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Mounta in Times Volume 47, Number 2
Jan. 10-16, 2018
Revote slated for LudlowMount Holly unification By Stephen Seitz
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Happy MLK! The third Monday in January celebrates the influential civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr. This federal holiday is seen as a day to promote equal rights for all Americans, regardless of their background. The three-day weekend is also welcome news for skiers and riders who will be visiting Killington this weekend.
By Paul Holmes
While waiting for the lifts to open on a recent frigid morning, Killington photographer Paul Holmes captured this image of bubbles freezing in the sunlight.
Bonfire to raise funds for Special Olympics, Rotary By Evan Johnson
KILLINGTON—The snow gods demand sacrifice and Vince Chiarella has a way to appease them while supporting local philanthropy: This Saturday evening, Killington residents and visitors can bring their Christmas trees to Charity’s Tavern and Restaurant at 5 p.m. for a bonfire. The event was inspired three years ago by an absence of snow and a surplus of Rotary Christmas trees. “It started off as an offering to the snow gods,” Chiarella said. “We got snow the next day.” The previous two events were held behind Pasta Pot on Route 4 in Killington. “We’re very grateful for all their years of allowing us to hold the event there.” he said,
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Ski patrol on-slope You know you’ve seen those jackets before. This weekend, the National Ski Patrol will visit Killington Resort to emphasize safe skiing and riding practices. Skip to page 5 to see how you can get involved. Page 5
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noting that this year’s venue has been changed to the more centrally located Charity’s Tavern Restarurant. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Killington-Pico Rotary club and the Vermont Special Olympics, which will be holding it’s 2018 Winter Games at Pico Mountain, March 18 - 20. Organizers hope to have some of the athletes lead a procession and light the fire with an Olympic torch. There will games for kids and for those age 21 and older, participants will attempt to set a record for Killington’s longest shot ski. Houses with a shot ski are encouraged to bring theirs at around 6:30 p.m. “It’s going to be a fun event and we hope we can get people to come out for it,” he said.
LUDLOW—It seems that the question of combining the elementary school systems of Ludlow and Mount Holly is not yet fully decided. A petition has been filed to reconsider the November vote, in which Ludlow voted 344-172 and Mount Holly voted 341-66 to adopt the proposal. In other words, a do-over. “I don’t know who filed the petition,” Ludlow Town Clerk Ulla Cook said. “I have yet to get the ballot from the school.” Under the merger, the towns would keep their elementary schools, but send their middle and high school students to other towns. Mill River in North Clarendon would most likely get Mount Holly’s students, while Green Mountain Union High School in Chester is the likely school for Ludlow students. Black River High School has until June 2020 to close. The revote also throws a monkey wrench into plans by the Black River Independent School Committee (BRISC) to keep Black River Middle-High School open as an independent school. The group would like to call the new school “Black River Academy,” afRevote, page 7
House passes pot compromise in spite of federal threat
By Alan Keays/VTDigger
The Vermont House passed a bill Thursday, Jan. 4, to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, defeating a host of amendments, including one that likely would have cost the governor’s support. The House vote came on the same day that U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions rescinded a policy that shielded states with legalized marijuana from federal action. The House passed H.511 by a vote of 81 to 63 on Thursday. It legalizes the possession of one ounce or less of marijuana and two mature and four immature marijuana plants by people 21 or older. House Judiciary Chair Maxine Grad, D-Moretown, said the bill was “an important criminal justice milestone.” She added that it removes criminal consequences for the “responsible” use of marijuana by adults. The bill seems well on its way to becoming law. Senate Judiciary
Committee Chair Dick Sears, DBennington, said Thursday night he expected the bill would hit the Senate floor and gain approval as early as Wednesday. The Senate passed essentially the same legislation in June, and the governor has said he would sign it. Rep. Brian Savage, R-Swanton, called for putting off a vote on the measure until Jan. 18, which is when a commission established by Gov. Phil Scott is expected to offer recommendations regarding marijuana legalization. But Savage’s suggestion failed to gain the support needed to pass. Rep. Kurt Wright, R-Burlington, said he didn’t see the need to rush the legislation through on the second day of the session. He said there were many much more important matters to address, including a projected 9.4 cent increase in the statewide property tax. Weed bill, page 23
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Green Mountain Power Vice President Steve Costello (right) hands a check for $25,000 to Mayor David Allaire, as the Rutland Development Authority’s Brennan Duffy (left) looks on.
Rutland Blooms donates $25,000 to Center Street Marketplace project RUTLAND—Rutland Blooms, a donation-funded city beautification program that has planted thousands of flowers and hundreds of flowering crabapples, maples and other trees in Rutland, presented the City of Rutland with a $25,000 grant Thursday in support of the Center Street Marketplace. The funding, which comes from Rutland Blooms donors, will pay for landscaping and plantings in the new downtown space, which is expected to be completed in the spring. “This grant will help ensure the completion of the Center Street Marketplace and create a welcoming, inviting setting,” Mayor Dave Allaire said. “This project has involved tremendous collaboration
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LOCAL NEWS
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Killington police kept busy around the clock on New Year’s weekend By Evan Johnson
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Stafford students Dylan Brown and Hunter Given were the creative minds behind this bench, which will be placed outside the school.
Stafford Tech students design and install grant-funded bench RUTLAND—Stafford Technical Center unveiled a student-created bench made possible by a grant from Rutland South Rotary last week. Last spring Stafford was awarded a $750 grant for a student project. The funds were used to purchase the materials to build an Adirondack style bench by two students in the Power Mechanics and Welding program. Dylan Brown and Hunter Given, both seniors at Stafford Technical Center from Fair Haven Union High School, worked on the bench through the first semester of school this year. Under the watchful eyes of instructors Tony Bosnich and Jim Patry the students
measured, cut, sanded and welded the bench together from steel pieces. The front feet of the bench are foot-shaped, a whimsical touch for the bench. Rotarian Roger W. Louiselle contacted Melanson Company to request help with powder coating the bench. Melanson has the largest powder coat booth setup in the state of Vermont. Melanson provided the sandblasting and zinc coating and the powder coat finish to the bench, as well as the time and effort of three employees spending a day on the project. Currently, the bench is inside Stafford Technical Center until it can be placed in its permanent home outside the school.
The Killington Police Department responded to 57 incidents in the town of Killington, most of which were traffic stops or automobile accidents. Saturday, Dec. 30 • 1:13 a.m. Police responded to a report of a suspicious person knocking on doors asking for help on Roundabout Road. Investigation revealed a vehicle had gone off the road and the operator was looking for assistance. Officers also assisted Vermont State Police with a noise complaint. • 8:14 a.m. Police completed a traffic stop at the intersection of Route 4 and Winterberry Road. • 8:39 a.m. Police responded to a parking lot crash on East Mountain Road involving three vehicles (two were unoccupied). • 8:50 a.m. Officers completed a traffic stop at the intersection of Killington Road and Glazebrook. • Officers completed a traffic stop at 11:40 a.m. near the intersection of Killington Road and West Hill Road. • 1:46 p.m. Police responded to a two-car crash with no injuries in the K1 Base Lodge parking lot. • 3:30 p.m. Officers responded to a report of an abandoned vehicle in the shoulder that was preventing snow re-
moval at the intersection of Wardwell Road and Route 4. • Police completed a traffic stop at 4:11 p.m. near the intersection of Killington Road and Woods Road. • 4:31 p.m. Police were notified of lost skiers who skied out of bounds at Killington Resort. Vermont State Police and Killington Search and Rescue had responded to the incident prior to the Killington Police being notified. • 6:11 p.m. Police completed a traffic stop near the intersection of Killington Road and Dean Hill Road. • Police completed a traffic stop at 6:44 p.m. on the Killington Flats on Route 4. As a result of the traffic stop, a non-criminal amount of marijuana was seized from the operator. • A second traffic stop was completed at 7:24 p.m. near Killington Road and Mountain View Drive. • 8:07 p.m. Killington Police responded with the Killington Fire Department to a residential fire alarm activation on Dean Hill Road. • Police received a report of a lost wallet at 8:22 p.m. • 11:18 p.m Police responded to a report of a fight at a local nightclub. • 11:31 p.m. Police responded to an accident with no injuries on Bear Mountain Road.
• 11:56 p.m. Police responded to another accident on Rebecca Lane. No injuries were reported. Sunday, Dec. 31 • 1:48 a.m., police were notified of a missing person on East Mountain Road. The individual was located safe a few hours later. • 1:55 a.m., police helped citizens gain access to their rental property on Currier Drive who were locked outside without jackets. • 8:54 a.m., police responded to a late-reported single vehicle rollover at the intersection of Tanglewood Drive and Rocky Ridge Road with no reported injuries. • 11:53 a.m., police responded to a civil dispute over a security deposit on Weathervane Drive. The differences were settled to officers’ arrival. • 12:50 p.m., police responded to a single vehicle crash with no reported injuries at the intersection of Route 4 and Brad Mead Drive. • A second crash involving one vehicle occurred in that area at 1:33 p.m. No injuries were reported. • 2:03 p.m. Police responded to a one-car crash with no injuries on Old Coach Road.
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LOCAL NEWS
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Year’s end includes hit-and-run, attempted armed robbery By Lani Duke
State police are looking for a vehicle and its driver that drifted out of the southbound lane on Route 30 near Kerber Lane, Poultney, before 3 p.m. Dec. 30, hitting a northbound 2004 Chevy Impala before fleeing the scene. The Impala was forced off the road and hit a tree; the 17-year-old driver was transported to Rutland Regional Medical Center for evaluation, according to the Rutland Herald. The police report observed there were patches of ice on the road but included no other details. Anyone with information on this accident is asked to call the Vermont State Police. The Fair Haven Police Department reported that a male suspect demanded money from China City Restaurant, in Shaw’s Plaza on Rt. 22A in Fair Haven, at about 10:45 p.m. Dec. 30. Brothers Rong Zhang and Vincent Zhang told police, translating for their mother Yun Wu, who does not speak or read English, that a man wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and with his face covered came into China City, held his hand as if it were a gun and threw a note on the counter. She kept asking him to leave until he ran out of the store. He fled in a passenger car that was in the parking lot. Fair Haven Police subsequently arrested Tyler T. Edwards, 28, on Jan. 2. He pled not guilty to the felonies of attempted larceny from a person and attempted assault and robbery in Rutland criminal court Jan. 3. Together they have a combined maximum sentence of a 20-year prison sentence. Edwards said he didn’t do it but admitted using cocaine. Edwards continues to be held without bail. Edwards is already on probation, having received a three-to five-year suspended sentence for assault and robbery with a weapon at the Woodstock Avenue Circle K convenience store in 2015. Vermont State Police were called to Dick’s Sporting Goods, Route 7 S in Rutland Town, Dec. 31, for suspected theft from the store, only to find that the suspects had driven off. Rutland City police stopped the vehicle soon afterwards and arrested Tiffany Shaw, 35, and Brent Shaw, 32, for possession of stolen property and retail theft of more than $100. Both Shaws are scheduled to appear in court Mar. 26 at 8:30 a.m. State trooper Freire arrested East Wallingford resident John B. Seward, 70, for driving under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident in Mount Holly, Dec. 31. State police reported that Seward’s vehicle, traveling north on Rt. 155, crossed the centerline and struck a vehicle traveling in the other direction, after whichh Seward abandoned his vehicle. Seward is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 22 at 8:30 a.m. Troopers responded to several incidents in which vehicles slid off the road, Jan. 1. Among them were minor incidents on Rt. 4A between Rutland Town and West Rutland, and another on North Grove St. in Rutland. There were no reported injuries. In each case, drivers were traveling too fast for road conditions. The cold, has led the VSP to increase patrols so that stranded drivers have less time to wait, whether their cars break down or they slide off the road. Regardless, state police advise that drivers should be prepared, dressed for the weather, and carrying a breakdown kit of water, nonperishable food, flares, and flashlights in their vehicles. They should be ready to report any vehicles they see that appear to be broken down.
Missing skier found safe By Evan Johnson
A Connecticut man who skied out of bounds at Killington Resort made it home safely. State police said in a press release they received a call at 4 p.m. on Jan. 4 from 22-year-old Kyle Ford of Ridgefield, Conn., who said he was lost after skiing off the resort property. Ford’s coordinates were given
to the Killington Search and Rescue teams. Vermont State Police, Killington Fire Department and Killington Search and Rescue responded and assisted with locating Ford. At 7:48 p.m. that night, teams located Ford and walked him out of the woods. Ford suffered no injuries during the incident.
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Kmart closing at Diamond Run Mall
RUTLAND—The third of three anchor stores at the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland Town plans to close, leaving local officials to wonder about the future of the regional shopping center. Sears Holding Corp. announced Thursday plans to shutter 64 underperforming Kmart and 39 Sears stores across the country, with the Kmart store at the mall in Rutland Town on that list. The store at the mall is set to close in April. “We are disappointed by this decision but understand that it is part of the national struggles that Sears/Kmart are enduring,” said Joshua Terenzini, Rutland Town Select Board chair, in a statement issued shortly after news surfaced of the store closing at the mall. “We feel for the employees who will be displaced and will do what we can to help by recommending different workforce programs through the state,” he added. “Unfortunately, this is a trend in brick and mortar retail that our country is seeing far too often with the increase in internet retail business.” Kmart’s closing, as well as the now empty food court at the mall, leaves a great deal of the more than 375,000-square-foot facility vacant. The shopping complex remains home to several smaller retailers, dance studios, a restaurant and a church. Castleton University’s Spartan Arena is also located on the site. The closing of Kmart comes on the heels of other anchor stores at the mall shutting down in recent years, including Sears and J.C. Penney. The Kmart store has roughly 40 fulland part-time employees, with eligible workers receiving severance packages
and the opportunity to apply for positions at other Kmart or Sears locations, the company said in a statement. The move to close the 103 stores across the country is part of the company’s initiative to “close some unprofitable stores as we transform our business model so that our physical store footprint and our digital capabilities match the needs and preferences of our members,” according to the company. Liquidation sales will begin as early as Jan. 12, the company added. Neither company nor officials with the mall’s owner, BAI Rutland of Englewood Cliffs, N. J., could be reached for comment.
“We’ve historically had trouble getting phone calls returned and messages answered when we tried to partner with the mall and the previous management,” he said. “I understand they have a relatively new mall manager … We’d love to do whatever we could to support this building in our municipality.” Rutland City Mayor David Allaire said Friday his first thoughts are with the employees who work at Kmart who will be losing their jobs. He added, “Certainly for the regional economy, it’s another blow to the retail here locally.” The mayor said he plans to contact
“UNFORTUNATELY, THIS IS A TREND IN BRICK AND MORTAR RETAIL THAT OUR COUNTRY IS SEEING FAR TOO OFTEN WITH THE INCREASE IN INTERNET RETAIL BUSINESS,” SAID TERENZINI. Terenzini said over the past couple of years whenever he has heard news of Kmart stores closing around the country he would cross his fingers hoping that he wouldn’t see the one at the mall in Rutland Town on the list. “Well, finally it’s on it, unfortunately,” Terenzini said, adding, “I was encouraged over the holidays because we did some shopping there and I felt as an outsider looking in there was a pretty good amount of traffic in there.” Terenzini said the town would likely see an impact on its 1 percent local option sales tax with the store closing. “Hopefully, it’s a minimal impact,” he added. He said he hoped news of the store closing could help open up a dialogue between town and mall officials.
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Terenzini, his counterpart in Rutland Town, to talk about how they can work together “regionally” to address the situation at the mall. “It’s to the point there now where it’s about 80 percent vacant. That’s going to be a large thing to turnaround,” Allaire said. “At some point, somebody has to think about repurposing. Obviously, it’s owned by a private company.” Over the years the mayor said he has heard various “rumors” in the community about redevelopment plans or moves by other retailers to the site. One included Walmart moving from its downtown Rutland location to the mall property, he said. “Pretty much just rumors, nothing directly from any official source,” he said. “Certainly, as you hear more and more about it, you tend to think that there may be something to it, but there’s certainly no imminent departure of Walmart (from downtown) that I’m aware of.” The city’s agreement for $100,000 in annual impact fees from the mall allows for that fee to be reduced if an anchor store
closes, based on the square footage of each particular closed anchor store. The past two annual impact fee payments the city has received each totaled $44,828, which is far less than the $100,000 expected, according to city records. That reduced payment reflected two closed anchor stores, Sears and J.C. Penney, at the mall. That amount is expected to drop further with the upcoming closing of the third anchor location, Kmart. The city refers to the fund where the money goes as the Zamias fund, named for the mall’s developer in the 1990s, Damian Zamias. Allaire said Friday that the agreement only had about three years left on it. “At some point we’re going to have to deal with the fact that money will not be continuing to come into the city,” the mayor said. “It’s obviously a negative to some degree. Perhaps it will give us an opportunity here to have a discussion about what we think we ought do with what’s remaining in the fund.” Lyle Jepson, head of the Rutland Economic Development Corp., said “brick and mortar” retail is evolving locally and globally in light advancements in technology and the growth of online retailers, such as Amazon. “What technology will struggle to overcome, and what keen entrepreneurs will benefit from, is an ability to develop a personal relationship,” Jepson said, adding, “More emphasis will be placed on the ‘experience’ of shopping. And malls across the country will need to figure out how to reformat what they offer.” He also said that REDC has had “limited interaction” with the managers of the mall. “They have not actively reached out to us for support and have not shared any plans or suggested developing a strategy for growth,” he added. “I compliment them, in that, when we have reached out with a ‘lead’ they have been very responsive.”
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STATE NEWS
FEMA: Funds for windstorm recovery headed to Vermont Governor Phil Scott today announced that President Donald Trump has signed a Public Assistance declaration for Addison, Chittenden, Essex, Franklin, Grand Isle, Lamoille, Orange, Orleans, Washington, and Windham counties. Those counties suffered substantial damage during wind and rain storms on Oct. 29-30, 2017. A Preliminary Damage Assessment (PDA) by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) identified $3.7 million in public infrastructure damage statewide, far exceeding the $1 million minimum Vermont must show to be considered for a disaster declaration. That estimate only accounts for enough identified damage to qualify for federal public assistance funding.
Each of the 10 counties exceeded the $3.68 per capita threshold needed to qualify communities and public utilities in those counties for assistance. A preponderance of the damage involved power restoration: line work, power pole replacement, and contractor assistance. The disaster declaration allows communities and public utilities in those counties to receive 75 percent federal reimbursement for storm response and recovery. Those costs include power restoration, debris removal, and repairs to public roads, bridges, and other infrastructure with damage resulting from the storm. Vermont Emergency Management (VEMA) will soon announce a number of applicant briefings,
which town leaders should attend to start the process for seeking federal assistance. The briefings will outline the requirements for receiving federal awards and maximizing eligibility of repairs. VEMA, Agency of Transportation District personnel, and FEMA will guide them through the application process. The declaration also includes funds from the Hazard Mitigation Grant program for towns, state agencies, and approved non-profit organizations statewide. This program provides funding for a variety of mitigation activities, including home buyouts, structural elevations, floodproofing and public infrastructure upgrades for roads, bridges and culverts in vulnerable locations.
National Ski Patrol visits Killington
Killington Resort welcomes the National Ski Patrol for a meet and greet with guests on Jan. 13, 14, 27, and 28, to promote snow sports safety for National Safety Awareness Month. Plus, guests who purchase a helmet at any Killington Sports location on-site or online at killingtonsports.com Jan. 12-21 will receive a free lift ticket valid any day Jan. 22 through the end of the 2017/18 winter season. In conjunction with the National Ski Areas Association and National Ski Patrol, Killington Resort will be educating skiers and riders about slope safety awareness throughout the month of January by promoting “Your Responsibility Code” and “Smart Style,” plus offering special promotions and interactive displays to raise awareness. “New this year, we’ve added safety lounges where skiers and riders have the opportunity to connect directly with members of our Ski Patrol team including an après
safety lounge featuring live music, give-a-ways and safety messaging.” says Justin Guth, Risk Manager at Killington Resort and Pico Mountain. “We’ve put together activities to reach avid skiers and riders in addition to beginners and children to promote safe speeds and collision awareness. Other activities include opportunities to win helmets, interactive displays, safety videos, kids crafts and more.” Killington Resort is also partnering with Killington Elementary School by donating art supplies for a poster contest directed at skier safety. The winners’ artwork will be displayed at the resort throughout January. On the hill, an assortment of safety awareness flyers, cards and stickers will be available throughout the resort. Ambassadors, patrollers and instructors will be handing out Know the Code stickers and cards, Smart Style stickers and a Freestyle Terrain User’s Guide to guests.
Otter Creek wetlands talk drawsa full house By Julia Purdy
FAIR HAVEN—On Sunday, Jan. 7, the State of the Birds Report prepared Castleton Library’s popular monthly for national Farm Bill legislation each Science Pub featured an illustrated year. talk, “Wetlands Restoration Along “We’re now at a time where we Otter Creek,” by James Eikenberry, value wetlands for many different wetlands specialist with the Natural reasons,” Eikenberry said. Wetlands Resource Conservation Service of the assist in meeting many desirable U.S. Department of Agriculture. The social goals: floodwater storage, water venue was the large dining room in quality, fish and wildlife habitat, and the Fair Haven Inn, where an atentive “carbon sequestration,” when organic audience heard about wetlands and matter decomposes and remains in their preservation or remediation in the soil rather than being released into the Otter Creek watershed. the atmosphere. Wetlands are “natural Eikenberry eased into a sometimes nurseries” for fish, he said, which in technical subject matter with a slide turn consume quantities of mosquito of a turtle peering up at the camera larvae. lens. He chose the turtle because it’s a He explained that wetlands restoratarget species for wetland restoration, tion attempts to reverse the effects of a topic that he acknowledged HE EMPHASIZED THAT elicits passionate opinions on both sides. RESTORED WETLANDS Asking the crowd what they TAKE A LONG TIME TO think of when hearing the term “wetland,” he heard “swamp,” RECOVER COMPLETELY, “cattails,” “marsh,” “trees” and AND PRESERVING EXISTING “standing water.” He then gave a simple definition: land that WETLANDS IS THE BETTER stays wet for at least a two-week OPTION. period. Between 1780 and 1980, he said, Vermont lost 35 percent of losing wetlands. its wetlands, ending up with about “Do you really get back what you 220,000 acres of wetland at the end of wanted to have?” he asked rhetorithat time. He explained the history: up cally. His answer was that the “Field until the mid-20th century, wetlands of Dreams” hypothesis is embraced were routinely drained and filled to among scientists: what existed before support both agriculture and develop- does eventually return and stabilize, ment. Some old ditches are dubbed and species stop declining. “schoolbus ditches,” he said, because Still, he emphasized that restored they are deep and wide enough to wetlands take a long time to recover hide a schoolbus. completely, and preserving existing As a result, wetland-dependent bird wetlands is the better option. “Just bepopulations declined, according to cause you had something in the past
doesn’t mean you can recreate it in the future,” he cautioned. As an illustration, Eikenberry projected before-and-after slides of a cornfield along Otter Creek in Leicester, near Middlebury. The farmer, who was getting older, had decided to scale back his operation and offered the cornfield – a former wetland – as a candidate for restoration. Long ago a berm had been created along Otter Creek to prevent seasonal flooding into the field. When the berm was breached, Otter Creek once again spread out into the field, and eventually the large variety of grasses, shrubs and trees returned in a lush tapestry. Otter Creek – at about 112 miles the longest river in Vermont, draining 1,100 square miles – is actually a more or less continuous swamp, Eikenberry said, “well-connected to its flood plain.” This feature is important for connectivity between large, unspoiled areas for wildlife’s freedom of movement in seeking habitat, food sources, and breeding territories. Eikenberry referenced the Staying Connected Initiative that coordinates activities to preserve wildlife corridors across the northern forests from New York and Vermont into Canada. When asked whether there are recommendations to towns for wetland conservation, he noted that Staying Connected is available to consult with towns to incorporate wetland conservation into their town plans. He projected images from game cameras positioned at exposed open fields and “pinch points” such as road crossings and culverts, where bobcat, Otter Creek, page 7
Man dies in six-alarm fire By Evan Johnson
POULTNEY—A Poultney man was the only victim of a fire that occurred on the evening of Jan. 8 in Poultney. At 2:49 p.m., the Poultney Fire Department received a report of a building on fire on Hampshire Hollow Road with a unresponsive man lying outside. The Poultney Fire Department, Rutland County Sheriff’s Department responded to the scene and found the structure completely involved. The male was identified as Thomas Beaty, age 76, and was found to be deceased. Mutual aid was requested and fire departments from , Middletown Springs, Wells, Fair Haven, Vt. and , Hampton, Middle Granville, and Whitehall, N.Y., all responded. The Vermont State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Vermont State Police Arson Unit, Vermont Department of Fire Safety and the Medical Examiner’s Office were contacted to investigate the death of Beatty and the structure fire. The death and fire does not appear to be suspicious at this time. However, the investigation is currently ongoing.
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Vermont finds economic prosperity in climate change solutions By Joseph Fusco
There has been a fascinating conversation taking place in Vermont over the last several years – a conversation about whether “environmentalism” and “entrepreneurialism” can exist together. It is a conversation driven, in part, by the anticipated effects of climate change, and the challenge to do something about it. Of course, in Vermont the economy and the environment are deeply intertwined. For most – ifnot all – of our history we have relied a great deal on our unique and healthy environment to support a vibrant and evolving working landscape. From tourism to the maple industry, from forest products to craft beer and more, Vermont has birthed livelihoods that both depend on and contribute to a healthy and sustainable environment. I have participated in this conversation with thoughtful and diverse people who love Vermont, and who are deeply motivated to think about how we can create value, affordability, prosperity – and environmental sustainability – by approaching climate change and its related challenges with creativity, innovation, and thoughtfulness. I serve as the chair the Vermont Climate Economy Action Team (CEAT,) which is a diverse group of Vermont-
EAT IS DEDICATED TO ENSURING THAT VERMONT NOT ONLY LEADS IN IDENTIFYING SOLUTIONS TO CLIMATE CHANGE BUT GRASPS THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES THIS CHALLENGE PRESENTS. ers representing the business, economic development, tourism, finance, workforce development, low-income advocacy, solid waste and energy communities. CEAT is dedicated to ensuring that Vermont not only leads in identifying solutions to climate change but grasps the economic opportunities this challenge presents. These opportunities lie within advancing the climate economy – initiatives that expand distributed energy generation and efficiency, cultivate climate economy entrepreneurs and startup businesses, and ultimately reduce Vermont’s carbon dependence while boosting economic development, creating jobs, and attracting youth and creative entrepreneurs to the state. As we begin this new phase of Vermont’s history, we are already seeing a surprising opportunity emerge. Relatively new economic sectors such as solar and home efficiency are helping to reduce emissions, while at the same time boosting local economies, increasing state revenues, and employing hard-working professionals throughout Vermont. Electricians, contractors, plumbers, engineers, tech experts, farmers, and foresters are creating answers to climate change that will be a foundation for the economic renewal of the state. The climate economy can be a fundamental component of all economic activity in the state, whether it’s how we manufacture and produce goods, develop technology, transport products, attract tourism, or use the working landscape. It is the economy of the future, and is powered by Vermont’s history of independence, frugality, resilience, and innovation. With hard work, a vision for economic renewal, and the right policies in place, Vermont has a terrific opportunity to become well-positioned to become the most attractive, inviting, and friendliest state in the country for climate economy business development – a national center of green innovation and entrepreneurship. CEAT envisions a future where Vermont’s creativity, ingenuity, tenacity and grit are the foundation for a vital and growing climate economy for all Vermonters – where energy and efficiency solutions are threads that connect across communities, from businesses and homes to schools and places of worship, and are fundamental to how we build, move, transport, and produce goods in Vermont. CEAT sees a future where electric vehicles are affordable and accessible to all individuals and businesses. Transportation networks can be reliable and inexpensive without increasing greenhouse gas emissions and bike Prosperity, page 7
To turn around, you have to change direction By Rob Roper
We have some pretty serious issues facing our state: a shrinking workforce, a public school system that is hemorrhaging students while it vacuums money, and a structural sate budget deficit, just to name just a few. These problems are not new, and the policies our state government has enacted to address them have not worked. Vermonters are now among the most highly taxed people in the country, but what do we have to show for it? Today we spend roughly $1.6 billion to educate 77,000 K-12 students. That’s well over $20,000 per child, more than almost every other state in the union and nearly twice the national average. In the latest round of standardized tests only 48 percent of Vermont’s students were learning enough to be considered proficient
in their subjects. A single-parent family of three in Vermont receives Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) that is 51 percent higher than the national average. Beyond the direct government forays into our paychecks, Green Mountain Power customers will see a 5 percent rate increase due to progressive, renewable energy policies, Green Mountain Care Board approved a 9 percent increase for Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance, no thanks to a phalanx of progressiveminded healthcare laws.Does anybody really think these measures are going to solve any of the serious problems facing Vermont? If we want to turn our state around, that means by definition we will actually have to change direction. Rob Roper is president of the Ethan Allen Institute
LETTERS
2017 wasn’t so bad Dear Editor, After wading through Barrie Dunsmore’s customary soliloquy of selfimportance, I concluded the theme of his “The worst year ever” article in which he stated that he had never seen anything as bad as 2017 was that it was all President Trump’s fault. I suggest Barrie look outside the liberal bubble in which he resides and consult sources other than the mainstream media which is dedicated to bringing Trump down. This would include Tom Ricks who Barrie extensively quoted in disparaging Trump. (This is the same Tom Ricks who back in 2012 stated that Benghazi was “essentially a small firefight” and predicted that
Susan Rice would be the next secretary of state.) Some of the “half glass full” accomplishments Barrie would have seen for 2017, if he cared to look, were: the highest consumer confidence since 2000, lowest unemployment rate in 17 years, the ending of the catch-and-release immigration policy, cracking down on dangerous gangs, passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, decertifying the disastrous Iran Deal, cutting over 20 regulations for every new one, unshackling our military to destroy ISIS, getting China and Russia to sanction North Korea, signing the VA Accountability Act into law, and introducing trade
policies focused on U.S. jobs. By the way, I am old enough to remember the year 1968 when there was the assassination of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King, violent race riots throughout the nation, college student protests against everything that was “establishment,” the Tet Offensive, and the My Lai massacre. I believe 2017 pales in comparison. Others may remember their own “worst year ever” (1941 and 2001 come to mind) but when looking through a liberal prism, it may be challenging to perceive them as worse than 2017. Kerry O’Hara, Shrewsbury
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CAPITOL QUOTES “No, Attorney General Sessions. Marijuana is not the same as heroin. No one who has seriously studied the issue believes that marijuana should be classified as a Schedule 1 drug beside killer drugs like heroin. Quite the contrary. We should allow states the right to move toward the decriminalization of marijuana, not reverse the progress that has been made in recent years.” Said Sen. Bernie Sanders in a statement responding to Attorney General Jeff Sessions will rescind an Obama administration policy that shielded legalized marijuana from federal intervention.
“The right of eligible Americans to cast a ballot and have their voices heard is the cornerstone of our democracy. I will continue to resist any attempts by the President or his administration to restrict this fundamental right.” Said Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos in a statement responding to President Trump’s dissolving of the Election Integrity Commission.
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continued from page 6 and pedestrian commuting can be a realistic and attractive option rather than an exception. In the future, the Climate Economy makes it possible for everyone to have access to a comfortable, safe, and wellheated home powered by reliable, clean, and affordable electricity. This can be achieved while reducing emissions and improving access to clean energy. Vermonters shouldn’t have to struggle to heat their homes; low energy and net zero homes will improve efficiency and help curb climate change. It is an ambitious vision. And it’s one that requires us to begin acting now, taking the steps and putting the vital foundations in place while both the opportunities and the challenges are fresh. CEAT recently released its legislative platform for 2018. The platform supports
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Said journalist Michael Woff, author of a new exposé on President Donald Trump’s first year in office, speaking about the constitutionally required transition of powers if a president is unable to execute his responsibilities. In his newest book, “Fire and Fury,” Wolff claims Trump’s mental capacity has been called into question by his aides and former allies.
initiatives that promote the growth of the Climate Economy through dramatically expanding weatherization, supporting built-environment solar, and facilitating a shift to electric vehicles. I encourage you to take a look at http://vtrural.org/ programs/climate-economy/actionteam. We can do our part to innovate solutions to climate change while boosting the economy and growing jobs throughout Vermont. We are very enthusiastic about the chance to drive the solutions in Vermont and to seize the most significant economic development opportunity of our generation. Joseph Fusco, a vice president at Casella Waste Systems, Inc., is chair of the Climate Economy Action Team, a group of stakeholders convened by the Vermont Council on Rural Development.
Center Street Marketplace receives $25,000
continued from page 1 between the city, businesses, the state and federal governments, so it’s appropriate that this final piece – the landscaping aesthetic – is being funded through Rutland Blooms, which is the epitome of collaboration in the city of Rutland.” Rutland Blooms was started by Green Mountain Power and works in collaboration with the United Way of Rutland County to fund substantial planting projects each year and build pride in the community. Rutland Blooms has also expanded into support for public art in Rutland. “Raising money for Rutland Blooms has been incredibly satisfying, with tremendous support from businesses big and small, and individuals who care about Rutland’s future,” said GMP Vice President Steve Costello, who manages the program. “This donation would not be possible without broad support from a host of community leaders.” The Carving Studio and Sculpture Center of West Rutland also created “Stone Legacy,” a 10-foot sculpture of a stone carver in local marble, to the city for inclusion in the Center Street Marketplace. The artwork, created by artists Steve Shaheen of New York and Alessandro Lombardo and Andrea Ingrassi of Italy from a model by Kellie Pereira, was carved at the CSSC last summer. “Stone Legacy” was the first in a series planned to honor the area’s history. A sculpture of Revolutionary War heroine Ann Story, who lived in Rutland and Salisbury, will be carved in 2018. Other projects are in the planning stages. A “Jungle Book” sculpture by Barre artist Sean Hunter Williams, honoring the writing of the classic story by Rudyard Kipling, which he wrote while staying in southern Vermont, was installed in front of Phoenix Books-Rutland on Center Street this fall. “The Center Street Marketplace and these sculptures will help continue the ongoing revitalization of downtown Rutland,” Mark Foley Jr. said. “These projects will help to keep downtown a fun, vital centerpiece for the region, which is critical to Rutland City, Rutland Town, and the region as a whole.”
Revote: “This is, I think, not an exaggeration, and not unreasonable to say, this is 25th Amendment kind of stuff.”
Climate change offers opportunity
Movement afoot to found new Black River Academy
continued from page 1 ter its predecessor. The original academy building is now a local history museum. Responding to an email inquiry, BRISC spokeswoman Uli Donohue said they were pleased with the vote in November. “I want to clarify that we did not initiate the petition,” she wrote. “We were very happy with the outcome of the first vote and it is our hope that the second vote will be a repeat of the first with a solid ‘yes’ result. Other members of the community felt there was too much confusion around the first vote and wanted to repeat it.” Donohue said the group would be calling itself Black River Academy, and is working on plans to get its message out. “Despite the revote,” she wrote, “we
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are proceeding with our plans as we believe this is the best option for the towns. We are currently working on information for the website, opening a bank account, and developing a strategic plan for the new school as well as a budget.” Full information on Black River Academy can be found at blackriveracademy. org. The group has set up a crowdfunding page at GoFundMe and has raised more than $1,500 of its $3,000 goal. It can be found at gofundme.com/blackriverindependentschool. The group also holds weekly meetings every Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. at either the Black River High School Library or the Ludlow Elementary school library.
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“… Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart.” Said Donald Trump, attempting to put the matter to rest on Twitter. He also referred to himself in a later tweet as “a very stable genius.”
otter, bear, and coyote have been recorded. The USDA currently has 4,000 acres enrolled in its Vermont wetland conservation easement program, with 3,000 of those acres along Otter Creek. Eikenberry referred several times to competing values and goals. He acknowledged that farmers have to make a living, and said that continued draining of farmland is sometimes grandfathered. When
asked if the placement of solar arrays conflicts with wetland restoration programs, he referred to the state wetlands program within the Department of Environmental Conservation, which promulgates and updates comprehensive wetlands rules. Another example of how values influence solutions is in eradication of invasive plants. While some people object to the use of herbicides, pulling by hand is
arduous and ineffective, he said. He said the USDA uses herbicides “judiciously.” “It really is wetter than it used to be,” he said, citing the 2014 National Climate Assessment, which compared the baseline period 1901-1960 to 2001-2012 for total precipitation. In response to a question about what to expect in the 2018 Farm Bill, Eikenberry said, in effect, who knows?
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WHAT TO DO IN CENTRAL VERMONT Broomball championships 7-8 p.m. Register your team! Details at killington.com.
Free Knitting Class
6:30 p.m. Free knitting classes at Plymouth Community Center, by Barbara Wanamaker. Bring yarn and needles, U.S. size 7 or 8 bamboo needles recommended, and one skein of medium weight yarn in light or medium color. RSVP to bewanamaker@gmail. com, 802-396-0130. 35 School Drive, Plymouth.
Vt Humanities Event
7 p.m. Vt Humanities Council’s First Wednesday talk at Trinity Episcopal Church. Pianist Michael Arnowitt performs and discusses works of Aaron Copland. Free, open to the public. 85 West St., Rutland.
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THURSDAY
BILLINGS SLEIGH RIDE WEEKEND SATURDAY-MONDAY, JAN. 13-15
WEDNESDAY JAN. 10
Bikram Yoga **
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Wednesdays: 6 a.m. 60-min. Bikram; 11 a.m. inferno hot pilates; 4:30 p.m. 60-min. hot power flow; 6:15 p.m. 90-min Bikram. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, bikramyogamendon.com.
Story Time
10 a.m. Maclure Library offers two preschool story hours, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 10 a.m. Parents and care givers are encouraged to bring children from birth to 5 years old. This is a great chance for children to socialize and parents / care givers to make new friends, share concerns, joys, ideas, and experiences and to learn from other parents. Small, intimate group. Info, 802-483-2792. 840 Arch St., Pittsford.
7:30 p.m. Rutland Rocks Curling Club hosts Learn to Curl clinic at Giorgetti Arena. Learn basic rules, etiquette and strategy, then practice on the ice. $20. RSVP to 802-294-CURL or rutlandrockscurlingclub@gmail. com. 2 Oak St. Ext., Rutland.
Bikram Yoga **
JAN. 11
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Thursdays: 6 a.m. & 6:15 p.m. inferno hot pilates; 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. 90-min. Bikram. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, bikramyogamendon.com.
Thirsty Thursday Races
Pico Mountain’s Thirsty Thursday Fun Race Series, Thursdays through March 15, 1-3 p.m. on Lower Pike or Exhibition. Details at picomountain. com.
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.; 5-7 p.m. Call for more times & info, 802-773-7187.
Bird Monitoring Walk
8 a.m. Audubon Society monthly bird monitoring walk at West Rutland marsh. Meet at W. Rutland Price Chopper parking lot at 8 a.m. It’s a 3.7 mile loop around marsh, or just go halfway. New birders, children, and non-members welcome. Dress for the weather! Binocs available if needed. Info, birding@ rutlandcountyaudubon.org.
Ski Bum Race Series
Tobacco Cessation Group
Killington College
Intro to Starting a Micro Business
10 a.m. Ski Bum Race Series at Killington Resort, on Highline Trail at K1 happens on Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Local teams of skiers and snowboarders and telemark skiers race down Highline in pursuit of Ski Bum Glory. Registered competitors only, and after party follows. Info, killington.com. 10 a.m. Killington College week continues at Killington Resort. Activities on and off hill for students. Today, Reggae Party at Jerk Jamaican Grill at Northbrook, a Natty Dread party with reggae music, palm trees and irie vibes. Wear red, yellow, and green! Discounts. Details at killington.com.
Kripalu Yoga
10 a.m. Kripalu yoga with Louise Harrison at Just Dance, Center St., Rutland. First class free. louiseharrison.com, 802-747-8444.
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.
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.
Gentle/Restorative Yoga
5:30 p.m. Gentle Restorative Yoga at Killington Yoga with Louise Harrison. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
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 802-7730600 to make a reservation. Dinner fee $19. KillingtonPicoRotary.org
Killington College
6 p.m. Killington College week continues at Killington Resort. Activities on and off hill for students. Tonight, Ice Skating and Broomball at the Foundry, Summit Path, Killington. 6-8 p.m. Ice skating on the pond 6-7 p.m. Rentals available.
9 a.m. Want to quit smoking but nothing works? Join the free tobacco cessation group. Free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. Every Thursday, 9-10 a.m. Behavioral Health Clinic, 1 Commons St., Rutland. 802-747-3768 for more info. 9 a.m. BROC offers free Introduction to Starting a Micro Business workshop 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Tips and techniques to start your own small business. 45 Union St., Rutland. RSVP to ahoyle@broc.org or 802-665-1744.
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.
Producers’ Group
6 p.m. PEGTV’s new monthly group “The Producers’ Group” meets at PEGTV Studio, 1 Scale Ave in Howe Center, Rutland. This month, guest speaker Kurt Supancic of Peak View Productions gives lighting demo. Refreshments provided. Info, dappelt@pegtv.com.
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.
Author Appearance
6:30 p.m. Author Mark Bushnell talks on his book “Hidden History of Vermont” at Phoenix Books Rutland, 2 Center St., Rutland. Free, open to the public. Books available for purchase. phoenixbooks.biz.
Adult Soccer
7 p.m. Adult Soccer at Killington Elementary School, 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays. $2. Nonmarking gym sneakers please. Info, killingtontown.com.
Killington College
8 p.m. Killington College week continues at Killington Resort. Activities on and off hill for students. Tonight, EDM Dance Party and DJ Battle at Snowshed Lodge, 8-11 p.m. 18+. DJ D Fuego spins. Cash bar for 21+. Contact groups@killington.com to enter the DJ Battle! Details and more schedules at killington.com.
FRIDAY Bikram Yoga **
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.
Level 1 Yoga
8:30 a.m. Level 1 Hatha Yoga at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Killington College
9:30 a.m. Killington College week culminates at Killington Resort with 4241 Yoga at the Peak Lodge. Free; bring a yoga mat. Lift ticket (or foot-passenger ticket) required to take the gondola up. Details and more schedules at killington. com.
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.
Kripalu Yoga
11 a.m. Kripalu yoga, gentle flow at Just Dance, Center St., Rutland. First class free. louiseharrison.com, 802-747-8444.
Osher Series
1:30 p.m. Osher Lifelong Learning series at Godnick Adult Center, Fridays, 1:30-3 p.m. Genomic Medicine with Dr. Debra Leonard. $5 per lecture; $40 for membership. Info, learn.uvm.edu/osher or 802-422-2921.
Magic: the Gathering
3:15 p.m. Sherburne Memorial Library holds Magic: the Gathering Fridays, 3:15-4:15 p.m. Ages 8+, all levels welcome. 2998 River Rd., Killington. 422-9765.
Spaghetti Dinner
4 p.m. Spaghetti dinner fundraiser: dinner, 50/50, silent auction benefiting Barstow 7th and 8th grade trip to Washington D.C. 4-7 p.m. at Chittenden Grange, 3 Lower Middle Road, Chittenden. Walk-ins welcome until 6:30 p.m. Tickets $8 adults, $5 kids 5-16, under 5 free. Spaghetti with meat sauce, rolls, salad, MYO sundaes, beverages.
Animal Frenzy
Mendon Seniors Lunch
Sip and Paint
11:30 a.m. Mendon Senior Citizens have lunch gathering at Sugar and Spice, Route 4 Mendon, second Thursday of each month. For info, 802-773-4187.
Killington College
1 p.m. Killington College week continues at Killington Resort. Activities on and off hill for students. Today, Collegiate Winter Games at K-1 Base Area: Relay race, snowball target contest, sled race, tug-o-war, stein hoisting, plus Monster Energy samples for spectators. Details and more schedules at killington.com.
Level 2 Yoga
5:30 p.m. Level 2 Flow Yoga at Killington Yoga Karen Dalury, E-RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
JAN. 12
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Fridays: 6 a.m. 60-min. hot power flow; 11 a.m. 60-min. Bikram; 4:30 p.m. inferno hot pilates. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, bikramyogamendon.com.
Bone Builders
10 a.m. Bone builders meets Thursdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. Info, 802-773-2694.
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5:30 p.m. Animal Frenzy program at Wonderfeet Kids’ Museum. What do animals do to adapt to the cold and survive winter? Find out. $12 per child. $10 members. Center St., Rutland. 6 p.m. Sip and paint event: Cloud Surfing, at Draught Room at Diamond Run Mall, 6-8:30 p.m. by Cricket’s Eye Art. Tickets and info, cricketseye.com. 46 Diamond Run Mall Place #100, Rutland.
Sixth Floor Trio
7:30 p.m. Sixth Floor Trio performs at Chandler: Bluegrass to klezmer, classical to jazz, ancient to contemporary rock. Reserved seating, $28 adults advance; $30 day of. $10 students. chandler-arts.org. 802-728-6464. 71-73 Main St., Randolph.
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Yale Russian Chorus
7:30 p.m. Join the world renowned Yale Russian Chorus for an evening of Slavic music at Unitarian Universalist Church, 117 West St, Rutland. $15 at the door.
SATURDAY Mini Shred Madness
Ladies Nordic Expo
2018 Ladies Nordic Ski Expo at Rikert Nordic Center, Ripton. Instruction in traditional skinny-ski track plus backcountry and telemark techniques. Lunch, instructional sessions, guest speaker Sandra Dee Owens, apres ski social at Bread Loaf Inn. Sign up at catamounttrail.org.
Killington Section GMC
9:30 a.m. Killington Section Green Mountain Club outing: Around Spring Lake, Cuttingsville. Snowshoe, moderate, 4-4.5 miles. Meet at 9:30 a.m. at Rutland’s Main Street Park, near firehouse, to carpool; or Cuttingsville Post Office, Route 103, at 10 a.m. Details at 802-492-2244.
Rutland Meals Challenge
9:30 a.m. Rutland Meals Challenge at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 9:30 a.m.3:30 p.m. Volunteers packaging food to be donated to area food shelves and Vt Food Bank. Volunteers needed. Public welcome to stop in and buy raffle tickets to benefit the event. vtmealschallenge@gmail.com for info. 6 Church Hill Rd, Rutland.
Open Gym
10 a.m. Saturday morning open gym at Head Over Heels, 152 North Main St., Rutland. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. All ages welcome. First time is free! Practice current skills, create gymnastic routines, learn new tricks, social opportunity to be with friends! $10/ hour for members; $14/ hour for non-members. Info, 802-773-1404.
Winter Wildlife Celebration
10 a.m. Winter Wildlife Celebration at VINS, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. A fun-filled day of family activities inside and outside, including guided tours and talks, games, crafts, activities, a campfire and refreshments, and more. vinsweb.org for schedule. 6565 Woodstock Rd., Quechee.
10 a.m. Friends of the Rutland Free Library January book sale, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thousands of organized, gentlyused books, CDs, DVDs and puzzles for all ages. Most items $0.25-$3. Monthly special - BOGO sports books. 10 Court St., Rutland. rutlandfree.org.
RECYCLED PERCUSSION SATURDAY, JAN. 13, 7:30 P.M.
LL Bean Bootmobile Mountain Tour 10 a.m. The L.L. Bean Bootmobile Mountain Tour is coming to Okemo Mountain Resort. Have the opportunity to take photos, win prizes, play games and interact with the Bootmobile. Courtyard, Jackson Gore Village. Ludlow. okemo.com.
Sleigh Ride Weekend
10 a.m. Sleigh Ride Weekend at Billings Farm & Museum, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Horse-drawn sleigh rides around the farm fields, programs, activities, “A Time for Justice” film showings, operating farm, and more. Admission. billingsfarm.org. 69 Old River Rd., Woodstock.
Mini Shred Madness on Easy Street Terrain Park at Killington Resort. For the Groms! Categories: age 9 and under; age 10-13. Parks crew rides around with help and motivation. Giveaways! Details and more at killington. com.
Book Sale
7:30 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Saturdays: 7:30 a.m. 60-min. Bikram; 9 a.m. 90-min. Bikram; 4:30 p.m. inferno hot pilates. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, bikramyogamendon.com.
Special Music
10 a.m. Special musical guest joining Rabba Kaya at Shabbat service at Rutland Jewish Center, 96 Grove St., Rutland: Katie Gartner Kaplan.
Cooking Workshop
11:30 a.m. Everyday Chef cooking class with Grace Davy - Breakfast: Fast and Delicious. Learn to make baked oatmeal and granola at home. Bring home a bag! $5/ adult, seniors over age 55 and kids 12 and under are free. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Godnick Adult Center, 1 Deer St., Rutland.
Bridge Club
12 p.m. Marble Valley Duplicate Bridge Club meets at Godnick Center Saturdays, 12-4 p.m. Sanctioned duplicate bridge games. Info, 802-228-6276. 1 Deer St., Rutland. Please join.
Let It Glow
3 p.m. Let it Glow Laser Light Show and fireworks spectacular at Okemo Mountain Resort in Sitting Bull, Clock Tower Base lodge. Light set to music, a visual effects of state-of-the-art digital graphics and fireworks grand finale. Free admission. okemo.com.
Happy Hour Yoga
4:30 p.m. Happy Hour Yoga at Killington Yoga , 3744 River Rd, Killington. $10 drop in. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Open Swim
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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, 802-7737187.
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5:30 p.m. Bridgewater Grange Bingo, Saturday 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.
Open Gym
Shotski Party
Recycled Percussion
7:30 p.m. Junk rock music with Recycled Percussion, at Paramount Theatre, 30 Center St., Rutland. Tickets $25-$40. paramountvt.org.
Joel Cage
7:30 p.m. Singer/songwriter from Boston, Joel Cage performs at Brandon Music. $20. $25 dinner available. BYOB. Reservations recommended. 62 Country Club Rd., Brandon. brandon-music.net.
SUNDAY
Paint and Sip
Woodstock Vermont Film Series **
5:45 p.m. Upper Valley Curling Club holds Learn to Curl clinic at Barwood Arena, Highland Ave., White River Junction. $25, open to those age 12+. Equipment provided, wear warm clothes and non-skid shoes. Register at uppervalleycurling.org.
6 p.m. Shotski Party 6-9 p.m. at Killington Art Garage. $50 per ski, $25 per person. artgaragevt.com to reserve a spot. 2841 Killington Rd., Killington.
1 p.m. Killington ART Garage holds Alcohol Ink workshop. $40 includes materials and instruction. RSVP to 802-422-8844. 2841 Killington Rd., Killington. artgaragevt.com. 2 p.m. Paint and sip at Killington Art Garage. Paint a snow camper scene - all levels welcome, no experience needed. $37 includes all materials and instruction. BYOB, light nosh served. artgaragevt.com to RSVP. 2841 Killington Rd., Killington.
Learn to Curl Clinic
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.
Art Workshop
3 p.m. 8th annual Woodstock Vermont Film Series at Billings Farm & Museum features award-winning documentary “I Am Not Your Negro” at 3 p.m. and 5 p.m. Reservations strongly recommended at 802-457-2355, billingsfarm.org/filmfest. Tickets $9-$11. Vt. Route 12, Woodstock, 1/2 mile north of Village Green.
SUNDAY, JAN. 14, 5 P.M.
Friday | February 2 | 8:00 PM
Bikram Yoga **
JAN. 13
Friday | January 19 | 8:00 PM
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JAN. 14
7:30 a.m. West Pawlet Fire Department holds a pancake breakfast 7:30-11 a.m., at the West Pawlet fire house, Route 153, West Pawlet. Pancakes of many varieties, meats, eggs, beverages, and more. $10 for ages 12+; $8 for ages 5-12; free under age 5. Info, 802-345-4312.
Bikram Yoga **
9 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Sundays: 9 a.m. 90-min. Bikram; 11 a.m. inferno hot pilates; 4:30 p.m. 60-min. Bikram. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, bikramyogamendon.com.
LL Bean Bootmobile Mountain Tour
10 a.m. The L.L. Bean Bootmobile Mountain Tour is coming to Okemo Mountain Resort. Have the opportunity to take photos, win prizes, play games and interact with the Bootmobile. Courtyard, Jackson Gore Village. Ludlow. okemo.com.
Sleigh Ride Weekend
10 a.m. Sleigh Ride Weekend at Billings Farm & Museum, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Horsedrawn sleigh rides around the farm fields, programs, activities, “A Time for Justice” film showings, operating farm, and more. Admission. billingsfarm. org. 69 Old River Rd., Woodstock.
Sundays with Maurie
10 a.m. Sundays with Maurie: Join local watercolor artist, Maurie Harrington, for weekly painting sessions Sundays at Killington Art Garage. $37pp includes all instruction, materials, fees. Complimentary tea, coffee, and sweets will be served! Drop in, but seats are limited. artgaragevt.com to reserve a spot. 2841 Killington Rd., Killington.
Morning Yoga
10:30 a.m. Morning Yoga with Dawn Sunday mornings at Plymouth Community Center, 35 School Drive, Plymouth. $12 or 10 classes for $90. All levels welcome, bring your own mat. 10:30-11:30 a.m.
Mixed Level Yoga
12 p.m. All Level Flow yoga at Killington Yoga with Cristy Murphy. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Now at noon! Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Second Sunday Concert
4 p.m. Second Sunday Concert Series at ArtisTree: an evening of new works composed by Althea Sully Cole on her Kora (West African harp). $10 general admission. artistreevt.org. 2095 Pomfret Rd., So. Pomfret.
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TUESDAY
Rotary Bonfire
5 p.m. Killington-Pico Rotary Club annual Christmas Tree Bonfire, 5-8 p.m. at Charity’s Tavern, Killington Road. $10 donation per tree benefits the Vt Special Olympics. Fun events added this year: attempt to set Killington record for longest shot ski at 6:30 p.m.; snowball target range for kids, giveaways, raffles, and more. Hot drinks and light snacks available for sale.
Learn To Curl
5:30 p.m. Rutland Rocks Curling Club hosts Learn to Curl clinic at Giorgetti Arena. Learn basic rules, etiquette and strategy, then practice on the ice. $20. RSVP to 802-294-CURL or rutlandrockscurlingclub@gmail.com. 2 Oak St. Ext., Rutland.
Shakin’ Skate
6 p.m. Fun evening of ice skating with live DJ, games and fun for whole family in Okemo Mountain Resort’s Ice House skating pavilion at Jackson Gore. 6-9 p.m. okemo.com.
MONDAY
JAN. 15
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Bikram Yoga **
Bikram Yoga **
JAN. 16
6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Tuesdays: 6 a.m. & 6:15 p.m. Inferno hot pilates; 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. 90-min. Bikram. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, bikramyogamendon.com.
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.; 12-1 p.m.; 5-7 p.m. Call for more times & info, 802-773-7187.
Art Workshop
10 a.m. Annie’s Art Workshop, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. Tuesdays at Sherburne Memorial Library, Killington. Open art workshop - collaborative artist group welcomes all levels, interests, mediums. Free. In memory of Ann Wallen. Info, 2991777.
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6 a.m. Bikram Yoga holds classes Mondays: 6 a.m. and 11 a.m., 60 min. Bikram; 4:30 p.m. 60-min. hot power flow; 6:15 p.m. 90-min. Bikram. 1360 US-4, Mendon. Info, bikramyogamendon.com.
All Level Yoga
PHAT Day at Okemo
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9 a.m. To commemorate National Safety Month, Okemo holds PHAT day, Protect Your Head at All Times with stickers, posters, helmet raffles, and awareness. All day, base lodge, Clock Tower base. Okemo Mountain Resort, 77 Okemo Ridge Rd., Ludlow.
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8:30 a.m. All Level Flow 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.
We Can Fix It
10 a.m. We Can Fix It: Home Maintenance Education for Women, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at NeighborWorks of Western Vt., 290 Marble St., West Rutland. An educational program aimed at empowering women with skills and tools to solve common household issues. Info, sign up for future classes, mwwvt. org.
LL Bean Bootmobile Mountain Tour
10 a.m. The L.L. Bean Bootmobile Mountain Tour is coming to Okemo Mountain Resort. Have the opportunity to take photos, win prizes, play games and interact with the Bootmobile. Courtyard, Jackson Gore Village. Ludlow. okemo.com.
Sleigh Ride Weekend
10 a.m. Sleigh Ride Weekend at Billings Farm & Museum, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Horsedrawn sleigh rides around the farm fields, programs, activities, “A Time for Justice” film showings, operating farm, and more. Admission. billingsfarm. org. 69 Old River Rd., Woodstock.
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.
Rutland Rotary
12:15 p.m. Rotary Club of Rutland meets Mondays for lunch at The Palms Restaurant. Learn more or become a member, journal@sover.net.
Tobacco Cessation Group
4:30 p.m. Want to quit smoking but nothing works? Join the free tobacco cessation group. Free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. Every Monday, 4:30-5:30 p.m. at RRMC Foley Cancer Center, conference room, 160 Allen St., Rutland. 802-747-3768 for more info.
Yin Yoga
5 p.m. Yin Yoga, all levels at Killington Yoga with Karen Dalury, RYT 500. 3744 River Rd, Killington. Info, killingtonyoga.com, 802-422-4500.
Citizenship Classes
Vermont Adult Learning will offers free citizenship classes. Call Marcy Green, 802-775-0617, 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.
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.
Bone Builders
10 a.m. Bone builders meets Tuesdays at Roadside Chapel, 1680 Townline Rd, Rutland Town. Info, 802-773-2694.
Tobacco Cessation Group
11 a.m. Want to quit smoking but nothing works? Join the free tobacco cessation group. Free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. Every Tuesday, 11-12 p.m. at Heart Center, 12 Commons St., Rutland. 802-747-3768 for more info.
TOPS Meeting
4:45 p.m. TOPS meets every Tuesday night at the Trinity church in Rutland Vermont at the corners of West street and Church Street. Side entrance. Weight in starts at 4:45 until 5:30 and meeting starts at 6 until 6:30. Everyone is welcome come and join a stress free environment and take off pounds sensibly. For more information call Ann Marie at 802-293-5279.
Tobacco Cessation Group
5 p.m. Want to quit smoking but nothing works? Join the free tobacco cessation group. Free nicotine patches, gum or lozenges. Every Tuesday, 5-6 p.m. at Castleton Community Center, 2108 Main St., Castleton. 802-747-3768 for more info.
We Can Fix It
5 p.m. We Can Fix It: Home Maintenance Education for Women, 5-7:30 p.m. at NeighborWorks of Western Vt., 290 Marble St., West Rutland. An educational program aimed at empowering women with skills and tools to solve common household issues. Info, sign up for future classes, mwwvt.org.
Legion Bingo
6:15 p.m. Brandon American Legion, Tuesdays. Warm ups 6:15 p.m., regular games 7 p.m. Open to the public. Bring a friend!
Chess Club
7 p.m. Rutland Rec Dept. holds a chess club at Godnick Adult Center, providing a mind-enhancing skill not only to the youth but adults as well. The club will teach anyone who is willing to learn. All ages are welcome; open to the public. Tuesday evenings, 7 – 9 p.m. 1 Deer St., Rutland.
Adult Floor Hockey
7 p.m. Adult Floor Hockey at Killington Elementary School, 7-9 p.m. Tuesdays. $2. Non-marking gym sneakers please. Info, killingtontown.com.
Winter Wildlife
Celebration SATURDAY, JANUARY 13 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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Music scene by dj dave hoffenberg
WEDNESDAY
[MUSIC Scene] FRIDAY
JAN. 10 KILLINGTON
JAN. 12 BOMOSEEN
10 a.m. Killington Resort Jerk Jamaican Mountain Grill
6 p.m. Iron lantern
2 p.m. K1 Base Lodge Daniel Brown
KILLINGTON
6 p.m. Liquid Art
1 p.m. Bear Mountain Duane Carleton
7 p.m. The Foundry
College Reggae Party
Open Mic
R&B Night w/ Jordan Snow & Jeff Poremski
8 p.m. Outback Pizza
Snowplow Comedy Competition
9 p.m. JAX Food & Games
Kris Collett
7 p.m. Bomoseen Lodge Josh Jakab
1 p.m. Bear Mountain Base Lodge
2 p.m. K1 Base Lodge
1 p.m. Pico’s Last Run Lodge
Big Boss Sausage
Daniel Brown
Duane Carleton
4 p.m. Pickle Barrel Jamie’s Junk Show
4:30 p.m. The Foundry Jordan Snow
Daniel Brown
5 p.m. Outback Pizza 5 p.m. The Foundry
Jazz Night w/ the Summit Pond Quartet
6 p.m. Wobbly Barn
Happy Hour w/ Tony Lee Thomas Band
5 p.m. Outback Pizza
8 p.m. Pickle Barrel Nightclub
4:30 p.m. The Foundry
6 p.m. Preston’s Restaurant
8 p.m. Santa Fe Steakhouse
6 p.m. Wobbly Barn
6 p.m. Wobbly Barn
Just Jamie
Happy Hour w/ Jenny Porter
7 p.m. O’Dwyer’s Public Daniel Brown
Apres Ski Dance Party w/ DJ Dave
Ryan Fuller
Happy Hour w/ Tony Lee Thomas Band
7 p.m. O’Dwyer’s Public House
The Nerds
Two Bit Cowboys
9 p.m. JAX Food and Games Duane Carleton
The County Down
10 p.m. Pickle Barrel Crow’s Nest 10 p.m. Wobbly Barn
Primo and Johnson
7 p.m. The Foundry
LUDLOW
7 p.m. Outback Pizza
7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub
7:30 p.m. McGrath’s Irish Pub
8 p.m. Pickle Barrel Nightclub
LUDLOW
8 p.m. Pickle Barrel Nightclub
8 p.m. Santa Fe Steakhouse
Shakin’ Skate
8 p.m. Santa Fe Steakhouse
8 p.m. The Foundry
4 p.m. Artistree
8:30 p.m. Outback Pizza Talkin’ Smack
STOCKBRIDGE
9 p.m. JAX Food & Games
Cigar Box Brunch w/ Rick Redington
6 p.m. Mr. Darcy’s Wayne Canney
POULTNEY 7 p.m. Taps Tavern
Irish Night w/ Craic Agus Ceol
RUTLAND 9:30 p.m. The Venue Jenny Porter
STOCKBRIDGE 5:30 p.m. Wild Fern Jo Moon: Piano & Vocals
THURSDAY
JAN. 11 KILLINGTON
2 p.m. Pico’s Last Run Lodge
Aaron Audet Band Olivia Perren
Brothers Flynn
Garden State Radio
The Bubsies
9 p.m. JAX Food & Games Just Jamie
9 p.m. Moguls Sports Pub DJ Dave’s All Request Dance Party
10 p.m. Wobbly Barn Nine Deeez Nite
LUDLOW 8 p.m. Mangiamo’s Ryan Fuller
Daniel Brown
PLYMOUTH
6 p.m. Outback Pizza 7 p.m. The Foundry
Andy Lugo
Joey Leone Duo
8 p.m. Pickle Barrel Nightclub
The Bubsies
Aaron Audet Band
Joey Leone Band
10 p.m. Wobbly Barn Evolution X
6 p.m. Jackson Gore Ice House SOUTH POMFRET Althea Sully Cole: New Works for Kora
12 p.m. Wild Fern 1 p.m. Wild Fern The People’s Jam
MONDAY
10:30 p.m. Pickle Barrel Crow’s Nest Jamie’s Junk Show
LUDLOW
JAN. 15
7 p.m. Salt Ash Inn
7 p.m. Okemo Clock Tower Base Area
POULTNEY
PLYMOUTH
6 p.m. Outback Pizza
Lee Ross
7 p.m. Taps Tavern The Mean Waltons
RUTLAND
8 p.m. Snowshed Lodge
9 p.m. Center Street Alley
9 p.m. JAX Food & Games
9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern
Josh Jakab
Garden State Radio
Evolution X
KILLINGTON
Kung Fu
EDM Dance Party & DJ Battle
Brothers Flynn
Jamie’s Junk Show
DJ Dirty D
Rick Redington & The Luv
Let It Glow Laser Light Show Spectacular
5:30 p.m. Salt Ash Inn Same Luke
POULTNEY
2 p.m. K1 Base Lodge Duane Carleton
Karaoke w/ DJ Evan
7 p.m. The Foundry
Blues Night w/ Joey Leone
7 p.m. Taps Tavern
9 p.m. JAX Food & Games
RUTLAND
WOODSTOCK
Open Mic Night w/ Jon-Carl Smith
7 p.m. Draught Room Duane Carleton
The Idiots
8 p.m. Bentley’s Restaurant
MENDON
SOUTH POMFRET
6 p.m. Red Clover Inn
7 p.m. Artistree
7:30 p.m. Paramount Theatre
STOCKBRIDGE
9 p.m. Center Street Alley
7 p.m. The Wild Fern
9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern
KILLINGTON
WOODSTOCK
Daniel Brown
Jazz Trio
PITTSFIELD 7 p.m. Clear River Tavern Open Mic Jam w/ Supply & Demand
Benefit Concert for Puerto Rico w/ Jay Nash & The Contenders
Jennings & McComber
POULTNEY
WOODSTOCK
7 p.m. Taps Tavern
10 p.m Bentley’s
Mike Schwaner
RUTLAND 7 p.m. Draught Room Wayne Canney
DJ Andraudy
SATURDAY
9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern College Night w/ DJ Mega
JAN. 13 BOMOSEEN
STOCKBRIDGE
6 p.m. Iron lantern
7 p.m. The Wild Fern
Steve Kyhill & Dave Hughes
BRANDON
Rick Redington
7:30 p.m. Brandon Music Joel Cage
KILLINGTON 9:30 p.m. Killington Easy Street Terrain Park Mini Shred Madness w/ DJ Dave
Open Mic Night
TUESDAY
Recycled Percussion
JAN. 16
DJ Mega
Karaoke 101 w/ Tenacious T
10 p.m Bentley’s Restaurant VJ Castor Troy
SUNDAY
JAN. 14 KILLINGTON
10 a.m. Killington Resort Ramshead Lift DJ Dave
11 a.m. The Foundry Brunch w/ Jordan Snow
1 p.m. Pico’s Last Run Lodge Duane Carleton
2 p.m. K1 Base Lodge 6 p.m. Outback Pizza Ryan Fuller
8:30 p.m. Charity’s Tavern Name That Tune Bingo w/ DJ Dave
POULTNEY 8 p.m. Taps Tavern Bluegrass Jam
RUTLAND 7 p.m. The Venue
Working Mans Karaoke w/ Bob Hudson
8 p.m. Center Street Alley Trivia
9:30 p.m. Hide-A-Way Tavern Open Mic w/ Krishna Guthrie
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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 47
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
CLUES ACROSS 1. Make ale 5. Residue 8. Female parent 12. Succulent plants 14. OJ’s judge 15. Czech river 16. Embarrassing predicament 18. NHL legend Bobby 19. Sunfish 20. One who acclaims 21. On the __: running away 22. Oklahoma’s “Wheat Capital” 23. The Golden State 26. Merrymake 30. Siberian nomads 31. Pock-marked 32. Baleen whale 33. Leaf-footed bug genus 34. Treasure 39. Tanzanian shilling 42. Changed 44. Intestinal pouches 46. Walked in a celebratory way 47. South American mountain chain 49. Jai __, sport 50. Consumed 51. Firm 56. Pubs 57. Leafy drink 58. Cured 59. Northern wind of France 60. Tax collector 61. Respite from the sun 62. American spy Aldrich 63. Central Standard Time 64. Myanmar ethnic group
CLUES DOWN 1. Crush 2. Razorbill genus 3. “Full House” actress Loughlin 4. Bluish green 5. Garlic mayonnaise 6. Attacks repeatedly 7. Secretion 8. Special instance 9. A handsome youth loved by Aphrodite 10. Tree genus in the mahogany family 11. Israeli city 13. Formed a theory 17. Remove 24. Type of light 25. Repeats 26. Certified public accountant 27. River in eastern France 28. Returned material authorization (abbr.) 29. Special __: military group 35. Ribonucleic acid 36. Not even 37. Power transmission belt 38. Doctor of Education 40. Type of nerve 41. Types of tops 42. Large primate 43. Flooded, low-lying land 44. Gritty 45. Gets up 47. Stake 48. Not the most 49. Swedish rock group 52. Expresses pleasure 53. Expression of boredom 54. Queen of Sparta 55. Where Adam and Eve were placed at the Creation
Solutions on page, 47
Solving the riddle
My son and I had a conversation recently in which he tried to argue about the value of going to school. “When am I ever going to need to know how to do geometry in the real world?” he complained. I honestly think I made this same argument to my own parents years earlier. And I probably never got a valid response. I’m sure my parents gave me the standard answer of, “You never know, down the road you may want to be a geometry teacher” – which isn’t very convincing. It wasn’t until I posed this same question to a college guidance counselor that I finally got an answer that made sense. I remember being frustrated having to take a few required courses that were outside of my comfort zone – something like statistics, which was my least favorite subject ever. I was complaining to my guidance counselor and making arguments that statistics knowledge would not help my major or enhance my abilities in the areas I was interested in. His reply was profound. He explained that the human brain works on many levels and is like a giant muscle. And just like the human body, it’s much better if you work out all the different areas instead of focusing on a couple. I had a much more artistic leaning brain (some call that a dominant right brain, which favors creative endeavors, as opposed to left-brain individuals who tend to be more logical and analytical). He told me that challenging your brain with problems that it’s not normally good at solving will strengthen it in specific ways – ways that may come in handy later in life when you’re posed with unique problems. That’s why a well-rounded liberal arts education can be so rewarding and important. I couldn’t argue with that answer. It made total sense to me and I’ve never forgotten it, which is why I repeated it verbatim to my son when he brought up. I tested this theory a bit over the recent Christmas break. In my son’s stocking I included a brain teaser – one of those geometrical puzzles made of wooden blocks that, when together, resemble a square, but when taken apart look like a mess of unrelated shapes. When he opened it on Christmas morning I told him that if and when he took the entire puzzle apart and reassembled it correctly, he could play his Xbox for the remainder of the break (we removed the Xbox at the beginning of school so he could better focus on his studies). He was thrilled at this prospect since we had previously told him that there was no way he was getting the Xbox back until summer vacation started. Immediately he went to work on the puzzle. Within a half hour, he was completely frustrated because he couldn’t even take it apart, much less put it back to-
DARKEST HOUR
gether. He struggled and struggled and finally walked away. Later that night he decided to revisit the puzzle and began working in earnest. And again, he became frustrated at his inability to take it apart. I finally went over and sat down to offer some advice. I told him I would not help him solve it, but I might offer suggestions that he could implement. I realized quickly that this was a fairly difficult brain teaser and possibly outside his ability, but I didn’t want to pull the plug since so much was on the table. I finally recognized how it came apart and quietly nudged him into figuring it out. But then the hard part came: putting it back together. He worked on and off for most of the next day. His frustration level increased exponentially, but I consistently encouraged him to think different, to approach the puzzle in ways that he wouldn’t normally try. Finally, after many hours of work (and some subtle hints from dad), he finally completed the puzzle. He’s excitement was palpable as he jumped around the house announcing his victory. I retrieved his Xbox and turned it over to him, but also gave him a brief talk about commitment and perseverance and who he just worked out his brain in an entirely different way. Who knows if that skill-set will come in handy again some day. This week’s film, “Darkest Hour,” also features a man who understood the value of problem solving as he solved one of the most dangerous puzzles the world has ever faced. “Darkest Hour” is the story of the rise of Winston Churchill in British politics when Adolph Hitler threatened to take over Europe and ultimately invade the English coastline. Starring Gary Oldman as Churchill (who delivers an Oscar worthy performance), this film is both compelling and educational and deftly analyzes the struggles and influences placed on Churchill as he attempted to combat the the evil of the Third Reich. This is a wonderful film not only for the content but also for the blistering performances. Plan to see this one represented at the Oscars in the coming weeks. A blitzkrieg “B+” for “Darkest Hour” Got a question or comment for Dom? You can email him at moviediary@att.net.
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Rockin’ the region with Kung Fu This Thursday make sure you head to the Pickle Barrel wrote. The one before that, “Bottleneck,” was written by for the long awaited return of Kung Fu. It’s been three years DeAngelis, and recently recorded “Caught Up In A Mess” since they funked up Killington and they’re psyched to was written by Sasser. do it again. I had the pleasure of speaking to Rob Somer“We go around the horn. Whoever has something, we ville, saxophonist and vocalist for the band, who has been record it. It’s a big group effort. There is no shortage of playing up here since the early 90s. His other band, Deep new material,” said Somerville. Banana Blackout, used to tear up the Wobbly Barn and Kung Fu does what Somerville likes to call “Smart the mountain in the late 90s and early 2000s. Somerville Touring.” They tour all over the U.S., but they go out for reflected on those days: “Oh I remember those days when a few weeks at a time. Somerville explained, “The motto I was a little younger and Deep Banana used to come up has always been ‘Travel and tour smarter, not harder.’ there. We were a little crazy back then. We would go skiing Back when you’re young, 20 years old and right out of all day and then hit the gig at night and then go skiing all college, it’s easy to hit the road and play anywhere at day the next day and then hit the gig again at night.” Kung anytime and a lot of bands do that. At this stage in the Fu might not hit the mountain this time around but they game with all of us at the advanced age that we are with will definitely tear up the Pickle Barrel. I’ve been fortunate families and kids we try to not be on the road for big to see every past show in extended periods of time. We’re not going out on the road town, including the first for three months. We like to do fly-outs. Next week we’re Kung Fu show at the Pickle, flying out to Colorado, play and then fly home. Week after rockin’ and good times were defithat, we’re flying out to California to play at the NAMM the region nitely had by all. (National Association of Music Merchants) Conference. by dj dave Most of Kung Fu’s memWhen you look at our tour schedule, it looks like we’re all hoffenberg bers hail from Connecticut: over the place all the time. In reality we’re touring smarter Adrian Tramontano (drums/ and we can accomplish getting back to markets that we percussion), Chris DeAnwant to without having to spend weeks getting there.” gelis (bass guitar and vocals), Tim Palmieri (guitar and Somerville is from Wilmington, Del. but decided to vocals) and Somerville. A few years back they added Beau stay in Hartford and not go home. He’d play gigs to put Sasser (keyboards and vocals) and he calls Northampton, enough bread in his pocket to pay the rent and put gas Mass. home. Sasser was an easy choice for the band. All the in the car to get to the next gig. “God, it was just so easy guys have played with him in some way; and he and Palm- and free and fun. We’d play for anything at anytime and ieri and play in Z3, a Frank Zappa tribute band. Somerville anywhere. That band Tongue & Groove played every talked about getting Sasser and said, “When the time came weekend without fail, every Thursday, every Friday and to get a new keyboardist, he was literally the only choice. every Saturday. And all in Connecticut, which is unheard I’m not even joking, he was the only one on our list. Unani- of. All in your own market is crazy.” They were able to pull mously and simultaneously we all said it has to be Beau it off because they were such an incredible band. Half of and we were right. The atmosphere around the band, just that band went on to become Deep Banana Blackout. the ease of working and being together has been awesome. They started playing at the Wobbly in 1998. Very amicable and we’re having fun. Having a fresh face in As Kung Fu increased its popularity, started getting the band has done wonders for the morale.” really big crowds and a following, and created a buzz, the The band recently celebrated its eight-year anniversary guys would ask Somerville if it was like his DBB days. “Not and Somerville joined the band nine months into its start. to compare the two bands, but that’s what made me want “I guess they left me in the womb for nine months and to play with them. I’d gone and seen Kung Fu like two then I was back on the scene,” Somerville said jokingly. or three times and I wanted to be in the band.” A friend When they got together, everyone was calling them a super of his commented on him joining the band. As soon as group for a super jam. Its members are all well known and Kung Fu released the news of Somerville joining them, have been in some of the more his friend said, “that’s amazing popular bands on the jam band because you said you wanted scene. Tramontano, DeAngelis to be in that band.” Somerville and Palmieri are from The Breaksaid, “It’s a testament to those fast, a hard-hitting jazz rock exguys. It’s how I always judge a perimental quartet. Sasser was in band. People ask me ‘How do I Uncle Sammy and Melvin Sparks know that a band is good?’ BeBand and Somerville DBB, a New cause I want to play with them. Orleans style jazz-funk band They were smokin’; they were from Fairfield County, Conn. just killing it. I told them that The band got its name because I didn’t even have to play the a former member was watching sax, I could just get up and sing “Kung Fu Panda” with his son and a few tunes. That’s how much he asked, “What about Kung Fu?” I wanted to be in the band. It’s — and it stuck. When Somerbeen a wild ride, it’s been great ville first heard about them on to be back on the scene in anthe scene he was surprised that other band. After DBB I didn’t By Drew Massey really sit around and think if I’d nobody had ever named a band KUNG FU Kung Fu before. be in another touring band. It I asked Rob to describe the just came out of nowhere.” band and he said, “Well it’s not a movie, haha. It’s a very Somerville said you can expect to see “fierce funk.” His aggressive, educated, funk-fusion extravaganza. We’re daughter Nola (8) said, “It’s the best music in the world.” steeped in that tradition of funk and jazz but there’s a lot He added, “I’m not going to disagree with her. The guys I of rock. The band definitely knows how to rock out. Most get to play with are world class musicians. I’m the lucky of the time we can’t help it — we’re just full throttle. It fits one. Adrian calls me ‘The breath of fresh air.’ I don’t know right in on the festival and club scene because it’s dance what that means [laughing].” music. We have a lot of experience and the musicianship I can attest to the fact that they are all world class. in the band is very seasoned and very polished sounds Palmieri is a monster guitar player who will melt your that we go for.” The band is influenced by the fusion side face with his solos. Somerville added, “He’s the most of funk and jazz, like early Herbie Hancock in the 70s. brilliant guitar player on the scene and I’ve seen a lot Since they last played the Pickle, the band has been of guitarists. When Tim is ready to rock, he is ready to touring like crazy but also doing a lot of writing. Somerrock. We like having that reputation of being a filthy funk ville said, “We’ve been churning out a bunch of tunes. We band. We like the challenge of living up to that reputahave enough for a record but we’ve been releasing them tion. Night after night, I’m always impressed with the by what we like to call ‘Ninja Cuts.’ We record a tune and abilities of the guys. No matter what’s going on in their then we release it online. We’ve done some videos, too. lives, whether they’re having a good day or a bad day, it Pretty much one every couple of months. It works out redoes not matter when we get on the stage. All of that stuff ally well because we can go into the studio, record two or goes away and everyone’s that much of a professional three tunes at a time as opposed to 10 or 11 for a record. at what they’re doing. There’s good days and bad days, We just write a handful at a time and record them.” Every- especially when you’re on the road, but it’s about getting body contributes in some way. Somerville added, “When through that and getting through a gig. I think that’s one Beau came into the band, he had a lot of material to learn of the best things about this band that night after night, but he’s been contributing as well. Everybody writes. we can go out and deliver a high energy, danceable, fun, Some people write lyrics, [some] people write tunes. funk music. Everyone is smiling, everyone is enjoying Sometimes one person will come with a complete tune, themselves and we really enjoy each others company done and ready to go. Sometimes it’s just a riff and we put and enjoy each others musicianship. We respect each it through the grinder at rehearsal.” Their latest one com- other personally and musically. It works — and it works ing out is called “Chop Suey” and that’s one that Palmieri night after night.”
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State Liquor Control: East Poultney General Store “underperforms” POULTNEY—Saying the East Poultney General Store is the state’s lowest-performing liquor outlet, the state Department of Liquor Control has taken away its license as of Jan. 9. The store’s owner-operator, Carol Stierle, fears the loss of liquor sales will severely handicap her business. The store has provided liquor for the Lake St. Catherine Country Club in the summer and American Legion Post 39 in Poultney year-round, Stierle told the Rutland Herald. She purchased the business from previous owners Dina and Gerard Guillet in early 2014 and acquired a liquor license at that time. The state took inventory then. Two weeks later, the state announced the opening of a second liquor outlet in the Poultney town boundaries, at the Full Belly Deli, 206 Main St., a mile to the west and inside the Poultney downtown area. That opening cost Stierle
about a third of her liquor sales, she said. Two years ago, the state renewed Stierle’s liquor license, effective July 2016 to the end of December 2017. In April, Liquor Control Director of Retail Operations Kimberly Walker sent a notice that the license was not going to be renewed and remaining liquor would be picked up Jan. 9, 2018. Local supporters collected more than 200 signatures on a petition to keep the outlet alive. The decision not to renew is a business decision regarding an underperforming store, Liquor Control Commissioner Patrick Delaney said Jan. 3. Walker explained that the state owns the point-of-sale registers, which are outdated and cannot be repaired. Although an upgrade is in the future, the state continues to use and reallocate existing equipment. Improving the equipment at the East Poultney store would not have improved its sales, the state determined.
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CASTLETON—After a hiatus of several years, the Castleton Town ice rink is scheduled to be up and busy this winter. The town highway crew already has it plowed, and the Castleton Fire Department planned to flood it the weekend of Jan. 6. Michelle Bates of Wells has challenged her neighbors to build a snowman on each lawn in the town, the Lakes Region Free Press reported.
POULTNEY—Green Mountain College Professor Philip Ackerman-Leist published his third non-fiction book, “A Precautionary Tale,” in October, saying he hopes it inspires others to stand up for their beliefs. In it, he tells the story of the struggle between big, commercial agriculture, relying on pesticides, and the Italian Alps town of Mals, as its farmers fought for a diversified, organic way of life, Katelyn Barcellos summarized in the Rutland Herald.
PAWLET—Colin Sullivan of Pawlet has been officially nominated as a candidate to attend the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis. He is one of 26 Vermont nominees, the only one from Rutland County. If Annapolis accepts him, he will receive free college tuition and an officer’s commission when he graduates, according to the Rutland Herald.
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City starts the year short on fuel Rutland City Hall seemed headed for a chilly day of work Dec. 2. The automatic heating oil delivery had failed to materialize. Mayor David Allaire said one of the building’s two oil tanks was empty and the other one was nearly so. Also out were tanks at the Courcelle Building, home to the Recreation and Parks Department main offices, and the city sewage treatment building. Some employees from the city clerk’s office, Building and Zoning Department, and Department of Public Works were sent home, Allaire told the
Rutland Herald. But a relatively understaffed City Hall stayed open and Allaire stayed on the job. By that afternoon, another vendor had delivered the needed fuel oil and the building was warming up. The heating system had recovered sufficiently to warm the building for the aldermen’s meeting scheduled that evening. City maintenance staff intend to carefully examine whether the heat loss may have caused damage to the building’s sprinkler system. Staff observed that it was beginning to freeze, and there may be further complications to the building’s water supply because of that. The city has examined its various buildings to assure they all have enough oil, Allaire said. A technician will examine the City Hall boiler and another will study the sprinkler system.
Cold exacts toll at Rutland Town School Boilers at Rutland Town Elementary School failed over Christmas break as did an alarm-alert system, postponing students’ return to their classrooms, Rutland Central Supervisory Union Superintendent Debra Taylor announced by email Jan. 3. Although there had been unofficial confirmation of burst pipes in the building, the damage extent had not been determined, according to the Rutland Herald. Heat was being restored in the building and water damage clean-up specialty company G. W. Savage had a truck on the scene Jan.3.
Teen Center opens at MSJ The Boys & Girls Club of Rutland County moved its teen center to the Mount St. Joseph Academy, 127 Convent Ave., on Jan. 3. All teens are welcome to the former student lounge “Wave Cave” on the building’s second floor, to enjoy ping pong, foosball, video games, and televisions, work on homework, and plan their life after high school, teen center coor-
dinator Freddie Cannon told the Rutland Herald. The center fills a need for MSJ’s 120 students, some of whom live outside Rutland, assistant principal Phil Hall said. They require somewhere to stay between the time that classes end and extracurricular activities begin. It also fills a need for the young people who had been using the teen center at Hickory Street,
Casella buys Hubbard Brothers residential trash service Tim Hubbard and Ted Hubbard Jr. sold their residential waste-removal business to Casella Waste Systems Dec. 29 for nearly $1.8 million. The sale affects only Hubbard Brothers Inc.’s residential customers in Rutland Town, Rutland City, and some surrounding areas, Tim Hubbard told the Rutland Herald. Casella is already the designated hauler for the Rutland County Solid Waste District. Not included in the sale were the Cold River Road transfer station nor major commercial accounts. The transfer station accepts scrap metal as well as residential, commercial, and electronic waste, plus construction demolition debris, Tim Hubbard said.
which had become unfeasible financially. The MSJ Student Council worked hard to open the student lounge, which had been closed for several years, Cannon commented. He is encouraging MSJ student sign ups to show their support. The teen center is open from 2:30 to 6:30 p.m. during the week. There is no fee for its use.
The MINT expanding to new areas, interests Since its grand opening Aug. 12, The MINT, Rutland’s makerspace at 112 Quality Ln., has enjoyed growing interest, with more than 50 members now signed up, Executive Director Pete Gile announced. The metal shop and wood shop are nearly complete. Members have created prototypes, art, and knickknacks, and there are more exciting prospects for 2018. A paint booth, soon to be set up, will enable members to finish parts and pieces inhouse and a CNC metal milling center soon will be able to shape objects down from a two-foot steel or aluminum cube. A jewelry lab is taking shape. Member groups may take on Power Wheels racing, regional drone racing, and compete in the “Punkin Chuckin” trebuchet in Stowe, and in Shelburne’s Champbot.
Site contamination fouls Herald building sale Although developer Joseph Giancola made the high bid of $600,000 for the former Rutland Herald building at 27 Wales St., he decided against following through on the purchase, saying he had just learned the site is contaminated by chemicals used to clean the printing presses that ran in the production facility. The property fronts on Wales Street between West Street and Center Street and includes “The Pit,” site of the former 110-room Berwick Hotel, which burned to the ground in 1973. De-contaminating the site would cost $2 million, Giancola said. The Rutland Region, page 17
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Woodstock awarded craft gallery status WOODSTOCK—Collective – The Art Of Craft has been chosen as a new Vermont State Craft Center Gallery. The Collective joins Frog Hollow Craft Center in Burlington, the Artisans Hand in Montpelier, the Gallery at the VAULT in Springfield, and the Northeast Kingdom Artisans Guild in St. Johnsbury as Vermont’s designated state craft center galleries.
sity and quality of work displayed in galleries and the breadth and quality of class offerings in education organizations. “We are delighted to be recognized by the state of Vermont and to join the other wonderful organizations that have already been honored in this way,” said Marcia Hammond, founder of Collective – The Art Of Craft. Collective – The Art
THE COLLECTIVE JOINS FROG HOLLOW CRAFT CENTER IN BURLINGTON, THE ARTISANS HAND IN MONTPELIER, THE GALLERY AT THE VAULT IN SPRINGFIELD, AND THE NORTHEAST KINGDOM ARTISANS GUILD IN ST. JOHNSBURY. An additional designation for state craft education centers includes the Shelburne Craft School in Shelburne, the Vermont Woodworking School in Fairfax and the Fletcher Farm School for the Arts and Crafts in Ludlow. Galleries and education centers that apply for state designation are judged on a variety of measures, including the diver-
Of Craft is a collectively managed gallery featuring fine hand crafted items for everyday use, made by local artisans. Its home is 47 Central St., a historic stone building adjacent to the Kedron River tin Woodstock village. The Collective is open year-round, Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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Cleaning bird feeders and other gardening tips for January
By Leonard Perry, UVM Horticulturist and Charlie Nardozzi, Garden Consultant
Cleaning bird feeders, growing Swedish ivy, and brushing snow from shrubs are some of the gardening activities for this month. Birds deserve clean food surfaces as much as we do. Every few weeks bring the feeders inside and wash them with soap and water into which a little bleach has been added (one part bleach to 9 parts water). Rinse thoroughly. If you have a heated bird bath, keep it scrubbed and cleaned regularly as well. I keep an old brush just for this purpose, whenever I refill the bath. When tree and shrub branches bend under the weight of a new snowfall, use a broom to gently brush off the snow. Don’t try to
remove ice or you might break the branch. It’s possible to save a branch that partially splits from the main trunk if you tie it in place and use long screws (coming from each direction, if necessary) to secure it. If done right away, the tree may callous over the wound and heal itself next season, and not split further. Peperomia, members of the pepper family as you might guess from the name, are highly decorative houseplants that are easy to grow. Give them bright, indirect light, don’t overwater, and don’t let them get much below 60 F. for best growth. The blunt-leaved species is upright and has rounded thick, waxy leaves on thick stems.
Emerald ripple has dark green, rippled leaf surfaces and forms a mound. Watermelon peperomia has silvery white stripes, similar to a watermelon rind. There are variations you may find on each of these three main species. If you received a poinsettia or cyclamen as a holiday gift, keep it blooming by providing proper care. Poinsettias need good drainage, so if the pot is still wrapped in foil, make sure there is a hole in the bottom so water drains out. Of course, if it’s on furniture, place a saucer underneath to protect the finish. Keep poinsettias away from drafts, such as near doors or windows or hot woodstoves. Keep soil moist, but don’t overwater, Gardening, page 22
Early Detection Saves Lives campaign reaches goal RUTLAND—Rutland Regional Medical Center recently exceeded its $350,000 goal in support of the Early Detection Saves Lives campaign to bring new 3D breast imaging technology to its service region. The Rutland Health Foundation, the fundraising department of Rutland Regional Medical Center, reported $362,523 gifts and pledges raised as of Dec. 31, 2017. “Community support continues to make a difference for our patients,” said Tom Huebner, Rutland Regional president and CEO. “We are truly grateful for the generosity and support received from our local community, our dedicated donors, as well as volunteers and staff who helped us reach this important goal to bring new 3D breast imaging technology to our local region.” Rutland Regional’s team of breast care specialists are
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Cold winter brings early ice fishing opportunities The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department says recent cold weather has made ice fishing a viable Vermont outdoor activity several weeks earlier this year than in recent years. At least six inches of solid ice is recommended for safe ice fishing, and ice fishing enthusiasts are now finding ample ice on many smaller lakes and the bays of larger lakes. Ice safety precautions, however, are still very important, cautions Fish & Wildlife. Vermont’s premier fishing destination, Lake Champlain, offers many ice fishing opportunities. According to the department, ice anglers can find quality fishing for a variety of species on this 120-mile
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long lake, including landlocked salmon, lake trout, northern pike, yellow perch, white perch, walleye, and crappie. There is no closed season for trout and salmon on Lake Champlain. “Lake Champlain attracts twice as much fishing activity during the winter as during the summer, particularly in the northern third of the lake,” said state Fisheries Biologist Brian Chipman. “The plentiful yellow perch is the mainstay of the winter fishery, but many ice anglers also find good fishing for other species.” Traditional northern pike hotspots include Lake Champlain’s Kelley Bay, Missisquoi Bay, Dillenbeck Bay, Carry Bay, Keeler Bay, St. Albans Bay, the shallow flats south of the Sandbar Causeway between Milton and South Hero, and the area south of the Champlain Bridge from Addison to Benson. Later, as more ice forms, landlocked salmon will be caught in the inland sea north of the Sandbar Causeway. If cold weather provides good ice on the deep-water areas of the lake, lake trout will be found off the west shore of Grand Isle and in Outer Mallets Bay, Shelburne Bay, Converse Bay, and Button Bay south to the Champlain Bridge. While walleyes can show up anywhere in Lake Champlain, the most consistent winter action can be found in the southern end of the lake off Benson and Orwell, as well as the northern end in Swanton and Alburg. Yellow perch and other panfish are being caught throughout Lake Champlain in the bays and shallows as well as on many other Vermont waters. For a list of those lakes, go to page 36 of the “2018 Vermont Fishing Guide and Regulations,” available where licenses are sold and digitally on Fish & Wildlife’s website, vtfishandwildlife.com.
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continued from page 15 contamination has made banks leery of financing construction on the site. As the successful bidder, Giancola should have followed through on completing the purchase within 45 days of the auction, the Herald reported. The successful bidder was also to become responsible for the $52,000 in property taxes due on the Herald offices, The Pit parking lot, and the warehouse
behind the newspaper offices that had housed the printing presses. The auctioneer, Eric Nathan, opened bidding by saying that the property was being sold “as is, with all faults known and unknown.” Giancola said he has committed $10,000 to the property already and denies he is abandoning his interest in it. Mitchell said his family continues to look for another buyer.
Emergency shelter opens for extreme cold weather The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks (B.P.O.E.), 44 Pleasant St., reconfigured its space as an emergency shelter for people in need as temperatures dipped below zero. The state fire marshal certified the Elks building last year to accept up to 40 individuals, BROC of Southwestern Vermont CEO Tom Donahue told the Rutland Herald. BROC staff who are trained in de-escalation and emotional support techniques were on hand, in addition to two from the medical reserve corps, one from Americorps Vista, and Elks president Pat Farley, who stayed over New Year’s Eve.
In the Elks shelter, cots were donated by the Red Cross, using bedding from BROC. Homemade chicken noodle soup and movies in the evening, complete with popcorn, were provided. BROC provided dinner, and the Elks made breakfast so that the guests had food in their stomachs before leaving by 7 a.m. In addition to meeting the needs of its human guests, the shelter provided pet kennels, food, and cat litter. Rutland City Police were to help homeless people find the shelter, and let them know it would be open from 4:30 to 10:30 p.m. A lockdown at 10:30 p.m.
was mandatory to prevent overcrowding. However, only six people and one dog took advantage of the shelter at the Elks during the five nights. Tom Donahue told the Herald. None used it the first night it was open. When the word gets around, hopefully more without heat or adequate shelter will take advantage. Vacationers during the last weekend of 2017 have filled hotels and motels where the state would otherwise have housed homeless people in crisis. The Open Door Mission’s permanent shelter fills up rapidly when temperatures drop.
Vermont Legal Aid clinic taking appointments for Jan. 18 CASTLETON—An attorney from the Senior Citizens Law Project of Vermont Legal Aid will conduct free legal advice clinic for Vermonters age 60 and older at the Castleton Community Center on Jan. 18. To make an appointment for a 20 minute consultation, call 802-468-3093. The attorney will be able to give legal advice or referrals on a wide variety of legal problems. If you have received any paperwork about a problem, please bring it with you. Examples of the types of problems that the attorney will be able to give advice about include wills, powers of attorney, landlord-tenant issues, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, SSI, other public benefits, debt collection, consumer issues, guardianship, divorce, foreclosure, small claims, bankruptcy, and any other civil legal matter. However, the attorney can’t help with criminal cases and it must be your own problem, and not a question about a problem involving your neighbor or other family member.
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Funding available for college, career education programs in Vermont MIDDLEBURY—The J. Warren & Lois McClure Foundation has announced available funding for the 2018-19 school year for nonprofit and institutional efforts to improve equitable access to the postsecondary and career education that leads to Vermont’s most promising jobs. A supporting organization of the Vermont Community Foundation, the McClure Foundation envisions a Vermont where no promising job goes unfilled for lack of a qualified applicant. The McClure Foundation’s primary interest is in funding projects with statewide impact that are aligned with postsecondary achievement or workforce development. For the 2018-19 school year, McClure Foundation funding will prioritize projects that accomplish one or more of the following: identify and/or eliminate barriers to postsecondary access and success for lowincome and first-generation college youth and
adults; strengthen the pathways between education and employment; and change the narrative to ensure public recognition of postsecondary education and college and career readiness as a shared value. A primary goal of the McClure Foundation’s grantmaking program is to improve education and training pathways to jobs listed in Pathways to Promising Careers, a resource in partnership with the Vermont Department of Labor. Pathways identifies 54 promising jobs expected to pay at least $20 per hour and anticipated to have at least 100 openings over the next decade. Pathways is available online at mcclurevt.org/ pathways. Nonprofits and municipal entities interested in applying for funding can submit a letter of interest by 5 p.m., Feb. 6, 2018. Additional information about the grant round is available at mcclurevt.org.
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Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center celebrates 20 years of volunteers WINDSOR—Recently Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health Center (MAHHC) hosted a special event to commemorate 20 years of its Windsor-based program Volunteers in Action (ViA), which supports local seniors with an array of volunteer services. Since 2001, ViA has served seven towns, including Windsor, West Windsor, Reading, Hartland, and Weathersfield, as well as Cornish and Plain-
field, N.H. Continuing an annual tradition, dozens of volunteers, former volunteers, and community members gathered over lunch to commemorate the organization founded by the late Doug Hall and others in 1997. The event also paid tribute to all of the people who have contributed their time and energy to ViA – including 198 current volunteers who logged 33,066
hours in 2017. Speakers from the hospital included MAHHC CEO and Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joseph Perras and Director of Community Health Jill Lord, RN, MS, who commended the work of ViA and its role in supporting patients, staff, and the community. Doug Hall’s widow, Rosemary, read a letter from Margaret A. Campbell, who worked with
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RRMC receives 5-star rating for procedures RUTLAND—Rutland Regional Medical Center announced that it has achieved a 5-star rating for its performance in total knee replacement, treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and gall bladder surgery from Healthgrades, the leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. Rutland Regional is the only hospital in Vermont to receive five stars for total knee replacement eight years in a row, and the only hospital in Vermont to receive five stars for gallbladder removal surgery for two years in a row. Rutland Regional was one of three hospitals in Vermont to receive five stars for treatment of COPD in 2018. Every year, Healthgrades evaluates hospital performance at nearly 4,500 hospitals nationwide for 34 of the most common inpatient procedures and conditions. These achievements are part of the findings recently released by Healthgrades and are featured in its 2018 Report to the Nation. This variation in care has a significant impact on health outcomes. For example, from 2014-2016, if all hospitals as a group had performed similarly to hospitals receiving five stars as a group, on average 219,568 lives could potentially have been saved and 164,454 complications could potentially have been avoided. “At Rutland Regional, providing the highest quality of
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Skiing, driving and Yankee thrift
I am really good at saving money on things. I am excellent at scraping by. I am an inveterate bargainer. I make poverty look fantastic. Today I am paying for this privilege. My strategy of car ownership is simple: buy a good, heavy, relatively high mileAltitude age, all-wheel drive vehicle Altit Sick Sickness with good cargo and towing capacity, that has a low cost By br brady of ownership, an inexpencrain sive specializing mechanic, and a nearby guy with a barn full of used parts. For me, this is a Volvo, a brand of car I have been driving since my tweens. For reference, when I was 12 years old, my dad put me in an icy parking lot and said, “Do donuts. Now do figure eights.” Later, he would sit in the car with me, and make me do these maneuvers on ice or in deep snow, without the car breaking grip. Needless to say, I am now an accomplished parking lot slide artist. Driving, like skiing or breathing, is second nature to me after an early start and a career of driving 60,000-70,000 miles per year. Powder is as much fun for me in a car as it is on skis. Aside from the obvious reasons to choose a Volvo (passenger compartment penetration safety and tire grip being primaries), mileage is a big item (I average above 25 mpg living in Killington, and average 27-28 mpg when I live in flatter areas), but cost of ownership is the biggie. Volvos have the lowest cost of ownership of any luxury automobile, and with its five-cylinder turbo-power plant, its heated leather, its electric everything, it is rather like driving a couch – a rocket-powered couch that weighs nearly as much as an F-150 but gets great mileage and sticks to icy roads like glue. The handling is good, but if you’re looking for the handling of a GTI (those things ride like they are on rails), you’d best look elsewhere, as its performance is (as much as I might claim otherwise) bound by the laws of physics. The low cost of ownership is augmented when you have an inexpensive mechanic who specializes in your brand from a garage at his home and who parts out vehicles. My conversations about cars go like this: “Can you fix this?” “You’re at 345,000 miles, and I’m running out of parts for this car, you should probably start looking for another one.” “What is the next most reliable year that you have the most parts for?” He names the next year I should buy. Then I go to craigslist, find a model of the year that he mentions with 100,000-110,000 miles (that is when the price significantly drops without a concomitant drop in reliability), buy it for cash, and take it to my mechanic and say, “Fix what’s wrong.” My last Volvo cost me $2,000 from a mechanic, and the total cost of ownership taking it from 104,000 to 345,000 miles was under $6,500. This is well under the book purchase price for when I bought it, making it perhaps the savviest purchase of my lifetime. My current Volvo was a $5,100 purchase, and needed a whole bunch of work that the owner lied to me about (I thought I was getting a great deal, but his mechanic outright lied to me during the purchase). I have still spent a total of under $12,000 to both purchase the vehicle and bring it to about 210,000 miles. The book value of the vehicle was $11,500 when I bought it. I would say that I am doing pretty well. I would say that my Scotch-German father, raised a Mennonite dirt farmer, is smiling proudly down upon me, bragging to all of the other jealous dead Scotch-German farmer dads about my frugality and gifted thriftiness. Until today, a day with 10 or so inches of powder on the ground, this strategy has paid off. Today, as I write this, I am sitting in my mechanic’s office, watching as the clock turns from 8:59 to 9:00 a.m., seething with jealousy, knowing that some Jerry is eating my powder breakfast. But when you tell your gifted, super cheap specialty mechanic, “I need this done,” and he says, “Come in tomorrow or come in on February 15,” you jump, and you ask how high, midair. I will get out there today, and hopefully I will catch some windblown, but for the moment, poverty has eaten my powder breakfast. At least I got to drive an hour and a half in some good snow!
No-fuss Christmas tree recycling
By Dave Mance III
In urban and suburban areas, Christmas tree disposal has come a long way since the bad old days when trees were just compacted with the rest of the household trash and landfilled. Today, progressive trash hauling companies run special organics routes where they collect and recycle trees, and many solid waste districts have drop-off centers where the trees are chipped. The recycled trees become compost, mulch or bioheat. It’s neat to picture the whole cycle and the thousands of people involved. Looking down with a bird’s eye view, we see the tree farmer planting and tending her fields, the trees being distributed to homes in the community in December, the trees reaggregating in wastewood yards in January and getting chipped, then the chips turning into heat, or light, or going back to the earth in huge aerobic piles. Of course, those of us who live in the sticks often employ a less involved tree disposal method: we take it out back to the hedgerow, drop it, turn around and walk back inside. In this case, too, there’s a cool recycling story that involves thousands, or millions, of organisms – it just doesn’t involve much thought or effort by people. The wind and the weather do their part to start decomposition, stripping needles from twigs, soaking the wood. Moisture creates a good environment for microorganisms, and soon bacteria and actinomyceles (part bacteria and part fungi, but unique enough to require their own classification) colonize the tree carcass. According to wood decay literature from the U.S. Forest Service, it can take as few as four to six weeks for decay-associated microbes to completely penetrate wood structures. The bacterial invasion paves the way for a fungal invasion. Bacteria make the wood permeable; in some cases they break down compounds thought to be toxic to rot-fungi.
In addition, dead bacteria cells may also provide a source of nitrogen to their fungal partners. Fungi arrive as spores, each just two-hundredths of a millimeter wide. They may have been carried on the wind, or on mouse fur, or maybe on a beetle’s back. When a spore germinates, it slips its fungal filaments – called hyphae – between the tree’s cell walls and oozes digestive juices that liquefy the wood. The hyphae then absorb nutrients and make new filaments. You won’t see fruiting bodies for months or years, but by that time the decomposition process will be well underway. Just as a decaying animal calls in vultures, decaying trees call in wood-boring insects. While alive, the trees can sense a beetle’s presence and drown it in resins, terpenes, and other defense compounds. Now that the alarm system has been destroyed, insects ranging from minute boring beetles to sawyer larvae big enough that you can hear them chewing arrive to take their pound of flesh. Whole ecosystems are created, as predators and parasites like robber flies and ichneumon wasps show up to feed on the beetles or larvae, and flycatching birds arrive to feed on the flies and wasps, and your cat arrives to feed on the flycatchers. (Though because you bought the cat a birdsafe collar for Christmas, most of the birds, thankfully, escape.) As the bark and the outer layers of the tree start to slough off, Lilliputian armies of detritivorous [detritus-eating] animals take over. Millipedes and woodlice and slugs and snails help turn the soft bits into soil. Collembolans – better known as springtails – eat plant material, but perhaps more important to this process, help spread bacterial and fungal spores as they poop all over the dead wood.
“But how long before the tree completely disappears?” you’re wondering. Of course it depends on temperature and moisture and all kinds of other factors. But we can make an educated guess. Mathew Russell, with the University of Minnesota, and Christopher Woodall, with the U.S. Forest Service,
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have been studying wood decay rates for years. (Read that quickly and it might sound like the most boring job in the world, and yet the research is cutting edge when you consider the greenhouse gas implications of the 2.3 trillion pounds of carbon that’s found in the dead wood on the ground in U.S. forests, not to mention the wildlife implications of what biologist call “deadwood-dependent species.”) I asked them for their educated guess, and they pointed to a model that suggests that a three- to sixinch diameter red spruce or balsam fir log in a northeastern forest will completely decay in around 35 years. “For a typical Christmas tree that’s two inches in diameter, 20 to 30 years would be a good approximation assuming adequate moisture (in terms of rainfall) to help decomposition move along,” said Russell. Dave Mance III is the editor of Northern Woodlands magazine. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine, northernwoodlands.org, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: wellborn@nhcf.org.
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Then and now
Flurries of a different nature We are beginning to recognize the office is illegal. Please, Facebook friends, immense power of Facebook as a forum, add to my thoughts so our friend, whose and vehicle of propaganda and fake heart is in the right place, can undernews since learning about Russia’s stand why we are reacting with such cyberwarfare and meddling in the U.S. vehemence. Thank you! election. Georgia teacher: It is not that we Through Russian Facebook and love our nation less, but that we love it Instagram accounts, 80 million political more. We are grieved to see the nonposts by fictitious organizations were stop attacks on our freedoms and the sent to 23 million American voters institutions that are there to protect, but and may have reached 148 million are underAmericans. They were created to sway mined at opinions and votes, rile up discontent every opand distrust, and increase alienation. portunity. Mountain on Meditation Each day we are witnessing continuing His disconBy Marguerite te effects. nect from Jill Dye I recently shared a post of Jimmy Falreality and lon’s first politically-oriented late night his inability monologue. The discussion that ento accept facts make solutions impossued was a sign of the times we’re living sible. A man who dodged his obligation through: the polarization of our nation. I to serve by claiming bone spurs and said deleted the post due to its crude lanthat his struggle with STDs was his own guage when an ex-Marine friend was personal Vietnam. We can do far better offended by Fallon’s criticism of Trump. than this and we must. As a Marine, he was trained to defend Artist/instructor: Is it worthy of our the president, to honor and respect our nation to use the gravity that the office commander in chief, and asked if I did brings to lash out personally at others not agree. I wanted to share the comthrough a public form? Is it respectful ments and discussion that followed, to find names that degrade people you replacing names with occupations. have grievances with? Many other presiMarguerite Dye: A dear friend who dents have disagreed with their predeserved in the U.S. Marines and was cessors. Did they call them incompetent injured in Afghanistan and is a true and and even, if they did, harshly rebuke loyal patriot commented on the post I their actions? Did they undermine all shared of Jimmy Fallon’s lengthy, highly the long standing institutions made up critical (and a bit vulgar) statement to of some of the most selfless people who President Trump. Our Marine friend have served their country for a lifetime? wrote he’d never seen a time in our hisCan you not see the difference between tory when a president received so little a man who uses these tactics daily and respect. He asked me if the decency of your I didn’t agree and what I humble service? The THE DISCUSSION thought. difference between THAT ENSUED I believe that the commanding respect presidential office and deserving respect WAS A SIGN OF commands respect, but are stark. I cannot give THE TIMES WE’RE that the individual in it a man respect who must do his or her part does not respect his LIVING THROUGH: to uphold a standard of responsibility to serve THE POLARIZATION decency, act on behalf the portion of the of and in the best incountry he disagrees OF OUR NATION. terests of the American with, the institutions people (and the citizens of our country, or even of the world), be a responsible caretaker himself enough to accept the scrutiny of our land and people, do his or her that comes with the job. It is not every utmost to maintain and promote peace, American’s responsibility to respect the avoid conflict whenever possible, avoid office more than it is his grave responsiprovoking retaliation or war, be honest, bility to unite us, represent all of us, our forthcoming, trustworthy, and abide by concerns, aspirations and this sacred the office, Constitution, and laws of the republic with a proud and dignified United States of America. To be treated history. with respect, one must act respectfully Florida publisher: First of all, your and be respectful of others in word and friend must have missed the disgracedeed. Collusion with a foreign power to ful behavior leveled against President undermine U.S. policy or alter election Obama for eight years. It bordered on results is illegal. Personally benefitting outright racism, as Mitch McConnell from financial and business dealings in told his fellow GOP senators to vote “no” Mountain meditation, page 22
As usual getting together with friends generates conversations that involve taking a look back at “then” and comparing it to “now”. A recent topic of conversation was night driving. When we were young we never gave a thought to whether we were driving in daylight or night time. It didn’t matter. We pondered the question of what makes most of us avoid night driving now. The obvious answer, since we are all in our 70s, is having cataracts. They happen gradually and cause halos around car headlights and a little glow around street lights. Even for some of us who have had cataracts removed the darkness of night is still avoided whenever possible. One friend had a theory that we avoid night driving because we simply don’t do it often enough. If we did, we might get used to it once again. Apparently that theory won’t be tested by most of us because the common sentiment among us was that when it’s dark and cold we want to stay inside and “hug the hearth” anyway. I can relate to that, as sitting by our gas fireplace with its mesmerizing flames is much more appealing than venturing into the dark and cold. Stretched out on the couch with a good book makes me a “happy camper.” Another topic of conversation was how many gift cards people had given and received during the holidays. In our youth, gift cards were not popular. You went to a store, bought a gift, wrapped it and presented it to the recipient. The down side to that was being on the receiving end of some rather odd gifts. I bet most of you know just what I mean! We would
have cherished a gift card instead. The ability to move with speed and finesse also diminishes as we age. While attending a funeral recently a relative and I went downstairs to the reception after. We remembered running up and down those stairs as kids. Now we were moving slowly and carefully with our hand on the railing. This fall my husband and I cleaned out our two sheds and cellar. We hired someone to take away some of the larger items. Among them was a croquet set. The fellow who was taking the items has small children. I asked if he might like
between the “then” and “now.” I remember being so excited when a snow-
Looking Back by mary ellen shaw fall was deep enough to get out my sled or metal coaster. There were a couple of neighborhood hills where all the kids would slide. We were so bundled up that it was hard to get onto the sled. We never thought it was too cold be outdoors. We ran around even when it was icy and even if we fell, we hopped back up
THERE WAS NO PROBLEM FINDING OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES THAT WE COULD DO AS GROUPS. to keep that for them. His reply was that they wouldn’t know what to do with something that wasn’t a digital device! They prefer playing with those instead of being outside. I immediately recalled the days when all of the kids on our street went out in the morning and except for meals didn’t come in until it was getting dark. The croquet set was usually on our side lawn until it had to be disassembled for the weekly mowing. The badminton net also had a place on our lawn. Back then there were empty lots on our street for baseball. There was no problem finding outdoor activities that we could do as groups. I remember that we all got along really well together. We probably learned our earliest life lessons as we spent our days together outdoors. Dreading the cold, snow and icy conditions is another difference
and went on our way. Now, winter days produce an automatic shiver once we step outside. Cleaning snow off driveways and sidewalks is not a welcome task for most. I seem to be the exception, as I like to shovel. It’s instant gratification when you see the pavement once again. I tell my neighbors that the outdoors is my gym. When the time comes that shoveling snow is not longer perceived as “fun” to me, I will know that my mind has finally figured out that I am no longer in my 30s. If you are old enough to relate to any of the above, cheer up! In about 90 days “This too shall pass”, as my late relative, Loyola, was so fond of saying. The countdown is on to green grass and time spent in the garden. My apologies to all of you who want the ski season to last forever! Some day you will understand!
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continued from page 18 him during the early years of ViA. She related: “Why did Doug do it? ... I believe that Doug did the work because he was a man of faith – a faith that included the idea of service to others. In addition, Doug believed in community – not community as a geographic place … but community defined as a set of relationships – people caring and sharing. In short, neighbor helping neighbor.” Current ViA Director Martha Zoerheide outlined how Doug Hall’s vision has blossomed over the years. Since the beginning, ViA has provided and continues to provide transportation to seniors who need help getting to medical appointments, pharmacies, food stores, and other locations. “From there,” said Zoerheide, “it has grown to be the place anyone can call for just about any basic needs problem they may have. This can mean help finding a home for a family or person in need, bringing food to a family that has none, or providing transportation to receive needed services.” Today, the organization collaborates with Senior Solutions and Historic Homes of Runnemede to deliver Meals on Wheels to five towns, serves community meals in conjunction with Senior Solutions and MAHHC, and connects volunteers with the Vermont FoodBank’s VeggieVanGo produce delivery program. In addition to putting in thousands of miles on the road each year, ViA helps with local blood drives; runs a knitting group, giving away knitted items to those in need; provides referrals to other community organizations including SASH and Senior Solutions; and runs a pen pal effort to create connections between elders and local fifth graders. As a hospital program, ViA staffs numerous volunteer positions within MAHHC, including greeters, patient advocates, lay chaplains, housekeeping assistants, emergency and purchasing department volunteers, as well as providing volunteers to help at a local community food shelf. Zoerheide added that “we are very proud that all of the seven towns we serve now have an Aging in Place group,” with ViA organizing dedicated neighbors in each town who work to make life easier for elders, and who make sure no one falls through the cracks to access needed resources and support. Zoerheide closed her remarks with a thought from Buddha: “A thousand candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness is never decreased by being shared,” and she thanked ViA volunteers and supporters for “letting your light shine.”
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continued from page 21 on everything Obama proposed. And they did. Simply because he was black. But as for Trump, Teddy Roosevelt said, “Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.” Your friend is mixing up the presidency with the president. We should all respect the office of the presidency. We do not have to respect the man who holds that office. Also, like many, your friend seems to believe Trump is no different than any other elected president. He is very different. To put it bluntly, he is a pathological liar and con artist. But even those flaws don’t compare to his traitorous acts of collusion with the Russians. Putin’s controlled Deutsche Bank will be the key. That was the only bank to offer Trump loans when no U.S. banks would do so. That bank kept Trump in the game ... for a reason. Now Putin has his puppet in the White House. So comparing Trump to other presidents is insane. There is just no comparison. Even Nixon had many good qualities. Not true with Mr. Trump. So why do I, or anyone, feel obligated to give this man respect? He sure as hell hasn’t earned it. Vermont teacher: Discussing religion and politics are supposed to be the “third rail” of concord and harmony. That said, it is very disturbing to so many of us that we have a president who uses his office and a cheap communication tool to spew poisonous venom at anybody who disagrees with him or criticizes him, who has endangered this country in that process, who seems to think that sticking sticks in the proverbial hornets’
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nests is how to “Make America Great Again” while undercutting the cabinet office charged with keeping peace: the State Department. As for Hillary, only a third world dictator tries to maintain control over his followers by constantly vilifying his opponents and threatening to “lock her up.” Charges? We’ll make them up. Like that bogus, firmly debunked uranium sale to the Russians she had little to nothing to do with. You’ll notice that he fell back on that, as did his stooges in Congress, when it was looking pretty apparent that his house of cards was about to collapse, thanks to the Mueller investigation. This is a dangerous president and it’s so troubling that so many people are willing to close their eyes to his lying, his history of cheating people, his highly suspicious connections with Putin, his obsessive intent to undo at any cost everything good that Obama accomplished, his class-less behavior, and his disregard for the historical institutions of this country as well as entire segments of our population. I didn’t even get to his sexual misbehavior. Painter: The office should have respect, but the one who holds the office now is deconstructing and fouling all we patriotic Americans value. If we don’t protest then we will be his puppets and we are being led into a dictatorship. That is why we who seem to realize this are up in arms. DT is causing havoc the world over. And isn’t Trump the puppet of Putin who wishes to bring the U.S. down? So that’s why we are so angry.
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continued from page 2 • 3:04 p.m. Police responded to a crash involving one vehicle at Killington Road and Nanak Way. • 3:09 p.m. Police responded to a two-vehicle crash with no injuries at Killington Road and Bigelow Drive. • 5:07 p.m. Police responded to a two vehicle crash with no injuries on Route 4. • 5:19 p.m. Police were called to mediate a citizen dispute regarding rental equipment
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on Bigelow Drive. Police completed a traffic stop at Killington Road and Dean Hill Road at 5:59 p.m. Police completed a second traffic stop at Dean Hill Road and Roaring Brook Road at 6:28 p.m. • 6:32 p.m. Police responded to a report of a vehicle blocking a residential driveway on East Mountain Road. Police completed four more traffic stops that evening. Police started the new year with
traffic stops on Jan. 1 at 12:28 a.m., 12:54 a.m., and 1:15 a.m. • 1:32 a.m. Police responded with Killington First Response to a medical emergency on Killington Road. Police completed four traffic stops between 1:41 a.m. and 2:44 a.m. in the area around West Hill Road and Route 4. • 4:41 a.m. Police responded with Killington First Response to a medical emergency on Schoolhouse Road.
• On Jan. 2, police completed a traffic stop at 9:57 a.m. at Killington Road and Mountain View Drive. • 11:17 a.m. Police responded to a caller reporting a rental scam • Police completed a traffic stop at Killington Road and Glazebrook at 3:11 p.m. and on the Killington Flats at 3:36 p.m. • On Jan. 4, police assisted a tractor trailer unable to make it over the pass on Route 4.
continued from page 1 being sent to Vermonters is: “Never by the heads of the Senate and House through the tax. mind the 9.4 cent tax increase that Judiciary panels and Scott’s adminAlso, Turner’s proposal would have you’re facing, we’re going to let you istration just prior to a one-day veto allowed a municipality to prohibit “a smoke a doobie. Maybe when you session in June. marijuana establishment” by a masmoke a joint you won’t feel jority vote at an annual or that 9.4 cents as much.” special meeting. “NEVER MIND THE 9.4 CENT TAX Debate on the House floor “This amendment is INCREASE THAT YOU’RE FACING, WE’RE began around 10 a.m. and my attempt to make a didn’t end until 6 p.m. There bad bill better,” he said, GOING TO LET YOU SMOKE A DOOBIE. was about a three-hour break adding that it wasn’t a MAYBE WHEN YOU SMOKE A JOINT YOU to make way in the chamber political maneuver but a for Scott to deliver his State of recognition that he lost. WON’T FEEL THAT 9.4 CENTS AS MUCH.” the State address. Supporters of H.511 The discussion was at times lightTo address some of the concerns countered that now wasn’t the right hearted or serious, other times movthe governor raised, the bill creates time to adopt such a tax-and-regulate ing or testy. Opponents questioned criminal penalties for using pot in a system and that attaching it as an the effect legalization would have on vehicle with children and increases amendment wasn’t the right method. highway safety and said it sent the penalties for providing marijuana to “It’s a completely different thing,” wrong message to the state’s youth anyone underage. Rep. Chip Conquest, the House Juabout the use of marijuana. However, despite having reached diciary Committee vice chair, said of Supporters called it a “cautious” a compromise, a move to take up the Turner’s amendment. and “conservative” approach to legal- legislation in the one-day veto session Rep. Cynthia Browning, R-Arlingization, stopping short of creating a failed to gain the needed support. ton, proposed an amendment that full tax-and-regulate retail approach. The effort by the bill’s supporters would delay the legalization bill from “Substance use should be treated to avoid tweaking the legislation and going into effect until after a test had as a health care matter, not a crime,” retain the governor’s support resulted been created to determine a driver’s Rep. Rob Cina, P-Burlington, said as in an interesting twist during the impairment from marijuana. the debate drew to a close. “Let this afternoon session Thursday. She called the bill a Scarlett O’Hara be another step toward the end of the That’s when House Minority “we’ll figure it out tomorrow” apwar on drugs.” Leader Don Turner, R-Milton, who proach to legislation. The vote Thursday capped a fasthas opposed marijuana legalization, Browning’s amendment failed, paced two days for the legislation at proposed an amendment that would with Conquest saying the science the start of the 2018 legislative sescreate a tax-and-regulate structure. wasn’t yet available for such a test. sion. The House Judiciary Committee Turner said “the writing was on Sears said he didn’t expect a tax and on the session’s first day advanced the the wall” and the “wheels had been regulate structure to gain approval bill, then moved on to acting on a slew greased,” clearing the path for marithis session, though he added he of amendments. juana legalization. It would be better, supported that method of marijuana Supporters of the bill appeared he said, to do it through a tax-andlegalization over the one outlined in steadfast in their effort to ensure the regulate structure than by H.511, H.511. legislation advances without any sub- which he called the “worst possible” “I think that basically we’ll be lookstantial changes that could endanger way of legalizing pot. ing at next year, I don’t think there’s support from the governor. With a tax and regulations, he said, enough support in the House to pass Scott has said he would sign the money could be raised to help pay for it,” Sears said. “I’m hopeful that in bill, following his veto last session of “prevention, education, and counter- 2019 whoever is in the Legislature will a measure that also would have legalmarketing programs” as public safety move forward with a tax and regulate ized the possession of small amounts initiatives. system.” of marijuana and permitted the His measure called for retail A marijuana legalization commiscultivation of a few plants. In vetoing marijuana to be taxed at 25 percent, sion appointed by the governor isn’t that legislation, the governor suggest- with the first legal marijuana sales expected to issue its final report on ed ways it could be changed to gain by licensed retailers on July 1, 2019. the the subject until Dec. 15 2018, his support. The latest legislation, In its first year, he estimated that $15 seven months after the session closes H.511, was a compromise reached million to $20 million could be raised and a month after the election season.
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STRONG RENTAL INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY! KILLINGTON GATEWAY CONDOS! Penthouse newly renovated two level, 2 bed/2 bath. Hardwood flooring throughout, wood burning fireplace in dining/living area, updated kitchen, two separate balconies w/views, sold furnished! $114,500. Also available, 1 Bedroom w/Den + full bath newly updated. $79K priced to sell! Gateway Owners enjoy a great owner’s lounge/game room, private ski lockers, tennis courts, and a beautiful in-ground pool in the summer months! 2 miles to Pico Ski Resort, minutes to downtown Rutland & super close to the World Class Killington year round Resort. For more info or to schedule a showing call Tucker Lange, Sales Associate & Realtor, Peak Property Real Estate. Mobile 303-8188068 or Killington Office 802775-1700. MENDON LAND: 267 acres of secluded yet close to Killington and Rutland with outstanding mountain views of Pico and Blue Ridge Mountains. This land is bordered on the uphill side by the Rutland City watershed. There are thousands of sugar maples and a variety of hard and softwoods. There are two ways to access the land, one by truck from Rt 4 and by car through a gated right of way. Info, LouiseHarrison. com or call 802-747-8444. KILLINGTON VALLEY Real Estate PO Box 236, 2281 Killington Rd., Killington. 802422-3610 or 1-800-833-KVRE. Email: kvre@vermontel.net
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Classifieds: continued from page 24 SET OF 4 Winterforce studded snow tires, 195/60R15. No faults, bought Oct. 13 for my 2014 Fiesta, drove 200 miles on them, then traded in the car. An excellent tire, had Winterforce previously. Cost $500 new, asking $350 o.b.o. Need to sell! Please call Julia at 802-483-2020, Rutland Town. FIREWOOD for sale, we stack. Rudi, 802-672-3719.
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INN AT LONG TRAIL seeking experienced cook/prep cook. Pay commensurate with experience. Email (ilt@ innatlongtrail.com) resume or brief work history, or call 802-775-7181 to set up interview appointment. Will train competent and motivated individual. Weekends and holidays a must. CASEY’S CABOOSE is looking for some great people to help us continue to re-build Killington’s most loved restaurant. Immediate help, and fall and ski seasons. All positions considered. Part time positions available, too. Email resume and cover letter to john@caseyscaboose.com, or stop by and introduce yourself. MOGULS SEEKING: Line cooks, wait staff; full time and part time work available. 802422-4777. Apply daily, open 7 days.
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1810 Killington Road • Killington, VT 05751 Phone: 800-338-3735 • Fax: 802-422-3320 www.vthomes.com • email: info@vthomes.com “It’s All About Performance”
Okemo-Woodstock Featured Property: Woodstock, Vermont
This 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom cape is located just outside the village of Woodstock. Features include a full bar, wine cellar & in-ground pool. Close to hiking, biking, shopping, dining & skiing; Killington & Okemo only 30 minutes away. MLS#4473990 $349,000.
PRIME! Highly desirable Killington neighborhood, Close to Golf Course, Killington & Pico. This 3 bedroom contemporary style home has a spacious cathedral ceiling living room & greenhouse windows, master bedroom, private bath, new heat pump, & new deck; two gas fireplace stoves; remodeled kitchen, new appliances; new windows; beautiful wood doors; new Rinnai heaters; large Jacuzzi, 2 car attached garage with paver stone floor; new paver stone front patio; & much more. Home is ideal for either a primary residence or vacation getaway. Excellent rental income potential. Furnished with some exceptions. Don’t miss the opportunity to see this one soon! $299,000
This well maintained custom built 4 bedroom, 6 Bath Trailside Home is a must see. It has 6,235 sq. ft. of finished space plus 1,715 sq. ft. of semi-finished space on the upper floor, which could be used as an office, studio or master bedroom and is plumbed for a bath. Three gas fired fireplaces, 2 dishwashers 2 sets of washer dryers. A large wrap around deck with mahogany decking. All doors and waistcoat are hand made on site. It has a two car garage which is plumbed for heat. $1,200,000
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Serene Vermont Country Estate for Sale 70 acres in Braintree
This finely detailed log home looks out over fields and forest on a quiet country road. Two bedrooms, a sunroom and a stately stone chimney highlight the home. A one-bedroom apartment and a spacious workshop offer opportunity. Flint Brook flows between field and forest. $375,000 Alisa Darmstadt: 802-272-7209 Trusted Land and Rural Estate Marketing Experts for over 30 years. fountainsland.com
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Royalton - 579 acres An exceptional timber investment with easily developed home sites near the end of town roads. High maple stocking. NEW PRICE - $655,000 Stockbridge - 218 acres Breathtaking, panoramic views with hardwood timber stands and potential homesites and meadows. Close to Killington. $456,000 Ira - 1,139 acres 30 minutes from Killington, this forest has exceptional stands of maple, oak and ash. Ideal site for a trophy family estate with waterfalls and six mountain peaks. $1,290,000 Michael Tragner (802) 233-9040
Spacious, bright, airy 2 level, 2 bedroom, 2 bath Fox Hollow townhouse, ground floor, open floor plan, soaring vaulted ceilings, massive floor to ceiling wood burning brick fireplace, large jet tub in master bath, and outdoor patio. New electric range, new microwave, and new flat screen TV. Freshly painted and carpeted. On-site seasonal outdoor pool and tennis courts. Centrally located, with close proximity to both Pico and Killington ski resorts. This Fox Hollow unit would make a great vacation home, or a most desirable primary residence as well $123,500
Wonderful 3 bedroom, 2 bath, classic contemporary Hawk home, vaulted ceilings, wood burning fireplace, and floor to ceiling windows. Completely renovated Interior, flooring, carpet, bath vanities, kitchen cabinets, and counter tops, and much more. Front deck and steps were re-done. Warm and inviting, bright and airy, open space on the main level, with a nicely finished full walkout basement. An additional room downstairs, which may be used in a variety of ways. New storage shed. Great location, close to numerous year round recreational activities. This home must be seen to be appreciated! $199,000
Contemporary Killington home on 1.2 Acres in private wooded setting. Spacious. comfortable light-filled living room 2 sliding glass doors to deck, efficient VT Castings Intrepid wood stove (2 years old) on tile hearth, large dining area. kitchen with center island, oak cabinets, washer/dryer area. Pantry closet, half bath and coat closet also on main level. Lower level includes Master Bedroom and in-suite Bath, 2 Guest Bedrooms with Full bath in hall, Bonus room/Den with TV, Utility room with 4 zone Buderas propane furnace (2 years old). Garage space for one car plus storage for firewood and equipment. Furnished & Equipped including appliances & wood stove, REDUCED to $269,000
Wonderful, well maintained & Spacious 2 Bedroom, 2 Bath Telemark Village Townhouse, cathedral ceiling, floor to ceiling brick fireplace, deck, tiled entry mudroom, master bedroom walk-in closet master bath, whirlpool tub, sauna, loft area, skylights, finished walkout lower level, large family room, additional sleeping, wood burning stove. Close to both Killington & Pico ski areas. $239,000
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Sunrise: Direct ski in ski out (3) remodeled 1BR units start at $145K 2BR 2BA end unit in East Glade $159K Pico Village: Direct ski in ski out 2BR 2BA + loft $189K 3BR 2BA $199K Pico Townhouse: 2BR/2BA plus lwr lvl REDUCED $119K
One 2‐bedroom and two 3‐bedroom spacious townhomes located at a premier destination spa in Killington. Full access to all spa amenities. Starting at $159.9K
Trail Creek connecting units Unique opportunity to purchase connecting 1BR and 2BR loft units at Trail Creek creating a 3BR 3BA condo within walking distance of the slopes. $398K
SKI HOME SHUTTLE OUT Trail Creek: Ski home 1BR 1BA for $115K 1BR 1BA + loft for $159K 2BR 2BA for $159.9K 2BR 2BA + loft for $239K
Better buy before there’s nothing left
KILLINGTON BASIN The Woods: Destination spa on site 2BR/2.5BA townhome $159.9K 3BR 3.5BA townhomes start at $199.9K
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Lowest inventory in 10 years! Read our newsletter for details www.Prestigekillington.com/ newsletters
Great Eastern trailside: Direct ski in ski out (3) 1/3rd acre lots w/septic design and common driveway ‐ $399K each Mini Drive: (2) ski in ski out ½ acre lots w/septic design ‐ $349K each Trailview Drive: ½ acre lot w/septic design and great views ‐ $299K
Located at the Basin Sports complex, upstairs from The Lookout Tavern 2922 Killington Road 802-422-3923 www.prestigekillington.com/mtn
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