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Police remove agitated man from CSAC MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury Police removed, from the Counseling Service of Addison County Main Street offices, a drunken man who was being “belligerent and very agitated” on March 23. In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Assisted a woman who on March 19 said she had been harassed. • Helped a Case Street landlord who was having problems with a tenant on March 19. • Investigated a report of a man carrying a crossbow on Water Street on March 19. Police said they could not find such a person. • Assisted a local man who on March 21 reported receiving harassing phone calls from a woman. • Referred, to family court, a local man seeking to have a drunken relative removed from his home on March 21. • Helped a parent with an out-ofcontrol teenage girl in the Route 7 south area on March 21. • Served a no-trespass order on March 20 on a man not wanted at the
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One Dollar Market. • Investigated a report of a woman driving away from the Porter Medical Center campus while possibly impaired on March 22. • Helped a local man who was experiencing a mental health issue on March 22. • Received a report on March 22 about a possible assault at the Frank Mahady Courthouse. Police continue to investigate the matter. • Ticketed vehicles on College Street on March 22 that were in violation of the town’s winter parking ban. • Investigated a report of a drunken man yelling at himself in the Shaw’s Supermarket parking lot on March 23. • Investigated a motor vehicle complaint on Monroe Street on
March 23. • Helped Vermont Department for Children & Families officials find a runaway girl on March 23. • Served a no-trespass order on a local man on Seymour Street on March 23. • Were informed someone had driven a snow machine on a Creek Road resident’s property on March 23 without first asking the landowner’s permission. • Ticketed several vehicles in violation of the town’s winter parking ban on various local streets on March 24. • Investigated a report of the smell of marijuana allegedly emanating from a South Village Green apartment on March 25. Police said they could detect no such smell. • Responded to a noise complaint at a Court Street apartment on March 25. • Dispersed a group of drunken people who had gathered in the hallway of a Court Street apartment building on March 25.
City police receieve DUI recognition help VERGENNES — Vergennes Police Department’s Drug Recognition Expert Jill Grant twice recently helped Vermont State Police with driving-under-the-influence-ofdrugs cases. In a March 24 case, according to Police Chief George Merkel, Grant offered guidance to VSP in their Middlesex barracks over the phone. Merkel said the DRE provided questions and procedures to VSP on the phone call that enabled VSP to gather enough evidence to require a DUI-drug suspect to submit to blood testing. The other case, Merkel said, came on March 19 and was more typical: Grant went to VSP’s New Haven barracks to evaluate a suspect. Vergennes police also were kept busy between March 19 and 25 with late-winter enforcement of the city’s December-through-March ban on overnight parking on its streets. During a snowy week police issued a dozen tickets to violators of the wintertime ban, which expires on March 31. In other action between March 19 and 25, Vergennes police: On March 19: • Spoke, along with school officials, to a Vergennes Union High School student who brought a
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vaporizer to school; police said he was unaware there was nicotine in the product he was vaping, and they and school officials asked him to speak to a counselor. • Went to McKnight Lane in Waltham to look into a complaint that someone had looked into a home through a window in a door; police said they found no footprints in the snow in what was the second time they had responded to a similar unfounded complaint at the home. • On behalf of the Addison County Sheriff’s Department, cited a resident for driving with a suspended license. On March 20: • On behalf of Shelburne police, unsuccessfully tried to find an acquaintance of a DUI suspect. • Calmed a child custody dispute at a Hillside Drive apartment. • Helped Richmond police by taking a statement from a city resident. • Dealt with a dog-barking complaint on North Maple Street. On March 22, took a complaint
from a Northlands Job Corps student that he was being bullied; according to Northlands officials the student was being terminated for being disruptive and for being ineligible for program participation. On March 23: • Issued a motorist tickets for speeding and possession of marijuana and paraphernalia at a West Main Street traffic stop. • Helped conduct a lockdown drill at VUHS. • Responded for a third time in the past two weeks to a noise complaint at a North Green Street apartment; police spoke to the landlord. On March 24, cited Kelley Zilembo, 35, of Bristol for DUI and failing to yield at a stop sign. Police allege her blood-alcohol content tested at 0.124 after they stopped her car for failing to honor a stop sign at the junction of New Haven Road and Route 7. On March 25: • Found a debit card while on patrol and attempted to contact its owner. • Responded to a complaint of a violation of a restraining order; police said the complaint was false, but stood by while an individual retrieved belongings from a West Main Street residence.
Help move amphibians to safety ADDISON COUNTY — 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 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 to observe a dramatic natural spectacle and to monitor 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 between Monday, March 26 and Sunday, April 15 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.
Leicester LEICESTER — Town Clerk Julie Delphia reminds residents to register dogs by April 1. A dog census will be conducted in May and to avoid penalties and fees it is important to get dogs registered. Leicester Historical Society is
Salisbury SALISBURY — At the recent town meeting various local businesses donated items for the raffle. Attendees could purchase
JOE ALEXANDER WITH a whopper spotted salamander.
Photo/Toby Alexander
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 we provide tips on species identification and
appropriate human behavior. Data collectors will record the numbers of each species that volunteers move during the first two hours. Email kinglet@together.net to sign up for the 2018 amphibian email alert list.
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sponsoring Prize Bingo on Saturday, April 14, at 1:00 p.m. at the Senior Center at the Four Corners. Refreshments will be served and all are welcome. The town is seeking one or two individuals to represent the town on
the BLSG. For more information, contact Julie Delphia at 247-5961. Plans are underway for Green Up Day on Saturday, May 5. A free lunch for volunteer workers will be held at the Four Corners from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on that day.
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raffle tickets for the items they wanted and names were drawn for each item. Prizes and winners were: Peggy Cox and Davis Brakeley, $25 worth of Nop Farm beef; $50 treatment at Parlour Salon, David Moats; 10 State Park passes, Beth Morrissey; Landfill passes, Michael Montague, Janet Mosurick and Jody Brakeley; $10 gift certificate at Middlebury Sweets, Jen Nuceder. Also Maple Meadows maple syrup, Sally McClintock; bird feeder, Mary Beth Tichacek; Yankee Candle, Casey Fitzgerald; Vermont Home cutting board, Sue Scott;
electric pressure cooker, Rebecca Holmes; Girl Scout cookies, Ruth Bernstein; and a 3 light vanity bar, Barb Karle. Thanks to these businesses for their donations. There will be a multi-school folk dance at the Salisbury school on Thursday, March 28 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. The Salisbury Community School’s spring music concert will be held Tuesday, April 10 at 6 p.m. The annual Firemen’s breakfast will be held on Sunday, April 15 at the Salisbury Community School from 7:30 to 11 a.m.; $10 adults, $5 children.
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