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ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENTVol. 66 No. 52 Middlebury, Vermont Thursday, December 27, 2012 32 Pages 75¢

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JanuaryShortly after folks around Addison

County welcomed in the new year arrived

Chronology 2012at midnight last Jan. 1, Porter Hospital welcomed Wells Fracht Monroe into the world. Born at 12:25 a.m. on the first day of the year, the little tyke was not only the first baby born in the county in 2012, he was the first in all of Vermont. His par-ents were Liam and Danielle of Mendon.

As January 2012 brought a change to the calendar it also saw the change of the Middlebury policeman designated to cover the local schools as the official school resource officer. After more than a decade keeping an eye on — and dis-pensing wisdom and words of kindness — to Middlebury students, Officer Scott

Fisher transitioned out of that role this month as Officer Chris Mason took over the duty.

Elsewhere in the schools, a study com-mittee released a report urging Addi-son Central Supervisory Union schools to begin offering instruction in second languages to students in kindergarten through 7th grade. At the time Weybridge Elementary was the only primary school in the district to offer a second language.

In Bristol, the planning commission struggled over a gravel extraction zone in its revised town plan and decided to throw out the maps it had been working

on an start fresh.As lawmakers convened in Montpelier

they had several important jobs in front of them, including building on the health care reforms started earlier, building a bal-anced budget and aiding victims of Tropi-cal Storm Irene. They also had to finish the job of redrawing House and Senate districts based on the 2010 census.

As the budget season got seriously under way, school boards tried to keep increases in their spending requests low. Vergennes Union High School said it would seek voter approval for its first

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Major town projects and tragic deaths headline the year Annual Review

Jan. 5LIAM FRACHT-MONROE and Danielle Mon-

roe hold their son Wells Fracht Monroe two days after he was born at Porter Hospital at 12:25 a.m. on New Year’s Day. Porter officials report Wells, whose parents live in Mendon, was the first baby born in Vermont in 2012.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

Editor’s note: The change of the year is a good time to look back over the last 12 months and recall where we’ve been before diving into the 12 months ahead of us. We present this look back at 2012 to help you bring to mind the big stories of the year and also some of the smaller ones that have touched our lives in Addison County. Happy New Year!

THE DRIVER OF this dump truck, Pierre Bilodeau of Whiting, was killed after colliding with a tractor-trailer truck that was blown over by the wind on Route 7 South in Middlebury last Friday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY FIREFIGHTERS RESPOND, above, to the scene of an overturned tractor-trailer truck on Route 7 near the Middlebury-Salisbury town line last Friday afternoon. Below, the remains of a small farm outbuild-ing lie next to a tree in Middlebury after being blown apart by Friday’s windstorm.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Windstorm rips through countyLincoln, Middlebury, Salisbury among towns suffering damage from winds topping 67 mphBy XIAN CHIANG-WAREN

ADDISON COUNTY — The first day of winter on Dec. 21 brought a storm with hurricane-strength gales that knocked down trees and power lines, plunging more than 43,000 Vermonters into the dark beginning early Friday morning. The weather caused at least one fatality.

Green Mountain Power said that 34,270 of its customers were affect-ed by the windstorm over the week-end, while the Vermont Electric Co-operative reported over 9,000.

The storm’s lone victim was iden-tified as Pierre Bilodeau of Whiting, who died in a multi-vehicle crash on Route 7 South in Middlebury on Friday. Bilodeau, 50, was driving a dump truck when a strong gust of wind caused an empty tractor-trailer in the oncoming lane to collide with Bilodeau’s truck as well as two oth-er vehicles.

“There’s no doubt in our minds that the wind played a factor,” said Myron Selleck, assistant chief of the Middlebury Fire Department, which responded to the accident scene on Friday. “It’s our belief, failing (other conclusions from) an official police report, that a gust of wind caused the tractor trailer to overturn, causing the sequence of events that ended tragically.”

Selleck added that the fire depart-ment was kept busy on Friday and throughout the weekend with re-ports of downed wires. The fire de-partment blocked traffic on several roads until GMP arrived to assess safety conditions.

“Certainly in my personal experi-ence, these were the strongest winds I can remember,” Selleck said. “Working on Route 7, the winds

were tremendous.” Addison County was hit hard,

with winds clocked at 67 miles per hour blasting the slopes of the Green Mountains. Property damages, in-cluding a barn roof that was swept away in Middlebury, according to a GMP release, caused additional safety hazards. More dangerous still were the downed power lines that were covered by the several inches of snow that fell over parts of the county on Saturday.

GMP reported late Sunday that its customers in Lincoln in Addison

United Way lagsin effort to reach$700,000 goalBy JOHN FLOWERS

MIDDLEBURY — The United Way of Addison County (UWAC) has reached the halfway mark in its 2012 effort to raise $700,000 for local nonprofit causes, and organizers of the annual fund drive will soon mount an all-out push to try and reach the goal by next March.

The UWAC on Sept. 20 officially launched its annual appeal for funds from individuals and businesses, many of which participate in a payroll deduction program. The sluggish economy has taken its toll on the UWAC campaign — and those of other United Ways throughout the region — in recent years. This year’s goal of $700,000 amounts to what the UWAC actually raised last year, when officials had set a target of $775,000 — the same goal it had pursued for the past three years in a row. It should be noted that last year’s campaign not only had to contend with a tough economy, but also with Tropical Storm Irene. The United Way last fall processed $80,000 in donations earmarked for Irene-related causes and therefore not counted as part of the 2011 campaign goal.

“We reduced (the 2012) goal, because we haven’t met the goal in the last two years, so we set a realistic one and hope of course to bust through it,” UWAC Executive Director Kate McGowan said.

At this point, the United Way has raised just shy of $350,000 toward its goal. That is around $50,000 behind where the 2011 campaign was at this same time last year, according to

(See United Way, Page 2A)

By JOHN FLOWERSMIDDLEBURY — The Addison

Central Supervisory Union’s search for a new superintendent will con-tinue after a third bid to locate a top executive failed to woo a finalist on Friday, Dec. 21.

District officials confirmed late Friday afternoon that both final-ists — Burlington School District Superintendent Jeanne Collins and John W. Johnson, an executive with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction — withdrew their names from consideration, citing personal reasons.

This means the ACSU board will need to regroup and decide its next move in its quest for a new super-intendent to preside over public schools in Middlebury, Shoreham, Salisbury, Ripton, Bridport, Wey-bridge and Cornwall.

“While we are disappointed, we understand the challenges our large district presents and the challenges on one’s family in making a ma-jor life change,” said ACSU board member Peter Conlon, who chaired a committee that advanced the two finalists who interviewed for the job on Dec. 19.

“We will take this up at our next board meeting.”

(See ACSU, Page 3A)

ACSU candidatespull out; board to mull next steps

By ANDY KIRKALDYVERGENNES — U.S. Depart-

ment of Labor (DOL) and Vergennes officials confirmed last week that the current firm now operating North-lands Job Corps, Alutiiq LLC, has been granted an additional three months to run the federally funded job-training center for disadvantaged youth.

The DOL, which oversees the na-tion’s roughly 120 Job Corps cen-ters, had announced in March that it would terminate Alutiiq’s North-lands contract, effective Dec. 31.

DOL officials never explained that termination, but it followed a serious assault on Northlands’ MacDonough Drive campus that hospitalized the victim, an attack that went unre-ported to city police for more than 24 hours. It also followed repeated complaints by Vergennes officials that center management was not co-operating with city police, and an In-dependent report documenting ongo-ing beatings in one of the Northlands dormitories of which some center personnel were aware.

“Our concerns with the current contractor have involved the lack of timely reporting of criminal activity on center,” said City Manager Mel Hawley in a recent email.

DOL officials offered no specific

Firm granted extension at NorthlandsDespite problems, operator gets three-month reprieve

(See Northlands, Page 2A)

As if anyone needed a reason not to drink and drive during the holi-days, Vermont State Police, along with local and county law enforce-ment agencies, will be conducting sobriety checkpoints throughout Addison County this week. The purpose of the checkpoints is to identify and remove impaired drivers in an effort to reduce traf-fic collisions and to promote high-way safety. Please keep the roads safe by not getting behind the wheel if you have been drinking.

(See Windstorm, Page 2A)

A — Addison Independent, Thursday, December 27, 2012

AN OVERTURNED TRACTOR-TRAILER truck lies on top of a car that became trapped when the truck, traveling north on Route 7 South in Middle-bury, was overturned by a strong gust of wind.


County and Castleton in Rutland County were the hardest hit in terms of the volume of power outages.

Lincoln Town Clerk Sally Ober said that Lincoln residents experi-enced power outages that persisted late into Sunday night, while some individuals remained without pow-er on Monday morning.

Ober echoed GMP’s assessment that homes that remained without power Monday were very isolated cases, in which a line down caused just one or two homes to lose pow-er.

“The power company is out there working hard, but so many indi-vidual homes were affected,” Ober said.

GMP said that line crews worked throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights to restore power.

“Our entire workforce has con-verged on the handful of towns in eastern Addison and western Rut-land counties that were devastated by incredible winds that ravaged the region Friday. We have in-stalled nearly 50 new poles to re-place poles knocked down by wind and trees, in some cases sheared off at ground level, an enormous undertaking requiring hundreds of man-hours,” GMP spokesperson Jeremy Baker said in Sunday state-ment.

On Monday, residents of the Kampersville campground on Lake Dunmore in Salisbury said they ex-perienced power outages through-

out the weekend, road blockages and substantial property damage.

Susan Coburn, the store clerk at Kampersville, said that high winds blew off the roof of the Laundro-mat, at least one camper was badly damaged, fallen trees and other de-bris blocked Lake Dunmore Road, and trees were down all over the softball field.

“We had a pine tree go down in the middle of the store (property),” Coburn said.

Holly Killary, who lives off of West Shore Road in Salisbury, was

one of 30 households in the state that remained without power on Monday morning. Killary said that her power was restored by noon on Christmas Eve Day, as GMP had pledged. Killary reported see-ing “many massive trees that just snapped,” as well as downed power lines on West Shore Road, Hooker Road and Rogers Road.

“I’m looking out my window at a large poplar tree that just snapped at its base,” Killary said “Thank God it’s in the middle of the yard and not a driveway.”

As of late Monday, every Ver-mont resident that lost power was on track to have it restored before Christmas, thanks to the work-ers who toiled through the snowy weekend to bring heat and water to those who spent the weekend around a woodstove, or visiting with friends and family.

But Lincoln’s Ober said that many residents had adapted quick-ly, and were well prepared to with-stand the weekend’s challenges.

“Vermonters are good at this,” she said.

A TREE BLOWN over by last Friday’s windstorm lies in a Middlebury yard. The storm left more than 43,000 Vermonters without power.


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explanation for Alutiiq’s extension, although DOL Job Corps contract-ing officer Tom Pendleton — who earlier had confirmed the extension to Hawley — said last week the con-tracting process “sometimes takes longer than anticipated.”

Ted Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the DOL’s regional office in Boston, released this statement:

“The procurement is still in the evaluation phase and as such in-formation cannot be released. We anticipate an award date of March 1, 2013, and the transition will take place during the month of March 2013. The new operator will be in place on April 1, 2013.”

City officials said they are puzzled by that timing: The DOL leases the roughly 60-acre Northlands cam-pus, the former state-run Weeks School for troubled teens, from the state of Vermont. That lease expires on June 30, 2013, just three months after Alutiiq’s new scheduled termina-tion date.

City officials also remain upset that Vergennes is no longer compen-sated for hosting Northlands, as was agreed to in writing in the three-sid-ed deal in the late 1970s among the state, the city and the DOL.

In the late 1990s, DOL lawyers ruled payments to the city were a form of illegal taxation on the fed-eral government, and other than a one-time sum granted to the city by the federal government after it was arranged by the state’s Congressio-nal delegation, no more payments have been made.

When the payments ceased, they were about $100,000 a year, at that time about 10 percent of the city’s annual operating budget, exclusive of the user-funded sewer department.

At the Dec. 18 city council meet-ing, Hawley said to state Rep. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, that city of-ficials are frustrated they are being excluded from current negotiations.

“It’s very odd how little involve-ment there is between the state of Vermont and the city of Vergennes,” Hawley said. “I am very curious about the level of communication among all the entities involved.”

Lanpher said she has talked to state officials, including those from the Department of Buildings and General Services, but that she had few good answers about why Ver-gennes was being left out of the loop or where lease talks stood.

For example, she said it was hard to get an answer from the DOL be-cause a law firm was handling lease negotiations with the state on the

DOL’s behalf. Lanpher did say she hoped the

lease would be renewed because the alternative would be a vacant cam-pus and the loss of more than 100 local jobs.

“The worst-case scenario is that DOL decides not to renew a lease, and the state of Vermont has empty buildings, and the city of Vergennes has empty buildings,” she said.

On the other hand, city officials and police remain concerned about discipline and safety issues under Alutiiq’s watch, and one source for the Independent’s story on the dorm beatings called earlier this fall to say the overall atmosphere had, if any-thing, deteriorated on the 280-stu-dent campus since the spring.

A review of 2012 Vergennes po-lice logs published in the Indepen-

dent showed that city police have dealt this year with eight reported as-saults, one brawl, one drug case with two arrests, five alcohol incidents both on and off campus, two disor-derly conduct cas-es, a bomb threat, and four thefts al-legedly committed by Northlands stu-dents, both on and off campus.

Police Chief George Merkel said in fact those statistics probably don’t tell the full story: This month one student told police she had been the victim of an assault that had not been reported to city police, and Merkel said that was not the first such report he has heard this year.

“My concern is (the students’) safety and the safety of the people that work there. And … we’re get-ting not one, not two, but four, five, six reports of unreported incidents, incidents not being reported in a timely manner,” Merkel said. “(And) we’ve had some pretty serious inju-ries that have taken place coming out of fights or assaults that have taken place at the Job Corps.”

Regardless of what company ends up operating the center, Merkel hopes its officials will cooperate with his de-partment.

“I would look to anybody that goes in there, whether it’s Alutiiq if they stay there, or the new agency that comes in, to certainly tighten up that protocol they have for reporting inci-dents (and) getting medical care there for people who are injured during those incidents. Because let’s face it, those incidents … are going to hap-pen because of the backgrounds some of these kids come from,” Merkel said. “You don’t fix the problem by hiding it and you don’t fix the prob-lem by not reporting it.”

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at [email protected].

“The worst-case scenario is that DOL decides not to renew a lease, and the state of Vermont has emp-ty buildings, and the city of Vergennes has empty buildings.”

— Rep. Diane Lanpher


Northlands

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McGowan. United Ways throughout the state are currently reporting progress levels of between 40 percent and 60 percent, McGowan said.

She stressed, however, that the latest tally does not reflect some important details that will soon come in.

“Because we did a staggered start, we have a couple of big campaigns that started a little late,” McGowan said, citing specifically Middlebury College and Porter Medical Center. “Those are two big campaigns we are waiting to hear back from, so I think it is going to be fine.”

Meanwhile, UWAC officials have made a list of individual donors who

have regularly given to the campaign in the past but who, for one reason or another, haven’t been heard from yet this year.

“We will send them out a little reminder,” McGowan said. “We will start working hard in January and February to do a broader reminder for those other ones and also really look at folks on our list who have lapsed... and really reach out to those folks.”

In addition, the UWAC staff and board will brainstorm about who might not yet be on the donor list and send those people a letter.

Officials are also asking regular donors to consider giving a little bit more this year, if they can, in view of

the fact that individual contributions are lagging around $20,000 behind this time last year. For example, the UWAC has asked donors in the “Robert Frost” leadership category of giving to consider a bump from $1,000 to $1,250.

“Many of our leadership donors have done that, and we are very grateful,” McGowan said. She noted that still others have at the same time ramped up their smaller contributions to help the UWAC meet its goal.

Still, McGowan and her colleagues acknowledge that people are generally unable to be as generous as they were prior to the recession.

“It’s been hard for folks, especially

if they’re not sure they’re going to have their jobs,” McGowan said. “Raises haven’t been happening and people have to look at their budgets. But I’m hoping things have settled down enough so that people can start contributing at the level they used to.”

There are signs that things are getting better, noted McGowan, who sometimes sits in on staff meetings at businesses to which the UWAC appeals for employee contributions.

“It seems like in many pockets, things are feeling a little more stable, sales are up…, ” McGowan said. “That gives me hope for a solid campaign and making our goal.”

And the UWAC will need a solid

campaign in light of the challenging times being experienced by many of the non-profit organizations receiving United Way support. Those organizations — such as Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects, WomenSafe and the Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes — are seeing client loads go up at the same time that resources have been diminishing. Those resources could get even scarcer as congressional leaders and the White House continue to try to avert a “fiscal cliff” in the federal budget that could considerably tighten resources for nonprofits nationwide.

The United Way is currently recruiting a manager for marketing

and development, a person who McGowan said will help in the fundraising mission. That person’s job will include many of the key functions once performed by former UWAC Co-director Helen Freismuth, who left the organization this past fall.

In the meantime, the UWAC, with the help of 2012 campaign co-chairs Brian and Eva McDonough, will continue to look everywhere they can for contributions.

“Every dollar … is critical in meeting the needs of the community,” McGowan said.

Anyone interested in contributing to the campaign should contact the UWAC at 388-7189.


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The Mount Abraham Union High

School boys’ soccer program has a cure for cabin fever: The team is once again sponsoring family swims at the Mount Abe pool on Wednes-day nights from 7:30-9 p.m., starting on Jan. 2. The cost is $2 per person and $5 per family.

Looking for a fun family ac-tivity over Christmas vacation? Middlebury’s Memorial Sports Center offers public skating near-ly every day throughout the win-

ter, with even more hours during the holiday week. For those who don’t have their own skates, the center offers rentals for a small fee. Check out skate times in the Addy Indy calendar or at memori-alsportscenter.org/content/public-events-schedule.

The town of Middlebury will once again put on a New Year’s Eve fire-works display on Dec. 31. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. at the old Ameri-can Legion on Creek Road. Free public skating follows at the Memo-rial Sports Center.

District officials acknowledged the board’s difficulty in recruiting a candidate to take over for current Su-perintendent Gail Conley is at least partially linked to the size of the ACSU and its governance structure that demands a lot of evening meet-ings. The ACSU is governed by a combined total of nine boards made

up of more than 50 citizen members. Collins, during her public interview, acknowledged her concern about the prospect of many evening meetings requiring a lengthy commute from her Shelburne home.

Conley, who came out of retire-ment during the summer of 2011 to serve the ACSU, has agreed to con-tinue as superintendent until July 1.


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SOUTH BURLINGTON —Ver-mont Gas Systems on Dec. 20 an-nounced that the company has filed with the Public Services Board (PSB) a petition for a Certificate of Public Good for the Addison Natural Gas Project.

The company said this natural gas pipeline, if permitted and built, would provide significant economic, environmental and reliability ben-efits to Vermont as well as advance Vermont’s longer-term goal to ex-tend service to the Rutland area.

“This project will bring to Addi-son County the same economic and environmental benefits that have been enjoyed in Chittenden and Franklin coun-ties for years,” said Don Gilbert, president and CEO of Vermont Gas, in a press release. “Over 3,000 homes and businesses in Ad-dison County will save $1,500 to $1,900 per year by switching to natural gas. In total the project will reduce Ad-dison County’s energy bills by over $200 million over the next 20 years and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by almost 300,000 tons over that same period.”

According to Tim Lyons, vice president of Sales and Marketing at Vermont Gas, natural gas is 43 per-cent less expensive than fuel oil and 51 percent less than propane.

“As we have learned from our re-cent expansions to communities in Chittenden County, Vermonters want natural gas service. Not only will they save money by heating their homes with natural gas, they will no longer have to make large up-front payments for their heating fuel each year and will be able to take advantage of Ver-mont Gas’ award-winning energy ef-ficiency programs,” Lyons said.

Vermont Gas has been working over the last two years to develop the 43-mile pipeline. The company met a major milestone with the submis-sion of the necessary plans, studies and reports to support the PSB fil-ing. As proposed, the project route travels through 11 communities. It follows existing rights-of-way along the path proposed in the past for the Circumferential Highway and then a series of utility and public road cor-ridors to Middlebury and Vergennes.

“Overall the project to expand natural gas service to Addison Coun-ty has the support of the towns and communities along the route. How-ever, we are aware there are some

concerns with a section pro-posed to follow public rights-of-way along roads in portions of Hinesburg and Monkton,” Gil-bert said. “Ver-mont Gas has committed to work with those concerned and the various per-mitting agencies that ultimately approve the rout-

ing to explore alternatives and refine the route as appropriate and allow-able.”

The next step for the project is a thorough review of the proposed project by the Vermont PSB and other state and federal regulators. If approved on the schedule proposed, the Addison Natural Gas Project will bring service to Middlebury and Ver-gennes in 2014 and 2015 and will enable future expansion to other Ad-dison County communities such as Bristol, company officials said.

Interested communities and land-owners can visit the project website at www.addisonnaturalgas.com or call (802) 951-0399 for more infor-mation. The filing is posted on the website.

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Union High School has launched an impressive array of educational pro-grams in the past few weeks.

With support from an e-Vermont grant, which supports computer liter-acy in communities across the state, as well as a grant from the Rowland Foundation, Mount Abe has opened its computer labs to the public — and its dedicated staff is collaborat-ing with local community organi-zations to capitalize on the space’s availability to foster educational opportunities and conversations on many levels.

At first, said librarian Laura Mina, the primary focus was “to fill a sort of niche in the community. Bristol has needed more access to Internet than what is currently available.”

Then, the school realized it could take its mission several steps further.

Under Mina’s and e-Vermont di-rector Helen Jordan’s leadership, the Mount Abe library is in the process of becoming something of a com-munity hub, providing a space where community members can gather to extend their knowledge on many fronts — including, but not limited to, the use of the Internet and com-puter resources.

“We’ve added other components to the program,” Mina said.

To start with, classes on Internet and computer skills were organized, called “Tech Tuesday” and “Try It Thursday.” A student taught the courses, and anyone who wanted a crash course in computer literacy could come to learn on Tuesdays, and use the computer lab to practice on Thursdays.

The classes included basics like setting up an email account and con-ducting a successful Internet search, among other skills that may come naturally to those who have grown up around computers, but can be un-derstandably difficult for those unfa-miliar with computers.

“They’ve been wanting to get that knowledge, and to see somebody have that success of understanding is pretty cool,” Mina said.

Another program that was made possible by offering expanded hours was “Wednesday Tea and Talks,” in which community members were in-vited to come to a gathering in the library and discuss topics as diverse as art projects, study abroad trips, and non-=profit work in the area. On a recent Wednesday, a Mount Abe graduate returned to talk about her semester abroad in Ecuador.

High school students will also di-rectly benefit from keeping the space open. Seniors will be able to take a

college course in biology, taught by UVM, in the Mount Abe computer lab during spring semester. Though Mount Abe is hosting the course, anyone is welcome to register, said principal Andy Kepes.

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Myrna Lopez, a resident at the Liv-ing Well Residential Care home in downtown, was having a one-on-one computer lesson with Hayley Slay-ton, a Mount Abe senior who taught the technology course as volunteer work.

Lopez, whose grown-up son lives in California, was learning how to use the computer so that she could Skype with him from the desktop computer that Living Well had re-cently purchased

But first, Lopez and Slayton ex-plained, they were going over the basics. This was their second lesson.

“We learned how to log on, and shut down,” Lopez told me. “I thought starting from scratch, start-ing from the beginning, I could work my way up to it.”

Lopez worked for an insurance company in southern California for many years, and learned how to use computers for her job. But that was a long time ago, and computers them-selves have changed a lot over the years. Lopez said she is finding her

lessons with Slayton helpful in re-freshing her memory.

They concluded their lesson by printing out a recipe. In a few les-sons, Hayley is confident that Lopez will be Skyping.

Sudeshna Trivedi, an Americorps VISTA volunteer at Living Well, hoped that the program between resi-dents and Mount Abe students would continue for a long time. Trivedi has developed a training program for stu-dents interested in working with the elders, and emphasized the impor-tance of the program for residents.

“It’s exciting for them,” Trivedi said.

Naturally, often the people who come are Bristol residents. But Mina has also seen some from Lincoln and Starksboro. And though she ac-knowledged that getting the word out about the space’s availability is a process, she had already seen re-sults. Though the numbers are not yet at the rate that she would eventu-ally like to see, the venture is only just starting out, and it takes time for information to spread by word of mouth. In the meantime, there is definite community interest.

“People are showing up to the space,” Mina said. “It’s feeling more and more like a community hotspot.”

Mount Abe opens computer labs to community

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“Vermonters want natural gas service. Not only will they save money by heating their homes with natural gas, they will no lon-ger have to make large up-front payments for their heating fuel each year...”

Tim Lyons

Vermont Gas seeks PSBOK for Addison project By ANDY KIRKALDY

VERGENNES — The legislators who represent Vergennes in Mont-pelier — sadly at this point only a trio — sat down with Vergennes aldermen last week to talk about the budgetary and other challenges they will face during the upcoming legislative session.

Before Sen. Claire Ayer, D-Addison, Sen.-elect Christopher Bray, D-New Haven, and Rep. Di-ane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, spoke about their legislative priorities, they joined aldermen in observing a moment of silence for their late colleague, Rep. Greg Clark, R-Ver-gennes, who recently lost his life in a Route 7 traffic accident.

When it was time for the trio to speak, Ayer led off by discussing what again could be the Vermont Senate, House and governor’s greatest challenge, which she de-scribed as tackling “big budget is-sues.” State departments and agen-cies will be “asked to make do with less,” she said, as tax revenues can-not be expected to rise in what are still tough economic times. MENTAL HEALTH

Ayer said she would continue to focus on health care, and was par-ticularly concerned about mental health issues after the loss of the state’s mental health facility a year ago during Tropical Storm Irene. She said she remains concerned the state is “not meeting those (mental health) needs” despite an ongoing effort to transition to community-based care.

Ayer also said debates would probably surround the expected introductions of “Death With Dig-nity” and marijuana decriminaliza-tion bills, that an effort to improve Lake Champlain water quality was also expected, and that she, like many legislators, had recently re-ceived “several hundred emails about gun control.”GUN CONTROL

On that topic, Ayer said she wanted to “mention again there are

a number of steps that can be taken that would not affect responsible, law-abiding gun owners,” but that gun control was not the only an-swer.

“There are mental health issues and other issues that need to be worked on at the same time,” she said.

Alderman Randy Ouellette asked Ayer about the yet-to-be revealed cost of the state-run health ex-change that is now being imple-mented. Ayer said the total costs are not yet known, but offered a partial answer.

“We know what it is not going to cost. It (statewide health care) costs us $5 billion now,” Ayer said. “We wouldn’t move forward with any-thing that would cost more than it costs us now.”

Bray said Ayer had covered many of the central issues that he expect-

ed to arise, and that as a first-term senator he was awaiting his com-mittee assignment. Bray said he hoped for an agriculture committee slot, but that regardless he would focus on “sustainable economic development,” particular in the for-estry and farm sector.

“Eighty-eight percent of Vermont is covered by forest and farmland,” Bray said. HIGH COST OF REPAIRS

Lanpher said she hoped and ex-pected to be reappointed to the House Transportation Committee. There, she said she would continue to help the state’s long-term infra-structure needs, which she said are badly underfunded.

Lanpher cited a study that showed Vermont would have to spend an additional $250 million a year for decades to catch up on maintenance of its existing infrastructure, more

than double its current rate.“We have to educate the public

on the truth of the situation,” she said.

Lanpher said she had also re-cently spoken with Vermont De-partment of Buildings and Services personnel about the recently moved Vergennes rail depot, which now rests awaiting renovation next to the VTrans commuter lot in Ferris-burgh. She said state officials will be seeking tenants.

Before the legislators left, they fielded one request, from Vergennes City Manager Mel Hawley. He asked that they not solve state bud-get problems by “passing along” the costs to local towns and cities.

“That’s not solving the problem,” Hawley said.


Legislators tell aldermen ‘big budget issues’ will test state

Going upSTEELWORKERS WELD TOGETHER the frame for the new Addison County Transit Resources head-

quarters being built on Creek Road in Middlebury.Independent photo/Trent Campbell


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In the wake of the horrific events in Newton, Conn., there has been a lot of soul searching and heartfelt discussion here in the United States. Rightly so we are wondering how it is that guns and automatic weap-ons in particular are so accessible. We are wondering how individuals so deranged and so alienated can obtain the deadliest weapons yet somehow elude social help or law enforcement altogether. What is it about our society that gives rise to these murderous spasms that seem to occur with mind-numbing regularity?

No doubt there are some things our society can do if our politicians can summon that seemingly scarce resource — political courage. It may be that we can diminish the supply of automatic large-magazine weap-ons without jeopardizing our cher-ished Second Amendment. It may be that we can dethrone the NRA, made fat by the lavish contributions of the gun manufacturers, without giving away all of our guns. With a lot of effort and attention, maybe we can discover and try to heal the tortured souls among us who would do these terrible deeds.

But, there is another place we need to look if we really want to solve this riddle. As taxpayers we need to better scrutinize what our tax dollars are doing and where they are being spent. We are the proud owners of a $700 billion defense budget that amounts to more than 40 percent of the total yearly global expenditure on war preparation and war making. When we add in all of the other war-related expenditures, from veterans’ affairs to counterter-rorism, our yearly outlay tops $1 trillion. This includes the $50 billion to $75 billion administered for counterterrorism that is totally with-out public (congressional) oversight, a so-called “black budget.” Our tax dollars support a sprawling war-making juggernaut. Add to this vast apparatus the pilotless drones that rain murder from the sky on “evil-doers” and those with the misfor-tune to be near them (2,000 to 3,500 killed since 2004), and it is difficult to avoid the impression that war is one of our biggest exports.

Some companies and some individuals are made rich by the business of perpetual and unchecked war, and by the sale of automatic weapons. It seems clear to me that we are not made safer and more secure by these expenditures. Nor should we let those who profit by wars, gun selling and paranoia frame the debate.

If we want to curb the violence that springs up so inexplicably in our own country, perhaps we need to try to curb the violence we project on the world. The connec-tion between cause and effect might seem obscure, but eventually we do indeed reap what we sow.

Louis duPontStarksboro

Here’s a proposal to regulate guns

The federal or state governments could require owners of guns to carry government offered liability insurance. Each gun would be in-sured and the rate would reflect the lethality of the weapon. Proceeds from the insurance program could be used to cover the medical bills of individuals and families harmed by gun-involved violence and/or to pay for the protection of public places.

Peter LebenbaumMiddlebury

Climate change is serious, buttactics are wrong

Being alarmed by the degrada-tion of our natural environment and by the plight of countless endangered species in every part of our biosphere, I find that it has become necessary to speak out against Bill McKibben’s rogue brand of environmental-ism. McKibben and other climate change activists have, in recent years, done a great disservice to what was once a thriving, grow-ing environmental movement in this country and around the world.

To illustrate the wrong-head-edness of their attitude, I call your attention to a recent Ad-

BetweenThe Linesby Gregory Dennis

There are few things as boring as a dinner party where the dominant subject of discussion is what movies we’ve all seen. We’re all just casual moviegoers offering up pablum about how great Meryl Streep is and wasn’t the scenery pretty.

But a dinner gathering where the discussion turns to books? That’s my kind of party.

A conversation like that forces us to actually use our brains. To offer an informed view of why the novel we just finished was so remarkable, or what was lacking in the memoir that preceded it.

Hell, for some of us, it stretches our brains just to remember the name of the book we’re reading.

Start a discussion about whether Hemingway is laughable or still relevant today, whether LeCarre was literature or airplane fodder – and we’re all stretched a bit, the way we were as trainees in the early months of our first real jobs.

For today’s column, for those of us who read more than just email, here’s a recap of books that caught my eye this year.

I should note that I offer these observations without any intellectual pretensions. I am a slow, even plodding reader with decidedly middlebrow tastes. But it’s better than knowing the plot of the latest James Bond movie, should it actually have one.

Several books got me through the dismal winter months of early 2012.

Gretchen Rubin’s “The Happiness Project” proved to be an informative ramble about her attempts to put into practice various techniques to be happier. The book’s subtitle sums it up: “Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.” I learned

some new techniques to brighten a gray day, and admired Rubin’s pluck.

Another early-year find was “How Long Till My Soul Gets It Right,” a mixture of reflections and personal

stories from psychotherapist Robert M. Alter. In a similar vein, I drew sustenance from “Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow,” Elizabeth Lesser’s distillation of her 20-plus years of co-founding and leading workshops at the amazing Omega Institute. I’ll be rereading this one for years to come. So, too, with “Falling into Grace,” one of the best and most accessible books of Buddhist insights.

Another philosophical classic I’m now in the middle of rereading is “Iron John,” the mythology-fueled – and still worthy – treatise from Robert Bly about how our culture has come to neglect boys and devalue men.

In a lighter vein, I got plenty of laughs from Nora Ephron’s “I Remember Nothing (and Other Reflections).” Ephron, who died this year, is equally funny discussing divorce, the shortcomings of egg-white omelettes, and the fake orgasm scene she

created for “When Harry Met Sally.”I wrote earlier this year about Vermont naturalist

Bernd Heinirich’s latest, “Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death.” Several months after finishing it, I’m still telling its stories -- one mark of a good book.

I was one of many readers whose hearts were stolen by Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild,” the story of her adventures hiking the Pacific Coast Trail alone and with no previous experience. The tale takes her from a being a recovering heroin user to a keen and trail-hardened raconteur. It’s the book every hiker wishes he had

The world did not come to an end, as Mayans predicted, in 2012. At least (we report with some reasonable accu-racy), not here in Addison County. So we raise a glass to a new year and a new way of looking at the universe. To a year filled with

hope joy, peace and pos-sibilities. Cheers!

“Hush Dad, it’s Christmas… Let’s not talk busi-ness,” I whispered. It was Tuesday afternoon and wrap-ping paper was flying as 16 members of our extended clan tore through a pile of presents that seemed to take up most of our 850-square-foot cabin high in the Green Mountains.

Angelo Lynn and I married this past summer and though we have been together for years, it was my first official Christ-mas as a Lynn. I looked around the room and realized that this year, more than ever, nearly everyone in the room was part of a family busi-ness, and more often than not, the publishing business.

As I shuttled between pouring drinks and making gravy I won-dered if we could get through din-ner without it turning into either a press conference or a board meeting.

Angelo’s youngest daughter Elsie (publisher of the Essex Reporter and Colchester Sun) arrived with her partner, the photographer Oliver Parini. Christy, the second youngest, now the ad manager and assistant publisher at the Addy Indy, was there with Sam Os-trow, an architect at a firm practically across the street from the Addy Indy office.

A year ago, Polly, Angelo’s oldest, had moved back

to Vermont and she and her partner Jay Mikula are now editor, and manager, and co-publishers of the Killing-ton-based Mountain Times.

Angelo’s brother Emerson Lynn, and his wife Su-zanne had put their paper, the St. Albans Messenger to bed the night before and were there with their two young daughters. And sitting on the couch was An-

gelo’s father, Emerson Lynn Jr., the third generation publisher from Kansas, quietly taking it all in.

Ink runs through the Lynn arter-ies. At any given dinner, headline news becomes the appetizer, edi-torials, the main course. The dis-cussions are heated and passionate – and fascinating given the diverse perspectives, generations and polit-ical leanings of the various family

members. As someone who has worked in magazines my whole life, (I now edit EatingWell, a national mag-azine based in Shelburne) I love every minute of it.

Here in Vermont, family businesses are part and par-cel of our landscape. Fathers and daughters, mothers and sons share the news of dairy prices or the avail-ability of copper wire over dinner. It is how things get done. But how do you come home to your daughter/brother/sister/spouse and casually ask “so how was

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written. As winter turned to spring this

year, I turned to fiction.Critics have been arguing for

decades over whether the novel is still relevant. I found one answer to that unanswerable question in new novels this year from Jim Harrison and Mark Helprin, two of my literary heroes.

Harrison and Helprin’s latest suggest that yes, the novel is still relevant -- if only because it has the power to disappoint.

Few writers have reached the heights that Helprin did with “A Soldier of the Great War.” But his latest, “In Sunlight and in Shadow” – for all its gracious depiction of post-war New York – sometimes reads like self-parody.

Jim Harrison has consistently produced many novels that are in equal parts amusing, thought-provoking, and breathtaking in their descriptions of the often gentle, sometimes brutal world of nature. But his latest, “The Great Leader,” read like a mediocre second draft from a lesser writer.

I did, however, stumble across a couple of delightful surprises this year.

I was prepared to hate “The Marriage Plot,” by Jeffrey Eugenides, after I had labored

through his previous outing, “Middlesex.” I found it to be one of those books I wanted to throw across the room, except that my parents raised me to mind my manners.

“The Marriage Plot,” however, proved to be a clever reworking of a common 19th-century literary theme, and its quirky and sometimes desperate young characters rang true.

The biggest book surprise for me this year was a Ken Follett novel, “Fall of Giants.”

Even middlebrow readers need authors to look down on, and I had spent decades looking down on Follett as a purveyor of pulp. But his story of five American and European families in the first 20 years of the 20th century was hard to put down.

Novel of the year for me? I’m partway through Michael Chabon’s dazzling return to form, “Telegraph Avenue.” So the jury is still out.

But for now, my personal Book of the Year would have to be “The Art of Fielding.” This first novel from Chad Harbach tells the story of a promising young college shortstop, the catcher buddy who mentors him, and the woman with whom he eventually falls in love.

Rising above the usual clichés about coming-of-age and baseball novels – a double curse worse than

Whitney Houston’s having both a drug habit and Bobby Brown for a husband -- Harbach manages to weave a story that is both touching and gripping, with a dose of magical realism for good measure.

As I was reading “The Art of Fielding,” though, I realized I wasn’t as enchanted as I felt I should be. It was as if I’d had three glasses of tasty wine and wasn’t really buzzed.

The book had all the elements of a good read – vivid characters, humor, and a freight train of a plot – but I found myself just drifting through it.

At last, I identified the culprit.I realized the shortfall was not in

the novel but in the medium: I was reading “The Art of Fielding” on my iPad.

The medium may not be the message -- but it matters. There’s no comparison between an electronic reader and three-dimensional volume that smells vaguely of dead trees and ink, with pages that make a gentle swoosh when turned, with a front and back, and a thick, juicy middle.

I’ll reserve the iPad for all the electronic magic. I like my books as books, thank you.

If you made it this far, you must be a reader, too. Happy New Year, and Happy Reading.

Gregory Dennis’s column appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at www.gregdennis.wordpress.com. Email him at [email protected], especially if you have suggestions for what to read next.


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dison Independent editorial in which McKibben is quoted as suggesting that “to counter the ineffective tactics environmen-talists have been using … what is needed … is a movement and what a movement needs is an enemy,” namely the fossil-fuel industry. This is just the sort of tactic we all rightly complain of in politicians: getting people to rally around your cause by searching for a common enemy, someone to revile, or inventing one if necessary. We should all be able to agree that, whatever the merits of your cause, this approach is unworthy. So let me clearly state a moral impera-tive: If you are concerned about the deteriorating condition of Earth and all that lives on it, and you’d better be, the thing to do is change your own behavior, not look for someone else to blame.

Evidence has been mounting that points to certain deleterious changes in global climate and to the role played in them by human activity. This is a very serious matter requiring action. However, there are several problems with the approach that has been taken.

Firstly, it is very concerning from an ethical point of view that most of the attention of the climate change community seems to be focused on the possibility that some people may have to move a bit inland, which would be an inconvenience. Relatively little is said about the impact of climate change on other species, which stand to suffer far more catastrophic consequences, up to an including extinction.

By no means do I intend to minimize the human tragedies associated with recent weather events such as Hurricane Sandy. The loss of life in my native New York is indeed appalling.

However, the link between global warming and these events is far from established. In the United States, we tend to think a great deal more of a natural disaster if it occurs here, but in fact, destructive hurricanes are all too familiar to those who live in tropical regions, and this is nothing new.

Global climate change is real — and hurricanes do happen — but it would be premature to con-clude that the one can be blamed on the other. The connections between climate change and, for example, rising sea levels, the bleaching of coral reefs and the diminishment of the sea ice on which polar bears depends, are much further along the road to corroboration.

Secondly, while a strong case can now be made for the valid-ity of climate change theory, the claims we hear are frequently ex-

Letters(Continued from Page 4A) aggerated. Climate is a tremen-

dously complex and technical subject, and the study of climate change is still in its relative infancy, yet its most extreme prediction are often presented as firmly established facts.

In their zeal, some activists go so far as to speak about climate change theory as though it were scientifically on a par with the theory of evolution. I have even heard climate change skepti-cism equated with the theory of creationism.

This kind of talk is irrespon-sible and absurd. After a century and a half of research, the theory of evolution through natural selection is one of the most exhaustively studied topics in all of science. No contrary evidence whatsoever has been discovered and evolutionary biology is as firmly established as a scientific body of knowledge can be.

The evidence for global climate change is increasingly convincing and worrying, and measure to counter its effects should certainly be taken now, given the grave risks posed, but the status of these two theories is in now way comparable.

But the most significant and problematical characteristic of the approach taken by some ac-tivists is that the climate change chorus has become so incessant and so loud that it has virtually drowned out the discussion of other, equally pressing environ-mental issues, such as overpopu-lation, overfishing, deforestation, invasive species and all manner of pollution. These and other environmental problems are numerous and dire and must be kept at the forefront of public discourse.

In closing, let me reiterate that it is of the utmost importance that each one of us make an ef-fort to reduce his or her impact on the planet. If the burning of fossil fuels, for example, is harmful to the environment, and of course it is, the stop burning them so much.

Only individual action can solve global problems. And the best part is that you can start to-day. Many already have. It is not necessary to wait for some envi-ronmental celebrity to organize a high-profile corporate boycott, or for a grassroots political movement to influence legisla-tion. It is up to you and me. And the time is now.

Daniel SobelMiddlebury

GiversMARY HOGAN ELEMENTARY School sixth-graders recently organized a toy and book drive at the school and they collected more than 1,000

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By Bill Schubart The essence of a good cultural

collision is usually found in language. The malaprop is a great example. Growing up in Morrisville in the shadow of Stowe’s social ascendancy in the ’50s, I heard a number of them.

Forensic entomologists - or is that etymologists - believe that the malaprop originated among people with strong social aspirations, limited vocabulary and a desire to flaunt their verbal prowess. In my own case, I think it has more to do with hearing loss, but more about that later.

A dear, now departed, friend whom

I had not seen for several winters was regaling me with the news that, as she aged, her voice had lowered and she was now a tenor in her church choir. Not knowing how to respond to this exciting news, I asked after her mother. That would be a non-sequitur.

“Oh,” she answered,” Din’t cha hear, last fall she took a corollary and died.”

I tried to redeem myself, asking after her father only to learn that he had succumbed to “prostrate” cancer several years earlier.

“I’m sorry,” I answered, choosing not inquire further about her recent

success in choir.“Yeah,” she answered, “I haven’t

been able to get it out of my cistern. Sometimes, I feel like I’m between a hard rock and a place.”

“Wow,” I thought, “a triple header.”

A social worker friend who moved to Morrisville from Manhattan was helping an elderly and impecunious gentleman from Wolcott with the recent death of his 94-year-old mother and the disposition of her remains. After explaining the various options and the related expenses, the dismayed fellow decided on cremation. Cost was an issue, and so

he suggested, “You know, I could just drive Ma over there myself, if you could just tell me where the creamery is.”

At 67, I’m mastering the hearing-impaired non-sequitur, while my wife’s Volvo is losing its memory. The driver’s seat can’t remember who’s driving and invariably advances itself to her preferred position, juicing me in the steering wheel. While I was driving us to the grocery store in this compressed position, Kate mentioned the need for a legume for dinner. I answered, “Good idea,” and moved my seat back.

The elegant malaprop: Of triple headers & irony

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work today?” without getting into a three-hour Powerpoint presenta-tion?

Christmas Day, everyone put work aside. In the cabin, we have no cell service, no TV and spotty Internet connections. We felt cut off from the news and happily so. Outside I could hear shrieks of laughter from the girls as they and their three dogs sledded and played in the snow.

Inside, Sam helped carve the Misty Knoll turkey, Emerson took family pictures, Jay fiendishly washed dishes as fast as we could mess them up. The only reference to paper was to what to do with all

the wrappings. No one brought up work. No one, that is, except my father,

who just as the bird came out of the oven, began to reminisce about his 38 years at IBM, where he be-gan by selling typewriters door-to-door in Waterbury, Conn.

“Dad, you have to realize that everyone here is in a family busi-ness...” I interrupted, with a sigh. “If we start talking about work, dinner will petrify.”

My father looked around the room, smiled and paused. But not without adding, “You know, when I started at IBM, it was the Wat-son’s small family business.” And he went on to tell that story.

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WHITING — Pierre K. Bilodeau, 50, of Whiting died Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at Porter Hospital in Middlebury as a result of injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident.

He was born on April 13, 1962, in Middlebury, the son of the late Gaston and Pauline (Seguin) Bilodeau. He was a graduate of Otter Valley High School, class of 1980.

He married Susanne Cobb on July 27, 1984, at St. Mary’s Church in Brandon.

A self-employed farmer, he was co-owner of Bilodeau Brothers Farm in Whiting. His family says he was a hardworking family man, who was very mechanically inclined. He was a motorcycle enthusiast who enjoyed working on his vehicles, shooting guns and watching NASCAR. Relatives say even with his long and hard workdays he managed to always stay current on the news and happenings around the world and enjoyed sharing his opinions on the subjects.

He is survived by his wife of 28

years, Susanne Bilodeau, and his sons, Aaron and Craig Bilodeau of Whiting. He is also survived by his brothers David Bilodeau and his wife Julie of Whiting and Robert Bilodeau and his wife Shelley of Whiting, and by two sisters, Lisette Ladd and her husband Charlie of Cornwall and Janine Levesque and her husband Mark of Middlebury. Many nieces, nephews and cousins survive him.

He was predeceased by his parents, Gaston and Pauline Bilodeau, and his brother Michael Bilodeau.

A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Friday, Dec. 28, 2012, at 11 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Middlebury. Father Yvon Royer will celebrate the Mass. A visitation will be held on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, from 5-7 p.m. at Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home, 117 South Main St., Middlebury. Burial will be in the spring at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Middlebury.

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MIDDLEBURY — Stephen J. Welsh of Middlebury died peacefully at his home at The Lodge at Otter Creek on Monday, Dec. 17, 2012. He was 91. He was born in Morristown, N.J., on Nov. 29, 1921, the son of Eugene V. Welsh and Theresa Riley Welsh.

He volunteered for the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1943 while attend-ing Harvard College. He trained in meteorology at Amherst College and in electronics at Yale University. He then transferred to the electronics school at Truax Field in Madison, Wis., as a student and subsequently as an instructor. After further stints in personnel classification at Gore Field in Great Falls, Mont., and Newcastle Air Base in Wilmington, Del., he was discharged from Fort Dix in New Jersey in February 1946. He received his B.S. in economics from Harvard in absentia in 1944. After the war, he continued his education in the inau-gural business program at Cornell University, receiving his MBA in marketing in 1948.

He married Virginia “Ginny” Gibbons in September 1947 while still in graduate school. He began his professional career at the General Electric Company in New York as a district representative and ultimately the manager of marketing in the High Fidelity Department. His next career move was to become partner in the management consulting firm of Cresap, McCormick and Paget in New York City. Then he became

vice president of planning and later vice president of sales at the Pepsi Cola Company in Purchase, N.Y. He closed out his consulting career by becoming president at George Fry and Associates in Chicago, Ill. After his career in the business world came to a conclusion, he and his wife opened a bookstore outside of Cleveland, Ohio, which they ran jointly for five years before retiring to Vermont in 1985.

His family says he was an avid tennis player his entire life, play-ing on the Harvard tennis team as a student as well as competing in singles in the Green Mountain Senior Games. He won the 75-79-year-old division once and the 80-84-year-old division once and qualified for and competed in the National Senior Olympics in those years. He liked to say that he was looking forward to the 90-94 year old division where he would win simply by showing up. His relatives say he had an unfor-gettable sense of humor and was an inveterate storyteller, leaning on his Irish roots to tell fantastic true stories (though they say he was never one to let inconvenient facts get in the way of a good story).

He is survived by Ginny, his wife of 65 years; daughter Sharon Butler (Jim) of Denver, Colo.; son Stephen J. Welsh Jr. of Middlebury; daughter Lauren Wright (William) of Middlebury; and son Kevin (Debbe) of Boulder, Colo.; as well as seven grandchildren and two

great-grandchildren.A reception in celebration of his life

was held on Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, at The Lodge at Otter Creek. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753, or Addison County Special Olympics, 132 Peterson Terrace, Middlebury, VT 05753.

MIDDLEBURY — Frances Clifford Schwenker, 98, passed away on Dec. 20, 2012, at her home in Middlebury. She was born on May 19, 1914, in New Haven, Vermont, the sixth of eight children born to Merritt Willard Clifford and Bessie (Kinsman) Clifford.

Frances attended Beeman Academy and graduated from Pittsford High School in 1932. She spent a post-graduate year at Northfield Seminary (now known as Northfield Mount Hermon) in East Northfield, Massachusetts. Frances later attended Rutland Business College before moving to Schenectady, New York, where she worked as a medical secretary.

On June 26, 1948, Frances married Charles F. Schwenker in the Pittsford Congregational Church. They were married 53 years.

Frances and Charles raised their two daughters in Scotia, New York, spending summers at their camp on Lake George in the Adirondacks. In later years, they spent winters in Deland, Florida. In 1982, they returned to Frances’ home state, settling in Middlebury, Vermont. Charles died in Middlebury in 2002.

Frances is survived by her two daughters, Carolyn Schwenker Brody of New York City and Betsy Schwenker of Middlebury and Lake George, along with four grandchildren: Henry Kinsman Underwood (and his wife, Mallory) of Troy, New Hampshire, Charlotte Hull Underwood of New York City, Charles Winslow Brody of New York City and Caroline Williams Brody of Los Angeles, California. Frances also leaves her brother, Ralph Henry Clifford,

of Binghamton, New York, and numerous nieces and nephews.

The family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to Joanie Roberge of Middlebury for the many years of care and love she devoted to Charles and Frances. Carolyn and Betsy would also like to thank Addison County Home Health & Hospice for over 20 years of kind, professional care provided by so many. Special gratitude also goes to Dr. Diana Barnard, whose grace and guidance provided reas-surance and comfort to all.

A graveside memorial service is planned for the spring. Burial will take place in Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, New York. Contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, PO Box 754, Middlebury, Vermont. ◊

HINESBURG — Sybil Marie (Goepel) Osborne of Hinesburg passed away on Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, peacefully at home.

Born in New York City on March 2, 1922, she was the daughter of Walter Robert and Sybil (Searell) Goepel.

She graduated from Adelphi University and then New York Theological Seminary, where she met and was married to James Robert Osborne. Sybil and Jim came to Hinesburg in 1952, where he pastored the United Church of Hinesburg for 17 years, in addition to Methodist churches in Vermont at Wolcott, West Burke, Northfield, Middlebury and Burlington and in New York at East Setauket.

Sybil dearly loved Vermont and Vermonters. She was always involved in the events and life of the Hinesburg church. Its beautiful interior and stained glass windows, whose design and installation were

shared by Sybil, Jim and the parish-ioners, reflect her commitment. More recently Sybil was involved in the life of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Vergennes. Her daily personal life centered upon prayer, family and friends, literature, music and art.

Predeceased by her husband Jim, Sybil is survived by her sons, Theodore Osborne (Mary) of London, Canada, and Andrew Osborne (Molly) of Bristol, Rhode Island; grandchildren Matthew Osborne, Sarah (Osborne) Brosius and Emily Osborne; dearest friend Marion Davis; much-loved cousins, nieces and nephews; and compas-sionate friend Katrine Loeffler.

The funeral service was held at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Vergennes on Thursday, Dec. 27, at 2 p.m. It was Sybil’s wish that remembrances be in the form of donations to the Flower Fund at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,

P.O. Box 196, Vergennes, VT 05491. Arrangements by Brown-McClay Funeral Homes, Vergennes, Vermont. ◊

FOREST DALE — Craig Michael Frasier Sr., 67, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at his home in Forest Dale.

He was born in Rutland on Dec. 11, 1945. He grew up in Forest Dale/Brandon where he received his early education. In his earlier years he logged with Fred Wyman and later became a partner in the Wyman-Frasier Sawmill. He worked for Lathrop’s Lumber Mill in Bristol for several years. More recently he became a bus aide.

His family says he was an avid hunter and enjoyed going up the mountain to camp. He had also coached Little League and enjoyed snowmobiling. He was a member of the North American Hunting Club and the Neshobe Sportsman Club and belonged to the Loyal Order of The Moose in Rutland.

Surviving are his wife, Virginia “Jennie” Frasier of Forest Dale, whom he married in Forest Dale on Aug. 9, 1969; and three sons, Craig

M. Frasier Jr., Mark Frasier and Jason Frasier, all of Brandon. Seven grandchildren also survive him.

He was predeceased by his father in 1988; his mother in 1998; a brother, Gary, in 1937; and a brother, Paul Frasier, in 1982.

The funeral service was held on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2012, at 10 a.m., at the Forest Dale Wesleyan Church. The Rev. John McDonald, pastor, officiated. A private grave-side committal service and burial followed in the family lot, at Forest Dale Cemetery.

Following the ceremony the family received friends back in the church hall, for a time of fellowship and remembrance.

Friends were invited to call at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012, from 3-6 p.m.

Memorial gifts may be made to The Brandon Area Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 232, Brandon, VT 05733,

or the National Kidney Foundation of Vermont, 814 Elm St., Manchester, VT 03101.

VERGENNES — Mildred Bentley Brill, 89, died Saturday, Dec. 22, 2012, at Ringer Home Care in Vergennes.

She was born Dec. 20, 1923 in Jericho, the daughter of Arthur and Anna (Trieb) Bentley.

She was predeceased by her first husband, Clarence Brill, in 1980. Then she resided in Vergennes for many years. She married her second husband, Clinton Emmons, on December 21, 1991. They lived in Starksboro and he predeceased her in 1997.

She worked for Simmonds Precision in Vergennes for more than 29 years. Her relatives say she enjoyed fishing, camping, hunting and flower gardens.

She is survived by three children,

JoAnne Perron of Vergennes, Gilbert Brill of Waltham and Susanne Mattison of Vergennes; a stepdaugh-ter, Carol Morris of Vergennes; nine grandchildren; several great-grand-children; and several nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by a brother, Charles, and a sister, Dorothy.

Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 27, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes. Interment will be in Sunset View Cemetery in Waltham in the spring. Friends were invited to call at Brown-McClay Funeral Home on Thursday from 10 a.m. up to hour of the funeral. Memorial contributions may be made to American Cancer Society, 121 Connor Way, Williston, VT 05495.

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MIDDLEBURY — The board of trustees of Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury will have a vacancy in March for a five-year term.

The board of trustees, autho-rized by state statute, has five members and sets library poli-cies, oversees long-range plan-ning, advocates for the library, and promotes its use. The board

works with the selectboard to provide appropriate funding.

Particularly needed on the board is experience in technol-ogy, legislative relations, fund-raising, personnel or public relations. Persons interested in serving are invited to run for the board at the March town elec-tions. All candidates must be registered voters in the town of

Middlebury.A petition is required with

signatures of 30 registered Middlebury voters. The petition may be obtained from the town clerk’s office or the library and must be submitted to the town clerk by Jan. 28.

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On the Saturday after the Sandy Hook shootings, I taught two silent yoga classes. I demonstrated the posture, the students watched me and then held the pose until they heard me ring a bell. At the sound of the bell, they watched me demon-strate the next pose. I looked around the room at these dedicated yoga students, each processing their grief in different ways. We were practic-ing yoga, breathing together, some of us crying.

I chose to hold class this way because silence seemed like the only possible response to this unspeak-able horror. When we practice yoga, we open our hearts. Physiologically, we stretch the tissue surrounding the heart and lungs. We relax the diaphragm and allow it to move freely. We observe our breath, and practice s o f t e n i n g ourselves in the face of difficulty. We release tension from the areas where it accu-mulates: the jaw, the fore-head, the belly.

When we open our hearts, some of the barri-ers between o u r s e l v e s and others dissolve. I feel like I am those parents who brought their kids to school, expecting to see them at the end of the day. I am guessing most parents and grandparents, most people, feel this in the pits of our bellies, that we are that community,

where this tragedy occurred. What do we do with this grief? I find myself doing “normal things” like cooking, tidy-ing the house, prac-ticing yoga, inter-spersed with bouts of sobbing. I have had to be careful how much media I take in.

One of my teach-ers tells a story about a murder-ous, thieving man who was stalk-ing the Buddha in a forest. The Buddha appeared to be walking at an extremely slow

p a c e , a n d the villain was confi-dent that he’d be able to overtake him. But no matter how fast he walked, and then ran, he could never catch up with the Awakened One, who still seemed to be proceeding at a snail’s pace. At last, in utter frustration, the murderer screamed out, “STOP!”

At which point the Buddha turned around, and calmly

and forcefully replied, “YOU are the one who must stop. You must stop killing, lying, harm-ing. You must train your mind to stop generating harmful thoughts which become harmful speech and harmful actions.” The legend says

that at that moment, the would-be assailant fell at the feet at the

Buddha, weeping. He became one of the Buddha’s most dedicated disciples, and went on to help many others attain liberation.

My deepest prayer is that we, as a society, can attain this kind of redemption. Can we take a hard look at our own tenden-cies for violence? Can we look at the ways we violate the sanctity of life with our endless wars, cruel and unusual prisons, and insane lack of gun regu-

lation? Can we stand up for the kind of world we want to live in, where children know they are safe, whether they live in rural New England or the inner city?

At home in Vermont, looking at the fire in our woodstove, and watching the flames transform oak to ash, I pray for my own grief to be transformed into compassion and right action. The most recent polls suggest that the tide may finally be turning on gun control. May each of us have the courage to take some steps towards healing our world.

Joanna Colwell is the director of Otter Creek Yoga in Middlebury’s Marble Works District. She lives in East Middlebury with her husband, daughter, father-in-law, and two cats. Joanna would like to encour-age readers to take action for saner gun laws in the United States.

I chose to hold class this way because

silence seemed like the only possible response to this unspeakable horror. When we practice yoga, we open our hearts.

Ways of Seeingby Joanna Colwell

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MILTON — Leaders in Vermont’s Farm to School efforts visited Milton Middle School cafeteria last week to announce a major new commitment of federal, state, and private fund-ing that will help Farm to School programs expand in every county in Vermont.

Complementary grant programs from the USDA, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, the Vermont C o m m u n i t y Foundation, and the Vermont Department of Health will total over half a million dollars for this effort.

The funding for farmers and producers, public schools, nonprof-its, and businesses statewide will: 1) integrate local food into Vermont cafete-rias, classrooms, and communities; 2) link farmers with institutional buyers to expand year-round use of Vermont products; 3) improve process-ing and distribution hubs to meet the increasing demand for locally-grown products; and 4) expand successful programs to under-served parts of Vermont.

“Focusing on our schools offers an enormous opportunity to test a range of innovative programs that help reach food-insecure Vermonters,” said Vermont Community Foundation President & CEO Stuart Comstock-Gay. “What we learn here will lay the groundwork for establishing a food system that opens new markets to farmers and can expand to fit the needs of other institutions that want to purchase Vermont-grown products year-round.”

Megan Camp represented VT FEED (Food Education Every Day), one of the funding recipi-ents. She explained the support will help Vermont schools meet the 3 “C’s” of comprehensive Farm to School programs: local food in cafeterias, food education in classrooms, and connections with the community.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture announced $75,000 in funding for its 2013 Farm to School grantees and $40,000 in funding for its 2012 Vermont Local Food Market Development Grants. While the first category goes directly to schools, the market grants are intended to increase Vermont producers’ access to institutional markets and the quantity of local food available in Vermont institutions. This funding complements the $100,000 USDA federal grant received by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture for Vermont food hubs, which was recently announced by Vermont’s congressional delegation.

“Since 2006, the Agency of Agriculture has worked with partners across Vermont to create a nationally renowned Farm to School program. Our model has been replicated by other states, and on the federal level,” said Chuck Ross, Secretary of the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. “Thanks to these expanded resources, the Farm to School program in Vermont will continue to grow, creating new

and important opportunities for local farmers, and providing more students with nutritious, whole-some foods.”

Steve Marinelli, Food Service Director for the Milton Town School District, explained how the new grant will help provide training to teachers and food

service work-ers in preparing local food and adapting food-based lessons in the classroom. Kate Stockman of Green Heron Farm said the grant would help her connect with institutional purchasers in Vermont so more of her prod-ucts reach local families.

The Vermont Department of Health is fund-ing Farm to School through an $80,000 grant program aimed at improv-ing nutrition, healthy lifestyle, and food educa-tion in Vermont schools.

The Vermont Community Foundation awarded over $284,000 in grants as part of the launch of its new Food and Farm Initiative, which was established to support farmers and others who want to help families put nutritious, local food on the table regardless of where they live, what

they earn, or how much they cook. Other foundations and Community Foundation fundholders, includ-ing Lyman Orton, partnered with the foundation in awarding the grants. Through research, grants, and investments — and in partner-ship with funders and providers across the state — the Vermont Community Foundation will help Vermont develop a nation-ally recognized food system that sustains local farmers and creates healthy communities for all Vermonters.

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“What we learn here will lay the groundwork for establishing a food system that opens new markets to farmers and can expand to fit the needs of other institutions that want to purchase Vermont-grown products year-round.”

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28 “Gingerbread Comes Alive” video workshop in Middlebury. Friday, Dec.

28, 9 a.m.‑3:30 p.m., Ilsley Library commu‑nity room. Kids ages 12 and up are invited to learn how to use stop‑motion animation to bring life to the gingerbread houses from the gingerbread contest at the Vermont Folklife Center. Space is limited, pre‑registration is required: sarah.lawton@ilsleypub‑liclibrary.org or 388‑4369. Free.

Senior luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 28, 11:30 a.m.‑1:30 p.m., Rosie’s Restaurant. CVAA and Rosie’s partner to bring area seniors a monthly luncheon. Beef stew, biscuit, coleslaw and coconut pudding with whipped cream. Suggested donation $5. Reservations required: 1‑800‑642‑5119.

Public skating in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 28, 12:15‑1:45 p.m., Memorial Sports Center.

Stick and puck hockey in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 28, 2‑3:30 p.m., Memorial Sports Center.

Recovery acoustic jam in Bristol. Friday, Dec. 28, 6:30‑8:30 p.m., Recycled Reading of Vermont, 25A Main St. All are invited to recover from the holidays with an acoustic jam. All instruments, even drums, and all playing styles are welcome. Info: 453‑5982.

SATURDAYDec29 Decorating New Year’s

hats in Bristol. Saturday, Dec. 29, 11 a.m.‑1 p.m.,

Little Baby Cakes Boutique, 7 Main St. Free. For children ages 1‑6, with an adult. Info: 349‑0646.

Public skating in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 29, 2:15‑3:45 p.m., Memorial Sports Center.

Alumni hockey games in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 29, 6‑9:45 p.m., Memorial Sports Center. Friends of Middlebury Hockey holds its 13th annual Middlebury Tigers Alumni Hockey Games. Game 1, 6 p.m., for older alums. Game 2, 8 p.m., for younger alums. Players can choose which game to play in. Spectators free. Players pay $25, to be collected at the event; make checks payable to Friends of Middlebury Hockey. Info: [email protected] or 388‑3444.

King Pede party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Dec. 29, 6:30‑8:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center and Town Hall. Sandwich supper followed by an evening of fun and card games. Come planning to play King Pede or bring your own favorite card game.

SUNDAYDec30 Last‑Sunday‑of‑the‑month breakfast

in Vergennes. Sunday, Dec. 30, 7:30‑10 a.m., Dorchester Lodge, School Street. The

Dorchester Lodge F&AM will serve all‑you‑can‑eat pancakes, French toast, eggs, and all the fixings, plus juice and coffee.

Public skating in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 30, 2‑3:30 p.m., Memorial Sports Center.

MONDAYDec31 Stick and puck hockey in Middlebury.

Monday, Dec. 31, 10:30‑11:45 a.m., Memorial Sports Center.

Public skating in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 31, noon‑1:30 p.m., Memorial Sports Center.

Best Night celebration in Bristol. Monday, Dec. 31, 4‑10 p.m., downtown Bristol. Community New Year’s Eve celebration. Music, dance, hat making and face painting for the kids. Events at Holley Hall, the WalkOver Gallery and the First Baptist Church of Bristol. Buttons $8 in advance, $10 at the door. Info: 453‑4613.

New Year’s Eve celebration in Vergennes. Monday, Dec. 31, 6 p.m.‑12:30 a.m., Vergennes American Legion. Cocktail hour at 6 p.m. Prime rib dinner and shrimp cocktail at 7. Dance music continues throughout the evening. Tickets $20 per person on sale at the Post until Dec. 25.

New Year’s Eve dinner party in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 31, 6:30‑10:30 p.m., Middlebury Inn. Reception and dinner theater, $75 per person. To benefit the Town Hall Theater.

Fireworks in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 31, 7:30‑8 p.m., old American Legion, Creek Road. Annual New Year’s Eve fireworks display, followed by free public skating at the Memorial Sports Center. Made possible by the American Legion.

Free public skating in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 31, 8‑9:30 p.m., Memorial Sports Center. Annual New Year’s Eve free event, sponsored by the Middlebury Rec Department.

New Year’s Eve party in Middlebury Monday, Dec. 31, 8 p.m.‑1 a.m., Town Hall Theater. Dance in the New Year with popular local band The Horse

Traders, with vocalist Deb Brisson and Rick Marshall, Jon Rooney,

Pete Ryan and John Wallace. Bar

and food available. Tickets $15, available at the THT box office, 382‑9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

TUESDAYJan1 Public skating in Middlebury. Tuesday,

Jan. 1, 2‑3:30 p.m., Memorial Sports Center.

WEDNESDAYJan2 “What We Learn About When We

Learn About History” presentation in Middlebury. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 7‑9 p.m.,

Ilsley Library. Author, historian and professor Woden Teachout discusses why history matters. A Vermont Humanities Council First Wednesday event. Info: 388‑4095.

THURSDAYJan

3 Senior luncheon in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 3, 11 a.m.‑1 p.m.,

Middlebury VFW. CVAA’s monthly First Friday luncheon, with chef Doug Jones on hand to card roast beef au jus, with twice‑baked potato, mesclun salad, roll and chocolate pie. Bring your own place setting. Suggested donation $4. Reservations required by Jan. 1: 1‑800‑642‑5119. Free transpor‑tation by ACTR: 388‑1946.

Twist O’ Wool Spinning Guild meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 3, 6‑8 p.m., American Legion. Potluck dinner at 6 p.m. to celebrate “Rock Day,” and a general meeting and spin‑in at 7, with a sharing of “best and worst” of last year. Info: 453‑5960.

FRIDAYJan4 Beat Back the Blues fundraiser in

Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 4, 5:30‑9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern. The Bud Leeds

Ensemble, a seven‑piece jazz band, will play at this benefit for Porter Hospital. Tickets, $25, include free hors d’oeuvres, complimentary beverage, music and dancing. Tickets available in advance or at the door.

Middlebury Community Players brainstorming session in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 4, 6:30‑8 p.m., Town Hall Theater. MCP is holding a “meeting of the minds” to plan the 2013‑2014 season. Individuals interested in being part of the team, from stage managers to costumers to directors, are welcome to join the conversation. RSVP to info@middlebury‑communityplayers.org.

SATURDAYJan5 GMC Young Adventurers’ Club

Outdoor Animal Winter Picnic in Waltham. Saturday, Jan. 5, 9‑11 a.m.,

Meeting place TBA. Andrea Kane leads this Green Mountain Club event for kids on Buck Mountain. Info: 877‑6597 or [email protected].

GMC snowshoe to Skylight Pond in Ripton. Saturday, Jan. 5, 10 a.m.‑noon, Meeting time and place TBA. Moderate, 7 miles round trip, 1,650‑foot elevation change. Contact leader Nancy Morgan for meeting time and place: 388‑9868.

“125 Years of Toy Train Fun” presentation in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 5,noon‑1 p.m., Sheldon Museum. Paul Bortz and John Gaworecki of the Midd‑Vermont Train Club give a hands‑on presentation about the model trains now running at the Sheldon. Bring a lunch; dessert and bever‑age provided. Free to museum members, $2 for nonmembers. Info: 388‑2117.

Metropolitan Opera “Live in HD” in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 5, noon‑5 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Met Opera presents the monumental opera “Les Troyens,” by Hector Berlioz. Reserved tickets $24/$10 students, available at the THT box office, 382‑9222 or www.townhalltheater.org, or at the door.

“Downton Abbey” Season 3 release party and afternoon tea in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 5, 2‑5 p.m., Ilsley Library. Celebrate the premier of the third season of this popular TV show. Enjoy afternoon tea and learn about the fashion of the period with Middlebury College theater professor and costume designer Jule Emerson. A screening of the Season 2 finale will follow.

“The Real McCoy” one‑man circus in Vergennes. Saturday, Jan. 5, 7‑9 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Brent McCoy presents his hilarious all‑ages show, combining breathtaking circus stunts with lightning‑fast wit for a rollicking comic experience. Tickets $10 adults, $5 students, available at the VOH, www.vergennesoperahouse.org, or Classic Stitching in Vergennes.

Two Shoes Off in concert in Ripton. Saturday, Jan. 5, 7:30‑10:30 p.m., Ripton Community House, Route 125. The Ripton Community Coffee House welcomes Two Shoes Off, performing a blend of old‑time jamming, Celtic melodies, American song styles and world‑beat rhythms. One‑hour open‑mike set before the show; call ahead to reserve a slot. Admission $9 adults, $6 seniors and teens, $3 chil‑dren. Refreshments available. Info: 388‑9782.

SUNDAYJan6 Photography exhibit opening recep‑

tion in Middlebury. Sunday, Jan. 6, 2‑5 p.m., Town Hall Theater, Jackson Gallery. Celebrating the opening of “My 50‑Year Love Affair with Photography,” works by Douglas Kirkland. At 4 p.m., Kirkland will give an illustrated talk about his iconic portraits, including those of Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe. The reception is free; admission to the talk is $15. Tickets are available at the THT box office, 382‑9222 or www.townhalltheater.org. Exhibit runs through February. “Fractured Fairy Tales” auditions in Vergennes. Sunday, Jan. 6, 4‑6 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Not your grandmother’s fairy tales! A witty, fun and hilarious selection of some favorite stories, with a twist.

All ages are invited to try out for this show, on stage in late March and early April. Auditions continue Jan. 7.

MONDAYJan7 Early Literacy Story Time in

Middlebury. Monday, Jan. 7, 10:30‑11:15 a.m., Ilsley Library. Join children’s librarian

Sarah Lawton for stories, rhymes and songs that help young children develop early literacy skills. Drop in. Every Thursday(Jan. 21) through Feb. 14.

“Fractured Fairy Tales” auditions in Vergennes. Monday, Jan. 7, 4‑6 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. Not your grandmother’s fairy tales! A witty, fun and hilarious selection of some favorite stories, with a twist. All ages are invited to try out for this show, on stage in late March and early April.

TUESDAYJan8 Aurora Middle School informational

meeting. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 5:30‑7:30 p.m., Middlebury Community House. A

meeting for prospective parents and students. Light refreshments will be served.

Spaghetti dinner in Vergennes. Tuesday, Jan. 8, 5:30‑7:30 p.m., VUHS cafeteria. Presented by the Vergennes Union High School Student Council. Enjoy spaghetti, salad and cookies and then cheer on the JV and varsity basketball games against Mount Abe. Cost $5 per person, $12 per family.

WEDNESDAYJan9 GED testing in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 8:45‑9:45 a.m., Vermont Adult Learning, 282 Boardman St.

Pre‑registration required. Call 388‑4392 for info and to register.

Toddler TaeKwon Do in Middlebury. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 10:15‑11:30 a.m., Ilsley Library. Instructor Kellie Thomas leads a playful introduction to an ancient martial art. Toddlers and preschoolers will learn basic movements to help improve their balance, focus and coordination. Drop in. Info: 388‑4097. Wednesdays through Feb. 13.

Youth media lab in Middlebury. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 3:30‑4:30 p.m., Ilsley Library. Kids in grades 3 and up are invited to join library and MCTV staff to make movies and learn about technology using MCTV’s state‑of‑the‑art media stations. Every Wednesday. Space is limited; pre‑register at the children’s desk, by calling 388‑4097, or by emailing [email protected].

Wednesday Night Tea and Talk Series in Bristol. Wednesday, Jan. 9, 7‑8:30 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School library. Chris Nezin presents “Let’s Talk Turkey,” a slideshow, discussion and Q&A about Turkish culture. Info: 453‑2333, ext. 1100, or [email protected].

THURSDAYJan10 Early Literacy Story Time in

Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 10, 10:30‑11:15 a.m., Ilsley Library. Join chil‑

dren’s librarian Sarah Lawton for stories, rhymes and songs that help young children develop early literacy skills. Drop in. Every Thursday( Jan. 21) through Feb. 14.

“Bats in Your Belfry?” presentation in New Haven. Thursday, Jan. 10, 7‑9 p.m., New Haven Town Offices. Lazorchak, land acquisition coordinator for Vermont Fish and Wildlife, discusses Vermont’s bats. Part of the New Haven Conservation Commission’s Armchair Naturalist Series.

“The Threepenny Opera” auditions at Middlebury College. Thursday, Jan. 10, 7‑9 p.m., Axinn 229. Auditions for Middlebury Community Players’ April production of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s “The Threepenny Opera.” Auditions continue Jan. 12, with callbacks Jan. 13. Info: www.middleburycom‑munityplayers.org or 373‑2556.

Otter Creek Audubon lecture in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 10, 7‑9 p.m., Ilsley Library. Warren King presents “From Christmas to Easter: Seabirds of the Pacific Islands,” part of Otter Creek Audubon’s 2013 Cabin Fever Lecture Series.

Relay For Life volunteer meeting at Middlebury College. Thursday, Jan. 10, 7:30‑9 p.m., Hillcrest 103. Volunteers are needed for the 2013 Relay For Life at Middlebury College on April 26. All types of support, from organizing to providing refreshments, is needed for this American Cancer Society event. Info: 802‑872‑6307, [email protected] or www.RelayForLife.org/middleburycollege.

FRIDAYJan11 Cyrus Chestnut Trio in concert at

Middlebury College. Friday, Jan. 11, 11:30 a.m.‑1:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for

LEARN TO DANCE SERIES – BALLROOM, NIGHTCLUB, AND LATIN. Sunday afternoons, January 6, 13, 20 and 27. 1:30 – 2:30 pm West Coast Swing. Beginning level, no experience required. Classes held at the Cornwall Town Hall on Rte 30. $40 for 4 week series, of a one hour lesson each week. For information: www.champlainvalleydance.com or call John at 802-388-7500. Please bring clean, non marking shoes to wear on the dance floor.

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Many small business owners do the same thing when it comes to managing their cash flow. When they don’t make regular checks and forecasts, or ignore troubling trends, their businesses will break down because they don’t have the resources to pay their bills. And there is never a “good” time for that to happen.

That’s why good cash flow management is one of the cardinal rules of small business ownership. And it’s so simple—make sure more cash enters the business than goes out, and that there’s always enough on hand to meet obligations like expenses, payroll, and taxes on time.

Several strategies are available to influence both sides of the cash flow equation. To boost inflows, consider asking customers for all or a substantial portion of their payment up-front, or give discounts to those who pay promptly.

Even with their merchant fees, credit cards are a great way to bring in cash immediately when the product or service is purchases. It may also be feasible to offer pre-paid gift cards, a business-specific cousin of bank debit cards: the customer gives you the money first, then gradually makes purchases until the card is used up or “recharged” with additional cash. Many small businesses offer this service using paper and/or computer records; no plastic necessary!

As for outflows, an operating budget is an ideal way to plan and track specific dates for recurring expenses, and avoid overspending on certain categories unless absolutely necessary. That way, you’re never surprised when a bill arrives.

Other tactics for keeping cash in the business include maintaining low inventories, leasing certain kinds of equipment instead of buying it outright, recycling and reusing supplies where possible, and evaluating your processes and procedures to make sure they’re as efficient and cost-effective as possible. If you have employees, their front-line perspective is a great source of insights and ideas for doing things better.

Perhaps the most important cash management tools are awareness and planning. Regularly monitoring your small business’s sources and uses of cash will enable you to spot trends to capitalize on, and problems that can be avoided. Identifying these patterns will also help you project anticipated revenues and expenses three, six, and 12 months in advance. With this information, you’ll know when inflows and outflows are more likely to go out of balance, and prepare accordingly.

Cash flow is just one of the many critical financial issues small business owners must manage in order to achieve success. For help, many turn to SCORE, a nonprofit organization of more than 13,000 volunteer counselors who provide free, confidential advice and guidance, plus training, information resources, and more. For more information, visit www.score.org.

This column is brought to you by the local SCORE chapter and the Addison Independent. For more information visit champlainvalley.score.org or addisonindependent.com

The early showTEN ROD ROAD, playing a mix of rock and Americana tunes,

gives a special dinnertime performance at Two Brothers Tav‑ern on Saturday, Jan. 5, at 7 p.m.


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the Arts. Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut’s hard‑swing‑ing, soulful music blends contemporary jazz, tradi‑tional jazz and gospel, with a taste of Latin and samba. Tickets $25/20/6, available at www.middle‑bury.edu or 443‑3186.

L IVEMUSICThe Blame in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 31, 10

p.m.‑1 a.m., Two Brothers Tavern. Clint Bierman and The Necessary Means in

Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 4, 10 p.m.‑midnight, Two Brothers Tavern.

Ten Rod Road in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 5, 7‑9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

ONGOINGEVENTSBy category: Farmers’ Markets, Sports, Clubs &

Organizations, Government & Politics, Bingo, Fund‑Raising Sales, Dance, Music, Arts & Education, Health & Parenting, Meals, Art Exhibits & Museums, Library Programs.

MEALSFree Community Lunch in Middlebury. Mondays at

St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the green. Tuesdays‑Thursdays at the Charter House, 27 North Pleasant St. (just north of the Middlebury Inn). 11:30 a.m.‑12:15 p.m. Eat in or take out. Supported by area churches. Info: 989‑7272.

Free Community Supper in Middlebury. Fridays, 5‑6:15 p.m. Congregational Church Fellowship Hall. Meals provided by over 35 different groups. Info: 388‑7634 or 388‑7613.

CVAA Senior Meals:

Bridport: Grange Hall Community Room. Noon meal on Monday and

Wednesday. Evening meals on second and fourth Wednesdays

at 5 p.m. Reservations: Michelle Eastman at 1‑800‑642‑5119

x615. Transportation by ACTR: 388‑1946.

Bristol: American Legion. Noon meal on

Wednesday. Barb Prime, 1‑800‑642‑5119, ext.

603. Free trans‑portation: ACTR, 388‑1946.Middlebury: Russ Sholes Senior Center. Noon meal on Tuesday and Friday, except for the first Friday when a special noon meal is served at the VFW on Exchange

Street. Tracy C o r b e t t ,

1‑800‑642‑5119 Ext. 634. Free transportation: ACTR, 388‑1946.

Vergennes: Vergennes Senior Center. Noon meal on Tuesday and Thursday. Michelle Eastman at 1‑800‑642‑5119, ext. 615. Free transportation: ACTR, 388‑1946.

Bristol Libanus Lodge, F&AM Breakfast. Second Sunday, 7:30‑10:30 a.m. Eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, French toast, home fries, juice, coffee and tea. Buffet. $6. Benefits local charities.

Middlebury Congregational Church Community Supper. Friday, 5‑6:15 p.m. Free. 388‑7634.

Starksboro senior luncheon. Fourth Thursday, 11:30 a.m., Starksboro First Baptist Church. 453‑4476.

Vergennes Masonic Lodge Breakfast. Last Sunday, 7:30‑10 a.m. Pancakes, French toast, home fries, eggs, bacon, sausage and beverage. All you can eat. Adults $6; children $3. Benefits the lodge’s charitable donations.

VFW Fish Fry in Middlebury. Third Friday, 4‑6 p.m., Men’s Auxiliary, VFW Post 7823, Exchange Street. $9 per person. Proceeds to benefit the post’s char‑itable donations.

VFW Fish Fry in Vergennes. Second Friday, 5‑7 p.m., Sons of the American Legion, VFW Post 14, Armory Lane. $10 per person. Haddock, fries, coleslaw and cash bar.

ART EXHIBITS & MUSEUMS51 Main. Main Street, Middlebury. 388‑8209 or www.

go51main.com. On exhibit from June 10: “Night Visions.”

Art on Main. 25 Main St., Bristol. Gallery open 10 a.m.‑6 p.m. Monday‑Saturday, and noon‑4 p.m. on Sundays. 453‑4032, [email protected] or www.artonmain.net.

Basin Harbor Club. Ferrisburgh. 475‑2311 or www.basinharbor.com.

BigTown Gallery, 99 North Main St., Rochester. 767‑9670

Bixby Memorial Library, Vergennes. 877‑2211. Bobcat Café. 5 Main St., Bristol. 453‑3311.Brandon Artists’ Guild. 7 Center St., Brandon. Gallery

open 10 a.m.‑5 p.m. daily. Holiday show on exhibit Nov. 2‑Jan. 15: “Spirit of the Season.”

Brandon Free Public Library, Brandon. 247‑8230 or www.brandonpubliclibrary.org.

Brandon Museum and Visitor Center at the Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace. 4 Grove St., at the corner of routes 7 and 73 West. www.brandon.org or 247‑6401. Open daily 11 a.m.‑4 p.m. through mid‑October.

Brandon Music Café, 62 Country Club Road, Brandon. www.brandon‑music.net or (802) 465‑4071. On exhibit from November 2012: the work of Carolyn Shattuck.

Bristol Bakery. Main St., Bristol. 453‑3280.Carol’s Hungry Mind Café. Merchants Row,

Middlebury, 388‑0101.Chimney Point Vermont State Historic Site, 7305

Vermont Route 125, Addison. 759‑2412.Creative Space Gallery. 235 Main St., Vergennes.

877‑3850 or www.creativespacegallery.org.Edgewater Gallery. 1 Mill St., Middlebury. www.edge‑

watergallery‑vt.com. December featured artist of the month: Vcevy Strekalovsky. On exhibit Nov. 5‑Jan. 2: Third annual Small Works Show.

Gallery @ 85 North Street. 85 North St., Bristol. 453‑ 5813 or 349‑7551.

Gallery in‑the‑Field. 685 Arnold District Road, Brandon. 247‑0145 or www.galleryinthefield.com.

Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History. 1 Park St., Middlebury. Museum hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Research Center hours: Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 1‑5 p.m.; Thursdays, 1‑8 p.m. Museum admission: Adults $5; seniors $4.50; children 6‑18 $3; families $12; members and children under 6 free. Research Center admission: $5. Information: 388‑2117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org. On exhibit June 29, 2012, through Jan. 15, 2013: “George and Lorette: A Civil War Love Story.”

Ilsley Public Library. 75 Main St., Middlebury, 388‑4095. Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.‑6 p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.‑8 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.‑4 p.m. On exhibit Nov. 3‑30: “Let’s Face It” group show.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes, 475‑2022 or www.lcmm.org.

Lawrence Memorial Library. 40 North St., Bristol. 453‑2366.

Lincoln Historical Society Museum. 88 Quaker St. Second and fourth Sunday of every month, 1‑5 p.m. Free.

Lincoln Library. 222 W. River Road, Lincoln, 453‑2665. Monday, 2‑6 p.m.; Wednesday, 10 a.m.‑6 p.m. (additional evening hours on a volun‑teer basis); Friday, 10 a.m.‑2 p.m.; Saturday, 10 a.m.‑4 p.m. On display in December: “Christmas Then and Now.” December exhibit: “Swedish Weave Afghans” by Betty Patterson.

Lincoln Peak Vineyard. 142 River Road, New Haven, 388‑7368, www.lincolnpeakvineyard.com.

Liza Myers Gallery. 22 Center St., Brandon, 247‑5229 or lizamyers.com. 10 a.m.‑5 p.m. daily. Featuring the work of Warren Kimble, Liza Myers and other selected artists.

The M Gallery. 3 Mill St., Middlebury. On exhibit Nov. 16‑Dec. 2: “Interwoven: Images of Rehwa.”

Middlebury College Johnson Memorial Building. 443‑6433 or www.middlebury.edu/arts. Student exhibit Nov. 27‑Dec. 6: “The Autumn Campus”; Nov. 28‑Dec. 6: “Silkscreen Prints.”

Middlebury College Museum of Art. 72 Porter Field/Route 30 South. 443‑5007 or http://go/museum. On exhibit Sept. 13‑Dec. 9: “China Modern: Designing 20th Century Popular Culture”; Oct. 30‑Dec. 9: “Oliphant: Editorial Cartoons and the American Presidency, 1968‑2007.”

The National Museum of the Morgan Horse. 34 Main St., Middlebury. 388‑1639. On exhibit: Photos, prints and tack of the Government Morgan, a family of Morgan horses, originally bred for cavalry purposes, at the UVM Morgan Horse Farm starting in 1907.

Norton’s Gallery. Route 73, Shoreham. 948‑2552 or www.nortonsgallery.com. Studio/gallery of Norton Latourelle’s whimsical woodcarvings. Open most days and by appointment.

PhotoPlace Gallery. 3 Park St., Middlebury. Tuesday‑Friday, 11 a.m.‑4 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.‑3 p.m. Info: 989‑2359 or www.vtphotowork‑place.com.

Rokeby Museum. Route 7, Ferrisburgh. 877‑3406. Starksboro Public Library. Monday, 10 a.m.‑6 p.m.;

Thursday, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m.; Saturday, 9 a.m.‑1 p.m. 453‑3732.

Starry Night Café. 5371 Route 7 in Ferrisburgh. Wednesday‑Sunday.

Stone Leaf Tea House. Marble Works, Middlebury. Exhibit: “Foreign Language Featurel: Collaborative Conceptual Works by Yinglei Zhang and Rachel Baird.”

Studio V. 179 Main St., Vergennes, above Addison Outfitters. Info: 877‑6524 or www.bethanyfarrell.com.

Stratford House Pottery gallery and studio, 294 Route 22A, Orwell. Weekdays 10 a.m.–5 p.m., call propri‑etor Stacey Stanhope at 948‑2105 to ensure it is open the day you wish to visit.

Town Hall Theater Jackson Gallery, Merchant’s Row, Middlebury. Monday‑Saturday, noon to 5 p.m. 382‑9222. On exhibit January and February 2013: “My 50‑Year Love Affair with Photography,” featur‑ing iconic portraits by Douglas Kirkland.

Vermont Folklife Center. 88 Main St., Middlebury. Gallery and shop hours Tuesday‑Saturday, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m. Admission by donation. 388‑4964. On exhibit Sept. 14‑Dec. 22: “Artists of the Forest”; Sept. 28‑Dec. 22: “Imagines de mi Alma/Images from My Soul.”

Vermont Studio Furniture Gallery. 718 Old Hollow Road, North Ferrisburgh. Gallery hours, Saturday, 10 a.m.‑2 p.m.

WalkOver Gallery. 15 Main St., Bristol. Gallery hours are Monday‑Friday, 9 a.m.‑4 p.m. 453‑3188.

ZoneThree Gallery. 152 Maple St., third floor, Middlebury. Info: 1‑800‑249‑3562 or www.zone‑threegallery.com.

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Final Days!

December 18, 2012 r

Dear Customers;

In 1980, my parents started tire repairs while still on the family farm. They worked with the local farms with tractor tire service and repairs. Over the last 32 years I’ve watched the company take form and evolve to the business that it is today.

We take pride in our service to our community. We are proud of the services that we render to all of our customers.

Whether we are making service calls to the farms or taking care of customers’ vehicles here at our garage, we enjoy helping our customers.

We appreciate that with everything that has happened in the last few years, we still had you, our customers, standing by our side. In a small community such as ours, we are so fortunate that the neighborly feelings still hold true – that we can be there in good and bad times as you have for us.

We’d like to wish each and every one of you a very Merry Christmas and a healthy and Happy New Year. Best wishes to you and all your families. We look forward to helping you out with your tire needs in the future.

Sincerely,

NEW HAVEN TIRE CENTER, INC.

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New Year’s EveRemember the year 2012 with a great finish.

The Inn’s dining rooms will be decked out for yourcelebration and special memories of the past year.

Dinner Service 5pm-9pm

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Cookie twinsTWINS MICHAEL, RIGHT, and Christopher Evans Nash of Middlebury decorate cookies at the Ilsley Library. They were among dozens of kids who participated in the holiday workshop last Wednesday

afternoon.Independent photo/Trent Campbell

ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State police on Dec. 17 cited Jason A. Gagnon, 27, of Bomoseen, for domestic assault and other charges on Monday after he allegedly tried to force his way into a Shoreham apartment and then allegedly vandalized a car belonging to one of the female occupants who had tried to defend herself with a pistol.

Police said they were called to the Route 22A apartment at around 12:30 a.m. amid reports of a family fight. Police allege that Gagnon had tried to force his way into the apartment, where two women were located, by punching and kicking the door. One of the two women had secured a .22-calber pistol inside the residence because she feared for her safety, police said.

Gagnon was ultimately able to get the gun from the woman and then went outside and punched and broke the side-view mirror of the woman’s vehicle, according to police.

Gagnon then got into his truck, put it in four-wheel drive and

rammed the victim’s vehicle in an attempt to push it into the apart-ment building, according to police.

In addition to the domestic assault charge, Gagnon must also answer to citations for viola-tion of an abuse prevention order (two counts) and unlaw-ful mischief, according to police.

On Dec. 18, police cited Daniel Raymond, 26, of Middlebury, for possession of marijuana, after stop-ping the vehicle in which he was traveling on Upper Plains Road in Salisbury. Raymond was processed at the New Haven VSP barracks and subsequently released with a citation to appear at the Addison County Courthouse on Feb. 11.

Police are investigating a reported Dec. 19 burglary at a residence on Big Hollow Road in Starksboro. The victim reported that his residence was entered sometime during the day and the

culprit stole a Sharp 26-inch LCD TV. Nothing else was reported stolen from the residence.

Also under investigation are two separate burglaries that occurred in Bristol, one on Dec. 20, the other on Dec. 21. On Dec. 20, thieves

broke through the door of an outbuilding to get inside a home off Route 116 and steal jewelry and clothing. It is estimated that the

burglary occurred between 3:30 p.m. and 11 p.m. Then on Dec. 21, a Fred Johnson Road resident reported the theft of an undis-closed amount of jewelry, a box of Christmas ornaments and some coins.

Meanwhile, a Morgan Horse Farm Road resident reported on Dec. 20 that someone had broken into her Weybridge home during the past few months and stole some antique silver ladles, napkin rings and spoons. Some of the utensils were etched with an ornate “S.”

On Dec. 21, police cited John C. Lawrence, 44, of Bristol, for possession of marijuana, follow-ing a stop on Main Street in New Haven. While speaking to Lawrence, troopers detected an odor of marijuana emitting from the vehicle. Police said they searched the vehicle and seized an unspecified amount of mari-juana. Lawrence was released on a citation and is scheduled to appear in Addison District Court on February 25, 2013.

State police cited Derick J. Smits, 23, of Bridport, for driving under the influence, following a stop for speeding on Route 22A in

Shoreham.Authorities are seeking help in

finding out who sideswiped and damaged two mailboxes on Route 30 in Cornwall on Dec. 23.

Kaleb Gorton, 20, of Bristol, faces charges of operating with a criminally suspended license, being in violation of conditions of release, and criminal possession of a malt beverage by a minor, following a stop on Austin Road in Bristol on Dec. 24.

State police are investigating a second report of vandalism to Comcast fiber optic cable that occurred sometime between Dec. 21 and Dec. 24 off Ruby Brace

Road in Starksboro. Police said someone used a shotgun or rifle to shoot and damage a fiber optic line located behind 175 Ruby Brace Road. Comcast reports that 600 homes were affected by the vandalism and the estimated repair cost for the first incident has been placed at $15,000. The latest vandalism damage is also being placed at $15,000. State police are currently looking into leads in the case.

Police cited Christine Jackson, 44, of Vergennes, for driving under the influence, following a stop on Pearson Road in New Haven on Dec. 24.

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OWN HALL HEATERT

Applicants for this full-time, year round position should have the ability to maintain and operate all theatrical systems (lighting, sound, projection), and have experience with set construction. Other responsibilities include: facilitate load-ins, runs, strikes and turnarounds; provide tech for meetings and receptions; create internship program in technical theater; maintain building by making repairs or hiring contractors. A janitorial service will clean the building, but this individual will make sure that the theater, studio and gallery are ready each day for public use. This historic theater will re-open in July, 2008, so the position will be filled as soon as possible. Limited benefits. Send cover letterand resume to: Douglas Anderson, Executive Director

Town Hall Theater PO Box 128

Middlebury VT 05753 or email materials to

[email protected]

Town HALL THEATERMiddlebury, Vermont

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Sun 1/6 The Jackson Gallery

DOUGLAS KIRKLAND My 50-Year Love Affair with Photography

Douglas Kirkland’s reputation soared with historic photo shoots of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor,

first published in Look magazine in the 1960’s, leading to a career of photographing glamorous stars that

continues to this day. A rare collection of his best work,

Fri 1/11 8pm $10

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Thurs-Sat 12/15 &16 8pm, 12/17 4pm & 8pm TOWN HALL

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TWO NEW YEAR’S EVE EVENTS from TOWN HALL THEATER

Metropolitan Opera “Live in HD” $24/$10 studentsLES TROYENS

Sat 1/5 12noon A rare opportunity to witness the Berlioz masterwork,

which unfolds in the aftermath of the Trojan War. With Deborah Voigt, Susan Graham, Marcello Giordani and

Dwayne Croft. A revival of the monumental 2003 production directed by Francesca Zambello.

from Judy Garland to Hugh Jackman, will be on display & available for purchase in the Jackson Gallery through January and February. Douglas Kirkland himself will be on hand for the Opening Reception, which will be followed by a talk in the theater in which he will show dozens of his

iconic portraits and discuss what it took to realize them.Opening Reception: Sunday, January 6 from 2-4 pm FREE

Lecture: Sunday, January 6 at 4 pm $15

has been digitally restored together with a crisp new audio mix. The set includes all of Hendrix’s hits: Foxey Lady, Hey Joe, Purple Haze, and

his legendary version of the Star-Spangled Banner. Also included is a documentary following the struggle to stage the festival and secure

Hendrix as its headline artist.

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MovieReviewBy Joan Ellis

A Late Quartet; Running time: 1:45; Rating: R

“A Late Quartet” begins and ends with its strongest scenes: a renowned string quartet play-ing Beethoven’s Opus 131 on a New York stage. Between the two performances, we have, on the strong side, learned something of how gifted musicians work and live during nine months on tour and during endless rehears-als. How they behave as ordinary mortals is less intriguing.

As the talented four morph into soap opera principals, we need to remember that since all lives center around the search for human connection, our uniquely individual wiring leads inevitably to drama. Here we see on the work side both the strong bonds and petty jealousies of four musicians spending endless hours together in travel, performance and rehearsal.

On the personal side, is it any surprise that uncommon people end up in common melodramas?

Peter (Christopher Walken), who helped a younger colleague form the quar-tet 25 years earlier, tells his peers that illness is forcing his retirement. Will the group replace him and continue? That central theme trig-gers the release of the emotions and behav-ior held in check by the group for so long. Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman) feels unappre-ciated and longs to play first violin though he knows he is the lesser talent to the first chair Daniel (Mark Ivanir).

It doesn’t help that Robert’s wife happens to be fellow violinist Jules (Catherine Keener). Because

Jules has become indifferent to him, Robert feels inadequate both as a musician and as a lover. Their daughter Alexandra (Imogen

Poots), a talented violinist herself, is taking lessons from Daniel who is deeply serious and precise about the way music should be played. That’s a lot of soapy drama.

What about the cast? Christopher Walken, play-ing against his quirky type, is the solid center of the quartet. In the face of a health challenge, he retains his love of the music and his loyalty to the group.

They turn to him in respect. Philip Seymour Hoffman, always inven-tive, makes Robert a lightning rod, the trouble spot that the others must trip over to get where they’re going. Mark Ivanir is convincing

as a dedicated musician whose eyes are opened to a new dimen-sion. Catherine Keener is fine in the difficult role of troubled wife and mother of a daughter who is wading into adult life.

Imogen Poots is a young British actress who creates Alexandra in such an original and imaginative way that she becomes the dramatic focus of the film. In equal parts rebellious daughter, seductive young woman, and serious musi-cian, she embodies all the conflicts of crossing to adulthood bearing the gifts of brains and talent. She is an actress who can, and surely will, inhabit any role.

This is one of those low-profile movies that far outshines most of the quite terrible ones that poured into theaters during this barren multiplex year. If it slipped by too quickly, you might — I hate even to suggest this — want to rent it.

Inside a string quartet, behold the human drama

Photographer of movie stars Kirkland at THT

MIDDLEBURY — “Me with Marilyn Monroe, lying there, ready to respond to my requests wear-ing nothing more than a silk sheet. It was just myself, the camera, and Marilyn.”

Photographer Douglas Kirkland captured photographs that day that are now iconic portraits of Monroe. He did the same for hundreds of Hollywood stars in a career span-ning over 50 years.

A dazzling array of his celeb-rity portraits will be featured in a special exhibit at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater in January. The photographer will be present at the opening reception, from 2-4 p.m. on Sunday, Jan. 6. It will be followed by a lecture presentation in which Kirkland tells the stories behind his most famous photographs.

“This is a once-in-a-lifetime chance to meet someone who rede-fined how we see our stars,” says THT executive director Douglas

Anderson. The gallery exhibit will feature Kirkland’s images of some of the biggest names in show busi-ness, including Judy Garland, Paul Newman, Audrey Hepburn, Sophia Loren, John Lennon and George Clooney.

Kirkland was born in Toronto, Canada. After an apprenticeship with Irving Penn he became a photogra-pher for Look magazine, and then, in 1971, for Life magazine, and to this day works as a freelance photogra-pher. He has connections with the Middlebury area. His daughter, Lisa O’Connor, teaches at Middlebury Union High School, and he was married to Marian Wright, who lives in Weybridge. His grandchildren are Chad, Ryan and Patrick Foley.

Tickets for the lecture presenta-tion are $15, and may be purchased at 382-9222, www.townhallthe-ater.org, at the THT Box office (Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m.) or at the door.


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FebruaryAfter the Jan. 31 deadline for filing

petition papers had passed, Vergennes residents found out in early February that they would have races for three seats on the city council come Town Meeting Day. Three multi-term in-cumbents — David Austin, Lowell Bertrand and Clara “Ziggy” Comeau — would face former city manager Renny Perry, appraiser and Vergennes Partnership President Bill Benton and political newcomer Nelson Sears.

Town Meeting Day would see a contest for a Bristol selectboard seat between incumbent Sharron Com-pagna and challenger Tim Heffernan.

The ongoing revitalization of Bris-tol’s industrial park got another big shot in the arm when the Bristol In-ternal Medicine practice announced it would move into the Bristol Works complex this summer. Another prac-

tice, Mountain Health Center, was also in serious negotiations to relocate into Bristol Works.

2006 Vergennes Union High School graduate Theo Spencer returned to his alma mater this month and shared his story about becoming an acrobat and studying circus arts in Argentina. Then he gave a demonstration that wowed his audience.

The longest-serving town clerk in Addison County, Jane Grace of Addi-son, started the ball rolling toward her retirement late in 2012 after 40 years on the job. By giving notice well in advance, the Addison selectboard was able to budget some extra money to train Grace’s replacement before she left.

In the Legislature, lawmakers were looking at ways to preserve the look and character of Vermont, and backed the Working Lands En-terprise Bill. It looks to bolster ag-riculture, forestry and value-added foods processing businesses by giv-

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spending increase in four years — a 2 percent hike. Otter Valley Union High School’s board OK’d a budget with a 2.3 percent spending increase to present to voters. In the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union the Mount Abe board put forth a budget with an overall increase in spending of 0.7 percent.

The board representing Middle-bury Union high and middle schools was asking for 3.18 percent more spending authority, while also float-ing a $1 million bond for a new MUMS roof.

While the Addison Central Super-visory Union schools were deep into budgeting they were missing a key player — business manager Paula VanMinos didn’t show up for work for two weeks, then she abruptly re-signed. School officials discovered that VanMinos, who they had hired a few months earlier, was involved in what acting Superintendent Gail Conley called “a complicated law-suit” over her previous job in a New York school district.

Trying to begin the healing pro-cess in a different arena were local, state and federal environmental offi-cials, who were meeting to figure out how to repair damage to the Middle-bury River in East Middlebury that occurred during Irene the previous Aug. 28 and as a result of the town’s use of earth movers in the riverbed after the tropical storm-induced flooding.

The five-town community was mourning the death of 19-year-old Levi Duclos of New Haven, who died during a hiking trip on the Em-ily Proctor Trail in Ripton. The 2010 Mount Abe graduate failed to return from an afternoon hiking trip and Vermont State Police, although no-tified that evening, did not begin a search or call for others to search un-til the next morning. The tragic event would have ripples throughout the rest of the year.

In Vergennes, Bixby Memorial Library readied a celebration of its 100th anniversary later in the year, but kept an eye on ensuring that the venerable institution remains viable for future generations. On tap were the automation of the library’s card catalog, the implementation of a pas-sel of computer hardware and soft-ware thanks to an e-Vermont grant, and the staging of computer literacy workshops.

Technology was on the minds of officials in Middlebury, too, where a group was planning to have pub-lic wi-fi available in downtown by summer. For its part, Middlebury College was finalizing its plans to install 34 photovoltaic solar power collectors on the open swath of col-lege land off Route 125 just west of Bicentennial Hall.

Over the mountains in Granville, FairPoint Communications an-nounced that it had made available broadband Internet to customers in the eastern Addison County town.

Eric Andrus, who runs a diver-sified farm in Ferrisburgh called

Boundbrook Farm, was working out the kinks in a new windmill that featured recycled 275-gallon drums spinning in a vertical wooden frame. He planned to use the power from the windmill in the spring to pump water into a five-acre rice paddy.

Three local women — Andrea Ward, Maria Graham and Kelly Hickey — traveled to Haiti this month to deliver 700 pairs of shoes collected in Addison County as part of the Soles4Souls program. They also took soccer balls, hair ribbons, nail polish, sidewalk chalk and cloth-ing.

Ripton resident Bill McKibben had a right to crow in January when President Obama put the brakes on the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline that would have carried oil from Canada to Texas. The environmen-tal activist and Middlebury College Scholar was a key figure rallying op-position to the pipeline. But instead of patting himself on the back, McK-ibben continued to stage rallies and protests to ensure the project was truly mothballed.

At its annual meeting, the Addi-son County Firefighters Association bestowed on Kevin Charbonneau of the Vergennes Fire Department the organization’s Chief Fred Jackman Firefighter of the Year award, and gave Ferrisburgh Deputy Chief Jon Soter the Francis Stokey Chief of the Year award.

The Town Meeting Day election was shaping up to be quite a contest in Middlebury, as six candidates filed papers to run for three spots on the selectboard.

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The Addison Northeast Superviso-ry Union, anticipating the retirement of Superintendent Evelyn Howard at the end of June, whittled its super-intendent search down to three can-didates.

The Addison Central Supervisory Union hired Laura Nassau as its new business manager; she replaced Pau-la VanMinos, who left under a cloud the previous month. At the same time, ACSU officials said they made progress in their search for a super-intendent.

But then another key ACSU senior minister tendered her resignation. Associate Superintendent Jan Willey said she was leaving because of on-going “turmoil” in the central office. Hers would not be the last departure in the ACSU this year. And the two finalists for the superintendent’s job didn’t pan out, so the district adver-tised for a new superintendent and assistant superintendent.

Migrant farm workers, who often work in the shadows of society, saw their artwork bathed in a spotlight when the Vermont Folklife Center hosted a show titled “Invisible Odys-seys.” The art by Mexican dairy farm laborers who work in Addison and Franklin counties tells of their jour-neys a long way from home to work long hours at physically demanding jobs.

The Town Hall Theater this month debuted a new play by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Moats, called “An Afternoon in France.”

Northlands Job Corps came under increasing scrutiny as Vergennes Po-lice Chief George Merkel disagreed with statements made by officials on the timeliness of their reporting of an assault at the federally funded youth job training center. Vergennes police cited two Northlands students for ag-gravated assault after being notified of the incident 23 hours after it hap-pened.

The Mount Abraham Union High School a cappella singing group con-tinued a 13-year tradition of handing out roses and singing songs of love on Valentine’s Day, in a ritual that adds moments of levity to the school.

In 34 years of tapping maple trees, Starksboro’s Dave Folino said in February that he had seen few win-ters like this one. In some local spots, temperatures were six to eight de-grees above average. “It’s not even winter,” Folino said. “It’s pretty much a perpetual sugar season.” But the sugar content of the sap was low, and despite the fact that many sugar-makers were tapping in February — or earlier — it wasn’t clear how the sugaring season would turn out.

Lawmakers this month were call-ing for changes in the way authori-ties prioritize and perform search and rescue missions when people are lost in the woods, in light of the tragic death of Levi Duclos in the Green Mountain National Forest in January.

While legislatures pondered an-other issue — redistricting — some movers and shakers in Charlotte began to actively resist a move to add the Chittenden County town to the Addison County Senate district (which was already destined to lose Brandon because it was going to be added to the Rutland County dis-trict). Some said they would lose influence, other said townspeople’s attentions were naturally focused northward.

The Addison Northeast Superviso-ry Union board chose David Adams as the next ANeSU superintendent. The current Windsor Southwest su-perintendent, Adams would bring three decades of experience in edu-cation when he started the job July 1.

Middlebury College trustees gave the green light to a plan to replace the 9-year-old temporary athletic facility known as the “Bubble” with a permanent structure. They put the cost of the new gym at $46 million; fundraising is under way.

The MUHS dance team won the state hip-hop title in a competition in front of 1,000 fans in the VUHS gym.

Lincoln residents were wrestling

with who to vote for in the only con-tested local election there on Town Meeting Day. Three Lincolnites filed papers to run for town treasurer; the winner would replace Larry Mas-terson, who had held the job for 15 years. Shawn Richards, Lisa Truchon and Linda Daybell each sought the part-time position.

In Shoreham, selectmen decided to ask residents if they would con-sent to spending $450,000 for a larg-er town office.

Ten young men, most of them for-mer campers at Salisbury’s Camp Keewaydin, built their own wood-and-canvas canoes this winter and readied for the ice to clear on Lake Dunmore so they could cast off and

paddle north 1,200 miles to James Bay in northern Canada. In addition to being an adventure — how would you like to paddle the distance from Middlebury to Jacksonville, Fla.? — the trip was also a fundraiser for Keewaydin scholarship money. “It’s like a walk-a-thon. Just really long,” one expedition member said.

March


As March opened, the MUHS girls’ Nordic skiing team was bask-ing in the glow of the school’s first state championship in the sport. The Tigers dominated both the freestyle and classic competitions in Division II; senior Britta Clark won both the 5K classic and freestyle races; and she was joined by Dominique Pow-ers, Lydia Allen and Emma Ryan to claim both 2K relay events.

That same weekend VUHS senior Geoffrey Grant beat the 170-pound top seed in an exciting 4-3 final to claim the state wrestling crown in that weight.

About this time, word started cir-culating about alleged “initiation beatings” taking place at Northlands Job Corps in Vergennes. Informants told the Independent that some of-ficials at the federally funded youth job training program were aware of the beatings but had failed to take steps to halt the violence. “Dorm 21 is not a friendly place,” a source told the Independent.

New scrutiny of Middlebury’s fi-nancial records showed that the town actually did not have a surplus of $1.5 million as had been reported. Turns out some funds had been cred-ited to the wrong accounts. Officials stressed that no money was missing, but the unexpected surplus that had popped up in late January had evapo-rated by early March.

Two local schools did report wind-falls of a sort. Mount Abraham Union High School and Vermont Adult Learning each received $100,000 grants from the Rowland Founda-tion to develop ways for people to become life-long learners.

The county found out this month that it would have one fewer school next year when the Gailer School, a private institution founded in 1989 for middle and high school students, would close at the end of the school year.

Porter Medical Center President James Daily received a national honor. He was one of 50 hospital administrators to win the Grassroots Champion Award, which is given to a hospital administrator who does the best job communicating with elected officials.

Town Meeting Day arrived in Ad-dison County as usual, and, as usual, in the end residents in several town OK’d a large amount of spending and elected some new local leaders. One of the largest projects that got a green light was the $4.625-mil-lion bond to rebuild both fire sta-tions in Middlebury. Residents in the shiretown also agreed to fund (with Middlebury College and local busi-nesses) a business development fund to attract new businesses to Middle-bury and Addison County.

In Middlebury and the six other Addison Central Supervisory Union towns voters agreed to float a $1 mil-lion bond to fix the middle school

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roof. Voters at all local high schools and in the town of Bristol approved budgets with spending increases, al-beit small increases.

But in Monkton, voters were once again unwilling to back spending on moving the town hall. For the second time in three years, they sent select-men back to the drawing board to develop a plan to solve a space issue in the town offices.

And in Vergennes, two of the three incumbent city councilors were thrown out. Real estate appraiser and Vergennes Partnership President Bill Benton and former City Man-ager Renny Perry both won seats for the first time on the council, and three-term incumbent Clara “Ziggy” Comeau was returned to her seat. But two-term incumbent Lowell Bertrand and five-term incumbent David Austin both finished out of the money.

Town Meeting Day also saw sev-eral long-time selectmen retire. John Tenny wrapped up 17 years on the Middlebury selectboard, Bob Oliver retired after 18 years on the Leices-ter selectboard, and Jim D’Avignon Sr. bowed out after 30 years on the Weybridge selectboad. All three also served their communities in other ways, as well.

In another chapter in the admin-istrative shakeup in the ACSU, Inga Duktig said she was leaving as prin-cipal of MUMS. After 12 and a half years in the job, Duktig abruptly said she would take a leave of absence for the rest of the year and leave lead-ership at the school in the hands of Assistant Principal Patrick Reen so that she could “transition to the next chapter of my career as an educator.”

The principal wasn’t the only one at MUMS making the news. Two MUMS seventh-graders were among the 34 students who started out in the Vermont Spelling Bee in Colchester. Fifteen rounds later, de-fending state champ Meigan Clark and newcomer Ronan Howlett were the only two spellers left in the com-petition. In the end, Howlett won the competition and the right to go to the national championship by spelling the word “quantitative.”

eCorp English, which teaches English language skills to foreign business professionals, came to Middlebury two years ago with high hopes for providing 100 or more jobs. This month the state Depart-ment of Labor said it was working with at least five former eCorp em-ployees who have filed complaints against the company for failure to pay back wages. Company officials said the firm was “undercapital-ized” and was hoping the launch of its WordFortune learning software later in the year would return eCorp to financial health.

Vermont Gas Systems held three informational meetings in the county to provide the public with information on its proposal to ex-tend its natural gas pipeline from Chittenden County into Addison County. Vermont Gas, a subsidiary of a Canadian firm, sells natural gas produced in Canada.

Ferrisburgh’s Rokeby Museum, which is housed in a former stop on the Underground Railroad that was a hotbed in the 19th-century anti-slavery movement, this month broke ground on a $1.4 million visi-tor center.

Prompted by a citizen’s ques-

tion, Vergennes aldermen opened a months-long debate on whether the city should continue to allow a Christian nativity scene to be dis-played on the city green during the weeks leading up to Christmas. In a letter to Mayor Mike Daniels, the citizen said allowing the overtly re-ligious symbol on public property showed disregard for the principle of separation of church and state. The city council discussed the issue, but sought more citizen feedback at a future meeting.

At the end of the month, former ACSU Superintendent Lee Sease filed a federal lawsuit saying he was unfairly fired last spring.

AprilApril brought some very sad news;

longtime Addison County Sheriff James Coons died at age 59 after a long illness. Police and emergency responders from throughout the state showed up at Coons’ funeral to hon-or the 30-year veteran.

Middlebury planners in April un-veiled the newly revised Middlebury town plan and Bristol officials con-tinued their long-running review of their community’s plan.

The sagging economy was also

taking a toll on farmers. After two years of relatively strong milk pric-es, the U.S. Department of Agricul-ture announced in April that falling prices had triggered support pay-ments to dairy farmers. It marked the first time in two years that farm-ers had to receive subsidy payments through the Milk Income Loss Con-tract, which provides a safety net for farmers when payments for milk fall below cost of production.

Many area sugarmakers rallied behind legislation in Montpelier that would change syrup labeling laws and establish a food safety certifica-tion program for manufacturers of maple syrup. Supporters reasoned the voluntary certification program would help sugarmakers in Vermont stay competitive in the industry.

In other agricultural news, the Vermont Public Service Board gave the green light to a major methane-to-electricity facility at the Four Hills Farm in Bristol; Weybridge resident Mark Smith proposed a mo-bile slaughterhouse to process large animals; and Lars Hubbard proposed a plan to house a whiskey distillery and cheese company at a building in Middlebury’s industrial park.

The search for a new superinten-dent for the Addison Central Su-pervisory Union hit a snag in April when a screening committee deter-mined it could not bring forward a finalist that would be a good match for the district’s needs. The commit-tee would soon re-boot the search. The district did, however, fill a key vacancy when it welcomed Carol Fenimore as its new assistant super-intendent.

In other school news, a handful of voters passed a $6.1 million 2012-2013 spending plan for Mary Hogan Elementary School at the Middle-bury school’s annual meeting.

Meanwhile, Vergennes Union El-ementary School welcomed a new principal and a familiar face to many in the county: June Sargent, a former administrator at Mount Abraham Union High School in Bristol.

In Vergennes, officials unveiled a new policy regarding the place-ment of religious displays on the city

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April 19ADDISON COUNTY ASSISTANT Judge Frank Broughton administers the oath of office to longtime

Addison County Sheriff’s Department Deputy Don Keeler, who, as high bailiff, will perform the duties of sheriff until the governor appoints someone to serve out the rest of the late Sheriff Jim Coons’ term.


May 3HUNDREDS OF OFFICERS from many different law enforcement

agencies across the state gathered at Middlebury College’s Mead Chapel for Addison County Sheriff James Coons’ memorial service. Coons died on April 16. Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

May 24REVOLUTIONARY WAR REENACTORS march across the Lake Champlain Bridge during a parade that was part of the two-day Grand Cel-

ebration of the new span. Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

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(Continued from A)green. The policy — which came in response to a letter of concern about the longstanding Christmas nativity scene display — called upon peo-ple to apply for permission to place a display on the green. The policy also set forth size limitations and a requirement that the display bear a sign identifying the sponsor.

Addison County residents in search of a family doctor got some good news in April. Porter Medi-cal Center announced the imminent hiring of seven new family practice physicians and an Advanced Practice Registered Nurse to the roster. A lo-cal shortage of family physicians had forced some county residents to seek such services in Brandon and other communities outside the area.

In Montpelier, lawmakers made some interesting changes to Addison County’s senatorial district as part of the decennial reapportionment process. Reapportionment calls for a redrawing legislative boundaries to better ensure the Constitutional standard of “one person one vote.” Lawmakers decided that Addison County’s two-seat senatorial district should swap Brandon (to be reab-sorbed into the Rutland County dis-trict) for the towns Huntington and Buel’s Gore. Lawmakers had consid-ered adding Charlotte to the Addison County district, but that’s commu-nity’s powerful lobby quickly ended that discussion.

Also at the Statehouse, lawmakers voted unanimously in favor of a new bill revamping the state’s search and rescue policy in wake of the tragic death of 19-year-old Levi Duclos on a Ripton hiking trail earlier in the year.

The state Senate, at the recommen-dation of Sen. Claire Ayer’s Health and Welfare Committee, endorsed a major health care exchange bill as part of Vermont’s insurance reform effort.

Addison County Transit Resourc-es got some good news in the form of $716,000 in federal grants to help finance its proposed $4.2 million headquarters at 341 Creek Road in Middlebury.

MayMay saw the late James Coons, Ad-

dison County’s sheriff for three de-cades, laid to rest. Hundreds, including former Gov. James Douglas of Middle-bury and current Gov. Peter Shumlin, packed Middlebury College’s Mead Chapel for what was a moving service.

Vermont’s Congressional delegation announced in May that it had secured $1.3 million in federal funds to build a community health center in Shoreham offering medical and dental services to patients regardless of their ability to pay.

The 2012 Legislature capped a busy session that included helping com-munities recover from Tropical Storm Irene; devoting resources to fixing the state’s roads and bridges; and advanc-ing health care reform. In an interview with the Addison Independent, Gov. Peter Shumlin gave high marks to the session, saying the Legislature laid a solid foundation for lower health care costs and job growth in the Green

Mountain State.With the session concluded, most

incumbent lawmakers announced re-election plans while some new candi-dates stepped forward. Among them, for the Vermont House: New Haven Democrat Ed McGuire in Addison-5 and Salisbury independent Tim Ryan in Addison-2. Former Rep. Christo-pher Bray, a New Haven Democrat, served notice he would run for one of the county’s two state Senate seats. His path would be made easier when Democratic incumbent Sen. Harold Giard of Bridport confirmed he would not run for re-election. Longtime Rep. Joe Acinapura, R-Brandon, also an-nounced his plans to step down.

Meanwhile, three-term Vergennes Mayor Michael Daniels confirmed he would not seek re-election to another to another term in March 2013.

Speaking of retirements, several longtime educators announced they would be graduating from their posts at the end of the academic year. They included Middlebury Union Middle School physical education teacher Don McIntosh (after 37 years), Addi-son Central School teacher Karen Flo-rucci (after 25 years) and Mary Hogan Elementary School teacher Carol Cal-lahan (after 30 years).

Middlebury Area land Trust offi-cials in May entered into discussions with the National Park Service about providing a key pathway link that would finally connect the Appalachian Trail, which runs along the East Coast from Georgia to Maine, and the North Country Trail, which stretches from Crown Point, N.Y., to North Dakota.

The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum made plans to mark the bi-centennial of the War of 1812 — and specifically the role of U.S. Navy 1st Lt. Thomas MacDonough in defeating superior British forces in the pivotal Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Cham-plain. MacDonough built is fleet in the Vergennes shipyard. The museum planned an exhibit, an educational tour by the replica canal schooner Lois Mc-Clure, and other activities to mark the city’s role in MacDonough’s feat.

History was also on the minds of

Middlebury officials who honored Marion Guild for her key role in de-signing the Emma Hart Willard monu-ment erected in the downtown 71 years ago. Guild had not received the credit she was due for her work, and Middle-bury officials held a special event to finally honor her seven decades after the fact.

Veteran lawmakers also stepped forward to take a much-earned bow. Longtime House Rep. Betty Nuovo, D-Middlebury, feted her 80th birthday with confirmation she would seek an-other term in office. And former Gov. James Douglas, who had devoted four decades of his life to state government and public service, announced he was penning an autobiography recounting some of his experiences.

Vergennes City Manager Mel Haw-ley presented the city council with a draft municipal budget that would keep the city tax rate level at 60.3 cents per $100.

The U.S. Postal Services released a list of potential cuts in hours at post offices nationwide, and several Ad-dison County venues made the list. They included Bridport, Ferrisburgh, Granville, Hancock, Monkton, North Ferrisburgh, Orwell, Salisbury, Shore-ham, Starksboro and Whiting.

Warm spring weather prompted people to think about Lake Dunmore activities. And in an effort to keep the lake clearer healthier, the Lake Dun-more/Fern Lake Association applied for state permission to introduce thou-sands of tiny milfoil weevils to munch on the nuisance aquatic weeds that volunteers and paid helpers have spent years chopping and pulling.

JuneJune brought word of yet another

senior Addison County teacher’s re-tirement plans. Judy Wiger, a chem-istry teacher at Vergennes Union High School for the past three de-cades, announced she was moving on. Veteran special educator and

Monkton Central School Assistant Principal Mary Gemignani also con-firmed her departure after more than 30 years. Gemignani reported she was leaving to help teach at a village in war-torn Liberia.

Hundreds of seniors also bade farewell to their respective high schools in June, leaving after some inspiring words delivered at ceremo-nies blessed with good weather.

Addison Northwest Supervisory Union teachers agreed to a new two-year contract that awarded them an-nual increases of 3 percent and 3.5 percent. Teachers also agreed to con-tribute more toward their health care premiums. Also striking a deal were teachers in the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union, after a lengthy negotiating process that was aided by a mediator. Details of the four-year pact were not immediately announced because the full union membership had not formally en-dorsed it.

Addison County Sheriff Don Kee-ler reported in June that the depart-ment’s 22-bed jail had been empty since mid-May given the expiration of a 15-year contract with the U.S. Marshals Service. Keeler began checking with the state of Vermont and other parties who might be in-terested in contracting for the jail, which employed several deputies.

Ripton Elementary School em-braced the concept, “If you bus them, they will come.” Local school directors agreed to run a new bus service to the Route 100 communi-ties of Hancock and Granville as an extra incentive for families in those towns to tuition their students to Rip-ton. Ripton’s school enrollment (like that of schools throughout the state) has been dwindling and officials are looking at creative ways to boost the ranks.

Several people turned out to give feedback at a public hearing on Mid-dlebury’s draft town plan. The plan-ning commission heard from people concerned the plan was too lengthy, was too critical of Middlebury Col-


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June 25OSSIE ROAD RESIDENT Bob Wells stands at the precipice of a ravine carved by the Middlebury River

during the past several years. Wells and several of his East Middlebury neighbors are concerned that recent storms have pushed rocks and debris through the riverbed and have choked off portions of the river, forcing the water down a narrower, more destructive path.


June 25STATE AND LOCAL search and rescue teams work in Otter Creek below the falls in downtown Middlebury after a swimmer drowned in the

river the previous evening.Independent file photo/Trent Campbell



lege and was not friendly enough to business interests.

Candidates for the Vermont House and Senate had to declare their in-tentions by June 14. That deadline revealed few contests and in particu-lar few Republican challengers. The Addison County GOP did not field a single candidate for one of Addison County’s two state Senate seats, not did it enter anyone in the Addison-1, Addison-4 and Addison-Rutland-1 House districts races. Party officials cited the time commitment involved in running and serving, as well as the shift in party demographics in Addison County’s Senate district. Through reapportionment, the dis-trict swapped conservative Brandon for the more Democrat-leaning Hun-tington and Buel’s Gore.

Middlebury officials began dis-cussing the concept of a new mu-nicipal building/community center, with early estimates placing such a facility at $6 million to $10 million. The new building would replace the current, deteriorating town offices at the intersection of South Main and College streets. The selectboard has formed several subcommittees that are refining plans for the new struc-ture and gauging repairs for the adja-cent municipal gym.

June was a month in which the fury of local waterways came into focus. A Vermont State Police diving team recovered the body of Middle-bury resident Yadji Moussa, 55, who drowned while swimming in the Ot-ter Creek near the Middlebury Falls. Meanwhile, planners continued to debate what could be done to protect residences along the path of the Mid-dlebury River. During major rain events, the river has been jumping and eroding its banks, primarily in the East Middlebury area, and some folks are seeing their backyards wash away.

In Bristol, the Five-Town Health Alliance and Mountain Health Center joined forces in a nonprofit venture to extend health services to people of all economic backgrounds. The new venture would relocate to the Bristol Works business center by the end of the year.



JulyJuly opened with the usual red,

white and blue bang — and the es-tablishment of a dynasty on Bristol’s Main Street. Cousins Chris and Kev-in Berry steamrolled the competition on the way to their fourth straight win in Bristol’s Independence Day Outhouse Race. From the outhouse to the penthouse for the Berry boys, as the saying goes.

Less fun was being had in some areas along Lake Champlain: Poten-tially toxic blue-green algae blooms were changing some waters into what one visitor called “thick pea soup.” Experts blamed phosphorus run-off for a problem that caused lake-front parks to close.

In Ferrisburgh, the town’s $375,000 sale of its 34.9 acres at the junction of Routes 22A and 7 fell through after the buyer said con-tingencies couldn’t be met after 11 months of trying. At year’s end, the parcel was still on the market.

In Middlebury, the town and the owners of the Lodge at Otter Creek settled an assessment dispute in which more than $200,000 of an-

nual tax revenue was at stake. The sides settled at a $17 million valu-ation, less than the town’s $20 mil-lion figure, but much higher than the Lodge’s original position of roughly $11.3 million.

In a star cluster far, far away — OK about 570 light years — Waltham native and Vergennes Union High School and Harvard University grad-uate Sam Quinn helped find two Ju-piter-sized planets. A paper announc-ing the discovery was co-authored by Quinn and published this past summer.

In July it became official: The Vergennes City Council approved a policy that will allow the much-be-loved Christian nativity scene to be displayed on the city green during the holiday season. It will also allow other groups to apply for and receive permission to put up displays on the green. Aldermen also passed new zoning laws in Vergennes after the planning commission’s three-year effort to craft them.

Down the road apiece on North Main Street, a buyer emerged for the Kennedy Brothers Factory Market-place property, one who hopes to put a grocery store in the building in the Vergennes landmark. By year’s end, however, the deal had yet to be con-summated.

Summer is road construction sea-son. In Middlebury, for example, workers finally finished the long-delayed Buttolph Drive project and were still working on the Pulp Mill Bridge rebuild; it remained closed. Quarry Road and Butternut Ridge road improvements seemed to be moving along, even if traffic was sometimes slowed.

Meanwhile, work on the length of Route 17 between Routes 7 and 22A in New Haven, Waltham and Ad-dison was ongoing all summer, and some residents complained about its pace and the condition of the tem-porary road surface. Some feared it would hurt attendance at the Addison County Fair and Field Days. State officials said the whole thing would be wrapped up by November.

In Bristol, David Adams took over as the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union superintendent. He replaced Evelyn Howard, whose 12-year ten-ure was unusually long for a position that often sees turnover in Vermont.

In Ferrisburgh, tragedy struck: A Vergennes man, Conrad Bell, 40, was killed at an evening bonfire party on a friend’s property when he tried to break up a fight. Police arrested Jo-seph Bolduc, 25, of Burlington, and alleged that Bolduc fatally struck Bell with a tire iron.

As July concluded, more than 100 citizens, law enforcement officials and social workers met in Bristol’s St. Ambrose Church to learn more about and discuss possible answers to what police say is a growing drug crime problem in the Bristol area. It was the first of several 2012 meet-ings devoted to the topic in Bristol, and topics included individual expe-riences as well as the issues of lack

of treatment facilities and the chal-lenges facing law enforcement.

Also in Bristol, it was learned the town’s annual Three Day Stampede raised more than $100,000 to fight Cystic Fibrosis. In its 22 years, the Stampede has raised more than $1 million for the cause.

AugustAs August arrived, Addison North-

west Supervisory Union homeowners got some good news: Their school taxes would decline this year. Rates in Ferrisburgh and Addison dropped by 10.6 and 27 cents, respectively, for example.

Of course, August means Addison County Fair and Field Days. And rain. A fierce thunderstorm struck on the Thursday of fair week and did hurt attendance at the popular No. 1 Auto Parts Demolition Derby, which went on with a backdrop of lightning strikes. But despite the weather and the ongo-ing Route 17 reconstruction project, organizers decreed the fair a success once again.

Crowds also flocked to Middle-bury’s second annual Vermont Beer, Wine and Cheese Festival, and orga-nizers said the strong turnout cement-ed its place on the calendar for future years.

Less fortunate news arrived in Mid-dlebury in the form of layoffs: Retail-Vision announced it would close up shop in town, meaning 25 local jobs would be lost.

Vermont’s U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, expressed worries this month about the probability that Congress would not pass a federal farm bill, a law that would determine five years of agri-culture and nutrition policy. He was particularly worried that milk price

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388-2903

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North St., New Haven • 453-2222www.oliviascroutons.com

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3 Park St., Middlebury • 388-2370

Otter CreekCustom Framing

Established in 1990 as partof Frog Hollow Art Supply.

Owner Brian Ladeau since 2004.

1990Since

3 Park St., Middlebury • 388-2370

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July 12CORNWALL FARMER LISA Roberts talks with Jeff True while the Roberts’ oldest Brown Swiss looks

on. Lisa and John Roberts hosted a visit from farmers attending the Brown Swiss Association National Convention.


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bury Natural Foods Co-op table at the Midd Summer Fest in Middle-bury. This year’s event drew about 1,500 people.


Sept.13STAN PRATT PICKS up crates of apples at Kent Ridge Orchard in New Haven. Pratt is leasing the or-

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support programs would end without seeing any support for Vermont dairy farmers to replace them.

Bristol 17-year-old Brianna McCor-mick traveled to Knoxville, Tenn., to win the World Girls’ Horseshoe Cham-pionship on Aug. 11, faring one place better than her aunt, Debra Brown. Brown was second in the women’s A division.

A new experimental program called Support And Services at Home (SASH) aims to give Medicare re-cipients help in accessing services and wellness programs in hopes of keeping them living independently and there-fore out of more costly nursing home and hospital settings. SASH is being piloted in Vermont over a three-year period thanks to a $10 million federal grant through the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Vermont is one of eight states to get such a grant.

The Search and Rescue Strategic Plan Committee, instituted by the Leg-islature after the tragic death of New Haven 19-year-old Levi Duclos last January, continued to meet and hear testimony in order fulfill its mandate to propose ways to restructure search and rescue management in Vermont. In August, tensions remained high over the ultimate question for the commit-tee’s consideration: Whether the lead agency for search and rescue in the Green Mountain State should remain the Vermont State Police, which pres-ently funds that role primarily through its overtime budget, or whether that role should be transferred to the Fish and Wildlife Department game war-dens.

Aug. 28 was primary day in Ver-mont, and like the rest of the state Addison County backed Democratic incumbent Attorney Gen. William Sorrell, who won a tight race with challenger T.J. Donovan. In the only other contested race, Windsor’s John MacGovern defeated H. Brooke Paige, also of Windsor, in the county and statewide for the right to get trounced by incumbent Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders in November.

The proposed $32 million rail spur that would be used to alleviate truck traffic between Omya’s quarry in Middlebury and its calcium carbon-ate plant in Pittsford was put on hold indefinitely because of the sluggish economy and lack of funding. The pro-posed railroad track from near Route 7 south of Middlebury, across town roads and protected natural habitat was the subject of long-running opposition from many, including those whose lands would be affected.

The end of the month brought to an end Bill Finger’s 13-year tenure as Middlebury’s town manager. In a pre-planned move, Finger handed over the reins to the town’s former assistant manger, Kathleen Ramsay, on his last day on the job.

One year after the terrible floods produced by Tropical Storm Sandy, towns around the state were tallying up what they had spent, seeing what re-pairs remained to be done, and taking stock of lessons learned. In Hancock, for instance, emergency management coordinator Jill Jesso-White said the everyone is much more prepared for the next natural disaster.

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Tragedy struck twice in Septem-ber, as two area residents, one from Brandon and one from Sudbury, suc-

cumbed to Eastern equine encepha-litis, a mosquito-borne disease that, according to state officials, is fatal about one-third of the time. Exten-sive anti-mosquito spraying and state advisories followed.

The United Way of Addison County kicked off its annual cam-paign with a $700,000 goal, one the organization’s leaders said was both more modest and more realistic than its target in recent years given tough economic times.

Porter Hospital also did some belt-tightening, cutting about $466,000 from its roughly $69 million bud-get after state regulators gave only a conditional approval to its initial spending plan.

Bristol held its second drug forum, which drew a crowd of 70 and led to the formation of a number of steer-ing committees focused on specific issues.

New York has Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center; Paris has the Louvre and the Place de la Bastille. Middle-bury, Vt., has the Mahaney Center for the Arts at Middlebury College. In September the college kicked off a yearlong celebration marking the 20th anniversary of the institution that has hosted thousands of events featuring internationally acclaimed artists.

The apple crop came in low at some orchards around the county and high at others. Growers said that

2012 was a year of bizarre weather phenomena, from the wildfires in the Mountain West to the melting of nearly all of Greenland’s surface ice. Closer to home, the effect of un-usual weather played out in more nu-anced ways, though it is often no less devastating. An warm spell in early spring caused apple trees to blossom, and a hard frost in May killed many of those blossoms.

The town of Middlebury an-nounced it had struck a $150,000 deal with Co-Operative Insurance Companies to buy a 38-acre par-cel on Chipman Hill’s southeastern flank, funded by the town’s Land Conservation Trust Fund. The Battell Trust will manage the land, which is adjacent to other conserved land, and the town’s deed restricts the parcel’s uses to conservation, public park and recreation.

In mid-month eCorp’s downward spiral finally concluded with the an-nouncement the six-year-old English language training firm would shutter its doors in Middlebury and other of-fices around the world, ending initial hopes for 100 local jobs. The state’s $175,000 loan to the firm may never be recovered and former employees are suing the company and its found-er. The action came after months of reports of vendors not being paid and payrolls not being met.

As the month wound down, the VUHS board came up with its first

proposal for a bond to upgrade its auditorium, kitchen and cafeteria; put new roofing on some parts of the building; install a turf field and a six-lane track around it; and make a se-ries of smaller improvements inside and outside of the school. The price tag was $6.5 million, and the vote was set for Nov. 6.

The Middlebury selectboard heard a suggestion from its town office steering committee that officials might want to aim a little lower in de-signing a municipal office building. The board also talked about capping taxpayers’ contribution to funding a new building at a 2-cent increase to the Middlebury’s tax rate, which of-ficials said would raise about $2 mil-lion toward its cost over the length of a bond.

After the Bristol selectboard held its final hearing on a proposed town plan and setting a public vote on the plan for Nov. 6, some in town started asking what should be done with the prominent gravel pit at Bris-tol’s western gateway behind Mount Abraham Union High School.

As the month ended the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center was ready to launch a new program aimed at beefing up the state’s meat process-ing industry. A new program devel-oped with Vermont Technical Col-lege aimed to produce more skilled butchers and meat cutters.

OctoberOctober is always a busy month

during election years, and 2012 was no exception. As the election season heated up, the race for state treasurer was particularly tight, as incumbent Beth Pearce faced a well-financed campaign from Republican Wendy Wilton, who was bankrolled by Ver-monter’s First, the state’s first “super PAC.”

Addison County’s dairy farm-ers experienced a rough start to the month, with several feeling the fi-nancial strain of keeping their op-erations up and running. When the U.S. House of Representatives failed to produce a new Farm Bill before it adjourned on Sept. 28, farmers across the country lost a federal safe-ty net, causing some small, family-run farms to question whether or not staying in business was worth their while.

In other food and agriculture news, proposed changes to Vermont’s ma-ple grading system were met with some resistance, as some manufac-turers felt that standardized grades would diminish Vermont’s distinc-tive brand.

On Oct. 23, Middlebury-based Vermont Hard Cider Co., maker of Woodchuck hard cider, sold for a whopping $305 million to an Irish company called the C & E Group. Woodchuck President and CEO Brett Williams assured the pub-lic that the company would remain based in Addison County, keep all of its employees for the foreseeable future, and continue its plans to build a new plant on Exchange Street in Middlebury.

In local political matters, the Ver-gennes Union High School board set an Election Day vote on a $6.5 mil-lion bond for facility improvements; few residents showed up at informa-

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Local lawmakers backed the idea of setting aside funding to examine the outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness Eastern equine encephalitis in light of the death of two local men from EEE.

The Middlebury selectboard con-tinued to tweak an update to the town plan that had been forwarded by the Middlebury Planning Commission. The board had the option of making minor changes and OK’ing the docu-ment, or making major changes and holding more public hearings. De-bates largely centering on the issue of a cap on the size of retail businesses to stop big-box chain stores from set-ting up shop in the town and possibly driving smaller retailers out of busi-ness. Some members of the public urged selectboard members to add an explicit 50,000-square-foot limit for retailer to the town plan, but some board members said that limit was al-ready in the zoning laws, which was good enough for them.

Construction was completed on the East Middlebury firehouse. The previous out-of-date structure was razed and a new one was erected. Work continued on the major addi-tion to Firehouse No. 1 on Seymour Street, and was expected to wrap up this winter.

Lifelong Bristol resident Gertrude Lathrop said she could still recall when the town’s roads were unpaved and ice was cut from ponds and stored in sawdust-lined containers until sum-mer time. She should know, she cel-ebrated her 100th birthday on Oct. 13

The town of Bristol continued to hold community forums to discuss a generally perceived increase in drug-related crimes. Coincidentally Dean C. Heffernan of Bristol was sentenced in U.S. District Court this month to 33 months in prison for his role in a 2011 shooting incident that apparently re-volved around a heroin deal gone bad in Bristol. Heffernan was initially charged with attempted murder, but eventually entered a deal with prose-cutors and pleaded guilty to one count of using a controlled substance while in possession of a gun.

The Vermont Agency of Transpor-tation committed to putting in passen-ger rail service between Middlebury and Rutland by 2017. A VTrans of-ficial also confirmed an impending agreement with the town of Middle-bury to manage the replacement of two deteriorating railroad overpasses in its downtown.

The month was also marred by tragedy. George Demarais, 57, was killed in a shootout with police at his Case Street home in Middlebury af-ter a six-hour standoff, in an apparent “suicide by cop.”

A series of burglaries in Monkton included the theft of an urn containing the ashes of an infant child.

On Oct. 4, a former Addison Coun-ty assistant prosecutor pleaded in-nocent to charges of negligence for driving recklessly while an 8-year-old child ran alongside her vehicle.

On Oct. 13, the annual Youth Soc-cer Jamboree ended when a driver apparently overcome by a medical emergency crashed his car into some kids and an adult on the soccer field at Mount Abraham Union High School. Thankfully, there were no fatalities.

Local schools had an exciting Oc-tober, as the Lincoln Community School wrapped up its six-year, $2 million makeover and celebrated with an open house and dedication cer-emony on Oct. 18.

The Aurora School in Middlebury announced that it would expand into seventh and eighth grades, creating a new area middle school.

Educational opportunities were also afoot on Lake Champlain dur-ing the month of October. The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Lois McClure, the museum’s replica canal schooner, brought a piece of history to Vergennes by recalling the city’s heroic role in the War of 1812. Later that month, Middlebury College dedi-cated the R/V Folger, a new research vessel that is the most technologically advanced maritime craft that Lake Champlain has seen yet.

An exciting visit from the Dalai Lama, who spoke of non-violence and harmony at Middlebury College on Oct. 12 and 13, spurred many other community events around the county. Many who attended the talks by the leader of Tibetan Buddhism and a No-bel Peace Prize winner spoke of the joy and laughter that emanated from Tibet’s exiled leader.

Four Middlebury College students posing as a “Dalai Lama Welcoming Committee” circulated a fake press release declaring that Middlebury College would divest from fossil fu-els to state and local media outlets. The students later revealed their true intentions: to spark a public dialogue about divestment, which indeed con-tinued in the coming months.

The month ended with frenzy over Superstorm Sandy, which wiped out power and coastline along the eastern seaboard. Vermont was thankfully spared much damage. Few Addison County homes lost power, and those that did were restored within days.

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The month of November kicked off with the General Election on Nov. 6, though in Addison County there were few contested races. In-

cumbents held off challengers in House races in the Vergennes area, New Haven area and Ripton and sur-rounding towns.

Incumbent lawmakers around the county also kept their seats, many by large margins. Statewide, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders kept his seat by a substantial margin, as did Gov. Peter Shumlin, who immediately set about changing his senior staff.

Votes were also cast on two impor-tant non-personnel issues in. Resi-dents in Bristol adopted their town plan, ending an eight-year process that had stalled several times over is-

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son Northwest Supervisory Union towns voters soundly rejected a $6.5 million bond to improve facilities at Vergennes Union High School. Vot-ers said no by 57.6 to 42.4 percent to a plan that included improve-ments to the school’s auditorium, installation of a six-lane track and an artificial turf playing field, up-grades to its kitchen and cafeteria, roof repairs to several areas of the building, and parking, sidewalk and traffic-flow improvements. School


Sing it out sing-along

LAST FRIDAY THE entire student body at Mary Hogan Elementary School in Middlebury filed into the school gym for their annual holiday sing-along. Pictured are, clockwise from top: Mary Longey plays guitar in front of the students; Hailey Frost whispers to classmate Devon Greenough; Anne Berg, Sophie Pope McCright, Lily Maxted and Jordyn Bessette stand to sing; Jessie Bodette and Avery Hamilton clap along; Jordyn Bessette, Zach Bean, Mardi Horne and Lucas Nelson become four of the five golden rings; and Elvis McIntosh, Ivy Doran and Jason Li spread some cheer.

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(Continued from Page 18A)board members said some things, like the roof, couldn’t wait, and they regrouped to find a solution.

Early in the month, Addison County EMTs and first responders heroically traveled to areas in New Jersey devastated by Superstorm Sandy, including Ceredwyn Alex-ander of Ripton and Elizabeth Clark and Ann Rivers of Vergennes.

In honor of Veterans Day, sev-eral vets told inspiring stories of their service, from the beaches of Normandy during World War II to service in today’s wars.

Middlebury College put the five students who had posed as a “Da-lai Lama Welcoming Committee” on trial in the college’s first public hearing in nearly six years. The stu-dents were found guilty but no for-mal action was taken against them.

In local political news, Middle-bury’s selectboard “got an earful”

early in the month from residents about the draft of the town plan; the debate centered on the issue of setting a 50,000-square-foot cap for retail stores. Some wanted it in the town plan to ensure big-box retailers didn’t drive smaller local firms out of busi-ness; but most selectmen said the cap was already in the zoning regulations and that would serve the purpose.

Vermont Gas Systems’ pipeline project advanced in November, an-nouncing plans to ask the Vermont Public Service Board to approve pipeline extension in Middlebury and Vergennes.

Middlebury appointed a new Parks and Recreation department head. Terri Arnold, 55, is coming from Langley, Wash., where she served as director of South Whidbey Parks and Recreation District.

The UD-3 school board is consid-ering a 3.8 percent hike in spending for Middlebury Union Middle School

and Middlebury Union High School.Vergennes aldermen, meanwhile,

picked a location for proposed new police headquarters, at the former Vergennes Auto Sales on North Main Street.

On Nov. 14, the long-serving town clerk of Weybridge, Karen Brisson, stepped down after admitting to em-bezzling town funds. The state’s attor-ney was waiting for an audit of town books to be completed before decid-ing whether to charge Brisson with any crimes.

The town of Panton led the charge to expand the Lake Champlain By-way from Vergennes through Panton and Addison to the Lake Champlain Bridge and back to the Little City.

The Environmental Court approved construction of a controversial gas station and restaurant on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh, and rejected the pro-posed Fenn gravel pit on Route 116 in Middlebury.

In one notable crime incident, three individuals in Hancock were arrested in the county’s first meth bust.

Community groups geared up for the holidays: Helping Overcome Pov-erty’s Effects (HOPE) solicited dona-tions for its annual giving tree.

Two tragic car accidents occurred the end of the month. On Nov. 24, 86-year-old Ann Roscoe of Bristol was struck by a car and killed at the intersection of Pine and North streets in downtown Bristol. Less than a week later on Nov. 30, 65-year-old Rep. Greg Clark of Vergennes was killed on Route 7 while scraping his windshield. The community mourned the losses of both citizens with mov-ing funeral services.

DecemberDecember kicked off with an ex-

citing announcement by the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Board at the American Legion in Middlebury. The board, in conjunction with the Agency of Agriculture and the Department of Forestry, announced that it was releas-ing $1 million in grants for new and existing businesses that develop and cultivate the state’s working lands.

Entrepreneurs weren’t the only ones to land a windfall early in the month: Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) won an $8,000 grant from the Richard E. and Deborah L. Tarrant Foundation in Burlington. The bus and public transportation agency will put the funds toward the development of the Addison County Community Tran-sit Center, which is being erected at a Creek Road property in Middlebury. Additionally, the Vermont Chapter of the Society of Neuroscience an-nounced that Lisa Bernardin, who founded the Vermont Brain Bee, had won a grant from the Vermont Com-munity Foundation for her inspiring work with high school neuroscience clubs.

Early in December, it came to light that Briarwood Manor, the for-mer nursing home at 1 Alden Place in Vergennes, could soon be home to a treatment facility for teenage girls battling substance abuse and self-in-jurious behaviors. Officials at Valley Vista, a private Bradford-based facil-ity, said they had “fallen in love” with Briarwood and the city of Vergennes. Though there were initially some con-cerns about security, Valley Vista has a good track record in Bradford and city officials and some residents seemed receptive.

Bristol went public with internal findings that Chief of Police Kevin Gibbs may have mishandled a grant application over the course of several years, costing the town over $9,000 in funds that town officials had fronted for the police department under the expectation that the money would be reimbursed through the grants. After a disciplinary hearing, the selectboard reprimanded Gibbs for not filing grant applications in a timely manner and ordered him to pay the town for the funds he failed to get.

Bristol selectboard members also heard plans to improve safety condi-tions at the downtown intersection of Main Street, West Street, North Street and South Street. The Vermont Agen-cy of Transportation thinks its width makes it unsafe. The study for a solu-tion continues.

Weybridge began audits of the em-bezzlement case that had rocked the town in November.

A lengthy and sometimes heated debate over a cap on retail spaces in the Middlebury town plan came to an end when the Middlebury selectboard on Dec. 11 voted 6-0 (with one select-man absent) to pass the plan without a retail cap. Some worried that opened the door for a big-box retailer to set up shop in town and drive local firms out of business; but selectmen said the cap was already in town zoning regula-tions and didn’t need to be in the town plan, as well.

After Addison Northwest Super-visory Union voters rejected a $6.5 million bond for repairs to Vergennes Union High School on Election Day, school board members said they plan to put a version of the bond back to voters in February. They will be asked to first vote on $4.2 million in repairs; if that is approved, a separate ballot item will ask whether an additional $2 million in athletic facilities improve-ments would be favored.

Middlebury College announced it would open discussions on the is-sue of divesting itself from compa-nies involved in fossil fuels. The an-nouncement from college President Ron Liebowitz came after a semester of student protests to raise awareness of the issue, and a month after Schol-

ar-in-Residence Bill McKibben launched a national campaign urg-ing colleges to divest from fossil fuels through his climate activism organization, 350.org.

Five-term incumbent Rep. Wil-lem Jewett, D-Ripton, was over-whelmingly voted in as House Ma-jority Leader by fellow Democrats.

Discussion of Vermont Gas Sys-tems’ proposed natural gas pipeline through Addison County stirred up some controversy. Monkton was opposed to VGS’s proposed route near homes along Monkton Road, and asked that it instead run along an established utilities corridor. The Bristol selectboard then said it would weigh in with VGS, too.

Deer season was successful for more than 800 local hunters, but the number harvested was nowhere near the 1,026 deer bagged in 2008. The average weight of deer measured at county weigh stations continued to rise — it was 146 pounds.

ANwSU Superintendent Tim O’Brian announced that he would retire following the 2013-2014 school year, and that he had re-ceived approval to work part-time (60 percent of full-time) next year. Addison Central School Principal Wayne Howe will serve as assis-tant superintendent the remaining 40 percent of the time next year.

The Addison Central Supervi-sory Union is still looking for a su-perintendent to replace Lee Sease, who left in June 2011. After three failed searches, the ACSU inter-viewed two very qualified candi-dates the week before Christmas.

Nov. 8WEYBRIDGE POLL WATCHER John Meakin instructs voter Lisa Thompson how to cast her ballot

during the 2012 election. Voter turnout was above 70 percent in many county towns.Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

Nov. 12CONSTRUCTION, TOWN AND state officials, above, cut the ribbon on the $3.3 million Pulp Mill

Bridge project. The span that connects Middlebury and Weybridge over Otter Creek then opened to foot traffic and later vehicle traffic. Pictured are, left to right, Bill Patenaude, Jim Ligon, Mark Sargent, Dean George, Peter James and John Weaver.


Dec. 6VERGENNES POLICE CHIEF George Merkel escorts Greg

Clark’s widow, Eileen, out of the Vergennes Congregational Church after Clark’s memorial service. Clark, a state representa-tive and long-time Mount Abraham Union High School teacher, was killed in a motor vehicle-related accident on Nov. 30.


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ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B SectionTHURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 2012

KARL LINDHOLM

Wishing coachesthe best of threeout of four greatsBy ANDY KIRKALDY

MIDDLEBURY — Hot shooting sparked the Middlebury Union High School boys’ basketball team past host Otter Valley this past Saturday, when the Tigers took a 23-point first-half lead on the way to a 79-61 vic-tory.

The 3-1 Tigers ultimately stretched their advantage to 62-30 when senior guard Connor Collins sparked an 8-0 run in the middle of the third period with six of his team-high 19 points, including a dunk after a steal.

MUHS was playing for the first time since their only loss, a disap-pointing setback on Dec. 18 to Rut-land in which starting point guard Mitchell Clarke suffered a sprained ankle.

Collins — who shot nine-for-nine from the floor and added seven as-sists and four steals — said the Tigers were determined to play better than they did in their 56-38 loss to the Raiders.

“It was really important for us. We really wanted to bounce back, show what we can do after a game like that,” he said. “And I think we man-aged to do that, at least for most of tonight.”

Collins added that qualifier be-cause to the Otters’ credit, they earned a 25-23 edge on the boards and outscored the Tigers by 25-15 in the fourth quarter.

They did so despite coming into the game off two tough setbacks, an overtime loss at Mount Abraham on the previous Tuesday, and a three-point loss to visiting Springfield two days before.

First-year OV coach Greg Hughes said the Otters knew the Tigers would be their toughest challenge of the week, and they were determined to compete, and they met that goal.

“That was easily the center of our mindset coming into this game,” Hughes said. “That’s one thing about this team, they don’t hang their heads. Right after the game they’re mad they lost. And they should be.

By ANDY KIRKALDYADDISON COUNTY — In re-

cent local high school hoop action, the Vergennes boys won big twice to remain unbeaten at 6-0, the Mount Abraham girls cruised past visiting Middlebury, and the VUHS girls and Mount Abe boys came up short on the road.

VUHS TAKES TWOOn Dec. 20, the Commodores

bolted to a 19-4 first-quarter lead on the way to a 55-35 win at Harwood. Coach Peter Quinn said VUHS played a sloppy second quarter and

ScheduleSchedule

ScoreScoreBOARDHIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

Girls’ Hockey12/22 U-32 at MUHS ....................... Ppd.

Boys’ Hockey12/22 MUHS. vs. Rice ....................... 4-1

Boys’ Basketball12/21 Fairfax vs. Mt. Abe ................69-3012/22 MUHS vs. OV ...................... 79-6112/22 VUHS vs. Randolph ............ 70-30

Girls’ Basketball12/22 S. Burlington vs. VUHS ....... 55-1012/22 Mt. Abe vs. MUHS ................ 60-20

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTSGirls’ Hockey

Holiday Tourney at Sports Center:12/27 Stowe vs. Woodstock ..........4 p.m.12/27 MUHS. vs. U-32 ..................6 p.m.12/28 Consolation/Final .............4/6 p.m.1/2 MUHS at Rutland ....................7 p.m.1/5 MUHS at Woodstock ......... 6:30 p.m.

Boys’ HockeyHoliday Tourney at Sports Center:12/27 MUHS vs. Lake Placid ........8 p.m.12/28 L. Placid vs. Brattleboro ......8 p.m.12/29 MUHS vs. Brattleboro .........2 p.m.1/2 MUHS at CVU ................... 5:20 p.m.1/5 MUHS at Stowe ................. 6:15 p.m.

Boys’ Basketball12/27 VUHS at Spaulding Tour. 5:30 p.m.12/27 VUHS at Spaulding Tour. ...... TBD12/27 Randolph at Mt. Abe ........... 7 p.m.12/27 Mill River at OV ............. 7:30 p.m.12/28 MUHS at Harwood .........7:30 p.m.12/29 Winooski at Mt. Abe .....12:30 p.m.1/2 OV at Mill River ................. 7:30 p.m.1/3 Fairfax at Mt. Abe ................... 7 p.m.1/3 South Burlington at VUHS ...... 7 p.m.1/3 MUHS at Fair Haven ......... 7:30 p.m.1/4 Leland & Gray at OV ......... 7:30 p.m.1/5 VUHS at Montpelier .......... 2:30 p.m.

Girls’ Basketball12/27 Harwood at VUHS .............. 7 p.m.12/28 Mt. Abe vs. Burr & Burton at Fair Ha-

ven Tournament .................................4 p.m.12/28 MUHS vs. F. Haven at Fair Haven

Tournament ...................................7:30 p.m.12/29 Montpelier at VUHS .... 12:30 p.m.12/29 Mt. Abe/MUHS at FH Tourn. .. TBD

(See Schedule, Page 3B)

led by 10 at the half, 28-18, but “righted the ship” in the third quar-ter, during which they outscored the Highlanders by 20-4 to take com-mand.

Stanley Salley led VUHS with 14 points, followed by Cody Quattrocci with 12. Those two combined for all of the Commodores’ first-quarter points: Quattrocci sank three treys, and Salley scored the other 10. Shep Carter added 10 points and five as-sists for VUHS, and Zach Ouellette added four assists. Salley led the team with 12 rebounds, and Carter,

Devin Hayes and Dan McGrath add-ed five boards each.

On Saturday, the Commodores thumped host Randolph, 70-30. Quinn said the Commodores remem-bered the Ghosts, who returned their entire roster, took them to overtime last winter, and produced “a focused, methodical effort, putting together four good quarters for the first time this year,” one that included tough man-to-man defense and patient of-fense.

VUHS took a 35-18 lead at the break and then held the Ghosts to 12

points in the second half. Salley and Quattrocci again led the

way with 13 points each. Carter and Ouellette added 10 each, and Hayes and Nate Cannon contributed nine apiece. VUHS turned the ball over just seven times, while Ouellette led the way with five assists. Salley led VUHS with 10 boards, followed by Hayes with eight and McGrath with seven. Quattrocci had four of the 16 VUHS steals.

The Commodores return to ac-tion this week at Spaulding’s holi-day tournament. They are set to play

U-32 in Barre on Thursday and Divi-sion 1 Brattleboro on Saturday.

EAGLE-MUHS GIRLSThe Eagles girls improved to

4-0 on Saturday with a 60-20 vic-tory over visiting Middlebury. Sam Driscoll scored 12 to lead a balanced Mount Abe attack, and Ashlie Fay and Jessie Martin added 10 points each.

Hannah Hobbs and Erin Connor tallied seven points apiece for the 0-4 Tigers.

Both teams will play on Friday

But they come ready to work the next day every time … That’s mental toughness. If we can keep that going during the season, we’ll be all right.”

Early on, sophomore forward John Winslow (15 points and a game-high eight rebounds) worked inside for three points. Those points, plus the first two of senior all-star forward Ryan Kelley’s game-high 28 points, offset five points from Collins, and it was 5-5.

But then the Tigers heated up with a 16-4 run. Senior forward David Burt hit twice inside, and senior for-ward Tyler Provencher sank a three to make it 12-5.

Senior OV guard Thomas Roberts scored on the break on a feed from senior forward Jim Winslow and Kelley hit in the post, but the Tigers completed the surge with a drive by Collins, a Provencher free throw, a move inside and a jumper by senior forward James Pecsok, and a jumper by freshman forward Perry DeLoren-zo, and it was 21-9.

Two Kelley free throws cut the lead to 10, but senior guard James Hare drove to beat the buzzer to make it 23-11 after one.

Then the Tigers outscored the Ot-ters, 26-15, in the second quarter to lead at the half, 49-26. They had no answer to the six-foot-four Kelley in the period, however: He worked in-side for 11 points, while sophomore Connor Gallipo added four.

But senior MUHS forward Marrott Weekes scored all seven of his points in the quarter, five on the fast break. Pecsok, Provencher and DeLorenzo added three-pointers; Burt converted a three-point play inside; and Collins and Provencher also scored in the lane.

MUHS coach Chris Altemose said he was happy with his team’s attack, including its 70 percent first-half shooting.

“I thought we played our best of-fensive game of the season. We were shooting well, getting good shots, moving the ball well, getting up the

floor well, doing what we want to do,” Altemose said.

But he would have liked to see bet-ter work on the boards and effort de-fensively.

“I was a little disappointed in our defense, though. I thought we weren’t really getting after it like we’re capable of doing,” Altemose said. “When we put the whole game together, we’re a really tough team.”

The Tigers did slow OV down in the third quarter, allowing only hoops by Kelley and Jim Winslow in the first five minutes. By then they led by 32, 62-30, as Collins led the attack with eight more points, four by con-verting steals and two by dunking af-ter stripping Kelley in the open court. Senior guard James Hare scored three and Provencher added a pair.

OV got three points apiece late in the period from sophomore Derek Bassette and John Winslow, but the Tigers kept scoring to take a 69-36 lead into the final period. Pec-sok closed the period with two free throws and a buzzer-beating three-pointer.

The Otters dominated the fourth period with tough defense (they forced five of the Tigers’ 13 turn-overs in the quarter) and a combined 20 points from Kelley (11) and John Winslow (nine). Sophomore Emmett Thurston added a three-pointer and Gallipo tossed in a jumper for OV, while DeLorenzo scored seven of the Tigers’ 10 points.

For the Tigers, DeLorenzo scored 14; Pecsok, 13; Provencher, 11; and Burt and Weekes, seven apiece. De-Lorenzo led MUHS with five boards, and Provencher added four assists.

VUHS boys, Eagle girls lead county hoop teams

(See Wrap-up, Page 2B)

Tigers’ hot shootingtoo much for Otters

Before every season, Middlebury Union High School Activities Direc-tor Sean Farrell asks all boys and girls aspiring to be on teams that season and their parents and coaches to at-tend an organizational meeting at the high school.

We meet first as a group in the gym and then in individual team meetings. Coaches intro-duce themselves and their athletic philosophy and address relevant practical concerns.

I have two chil-dren at MUHS who enjoy sports so I have attended 11 of these meetings so far, and likely have five more coming up.

Sean often starts the assembly by discussing the jigsaw puzzle that is his life. He discusses the coaching defections since the last season and the challenge of filling his roster of coaches for that season.

It’s not as if his binders are full of abundantly qualified and meticulous-ly vetted candidates for every open-ing. He puts together a group of the best-qualified coaches he can.

Many years ago, when I was in my 20s, I took on a high school teaching and coaching job in Ohio. I started out as the JV basketball and baseball coach. At the beginning of the bas-ketball season, the athletic director handed me 15 warm-ups and 10 bas-ketballs.

He told me, “At the end of the sea-son, if you give me back 15 warm-ups and 10 basketballs, I’m going to think you’re a heck of a coach.” His con-cerns were practical.

When I was a kid myself, playing sports in school, my parents threat-ened to send me off to boarding school. I begged them not to do it. All I wanted in life, in adolescence, was to be a Lewiston High Blue Devil.

I wanted to play for the high school varsity coaches who were icons in the town. They saw themselves as the apex of a pyramid of participation,

OTTER VALLEY UNION High School senior Ryan Kelley, above and lower right, scored 28 points in the Ot-ters’ 79-61 loss to Middlebury Saturday afternoon.


OTTER VALLEY UNION High School sophomore Connor Gallipo races up the court during Saturday’s game against Middlebury.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell (See Tigers, Page 2B)

B — Addison Independent, Thursday, December 27, 2012

12/28 OV at Arlington .............. 7:30 p.m.1/4 VUHS at Montpelier ........ 12:30 p.m.1/5 Mt. Abe at Randolph .......... 2:30 p.m.

Wrestling12/27&28 .................................................. . OV, VUHS & Mt. Abe at MUHS Tourney1/2 ....................................... Duals at OV1/4&5 ............MUHS at Peru Tournament1/5 ...................... Mt. Abe at OV Tourney1/5 VUHS Duals Tournament .. 9:30 a.m.

Indoor Track1/5 VUHS at UVM ........................ 9 a.m.

Gymnastics1/4 MUHS at Essex ...................... 7 p.m.

Nordic1/4 OV at Burr & Burton ............... 6 p.m.1/5 MUHS at U-32 ...................... 10 a.m.

COLLEGE SPORTSMen’s Hockey

Holiday Classic at Kenyon:12/30 Manhattanville vs. Wentworth .....1

p.m.12/30 Midd. vs. Babson .................4 p.m.12/31 Consolation/Final ............ 1/4 p.m.1/4 Midd. at Wesleyan .................. 7 p.m.1/5 Midd. at Trinity ........................ 4 p.m.

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ScheduleSchedule(Continued from Page 1B)

and Saturday at Fair Haven’s holi-day tournament along with Burr & Burton and the host Slaters.

VUHS GIRLSOn Saturday, host South Burling-

ton eased past the Commodore girls, 55-10.

Cat Chaput had four points to lead Vergennes, who slipped to 0-4. The Commodores will look to break through with two home games this week, vs. Harwood on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 12:30 p.m. vs. Montpelier.

EAGLE BOYSHost BFA-Fairfax ran to a 69-30

win over the Mount Abe boys on Dec. 21. after taking a 20-5 first-quarter lead. Sawyer Kamman led the 1-3 Eagles with 15 points.

Mount Abe is set to host Randolph on Thursday at 7 p.m. and Winooski on Saturday at 12:30 p.m.

(Continued from Page 1B)

Wrap-up

Altemose also said sophomore point guard Bobby Ritter played well starting for Clarke, who the team hopes will return sometime in the next two or three weeks.

Without Clarke, he wanted the Tigers to show more patience offen-sively, and Altemose said that was a plus vs. OV.

“That was a big focus for today. We wanted to play a lot more like a team and move the ball a lot more … Today was a step in the right direc-tion,” he said.

Hughes said despite the setback there were some positives for his Ot-ters, including rebounding and the late surge, which he said has been a trademark so far.

Overall, Hughes said the Otters are improving, and will do so even more if they develop confidence.

“There’s definitely big potential,” he said. “If they just start believing in their ability to score and their ability to defend, it’s going to get so much better.”


FAIR HAVEN — The Middlebury Union High School wrestling team won one of three team dual matches at Fair Haven on Saturday, while five Tiger grapplers compiled winning records.

The Tigers defeated Burr & Bur-ton, 42-18; lost to Mount Mansfield, 48-24; and lost to Mount Anthony’s B team, 54-27.

Individual Tigers who had good days included:

• James Whitley, who compiled a 3-0 mark wrestling at 126 pounds.

• Jakob Trautwein, who went 3-0 at 182.

• Chris Gobbi, who went 2-1 at 195.

• Tyler LaPlant, who was 3-0 at both 220 and 285.

• Gabe Laberge, who was 3-0 at 285 and 220.

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the leader of a “program,” extending down into the junior high and even lower-level organized sports.

What are the incentives today to coach school sports? The pay is short and the hours long and the headaches many, sometimes overwhelming.

Working with teenagers, emerg-ing adults, and the parents who love them, sometimes intrusively, are a lot to take on, when your own life is de-manding enough without these chal-lenges.

Young athletes’ window of time is narrow indeed as they advance through the grades, growing in size and strength, gaining skills. They “retire” just as they are maturing into adults. The pressure on coaches to provide competitive opportunities is considerable.

It seems at times that for most par-ents, coaches possess the same flaw, more or less: it’s a syndrome called “my kid doesn’t play enough.”

It’s astonishing how often coaches lose competence in the blink of an eye. Brilliant one year, riding high, winning games, championships even; incompetent the next: the team is los-ing and they can’t coach anymore. Same approach, same level of effort, vastly different results.

President Kennedy famously said, “Victory has a thousand fathers, de-feat is an orphan.” Handling defeat, coaching a losing team, overmatched by their opponents, is often a coach’s truest test and the time when they need the most support.

As Hall of Fame basketball coach Al McGuire said, “The best thing in sports is winning; the second best thing is losing.” The key, either way, is the opportunity to live fully in the moment, to experience the exhilara-tion of athletic competition, even in

defeat. Though they share the same pres-

sures and demands, some coaches are indeed better than others, as in any line. Successful coaches come in all shapes and sizes, ages and back-grounds and personalities. They do share some qualities:

• They have a technical knowledge of the sport they’re coaching and an ability to impart that knowledge, the X’s and O’s. They are teachers of sport.

• They demonstrate respect and fairness to players, opponents and of-ficials. They have a love of competi-tion and sport generally and believe it to be a positive force in the devel-opment of young people. They enjoy kids.

• They understand the authority they have in the lives of young peo-ple and their responsibility to be role models and mentors. They know the importance of both a firm hand and a soft touch.

• They are dedicated to school and community and view sports in a larger social context. They identify with and communicate with other sharehold-ers — players, most of all, but also school administrators, teachers and parents, as tricky as that can often be.

In a word, they’re leaders. It’s a tough job.

This holiday season, let’s send spe-cial best wishes to the coaches of our teams in Addison County — at Mid-dlebury, Vergennes, Mount Abraham, and Otter Valley union high schools.

Let’s wish for them to receive the gift of the wisdom of Solomon, the patience of Job, the genius of Ein-stein.

And the personality of Bill Belich-ick.

Three out of four ain’t bad.

Lindholm (Continued from Page 1B)

OTTER SOPHOMORE JOHN Winslow puts a shot over the outstretched arm of Middlebury defender Tyler Provencher Saturday afternoon in Brandon. Middlebury won the game, 79-61.


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SOUTH BURLINGTON — The Middlebury Union High School boys’ hockey team opened its sea-son on Saturday with a 4-1 win at host Rice.

The Tigers snapped a 1-1 tie with three third-period goals to defeat the 1-3 Green Knights.

Devin Dwire gave the Tigers a 1-0 lead in the first, and Rice’s Ca-leb Connerty knotted the score at 1-1 before the period ended.

Nick Leach snapped the tie in the third period, and Ryan Crowning-shield and Justin Stone added pad goals for the Tigers.

Edgar Sherman backstopped the win for MUHS with 17 saves, while Rice goalie Mason Koster stopped 15 shots for Rice.

The Tigers will host their annual holiday tournament at the Memorial Sports Center this week, with three teams competing. MUHS faces off vs. Lake Placid on Thursday at 8 p.m., Lake Placid faces Brattleboro on Friday at 8 p.m., and Brattleboro and MUHS will meet on Saturday at 2 p.m.

VERMONT — An outstanding high school cross-country runner, a clutch high school soccer goal-scorer and a Middlebury College senior, who earned national recogni-tion, were honored by the Vermont Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association for their efforts in the month of November.

The VSSA chose Richford High School senior runner Elle Purrier as its Female High School Athlete of the Month, Champlain Valley Union senior soccer player Shane Haley as its Male High School Athlete of the Month, and Middlebury College’s Lauren Greer as its Open Division Athlete of the Month.

Each was elected in a statewide vote of the VSSA membership after being nominated by a VSSA mem-ber.

Greer capped her four-year Panther field hockey career, during which she became the program’s all-time lead-ing scorer, with seven goals in four tournament games in November. She scored twice in Middlebury’s 3-2 overtime win over Amherst in the NESCAC semifinals, including the OT game-winner. She also scored the tying goal late in regulation in the Panthers’ 3-2 OT win vs. Bow-doin in the NESCAC final, recorded three goals and an assist in their 6-2 first-round NCAA win vs. Skidmore, and had Middlebury’s lone tally in an upset loss in the second round.

Four days after that, she laced up her skates for the Panther women’s hockey team and scored three goals in four November games before breaking her ankle; she hopes to re-turn in January. Greer, nominated by Andy Kirkaldy of the Addison Inde-pendent, was named the NCAA Di-vision III field hockey player of the year.

Also nominated were Castleton State women’s soccer player Mal-lory Costello, Norwich women’s basketball player Aliah Curry, Nor-wich men’s basketball player Tom McDonald, and four men’s hockey players, Castleton’s Erick Cinotti, and Norwich’s Colin Mulvey, Pier-Olivier Cotnoir and Travis Janke.

Purrier’s Nike Northeast Regional win on Nov. 24 and her New England championship on Nov. 10 completed a two-year unbeaten streak east of the Rockies (her only cross-country loss came in Portland at the Nike na-tionals in 2011), and made her four-for-four over two seasons in the New England and Northeast regionals.

Purrier, who was nominated by VSSA president Josh Kauffman of the St. Albans Messenger, also won a second straight overall and third straight Division III state title on Nov. 3 while setting the best time in any high school girls’ race at Thet-ford since the course was redesigned in 2004. She has never lost a North-east, New England or state champi-onship cross-country race.

Also nominated for the VSSA’s November female high school honor were two soccer players, Peoples ju-nior Katie Stames and CVU senior Kate Raszka, and Harwood senior field hockey player Guusje Dam-steeg.

Haley racked up 25 goals and six assists this fall, including in No-vember the game-winning overtime strikes in the D-I semifinal and title games to help lead the CVU boys’ soccer team back to the state cham-pionship after a three-year hiatus.

Haley, nominated by Sheri Duff of the Shelburne News, was named the 2012 boys’ soccer player of the year by the Burlington Free Press and plans to continue his soccer career at

the University of Vermont. Haley out-polled one other soc-

cer player, Stowe junior Robert Bu-onanno, and three football players, Hartford seniors Michael Dulac and Josh Claflin and Rice senior Billy O’Brien.

2013 hunting, fishing and trapping licenses are now available

VERMONT — Vermont hunting, fishing and trapping licenses for the New Year are now available online at the Fish & Wildlife Department’s website (www.vtfishandwildlife.com).

“Many people like to purchase new licenses for themselves, friends or relatives before Jan. 1,” said Ver-mont Fish and Wildlife Commission-er Patrick Berry. “Whether you want to give a license as a gift or purchase it for yourself, we want to make it as easy as possible with our new online licensing system.”

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Printed copies of the 2013 Hunt-ing, Fishing & Trapping LAWS and GUIDE are available from license agents. The department’s website will soon have a link to an online version.

A nationwide survey revealed that Vermonters ranked second only to Alaskans in enjoying fish and wild-life resources recreationally in 2011. Sixty-two percent of Vermonters went fishing, hunting or wildlife watching, or enjoyed a combination of these activities, while 64 percent of Alaskans did the same.

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OTTER SOPHOMORE JOHN Winslow puts a shot over the out-stretched arm of Middlebury defender Tyler Provencher Saturday afternoon in Brandon. Middlebury won the game, 79-61.



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MIDDLEBURY — University of Vermont Extension (UVM) recently hired Whitney Emke to conduct af-terschool enrichment programs in Addison, southern Chittenden and northern Rutland counties.

Emke, who is with the Vermont Youth Development Corps Ameri-

Corps State Program, is based at the Middlebury Extension Office on Pond Lane. As the 4-H afterschool programs coordinator, she will pro-vide programs on science, technol-ogy, reading, nutrition and healthy living that are designed to teach kids collaboration, decision-making, crit-ical thinking and other life skills.

Programming typically is offered once a week in six- to eight-week cycles for age-appropriate groups of about eight to 10 students. Schools or youth organizations requesting programs are responsible for the cost of supplies, which vary based on the programming.

Available programs include Digi-tal Photography; Environmental Education; Food, Fun, and Read-ing; Food, Culture, and Reading; 4-H Energy Education; 4-H Super Science; Intro to Simple Machines; Junior Chefs; Junk Drawer Robotics; LEGO Robotics and Video Learning.

A Randolph, N.Y., native, Emke graduated from St. Bonaventure University with a bachelors of arts degree in English with a minor in journalism/mass communications. Before accepting the position with UVM Extension, she was a youth counselor at a residential treat-ment center for at-risk youth. Her 10-month term ends Aug. 3, 2013.

For in-depth program descriptions or to request a program for your school, contact Emke at (802) 388-4969, ext. 348, or email [email protected]. To inquire about in-school and afterschool programs in other parts of the state, call the UVM Extension State 4-H Office at (802) 656-5433 or (800) 571-0668.

MIDDLEBURY — The organiz-ing committee for the “Middlebury Maple Run — The Sweetest Half” has announced that Ingrid Punder-son Jackson (IPJ) Real Estate will be returning as the race’s title sponsor. Scheduled for Sunday, May 5, 2013, with a start time of 9 a.m., the Mid-dlebury Maple Run is one of New England’s “must-do” races with an estimated 800 to 1,000 runners ex-pected for the 2013 edition.

“Supporting the race really is a pleasure for us. The Middlebury Maple Run is so awesome and I love that it draws people from all over the region — and the country,” said In-grid Punderson Jackson. “Plus, we love that the race is so well run.”

The proceeds from 2012’s Mid-dlebury Maple Run were donated to several charities. A total of $6,500 was distributed among one national charity, the Cystic Fibrosis Founda-tion, and to several Addison County-based charities: H.O.P.E., Home-

ward Bound Animal Welfare Center, Helen Porter Healthcare and Reha-bilitation Center, Girls on the Run, MVAA and the Middlebury Police Department.

Local lodging properties, restau-rants and merchants will reap benefits as well. Approximately 40 percent of the runners have been from out of state — the majority from neighbor-ing New England states and New York. Many runners will be traveling with family and friends resulting in more than 1,000 visitors in the area during race weekend. The Addison County Chamber of Commerce es-timates the Middlebury Maple Run provides direct economic impact to the area of at least $100,000.

Organizing and hosting a 13-mile footrace is a large undertaking and the organizing committee is solicit-ing additional sponsorships. Busi-nesses interested in race sponsorship can contact Andrea Solomon at [email protected].

IPJ signs on as leadsponsor for Middlebury’spremier half marathon

UVM hires afterschooldirector for county towns

Otter Creek Brewing wins safety award

MIDDLEBURY — Otter Creek Brewing Co. in Middlebury has successfully earned the honor to be designated as a “SHARP Company,” only the ninth company in Vermont to receive such an award and only the fourth brewery nationwide achieve this recognition.

SHARP (The Safety Health Achievement Recognition Program) is a national program implemented by states under the federal OSHA. The award recognizes high-hazard businesses with exemplary safety and health management programs.

Vermont is now home to two breweries that have achieved this status, with Long Trail Brewing Co. in Bridgewater Corners having been designated a “SHARP Company” in 2010. Otter Creek received its SHARP flag at an open house event on Dec. 20 at its brewery in Middle-bury.

“This was a goal that our team set a few years ago so, so we are all thrilled to have achieved it,” said Jed Nelson, Otter Creek’s director of brand marketing. “To produce our world-class brews, we first need to be able to attract the most talented people and then provide them with a safe, healthy and happy work envi-ronment. This award reminds us that we are succeeding on all fronts.”

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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police cited Travis C. Huestis, 22, of Middlebury, for driving under the influ-ence, simple assault, unlawful mischief, assault on a police officer and resisting arrest, following an incident at the Greystone Motel on Route 7 South on Dec. 21. Police said they responded to the motel amid reports of an alleged drunk driver engaged in a fight. Police said they confronted Huestis, who allegedly ran from the scene before being taken into custody. Huestis declined a Breathalyzer test, according to police.

In other action last week, Middlebury police:• Responded to the reported

death, from natural causes, of a 91-year-old resident of the Lodge at Otter Creek on Dec. 17.• Received a report that

someone had stolen $708 from a Middlebury College student’s room in Battell Hall on Dec. 18.• Took into possession a

marijuana pipe that Middlebury Union High School officials had confiscated from a student on Dec. 19.• Investigated a report of a

woman, estimated at 55-60 years old, allegedly asking people on Main Street for money to help with her granddaughter’s cancer treatment on Dec. 18.• Servedatemporaryrestrain-

ing order on a man who had allegedly stolen a purse from his girlfriend on Dec. 18.• Responded to a report of a

man being bitten by a dog in the

East Munger Street neighbor-hood on Dec. 19.• Escorted an emotionally

distraught woman to Porter Hospital on Dec. 19.• Took, to Porter Hospital,

a troubled, intoxicated woman who said she was thinking about harming herself on Dec. 19.• Followed up on several

truancy complaints reported at Middlebury Union Middle School on Dec. 20. Police scheduled interviews with four families, three of whom didn’t show up. The fourth family said it would work to prevent the student from missing school.• Responded to a report of a

dispute between two residents of the Counseling Service of Addison County’s Hill House on Dec. 20. Police were able to defuse the situation.• Investigated an embezzle-

ment complaint at the Verizon Wireless office on Court Street on Dec. 20. The business manager will provide police with more details on alleged losses in the weeks ahead.• Responded to a property

damage complaint at Champlain Valley Plumbing and Heating (CVPH) on Exchange Street on Dec. 20. Police said a tractor-trailer unit had damaged a fence at the business and left the scene. A CVPH official chased

down the truck and was told by the driver that his bosses would pay for the damage — a claim that was later denied by the bosses.•Were informed on Dec.

20 that someone had stolen a junked car parked off Route 7 South and sold it to Earth Waste Systems for recycling.• Received a report that a

Browning BAR 30.06 hunting rifle had been stolen from a vehicle parked off Bakery Lane on Dec. 20. • Were informed on Dec. 21

that multiple items had been stolen from a unit at Middlebury Self Storage on Exchange Street.• Wenttothesceneofamulti-

ple-vehicle accident on Route 7 south in which a truck driver was killed (see related story, Page 1A).• Received another report

about a woman soliciting funds for a sick child, this time at the Town Hall Theater on Dec. 21.• Quieted a rowdywoman at

a Seminary Street apartment on Dec. 21.• Brought, to the Porter

Hospital emergency room, a woman who said she had consumed a bottle of Tylenol and wanted to harm herself on Dec. 23.• Responded to a report that

some men were in the act of steal-ing a bottle of wine from Shaw’s Supermarket on Washington Street on Dec. 23. No shoplifting charges were filed, but the men were confronted and spoken to by police.

VERGENNES – City police on Dec.21respondedtoaFirstStreetnoise complaint and ended up discovering the aftermath of what they believe was a fight between a man and a woman. Vergennes Police said the two were “heavily intoxicated,” and during the fight the man apparently suffered a broken bone.

Police found the couple lying on the porch of a First Streetresidence and said several nearby items were knocked over. Neither the man or the woman were willing to make statements about what occurred, police said, and no charges were filed.

However, the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad had to take the man to Porter Hospital for treatment of a broken leg, and police took the woman involved to the Act 1 detoxification facility in Burlington to sober up.

In other action between Dec. 17 and 23, Vergennes police:

On Dec. 17, helped motorists get into locked cars on Thomas Circle and Monkton Road.

On Dec. 19, issued a ticket for tobacco use at Vergennes Union High School.

On Dec. 19, checked the welfare of a Mountain View Lane couple, who were found to be fine.

On Dec. 19, were told by a Hillside Acres apartment resident that he had pursued a suspicious man wearing a black hoodie who was lurking in the complex parking lot into nearby bushes,

and that the man struck him. Police could not find the man wearing the hoodie.

On Dec. 19, checked out a suspicious car in the Eagles Club parking lot and found no problem.

On Dec. 20, tried to find a woman at a Main Street residence on behalf of South Burlington police.

On Dec. 20, were told by Northlands Job Corps personnel they could not locate a student who had left the center. Police spoke to a friend of the student and learned he was OK.

On Dec. 20, checked the welfare of a Northlands student who had threatened suicide; the student said he was OK and did not intend to harm himself.

On Dec. 20, were told by a Champlain Farms employee thata man had stolen $50 and other items and had left without paying for gas; police will use store video to investigate.

On Dec. 21, checked the welfare of a Green Street resident who had not showed up for work; police found her at home, and she was OK.

On Dec. 21, checked out a driver of a car reported as driving suspiciously in the South Maple Street/Ice House Court

area and discovered the driver was a surveyor working in the neighborhood.

On Dec. 21, helped a man get into his locked car in a Panton Road parking lot.

On Dec. 21, sent the department Drug Recognition Expert to New Haven to help Vermont State Police determine if a motorist was safe to drive. The Vergennes DRE decided the motorist was not impaired.

On Dec. 22, while on a special drunk-driving patrol for the Governor’s Highway Safety Council cited James Slater, 29, of Salt Lake City, Utah, for driving under the influence of alcohol; police allege his blood-alcohol contest tested at 0.81, just over the legal limit of 0.80.

On Dec. 23, while on Route 22A in Panton and making a U-turn, clocked a car going 95 mph. Police could not catch the car before it turned down a side road and escaped.

On Dec. 23, asked the owners of several cars parked illegally near St. Peter’s Catholic Church to move their vehicles.

On Dec. 23, served a relief-from-abuse order on a man after a Main Street woman came to the station to report a family fight.

On Dec. 23, began an investigation of a reported violation of a relief-from-abuse order committed by a Main Street resident.

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AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑comers welcome. Confiden‑tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to second floor) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15pm.

ALATEEN: FOR YOUNG PEOPLE who’ve been af‑fected by someone’s drink‑ing. Members share experi‑ence, strength, hope to solve common problems. Meets Wednesdays 7:15‑8:15pm downstairs in Turning Point Center of Addison County in Middlebury Marbleworks. (Al‑Anon meets at same time nearby at St. Stephens Church.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS NORTH FER‑RISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑M O U S V E R G E N N E S MEETINGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Discussion Meeting 8:00‑9:00 PM. Both held at St. Paul’s Church, Park St. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congre‑gational Church, Water St.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Federated Church, Church St.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS BRANDON MEET‑INGS: Monday, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, RT 7 South.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS RIPTON MEETINGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meet‑ing 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, Grapevine Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM. Both held at Ripton Fire‑house, Dugway Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑sion Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at the Turning Point Center in the Marbleworks, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS MONDAY: As Bill Sees It Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at the Turning Point Center in the Marbleworks, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS TUESDAY: 11th Step Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. ALTEEN Group. Both held at Turning Point, 228 Maple Street. 12 Step Meet‑ing Noon‑1:00 PM. 12 Step Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at the Turning Point Center in the Marbleworks, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Women’s Meeting 5:30‑6:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center in the Marble‑works, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at the Turning Point Center in the Marbleworks, Middlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Stephen’s Church, Main St.(On the Green).

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS FRIDAY: Discus‑sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at the Turning Point in the Marbleworks, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑MOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS SATURDAYD i s c u s s i o n M e e t i n g 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Mid‑dlebury United Methodist Church. Discussion Meeting 10:00‑11:00 AM. Women’s Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Be‑ginners Meeting 6:30‑7:30 PM. These three meetings are held at the Turning Point Center in the Marbleworks, Middlebury.

ARE YOU BOTHERED by someone’s drinking? What‑ever your problems, there are those of us who have had them too. We invite you to our Opening Our Hearts Women’s Al‑Anon group, meeting every Wednes‑day at 7:15 pm upstairs at St.Stephen’s on the Green in Middlebury.

BIBLICAL RECOVERY GROUP Meeting, Mondays 6:30‑7:30pm at Grace Bap‑tist Church, Merchants Row, Middlebury. psalm62minis‑tries.org .

OVEREATERS ANONY‑MOUS: SATURDAYS at Lawrence Memorial Li‑brary, 1:00pm. 40 North Street, Bristol. For info cal l : 802‑453‑2368 or 802‑388‑7081.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑MOUS: TUESDAYS at Turn‑ing Point Center, 5:15pm. Marble Works, Middlebury. For info call: 802‑352‑4525 or 802‑388‑7081.

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MIDDLEBURY NATURAL FOODS Co‑op seeks an As‑sistant Bookkeeper to take the lead on all aspects of accounts payable and a wide range of administrative tasks. Ideal candidate has several years experience working with ac‑counts payable, money han‑dling, Excel, and QuickBooks. Must be detail oriented, able to work well with others, pro‑vide excellent customer ser‑vice and cashier as needed. Full‑time with excellent benefit package. To apply, complete application (available in our store at www.middleburycoop.com) and send it with a letter of interest to: Middlebury Natu‑ral Foods Co‑op, 1 Washing‑ton St., Middlebury, VT 05753.

PROPERTY MANAGER; PART‑TIME. Local Vermont company seeks part‑time live‑in on‑site manager for 36 residential apartments in Middlebury. Qualified ap‑plicant will possess good communication and handy‑man skills. Valid driver’s license required. Previous property management ex‑perience a plus. Call John at 802‑846‑5430 to inquire.

THE BURLINGTON FREE Press is looking for indepen‑dent contractors to deliver our newspaper in the towns of Bridport, Monkton, Starks‑boro. Must be available early mornings (done by 6 am). Must have reliable vehicle with proof of license and insurance. If interested, con‑tact Monique at 316‑7194.

BANKRUPTCY: Call to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 388‑1156.

BRANDON, DOWNSTAIRS 2 bedroom apartment. With‑out utilities. $600 / month. 802‑247‑5280.

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Specializing in…• Small Professional Corporations• Sub Chapter “S” Corporations• Sole Proprietorship• Partnerships• Non-profi t Organizations

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802-878-7188Located in Addison , VT

802-343-3609fax 759-2037

• Bookkeeping • Financial Management • Accounts Receivable • Accounts Payable

Specializing in...• Small Professional Corporations • Sub Chapter “S” Corporations • Sole Proprietorship • Partnerships • Non-profit Organizations

Located in Addison, VT802-343-3609

fax 759-2307

Concentrate on what you do best. Let us

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Maurice plouffe802-545-22511736 Quaker Village Road

Weybridge, VT 05753

• floor care• handyman• healthcare• insulation• lumber• masonry

• Windshield Repair • Insulated Glass • Plate Glass • Window Glass • Plexiglass • Safety Glass • Mirrors

• Auto Glass • Storm Windows • Screen Repairs • Custom Shower Door Enclosures

Vinyl Replacement windows and Complete InstallationInsurance Approved discounts

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or

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275 South 116Bristol, VT 05443

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275 South 116, Bristol, Vermont 05443(802) 453-3351• Cell (802) 363-5619

40 TYPES OF RENTAL EQUIPMENT TO CHOOSE FROM

Chimney Service

insured

Now Offering Firewood to

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• Chimney, Pellet, Woodstove, & Dryer Vent Cleaning• Video Inspection • Stainless Steel Relining • Repairs • Class A Chimneys • Caps • Thermocrete • Smoketite • Water Sealing • Pressure Washing

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(802) 558-4336

Blacksmith

RESIDENTIAL WIRING & TROUBLE SHOOTINGTERRY BLAIRLICENSED & INSURED 388-6869

Electrician

Equipment Rentals

Dentistry

Field Automotive Inc.Complete Auto Service • Domestic & Foreign Repairs

Preventive MaintenanceBrakes • Tune-ups • Exhausts

Towing • Alignments Air Conditioning • State Inspections

62 Meigs Rd., Vergennes877-9222

Over 30 yrs. experience

Automotive

Handyman

Small JobSSmall JobS453-5611

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Mike DeverHonest Dependable

• Excavators - 3 Sizes• Skid Steers - 3 Sizes• Dump Trailer• Compactors• Tractor with bucket - Back Hoe - Brush Hog - Rototiller

• Hay Bale Mulcher

DELIVERY AVAILABLELocated at the corners of Route 116 & 17 in Bristol

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CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

Healthcare

Happy Hearts Home Care, Inc.Offer our clients health care with: dignity, consideration, confidentiality and honesty. Allowing them to be independent longer.

business: 802-352-9838toll free: 866-352-9838

Robin Jacksoncare coordinator802-349-9482

Joyce Dupoisecare consultant

802-349-8899provides care 24/7

CLOVER STATEWINDOW & SIDING CO., INC

Windows • Vinyl siding • GaragesRoofs • Additions • Decks

Waste Management – Roll-off container service

Fast, friendly, reliable service & competitive rates.

802-877-2102 Toll Free: [email protected]

www.cloverstate.com

The PC MediC of VerMonTGET YOUR COMPUTER RUNNING LIKE NEW AGAIN !

• Fast, Reliable Repairs• Hardware & Software Installations & Upgrades

• Spyware Removal & Virus Protection • Secure Wireless Network Setup• Computer Purchasing Assistance

• Affordable Rates at Your Convenience

Paul Claudon • 802-734-6815 [email protected]

“We try our best to give superior quality and comfort.

Our team cares about your dental health.”

Thomas A. Coleman, D.D.S.Ayrshire Professional Building

5 Carver Street • Brandon, VT 05733

(802) 247-3336www.drtomcoleman.com

Andre’s Floor Refinishing- An Established Vermont Business with Over 25 Years of Experience -

54 Daigneault Hill RoadOrwell, Vermont 05760 802-948-2004

Specializing in Hardwood & Softwood Floors

Commercial Oil and Waterborne FinishesQuailty Workmanship - Competitive Pricing

Floor Care

Insulation

Dense Pack Cellulose • Blown In InsulationComplete Air Sealing

802-545-2251 • Maurice Plouffe 1736 Quaker Village Road, Weybridge, VT 05753

CSI: ComputerSpecialists Inc.

388-1444www.computersvt.com

Rte 7 So., Middlebury (across from A&W)

Your LOCAL PC Specialist• Computer Sales & Service• Business and Residential• Networking• New Reduced Rates

No job too small- kitchen, baths, additions and remodeling.

802-349-8298

[email protected] • Addison, VT

Tom GouldCarpenter/Contractor

Gould & Sons

References Available

Floor Care

802-388-7828 End of S. Munger St. Middlebury

Rough Lumber

PineSiding

Open most nights & weekends

Long Beams

Native Vermonter

Lumber

DAVID PETERS MASONRY & CONSTRUCTION, LTD.

CELL: 802 349 9795 HOME: 802 352 4749www.vermonthomeandhearth.com

[email protected]

Stone...everlasting...a balance of logic, strength and scale... a framework for

nature’s enduring beauty.

Stone & BrickMasonry

Fireplaces • Hearths • Chimneys Chimney Cleaning & Inspeciton

Repair & Repointing • Patios Walls • Cultured Stone • Steps

RoofingAsphalt, Slate, & Standing Seam Roofing & Roof Repair

Masonry

Happy to work nights, weekends and holidays.

References available.

Melissa Raymond 631-708-7435 or 802-989-8457

EXPERIENCED, ATTENTIVE, LOVING ELDERCARE

in your home


Property Management

B. Michael Paul L.S., P.P.Land Surveyor & Professional Planner

On-Time, Cost Effective, ProfessionalLand Surveying & Planning Services

802-453-6000 ~ [email protected]

Renewable Energy

• Heating Systems• Plumbing Supplies• Professional Installation

• Bathroom Design• Water Treatment• Great Advice

Rt. 22A, Orwell 948-2082

•388-2705

DUNDON'SPlumbing &

Heating

Pressure Washing

VERMONT PRESSURE WASHING

(802) 558-4336(802) 558-2966

DECKS • HOUSES • SIDEWALKS GRAFFITI • FLEETS •JETTING

• COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS • KITCHEN HOOD & RANGE • PAINTING & STAINING

• ROOF CLEANING • PAVER CLEANING/SEALING

SWEEPS, LLC. • Free Estimates • Fully Insured www.vtpressurewashing.com

BRISTOL ELECTRONICS802-453-2500

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The #1 Solar Hot Water Systems Installerin the state of Vermont for 2011.

Call for a FREE on-site evaluation

RENTAL MANAGEMENTARE YOU TIRED OF TRYING TO FIND THE PERFECT TENANT?

Let us handle everything from advertising to collecting your rent.

Contact us to find out how we can help you.

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NEW HAVEN

SELF STORAGE

Storage Units Available!We also now haveBoat, Car & R.V.storage!

2877 ETHAN ALLEN HWY. (RT.7)NEW HAVEN, VT • 453-5563

Now owned by Mike’s Auto & Towing

Under new management!

Painting

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ROOFINGDAVID PETERS

MASONRY & CONSTRUCTION, LTD.

CELL: (802) 349-9795HOME: (802) 352-4749

Standing Seam, Asphalt & Slate Roofing & Roof Repair

www.vErMOntHOMEandHEartH.COM [email protected]

Business Service D I R E C T O R Y& • medical supplies

• painting• plumbing & heating• pressure washing• property management• renewable energy

• roofing• septic• septic & water• sewing• siding• stamps


453-2226winter products

Bulk Salt • Bulk Sawdust Salted Sand

Debarked FirewoodPlowing & Sanding

Winter Products

• storage• surveying• veterinary services• winter products

LAROSE SURVEYS, P.C.Ronald L. LaRose, L.S. • Kevin R. LaRose, L.S.

Land Surveying/Septic Design“We will take you through the

permitting process!”

25 West St. • PO Box 388Bristol, VT 05443

Telephone: 802-453-3818Fax: 802- 329-2138

[email protected]

Short Surveying, inc.Serving Addison County Since 1991

Timothy L. Short, L.S.Rodney Orvis, L.S.

Property Line Surveys • Topographical SurveysFEMA Elevation Certificates

135 S. Pleasant St., Middlebury, VT 388-3511 [email protected]

FIND IT HERE!

Washington St. Ext.Middlebury

www.middleburyah.com

388-2691Thomas L. Munschauer, D.V.M.

Scott Sutor, D.V.M.Tracy A. Winters, V.M.D.

Mark C. Doran, V.M.D.

Veterinary Services

STORAGE4 Sizes ~ Self-locking unitsHardscrabble Rd., Bristol

Monthly prices6’x12’ $30 • 8’x12’ $45

10’x12’ $55 • 12’x21’ $75

•

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FOR SEPTIC TANK PUMPING & DRAIN CLEANING SERVICE,

Rely on the professionals.PORTABLE RESTROOMS

Rt. 22A, Orwell948-2082

•388-2705

DUNDON'SPlumbing &

Heating

Phone (802) 537-3555

roofi ngMichael Doran• Standing seam

• Asphalt shingles • Slate

Free estimates • Fully Insured

As seen at Addison County Field Days!

Septic

• Licensed• Certified• Professional

Tank PumpingTank & System Inspections

New Systems InstalledAll Septic System RepairsRESIDENTIAL/COMMERCIAL

Medical Supplies

Marble Works, Middlebury, VT

Medical Equipmentand Oxygen

SALES & RENTALKnowledgable Staff Personalized Service

388-9801 Fax:388-4146

Sewing

15 Years of Service • Reasonable RatesQuick Turn Around

In Home Service AvailableAlterations • Zipper Replacement

Hems & More

PINS & NEEDLESLynda Wetmore Bushman

802-388-7423

Septic & Water

AIRPORT AUTOSelf Storage • Low RatesAlso a good selection of used vehicles

44 School House Hill Road, E. Middlebury

388-0432 • 388-8090

Kevin R. LaRose, L.S., E.I.Site Technician

Email: [email protected]

163 Revell RoadLincoln, VT 05443

(802) 453-4384FAX (802) 453-5399

Celebrating 28 YearsEnvironmental Consultants – Certified Site Technicians

Steve Revell CPG-CST

• Water Supply - Location, Development and Permitting• On-Site Wastewater Design • Single & Multiple Lot Subdivision• Property Development & Permitting• State and Local Permitting• Underground Storage Tank Removal & Assessment

Fax 802-453-5399 • Email: [email protected] Revell Drive • Lincoln, VT 05443

Toll-Free: 800-477-4384802-453-4384

www.lagvt.com

Stamps

All Seasons Painting

382-1644Established in 1990

Interior/ExteriorCommercial

Free Estimates All work professionally done & guaranteed

Available at the Addison Independent

in the Marble Works, Middlebury

388-4944

MADE TOORDER

Self Inking & Hand Stamps


RN, LPN or MAwanted for busy family

practice in Bristol.

vSend resume & cover

letter to Mountain Health Center,

74 Munsill Ave, Ste.100Bristol VT, 05443

[email protected]

For Sale

7’ POOL TABLES, 3/4” 1‑piece slate, totally recon‑ditioned, like new. $950. 802‑388‑4831.

A N T I Q U E F A I N T ‑I N G C O U C H : $ 3 0 0 . Cal l 802‑855‑8262 or 802‑349‑0065.

BULK SALT AND salted sand; loaded or delivered. Livingston Farm Landscape. 802‑453‑2226.

BUSINESS FOR SALE. Delilah’s Hair Styling, Bran‑don. A 4‑station salon (with 3 rented out). For more infor‑mation Call 802‑623‑7271.

I ‑PAD: L igh t ly used, charger included. Great Christmas Gift. $250. Call 802‑388‑2528.

MEN’S LEATHER COW‑BOY Boots. Size 9.5 D. Like new, purchased in Wyoming. $100. OBO. Call 802‑377‑7590.

3MO’S COUNTRY RAB‑BITS: Fresh Rabbit Meat for sale. Average weight: 4‑5 lbs. Charging $14.00 per rabbit. Also selling live adult rabbits, as well as baby rabbits for negotiable price. Many different breeds includ‑ing “Giants”. May be seen by appointment. Call Mo O’Keefe at 802‑349‑8040. Great Meat. Great Pets. Great Prices.

3PIANO: SPINET PIANO‑ Fits nicely in small space and will move easily. $275. To see, email [email protected] or call 802‑848‑7092.

THE BARREL MAN: 55 gal‑lon Plastic and Metal barrels. Several types: 55 gallon rain barrels with faucets, Food grade with removable locking covers, plastic food grade with spin‑on covers (pickle barrels). Many types of bar‑rels including 275 gallon food grade totes. 55 gallon salt / sand barrels PT legs. Deliv‑ery available. 802‑453‑4235.

Vacation Rentals

1, 2 AND 3 BEDROOM rentals on Lake Dunmore, Nicely furnished. Most with drilled wells, satellite, internet, washer / dryer. All non‑smoking, most no pets. 2‑6 people max. Weekend or weekly starting at $500. 802‑352‑6678.

For Rent

2 BEDROOM EFFICIENCY cottage, Lake Dunmore. 15 miles from Middlebury. Avail‑able January 1, 2013 to June 15, 2013. $800 / mo. plus utili‑ties. 802‑388‑4831.

2 BEDROOM UPSTAIRS apartment. $1145 / mo. In‑cludes electricity, hot wa‑ter, heat, rubbish removal. No pets. Security deposit. 802‑453‑4037.

2400 SQ. FT. AVAILABLE for short or long term. Two loading dock doors on Rt. 7 in Middlebury make it ideal for storage and distribu‑tion. Opportunity for addi‑tional space in May. Call 802‑247‑3658 for more in‑formation.

3 BDR, 2 Bath house for rent. Deck, privacy, extraordinary view. $1200 / month. Would consider short term rental. 802‑373‑6708.

4000 SQUARE FEET or less. Professional Office space in Middlebury, multi‑ room, receptionist desk. Ground level, parking, handi‑capped‑accessible. Available now. 802‑558‑6092.

7500 SQ.FT. OF USDA approved processing fa‑cil ity space. Exchange Street, Middlebury. For info 802‑388‑4831.

BRANDON 1 BDRM down‑stairs apartment with office for $675 / month. Includes heat up to 70 degrees, trash and snow removal. First, Security and 1 year lease required. No smoking, no pets. 802‑247‑0115.

BRANDON 2 BR $650 + utilities. 802‑773‑9107 www.thefuccicompany.com .

BRANDON 3BR APART‑MENT Private entryway, full bath, carpetted bedrooms, laundry hook‑up, basement / storage, desirable parking. $940, heat, w&s included. 802‑352‑4700.

BRIDPORT; 1 BEDROOM, bath and 4‑room apartment with porch / lawn. Washer / dry‑er, heat / hot water included. No smoking, no pets. Ref‑erences. $775 / month plus security deposit. Only living unit in building. For more info, David 802‑758‑2546.

BRISTOL 1 BEDROOM h e a t e d a p a r t m e n t . Lease, references, credit check. No pets. $585 / mo. 802‑453‑3712 .

B R I S TO L C O T TA G E HOUSEMATE: Charming! Fully furnished. Private bed‑room with attached living room. No pets, non‑smoking. $700 / month. Share utilities. 1 mile from village. Call 802‑363‑4789.

BRISTOL COTTAGE, PRI‑VATE SETTING, furnished, on 4 acres. No smoking. References. $900 / month. 520‑481‑5801.

BRISTOL LARGE ONE bed‑room apartment. Walking distance to town. No pets. No smoking. $700 / month and utilities and deposit. Call 802‑388‑0730.

BRISTOL LODGE one / plus bedroom, efficient gas heat, includes water and sewer, no pets / smoking. $700 plus electric and heat. Call Tom, 453‑4670.

BRISTOL LODGE: One / plus bedroom, efficient gas heat, includes water and sewer, no pets / smoking. $700 plus electric and heat, call Tom at 802‑453‑4670.

HOUSE; $850 / MONTH. 1 bedroom plus loft. Includes: stove, refrigerator, w/d hook‑up. Located 2 miles north of Middlebury. Deposit required. No pets. No smok‑ing. 802‑349‑7557.

LAKE DUNMORE 2 Bed‑room unfurnished year round home. Includes all appli‑ances, mowing and snow plowing. $1000 / month. No pets, no smoking, no utili‑ties included. First, Last and Security deposit required. Application and references required. 802‑438‑5385.

LAKE DUNMORE; 2 bed‑room, completely furnished house for 6 month rental. $800 / mo. plus utilities. Washer / dryer, screened porch, 85’ of private lake frontage across road with gorgeous views of Moosal‑amoo. No pets, no smoking. 802‑352‑6678.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ROOM apartment near downtown. Appliances, lease, security deposit. No pets. Real‑Net Management, Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY 4 BED‑ROOM house available with Washer / Dryer. Electric included. $1100 / month plus heat. To inquire, mail to P.O. Box 702, East Middlebury, VT 05740.

MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE: Ground floor Court St. location. Off street park‑ing. 600 to 2,000 sq. ft. Re‑al‑Net Management, Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY: 4 BED‑ROOM House. $1400 / month plus utilities. Great Green Mountain view. Please no smoking, no pets. 802‑388‑6363.

MIDDLEBURY: BEAUTI‑FUL, BRIGHT, Furnished second floor apartment with private entrance. One bed‑room with queen bed, full shower / bath. Living room / kitchen with futon. There are no other tenants in this recently restored farmhouse which is on two acres, sur‑rounded by woods and trails. One mile from Middlebury and the college. Rent in‑cludes all utilities: electric, heat, hot water, cable tv, wi‑fi, microwave, linens, trash / re‑cycling, washer / dryer, snow plowing. No pets, no smok‑ing. Security deposit and references required. $950 / month. Flexible lease terms. 802‑382‑9467.

NEW HAVEN: $825 / month, 2 Bedrooms. Includes ap‑pliances, heat, hot water, trash / snow removal, Dish TV. Green Mountain views, very quiet. No smoking, no pets, no W/D. References required. 802‑453‑7487.

NEW HAVEN: 2 BEDROOM with all appliances, washer / dryer, heat and rubbish pick‑up. No pets. No smoking. $775 / mo. $825. deposit. Em‑ployment and rental history required. Call 802‑453‑2275.

NEW HAVEN: 2 BEDROOM with all appliances, washer / dryer, heat and rubbish pick‑up. No pets. No smoking. $775 / mo. $825 deposit. Em‑ployment and rental history required. Call 802‑453‑2275.

NEW HAVEN; 1 bedroom apartment. Utilities and heat included. No pets. $830 / mo. plus security. 802‑453‑3870.

RIPTON TWO bedroom second floor apartment with deck, 600s.f. $650 / month plus utilities. No pets. No smoking. Call 382‑8567.

RV, BOAT AND HEATED MOTORCYCLE STOR‑AGE Ava i l ab le . Ca l l 802‑453‑5563.

SELF‑STORAGE, 8X10 units. Your lock and key, $50 / month. Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

TWO & THREE BEDROOM apartment, carpet / tile, w/d hookups plus onsite laundry. Ample parking and storage. Includes trash, lawn care, snow removal, professional management and 24 hour maintenance. Efficient gas heat / hot water. In quiet Middlebury neighborhood. References required. Please call (802) 472‑5016 for more information, rental prices, and to obtain an application. Equal Housing Opportunity.

TWO‑ BAY GARAGE, de‑posit, references. Middle‑bury. 802‑558‑6092.

VERGENNES, 285 MAIN ST. available now. Medium 2‑bedroom, full bath, laun‑dry hookups, large enclosed porch, includes heat and hot water. $900. Call only 8am‑8pm, 349‑4125.

W E E K LY R E N TA L S AVA I L A B L E . C o n ‑tact 802‑388‑4091 and 802‑388‑4935.

WOODLAND APART‑MENTS Now Leasing in Bristol. 2 & 1 Bedrooms, as well as Efficiency availability. Call 802‑453‑3693.

Wood Heat

CORNWALL, VT: WELL Seasoned 3”x5” diameter, 16 inch length firewood. Mostly hardhack. $300. per cord. You pick up $245 cash. Get it while it lasts. 802‑462‑3313.

DRY FIRE WOOD For Sale. Cal l for pr ices. Steady Property Mainte‑nance at 802‑247‑5475 or 802‑349‑8265.

DRY FIREWOOD. ALL hard‑wood. $250 / cord; cut, split, delivered. 802‑352‑1034, 802‑349‑5457.

DRY FIREWOOD. CUT, split and delivered. $275 / cord. 802‑388‑7300.

FIRE WOOD. 100% hard‑wood. $230 / cord. Telephone 802‑247‑9782.

FIREWOOD, cut, split and delivered. Green or sea‑soned. Call Tom Shepard at 453‑4285.

LOOKING FOR A low impact logging / wood job. 802‑453‑2673.

MOUNTAIN ROAD FIRE‑WOOD: hardwoods for sale. Call for price. 802‑759‑2095.

SABOURIN FIREWOOD: Top Quality. Dry. $250 per cord. Delivered. Call Ge‑rard, 802‑989‑1371 or 802‑897‑2697.

SEASONED FIREWOOD, CLEAN de‑barked, mixed hard woods. $250 / cord, delivery available. Phone orders and credit cards ac‑cepted. 802‑453‑2226.

Real Estate

4 ACRE CORNWALL Hilltop building site with expansive view‑ Camel’s Hump to Kil‑lington. Approved septic design. All permits on file. 220 acres also available. www.landwoodwater.com 619‑208‑2939. oppa6@ya‑hoo.com .

6.8 ACRES HILLSIDE land in Salisbury. Beautiful south‑westerly exposures and sun‑sets. Secluded site. Right of way to land in place; includes water and power ease‑ments. New town assess‑ment $36,900. Cash price $25,000. Serious inquiries only please. 802‑352‑6678.

FORESTDALE 3 BED‑ROOM house, 2 story, 2 bath, large kitchen, dining area, large living room, foyer attached to 2 car garage. .8 acres, large fenced in yard. Appraised at $149,000. 802‑855‑8262 or 802‑349‑0065.

Animals

ALASKAN WOLFHOUND PUPS: These pups will be great family pets and athletic giants that will be excellent hiking or x‑c skiing compan‑ions. Black brindle, silver brindle and sable males and females. Visit these wonder‑ful pups and see their beauti‑ful intelligent parents and grandparents on premises. Ready to go December 18. Wormed and vaccinated. Email David at wolfrunken‑[email protected] .

Att. Farmers

145 ACRES AVAILABLE for five year lease. Organic preferred. $5500 per year. First and last year rent paid at signing of contract. 619‑208‑2939. www.land‑woodwater.com .

FOR SALE: GREEN pine sawdust. Please call 802‑878‑2668.

FOR SALE: ONE Agri metal round bail feed cart. Call 802‑759‑2135.

HAY FOR SALE. Small square bales, 4x4 round bales net wrapped. Dick Stone, 388‑2318.

HAY FOR SALE: Small square bales. First cut, second cut, and mulch. Delivery available. Call for pricing. 802‑453‑4481, 8 0 2 ‑ 3 4 9 ‑ 9 2 8 1 , o r 802‑989‑1004.

HAY FOR SALE; first and second cut. Call 352‑4686.

SAWDUST; STORED AND undercover. Large tandem silage truck $600, delivered. Large single axle dump $250, delivered. Single axle dump $185, delivered. Pick up also available. Phone order and credit cards ac‑cepted. 802‑453‑2226.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK Pond agi‑tating, liquid manure haul‑ing, mouldboard plowing. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Cars

FREE JUNK CAR REMOV‑AL. Cash paid for some com‑plete cars. Call 388‑0432 or 388‑2209.

SUVs

32003 JEEP LIBERTY: Green, 105,508 miles. Re‑cently refurbished. $3500 OBO. 802‑349‑6874.

Wanted

3KITTEN WANTED: Looking for grey or orange tiger kitten in time for the Christmas holi‑day. Male or Female. Prefer‑ably with first shots. Please call Kelly at 802‑388‑4944.

WANTED TO BUY 1 item or houseful. Also old books. Call Blue Willow Antiques. 802‑247‑5333.

CLASSIFIEDSAddison Independent

Shoreham Service Centeris becoming a

Now hiring for all positionsFull and part-time.

Full-time positions with benefits.

Apply in person atShoreham Service CenterRte. 22A, Shoreham, VT

EOE

Addison CentrAl supervisory union

Bus Supervisor(Anticipated Opening)

Several schools within ACSU are seeking a paraprofessional to supervise and support the transportation of four students to and from the Burlington area on a daily basis. The position requires the individual to be available for morning and afternoon commutes for the remainder of the school year. Each run is approximately 2.5 – 3 hours in length. Experience working with elementary and middle school-aged students preferred.Apply by sending a letter of interest, resume, and three current reference letters to:

Dr. Gail B. Conley, SuperintendentAddison Central Supervisory Union

49 Charles AvenueMiddlebury, VT 05753

Position Open Until FilledE.O.E.

Middlebury union Middle School

Paraprofessional

Middlebury Union Middle School is seeking a Paraprofessional. This individual must be able to work in a classroom setting, work collaboratively with teachers and possess good rapport and communication skills with students.Apply by sending a letter of interest,

resume, three current reference letters, and complete transcripts to:

Dr. Gail B. Conley, SuperintendentAddison Central Supervisory Union

49 Charles AvenueMiddlebury, VT 05753

Position Open Until FilledE.O.E.

3 bdrm, 1 bth, on 3 acresPrivate lot, 3 miles west of Fair Haven, VTWhitehall NY School District$850/mo. First/Last & Security Required802-265-3766

HOUSE FOR RENT

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA VS.BECKY BRIGGS, etal., Civil No. 2:12-cv-00144

NOTICE OF JUDICIAL SALEIn obedience to an Judgement Order, Decree of Foreclosure and Order for Judicial Sale

dated October 12, 2012, and recorded in the Brandon Town Land Records, for breach of the mortgage as stated therein, and for the purpose of foreclosing the same, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on the 10th day of January, 2013 at 3:00 p.m. at the land and premises known as 6 North Seminary Street, Brandon, VT 05733, the said real property and improvements theron, as further described in said mortgage (the “Property”), will be auctioned, “AS IS, WHERE IS” with no representations or warranties, express or implied, of any kind, subject to all superior liens, if any, to the highest and best bidder for cash.

The legal description of the property foreclosed upon can be found in the mortgage filed in the Brandon Land Records and all deeds and instruments of record. The physical address of the property is 6 North Seminary Street, Brandon, VT 05733

The mortgagors are entitled to redeem the property at any time prior to the auction by paying the full amount due under the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure, includ-ing the costs and expense of auction.

An OPEN HOUSE will be held at the property on December 19, 2012, between 12:00 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.

The United States reserves the right to cancel or postpone the auction at any time.

For written copy of the (1) Decree of Foreclosure which contains the terms and condi-tions of said auction, and (2) the purchase agreement, contact Terry Owen.

Terry Owen, Thomas Hirchak Company, 1-800-634-7653, www.THCAuction.com.

WARNING: ANNUAL MEETING, FIRE DISTRICT #1EAST MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT

The legal voters of Fire District #1 in the Town of Middlebury are hereby warned and notified to meet at the East Middlebury Community House on Monday, January 14, 2013, at 7:00 PM to transact the following business, to wit: FIRST: To hear, discuss and act upon the reports from the Prudential Committee, the Treasurer/Collector of Water Rents, and the Auditor SECOND: To hear reports from the Fire Department, the Historical Society, the Sarah Partridge Library, and the Town of Middlebury. THIRD: To elect Officers of the District as follows: A Moderator, A Clerk, A Treasurer, A Collector of Water Rents, An Auditor, A Member of the Prudential Committee to serve for three years. FOURTH: To vote a tax on the taxable property within the District sufficient to defray maintenance and other expenses of the Sarah Partridge Community House, the Sarah Partridge Library, the Curtiss Recreation Area, and the Harry Goodro Recreation Area. FIFTH: To see if the voters of the Fire District will give the Prudential Committee authority to borrow money on the credit of the District to make repairs and improvements on the water system. SIXTH: To transact any other business that may properly come before the meeting.

Dated at East Middlebury, Vermont December 21, 2012Peggy Jean Peabody, Clerk12/27, 1/3, 10

PROPOSED STATE RULESBy law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of

record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the pro-posals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at http://vermont-archives.org/aparules/ovnotices.htm. The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of pro-posed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Adminstrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (828-2231).

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HOT LOTTO RULE CHANGES EFFECTIVE 05/12/2013.Vermont Proposed Rule: 12P059AGENCY: Vermont Lottery CommissionCONCISE SUMMARY: The effects of these rule changes are as follows: 1. The first ball matrix is changed to five (5) out of thirty-nine (39) to five (5) out of forty-seven (47). This changes the jackpot odds to 1 in 29.1 million. The current game has jackpot odds of 1 in 10.9 million. The overall odds of winning a cash prize will change to 1 in 17.2 (currently 1 in 16.1). 2. The Grand Prize will begin at $1 million cash and increase by a minimum of $50,000 cash. A Grand Prize winner will receive no less than the Advertised Grand Prize amount. Withholding taxes are to be paid on behalf of the Grand Prize Winner. 3. The match 5+0 prize level is increased from $500 to $3,000. The match 4+0 prize level is increased from $50 to $100 and the Match 3+0 and 2+1 prize levels are increased from $4 to $6. All other prize levels remain the same. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mary A. Cassani, Vermont Lottery Commission 1311 U.S. Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641. Tel: 802-479-5686. Fax: 802-479-4294. Email: [email protected]. URL: http://www.vtlottery.com.FOR COPIES: Greg Smith, Vermont Lottery Commission. 1311 U.S. Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641. Tel: 802-479-5686. Fax: 802-479-4294. Email: [email protected].

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BY DIRK VAN SUSTERENLike a modern-day Johnny

Appleseed, Tim Matson travels the countryside bringing value to land-scape — only he plants ponds, not fruit trees. By his reckoning, in 25 years he has helped design or revital-ize some 500 ponds in Vermont.

Matson has found an income stream with ponds, and why not? John Chapman (Appleseed) was known to pick up a free lunch here and there during his meanderings with seed bags across the Midwest.

Pond consulting augments freelanc-ing for this writer-photographer from Strafford. If Vermont decides it ever needs an official pond guru, as it has a state flower and bird, Matson would be a top candidate.

It all began in 1971 when Matson, then 28, joined thousands of other counter-culture types in immigrat-ing to Vermont, where farmland was cheap and native residents were generally tolerant of newcomers, even those with long hair.

Matson had done a stint in the mili-tary, where he had the good luck, in his mind, to avoid Vietnam by being accepted at Army photography school. After his service he wangled a job in book publishing in New York, where his father had been a noted literary agent.

He wound up at divisions of Simon & Schuster, pulling a decent salary as a jack-of-all-trades, doing copy editing, buying reprint rights, writing

book jacket copy, sometimes even taking photos.

Matson, now gray-haired, dates himself by mentioning he had a role in helping to bring Yippie Abbey Hoffman’s book, “Revolution for the Hell of It,” to paperback.

On a cold December day in a field in central Vermont, where he is scoping out possible pond sites for a landowner, he mentions with a laugh that it was his photo of author Joe McGinniss that graced the back cover another political classic of the times: “The Selling of a President, 1968,” the story of hucksterism in Richard Nixon’s campaign.

As befits the historic stereotype, Matson arrived in Vermont in a VW bug, a red one at that. He had grown “absolutely and totally sick of the city,” and unhappy with the political system, he says, he was moved by the “back-to-the-land movement” of the period.

His first brush with ponds was the waterhole at a farmhouse that he and a girlfriend had rented in Thetford. It turned out to be a perfect place for hippy parties, skinny-dipping and other wild affairs. He tasted the pond bait and was hooked.

Three years later, with help of a $7,500 advance on his second book (“Pilobolus,” a photo essay of the famous Dartmouth College dance group), Matson bought 45 woodland acres in Strafford and pitched a tent he called home and began building a

cabin, with among other tools, a chain-saw. He got along without electricity, put in vegetable gardens, cleared a spot in the alders for his second pond, and then hired a guy with a backhoe.

“I grew up in Connecticut on the Sound, and found that I missed the water, and I wondered where it all was in Vermont,” he says. He couldn’t find enough of it close by, “so I had this pond dug.”

Marriage and two daughters (now grown) followed, and the pond became the focus of family life: Swimming in summer, ice-skating in winter, and, always it seemed, opportunities for social life and observing wildlife.

Matson embraced rural life, and, as a freelance writer began writing essays and how-to’s about back-40 ponds for the likes of Harrowsmith, Mother Earth News, Country Journal and Yankee Magazine.

For children and the young at heart, he says, ponds are part zoo, playground, museum and amusement park.

“Kids love to hang out at them, make mud pies, fool around with sala-manders, and watch dragonflies,” he says.

“I think too many kids today suffer from what a friend of mine calls ‘nature-deficit disorder.’ … They are too much into phones and computers; they live in a screen world.”

Matson is bullish on family ponds of all sizes and shapes, but he’s quick to warn that a once-promising body of water can easily become a costly headache if poorly designed. They can turn to algae-infested quagmires They can even disappear due to drought or leakage.

A pond can also cost a lot, anywhere from $5,000 to more than

$50,000, he explains.Walking across the brown-gray

landscape and looking for potential pond sites, and carefully choosing verbs that sidestep certitude, Matson

says: “That could be a spot.” He gestures toward a natural

dimple in the field, where some topsoil already has been removed, but then he quickly notes there are no obvious sources of water. He says he will suggest in a report that water might have to be pumped in from a well to fill any man-made pond in this location.

On the plus side, this site has shade trees on the east and southeast, which means water would stay cooler in summer. Go down eight feet, and water would be deep and cold enough for trout.

Matson explains the need for in-flows and out-flows to keep the water in any pond fresh. And he often mentions to landowners that they may want their pond’s bottom covered with a plastic liner to prevent underground leakage. But plastic liners, covered with sand or gravel, can add thousands of dollars to pond construction.

He will strongly suggest to the landowners in this case, as he always does, that a test hole be dug before full-scale excavation is begun.

He notes that a landowner will sometimes have his or her heart set on a site, then run into problems with state wetlands regulations.

Matson says he spends about half of his consulting time recommend-ing fixes to ponds that were put in 30 or 40 years ago by contractors with equipment but no expertise.

Some farm ponds he works on were dug back when the federal government, in the form of the Soil Conservation Service, gave money to farmers to build ponds to water live-stock, to assure a supply of water for firefighters in the event of a barn fire and to serve as a catch basins to limit soil erosion.

Matson can turn to four of his own books to address all aspects of pond use and design, including “Earth Ponds,” published in 1982; “Earth Ponds Source Book,” 1997; “Earth Ponds, A-Z,” 2002; and “Landscaping Earth Ponds,” 2006.

He also has written non-fiction books about home brewing, living without electricity and navigating the funeral and burial business.

But his thing, clearly, is ponds. And he is finding that pond owners these days are confronting a whole new set of challenges that come with erratic weather, possibly the result of global climate change.

Pond owners are seeing “pond scum” algae growth much earlier in the season, which may necessitate constructing better drainage or aera-tion systems. Hurricanes like Irene or Sandy, with their downpours, can cause erosion at pond sites.

There’s also concern — with cases in Vermont of the West Nile virus and Eastern equine encephalitis — that poorly designed ponds can become breeding grounds for infecting mosquitoes.

Ponds need a little current and steep-enough banks to limit mosquito breeding in stagnant and shallow waters, Matson says.

He mentions that dragonflies should be welcomed because they eat mosquitoes. And crayfish are good too, because they feed on algae.

Another benefit of such flying and wriggly critters: Children love to observe and mess around with them, says Matson.

“You want the kids outside getting their clothes dirty,” he asserts.

Dirk Van Susteren of Calais is a freelance writer and editor.

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The Middlebury Union School District #3 is seeking proposals for a lighting retro-fit project at its Middlebury Union Middle School at 48 Deerfield Lane in Middle-bury, VT. The scope of work includes furnishing, installing and commissioning new, energy efficient lighting equipment and controls. Interested contractors may obtain the Request for Proposal contain-ing the submission requirements and complete project description by contact-ing the Addison Central Supervisory Union, 49 Charles Avenue, Middlebury, VT, 05753, or by calling (802) 382-1274. Bids are due to Laura Nassau, Business Manager at the offices of the Addison Central Supervisory Union no later than 1:00 PM on January 15, 2013. There is a mandatory site visit on January 8, 2013 at 3:00 PM. EOE.

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WARNINGTOWN OF CORNWALL

INFORMATIONAL MEETING The Select Board of the Town of Cornwall will hold an informational meeting in regard to the proposed Capital Budget. The informational meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 7:00 P.M. at the Cornwall Town Hall. Copies of the Capital Plan and Budget are available at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular hours. For further information in regard to the meeting, please call Sue Johnson, Cornwall Town Clerk at 462-2775.

Cornwall Select BoardBruce Hiland, Chair

Judy Watts, David Sears,Ben Wood, Abi Sessions

12/27, 1/3

PUBLIC NOTICERUTLAND NORTHEAST SUPERVISORY UNION

The District School Boards of the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union intend to take action and consider the following policies for rescission at the January 2013 scheduled School Board meetings listed below: AAA: Legal Basis AAB: Governance Policy AAC: Definitions of Policies, Board Actions, Rules and Regulations DIE: Audits DKA: Personal Liability for Payment JEC: Residence Requirements for School Admission 01/03/13 - Pittsford at 6:30 pm 01/08/13 - Brandon at 6:00 pm 01/08/13 - Leicester at 6:30 pm 01/14/13 - Sudbury at 5:30 pm 01/14/13 - Whiting at 6:30 pm 01/16/13 - Otter Valley at 6:30 pm 01/21/13 - Chittenden at 6:30 pm, Mendon at 6:30 pm, Barstow at 7:00 pm 01/23/13 - RNESU Exec. Committee at 6:30 pm at OV Library Policies may be found at RNESU.org or may be obtained by calling Melinda Piper at (802) 247-5757.

12/27

TOWN OF WEYBRIDGENOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGThe Planning Commission of the Town

of Weybridge will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, January 15, 2013 at 7:30 PM at the Town Clerk’s Office to consider the fol-lowing:

1. Public hearing to consider subdivision application # 15-10 from C & M Agricul-tural Ventures LLC to subdivide a parcel of land located east of James Road. Current parcel is 10.2 acres. The proposed subdi-vision would create a 2.1 acre parcel and a 9.12 acre parcel.

A copy of the application is available for review at the Town Clerk’s Office during regular office hours.

Weybridge Planning Commission12/27

MARKET REPORTADDISON COUNTY

COMMISSION SALESRT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT

Sales for Dec. 20 and Dec. 24 Costs BEEF Lbs. per lb DollarsBartholomew Bros. 1550 .73 1131.50Danyow Farm LLC 1360 .77 1047.20Foster Bros. 1660 .78 1294.80Four Hills 2000 .80 1600.00P. Livingston 1400 .83 1162.00Vorsteveld Farm 1380 .95 1311.00

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Auctions PublicNotices Pages 9B & 10B

Strafford author’s other calling is creating new sites for ponds

TIM MATSON, AUTHOR and pond consultant from Strafford, scopes out a possible pond site near Montpelier.

Photo by Dirk Van Susteren

POND CONSULTANT AND author Tim Matson offered consultation on this Orange County pond, a little gem that cost less than $2,000 to build.Photo courtesy of Tim Matson

IN A SNAPSHOT taken years ago, pond designer Tim Matson’s daughters enjoy the water on a summer day at the family home in Strafford.

Photo courtesy of Tim Matson

A RECENTLY EXCAVATED pond site in central Vermont now awaits only water.Photo courtesy of Tim Matson


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Chipman ParkTastefully restored & decorated, 1920s style English/Nantucket cottage & carriage house in one of Middlebury’s most desired neighborhoods - includes fireplace, cozy library, sun-drenched screen porch, & custom kitchen. $595,000

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Cornwall Subdivision Potential - Survey completed & state approval granted.Beautiful private setting on a quiet road in Cornwall. Shingle style home on 10.07 +/- acres overlooks a pond and has 4 bedrooms and 2 baths. The recently completed barn is full of potential! First floor of barn includes horse stalls that lead to the back pasture and a full heated shop space with room for vehicles, boat building and many

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Brandon2+ acre parcel with a 3 bedroom, 2 bath home that has been recently renovated, yet retains some original charm. Wide plank floors, updated kitchen with breakfast nook, a formal dining room & a huge living room with incredible mountain views. Mature landscaping includes classic VT stone walls and sugar maples. Simple, single-level living only minutes to the center of historic Brandon with a taste of the country. $198,000

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SOUTH LINCOLN Classic Cape Cod home on 4.9. Three

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ADDISON COUNTY — Biologist David Sausville of the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department rescued a barred owl lodged in the grille of a pickup truck in Addison County early on the morning of Tuesday, Dec. 11.

“I received a call from the driver a little after 5 in the morning explaining

that he had hit an owl,” said Sausville. “He said that the owl was still alive and was lodged in his truck.” Sausville arrived a short time later to find an adult barred owl with its head stuck in the grille of the pickup truck.

The driver had been unable to avoid the owl when it swooped down to the

road, presumably to catch prey by the roadside. He pulled the truck over and found the owl lodged in his grille, flapping its wings and splaying its talons. In order to avoid being harmed by the talons, the driver did not try to dislodge the bird himself but instead slowly drove the eight miles to work

and called Sausville.“The driver did the right thing by

not attempting to help the owl by himself,” said Sausville. “Owls can do serious damage with their talons if they get a hold of you; they don’t want to let go.”

Using a pair of thick welding

gloves, Sausville held the owl by the talons while the driver worked to remove its head from the grille. Sausville then placed the owl in a plastic pet carrier while it recovered from the incident. He released the owl back into the wild a few hours later where it flew off, apparently uninjured.

Drivers are urged to drive vigi-lantly around dawn and dusk because this is when many wildlife species are most active. To find what you can do if you find a sick or injured animal, visit the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s website at www.vtfishandwildlife.com/ wildlife_rehabilitation.cfm.

A BARRED OWL got its head stuck in the grille of a pickup truck after a recent early morning collision in Addison County. After Fish & Wildlife biologist David Sausville, assisted by the truck’s driver, freed the owl, it rested in a pet carrier before flying off, apparently unharmed.

Driver calls for help rescuing stuck owl after collision with pickup

BRISTOL — Mount Abraham Union High School held a wonderful celebration of Mr. Greg Clark’s life on Sunday, Dec. 16. Seniors Andrew Rainville and Jessie Martin emceed the event, the student a cappella group Sweet Transition sang a few numbers, and math teacher Justin Bouvier sang a beautiful song. A compilation of excerpts from the Facebook page and posters made by students was presented as well.

In other news at Mount Abe:

• The school held a hat, mitten and food drive just before the holiday break, collecting several huge boxes of hats, mittens and gloves, socks, slippers and coats, as well as non-perishable food, which will be donated to families through the food shelf.

• Bruce Babbitt’s 12th-grade advi-sory provided gifts to a family for the holiday.

• Cathi DiMarco’s middle school advisory held a bake sale and raised $40, which they donated to the Committee for Temporary Shelter (COTS) to help people who are homeless.

• Alysa Decker’s 10th-grade advi-sory held bottle drive at school and raised $113 for the Red Cross to support their efforts around helping

victims of Hurricane Sandy.• The Mount Abe Varsity Scholars’

Bowl placed fourth in its division and 12th overall at the South Burlington Scholars’ Bowl Tournament on Dec. 7, competing against 48 varsity teams. The JV Scholars’ Bowl team placed first in its division and ninth overall at the same tournament, competing against 50 JV teams.

• Students Hayley Slayton, Spencer Griswold and Raymond Doner have been volunteering to provide personal-

ized technology instruction to elders from the Living Well Residential Care Home. They work one-on-one with the seniors both in the Mount Abe library and at Living Well.

• Students in the Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program orga-nized a Red Ribbon Tree display to remember people impacted by impaired driving and tied red ribbons on cars to remind people to drive safely over the holidays. The tree was donated by Russell’s Tree Farm and was given to a family in need of a Christmas tree after the display.

Editor’s note: This column was submitted by Mount Abraham Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program students Taylor Farnsworth and Madi Wood.

Teen LogMt. Abe

Students hold celebration of teacher Greg Clark’s life

LINCOLN — On Dec. 23, during the morning worship service, the choir presented the cantata “Night of the Father’s Love,” including “The Coming of the Lord,” “Waiting,” “Angels Are Making Their Rounds,” “Night of the Father’s Love,” “The Shepherd’s Song,” “Seeking the King,” “Fall on Your Knees,” “Christ is Born,” and “Nowell.”

Welcomed into the church membership were Wanda Otero and Ashley Smith.

Addison County’s annual Maple School will be held Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at Middlebury Union High School.

There is no school from Dec. 24-Jan 1. School reopens on Jan. 2.

The Mount Abraham boys’ soccer program is once again sponsoring

family swims at the Mount Abraham Union High School pool. Swims are scheduled for Wednesday evenings, 7:30-9 p.m., beginning Jan. 2. The cost is $2 for individuals, $5 for fami-lies. For more information, contact Mike Corey at 363-5877.

Remember to bring your gently used clothing to Neat Repeats in Middlebury and designate the Lincoln Library as the recipient. When the clothing sells the library receives a portion of the selling price. You can also bring your empty bottles to the Bristol Beverage Center and donate to the library.

The next time you are in the library, look for the Vermont history section, books with 974.3 on the spine, in the Adult Reading Area. We have some old gems in the collection.

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Lincoln Have a news tip?Call Harriet Brown at 453-3166

THE ADDISON COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS wishes to inform the public that not all Brokers of real estate are REALTORS... Only qualified Realtors may use this term. It is a registered trademark. Realtors must abide by a strict code of ethics, take continuing education and attend local monthly meetings, annual state conferences, and yearly national conferences, hence making them better informed on all aspects of real estate. Your REALTOR appreciates your business.

NOTICE FROM REALTORS

All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are

available on an equal op-portunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-424-8590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.

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Mac & Empire Apples

$549

LOCAL

Dairy48oz. breyers

Ice Cream

2/$7

Frozen8oz. Cabot

ShreddedCheese

SPECIALS GOOD EVERY WEEK ON THE SAME DAY

UNTIL THE NEW YEAR

every SUNDAY

every FRIDAY

every MONDAY

every TUESDAY

every WEDNESDAY

every THURSDAY

Fresh Baked MUFFINS

88¢ea.

BANANAS

49¢ lb.

WunderbarBOLOGNA

99¢lb.

Best Yet 5lb.SUGAR

$249lb.

Whole, Skim, 1%, 2% MILK

$149½ gal.

Cabot 7oz.WHIPPED CREAM$179

every SATURDAY

Greg's Fresh GROUND

BEEF

$289lb.

gala

Apples

$139

Fresh

Cantaloupes

2/$42lb. bag

Onions

89¢

2/$4

Middlebury, Vermont • Established 1981Check us out at WWW.GREGSMEATMARKET.COM

Meat MarketWhere Quality and Service Come First!

Let us do the cooking.

Give us a ring: 802-388-2162 Ask for Jeff, James or Tabitha.

Or email us at: [email protected]

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5 years of Thanksgiving Turkeys & Christmas Hams from Greg's

9-13lb. ave.

Fresh 5lb. box

Clementines

$599

16oz. NewmaN's

Salad Dressing

59oz. Florida Natural

OrangeJuice

5oz. Pam

CookingSpray

Fresh SALMON

FILETS

$699lb.Se

afood

assorted

Pork Chops

lb.$179

lb.

Fresh whole boNe-iN

Pork Butt

usda boNeless beeF Ny

Strip Steak or Roast

lb.$599

Fresh boNe-iN

CeNter Cut

Pork Chopsor Roast

usda boNeless shoulder

London Broil

$299lb.

Fresh boNeless CeNter Cut

Pork Roasts

$249lb.

lb.$349

usda boNeless

Sirloin Tip Roast

lb.$179

lb.$229

lb.$1099

usda

TenderloinRoast

mouNtaire

boNeless, skiNless

ChickenThighs

lb.$189

Fresh whole boNeless

CeNter Cut

Pork Loins

$209

reg. or turkey

hillshire Farms

Kielbasa

baNquet browN & serve

Sausage Links

2/$6 5/$5$399

al FresCo all Natural

Chicken Sausages

tysoN thiCk sliCed

Bacon

2/$7

hillshire Farms

Cocktail Franks

2/$6

Pomegranates

750 ml.

2/$6

6oz. FreNCh's

Fried Onions

GREG’S

14oz. oCeaN sPray

CranberrySauce

2/$4

32oz. domiNo bakiNg

Sugars

2/$3 2/$7

80oz. kiNg arthur

Flour

Buy $100 in

Greg's Gift

Cards & get a

$10 Gift Card

FREE!

Fresh whole ameriCaN

Leg of Lamb

lb.$599

lb.$799

Fresh ameriCaN loiN

Lamb Chops

lb.

house oF raeFordboNeless, skiNless

Chicken Breasts

$199lb.

tysoN twiN PaCk FrozeN

Cornish Hens

$199lb.

mouNtaire whole

RoastingChickens

$129

maPle leaF FrozeN

Ducks

lb.

lb.

usda boNe-iN beeF

Rib Roast

$599

usda boNeless

Rib Eye Roast

$699lb.

Consists of Ends & Centers

TURKEYSMisty Knoll, Stonewood,

Shady Brook Farms & Best Yet Frozen

HAMSTriple M

Bone-in MckenzieCook's Butts and Shanks

CumberlaNd gaP boNeless

Half Hams

$249

alexaNder & hoeNug halF

semi- boNelss

Hams

$219lb.

8oz. Cool whiP

Topping

4/$5

12-15oz NewmaN's owN

Pizza

2/$10

lb. lb.

This Week'sDeli

Specials

mCkeNzie garliC herb

Turkey

lb.$729

mCkeNzie hoNey

Ham

$599lb.

lb.$599

mesquite smoked

TurkeydomestiC

SwissCheese

$599

Pepperoni

$459

2/$6

blaCk Pearl

Olives

4/$5

20oz. dole

Pineapple

2/$3

10.75 CamPbells Cream oF mushroom

Soup

10/$10

lb.

FRUIT BASKETS

Many Sizes!

whilte boiliNg

Onions

$109

d'aNjou

Pears

$119lb.

PasCal

Celery

$139lb.

2/$5

lb.

lb.

$299 $1850

21-25Ct. 2lb. bag Cooked

SHRIMP

lb.

2/$62/$7

OPENNew Year's Eve

until 6pm& New Year's Day

6am - 6pm

Prices are effective Dec. 24 – 30, 2012 • Open 7 Days 6am - 8 pm - We Have A Professional Meat Cutter On Duty M-Sat, 9-5 • Sun, 9-noon

3 Elm Street, Middlebury VT 05753 • Our phone is 802-388-2162 Our fax number is 802-388-3820 Email: [email protected]

thursday, december 27, 2012

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