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Vol. 71 No. 12

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Feds could ICE-out dairy economy

Deporting workers would ‘devastate’ farms

A MIGRANT worker preps a cow for milking on a Vermont dairy farm. Organizers at Migrant Justice estimate that 90 percent of the state’s dairy workers are migrants and most are undocumented.

Increased deportations threaten a vital Vermont industry.

Photo credit: Vera Chang

By GAEN MURPHREE ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont dairy farmers and farmworkers are in an increased state of alert as federal immigration authorities begin enforcing President Trump’s immigration policies. What the White House described as taking “the shackles off” Immigration and Customs Enforcement (known as ICE) and other agencies has resulted in shifts in policy that more aggressively target deportation of foreign workers — including farmworkers who have overstated their visas.

What would happen if migrant farmworkers weren’t here milk cows, or feed them or clean out their

and they feel they need to move — that would be devastating to our farm economy statewide and in barns?

From a purely dollars-and-cents Addison County,” said Dan Baker, a University of Vermont professor perspective, it would in Community have a huge impact Development on an industry that is The Open Door and Applied a huge driver of the Clinic has begun Economics. economy of Vermont teaching Mexican For farmers on and — to an even the state’s 868 greater extent — farmworkers key English phrases dairy farms, this Addison County.

Hispanic workforce “One of the such as “I would challenges today like to remain silent” is irreplaceable.

“They keep the and why everybody and “I would like to farms going,” said is so concerned is call my lawyer.”

Bridport dairy that were there to farmer Cheryl be either a mass deportation of workers or, what Connor. “If we didn’t have migrant might be more likely, a mass exodus workers, we wouldn’t have dairy of workers where they feel threatened farms.”

Expansion, renovation plan seeks to lift Ilsley

Bristol lauds its departing administrator

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — Bristol Town Administrator Therese Kirby will not be renewing her contract when it runs out at the end of the fiscal year. Instead, Kirby, informed the selectboard late last month, she and her husband would be moving to Brookfield to be closer to friends and family and build a home there.

“Bristol is a wonderful place to raise a family. My husband and I have raised three children here in our 23 years as Bristol residents. It is a great town with an amazing sense of community, and is filled with some of the best people I have ever known,” said Kirby, 50. “It has been an honor and a privilege serving the residents, and one that I have tried never to take for granted.

“When I leave Bristol, I will leave a piece of my heart here, but I think that’s a good thing — it means I really cared.”

Kirby plans to start her own business doing title services for mortgage companies, attorneys, engineers and surveyors: East Hill Title Services LLC. Apparently, Kirby will be missed in Bristol: When former selectboard chairwoman Michelle Perlee announced Kirby’s pending resignation at town meeting, the entire assembly rose spontaneously to its feet for a standing ovation.

Bristol’s new selectboard (See Bristol, Page 12A)

By the way Get your questions about Vermont’s wildlife answered this weekend. Biologists will give presentations and answer questions about animals in the state and what’s being done to conserve species and their habitats during a “Wildlife Open House” this Saturday afternoon at the Middlebury Union

(See By the way, Page 11A)

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Dairy cows bring more than just pastoral beauty to the Vermont landscape.

Dairy pumps an estimated $2.2 billion into the state’s economy every year — $1.3 billion directly from agriculture products (milk, cheeses and other by-products), $360 million in wages, and the rest in the multiplying affect of the dairy industry — everything from vet bills and grocery purchases to impacts on real estate and state tourism.

Dairy creates an estimated 6,000-7,000 jobs in Vermont and provides around $360 million in wages. Indeed, only two other industries surpass or equal dairy as an employer: grocery stores and (See Dairy, Page 12A)

Library proposal could cost up to $10 million

Seasons of love

MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION High School student Owein LaBarr rehearses a scene from the school’s annual spring musical Tuesday night.

The show runs Thursday through Saturday. For more photos and more information, see Page 2A.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — A proposed renovation and expansion of Middlebury’s Ilsley Library was unveiled at Tuesday’s selectboard meeting that would remove two older additions and increase the library’s square footage from around 19,000 square feet to more than 25,000 square feet.

It would also, according to Ilsley Library Building Committee representative John Freidin, solve critical space needs, especially for children’s and youth programs and technology offerings; fix water filtration problems; create safer, more accessible and welcoming entries; retain all parking and keep Ilsley’s 170,000 annual visitors downtown; fix dated heating and ventilation systems; and enhance the original 1924 building’s architecture.

The addition as proposed would include ground-level entry plazas at both the front and rear that could be monitored from the circulation desk, include extensive glass to offer natural light inside the (See Ilsley, Page 7A)

Discarded TVs helps a recycling firm rebound

By JOHN FLOWERS “bad times” in Good Point’s recent MIDDLEBURY — Like most of history. us, Robin Ingenthron spent Tuesday First, there was the economic crash weathering a major winter storm. of 2008 that occurred soon after Actually, he’s had Ingenthron bought his a lot of experience company headquarters surviving storms of “Scrap steel, — the former CPC both the natural kind copper, plastics of Vermont building and those endemic to and all of at 227 Pond Lane. the business world.

Two months after Major setbacks the stuff we Ingenthron closed on threatened to bury his harvest went the property, a major Middlebury enterprise, to World War II tenant announced its Good Point Recycling, leaving (recycling value) departure, several times during Good Point without levels. That the past three years. a substantial revenue But Ingenthron was the first of stream and a surplus of refused to give up, many sleepless space. and Good Point has “Scrap steel, copper, emerged stronger than nights.” plastics and all of — Robin Ingenthron the stuff we harvest ever in a recycling industry that has went to World War II chewed up and spit out many of his (recycling value) levels,” Ingenthron former competitors throughout the said. “That was the first of many country. sleepless nights.”

His business has found its But Good Point was able to salvation, oddly enough, through the survive by separating and reclaiming flat screen TV. recyclables that other companies Ingenthron, during a Monday didn’t want to bother with. Most of interview, pointed to three specific the industrial-sized recyclers were

NATHAN HILL, V.P. of operations at Good Point Recycling, stands next to a stack of discarded flat screen televisions that will soon be mined for reusable parts at the Middlebury business. Flat screen televisions have become a lucrative commodity for Good Point.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

shredding items and picking out salvage.

Good Point also delved into foreign markets, as nearby as Mexico

and as far away as Africa.

“I had to grow into the building, and do it through re-use,” Ingenthron said. “We got through it.”

DODGING A BULLET The company had found new financial stability in part by winning (See Recycling, Page 11A)

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, March 23, 2017

The music of spring

THE MOUNT ABRAHAM Union High School spring musical opens Thursday and runs through Saturday. For contractual reasons the name of the show cannot be published, but it is a ground-breaking and Tony Award-winning musical that the student cast has put together with great effort. Featured here from a Tuesday night dress rehearsal are, clockwise from left, Eden Ginsburg and Ethan DeWitt; Kai Correll, Eli Jensen and DeWitt; Owein LaBarr and Ade Crosthwait; Elizabeth Siminitus, Sam Paradee, Justice Westbrook and Coleman Russell; Ginsburg, Crosthwait, Emily Tardie and LaBarr; Aidan Warren; Siminitus, Maeve McGinnis, Emma LaRose and Westbrook; and LaBarr.

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Addison Independent, Thursday, March 23, 2017 — PAGE 3A

Ferrisburgh board sets leadership, rules

Town fends off bridges complaint

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday revisited the upcoming effort to replace the downtown rail bridges and rebuild the railroad through downtown Middlebury, a state and federally funded project expected to run from 2018 to 2020 and include major disruption to the downtown in its final summer.

Chairman Brian Carpenter said the latest he heard from the Agency of Transportation is that agency officials are leaning toward installing temporary bridges sooner, rather than later, in order to make the entire project run more smoothly.

“That solution is in serious consideration,” Carpenter said.

Carpenter said that VTrans officials do not believe the bridges are ready to collapse, but are concerned issues could crop up in the middle of the project.

“They’re not worried about safety right now,” he said, adding that VTrans officials are expected to attend the board’s March 28 meeting to discuss the temporary bridge proposal.

Board members also approved a letter in response to an email from Middlebury resident Bruce Hiland.

Hiland, who has been critical of the “The current board’s work proposal on this matter, will only alleging it has significantly done too little disrupt to protect downtown Middlebury interests, in the third year. There is asked how the board “could no alternative support a plan to project that reduce this would”: • “ D e l a y disruption.”

— Town of replacement Middlebury of the bridges letter at least three years when an alternative project would replace the bridges this summer?”

• “Disrupt the core of Middlebury for at least three years when an alternative project would fulfill Middlebury’s primary objective (support passenger rail) in one construction season?”

• Spend $12 million “protecting the financial interests of Vermont Rail Systems but do nothing to protect the financial interests of affected Middlebury business and property owners?”

Selectman Victor Nuovo said the board was being “harassed,” because, “I feel these were loaded questions, and we couldn’t answer them without admitting wrong.”

Selectman Nick Artim called the email “ongoing badgering.”

In response, the board wrote a letter that stated Hiland’s questions were “founded on misstatements of fact and therefore need to be rectified … there is no alternative plan for replacing the bridges, no cost estimate, and no money in the town budget to pay for it.”

The town’s letter stated, “The current proposal will only significantly disrupt Middlebury in the third year. There is no alternative plan to reduce this disruption,” and that the $12 million protects not only Vermont Rail, but “many businesses that depend upon the rail service for their livelihood. Several of these are located in Middlebury.”

The letter also asks Hiland to take “notice of substantial and lasting benefits” of the project, including “safe and slightly (better) bridges,” new sidewalks and curbs, a safer Printer’s Alley, a larger town green and “overall an improved downtown streetscape.”

MIKE RAINVILLE, OWNER of Maple Landmark in Middlebury, has been named Vermont Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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Rainville tops for Vt. small business Bee’s Wrap founder also honored MONTPELIER — The U.S. Small Business Administration has named the head of a Middlebury toy manufacturer its 2017 Vermont Small Business Person of the Year.

Michael Rainville, president and owner of Maple Landmark, is being recognized for his company’s employment growth, financial success, expansion and community involvement.

“It’s a privilege to have Maple Landmark recognized for its efforts,” said Rainville. “Throughout the years we have been recognized for our toys, but this is the first time Maple Landmark has been recognized for its overall ADDISON COUNTY business operations.”

Headquartered on Exchange Street in Middlebury, Maple Landmark manufactures eco-friendly wooden games and toys, such as jigsaw puzzles and trains.

Rainville started the company in 1979 in his parents’ basement. Today the business occupies a 28,000-squarefoot facility.

“We are extremely proud to be a Vermont manufacturer.

There were times when it was tempting to think about going overseas, but we know what we are. We are an American company that likes to make stuff,” said Rainville.

Each year Vermont small businesses compete for a variety of awards in addition to Small Business Person of the Year. The SBA awarded four businesses in other categories — including another Addison County business.

Bee’s Wrap located in Bristol is awarded the WomanOwned Business of the Year. Founded in 2012 by Sarah Kaeck, the company mixes cotton and bee’s wax to make a reusable natural substitute to plastic wrap for food storage.

Kaeck started Bee’s Wrap by asking how could one eliminate plastics in home kitchens in favor of a healthier, more sustainable way to store our food? By infusing organic cotton with beeswax, organic jojoba oil and tree resin, she created a washable, reusable, and compostable alternative to plastic wrap.

OTHER TOP BUSINESSES Veteran-Owned Business of the Year is awarded to Buermann Engineering located in Grand Isle. A former

Navy Reservist who retired in 2015 after 20 years of service, Jay Beurmann’s firm provides civil engineering services for commercial, industrial and residential properties on islands throughout Lake Champlain.

Gretchen Hardy, co-owner of Hardy Foard Catering, is awarded Young Entrepreneur of the Year. The 32-yearold entrepreneur started the Brattleboro company with Bo Foard in 2010. What started out as a small commercial kitchen is now a large-scale operation with 20 employees catering more than 40 weddings a year.

Schill Landscape Group located in Essex is awarded the Family-Owned Business of the Year. Blake Schill started the company with his father in 1998. The company offers landscape design, installation and maintenance for residential, commercial and government clients.

Rainville and the other Vermont small business winners will be presented their awards during the 2017 Vermont Small Business Awards Ceremony cohosted by Vermont Business Magazine in June.

“We have an incredible group this year. Each award recipient started his or her company as a microenterprise with little to no employees. Today they are all thriving Vermont companies combining to employ nearly 100 Vermonters,” said Darcy Carter, SBA Vermont district office director.

The ceremony is open to the public and registration will be available in May. Maple Landmark’s Rainville and the Small Business Person of the Year winners from each state have been invited to attend ceremonies in Washington, D.C., April 30 and May 1. During this time they will be honored with their individual award along with the naming of the 2017 National Small Business Person of the Year.

“These small business owners define entrepreneurial spirit and best represent the 28 million small businesses that are the backbone and economic engine for today’s economy. I look forward to welcoming the winners to Washington next month when they are officially honored for their achievements,” said Administrator Linda McMahon, the head of the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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Whirlie’s World selling to Rutland outfit

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The gears will continue to whirl at the Whirlie’s World amusement center at 1232 Exchange St., Middlebury, thanks to the sale of the business to new owners Jeremy Griffin and Danielle Deroscher.

Current owners Peter and Naomi Neff confirmed the sale of business last Friday. It was in 2011 that the Neffs opened Whirlie’s World, which offers interactive video games, laser tag, bounce houses, arcade activities and snacks for kids and families.

The Neffs have been trying to sell the business during the past year without much luck. In January, Peter “Nerf” Neff announced Whirlie’s World would likely close this spring unless a buyer could be found. They cited declining business as a reason for their decision to move on.

Fortunately, the Neffs were recently approached by Griffin and Deroscher, who operate the Party Outfitters location in the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland. The store offers the same kind of family entertainment as Whirlie’s World, and also rents out bouncy houses,

according to Neff.

“It’s a young couple and they are excited about taking over,” Neff said.

He believes the new owners will pump more energy and amenities into Whirlie’s World. Customers will see some new bouncy houses and arcade games by the time the change in ownership becomes official on June 1, according to Neff. In the meantime, the Neffs and the new buyers will spend April and May working together in the transition.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — At Tuesday’s annual organizational meeting the Ferrisburgh selectboard re-elected longtime board member Loretta Lawrence as its chairwoman, set the hours and pay for new town treasurer Deb Healey, and decided on a new audit of the town’s books to make sure all is in order after what the board believes was sub-par performance by the town’s previous treasurer.

As well as making Lawrence a unanimous pick to lead the board, members chose Michael “Red” Muir as the selectboard’s vice chairman and new Selectman Rick Ebel as its clerk.

The board essentially will ask Healey to work the same hours and for the same pay as the former treasurer — up to 35 hours a week for $18.50 an hour.

But Lawrence said Healey has agreed to work on an hourly basis and, unlike she said was the case in recent years, will fill out time sheets.

That arrangement will change as of July 1, when the new fiscal year begins in Ferrisburgh. The spending plan the board adopted for the 20172018 fiscal year budgets for a 20-houra-week treasurer, and Healey’s hours will be adjusted at that point.

The selectboard believes, and the head of the town’s auditing firm,

RHR Smith, stated at the board’s Jan. 17 meeting, that a collective 100 hours a week is needed to operate town offices. If Clerk Gloria Warden and Assistant Clerk Pam Cousino work full 40 hours a week, the treasurer’s 20 would bring the total up to the amount.

However, Lawrence noted, “to be fair to Deb,” the extra hours between now and July would allow her to learn the ropes and get the town’s books in order.

Lawrence said on Wednesday that Healey could not make the Tuesday meeting, and that Healy and the board would meet to establish hours during which she would be available to the public.

“We haven’t sat down with her about the schedule yet,” Lawrence said.

As for the audit, Lawrence said the most recent one RHR Smith completed dates back to June 2016.

That audit stated that some accounts were not reconciled, bank deposits had not been made in a timely manner, and fund balances were not recorded.

Lawrence said board members want to uncover any problems that have cropped up since June, and Lawrence said she planned to contact RHR Smith on Wednesday.

“We want it done as soon as possible,” she said.

Shashok claims seat as vice chair of board

By ANDY KIRKALDY Artim, making his pitch via MIDDLEBURY — After two speakerphone because he was out rounds of voting on Tuesday of town, cited his ongoing work to evening, the Middlebury shepherd the $52 million downtown selectboard emerged with a new rail bridges and railroad replacement vice chairwoman, Susan Shashok. project. It’s a “highly critical” time, Shashok and incumbent vice Artim said, for that project, in chairman Nick which “continuity and Artim tied with consistency” would three votes apiece be vital. after the first round, Asermily said with Selectwomen she did not see that Laura Asermily project as an issue in and Heather Seeley deciding who is vice backing Shashok and chair.

Selectboard Chairman “I feel he could still Brian Carpenter and do that,” Asermily Selectman Victor said.

Nuovo backing Artim.

Carpenter then Normally, a seventh asked if anyone would member of the break the logjam, and board would break Nuovo spoke up to a tie, but that seat is swing the election SHASHOK temporarily vacant.

Shashok’s way.

Carpenter, who had just been “We are a deliberative body. We unanimously re-elected to lead the also need to compromise,” Nuovo board, at that point asked Shashok said. “I will change my vote.” and Artim to make their cases.

At the end of the meeting, Shashok said she believed it was Carpenter joined other board important for the board to “share members in praising Artim’s work leadership as much as possible,” as vice chairman and said the fact that she was “very qualified to do that there was competition for the the job.” She added that Carpenter position — and four candidates and Artim were the two board seeking appointment to the board members whose work commitments vacancy — is healthy. most often required them to travel, “It’s an indication that we do and that it made sense to have a vice have a functioning board that chairperson who could more often is deliberative, as Victor says,” fill in if Carpenter was absent.

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A $10 million price tag, and Trump + ICE = bad policy

Grant supports Lincoln effort Kudos to the Addison Independent for publishing such an in depth-article about this wonderful community project in the March 16 edition. Thank you!

One small caveat, and it has only to do with the headline, which read, “Quarter-million-dollar playground upgrade planned in Lincoln.” My concern is that people who didn’t read the article might have thought mistakenly that this project was going to be funded via taxes, which it most assuredly will not.

A more accurate headline — and one that would have reflected Gaen Murphree’s terrific article — might have been, “Lincoln awarded one-hundred-thousand-dollar grant!”

The fact is, a dedicated group has been working for years to turn an underutilized community property into a much-needed community resource. The Potato Hill Park and Playground will be a vibrant, outdoor recreation center that will draw people to the community, allow them to connect with one another, and provide diverse recreational opportunities for all. Over half of the funds have been raised already and the Lincoln Community School is launching a capital campaign to raise the rest.

Andrew Furtsch Friends of the Lincoln Community School Lincoln

Two local stories stand out in today’s Addison Independent: a shocking $10 million price tag for upgrading the Ilsley Library in Middlebury, and, more importantly, a look at how the threat of deportation of migrant workers could impact the state’s and county’s dairy economy.

The threat to farm-related economies across the nation that has been created by Trump’s misguided immigration policy has grabbed headlines across the nation with similar local reaction: no one wants it; everyone fears the harm it will do; and few, if any, think it helps a wit to make the nation safer — as Trump claims.

Local farmers know better: they know his policies have nothing to with making America safer, but rather that he’s fulfilling a bogus campaign pledge.

It’s all about Trump and politics. He’ll claim he’s doing it to make America stronger, when exactly the opposite is true. In Addison County and Vermont, if Trump’s policies are pursued with vigor by ICE, it will force some (perhaps many) dairy farms out of business, and, in the long-run, could make the nation more dependent on foreign sources of food. As agricultural policy, that’s sheer stupidity.

Locally, it has a different impact: while potentially hurting us economically (up to 90 percent of migrant farm workers could be threatened), it also rips at the cultural fabric of our county’s farms. As one dairy farmer said: “You know, what scares me the most is that they’re going to come and take these guys away… It’s not because my farm would stop dead in its tracks. It’s not because I would be losing income out my eyeballs. But because I care about these guys. They’ve been on my farm for three years, and they feel like family. And I’m terrified of losing my family.”

That’s truly sad, and truly bad policy.

As for the $10 million price tag for renovating the Ilsley Library, good thing the project is in its early phases. That’s not just a bit over budget, it’s sky high. Hopefully, a more modest plan could be proposed as one of the options.

Angelo Lynn

Health care primer: 101 As Republicans hope to end ObamaCare and begin the launch of TrumpCare, here’s a basic primer that explains an over-arching problem that has some Republicans running for cover: it could make roughly 24 million Americans now on Obamacare either lose their insurance or see the premiums increase so much they wouldn’t be able to afford coverage; and premiums for older and sicker Americans will skyrocket.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office noted that a 64-yearold making $26,500 would see after-subsidy premiums go from $1,700 under Obamacare to $14,600 under Trumpcare. That is why Republicans retooled their original draft of two weeks ago and suggested they would add $85 billion that would supposedly make coverage more affordable for low-income people nearing retirement. As crafted, health care for senior Americans would increase 67 percent as that’s what is expected to happen when the GOP allows big insurance companies to charge seniors up to five times more than younger Americans rather than the three-times cap imposed

by Obamacare. That’s not opinion, just math.

But that’s just the start of their problems. Assuming Republicans will use the $85 billion to come up with a plan to subsidize larger numbers of older people so they can afford health insurance, that would destabilize the individual insurance market because of what’s known as a death spiral. Here’s Washington Post columnist Matt O’Brien’s explanation: “Think about the death spiral like this: If there aren’t enough healthy people in the insurance market, premiums will go up; but if premiums go up too much, more healthy people will drop their coverage; at which point, premiums will increase even more, until eventually the insurance pool is full of sick people and only sick people. Obamacare prevents this from happening ... by forcing healthy people to buy insurance (or pay a fine) and by giving poor and sick people income-based subsidies that rise as premiums do. The first part tries to keep premiums from rising too much, and the second part insulates a lot of people from it if they do...

“Trumpcare, for its part, would manage to keep the insurance market from imploding for the reverse reason,” explains O’Brien. “See, while it wouldn’t require healthy people to get covered — and, in fact, would nudge them not to by penalizing them when they did buy a plan rather than when they didn’t — it would make insurance too expensive for a lot of older and poorer people to be able to afford. Pushing those higher-cost people out of the market would push down premiums for everybody else, who would also be allowed to buy cheaper plans that didn’t cover as much. This combination of younger people buying bare-bones plans and older people not being able to buy (afford) any plan is what would, in the CBO’s estimation, keep the insurance pool’s ratio of healthy-to-sick people at a sustainable level. “(But) perhaps you can see the problem here,” O’Brien continues.

“Suppose the GOP did turn its $85 billion magic asterisk into an $85 billion subsidy for older and poorer people. Sure, more of them would get coverage, but that’s not the end of the story. The insurance pool would now be sicker, and there’s nothing that would get more healthy people to sign up. If anything, the opposite. That’s because more sick people would mean higher premiums, and higher premiums would mean fewer healthy people buying insurance — sending premiums up even more... This shouldn’t be a surprise.

If your health care plan only stabilizes the market by making insurance unaffordable for older people, then making insurance more affordable for them could destabilize the market.

“At that point,” O’Brien writes, “the only way the GOP could make their Obamacare replacement work is if they said that everyone had to buy insurance and subsidized it for the people who couldn’t afford it on their own — otherwise known as Obamacare.”

Angelo Lynn

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Original way was best for Mitchell This year’s Women Who Change the World Award, sponsored by Womensafe, has gone to Cheryl Mitchell.

I first met Cheryl in her office at Mary Johnson Day Care Center to discuss my now 48-year-old daughter attending the program. Beside Cheryl’s chair and part way under her desk was her baby son sleeping in a cradle. In the late 1990s, I wrote this story about her.

Cheryl Mitchell is a barefoot angel tiptoeing lightly upon the earth. She only touches the ground with her feet occasionally, mostly gliding over it.

She doesn’t need anything — praise or heat or food. Summer and winter, she wears a sundress and no shoes. When she comes late to Quaker meeting, the door closes so quietly, I can’t tell if I imagined it, or really feel the gentle

By Sas breeze as she sits beside me. With my Carey eyes closed, I know her perfume, one of the only perfumes that I like, as it wafts toward me. Then her energy fills the room. Hers is not ego energy, making her self-important. Hers is the conduit for all energy which joins in making each individual feel more of his or her own inner light.

The tone of her voice is humble and gentle. The words, though are directly from her heart and knowledgeable from her head. They are simple — very, very simple. But she is not only a speaker of truth, her small hands mold the fabric of families in Vermont, creating important statistics like the lowest pregnancy rate, the least abuse, the best children’s programs. Cheryl was the guiding force for the Addison County Parent Child Center and formed much of the state’s family policy. From her come models for children’s programs to be used nationally and internationally.

There is no need to mention these things to her, though.

She will just change the subject — honoring, supporting and encouraging you.

When Cheryl was asked by Vermont Governor Howard Dean to be the deputy secretary of the Agency of Human Services, I told her she needed shoes. “How can you be in

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Montpelier, second in a state agency and not wear shoes?”

I asked. “And you need clothes, too,” I added. “I mean wool and silk and rayon, not sundresses. You need to clean up your act.”

“Okay,” she said, gasping and nodding her head, ready to do the right thing. “Tell me what to do.”

“We’ll go to secondhand stores,” I answered. So, Cheryl and I went to consignment shops in Middlebury. We went to consignment shops in Burlington. She tried on clothes and clothes and clothes. As she tried on an off-white rayon blouse and red wool skirt in a tight dressing room in Burlington, I nodded my head, “Yes.” She checked in the mirror. “I look like a grown up,” she said, as if that was the worst thing she could be.

“Those will do,” I told her, in my bossy older sister way.

She bought those grown-up clothes and others like them and started her new job. She wore them the first week with high-heeled shows she had for dancing. But slowly, slowly over the months, she changed back. At first she took off the heels when she was sitting at her giant desk. Next she tried a few barefoot steps across the plush carpet of her big office. By spring, she wore cotton dresses with sleeves and sandals. And by summer, she was back in sundresses and bare feet.

In new age language there is something called “grounding.” It is easier to connect with the earth with bare feet.

In psychology there is a technique where you match the posture and movements of clients to understand them better. Whatever it is, Cheryl — in her sundresses and bare feet — understands the needs of children and families and models it for all of us. Because of this, we live in a better world.

Sas Carey directs the non-for-profit Nomadicare. “Migration,” her latest documentary film about Mongolian nomads, will be shown at the Marquis Theater in Middlebury April 3-5.

Sanders, Warren top Dems in polls A national poll conducted on behalf of Fox News and released last week showed that Sen. Bernie Sanders is the most popular political figure in America, with a 61 percent approval rating. This compares, among others, with Donald Trump at 44 percent and Nancy Pelosi at 33 percent.

Sanders’ disapproval score among all voters was 32 percent, giving him a plus-29 net approval rating. Trump’s net rating was minus-9. Among Democrats (45 percent of those polled), Sanders’ net approval rating was plus77, while he scored plus-41 among Independents (18 percent of the sample).

Not surprisingly, Sanders’ rating was a minus-38 among Republicans (36 percent of those polled).

Democrats disapproved of Trump By Eric L. Davis overwhelmingly, with the President having a minus-83 rating. However, Trump’s rating among independents was slightly positive, at plus-5. Republicans in the sample gave Trump a plus-77 rating, the same level that Sanders reached among Democrats.

Next to Sanders, the most popular Democrat in the poll, among both Democrats and Independents, was Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. Both Sanders and Warren had higher approval ratings with Democrats and Independents than the Democratic congressional leaders, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Pelosi.

Politically Thinking

The greater support among voters for progressive Democrats such as Sanders and Warren, compared with establishment Democrats such as Schumer and Pelosi, illustrates what is likely to be one of the main lines of division within the Democratic Party over the next four years. Can Democrats develop policies and an image that will attract the support of older white voters who did not attend college, while at the same time not losing enthusiasm among middle-class urban and suburban professionals, students and young voters?

In much of Europe, lower-income voters who were formerly strong supporters of social democratic and labor parties are seen by nationalist and populist parties as voters who could lead them to power, as was the case with the election of Trump in the United States. The next test of this proposition will come in the French presidential election later this spring.

Unlike many of the European social democrats, Sanders has been able to maintain strong levels of support from both his most committed voters in last spring’s Democratic primaries — college-educated professionals in metropolitan areas, as well as voters under 30 — along with lower-income voters in rural America and traditional in(See Davis, Page 5A)

As a lifelong resident of Addison and Chittenden counties, I am writing to you in support of the LNA’s fight to unionize at the UVM Medical Center. Not only do I believe in unions, and the combined power of the labor force to fight for their own rights and needs, I believe that without a union to negotiate over safe staffing, wages and working conditions it ultimately leads to harm of the patients that rely on UVM medical network.

As a patient with an autoimmune disease, I have experienced firsthand what an understaffed hospital floor is like. Once, I was given the wrong medication in my lead line, which ended up being extremely painful and traumatic for my family and me. I hit my page button, but help didn’t come right away. My mother was with me and alerted the nurses that it was urgent. It was a terrible experience, and I don’t know how long I would have had to wait if I hadn’t had someone with me.

It is irresponsible and unethical to block something that would ensure better patient care and dignity. I don’t blame the LNAs, nurses, doctors, or pharmacy for what happened. I blame a provider behemoth that puts the wealth of administrators over the well-being of patients.

It is vital that patient care staff have control over staffing needs. They are the ones with the patients every day, and they are the ones who know best what the patient’s need.

Desiree Roberts Burlington Lincoln native and Mount Abe graduate

Snow removal rapped, defended Last Thursday I went to pay my property tax at the Middlebury town offices. I had to park by the Post Office so I had the opportunity to walk the entire length of downtown Middlebury. The sidewalks were plowed, but entirely covered with hard packed snow with mounds of snow lining Main Street making for a dangerous walking situation unless you were wearing ice grippers on your boots. I walked past Autumn Gold Jewelry. Across the street on the second floor was the apartment I lived in from 1972-73.

I remember that after a snowstorm back then, road crews would appear at night to clean up downtown. The crews would scrape the sidewalks clean and plow the snow into a huge pile at the junction of Merchants Row and Main Street. Then a large bucket loader would scoop the fresh snow up and dump it over the bridge into Otter Creek. It took about five hours to do. I know because I was kept awake by the loud machines from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. But by morning all of downtown Middlebury (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, March 23, 2017 — PAGE 5A

Probe Trump calls to Russians

Letters to the Editor Helen Porter fills vital niche in health care provision

As a resident of Addison County since 1975, I have a great deal of respect for the many medical practices and practitioners in Addison County. From the expertise and care of the private, single doctor offices that have evolved into a larger Porter Medical Center system, the standard of compassionate care and professionalism has been exceptionally high. That evolution and the years of innovation were not without struggle and pain. Practices, staff and patients have been challenged by insurances, management decisions, changes in diagnoses, technology and high costs.

When Helen Porter Nursing Home morphed into Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, the change was a response to healthcare needs of elders and the changing demographics of the county. A designated rehab facility addressed the challenges of recovery from strokes, joint replacements, pneumonia and much more.

Under the direction of experts in memory care, the “neighborhoods” designated for those with cognitive challenges became “home” for those who could no longer remember where home was or recognize family.

Upgrades in patient care, implementation of advanced nursing skills, and computer charting have been ongoing. There were reconfigurations of many support services. A sense of community beyond the doors was strengthened through events like the Pumpkin Patch and the summer events. Residents have been proud of their facility, and connected to each other and to staff. The focus on the individual intensified as the diversity of complex diagnoses increased.

The excellence of the facility has been recognized in annual evaluations by the state, and any issues, addressed. Caregiving for those who struggle to dress or feed themselves, to communicate, to maintain a sense of personal digni-

ty is an intensive, complicated, and at times, heart-wrenching vocation, not just a job, for those who work at Helen Porter. As the chaplain at Helen Porter for 16 years, I know that family and friends play a major role in healing, a role that becomes more crucial and less possible as a person depends more on others to maintain contacts. For family and friends to not make a daily trip to Rutland or Burlington is sometimes the critical difference in access to the resident, and the key to recovery.

Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center (HPHRC) is a remarkable place. Unfortunately, it seems that comments about the facility in articles often refer to the deficit connected to it, rather than the services it provides. While escalating healthcare costs are known, if not accepted as normal, until individuals need to use them, some facts are not known. Medicare covers 100 days in a facility, but does not cover long-term care or memory care. If Medicare does not cover the stay, neither will secondary insurance.

If there is not a “three-day qualifying admission” to a hospital, Medicare does not cover rehab. There is an established room charge at Helen Porter. Medicare covers less than 80 percent of the charge. Medicaid covers less than 60 percent. Continue those percentages to prescriptions, supplies and procedures. To qualify for Medicaid, an individual must “spend down” resources. Between 75-85 percent of residents rely on Medicaid. Do the math. Financial issues are systemic, at state and federal levels, and in the case of Helen Porter, not based on local management.

HPHRC residents were business owners, farmers, engineers, teachers, mothers and fathers, world travelers, native Vermonters, and respected, active community volunteers. They have carried the history of their communities and passed it on to the coming generations. None

of them stood up in kindergarten and said that they wanted to be in a long-term care facility when they grew up. No one wanted to be “on the dole”; all wanted to “leave” something for their children. Some counted on pensions that disappeared in the recession, and social security is not sufficient to cover the costs of either round-the-clock care in the home or placement in a facility.

When I began as chaplain at HPHRC, most of our residents were mobile, with or without canes or walkers. Others propelled their own wheelchairs. Now, those who are ambulatory are mostly in the memory care neighborhoods.

The care needs of residents have become complex and time consuming. In my years at HPHRC, I was continually in awe of the patience, devotion and expertise of staff, committed to offering the best care possible from the time a resident entered the facility to the time they left. If end of life care was part of a resident’s progress, the staff supported family and friends as they watched and waited, doing the difficult care for and grieving the loss of someone they cared for, sometimes for years.

Individuals come with a history.

No one is perfect. As a not-forprofit organization, Helen Porter responds to imperfect situations.

I believe that Helen Porter is crucial to community-located, patient-centered, cradle-to-grave care. The strength of our communities throughout the state has been our independence and our connection to our neighbors. I trust that Helen Porter’s worth as a community resource will be recognized and upheld in uncertain times for healthcare, and maintained as part of the Porter Hospital system, for all of us when we need that level of care.

Rev. Lucy C.B. Pellegrini Deacon, Episcopal Diocese of Vermont Retired Chaplain, Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) would be completely clear, friendly now for walking and businesses.

I realize that Federal law prohibits this kind of action because of possible pollution in the snow from the roads. I wish this had been left up to the state to decide. It seems reasonable to conclude that if water always flows down hill and snow left on the streets will end up in Otter Creek anyway, why delay the inevitable while creating a dangerous walking situation and impeding downtown businesses? Just wondering.

Robert Deeble Middlebury Editor’s note: We asked Middlebury town officials if they would like to answer Mr. Deeble’s question, and here’s their response, which was sent Monday afternoon: I would like to take this opportunity to thank the residents and business owners of the town of Middlebury for their patience and understanding in regards to the recent snow event that occurred on March 14 and 15. I am told that this storm ranked No. 2 out of the top 10 snowfall events in Middlebury, which is evident given the amount of snow that remains to be cleaned up in the downtown area on Monday afternoon. This event did not come without hardships and in-

conveniences but our highway crew worked tirelessly around the clock to keep the roads passable and safe.

Starting early in the morning on the 14th, the road crew worked very long hours, well into the night before taking a break to rest and check on the wellbeing of their families and homes. Following this short break, they were right back at it for an additional eight hours and then came back again well before daylight on Thursday to continue the cleanup.

Even with the concerted effort above there were many areas that were still impacted as of Friday morning. Many places around town do not lend themselves to snow removal, especially during a storm of this magnitude. Unfortunately, the only course of action for these places is to let the snow pile up until the storm is over, major routes are opened up and cleanup efforts can begin.

The road crew also dealt with several challenges of their own, making the job even harder. These included staff shortages, parked cars, equipment breakdowns and currently having the ability to run only one sidewalk machine. The sidewalk machines also had to be fitted with snow blower attachments, which slow their travel speed down immensely.

Limited cleanup and snow remov-

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al efforts were performed in critical areas on Friday and, due to the long hours of service and the need for the crew to take care of themselves, downtown cleanup efforts were scheduled for Monday and Tuesday nights of this week.

I think our road crew did a great job staying on top of the storm and I am very proud of each one of them.

Their job is usually a thankless one, as are many other jobs within public works. I encourage you to take the time to let your town employees know they are appreciated and again, thank you for your patience and understanding.

Bill Kernan Town of Middlebury Director of Operations

Thanks to the infighting between her right mind believe that there are the Trump administration and the no transcripts of those calls? There congressional Democrats, it is now simply are no phone taps that do not patently clear to anyone who cares to produce transcripts.

It must be obvious that Russia is know that the U.S. government has phone taps on the Russian Embassy hostile to the United States. To think otherwise is dangerously in Washington. That naïve. was probably an unnecHaving acknowlessary revelation, but it edged the existence of will have few negative the phone taps, we have ramifications for the already done as much United States.

This week’s writer damage to our own Equally, there will be is Haviland Smith, of counterintelligence effew consequences for Williston, a retired forts as we could have the Russians in their CIA station chief — and that was not too embassy. They all know whose focus was the much. Having done that, from their own expe- Soviet Union. He why don’t we release the riences and their own was also the CIA’s identical operations first chief of countercontents of those calls against other countries terrorism. between members of that such taps must exthe Trump primary campaign and the Russians? ist and that they must The Trump primary workers and conduct their business accordingly.

The only consequences for them will the current Trump administration be that people who might want to have indicated that those employees contact them anonymously may now have committed no crimes or indishave a second thought about doing cretions and that there have been no so, fearing their identification through contacts with members of the Russian Embassy staff. They have only acthose taps.

The issue that remains in this bi- knowledged those made by Gen. Mizarre situation is, what was in those chael Flynn on the issue of sanctions. phone calls? Does anyone in his or That being the case, they should be

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happy to see the contents of the transcripts revealed, since, according to them, they will be vindicated.

This is not an issue that should be brushed aside. It must be obvious that Russia is hostile to the United States.

To think otherwise is dangerously naïve. Their national goals and ours are totally different and increasingly in conflict.

It seems obvious that the Russian government has made a number of covert attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election. It really doesn’t matter whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, that is internationally unacceptable behavior. It would seem that this Russian government has every intention of continuing this kind of covert action operation and since it strikes at the most basic elements of our democratic form of government — free elections — we cannot afford to let it slide by unchallenged.

Given what we have been told by the congressional Democrats and the Trump administration and assuming that everyone involved is telling the truth, there would seem to be no American losers, only Russian, in an examination of the transcripts of those phone calls.

Scott not stepping up in health arena On the eve of its debut after five years of gestation, the Vermont health care reform project has slid into a strange sort of limbo: technically it’s on track, but there appears to be no political leadership behind it at all. A major reason for that, of course, is that the father of the reform effort, former Gov. Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, is gone and the new governor, the Republican Phil Scott, is just now getting his new administration into operation.

Still, Scott has been extraordinarily disengaged about the reform project, especially given that it is the only credible route available to him to plug the single biggest hole in his state budget — Medicaid, the federal-state program that covers low

income people. It is true that Scott is permitting reform to go forward, when his national party and a significant chunk of Republicans in Vermont want no part of it. So, anything positive that Scott does is a plus.

Still, there is no public indication yet that Scott really understands it, nor that he will do anything to support it. That is particularly disturbing, given that the reform project has been under construction since 2011 and is now underway. The inaugural step in the process was the contract between OneCare Vermont, a group of Vermont hospitals and doctors, to deliver care for 30,000 Medicaid recipients for an agreed-upon price per person.

That shift, from paying for each episode of care (fee-for-service) to a per-person price (capitation) is the health policy community’s consensus answer to the 50-year-old problem of out-of-control costs in (See Hamilton Davis, Page 7A)

in 2018, even if his opponent ends up being a largely self-financed wealthy candidate with the financial backing of out-of-state conservative PACs and SuperPACs. Vermont Republicans appear to have identified first-term Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman as the incumbent they would most like to defeat in 2018.

Rather than putting resources into the extremely difficult race against Sanders, the state GOP will try to find a politically moderate candidate to challenge the Progressive/Democrat Zuckerman.

Zuckerman arguably won both the

Democratic Primary and the General Election last year by holding on to Sanders’ coattails. He highlighted his endorsement by Sanders in both races. If Sanders spends a lot of money on his re-election, mobilizes his organization around the state, and generates a high voter turnout, much of that effort could benefit Zuckerman. This would make it more difficult for the Republican candidate to defeat the incumbent lieutenant governor.

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

Community Forum

This week’s writer is Hamilton E. Davis, a journalist and policy analyst for more than 50 years; he has served as a state representative, ran the Vermont Hospital Data Council in the 1980s and worked for Fletcher Allen Health Care, now UVM Medical Center.

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) dustrial areas. Recently, Sanders had a successful visit to West Virginia, a state hard-hit by the decline of coal, steel and other traditional industries.

Here in Vermont, Sanders hosted several well-attended town meetings last week, the first such meetings he has held in the state in almost two years, since he became a presidential candidate in spring 2015. If Sanders’ national approval score is over 60 percent, his Vermont approval score is probably between 70 and 80 percent.

He will be an overwhelming favorite for re-election to a third Senate term

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ADDISON COUNTY

John Anderson, 80, Addison

Obituaries Margaret Wesley, 90, Middlebury

MIDDLEBURY — Blessed savior there to guide us, till we reach that blissful shore. And the angels there to join us. In God’s Grace forevermore. Margaret Putnam Wesley, 90, passed away early Saturday morning March 18, 2017, gaining the peace that passeth all understanding in the beautiful tranquility of the Hospice room at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, almost two weeks to the hour after the death of her precious husband, John. Ending perhaps the longest period of separation during their romance of more than 70 years, Margaret’s death brought to a close Part I of the love story, and so begins Part II. Their family is lifted by the thought of them, together with their beloved daughter-in-law Jean Stilley, all singing songs and watching bird feeders in the afterlife, while we remain grateful for, and guided by, their legacy of love.

The daughter of Frank and Jessie (Archibald) Putnam, Margaret was born at home on Nov. 12, 1926 in Bethel, Vt. in the 1830 farmhouse still occupied by her sister. She had a healthy farmgirl’s upbringing that taught her respect for the land and all the creatures on it, a sunny outlook she cultivated her entire life. Some of her closest childhood friends were other members of the extended Putnam clan throughout the White River Valley in Windsor County, who have gathered annually on the last Sunday in July for the Putnam Picnic, a family reunion celebrated regularly since 1929.

Following her graduation from Whitcomb High School, where “Captain Put” was a high-scoring leader of the basketball team, Margaret entered the University of Vermont in 1945. When John succeeded in opening her locker after chemistry class, he forever won the key to her heart. Lest he lose her to the lure of transcontinental flight, John dashed to Massachusetts where she was beginning a stewardess training course and begged her to marry him. The wedding was in the United Church in Bethel on Dec. 27, 1947.

After settling in Middlebury where John spent a long career as a high school teacher, Margaret and John raised six children, and took great joy in watching close family ties knit together their nine grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren, with another great-grandchild due in June.

To them, Grandma will be forever remembered for her ardent love-filled greetings, a love that would never wane, as assured by the sound of her voice, her smiles and kisses, her twinkling eyes.

Margaret’s character was inseparable from her instinctual need to be of service, whether to her family, her church or her community. She was a member of the Middlebury United Methodist Church, chairing the United Methodist Women for decades, and heading up their renowned rummage sale. When she retired from singing in the choir, the celebration took note that her tenure of more than 60 years equaled Queen Elizabeth’s reign.

Margaret’s volunteer work included R.S.V.P. and Helen Porter, where among many other duties she enjoyed calling Bingo every week.

Eventually her diligence and compassion as a volunteer prompted the offer of employment at Porter Medical Center in discharge planning. When Margaret and John came to Helen Porter to spend their last weeks together, many staff commented on her role in creating the culture of compassionate care for which that vital community resource is now so widely known.

Together with John, Margaret gloried in an active life, marked by camping trips, canoeing, maple sugar making, square dance calling, ballroom dancing and countless songfests with family and friends.

For years, she knit a colorful pair of “Grandma Marg” socks to celebrate each family member’s birthday, no two ever alike. She wrote letters and cards every day, typically announcing “I’ve got to walk these to the post office before it closes.” She constantly whistled and hummed in rhythm to her life.

Margaret embraced her long and wonderful life to the fullest. Sockknitter, article-clipper, goulash maker, angel food cake baker, champion whistler, devoted volunteer, prolific correspondent, shining beacon of love, compassion and understanding to her family and community, she was a truly beautiful woman inside and out. The world and our family have lost three extraordinary souls in the past two weeks and it is almost too much to bear...except that these three souls passed on to all of us a fierce love for life and all the

MARGARET WESLEY beauty and challenge that it offers.

For them, we march onward.

Margaret is survived by her sister, Loraine Putnam of Bethel, by her daughter Patricia J. Wesley and husband Garry Schaedel of Burlington, by her sons, John P. Wesley and wife Julie Peterson of Brattleboro, Vt., Charles S. Wesley and wife Jennifer Joy of Loudon, N.H., Edward F. Wesley of Lincoln, Vt. and Richard P. Wesley and his girlfriend Robin Higginbotham of West New York, N.J., and by her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her parents, by her daughter Barbara L. Wesley who died in 1975, by her sister Louise who died in 2010, by her husband John W. Wesley who died on March 4, 2017, and by her daughter-in-law Jean Stilley who died on March 9, 2017.

A memorial service will be held on Sunday, April 2, 2017 at 1 p.m. at the United Methodist Church of Middlebury. The Rev. Jill Robinson will officiate.

The family is deeply grateful for the extraordinary care provided by staff at Addison County Home Health and Hospice and Helen Porter Health Care and Rehabilitation Services, and for the remarkable assistance provided by Michelle Whitney, SASH coordinator. Memorial contributions may be made to those institutions, or the Middlebury Methodist Church.

Online condolences at www.sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

ADDISON — John George Anderson, 80, of Addison, passed away peacefully on Thursday March 16, 2017, at the McClure Miller Respite House in Colchester, after a recent diagnosis of esophageal cancer. Born September 19, 1936 in Dover, N.J., John was the second child of Swedish immigrants George and Sonja (Johanson) Anderson. He grew up in Verplanck, N.Y. and graduated from Hendrick Hudson High School in 1954. He served in active duty in the U.S. Navy from 1956 to 1960.

He met his wife Roberta (Gadski), in Peekskill, N.Y. while he was working for IBM at the 1964 New York World’s Fair. They were married in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., on August 28, 1965 and enjoyed 45 years of marriage before Roberta passed away in 2010. John worked for IBM for over 25 years, including 18 years at the Essex, Vt. site. He retired from the company in 1992. He loved animals, even working as a monkey

keeper at the Bronx Zoo in his youth.

Throughout his life, he spent countless hours (summer or winter) on any body of water and owned numerous boats.

He was predeceased by his wife, parents and sister, Louise. He is survived by his son and daughter-inlaw Jim and Kati Anderson and his granddaughter Emmaline of Addison; his daughter and son-in-law Kristen and Jon Boyle, and his grandchildren Cooper and Sadie of Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. He also leaves behind his two beloved dogs, Dixie and Hazel.

Per John’s request, there will be no formal services; however, the family will host a gathering of remembrance at a date and time to be determined.

In lieu of flowers, contributions in John’s memory can be made to the Rutland County Humane Society, 765 Stevens Road, Pittsford, VT 05763, rchsvt.org.

John’s family wishes to extend their sincere thanks and gratitude to the staff at the McClure Miller

JOHN ANDERSON Respite House and the University of Vermont Medical Center, for all their heartfelt care, kindness, friendship and support.◊

Thomas McLaughlin, 55, Bristol BRISTOL — It is with deepest sorrow and heavy hearts that the family of Thomas Michael McLaughlin announce his passing on Sunday, March 19, 2017 in Bristol, Vt. after a courageous and valiant battle with cancer.

Tommy was born on May 19, 1961 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. to Bernadette and the late Gerard McLaughlin. His family moved from Pennsylvania to Simsbury, Conn. in 1971. Tom attended St. Mary’s School in Simsbury and Simsbury High School. After high school Tom enlisted in the U.S. Navy and spent the next five years aboard the USS Ranger Aircraft Carrier as an air traffic controller.

After serving his country faithfully, Tom returned to Simsbury where he started his own hardwood flooring business. He did beautiful artistic and creative design in hardwood floors for clients in Connecticut and most recently in Vermont.

Tommy was an avid fisherman, hiker and skier who took in the outdoors and nature every chance

he had. He was a warm and kindhearted gentleman who loved all animals (even a little mouse).

Above all Tom was a kind, loving, generous and hardworking man, always willing to lend a helping hand to family, friends and neighbors. He will be dearly missed by all of those who loved him.

Tom leaves his daughter Margaret Mary McLaughlin of Vermont, his mother Bernadette McLaughlin of Avon, Conn. and five siblings, brothers Martin (Mary) of Vt., Paul (Beth) of Pa., and three sisters, Kathleen (Roland) of Conn., Mary Louise (Michael) of Vt. and Patricia (Ivan) of New York; his nieces and nephews Timothy, Heather, Christopher, Riley, Liam, Sam, Jack and Owen; his great-niece Clara, great-nephew Benjamin McLaughlin, great-niece Eliza Feldman, and many cousins and countless friends.

There will be an Irish wake at the Bobcat Café in Bristol, Vt. on Sunday, March 26, beginning at 4 p.m., and a Celebration of Life on Monday, March 27 at Mad River Glen

THOMAS MCLAUGHLIN in Fayston, Vt. A potluck celebration in General Starks Pub will follow a 4 p.m. voluntary ski run. Memorial donations in Thomas’s name may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, 254 Ethan Allen Hwy., New Haven, VT, 05472.◊

Take down bird feeders for spring

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department says warm spring weather and melting snows will cause bears to come out of their winter dens in search of food.

The department recommends taking down bird feeders on April 1 to avoid attracting them.

Bears are very fond of suet and bird seed, especially black oil sunflower seed. Bringing feeders in at night doesn’t work, because bears will still feed on seed that is spilled on the ground.

Bird feeders are just one of the things that can attract hungry bears.

Other sources of food that bears find appealing are: pet food, barbecue grills, garbage, household trash containers, open dumpsters, and campsites with accessible food and food wastes.

Purposely feeding a bear is not just bad for the bear, it’s also illegal.

Vermont law also states that residents must take reasonable measures to protect their property from bears before lethal force can be taken.

MARC CÔTÉ Some of these measures include: • Keep chickens and honeybees to his family please visit www.ready- secure within an electric fence or other bear-proof enclosure. funeral.com.◊ • Never feed bears, deliberately or accidentally.

• Feed your pets indoors.

Marc Côté, 80, Essex Junction ESSEX JUNCTION — Marc Côté, 80, of Essex Junction passed away on Sunday, March 19, 2017 at the UVM Medical Center.

He was born in Beaumont, Quebec on May 13, 1936 the son of the late Maurice and Rose-Hélène (Fortier) Côté. Marc is a Korean War veteran, having served with the US Army.

He was married to Patricia Ploof on September 4, 1965 at St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury. He worked 26 years for IBM, retiring in 1991 as a Senior Associate Staff Engineer.

Marc spent his retirement working for C.S.E. and Reliance Steel.

Marc loved fishing and boating.

He also enjoyed tinkering, and fixing things brought him great joy. Most of all, Marc loved spending time with his family. He was a devoted husband and father, but being a grandfather was by far his greatest love.

Marc is survived by his wife Patricia

Cote of Essex Junction; their children Conrad Cote and wife Lindsay of Pittsford, Vt., Elizabeth Mulleavey and husband Joseph of Loudon, N.H., Dominic Cote and wife Heather of Sheridan, Wyo.; seven grandchildren Jacob, Abbigail, Isiah, Aden, Nehemiah, Shiloh and Matthias; his three sisters Marie, Lucille and Claire; his brother Gilles, and by many nieces and nephews. He was predeceased by his brothers Michael and Yvon, and his sister Celine.

Visiting hours will be held on Thursday, March 23, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Ready Funeral & Cremation Service Mountain View Chapel, 68 Pinecrest Dr., Essex Junction. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, March 24, at 11 a.m. in Holy Family Church, 4 Prospect St. Essex Junction. Burial will be later this spring at Holy Family Cemetery. To send online condolences

In Loving Memory of

Roger J. Clark, Sr. July 9, 1944 – March 29, 2012

DON’T FEED THE bears! The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department recommends removing bird feeders by April 1st.

• Store trash in a secure place.

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Ilsley and equipment, plus a 10 percent (Continued from Page 1A) structure, offer one central elevator, contingency — could be lowered.

The report stated, “The committee create a larger children’s area with hopes to decrease the secure entries and a cost of Option No. community room with 3 by 10 percent,” modern technology, and Freidin told the move the computer selectboard, “The room and Middlebury committee has charged Community Television the staff with squeezing offices to the this plan.” basement, and establish The committee “appropriate new was not charged with spaces for teens and investigating how to tweens.” finance the project, but The catch: the topic often came The project could up. Members said cost up to $10 million. they hoped a capital That’s according campaign, support to the seven-page committee report that “We didn’t know from foundations, and a town bond could was three years in the combine to fund the making and that Freidin how expensive effort. read to the board on it was to build Selectboard Tuesday. This was the libraries. members, while committee’s preferred Libraries are praising the one option of three in much more committee’s hard work, the report. expensive than took no position on “Everyone on the committee was other buildings.” the plan, which would — John Freidin remove additions on the surprised by the cost south side (primarily of this project, but nevertheless convinced that lesser an elevator and staircase), and the solutions would be ‘throwing good north side and rear, which include money after bad,’” the report stated. the library’s existing community Freidin himself and the report room, book stacks and a computer both said the price tag — which he area for adults, and a reference room.

Selectwoman Heather Seeley said includes all fixtures, furnishings

asked Freidin why the committee was surprised by the cost. Freidin cited in particular the costs of heating and ventilation, bathrooms and secure entries.

“We didn’t know how expensive it was to build libraries,” Freidin said.

“Libraries are much more expensive than other buildings.”

Selectboard Chairman Brian Carpenter said before Ilsley backers sought financial support for the project they should run their plan by the town’s planning commission and development review board to make sure it would meet zoning standards, something he said would also help fundraising.

“I think we need to have that discussion,” Carpenter said.

Seeley wanted to make sure that a final project, if proposed and approved, carried the Ilsley far into the future.

“Let’s make sure we’re getting what we need to get us a significant time forward,” Seeley said.

PROBLEMS According to the report from the seven-member committee, Ilsley is the busiest Vermont library among those “with comparable budgets,” ranking first in “visits, circulation, program attendance and public computer usage.” Also, the report states that “Nationally it ranks 59th of 1,395 comparable libraries” in usage.

THIS VIEW FROM Main Street shows a street-level entrance to the Ilslely that a $10 million renovation and addition would bring to the Middlebury institution.

AN ARCHITECT’S RENDERING of a proposed large addition to the Ilsley Library shows how the new space would overtake some of the existing building but not encroach on the parking lot.

Among problems, the report lists: • “The entire perimeter of the original structure needs to be excavated and waterproofed.”

• The library is “inefficient” and lacks needed modern flexibility due to “fixed walls and stacks, low ceilings, and omnipresent support columns (that) make reconfiguration difficult and expensive.”

• “Ilsley has three entrances, and only one is within sight of staff person. 70 percent of our patrons use the side entrance, which is far removed from staff and just steps from the children’s library.”

• The children’s area “suffers from ground water leaks, mold and a broken wastewater system that causes offensive odors. The area has little natural light; is cramped; lacks clear lines of sight that should enable staff and parents to see what children are doing; (and) is located steps from an unobserved entrance and exit.”

• “There is NO space dedicated to the needs and interests of either teens or tweens. Every library we visited had wonderful areas for these age groups.”

• While Ilsley has an adequate number of public computers for adults, they … are located where they interfere with other patrons.

They should be relocated and reconfigured.”

• “Ilsley has no mechanical

ventilating system, which state law requires when undertaking a major renovation. The building has 10 separate, often problematic A/C units, a boiler at the end of its lifespan, and two over-aged heating systems … that continually need maintenance.”

• “The community room hosts 12,000 users a year … (and) lacks ventilation; suffers from wetness; and has no natural light. Its entrance is out of sight of the staff. Its ceiling is too low to show video and cinematic material effectively. Technological wiring in the room is out-of-date.”

• “Ilsley has only two public restrooms, both on the basement level … Each existing restroom accommodates just a single user, which enables nefarious uses and vandalism.”

• “The entire building needs to be re-wired for technology — and probably electricity.”

• “Ilsley lacks sufficient quiet spaces with adequate lighting, ventilation, power supplies, and Internet access for silent study.”

• “The adult stacks are both too high and too low for many patrons to reach.”

OTHER OPTIONS The committee considered two other options.

Option No. 1 would have removed the 1977 elevator/staircase addition

and added an 8,650-square-foot addition on the east (parking lot) side, at a estimated cost of $8.4 million.

The committee rejected this option in part because it would not create accessible entry from Main Street or enhance the original building, and it would require two elevators and reduce parking.

Option No. 2 called for a new library elsewhere in town, possibly near Mary Hogan School, the new gymnasium, or in South Village, at an estimated cost of $12 million.

The committee acknowledged this option would “alleviate the squeeze on downtown parking and be closer to the schools and most residences.” But the report stated, “there was no enthusiasm for such a move, no idea of what to do with the existing building, and no expectation that this option would save the town money.”

The report states the preferred option would, in addition to other positives, be the “most likely to attract significant donor support.”

On Tuesday, Freidin concluded his presentation with a statement of support for the project.

“If this comes to fruition, I would be enormously proud to have become a small part of this,” he said.

“It would be an enormous benefit to the town.”

several of those hospitals. And just for good measure, it is necessary to factor in the retirement of Mike Davis, the finance chief of the Board, whose experience in health care financing extends back to the late 1980s…

Having said all of that, Scott could recover much of the lost momentum if he can find — and persuade to serve — a highly credible chair for the Board. The only names that have floated through the political ether over the last few months are Paul

Harrington, the head of the Vermont State Medical Society, and Shap Smith, the recently retired Speaker of the Vermont House.

Harrington has told friends recently that he will not seek the post. Smith probably would take the job, and he would certainly be credible; but he is a Democrat and there is no way to tell how Scott would look at that fact. One key question is whether there might be a credible Republican for the job, but finding one would be hard.

And even then the Governor will

have to deal with the fact that the whole health care reform project is adrift in the Legislature, where there is already some talk about dumping the Board altogether and sending its functions back to the Department of Financial Regulation. A move like that would be extraordinarily stupid.

If the reform project fails, the Legislature would lose the best chance it will ever have to get health care costs under control. In the current environment, however, who can rule out stupidity?

Hamilton Davis (Continued from Page 5A) the American health care system.

It works basically like this: The hospitals involved are the University of Vermont Medical Center in Burlington, Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin, Northwestern Vermont Medical Center in St. Albans and Porter Medical Center in Middlebury. Also participating are a number of independent primary care doctors, as well as some stand-alone specialists.

Each month, the state Medicaid agency will write a check for a month’s worth of care for the target population. The number for each provider can change over time, primarily because more or fewer Medicaid recipients will become eligible. There are some other operating details involved, but the essence is clear from the following example: On Feb. 3, the state Medicaid agency wrote a check for $5,057,828.05 to OneCare Vermont for February’s services to the target 30,000 recipients (roughly a fifth of the total Medicaid population of 151,000).

Of that amount, OneCare wrote checks in the amount of $4,796,639 to the four hospitals. The individual hospital figures were as follows: UVM Medical Center $2,724,008; Central Vermont Medical Center $938,797; Northwestern Vermont Medical Center $794,140; Porter Medical Center $339,694.

The single most important fact about health care reform in Vermont is this: The amounts listed above are all the money that the hospitals will get for that work. There won’t be any more money. That has never happened before in Vermont, or in the U.S. In a press conference shortly after taking office, Scott talked about this effort as though it was some kind of minor project he had inherited. It’s just a pilot, he said several times. We’ll look at it for a year and if we don’t like it we’ll just dump it.

Well, that posture doesn’t begin to make sense, except politically. In the first place, we’ll get to the goforward point on the whole deal by mid-fall of this year. That will be when OneCare Vermont begins to finalize its 2018 pricing proposals for a broad expansion of the Medicaid project, as well as preparing to extend risk contracts with the federal government for Medicare — the federally financed program to cover

the elderly.

At that point, there will be roughly seven months of data available, nowhere near 12 months. And even 12 months is nowhere near time enough to begin to evaluate the project; it will take at least two to three years to do that. The most important factor, however, is that the only real alternative to the current path is to stick with what we have now. That structure has driven costs into the stratosphere over the last 40 years.

So, the Scott posture appears far short of the political effort to keep reform moving. It isn’t possible, however, to be sure where he will go over the next several months. And there is a critical test coming up.

The Green Mountain Care Board, which has done an excellent job holding back the cost tide for the last several years, is now at a critical junction. The five-member body has two vacancies, the most important of which is the chairmanship.

The Board has had extraordinary leadership in the six years since its inception in 2011. The first chair was Anya Rader Wallack, a national class policy analyst who drew up the blueprints for the project. The second was Al Gobeille, a Burlington businessman who was named to the original Board as a member and who ascended to the chairmanship when Wallack left. Gobeille is still a major player, but his role now is as Secretary of the Agency of Human Services.

The problem now is that the Board, the key manager in the whole health care reform project, is completely rudderless. Gobeille has been gone for two months, so no chair over that period. Plus, a second Board member, Betty Rambur, has also left. Scott has taken an inexcusably long time to move on this problem.

The proximate cause was the need to fill a number of vacant positions on the nominating committee that must submit a list of nominees for Board positions to the Governor.

The legislature got its nominees to the committee in a reasonable time, but Scott’s three members weren’t even named till a couple of weeks ago. The group held its organizational meeting on March 6.

But with more than 40 applications for the two Board openings, it is likely to be at least another two months or more before the new members are in place. That fact

places very heavy pressure on the Board as it transitions from pure regulation to both regulating hospital and overseeing the rebuilding of the delivery system itself.

A system that runs basically on capitated financing functions very differently from one running on fee-for-service reimbursement.

For example, the Board currently regulates individual hospital budgets, but it now will have to also regulate the budget of OneCare Vermont, the Accountable Care Organization that includes

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RABIES CLINICS

A number of rabies vaccination clinics are being sponsored by the Addison County veterinarians during the month of March. Each clinic is open to all residents of all towns. Dogs should be leashed and cats in carriers for the safety of all.

To avoid confusion and delay, please bring a copy of the pet’s most recent Rabies Certificate. Payment by CASH only, please no checks.

PLACES, DATES & TIMES WHITING • Whiting Firehouse . Thurs., March 23 . 5:30PM – 6:30PM . $15 ORWELL • Orwell Firehouse . Fri., March 24 . 5PM – 7PM . $15 BRIDPORT • Bridport Firehouse . Sat., March 25 . 10AM – Noon . $15 BRANDON • Brandon Fire House . Sat., March 25 . 1PM – 3PM . $15 SHOREHAM • Shoreham Firehouse . Tues., March 28 . 6PM – 8 PM . $15

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“The World According to Sound” in Middlebury.

Friday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater.

NPR’s “The World According to Sound,” a series of radio shows that air during All Things Considered, comes to Town Hall Theater.

Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at www. townhalltheater.org, by phone 802-382-9222 or in person at Town Hall Theater Box Office (daily except Sunday, noon-5 p.m.).

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Snowshoe or hike at Spirit in Nature Trails in Ripton. Saturday, March 25, Spirit in Nature, Ripton. Easy 2-5 miles depending on the number of paths we choose to explore; gently rolling terrain at a moderate pace. This is a dog friendly hike.

Contact Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@ comcast.net, or at 349-5653 or Anne Christie at achristie1026@gmail.com or at 388-4347 for additional information.

Maple Syrup Open House and Pancake Breakfast in Cornwall. Saturday, March 25, 9 a.m.-12 p.m., Bread Loaf View Farm, 564 Cider Mill Road, Cornwall. For kid and adults of all ages. Come for delicious buttermilk pancakes and sausage links covered in award winning maple syrup. Come learn about Vermont’s oldest traditions, take a horse drawn wagon ride and taste freshly boiled syrup! See the maple operation, smell the sweet steam, sample maple products, including our newest creation Rye Whiskey Barrel-Aged Maple Syrup. All visitors receive “Friends & Family” discount pricing during events. $6/plate includes pancakes, sausage, milk and coffee.

Tinker with Arduinos in Orwell. Saturday, March 25, 10 a.m., Orwell Free Library. Come play with programmable circuit boards with guidance from a master Maker Heath Hescock.

This workshop is for those who attended the Introduction to Robotics on March 11 and those with a basic knowledge of the technology.

Open House Wildlife Meeting in Middlebury.

Saturday, March 25, 12:30-5 p.m., Middlebury Union High School. Vermont Fish & Wildlife will hold an Open House Wildlife Meeting where you can learn about wildlife directly from Fish & Wildlife biologists and wardens. Free refreshments will be available.

Book presentation and signing in Middlebury.

Saturday, March 25, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek. Don’t miss Vermont’s fabulous duo — Julia Alvarez and Sabra Field — as they celebrate the publication of “Where do they go?” a moving and comforting new book for children and readers of all ages. Together, they will read from the book and talk about its origins and purpose. Each will talk about their own process. Come meet these wonderful women!

Event is free and open to the public. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@residenceottercreek. com or 388-1220.

Addison County Hospice Fundraiser in Middlebury. Saturday, March 25, 4-6 p.m., Middlebury Inn. Raffle and auction for Addison County Hospice. Purchase tickets at Sweet Cecily, Vermont Book Shop, Middlebury Inn, G. Stone Motors, Addison County Home Health & Hospice, Hospice Volunteer Services, Rosie’s Restaurant. Tickets $25 each. First prize is a six-night/seven-day vacation to Nashville, Tenn. for two including airfare. Second prize is $500 cash. You don’t need to be present to win.

Ham supper in Brandon. Saturday, March 25, 4:30-6:30 p.m., Brandon United Church. The menu will be scalloped potatoes, ham, coleslaw, green beans, rolls and dessert. $10/ adults; children under age 12 $5; free for children under age 6.

Second Annual Talent Showcase and Italian Dinner in Salisbury. Saturday, March 25, 6:30 p.m., Salisbury Community School. The Friends of the Community School are hosting the Second Annual Talent Showcase and Italian Dinner. Tickets for the dinner, which is being catered by the Storm Café, are $10 per adult, $5 per child or $30 per family. The community is invited to the dinner and to watch the acts by students and family members.

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

All you can eat public breakfast in Vergennes.

Sunday, March 26, 7:30-10 a.m., Vergennes Masonic Lodge, 54 School St. All you can eat breakfast will include eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, blueberry pancakes, French toast, home fries, waffles, corned beef hash, sausage gravy and biscuits, juice, coffee and tea. $8.

Everyone is welcome. Proceeds are used to support various local community needs and organizations.

Book fair in Weybridge. Thursday, March 23, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Weybridge Elementary School.

Weybridge Elementary will hold its used book fair in the school common room at 210, Quaker Village Road. Smaller donations of new and gently used books for the fair may be dropped off in the collection box inside the school doors. Larger donations may be brought to the common room after March 20. Info: 545-2113 or msutton@ Friends of Middlebury Baseball acsu.org.

Seventh Annual Pancake Breakfast Competitive bidding bridge in Cornwall. Saturday, April 1, 8 a.m.class in Middlebury. Thursday, noon, Bread Loaf View Farm, 564 Cider March 23, 5:50-7:30 p.m., Ilsley Mill Road. The menu will be Public Library. This six-lesson class led by Gisela Palmer MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult: Thurs AM Oils, Thurs pancakes with fresh maple syrup, maple cream and maple is open to players who have PM Pastels, Mon PM Oils, Weds Midday On & Off the Wheel, sugar, sausage, donuts, chococompleted the equivalent of an Weds AM Int/Adv Painting, Thurs. PM Drawing. Children: Weds late milk and white milk. Adult introductory course in bridge.

The class will use Audrey Grant’s After School Drawing & Painting, Tues Clay hand building, plate $8; child plate $4. Proudly by local donors.

Bridge Basics 2: Competitive Weds Wheel. middleburystudioschool.org Contact Barb 247- supported VFW annual spring fling in Bidding. Free. Contact Gisela for 3702, ewaldewald@aol.com Middlebury. Saturday, April 1, details: 462-3373.

9 a.m.-3 p.m., VFW Post 7823, Exchange Street. VFW annual spring fling with crafts, flea market, food tables Addison Town Historical Society meeting in and over 25 vendors. Lunch will be served.

Addison. Sunday, March 26, 4 p.m., Addison Book fair in Weybridge. Friday, Fire Station, 44 Route 17. The quarterly meet- Used book sale in Middlebury. Saturday, April March 24, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Weybridge 1, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. ing of the Addison Town Historical Society will Elementary School.

Weybridge Over 300 excellent books about Vermont or be held. Cliff “Bucky” Douglas will talk about Elementary will hold its used book fair in the

by Vermont authors will be featured at a used early post offices in Addison, and how the town school common room at 210, Quaker Village book sale sponsored by Friends of Ilsley Public went from four to none. Light refreshments will Road. Smaller donations of new and gently Library. Accessible by elevator or stairs, the sale be served. used books for the fair may be dropped off in the features books in many categories at bargain collection box inside the school doors. Larger prices. All sales benefit library programs. donations may be brought to the common room Country and gospel benefit concert in Bristol. after March 20. Info: 545-2113 or msutton@ Saturday, April 1, 5:30 p.m., First Baptist Church Legislative Breakfast in Salisbury. acsu.org. of Bristol. The menu will include shepherd’s Monday, March 27, 7 a.m., Salisbury All you can eat fish fry in Bristol. Friday, March pie, brownies a la mode and more. $10 for Congregational Church. The legislative 24, 5-7 p.m., St. Ambrose Catholic Church adults, $5 for children 6-12, and children under breakfast will be held in the church basement, Parish Hall. The menu will include fried or age 5 are free. Music by “Old Bones” will begin which is handicap accessible through the side baked haddock, French fries, coleslaw, beverat 6:30 p.m. All proceeds will make emergency door. Everyone is welcome to come meet the age and dessert. Adults $12.50; children age surgeries and necessary food and supplies representatives and discuss issues of concern 9 and under $6; immediate family of five $37. available for over 115 vulnerable Ugandan during this session.

For more information call St. Ambrose Church children through the work of Village2Village at 453-2488.

Project, a charity born in Bristol and founded Opening reception in Vergennes. Friday, March

by Laurie Kroll.

24, 5-8 p.m., Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main Pop-Up Plays in Middlebury. Saturday, April St. Opening reception for “Glass Art: Molten 1, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. This year’s Estate planning basics presentation Color and Frozen Forms” which features work Pop-Up Play participants are a handy mix of in Middlebury. Tuesday, March 28, 3 by artists who are masters of working with glass newcomers and old pros. Tickets are $12 and p.m., Eastview at Middlebury, Community as well as emerging glass artists. available at www.townhalltheater.org, callRoom. Kathy Boe will present an “Estate Planning Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes. ing 382-9222 or in person at THT box office Basics” presentation. Open to all.

Friday, March 24, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Monday to Saturday, noon-5 p.m.

Congregational Church. The menu will include lasagna, salad, bread and dessert. Come and bring your friends. Free.

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All you can eat pancake breakfast in New Haven. Sunday, March 26, 7-10:30 a.m., New Haven Volunteer Fire Department. The menu will include plain

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“Should There be Limits to Free Speech on Campuses?” talk in Middlebury. Wednesday, March 29, 4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, Community Room. Matt Dickinson will give a talk titled, “Should There be Limits to Free Speech on College Campuses?” Open to the public.

“Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age” showing in Vergennes. Friday, March 29, 7 p.m., VUHS auditorium. This award-winning documentary is about the impact of the digital age on children and how to help families minimize harmful effects and find balance. The film is a little over an hour, and there will be a short optional discussion afterwards.

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Rabies clinic in Leicester.

Thursday, March 30, 5-6:30 p.m., Leicester Town office. The rabies clinic will be a joint clinic with Leicester and Salisbury.

Town clerk Sue Scott will be present so you can register your dogs during the clinic. Remember to bring a copy of your last rabies certificate; dogs should be leashed and cats in carriers.

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Lenten Fish Fry in Vergennes.

Friday, March 31, 5-7 p.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall. Come join us for battered baked haddock, fries, macaroni and cheese, green beans, coleslaw, rolls, punch, milk and coffee. Adults $12, children under 12 $6.

Children under 6 are free. Immediate family (only) $35. Please bring a dessert to share. For more information call 877-2367.

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Champlain Valley Fiddlers in Brandon. Sunday, April 2, noon-5 p.m., American Legion, Route 7, Brandon. Champlain Valley Fiddlers will perform. All fiddlers are welcome for fun and dancing. Refreshments will be available. For information call 897-7461.

MNFF winter screening series in Middlebury.

Sunday, April 2, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival winter screening series presents “Off The Rails,” a riveting documentary from Director Adam Irving that tells the incredible true story of Darius McCollum, a man living with Asperger’s syndrome. Tickets $12 for an individual film.

The series pass, good for all five films, is $50.

Info: 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

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Presentation in Middlebury.

Tuesday, April 4, 3 p.m., Eastview at Middlebury, Community Room. Professor John Elder will read from his book, “Pick Up the Flute: A Memoir Through Music” and play a few tunes.

Fly Tying Class for Beginners in Middlebury.

Tuesday, April 4, 7-9 p.m., Middlebury Union High School, room H005. Offered by the New Haven River Anglers Association. Instruction and materials provided at no cost. $50 refundable deposit for tools. Limited to 12 participants.

Call Peter Burton 388-6876 to register.

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WEDNESDAY AARP Fraud Watch Network presentation in Middlebury.

WEYBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL will hold its used book fair on Thursday, March 23 and Friday, March 24 from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Smaller donations of new and gently used books for the fair may be dropped off in the collection box inside the school doors. Larger donations may be brought to the common room. Info: 545-2113 or msutton@acsu.org.

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Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury.

Saturday, April 8, 8-10 a.m., Otter View Park. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help us survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland.

Meet at the parking area of Otter View Park at the intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Road in Middlebury. Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. For more information, call 388-1007 or 388-6019.

Weybridge School Tag Sale in Weybridge.

Saturday, April 8, 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Weybridge Elementary School, 210 Quaker Village Road.

Donations of gently used household items, clothing, toys, books and more can be dropped off at the school beginning April 6. Information: 545-2113.

Author reading in Middlebury. Saturday, April 8, 4 p.m., Vermont Book Shop. Harriett Scott Chessman will present her new book, “The Lost Sketchbook of Edgar Degas” in conversation with John Elder. Book signing to follow. Free and open to the public.

Roast Pork Dinner in Shoreham. Saturday, April 8, 5-7 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Treat yourself to a dinner of roast pork with gravy, baked potatoes, mixed vegetables, rolls, beverages and apple desserts as you enjoy the company of friends and neighbors. $12 for adults and children 12 and over, $10 for seniors, and $5 for children under 12. Good food and good fellowship are a grand combination!

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Pancake breakfast in Salisbury. Sunday, April 9, 7:30-11 a.m., Salisbury Community School. Annual Salisbury Volunteer Fire Department pancake breakfast. $10/adults; $5 children age 12 and under. Tickets available before and at the door. Call 388-1407 or 734-7771.

Samuel Beckett’s “Molloy” in Middlebury. Sunday, April 9, 7 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Exchange St. Gare St. Lazare Ireland celebrates 20 years of touring Beckett’s prose internationally with a revival of their first solo show.

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Taiko drummers

THE BURLINGTON TAIKO Group will perform at the Ripton Community House as part of a Ripton Community school-wide theme study of “How We Express Ourselves” on Friday, March 24, 6:30 p.m. Free and open to the public.

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Wednesday, April 5, 2:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury, Community Room. AARP Fraud Watch Network will present a series on cyber and community fraud and ID theft.

CCV information session in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 5, 5-6 p.m., CCV Middlebury, 10 Merchants Row #223. Community College of Vermont will hold an information session for everything you need to know about taking classes at CCV. “Vincent Van Gogh and the Books He Read” in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 5, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library. Art historian Carol Berry will examine how literature influenced the life and art of Vincent Van Gogh in a talk that is part of the Vermont Humanities Council’s First Wednesday lecture series. Free and open to the public.

Two Twenty-Twos: Piano Solo Recital in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 5, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Junya Iwata ‘19, a piano student of Diana Fanning, will perform a solo piano recital — a culmination of his independent study work.

Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free.

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Poetry reading in Bristol. Friday, April 7, 6-7:30 p.m., Art on Main. Five local poets, Kara Van Vliet, Jon Turner, Basha Miles, Rachael Baird and Elyssa Cobb, will read from their poetry in celebration of National Poetry Month.

Refreshments and conversation will follow.

Fish fry in Vergennes. Friday, April 7, 6-8 p.m., Vergennes Eagles Club. Fish fry at the Vergennes Eagles Club, $10 per person.

“2 Moon Smile” in Rochester. Friday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., Rochester Federated Church.

Heliand Consort and Clogs will premier “2 Moon Smile,” a new chamber opera by Australian composer Padma Newsome. Doors open at 7 p.m. Admission by donation.

Chelsea Berry in Brandon. Saturday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

In the Pocket in Middlebury. Saturday, March 25, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 51 Main.

Daymark in Brandon. Friday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

The Welterweights in Ripton. Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

Diana Fanning and Dieuwke Davydov in Brandon. Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Sarah Blackler in Brandon. Saturday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

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Senior meal in Bristol. Thursday, April 6, noon, First Baptist Church of Bristol. The menu is meatloaf, mashed potatoes, carrots, homemade rolls and banana pudding dessert. Suggested donation $4.

Come early and talk with friends and make new ones. Call Nancy at 453-5276 early to be sure to reserve a place.

Religion lecture in Middlebury. Thursday, April 6, 4:30 p.m., Hillcrest Orchard room, Middlebury College. Visiting Lecturer, Dr. Amanda Lucia, Associate Professor, Religious Studies from the University of California, Riverside, will give a lecture titled, “Romanticizing the Premodern: Charting Indices of Indigenous and Asian Religions in Contemporary American Spirituality.” Sponsored by the Religion Department and the South Asian Studies Program.

Second Annual Local Game Dinner at Tourterelle in New Haven. Thursday, April 6, 6:30 p.m., Tourterelle Restaurant. Enjoy a night of local game by hunters across the county, along with drinks and stories from seasons past. Live music by Brisson Boss & Pelletier.

Reservations suggested. Suggested donation $40 per person or $20 per person if you donate three to four pounds of game. Info: www.tourterellevt.com.

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A criminal background check may be required prior to clinical placement or employment. Call 382-1004 to enroll.

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Adam Boyce will perform “The Old Country Fiddler: Charles Ross Taggart, Vermont’s Traveling Entertainer” in Hancock. Friday, April 7, 11 a.m., Quin-Town Center for Seniors. The talk is free, open to the public and accessible to those with disabilities. Following the talk, the center will be serving lunch. RSVP to 802-767-3763 to make reservation. For more information, contact Jill Jesso-White at 802-767-4128.

All you can eat fish fry in Bristol. Friday, April 7, 5-7 p.m., St. Ambrose Catholic Church Parish Hall. The menu will include fried or baked haddock, French fries, coleslaw, beverage and dessert. Adults $12.50; children age 9 and under $6; immediate family of five $37.

For more information call St. Ambrose Church

‘Snow White Variety Show’

FERRISBURGH CHILDREN’S THEATER will present the “Snow White Variety Show” on Saturday, March 25, 7 p.m. at Vergennes Union High School. Tickets $6 adults; $3 children; available at the door. For more information call 877-3463.

The Hannaford Center does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, gender identity, marital/civil union status or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in, its programs and activities.

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90 sugarhouses to join Vt.’s Man clears Vergennes seniors’ sidewalk Maple weekend celebration VERMONT — Vermont is the leading producer of maple syrup in the United States and contributes significantly to the state’s economy. Vermont sugar makers work tremendously hard to produce their top-quality maple syrup and will open their doors this Saturday and Sunday, March 25 and 26, inviting the public into their sugarhouses to experience Vermont maple.

Maple Open House Weekend is both celebratory of the current season’s crop and an opportunity to educate visitors on the processes involved in making maple syrup, and of course, enjoying maple syrup.

With more than 90 participating sugarhouses representing all 14 Vermont counties, the Vermont Maple Sugar Makers Association has expanded and grown this year’s event to draw in larger local crowds as well as out-of-state visitors.

The Maple Open House Weekend includes seven sugarhouses in Addison County: • V i l l a g e Mapleworks, 505 Main St., Orwell, Saturday, 10 a.m.–3 p.m., Sunday, 10 a.m.–2 p.m.

• Williams

Maple Farm, 35 Swamp Road, Cornwall, Saturday, 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

• Franklin Churchill Sugarhouse, 564 Cider Mill Road, Cornwall, Saturday, 8 a.m.-2 p.m.

• Dakin Farm, 5797 Route 7, Ferrisburgh, Saturday and Sunday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Little Hogback Farm, 2365 Lower Notch Road, Bristol, Saturday and Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

• Twin Maple Sugarworks, 88 West River Road, Lincoln, Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

• Solar Sweet Maple Farm, 3841 South Lincoln Road, Lincoln, Saturday and Sunday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Some featured activities at sugarhouses will include, sugarhouse tours and process demonstrations, traditional sugar-on-snow parties, pancake and waffle breakfast feasts, maple syrup and maple specialty product samples and many more maple treats to pleasure the taste buds.

The sugar makers association has bolstered this year’s activity offerings to also include 34 partnering businesses that support Vermont maple sugar makers by featuring maple as an ingredient in their signature products and recipes. The partnerships include local Vermont breweries, distilleries, restaurants, stores, inns and bed & breakfasts. Some featured beverage and menu items visitors will enjoy include, maple mustard grilled pork rib eye, maple sriracha wings, Vermont maple cocktails, and a new maple beer release.

In Addison County, those supporting businesses are 3 Squares Café, 141 Main St., Vergennes, and WhistlePig Farm operating out of 52 Seymour St., Middlebury.

For more information about the weekend and to see a complete listing of participating sugarhouses and partnering businesses, visit: www. vermontmaple.org/openhouse.

VERGENNES — Middle of last week, Aaron Gratton, 24, was visiting his grandparents, who live at 52 Armory Lane in Vergennes, a senior housing residence.

He realized that the 150-foot path that many of the residents take to walk to the Shaw’s supermarket parking lot was inaccessible to the residents because of the large snowfall.

On his own initiative, Gratton volunteered to shovel the path, including into the parking lot.

No small task after the tremendous snowfall, the job Gratton set for himself involved shoveling the path through over two feet of snow most of the way, and digging through a five-foot-tall snow bank that was about eight feet thick where the snowplow had packed it from the lot.

The young, energetic man, who also works as a bagger at Shaw’s, did it all with a shrug and a smile.

“I did it because I wanted the people at the Armory Lane building, including my grandparents, to be able walk to the store and other places when they need to or want to,” he said when asked why he did it.

WHEN AT LEAST two feet of snow covered the sidewalk from a senior living home in Vergennes last Wednesday, Aaron Gratton pitched in and cleared it.

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‘Snow White Variety Show’ at VUHS Saturday VERGENNES — On Saturday, March 25, the Ferrisburgh Children’s Theater cast of 27 students will present “The Snow White Variety Show,” by Brian D. Taylor at the Vergennes Union High School auditorium. The performance begins at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the door and are $6 for adults and $3 for children. Production rights are courtesy of Pioneer Drama Services.

Come for a fast-paced comedy, as the audience becomes the live studio audience on the talk show, Real Talk with Fairytale Legends. Host Herb Hyberbole and his guests, the Seven Dwarves, retell the story of the fairest of them all, Snow White. As each dwarf enters, their own perspective on how the story unfolds becomes evident.

Enter the cast of the “Fairytale

Players” as the dwarves narrate and the players act out the story bringing the tale to life. As each dwarf takes a turn telling their version of Snow White’s famous story, in his or her own unique voice, the Fairytale Players’ acting shifts to match the style and personality of that particular dwarf. At any given moment, the story can be romantic, funny, suspenseful, the Wild West with a flair, poetic, mysterious, rowdy or nothing but the facts!

As each version unfolds, a cast of your favorite fairy tale characters, some with a modern twist, participate in the retelling. Enter the three bears, Goldilocks, the Big Bad Wolf, witches, trolls, an ogre, CSI Dwarves, the king, the prince and more for a narrative of the most unorthodox version of Snow White

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In the end the “real” Snow White joins the talk show as a guest, the Evil Queen gets her due and there is a surprise ending to this happily ever after tale! Real Talk with Fairytale Legends would not be complete without its very own announcer, applause guy, and fairytale commercial breaks!

The Ferrisburgh Children’s Theater is in its 17th year and is a twenty-week after school program for Ferrisburgh students in fifthand sixth-grades. The primary goal of the program is to give young students a chance to experience the sense of self-confidence and joy that comes from working with a group of peers to put together a theatrical production.

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Recycling

Middlebury official explains overflow of Weybridge Street pump station

(Continued from Page 1A) a statewide e-waste contract through the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources. Good Point was riding the crest of a high inventory and an improving market for recyclables.

But in what was a well-chronicled case, the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources and Good Point in 2013 did not come to terms on a new contract, prompting the ANR to award it to the second-lowest bidder: Casella Waste Management.

Good Point filed civil suit in Vermont Superior Court in Barre, charging that ANR had violated procurement standards and contradicted the agency’s own bidding standards. The company wanted the agency “to rebid the project and properly apply the mandated procedures.”

While Good Point prevailed in its complaint and ultimately regained the statewide e-waste contract in 2015, the lost inventory over a 10-month period had taken its toll.

“I had to borrow money and lay off half the workforce,” Ingenthron recalled.

Remaining workers had to multitask to allow Good Point to tighten its financial ship.

Good Point, Ingenthron said, does around $3 million in annual business. Loss of the state contract cost it around $1 million.

To make matters worse, a concurrent drop in scrap metal prices cut the company’s revenue stream by another $600,000, according to Ingenthron. Eight of the company’s former competitors went out of business when scrap metal prices declined.

Fortunately, Good Point survived by taking on some of its former competitors’ business, and through a more lucrative statewide e-waste contract.

“I bid what I needed to bid to make us a $3 million company again,” Ingenthron said. “We increased our bid by one-third and were still the low bidder.

This, in turn, helped Good Point weather the period of low scrap metal prices.

NEW REVENUE STREAM But another big factor in Good Point’s resurgence has been an increasingly prevalent item in the world’s e-waste stream: flat screen TVs. Good Point has established itself as a national leader in the recycling of flat screens TVs, the components of which can fetch a premium through resale on eBay or contracts with manufacturers.

Last year, Good Point had one worker in charge of disassembling flat screen TVs and harvesting the reusable parts, including plasma, LCD or LED screens; the power board that converts the AC current to DC; a main board that takes the video signal and transfers it to the screen; the TV stands; and LED strips.

Company workers on Monday were busy harvesting parts from a truckload of flat screens delivered to Good Point’s 50,000-square-foot

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — At their meeting on Tuesday Members heard a presentation about a proposal to repair and expand Ilsley Library (see Page 1A), wrote a letter defending their plan for dealing with downtown railroad bridges (see Page 3A), and elected leadership.

In other business, the selectboard: • Heard via email sewer station operator Bob Wells’s explanation of a Feb. 25 Weybridge Street nighttime pump station overflow.

Wells wrote the overflow, between 9:30 and 10:25 p.m., was “due to excessive rains and a frozen ground which would not allow the rain to

saturate into the soils.” He added town employees have already done “extensive work in this drainage area,” and that increased wet well and pump capacity would be the next steps to take. Most of the overflow was water, he said.

• Interviewed four candidates for a one-year vacancy on the board, former Selectmen Gary Baker and Travis Forbes and potential newcomers Jennifer Molineaux and Farhad Kahn. An article detailing the interviews is planned for the March 27 edition of the Independent, and the selectboard plans to decide among the candidates at its next meeting, on March 28.

By the way GOOD POINT RECYCLING CEO Robin Ingenthron has his Middlebury business back on track after facing some major financial challenges.

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headquarters.

While one worker was loosening the screws on the back panel of the flat screen, a colleague was setting up a digital camera to photograph it. Separate photos are taken of any of valuable pieces from the TV. The photos are uploaded onto eBay, where individuals and businesses can bid on the items.

And those items are in high demand.

Thanks to Google, YouTube and other on-line education tools, consumers are increasingly looking to repair their flat screen TVs rather than tossing them. Armed with how-to knowledge, consumers can replace a busted or worn-out TV part for under $100 through Good Point, instead of having to pay hundreds for a new flat screen.

Some folks are looking for TV stands after becoming tired of seeing their devices on a wall.

Other folks end up with a cracked screen as a result of a drop or random projectile. Ingenthron jokingly refers to this phenomenon as the Wii effect.

Nintendo Wii is an interactive video game in which the player can, for example, use a faux racket to play tennis on the screen. A spirited game and a sweaty hand can propel the racket into the TV screen.

One person’s TV damage can be Good Point’s gain.

During the past month, the company recorded $20,494 in on-line eBay sales of flat screen material. Last year, the company did a total of around $70,000 in the flat screen trade, according to Hill.

Good Point is currently taking apart and processing around 10 to 20 flat screen TVs per day, according to Hill.

Company officials would like to hire more folks to process many more TVs, but finding and retaining blue-collar workers given Vermont’s 3-percent unemployment rate is a challenge, they said.

“It’s just a very tough labor market,” Ingenthron said.

Good Point currently has 25 fulland part-time employees. Ingenthron wants to double his workforce within a year.

“I’ve got enough material to hire 25 to 30 people, just to do flat screens,” he said.

“Robin could make a few phone calls and we could probably get 20 trailer loads of the flat screen TVs,” Hill added. “But we’re not quite set up yet to ramp up production.”

Flat screen TVs are proving to be a versatile product with worldwide applications beyond entertainment, company officials said.

Specifically, flat screens that have exhausted their TV potential are gaining a new lease on life as signs. Ingenthron was explaining his business to some folks in Ghana last year when one of the participants had an epiphany.

“The lighting still works, so you can print on a clear plastic sheet a restaurant name or something like that, and use it as a sign,” Hill said.

It should be noted those fluorescent lights still have mercury in them and the recycling process is labor-intensive. It all has to be done by hand, Hill noted. That kind of attention to detail is a big part of Good Point’s staying power in an industry where the price for raw materials can fluctuate quickly, thereby turning profit into deficit virtually overnight.

Hill and Ingenthron said most other big recycling firms want to take in large quantities of materials and put them through a shredder, salvaging the most valuable materials without much regard for reuse.

Good Point, on the other hand, has

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“It takes a while to build a team to do something like that,” Ingenthron said.

“Now we have a system; we just need people,” Hill added.

Even now, Good Point is expanding its reach.

The company has a contract with Sony to run its voluntary recycling program in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.

Good Point took over operations of a former competitor in Brockton, Mass., and is conducting e-recycling for nearby towns Brookline and Quincy. That contract could soon expand to include the Bay State towns of Easton and Braintree.

Still, Ingenthron is committed to keeping Good Point’s headquarters in Addison County. The company will hold an electronics collection day at its Middlebury headquarters on Saturday, April 1, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The event will be free of charge for all items, including computers, TVs and air conditioners (no refrigerators).

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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High School cafeteria. The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department will offer reports on results of Vermont’s 2016 deer, moose, bear, and turkey hunting seasons, as well as a proposal for the 2017 moose hunting season. Information also will be provided on the Farm Bill Program, bear-wind research, chronic wasting disease, bearhuman conflicts, and Vermont’s habitat stamp program. Plus, for the kids, there will be animal pelts to see and touch. The open out is scheduled from 12:30-5 p.m. This is a big deal for the department, which is bringing the big cheese — Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Louis Porter — along with game wardens and other specialists.

Good luck to the brainiacs at Middlebury Union High School, who will compete in the Vermont-NEA Scholars’ Bowl state championship this Saturday at the University of Vermont’s Ira Allen Lecture Hall in Burlington. MUHS is among the 12 schools that have qualified to compete for the championship and an all-expenses-paid trip to a national competition in May or June.

The Tigers will begin play by facing CVU. MUHS would need to win that match and one more to reach the state championship match. Go get ’em!

Weybridge Elementary will hold its annual used book fair this Thursday and Friday, 8 a.m.–4 p.m., in the school common room at

210 Quaker Village Road.

After receiving submissions of photos, stories, poems, artwork — and even a song — from across all towns in Addison County, Zig Zag Lit Mag is ready to release its second edition. Celebrate the new magazine and take the opportunity build relationships between local writers and artists, in a free launch party next Tuesday, March 28, at 6 p.m. at the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. The evening will consist of several readings and performances by the local contributors of the issue. As always, there will be coffee and donuts.

Bear Cobble Sugarworks in Starksboro and Little Hogback Farm in Bristol are among the growing number of maple producers that are including bird-friendly habitat standards in their forest management plans. This maple season, Audubon Vermont is excited to announce its largest participation yet in the Bird-Friendly Maple Project. To become recognized as a bird-friendly sugarbush, a maple producer’s tapped forest must go through an assessment by an Audubon biologist.

In addition to following standards on forest management, tree species diversity and forest structure, maple producers must meet general requirements for tree harvesting and seasonal practices. Birdfriendly products stand apart on the shelves with official “Bird-Friendly” stickers.

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Dairy (Continued from Page 1A) computer/electronics manufacturing.

Over half the milk produced in ($ millions) New England — 63 percent — comes from Vermont.

Dairy occupies 15 percent of the Orleans state’s landmass at 900,000 acres.

County Franklin And, in many ways, this vital and County iconic industry rests quite literally in the arms of migrant workers.

Most of our dairy farmworkers Addison are from Chiapas, Mexico’s County southernmost state near the border with Guatemala, Baker said.

Most send over half of their wages Addison County 132.1 home to support family in Mexico Franklin County 132.0 and build toward a better life when they return.

Orleans County 77.5 Most are undocumented.

“Our estimate is that about 90 percent of hired workers in Vermont’s dairy industry are immigrant workers,” said Will Lambek, an organizer with the advocacy group Migrant Justice.

“That doesn’t mean that all of them are undocumented, but the majority Orleans are. That’s our count from our years of County Franklin working with dairy farms.”

County Baker explained that the shift to the migrant, Hispanic workforce began about 15 years ago in response Addison to an ongoing shortage of farm labor.

County Local workers, said Connor, “love running equipment,” but don’t want to work in the barn milking cows, Addison County 32,498 keeping them fed, shoveling manure.

Franklin County 35,736 While dairy farmers are all too Orleans County 21,081 aware of the importance of this migrant labor force, the state’s migrant dairy workers are equally million a year — and accounts for important to non-farmers.

26.2 percent of the state’s $504.9 They provide the lifeblood of an million in annual milk sales. industry that is near synonymous with (Franklin is a close second at the state’s landscape $132.0 million a and central to the year in milk sales.

Data used in this article Orleans is third with economic vitality of comes from the most local communities. $77.5 million).

Perhaps nowhere recent (2014) USDA Though the is this truer than in Agriculture Census as leader in milk sales, Addison County, updated for the Farm Addison County is which by the to Plate 2015 Annual in third place for numbers is the state’s Report and updated number of dairy dairy leader. farms, specifically, in 2015 by the Agency PORTRAIT OF A having 124 (first of Agriculture, Food COUNTY and second place and Markets, Agency Addison County go to Franklin (184) is the state’s top of Commerce and and Orleans (131), county for all Community Development respectively. agricultural sales and by the Vermont Dairy Those 124 farms combined: $191 Promotion Council in house 32,498 dairy million a year, the “Milk Matters” study. cows (24 percent of (others range These figures were used the state’s 134,132 from $12 million throughout the article dairy cows), making for Essex County unless otherwise noted.

Addison County to $190 million a close second to annually for Franklin County Franklin County).

(35,736) in its size of herd.

Addison County is the state’s top Those 32,498 cows provide one county for number of farms of all easy handle on the value of dairy to types and for acres in agriculture.

Addison County’s economy.

Addison County is also the state’s In a 2014 study from the Agency leader in milk sales — $132.1 of Commerce, analyst Kenneth

Milk Sales:

Number of dairy cows:

Concentration of dairy farms: Franklin County 26.1% (184 farms)

Orleans County 15.3% (131 farms)

Addison County 26.2% (124 farms)

Percent of Vermont’s total $504.9 million in annual milk sales that come for the top three counties.

Jones estimated that each Vermont dairy cow provides the equivalent of $12,500 in economic activity.

Using the 2015 herd size of 32,498 dairy cows, Addison County’s Holsteins, Jerseys and assorted dairy bovine bring the local economy an estimated $406,225,000 a year, from the combined impact of value of products sold, impacts of wages and profits as spent in the local economy, and wider benefits to tourism, real estate, etc.

Ag officials don’t have exact numbers for the current picture, but one researcher said the number of dairy farms in Addison County has dropped 5 percent to 118 today.

That implies the economic benefit of dairy in Addison County is currently $385,913,750 a year (see a broader explanation in this story on addisonindependent.com).

INCREASED ENFORCEMENT ICE’s increased deportation activity has been seen across the country, including here.

Just last week in Burlington, Grand Isle dairy worker Cesar Alex Carrillo was arrested outside the Chittenden County courthouse en route to a hearing related to a 2016 DUI arrest. The hearing proceeded without Carrillo and charges were dismissed. However, Carrillo (who is married to a Vermont resident, has a young child and a baby on the way) is now in ICE custody in a New Hampshire detention facility facing deportation proceedings.

In a joint statement issued Tuesday, the Vermont Congressional delegation decried this and related arrests. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders and Rep. Peter Welch said that they are “reaching out to ICE about the potential impact in Vermont of President Trump’s executive order calling for increased immigration enforcement.

“Instead of focusing on removing those people who pose a threat to public safety or national security, the Trump Administration is targeting all undocumented persons, including the people that help keep our dairy farms and rural economy afloat.”

While UVM’s Baker sees a big downside to the loss of Mexican farm laborers, he offers a caveat, emphasizing the resiliency of the state’s farmers.

“It would throw our farms into a crisis. I believe that our farmers are resilient and they will adapt,” Baker said. “But it will be extremely stressful and extremely difficult and some won’t be able to survive. But I do believe our farm economy will survive.”

LIKE FAMILY Open Door Clinic Outreach Nurse and Nurse Case Manager Julia Doucet said that local farmworkers are reporting increased levels of stress and anxiety and are increasingly reluctant to leave the farm for groceries or other errands. The clinic has begun a new study documenting how the current climate is affecting workers overall. They’ve also begun teaching key English phrases such as “I would like to remain silent” and “I would like to call my lawyer.”

Just back from a visit to a local dairy farm, Doucet also emphasized that the cost to Addison County goes far beyond dollars.

“One of the farmers today said, ‘You know, what scares me the most is that they’re going to come and take these guys away.’ He said, ‘It’s not because my farm would stop dead in its tracks. It’s not because I would be losing income out my eyeballs.

But because I care about these guys.

They’ve been on my farm for three years, and they feel like family. And I’m terrified of losing my family.”

THERESE KIRBY, FAR right, is leaving her position as Bristol’s town administrator at the end of June. Kirby is seen here in the town office with Zoning Administrator Eric Forand, far left, Assistant Clerk/Treasurer Peter D. Ryan, Administrative Assistant Pam Correia and Town Clerk/Treasurer Jen Myers.

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Bristol (Continued from Page 1A) chairman, John “Peeker” Heffernan, explained why.

“I haven’t talked to anybody who hasn’t been impressed with the job she’s done through the years and how she’s handled herself and how she has come to be a strong administrator,” said Heffernan, adding, “I know that she’s going to be terribly missed, both her personality, you know, and the way she deals with people is really going to be missed.”

He also described Kirby’s work with the selectboard.

“Since she first showed up, she’s been very good at moving forward and bringing us up to speed.

“She is very well informed, any decision she makes,” Heffernan said. “She researches everything, she doesn’t make a move without researching it and knowing what she’s doing. It isn’t something she does off the cuff.”

Kirby broke ground in 2014 as Bristol’s first female town administrator. She began working

for the town in 2006 as assistant to then-town clerk and treasurer Penny Sherwood.

Kirby said that she came to the town office at a time of great change.

In 2006, Bristol lost three longtime employees within the space of a few months: administrative assistant Shirley Emilo died of cancer, town administrator/zoning administrator/ solid waste supervisor Bob Hall retired, and Sherwood, clerk/ treasurer since 1988, retired and moved to Maine.

“All institutional memory left,” said Kirby.

With Sherwood’s retirement, the selectboard appointed Kirby to fill the vacancy. She was first elected as town clerk and treasurer in 2007 and was re-elected for the next seven years.

In March 2014, then-town administrator Bill Bryant announced his retirement and Kirby threw her hat in the ring.

“I wanted a challenge. I’m that type of person,” said Kirby.

Kirby won the position against 12 other applicants, four of whom were interviewed.

As town administrator, Kirby has overseen a number of banner projects for Bristol, notably construction of the new fire station, closing of the town landfill, and the multi-pronged, still-in-progress process to build a business park. That last project included the town’s negotiating and selling the designated site to Stoney Hill Properties, creating a public/ private task force to plan for the park, and holding a successful vote to extend the town’s water system.

Kirby will continue to serve as town administrator through June 30, but the Bristol selectboard has begun its search for a new town administrator. At Monday night’s meeting, the selectboard fine-tuned its ad for a statewide search and approved a job description that Kirby drafted. It is available at www. bristolvt.org.

Gaen Murphree is reached at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

MUHS jazz group to perform March 30 MIDDLEBURY — As part of St. Stephen’s Lenten Recital Series, The Middlebury Union High School Jazz Ensemble, also known as “Midd Jazz” will be performing a concert on Thursday, March 30, at 12:15 p.m. The auditioned ensemble meets daily for 40 minutes and is made up of students from grades 9-12. The ensemble has performed for 25 years at the Vermont Association for Jazz Education, placing first the past 10 years.

The ensemble recently competed at the Berklee College Jazz Festival,

a national competition, placing first in their division and the fifth highest score out of 208 ensembles.

The ensemble has several students who have performed in the Green Mountain District Festival, with 12 performing in both Concert Band and Jazz Districts this year, and the following to perform in May with the Vermont All State Ensembles — four in Jazz Ensemble, three in Concert Band and two in Orchestra.

Two students were selected to perform at the Eastern Honors Festival this April — one each in

Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble and one student performed this fall in the National Honors Band Festival.

The Ensemble is directed by Anne Severy, who has been a music educator for 36 years, teaching at MUHS since 1986.

The Ensemble will be performing their selections from the Berklee and VTAJE Festivals from composers John Coltrane, Jimmy Van Heusen and Dave Brubeck as well as other charts. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 3 Main St., Middlebury. The event is free.

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THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 2017

GREGORY DENNIS

Hoop and snow dreams mingle It’s been another lousy year to be an Eastern skier. And another great year to be a fan of Middlebury College men’s basketball.

There’s little mystery about what’s happening to Vermont skiing. It used to be we’d have a lot of 30-degree days with snow. Now we have a lot of 35-degree days with rain.

Blame it on climate change. And expect it to get worse over time.

Back in the last century, we could always count on a January thaw of a couple days.

These days, we skiers are glad when the snowy weather persists for more than two weeks at a time.

Add to that the unseasonal eruptions of freakishly warm weather over the past two winters — and you’ve got the recipe for a lot of skiers beginning to think about their golf games.

Most Vermont ski areas get by only because they have huge snowmaking systems, so at least places like Sugarbush and the Snow Bowl kept the lifts running. Mad River Glen, which relies on natural snow, had to shut down for several days last month.

Last week’s blizzard (I love that word “blizzard”) brought some welcome relief from a February filed with south winds and 65 degree days.

It was a delight to see so many friends at the Snow Bowl last Saturday, enjoying the fruits of a monster storm and sparkling March sunshine.

But really, this won’t go down as a memorably good season.

My journal reminds me that there were some fun days in December, before the rains and subsequent cold laid down a persistent layer of ice.

We skied Stowe’s Front Four obsessively in mid-December, knowing it might not last. And of course it didn’t, with the rain arriving a week before Christmas.

Making lemonade out of lemons, several friends and I amped up our love of college sports.

I know I’m supposed to say something politically correct here about women’s sports teams. And indeed, the women’s basketball team at the college had a good year. The women’s hockey team had another stellar season, making it to the NCAA’s before falling to Norwich in a heartbreaker.

But I’ll confess that my tastes run to watching men’s sports.

(See Greg Dennis, Page 2B)

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 3/21 Midd. vs. Plattsburgh....................17-10 Women’s Lacrosse 3/21 Midd. vs. RPI..................................17-3 Softball 3/21 Midd. at Norwich...................Postponed

Schedule

COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 3/25 Bowdoin at Midd..........................1 p.m.

2/28 Midd. vs. RIT at Syracuse......7:30 p.m.

4/1 Midd. at Amherst............................. Noon Women’s Lacrosse 3/25 Midd. at Bowdoin.......................... Noon 3/27 Midd. at TCNJ..............................7 p.m.

3/29 Midd. at Franklin & Marshall........7 p.m.

4/1 Amherst at Midd. ...........................2 p.m.

Softball 3/24 Midd. vs. Plymouth St. (FL).........9 a.m.

3/24 Midd. vs. Benedictine (FL)....11:30 a.m.

3/25 Midd. vs. New Paltz St. (FL)........9 a.m.

3/25 Midd. vs. Buffalo St. (FL)......11:30 a.m.

3/26 Midd. vs. Thomas (FL).................9 a.m.

3/26 Midd. vs. MIT (FL)................11:30 a.m.

3/28 Midd. vs. ME-Farming. (2) (FL)...9 a.m.

3/29 Midd. vs. Potsdam (FL)...............9 a.m.

3/29 Midd. vs. Wellesley (FL).......11:30 a.m.

Baseball 3/25 Midd. vs. Allegheny (2) (AZ)........1 p.m.

3/26 Midd. vs. Grinnell (AZ).................1 p.m.

3/26 Midd. vs. G. Adolphus (AZ).....4:30 p.m.

3/27 Midd. vs. G. Adolphus (AZ)..........2 p.m.

3/29 Midd. vs. G. Adolphus (AZ)..........1 p.m.

3/31 Midd. vs. Williams (AZ)................4 p.m.

4/1 Midd. vs. Williams (2) (AZ)............. Noon Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

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VUHS senior tops Independent team OV, MUHS, Mt. Abe represented

By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — The balanced and scrappy Otter Valley Union High School boys’ basketball team enjoyed the best season among local outfits, among other things sweeping all of its games vs. Addison County competition.

But the team with the worst record in the area enjoyed the services of the top pick for the 2017 Independent Boys’ Basketball All-Star Team, Vergennes senior Adam Gill, the 2017 Independent Player of the Year.

Collectively, there was no debate about which team was best: Coach Greg Hughes’ Otters defeated Mount Abraham twice and Middlebury and VUHS once apiece on the way to winning 11 games, including a home playoff victory. Three Otters are honored here, a senior and two juniors.

Coach Kyle Lussier’s MUHS crew played a tough first-half schedule before recovering to go 5-5 down the stretch. Their five total wins included two-game sweeps of VUHS and Mount Abe as the Tigers established themselves within county limits as top cats. A Tiger senior and two juniors earned recognition here.

Coach Martin Clark’s Eagles won five times and made news when they prevailed in their opener, the program’s first win since mid-2014. Two Eagles who helped the team become more competitive this winter made the Independent squad.

Despite the efforts of Gill and a VUHS junior who is recognized here, Coach Peter Quinn’s Commodores struggled for consistency this winter and lost a number of close games; they ended up winning just twice.

Picks for Independent teams are based on observation, statistics and consultation with the coaches. Congratulations to the following: FIRST TEAM: ADAM GILL, VUHS SENIOR, PLAYER OF THE YEAR. Notes: High-scoring, hard-working guard whose 23.0 points per game this year allowed GILL him to reach the 1,000-point plateau … Finished his VUHS career with 1,080, second alltime at the school… Showed consistent three-point shooting range and sank 37 percent from behind the arc … Also displayed an accurate mid-

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ESSEX — Five Middlebury Union High School seniors will lace up their skates on Saturday at Essex High School in the annual Rotary All-Star Hockey Classic, which pits teams of Vermont girls and boys all-stars against one another.

Tiger seniors Julia Carone, Monroe Cromis and Molly Wetmore will play for the Harris team in the girls’ game, which begins at 4 p.m.

Tiger seniors Andrew Gleason and Brett Viens will skate for the Austin team in the boys’ game, which starts at 6:15 p.m.

The teams are named after Rotary Club founders, and all proceeds from ticket, concession and T-shirt sales go to Essex Rotary Club service projects and scholarships at home and abroad.

In addition, MUHS junior girls’ hockey players Andi Boe, a forward, and Satchel McLaughlin, a defender, were named Division I first-team all-stars by the league’s coaches, while Carone, a forward, earned second-team honors.

On the boys’ side, Gleason, a defender, was named a second-team D-I all-star, and Viens, a forward, was named a D-I third-team all-star.

Women’s hockey players honored

VERGENNES UNION HIGH School senior Adam Gill is the Addison Independent’s high school boys’ basketball Player of the Year.

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range jumper and the ability to slash to the basket, connecting on 43 percent of his two-point attempts despite being the focal point of opposing

defenses … Added averages of 3.0 assists, 1.9 steals and 4.1 rebounds, with the board total tied for second best on the team.

Quinn’s Quotes: “He loves basketball. He’s a guy who still gets kicked out of the gym at lunchtime by the (See All-Stars, Page 3B)

Men’s lax team snaps skid, tops Cardinals

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s lacrosse team scored 10 straight midgame goals on Tuesday, including all eight goals recorded in the second quarter, to defeat visiting Plattsburgh State, 17-10.

Middlebury, which snapped a

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three-game skid to improve to 3-3 and is now ranked No. 16 in NCAA Division III, will host NESCAC opponent Bowdoin at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Plattsburgh State dropped to 4-2.

The Cardinals led, 3-2, after the first quarter, with Joey Zelkowitz

and Jon Simms scoring for Middlebury.

Harry Giarrusso started the Panther second-quarter run at 4:22, and Frank Cosolito followed with his first collegiate goal. Henry Riehl recorded the next three tallies, and Parker Lawlor, Jake

Schneider and Jack Gould closed out the quarter with strikes to make it 10-3 at the half.

Middlebury added the first two goals in first 33 seconds of the third quarter, courtesy of Riehl and A.J. Kucinski. The closest the Cardinals (See Men’s lacrosse, Page 3B)

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College women’s hockey players Carly Watson and Jessica Young were last week named second-team All-Americans by the American Hockey Coaches Association. Watson, a senior, earned a spot on defense, while Young, a junior, was tabbed as a forward.

Watson, a 2015 All-American and a three-time First-Team All-NESCAC selection, anchored the blue line for the Panthers and led all conference defenders in scoring with 23 points. The Montpelier resident capped her career playing in 87 games after missing almost all of the 2015-2016 with an injury. Over those 87 games she collected 72 points on 12 goals and 60 assists.

Young, a three-time All-NESCAC honoree and 2015 Rookie of the Year, led the conference in scoring with a career-high 36 points on 16 goals and 20 assists. The junior paced the NESCAC in assists and ranked second in goals.

Young is two points away from the 100-point plateau, entering next year with 98 career points (45 goals, 53 assists) in 86 games.

This season, the Panthers earned the top seed in the NESCAC tournament and topped Amherst, 4-1, in the NESCAC championship game for their second straight title. Middlebury was selected to host a NCAA Quarterfinal before falling in double overtime to Norwich. The team finished the campaign with a record of 19-7-2, marking the 20th time in the last 22 seasons the program has won at least 19 games.

Women’s lacrosse thrashes Engineers

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team scored four times vs. visiting Rensselaer in the opening two minutes on Tuesday and held the Engineers scoreless over the final 41:21 in a 17-3 victory.

The 5-0 Panthers, ranked No. 1 in NCAA Division III, will visit Bowdoin on Saturday before a trip south to face perennial powers Franklin & Marshall and The College of New Jersey early next week. RPI dropped to 2-4.

On Tuesday, Emma McDonagh scored 17 seconds into the game,

and two goals from Sara DiCenso and one from Casey O’Neill made it 4-0 with 1:54 gone. RPI’s Allie Claroni and Middlebury’s Jenna McNicholas next traded two goals apiece, and the Panthers stretched the lead to 8-2 before RPI’s final goal at 11:21 of the first half made it 8-3.

O’Neill and Henley Hall added goals for the Panthers to make it 10-3 at the break, and Middlebury tacked on seven more scores in the second half.

O’Neill paced the Panthers with (See Panthers, Page 3B)

Panther baseball opens with doubleheader split NORTHBOROUGH, Mass. — The Middlebury College baseball team on Saturday opened its season by splitting a doubleheader vs. New England College in games played on a turf field at the New England Baseball Complex in Northborough, Mass. NEC stood at 1-7.

The 1-1 Panthers were hoping to play at Castleton on Wednesday before heading to Arizona for their annual spring trip.

In the opener this past Saturday, the Panthers made a winner of head coach Mike Leonard in his debut as Colby Morris tossed a shutout in a 5-0 seven-inning victory. Morris allowed seven hits, struck out five and allowed only one runner to reach third base.

The Panthers opened the scoring in the bottom of the third inning with a pair of unearned runs. Brooks Car(See Baseball, Page 3B)

LOCAL SKATERS ALEXIS Bartlett, left, Kate Donahue and Abby Gleason are members of the Vermont Shamrocks team that won a New England Regional Championship this past weekend and will play for a national title in Michigan next month.

Youth skaters win N.E. crown AUBURN, Maine — Three Under-16 area girls’ ice hockey players will early next month head to Michigan to compete for a national championship.

Middlebury residents Alexis Bartlett and Abby Gleason and Cornwall resident Kate Donahue

all skated for the Vermont Shamrocks team that won the Tier II New England Regional Championship this past weekend in Auburn, Maine.

The trio, also members of the Middlebury Union High School hockey team this past season,

helped the Shamrocks go 4-0 against other competition from around the region in Auburn.

From April 6 to 10, they will join the Shamrocks in Troy, Mich., at the Tier II U16 National Championships seeking a U.S. title to add to their regional crown.

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Men’s hoop players and coach lauded

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EIGHT YOUNGSTERS FROM the Bristol and Vergennes area won the district free throw shooting competition held at the Mount Abe gym on Feb. 26.

Then, at the statewide Vermont Knights of Columbus Foul Shooting Contest held in Barre on Sunday, March 19, Kyra Bradford of Vergennes won the free throw shooting title in the 11-year-old girls’ category. In a group of five district winners, the state winner was determined based on the number of free throws made out of 25. Bradford and another girl each scored 11, so they took five shots in a tiebreaker round, and tied again. They went through two more tie-breaker rounds before Bradford, shown with her trophy in Barre, left, won in the third tie breaker. Shown at the district competition, above, are, from left, 9-year-old champs Ryan Wright and Grethan Toy; Tyler Bergmans, 10; Peyton Paquette, 10; Kaydence Pecor, 10; Kyra Bradford, 11; Henry Cogswell, 12; and Felicia Pecor, 12. Gary Russell and many brother Knights officiated the district competition.

Greg Dennis (Continued from Page 1B) With the college men’s hockey team suffering through a historically bad season, the crowds just grew larger every game for the men’s basketball team.

Head coach Jeff Brown (who won both NESCAC and regional coachof-the-year honors) has, along with assistants Kyle Dudley, Russ Reilly and Rob Alberts, been delivering good basketball to Pepin gym for years now.

This season was not only no exception, it was exceptional.

Fueled by the fearless guards Jake Brown and Matt St. Amour — the league-leading scorer who sparked rousing “MVP” chants with every three-pointer — the Panthers won 14 straight games.

As snowy fields turned to brown and ski plans melted, C. and I took to building our weekend plans around basketball games.

What a ride it was. It seemed the team could do little wrong, a smothering defense sparking fast breaks and open threes from St. Amour, Brown, Jack Daly and freshman phenom Matt Folger.

When the NESCAC playoffs loomed and there was still no snow, we took an entire weekend to travel to Tufts to see the team play.

There the Panthers were greeted by a huge contingent of Middlebury fans who easily drowned out the small coterie of other out-of-towners.

The Panthers endured yet another hackathon from Trinity, to play for the league crown against a Williams team that had previously beaten Middlebury by 24 points.

Proving once again that college sports is wonderfully unpredictable, the Panthers routed Williams by 22 points in a game where everything went right.

It wasn’t the same as skiing powder, but it made for a happy weekend.

March brought more happiness (did I mention there was a blizzard?) and three Middlebury victories in the NCAA tournament.

The team had earned the right to play at home as they raced into the Elite Eight. So rather than travel for the games, we could eat at Flatbread and grab our preferred seats behind

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Only a Williams squad playing at its very best — using a seemingly endless bench and an enormously tall front court — brought the Middlebury season to an end.

Williams did just enough to slow down St. Amour and Brown, held off a furious last-minute rush, and emerged from Pepin with a fourpoint victory.

I’m sure the Middlebury team will be replaying that game in their heads for years to come — I still recall moments from my high school games nearly 50 years later — but they have every reason to be proud of their season. Few of us expected this team to go so far after losing a talented starter who transferred early in the season.

Playing deep into the NCAA tournament was icing on the cake. And it’s got us already looking to next year’s prospects.

Without live basketball to consume the weekends, we more rabid fans will have to settle for the bigschool variety of March Madness.

But that tournament feels increasing-

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MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College senior men’s basketball player Matt St. Amour was on Thursday named a National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Second Team All-American, a week after he and Coach Jeff Brown both earned regional NCAA Division III honors from D3hoops.com.

Both St. Amour and Brown also earned top honors from NESCAC, while Panther senior Jake Brown also earned league recognition.

The national NABC honor comes a week after D3hoops.com named St. Amour a First-Team All-Northeast Region all-star. Earlier, NESCAC named St. Amour the league’s Player of the Year and named him a First-Team All-NESCAC selection for the second consecutive season.

D3hoops.com last week chose Coach Brown as its Northeast Region Coach of the Year for the first time, an honor that followed his recent selection as NESCAC Coach of the Year for the second consecutive winter.

Jake Brown was recently named a Second-Team All-NESCAC selection.

The trio helped lead the Panthers to a 27-4 mark, the second-most victories in the program’s history; a NESCAC playoff championship; and a berth in an NCAA Division III quarterfinal.

St. Amour led NESCAC in scoring and was tied for 25th in D-III with 21.8 points per game. He also paced the league and ranked second in the country in three-point field goals (118).

St. Amour’s 676 points this winter and 118 three-pointers were the most in Middlebury single-season history, and he became the first Panther to eclipse the 500-point plateau twice after scoring 566 during his junior year.

The four-year starting guard, who missed most of his sophomore season with a major injury, finished third in Middlebury’s career scoring ranks with 1,700 points. The 201617 NESCAC Player of the Year and a two-time First-Team All-NESCAC selection, St. Amour finishes among the program career leaders in three-point field goals made (first with 252), free throw percentage (second at .806, 2nd), and free throws made (fourth at 386, 4th) and steals (sixth at 146).

Brown, the 20-year head coach and five-time NESCAC Coach of the Year, guided the Panthers to a tie for the regular season NESCAC title and the NESCAC playoff championship.

Middlebury earned a top-four overall seed in the NCAA tournament and hosted NCAA Regional and Sectional rounds.

Jake Brown served as point guard for the NESCAC’s top offense, which averaged 87.4 points per game this season. He led the team with 6.3 assists per game, including 14 in a one-point win over Skidmore, and finished third on the team in scoring, averaging 11.8 points a game with a career high of 31 in January. He finished second in career program assists.

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All Stars (Continued from Page 1B) principal … He loves to play. He loves to compete and has confidence in his own abilities … He’s a student of the game. He works really hard to improve himself … He’s a good teammate. He’s really well-liked by his teammates … He’s a great kid to coach, too.”

TREY KAUFMANN, MUHS SENIOR. Notes: Averaged a double-double of 15.05 points and a local high of 11.6 rebounds per game … Racked up two games of at least 20 points and 20 boards … Shot 43.1 percent, a rate that rose steadily as the season progressed … Could score in the post or shoot consistently KAUFMANN from 15 feet out …

Improved his defense and blocked 1.7 shots per game.

Lussier’s Quotes: “Trey hit his stride toward the end of the season …

He did a great job in the post. He had a couple moves he could go to … He just ate up all the rebounds he could … He had a nose for where the ball was going and could explode and go up and get it … We’re not finding one player to replace him, that’s for sure.

We’re going to have to have different people step up in different areas.”

JACKSON COUNTER, MT. ABE JUNIOR. Notes: Strong, skilled forward who led the Eagles in points at 12.5 per game while shooting 40 percent, and was second in rebounds at 7.3 per game …

Go-to player down the stretch who also typically guarded bigger players when the Eagles played man-to-man … Good ballhandler and passer who averaged 1.8 assists COUNTER … Three-year varsity starter who was voted captain as a junior.

Clark’s Quotes: “He played like a senior even though he was a junior … He was very under control on the court … He had moments where he could take over the game … He was very physical and a big reason we could control rebounding in several games … When it counted the most, he certainly stepped up the most and wanted the ball … He played solid defense … He’s a joy to have on the team, a great kid. He was a team captain and very positive all the time.”

DEREK AINES, OV SENIOR. Notes: Skilled senior who led OV with 16.4 points and 5.9 rebounds

per game … Worked hard to improve his defense and rebounding, and the results showed … Chipped in 1.5 assists and 1.7 steals per game and hit 75.5 percent of his free throws …

Always drew extra attention from opposing defenses, who had to respect his three-point range and ability to slash to the basket.

Hughes’ Quotes: AINES “We knew coming in he would be an offensive threat … The other guys definitely looked to him to take some of the bigger shots … He was probably our biggest defensive threat inside … He grew so much in the past year, and his physicality got much stronger … He was very aggressive down low … He started getting the knack of how to get some of those rebounds … He stepped it up as a senior leader … He definitely became a lot more versatile in every aspect of his game.”

JOSH LETOURNEAU, OV JUNIOR. Notes: Took over ballhandling duties this year and handled opposing pressure well … Quick, scoring many of his 11.0 points per game by attacking the basket, but also showed threepoint range, sinking 35.4 percent from behind the arc … Converted 43.5 percent from two-point range …

Contributed across the board with 3.5 LETOURNEAU rebounds, 2.9 assists and 1.3 steals per game … Determined defender.

Hughes’ Quotes: “He always defended the opponent’s best guard and is a great point guard running our offense … … He would bring it up against all the pressure we faced …

He was one of the scrappiest players, too … He was very skilled at getting past defenders just by using his quickness and finishing at the basket … He’s got some skill in every little bit of the court … He is also a great kid off the court as well. I am very happy to be having him come back next year as a senior.”

SECOND TEAM LANCE BERGMANS, VUHS JUNIOR. Notes: Efficient scorer who averaged 9.0 points per game while leading the Commodores with 7.8 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game … Effective in the post or with a mid-range jumper … Good passer and ballhandler who averaged 1.7 assists from the forward position …

Clear second on the Commodore

team in the overall efficiency rating Quinn keeps that evaluates shooting percentage, rebounds, turnovers, steals, points, assists and other stats.

Quinn’s Quotes: BERGMANS “He’s really worked hard to develop his skills … He’s a good shooter. He’s one of those guys who needs to be told to shoot more … He was our force in the middle. He was a consistent rebounder for us, and he was our best help defender as well … He’s a good passer, too … He supports his teammates really well, too … He’s pretty enjoyable to peers and adults, both.”

CHRIS WOOD, MT. ABE SENIOR. Notes: Quick, versatile defender and determined rebounder who led the Eagles with 7.5 boards per game … Chipped in 8.8 points, 1.7 assists and 1.4 steals per game and shot 73 percent from the free throw line … Co-captain and team leadWOOD er who typically guarded opposing team’s toughest guard or forward.

Clark’s Quotes: He did a lot of things on the court that were productive in lot of ways … He had drive and determination. He was very focused … He just plays the game like it’s meant to be played.

He’s tough … He positions himself for rebounding … He makes good decisions on the court … He’s physical and long-armed and would pretty much hold guys in check … He showed a lot of maturity this year and definitely led the team with positive attitude.”

CODY POMAINVILLE, MUHS JUNIOR. Notes: Explosive scorer who came on strong in the second half of the season after dealing with an early injury to average 11.15 points per game … Twice scored 25, including in a close win POMAINVILLE at VUHS in which he made several big plays down the stretch … Helped on the boards with 2.85 rebounds per game and averaged 2.7 assists per game … Effective defender on the perimeter.

Lussier’s Quotes: “He could assert

himself, for sure … He definitely got noticed by the other teams … He was right up there in the rebounds and steals … He’s got some nice length for a perimeter player and that helped him get his hands on the ball (defensively) … He got in a groove a little bit at the end of the season shooting the ball … He came back in and proved his worth … He was knocking down shots when people left him open, and he was getting by people, too.”

J.D. GOETTELMANN, MUHS JUNIOR. Notes: Solid all-around performer at guard for the Tigers who scored many of his 8.4 points per game at crucial times …

Second for MUHS with an average of 4.0 rebounds per game, and led the team with aver- GOETTELMANN ages of 1.5 steals and 1.5 deflected passes per game … Good passer who chipped in 2.7 assists per contest.

Lussier’s Quotes: “J.D. could always pick us up or give us a spark …

He was a lot of our energy at times when we didn’t have it … He did a lot more of the little stuff that didn’t show up in the stats … He definitely looks to try to get his hands to the ball a lot (on defense). He tries to be as active as he can … He was a good teammate, and he would do what we asked him to do … I was happy with his play this year. He took the right step forward this year.”

DYLAN MACKIE, OV SOPHOMORE. Notes: Made an impact at both ends of the court in his first year on varsity and was named to the Division I&II coaches’ Dream Team of up-and-coming underclassmen … Quick, talented offensive player and tough defender who averaged 9.6 points, 3.3 rebounds, and team bests of 3.8 assists and 1.6 steals and sank 75.8 percent of his free throws.

Hughes’ Quotes: MACKIE “For someone so small he can mix it up inside more than anyone on our team … He can get his shot off inside … He has a great step-back jump shot. He has a great catch-andshoot shot … For being someone so small and so young, he just added so much to our team … He was our most skilled player … There was nobody who could stay in front of him when he looked to attack.

Jake Carroll paced the Cardinals with five goals, while Mike Gay scored once and had four assists.

Middlebury earned advantages of 55-34 in shots and 52-31 in ground balls.

(Continued from Page 1B) roll scored first, racing home from third on an outfield error, while Jason Lock knocked in the second run with a sacrifice fly to right field.

Middlebury tacked on three more runs in the fourth. Phil Bernstein stroked an RBI doubled, and Justin Han later poked a two-out single to plate Bernstein and Carroll.

The Pilgrims prevailed in the nightcap, 6-4, in nine innings.

The Panthers scored twice in the top of the first. Sam Graf belted a solo home run to left, and Kevin Woodring doubled home Lock.

The Pilgrims got the two runs back in their half of the inning on a Stanley Vargas sacrifice fly by Vargas and an Evan Delaney RBI single. Vargas then singled home Aneury Lara in the second to make it 3-2.

That lead held until the seventh, when Middlebury struck for a pair.

Ryan Rizzo started the inning with a bunt single and moved to second

Board Member Spotlight

For a good quarter of a century, the Parent/Child Center’s programs have epitomized all that is best in our human condition. The Center and its outstanding staff work to improve the lives of our young people and help them realize the full potential of their abilities. At the Parent/Child Center these young people find acceptance, dignity, professional guidance and a caring family. I take pride in supporting the work of the P/CC because I think it is performed at a critical time in the lives of many of these young people and allows them to become happy, productive members of society. In addition, and not incidentally, I support the Parent/Child Center programs because for over thirty years they have saved our government (that’s our taxes) long term social service expenses.

Natalie Peters

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Men’s lacrosse (Continued from Page 1B) came the rest of the way was at 1510 in the fourth quarter.

Riehl led the Panthers with four goals and one assist, while Zelkowitz, Kucinski and Gould each finished with two goals and two assists. Jake Madnick and John Jackson each scooped seven ground balls and dominated

faceoffs: Jackson won 14 of 15, while Madnick won 11 of 13.

In goal for Middlebury, Will Ernst played the opening half with five saves, while Will Perry had six stops in the second half.

Plattsburgh’s Donald Tesoriero made nine saves in the first half, while Austin Graham recorded seven saves in the second half.

Panthers (Continued from Page 1B) three goals, while McDonagh, DiCenso, McNicholas and Emily Barnard each scored twice. Hollis Perticone controlled five draws and picked up three ground balls, Emma Johns earned three ground balls, while Mary O’Connell con-

when Graf walked. Lock then doubled Rizzo and Graf home to make it 4-3.

But the Pilgrims answered in the eighth inning with three runs on four hits. Jeam Castillo smacked a tworun single and scored on a Conor Crouse single.

Woodring and Andrew Hennings both had multi-hit games for Middlebury, and Lock doubled twice and singled.

For the Panthers, Spencer Shores tossed the first three innings allowing three runs (one earned) on four hits. Robert Erickson took the loss, pitching the next 4.1 innings, allowing two runs on one hit, and striking out seven. Conor Himstead gave up one run on three hits and recorded the final two outs.

Vincent Backert went 6.1 innings for NEC, allowing four runs on nine hits, while Joseph Pascucci went 2.2 scoreless innings with three strikeouts to earn the win.

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trolled three draws. Panther goalie Julia Keith made two saves and allowed three goals in the first half, while Alex Freedman made two second-half stops.

Claroni’s two goals led RPI. Two Engineer goalies combined for eight saves.

See you at the rink!

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LIONS CLUB NEEDS stuff for their annual auction.

Please NO appliances or electronics. Call for pick up, 388‑7124. Help us, help oth‑ ers.

Cards of Thanks THANK YOU ST. JUDE and Holy Father for prayers an‑ swered. MA.

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

Wednesdays, 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‑ MOUS BRANDON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, 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.

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

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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: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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.

LANDSCAPE COMPANY LOOKING FOR reliable, hard working people for our 2017 crew. Job includes clean‑ups, landscaping, planting and garden main‑ tenance. Must be comfort‑ able working outdoors in all types of weather. Previous experience not necessary, but preferred. Must have valid driver’s license and dependable transporta‑ tion. Pay hourly rate $11 ‑ $16 per hour. Call Dave, 802‑363‑9958.

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.

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‑ 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‑ 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.

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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.

MAKING RECOVERY EAS‑ IER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 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 dis‑ cussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understand‑ ing 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.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. 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

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GOT POTHOLES? De‑ Mers LLC. Driveway repair.

Spring Cleanups. Free estimates. 802‑349‑8906. leondemers@icloud.com .

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.

PARTY RENTALS; CHI‑ NA, flatware, glassware, linens. Delivery available.

802‑388‑4831.

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.

PROFESSIONAL PAINT‑ ING; interior/exterior, resi‑ dential/commercial, pressure washing. 20 years’ experi‑ ence. Best prices. Refer‑ ences. 802‑989‑5803.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) step meeting.

Tuesdays, 3 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. 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.

SPIRITUAL AWAKEN‑ INGS MEETING of Alcohol‑ ics Anonymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Friday, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middle‑ bury, VT. WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, taping, skim coat plas‑ tering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

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Free GOLDEN RETRIEVERS 2 MALE and female. Past golden retriever owners pre‑ ferred, own your own home, no other dogs. Only serious inquiries please. Beautiful, friendly and sweet. Free to a loving home. If interested, tell me all about the home they would have it they were to be yours. 802‑355‑8688.

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Help Wanted BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

DINING HALL MONITOR at Summer Camp‑ Dates, June 17‑August 19. Competitive pay, great work environ‑ ment at fantastic summer camp for kids, Keewaydin on Lake Dunmore in Salis‑ bury, VT. Minimum age, 21. Contact Pete Hare at pete@keewaydin.org or 802‑352‑4770.

K.A. BAGLEY INC. is hiring for lawn care/ landscaping. Need to be honest,reliable,valid driv‑ ers license. Call 352‑9088 to apply.

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LOOKING TO HIRE 2 cook‑ ing positions. One lead cook that can work independently and one back up at a facil‑ ity in Vergennes, VT. Pay based on experience, must pass a background check and drug tests. If interested please e‑mail resume to: ma3024@metzcorp.com.

MIDDLEBURY INTERAC‑ TIVE LANGUAGES is hiring for a part time temporary Staff Coordinator to sup‑ port the summer academics team from April‑June. This position will work closely with Human Resources to oversee on boarding of new employees. Please send re‑ sume and letter of interest to HR@middleburyinteractive. com.

MIDDLEBURY NATURAL FOODS CO‑OP seeking assistant manager of pro‑ duce department. Ideal candidate has leadership experience and supervisory skills and enjoys working in a fast paced team oriented environment. Excellent com‑ munication and customer service skills desired. Must be able to lift 60 lbs repeat‑ edly. Evenings and week‑ ends required. Full time with excellent benefits. To apply, complete application (available in our store or at middlebury.coop) and send it with a letter of interest to: Middlebury Natural Foods Co‑op, 1 Washington St., Middlebury, VT 05753.

MISTER UPS NOW AC‑ CEPTING applications for Servers. Please apply within, 25 Bakery Lane, Middlebury.

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Middlebury Area Land Trust Executive Director The Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT) board of directors is seeking an Executive Director to lead this beloved and multi-faceted community organization. The successful applicant will identify with MALT’s mission statement, “To conserve the working landscape, important natural areas, special open spaces, areas with key visual or aesthetic attributes, to link green spaces, where possible, and to protect water quality,” and work with the board and other staff to achieve these goals.

This position could be full time or part time, dependent upon the circumstances of a qualified applicant. Hours can be flexible, but would include outdoor work on the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM) and other MALT properties, as well as office hours and meetings with the board, committees and other civic interest groups, organizations and individuals. Duties include the management of a volunteer base, fundraising initiatives, public outreach, financial management and board/committee communication.

If you are looking for a stimulating career opportunity that can exercise your skills at fundraising and publicity on behalf of a vital non-profit, while enabling you to spend time in the outdoors advancing the network of conserved lands and public trails, then this is the perfect opportunity for you!

To apply, please send cover letter and resume to: MALT Board of Directors Attn: Eben Punderson, President 99 Maple Street, Suite 10B Middlebury, VT 05753 eben@bpd.legal Anyone with interest and experience encouraged to apply.

Competitive salary commensurate with experience.

Community Health Nurse, Full Time

We are seeking an RN with a strong commitment to patient care and the enhancement of patient quality of life to manage a localized case load. The nurse will provide skilled nursing services to agency patients based upon a plan of care approved by the physician. In the delivery of care, the nurse uses independent judgment based on common principles of pathophysiology and accepted standards of care. A valid license to practice registered nursing in the State of Vermont is required. This is a full time position position with an excellent benefits package including medical, dental, life/ voluntary life insurance; 401(k) savings plan and paid time off.

Submit resume and cover letter to: Stacey Sherman, HR Generalist ACHHH, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury VT 05753 or to hr@achhh.org (802) 388-7259 • www.achhh.org • EOE

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United Way of Addison County is seeking a professional photographer and a professional videographer for two upcoming events hosted by the United Way of Addison County. We are seeking individuals for www.unitedwayaddison May 4th (2017) and June 1st (2017) to attend and film the event(s). If you are interested in learning county.org/ more about these opportunities please visit: http:// VolunteerDonate unitedwayaddisoncounty.galaxydigital.com/need/ and click on detail/?need_id=246930 or call 802-388-7189 VOLUNTEER NOW!

The Volunteer Center, a collaboration of Volunteer drivers are needed in Bristol, Bridport, Middlebury RSVP and the and Vergennes to deliver warm smiles and hot, nutritious, United Way of noon meals to seniors who are no longer able to cook for Addison County, themselves. If you have 1 hour to give, every other week, posts dozens of volunteer opportunities you’ll make a huge difference by providing a service on the Web.Go to that enables seniors to live independently in their www.unitedwayaddison county.org/ VolunteerDonate and click on VOLUNTEER NOW!

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Experience in accounting and Excel required. Role consists of data entry and filing. To apply please con‑ tact: Suzanne Atherholt at 802‑349‑6781 or milepoint‑ vt@yahoo.com.

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SUMMER CAMP NURSE POSITION do you enjoy working with kids in a vi‑ brant and warm summer camp community? Con‑ sider working as a nurse at Keewaydin Dunmore for Boys or Songadeewin of Keewaydin for Girls. Our summer season runs from June 17‑August 19. This is great experience to start your nursing career—es‑ pecially for those consid‑ ering a career in pediatric nursing. Salaries start at $6,800. Room and board is included. For more informa‑ tion, please contact Peter Hare at 802‑352‑4770 or pete@keewaydin.org.

THE VERMONT SOUP COMPANY is seeking a part time assistant for food preparation. Please send resume and two references to info@vtsoup.co

For Sale 2002 WINNEBAGO BRAVE in very good condition.

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NORTHLANDS JOB CORPS IS NOW UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT BY CHUGACH EDUCATIONAL SERVICES.

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CEDAR POSTS for sale.

8 footers, no points.

802‑388‑4831.

NORTHLANDS HAS CURRENT JOB OPENINGS AND NEW POSITIONS OPEN UP FROM TIME TO TIME.

CLARKE FORKLIFT, me‑ dium sized. Been sitting for 2 years. Runs fine, needs minor adjustment. Can be seen at Floyd’s Automotive, New Haven (formerly junk yard). $800. OBO. Anxious to sell. 802‑453‑4235 or 802‑877‑1580.

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BRISTOL; 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT Heat, trash, snowplowing, lawn care, parking included. $1,175/ mo. 802‑453‑2566.

CORNWALL 1 BEDROOM apartment, second floor, 1‑1/2 baths. Deck, ski‑ ylights. $925/mo. includes heat and hot water. bates‑ properties@yahoo.com .

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Ad‑ dison. Available storage space in my barn for sum‑ mer/winter storage. The barn is structurally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or run‑ ning water. The barn is also available for lease. The en‑ trance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

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Location, location. Front door parking. Good visibility.

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OVERSEES STUDENT ACTIVITIES IN THEIR RESIDENTIAL DORMS. RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING A SAFE AND POSITIVE LIVING ENVIRONMENT THAT DELIVERS GUIDANCE TO STUDENTS TO ENSURE POSITIVE GROUP LIVING AND SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF TRAINING GOALS.

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Northlands Job Corps is an Equal Opportunity Employer Female/Minority/Disabled/Veteran.

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MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM house in town. Walk‑ ing distance to stores and schools. Newly renovated.

388‑7743.

LIBRARY DIRECTOR Enthusiastic and creative leader needed for vibrant patron-centered library.

MLIS or library experience preferred but not required. 30 hrs/week.

See www.lincolnlibraryvt.com for more information.

Send resume and cover letter to lincolnlibrariansearch@gmail.com Dick Nessen, Lincoln Library 222 West River Road Lincoln, VT 05443 Applications accepted until April 5.

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DOCKET CLERK B (17014) A full-time position, involves specialized clerical work and data entry involving one or more docket areas within the Judicial Bureau.

Located Middlebury, VT. High School graduate and two years of clerical, or data entry experience required. Starting at $14.75 per hr. with excellent benefits. Open until filled. Go to www.vermontjudiciary.org under employee opportunities for more details and how to apply.

Busy Landscaping and Excavating firm seeking skilled, motivated and reliable people. Full-time and Seasonal positions available. We are looking for experienced help in landscaping, excavation and lawn maintenance. Must have valid drivers license.

Commercial mowing or excavation experience required. Wage based on experienced.

Mail or email resume:

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6 Lower Plains Rd, Middlebury, VT 05753, Attn: Leslie.

Call 388-4529.

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You’ll tell the world why these two magazines — with a combined reach of 160,000 readers across seven states — are smart ways to reach New England’s most active, affluent and engaged audiences: skiers, riders, hikers, cyclists, kayakers, runners, second home owners and their families.

We’ll need you to spend some time in our offices in Middlebury and to represent us at events around the state. On the other days you’ll be out on the road, making calls, and following up.

NOW HIRING:

Part-time cashiers & deli help for flexible schedules NIGHTS & WEEKENDS A MUST. Apply in person at:

East Middlebury Maplefields 3201 Rte 7 South, E. Middlebury Ask for Brittany or pick-up an application EOE

3 BEDROOM HOUSE in Middlebury. Available first to middle of April. $1,100 per month. First, last, security and references required.

802‑352‑4124.

We’re looking for someone who has: • A proven track record in sales • The ability to develop and sell to a new client list • Creative marketing and event ideas • Clear, compelling and concise communication skills • Boundless energy, gritty persistence and joyful enthusiasm • Passion for outdoor sports and Vermont, preferred This is a part-time or full-time job (depending on your circumstances) with a base salary, but compensation is largely commission-based. You’ll have flexibility and freedom in your schedule, but we will expect weekly reports and sales goals to be met.

Send your resume and cover letter to editor@vtsports.com

MIDDLEBURY 3 BEDROOM apartment on Court Street, heat included. Call 802‑388‑4831.

WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront. Washer, dryer. No smoking. Available Septem‑ ber through May. $1,000/ month. 860‑878‑9580.

NEW HAVEN, 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment. Bright and spacious. Need 1st and last month’s rent. Price includes heat, electricity & rubbish removal. No pets, $1195 per month. Call 802‑453‑4037.

NEW HAVEN, 4 BEDROOM house, 2 decks, private, formal dining room, master bedroom with full bath. Heat included. 1 year lease. Ref‑ erences, security deposit.

802‑324‑7385.

NEW HAVEN: BEAUTIFUL VIEWS, sunny apartment.

Garden space. No pets, no smoking. References, security deposit, lease. $875/month plus utilities.

802‑236‑2040.

SINGLE ROOM PROFESSIONAL office in historic Middlebury landmark, over‑ looking downtown. Space dimensions 15x15, with common areas and bath‑ rooms shared with other professional tenants. Rent $500 per month which in‑ cludes heat, electric, hot water, garbage, recycling and private off street parking. For inquiry call 802‑989‑8822.

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DIRECTORY

• accounting • appliance repair • auto glass • automotive • carpentry/contractors • cleaning services

Floor Care

Accounting

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Corporate Partnerships, Small Businesses & Personal Returns

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• material forklifts • excavators • bulldozers • mini-excavators • skidsteers

New Construction Remodels and Additions Window and Siding Installation Smaller Home Repairs

• Man lifts up to 80’ • man basket w/crane

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40’ to 80’ manlifts manlifts Cleaning Services 40’ 80’ 42’to material forklifts

42’ material forklifts 42’ material Fork lifts up forklifts to 15,000 lbs.

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Business Service Masonry

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• trailers/transport • towing • tree services • window treatments • masonry

Towing

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Self Inking & Hand Stamps Available at the Addison Independent in the Marble Works, Middlebury

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Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS For Rent

For Rent

It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

Talk to our sales professionals.

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

VERMONT’S TWICE-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER

For Rent VALLEY VIEW APARTMENTS is currently ac‑ cepting applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Vergennes. All income/as‑ sets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. El‑ derly or disabled only. W/D onsite. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www. summitpmg.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOUSE on one of the six, now five remaini ng home‑sites in East Middlebury’s Daisy Lane, a small established subdivision with village water, underground electric, cable and telephone to each lot.

All sites are approved for simple in ground septic. Just down the street you’ll find a library, playground, ten‑ nis courts and the beauti‑ ful Waybury Inn and Pub. That’s not all, Daisy Lane is 15‑20 minutes from the Snow V E R G E N N E S 3 B E D - Bowl, two 18 hole golf courses ROOM: washer/dryer hook‑ and beautiful Lake Dunmore. up, new appliances. $900/ Telephone 802‑388‑2502 or month. No pets, no smok‑ 11802‑388‑7350. ) ed: 5/5/ blishCom‑ ing. On Monkton s (PuRd. d A ed ifi Classapplication required pleted t Renviewing prior apartment. to college.

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Open 7 days a week. Up to $27,500 down payment assistance available on new homes if you qualify. Fac‑ toryDirectHomesofVT.com.

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W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Vacation Rentals F L O R I D A VA C AT I O N RENTAL, on golf course, 1 hour to Disney. 2br, 2ba, beautifully furnished.

Av a i l a b l e We d n e s d a y, April 12 on, $900. weekly.

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Wood Heat FIREWOOD, GREEN OR DRY cut, split. $200/cord.

802‑247‑6061.

Att. Farmers FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

Cars 2003 CHEVY IMPALA 58,500 miles. New front tires, muffler. Inspected.

Good condition. $2,200.00.

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Wanted CB RADIO BASE STATION with mic. or CB equipment.

802‑377‑5972.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique col‑ lectibles, etc. Visit www. bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527.

Consulting/appraisal ser‑ vices available. House calls made free of charge.

Availa e d referenc on Route 7. me Deposit an MOBILE ho 50/mo. plus utilities.

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Public Notices found on Pages 8B Middlebury, VT 05753 • (802) 388-4944 • www.AddisonIndependent.com

Real Estate

Real Estate

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TOWN OF LINCOLN

available and the range of community development activities that may be undertaken

5145. the impact to any historic and archaeological resources that may under this program, TOWN OF GRANVILLE VERMONT s. Call 897nt + 1/3 utilitie OMS for re 2 BEDRO in Shoreham. $400be affected by the proposed project, and to give affected citizens the opportunity to e ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID in my hom examine the proposed statement of projected use of these funds.

WINTER MAINTENANCE OF TOWN HIGHWAYS es $17,600 in VCDP funds which will be used to help The proposal is to apply rencfor credit refe

BPD deals with reports of neighbors making drugs BRISTOL — Bristol police received a call on March 6 at 2:55 a.m. from a Munsill Avenue resident reporting that her neighbors were using and making drugs. The same complainant called again at 12:16 p.m. that day.

Bristol Police Chief Kevin Gibbs said that his officers did not respond because the caller has made dozens of false reports.

Then on March 9 the Bristol Police Department responded to Munsill Avenue at the request of the fire department for a report of smoke and the odor of methamphetamine being made. The same resident had called the town fire warden at home to make the report.

Both the police and fire departments investigated the incident and found the resident’s claims to be unfounded.

The police department is still working to address this issue involving a resident, Gibbs said.

Between March 6 and March 12, the BPD conducted three town-contracted traffic patrols, covering Daniel’s Four Corners and Hewitt Road. Police issued one warning for no insurance and two tickets for speeding.

Also during that period, Bristol police conducted five security checks at Mount Abraham Union High School and took fingerprints for six individuals requesting background checks, including several individuals volunteering or seeking employment in the Addison Northeast Supervisory Union.

In other activity from March 6-12, Bristol police: • Met with a student leadership organization at Mount Abe on March 6 to discuss concerns about text messages with sexually explicit content, known as sexting. The group will continue to meet as a working group, focusing on public education and prevention.

• Assisted with an interview as part of an open investigation with the Addison County Unit for Special Investigations on March 7.

• Took a report on March 7 of an MAUHS staff member who had received an email and phone call at work from a merchant advising a purchase was in process. The staff member advised they had not completed or authorized a purchase for the item and

Bristol

recognized that someone had used their information.

• Began investigating reported drug trafficking on March 7.

• Worked out of the space at Bristol Elementary School on March 7 and 8, interacting with staff and students in the classroom, gym, and hallways.

• Served a temporary relief from abuse order to a district resident on March 7.

• Provided security at an MAUHS girls’ basketball game on March 7 and issued one ticket to a motorist passing a stopped school bus in front of the school.

• Checked Main Street businesses on a downtown foot patrol on March 8.

• Met with three classes at MAUHS and answered questions about police procedures in criminal investigations, including evidence handling and interrogations on March 8.

• Responded to a panic alarm activation at Martin’s Hardware on West Street on March 8. Police found the alarm had been accidentally activated as employees were trying to leave for the day.

• Investigated a vehicle reported to have been sitting in the Champlain Farms parking lot for about 45 minutes on March 9. The driver was found to be tired and was just resting before continuing on to Rutland.

• Responded to MAUHS to remove a noncompliant male student on March 9. The student is already the subject of court action, so Bristol police advised the Addison County State’s Attorney’s Office.

• Investigated possible vandalism to a Mountain Street resident’s vehicle on March 9.

• Met with service providers and the family of a student with truancy issues on March 9 to help develop a plan to improve the student’s school attendance.

The officer explained what would happen if attendance does not improve.

• Arrested Joseph Bley, 36, of Oregon for driving under the influence and for attempted sale of marijuana on March 10 and responded to Main Street where Bley was reported as stalking a local woman also on March 10. Following the Bristol Police Department’s investigation, Bley was arraigned for stalking on March 13. Bristol officers also helpd Vermont State Police deal with Bley, whom they cited for driving under the influence, test refusal, twice on March 10.

• Took a report on March 10 from a Hardscrabble Road resident who said he found bullet holes in his garage door.

Two days earlier the resident heard gun shots in the area. Bristol police referred the matter to the Vermont State Police, as it occurred outside the police district.

• Served court paperwork on a South Street resident on March 10.

• Responded to a reported alarm activation at a Prince Lane business on March 12. Upon arrival the officer found the building to be secure and notified the owner of the alarm.

Police Log

dison. ase and The Town of Granville is seeking bids for winter plowing, winging, sanding and other USE in Ad s. $1200/month. Le the following activities: ROOM HO ent, 2 bathaccomplish 3 BEDRoute m . se e) ik ba activities in relation to winter maintenance for town roads that connect to VT 100.

(M ut Full walko 9-2009 or 989-91171. Improvement to the Pedestrian Walkway to prevent winter ice formation ired. 75can be Bids shall be hourly rates for each piece of equipment with operator.requ Bids immediately in front of the entrance doorway to the lower floor. different rates for different years. Bids will list each piece of equipment in detail and 2. Improvements to the Polling /mo. Place Access and Facilities located on the lower floor. ts. $1,000 als. No pe erlooking for of operators with experience. essionproposed application are available at Town Clerk Office, 62 Quaker HOUSE, ov geCopies ct profthe M rfe O Pe O .

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2 car gara Street and may be viewed during the hours of 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM Monday through Contractor will include a proof of insurance for general liability, commercial or and Lake Dunm deposit. 247-3785. rity worker’s compensation. Contractor must list the Town of Granville as additionally insured Thursday, and 4:00 to 7:00 PM on Wednesday. Should you require any special plus secu when awarded contract. accommodations, please contact Mark Benz at 802-453-2250 to ensure appropriate Contract will start in the Fall of 2017 and end in the Spring of 2022 for a total of five (5) accommodations are made. For the hearing impaired please call (TTY) #1-800-253years.

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Selectboard Legislative Body for the Town of Lincoln Copy submitted by: Mark Benz To be eligibile to Bid, contractor must contact road commissioner Kevin Bagley (802Phone: 802-453-2250 431-8446) for bid specifications.

3/23 Bids are due to the Town Office 4157 VT RT 100 Granville VT 05747 by 3pm Monday April 10th. Bids will be opened at the select board meeting that evening at 6pm.

MIDDLEBURY CEMETERY The Town of Granville and or Contractor can terminate the contract with 60 days written ASSOCIATION NOTICE notice to the other party.

PUBLIC NOTICE SHOREHAM RESIDENTS The Town of Granville reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

3/23 The rescheduled annual meeting of the Be advised that an energy use survey is Middlebury Cemetery Association will be available at the Town Clerk’s office. held at the offices of Langrock, Sperry and This survey will assist the Shoreham STATE OF VERMONT Wool, 111 S. Pleasant St., Middlebury, VT on Planning Commission to develop a town plan SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION 3/16 Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 5p.m. to meet the goals established by Vermont ADDISON UNIT DOCKET NO: 267-12-15 Ancv Act 174 (2016) for reducing greenhouse CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC., Plaintiff gases and help home owners save money by WEYBRIDGE CEMETERY REQUEST FOR BIDS: v. becomging energy efficient by 2050.

REQUEST FOR BIDS MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH DAVID A. AUBIN; MICHELLE M. FOX; Defendants Your participation is important and your Quaker Village Road.

Seeking bids for the SCHOOL NOTICE OF SALE responses will help to direct the process 2017 mowing season. Bids accepted until Middlebury Union School District #3 invites By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain mortgage given locally.

3/9 April 4, 2017. Call 545-2482 for details. qualified general contractors to bid on the

by David A. Aubin and Michelle M. Fox to Mortgage Electronic Registration System, Inc., 3/23 renovation of 2 bathrooms at Middlebury as nominee for Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Mortgage Corp., its successors and/or assigns, Union High School. The work includes dated May 27, 2009 and recorded in Book 131 at Page 67 of the Town of Ferrisburgh demolition of the existing bathrooms and TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY – DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD Land Records, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by Assignment new plumbing fixtures, piping, flooring, tile, NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING of Mortgage recorded on August 13, 2015 in Book 152 at Page 30, for breach of the partitions, ceilings and lighting in the same conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, April 10, location. The construction period is summer 2017 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the Municipal Office Building, 77 Public Auction at 1:30 p.m. on April 4, 2017 at 4234 Ethan Allen Highway, Ferrisburgh, VT of 2017. Bids are due at 3:00 PM March 28, Main Street, to consider the following: 05456 all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, 2017. There will be a pre-bid site tour on 1. An application by G-Stone Motors for a Conditional Use review of a proposal to construct an To Wit: March 20, 2017 at 3:00 PM. Drawings will addition to the current facility. This property is located at 36 Boardman Street in the Protected Being a parcel of land with all improvements thereon located at 4234 Ethan Allen be available at Blueprints, Etc., 20 Farrell Highway District (PHD).

Highway, so-called, in the Town of Ferrisburgh, County of Addison, and State of Vermont.

St, South Burlington, VT, (802) 865-4503, All interested persons may appear and be heard. Written materials may be viewed in the Being all and the same lands and premises to be conveyed to David A. Aubin and on March 14, 2017. Please send Bids to Planning and Zoning Office during regular business hours. (802) 388-8100, Ext 210. Participation Michelle M. Fox by the Warranty Deed of Susan Smith-Hunter dated on or about May Middlebury Union High School C/O Bruce in this public hearing is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

27, 2009 and to be recorded in the Land Records of the Town of Ferrisburgh, and being MacIntire 73 Charles Avenue, Middlebury, Jennifer L. Murray more particularly described as follows: VT 05753 Town Planner/Zoning Administrative Officer Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Susan Smith Hunter and 3/20 3/23 Mel Hunter (now deceased) by Warranty Deed of Robert F. Cosgrove and Constance Cosgrove dated October 5, 1987 and recorded in the Town of Ferrisburgh Land Records TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY, NOTICE TO PUBLIC OF INTENT TO REQUEST RELEASE OF FUNDS in Book 67, Page 133, and being more particularly described therein as follows: VERMONT CATEGORICALLY EXCLUDED ACTIVITIES “Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to the within Grantors, by LAWN MOWING BID TOWN OF BRISTOL Warranty Deed of Karl DeVine and Beatrice DeVine dated 10/18/78 and recorded in March 23, 2017 Agency of Commerce and Community Development Volume 51, Page 509 of the Ferrisburg Land Records, except for a portion conveyed 2017-2018 Town of Bristol, Therese Kirby, Town Administrator Katie Buckley, Commissioner of VT Department of Housing and Community Development to the State of Vermont by Warranty Deed of the within Grantors dated 8/16/83 and of INVITATION TO BID Bristol Town Office, P.O. Box 249, Bristol, VT 05443 One National Life Drive, Davis Building, 6th Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620 record in Volume 57, Page 447 of the Ferrisburg Land Records. In the aforementioned Sealed competitive bids for mowing 802-453-2410 802-828-1357 deed from Devine, said parcel was described as follows: various municipal parks, recreation Request for Release of Funds ‘Being a parcel of land consisting of 3 acres, more or less, and being described as areas, cemeteries, pump stations, and On or about March 31, 2017, the Town of Bristol will submit a request to the Agency to release funds under Title I of the Housing and follows: grounds of public facilities during the Community Development Act of 1974 (PL93-383), the National Affordable Housing Act, as amended; and the Agency as administrator Beginning at a point on the easterly side of U.S. Route #7, so-called, said point 2017 and 2018 seasons in the Town of of Community Development Program funds will submit a request to the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) to marking a northwesterly corner of the lands and premises herein to be conveyed and Middlebury will be opened at the Town release funds under Title II of the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act, as amended, to undertake a project known as a southwesterly corner of the lands and premises of one Chamberlain; thence in a of Middlebury Public Works Building on Pleasant Hills Apartments. The project is located at 93 Mountain Street Bristol, Vermont 05443. The total estimated cost of the project is generally easterly direction 206 feet, more or less to a point; thence in a generally Monday, April 3, 2017 at 3 PM. $2,195,050; of that approximately $400,000 of Community Development Block Grant funding is anticipated and approximately $465,000 northerly direction 99 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a generally easterly direction Information for Bidders and Bid is anticipated for HOME Investment Partnership Program funding. All 16 units have existing Section 8 Project Based Vouchers.

174 feet, more or less, to a point, and contiming in a generally easterly direction along Forms can be obtained without charge An inspection for asbestos containing materials (ACMs) detected the presence of ACMs and they will be abated as needed and an a stock fence 182 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a generally southerly direction at the Municipal Building at 77 Main Asbestos Operation & Maintenance Plan will be developed and followed. The construction firm that works on this project will have prior along a stock fence 583 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a generally westerly Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, or can experience abating ACMs per Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response (AHERA) guidelines. Post-renovation radon testing will take direction 303 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a generally northerly direction along be accessed on the Town’s webpage place and if levels exceed 4.0 picocuries per liter, a retrofit radon mitigation system will be installed. a stock fence 298 feet, more or less, to a point; thence in a generally westerly direction at www.townofmiddlebury.org. Please The activities proposed are categorically excluded under HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58 from National Environmental Policy Act 343 feet, sore or less, to a point on the easterly side of U.S. Route #7, so-called; thence contact Beth Dow at 388-8100 ext. 202 (NEPA) requirements. Additional project information is contained in the Environmental Review Record (ERR) on file at the municipal in a generally northerly direction along the easterly side of U.S. Route #7 40 feet, more for additional information. Bids must office of the Town of Bristol, 1 South Street, Bristol, VT 05443, or at the Agency at One National Life Drive, Davis Building, 6th Floor, or less, to the point of beginning.’ be received by 3 PM on April 3rd to be Montpelier, VT 05620, and may be examined or copied Monday through Friday from 7:45AM to 4:30PM. Being a part of the lands and premises conveyed to Carl and Beatrice Devine by the considered for the contract.

3/13 Public Comments following Warranty Deeds: Any individual, group, or agency may submit written comments on the ERR to the Town of Bristol regarding the use of CDBG funds,

By Warranty Deed of Roger L. Collins and Aleda N. Collins dated May 22, 1962, and Attn: Therese Kirby, Town Administrator, P.O. Box 249, Bristol, Vermont, 05443 or for the use of HOME funds to the Agency, Attn: recorded at Book 38 Page 5 of the Ferrisburg Land Records; by Adminstrator’s Deed Environmental Officer, Department of Housing and Community Development, National Life Building, 6th floor, One National Life Drive, of Forrest S. Rose, legal guardian of Faith C. DeVine dated November 20, 1961, and Montpelier, Vermont 05620. All comments received by March 30, 2017 will be considered by the Town of Bristol and the Agency prior recorded at Book 37, Page 528 of the Ferrisburg Land Records. to authorizing the submission of a request for release of funds. Comments must specify which Notice they are addressing; the Finding This conveyance is subject to easements and right of way of record. of No Significant Impact or the Request for the Release of Funds.

Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned instruments, the records thereof and Environmental Certification the references therein contained, all in further aid of this description.”

The Town of Bristol is certifying to the Agency that the Town of Bristol and Town Administrator, Therese Kirby, in her official capacity The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control in the Full Passport Service of Town Administrator, and the State is certifying to HUD that the Agency and Katie Buckley, in her official capacity as Commissioner event of a typographical error in this publication. of the VT Department of Housing and Community Development, consent to accept the jurisdiction of the Federal Courts if an action is Addison County Courthouse The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time not exceeding 30 brought to enforce responsibilities in relation to the environmental review process and that these responsibilities have been satisfied. days, without further court order, and without publication or service of a new notice of The Agency’s/HUD’s approval of the certification satisfies its responsibilities under the National Environmental Policy Act and related sale, by announcement of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment or The Addison County Clerk is laws and authorities and allows the Town of Bristol to use the CDBG funds and the Agency to use the HOME funds. by posting notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. available to accept passport Objections to Release of Funds Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or by certified check by the purchaser The Agency will accept objections to its approval of the release of CDBG funds and acceptance of the Town of Bristol’s certification, applications and provide at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The sale is subject to all liens, and HUD will accept an objection to its approval of the release of HOME funds and the State’s certification for a period of fifteen days passport photos. encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens, if any, which take precedence following the anticipated submission date or its actual receipt of the request (whichever is later) only if they are on one of the following over the said mortgage above described. bases: (a) the certification was not executed by the Certifying Officers, Therese Kirby and Katie Buckley; (b) the Town/Agency has Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the REGULAR HOURS omitted a step or failed to make a decision or finding required by HUD regulations at 24 CFR Part 58; (c) the grant recipient or other full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. participants in the development process have committed funds, incurred costs or undertaken activities not authorized by 24 CFR Part Monday – Friday Other terms to be announced at sale.

58 before approval of a release of funds by HUD/Agency; or (d) another Federal agency acting pursuant to 40 CFR Part 1504 has 9am to 1pm Carrington Mortgage Services, LLC, submitted a written finding that the project is unsatisfactory from the standpoint of environmental quality.

Jeffrey J. Hardiman, Esq. Objections must be prepared and submitted in accordance with the required procedures (24 CFR Part 58, Sec. 58.76) and shall be Shechtman, Halperin Savage, LLP Appointments appreciated, addressed to the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, Department of Housing and Community Development, Attn: 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 Environmental Officer, National Life Building, 6th Floor, Montpelier, Vermont 05620-0501 for the CDBG funds, or to the US Department but not necessary.

401-272-1400 of HUD – Boston Field Office, Community Planning and Development, Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Federal Building, 10 Causeway Street, Attorney for Plaintiff 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02222-1092 for the HOME funds. Potential objectors should contact the Agency/HUD to verify the last day of 802-388-1966 jhardiman@shslawfirm.com the objection period.

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Addison Independent, Thursday, March 23, 2017 — PAGE 9B

Suspicious vehicle at a camp leads to drug citation Vt. State ADDISON COUNTY — On March 17 at around 8 p.m. Vermont State Police officers went to a seasonal camp on Fox Lane in Leicester in response to a report from the owner, who told police that there was a vehicle in the driveway and no one was supposed to be at the camp.

Troopers couldn’t find the vehicle, but when they looked inside the camp they saw signs someone had been living there for several days. Officers checked all the seasonal camps on Fox Lane and all were closed for the winter, so they left the camp in question but remained in the area in an attempt to locate the vehicle.

About an hour later the vehicle returned, and as troopers arrived a second vehicle with three occupants pulled onto Fox Lane. Allison Stuhlmueller, 19, of Rutland was driving the car. Police questioned all three occupants about their reason for being on a private road with only seasonal camps on it and received conflicting stories.

Troopers then located the vehicle that was initially reported at the camp, and identified two people from Philadelphia who police report had been residing inside the camp for several days. After troopers spoke with the homeowner, the authorities learned both people inside the camp did not have permission to be there and removed them.

After investigating, state police said they figured out that both Philadelphia people had met Stuhlmueller and both passengers in the city of Rutland several hours earlier. None would tell troopers why they were attempting to meet at the camp.

In a search of Stuhlmueller’s vehicle, troopers located a prescription pill bottle with no label and several mixed pills inside; they also found a large bag containing marijuana and other drug paraphernalia. The pills inside of the bottle were later identified to be regulated substances.

Troopers arrested Stuhlmueller, took her to the New Haven state police barracks and cited her for possession of a controlled substance. She is due to answer the charge in Addison Superior Court, criminal division, on May 22.

DUI PATROL During a four-hour directed patrol that Vermont State Police conducted with Vergennes police this past Friday night and Saturday morning troopers were busy.

VSP Sgt. Matt Daley reported that

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between 11 p.m. on March 17 and 3 a.m. on March 18, state police from the New Haven barracks and the Vergennes Police Department teamed up to conduct a directed patrol. The goal was to monitor the flow of traffic along Vermont highways in the interest of detecting and arresting persons under the influence of alcohol or any drug that has impaired their ability to operate a motor vehicle.

The patrol resulted in three arrests for driving under the influence, two for driving with a criminally suspended license, four tickets being issued and 16 warnings.

During that period, one trooper observed a traffic violation and stopped a car on Route 22A in Panton near East Road at a minute or so before midnight. Police said that a preliminary breath test showed that driver Geoffrey Nelson, 54, of Addison had a blood alcohol content of 0.095 percent; the legal limit for driving is 0.08. The trooper cited Nelson for DUI. About two and a half hours later the trooper stopped a different vehicle on Panton Road after seeing a traffic violation. He screened driver Tammy Mullis, 50, of Panton after seeing signs of impairment. A roadside test showed her blood alcohol content was 0.099 percent. The trooper cited Mullis for DUI. At a little before 1 a.m. on March 18, Sgt. Daley stopped a vehicle on Shellhouse Mountain Road in Ferrisburgh for a traffic infraction. He cited the driver, identified as 38-yearold Allen B. Pike of Monkton, for driving with a criminally suspended license.

State police did not respond by deadline to a request for the details on the third DUI and the second suspended license citations.

Vergennes police reported two incidents that match up with the combined patrol with state police. On March 18 cited Bradley Williams, 35, of Poultney for DUI and driving with a suspended license after stopping him at the intersection of Williston Road and Dorset Street, South Burlington, driving after dark without headlights on. Police allege his blood alcohol content tested at 0.140.

On March 17, while working with

VSP on the Northwest Vermont DUI task force, a Vergennes officer ticketed a driver for a civil driving with a suspended license violation and, after learning he was in violation of conditions of release, took him to the Shelburne police department and turned him over to the Department of Corrections.

In other recent activity, state police: • On March 15 at approximately 11:39 a.m. responded to a report of a domestic assault in Leicester. Police said their investigation showed that Michael Hutchins, 34, of Leicester had assaulted the victim in the presence of a child. Hutchins has a prior conviction for domestic assault.

Police arrested Hutchins, cited him for second degree aggravated domestic assault in the presence of a child, and lodged him at the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility for lack of $2,500 bail.

• On March 16 at just before 6 p.m. logged a report of an intoxicated individual at the Jiffy Mart on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh. Before state police could get there, the vehicle left the parking lot. Troopers found the vehicle on Main Street in Vergennes and screened the driver for DUI. Michael Cooke, 54, of Crown Point, N.Y., refused a preliminary roadside breath test, so police took him into custody, processed him for DUI, and released him with a citation for driving under the influence, third offense.

• On March 17 at a quarter past 2 a.m. came across a vehicle that appeared to be disabled. After a short investigation police determined the vehicle had crossed the centerline of Route 74 in Cornwall, left the roadway and collided with a snowbank. While speaking with the driver, identified as Charles Commiskey, 48, of Weybridge, troopers said they detected an odor of intoxicants. Commiskey exited the vehicle on the passenger side and while doing so Troopers observed several signs of impairment. Police asked him to perform standardized field sobriety tests, which he did.

Commiskey refused to provide a sample for a preliminary breath test and was subsequently placed into custody for suspicion of DUI. Police cited Commiskey for driving under the influence – test refusal.

• On March 17 at approximately 1:10 p.m. stopped a vehicle driven by Afshin Belar, 47, of Middlebury on Route 7 in New Haven and cited him for speeding. Police allege that Belar

Cars ticketed for overnight parking VERGENNES — Last week’s major snowstorm kept Vergennes police busy. On March 14 and 15, police ticketed and ordered towed several vehicles left overnight on city streets in violation in the wintertime parking ban.

On March 14, Vergennes police and department of public works personnel helped several commercial and private vehicles northbound on Main Street that struggled to get up the hill near the bridge over Otter Creek.

Several of the vehicles had slid off the road.

Vergennes police also helped Vermont State Police by directing traffic on Route 7, where two tractortrailer units failed to climb Woodman Hill.

In other action between March 13 and 19, Vergennes police: • On March 13 ticketed a motorist on Route 7 for driving with a civilly suspended license and without insurance.

• On March 13 checked out an accident scene on Green Street, where a vehicle apparently backed into the rear of City Limits, damaging cinder blocks.

• On March 13 checked the welfare of a Crosby Court resident, who was found to be fine.

• On March 13 ticketed the owner of an overweight commercial vehicle for traveling on Panton Road without a permit.

• On March 14 helped state police by investigating an accident on Hawkins Road in Ferrisburgh; troopers issued a citation for driving under the influence of alcohol in the case, city police said.

• On March 15 performed a background investigation of a potential applicant on behalf of Connecticut State Police.

• On March 15 calmed a dispute between neighbors in a Main Street apartment building.

• On March 16 cited Jack Clifford, 18, of Williston for excessive speed for allegedly driving 85 mph in a 50 mph zone on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

• On March 16 helped a motorist get into a locked car at the Little City Market.

• On March 17 helped a woman at a downtown business experiencing emotional distress; police brought her to the station to meet with Counseling Service of Addison County staff.

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• On March 18 cited Christina Hulst, 39, of Salisbury for driving under the influence of alcohol, second offense, and driving with a criminally suspended license after stopping her car for swerving on Route 7 in New Haven.

• On March 18 participated on an Northwest Vermont DUI detail in Chittenden County with VSP and issued a DUI and also turned over another motorist to the Department of Corrections for violations of release.

• On March 18 spoke with a distraught woman who came to the

station alleging her boyfriend was abusing her but refused to provide any details, cooperate with police or identify herself. Police learned her name by checking the license plate of her car and informed state police, who had jurisdiction.

• On March 18 cited Duncan Naylor, 20, of New Paltz, N.Y., for possession and sale of marijuana and for speeding after a Main Street traffic stop. Police also ticketed Naylor and two passengers for possession of drug paraphernalia, issued one minor passenger court diversion paperwork for possession of alcohol, and issued court diversion paperwork to the other passenger for possession of marijuana.

• On March 19 checked the welfare of a Main Street resident, who was found to be fine.

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was driving 84 mph in a 50 mph zone, and that they saw him passing other vehicles and almost colliding with oncoming traffic.

• On March 17 at 4:30 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle on driven by Everett White on Route 116 in Bristol. Police cited White, 35, of Starksboro for possession of a regulated substance.

Troopers did not say what the substance was.

• On March 19 cited Alara Bourgeois for driving with a criminally suspended license. State police report that on at around 7 p.m. on March 13 a trooper saw Bourgeois, 23, of Bristol, parked at the Mobil gas station in Hinesburg. Based on knowledge that Bourgeois’ driver’s license was under criminal suspension, the trooper made contact with Bourgeois, investigated and issued the citation.

• On March 20 at approximately 3:20 p.m. stopped a car driven by Christine Marchese on Route 7 in New Haven for driving allegedly driving 82 mph in a 50 mph zone while passing other vehicles. The trooper cited Marchese, 58, of Shelburne, for speeding.

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After blizzard police enforce parking ban MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police handled a variety of incidents between March 13 and 19, including helping motorists during last week’s snowstorm, ticketing and ordering towed cars parked in violation of the town’s winter overnight ban, and handling cases of credit theft and alleged digital blackmail.

During those seven days, Middlebury police: • On March 13 checked the welfare of a Jayne Court resident, who was found to be OK. • On March 13 calmed an argument outside a Mead Lane apartment building.

• On March 13 checked a report of a suspicious vehicle at the Creek Road car wash, but found no problem.

• On March 14 ticketed cars on College Street for violating the winter parking ban.

• On March 14 dealt with a drunken individual at a Washington Street residence.

• On March 14 spoke to a caller who said he had received an email with a virus used to blackmail him with personal information; police reported the case to the attorney general’s office.

• On March 14 helped with a car off the road on Exchange Street.

• On March 14 checked out a report of a low-hanging wire on Elm Street.

• On March 14 tried unsuccessfully to help a motorist start a car that was stalled under the Seymour Street rail bridge; it was finally towed.

• On March 14 helped push out a vehicle stuck in snow on Route 7.

• On March 15 ticketed and ordered towed cars on College Street for violating the winter parking ban.

• On March 15 dealt with a motor vehicle crash on Route 7.

• On March 15 helped a motorist on Seymour Street.

• On March 15 spoke with a resident who said her credit card had been fraudulently used three times since December, once to open a satellite TV account in her name.

• On March 15 went to Court Street to help an elderly man suffering from dementia.

• On March 15 helped resolve a custodial dispute on Porter Drive.

• On March 16 ticketed and ordered towed cars on Academy Street for violating the winter parking ban.

• On March 16 responded to a

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Addison Historical Society meeting to be held March 26

ADDISON — The quarterly meeting of the Addison Town Historical Society will be held Sunday, March 26, at 4 p.m. at the Addison Fire Station located at 44 Route 17, just west of Addison

Four Corners.

Cliff “Bucky” Douglas will talk about early post offices in Addison, how we went from four to none. Bucky will also share some of his collection of 19th and

20th century postal covers and perhaps some other observations.

If you have related artifacts or memories, please bring them to share.

Dues for 2017 are now due.

They are $5 a person and may be paid at the meeting or sent to Vaughn Watson, Treasurer, 1682 Route 17 East, Addison VT 05491.

If you are a non-member attending the meeting, we ask for a donation.

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report of a woman yelling for help on North Pleasant Street and discovered a child needed medical attention; the child was taken to Porter Hospital.

• On March 16 spoke to a Valley View resident who believed a court order was being violated, a belief police determined was not true.

• On March 17 went to Cornwall to help Vermont State Police with a drunk-driving case.

• On March 17 went to a North Pleasant Street address to check the welfare of a resident, who was found to be fine.

• On March 17 received a report of possible child abuse and neglect and contacted the Department for Children and Families; police said an investigation is ongoing.

• On March 17 quieted a loud college party on Cross Street.

• On March 17 looked into the alleged theft of a vehicle from Seminary Street; police determined it had been towed by the property’s owner.

• On March 17 discussed with a person who felt threatened what the person’s options were.

• On March 17 assisted with a child custody dispute on Washington Street.

• On March 17 removed an unwanted male from a Court Street apartment and issued him a no-trespass order.

• On March 18 assisted a suicidal female.

• On March 18 responded to a reported domestic dispute on Case Street and determined it was an argument between neighbors during which each party accused the other of assault; police said an investigation continues.

• On March 18 received a request for a welfare check for children at a Route 7 address because the caller believed there was an order in place preventing a person there from being near her children; police said there was no such order.

• On March 19 dealt with a motorist driving away from a Court Street gas station without paying for gas.

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How efficient is your home?

Save energy by updating MS) — Curtailing energy especially warm, hang blackout consumption is a great way for curtains to prevent the hot sun from people to protect the planet’s natural warming rooms and increasing resources and save money at the same the need for air conditioning. In time. addition, address any leaks around Part of the difficulty with regard windows to ensure hot and to reducing energy consumption cold air is not escaping is that energy plays such a big and contributing to role in our lives. Smartphones excessive energy and tablets have become consumption. must-have items, and • Maintain appliances The U.S. these items, though and replace older ones.

Department While reducing reliance not necessarily big of Energy consumers of energy, on energy-thirsty must be plugged in recommends that appliances is a great and charged. But eco-conscious way to reduce energy individuals won’t have consumers looking consumption, no one to unplug from their to reduce their needs to throw away lives to reduce their refrigerators. energy consumption their energy consumption.

Instead, maintain In fact, there are install low-flow appliances so they several easy, non- showerheads with are not forced to invasive ways for flow rates less than work harder, and everyday people to 2.5 gallons a minute. thereby consume more reduce their energy energy, to function. consumption.

Routinely clean the • Start with your filters on window windows. The windows in a home air conditioners, replacing them if can help homeowners and apartment they’re worn down. In addition, dwellers reduce their heating and have HVAC units serviced annually cooling costs. On cold days, pull to ensure they’re operating at peak back curtains so the natural sunlight capacity. Replace older appliances, can come in and warm the house, including refrigerators that are no reducing the need to turn up the longer effective. temperature on the thermostat.

• Install a low-flow showerhead.

When the weather outside is The U.S. Department of Energy

recommends that eco-conscious consumers looking to reduce their energy consumption install low-flow showerheads with flow rates less than 2.5 gallons per minute.

This is especially important for people living in homes with dated fixtures. Water fixtures installed before 1992 might have flow rates as high as 5.5 gallons per minute, which is both wasteful and costly.

Test the flow of a showerhead by placing a one-gallon bucket beneath a shower head running at the pressure you normally use. If the bucket fills up in less than 20 seconds, install a low-flow showerhead.

• Install ceiling fans. Ceiling fans can be installed to reduce energy consumption in both summer and winter.

In summer, ceiling fans can make home interiors more comfortable by circulating air around a room. That circulation can make rooms feel cooler, providing the same benefit of an air conditioner while consuming considerably less energy.

In winter, reverse the rotation of ceiling fans so they circulate warm air and reduce reliance on heating systems.

Reducing energy consumption does not require substantial sacrifice, but it can produce substantial savings and benefit the planet in myriad ways.

How to make your windows more efficient (MS) — Drafty windows make homes less comfortable by allowing cold air in during the winter and warm air in when temperatures rise.

But comfort is not the only concern associated with leaky windows, as such fixtures also can have a negative impact on the environment.

Leaky windows require heating and cooling systems to work harder to keep home interiors comfortable during times of the year when temperatures

can be extreme. In the dead of winter, a leaky window will force a home’s inhabitants to turn up the thermostat, which only increases energy consumption and energy bills. The same scenario plays out in summer, when leaky windows allow hot air in, leading homeowners to lower the temperature of air conditioning units so everyone inside is cool and comfortable.

Thankfully, making windows

more energy efficient does not necessarily require homeowners to replace existing windows. Before going that potentially expensive route, homeowners can consider the following strategies to improve the energy efficiency of their windows.

• Hang curtains. Curtains can help homeowners cut down on heating and cooling costs. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, properly hung (See Windows, Page 6C)

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Questions to get your project off to the right start The economy’s doing well, you got the raise you’ve been hoping for, investments are returning slightly more than they have for a while, and you’ve got some spare dollars heading into the spring.

How about a home improvement project?

But before you get started, set aside some time to

really plan the project.

What to choose, why to choose it and when you get started are important considerations with any improvement project, so before picking up the shovel or heading off to the hardware store, ask yourself a few basic questions.

— Addison Independent staff

WHAT IS THE GOAL OF THE PROJECT?

Are you simply working to improve your living experience and enjoy your space more, or are you doing the project to guarantee a financial return, or is it somewhere in between?

Certain home improvement projects (like bathroom projects or a coat of fresh paint) can immediately increase the sale value of a home and could be great projects to choose if you’re considering selling or flipping a house. If your primary goal is to increase the resale value of your home, then consider talking to a real estate professional prior to embarking on a home improvement project. Realtors can help assess your home and advise on what upgrades could be made to increase its value.

Other projects, like insulation upgrades, roofing, landscaping or window replacements have a much longer payback, but could significantly upgrade the quality and comfort of the space.

Scheduling a home energy audit can help identify the primary sources of inefficiency in your home, helping prioritize the areas to upgrade and what the value of each could be.

Once you have clearly identified your goal, you can determine the most efficient way to meet it and therefore save time and money in the process.

DO YOU NEED EXTERNAL EXPERTISE?

Are your skills sufficient to complete the project at hand? Sure, you can probably replace a toilet yourself, but does your new toilet require a change in your plumbing system? If so, scheduling a plumber to assist you in the job ahead of time can save you from a last-minute emergency call when you can’t afford to shop around.

Similarly, many do-it-yourselfers spend a lot of time planning, buying materials at retail rates, attempting and ultimately failing to complete projects that they could have hired a contractor or other professional to do for a fraction of the time and at a similar cost.

Design professionals can help you maximize your benefits while minimizing cost and scope of your project. Building professionals help ensure skilled jobs are completed accurately and can significantly increase the effectiveness of the work. Even paying a small fee to consult with a professional prior to starting a home improvement project can be beneficial to get you on the right track and make sure you have considered all the potential obstacles.

Some projects are great to tackle yourself and simple home improvement projects are a great way to familiarize yourself with how the systems of your home function, but it’s easy to get overly ambitious with what you can take on yourself and it’s not always the smartest (or cheapest) option.

HOW DO YOU SET A BUDGET (AND STICK TO IT)?

Setting a budget for a home improvement project is challenging. Professionals in the design and construction industry call it “scope creep,” referring to that all-toocommon experience of a project that starts out small and snowballs until all of a sudden you’re in way over your head.

Having clearly defined parameters and goals for a project is the best way to start. For example, let’s say you’re planning to start raising backyard chickens and need to plan for how to build them a shelter and space to roam. Start out by defining how many chickens you want/ need. Clearly, if you have three laying chickens, your needs are much different then if you have 20 chickens and a rooster. Next, figure out how much space each chicken requires and what those needs are when spaces are shared.

Once you define your needs, then you can set a budget. That budget can be compared to the money you have to spend on the project and from there you can add on features and additions that you want to be included.

If your project is undefined from the beginning (let’s say you don’t know how many chickens you’re going to have), it’s easy to over-buy on materials, spend a lot of costly time on problemsolving and impromptu decision making, and regret rash decisions that were made.

WHAT IS A REALISTIC TIMELINE FOR YOUR PROJECT?

Home improvement projects notoriously take longer than you’d expect they would. Whether you’re building a new garden bed or repainting a bathroom, there are always more hours and more trips to the home or garden store than you think there should be.

Setting realistic expectations for how long a project will take is one of the hardest tasks.

But a timeline that’s set at the beginning of a project can help you avoid scope creep and stay on track with your project.

First, consider your needs. Do you need the project to be completed by a certain time? If you’re building a new garden bed, for instance, you need to have the project completed in time to plant the seeds and leave them enough time to grow. These time constraints can help you figure out what you could do and what you couldn’t do within that time.

Of course, if you’re hiring a contractor or other workers for your project, ask these professionals to help with the schedule and use their knowledge to build your timeline around theirs.

Always keep in mind that the scope of many home improvement projects does grow despite all of these efforts to keep it controlled. Having a contingency fund (both in dollars and time) built into the project is a good idea so you can accommodate unforeseen challenges or legitimate expansions upon the project.

Sometimes it doesn’t become apparent until you’re in the middle of replacing a window that this would be the perfect opportunity to reinsulate the wall. If you have a contingency fund that can enable some of these decisions to be made, it can save you money in the long run.

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Windows

WITH GUIDANCE FROM NeighborWorks of Western Vermont, Seth Lapidow hired contractors to seal up his 1791 farmhouse in Shoreham in a way that kept the character of the historic building but made it more affordable to heat. A solar array behind the house created credits that helped pay for the work.

A visit from the ‘HEAT Squad’

By SETH J. LAPIDOW In 2015 I decided that the time had come to return to my native state and buy a house in Vermont after 30 years away.

We found the ideal place on Smith Street in Shoreham in a big, old farmhouse built by one of Ethan Allen’s boys in 1791 and expanded over the years into a sprawling monster. The heating bills were crazy. But I heard about the Heat Squad and NeighborWorks of Western Vermont from the friendly folks at Green Mountain Power and invited them in.

The Heat Squad was great. They did a blower test (yikes!), which found that we

had 33 air exchanges a day — that means the air inside goes outside almost three dozen times a day. Not good. And they did a full evaluation of what we could do to make this monster more efficient and less leaky.

We got a 12-page report. The recommendations were thorough and phased in a way that made sense.

They recommended a wonderful contractor, John MacIntyre at Thistle and Co., to do the insulating, sealing and installation of low-temperature heat pumps to take some of the load off of the oil burners and the boys at Black Diamond to do the foaming. They

suggested leasing heat pump hot water heaters from GMP and pointed us to the NeighborWorks loan program — both great suggestions. Heat Squad even helped us make our decision to put in a solar array to power the new HVAC and generate credits to pay for the other improvements.

After the first phase of work Heat Squad came back and did another blower test. The hole in the house was getting smaller and we qualified for a rebate to offset some of the costs incurred. We continued to use the Heat Squad plan and did a second round this fall. We insulated our attic and base-

ment and had Heat Squad back in. This time the blower test showed a 59 percent reduction in air exchange from the first test.

Amazing. And again we qualified for a substantial rebate.

By implementing the Heat Squad plan we have reduced our use of fuel oil by more than 60 percent.

I fully support HEAT Squad’s statewide expansion in order to bring affordable energy audits to underserved communities.

Editor’s note: Seth J. Lapidow reached out to the Independent and supplied this story on his own initiative.

(Continued from Page 3C) draperies can reduce heat loss by as much as 25 percent.

In the summer, curtains can block the hot rays from the sun from entering a home, reducing the need to turn up air conditioning units. While curtains won’t fix leaks or block hot or cold air from entering a home, they can serve as a buffer between a home’s inhabitants and the air seeping in through leaks.

• Caulk or add weather-stripping.

Small cracks and gaps around windows, which are most often found around windows in older buildings, might not seem like a big deal, but such breaches can lead to considerable energy loss.

The DOE recommends using caulk to seal cracks that are less than 1⁄4-inch wide on the parts of the window that do not move (i.e., frames and where the trim meets the wall). Caulk might be less effective at fixing leaks larger than 1⁄4 inch in width. Employ weather-stripping to address leaks on movable parts of the window.

Properly applied weather-stripping should adequately seal windows when they are closed without making it difficult to open or close them later on. Weather-stripping is available in various materials, so homeowners should do their homework to find the material that’s most suitable for their situation.

• Install windows films. Plastic window films are another option for homeowners looking to improve the energy efficiency of their windows.

Heat shrink film can be cut to fit each individual leaky window in a home and then attached to windows using double-sided tape. A hair dryer can then be used to shrink the film and remove any wrinkles.

Low-emissivity, or Low-E, coatings are a more expensive alternative to heat shrink film, and they can be equally effective at improving energy efficiency.

Installation of Low-E coatings can be more difficult, as they do not provide as much leeway for mistakes during application as heat shrink film.

Leaky windows are bad for homeowners’ energy bills and the environment. But homeowners have options other than full window replacements to fix leaks and improve efficiency.

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Are you ready to renovate?

Expect the unexpected when renovating a home (MS) — According to projections room when it comes to both their released in 2015 by Harvard budgets and their expectations.

University’s Joint Center for Remodeling, particularly with Housing Studies, a growing regard to older homes, may unveil number of people in the United unforeseen issues that only arise in States planned to renovate their the face of the renovation. homes in 2016. The So what can report estimated homeowners expect that spending on Tackling any during a renovation? remodeling and renovation project The following are repairs in 2016 would a few issues that is an exercise climb 8.6 percent to might arise during $310 billion, a figure in patience. home improvement that is close to the Renovations can projects. peak reached in 2006.

• Dirt and noise: While it is still too impede on daily Homeowners can soon to tabulate all activities and count on dust, debris of the figures from cause a certain and noise throughout 2016, a quick glance the renovation at the data indicates level of upheaval process. Dust appears renovations have in homeowners’ when walls come increased across the lives. down or go up, and country. And one only construction teams need travel through typically erect communities to see a greater number temporary walls or tarps to contain of contractors and homeowners the debris. Air filtering systems working on homes. also can limit dust particles. Noise Tackling any renovation project is is unavoidable. If it becomes an exercise in patience. Renovations troublesome, arrange to be outside can impede on daily activities and of the home when the bulk of the cause a certain level of upheaval in construction is taking place. homeowners’ lives. Homeowners • Delays or schedule changes: planning renovations also may find Even the best contractors cannot that they must have some wiggle control every aspect of the job.

They rely on subcontractors and vendors to do portions of the work.

Materials may not always arrive on time, or they may fall short of homeowners’ expectations. This can push back the project schedule.

Homeowners should hope for everything to be done on time, but it can be less stressful if homeowners anticipate delays and be a pleasant surprise if there are no delays.

• Hidden issues: Contractors may uncover all sorts of issues that need to be addressed before a project can progress. Examples include the presence of asbestos (common in older homes), plumbing problems, incorrectly wired electrical systems, and leaks or moisture issues. These problems also can impact the cost of the project, so set aside some money in the budget for unforeseen expenses. Chances are you are going to need some extra money to handle a few surprises during the project.

It’s important to expect the unexpected when embarking on home renovations. Budgeting for hidden costs, expecting delays and coping with the upheaval to daily schedules are par for the remodeling course. However, the end result is often well worth the time and effort.

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Consider the financial impact of renovating (MS) — Many homeowners have lofty goals for their homes. Such plans may include extensive renovations or even additions. While many of these projects create beautiful changes in a home, it’s important to consider the impact that renovations can have on property value before beginning a project.

Many home improvement projects do not add as much value as homeowners may think they do. In fact, some homeowners “overbuild” for their neighborhoods. This means the amount of money invested in

improvements can likely never be recuperated because the house value simply exceeds those around by too much money.

To avoid overbuilding, homeowners can ask themselves several questions before beginning a renovation project.

• Will my house be the largest house in the neighborhood? Larger homes tend to have a lower price per square foot, so you may not want to improve to this extent.

• Will the house blend with others in the area? If your house will stick

out like a sore thumb, it will detract from its own value and could impact the value of other homes in the area.

• Have I examined the cost vs. value of the project? Many home improvement resources analyze the cost of a project versus the overall value of that project with regard to property value.

For example, a $100,000 basement remodel may not add $100,000 to the value of the home in the event you choose to sell down the line. It’s important to know which projects provide the best return on investment.

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How building permits protect us (MS) — You are thinking of Due to the cost and time making a major renovation to your involved with securing permits, home. Perhaps it’s time to create some homeowners skip this step so that master bedroom suite you long they can begin a project promptly. have admired or install that wrap- However, this can end up being a around porch? What is the first thing costly mistake. Permits might seem that should be done like a nuisance, but before getting down to they actually protect Permits are business? homeowners in The correct way generally required various ways. to begin a home for all new PERMITS remodeling project construction as ENSURE SAFE WORKMANSHIP is to obtain the Permits provide a necessary permits well as specific blueprint by which for the job. Many modifications contractors and domunicipalities request that will affect it-yourselfers must individuals obtain structural, complete renovations. permits for a range Because inspections of work on homes or plumbing, will take place, there other structures, such mechanical and is no wiggle room. as office buildings. electrical systems Shortcuts often Permits are generally translate into subpar required for all new construction as well as specific work that may lead to malfunction and modifications that will affect injury in the long run. Safeguarding structural, plumbing, mechanical, against poor workmanship means and electrical systems. It’s important homeowners can feel confident in the to check with the local building work being done. office prior to beginning work to see PERMITS REDUCE THE which permits you will need before LIKELIHOOD OF COSTLY the project can begin. Permits are MISTAKES As inspectors go through their necessary whether a homeowner is doing the work or hiring an outside checklists, they may notice things that were done incorrectly and will contractor.

offer advice about how to mend the problem before it becomes a larger headache. If left unchecked, an electrical error could lead to a fire or another dangerous situation. Repairs that are not structurally sound may pose problems or deteriorate more quickly than structures that are constructed correctly. Furthermore, catching improper technique early on eliminates having to tear down and redo work, which can be a costly and time-consuming endeavor.

PERMITS PROTECT AGAINST FINES Sometimes work goes as planned even for homeowners who did not obtain the necessary permits.

However, years later, when other work needs to be done, inspectors may discover homeowners never secured proper permits and inspections years earlier, leading to fines.

Furthermore, if work is done without a permit and an accident occurs, any damages or injuries may not be covered by a homeowner’s insurance policy.

Permits are an important part of the home improvement process.

Homeowners should not skirt the responsibility because the permit and inspection process is in place to provide protection to occupants.

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Few homeowners likely enjoy spring cleaning. The warm weather associated with the arrival of spring makes many people who have spent the previous months indoors less than enthusiastic about spending a spring weekend indoors cleaning and clearing away a season’s worth of clutter. But homeowners who organize their spring cleaning projects can ensure such efforts take just a weekend or less.

1. Enlist the whole family.

Chances are everyone who lives in the home can lay claim to some of the dirt, grime and clutter that built up over the winter. So it only makes sense that everyone then pitches in to clean the home come springtime.

Parents and heads of household can delegate tasks to everyone, incentivizing cooperation with the promise of rewards if the cleaning is

completed in a single weekend.

2. Clear your schedule.

Another way for homeowners to ensure their spring cleaning projects are started and finished in a single weekend is to clear their schedules for the entire weekend. Homeowners who expect to spend part of their day away from home and still finish their spring cleaning projects will likely find the job unfinished come Sunday night. When planning a spring cleaning weekend, schedule projects for a weekend when you have no prior commitments or plan far enough in advance that you can avoid making plans on a given weekend.

While it might not make for the most eventful weekend, it will greatly increase your chances of getting everything cleaned and cleared out in two days.

3. Do your homework.

Homeowners who want to complete their spring cleaning in a single weekend should do their homework with regard to finding local recycling centers or charitable organizations to whom they intend to donate items. Many charitable organizations will come to private homes to pick up donations, but such pickups often must be arranged in advance rather than on the morning of the day homeowners want items to be taken away. In addition, if recycling will be a part of your spring cleaning efforts, familiarize yourself with the weekend hours of nearby recycling plants so you can drop items off on your cleaning weekend instead of leaving them lying around to be donated later.

Spring cleaning might not make for the most enjoyable way for homeowners to spend a weekend.

But planning ahead and making efficient use of the time available to them can help homeowners tackle their spring cleaning projects in a single weekend.

Take steps to reduce risk of radon exposure WILLISTON — One in nearly 15 homes contain high levels of radon, a naturally occurring, radioactive gas that is the second-leading cause of lung cancer, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. An estimated 21,000 people die each year from lung cancer due to exposure to radon in homes and other buildings.

Dangerous levels are found in homes in every state, including Vermont.

The American Lung Association of the Northeast encourages all Vermont residents to take these simple steps to protect their health from this invisible threat:

TEST HOMES FOR RADON

Inexpensive radon testing kits can be found at many hardware stores or online. Testing can also be done by a certified radon-testing professional. If dangerous levels of radon are found, homeowners can install a radon mitigation system, for about the same price as a large television, to decrease the risk of harmful exposure.

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Radon can build up in all buildings, not only in homes. Speak with local community officials and public health professionals to encourage radon testing – and mitigation systems if high levels are found – in schools and childcare facilities and other public and private facilities.

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Concerned Vermont residents should support changes to policies that could lower the risk of exposure to radon, including the adoption of building codes for radon-resistant construction. During real estate transactions, potential buyers should be informed about the radon levels in the home they’re considering.

“You can’t see, taste or smell radon, but it is the second-leading cause of lung cancer, which is the number one cancer killer of men and women,” said

Jeff Seyler, President and CEO of the American Lung Association of the Northeast.

“This naturally occurring gas comes into our homes through spaces in the walls, floors, basements and foundation with no warning at all, leaving people unaware of the dangerous toxin they are breathing. Testing is easy and it’s the only way for people to know how serious the risk of exposure is. Because most of us keep our homes closed up in colder weather, January provides a great time to test for radon. It’s something every home and business owner in Vermont should do.”

Fighting radon requires workable strategies, and the American Lung Association led the development of the National Radon Action Plan to provide those tools. In 2016, Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot report cited the National Radon Action Plan as a leading effort to save lives.

Learn more about radon at Lung.org/ radon or call the Lung Association’s toll-free (1-800-LUNGUSA).

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Get your garden ready.

Post-winter garden prep (MS) — Lawns and gardens can bear the brunt of winter weather and are often in need of tender loving care by the time spring arrives.

Preparing a garden for spring and summer involves assessing any damage that harsh weather might have caused. As temperatures climb, gardeners can heed the following post-winter garden preparation tips in an effort to ensure some successful gardening in the months ahead.

• Assess the damage. Even if winter was mild, gardens might still have suffered some damage.

Inspect garden beds and any fencing or barriers designed to keep wildlife from getting into the garden. Before planting anew, fix any damage that Mother Nature or local wildlife might have caused over the past several months.

• Clear debris. Garden beds and surrounding landscapes that survived winter without being damaged might still be littered with debris. Remove fallen leaves, branches and even litter that blew about on windy winter days before planting season.

Make sure to discard any debris effectively so it does not find its way back into the garden.

• Turn the greenhouse into a clean house. Spring cleaning is not just for the interior of a home.

Cleaning a greenhouse in advance of spring can help gardeners evict any overwintering pests that can threaten plant life once spring gardening season arrives. A thorough cleaning, which should include cleaning the inside of greenhouse glass and washing flower pots and plant trays, also can prevent plant diseases from surviving into spring.

• Check for pests. Speak with a local gardening professional to determine if there are any local pests to look out for and how to recognize and remove these pets from gardens. Pests may hibernate in the soil over the winter, and such unwelcome visitors can make it difficult for gardens to thrive come spring and summer.

• Assess plant location. If plants, flowers or gardens have struggled in recent years or never grew especially vibrant, then gardeners may want to assess the location of their plant life before spring gardening season begins. Some plants may not be getting enough sunlight in certain locations on a property, while others might be overexposed to the sun during spring and summer. Moving plants that are not thriving prior to the start of spring gardening season may be just what gardens need to flourish in the coming weeks.

Spring gardening season is right around the corner, so now is an ideal time to prepare gardens for the warmer seasons ahead.

Remedy your landscape drainage problems (MS) — Homeowners understand that reaping the rewards of beautiful lawns and gardens requires hard work. But sometimes even hard work won’t be enough to prevent problems in a lawn or garden.

Drought can be very harmful to lawns and gardens, but so, too, can excessive amounts of water and precipitation. Soggy properties can make it difficult for lawns and gardens to thrive. According to Lowes, in addition to killing lawn and other plants, standing water on a property can be a health hazard.

That’s because standing water makes a prime breeding ground for mosquito larvae and other pests.

While homeowners cannot control precipitation, they can affect the impact that rainwater has on their properties.

REPLACE/REPAIR DOWNSPOUTS Gutters and downspouts are designed to move rainwater away from the home. Too often, however, gutters and downspouts become clogged or do not work effectively.

Overflowing gutters will transfer rainwater down the side of a home, where it can puddle at the foundation.

This water can ultimately suffocate a lawn, and it may cause interior damage to the home as well.

First, inspect and clean all gutters.

Leaves, nests, sticks, and even dead animals can block the flow of water in a gutter. Test downspouts by running hose water from the top of the gutter.

Downspouts should be pointed away from the home and may need

to be extended so they direct water away from the dwelling.

PLANT WATER-LOVING TREES OR SHRUBS In some instances, whether it’s a byproduct of poor property grade or sloping land, water can pool regardless of how well the gutter system is working. Determine where the problem is and speak with a landscaper to see if there are any plants that thrive in moist conditions.

The roots of these plants can protect against soil erosion and may absorb enough water to guard against

puddling. In addition, amending the soil with organic matter, pea gravel or another coarse aggregate can prevent water pooling.

CONSIDER A DRAINAGE SYSTEM When confronted with drainage issues that cannot be remedied by other methods, homeowners may need to install drainage systems.

Such systems often employ French drains that are built through or around the perimeter of a property.

French drains are typically a trench that contains perforated plastic pipe

and is backfilled with gravel. Water runs into these channels and gets swept away by the piping.

Do-it-yourselfers may want to try installing drainage systems themselves. However, because excavation is necessary, it’s often best to have the property inspected and marked for utilities, then have the drainage system installed by professionals.

Landscaping does not need to be derailed by drainage issues. Explore the remedies that can easily fix the problems.

Understand hardiness zones before planting (MS) — Gardening benefits the environment in myriad ways.

Maintaining natural landscapes and preserving green spaces can reduce the collective carbon footprint of the human race. Trees, flowers and other

greenery filter the air and create welcoming habitats for all species of animals and insects.

Many home gardeners set out each spring to create landscapes that cater to all of the senses. But

choosing plants that are unlikely to thrive in certain climates can lead to dissatisfaction and premature plant demise and may require gardeners to use more fertilizers, pesticides and other not-so-Earth-friendly

techniques to help plants thrive.

One of the more important steps gardeners can take before spring arrives is to educate themselves about plant hardiness zones.

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Keep your kids safe !

You can create a safe & enjoyable backyard (MS) — Homeowners often aspire Safety Commission states 70 percent to have attractive backyards that of children’s injuries occur on home look like they belong in a magazine. playgrounds.

While these can be picturesque and When considering playground functional for adults, they may not equipment for the yard, parents need be entirely practical for homeowners to make safety a priority. The Canada who have young children, especially Safety Society advises parents to when the majority of the yard is follow the “5 S’s of Playground covered with paving stones or Safety”: Surface, structures, site, concrete. supervision, and safety.

When young children are part • Surface: Parents should assume of a household, that children will homeowners may When young fall. To lessen the benefit by designing blow of falls, choose yards that are both children are part playground equipment functional and fun. of a household, with a perimeter of Incorporating safe homeowners may six feet of a softer play areas for kids is benefit by designing surface, such as sand, one way to unlock the pea gravel, rubber potential of both big yards that are both pieces or wood chips. functional and fun. This material should and small backyards.

As children run off Incorporating safe be between six and 12 to enjoy a playground, inches deep. play areas for kids safety is the last thing • Structure: The on their minds. Kids is one way to unlock structure of the play are most interested the potential of equipment should in scaling ladders to both big and small be built from sturdy treehouses or coasting materials.

Pressuredown slides. That’s backyards. treated lumber was once why adults must take the standard, but it’s not it upon themselves to keep injury advisable for kids’ playgrounds, as prevention in mind. the chemicals used in the lumber can SafestPlayground.com indicates leach and young children may actually that playground-related injuries bite or pick at the wood. Use cedar routinely result in severe fractures, or another wood that resists decay. internal injuries, concussions, and Once the structure is built, inspect it dislocations. In the majority of frequently for damage. playground injuries to children • Site: Look around the landscape younger than age five, the head and for an ideal place to locate the face are affected. Children between playset. There should be no obstacles the ages of five and nine experience that children can hit while sliding more leg and arm injuries than or swinging. Avoid overhanging younger kids. The Consumer Product (See Backyard, Page 13C)

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Kid-friendly spaces are needed in your home (MS) — Maintaining a home that is welcoming and kidfriendly can be challenging.

Kids are full of energy and oftentimes put fun ahead of tidiness. But no matter how energetic their youngsters are, parents can still employ several strategies to ensure their homes are both sophisticated and childfriendly.

• Consider an open floor plan. Rooms that flow into one another make it easier to keep tabs on children. Such rooms also allow residents and guests to mingle in separate rooms but not be too far away from one another.

• Choose washable fabrics.

Upholstery will need to stand up to the abuse kids can dish out. Sofas and chairs with slipcovers can be advantageous because many slipcovers can be easily removed and laundered.

Patterned fabrics will hide some stains, while treated fabrics may resist liquid spills for easier cleanup.

• Create a catch-all spot. Special bins or other organizational tools in the entryway can help to cull clutter when children come in the house from school or play. Be sure the keep cubbies, containers and (See Spaces, Page 13C)

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Tending your garden can be a work out (MS) — If you think that the only way to exercise and burn calories involves gym equipment, think again. Yard work can be just as challenging as a thorough aerobics workout at a nearby fitness club.

To reap the greatest benefits, gardeners should use as little motorized machinery as possible.

Manual tools will get you moving and can burn a substantial amount of calories. Try to vary positions and alternate which hands you use to reduce strain and get an even workout.

Fitness experts say that gardening can improve strength, increase endurance and assist with flexibility.

According to a report in the UK publication The Telegraph, clearing a pond or weeding can burn some 300 calories in an hour.

Forty-five minutes worth of gardening can burn as many calories as 30 minutes of aerobics.

Hardiness zones (Continued from Page 11C) Hardiness zones are defined by the average climatic conditions of the region and are broken down into various zones. The USDA Hardiness Zone map divides North America into 13 separate zones.

Each zone is marked by 10 F incremental differences from the last zone. In some versions of the map, each zone is further divided into “a” and “b” regions.

The National Gardening Association says the USDA Hardiness Zone Map was revised in 2012. The latest version was jointly developed by the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and Oregon State University’s PRISM Climate Group.

To help develop the new map, the USDA and Oregon State University requested that horticultural and climatic experts review the zones in their geographic areas. As a result, the zone boundaries in the 2012 edition of the map have shifted in many areas. Canada’s Hardiness Zone map, updated in 2010, uses nine different zones.

Zone maps are tools that show where permanent landscape plants can adapt. Home gardeners who are looking for shrubs or perennials to last year after year should recognize that such plants must tolerate yearround conditions, including the lowest and highest temperatures and the amount of precipitation.

Snow cover and humidity also

can impact a plant’s propensity to thrive.

While zone maps are not perfect, they can be useful in planning and ensuring the survival of future gardens.

Plant and seed manufacturer Burpee says that other factors to consider that also affect the viability of plants include wind, moisture and soil conditions. The company offers an interactive zone finder on their website that will indicate the hardiness zone as well as average first and last frost dates.

Visit www.burpee.com/ findgrowzone to enter a zip code.

Learn more about plant hardiness at planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/ PHZMWeb.

Spaces (Continued from Page 12C) coat hooks at a child-friendly height.

• Look for high-traffic rugs. Rugs designed for high-traffic areas will be more forgiving when children march across them several times per day.

There are no rules that say you can’t bring an outdoor rug inside, and these rugs tend to be easier to clean.

• Ensure there is plenty of seating.

Sectionals give children ample room to spread out. And ample seating

ensures there is enough room for kids to invite their friends over to hang out.

• Think outside pink and blue. For children’s rooms, make sure they’re colorful, but consider other hues to give the rooms some personality.

Focus on a hobby or activity and borrow the color scheme from the accessories used for decorating.

• Hang whimsical artwork. Employ framing and lighting to make kids’

artwork look like professional pieces.

Routinely change the pictures when a new look is desired.

• Designate a place for play. Devote an entire room or a nook in a house for imaginative play. Store toys here so these items will not create clutter in individual bedrooms.

Creating child-friendly spaces while ensuring a home maintains a sophisticated feel is easier than parents might think.

children from using the playset in an incorrect manner.

• Safety: Follow the directions for installation. Make sure all posts are anchored into the ground securely.

Railings should be spaced so that children cannot get stuck between them. Check that metal components

have not rusted and that there is no additional excessive wear. Be sure that no tools or other dangerous items are left around the yard.

Backyard playgrounds should be built with safety in mind. Learn the rules of play equipment and yard safety.

Backyard (Continued from Page 12C) branches and do not place equipment too close to trees or fencing. Try to keep the set out of direct sunlight, which can make components heat up and scald young bodies.

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Tom Gadhue, owner of Solar Sweet Maple Farm in South Lincoln, prepares his sugarhouse for Vermont’s Statewide Maple Open House this weekend. Head over to the Gadhue’s farm, or another sugar shack near you, to sample some of Vermont’s finest maple syrup.

PHOTO / DYLAN THOMAS

Solar Sweet Maple Farm taps into sap

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olar Sweet Maple Farm sits atop a hill on a dirt road in South Lincoln, up past fields with spectacular mountain views and evenly placed colonial homes. Inside the farm’s red-trimmed, solar-panel-topped sugarhouse, the air smells like sweet maple syrup and freshly cut wood.

The high ceiling boasts traces of the reclaimed 4,000-square-foot barn out of which the structure was built. LED lights illuminate the clean wooden floors and hulking wood-powered evaporator that looms in a central room. A bedroom is suspended on a second floor, with windows that overlook the entire operation. Off to the left, rows of jars line a windowsill, each filled with one of the varying hues of golden liquid.

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The building is dream-turned-reality for owner Tom Gadhue and his wife, Rhonda. Tom began sugaring when he was eight years old, making syrup over an open fire with his friends after school.

“We used to make the blackest, darkest syrup that you could possibly make. We’d boil it for about three days after school before it finally became syrup,” he said. “It was the nastiest syrup I’ve ever seen, but we loved it.”

After a sugaring stint in Huntington, he found the piece of land that now houses Solar Sweet. “The Farm” is home to 15,000 taps, with an additional 8,000 taps in two nearby locations. Underground pipes carry the sap to one 6,000- and two 7,500-gallon tanks, where the liquid is pumped through a reverse-osmosis machine, which removes a lot of water from the sap.

Then the magic happens in the evaporator, where the sap is caramelized.

“This is our evaporator,” Tom said, pointing to a giant shiny metal apparatus. “We burn wood to heat it, and that’s where the syrup takes on its color. That’s where the caramelization takes place. That is also where you get your different grades of syrup. You really have no SEE MAPLE ON PAGE 3

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ART Glass art exhibit features 10 local artists

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reative Space Gallery in Vergennes will open “Glass Art: Molten Color and Frozen Forms” — an exhibit featuring the work of eight local glass artists — this Friday, March 24, through May 7. The exhibit will include kiln formed glass sculpture by Alyssa Oxley, hand-blown glass by Bud Shriner, and kilnformed glass jewelry and objects by Micaela Wallace. The exhibit also includes work by emerging glass artists Anne Hulvey, Gretchen King, Cherie Marshall, Lori Pietropaoli, Catherine Suiter, Christie Witters and Mary Ellen Jeffries. An opening reception and wine tasting will be held at the gallery on Friday, March 24 from 5-8 p.m.

These artists incorporate a wide array of techniques — cutting, fusing, sand blasting, dropping, slumping and blowing — to create unique examples of contemporary glass art.

Here’s a little more info on each exhibiting artist.

ALYSSA OXLEY Alyssa Oxley pursues every opportunity to expand her understanding of the material and achieve a proficiency in giving shape to her ideas in glass.

Oxley has been working with kilnformed and cast glass for about 15 years. She has experience in commercial art, interior and graphic design and despite her paying jobs, has always maintained an active, independent fine art studio of her own.

Her current work in glass is strongly driven by time spent outside, along the Otter Creek near her home in Vergennes, Vermont, or walking the nearby school campus. These experiences are transformed into Memory Boxes, evocative containers that echo the landscape through abstract forms and patterns that evoke an urge to explore what might be hidden within.

Oxley learned a lot of what she knows about glass working in the Kremer Glass Studio in Pound Ridge, New York. She currently teaches kilnforming glass classes at South End Glass at Davis Studio in Burlington and summer intensives in places like the Corning Museum of Glass Studio, Corning, New York, Snow Farm Craft School, Williamsburg, Massachusetts and Helios Glass Studio in Austin, Texas.

MICAELA WALLACE Micaela Wallace creates beautiful and unique functional items made with fusible glass. Her products include fused glass plates, platters, bowls, coasters, candle lights, sterling wire wrapped jewelry and belt buckles.

Clockwise from left: Dichroic glass earrings and Camel’s Hump landscape platter by Micaela Wallace; Quilted vase, Emerald Sea vase and Ferris Wheel Bowl by Bud Shriner of Church and Maple Glass; Sushi plate by Alyssa Oxley; coasters by Micaela Wallace. See these artists and more at Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes.

Wallace is a Vermont native but lived away for 12 of her adult years. She began her glass craft life about 20 years ago during the period away from Vermont by taking studying stained glass at the Oglebay Institute in West Virginia. She continued studying stained glass upon moving back to Vermont at the Shelburne Art Center.

Wallace expanded into fused glass more than 10 years ago and studied at The Studio of the Corning Glass Museum and the Bullseye Glass resource center in Mamaroneck, N.Y. Wallace is currently a juried member of Vermont Handcrafters and does many craft shows over the course of the year. Wallace is currently teaching kilnforming glass at the Davis studio in South Burlington. She draws much of her inspiration from the beautiful mountains and gardens that she views outside her workshop.

Her glass jewelry incorporates dichroic and iridescent glass into pendants, earrings, and hair accessories. She also creates one of a kind plates and decorative objects inspired by the Vermont landscape, plants and other forms.

BUD SHRINER Bud Shriner was first introduced to glassblowing in 1970 while working in a neurochemistry lab.

There he learned the techniques of scientific glassblowing with borosilicate and quartz, leading him a few years later to seek out his first experience with off-hand glass blowing. A

graduate of the University of Vermont Medical School, Shriner practiced emergency medicine for 15 years, though throughout this period he continued his experimentation, begun in childhood, with various crafts: blowing glass, building furniture, and working with copper sculpture. He has studied at Corning Studio with Josiah Mcilhenny as well as at the Haystack School of Crafts with Fritz Dreisbach, Jan ErikRitzman and David Levi.

In the mid-1990s, Shriner left medicine to devote himself full-time to glass-blowing, opening the glass studio at Church and Maple in downtown Burlington. In the winter of 2007, Church and Maple Glass moved its production facility to the beautiful landscape of Charlotte, where his creativity and artistic growth flourish.

ANNE HULVEY Anne Hulvey’s interest in glass started with her beach glass collection from Lake Champlain. “A few years ago I started taking fused glass classes through the Davis Studio under Alyssa Oxley and Micaela Wallace,” she said. “I was amazed at the possibilities this medium provided me.

The colors of glass and the various techniques allowed me to be creative in designing my pieces. I continue to learn through involvement in open studio at Davis Studio.” Hulvey is a hand therapist at UVM Medical Center.

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is our fourth year that we did it. Every year, it gets a little bigger. This year we had around 300 people,” she said.

This weekend, Solar Sweet Maple Farm will be open for all visitors for Vermont’s Statewide Maple Open House Weekend. choice with what you’re going to get. The Visitors can take a tour of the facilities or later in the year you get, as sample the different grades the sap gets warmer, the of syrup. The Gadhues sugar starts to change, and are excited to share their “THE LATER IN THE you get your darker syrups. passion for maple with Earlier in the year you get locals and out-of-staters.

YEAR YOU GET, your brighter, cleaner, AS THE SAP GETS lighter-color syrup.”

“There’s so many things you WARMER, THE can do with it,” Tom said.

Rhonda works mostly in “You can make different SUGAR STARTS TO the building’s kitchen, stages of maple syrup, you CHANGE, AND YOU where she makes maple can boil it a little longer, GET YOUR DARKER cream, maple candy, maple you can make cream out of kielbasa and, of course, SYRUPS.” — Tom Gadhue it, you can make spreads, pancakes. “We host a you can make candy. It’s pancake breakfast the first so flexible. And it’s sweet. weekend in March, and this People love sweets.”

Samples of maple syrup line the windows at Solar Sweet Maple Farm in South Lincoln.

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OUT OF TOWN Burlington’s ‘Blackberry Winter’ VERMONT STAGE BRINGS NEW DRAMA TO FLYNN SPACE

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ermont Stage is producing Blackberry Winter by Steve Yockey, a witty and touching new drama which enjoyed seven premieres across the country last season. Years of success, meticulous planning, and an eye for detail have in no way prepared Vivienne Avery for her mother’s slide into the grip of dementia. Initially hiding behind insomniafueled baking and a polite smile, memories of her mother leave Vivienne’s inner turmoil quietly laid bare in a juxtaposition of stories, theatrical gestures and a childlike “creation myth.”

“Playwright Steve Yockey is a talented and unique new voice in the American Theatre and I am thrilled to introduce his work to our audiences,” said Vermong Stage Artistic Director Cristina Alicea. “The experience of Blackberry Winter is a tough one to describe.

It is sort of a solo show except there are two other actors in the play. It is a drama but it has a whimsy that pulls it out of its heavier moments. It is both realistic and fantastical.

Let’s just say that Blackberry Winter is hard to pin down, which is why I find it to be so very beautiful.”

Blackberry Winter will run through March 26, at FlynnSpace in Burlington, and will star an all Vermont cast, including Vermont Stage veteran and Middlebury resident Karen Lefkoe, as well as Vermont Stage newcomers Nicholas Caycedo and Sarah Mell. The show is directed by Jordan Gullikson, a longtime Vermont Stage actor; this will be his MainStage directorial debut for Vermont Stage.

Catch the show this Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., or Sunday at 2 p.m. For more information visit vermontstage.org or call (802) 862-1497.

Karen Lefkoe of Middlebury performs in the Vermont Stage production of “Blackberry Winter,” by Steve Yockey. Catch the show’s final performances this week at the FlynnSpace in Burlington.

Shen Yun brings Chinese dance to VT Shen Yun Performing Arts, a decade-old, globallyacclaimed, New-York-based, non-profit dance and music company, SATURDAY MARCH is returning for Flynn Center, Burlington the second year to the Flynn Center in Burlington on Saturday, March 25, with shows at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

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Shen Yun’s classical Chinese dances have been handed down for five millennia. Its story dances portray universally shared cultural values. Its folk dances portray cultural diversities of over 50 ethnic groups scattered throughout China. The dances are further enhanced by Shen Yun’s original music compositions performed by its one-of-a-kind Eastmeets-West live orchestra. Together with its brilliant custom-made costumes, its state-of-the-art digital backdrops, and its world-class soloists performing songs sung in the bel canto technique with messages that are at once somber and uplifting — all combined to make Shen Yun a show for the whole family. A show not to be missed.

For tickets and info visit www.flynntix.org.

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IN TOWN Plays pop-up at Middlebury theater SIX PLAYWRIGHTS COMPOSE PLAYS WITHIN 24-HOURS

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he process of creating Pop-Up Plays is simple: six playwrights stay up all night writing a 10-minute play, based on photos of their actors (many of whom they’ve never met) and a poster created by artist and graphic designer Sanford Farrier, from his collection Plays Not Yet Written. The next morning, the hot-off-the-press scripts are given to 16 local actors and six daring directors to memorize and stage in just 10 hours. Whatever they come up with premieres in front of a live audience that evening. The entire process — from the first playwrights’ meeting to the curtain falling on the final play — takes 24 hours.

“I like to call this ‘One of the best days in the theater all year!’” said Pop-Up producer Mary Longey. “So innovative, exciting, technically challenging for all, and filled with joy at the end of the day.”

Last year’s plays included a marriage counselor riding a unicycle and playing with a wind-up duck, a film-noir inspired tale featuring a female detective and a male “femme fatale” with an extremely long name, and a family drama with a pair of magical roller skates.

This year, the inspiration for each playwright’s creation will stem from a poster from Sanford Farrier’s collection Plays Not Yet Written — evocative and visually stunning posters designed for plays that — you guessed it — don’t yet exist. An exhibition of Farrier’s

question ‘So, given this treatment and imagery, what do you think this play is about?’” Farrier’s fascinating posters are a perfect jumping-off point for Pop-Ups on-the-spot playwrights.

In addition, each play must include a line, voted on by the public. In honor of April Fool’s Day, each line is the punchline to a joke. To vote for this year’s line, visit www.townhalltheater.org/ pop-up-plays-2017.

This year’s Pop-Up Play participants are a handy mix of newcomers and old pros. For instance, Chris Caswell and Jordan Gullikson,

did you know?

SANFORD FARRIER’S COLLECTION PLAYS NOT YET WRITTEN IS CURRENTLY ON DISPLAY IN THE TOWN HALL THEATER’S JACKSON GALLERY, OPEN MONDAYSATURDAY, 12-5 P.M. FARRIER’S POSTERS WILL BE THE INSPIRATION FOR THE SIX PLAYWRIGHTS PARTICIPATING IN THIS YEAR’S POP-UP PLAYS ON APRIL 1.

collection is currently on display in Town Hall Theater’s Jackson Gallery, with an artist’s reception taking place the evening of March 31, the night before Pop-Up Plays.

who have both taken on the role of playwright and director in Pop-Ups past, return this year as playwrights, along with veteran Pop-Ups playwright Geeda Seerforce.

According to Farrier, “each poster is an invitation to the viewer to engage in a conversation about theatrical and thematic possibilities. It starts with a first impression, hopefully leads to thoughtful exploration, and finally poses the

Pop-Up Plays will be performed on April 1 at 7:30 p.m.. Tickets are $12 and may be purchased at townhalltheater.org, by calling (802) 382-9222 or in person at the THT box office MondaySaturday, 12-5 p.m.

one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK THE SNOW WHITE VARIETY SHOW

ARTISTS EMERGE IN BRISTOL

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SOUND

The Ferrisburgh Children’s Theater cast of 27 students SATURDAY MARCH present “The Snow White Variety Show,” by Brian D. Taylor at the Vergennes Union High School auditorium this Saturday.

Host Herb Hyberbole and his guests, the Seven Dwarves, retell the story of the fairest of them all, Snow White. As each dwarf enters, their own perspective on how the story unfolds becomes evident. Show starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are available at the door and are $6 for adults and $3 for children.

Art on Main in Bristol, is wrapping up their 8th annual Emerging Artists Show on March 26. Go see the work of over 20 Mount Abe High School students. Mediums include photography, painting, jewelry, felting, comics and more. Featured artists: Abigail Mansfield, Abigail Perle, Allyson Hoff, Althea Kane, Caroline Sodaro, Casey Ober, Christian Little, Claire Holloway, Eden Ginsberg, Emma Campbell, Emma LaRose, Genesis Berube, Halle Ross, Kai Correll, Kai Dobek, Madison Menzel, Marah Orvis, Mhairi McMurray, Shealyn Layn, Sophie Alderman, Taylor Gurney, Mitchell Tierney.

NPR’s “The World According to Sound,” a series of radio shows FRIDAY MARCH which air during All Things Considered, is taking their show on the road. Producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett have gathered sounds from all over the world, and are coming to the Town Hall Theater in Middlebury. Listeners will be surrounded by sound in a way that encourages them to rethink the world through their ears.

Friday’s show starts at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $15.

Info: www.townhalltheater.org or (802) 382-9222.

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OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, March 31, 5-7 p.m., Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater. An opening reception will be held for graphic designer Sanford Farrier’s collection “Plays Not Yet Written.” For more information call 802-382-9222 or visit www.townhalltheater.org.

FLY TYING CLASS FOR BEGINNERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, March 28, 7-9 p.m., Middlebury Union High School, room H005. Fly tying class for beginners offered by the New Haven River Anglers Association. Instruction and materials provided at no cost. $50 refundable deposit for tools. Limited to 12 participants. Call Peter Burton 388-6876 to register.

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CRAFTS UKRANIAN EASTER EGG DECORATING IN SALISBURY. Thursday, March 23, 7-8 p.m., Salisbury Public Library. Ellen Bodin will demonstrate the Pysansky process for creating colorful and detailed designs. If people are interested in creating these eggs themselves, the library will schedule a workshop later.

BARN DANCE AT TOURTERELLE IN NEW HAVEN. Saturday, April 1, 7-9 p.m., Tourterelle Restaurant. Kick up your heels and kick off spring at the Beeman Elementary annual fundraiser. There will be a live band, beautiful setting and lots of fun to be had by all. $10 adult; $5 kids; $25 family.

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FILM MNFF WINTER SCREENING SERIES IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 2, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival winter screening series presents “Off The Rails,” a riveting documentary from Director Adam Irving that tells the true story of Darius McCollum, a man living with Asperger’s syndrome. Tickets $12 for an individual film. The series pass, good for all five films, is $50. Info: 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

LECTURE FRIDAYS AT THE MUSEUM. Professor Pieter Broucke, Associate Curator of Ancient Art, gives a gallery talk in conjunction with the Museum’s American Faces exhibition. This talk will focus CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

winning chili recipe

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opefully you made it to the 9th Annual Vermont Chili Festival on March 11. Yes it was cold and windy, but the chili warmed things up for the few thousand hearty souls who came out.

“This year’s festival reminded me of Chili Festivals from a few years ago,” said Karen Duguay of the Better Middlebury Partnership — they host the Chili Fest each year. “Despite the very cold weather, we still had a great turnout, lots of tasty chili and that fun block-party feeling. This event is one of our favorite celebrations of community here in Middlebury.”

The winners of the chili competition were determined by a panel of judges, they were: Lisa Mitchell (Middlebury Underground), Peter Burrows (school superintendent), Kathy Walls (Vermont Soup Co.), Trent Campbell (Addison Independent), Ashley Wolff (illustrator) and Lynn Coale (Hannaford Career Center).

The judges sampled all the chilis and the winners were — drumroll please...

Best Beef: Porter Hospital Best Beef Runner UP: Tie between Noonie’s Deli and Smokey’s Best Chicken: Middlebury College Best Chicken Runner Up: Rosie’s Best Pork: The Lobby Best Pork Runner Up: Vermont Gas Best Veggie: Middlebury Foods and Sotheby’s collaboration Best Veggie Runner Up: Rosie’s Best Kitchen Sink: Middlebury Rotary Best Kitchen Sink Runner Up: Sabai Sabai Best Game: Cabot/Agrimark Best Anything But Chili: Knot in the Grain Craft Brewery Best Booth: Fire and Ice People’s Choice Amateur: Cabot/ Agrimark People’s Choice Professional: Cold Hollow Cider 3rd Best Chili Overall: Tie Between Smokey’s and Noonie’s Deli (beef) 2nd Best Chili Overall: Porter Hospital (beef) Best Chili Overall: The Lobby (pork) SEE CHILI ON PAGE 13

NOONIE’S DELI BEEF CHILI Recipe from Jay LaFountain

INGREDIENTS: Local ground beef Red and green bell peppers Jalapeno peppers Spanish onion Garlic Diced tomatoes Crushed tomatoes Salt

Black pepper Vermont Maple Syrup Cumin Red pepper flakes Ghost chili oil Spices and herbs that shall remain a closely guarded secret.

PREPARATION: Brown beef, and drain.

Add onion, garlic and all of the peppers. Sweat the veggies.

Add tomatoes (both kinds) and simmer for 20 minutes.

Add the rest of the ingredients and let simmer for 30 minutes.

Add beef and maple syrup.

Enjoy!

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on works of art in the Museum’s permanent collection of Roman art, which includes a newly acquired portrait from Fayum. Sponsored by the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Free. www. middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

MUSIC NOONDAY RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 23, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Join us for a noonday Lenten recital with Betsy Killorin, flautist and George Matthew Jr., accompanist in a program of Baroque music. Bring a lunch. Event is free.

BURLINGTON TAIKO GROUP PERFORMANCE IN RIPTON. Friday, March 24, 6:30 p.m., Ripton Community House. The Burlington Taiko school residency program will come to Ripton Elementary as part of a school-wide theme study of “How We Express Ourselves.” Free performance Friday evening. Open to the public.

The students will perform with the group on Wednesday, March 29, 6 p.m. at the Ripton Community House. That show’s also free and open to the public.

SUNDAY MUSIC SERIES: MOOSE CROSSING JAZZ TRIO IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, March 26, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

Moose Crossing is the go-to group for the jazz aficionado looking for classics from Duke Ellington and Frank Sinatra, to Miles Davis and John Coltrane, and hard driving funk tunes from Josef Zawinul to Herbie Hancock, with some original jazz music too! Free and open to the public. Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@residenceottercreek.com or 388-1220.

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NOONDAY RECITAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, March 30, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. The Middlebury Union High School Jazz Ensemble, known as “Midd Jazz” will be performing a concert, with Anne Severy, director. Bring a lunch. Event is free.

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PIANO AND CELLO CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 1, Brandon Music, 7:30 p.m.

Pianist Diana Fanning and cellist Dieuwke Davydov will perform a concert at Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Road. For info visit www. brandon-music.net.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLERS IN BRANDON. Sunday, April 2, noon5 p.m., American Legion, Route 7, Brandon. Champlain Valley Fiddlers will perform. All fiddlers are welcome for fun and dancing. Refreshments will be available. Call 897-7461.

CABOT/AGRIMARK CHILI Recipe from Mike Barrett — winner of Cabot/Agrimark’s own employee chili fest.

INGREDIENTS: 3 Jars of Heinz chili sauce 3 cans Tomato soup 2 cans Diced tomatoes with chili’s drained 3 cans Red kidney beans

drained 1.5 lbs Ground beef 1.5 lbs Venison burger 1.5 lbs Hot Italian sausage 1 Green pepper

1 Onion Crushed red pepper Chili powder Garlic powder Black pepper

PREPARATION: No specific instructions. Good luck!

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During our kitchen renovation we’re serving Neapolitan pizza, salads, antipasti and sandwiches.

Come check it out! www.twobrotherstavern.com

SNOW WHITE VARIETY SHOW IN VERGENNES. Saturday, March 25, 7 p.m., Vergennes Union High School. Ferrisburgh Children’s Theater will present the “Snow White Variety Show.” Tickets $6 adults; $3 children; available at the door. Fore more information call 877-3463.

ZIG ZAG LIT MAG RELEASE PARTY IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, March 28, 6 p.m., Vermont Book Shop. Zig Zag Lit Mag will release their second issue. There will be readings and performances by local contributors as well as coffee and donuts. Free to the public.

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LATE WINTER PRUNING

the perfect antidote for cabin fever

An apple tree, pruned by Fred Schroeder, shows off it’s springtime finery in Judith Irven’s gardens in Goshen.

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ate winter is cabin fever season; after months of indoor living we find ourselves yearning for spring, and we can surely be forgiven for grumbling about Vermont’s recent March blizzard.

BY JUDITH IRVEN

Wikipedia describes cabin fever as “a claustrophobic reaction from being confined in a small space for an extended period of time, resulting in extreme irritability and restlessness, often accompanied by an urge to go outside, even in rain, snow, dark or hail.” I certainly understand the urge to get outdoors, but I prefer to skip the rain, dark and hail.

And, as a therapy for cabin fever, Wikipedia cites a scientific study which shows that simply getting

outside and interacting with nature will improve both your cognitive abilities and your sense of wellbeing.

But of course this is probably something you intuitively knew already.

LATE WINTER PRUNING So, if you are a gardener beset by cabin fever, may I suggest the perfect antidote: unearth your pruning saw, sharpen those clippers, and get going on some late winter pruning.

Even though we humans are now eagerly anticipating spring, in late March in Vermont, most of our trees and shrubs are still fully dormant, making this an excellent time for pruning. Pruning stimulates new growth which will kick into high gear the moment spring arrives. And without its leaves, the structure of the plant is readily apparent, making

pruning that much easier for the gardener.

Pruning is defined as the removal of any part of a plant to promote plant health and a desirable growth form.

And it certainly covers a host of specialized goals and techniques, from training young trees for longterm form and enhancing fruit production, to creating bonsai.

However the goal of my late winter pruning is simply to ensure my existing shrubs and small trees continue to thrive and look great in the garden. And the techniques are not difficult.

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well as wood that looks old or diseased. I will also survey the interior of the plant, which may have become cluttered over the years.

With my first cuts I remove any branches that are broken, dead, diseased or really old, each time cutting all the way back to the trunk or a strong live branch or, in the case of suckering shrubs, right to the ground. These are called thinning cuts.

EASY DOES IT

When making a thinning cut it is important never to leave a protruding stub; it will eventually die and in the meantime it creates an entryway for disease.

Furthermore it just looks plain ugly.

I work with one tree or shrub at a time and, before making a single cut, I stand back and examine it carefully. I will look for limbs broken off by last January’s ice storm, as

At the same time take care not to cut too close the parent branch.

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trunk, which is an active growth site.

By making your cut just outside the branch collar it will stimulate it to grow new bark which will quickly grow over and heal the wound.

Next I look for branches that are rubbing their neighbors, or will become that way in another year or two. Rubbing branches also create entry points for disease, and their contrary directions spoil the aesthetics of the plant. So, for the good of the whole, I will sacrifice one.

pruning dos and dont’s Do prune dormant trees and shrubs that need shaping, reconstruction or crowdingcontrol.

Don’t prune maples or birch trees in late winter, wait until summer or early winter.

Do prune with sharp, clean tools.

Don’t prune spring flowering

I now stand back again, and contemplate whether, by removing a few healthy branches, I could achieve a less cluttered interior. However I am careful not to overplay my hand.

To ensure the plant continues to manufacture sufficient food, twothirds of the leaf-bearing surfaces need to remain after pruning.

Finally I look to see whether the plant would look better if it were slightly more compact. If the answer is “yes” I trim back the outermost branches, using what are known as a heading cut. I make this cut just above a robust outward-growing bud, which in turn will become a new growth point in the coming season. So, before cutting, I pause to visualize how the plant will look, a year or two from now, when these growth buds have become new twigs or even complete branches.

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LEAVE THE BIG ONES FOR THE PROFESSIONALS Pruning large trees is heavy work which is best left for an expert.

However, even when you call in somebody else, it is extremely helpful if you can visualize the desired results — after all it’s your garden!

For many seasons now Fred Schroeder of Bristol, who specializes in apple tree pruning, has been pruning my apple trees, but he involves me in all the major decisions of how much to remove and what to trim.

With careful pruning over several years Schroeder has gradually rejuvenated our duo of wild apple trees (pictured).

shrubs, like lilacs. Wait until after the blooms have passed so you don’t damage the buds.

Do have an asthetic in mind before you start cutting. Step back and assess visual impact of your cuts.

Don’t chop more than you can handle. Big trees are heavy and pruning can be a job for the pros.

PATIENCE And finally, there are some pruning jobs that should be left till later: In late winter the sap is running full bore in our maple and birch trees, and pruning them now would cause excessive bleeding. Instead prune them during the summer or in the early part of the winter.

Roses should be pruned when the first green buds emerge in spring, when you can easily see and remove any winter die-back.

LEARN MORE “Pruning Made Easy,” by Lewis Hill (Story Publishing) is a classic book on pruning written by a well-known Vermonter. With clear instructions and great illustrations it is an excellent investment for every gardener.

Judith Irven and Dick Conrad live in Goshen where together they nurture a large garden.

Judith is a Vermont Certified Horticulturist and teaches Sustainable Home Landscaping for the Vermont Master Gardener program. You can subscribe to her blog about her Vermont gardening life at www.northcountryreflections. com. Dick is a landscape and garden photographer; you can see more of his photos at www.northcountryimpressions.com.

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Spring flowering shrubs, like azaleas and lilacs, set their flower buds the previous summer. To avoid sacrificing any blooms this coming spring, plan on pruning these shrubs a month or less after they have flowered (before next years buds have formed).

Conifers are best pruned after the first flush of new spring growth.

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T HEATER

OWN HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org

Sat 3/25 1pm $24/$10 Students

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IDOMENEO

The classic Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production and music direction by James Levine highlight Mozart’s first operatic masterpiece, with Matthew Polenzani in the title role.

Pre-show talk in the Byers Studio at 12:15

Sun 3/26 4pm $15/$10 Seniors/$5 Students CHAMPLAIN PHILHARMONIC

A SPRING CELEBRATION WITH THE MASTERS Featuring Cello soloist McKinley James, the orchestra performs Bizet, Ravel & Saint-Saëns.

Fri 3/31 7:30pm $15

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SOUND

NPR producers Chris Hoff & Sam Harnett gather unique sounds for their popular show. Here’s your chance to be surrounded by sounds from around the world and through the centuries, and to rethink existence and experience through your ears.

In the Jackson Gallery Now Through 4/1

SANFORD FARRIER

EXHIBITS AMERICAN FACES: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF PORTRAITURE AND IDENTITY. On exhibit Feb. 17-April 30 featuring 90 portraits from more than 20 collections exploring why Americans have been fascinated with images of themselves. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

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.

DICK KIRBY: METAL MADNESS. On exhibit March 3-April 30, featuring a one-man show of artist-designed steel works such as lamps, weathervanes, candle holders and coat racks. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

FOCUS ON THE SHELDON: A FIVE-POINT PERSPECTIVE. On exhibit March 7-May 13, featuring five Middlebury-area photographers’ exploration of the collections of the Henry Sheldon Museum. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St, Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

GLASS ART: MOLTEN COLOR AND FROZEN FORMS. On exhibit March 24May 7, featuring kiln formed glass sculpture by Alyssa Oxley; hand-blown glass by Bud Shriner; and kilnformed glass jewelry and objects by Micaela Wallace. The exhibit also includes work by emerging glass artists Anne Hulvey, Mary Ellen Jeffries, Cherie Marshall, Lori Pietropaoli and Christie Witters. Opening reception and wine tasting on Friday, March 24 from 5-8 p.m. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main Street, Vergennes. (802) 877-3850 or www.creativespacegallery.org.

POSTERS FOR PLAYS NOT YET WRITTEN

GRACE MELLOW: NOT FOR SHOW. On exhibit March 2-April 9 featuring Grace Mellow’s gouache and pastel experimental figurative drawings.

Northern Daughters Gallery, 221 Main Street, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or www.northerndaughters.com.

Sat 4/1 7:30pm $12

PRELUDE TO SPRING: BOTANICAL ART IN VERMONT. On exhibit Feb. 17-April 1, featuring the work of three of Vermont’s nest botanical artists: Bobbi Angell, Susan Bull Riley and Stephanie Whitney-Payne. Compass Music and Arts Center is located in Park Village at 333 Jones Drive, Brandon. (802) 247- 4295 or www.cmacvt.org.

Coinciding with and integral to Pop-Up Plays 2017, this collection, by an accomplished graphic designer, is a series of arresting and evocative images.

POP-UP PLAYS 2017

They’re Back! 6 new short plays so fresh you’ll have to slap them twice! 2017’s plays will be inspired by the gallery show Posters for Plays Not Yet Written by Sanford Ferrier.

Sun 4/2 2pm $12 MNFF WINTER SCREENING SERIES

OFF THE RAILS

Riveting documentary from Adam Irving tells the true story of Darius McCollum, a man with Asperger’s syndrome, whose overwhelming love of transit has landed him in jail 32 times for criminal impersonation of transit drivers and workers.

Tue* 4/4 11am $10/$5 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAYS*

I, CLAUDE MONET

Award-winning director Phil Grabsky presents a fresh new look at Monet – through the artist’s own words. This intimate exploration of Monet is based on 2500 letters, forming the foundation of the film’s narration.

RE-IMAGINE THE BRAIDED RUG. On exhibit, Feb. 4-April 29, featuring the work of West Fairlee rug braider Delsie Hoyt. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or www. vermontfolklifecenter.org.

SANFORD FARRIER: POSTERS FOR PLAYS NOT YET WRITTEN. On exhibit March 11-April 1, featuring large scale posters designed by graphic designer and Middlebury College graduate Sanford Farrier. An opening reception will be held on Friday, March 31, 5-7 p.m. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

UNTOUCHED BY TIME: THE ATHENIAN ACROPOLIS FROM PERICLES TO PARR. On exhibit Jan. 10-April 23, featuring early archaeological publications, antiquarian paintings, drawings and prints, as well as photographs, books, and more recent images that are all drawn from collections at Middlebury. Together they bear testimony to the fascination with the Acropolis that has prevailed from the Enlightenment to the present. Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

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MUSIC Daymark performs Irish music with swagger

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aymark is an international trio performing traditional Irish music infused with infectious energy, raw power, and Northern swagger. The group performs at Brandon Music on Friday, March 31 at 7:30 p.m.

Fusing the talents of Will Woodson (flute, border pipes), Dan Foster (fiddle) and Eric McDonald FRIDAY MARCH (guitar, vocals), the group Brandon Music presents a classic blend of wind and string as driving flute meets virtuosic fiddle, underpinned by well-considered and expertly delivered guitar.

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Sharing a love for the music of generations past, the trio’s sound echoes that of IrishAmerican dance halls from the 1920s and ‘30s, alongside the lonesome tones of Donegal country fiddlers and the rollicking smoky pubs of Northern England’s immigrant neighborhoods.

Taken together, these influences merge into a sound that’s very much part of the present; a sound that’s urgent and wild, held together by camaraderie that’s quite audible. This is the foundation of their music. What emerges is intimate enough to feel at home down at the local pub, big enough to fill a festival stage or a concert hall.

Each member of the trio had carved their individual musical pathways and style from diligent listening and study, extensive travels and numerous performances in Ireland, Scotland, England and America before meeting at the Northern Roots Festival in Vermont during the winter of 2015. Over a long night of music, they discovered a natural and complementary fit of

Daymark will perfom Irish music with a Northern swagger next Friday at Brandon Music.

individual styles, as well as a mutual interest in the same corners of the Irish tradition.

All three musicians are well established in their own right, and collectively the three have lived and studied traditional music across Ireland, Scotland, England, America and Canada, in the cities of Limerick, Glasgow, Newcastle, Montreal, Boston and New York. Dan Foster hails from Northern England, and developed his music in the lively session scene there, studying at Newcastle University’s Folk Degree course before honing his fiddle style in Limerick under master musicians. Will Woodson holds a master’s degree in traditional music from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow, and in addition to his musical work is an established pipemaker, performing on an instrument of his

own construction. Eric McDonald is a native of Boston, and learned his music in the city’s sessions and folk clubs before studying at the famed Berklee College of Music. All three have spent the first decade of their musical careers performing with countless projects and recording a number of albums; they’re road hardened, stage seasoned, and altogether full of music. Together as Daymark, the collective experiences of the three coalesce into an altogether compelling musical force.

Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an extra $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. For reservations or more info call (802) 247-4295, e-mail info@brandonmusic.net or visit www.brandon-music.net.

live music CHELSEA BERRY. Saturday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

IN THE POCKET. Saturday, March 25, 7:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury DAYMARK. Friday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

KELLY RAVIN AND LOWELL THOMPSON. Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

DIANA FANNING AND DIEUWKE DAVYDOV. Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

SARAH BLACKLER. Saturday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Catch Chelsea Berry at Brandon Music this Saturday evening.

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the movie THE LAST WORD — RUNNING TIME: 1:48 — RATING: R Shirley MacLaine has used all her natural ingredients to enliven The Last Word — a movie that wouldn’t make it without her. Known in real life for her belief in reincarnation, MacLaine must have enjoyed this chance to evolve from control freak to thoughtful mentor of others. Is it for you?

Take a look.

At 82, Harriet Lauler (MacLaine) lives in luxury but hates the fake praise that infects so many obituaries. She induces obit writer Anne (Amanda Seyfried) to write hers — not after she dies, but now when she can control its content. As Anne begins her research, she discovers that Harriet was disliked by everyone she suggested as a source.

Amanda Seyfried, Shirley MacLaine and AnnJewel Lee Dixon in The Last Word (2017).

As Harriet begins to grasp her public reputation, she decides to fix things by changing herself. She engages Anne as her teammate and Brenda (Ann Jewel Lee Dixon) a tiny, foul mouthed bombshell of a little girl as the protégé she will mentor. Working with these two, she sets out to memorialize herself through new achievements.

At some point in the process the whole thing begins to feel disjointed.

Writer? Director? Subject? All of those but with Maclaine as the selfrehabilitating control nut, the audience seems happy. Amanda Seyfried works hard as Maclaine’s new friend and final rehabilitation candidate, but her scripted part is repetitive and quite dull. The talented Seyfried is set adrift too often. Little Ann Jewel Lee Dixon makes us smile as she uses any musical excuse to dance and any verbal challenge to spew forth foul language.

The first scenes are the perfect introduction to what lies ahead. Actual pictures of Shirley MacLaine from earliest years through her career to the present are a quick summary of her life. Those shots lead to MacLaine as the fictional Harriet wandering through her luxurious house and finally reading the stuffy obituaries that will lead her to ask Anne to write her obituary while she’s alive so she herself can edit it. How can this happen

when everyone Anne talks to dislikes Harriet? The control freak decides on reinvention — of herself.

In fine Shirley MacLaine fashion, Harriet unearths her record collection from many decades and uses it as a turning point in a life that is no longer lonely. Can she turn this last decade into what it should have done all along? Can she right some of her past wrongs? Can she chuck her “unyielding belief that everyone else is the problem?”

She may be creating her own obituary but in doing that she is also building on the lessons she has learned over eight decades. She is no longer waiting to die as she was in the early scenes. She has become an accomplished old woman with a purpose who doesn’t think about death.

Labored as much of the movie is, you will probably be happy if you are a Shirley MacLaine fan. She manages to keep it all a small notch above sentimentality.

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―— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

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Lisa See’s new novel tells the story of a mother who had to give up her baby daughter and an adopted Chinese girl struggling to define herself. Raised in a small mountain village, brought up to follow the customs and rituals of generations of Akha, a little known Chinese ethnic minority, Li-Yan’s childhood is almost mythical. But when a foreigner arrives seeking the rare tea that only grows in these remote Yunnan areas, their way of life is disturbed, and Li-Yan’s eyes are opened to a wider world, a modern world, and her life is set on another path. Rather than abide by tradition when she has a baby out of wedlock, she surrenders her child, along with a legendary ancestral Pu’er tea cake, to a local orphanage. That baby is soon adopted by American parents and raised in California. Mother and daughter search for answers in the ancient tea cake that has shaped their family’s destiny. This is a very moving, as well as historically accurate, tale about a family, separated by circumstances, culture, and distance, that celebrates the powerful bond between mothers and daughters.

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GRETCHEN KING Gretchen King lives in Waterbury, where she is inspired everyday by the seasonal beauty discovered hiking with her dog, Odin.

Having dabbled in various art forms most of her life, about three years ago she decided to take a class at the Davis Studio, and discovered the relaxing complexity of fused glass. This duality is blended to create both random and at times, intentional design elements that evolve toward purpose. King studies under Oxley at the Davis Studio. Her other passions include the ancient art of Japanese Temari, where fiber art transforms spherical symmetry.

CHERIE MARSHALL Cherie Marshall has been working with glass for about four years at the Davis Studio with Oxley and had exhibited her jewelry at the Southern Vermont Arts Center last summer.

LORI PIETROPAOLI Lori Pietropaoli lives in Williston. She began working in glass at Davis Studios soon after moving to Vermont in 2014. She is inspired by colors and patterns, especially stripes.

CATHERINE SUITER Catherine Suiter has described herself as a “glass addict” since she was a child and watched the sunlight make rainbows on her grandmother’s crystal glasses. Having collected glass in many forms (perfume bottles, blown glass, sundry domestic art, including a glass countertop) she finally has the chance to work with fused glass herself at the Davis Studio. It is the curious contrast between the hardness of glass and its fluidity that she finds endlessly

exciting and occasionally disappointing. Straying from the usual cutting and pasting in glass, she has explored different uses of frit, slumping and sand blasting techniques to give a sense of movement to the glass.

CHRISTIE WITTERS Christy Witters discovered glass in 2013 at the Davis Studio and has been melting, cutting, and “dropping” glass forms ever since. Her degrees in Environmental Studies and Land Use Planning both inform and drive her creative process. She is inspired by the natural land formations surrounding her home in Richmond, including the topography of the Green Mountains and the sinuosity of the Winooski River and its tributaries. Witters studies under Oxley and has travelled to Northlands Glass in Lybster, Scotland to learn from Amanda Simmons.

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“DESPITE THE VERY COLD WEATHER, WE STILL HAD A GREAT TURNOUT, LOTS OF TASTY CHILI AND THAT FUN BLOCKPARTY FEELING.” — Karen Duguay

“I was lucky enough to snag a sample of The Lobby’s winning pork chili and I could understand why it was the judge’s overall favorite,” said Duguay. “It was delicious, with a hint of sweetness and a kick of spice at the end. Here’s hoping it makes The Lobby’s menu soon so everyone can try it for themselves.”

Jay LaFountain, from Noonie’s Deli, shared the basics behind his awardwinning chili recipe. Try it out, and see if you can figure out what his secret ingredients are.

Mike Barrett, from Cabot/Agrimark, was the master-chef behind this year’s People’s Choice Amateaur winning chili.

The Middlebury-based company held their own internal chili cook-off at the plant with their employees. They took the winner’s (Barrett’s) recipe, gathered the ingredients and a team to prepare, and went to work for the event. Barrett gave a list of ingredients, but it’s up to you to put them together. Good luck!

— Elsie Lynn Parini

MARY ELLEN JEFFRIES Mary Ellen Jeffries spent the first 50 years of her life working and raising three terrific kids with her husband.

“I was fortunate enough to retire and refocus some of my interests,” she said. “Two art mediums that I have found (and love) since turning 50 are rug hooking and fused glass.

I look forward to continuing life with family, community, running and creativity!”

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