Monday, March 27, 2017

MONDAY EDITION

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

Vol. 28 No. 50

Middlebury, Vermont

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Monday, March 27, 2017

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Pritchard’s update of classic strikes a chord

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The deposits into Stanford Pritchard’s National Bank of Middlebury account arrive at random hours, but usually in the middle of the night.

Of course, that makes perfect sense.

The funds come from a literary a g e n c y in Seoul, S o u t h Korea, and the day’s quietest hours in small-town Vermont are the busiest in a hub of Asian commerce.

Pritchard, a writer born in Washington, D.C., and educated at Haverford College and the University of Chicago, moved to Middlebury in 1978 with a former flame.

Among other things, Pritchard has worked at The New York Review of (See Pritchard, Page 22)

• Several young local Nordic skiers represented Vermont in the Eastern championship. See the results on Page 18.

Wanted: guides for amphibians

• Volunteers are needed in Salisbury to help salamanders cross the road. See Page 19.

Emergency order to replace bridges • VTrans is authorizing shortterm replacements for the two downtown rail bridges in Middlebury. See Page 3.

• It’s hard to pigeonhole Lowell Thompson and Kelly Ravin, who play in Ripton Saturday.

See Arts Beat on Page 10.

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Local book finds unlikely Asian market

Racers cap ski season

Duo to perform ‘alt-country’ songs

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Four seeking to join Middlebury selectboard make their case SOME POKEY STICK “runners,” like Will Crawford (top), take to the trees to avoid “hunters.” Some “hunters,” like Creed Stillwell, here, climb up after their prey, while others stand and wait at the base of the tree for the “runner” to come down.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Hey, world – Pokey Stick is here!

Teens create outdoor game, decide to hold ‘world’ championship RIPTON — The students at the North Branch School, an independent middle school in Ripton, are holding the first-ever Pokey Stick World Finals in March to support fundraising for children in Haiti.

Pokey stick is a game invented by the students at the school. Using components of tag and hunting, as well as elements from the novel “The Lord of the Flies,” contestants use the school’s 10 acres of woods and fields to play a unique and

thrilling game of hide and seek.

“We wanted something fun to do at lunch that was challenging enough physically that we wouldn’t be restless the rest of the day,” said Ben Huston, an eighth-grader from (See Pokey Stick, Page 26)

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The four candidates for a one-year vacancy on the Middlebury selectboard sat down on March 21 in front of their potential future colleagues for brief interviews, and all four earned positive reviews.

The six members of the Middlebury board will choose the seventh member at their meeting this Tuesday from among a field of candidates: One Dollar Market owner Farhad Khan, former Selectmen Gary Baker and Travis Forbes, and Addison County Economic Development Corporation (ACEDC) finance director Jennifer Molineaux.

(See Middlebury, Page 16)

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Classic with a twist

THE FERRISBURGH CHILDREN’S Theater presented “The Snow White Variety Show” on the Vergennes Union High School stage last Friday and Saturday. The show put a twist on the classic story of Snow White. The Ferrisburgh Children’s Theater is an afterschool program for fifth- and sixth-graders from Ferrisburgh Central School. FCT is in its 17th year.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Addison Independent, Monday, March 27, 2017 — PAGE 3

Emergency declaration: VTrans to replace Midd bridges

By ANGELO LYNN MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Agency of Transportation was expected to announce an Emergency Declaration Monday morning, authorizing replacement of two deteriorating bridges in downtown Middlebury this June with temporary spans.

The temporary spans would replace the railway underpasses on Main Street and Merchants Row that cut through the heart of downtown.

Transportation Secretary Joe Flynn was to issue the Emergency Declaration saying the state was concerned about its ability to maintain the safety of the bridges for pedestrians, vehicles and the railroad during the next three years until the bridges’ scheduled replacement in 2020. A primary goal of replacing the bridges this summer, Flynn said, was to avoid an unplanned bridge closure that could potentially cause greater hardship to the community.

Middlebury officials have been the project will be completed and working with VTrans for the past four when the bridges would be replaced years on plans to replace the two de- (at the earliest in 2020), the state, teriorating downtown bridges, which with the town selectboard’s blessing, are nearing 100 years old. The final- agreed that installing the temporary ized plan, a proposed bridges was the best $52 million project, possible interim would replace the The temporary spans solution. The Emerexisting railway bed would replace the gency Declaration with new tracks after railway underpasses provides the legal lowering the bed by on Main Street and authority to demolabout two feet to ac- Merchants Row that ish the existing commodate a 21-foot bridges and install cut through the heart height requirement. temporary bridges The project includes of downtown. this June. two new pre-cast Wayne Symonds concrete bridges and tunnel cover- is scheduled to present the rationale ing the railway from Main Street to for the Emergency Declaration and Merchants Row, and a new drainage conceptual plans for the temporary system that would clear standing wa- bridges at Tuesday’s Middlebury seter off the tracks. The three-to-four- lectboard meeting starting at 6 p.m. year-long project is currently on hold at the Middlebury town offices at 77 pending an environmental assessment Main St. The selectboard will have by the Agency of Natural Resources. an opportunity to review, comment Because of the uncertainty of when on, and suggest improvements to the

plan.

Vermont Rail and VTrans will also be in Middlebury on Monday, March 27, to spray-foam the potential bat roosts observed under the two bridges in order to protect the bats by ensuring that they do not try to roost under the bridges in advance of demolition.

By law, any change in bat habitat must be done by April 1.

The target date to begin installation of the temporary bridges is mid-June.

The work is expected to be done sequentially, starting with the Main Street Bridge, and taking about three weeks to complete.

Addison County Transit Resources, the local public bus system, will need to vacate the Merchants Row hub in June. The organization has begun developing plans to relocate to South Pleasant Street.

Town officials said that stakeholder meetings will take place in April to ensure businesses and property own-

ers in the downtown area fully understand the plans for the temporary bridges and their impact.

Officials stressed late last month that the current bridges were not in danger of falling down, pointing out that some of the undergirding included the same type of steel rails that trains run on.

But a Jan. 30, 2016, VTrans inspection report on the Merchants Row bridge gave it a “poor” rating for its superstructure, a “serious” rating for its deck, and a “satisfactory” rating for its substructure. Inspectors appraised it as not meeting current federal standards for its railings, transitions and guardrail. The bridge met minimum “tolerable criteria” in its structural evaluation, according to the inspection.

Inspectors gave the Main Street rail bridge similar grades, though they gave it a structural evaluation of “Intolerable, replacement needed.”

Bristol woman faces third embezzlement charge in seven years

By MIKE DONOGHUE BRISTOL — A Bristol woman, who recently completed a 21-month federal prison sentence, is facing her third embezzlement case in seven years following a report of money disappearing from a local market, court records show.

Billie LaFlam, 44, of Mountain Road has been ordered by judges to make more than $100,000 in restitution in recent years.

LaFlam, previously known as Billie Preston, appeared in U.S. District Court in Burlington on Tuesday for a hearing on whether she should be sent back to prison for violating the federal supervised release terms imposed in her second fraud case.

Chief Federal Court Judge Christina Reiss agreed to a request by

BILLIE LAFLAM defense lawyer Karen Shingler that a final decision be postponed until there was a possible resolution

or dismissal on the newest felony embezzlement charge filed against LaFlam in Vermont Superior Court, criminal division, in Middlebury.

Bristol Police Officer Joshua Otey reported the owner of Almost Home Market on North Street called authorities after determining about $100 was missing on Dec. 16 and detected another $32 was missing Dec. 21.

Otey said he interviewed two employees and one was cleared. LaFlam became nervous during her interview and later made some admissions including that she “borrowed a little for gas,” Otey said in a court affidavit.

Otey wrote LaFlam also admitted she began taking the money from the store after losing a second job around Thanksgiving.

After the police interview, the mar-

ket’s owner reported that LaFlam subsequently paid $145 in restitution, Otey wrote.

LaFlam has pleaded not guilty in Superior Court to the felony embezzlement count, which carries a possible penalty of up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.

While the federal records refer to her as Billie Preston, the court was told that she has reverted back to LaFlam — her maiden name.

Shingler said she was told by Addison County Public Defender James

Gratton that he believes there are some possible defenses and he has until a hearing July 10 to try to determine the strategy for the Bristol embezzlement case.

Judge Reiss was surprised by the lengthy delay in the state case. She noted the police affidavit stated LaFlam had made admissions about her guilt and Judge Sam Hoar had found probable cause for the felony count.

Reiss agreed to continue LaFlam on release conditions imposed by (See LaFlam, Page 20)

Addison Independent preferred for town news MIDDLEBURY — At a March 21 meeting, the Middlebury selectboard reviewed town meeting poll results and feedback. Fifty-nine percent of 201 responders said they preferred to be informed on town news via “ newspaper,” followed by Front Porch Forum (38 percent) and town listserv (36 percent).

Forty-nine percent of respondents said they wanted to learn more about the upcoming rail bridges replacement project and proposed Ilsley Library expansion; next on the list was the town plan update at 36 percent.

According to the handout, “most were satisfied or had no response”

about town meeting in the Middlebury Union High School auditorium. But some criticized the length of the meeting and the difficulty of access to microphones for those not sitting near aisles; some of those residents suggested hand-held microphones or a return to a gym setting.

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A D D IS ON INDE P E NDEN T

Editorial

Playing chicken, Trump caves Congressional Republicans called Trump’s bluff Friday and guess who backed down? Trump did, with his tail between his legs. Trump had tried to make it a game of ‘chicken,’ carelessly threatening Republican opponents last Thursday that if they didn’t pass TrumpCare he would “come and get them,” but it was Trump who chickened out before the bill was voted down.

Last week and the week before, Trump had thrown his hefty weight into the campaign to pass the Republican-sponsored health care plan. Repealing ObamaCare had been a frequent campaign theme of Trump’s (and congressional Republicans for the past seven years), all of whom pledged that it would be their first order of business if given the chance.

That the Republican health care plan was pulled before a losing vote on Friday, at Trump’s request, was a major defeat for Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan. Now, Trump says, he’ll refocus efforts on pushing through tax cuts — something, he hopes, Republicans can get behind without splintering into opposing factions as they did on health care. But first, of course, Trump will try to pin the losing effort on others (Ryan, conservative Republicans, Democrats, Obama) — anyone but himself. For Trump, the buck never stops with him. ********** What we hope Trump is finding out about the presidency is that policy matters. The Republican majority in Congress didn’t hold together on TrumpCare because it was bad policy. And policy that hurts most Americans will be harder and harder to pass as the 2018 elections near. That’s bad news for Republicans as many of their biggest priorities hurt lower and middle-income Americans, while benefitting the rich. Even with a president who is willing to lie about all things, and a Republican party that is willing to sell snake oil to its supporters, facts do matter — especially when working class Americans find out they are about to get the shaft.

And make no mistake, revising or repealing ObamaCare will be an issue again before the next election. Only this time, Americans who believed Trump’s and Congressional Republicans’ rant that ObamaCare was terrible and their new plan would be fantastic, won’t be as gullible. During the next health care debate, Americans will be on the lookout for Republican changes that might mean millions of Americans would lose their insurance (contrary to what Trump claimed in his campaign). They’ll be ready to protest measures in which premiums would skyrocket for seniors. They be suspect of Republican claims to lower premiums, when they now know that the reason Republicans could promise lower premiums was only by gutting insurance plan benefits. Under the last proposed version of TrumpCare, for example, the plan dropped minimum requirements insurance companies had to cover, including: • ambulatory patient services • emergency services • hospitalization • maternity and newborn care • mental health and substance abuse, including behavior health treatment • prescription drugs • rehabilitative services and devices • laboratory services • preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management • pediatric services, including oral and vision care.

What would insurance cover under the proposed plan? Not much, and all the above “benefits” would be added expenses. In short, most any eighth-grader could do that math and tell you the Republican plan would raise insurance costs on seniors, drastically cut benefits for younger people’s plans and families, run up the national deficit for the first four to six years, all the while giving what analysts are now saying would have been almost $1 trillion in tax cuts to the super rich. It was a truly disastrous plan for seniors, working class Americans and anyone who made under $200,000 per year — which is all but the top few percent. It was not, as Trump claimed during his campaign, ‘the most amazing plan you will have ever seen; just wait.’ Americans did, and even Republicans considered it a disastrous flop. ********* But beyond this particular health care debate, the country may benefit because a big faction of Republicans said “no” to Trump and he backed down.

His fake shield of invincibility, which was always based on his bravado (not his intelligence), has been broken just 60 days into his presidency.

For the country’s sake, we hope Trump will learn from this mistake and understand that policy does matter; that what happens to people — real Americans — is more important than politics. Whether Trump and Republican leaders take that lesson to heart will determine how successful their forthcoming agenda will be.

Angelo Lynn

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GEESE STEP GINGERLY across a snowy field in Middlebury last Friday morning.

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Letters to the Editor ‘Thoughtful’ letter part of good dialogue; erred in part I appreciated the letter to the editor from LuAnn Chiola, in which she offered a thoughtful case for the student protesters who prevented author Charles Murray from speaking at a Middlebury College podium.

Obviously reasonable people differ on this issue.

However, Ms. Chiola does not accurately reflect what I wrote when she criticizes my defense of Murray’s right to articulate his sometimes abhorrent views. I did not write of the protesters that “their cause is not rooted in morals or ethics.”

I believe she also inaccurately asserts that I have “a complete lack of understanding of what it means to live in this country without the protections afforded by certain circles of privilege.”

It is true that I am inescapably white. But I applaud the efforts of students and others to highlight the dangers of unexamined white privilege. Whether the topic is the Black Lives Matter movement, the inexcusable targeting of migrant activists by ICE officials, or many of the other indignities inflicted upon minorities, I have often spoken out

against racism and in support of people of color.

Regarding the question of whether the Murray protesters’ actions were “politically stupid,” I thought Bill McKibben said it well in his commentary about the incidents. “Shouting someone down ‘reads’ badly to the larger public every single time,” he wrote (emphasis his). “And it is precisely the job of activists to figure out how things are going to read, lest they do real damage to important causes — damage, as in this case, that will inevitably fall mostly on (See Letter, Page 5)

‘Hope proceeds from action’

In the days immediately follow- Bible’s shortest verse was “Jesus ways to make our community better.

Bigotry, racial hatred, fear of othing the election last November, I wept.”) And famously, Jesus wept saw men in Middlebury, community over Jerusalem when he saw how ers must have no place in our comleaders, speaking through tears. Of people were abused both by the munity. Hope proceeds from action. course, there were women, too. Lat- Roman conquerors and the puppet If anyone thinks he/she can’t do anyer in the Women’s March on the day kings and the corrupt religious lead- thing, then I commend this thought after the inauguration, when at least ers among Jesus’ own people. Read from a wonderful writer, Rachel Matthew 23; Jesus’ Naomi Remen (http://onbeing.org/ 15,000 people went to words there about the programs/rachel-naomi-remen-lisMontpelier to speak out powerful in Jerusalem tening-generously/) who told about for justice and kindness apply very closely to an ancient tradition which says that and respect for all peowhat is happening in human beings are all fragments of ple, Greta Hardy-MitWashington, D.C. right light and that our task is to come tell, a junior at MidThis week’s writer together so that we can shine a light now. dlebury Union High is the Rev. George So, if those who bright enough to bring the whole School, spoke about the Klohck, a retired think, as I do, that we world out of darkness. She wrote, poem she had written United Methodist are so far off course “And I suspect (this story is) a key and then read “Don’t minister who lives in and in so much trou- for us in our present situation, a Tell Me I Can’t Cry.” Middlebury. ble in our own coun- very important key. I’m not a person A boy in Greta’s class try right now, don’t who is a political person in the usual had told her to get over it. This is some of what she wrote: we need to do everything we can to sense of that word, but I think that “Don’t tell me I can’t cry. Don’t tell work for positive change and find we all feel that we’re not enough to me I can’t have hope, I can’t matter, hope again? I attend a church where make a difference, that we need to be I can’t speak up. I can’t keep pound- we share and experience love and more somehow, either wealthier or ing at the ceilings and the walls be- joy. We open our doors and gather more educated or somehow or other cause sometimes we need to be an- to love each other and to welcome different than the people we are. And gry in order to fight. Sometimes we others so that we can create as much according to this story we are exactneed to cry in order to see clearly, joy as we are able. It comes with the ly what’s needed. And to just wonder and right now we all need 20/20 to care we give to each other and offer about that a little, what if we were exactly what’s needed? What then? see how the world fell apart and how to anyone who comes.

But, it also results from our find- How would I live if I was exactly we can rebuild it.” Don’t tell me I ing ways to give to our community. what’s needed to heal the world?” can’t cry.

I offer these thoughts to urge my The world seemed to have fallen We remember the commandment, apart and caused many people to “Love your neighbor as yourself.” fellow citizens not to give up or to cry, to give in to despair. How could Our members give themselves to give in. Instead find others with we put our government in charge of feeding the hungry, caring for the whom we can work to build the nasomeone who exhibited not a single homeless, and providing warm tion and world that we want. For me one of the qualities that I believe clothing and other things that our that begins with a religious commugood people admire? Conflict, vio- neighbors need. Not everyone does nity and building a faith that focuses lence, racial hatred, bigotry, misogy- all of these things, but nearly every- on caring for the earth and everyone ny, greed, fear-mongering seemed to one contributes in some way to make in it. It also means being in action in have gone wild and taken over. Ex- these things happen. This is putting some way, seeking justice and kindness for everyone. It often will mean cept that since then, millions of peo- our prayers to action.

Something that should give ev- volunteering. ple have gotten out into the streets to When we do these things, we find say, no, this is not who we are; this is eryone hope is the way the Middlebury community is coming together more meaning and purpose in living, not what our country is.

Money is not our god. We know to build mutual understanding and and we know we are not alone; we that Jesus never said, “Take care of form relationships between diverse find new friends. Many people are the rich, and then everybody will groups. Monthly meetings are be- suffering, scared, tired, angry, losing be O.K.” We remember that Jesus ing held at the Middlebury Congre- hope. Remember the question, “How did say, “Take care of the poorest gational Church giving everyone would I live if I was exactly what’s among you, welcome the stranger, opportunity to tell about their expe- needed to save the world?” Every and you will be blessed.” If I believe rience and their concerns. At each one of us has something to offer. We anything is absolutely true, I believe meeting the Congregational Church can’t do it alone, but let’s show what it is a grievous sin for anyone, any has been nearly filled. Christians, we can do when we move ahead togovernment, to allow a few people, Muslims, and Jews come together to gether. billionaires, to take most of this na- support each other and to reach for tion’s fortune for themselves and turn their backs on millions of people, children too, who live in poverty as though it is their fault.

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Letters to the Editor College diversity offers education Middlebury College alumnus Steven Nothern ’78 shared his perspectives on events surrounding the campus visit of Charles Murray (Addison Independent, March 20). Although I can easily find points of agreement with Mr. Nothern, I respectfully disagree in two important ways.

First, I do not believe that the College is “failing to educate”; rather, I believe that more education, for more students, has occurred in March 2017 than may have occurred in a similar month 40 years ago. Second, I do not accept that in making her opening remarks, President Laurie Patton “abdicated any sense of responsibility for the ugly behavior that followed”; rather, I believe that she was unambiguously committed in a very public way to respectful debate, discourse, and argument– whether before, during, or after Mr. Murray’s visit.

I joined the College community in 1973, perhaps a year before Mr. Nothern entered as a student. I experienced the intellectual life on campus during his college years. It may surprise younger folks and college students, though not Mr. Nothern, to know that we had wonderful, bright and engaged students in those years, just as the College has today.

But there is at least one important change: the student body today is far more diverse in its collective experiences and perspectives than it was in the mid-70s.

Education is a beneficiary of that diversity, and, yes, sometimes con-

flict and divisiveness result. In that sense, the College probably mirrors today’s American society. President Patton is making every effort to ensure that any conflict and divisiveness within the campus community bears educational fruit — and that this outcome eventually leads to healing.

In openly acknowledging that her perspectives differ in many ways from Mr. Murray’s views, President Patton forcefully made a fundamental point: even when we strongly differ with the views and values of a speaker, we must not prevent others in the community from hearing, reflecting on, and challenging those views.

For her to pretend neutrality about Mr. Murray’s positions would be less than honest since Mr. Murray’s writings, addresses, and interviews have been in the public domain for many decades. There are ample opportunities to form opinions on his positions.

For example, I just read Murray’s “Coming Apart”, and I have strong opinions, both pro and con, about his claims in this work and elsewhere.

As a recent retiree, I don’t have data about current views on campus.

Still, I’m willing to conjecture that, quite aside from their varied political views, a substantial majority would, like Mr. Nothern, come down on the side of free expression and open discourse. Certainly, students, faculty and staff strongly oppose violence.

John Emerson Middlebury

Letter (Continued from Page 4) people with fewer resources than Middlebury students.”

I’m glad Ms. Chiola offered her perspective on all this. I’m also heartened that in the wake of the

Murray incidents, she and I and many others are now engaged in a healthy and productive dialogue about where we go from here.

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Obituaries

Richard Rosane, 87, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Richard C. Rosane of Middlebury passed away on March 17, 2017. Born in 1929 in Brockton, Mass., and raised in Bridgewater, N.J., Richard was the son of Emy and Clarence Rosane.

Richard received both his undergraduate degree and his Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University. He served as a Marine artillery officer in Korea during the Korean War. Upon his return, he became a founding partner at the architectural firm of Drummey, Rosane and Anderson (DRA) of Wellesley, Mass., which designed innovative schools, municipal complexes and office buildings in New England and across the country.

Richard was predeceased by his wife of 57 years, Marjorie Bergen Rosane. Together they moved to Weybridge in 1977, and then Middlebury in 2000. They both became active members of the local community. Richard worked on local design projects, was an active member of the Weybridge Congregational Church, volunteered with the Weybridge Fire Department and served on the Weybridge Planning Commission. He was committed to the Hannaford Career Center of Middlebury and many additional local organizations.

Richard is survived by two sons, Robert Rosane of Burlington and John Rosen, his daughter-in-law Melissa, and grandchildren Shira, Kayla and Yonah of New Jersey.

RICHARD ROSANE He is also survived by a sister-inlaw, Jean Rosane, of Middlebury.

Contributions in Richard’s memory may be made to the Hannaford Career Center. A celebration of his life will be held this spring.◊

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Scott names Carroll to Supreme Court

By ELIZABETH HEWITT VTDigger.org MONTPELIER — Gov. Phil Scott on Thursday revealed his pick to be the next justice on Vermont’s top court.

Scott named Judge Karen Russell Carroll to fill the seat on the state Supreme Court that will be vacated by Justice John Dooley at the end of this month. Carroll will be appointed April 1.

Carroll has had a lengthy career in Vermont, as both a prosecutor and on the bench — including presiding over an unusual case in which a sharply divided state Supreme Court later overturned the conviction because of her conduct.

A Vermont native, Carroll has been a Superior Court judge since 2000, presiding over divisions in Windham, Windsor and Bennington counties since then.

She was the first presiding judge in Vermont’s only DUI Treatment Court, which is in Windsor County.

Before she joined the bench, she worked in the attorney general’s office and as a deputy state’s attorney.

In a statement, Scott said he takes the responsibility of appointing a new Supreme Court justice “very seriously.”

“Among a pool of very strong and capable candidates, Judge Carroll distinguished herself based on her depth of experience, character, integrity and – most importantly – understanding and application of the law,” Scott said.

At a news conference Thursday, Scott said “a lot of attributes” led him to select Carroll from a pool of eight candidates.

He said he did not weigh the fact that she was initially appointed a judge by Democratic Gov. Howard Dean, nor did he consider her politics.

“There was no litmus test as to whether you’re Republican or Democrat,” Scott said. “It was more about the talent and your competency.”

“I’m honored by Gov. Scott’s confidence in me, and I’m really looking forward to serving the state in this role,” Carroll said.

She said she had thought about being a judge since she was in law school and began practicing as an attorney. She later began thinking about joining the state’s high court once she was on the bench.

If, as expected, Carroll is confirmed by the Senate and

replaces Dooley, she will join Justices Marilyn Skoglund and Beth Robinson in forming a majority female Vermont Supreme Court. The two other members are Chief Justice Paul Reiber and Justice Harold Eaton Jr. Scott named his pick to the court several months after a Vermont Supreme Court case confirmed it was his responsibility to select Dooley’s successor.

Dooley in September announced his intention to retire when his current term expires at the end of March. Then-Gov. Peter Shumlin,

“Among a pool of very strong and capable candidates, Judge Carroll distinguished herself based on her depth of experience, character, integrity and – most importantly – understanding and application of the law.”

— Vt. Gov. Phil Scott

a Democrat, began the process of selecting Dooley’s replacement but was blocked by a challenge brought by House and Senate Republican leaders.

The high court in 2010 weighed a matter involving Carroll when a criminal case in Windham County she presided over was appealed over questions about her role.

According to court documents, a 2008 trial case was delayed due to the defendant’s health. When his health appeared poised to further delay proceedings the next day, there was some thought that he may have been malingering.

Questions arose over Carroll’s decision to reach out to a pharmacist and to guards involved in the transportation of the defendant for information.

The trial proceeded, and the defendant, Randall J. Gokey, was convicted. The decision was

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appealed to the high court, questioning Carroll’s involvement in determining whether Gokey was well enough to stand trial.

Three of the five justices determined that Carroll violated rules of evidence “with significant detriment to the court’s appearance of impartiality.”

“It is entirely possible that defendant was malingering to delay his ultimate conviction, but that does not give a judge the license to reach beyond the proceedings to try to prove her suspicions,” the majority stated in its decision granting Gokey a new trial.

However, the case elicited a vigorous dissent from two members of the court — Chief Justice Paul Reiber and Brian Burgess. They wrote that the majority’s decision “shoehorns” Carroll’s actions into a rule violation.

“In my view, any errors that occurred here were harmless beyond a reasonable doubt,” Reiber wrote.

Defender General Matt Valerio, who appealed the lower court decision to the Supreme Court, said the issues raised in the case are “a little unusual.” However, he said, he sees the case as just one small part of Carroll’s broader record.

Everyone can have “a bad day,” he said. “I think Gokey was a bad day for her.”

Valerio said Carroll is a “very pragmatic” and “common-sense” judge.

“I don’t see Gokey as something that’s going to disqualify her from being a good justice,” Valerio said.

Asked about the case, Carroll said she respects the justices’ decision.

“It’s a learning experience,” Carroll said. “In the midst of a really important and heated trial we have to make decisions extremely quickly without a lot of time to be able to research things.”

“Sometimes we make the right decisions and sometimes we don’t,” she said.

Jaye Pershing Johnson, Scott’s legal counsel, was familiar with the case. She said it is common for trial court judges’ decisions to be appealed, and she pointed out that the decision split the court.

Johnson said Carroll’s ethics record was strong and there were no complaints to the Judicial Conduct Board about her.

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WhistlePig releases whiskey with local rye

By JOHN FLOWERS SHOREHAM — Raj Bhakta is surrounded by whiskey, so it’s no stretch for him to make a toast.

And the ubiquitous founder of Shoreham-based WhistlePig Rye Whiskey believes he has much to celebrate right now, with the release March 15 of the company’s first installment of whiskey using natural resources culled from the 400-acre farm off Quiet Valley Road.

Bhakta also announced the litigation that once threatened his position within the company he founded almost a decade ago has come to an end.

“This is the realization of a dream,” Bhakta said last week of the release of FarmStock, a product featuring whiskey distilled, aged and bottled on the WhistlePig farm in Vermont.

“It’s a historic moment for the company, and I think for whiskey in general.”

They’re calling FarmStock a “triple terroir release,” which defines the combination of the three primary resources that go into the product, according to Bhakta: Grain, water, and oak — all harvested on site.

“Full vertical integration,” Bhakta said.

Around 20 percent of FarmStock is made up of this first-ever batch of WhistlePig’s on-site-produced whiskey. Another 49 percent comes from 5-year aged whiskey from Alberta Distillers, finished in WhistlePig’s Vermont oak. The remaining 31 percent is made up of 12-year aged whiskey from the MPG distillery in Lawrenceburg, Ind. “This whiskey combines the best elements of our aged portfolio with the brightness and youthful vigor of our triple terroir whiskey,” Bhakta said.

“It’s like combining the wisdom of a 70-year-old with the youth and

dynamism of a 20-year old,” added Bhakta, no stranger to showmanship.

“It’s the best of both worlds.”

Officials were particularly concerned about how the barrels — made of oak harvested from the farm property — would affect the flavor of the whiskey as it ages.

“We started the Vermont oak project as a test, and it has been an extraordinary success,” he said.

“There’s more flavor in northern oak.”

WhistlePig has developed a devoted following for the whiskey that it has thus far obtained from Canada.

Company officials have therefore had their fingers crossed hoping the raw ingredients culled from the Shoreham property would yield a whiskey that could live up to the brand.

Mission accomplished, according to Bhakta.

“It’s better than hoped for,” Bhakta said. “The whiskey coming from the still here is creamier, richer in flavor, while still being vibrant. It’s got a great combination of character and smoothness that is characteristic of all WhistlePig (varieties), but especially true in the FarmStock.”

The product is 86 proof and has a suggested retail price of $89.99.

WhistlePig’s plan, according to Bhakta, is to gradually increase the amount of its on-site-produced whiskey.

“We will continue, for the next several years, to add some of our older whiskey in, but basically, FarmStock will be the beginning of a journey of an increasing proportion in both percentage and in the age of the whiskey that comes from the farm.”

Demand for FarmStock’s limited first release of approximately 200 barrels has been strong, according to Bhakta.

“We have three times as many orders as we have product to ship, as of

now,” he said. “It’s a good problem to have.”

Bhakta expects more abundant FarmStock reserves during the years to come. And more whiskey could eventually drive a need for more storage space for aging. Bhakta acknowledged WhistlePig has inquired about the availability of space within the former 116,000-square-foot headquarters of Connor Homes.

“It’s something we have thought of, but it’s not a high priority,” Bhakta said.

It was in 2007 that Bhakta moved to Shoreham and bought the former Norris dairy farm. He lined up investors to help him pursue the goal of creating the first farm-to-bottle distillery in the country.

It hasn’t been easy.

Producing whiskey takes time, capital and permits.

WhistlePig’s Act 250 application for its distillery and storage facility drew opposition from several neighbors who were concerned about traffic and the prospect that the company’s whiskey aging process producing ethanol emissions in sufficient volume to spawn the growth and spread of Baudoinia Compniacensis, sometimes referred to as “black mold.”

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RAJ BHAKTA Act 250 permit in 2014.

Last year, Bhakta became embroiled in a legal dispute with WhistlePig’s board of directors. Two board members had sought to remove him from the board and from his administrative post within the company, citing alleged offenses ranging from fraud to a 2015 stop by police in Shoreham for driving under the influence (for which he pled to a reduced charge of negligent operation).

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Community bingo fundraiser in Orwell.

Friday, March 31, 6:30-9 p.m., Orwell Town Hall. The Orwell Village School eighth-grade community bingo fundraiser will feature lots of great prizes, 50-50 raffle, special raffles and snack food available. This fun annual event is a fundraiser for the OVS eighthgrade end of the year class trip.

Chocolate and Chanting in Middlebury.

Friday, March 31, 6:30 p.m., Havurah of Addison County, 56 N. Pleasant St. Come for a very special Kabbalat Shabbat led by Rabbi Jan Salzman, Rabbi David Edleson and Dr. Rebecca Gould. This is an opportunity to try out a different sort of Shabbat, when the singing will be ”kirtan-style,” meaning “call and response” with drums, harmonium, and other instruments to help us let down our hair and lift up our spirits. Bring some (nut-free) chocolate to share, any percussive instruments you might have and your bodies ready to move. Email dedleson@gmail.com with questions.

“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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ZIG ZAG LIT Mag will have a release party for their second issue on Tuesday, March 28, 6 p.m. at the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. There will be readings and performances by local contributors as well as coffee and dougnuts. Free to the public.

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Legislative Breakfast in Salisbury. Monday, March 27, 7 a.m., Salisbury Congregational Church.

The legislative breakfast will be held in the church basement, which is handicap accessible through the side door. Everyone is welcome to come meet the representatives and discuss issues of concern during this session.

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Estate planning basics presentation in Middlebury. Tuesday, March 28, 3 p.m., Eastview at Middlebury, Community Room. Kathy Boe will present an “Estate Planning Basics” presentation. Open to all.

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 dougnuts. Free to the public.

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.

Milk and Honey Quilters Guild demonstration in Middlebury. Tuesday, March 28, 7-9 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Road. The Milk and Honey Quilters’ Guild is hosting a demonstration by Maria Ammatuna, owner of Creative Fiber Designs in Brandon, titled “When Modern Meets Traditional.” Anyone interested in learning more about quilting is invited. Guest fee is $5.

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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.

Burlington Taiko Group student performance in Ripton. Wednesday, March 29, 6 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,” with a student drumming performance Friday evening. Free and open to the public.

“Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age” showing in Vergennes. Wednesday, March 29, 7 p.m., VUHS auditorium. This awardwinning 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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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.

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

SATURDAY

Friends of Middlebury Baseball Seventh Annual Pancake Breakfast in Cornwall. Saturday, April 1, 8 a.m.-noon, Bread Loaf View Farm, 564 Cider Mill Road. The menu will be pancakes with fresh maple syrup, maple cream and maple sugar, sausage, donuts, chocolate milk and white milk. Adult plate $8; child plate $4. Proudly supported by local donors.

VFW annual spring fling in Middlebury.

Saturday, April 1, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., VFW Post 7823, Exchange Street. VFW annual spring fling with crafts, flea market, food tables and over 25 vendors. Lunch will be served.

Used book sale in Middlebury. Saturday, April 1, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Ilsley Public Library.

Over 300 excellent books about Vermont or by Vermont authors will be featured at a used book sale sponsored by Friends of Ilsley Public Library. Accessible by elevator or stairs, the sale features books in many categories at bargain prices. All sales benefit library programs.

Country and gospel benefit concert in Bristol. Saturday, April 1, 5:30 p.m., First

THURSDAY

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.

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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AWARD-WINNING DOCUMENTARY “Screenagers: Growing Up in the Digital Age” — about the impact of the digital age on children and how to help families minimize harmful effects and find balance — will be shown at the Vergennes Union High School auditorium on Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m.

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communitycalendar Pop-Up Play participants are a handy mix of newcomers and old pros. Tickets are $12 and available at www.townhalltheater.org, calling 382-9222 or in person at THT box office Monday to Saturday, noon-5 p.m.

Midd Jazz

THE MIDDLEBURY UNION High School Jazz Ensemble, known as “Midd Jazz” will perform a noonday recital at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church on Thursday, March 30, 12:1512:45 p.m., with Anne Severy, director.

Bring a lunch.

Baptist Church of Bristol. The menu will include shepherd’s pie, brownies a la mode and more. $10 for adults, $5 for children 6-12, and children under age 5 are free.

Music by “Old Bones” will begin at 6:30 p.m.

All proceeds will make emergency surgeries and necessary food and supplies available for over 115 vulnerable Ugandan children through the work of Village2Village Project, a charity born in Bristol and founded by Laurie Kroll.

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.

Piano and cello concert in Brandon.

Saturday, April 1, Brandon Music Café, 7:30 p.m. Pianist Diana Fanning and cellist Dieuwke Davydov will perform a concert at Brandon Music Café, 62 Country Club Road.

For more information visit www.brandonmusic.net.

Pop-Up Plays in Middlebury. Saturday, April 1, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. This year’s

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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.

Free community meal in Vergennes.

Sunday, April 2, 5-6:30 p.m., S t . Peter’s Parish, 85 South Maple St. The menu will be lasagna, both meat and veggie, tossed salad, dessert and beverages.

Jayme Stone’s Folklife Project in Bristol. Sunday, April 2, 7 p.m., WalkOver Concert Room. Jayme Stone’s Folklife Project, which is a continuation of work with the Lomax Collection and Project, will be appearing in concert at the WalkOver Concert Room.

The ensemble features Moira Smiley, a nationally known singer, composer and musician, who originally hails from New Haven, Vt. Tickets are $20/advance and $25/day of.

Reservations and information at walkover@ mac.com or (802) 453-3188 x 2.

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“I, Claude Monet” screening in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 4, 11 a.m., Town Hall Theater. Based on over 2,500 letters and narrated by Henry Goodman, “I, Claude Monet” reveals new insight into the man who not only painted the picture that gave birth to impressionism but who was perhaps the most influential and successful painter of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Tickets $10/$5 students may be purchased at www.townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222 at THT box office or at the door Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m.

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.

Jobs for Independence (JFI) presentation in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 4, 4:30-5:30 p.m., Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Road.

Would you like help working on your life challenges and receive support for getting a job? Do you have 3SquaresVT or want to apply? JFI might be for you. If you are homeless or facing housing instability, have a past criminal conviction, or are facing or recovering

from substance abuse or mental health issues come find out how Jobs for Independence could help. Presentation by CVOEO staff with Q&A following. For additional information or questions call Jeanette 388-2285.

Natural health care discussion in Middlebury.

Tuesday, April 4, 5-6 p.m., Ilsley Public Library.

Stress, Anxiety, Fatigue, and Insomnia: Learn why so many of us deal with these symptoms and become more informed about how lifestyle, diet and natural medicine interventions can help. An energetic and inspiring discussion with local doctor, Matthew Perchemlides.

Lecture on the Rise of the Third Reich in Vergennes. Tuesday, April 4, 7-8 p.m., Bixby Memorial Free Library. Join local author Jack Mayer as he discusses his most recent novel, “Before the Court of Heaven” and how it explores the origins of the Third Reich. Free and open to the public. Brought to you by The Vermont Humanities Council.

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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AARP Fraud Watch Network presentation in Middlebury.

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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THURSDAY

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.

“Arcadia” production in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 6, 7:30 p.m., Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College. This play by Tom Stoppard is a compelling blend of science, mathematics, literature and landscape architecture; the magnetic force connecting them is sex, “the attraction that Newton left out.”

Featuring Associate Professor of Theatre Alex Draper ’88; directed by Cheryl Faraone.

Tickets: $12/10/6; on sale March 20.

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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 802-7673763 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 at 453-2488.

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.

British Pianist Paul Lewis performs in Middlebury. Friday, April 7, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. British pianist Paul Lewis will perform a classical concert of works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Weber. Concertgoers are invited to gather in the Mahaney Center for the Arts lobby for a seasonal pre-performance dinner at 6:30 p.m. The catered buffet is seated family style.

Dinner tickets $30. Cash bar. Concert tickets $25/20/6. Info: www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

“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.

“Arcadia” production in Middlebury. Friday, April 7, 7:30 p.m., Wright Memorial Theatre, Middlebury College. This play by Tom Stoppard is a compelling blend of science, mathematics, literature and landscape architecture; the magnetic force connecting them is sex, “the attraction that Newton left out.”

Featuring Associate Professor of Theatre Alex Draper ’88; directed by Cheryl Faraone.

Tickets: $12/10/6; on sale March 20.

LIVEMUSIC 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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Playwrights work all night to create ‘Pop-Up Plays’ Town Hall Theater’s Pop-Up Plays return for the fourth year with a selection of brand-new plays at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday.

The process of creating Pop-Up Plays is simple: six playwrights stay up all night writing a ten 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.

The next morning, 16 local actors and six daring directors are given the hot-off-the-press scripts 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.

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.

In addition, each play must include a line, voted on by the public. In honor of April Fool’s Day, each line is the punch line to a joke.

An exhibition of Farrier’s collection is currently on display in Town Hall Theater’s Jackson Gallery, with an artist’s reception taking place from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday, the night before Pop-Up Plays.

Tickets are $12 and may be purchased at townhalltheater.org, by calling 382-9222 or in person at the THT box office Monday-Saturday,

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THE WELTERWEIGHTS The Ripton Community Coffee House, a nonprofit community concert series, welcomes the duo The Welterweights on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Ripton Community House in Ripton.

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Sharing a love for the music of generations past, the trio’s sound echoes that of Irish-American 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.

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Fanning-Davydov Duo At Brandon Music

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DAVYDOV-FANNING Pianist Diana Fanning and cellist Dieuwke Davydov formed a strong musical connection 40 years ago that developed into an international duo that, as the Times-Argus’ Jim Lowe says, is “one of Vermont’s state treasures.” The duo celebrates this milestone with an international tour, including a stop at Brandon Music on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.

Their program includes Beethoven’s Cello Sonata in G Minor; Hindemith’s Phantasiestück; Saint-Saëns’ Allegro Appassionato; Vermont composer Kathy Wonson Eddy’s Peace on Earth: A thrush singing; and Brahms’ Cello Sonata in E Minor. Fanning will also perform solo pieces by Debussy and Chopin.

Fanning and Davydov have been acclaimed for their virtuosic brilliance, musical insight, and remarkable rapport as a duo. The Haarlems Dagblad in Holland said “The Duo offered instrumental virtuosity, noble lyricism and dancing rhythm. Both musicians played with flair, emotional power and total understanding.”

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THE WORLD ACCORDING TO SOUND Something’s sounding strange… and eerie, and beautiful and surprising at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on Friday at 7:30 p.m.

NPR’s The World According to Sound, a series of radio shows which air during All Things Considered, is taking their show on the road.

Radio producers Chris Hoff and Sam Harnett have gathered sounds from all over the world for their show on NPR. For the live show at Town Hall Theater they will set up a ring of speakers, hand out sleep shades, turn off the lights, and surround you with sound. Listeners will hear bridges and ants and the gurgle of mud pots.

They’ll be transported inside another person’s head and back in time a hundred years to the streets of Berlin.

There will be a musical performance by a washing machine, a sonorous (See Beat, Page 13)

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ARIES: March 21-April 20 Aries, if you have been working too much, you have to find time to relax or you will not be able to grow. Your brain and body need recharging to work at their optimal levels.

TAURUS: April 21May 21 Taurus, be sure to follow through on any promises you made to others and yourself. Set aside some extra time to address each of these commitments.

GEMINI: May 22June 21 Gemini, work on honing your flirting skills.

Whether you are attached or looking for new romance, think about the subtleties that will draw others close to you.

CANCER: June 22-July 22 Cancer, prioritizing goals and maintaining some flexibility are the keys to managing what life has in store for you this week. With the right mindset, you can handle a busy week.

LEO: July 23-August 23 Leo, there is a time for buckling down and a time for having fun, and this is a great week to let loose. Plan an excursion with friends or go on a solo holiday for pure enjoyment.

VIRGO: August 24-September 22 Do not underestimate other people, Virgo. There may be more to them than meets the eye, and you don’t want to be at a disadvantage in a relationship. Learn all the facts first.

LIBRA: September 23-October 23 Be mindful of what you say and with whom you chat for a little while, Libra. While it’s good to be friendly, you may be sharing too much personal information right now.

SCORPIO: October 24-November 22 Stop focusing on what you could have done

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It’s better to focus on the future.

S A G I T TA R I U S : November 23-December 21 Sagittarius, share more details of an important situation with others. They will need more than just bits and pieces as they try to help you figure out your next move.

CAPRICORN: December 22-January 20 Capricorn, although life has been a bit hectic lately, you have managed to hold things together quite well. Others may even remark on how calm you have been.

A Q U A R I U S : January 21-February 18 Aquarius, exercise caution, but try to avoid being overly suspicious of others who are trying to help. Let some things go and you’ll be happier for it.

PISCES: February 19-March 20 There’s no need to rush a special project, Pisces. You have more than enough time to get it all done. Plan out your steps and dig in.

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The Welterweights At Ripton Coffee House

Beat (Continued from Page 11) tennis match and the disturbing howl Marco Polo heard centuries ago while crossing the Gobi Desert.

For one hour audience members will be surrounded by sound in a way that encourages them to rethink the world through their ears.

Tickets are $15 and may be purchased at townhalltheater.org, by phone at 382-9222 or in person at the THT box office (daily except Sunday, noon to 5 pm).

FOLKLIFE PROJECT Jayme Stone’s Folklife Project, a continuation of work with the Lomax Collection and Project, will be appearing in concert at the WalkOver Concert Room on Sunday at 7 p.m.

The ensemble features nationally known singer, composer and musician Moira Smiley, who originally hails from New Haven, Vermont, on voice and accordion; Jayme Stone on banjo and voice; Sumaia Jackson on fiddle and voice; and Joe Philips on standup bass and voice.

This latest national tour of the group continues the Lomax evolution with sea island spirituals, Creole

There’s Still Time If You Order Now! calypsos and Appalachian dance tunes. With spellbinding singing, virtuosic playing and captivating storytelling, their concerts are moving, inventive and participatory experiences.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 the day of the performance.

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TWO BROTHERS TAVERN There will be two live performances this week at Two Brothers Tavern located at 86 Main Street in Middlebury. Join Two Brothers every Wednesday at 9 p.m. for The Open Mic, an evening of music, comedy or anything else. Alternately hosted by Mark Sikora and Kai Stanley, come cheer on your friends or let loose on the stage. It’s free to enter and there is no cover charge.

Then, on Friday, the tavern presents Folks Up In Treetops at 9 p.m. This Burlington-based band emerged in December 2012 with the mission of bringing the music of The Grateful Dead to the music fans of Chittenden County. There is a $3 cover charge. For more information, call Two Brothers at 388-0002.

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In celebration, the editing board has invited the public to attend a release party as a chance to build relationships between local writers

and artists. Zig Zag was founded to support these artists, and encourages their readers to do so as well, with their motto: Read Local. Write Local.

The magazine will be free for all to read online at zigzaglitmag. org and there will also be a limited supply of print copies for sale for $5 each at the Bixby Memorial Library

in Vergennes, Recycled Reading in Bristol and the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. The event, free to the public, will be held at the Vermont Book Shop on Tuesday, March 28, at 6 p.m. The evening will consist of several readings and performances by the local contributors of the issue.

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Addison Independent, Monday, March 27, 2017 — PAGE 15

Author leads workshop for aspiring memoirists

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SENIOR SAXOPHONIST MAX Ratti-Bicknell takes a solo in front of the Commodore Jazz Ensemble during the Black and White Cabaret at Vergennes Union High School earlier this month. The cabaret raised funds for the VUHS band and chorus trip to Philadelphia next month.

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Film aims to help parents, kids communicate VERGENNES — The public — particularly parents — is invited to see a screening of “Screenagers — Growing Up in the Digital Age, next Wednesday at Vergennes Union High School.

This award-winning documentary probes the vulnerable corners of family life, including the director’s, and depicts messy struggles over social media, video games, academics and Internet addiction. “Screenagers” is about the impact of the dig-

ital age on children and how to help families minimize harmful effects and find balance. Through surprising insights from authors and brain scientists, solutions emerge on how we can empower kids to best navigate the digital world. After seeing the film, people have said that they feel more confident and better equipped to establish balance around screen time.

Everyone (students, parents, and community members) is welcome to

come on Wednesday, March 29, at 7 p.m. for the screening in the VUHS auditorium; the event is sponsored by the Commodore Parent Teacher Group. The film is a little longer than an hour and there will be a short optional discussion afterwards. Students in grades 7-12 will view and discuss the documentary prior to the 29th. The parents group hopes this allows parents and students to talk with each other about the challenges of the digital age.

VERGENNES — Bixby Library’s Writers Program will offer a free, eight-week workshop on writing memoirs. Kris Johannesson, who earned a Master’s in Fine Arts from Goddard College, will lead the workshop, which is titled “Memoir Writing 101.”

The class starts next Thursday, April 6, and will run Thursdays, 6-8 p.m., in the Otter Creek Room at the Bixby Memorial Free Library in Vergennes.

“Memoir Writing 101” will focus on all the components of writing a memoir, from developing storytelling skills to learning essential tips and techniques that adapt your life stories into a compelling memoir.

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Middlebury (Continued from Page 1) The vacancy was created when Selectwoman Donna Donahue resigned earlier this month.

Selectman Victor Nuovo joined other board members thanking the four seeking the seat for running, praising their presentations and qualifications, and urging them to run again or serve the town in some other capacity if they were not appointed this week.

“I’m very impressed with all four of you,” Nuovo said. “It’s nice to know you have to make a choice and can’t go wrong.”

The selectboard at its regular meeting last week asked each candidate to make a brief opening statement and then answer questions.

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JENNIFER MOLINEAUX of the Addison County courts and a producer of the Middlebury Community Television show “Middlebury Five-O,” which stars her husband, Middlebury police Officer Chris Mason — cited her experience as a bookkeeper and as an advisor with the ACEDC. At the development corporation, Molineaux said she often tells new

and prospective business owners they must establish a budget and work within it, asking the question, “What can you do with the resources you have?”

That background would help her do the same in the public sector, she said, where Middlebury, like all towns, must also operate within financial constraints.

“I’d love to do that for the town,” Molineaux said.

Selectwoman Susan Shashok asked all the candidates if they would volunteer to serve the town even if they weren’t the selectboard’s choice to fill the vacancy.

Molineaux said she would like to continue at MCTV, but also look for other opportunities.

“I would apply myself as necessary,” she said.

Molineaux also spoke at length about the long-term benefits of passenger rail service coming to Middlebury, something she foresaw as creating a new tourism market for the town and also opening up possibilities for more telecommuters to work in Middlebury.

Asked about what committee assignments she might prefer if appointed, Molineaux answered,

GARY BAKER “Send me where you want.”

GARY BAKER Baker, a longtime local insurance agent, offers the most related civic experience. He served on the New Haven Planning Commission from 1975 to 2003, much of that time as its chairman, and also served as New Haven’s delegate to the Addison County Regional Planning

Commission for three years.

Baker joined the Middlebury Planning Commission in 2003 and served there until 2007, when he joined the Middlebury Development Review Board for a five-year stint.

In 2012, Baker ran unopposed for a one-year term on the selectboard before winning a three-year term on the board in 2013. However, he lost his 2016 race for another term in a crowded field.

Baker cited his business background as a plus and emphasized his years of experience and working relationships with selectboard members.

“I’ve served the towns I’ve lived in since 1975,” Baker said, citing an “easy transition” if he were to return to the board.

Baker is already serving on a committee that has nearly completed an update of Middlebury’s policies and procedures, and said he would like to stay on the panel regardless of the board’s decision on his return as a selectman.

“It’s tedious,” he joked, “but we’re getting there.”

TRAVIS FORBES Forbes was elected to the (See Selectboard, Page 17)

Addison Independent, Monday, March 27, 2017 — PAGE 17

Food safety course set March 30 BURLINGTON — A twohour class will be offered at two locations to provide food processors with an update on regulatory compliance for food facilities under the requirements of the Food Safety Modernization Act. University of Vermont (UVM) Extension, in collaboration with the Vermont Small Business Development Center, will offer the class on March 30 from 1 to 3 p.m. at Community College of Vermont, 145 Billings Farm Rd., White River Junction, and April 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. at Vermont Technical Center, 201 Lawrence Place, Williston.

Presenters are Dr. Omar A. Oyarzabal, UVM Extension food safety specialist, and Elisabeth Wirsing, the Vermont Department of Health food and lodging program chief. There will be a question and answer session at the conclusion of the class.

Registration is $15 and includes refreshments.

To register, go to w w w. r e g o n l i n e . c o m / FoodFacilitiesRequirements.

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To request a disability-related accommodation to participate in this program, contact Omar Oyarzabal at (802) 524-6501, ext. 452.

Selectboard (Continued from Page 16) selectboard in 2010 as a write-in candidate and was re-elected in 2013; he served on the town’s public works subcommittee. He is currently taking over the family business, Case Street Redi-Mix Inc. Forbes won re-election in 2013, but resigned from the board in July of 2014, citing personal and professional time commitments and frustration over what he said was his inability to effect operations at the Middlebury Department of Public Works.

In his letter of interest for the open position Forbes cited as reasons for his resignation family problems and the tragic on-the-job death of an employee.

Case Street Redi-Mix in the past has been involved with disputes with the town regarding sidewalk contracts.

However, Forbes said in his letter those issues are behind him, and selectboard members last week praised his knowledge of the construction business as valuable and said they had a good working relationship with him.

Forbes last week touched on the past, and said his experience would be put to good use if he returned.

“I’ve got a little history with the town, some good and some not so good,” Forbes said. “But I’m looking forward to getting back to it.”

Forbes said he would again like to work on the Public Works Committee if appointed to the selectboard, and whether he was selected or not he believed his background in the trades could help the town on its rail bridges replacement committee.

“I live in the truck all summer,” Forbes said.

TRAVIS FORBES

FARHAD KHAN

FARHAD KHAN As Khan sat down before the board to speak last week, Selectboard Chairman Brian Carpenter noted the half-dozen letters written to the board on Khan’s behalf.

“I’m impressed with the number of letters of support,” Carpenter said.

Khan and his wife have three children attending Middlebury public schools, and he has lived in Vermont for 26 years and in Middlebury for 21.

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He acknowledged he was not the most experienced candidate on municipal issues.

“I am a fast learner, and I am very dedicated,” Kahn said. “I would be honored to serve in anything you offer me.”

Asked about Middlebury’s retail sector, especially given its issues since the loss of Ames Department Store as a magnet for out-of-town shoppers, Khan said the town should try to do its best to find a similar replacement, including possibly offering incentives.

“We have to have something that is an anchor to Middlebury,” he said.

Khan has volunteered his time to two major causes: He is the past twoterm president of the Islamic Society of Vermont, and was vice president of Kids 4 Peace Vermont, an interfaith organization that brings Muslim and Israeli children together to a Vermont camp. Khan said he would like to continue serving the community.

“Now that I’m done with those things I have nothing to do,” Kahn said.

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SPORTS MONDAY

MIDDLEBURY RESIDENT NICK Wilkerson represented the Vermont team in the recent Eastern High School Championships. The Green Mountain team crushed the competition.

Photo credit: Gary Solow

Local Nordic skiers excel at Eastern meet

ADDISON COUNTY RACERS at the Eastern High School Championships in Chittenden were, from left, Tom Hussey, Cade Christner, Harlow Punderson, Ursula Volz, Sam Hodges and Malia Hodges. Missing from the photo was Middlebury resident Nick Wilkerson, who attends the Green Mountain Valley School.

Photo courtesy of Barney Hodges

CHITTENDEN — Seven area skiers qualified for the culminating Nordic ski event, the Eastern High School Championships, which took place March 17-19 at Mountain Top Inn & Resort in Chittenden.

The event features the top 24 boys and girls high school Nordic athletes grades 9-12 from the states of Vermont, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and New York totaling over 115 boys and 115 girls at the competition.

Ursula Volz and Malia Hodges qualified from the MUHS Girls Nordic Team; Sam Hodges, Tom Hussey, Cade Christner and Harlow Punderson from the MUHS

boys Nordic Team. Middlebury resident Nick Wilkerson qualified as a member of Green Mountain Valley School Nordic Team.

Unfortunately, Malia Hodges had to withdraw from the event due to a concussion sustained while training prior to the event. The 9th grade skier will look forward to more successful seasons ahead.

The weekend included a jampacked schedule where the boys and girls competed in four races over three days. Friday featured a 5-km freestyle race where Volz, an MUHS senior, finished 16th. In the boys’ race Wilkerson and Sam Hodges lead the local field in 12th

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Otter Valley player to represent Vt. in annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl

COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 3/28 Midd. vs. RIT at Syracuse......7:30 p.m.

4/1 Midd. at Amherst............................. Noon Women’s Lacrosse 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 3/28 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 3/27 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.

LEBANON, N.H. — Otter Valley Union High School running back and linebacker Brent Nickerson was the only local player named last week to the Vermont senior football team that will take on New Hampshire this summer in the 64th Annual Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl.

Players from 18 schools around Vermont were selected for the Vermont squad, but no members of the Middlebury or Mount Abraham/ Vergennes collective teams were chosen.

Players were nominated by their head coaches. Screening committees, chaired by the Shrine head coaches, made the final selections.

Bellows Falls Coach Bob Lockerby will lead a Vermont squad that will be trying for a second straight

and 14th, respectively. Hussey was 29th, Punderson was 51st and Christner finished 69th.

The Saturday race ramped up early with a 7.5-km mass start race that was filled with action under perfect blue skies. In the boys’ race, Wilkerson finish a strong 4th place followed by Hodges (10th), Hussey (28th), Christner (61st) and Punderson (77th) Volz finished the girls’ race in similar fashion as her freestyle race on Friday in 18th place.

Saturday afternoon the action continued with a wave start 1.2-km sprint freestyle race. Volz ground out another strong result in 21st,

win after snapping a lengthy losing skid a year ago.

Trinity High School coach Rob Cathcart will head the New Hampshire team.

The two teams met with their coaches in early March to review game plans. Formal practice will begin on Sunday, July 30, for both teams at Castleton University.

The Shrine Bowl is played for the benefit of the Shriners’ Hospitals for Crippled and Burned Children and in its first 63 years has raised nearly $5 million. The game is one of 30 such games played annually across the country. Two Vermont Shrine Centers, Cairo (Rutland) and Mt. Sinai (Montpelier), sponsor the Vermont-New Hampshire contest.

while Wilkerson and Hussey led the local boys contingent with 19th and 23rd places, respectively, immediately followed by Hodges in 24th. Punderson ended up 51st and Christner 59th to round out the boys sprint.

The final race of the weekend was a 4x2-km mixed relay that had all local skiers competing on different teams. Massachusetts squeaked the overall relay win but Vermont took the next 4 spots from the rest of the New England field.

For the weekend Vermont skiers came away as Eastern High School Champions amassing 16,283 total points — more than 3,000 points

ahead of second-place team Massachusetts, which posted 12,903 points.

“For Middlebury Nordic skiers this completes a hugely successful season where both girls’ and boys’ MUHS teams were crowned Division II sate champions,” MUHS cocoach Barney Hodges said. “The young team is excited about the year and looks forward to defending their titles.”

For the boys this year’s championship was repeat performance of 2015. Hussey, Hodges and Christner are all juniors this year and expect to return with hopes of a threepeet in 2018.

Middlebury speedskater caps her winter season LAKE PLACID, N.Y. — Middlebury Union High School sophomore Lacey Greenamyre recently finished speedskating for the winter. Here are some highlights from the last few weeks of her season.

On Feb. 11 and 12 Greenamyre placed 4th at U.S. Speedskating Long track Speedskating Age Group Nationals in Lake Placid, N.Y. On the 400-meter outdoor Oval there, temperatures for the age group meet was in the single digits with snow falling on and off. She was very close to the 3rd place skater in all 6 races.

She placed 3rd at the Charles Jewtraw All-Around Long-track Speedskating Championships in Lake Placid on Feb. 18-19. The Charles Jewtraw Race was 80 percent Canadian skaters. Organizers said they were fortunate to get the meet in with strong sunshine and temperatures in the 50s.

A day after the Charles Jewtraw race the Lake Placid Oval closed for the season due to mild weather.

Greenamyre finished the winter season with short track speedskating practice in Saratoga, N.Y., last week.

Addison Independent, Monday, March 27, 2017 — PAGE 19

Prof. to speak on blending religions

A SPOTTED SALAMANDER is one of the amphibians that will abandon its wintering site to lay eggs.

Photo by Jennifer Murdoch

Amphibian guides needed in Salisbury

SALISBURY — In early spring amphibians abandon the protection of their upland wintering sites to move to lower, wetter sites where they gather and lay eggs. Some amphibians put themselves in jeopardy by crossing roads to get to their reproductive sites. Depending on local vehicle traffic, entire amphibian populations can be wiped out in the process.

Otter Creek Audubon and the Salisbury Conservation Commission have collaborated to assisted amphibians at an important road crossing in Salisbury for over a decade.

The site is ideal from the human perspective.

Hundreds of salamanders and frogs of seven species cross here, and it has little vehicle traffic on warm, wet nights when amphibians are likely to move. It offers a predictable opportunity for people who are interested in observing a dramatic natural spectacle and who are able to take part in monitoring an amphibian migration in relative safety.

To witness this remarkable migration and help perpetuate it, Otter Creek Audubon and the Salisbury Conservation Commission ask you to sign up to receive an email alert on the morning of a projected big movement during the movement window of Monday, March 20 to Sunday, April 9 and then a confirming email at about 6 p.m.

Movement starts around 8:15 p.m. and may run for several hours, weather permitting.

Volunteers may arrive and leave when they wish.

Volunteers are responsible for their own safety and the safety of others in their group.

At this site traffic is infrequent and slow. Upon arrival Otter Creek Audubon provides tips on species identification and appropriate human behavior.

Data collectors will record the numbers of each species that volunteers move for the first two hours. To sign up for the 2017 amphibian email alert list, email kinglet@together.net.

MIDDLEBURY — Why do American yogis blend Hinduism, Buddhism and Native American religions in their homilies and practice? More generally, why does American spirituality routinely blend indigenous and Asian traditions as evidenced by the “New Age” section of the average American bookstore?

Middlebury College visiting lecturer Amanda Lucia will address these questions in an April 6 lecture titled, “Romanticizing the Premodern: Charting Indices of Indigenous and Asian Religions in Contemporary American Spirituality.”

The lecture, beginning at 4:30 p.m., will take place on the Middlebury College campus in the Hillcrest Orchard Room 103; it is sponsored by the Religion Department and the South Asian Studies Program.

In this talk, Lucia will analyze the intersections between indigenous and Asian religions in contemporary American yoga practices. Casting metaphysical spirituality as the romantic orientalist turn toward the premodern, she will reveal the continued influence of the Christian category of the “heathen” and the continued American preoccupation with the “exotic.”

Lucia’s thinking is based on six years of ethnographic research in the yogic explorations within transformational festivals

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(“Lightning in a Bottle,” “Burning Man,” “Shakti Fest,” “Bhakti Fest,” “Wanderlust”), wherein spirituality is made more real in classes and workshops and constructed in altars and temples.

Lucia is associate professor of Religious Studies at University of California, Riverside, where she is a co-director of the Institute for the Study of Immigration and Religion. Her current book project is an ethnographic study of the practices of spirituality as they are constructed in festival environments in the United States. Her 2014 book, “Reflections of Amma:

Devotees in a Global Embrace,” investigated transnationalism and gender in a global guru movement.

More broadly, her research engages American religions and Hinduism by focusing on religious encounters between North Americans and South Asians since the early 19th century.

After earning a BA in Religion and India Studies at Indiana University, she completed her MA and PhD in the History of Religions at the University of Chicago. Her current interests include guru authority and sexuality, the logics of bricolage spirituality, and the politics of cultural representation.

AMANDA LUCIA

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Tour du Mont Blanc slideshow on March 29 STARKSBORO — The public is invited to join Deb Van Schaack Wednesday, March 29, 7-9 p.m. at the Starksboro Public Library for a slideshow about the Tour du Mont Blanc, a hiking trail that she hiked with her daughter Hannah in the summer of 2014.

One of Europe’s oldest and most classic hiking trails, the Tour du Mont Blanc encircles

the Mont Blanc Massif, passing through France, Italy and Switzerland in 110 miles, and includes 6.2 miles total of elevation ascent and descent. Along the way, the trail meanders through some of the most jaw-droppingly beautiful scenery imaginable, and provides the opportunity to meet interesting people from all over the world and stay at lovely mountain huts.

April 7 talk on ‘Old Country Fiddler’ HANCOCK — The Friends of the Hancock Free Public Library is partnering with Quin-Town Center for Seniors to bring Adam Boyce to the Hancock Town Hall on Friday, April 7, at 11 a.m. to present “The Old Country Fiddler: Charles Ross Taggart, Vermont’s Traveling Entertainer.” Having grown up in Topsham, Vt., Charles Ross Taggart went on to a forty-year career performing in countless stage shows across the country, including the famous Red Path Chautauqua circuit.

A fiddler, piano player, humorist, singer and ventriloquist, he made at least 25 recordings with the Victor, Edison and Columbia companies, and appeared in a talking movie picture four years before Al Jolson starred in The Jazz Singer. Fiddler Boyce portrays Mr. Taggart near the end of his career, circa 1936, sharing recollections of his life and career interspersed with live fiddling and humorous sketches.

Following Boyce’s program, Quin-Town Center for Seniors will

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(Continued from Page 3) Magistrate Judge John Conroy in a recent hearing. Reiss also added Preston may not work in any position where she handles money. A U.S. Probation officer told Judge Reiss that LaFlam was prohibited from handling money as a term of her

supervised released, but was hired at victimize another company. the market.

Kupersmith did also order Preston Shingler said that would not be to complete 100 hours of community a problem going forward. LaFlam, service, undergo counseling, and who is living with her sister, is work- appear before the local reparative ing for a landscaping company and board. will be mowing lawns in the summer, Preston was on state probation for Shingler said. the first embezzlement when she beReiss told LaFlam that with any gan stealing from Endyne shortly afviolation of her release conditions ter she was hired in November 2011, “you should plan on beWilliston police said. ing detained.”

Williston Officer JoshBillie LaFlam PAST PROBLEMS ua Moore, the lead inThe former Monkton has pleaded vestigator in the second woman was sentenced not guilty in case, eventually had the in 2015 to almost two Superior Court felony charge filed in years in prison for wire to the felony federal court instead of fraud in connection with court because of the embezzlement state the embezzlement of amount and it was a remore than $86,000 from count, which peat charge. a Williston company, re- carries a During Preston’s sencords show. She is under possible tencing two years ago, a court order to repay the penalty of up Judge Reiss was unimmoney to Endyne Inc., to 10 years in pressed that she had sold an environmental testing her home and paid off prison and a lab. debts, including her car Preston embezzled $10,000 fine. loan, instead of paying from Endyne in part to any restitution to her forpay $15,056 in restitution to Univer- mer employer in Williston. sity Wholesalers — now known as “It should be somewhat of a priNokian Tyres — in Colchester for ority,” Reiss said about using the her first embezzlement case in 2010, proceeds from the house sale in the court records show. divorce case to help with the restituPreston pleaded guilty to the em- tion. bezzlement charge in May 2010 and Endyne President Harry B. Lockthen-Judge Michael Kupersmith er told the court the betrayal of trust imposed a deferred sentence, which had placed the company in jeopardy. meant the criminal conviction would He said at the time the company was be wiped off her record if she stayed still trying to recover. He noted there out of trouble for five years. was a loss of confidence by some Records show Kupersmith vendors. declined to follow a request by Editor’s note: The reporter covUniversity Wholesalers asking the ered earlier parts of this story when court to block Preston from ever he was a staff writer for the Burlingbeing put in a similar position to ton Free Press.

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Best of Luck in the future to all Addison County Students!

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Ally Larocque of Salisbury, daughter of Linda and Andre Larocque, is a senior at Middlebury Union High School and is looking forward to graduation in June. She describes her four years at MUHS as “fulfilling and rewarding.” She has thoroughly enjoyed her coursework and involvement in the athletic program. Ally serves as the captain of the basketball and softball teams and was proud when the Tigers went to the state semifinals in softball her junior year.

Outside of school, Ally is an active member of her church, Victory Baptist, and has gone on two mission trips, one to the Dominican Republic and another to Paraguay. She will travel to Romania in July for her third missionary trip. Ally says the trips have been inspiring and have allowed her to do a variety of projects that have brought her tremendous satisfaction.

Locally, Ally has volunteered at Homeward Bound and mentored children through the “Little Tigers” basketball program. She spent last summer working with Sportacular, a division of Middlebury’s Recreation Center, as a counselor.

Ally Larocque As a student at MUHS, Ally is a member of the National MUHS Honor Society and is one of four student Peer Leader Coordinators. She works closely with Brooke Jette in welcoming new students to the high school.

She has served on the prom committee and tutors students in the Learning Center in math and science, her two favorite subjects. In addition, Ally has held part-time positions at Olympia Sports and Countryside Carpet and Paint.

Ally interned with the high school’s athletic trainer, which served as a valuable introduction to the medical field. She plans on majoring in nursing in college and has already been admitted to the University of Vermont’s nursing program. Ally is waiting to hear from other colleges before finalizing her decision as to where she will enroll in the fall of 2017. Her hope is to one day participate in the Peace Corps and then go on to serve in a program like Doctors Without Borders. We will miss Ally when she graduates but know she has a bright future ahead of her in the medical field!

Vergennes Union High School is pleased to recognize Alexandria Brace as its Student of the Week. Lexi lives in Ferrisburgh with her dad and mom, Scott and Lisa Brace. Lexi has a sister, Kaitlyn, who is a junior at VUHS and a brother, Eli, who is a sixth-grade student at Ferrisburgh Central School.

Lexi has made honor roll multiple times throughout high school and was inducted into the National Honor Society this year. In 11th grade she earned the Outstanding Achievement in Art Award and in ninth grade she earned the ninth-grade Artistic Skill Award. Lexi is currently enrolled in AP Language and Composition and AP Biology.

Lexi has played soccer throughout high school. She was on the junior varsity team her freshman and sophomore years and varsity part of her sophomore year until this year. She played lacrosse her freshman through junior years. Lexi has also been on Student Council since her sophomore year.

Outside of school Lexi has worked at the Ferrisburgh Bake Shop and Deli for almost two years. She is also a part-time nanny this Lexi Brace year for two girls in Vergennes every Monday and Thursday. She has VUHS helped the soccer team by participating in youth soccer clinics and volunteering at the Vergennes Day 5K/10K run. Lexi has also has been on the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad for two months.

Lexi says this about her high school career, “If I were to give advice to other students I would tell them not to hold back, get involved if you want to make a change, stand up for what you believe because you will never see the change you want unless you try. Make the most out of your high school experience and don’t let anybody hold you back.”

Karl Steen, an English teacher at VUHS, has some positive observations about Lexi.

“Alexandria Brace engages with her education purposefully and meaningfully; she has a clear vision of her future and has taken full responsibility for the challenging course load and extracurricular participation needed to get to there,” he said. “Alexandria Brace is deserving of student of the week as one our most accomplished, motivated and dedicated students.”

Following graduation from VUHS, Lexi plans to attend Franklin Pierce University and double major in biology and secondary education. The faculty, staff and students of VUHS wish Lexi the very best in the future.

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Pritchard (Continued from Page 1) Annotated For Present-Day Use.” Books and typed out five novels; a But that work has not jumped off novella, “Terminal Vibrato,” that he the shelves — or Amazon.com’s says pokes “gentle” fun at academia; digital equivalent — in quite the nine plays that have been staged in way Pritchard expected, although New York City, his second home; 57 reviewers have given his updated four collections of poetry; and a version an average of 4.5 stars out collection of short of a possible 5. (E.B. stories. His short “Given that White’s version story “Player in the remains the best language will Symphony” earned known update of a nomination for a inevitably Strunk, of course, and Pushcart Prize for change, I has sold more than 10 small-press fiction. million copies.) emphasize Pritchard, who After a decade or admits only to being that one of the so of modest sales, “older than I want to main reasons Pritchard received an be,” acknowledges for speaking email in the fall of frustration that his and writing 2014. In retrospect it works have not found is unsurprising that correctly is for a wider audience. it came in the middle “I had three of the pleasure it of the night, given the worst literary provides in the its source — a Seoul agents in New York. way we observe literary agency.

I don’t know how Would Pritchard be I got so lucky, but the rules or, interested, the email they couldn’t sell ironically, bend asked, in signing over anything,” he said, them.”

Korean distribution adding, “I learned — Stanford Pritchard rights to his updated to write well just “The Elements of about the time people Style?” It wasn’t a stopped reading. But I stop at nothing difficult decision. to make writing entertaining. To “This required me to sign a write clearly, simply, and well is not contract one time. From there, the easy. I got better at it, but it took me money went directly to the National quite a while.”

Bank of Middlebury,” Pritchard said.

Still, those funds from Korea “It was very cordial. They were very show up because one of his literary efficient.” efforts proved to be a success — his The first payments started out at modern take on William Strunk Jr.’s around $200. They have grown. classic work on good writing, “The “I just look at my bank statement, Elements of Style: Updated and and ‘Deposit from Amazon, $400.

Deposit from Amazon, $600,’” matter of weeks. He was mistaken.

Pritchard said.

“It took 14 months, not six weeks.

On a monthly basis, they have And what I found was Strunk begun to add up, although Pritchard assumed you knew a lot of things remains unsure exactly how many in 1918, like what an apposition is, copies are being sold. He theorizes what a participle is, what a gerund schools are buying them for is. Do people know any more what a classroom use, in part because of a gerund is?” Pritchard said. “Do you relatively modest price compared know what an end-stop is? An endto the famous Strunk and White stop is a period. And Strunk said the strongest word should go at the end version.

“It made $1,600 last month, and of the sentence next to the end-stop. $1,800 the month before,” Pritchard So I had to go look it up.”

(For the record, said. “And 200 bucks a gerund is a noun from the English “I happen to be form of a verb and it version, and it’s ends in “ing.” In the paying my rent, my schoolmarmish sentence, “Hitting a food, my gasoline, my … For me, baseball is difficult,” tobacco, most of my anything the word “hitting” is alcohol.” doesn’t go. It a gerund. A participle ELEMENTS OF A ought to be is an adjective PROJECT formed from a verb, Pritchard undertook right.” the task of updating — Stanford Pritchard such as “burned” in burned toast. Curious “The Elements readers may look up of Style” during an unhappy intermission in his “apposition.”)

Pritchard’s love of good language relationship with the woman who he said remains the love of his life, a and frustration with the opposite drove him to complete the project.

New York City resident.

“I happen to be schoolmarmish, A friend recommended the project, an effort that anybody who cares to in grammar what’s called a take on may do because the copyright prescriptive,” Pritchard said. “For on Strunk’s original 1918 work — me, anything doesn’t go. It ought to first created for Strunk’s Cornell be right. As I say in the introduction University students to improve their to the English version, language is a game. The whole pleasure comes in writing — has expired.

That pamphlet — which has playing it elegantly.”

In support of his position that undergone several other updates in addition to E.B. White’s — contained written language needs rules and is just 43 pages, and Pritchard thought best when those rules are followed, he could complete the task in a he enlists a literary heavyweight.

MCTV SCHEDULE Channels 15 & 16 MCTV Channel 15 Tuesday, March 28 Through the night: Public Affairs 9:30 a.m. Justicia Migrante 10 a.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 4 p.m. Congregational Church Service 5:30 p.m. Issues: Betty Nuovo 6 p.m. Community Bulletin Board 7 p.m. Selectboard 9:40 p.m. Legislative Breakfast 11 p.m. Green Mountain Care Board Wednesday, March 29 6:10 a.m. Legislative Breakfast 7:30 a.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 9 a.m. Issues: Betty Nuovo 9:30 a.m. Justicia Migrante 10 a.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 3:40 p.m. Legislative Breakfast 5 p.m. Lifelines 5:30 p.m. Justicia Migrante 6 p.m. Community Bulletin Board 6:20 p.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs Thursday, March 30 8 a.m. Congregational Church Service 9:30 a.m. Lifelines 10 a.m. Legislative Breakfast 11:30 p.m. Issues: Betty Nuovo 12 p.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 5:30 p.m. Eckankar 6 p.m. Community Bulletin Board 6:30 p.m. Development Review Board 9 p.m. Green Mountain Care Board Friday, March 31 5 a.m. Green Mountain Care Board 10 a.m. Selectboard, Legislative Breakfast 3:30 p.m. Justicia Migrante 4 p.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 5:30 p.m. Eckankar 6 p.m. Community Bulletin Board 6:30 p.m. Legislative Breakfast, Public Affairs

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“Robert Frost said, ‘I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down,’” Pritchard said.

“Given that language will inevitably change, I emphasize that one of the main reasons for speaking and writing correctly is for the pleasure it provides in the way we observe the rules or, ironically, bend them.”

Pritchard loves sports, and he finds particularly annoying the way announcers mangle language. “(They say) ‘He’s not as good of a player as what he was last year.’

Where did ‘of’ come from? Where did ‘what’ come from?” Pritchard said. “Chris Collinsworth and Troy Aikman routinely spew sentences like that. Drives me up a wall.”

This comment would seem to confirm another Pritchard remark: “The two most important rules in Strunk are 1) ‘Omit Needless Words,’ and 2) ‘Use the Active Voice.’”

FINISHED PRODUCT Asked what sets his version apart, Pritchard said he can be tougher than Strunk and White on the reader seeking to improve his or her writing.

“I have whips that other people don’t have. I ride you,” he said. “My philosophy is get it right. If you’re going to be a carpenter you wouldn’t tolerate shoddy work. Everything else we expect it to be done right.”

Pritchard’s English edition also adds, as well as his extensive boldfaced comments and updated notes, a “Rogue’s Gallery” of examples of bad usage, titled, “A Tour of Haphazard Writing in Newspapers (See Product, Page 23)

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12 p.m. Chronique Francophone 12:30 p.m. Vermont State Board of Education 5:30 p.m. Chronique Francophone 6 p.m. Lights, Camera, Action 6:15 p.m. “Farming Like We’re Here to Stay” 8 p.m. Anti Semitism – Then and Now 10 p.m. “Farming Like We’re Here to Stay” Thursday, March 30 5 a.m. Anti Semitism – Then and now 6:40 a.m. Yoga - Mindfulness & Wellness 7 a.m. Chronique Francophone 7:30 a.m. Yoga Sequence 8 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange 11:30 a.m. ACSD, PAHCC Board Meetings 1:30 p.m. Vermont State Board of Education 6 p.m. First Wednesday Friday, March 31 5:30 a.m. Middlebury Five-0 6:02 a.m. Yoga Sequence 6:30 a.m. Yoga - Mindfulness & Wellness 8 a.m. Chronique Francophone 8:30 a.m. Vermont State Board of Education 5:30 p.m. Yoga – Mindfulness & Wellness 5:50 p.m. From the College

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ADDISON COUNTY

School News Shyanne Wedge of Shoreham placed fourth in Junior Division (10-11) and McKenna White of Whiting placed ninth in the Junior Division (12-13) at the Chittenden County Invitational 4-H Horse Quiz Bowl in Essex Junction on March 4.

MIDDLEBURY AUTHOR STANFORD Pritchard’s updated and annotated version of William Strunk Jr.’s classic writing-advice work, “The Elements of Style,” has sold surprisingly well after it was translated into Korean a little more than two years ago.

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Product relieved: I was afraid it might say (Continued from Page 22) and Magazines, and Some something like, ‘Don’t believe any Observations About Language,” and of the preceding crap.’”

Of course, anyone writing a a chapter on punctuation, “Little Dots book that advises writers how to and Squiggly Things.”

He said those sections were write faces a particular challenge.

“The hardest removed from the thing about creating Korean edition, Strunk and Pritchard although whimsical “My philosophy was that I had to and colorful is get it right. If proofread it over illustrations by Maira you’re going to and over,” Pritchard Kalman (known for be a carpenter said. “I had written a her work in The New book (or co-written Yorker) grace its you wouldn’t pages. tolerate shoddy a book) in which I However, Pritchard work. Everything enjoined, encouraged, admonished, prodded, notes his expanded list of commonly else we expect it beseeched, ordered misspelled words has to be done right.” and pleaded with the been retained, while — Stanford Pritchard reader to take pains to be accurate and there is a “mysterious precise in her writing: new out-of-nowhere” How was it going to look if I had a epilogue in the Korean version.

“A friend translated it for me, great big, fat whopper of a typo or and it is essentially a pep talk misspelling leaping off the page of about the pleasure of learning my book? At the risk of jinxing the new languages, and how my book future, I will note that I have not yet is a distinct aid in that process,” found any typos or misspellings in Pritchard said. “I was greatly the published work.”

Nathan Rowell of Addison, son of Dan and Lisa Rowell, made the dean’s list at Syracuse University, College of Arts & Sciences for the fall 2016 semester. Nathan is currently in his freshman year at Syracuse University.

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PETS IN NEED HOMEWARD BOUND

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The name Kashi means “shining” in Sanskrit and what a fitting name it is for this sweet gal! Kashi traveled to Homeward Bound from New York City, where she was found as a stray, and immediately stole our hearts with her sweet disposition and affection. This incredibly loving gal loves to cuddle, and will sit on your lap and snuggle into your neck for a nice long nap! If you’re looking for a young, sweet dog who loves to cuddle, go for car rides and long walks, Kashi would love the chance to shine in your home.

Pumpkin 10 years, Shepherd mix, spayed female. Pumpkin is a sweet, affectionate older gal who is looking for a home where she can be the only pet. To help her be successful in her new home, a wonderful sponsor has generously donated several hours with a pro. trainer to work with her new guardian(s). We are requiring that she be adopted into an adult only home with an experienced dog owner in a settled household where there aren’t a lot of guests. Pumpkin is a loving, playful dog looking for the right person to give her the chance she deserves!

Sasha 3 years, medium hair, spayed female.

Sasha and her sibling Ariel were brought here after their owner abandoned them. While her sister has been adopted, Sasha is waiting for her fur-ever home. Sasha requests that her new family provide her with at least one cat tree, in front of a large window, where she can lounge the day away soaking up sunshine. She also requests that her new family allow her plenty of time to adjust to a new environment as she likes to live life at her own pace. Sasha is pretty picky about the other cats she chooses to like here at the shelter and may do best in a home as the only cat.

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By CAROLYN THOMPSON ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont law authorizes the creation of a trust to provide financial support and care for animals if their owner becomes personally unable to provide for the pet’s care, on account of the owner’s disability or death. The trust (commonly known as a “pet trust”) can be created in a “stand alone” revocable trust (which is useful in the case of the owner’s disability) or in the owner’s will. (If in a will, only, coordinating powers should be considered for the owner’s power of attorney in the event disability precedes the

owner’s death.) The trust can be drafted for specific pets you own now, or may own in the future.

One advantage of a pet trust is that you can provide very specific instructions about most anything you can think of regarding your pet.

From a more legal point of view, I believe the most important provisions have to do with the following questions: • Who will be the caretaker?

• Who will be the trustee and who will manage the money (should it be the same person)?

• Who will succeed those people if they are unable or unavailable to

do the job?

• Do you wish to name someone with specific power to enforce the trust, if necessary, or rely on the default provisions of the law?

• How much money should you contribute to the trust?

If a pet trust sounds like something you would be interested in, consult your own lawyer; every case is as different as every pet.

Editor’s note: The author is principal at Thompson Law Offices, PLLC, Vergennes, and she will host a “lunch and learn” about Pet Trusts at Homeward Bound on April 10.

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And since our pets live much shorter lives than humans do, diseases may develop and progress more quickly than they do in people.

Your veterinarian will be able to determine if your furry friend has signs of a medical condition of which you may be unaware. If so, she can recommend preventative measures and/or treatment. The earlier a problem is detected, the more likely it is that it can be treated and cured and the less expensive such care will be.

It is recommended that wellness exams be done at least once per year, or twice a year for pets over nine years of age. Generally, your veterinarian will take a medical history, i.e., ask you a lot of questions about your pet’s lifestyle, eating habits, behavior, etc. She will check your pet’s temperature, pulse, respiration rates and weight. She will also examine your pet’s eyes, ears, mouth, lymph nodes, heart, lungs, abdomen and musculoskeletal system.

Screenings for conditions such as

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At the wellness exam, your vet will also make recommendations for maintaining and optimizing your pet’s health, including such things as ideal weight, food choices, exercise regimens, preventive dental care and parasite control. If necessary, she may discuss things like behavior problems or pain management. The activities that your pet participates in, the environment where he or she lives and his or her specific health risks all change over time and with a g e .

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POKEY STICK “HUNTER” Jack Lyons takes off after a “runner” during a game in the woods behind the North Branch School this month.

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Pokey Stick (Continued from Page 1) Waltham and one on of the game’s several inventors. “It’s wholesome because it gives us a way to take out our energy so that we’re focused during the class that follows lunch, so that we aren’t thinking of running around in the fields.”

The game has been played almost every day this year. Participants gather in the woods with sticks; a hunter is chosen and the “runners” scatter and hide. The hunter must pursue and tag the runners with his or her Pokey stick, which may not have

a dangerous point on it. Runners a can hide anywhere on the property, including in the tops of trees.

“We are never aggressive, and it is all about having fun,” said Will Crawford, an eighth-grader from Ferrisburgh who is an avid players and co-founder. “We have a specific rule book for preventing injury.”

The idea for having a schoolwide Pokey Stick Championship came when the Pokey stick leaders realized they wanted to include more people in the school in the fun. Players made flyers and sign-up

NORTH BRANCH SCHOOL students Ben Huston, left, Griffin Lower, Jack Christner and Will Crawford recently invented a new game called Pokey Stick that they now play with classmates in the woods around their Ripton school.

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sheets and encouraged classmates to enter.

“Then I came up with the idea to have an entry fee and have the funds go to sponsoring a kid in Haiti,” said Crawford, referring to the fundraising project of his classmate Hannah Zimmer, an eighth-grader (See Game, Page 27)

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Since the holiday break, Zimmer has focused her fundraising for children in Haiti. Her inspiration came from a former North Branch School student, Caroline Kimble, now a junior at Middlebury Union High School, who went with her church service group to Haiti over the winter holiday to build houses in Port-Au-Prince.

“Caroline inspired me,” Zimmer said. “I want to travel and help people in the world, and I thought I could connect that goal with one of my skills, which is baking.”

Then the Pokey stick players rallied to the cause.

“She was doing the Haiti thing too, so we just made her the almighty money keeper,” said Crawford. “The entry fee was to collect money for the Haiti project.”

“The money will be enough to send a kid to school for a year,” said Zimmer.

Zimmer and the students have been raising money all year for a variety of causes. In the fall they conducted a bake sale every week to raise money to pay for a dinner for local families; the NBS students cooked and presented the meal at the Congregational Church of Middlebury.

Before the winter holiday, students raised money for Heifer International. With the support of classmates and teachers, the students raised more than $150 and then donated a flock of “It is a fun chickens way of and a goat to a family accessing Central our primitive in America. instincts.

In February, It keeps the ninthus active grade girls and happy. continued a school We are t r a d i tion competitive, in which but when it they make comes down Va l e n t i n e s to it, we all gifts for classmates to play for the “purchase” love of the for a “special game.”

— Will Crawford s o m e o n e . ” Students had options to buy a card, song, or poem for their valentine, or give their valentine candy and a paper “heart shower.”

The students raised $150 and donated the money to WomenSafe of Addison County.

And recently the students held the 4th Annual Penguin Plunge, when students raised money through pledges from friends and community members and then took dozens of dips into a frozen Ripton pond. The students raised over $5,000 in pledges to support financial aid.

“All of this is a perfect merger of students inventing and playing and taking initiative,” said Tal Birdsey, head teacher at NBS.

“They are using their powers to address problems and issues in the world outside of the school. They are having fun, being creative, and thinking about other people. It makes our school joyous and very busy.”

The winner of the Pokey Stick World Championship will get one NBS Instagram post and bragging rights.

“It is a fun way of accessing our primitive instincts,” Crawford explained. “It keeps us active and happy. We are competitive, but when it comes down to it, we all play for the love of the game.”

The next fundraiser the students will conduct will be the annual school play, which the students write and produce on their own.

Each year the play raises about $1,000 for school financial aid. The play will be performed on April 14-15 at the Ripton Community House.

“HUNTERS” GATHER DURING a game of Pokey Stick in the woods behind the North Branch School in Ripton recently. From left are Paul Thurber, Ben Huston, Henry Black, Jack Lyons and Sasha Meyers.

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Village2Village project to host a benefit dinner BRISTOL — These three pictures are taken of the same little Ugandan boy, over six weeks. Emergency surgery and four weeks of enriched nutrition have saved three-yearold Elvis’s life. But he needs two more surgeries and a lot more food before he grows up into the healthy little boy that he can be. The “Old Bones,” a country and gospel music group, want to help.

How can listening to feel good country music, enjoying lots of laughter and having a delicious home cooked meal help desperate children like Elvis? On Saturday, April 1, at 6:30 p.m., you can find out! The local music group “Old Bones” will perform their ninth annual benefit country and gospel concert at the First Baptist Church of Bristol, where a delicious Shepherd’s Pie supper will be served at 5:30 p.m.

One-hundred percent of the proceeds will make emergency surgeries and necessary food and medicines available for over 115 vulnerable Ugandan children through the work of Village2Village Project, a charity

born in Bristol, Vt. and founded by Laurie Kroll.

Over the years, the “Old Bones” has raised thousands of dollars for the Village2VillageProject, which has served Ugandan children since 2003. “We have watched children in critical need like Elvis thrive over the years we have been in this village,” says Laurie, “I am so thankful that the Baptist Church and ‘Old Bones’ have been such an amazing team.” When asked why they do it, the musicians remarked, “We feel incredibly blessed to live in nice homes in the beautiful state of Vermont. We are very happy to offer musically what we have to raise money for Village2VillageProject and their wonderful work in Uganda.

They provide care for children who face unbelievable hardships every day!”

Some of the children V2V serves in this rural Ugandan village are now finishing University and taking their places in the community. One is a medical student and has been assisting during surgeries in her local

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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 discussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understanding of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

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. Wednes‑ days, 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.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS BRANDON MEETINGS: Monday, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meeting 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.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS MONDAY: As Bill Sees It Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

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The Volunteer Center, a collaboration of The Addison Community Athletics Foundation (ACAF) is looking for RSVP and the volunteers to help bring a youth tennis program to Mary Hogan United Way of Elementary students starting April 3rd and ending April 21st. The Addison County, program will run during normal school hours and P. E. classes, posts dozens of Monday through Friday. Volunteer shifts are flexible and can volunteer opportunities be as little as 45 minutes a day throughout the program. on the Web.Go to Lessons will be taught by ACAF instructors and Mary Hogan P.

ACAF is Looking for Volunteers!

www.unitedwayaddison county.org/ VolunteerDonate and click on VOLUNTEER NOW!

E. teachers. Volunteers will assist with helping kids participate in fun games and activities and ultimately help bring tennis to over 400 students in Middlebury! Most lessons will be taught on outdoor courts in Middlebury Rec Park. For those interested in volunteering with ACAF, please contact RSVP at 388-7044 or rsvpaddison@volunteersinvt.org.

L o c a l age n c ie s c a n p o s t t h e i r v o l u n te e r ne e d s w i t h Th e Vo l u n te e r C e n te r by c a l l i ng RSV P at 388-7044.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Method‑ ist 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 ANONYMOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS T H U R S D AY: B i g B o o k Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS MIDDLEBURY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleas‑ ant Street. Discussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NEW HAVEN MEETINGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congre‑ gational Church, New Haven Village Green.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS NORTH FERRISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd.

ARE YOU BOTHERED BY SOMEONE’S DRINKING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednes‑ day at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confi‑ dential, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems.

Babysitting available.

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OLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

Fran Putnam, of Weybridge, is a tremendous

community-minded volunteer. Fran is a dedicated member of the Weybridge Energy Committee which promotes energy conservation, energy efficiency, and the use of renewable resources among the town’s residents, businesses and municipal affairs. Additionally, she serves as Community Assistant during the Weybridge School Preschool Story Hour. Fran also volunteers for the Beeman Elementary School as Assistant Soccer Coach and in the Four Winds Natural Science Program. She is a volunteer member of the Addison County Interfaith Climate Action Network, Addison County Democratic Committee, Showing Up for Racial Justice, Earthcare Committee, and serves as a host family for Friends of International Students at Middlebury College. Thank you, Fran, for all you do!

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OPIATE OVERDOSE RESCUE 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.

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. Com‑ petitive pay, great work envi‑ ronment 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.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS (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 AWAKENINGS MEETING of Alcoholics Anon‑ ymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Fri‑ day, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middlebury, VT. WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

Services C&I DRYWALL. Hanging, tap‑ ing, skim coat plastering. Also tile. Call Joe 802‑234‑5545 or Justin 802‑234‑2190.

CONSTRUCTION: ADDITIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

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GOT POTHOLES? De‑ Mers LLC. Driveway repair.

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

A L L A R O U N D FA R M HAND 802‑233‑1249 or 802‑233‑3849.

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LANDSCAPE COMPANY LOOKING FOR reliable, hard working people for our 2017 crew. Job includes clean‑ups, landscaping, planting and gar‑ den maintenance. Must be comfortable working outdoors in all types of weather. Previ‑ ous experience not necessary, but preferred. Must have valid driver’s license and depend‑ able transportation. Pay hourly rate $11 ‑ $16 per hour. Call Dave, 802‑363‑9958.

LOOKING TO HIRE 2 cook‑ ing positions. One lead cook that can work independently and one back up at a facility 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.

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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:

TOM BODETTE Excavating & Landscaping, Inc. tombodettelesinc@gmail.com.

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

Call 388-4529.

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Plant Worker Needed

Must work well in a team environment.

Good salary & benefits.

Apply in Person.

2107 James Road, Weybridge, VT

802-545-2119

NEW HORIZONS CLUB PROGRAM COORDINATOR National Bank of Middlebury is embarking on a STAR Search….

We’re recruiting for a “CONDUCTOR” to lead our successful mature market program.

Talents needed: • Ability to listen to our customers and match products and services to their unique needs • Ability to JUGGLE multiple projects • Ability to DAZZLE our customers with superior service • Ability to ORCHESTRATE activities appealing to varied interests • Ability to be an NBM ambassador in our communities • Creativity • Diplomacy • Dependability • Flexibility This is a part-time position (24 hours/ week) in an excellent work environment.

The position provides competitive compensation package.

Interested persons must apply in person by April 7, 2017 at:

PARTY RENTALS; CHINA, flatware, glassware, linens. Delivery available.

802‑388‑4831.

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PROFESSIONAL PAINTING; interior/exterior, residential/ commercial, pressure wash‑ ing. 20 years’ experience.

Best prices. References.

802‑989‑5803.

5 Carver St., Brandon 240 Court St., Middlebury 30 Main St., Middlebury 29 Green St., Vergennes 28 Main St., Bristol 140 Commerce St., Hinesburg For a copy of the job description or questions, please contact Sandra Trombley (802) 388-4982 or email strombley@nbmvt.com.

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

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.

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

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SUMMER CAMP NURSE POSITION do you enjoy work‑ ing with kids in a vibrant and warm summer camp commu‑ nity? Consider 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—especially for those considering a career in pediatric nursing. Salaries start at $6,800. Room and board is included. For more information, please contact Peter Hare at 802‑352‑4770 or pete@keewaydin.org.

FLORIDA VACATION RENT‑ AL, on golf course, 1 hour to Disney. 2br, 2ba, beautifully furnished. Available Wednes‑ day, April 12 on, $900. weekly.

802‑388‑2528.

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VERGENNES, VERMONT LAW firm seeks a part‑time legal assistant. Ideally quali‑ fications would include past experience in a law office, familiarity with commercial transactions, estate planning, and administration, and real estate transactions, a strong working knowledge of Mi‑ crosoft Office software and computer skills, and excellent organizational skills. Hours are fairly flexible. Pay to be commensurate with experi‑ ence. Please e‑mail your letter of interest, resume, and references to: gwlange@ langelawoffices.com.

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

For Sale 2002 WINNEBAGO BRAVE in very good condition. 39,655 miles, automatic. $7,500. Call: 802‑332‑3384.

ANTIQUE DOUBLE BARREL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge.

Beautiful vintage firearm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.

CEDAR POSTS for sale. 8 footers, no points.

802‑388‑4831.

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MIDDLEBURY INTERAC‑ TIVE LANGUAGES is hir‑ ing 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.

SEEKING PHYSICAL THER‑ APIST part to full time for a busy outpatient setting in Addison County. Looking for motivated team player with strong manual skills, evidence based treatment to develop individualized treatment plans to meet patient’s functional goals. New graduate con‑ sidered. Salary and benefit information on request. Please send resume and cover letter to diane@bptvt.com.

MISTER UPS NOW ACCEPT‑ ING applications for Servers.

Please apply within, 25 Bakery Lane, Middlebury.

PART TIME OFFICE HELP wanted 2‑3 days per week.

Experience in accounting and Excel required. Role consists of data entry and filing. To ap‑ ply please contact: Suzanne Atherholt at 802‑349‑6781 or milepointvt@yahoo.com.

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METAL CARPORT 12X12X20 covered sides. $2,250.

802‑440‑2423.

THE BARREL MAN; plastic and metal barrels, 275 gallon totes. A barrel for every need.

802‑453‑4235.

WOOD: 265 FT OF 1”X6” 8 ft long. $2.00 board/ feet. Other sizes available.

Call:802‑352‑4488.

ZERO TURN MOWER, TORO TITAN ZX6000. Under 200 hours, new belt, extra blades. $2,750. 802‑440‑2423.

Lawn and Garden 1990 FORD 3910 TRACTOR 4WD with only 1403 hours, 3 cylinder, diesel engine, 50 HP. $2,650. Call 802‑297‑7844.

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092.

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

802‑352‑4124.

AMAZING DEAL, WHY RENT when you can own.

Rehab 2 bedroom mobile home in 5 Unit Park, For‑ estdale. 802‑883‑2379 or 802‑249‑8677.

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BRISTOL; 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT heat, hot wa‑ ter, snow and lawn care in‑ cluded. Carpeting. Available now. $1150 per month. Base‑ ment. Garage. 802‑453‑2566.

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

802‑453‑2566.

C O R N WA L L 1 B E D ‑ ROOM apartment, second floor, 1‑1/2 baths. Deck, skiylights. $925/mo. in‑ cludes heat and hot water. batesproperties@yahoo.com .

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

FOR RENT PRIME RETAIL space. 1,303 square feet.

Location, location. Front door parking. Good visibility. Call Eric at 388‑6054.

FURNISHED LARGE L‑SHAPED STUDIO in Middlebury. 10 minute walk to downtown. Cozy. Taste‑ ful. Private. Very clean. All included: Wi‑Fi, cable TV, all utilities, washer/dryer and parking. Text or call Ellie at 802‑989‑8941 for pictures and more information. $800 a month.

M I D D L E B U RY 3 B E D ‑ ROOM apartment on Court Street, heat included. Call 802‑388‑4831.

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MIDDLEBURY‑ ONE BED‑ ROOM apartment with living room, kitchen and bath. In‑ cludes heat, hot water, rubbish removal and off street parking.

Convenient to downtown. Sor‑ ry, no pets, no smoking. Refer‑ ences and deposit required. $730/month. 802‑453‑6074.

ONE BEDROOM APART‑ MENT $700 per month plus utilities included. $400 secu‑ rity. No pets. No smoking. Will not be available until April 1st.

Located in Whiting. Contact Marie for an appointment.

802‑623‑6082.

VERGENNES 3 BEDROOM: washer/dryer hookup, new appliances. $900/month. No pets, no smoking. On Monkton Rd. Completed application required prior to viewing apart‑ ment. Must pass background check. 240‑281‑1508 or email: ocopom.ninja.turtle@gmail. com. Available now.

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

SINGLE ROOM PROFES‑ SIONAL office in historic Mid‑ dlebury landmark, overlooking downtown. Space dimensions 15x15, with common areas and bathrooms shared with other professional tenants.

Rent $500 per month which includes heat, electric, hot water, garbage, recycling and private off street parking. For inquiry call 802‑989‑8822.

NEW HAVEN, 4 BEDROOM house, 2 decks, private, formal dining room, master bedroom with full bath. Heat included.

1 year lease. References, se‑ curity deposit. 802‑324‑7385.

VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Vergennes.

All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent.

Elderly or disabled only. W/D onsite. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.

NEW HAVEN: BEAUTIFUL VIEWS, sunny apartment.

Garden space. No pets, no smoking. References, security deposit, lease. $875/month plus utilities. 802‑236‑2040.

For Rent

WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront.

Washer, dryer. No smok‑ ing. Available September through May. $1,000/month.

860‑878‑9580.

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

802‑247‑6061.

Real Estate NEW 2017 ENERGY STAR display models. Modular, double and single wides.

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

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BUILD YOUR DREAM HOUSE on one of the six, now five remaining 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 Bowl, two 18 hole golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore.

Telephone 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

Att. Farmers FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

FIRST SECOND CUT HAY small squares. 802‑777‑0161.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agitating, liquid manure hauling, drag line aer‑ ating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

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

802‑377‑5972.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer special‑ izing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, an‑ tique collectibles, etc. Visit www.bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527.

Consulting/appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.

For Rent

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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.

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TOWN OF BRISTOL POLICE DEPARTMENT AN ORDINANCE FOR THE REGULATION OF PARKING

We, The Selectboard of the Town of Bristol pursuant to Section 203(A) of the Bristol Town Merger Document), Title 23 VSA 1008(a) and such other state laws as are applicable do hereby make the following CIVIL ordinance as to the parking and removal of motor vehicles on and from the highways and streets within the limits of the Town of Bristol.

ARTICLE I Section I. DEFINITIONS ARTICLE II Section I. STOPPING & PARKING PROHIBITED IN SPECIFIED PLACES AT ALL TIME ARTICLE III Section I. PARKING PROHIBITED This section details where parking is prohibited / restricted Airport Drive Main Street Park Place Church Street Mountain Street School Street Firehouse Drive Mountain Terrace South Street Lincoln Road North Street West Street EXEMPTION: Parking will be permitted in restricted areas for special functions upon approval of the Select Board following written request.

Section II. STANDING PARKING PROHIBITED This section details where standing parking is prohibited.

Park Place School Street West Street Section III. GENERAL PROVISION ARTICLE IV. Section I. HANDICAPPED RESERVED PARKING ARTICLE V. Section I. TWO HOUR PARKING ARTICLE VI. Section I. ALL NIGHT PARKING ARTICLE VII. Section I. PARKING CLOSE TO CURB ARTICLE VIII. Section I. PARKING IN PRIVATE DRIVEWAYS BLOCKING SIDEWALKS ARTICLE IX. Section I. OPERATION IN LOADING ZONE ARTICLE X. Section I. POLICE AND EMERGENCY VEHICLES ARTICLE XI. Section I. OWNER RESPONSIBILITY Section II. PENALTIES ARTICLE XII. Section I. REMOVAL/TOWING/RELEASE OF VEHICLES ARTICLE XIII. Section I. EMERGENCIES SPECIAL EVENTS OR OCCASIONS ARTICLE XIV. Section I. REPEAL OF PRIOR ORDINANCE ARTICLE XV Section I. ENFORCEMENT OF THIS ORDINANCE This ordinance was adopted on 03-20-17. It will take effect on 05-20-17 unless a petition signed by at least five percent of the voters of The Town of Bristol is filed with the municipal clerk by 05-04-17, asking for a vote to disapprove the ordinance. If a petition is received, the Bristol Select Board will warn a special meeting and the voters may vote on that question.

The purpose of this ordinance is to update an existing ordinance to regulate / control parking within the Town of Bristol to promote the general safety of the community. A full text of this ordinance is available on the Town of Bristol website at Bristolvt.org or you may contact Chief Kevin E. Gibbs at 802-453-2533 or email- kevin.gibbs@vermont.gov Amended and adopted 03-20-17 3/27

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO APPLY MOSQUITO ADULTICIDES

On or after May 15th, the BLSG Insect Control District may be making ground applications of mosquito adulticides along the public right of ways in the towns of Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen and Pittsford to control mosquitos. In the past years, mosquitos in these towns have been found to carry West Nile Virus and Eastern Equine Encephalitis, both of which can be deadly to humans and animals. Applications of malathion or synthetic pyrethroid insecticides will be made with ultra-low volume truck-based sprayers.

If you wish to Opt Out and not have your property treated: please send a written request annually to BLSG, PO Box 188 Brandon, VT 05733. Please provide your 911 address and a property map, which delineates your property boundaries on the public right of way. A representative from the district will contact you to assist in marking your property as a no spray zone. Opt out needs to be renewed yearly.

The BLSG hotline is 802-247-6779 and will receive request for treatment as needed during the season.

Further information or comments about adulticiding activities or application exclusion requests can be obtained from: BLSG Insect Control District Will Mathis 802-247-6779 https://blsgmosquito.wordpress.com Additional information available at https://www.epa.gov/mosquitocontrol

TOWN OF FERRISBURGH NOTICE

The legal voters of the Town of Ferrisburgh, Vermont are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Ferrisburgh Town Hall, Ferrisburgh, Vermont on Monday April 17, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. for the second of two public Selectboard hearings for approval of the proposed Town Charter language.

This notice is given pursuant to 17 VSA § 2645. An official copy of the proposed charter language is on file for public inspection in the office of the Town Clerk. Copies shall be made available to members of the public upon request. A copy of the proposed charter amendment will be placed in each voting booth.

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF INTENT TO APPLY MOSQUITO LARVICIDES

Local mosquito control districts may be making ground and aerial applications of Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI), Bacillus Sphaericus (BS), and Spinosad to surface waters where mosquito larvae are present. These are bacterial insecticides used against mosquito larvae. Ground applications of Agnique (biodegradable, alcohol ethoxylared, AE) or Cocobear (Mineral oil) may also be applied in selected wet areas.

These are monomolecular films that prevent adult emergence and can be used against mosquito pupae. Methoprene may also be used to prevent adult mosquito emergence.

These applications will occur in the towns of Brandon, Leicester, Salisbury, Goshen and Pittsford. Pesticide applications beginning on or after April 8, 2017. Exclusion requests need to be renewed yearly. Please send a written request to BLSG, PO Box 188 Brandon, VT 05733.

Further information or comments about the larviciding activities or application exclusion requests can be obtained from: BLSG Insect Control District Will Mathis 802-247-6779 https://blsgmosquito.wordpress.com The Vermont Agency of Agriculture oversees the permitting of these mosquito larvicides and can be reached at 802-828-1319. For more information see the following website: http://agriculture.vermont.gov/plant_pest/mosquitoes_ticks/mosquitoes 3/27

VERMONT PUBLIC SERVICE BOARD NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED PUBLIC HEARING

A Hearing Officer from the Vermont Public Service Board will hold a hearing on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 at 7:00 P.M., to gather public input regarding Case number 8791 – Investigation pursuant to 30 V.S.A. Section 30 and 209 regarding the alleged taking of harsh sunflower plants by Vermont Gas Systems, Inc. in Monkton, Vermont Hearing location: The public hearing will be conducted at the Town of Bristol’s Holley Hall located at 1 South Street, Bristol, Vermont.

Prior to the 7:00 P.M. public hearing the Vermont Department of Public Service will host an information session at 6:00 P.M. to describe the incident and the separate ANR investigation into this matter that has already concluded.

The hearing site is handicapped accessible. Please contact the Clerk of the Board if you require accommodation (802-828-2358).

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY BOARD AND COMMISSION VACANCIES

Each year at this time the Town of Middlebury Select Board makes its annual appointments to volunteer positions required by State Statute, and local and regional boards and commissions. If you are interested in any of the following positions, please submit a letter of interest to the Town Manager’s Office, 94 Main Street, Middlebury, or send an e-mail to bdow@townofmiddlebury.org, no later than Friday, April 7, 2017. If you would like to find out more about any of these positions, please contact us at 388-8100, Ext 202. ( ) indicates number of positions open Three Year Terms Planning Commission (3) Design Advisory Committee (2) Development Review Board (2) Downtown Improvement District Committee (3) Parks and Recreation Committee (1) One Year Term Addison County Regional Planning Commission Delegate (3) Addison County Regional Planning Commission Alternate (2) Addison County Regional Planning Commission Transportation Advisory Committee (1) Energy Committee (7) Fence Viewer (3) First Constable (1) Middlebury Community Television Board (1) Sports Commission (3) Town Agent (1) Town Grand Juror (1) Town Service Officer (1) 3/27 Tree Warden (1)

REG. SELECTBOARD MEETING TUESDAY MARCH 28 • 6 P.M.

ROOM 116 – LARGE CONFERENCE RM. 77 MAIN STREET AGENDA 6:00 1. **Call to Order 2. *Approval of Agenda Symonds, 3. **Wayne P.E., Vermont Agency of Transportation, Update on Main Street & Merchants Row Bridge Replacement Project 7:00 4. *Approval of Minutes of March 21, 2017 Regular Selectboard Meeting 5. **Citizen Comments [Opportunity to raise or address issues that are not otherwise included on this agenda] Liquor License, 7:10 6. *2017 Outside Consumption and Entertainment Permit Approvals 7:15 7. *Appointment to Selectboard to fill Vacant Seat on the Board 7:30 8. *Request to Replace Service Windows in Town Clerk’s Office with Secure, Durable Shades 7:35 9. **Consider Draft Revolving Loan Fund Process Guidelines on December, 7:45 10. *Report January, February & March Public Health & Safety Committee Meetings 8:00 11. *William Brim, Executive Director, Turning Point Center of Addison County, regarding recovery housing and a detox center 8:20 12. **FY17 February Year-toDate Budget Report 8:30 13. *Consider Agreement with White & Burke for lobbying services for Legislation to Lift the Ban on Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Districts 8:40 14. *Approval of Check Warrants 15. *Town Manager’s Report 16. Board Member Concerns 17. *Executive Session – None Anticipated 18. **Action on Matters Discussed in Executive Session 9:00 19. *Adjourn * Decision Item ** Possible Decision If you need special accommodations to attend this meeting, please contact the Town Manager’s Office at 388-8100 x-202 as early as possible.

Additional information about most Agenda items is available on the Town’s website, www.townofmiddlebury.org, on the Selectboard page.

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ADDISON COUNTY

Business News

Harthman joins Vt. Custom Closets

WILLISTON — Vermont Custom Closets of Williston recently announced it had hired Natalia Harthman to work on its design and sales team.

Harthman is a native Vermonter who graduated from Middlebury Union High School and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Interior Design from the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She is CIDA-accredited and brings a wealth of knowledge from the building industry and the design program that makes it all happen.

She most recently worked doing interior design for Connor Homes in Middlebury for over four years and has experience in managing customer service. She has a vast understanding of interior design and function and loves to think outside of the box.

Harthman and her family reside in Middlebury. She joined Vermont Custom Closets looking to help clients visualize their space in a functional way. She is excited to meet new clients and provide the right solution them and their home.

PUBLIC NOTICE BRIDPORT, VT

MIDDLEBURY CEMETERY ASSOCIATION PUBLIC NOTICE

Mobilitie, LLC is proposing to construct a new telecommunications tower facility located at 43.994937, -73.310284 (East of 22A and Market Road), Bridport, Addison County, VT 05734. The new facility will consist of a 123-foot monopole tower.

Any interested party wishing to submit comments regarding the potential effects the proposed facility may have on any historic property may do so by sending comments to: Project 6117000305-TC c/o EBI Consulting, 6876 Susquehanna Trail S, York, PA 17403, or via telephone at 339-234-2597.

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The rescheduled annual meeting of the Middlebury Cemetery Association will be held at the offices of Langrock, Sperry and Wool, 111 S. Pleasant St., Middlebury, VT on 3/16 Tuesday, March 28, 2017 at 5p.m.

WEYBRIDGE CEMETERY REQUEST FOR BIDS

Quaker Village Road. Seeking bids for the 2017 mowing season. Bids accepted until April 4, 2017. Call 545-2482 for details.

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DON’T MISS OUT!

INVITATION TO BID TOWN OF HANCOCK PO BOX 100 HANCOCK, VT 05748

www.addisonindependent.com

Sealed bids for the work described below will be accepted by the Town of Hancock until 3:00 PM, April 4, 2017.

TYPE OF PROJECT: Texas Falls Bridge Repair. (Hancock Bridge #7 on TH #2 over Robbins Branch Road.)

BID OPENING: Sealed bids shall be marked “TEXAS FALLS BRIDGE” and will be publicly opened and read aloud on Tuesday April 4, 2017 at 6:30 pm at the Hancock Town Clerks Office.

Job specs will be available via email or to be picked up at the Town Clerk’s Office, located 1027 VT Route 100, Hancock, VT. All contractors must provide three references and must have proof of liability insurance upon award of job. *The Hancock Select Board reserves the right to reject any and all bids.

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TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT LAWN MOWING BID 2017-2018 INVITATION TO BID

Sealed competitive bids for mowing various municipal parks, recreation areas, cemeteries, pump stations, and grounds of public facilities during the 2017 and 2018 seasons in the Town of Middlebury will be opened at the Town of Middlebury Public Works Building on Monday, April 3, 2017 at 3 PM. Information for Bidders and Bid Forms can be obtained without charge at the Municipal Building at 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, or can be accessed on the Town’s webpage at www.townofmiddlebury.org. Please contact Beth Dow at 388-8100 ext. 202 for additional information. Bids must be received by 3 PM on April 3rd to be considered for the contract.

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TOWN OF ORWELL HEARING DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD

The Orwell Development Review Board will meet on Wednesday, April 19, 2017 at 7:30 pm at the Town Clerk’s Office to conduct the following business: 1. Permit #3-12-17: James and Heather Ewing of Champlain Valley Mushrooms LLC. for a conditional use permit for construction of a building for growing mushrooms at 193 Young Rd. Information pertaining to this matter may be viewed M, T, Th, 9:30-12:00 and 1:00-3:00 and Fri. 9:30-12:00 and 1:006:00 at the Town Clerk’s Office.

Ray Papandrea, Chair Orwell Development Review Board 3/27

TOWN OF LEICESTER NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Leicester Zoning Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing Tuesday, April 11, 2017 at the Leicester Town Office at 6:00 p.m. to consider the following application: (04-17 ZBA) Leicester Church of the Nazarene, 39 Windy Hollow Lane.

Application for waiver for new sign 8’ x 9’ 11” with electronic display. Sign does not meet requirement for size/not exempt in 10 VSA 21. Parcel ID# 060029.8, 39 Windy Hollow Lane, Zoning District RAC, submitted by applicant: Thomas Millington.

Application is available for inspection at the Town Clerk’s Office, 44 Schoolhouse Rd., Leicester, VT during regularly scheduled hours.

Participation in this proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

Peter Fjeld 3/27 ZBA Chairman

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Burlington and Middlebury. Our courses on “Growing Money, Spend Smart and Keys to Credit” were interpreted and many of our materials are now translated.

On Thursday, April 13, we will be showcasing their talents and creativity in a unique Fashion Show called Karibu (Welcome).

Models from countries around the world will be wearing ethnic dress created by artisans from their own community. This will take place at Higher Ground starting at 7 p.m. For more information about this event you can go to the Facebook page: www.facebook. com/events/221687128300379.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act of 1968 as amended which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference, limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, national origin, sexual orientation, or persons receiving public assistance, or an intention to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.”

This newspaper will not knowingly accept any advertisement for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination, call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-424-8590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.

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TOWER HILL FARM —RICK & CURT ESTEY WEDNESDAY APRIL 12TH – 9 A.M. SHARP AT 360 ESTEY RD., BRISTOL VT 05443

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DAIRY 140 Head of artificially sired holsteins, 84 Mature cows (genex sired), 29 bred/springing heifers, 27 Yearlings, 23,975 Rolling herd ave.

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MIDDLEBURY

$335,000

Inviting home just outside of Town. Park like setting, nicely landscaped with perennials and berry bushes. 4 bedrooms and 3 baths. Recently renovated kitchen and bathrooms. Upgraded heating system, windows, lights and floors. Panton stone fireplace, screened-in porch, large deck & patio.

BRIDPORT

$899,000

11-acre Waterfront Estate on Lake Champlain’s Leonard’s Bay. Large main home, 2 attached garages plus fabulous workshop and glass atrium. There is also 2 apartments, one over the garage and one detached from main house.

Rent from these pays taxes. Lots of glass in the sun-filled main house. Easy access to the Lake. A very special Lake Front Property!

ADDISON

$349,900

Beautiful Log home on Lake Champlain, 2 bedroom, 2 bath home with easy access to the lake. Wonderful views of the Adirondack Mountains and Lake Champlain Bridge. 4-season home with logs that form the exterior walls. Lovely open space, maple kitchen cabinets and a wonderful Hearthstone wood stove that keep the home very cozy. The porch is perfect for watching the sun set over the Lake & Mountains!

NEW HAVEN

$129,500

Beautiful country setting with level open space, bordered by trees. Mountain views with a 3 bedroom septic permit approval. New driveway put in leading to a wonderful, picturesque building site.

MIDDLEBURY

$349,500

This spacious 4 bedroom, 3 ½ bath, fully handicapped accessible on the 1st floor, 6 year old home is in a newer neighborhood. Easy walk to all Middlebury Schools.

Energy efficient, green built home with new solar panels on the roof.

ORWELL

$995,000

This house sits on Lake Champlain’s East Creek, wonderful open floor plan with post & beam. The home is very private, surrounded by a wildlife preserve, 3 bedrooms & 3 baths. Gourmet kitchen with 8 burner/2 oven commercial range. 2 dishwashers, granite counter tops, 3-season room with deck offers incredible views.

Heated greenhouse, post & beam. English styled barn offering potential 2 bedroom apartment with septic in place. 50 acres organic land & 64 acres forest.

MIDDLEBURY

$79,500

A nice 2.25 acre lot in the middle of a nature preserve.

Minutes to downtown, but very private. A new house could be constructed using the old footprint. New septic design is already approved. Current house on this 2.25 acre lot has little value other than a pre-existing footprint. Extensive work needs to be done to house and all systems.

BRISTOL

$49,900

Building Lot with open meadow in a great location on south side of Town of Bristol, lot sets back from road.

70 Court Street, Middlebury, VT

802-989-7522

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WEYBRIDGE

$735,000

The definition of Country Contemporary, beautifully renovated home rests on 10+ private acres with long views of the Champlain Valley and Green Mountains. In addition to 4 bedrooms and 3 baths, this home has a 1 bedroom guest/caretaker apartment. The detached oversized 2-car garage also includes a large office space and abundant storage. Vermont slate accents, top of the line appliances and finishes. The land slopes to Otter Creek with landscaped access to the river. Solar panels provide a good amount of your own electricity.

RIPTON

$95,000

Charming 4-season retreat in the woods of Frost Mountain. This cabin is located on 2.5 private wooded acres, perfect for hunting camp, artist studio or just a place to get back to nature. In addition to the residence, there is a picturesque pond in the back corner of the lot and many out buildings. This home has a new metal roof, large screened-in front porch and was fully insulated by Efficiency Vermont in 2008. Come take a look at this cozy cabin, nestled in the Mountain’s of Vermont.

FERRISBURGH

$399,000

A classic 1832 Stone Home on beautiful 10 acre lot!

Beautiful Adirondack views from the back of the house.

Green Mountains from the front. Minutes from Basin Harbor Club. Conserved Land protects the view forever!

Master bedroom & bath on main floor with 4 additional bedrooms on 2nd floor. Large barn and lots of storage.

A fabulous historic home in a great location.

MIDDLEBURY

$75,000

Desireable 3.5 acre building lot with state approved septic design for a 3 bedroom home. There is some nice soil on this parcel of land, but septic design is a low mount because the seasonal high water table is a little high for an in-ground system.