Address, 4 p.m. in the Labyrinth if weather permits; Ackley Theater in case of rain. GMC, 1 Brennan Circle, Poultney.
10:30 a.m. Sherburne Memorial Library holds story time Fridays, 10:30-11 a.m. Join for stories, songs, activities. Babies and toddlers welcome! Info, 802-422-9765. 3 p.m. Rochester farmers’ market on the Park, Fridays through Oct. 6, 3-6 p.m. Rain or shine! Farm products, prepared foods, crafts, baked goods, arts, music, and fun. Music this week: TBA, show up to find out! Vendors or info, call 802-353-4620. Main St. (Route 100), Rochester.
Magic: the Gathering
3:15 p.m. Sherburne Memorial Library holds Magic: the Gathering Fridays, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Ages 8+, all levels welcome. 2998 River Rd., Killington. 422-9765.
Farmers Market and Music
Divas of Dirt
SUP Yoga
SUP and SIP
4:30 p.m. Weekly farmers market, dinner and music at Feast and Field, 1544 Royalton Turnpike, Barnard. BarnArts Thursday night music series. By donation. Music this week: Connla. 4:30-7:30 p.m. barnarts.org, 802-234-1645. 5 p.m. SUP (stand up paddle) Yoga hosted by Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. Pre-registration required at 802-770-4101. $30 with board rental, $15 without. Info, killingtonyoga.com.
Stormwater and Art Reception
5 p.m. Rutland Recreation and Parks Dept. holds reception celebrating art and stormwater. Rick Rothrock, artist of carved sundial “Oculus” that resides at Giorgetti Park, will discuss the work. Nancy McGuire from RNRCD will discuss new stormwater management system build at Giorgetti during the summer. Free, open to public. 2 Oak St. Ext., Rutland.
4 p.m. Divas of Dirt ladies group ride, 4-6 p.m. at Killington Bike Park. Led by pro racer Amy Alton. All ability levels welcome. Free bike safety checks, discounts, happy hour follows. Info, killington.com. Killington Road, Killington. 4:30 p.m. Stand Up Paddleboarding and “sipping,” A fun, social paddle Friday evenings. Free with your own equipment. Kayaks welcome! Meet at Woodward Reservoir boat launch at 4:30 p.m. Rentals and delivery available. RSVP to Karen at 802-770-4101.
Open Gym
6 p.m. Friday night open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 6-7:30 p.m. Ages 6+. First time is free! Practice current skills, create gymnastic routines, learn new tricks, social opportunity to be with friends! $10/ hour for members; $14/ hour for non-members. Info, 802-773-1404.
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J. Gore Summer Music
6 p.m. Jackson Gore Summer Music Series, Friday nights in Jackson Gore Courtyard at Okemo in Ludlow. Free. 6-9 p.m. Gates open at 5 p.m. for picnicking. Info, okemo.com. This week, the series ends with The Grift.
First Friday at Slate Valley
7 p.m. Slate Valley Museum opens new exhibit exploring Welsh experience in World War I, “No Peace in the Valleys: A Call for Service in the Quarries and Beyond, World War I 1914-1918.” 7-9 p.m. opening reception. 17 Water St., Granville, N.Y.
Dorset Theatre Festival
7:30 p.m. ArtisTree presents “Always ... Patsy Cline” at The Grange, 65 Stage Rd., South Pomfret. The musical play based on a true story about Patsy Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in l961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her tragic death at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. Tickets at artistreevt.org.
Punk Rock Show
7:30 p.m. Punk Rock Show at Rick & Kat’s Howlin’ Mouse. T-Bone Tour Kickoff featuring bands: Time Out Timmy, The Bonnetts, Doom Service, Steel Sorrow. All ages show, band donations encouraged. Doors 6:30 p.m. Music 7 p.m. 158 Main St. #2, Rutland.
SATURDAY SEPT. 2
7:30 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Saturdays: 7:30 a.m. 1 hr. Bikram hot; 9 a.m. 1.5 hr. Bikram hot. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Wednesday, September 27 • 7:30 PM
30 CENTER ST. | RUTLAND, VT | 802.775.0903
Farmers Market
9 a.m. The Rutland Downtown Farmers Market is back outside for the summer! Depot Park, in front of Walmart, downtown Rutland. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Info and vendors, vtfarmersmarket.org.
NEW WORLD FESTIVAL AT CHANDLER SUNDAY, SEPT. 3, 12-NOON
Gentle Prana Flow Yoga
9 a.m. Gentle Prana Flow Yoga with Tammy Brown. Focus on posture and breathing, allowing students to move into the poses comfortable for their own bodies, in order to feel the sensations of energy/prana flowing. Call to sign-up or drop-in. Yoga Studio at Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden. 802-483-2311.
Killington Section GMC
Bridge Club
12 p.m. Marble Valley Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Godnick Center Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games. Info, 802-228-6276. 1 Deer St., Rutland. Please join.
9:30 a.m. Killington Section Green Mountain Club outing: Shrewsbury area, destination uncertain, but it will be scenic! Approx. 4-6 mile hike TBA. Call 802-492-2244 for details. Or just show up: meet at Rutland’s Main St. Park, near fire station, to carpool at 9:30 a.m. or 10 a.m. at Shrewsbury Town Office.
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1 p.m. Bring yoga into the woods with Amanda Anderson on the Long Trail, a moving meditation up part of Pico Mountain. Go off-trail and end up at a stunning lookout point. Along the way, stop for short yoga breaks and then close the event with a sweet relaxation session. For all levels of yoga experience, even beginners. Register at: amanda@innerliftyoga. com or 802-234-2125.
Quilt Exhibition
Dorset Theatre Festival **
10 a.m. Saturday morning open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. All ages welcome. First time is free! Practice current skills, create gymnastic routines, learn new tricks, social opportunity to be with friends! $10/ hour for members; $14/ hour for non-members. Info, 802-773-1404. 10 a.m. 31st annual Quilt Exhibition at Billings Farm & Museum, daily, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. through Sept. 17. A juried exhibition of colorful quilts made exclusively in Windsor County will celebrate 31 years of quilting excellence at the Billings Farm. Quilting demonstrations, programs and activities for children and adults. Admission. 69 Old River Road, Woodstock. billingsfarm.org, 802-457-2355.
Labor & Leisure Day
8 a.m. Town of Tinmouth town wide tag sale day, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Rain or shine. Maps available at the Town Office, 9 Mountain View Road.
Mixed Level Yoga
Nulhegan Abenaki Heritage Gathering
8:30 a.m. Mixed level yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. (Sept. 2, welcome Christy Murphy just this week). 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Kite-Making/Flying
NeighborWorks of Western Vt. sponsors kite-making/flying, with a time TBD, at Giorgetti Park, 2 Oak St. Ext., Rutland. Info, 802-797-8607.
10 a.m. 6th annual Nulhegan Abenaki Heritage Gathering at Mount Norris Scout Reservation, 1 Boy Scout Camp Road, Eden Mills. Sept. 2-3, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day. Singing, drumming, dancing with traditional games for all ages. Vendors set up. Chief Don Stevens will give demos of various articles used in celebrations and rituals, explaining the meaning behind each; plus do storytelling. Questions encouraged! Rain or shine, no pets, no drugs/ alcohol.
Healthier Living Workshop
10 a.m. Rutland Regional offers Healthier Living Workshop: Diabetes Self-Management Program, Saturdays through Sept. 30, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at 433 West St., Rutland. Led by trained leaders designed to help with action planning, healthy eating, exercise, monitoring blood sugar, managing stress, handling sick days. Register at 802-7765507, cjburnell@rrmc.org. Free.
Mushroom Walk and Talk 10 a.m. Learn more about mushrooms with mycologist Sue Van Hook in “Bring Your Mushroom Foray” program at Mt. Independence State Historic Site, Orwell. Learn to sort and identify edible and medicinal fungi - bring your own, too. Take to trails to find fungi. Bring hand lens or magnifying glass if available. Dress for weather, wear walking shoes/boots. $5 admission; free under age 15. Mount Independence Rd., Orwell. historicsites. vermont.gov.
Bike Park Demo Day
11 a.m. Evolution Bike Park Demo Day at Okemo Resort at Evolution Bike Shop at Sugarhouse midmountain lodge. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Check out new summit trail with bike demos. Live music, bike clinics and demos for all ages and summer barbecue. okemo.com. 77 Okemo Ridge Rd., Ludlow.
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Long Trail Yoga Hike
Open Gym
10 a.m. A day of work and fun on the farm at Billings Farm & Museum, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wagon rides, building split rail fencing, ice cream making, historic baseball and laundry, plus operating dairy farm, farm life exhibits, and 31st annual Quilt Exhibition. Admission. 69 Old River Road (Vt. Rt. 12), Woodstock. Billingsfarm.org.
Town Wide Tag Sale
12 p.m. Stand Up Shakespeare Company performs “Shakespeare Alive! A Bard-based Variety Show” to include comedy, tragedy, and music. For all ages. Held at Union Christian Church, 43 Messer Hill Rd., Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, 3780 Route 100 A, Plymouth Notch. Free!
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7:30 p.m. Dorset Theatre Festival 40th anniversary summer season. Aug. 24-Sept. 2, “American Buffalo.” Explosive humor, frenetic energy, surprising tenderness. Strong language, violence, gun prop. 2 hrs., 10 minute intermission. Tickets at 802-867-2223 ext 2. or dorsettheatrefestival.org. 104 Cheney Rd, Dorset.
Bikram Yoga **
PAULA POUNDSTONE
2 p.m. Dorset Theatre Festival 40th anniversary summer season. Aug. 24-Sept. 2, “American Buffalo.” Explosive humor, frenetic energy, surprising tenderness. Strong language, violence, gun prop. 2 hrs., 10 minute intermission. Today 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. shows. Tickets at 802-867-2223 ext 2. or dorsettheatrefestival.org. 104 Cheney Rd, Dorset.
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival
2 p.m. Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival at President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, 2-5 p.m. Today, 2 p.m. Hungrytown; 3 p.m. Alastair Moock; 4 p.m. Dupont Brothers. At 8 p.m. jam session and open mic with Jay Ottaway at Five Corners Pub & Brewhouse in Plymouth. Face painting, kids’ crafts, and wagon rides. Free, open to the pubic. Donations suggested. Food drive for Vt Food Bank, bring non-perishable donations. Rain or shine; moves to Union Church in case of inclement weather. plymouthfolk.com. 3780 VT-100A, Plymouth.
Botanical Shakespeare
2:30 p.m. Join Gerit Quealy, author of “Botanical Shakespeare,” for a talk and quizzes (with prizes!) on the flowers, fruits, herbs, trees, seeds, and grasses cited in the works of William Shakespeare. Plus guest appearances by Shakespearean actors who will bring the Bard’s botanical dialogues to life. Free, open to all. Phoenix Books Rutland, 2 Center St., Rutland. 802-855-8078, phoenixbooks.biz.
Always ... Patsy Cline **
3 p.m. ArtisTree presents “Always ... Patsy Cline” at The Grange, 65 Stage Rd., South Pomfret. The musical play based on a true story about Patsy Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in l961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her tragic death at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. Today, 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. shows. Tickets at artistreevt.org.
Cooler in the Mountains
3:30 p.m. Cooler in the Mountain summer concert series at Killington Resort’s Snowshed Adventure Center. Concert begins 3:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public. This week, Live at the Fillmore, the ultimate Allman Brothers tribute band, ends the series. Details at killington.com.
LandARTLab opening
4 p.m. LandARTLab, exhibit of site-specific work by 18 artists, holds opening event 4-7 p.m. at King Farm, 128 King Farm Rd., Woodstock. An extension of SculptureFest. At 5 p.m., performance of “Passing,” new work with 7 dancers and 2 musicians. View sculptures, walk the land, and bring a picnic. Kids welcome. Dogs on leashes, too. Open to the public, no admission.
Roast Pork Supper
4:30 p.m. Ladies and Gentlemen’s Supper Club invites all to dinner at Pawlet Community Church. Roast Pork baked with famous topping, all the sides, desserts, and beverages. Adults $12. Age 6-12 $6. Age 5 and under free. Take outs on the day of at 802-325-3022. 38 Vt. Route 133, West Pawlet.
Open Swim
5 p.m. Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: Tues., Thurs., Saturday 5-7 p.m. Call for more times & info, 802-773-7187.
Devil’s Bowl Race
7 p.m. Devil’s Bowl Speedway Asphalt Track Racing: Fireworks, Match Race Mania Elimination Challenge, Bandit youth division. Grandstand admission applies, kids are free. 2743 Rt. 22A, West Haven. Track line: 802-265-3112. devilsbowlspeedwayvt.com.
10 • The Mountain Times • Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 2017 R.D. King
7:30 p.m. Lightning-quick guitarist from Boston, R.D. King will give a concert to remember at Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Road, Brandon. $20 tickets. brandon-music.net.
Pond Hill Rodeo
8 p.m. Pond Hill Ranch Pro Rodeo, the last of the season. A real rodeo complete with classic events like roping, barrel racing, and bronc riding. Excitement for the whole family, affordable admission. 1683 Pond Hill Ranch Road, Castleton. pondhillranch.com, 802-468-2449.
Walk-In Movie
8:30 p.m. NeighborWorks of Western Vt. sponsors walk-in movie at dusk, 113 Library Ave., Rutland. Info, 802-797-8607.
SUNDAY
SEPT. 3 Gentle Prana Flow Yoga
2 p.m. ArtisTree presents “Always ... Patsy Cline” at The Grange, 65 Stage Rd., South Pomfret. The musical play based on a true story about Patsy Cline’s friendship with a fan from Houston named Louise Seger, who befriended the star in a Texas honky-tonk in l961, and continued a correspondence with Cline until her tragic death at age 30 in a plane crash in 1963. Tickets at artistreevt.org.
Summer Reading Series
5 p.m. Joan Hutton Landis Summer Reading Series with Mark Bowen, recovering physicist, recovering rock climber and author of three books, from which he will read. Free, open to the public. Doors open 5 p.m. Readings begin 5:30 p.m. BigTown Gallery, 99 North Main St., Rochester.
Devil’s Bowl Dirt Racing
6 p.m. Devil’s Bowl Speedway Dirt Track Racing: Dirt Track Championship Finale, Sportsman Modified 100, Sprint Cars of New England, Catamount mini sprints, super stocks, mini stock special. Grandstand admission applies, kids are free. 2743 Rt. 22A, West Haven. Track line: 802-265-3112. devilsbowlspeedwayvt.com.
Rochester Summer Concerts
9 a.m. Gentle Prana Flow Yoga with Christy Murphy. Focus on posture and breathing, allowing students to move into the poses comfortable for their own bodies. Call to sign-up or drop-in. Yoga Studio at Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden. 802-483-2311.
6:30 p.m. Rochester summer concerts on the Park, Sunday evenings. Free! Bring a chair, picnic, and enjoy. Main St. (Route 100), Rochester.
MONDAY
Bikram Yoga **
9 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Sundays: 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. 1.5 hr. Bikram hot; 11 a.m. inferno hot pilates. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Liv Bikes Demo
Bikram Yoga **
SEPT. 4
10 a.m. Liv bikes demo at Snowshed at Killington Bike Park, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Test 2018 range of Liv women’s bikes. killington.com.
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Mondays: 6 a.m. 1 hour Bikram hot yoga; 4 p.m. power flow; 5:30 p.m. Bikram hot yoga. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-7476300.
Bingo
Level 1 & 2 Yoga
11 a.m. Maple Valley Grange holds bingo. Doors open 11 a.m., games start 1 p.m. Food available. Dugway Road, Wallingford. Info, 802-353-4651.
New World Festival
12 p.m. 25th annual New World Festival at Chandler Center for the Arts, on Main Street, and at Bethany Church, in Randolph. 12 noon to 12 midnight. Terrific line-up of Celtic and French Canadian music: Irish fiddler Liz Carroll, Ten Strings And A Goat Skin, De Temps Antan, Còig, Connla, Les Poules à Colin, and Pete’s Posse. Plus, dance tent, family tent with kids’ activities, area artisans, food tent, sessions tent, and more. Tickets $40 adults, $12 age 13-18, free age 12 and under. chandler-arts.org, newworldfestival.com. A Time Honored Top 10 Event!
Hike Into History
1 p.m. Hike into History at Mt. Independence State Historic Site. Led by Paul Andriscin and Elsa Gilbertson, focus on locations and sites on Mount, that tell story of 1777. Gather at the museum for walk. Wear walking shoes/boots. Info, 802-948-2000. $5 adults; free under 15. Mt. Independence Rd., Orwell.
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival
2 p.m. Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival at President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, 2-5 p.m. Today, 2 p.m. Eric French; 3 p.m. Danielle Miraglia; 4 p.m. Bow Thayer. Face painting, kids’ crafts. Free, open to the pubic. Donations suggested. Food drive for Vt Food Bank, bring non-perishable donations. Rain or shine; moves to Union Church in case of inclement weather. plymouthfolk.com. 3780 VT-100A, Plymouth.
PROSPER program:
TUESDAY
Always ... Patsy Cline
8:30 a.m. Level 1 & 2 Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Killington Bone Builders
10 a.m. Bone builders meets at Sherburne Memorial Library, 2998 River Rd., Killington, 10-11 a.m. Mondays and Thursdays. Free, weights supplied. For info, 802-422-3368.
Monday Meals
12 p.m. Every Monday meals at Chittenden Town Hall at 12 noon. Open to public, RSVP call by Friday prior, 483-6244. Gene Sargent. Bring your own place settings. Seniors $3.50 for 60+. Under 60, $5. No holidays. 337 Holden Rd., Chittenden.
Rutland Rotary
12:15 p.m. Rotary Club of Rutland meets Mondays for lunch at The Palms Restaurant. Learn more or become a member, journal@sover.net.
Smoking Cessation
4:30 p.m. Rutland’s stop smoking program, including patches, gum, and lozenges, at RRMC Foley Cancer Center Conference Rm. on Mondays 4:30-5:30 p.m. Register at 747-3768 or rrmc.org. Free!
Yin Yoga
SEPT. 5
8:30 a.m. Yin Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Bikram Yoga **
9 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Tuesdays: 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. Bikram yoga; 6:15 p.m. inferno hot pilates. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Art Workshop
10 a.m. Annie’s Art Workshop, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Tuesdays at Sherburne Memorial Library, Killington. Open art workshop - collaborative artist group welcomes all levels, interests, mediums. Free. In memory of Ann Wallen. Info, 2991777.
Bone Builders
10 a.m. Bone builders meets Thursdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. Info, 802-773-4854.
RAVNAH Clinic
10 a.m. RAVNAH blood pressure and foot care clinic: Forestdale Senior Center, Brandon. $10 foot care. For info, call 802-775-0568.
Preschool Story Time
10:30 a.m. Norman Williams Public Library holds 45-minute story time for kids ages 3-6 featuring three, thematically related books along with craft or activity reinforcing theme. 802-457-2295. 10 the Green, Woodstock.
Smoking Cessation
11 a.m. Rutland’s stop smoking program, including patches, gum, and lozenges, at Rutland Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland, Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Register at 747-3768 or rrmc.org. Free!
League Nights
5 p.m. Killington Golf Course holds themed League Nights Tuesdays. 9-hole scramble, teams or individuals. $20 members, $25 non members includes cart, dinner, prizes. Sign up at 802-422-6700 by 2 p.m. Tuesdays. Clubhouse dinner, awards, announcements follow. East Mountain Rd, Killington.
Level 1 Yoga
5:30 p.m. Level 1 Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
NAMI-VT Course
6 p.m. NAMI-VT hosts Kickoff Family-to-Family Class, course designed for parents, siblings, spouses, teenage and adult children and significant others of people with mental illness. 12-weeks of classes held in Rutland. Free. Location and register at 800-639-6480 ext 102 or program@namivt.org.
Legion Bingo
6:15 p.m. Brandon American Legion, Tuesdays. Warm ups 6:15 p.m., regular games 7 p.m. Open to the public. Bring a friend!
Chess Club
7 p.m. Rutland Rec Dept. holds a chess club at Godnick Adult Center, providing a mind-enhancing skill not only to the youth but adults as well. All ages welcome; open to the public. Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. 1 Deer St., Rutland.
Transitioning students to middle school
continued from page 1 is part of the Strengthening Families program. The goal was to sign up 12 to 15 fifth and sixth grade students and their parents or guardians by the end of August. RNeSU schools include Leicester Central School, Lothrop Elementary, Neshobe Elementary, Otter Valley Union School, Sudbury County School and Whiting Elementary, which feed into Otter Valley Union High School (OVUHS). Those in the program will visit OVUHS every Wednesday night starting on Sept. 20 for seven weeks. Each week will begin with a group dinner at 5 p.m. Then, students and parents will split up for individual sessions for an hour based on weekly themes like “Using Love and Limits,” “Encouraging Good Behavior,” and “Building Bridges.” Then the students and parents will reconnect for a onehour family session to talk about what they learned and put it into practice. The program is free to participants. The Wednesday night sessions will feature a free dinner, childcare for younger siblings if needed, and transportation if necessary.
Kimberly Griffin is the PROSPER team leader with the UVM Extension and is based in Rutland. She has spent the summer gathering stakeholders within RNeSU and forming the community council that will help shepherd the program over the next three years. The council includes Otter Valley Substance Abuse Counselor Katie Wallett, RNeSU Home/School Coordinator Haley Cotrupi, OV Middle School Principal Geoff Lawrence, School Resource Officer Ann Bandy, RNeSU Director of Curriculum Andy Kepes, and OV Middle School Guidance Counselor Claudia Larrow. Griffin was staffing an information table at the Great American Eclipse Party at Estabrook Field in Brandon on Monday, Aug. 21, handing out literature and talking to parents and kids. “I’m excited to launch this program in RNeSU,” she said. “My biggest message is that every single family can utilize these tools. By coming to a program that is focused on strengthening families, it doesn’t mean you have a weak family.” Griffin said that the
world children are growing Katie Wallett is equally great model.” program. up in is constantly changexcited about the launch of Only two other schools “To me, it’s just providing with many challenges, the PROSPER program. She in the state, Camel’s Hump ing a nice opportunity to such as substance abuse, said what makes it different Middle School in Richget together with your kid poverty, violence and bully- is the cooperative parent/ mond and the Lyndon and engage with them,” ing. Parents need help, she student component and Town School, are impleshe said. “A lot of times in said. the community council. menting the PROSPER life these days, there’s no “We’re helping parents Wallett said the key to program this year. Griffin time to just be together. To parent,” she said. “EspePROSPER is communicasaid ultimately, her goal a have designated time to cially in a world where we tion. “It’s unique to adults is to get the program into focus on each other is really are constantly coming up and humans in general,” every school in the state of cool and only good can against new challenges she said. “Communication. Vermont. come from that.” with our kids, it’s important Quality communication. For Wallett, the model For more information, or to have a solid foundation.” How can you communicate of students and parents to sign up for the PROSPER Neshobe School Princiwith your child, and let’s working together is the key program, contact Kimberly pal Judi Pulsifer said in an practice that together. It’s a to success in the Prosper Griffin at 802-773-3349. interview last week that she was very impressed with Griffin when the two met to discuss the PROSPER program last month. “I can just see families gravitating toward her,” she said. “In my view, it helps families and children to communicate and solve problems together. I would have been interested in this as a parent.” Pulsifer said she has seen an increasing problem with her elementary schools students who are not talking about issues at home. “My big concern is that we have kids that aren’t telling things that are happening,” she said. “Home should be your safest place, By Lee J. Kahrs and that’s not the reality PROSPER Team Leader Kimberly Griffin, right, hands out information about the these days.” PROSPER program during the eclipse party in Brandon on Monday, Aug. 21.
The Mountain Times • Aug. 30-Sept. 5, 2017 • 11
WEDNESDAY AUG. 30
FRIDAY
SEPT. 1
KILLINGTON 3:30 p.m. Snowshed Area
Cooler in the Mountains: Live at the Fillmore
BRANDON
BOMOSEEN
7 p.m. Brandon Inn
6 p.m. Iron Lantern
POULTNEY
7 p.m. The Taproom
7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub
BRIDGEWATER
PLYMOUTH NOTCH
The Threatles
7 p.m. Taps Tavern
Jazz Night w/ Zak Hampton’s Moose Crossing
RUTLAND
Steve Kyhill Josh Jakab
4 p.m. Long Trail Brewery Supply & Demand
7 p.m. The Foundry Chazz & Wayne Canney
Shakespeare in the Alley
12 p.m. Union Christian Church
Shakespeare Alive! A Bard-Based Variety Show
9 p.m. Center Street Alley
KILLINGTON
9:30 p.m. The Venue
7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub
2 p.m. Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
8 p.m. The Foundry
3 p.m. Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
What Dude Open Mic Jenny Porter
THURSDAY
AUG. 31 BARNARD
5:30 p.m. Feast & Field Market Connla
BELMONT 6:30 p.m. Town Green Mt. Holly Folk Club
KILLINGTON 6 p.m. Liquid Art
Shakespeare in the Alley Jenny Porter
9 p.m. Moguls Sports Pub DJ Dave’s All Request Dance Party
LUDLOW 6 p.m. Jackson Gore Courtyard The Grift
RUTLAND 7:30 p.m. Rick & Kat’s Howlin’ Mouse
Punk Rock Show w/ Time Out Timmy, The Bonnetts, Doom Service and Steel Sorrow
Open Mic
9 p.m. Center Street Alley
MENDON
WOODSTOCK
6 p.m. Red Clover Inn Jazz Trio
PITTSFIELD 7 p.m. Clear River Tavern Open Mic Jam w/ Supply & Demand
DJ Mega
7 p.m. Bentley’s Restaurant James Mee
SATURDAY
7 p.m. Taps Tavern Deep in the Woods
SEPT. 2 BOMOSEEN
RUTLAND
6 p.m. Iron Lantern
9:30 p.m. The Hide-A-Way Tavern
Carlo Romeo
Open Mic w/ Tom Irish
6:30 p.m. The Palms at Prospect Bay
SOUTH POMFRET
BRANDON
POULTNEY
7 p.m. Artistree
Open Mic w/ Jim Yeager
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[MUSIC Scene]
Josh Jakab
7:30 p.m. Brandon Music R.D. King
4 p.m. Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival: Bow Thayer
12 p.m. Otto’s Cones Point General Store
Music at The Moose: Elvis LIVE w/ Drew Polsun
RUTLAND 9:30 p.m. The Venue Open Mic w/ Chris Pallutto
STOCKBRIDGE 11 a.m. Wild Fern
4 p.m. Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival with Dupont Brothers
POULTNEY 5:30 p.m. Otto’s Cones Point General Store
SEPT. 4
LUDLOW
Open Mic w/ Supply & Demand
9:30 p.m. The Venue Krishna Guthrie
Open Mic w/ Brian Warren
8 p.m. Bentley’s
9 p.m. Center Street Alley
Jazz Night
9 p.m. JAX Food & Games
Local’s Night w/ Duane Carleton
PLYMOUTH NOTCH 2 p.m. Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
SEPT. 5
POULTNEY
8 p.m. Taps Tavern Bluegrass Jam
RUTLAND 7 p.m. The Venue
Working Mans Karaoke w/ Bob Hudson
8 p.m. Center Street Alley Trivia
7 p.m. Taps Tavern Jazz Night
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival: Eric French
RUTLAND
3 p.m. Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site
DJ Craig’s International Party
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival: Danielle Miraglia
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Music at The Moose: One for the Road
SUNDAY
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Cigar Box Brunch w/ Rick Redington
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival: Hungrytown
Plymouth Folk & Blues Festival: Alastair Moock
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POULTNEY
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The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is cooperating in a three-year study of an isolated population of Eastern Ratsnakes, a species that is listed as “Threatened” under the State’s endangered species law. Researcher Cindy Sprague along with department staff are working with Veterinarian Scott Maclachlan to surgically implant radio transmitters in two ratsnakes. One ratsnake has already been captured and has had the tracking device implanted, with another capture targeted for the summer of 2018. The researchers hope that the snakes will lead the team back to their communal den site, helping to focus future land conservation efforts. The project is being overseen by wildlife biologist Doug Blodgett from the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department, as well as Jim Andrews, coordinator of the Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Atlas. “Ratsnakes, as their name implies, eat rats, mice, and other small mammals, and help to control rodent populations,” said Blodgett. Rodents cause millions of dollars damage to crops each year nationwide, and are the major carrier of over 60 diseases that are transmissible to humans including Lyme disease, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “Some people fear snakes, but given the threats that unchecked rodents can pose, people are actually much safer with healthy snake populations around.” According to Blodgett, this northern population of ratsnakes in Addison County is isolated from another Vermont population centered in Rutland County. He says that this study will provide important information for the conservation of this species. Hydrogeologist Cindy Sprague of Huntington is the principal investigator on this project, and is currently conducting the field tracking portion of the study. She has been studying herpetology for several years and is a long-time volunteer with the Vermont Reptile & Amphibian Atlas. Sprague believes that ratsnakes, like all snake species, are too often misunderstood or vilified. “Ratsnakes are my favorite snake because of their large size and docile nature,” said Sprague. “They’re not venomous, eat plenty of rodents and are harmless to humans.”
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• SUDOKU
• MOVIE TIMES
• CROSSWORD
• MOVIE DIARY
just for fun the MOVIE diary
SUDOKU
Digging in
By Dom Cioffi
Each block is divided by its own matrix of nine cells. The rule for solving Sudoku puzzles are very simple. Each row, column and block, must contain one of the numbers from “1” to “9”. No number may appear more than once in any row, column, or block. When you’ve filled the entire grid the puzzle is solved.
Solutions on page 47
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CLUES ACROSS
CLUES DOWN
1. One-time Moroccan kingdom 4. One who entertains 8. Not in favor of 10. Couture 11. Nonflowering plant 12. Of Christian fasting season 13. Of birds 15. Dealt with 16. Duplicate 17. More liquid 18. Inconsequential 21. Doctor of Education 22. Electroencephalograph 23. Partner to the carrot 24. Not young 25. Discontinued Apple advertising platform 26. Car mechanics group 27. Treats allergies 34. Rather 35. African nation (alt. sp.) 36. Suffering 37. A way to raise 38. Hairstyle 39. Vehicle part 40. Subject matters 41. One who can see the future 42. German courtesy title 43. Female sibling
1. Jungle vacation 2. Off-kilter 3. Takes off 4. Passing 5. Where to plug in devices 6. Drive 7. Take care of 9. City in Finland 10. Dyed 12. Small invertebrate 14. Holiday beverage egg __ 15. Hawaiian club 17. Rural Free Delivery (abbr.) 19. Most impoverished 20. British romance novelist Pollock 23. Burgers 24. Organization of American States 25. Lacking contact with other people 26. Sex Pistols bassist Vicious 27. One who uses a rod and line to fish 28. Expression of surprise 29. Get older 30. Rooney and Kate are two 31. Wild goats 32. Cores 33. Walks into 34. A way to accustom 36. Wet nurse
Solutions on page 47
I want to believe this chapter of my life is over. On Friday of last week, I traveled to Jacksonville, Fla., for another check-up concerning my cancer battle. It was exactly a year ago when I went down for my first appointment after having agreed that the doctors at the Mayo Clinic would be the team I entrusted with my care. On that first visit (in preparation for the chemotherapy and radiation treatments that would come in the following months), my surgeon performed three procedures. The first was the movement of one of the major salivary glands in my neck. Because my cancer was located on the base of my tongue (deep in my throat), I would need radiation all across my neck. While this is effective in ridding the area of a cancerous tumors, unfortunately, it also destroys all the salivary glands in your neck, rendering you with permanent dry mouth. A new procedure that the doctors at the Mayo Clinic pioneered, involved moving a major gland away from my neck and relocating it under my chin, just out of the way of the harmful effects of radiation. This procedure was a complete success. The scar is barely visible, the feeling in my neck is nearly back, and my mouth is plenty moist, allowing me to eat nearly like I used to. The second procedure involved the placement of a feeding tube. This was initially the least attractive part of my overall treatment plan. I hated the idea of getting my sustenance through a tube in my stomach and lobbied to opt out. However, the doctors insisted and, in fact, said they would not provide my treatment without one. In the end, they were right. I lost 35 pounds, which was a lot considering that I’ve always had a thin stature (people who do not integrate the feeding tube can lose over 60 pounds). The feeding tube was a necessary evil that aided in keeping me full of nutrients during a time when my body needed maximum support. And to be honest, the idea of it was much worse than the reality. Having the feeding tube removed several months ago seemed like such a victory. First of all, it marked a milestone in that I could finally eat and drink on my own. And secondly, having it removed made me feel less like a patient and more like a normal person again. The third procedure performed during that first appointment last year was the implanting of a port in my chest. Anytime a person is heading into a period where they will be getting continuous blood drawn (like cancer treatments), some doctors prefer
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a port, which saves the patient’s forearm from constant poking and allows much easier access for the nurses who draw blood. Once implanted just under the skin, my port looked like a half dollar-sized cyst on my chest, but was barely noticeable unless you looked for it. However, I always knew it was there, which made me continuously conscious not do anything that might bring trauma to the area. The one time I did accidentally bump into an open door hurt like hell and left me feeling like I may have to return to the hospital to make sure I didn’t break something. That port has been inside me for a year, but last Friday, after another clean bill of health, my doctors agreed it was time to remove it. I thought the removal would be simple — a quick slice and gentle extraction — but that wasn’t the case. As it turns out, my body did a wonderful job absorbing the port into the area where it was housed. The surgeon who removed the device remarked that everyone’s body reacts differently, but mine seemed to go the extra mile to make the port feel at home. I wasn’t sure how to take that statement, but I know it required a lot more energy on his part to dislodge it. I went home after this last appointment feeling a bit beat up, but thrilled that after a year of battling cancer, I am one of the lucky ones who can move on with life. I’ve been changed by this experience both mentally and physically, but I am alive and deeply thankful for it. This week’s film, “Annabelle: Creation,” features a young girl who also wants to stay alive (even though she is dead) and is willing to go to any lengths to make sure it happens. This film is the prequel to 2014’s “Annabelle” and the fourth offering in “The Conjuring” series. This particular horror franchise works hard to deliver jarring moments that will make even the most mundane moviegoer jump in terror. “Annabelle: Creation” is more of the same, but unlike many horror offerings, this one includes a viable storyline that makes the entire effort that much more compelling. It doesn’t sit on the top shelf of its genre, but it is entertaining enough to keep you interested. A dislodging “C+” for “Annabelle: Creation.” Got a question or comment for Dom? You can email him at moviediary@att.net.
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Marketing initiative to focus on regional growth in Rutland County By Karen D. Lorentz
Rutland County faces a serious population decline that has already begun. The county lost over 1,000 residents between 2010 and 2013 when the estimated population was 60,622. The projection from a 2013 study is that by 2020 it will be 60,791 if the economy is growing. If the economy stalls, however, projections are the population will fall to 58,494, a 5.1 percent decline from 2010, noted Lyle Jepson, executive director of the Rutland Economic Development Corporation (REDC). While the 50-65 age group is growing throughout the county, the 0-29 age cohort is declining rapidly, he said. The decline is not
steering committee oversees three subcommittees: workforce, quality of life, and the Killington Valley. “It is a real collaboration with lots of partners contributing to the success of this campaign,” commented Mary Cohen, the Chamber’s executive director. She noted the region-wide promotional initiative had its roots in the various towns and people who wanted to promote the mountain and cross-county biking available in the region from the Slate Valley Trails, Gateways to Brandon, Castleton Rail Trails, Pine Hill Park in Rutland, Green Mountain Trails in Pittsfield and the Killington Resort,
market with far reaching impacts for property values and the tax base. While housing sales have picked up this year, there is a healthy supply of homes in the region and very reasonable prices. In comparison to Burlington and out-of-state cities, people can pay half the prices and taxes for comparable homes, they noted. The quality of life committee is comprised of representatives from towns, schools, newspapers, police, and others who share information about assets— services, attractions, opportunities—so that they can be touted in the marketing campaign being developed, Cohen said. Getting the word out that “we live in one of the most extraordiJEPSON NOTED THERE ARE CURRENTLY 80 TO nary places in the world with clean air, no traffic, outdoor adventures, 100 JOBS OPEN IN RUTLAND COUNTY THAT and extraordinary views” can help PAY $43,000 OR MORE. increase the population, Cohen stated. The Killington Valley initiative so much one of losing households which has invested millions to beconstitutes the third leg of the as it is fewer children, i.e., families come a mountain bike destination. Regional Initiative. The committee’s are smaller now. So there is a need The group sees the potential to focus is on tourism and outdoor to attract younger people and become the Biking Capital of the adventures. Promoting the many more families to the region, both to East, which it expects will be a malakes, bike trails, swimming holes, increase the workforce and to prejor regional draw. boating, skiing and other recreserve the schools and other instituBoth Cohen and Jepson noted ational opportunities will help tions and businesses that produce a that the initiative is a long-term attract people to live and work here vibrant economy. effort with expectations of seeing as well as visit, Cohen said. Visitors The impacts of a decline in results of a larger population and may eventually move here or their young families can be seen in rural more vibrant economy over the children may decide to live here Shrewsbury. The modern Shrewsnext five to 10 years. because they enjoyed vacations so bury Mountain School, which offers Jepson explained that the worktourism can help to increase the great facilities and a solid elemenforce committee broke into two population, too, she noted. tary education, saw an addition subcommittees with one focused The Killington Valley branding of built to accommodate 120 pupils in on high school students, addressing the region was chosen to capitalize 1988 when the population of school education and skill development so on the largest draw to the region, children was growing. Today the students will be ready to work and Killington Mountain. As the state’s student population numbers in the able to match employer needs. The second highest peak, it offers the 70s or low 80s, resulting in a higher other subcommittee focuses on highest lift-served skiing in Verper pupil cost. Many schools face college and university students and mont and the resort leads the East similar trends. connecting them with business and in both size and skier visits. In addition to schools, declining industry through internships and “The choice of the Killington populations can impact property work experiences. Valley was excellent branding for values, a town’s tax base, the ability The goal is to encourage some the whole region because Killingof local retailers and restaurants 3,000 students at the four colleges in ton has worldwide name recognito stay in business, employment Rutland County to stay in Vermont. tion. When I tell people I’m from opportunities, employers and emJepson noted there are currently Vermont and they ask where and I ployees as well as the state’s tax base 80 to 100 jobs open in Rutland say Killington, they automatically and ability to fund services and County that know where and IN COMPARISON projects, Jepson noted. pay $43,000 or they know what A number of towns have already more on REDC’s Killington means TO BURLINGTON begun to see decreases, including website (rutlaneven if they are AND OUT-OF-STATE Rutland City. This is not a new phedeconomy.com). not skiers,” noted nomenon for the region or state. He added that Tao Smith, head CITIES, PEOPLE Population declines were experiGeneral Electric of Killington CAN PAY HALF THE enced in the last two centuries and has hiring plans Mountain School, are occurring now with the excepfor 50 people an independent PRICES AND TAXES tion of Chittenden County, which is now and several ski academy. FOR COMPARABLE growing. hundred in the Noting the Recently, the Regional Marketing next 5 to 6 years appeal of the HOMES. Initiative has taken on this chalas baby boomers region, Smith lenge and hopes to reverse trends retire. Pay there ranges from $19.05 said parents of KMS students from along with their wide-ranging to $23.77 an hour, he said. Westmin- Chile are thinking of relocating to effects. ster Crackers is looking to hire 20 to the area and some already have The Rutland Economic Develop- 25 people at the Howe Center locasecond homes or have moved here. ment Corporation and the Rutland tion, he added, noting, “Businesses He noted the resort’s ability to bring Regional Chamber of Commerce are willing to train people.” 30,000 people to the region for two (RRCC) have joined forces with Cohen observed that on any days for the Women’s World Cup other partners including Castleton given day Rutland Regional Medical and added that millions watched University, the City of Rutland, Center will have 100 jobs listed on the events on television all over the many towns, and the business its website. “They’re not all medical world, observing that leveraging the community to develop a Regional positions,” she said, mentioning IT, Killington brand makes good sense. Marketing Initiative to benefit the human resources, marketing, and Collaboration efforts entire area. other departments. “Businesses of “REDC and the Chamber are A steering committee was all sizes need workers throughout working very closely now and we formed and is composed of memthe region,” she added. combined our marketing efforts” bers from REDC and RRCC boards Both Cohen and Jepson noted — the Chamber leads efforts on along with municipal, business, that staffing all available positions marketing and REDC on policy, but and Rutland Young Professionals would be a boon to the local busiboth groups serve on both commitrepresentatives. The 15-member ness economy and to the real estate tees,” Cohen said. Regional marketing initiative, page 29
Historical perspective on promoting Vermont By Karen D. Lorentz
The years 1879, 1891, 1916, 1931, the 1960s, 1970 and 2017 have much in common. Do you know why? Here’s a clue: “Midway of the southern range of the Green Mountains... and close to the banks of the historic Otter where that stream winds its way through southwestern Vermont, is Rutland—by birthright and achievement the foremost city of northern New England. Nature has done much for Rutland. For no other city has she done more. Verdant, forest-clad slopes whose timberlands stretch away in almost endless expanse; rolling hills whose orchard foliage...” and the praise continued with mention of broad valleys, waterpower, mineral deposits, drinking water, and “a climate more healthful than that found elsewhere in almost the entire country; these are a few of the attributes with which Nature has endowed Rutland and its immediate vicinity.” Thus began a booklet that espoused Rutland as a city of “Resource and Opportunity,” published circa 1916 by the Rutland Business Men’s Association to promote the “Gateway to the Green Mountains.” The introduction concluded with: “If you are looking for a place to locate for business, health or pleasure—visit us in ‘the Switzerland of America.’” It wasn’t the first time Rutlanders sought to promote the region—nor the first comparison to the Swiss Alps. There was considerable publicity out of Rutland in the 1880s after local citizens raised funds in 1879 to build a road to Killington Peak through the Mendon backcountry so as to capitalize on the new Summit House and the tourism that would spill over to local hotels. From 1850 to 1880 Rutland tripled in population and aside from its good fortune of being a manufacturing and railroad center, it was the recipient of a favorable tourist trade enhanced by surrounding lakes and peaks. Rutland was one of the exceptional “urban” areas. By contrast, most Vermont towns did not prosper, or if they did, it was short lived. By the turn of the century, “The Green Mountains of Vermont had become a biological wasteland, offering little for people to live upon—a dramatic change from the bounty of a century earlier,” concluded Charles W. Johnson in The Nature of Vermont. Disease, storms, and the general ruggedness of climate with short growing seasons made survival difficult. Many simply gave up; by 1860 some 175,000 native Vermonters had fled the state. The economic downturn intensified the exodus; by 1880 Vermont had lost 54 percent of her native-born population to emigration! From 1850 to 1900, two out of every five Vermonters gave up the struggle and headed for greener pastures. Over 200 out of Vermont’s 256 towns lost population from 1850 to 1950. It was within this context that in 1891 the state became the first in the nation to set up a publicity service, which became the Bureau of Publicity in 1911. Its first publication was entitled “Vermont, Designed by the Creator for the Playground of the Continent.” In 1931 the Vermont Commission on Country Life, a group of 200 Vermonters, produced Rural Vermont, A Program for the Future. It pushed for tourism noting, “Vermont’s development as a recreational region affords the most promising opportunity for business growth in the state at the present time, and so far as can be foreseen, for a considerable period in the future.” Vermont A Guide to the Green Mountain State (Federal Writers Project, 1937) extolled Rutland’s assets—mountain peaks of Killington, Pico, and Shrewsbury, marble industry, etc.—along with those of 13 other towns. Let Me Show You Vermont (Alfred Knopf, 1937) by Vermonter Charles Edward Crane provided a more personal and readable story promoting Vermont, its attractions and quality of life. The publications put out by the Vermont Development Department in the 1960s—especially the 1970 booklet “Vermont the Beckoning Country”—epitomized efforts to attract visitors and residents, extolling year-round opportunities and the winter season which was then fulfilling the “recreational promise” with scores visiting and/or moving to Vermont in the 60s and 70s. As with the earlier promotions, the goal was to grow the state’s economy and population. Attracting vacationers and homeowners was a way to do both. In 2017, the Rutland Regional Initiative is underway, causing one to wonder if history will repeat and with the promotion of outdoor recreation playing a similar role in reversing declining populations and the need for a bigger workforce. Population in Vermont through history 1776: 20,000 1990: 564,798 1800: 154,465 2000: 608,270 1880: 332,286 2010: 625,960 1950: 377,747 2016: 624,594
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news briefs Ludlow Rotary passes the gavel
Regional substance abuse prevention group forms in Rutland
LUDLOW—Following its 90 year tradition, the Ludlow Rotary Club celebrated its annual “Changing of the Gavel” at a meeting earlier this summer. The Changing of the Gavel is the time when the incoming president of the Ludlow Rotary Club is handed responsibility for running the club for the coming year. This year, it was Suzanne Garvey’s turn to receive the gavel, symbolizing club management, from outgoing president Tesha Buss.
RUTLAND—The Regional Prevention Partnerships grant initiative has announced its new name, Partners for Prevention. Since January 2017, the prevention partnership has laid groundwork for coordinated substance abuse prevention in the Rutland region and surrounding communities by facilitating regular community meetings. This group of stakeholders includes representatives from law enforcement, education, mental health and substance abuse agencies, corrections, and interested community members. Partners for Prevention will lead the development of a comprehensive approach to prevent substance abuse in the Rutland County community. Some of the group’s area’s of focus include: • Community education and programming • Strengthening connection and collaboration among secondary and higher education institutions • Supporting law enforcement prevention strategies, such as party patrols, prescription drug take back events, responsible beverage service trainings and retailer recognition • Supporting youth leadership • Information dissemination and expansion of locations for the safe collection and disposal of prescription medication • Coordinating communication planning and message sharing • Educating for policy reform
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Outgoing Rotary president Tesha Buss (right) passes the gavel to Suzanne Garvey.
Broadway actor addresses Ludlow Rotary LUDLOW—At a recent Tuesday meeting veteran Broadway and Weston Playhouse actor David Bonanno spoke to the Ludlow Rotary Club. Bonanno described how his interest in the theatre developed, his work in regional theaters and on Broadway, and how he “made a living” while awaiting new roles.
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Left to right: Rotary Club President Suzanne Garvey, actor David Bonanno, and Rotarian Jack Menzie pose for a picture at a recent luncheon at DJ’s Restaurant.
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Rutland women’s shelter serves record numbers in fiscal year 2017 RUTLAND—Rutland County Women’s Network & Shelter has released a summary of fiscal year 2017. The shelter is a nonprofit organization serving women, men, and children in the second-most populous county in Vermont who are victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. From July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2017, RCWNS provided direct services to 924 indi-
viduals. Direct services include emergency shelter, medical advocacy, legal advocacy, case management, clinical services, support during sexual assault nurse exams, and other assistance. Fiscal year highlights include providing emergency shelter services to 433 women, men, and children, resulting in 13,141 bed-nights, the most in the organization’s 38-year
history. In fiscal year 2016, by contrast, RCWNS provided emergency shelter services to 58 women, men, and children for 4,205 bed-nights. Additionally, in 2017, trained staff and volunteers responded to 645 calls on the 24/7 crisis hotline. Advocates also supported 221 individuals as they sought relief from abuse orders through the family court system.
RCWNS has seen an increasing number of male victims in recent years and provides comprehensive services to all, regardless of gender expression or sexual orientation, while working to end domestic abuse and sexual violence. The organization relies on grants, private donations, town support, and fundraising events to cover operating expenses.
Let’s Go Fishing program seeks instructors
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Work on auditorium dressing room continues LUDLOW—In keeping with its plans to create a modern dressing room for performers in the Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium, members of Friends of Ludlow Auditorium (FOLA) are continuing their efforts to construct the back stage room of the town auditorium. In addition to new
wallboard for the ceiling and walls, plans call for the installation of a nine-foot countertop, two vanity mirrors with lights, a full length mirror, closet space, carpeted floor, track lighting, and a speaker system. All of this is part of FOLA’s current capital improvement projects. Other projects included
in this program are expansion of streaming sources to provide new programming capabilities, integration of the two existing audio systems to improve sound quality and additional digital equipment to support streaming. The dressing room is scheduled for completion in mid-September.
Woodland owner workshop nears CASTLETON—Register now for Vermont Coverts Cooperator Training program Sept. 8-10 at Kehoe Conservation Camp in Castleton. This weekend retreat provides an opportunity for woodland owners and those who influence land use decisions to learn about the resources available to help them define and reach their management goals. Vermont Coverts started as part of the University of Vermont Extension in 1985 and became an independent nonprofit in 1994. The name comes from an old English word for cover or thicket used by wildlife for protection. Its full name, Vermont Coverts: Woodlands for Wildlife highlights its mission to maintain and enhance diverse wildlife habitat and healthy ecosystems. More than 675 people, known as Cooperators, have completed the program. Cooperator Steve Crihfield noted: “Vermont Coverts is a great organization and way to connect with other individuals who share a passion and desire to learn more about woodlands and wildlife.” The intensive three-day session features presentations by state and local experts in wildlife and forest management and Coverts alumni from past sessions. In lectures, demonstrations and field tours, participants learn about topics such as wildlife and forest ecology, habitat management, invasive control, and land conservation. Once trained, Coverts Cooperators become part of a statewide network connected through newsletters, field trips, reunions and workshops. Through their outreach efforts they are part of a team working to spread the land stewardship ethic. Some might join a conservation commission, others make changes to their woodland management or plan a workshop on their land. Coverts provides information and resources to these new Cooperators as they learn and pass information on to their community. All materials, lodging, food and other expenses related to the training are covered through donations by past participants. There is a $100 registration fee, refundable upon completion of the training. More information is available at vtcoverts.org or by contacting at info@vtcoverts.org, 802-877-2777.
CASTLETON—The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is seeking volunteers who would like to become Let’s Go Fishing instructors so they can pass on Vermont’s fishing tradition to the next generation of Vermonters. The department will be hosting a one-day training workshop for new instructors on Saturday, Sept. 23 at the Precision Valley Rod and Gun Club in Perkinsville. Instructors in the program organize and instruct clinics in their communities for young people and their families. Participants in the training workshop will learn how to teach a basic fishing clinic, in addition to learning about fishing ethics, aquatic ecology, fisheries management, habitat conservation and tackle craft. They will also be introduced to conducting specialized fishing clinics, including clinics on ice fishing and speciesspecific fishing. The class is informal, and it is not necessary to have a high level of fishing expertise to become an instructor. “Becoming an instructor will give you the opportunity to introduce Vermonters both young and old to the joys of fishing, while teaching them all they need to know to enjoy a day on the water,” said Corey Hart, education specialist with Vermont Fish & Wildlife. There is no charge for the training, and all curriculum materials, as well as lunch, will be provided. The workshop runs from 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Pre-registration is required, and participants must be 18 years of age to participate. Those interested can register through Sept. 16 by calling 802-265-2279 or emailing letsgofishing@ vermont.gov.
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HOW WILL THIS BOND COST IMPACT THE TOWN BUDGET? There will be no net effect going forward on budget or taxes Annual bond of approximately $35,000 paid as follows: • FY2019 budget allocation from FY2018 (current) budget: $45,000 • FY2020 budget allocation from KFR’s existing Capital Fund: $25,000 • FY2021 and beyond budget allocations offset by library bond payoff of $46,000
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Slate Valley Modified district sets meeting schedule The Slate Valley Modified Unified Union has set up its meeting schedule for the upcoming academic year, rotating between the member schools in a “carousel” rotation beginning Sept. 12 at Fair Haven Grade School, followed by Oct. 10 at Castleton Elementary, and Nov. 14 at Benson Village School. Each meeting will begin at 6:30 and end at 7:15, followed by meetings of each local board. The Slate Valley Board will meet twice a month.
Schools gear up with new teachers, activities New staff at Benson Village School cators to Castleton/Hubbardton and are Hayley Grossman, school-based Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union; clinician/guidance counselor; Heath- and Karen Weatherwax, district school er Mandigo, speech and language psychologist. pathologist (also working with Orwell At Castleton Village School, Eric School); Sara Mason, pre-K teacher/ Langley is the world language teacher early childhood special educator; and and Amy Jackson is the school-based Lisa Whitman, art teacher. clinician. The back-to-school open house The school has been looking for a is scheduled for family consumer THE BACK-TOWednesday, Sept. 6. science teacher and Benson Village a special educator. SCHOOL OPEN HOUSE School already Castleton Village IS SCHEDULED FOR has raised nearly School students enough money return to newly WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6. to send its eighth tiled floors. Joseph graders to Washington, D.C., in the Nakamura of Troop 116 built four spring, minus bus cost, thanks to the benches for the Castleton Elementary proactive fundraising of Principal playground, completing his Eagle Prehoda. Scout project. The school plans to continue to In Fair Haven, the high school will hold fundraisers throughout the year. have only a senior varsity girls’ soccer At Castleton Elementary, new staff team. Too few signed up for the girls’ are Angela Allard, school nurse; Kevin soccer program this year. Griffin, third grade; Chelsea Burke Fair Haven Grade School will be a and Bethany Wurzburg, first grade; host site for the Boys and Girls Club Sarah Schindler, fifth grade; Amy this year, with activities from 3:15-6:30 Jackson and Laura Brayton-Illinski, p.m. each afternoon. Activities inschool-based clinicians; Macy Duclude an after-school snack, academic frain and Margie Snyder, special edutime, recreation, and a dinner meal.
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boosting restaurant seating from 125 to 140. Also in the plan are removing kitchens from the efficiency units and lowering occupancy from 60 to 48; reducing Edgewater Inn occupancy from 24 to three; and converting Hewitt Cottage from its current two bedrooms to a resort office for six employees. Other changes affect the parking area, driveways, and signage. The District #1 Environmental Commission plans a site visit to 2540 Route 30 at 9 a.m. Sept. 6, followed by a public hearing in the Castleton Town Offices, 263 Route 30 North.
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CASTLETON—During Castleton University’s Homecoming Weekend is the Sept. 16 induction of two student-athletes and two coaches into the school’s Athletics Hall of Fame. Inductees are players Erin Zapata (soccer, ‘06) and Chad Phillips (baseball, ‘05), and former head coaches Stan Van Gundy (men’s basketball) and John Werner (men’s soccer and softball). The ceremony, at 10 a.m., includes a brunch. RSVP by Sept. 8. Zapata played defendence for the Spartans for four seasons; she was captain for three years and twice team MVP. She is now a licensed social work professional, specializing in medical home care. She
also coaches youth club soccer and plays in adult leagues while a married mother of two. Phillips holds the Spartan career records for home runs (21) and extrabase hits (65), playing 143 career games to a .357 batting average. He worked in medical and health fitness for nine years and is now a maple syrup producer and runs a summertime property maintenance business. In his first year as Castleton’s head coach, Van Gundy led the Spartans to their best season in 198384. The team won the Mayflower Conference and the Hamilton College Continental Classic titles; he was awarded Mayflower Conference Coach of the Year, NAIA District 5
Coach of the Year, and the Vermont College Coach of the Year. Van Gundy became an NBA coach in 1995 with Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, and the Detroit Pistons. Warner served Castleton as men’s soccer head coach, 2004 through 2012. He earned the NAC regular season title and NAC Coach of the Year his first season at Castleton and in 2007 and 2010. After professional retirement, Warner founded the southern Vermont branch of TOPSoccer, a program for children with disabilities. Diagnosed with cancer, he created LINAO (Losing Is Not An Option) bumper stickers to raise money to benefit the Southwest Vermont Regional Cancer Center.
Bernie’s book tour aims at the Heartland, U.K., Millenials
continued from page 5 The senator made national news simply by announcing this week’s event at Iowa’s Prairie Lights bookstore, which, located in the home state of the nation’s first presidential caucus, has welcomed former commander-in-chief Barack Obama and candidates Howard Dean, John Edwards and John Kerry. Prairie Lights co-owner Jan Weissmiller has booked the University of Iowa’s 1,800-seat Hancher Auditorium for the event. “Bernie’s a huge draw for a college town with a large population of 18- to 25-year-olds,” Weissmiller said. “I haven’t seen the book yet. Nobody is supposed to have it until the Aug. 29 release date.” “We should have some access to these events” Teen Vogue also recently trumpeted its “exclusive” sneak peek of a title “for teenagers hoping to learn more about progressive causes and how to mobilize
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Spartan Dome receives permit approval RUTLAND TOWN—Although Castleton University received permit approval to erect the Spartan Dome Aug. 18, construction must wait for 30 days to allow filing of an appeal, spokesman Jeffrey Weld told the Rutland Herald. The District 1 Environmental Commission granted the permit six weeks after the school submitted its application, but the project has been a long time coming. Middlebury donated “The Bubble” to Castleton in 2013; it has been in storage pending state wetland and stormwater permits before the Act 250 application. Castleton estimates that building the foundation and air support system and installing the structure will cost about $1 million. The year-round athletic facility will cover an indoor track and a turf field. It will share locker rooms, a workout facility, and concession stands with the Castleton Arena hockey facility. The school hopes to have the dome ready for use by winter.
CSJ adds new sports The athletic roster at the College of St. Joseph has added three sports this fall to its intercollegiate programs in the Northeastern Intercollegiate Athletics Conference under the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics— crosscountry, cheerleading and dance, and bowling. Two coaches are drawn from the Rutland business community. Jonathan Lamiotte, currently head coach for the school’s women’s
basketball program, will head up the cross country program. Cara Gauvin, owner of the Peak Performance All Star Cheer and Dance organization, is the college’s new head coach for cheerleading and dance. Touring Professional Bowlers Association bowler and instructor at Rutland Bowlerama, Jon Wilbur, is head coach for the new bowling program. He is also a staff player for Columbia 300’s regional and amateur team.
City reserve shrinks Rutland’s fiscal picture is less rosy than it had appeared when the tax rate was being set, City Treasurer Wendy Wilton told the Board of Aldermen Aug. 21. At the time, there appeared to be a $90,000 general fund surplus, but a $150,000 Dorr Drive paving bill more than wiped that extra away. Rather than a surplus, the city has a $153,252 general fund deficit, according to VTDigger. That change will not alter the set tax rate, Wilton projected, but it shrinks the amount of cash that the city expected to have on hand at the beginning of the fiscal year, from $1.8 million to $1.6 million.
New truck dealership seeks Act 250 approval RUTLAND TOWN—Kinney Motors Ltd. has applied for District 1 Environmental Commission approval to erect a 10,500-square-foot sales and service building that would house the expanding company’s Rutland Dodge Ram operation. The company’s purchase of Fair Haven Dodge was finalized in June, Kinney Motors president Stephan Maeder told the Rutland Herald. His company also sells and services VW/Audi and Subaru products at 176 Route 7 in Rutland Town. Maeder said he hopes the commission views his application as a minor amendment to the Act 250 permit it already holds. Its Act 250 application states that its goal is a total of 16 new jobs and approximately $23,000 in state sales tax revenue. Because it will add only some 2 percent to the traffic already on Route 7, no traffic study will be necessary. It will add an estimated 470 trips on Route 7 per day, 66 in the morning peak hour and 60 in the afternoon peak. The application describes the building as contemporary auto dealership vernacular, with aluminum siding and synthetic stucco veneer. The company expects to spend $100,000 on site preparation and $1 million on the building itself. The new structure would be next to the Kinney building. Kinney Motors hired the entire eight-person service department of Fair Haven Dodge when it purchased the dealership, moving them all to Rutland Town, where they have provided continuous service on Dodge products.
Personnel changes Rutland Police Department Capt. Scott Tucker served his last day on Aug. 18 and was scheduled to begin his new position Aug. 28 as town manager of Wilmington. Tucker had been a full-time officer in Rutland since 1979 and became Project Vision’s first executive director in 2014. Succeeding Tucker in the Rutland PD is Commander Matthew Prouty, Tucker told the Rutland Herald. Trent W. Shelton has joined the staff at Rutland Regional Medical Center, in the diagnostic imaging department. He recently completed a residency and fellowship in radiology at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H. Rutland City Recreation and Parks Superintendent Cindi Wight has announced she will leave her current position Sept. 23 to become director of Parks, Recreation, and Waterfront in Burlington. She has been head of the Rutland department four years and has more than 24 years’ experience in her field.
Lane reduction hits pothole on Route 4A RUTLAND TOWN—A proposal to cut the number of Route 4A traffic lanes from four to three and add bike lanes along the corridor to West Rutland failed to draw enthusiasm from the Rutland Town Select Board, Aug. 22. Voting against the proposal were Select Board Chair Joshua Terenzini, Chris Kiefer-Cioffi, and J. P. Faignant; voting for the idea were Mary Ashcroft and Frank Denardo, reported the Rutland Herald. Naysayers said eliminating one of the road’s current four lanes reduced safety and driving ease while slowing traffic. Rutland Town Fire Chief Don Cioffi objected to the lane loss, saying that the constriction hampered deployment of emergency equipment. Faignant and Kieffer-Cioffi cited concern for the safety of people living on the narrowed route as they would try to enter the traffic flow; Faignant also noted that he observed plenty of room when he rode a bicycle on Route 4A. Terenzini said he projected the same kind of opposition that arose when Rutland City traffic planners tried to reconfigure Woodstock Avenue to include bike lanes. Rutland Town Road Commissioner Byron Hathaway warned that delaying a decision on the project could result in the state deciding to spend funds elsewhere.
West Rutland rejects Route 4A proposal also WEST RUTLAND— The evening after the Select Board of Rutland Town turned down a proposal to narrow Route 4A and add bike lanes, West Rutland hosted a previously warned public discussion on a proposed Route 4A bike path. Most agree that a shared-use path or traffic lane for bicycles and pedestrians, connecting with the Rutland Creek Path, is a desirable objective. Finding the space to put it is a problem. Rutland Regional Planning Commission Executive
Director Ed Bove, who attended the meeting, supports the “road diet” approach turned down the evening before in Rutland Town, Bove told the Rutland Herald. He sees a slower road with allowances for bicyclists and walkers as an economic stimulus. Josh Terenzini, chair of the Rutland Town Select Board and a proponent of retaining the four-lane configuration for Route 4A, said the two towns need further discussion. He acknowledged that citizens in both towns have indicated they want a bike or multiuse path. Rutland region, page 21
You go to Subway to get a grinder and they wrap your sandwich and then place it inside of a single-use plastic bag. After you use the bag it goes right into the garbage and taken “away.” But where does it go? All the plastic that has ever been made and produced, is still here today. The question is, “Where is it?” Most of it ends up in the world’s largest landfill and ecosystem, called the Gyre. At 7.7 million square miles it’s a big systematic ocean current that forms a vortex between Russia, China and the United States. And that number
AT 7.7 MILLION SQUARE MILES IT’S ... A VORTEX BETWEEN RUSSIA, CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES. can only go up. Eighty percent of the garbage comes from land via currents that act as a super highway, 10 percent arrives from offshore oil rigs, commercial fishing boats and cargo ships and the remaining 10 percent is just free floating fishing nets. To date, there is at least 100 million tons of garbage in the Gyre. When plastic sits in the sun the process of photodegradation takes place. This happens when the sun weakens the bonds in the plastic polymers, turning the plastic into microscopic pieces that leak into the ocean. It takes seven days to travel to the Gyre and not many people have visited but yet there are tons and tons of garbage from us. We have already ruined what we have never even seen nor touched. The only way we can stop the Gyre from growing, is to reduce our waste and make sure our garbage makes it into the garbage bin. Say no to straws when getting a fountain drink, bring your own bags to the grocery store and try to buy items with the least amount of packaging. Be a smart consumer and realize that your actions don’t just stop at the trash can. If we keep wasting resources and unnecessary items, we will end up drowning in plastic and garbage. Julia Gosselin is an intern at Rutland County Solid Waste District.
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Quarry operators fined for dam removal The Agency of Natural Resources announced Monday that Ruby Construction, Inc., former owner of the hilltop property containing the Mammoth Quarry in the town of Wells, and the company’s lessee, Royal Harrison, were jointly held responsible for a massive discharge of water and
sediment into Lake St. Catherine that occurred in 2014. They have been fined a minimum of $9,000 and are required to appropriately remove the deposited sediment from the lake. In April 2014, neighboring homeowners on West Lake Road, a residential road along Lake St. Catherine and downhill from the Mammoth Quarry, were enjoy-
ing the weather when an enormous discharge event occurred. The homeowners described witnessing a wall of water that rumbled down the forested hill, quickly overwhelmed an intermittent streambed, blocked a culvert and overtopped West Lake Road. The Wells Fire Department and road crews responded to close the road and assist in diverting the water
away from the two homes, one of which had water flowing into the basement. The water moved swiftly for several hours, ripping up and dragging slate flagstones across one homeowner’s property and gouging out new pathways into the lake on the other. Debris and sediment flowed well into Lake St. Catherine. The event temporarily cut off road access to Dam removal, page 30
Rutland firefighter denies impersonating policeman Police arrest former resort By Alan J. Keays
RUTLAND — A Rutland firefighter is accused of falsely identifying himself as a police officer when he was pulled over for speeding. He got a warning for the speeding, but is now facing a criminal charge for allegedly impersonating an officer. Brent M. Garrow, 31, of Rutland Town, pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge Thursday, Aug. 24, in Rutland Superior Court. The charge carries a possible maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $500 fine. He was released on conditions, including that he turn in a police badge he had while working in the Pittsford Police Department as a part-time officer. He was later decertified in June 2016 for failing to keep up with training requirements, according to court records. Sabina Smiechowski, Garrow’s attorney, declined to comment after Thursday’s hearing. Garrow had returned to work at the city Fire Department in April after a nearly two-year medical leave that included a kidney transplant. The city’s attorney, Matthew Bloomer, and interim Fire Chief William Lovett on Thursday referred questions about the matter to Mayor David Allaire. Allaire said Thursday that there has been no change in Garrow’s status as a city employee. Garrow was pulled over driving a 2005 BMW 325 on Aug. 12 around 1:30 p.m. on Route 7 in Clarendon, Trooper Jonathan Hall of the Vermont State Police wrote in an affidavit filed Thursday. The trooper wrote that he was running radar in the U-turn portion of the highway while in an unmarked cruiser. The radar clocked Garrow at 73 mph in a 55-
mph zone, Hall wrote. Hall said he pulled Garrow over just south of a rest area on Route 7 and asked for his identification. “Garrow had his wallet open and the officer said he saw a silver badge with ‘Police Department’ on it,” the affidavit stated. “I asked Garrow who he worked for and he advised Pittsford,” Hall wrote. “While Garrow was grabbing his identification, I was able to see the rest of the badge, and identified it as a Pittsford Police Department badge.” The trooper wrote that Garrow also told him he worked for the Rutland City Fire Department. However, Hall wrote, he later learned Garrow wasn’t a member of the Pittsford Police Department at the time of the traffic stop. He had been decertified. Pittsford Police Chief Michael Warfle also submitted an affidavit in the case, saying that on Aug. 5, 2015, Garrow had been placed on paid administrative leave “for information of unlawful and improper conduct.” That matter, the chief added, was turned over to the Vermont State Police for an internal investigation. In March 2016, Warfle’s affidavit stated, “it was found through investigation” that Garrow was “untruthful” about a motor vehicle incident involving him on Route 7 in Brandon while on duty. Warfle’s affidavit stated, “At that time keys and police identification were taken. Brent Garrow never turned in his badge due to the fact that he had purchased it with his own money.” Effective June 16, 2016, the date of his decertification, Garrow was “no longer employed or part of the Pittsford Police Department,” Warfle wrote in his affidavit.
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Killington Police arrested a former employee of Killington Resort last week after an investigation into missing cash. On July 15, Killington Police responded to a report of $2,500 missing from the resort. During the investigation, police identified 26-year-old Brittany Fitzgerald of Chittenden, Vt., as the suspect. Fitzgerald—a former employee of the resort—was interviewed by police on Friday, Aug. 18 and issued a citation to appear in Rutland District Court on Oct. 16 to answer to the charge of embezzlement.
Ex-Rutland City attorney appeals new prison sentence By Alan J. Keays
RUTLAND — A former municipal attorney in Rutland is heading back to the Vermont Supreme Court, asking the justices to overturn the same sentence for a second time in his fatal hit-and-run case. In his application for a public defender to handle the appeal, Christopher Sullivan, 57, wrote, “Currently incarcerated and broke at facility.” Sullivan, who served many years as the city attorney in Rutland, was sentenced earlier this month to four to 10 years in prison on his convictions of Sullivan sentence, page 23
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Migratory bird hunting seasons begin The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is preparing for the start of the 2017-2018 migratory bird hunting season this week. Canada geese season The statewide open hunting season for resident Canada geese will occur Sept. 1-25. The daily bag limit is five Canada geese in the Connecticut River Zone and eight in the rest of the state during this September season. The purpose of the September season is to help control Vermont’s resident Canada goose population prior to the arrival of Canada geese migrating south from Canada. A second Canada goose hunting season, for resident and migrant birds, will be held Oct. 11 - Nov. 29 with a daily bag limit of three Canada geese in the Lake Champlain and Interior Vermont zones. In the Connecticut River Zone, the Canada goose season will be Oct. 3-Nov. 5, and Nov. 22 - Dec. 27 with a daily bag limit of three Canada geese. Duck season Duck season this fall opens on Wednesday, Oct. 11 in the Lake Champlain and Interior Vermont zones, and on Oct. 3 in the Connecticut River Zone. The Lake Champlain Zone has a split season (Oct. 11-15 and Nov. 7Dec. 31. The Interior Vermont Zone is a straight season (Oct. 11-Dec. 9). The Connecticut River Zone is a split season (Oct. 3-Nov. 5 and Nov. 22-Dec. 17). Youth waterfowl weekend Vermont’s youth waterfowl hunting weekend will be Sept. 23 and 24.
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Resident and nonresident hunters 17 years of age or younger may hunt ducks and geese within the Lake Champlain and Interior Vermont zones during this weekend while accompanied by an adult 18 or older. In the Connecticut River Zone, youth must be 15 years of age or younger. Both adult and youth must have Vermont hunting licenses. The adult may not hunt or carry a firearm. Youth ages 16 and 17 must have state and federal duck stamps. Woodcock season Woodcock hunting season is Oct. 1Nov. 14 statewide with a three-bird bag limit. Rules and regulations In addition to a hunting license, a waterfowl hunter 16 or older must carry current federal and Vermont duck stamps in order to hunt waterfowl in Vermont. Federal stamps are sold at post offices, federal refuges, or online at fws.gov/birds/get-involved/duckstamp/buy-duck-stamp.php. State duck stamps are available on Vermont Fish & Wildlife’s website (vtfishandwildlife.com) and from
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Wildlife camera stolen from Wallingford trail
WALLINGFORD—When Marc Pramuk went to the Lower Bog Trail on the Stone Mountain Trail system in Wallingford, he was dismayed to discover the wildlife camera he had installed on the trail was missing. He believes the camera was stolen during the week of Aug. 14-18 and has reported the theft to law enforcement. Pramuk is a member of the Wallingford Conservation Commission, a group that has built scenic walking trails at Stone Meadow Park and an Otter Creek kayak/canoe launch, both accessible off Waldo Lane. Other projects the WCC has completed are a kiosk containing trail maps and wildflower planting to encourage bee colonies. Pramuk wrote on Wallingford’s Front Porch Forum that he alone donates more than 100 hours a year in maintaining trails and that he paid for and installed the nature camera on the trail, posting pictures it has taken on the WCC’s Facebook page for others to enjoy. He encourages anyone who has the camera to turn it in at the Wallingford Town Hall.
Rutland city encourages three new businesses Green Mountain Insulated Glass, Inc., G&G Associates LLC, and Cavacas Associates LLC have recently benefited from a new incentive program recently distributed by the Rutland City Board of Aldermen, announced Brennan Duffy, Rutland Redevelopment Authority executive director. Rolf Hirschmann, owner of Hirschmann Windows and Doors in West Rutland, purchased Green Mountain Insulated Glass, Inc., of Charlestown, N.H., moving it to 10-12 Ripley Rd. in Rutland city. The new business will create five new jobs and be independent of Hirschmann’s manufacturing company in the West Rutland business park. The 2015-initiated Business Incentive and
Assistance Program proffered Hirschmann a $5,000 grant and $5,000 relocation assistance moneys, reported the Rutland Herald . In addition, the aldermen okayed a five-year personal property tax stabilization, the maximum available per city guidelines. G&G Associates is opening the retail store Maple Leaf Gift and Wine, at 1740 Woodstock Ave., the former site of Waldron & Rhodes Fine Jewelry. It creates one full-time and two part-time jobs. BIAP assistance to G&G owners Rajesh and Ranjana Harchind is an interestfree $10,000 loan for three years, with all payments deferred for the three years and the loan forgiven at that time if all the requirements are met. Also part of
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license agents. The hunter must sign the federal duck stamp. All migratory game bird hunters must also be registered with the Harvest Information Program (H.I.P.) in each state they hunt. You can register on Vermont Fish & Wildlife’s website or call toll-free 1-877-306-7091. After providing some basic information, you will receive your annual H.I.P. registration number, which you then need to record on your hunting license. The hunting season dates, bag limits and related regulations for all migratory birds are set annually within a framework established by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and in coordination with New York and New Hampshire. Waterfowl season dates and bag limits are set in three
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continued from page 20 drunken driving and leaving the scene of a fatality stemming from an April 2013 crash that killed Jane Outslay, 71, of Mendon. That sentencing hearing this month followed one nearly two years ago in which the same judge imposed the same sentence, only to have it later overturned by the Vermont Supreme Court. Now, Sullivan is appealing his new sentence. He has filed documents outlining the issues he intends to raise for the high court to decide. A formal brief has not yet been submitted in the case.
THE SUPREME COURT STATED THAT THE JUDGE HAD “ABUSED” HER DISCRETION BY NOT GRANTING A CONTINUANCE TO THAT FIRST SENTENCING HEARING. The Vermont Supreme Court, in its decision earlier this year, upheld Sullivan’s convictions, but overturned his sentence, ruling that he should have been allowed more time to hire and present “mitigation” expert testimony to help explain his actions. The Supreme Court stated that the judge had “abused” her discretion by not granting a continuance to that first sentencing hearing. Joshua O’Hara, Sullivan’s public defender, wrote in a recent filing that one issue to be raised in the latest appeal is whether Judge Theresa DiMauro “capriciously disregarded” psychological evidence when handing down the latest sentence. O’Hara wrote that Dr. Thomas Powell, a clinical psychologist, testified that Sullivan suffered from a traumatic event on the night of the accident and Sullivan’s action of the leaving the scene “was reflexive, not the result of deliberation or self-preservation.” O’Hara added that the judge’s latest sentencing decision was “a nearly verbatim repeat” of the 2015 sentencing decision, including a comparison of his client’s explanation about how he panicked to the response of a teenaged driver. “[The judge] disregarded Dr. Powell’s testimony entirely, stating that Dr. Powell’s opinions were not credible because they relied on Mr. Sullivan’s self-reporting,” O’Hara wrote. Assistant Attorney General Evan Meehan, whose office prosecuted the case, asked for a sentence of eight to 15 years in jail for Sullivan at the latest hearing. That’s the same jail time prosecutors sought for him two years ago. Meehan also said handing down the same sentence proposed four to 10 years again would be “appropropriate.” But he told the judge that none of the evidence presented by Powell revealed anything that would warrant a lesser sentence. Other issues to be raised in the appeal, O’Hara wrote, include whether Judge DiMauro should have been recused from the case. O’Hara had filed a motion prior to the sentencing hearing seeking a new judge. DiMauro said the chances of Sullivan getting a new sentence with no additional jail were slim. O’Hara argues those comments indicate that she had already prejudged the case. Sullivan, in seeking his latest appeal, had to file for public defender services. In his application, he stated he is currently incarcerated in the Springfield prison and listed no income or expenses. For assets, he listed a home in Rutland City valued at $230,000, but also wrote that the outstanding mortgage on the property is “over $230,000.” Sullivan had been free on bail since shortly after the Vermont Supreme Court overturned his first sentence earlier this year. His wife posted a required $50,000 deposit on his $500,000 bail. Neither Meehan nor O’Hara could be reached for comment.
Runners race to Killington peak — the hard way By Evan Johnson
The summit of Killington is 4,241 feet high. This past weekend, a group of 74 runners took the toughest route to the summit in the Killington Boot Camp Race to the Peak 5K, gaining 3,000 vertical feet to the summit. William Wheeler of Belchertown, Mass., was the first place finisher with a time of 33:49. Chris Palko of Hampton, N.H., came in second with a time of 37:49. Grant Bercik of Jamaica, Vt., took third with 40:59. In the women’s division, Killington local Kristina Suddard led the pack with a time of 39:59. Amelia Sharp from North Clarendon, Vt., came in second with a finishing time Courtesy of RaceWire of 44:27. Diane Miller, another William Wheeler crosses the finish line at the summit of Killington to claim first Killington local, took third in place in the vertical challenge race. 45:07.
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Empathy, part two Deerflies: An intense buzzing game Last week, I wrote a column whose conclusion I myself found, at the very least, debatable. Fortunately, my conception of my job here has
never included a requirement to be correct—every week, I try my best only to put forth a single thought that might be interesting, and that’s all: my opinions routinely contradict each other. By this standard, my previous article, titled “Good things for bad people,” was, by my own reckoning, a success, but its reasoning led me to a place that seemed to demand further examination. Since I’d run out of space, I thought I’d write a sequel in which I’d take a closer look at the implications of my prior argument. A mildly derisive summary of last week’s column might report that, in the wake of the horrifying spectacle of alt-right aggression in Charlottesville, I was advocating empathy for Nazis—instead of, say, praising the brave counter-protesters who risked their lives to stand up to the Nazis’ madness. This is sort of true, although I knew as soon as I’d typed the word “empathy” that I was setting myself up for a (justifiable) retort to the effect that, given
was that leftists shouldn’t allow their wholly reasonable hatred for these despicable losers to undermine their commitment to a society in which all people, including the contemptible, are granted the material necessities of a decent life, and this point does hinge on some indestructible human affinity: a recognition, which might be called sentimental, that all of us are people and thus deserving of the same basic concern. I don’t think depriving people of their means of survival helps anyone. But I’m not calling for forgiveness or attempting to push a rationalization for the behavior of these lowlifes, and I want to emphasize that, when it comes to Nazis, I don’t promote empathy as a replacement for resistance. I recognize that, while not all of the right-wing demonstrators in Charlottesville committed unlawful acts of physical violence, they were advancing an ideology in which certain races are deemed unworthy of life; they were promising genocide. I’m sympathetic to those who believe that threats of violence must be treated as violence, and to those who believe that violence must be quashed before any humanitarian care can be extended to its perpetrators. So when, on “Saturday Night Live,” I watched Tina Fey tell an audience of liberals that, the next time a KKK-style rally comes to their
I DON’T PROMOTE EMPATHY AS A REPLACEMENT FOR RESISTANCE … IT’S SIMPLY TOO MUCH TO ASK PEOPLE OF PRINCIPLE TO ALLOW THEIR CITIES TO BE OVERTAKEN BY WHITE SUPREMACISTS WITHOUT A FIGHT. that I don’t belong to any of the groups threatened by these alt-right freaks, empathy might come more easily to me than to others. Primarily, however, I was questioning the tactics of liberals on social media who, following the rally, went to work identifying the participants in press photos and then, en masse, contacting their employers to pressure them to fire their Nazi employees. My point
hometown, they should “stay home” and eat cake instead of getting caught up in “screaming matches,” I rolled my eyes. For one thing, it’s simply too much to ask people of principle to allow their cities to be overtaken by white supremacists without a fight. Are they really supposed to give these mutants free rein over their downtowns and pretend that everything is normal, that this behavior is OK? Yes, counterGen Y, page 26
By Declan McCabe
My students and I were conducting research in the Winooski River floodplain at Saint Michael’s College last week when the buzzing became particularly intense. A brisk walk is enough to outdistance mosquitoes, but deerflies combine fighter jet speed with helicopter maneuverability. And a slap that might incapacitate a mosquito seems to have little effect on these relentless pests. Deerfly season 2017 started slowly, but by late July there were enough to carry off small children. On trails between wetlands and farm fields, we were dive-bombed by countless, persistent, little winged vampires. Insect repellent did little to repel them. We slapped, feinted, grabbed at thin air, and usually came up empty. It was like “Caddyshack,” but with flies rather than gophers. The horsefly family includes deerflies, along with larger Alaskan “mooseflies,” and the greenheads that ruin many a trip to New England’s beaches. Iridescent green eyes that make up most of the fly’s head give them their common name. Far more impressive is their bite: they truly hurt. Because greenheads emerge only from saltmarshes, we know they travel up to two miles in search of blood. Deerflies and their relatives risk getting hand-slapped and tail-flicked because humans and other mammals offer a high-protein food source they need to develop eggs. The gamble pays off; they are still here. Finding deerflies near water makes perfect sense, as ponds are especially important deerfly habitats. As is true for other tabanids, deerfly larvae prey on aquatic invertebrates. They complete their aquatic phase as pupae before emerging as adults. Both genders consume nectar and pollen, but only the females enrich their diet with blood. Whether the males of the species lack initiative to bite mammals we can’t guess, but they certainly lack the equipment. The female’s sharp blade-like mouth parts inflict painful wounds that make mosquito bites look genteel. Biting flies elicit questions like: What good are they? Or more thoughtfully, what is their role in nature? And also, could we get rid of just this one species? The disconcerting answer to the latter question is yes; molecular biologists have discovered how to eliminate a species by inserting harmful genes that can be spread through an entire population. Although we have accidentally driven many species extinct, to my knowledge, the only deliberate extinc-
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tion thus far has been smallpox. Having discussed the important role that insects play in an ecosystem’s food web and satisfied ourselves that driving deerflies from the planet was beyond our purview, my students and I resorted to a more local and fiendishly satisfying solution. We bought deerfly patches: double-sided sticky pads worn on our hats. When deerflies choose one of us as their next meal ticket they search for exposed skin. Does a deerfly patch looks like human skin? You’ll have to ask a deerfly. I won’t question why they land on the patch, but I will take this opportunity to thank each and every one of them that takes that one-way trip and ceases orbiting my head. To test drive the patch I parked near a campus pond. A deerfly landed on the side mirror — game on! Typically, I’d be swarmed in the field and at least one deerfly ‘guest’ would join me for the car ride home. But this day would not be typical. I came forearmed. I had read the reviews, gawked in amazement at the online photographs of patches coated with innumerable flies stuck like so many direwolves in a tarpit. I emerged from the car, hat and
patch on head, and took a 15-minute walk between several ponds. During my walk I received one deerfly bite and swept another off my neck. I felt the familiar thuds of flies hitting my hat, but less orbital annoyance, it seemed to me. Wishful thinking? Time would tell. The moment of truth: safely in my metal and glass cocoon, I removed the hat. Sure enough, the patch was emblazoned with 15 deerflies, a single stray mosquito ... and no gophers. I rarely endorse products, and indeed a good friend tells me that a loop of duct tape is just as good. Whatever solution you choose, at least deerflies need not force you to choose the indoors. Declan McCabe teaches biology at Saint Michael’s College. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine, northernwoodlands.org, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: wellborn@nhcf.org.
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The era of lunch counters Coffee shops seem to be the trend these days. People want a spot to sit and relax, enjoy a cup of coffee and have something light to eat.
Looking Back by mary eellen shaw Back in my youth, during the 50s and 60s, people did that at lunch counters. Of course, they were not staring at their electronic devices while they were eating! They may have had a newspaper in their hands but no cell phone or tablet. You didn’t go to Starbucks or Dunkin’ Donuts back then; oddly enough you went to a pharmacy or a variety store. Because my father was a pharmacist and worked in most of the
downtown drug stores during his career, I had a seat at most of the counters. If I was sitting there during school vacations, I would see workers from downtown offices and stores coming in for soup and a sandwich at noon time. I liked to listen to them banter back and forth. Downtown was a fun place to go after school. I always stopped at Carpenter’s Pharmacy where my father was working during my early school days. It wasn’t unusual to bring a friend or two with me. My father would come out from the back area where prescriptions were filled to greet me. One time he even got my ice cream for me as the women manning the counter were busy and he had a free minute. In today’s job descriptions that would fall under the category of “performs other duties as required!” In midafternoon lunch counters turned into soda fountains. I wasn’t the only one who craved ice cream or a
milkshake. The counters were full of people enjoying the same treat that I did. The downtown pharmacies that had lunch counters back “in the day” were Shangraw’s and Carpenter’s on Center Street and McClallen’s on Merchants Row. I have only a vague memory of Shangraw’s fountain area because I was very young when my father worked there. I remember a relative telling me that it was a popular spot back in the 40s for teenagers to gather after a movie or to meet friends there for ice cream. I found an online photo of the counter from that era and there is a sign for Wagar’s Ice Cream at 35 cents a pint. What a deal that seems like today! I had a conversation a few years ago with Helen Carpenter Kinsman, daughter of Bob Carpenter, the owner of Carpenter’s Pharmacy. She was reminiscing about the “Telephone Sundae” that
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It took me quite a while to digest what happened in Boston. One of the most memorable parts of the march was the heat (standing in a crowd on sunny pavement was way higher than the 83 degrees listed on the Weather Service), which Altitude was oppressive. Altit Sick Sickness My friend and I (he By br brady is married to an African crain American and has African American children) were the first to arrive on the actual site of the start of the march, and while we waited there, tense, we listened to speakers make requests as to protester conduct, etc. In the hour that we stood there, behind us grew a crowd that was so large that we could not see the end of it. Most of the people there were tense, because we all expected the end of the march to be greeted by a bunch of shouting Nazis. Because of the news, we all know how this turned out. Usually at a civil rights march you will see children and families. This was not that kind of march. People went to this march angry, people went to this march expecting to meet the enemy eye to eye, or knee to bumper. And make no mistake, Nazis and Neo-Confederates are the enemy of everything the United States holds dear. As we began to march, we noticed some things. The city of Boston had parked its new fleet of recycling trucks along the route, blocking vehicular access to the street being marched. This was very very smart. Furthermore, two Boston PD helicopters essentially hovered over the front and back of the march at all times, a few hundred feet up. I wondered about this, and I realized that they were up there spotting for snipers and ramming vehicles—again, highly intelligent. As we marched the mile or two from Roxbury to the Common, we kept having to stop and stand and wait, and we were all a bit puzzled by this. It turns out there was a very good reason. Leaving aside the 20,000 or so people marching down the street, there were already 20,000 people on the Boston Common, completely surrounding the 100 or so Free Speech rally goers who showed up. Aerial photos show that there were few enough Free Speechers there that they all fit in the gazebo on the Common. We kept having to stop because the police felt (and I think rightly so) that an additional 20,000 people on the Common would make things a bit unmanageable. So, like it or not, we were held off until the Free Speech rally had disbanded, and the initial protestors dispersed. As we got closer and closer to the Common, we picked up more and more people. We picked up people from the college neighborhood. We picked up people of color from the streets of Roxbury, and we picked up old white ladies with their tiny dogs from the area surrounding Beacon Hill. The thing that still makes me emotional is how occasionally would see a person of color leaning out a window, or standing off to the side, or walking backwards through the march, filming it, and yelling “thank you.” Hopefully people felt less alone. When we arrived at the Common, things were less organized, as there was no direct opponent in view, and the various groups making up the larger march split up into smaller units crowding around separate stages. Hearing speakers was an enormous issue because of the constant passing of motorcycle police, helicopters, etc. By the time we got to the Common, my back was in excruciating pain from all of the standing around. There have been lots of claims about violence among the counter-protesters, and truth be told, I was witness to one scuffle. One. It was a Free Speecher who had walked into the middle of a counter rally and started some shit. He ran away, then started taunting his massive audience, and some people started chasing him, and he got knocked around a bit before something surprising happened: as he fell down and some aggressors started closing in on him, another group of counterprotestors came to his defense, and protected him until literally 20 BPD arrived on bicycles all at the same time. This is the way that counter protest went. During the Free Speech Rally it was Black Lives Matter marshals
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Taking a stand for diversity We attended the very first gathering of the Woodstock Social Justice Initiative, a last-minute rally for love, equality, and peace on the Green in Woodstock. Seventy-plus local residents demonstrated in solidarity with the people of Charlottesville and took a stand against white supremacy, racism, and anti-Semitism. WSJI co-founder Mary Ellen Solon set the intention for the gathering, “understanding that we are all the same and equal. We revel in laughMountain ter and joy with on Meditation good friends and By Marguerite te family; want beautiful and meaningJill Dye ful experiences for our children; and feel deep loss when our loved ones pass on. We all experience our humanity the same and yet people of color have experienced rape and genocide for centuries, and continue to endure trauma, violence, and oppression all because of white supremacist ideology and the racist systems that have long proliferated in American Society.” She called for the cultivation of “a new American way of life based on love and affirmation of diversity in all its forms.”
We “held space” for all who’ve suffered, benefited from, or silently allowed white supremacist actions. After a reading of Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Song,” we marched around the Green singing “All You Need is Love” and “We Shall Overcome” while holding handmade signs of solidarity. It felt like time travel back to the sixties as we celebrated our diversity and commitment to countering discrimination and hatred with acceptance and love. I sought out the opinions of two local townsfolk who shared their frustration and outrage, while clergy summed up their hopes that love will enter hearts filled with hate. Will Adler, retired journalist and free thinking intellectual, waxed eloquent in his Bernie Sanders t-shirt. “I am here to soothe myself with neighborly comfort realizing we’re all in this together. Let’s not lose sight of the bigger issues Donald Trump’s chaos is disguising. Unlike Vladimir Putin’s Russia, we Americans really do have professional journalists who tell the truth. And then there are the partisans, who put forth Trump’s manipulation and lies as though they are true and make perfect sense. I struggle to understand my local Trump friends. They continue to believe in him and rationalize his nonsense. They cheer for this scammer, bluffer and fraud as though he was a sports hero and they are blindly loyal fans. What do I see that is Mountain meditation, page 27
Have you tried taco mode? In March, the Harvard Business Review (HBR) offered some ideas about innovation in America. It’s a topic that deserves some attention as “recent data suggests that innovation is getting harder and the pace of growth is slowing down. A major challenge in business and policy spheres is to understand the environments that are most conducive to innovation.” One place to look for examples of innovation is the sharing economy where innovations often echo the late 1800s. Back then, according to HBR, innovation primarily occurred outside of companies. In contrast, today, the majority of patents go to inventors who are associated with companies. Let’s take a look at a couple of recent ideas that may or may not gain traction:
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continued from page 24 demonstrations may bounds of what society with shotgun-stocked feed into a conflict that deems acceptable, some bunkers beneath their some of the Nazis will relfolks actually have to do swimming pools. They ish, and they will inevitathe work of confronting it weren’t raging against a bly draw greater attention when it asserts itself. system that had failed and publicity to the Nazis’ If there’s one thing I them; they were seeking event. But the mass of regret about last week’s to protect a system from negative coverage given column, it’s that it may which they’d benefited. to the rally in Charlothave seemed to imply They know that their tesville has likely been a that the majority of the prosperity is built upon good thing: it seems MOST WERE POLO-SHIRT-WEARING PREPPIES that many of the milder-mannered AND SUBURBAN DADS WITH SHOTGUNallies of the alt-right, STOCKED BUNKERS BENEATH THEIR who outnumber the hardcore and SWIMMING POOLS. THEY WEREN’T RAGING constitute a sizable AGAINST A SYSTEM THAT HAD FAILED THEM; chunk of Trump’s base, have been THEY WERE SEEKING TO PROTECT A SYSTEM scared off by the FROM WHICH THEY’D BENEFITED. copious outrage and fierce opposition that their bolder neo-Confederates in the impoverishment of associates have generCharlottesville were black and brown Ameriated. Many liberals “unfortunates”—broken- cans, and they sense take for granted that we down hillbillies who that, as the demographlive in a country where arrived at white suprema- ics of our country shift, outright racism will be cism as an ideological the call for equality will condemned—the ideollast resort. Liberals are soon be too loud to be ogy of the alt-right is so forever attempting to ignored. In this sense, obviously wrong that blame right-wing thought they’re not so different for us to say so can seem on poor people, but one from moderate “liberals” unnecessary. But in order glance at the crowd of whose vision divides the to maintain this state of torch-wielders shows population by “merit” affairs, where undisguised that most were poloinstead of race: they, too, white supremacism shirt-wearing preppies believe that there isn’t lies clearly outside the and suburban dads enough to go around—
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spend a major chunk of their savings.” Neighborhood networks It’s a straightforward concept: A social network that connects neighbors so they can share tools, leftovers, playgroups, and more. It’s big in Brazil, according to Forbes. One company has more than 140,000 registered users across 3,800 cities. But anyone who has ever watched Homer Simp-
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surely not everyone can be promised healthcare and a living wage. It’s harder to form a prescription for comfortably middle-class racists than poverty-stricken ones; material improvements can’t cure them. But the question is the same: how do we make these people better? In some sense, middle-class suburban life has failed the Americans who were lucky enough to attain it—it’s isolated them, made them afraid, and stripped them of generosity and fellow feeling. When well-fed white Americans turn off their big-screen TVs and imagine the “good old days,” before the swelling of minority populations, I think they’re mostly imagining a world in which they don’t feel alone. These people are monsters, but I guess I’m back where I started: we can’t begin to identify the underlying problem, let alone fix it, without first empathizing.
son borrow Ned Flanders’ tools and not return them understands why some aspects of this idea may not catch on. What innovations would you like to see in the sharing economy? Kevin Theissen is principal and financial advisor at Skygate Financial Group, LLC., located on Main Street in Ludlow, Vt. He can be reached at kevin@skygatefinancial.com.
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Carpenter’s offered. She thinks it got that name because so many telephone operators, who worked downtown, used to come in and get this version of a hot fudge sundae with whipped cream or marshmallow, nuts and a cherry. I remember that an older woman who manned that counter did not have a lot of patience with me and my friends. We wanted to get every bit of our milkshake so we slurped it from the bottom of the glass with our straws. Of course, it made an annoying noise and we were appropriately told that we sounded like pigs! I remember also having a conversation not too long ago with the late Winnie McClallen, who owned McClallen’s Pharmacy, with her husband, Charlie. She told me that her boys used to make sandwiches for the lunch counter before they left for school. It was truly a family affair. It is hard to connect that some people were getting prescriptions filled while others were getting their stomachs filled!
Today malls have food courts where you can take a break from shopping. But in my day, you could do that at Woolworth’s or Fishman’s. Both variety stores carried a little bit of everything, from pots and pans to clothes and even gold fish and parakeets. You could spend a lot of time browsing in this type of store. Because downtown had numerous places to shop, a couple of hours could pass before you knew it. If noon time rolled around while you were browsing, you could head to the counter of either Woolworth’s or Fishman’s and get something to eat. Woolworth’s was always my favorite spot. I remember that the counter staff wore uniforms and hairnets. Their menu offered a variety of sandwiches, soups and desserts. There were very few empty stools. If you were the kid who got a little too loud or silly while enjoying a treat at Woolworth’s the store manager would pass by with a look that made you behave instantly. Rutland is a relatively small
place where everyone seems to know everyone else. I knew this was true when I ended up working in an office at City Hall back in the 80s. My office was right next to the former Woolworth’s manager whose stern look had kept us all in line! He was the late Vern Richards, Rutland City tax collector. He got a laugh out of the fact that I had found him intimidating 30 years earlier. I found a Woolworth’s menu online from the 1950s. I don’t know which state it was from but the prices were probably about the same everywhere. An egg salad sandwich was 30 cents, a tulip sundae was a quarter and a slice of apple pie was 15 cents. I am sure that was the going price back “in the day” but it certainly seems like a bargain in present times. Downtown lunch counters were a fun part of its history. The fact that they could be found in the same stores as prescriptions, gold fish and parakeets makes them truly unique.
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continued from page 25 hopeful? After this regime, there is hope we will be rid of cancerous policies and our body politic will emerge healthy. Trump is like political chemotherapy for America.” Concerned citizen and caregiver Tina Miller didn’t hesitate to speak her mind. “Our president is dangerous for democracy over all. Rallies like this are good. Anything that puts the president on notice to make correct decisions moves us forward, including removing our president from his position, whether it be through resignation or impeachment. It’s an important first step.” Rabbi Ilene Haigh shared with the crowd that her rabbi mentor taught her to love, not hate, a powerful message from a man who was a boy in 1930s Germany when Nazi soldiers marched past the temple during his Bar Mitzvah. She was deeply grateful to all that came out to stand in witness and unity and love in response to what happened in Virginia. She reiterated that she understands that the greatest act of non-violence resistance is ensuring that we as a community are not torn apart. The community has launched a quilt project to bring people together honoring witness and hope. “Unfortunately,” the rabbi said, “it is the silence of the good people that is often the greatest threat. We cannot remain silent. Our coming together is perhaps the greatest gift of all.” While folding the “PACE” (peace) rainbow flag, a gift from my German friend Hans, Rabbi Haigh introduced me to Rev. Dr. Leon Dunkley, the newly arrived minister for Woodstock’s North Universalist Chapel Society. “Each time we gather in good heart, we become more wealthy. We get stronger. We get wiser and more
flexible. We grow deep. The rage and bitter violence that took place in Charlottesville, VA was shocking even though we had seen it before in Nice, London, and Orlando. Each time we gather we remind ourselves that over and beyond our differences, we are united by a love that holds us all. As a Unitarian Universalist, I deeply believe in the love and the gathering on the Green confirmed it. Whatever our beliefs and whatever our backgrounds, there is a richness that makes Life more beautiful,” he wrote to me. The Woodstock Social Justice Initiative challenges the privileged to “recognize that many people, simply because of the circumstances they’re born into and the traits they’re born with, continue to face discrimination that limits their opportunities. Once we accept this, it is incumbent upon us to take action to end social injustices.” The WSJI practices what it preaches. Thanks to the initiative of Brad Archer, Woodstock history teacher and co-founder of the WSJI, Vermont is the only state to declare John Brown Day. Archer points out that while John Brown was hung for treason after attempting to lead an armed slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry, Robert E. Lee committed treason against the U.S. but was freed and honored with monuments. The Woodstock Social Justice Initiative’s first formal event will be the concurrent John Brown Day celebration and Anti-Racism Symposium where activists, academics, artists, and educators will raise awareness to fight racism. It will be held at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School, Oct. 14. (woodstocksji.org) Marguerite Jill Dye is an artist and writer who divides her time between the Green Mountains of Vermont and Florida’s Gulf Coast.
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But let’s be clear, this is their job. It is what they signed up for, and just like I don’t feel like white people should really be patting themselves on the back for not being racists (which is the bare minimum), I am also not all that into patting a police organization on the back for not screwing things up royally. I thank them for their service, and I thank them for their restraint. Quite frankly, despite the 33 arrests (0.08 percent of the attending population, and several of them were Free Speechers), I call this a win.
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REAL ESTATE PICO STUDIO, top floor unit, newly furnished, full bath and kitchen. Ideal for two. Priced $49,900. Matt, 386-214-0176. 3 BDRM HOUSE for sale by owner in Mendon, Vt. 2 baths, good neighborhood. Barstow school district. $149,000. 802558-5854. NEW LISTING: Killington ski village location, mountain v i e w. P i n n a c l e 1 b d r m condo, $116K. Furnished, never rented, deck, stone fireplace, kitchen upgrade, ski locker, health club, shuttle to mountain. Owner, waynekay@ gmail.com, 802-775-5111. LAND FOR SALE: Route 4, Killington. 54 Acre parcel (diagonally across from the Killington Skyeship Base). Nice setting amongst mature pine trees, old logging road takes you to several perfect homesites that could have a wonderful S O L A R A P P L I C AT I O N . $125,000. Contact: Ski Country Real Estate 802775-5111. KILLINGTON—2 BDRM 1.5 bath condo, Mountain Green bldg. 2. FP, ski lockers, health club membership. $92K. Owner, 800-576-5696. CHITTENDEN fully furnished and equipped ski house. Sleeps 12, 5 bedrooms, barn, covered porch, new septic to be installed before closing, $189,000 Louise Harrison Real Estate, www. louiseharrison.com. 802-7478444. PITTSFIELD LAND: River View Trail Road: 4AC for $49,900 with State septic permit for a 4BR, 6 person home. Nice level building lot (B #1). Ski Country Real Estate, 335 Killington Rd, 802-7755111. PITTSFIELD LAND: River View Trail Road: 8AC for $69,900 with State septic permit for a 4BR home. Lot 5. Private Location. Ski Country Real Estate, 335 Killington Rd, 802-775-5111. LAND FOR SALE: Route 4, Killington. 11 Acre parcel with old logging trail as a base for a future driveway. Beautiful rock formation at the base and “Roaring Brook” as a southeast boundary. High elevation with mountain views. $70,000. Contact: Ski Country Real Estate 802-775-5111.
ERA MOUNTAIN Real Estate, 1913 US Rt. 4, Killington— killingtonvermontrealestate. com or call one of our real estate experts for all of your real estate needs including Short Term & Long Term Rentals & Sales. 802-7750340. KILLINGTON PICO REALTY Our Realtors have special training in buyer representation to ensure a positive buying experience. Looking to sell? Our unique marketing plan features your very own website. 802-422-3600, KillingtonPicoRealty.com 2814 Killington Rd., Killington. (next to Choices Restaurant). KILLINGTON VALLEY Real Estate PO Box 236, 2281 Killington Rd., Killington. 802422-3610 or 1-800-833-KVRE. Email: kvre@vermontel.net LOUISE HARRISON REAL ESTATE Sales & Vacation Rentals: professional guidance and representation to buyers and sellers in the greater Killington, Mendon, Rutland area. Independent Broker. We negotiate variable commissions and work with FSBO’s by appointment 7 days a week. Now located at 8 Mountain Top Rd, Chittenden. LouiseHarrison.com, 802-7759999, 802-747-8444. P E A K P R O P E RT Y R e a l Estate, 1995 US Route 4, Killington. VTproperties. net. 802-775-1700, 802353-1604. Marni@ peakpropertyrealestate.com. Specializing in homes/condos/ land/commercial/investments/ winter rentals. Representing sellers & buyers all over Central Vt. THE PERFORMANCE GROUP real estate 1810 Killington Rd., Killington. 802422-3244 or 800-338-3735, vthomes.com, email info@ vthomes.com. As the name implies “WE PERFORM FOR YOU!” PRESTIGE REAL Estate of Killington, 2922 Killington Rd., Killington. Specializing in the listing & sales of Killington Condos, Homes, & Land. Call toll free 800398-3680 or locally 802-4223923. prestigekillington.com. SKI COUNTRY Real Estate, 335 Killington Rd., Killington. 8 0 2 - 7 7 5 - 5 111 , 8 0 0 - 8 7 7 5111. SkiCountryRealEstate. com - 7 agents to service: K i l l i n g t o n , B r i d g e w a t e r, Mendon, Pittsfield, Plymouth, Rochester, Stockbridge & Woodstock areas. Sales & Winter Seasonal Rentals. Open 7 days/wk, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
LAND FOR SALE: Improved building lot in Killington neighborhood with ski home benefits. Views. Call 802-4229500.
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B U S I N E S S EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES OPPORTUNITY REDUCED! Killington Restaurant for sale. Great spot, corner lot. 99 Seats plus 4 housing units providing steady income. There are plenty of commercial properties for sale in Killington, but none like this one! 499k includes business and real estate. Priced well under assessment, operate “ as-is” or turn into your dream concept. Contact killingtonrestaurant@ gmail.com. C O M M E R C I A L S PA C E AVAILABLE with another well established business. Small or large square footage. Close to ski shop, restaurant and lodging. Great location for any business. Call 802-345-5867. KILLINGTON MALL for sale, 4-apartments, 2-stores, 1-nightclub/restaurant, 1-50s diner restaurant. 4 acres plus building. Call office 800-6942250 or cell 914-217-4390. Ron Viccari.
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TINMOUTH town wide tag sales, Sept. 2, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Rain or shine. Maps available at Tinmouth Town Office, 9 Mountain View Rd.
FREE FREE REMOVAL of scrap metal & car batteries. Matty, 802-353-5617.
SERVICES BEAUREGARD PAINTING, 25 years experience. 802436-1337. IS YOUR LAWN guy charging too much? Get a quote from Parnell’s Lawn Service today. Call Dave, 802-236-8945. PRIOR FOR HIRE - Handyman services, carpentry and yard. Call Jeremy Prior, 802-3531806.
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KILLINGTON RENTAL on mountain. 3BR/2BA. Swisstype chalet apt. Fireplace, dishwasher, excellent location/ parking, low utilities. $8,750, Nov. 1-Apr. 30. 781-749-5873, toughfl@aol.com. SECOND FLOOR studio apartment available immediately. No smoking or pets. $575 which includes utilities. Serious inquiries only. 802-767-3241 or 802-7673318. KILLINGTON - 4+ bedrooms, hot tub and more, $2,000 monthly + utilities and deposit. Dan 908-337-1130. WINTER RENTAL! (Nov.April) 2 BR/1 BATH near Skyeship. $7200 + damage deposit, includes all utilities and snowplowing. No pets. 802-422-9648. SKI SHARES!!! Five months Winter 2017/2018, Families! Luxury, Access Road. Photos, Google Cedarwalk at Killington. TEXT 781-2348123. KILLINGTON 4 BDRM, summer or winter rentals. www. killingtonhouserentals. com. 802-558-4622. KILLINGTON ROYAL FLUSH Rentals/Property management. Specializing in condos/winter & summer rentals. Andrea Weymouth, Owner. www. killingtonroyalflush.com, 802746-4040.
LOOKING FOR lost paddle, lost between Telefon Trail and Killington Road. If found, call 802-345-3600. LOST CAT: Yoda - 1.5 year old, neutered male. Looks siamese: blue eyed, beige body, darker face and tail. Last seen July 14 in Proctorsville. No collar, friendly. Call 802554-0054.
FOR SALE FIREWOOD for sale, we stack. Rudi, 802-672-3719. GET A JUMP ON WINTER Firewood, approx. 1 cord well-seasoned firewood for sale: $200. Pick up only. Call 802-353-0460.
TAG SALES YARD SALE tools, windows, furniture, skis, portable heaters, portable lights, modern art. 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 2 & 3 at 27 Crampton Ave., Rutland.
HOME CARE: Mendon. Early ALS person needs home care. 845-798-2183, solanoejn@ gmail.com. SEEKING VOLUNTEER: Very ill state activist needs someone to help with home office work, filing, collating, mailings, transcription, research for holistic healing, etc. to help regain health for life, and to make music and hike mountains again. Bring WiFi. Call Susan Wind at 518345-4073. NOW BUYING High quality watches, precious metals, coins & paper money, stamps and historic paper, objects of art and virtue. If it’s rare, fun and beautiful I can help. Member NAWCC, ANA, APS, NEAA and Vermont’s first legally licensed precious m e t a l s d e a l e r. Tr a d i n g worldwide in the very best personal property, since 1972. Legitimate sellers ONLY and by appointment only. Royal Barnard 802-775-0085 or email rbarn64850@aol.com.
EMPLOYMENT HOUSEKEEPER: The Birch Ridge Inn at Killington has an immediate opening for a housekeeper. For an interview call 802-422-4293.
Town of Proctor, Vermont Highway Foreman Opening The Town of Proctor is seeking an experienced person to supervise and skillfully maintain and repair the Town highway infrastructure. Applicants must have supervisory experience in road and utility work, a valid driver’s license, a Vermont CDL, a high school diploma or equivalent and computer skills. Residency in Proctor or immediate area required. Essential duties include: maintaining Town roads, stormwater collection systems and winter plowing. The individual will also work with the Water and Wastewater Departments in maintaining and repairing water and sewer facilities. Candidate must be a “team player”. Preference will be given to applicants with experience plowing snow and operating and maintaining heavy equipment. This is a full-time, year-round hourly position with a competitive benefits package. A complete job description can be downloaded from the Proctor website or picked up at the Town Office. Proctor is an equal opportunity employer. Letters of Interest and resumes should be addressed to Town of Proctor, 45 Main Street, Proctor, VT 05765 attention Stanley Wilbur, Town Manager Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Review of applicants will begin immediately.
FULL-TIME or parttime waitstaff call or stop by Drewski’s on the river 802422-3816. PHAT ITALIAN all positions available. Deli, cooks, cashier. All shifts, day or night, F/T and P/T. Please apply in person, 2384 Killington Rd. 802-4227428. DISHWASHER POSITION, immediate opening. P/T, year round, evenings 4 p.m. close; 5 days per week. More hours available with prep experience. Apply in person, Thursday through Monday, between 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Red Clover Inn, 802-775-2290. INN AT LONG TRAIL seeking experienced cook/prep cook. Pay commensurate with experience. Email (ilt@ innatlongtrail.com) resume or brief work history, or call 802-775-7181 to set up interview appointment. Will train competent and motivated individual. Weekends and holidays a must. PROPERTY MAINTENANCE Te c h n i c i a n f o r c o n d o s , second shift, year round and full time. Email Mike: mtgreencondo@gmail. com. CASEY’S CABOOSE is looking for some great people to help us continue to rebuild Killington’s most loved restaurant. Immediate help, and fall and ski seasons. All positions considered. Part time positions available, too. Email resume and cover letter to john@caseyscaboose. com, or stop by and introduce yourself. MOGULS SEEKING: Line cooks, bartenders, door staff. Thursday - Sunday. 802-4224777. Apply Thurs.-Sun. LINE COOK Needed at P r e s t o n ’s R e s t a u r a n t a t Killington/Pico Ski Resort. Prepare and produce a wide variety of menu items, perform a variety of complex cooking tasks, meal service and proper plating of all meals. Full timeseasonal. Apply online at www.killington.com/jobs or in person at Killington Human Resources. 4763 Killington Rd. Killington, VT 05751. 800300-9095. EOE. PASSIONATE about fresh food: FT DELI POSITION: 40 hours/wk. Excellent pay. Nights 12-8 p.m. Food service experience preferred. SEASONAL PT DELI: 32 +hours/wk. Weekends. Bridgewater Corners Country Store, 5680 US ROUTE 4. Call or text resume to attention Wendy 802-299-1717. CHOICES RESTAURANT is accepting applications for a wait person. Call 802-422-4030 or email claudeschoices@ yahoo.com.
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Regional marketing initiative:
County-wide focuses on students, young families with jobs in recreation
continued from page 13 Jepson said that members of the joint policy committee will share concerns with the new Act 250 study commission in September. The commission is looking at the permitting process which many feel takes too long, is too costly, inhibits business development and prevents growth. “We need some growth to protect our tax base and to preserve our schools and keep them within our communities with local control,” Jepson noted. Collaborative efforts include Cohen and Jepson making presentations to town boards and citizens throughout the county. They discuss population decline as well as efforts to reverse it and the benefits of doing so. They also request participation via funding and/or serving on a committee. The latter is important so the initiative better represent that community and can also so someone can report back to their community on what is happening with the marketing initiative, Cohen said. They also ask for supporting donations of $1/person but stress that this is “not pay to play, we want all involved” and are seeking help either or both ways. Other collaborative efforts include Chrispin White, director of the Center for Community Engagement at Castleton University, who works with internships and community service, working half time in Rutland at the CU campus in the Opera House and the other half on the
main campus. Castleton has a database of 15,330 alumni with around half having stayed in Vermont. “REDC and Castleton push out messages to alumni about jobs available and encourage them to check out the career opportunities page as part of banishing
and RRCC. The Mountain Times is contributing $12,000 through in-kind advertising, and Castleton University is donating $5,000, Velco, $3,000, and the Russell Corporation, $1,000. Funds are covering costs for the research and development of a digital marketing campaign, which includes
“I BELIEVE THIS MOVE IS CRITICAL FOR GROWTH AND PROSPERITY. IT’S A GOOD IDEA TO GET THE WORD OUT ON OUR COMMUNITY AND THE REGION AND WHY PEOPLE SHOULD CONSIDER IT A PLACE TO MOVE TO, OPEN BUSINESSES, AND RAISE FAMILIES... I DO LOVE A WIN-WIN!” SAID MIKE NAPOLITANO. the myth of no jobs here,” Jepson said. In another collaborative effort, REDC and Rutland Young Professionals co-locate in the Opera House so as to encourage and support the Young Professionals program. Funding for marketing efforts The Rutland City Board of Aldermen designated $100,000 to be used over two years from the Zamias Impact Fund to support the Regional Marketing Initiative. Many businesses helped raise another $100,000 with contributions of: $10,000 from Green Mountain Power, Rutland Regional Medical Center, Carpenter and Costin, Casella Waste Management, Foley Family Businesses, Heritage Family Credit Union, REDC,
messaging (content) and videography (30-second videos for TV and social media). Mondo Mediaworks out of Brattleboro is currently creating this campaign, which will have a large social media component. Funds will also pay for television advertising in the Rutland Region (Comcast), Vermont (NBC Network), and Boston and Hartford markets. Jepson noted that while the campaign targets the Millennial group which has the most potential to increase the county’s population, it also focuses on seasoned professionals who have more time to spend outdoors and might retire here. Hopes are that getting a compelling message out that Rutland County is a
great place to live and work will reverse the population decline over time and bolster the economy by retaining and attracting new families. Community response Comments on the Regional Marketing Initiative range from, “I had no idea about the scope and that it is more than just slogans” to wholehearted support. Killington Resort President and GM Mike Solimano commented, “Killington Resort supports the Killington Valley Initiative because having stronger, more vibrant communities surrounding our resort makes us stronger. The Killington Valley offers some of the best outdoor recreation in the country and having one entity representing all of our recreational assets as a means of marketing the region as not just a great place to visit but ultimately call home helps support our resort-wide initiatives.” Mike Napolitano, who grew up in Rutland, became a snowboarder, and now owns Awesome Graphics with his wife Tami, commented, “I am behind these efforts 1,000 percent. I believe this move is critical for growth and prosperity. It’s a good idea to get the word out on our community and the region and why people should consider it a place to move to, open businesses, and raise families. We need more people and this is one great way to help that cause. I do love a win-win!”
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Royal Harrison, alleging the violation of an illegal discharge into a water of the state, and outlining the process to clean up the damage. The companies never admitted fault for the discharge, and requested a hearing in front of the Vermont Superior Court,
THIS EVENT ALSO CAUSED A SUDDEN CHANGE IN THE ECOSYSTEM OF THE BAY. warden. No such permit was sought in this case, and the release of the dam by excavator caused a significant illegal discharge into state waters. This event also caused a sudden change in the ecosystem of the bay. Sediment discharges speed up a process called eutrophication, which is the natural progression of open water to wetland. Such a large input of sediment instantly decreases the depth of the lake in the area and degrades the habitat quality for lake species that live in deeper water. Following the event and investigation, the Agency issued notices to Ruby Construction, Inc. and
Environmental Division. The two-day hearing was held March 2 and 3, 2017, and the Court issued a decision on the merits and judgment order on July 28, 2017, affirming the Agency’s position. The Court’s order requires Ruby Construction, Inc. and Royal Harrison to pay a penalty of $9,000 and apply for a permit from the Department of Environmental Conservation’s lakes and ponds management and rrotection rrogram to appropriately remove the sediment from the Lake by next fall. An additional penalty of $3,000 will be assessed if compliance is not achieved by Oct. 31, 2018.
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continued from page 4 application planners of working that out with months. estimated that the projCasella,” Dukeshire The work will be split ect will generate roughly said. “They said it would into six subsections 58 vehicles per hour. save them a lot of time between the firehouse To that end, in its apand money, and it didn’t and the Jiffy Mart conproval the DRB issued make sense to do our venience store. Route 7 the condition will be widened in that the applicant spots, new sidePLANNERS ESTIMATED “continue to work walks will be built, THAT THE PROJECT WILL with the Brandon utility lines will Public Works Dibe improved, and GENERATE ROUGHLY 58 rector, VTrans and Route 7 will be VEHICLES PER HOUR. Segment 6 engire-routed to the neers to ensure south and west of proper traffic calming store at the same time. Central Park. measures to meet the The construction comThe section along demands of nearly tripany has the right to deConant Square between pling the number of visits termine the schedule. All Seminary Street and the during peak hours. Peak the details haven’t been Post Office is scheduled numbers will not exceed worked out, but as part to be completed in No60 vehicles per hour… of the discussion with vember 2019. Should peak visits exceed Casella, we’ll set a time “It’s unfortunate the this number, applicant frame so people know timing worked out this will need to go before the what to expect.” way because we know a DRB again.” Segment 6 construclot of people are looking The application indition began last month for a fresh cup of coffee,” cates that hours of opand is expected to last 30 Dukeshire said. eration will be from 5:30 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. and the businesses will employ up to nine people. For now, Midway Oil and Casella Construction are working together in a different way. Casella, the company that won the bid for the Segment 6 reconstruction, asked Midway Oil if they could use or lease the Mobil property as a staging area for heavy equipment, gravel and other roadSubmitted work supplies. Dunkin Donuts plans to build in Brandon have been “We’re in the process postponed due to the Segment 6 construction.
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Tucker A. Lange Heidi Matusik 303.818.8068 860.637.1243
Info@PeakPropertyRealEstate.com 1995 U.S Route 4, Killington VT
STRONG INVESTMENT - “THE WEDGE” PRIME SPOT-2 MILES TO THE KILLINGTON SKYSHIP & 1 MILE TO WOODARDRESERVOIR! First time offered on market, RARE 3 UNIT PROPERTY. WS rental income is $27K. $399,000.
SUPER LOCATION A MINUTE AWAY FROM OKEMO/ JACKSON GORE! Gorgeous renovated 3 bed/2 bath
farmhouse professionally decorated w/huge attached post & beam barn & 3 outbuildings. ZONED FOR RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL. Fabulous opportunity for home business or great investment for one looking to have a home at Okemo. Strong rental possible! $348,000
Come to where the living is e
NOTABLE VERMONT FOREST FOR SALE 1,139 acres in Ira
New Price: $1,161,000
Located 30 minutes from Killington, this timber resource has been carefully managed by a family ownership for decades, resulting in exceptional stands of maple, oak and ash. In addition, the terrain supports development of a trophy family estate with waterfalls and ownership of six mountain peaks. More Available Forests Brandon - 256 acres - $189,000 - mixed timber, homesites, recreation Royalton - 579 acres - $693,00 - hardwoods, homesites, sugarbush Whitehall, NY - 470 acres - $379,000 - timber, lake views, state land
UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY! 3 UNITS!
Easy Plymouth location w/frontage on the Black River. Main house split into 2 units w/one car garage (one side is 2 bed/1 bath newly updated & the other is 1 bed/1 bath). There is also 2 bed/ 2 bath well taken care of mobile home w/detached garage. Live in one of the units & rent out the other two! Great rental potential! $299,000
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ERA DISTINCTIVE PROPERTIES Serving Killington, Pico, Pittsfield, Bridgewater, Plymouth, Mendon including Rutland and Windsor Counties
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Master Bedroom Killington: A rare offering in the wilds of Killington! A spectacular off-grid log cabin on 20 acres! Modern kitchen and a vaulted great room with magnificent stone fireplace. $164,900
Killington: Very nicely maintained side-by-side 6 bedroom duplex in the heart of Killington. This is the ideal home: live on one side and rent out the other side. $295,000
Plymouth: 3 bedroom, 3.5 bath mountain home built in 2004 with solar power. Quiality construc on with luxury finishes throughout. Hot tub, Views & close to skiing. $399,000
Killington: Unique 2.17 acre Commercial parcel on the Killington Road. Over 360 feet of road frontage with great site lines. Seller is a Vt R E Broker. $525,000
Killington: A 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with a screened pa o and a 2 car garage and a private tennis court on 2.78± acres $375,000
Killington: Stunning 3 bedroom, 3 bath, 6,000 sq. foot mountain home nestled in a quiet neighborhood behind renowned Green Mountain Na onal Golf Course. A large, eat-in chef’s kitchen, open dining and living room centered on a beau ful stone faced fireplace and invi ng sunroom are only the beginning of the beauty this home exudes. Whether you make this your full me residence or peaceful mountain get away this property is sure to impress. Located just minutes from the bustling Killington access road with world class skiing and mountain biking, yet tucked away in peaceful privacy you have the best of both worlds! $679,000
Killington: 5 bedroom 2.5 bath vaca on home in the heart of Killington with an open, vaulted ceiling with fireplace in the living & dining area. Duplex poten al. $330,000 Living Room
Pi sfield: Magnificent 20 acre retreat tucked away high on Wilcox peak. This gorgeous home with long & short-range views overlooks the majes c Green Mtns. $650,000
CONDOS Grand Penthouse 3Br $149,000
Plymouth: Beau fully landscaped and laid out private compound on 193 acres. The farmhouse was built c.1900 and recently renovated to an excep onal condi on. The six bedroom house, finished barn & silo is complimented by a climate controlled wine cellar and a magnificent fieldstone fireplace Two detached garages (3 bays each) provide you with plenty of room and overhead storage. Part way up your personal mountainside, is an off-the-grid cabin with a spacious deck for whenever you need undisturbed me alone, or if you want to warm up before doing some tree skiing back to the main house. $1,450,000
Fall Line 3Br $209,000 Mrn Grn 1Br $ 67,599
LAND Killington: This 4 bedroom, 5½ bath solar heated home, with mountain view, was designed for quiet, energy-efficient comfort in ski country. This house has an open floor plan. $725,000
Killington: Tradi onal 7 bedroom, 7 bath European ski lodge that sleeps 20, with 6 of the bedrooms having private baths with updated showers. $400,000
2.17 Ac Commercial $525,000 2.04 Ac Rutl Town $ 92,500 1 Ac PUD Killington $100,000 2.4 Ac Stockbridge $ 14,000
Killington: Newly constructed 3 bedroom, 3 bath resort house with a lo , cathedral ceiling, radiant heat and wood stove. Beau ful kitchen with granite countertops. $325,000
Killington: One of a kind 8 bedroom, 5.5 bath, with 2 car garage property on the Killington Road. Seller is a Vt R E Broker. $450,000
ERA Mountain Real Estate
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2018 BIKE PARK SEASON PASS
Buy now, and start riding free on September 1 through the 2017 season. $319 Adult; $229 Youth; $79 Vermont Youth (midweek only)
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