Thursday, Jan. 17, 2017

Carving a niche

1-point game

Drop by drop

Sixteen years ago a Bristol man’s woodworking career took a turn.

Read his story in Arts+Leisure.

The Otter Valley girls hosted a hot West Rutland team Monday.

See the result on Page 1B.

Middlebury water meters will be upgraded to allow customers to monitor consumption. Page 3A.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 71 No. 3

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

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Thursday, January 19, 2017

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ACSD schools see benefits of Act 46

Six towns could see their tax rates fall

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District Board on Tuesday agreed to ask Middleburyarea voters to authorize approximately $37.3 million in spending to cover the combined operating costs for all of the district’s schools during the 2017-2018 academic year.

The $30,428,802 portion to be raised by taxes represents a 2.17-percent decrease in the amount budgeted for education spending in the nine schools in the union this year.

The board made that decision following an hour-long debate on

how much of the unified district’s combined $963,441 in unspent fund balance should be set aside for repairs and upgrades to school properties, and how much of it should be returned to taxpayers to reduce the tax-impact of the budget.

Board members, in an 8-3 vote, decided to return roughly half of those funds to taxpayers and place the balance ($481,720) into a capital improvement fund.

This is the first year of global budgeting for the new, unified ACSD. Addison Central voters last year agreed to consolidate their (See ACSD, Page 7A)

Panel created to determine cost of Mount Abe repairs

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — The five towns of the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union will again be asked to take a hard look at renovating the 48-yearold Mount Abraham Union High School facility, including possibly with funds from a bond.

“It’s really about planning and fiscal responsibility,” ANeSU

Superintendent Patrick Reen said at a Mount Abe school board meeting Tuesday.

“If something happens in an aging building, when it happens we often don’t have the choice of fix it or not. If say some plumbing issues happen in a series of classrooms, we probably couldn’t choose to fix (See Mount Abe, Page 14A)

Middlebury arts studio revitalized in new space Serves more than 1,000 craftmakers

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Seven years after vacating downtown Middlebury’s Frog Hollow district, the Middlebury Studio School has purchased its new headquarters at 2377 Route 7 South and is now looking to expand that building to keep pace with the growing popularity of its art and pottery classes.

“Our goal is to be a community art center,” board member Barbara Z. Nelson said of the school’s great potential as a future site for lectures, children’s summer camps, painting workshops, panel discussions and

even maybe an artist in residence.

The Middlebury Studio School has already established itself as a county hub for art instruction.

A combined total of 1,076 adults and children were enrolled in the school’s dozens of art programs and workshops last year. Featured offerings include a variety of pottery, drawing, oil painting, mixed media, jewelry making, and knitting programs, to name but a few.

Naef Robinson has for the past decade made weekly trips from her Huntington home to the studio school to take pottery classes.

(See Studio school, Page 14A)

HELENA NICOLAY RETURNS an injured barred owl to its enclosure after weighing it. This female was hit by a car this past Sunday and is likely suffering from a concussion. Nicolay is one of the state’s 19 licensed wildlife rehabilitators.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Injured raptors returned to the wild Wildlife rehabilitator helps a hundred animals each year

By GAEN MURPHREE most awesomely constructed MONKTON — Helena Nicolay predators. But once injured by a wears leather gloves and a “ratty, passing car or other mishap, these old jacket” as she walks up to a fierce creatures seem surprisingly barred owl. She moves silently, docile as they recuperate under slowly, deliberately Nicolay’s watchful To contact Helena eye — averting her eyes at North so as to not present Nicolay about an injured Stream Wildlife herself as a fellow animal or make a donation Rehabilitation, an predator. She holds (got a mouse in a Havahart organization based out a sliver of beef trap? it could feed a out of her Monkton heart at the end of a raptor), call 802-236-3541. home.

To learn more about shorter-than-mostIn the dim wildlife rehabilitation, take light of Nicolay’s of-us-might-feelsafe-with pair of Nicolay’s CVU Access class Monkton garage this March; call 802-482- is a new owl, just metal tongs.

The owl snaps 7194 for more information. arrived on Sunday To learn more about night. up the meat and appropriate responses to devours it.

“She probably injured or orphaned wildlife has a concussion,” Nicolay offers a little bit more. And or find a list of Vermont Nicolay says. a little bit more. The wildlife rehabilitators, go to The owl’s eyes owl eats hungrily, http://tinyurl.com/zgztvbs. are mere slits. She then tilts its head. stands motionless, “I feel so privileged to work as if marshaling all her resources with these animals,” Nicolay says. against her injury.

“They’re so beautiful.”

Nicolay deftly removes the owl With their hooked beaks, sharp from its cage. There is a brief whir talons and keen eyesight, raptors, of wings, as it attempts to struggle. like this owl, are among nature’s Nicolay holds steady. The owl

stills. Nicolay puts the owl into a specially constructed box and gets its weight — an important measurement for determining the owls’ sex and its relative health before injury and an important baseline for tracking its recovery.

Nicolay is one of the state’s 19 licensed wildlife rehabilitators, and one of four in Addison County.

“Wildlife rehabilitators provide an important service to the department and the citizens of Vermont,” said Scott Darling of the Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife. “Vermonters truly care about our wildlife, and rehabilitators provide the level of care to injured animals that give them a second chance.”

Nicolay began rehabilitating animals in 1999. Since then she has treated around 100 critters a (See Wildlife rehab, Page 7A)

BARRED OWL

Former mayor is seeking a repeat Daniels challenges incumbent Benton

NAEF ROBINSON OF Huntington works on a clay platter with her dog, Mona Louisa, during a class at Middlebury Studio School Tuesday afternoon. Robinson has been attending weekly pottery classes for 10 years at the school, which is looking to expand.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Vergennes residents will have a choice on Town Meeting Day between an incumbent mayor who recently announced he will seek a third — and he says final — term, and a former mayor who served three terms between 2007 and 2013 and became mayor by unseating an incumbent.

Mike Daniels, 69, who has also served five years in two separate stints on the Vergennes City Council, the second of which ended this past March, said late this summer he began to get the itch to return to city politics.

In particular, Daniels said he wanted city government to be more responsive to residents.

“I had a lot of fun working with people, and I’d like to have the opportunity again to represent them,” Daniels said. “I miss being in there, and I really enjoyed representing them and working with them, and I’d like to get the community involved more at this point.”

Bill Benton, like Daniels, defeated including renovation work at City former Mayor April Jin to earn Hall, helping out at the annual the mayor’s job. Jin — a former Vergennes Youth Fishing Derby, and alderwoman who served as mayor remaining active in the Vergennes from 2005 to 2007 — came out of Fire Department — he said he is still political retirement to certified to do interior challenge for mayor firefighting in burning in 2013, but lost to structures.

Benton. Daniels, then Asked what he does a former alderman, for fun, Daniels replied, challenged Jin and won “That is fun.” in 2007.

Attending com– Benton, a real estate munity events — appraiser with a history including hearings on of local volunteerism, the city’s Downtown said he is seeking one and Otter Creek Basin more term because Master Plan (which, he wants to oversee a like Benton, he number of efforts he supports), Pumpkins believes are about to in the Park, and the pay off — including Holiday Stroll — and Otter Creek basin talking to residents DANIELS projects, city pool helped convince upgrades, and work to improve Daniels to throw his hat in the ring downtown pedestrian and bicycle again. safety.

He wants to make sure residents’ Daniels retired in 2013 from opinions reach City Hall, and to do so a management position with the he would, among other things, revive Vermont Department of Buildings the “Cracker Barrel” meetings that and General Services and has since were a hallmark of his earlier tenure. kept busy with a variety of part“On the issues, I don’t necessarily time jobs and volunteer projects, (See Daniels, Page 10A)

By the way Representatives from the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union and the Bristol Police Department met last Thursday to discuss police services and work toward a formal contract. Mount Abraham Union High School cancelled the security agreement with the Bristol police (See By the way, Page 11A)

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OV Harvest Program to end

Foxcroft Farm offering helped many non-traditional students

By LEE J. KAHRS gram in 2000 and serves as the execLEICESTER — Residents around utive director. She and her husband, the Otter Valley Unified Union Ken, run Harvest on their farm in School District were shocked to read Leicester. The program serves mida letter to the editor last week stating dle and high school students who that the beloved Harvest Program at have behavioral and learning issues Foxcroft Farm would be ending af- that make it difficult to function in ter almost two decades helping OV a traditional classroom setting. The students who may not program offers experifit in a traditional class- “Anne Young ential learning in an agroom. ricultural setting with did some Harvest Program service and community founder and Executive amazing things volunteerism as a major Director Anne Young with kids, component. In 2011 it explained in the let- albeit not in had a 93 percent gradter that it had been a a traditional uation rate. tough decision that was One thing that sets not based on financial setting. It the Harvest Program furthers my need. apart is a service learn“After 17 years of belief that ing component, where providing services to give back to students need students our local children and surrounding commuyouth, Foxcroft Farm options to see nities on a weekly baHarvest Program Inc. relevance in sis, cooking lunch for has made a decision to learning.” senior citizens, raking discontinue the current leaves, visiting with — Superintendent patients at local senior services and dissolve Jeanne Collins living facilities and the nonprofit by the end of June 2017,” Young Helen Porter Healthwrote. “It has not been an easy deci- care and Rehabilitation, or selling sion, or one that has been influenced wreaths and maple syrup to raise by a lack of support or funding. It money for worthy causes. is more of a personal decision, supThe program also donates handported by the board.” made wooden furniture to the Great Young reiterated in an interview Brandon Auction each year, as well with The Reporter Monday that the as fresh turkeys. If there is a blood decision was personal, and one that drive in Brandon, Harvest Program she is clearly still struggling with. students could be counted on to “It’s a life choice,” she said. “I’m provide homemade sandwiches, getting tired and I just think it’s time. cookies and brownies for donors to I’ve been thinking about it for years snack on after giving blood. and haven’t wanted to give up.”

The Harvest Program will end in Young created the Harvest Pro- June along with the school year.

Young has been fighting to keep the program afloat for years, and in 2014 reached a successful partnership with the United Way that allowed her more freedom with funding and programming. Prior to that, the program was run through the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, but that partnership hit a roadblock in 2010.

RNeSU contracted with Young in early 2011 to run the Harvest Program with a reduced budget and shorter programming hours. The move came after intense public backlash forced then-RNeSU Superintendent John Castle to take another look at retaining the Harvest Program after initially suggesting in September 2010 such severe funding cuts that Young’s employment and the future of the program was in question altogether.

The agreement cut the program’s funding from $200,000 per year to $55,000, plus up to $20,000 from SOAR for the after-school program. Young was paid an additional $5,000 as a service-learning consultant.

In 2014, the Otter Valley School Board voted to the return $30,000 that had been taken out of the budget to help fund the Harvest school day program.

Superintendent Jeanne Collins said there is no plan right now to replace the Harvest Program, but that individual plans will be made with student involved with the program as needed.

“That said, I have appreciated the partnership with Harvest Program

ANNE YOUNG, SHOWN with her husband Ken at a Brandon Harvest Fest a few years back, will end the Harvest Program at Foxcroft Farm at the end of this school year. The program offers education to Otter Valley students who don’t fit in a traditional classroom.

and am sorry to see it end,” Collins said. “Anne Young did some amazing things with kids, albeit not in a traditional setting. It furthers my belief that students need options to see relevance in learning.”

Young said she still sees a tremendous need for the program, which makes her decision that much harder.

“I still very much love what I’m doing, I love these kids and I can see how much of a need there is,” she said. “But I have played so many roles to make this work, it

would take more money and people to make it sustainable, to make it a reality,” Young said she did not know what her next move will be, although she said she will have to find gainful employment elsewhere.

“I don’t want to think about that right now,” she said. “I’m going to put all my patience and energy and heart into getting these kids to June and make sure they know I am giving them everything I can.”

Young said she currently has 47 kids accessing the program in some

way each week, either through the afterschool program, the fifth- and sixth-grade groups that come once a week, or the 12 students that attend Harvest three to five times per week.

Young said she has no regrets and hopes that the school district will find a way to serve the kids she clearly loves so much.

“They’re going to be where my heart is,” she said, “and I want to make sure they know that. I’m going to worry and it’s hard for me because I love these kids and I feel the need is growing.”

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tures. Those candidates are running at-large, meaning they can gather signatures from registered voters in any of the seven ACSD-member towns: Bridport, Cornwall, MiddleBy JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Candidates bury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham have until Monday, Jan. 30, to file and Weybridge.

And there’s another wrinkle in their petition papers to get on the the Middlebury-area election scene Town Meeting Day ballot for their local selectboard, school board and this year. Candidates will still be other elected positions. And with able to run for their local elementary roughly 10 days remaining until school boards and the UD-3 school the deadline, relatively few have board, which has governed Middlestepped forward to fill a variety of bury Union middle and high schools. available offices serving Middlebury But folks elected to those boards in March will only serve until the end and area schools. of this year, at which time those pan“It feels a little slow,” els will go out of exisMiddlebury Town Clerk tence, leaving only the Ann Webster said on “Following ACSD board to conTuesday of the run-up to through on the duct all business for the the Jan. 30 filing dead- bridge and rail line. “There is less in- project — trying district.

Middlebury has three terest in the selectboard to move that available seats on the this year than in the reUD-3 school board and from planning cent past.” the Mary Hogan EleFive people compet- into an active mentary School board, ed for three spots on the project — is also known as the ID-4 Middlebury selectboard probably my school board. The Mary last March. In 2014, a top priority.”

Hogan board seats curcombined total of eight people vied for four — Brian Carpenter rently belong to Lorraine Morse, Amy seats on the board.

Graham and Victoria As the Addison Independent went to press on Wednesday, only in- Jette, while the UD-3 seats are held cumbent selectboard members Bri- by Devin McLaughlin, J.P. Rees and an Carpenter and Laura Asermily Alison Stanger.

Meanwhile, Carpenter and Aserhad confirmed their plans to run for re-election. Challengers had yet to mily both said they’d like another surface for the two three-year terms three years on the Middlebury selectthat will be up for grabs on March board to continue work on such mat7, along with a slew of other local ters as replacing the two downtown rail bridges. That $40 million underoffices.

Candidates for most local offices taking has been delayed for another in Middlebury must gather at least year to allow for an extensive envi30 signatures to get on the Town ronmental study of the project area.

Both Asermily and Carpenter Meeting Day ballot. But those running for a seat on the unified Addi- joined the selectboard in 2014, a son Central School District (ACSD) tumultuous year in Middlebury polboard must gather at least 60 signa- itics driven by a controversial plan to

Local office hopefuls have until Jan. 30

demolish the town offices and gym at 94 Main St. and erect a new municipal building at 77 Main St. The plan also called for building a new recreation facility on Creek Road and installing a park at the 94 Main St. site.

LAURA ASERMILY Asermily submitted her petition papers last week. She has distinguished herself as a thoughtful voice on town affairs, particularly on energy and environmental issues. She said she’s pleased to be part of a board with a good balance of men and women. Asermily is one of four women on the seven-member selectboard.

“We are the first and only selectboard in the state with a majority of women, led by a female town manager (Kathleen Ramsay), working in committed partnership with local agencies including Middlebury College, which is led by its first female president (Laurie Patton),” Asermily said. “Our selectboard works hard and evenly and discusses challenging topics respectfully. I’m honored to run again along with Brian Carpenter, whose selectboard leadership I appreciate.”

If re-elected, Asermily said she’ll work to increase transparency in town government, ensure public safety and promote infrastructure improvements. Asermily, who chairs the town’s Public Safety and Health Committee, also wants the town to be a leader on environmental issues.

“I want to continue to address the leading challenge of our times — climate change,” she said. “I asked to chair Public Safety and Health so that we can prepare for climate emergencies. This includes addressing extreme cold, heat, rain, potential power outages and insect-borne (See Local elections, Page 3A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, January 19, 2017 — PAGE 3A

Supreme Court OK with ‘ugly’ solar arrays

Middlebury improving water meter technology

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The town of Middlebury is in the process of installing new, state-of-the-art meter reading technology at around 1,750 of the community’s 2,300 water system connections. It is equipment that will substantially reduce the effort it takes to gather information on municipal water use and the billing for that service.

The equipment in question is a “cellular endpoint” device that fits on top of the water meter. It interacts with a high-resolution encoder on top of the meter that allows for water use information to be transmitted wirelessly to town officials at a central location.

This new system will replace the current, outdated technology through which meter readings are gathered through a TRACE system. The current system requires water department officials to travel near the meter locations to gather readings through radio technology, Middlebury Director of Operations Dan Werner explained.

Middlebury’s newly installed cellular endpoints will transmit daily information to the town’s meter reading software. This will allow for a more seamless and cost-effective process for charting municipal water use and calculating charges for that service, officials said.

“The readings are stored in the cloud,” Werner said of the new technology.

And the meter conversions offer an added benefit to customers, according to Werner. Folks with cellular endpoint equipment will be able to monitor their own water use, through their home computer or cellphone. In order to do this, customers will need a software app called “Eye on Water” that

JEFF WARDEN INSTALLS new equipment on a Middlebury municipal water meter, one of around 1,750 conversions that will take place during the next six months. The new technology will transmit meter readings to town workers and allow residents and businesses to monitor their water use.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

will be accessible on-line, though it’s not available yet, according to public works officials. In additional to measuring water use, customers using Eye on Water will be able to detect leaks, and get warnings on freezing temperatures and excessive use.

As of Monday, water department officials had installed cellular endpoints at 618 of the 1,750 meter locations currently using the old TRACE technology, according to Werner.

And what about the remaining 550 water system connections that won’t be receiving endpoint connections?

Those folks are being served by an

Orion meter information transmitting technology that continues to serve the town well, according to Werner.

The town has sent blue flyers to affected water customers, urging them to make an appointment for their meter conversion. Customers who have received such a flyer and have yet to schedule an appointment are encouraged to do so by calling public works at 388-4045. The conversion process takes around 30 minutes, during which there is no need to shut off the water, according to Werner.

“We would like to have this completed by the summer,” Werner said.

New Vermont website helps job seekers

By TIFFANY DANITZ PACHE VTDigger.org VERMONT — In his inaugural speech, Gov. Phil Scott said he wants to focus on getting Vermonters the education they need after high school to access good-paying jobs. Now there is an online tool that shows people how to become qualified for the most promising jobs in the state.

The website Pathways to Promising Careers, which launched in December, asks questions that direct users to lists of professions including average salaries and descriptions of the jobs. Another click reveals the type of education or credentials needed to qualify and the Vermont schools that offer them. More clicking provides further details.

Go to the website online a http:// mcclurevt.org/pathways.

The list of high-paying occupations is based on the latest Department of Labor analysis of the fastest-growing professions in Vermont over the next decade.

“We wanted to get rid of the myths around Vermont’s workforce, available jobs and our economy,” said Caroline Weir, an adviser for the McClure Foundation. McClure and the Middlebury-based Vermont Community Foundation teamed up with the Department of Labor to produce the tool as well as 55,000 paper brochures featuring high-pay, high-demand jobs. The brochures are being sent to high schools, colleges, state agencies, counseling organizations and nonprofits throughout the state.

Weir said they want this information to reach legislators as well.

“We are also hoping the information

may influence the Legislature as they look at workforce development bills in the upcoming session.”

The idea behind the website was to make sure students and job seekers would be able to easily identify education pathways that would lead them to a job they are interested in and that pays a livable wage.

The site lists 54 jobs, their median wages and the number of projected job openings, and only two do not require additional training or education beyond high school. A two-year associate degree is needed to qualify for most of the jobs that pay at least $20 an hour and will have at least 100 openings in Vermont over the next 10 years.

“There are no surprises in this promising jobs list,” said Weir. The list is dominated by health care, advanced manufacturing and the education industry. “These are jobs Vermonters are seeing posted quite regularly,” she said.

The tool is aimed at adults as well as younger students. “Adults may want to boost their credentials or switch careers,” Weir said.

Mathew Barewicz, head of economic and labor market information at the Labor Department, said this is a pivotal time in the state’s economy. Employers need skilled workers, and the goal is to promote the most needed skills in Vermont, he said.

By JOHN S. McCRIGHT NEW HAVEN — Just because you think something your neighbor is putting up on his land is ugly doesn’t mean you can get a Vermont court to make him take it down.

That was the consensus of the Vermont Supreme Court in a ruling last Friday in a case that involved two proposed solar arrays in New Haven.

The solar fields at issue are one on Field Days Road proposed by Peck Solar and Encore Renewable Energy and the second off Dog Team Road and proposed by Suncommon and Helios Solar. Nancy Myrick, who lived across from the Field Days Road site, and Dale Hastings and Jess Whitney, who lived in a house directly abutting the Dog Team Road project, had sued in separate cases to stop the respective developments. Addison Superior Court had combined the cases ruled in favor of the solar developers. The Supreme Court last week affirmed that ruling, citing an 1896 ruling that said differences in aesthetic sensibilities alone was not grounds for a successful lawsuit.

The landowners in this 21st century case argued that the solar arrays negatively affect the surrounding area’s rural aesthetic and thus cause the value of properties in the area to fall.

In a ruling authored by the Hon. Harold E. Eaton, Jr., associate justice, the court rejected the argument.

“The mere appearance of the property of another does not affect a citizen’s ability to use and enjoy his or her neighboring land,” the ruling reads.

It says the landowners may suffer emotional distress, but case law only protects citizens from “annoyance and discomfort.”

“There is a difference between, on the one hand, a complaint that solar panels are casting reflections and thereby interfering with a neighbor’s ability to sleep or watch television and, on the other hand, the landowners’ complaint in this case — that the solar panels are unattractive,” Eaton wrote.

“The former involves a potential interference with the use or enjoyment of property, while the latter involves emotional distress,” and emotional distress is entitled to “limited legal protection.”

The justices also declined to take sides based on the beauty or ugliness of a property, and said that lawmakers could get involved: “The propriety of one neighbor’s aesthetic preferences cannot be quantified because those preferences are inherently subjective … The judicial branch is ill-suited to be an arbiter of style or taste, and given the subjectivity of aesthetic preferences, they must remain the province of legislative decision-making.”

The landowners’ lawyer, Wanda Otero-Weaver, a partner at Langrock, Sperry & Wool, was disappointed in the ruling, saying it rested on an 1896 court ruling, not on aesthetics standards of today.

The justices also did not explain how the court could cite the protection of aesthetics in rulings in favor of the law that bans billboards on Vermont road, but deny aesthetics as a cause for suit when it comes to solar arrays.

“The billboard law is entirely about protecting aesthetics,” she said.

Otero-Weaver said her clients were also disappointed that the supreme court didn’t recognize the harm they suffered in the loss of property value. She made a comparison to the law that allows the state to condemn privately owned land and use it for a road or a public building.

“When the state takes private property for public good (through condemnation), even the state has to give just compensation,” Otero-Weaver said. “But private (solar) companies don’t have to” in this case.

Otero-Weaver said the Myrick, Hastings and Whitney were exploring other options to protect their property.

While the ruling may have closed off one avenue for property owners opposed to large solar arrays planted on neighboring property, this will not be the last time the high court hears a case on solar arrays.

Local elections (Continued from Page 2A) diseases. I want to support safe routes for all road and sidewalk users. I want to support the town in improving its infrastructure from rail bridges to water pipes to broadband. With many new hires in recent years, a restructured public works and a challenged economic development initiative, I want to support our town management in strong human resource policy.”

BRIAN CARPENTER Carpenter owns Champlain Valley Equipment and served as a brigadier general and commander of the Vermont Army National Guard. He is currently selectboard chairman, and was crystal clear on what he believes will be the board’s biggest challenge during the next three years.

“Following through on the bridge and rail project — trying to move that from planning into an active project — is probably my top priority,” Carpenter said. “I’d like to see us get those bridges replaced before they get bad enough where they have to be weight-restricted or condemned.”

Adding to the challenge, Carpenter said, will be ensuring downtown merchants don’t suffer a catastrophic financial setbacks during construction.

“We’re working with all the key stakeholders on that,” Carpenter

said of protecting the vitality of the downtown.

Middlebury is nearing somewhat of an economic development crossroads, Carpenter noted.

An advisory committee has recommended against asking townspeople to continue earmarking a penny on the tax rate in each of the next five years to support the Middlebury Business Development Fund. Instead, local voters in March will be asked to allow the MBDF to continue operations for one more year using its accumulated surplus funds. Officials will, during that year, set some new economic development goals and expectations for Middlebury.

This comes at a time when a local business, Connor Homes, is battling for its life. The company’s 63 workers have been furloughed while Mike Connor recruits lenders to breathe new life into the operation.

“Our ongoing review (of economic development policy) has set the stage for the fact we’re not happy with where we’re at,” Carpenter said. “We’re trying to figure out what might be our best return on investment, and what we need to do to drive results.”

Carpenter also listed strategic planning — for the downtown and Exchange Street areas in particular — as another of his priorities.

“I’ve found the past three years incredibly rewarding,” he said of his board service to date.

Here are some other elected positions that will be on the March 7 ballot in Middlebury: • Five spots on the ACSD board.

Three of those terms will involve Middlebury representatives to the unified board. James “Chip” Malcolm will run for the remaining two years on a term left by Josh Quinn, who resigned soon after his election last year in order to take a job as ACSD business manager. Two additional Middlebury seats — both for three years — will also be decided on Town Meeting Day. Residents Victoria Jette and J.P. Rees are currently serving in those spots, according to Webster.

Middlebury residents will also vote in the at-large races for a threeyear term in both Bridport and Salisbury.

• A three-year seat on the Ilsley Public Library Board of Trustees, currently held by Rebecca Irwin. As of early this week, Meg Del Giacco and Faith Gong had filed petition papers to run for the spot.

• Former Gov. James Douglas has filed papers to serve another year as town moderator.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Ethics review, Senate oversight helps build trust in administration As a Republican-dominated Congress tries to push through Presidentelect Trump’s cabinet picks, American citizens should be vigilant in their appeal to slow the process down, pending ethic reviews and conflicts of interest checks as have been done for the past several decades. There is no reason, other than to try to avoid detection, that thorough background checks should not be completed on each candidate before Senate hearings are held. Democrats in the Senate have pledged to do their best to ensure that time-honored process is maintained, but citizens need to apply political pressure as well by raising their voices for adequate review.

Of the many cabinet choices, Democrats are targeting eight for heightened scrutiny and possible rejection — all of whom deserve such scrutiny and questioning. Those eight include: Rex Tillerson, Trump’s pick to serve as secretary of state, who long served as Exxon-Mobil’s CEO; Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), his pick for attorney general; Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R-S.C.), tapped to lead the Office of Management and Budget; Betsy DeVos for education secretary, a billionaire who married into the Amway fortune and has donated millions of dollars to Republican causes (including the campaigns of several Republicans sitting on the review committee), who has little to no prior experience with higher education or public education and has a controversial past with charter schools; Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), picked to lead the Department of Health and Human Services and oversee changes to Obamacare, who has supported privatizing Medicare; Andrew Puzder, a restaurant executive set to serve as labor secretary; Steve Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs partner, as treasury secretary; and Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt, as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, though he has been an ardent opponent of EPA regulations.

But not all of Trump’s cabinet choices face tough sledding.

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-Mont.), who is nominated to serve as the next interior secretary, told the Senate Natural Resources Committee that Trump’s ambitious infrastructure spending plans should “prioritize the estimated $12.5 billion in backlog of maintenance and repair” at hundreds of national parks across the country. It’s a message many Democrats will embrace, and in fact tried to get passed over the past eight years under President Obama, but which were blocked by Republicans because it was “big government spending” that would raise the national debt.

We’re pleased to see Trump embrace Sen. Bernie Sanders’ campaign themes to spend more on the nation’s infrastructure — a message that Hillary Clinton also adopted late in her campaign. And making needed repairs within the nation’s national parks is a good place to start. If it takes having a Republican in office to do what Democrats have been saying all along, that’s at least a sign of progress.

Zinke also testified during the hearings that, unlike Trump, he doesn’t believe climate change is a hoax, but is caused, in part, by humankind.

Also expected to get easy approval are: retired Marine Gen. James N. Mattis, Trump’s pick for defense secretary; South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, as ambassador to the United Nations; and John Kelly, a former Marine general who would lead the Department of Homeland Security.

In each case, the reason for exhaustive examination of background checks, conflicts of interest and an ethics review is to pave the way for congress and the public to have confidence in the Trump administration’s actions. That won’t happen if the public believes reasonable scrutiny was discarded because of power-plays by Republicans, especially in light of appointments whose views are counter to the departments they are to run.

If anything, several of Trump’s choices have increased the need for congressional oversight, not lowered it — and all Americans gain, Republicans included, when that process is done thoroughly.

Angelo S. Lynn

An easy way to make a million?

As 2017 gets underway, and New Year resolutions have not yet been forsaken, here’s some news for smokers, and a reason to never start smoking: It costs a fortune. Literally. One study pegs the cost at $37,570 per year, and a lifetime cost of over a million bucks.

No way, you say. How can it possibly cost that much when a pack a day would cost a person $3,037 at most retail stores?

Here’s that story. The personal-finance website WalletHub recently completed a state-by-state analysis of the cost of smoking per person. A Vermont resident who smokes a pack a day will spend $3,037 out of pocket annually. Then add the average annual cost of health care expenses caused by smoking; that’s $4,321. Add another $4,414 allocated to income loss per smoker, which has been calculated based on absenteeism, workplace bias or lower productivity because of health issues. (Fair or not, according to a recent study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, smokers earn 20 percent less than non-smokers.) That’s a total of $11,990 ($218 was added under “other related expenses) per year per smoker.

But the biggest expense was calculated as “financial opportunity cost.”

That’s defined as “the amount of return a person would have earned by instead investing that money in the stock market over the same period.

The study used the historical average market return rate for the S&P 500 minus the inflation rate during the same time period to reflect the return in present-value terms.” That amount was pegged at $25,581 per year for a Vermont resident. That amount seems high (unless you were lucky enough to double your money each year), so take that with a grain of salt, but at least figure that the $11,990 would be a gain, instead of a loss, and that, if invested, it earns money and over time that amount multiplies. Staying with WalletHub’s analysis, the annual cost for a pack-a-day smoker is $37,570.

Over a lifetime, starting at age 18 to 69, the total amount is $1,916,093.

Direct out of pocket costs is $154,877 over those 51 years; health care costs amount to $220,381; income loss is $225,118; and the financial opportunity cost is $1,304,619.

As a nation, the estimated 36.5 million tobacco users spend or cost the country about $300 billion a year. And if those numbers haven’t made a strong enough case to kick the habit, consider why the study used 51 years to calculate the lifetime expense: it’s because the average age of death for a pack-a-day smoker is 69.

There are a couple of lessons here: • First, don’t start smoking; and if you already do, stop. You’ll save a bundle, and you’ll live longer.

• Second, saving a little each day, instead of spending that same amount, makes a big difference. A pack of cigarettes costs about $9.62 in Vermont.

If you saved that instead, you effectively double your money (that is, rather than being a loss, it’s a gain.) So, instead of spending $3,511.30 each year, you put that in savings. Fifty years later, without any other factors such as investment growth, you’d have $178,500; and with investment growth you could easily double that amount or more.

We all have bad habits that we could work to change, but smoking, like most addictions, is a habit that costs more than you might think.

Angelo S. Lynn

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Join march for women’s rights On Jan. 21, hundreds of thousands of women are marching in Washington, D.C. and, simultaneously, throughout our country, to express the values we hold sacred as women in our society, as Americans, and as a citizens of our Earth.

We, the people, must no longer endure inflamed public discourse that validates longstanding violations of our human rights. Nor can we permit those violations to continue.

Some of us will march carrying a banner that reflects our steadfast determination to be the America that values all of its people, all of its women, and whose actions are imbedded in Integrity, Civility, Tolerance, Inclusion, Compassion and Justice.

Please join us.

Faith Terry Middlebury

Republicans are lying to us all

Open windows

AIR FLOWS THROUGH open windows at either end of an old barn in Addison Tuesday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Hospice work offers hope, wisdom As we begin 2017, there are so many unknowns. Sim- family. In paying attention to the fact that we die, there is ilar to the process of death, we can’t predict anything — an authenticity and vividness to life that is both poignant mystery abounds. It doesn’t matter where we stand in and astounding. our political tendencies, religious practices and cultural Hospice volunteers are trained in various practices that traditions or where we fall on the economic, social, sex- I believe could be very useful in the days and months to ual and wellness spectrums. Regardless of come. who we are or where we are — we will Find Common Ground – At HVS we face change, we will face life and we will interview every patient. We also get to face death. know our volunteers over the course of a I work with Hospice Volunteer Services 30-hour training program. This helps us to (HVS). Our office is in the MarbleWorks match a patient with a volunteer. Are there in Middlebury. On the wall there is a picsimilar backgrounds, travels, careers, hobture of two Peanuts characters sitting on a bies, passions? In finding connections we dock: Charlie Brown says, “Someday we create a foundation for a rich relationship. will all die, Snoopy.” And the dog replies, Meet People Where They Are – This “True, but on all the other days, we will is a place where all judgments and asnot.” It is those “other days” that hospice sumptions are left behind. As Rumi says, is concerned about — the living our days “Out beyond any ideas of wrong doing or in spite of death. How do we want our right doing there is a field. I will meet you family, friends, neighbors to spend those there.” We are being invited into this vul“other days”? What is important to each nerable time of a patient dying, we want of us as we live? our intentions to be the highest good for I’d like to dispel two myths about hoseach patient we serve. We honor the indiWays of Seeing vidual essence of each person. pice.

Myth 1: Hospice is when we give up Use Vertical Listening – I picture a

By Laurie Borden hope because there is nothing more that well, going down, down into the earth can be done. Instead, hospice is about the for that pure water at the bottom. In the hope that there are always things that can be done — the same way, hospice listening goes below the surface, to expression of stories, of wisdom, of forgiveness, of grat- a conversation beyond the weather report. This deep itude, of love. listening goes to a place in the soul where healing is Myth 2: Hospice confines someone to a six-month found. The hardest part about being a hospice volunteer death sentence. Instead, hospice creates a sacred space is just “being with” someone. We use the phrase, “Don’t and time for very important life work to be completed just do something, sit there!” to remind ourselves to with a compassionate support system for the patient and (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Reluctant accountant gets surprise As the reluctant bookkeeper for my husband’s business, construction business? Are there any large capital expenI dread this time of year: It’s tax season. I hate thinking ditures (such as the purchase of a corporate jet) I forgot to about money, much less keeping track of it, and I don’t make note of? What if Quickbooks is wrong and we owe, really understand accounting. say, $200,000 in taxes?

It’s not that I’m bad at math; back in my school days, Between nerves and a lack of sleep, I arrived at the I never met a cosine I didn’t like. But my accountant in- accountant’s office in a highly excitable state. So when sists that fun stuff like vectors and rational coefficients he reached out to shake my hand, I screamed, flung my aren’t appropriate for small-business accounting, and that manila folder at him and dove behind a ficus tree.

I need to stop using the quadratic formula altogether (apMoments later, while we collected papers off the floor parently, it’s screwing up payroll). together, I apologized for my outburst.

Accountants are so uptight.

He waved it aside — causing me to To get ready for my annual tax flinch — and assured me that clients meeting with him this morning, I had nervous breakdowns in his office spent the last week stressing about all the time. Then he offered me some all the work involved. I ran reports. decaf.

I submitted W-2s and 1099s. I made We chit-chatted for a few minutes, sure all of our quarterly and annual and I had just begun to calm down filings were taken care of. when he started asking me panic-inBy Jessie Raymond ducing questions.

There were a lot of forms, and I don’t fill them out often enough to “During 2016,” he said, glancing at make the procedures stick in my a page in my folder, “did you amortize memory. Mostly I struggled with government tax web- the cost basis for any non-compensated asset with malice sites. I hate them — they’re long on forms WH-434, aforethought? Or did you defer substantive recourse to a C-101, B-52, R2-D2 and such, and short on cosines. I am subsequent period, not to exceed 90 days?” completely out of my element.

I squinted at him for several seconds. I could think My ignorance of tax codes and anything more finan- of three possible answers: “I’m afraid that’s classified,” cially technical than management of a basic check reg- “How dare you speak to me that way!” or “You’ll find ister makes me feel especially vulnerable when going the answer on line 17 of form H1N1.” I went with the last before an expert in tax matters. I dug out any papers that one, which I thought struck a nice, professional-sounding looked like they could be pertinent — not just receipts, note. registers and statements but also shopping lists and knitHe closed his eyes and rubbed his forehead for several ting patterns — because I was terrified of showing up seconds. The poor guy works too hard at this time of year. unprepared.

But we muddled through. I had all the documents he My mind raced all night. Are vet bills deductible for a (See Raymond, Page 5A)

Around the bend

Repugnicants trying to pull the wool again. One person, I don’t want to bother remembering his name, has been waving his passport in front of the news people to show he has not been to Prague. I have been to Prague recently and my passport does not have a visa stamp for either Prague of Frankfort, where I changed planes. So, this unnamed Trump supporter is either totally trying to deceive, or hasn’t traveled enough to know that passports don’t get stamped for most trips to Europe. But I really don’t expect truth from Republicans. We would have fewer problems if more checked them for lies.

Peter Grant Bristol

Keep open mind, follow evidence I applaud Joanna Colwell for her fine critique of Wayne Dyer’s unhelpful aphorisms (Ways of Seeing, Jan. 12). She deserves further applause for pointing out similar “harmful ideas” even in her own field of yoga. (Incidentally, the word “spiritualism” means so many different things to different people that it is completely useless. Let’s not use it anymore.)

Colwell’s skepticism points to a larger issue: the New Age rejection of science and reason. Now more than ever we need to slow down and think critically about important issues, rather than demonizing those with whom we disagree. We need to be willing to engage in respectful dialogue, focusing on claims and not the claimants. Most importantly, we must be willing to change sides if the evidence leads us to do so.

There are now too many sources of bias or fakery that lure us into maintaining false ideas.

It’s time to move past the New Age and look to our scientists, learning to think the way they do.

Our future depends on it.

Jerry Shedd Ripton

Trees no answer for carbon use In a front-page story, Addison Independent, Dec, 15, 2016, Middlebury College President, Laurie Patton announced that the college is now carbon neutral, meaning that it has brought its carbon footprint to zero. Bill McKibben says the college has won an important battle in an all-out war on climate change.

I will to try to be nice in my reply. But, in sum, the method used, sequestration, to reach carbon neutrality is bogus. It is a slight of hand unworthy of the integrity and professionalism of Middlebury College. It allows the college to go on burning fossil fuels and at the same time say that CO2 and other pollutants produced are neutralized by their trees.

How did the college reach carbon neutrality? First off I am really glad the college is working in this direction. However, I don’t think it has been achieved in a meaningful way with their carbon sequestration theory.

So how did the college reduce CO2 output? First by burning “locally sourced wood chips” to (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, January 19, 2017 — PAGE 5A

ANWSD board, teachers discuss latest negotiations On Jan. 12, the Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD) and Addison Northwest Teachers’ Association (ANTA) held their sixth contract negotiations meeting.

The main topics we discussed were the definition of a teacher, flexible scheduling, salary and benefits.

The board feels strongly that all teachers should get the same raise; our original proposal was a specific dollar amount, but we are open to identifying it as a percentage of one’s current salary. ANTA’s proposal, which equates to 10.9515.94 percent raises, is based on a complex index that has been used in the past and simply doesn’t treat all teachers fairly. Effectively they are advocating for the base salary to be increased by 10.95 percent ($1,917) and to apply a 4.5 percent raise on top of that.

We spent quite a bit of time addressing some issues surrounding professional development. The board’s view is that teachers are receiving a tangible benefit by having professional development courses paid for and having paid time off to attend them. ANTA is proposing an additional $1,917 in salary for every 15 credits completed.

Finally, we also clarified some of the differences of our positions regarding flexible scheduling. We are committed to meeting the needs of each student’s personalized learning goals and that flexibility is crucial to achieve this goal. ANTA feels that teachers’ contracted 7.25 hours per day must be scheduled in the conventional 7:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m. school day Monday through Friday.

If student needs require teacher time outside those hours, ANTA has proposed additional compensation at $45/hour.

Because we have opened our negotiations sessions to the public this year, we feel it is important to keep our communities aware of the issues we’re facing and the dialog that’s

occurring. As always, the board is in the position of needing to balance delivering the best education we can to the district’s students and the financial (tax) implications for all residents. Contracted salaries and benefits represent the vast majority of our annual school budgets, so we are working hard to consider the needs of all our stakeholders: students, taxpayers and teachers (many of whom are also taxpayers in our district).

Our next scheduled negotiations meeting is Thursday, Jan. 26, at 6 p.m., at the VUHS library. We invite you to attend and become part of the process.

We welcome your feedback.

Mark Koening, George Gardner and Sue Rakowski ANWSD Negotiations Committee Vergennes

Editor’s note: In checking out the content of this letter, we found most of the assertions of fact to be true, but we couldn’t find the data on two assertions on ANTA’s proposal so we asked ANTA if the numbers were correct. The two things we weren’t sure about were: 1. In talking about professional development, the letter asserts that ANTA is proposing an additional $1,917 in salary for every 15 credits completed; and 2. In discussing flexible scheduling, the letter asserts that the ANTA feels that teachers should be paid additional money for work outside the 7:45 a.m.-3:15 p.m. day. ANTA Co-chief Negotiators Susan Oliveira and Rose Wenzel provided this response: Article 14.2 in our current Master Agreement, which can be found online at anwsu.org deals with professional development funding.

ANTA made absolutely no proposal to change 14.2 in our proposal to the board. As you know, both our proposal and theirs can also be found on the same site. In fact, the

board proposed to cut the funding for professional development for each teacher in half. In their 41-page proposal Article 14.2 is re-numbered as 14.1 and states, “At Board cost, teachers shall be entitled to a maximum of $1,833 per year for the purpose of Professional Development.”

ANTA researched the cost of graduate classes for 2016-2017 at UVM and found they cost $629/ credit for a total of $1,887 for one, three-credit class, thus we will be cut from two, three-credit classes to just less than one, three credit class per year. At the table the board has suggested more money might be available for some teachers on a first-come, first-served basis but as yet they have put nothing in relation to this or any other article we have discussed in writing or offered any written counter-proposals.

The second article that you referred to is Article 9.1. Again, ANTA made no proposal to change that article in any way. The current article states, “The Association recognizes that each teacher has a professional responsibility to provide the best possible education to all students and that this responsibility may, at times, extend outside the student day at mutually agreed upon times.”

It says nothing about remuneration.

The board asked that we agree to change “at times” to “occasionally” which we agreed to do. This article has been signed off on as a tentative agreement — no money was ever discussed in relation to it.

We challenge the board to spend more of their time understanding the current contract, getting to know the dedicated professional teachers who work for this community, and practicing the art of counter-proposing at the negotiating table rather than spending their time writing grandiose or provocative statements to be read at the start of public negotiation meetings or released to the press.

Seniors can derive many benefits from volunteering According to the Vermont Department on Aging, 23.8 percent of Vermonters will be over the age of 65 by 2032, which will rank Vermont’s population as the oldest in the nation. This will have widespread implications for Vermont’s health care system and local communities.

As the percentage of older individuals in Vermont’s population increases, it will be essential to engage this demographic and improve their lives. Volunteering is one way to do this. Seniors cannot only reap health benefits but can also actively contribute to their communities through volunteering. Volunteerism offers numerous health benefits and rewards for older individuals.

Growing research from the Nation-

al Institute on Aging shows a positive relationship between volunteering and physical and mental health in seniors. In particular, studies have shown that older individuals who volunteer live longer, report lower disability and have higher levels of well-being. Senior volunteers also provide valuable services and meet a variety of community needs in critical areas such as human services, elder care, health and education.

RSVP, a local nonprofit whose mission it is to deploy volunteers and develop programming centered on volunteer service, refers volunteers age 55 and up to area nonprofits that serve community members of all ages. RSVP also coordinates several programs that allow older individuals

to stay healthy, engaged and financially stable.

According to a 2016 report from the Vermont House Human Services Committee, RSVP volunteers provided 231,701 hours of service to Vermonters. The estimated value of this volunteer time is $5,292,051.

RSVP volunteers make a real difference to the lives of people, animals and organizations in need.

Encouraging seniors to volunteer locally provides a great benefit to both themselves and the Addison County community. Seniors looking to volunteer and nonprofits looking for volunteers should contact RSVP at 388-7044.

Alix O’Meara Middlebury

Obama and Biden deserve thanks for their service As we transition to a new administration on Jan. 20, I felt compelled to write and thank President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden for their service to our country over the last eight years. These two men are extraordinary human beings. Their commitment to all of

the people of the United States has been clearly demonstrated throughout their years of public service.

I cannot stress enough that I feel they both have put the needs of every American citizen before their own each and every day while in office. Something that I feel may

not occur in the next four years.

I wish them both the very best in the future and will be watching as they take on their new roles as citizens and know that their good work will continue.

Bruz Brown Bristol

the quadratic formula on the back of the letter, then added a smiley face, and mailed it back to Montpelier.

In a few days, we’ll find out whether auditors are as uptight as accountants.

Raymond (Continued from Page 4A) needed, and more — he seemed especially impressed with the owner’s manual to my blender. And in an hour, we were done: Another year of forms and reports and files and numbers, all taken care of.

What a relief. I got home and dropped into a chair.

Then I noticed, in the day’s mail, a letter from the state of Vermont.

It read, “Your business has been randomly chosen for a tax audit for the year 2015. In addition to check register, journal entries and payroll records, please provide the following 2015 forms: W-2s, 1099s, WH-434s, C-101s, B-52s and R2-D2s. Attach supporting documents to form WD40. Please respond to this letter within five business days or we will break your kneecaps.” (I’m paraphrasing.)

And suddenly it was back: that familiar numbers-averse, tax-ignorant anxiety clutching at my chest — some 51 weeks earlier than usual. It was too much. In purple pen, I wrote

‘Casting your whole vote’ is best response to election A couple of weeks ago, I began to ask my friends how they were coping with the national election and how they were responding to the changing of the guard. Some are coping by withdrawing. One says that she listens to WOKO instead of public radio. Others have built strategies for regulating the amount of distressing news that they take in in a day, and listen to music, talk about other things with friends, work out more, hug their spouse closer or spend more time in nature or museums.

Some absorb every morsel of salacious and upsetting news about Donald Trump, his cabinet, the election shenanigans and The Donald’s family. Responses to the election vary. Some are taking a break until the inauguration. Others are writing opinion pieces or poetry. One plans

to work more rather than less as he ages since his work can help preserve civil rights that might be threatened. Another studies consolation. One says he’ll “protest like it’s 1968”.

Most feel that being quietly liberal is not enough and plan to actively resist the potential assault on civil rights, the environment, international relations and health. Some worked hard to impact on electors.

Some are sitting back waiting for Trump to implode. Many are in touch with our Senators and Representative.

Some plan to attend the Million Women’s March in D.C. on Jan. 21, the day after the inauguration.

Many talk of being in closer touch with like-minded people in order to support each other’s actions. Thoreau said, “…Cast your whole vote,

not a strip of paper merely, but your whole influence.”

I am going to take Thoreau’s advice and be at Vermont’s Women’s March on Montpelier at 1:30 p.m. this coming Saturday. It will be a chance for people to “stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health and our families — recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country.”

For me, marching in support of the Washington protest and 300 simultaneous local demonstrations in all 50 states is a small thing that I can do to “cast my whole vote” in response to the ever more questionable election of Donald Trump.

Harry Yeo Chaucer New Haven

to do double duty. No wonder the climate change deniers have doubts about the climate activists.

That forests can increase future sequestration of carbon over long periods of time is highly problematic and subject to a variety of circumstances that may or may not actually end up in carbon sequestration. Factors such as maturity of the trees, are they young and rapidly growing and therefore sequestering carbon? Other factors are level of CO2 in the air, temperature, level of nutrition in the forest and there are more. According to the literature counting on temperate forest for increased sequestration is very iffy.

Now I could be wrong, but it seems beyond reason to claim that forest land preserved forever can be called an “offset for carbon dioxide” produced by the college’s use of fossil fuels. This claim simply doesn’t make any sense. For if it did make sense then all of Vermont and probably all of New England is, undoubtedly, carbon neutral and in no need of doing anything further to reduce CO2 simply because New England is something like 75 percent trees which are happily gobbling up our CO2 and making

us blissfully carbon neutral in the process. Makes me feel strangely unconcerned about driving a gas-guzzling car.

If you think about the big picture, atmospheric CO2 started increasing with the industrial revolution and has continued to increase even though the forests of Vermont and New England have made a dramatic come back over the past 100 years from our lands being clear cut to the vast forests we have today. Yet atmospheric CO2 continues to increase. Obviously if the forests were going to solve the problem they would had accomplished it by now.

Sorry but it makes no sense for the college, with all its good intentions, to claim a reduction in climate changing carbon dioxide by claiming the trees are doing it, and all the while still burning fossil fuels. The more I think about this preposterous scheme the more annoyed I become.

I believe climate change is real and manmade and we must take drastic steps to reduce all climate change gasses not just CO2. But counting sequestration by northern forests is really stretching logic.

Paul Stone Orwell

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) provide 75 percent of the heat and 20 percent of electricity for the college. And importantly they installed many energy saving practices on campus. These actions, according to the article, reduced its carbon dioxide footprint by 53 percent. These projects are commendable.

The other 47 percent of CO2 reduction was achieved, per the article, “by claiming carbon offsets (in a process called sequestration) from 2,100 acres of Green Mountain forestland, owned by the college, preserved in perpetuity around its Bread Loaf campus in Ripton.”

So the college is claiming that 47 percent of their reduction in carbon dioxide production is being offset, sequestered, by trees that were already doing this long before the college ever existed. And the college has the illogical notion that all of a sudden these trees will take on an added responsibility to sequester 47 percent of the college’s CO2 output from burning fossil fuels. This makes no sense to me. I mean the trees are up there doing their thing as part of the natural CO2 cycle for thousands of years and now all of a sudden the college can call on them

Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) pause and listen.

Stay Open to the Mystery – There are so many diverse stories in hospice, so many ways to die. Often there are experiences with no explanation. How faith, religion, spirituality, belief or non-belief play a role is ever unfolding. We open ourselves to each death as new, with the potential for anything to happen. All these passages, with their individual messages, deserve our attention.

So as we enter 2017, whether you are terrified or comforted, depressed or exhilarated, this coming year can be seen as time of great possibility.

We can look for common ground between one another, but also practice respect for those who are different.

We can reach out our hand in acceptance, but also have courage to reach

out our hearts to those with whom we disagree. We can pause to hear intentionally, but also use our voice for those who can’t speak for themselves. And finally, we can be open for meaning in that which we don’t understand, but also find peace in those questions unanswered.

My new year practice is “one by one”: I will not regret back, I will not worry forward, I will be in this one moment. One step, one encounter, one taste, one challenge, one smile, one person, one song, one hug, one

setback, one breath at a time.

May 2017 bring us to attention, intention, possibility and hope — one moment at a time.

Laurie Borden is the program assistant at Hospice Volunteer Services in Middlebury. She also serves as the ARCH (Addison Respite Care Home) community coordinator, as well as on the ARCH board, exploring and creating end-of-life options in Addison County. She lives in Weybridge with her husband, mother and three Bernese mountain dogs.

Von Jerome and Laurie Earle, RN enjoy time at Project Independence.

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Rhea Bodette, 87, South Burlington

Martha Davis, 90, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Martha “Diddy” Mace Davis passed away peacefully in her home in Middlebury surrounded by her loving family on Jan. 15, 2017.

Martha was born May 11, 1926 in Ferrisburgh, Vt. to Herbert Mace and Calla Field. She attended Vergennes High School, Green Mountain College and McGill University where she received a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1949. Martha met Baird Davis while at McGill.

They married in 1950 and she spent the next 63 years in Quebec and British Columbia before returning to Vermont in 2013.

Martha taught business courses at the high school and college level and was an active volunteer. She loved the outdoors and especially her home on the lake north of Montreal.

Martha was predeceased by her

SOUTH BURLINGTON — Rhea Blanche Bodette, 87, of South Burlington passed away peacefully on Friday, January 13, 2017, surrounded by her loving family; husband Chester; her daughters Linda Aston and husband Dave, Ann Parent and husband Charles, and Susan Hayes and partner Brent; and her sons Scott and wife Gayle, Lee and his partner Jessica.

Rhea is also survived by 11 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren, whom she cherished; her sisters Rita Delphia, Claire Lowell, and Louise Warner; and her brother John Larocque.

She was predeceased by her parents

husband Baird in 1996; her brothers Sam Mace and William Mace; her sister-in-law Patricia Davis; her niece Alyson Mace; and her daughter-inlaw Pam Carter. She is survived by her three children, Andrew Davis of Middlebury; Maria Allen (Freeman) of Ripton; and John Davis of Montreal; her grandchildren Oakley White-Allen; Sophie, Walker and Lydia Allen; her brother William’s wife Judith Mace; as well as her nieces, nephews and friends.

The family greatly appreciates the loving care of Dr. Carrie Wulfman, Kathy Laframboise and Kayla Given. Many thanks to Middlebury Home Health and Hospice, and for arrangements by Steve Gregory and Son. At Martha’s request there will BRISTOL — Richard E. Lathrop, be no service. The family will hold 88, passed away Tuesday, Jan. 17, their own private memorial at a later 2017 at his home in Bristol. date. ◊ He was born Nov. 15, 1928 in Bristol, the son of Mitchell and Perlie (Thompson) Lathrop.

He was a member of St. Ambrose Church in Bristol. He was past president of Addison County Fire Fighter’s Association, a member for over 50 years and former chief of the Bristol Fire Department. He volunteered for Meals on Wheels and belonged to Old Pharts Coffee Club.

He was predeceased by his wife Patricia Lathrop on July 3, 2015, and his children Susan and Larry.

Richard is survived by two sons,

Dora and Hyacinthe Larocque; her brother Rene, and her sisters Pauline and Lela.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, Jan. 20, from 4 - 7 p.m. at Ready Funeral & Cremation Service South Chapel, 261 Shelburne Road, Burlington. There will be no service.

Burial will be held privately for family at Resurrection Park Cemetery in South Burlington.

In lieu of flowers, those who wish may make donations in Rhea’s name to the UVM Children’s Hospital, 111 Colchester Ave., Burlington, VT 05401. To send online condolences to her family please visit www.readyfuneral.com. ◊

Richard Lathrop, 88, Bristol

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Esther Trudeau, 85, Salisbury SALISBURY — Esther B. Trudeau, 85, died Friday, January 13, 2017, at her home.

She was born November 27, 1931, in Bristol, Vt., the daughter of Morton and Ethel (Taft) Hill.

Esther was an avid crafter and enjoyed gardening, houseplants, adult coloring books and crocheting.

She is survived by her sons, Herman Trudeau of Egremont, Mass., Morton Trudeau of Sheffield, Mass., and Richard Trudeau of Great Barrington, Mass.; her daughters, Tolitha Hankey of Sheffield, Mass., Dorothy Denis of Jonesboro, Tenn., Pamela Williams of Vergennes, Vt., Betsy Bradley of Salisbury Vt., Tina Daloni of Hampton Beach, N.H., Louise Bowdish of Weybridge, Vt., and Ella Lussier of Middlebury, Vt.; her 27 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren, 5 great-great-grandchildren and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

She was predeceased by her parents and by her husband Charles H. Trudeau on July 27, 2000, and also by her son Kenneth Trudeau in 1980 and by her siblings, Robert, Wallace, Thomas, Charles, Alice, Winona, Lois, Mary, Elsie, Gladys and Marjorie.

Visiting hours will be held on Saturday, Jan. 21, from 10 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.; funeral services will begin at 1 p.m. at the SandersonDucharme Funeral Home, located at 117 South Main St., Middlebury.

The Rev. Daniel Cooperrider will officiate.

Burial will be held in the Spring in Weybridge Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to Project Independence at 112 Exchange St., Middlebury, VT ESTHER B. TRUDEAU 05753.

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Edward Alexander ‘Sandy’ Martin, 89, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — We have all lost a kind, intelligent, gentle and compassionate soul. On January 12th, 2017, exactly five months before he would have turned 90, Edward Alexander Martin – Sandy to all – has peacefully gone on to whatever comes next. A loving husband, father and loyal friend. Sandy was a gardener, scholar and intellectual, beekeeper, writer, fisherman, hand mower and a superb listener with a wry sense of humor.

Born on June 12, 1927, in New York City to Dorothy Freeman Martin and Alexander Tertius Martin MD, Sandy graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University, Columbia University and earned his BA, MA, PhD (or “BAh, MAh, PHuD” as he termed his degrees) in English/American Literature. He was drafted into the navy at the end of World War II but did not serve the prescribed time in service and was drafted again during the Korean War. Sandy married Margaret Funk (Peg) in 1957 while still in graduate school and he and Peg moved to Middlebury College in 1961. As an instructor, eventually tenured professor and Chair of the English Department, Sandy taught generations of Middlebury students the basics of writing and passed along his joy of literature. He was Assistant Director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference under poet John Ciardi, where his calm demeanor diplomatically defused “artistic” temperaments. Officially retired from Middlebury College in 1996 Sandy continued to work parttime helping teach an experimental course for students interested medical careers.

Sandy was an H.L. Mencken scholar and wrote two published books on Mencken: “H.L. Mencken and the Debunkers” and “In Defense

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Michael E. Lathrop of Middlebury; Alan R. Lathrop and his wife Denise of Bristol; daughter Kelly and David Blair of Starksboro; eight grandchildren, Lindsay, Sarah, Christine, Dana, Jonathan and Jacob Lathrop, Shawn and Tacia Murray; two great-grandchildren; a sister Lorraine Hallock of Bristol; several nieces and nephews.

A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Thursday, Jan. 19 at 10 a.m. at St. Ambrose Church in Bristol. Interment will be at Mt. St. Joseph Cemetery in Bristol. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.◊

Wayne Stearns Sr., 75, West Ferrisburgh WEST FERRISBURGH — Wayne M. Stearns Sr., 75, passed away Monday, Jan. 16, 2017 at his home in West Ferrisburgh.

He was born May 29, 1941 in Charlotte, the son of Lawrence and Madeline (LaJoie) Stearns.

He was a lifelong and truly dedicated farmer on the family farm in West Ferrisburgh. He enjoyed fishing, spending time with the family and he was proud of his children and grandchildren.

Wayne is survived by his children, Tammy and husband Gary Grant; Wayne M. Stearns Jr.; Eugene and wife Annie Stearns; and Phillip Stearns; five grandchildren, Gary,

Geoffrey, Taylor, Ashtin and Logan; two sisters, Marie and Kathleen; two brothers Donny and Jerry; several nieces and nephews.

He was predeceased by his brothers David and Mike, and sister Laurie.

Visiting hours will be held on Thursday, Jan. 19 at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes from 5 to 7 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 20 at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes. A burial will be in the spring at North Ferrisburgh Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.◊

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Betty Rouse, 84, native of Hinesburg

EDWARD ALEXANDER “SANDY” MARTIN of Marion.” Sandy’s personal and professional belief in the equality of women was in part impetus for his second book in that Marion Bloom was an important, unrecognized intellectual influence on H.L. as well as his longtime paramour.

(Best sellers? – no, but well received

by Mencken scholars and admirers).

Sandy also served several terms as the President of the H.L. Mencken Society (Baltimore), a national organization that aims to keep “The Bard” and the “Saturday Night Club” alive and well.

Sandy was an active early member of the Middlebury Ambulance Association back when the ambulance was a box on wheels and the backboards handmade. As a parent and educator who believed strongly in public schools, he served multiple terms on both the Mary Hogan and Middlebury Union High School boards and valiantly fought a losing battle to keep “Twilight” Hall in town possession.

Sandy is survived by his wife, Peg, and their four children; Son Quentin Alexander Martin and Angel Rayford (LA); Son Ian Stewart Martin, his wife Nancy McClaran and grand-daughters Bryn and Reed (Lincoln VT); Son Robert Geddes Martin, his wife MaryAnna BishopMartin, grand-daughter Claire and grand-son Avery (Orcas Island, WA); Daughter Margaret Carveth Martin, her husband Curtiss Calleo and grand-son Aidan (Williamsburg, NY).

The Martin family is incredibly grateful for the extraordinary support from Addison County Home Health and Hospice aides and nurses (PO Box 764, Middlebury, VT 05753) and the amazing Project Independence Program staff (PO Box 581, Middlebury, VT 05753). If you are so inclined these two wonderful organizations put all donations to good use.

Sandy stories and remembrances welcomed at pmartin@middlebury. edu or snail mail – 33 Seminary St., Middlebury, VT 05753.

A gathering in Sandy’s honor is planned for a later date.

Please read a book, go fishing, plant a garden and walk in peace! ◊

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CASTLETON — Betty Jane Rouse, age 84, passed away Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, at the Pines in Rutland.

Mrs. Rouse was born in Hinesburg on Aug. 8, 1932. She was the daughter of Carroll and Marjorie (Place) Clark. She grew up in Hinesburg where she received her early education. On Sept. 16, 1950 she married Charles William Rouse in Charlotte.

They had just recently celebrated their sixty-sixth wedding anniversary.

They made their home in Hinesburg and Starksboro. In 1970, they moved their family to Middletown Springs.

Betty has been a resident of Castleton since 2008. She enjoyed travelling in their motorhome, going camping, listening to country music, maple cremees and going to lawn sales.

Surviving is her husband Charles of Castleton; two daughters, Darlene Palmer and her husband Todd of Pilot Mountain, N.C.; Diane Davis and her husband John of Fair Haven; two sons,

BETTY ROUSE Timothy Rouse and his wife Kathy of Middletown Springs; Terry Rouse and his wife Pam of Shoreham; two brothers, Gary Clark of Hinesburg; Alton Clark of Starksboro; two

sisters, Judy Irish of Hinesburg; and Linda Adams of Monkton. Also, six grandchildren, four great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and cousins. She was predeceased by her parents; her son Todd Rouse; three brothers, Kiland Clark, Wayne Clark and Nelson Clark; and two sisters, Caroline Bell and Joyce Owens.

The funeral service will be held on Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017 at 2 p.m., at the Mallory Funeral Home in Fair Haven.

A private graveside committal service and burial will take place, at a later date in Pleasant View Cemetery in Middletown Springs.

Friends may call at the funeral home on Saturday from noon until 2 p.m.

Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made in her memory to: The Pines At Rutland, Activities Fund for the Residents, 99 Allen Street, Rutland, VT 05701.◊

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St. Stephen’s to present free noonday concerts MIDDLEBURY — Starting Jan. 26, St. Stephen’s-on-theGreen in Middlebury will present a free half-hour noonday concert on the last Thursday of each month. These concerts, beginning at 12:15 p.m., will be informal (brown bag lunches invited) and light refreshments will be provided.

The first concert will feature the Rev. Kim Hardy, cellist, playing Scottish composer James MacMillan’s suite “Northern Skies.” The seven movements

range in mood from a meditative nocturne to a furious sabre dance.

The program will also include an organ suite titled “Carnival” by the late concert organist Robert Crandall depicting early improvised Italian comedy.

George Matthew Jr., organist of St. Stephen’s, will also accompany Rev. Hardy on piano.

Rev. Hardy holds music degrees from Oberlin and Ithaca colleges.

An ordained Episcopal priest, she is interim rector of St. James’ Church inz` Essex Junction.

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TWO OWLS CLUTCH mice in their beaks, hand-delivered by Helena Nicolay, who said this helps her keep track of how much nutrition each owl gets. These two owls were found struck by the road, one in Bridport and the other in Weybridge. Nicolay hopes that with time both will regain flight, such that they can hunt in the wild.

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Wildlife rehab (Continued from Page 1A) year. Her patients include not just raptors — barred owls, red-tailed hawks, merlin falcons and others — but also bunnies, ducks, geese, ruffled grouse, common snipe, hummingbirds, mourning doves, turtles, squirrels and possums.

The goal is to return a fully rehabilitated animal to the wild. But only about half of the wild animals Nicolay tends will regain sufficient strength, sight, hearing, or mobility to be able to fend for themselves.

“The criteria for release are pretty strict since we want the animal to thrive; and it is not an easy world for them out there,” she said.

Some animals — rehabilitated but no longer capable of surviving in the wild — can become outreach ambassadors for such organizations as the Quechee-based Vermont Institute of Natural Science or Shelburne’s Outreach for Earth Stewardship. These organizations use once-injured raptors to educate Vermonters about wild creatures.

Other animals, not so lucky, must be euthanized.

“The reality is you have to make a lot of decisions that you never really wanted to make,” said Nicolay.

“Some people think rehabbers are just bunny huggers. But you have to buy food, you have to clean up after them, you have to deal with lots of different poop and parasites, you have to put animals down.”

Early this week Nicolay was tending six injured barred owls (the sixth delivered by the Vergennes police around midnight) and an injured red-tailed hawk.

Her Monkton property has also become the forever home for an assortment of rescued domestic animals: four rabbits, 11 ducks, four geese, and three chickens.

Various parts of her home have been converted to animal care.

A south-facing porch is now owl habitat. The garage holds newly arrived injured raptors. There’s a duck in a pen in her mudroom. In the basement, several bunnies nibble and hop in their pens. Her trim yard is a warren of pens, enclosures, cages and aviaries.

“I always have mice thawing on the kitchen counters, which my husband thinks is the grossest thing,” said Nicolay.

Not surprisingly, the chest freezer in her basement is stocked to the gills with mice, chicken parts, whole partridges, beef hearts, steak and road kill.

“I see a rabbit on the side of the road and I think, ‘That could feed my hawk for three days,’” said Nicolay.

Asked if she traveled with a cooler in the back of her car, Nicolay replied: Always.

INJURED ANIMAL ARRIVES Typical is the story of the newly arrived owl in the garage.

At around 6 p.m. Sunday night, Nicolay received a call. A local woman had been driving around dusk and heard a thump. She pulled over to find she’d hit an owl. She made some calls, wrapped it up and brought it to North Stream.

Soon after settling the owl into a safe, quiet spot, Nicolay administered fluids, a bit of protein, a painkiller and an anti-inflammatory.

“You have to relieve the pain immediately,” Nicolay said.

She checked the new arrival for wounds, breaks and other injuries.

One important criteria: can the raptor still perch. Once this new owl

is stable, she’ll treat it for parasites.

Eventually she’ll move it to a large outside aviary. She thinks that within a week or two — rehabilitation can take months — she’ll be able to release it back to the wild.

“This one weighed 938 grams, which is an unbelievably good weight,” Nicolay said.

It’s usually best to release an animal near where it was found. For one thing, like people, wild animals like their home turf. For another, owls mate for life.

Nicolay administers much of the medical care herself, but also works closely with nearby veterinarian Patrick Leavey.

“He’s been amazing,” Nicolay said.

Although for years she specialized in rehabilitating small mammals and an assortment of bird species, about two years ago she began to rehabilitate raptors as well.

“A woman and her granddaughter showed up unannounced in the driveway,” Nicolay recalled. “The little girls was holding something in her arms. I thought it was a big doll, and then I realized that it was a large, female barred owl.

“I did a double ‘oh my God!’ First of all it was ‘oh my God this is the most beautiful animal I’ve ever seen in my life.’ Second of all it was ‘oh my God I hope this little girl doesn’t get hurt,’ you know, with the talons.”

“The little girl was very calm. She said, ‘I sang to this owl all the way from the Champlain Islands to your house, and I want you to take very good care of this owl.’”

WHY BARRED OWLS? Barred owls are more apt to be hit by cars than many other owl species, said Nicolay, because they like to hunt at dusk —when commuter traffic puts more cars are on the road and when visibility is reduced. Barred owls also tend to be low fliers when swooping in on prey or carrion. And they fly silently.

“Just when it gets dark, they’re like — dinner!” Nicolay said.

Nicolay said that she’s seen a huge increase in the number of injured barred owls over the past two winters — and she reports

WILDLIFE REHABILITATOR HELENA Nicolay moves carefully around an owl whose vision has been damaged by its injury. The owl has excellent hearing, Nicolay said, and flies well.

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hearing the same from fellow raptor rehabilitators. She believes it’s because the past two years have provided excellent conditions for young owls to survive into adulthood: two successive years of heavy acorn production, two mild winters, and an increase in idealfor-owl nesting spots as Vermont’s forests continue to mature and as events like Tropical Storm Irene damage trees and help create the hollowed-out snags and trees the owls like.

When she releases an animal,

Nicolay says, “I can only wish it good luck and feel like I’ve done a little part of making it well again so that it can go back home.

“I just want them to go back home … I don’t want them in a cage. That’s not a life for a wild animal. So I just try to make their stay as comfortable as I can and then send them out as quickly as I can because they’re happiest out there.”

Reporter Gaen Murphree is reached at gaenm@ addisonindependent.com.

HELENA NICOLAY OFFERS beef strips to two rehabilitating owls in an outside aviary. One of the owls was found in Bridport, the other in Weybridge — both alongside roads, apparently hit by cars. One was splinted for a broken wing and is undergoing physical therapy. The other can fly but cannot gain altitude.

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(Continued from Page 1A) education property tax rate. governance under one board to “I cannot represent all of our towns preside over all of the district’s knowing that most of our towns get schools and operate them all through tax reductions in the first year, and a single spending plan.

Middlebury doesn’t,” Hardy said.

The global ACSD budget is “The vast majority of our taxpayers intended to cover the anticipated, will not see a reduction in their taxes fiscal year 2018 expenses for with the budget we have now. And I Middlebury Union middle and high don’t think that’s responsible for us schools (also known as UD-3), and to do in the first year.” the elementary schools in Bridport, Hardy instead suggested the Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, board cut the budget proposal, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge. pointing specifically to central office A budget summary prepared by administration costs.

ACSD administrators proposes Middlebury representative Jason $30,428,802 in net, local education Duquette-Hoffman said he believed spending. That’s around 2.17 percent the district should do a better job less than what has been budgeted for accounting for its budget request. the combined ACSD schools this “If we don’t like what we’re year. But the budget’s actual impact spending, let’s either cut the budget on ACSD residents’ tax bills is a or let’s plan on cutting the budget more complicated calculation, based going forward in the future, but for on a state formula. this board to use what are essentially The tax-affecting portion of the tricks of the math, is disingenuous,” budget ($30,428,802) is divided by Duquette-Hoffman said. the number of equalized pupils in Other board members argued none the district (1,767.52), to produce of the $963,441 should be returned to an education spending amount of taxpayers. $17,215 per equalized pupil. That “I think we are going into a period amount is then divided by a property of uncertainty, both around what tax yield number calculated by the consolidation is going to do and the state at $10,076, producing an what’s going to happen at the federal “equalized district tax rate” of around level around education funding, and $1.70 per $100 in property value. what’s going to happen at the state Addison Central, because it level,” Middlebury representative participated in an accelerated process Steve Orzech said, referring to for merging its school governance Vermont Gov. Phil Scott’s inaugural under Vermont’s Act 46, will receive message in which he encouraged a 10-cent reduction in greater investments in preits education tax rate for “To refund kindergarten and higher fiscal year 2018. That education. reduction, combined with all (of the Orzech noted the the $481,720 in surplus surplus) ACSD is maintaining fund the ACSD board seems a contingency fund has agreed to use for extremely amounting to 2 percent property tax stabilization, risky. I think of its budget, which he translates to a districtbelieves might not be we should wide education tax rate enough to react to possible of $1.608. Returning all hold onto all changes in the education $963,441 of the surplus of it until the system. to taxpayers would have dust settles.”

“To refund all (of the yielded a district-wide — Middlebury surplus) seems extremely education tax rate of representative risky,” Orzech said. “I around $1.58.

Steve Orzech think we should hold But we’re not finished onto all of it until the dust yet. The $1.608 district settles.” rate must also be measured against Some ACSD residents and the Common Level of Appraisal members of the local business (CLA) rate in each of the seven community agreed with Orzech’s ACSD-member towns. position. They argued the district The CLA is an equalization ratio should use all of the fund balance used to adjust the assessed value to make fixes and upgrades to the of property within a municipality many school buildings that now fall to its estimated fair market value. under the ACSD umbrella. District Each municipality’s CLA is used to Business Manager Josh Quinn said he calculate its actual homestead and has a list of $4 million to $6 million non-residential education property in capital projects for ACSD schools, tax rates. So a community’s education ranging from window replacements tax rate can fluctuate substantially to paving. depending upon its CLA. Former UD-3 school board Here’s how the current budget Chairman Leonard Barrett of would affect the local education Bridport urged ACSD officials to property taxes of the seven ACSD use the entire surplus for capital towns, based on current Common improvements.

Level of Appraisal information and “I’m passionate about not turning using $481,720 of the fiscal year that (money) back,” said Barrett.

2016 surplus for tax stabilization: Middlebury selectboard Chairman • Bridport’s rate would decline Brian Carpenter, the CEO of from the current $1.82 to $1.580.

Champlain Valley Equipment, • Cornwall’s tax rate: $1.598, calculated he would save around down slightly from $1.60. $1,400 if the entire surplus was used • Middlebury’s tax rate: $1.843 — for tax stabilization. He believes an increase from $1.81. that money would be better spent on • Ripton’s tax rate: $1.802, down school facilities — including, some from $1.92. day, a turf field for ACSD student• Salisbury’s tax rate: $1.632, athletes. down from $1.73.

“That’s just one of the things • Shoreham’s tax rate: $1.596, I’m sure you’re faced with on a down from $1.66. continuous basis,” Carpenter said • Weybridge’s tax rate: $1.757, of capital requests. “You have some down from $1.94. money in a fund right now. I think it The numbers could change if the would be short-sighted to return that Legislature changes the state portion to the taxpayers, because you don’t of education funding. have an opportunity to get that back DEBATE ON SURPLUS in the future. It won’t be something Board members on Tuesday you can sustain over a period of time. shared differing opinions on use It’s a one-time shot.” of the surplus money. Some, like Jim Foster of Foster Brothers Farm Middlebury representative Ruth agreed.

Hardy and Ripton representative “I think you need to take this Perry Hanson, advocated returning money and prevent greater (capital) all of the fund balance to taxpayers — expenditures down the road,” Foster some of whom are on fixed incomes. said.

Hardy noted district officials sold In the end, a majority of the board the governance unification plan to went for a compromise, to use half Middlebury voters based in part the surplus for capital needs and on the promise of a property tax half for tax stabilization. The ACSD decrease. The current budget calls budget will be voted by Australian for a 3-cent increase in that town’s ballot on Tuesday, March 7.

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“A transatlantic perspective: media portrayal of minorities” in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 19, noon-2:10 p.m., Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room, Middlebury College. The fourth annual student-run global affairs conference on Media and Minorities will present “A Transatlantic Perspective: Media Portrayal of Minorities” with Rodney Benson of New York University and Erik Bleich of Middlebury College.

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“A North American perspective: racial politics in the media” in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 19, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room, Middlebury College. The fourth annual student-run global affairs conference on Media and Minorities will present “A North American Perspective: Racial Politics in the Media” with Bertram Johnson of Middlebury College and Erin Tolley of University of Toronto.

American history lecture series: “The Life of Sacajawea” in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 19, 3-4 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, Community Room. EastView resident Bob Nixon presents “The Life of Sacajawea” as part of the American history lecture series.

Mass incarceration forum in Middlebury.

Thursday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Court.

This forum about incarceration in Vermont starts with an overview of Vermont’s use of incarceration followed by a presentation of the Stories Project, which includes excerpts from letters of people who are incarcerated. The panelists are Judge Samuel Hoar, Attorney Pam Marsh, and Matt and Beth (community members who have experienced incarceration.)

“Muslim Girls Making Change (MGMC)” in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 19, 7:30-8:30 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College.

The fourth annual student-run global affairs conference on Media and Minorities will present “Muslim Girls Making Change (MGMC)” with a youth-led group created by Hawa Adam, Kiran Waqar, Lena Ginawi, Balkisa Abdikadir, and Basmala Fadel, who use slam poetry to make their voices heard.

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“A local perspective: Vermont journalists” in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 20, 11 a.m.-12:15 p.m., Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room, Middlebury College. The fourth annual student-run global affairs conference on Media and Minorities will present “A Local Perspective: Vermont Journalists” with Jess Aloe, Burlington Free Press, Adam Federman, VT Digger, Gaen Murphree, Addison Independent, and moderator Angelo Lynn, editor and publisher, Addison Independent.

“A campus perspective: student editors” in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 20, 1-2:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ’59 House Conference Room, Middlebury College. The fourth annual studentrun global affairs conference on Media and Minorities will present “A Campus Perspective: Student Editors” with Claire Abbadi ’16, The Campus, Brandi Fullwood ’17, MiddBeat, Ellie Reinhardt ’17, The Campus, and moderator Bertram Johnson, Middlebury College.

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Green Mountain Club hike in Starksboro. Saturday, Jan. 21.

Snowshoe or hike of approximately 4-5 miles round trip on woods, roads and trails at Common Ground Center. Bring water and a snack and dress appropriately for the weather (layers, no cotton). This outing will be moderately strenuous with moderate elevation change less than 1,000 feet. Contact Beth Eliason at betheliason@gmail.com or 802-989-3909 for meeting time and place. Info: www.gmcbreadloaf.org.

Pancake breakfast in Shoreham. Saturday, Jan. 21, 8-10 a.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Road. The menu is plain or blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, home fries, sausage, juice and beverages. $7 adults; $3 children; $20 families.

Bottle drive in Leicester. Saturday, Jan. 21, 9 a.m.-noon, Leicester Town Shed (just off Route 7 on Fern Lake Road). The Leicester School sixth grade class will be holding a bottle drive to raise funds for their end of year school trip to New York City. If you would prefer to have your bottles picked up contact Heather LaPorte at 802-377-2363.

Romeo et Juliette in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 21, 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater. “Romeo et Juliette” will be screened as part of the MET: Live in HD series. Tickets are $24 / $10 for students and may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, over the phone 382-9222, or in person at the Town Hall Theater box office. A free talk about the opera will be given before the broadcast at 12:15 p.m. by David Clark. Run time 3 hours 4 minutes.

Conversation with Vermont Supreme Court Justice Robinson in Shoreham. Saturday, Jan. 21, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson will lead an interactive discussion about the birth of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, the meaning and significance of those rights, and the independent constitutional protections under the Vermont Constitution. Light refreshments will be served.

“Microbe & Gasoline” in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 21, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. Two teenage friends embark on a road trip across France after building a small house on wheels.

In French with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series in association with the Vermont International Film Festival. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168. Free.

Family dance party in Vergennes. Saturday, Jan. 21, 6-9 p.m., Vergennes Union High School.

The Unification Disco Dance Party features live music by Discolicious and DJ Soundrock with Bill Clark. Come decked out in your full 70s disco glory. Entry fee is by donation and will support your local public school. This event is hosted by Ferrisburgh PTO, Commodore Parent Teacher Group, VUES Community Group and Addison Central School parent-teacher association.

“King Pede” party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Jan. 21, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center. The evening begins with a sandwich supper and then on to an evening of

Life in jail

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT Judge Samuel Hoar will be joined by attorney Pam Marsh and others at a forum on mass incarceration that will take place on Thursday, Jan. 19, 7 p.m., at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury.

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fun and card games. This is a great way to stay in touch with your neighbors and support the Grange.

Jean-Michel Pilc, Jazz piano in Middlebury.

Saturday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall. Jean Michel-Pilc, called a “dazzlingly inventive pianist” by the New York Times, will take the listener on a journey crafted with unexpected landscapes and powerful emotions. Sponsored by the Performing Arts Series. Reserved seating. Tickets $25 public; $20 college ID holders; $6 students. Info: www. middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

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All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast in New Haven. Sunday, Jan. 22, 7-10:30 a.m., New Haven Town Hall.

All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast will benefit the New Haven Volunteer Fire Department.

The menu will be plain or blueberry pancakes, French toast, pure Vermont maple syrup, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, home fries, coffee, tea and juice.

“The Crown” in Middlebury. Sunday, Jan. 22, 3-5 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, Community Room. Watch episodes of “The Crown” on Sunday afternoons for five weeks. They will play two episodes each Sunday.

Apple Mac users group in Middlebury. Sunday, Jan. 22, 3:30-4:45 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, Community Meeting Room. Middlebury Apple Mac users group will be held. Open to the public. Free.

Trillium ensemble in Middlebury. Sunday, Jan. 22, 4 p.m., The Middlebury Community Music Center. The Trillium Ensemble featuring Esther Rogers Baker (cello), Janice Kyle (oboe) and Timothy Mount (piano) will perform. Suggested donation $10-20. Info: www.mcmcvt.org.

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Tai Chi for beginners in Vergennes.

Monday, Jan. 23, 9-9:45 a.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall. Tai Chi for beginners every Monday and Wednesday, Jan. 23-April 5.

This class is for people who have never done Tai Chi or those wanting to review the class.

Pre-registration is required. Email Lee Francis at lhfrancis1@myfairpoint.net or call 877-2464.

Classes are free. Bring hydration, dress comfortably and bring another pair of footwear especially during the winter.

Tai Chi intermediate class in Vergennes.

Monday, Jan. 23, 10-10:45 a.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall. Tai Chi intermediate every Monday and Wednesday, Jan. 23-April 5. This class is for people who have completed Tai Chi I and are ready to learn Tai Chi II. Pre-registration is required. Email Lee Francis at lhfrancis1@ myfairpoint.net or call 877-2464. Classes are free. Bring hydration, dress comfortably and bring another pair of footwear especially during the winter.

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Free technology assistance in Middlebury. Tuesday, Jan. 24, 3:30-5 p.m., Residence at Otter Creek.

Volunteers from Technology for Tomorrow will host a free technology workshop that will cover making an answering phone calls, sending and reading texts, syncing email, accessing the Internet and more. Register for this workshop by emailing info@tech4tomorrow or calling

802-448-0595.

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Storytelling in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Jan. 25, 4 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. Julia Doucet, outreach nurse for the Open Door Clinic, will share how migrant farmers were enabled to tell their story — a project that included the Vermont Folklife Center and artists who provided line drawings to convey each story.

“Identifying and extinguishing inflammation” talk in Middlebury. Wednesday, Jan. 25, 6 p.m., 9 Frog Hollow, Middlebury. Nutritionist John Bagnulo will give a talk on identifying and removing the most common sources of inflammation.

For more information call 282-4079. Free.

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HUBZone workshop in Middlebury.

Thursday, Jan. 26, 10-11:30 a.m., ACEDC Conference Room, Suite 8, 1590 Route 7 South. ACEDC members and friends are invited to attend a free VT procurement technical assistance center HUBZone workshop. The HUBZone program assists small businesses in gaining preferential access to federal contracts due to limited economic development in rural communities.

Classes at EastView in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 26, 3-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

EastView resident Nick Clifford will present a class on “The Future of Europe” the first in an eight-week series.

Author reading in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Axinn Center, Abernathy Room, Middlebury College. J.M. Tyree will read from and discuss “Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London,” an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries of “the world’s most visited city.” Tyree is a nonfiction editor of New England Review.

Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section annual meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 26, 6:30 p.m., Unitarian Universalist Society meeting space. Our section will celebrate another year of maintaining the Long Trail and leading outdoor activities. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., a brief social time with light refreshments will be followed by the Annual Meeting, followed by the program speaker, Middlebury resident Dan Brown, who will present his trip on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Free and open to the public. Contact Ruth Penfield 802-388-5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail. com with questions. Info: www.gmcbreadloaf. org/outings.

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January story hour in Monkton.

Friday, Jan. 27, 10-11 a.m., Russell Memorial Library. The Russell Memorial Library in Monkton is hosting a story hour with a simple song, story and craft. All are welcome.

Sledding event in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 27, 7-9 p.m., Chellis House, 56 Hillcrest Road, Middlebury College. Sister-to-Sister and Brotherto-Brother will hold a sledding event for Middle School girls and boys. Free event with lots of treats. For more information contact khanta@ middlebury.edu or call 443-5937.

Border / Zones in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 27, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Border / Zones culminates the twosemester creative process of the Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM), guided by artistic director Scotty Hardwig, with additional choreography by

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Informational Meeting at the North Branch School

for families of prospective 7th grade students

Sunday January 29, 2017 • 3:30 to 5:00 pm

workshop in Middlebury. Tuesday, Jan. 31, noon-1:30 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. Insights LLC will present a workshop titled “2017 Digital Marketing Trends” that will cover how technology has changed the ways that businesses and consumers interact, and how this has permeated all aspects of business, especially marketing.

Free for Addison County Chamber members and $10 for non-members.

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Tai Chi in Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Eastview Terrace. Tai Chi Basics class offered Monday and Wednesdays, Jan. 30 to March 29, sponsored by Age Well and Eastview. The class is open to everyone over 50 and is free of charge.

For more information contact Doreen Peterson at 388-2649 or email doreenvermont@gmail.com.

Architecture from the Twilight of the Ptolemies: The Temple of Apollo on Yeronisos, Cyprus in Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 4:30 p.m., Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, The Orchard (Room 103). Pieter Broucke of the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, and Director of the Arts, will offer a lecture as part of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series. Free.

Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

Actors workshop auditions in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 5-8 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury Actors Workshop, Town Hall Theater’s resident professional theater company, will hold general auditions for its 2017 season and is seeking experienced actors of all types, ages 18 and up. Auditioners are asked to prepare a short monologue. For details, information, and/ or an audition time slot, email Artistic Director Melissa Lourie at Melissa@middleburyactors. org. Info: www.middleburyactors.org.

First Wednesday series in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library.

Middlebury College Professor Jane Chaplin will discuss how historical writing rose from the influence of two individuals in a talk titled “The Invention of History,” as part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesdays lecture series. Free and open to the public.

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JULIA DOUCET, OUTREACH nurse at the Open Door Clinic in Middlebury, will talk about how migrant farm laborers have shared their stories when she visits the Middlebury Storytelling group at Ilsley Public Library on Wednesday, Jan. 25.

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Omar Carrum, Guggenheim fellow and director of the Mazatlán Professional School of Dance, and Delfos Danza, their professional company in residence. Carrum creates an original work for the students during a residency in Middlebury during fall 2016, and the exchange continues on DCM’s tour to Mazatlán, Mexico, in January 2017. Tickets: Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6.

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ICAN workshop in Middlebury.

Saturday, Jan. 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society. The Interfaith Climate Action Network (ICAN) and Middlebury Area Clergy Association (MACA) will offer a workshop titled “Active Hope: Inspiration and Courage for Times of Great Change.” $10 suggested donation. Registration required: contact Heidi Willis, redsprings@ myfairpoint.net or 802-352-4327.

Arts and crafts annual sale in Brandon. Saturday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. The Compass Music and Arts Center will hold their annual Arts and Crafts Sale, featuring supplies and handmade artwork or crafts at reduced prices. If you are interested in selling your items, spaces can be reserved through Thursday, Jan. 26 by visiting www. cmacvt.org or calling 802-247-4295.

Fifth annual orchard celebration in Shoreham.

Saturday, Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m., Champlain Orchards, 3597 Route 74 West, Shoreham. Free sleigh/wagon rides by Hammond’s horses, free hot cider and free acoustic music. There will be warm soup, bread, mulled cider (hard or not) and a heating hut to keep warm. Bring sleds, snowshoes, skis, instruments and warm clothes!

Toasting of the trees begins at 4 p.m.

“Racing Extinction” in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 28, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. A team of artists and activists expose the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

DJ skate night in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 28, 8-10 p.m., Memorial Sports Center. DJ skate night presented by friends of Middlebury hockey. All ages and abilities welcome. $5 adult; $3 student. Snack bar will be open and rental skates available. Info: www.memorialsportscenter.org.

Border / Zones in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Border / Zones culminates the two-semester creative process of the Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM), guided by artistic director Scotty Hardwig, with additional choreography by Omar Carrum, Guggenheim fellow and director of the Mazatlán Professional School of Dance, and Delfos Danza, their professional company in residence. Carrum creates an original work for the students during a residency in Middlebury during fall 2016, and the exchange continues on DCM’s tour to Mazatlán, Mexico, in January 2017. Tickets: Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6.

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Sunday, Jan. 29, 7:30-10 a.m., Vergennes Masonic Lodge, 54 School

Street. All you can eat public breakfast with eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, blueberry pancakes, French toast, home fries, waffles, corned beef hash, sausage gravy and biscuits, juice, coffee and tea. $8. Proceeds are used to support various local community needs and organizations.

Free Community Dinner in Vergennes. Sunday, Jan. 29, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes St. Peter’s Parrish Hall, 85 South Maple St. Corn chowder with croutons, macaroni and hamburger soup, tossed salad, pineapple upside down cake and beverages. Free.

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Age Well first Friday luncheon in Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 3, arrive after 11 a.m., Middlebury VFW, Exchange Street. A special Valentine’s noontime meal featuring chicken cordon bleu with cheddar sauce, roasted garlic mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, romaine and kale salad with choice of dressing, dinner roll and double layer strawberry cake for dessert. Certified organic regular and decaf coffee donated by Vermont Coffee Company. Advanced reservations required, call 802-865-0360 ext. 1070 to reserve. Suggested donation $5.

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Tai Chi in Middlebury. Monday, Jan. 30, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Eastview Terrace. Tai Chi Basics class offered Monday and Wednesdays, Jan. 30 to March 29, sponsored by Age Well and Eastview. The class is open to everyone over 50 and is free of charge. For more information contact Doreen Peterson at 388-2649 or email doreenvermont@ gmail.com.

Digital marketing trends workshop in Vergennes. Monday, Jan. 30, noon-1:30 p.m., Kennedy Brothers Building, Vergennes. Insights LLC will present a workshop titled “2017 Digital Marketing Trends” that will cover how technology has changed the ways that businesses and consumers interact, and how this has permeated all aspects of business, especially marketing.

Free for Addison County Chamber members and $10 for non-members.

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Green Mountain Club X-C ski or snowshoe in Ripton. Saturday, Feb. 4, Goshen Dam, Ripton. This ski is a moderate four- to eight-mile cross-county ski event (depending on conditions and pace) on rolling terrains and with some hills. We will ski on parts of the Catamount Trail. If snow conditions do not allow a ski, we’ll hike with microspikes in the Water Tower Trails area in Ripton. Contact Anne Christie at achristie1026@gmail.com or 802-388-4347 for information. For other events visit www.gmcbreadloaf.org.

Pop-up card workshop in Monkton. Saturday, Feb. 4, 10 a.m.-noon, Monkton Friends Methodist Church in the Ridge. The pop-up card workshop will be held just in time to make cards for Valentine’s Day! Sponsored in part by the Bristol Five Town Arts Grant Program.

Spaghetti supper and meatball competition in Lincoln. Saturday, Feb. 4, 4-6 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Road. The Lincoln Cooperative Preschool will have a spaghetti supper and meatball competition with food donated by the Bobcat Brewery. The menu will include salad, bread, meat sauce and vegetarian and dessert.

50/50 raffle. Adults $8, children $5. Hill County Holiday talent show to follow. RSVP to compete.

Root 7 in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 21, 6-8 p.m., 51 Main.

Heliand Consort presents “Crossing the Bar” Folk Music for Woodwind Trio and Voices in Brandon.

Saturday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

10 Strings in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 27, 7-9 p.m., 51 Main.

Zephyr in Brandon. Saturday, Jan. 28, Brandon Music.

The Matt Flinner Trio in Ripton. Saturday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

Guagua in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 4, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

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FIND OUT WHAT other computer aficionados are up to and share your interests at the Apple Mac users group in Middlebury this Sunday, Jan. 22, at the Ilsley Public Library’s Community Meeting Room.

In hiring, admissions and administration, NBS does not discriminate on the basis of physical ability, gender, race, national or ethnic origin, creed, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation.

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Panton: Spacious home with lovely mountain views shared with active senior woman. Seeking a female housemate, offering reduced rent in exchange for light snow shoveling, help w/ gardening and errands. Shared bath/kitchen.

Bristol: Share a spacious, comfortable home with a woman and her son who enjoy reading and public radio. $400/mo. plus utils and pitching in on housekeeping and yard work.

Starksboro: Share a home with woman in her 60s and provide help w/ housekeeping & yard work. $200/mo. plus utils. Must be cat/dog friendly; no add’l pets.

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Classes at EastView in Middlebury.

Thursday, Feb. 2, 3-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. EastView resident Nick Clifford will present a class on “Trade and Politics,” the second in an eight-week series.

Twist O’ Wool spinning guild meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m., 49 Wilson Road. There will be a general meeting and show and tell, followed by plying wool for this year’s afghan and help with knitting. All are welcome.

Info: 453-5960.

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TAX TIME Volunteers are ready to help you file taxes “It is eye opening for calculations and takes these young accounting away the assumptions students to see how for the preparer. little people can earn Ask the questions, and stay alive.” Larry pay close attention Kupferman has been a to accuracy, apply volunteer for CVOEO’s a liberal amount Volunteer Income Tax of empathy and Assistance Program the computer does for close to ten years the rest, even up to now. He was speaking submitting the return about students from for you.

Champlain College, The Volunteer Bridging gaps, UVM and St. Michaels Income Tax who volunteer their Assistance (VITA) building futures Program offers free time completing

By Jan Demers Federal and State tax help to eligible Executive Director returns for families and people who make individuals with low $54,000 or less and Champlain Valley Office income. need assistance in of Economic Opportunity Larry started preparing their own volunteering in the tax returns. IRS90s when tax preparation was certified volunteers provide free straightforward and done with a basic income tax return preparation pencil, eraser and reams of paper. with electronic filing to eligible After taking a break, Larry retuned individuals in our communities. They and now works with a software inform taxpayers about special tax package that completes the credits such as Earned Income Tax

Credit, Child Tax Credit and Credit for the Elderly or the Disabled.

Kupferman’s passion for this work comes from the knowledge that applying for Earned Income Tax Credit is a foundational way for families to strengthen their own financial goals. He is astounded by the breadth of diversity found in those accessing this program.

Across the state, over 100 Income Tax Assistance volunteers helped 3,544 eligible Vermonters to fill out their income tax forms. There are three sets of eyes on every tax form submitted: the taxpayer, the volunteer preparer and the supervisor of the program.

Last year over 4 million dollars ($4,603,007 to be exact) was returned to the Vermont economy through the VITA Program. CVOEO volunteers and staff helped 1,208 households.

The first step to accessing this service is to call Debbie Goodrich in the Addison Community Action Office at 388-2285 extension 203. Debbie is currently making

appointments. Information and documentation gathering ensures an accurate income tax submission.

When you call to make an appointment Debbie will tell you what to bring and who needs to be present.

Another way to access free tax assistance for anyone earning $62,000 or less is an online service provided through United Way found at MyFreeTaxes.com. In past years 70 percent of the people using this program completed their taxes in less than one hour.

Winston Churchill said, “We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.” Here we hold the handle and carry the bucket.

CVOEO offices in Middlebury, Burlington and St. Albans can make paying your taxes or accessing a refund much easier. Earned Income Tax Credit refund and other refunds mean that past bills can be paid and stability is more certain.

Taxpayers can get a jump on filing, some file for free WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Internal Revenue Service and its private-sector partners on Jan 13 announced the 2017 opening of Free File, the free tax software preparation program that gives eligible taxpayers a dozen options for brand-name products.

Taxpayers can get a jump now on preparing their returns, and the companies will hold the returns until Jan. 23, when the filing season officially begins. Taxpayers also should remember that, by law, the IRS must hold refunds claiming the

Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit until Feb. 15.

Anyone whose adjusted gross income in 2016 was $64,000 or less — that’s more than 70 percent of taxpayers — will be eligible for Free File software. People who earned more than $64,000 may use Free File Fillable Forms, the electronic version of IRS paper forms, which will be available for preparing taxes on Jan 23.

“You don’t have to be an expert on taxes. Free File software can

help walk you through the steps and help you get it right,” said IRS Commissioner John A. Koskinen.

“For 14 years, this partnership between the IRS and the Free File Alliance has helped taxpayers prepare and file their federal taxes for free. The real winner in this partnership has been the nation’s taxpayers.”

Tim Hugo, executive director of the Free File Alliance, said, “We are proud to once again offer the industry’s most innovative and secure tax software at no cost to 70 percent

of American taxpayers. Tax time can be stressful, but Free File makes stepby-step help accessible to everyone making $64,000 or less. Free File is the one place where taxpayers can choose from a variety of industryleading tax software options in order to prepare and e-file their federal tax returns at absolutely no cost.”

Free File is available exclusively at IRS.gov/FreeFile. Since 2003, more than 49 million people have used Free File, saving more than $1.4 billion based on a conservative $30-fee estimate.

We work with you and your tax team to answer questions based upon a holistic, comprehensive financial plan.

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Free Tax Assistance Sponsored by RSVP, AARP, and The United Way of Addison County

Beginning in February 2017, RSVP and the United Way of Addison County will be offering two free programs to help you file your taxes!

RSVP will have AARP-trained and certified volunteers available to prepare state and federal income tax returns and answer tax questions for low - and middle-income residents of Addison County. Special attention will be given to those age 60 and older. Appointments will be available at the Bixby Library in Vergennes, the Bristol Rescue Squad and the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association.

The United Way will have My Free Taxes volunteers available to guide people of all ages through the process of filing their taxes electronically.

This service is free for anyone whose income is less than $64,000. My Free Taxes appointments will be available at the United Way of Addison County in Middlebury.

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MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School senior Jakob Kraus was honored at the Vermont Statehouse on Jan. 9 along with the other 19 Vermont seniors nominated to be Presidential Scholars.

The program recognizes high schoolers who show outstanding scholarship, leadership and service to their communities. Gov. Phil Scott and Education Secretary Rebecca Holcolmbe were on hand for the ceremony. Kraus is shown in the Senate chamber with MUHS college advisor/post-secondary counselor Sarah Soule, left, and guidance counselor Allison Stebe.

Technology workshop on tap in Middlebury Jan. 24 MIDDDLEBURY — Need computer help? Volunteers from the nonprofit Technology for Tomorrow are hosting a free technology workshop at the Residence at Otter Creek on Tuesday, Jan. 24, from 3:30-5 p.m. All are welcome.

Instructors at this workshop will cover: making and answering phone calls using cell phones and iPads, sending and reading texts, syncing email, accessing the internet, setting up wifi, downloading and using apps, and navigating your smartphone or tablet.

Bring your smartphone or tablet

and your questions. Don’t have a smartphone or tablet? Come to this workshop if you are interested in learning more about the options available and determine which device might be best for you.

Those who will take part but don’t live at the Residence at Otter Creek are asked to register for this workshop by emailing info@tech4tomorrow. org or calling (802) 448-0595.

The Residence at Otter Creek (formerly called the Lodge at Otter Creek) is at 350 Lodge Road in Middlebury — past the middle school on the right.

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BURLINGTON — The following students have been named to the dean’s list at the University of Vermont.

Simon Anguish, Vergennes; Jessica Brisson, Shoreham; John Burke, Addison; Anna Cavazos, Middlebury; Glen Childers, Vergennes; Erin Connor, Bridport; Charles Dayton, Cornwall; Taylor Farnsworth, Bristol; Christian Fjeld, Brandon; Riley Forbes, Bristol; Haley Gearwar, Brandon; Gretchen Groves, Middlebury; Ellen Hallman, Middlebury; Hannah Hatch, Vergennes; Tyler

Hogan, Middlebury.

Also, Hannah Jackman, Bristol; Rowan Kamman, Vergennes; Chani Krech, Monkton; Suma Lashof, Brandon; Isadora Marks, Cornwall; Samuel Messenger, Middlebury; Harriet Milligan, Middlebury; Danielle Morris, Salisbury; Juniper NardielloSmith, Bristol; Sharon Palmer, Weybridge; Matthew Schildkamp, Middlebury; Louis Sightler, Bristol; Jordan Stearns, Vergennes; Claire Trombley, Bristol; Samuel Usilton, Middlebury; and James Whitley, Weybridge.

Daniels (Continued from Page 1A) agree with them, but I think their views should be heard,” Daniels said.

“I don’t feel that’s always the case. I feel that might be slipping slightly and I would like to get it back.”

ON THE ISSUES Some of those residents have also suggested he return, he said, because his fiscal responsibility would be welcome.

“Some people have been asking me to run,” Daniels said.

He feels strongly Vergennes should push to get trucks out of downtown, saying it would be “one of his crusades.”

“I’d also like to hear more ideas from citizens, getting people to work on the traffic situation in the city,” Daniels said, adding, “It’s been put on the back-burner by the state, and it’s a sleeping dog, and I think we just need to get that dog out of bed and see if we can get it to do some exercise.”

He also would like the city council to improve sidewalks and continue to upgrade Falls Park along Otter Creek. He would also like to focus on the “Rail Trail,” a proposed walking path to connect the rail station and Agency of Transportation commuter lot with the Otter Creek basin.

Daniels believes it could be more feasible if it swung further north onto state land near Comfort Hill.

Daniels said he supports efforts to improve pedestrian safety, but was wary of digging too deeply into the Water Tower Fund to do so.

“I agree we should use grants as much as we can, but I think we should be really careful. I want to be wise on how many times we tap the Water Tower Fund. At some point the well will run dry,” he said.

“I think we should use those funds extremely wise and in line with what the community wants to see done.

And that’s where the involvement comes in.”

Daniels acknowledged that at times during his most recent stint on the city council he found himself on the short end of a few 5-1 and 6-1 votes, but was not critical of the group.

“I did remove myself from the council in the short term,” he said.

“I am just starting to get back in and revisit the issues, other than reading the stuff that’s in the paper.

I think they are trying some new approaches.”

Nor was Daniels critical of Benton.

“I have no complaints about what Bill has been doing,” he said. “As a matter of fact, if I were to win, I would sincerely ask him to help along with the goals he set and started and are close to being finished.”

Asked why Vergennes voters should pick him, Daniels cited his collaborative style of leadership.

“I don’t like to take credit. I like to give credit,” he said. “As far as accomplishments go, I don’t feel I accomplish things. Committees accomplish things.

People accomplish things. I just help steer or get the resources that are needed to get the job done.”

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OVUHS honor roll BRANDON — The following students at Otter Valley Union High School were recognized for academic achievement during the second marking period of the 20162017 academic year.

GRADE 7 Principal’s list: Hayden Bernhardt, Ethan Blow, Jarrod Brutkoski, Tanner Brutkoski, Olivia Depatie, Sienna Diezel, Brian Donahue, Jamie Dube-Bordeau, Krista Eddy, Tiana Gallipo-Viernes, Brittany Harvey, Ashley Hewitt, Alice Keith, Anna Kerr, Lucas Klein, Lauren Konarski, Josephine LaRock, Michael Mudd, Madison Quenneville, Tyson Stickney, Keirstan Strickland, Umaryn Swift, Gunnar Tinsman and Kieran Williams.

Honor roll: Cody Anderson, Dylan Anderson, Benjamin Atherton, Joseph Bertrand, Collin Blier, Erika Chapin, Luca Cifone, Marissa Connors, Austin Cormany, Michael Dame, Nathan Desabrais, Jade Flanders, Tamar Foster, Maggie Loyzelle, Keaton Lussier, Brielle Mackie, Bradley Maniery, Daniel O’Brien, Shannon O’Brien, Kevin Odell, Jr., Nicholas Parker, Nichole Racine and Evan Thomas.

GRADE 8 Principal’s list: Ashley Carrara, Caleb Chisamore, Joseph Cijka, Grace Coolidge, Chloe Fuller, Raychel Kemp, Mallory Lufkin, Jessica Malbon, Bonnie Moore, Madilyn Morgan, Mia Politano, Anoushka Pschorr and McKenna White.

Honor roll: Cole Blanchard, Aidan Blier, Sarah Calvin, Kassidy Carvey, Josie Cone, Brennon Crossmon, Bradley Danforth, Gregory DiPetro, Melody Falker, Alan Frasier, III, Autumn Kelly, Cole Letourneau, Karlton McDonough, Kinsey Moyer,

Madeleine O’Connell, Lucias Sheldrick and Rena Taylor.

GRADE 9 Scholars’ roll: Livia Bernhardt, Lauryl Blanchard, Edward Kopp, Elinor Ross and Olivia White.

Principal’s list: Caitlin Bixby, Kiaria Corbett, Phoebe Elliott, Carolynn Lafountaine, Morgan LaPorte, Jocelyn Noble and Leah Pinkowski.

Honor roll: Tyler Boynton, Chrisma Brenenstuhl, Haley Curtis, Ashlynn Depatie, Evan Diaz, Emily Doty, Julia Eastman, Alia Edmunds, Zachariah Emrick, Emma Falquero, Madison French, Johan Harding, Moriah Lucia, Bianca Madrigal, Nicholas Marcoux, Austin Martindale, Brianna Martone, Ian Ouelette, Haleigh Pelkey, Kati Pelkey, Spencer Pelkey, Shayla Phillips, Sawyer Pierpont, Aiden Purcell, Jacob Quenneville, Paul Schultz, Nahum Sgorbati, Kelsie Sunhawk and Sophia Walker.

GRADE 10 Scholars’ roll: Michael Bedard, Samuel Buswell, Hayden Gallo, Clay Hays, Timothy Kittler, Nicholas LaCoille and Ethan Sulik-Doty.

Principal’s list: Colby Smith, Kameron Strickland and Jacob White.

Honor roll: Justin Anderson, Evelyn Bart, Joshua Beayon, Kollin Bissette, Savanah Blanchard, Alexander Bunker, Alexander Carpenter, Ella Chaney, Meghan Chaney, Madison Chicoine, Nathan Claessens, Chandler Corey, Nathan Depatie, Felicity Drew, Ashley Forrest, Joshua Granger, Mickeen Hogan, Benjamin Klein, Julia Lee, Dylan Mackie, Sophie Markowski, William Mattsson, Marcus McCullough, Patrick McKeighan, David Mills, Peyton Mitchell,

Chauncey Moncrief, Isaiah Nelson, Jacob O’Connell, Kathryn Paynter, Houston Pratt, Victoria Racine, Reilly Shannon and Daniel Whitney.

GRADE 11 Scholars’ roll: Madison Coombs, Michael Daly, Olivia Gaissert, Owen Kulp, Gabriela Paolino and Maxwell Williams.

Principal’s list: Mikayla Clark and Katelynne Patten.

Honor roll: Sabrina Brown, Caleb Carrara, Kathryn Coolidge, Sarah Dolney, Tristanna Goodwin, Sawyer Heath, Brandon Jankosky, Zachery LaRock, Jessica Mischanko, Eric Notte, Emily Perry, Cameron Silloway, Justin Tremblay, Michael Whitney and Payson Williams.

GRADE 12 Scholars’ roll: Courtney Bushey, Chad Eddy, Brigid Enright, Molly Fisher, Molly McGee, Courtney Randall, Hannah Roberts and Chloe Speyers.

Principal’s list: Kaitlyn Anderson, Keenan Ariante, Alexander Bozzuto, Kayleigh DeRosa, Francis Dolney, Meghan Hallett, Matthew Harding, Cameron LaCoille, Orianna Odell, Luke Sgorbati and Aron Therrien.

Honor roll: Derek Aines, Alyx Beaulieu, Sophia Bloomer, Nikolaus Comes, Olivia Drew, Alyssa Falco, Jillian Flanders, Elijah Keane, Allison Lowell, Angelo McCullough, Myliah McDonough, Ethan Nerney, Brent Nickerson, Ryan Nicklaw, Collin Parker, Tyler Peterson, Abigail Pinkowski, Ghislaine Robin, Michaela Ross, William Ross, Kaitlyn Sanderson, Richard Waite, Charlotte Winslow and Nicole Wright.

UNGRADED Honor roll: Jamee Eugair Principal’s list: Cody O’Connell

Champlain College names fall dean’s list BURLINGTON — The following students have been named to the Champlain College Dean’s List for achieving a grade point average of 3.5 or higher in the fall 2016 semester.

Jocelyn Bedell of Bristol, who is majoring in Game Art and Animation; Paige Coyle of Vergennes, who is majoring in Psychology; Alexander Dalton of Middlebury, who is majoring in Management of Creative Media; Zachary Denis of Salisbury, who is majoring in Graphic Design & Digital Media; and Cody Douglas of Leicester, who is majoring in

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Management of Creative Media.

And also Jaymee Fulcher of Vergennes, who is majoring in Game Programming; Jason Hartman of Lincoln, who is majoring in Marketing; Melinda Lathrop of Bristol, who is majoring in Public Relations; Brittani Lepri of Middlebury, who is majoring in Early Childhood/Elementary Education; Breanna Lepri of Middlebury, who is majoring in Early Childhood/ Elementary Education; and Lindsay Morley of Vergennes, who is majoring in Marketing.

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Ashley Martin of Vergennes, who is studying psychology, and Jeremy Stocker of Bridport, who is studying computer forensics and digital investigations, have been named to the Champlain College President’s List for achieving a grade point average of 4.0 or higher in the fall 2016 semester.

Alexis Ouellette of Middlebury was named to the Emmanuel College dean’s list for the fall 2016 semester.

Morgan Glen of New Haven and Kylie Scheck of East Middlebury have been named to the fall 2016 dean’s list at Keene State College.

River Payne of Cornwall has been named to the dean’s list at Paul Smith’s College for the fall 2016 semester. Payne, who is majoring in fisheries and wildlife sciences, earned a semester average of 3.7.

He is the son of James and Shelley Payne.

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And also Kaylee Mumford of New Haven, who is majoring in Broadcast Media Production; Emma Reed of Vergennes, who is majoring in Graphic Design & Digital Media; Austin Roorda of New Haven, who is majoring in Game Production Management; Chelsea Rublee of Starksboro, who is majoring in Communication; Morgan Salter of Bristol, who is majoring in Graphic Design & Digital Media; and Amanda Vincent of New Haven, who is majoring in Computer Information Technology.

SHAKER-INSPIRED, THE Vermont Folk Rocker designed by Jim Geier is the prize in the 5-Town Friends of the Arts raffle.

Shaker chairs to be raffled for benefit BRISTOL — 5-Town Friends of the Arts is selling raffle tickets for a beautiful Vermont Folk Rocker created

by Jim Geier to raise money to support art and cultural programs for children throughout Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro. 5-TFA offers applicants the opportunity to apply for community grants twice annually.

In 2016, 5-TFA saw an increase in applications for these grants, and this raffle will help the organization make funds available to more applicants.

Through the 5-TFA’s Community Grant program, libraries, schools and community organizations are given the opportunity to provide art, music, theater, cultural and historical programs that enrich the educational experience for our area children.

The Vermont Folk Rocker was designed in 1974 by Jim Geier. Shakerinspired, the chair developed out of a desire for a simple classic aesthetic.

The design has been well-tested throughout the years, resulting in a handcrafted rocking chair with a rich

wood texture of the highest quality, intended to last for generations.

Raffle tickets are $10 each and only 300 will be sold. Tickets are available at Art on Main gallery on Main Street in Bristol. The chair will be exhibited at various events and locations around Bristol and tickets will be available at those locations as well. The raffle drawing will take place on April 9, at 5-TFA’s annual celebration. For more information email FiveTownFOA@gmail.com or go to www.5townfriendsofthearts.org.

2014 called IrisVR (maybe you read about it in the Independent); Kevin O’Rourke ’09, a medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College who has done cancer research; and Akshay Khanna ’09, vice president of strategy for the Philadelphia ’76ers who has been active with the NBA team’s reach into internet business.

march to the Statehouse lawn for the Unity Rally beginning at 2. The Montpelier march is developed and led by women, and welcomes everyone to stand together for parity, equity, dignity and justice for all women. Learn more online at womensmarchonmontpeliervt. org.

For those who can’t make it to the big national women’s rally in Washington, D.C., the day after the inauguration, a few people asked us to remind you that the Women’s March on Montpelier and Unity Rally will be held this Saturday, Jan. 21, 1-3 p.m.

Marchers will line up at 1 o’clock at Montpelier High School and

The Vermont chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association recently launched a new Leadership Board that includes a local resident. Nancy Stearns Bercaw of Ferrisburgh is author of “Brain in a Jar: A Daughter’s Journey through Her Father’s Memory” and her new memoir “Tanked,” which debuts in April.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) last November, following changes in leadership at both the school and in the central office. A new agreement is now before the town, the police department, the ANeSU central office and Mount Abe and is expected to be signed shortly. The Independent will report on details once the contract is formalized.

Forbes magazine last week named four Middlebury College alumni to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Now in its sixth year, the list features 600 up-and-coming professionals across 20 industries. The Middlebury grads who drew notice were Shane Scranton ’12 and Nate Beatty ’13, who launched a virtual reality company in

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SALISBURY — Candidates for town offices are reminded that petitions and consent of candidate forms must be in the town office by 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 30. Signatures should be registered voters; the town clerk advises getting extra signatures as some may not be legible or not on the checklist.

Following last Sunday’s service at the Salisbury Congregational Church, a pot luck luncheon was held to honor Reverend John Grivetti’s 25 years as pastor of the church. John was presented a monetary gift and a scrapbook containing pictures of events and ceremonies since 1991.

The congregation expressed their appreciation for his service and best wishes for his continued commitment to the church.

Jim Farrell and his wife, summer residents at Lake Dunmore who come to the Salisbury Church during the AT A LUNCHEON after this past Sunday’s service, Deborah Felmeth, summer, came up from the Boston the pianist for the Salisbury Congregational Church, presents The Rev. area just for John’s celebration.

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COLCHESTER — The follow- School; and John D. Weaver, son of Earl and Elizabeth Corey ing local residents were named to a sophomore sociology and of Salisbury, and a graduate of the dean’s list at Saint Michael’s anthropology major, who is the Middlebury Union High School.

College for the fall 2016 semester: Nathan K. Peck, a junior accounting and business administration major, who is the son of Glen and Lynne Peck of Leicester, and a graduate of Middlebury births Union High School; Makayla R. Foster, a first-year English • Alicia Standridge & Aidan Lenihan, Bristol, Jan. 10, a daughter, and elementary education major, Amaryllis Lenihan. who is the daughter of James and • Jordyn & Charles Dwy, Addison, Jan. 11, a daughter, Paisley Claire Tricia Foster of Middlebury, and Dwy. a graduate of Middlebury Union • Kathryn (Remick) & Ryan Fitzsimmons, Bridport, Jan. 12, a daughHigh School; Vanessa C. Malloy, a ter, Cadence Sky Fitzsimmons. sophomore sociology and anthro• Jennie (Vander Wey) & Steven Whitney, Middlebury, Jan. 12, a pology major, who is the daughter daughter, Kensi Rae Lee Whitney. of Jacqueline and Walter Malloy • Monica Doyle & Robert LaFountain, Brandon, Jan. 15, a son, Merlin of New Haven, and a graduate Conner Doyle LaFountain. of Mount Abraham Union High

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SALISBURY COMMUNITY SCHOOL students give a warm welcome to children’s book author Katherine Paterson, who has won the prestigious Newbury Award twice, when she visited the school last fall.

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Learn about no-till planting and cover crops SOUTH BURLINGTON — The 2017 No-Till and Cover Crop Symposium will take place Feb. 16 at the Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center in South Burlington.

In addition to talks by extension specialists and farmers from Vermont, Pennsylvania and New York, the event includes poster sessions and an exhibitor fair. It is sponsored by University of Vermont (UVM) Extension’s Champlain Valley Crop, Soil and Pasture Team in Middlebury and the Northwest Crops and Soils Program in St. Albans.

Registration will be accepted through

Feb. 10. The fee is $80 and includes lunch and refreshments. Graduate students involved in regional research on cover crops, no-till or reduced tillage and/or soil health may attend for $40 and are encouraged to sign up to present a poster at the symposium.

To register or for more information, go to http://go.uvm.edu/ntcc. If requiring a disability-related accommodation to attend, please contact Karen Gallott at (802) 388-4969 or (800) 956-1125 (toll-free in Vermont) by Jan. 26.

Attendees will hear from two Pennsylvania State University Extension specialists: Douglas Beegle

will discuss manure management in no-till systems, and John Tooker will share his research on pest management in high residue cropping systems.

Heather Darby and Jeff Carter will provide updates on UVM Extension research on cover crops, crop rotation, soil health and other ongoing field trials.

Participants also will hear from Mark Anderson of Landview Farm, a 2,300acre dairy farm in Eagle Bridge, N.Y., and a panel of Vermont farmers about their experiences with no-till and cover cropping.

Questions? Call (802) 388-4969 or e-mail champlain.crops@uvm.edu.

Off-season manure use training offered BURLINGTON — To comply with Act 64, Vermont’s water quality bill, all custom manure applicators must become certified in order to apply manure on farms and cropland in the state.

To help them earn their certification, University of Vermont (UVM) Extension will offer training sessions at three locations in February and March.

Although free to attend, registration is required by Feb. 10. A light lunch is included.

This winter workshop is for owners, operators and managers of custom application operations that spread manure. A separate series of workshops will be offered in spring for farmers and their employees who apply manure.

The sessions for custom manure applicators will be offered at the

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Feb. 22: UVM Extension Office, 374 Emerson Falls Rd., St. Johnsbury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

March 8: UVM Extension Office, 23 Pond Lane, Middlebury, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Contact Lindsey Ruhl at 802-5246501 or lindsey.ruhl@uvm.edu with questions or to register. Requests for a disability-related accommodation should be made by Jan. 24.

The training, the first step toward certification, will familiarize custom applicators with the required agricultural practices set by the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets to ensure that farmers follow management practices that protect both waterways and natural resources and

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They will learn about state water quality preservation regulations that minimize runoff, how to interpret and follow a farm’s nutrient management plan, about soil and weather restrictions for manure application and the Vermont Agency of Agriculture’s enforcement procedures and actions for non-compliance. Recordkeeping and requirements to maintain certification also will be covered.

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MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL staff and board members stand near the large kiln in one of the school’s buildings on Route 7 in Middlebury. The school recently received a single, large donation to buy its Route 7 property and is looking to expand. Pictured are, left to right, Kathy Clarke, Mary Lower, Barbara A. Nelson, Barbara Z. Nelson and Llyn Rice.

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Studio school (Continued from Page 1A) She praised pottery instructor Kathy Clarke — who also serves as school manager — for her artistic ability and her excellent rapport with students, young and old alike.

“She invites people into the creative process,” said Robinson, who was accompanied on this day by her tiny pup. The studio school building — located south of Foster Motors and north of East Middlebury, is devoid of pretense; its basic décor invites students to roll up their sleeves and make something.

Teachers and fellow students don’t pass judgment; they encourage.

“It’s a congenial place,” Robinson said.

Seddon Beaty travels an hour each way to Middlebury from her home in Hague, N.Y., in order to work in clay under the tutelage of studio school teachers. She often comes with friends who like to take painting classes at the school.

“This is the only clay (school location) other than Shelburne, Albany and Glens Falls,” Beaty said.

She added she keeps coming back because of “the people, the fact there is a gas kiln, and the creativity of the instructor.”

The Middlebury Studio School has come a long way — both physically and programmatically —

since it split off from the Vermont State Craft Center eight years ago.

The craft center since the 1970s ran a variety of arts programs at its 1 Mill St. headquarters. But the center fell on tough financial times and was ultimately forced to liquidate its Middlebury assets, including the building at 1 Mill St. The structure is still ensconced in art as the home to the Edgewater Gallery.

The school then led somewhat of a nomadic existence until early 2015, when it received town permission to relocate to a 2,340-square-foot building at 2377 Route 7 South, which had previously hosted such businesses as the Grapevine Grille and Na’s Thai Kitchen. The one-acre property also includes a 1,320-square-foot garage, which now hosts a propane kiln.

Middlebury Studio School officials initially paid rent at the location before purchasing it last month for $232,500. Remarkably, a longtime studio school booster — who wants to remain anonymous — paid the entire purchase price.

“We expected some donations, but we didn’t expect a giant donation like this,” Middlebury Studio School Executive Director Barbara A. Nelson said of the generous gift.

The school headquarters includes two distinct work areas — one

equipped with a potter’s wheel, the other for painting and making pottery using free-form techniques.

“What we need is a third space,” board President Llyn Rice said. “The clay does have a certain amount of grit to it and dustiness, and it really would pay to have a (clay-free) space for art.”

With that in mind, school officials are considering a 1,050-square-foot addition on the north side of the current building for fine arts activities.

The design and cost of the addition are still being planned, though officials believe the project could cost $300,000 to $500,000. The higher figure would include some endowment funds for the school, Rice noted. The school will launch a fundraising campaign to underwrite the addition. Anyone interested in contributing and/or learning about the non-profit school can log onto the school website at middleburystudioschool.org.

The Vermont Community Foundation also maintains a fund benefitting the studio school.

An expansion would give the school more space for on-site programming. Some of the school’s 30 part-time instructors also teach classes at public schools and other locations. The school receives grant money from the Vermont Arts Council and other sources to

help subsidize tuition for those who can’t afford it. The studio school is in the second year of a Walter Cerf Foundation grant that provides tuition assistance to clients of the Counseling Service of Addison County, the Addison County Parent-Child Center, Mary Johnson Children’s Center and Community Associates who want to take art and pottery classes.

The studio school is thriving at its new location, which has given the school more visibility than it enjoyed in Frog Hollow.

And the new site provides another advantage that can’t be underestimated. “(Students) often comment on how they love the parking,” Clarke said.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

(Continued from Page 1A) to be on the committee, call the or not fix that. We’d be subject to ANeSU central office at 453-3657. fix that in an emergency situation Appointments to the committee are at whatever the cost happened to be to be made no later than Feb. 28. without having the benefit of being Construction on the present able to plan for it.” structure was completed April At the meeting, the MAUHS board 1969, and five-town residents first voted unanimously to form a Mount toured the new facility at an April Abraham Renovation Committee, 13 open house that year. Since then charged with determining the needs the building has remained much of the aging facility and with shaping as it was, with the exception of an “a potential bond measure to go addition built in 2004. This past fall, before the five-town voters in the leaking plumbing destroyed the gym 2017-2018 school year.” floor, with emergency replacement The committee will be responsible and repairs costing around $165,000, for researching and drafting a plan as estimated in December. for renovating the Just two years ago, facility and coming up five-town voters rejected with a timetable for a The Mount a $32.6 million bond possible bond vote and Abraham to renovate the aging for construction. As Renovation structure. At that time, part of its research on Committee will the bond was the largest how to best address the be responsible ever proposed in Addison building deficiencies, the for researching County.

A Mount committee is tasked with and drafting Abraham Facilities gathering feedback from Advisory Committee, a plan for the community. made up of residents, The committee renovating board members, school will submit its the facility officials and students, recommendations to and coming had worked for two Reen no later than Aug. up with a years to research and timetable for a come up with the $32.6 1.

Factors the possible bond million proposal. As part committee will take into vote and for of the overall research consideration include: and assessment process, construction.

• Meeting the the board had also hired district’s educational architects Dore and goals for all students.

Whittier to do a feasibility study.

• Making cost and tax impact The architects ultimately presented financially viable for five-town three renovation options, ranging voters. from minimal upgrades to major • Ensuring that the facility and construction. The least expensive infrastructure is safe, is efficiently option was $11.6 million; the most maintained, and meets state and expensive was $27.9 million. The ANeSU expectations. $32.6 million price tag from the 2014 The committee will be made up bond included the later addition of a of board members, Mount Abe staff, new gym for the middle school. students and community members.

The board had authorized a $32.6 Mount Abe Principal Jessica million bond vote at its Sep. 16, Barewicz and Superintendent Reen 2014, meeting, just seven weeks will be nonvoting members of the before Election Day. committee. ANeSU includes Bristol, At this past Tuesday night’s New Haven, Lincoln, Monkton and meeting, various board members, Starksboro. including Starksboro’s Bonita Community members may apply Bedard, spoke to the importance of to be on the renovation committee being transparent and of including by submitting a letter of interest to the community in decision-making Mount Abe Chair Dawn Griswold processes as the five towns again

by Feb. 17. Letters can be sent to the consider how best to repair and ANESD Central Office, 72 Munsill renovate MAUHS. Ave., Suite 601, Bristol, VT 05443.

Gaen Murphree is reached at For more information about applying gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 2017

ANDY KIRKALDY

Pro sports offer alphabet soup FYI, this column is about acronyms. I hope that’s not TMI up front; sometimes in these pieces you’re supposed to keep the larger point on the QT for a while … Oops, showing my age, on the DL. Oops again. That’s probably confusing in a sports column — the letters DL don’t mean “down low” to baseball fans, but “disabled list.”

Of course, the NFL (the National Football League, or in many cases the No Fun League when it makes fans wait for five minutes for replays or shows commercials after touchbacks) doesn’t have a DL. The NFL instead uses a reserve list, which doesn’t have an acronym, AFAIK (As Far As I Know.) But it does have a PUP (Physically Unable to Play) List for players who are “out with a knee,” not just simply dogging it.

The NFL, like most sports leagues, makes use of many often inscrutable acronyms. These are all ones, as are all the ones cited in this column, that I already know and recognize (Yes, it’s true, I need to get out more): • YAC — “Yards After Catch.”

Nothing to do with gossip.

• QBR — “Quarterback Rating.”

Unrelated to the cheap beer that I used to drink in the wide-mouth cans.

• FGM — “Field Goals Made.”

Even if it sounds like what the Brits call “a lad mag.”

• YPA — “Yards per Passing At(See Kirkaldy, Page 2B)

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Undefeated West Rutland edges OV

Otters’ late flurry one point short

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRANDON — The visiting West Rutland High School girls’ basketball team’s surge in the middle of Monday’s fourth quarter proved to be just enough to allow the undefeated Golden Horde to edge Otter Valley, 32-31, in a defensive battle.

The 2-4 Otters crashed the boards for four second-chance points to take the lead as the final quarter opened. After the Otters missed twice but grabbed the rebounds, senior Sophia Bloomer hit a jumper to make it 22-21, OV, a minute into the period. At 5:45, sophomore forward Sophie Markowski followed with a putback, and OV led by three.

West Rutland senior Kelsey Wedin then cashed in at the bank to restore her team’s lead. First, Wedin flipped in a runner off the backboard to make it 24-23. After OV junior forward Gabriela Poalino’s free throw at 3:45 gave OV a two-point lead, Wedin answered with a three-pointer that banked

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Boys’ Hockey 1/21 MUHS at Essex...........................5 p.m.

1/25 MUHS at S. Burlington...........5:20 p.m.

1/28 MUHS at Woodstock..............8:10 p.m.

Girls’ Hockey 1/21 MUHS at Essex...........................3 p.m.

1/25 MUHS at Spaulding................5:30 p.m.

1/27 Beekmantown at MUHS.........5:30 p.m.

Boys’ Basketball 1/20 Vergennes at OV.........................7 p.m.

1/20 Brattleboro at MUHS...................7 p.m.

1/24 MUHS at Colchester....................7 p.m.

1/24 VUHS at Montpelier.....................7 p.m.

1/24 Mt. Anthony at OV.......................7 p.m.

1/24 Fair Haven at Mt. Abe..................7 p.m.

1/26 VUHS at Missisquoi.....................7 p.m.

1/27 MUHS at Mt. Abe.........................7 p.m.

1/27 Hartford at OV.............................7 p.m.

Girls’ Basketball 1/19 OV at Burr & Burton.....................7 p.m.

1/20 Mt. Mansfield at Mt. Abe..............7 p.m.

1/20 North Country at VUHS...............7 p.m.

1/20 MUHS at Milton...........................7 p.m.

1/25 MUHS at Colchester....................7 p.m.

1/25 Milton at Mt. Abe..........................7 p.m.

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

Six track athletes take firsts indoors

By ANDY KIRKALDY BURLINGTON — Local athletes won six Division II events on Saturday at a high school indoor track and field meet hosted by the University of Vermont. Mount Abraham junior Lydia Pitts accounted for three of the wins.

Pitts prevailed in the girls’ 55-meter hurdles and the long and triple jumps. Her time in the hurdles and distance in the triple jump would have won the D-II boys’ competition at the same meet.

Three Middlebury athletes won events: Chloe Kane raced to victory in the girls’ 55-meter dash, Henry Ganey prevailed in the boys’ 600, and Ross Crowne outpaced the field in the boys’ 1,600.

Megan Rooney enjoyed the best day for Vergennes, placing second in the girls’ 300 and fourth in the 55, while Wade Mullin took fourth in the boys’ 600, just a little more than two seconds behind Ganey.

The high school indoor track and field season shifts to Northfield this Saturday with a meet at Norwich University, with an 8:30 a.m. start time.

GIRLS’ RESULTS: The winners and top finishers in this past Saturday’s girls’ events were: 55 Meters: 1. Kane, 7.92, MUHS; 2. Trinity Bryant, 8.04, MUHS; 4. Rooney, 8.18, VUHS; 8. Kiana Plouffe, 8.26, MUHS; 16. Munro McLaren, VUHS, and Virginia Patz, MUHS, 8.67; 18. Abby Perlee, 8.71, (See Track, Page 4B)

(See Basketball, Page 3B)

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Boys’ Basketball 1/17 Brattleboro at MUHS......... Ppd. to 1/20 1/17 OV vs. Mt. Abe..............................58-55 Girls’ Basketball 1/16 MUHS vs. Mill River......................50-42 1/16 West Rutland vs. OV....................32-31 COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Basketball 1/17 Midd. vs. SUNY Potsdam.............72-36 Men’s Basketball 1/17 Midd. vs. Green Mt.....................104-75

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Otter boys nip Mount Abe to highlight hoop OTTER SOPHIA BLOOMER takes a jumper during Monday night’s game against West Rutland.

OTTER VALLEY’S LEAH Pinkowski puts up a shot over two West Rutland defenders during Monday night’s close game in Brandon. West Rutland won the game, 32-31.

Photos by Lee Kahrs/The Reporter

Cousino wins, Eagles shine at Essex meet

By ANDY KIRKALDY ESSEX — Eight area wrestlers earned top-six finishes this past weekend at Essex High School’s Michael Baker Classic, which drew 31 teams from around New England and New York.

Vergennes senior Brandon Cousino earned the tournament’s Outstanding Wrestler Award for topping previously undefeated Concord, N.H., 182-pounder George Tarwo in dramatic fashion.

Cousino, down by 3-2 in the final seconds in a match that drew loud applause, powered Tarwo to the mat for two points and a 4-3 victory in the final. That result also avenged Cousino’s only loss this season, 5-4 to Tarwo — a two-time N.H. champion — in the final of a Lowell, Mass., tournament in late December.

Cousino also earned his 100th ca-

reer pin while winning his semifinal match. His career record now stands at 155-27 with almost two months of high school wrestling to go.

Mount Abraham also enjoyed a good showing, taking 10th with 83.5 points and seeing four of its wrestlers reach the podium, including sophomore Roman Mayer at 120 pounds.

Mayer won three matches easily and then lost by a point in the final to Anthony Carter of Beekmantown, N.Y. Eagle sophomore Kevin Pearsall also fared well at 182, going 5-1 to finish third in the weight class — and losing only to Cousino in the semifinal.

Eagle senior Ben Murray went 4-1 at 126 and finished fourth, and junior Dylan Little won four of seven matches, all by pin, in taking sixth at 170.

(See Wrestling, Page 4B)

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In other action, the Middlebury girls picked up two victories, the Vergennes girls won on the road, the OV girls won BASKETBALL at home on Sat- Wrap-Up urday and also hosted unbeaten West Rutland (see story on Page 1B) on Monday, the OV boys lost at home to a top team, and the Tiger boys dropped a road contest.

OV-EAGLE BOYS The OV boys nipped the Eagles on Tuesday, 58-55, in a game that saw several lead changes. Two free throws

by Derek Aines with 35 seconds left gave the Otters some breathing room after a bucket inside by Tyler Peterson put OV ahead with 1:37 left in regulation. Unlike in their overtime loss at VUHS on the Friday before, the Eagles were unable to connect on a game-tying three pointer in the final seconds.

Josh Letourneau scored 13 to lead OV, and Aines chipped in 12 as the Otters moved to 6-3 with their second win of the winter over the Eagles, (See Basketball wrap, Page 3B)

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Kirkaldy (Continued from Page 1B) tempt.” Either that or a back-to-work program introduced by FDR. But MLB (Major League Baseball) is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) when it comes to churning out acronyms. Truly, only fantasy baseball geeks and SABR (Society for the Advancement of Baseball Research) members could come up with TINSTAAPP. Seriously, TINSTAAPP is real, and it’s not a treatment for ceilings in trendy urban eateries or a rash. As baseball savant Casey Stengel used to say, you can Google it (I paraphrase): “There Is No Such Thing As A Pitching Prospect.”

More mainstream MLB acronyms include: • BABIP — “Batting Average on Balls In Play.” Measures how lucky or unlucky hitters are, not a new Streisand nickname.

• OPS — Shorthand for a merger of two other acronyms: “On-base Percentage (OBP) Plus Slugging Percentage (SP).” Quick way to evaluate a hitter’s overall ability.

Nothing to do with OPP, although some baseball players as well as our president-elect are known for seeking the latter.

• LOOGY — “Lefty One-Out Guy.” Refers to a lefthanded pitching reliever who specializes in coming in to face lefthanded hitters because he is particularly effective in getting them out. Righthanded hitters often hammer LOOGIES like roofing nails, but LOOGIES can carve out long careers — Jesse Orosco, the ultimate LOOGY, pitched for 11 teams in a 23-year career and retired at the age of 46.

Supply your own LOOGY joke.

• WHIP — “Walks and Hits per Innings Pitched.” Measures baserunners allowed, an important measure of a pitchers’ effectiveness and beloved by us fantasy baseball nerds as a key scoring category that some owners overlook. Under 1.30 is good, under 1.20 is great. Orosco’s career WHIP was around 1.26, which explains a lot. Devo wrote this acronym’s theme song.

• FIP — “Fielding Independent Pitching.” Attempts to evaluate what a pitcher’s ERA (Earned-Run Average, but if you made it this far you knew that) would be with average defensive players behind him, thus more accurately evaluating his true ability.

• WAR — “Wins Above Replacement.” Measures how many wins a player is worth compared to a theoretical replacement-level substitute.

In a real-life example, the Yankees lost star second-baseman Robinson Cano in free agency after 2013, and Brian Roberts and Stephen Drew shared the job in 2014. Critics of the WAR stat have been known to say, “Huh! What is it good for?”

Other sports and professions have their moments. The latest in the NBA is PER, “Personal Efficiency Rating,” for example. My wife works with PBGRS, “Proficiency Based Graduation Requirements,” and education as a whole is a target-rich environment for acronyms.

And journalism could incorporate this one: • PEBKAC — “Problem exists between keyboard and chair.” Refers specifically to writers seeking inspiration for columns.

FRESHMAN AMANDA NAVRATIL scores her first career goal as a Middlebury College Panther during Friday’s game against Stevenson. Middlebury won the game, 4-1.

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Women’s hockey sweeps non-league foes MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s hockey team picked up a pair of non-league home wins this past weekend to improve to 8-2-2.

The Panthers, No. 6 in last week’s NCAA Division III poll, return to NESCAC play this weekend with two games at Bowdoin.

Schedule (Continued from Page 1B)

1/25 Mt. Mansfield at VUHS................7 p.m.

1/28 OV at Hartford.............................7 p.m.

1/28 VUHS at MUHS....................12:30 p.m.

1/28 Missisquoi at Mt. Abe..............1:30 p.m.

1/28 Brattleboro at OV....................2:30 p.m.

Wrestling 1/21................OV at Merrimack Tournament 1/24 Mt. Abe at Essex.....................6:30 p.m.

1/25 VUHS at St. J..............................6 p.m.

1/26 MUHS at Mt. Mansfield................6 p.m.

1/28 ............................Tournament at VUHS 1/28 ........... OV at Mt. Graylock Tournament 1/28 ........MUHS at Corinth, NY Tournament

Gymnastics 1/27 MUHS at Essex...........................6 p.m.

Indoor Track 1/21 MUHS/VUHS at Norwich........8:30 a.m.

1/28 MUHS/VUHS at Norwich......10:30 a.m.

COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Hockey 1/20 Midd. at Bowdoin.........................7 p.m.

1/21 Midd. at Bowdoin.........................3 p.m.

1/27 Midd. at Hamilton.........................7 p.m.

1/28 Midd. at Hamilton.........................3 p.m.

Men’s Hockey 1/20 Colby at Midd...............................7 p.m.

1/21 Bowdoin at Midd..........................3 p.m.

1/27 Midd. at Connecticut....................7 p.m.

1/28 Midd. at Tufts...............................4 p.m.

Women’s Basketball 1/22 Williams at Midd..........................2 p.m.

1/25 Midd. at Castleton........................7 p.m.

1/28 Midd. at Hamilton.........................3 p.m.

Men’s Basketball 1/22 Midd. at Williams.........................2 p.m.

1/24 Lyndon at Midd............................7 p.m.

1/28 Hamilton at Midd..........................3 p.m.

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MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s basketball team split a pair of weekend NESCAC games on the road before returning home on Tuesday to win a non-league contest.

The Panthers, at 13-2, 3-1 in NESCAC play, are ranked No. 15 in NCAA Division III. They will play at NESCAC rival Williams on Sunday afternoon.

On this past Friday, the Panthers’ eight-game winning streak ended with a 91-85 loss at No. 6 Tufts (132, 4-0). The Jumbos scored the last seven points of the game to secure the victory.

A game of runs by both teams saw the score tied at 84-84 with 1:11 remaining. Panther guard Jack Daly hit a free throw to give the Panthers the lead at 1:01, and Tom Palleschi gave Tufts an 86-85 advantage with a hoop at 0:46 ticks. The Panthers missed, and Jumbo Tarik Smith hit two free throws to make it 88-85 with 18 seconds left to play. The Panthers turned the ball over at the other end,

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Matt St. Amour netted a gamehigh 23 points to pace Middlebury, while Eric McCord scored a career-high 22 points to go along with eight rebounds. Jake Brown added 11 points and seven assists, Nick Tarantino scored eight with eight boards, and Daly finished with seven points and 10 rebounds. All five Tufts starters scored in double figures, led by 16 points from Everett Dayton.

On Saturday, the Panthers dealt host Bates (12-4, 3-1) its first league loss, 79-71. Middlebury outrebounded the Bobcats, 45-31; led by 12 at halftime; and the closest Bates came in the second half was the final score.

Brown led all scorers with a career-high 24 points to go along with six assists. St. Amour finished with 14 points, and Nick Tarantino added 11 points and 13 rebounds. McCord

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On Tuesday, the Panthers blew out visiting Green Mountain (7-6) in the second half on the way to a 104-75 victory.

Green Mountain led by as many as nine in the first half and was within one at the break, 39-38, but the Panthers outscored their visitors by 66-37 in the second half.

St. Amour led six Panthers in double figures with 24 points, including 19 in the second half, adding five rebounds and four assists. McCord chipped in 16 points and seven boards, and Adisa Majors had 11 points. Daly finished with 12 points, five rebounds and four assists.

Brown dished out a season-best 12 assists, while Perry DeLorenzo and Nick Tarantino each added 10 points. Tarantino and Matt Folger tied for team-high honors with eight rebounds apiece.

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The Tiger girls also placed all four scorers in the top 11 and scored 34 points, but settled for third behind CVU (16) and Mount Mansfield (28). Colchester (95), Peoples (123) and Fairfax (183) also competed.

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Malia Hodges paced the Tiger girls by taking fourth in 20:40. CVU’s Meara Heininger won in 19:22. The other Tiger scorers finished 9-10-11: Isabel Rosenberg in 21:43, Kate Oster in 21:52, and Amelia Ingersoll in 21:55.

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found the back of an open net. The Panthers answered with 16 seconds left in the period, when Young buried the rebound of a Katherine Jackson shot.

The advantage grew to 3-1 when Winslow scored on the power play at 9:50 of the second. Winslow knocked in the rebound of a Young shot from the outside. The Panther advantage extended to 4-1 with 3:53 left in the period when Amanda Navratil broke in alone for her first career goal on a Kelly Sherman feed.

Neuburger finished with 13 saves, while Caitie Darosa made 31 stops for the Mustangs.

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On Friday, Middlebury held Stevenson (9-6) to 14 shots in a 4-1 win. The Panthers took a 1-0 lead on a Janka Hlinka goal midway through the first period. Jessica Young fed Hlinka from the right corner for a one-timer.

Stevenson tied the game at 18:46, when Jordan Pirrello took advantage of a failed clearing attempt by Panther goalie Julia Neuburger and

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Jillian Gibbs cut through the slot and backhanded a shot that Panther goalie Lin Han (13 saves) turned away.

Middlebury carried the puck up the ice and Young buried a rebound by the right post after Gull goalie Vandela Jonsson (36 saves) stopped Maddie Winslow’s initial shot.

The Panthers made it 2-0 mid-

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Basketball (Continued from Page 1B) in at 3:20 to put the Golden Horde on top for good, 26-25.

The first was a great shot. Wedin admitted good fortune helped guide her second hoop.

“There is no way I was trying to hit that one off the glass,” said Wedin, who scored a team-high eight points, six in the fourth quarter.

Next, West Rutland 1,000-point scorer Brooke Raiche finally broke free of OV sophomore Julia Lee’s defense to swish a step-back three-pointer at 2:28, and the lead was 29-25. At 1:50, Raiche drained two free throws, and it was 31-25.

In a game in which each team scored just six points apiece in the each of the second and third quarters, a six-point lead seemed like a safe advantage.

It was, but just barely.

The Otters at first kept trying to force the ball in“We know side, a tactic that had produced we’ve mixed results on got good Monday as the shooters, Horde kept collapsing around Poalino, and OV’s leading scorthey can er, who managed certainly 11 points, mostly pull the on offensive retrigger.” bounds. But West — OV Coach Rutland continued Steve Keith to allow open looks from the perimeter, and finally senior guard Courtney Bushey launched from the top of the key — and swished at 0:20, to make it 31-28.

Wedin hit the first of two free throws at 0:17, and OV rebounded the second and raced down the court.

At 0:05, Lee launched from long range, and the bank was open for her, too: Her 25-foot three-pointer hit the backboard and ricocheted home to make it 32-31. But the 6-0 Horde successfully inbounded to Raiche, and she eluded OV’s attempts to foul her and stop the clock as time expired.

OV Coach Steve Keith praised his team’s defensive effort, particularly in holding Raiche to six points.

“It was a terrific job by our kids.

We really tried to limit (Raiche’s) possessions, how much she was going to impact the game, and we did.

We certainly made her work for everything she got,” Keith said.

He singled out Lee, who also scored seven points, for her work at both ends.

“She played a terrific game. She took what they gave her offensively, and defensively she was all over her (Raiche) tonight,” Keith said.

Points were hard to come by all night. After leading after one period, 9-8, the Horde got a lift from senior forward Kayla Coombs, who scored inside twice in the second. But a jumper by senior forward Julia May was the only other offense the Horde could muster in the period.

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union High School gymnastics team on Monday edged visiting Milton, 114.75-109.6, in a meet the Tigers hosted at Middlebury Union Middle School, their home court.

Taking first-place finishes for the Tigers were Aly Chione and Olivia Beauchamp. Lian McGarry also earned first-place points for MUHS after finishing second in the vault behind Fair Haven independent Julianna Williams, who trains with the Tigers.

The top three finishers in each event were:

• Vault: 1. Williams (FHU), 8.15; 2. McGarry (MUHS), 8.0; 3. Alexis Drown (Milt), 7.9.

• Bars: 1. Chione (MUHS), 6.4; 2. McGarry (MUHS), 6.0; 3. Drown (Milt) and Laura Whitley (MUHS), 5.8.

• Beam: 1. Beauchamp (MUHS), 8.1; 2. McGarry and Whitley (MUHS) and Drown (Milt), 8.0.

• Floor: 1. Williams (FHU) and Drown (Milt), 7.9; 3. Carly Burger (MUHS), 7.7.

• All-Around: 1. Drown (Milt), 29.6; 2. Beauchamp (MUHS), 27.1; 3. Suraya Davis (Milt), 26.9.

Basketball wrap

WEST RUTLAND’S BROOKE Raiches denies a shot by Otter Valley’s Molly McGee during an intense matchup Monday night in Brandon. West Rutland won the game, 32-31.

Photo by Lee Kahrs/The Reporter

At that point West Rutland was dominating the boards, but Poalino and Bloomer (seven points overall) responded and combined for six second-chance points in the quarter to make it 15-14, Horde at the half.

West Rutland got a lift from senior guard Lauren Harvey (six points overall) in the third. Four Harvey points and a Wedin runner offset another Poalino putback and gave the Horde a 21-16 lead midway through the quarter. But OV dug in on defense, and held the Horde scoreless for the final 4:10 of the period. A Lee drive and two Poalino free throws made it 21-20, West Rutland, head-

ing into the fourth-quarter drama.

Keith said the Otters will be looking to open up on offense and shoot more from the outside if teams continue to try to deny their inside game, particularly Poalino, who was coming off a 22-point game vs. Springfield on Saturday.

“We know we’ve got good shooters, and they can certainly pull the trigger,” he said.

OV has had a tough schedule, with more challenges ahead. But Keith believes his team will only continue to improve.

“We’ve been very, very competitive, and I think we’re going to be competi-

tive. I think we know we’ve got a couple plays each game that if we make it will push us over (the top),” he said.

“And I think the kids are getting hungrier and hungrier for that.”

(Continued from Page 1B) who led at the half, 23-19, but saw OV enter the fourth quarter ahead by four.

Mount Abe’s Jackson Counter led all scorers with 21 points, and Dustin Whitcomb added nine as the Eagles dropped to 4-5 On Dec. 13, visiting Mill River (8-1) defeated the OV boys, 45-35.

MRU star Mike Morgan tossed in 23 points as the Minutemen picked up their second win of the season over OV. Aines scored 15 for the Otters.

TIGER GIRLS On Dec. 13, the Tiger girls held on for a 54-42 victory over visiting Winooski. MUHS led at the half, 30-12, but the Spartans cut the lead to 37-35 before the Tigers pulled away again.

Payton Buxton (17 points, nine rebounds, five steals), Keagan Dunbar (22 points, five steals), and Ally Larocque (eight points) paced the Tigers.

On Monday, the Tigers picked up arguably their biggest win over the year, defeating host Mill River, 4032. The win avenged a 20-point home loss to MRU, a 5-2 team that had only lost otherwise by four points at 8-1 Mount Anthony. Dunbar led they way with 19 points, and Buxton added six.

Rylee Nichols scored 13 for MRU. The Tigers had been set to visit Milton on Tuesday, a game originally set for this coming Saturday, but that contest was moved again, this time to Friday at 7 p.m.

VUHS GIRLS On Saturday, the Commodore girls fell behind at Milton early, 10-3, but fought back to take a 45-29 victory and improve to 6-2. They led at the break, 20-16, and outscored Milton in the second half by 25-13.

Xzavia Berry led VUHS with 13

points and 12 rebounds. Shay Pouliot contributed 11 points, and Brianna Vanderway and Ciara McClay chipped in eight points apiece. Coach Billy Waller also credited the defense of freshman Emily Rooney on Milton’s leading scorer.

EAGLE GIRLS On Saturday, host North Country rallied from five points down with two minutes left and from three down with 30 seconds to go to defeat the Eagle girls, 52-50. Kasey Champney’s three-pointer tied the game at 50-50 at 0:15, and after an Eagle miss Kylie Wright was fouled and hit the game-winning free throws at 0:02.

Wright scored 26 for NCU (3-3).

Emma Carter scored 27 for Mount Abe, including a half-court halftime buzzer-beater and 10 points in the fourth quarter, and added 10 rebounds. Bridget Davis and Jalen Cook added eight and seven points, respectively, for the 5-4 Eagles.

OV GIRLS On Saturday, the OV girls got past visiting Springfield, 51-42, to improve to 2-3 heading into Monday’s home game vs. West Rutland (see story). Gabriela Poalino led the Otters with 22 points, and Sophia Bloomer (10 points) and Courtney Bushey (eight) also chipped into the OV attack.

MUHS BOYS On Dec. 13 host Rutland improved to 8-2 with a 78-31 victory over the Tiger boys. Raider senior Nathaniel Kingsley scored 25 points, including the 1,000th of his career.

Trey Kaufmann’s six points led the Tigers.

The Tigers’ Tuesday home game vs. Brattleboro was moved to Friday at 7 p.m.

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Drivers attempt to flee from VSP

COMMODORE BRANDON COUSINO wins his 182-pound championship match against George Tarwo with a dramatic two-point takedown in the final seconds of their match in Essex Saturday.

Photo courtesy of Kirk Cousino

Wrestling (Continued from Page 1B) Middlebury finished 16th with 47 points, the bulk of them scored by junior Dustin Davio, who took third at 138 and won three matches, and Joe Langevin, who placed sixth at 285 and won twice.

Otter Valley took 18th with 37 points, many of them scored by junior Tyson Cram, who won three matches and finished fifth at 145 pounds.

Concord won the tournament with 240.5 points, followed by Mount Ararat/Brunswick, Maine, (174.50) and

Essex (158).

Also competing for the local teams and their records were: • 99 pounds: Michael Whitney, MUHS, 1-2.

• 106: Patrick Irish, Mt. Abe, 0-2.

• 120: Ty Rovi, OV, 2-2; Alex Walker, MUHS, 1-2; and Dawson Philips and Parker Gero, Mt. Abe, each 0-2.

• 126: Justin Jackson, MUHS, 2-2; and Daniel Whitney, OV, and John Bent, Mt. Abe, each 0-2.

• 132: Gary Conant and Christian Little, Mt. Abe, each 1-2.

• 128: Troy Provencher, VUHS, 0-2.

• 145: Matthew Cota, Mt. Abe, 1-2.

• 152: Joe Whitley, MUHS, 0-2.

• 170: Josh Beayon, OV, 2-2; Justice Green, Mt. Abe, 0-2.

• 182: Cody Young, OV, 2-2, and Zander Wildisin, VUHS, 0-2.

• 220: Jaro Perera, MUHS, 1-2, and Hailey Trayah, Mt. Abe, 0-2.

• 285: Ryan Durfee, Mt. Abe, 0-2.

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

Pole Vault: 1. Sophia Rampone, 8’-06”, Fair Haven; 2. Perlee, 7’06”, MAU. Long Jump: 1. Pitts, 16’-03.25”, MAU; 4. Plouffe, 14’-03.25”, MUHS; 11. Perlee, 12’-04.50”, MAU. Triple Jump: 1. Pitts, 36’-00.50”, MAU; 6. Perlee, 27’-06.75”, MAU. BOYS’ RESULTS The winners and top finishers in Saturday’s boys’ events were: 55: 1. Abayomi Lowe, 6.78, Hartford; 12. Damien Morris, 7.43, MUHS; 15. Ben Balparda, 7.49, MUHS; 22. Agon Hasani, 7.70, VUHS; 23. Will Wormer, 7.75, VUHS; 28. Carter Visicaro, 8.07, VUHS. 300: 1. Lowe, 39.4, Hartford; 4. Morris, 41.6, MUHS; 14. Ross Carr, 43.1, MAU; 21. Hasani, 45.1,

VUHS; 26. Wormer, 48.0, VUHS; 29. Visicaro, 49.0, VUHS. 600: 1. Ganey, 1:32.88, MUHS; 4. Wade Mullin, 1:35.16, VUHS; 5.

Max Ratti-Bicknell, 1:35.39, VUHS; 7. Carr, 1:39.42, MAU; 22. Isaac Buttolph, 2:03.35, MUHS. 1,000: 1. Tristian Touchette, 3:02.32, Harwood; 8. Aidan May, 3:17.56, MAU; 12. Ethan Reiderer, 3:26.60, MUHS. 1,600: 1. Crowne, 4:58.47, MUHS; 7. Spencer Hurlburt, 5:21.77, VUHS. 4x400 Relay: 1. Hartford, 4:03.44; 4. VUHS, 4:10.14 (Wormer, Hurlburt, Mullin, Ratti-Bicknell).

Long Jump: 1. Hunter Tardy, 20’00”, Missisquoi; 16. Ratti-Bicknell, 14’-09”, VUHS. Triple Jump: 1. Chris Gurney, 35’-11.25”, Springfield; 3. Connor Harris, 29’-06.75”, MUHS.

Track (Continued from Page 1B) MAU; 20. Olivia Beauchamp, 8.81, MUHS; 25. Alyse Beauchemin, 8.98, VUHS; 27. Francesca Palitta, 9.14, MUHS; 35. Bess Gramling, 9.43, VUHS; 40. Marin Howell, 9.85, VUHS. 300: 1. Izzy Giesing, 46.0, Oxbow; 2. Rooney, 47.1, VUHS; 4.

Kane, 47.8, MUHS; 5. Bryant, 47.9, MUHS; 12. Beauchemin, 51.2 VUHS; 19. Beauchamp, 54.9 6, MUHS; 26. Howell, 59.3, VUHS. 600: 1. Grace Vollers, 1:51.98, Woodstock; 17. Fiona O’Neil, 2:36.69, MUHS. 1,000: 1. Giesing, 3:12.70, Oxbow; 9. Ashley Cray, 3:57.97, VUHS; 10. Elizabeth Siminitus, 4:00.42, MAU. 55m Hurdles: 1. Pitts, 8.98, MAU; 12. Elizabeth, 11.87, MAU.

ADDISON COUNTY — Last week seemed to be the perfect time for young male drivers to crash their cars and hoof it away from the scene before the police arrive; at least that’s what can be gleaned from the recent Vermont State Police reports.

First, on Jan. 10 troopers were notified by an Addison County sheriff’s deputy of a vehicle travelling east on Leicester Whiting Road at an extremely high rate of speed. When the deputy had seen two vehicles racing on Route 30 in Whiting, he activated his emergency blue lights, but only one vehicle pulled over.

Several minutes later troopers were advised that the second vehicle had crashed on Leicester Whiting Road in Leicester.

Upon arrival, troopers found that the registration plates had been removed from the vehicle and the driver had fled the scene. Several witnesses told police that the driver climbed out of the passenger side of the car and fled on foot. The deputy identified the vehicle as the same vehicle that failed to stop. The crash resulted in several hundred dollars in property damage Police investigated and determined that Christopher Bridgmon, 30, of Leicester was the runaway driver, and the there was a warrant out for his arrest.

The next day, troopers caught up with Bridgmon and took him to the New Haven VSP barracks, where he was cited for driving with a criminally suspended license, leaving the scene of an accident, careless and negligent driving, and false swearing. Bridgmon was subsequently lodged on the warrant at Marble Valley Regional Correctional Facility

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for lack of $250 bail.

But that was the only fleet-footed driver last week. Also on Jan. 10, this time at approximately 7:30 a.m., troopers went to the scene of a onecar crash at the intersection of Route 116 and Ireland Road in Starksboro.

The dispatcher advised the trooper that the male driver had departed the crash scene on foot.

Once on the scene, the trooper determined that Asher McCauley, 19, of Starksboro was driving a 2000 Subaru Outback northbound on Route 116 when he lost control of the vehicle, left the roadway on the east shoulder, overcorrected, and ultimately collided with a guardrail on the west shoulder of the roadway.

During the conversation with McCauley, the trooper saw several signs of impairment and took him to the barracks. Police cited McCauley with driving under the influence of drugs, leaving the scene of an accident and unlawful mischief. Anyone with information regarding this crash is asked to contact Vermont State Police at 802-388-4919.

Then there was the case of the Lincoln runner involved in the Huntington crash.

On Jan. 13 at midnight state police responded — with Richmond police, the Huntington Fire Department and Richmond Rescue Squad — to a one-car crash at the intersection of Main and Trapp road in Huntington.

By the time emergency responders arrived, the driver had fled the scene

on foot. Police found that the 2003 Subaru Legacy had gone off Main Road and collided with several trees and a small pond on the lawn of a residence; it was considered a total loss.

About two hours later, police found the driver, whom they identified as Alexander Goulett, 26, of Lincoln; he was found on Trapp Road with a suspected breath alcohol content of 0.151; the legal limit for driving is 0.08. Goulette was transported to the University of Vermont Medical Center for treatment of nonlife threatening injuries. Then he was cited for driving under the influence, negligent driving and leaving the scene of an accident.

In other action last week, Vermont State Police: • Conducted routine traffic enforcement along the Route 30 in Sudbury during the evening of Jan. 12. At approximately 6:35 p.m. troopers stopped a vehicle on Route 30 near Route 144 for a traffic violation. Police suspected that the driver, identified as 49-year-old Kalli J. Mann of Brandon, was intoxicated; Mann refused to provide a preliminary breath sample. Police took her to the barracks and cited her for DUI. • On Jan. 12 at approximately 10:36 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle on Route 74 in Shoreham for a traffic infraction. Police allege that the driver, identified as Dominic J. Popp, 23, of Brandon was intoxicated. Popp refused to provide a preliminary breath test roadside, so the trooper took him into custody and transported him to the New Haven state police barracks, where he was processed and cited for driving under the influence.

Vergennes Police Log VERGENNES — Late night traffic duty for the Vergennes police this past Friday and Saturday resulted in multiple charges for two drivers, including a citation for driving under the influence.

In the early morning hours of Saturday, Jan. 14, city police pulled over a car for failing to stop before entering Route 7 from New Haven Road. Police said they detected alcohol on the breath of the driver, Dustin A. Wright, 27, of New Haven, and allege that his evidentiary testing showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.115; the legal limit for driving in Vermont is 0.08. They cited him for DUI and failure to honor a stop sign.

Shortly before, late on Friday, city police pulled over a car driven

by Chrystina B. Hulst, 39, of Salisbury for failing to stop at a South Maple Street stop sign. Police cited Hulst for driving with a criminally suspended license and, after finding a marijuana pipe in her car, ticketed her for possession of drug

paraphernalia.

In other action between Jan. 9 and 15, Vergennes police: • On Jan. 9 responded to a minor two-car crash on Main Street.

• On Jan. 9 helped the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad at a Main Street residence.

• On Jan. 10 sent the department Drug Recognition Expert to help Vermont State Police at their New Haven barracks; he determined a suspect had operated a vehicle while impaired.

• On Jan. 11 referred a fraud complaint to the attorney general’s office; police said a man posing as a city council member called the city clerk’s office and tried to have city funds transferred into a bank account. The clerk recognized the call as fraudulent and notified police.

• On Jan. 11 sent a disorderly conduct case to the state’s attorney’s office for possible prosecution: A woman reported her boyfriend’s exwife was harassing her at work via letters and social media.

• On Jan. 11 informed state police that a Ripton resident called them and said items stolen from a home there might be in the Vergennes area.

• On Jan. 11 helped out Middlebury police in a case on Seymour Street in which two officers were assaulted (see Middlebury Log).

• On Jan. 12 helped a motorist get into a locked car in the Agency of Transportation’s Ferrisburgh parkand-ride lot.

• On Jan. 13 looked into an apparent attempted burglary at a Macdonough Drive home; police said a window was damaged.

• On Jan. 13 counseled a woman who was having difficulty getting visitation rights with her granddaughter in Vergennes.

• On Jan. 13 ordered a commercial truck out of service after a Main Street stop and issued tickets because its driver did not have a medical card, its plates were not assigned to the trailer, the trailer’s registration had expired, and the truck’s DOT number was not displayed.

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ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders.

Fridays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www.turningpointaddi‑ sonvt.org.

A L ‑ A N O N F A M I LY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drink‑ ers. Anonymous, confiden‑ tial and free. At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. 7:30‑8:30 PM Friday evenings.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve common prob‑ lems. Newcomers wel‑ come. Confidential. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

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, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discus‑ sion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S F R I D AY: Discussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY 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, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NORTH FER‑ RISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Mondays, 6 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S S AT U R ‑ DAY: Discussion Meet‑ ing 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Middlebury United Meth‑ odist Church. Discus‑ sion Meeting 10:00‑11:00 AM. Beginners’ Meeting 6:30‑7:30 PM. These two meetings are held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street.

Came to Believe Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURS‑ DAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUES‑ DAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNES‑ DAY: 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 at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meet‑ ing 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES 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. Tues‑ day, Discussion Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congregational Church, Water St. ARE YOU BOTHERED

BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (en‑ ter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confidential, we share our experience, strength and hope to solve our com‑ mon problems. Babysitting available.

M A K I N G R E C O V E RY EASIER (MRE). Wednes‑ days, 5:30‑7:00 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meet‑ ing for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and discussing our feel‑ ings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a bet‑ ter understanding of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S N E W H AV E N MEETINGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Vil‑ lage Green.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

O A ( O V E R E AT E R S ANONYMOUS) MEETS on Thursdays at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT. O P I AT E O V E R D O S E RESCUE KITS are dis‑ tributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Cen‑ ter of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www.turningpointaddi‑ sonvt.org.

PA R K I N S O N S S U P ‑ PORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at the Mountain Health Cen‑ ter in Bristol. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, dry‑ wall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing.

All aspects of construc‑ tion, also property main‑ tenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

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The Volunteer Center, a collaboration of The Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired RSVP and the United Way of (VABVI) is looking for a volunteer to read and provide Addison County, clerical assistance to a client in the Middlebury area. posts dozens of Help is needed one time per week and the schedule is volunteer opportunities flexible. An application and background/reference on the Web.Go to

Reader & Clerical Support Needed

www.unitedwayaddison county.org/ VolunteerDonate and click on VOLUNTEER NOW!

check is required for this position. If you have strong organizational skills and would enjoy providing one on one support, this opportunity may be just for you.

To learn more, please contact RSVP at 388-7044 or rsvpvcadd@aol.com.

L o c a l age n c ie s c a n p o s t t h e i r v o l u n te e r ne e d s w i t h Th e Vo l u n te e r C e n te r by c a l l i ng RSV P at 388-7044.

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A L L A R O U N D FA R M HAND 802‑233‑1249 or 802‑233‑3849

PROFESSIONAL PAINT‑ ING; interior/exterior, residential/commercial, pressure washing. 20 years’ experience. Best prices. References.

802‑989‑5803.

RETIRED DAD LOOK‑ ING FOR odd jobs; willing to sit with shut‑ins, rides for appointments, run er‑ rands, or be of any kind of help. Call Bill Baker, 802‑453‑4235.

NEW SUPPORT GROUP ‑ Grief Anonymous Meeting every Thursday @ 6:30 pm at Grace Baptist Church 52 Merchants Row, Mid‑ delbury, Vt. First Meeting Thursday, December 1st, 2016

PARTY RENTALS; CHI‑ NA, flatware, glassware, linens. Delivery available.

802‑388‑4831.

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WE BUY OLD STUFF Estates, collections, an‑ tiques etc. Also hunting and fishing items. Call Erik 802‑345‑0653.

BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

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$1,500 SIGN ON BONUS

GOOD POINT RECY‑ CLING is hiring. Materials Handlers to sort through big boxes of used tele‑ visions and computers.

Forklift Operators to empty and reload trucks. Online sale associates to list parts and antiques online. Visit online at good‑point.net and click: Contact us/Jobs.

LNA’s – full time days We offer competitive wages and benefit packages.

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Please call and ask for Alysha to schedule an interview or stop in to complete an application and on-the-spot interview.

The Arbors at Shelburne Attn: Alysha Curtis 687 Harbor Road Shelburne,VT 05482 802-985-8600 • phurteau@benchmarkquality.com A Benchmark Assisted Living Community, EOE

ALL SHIFTS AVAILABLE Class A CDL Driver (Vergennes) Full time, immediate opening. Feed Commodities Int’l. is looking for an experienced driver to provide excellent customer service delivering feed to farm customers from our Vergennes mill. This position will be responsible for the timely, efficient, accurate, safe and friendly transportation and unloading of animal feed. An example of responsibilities and expectations include: perform and document pre and post trip vehicle and trailer inspections; drive in a safe and lawful manner at all times; maintain clean, orderly and safe equipment; timely communication of all vehicle and customer issues; maintain a neat and clean personal appearance; and other tasks assigned from time to time.

Minimum of two years tractor trailer experience; valid Class A CDL license with a clean record; basic math skills, ability to work 40-50 hours per week and Saturdays when on call; ability to lift 75 pounds; pass a DOT physical and drug and alcohol checks, and DMV checks.

Benefits include a 401k with match, health, life, and short term disability insurance, paid time off and paid holidays.

We are seeking people with winning personalities and great attitudes to join our team.

Part-time positions available with flexible scheduling.

Must be willing to work some nights & weekends.

Part-time Cashiers & Deli Employees needed.

Apply in person or pick up an application at: Maplefields –– Shoreham Service Center

Corner of Routes 22A and 74 • Shoreham, VT EOE

Admin/Accounting Assistant (Middlebury)

Full time, immediate opening. We are looking for someone to do a variety of Admin/Accounting duties, including operating expense accounts payable and payroll. Candidates for this job must be detail oriented and energetic. Good communication and computer skills are a must. A strong background in accounting and administrative related work is a must. A college degree is preferred. Feed Commodities offers a competitive salary commensurate to experience and education.

Please send your resume and cover letter to ihiggins@feedcommodities.com.

FEED COMMODITIES IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.

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Bill Sinks,

of Weybridge, has volunteered on the Weybridge Volunteer Fire Department for 17 years, serving as Fire Chief for the past 16 years.

His responsibilities include ongoing fire prevention training and ensuring Weybridge has “the best possible volunteer department.” Bill also spent four years volunteering as Vice President and President for the Addison County Firefighter Association. In addition, Bill is the Arm Wrestling Tournament Director for the Addison County Fair and Field Days and the Director of the Vermont World Arm Wrestling League. Bill has mentored and coached arm wrestlers in his home gym for over 20 years.

He believes “volunteering is a calling for everyone to find their strengths, make contributions and run with it!” Thank you, Bill, for your dedication to the Addison County Community!

We are proud of our reputation for quality, reliability, and service that we have earned over the years, and are confident in our continued commitment to provide the best quality concrete products, delivered and erected on time, and to meet the most demanding construction schedules.

WELDER – PRECAST DIVISION – MIDDLEBURY, VT

Responsible for various types of weld preparation, welding and weld finishing operations from Precast Manufacture Products to customer drawings, specifications, or other forms of instruction.

Requires: • Proficiency in assigned welding techniques • Ability to interpret mechanical drawings, including welding requirements • Knowledge of wire and filler materials applications for various steel alloys, aluminum, and some exotic materials • Ability to finish grinding applications using manual and power tools • Experience in various forms of welding and a min. of a HS Diploma, GED or equivalent technical training/certification

CONCRETE LABORERS – MIDDLEBURY, VT

Immediate full-time positions available. Required knowledge of proper use of equipment, materials and supplies used in construction work. Experience in concrete finishing, tying rebar and/or carpentry preferred.

Our benefit package includes: Health Insurance/Paid Vacation/401(k) and Profit Sharing Retirement Plan/STD/Life Insurance.

Please email your resume to lynn@carraraconcrete.com Attn.: Lynn/ HR, fax to 802-775-1048 or complete an application at 2464 Case Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 Equal Opportunity Employer

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Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

For Sale ANTIQUE DOUBLE BARREL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage firearm. $185.

802‑989‑5803.

AR CARBINE LENGTH Quad Rail. 12 2” Rail cov‑ ers. $35.00. 802‑352‑4746.

GSG 1911 . 22 threaded barrel. Fake suppressor.

Rail. Extra Mag. $350.00.

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H AV I L A N D C H I N A , DELAWARE: 91 pieces including serving piec‑ es $850.00. Flatware stainless steel, made in England. 87 pieces. $650.00. Vitamix. Like new. $300.00. Two pairs LL Bean snow shoes. Ex‑ cellent condition. $100.00 for both. For details call 802‑453‑5600. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

LAMB, USDA INSPECT‑ ED. 20 pound box $180.

Chops, roasts, ground and stew. Por Jay’s Farm, 802‑545‑2170.

SET OF FOUR Firestone FR710 P225 60R16 mud and snow tires. $250.00.

802‑352‑4746.

STEEL BUILDINGS $5,000 to $1,000,000

Utility, Garages, Warehouses, Manufactured buildings or other.

Old inventory discounted.

Erection available.

Alex 800-964-8335

LUNCH & REC DIRECTOR

MiddSummer Lunch and Recreation is an Addison County non-profit whose mission is to ensure that area children at risk of hunger over the summer have access to good nutrition and vigorous activity. We are looking for a director for our 2017 summer program. Vermont Educator’s License or experience working with students in a school or camp setting is desired. Must be available from midJune through end of July. Duties would include: planning and supervising all camp activities, overseeing staff and volunteers, and recording meal data for the State of Vt. Director will work closely with program administrator.

Please submit resume to Lorraine Morse at l.gmorse@myfairpoint.net

by January 29, 2017.

Help Wanted

help wanted

Harveys Plumbing and Excavating is looking for office support staff person.

KAYHART BROTHERS IN ADDISON has an opening for outside crops, equip‑ ment and mechanic posi‑ tion. Experience preferred.

Full time. Competitive pay, health insurance and IRA. References and valid div‑ ers license required. Call Tim at 802‑349‑6676.

Harveys is a well-established construction business, diversified in its work load.

Individuals must be well organized, attentive to details, knowledgeable in Microsoft Excel, Word and Quickbooks.

Individual must have a willingness to learn the processes and requirements for a small business. Need a dedication to completing projects in a timely manner.

Looking for 24 to 32 hours per week with salary based on experience. Position is available immediately.

Please mail or e-mail (harveype@sover.net) resumes by January 27, 2017.

Please call with any questions. 802-767-3241

Full-Time Sales Associate for Night Shift & Weekends Benefits available.

Addy Indy Classifieds are online

Apply in person at:

Maplefields of New Haven Route 7, New Haven, VT Ask for Sherry or pick-up an application EOE

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MILLWRIGHT EXPERI‑ ENCE or comparable wanted to oversee the ex‑ pansion of our production facility in Middlebury. Full time, short term, starting January. Full Sun Com‑ pany; 802‑989‑7011.

BIXBY LIBRARY PART-TIME ASSISTANT Organize staff and events calendars, create posters, order books and supplies, post on social media, schedule building use, interact with customers at circulation desk.

Must be organized, proficient with electronic devices and understand basics of social media. Part-time, 15-20 flexible hours per week.

To find out more email jane.spencer@bixbylibrary.org or send resume to apply.

Harveys Plumbing and Excavating Attn: Cheryl Harvey PO Box 128, 1593 VT Route 100, Rochester, VT 05767

NOW HIRING:

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Store Manager, full time

Clay’s, a locally owned women’s clothing store, is looking for an energetic individual who loves fashion and sales. Stop into our Middlebury location to fill out an application or call Elke at 802-238-4200.

60 Main Street, Middlebury

For Rent

For Rent

For Rent

285 MAIN STREET, VER‑ GENNES Available now, medium size 2 bedroom apartment. $900 per month. Laundry hookups, large enclosed porch & full bath. Heat and hot water included. Call 802‑862‑7467.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER S TO R A G E S PA C E i n Addison. Available stor‑ age space in my barn for summer/winter storage.

The barn is structurally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

OFFICES IN BRISTOL Two very nice offices avail‑ able for rent in the School House Office Suites in the Old High School complex near the town green. One is 555 sq. ft and avail‑ able now. The other is 455 sq. ft. and available March 1. Both have ac‑ cess to shared reception area, conference room, kitchenette, and rest room.

Rent includes heat, elec‑ tric and wi‑fi. Offices fea‑ ture hardwood floors, large energy‑efficient windows and ceiling fans. Land‑ lord will provide fit‑up or other incentives. Call 802‑453‑4065 or email: ca ro l @ w e l l sm o u n ta i n . com.

VERGENNES STUDIO APARTMENT, all utilities included. $850/mo. Walk‑ ing distance to everything.

802‑349‑5564.

ATTRACTIVE 2 BED‑ ROOM bright and sunny. $850.00. Included: heat and trash. Must be 55 or older. No pets. Call 802‑247‑0165. Tamarack House‑ A great place to live.

BRIDPORT 2 BEDROOM mobile home. Quiet road. $900 month, includes heat and electric. No pets, no smoking. Deposit, credit check, 1 year lease.

802‑758‑2369.

BRISTOL APARTMENT, 1 LARGE BEDROOM, with bonus room and 1 bath.

Efficient gas heat. Excel‑ lent condition. Wi‑Fi, water & sewer included. No pets.

No smoking. $735 month.

Contact Tom at Wallace Realty 802‑453‑4670 or Tom@WallaceRE.com.

B R I S T O L R E N TA L S W O O D L A N D A PA R T‑ MENTS included: heat, water, trash pickup, park‑ ing, snow removal, mow‑ ing, range, refrigerator and dishwasher. We fix things. Efficiency $560.

1 bedroom $755. Locat‑ ed on Woodland Drive.

Coin washer and dryer in each building. Pets negotiable. No smoking. susan_bowen@comcast. net 802‑662‑3136.

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BRISTOL; 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT heat, hot water, snow and lawn care included. Basement. Ga‑ rage. 802‑453‑2566.

CROWN POINT: CHARM‑ ING 3 bedroom, 1 bath home near school. Dish‑ washer, w/d. $750 month. $1,000 security deposit plus 1st month. No pets.

443‑694‑1379.

www.sunwardsteel.com

Adoption OUR HEARTS ARE READY for a new addi‑ tion to share every family tradition. Please call to make us a part of your adoption plan. Kim & Tom. 877‑297‑0013. www. kimandtomadopt.com

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WARE‑ HOUSE as is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Mid‑ dlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

For Rent

For Rent

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FORESTDALE : 3 BED‑ ROOM 3 bathroom house for rent. Garage, beautiful yard. Deposit required.

Credit check. Heat and electric included. Pets considered. No smok‑ ing. $1600 a month. Call 207‑350‑5673.

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM HOUSE walking distance to stores and schools. No smoking. No pets. 802‑388‑7743.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ R O O M g r o u n d f l o o r.

Washer/dryer hookup.

Large porch. $1000/month. $3,000 to move in. Refer‑ ences. 802‑989‑8399.

MIDDLEBURY APART‑ MENT FOR RENT 2 miles north on Route 7. Effi‑ ciency apartment. Includes stove, refrigerator,heat, lights and rubbish. No pets. No smoking. $575/ month plus deposit. Call 802‑349‑7557.

ORGANIC, 10 ACRE crop land for lease, New Haven.

802‑388‑4831.

ROOM FOR RENT brand new, furnished. Shared bathroom, kitchen and liv‑ ing room. $100.00 a week.

802‑877‑9237.

MIDDLEBURY‑RTE 7 ef‑ ficiency apartment. Heat, water and trash removal included. No pets. No smoking. $650/month.

Available February 1.

802‑388‑1917.

OFFICE SPACE IN MID‑ DLEBURY. Court Street/ Creek Road, 2nd floor.

Utilities included. 400 square feet. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

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Wood Heat T I M B E RW O L F F I R E ‑ WOOD: Dry or green. Call for prices. 802‑388‑7300.

Real Estate BUILDING LOT, DAISY LANE, East Middlebury.

Town water, underground telephone, cable and electric service. Good perking soil. Regular septic. Site approved for 4 bedroom home. Jack Brown, 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350. Email: brownnov@together.net.

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Att. Farmers

VERGENNES 3 BED‑ ROOM: washer/dryer hookup. $900/month. No pets. On Monkton Rd. across from Vergennes Variety. Completed ap‑ plication required prior to viewing apartment. Must pass background check.

240‑281‑1508 or email: ocopom.ninja.turtle@ gmail.com. Available Feb‑ ruary 1.

PRIME RETAIL SPACE IN MIDDLEBURY it doesn’t get any better than this fantastic, unique retail space‑ best location in town. Windows on Main St. and windows over‑ looking Otter Creek in back. 750 sq. ft., AC. Phone 802‑989‑7277 or 206‑715‑5344.

For Rent

1500 Sq foot of cold storage space in Bristol Two over head doors.

Can be divided into two smaller areas.

FOR SALE: 3 BEDROOM home on one acre. Quiet street in Mineville, NY. Thirty minute drive to Mid‑ dlebury. $75,000. Owner financing with cash down or most anything in trade.

518‑569‑0957.

NEW HAVEN: BEAUTI‑ FUL VIEWS, sunny apart‑ ment. Garden space. No pets, no smoking. Refer‑ ences, security deposit, lease. $875/month plus utilities. 802‑236‑2040.

OFFICE SPACE IN MID‑ DLEBURY. Court Street/ Creek Road, 2nd floor.

Utilities included. 280 square feet. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

Storage Space

HAY FOR SALE Benson, VT. 600 plus, mixed grass round bales. Early cut, plastic twine. Stored out‑ side. 700 to 800 pounds each. Certified organic or regular. $35.00 each. Call 802‑537‑3652.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Wanted TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique col‑ lectibles, etc. Visit www. bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527.

Consulting/appraisal ser‑ vices available. House calls made free of charge.

For Rent

For Rent

It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

Talk to our sales professionals.

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Police warn locals about their images on the web

BRISTOL — Bristol police proactively reviewed several internet sites known to contain explicit content of local citizens on Jan. 2. A police officer alerted a local citizen that non-explicit images of them had been posted online “in a way that would entice others to post explicit images of the person,” according to a log provided by Chief Kevin Gibbs.

Between Jan. 2 and Jan. 8, Bristol police also conducted seven towncontracted patrols on local roads, including Burpee, Hardscrabble, Hewitt, Monkton and Plank roads and Route 116. Officers issued four speeding tickets and five warnings for speeding. The BPD also conducted a consent search and issued a warning for marijuana possession and a warning for not having the vehicle properly inspected.

In other recent action, Bristol police: • On Jan. 2 contacted the owner of a debit card turned in to the BPD after it had been found in the automated teller at a Main Street bank.

• Helped someone get into an apartment building to locate their significant other on Jan. 2 • Helped Middlebury police, on Jan. 2, to locate a man they wanted to arrest for violation of a restraining order. The man was located in Lincoln.

• Investigated, on Jan. 3, an incident of trash being dumped over the embankment on a Pine Street property. Police identified the owner of the trash and issued a $500 ticket for dumping refuse.

• Worked out of the police space at Bristol Elementary School on Jan. 3, interacting with students, staff and parents.

• Responded, on Jan. 3, to a report of a woman who had fallen on Prince Lane and was unconscious. Officers administered care, and the Bristol

Public Notices On this Page 9B.

Addison County (1) Addison County Court House (1) Addison County Probate Court (2) Addison County Superior Court (2) Addison Northwest Supervisory District – Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham (1) Ferrisburgh (1) Lincoln (1) Vermont Electric Power Company (1)

Rescue Squad took the woman to the hospital.

• Responded to Mount Abraham Union High School, where a student was refusing to leave on Jan. 4.

• Took fingerprints for an employment application on Jan. 4.

• Conducted a forensic preview of

multiple weapons to an individual on checks during a reported assault Jan. 6. No issues were encountered. investigation on Jan. 8. The request • Assisted Vermont State Police for assistance was cancelled while with a custodial interference case the Bristol officer was en route, as on Hewitt Road in Bristol on Jan. 6. the dispatcher was able to reach the The issue was resolved until a court trooper and verify the officer did not proceeding can be convened. need assistance.

• Were notified, on Jan. 7, about • Checked downtown business via a series of assaults that had occurred foot patrol on Jan. 8. at Mount Abe last month and this • Responded to an alarm activamonth. Police were notified by a tion at a West Street business on Jan. parent of a student victim, but had 8. Police found the building secure. not been notified by the school. An Multiple alarms activations have investigation is ongoing. occurred at the same business over • Were dispatched to a Starksboro the last several weeks, and the busia computer tablet device related to an residence to assist a state police ness owner is trying to remedy the active investigation on Jan. 4. trooper not responding to status problem.

• Assisted the Addison County Humane Society, on Jan. 4, by checking up on a dog, after the ACHS TOWN OF LINCOLN had received complaints about its PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE welfare. Police found the dog to be in APPLICATION FOR ACCESSIBILITY MODIFICATION GRANT good health and properly cared for.

The Town of Lincoln is considering making application to the State of Vermont for an • Participated in an EMT training Accessibility Modification Grant under the Vermont Community Development Program, to at the Hinesburg firehouse on Jan. 4. be used to improve handicap accessibility to Burnham Hall. A public hearing will be held • Received a report of a possible Tuesday, January 31st at 8:00 to 9:00 am at Burnham Hall, to obtain the views of citizens on community development, to furnish information concerning the amount of funds available probation violation at a Mountain and the range of community development activities that may be undertaken under this Street residence involving a known program, the impact to any historic and archaeological resources that may be affected by sex offender on Jan. 5. Police the proposed project, and to give affected citizens the opportunity to examine the proposed contacted probation and parole offistatement of projected use of these funds. The proposal is to apply for $16,000 in VCDP cials as well as the Vermont Sex Funds, which will be used to accomplish accessibility modifications to Burnham Hall.

Offender Registry, but determined The scope of the work proposed will include: that there did not appear to be any 1. Improvements to the Handicap Accessible Pedestrian Walkway to prevent winter ice probation violation. Police will formation immediately in front of the entrance doorway to the lower floor, and continue to monitor the situation.

2. Improvements to the Handicap Accessible Polling Place Access and Facilities located • Responded to an alarm activaon the lower floor.

Copies of a summary of the proposed application are available at Lincoln Town Clerks tion at a West Street business on Jan. Office and may be obtained during the hours of 8:00 am to 2:00 pm on Monday through 5.

Thursday and 4:00 to 7:00 pm on Wednesday.

• Received the official report from Should you require any special accommodations, please contact Mark G. Benz at 802a local firearms dealer on the sale of

Bristol

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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 14-1-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF Scott M. Barnes NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Scott M. Barnes late of North Ferrisburgh, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: January 17, 2017 Michele Racine, Executrix 399 Quaker Street North Ferrisburgh, VT 05473 802-425-4433 smbqueenie@gmavt.net Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: January 19, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 7/8

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ADDISON COUNTY BUDGET 2017-2018

More information and extra copies of the budget may be obtained at the Addison County Superior Court, Frank Mahady Court House, Middlebury, Vermont. Tel. 802-388-1966 Alice M. George, Assistant Judge & Irene Poole, Assistant Judge 2017-2018 EXPENSES 2017-2018 Adopted (continued) Adopted REVENUE:

$ 4,000.00 $ 1,600.00 $ 175.00 $ 4,000.00 $ 22,800.00 $ 199,481.00

$ 30,000.00 $ 229,481.00

EXPENSES: Court:

Court and County Personnel Salaries $ 45,420.00 Benefits $ 4,200.00 Dues & Memberships $ 2,500.00 Office Expense $ 2,300.00 Advertising- Passports $ 2,300.00 Insurance $ 2,930.00 Legal $ 550.00 Professional Services $ 1400.00 Contracted Services $ 3,600.00 Contingency $ 300.00 Subtotal $ 65,500.00

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Costs Lbs. per lb 1315 .665 1515 .65 1320 .65 1305 .65 1680 .645 1385 .645

Dollars 874.48 984.75 858.00 848.25 1083.60 893.33

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Lbs. 106 106 110 86 79

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453-2250 to ensure appropriate accommodations are provided. For the hearing impaired please call (TTY) # 1-800-253-0191.

Submitted by: Mark G. Benz, Writer for Town of Lincoln and Burnham Hall 1909 York Hill Road Lincoln, VT 05443 802-453-2250 January 16, 2017

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

The Addison Northwest School District will be reviewing and adopting the following policies: • B31 Educator Supervision and Evaluation • C2 Student Drugs and Alcohol (formerly F7) • C2R Student Drugs and Alcohol Procedures (formerly F7) • C3 Transportation (formerly F9) • C4 Limited English Proficiency Students (formerly F19) • C5 Firearms (formerly F21) • C6 Home Study Students (formerly F23) • C7 Student Attendance (formerly F25) • C8 Pupil Privacy Rights (formerly F27) • C10 Prevention of Harassment, Hazing, and Bullying (formerly F20) • C10R Prevention of Harassment, Hazing, & Bullying Procedures (formerly F20) • C20 Student Conduct and Discipline (formerly F1) • C21 Search and Seizure of Students by School Personnel (formerly F3) • C23 Student Clubs & Activities (Secondary) (formerly F11) • C25 Admission of Non-resident Tuition Students (formerly F14) • C27 Student Self-expression and Student Distribution of Literature (formerly F29) • C28 Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Students • C34 Restraint and Seclusion • F1 Travel Reimbursement • F22 Electronic Communications Use and Retention (formerly E12) The Addison Northwest School District Board will take action of adopting the above stated policies on Wednesday, January 25, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. at the Vergennes Union High School.

The policies are located at the Superintendent’s Office and at www.anwsu.org website for review.

Addison Northwest School District 11 Main Street, Suite B100, Vergennes, VT 05491 802-877-3332

$ 166,906.00

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County Tax 0.03843% 2017-2018 Passports Notaries Interest Earned Wills for safekeeping Rent Income – Jail Bldg.

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STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF KENNETH H. THEOBALD

PUBLIC NOTICE FOR FERRISBURGH RESIDENTS

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Kenneth H. Theobald late of Monkton, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: December 28, 2016 Diane S. Theobald 295 Church Road, Bristol, Vt. 05443 Monkton, Vt 05469 802-453-7509 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: January 19, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 1/19

PUBLIC NOTICE – HERBICIDE USE NOTIFICATION

Vermont utilities maintain electric line rights-of-way with several methods, including the selective use of herbicides on trees and brush. They also encourage low-growing shrubs and trees which will crowd tall-growing species and, thus, minimize the use of herbicides.

The application of herbicides may start as early as April 1. If you own or occupy land within 1000 feet of a utility right of way, you may request in writing to be notified when the line will be treated with herbicides. Written requests for placement on the mailing list must be received by the utility by February 15. Additionally, it is the landowner’s duty to inform the utility in writing of any potentially affected water supply and any environmentally sensitive areas where herbicide application should be avoided.

The Public Service Board requires Vermont utilities to carry out vegetation management techniques which allow maintenance of electrical systems in a cost-effective manner. The types of herbicide treatment used to maintain vegetation on utility rights-of-way include the following applications: stump, injection, basal, soil, and foliar. These are the commonly used methods; your local utility may use other methods. Landowners have the option of requesting a utility to apply herbicide treatment on cut stumps only, or that a utility refrain from applying herbicide. In the latter case, the landowner has to pay the utility an administrative fee. Only electric utility rights-of-way that have tall-growing tree species with the potential of threatening the electric utility system are treated.

Utilities advertise by radio and newspaper prior to herbicide applications on all lines.

Utilities typically treat rights-of-way once every four-to-six years, depending on the utility’s specific vegetation management cycle. Please check with your utility regarding the vegetation management cycle of a particular line.

Some utilities identify their poles with metal letters and numbers, e.g., V.E.C. (Vermont Electric Co-operative), or V.E.L.C.O. (Vermont Electric Power Company). These markings are not found on every utility pole. However, by checking several poles on a line, you should be able to find a marked pole and determine which utility owns it.

Persons owning or occupying land within 1,000 feet of a utility right-of-way may request in writing that the utility notify them individually by mail anytime but at least 30 days prior to treatment of the line with herbicides. The landowner or resident is reponsible for contacting the utility, in writing, to request placement on the mailing list.

The utility should be provided with sufficient information as to the exact location of the residence and land. It is the duty of each landowner or resident to make the utility aware of the location of any potentially affected water supply, and any environmentally sensitive areas where herbicide application ought to be avoided.

Sheriffs Department: Personnel: Salaries Benefits Office Expense Telephone Insurance/Bonds Training VIBRES/VLETS Radio Subtotal

$ 81,600.00 $ 20,045.00 $ 500.00 $ 1,500.00 $ 13,000.00 $ 500.00 $ 4,500.00 $ 750.00 $ 122,806.00

Probate Court: Supplies/Equipment Dues Contingency Subtotal

$ 400.00 $ 325.00 $ 200.00 $ 925.00

Jail Building: Utilities Bldg & Grounds Insurance Inspections Custodial Capital Improvements Subtotal

$ 25,000.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 3,500.00 $ 1,500.00 $ 2,750.00 $ 2,500.00 $ 40,250.00

Line and Pole Identification: Utility Initials

TOTAL EXPENSE

$ 229,481.00

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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 413-11-16 ANPR

CONTACT YOUR ELECTRIC UTILITY WITH QUESTIONS OR SUBMIT THE COUPON PROVIDED

If you have further questions or concerns contact: Agency of Agriculture Consumer Affair & Public Information Cary Giguere Dept. of Public Service 116 State St., Montpelier, VT 05602 112 State St., Montpelier, VT 05602 1-802-828-6531 1-800-622-4496 or 1-802-828-2332

LANDOWNER REQUEST TO BE ADDED TO HERBICIDE TREATMENT NOTIFICATION MAILING LIST Name Street Address Town State Zip Code Electric Account Number Property of Concern q Year Round Residence q Water Supply q Land

Town/city of Affected Property Telephone Number (Home) (Work) O.K. to use Work Number Yes No Best Time to Call

q Summer Residence q Commercial Property q Other Numbers

We need all of this information in order to determine if you qualify for personal notification. If information is unobtainable, please state why. Use an extra sheet of paper if you need more space.

RETURN TO YOUR LOCAL UTILITY 1/5, 12, 19, 26

Annual Town Meeting elections will be held on Tuesday, March 7, 2017. Nominating petitions are available at the Town Clerk’s office for the following public offices: Moderator - Town 1 year term Auditor 3 year term Town Clerk 3 year term Auditor 2 years of a 3 year term Town Treasurer 3 year term First Constable 1 year term Selectboard 2 year term Town School Director 1 year term Selectboard 3 year term Town School Director 1 year term Lister 3 year term Union High School Director 1 year term Town Grand Juror 1 year term Rogers & Hazard Trustee 2 year term Town Agent 1 year term Deadline for filing nominating petitions for town offices is Monday, January 30, 2017 at 5:00 p.m.

Eligible voters not on the checklist for the Town of Ferrisburgh must file an application for addition to the checklist in person or online. Polls are open from 7:00 a.m. through 7:00 p.m. at the Ferrisburgh Town Hall on Tuesday, March 7 to vote by Australian Ballot for public offices and school budgets. The actual Town Meeting to vote articles and town budget will be held at the Ferrisburgh School at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, March 4, 2017.

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STATE OF VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION ADDISON UNIT DOCKET NO: 74-4-14 Ancv RBS CITIZENS, N.A. SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHARTER ONE BANK, N.A. Plaintiff v.

JOSEPH J. VICERE; WENDY H. VICERE; BRUCE BEAUREGARD & LEIGH PHILLIPS; GREEN MOUNTAIN BUREAU, LLC; ASSET ACCEPTANCE; RBS CITIZENS, N.A. Defendants

NOTICE OF SALE

By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given by Joseph J. Vicere and Wendy H. Vicere to Charter One Bank, N.A., its successors and/or assigns, dated February 21, 2003 and recorded in Book 57 at Page 462 of the Town of Lincoln Land Records, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 10:00 a.m. on February 2, 2017 at 1704 York Hill Road, Lincoln, VT 05443 all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To Wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Joseph J. Vicere and Wendy H. Vicere by Warranty Deed of Christopher E. Casey and Joanne M. Casey dated February 8th, 1995 and recorded in Book 46 at Page 72 of the Town of Lincoln Land Records and therein more particularly described as follows: An unimproved parcel of land situated on the westerly side of Town Road No. 6, so-called in the Town of Lincoln, Said parcel is more particularly set forth as Lot No. 2 on a survey map entitled “Subdivision Plat, Property of Christopher E. And Joanne M. Casey, Addison County, Lincoln, VT. Deed Reference: Book 33, Page 145” February 28, 1989. Said map is filed in the Lincoln Town Clerk’s Office as Map No. 124.

Said parcel contains 10.43 acres, more or less, and is currently believed to be bounded as follows: On the North by lands currently of the A Johnson Co., formerly of Dr. Alan W. And Leah Ruth Wright; On the South by land currently of William and Lois Karen Capasso, formerly of the Grantors, and by lands of the Green Mountain National Forest; On the East by Town Road No. 6 and by lands of William and Lois Karen Capasso; On the West by lands of the Green Mountain National Forest and by lands of William and Lois Karen Capasso.

Subject to utility line easements and rights of way of record.

Being a portion only of the same lands and premises conveyed to Christopher E. Casey and Joanne M. Casey, the Grantors herein, by Warranty Deed of Charles E. Owings and Mille A. Owings, dated July 13, 1981 and recorded in Volume 33 at Page 145 of the Lincoln Land Records, to which reference is made to a further and more complete description of the lands and premises conveyed hereby.

Reference is hereby made to the above mentioned instruments, the records thereof, the references therein made, and their respective records and references in aid of this description.

Reference is hereby made to said deed and its records and to all prior deeds and their records for a more completed description of the lands and premises conveyed.

The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the event of a typographical error in this publication.

The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and without publication or service of a new notice of sale, by announcement of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment or by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or by certified check by the purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at sale.

RBS Citizens, N.A. successor by merger to Charter One Bank, N.A., Jennifer L. Maynard, Esq. Shechtman, Halperin Savage, LLP 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 401-272-1400 Attorney for Plaintiff jmaynard@shslawfirm.com 1/5

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Local man wanted for assaulting an officer MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police were on the lookout for 46-year-old Christopher L. Ardell of Middlebury early this week after he failed to appear at a court hearing where he was to be arraigned on several charges of assault — including assaulting a police officer.

Police said it was at around 8:35 p.m. on Jan. 11 that they received a call about a possible domestic disturbance at a Seymour Street apartment. Police interviewed the victim, who alleged she had been assaulted and injured by her partner — Ardell — who was still in the home.

When police attempted to take Ardell into custody, Ardell assaulted and injured two officers, according to police. Authorities ultimately subdued Ardell and took him into custody.

Per a judge’s order, police released Ardell after citing him for firstdegree aggravated domestic assault, aggravated assault on a police officer, and resisting arrest. Ardell failed to appear at his scheduled Jan. 12 arraignment at the Frank Mahady Courthouse, and his family is now concerned about his welfare, police said in a press release issued over the weekend.

A warrant has been issued for Ardell’s arrest, according to police, who urge anyone with information on his whereabouts to call them at 388-3191.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Checked the welfare of a woman in the Buttolph Acres area on Jan. 9.

Police said they had received reports that the woman might be suicidal.

• Cited Carol J. Coon, 68, of Middlebury for retail theft, after she allegedly tried to steal $189 in groceries from Hannaford supermarket on Jan. 9.

• Investigated, at the request of the Vermont Department for Children & Families, a report of “inappropriate messages/images” being sent through Snapchat on Jan. 9.

• Gave a ride to a man who had been walking in dark clothes along Route 7 North during the evening of Jan. 10.

• Responded to a noise complaint at a Court Street apartment building on Jan. 10.

• Served a temporary restraining order on a South Pleasant Street resident on Jan. 10.

• Responded to a two-car crash on Seymour Street on Jan. 11. Police said one of the drivers left the scene of the accident.

• Ticketed a youth for being a minor in possession of tobacco on Middlebury Union High School property on Jan. 11.

• Responded to a one-vehicle accident on Case Street on Jan. 11, involving someone who had driven into a tree. Police said the driver was taken to Porter Hospital for treatment.

• Broke up a verbal argument between some roommates at a Court Street Extension apartment on Jan. 11.

• Took into custody a suicidal woman who had allegedly been jumping in front of cars on South Street on Jan. 12.

• Conducted a welfare check on a Seymour Street resident at the request of Vermont Probation & Parole officials on Jan. 12.

• Cited Dale A Vanleuven, 56, of Bristol for retail theft, after she was allegedly caught leaving Hannaford supermarket without paying for more than $80 in merchandise on Jan. 12.

• Responded to a noise complaint at a Seymour Street home on Jan. 13.

Police told the homeowners to turn down their music.

• Were informed a man had left the Hannaford supermarket without paying for some groceries on Jan. 13.

• Helped remove a downed tree

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that had been blocking both lanes of Halladay Road on Jan. 13.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS with a heart attack patient in the Buttolph Drive area on Jan. 14.

• Responded to a report of a young child walking alone on Court Street on Jan. 14. Police said they turned the child over to his babysitter.

• Investigated reports of people allegedly driving while drunk on Halladay Road on Jan. 14.

• Issued court diversion paperwork to a driver after police detected the odor of marijuana in his vehicle, which they had stopped for speeding on Court Street on Jan. 14.

• Broke up a Middlebury College student party at a Washington Street home on Jan. 14.

• Received a report that an allegedly intoxicated person had driven away from Porter Hospital on Jan. 15. Police said they were unable to locate the person.

• Issued court diversion paperwork to a youth for underage drinking on Middlebury College campus on Jan. 15.

• Investigated a burglary in the Court Street area on Jan. 16.

• Searched in vain for a man who allegedly asked Dunkin Donuts employees about buying drugs during his brief Jan. 16 visit to that Court Street business.

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THE MIDDLEBURY UNION High School dance team performs during halftime at a Tiger girls’ basketball game last week.

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Lincoln LINCOLN — The annual meeting of the United Church of Lincoln will be held on Sunday, Jan. 22. A pot luck lunch will begin at Burnham Hall at 11:30 a.m. with the meeting to follow. You do not need to be a

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Pen master carves niche

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eypads on our computers, smart phones or tablets might dominate a lot of our communication these days, but the good old fashioned pen hasn’t gone out of style either.

Especially not the hand carved wooden pens made by Jim Cunningham in Bristol.

BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

Early in his woodworking career, Cunningham ran a rustic handmade furniture company and was a member of Vermont WoodNet — a local group of woodcrafters. “WoodNet was a good group to help me get going,” he said.

One day, National Wildlife Foundation came to a WoodNet meeting and asked Cunningham to SEE PEN ON PAGE 3

Bristol’s Jim Cunningham has been making hand-carved wooden pens in Bristol for the past 16 years.

INDEPENDENT PHOTO / TRENT CAMPBELL

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ENTERTAINMENT

The MET’s Roméo et Juliette sizzles in local broadcast

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hen Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo starred opposite each other in Manon at the Met in 2015, the New York Times said, “the temperature rises nearly to boiling every time Damrau and Grigolo are on stage together.” Now they’re back as opera’s classic lovers, in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation. The production, by director Bartlett Sher, has won acclaim for its vivid 18th-century milieu and stunning costumes during runs at Salzburg and La Scala. Gianandrea Noseda conducts the sumptuous score.

Perhaps the most enduringly successful of the many operatic settings of the world’s consummate love story, Roméo et Juliette is an excellent example of French Romanticism, a tradition that values subtlety, sensuality, and graceful vocal delivery over showy effects. In the opera there is a slight shift of focus away from the word games of the original play and a greater

Roméo et Juliette will be screened Saturday, Jan. 21, at 1 p.m. at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater.

focus on the two lovers, who are given four irresistible duets, including a brief final reunion in the tomb scene that does not appear in the play.

poetry or violence might erupt at any moment.

The Met’s new production moves the action to the 18th century.

In Shakespeare’s lifetime, Italy was a land of many small city-states in constant warfare with one another, but this same country was also the cradle of the Renaissance, with its astounding explosion of art and science. The image invoked by the story’s setting in the ancient city of Verona, then, is a beautiful but dangerous world where

Roméo et Juliette will be screened Saturday, Jan. 21 at 1 p.m. as part of the MET: Live in HD series at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. Tickets are $24, $10 for students, and may be purchased by phone, online or at the box office. A free talk about this opera will be given in the studio on the lower level before the broadcast at 12:15 p.m.

by David Clark. Then head upstairs and settle in: run time is 3 hours, 4 minutes.

More info at (802) 382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

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make pens; that was 16 years ago. When Cunningham realized there was a market for his pens — and how much easier the production was on his hands — he closed his furniture business and has dedicated his efforts to hand-crafted pens ever since. “I never would have made pens if National Wildlife hadn’t come to that meeting,” Cunningham said.

While his pen-business was budding, Cunningham did demos on the porch of the Shelburne Museum’s General Store once a week for about three years. “Then I got so busy keeping up with the orders,” said Cunningham.

At the height of his pen business, Cunningham estimated he was making 1,000 pens or more in a year. Today, he guesses it’s somewhere closer to 600-800 pens in a year.

The Tennessee native moved to Vermont in 1984. Why? “Why does anyone ever move,” Cunningham asked, rhetorically. “For love or money,” he answered himself. For Cunningham it was love. “I was married to a girl for about three years, but then we split up. But I love it here,” he said. And so he stayed.

As for training, Cunningham is entirely self taught.

“I’m kind of a thinker,” he said. “If I think about it for long enough, then I can just do it.” From clocks to chairs, benches, shelfs, mirrors, sconces and

Jim Cunningham turns wood into hand-crafted pens at his home-studio in Bristol.

“I’VE ALWAYS MADE AND DONE THINGS THAT PEOPLE USE EVERY DAY.”

INDEPENDENT PHOTOS / TRENT CAMPBELL

Cunningham only needs about 2.5- to 3-inches of wood to turn pens. He takes the wood, splits it up into four pieces called “blanks,” lets those dry for a few months, pre-turns the wood to the basic oval shape and size, and then adds the parts that make it a pen. “They’re really very simple,” he said.

— Jim Cunningham

pens, Cunningham employs that Nike-spirit and just does it.

The wood he uses for the pens comes primarily from Tom Lathrop’s in Bristol. “It’s the waste wood from their flooring projects,” said Cunningham. “I couldn’t go out and buy the kind of wood I’m getting from Tommy... some of the nicest wood is ash.”

Most of his pens are customized with a laser engraving for large organizations, universities and non-profits. A handful of pens are distributed to local stores (Art on Main in Bristol has them) and given away as Christmas presents.

“I’m a maker of needful things,” said Cunningham.

“I’ve always made and done things that people use every day.”

The 66-year-old hopes to keep doing just that, but is interested in scaling back the penproduction and ramping up his knife sharpening business that he kicked off about five years ago.

You might remember Cunningham’s cedar shingled knife-sharpening cart at the Farmer’s Markets, but that’s been sold. Now he’s sharpening knifes at the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-Op on the first Saturday of the month.

It’s 4 bucks per knife, and Cunningham uses his belt sander and a steady hand to make your knives scary sharp.

To learn more about Cunningham’s pens visit www.vermonthardwoodpens.com and for knifesharpening visit www.knivessharpened.com.

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OUT OF TOWN

THURSDAY, JAN. 19 ArtsRiot in Burlington Opening Ceremonies and Thursday Night Showcase.

Doors at 5:15 p.m. Show at 6 p.m.

FRIDAY, JAN 20 The Barre Opera House in Barre Granite City Showcase. 7-10:30 p.m.

SATURDAY, JAN 21 The Hilton in Burlington Burlesque Classes. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday Night Extravaganza: Pre-party (3 p.m.), early show (5 p.m.), late show (8 p.m.), after party (11 p.m.)

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he Vermont Burlesque Festival features Vermont’s burlesque community as well as comedians, artists, musicians and talent from beyond its borders.

The festival cooperates with The Vermont Cancer Center to help raise awareness for breast cancer as well as funds for Vermont-based cancer research. The Pride Center of Vermont is another beneficiary of the festival’s philanthropic endeavors.

The Vermont Burlesque Festival is produced by Cory Royer, a Vermonter turned Las Vegan who loves coming home and contributing to his “green mountain roots.” More than of 100 local, national and international performers, artists, and musicians take part to entertain, educate and perform Jan. 19, 20 and 21 in Burlington and Barre.

More information available at: www.VermontBurlesqueFestival.com.

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IN TOWN Heliand Consort presents ‘Crossing the Bar’

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ccording to Igor Stravinsky, music should be seen as well as heard.

“Watching was as much fun as listening and added whole dimensions to the music itself,” said as recent audience member at a Heliand Consort performance.

The Vermont-based woodwind trio will present “Crossing the Bar” at Brandon Music on Saturday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m. Flutist Berta Frank, oboist Katie Oprea and clarinetist Elizabeth LeBlanc will explore the relationship between classical and folk music, with selections ranging from Flemish Renaissance folk songs to music of Dvořák and Gershwin.

LeBlanc is a founding member of Heliand Consort. She was born in Québec and raised in St. Albans. She earned performance degrees from the Juilliard School and McGill University. Recent solo performances include the world premiere of Don Jamison’s Through the Clouds for clarinet, bassoon and strings with the Burlington Chamber Orchestra and multiple performances of Mozart’s Quintet for Clarinet and Strings with Burlington Ensemble.

A native of St. Albans, Oprea studied oboe with her father and later joined the Vermont Youth Orchestra, where she performed as a youth soloist with the VYO and VSO. Her principal teachers included Neil Boyer at the University of Southern Maine, Mark Weiger at the University of Iowa and César Ognibene at the Conservatoire National de Région of Lyon, in France. While in Europe, she served as principal oboist with the Romanian State Opera of Timisoara and also appeared with the Timisoara Philharmonic, the Europa Symphony, and the Bolshoi Ballet. Oprea

Elizabeth LeBlanc, Katie Oprea and Berta Frank will perform “Crossing the Bar” at Brandon Music on Saturday.

is currently principal oboist with the Burlington Chamber Orchestra and has performed in the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Burlington Ensemble, and the Vermont Mozart Festival.

Frank was raised in New York City and is an active performer, teacher and chamber music coach.

She is the Instrumental Music Director at Browns River Middle School in Jericho, and has served as a staff member of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association for over 20 years. She is principal flutist with the Burlington Chamber Orchestra and Middlebury Opera Company and performs as a soloist with Burlington Ensemble and Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble.

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HELIAND CONSORT LAUNCHED A KICKSTARTER CAMPAIGN TO SUPPORT THEIR APRIL PRODUCTION OF “2 MOON SMILE.” Concert tickets are $20. Add a pre-concert dinner for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, e-mail info@brandon-music.net or visit www.brandon-music.net for more info.

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Learn the basics Agricola Farm, Panton about fresh pork sausage at Agricola Farm’s class. For $20, you’ll choose, cut, grind, mix and case two different types of sausage and discuss cooking techniques and casing details to prevent your sausage from exploding. There is no sausage better than the ones you will make on your own. More info at www.agricolavermont.com or call (802) 475-3409.

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The GMC Unitarian Universalist, Middlebury Bread Loaf Section will get together over light refreshments at the Unitarian Universalist Society meeting space on Duane Court in Middlebury, 6:30 p.m. Annual meeting tasks followed by a presentation by Middlebury’s Dan Brown. Free and open to the public. For more info contact Ruth Penfield at (802) 388-5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail.com.

Middlebury Actors Workshop will hold general auditions for its 2017 season on Wednesday, Feb. 1, from 5-8 p.m. at the Town Hall Theater. MAW is seeking experienced actors of all types, ages 18 and up. People are asked to prepare a short monologue for the tryouts. To sign up email Melissa Lourie at Melissa@middleburyactors.org.

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CALENDAR top pick DON’T MISS SISTER-TO-SISTER’S AND BROTHER-TO-BROTHER’S FREE SLEDDING EVENT FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL GIRLS AND BOYS IN MIDDLEBURY NEXT FRIDAY, JAN. 27 FROM 7-9 P.M. AT CHELLIS HOUSE, MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE.

ACTIVE GREEN MOUNTAIN CLUB HIKE IN STARKSBORO. Saturday, Jan. 21. Snowshoe or hike of about 4-5 miles round trip on woods, roads and trails at Common Ground Center. Bring water and a snack and dress appropriately for the weather (layers, no cotton). This outing will be moderately strenuous with moderate elevation change less than 1,000 feet. Contact Beth Eliason at betheliason@gmail. com or 802-989-3909 for meeting time and place.

Info: www.gmcbreadloaf.org.

TAI CHI FOR BEGINNERS IN VERGENNES. Monday, Jan. 23, 9-9:45 a.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall. Tai Chi for beginners every Monday and Wednesday, Jan. 23-April 5. This class is for people who have never

done Tai Chi or those wanting to review the class.

Pre-registration is required. Email Lee Francis at lhfrancis1@myfairpoint.net or call 877-2464. Classes are free. Bring hydration, dress comfortably and bring another pair of footwear.

TAI CHI INTERMEDIATE CLASS IN VERGENNES. Monday, Jan. 23, 10-10:45 a.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall. Tai Chi intermediate every Monday and Wednesday, Jan. 23-April 5. This class is for people who have completed Tai Chi I and are ready to learn Tai Chi II. Pre-registration is required. Email Lee Francis at lhfrancis1@myfairpoint.net or call 877-2464. Classes are free. Bring hydration, dress comfortably and bring another pair of footwear.

SLEDDING EVENT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Jan. 27, 7-9 p.m., Chellis House, 56 Hillcrest Road, Middlebury College. Sister-to-Sister and Brother-to-

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Brother will hold a sledding event for Middle School girls and boys. Free event with lots of treats. For more information contact khanta@middlebury.edu or call 443-5937.

DJ SKATE NIGHT IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan. 28, 8-10 p.m., Memorial Sports Center. DJ skate night presented by friends of Middlebury hockey. All ages and abilities welcome. $5 adult; $3 student. Snack bar will be open and rental skates available. Info: www.memorialsportscenter.org.

CRAFTS ARTS AND CRAFTS ANNUAL SALE IN BRANDON. Saturday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center, Brandon. The Compass Music and Arts Center will hold their annual Arts and Crafts Sale, featuring supplies and handmade artwork or crafts at reduced prices. If you are interested in selling your items, spaces can be reserved through Thursday, Jan. 26 by visiting www.cmacvt.org or calling 802-247-4295.

DANCE FAMILY DANCE PARTY IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Jan. 21, 6-9 p.m., Vergennes Union High School.

The Unification Disco Dance Party features live music by Discolicious and also DJ Soundrock with Bill Clark. Come decked out in your full 70s disco glory. Entry fee is by donation and will support your local public school. This event is hosted by Ferrisburgh PTO, Commodore parent teacher group, VUES Community Group and ACS parentteacher association.

BORDER / ZONES IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Jan. 27 and Saturday, Jan. 28, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre. Border / Zones culminates the two-semester creative process of the Dance Company of Middlebury (DCM), guided by artistic director Scotty Hardwig, with additional choreography by Omar Carrum, Guggenheim fellow and director of the Mazatlán Professional School of Dance, and Delfos Danza, their professional company in residence. Carrum created an original work for the students during a residency. Tickets: Public $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6.

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FILM ROMEO ET JULIETTE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan. 21, 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater.

“Romeo et Juliette” will be screened as part of the MET: Live in HD series. Tickets are $24 / $10 for students and may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, over the phone 382-9222, or in person at the Town Hall Theater box office. A free talk about the opera will be given before the broadcast at 12:15 p.m. by David Clark. Run time 3 hours 4 minutes.

“MICROBE & GASOLINE” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan. 21, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. Two teenage friends embark on a road trip across France after building a small house on wheels. In French with English subtitles. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series in association with the Vermont International Film Festival. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

Free.

“RACING EXTINCTION” IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan. 28, 3 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. A team of artists and activists expose the hidden world of extinction with never-before-seen images that will change the way we see the planet. Free. Info: www. middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

LECTURE AMERICAN HISTORY LECTURE SERIES: “THE LIFE OF SACAJAWEA” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Jan. 19, 3-4 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, Community Room.

EastView resident Bob Nixon presents “The Life of Sacajawea” as part of the American history lecture series.

CONVERSATION WITH VERMONT SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ROBINSON IN SHOREHAM. Saturday, Jan. 21, 2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Vermont Supreme Court Justice Beth Robinson will lead an interactive discussion about the birth of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution, the meaning and significance of those rights, and the independent constitutional protections under the Vermont Constitution.

Light refreshments will be served.

MUSIC JEAN-MICHEL PILC, JAZZ PIANO IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Robison Hall. Jean Michel-Pilc, called a “dazzlingly

inventive pianist” by the New York Times, will take the listener on a journey crafted with unexpected landscapes and powerful emotions. Sponsored by the Performing Arts Series. Reserved seating. Tickets $25 public; $20 college ID holders; $6 students. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

CABIN FEVER SERIES IN BRISTOL. Saturday, Jan. 21, 8 p.m. WalkOverGallery, Bristol.

Pete’s Posse, led by Pete Sutherland, is three generations of musicians who have come together to create their own electrifying sound they call “multi-generational roots music.” Don’t miss the first session of the 12th annual Cabin Fever Series at the WalkOver Gallery and Concert Room in Bristol.

TRILLIUM ENSEMBLE IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Jan. 22, 4 p.m., The Middlebury Community Music Center. The Trillium Ensemble featuring Esther Rogers Baker (cello), Janice Kyle (oboe) and Timothy Mount (piano) will perform. Suggested donation $10-20. Info: www.mcmcvt.org.

SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES FIFTH ANNUAL ORCHARD CELEBRATION IN SHOREHAM. Saturday, Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m., Champlain Orchards, 3597 Route 74 West, Shoreham. Sleigh/wagon rides by Hammond’s horses, hot cider and acoustic music — all free. There will also be soup, bread, mulled cider (hard or not) and a heating hut. Bring sleds, snowshoes, skis, instruments and warm clothes! Toasting of the trees begins at 4 p.m.

STORY TIME STORYTELLING IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Jan. 25, 4 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. Julia Doucet, outreach nurse for the Open Door Clinic, will share how migrant farmers were enabled to tell their story — a project that included the Vermont Folklife Center and artists who provided line drawings to convey each story.

AUTHOR READING IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Jan. 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Axinn Center, Abernathy Room, Middlebury College. J.M. Tyree will read from and discuss “Vanishing Streets: Journeys in London,” an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries of “the world’s most visited city.” Tyree is a nonfiction editor of New England Review.

JANUARY STORY HOUR IN MONKTON. Friday, Jan. 27, 10-11 a.m., Russell Memorial Library. The Russell Memorial Library in Monkton is hosting a story hour with a simple song, story and craft. All are welcome.

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This Month with the Better Middlebury Partnership The BMP had a very busy December, with a lot of Very Merry Middlebury events happening throughout the month. It was wonderful to see so many of you out shopping, dining and enjoying our town during the month.

A Very Merry Middlebury only happens because of the efforts of volunteers and the support from the community and we thank all of you for your help in making Middlebury a magical place for children (and adults!) during the holiday season. Special thanks to Adrienne Illick MacIntyre for spearheading all of the Very Merry Middlebury efforts over the past several years.

The BMP will be looking for someone to take over for Adrienne for next year — it’s a really rewarding way to be involved in our community and we’d love to hear from you if you are interested in learning more. This would also be a fun activity for a group of friends — the more helpers the better!

As we move into January, we’re deep into the planning of the 9th Annual Vermont Chili Festival. Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 11th, from 1:004:00pm. This year, we’re opening up an “amateur” category for anybody who wants to test their chili making skills. We’re recommending amateurs make at least 5 gallons of chili so you can keep up with the demand. If you are interested, please let us know by emailing vermontchilifest@gmail.com by mid-February.

We’re also still looking for professional vendors (1520 gallons) and are once again awarding cash prizes to the winners. Vendors are also allowed to enter as a team.

We know of several businesses looking for a partner, so if you’d like more information let us know as soon as possible! Vendors will be allowed to sell merchandise this year and we’re introducing a new judged category: the Anything But Chili category. We’re also offering a cash award for best booth again this year, so be creative, have fun and get spicy!

We’ll be pre-selling discounted buttons this year at several local businesses. We’ll publish the list of where you’ll be able to purchase buttons next month. If your business would like to sell them, please let us know and we’ll make arrangements.

We’re all looking forward to another great year in Middlebury, with a few fun new events (info coming soon!) and some collaborations with other organizations in town. If you have any ideas or feedback to pass along to us, please don’t hesitate to get in touch at any time: bmp@bettermiddleburypartnership.org Happy New Year!

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Meet the chef

Alganesh Michael Ethiopian Night in Bristol

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rganization and focus. Those are the key ingredients for Alganesh Michael — a South Burlington chef who specializes in her native Eritrean and Ethiopian food.

Forget carefully measured spices and ingredients, Michael said she “likes to mix things; I don’t like following directions.” She learned how to cook as a teenager from watching her mom and then trying it herself.

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with somewhere between 270300 people. Just two weeks ago, Michael and Tewelde served their latest meal at ArtsRiot; the next dinner there won’t be until April.

So how exactly do you prepare Ethiopian food for 300 people?

“You focus and you stay organized,” Michael said again and again. Oh, and some really big pots.

But the Bristol shin-dig is going to be a more intimate affair. Michael and her two teenage daughters, Lydia and Rachel Ambaye, will serve three sittings at Tandem, on Bristol’s Main Street this Saturday.

It’s actually the second dinner they’ve served at Tandem; the first was in early December — ­ it sold out. This Saturday’s meal “WHEN YOU SIT costs $20 per TOGETHER AND seat ($10 for kids) and reservations EAT, THAT’S WHEN are highly CONVERSATION recommended.

“One day it’s good and the next day is OK,” she said with a smile. “I can never depend on it. But maybe I’m highly critical.”

Yes. From one day to the next, COMES.” Michael’s food The menu (always

— Alganesh Michael is authentic and subject to the incredible. Taste chef’s desires) for yourself at her will include: next meal hosted Yemisir Alicha

by Tandem in Bristol on Saturday, (split orange lentil curry), Gomen Jan. 21. There will be three sittings: (collard greens and kale), Inguday 5, 6:30 and 8 p.m.

Wet (spicy mushrooms), Doro Wet (spicy chicken), Key Wat (marinated “Tandem is a production kitchen and beef), and, of course, Injera — a community space that celebrates handmade, fermented sour dough food and local food ventures,” said pancake that carries these five co-owner Lauren Gammon, who delicious dishes. runs her catering business there along side Jess Messer’s soda, jam The food is served on one platter and pickle company. for two, three or four people. The five dishes will all be served on one Michael and her friend and co-chef injera, with more rolled up on the Mulu Tewelde first started cooking side. Hint: For those who’ve never Ethiopian dinners at ArtsRiot in eaten food like this before, use the Burlington. They began in February injera to scoop up the food with 2014 through ArtsRiot’s Collective your hand and shovel it into your Kitchen — an idea that brought a mouth, ever so gracefully. rotation of various area chefs to the ArtsRiot kitchen to serve guests.

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YEMISIR ALICHA (CURRY SPLIT LENTILS)

By Alganesh Michael Makes 4-6 servings

this unique teffbased pancake.

Teff is a grain that CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8 takes several days of soaking before it’s ready to use, so Michael starts the fermentation process before anything else. She adds the other flours a day before she’s ready to make the injera. On production day, she’ll spend six to eight hours baking injera. “I cook one at a time on my special skillet,” said Michael.

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1/2 cup canola oil 1 medium onion, diced 2 large tomatoes, chopped, or 1 (14-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, chopped 2 cloves garlic, minced 1-inch piece fresh ginger root, peeled and minced 1 small fresh rosemary spring, or ½ teaspoon dried rosemary 1 cup lentils, rinsed thoroughly 1 or 2 jalapeño peppers, seeded and sliced lengthwise into strips 1 teaspoon curry powder Salt and pepper, to taste

Place oil and onion in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Cook, stirring, until the onion is translucent. Add the tomatoes and continue to cook for 5-10 minutes. Add garlic, ginger and rosemary; cook a few more minutes, then add 2 cups water.

Bring to a boil and stir in the rinsed lentils. Lower heat to medium and cook 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally, until lentils soften and mixture thickens ― add a little warm water, if needed, to prevent sticking.

Stir in the jalapeño and curry powder, and cook a few more minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Bon appetite!

So when this large, sour pancake comes piled full of colorful and fragrant foods, smile and thank Michael for her amazing skill and patience.

“We eat communally,” said Michael. “When you sit together and eat, that’s when conversation comes...I’ve met more people doing this in the past three years,” she said, than in anything else she’s done since coming to the United States close to 30 years ago.

By training, Michael is a nurse. She graduated from the University of Minnesota Mankato with a nursing degree in ‘98. Her husband (a physician) got a job at the University of Vermont Medical Center and they moved to South Burlington in 2003. It wasn’t more than a couple years before she met Tewelde and food became her focus.

Michael has cooked and taught cooking publicly and privately throughout the Champlain Valley. Coming up, she’s teaching an Ethiopian cooking class for adults at CVU in mid-February; she’s hoping to solidify plans for more regular Ethiopian dinners in the area.

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MUSIC Jazz pianist promises inventive concert

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elf-taught musician and composer Jean-Michel Pilc has been called “a dazzlingly inventive pianist” by the New York Times. In Pilc’s hands, the listener embarks on a journey, crafted with unexpected landscapes and powerful emotions.

His brilliant improvisations employ a wide spectrum of techniques and styles, from intimate lyricism to breathtaking virtuosity. His solo concert at the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Jan. 21 is part of the Middlebury College Performing Arts Series.

Born in 1960 in Paris, Pilc moved to New York City in 1995. There, he formed a trio with bass player François Moutin and drummer Ari Hoenig. They recorded a one-week engagement at the legendary jazz club Sweet Basil and, in 2000, released two CDs called Together–Live at Sweet Basil, NYC, volumes 1 and 2. Pilc then signed a record deal with Dreyfus Jazz. Since that time he’s recorded numerous albums.

Always a busy performer, Pilc has toured the world, including Japan, Taiwan, Europe, the U.S. and Canada. He has performed with numerous jazz giants, worked with Harry Belafonte, as his musical director and pianist, and has performed a duet with the legendary opera singer Jessye Norman. He continues to play solo, as well as with NYC-based groups such as Pilc-MoutinHoenig, Total Madness Quintet, and his trio with Or Bareket and Jerad Lippi.

Pilc has also built a strong international

Jean-Michel Pilc will perform at the Mahaney Center for the Arts in Middlebury on Saturday, Jan. 21.

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reputation as an educator. He has taught at NYU Steinhardt, the NYU Summer Jazz Improv Workshop, the New School, and since 2015, the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in Montreal.

He released a book, It’s About Music– The Art and Heart of Improvisation, the educational videos True Jazz Improvisation; Transcending the Instrument, two video masterclasses on improvisational fluency for MyMusicMasterclass.com, and the French-

language masterclass Anatomie d’un standard for iMusic School.

The concert by Pilc will take place on Saturday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m., in Robinson Hall at Mahaney Center for the Arts, located on the campus of Middlebury College. Tickets are $25 for the general public; $20 for Middlebury College ID card holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more info or tickets call (802) 4436433 or visit www.middlebury.edu/arts.

live music ROOT 7. Saturday, Jan. 21, 6-8 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

HELIAND CONSORT. Saturday, Jan. 21, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

10 STRINGS. Friday, Jan. 27, 7-9 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

ZEPHYR. Saturday, Jan. 28, Brandon Music.

THE MATT FLINNER TRIO. Saturday, Feb. 4, 7 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

TO ME, COUNTRY MUSIC TELLS A STORY ABOUT, AND DEALS WITH, THE WAY PEOPLE LIVE THEIR LIVES AND WHAT THEY DO. ―— Randy Travis

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EXHIBITS AMAZING GRACE: CELEBRATING 40 YEARS OF GRASS ROOTS ART AND COMMUNITY EFFORT. On exhibit through January 21, featuring more than 25 current and pasts artists supported by GRACE (Grass Roots Art and Community Effort). Vision & Voice Gallery located in the Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964.

ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

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Diana Damrau and Vittorio Grigolo are back as opera’s classic lovers in Gounod’s lush Shakespeare adaptation.

Pre-Show talk at 12:15pm in the Byers Studio courtesy of the Opera Company of Middlebury.

Final Dress Rehearsal: Thu 1/26 8pm

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ROBERT F. REIFF GALLERY OF ASIAN ART. Ongoing exhibit of East Asian ceramics. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

WORLD CHALLENGES. On exhibit Nov. 15-Jan. 14, featuring three local artists Sansea Sparling, Sarah Ashe and Chuck Herrmann and their viewpoints on climate change, the refugee/immigration crisis and the Syrian Civil War. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park St., Middlebury. 388-2117 or www.henrysheldonmuseum.org.

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QUAKER MADE: VERMONT FURNITURE, 1820-1835. On exhibit at the Rokeby Museum. Route 7, Ferrisburgh. 877-3406.

VERMONT: IDEALS & ORDEALS. On exhibit Jan. 13-Feb. 11, featuring photos by Denise Letendre Bach. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Friday, Jan. 13 from 5-7 p.m. Compass Music and Arts Center is located in Park Village at 333 Jones Drive, Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or www. cmacvt.org.

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THE SPIRIT OF THE SEASON: MY FAVORITE THINGS. On exhibit Nov. 4-Jan. 31, featuring a holiday themed show by the ensemble company of the Brandon Artists Guild. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956.

UNTOUCHED BY TIME: THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS FROM PERICLES TO PARR. On exhibit Jan. 10-April 23, featuring early archaeological publications, antiquarian paintings, drawings, and prints, as well as photographs, books, and more recent images that are all drawn from collections at Middlebury. Together they bear testimony to the fascination with the Acropolis that has prevailed from the Enlightenment to the present. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

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by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture. Cerf Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury.

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Discover Spain’s celebrated artist with this cinematic tour de force based on the National Gallery’s must-see exhibition Goya: The Portraits.

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THE VERMONT BURLESQUE VALENTINE’S DAY SHOWCASE

Treat your date to a very special Valentine’s Day showcase featuring The Vermont Burlesque Festival.

Starring world-famous burlesque performer Scarlett James (pictured), with the Green Mountain Cabaret Sugar Shakers, and acrobat Angelica Cardone.

7pm House opens with bar and live jazz by The Maple Street Six 8pm Showcase begins *Includes a bottle of sparkling wine for two and truffles from Middlebury Chocolates at your table.

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the movie JACKIE — RUNNING TIME: 2:18 — RATING: PG-13 For those of us who watched live TV for four days in 1963 following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the reality of those days is stamped permanently in our memories. It would be hard to exaggerate the impact of seeing history unfold as we watched it happen.

The release of Jackie more than half a century later stirs those memories again and fills in the blanks we didn’t see. The good news is that Natalie Portman has made a serious and successful effort to capture both the quiet and the fierce sides of Jackie Kennedy as she designed every detail of four days of tribute to her slain husband in the relentless glare of live television.

Natalie Portman in Jackie (2016).

When she learned that no one had any imagery of the funerals of the assassinated Presidents Garfield and McKinley, Jackie designed her husband’s ceremonies after those of Lincoln. Determined, she insisted on the long public march of the world’s assembled leaders as they followed the horse drawn casket down Constitution Avenue. That became an image etched in history.

Aside from Portman’s admirable effort to fill in detail without overdoing her performance, how does the film hold up? It suffers from trying to crowd four days into two hours without identifying the key characters in the Kennedy administration or the foreign leaders who came to the funeral. Younger generations need to know who these people are.

The major error is made by director Pablo Larrain when, without explanation, he shifts back and forth between Jackie’s pre-assassination TV tour of the White House and her preparations for the funeral. That tour had not been a public success when it happened and there is no conceivable reason for it to be in the movie. The result for new generations of viewers can only be confusion.

Peter Sarsgaard does a solid, restrained job of portraying Bobby Kennedy

who never left Jackie’s side until he went into a long personal seclusion after he had done all his duties. Greta Gerwig creates Nancy Tuckerman, Jackie’s smart, loyal friend who attended to the details of her friend’s life.

In a brief appearance as Jack Kennedy, Caspar Phillipson caught JFK’s expressions with uncanny accuracy. But we need their identities.

The main problem: the unnecessarily confusing intrusion of that White House tour. The main strength: Natalie Portman’s carefully considered portrayal. As Jackie Kennedy directed the details of the aftermath of the shooting, she was fully aware that she was creating the official historical record of the assassination. Five decades later, historians are grateful for that as they watch the TV record of everything she did to preserve the truth of those four days. This movie fills in some of the off–camera drama.

Spectator Abraham Zapruder alone never stopped his camera as the shots rang out. Seeing that moment again here, we wonder how Jacqueline Kennedy dealt with the immediate aftermath. Natalie Portman’s portrayal shows her strength and determination as she designed a funeral that history would remember.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book LILLIAN BOXFISH TAKES A WALK — BY KATHLEEN ROONEY (St. Martin’s Press)

If you’re in the mood for a smart, refreshingly elegant escape, Lillian Boxfish will satisfy. Lillian, a non-retired octogenarian, was once the toast of the 1930s advertising scene in New York City and the highest paid advertising woman in the country. Working her way to the top of this mainly maledominated field of copywriting at R.H. Macy’s ultimately defined her life, for better or worse. This night, New Year’s Eve, 1985, Lillian will, per usual, spend her evening alone, quietly. She’ll celebrate with a fine dinner at her favorite restaurant, where she regularly appears. And even though her son warns her daily, endlessly, about the increasing perils and how she should move out of the city she calls home, she decides to take a walk, as she is feeling slightly out of sorts. This walk is the heart of the book. Lillian takes the reader on a journey through her city, reminiscing as she goes about her own life and about all the ways New York has changed and has not, as the evening unfolds. It’s delightful. The story of Lillian Boxfish is inspired by the life and work of the poet and ad woman Margaret Fishback. She was wellknown, too, for her charming light verse.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

TOP TV SHOWS BASED ON BOOKS PREMIERING IN 2017 The Handmaid’s Tale,

by Margaret Atwood Anne of Green Gables,

by L. M. Montgomery American Gods,

by Neil Gaiman Big Little Lies,

by Liane Moriarty Sharp Objects,

by Gillian Flynn 13 Reasons Why,

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HOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT GIVE YOU THE BEST RETURN

hen granite countertops or shiny, stainless steel appliances beckon homeowners from the display areas of home improvement stores, it’s tempting to gear remodeling thoughts toward the items that will add flair and decorative appeal to a home. Even though most improvements add some measure of value, deciding which are the best investments can be difficult.

Return on investment (ROI) varies depending on the project. Real estate professionals routinely weigh in with their expert advice, and homeowners can couple that advice with Remodeling magazine’s annual “Cost vs. Value Index” to reap the greatest financial impact from their renovations.

The following were some of the projects that garnered the greatest ROI in 2015.

DOORS. Region by region across the United States, installation of a new steel door on the front of a home can have a large impact on the resale value of a property. The ROI ranges from 123 percent at the highest, to 86 percent at the lowest — which is still a considerable investment return for such a simple project.

Match the door’s style with the style of the house for the best value.

KITCHENS. An attractive kitchen can encourage buyers to overlook some of a home’s less attractive components.

In the kitchen, replacement countertops, wall color changes, new cabinetry and flooring offer the biggest ROI.

BEDROOMS. Remodeling magazine also points to creating an attic bedroom to increase home value. The ROI of an attic remodel that adheres to code can garner an 83 percent ROI.

HOME MAINTENANCE. There’s little good to improving the aesthetic appeal and functionality of a home if there are existing structural or maintenance

issues, warn experts. Siding replacement, HVAC system repair or replacement, a new roof, and basement dampness prevention solutions can be smarter investments before other flashy remodels. Many buyers have a strict budget for a house, and those buyers may be more likely to buy a house with little or no maintenance issues. Such buyers will then upgrade the kitchen or baths themselves, according to Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies.

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