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Mounta in Times Volume 46, Number 22 Police ramp up safety initiatives The Vermont State Police (VSP) have started to increase enforcement efforts to promote safe, responsible driving for the summer season. Police aim to reduce traffic crashes through enforcement and education. VSP Traffic Operations Commander Lieutenant John Flannigan said, “The Vermont State Police enforcement priority remains focused on occupant protection, including seatbelt use, impaired and aggressive driving, as well as distracted driving.” He added, “High visibility enforcement is an essential component in reducing traffic crashes.” Vermonters’ use of seatbelts has fallen to an 80 percent compliance rate, down from 86 percent in 2015, according to the VSP. Page 19
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200 days of skiing! By Rik Champine
National Trails Day, Saturday Get out and hike! This Saturday, June 3, is National Trails Day, the perfect time to explore a new trail. See area events in this week’s calendar. Pages 8-10
living . E . D . A Living A.D.E. What’s happening? Find local Arts, Dining & Entertainment Pages 13-15
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Two Killington Mountain School cyclists power up a hill during the Killington Stage Race held over Memorial Day weekend. The Superstar trail at Killington Resort, which was open for skiing/riding over the holiday weekend, can be seen in the background between the cyclists. The resort plans to open again, Thursday, June 1, for possibly the last day of skiing this season. Weather will determine final plans.
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Town signs mark the Carriage Trail.
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Sunday, May 28, 2017, marked Killington’s 200th day of skiing and riding this season. The resort opened Oct. 25. Several Killington loyalists gathered at the Superstar lift at 7:30 a.m. to be the initial group of skiers to wait for the 8 a.m. opening bell. It was a gorgeous sunny day at Killington. Pictured (l-r) Manuel Herrero, Rob Kovalesky, Dave Nelson, Paul DiMascio, and Nancy Finn. Collectively these five skiers have skied nearly 475 days at Killington this season!
Gov. Phil Scott became the first governor in the country to veto a bill that would legalize marijuana. Scott announced Wednesday, May 24, he will send the bill, S.22, back to the Legislature. However, the governor said he is “offering a path forward.” If lawmakers make certain changes to the legislation, he’d be willing to come around, he said. Scott believes the Legislature could satisfactorily revise the bill as soon as next month, when lawmakers are expected to return for a veto session related to a showdown over the state budget. The pot legislation, which passed both the Senate and House earlier this month, would Pot veto, page 4
Ancient site found near proposed solar development in Rutland Town
By Julia Purdy
RUTLAND TOWN—Vermont has dozens of explored ancient sites that date as far back as 10,00013,000 years and feature cookfires, refuse dumps, implements and workshops, points, pottery, charcoal and bones, shells, petroglyphs and even burials. Many more lie undisturbed beneath the surface on glacial plateaus, high in the mountains or alongside lowland creeks and marshes. Most have been discovered as a result of development: foundations, highways, power lines and substations, and now, renewable energy utilities. The proposed Otter Creek Solar Project on Cold River Road in Rutland Town is “partway through the process” of applying to the Vermont Public Service Board for a certificate of public good, which began in August 2016, according to Brad Wilson, project developer for Ecos Energy, LLC. Ecos is owned by Allco Renewable Energy Company of Australia, which is owned in turn by Allco Financial Group. The majority of its projects are in California and the Midwest. The company closed on the 56-acre parcel in Rutland Town October 2014. One hoop Ecos must jump through is providing
a report to the Public Service Board laying out “the full limits of physical disturbance due to the construction and operation of the facility and related infrastructure, including areas disturbed due to the creation or modification of access roads and utility lines and the clearing or management of vegetation,” according to Act 248. Ecos must also convince the PSB that the project meets the standard of contributing to the “public good.” In the case of ancient sites, Vermont’s landmark Act 250, passed in 1970 during the governorship of Republican Deane Davis, imposes a detailed set of standards on major development projects of more than 10 acres, or more than one acre if the town has no bylaws or zoning. Criterion 8 of Vermont’s Act 250 protects sites of historical importance by requiring pre-project evaluation of the site and any possible adverse effects. Criterion 8 stipulates that the project “Will not have an undue adverse effect on aesthetics, scenic beauty, historic sites or natural areas, and 8(A) will not imperil necessary wildlife habitat or endangered Otter Creek, page 4
RUTLAND—Sen. Kevin Mullin, R-Rutland, is stepping down from his position as state senator to become the top health care regulator in the state. Mullin, 58, of Rutland Town, will be the chair of the Green Mountain Care Board, which regulates health insurance prices and hospital budgets, among other things. The chair position has been vacant since January, when Al Gobeille left to become the secretary of the Agency of Human Services. Another board seat was also left vacant in January when Betty Rambur moved to Rhode Island. Gov. Phil Scott announced
“HEALTH CARE IS ALMOST 20 PERCENT OF OUR ECONOMY, AND I’VE HAD AN INTEREST IN THIS FOR A LONG TIME,” MULLIN SAID. Mullin’s appointment as chair on Wednesday, May 24. Scott said he would also appoint Maureen Usifer, the former chief financial officer for Seventh Generation, to the vacant board position. Mullin has been in the Legislature for 19 years and most recently chaired the Senate Economic Development Committee. He said Wednesday he was starting to experience burnout and is excited to have a new challenge. “Health care is almost 20 percent of our economy, and I’ve had an interest in this for a long time,” Mullin said. He pointed to his experience sitting on the Senate Health and Welfare Committee, where he helped write the bill creating Catamount Health and the original singlepayer health care bill in 2011. “I’m honored to receive this appointment, and for the opMullin, page 3
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George Vincent Lyons, 92, died Wednesday, May 24, 2017, at Rutland Regional Medical Center. George Lyons was born in Troy, N.Y., May 25, 1924, son of Emma C. Ahearn and William J. Lyons. He was a 1941 graduate of St. Joseph’s High School, Troy, N.Y., a 1950 graduate of Siena College, Albany, N.Y., and went on to receive his doctor of dental science degree from Columbia University, N.Y., in 1953. Lyons married Maureen Foster on June 11, 1955. The couple lived in New York City, Tarrytown and Scarborough, N.Y., before moving to Killington in 1993. George Lyons’ dental career began in New York City in 1955 and continued until his retirement in 1993. Lyons was an accomplished organist and pianist. As a child he played the organ for St. Joseph’s
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travel and various charities. George Lyons was an veteran who served in the U.S. Seventh Army in the European Campaign during World War II. He was wounded in action in Hatten, Alsace, France, on Dec. 15, 1944, and was awarded the Purple Heart. Surviving are his two sons, Joseph Foster Lyons of Trumbull, Conn., and Gerard Lyons of Bend, Oregon; his daughter, Anne
Maureen Lyons and two brothers, Joseph Lyons and Bill Lyons. Lyons was a member of Immaculate Heart of Mary Church and Christ the King Church, Rutland. A funeral mass was held Saturday, May 27, at 11 a.m. at Immaculate Heart of Mary Church in Rutland. Burial followed in Riverside Cemetery in Killington. Memorial contributions may be made to St. Joseph Church, 416
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Mullin: To chair Green Mountain Care Board continued from page 1 portunity to play a role in Gov. Scott’s efforts to grow the economy, make Vermont more affordable, and protect the most vulnerable. The mission of this Board touches upon each of these goals. I look forward to working with the stakeholders across the healthcare system to ensure we are continuously working to improve upon the quality and accessibility of healthcare for Vermonters while at the same time seeking to contain costs,” said Mullin. Mullin is the owner and chief executive officer of Glenwood Movieplex Corp., a company that runs movie theaters. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Castleton University. He considers himself a fiscal conservative. Mullin was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1999 and was appointed to the Senate in 2003. He has been serving as the assistant Senate minority leader since 2005. Until January, Mullin sat on the Green Mountain Care Board nominating committee, the panel that interviews for open slots on the board and recommends candidates to the governor. Scott said Wednesday Mullin had likely stepped down from the committee before applying for the chair position.
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ANYONE THAT KNOWS KEVIN MULLIN KNOWS THAT HE WORKS VERY WELL WITH BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE AND HAS DONE SO HIS ENTIRE POLITICAL CAREER,” SCOTT SAID. Mullin also once chaired the Vermont chapter of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a conservative group that seeks to influence laws made in state legislatures. The Vermont Democratic Party criticized him for that position on social media after his appointment Wednesday. Scott said at a press conference Wednesday that Mullin’s appointment had nothing to do with his political party. Scott said he did not encourage Mullin to seek the position and he was surprised to see Mullin’s name on a list of candidates for the position. The list came from the Green Mountain Care Board nominating committee, which mirrors the Judicial nominating board. The panel, which includes lawmakers from different political parties and members of the public, screens candidates and produces a list of people whom they consider qualified for the position. “He certainly has a lot of experience from his business experience as well as serving on the Senate Health and Welfare Committee,” the governor said. “He’s very thoughtful. He works with other members of the body, both Republicans, Democrats, independents and Progressives.” “If you look back at Al Gobeille, when he was first appointed to the Green Mountain Care Board, I’m not sure that he had the experience that many had sought, and he proved to be a very capable leader and a voice of reason in that respect,” Scott said. Scott said he just looked at Mullin’s experience. “Anyone that knows Kevin Mullin knows that he works very well with both sides of the aisle and has done so his entire political career,” he said. “I think he actually started out as a Democrat back in the House.” The chair is the only full-time member of the board and made $139,818 in 2016. Mullin said he would commute from Rutland to Montpelier for the job. The other four board members work 32 hours per week and were paid $96,678 in 2016. Maureen Usifer’s appointment will be the first time since the Green Mountain Care Board started that the majority of board members will be women. Replacing Mullin Scott will need to appoint someone to fill Mullin’s seat in the Senate. Scott said Wednesday the replacement may not be appointed before the veto session that starts June 21. “I think there’s a number of really good House members who would make great senators,” Mullin said. He pointed to reps. Butch Shaw, R-Florence, and Larry Cupoli, R-Rutland. Mullin also said some former members would make good senators. He mentioned former Rep. Jim McNeil, R-Rutland Town, and Dave Soucy, who was on the short list for a seat in the House this year. “I think the Rutland delegation has a pretty deep bench,” Mullin said. “I think there’s a lot of people to choose from and a lot of it will be on who’s willing to make a commitment” to run for re-election in 2018, he explained. “We’ll get that all figured out in the next couple of weeks.”
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remove all criminal and civil penalties for adult possession of up to an ounce of marijuana as of July 2018. It would also allow people to grow up to two flowering and four immature plants at home. The bill also would have created a commission charged with drafting a system of regulated sales. It is the first time any legislature in the country passed a bill to legalize marijuana. Eight states and Washington, D.C., have legalized pot, but by ballot measure. The legislation drew statewide and national attention from advocates on both sides of the issue, even prompting the editorial board of The New York Times to pen an op-ed encouraging Scott to sign it. Scott said Wednesday that he views legalization through a “libertarian lens” and generally believes adults should be able to make their own choices in private, as long as they don’t impact others. However, he has reservations about legalization because of concerns over how the change in policy would affect drug-impaired driving rates, children and more. S.22, he said, currently does not address those concerns. Scott said he will send the bill back to the Legislature with recommendations for changing it. Scott will ask lawmakers to alter the framework of the commission that would be charged with studying a taxed and regulated model of marijuana sales. He asks that the panel include representatives from the departments of Public Safety, Health and Taxes. Currently, the Agency of Agriculture is the only branch of the administration included on the panel. He also would like to postpone for a year the due date for the commission’s report to the Legislature. The bill calls for that report by November. “This is a huge policy decision for us,” Scott said. “I think that we need to move a little bit slower.” He will ask lawmakers to change a section of the bill that he says seems to weaken penalties for furnishing pot to those younger than 21. He will also ask for steeper penalties for using marijuana around kids or in vehicles. Scott said he has never used marijuana himself, though he has friends who do. He said he feels it is worth considering moving forward on this issue this year, instead of waiting until next year. Though Scott is open to taking further action on the bill in June, its future is now back in the hands of legislators. Sen. Dick Sears, D-Bennington, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and a proponent of legalization, said he expected a veto and was “pleasantly surprised” that the governor expressed an interest in compromise. Legalization is not strictly a party issue — Rutland Republican Rep. Tom Burditt was a sponsor of the initial House legalization bill. But with few exceptions, members of the Republican party voted against the bill earlier this month.
Sanders failed to get Montanan country singer a seat in the U.S. House By Jasper Craven, VTDigger
Rob Quist, a Democratic poet cowboy from Montana strongly supported by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., lost in a special election for the state’s sole House seat, Thursday, May 25. Quist’s Republican challenger, Greg Gianforte, won roughly 50 percent of the vote despite being charged with misdemeanor assault Wednesday after allegedly “body-slamming” a political reporter from The Guardian newspaper during an interview. The incident drew widespread condemnation from Democratic Montana politicians. A number of papers, including the Billings Gazette, rescinded their endorsements of Gianforte following the revelation. “We believe that you cannot love America, love the Constitution, talk about the importance of a free press and then pummel a reporter,” the Gazette’s editorial board wrote. The special election came after
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U.S. House candidate Rob Quist Republican Ryan Zinke, Montana’s previous representative, left his seat to become President Donald Trump’s Interior Secretary. The race was tough for Quist, who was competing in a state Trump won by more than 20 points. But Montana has also recently elected Democrats statewide, including the governor, Steve Bullock.
While the country music singer outperformed expectations — notching roughly 44 percent of the vote — the win by Gianforte, a wealthy tech executive endorsed by Trump, suggests that the Sanders and the Democratic Party have not yet made enough progress in wooing rural, working and middle class voters to secure wins. Sanders crisscrossed Montana the weekend prior to the vote, stumping with Quist. About 12,500 Montanans attended rallies featuring Sanders, according to Quist’s campaign. “There is a visitor we have from Vermont tonight,” Quist said during an event Saturday, May 20, in Billings. “We’ve had the great honor of spending the whole day with him.” According to recent polling, Sanders is the highest-rated U.S. senator, with a 75 percent approval rating. And he still enjoys a rock star status Senate, page 26
Historic preservation of portion of proposed solar site may present challenges
continued from page 1 species in the immediate area.” In 2015, the Vermont Division of Historic Preservation (VDHP) reviewed over 2,000 projects, according to the Valley Reporter, reporting on an archaeological investigation in Warren. “We became aware of the potential for onsite archaeological resources after we reached out to the Vermont Department of Historic Preservation and requested a review of the property by their staff,” Wilson told The Mountain Times. “We have agreed to cover the costs of all the requested onsite archaeological work.” Scott Dillon of VDHP, which is housed in the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, told The Mountain Times that a Phase I survey has been made that turned up a couple of ancient sites and that Phase II is “ongoing.” Phase I makes an initial search for possible archaeological elements; Phase II makes an evaluation of the full range of the evidence and its significance. Dillon said that the potential for archaeological sites in the landscape is assessed based on a “predictive model” and previous finds in similar locations. The long, natural terrace that underlies Cold River Road in Rutland Town is a likely spot for early human activity because it offers level terrain, gravel for toolmaking and access to water. The terrace likely formed at the end of the glacial period as deposits settled at the edge of a melting ice field, he said. Native Americans have occupied Vermont for at least 12,500 years—impor-
tant sites of that age have been found in the course of VELCO’s building of its Northwest Reliability Project, a large power corridor spanning Rutland, Addison and Chittenden counties. Dillon is not worried about the potential impact of Otter Creek Solar on the ancient site. The site was found at the edge of the
mitigation steps being recommended by the Vermont Department of Historic Preservation, for example, hand clearing in areas that have been identified as having potential for archaeological resources,” Wilson said. “We have already changed the boundaries and location of the project(s) on
“I’M NOT AWARE OF ANY INFORMATION THAT WOULD CALL FOR THE PROJECT TO BE ABANDONED,” SAID WILSON. parcel in a planned buffer zone. He said that the developer has already moved the access road to avoid potential ancient sites and he expects that the site can remain in place. Mitigation of negative impacts would include hand clearing, with stumping occurring only in the areas to be graded. According to Wilson, that would be about five and one-half acres in an area that is not archaeologically sensitive. “We would follow the
the property a number of times in response to ongoing conversation with our neighbors, the Town of Rutland, and various state agencies. Incorporating feedback from local and state stakeholders results in a well-rounded project design. I’m not aware of any information that would call for the project to be abandoned.” The depth of the supporting struts would be determined based on an investigation of the
underlying rock structure, performed once the parcel has been cleared, Wilson said. Ultimately, the Public Service Board will make a determination of “no undue adverse impact” based on evidence provided by the stakeholders. Both Wilson and Dillon are optimistic about the project going forward. “I believe the professionals we choose to work with produce the same quality of work no matter who is footing the bill,” Wilson said. “Certainly we hope and anticipate the PSB will approve the projects by early fall season this year. Project construction, beginning with site preparation, could begin fairly soon thereafter.” Dillon defended solar projects in general from his archaeological perspective: “Some are even better than agricultural impacts,” he said. He said he finds Ecos easy to work with, and the state’s goal for renewable energy must be met, in any case, he added.
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More than 26,000 waiting for state income tax refunds By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger
Five weeks after the deadcompared with 208,116 on May 21, line for filing tax returns, 2016. more than 26,000 people are “We were behind over last year still waiting for the Vermont for most of the refunding season, Department of Taxes to issue but we’ve caught up at this point,” refunds on their personal said Kaj Samsom, the tax commisincome taxes. sioner. He said about 12 percent of Some of those people are taxpayers are still waiting. Samsom very low-income and are called it “a big deal” that so many planning to use the refunds people are still waiting for refunds. to pay living expenses, ac“It’s a source of weekly attention cording to Susan Brice, who from us,” he said, adding that his runs the Vermont Income staff is playing “rapid catch-up.” Tax Assistance program for Samsom, who started his job in low-income people. Brice said January, said the tax department her job with the tax program has always struggled to get refunds By Erin Mansfield, VTDigger out quickly. He said this year was runs only from January to late TAX COMMISSIONER KAJ SAMSOM April or early May, but people different because it’s the first year continue to leave her voicethat the department started using a mails asking how to get their tax because low-income people can new computer system. refunds. claim Vermont’s earned income Additionally, Samsom said, the “It’s never been this slow in my tax credit, or they claim the sotax department is taking steps that seven years of experience,” Brice called renter rebate, in which the slow down refunds in order to presaid. “People haven’t been retax department vent fraud. With“IT’S NEVER BEEN THIS porting to me this late in the year essentially out the protecthat they still haven’t gotten their refunds part of tions in place, he SLOW IN MY SEVEN refunds.” She said the refunds are a lower-income estimates that the YEARS OF EXPERIENCE,” “amounts that make a difference person’s housstate could send to a low-income family. They have ing costs. out $8 million a BRICE SAID. plans for that money. They had The tax year in refunds plans months ago for that money. It department said that, as of Thursthat were requested fraudulently. could be to pay a bill, fix a car that’s day, it was still processing 26,351 He said there are also taxpayers not running.” refunds for personal income tax re- who made mistakes when filing Brice said the refunds are for turns. The department had issued their returns, which delayed the substantial dollar amounts in part 198,231 refunds as of Thursday, process, and that the tax depart-
2017 Legislative bills highlighted
By Elizabeth Hewitt, VTDigger
S.22—”An act relating to eliminating penalties for possession of limited amounts of marijuana by adults 21 years of age and older” The final proposal for marijuana legalization, S.22, would legalize adult possession of up to an ounce of marijuana and allow people to grow up to two mature and four immature plants at home, effective in July 2018. It also set up a commission charged with drafting a bill to create a tax-and-regulate market system. However, Gov. Phil Scott vetoed the bill Wednesday, May 24, but left the door open to a compromise if legislators are willing to make changes. Meanwhile, a separate bill to expand the medical marijuana system sailed through the Legislature with little opposition. The bill adds to the list of medical conditions that qualify for the registry and increases the number of dispensaries. S.134—”An act relating to court diversion and pretrial services” The same three sponsors of the marijuana legalization bill also introduced a measure to reclassify penalties for possession of drugs, including heroin and cocaine. The bill downgrades possession of small amounts of the substances from felony-level charges to misdemeanors. Proponents argued changing the penalties could make it easier for addicts to recover. Felony convictions make it more challenging for people to find employment, secure housing, access student loans and more. After taking testimony, the House Judiciary Committee revised the bill to call for a study by legislative counsel of drug penalties for low-level possession. Ultimately, the study passed as part of a separate measure. H.503—”An act relating to to criminal justice” The Legislature also passed a bill that creates a new crime of distributing fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that can be 50 times more potent than heroin. The substance is often laced into other drugs so users are unaware they are consuming fentanyl, and has been linked to an increasing number of overdoses in Vermont and across the country. The House initially was reluctant to adopt the Senate’s proposal, wary of creating new drug penalties. However, the proposal received backing from law enforcement officers and prominent Burlington officials. The bill will create new crimes for trafficking and distributing fentanyl, with penalties ranging up to 30 years in prison and fines of $1 million. S.79—”An act relating to freedom from compulsory collection of personal information” Executive orders President Donald Trump signed early in his administration prompted a rare tri-partisan moment of unity. In early February the governor, flanked by
Vermont politicians of all political stripes, promised a state-level response. The result was S.79, a bill that made efforts to address two potential aspects of the Trump presidency. First, the bill requires gubernatorial approval before any law enforcement agency in the state enters a particular type of agreement with the federal government under which local or state police are deputized to enforce federal civil immigration law. Second, the legislation also took aim at Trump’s campaign pledge to create a national registry of Muslims. It prohibits Vermont agencies from sharing information with the federal government for the purpose of creating a registry based on religion or other personal information. Many across the political spectrum heralded the bill as a rebuff to federal overreach without going too far down the path toward making Vermont a so-called sanctuary state. But civil and migrant rights groups said it was a missed opportunity to enact legislation with more impact. H.422—”An act relating to removal of firearms from a person arrested or cited for domestic assault” Early in the session, the House moved forward with a bill that would give police powers to confiscate firearms from scenes of domestic violence and hold them for up to five days. Advocates said the legislation, H.422, would get guns out of homes at times that tend to be most deadly for domestic violence victims. But opponents said the bill infringed on constitutional rights to due process and to bear arms. The measure passed the House, but got a chilly reception in the Senate. H.74—”An act relating to domestic and sexual violence” Bill H.74, which Scott has signed, eliminates the statute of limitations on sexual assault. Previously, it was six years. It also extends the statute of limitations from six years to 40 on sexual exploitation of children. The legislation also creates a sexual assault survivors’ bill of rights, which guarantees access to services and creates a new misdemeanor sex crime. H.325—”An act relating to prohibiting bestiality” In this bill, lawmakers criminalized bestiality. Until now, Vermont was one of eight states without such a statute. H.171—”An act relating to expungement” Lawmakers also tried to mitigate the impact a criminal conviction could have on people later in their lives. The House spearheaded H.171, a measure that reduced the amount of time people have to wait in order to be eligible to ask the court to wipe certain eligible offenses from their records. The bill shortens the time period for most eligible offenses from 10 years to five. For more serious crimes, the period is shortened from 20 years to 10 years.
ment also could have made mistakes when processing the tax returns. “I’m very sensitive to the folks that I’ve heard from directly and indirectly,” Samsom said. “I consider it a priority of the department to find the best balance possible between fraud prevention and accuracy.” Samsom said the slower refunding process may not be related to staffing levels and that he is not ready to request additional staffing to process refunds. The commissioner asked people to call the tax department if they filed a tax return on time — by April 18 — but have not yet received their refund. He said he has spoken with filers personally to help expedite their refund. The number is 802-828-2505.
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opinion
OP-ED
Teacher animosity tied to taxpayer anxiety By Jon Margolis, VTDigger
We have seen the enemy: teachers. They are bankrupting the state. They make too much money. Their benefits are too generous. They have too much political power. So, at least, one might think from some of the speechifying and commentating that accompanied the recent (and to be continued) flap over where and how the health care plans of school employees should be determined. In the corridors of the Statehouse, in letters to the editor, and on social media, scores of Vermonters vented their anger at the teachers and their union. Most Vermonters? Not likely. Polls show that teachers are just about the most esteemed folks in the country, and there’s little reason to think Vermont is an outlier. But bitterness toward teachers may not be that rare, either, and for good reason. Some of those complaints about them are valid. Public school teachers make more money than most Vermonters. According to the most recent estimates by the Bureau of Labor Statistics Vermont’s annual mean wage last year was $47,620. For teachers it was between $56,670 and $58,070.
VERMONT SPENDS A LOT OF MONEY ON SCHOOLS. IF IT SPENDS TOO MUCH, IT IS BECAUSE THERE ARE TOO MANY SCHOOL EMPLOYEES, NOT BECAUSE THEY MAKE TOO MUCH MONEY.
By Paul Holmes
Baby foxes were seen out and about, not far from their den, in the woods in Killington over Memorial Day weekend.
By Lee H. Hamilton
Talking to the other side
I’ve had a number of conversations recently that convince me our country is divided into two political camps separated by a deep and uncomfortably wide gap. No, I’m not talking about liberals and conservatives, or pro- and anti-Trump voters. I’m talking about people who believe in politics and our political system, and people who don’t. I’ve found this latter view expressed most frequently among young people. I’ve spent some uncomfortable hours serving as a human pincushion for their pointed barbs about the system they’ve grown up in.
That’s for nine months a year, and it comes with a low premium/high benefit health care plan and an oldfashioned pension. No wonder some folks think teachers have it too good. From the perspective of a guy making, say, $45,000 a year lifting heavy objects, with only two weeks vacation, a sparsely-funded 401(k), a skimpy health care plan (or none), and no union to protect his interests, teachers can seem like a pampered elite. Doctors, lawyers, software engineers and hedge fund managers earn more than teachers. But they aren’t paid directly by the taxpayers. Teachers are. At least in theory, every time teachers get a pay raise, taxes can go up for people who earn less than they do. So do teachers make too much money? No, and in today’s political context it’s notable that among those who think not is Gov. Phil Scott, whose proposal to make teacher health care negotiations statewide inspired the current anti-teacher comments. Asked at a recent press conference whether he thought teachers “too generously compensated,” the governor quickly and quietly replied, “no.” Teachers are college graduates. Many have advanced degrees. There appear to be no data showing exactly how much more a college degree is worth in Vermont. But nationwide the college degree premium is large and growing, easily enough to make up the difference between teachers’ pay and everybody else’s. Even factoring in the three months off, teachers earn less than most of their college classmates who went into business or another profession. As to those benefit packages, it isn’t that teachers’ health insurance and pension plans have gotten so much better as that many others have gotten worse. The employerimposed move from pension plans to 401(k)s might be the largest redistribution of wealth upward in the history of the world. Workers who grumble about how much better teachers have it might consider redirecting their resentment toward the companies that eviscerated benefits rather than the workers and their unions that protected them. The teachers union, the Vermont NEA, is active and influential. It mostly supports Democrats, who therefore pay it heed, just as Republicans pay heed to the realtors, grocers and home builders associations supporting them. But the recent claim by the Republican State Committee that Democrats in the Legislature are “bought and paid for by the Vermont NEA” need not be taken seriously. It is a combination of standard political exaggeration and the temptation of partisans to believe that their opponents
Dear Editor, The Vermont State Labor Council AFL CIO unequivocally supports the Vermont National Education Association (NEA) in their struggle to protect collective bargaining rights. While Governor Scott’s administration has put forward a radical “plan” to save taxpayers a projected $26 million, this plan appears to be a cousin to Trump’s skinny budget proposal, half-baked and filled with sound bites and little else. Not unlike the TrumpCare which passed the House of Representatives without even a trip to the Congressional Budget Office, this proposal lacks legislative oversight. The Vermont General Assembly vets legislation before it becomes law. Scott’s proposal came too late in the session
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Savings plan, page 7
They doubt our political institutions can be made to work, are suspicious of elected officials in general, and don’t believe that our democratic institutions can solve the problems faced by the country or help them as individuals. They’re disheartened by political polarization, by the dominant and excessive role of money in the process, and by the seemingly impregnable influence of special interests on the course of policy. They’re convinced that people in power place their own interests ahead of the country’s. They certainly don’t see politics as an uplifting pursuit; I hear the word “messy” a lot, not as an
objectively descriptive term, but as an expression of ethical disapproval. They have a point. Yet I still consider politics a worthy profession. It can be pursued in a manner that deserves respect, even admiration. Sure, politics is “messy,” but not because it’s tainted or morally bankrupt. It’s messy because it often reflects deepseated disagreements that are hard to resolve, with merit on both sides. Politics is rarely a struggle between good and evil; it’s how we Americans try to make the country work better. It’s a means of resolving our differences through dialogue and compromise, rather than through ideological The other side, page 7
LETTERS
Gov. Scott’s “radical” savings plan scapegoats teachers
Proposed fed. budget would be a serious setback in the fight against hunger Dear Editor, The fiscal year 2018 federal budget proposed by the Trump administration would be devastating for the 48 million Americans who face hunger. In Vermont, this would have serious implications on the food security of the 1 in 4 people in our state who turn to the Vermont Foodbank for assistance each year. The budget proposes significant cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps. SNAP is the largest federal nutrition program, providing food to millions of Americans and 85,000 Vermonters each year. This program is the nation’s first line of defense against hunger and is an effective means of ensuring improved diet, health and productivity for those in our community facing
VFFC incubator kitchen dining event was a community succcess
hunger. The budget would cut SNAP by $193 billion over 10 years and makes numerous harmful policy changes to achieve those cuts. It also makes cuts to other nutrition programs, including The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP). The Vermont Foodbank relies on food provided by TEFAP to meet the needs to the 153,000 Vermonters who face hunger in our state. While the Vermont Foodbank works tirelessly to provide emergency food assistance to families at risk of hunger, the problem is simply too big to fix without national government programs that are proven to lift people out of hunger. The proposed cuts to SNAP and TEFAP would increase the demand on the charitable food system drastically
Dear Editor, Thank you to the farmers who grew the food we served for our first Vermont Farmers Food Center Incubator Kitchen dining event held the weekend of May 20-21. Thank you also for the hard work of our volunteer kitchen crew who are helping the VFFC incubator kitchen promote the consumption of local food that helps us feel healthy and well. Farmers, we served your fresh greens, mixed all together, as a symbol of strength that you need farming in Vermont. Our VFFC Farmers Salad was a fusion of goodness grown by the farmers of Alchemy Gardens, Breezy Meadows, Copperas Hill Farm, Evening Song, Foggy Meadow, and Yoder Farms.
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CAPITOL QUOTES “We’re going to continue fighting tooth and nail for this – because a livable wage is about more than just numbers; it’s about respect for our workers and economic justice for those in the middle-class and those striving to get there.” Said Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introducing legislation to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour along with Sen. Bernie Sanders and 29 other Senate members. The May 25 Raise the Wage Act would raise the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2024 and would be indexed to median wage growth thereafter. This raise would increase the minimum wage higher than its 1968 peak. The federal minimum wage has not been raised since 2009.
“The university’s strategy to hold down tuition increases is possible because of our private philanthropic support for scholarships in the comprehensive campaign and because we use more than half of our state appropriation to support Vermont students with scholarships and other financial aid.” Said UVM President Tom Sullivan after the board of trustees passed the lowest tuition percentage increase in 40 years, May 23. In-state tuition increased $408 or 2.7 percent (from $15,096 to $15,504 per year); and out-of-state tuition increased $960 or 2.5 percent (from $38,160 to $39,120 per year). The new rates represent the lowest percentage increases since 1977.
“For fiscal year 2017, the Congress – Republicans and Democrats – agreed to appropriate $607.5 million for international family planning programs. Under our law, none of those funds can be used for abortion... For fiscal year 2018, the Trump Administration proposes to eliminate funding for international family planning as a way to “protect life.” That may be an appealing sound bite, but that’s all it is. For every $10 million reduction in funding for family planning and reproductive health programs, the data shows that approximately 440,000 fewer women and couples receive contraceptive services and supplies, resulting in 95,000 additional unintended pregnancies, including 44,000 more unplanned births, 38,000 more abortions, and 200 more pregnancy-related deaths. How does that protect life?” Said Senator Patrick Leahy, vice chairman for the Senate Appropriations Committee and ranking member on the State Department and Foreign Operations Subcommittee, in a statement May 24, responding to President Trump’s plan to end funding for international family planning.
Teachers: Balancing positions to benefit all continued from page 6 can’t honestly disagree with them, and so must be controlled by some malign force. In the same way, liberals often assume that Mountain State Republicans in Congress who favor more logging and mining on public lands must be “bought and paid for” by the logging and mining companies. They are not. They happen to favor more natural resource production on public lands. Anti-union critics complain that the NEA’s professional staff helps it outfox school board members during negotiations. If so, the union’s negotiators aren’t that foxy. Vermont teachers earn less than their counterparts in the neighboring states. Like the realtors and home builders associations and the chambers of commerce, the NEA and other unions are best treated with respect but not deference. Respect because they are all bona fide members of the community, lack of deference because their job is to protect and enhance the economic well-being of their members, which is not always the well-being of everybody. Vermont spends a lot of money on schools. If it spends too much, it is because there are too many school employees, not because they make too much money. By the usual measurements of school quality (graduation rates, test scores) what the state gets in return for that money is good schools, which do enhance the well-being of everybody. Perhaps the best way to make those schools worse is to go to war against teachers. The remedy here is not to give them everything they want. But demonizing them is the first step toward mediocrity.
The other side: Apolitical trends among young voters continued from page 6 battle or pitched warfare. So I find myself wondering how those of my persuasion might win these young people over. Discourse matters, obviously. Tolerance of others’ views does, too. And I consider the 240 years of our history, despite all the obvious blemishes, to make a pretty good case for the political system’s accomplishments. Above all, we have to encourage young people’s engagement with the problems we confront. Those of us who believe in the system must shoulder the burden of persuasion. If we lose the argument and the next generation turns away, we face dangers and risks — chaos, authoritarianism — that are far worse than what we face now. Lee Hamilton is a senior advisor for the Indiana University Center on Representative Government; a Distinguished Scholar, IU School of Global and International Studies; and a professor of practice, IU School of Public and Environmental Affairs. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for 34 years.
VFFC:
Local food supper a success
continued from page 6 Joe Bossen, who started right here in Rutland as Vermont Bean Crafters donated his All Souls Tortillas to our meal, which worked especially well with Yoder Farm’s “Black BeanSupreme” spiced up with Vermont Tree Spirits’ newly created “Bean Spice.” Most diners topped off their meal with splashes of green or red Vermont Maple Sriracha generously donated by new owner Sugar Bob of
Savings plan:
Smoked Maple Syrup, now in production at VFFC. We finished the meal with Brown’s Orchard apples baked in our own piecrust and doused in Thomas Dairy’s heavy cream whipped up in our new kitchen. Many ate well at VFFC this past weekend, including State of Vermont Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman who assures us he will be back for more. The spirit of those
Governor’s plan is union-busting
continued from page 6 to partake of the committee process. The Vermont Senate passed the Ashe Amendment to shave the property tax rate by three cents and maintain the integrity of collective bargaining. It turns out reducing property taxes is rhetoric for the campaign trail but didn’t pass muster with Scott Walker-style union-busting in the wings. The Vermont Labor Community will not go silently into the night. As Benjamin Franklin so aptly stated, “We must indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we will all hang separately.” Providing adequate healthcare coverage to educators is not breaking the public bank; corporate welfare is crushing the
Fight against hunger: continued from page 6 and it is already stretched to meet the need. The charitable food system now provides 4 percent of the meals to the food insecure, with 96 percent coming from government sources. Charities are not positioned to raise the billions of dollars necessary to fill the gap that these cuts would leave.
vegetables, apples and all the food and dairy that we eat grown by local farmers, becomes part of us and are what we vitally need to sustain and improve upon our own health. Thank you for helping us be healthy. The next VFFC local food supper is taking place on Thursday, June 15 from 6-8 p.m. at VFFC. All are welcome. Kathleen Krevetski RN, VFFC volunteer kitchen manager
working people of America. The wealthy have never had it so good and making educators scapegoats will not raise the standard of living for Vermonters. Raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour and offering paid family medical leave will have a positive impact on life of Vermonters. I am hopeful that the thousands who came together for the Women’s March on Jan. 21 will stand up for the working women and men of the Vermont NEA. Let’s see how powerful workers, the resident “Feelin’ the Berners,” are in Vermont. In Unity, Jill Charbonneau, President Vermont State Labor Council AFL CIO
Federal budget is misguided
“The proposed budget poses a serious threat to the health of our communities,” said John Sayles, Vermont Foodbank CEO. “If a budget is a moral document, this one is amoral. We cannot stand by and let the progress Vermont has made toward building a vibrant state for all be undercut. It
is critical that we all take this opportunity to raise our voices and let our leaders know about the impact that this would have on our communities.” For more information visit www.vtfoodbank.org. Nicole Whalen on behalf of the Vermont Foodbank
CALENDAR
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WHAT TO DO IN CENTRAL VERMONT Rotary Meeting
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 802-773-0600 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.
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WEDNESDAY 6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Wednesdays: 6 a.m. & 12 p.m. 1 hour Bikram hot; 4 p.m. hot power flow; 5:30 p.m. 1.5 hour Bikram hot. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
His Little Feet Children’s Choir
7 p.m. International children’s choir His Little Feet will perform at Middletown Springs Community Church, on the Town Green. Free, authentic curry chicken supper served before the show. Free, open to the public. Info, 802-235-2386. Children, aged 6-12, are orphaned and rescued from Ethiopia, Haiti, India, and Kenya. Doors open at 6 p.m.
THURSDAY
MAY 31
Bikram Yoga **
7 p.m. BarnArts Center for the Arts presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl at Barnard Inn Barn. Buy tickets at barnarts.org. 5518 VT-12, Woodstock.
JUNE 1
Open Swim **
** denotes multiple times and/or locations.
Bone Builders
10 a.m. Bone builders meets Thursdays at Mendon Methodist Church basement. Info, 802-773-2694.
RAVNAH Clinics **
10 a.m. RAVNAH blood pressure/food care clinics: Parker House, 10 a.m.; Bardwell House, 12:30 p.m. Both in Rutland. $10 foot clinic. No appt. needed.
Reading Without Walls
10 a.m. Phoenix Books throughout the state participate in Reading Without Walls Bingo, summer reading program, June 1-Aug. 31 for kids entering grades 4-8 in the fall. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Gene Luen Yang started the Reading Without Walls program to celebrate reading and diversity by challenging children nationwide to read a book about a character who doesn’t look or live like them; read a book about a topic they don’t know much about; and/or read a book in a format that they don’t normally read for fun. Sign-up begins June 1st, but feel free to join throughout the summer. 2 Center St., Rutland or 58 Common St., Chester. pheonixbooks.biz. Free!
Level 2 Yoga
5:30 p.m. Level 2 Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
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.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
7 p.m. BarnArts Center for the Arts presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl at Barnard Inn Barn. Buy tickets at barnarts.org. 5518 VT-12, Woodstock.
FRIDAY JUNE 2
Open Swim **
8 a.m. Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 8-9 a.m.; 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call for more times & info, 802-773-7187.
8 a.m. Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 8-9 a.m.; 5-7 p.m. Call for more times & info, 802-773-7187.
Level 1 Yoga
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.
Smoking Cessation
Bikram Yoga **
Learn to Knit **
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.
9:30 a.m. RAVNAH blood pressure/food care clinics: Poultney Young at Heart Senior Center 9:30 a.m. Ira Town Hall 12:30 p.m. Both in Rutland. $10 foot clinic. No appt. needed. Info, 802-770-1536.
Thursday Hikers
Foodways Fridays
Story Time
10:30 a.m. Green Mountain Fibers holds Learn to Knit classes Wednesdays through end of May, 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Learn basic knitting skills, cast on, knit and purl stitch, cast off. Free with purchase of yarn and needles; $10 to others. 259 Woodstock Ave., Rutland. Info, 802-775-7800.
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.
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!
Bikram Yoga **
9 a.m. Hike the West River Trail to Ball Mountain Dam in Jamaica State Park — easy. Continue on to Hamilton Falls (optional) — moderate. Meet at 9 a.m. at the Godnick Center, 1 Deer Street, Rutland, to car pool. Bring lunch. No dogs. Free admission with Green Mountain Passport or $4. Contact: Bob Perkins, 773-0184.
WRJ Blessing of the Bikes
12:30 p.m. RAVNAH blood pressure/food care clinic: Godnick Adult Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland. $10 foot clinic. No appt. needed. Info, 802-770-1536.
9 a.m. White River Junction VA Medical Center holds first annual Blessing of the Bikes event in the front parking lot. Bringing riders and families/friends together. All welcome, as motorcyclist or spectator. Info, 802-295-9363 ext 5880. 163 Veterans Dr, White River Junction.
Charlotte’s Web the Musical
Story Hour
Farmers Market
Story Time
RAVNAH Clinic
1 p.m. Zack’s Place Theater Guild presents Charlotte’s Web the Musical rewritten by Zack’s Place, at Woodstock Town Hall Theater, 31 the Green, Woodstock. Free for all, donations welcome. 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
Lego Club
3:15 p.m. Sherburne Memorial Library offers Lego Club every Wednesday during the school year, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Ages 6 and up welcome. 2998 River Road, Killington. Info, 802-422-9765.
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.
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. 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. Today, Rutland Parent Child Center hosts. Snacks, crafts, stories, open playtime, dance, songs. Info, 802-483-2792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.
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
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.
8:30 a.m. Level 1 Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500. 9 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Fridays: 9 a.m. 1.5 hr. Bikram hot; 12 p.m. 1 hour Bikram hot. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
RAVNAH Clinics **
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.
Story Time
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.
Summit Golf Classic
12 p.m. Summit Lodge Golf Classic 5th annual golf tournament at Green Mountain National Golf Course. Tee Off Fore Autism, golf for all. Registration at noon, shotgun start 1 p.m. Lunch at the course, dinner at Summit Lodge. Info, 802-422-3535. Teams limited to 5.
Magic: the Gathering
3:15 p.m. Sherburne Memorial Library holds Magic: the Gathering after school Fridays, 3:15-4:30 p.m. Ages 8+, all levels welcome. 2998 River Rd., Killington. 422-9765.
SUP and SIP
4:30 p.m. Stand Up Paddleboard Yoga and “sipping,” A fun, social paddle Friday evenings with Killington Yoga. Free with your own equipment. 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.
Scholar in Residence
6:30 p.m. Scholar in Residence Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S. Ambassador-atLarge for International Religious Freedom will speak at Congregation Shir Shalom, 1680 West Woodstock Rd., Woodstock. Topic, Being the Hands of God: Social Justice. Free, open to the public. shirshalomvt.org; 802-4574840.
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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.
7 p.m. BarnArts Center for the Arts presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl at Barnard Inn Barn. Buy tickets at barnarts.org. 5518 VT-12, Woodstock.
Slate Walking Tours
7 p.m. Slate Valley Museum’s First Friday event offers free walking tours of Granville, N.Y., “The Colored Slate Capital of the World.” 7-9 p.m. Local map crafting activity back at the museum after. 45-minute tour, refreshments follow. Children welcome with adult. 17 Water St., Granville, N.Y. slatevalleymuseum.org.
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Sky Blue Boys
7:30 p.m. Sky Blue Boys, crowd favorites, perform brothers duets at Tinmouth’s Old Firehouse. Doors open at 7 p.m. Suggested donation of $10. Homemade desserts, coffee and tea available by donation. 7 Mountain View Rd., Tinmouth. 7:30 p.m. Rescheduled from earlier this spring, Vishten performs traditional Acadian music, original compositions and traditional French=Acadian songs with driving rhythms. Tickets $24-$35 adults, students $10, kids age 5 and under free. 802-728-6464, chandler-arts.org. 71-73 Main St., Randolph.
Poultney Townwide Yard Sales
Concert in Woodstock
8 p.m. Pentangle Arts presents Michael Zsoldos/Miro Sprague Jazz Ensemble concert at Woodstock Town Hall Theatre. Info, pentanglearts.org; 802-4573981. 31 the Green, Woodstock.
SATURDAY
9 a.m. Poultney town-wide yard sale day, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Vendors welcome, 802287-1120.
Hike Into History
2 p.m. Hike into History at Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell, in celebration of National Trails Day. Led by retired history teacher Mark Brownell. Gather at the museum for walk. Info, 802-948-2000. Admission $5 adults; free under age 15. Mount Independence Rd., Orwell.
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9 a.m. Killington Section Green Mountain Club holds event: Upper Elevation Trail Maintenance, Killington. On National Trails Day, volunteers come out to ready trails for summer hiking. Join local work on Long/Appalachian Trails. Bring water and a lunch, sturdy shoes, bug repellant. Tools provided. Meet 9 a.m. at Rutland’s Main St. Park, or call leader for more info, 802-282-2237. Rain date, June 4.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone **
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Tag Sale
9 a.m. Tag sale at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Hillside Road, Rutland. 9 a.m.-2 p.m., rain or shine. Benefits teens’ trip to National Youth Gathering.
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JUNE 3
White Trash Bash
White Trash Bash at Bald Mountain Farm, 1678 Cold River Road, North Clarendon June 3-4. $20 at the door. Camping is free. BYOB and a truck for mudding. Plus, music, and partying into the night. Hubbard family efforts to help save the farm! 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; 4 p.m. hot power flow. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802747-6300.
Devil’s Bowl Asphalt Racing
Hike at the Notch
7 p.m. FOLA presents screening of “The Martian” at Ludlow Town Hall Auditorium. Free, donations appreciated. Popcorn and water provided. Info, 802-2287239; fola.us.
Project Graduation Car Wash
10 a.m. Rutland H.S. seniors holds car wash fundraiser for Rutland H.S. Project Graduation (June 15). Held at Garvey Nissan, Route 7 north of Rutland, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
Mixed Level Yoga
8:30 a.m. Mixed level yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
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.
10 a.m. Eighth annual Trek to Taste, celebration of local food and healthy living with guided walks through the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, Woodstock. Enjoy complimentary tastings of local food along the path, three guided hikes or take your own path, with tasty treats along the way. Family games, crafts, ice cream social, music and more. Free. trektotaste.org. 802-457-3368 ext 222. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. 10 a.m. Celebrate National Trails Day by taking a guided walk on interpretive trails at Plymouth Notch. Families can enjoy Valley Quest’s Coolidge Quest: a treasure hunt at the boyhood home of Calvin Coolidge, 30th U.S. President. President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, 3780 VT-100A, Plymouth.
Bikram Yoga **
4:30 p.m. BarnArts Center for the Arts presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl at Barnard Inn Barn. 4:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. today. Buy tickets at barnarts.org. 5518 VT-12, Woodstock.
7 p.m. Devil’s Bowl Speedway asphalt track racing: Late Model 50, Ladies Division, plus kids poster contest. Adults $12, seniors $10, teens $5, kids free. Pits $25/$35. 2743 Rt. 22A, West Haven. Track line: 802-265-3112.
FOLA Movie
Deb Brisson and the Hay Burners
7:30 p.m. Addison County performers Deb Brisson and the Hay Burners perform altcountry at Brandon Music. Tickets $20, $25 for pre-dinner. Reservations at 802-247-4295. 62 Country Club Rd., Brandon. brandon-music.net.
SUNDAY
Open Gym
11 a.m. Saturday morning open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 11 a.m.-12:30 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.
Scholar in Residence
11 a.m. Scholar in Residence Rabbi David Saperstein, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom will speak at Congregation Shir Shalom, 1680 West Woodstock Rd., Woodstock. Topic, Religion in Contemporary Politics and at 1:30 p.m., Global Religious Persecution. Free, open to the public. shirshalomvt. org; 802-457-4840.
WHITE TRASH BASH IN RUTLAND SATURDAY & SUNDAY, JUNE 3-4
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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.
Miss Jackie’s From A to Z **
1 p.m. Presented by Miss Jackie’s Studio of Dance, Dancing from A to Z, 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. shows. Adults $28, kids under age 18 $18 at paramountvt.org, 802-7750903. Paramount Theatre, 30 Center St., Rutland.
JUNE 4
White Trash Bash
White Trash Bash at Bald Mountain Farm, 1678 Cold River Road, North Clarendon June 3-4. $20 at the door. Camping is free. BYOB and a truck for mudding. Plus, music, and partying into the night. Hubbard family efforts to help save the farm!
Covered Bridges Half Marathon
8:15 a.m. 26th annual Covered Bridges Half Marathon road race. Experience some of Vermont’s covered bridges in 13.1 mile race and support local charities. Events at Suicide Six Ski Area, Pomfret. Info, /cbhalfmarathon.blogspot. com.
Bikram Yoga **
9 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Sundays: 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. 1.5 hr. Bikram hot. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Vinyasa Flow Yoga
10 a.m. Vinyasa flow yoga - all levels, everyone welcome! With Whitney Berra. Meditative and heat building flow of movement with breath, to cultivate strength, space, and grounding. $10 for non-Mountain Top guests; 6 classes $50. Call to sign-up or drop-in. Yoga Studio at Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden. 802-483-2311.
Ice Cream Sundays
10 a.m. Billings Farm & Museum holds Ice Cream Sundays program 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Lend a hand making and sampling ice cream at 12 p.m. and 2 p.m. Plus, learn about the history and science of America’s favorite dessert. Info, billingsfarm.org, 802-457-2355. 69 Old River Road, Woodstock.
PJ Library Info Program
10 a.m. Informational program about PJ Library coming to Rutland, 10-11:30 a.m. at Rutland Rec Building, Courcelle Building, 16 North St. Ext., Rutland. PJ Library will have free Jewish books and music for children age 6 months to 8 years old. Light refreshments. Info, 802-773-3455.
10 • The Mountain Times • May 31 - June 6, 2017 Dead Man’s Cell Phone
Smoking Cessation for Pregnant Moms
TOPS Meeting
Bingo
Gentle Yoga
Level 1 Yoga
Grace Coolidge Musicale
Citizenship Classes
Vinyasa Flow Yoga
12 p.m. BarnArts Center for the Arts presents “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” by Sarah Ruhl at Barnard Inn Barn. Reception celebration with the cast follows. Buy tickets at barnarts.org. 5518 VT-12, Woodstock. 12 p.m. Maple Valley Grange holds bingo. Doors open 11 a.m., games start 1 p.m. Dugway Road, Wallingford. Info, 802-353-4651. 4 p.m. Grace Coolidge Musicale #1, the first of four recitals in honor of one of America’s most popular first ladies. Katie Lyon-Pingree (harp) and Abigail Charbeneau (piano) present a program of solos and duets featuring a range of music from secular, sacred, and Celtic traditions. President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site, 3780 VT-100A, Plymouth. Info, historicsites. vermont.gov/Coolidge, or call 802-672-3773.
5 p.m. Rutland’s stop smoking program for pregnant mothers, including patches, gum, and lozenges, at Rutland Women’s Healthcare, 147 Allen St., Rutland. Mondays, 5-6 p.m. Register at 747-3768 or rrmc.org. Free! 5 p.m. Gentle yoga - all levels, everyone welcome! Call to sign-up or drop-in. Yoga Studio at Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden. 802-483-2311. Vermont Adult Learning will offers free citizenship classes. Call 802-7974045 and learn if you may qualify for citizenship at no cost. 16 Evelyn St., Rutland. Also, free classes in reading, writing, and speaking for English speakers of other languages. Ongoing. 16 Evelyn St., Rutland
TUESDAY
Author Appearance
4 p.m. Join Jon Katz, author of “Talking to Animals” at Phoenix Books Misty Valley, 58 Commons St., Chester. Discussion on book that will change the way you think about animals. Free, open to all. Info, phoenixbooks.biz; 802-8753400.
JUNE 6
Devil’s Bowl Dirt Racing
6 p.m. Devil’s Bowl Speedway dirt track racing:Sportsman Coupe Special, Catamount mini sprints, plus kids poster contest. Adults $12, seniors $10, teens $5, kids free. Pits $25/$35. 2743 Rt. 22A, West Haven. Track line: 802-265-3112.
Pink Martini Featuring China Forbes
7 p.m. Featuring a dozen musicians, Pink Martini featuring singer China Forbes performs at Paramount Theatre, 30 Center St., Rutland. Tickets $45, $60 at paramountvt.org; 802-775-0903.
Open Swim **
5 p.m. TOPS - Taking Off Pounds Sensibly meets every Tuesday at the Trinity Episcopal Church, 85 West Street, Rutland. Weigh-in 5-5:25 p.m. Meeting 5:30-6:30 p.m. For additional information call Robin at 802-483-2967. 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. 5:45 p.m. Vinyasa flow yoga - all levels, everyone welcome! With Whitney Berra. Meditative and heat building flow of movement with breath, to cultivate strength, space, and grounding. $10 for non-Mountain Top guests; 6 classes $50. Call to sign-up or drop-in. Yoga Studio at Mountain Top Inn & Resort, Chittenden. 802-483-2311.
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. The club will teach anyone who is willing to learn. All ages welcome; open to the public. Tuesdays, 7-9 p.m. 1 Deer St., Rutland.
8 a.m. Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 8-9 a.m.; 12-1 p.m.; 5-7 p.m. Call for more times & info, 802-773-7187.
Yin Yoga
8:30 a.m. Yin Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Art Workshop
MONDAY JUNE 5
Bikram Yoga **
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Mondays: 6 a.m. 1 hour Bikram hot yoga; 9 a.m. 1.5 hour Bikram hot yoga; 4 p.m. hot power flow; 5:30 p.m. 1.5 hour Bikram hot yoga. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Level 1 & 2 Yoga
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.
Open Swim
11:30 a.m. Enjoy the warm water at Mitchell Therapy Pool at Vermont Achievement Center, 88 Park St., Rutland: 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Call for more times & info, 802-773-7187.
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. 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.
Golf Tournament
1 p.m. Table 24 9th annual charity golf tournament at Green Mountain National Golf Course. This year benefits Rutland County Humane Society. Fiveperson scramble, 1 p.m. shotgun start. Raffle, silent auction, donations gratefully accepted. Info, 802-775-2424,
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!
Family Playgroup
10 a.m. Rutland Co. Parent Child Center holds playgroup, at Mount Holly Town Library, Belmont. Tuesdays, 10-11:30 a.m. Informal gatherings for families who share a common thread of wanting a supportive experience for their child. For info, rcpcc.org.
PINK MARTINI AT PARAMOUNT THEATRE SUNDAY, JUNE 4, 7 P.M.
Bone Builders
10 a.m. Bone builders meets Tuesdays at Mendon Methodist Church basement. Info, 802773-2694.
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.
Learn to Knit **
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Rutland Rotary
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, 299-1777.
Ch 10:30 a.m. ris Green Mountain Fibers holds Learn to Ho rn Knit classes Tuesdays through end of May, be 10:30 a.m. and 3:30 p.m. Learn basic knitting ck er skills, cast on, knit and purl stitch, cast off. Free with purchase of yarn and needles; $10 to others. 259 Woodstock Ave., Rutland. Info, 802-775-7800.
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!
Bikram Yoga **
12 p.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Tuesdays: 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. 1.5 hr. hot Bikram yoga; 12 p.m. hot yin; 6:15 p.m. 1 hour hot Bikram. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, 802-747-6300.
Rockin’ the region with Ike Willis
By Dave Hoffenberg and Rick Redington
If you’re free Wednesday, June 7, I highly recommend you go to the West Rutland Town Hall Theater to see an incredible show. For only $20, you get to see a legend in the business—and some local legends, as well. Ike Willis, singer and guitarist from the Frank Zappa Band, will be performing with We Used to Cut the Grass. Also performing are Rick Redington & The Luv and the Ithaca Bottom Boys (I.B.B.). If the weather permits, the I.B.B. will be playing outside on the Green at 6:30 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m. We Used to Cut the Grass is an enigmatic experimental ensemble performing both original and adapted contemporary/classical music. The group — led by bassist, thereminist, hand sawist and composer Cody McCorry — most often features a large horn section and two drum sets, but no two performances are ever alike, with different instrumentation and new sonic intentions. The
ensemble’s accomplishments include: recording the debut single “Woodpecker” using 100 percent solar power; composing and debuting a 45-minute experimental piece “How to Seduce a Cactus” in Asbury Park, N.J.; collaborating with the Vanguard Strings to release an arrangement of Igor Stravinsky’s 1940 “Tango”; touring with Frank Zappa vocalist/guitarist Ike Willis; and performing at the New Jersey premiere of Thorsten Schütte’s Zappa documentary, “Eat That Question.” For all things Zappa, I refer to Rick Redington, who is the foremost expert on the subject. He speaks very highly of Ike Willis and said, “Ike Willis is one of the most soulful singers I have heard and he can play the guitar like reentoon-teen-toon-teen-toon-tee-nah-nee-nah-nee-nahnee.” Willis is the voice of Joe from “Joe’s Garage” and “Thing Fish” from Frank Zappa’s wonderful take on the world of
Broadway, and is one of the late-great master’s longest running band mates appearing on over 30 of Zappa’s albums. If you know Redington, you know his love of Zappa. He said that he has witnessed the immense power, intensity, absurdity, hilarity andover-the-top uber-musicianship of a Frank Zappa concert more than half a dozen times in his life. He discovered Zappa early and said, “It pretty much made everything else seem quite lackluster to me as a kid who graduated high school in 1982 in the heyday of spandex and mascara bands. Frank’s music was such a bright relief of reality for all my other outcast and freak friends. It made us feel like we were a part of another society or secret subculture. His sarcastic wit and intelligent rants on modern day society stay with me and all his fans to this day. ‘Joe’s Garage’ to good friends ‘Little Roach,’ ‘Mr. Ben’ and ‘The Dart’ was like an audio Rockin’ the region, page 11
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Rockin’ the region:
Local legend Redington talks on all things Zappa
continued from page 10 play/roller coaster of music, comedy and sexuality all rolled into one.” If you know Zappa, then you know Willis, who was a regular member of Zappa’s studio and touring bands from 1978 until the last tour in 1988. Redington said of Willis, “The voice of Ike Willis hit me as a young man, who started studying voice and opera in college at Castleton like a ton of bricks. Listen to ‘Outside Now’ sometime and tell me what you think. It comes with my personal money-back guarantee! The first time I saw them play live — and not only heard Ike sing, but heard him rip on the guitar — I was forever a fan.” Zappa passed away in 1993 and a few years later, Willis started Project Object which is the longest-running, alumni-based Zappa tribute in the world. Redington went to an early show of theirs and said,” I was taken to a Project Object show in Glens Falls by my friend and late bassist Curt to see Ike play at a small club over there. I was pretty much an emotional wreck halfway through the first number because I missed this music, and the man himself, and this was so beautiful for me to hear this madness again. I liked that Ike was also playing in a style that was his own, but no doubt harkened to Frank’s playing, as well. I did get a chance to thank him that night as Curt had seen him the year before, and he saw Curt’s ‘Huge Members’ t-shirt and said he would trade him one of his for one of ours. What? Yup, and he even held it up on stage, and in his kinda ‘Thing Fish’ voice he actually said our band name! Also, just about every friend I had back then who was into Zappa was imitating the ‘Thing Fish’ voice so this was immense for me.”
stage with Willis and We Used to Cut the Grass along with the Ithaca Bottom Boys for a couple of shows in June. Redington said, “I have to give this guy a big hug and thanks for helping keep this incredibly important music alive!” Redington said that Zappa’s music is taught in great music conservatories around the world. There’s a reason for this, he said, because it’s incredibly difficult to perform and also carries phrases, melodies and time signatures as well as improvisations that most other acts will never even come close to in performance. “Fans of this music are very often musicians who recognize this and are also themselves some of the most extra ordinary people I have ever met,” Redington said. Courtesy of Rick Redington Willis knows from his experiences here IKE WILLIS with Zappa, as well as Project Object, that Redington’s last Zappa show was pretty memorable. Vermont loves Zappa and it was his request for RedingHe said, “Prior to the Project Object show, I saw Zappa at ton to find a place to host a show up here. Redington Memorial Auditorium [Burlington, Vt.] for the last time. said, “I have opened for and recorded with many legends Frank played a solo in ‘City of Tiny Lights’ that left blisters in my time, both national and local, but I do have to say on my soul and made me fall back in my seat into the this one is hitting me hard and has me rehearsing my lap of a large native Vermonter like myself. I looked up at own band like crazy. We plan on playing as best we can this guy and said ‘Holy cow, I’m really sorry!’ The guy says at shows Tuesday the 6th in Ithaca, N.Y., after a show that ‘No, man, I totally get it.’ That one left a beautiful mark on Sunday in Albany with another legend, Melvin Seals, me that I am so thankful for. During that show a smaller then here in West Rutland on Wednesday.” framed woman with a ‘Thing Fish’ mask on ran up to the Rick Redington & The Luv were recently signed by stage and Frank had her dancing around and later I actu- Kevin Black Presents (KBP) and they are ecstatic. This ally met her and Willis at the local Jiffy Mart getting some show is being put on by KBP who discovered them earlier supplies.” this spring in Ithaca, N.Y., which has become their home This show could not be more special for Redington. away from home. It was there that they discovered the He and his band are so honored to be sharing the same Ithaca Bottom Boys, and Redington is excited for them to come play in his hometown. Tickets are available at Be Music in Rutland and The Wild Fern in Stockbridge or at any of Redington’s shows between now and then. Redington said, “This amazing opportunity and event came to us very quickly so we need all the help we can get filling this beautiful old historic West Rutland Town Hall Theater with good people who love great music. It’s like STOCKBRIDGE BRANDON Mary from The Bus says, ‘Music is the best!’” 12 p.m. Wild Fern 7:30 p.m Brandon Music.
[MUSIC Scene]
WEDNESDAY
MAY 31 BARNARD
7 p.m. Barnard Inn Barn Dead Man’s Cell Phone
RUTLAND 9 p.m. Center Street Alley What Dude Open Mic
WOODSTOCK 5:30 p.m. Town Hall Theater
Zack‘s Place Theater Guild presents Charlotte’s Web, the Musical
THURSDAY JUNE 1
BARNARD
5:30 p.m. Feast and Field Market The Bobs
7 p.m. Barnard Inn Barn Dead Man’s Cell Phone
BOMOSEEN 6 p.m. Lake House Grille Aaron Audet
KILLINGTON 6 p.m. Liquid Art Open Mic w/ Ricky T
MENDON 6 p.m. Red Clover Inn Jazz Trio
PITTSFIELD 7 p.m. Clear River Tavern Open Mic Jam
RUTLAND 9 p.m. Center Street Alley
TINMOUTH 6 p.m. Community Center TES Spring Concert
FRIDAY
JUNE 2 BARNARD
Beatles For Sale Concert
KILLINGTON
BOMOSEEN
RUTLAND
Mike Schwaner
KILLINGTON 7 p.m. The Foundry Joey Leone Duo
7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub Craic Agus Ceol
RUTLAND 9:30 p.m. Downtown Tavern DJ Dance Party
TINMOUTH 7:30 p.m. Old Firehouse Sky Blue Boys
WOODSTOCK 8 p.m. North Universalist Chapel Michael Zsoldos Ensemble
SATURDAY
JUNE 3 BARNARD
4:30 p.m./7 p.m. Barnard Inn Barn Dead Man’s Cell Phone
STOCKBRIDGE
6 p.m. Iron Lantern Carlo Romeo
1 p.m. Wild Fern The People’s Jam
MONDAY
Joey Leone Duo
7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub
6 p.m. Iron Lantern
Cigar Box Brunch w/ Rick Redington
7 p.m. The Foundry
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
BOMOSEEN
Rick Redington
7:30 p.m. Town Hall
7 p.m. Barnard Inn Barn
Throwback Thursday
7 p.m. Wild Fern
Deb Brisson & the Hay Burners
Craic Agus Ceol
1 p.m./7 p.m. Paramount Theatre
JUNE 5
RUTLAND
9:30 p.m. Downtown Tavern Jenny Porter
Miss Jackie’s Studio of Dance: Dancing from A to Z
WOODSTOCK
9:30 p.m. Downtown Tavern
8 p.m. Bentley’s Restaurant
Karaoke w/ Tenacious T
Open Mic w/ Brian Warren
TUESDAY
SUNDAY
JUNE 4 BARNARD
JUNE 6
POULTNEY
12 p.m. Barnard Inn Barn
9 p.m. Taps Tavern
BOMOSEEN
RUTLAND
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
6 p.m. Lake House Grille Ryan Fuller
KILLINGTON 5 p.m. The Foundry Jazz Night w/ Oak Totem
9 p.m. JAX Food & Games
Local’s Night w/ Duane Carleton
RUTLAND 9:30 p.m. The Venue Open Mic w/ Chris Pallutto
7 p.m. Paramount Theatre Pink Martini feat. China Forbes
SOUTH POMFRET 3 p.m. Artistree
Milongas w/ Live Music by Tango Norte
Bluegrass Jam w/ Poultney Bluegrass Society
8 p.m. Center Street Alley Trivia
9:30 p.m. Downtown Tavern Open Mic
WOODSTOCK 6 p.m. Little Theater
Underground Ministries w/ Speaker Nate Mispel & DJ Casey
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• SUDOKU
• MOVIE TIMES
• CROSSWORD
• MOVIE DIARY
just for fun the MOVIE diary
SUDOKU
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.
This week’s solution is on page 29
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CLUES ACROSS 1. Muscular strength 5. Not the front 9. Japanese female entertainer 11. Soars up 13. Proof you paid 15. Immobile 16. Type of drug 17. Traveling from place to place 19. So 21. Los Super Seven member Cesar 22. Small insect 23. Ancient Hebrew measure 25. Beginner 26. Consumed 27. Fruit of the true service tree 29. Part of Congress 31. Needlefishes 33. Blood serum of an animal 34. Ancient measure of length 36. Concubine 38. One billion years 39. Not false 41. Vienna (German) 43. Short-term memory 44. Actresses Meg and Jennifer 46. Clothed 48. Basketball’s “Zen Master” 52. Irish bar 53. Age-old 54. Pride 56. Niger’s capital 57. Makes amends 58. Sound made by horses 59. Russian river
CLUES DOWN 1. Cut the baby teeth 2. Reflexes 3. Midway between east and southeast 4. Beat 5. Sign of aging 6. Goidelic language of Ireland 7. Raise public concern 8. Make new again 9. Something unpleasant 10. Roman orator 11. Flavored 12. Subdivision 14. A pace of running 15. Allows to live 18. Terrorist organization 20. Feudal Japanese commander 24. Type of horse 26. Uncoordinated 28. Deceased actress Murphy 30. Get into _ __: fight 32. Inflexible 34. Amusing 35. Be morose 37. Reviewing online 38. Denoting origin 40. In addition 42. The state that precedes vomiting 43. Ballplayer Denard 45. Spiritual discipline 47. Database management system 49. Fancy car 50. Off-road vehicle 51. __ bene: observe carefully 55. Jerry’s pal Solutions on page, 29
Feeling the burn
I returned to Jacksonville, Florida, this past week for my first three-month, post-cancer check-up. In February, after several months of radiation and chemotherapy treatments, I received the “cancer free” label. However, I will still need to visit the Mayo Clinic every three months for the next three years and then every six months for another two years. After five years with no reoccurrence, I will then be declared cured. Although I was deemed cancer-free in February, I still had a number of residual issues to deal with. What I’ve discovered is that while modern cancer medicine is amazing, it still renders the patient a tad broken when everything is said and done. I have several issues related to my treatment, including tinnitus (a high-pitched ringing in the ears), peripheral neuropathy (numbness in the hands and feet), GERD (acid reflux), and a touch of dysphagia (difficulty swallowing). I also had several issues related to my use of the pain medicine fentanyl, but those dissipated once I discontinued use. The tinnitus and neuropathy were caused by Cisplatin, the chemotherapy drug I was treated with. While Cisplatin does a wonderful job clearing your body of residual cancer cells, it also causes a bit of nerve damage in the process. The tinnitus will never go away; the neuropathy could go away, but it may take over a year. If it’s still there after a year, I will likely have it for the rest of my life. The GERD and dysphagia were caused by radiation being targeted at my neck (because the tumor I had GUARDIANS OF THE GALEXY was located at the base of my tongue). Basically, radiation hardens the surrounding area, causing a host of issues. serious athlete, I push myself for the burn. While there is nothing I can do to improve the tinniMy speech therapist gave me a specific set of techtus and neuropathy, I was told by my doctors that, with niques with a number of reps, but I increased her rechard work, I could improve the GERD and dysphagia. ommendations for each exercise. I figured that these So, right after my February appointment, I began were guidelines and if I wanted great results I would seeing a speech pathologist have to put up great effort. every two weeks to work on My goal was to cure these IF IT’S STILL THERE AFTER A my throat issues. She gave two ailments, or at least give YEAR, I WILL LIKELY HAVE IT me a number of exercises it my best shot while the that would both strengthen window for improvement FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE. and create more elasticity in was still open. my neck and tongue. So every day for the last three months I have been I was also told to thicken any thin liquids that I was training my tongue and throat (and receiving countdrinking (water, juice, etc.). The idea is that thicker liqless stares when I’m idling at stoplights). I have done uids won’t accidentally seep into your lungs and cause everything that was asked of me and more. But would pneumonia. This required me to purchase a special it help? dietary thickening gel that I squeeze into my drinks. When I returned to the Mayo Clinic last week they This sounds gross (and it was initially), but like most retested me with a special x-ray machine. I was told to things in life, I eventually got used to it. swallow various solids and liquids that were laced with You probably think tongue exercises sound nonbarium so they would show up on the x-ray. taxing, but I can assure you, when I’m done with my While I swallowed, they filmed, and later my doctor workout regimen, I’m in pain. I do these exercises three reviewed the results. I can’t tell you how excited I was times a day (usually while I’m driving) and like any when he analyzed the tests and was visibly impressed with how much had changed. He said this was directly attributable to the effort I put forth. Since I was diagnosed with cancer last July, I have approached this disease as a competition—a competition that I was absolutely going to win. Thankfully, that approach seems to be working. This week’s film, “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” also features an approach that seems to be working: great characters wrapped up in an intriguing storyline, blanketed with an epic soundtrack. In this episode, the Guardians travel through the galaxy trying to unearth the origins of Peter Quill’s mysterious parentage. As a child, Quill was abducted from Earth and then raised by a group of alien thieves. Later he became famous throughout the cosmos from having saved so many people. Now, as the leader of the Guardians, Quill must look after his crew as they face another celestial enemy. Check this one out of you’re a fan of the Marvel Universe of films. While initially less popular than some of the other Marvel characters, Peter Quill and crew are quickly becoming fan favorites. A high-impact “B+” for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.” Got a question or comment for Dom? You can email him atmoviediary@att.net.
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Your local Arts, Dining & Entertainment
International children’s choir to perform in Middletown Springs Wednesday, May 31, 7 p.m.—MIDDLETOWN SPRINGS—His Little Feet International Children’s Choir is presenting at Middletown Springs Community Church Wednesday, May 31 at 7 p.m. The choir presentation will be on the town green. A free, authentic curry chicken dinner will be served before the presentation, also on the town green. Doors open at 6 p.m. The choir children, ages 6-12, are orphans rescued from Ethiopia, Haiti, India and Kenya. This energetic, culturally unique, Gospel-centered presentation brings attention to the plight of millions of orphaned and vulnerable children living in the world
today and offers opportunities for people to respond and make a difference. At each choir presentation, guests are asked to consider how they can personally reach children in need in practical ways. His Little Feet’s nationwide campaign, “Be In On It,” encourages people to get involved in at least one of four ways: give, sponsor, go, or adopt. Attendees can take action on each of those opportunities at all His Little Feet choir tour events and by visiting hislittlefeet.org. The event is free and open to the public. Contact Pastor Mathews George for more information at mathewsown@gmail.com or 802-2352386.
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Sky Blue Boys return to Tinmouth’s Old Firehouse Friday, June 2, 7:30 p.m.—TINMOUTH—The Sky Blue Boys, long-time favorites of the crowds at Tinmouth’s Old Firehouse, will be the final concert in the spring series held June 2 at 7:30 p.m. Brothers Willy and Dan revived the tradition of brother duets — two fellows with a mandolin and guitar, a musical teamwork built of habit, their voices fused in the special blend produced by kinship. During the 1930s and 40s, brother duets were the predominant format in country music. The Sky Blue Boys have built up a large repertoire of old ballads, parlor songs, heart songs, songs about Vermont history, and sacred numbers. Heeding their own musical instincts they have expanded the accompaniment to include a variety of acoustic instruments and added many newer songs including several of their own compositions. Willy and Dan have played together for decades. They formed the celebrated Vermont bluegrass band Banjo Dan and the Midnite Plowboys in 1972. Never far from their hearts were the sounds they learned to love long ago — the simple moving sounds of the early brother duets. The Old Firehouse is at Mountain View Road and Vt. 140 in Tinmouth. Doors will open at 7 p.m. There is a suggested donation of $10-$15. Homemade desserts, coffee and tea will be available. Donations for them will help support future community activities and events. There will be a bonus concert at the Old Firehouse on June 9 at 7:30 p.m. by 2x2, a terrific acappella quartet singing folk songs from many traditions. It’s a benefit for the restoration of Tinmouth’s Old Creamery.
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Tours of the Slate Valley offered in Granville, N.Y. and Poultney Friday, June 2, 7 p.m.—GRANVILLE, N.Y.—Granville, N.Y., has been called “The Colored Slate Capital of the World.” Ever wondered why? During First Friday, June 2, 7-9 p.m., Slate Valley Museum will be offering free walking tours of the village that will highlight buildings that are connected to slate’s story in the area. Back at the museum, there will be a local map crafting activity for chil-
dren and art enthusiasts of all ages. The tour will take about 45 minutes. Comfortable footwear is advised. Refreshments will be available after the walk. Children are welcome if accompanied by an adult. The museum also has a driving tour of the Slate Valley
and a similar walking tour of Poultney that will be available for free at the front desk during the First Friday event this Friday. Slate Valley Museum is located at 17 Water St., Granville, N.Y. For more information, visit slatevalleymuseum.org.
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Vishtèn concert rescheduled to June 2 Friday, June 2, 7:30 p.m.—RANDOLPH—Rescheduled from March 11, Vishtèn will be performing at Chandler Music Hall Friday, June 2 at 7:30 p.m. Vishtèn is a contemporary Acadian traditional group. Members Pastelle and Emmanuelle Le Blanc and Pascal Miousse have become a
distinctive and powerful international voice for traditional music from this part of the world (Prince Edward Island and Magdalen Islands). From their traditional roots, these three creative island musicians have been crafting their own brand of new traditional music and a trademark sound
that combines original compositions and traditional French-Acadian songs with driving rhythms. Reserved seating is $23-$35 for adults; students $10; kids 5 and under are free. For tickets, call 802-728-6464 or visit chandler-arts.org. Chandler is located at 7173 Main St., Randolph.
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Special events fill weekend at Calvin Coolidge Historic Site
Courtesy of NPS
A delicious reward to a hike along a trail is the wood-fired pizza station, that will be manned by Woodstock students.
Trek to Taste celebrates National Trails
Saturday, June 3, 10 a.m.—WOODSTOCK—What do farm fresh food, hiking, arts and crafts, fiddle music, yoga in nature, ice cream, and wood-fired pizza all have in common? They are all part of the ninth annual Trek to Taste to be held on National Trails Day, Saturday, June 3,10 a.m.-3 p.m. at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock. Admission is free. Trek to Taste celebrates local trails and healthy food in Vermont’s only national park. The free festivities are open to the public. The fun begins at the park’s Forest Center and continues along the trails to specialty stations, or hubs, scattered throughout the park. This event offers a unique opportunity to sample fresh local food while enjoying the natural beauty of Vermont. Begin at the Forest Center where students from local schools will display their farm-to-school projects and offer free food samples made with local ingredients. Check out the interactive stream table, learn about “Leave No Trace” skills and online trail finder resources, get composting tips, join a yoga hike, participate in a chipmunk quest, and so much more. Check in at the registration table to plan an adventure: grab a map for a self-guided trek or join a guided hike at 10:30 a.m. or 12 p.m to any of four destinations, each offering special activities and local food. A half-mile walk leads to the park’s Pony Pasture where ArtisTree, Billings Farm & Museum and the Vermont Insti-
tute of Natural Science will have family-friendly activities. A two-mile loop hike will take participants to the Nordic Hut where youngsters from Woodstock Union Middle and High School will offer tastings of wood fired pizza. A hardier hike will follow the carriage roads for a 4.5 mile round trip to the South Peak overlook where Sustainable Woodstock will serve gourmet samplings from local food producers. Vermont Fiddle Orchestra performs 12-3 p.m., and an ice cream social will finish the day, 1-3 p.m. At 2 p.m., the Annette C. Compton Fiertz Trail Stewardship award will be presented to an individual or organization nominated for dedication and efforts in trail stewardship in Woodstock. This event will also include the launch of Boots to Boats 2017, a summer-long series of hikes and special events connecting the two national parks in the Upper Valley: Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller N.H.P. in Woodstock, SaintGaudens N.H.S. in Cornish, N.H., via the Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the nation’s first National Blueway, the Connecticut River. Guided hikes will be offered throughout the summer and a hiking and activity guide will be available at Trek to Taste. Parking is at the Billings Farm & Museum overflow lot. For more info, visit nps.gov/mabi, trektotaste.info.
Saturday & Sunday, June 3-4—PLYMOUTH NOTCH—The President Calvin Coolidge State Historic Site celebrates National Trails Day on Saturday, June 3. Organized by the American Hiking Society, National Trails Day invites outdoor enthusiasts of all ages and abilities to find their own adventure at thousands of events throughout the country. The Coolidge Site joins this national program with its own Take a Hike at The Notch! Following a brief orientation at the Coolidge Museum & Education Center at 10 a.m., visitors can explore the two interpretative trails. The Old Cellar Hole Walking Trail and East Meadow Nature Trail, approximately one-mile and one-and-a-half-mile long respectively, beckon beginning and intermediate hikers. Wear appropriate footware. While at the site, families can also investigate Valley Quest’s Coolidge Quest: A Treasure Hunt at the Boyhood Home of the 30th U.S. president. On Sunday, June 4, the Coolidge Site welcomes two exceptional regional musicians for a Grace Coolidge Musicale. Pianist Abigail Charbeneau and harpist Kathleen Lyon-Pingree will perform in the Coolidge Museum & Education Center at 4 p.m. The 45-minute concert is free and open to the public; donations are welcome. Charbeneau and Lyon-Pingree will present a program of solos and duets featuring a range of music from secular, sacred, and Celtic traditions. It’s the perfect opportunity to enjoy the brilliant acoustics of the performance venue, overlooking the Vermont hills, while listening to the soothing sounds of the harp and piano. The site is located at 3780 VT-100A, Plymouth. Call 802-672-3773 or visit historicsites. vermont.gov/coolidge.
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Hike into history at Mount Independence for National Trails Day Saturday, June 3, 2 p.m.—ORWELL—To celebrate National Trails
Being a patient opened my eyes to another aspect of what it means to work here. “Before I was employed at Rutland Regional, I was sledding with the kids and had an accident. I cracked a rib directly over a mass in my lung I didn’t know existed. It turned out to be cancer. I had outstanding care from everyone – the doctors, the nurses, the nurse’s assistants, the people delivering the food, the housekeepers; everyone was helpful and caring. It let me see the whole hospital atmosphere from the patient side. You know I’m a maintenance guy, I’m here to fix a lightbulb or reset some air conditioners or a heater. But I know I can do more than that. Sometimes getting someone a glass of water or a blanket when they are cold...it’s just the little differences that make a big impression overall at the end of the day.”
Larry Napolitano, Rutland, Vermont
Day Saturday, June 3, the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell is hosting a Hike into History. The walk, from 2-3:30 p.m., is led by Mark Brownell, a retired history teacher and board member of the Mount Independence Coalition, the friends group for the historic site. This year is the 240th anniversary of the American, British, and German occupation of Mount Independence in 1777. Brownell will discuss the importance of the northern campaign of the American Revolution and the role Mount Independence played. Mount Independence, a National Historic Landmark, is named after the Declaration of Independence. The hike is included in the price of admission: $5 for adults and free for children under 15. The site is located at 497 Mount Independence Road, six miles west of the intersection of Vermont routes 22A and 73. Call 802-948-2000 for more information.
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Last word: Pink Martini talks on its new album
By Alan Sculley
The Paramount Theatre will welcome the 12-musician group Pink Martini to the stage Sunday, June 4 for a 7 p.m. show. Columnist Alan Sculley gives some insight as to the group, its frontman, and the latest album: As his group, Pink Martini, continues to tour behind its latest album, “Je dis oui!” (“I say yes” in French), frontman/pianist Thomas Lauderdale sounds downright astonished that he still gets to follow his musical inspirations and make a living in the process. “We’ve been going for 22 years,” Lauderdale said, reflecting on his Pink Martini journey during a recent phone interview. “On paper it’s such a preposterous, it seems so implausible for a band playing this kind of music and traveling the world for 22 years would actually be able to function. But here we are. We’re very lucky.” The musical niche Lauderdale and Pink Martini have carved out is indeed unlike any other in pop music. The group’s music traverses a spectrum that takes in vintage and contemporary pop, jazz, classical and a range of international styles. The songs are sung in a host of languages—with “Je dis oui!” spanning French, Farsi, Armenian, Portuguese, Arabic, Turkish, Xhosa and last, but not
By Chris Hornbecker
least, English. The musical mix begins to make sense when one learns a little about Lauderdale’s background and upbringing. “I’m the oldest of four adopted children. My parents were white, but they adopted a multi-cultural family,” he said. “My father went back and forth between being a minister and being a plant nurseryman. So I spent a lot of time both in the church and also growing up on a plant nursery in Indiana. After church services, I would go up to the piano and pound out the hymns that I had heard during the service. My parents sort of took it as a sign.
PINK MARTINI “So I started piano the influences. And what lessons when I was six,” you get really is Pink MarLauderdale said. “And tini, from all of that.” my parents aren’t really Lauderdale did not inivery musical. They listen tially see music as a career to music. They had an option. After attending original tape player. There Harvard University, he were sort of six things that moved to Portland, Ore. really were my childand had an eye on a future hood soundtrack. They in politics. were Ray Conniff, Ray “I was working at city Charles, Roger Miller, the hall when I was in high New Christy Minstrels, school and even throughthe Mormon Tabernacle out college and beyond Choir and the soundtrack college,” he said. “My to ‘Jesus Christ Superstar.’ goal was really to become That was my childhood. mayor of Portland. That That coupled with the fact was my hope.” that I studied a couple of As part of his preparadifferent languages and tions to perhaps run for classical music and also office, Lauderdale started loved sort of like show attending fundraistunes, from like Rogers & ers for various political Hammerstein, those are campaigns and progressive causes. One thing he noticed was that the musical groups hired for these events left a lot to be desired. He saw that as an opportunity to put
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his musical background to work and formed Pink Martini in 1994 to perform at these events. Soon Lauderdale’s political ambitions began to fade and he started envisioning a future for Pink Martini that went beyond playing fundraisers. In 1997, Pink Martini released its debut album, “Sympathique.” The album caught on internationally, and in France the group was nominated for best new artist and the title song was nominated for “Song of the Year” at 2000’s France’s Victoires de la Musique Awards. Since then, nine albums have followed (including a 2010 holiday release, “Joy to the World”). Now, as the group begins touring behind ‘Je dis oui!,’” Pink Martini has built a catalog that boasts several gold albums and total album
sales of more than three million. “Je dis oui!” figures to continue to build on the group’s accomplishments. It features a lively global pastiche of original songs (three of which come from the soundtrack to the 2016 film, “Souvenir,” featuring French actress Isabelle Huppert) and outside tunes ranging from Cole Porter’s “Love For Sale” to “Kaj Kohla Khan” (“The Tough Guy with the Crooked Hat”), a song made famous by the popular Iranian singer/ actress Googoosh. Lauderdale considers “Je dis oui!” a particularly cheerful album that reflected the positive place he and the band have reached in life and their musical journey. “I’m happier than I’ve been in years. I feel pretty comfortable in my life (right now),” Lauderdale said. “So that’s reflected in the music. It generally comes out in the music.” Lauderdale said fans can expect an eclectic and entertaining evening of music at Pink Martini’s shows this spring. “The shows these days are sort of like the greatest hits plus material from the new record. And also it’s a good time of year to also have holiday material,” he said. “There’s a lot going on always at these Pink Martini shows. It’s always moving, so hopefully nobody will leave feeling unsatisfied.” Tickets to see Pink Martini featuring singer China Forbes are $45 and $60, available at paramountvt. org or by calling 802-7750903. The Paramount Theatre is located at 30 Center St., Rutland.
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SUSHI YOSHI KILLINGTON DAILY SPECIALS
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Back Country Café
The Back Country Café is a hot spot for delicious breakfast foods. Choose from farm fresh eggs, multiple kinds of pancakes and waffles, omelet’s or daily specials to make your breakfast one of a kind. Check our Facebook for daily specials. (802) 422-4411
Half Price Night Includes selections from hibachi, sushi, and chinese menu. Call for details.*
Bentley’s
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Bentleys Located a few miles east in the beautiful village of Woodstock, Bentleys Restaurant has been a favorite of locals and travelers alike for over 40 years. Lunch and dinner daily. Tasty fare, live music, cocktails & craft brews — something for everyone! Central and Elm | Woodstock, VT | 802.457.3232 www. bentleysrestaurant.com
(lunch specials served all night!) enjoy our lunch combinations menu all night long for 12.95$. price also includes a Beer, wine, sake or Soda!* 25% off with VT ID Bike Park Ticket or Pass, Current season Ski Pass.*
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Chef-owned, Choices Restaurant and Rotisserie was named 2012 ski magazines favorite restaurant. Choices may be the name of the restaurant but it is also what you get. Soup of the day, shrimp cockatil, steak, hamburgers, pan seared chicken, a variety of salads and pastas, scallops, sole, lamb and more await you. An extensive wine list and in house made desserts are also available. Now serving Sunday brunch! www.choicesrestaurant.com (802) 422-4030
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Looking for something a little different? Hit up McGrath’s Irish Pub for a perfectly poured pint of Guinness, live music on the weekends and delicious food. Guinness not your favorite? They also have Vermont’s largest Irish Whiskey selection. Reservations are appreciated. http://innatlongtrail.com/Home.html (802) -775-7181
Foundry
Enjoy an intimate dining menu or tavern specials at Killington’s only waterside dining that also has live entertainment every Friday and Saturday. Appetizers include crab cakes, buffalo drumsticks and a cheese slate while the entrees include chicken Marsala, meat loaf, steamed lobster and more. The tavern menu features nachos, fried fish sandwich, teriyaki steak sandwich and others. www.foundrykillington.com (802) 422-5335
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At Killington’s hometown bar, you’re bound to have a good time with good food. Starters, burgers, sandwiches, wraps and salads are all available. With live entertainment seven days a week, they’re always serving food until last call. www.supportinglocalmusic.com (802) 422-533
Jones’ Donuts
Offering donuts and a bakery, with a community reputation as being the best! Closed Monday and Tuesday. 23 West Street, Rutland. See what’s on special at Facebook.com/JonesDonuts/ Call (802) 773-7810
Killington Market
Take breakfast, lunch or dinner on the go at Killington Market, Killington’s on-mountain grocery store for the last 30 years. Choose from breakfast sandwiches, hand carved dinners, pizza, daily fresh hot panini, roast chicken, salad and specialty sandwiches. Vermont products, maple syrup, fresh meat and produce along with wine and beer are also for sale. www.killingtonmarket.com (802) 422-7736 or (802) 422-7594
Lookout Tavern
With a free shuttle, take away and call ahead seating, Lookout Tavern is a solid choice. Nachos, quesadillas, sweet potato fries, salads, soups, sandwiches and dinner options are always a good selection and happy hour is from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m. Open daily at noon and serving until midnight on Friday. www.lookoutvt.com (802) 422-5665
Mendon Mini Golf and Snack Bar
Mendon Mini Golf and Snack Bar serves a variety of dining options that include Handmade Burgers, Dogs, Grilled Chicken, Fish, Hand-cut Fries, and many other meals and sides. Also choose from 11 flavors of Hershey’s Ice Cream. 776-4921
Mountain Top Inn & Resort
Whether staying overnight or visiting for the day, Mountain Top’s Dining Room & Tavern serve delicious cuisine amidst one of Vermont’s best views. A mix of locally inspired and International cuisine – including salads, seafood, poultry and a new steakhouse menu - your taste buds are sure to be satisfied. Choose from 12 Vermont craft brews on tap. Dine on the terrace for lunch or dinner and enjoy the view! Just a short drive from Killington. www. mountaintopinn.com 802.483.2311
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Seward’s Dairy
If you’re looking for something truly unique and Vermont, check out Seward Dairy Bar. Serving classic homemade food including hamburgers, steaks, chicken, sandwiches and seafood. Craving something a little sweeter? Check out their own homemade 39 flavors of ice cream. Vermont products also sold. (802) 773-2738
Stony Brook Tavern
Stony Brook Tavern is a Vermont eatery on the banks of the White River in beautiful Stockbridge Vermont. Formerly known as the “Peavine Restaurant”, the property retains it’s beautiful rustic environment inside and out. Many things have stayed the same and many things have changed. The outcome is a wonderful local restaurant we wish to welcome you to. (802) 234-9922.
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Stop on by to Sugar and Spice for a home style breakfast or lunch served up right. Try six different kinds of pancakes and/or waffles or order up some eggs and home fries. For lunch they offer a Filmore salad, grilled roast beef, burgers and sandwiches. Take away and deck dining available. www.vtsugarandspice.com (802) 773-7832
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Sushi Yoshi
Sushi Yoshi is Killington’s true culinary adventure. With Hibachi, Sushi, Chinese and Japanese, we have something for every age and palate. Private Tatame rooms and large party seating available. We boast a full bar with 20 craft beers on draft. Lunch and dinner available seven days a week. We are chef-owned and operated. Delivery or take away option available. www.vermontsushi.com (802) 422-4241
Deb Brisson and the Hay Burners make debut at quaint Brandon Music
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Police: summer traffic safety initiatives begin Memorial Day weekend Hundreds of tires dumped illegally in Rochester, police investigate On May 27 at 7:30 p.m., troopers from the Royalton barracks were informed of an illegal dumping site, on Mt. Cushman Road in Rochester. The complainant advised that approximately 6 p.m. individuals operating a white U-Haul-type box truck with red lettering, dumped 100-200 tires at the end of the roadway. The investigation is ongoing. Anyone with information concerning this incident in asked to contact the Vermont State Police Royalton Barracks at 802-2349933.
Memorial Day weekend through June 4, the Vermont State Police (VSP) will be increasing enforcement efforts to promote safe, responsible driving in support of Operation C.A.R.E. (Crash Awareness and Reduction Effort) and Click It Or Ticket. Operation C.A.R.E. is a national campaign by state police agencies across the country to decrease human suffering on our highways, by reducing traffic crashes through enforcement and education, with an emphasis on national holiday periods. VSP, in partnership with the Vermont Agency of Transportation, will also be focusing enforcement efforts from now throughout the summer months in four “Operation Safe Corridors” on Vermont interstates — I-91 exits 1-3; the Hartford interchange area I-89/I-91; and I-89 exits 7-10 and 12-17. VSP Traffic Operations Commander Lieutenant John Flannigan said, “The Vermont State Police enforcement priority remains focused on occupant protection, including seatbelt use, impaired and aggressive driving, as well as distracted driving.” Lieutenant Flannigan emphasized the importance of another annual traffic safety effort, currently underway: “The Click It or Ticket enforcement campaign is an important safety mission and message in the effort to prevent loss of life on Vermont’s highways.” He added, “High visibility enforcement is an essential component in reducing traffic crashes.” Troopers will also be working with local and county law enforcement agencies during this time to support the national Click It or Ticket mobilization. Vermonters’ use of seatbelts has fallen to an 80 percent compliance rate, down from 86 percent in 2015. For more information on the Click It or Ticket national mobilization, please visit nhtsa.gov/ciot.
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Jeremy M. Cary, accused of felony possession of heroin.
BRATTLEBORO—On May 24 at 4 p.m., the state police conducted a motor vehicle stop on a New York-registered vehicle on Putney Road in Brattleboro for a traffic infraction. The operator, Jalil Freitag, 28, of Wells, failed to produce a valid license and his DMV records showed a criminal suspension in Vermont, according to Trooper Max Trenosky. As the investigation progressed, an occupant, Jeremy Cary, 32, of Granville, N.Y., revealed that he was concealing 100 bags of heroin on his person. Freitag was arrested on the criminal violation and Cary was arrested on the felony, Possession of Heroin. Both were processed and released from the Westminster Barracks with a criminal citation to appear in Superior Court of Windham County.
Pittsford man sited for lewd and lascivious conduct in Rutland Town hotel Jacuzzi On Monday, May 15, the state police were notified by the Department of Children and Family Services that Richard E. Piper, Jr., age 62 from Pittsford, had exposed himself while in the Jacuzzi at the Holiday Inn located at 476 Holiday Drive in the town of Rutland. It was unknown if the children that were swimming in the pool observed this behavior. Through the investigation it was learned Piper exposed himself twice on May 14 (Mother’s Day) while in the Jacuzzi
and the children did not witness the behavior. However, two adult female mothers enjoying Mother’s Day with their children were subjected to Piper’s continuous sexualized behavior. The mothers, age 36 and 38, are both also residents of Rutland County. In July of 2009, and February 2012, Piper was convicted of lewd and lascivious conduct a total of three times. One of the victims was under 13 years old. Piper is currently on the state of Vermont Sex Offender Registry.
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Shaddock named Rutland Region Chamber director of business development RUTLAND—Christopher C. Shaddock Jr. has been named the Director of Business Development for the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce. Shaddock comes with over 40 years of experience in service, sales and marketing in the health and fitness industry along with a decade of sales leadership in resort development including the Killington Grand Hotel project and the Okemo Mountain, Jackson Gore Inn and Golf expansion. Shaddock is enthusiastic about joining the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce and carrying on its 118 year history of serving our business community. “I am excited about the future of the Rutland Region,” Shaddock said. “I believe opportunities are on the rise and growing. I am pleased to be to contributing to our team’s Shaddock, page 27
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With the help of the Vermont Land Trust, the town of Wells acquired two portions of the farm once belonging to Joan and Charlotte Delaney, one of the last large, undeveloped properties that lies alongside Lake St. Catherine. Ken Makepeace heads the Delaney Committee, working to find the most effective use for the 17.5 acres abutting the lake and the 175-acre Delaney woods. The larger parcel is already “growing hiking and biking trails, Makepeace said May 23. The smaller lakeshore recreation area may be more problematic. Delaney Committee member Cathy Walker took the committee’s concerns to the Select Board May 16. She said both humans and animals are despoiling the lakefront property. The humans are leaving litter behind and the geese are, uh, doing what geese do. She asked for the town to clean up the property before the upcoming school picnic. She is working on a Land Trust grant to develop a management plan for the Delaney property and asked the Select Board for a letter of support. The town is to match the grant in money or hours of service. Plans are underway to build a pavilion on the property. Rutland Regional Planning Commission has given the town a grant not to exceed $6,196 for road, bridges, and culverts.
Computers, records on Middletown Springs minds Middletown Springs town officials are considering a new software solution, a contract with the New England Municipal Resource Center (NEMRC) in Fairfax, Vt., for cloudbased software. Doing so would facilitate offsite work for the town’s listers, treasurer, and town clerk, Lister Sally Achey told the Select Board May 11. Selectman Herb Childress is working with Town Clerk Laura Ann Castle to develop a recordkeeping system and procedure for recording all town complaints and relevant information.
Pawlet, Rupert grapple with education equity, costs The Act 46 Rupert and Pawlet merger study committee is making a second attempt at a merger, after a non-binding referendum vote. The committee recorded that meetings in August and September were well attended by largely pro-school choice community members, but that the referendum vote swayed toward continued designation of New York schools based on lower costs. Pawlet and Rupert are both aging communities. According to demographic figures presented, 30 percent of Rupert residents and 28 percent in Pawlet are retired or on Social Security, compared to a state average of 21 percent and a national average of 20. Rupert and Pawlet are also the only two towns in the state that designate schools in New York State, although other towns have designation to schools in other states. Schools on Vermont’s eastern boundary, however, also have interstate school board governance. There is no such agreement in New York State. Therefore, Rupert and Pawlet parents have little determination in school decisions. Melanie Cole and Chuck Armentrout released an online document January 27 entitled “The State of Educational Equity in Rupert and Pawlet,” representing the organization Families for Education in Vermont, a group that had been informally chartered early in the Act 46 process and continues to support educational opportunities for students in the area. Cole wants the school boards to drop their insistence to continue to designate schools in New York and to opt for choice, giving parents Vermont’s average tuition
to make the best choice for their students — New York schools or otherwise. Towns surrounding Rupert and Pawlet allow school choice. They also are economically healthier, with more property sales, she noted. Local residents who want to continue school designation prioritize lowered tuition over empowered parents who want to determine how their child’s educational needs are best met. About 100 people came to a recent meeting in Mettawee School, Cole said. Only 12 of them indicated they wanted to continue school designation. “No one is asking for full tuition at Burr & Burton,” Cole clarified, but she believes they should receive the Vermont average education funding for their students and the ability to send children to schools where, parents determine, their child’s educational interests, strengths and weaknesses are addressed. During FY16/17, Rupert students could attend school in Salem, N.Y., with a tuition cost of $7,700; Pawlet students in Granville, $8,800. Tuition in New York is a bargain; Vermont average tuition is more than $14,000. The distance from town to a New York school is also a bit closer. Salem, N.Y. is less than 10 miles from Rupert, and Long Trail School and Burr & Burton Academy (independent schools in Vermont) are also closer to Rupert, about 5.5 miles and 13 miles respectively. Poultney High is 23 miles and Arlington High, 21 miles. Similarly, Granville High in New York is 7.8 miles from Pawlet, with the same distance to Long Trail School. Burr & Burton is 15.2 miles, while Poultney High is 14.2 miles.
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Teacher negotiations prove unproductive Rutland City School Board President Dick Courcelle said the board recognized that negotiations with the teachers’ union were not being productive and declared an impasse at its May 23 meeting. A series of eight meetings with the Rutland Education Association that began Jan. 13 left most issues unresolved or unaddressed, according to reports by VTDigger and the Rutland Herald. Vermont regulations permit either the School Board or the teachers’ union to declare an impasse if negotiation by itself seems dubious. Impasse declared, the con-
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Certified Physician Assistant Jennifer Kish has joined the staff of Rutland Regional Medical Center’s Vermont Orthopedic Clinic. The Pittsburgh native graduated from Tufts University’s School of Medicine Physician Assistant program in 2017. Blake Lopes, MPAS, PA, has joined Rutland General Surgery, Rutland Regional Medical Center, as a physician assistant with a focus on surgical care. She is a 2016 graduate of Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences’ master of physician assistant studies program. The College of St. Joseph has hired Jody Breault as vice president of human resources. During her 16 years of human resources experience, she spent nearly the last seven years as Rutland City director of human resources..
tract must go to mediation or to a fact-finding process. It’s too soon to stop negotiating, REA President Ellen Green said by email, describing the School Board’s action as unfortunate and disappointing. Although the School Board position was that a standstill had been reached, the teachers’ union, representing all but school administrators. Both school board and union agree that Rutland’s 260 teachers receive lower pay than do the teachers in surrounding districts, and that they should be paid more. The board apparently proposed an average 4.76 percent teacher salary increase while adding five workdays for a total of 190. Green had written to REA members that the School Board proposal also removed some teacher benefits. She labeled the school district attempt as breaking a respectful and cooperative relationship.
Films bring prizes, scholarship, career Stafford Technical Center student Harrison Steever won first prize, $500, at the Castleton VideoFest in 2016 as a junior for producing and directing the narrative fiction, “MLG Super Squad 360 Noscope Defenders of Gaben.” He won again this May with a sequel, “MLG Super Squad 360 Noscope Defenders of Gaben 2.” This year, he won $2,000 and a $2,000 PEGTV Courcelle scholarship. Steever’s plot line, acted by a group of friends, is the story of three nerds who hang out together, he said. In the first film, they rescue a console stolen from a gaming company and return it to its owner. The second film follows the same group of friends, because Steever and his friends “decided we couldn’t just end it here.” Video and Multimedia Communications teacher Cristina Kumka describes Steever as “a tremendously talented storyteller” who has learned a lot more than filmmaking at Stafford, following an educational model called “project-based learning.” Stafford helped Steever find his direction to go to college, Kumka said. He will enter Castleton with college credits. Steever worked on video projects for the Vermont Small Business Administration and the Wonderfeet Children’s Museum in his first year. His second year, he took on a client project for General
Level funding causes reduced hours at Rutland Free Library On July 1, the Rutland Free Library will reduce its hours, Director Abby Noland announced recently. Monday through Wednesday, the library will close at 7 p.m. rather than 9 p.m. as it had done previously throughout the winter months. Running the library grows ever more expensive, as the cost of materials, technology, and health insurance continue to rise, while the Board of Aldermen has not increased library funding. The library has pursued and received grants to cover essential work in the building, owned by Rutland City. Among those projects are replacing rotted subflooring in the circulation area and poorly functioning restroom plumbing in the lobby. The trustees have helped to find ways to reduce overhead costs, Noland elaborated. Book sales, sponsorship and monetary donations have helped but unfortunately, not been enough to keep the library open longer hours.
Electric’s North Clarendon plant. “He and his fellow students have learned how to work on a professional basis, developing technical and networking with peers. Working with local companies also always teaches students to network and often, those companies remember students who worked for them in high school and offer them jobs after they get out,” Kumka said. “Darlene Miglorie, the work-based coordinator here, does an amazing job placing students from other programs in real jobs outside school when they are ready for it.” Students in her courses know that “I’m speaking as their boss,” she said of the instructional method she employs. School is very much like a workplace setting. “For two years, the kids create their own grades system. They decide what a 50 or a 90 is. They grade themselves,” she said. Students get three or four grades, then they begin working on a growth-based model, evaluating where they started and identifying how much they have improved from where they were a week or two previously. That ability to evaluate themselves gives students confidence that they know what to do to get an A. To see Steevers’ prize-winning video, visit youtube.com/ watch?v=alEWOlFOzRo.
Rutland courts reach decisions Local bankruptcy attorney John Canney III accepted a federal plea agreement on two income tax-related charges, May 15; the two felony counts may result in his spending up to six years in jail. One charge was for an understated individual tax return; the other, a understated corporate tax return, according to a May 19 report published in the Rutland Herald. No date was set for sentencing at the time.
The Vermont Supreme Court affirmed Christopher Sullivan’s conviction for DUI resulting in death but overturned his sentence, saying that the trial court should have allowed additional time for the former city attorney to bring expert testimony, reported in VTDigger, Apr. 15. But White River Junction Criminal Court Judge Theresa DiMauro refused to allow Sullivan release to home detention while he waits for a Rutland Region, page 27
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Castleton Upward Bound receives grant for 63 high schools CASTLETON—Castleton University recently received word from the office of Senator Patrick Leahy that its TRiO Upward Bound program has been funded for five more years, according to a May 26 news release. The grant will serve 63 high school students in Rutland County attending the target schools of Fair Haven Union High School, Mill River Union High School, Poultney High School, Rutland Senior High School and West Rutland High School. Castleton University has successfully managed a U.S. Department of Education TRiO Upward Bound program since 2003. While the grant process was competitive, Castleton Upward Bound received additional points for exceeding its objectives in the areas of grade point average, standardized tests, secondary school retention and graduation, and postsecondary enrollment and graduation in the previous grant cycle — a testament to Castleton University’s institution-wide commitment to excellence in educational opportunity. Upward Bound is a federally funded TRiO program at Castleton that offers challenging pre-college experiences to students of high school academic ability from low-income families. The goal of the program is to generate the skills and motivation necessary for success in high school and college through a six-week semester residential program and an academic year component. TRiO was established by the Higher Education Act of 1965 to assist low-income individuals and/or first-generation college students and students with disabilities to earn baccalaureate degrees. Castleton Upward Bound, a TRiO program adopted by then Castleton College in 2003, has served more than 200 local high school students. Since its inception 75 percent of Castleton Upward Bound students have enrolled in college immediately following high school graduation, compared to just 35 percent of low-income Vermont high school graduates.
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LEXIE 1.5-year-old. Spayed Female. Domestic Short Hair. Torbie with White. I am cute as a button with my big eyes and ears to match. I am looking for a loving home where I can get tender love and care.
SCREETCH - 6-year-old. Neutered Male. Shepherd mix. Well, I’m glad the weather has finally gotten nicer because I’ve got a spring in my step and I’m ready to go! I’m a spunky fella and I’m on the go!
SPIRIT - 1.5-year-old. Neutered Male. Labrador Retriever mix. What can I say, I’m just a nice dog! I’m super sweet, social, have nice leash manners – just terrific! I’m a great size so take me along!
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EMERY - 1.5-year-old. Spayed Female. Domestic Short Hair. Brown Tabby with White. I was surrendered because I was not getting along with kids, so I am looking for a home with no kids. If you would like to come visit and chat with me.
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IR N EXP QUESTION: Andrew and Gregg are playing in a tournament. On the 4th hole, they both lie on the fairway somewhat close to each other. Gregg, who is away, makes a backswing as Andrew inadvertently drops a ball which rolls within six inches of Gregg’s ball. The movement of Andrew’s ball startles Gregg and he tops his shot. Gregg then says that in equity, he should be able to replay his stroke. Andrew disagrees and says that’s the rub of the green. Is Andrew correct?
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Okemo gets new director of culinary services Willie Dunn’s Grille at golf club featured for summer LUDLOW—Okemo Mountain Resort welcomes Ashley Elicker as its new director of culinary services. She will oversee all aspects of the resort’s culinary operations on a year-round basis. Originally from New Canaan, Conn., Elicker graduated from Middlebury College, in Vermont. She earned her MBA from the University of Virginia and completed the French Culinary Institute’s Classic Culinary Arts Program. “Ashley brings an excitement and
knowledge of the culinary arts that will forge Okemo ahead of expectations and continue our quest to provide a culinary experience which is on par with our snow quality and resort experience,” said Okemo VP and General Manager Bruce Schmidt. During the summer, two restaurants feature popular alfresco dining as well as air-conditioning: Coleman Brook Tavern at The Jackson Gore Inn and Willie Dunn’s Grille at Okemo Valley Golf Club.
ANSWER: Distractions in golf are a common occurrence and must be accepted when they occur. Andrew is correct. Gregg should not be allowed to replay his stroke. See USGA Decisions on the Rules of Golf, 2017-2018, 1-4/1. Golf clinics continue on Saturday mornings, 10:30 a.m.12 p.m. Private lessons can also be arranged by calling GMNGC, 802-422-4653. Remember, the swing’s the thing and continuous improvement is what it’s all about.
9th anniversary tournament set for June 5 at GMNGC KILLINGTON—On Monday, June 5, Table 24 restaurant in downtown Rutland will proudly host its 9th anniversary charity golf tournament. Proceeds from this year’s event will benefit the Rutland County Humane Society. Past beneficiaries have included the Rutland County Parent Child Center, the Carly Ferro Purple Angel Foundation, Project Vision, and the Foley Cancer Center. The five-person scramble format tournament begins with a shotgun start at 1 p.m. at Green Mountain National Golf Course, Barrows Towne Road, Killington. The event will also include a raffle and silent auction, and donations will be gratefully accepted. For more information or to sign up for the tournament, call 802-775-2424 or visit Facebook.com/Table24.Rutland.
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Watching children suffer The fifth season of “MasterChef Junior,” the competitive reality series on Fox, concluded in May. One of roughly 90 shows hosted by the celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay, “MasterChef Junior” is a spinoff of “MasterChef,” an amateur cooking contest, replicated exactly but for the ages of the participants, who, in this iteration, range from 8 to 13. “MasterChef” has always been better than its closest cable analogue, Bravo’s “Top Chef,” mostly on account of its greater diversity of personalities — which emerge from all walks of life, rather than just the kitchens of America’s gourmet restaurants — and a stronger emotional appeal rooted in its humble home cooks’ quest for a sliver of the recognition achieved long ago by the pros of Food Network et al. There is something deeply touching about watching a privately honed talent unfurl, finally, in public, especially when — as in the case of the mothers and fathers who primarily cook for their children — no public display was initially planned. Still, as a longtime “MasterChef” fan, I drew some shame-based line at the juvenile edition, which struck me as a cash-grab: the set and concept were already in place, and naturally the workaholic-cum-rageaholic Ramsay would find a way to put them to double duty, even if 8-year-olds don’t actually know how to cook — that could be fixed in post-production, right? But this year I gave in, and boy, do I regret not lowering my standards sooner: “MasterChef Junior” is fantastic viewing. The contestants are even more endearing, and the feats they pull off are — with their ages taken into account — far more spectacular. At age 29, I can only dream of being as competent and confident in my easygoing daily life as these fearless tweens are beneath the glare of the TV lights and the glare of Gordon Ramsay. Now that I’ve finished watching a season, I have a few important reflections. The first thing that occurred to me is that surely very few of these kids will grow up to become chefs. They definitely have the talent for it, but the skills that create a “MasterChef” champion — primarily, grace under pressure, strong judgment, and attention to detail — could equally be applied to some other field, and the personalities of the kids on “MasterChef Junior” don’t align at all with those of the contestants on “Top Chef.” The children of “MasterChef Junior” loosely belong to two categories: some of them are science nerds, for whom cooking functions as an extension of their chemistry-set tinkering; the others are budding achievers, for whom their stint on “MasterChef Junior” will be just one bullet point on a carefully crafted college application. The first group is adorably awkward on camera; the second group already speaks with an Obama-level poise and precision, which is kind of adorable too. They’re all almost unnervingly intelligent, and they don’t seem to have any of the slightly artsy dysfunction that characterizes many of the cooks on “Top Chef,” who tend to smoke too much and drink too much and, although they’re more surely ambitious than their peers who don’t make it to TV, remain at least to some degree sensualists — hence their devotion to food above all else. On “MasterChef Junior,” the “nerds” will end up working as engineers for NASA or Google, and the “achievers” will be CEOs or politicians. The punk rock atmosphere of the kitchens described in Anthony Bourdain’s books wouldn’t suit them at all. Once one has deduced this, the show is in some sense stripped of consequence: these kids are theoretically pursuing their dreams, but in all likelihood, their dreams will change, so who cares if they’re successful here or not? That interpretation doesn’t hold, however, because when small, lovable children want something with all their heart, it’s impossible not to root for them — which brings me to the second “problem” of the show. Here it is: a huge component of “MasterChef Junior” is the experience of watching children cry. Each contestant has pinned his or her hopes on something big, and all but one will fall short — and as viewers, we’ll witness the emotional devastation that follows. Nearly all of these Gen Y, page 27
Twilight singer: The Hermit Thrush
By Susan Shea
If you take a walk in the woods on a summer evening, you may be treated to the ethereal, flute-like song of the hermit thrush, often the only bird still
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singing at dusk (and the first bird to sing in the morning). In 1882, naturalist Montague Chamberlain described it as a “vesper hymn that flows so gently out upon the hushed air of the gathering twilight.” The hermit thrush, once nicknamed American nightingale, is among North America’s finest songsters; its beautiful song is one of the reasons Vermont chose the hermit thrush as its state bird. The hermit thrush is one of the first woodland migrants to return to northern New England in spring. If you’re lucky, you may catch a glimpse of this brown bird with a white breast dotted with black and a rusty rump and tail, perched on a log, flicking its tail up and down. The male arrives in April to establish a territory, which he does by singing and chasing away rival males. By May, the females have arrived. After a
three- to four-day courtship with her chosen mate, the female builds a nest beneath concealing vegetation, such as a small tree or shrub. Most are placed in a natural depression atop a small mound – maybe in a patch of clubmoss on the forest floor, or at the top of a steep bank along a woods road. The nest is constructed of twigs, strips of bark, dried grasses, ferns, and mosses, and is lined with pine needles, plant fibers, or rootlets. The female lays three to six pale blue eggs, which are sometimes spotted with brown. The male hermit thrush brings food to the female while she is incubating the eggs, and guards the nest by singing from a perch in the vicinity. After twelve days, the young hatch, naked and with eyes closed. They grow rapidly on a diet of caterpillars and insects brought by their attentive parents. Kent McFarland, a biologist at the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, has even seen hermit thrushes stuffing small salamanders down nestlings’ throats. By nine days the young thrushes have developed feathers, and three days later they are ready to fledge or leave the nest. Arthur Cleveland Bent, author of “Life Histories of North American Birds,” described watching hermit thrush parents encourage their young to fly by perching and calling from a distance with food in their bills. After the fledglings made their first attempts to fly, they were rewarded with food. Like other songbirds, hermit thrush parents continue to feed their young for a while after they fledge. The young birds learn to forage by watching their parents hop along the forest floor and turn over the leaf litter with their bills; they also quiver their feet on the ground, perhaps to flush out insects. In spring and summer, these birds eat insects and small invertebrates, including beetles, ants, spiders, caterpillars, snails, and earthworms. In fall and on
their wintering grounds, they also eat fruit such as raspberries, grapes, and elderberries. Hermit thrushes prefer to nest in mixed woodlands and moist coniferous forests which have openings such as ponds and meadows close by. Numbers of hermit thrushes are holding up well, said McFarland. A new report by the Vermont Center for Ecostudies, based on 25 years of forest bird monitoring at 31 different mature forest stands, showed no significant change in the population of hermit thrushes in Vermont. Other forest bird species didn’t fare as well – there was a 14% decline in overall bird abundance at these sites. Some theorize that hermit thrush numbers are stable in Vermont because they winter in the southeastern U.S. and are not dependent on tropical forest. Extensive research has been conducted on the hermit thrush’s exquisite song. Analysis of spectrograms (graphs of sound frequencies) has shown that the songs of individual hermit thrushes are quite different. Male thrushes have a repertoire of seven to thirteen song types. No two birds sing the same song. The males sing with variety, never repeating the same song type consecutively. Researchers believe it is the female who has shaped the songs of male hermit thrushes over the eons. Males with certain singing characteristics are chosen to be fathers, and those singing behaviors are perpetuated. The melodies of the hermit thrush follow the same mathematical principles that underlie many musical scales. The males favor harmonic chords similar to those in human music. Perhaps this is why the song of the hermit thrush is so appealing to us. Wrote naturalist John Burroughs, “Mounting toward the upland again, I pause reverently as the hush and stillness of twilight come upon the woods… And as the hermit thrush’s evening hymn goes up from the deep solitude below me, I experience that serene exaltation of sentiment of which music, literature, and religion are but the faint types and symbols.” Susan Shea is a naturalist, writer and conservation consultant who lives in Brookfield, Vt.. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: wellborn@nhcf.org.
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Creating Heaven or Hell on earth whenever I feel overwhelmed, discouraged, mad, or just Inspiration may strike at the oddest hour betwixt and let down, I go outside and find my place to contemplate between deep sleep and dreams, then an idea floats into my head and I have to get up. It can’t be ignored. If I don’t and look around. Soon I feel rejuvenated and gain a new jump up out of bed right then and I mull it over again and perspective, like I did as a girl in a most unlikely place. again, by the time As I listened to spiritual teacher Greg Sherwood interview Anita Moorjani in the Hay House World Summit, she I’m ready to write talked about her new book, “What If This Is Heaven? How it down, it isn’t Our Cultural Myths Keep Us From Experiencing Heaven there. It’s left my on Earth.” She, too, discovered a new perspective in an head. But if I get Mountain up while it’s fresh, unlikely place. While in a coma from end-stage cancer, on Meditation Anita was aware of rising above her body in the hospital I sit down at my By Marguerite te room and going to a higher dimension. She learned that computer desk Jill Dye our illnesses are our bodies’ way of trying to communicate and pray for the with us and that competition limits creativity. She learned muse to return the ego is a healthy part of who we are as long as we gain to me. When it returns, I type word for word, not knowing self-awareness, and that we need our ego to fully value where my writing may lead. If I’m uncertain, I pause and ourselves. The ego helps us understand our traits so we request confirmation and further guidance. can best shine our light on the world. “Who am I? Who Whenever I sit before the white screen, patiently waiting for words that don’t come, I dress and go outside for have I come here to be?” She understood that heaven is a walk or bike ride to freshen my mind. Then I see a lively not a place, it is a state of being where “our only work is to gymnast squirrel, a red fox dart, or value ourselves, love ourselves ... MANY TEACHERS SAY WE and be love in action.” a song bird chirp. The sun rises up Many teachers say we return over the trees, shining across the RETURN TO EARTH TO to earth to experience life and mountaintops. A new day dawns EXPERIENCE LIFE AND LEARN. learn. Our souls are immortal and promising beauty, action, interacyearn to return for the privilege tion, and new ideas. I’ve learned of growing in our earth school. Anita’s father, who had to appreciate these simple things that make daily life so crossed over years before, was there to ask what she’d preinteresting. I anticipate feeling joie de vivre while seeing old friends and meeting new people. By setting intention fer: to stay in the loving, heavenly realm or return to earth to have a great day, it unfolds smoothly and falls into place. to complete her life purpose. She didn’t know what her However, as we all know, being human comes with diffi- purpose was but had flashes of speaking before thousands cult days rather often. When challenges to my peace arise I of people. She had no idea why or what she would say, but take a deep breath and consciously decide to remain calm she chose to return, and soon was revived. and try to perceive the problem from a higher perspective. The doctors were baffled. Her tumors were gone. She It isn’t easy, that’s for sure, but it’s getting easier each time rose from her deathbed to recreate her own life. People I try. turned away when she shared her experience. It was It reminds me of when I was a girl in the woods of Vercontrary to what they’d learned. But when Wayne Dyer mont as we built our own ski house. We followed my dad heard her speak he immediately took her under his manifesting his dream on weekends from our New Jersey wing, introducing her to the world to share her profound home. Every weekend was an adventure, indeed, helping insights. She’d grown up in a foreign culture, in a family my parents and exploring the woods. Once in a while, as a from a fear-based society, where the repression of women child, I’d get upset and want to escape. When I was older, was a normal thing. She explained how treating women as like most teens, I’d get riled up about not much. Perhaps second class citizens limits girls’ God-given dreams and I’d been told what I should do or received a guilt trip for potential. The repression of women backfires and hurts this or that. Whenever I felt that I would explode, I’d stomp everyone, not only half of the world. Another lesson Anita learned is that in our fear-based out of our tent or later, basement, feeling sorry for myself. culture, we learn to fear death, but there is nothing to fear. I marched through the woods, huffing and puffing, to my Death is a continuation of our soul’s life, but without that destination where I sat down to brood — inside the tiny understanding, we live in fear. It is our choice to live in wooden house where a Sears Roebuck catalog hung from Hell, which is fear, or Heaven, acknowledging our divine a string and elegant travel posters plastered the walls. But soon, my attention was drawn outside, past the half-moon connection. We are one with God and one with one anothcutout in the open door, through the door frame to the er. All life is interconnected. If we live with the perspective sights, sounds, and scents of the natural world from our of being who we really are and leave fear behind, our lives outhouse. and life purpose fall into place and we can transform our Pico Peak peeked through fluttering leaves against a life on earth. Can you imagine what we could accomplish periwinkle sky, the trickling brook sang and danced, and with this understanding? We’d work together to eliminate my nostrils were filled with pine needle fragrance. All poverty and war, and resolve the root of all of our suffering. of my troubles blew away on the gentle passing breeze. I shared Anita’s story because it empowers us to choose. I couldn’t help but be inspired as I beheld our amazing Do we choose to live in the living Hell of fear, or do we world that left me feeling like a new girl. So, after a time, I focus on our divine inter-connection and together, create always returned with a bounce in my step and a smile on heaven on earth? my face. The transformation renewed my spirit and gifted Marguerite Jill Dye is an artist, writer and budding phime with the Outhouse Perspective. losopher who lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont and Eventually, pipes and plumbing usurped the hut’s neon Florida’s Gulf Coast with her husband Duane Finger. cessity. While away at college, our outhouse disappeared, She leads creative spiritual retreats in the Killington Dream dismantled and buried beneath leaves and dirt. But Lodge and hikes the Appalachian Trail.
Softball: Singles get the job done Ah, spring, when young men’s thoughts turn to … well, to skiing. Also to mountain biking and road cycling and rock climbing, and softball.
Altit Altitude Sick Sickness By br brady crain
I skied what I think was day 213 today (it starts to get confusing when I am not only operating by scans, but by counted uphill days — simple math has never been simple for me), and yesterday I played my first two games of softball for the season, too. Last year I started the softball season having done some sprint interval training, so I came in hard and fast. Not this year, my friends. This year I have been largely sedentary, and my legs were not ready for the sprinting, and I honestly was not able to leg out a single like I was last year. I literally had to remember to run after I hit the ball. Never fear, though, dear reader, I got my legs back under me by the end. We had a double header. The first game was against last year’s league champions (we lost badly, started to catch up in the second half, but there is no defense against home run hitters). The second game was more evenly matched. We won, but the lead went back and forth. The real surprise of the game was all of the new faces on our team, several of them folks who sat in at the last minute because our roster was short. Two young women came on, and although they were quiet about it they turned out to be two of the better players on our team (one of them possibly the best player on our team). One of
them stepped up to pitch even though she had never pitched. She got shelled during the first game (the opposing team has hitters who shell everyone) and kept her chin up, no mean feat. Both of them were great on the field and in the batters’ box, with good arms (one was throwing balls that hissed during the warmup; I knew I was outclassed). I am hoping that everyone we fielded comes back, because it wasn’t a half bad team, and everyone turned out to be base hit/single type hitters. Home runs are fun, but singles are what get the job done (if you doubt it, read “Moneyball”), and I will take a team of single hitters any day of the week. When we get our pitcher back (he apparently had a shift he had to work), we will be a dangerous team — quick with the bat, fast on the bases. Playing first base was fun, and my catch lunge is as stretchy and reach as it ever was, and on an out or two having my glove be nine and a half feet from the base may be what made the difference between safe and out (the throw doesn’t have to go as far, and the runner is out sooner). The bummer of it is that I really can’t stand up long enough to comfortably play a double header. The sprinting was hard, but the standing was harder. Where the sprinting came into play was not the pain in my hip/back, but rather in the excruciating stiffness this morning that got me. It usually takes me two to three days to get really sore from exertion, so the fact that I felt like I was carved out of wood the morning after means very bad things for the following days — soreness of biblical proportion. Luckily the next few days of skiing are lift service!
It’s time to talk about aging We are all, inexorably, marching toward old age. By 2030, 72 million Americans will be age 65 or older. The good
MONEY MATTERS BY KEVIN THEISSEN news is longevity has been improving, and people are remaining healthy and vibrant at older ages.
The bad news is cultural perceptions of “old” people have not kept pace. A 2016 analysis by the World Health Organization found ageism was abundant and many people were completely unaware of their biases toward older people. Psychology Today warned, “The especially slippery part about ageism is that we can witness it in action time and again throughout society, often without anything triggering our internal antennae that tells
us ‘Hey, something is deeply amiss here.’” Ageism and elder abuse One of the ugly things hiding beneath the rock of ageism is elder abuse, including financial exploitation. During 2017, the Department of Health and Human Resources reported: “Each year, an estimated 5 million older persons are abused, neglected, and exploited. In addition, elders throughout the United States
lose an estimated $2.6 billion or more annually due to elder financial abuse and exploitation, funds that could have been used to pay for basic needs such as housing, food, and medical care. Unfortunately, no one is immune to abuse, neglect, and exploitation. It occurs in every demographic and can happen to anyone — a family member, a neighbor, even you. Yet it is estimated that only about one in five of those crimes are ever
discovered.” Just 2 percent of financial exploitation cases are ever reported, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, which is one reason elder abuse has been dubbed a silent epidemic. There are many reasons older Americans don’t report abuse. Some may be afraid of retaliation or fear their misjudgment will cause them to lose independence. Others may be ashamed they’ve made a mistake or Money matters, page 26
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tacts to your financial professional. Make a list of people you trust—people your financial advisor can contact if you are acting confused or out of character or the advisor suspects something is wrong. The Financial Planning Association recommends investors give financial professionals authorization letters that provide permission to contact designated family members, friends, or professionals. Creating a durable financial power of attorney. A power of attorney allows someone else to become your agent and act on your behalf if you are incapacitated. You determine “under what circumstances the power of attorney goes into effect and what powers your agent will have over your finances, such as access to your bank account.” Elder abuse and financial exploitation are all too common. It’s important to take steps to protect both our loved ones and ourselves. The best way to safeguard against the issue is to raise awareness among family and friends and stay in touch with potentially vulnerable parties. 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.
Quist loses in special election for Vermont’s sole House seat
continued from page 4 in pockets of the country where he performed well during his 2016 presidential bid. Sanders beat Hillary Clinton in the Montana presidential primary by six points — 51 to 45 percent. Ben Hahn, a Billings resident who started a local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America, explained his passion for Sanders in an interview with The Young Turks. He said the local DSA chapter has been organizing for Quist through voter registration and phone drives. “We’d just like to see more progressive values at the national level, at the state level, and the local level,” he said. As the crowd roared with excitement Saturday, Sanders stepped on stage and shook hands with Quist. Sanders waved to the crowd as the David Bowie ballad “Star Man” echoed through the venue — a frequent rally song used for Sanders’ 2016 presidential campaign. Voters held up Quist signs as well as “Bernie for President” banners. Sanders heaped praised on Quist through his half-hour speech. “Rob understands — and you understand — that the time is long overdue for us to have a government and an economy that works for all of us,” he said. “I’ll tell you what I love about Rob’s campaign — what makes it a unique and special campaign,” Sanders continued. “He is not getting his campaign contributions from millionaires and billionaires and super PACs.” Quist managed to raise more than $6 million, and he boasted of the Sandersesque dollar amounts coming in. According to his campaign, more than
260,000 people pitched in for Quist, with the average donation hovering at $23. (Sanders’ average contribution was $27.) In March, Quist was endorsed by Our Revolution, Sanders’ outside political group. The group raised more than $170,000 for Quist, and local chapters organized over 60,000 calls, 12,000 texts and hundreds of door-knocks in a show of support. “Rob Quist ran a campaign that inspired hundreds of thousands in Montana and around the country,” said Jeff Weaver, the president of Our Revolution, in a statement early Friday, May 26. “Rob came close in a challenging race in a state where Trump is still popular. He was able to come so close because he stood with working families against the far-right corporate agenda that controls the national Republican Party. While we did not win this time, all across the country candidates running on a populist progressive message are winning in places like Philadelphia and New York and coming close even in the reddest of states,” Weaver continued. In his Montana tour, Sanders urged his supporters to keep fighting, no matter what the results of the special election. “There are a lot of people who are demoralized, there are a lot of people in despair,” Sanders said. “But you understand that the future of this state and the future of this country is about not having people withdraw, not having people turn their backs on the problems we face, but having people stand up and fight back for justice for working class Americans,” said Sanders.
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Gen Y:
Is “MasterChef Junior” sadistic?
continued from page 24 kids are uncommonly privileged — to judge by their familiarity with fancy cuisine — but when they lose, their suffering is real, and on a basic level it feels wrong to televise the pain of actual children for the sake of entertainment. The show makes up for it by operating, additionally, as a showcase for the authentic joy of the kids whom it exploits and as a tribute to the amazing things that young people can do; its ruthlessness is built into the format and is to some degree excusable for that reason. But, then, there’s that thing Gordon Ramsay often does on “MasterChef” when the episode’s loser is about to be announced and, to add to the suspense and the surprise, Ramsay pulls a switcheroo, asking one contestant to step forward as the presumable victim while the others exhale a premature sigh of relief. He’ll adopt a somber tone, explaining what the cook did wrong, and then, after a pause, he’ll announce that the errant cook gets to stay on the show, and abruptly he’ll eliminate someone else instead. It’s a cruel trick intended to crank up the drama, and even if we can accept it on “MasterChef,” which is populated by adults who understand that they’ve signed up for an entertainment program, no version of it has any place on “MasterChef Junior.” That doesn’t quite stop Ramsay, however, and it’s here — in places like this — that the “guilt” of guilty-pleasure TV kicks in. Frankly, “MasterChef” and its spinoffs are more compelling than any of the supposedly sophisticated dramas on HBO, but at times one wishes that network TV could learn some of the self-regard of the pretentious “prestige TV” that, according to our elite cultural tastemakers, will one day replace all this idiot-box trash that’s actually fun to watch.
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continued from page 2 Williams, who has a lengthy resume of commissioned public and private art, said he was enamored with the thought of helping build community through art. “I was immediately drawn to the project and began working on clay concepts as soon as I was approached with the possibility,” Williams said. “As a Barre artist, I am thrilled that my work will stay in the Green Mountain State and help add life to a community I’ve long thought of as my city’s soulmate. Barre and Rutland have always been tied to the stone industry and the tradition of craftsmanship our forebears created.” “The Jungle Book” project is a partnership with by Carol Driscoll of The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center in West Rutland and Steve Costello from Green Mountain Power and Rutland Blooms, who solicited funding from Phoenix Books-Rutland. Gawet Marble and Granite Company and Green Mountain Power have provided logistical help, and Rutland Blooms will provide funding for installation. “I’ve had a love for ‘The Jungle Book’ since I heard the album that came out with the Disney film 50 years ago, when I was 4 years old,” Costello said. “I knew Kipling wrote the original stories in Vermont, so as we thought about possible subjects and funders for the sculpture series, ‘The Jungle Book’ and Phoenix Books seemed a natural fit. Within days of floating the idea, we had their commitment to fund the project.” MKF Properties and Green Mountain Power commissioned the roughly 20-ton “Stone Legacy” sculpture as a tribute to the thousands of quarry workers, stonecutters and artists who built the stone industry in Rutland County. That sculpture is a collaboration between U.S and Italian artists and artisans at the CSSC in August, using stone donated by Vermont Quarries in Danby, Vt. “This all started as a celebration of our 30th anniversary, initially conceived as a one-off project,” said Driscoll, executive director of the CSSC. “As Steve, Mark and I talked about additional concepts and funding sources, it quickly became evident that we had tapped into something special, and we are already considering ideas for future sculptures to honor men and women who contributed to our history.” Organizers plan a multi-year project that includes the addition of at least one major piece annually in downtown Rutland. The third sculpture, in the very early planning stages, is expected to feature Rutland resident Ann Story, who was a pioneer, Revolutionary War-era spy, and American hero. Other figures under consideration include “Snowflake” Bentley, Rutland’s John Deere, Norman Rockwell, Ethan Allen, Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Alexander Twilight, among others. Foley and Driscoll had been talking about a possible project when Costello, who founded GMP’s Rutland Blooms project, visited Rapid City, S.D., last fall, where sculptures of every U.S. president have created a huge tourist draw. Rutland Blooms is a citywide beautification effort, based on volunteerism and using donations from the business community, that has planted hundreds of flowering crabapple trees over the past four years. Costello came home intent on expanding Rutland Blooms’ focus into history-based public art. After speaking with Foley, they agreed to collaborate with Driscoll on “Stone Legacy” and eventually on a series of sculptures. “‘Stone Legacy’ and the sculptures that follow will help teach visitors and locals alike about this community and state,” Foley said. “From heroes to artists to everyday people who did extraordinary things, we want to honor those who made Rutland and Vermont the special places they are today.”
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Return to nature
By Cal Garrison
This week’s Horoscopes are coming out on the cusp of the Moon’s passage from Cancer to Leo. I see good things holding sway over the next few days. This is a blessing for all of us, given the state of the world and the warlike energy that gets stirred up here in the States every time Memorial Day rolls around. In the wake of the rituals that call us to honor the dead, life calls us to get real about what our next incarnation is going to look like. As far as that goes, it is the degree of the Moon that holds the key to what the present moment contains: within it the future is held. In the chart for today, the 28th Degree of the Sign Cancer is front and center. The Sabian Symbol for that point in the Zodiac reads like this: Phase 118 (Cancer 28’): An Indian girl introduces her white lover to her assembled tribe. Keynote: Inner rebirth through a total acceptance of the primordial values manifest in the human body and its natural functions. “Even as this symbol was formulated in the clairvoyant’s mind, a few individuals belonging to the American intelligentsia were trying to find in their absorption into the culture of the Indian pueblos of the Southwest a solution to their intellectual artificiality and personal emotional emptiness. Fifty years later this process has gained great momentum, especially among the disenchanted youth of our affluent middle class. The soul—or in Jungian terms, the “anima”— is leading the sophisticated and colorless (white!) intellect to a level of consciousness at which man can again operate in tune with the vast process of the biosphere and recover the simplicity and the inner peace which city life and business deny. “At this third stage of the twenty-fourth five-fold sequence the situations presented in the two preceding symbols can be seen combined and projected into a possibility of dramatic transformation. What is shown here is an emotional and warm commitment to the return to nature, which today appeals so strongly to the new generation, but which Jean Jacques Rousseau, many great Romanticists and Gauguin long ago advocated and exemplified.” No one here needs me to interpret this imagery. If there is a way to predict the future, and the above words have anything to do with it, we’re at a point where it’s time to dump the techno-cultural, artificially generated, mental constructs that have duped us into thinking we’ve got it all figured out, and reacquaint ourselves with that which is everlasting, authentic, and real. Thinking about that, the underlying issue turns out to be: do we even know what those things look like, anymore? We are so far removed from our true nature, only God knows if we will ever be able to return to it....But then again, baby steps, baby steps. I hope you enjoy this week’s ‘scopes.
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t would be great if you didn’t have so much going on. The weight of responsibility always makes it harder for you. Anyone else could overlook some of this, but you couldn’t live with yourself if you did. Kids, work, pending deals, and/or side issues that have to do with “who’s taking care of whom” are all complicating things at a time when you’re in over your head and it’s enough already. You haven’t got the energy or the chutzpah to deal with half of this so cut down on your terminal need to be there for everything and focus on yourself and what you need for a change.
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July 21 - August 20
October 21 - November 20
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eople won’t leave you alone. This could be feeling good or bad, depending on your situation. All the attention is less of an issue than what it’s taking to manage your internal affairs. You have no control over anything but your own actions. There are decisions to consider. Outside input may not be useful when it comes to certain things. You could be hearing one side of the story, or are only privy to what people want you to hear. Isn’t it interesting how it always comes down to maintaining your autonomy and remaining strong enough to handle everything yourself?
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hat you assume will be like this forever is on the brink of change. This is one of those turning points that could slip by unnoticed, but is by no means insignificant. At the point where the wishes of the ego merge with the purpose of the higher self the scenery changes forever. Your light is beaming through the cracks. Not knowing what to do about it, you feel naked in the face of all the life that is filling up your heart. Those closest to you are there for you, in the spirit and in the flesh. The planets are on your side and everything will be coming up roses for a few more weeks.
ou know better than to get overly involved with this. The impulse to want to step in and manage situations that other people can’t handle needs to be held at bay, just long enough for life to iron things out without your help. As you wake up to the fact that you have better things to do, the bigger issue will turn out to be: “What’s next?” That question is about to answer itself, if it hasn’t already. The fates have conspired to put you exactly where you need to be. From this point on, as long as you continue to put out 100%, and show up on time, the miracles will keep on coming.
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etting sucked back into the stories that drove you crazy a few years ago, doesn’t feel like a good idea. It’s your choice, but you need to know that whoever’s enlisting your support won’t necessarily make a good ally. It is usually the case that people who need a partner need you way more than you need them, so before you sign up for this, check in with your real self. In other areas there are flames burning on various fronts. All of them hold a wealth of potential. Don’t put so much stock in the past and be patient as you wait for the next new leaf to turn over.
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he intricacies of your situation defy analysis! If you could only find your way back to the point where everything started to get gnarly. In your world, the desire to maintain your decorum battles with revolutionary tendencies that get out of control. What’s happening right now looks like the end result of actions that were being undermined by ambition and greed. When you get to the bottom of the story that faces you now, best of luck finding a way to come to terms with the things that people do when they’re too cowardly to face either themselves, or the truth.
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verwhelmed by a flood of change, it’s OK to let yourself get swept way. This is one of those times when you’re better off going with the flow. As life opens up to a new sense of who you are, you need to hold steady and pay attention to the signs. Different people, places, and things have shown up to deliver a message that sounds more like what you want to hear. There are bound to be moments where you begin to see that your preconceived notions have reached their expiration date. The next few months will give you a chance to envision something entirely new and different.
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August 21 - September 20
November 21 - December 20
February 21 - March 20
ou may not be 100% clear about what lies ahead, but your heart is connected to the pulse of things that are vibrating at the speed of light. Your heart’s desire lives on that frequency band. What you really want to be doing, as opposed to what circumstances call you to do, could be two different things. Losing the attachment to certainty will free your mind to focus on what you would do with nothing to restrict you. You’ve already stepped foot in a new frontier. What you find here will empower the deeper part of you to grab hold of what’s true and bring it to life.
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ou want to approach things from a totally truthful place but you’re dealing with people who are completely deluded. Maybe it’s time to do what’s expedient. Knowing what you know, it would make more sense to blow this clambake, or at least let absence allow time to let the truth come to the surface. Things will blow over if your presence doesn’t keep reminding everyone of what they think you did. You don’t really need to stick around and keep an eye on this; it’s a tempest in a teapot that will die down the minute everyone sees that there’s absolutely nothing to it.
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he feeling that you need more information before you make your move could be misleading. No one can tell you what to do, but I have a sense that you’ve seen enough. You’re already awake to the fact that it’s your turn to assert yourself in a situation that could make you look like the bad guy. You have no way of knowing what will happen on the other side of this decision - but you’re more than clear about what will happen if you remain rooted to the spot. Hedging your bets and playing games that feed your denial mechanisms will cost you a lifetime of joy.
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od knows what it looks like where you are. The way I see it, the long awaited dream is about to hatch. My crystal ball is filled with images of love and success. What sounds too good to be true is contingent upon your ability to give everything you’ve got to this situation. Don’t get too wound up about getting it right to make good use of your intuition whenever the signs are clear enough to show you a change of plan is in order. Long lost loved ones are due to come around and add their support to whatever you’re doing. This reunion couldn’t come at a better time.
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on’t be alarmed by what people keep telling you needs to happen. At the gut level, whatever’s going on has nothing to do with them. Your efforts to steer a new, more sensible course have taken a turn that will make it harder for others to take advantage of you. I see a couple of opportunities to branch out. This could involve some travel. It could also include a chance to study or teach. As the next few months unfold pay less attention to what people expect and focus more on your work. Give yourself plenty of space and time to bring what you’re doing to completion.
Mother of the Skye has 40 years of experience as an astrologer and tarot consultant. She may be reached by email to cal.garrison@gmail.com
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They were more fortunate than the O.R. since they scored some runs, but the end result was the same, with a loss. This game had a lot of excitement as it began with a back and forth battle. The game was tight in the late innings, with the Outback clinging to a 9-7 lead, and then one big inning put the Wobbly away 14-7. The win was a solid team effort but a couple players stood out. Scott “Scooter” Watelet went three-for-three and scored every time. Scooter was traded in the off season by Clearly Moguls for this reason — taking his veteran skills to help a young team. Siobhan “We’re Co-Workers Brady” Chase pitched her first complete game and fielded well, too. If this league was scored on fun, the Wobbly Barn would be in first place. They had great team spirit with head cheerleader Ryan “Megaphone Dueler” Orabone leading the charge. The win for the Outback was huge because earlier in the night they suffered a huge defeat to the defending back-to-back-to-back champions, Clearly Moguls, 28-6. This game was close until the teams hit the field. C.M. did not miss a beat and that’s to be expected since they’re returning all 14 players from last year’s championship squad. Technically 15, but Will “I’m Really Retiring and This Year I Mean it “ Burdick is a substitute. C.M. started the game shutting Outback down 1-2-3 with the infield recording all the outs. Outback sent Coach Rob “Rambo” Ranberg to the mound for a rare start. C.M. lit him up for five runs behind RBI’s from Angel “No Home Runs” Shannon and Judd “Home Run King” Washburn. Hunter “I wanna Play for the Champs” Pike had a nice looking sac for the fifth run. Dylan “D Money” Johnson led off the second and it appeared as if he was going to blast the ball, but he hit it right back to “Ronzoni” Hacker who tossed it to Jeremy “Jackie Blue” Livesey for the out. Same exact thing with the next batter, but Siobhan “I Should’ve Been Pitching” Chase got the team’s first hit of the season as she burned Brando “Timber” Remick in left. Ranberg followed suit but they were both stranded on the bases. C.M. exploded on Ranberg in the second inning, scoring 12 runs as they batted through their order. Jared “Much More Fun” Hall, Ronzoni and “DJ” Dave Hoffenberg all reached base twice in the inning. Brett “Lookout Tree” Regimbald blasted a grand slam to really pour on the runs and Washburn hit his first home run of the season with a three-run-shot that landed on the library lawn. It was the farthest home run hit in this league By Robin Alberti in quite some time. Russell Outback Pizza player Siobhan “I Should’ve Been Pitch“The Love Muscle” Dalglish suffered the team’s first ing” Chase got the team’s first hit of the season as she burned Clearly Moguls’ Brando “Timber” Remick during Cold Beer K (CBK) of the season. Outback finally got the May 24 game in Killington. on the board in the third when both Chris “Too Bad I’m Not On Your Team” Kielbiowski and Owen “The Juice” Johnson scored. Both players were on loan for this game and Owen is the brother of Dylan, who is a regular member of this team. It was the younger brother shining in this family affair. Clearly Moguls answered with eight more runs to stretch their lead 25-2. Washburn added another three-run-shot, “Tall” Tom Gilligan got in the home run club with a long blast to center field and Hall showed his speed with an inside-the-park home run. “DJ” Dave joined Dalglish in the CBK category. Outback had a great fourth inning, scoring three runs with two coming from Chase and Ranberg off Kielbiowski’s two-run double. The other was scored by Alexis “Newbie” King who was driven in by her boyfriend Evan Johnson. That’s a lot of Johnson on that team. Speaking of Johnsons, Owen fizzled out when he struck out looking, for a big “CBK.” C.M. added three in the fourth and had a chance for more, but Regimbald was robbed of a home run by King because he only had warning track power. Dylan was able to drive in the team’s last run. but in the end the Outback suffered the mercy loss. The last game on the slate was between McGrath’s Sushi and Max Team. Runs were at a premium in this game as none were scored until the third as M.S. got on the board when Joe “Karaoke King” Montemurro scored. They added another in the fourth when Zach “Cookie” Cook scored. Great defense was played by both teams with not many Softball, page 31
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Softball:
First games kick off the 2017 season
continued from page 30 players reaching base. The game could have gone either way until M.S. exploded for three runs in the sixth for a 5-0 lead. Cook and “Bus” Bob Schaffner both drove in runs. Max Team avoided the shutout by scoring one run, but in the end suffered the 5-1 loss. M.S. pitcher Bob “The Other Bob” Pauly was en fuego on the mound. He delivered four CBKs which included one each to Sam Budusky and Johnny “Not So” Sharpe. Standings First: TIE: Clearly Moguls 1-0* McGrath’s Sushi 1-0* Killington Resort 1-0* Second: Outback Pizza 1-1* Third: TIE: Max Team 0-1* Wobbly Barn 0-1* OmyaRamas 0-1* *Qualifies for the playoffs
Schedule: Wednesday, May 31 Wobbly Barn vs McGrath’s Sushi @ Killington 5:50 p.m. Wobbly Barn vs Killington Resort @ Killington 7 p.m. Outback Pizza vs Max Team @ Bridgewater 5:50 p.m. OmyaRamas vs Clearly Moguls @ Bridgewater 7 p.m.
There will be a postgame party at McGrath’s Irish Pub from 8-11 p.m. Monday, June 5 OmyaRamas vs Outback Pizza @ Killington 5:50 p.m. Max Team vs Wobbly Barn @ Killington 7 p.m. Clearly Moguls vs Killington Resort @ Bridgewater 5:50 p.m. McGrath’s Sushi vs Killington Resort @ Bridgewater 7 p.m.
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