Jan. 26, 2017

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PhotoPlace Gallery owner tells how he got involved in the world of photography. See Arts + Leisure.

An experienced musher will tell all about dogsledding in the Great White North. See Page 10A.

The D-II Tiger girls’ Nordic team waxed D-I CVU at Rikert Nordic Center. See Sports, Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 71 No. 4

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

Connor eyes new spot for business, as Rt. 7 property now for sale

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Connor Homes founder Mike Connor confirmed on Tuesday he is sizing up a new Middlebury location in which to rekindle the business after negotiations to reopen the enterprise at its longtime Route 7 plant failed.

This news is at least a temporary setback for the 63 laid-off employees who helped make Connor Homes’ specialty colonial reproduction “kit” homes.

Employees had been told of a potential return to work by the end of this month, but Mike Connor and current Connor Homes co-owner Samuel Pryor have been unable to forge a deal for the transfer of the Route 7 property or its assets.

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Vermonters raise their voices

Company officials told workers on Tuesday that the layoffs — which took effect Dec. 30 — are now permanent.

But Mike Connor said he’s hoping to change that narrative.

He confirmed on Wednesday he is in negotiations with the owner of a building in Middlebury’s industrial park off Exchange Street that could quickly accommodate the once thriving business.

“We’re very optimistic this is going to happen,” Connor said of the move to the industrial park, which is being facilitated by Jamie Gaucher, director of the Middlebury Office of Economic Development & Innovation.

(See Connor Homes, Page 11A)

Middlebury panel to study local economy Will propose business growth ideas

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury town officials had planned to ask voters at town meeting in March to help chart the community’s future economic development policy.

But after checking with lawyers and state officials, and discussing the issue amongst themselves on Tuesday, members of the Middlebury selectboard agreed to appoint a committee to recommend a new economic development course for the town come July 1.

This effectively means Middlebury will likely turn the page on its current business growth strategy —

through the Middlebury Business Development Fund (MBDF) — on, or soon after, June 30.

“I don’t feel comfortable giving something that has been going on for close to four years another full year of continuation, knowing we haven’t achieved our goals to date,” selectboard Chairman Brian Carpenter said of his desire to shake up the current strategy, which he said “needs to be tweaked” sooner, rather than later.

“My sense is our structure needs to be changed in the way we go about economic development, and it needs (See Middlebury, Page 11A)

Ferrisburgh’s budget won’t trigger tax hike

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh selectboard adopted a budget on Tuesday that if approved by residents on Town Meeting Day would barely move the town’s municipal tax rate, effectively cut the hours of the elected treasurer position from 35 to 20 per week, and allow the board to hire an extra parttime worker for the town office.

By the way Congratulations to Vergennes Union High School junior Mason Charlebois, who this week was named a finalist in U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ annual State of the Union essay contest. The contest gives Vermont high school students an opportunity each year to articulate the issues they would (See By the way, Page 7A)

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Board members also adopted a Town Meeting Day warning that will ask residents to make three other decisions: whether to buy a $190,000 truck, to change property tax payments to a quarterly schedule, and to create a $500 Conservation Fund.

Residents on March 7 will be asked to approve a $1,850,100 (See Ferrisburgh, Page 7A)

Bristol board backs plan with 1% rise in spending

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — Last year at town meeting, Bristol voters said yes to an almost 10 percent hike in overall spending — largely to cover bond payments for the new fire station and South Street Bridge.

On Monday, the Bristol selectboard chose to offer voters a 2017-2018 plan calling for a 1.06 percent spending increase to $2,506,949.

The proposed amount to be raised by taxes is $2,139,887, a 1.07 percent increase over the $2,117,215 approved for 2016-2017.

Town Administrator Therese Kirby said that town officials knew last year was exceptional.

“The selectboard and myself as taxpayers understand that last year was a large increase, and we were overwhelmed with the public support of the new fire facility and the support of the budget overall,” she said on Wednesday. “So this (See Bristol, Page 7A)

EAST MIDDLEBURY TEENAGER Greta Hardy-Mittell reads her poem “Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Cry” to thousands gathered at the Statehouse during Saturday’s March on Montpelier, which attracted people warning national political leaders to respect the rights of women, minorities and others.

Photo by Holly Stadtler

Local residents join Montpelier crowd Women, backers flood state capital to show solidarity

By EMMA COTTON MONTPELIER — Greta Hardy-Mittell, a junior at Middlebury Union High School, stood on the steps of the Vermont Statehouse last Saturday afternoon counting the speakers left until it was her turn.

Clutching a folded paper copy of a self-authored poem, the nerves she had quieted that morning began to resurface.

The sign-waving, pussyhat-wearing crowd before her — expected to be only a few thousand — was estimated at 15,000-20,000 by Vermont State Police, making it the largest

protest ever held in Vermont, according to organizers.

Hardy-Mittell was the 10th speaker at the Women’s March on Montpelier — an event organized in the wake of last November’s election, and in conjunction with the Women’s March in Washington, to ensure that the voices of women are heard during the era of President Trump.

The 15-yearold East Middlebury resident took the stage after Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman, after leaders of nonprofits like Planned Parenthood, after the

sainted Sen. Bernie Sanders, and roused a laugh from the crowd by comparing the marchers to “Dumbledore’s Army” from the Harry Potter series. Then she delivered the first line of her poem with gusto.

“Don’t tell me I can’t cry because I care,” she read.

Her poem addressed a student in her class who, the day after the election, had said crying about the results was “ridiculous.”

“Don’t tell me I can’t cry, because America has told the world — has told our children

— that the hard-working, brilliant, courageous woman can be beaten by the lazy class bully who doesn’t know how to keep his hands to himself.”

Her words echoed off the Statehouse and from speakers smattered across the epic crowd, which included many Addison County residents who didn’t or couldn’t go to the huge march in D.C. The poem earned much applause — and some laughter when HardyMittell closed with a smile, saying, “Do not tell me that I can’t cry, because I will anyway.” After a graceful exit, her mom, standing on the side of the stage, swallowed her in a bear hug.

“It was so incredible to see so many people who were coming out to support the same causes (See Montpelier, Page 12A)

County folks take stand in Washington, D.C.

By JOHN S. McCRIGHT WASHINGTON, D.C. — “I just kept crying,” East Middlebury resident Joanna Colwell said recounting her experience at the Women’s March on Washington this past Saturday. “I’ve never been in a crowd that big, and I’ve been in some big crowds.”

Big was a word used by many of the Addison County residents who went to the huge rally on the National Mall the day after President Trump’s inauguration.

But it wasn’t just describing the number of people in the crowd — which was estimated at between 500,000 and 680,000 — it also referred to the diversity of people in attendance, the size of the steps they realized they need to make to achieve their goals and the bighearted feeling they all shared that day.

“People were so kind, I didn’t hear a cross word the entire day,” said Theresa Gleason of Bridport.

Gleason was among the small group that helped coordinate two busloads of Addison County (See Washington, Page 12A)

MORE THAN 100 Addison County residents were among the half-million people at the Women’s March on Washington this past Saturday. This scene captured by a Middlebury photographer on Pennsylvania Avenue shows the march still going strong at 4 p.m.

Photo by Arianna Slavin

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Program gives teens a platform on addiction

‘HELP’ to be offered at three high schools

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Actor Jeremy Holm was driving from a gig in Stowe to his Vergennes home last September when his radio popped with some news he couldn’t ignore.

It was a story about the police chief in East Liverpool, Ohio, who had posted a photo on Facebook depicting two adult heroin addicts passed out in front seats of their vehicle, with their 4-year-old boy asleep in the backseat.

“The chief put that picture up because he needed help,” Holm recalled. “He said, ‘You can’t arrest yourself out of this problem.’”

It’s a message that individual police chiefs in Addison County have reiterated as the local court docket becomes increasingly flooded with drug-related cases.

Holm — whose acting resumé includes roles in the Robert Downey Jr. film “The Judge” and on the much-acclaimed Netflix television series “House of Cards” — decided he wanted to lend his time, skills and passion to reversing the disturbing trend of drug addiction, particularly among youth.

So he called the United Way of Addison County to partner on a program that would specifically speak to high school-age students about the dangers of heroin.

He found a willing partner in Jesse Brooks, the United Way’s regional prevention coordinator for Addison County. Together, they will launch a program next month called “Heroin Epidemic Learning Program (HELP)” at Middlebury, Vergennes and Mount Abraham JEREMY HOLM AND Jesse Brooks are collaborating with the United Way of Addison County on a heroin union high schools aimed at raisprevention education program to be offered at three local high schools. Participating students will create ing awareness among teens. public service announcements for the chance to win a $1,000 cash prize.

It’s a completely voluntary, Independent photo/Trent Campbell eight-week program that will include guest speakers from the med- ative license in devising their re- and federal authorities don’t con- come up with some fascinating sider heroin to be a “gateway” takes on how to get the word out ical, recovery and law enforcement spective PSAs. “You can say what you like, as drug, according to Brooks. about this problem.” communities — as well as some “Basically, if you can keep kids It’s a problem that Holm and his folks who have had direct expo- long as it is FCC-approved, legal and safe,” Holm said. away from marijuana and binge spouse have seen in the acting comsure to the physical The HELP course drinking and prescription drug munity. Holm is married to fellow and emotional ravaginvolves a commit- abuse, they generally believe you actor Dawn Wagner; together they es of heroin addiction. “Basically, if ment of only one hour can avoid the heroin have two children, Confirmed speakers you can keep ages of 4 and 6. The as of Monday includ- kids away from per week for the stu- issue,” Brooks ex“I want to dents. Mount Abe and plained. family had a friendship ed Vergennes Police VUHS will allow their This means HELP be talking with fellow actor PhilChief George Merkel marijuana and participants to substi- will need some fi- to the kids, ip Seymour Hoffman, and Vergennes physi- binge drinking who ultimately lost his cian Dr. Tim Bicknell. and prescription tute HELP for another nancial help from docourse in their sched- nors, and some have encouraging battle with addiction But participating drug abuse, ule. At MUHS, the already stepped for- them. Their in in 2014. Detectives students won’t just be program will be wo- ward, Brooks said. creativity is not searching his apartlistening to speakers; they generally ment found heroin and they will be called to believe you can ven within the Digital Organizers are confi- yet bound up Storytelling Class. dent they’ll raise the prescription medicaaction. avoid the heroin Brooks has been program prize money, … They aren’t tions at the scene.

They’ll be asked to impressed with the which is the only sub- cynical yet.”

“He was a beautiful break into teams to issue.”

— Jesse Brooks amount of students stantial expense of the produce public ser— Jeremy Holm man, he was a great who have already been offering; the speakers father and the most vice announcements and Holm are all volbrilliant actor of his to raise awareness about addic- asking for HELP. A recent unveiling of the pro- unteering their time. generation without a doubt, and tion. The winning PSA will earn Brooks and Holm plan to be pres- (drugs) still got him,” Holm ruefula $1,000 cash prize to be shared gram — without confirmation of ly recalled. among the team. There will also be the cash prizes — drew 18 sign- ent for all of the HELP sessions. ups at Mount Abe and 10 at VUHS, “I want to be talking to the kids, HELP kicks off on Feb. 6. Anytwo, $500 runner-up prizes.

“You’re giving students educa- according to Brooks. The HELP encouraging them,” Holm said. one with questions about the protion on heroin, and they are getting program can accommodate up to “Their creativity is not yet bound gram should call Brooks at 388it first-hand from different rep- 25 students per high school, and up … They aren’t cynical yet. So 7189. their point of view is the resource.

Organizers hope HELP will beresentatives,” Brooks said. “But there’s still time to register.

Organizers are running HELP They are going to have fresh eyes come an annual offering. they are also getting the other side “This is really a test this year, a of this, which is some real hands- on a shoestring budget, as Brooks and think of things that we haven’t on experience with video. The cre- found that heroin-related program- thought of, visually. They are from test I’m confident will have a very ative piece of this is really enticing ming cannot qualify for available a generation that is more used to big impact,” Holm said.

Regional Prevention Partnership image than our generation. I am Reporter John Flowers is at to them.”

Students will be given great cre- Grant money. That’s because state really confident they are going to johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Scott touts need for level-funded budget

Proposes cuts; avoids fee, tax hikes

By ANNE GALLOWAY tion campaign.

VTDigger.org The Vermont-NEA, the state’s MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott largest teachers’ union, said the govmade good on his promise to level ernor’s proposals will harm public fund the state’s budget and education schools forcing them to lay off hunspending in his first budget address dreds of educators, cut the pay of to lawmakers on Tuesday. those who stay and close schools.

The governor has not proposed Martha Allen, president of the VTany additional fees or taxes.

NEA, said, “By freezing property tax The Scott administration elimi- rates, capping school budgets, firing nates a $75 million General Fund hundreds of educators and seeking budget gap in part by moving the $15 million in pay cuts from educa$35 million annual teachers’ retire- tors, the governor will not achieve ment obligation to the what we want: a topEducation Fund. notch education for The remaining $40 “The timeframe our children.” million General Fund to achieve (Gov. School boards will shortfall is made up by also be required to Scott’s) education negotiate a 20 percent cuts in human services expenditures and sav- recommendations health care premium ings from the Medic- is unrealistic cost share with teachaid program. ers. Young says this for communities In a press brief- to achieve and change will save the ing held an hour be- therefore leaves state $15 million anfore Scott gave his nually. much-anticipated bud- approximately a Rep. Diane Lanpher, get address, his admin- $35 million hole D-Vergennes, said she istration laid out a plan in the presented was pleased to hear for extensive educa- budget.”

Scott’s recommendation financing reforms — Rep. Diane tions for support of that will shift millions Lanpher housing and higher of dollars from the education and fighting K-12 education systhe opiate abuse crisis. tem to pre-K and higher education But the House Appropriations Comprograms. mittee member was not happy about The plan mandates level funding the tack Scott took on education at the local level and requires all funding. school districts to vote on budgets “I was more than surprised to hear on the same day — Tuesday, May a grand reform plan for education, 23. Typically, school districts vote given historic education reform (Act on budgets as part of Town Meeting 46) was recently enacted and is curDay, the first Tuesday in March. rently working through communiSusanne Young, the secretary of ties,” Lanpher told the Independent. the Agency of Administration, said “It appears the governor is balancthe new date for school budget votes ing his recommended spending by will give school boards time to find shifting costs to the Education Fund, ways to keep budget growth at zero. which will be ultimately paid by Districts that are struggling to make property tax payers. He addresses cuts in fiscal year 2018 can put a this by capping spending and there5 percent assessment on the local fore eliminating local school budget grand list to cover costs, she said, control. The timeframe to achieve effectively putting the burden of in- these education recommendations creases on local taxpayers. is unrealistic for communities to In 2019, district budgets will be achieve and therefore leaves approxtied to student population growth imately a $35 million hole in the prerates. Schools that are seeing a de- sented budget.” cline in enrollments would be reIn his address, Scott said the new quired to reduce budgets according- mandate will “establish parity” bely. tween teachers and their counterThe Scott administration did not parts in state government and the analyze the impact of the level fund- private sector. ing mandate on local schools, Young “I’m not asking school districts for said, and would not be prescriptive anything more than what I’ve asked about how school boards find sav- from state government,” Scott said. ings.

“We will be tightening our belts in When asked how small schools Montpelier and rethinking every might be affected, Young said some program and service at every level.” “very well may close.”

Young said the changes will keep The objective, Young said, is to property taxes from going up in fislower property tax rates, which have cal year 2018 and “put a pause on continued to climb even though the budgets.” student population has declined by Almost every school board is barnearly 28,000 students since 1997. gaining changes in health care conThe state currently spends $1.6 tracts because the Vermont Health billion on K-12 education. Lower- Care Initiative is sunsetting old plans ing property tax rates was a promise and offering new ones with lower Scott made to voters during his elec(See Scott, Page 6A)

Middlebury residents get jolt from new water bills

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Town Treasurer Jackie Sullivan’s phone has been ringing off the hook these days — and it hasn’t been the result of residents weighing in on their property tax bills.

No, the veritable tidal wave of phone calls is coming from municipal water system customers who have noted a substantial spike in

their bills. There are a few reasons for the increase, but here’s the leading culprit: The first increase in water and sewer rates the town has enacted in around seven years.

A portion of the increase raises $256,650 to pay for new water meter reading equipment that is being installed at roughly 1,750 connections throughout town, noted Middlebury (See Water rates, Page 3A)

Creek Road study almost done Report to address flooding issues

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury town officials will soon receive a report detailing their options for protecting Creek Road from perennial flooding from the adjacent Otter Creek — flooding that has resulted in the road being gated to through traffic for almost two years.

The most problematic (graveled) stretch of Creek Road extends roughly 1,500 feet from the Bingham Farm (which is south of the school playing fields and transportation facility) to the site of the former Three Mile Bridge (which is 2 miles northwest of Route 7 at the end of Three Mile Bridge Road), according to Middlebury Director of Operations Dan Werner.

A letter dated Nov. 29 from 11 Creek Road residents asks the selectboard to take steps to reopen the road.

Resident Dean Rheaume, who spearheaded the letter, has questioned the need for the road to be closed and has argued the town missed an opportunity to repair the worst areas of erosion last fall.

Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay replied to Creek Road residents with a Dec. 2 letter stating “the town is working in good faith and with reasonable dispatch to determine the extent of erosion … (and) develop a series of options for the road, and identify potential funding sources for those options. Physical construction cannot begin until a feasible longterm solution has been fulfilled.”

Town officials made the decision to close Creek Road during the spring of 2015, citing “significant road erosion” along the banks of the Otter Creek. Town road Foreman Dale Hazzard estimated at the time that it could cost around $1.2 million to permanently stabilize the banks in the affected areas.

The town’s infrastructure committee met with neighbors in June of 2015 and decided to install a gate on the road near the Perrin property. Officials agreed to limit through travel to local farmers needing to tend to their crops. In the meantime, officials contacted the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and Army Corps of Engineers for advice.

That summer, the town received funding through the Addison County Regional Planning Commission to complete an assessment of the erosion issues plaguing Creek Road. The commission hired Pathways Consulting LLC to complete that study.

Pathways delivered an initial report to the town last September. But

Tri-Town passes state muster

Officials: Water quality good, crisis mostly well handled

MIDDLEBURY TOWN OFFICIALS are anxiously awaiting the results of a study of Creek Road, which is closed to through traffic. The road suffers from perennial flood damage and closures.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

local officials wanted more information and specific recommendations for addressing the problems plaguing the road. So Pathways was hired to complete a “Phase II” study that is due next month, according to Werner.

That study, according to Pathways officials, will include “a clear and comprehensive analysis and recommendations on the available alternatives that will assist the project team more effectively with determining the next steps for the project.”

Specifically, the study will include a review of up to three new design alternatives aimed at fixing the Creek Road flooding problems. Pathways officials have promised to include permitting requirements, designs and identify potential funding sources for all three options.

Officials acknowledge one of the town’s options might involve permanently discontinuing through traffic on Creek Road (except for emergency vehicles), and relegating it to a

multi-use path.

“It could be a very expensive project, or much less so, depending on the (repair) path that is chosen,” Werner said.

Selectwoman Susan Shashok, chairwoman of the Infrastructure Committee, agreed.

“We are hoping they will come up with answers that will help the Infrastructure Committee and the selectboard think about what we can do that’s not going to cost an enormous amount of money, yet keep that connectivity that we want,” Shashok said. “It’s a tough one.”

The unclosed portion of Creek Road has already received some significant attention during the past year.

Crews last fall completed a $752,000 project to fix and pave 2,200 feet of Creek Road north of the closed section and install a new sidewalk on the west side of the street, which among other things serves Middlebury’s new recreation facility.

the balance of the quarter for these users. So an off-target estimate — coupled with the aforementioned rate increases — have produced a shock for folks who haven’t bee playing close attention to the latest water news, officials said.

Werner noted the town will need solid water revenues in the come years to help pay for some major capital projects.

“We need to reinvest in the water system,” he said.

He cited three specific water system projects that will need to be initiated during the next three or four years: • Replacement of a section of wa-

ter main along Route 7 South, for an estimated cost of $1 million.

• Replacement of aging water line in the town’s industrial park off Exchange Street, at a cost of around $1 million.

• Upgrades to water main within the Gorham Lane neighborhood, estimated at around $600,000.

Middlebury officials will apply for state and federal planning grants and loans to map out these and other projects. Water fund proceeds will help a bit. But ultimately, the majority of the construction expenses will have to be bonded, according to Werner and Middlebury Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay.

Water rates (Continued from Page 2A) Director of Operations Dan Werner.

As reported in the Independent on Jan. 19, the new equipment involves a “cellular endpoint” device that fits on top of each 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 workers at a central location. It will also eventually allow customers to better monitor their own water use, through an app.

Municipal water users currently pay a base rate of $30 per quarter, for up to 3,000 gallons. Those patched into the municipal sewer system pay a base rate of $36 per quarter. The selectboard in May agreed to fund the water meter upgrades through an increase of $3.56 in the base water rate and a hike of $3.60 in the sewer base rate. This put the total, quarterly base rates for water and sewer service at $33.56 and $39.60, respectively.

Then, in July, the board approved some additional water rate increases to generate an additional $32,471 in revenues for the current fiscal year — 2017 — water department operating budget. Specifically, the board OK’d a $1.96 bump in the base water rate (bringing it up to a total of $35.52), as well as a 6-cent hike in the water “usage rate.” With the 6-cent increase, customers will now pay $3.04 for every 1,000 gallons of water they use beyond 3,000-gallon base rate during any given quarter.

The water rate hikes translate into an increase in an average family bill of $9.59 per quarter. Expressed another way, the quarterly water bill for a home using the average of 10,800 gallons will increase from $149.92, to $159.51, according to town officials. The increase took effect during the fourth quarter of 2016.

The “sticker shock” was more acute for some customers who failed to promptly return post cards to the town bearing their meter readings at the time their new water meter equipment was installed. The town was forced to forecast water use for

Addison Independent, Thursday, January 26, 2017 — PAGE 3A

By ANDY KIRKALDY rine residual concentrations within ADDISON — A Jan. 10 let- acceptable limits.” ter from the Vermont Department According to waterandhealth. of Environmental Conservation’s org, the amount of chlorine residuDrinking Water and Groundwater al in a water system “constitutes an Protection Division gave the Tri- important safeguard against the risk Town Water District good marks of subsequent microbial contaminafor water quality and its response to tion after treatment … By monitora mid-December crisis. ing the chlorine residual throughout The letter — written by divi- a drinking water distribution syssion System Operations Specialist tem, water treatment operators can Heather Collins, one of the state quickly identify points at which the experts who came to inspect Tri- residual declines or disappears. A Town’s Addison plant and conduct sudden decline in the chlorine rewater tests in Adsidual could indicate dison, Bridport and a leak in the drinking Shoreham — noted “We’ve probably water distribution systhe challenges Tri- got the cleanest tem.”

Town faced between water any place Pratt said Tri-Town Dec. 15 and 19 that in the state of water users should be led to a Dec. 19 order confident in opening to boil drinking and Vermont right their taps. now. We’ve cooking water.

“We’ve probably “The Division rec- been through so got the cleanest water ognizes that the water many tests.” any place in the state main break and sub— Tri-Town Water of Vermont right now. sequent power failure District’s We’ve been through so events were major Darwin Pratt many tests,” Pratt said. emergencies for the “So nobody should be Water System. The worried.” work of the operators in restoring State officials also checked out service to the system does not go the current status of Tri-Town’s Adunnoticed,” Collins wrote. dison plant and its operation during She also noted, “The system met the December crisis. all compliance parameters pertainAccording to the letter, “The ing to finished water turbidity and electrical fire that occurred at the chlorine disinfection contact time Tri Town Water Plant occurred during the distribution system wa- mid-morning Saturday Dec. 17, ter shortages, water treatment plant 2016. The damage at the plant was outage, and the subsequent days limited to the generator switching that the plant was back in active gear electrical control panel and service.” did not spread to any other sections Between Dec. 15 and 19 Tri- of or controls associated with the Town suffered two water-main plant. This electrical fire did not rebreaks, a car crash that knocked out sult in excursions where unfiltered power to the district plant on Tri- water or undisinfected water was Town Road in Addison, the failure provided to the system’s users.” of the plant’s backup power system Pratt was pleased with the feedafter an electrical fire there, and a back. fire at an Orwell orchard that forced “They were very impressed with firefighters to drain a few thousand how we run the plant. They were gallons from Tri-Town’s main wa- very impressed with our numbers,” ter tank in Shoreham at the same he said. time as the first water leak.

Full repairs of the electrical sysAs a result of all these factors, tem will be done soon, and Pratt about 1,600 Tri-Town customers said the system will be inspected were at least temporarily without during the process. State officials water, some customers got discol- are recommending that after the ored water because groundwater backup generator failed during the and probably some wet soil entered fire that it be tested monthly.

Tri-Town’s depressurized pipes, The letter also made formal that and — because of the likelihood of Tri-Town and Vergennes-Panton contamination from that infiltration district operators should have noti— the Drinking Water & Ground- fied division officials of the emerwater Protection Division asked gency, and specifically that they Tri-Town to issue the boil order. activated a line between the two disThat order was lifted on Dec. tricts that allowed Vergennes-Pan23 after Tri-Town’s water passed ton water to be pumped to Tri-Town tests. In early January it once again customers. The letter noted pager passed tests — specifically for numbers would be made available “chlorine disinfection residual con- to the districts for future after-hour centration” — at six key locations crises such as December’s. around the system.

Pratt said state officials under“Everything passed. They came stood the issues on the ground. down here and went through every“I explained to them it was 5:30 thing, and it was great,” said Tri- on a Friday night, and I had no idea Town Water District Board Chair- who to call,” Pratt said. “I got hold man Darwin Pratt. of them first thing Monday mornAccording to Collins’ letter, test- ing. They knew, and they were OK ing “verified the chlorine disinfec- with it. They said given the circumtion residual concentration at these stances and the timing and everysix locations contained free chlo- thing we did what we had to do.”

NOTIFYING WATER USERS The final issue, one not unique to Tri-Town, is that of notification of water users during emergencies.

Collins’ letter states, “The Water System reported that getting public notice to reach all consumers was the most challenging aspect of the events. On or before July 1, 2017, the Division requests the Water System revise its emergency response plan, update emergency contact numbers, and incorporate the use of VT-Alert.”

According to vtrural.org, Vermont Alert is a free service hosted and maintained by the Vermont Division of Emergency Management and Homeland Security. It “allows the public to sign up for and receive notifications through a number of delivery systems such as text, e-mail, telephone, or game console.

Users will create accounts, chose their local area, select what types of alerts they wish to receive, and identify which delivery system they wish to use to receive those notifications.”

Tri-Town has already begun collecting email addresses and phone numbers from its water users, a process Pratt said is going well. He was also set this week to meet with TriTown’s phone provider in hopes of getting its answering machines upgraded to allow officials to change outgoing messages remotely so that customers may call at any hour and get updated information during an emergency.

In an interview earlier this month, Drinking Water & Groundwater Protection Division Deputy Director Ellen Parr Doering said the division was evaluating operating permits for all the state’s water systems to address the notification issue.

Pratt said he has learned other districts do not have communication plans for the kind of unusual and unfortunate events that struck Tri-Town, after which the district contacted media outlets and used the Shoreham town email list.

“I’ve checked out other water departments. Nobody else has anything in place any more than we do,” he said. “To let everybody know is impossible. Not everybody listens to the news. A lot of people don’t have computers. You can get to as many people as you can, but I don’t think anyone can say you will hit everybody.”

There is one message Pratt wants to get out now that things at TriTown have settled down.

“I want to thank all our customers for putting up with all the inconvenience. And all of our guys worked around the clock for two days to get things up and going again. They just had so many things go wrong at the same time. We had our hands full,” Pratt said. “I want to thank our customers for their patience, and also I want to personally thank all our personnel for all the hours and hard work they put in.”

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

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Gov. Scott’s budget has bold ideas, but also reckless ones Give Gov. Phil Scott credit for utilizing the element of surprise. In his budget address this Tuesday, he rocked Montpelier’s world by suggesting that public schools, K-12, freeze their budgets at current spending levels; force teachers to pay more for their health care plans (from roughly 15 to 20 percent); and, starting next year, to reduce or increase school spending based on student population. Furthermore, because Scott wants the changes made now for the 2018 budgets, he proposes scrapping Town Meeting votes on school budgets this year to be rescheduled on May 23 to allow school boards the extra time to redraft their budgets.

That is, as Scott admitted, bold thinking.

Surprisingly bold. Even encouraging, in that it signals that Scott — who provided few specific ideas to flush out his vague campaign rhetoric — will be a governor unafraid to tackle the state’s big issues in innovative ways. But Scott’s boldness also either showed a hint of recklessness with unintended consequences all too apparent, or a calculated political move meant to put Democrats on the defensive.

Here’s why Scott’s K-12 education proposals border on being reckless: • Freezing school budgets this late in the budget process (school boards and administrations have been refining their budgets since the fall and have them ready for Town Meeting votes on March 7) is not only dismissive of the work already done, but would force through hurried changes for the sole purpose of cutting funds, not seeking ways to better student outcomes. What the governor is seeking, critics say, would require dismissing hundreds of teachers statewide, slashing programs and would likely lead to closing small schools in a few short years. That’s not creating a school system that will be the best in the nation and attract families to move here, as Scott suggests he wants. And, as was rightly said by Geo Honigford, president of the Vermont School Boards Association, if Scott had wanted school boards to level fund budgets, he should have had the guts to campaign on that issue this past summer and fall.

• For school districts not able to level-fund their budgets without undue cuts, Scott said he would allow a one-time 5 percent assessment on the local Grand List to cover costs — a move that puts that burden fully on the local property tax with no state aid. That would be a serious increase in property taxes; again, exactly the opposite of what Scott says he is trying to achieve.

• By proposing to move higher education funding, retired teachers’ health care and normal liability for teachers’ retirement out of the state’s General Fund and into the Education Fund, there is a high potential to put a greater burden on property taxes. Scott also proposed shifting early childcare and Pre-K funding to the Education Fund in the near future. Though he would shift $86 million in General Fund spending to the Education Fund in this proposed budget, that’s a number that could shift year-to-year and leave property taxpayers holding the bag.

• If Scott doesn’t get his way with this budget (and it is unlikely that he will), there is no Plan B and he is left with a $35 million hole in his proposed budget. He will likely blame the Democrats for that shortfall, but the fault lies in basing a budget on a surprise proposal that he and his team knew would be problematic.

• Finally, starting in Fiscal Year 2019, district budgets would be tied more closely to pupil growth rates. Schools seeing a decline in enrollments will be required to reduce budgets accordingly — another state mandate that is fraught with unintended consequences. First, it would likely force many smaller schools to close their doors in the near future; second, sudden drops in a school’s enrollment one year (say a business of 65-100 employees closes suddenly, but then recoups several months or a year later) could force teacher and program cuts that are not easily replaced — all while diminishing the quality of the school, and the community in which the school is based. Even the slow but steady decline is problematic. Such policies create downward spirals in towns of stagnant or declining populations, while boosting communities with population gains. In Vermont, that’s a policy that largely favors Chittenden County, and one or two other population centers. Does Scott really think it’s good state policy to push more Vermonters to our few high growth areas, while decimating the more rural parts of the state? ************ While those concerns present significant obstacles, we applaud Scott’s priority in allocating $9.6 million to early child care and education, and another $6 million for higher education ($4 million for the Vermont State Colleges, $1 million each to the University of Vermont and Vermont Student Assistance Corporation.) These two priorities are essential and Gov. Scott is right to challenge the Legislature to find adequate funding within a K-12 system that has seen declining enrollment for the past two decades.

Also noteworthy is his plan to create an Agency of Economic Opportunity, by merging the Agency of Commerce and Community Development with the Department of Labor; his continued funding to fight opiate addiction; extra money for economic development marketing and other measures to promote business growth, and his proposal to establish a $35 million housing bond to spur affordable housing projects.

But the main thrust of his speech — a substantial reform of the state’s K-12 school system — was soured by Scott’s ambush of the Legislature and public school system. It is simply too substantial a change to spring on the Legislature with such short notice.

The right course of action was for Gov. Scott to leave the 2018 budgets untouched, and ask school boards to level fund their budgets for Fiscal Year 2019 — giving all parties ample time to debate the proposal and make appropriate adjustments. That he chose not to discuss such a radical plan during his campaign, nor involve school boards, school administrators or teachers in the conversation, shows a lack of commitment to a fully informed discussion and a penchant to listen to only part of the Vermont electorate.

It’s a bold plan with merit, to be sure, but unfortunately done in a way that leaves all parties feeling deceived and without a good way to move forward.

Angelo Lynn

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Women’s march was uplifting On Saturday, Jan. 21, I drove with 3 other women to Montpelier for the Women’s March. On our way traveling south on I-89, we noticed the traffic slowing down to a crawl. We were very lucky and had the chance to get off at the Middlesex exit and onto Route 2. We made it to Montpelier. Luckily we found a parking spot and walked to Montpelier High School to join the thousands bound for the State House.

Here are some of the lessons and messages that I read on posters. I share them with you in poetic form: Human Kind, Be Both Still, we rise.

Toddlers for Tolerance Love & Respect Never normalize hate.

Love is love is love is love . . .

Hope, not Carnage Rise up, women, for the fight is hard and long; Rise up in thousands, singing loud a battle song.

Right is might & in strength we shall be strong And the cause goes marching on. Theodora Mills I will choose love.

Refugees are welcome.

Black lives matter.

Beloved Community March against hate.

A woman’s place is wherever she wants to be.

Frosty grass

TALL GRASSES AT the edge of Bristol Pond sit in frozen water last Thursday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

This is what democracy looks like

On Inauguration night at around 10:15 p.m. two charter buses, carrying more than 100 people — including my two teenage daughters and me — departed Middlebury headed for the Women’s March on Washington. The seats were narrow, the legroom minimal, and we were asked not to use the bathroom except in an emergency.

Not perfect, but those inconveniences were a small price to pay for the opportunity to speak our minds in the nation’s capital. Riders passed around snacks donated by Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op. Pink Pussy hats were shared and compared.

It was evident from the first rest stop three hours later on the Interstate in New York that we were taking part in something extraordinary. The place was overloaded with women (and men) sporting pink pussy hats, paBy Sarah tiently waiting for the rest room. Buses Pope pulled in, buses pulled out and many more buses like ours drove by on the Interstate. People could be heard saying, “I’ve never seen anything like this,” or, “This feels unlike anything I’ve ever experienced.” By the second stop the energy and excitement were palpable, the number of buses multiplied, the buzz of voices filled the air. When we finally pulled into D.C., we were met at the RFK Stadium parking lot by lines and lines of buses, with more lined up on the highway waiting to park.

In line for the portable restrooms, we watched a continuous stream of people, rank upon rank, throng from the parking lot — and still more buses lined up waiting to park. There were young families, teenagers, women and men in wheelchairs or sporting walkers. People from Florida, Ohio, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, whole families, mothers and daughters like us — and so many pink hats. While some flooded to the Metro station to get

to the rally site, many, like our group, opted to walk.

The folks in Washington were ready for us. As we walked through the residential neighborhood leading to Capitol Hill, people waved out of windows, came out and clapped for us, thanked us, cheered us on as we cheered them. Someone had gone to a great effort to post hundreds of signs with Martin Luther King Jr. quotes. A pair of small boys still in their pajamas waved at us through one window, a woman at another home waved her walker in the air and the crowd roared. Young families lined up to watch us pass. Three little girls in particular caught marchers’ eyes — one, perhaps three years old, held a sign saying “I Can Be President” and jumped with excitement.

As we walked onto the National Mall it was clear we were not going to get anywhere near the speakers’ stage. It would take us an hour to make our way across the Mall.

Amidst chanting, drumming, laughter and rolling waves of cheering, we flowed where the crowd took us. While news reports said the crowd was “mostly white women,” we experienced quite the opposite. Everywhere were people of every extraction imaginable — black, Latino, South Asian, East Asian, Native Americans, gay, trans, straight.

The crowd cheered for a contingent of people from Hawaii, a large group of women from Canada (wearing red pussy hats to distinguish themselves) and for the National Guardsmen atop their Humvee who graciously accepted cell phones and cameras to snap photos from their elevated position. If someone tripped, others immediately went to their aid, checking that they were all right. People posed with their signs and placards for (See Clippings, Page 5A)

Clippings

New leader is off to a dubious start

Donald Trump’s presidency began last Friday with a dark and foreboding inaugural address. The President portrayed America as a dystopia (“carnage”) and laid out a mix of populist, nationalist and protectionist responses. Unlike almost all of his predecessors, Trump said nothing in his inaugural address about history, the Constitution, freedom, equality, justice or liberty.

This tone continued the following day, when Trump went to CIA headquarters. After brief remarks about the importance of the intelligence community and his respect for it, Trump veered off into a lengthy riff about his “enemies” in the media, the “great” crowds at his inauguration, and his campaign record as a “winner.”

Saturday ended with Trump’s press secretary, Sean Spicer, claiming there were far more people at the inauguration than were actually present (“alternative facts,” as Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway put it), berating the press By Eric L. Davis for biased and inaccurate coverage, and then refusing to take questions.

On Monday, Trump behaved much more conventionally. He met with business executives and labor leaders, signed executive orders about trade negotiations, received the president’s daily intelligence briefing, had a working lunch with Vice President Pence, and conferred with congressional leaders, while Spicer held a normal briefing with the White House press.

The contrast between the Trump of the weekend and the Trump of Monday is certain to recur throughout his presidency. The contrast, if not conflict, between more-or-less mainstream Republicans and populist outsiders is built into

Politically Thinking

the structure of Trump’s administration.

Within the White House, Pence, Chief of Staff Reince Preibus, and Spicer represent traditional Republicans, who made their careers in state party politics, the Congressional Republican Party, or both. Other White House advisers, such as Steve Bannon and Conway, came from Trump’s campaign, and are much more oriented toward an outsider, populist and sometimes nihilist perspective. Bannon has actually called himself a “Leninist,” saying that Lenin “wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal too.”

There is another very important White House adviser, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. His appointment represents a throwback to pre-modern monarchies in which kings would surround themselves with loyal family members.

In foreign policymaking, Trump’s White House national security adviser, Michael Flynn, believes international affairs are marked by a “clash of civilizations,” that Russia, a “civilized” Christian nation, should join the U.S. in a global war against “radical Islam,” and that the structure of military and economic alliances that has developed over the past 70 years does not take into account states’ legitimate pursuit of their own self-interest.

Other foreign policy and national security officials, particularly Defense Secretary James Mattis and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, believe in the importance of the alliance system, working cooperatively with allies, and being skeptical about Russian intentions, especially in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

(See Davis, Page 5A)

My great-grandmother was a suffragette.

I am a feminist.

My daughters will change the world.

A woman’s place is in the revolution.

Girls’ rights are human rights.

Local Love Brigade Wonder women unite.

Nasty Woman We’ve come too far. United, we stand.

Our rights are not up for grabs.

Neither are we.

If not us, then who? If not now, then when? (John Lewis) Human rights are NOT negotiable.

Stronger Together Gender Justice Racial Justice Economic Justice They go low. We go high.

Stop the lunatic fringe.

Don’t make America hate again.

We cannot all succeed when 1/2 of us are held back.

Make America smart again.

VOICE Make America equal for once.

Don’t trumple our rights.

Respect existence OR Expect resistance.

Love, not hate, makes America great.

Real men support real women.

We are many.

We, too, sing America.

Still we rise.

Snatch the power.

Our Bodies Our Minds Our Power I stand with Planned Parenthood.

I am with her. (Now imagine an image of our Earth.)

A livable climate is handy.

One nation, indivisible, with liberty & justice for ALL Don’t blame each other. Blame Greed.

Women are the majority.

Hell hath no fury like 157 million women scorned.

(See Letter, Page 5A)

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Coping and hoping in the Trump Era It’s inevitable that when a presi- trains and inspires Democratic dential candidate wins by 2.9 mil- women to run for office. This work lion votes — and is still denied the helps me focus on a concrete goal presidency — there will be a lot of helping get more women in ofof disappointed people. When that fice at all levels of government, candidate is a woman who seemed rather than getting overwhelmed with all the work that on the verge of making has to be done.” (www. history, the disappointemergevt.org; motto: ment has turned into “Today we march. Toheartbreak for many morrow we run for ofAmericans. fice.”)

That’s especially Hardy adds this: true here in Vermont, where Hillary Clin“The many amazing ton outpolled Donald women I meet through Trump by more than my work give me hope.

26 points.

But most especially, Clinton’s loss was kids give me hope. My especially keen for incredible daughter rewomen, who looked to cited a poem she wrote her leadership on famiin front of a crowd of ly and childcare issues, almost 20,000 Verequal rights, and access monters, and she was to affordable healthcare brilliant. Girls voices under Obamacare.

by Gregory Dennis being heard loud and The anger over her clear give me hope.” loss, in the antiquated Liz Ready is a LinElectoral College, has spilled over coln resident who heads John into the streets. Last Saturday, per- Graham Housing and Services, a haps 2 million people took part in countywide organization based in women’s marches in Washington, Vergennes that works to provide Boston, New York, Montpelier food, shelter, services and support (drawing more than 15,000 people to people in need. to a town of 8,000) and hundreds On the subject of coping, she of other cities. said: “We see the stark facts that For progressives, this has been already poor families living on the a time of coping with the enormi- margins are being harmed. People ty of Trump’s ascendance, and of of color and New Americans face trying to find some a silver lining greater scrutiny and fear. Congress to the dark clouds over our national just froze the Section 8 program landscape. that provides housing vouchers to In the wake of the women’s poor families. People once homemarches, I set out to ask several lo- less are now at risk again. Those cal women leaders two questions: now homeless are finding it more — What are you doing to cope difficult to find housing. We are now that we are in the Trump Era/ reaching out to elected officials Presidency? and people here in our community — What gives you hope? to line up resources that will minHere are the answers I got. imize their anguish and harm, one Fran Putnam, a Weybridge res- family at a time.” ident and climate change activist, What gives hope to Ready and had this to say: her team?

“It has been very hard. Each day “People in the local community there is a new assault on something give us hope. Every day people I believe in. To cope, I am redou- stop us on the street or call John bling my efforts to combat climate Graham to find ways to help. Intuchange and to support organiza- itively, neighbors know that peotions and actions that protect ev- ple already struggling are the ones eryone and everything threatened most at risk of going under.”

by Donald Trump.

Wendy Goodwin is a Middle“What gives me hope: Going to bury acupuncturist. “The massive Washington and being surrounded despair I felt after the ‘election’ by half a million people standing has been yugely relieved by parup for our rights and our values. ticipating in the Boston Women’s I know that people all over this March,” she said. “I cried tears country and the world are ener- of joy to be in the presence of so gized and ready to resist the in- much positive energy, determinacredibly misguided actions of the tion, unity and caring. The pride I new president. We are just begin- was taught to feel about the Amerining this struggle and we will not can Dream was revived when I saw give up.” the drum and fife brigade marching Ruth Hardy, of East Middlebury, in their colonial costumes. The is continuing the hard, important concept of not bowing to oppreswork of grassroots party organiz- sion is rooted deeply in me, and I ing: am reminded how important it is to “I’m coping in this post-election work as a community towards a soworld by leading an organization, ciety that works for all of us.”

Emerge Vermont, that recruits, Rebecca Kneale Gould, a Monk-

Between The Lines

ton resident, teaches at Middlebury College on religion and the environment.

“As far as coping goes, keeping an eye on ‘the local’ helps a lot,” she said. “I am taking pride in what we as Vermonters can do for people in need, and I am committed to simultaneously celebrating and pressuring local and national legislators to support the rights of women and LGBT people, to work for racial justice, to help the most disadvantaged in our communities.

“The many marches this past weekend demonstrated an inspiring and magnificent kind of energy for inclusion of ALL people in our quest for a future in which everyone can thrive. This truly global expression of what democracy looks like and how we must support one another both helped me to cope and gave me hope.

“The global aspect of it was particularly dynamic and hope-filled for me, because so many of the challenges we face, such as racial injustice, poverty and climate change, are not strictly national issues, but ones that people — and all living beings — are encountering all across the world.

“While I care about the country in which I happen to be a citizen, my identity is much more connected to being part of the human race, and the broader animal kingdom, recognizing that my own flourishing is only meaningful and sustainable if it is understood, properly, as deeply intertwined with the flourishing of all life.

“My sense of hope also comes from having a broad historical perspective. I can remember moments when I thought the future looked very dark. When I was in college, the United States and Soviet Union seemed constantly on the brink of ‘mutually assured’ nuclear destruction, and I genuinely feared that nuclear war could end life as I knew it. That didn’t happen.

“I also find it helpful and very important to remember that there are things going on with people around me that have nothing directly to do with the current political climate. I have friends who are dealing with illness and loss. I have students delighting in the works of an author whom they had never heard of before. Various people in my life have had babies, adopted puppies or become grandparents for the first time.

“There is love and beauty all around us and much to celebrate.

We do a disservice to that very love and beauty if we don’t pause to recognize it.”

Gregory Dennis’s column appeared here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at www. gregdennis.wordpress.com. Email: gregdennisvt@yahoo.com; Twitter: @greengregdennis.

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) Men of quality respect gender equality.

You can try to divide. We will rise and unify.

We stand on the side of love.

Rise up. Reject hate.

A call a day, keeps the fascists at bay: 202-225-3121 (to reach your Senators and Congressmen.)

Law Professors for Hope

Power concedes nothing without a demand.

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

Patricia Heather-Lea Bristol

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) As of this week, Trump has no mainstream academically trained economists in the White House to advise him on the macroeconomic implications of domestic and international policy. The few economists he has are all protectionists, far removed from the main currents of the economics profession. Previous Republican presidents included among their senior advisers nationally respected academic economists such as Martin

Feldstein of Harvard and Glenn Hubbard of Columbia.

Trump himself appears to have little interest in the details of policy, whether domestic or international, other than repeating phrases he used on the campaign trail. Thus, he is particularly susceptible to the arguments of the last person to talk to him. This makes it critically important that people who

have regular access to the president — such as Preibus, Bannon, Flynn, and Kushner — ensure that he is exposed to a full range of views on those topics that get pushed up to the presidential level. Whether that will happen is very much an open question.

Eric L. Davis is Middlebury College professor emeritus of political science.

We must learn to take time to think The summer I turned ten, my fam- tow (actually, running ahead), and ily bought a rustic cabin on a lake, spend a chunk of my afternoon wandeep in the woods. It was about 20’ dering through the woods. I don’t lisx 20’ with a large wood cook stove, ten to music, recorded books, or podkerosene lamps, an ancient ice chest casts as I go. Instead, I think. While and no running water. We hiking, I have written poloved it — a real step up ems and songs, speeches, from our usual tent campstories and letters to the ing. It did get expanded and editor. I have come up with modernized as the years plans to solve most of the went by, but even before state’s issues, and quite a that, we would spent nufew of our nation’s needs. merous weekends there, as I have renovated houses, well as whole weeks during planted gardens and creatthe summer. ed paintings. While many Around the time I turned of these endeavors have 12, I found my own special never taken on material place nearby: a small clearform, some actually have. ing in the woods where a I understand the allure large tree trunk, mostly deof music. I find recorded void of bark, covered the

By Laurie Cox books extremely helpful ground. It was easily wide on long trips. I have been enough to lie upon. I would known to sit in my car an go there in between our usual swim- extra few minutes to hear the end of ming, rowing, and hiking, stretching a particularly interesting interview out on this sun-warmed log. I would or story on the radio. I am not opgo there to think, and I dubbed it my posed to any of the devices that al“thinking tree.” Lying there, I would low us to listen to these things. There think big thoughts about the meaning is a place, however, for just listening of life in general and the meaning of to our own thoughts or contemplatmy life in particular. I don’t remem- ing the thoughts of others: making ber my conclusions, but I do know some sense, creating some solutions, that I went there frequently during finding some solace or some call to those pre-teen and young teen years. action. Likewise, there is a place for I don’t have a thinking tree any- hearing a new bird song, feeling a more, but that doesn’t mean I have breeze, whether icy or warm. There left the practice of thinking behind. is a place for seeing a certain way Every day I head for a trail, dogs in that light is coloring a tree trunk or

Ways of Seeing

figuring out just what sort of event took place where various tracks in the snow converge.

When I wonder at our nation and how we follow such disparate paths, how we willingly believe questionable tales/news, I think. I think that maybe we don’t take much time to think anymore. Too often, we take in what is presented to us on our media of choice and never process it.

It has already been processed and packaged for us, like the worst of some overly processed foodstuff. We ingest it without questioning the ingredients. On Facebook “headlines” and Twitter, it is a sort of “fast food.”

Taking time to think is like reading the labels on a can or package, investigating what all those lengthy ingredients actually are and do. It might get you cooking more from scratch.

And the great thing about thinking is that it is free. You can do it while you drive a car, mop a floor, take a shower, take a walk, or even while you just lie on a log in the sunshine.

It’s not a cure-all, but it just might help us find some good solutions.

Laurie Cox is a retired school counselor and long-time Ripton selectboard member. Besides occasional writing, she sings with Maiden Vermont, pursues art, takes long hikes with her dog(s) and seasonally gardens. She also is about to become more actively involved in things political, environmental, and just.

Clippings (Continued from Page 4A) photo opportunities. Crowds broke into cheers when they saw a balcony filled with what looked like policemen. They waved to the crowd, and gave what looked like thumbs up to the people below. And everywhere we went pink pussy hats abounded.

There were a few Trump supporters out. A dozen or so “Bikers for Trump” were taking as many pictures and videos as anyone else, and if they had a problem with marchers sitting on their staging, it never came up. In the six hours we spent on the D.C. streets, we saw only one disturbance — a man throwing punches.

The crowd halted for a moment. A small group of people surrounded the angry man and moved him to the curb, away from marchers. People surrounded him to protect others.

On any given cross street, if you looked toward the mall all you could see was a mass of people, a mass of signs. A quick read of them made it very clear that this march was aimed directly at the proposed policies and behaviors of our new president.

Some were angry, some were humorous, some were ominous, some were hopeful. “Make America Kind Again”; “My cat would make a better President.” They reflected the feeling among protesters that this presidency threatens the very values that make America so dear to us all. They reflected determination on the protesters’ behalf to speak out, stand up, and fight all of those who are threatened by the new administration.

By 2:30 p.m. people were moving in multiple streets heading back toward the Capitol or toward the Ellipse, confused by where the march was going (or not going). While the adults were thinking things were petering out, the teenagers among us wanted to carry on, return to the Ellipse. Walking against traffic — thousands of people heading home — we found the march was still in full swing with wall-to-wall marchers from the Capitol all the way to the mist-capped Washington Monument. Five hours in, we were tired and footsore, but the massive crowd was still coming and we were right back in the spirit of the day.

At one point the rumor was going around that the march attendance was 500,000. Another rumor spread that there were 1.2 million people marching in D.C. We got texts from family

at rallies in Montpelier, Boston and New York. In some ways we were just overwhelmed. It’s easy to grasp the concept of 52 people on a bus heading to a protest. It’s not too far beyond one’s capacity to accept thousands of people mulling around a stadium or walking with enthusiasm toward an event. To be among hundreds of thousands of people of all stripes yet unable to see more than 10 feet in any direction, and to know that it is the same for everyone as far as the eye can see is something else again.

It could have been frightening, but it wasn’t. It was somewhat claustrophobic, but that didn’t seem to mat-

ter. The bathroom scene was grim at best, but people just seemed to accept the reality of it. What was important was the fact that each person there was surrounded by hundreds of thousands of women, men and children all expressing their determination to stand up for all, venting their fear and anger in positive ways at a huge, peaceful protest, and knowing that hundreds of thousands — and possibly millions — of people all over the world were doing the same.

Middlebury resident Sarah Pope works for The Little Phone Book and Independent news editor John McCright is her husband.

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Obituaries Robert Fuller, 92, Vergennes

VERGENNES — Robert Weeks Fuller, University of Vermont Emeritus Professor and well-known Wildlife Biologist, passed away on Friday, January 20, 2017. He was born May 12, 1924, in Center Conway, N.H., the son of Mildred Ellen Weeks and John Isaiah Fuller.

Bob enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force in 1942, and was awarded his pilot’s wings and a lieutenant’s commission. He served as pilot instructor in single engine aircraft and later as a pilot of a B-17 bomber.

He married Beverly Edith Barden of Gorham, Maine in January 1945. Bob and Beverly moved to Burlington, Vt., where he entered the University in 1946 as an engineering student. He transferred in 1948 to the University of Maine, Orono, and a curriculum in wildlife conservation. After receiving his B.S. degree in 1951, Bob and family moved to Logan, Utah, where he completed a Master’s Degree in Wildlife Management.

From 1953 through 1965 he worked as a Wildlife Biologist for the VT Fish & Game (later Fish & Wildlife) Dept. developing and managing the Dead Creek Waterfowl Area and as Waterfowl Project Leader for the entire state. His work in restoring wetlands and waterfowl numbers, and establishing Vermont’s first-ever breeding populations of wild Canada geese, received recognition from the Atlantic Waterfowl council through the prized Charles Banks Belt Award in 1957 and the wildlife Conservationist-of-the-year Award from the Vermont Federation of Sportsmen’s Club in 1969.

The international Wildlife Society recognized him as a Certified Wildlife Biologist in 1982 and the Northeast Section of the Wildlife Society honored him in 1988 with its

highest recognition, the John Pearce Memorial Award for outstanding professional achievements.

Bob joined the faculty of the University of Vermont in January 1966, developing a Wildlife Management Concentration within the Department of Forestry. He became first Chairman of the Wildlife and Fisheries Biology Program when the UVM School of Natural Resources evolved in 1974.

By action of the UVM Board of Trustees, Acting President Thomas Salmon conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws on him at UVM Commencement exercises in 1992.

Bob retired from UVM on Dec. 31, 1988, but continued as Emeritus Professor to teach an occasional class in his area of expertise and to serve on University committees. He was one of two honorees for significant contributions to waterfowl conservation in Vermont at a special 25-year Vermont Ducks Unlimited Banquet in 1994.

Bob was a faithful and dedicated member, a past master and Secretary of Dorchester Lodge No. 1, F&AM, Vergennes, a 32nd degree Mason of the Scottish Rite Bodies, Vermont Consistory, and a member of Cairo Temple, A.A.O.N.O.M.S. His dedication was recognized by presentation of the honorary John Barney Medal in 2002.

Bob loved canoeing, square dancing, quiet walks with Bev and touring many national wildlife refuges.

Bob was also an ardent hunter and fly fisherman.

Bob was predeceased by his wife, Beverly and by his sister, Alice Wright of White River Jct., Vt. He is survived by his three daughters, Patricia and husband Stewart

William Sullivan, 71, Starksboro

ROBERT WEEKS FULLER Marsh of Ferrisburgh, Vt.; Robin and husband Ralph Torrey, Jr. of Waltham, Vt.; and Kathryn Fuller of Vergennes, Vt.; five grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; one brother Francis Fuller and wife Olive of Keene, N.H.; one brother-in-law, Richard Barden and wife Rosalie of Gorham, Maine; and several nieces and nephews.

Bob’s family wishes to express their love and extreme gratitude to all of Bob’s caregivers. Their dedication, caring, compassion and love guided us all through a very difficult time.

A celebration of life will be held Saturday, Jan. 28, at 1 p.m. at Vergennes Congregational Church on Water Street in Vergennes.

Interment will be private. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT.◊

Kiefer and Susan Marie. She was also a caring and concerned grandmother to her granddaughter Jodie Lee Barber. Marie cared deeply for her three sisters and all of her nieces and nephews.

Marie is survived by her daughter Susan Davis and husband Gerald Davis of Delhi, N.Y.; her granddaughter Jodie Lee Barber and husband Troy Covill of Niskayuna, N.Y.; her sister Marion Fish of Rutland, Vt.; her sister Joyce Lowe and husband Ray of Waterbury, Vt.; her sister Arlene Owen and husband Elton of Brandon, Vt.; her niece and goddaughter Lynn Well and husband Robert of Essex Junction, Vt.; her

WILLIAM SULLIVAN touched so many lives and will be missed.

In lieu of flowers, please donate to Addison County Home Health and Hospice, The Mental Health Association of Essex County, New York, or the Vermont Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired in Burlington. Visitation will be held Tuesday, Jan. 24, from 5-8 p.m. at Brown-McClay Funeral Home, 4 South Street, Bristol, Vt. A funeral Mass will be held Wednesday, Jan. 25, at 11 a.m. at St. Ambrose Church, Main Street, Bristol, Vt.

Erma Lowd, 81, formerly of New Haven

2017. A full obituary will appear in Monday’s Addison Independent.

More details will appear on Sanderson Funeral Home website.

Chapel in Vinalhaven, Maine and was a member of the Vinalhaven Congregational Church.

When Erma and Fred moved back to Vermont they resided in New Haven, and became members of the New Haven Congregational Church and the Order of Eastern Star Libanus Chapter #47.

She enjoyed crafting, sewing, quilting, knitting, puzzles and spending time with her family. At Christmas her sewing room was a whir of activity!

Survivors include her children: son Rick Lowd and wife Deb of Salisbury; daughters, Sally Conway and husband Charlie of Addison; and Hilda Costello of St. Albans; her grandchildren: Jamie Conway, Erin Conway Knight, Alicia Costello and Chris Costello; a great-grandchild Jayce Costello; and many nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by her husband in 2015; an infant son Billy; her parents; siblings Catherine, Larry, Jane and her twin Paul; her daughter-in-law Kelly Wetmore; and son–in-law Steve Costello.

A Celebration of her life will be held in the spring of 2017 at

the New Haven Congregational Church.

Memorial contributions in memory of Erma may be made to the Porter Hospital Birthing Center at 115 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT 05753, attention Development Office please reference Erma Lowd.

Online condolences at www. sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

to level-fund budgets, he should have made that a central piece of his election campaign,” Honigford said. Bringing this proposal forward after most boards have completed the difficult task of budgeting shows disregard for the elected officials overseeing Vermont’s public school system.”

Scott begged lawmakers in the House and Senate, the majority of whom are Democrats, to be courageous and resist the urge to block his reforms. “Vermonters asked us to put the state on a more sustainable path and this is one of them,” he said.

Scott said the state needs to align spending with the number of students in Vermont schools.

“Remember: Vermonters need this,” he said. “Please don’t instinctively lock up with resistance to change. I promised to make the difficult choices to put Vermont on a more sustainable path. And this is one of them.”

“If we don’t, we will have to

settle for higher taxes and fewer educational options,” Scott said.

“And I refuse to settle for either.”

“Believe me when I say I know these are incredibly strong measures,” Scott said. “But over the last 20 years, student counts have continuously dropped. Costs have continued to rise faster than our ability to pay. And property taxes have become one of the biggest contributors to our crisis of affordability.”

Rep. Lanpher was skeptical.

“The question is — Why would the governor present a grand reform, which many Vermonters are looking to Montpelier for leadership and guidelines, then set a timeframe that all but guarantees failure,” Lanpher said. “I do not understand why he chose politics over good policy development.”

A large chunk of savings from K-12 education — $9.6 million — will be used to expand early childhood education programs for low-income families and improve

childcare programs.

Let’s Grow Kids Campaign Director Robyn Freedner-Maguire said the investment in early education is a “game changer.” Middle class families where both parents work spend nearly 40 percent of their income on child care, according to the advocacy group. At the same time, child care workers are poorly paid.

“Significant investment is long over-due and frankly, our kids, families, providers and Vermont businesses that rely on a dependable workforce are counting on us to start solving the problem,” Freedner-Maguire said in a statement.

Higher education gets a boost of $6.5 million under the Scott proposal. The governor wants to increase base appropriations to the Vermont State Colleges by $4 million and the state contribution to the University of Vermont budget by $1 million. The money at UVM is to be used to support

low- and middle-income students.

The Vermont Student Assistance Corporation would also get $1 million for a need-based grant program for workforce training.

In addition, $500,000 would be set aside for military scholarships.

Major General Steven Cray, the adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard, said the military scholarships will bring Vermont up to speed with neighboring states.

Vermont State College System Chancellor Jeb Spaulding lauded the governor’s attention to the “cradle to career” continuum of education from pre-kindergarten through postsecondary training and college. “The $4 million in additional funding will allow the Vermont State Colleges to turn the corner on years of stagnant state support,” he said. The colleges will use the money in 2018 to keep tuition rate increases down.

Independent reporter John Flowers contributed to this story.

nephew and godson James McKeon and his wife Lori of Rutland, Vt.; as well as many much loved nieces and nephews in Vermont, Maine, Maryland, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Colorado to name a few.

Marie was predeceased by her father William Carl, her parents Arlene and Lawson Hammond, her daughter Victoria Ann, her son Philip Kiefer, her nephew Brian McKeon and her husband Nils.

The burial will be in Bristol, Vt. at the discretion of her family in the spring along with a church service and luncheon to follow, which will be announced at future date.◊

Bartley Nourse Sr., 91, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Bartley Bonfield Nourse Sr., 91, of Middlebury, died peacefully at home of natural causes on Jan. 25,

After Boston College, he enlisted in the USMC from 1967 to 1969.

In 1972, after completing Boston College’s graduate degree in Special Education, Bill moved to Vermont to teach at the Brandon Training School. Bill served ten years as Executive Director for the Vermont Association for the Blind.

In 1988, Bill and family were off to the South Pacific, training nationals in Papua New Guinea (where Lincy was adopted), and Vanuatu.

Returning to Vermont in 1992, Bill was Executive Director of Vermont Protection and Advocacy later known as, Disability Rights of Vermont, and subsequently at the Mental Health Association of Essex County, New York.

Upon retirement in 2009, he became a Guardian ad Litem in Addison County, advocating for the best interests of children and adults.

Other volunteer efforts include serving as Lector and Eucharistic Minister at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Bristol, Vt. where he was a former member of the Finance Committee; treasurer of the Starksboro Cooperative Pre-School.

Bill was a skier, golfer, avid reader, season ticket holder for Boston College Football games, an advocate and educator. He lived his life with passion, verve, integrity, professionalism and principle. He

NEW HAVEN — Erma J. Lowd, 81, passed away Monday, Jan. 16, 2017, at the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington.

She was born Aug. 6, 1935 in Greenfield, Mass. to Frederick and Hannah (Landstrom) Burrington.

Erma spent her childhood growing up on the family farm in Heath, Mass.

Upon graduating from high school, Erma attended the Franklin County Public Hospital School of Nursing, where she graduated in 1956 as a Registered Nurse. While there, she married Frederick Lowd, Sr. on Feb. 25, 1956 in South Easton, Mass.

Erma lived with her family in Middlebury for 30 years and was a Registered Nurse at Porter Medical Center working as a main floor supervisor and then moving into the OB/GYN Department. She and Fred moved to Vinalhaven, Maine upon Erma’s retirement from Porter Medical Center.

She kept busy during retirement by working at the Islands Community Medical Services parttime and volunteering for the Wind Newspaper in Vinalhaven. She loved attending the Pleasant River

Marie Johnson, 82, native of Bristol STAMFORD, N.Y. — Marie Anna Carl “Peanut” Johnson was born June 7, 1934 in Bristol, Vt. and passed away on Jan. 21, 2017 at Robinson Terrace in Stamford, N.Y., her home of 17 years. Marie was well known and will be remembered for her sense of humor, her love of music and singing, her love of animals and her compassionate care both as a nurse and an X-ray technician.

She was a good friend to many through the years and was always willing to lend a helping hand or words of encouragement to anyone in need. Marie was a loving mother to her children Victoria Ann, Philip

STARKSBORO — William Charles Sullivan, 71, of Starksboro Vt., was born March 21, 1945 to Ruth Stewart Livingstone Sullivan and Thomas Sullivan of Stamford, Conn.

Bill leaves his spouse and partner of 37 years, Marilyn Barbato; his daughter Anne C. Sullivan of Brandon, Vt. and her partner, John Lincoln of Middlebury, Vt.; two beautiful granddaughters, raised in Addison County: Alexandra Nauka Dorce, 16, now living with her father Phyllip Dorce, his wife Cynthia, and daughters, Dee Dee, Amaya and Arianna, in Norwalk, Conn.; and Ava Ruth Quinlan, 4, living in Panton, Vt., with her father, Michael Quinlan, his partner, Katie Rotax, and Ava’s siblings, Kassidy and Gavin. His beloved daughter, Lincy Nauka Sullivan passed away in October of 2014.

He also leaves behind his sister-in-laws Linda Silkworth of New Orleans; and Fran Bauer of Deerfield Beach, Fla.; niece Karen Duffy of Fla.; and nephews, Mark Duffy, and his partner Donnie Tessatore, of New York; Joe Duffy of Ariz.; John Duffy of New York; as well as, Will Silkworth of Los Angeles, and Jesse Silkworth of New York.

Bill attended St. Mary’s Elementary School and St. Basil’s Prep School in Stamford, Conn.

ERMA LOWD

Scott In Loving Memory of

Scott Alan Cousino Oct. 6, 1970 – Jan. 28, 2005

The moment that you died Our hearts split into two.

One side filled with memories, The other died with you.

We often lie awake at night When the world is fast asleep, Walking down memory lane With tears upon our cheeks.

Remembering you is easy, We do it every day.

But missing you is a heartache That never goes away.

Our hearts hold you tightly And there you will remain.

Life has gone on without you.

But it will never be the same. “ A lot has happened in the past 12 years, but we still love you and miss you more and more every day!

Until we all meet again, All of our love ( To ALL of You ) Your family and friends

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(Continued from Page 2A) premiums and higher copays at the end of this year. The changes could result in more than $26 million in savings for taxpayers, according to the Vermont School Boards Association. That estimate includes an 80/20 split on the premium and an assumption that school districts would add money to health savings plans to help teachers cover their increased out of pocket costs.

Geo Honigford, the president of the Vermont School Boards Association, strongly objected to changing the rules for budgeting so late in the game and said it was a slight against boards that have already put many hours into this year’s budgets.

“If the governor wanted boards

I would like to take a moment and thank the Bristol Legion, Post #19 for their love and support after the loss of my son, Jody Cousino. I would also like to thank the members, family and friends for furnishing all the food and setting up the hall. I received many cards and prayers. It was all greatly appreciated at the time of my loss.

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Ferrisburgh (Continued from Page 1A) charitable requests and a truck budget to support town spending. purchase that Road Foreman John That figure does not include an Bull said is badly needed, calls for a estimated $41,000 for the first year’s spending increase of about $89,000, payments on a tandem dump and or about 4.8 percent. plow truck or $32,778 in charitable But board members chose to apply requests. $66,000 of a $216,000 fund balance If residents approve from the identified by auditors at the end of floor of town meeting that total the 2015-2016 to reduce the tax of $1,923,878 of spending, said impact of that increase. assistant treasurer/ Cousino said a town clerk Pam penny on the tax rate Cousino at Tuesday’s The Addison raises about $55,000, meeting, there “might Northwest School adding on Wednesday be a half-a-penny the actual difference to increase” at most in District Board raise in taxes between the portion of the has adopted the two budgets is town’s tax rate needed a budget that, about $33,000. She to support municipal also expects growth according to spending. in the town’s grand Meanwhile, the ANWSD officials’ list to help fund some Addison Northwest estimates, could of the new spending School District Board — therefore, she has adopted a budget mean lower said, the impact of the that, according to school taxes budget increase on ANWSD officials’ Ferrisburgh’s tax rate for Ferrisburgh estimates, could would be minimal. mean lower school homeowners.

The truck, if taxes for Ferrisburgh approved, would homeowners. be the largest single driver of the Taking into account the 10- increase. Salaries in the highway cent discount ANWSD towns will department are also rising by about receive because residents approved $20,000, including a contingency unification in March, assuming fund that could be used for mid-year lawmakers accept recommended tax raises. Board members said raises rates from the Department of Taxes, awarded halfway through the current assuming ANWSD voters back a fiscal year were larger than usual to $21.1 million unified budget, and make up for smaller raises during the adjusting for Ferrisburgh’s Common recession years.

Level of Appraisal, officials estimate Within the highway budget board Ferrisburgh’s residential tax rate members also increased overtime by could decrease by 12.1 cents. $6,000 and equipment maintenance Those estimates predate Gov. by $14,000, the latter item to account Phil Scott’s 11th-hour suggestion for taking care of older trucks that on Tuesday that local school boards remain in the town fleet. level-fund their budgets. The The administration budget ANWSD plan calls for an increase proposal showed a smaller spending of about 1.7 percent. Vermont increase, with little of it related to House and Senate leaders expressed salaries despite the board’s juggling skepticism about Scott’s plan. of personnel hours. Instead, line items BUDGET DETAILS related to workers’ compensation The budget approved by the ($8,000), liability insurance (about Ferrisburgh selectboard, assuming $3,500), the planned rewrite of that as expected residents back zoning laws ($5,000), and listers’/

appraiser’s fees ($4,000) all rose.

TREASURER’S SALARY The line for treasurer’s salary dropped from $33,670 to $21,000.

Board members have not been happy with elected treasurer Garrit Smits, over whom they have no direct authority. They allege he has not worked the 35 hours a week they expected and is responsible for fees due to late payment of bills, including a second penalty from the IRS discussed on Tuesday.

A recent letter from professional auditor Ron Smith stated accounts are not being reconciled or deposits made in a timely manner, among other issues.

On Tuesday, board members said the $21,000 was based on a 20hour week, but depending on who is elected and what hours he or she wanted a treasurer could work more or fewer hours.

That flexibility is possible because the board is proposing to boost the “Wages-Contingency” line item from $3,500 to $18,200. Money from that line item could be used to hire a fourth worker, possibly a bookkeeper.

Board members pointed to the recent letter from Smith, who stated the office needs a total of 100 staff hours a week to operate effectively, while Cousino said the treasurer’s job could be done for an average of 20 hours per week.

The board said the law also allows them to pay a treasurer on an hourly basis, not simply on a salary basis with assumed hours, even if he or she is elected. Board members said hourly treasurer’s wages would give them additional flexibility to divide wages from the two line items between two workers depending on their ability and availability.

“We set the compensation. It can be hourly,” said Selectman Steve Gutowski.

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

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Bristol (Continued from Page 1A) 119 percent). year it was certainly a goal of all the GENERAL FUND department heads, myself and the General fund expenditures are selectboard to really come in as close proposed at $938,607, a 0.55 percent to level funded as we could.” decrease from the current budget.

RECREATION DEPARTMENT The largest single decrease in Of the four major categories in the general fund items came in the bond town budget — general operating payment on the fire station. fund, highway “The bond department, recreation payment is less than department, and Overall operating we had originally voted appropriations costs for the thought it would be,” — the greatest (recreation) said Kirby. decrease comes in the department are Payment on the recreation department. fire station bond is R e c r e a t i o n expected to hold still a large ticket spending for 2017- relatively steady item, but at $143,450 2018 is budgeted at $146,243, a is about $34,000 less at $250,195, a 1.79 less than 1 percent than was budgeted percent decrease of increase. Within for in 2016-2017. about $4,700.

Overall, the fire those overall Overall operating Department budget costs for the operating costs is $22,131 less than department are are projected last year, a decrease expected to hold savings in health of 6 percent. relatively steady at insurance and Small areas of $146,243, a less than custodial costs. savings across 1 percent increase. the general Within those overall operating fund operating costs are projected savings included in elections, and workers’ in health insurance and custodial compensation, which is 20-30 costs. percent lower for some town Expenses at the Bristol Hub Teen employees in the proposed budget.

Center and Skate Park are proposed Increases across the general fund to approach 6 percent lower, at include such items as mowing of $80,527. One large shift, Kirby said, the town parks, health insurance for was in changing the director position some town workers, and property from a year-round to a school-year- insurance on the new fire station. only position.

HIGHWAY FUND This year the director’s position is Highway expenditures are budgeted at $31,992; for 2017-2018, proposed at $775,523 for 2017the proposed salary is budgeted at 2018, a 3 percent increase over $21,312, a savings of $10,680. current spending. Broken down by Kirby said that the teen center major subcategories, costs are down is “just not being utilized as much for equipment and up for personnel by teens in the summer. So the rec and insurance, garage and materials department is still going to run and services. programming out of there, and the This year’s equipment budget is skate park will still be open, and they proposed at $98,600, about $4,000 will still run some teen programming. (or 3.9 percent) less than the current But we’re going to be running other year. camps out of that space. So that’s a The largest increases are in big savings in that budget.” personnel and insurance, which Health insurance costs for Hub overall is up by 5 percent to workers are budgeted $8,084 $422,653. Larger ticket items include higher, at $14,869 (an increase of increases in expenses for health

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insurance, workers’ compensation and uniforms.

At $179,000, total materials and services are projected to cost $4,000 more than currently budgeted. Kirby pointed out a number of items where the selectboard needed to increase expenses including tree work, sidewalks, and signs, in order to meet new state standards for larger road signs.

VOTED APPROPRIATIONS Voted appropriations are proposed at $547,829, a 1.06 percent increase over 2016-2017.

Some of the largest-ticket items in this category are payments for the town’s capital funds for fire equipment, highway equipment, buildings, roads, conservation and technology, totaling $300,000.

Lawrence Memorial Library is asking for $135,073, an increase of $3,352 (2.54 percent); Addison County Transit Resources is asking for $11,306, an increase of $600 (5.6 percent); and the Bristol Rescue Squad is asking for $1,500 over last year for a total of $13,500.

All other voted requests are identical to the amounts approved this past March.

Bristol town meeting will be held Monday, March 6, at 7 p.m. at Holley Hall. Voting by Australian ballot will be on Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 7, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) prioritize if they were president.

A panel of six Vermont teachers served as volunteer judges in the contest, won by Quinn Nelson Mayo, a junior at St. Johnsbury Academy. Charlebois in his essay wrote about economic inequality in the United States. Each of the top essay writers and the finalists will be invited to join Sanders for a roundtable discussion at the Statehouse in Montpelier on Saturday, Feb. 4 to discuss the issues they wrote about in their essays.

The organization Rights & Democracy is inviting area residents to attend a meeting at the Ilsley Library community meeting room at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday, Jan. 26, to generate support for social justice legislation in Montpelier this year. The group is in particular urging support for bills seeking to increase the minimum wage to $15 per hour, and establish universal health care.

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Book signing in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 28, 5 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society. Chuck Collins will give a talk and sign his book, “Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality, Bringing Home Wealth, and Committing to the Common Good.” Free and open to the public.

Spaghetti dinner in Orwell. Saturday, Jan. 28, 5-7:30 p.m., Orwell Town Hall. The Orwell Village School eighth grade class will be holding a spaghetti dinner with a choice of marinara or meat sauce, rolls, salad, beverage and dessert. $7 adults; $5 seniors; family of four $25; kids under age 5 free.

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Saturday, Jan. 28, 6-7 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School gym. Mount Abraham Union

aspects of business, especially marketing. Free for Addison County Chamber members and $10 for non-members.

Addison County Democratic Committee meeting in Middlebury. Monday, Jan. 30, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. This will be a follow-up meeting to the session held in early December at which ideas were discussed for moving forward in the current political climate. All Democrats are encouraged to attend.

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.

Noonday concert in Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 26, Digital marketing trends workshop in 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

Middlebury. Tuesday, Jan. 31, noonSt. Stephens on the Green will present a free 1/2 1:30 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. Insights LLC hour noonday concert on the last Thursday of each will present a workshop titled “2017 Digital month at 12:15 p.m. The concerts are informal Marketing Trends” that will cover how technology (brown bag lunches invited) and light refreshments has changed the ways that businesses and will be provided. The first concert will feature Rev. consumers interact, and how this has permeated Kim Hardy, cellist, playing Scottish composer all aspects of business, especially marketing. Free James MacMillan’s suite “Northern Skies.” George for Addison County Chamber members and $10 Matthew Jr., organist of St. Stephen’s, will accomfor non-members. pany Rev. Hardy on piano.

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” Tai Chi in Middlebury. Wednesday, the first in an eight-week series.

Feb. 1, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Eastview Author reading in Middlebury.

Terrace. Tai Chi Basics class Thursday, Jan. 26, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Axinn Center, Abernathy MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult: Weds Midday offered Monday and Wednesdays, Room, Middlebury College. J.M. On & Off the Wheel, Knitting, Weds PM Wheel, Drawing, Jan. 30 to March 29, sponsored by Age Well and Eastview. The class Tyree will read from and discuss Handmade Books: The Buttonhole Stitch, Beaded Jewelry, is open to everyone over 50 and “Vanishing Streets: Journeys in Thurs AM Oils, Mon PM Oils, Silver Jewelry, Pastels, Drawing is free of charge. For more inforLondon,” an illustrated travelogue of the peripheries of “the world’s the Portrait in Charcoal with Joe Bolger. Children: Tues Clay mation contact Doreen Peterson most visited city.” Tyree is a nonfichand building, Weds Wheel. middleburystudioschool.org at 388-2649 or email doreenvermont@gmail.com. tion editor of New England Review.

Contact Barb 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com Great art Wednesdays in Green Mountain Club Bread Loaf Section annual meeting in WATERFALLS DAY SPA ‑ a’chromatherapy Paint & Sip, Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 11 a.m., Town Hall Theater. Great Art Middlebury. Thursday, Jan. 26, February 10 at 5:30 pm. Local artist Alison Hunt will lead an Wednesdays will bring the dramatic 6:30 p.m., Unitarian Universalist a’chromatherapy paint and sip evening featuring the color red. life and extraordinary artistry of Society meeting space. Our section will celebrate another Let your creative juices flow and have a fun night out at the spa. Francisco Goya to the big screen “Goya - Visions of Flesh and year of maintaining the Long Call 388-0311 for more information or visit our website www. in Blood.” Tickets $10/$5 students.

Trail and leading outdoor activimiddleburyspa.com. Sign up today!

Tickets may be purchased at www. ties. Beginning at 6:30 p.m., a townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222, brief social time with light refreshat the THT box office, or at the door. ments will be followed by the Annual Meeting, followed by the program speaker, High School is sponsoring the Green Mountain Architecture from the Twilight of the Ptolemies: The Temple of Apollo on Yeronisos, Cyprus Middlebury resident Dan Brown, who will present Donkeyball show out of Danby. In Donkeyball, in Middlebury. Wednesday, Feb. 1, 4:30 p.m., his trip on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. Free students and community members play basketball Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest, The and open to the public. Contact Ruth Penfield while riding donkeys in a safe and fun environOrchard (Room 103). Pieter Broucke of the 802-388-5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail.com with ment. Children under age 12 will get to meet the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, questions. Info: www.gmcbreadloaf.org/outings. sweet, intelligent steeds during intermission withand Director of the Arts, will offer a lecture as part Rights and Democracy meeting in Middlebury. out charge. Concessions will be available. Tickets of the Carol Rifelj Faculty Lecture Series. Free.

Thursday, Jan. 26, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Ilsley Public $8 in advance; $10 at the door. Tickets available Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

Library. Rights and Democracy is organizing people at Mt. Abe or at Martin’s Hardware. We will also be Actors workshop auditions in Middlebury. at the local level to support social justice legislaraffling off a 2004 Toyota Corolla.

Wednesday, Feb. 1, 5-8 p.m., Town Hall Theater. tion in Vermont. The Addison County community DJ skate night in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. 28, Middlebury Actors Workshop, Town Hall Theater’s organizing meeting will discuss the 2017 Vermont 8-10 p.m., Memorial Sports Center. DJ skate night resident professional theater company, will hold legislative agenda and what we can do to support presented by friends of Middlebury hockey. All general auditions for its 2017 season and is seekissues that matter most in our lives. ages and abilities welcome. $5 adult; $3 student. ing experienced actors of all types, ages 18 and Snack bar will be open and rental skates available. up. Auditioners are asked to prepare a short monoInfo: www.memorialsportscenter.org. logue. For details, information, and/or an audition Border / Zones in Middlebury. Saturday, Jan. time slot, email Artistic Director Melissa Lourie at 28, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance January story hour in Monkton.

Melissa@middleburyactors.org. Info: www.middleTheatre. Border / Zones culminates the twoFriday, Jan. 27, 10-11 a.m., Russell buryactors.org. semester creative process of the Dance Company Memorial Library. The Russell Memorial of Middlebury (DCM), guided by artistic director First Wednesday series in Middlebury. Wednesday, Library in Monkton is hosting a story hour with a Feb. 1, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. Middlebury Scotty Hardwig, with additional choreography by simple song, story and craft. All are welcome.

College Professor Jane Chaplin will discuss how Omar Carrum, Guggenheim fellow and director Opening reception in Vergennes. Friday, Jan. 27, historical writing rose from the influence of two of the Mazatlán Professional School of Dance, 5-7:30 p.m., Creative Space Gallery. An opening individuals in a talk titled “The Invention of History,” and Delfos Danza, their professional company in reception will be held for “A Visual Record: Recent as part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First residence. Carrum creates an original work for the Work by Marilyn Gillis,” which features mixed Wednesdays lecture series. Free and open to the students during a residency in Middlebury during media art, book arts and fabric sculptures. There public. fall 2016, and the exchange continues on DCM’s will be a wine tasting courtesy of Vergennes Wine. tour to Mazatlán, Mexico, in January 2017. Tickets: For more information visit www.creativespacegalPublic $12, College ID holders $10, Students $6. lery.org.

Sledding event in Middlebury. Friday, Jan. 27, 7-9 Classes at EastView in Middlebury. p.m., Chellis House, 56 Hillcrest Road, Middlebury Thursday, Feb. 2, 3-4:30 p.m., EastView College. Sister-to-Sister and Brother-to-Brother Public breakfast in Vergennes. at Middlebury. EastView resident Nick will hold a sledding event for Middle School girls Sunday, Jan. 29, 7:30-10 a.m., Clifford will present a class on “Trade and Politics,” and boys. Free event with lots of treats. For more Vergennes Masonic Lodge, 54 School the second in an eight-week series. information contact khanta@middlebury.edu or call Street. All you can eat public breakfast with eggs, Twist O’ Wool spinning guild meeting in 443-5937.

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Thursday, Border / Zones in Feb. 2, 7 p.m., 49 Wilson Middlebury.

Friday, Road. There will be a Jan. 27, 8 p.m., general meeting and Mahaney Center for the show and tell, followed by Arts, Dance Theatre. plying wool for this year’s Border / Zones culmiafghan and help with knitnates the two-semester ting. All are welcome. Info: creative process of 453-5960. the Dance Company “Amadeus” in of Middlebury (DCM), Middlebury.

Thursday, guided by artistic direcFeb. 2, 7 p.m., Town Hall tor Scotty Hardwig, with Theater. Town Hall Theater additional choreograwill broadcast “Amadeus,” phy by Omar Carrum, the first National Theatre Guggenheim fellow and Live show of 2017. Tickets director of the Mazatlán $17/$10 for students and Professional School may be purchased at of Dance, and Delfos www.townhalltheater.org, Danza, their profes802-382-9222, at the THT sional company in resibox office or at the door. dence. Carrum creates “Muslim Girls Making an original work for the Change” presentation students during a resiin Bristol. Thursday, Feb. dency in Middlebury 2, 7-8:30 p.m., Lawrence during fall 2016, and the Memorial Library. Four exchange continues on Vermont Muslim teen slam DCM’s tour to Mazatlán, poets who call themselves Mexico, in January LEARN TAI CHI basics in a class offered next Monday and Wednesdays 10:30 a.m., spon- “Muslim Girls Making 2017. Tickets: Public sored by Age Well and hosted by EastView in Middlebury. The class is open to everyone over Change” will present and $12, College ID holders 50 and is free of charge. For more information contact Doreen Peterson at 388-2649 or email discuss their work. Hosted $10, Students $6. doreenvermont@gmail.com. by the One World Library Project. For more informabacon, sausage, pancakes, blueberry pancakes, tion visit www.oneworldlibraryproject.org or call French toast, home fries, waffles, corned beef 453-2366.

ICAN workshop in Middlebury. hash, sausage gravy and biscuits, juice, coffee Saturday, Jan. 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and tea. $8. Proceeds are used to support various Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist local community needs and organizations.

Society. The Interfaith Climate Action Network Free Community Dinner in Vergennes. Sunday, Age Well first Friday luncheon in (ICAN) and Middlebury Area Clergy Association Jan. 29, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes St. Peter’s Parrish Middlebury. Friday, Feb. 3, arrive after (MACA) will offer a workshop titled “Active Hope: Hall, 85 South Maple St. Corn chowder with crou11 a.m., Middlebury VFW, Exchange Street.

Inspiration and Courage for Times of Great tons, macaroni and hamburger soup, tossed salad, A special Valentine’s noontime meal featuring Change.” $10 suggested donation. Registration pineapple upside down cake and beverages. Free. chicken cordon bleu with cheddar sauce, roasted required: contact Heidi Willis, redsprings@myfairgarlic mashed potatoes, peas and carrots, romaine point.net or 802-352-4327. and kale salad with choice of dressing, dinner roll Arts and crafts annual sale in Brandon. Saturday, and double layer strawberry cake for dessert.

Jan. 28, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Tai Chi in Middlebury. Monday, Jan. Certified organic regular and decaf coffee donated Center, Brandon. The Compass Music and Arts 30, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Eastview Terrace.

by Vermont Coffee Company. Advanced reservaCenter will hold their annual Arts and Crafts Sale, Tai Chi Basics class offered Monday and tions required, call 802-865-0360 ext. 1070 to featuring supplies and handmade artwork or crafts Wednesdays, Jan. 30 to March 29, sponsored reserve. Suggested donation $5. at reduced prices. If you are interested in sellby Age Well and Eastview. The class is open to Opening reception in Brandon. Friday, Feb. 3, 5-7 ing your items, spaces can be reserved through everyone over 50 and is free of charge. For more p.m., Brandon Artists Guild. “Student Art Show Thursday, Jan. 26 by visiting www.cmacvt.org or information contact Doreen Peterson at 388-2649 2017” will feature art from Barstow Memorial calling 802-247-4295. or email doreenvermont@gmail.com.

School, Leicester Central School, Lothrop Fifth annual orchard celebration in Shoreham.

Elementary School, Neshobe School, Otter Valley Saturday, Jan. 28, 3-5 p.m., Champlain Orchards, Digital marketing trends workshop in Vergennes.

Monday, Jan. 30, noon-1:30 p.m., Kennedy High and Middle School, Proctor Elementary 3597 Route 74 West, Shoreham. Free sleigh/ Brothers Building, Vergennes. Insights LLC will School, Sudbury Country School and Whiting wagon rides by Hammond’s horses, free hot cider present a workshop titled “2017 Digital Marketing Elementary School. Come and support art educaand free acoustic music. There will be warm soup, Trends” that will cover how technology has tion by attending this annual show. The show will bread, mulled cider (hard or not) and a heating changed the ways that businesses and consumhang through Feb. 28. Info: www.brandonartistshut to keep warm. Bring sleds, snowshoes, skis, ers interact, and how this has permeated all guild.org. instruments and warm clothes! Toasting of the

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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.

Opening reception in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 4, 2-4 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center. An opening reception will be held for the “Re-imagine the Braided Rug” exhibit, featuring the work of West Fairlee rug braider Delsie Hoyt. The exhibit will be on display through April 29. For more information call 388-4964 or www. vermontfolklifecenter.org.

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.

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Thursday, Feb. 9, 3-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury. EastView resident Nick Clifford will present a class on “Conflict in the South China Sea,” the third in an eight-week series.

Evening for Porter in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 9, 5:30-7:30 p.m., Edgewater Gallery by the Falls.

Come to the Edgewater Gallery for a fundraiser for Porter Medical Center featuring drinks and appetizers from Two Brothers Tavern and Stonecutter Spirits. Purchase a $10 raffle ticket to win the Rory Jackson painting “Point Bay South.” You don’t need to be present to win. Tickets $35 per person and include one drink voucher.

Author reading in Middlebury. Thursday, Feb. 9, 6:30 p.m., Vermont Book Shop. Katherine Arden, Brandon resident and Middlebury College graduate, is the author of the newly published “The Bear and the Nightingale,” the first novel of a trilogy set in a fantastic version of medieval Russia. She will read from, discuss and sign her book. Free and open to the public.

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L I V EM U SIC 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.

Snake Mountain Bluegrass in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Red Hot Juba in Lincoln. Saturday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Music Series, 52 River Road, Lincoln.

Michele Fay Band in Brandon. Saturday, Feb. 18, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

ONGOINGEVENTS By category: Farmers’ Markets, Sports, Clubs & Organizations, Government & Politics, Bingo, Fundraising Sales, Dance, Music, Arts & Education, Health & Parenting, Meals, Art Exhibits & Museums, Library Programs.

FARMERS’ MARKETS Brandon Farmers’ Market. Fridays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., May 27-Oct. 7, Central Park. Vegetables, flowers, plants, Vermont maple syrup, honey, baked goods, organic beef, goat cheese, hand-crafted and tie-dyed items, jewelry, paintings and more.

Middlebury Farmers’ Market. Saturdays only at Mary Hogan Elementary School, 9:30 a.m.-1 p.m. through Dec. 24. Baked goods, organic products, cheese and dairy products, crafts, cut flowers, fresh fruit and vegetables, honey, jam, jellies, preserves, maple syrup, meat and poultry products, wine, bread, plants, pickles, prepared foods, soap and body-care products, eggs, yarn, and cider.

Vergennes Farmers’ Market. Thursdays, 3-6:30 p.m., mid-May through September, Vergennes City Park. Organic vegetables, berries, breads, desserts, crafts and takeout.

SPORTS Co-ed volleyball in Middlebury. Pick-up games Monday, 7-9 p.m., Middlebury Municipal Gym. Jack Brown, 388-2502; Bruce at Middlebury Recreation Department, 388-8103.

Family tennis court time in Middlebury. Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Middlebury Indoor Tennis. Family play drop-in offers families a chance to play together.

Equipment is provided. Open to all levels of play. Info: Erin Morrison, emorrison@acafvt.org.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS ACT (Addison Central Teens). Drop-in hours during the school years: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 3-6 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 3-7 p.m. 94 Main St. (Middlebury Town Office building), below rec. gym.

Teen drop-in space for kids. Hang out with friends, play pool, watch movies, and eat great food. Baking: every Thursday from 3:30-5 p.m. Info: 388-3910 or www.addisonteens.com.

Addison County Amateur Radio Association. Sunday,

8 p.m. On the air on club repeater 147.36/147.96 MHz, 100 Hz access tone. Nonmembers and visitors welcome.

Addison County Emergency Planning Committee. Last Wednesday, 5 p.m. State Police Barracks. Public invited.

Addison County Republican Party. Third Friday, 7 p.m., Ilsley Library, Middlebury. 897-2744.

American Legion Auxiliary Post 27. Fourth Monday, 7 p.m. American Legion, Wilson Road, Middlebury.

Addison County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Fourth Tuesday, noon-1:30 p.m. Addison County Courthouse in Middlebury. 388-9180.

Brandon Lions Club. First and third Tuesday, 7 p.m., Brandon Senior Center.

Brandon Senior Citizen Center. 1591 Forest Dale Road.

247-3121.

Bristol Historical Society. Third Thursday, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St., Bristol.

Champlain Valley Fiddlers’ Club. Middlebury VFW, 530 Exchange Street. Third Sunday (except Easter), noon to 5 p.m. Donation $3. Refreshments available.

Looking for fiddlers young and old. Open to public.

Info: 342-0079.

The Hub Teen Center and Skatepark. 110 Airport Drive, Bristol. Open mike night, first Thursday of the month, 5:30-7:30 p.m., free for all ages; reserve a spot at thehub@gmavt.net. Info: 453-3678 or www.bristolskatepark.com.

LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer).

Youth support group meets Monday nights, 4-6 p.m., Turningpoint Center, Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: 388-4249.

Middlebury Garden Club. Second Tuesday. Location varies. Pat Morrow, 462-3741.

NEAT (Northeast Addison Television) Channel 16.

Fourth Monday, 5-7 p.m. NEAT studio in Bristol.

Bruce Duncan, bduncan@madriver.com.

Neshobe Sportsman Club. Second Monday, 6 p.m. potluck; 7 p.m. meeting. 97 Frog Hollow Road in Brandon.

Otter Creek Poets. Open poetry workshop held Thursdays, 1-3 p.m. Ilsley Library in Middlebury.

Poets of all ages are invited to share their poetry for feedback, encouragement and optional weekly assignments. Bring a poem or two to share (plus 20 copies). Led by David Weinstock. Free.

Orwell Historical Society. Fourth Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

Orwell Free Library.

PACT (People of Addison County Together). Third Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Vermont state office building on Exchange St. in Middlebury, Health Department conference room. 989-8141.

Samaritan’s Cupboard. Assembly of God Christian Center, 1759 Route 7, Vergennes. Third Thursday through October.

Vergennes Lions Club. First and third Wednesday, 6:45 p.m., American Legion. Club address: PO Box 94, Vergennes, VT 05491. Info: President Tim Cowan, 877-2382.

Vergennes Rotary Club. Tuesday mornings, 7:15-8:30 a.m., Champlain Valley Christian School, 2 Church St. Breakfast served at 7:15 a.m.

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Green Mountain Club Young Adventurers Club hiking and sledding in Charlotte. Saturday, Feb. 11. While the pace is geared toward younger adventurers (ages 4-8), everyone is welcome. Each outing is tailored to the individual participants, and will be fun for the whole family. Call or email YAC Leader Lauren Bierman for meeting location and details at 802-349-7498 or laurenbiermanrn@gmail.com. For other events visit www.gmcbreadloaf.org.

Green Mountain Club hike in Addison. Saturday, Feb. 11, Snake Mountain, Addison. This is a moderate 3.5-mile hike or snowshoe with a gradual ascent of 980 feet. The summit offers great views of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. Bring water and lunch or snack. This is a dog friendly hike. Contact Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@comcast.net or 802-349-5653 for more information.

Otter Creek Audubon Society walk in Middlebury.

Saturday, Feb. 11, 8-10 a.m., Otter View Park parking area. Community members are invited to help survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and Hurd Grassland. Beginning birders welcome. Come for all or part of the walk. Info: 387-1007 or 388-6019.

Chocolate delight night in New Haven. Saturday, Feb. 11, 7-9 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard and Winery. The ever-popular Chocolate Delight Night returns! Indulge in your favorite desserts, enjoy wine, celebrate Valentine’s Day, and with the cost of admission, support the New Haven Library all at the same time. $10 admission. Lincoln Peak wines may be purchased by the glass.

Valentine’s dinner dance in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 11, 7-11 p.m., VFW Post #7823, Exchange Street. Spaghetti dinner at 6 p.m., followed by music from 7-11 p.m. with the Starline Rhythm Boys. Advance tickets $15; $20 at the door. RSVP 388-9468.

DJ skate night in Middlebury. Saturday, Feb. 11, 8-10 p.m., Memorial Sports Center. DJ skate night presented by friends of Middlebury hockey. All ages

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Board Member Spotlight Shari Johnson

“I joined the Parent Child Center Board after volunteering there for two years, directing the greenhouse/vegetable garden, my master gardener project. I was impressed by the P.C.C.’s mission ‘to provide support and education to families.’ It complimented my life goal of helping others, especially those who have not had the same life advantages that I have. As a veteran high school teacher and avid gardener, my involvement at the P.C.C. is a perfect marriage.”

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DJ SKATE NIGHT will be sponsored by Friends of Middlebury Hockey on Saturday, Jan. 28, from 8-10 p.m. All ages and abilities are welcome. $5 adult; $3 student. The snack bar will be open and rental skates will be available. Info: www.memorialsportscenter.org.

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ADDISON — Marilla and Charles Webb of Addison, Vt. are pleased to announce the engagement of their daughter, Ellyn Webb, to Matthew Fitch, son of Sara Prouty and James Fitch of Marshfield, Mass. The bride-tobe and groom are both graduates of University of Maine, where they met. Ms. Webb is a quality control chemist at Battelle Memorial Institute, in Norwell, Mass. and Mr. Fitch is a software engineer at Wayfair, in Boston, Mass. The couple resides in Dedham, Mass. with their British Winnipesaukee lakeside wedding Shorthair, Winston Churchill. A is planned.

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SALISBURY — Petitions for positions in town government are due in the town office by 5 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 30. Town Clerk Sue Scott says petitions may be put through the mail slot on the office door until 5 p.m., when she will collect them.

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The Salisbury church would like to thank Nancy Galvin who baked and decorated the cake presented to John Grivetti last week. Through the years Nancy has baked many delicious items for the coffee hours and church bake sales.

milestones births

• Hilary & Ben Haigh, Shoreham, Jan. 17, a son, William Harlan Haigh.

• Ashley & Brian Clark, Cornwall, Jan. 18, a daughter, Emerie Quinn Clark.

• Ashley (Sequin) & Jerad Gorton, Lincoln, Jan. 18, a daughter, Jade Elizabeth Gorton.

• Ruth & Mark Visser, Panton, Jan. 19, a daughter, Mary Jane Visser.

• Tricia (Tallman) & Matthew Bilodeau, Pittsford, Jan. 22, a son, Paxyn Matthew Bilodeau.

• Samantha MacDougal & Jacob Burmania, Middlebury, Jan. 22, a son, Ose Daniel Burmania.

• Laura Wolfsen & Eric Denice, Bristol, Jan. 22, a son, Lars Michael Wolfram Denice.

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ED BLECHER, WHO has been mushing dogs for more than 40 years, will host “Dogsledding in Labrador: Mushing in the Menihek Hills” at the Bixby Library on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at 7 p.m.

Bixby to present ‘Dogsletting in Labrador’ VERGENNES — On Wednesday, Feb. 8, at 7 p.m., the Bixby Library will host “Dogsledding in Labrador: Mushing in the Menihek Hills” with Ed Blechner. Meet the Addison resident and a few of his dogs, check out one of his dogsleds and enjoy the stories of his endeavors in the frozen North.

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slides of his trip, anecdotes and answer a few questions as well.

This presentation continues the Bixby Library showcase of stories, passions and talents of local Vermonters.

Blechner has been mushing sled dogs for more than 40 years throughout New England, New York, Quebec and Labrador. For much of that time,

he led day and overnight sled dog trips and did educational programs with his dogs involving over 50,000 students. He is the head track coach at Middlebury Union High School, an avid gardener and lives with his wife Annette in Addison with their Alaskan huskies. Come and enjoy this presentation and meet some of Blechner’s friendly huskies.

The presentation will be free of charge and open to the public.

It is part of an ongoing community-oriented storytelling series presented at Bixby Library. For more information, contact Muir Haman, Bixby’s adult services librarian at 802-877-2211 x 208 or email muir.haman@bixbylibrary. org.

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Hancock, Granville community church to close doors in Feb. HANCOCK / GRANVILLE — The Community Church of Hancock and Granville will cease operation next month and hold its last regular church service this Sunday. The church shares space with the Hancock Town Hall on Route 100.

Members of the United Church of Christ congregation voted on the closing at their recent annual meeting in Hancock, according to parishioner Roger Comes.

The last regular church service will be Sunday, Jan. 29, at 9:30

a.m. There will also be a closing ceremony with communion on Feb. 19, at 9:30 a.m.

“All are welcome to attend either service,” Comes wrote to the Independent. “It is our hopes and prayers that another denomination will come in to occupy the space at the sanctuary located above the Hancock Town Hall. Thank you all for contributing through the years in whatever form to keep us alive and going for the past 21 years as the United Church of Christ.”

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Castleton names county graduates

Winter in Vermont

FREEZING RAIN AND ice hit the county and much of the state Tuesday morning making for treacherous driving and multiple school closings.

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Middlebury approves town budget warning

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury selectboard members OK’d a town spending plan and town meeting warning at their Tuesday meeting.

The board unanimously endorsed a proposed 2017-2018 municipal budget of $10,321,456, of which $7,106,034 would be raised by taxes.

The amount to be raised by taxes would result in a 0.42-cent decrease in the current municipal rate, which

would drop to 95.22 cents per $100 in property value. The selectboard achieved this, in part, by applying a larger than anticipated surplus from the fiscal year 2016 budget year.

Also without dissent, board members approved a town meeting warning for the annual gathering on Monday, March 6, and for Australian ballot voting on Tuesday, March 7.

Residents at the annual meeting

will only face two significant votes: To approve a fiscal year 2017-2018 municipal budget of $10,321,456, and spend $106,000 to replace two police cruisers and a wood chipper for the Public Works Department.

But voters will have a chance to weigh in on some additional town business on March 7. They’ll cast ballots in local elections and will be asked to support a police canine program for $30,610; a citizen-

initiated proposal to increase selectboard members’ annual stipend from the current $1,500 to $2,500 (and the chairperson’s stipend from $1,800 to $3,200); a request for $2,500 for the non-profit Addison County Restorative Justice Services; a request for $1,200 for the Addison County Riverwatch Collaborative; and to exempt Middlebury Regional EMS from local taxes, beginning April 1, 2017.

Middlebury (Continued from Page 1A) to be changed to get a return on our investment,” Carpenter added. “Our goals were lofty … and probably unachievable to begin with.”

Last month, the selectboard agreed to ask local voters at their March 6 annual meeting to extend the MBDF for one more year (through June 2018), using the fund’s accrued surplus. Officials would then have used the coming year to re-evaluate the business growth expectations that the selectboard had set for the MBDF when it was established by voters in 2012. It is funded by Middlebury College, the local business community, and with revenues from a penny on the municipal tax rate, to make a total annual budget of $180,000.

Tuesday’s change in course will spur the selectboard to quickly appoint the new committee that will suggest changes in the town’s economic development policy to

better reflect its size and needs.

Board members will come up with candidates during the next two weeks in order to appoint the panel early next month.

The selectboard will oversee the MBDF’s surplus funds, which can only be spent for economic development purposes.

Selectman Nick Artim recently chaired a five-person taskforce to evaluate the MBDF’s efforts and accomplishments to date, and also pitch recommendations to the selectboard regarding its future. The task force in December authored a report asserting, among other things, that “business development and prospecting has shown no ‘visible’ results to date,” though the panel acknowledged that more time might be needed to land new jobs and enterprises.

Organizers of the MBDF had set a year-one goal of attracting visits from 12 “qualified” prospects,

and sealing the deal on a business relocation, satellite office or a new business start.

Jamie Gaucher, executive director of the Middlebury Office of Business Development & Innovation, has been the public face of the MBDF. He sees some positives in the selectboard’s change of tack.

“I think this is a great opportunity to pivot and establish new goals and metrics for the MBDF,” Gaucher said.

Artim said Middlebury’s impending shift on economic development policy does not necessarily mean Gaucher will be out of a job. The new committee will, among other things, recommend how the new business growth strategy should be administered — and Gaucher could fit that profile, according to Artim.

“I think (the task force report) made it clear that our current effort has not succeeded,” Artim said. “I

don’t blame anyone for this; I think a great effort was made.”

Artim said his task force heard from a variety of local businesspeople who said the town must continue to promote economic development, albeit with some new ideas. For example, Artim noted some local entrepreneurs would like to see more attention paid to helping/growing current businesses in town.

Selectwoman Laura Asermily agreed with the notion of rebooting Middlebury’s business growth strategies.

“I think there is an opportunity to reframe this by looking at it as economic health for our town, rather than maybe ‘economic development,’” Asermily said.

Artim is looking forward to the new committee’s work on the issue.

“We need to continue economic development,” Artim said. “The question is, how do we do it.”

ceded control of the enterprise — which was facing recession-related financial problems — around four years ago to a group of investors headed by Pryor.

In 2007 Connor Homes moved into the 115,000-squarefoot former home of Standard Register on Route 7. The company moved there in response to growing demand for its products,

recently featured on the popular PBS television series “This Old House.”

Connor Homes blossomed from 32 employees in 14,000 square feet off Exchange Street to 70 workers in 2012. The company’s workforce has periodically shrunk and expanded in reaction to market forces.

It remains to be seen what name Mike Connor will use when and if he re-opens. He noted Pryor has purchased several variations of the “Connor Homes” domain name for use on websites — including (on Jan. 19) the one Mike Connor had intended to use, “Connor Mill Built Homes.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Connor Homes (Continued from Page 1A) With Gaucher’s help, Connor said he has found potential funding for the move, which Connor believes could result in some of the former Connor Homes employees returning within three weeks, with others to follow.

Connor declined at this point to identify the building and its owner.

A return to business under a new corporate name would also allow Connor to satisfy the roughly 10 clients whose home orders were in progress when the layoffs were announced in December. Connor said he has emailed those clients about his current circumstances and a willingness to complete their orders if/when the business is re-established at the new location.

Meanwhile, Pryor confirmed on Tuesday that the 116,000-squarefoot Connor Homes headquarters at 1741 Route 7 South in Middlebury is now being listed for lease or sale,

by Nedde Real Estate. The asking price: $3 million, which includes 19.2 acres of land and two divisible building lots.

Pryor said the Connor Homes property listing was “at the insistence” of Merchants Bank, a lender.

And Pryor offered some additional news: 10 workers with J.S. Benson Windows & Doors — a complementary business that joined

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Connor Homes several years ago — have been summoned back to work. That brings up to 14 the number of Benson employees who are back to making the company’s premium windows and doors, according to Pryor.

Mike Connor has been in the home construction business for more than 40 years, and founded the business that bears his name back in 1992. He

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CASTLETON — The following students recently graduated Castleton University and will be recognized during the 230th commencement on Saturday, May 13, at the Castleton

Pavilion: Emily Booska of Leicester, Jenna Cloutier of New Haven, Nicole Fyles of Leicester, J. Alden Bisson of Middlebury and Seth Hobbs of Middlebury.

Harper Smith of Middlebury has been named to the fall 2016 dean’s list at Roger Williams University in Bristol, R.I.

Fiona Tippett O’Brien of Bristol, daughter of Holly Tippett and Gregory O’Brien, and Nathaniel Stageman Cobb of Middlebury, son of Kimberly and Carl Cobb, have been named to the dean’s list at the University of the South (Sewanee) for the fall 2016 term.

Elyas O’Classen of Goshen and James Pecsok of Cornwall have been named to the University of Hartford dean’s list for fall 2016.

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Montpelier to bring together other groups that (Continued from Page 1A) that I was,” she said. “One of the are under increased threat under the things that struck me was how many incoming administration: LGBTQ different causes everyone was there communities, migrant workers, people of different abilities, people of for.”

This horde of Vermonters had color, immigrants of all statuses.”

McCarty believes the energy paraded from Montpelier High of the march will continue.

School to the seat of Vermont While organizing the march, government, where they volunteers reached out to gathered to rally for over 180 non-profits and the Women’s March social groups, creating a on Montpelier. In midcoalition of individuals and November, a group of about organizations.

80 volunteers assembled to “We even had Watch a video of Greta coordinate the Montpelier conversations about march.

They were Hardy-Mittell reading her motivated by various poem at the Statehouse, as this while we were reasons, but among the well as other photos from the planning,” McCarty said. most common: a sense marches in Montpelier and “We were like, ‘Whoa, what’s happening that the incoming Trump Washington, D.C., with is very real.’ We are administration would this story online at building a network — a threaten the rights of addisonindependent.com. constellation of people women, minorities and across this state who are groups looking to promote already doing this work and have social justice.

Though the worldwide event was a vision for what that looks like branded as a “women’s” march, for our state. To have that network organizers of Montpelier’s gathering, already existing (gives us) an including Katy McCarty, director incredible platform to work toward of development at Rights and inclusivity and social justice in the Democracy Vermont, hoped that the state of Vermont.”

And thousands who were not energy would disperse across the many movements working toward directly involved in organizing the march mobilized to express various social justice.

“We were marching in solidarity messages, many of which were with the march that was happening in plastered on signs that undulated D.C.,” she said. “But we also wanted across the mostly pink crowd.

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“Stronger Together,” one sign read.

“Stop Hate,” read another. Others directed comments directly at the new president of the United States: “POTUS, it takes more courage to help others than it does to hurt them.

You are working for us now.”

FROM ADDISON COUNTY Reid, a Middlebury resident and singer/songwriter who goes by a single name, performed while marchers arrived, singing “Rise Up” by Andra Day, “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free”

by Nina Simone, along with two originals.

She appreciated the symbolism of singing at a rally designed to move people to action.

“You have to actually be a physical presence in order to make your voice properly heard, similar to voting,” Reid said.

Matt Harrison, also a Middlebury resident, said it didn’t make sense for him to stay home.

“I don’t usually go to marches,” he said. “This was different in a lot of ways. I think people needed to react against Trump’s election. I certainly felt that way, and going definitely made me feel better.”

Harrison, 26, said he want to see the movement keep going.

“I’m hoping that it’s the sign or the beginning of a sustained effort,” he said. “I don’t know if that will pan out, because there

VERGENNES RESIDENT TARA Brooks is flanked by her daughters, Olivia, left, and Addie, at the Women’s March on Montpelier Saturday.

were so many different people going, and they all potentially have different standpoints. But I don’t think it’s a stretch that this will be the beginning of some sort of movement. That’s what I’m hoping, that the energy continues.”

For Hardy-Mittell, the march was a starting point.

“During the last stanza in my poem, I say, ‘I don’t know how to act, but I know that I have to, and I know that I can,’” she said.

“As a writer and as a teenager — I

think the best thing I can do to act is to share my voice and to let other people know how I feel. I don’t have influence on policy, I can’t vote, but I can tell other people why they should care and why I care.”

Don’t Tell Me I Can’t Cry

By GRETA HARDY-MITTELL

Don’t tell me I can’t cry because I care.

Don’t tell me I can’t cry because America has told the world, has told our children, that a hard-working, courageous, brilliant woman can be beaten by the lazy class bully who doesn’t know how to keep his hands to himself.

Don’t tell me I can’t cry because the day the glass ceiling should have shattered, instead, a bulletproof layer was built and all the cracks we worked so hard to make were resealed with words of hate.

Don’t tell me I can’t cry when my entire family has been crushed, the people I love most brought to the ground because we fought like hell and still lost, because this is her story, but it’s ours, too.

But don’t tell me I can’t have hope, I can’t matter, I can’t speak up, I can’t keep pounding at the ceilings and the walls

because sometimes we need to be angry in order to fight.

Sometimes we need to cry in order to see clearly and goddammit, right now we all need 20/20 to see how the world fell apart and how we can rebuild it.

So don’t tell me I can’t cry because I care.

And don’t even try to tell me that I can’t care, because if you don’t care, it’s because you won’t be affected, because the cards have been stacked in your favor for so long that one reshuffling won’t matter and you don’t love anyone who’s been dealt the wrong hand.

Either that, or you’re just stupid. But I’m not.

I don’t know how to act but I know that I have to and I know that I can.

So unless you know that, too, do not tell me that I can’t cry.

Because I will anyway.

WEYBRIDGE RESIDENT SUSAN Humphrey snapped this photo of one of the many families participating last Saturday in the march in Montpelier.

Washington (Continued from Page 1A) Gleason said. to be saying people of all different freshness of so many in the crowd. beyond my computer keyboard, in us America.” residents who went to the march. the days after the election,” she said “Maybe the police wouldn’t have backgrounds must have equal rights.

“I got the feeling that a lot of A striking thing for many was the They left from Middlebury Union “It really did (give the march) a people in attendance didn’t have a When she was too late to signup for diversity at the women’s marches. been so welcoming to a large group High School at 10:15 p.m. on Friday, the bus trip, she found a Middlebury There were plenty of men, for one of black people,” she said. moral center.” great deal of experience in activism, drove through the night to D.C., woman, Caitlyn Myers, who would thing. And, although the march was Colwell noted the large number For Colwell, one of the favorite and that’s incredibly exciting to me, disgorged more than 100 locals for take her and her 12-year-old daughter, criticized early in its genesis for being of Black Lives Matter signs that signs she saw in D.C. was carried by that a lot of people — like me — are 10 hours of marching in the nation’s Dahlia Harrison, to D.C. a forum for middle-age white women, she, her daughter and husband saw an African American woman; it read, using this as an opportunity to get capital, and returned to Middlebury “I hoped it would feel like a there was plenty of ethnic diversity on in D.C. It really drove home the “I will see all you nice white ladies at more involved, I see it as essential at dawn on Sunday. public declaration against the ugly the streets of Washington, D.C., the point that those who wish to protect the next Black Lives Matter march, that we all continue,” he said.

People described getting off the misogyny and racism of the election Vermonters said. women’s rights must also protect the right?”

Twelve-year-old Dahlia Harrison buses, or from one of the many cars and also serve as a powerful display The fact that it was non- rights of everyone who is threatened.

“That just sums it up perfectly,” summed up her experience thus: and minivans that journeyed from by kindred-spirits,” Irwin said. threatening white women who were “You can’t separate these things Colwell said. “We can’t just come “It felt like we were contributing the Champlain Valley, and then She was not disappointed: “The expected may have made the police out,” Colwell said. “For us as out when we feel our personal civil to something so much bigger than us. I was one person, adding to the walking for hours among a veritable sheer numbers in D.C. and around and National Guard soldiers who women to say we must have equality liberties threatened.” sea of humanity. The actual point-to- the world, I hope, showed Donald patrolled the march more welcoming, of human rights with men, we have Van Order was energized by the bigger crowd.” point march was called off because Trump and his supporters that we are of the volume of people. Many, watching them, and that our children, perhaps most, of those in our partners, and our attendance could not hear mothers, will resist their Read more the speeches because agendas.” they couldn’t get close One measure of the eyewitness enough to the stage. success of the march was accounts from how smoothly it ran.

“The whole route was Vermonters full of people, there was “What will stay with nowhere to go,” Colwell me, even beyond the at the said.

Montpelier and sheer excitement of the Despite the mass day, is how the march Washington, of humanity, no one represented the creativity felt fear from those D.C., marches and organizational around them. Instead on Pages 4A prowess of women,” they recounted joy at Irwin said. “It should be and 5A. recognizing contingents no surprise that women, from around the country who disproportionately — including Hawaii — manage family and seeing untold numbers of “pussy schedules, plan after-school activities hats.” those pink knit hats made with and childcare, and volunteer (or get turned down kitten ears. volunteered) to take office meeting “Being from Vermont I’ve never notes, were able to use those skills to seen so many people at once,” said orchestrate one of the largest marches 20-year-old Matias Van Order of in American history.”

Middlebury.

Amy Mason of Weybridge He thought the number of people couldn’t make it to D.C., but she would not just impress those who and her 10-year-old daughter Sophie took part, but those for whom the took part in the Women’s March in march was aimed at.

Boston, one of the many satellite “The sheer numbers matter, a marches that brought participation message was sent to Congress — in Women’s Marches on Saturday to and the executive branch, although more than 3 million nationwide.

I don’t think they were listening as “We marched because we wanted closely — that there are millions of to teach our daughters how important people ready to fight them, to make it is to use our voices to stand behind sure that they are not re-elected, if our beliefs,” Mason said. they proceed with their dangerous Mason voiced dissent against the and hate-motivated plans,” Van voice President Trump has brought Order said. to the national discourse, as well as Rebekah Irwin of Middlebury said his policies. she was fired up after Trump won “His chief tactic is to divide the election, and she welcomed the the American people and use our chance to gather in the flesh with differences against us,” she said.

COLORFUL HATS AND signs at Saturday’s Women’s March on Washington are seen here in front of the Trump International Hotel. Protest of the likeminded people.

“We believe it is our differences that election of hotel owner Donald Trump as president brought half a million people to D.C. “I needed that sense of community, make us stronger and indeed make Photo by Arianna Slavin

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 2017

MATT DICKERSON

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Cabin fever and the green caddis pupa

I can go seven or eight weeks in a row without fishing if I want to. I just don’t want to.

Although if do go eight weeks without fishing, I want it to be in the winter when I am cross-country skiing.

Which I’ve been trying to do regularly, but the weather isn’t cooperating.

Twice in the past couple weeks we’ve been promised a half-foot of new snow, and twice the promises have been broken like the word of an unfaithful lover.

Which hasn’t grounded me.

Thanks to their snowmaking, the Rikert Nordic Center has done a wonderful job of keeping some trails open. My wife and I have taken advantage of our season passes there and kept our skis from growing lonely in the garage. In fact, we try to leave our skis in the car, just in case. Though the machine-made snow isn’t perfect, it’s been decent if you’re content to stay on the same 3 km to 5 km. And the woods are still beautiful, even if you do keep repeatedly passing the same tree.

Still, the lack of snow has me thinking about fishing. On Sunday evening I spent some time teaching some beginning fly tying to a few college students in the fly fishing club. Of course sitting around tying flies inevitably leads one to sit around talking about using the flies, which leads to talking about fish and fishing. So I also made a point of writing on my calendar the Tuesday evening meeting and fly tying gathering of the New Haven River Anglers Association. But the storm that failed to deliver a half-foot of new snow before turning to mixed precipitation went instead directly to (See Dickerson, Page 2B)

BEEKMANTOWN, N.Y. — Host Beekmantown, N.Y., on Monday dealt the Middlebury Union High School girls’ hockey team its second loss of the season — and second straight setback — by a 5-1 tally. The Tigers were coming off a Saturday loss at Division I rival Essex.

Helen Anderson gave the Tigers the lead with a first-period goal before the hosts took charge. Tiger goalies Katie Billings (16) and Rowan Hendy (15) combined for 31 saves.

The Tigers took a 7-2-1 record into a game scheduled in Spaulding on Wednesday night, and then are set to host Beekmantown at 5:30 p.m. on Friday.

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Boys’ Hockey 1/25 MUHS at S. Burlington...................Late Girls’ Hockey 1/23 Beekmantown vs. MUHS..................5-1 1/25 MUHS at Spaulding........................Late Boys’ Basketball 1/24 MUHS at Colchester.......... Ppd. to 2/17 1/24 VUHS at Montpelier........... Ppd. to 2/13 1/24 Mt. Anthony at OV................Postponed 1/24 Fair Haven at Mt. Abe...........Postponed Girls’ Basketball 1/25 MUHS at Colchester.......................Late 1/25 Milton at Mt. Abe.............................Late 1/25 Mt. Mansfield at VUHS...................Late COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Basketball 1/25 Midd. at Castleton...........................Late Men’s Basketball 1/24 Midd. vs. Lyndon........................100-90

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Boys’ Hockey 1/28 MUHS at Woodstock..............8:10 p.m.

1/31 Rutland at MUHS.........................7 p.m.

2/4 Spaulding at MUHS.......................7 p.m.

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

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

Panther men split pair of contests

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — The Middlebury College men’s basketball team split two recent games, coming up short on the road in a Sunday NESCAC game before prevailing in a Tuesday non-league encounter.

The Panthers (14-3, 3-2 NESCAC and ranked No. BASKETBALL 22 in NCAA Division III) dropped to a three-way tie for third place in the league behind Tufts (5-0) and Trinity (4-1).

They will host one of the teams with which they are tied, Hamilton (12-4, 3-2), on Saturday at 3 p.m.

On this past Sunday, host Williams (13-5, 2-4 NESCAC) outscored Middlebury by 50-28 in the second half to defeat the Panthers, 89-65.

The Ephs led at the half, 39-37, before shooting 61.5 percent and pulling away from the Panthers after the break. Middlebury shot 33.3 percent in the second half, and Williams finished the game with a 43-28 edge on the boards.

Matt St. Amour finished with a (See Panthers, Page 2B)

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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE FRESHMAN Dylan Montagu clears the high jump bar during the Panthers’ Winterfell meet Saturday. The men’s team finished in first place.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Men’s track wins at home

Women third; teams to host two-day invitational

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men won and the women were third at a four-team indoor track and field meet this past Saturday at their home facility, Virtue Field House.

The Panther men won with 184 points, fol-

lowed by Albany (179), Vermont (158.5) and McGill (28.5). The Middlebury women placed third with 106 points, while Albany (266.5), Vermont (124.5) and McGill (87) rounded out the scoring.

(See Track & field, Page 2B)

Saward to step aside next fall

Sports BRIEFS Girls hockey falls at Beekmantown

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PANTHER JUNIOR KEVIN Serrao anchors the 4x800 relay team Saturday. The team won the event and set a new school record with a time of 7:49.47.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE FRESHMAN Talia Ruxin competes in the mile run at Saturday’s track meet hosted by the Panthers in Virtue Field House. The Panther women finished in third place.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Men’s hockey tops Polar Bears for first win MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s hockey team split two NESCAC home games this past weekend, including picking up the Panthers’ first win of the season on Saturday.

Middlebury (1-13-2, 1-9-0) will play league road games at Connecti-

cut College on Friday and at Tufts on Saturday.

On this past Saturday, Middlebury scored four goals in the second period, three on the power play, as the Panthers defeated visiting Bowdoin, 5-1. Bowdoin dropped to 7-10-0, 4-8-0 in NESCAC play.

After a scoreless first period, the Panthers opened scoring on a power play 1:27 into the second period: Danny Jacobs’ centering pass went in off Vincent Gisonti and into the Bowdoin net. The hosts took advantage of another man-up opportunity 10 minutes later when Trevor Turn-

bull cut through the slot and tipped in a pass from Travis Stephens for a 2-0 lead.

Bowdoin countered 1:34 later on a goal by Thomas Dunleavy, who netted the rebound of his own shot at 12:53. The Panthers got the goal (See Hockey, Page 3B)

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College announced this past Thursday that longtime men’s soccer coach David Saward will retire following the 2017 season after 33 years, a tenure that includes the program’s first NCAA Division III championship (2007) and a 347-119-47 record.

The college also announced that 2008 graduate Alex Elias, a member of that NCAA championship team who has served as the Panthers’ assistant coach for the past four seasons, will take over the team in January 2018.

Saward reflected back on his time leading the program, and looked forward.

“I have had a wonderful time working with all the students and my colleagues,” Saward said. “This feels like the right time to hand the reins over to a young man who I believe will take the program to new heights of success. Alex is a talented, astute coach who is highly motivated to move the program forward.”

Middlebury Director of Athletics Erin Quinn praised Saward.

(See Soccer, Page 3B)

Tiger girls’ Nordic team edges CVU at Rikert Boys take second as skiers excel at home

By ANDY KIRKALDY RIPTON — At a four-team home meet at Rikert Nordic Center on Saturday, the Division II Middlebury Union High School girls’ team placed all four scoring skiers in the top seven to defeat visiting D-I power Champlain Valley, 15-23.

Tiger Ursula Volk won the 5-kilometer classic-style race by more than a minute, and Amelia Ingersoll (third), Malia Hodges (fourth by a second over a CVU competitor), and Isabel Rosenberg (seventh) rounded out the MUHS scorers.

Right behind them were Katherine Koehler in eighth, Caroline Kimble in ninth and Kate Oster in 11th as the Tigers dominated. BFA-St. Albans (81) and Colchester (84) rounded out the field, which also included three Mount Abraham independents. Ashley Turner led the Eagle contingent by taking 28th.

CVU narrowly edged the Ti-

MIDDLEBURY TIGERS CAROLINE Kimball, left, Katherine Koehler and Isabel Rosenberg round a turn during Saturday’s Nordic meet at Rikert Nordic Center. The Tiger girls’ team won the four-team meet.

Photo by Ben Rosenberg

ger boys, 18-21, although MUHS skier Sam Hodges posted a solid 41-second individual win. But the Redhawks, led by Tyler Marshall in second, placed four skiers in the

top seven to defeat MUHS, the defending D-II champion. Also scoring for MUHS were Cade Christner, third; Tom Hussey, sixth; and Ross Crowne, 11th.

Again, those two teams outpaced the field: Colchester (58) took third, and BFA (94) was fourth on a day in which the temperature in Ripton jumped into the 30s and the snow

was soft and heavy.

Weather permitting, the MUHS Nordic teams will return to action on Tuesday at Mountain Top Inn in (See Nordic, Page 2B)

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Women’s hockey splits with Bowdoin

Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) the mixed precipitation, which not only resulted in school cancelations; it also resulted in the cancelation of the fly-tying gathering.

Since the next NHRAA fly-tying Tuesday won’t be until the third week of February, I decided to look for other options to cure my cabin fever. And, thanks to Vermont Fish and Wildlife, Trout Unlimited, and the L.L. Bean store in Burlington, I found some.

The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department website lists several sponsored activities all in the category of Winter Fishing Clinics. They offer ice fishing clinics on Lake Bomoseen on 1/31 (Tuesday) and on Shelburne Pond on Feb. 8 (Wednesday). Both run from 9-11:30 a.m. And though pre-registration is required, both events are free.

Collaborating with a local chapter of Trout Unlimited, they also are offering a three-week Intermediate Fly Tying clinic running Thursday evenings of Feb. 9, Feb. 16 and March 2 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Agency of Natural Resources building in Berlin.

This clinic does have a small cost of $30 to cover fly tying materials, and also requires preregistration.

More information on any of these can be found at their website: www.

vtfishandwildlife.com. Register by calling 802-265-2279.

L.L. Bean is also offering some winter clinics in the same topics: ice fishing and fly tying. By the time you read this, it will likely be too late to attend their free clinic offering general “tips and techniques” on ice fishing to be held in their Burlington store on Thursday, Jan. 26, at 6:30 p.m. But not too late to register for their $129, four-week class on fly tying offered with the option of either four consecutive Saturdays or four consecutive Sundays beginning this weekend (Jan. 28 and 29), or four consecutive Wednesdays starting on Feb. 8.

If a free, 45-minute fly-tying clinic is more in line with your interests — either because it is only a 45-minute session, or because “free” is appealing — L.L. Bean in Burlington will be offering some short, free Thursday evening sessions beginning in February, each one focusing on learning to tie a single fly. You can learn to tie the “Green Caddis Pupa” on Thursday, Feb. 2, or the “Wooly Bugger” on Thursday, Feb. 9, or the “Prince Nymph” on Feb. 16. All of these free clinics run from 6:30-7:15 p.m.

And I’m thinking, even if you don’t have cabin fever, how can you not want to learn how to tie a fly called a “Green Caddis Pupa”?

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The girls’ varsity top 10 and complete local results on Saturday were: 1. Ursula Volz, MUHS, 20:21.

2. Emma Strack, CVU, 21:38.

3. Amelia Ingersoll, MUHS, 21:49.

4. Malia Hodges, MUHS, 21:54.

5. Sophia Gorman, CVU, 21:55.

6. Meara Heininger, CVU, 22:59.

7. Isabel Rosenberg, MUHS, 23:13.

8. Katherine Koehler, MUHS, 23:14.

9. Caroline Kimble, MUHS, 23:16.

11. Kate Oster, MUHS, 24.00.

21. Claire Wulfman, MUHS, 26:15.

23. Audrey Huston, MUHS, 26:23.

28. Ashley Turner, Mt. Abe, 28:23.

33. Margaret Moody, Mt. Abe, 29:58.

35. Katherine Moody, Mt. Abe, 30:24.

45. Charlotte Keathley, MUHS. The boys’ varsity top 10 and complete local results on Saturday were: 1. Sam Hodges, MUHS, 16:52.

2. Tyler Marshall, CVU, 17:33.

3. Cade Christner, MUHS, 17:35.

4. Baxter Bishop, CVU, 17:36.

5. Harken Spillane, CVU, 18:11.

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School senior Ursula Volz won the 5K classic race at Rikert Nordic Center Saturday. The Tiger girls won the meet.

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6. Tom Hussey, MUHS, 18:30.

7. Jack Koskinen, CVU, 18:39.

8. Jared Leonard, CVU, 19:06.

9. Justin McAuliffe, CVU, 19:24.

10. Nikoli Holly, CHS, 19:49.

11. Ross Crowne, MUHS, 20:11.

14. Owen Palcsik, MUHS, 20:41.

44. Harlow Punderson, MUHS. 45. Julian Schmitt, MUHS. 46. Tobias Broucke, MUHS.

(Continued from Page 1B) en the rest of the way. game-high 24 points for Middlebury Jake Brown scored a career-high and hit nine of 18 shots from the 31 points to lead Middlebury, which floor. Jake Brown added 10 points, shot 50.7 percent from the floor.

Eric McCord scored eight Brown added seven aspoints and grabbed eight Jake Brown sists. St. Amour recorded rebounds, and Jack Daly 19 points, eight rebounds scored a dished out five assists. and five assists; Matt On Tuesday, the Pan- career-high 31 Folger finished with a thers turned back a points to lead career-high 11 points, challenge from Lyndon, Middlebury, adding eight rebounds 100-90. Middlebury led which shot and blocking three shots, by 49-33 at the break, and Daly dished out six 50.7 percent and the 6-10 Vikings tied assists. McCord (14 the game at 72-72 with from the floor. points) and Perry DeLo9:13 to go behind strong renzo (seven) also conthree-point shooting: They hit 17 of tributed offensively.

31 three-point attempts.

Raymond Monroe led Lyndon But Middlebury went on a deci- with 22 points, hitting six of sevsive 10-0 run after Lyndon knotted en from behind the arc, and Josiah the score, with five Panthers scoring, Woodruff added 20 points, sinking and Lyndon came no closer than sev- four of seven from long range.

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BRUNSWICK, Maine — The Middlebury College women’s hockey team split a pair of one-goal games this past weekend at NESCAC rival Bowdoin and now stand at 9-3-2, 5-2-1 in league play.

The Panthers are in a battle for first place in the league with Connecticut (7-3 NESCAC), Amherst (5-3-2), Williams (6-4) and Hamilton (4-31). The Panthers host Hamilton this weekend on Friday at 7 p.m. and Saturday at 3 p.m.

On this past Saturday Bowdoin’s Marissa Fichter scored with less than a minute remaining in overtime to lift the Polar Bears to a 2-1 win. Bowdoin improved to 9-6-2, 4-4-1 NESCAC, with the weekend split.

Bowdoin’s Jill Rathke scored the game’s first goal on a power play slapshot from the blue line 2:48 into the middle frame.

Middlebury tied the game late in the third period while on a sixon-four advantage. Bowdoin was whistled for penalty with 1:30 left in regulation, and goalie Lin Han (20 saves) was pulled for an extra skater. With 1:16 to go, Janka Hlinka deflected home Carly Watson’s shot from the right point past Bowdoin goalie Kerri St. Denis (30 saves).

In an overtime that saw penalties on both sides, Fichter converted a breakaway with 56 seconds left for the game-winner.

On Friday, Panther Lizzie Sheline’s first career goal broke a 1-1 tie in the third period, and the Panthers went on to win, 2-1.

Jessica Young put Middlebury ahead at 7:01 of the second period, roofing the rebound of her own wraparound bid.

Polar Bears evened the game 3:14 into the third period on the second of two consecutive power plays, when Kaite Leininger netted a rebound past Panther netminder Julia Neuburger.

Sheline’s game-winner came when she took a feed from Hlinka from the right side and slid a shot inside the far post.

St. Denis made 24 stops for the Polar Bears, while Neuburger made 20 saves for Middlebury.

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2/1 MUHS at Burr & Burton.................5 p.m.

2/4 Rutland at MUHS...........................5 p.m.

Boys’ Basketball 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.

1/31 Woodstock at OV.........................7 p.m.

2/1 Missisquoi at MUHS......................7 p.m.

2/1 Milton at VUHS..............................7 p.m.

2/2 Mt. Abe at St. Albans................7:30 p.m.

2/4 St. Albans at VUHS................11:30 a.m.

2/4 MUHS at Milton...................... 11:30 a.m.

2/4 Missisquoi at Mt. Abe..............12:30 p.m.

2/4 Brattleboro at OV......................2:30 p.m.

Girls’ Basketball 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.

1/30 OV at Proctor..........................6:30 p.m.

1/31 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS................7 p.m.

1/31 Colchester at Mt. Abe..................7 p.m.

1/31 Missisquoi at VUHS.....................7 p.m.

2/1 Mill River at OV..............................7 p.m.

2/3 MUHS at North Country............6:30 p.m.

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

1/28 ............................Tournament at VUHS 1/28 ........... OV at Mt. Greylock Tournament 1/28 ....... MUHS at Corinth, NY, Tournament 1/31 MUHS at Milton...........................6 p.m.

2/2 VUHS Hosts..................................6 p.m.

2/2 OV Hosts.......................................6 p.m.

2/2 Mt. Abe at Harwood.......................6 p.m.

2/4...........Mt. Abe/OV/VUHS at MMU Tourn.

2/4.........MUHS at Franklin, NY, Tournament Gymnastics 1/27 MUHS at Essex...........................6 p.m.

2/8 MUHS at Harwood.........................7 p.m.

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

COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Hockey 1/27 Midd. at Hamilton.........................7 p.m.

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

1/31 Norwich at Midd...........................7 p.m.

2/3 Midd. at Wesleyan.........................7 p.m.

2/4 Midd. at Wesleyan.........................3 p.m.

Men’s Hockey 1/27 Midd. at Connecticut....................7 p.m.

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

2/3 Wesleyan at Midd..........................7 p.m.

2/4 Trinity at Midd................................3 p.m.

Women’s Basketball 1/28 Midd. at Hamilton.........................3 p.m.

1/31 Keene St. at Midd...................5:30 p.m.

2/3 Colby at Midd.................................7 p.m.

2/4 Bowdoin at Midd............................3 p.m.

Men’s Basketball 1/28 Hamilton at Midd..........................3 p.m.

1/31 Keene St. at Midd...................7:30 p.m.

2/3 Midd. at Colby................................7 p.m.

2/4 Midd. at Bowdoin...........................3 p.m.

Late events occured after the print deadline for this section of the Independent.

PANTHER SOPHOMORE SEAMUS Nolan cleared 1.73 meters in the high jump event at Saturday’s track meet hosted by Middlebury.

Track & field (Continued from Page 1B) The Panthers return to action this Friday and Saturday when they host the Middlebury Invitational, beginning at 4 p.m. on Friday and 11 a.m. on Saturday.

On this past weekend, Jimmy Martinez won a pair of individual events to pace the men’s team. He set a new school record in the 600-meter race with a time of 1:21.24, while taking home the title in the 200 (22.48) as well. Also winning for the men were John Natalone and Nathaniel Alberts, who tied for first in the pole vault at 13’7”.

The men’s 4x800-meter squad of Andrew Michelson, James Mulliken, Nathan Hill and Kevin Serrao won in a school-record time of 7:49.47.

Earning second-place finishes on the track were Alex Nichols in the 400 (50.50), Will Meyer in the

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1,000 (2:36.43), and Miles Meijer in the 3,000 (8:51.16). In field events, Tyler Chaisson placed second with a toss of 45’7” in the shot put, and Minhaj Rahman took second with a 48’0” effort in the weight throw.

On the women’s side, Anna Willig took first at 1,000 meters in 2:59.70. Meg Wilson came in fourth (5:14.03) in the 1 mile race, while the 4x400 relay team of Wilson, Paige Fernandez, Emily Mellen and Basia Osborne took third in 4:04.45.

The Panther women also earned four top-three finishes in field events. Tabor Kreager came in second in the pole vault by clearing 10’6”, while earning third were Maddie Pronovost in the long jump (17’1”), Kristin Kimble in the high jump (5’0”) and Mimi Soule in the triple jump (34’5”).

Addison Independent, Thursday, January 26, 2017 — PAGE 3B

Hockey (Continued from Page 1B) back 41 seconds later, when Kamil Tkaczuk buried a rebound from the bottom of the right circle. Middlebury converted on another power play with 3:41 left in the period: Dawson wristed a shot from the point that found its way through traffic. Gisonti capped the scoring with 21.4 seconds left in the third.

Panther goalie Stephen Klein made 32 saves, while Bowdoin’s Nathan Colannino had 20. Middlebury cashed in on three of five power plays and killed all three Bowdoin man-up chances.

On Friday, visiting Colby (7-4-4, 6-3-3) hung on for a 4-3 win over Middlebury, which fell behind by 4-0 before scoring three times in the third period.

Colby got a first-period power-play goal from Devin Albert, and then scored three times in the second, with Geoff Sullivan, Phil Klitirinos and Michael Rudolf finding the net.

The Panthers broke through for a power-play goal at 6:47 of the third.

Brendan Dawson wristed a shot in from the high slot that found its way through traffic for his first collegiate

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE Kamil Tkaczuk watches a shot beat Bowdoin goalie Nathan Colannino during the Panthers’ 5-1 win Saturday night.

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goal. Mitchell Allen made it 4-2 at 11:17, skating up the left wing and snapping a shot in from the circle.

At 15:28 the Panthers came closer with another power-play tally:

Trevor Turnbull finished crisp passes from Allen and Tkaczuk.

The Panthers had two good chances in the final minute with Klein out of the net for an extra attacker, but

Colby goalie Sean Lawrence (27 saves) denied Allen and Mark McLellan. Klein finished with 29 saves for the Panthers.

Soccer Quinn said Middlebury is fortu(Continued from Page 1B) “David has been a model coach at nate to have Elias ready to take over.

“Coach Saward’s departure creMiddlebury,” Quinn said. “He is a master teacher to other coaches with- ates an opportunity for one of the in Middlebury athletics and to soccer outstanding emerging coaches in coaches across the country. He has college soccer,” Quinn said. “Alex been an exemplary mentor to gener- possesses the combination of an astute mind for soccer, ations of soccer players, the ability to teach and as evidenced in part by communicate excepthe success of his for- “Coach tionally well, and the mer players as coaches, Saward balanced perspective in addition to the suc… knows necessary to coach at cess of his program. He the NESCAC and Diviwill be sorely missed.” the game sion III level. We have Saward arrived at so well, he been fortunate to have Middlebury in 1985, cares deeply Alex on our sidelines when he took over the for the past several men’s soccer and wom- about his years, and it became en’s squash programs; players, and clear over time that we he coached the squash he manages were fortunate to have team for 21 years. He to keep our eventual successor has led the soccer squad as our assistant coach.” to 27 postseason ap- perspective Elias will enter his pearances in 31 years, regardless fifth season as the including five consecu- of the team’s top assistant tive NCAA tournament circumstance.” coach this fall and said appearances (1994— Alex Elias his time working with 1998) and 10 overall.

Saward has prepared He has more wins than him to take over. any other coach in Mid“It is a constant education workdlebury soccer history.

In 2007, Middlebury set a school ing with Coach Saward,” Elias said. record with 18 wins against two “He knows the game so well, he losses and two ties, and Saward was cares deeply about his players, and named both the New England and he manages to keep perspective reNCAA Division III Coach of the gardless of the circumstance. It is my honor to continue to work with him, Year.

Saward’s teams have also cap- as well as collaborate as we move the tured two ECAC titles (1986, 1989) soccer program forward.”

The Panthers have reached the and three NESCAC championships (2000, 2007, 2010). He earned New NESCAC semifinals in three of the England Coach of the Year six times four seasons since Elias has joined and NESCAC Coach of the Year the staff. He has helped develop 15 All-NESCAC players, the 2014 twice.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MEN’S soccer coach David Saward, right, will retire following the 2017 season after 33 years as the team’s head coach. Current assistant coach Alex Elias, left, will take over the program next January.

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NESCAC Player of the Year, three All-Americans, and two Academic All-Americans. In the classroom over the past three years, the Panthers have earned the NSCAA Team Academic award each year, achieving the 10th highest GPA in the nation across all divisions in 2014.

Prior to working at Middlebury, Elias spent three seasons as the lead assistant and recruiting coordinator at Division I Long Island University-Brooklyn. During his four-year soccer career at Middlebury, Elias played in three NESCAC championships and captained the 2007 championship team. That year Elias

received First Team All-American, All-New England and All-NESCAC honors.

A Manchester native, Elias was an NSCAA High School All-American at Burr & Burton and helped the Bulldogs win two D-II titles, including a 2-0 defeat of Mount Abraham in 2002. He was the Vermont Gatorade Player of the Year and has been inducted into the BBA athletic hall of fame. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a B.A. in economics from Middlebury and earned an M.A. in psychology from LIU Brooklyn in 2013.

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Man facing heroin trafficking charge ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police jailed a Middlebury man last week on charges that he was trafficking heroin.

On Thursday, Jan. 19, at around 1 p.m., troopers stopped a 2004 Buick Century on Route 7 in the town of Mt. Tabor for speeding. Police report that Scott Racine, 42, of Middlebury was driving the car and 36-year-old Jonathon Gallagher of Rutland was a passenger.

State police alleged that during a search of the vehicle, they found approximately 1,400 bags of heroin.

Both Racine and Gallagher were arrested for the trafficking and importation of heroin. Racine was held at Marble Valley Correctional Facility for lack of $25,000 bail.

Gallagher was jailed at the same prison with bail set at $35,000.

In other recent activity, Vermont State Police: • On Jan. 17 just before 5:30 p.m. responded to a one-car rollover on Carlisle Hill Road in Goshen. Driver Sarah Wideawake, 33, of Brandon told police that she was driving a 2004 Jeep Cherokee 25 mph down a winding section of Carlisle Hill Road when a vehicle traveling in the opposite direction went into her lane. Wideawake reportedly turned her steering wheel to avoid a collision and it felt as if something “disconnected.” Wideawake said she remembered sliding and rolling downhill. Wideawake’s vehicle was totaled, and she was transported to Rutland Regional Medical Center for further evaluation/treatment for unspecified injuries. State police do not believe alcohol or drugs were contributing factors to the crash.

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• On Jan. 19 at 9 a.m. went to a three-car crash on Route 7 at the intersection of South Middlebrook Road in Waltham. Police report that Amber Kimball, 25, of Bristol was attempting to make a left turn onto South Middlebrook Road Route 7 and Brian Gover, 66, of Brandon, who was driving the Ford 150 immediately behind Kimball’s Nissan Versa saw this and slowed down almost coming to a stop.

At approximately the same time a Ford-550 driven on Route 7 by 27-year-old Derick Smits of Shoreham, began braking but could not stop and rear ended Gover’s truck. Smits also swerved and struck Kimball’s Nissan. Kimball was taken by the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad to UVM Medical Center for treatment of back and neck pain.

• On Jan. 19 at 4:20 p.m. responded to a three-car crash in Underhill involving a Bristol resident. Police report that Nicholas Coons, 25, of Essex was driving a Subaru Impreza westbound on Route 15 when he crossed the center line and drove into oncoming traffic, where his Subaru was struck by a Dodge truck driven by 30-year-old Frederick Goodrich of Bristol. The Subaru was totaled and Coons was hospitalized with nonincapacitating injuries; Goodrich was unhurt but his truck sustained major front-end damage. A third vehicle — a 2007 Toyota Tundra driven by George Potter, 59, of Cambridge —

Monkton MONKTON — The Monkton Museum and Historical Society is looking for Monkton photos of buildings (inside or out), events, family gatherings, etc., taken in the 19th or 20th century. The historical society would like to scan your pictures for a historical photo collection. The building pictures can be of public places or private homes. Interior pictures would be a bonus to show our future generations how interior of buildings looked as far as décor or the materials used in doorways, partitions, etc.

left the roadway to avoid a collision.

• On Jan. 19 at a little past 8 p.m. stopped a vehicle on Route 7 in Leicester for erratic driving. The trooper had the driver, identified as Christopher P. Sheldon, 36, of Rutland, evaluated by a drug recognition expert and then cited him for driving under the influence of drugs.

• On the evening of Jan. 20 received a 911 call about a missing person in a wooden area off Greenbush Road in Ferrisburgh.

Police report that Kyle Eichin, 28, of Belmar, N.J., was renting a home on this road with several friends and had gone out alone to pan for gold in the area. Neither Eichin nor his friends were familiar with the area, and the friends had searched for about two hours before they called 911. The area around this home consisted of approximately 65 acres of fields, woods and small swamps and streams.

With the assistance of Vergennes police, the Ferrisburgh Fire Department and a Vermont Fish and Game warden, Eichin was located at approximately 9:35 p.m. Eichin had been lost for approximately 6.5 hours, and after being screened

by Vergennes Area Rescue Squad personnel at the scene was found to be in good health.

• Around midnight on Jan. 23, closed one lane of Route 22A in Shoreham near Route 74 as a result of a tractor-trailer crash. Police did not provide any details on the crash itself, but they said traffic on Route 22A was diverted on to Route 74 East with a detour south on Route 30 to Route 73 and back to Route 22A. The closed road was opened again by 4:30 a.m.

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If you have such pictures, contact the historical society at monktonmhs@gmail.com, call 482-2277 and leave a message with your phone number or watch for the upcoming historical society ‘photo scanning evening’ in August 2017.

It will also be very helpful to have descriptions of the photos and story about the reason it was taken if possible.

All are welcome to attend the Story Hour at the Russell Memorial Library on Friday, January 27 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. The program will

feature a story, craft and simple song.

The following Saturday, Feb. 4, the library will host the Pop Up Card Workshop at the Monkton Friends Methodist Church from 10 a.m. to noon. This program is sponsored, in part, by the Bristol Five Town Arts Grant Program.

Some wonderful new children’s books are for sale at the library priced at $1 and $2 each. They have both hard cover and soft cover books. For more information on the library happenings, call 453-4471.

House warming

THE SETH WARNER-Rhoda Farrand Chapter of the DAR made fleece blankets at their last meeting and took them to the John Graham Emergency Homeless Shelter in Vergennes. The shelter will distribute the blankets to families who are leaving the shelter to enter homes of their own. Pictured are Elizabeth Bicknell, left, and Joy Minns, right, of the DAR Chapter handing over the new blankets to Arran Stokes of the John Graham shelter.

Police deal with rabid animals

VERGENNES — Following a number of recent reports in Vergennes of possibly rabid animals, Vergennes Police Chief George Merkel is asking residents to let city police or local game wardens know if they see any animals acting strangely —and to be careful.

In the past two weeks, Vergennes police have shot four animals acting strangely, including raccoons on Jan. 17 and 20, and on Monday were responding to a fifth report.

Merkel said he had consulted with a game warden, who said it’s not unusual for animals to come out this time of year in periods of warm weather and appear disoriented.

However, disease cannot be ruled out, Merkel said, and he sent one animal an officer shot to a state laboratory for testing. Merkel said he would make those results public as soon as they were available,

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In the meantime, he recommended that as well as notifying officials of any sightings residents should stay away from any wild animals, keep pets on a leash, and not tie them up outdoors.

In other incidents between Jan. 16 and 22, Vergennes police: • On Jan. 16 tried, but failed, to find a truck reported to being driven erratically northbound on Route 7.

• On Jan. 16 backed up Vermont State Police at a Route 7 traffic stop in Ferrisburgh at which the driver became irate.

• On Jan. 16 responded to a report of an injured owl near the intersection of Route 7 and New Haven Road; police picked it up and took the bird to an owl rehabilitation center in Monkton.

• On Jan. 17 after noise complaints told construction workers to stop early morning work at a Main Street business.

• On Jan. 17 searched the Hopkins Road area unsuccessfully for a suspicious man seen there.

• On Jan. 17 referred to the Department for Children and Families (DCF) a report of a man feeling suicidal.

• On Jan. 18 cited Geoffrey P. Penar, 28, of South Burlington for driving under the influence of alcohol on Route 7 in Charlotte.

Merkel said he was returning from a meeting when he saw two cars on the side of the road and a woman apparently in need of help. He said the woman told him her son, who had been driving the other car, might have been drinking. Merkel alleged Penar’s roadside blood-alcohol

contest tested at 0.27, and the result of an evidentiary test is pending. The legal limit for driving is 0.08.

• On Jan. 18 dealt with a fenderbender on Park Street.

• On Jan. 19 ticketed a tractortrailer unit for speeding and defective equipment after a Main Street stop.

• On Jan. 19 ticketed a delivery truck for parking in a handicap spot at the intersection of Main and Green streets; police said it was also blocking access to a hydrant and a crosswalk.

• On Jan. 19 forwarded an allegation of a sexual assault to DCF, and DCF personnel determined the allegation was unfounded.

• On Jan. 20 ticketed a car in violation of the city’s overnight ban on parking on city streets.

• On Jan. 20 issued a no-trespass order to a Ferrisburgh resident on behalf of a Vergennes resident.

• On Jan. 20 checked a report of eight suspicious individuals on First Street and discovered they were playing Frisbee.

• On Jan. 20 sent the department K9 unit to help in the search for a Ferrisburgh man reported missing; he was found.

• On Jan. 21 handled a minor twocar accident on South Water Street.

• On Jan. 22 went to the City Limits parking lot to look into a complaint of a group of loud people, but found no problem.

• On Jan. 22 took a report of a hit-and-run accident in the Shaw’s Supermarket parking lot.

• On Jan. 22 stopped a driver who had left Small City Market without paying for gas and sent him back to pay.

• On Jan. 22 helped out state police by looking into a report of a loose bull at the Ferrisburgh intersection of Botsford and Little Chicago roads.

Police investigate Memorial Sports Center break-in MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police investigated a report of a burglary at the Memorial Sports Center off Buttolph Drive on Jan. 22.

Police said the culprit(s) forced their way inside to steal an unspecified amount cash.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Responded to a verbal dispute in the Seymour Street area on Jan. 17.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS officials with a suicidal patient in the Cross Street area on Jan. 17.

• Investigated a two-vehicle accident, with injuries, at the intersection of Route 7 north and Exchange Street on Jan. 18. Police said one of the drivers sustained minor injuries.

• Spoke with a Middlebury Union High School student on Jan. 18 who said one of his friends had engaged in self-harm.

• Helped Middlebury College Public Safety identify a non-student on campus on Jan. 19.

• Responded to noise complaints in the Court Street and North Pleasant Street areas on Jan. 19.

• Quieted a loud party at a Weybridge home on Jan. 20.

• Assisted Middlebury College

Middlebury Police Log

Public Safety at the scene of an accident on South Main Street on Jan. 20.

• Assisted an Exchange Street business that on Jan. 20 reported someone had forged some of its company checks and cashed them out of state.

• Convinced a local man to return to his home on Jan. 21 after he was allegedly seen walking in front of traffic on Quarry Road on Jan. 21.

• Responded to a report of a suicidal man on the railroad tracks off Seymour Street on Jan. 22.

• Heard from a local resident on Jan. 22 who alleged their stolen credit card had been fraudulently used in another state.

• Responded to a report of a vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Court Street Extension on Jan. 22.

• Responded on Jan. 22 to a reported domestic dispute at a Case Street residence on Jan. 22. Police calmed the situation.

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Public Notices

Index

Found on this Page 5B.

Addison Central Supervisory District – Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Weybridge (2) Addison County Court House (1) Addison County Emergency Planning Committee (1) Addison County Probate Court (1) Bristol (2) Middlebury (2) Middlebury Incorporated School District #4 (1) Union District #3 - Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Weybridge (1) Union High School District #28 – Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven Starksboro (2) Vergennes (1) Vermont Electric Power Company (1)

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 8-1-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF NORMA B. CARR NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Norma B. Carr late of Bridport, 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 19, 2017 Kathleen Bushey 2852 Route 22A Addison, Vermont 05491 802-989-2872 kfbushey@gmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: January 26, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 1/26

WARNING MIDDLEBURY INCORPORATED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 4 ANNUAL MEETING MARCH 5, 2017

The legal voters of Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 in the Town of Middlebury, Vermont are hereby warned and notified to meet at the Mary Hogan School in Middlebury, Vermont Sunday, March 5, 2017, at 4:00 PM to transact the following business: ARTICLE 1: To elect the following Officers for the ensuing year: a) A Moderator b) A Clerk c) A Treasurer ARTICLE 2: To act upon the reports of the Treasurer and Auditor of Incorporated School District No. 4.

ARTICLE 3: To transact any other business proper to come before said meeting. Upon completion of the transaction of the aforesaid business, or upon adjournment of the aforesaid meeting for any other purpose, said meeting shall be reconvened on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at the Middlebury Town Clerk’s Office for the purpose of voting on the following business of the Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 by Australian Ballot. Polls will be Open 7:00 AM to 7:00 PM. ARTICLE 4: To elect three School Directors for the Town School District for a term of ten months (March-December 2017).

Shane Kean, Clerk Middlebury Incorporated School District No. 4 1/23

Member Districts are Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge The legal voters of the Addison Central School District are hereby warned to meet at the Middlebury Union High School in Middlebury, Vermont on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 7:00 PM, to transact the following business: ARTICLE 1: To elect the following officers: a) A Moderator b) A Treasurer c) A Clerk ARTICLE 2: To hear and act upon the reports of the school district officers.

ARTICLE 3: To see if the voters of the Addison Central School District will vote to authorize its Board of Directors, under 16 VSA 562 (9), to borrow money by issuance of bonds or notes not in excess of anticipated revenue for the school year.

ARTICLE 4: To do any other business proper to come before said meeting.

PUBLIC INFORMATION HEARING FEBRUARY 28, 2017 Member Districts are Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge The legal voters of the Addison Central School District are hereby warned to meet at the Middlebury Union High School in Middlebury, Vermont on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 7:00 PM, for a Public Information meeting to discuss Australian Ballot articles warned for vote on Tuesday, March 7, 2017.

Hearing will take place immediately following adjournment of the Annual Meeting of said Addison Central School District.

Linda J. Barrett, Clerk, Addison Central School District Peter Conlon, Chair, Addison Central School District 1/23

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.

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

Property of Concern q Year Round Residence q Water Supply q Land Line and Pole Identification: Utility Initials

Public Hearing to Consider Removal of Trees from Forest Ridge Drive February 13, 2017 – 4 p.m.

Middlebury Town Offices Pursuant to the provisions of Section 24 VSA § 2509, on Monday, February 13, 2017, at 4 p.m., Christopher Zeoli, Tree Warden for the Town of Middlebury will hold a public hearing at the Middlebury Town Offices, 77 Main Street, Middlebury to consider removal of trees from a portion of the right-of-way for Town Highway No. 118, also known as Forest Ridge Drive.

Please contact the Middlebury Town Manager’s Office, 802-458-8000, to request special accommodations to attend the meeting.

Christopher Zeoli Tree Warden Town of Middlebury January 24, 2017 1/26

TOWN OF BRISTOL PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

The Bristol Zoning Board of Adjustments will hold a hearing on February 14, 2017 at the Town Offices located at 1 South Street beginning at 7:30 P.M. to consider the review of zoning permit #17-01, Spencer Harris (Parcel #07-01-17), requesting relief from setback requirements on a preexisting small lot, Bristol Zoning By-laws and Regulations Article V, Sec. 501.

The Bristol Zoning Board of Adjustments will also hold a hearing on February 14, 2017 at the Town Offices located at 1 South Street beginning at 7:30 P.M. to consider the review of zoning permit #16-68, Bristol Country Store (Parcel #09-02-69), requesting relief from setback requirements on a pre-existing non-conforming porch, Bristol Zoning Bylaws and Regulations Article V, Sec. 512.

Copies of the complete zoning applications are available for review at the Bristol Town Office during regular business hours.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

WARNING ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNUAL MEETING FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Name Street Address Town State Zip Code Electric Account Number

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY TREE WARDEN

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 VELCO17 1/5, 12, 19, 26

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

802-388-1966

CITY OF VERGENNES NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS

Notice is hereby given that the Vergennes City Council will hold public hearings on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. and Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 5:30 p.m. in the Vergennes Fire Station Meeting Room pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4385 for the following purpose. Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. § 4384, the Planning Commission proposes to amend Section 4.2 of the Vergennes Municipal Development Plan by incorporating a map that depicts the boundary of the downtown development district as required by 24 V.S.A. § 2793(c) and 24 V.S.A. § 2793a and a list of capital improvement projects within said district.

The map does not alter the current boundary of the downtown development district.

A copy of the full text of the proposed amendment is on file in the City Clerk’s office.

WARNING ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SPECIAL MEETING MARCH 7, 2017

Member Districts are Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge The legal voters of the Addison Central School District are hereby warned to meet at the following polling places on March 7, 2017 to vote by Australian Ballot on the following article(s) of business: District Location Polling Hours Bridport Bridport Community/Masonic Hall 10:00 AM-7:00 PM Cornwall Cornwall Town Hall 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Middlebury Middlebury Town Office (77 Main St) 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Ripton Ripton Community House 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Salisbury Salisbury Town Clerk’s Office 8:00 AM-7:00 PM Shoreham Shoreham Town Office 7:00 AM-7:00 PM Weybridge Weybridge Town Clerk’s Office 7:00 AM-7:00 PM ARTICLE 1: Shall the voters of the Addison Central School District vote to authorize the ACSD school board to expend $30,428,802, which is the amount the ACSD school board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year? It is estimated that this proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of $17,216 per equalized pupil.

ARTICLE 2: Shall the voters of the Addison Central School District vote to authorize the ACSD school board to create and authorize disbursement from a Capital Reserve Fund for the Addison Central School District, and appropriate $481,721 of the FY 2016 Unassigned Fund Balance (estimated at $1,273,441) to said Fund?

ARTICLE 3: Shall the voters of the Addison Central School District authorize the ACSD school board to give notice that in lieu of distributing the Addison Central School District Annual Report by mail within ten days of the District’s annual meeting, shall give at least thirty days’ notice of the availability of such report by inclusion in the warning for the District’s annual meeting, commencing with the District’s 2018 annual meeting.

Linda J. Barrett, Clerk, Addison Central School District Peter Conlon, Chair; Addison Central School District 1/23

The Public Notices, Auctions and Real Estate sections appear every Mon. & Thurs. in the

Addison Independent

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WARNING UNION DISTRICT #3 ANNUAL MEETING FEBRUARY 28, 2017 Member Districts are Bridport, Cornwall, Middlebury, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge The legal voters of Union District #3 are hereby warned to meet at the Middlebury Union High School, Middlebury, Vermont in said district on Tuesday, February 28, 2017, at 6:30 PM, to transact the following business: ARTICLE 1: To elect the following officers: a) A Moderator b) A Treasurer c) A Clerk ARTICLE 2: To act upon the reports of the Treasurer and Auditors of Union District #3.

ARTICLE 3: To transact any other business proper to come before said meeting.

Linda J. Barrett, Clerk Union District #3 Peter Conlon, Chair Union District #3

Auctions Tom Broughton Auctioneer • Home • Estates • Commercial • Consignments Bridport, VT • 758-2494 tombroughtonauctions.com

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for January 19 & January 23 BEEF Bilodeau Bros.

Nolan Family Farm Wilcon Farm A. Brisson Elysian Fields Defreest Farm H. Degraff

Costs Lbs. per lb 1080 .72 990 .69 1410 .66 1370 .665 1475 .65 1350 .655 1075 .65

CALVES Vosterveld Farm Barnes Bros.

Goodrich Farm A. Brisson H. Sunderland

Lbs. 83 99 83 90 109

Dollars 777.60 683.10 930.60 911.05 958.75 884.25 698.75

Costs per lb Dollars 1.10 91.30 1.00 99.00 1.00 83.00 1.20 108.00 .90 98.10

Total # Beef: 314 • Total # Calves: 398 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY – DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, February 13, 2017 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the Municipal Office Building, 77 Main Street, to consider the following: 1. An application by Middlebury Natural Foods Cooperative for a PUD amendment to review changes to landscaping plans approved in August 2016. This property is located at 9 Washington Street, parcel number 25:190, in the Village Residential/Commercial zoning district.

All interested persons may appear and be heard. Written materials may be viewed in the Planning and Zoning Office during regular business hours. (802) 388-8100, Ext 210. Participation in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

Jennifer L. Murray Town Planner/Zoning Administrative Officer 1/26

WARNING UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT #28 (BRISTOL, LINCOLN, MONKTON, NEW HAVEN, STARKSBORO)

The voters of Union High School District #28 are hereby warned and notified to meet at the annual polling places of the respective towns on Tuesday, March 7, 2017, to vote by Australian Ballot on the following article of business.

Hours of opening and closing of polls will conform to those of each town: Bristol Holley Hall 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Lincoln Burnham Hall 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Monkton Monkton Volunteer Fire Department 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM New Haven New Haven Town Hall 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM Starksboro Robinson Elementary School 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM ARTICLE 1. Shall the voters of the Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School District approve the school board to expend $12,261,839, which is the amount the school board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year? It is estimated that this proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of $16,932 per equalized pupil.

Dawn Griswold, Chair Karen Wheeler, Clerk Board of Directors Union High School District #28 Union High School District #28 1/26

WARNING ANNUAL MEETING UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT #28 (BRISTOL, LINCOLN, MONKTON, NEW HAVEN, STARKSBORO)

The voters of Union High School District #28 are hereby warned and notified to meet at Mt. Abraham Union High School in Bristol, Vermont, on Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 7:00 PM to discuss and transact the following business. Article 5 requires a vote by Australian Ballot to take place on Tuesday, March 7, 2017 at the annual polling places of the respective towns at hours conforming to those of each town.

ARTICLE 1. To receive and act upon the reports of the Union High School District Officers.

ARTICLE 2. To establish the salaries for elected officers of Union High School District #28.

ARTICLE 3. To elect officers following nominations from the floor.

A Moderator; b) A Clerk; c) A Treasurer; d) An Auditor for the term of 3 years.

ARTICLE 4. To elect a community representative to serve on the Patricia A. Hannaford Regional Technical School District Board of Directors for a term of 3 years.

ARTICLE 5.For discussion only: VOTE TO BE TAKEN BY AUSTRALIAN BALLOT ON TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 2017, AT THE ANNUAL POLLING PLACE AND TIMES OF EACH RESPECTIVE TOWN. Shall the voters of the Mt. Abraham Union Middle/High School District approve the school board to expend $12,261,839, which is the amount the school board has determined to be necessary for the ensuing fiscal year? It is estimated that this proposed budget, if approved, will result in education spending of $16,932 per equalized pupil.

ARTICLE 6. To see if the voters of the Union High School District will authorize the Union High School District Board of Directors to borrow money by issuance of bonds or notes not in excess of anticipated revenue for the school year, as provided in 16 V.S.A. ‘562 (9).

ARTICLE 7. To transact any other business proper to come before said meeting.

ARTICLE 8. To adjourn the Annual Meeting.

Dawn Griswold, Chair Karen Wheeler, Clerk Board of Directors Union High School District #28 Union High School District #28 1/26

TWO DAY BINGHAM FAMILY

ESTATE AUCTION 9:30 am SATURDAY, JANUARY 28th & 10:00 am SUNDAY, JANUARY 29th

MERRILL’S AUCTION GALLERY

137 JAMES BROWN DRIVE, WILLISTON, VT PREVIEW: Friday, January 27th from 1:00- 5:00, Saturday, January 28th from 8:00 am till 9:30 am, Sunday, January 28th from 8:30 till 10:00 am, or by prior appointment.

WWW.MERRILLSAUCTION.COM

Duane Merrill & Co. has been commissioned to sell the contents of the 1823 homestead of the Bingham family of West Cornwall, VT without additions, including early family pieces descending from Capt Sylvester Mather of Lyme, CT, the Edwards family of Stockbridge, MA, as well as from Arthur Bingham, Jr’s 1940’s 5th Ave, NYC apt. Several generations of the Bingham family attended Harvard, Yale, & Columbia, and the attic was a time capsule- highlights to include period American & Continental Furniture, Paintings, & Prints; Formal & Country Accessories; American & Continental Silver; Medieval Needlework, Illuminated Song Book, & Handwritten Manuscript from a Chained Library; Vintage & Designer Clothing & Textiles, Books, Paper, & Ephemera; Chinese Robes, Asian, & Ethnographic items; Military & Sporting items; Apothecary items; Dolls & Toys; Glass & China. Plan on attending this interesting & diverse one owner auction.

BID IN PERSON, BY ABSENTEE BID, BY PHONE, OR LINK TO ONLINE BIDDING, AND SIGN UP FOR EMAIL NOTIFICATIONS AT WWW.MERRILLSAUCTION.COM ONLINE BIDDING AVAILABLE THROUGH WWW.BIDSQUARE.COM & WWW.LIVEAUCTIONEERS.COM

TERMS: Visa, Mastercard, cash, or approved check.

15% Buyers Premium for credit card, cash, or check Chairs provided, food available All Items Sold As Is With No Implied Or Expressed Warranty.

DUANE MERRILL & COMPANY AUCTIONEERS & APPRAISERS

Specializing In Estate & Antique Auctions Three Generations Selling Since 1931 Mailing Address: PO Box 558, Williston, Vt. 05495 Consignment Auction Gallery: 802-878-2625 e-mail: info@merrillsauction.com ADDISON COUNTY EMERGENCY PLANNING COMMITTEE NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETINGS

The ACEPC monthly meetings in January, February, & March 2017, will be held on the last Wednesday of each month, at the State Police Barracks/Public Safety Building, Rte.7 in New Haven, at 5:00PM. Any changes will be listed on the ACEPC website: www.aclepc.org Local agencies, businesses, first responder groups, town emergency management directors/coordinators, and individuals interested in emergency planning are encouraged to join us.

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TOWN OF BRISTOL REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL ACQUISITION & REDEVELOPMENT OF 32 NORTH STREET FIRE STATION

The Town of Bristol will be accepting RFP’s until 4:00 pm on Wednesday, February 8, 2017.

For the entire contents of the RFP packet, please go to the Town’s website at www. bristolvt.org or call the office at 453-2410.

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CLASSIFIEDS Notices

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Think Spring!

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS FRIDAY: Dis‑ cussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Mondays, 6 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Craft Sale & Flea Market April 1st

Tables 15 ea. or 2/ 25 $

$

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S M O N D AY: 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.

VFW Post 7823 Exchange St, Middlebury To Reserve your table(s) call Wendy 388-9468

Public Meetings 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.turningpointaddisonvt. org.

AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anony‑ mous, confidential and free.

At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

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 Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Mid‑ dlebury United Methodist Church. Discussion Meet‑ ing 10:00‑11:00 AM. Begin‑ ners’ 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 THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Ste‑ phen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

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‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUESDAYS: 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‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services

Services

The Volunteer Center, a collaboration of RSVP and the United Way of Addison County, posts dozens of volunteer opportunities on the Web.Go to

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NORTH FER‑ RISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meeting 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. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 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. (enter side door and follow signs).

Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common 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 meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and discuss‑ ing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better 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.

NEW SUPPORT GROUP ‑ Grief Anonymous Meeting every Thursday @ 6:30 pm at Grace Baptist Church 52 Merchants Row, Middelbury, Vt. First Meeting Thursday, December 1st, 2016

RETIRED DAD LOOKING FOR odd jobs; willing to sit with shut‑ins, rides for ap‑ pointments, run errands, or be of any kind of help. Call Bill Baker, 802‑453‑4235.

WE BUY OLD STUFF Estates, collections, an‑ tiques etc. Also hunting and fishing items. Call Erik 802‑345‑0653.

OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center 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.turningpointaddisonvt. org.

PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at the Mountain Health Center 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, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

PARTY RENTALS; CHI‑ NA, flatware, glassware, linens. Delivery available.

802‑388‑4831.

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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 divers license required. Call Tim at 802‑349‑6676.

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OA (OVEREATERS ANON‑ YMOUS) MEETS on Thurs‑ days at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT.

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PROFESSIONAL PAINT‑ ING; interior/exterior, resi‑ dential/commercial, pressure washing. 20 years’ experi‑ ence. Best prices. Refer‑ ences. 802‑989‑5803.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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Help Wanted A L L A R O U N D FA R M HAND 802‑233‑1249 or 802‑233‑3849 BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

THE TOWN OF CORN‑ WALL is looking for a Sec‑ retary/Minute Taker for our newly formed Development Review Board. The time ex‑ pectation to start would be for one meeting a month, which would run approxi‑ mately 3 hours. Minutes of the meeting would need to be produced in an electronic format within 5 days of the meeting. The starting pay would be $15.00 per hour.

If you are interested in this position, please contact Matt Bonner at 978‑548‑7255 or meb@mattboner.com

3 THE VERMONT SOUP COMPANY is seeking a part time assistant for food prep‑ aration. Call 802‑989‑8363 for more information.

United Way of Addison County is seeking a volunteer music director for our annual United in Harmony Event on March 18th, 2017. Candidate must have a musical background and interest in music and teaching, experience in teaching music is preferred. www.unitedwayaddison If you are interested in learning more about this county.org/ opportunity please call 802-388-7189 or visit our VolunteerDonate volunteer site: http://unitedwayaddisoncounty. and click on galaxydigital.com/need VOLUNTEER NOW!

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Naylor & Breen Builders, Inc. is seeking candidates for an Accounts Payable Manager in our busy general construction office in Brandon, VT. As our ideal candidate you will have a comprehensive knowledge of job costing, invoice coding and data entry, payment processing, maintaining inventory and sales tax spreadsheets, subcontractor billing forms and have the ability to work independently.

Construction office experience is preferred but not required for this position. Proficiency with computer applications and general office equipment is required. This is a full-time position with benefits including health, dental and disability insurance, paid holidays, paid vacation time and a 401(k) retirement plan.

Please send your resume and completed application with three references to: Amanda Locke Naylor & Breen Builders, Inc. 191 Alta Woods Brandon, VT 05733 or email to alocke@naylorbreen.com

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learning more about this volunteer opportunity or would like to respond to this need please call our office at 802-388-7189 or visit our volunteer site at www.unitedwayofaddisoncounty.org/volunteer

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MIDDLEBURY APART‑ MENT FOR RENT 2 miles north on Route 7. Efficien‑ cy apartment. Includes stove, refrigerator,heat, lights and rubbish. No pets. No smoking. $575/ month plus deposit. Call 802‑349‑7557.

SINGLE ROOM PRO‑ FESSIONAL office in historic Middlebury land‑ mark, overlooking down‑ town. Space dimensions 15x15, with common areas and bathrooms shared with other pro‑ fessional tenants. Rent $500 per month which includes heat, electric, hot water, garbage, recy‑ cling and private off street parking. For inquiry call 802‑989‑8822.

MIDDLEBURY‑RTE 7 ef‑ ficiency apartment. Heat, water and trash removal included. No pets. No smoking. $650/month.

Available February 1.

802‑388‑1917.

NORTHLANDS JOB CORPS IS NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT BY CHUGACH EDUCATIONAL SERVICES. WE HAVE MULTIPLE POSITIONS OPEN AT OUR CAMPUS IN VERGENNES.

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Full-Time Sales Associate for Night Shift & Weekends Benefits available.

Residential Advisors

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Recreation Specialist Wellness Manager Business Community Liaison Coordinator Administrative Assistant Security/Driver

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YEAR ROUND WAITSTAFF needed for busy family res‑ taurant. Apply in person to Rosie’s Restaurant, Rte 7 South, Middlebury.

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.

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.

Maintenance Helper Reading Instructor Finance Assistant Driver Education Instructor

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY, GO TO WWW.CHUGACHJOBS.COM. Northlands Job Corps is an Equal Opportunity Employer Female/Minority/Disabled/Veteran.

RITE AID, one of the nation’s leading retail drugstore chains, is looking for responsible individuals to fill these full time positions in the local area. Applicants must be able to work days, nights and weekends.

Experience preferred but will train appropriate candidate.

Please mail your resume or apply in person with your resume to:

RITE AID

1 Prince Lane Bristol, VT 05443 OR your local RITE AID store Interested candidates can also apply online to the position in the careers sections of our website, www.riteaid.com/careers.

MILLWORKER – Full-Time

Seeking reliable person to assist with the manufacturing of flooring and other wood products. Knowledge of various wood species is helpful, but we’ll train the right person committed to learning.

We are a family-owned and operated business where safety is important.

Please call for an appointment.

Call Tom Lathrop (802) 453-2897

Addy Indy Classifieds are online: disonindependent.com/classifieds

Buildings & Grounds Worker/ Public Works Maintainer

Complete job description and application may be obtained on-line at www.townofmiddlebury.org, submitted to Beth Dow at the Municipal Building, 77 Main Street, or by calling 388-8100, Ext 202.

Submit applications by February 10, 2017.

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 ANTIQUE DOUBLE BAR‑ REL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage fire‑ arm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.

HAVILAND CHINA, DELA‑ WARE: 91 pieces including serving pieces $850.00.

Flatware stainless steel, made in England. 87 piec‑ es. $650.00. Vitamix. Like new. $300.00. For details call 802‑453‑5600. 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

LAMB, USDA INSPECTED. 20 pound box $180. Chops, roasts, ground and stew. Por Jay’s Farm, 802‑545‑2170.

Town of Middlebury

As this position is shared by the Highway and Recreation and Parks Departments, flexibility is required in order to respond to the needs of each department as directed by the Public Works Director of Operations.

Store Manager, full time

BRISTOL APARTMENT, 1 LARGE BEDROOM, with bonus room and 1 bath. Efficient gas heat.

Excellent condition. Wi‑Fi, water & sewer included.

No pets. No smoking. $735 month. Contact Tom at Wallace Realty 802‑453‑4670 or Tom@ WallaceRE.com.

BRISTOL NEW TWO BEDROOM apartment.

Trash, snow removal, heat and storage included. $1,400 a month. Pets ne‑ gotiable. 802‑355‑1926.

B R I S T O L R E N TA L S WOODLAND APART‑ MENTS included: heat, hot water, trash pickup, parking, snow removal, mowing, range, refrig‑ erator and dishwasher.

We fix things. Efficiency $560. 1 bedroom $645.

1 bedroom $760. Locat‑ ed on Woodland Drive.

Coin washer and dryer in each building. Pets negotiable. No smoking. susan_bowen@comcast. net 802‑662‑3136.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in 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.

3 LARGE ONE BEDROOM plus apartment, 1,000 square feet on private drive on second floor in carriage house. Large living room, dining area, kitchen, office and bed‑ room. New stove/oven, washer/dryer and refrig‑ erator. Heat and utilities included. No pets. No smoking. $975/mo. Call 802‑388‑0504 for appoint‑ ment. Pictures available upon request.

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.

OFFICE SPACE IN MID‑ DLEBURY. Court Street/ Creek Road, 2nd floor.

Utilities included. 400 square feet. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

ORGANIC, 10 ACRE crop land for lease, New Ha‑ ven. 802‑388‑4831.

T I M B E RW O L F F I R E‑ WOOD: Dry or green. Call for prices. 802‑388‑7300.

3 PRIME RETAIL SPACE I N M I D D L E B U RY i t doesn’t get any better than this fantastic, unique retail space‑ best loca‑ tion in town. Windows on Main St. and windows overlooking Otter Creek in back. 750 sq. ft., AC. Phone 802‑989‑7277 or 206‑715‑5344.

ROOM FOR RENT brand new, furnished. Shared bathroom, kitchen and living room. $100.00 a week. 802‑877‑9237.

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. References.

802‑989‑8399.

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3 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.

Att. Farmers

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LOCAL FEED: NON‑GMO verified oil‑ seed meal available in bulk totes from our Middlebury mill. Pro‑ tein rich, plant‑based, no chemicals, no soy.

Also available; high‑fat finishing feed in smaller quantities. Full Sun Co: 802‑989‑7011.

For Sale

RITE AID is an Equal Opportunity Employer

This is semi-skilled work of moderate complexity in public works maintenance and equipment operation. Work involves performing a wide variety of manual and automotive equipment operation tasks involved in municipal right of way, public infrastructure maintenance and servicing of assigned automotive equipment.

Work is performed under direct supervision.

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Girls use poetry to express experiences Vt. Muslims set to perform in Bristol BRISTOL — Four Vermont Muslim teen slam poets who call themselves “Muslim Girls Making Change” will share their experiences at a One World Library Project program in Bristol in February. The teens, who are juniors at Burlington and South Burlington High School, perform slam poetry to express their passionate concerns. They will present and discuss their work on Thursday, Feb. 3 from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol at a free event hosted by the One World Library Project and sponsored by Bristol Friends of the Arts.

Dedicated to social justice, “Muslim Girls Making Change (MGMC) is a youth-led group created by Hawa Adam, Kiran Waqar, Lena Ginawi and Balkisa Abdikadir. All four grew up in Vermont, though their cultural roots include Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt, Kenya and Somalia.

“The voices of young Muslims, particularly African American Muslims, aren’t heard all that much,” explains Kiran Waqar.

MUSLIM GIRLS MAKING Change from left to right: Kiran Waqar, Hawa Adam and Lena Ginawi (Balkisa “People put us in boxes and get blocks around what we look like.” Abdikadir not available for photo).

Through performance, the group The teen performers developed everybody else in the community at dispels stereotypes about Muslim we feel most deeply,” Waqar points bonds through their large…It’s more than just the four women and advocates for positive out. Writing can be hard work, but close the fun begins after writing. “We try creative journey. The process of of us.” Lena Ginawi adds, “Slam change.

“Muslim Girls Making Change” to present each poem in a way that writing, rehearsing, traveling and poetry has made me into a better performing evokes a range of person. I don’t want to let that go.” was formed almost a year ago. brings the message forward.”

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Water Quality Blueprint tool launched for Lake Champlain MONTPELIER — The Nature Conservancy in Vermont has announced the launch of its Water Quality Blueprint tool for clean water in Lake Champlain. The result of a sixteen-month project, funded by Keurig Green Mountain, the blueprint uses nearly 100 data sets compiled so as to create a unique analysis that identifies good places to invest in nature for clean water progress in Lake Champlain.

The Water Quality Blueprint prioritizes restoration and protection of wetlands, floodplain forests and river corridors. Restoring these natural landscapes filters out pollution from agricultural and stormwater runoff and helps to minimize the impacts from erosion at a fraction of the cost of grey infrastructure such as wastewater treatment plants. This dynamic, webbased map will allow municipalities, watershed managers, conservation practitioners, property owners and state agencies focus on natural infrastructure investments that provide the most benefit to water quality in the Lake Champlain Basin.

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Strengthening natural infrastructure to combat Vermont’s water quality issues, is a win-win, the Nature Conservancy said. Investments in priority areas as identified in the Water Quality Blueprint web map, will also improve and protect wildlife and fish habitat, improve flood and climate resiliency, and increase recreational opportunities.

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LINCOLN — Welcome to January Thaw, Mud Season, and the strangest weather in January!

Hill Country Holiday will be happening this year! There will be Whist (a card game that is fun for all ages and easy to play!) at Burnham Hall on Friday, Feb. 3 at 7 p.m. There will be a parade on Saturday, Feb. 4 and I heard about a spaghetti supper also on Saturday, Feb. 4 at the Hall.

The Lincoln Volunteer Fire Company elected the following at their annual dinner on Saturday, Jan. 21: Chief Dan Ober; 1st Asst.

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Service award pins were presented to: Dudley Leavitt and Eleanor Scully (10 years); Steve Atocha and Scott Bernoudy (15 years); Mary Harrison (20 years); Jeff Cousino (30 years); and Dave Harrison (35 years).

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January 26, 2017

PhotoPlace Gallery manager Megan Owen and director James Barker stand by photos hanging in the Middlebury gallery.

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PhotoPlace Gallery scratches an itch

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hey say “be careful what you wish for” — something James Barker knows all too well, after all, that’s how he became the current owner of the PhotoPlace Gallery in Middlebury. It happened quickly for Barker, back in the spring of 2014; he was standing by one of his photographs that was selected for the exhibit at the time and was chatting with Rick Clark, co-founder of the gallery.

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“I was standing in front of my photo telling Rick what a good idea this gallery is,” Barker remembered. “Two and a half months later, I owned it.

“I was right at the age of retirement when this opportunity came up,” said Barker, who’s been taking photos (professionally and personally) for almost 50 years. “It was like a manna from heaven.” So what of retirement? “It’s not in the cards,” said Barker.

Clark and his wife Kirsten Hoving (who, by the way, is a

photographer in her own right, as well as a long-time professor of art history at Middlebury College) first opened the photo gallery at 3 Park Street in June of 2009. “When they started the gallery,” said Barker, “there were very few models like it in the area.” Seven and a half years later, “there’s a lot more competition,” said Barker. “But we’re holding our own.”

The gallery displays juried exhibitions featuring up to 35 pieces of work by photographers from all over the world. The exhibits change monthly. Barker picks the themes and jurors for the shows.

“Kirsten, being an academic, promoted the gallery through academic channels,” said Barker. “Me, being pretty much anything but academic, I reach out in different ways; like through social media.”

Just a few weeks ago, Barker hired Megan Owen as the gallery’s manager. Owen, from Lincoln, is a budding photographer with four years under her belt. Her photography stemmed from her daughter’s birth five years ago, and from her own shyness in front of a camera.

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“My mom forced CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 me to have maternity photos done,” Owen explained. “Now I have a profound appreciation for those photos... I want to help others see themselves differently and get into the healing arts of photography.”

Barker’s found that the gallery’s social media efforts have reached a more diverse and larger pool of photographers. He said he sees it in the number of applicants per exhibit and in the geography, “we have submissions from Israel, South Korea, South America, Texas...” just to name a few.

For a $35 entry fee, applicants are able to submit up to five pieces. (More entry information is available at photoplacegallery.com.) The photo submissions are then judged by one juror and the top 35 images are select to hang in the show.

The jurors Barker gets for the exhibits have some serious street-cred. Some of them come from Barker’s photography connections, and others, well, they simply said “yes” to a random inquiry from the Middlebury gallery. Even Barker’s surprised sometimes. “I’m blown away with the four jurors we have in a row,” he said, referencing the next four exhibits coming to PhotoPlace Gallery.

Sam Abell juried “Composed” on exhibit in February.

Arthur Meyerson juried “The Color of Light” on exhibit in March.

AN OPENING RECEPTION FOR “COMPOSED” WILL BE HELD AT THE PHOTOPLACE GALLERY ON SATURDAY, FEB. 4, FROM 4:307 P.M. JUROR SAM ABELL WILL WALK THE GALLERY AND SPEAK ABOUT EACH PHOTOGRAPH IN THE EXHIBIT, BEGINNING AT 5 P.M. ALL ARE INVITED.

Dan Burkholder juried “Alternative Processes” on exhibit in April.

Joyce Tenneson juried “Portraits of the Spirit” on exhibit in May.

Through it all, “photography has never left,” said Barker. The Charlotte resident describes his work as “stark-ish landscapes”; others might call it “minimalism.” Barker was most recently accepted to the Santa Fe Workshops — photography workshops with a world-class reputation — but withdrew his application.

“I didn’t feel like I had 20 images worth submitting,” he said. “Since I bought the gallery I take very few photos anymore... dealing with, living and breathing the photos here seems to scratch that photographic itch.”

Barker started his career back in 1968, when he took a “real job” as a staff photographer for “Backpacker Magazine” in New York City. Then in ‘73, he left the city in an effort “to keep the body and soul together” and went to live with his sister on a farm she bought in Cornwall.

Occasionally, the mood strikes and Barker submits his own work to the exhibits, but you wouldn’t recognize it because he uses the pseudonym Georg Krausch. Where’d that name come from? Turns out to be the name of Barker’s early 19th century Viennese cello maker. Barker picked up cello at age 55 and played sometimes as much as eight hours a day for eight years.

“One day I just stopped,” he said. “I came to the realization that I could play until I couldn’t play anymore, and I still couldn’t get to where I wanted to be.”

“I was in the middle of developing my professional career,” said Barker, remembering his mid-20s, “and what did I do? I moved to my sister’s farm to milk cows.”

Also, Georg Krausch is “one of the nastiest sounding names” Barker could think of. But now, Barker’s going to have to come up with a new pseudonym... wonder what the next one will be?

If you don’t know who these photographers are, that’s OK, just act impressed. They’re some bigwigs, and show just how connected Barker and the PhotoPlace Gallery are.

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In the ‘80s, Barker took a job in Maine — with “National Fisherman” as the circulation manager — so he could sail. He also had a studio for portraits. But after eight years, he moved back to Vermont and worked in marketing for Shelburne Farms, then for “Vermont Magazine” and then spent 15 years running an ad agency (Stockbridge Communications) with his wife.

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James Barker is a lifelong sailor. He first got on a sailboat when he was eight. Some 20 years ago he spent three months full-time studying for a U.S. Coast Guard merchant marine officer’s license, and, with a lifetime of sea-time, received a 100-ton Master’s license for power and sail. This gave Barker the credentials to skipper yacht deliveries, which he did as a sort of paid vacation for a number of years. Almost all of them were offshore, either to and from Bermuda or New England to British Virgin Islands via Bermuda.

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Marilyn Gillis CREATIVE SPACE GALLERY WELCOMES FIRST EXHIBIT OF THE NEW YEAR

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arilyn Gillis will be the first featured artist at the Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes this year. The exhibit — “A Visual Record: Recent Work

by Marilyn Gillis” — will feature selections of Gillis’ recent fiber art, created by working with handmade silk papers, fabrics, paint, dye and other mixed media. There will be an opening reception for the exhibit on Friday, Jan. 27 from 5-7:30 p.m. at the gallery on Main Street. Added bonus: Vergennes Wine will provide tastings at the opening reception.

“I make art as a visual record of my life, thoughts and feelings,” said Gillis in one of her artist statements. “Fiber is the medium I choose because it is an integral part of our lives — every day, from birth to death.

“Fiber has a tactile quality that has universal appeal,” Gillis continued. “My art begins with surface design: I dye, paint and print fabric, and I make silk-paper and felt. In this culture of mass production, it is important to me that my art shows ample evidence of my own hand. My ideas emerge from the textiles I create and I work intuitively as pieces evolve. I work without a plan, but within loose parameters that are subject to revision as the design progresses.

I approach my designs by acting and responding, unbound by constraints of ‘should’ and shouldn’t.’ I use a wide range of materials and techniques — whatever works to translate my ideas to the piece I am making.”

In her adult life, Gillis said she’s done four important things: raising a daughter, teaching, working for feminist causes and creating fiber art.

The Crown Point, N.Y., native earned her undergrad degree in Human Development at SUNY before coming to the University of Vermont for a graduate degree in education.

“I taught health and human development for 40 years at Milton High School,” said Gillis. “In addition, for 16 years I taught undergraduate and graduate courses in human sexuality and human development at UVM, and taught graduate courses in Adolescent Development at St. Michael’s College.”

Gillis has been retired from teaching for 10 years, but still remains an active community volunteer.

She served for 20 years on the Board of Directors for HOPE Works (formerly the Women’s Rape Crisis Center); prior to that she did consulting work for Women Helping Battered Women.

“Hence my interest in, and devotion to, women’s rights,” Gillis said, “particularly in areas of sexual and domestic violence.

“ART IS A WAY TO DOCUMENT MY LIFE, MY IDEAS AND MY FEELINGS AS WELL AS TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO THE WORLD ABOUT IDEAS AND ISSUES I CONSIDER IMPORTANT AND MEANINGFUL.”

“Many years ago, I made a series of art quilts about violence against women,” Gillis said.

“After exhibiting them in galleries around the country, I donated them to HOPE Works to hang in their offices.”

Gillis has also donated 16 pieces of art to Art for Shelters — a program through the Vermont Network Against Sexual and Domestic Violence coalition that hangs art in shelters around the state.

“Obviously non-profit domestic violence shelters do not have funds to purchase art,” said Gillis, “but it is important that women seeking shelter from violence have beautiful and calming surroundings in which to reside and recoup energy to go forward in their lives. I am happy to contribute in a small way to that effort.”

Gillis also volunteers as a Guardian Ad Litem for the Family Court in Chittenden County.

She’s been serving as an advocate for children who are under court jurisdiction in the Department of Children and Families for the past seven years.

“My feminist work and beliefs have inspired much of my art, as has my love of nature and

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native cultures of the world,” said Gillis. “Art is a way to document my life, my ideas and my feelings as well as to make a statement to the world about ideas and issues I consider important and meaningful.”

Gillis is a Member Artist of Creative Space Gallery, and also a member of the Surface Design Association and the Book Arts Guild of Vermont.

See more work by Marilyn Gillis at www.marilyngillis.com or the Creative Space Gallery. For details about the Creative Space Gallery call (802) 877-3850 or visit www.creativespacegallery.org.

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OUT OF TOWN Duo celebrates 40 years with concert DAVYDOV AND FANNING PERFORM IN RANDOLPH BEFORE THEIR EIGHTH CONCERT TOUR OF EUROPE

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iddlebury-based Dieuwke Davydov and Diana Fanning are celebrating 40 years as a duo this year. The pair will embark on their eighth concert tour of Europe this April. Before they go, the cello/piano duo and will unveil their program at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 7:30 p.m. There will be a meet-theartists reception in the gallery following the performance.

On the program will be Beethoven’s Sonata for Piano and Cello #2, Phantasiestück, Opus 8, #2 by Paul Hindemith, and Allegro Appassionato by Camille Saint-Saens, featuring Davydov on cello. Fanning will perform two etudes for solo piano by Debussy and Chopin’s Berceuse, Op. 57. To honor their 40th anniversary together as a duo, Davydov and Fanning have chosen the Brahms Sonata #1 in E minor, Op. 38 to be part of the program because it was on the very first program that they played together.

Also featured on the Chandler program is a work by Randolph’s own resident-composer, Kathy Wonson Eddy. The composition for

Diana Fanning and Dieuwke Davydov will perform a concert at Chandler Center for the Arts in Randolph on Saturday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. before departing on their eighth tour of Europe this spring.

piano and cello, “Peace on Earth: A Hermit Thrush Singing in Deep Woods,” was composed shortly after the tragedy of Sept.

11, “as a touchstone for people to find their way back to peace.”

Fanning and Davydov been acclaimed in the U.S. and abroad for their virtuosic brilliance, musical insight, and remarkable rapport as a duo. Besides touring in New England and the recent release of a CD of live concert performances, they have undertaken extensive concert tours of Europe which have included recordings for Radio Netherlands. Radio audiences in the U.S. have heard the duo on the “Morning Pro Musica” Live Performers Series over WGBH-FM, Boston; in live concert performances on WNYC, New York; and on Vermont Public Radio.

Tickets for the Chandler concert are available online at www.chandler-arts.org or (802) 728-6464.

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IN TOWN Middlebury students dances across borders LOCAL PERFORMANCE FOLLOWS CULTURAL AND ARTISTIC EXCHANGE IN MAZATLÁN, MEXICO

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he Dance Company of Middlebury will present their new evening of contemporary dance performance, “Border | Zones” this Friday and Saturday at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. This performance follows a premiere at the historic Ángela Peralta Theatre in Mazatlán, Mexico, culminating the company’s two-week residency at the Mazatlán Professional School of Contemporary Dance (EPDM).

Directed by Scotty Hardwig, this concert centers on themes of boundaries and borders between nations, people and ideas. “Border | Zones” was produced as part of an international collaboration with Mexican choreographers Omar Carrum and Claudia Lavista, who are both dancers, co-artistic directors, and choreographers of the professional company Delfos Danza Contemporanea. Carrum and Lavista are also co-directors and teachers at EPDM.

Dance Company of Middlebury will perform Border | Zones this Friday and Saturday at the Mahaney Center for the Arts in Middlebury.

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Hardwig has created a new work, “sun breaks down,” in collaboration with the student company. The evening will also feature repertory work by Carrum and Lavista, entitled “Dulce Silencio (Entorno).” Both events feature student dancers from each institution.

Pester ’17, Otto Pierce ’16, Liv Reuss ’19, and Emily Schreffler ’17. The Middlebury performance also features an original work

by EPDM student dancer and choreographer Paola Reyes Guzman.

This year’s company includes dancers Miguel A. Castillo ’18, Mandy Kimm ’17, Deborah Leedy ’18, Amanda Lorena Neira ’17, Andrew

The Dance Company of Middlebury presents “Border | Zones” on Friday, Jan. 27, and Saturday, January 28, at 8 P.M., in the Dance

Theatre of the Mahaney Center for the Arts in Middlebury. A post-performance discussion and reception will follow Friday’s performance. Tickets are $12 for the general public; $10 for Middlebury College ID card holders; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more information, or to purchase tickets, call (802) 443-MIDD (6433) or visit go.middlebury.edu/arts.

one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK COMPASS ARTS AND CRAFTS SALE

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Are you an artist or crafter? Brandon’s Compass Music and Arts Compass Music Center, Brandon and Arts Center is holding an arts and crafts sale on Jan. 28 from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Come shop other artists’ supplies and artwork. At past events, shoppers found: artist paper, frames, paint kits, fabric, tools, books, artwork and crafts.

Interested in selling your items? Spaces can be reserved through today, Thursday, Jan. 26. Visit www.cmacvt.org or call (802) 247-4295 for info.

Amadeus will broadcast live Town Hall Theater, Middlebury from the National Theatre next Thursday. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna― and is determined to make a splash. Court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music and ultimately, with God. Tickets are $17; $10 for students. More info at www.townhalltheater.org or (802) 382-9222.

5-Town Friends of the Arts is selling raffle tickets for a Vermont Folk Rocker created by Jim Geier to raise money to support art and cultural programs for children in Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven and Starksboro. 5-TFA offers community grants twice annually. In 2016, there was an increase in applications for these grants; this raffle will help make more funds available. Raffle tickets are $10 each; only 300 will be sold. Tickets are available at Art on Main in Bristol. The raffle drawing will take place on April 9 at 5-TFA’s annual celebration. More info: www.5townfriendsofthearts.org.

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GREEN MOUNTAIN DONKEYBALL WILL PERFORM THEIR SHOW IN BRISTOL ON SATURDAY, JAN. 28, FROM 6-7 P.M., AT THE MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION HIGH SCHOOL GYM. STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS WILL PLAY BASKETBALL WHILE RIDING DONKEYS. ADMISSION: $10 AT THE DOOR.

ACTIVE 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.

GREEN MOUNTAIN DONKEYBALL SHOW IN BRISTOL. Saturday, Jan. 28, 6-7 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School gym. Mount Abraham Union High School is sponsoring the Green Mountain Donkeyball show out of Danby. In Donkeyball, students and community members play basketball while riding donkeys in a safe and fun environment. Children under age 12 will get to meet the sweet, intelligent steeds during intermission without charge. Concessions will be available. Tickets $8 in advance; $10 at the door.

Tickets available at Mt. Abe or at Martin’s Hardware.

We will also be raffling off a 2004 Toyota Corolla.

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.

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 crosscounty 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.

ARTS 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.

CRAFTS 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.

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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.

DANCE 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 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.

FARM TO BALLET AUDITIONS IN SOUTH BURLINGTON. Dancer Interest Session held Saturday, Feb. 4, 1 p.m., and auditions on Sunday, Feb. 5, 11:30 a.m., Spotlight Vermont, South Burlington. There will be eight performances around the state this year with shows starting in July and ending mid-August. For more information visit www.farmtoballet.org.

FILM “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-beforeseen images that will change the way we see the planet. Free. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

“AMADEUS” IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Feb. 2, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Town Hall Theater will broadcast “Amadeus,” the first National Theatre Live show of 2017. Tickets $17/$10 for students and may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222, at the THT box office or at the door.

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LECTURE 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.

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.

Stephen’s Episcopal Church. St. Stephen’s on the Green will present a free 1/2 hour noonday concert on the last Thursday of each month at 12:15 p.m. The concerts are informal (brown bag lunches invited) and light refreshments will be provided. The first concert will feature Rev. Kim Hardy, cellist, playing Scottish composer James MacMillan’s suite “Northern Skies.” George Matthew Jr., organist of St. Stephen’s, will accompany Rev. Hardy on piano.

CLIMATE ACTION 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.

MUSIC NOONDAY CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Jan. 26, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St.

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.

STORY TIME 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.

THEATER 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.

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MEETING TIME 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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Eliza and Erlé from Farmhouse Ice Cream and

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ixteen years old is pretty young to be making life decisions, but not for Erlé LaBounty; that’s when he decided to become a chocolatier. He began crafting his first truffles in his grandfather’s farmhouse in Randolph and has been refining them for the past 19 years.

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Rocca — a foodie in her own right, who’s worked on vineyards in Italy, France and here in Vermont.

“It’s not such a stretch that they should scheme to transform one partner’s longstanding part-time chocolate project into a full-time, all-consuming gig...When you fall in love with someone who has a dream, this is what you do.”

LaBounty quit his other jobs and began working for himself fulltime in May of 2014. That year, they also launched their ice cream and sorbets at local farmers’ markets.

“I used to watch my mom and “We said, ‘How hard can ice cream her friend make chocolates at be,’” said La Rocca, who heads the Christmas,” LaBounty remembered. ice cream operation. “We couldn’t But that’s about the extent of his have anticipated mom’s influence exactly what we were on his chocolates. in for.” La Rocca joined From a simple her husband full-time truffle recipe, “WHEN YOU FALL in May 2015. “Making LaBounty makes ice cream from scratch the confections IN LOVE WITH is a lot more lengthy his own; flavoring, SOMEONE WHO and regulated than rolling and anyone knows... It’s dipping each HAS A DREAM, hard to educate our truffle by hand.

THIS IS WHAT customers without YOU DO. ” sounding pedantic or LaBounty joined bitter,” said the 2007 the culinary

— Eliza La Rocca Smith graduate. “And it program at shouldn’t be pedantic Randolph and bitter because Technical Erlé LaBounty and Eliza La Rocca are the co-owners of Farmhouse Ice Cream and Chocolate it’s ice cream, and it Career Center,

should be fun.” then earned his degree from New England Culinary Institute in the fall Thirty-somethings, LaBounty and La of 200l. After graduating he held various jobs including an almost six- Rocca believe that offering frozen desserts is crucial to creating a yearyear stint at the Otter Creek Bakery round business. Plus, “I have been in Middlebury. ice cream obsessed for most of my life,” said La Rocca.

LaBounty met his wife Eliza La Rocca when they were both working Now, the chocolates aren’t a walk in Woodstock at Pane e Salute. “It down easy-street either. First let’s was like meeting the prodigal son,” said La Rocca. Apparently, LaBounty talk ingredients: sourcing chocolate that is organic, fair trade, without soy had a pretty good reputation there.

The two clicked and were hitched in or lecithin is not easy. Then, because there’s no lecithin, the chocolate June of 2012. is more difficult to work with; so tempering can be tricky. “Chocolate “So you take two people obsessed with lecithin reaches temper better,” with and intrinsically drawn to food, they get married,” said La CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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said LaBounty. But he’s mastered working with the non-lecithin chocolate. “There are still some days that it misbehaves,” he laughed. Next up is flavoring: LaBounty uses mainly whole foods these days to flavor his chocolates — grapefruit, lavender, lemon, rosemary, espresso and cacao nib are the current flavors.

Finally: rolling and dipping the truffles by hand.

“I have a scooper,” said LaBounty.

“No, it’s you, and the scoop,” corrected his wife. “It’s hard to roll truffles,” she said. “It takes me four times as long and my balls are uneven.”

Once the truffles — or salted caramels, which are the newest additions to the menu — are made, there’s the impossible task of not eating them all. “People think they’d gain 400 pounds,” said La Rocca. “But you wouldn’t because you’d be eating all of your profits.”

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Sure the long hours and laborintensive days can be a drag, but the couple has based their business on products they’re both passionate about, and on values (like sourcing local and organic ingredients, and using earth friendly packaging) that they believe in.

“Some day, we won’t have to work seven days a week for eight months out of the year (and 6 days a week for the rest of the year),” said La Rocca. “But for now, we give everything we’ve got to this business because we believe in it, and we believe in each other.

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LO VE NEED A LITTLE INSPIRATION?

HERE ARE SOME OF THE BEST LOVE LINES SUBMITTED TO THE ADDY INDY OVER THE PAST SEVEN YEARS:

SARAH, YOU ARE THE BUTTER ON MY BREAD, THE SPRING IN MY STEP, THE SUN ON MY FACE, THE MAPLE SYRUP IN MY COFFEE. 15 YEARS SEEMS LIKE JUST YESTERDAY. All my love always, John

Bring back the art of love letters Today’s digital world has given rise to fast, stinted communications. According to the Pew Research Center, texting is the most widely used smartphone app, with 97 percent of Americans using it at least once a day.

Across the globe, 8.3 trillion text messages are sent each year. That translates to roughly 16 million messages per minute. But come Valentine’s Day, your sweetheart might be less than impressed if they receive a text, so better dust off that pen and paper and write a good-ol’-fashioned love letter.

You might be surprised, but love letters are cherished keepsakes and a great reminder of your present-day love for one another.

Here are some steps for writing a romantic love letter or note.

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Jot down ideas and inspiration. Make a list of attributes and qualities you love about

TO MY DELICIOUS MUFFIN: I LOVE YOU MORE THAN A BACON WRAPPED HOCKEY-FLAVORED MICRO BREW AFTER 18 HOLES. mulu – your Tiger

your partner. Write down any phrases and words that come to mind; they can serve as the foundation for the letter.

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Categorize your thoughts into three areas. Jot down things that you like and love about your honey, things that you appreciate about them, and some of your favorite memories together.

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Write from the heart. Don’t feel pressured to make the letter more complicated than it has to be.

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Make the letter personal and specific.

Small details are important and make love letters more meaningful.

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Disregard length. The letter does not have to be a certain length. Whether it is a paragraph or several pages, the letter will be a success.

BOO- YOU MAY PUT OUT FIRES, BUT YOU SPARK MINE. I Sunshine. B (and H too!)

LOVE YOU. TEAZER, YOU ARE THE SMACK DADDY OF LOVE. Hugs and kisses, Smoochie

BUG, WE ARE TWO PEAS IN A POD. Sweet Pea I LOVE YOU DEARLY,

SUFFICE TO SAY THANKS, SISTERS MAKE THE VERY BEST

BABE, I DON’T THINK YOU’RE OLD XOXOXO your biker chick OR SLOW.

Share the love Send us the best 40 words of your love letter and we’ll let everyone know just how much you love your sweetheart. Look for the special Love Lines section of the Addison Independent on Monday, Feb. 13.

Email submissions (before Feb. 9) to: annah@addisonindependent.com or go to www.addisonindependent.com/love_notes Or drop them off or mail them to our office at 58 Maple Street in the Marble Works, Middlebury.

OF MY VALENTINES. Love to E&P today and every day. -C

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EXHIBITS A VISUAL RECORD: RECENT WORK BY MARILYN GILLIS. On exhibit Jan. 27-Feb. 17, featuring Marilyn Gillis’ recent fiber art, created by working with handmade silk papers, fabrics, paint, dye and other mixed media. An opening reception will be held Friday, Jan. 27 from 5-7:30 p.m. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main Street, Vergennes. (802) 877-3850 or www.creativespacegallery.org

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MOLLY WATSON HAWLEY. On exhibit Jan. 13-Feb. 28, featuring Molly Watson Hawley’s landscapes, seascapes and portraits. Jackson Gallery, located in the lower level of Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org/jackson-gallery.

QUAKER MADE: VERMONT FURNITURE, 1820-1835. On exhibit at the Rokeby Museum. Route 7, Ferrisburgh. 877-3406.

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.

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.

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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.

GOYA: VISIONS OF FLESH AND BLOOD

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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AMADEUS

Court composer Antonio Salieri begins a war with Mozart, music, and ultimately, with God in Peter Shaffer’s Tony®Award winning play.

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An insightful comedy of South Boston class and culture, this Tony®-Award winning hit is darkly funny and surprisingly touching.

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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.

VERMONT: IDEALS & ORDEALS. On exhibit Jan. 13-Feb. 11, featuring photos by Denise Letendre Bach. Compass Music and Arts Center is located in Park Village at 333 Jones Drive, Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or www.cmacvt.org.

Fri 2/17 7pm $12

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With Nate and David Gusakov for their new release Regeneration. Cutting-edge acoustic folk: mindful of the heart, mindful of ancestry, mindful of joy... with strings, vocals and wildly creative compositions.

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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.

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, featuring landscapes

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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Sun 2/19 2pm $12 MNFF WINTER SCREENING SERIES

MOONLIGHT

Winner of the 2017 Golden Globe for best Drama, Moonlight chronicles the life of a young black man from childhood to adulthood as he struggles to find his place in the world.

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MUSIC Zephyr returns to Brandon stage

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ephyr, an Addison County based quartet, will return to Brandon Music on Saturday evening for another show. Zephyr’s music has been mined in the general vein of roots Americana — a harmony-rich, lyric-oriented, primarily acoustic style of music bringing together influences of folk, SATURDAY JAN. bluegrass, blues, gospel, Brandon Music country and the singersongwriter tradition.

They play a mix of unique originals interspersed with occasional covers by songwriters such as Buddy and Julie Miller, Gillian Welch, Mark Heard, Bruce Cockburn and T Bone Burnett.

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The band features Susan Nop on keyboard, accordion and lead vocals; Matthew Dickerson on guitar, bass, harmonica, mandolin and vocals; Kathleen Smith on vocals and percussion; and Dutton Smith on violin, bass, percussion and vocals.

The quartet knows how to tell a good story; they carry a strong narrative strain in their songs and focus on tight and interesting harmonies.

But more than anything, they exude a refreshing vulnerability, honesty and passion in their music.

Dickerson and Nop are the songwriting team behind Zephyr. Many of their songs have been recorded in Nashville with some of the top musicians of that music-rich city. Prior to his work with Zephyr, Dickerson received national radio airplay as a songwriter, bassist, and one of the original members of the blues band

Susan Nop, Matthew Dickerson, and Kathleen and Dutton Smith will perform as Zephyr at Brandon Music this Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m.

Deep Freyed. He is also the author of numerous books including a recent fantasy novel “The Gifted” and a number of books about fly-fishing and ecology.

Nop, who’s soul-full and passionate vocals help give Zephyr its distinctive sound, has also performed as a classical pianist, though she has also fallen in love with the accordion.

Kathleen Smith, in addition to active work in local musical theatre, has performed with the acclaimed women’s choral group Maiden Vermont. She adds her rich and tight harmonies and interesting rhythms to Zephyr, while her

husband Dutton Smith, also a long-time wellknown figure in the local musical theatre scene, brings additional harmonies while providing both lead violin solos and subtle background string textures, and trades off on the bass.

The Brandon concert begins at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 28. Concert tickets are $20. Add $25 for a pre-concert dinner. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Don’t forget the venue is BYOB. For more info or reservations, call (802) 247-4295, e-mail info@brandon-music.net or visit www.brandon-music.net.

live 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.

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

SNAKE MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS. Saturday, Feb. 11, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

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the movie PATRIOTS DAY — RUNNING TIME: 2:13 — RATING: R However you feel about the details of Patriots Day, chances are you will leave the theater in a state of high tension. Writer/director Peter Berg, with co-writer Matt Cook and producer/actor Mark Wahlberg have resisted the temptation to spend excessive footage on personal stories.

This gives us two wrenching hours of unrelenting violence that deliver the reality of what racers and spectators must have experienced during the Boston marathon bombing on April 15, 2013. The good side of that is that we are fed the truth of the tragedy without fictional additives; the tough side is imagining its effect on the people of Boston.

Let’s take a look at that. Three died and 264 were wounded on that day just four years ago. Is it too soon to fictionalize the tragedy that hurt so many? What about the resentment at Hollywood profiting from their pain? What about the thousands of innocent Muslim American citizens buffeted again by the actions of two? Then there is the ease with which two young terrorists destroyed so many and so much in just a few minutes. Will that be contagious?

The truth of it is that the movie is so accurate, so well made, and so authentic that these questions fade next to the importance of showing the public the awful cost of a terrorist act.

On a bright April day, hundreds of runners and thousands of spectators jammed the streets and sidewalks of Boston for the race so many have enjoyed for so long. On that festive day the lives of many were shattered when the brothers Tamerlan (Themo Melikidze) and Dzhokhar (Alex Wolff) Tsarnaev carried homemade bombs in their backpacks and planted them to explode 12 minutes apart. Next stop was to be Times Square.

With a fine cast (Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, Michelle Monaghan, Mark Wahlberg, and J.K. Simmons — among many others), the movie shows us the explosions, the injuries, the deaths and the shock. After some initial resentment, the Boston police and the FBI work together in the search

Mark Wahlberg in Patriots Day (2016).

for the brothers. That search is punctured by more violence after the brothers are identified on film. The search is riveting.

A Chinese man named Dun (Jimmy O. Yang) is hijacked by the brothers while sitting in his car, escapes and helps the police close in. But in the sudden chaos of a crowd of lawmen trying to cooperate in a crisis, confusion reigns, tempers flare, mistakes are made. Mark Wahlberg, on site as producer and actor, is a native Bostonian who was determined the picture be accurate. The takeaway chill: a beautifully acted interrogation by a female federal investigator of the terrorist’s wife. Dressed as a Muslim, she draws this from the wife: “The life of a Muslim wife is duality, strength, and submission.”

Patriots Day is a harsh warning that our country is no longer immune to terrorism. This movie serves as the salute Boston deserves for the way they handled that day.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book THE SIGNAL FLAME — BY ANDREW KRIVÁK (Scribner Book Company)

Hannah Konar, daughter of Austro-Hungarian immigrant Jozef Vinich and widow of Hungarian-born Bexhet (or Becks), bore two sons who lost their father — a man haunted and disgraced by his service in World War II — at an early age. Jozef, continuing to bear the mantle of patriarch, instilled a strong work ethic in Bo and Sam. Both boys were encouraged in their individual pursuits and brought up with old country values. Bo lasts one semester at college, relinquishing his scholarly pursuits to return home and fulfill his duty as firstborn son — working, at and soon running, the family’s lumber business. Sam enlists, and re-ups, in the Vietnam War, and is reported as MIA. When Jozef passes away, Bo is even more beholden to keep the family upright, and take care of Hannah and another Sam has left behind. The land and woods where the family makes their Pennsylvania home inhabit the book much like the hardworking, capable and proud people make their mark on the terrain. With spare language, and a quiet restrained voice, Krivák, author of the National Book Award for Fiction finalist The Sojourn, has crafted beautiful passages to tell their story, one of love, hope, sadness, grief and community.

— Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

GREAT NEW READS IN PAPERBACK Georgia, by Dawn Tripp Everybody’s Fool, by Richard Russo The Last Volcano, by John Dvorak Dark Money, by Jane Mayer A Very Expensive Poison,

by Luke Harding Midnight Sun, by Jo Nesbø American Girls, by Nancy Jo Sales The Firebrand and the First Lady,

by Patricia Bell-Scott

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| ARTS+LEISURE | Thursday, January 26, 2017 — PAGE 15

Sound control key to a calm, relaxing home FIND PEACE IN YOUR HOME BY BOOSTING INSULATION

B

oth inside and out, life can be loud.

Retreat from the hustle and bustle of the world by making your home, or specific rooms within it, a calm, relaxing sanctuary.

There’s a room in every house that could benefit from greater sound control, whether it’s a home theater, music room, studio, home office, children’s play room, bathroom, mechanical, or laundry room. Insulating properly will allow you to really enjoy your home that much more and achieve a higher level of comfort.

Experts suggest selecting a dense insulation with a non-directional fiber structure to combat airborne noise such as music, speech and foot traffic. A top choice among builders, contractors, and homeowners is a product, which is specially designed for your home’s interior walls, ceilings and floors. This insulation material creates an excellent sound barrier that effectively absorbs noise and reduces the transfer of sound waves from one room to

another. Its resistance to fire is an added benefit that also adds passive fire protection to your home, a type of fire precaution that is part of the core of the building and will help control fire by limiting its spread.

Certain sound dampening measures, such as carpeting, might also help alleviate echo

and reverberation, as will acoustic panels that prevent sound reflections throughout a room. With basic DIY skills, you can simply and affordably construct your own acoustic panels using a stone wool rigid board, which is effective at reducing the intensity and propagation of noise.

— MetroCreative

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