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This time of year it’s easy to have garden envy. A local woman helps cure it. See Arts + Leisure.

The Panther women’s lax team rallied to win an NCAA game despite adversity. See Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

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A LARGE YELLOW “X” marks the north end of the Middlebury Airport runway Tuesday morning. The marking indicates that the runway is closed during work to extend and widen it. The entire airport project, which also includes work on the taxiways, should be complete in August, but the runway portion should be done much sooner, according to workes on site.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Ferrisburgh board to move charter forward following close vote

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh selectboard on Tuesday chose to forward the town’s first-ever charter to the Vermont Legislature for approval despite the narrow backing residents gave it in low turnout on May 11.

Residents last week in Australian balloting supported, by a tally of 61-59, a charter that would give the selectboard the power to appoint Ferrisburgh’s town clerk and treasurer. The total of 120 votes cast equaled about 5.5 percent of Ferrisburgh’s eligible voters.

Those positions have always been elected during Ferrisburgh’s more-than-250-year history, but problems with the town’s previous treasurer, who was ousted by voters in March, led the selectboard to consider making the switch to (See Ferrisburgh, Page 12A)

Two Middlebury farms eyed for conservation easements

Butler, Pominville operations offer views, soils

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Land Trust (VLT) is seeking to raise a combined total of around $814,000 to permanently conserve substantial acreage on two of Middlebury’s dwindling number of dairy farms.

The money would protect from development 148 acres of the Butler Farm off Munger Street, and 210 acres of the Quarry Road Farm owned by Shirley Pominville and her son Joel.

The VLT got a big assist in its efforts last week when the Middlebury selectboard voted

unanimously to contribute a combined $55,000 from the town’s conservation fund to the Butler and Quarry Road Farm deals.

Allen Karnatz, the VLT’s Champlain Valley Farm Director, said the Middlebury contribution will help both farms’ causes as their funding applications get reviewed by the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board. It is through the VHCB that the deals will have to receive the bulk of their financing. That panel will meet June 14 to consider around 15 projects, of which around a dozen will

likely get approved, according to Karnatz.

“The town’s support is important,” Karnatz said.

“Not many projects I work on get a contribution of any kind (from their community).”

BUTLER FARM Doug Butler’s grandfather purchased the family’s 340acre farm off Munger Street back in 1926. The Butlers rent an additional 600 acres. They have 680 head of cattle — 300 of which are cows, the other 380 young stock. “(The Butler) farm is the last active dairy farm on Munger (See Land, Page 14A)

Editor’s note: This is the first is currently held by a woman: State in a two-part series looking at the Treasurer Beth Pearce.

• In its 240 years (starting in Vermont Women and Leadership report recently issued by Change the 1778 with the Vermont Republic), Vermont has elected only 11 women Story VT. to statewide office, out of 296 office

By GAEN MURPHREE ADDISON COUNTY — Even a holders, or less than 4 percent.

At the local-government level, just cursory glance shows that women occupy prominent places of leadership one of Vermont’s eight mayors is a in Addison County. Women lead woman. And women hold just 21 percent of seats on the such organizations as state’s selectboards.

Middlebury College, Looking at these National Bank of stats, it’s a little less Middlebury, the Patrons surprising to learn Cooperative Fire that Vermont gets a Insurance Company D from the electoral and the United Way. parity organization Women lead schools Representation20/20, and school boards, and a 14.1 out of 50 run libraries, and on its “gender parity chair selectboards and score.”

Neighboring planning commissions.

New Hampshire gets A strong delegation an A (the only state in of women represents the the nation to do so) and county in Montpelier.

AYER a gender parity rating The same is true of 55.4. statewide. For example, But does it matter? women hold a higher percentage of “Women look at things differently,” seats in the state’s general assembly than in any other state but Nevada. said Claire Ayer, state senator Sixty percent of the state’s Supreme for Addison County since 2002.

Court Justices are women, as are 50 “Men and women have a different percent of its college and university experience of life and that leads them presidents and 43 percent of Gov. to different conclusions. It’s not that they can’t learn but Scott’s executive where they come from cabinet. is a different place, At the local level, especially adult men over half the state’s and women. So I think school board members having that balance are women. in decisionmaking is Yet a recent study important.

Whether from women’s it’s should we do a advocacy organization new road or invest Change the Story VT more in childcare, you reveals some startling might be drawn to one disparities when one choice or another based takes a closer look at on gender, gender the numbers: experience.

• Vermont has never “There’s no doubt sent a woman to the HARDY in my mind, actually,” U.S. Congress, a record shared by only one other state: Ayer added.

Peg Martin, who broke the Mississippi.

• Vermont has had only one Middlebury genderline in 1973 as female governor, Madeleine Kunin, the town’s first woman “selectman,” emphasized that the two genders who served from 1985 to 1991.

• Only one of the state’s six often differ in how they approach statewide elected offices (governor, leadership and decisionmaking.

“It would be stupid to say that attorney general, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor, treasurer) (See Leadership, Page 7A)

Bridport’s Dattilio combines love of art and hunting By the way On April 20, Christina Walker of Ripton and her partner of 22 years, Brian Kerr, were involved in a head-on collision on Route 7 in Salisbury. Kerr was killed in the crash, and Walker suffered multiple injuries and faces a long road to recovery. On Friday, May 26, the Ripton community will hold a benefit pizza bake to help Kerr and Walker’s three children. The pizza bake will run from 5-6:30 (See By the way, Page 7A)

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VUHS grad’s painting of wild gobbler draws national honor

By JOHN FLOWERS BRIDPORT — Four years ago, Vergennes Union High School alum Dustin Dattilio was a junior at Castleton State College, studying to become an athletic trainer. He spent some of his down time in his dorm room with a sketch pad and pencil, doodling and taking requests from friends.

“It started out as celebrity portraits,” Dattilio recalled during a Monday interview at his Bridport home. “People “I hear all would say, ‘draw so-and-so.’” the time, Bryan Cranston sneering under his “Breaking Bad” pork ‘You’re so talented.’ But pie hat. Harry Potter making magic. Rap stars Biggie Smalls people don’t and Macklemore striking understand ominous, pensive poses.

Give him a photo and he’d the amount of make it come alive. These hours I have weren’t the crude scrawlings put into this.” of a Pictionary novice.

— Dustin Dattilio Dattilio’s friends were blown away. His pencil work was so exacting and realistic that he began to receive cash offers for his work. Then came commissions.

The new spending money and accolades prompted him to take a sharp career detour from athletic trainer to an artist in training. So Dattilio changed his major to fine arts, earned his bachelor’s degree in 2014, and is now well on his way to national acclaim thanks to a new, prestigious citation added to his nascent resumé.

(See Dattilio, Page 12A)

BRIDPORT RESIDENT AND Vergennes Union High School graduate Dustin Dattilio recently won national recognition for his painting of a wild turkey. The 24-year-old artist specializes in paintings and drawings of animals and birds.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, May 18, 2017

Bristol Scout pulls kiosk project for Holley Hall

Hover boat

A BOAT SKIPPERED by Kevin Mahaney, Middlebury College class of 1984, in the America’s Cup trials in 1995 sits above the pond behind the college’s Mahaney Center for the Arts. The boat was designed by American artist Roy Lichtenstein. The hull, the centerpiece of the exhibit “Young America: Roy Lichtenstein and the America’s Cup” opening May 26, will be on display through Aug. 13.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

City developer appeals court ruling Expanded Starksboro board tackles to-do list

By ANDY KIRKALDY pants of the existing four apartments.

VERGENNES — Vt. EnvironAccording to Durkin’s decision, mental Court Judge Thomas Durkin Mahaiwe’s appeal focused on whethon April 28 denied the owner of Grist er Vergennes zoning laws “authorize Mill Island’s appeal of a Vergennes the DRB to impose the conditions set Development Review Board permit out in the decision,” whether the DRB condition, but on May 8 the owner’s “acted arbitrarily and capriciously in attorney petitioned the judge to re- imposing the conditions,” “whether consider elements of that decision. the DRB exceeded its statutory auThe central issue was thority,” “whether the whether the DRB could conditions were imposed David require Mahaiwe LLC pursuant to an impermisto install metal perime- Shlansky said sibly vague standard” and ter fencing on Grist Mill he planned to “whether the approval is Island that is similar to move offices binding as to lighting.” fencing on the adjacent out of the Grist Durkin backed the Pumphouse Island in the Mill and install DRB on all counts. He Otter Creek Falls. Ferrisconcluded the city zoning burgh resident and major apartments, gives the DRB “the aucity property owner Da- and also to thority to impose reasonvid Shlansky is the prin- convert a able conditions to ensure cipal of Mahaiwe LLC. horse barn on safety, including condiThe DRB attached that the island into tions that call for fencing condition to its Sept. 2016 to mitigate the hazard living units. decision granting a permit posed by a project’s proxthat allowed Mahaiwe to imity to a waterfront.” add five apartments to the four existHe wrote there was “no basis for ing apartments on Grist Mill Island. an assertion that conditional use reShlansky said he planned to move of- view could not include appropriate fices out of the Grist Mill and install safety measures, including fencing,” apartments, and also to convert a horse and added, “In determining what barn on the island into living units. type of fence is appropriate, the Shlansky proposed to use what DRB resorted to a reasonable underhe described in an email as “vertical standing of safety.” posts and two heavy chains between Durkin also stated that Mahaiwe the posts” to protect pedestrians from in its application essentially gave the what the parties agree is up to a 37- DRB a choice between the post-andfoot drop. Such fencing is already in chain and Pumphouse Island fencing place around much of the Grist Mill options: “The reality that the DRB Island perimeter, but there are gaps. also adopted Mahaiwe’s own suggesShlansky said similar fencing has tions for fencing negates Mahaiwe’s been used in the “Tidal Basin in D.C., challenge to this condition.” in lower Manhattan, in Central Park in Durkin concluded: “Given the facManhattan, along the parks on the wa- tual findings that the proposed project ter in Boston,” and in other locations. site presents a fall hazard … A fence He also noted that there had been no that is more substantial than the exsafety problems experienced by occu- isting post-and-chain fence, with

its multiple gaps, would provide an appropriate measure of mitigation.

In reaching this conclusion, we are unable to agree with Mahaiwe that the DRB’s conditions on fencing are arbitrary or capricious. Furthermore, we conclude that the DRB was not acting arbitrarily or capriciously in requiring the installation of a very specific type of fence.”

Mahaiwe’s May 8 Motion for Reconsideration states that Mahaiwe’s initial appeal was “a preliminary briefing” that was allowed “in the case that those preliminarily-treated issues could dispose of the full case,” and states the April 28 ruling “contains no consideration of issues outside the preliminary briefing.”

Specifically, it asks: • “Does the Constitution of the State of Vermont prohibit the DRB from imposing the conditions set forth in its Decision?”

• “Does the Charter of the City of Vergennes, Vermont, fail to enable the DRB imposing the conditions set forth in its Decision?”

• “Are the conditions set forth in the DRB Decision (such as fencing) permanently fixed such that any alteration hereafter requires DRB approval, based on the existing regulations?”

• If the answer to the foregoing questions is “yes,” what is the quantum of change that requires DRB approval (and what standards) in the current regulations would apply and guide such change review?”

The reconsideration motion also asks if alterations require DRB approval, whether that provision also applies to project lighting, and whether other “landscape specifications and depictions,” such as walkway fence posts, plantings and outdoor seating, are also binding permit conditions.

By GAEN MURPHREE was best for the town. Coon said STARKSBORO — At its the cost of the NERMC system April retreat, the newly expanded would likely be prohibitive for the five-person Starksboro selectboard town: $10,000 plus $300 a year for set itself a number of priorities for each module. Additionally, Coon the work ahead. These include: said that historic data would not • Evaluating the town’s finan- migrate from QuickBooks to NERcial reporting software.

MC, which could make it difficult • Improving methods of com- to retrieve that data. Coon said she munication with community mem- feels comfortable using Quickbers, including the town website.

Books and she’s made a compari• Continuing mainson with other towns. tenance on town buildNew selectboard All ings and properties. member Koran Cous• Requiring liability contractors ino has taken the lead insurance for all town who work on improving the town contractors. website, starksborovt. on town • Reclassification org. Cousino enlisted of certain Class Four property Starksboro residents must now roads.

Erin Buckwalter (marSince Town Meeting provide proof keting development diDay, the selectboard of liability rector for the Northeast has begun to tackle Organic Farming Assothese and other issues insurance. ciation of Vermont) and important to the town. marketing and commuTown auditors Telling and Asso- nications consultant Rebecca Elciates recommended that the town der to start working on a redesign. consider upgrading its account- Other townspersons interested in ing system to something “more volunteering on the town website robust.” The town currently uses should contact Cousino.

QuickBooks. Possibilities include Mowing has been a big priority something like the New England as the weather heats up and VerMunicipal Resource Center’s ac- mont lurches toward summer. Afcounting software, widely used ter soliciting bids, the selectboard by school districts, nonprofits and picked Scenic Valley Landscaping other municipalities. The board to mow around the town buildings, discussed that changing systems including the new town garage and would require a serious review of the Jerusalem Schoolhouse and options and cost analysis. awarded Dan Gebo a three-year Starksboro Treasurer Celine contract to mow Cota Field.

Coon attended the selectboard’s All contractors who work on May 2 meeting to discuss what (See Starksboro, Page 3A)

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — An Eagle Scout project to construct a kiosk with an electronic message board in front of Bristol’s Holley Hall has been cancelled.

Town Administrator Therese Kirby informed the Bristol selectboard Monday night that Bristol teenager Victor Hinojosa, who wanted to build the kiosk in part to Eagle rank, had contacted her over the weekend to say that he would be pursuing a different community service project to attain the Boy Scouts of America’s highest rank.

According to Kirby, Hinojosa said that because pursuing the kiosk project would likely entail getting an extension from the Scouts, he preferred to pursue something that could be completed in a more timely fashion.

“The town of Bristol is very thankful to Victor Hinojosa for all of his great work and we support his decision to move to a new project because it was right for him,” Kirby told the Independent.

Hinojosa’s project had been encouraged by the selectboard but drew criticism in the community once residents understood it would include an electronic message board. Community members responded positively to the design for the wooden kiosk itself (which Hinojosa designed in collaboration with Lincoln “The town l a n d s c a p e of Bristol is artist Reed Prescott), but very thankful n e g a t i v e l y to Victor to the elec- Hinojosa for tronic mes- all of his great sage board work and specified in we support H i n o j o s a ’s p r o p o s a l . his decision Some lik- to move to a ened it to the new project kind found because it at malls, car was right for dealerships and casinos; him.” some com- — Therese Kirby pared to the blinking lights on the message board at the gateway to Mount Abraham Union High School.

Monday night’s selectboard meeting went on for nearly four hours, said Kirby, because so many members of the public attended to discuss the kiosk project. Given that the project was to come before Bristol’s Zoning Board of Adjustment the very next night, the Bristol selectboard voted to withdraw its permit application for the kiosk. The selectboard vote was three to two, with Joel Bouvier, Peter Coffey and Ted Lylis voting to pull the kiosk permit and John “Peeker” Heffernan and Michelle Perlee voting not to pull it.

After a standing room crowd attended the May 1 selectboard meeting — some in support of Hinojosa, (See Bristol, Page 2A)

Democrat lawmakers, governor at impasse on budget

By ELIZABETH HEWITT and TIFFANY DANITZ PACHE VTDigger.org MONTPELIER — After weeks of inconclusive negotiations with the governor, legislative leaders on Wednesday afternoon said it was

time to move on.

“We have reached an impasse,” House Speaker Mitzi Johnson, D-South Hero, said.

Johnson and Senate President Pro Tem Tim Ashe, D/P-Chittenden, presented a united front, saying

more than a dozen meetings with Gov. Phil Scott’s administration on the issue of teachers’ health care negotiations had not yielded a satisfactory result.

In mid-April, Scott came forward with a proposal to shift negotiations

for teachers’ health care benefits from the local to the statewide level, which he said could net up to $26 million in property tax savings. He threatened to veto the state budget if the Legislature does not pass legislation that meets his

requirements.

Key for the Democratic leadership is the need to keep collective bargaining untouched and at the local school district level. The governor, on the other hand, will not budge on the need to have a uniform

bargaining outcome to maximize savings from the switch.

Ashe and Johnson both came up with counterproposals that would return savings directly to the property tax payers. The Republican (See Budget impasse, Page 3A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 18, 2017 — PAGE 3A

‘Workforce housing’ project gets Middlebury approval

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Development Review Board has given its approval to a new, 40-unit apartment building that will offer what its developer is defining as “workforce housing.”

Brett Grabowski, director of development for Milot Real Estate, said the company plans to break ground next month on the project in the Middlebury South Village planned unit development, located near The Centre shopping plaza of Court Street Extension. The three-

story building will be located on a 1.2-acre lot in South Village that the town had previously greenlighted for 16 townhouses. Those townhouses were never built, thus freeing up the property for Milot’s acquisition.

“We had a lot of discussions with the town before we brought our plan to the DRB,” Grabowski said. “We received a lot of positive encouragement.”

The DRB voted unanimously (70) to endorse Milot’s application, stating (among other things) in its

approval: • “Because other, similar uses exist in the nearby area, the DRB finds that the project will have no undue adverse impact on the character of the neighborhood.”

Neighbors of the future project include an office building hosting various state agencies, two homes along Creek Road, and an affordable housing apartment building.

• “It is anticipated that the new dwelling units created as a result of this project will fill an unmet need in Middlebury’s housing market, for

quality, market-rate rental housing,” the decision reads. “This project may increase the supply of belowmarket rate housing, as persons who occupy the new dwelling units created by this project may be vacating more inexpensive units elsewhere in the surrounding area.”

Grabowski said monthly rents will amount to around $1,000 for the one-bedroom units and around $1,300 for the two-bedroom units.

Heat and hot water will be included in all the rents, he added. Plans call for half of the proposed 40

apartments to have two bedrooms, with the other half having a single bedroom.

• “This project accomplished the town plan goal of concentrating residential development within areas planned for future growth, using existing infrastructure,” the decision reads. “It is located within walking distance of the ball fields and recreation center, trails and open space amenities, essential goods and services, and the Addison County Transit Resources bus stop.”

The new, 52-feet-tall apartment

A 40-UNIT APARTMENT building in the Middlebury South Village property off Court Street was OK’d by town officials, and construction is due to start next month.

Courtesy of Rabideau Associates

CVUUS to host rhubarb festival

Budget impasse prescribed in the legislation.

(Continued from Page 2A) This week, the speaker presented plans would move the savings into the education fund to either lower the governor with a modified plan — property taxes for everyone or be but no actual language. Sources told used to provide a tax cut but also VTDigger some of the components. help pay for higher education and Contract talks would continue at the local school district level but with child care.

Failure to find resolution has twice restricted terms. School districts and thwarted legislative adjournment the union would have to negotiate an ambitions already. Lawmakers are 80/20 split on the premiums (pegged now back for a 19th — unbudgeted to a specific plan) and put an exact amount in health — week, officially savings accounts to running overtime. cover teachers’ outIf Scott vetoes the of-pocket costs. budget, he would call If the bargaining lawmakers back for concluded without a special session to all the health care come up with a new savings, school budget. The state fiscal districts and teachers year starts July 1. would split the Ashe and Johnson remainder to make up expressed frustration for the lost savings. with the discussions School districts would with the governor in cut their budgets, and recent weeks and said teachers would forfeit he has been unwilling a portion of their to meet them on GOV. SCOTT salaries. middle ground.

Now, Johnson and Ashe said, “There is a point where a negotiation becomes a dictation,” legislative committees will resume work on the final bills of the year — Ashe said.

Ashe said the governor’s original including the state budget and the proposal did not guarantee that education finance bill — to reconcile taxpayers would recoup $26 million the House and Senate positions.

The plan now is to assign a because the state would have to negotiate the perfect deal with conference committee to deal with teachers’ unions in order to net the the education property tax bill with the Ashe proposal the Senate sent full savings.

Johnson alluded to multiple over to the House. House and Senate proposals the Legislature has floated conferees will dig into this and see if they can accommodate the governor to try to meet his goals.

“We’ve put out easily three or and both chambers.

Adjournment could happen four different ideas, and none of them are his and so they have all as early as the end of the week, according to an aide to the speaker. been rejected,” Johnson said.

The Legislature will remain open Last week, the Senate passed the Ashe plan that cut $13 million to ideas from the governor, but from the education fund, strongly they’re not counting on it, the two recommended a specific outcome leaders said.

Earlier in the day, Scott said the on health care that keeps bargaining local, and would force school boards latest proposal from the speaker’s to cut their budgets if they were not office is “moving in the right able to negotiate the exact amount direction” but that the negotiations

with legislative leadership had not progressed much.

He claimed there is broad support for his plan among the public.

“There might be this vortex here surrounding the Statehouse, but outside the Statehouse there’s a constant wind of support for what I’m proposing,” Scott said.

He reiterated that he will not support the state budget if the Legislature does not meet his requirements.

“I’ve made it quite clear that if we aren’t able to get agreement on what I believe needs to be in the bill, that I will not hesitate to veto it,” Scott said.

Senate Minority Leader Dustin Degree, R-Franklin, said if leadership is not working with the governor, he expects to be back in June for a veto session.

“If they’re not willing to come to the table with the governor anymore, there’s no reason for us to be here,” Degree said.

“We were hopeful we could come to some conclusion,” said House Minority Leader Don Turner, R-Milton, on Wednesday afternoon.

He expects lawmakers will just return to the same situation in the Statehouse two weeks from now.

“We are on a path to a veto.

There is no sense hanging out for two, three, five more days when the inevitable is going to happen,” he said.

Turner said it is not true the governor has been immovable as the Democrats claim.

“I am standing in front of you and telling you that is not true,” he told the Republican caucus. The governor has been meeting with Turner and some other Republican lawmakers to keep them up to date on proposals. Turner said the governor has been flexible on some things that the caucus wasn’t comfortable with.

“We have to keep our coalition together, too,” he said.

MIDDLEBURY — The eighth annual Rhubarb Festival is coming Saturday, June 3, to the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society (CVUUS) on Duane Court in Middlebury, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

There will be an abundance of homemade rhubarb pies — but come early for strawberry-rhubarb. Sweets and savories will also be for sale. A

café, opening at 10:30, will offer a sandwich or salad lunch for $5, including a dessert of rhubarb crisp with (optional) whipped cream, and choice of coffee, tea, lemonade.

Find gently used children’s books, bling and scarves. A variety of houseplants, seedlings, and home grown plants, including basil, tomato, nasturtium, zinnia and veggies

will be available. Face painting for kids will happen in the church foyer.

Live music — fiddlers, piano and singers — will be performed throughout the day. Half the proceeds will go to a local charity.

Handicapped parking is available behind the church or at the nearby High School lot. Call 388-8080 for information, or www.cvuus.org.

land at the town gravel pit, the old Starksboro landfill, and land next to Robinson Elementary School.

Green Lantern’s Sam Carlson attended the April 18 selectboard meeting to discuss the proposed array(s).

He told the selectboard that Green Lantern is proposing a minimum 20-year lease, with possible three- to five-year extensions. Green Lantern will also present their proposal to the Starksboro Planning Commission.

In a conversation with the Independent, Jefferies explained that the solar discussion with Green Lantern is very much in the initial stages and that any negotiations would involve a full process, including public hearings.

She also explained that the gravel pit acreage under consideration is land for which the town already has a purchase and sale agreement with a neighboring landowner. That agreement had been extended through June and the selectboard is waiting to hear from the potentials purchaser.

In terms of the land next to Robinson Elementary, Jefferies said she has contacted both the Robinson School Board and Addison Northeast Superintendent Patrick Reen to set up

a conversation about how that land might be returned to the town, under the Act 46 articles of agreement voters approved last November.

Among the most important developments for Starksboro since elections on Town Meeting Day is the five-person board itself. The town voted last December to expand from a three-person to a five-person board.

On March 7, newcomers Koran Cousino and Keegan Tierney won the two new seats and incumbent Peter Marsh defeated challenger Dan Baker. Cousino and Tierney then joined veterans Marsh, Jefferies and Tony Porter on the town board.

“I just love this new selectboard,” said Jefferies. “I just love it. We have five people who are active and engaged and interested. And our new members bring a great perspective on things and are asking great questions and taking on a lot of work. It’s been everything I hoped it would be.”

The selectboard was set to meet May 16; and next scheduled to meet June 6 at the town offices.

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

Starksboro (Continued from Page 2A) town property must now provide proof of liability insurance.

Several landowners have approached the town about having Class Four roads on their property declassified. Roads in this category thus far include Mason Hill North and Mason Hill South. The selectboard plans to allot part of an upcoming June meeting to meet with landowners on this issue. The selectboard has also been at work clarifying its criteria for defining and maintaining Class Four roads and has drafted a Class Four road and trail policy.

Along with approving a maintenance schedule for various parts of various town properties, the selectboard has been part of an ongoing discussion about the Jerusalem Schoolhouse. A joint committee has been formed with the goal of moving ahead with the long-planned schoolhouse renovations. The joint committee will include representatives from the Starksboro selectboard, the Starksboro Fire Department, Friends of the Jerusalem Schoolhouse and, hopefully, representatives from the Ladies Home Circle.

SOLAR ARRAYS Also up before the selectboard is a proposal from Waterbury’s Green Lantern Group to develop one to three small commercial solar arrays in Starksboro. The 150-kilowatt arrays would be sited on one-acre parcels.

The proposed sites are the conserved

Bristol (Continued from Page 2A) almost all in support of the design for the kiosk structure, but most in opposition to the electronic message board — the matter had then gone before Bristol’s Design Review Committee the next evening. After hours of discussion, the DRC then made the recommendation to the ZBA that the kiosk itself get built, but that the electronic messaging board be suspended until a committee could be formed to further review the matter.

Kirby said the selectboard is now looking for residents interested in volunteering on a committee to “explore ways the citizens of Bristol can become more engaged with town boards and committees.” Kirby said that possible kiosk designs is one of the items such a committee could consider.

The committee will be appointed by and report to the selectboard.

Anyone interested in serving on the committee should send their name, contact information and brief statement of interest to Pam Correia at bristoladmin@gmavt.net and should also be prepared to attend the June 12 selectboard meeting.

Gaen Murphree is reached at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

building will have a pitched, shingle roof and fiber-cement siding. It will have 62 parking spaces available that are shared in common with other buildings in the South Village planned unit development.

Grabowski anticipates nine months of construction on the new building, with the units becoming available beginning next spring.

Asked what kind of renters the project would likely attract, Grabowski said, “Young professionals, up to potentially empty nesters.”

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Dems deal themselves a weak hand to Gov’s aces As the Vermont Legislature approaches adjournment, possibly this Friday, it is most likely that the budget, as it stands, will be vetoed by the governor a few weeks from now. Negotiations will continue via an appointed committee, and legislators will be called back to Montpelier this summer for a final reckoning.

At issue is Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s insistence that Vermont not miss what he calls a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save up to $26 million annually by virtue of renegotiating teacher health insurance policies statewide under a provision in the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare.) That provision effectively imposes a more cost-effective way to provide teachers health insurance, and has a November 2017 deadline.

To capture that opportunity, Scott proposed that the state negotiate health care benefits for teachers across the state, so that maximum savings would be created for the taxpayer while preserving the same benefits for the teachers.

It was, he said, a win-win scenario; and that, he says, is still his ultimate aim.

What has happened since that proposal is a series of miscalculations by the Democratic leadership: First, Democratic party leaders dismissed Scott’s proposal as coming out of left field with too little time left in the session (that was three weeks ago) to adequately consider the measure. When that excuse failed, and the House passed by one vote a measure to approve Scott’s proposal (that was later killed by House Speaker Mitzi Johnson casting the tie vote), Democratic leaders woke up to the notion that Scott’s proposal had public support and they needed to respond more thoughtfully. But the measures proposed by Senate Pro Tem Tim Ashe and House Speaker Mitzi Johnson drew plenty of arrows from both sides of the political aisle, and neither garnered the governor’s support.

On Wednesday, after several days of trying to reach a compromise, the House and Senate declared they were at an impasse with the governor, which sets the stage for what seems certain to be one of the first budgets in years to be vetoed by the governor and sustained by the minority party in the Legislature.

If that happens, score a victory for Scott and a defeat for Democratic leaders. Here’s why it will be a victory for Gov. Scott: • He’s fighting for property taxpayers, while ensuring teachers don’t pay more out of pocket for the changes to their health insurance policies. The key to the governor’s proposal (if true) is that it holds teachers harmless, and puts $50 million of the estimated $75 million savings, aside to cover added teacher costs. That’s not an anti-teacher policy; in fact, as we have argued before, providing small school districts with health insurance parity strengthens the poorer and smaller school districts across the state. In most other circumstances, that is a policy idea Democrats would champion.

• Scott’s proposal, ironically, builds on the Democratic initiative that lies at the heart of Act 46, which has been roundly opposed by the same Republicans who are now supporting Scott on this issue — and for opposite reasons: Republicans opposed a state-centric approach in Act 46, while championing it here. Whatever. Act 46 is above all a measure to try to get a grip on K-12 education spending, and Scott’s initiative to have the state — or any collective approach — negotiate teachers’ health insurance is another step in the direction of cost containment.

• Finally, Scott wins because he will have split the Democratic Party, neutralized the huge advantage the Democratically controlled Legislature has over his agenda, and he will have proved himself a savvy political leader — which few expected from Scott in his first year.

How will the Democrats fare?

Well, they’ll keep the teachers’ union on their side, though the VTNEA was miffed by both Ashe’s and Johnson’s proposals, so tensions are likely to grow and bonds fray rather than be strengthened. And Dems will keep the faith among other union heads and lobbyists — but then they weren’t really in danger of losing them, so no gain there.

To the negative, Democrats are in the position of defending the teachers’ union — not teachers or taxpayers, and definitely not the students nor their parents. And considering two out of three households in the state do not have students attending school, the political math doesn’t favor Democrats.

Democrats are also giving up some of their political turf: Democrats are traditionally in favor of supporting education, and promoting best practices to achieve better student outcomes. In this battle, however, Scott is the one proposing an initiative to take existing school spending, reduce health care costs but hold teachers harmless, send some money back to taxpayers, and spread the remainder to pre-school and higher education programs, if possible. Democratic plans have paled in comparison.

Finally, the Democrats seem to be trying to paint Gov. Scott with the same ultra-conservative, union-busting brush of Wisconsin’s Gov. Scott Walker.

It’s a poor strategy that won’t stick. Gov. Scott is no utltra-conservative in the mold of a Tea-Party Republican and to suggest so paints the Democrats as desperate. Unions are still there to help negotiate teacher salaries, retirement, length of workday and year, extracurricular pay, vacations, sick leave and on and on; and no one thinks Scott wants to undermine that relationship.

In short, Scott’s approach makes intuitive sense to the average taxpayer, many school boards and school administrators, parents of students and students. The Democrats, on the other hand, are seen fending for the petty concerns of a union whose main worry is losing its clout over teachers, rather than trying to help spend the taxpayers’ money as wisely as possible for the best student outcome.

Unless that narrative changes, Democratic leaders will have dealt themselves a weak hand, while Scott is holding a pair of aces as budget negotiations resume ahead of a summer session.

Angelo Lynn

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State getting real on cannabis laws

The very same week that the Trump Administration vowed to re-impose the mandatory minimum sentences that were the hallmark of our disastrous “War on Drugs” (in actuality, a war on people of color), the Vermont Legislature listened to the will of Vermonters, and passed Senate Bill 22, which would end state-level penalties for possession of one ounce of cannabis (aka marijuana) or growing two plants for personal use.

We can be justifiably proud of the majority of our Addison County delegation for voting for S.22 — thank you’s should be directed to both Senators Ayer and Bray, and to Representatives Baser, Conlon, Scheu, Sharpe, and Sheldon! Only 4 of our 11-strong delegation remains stuck in the Nixon era.

The bill faces an uncertain fate on the desk of Governor Phil Scott, who has not said whether he will sign or veto the landmark legislation. I urge all of my friends and neighbors to join the hundreds of Vermonters who’ve already made their voices heard, and call Gov. Scott at 802-828-3333 to ask him to help end this crazy “war” by signing S.22 into law!

Dave Silberman Middlebury

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Confronting death a healthy move My mother-in-law, Lorraine, taught me how to die when I was just entering my forties.

Before that, it was dark and scary.

When my mother’s mother died, she was far away in Wisconsin, and even though I caught my mother crying for the first time one afternoon when she picked me up at school (I was ten), she went off to the funeral alone. In those days, one did not speak of death, especially in front of children. Adults didn’t cry, either, and when they did, it was scary.

Six weeks later, my mother’s father died. They always said it was from a broken heart. It was right before Christmas, so we went to Wisconsin for the funeral that was on Christmas Eve day. The casket was on a large

By Kate cart with wheels, draped in a black Gridley shroud. The adults were all tall, pale and quiet. I don’t remember what happened the next day, Christmas Day. My mother lost both her parents when she was thirty-six. And even though she never talked about it until we were much older, we could hear her crying when she thought we were asleep for a long time after.

When Great Uncle John died (I was eleven) my mother said, “It was a good death. He died living.” He had gone to get the morning paper across the river in his little VW beetle. I remember it was pale gray, and the paper came from “Finerty’s” where sometimes I got to go with him for the paper when we were visiting for the weekend, and sometimes we would also buy English muffins. Just turning into the driveway he had a heart attack, so he pulled over to the side, under a huge maple tree near ivy covered ground and a stone wall, and died.

My baby Cousin Johnny, who was five, found him a little while later because the car was just sitting there

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running and Great Uncle John looked like he was asleep, so he climbed onto his lap. Great Uncle John had a card in his wallet that said he wanted to donate his eyes to someone, so soon a team of people carrying a small cooler came and took his eyes. We weren’t allowed to go to the funeral because everyone thought it would be too upsetting. We saw more pale and tired grownups, my grandmother (his sister) crying, and everyone had on dark suits.

I wondered if along with his eyes, they might have also sent his glasses.

Where had he gone? The sweet man who used to come visit us on Sunday afternoons with a box of cookies in his pocket, a black doctor’s bag full of possessions in hand (he was not a doctor), who preferred playing jazz on the piano to talking.

So when my mother-in-law appeared for lunch on her last solo drive from Shelburne to talk about how she wanted us to please take care of her body because she had figured out in Vermont it was legal to do so — well, that was different.

She had just been diagnosed. Twelve years after a melanoma was removed from her neck (which, strangely, we have discovered we can see in photos in the family album), the cancer came back, and by the time it was discovered, it was too late for treatment — almost. The one option had side affects that would make her feel as if she had the flu for whatever time she had left. She said no.

A couple days later, brandishing a pamphlet, Lorraine arrived at our house. “You know, in Vermont, you can take care of me!”

“Of course we can, and we will,” John responded, smiling. He and I had already started talking with his (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Health care premiums on the rise Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont, the state’s dominant health insurer, last week filed with regulators a request for an average 12.7 percent increase in premiums for 2018 for the individual and small business markets.

While this request is likely to be reduced by the Green Mountain Care Board, BCBS customers should expect to pay more for health insurance next year than this, even if they are eligible to receive subsidies through Vermont Health Connect. Large-group employer plans are also looking at premium increases for next year considerably above either the rate of inflation or increases in personal income.

One of the reasons for the requested premium increases is that Vermont’s population is steadily aging. While participants in these plans are nearly all under age 65 (older Vermonters are usually covered by Medicare as their primary insurer), each year the per- By Eric L. Davis centage of Vermont’s population that is over age 50 increases. People in their 50s and early 60s use health care services more intensively than people in their 20s and 30s.

Older Vermonters should be thankful that Vermont has been a “community rating” state for more than 20 years.

This means that all participants in a given insurance plan pay the same premium, regardless of their age or medical condition. However, community rating does mean that younger participants are, in effect, subsidizing some of the higher insurance costs of older participants.

Under the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”), insurers in states without community rating may charge older participants premiums that are up to three times

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higher than younger participants. The American Health Care Act passed by the U.S. House of Representatives (“Trumpcare?” “Ryancare?”) would allow that disparity to increase up to five times. A 60-year-old who might pay $600 a month for an individual policy in Vermont might have to pay nearly $2,000 a month for comparable coverage in a non-community rating state if the AHCA were to become law.

Another reason for the large increases in insurance costs in Vermont is the “cost-shift” from Medicaid and Medicare to the individual, small business and large-employer sectors. The public programs, especially Medicaid, often pay providers considerably less than their actual costs of delivering services. The providers make up the difference by charging higher fees to the commercial insurers. These fees in turn get passed on to the participants in the commercial programs through premium increases.

Vermont has fully participated in the expansion of Medicaid (and Dr. Dynasaur, for children’s health care) established in the Affordable Care Act. Increased access to these programs has had salutary effects in improving the health of the population, and in reducing the incidence of high-cost illnesses later on by emphasizing preventive care. However, as Medicare and Medicaid together become the primary insurers for nearly 40 percent of Vermonters, the revenue pressures on providers increase, leading to higher premium increases for the commercial insurance participants.

(See Davis, Page 5A)

Since our parents started farming in Bridport in 1958, our family has maintained a strong commitment toward sustainability; doing more with less, implementing practices that reduce energy use, and waste while improving our animals’ health and comfort and protecting our environment. We were so delighted with the results of our “Cow Power” project that in May of 2013 we collaborated with Green Mountain Power to install a wind turbine designed and manufactured in Barre, Vt., by Northern Power Systems.

We were disappointed when we learned that the Public Service Board proposed new wind rules that would likely prevent other dairy farmers from making the same energy choices we did. The PSB proposal is unrealistic, and creates needless barriers to small, farm scale wind turbine opportunities. We are a three-generation family farm with a proud tradition of caring for our animals, land, and each other, if the sound levels from our wind turbine were in any way harmful, we would be the first to do something about it.

My own home is the closest to the turbine — about 750 feet away.

We have a pool in our yard, so we spend a lot of time outside all summer with family and friends.

Although we hear the turbine from time to time, we have never found the soft sounds to be offensive. The swooshing sound is similar to that of the wind blowing the leaves on the trees. The flapping of our United States flag in front of the barn is noisier than the windmill. The sound of traffic on the road is far more offensive and unnatural.

This year we will be hosting “Breakfast on the farm” on July 22. We invite you to get your free tickets at vermontbreakfastonthefarm.com, to come and experience for yourself, how today’s modern family dairy farms and the agricultural community work together to produce safe, wholesome food.

We have found harvesting the wind to be painless and simple. It would be a shame if all Vermonters were denied benefit from this emerging, promising, technology as we continue as a community to increase our renewables portfolio for a cleaner, sustainable future.

Marie Audet Blue Spruce Farm Inc., Audet’s Cow Power LLC Bridport

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Wind energy unites enviros and farmers Environmentalists and advocates to affordably use and host solar and for property rights are used to being other renewable energy projects on at odds. Enviros put a priority on our farms.” preventing damage to the ecosysThe first item on their requests? tems that support us. Property rights “Ensure that the property rights of people are accustomed working landscape ownto reminding us that ers are not diminished.” there should be limits They pointed out that to what the government “Vermont farmers have can force owners to do. a proud tradition of turnBut as Vermont moves ing the sun’s energy into haltingly toward cleanproductive use. Producer energy, Greens and ing clean renewable ensome property rights ergy is an increasingly advocates, especially vital part of Vermont’s farmers, now find themmodern agricultural selves on the same side. economy.”

These days they’re The land owners — making common cause including representaaround an unlikely toptives of 14 farms in Adic: wind energy. dison County — went The Public Service on to say, “We believe Board (PSB) is moving Vermont’s renewable ahead with regulations energy and agriculturto limit sound levels by Gregory Dennis al economies are commade by wind turbines. plementary. As farmers The problem: the allowwho currently or plan able sound levels under this pro- in the future to host solar, biomass, posed standard are so low that they or wind projects, we are proud to be could essentially ban new wind en- doing our part for future generations ergy in Vermont. by providing Vermont-made renewThat concerns Greens, who want able energy and reducing our depento push the state rapidly toward its dence on out-of-state fossil fuels.” declared goal of getting 90 percent Among local farmers signing the of its energy from renewable sourc- letter were Bill Suhr of Champlain es by the year 2050.

Orchards in Shoreham, and Marie Property rights advocates are wor- Audet of Audet’s Blue Spruce Farm ried about the PSB standard, too. in Bridport.

Farmers and others want to be able Audet was back last week with to erect low-noise wind turbines to another public appeal for reasonable meet their energy needs. standards that would allow farmers Addison County Sen. Chris Bray to generate electricity and potentiallast year brokered a deal to give ly profit from renewable sources. towns more local control over en“We were so delighted with the ergy planning. He also continues to results of our ‘Cow Power’ project push legislation to make the state’s that in May 2013, we collaborated broad commitment to renewables with Green Mountain Power to inmore of a practical reality. stall a wind turbine designed and But we can’t get to broad use of manufactured in Barre by Northern green energy unless wind is part of Power Systems,” she wrote in a letthe mix. And we’re making some ter to this paper. progress: Wind already accounts for But the PSB standards “would 15 percent of state electricity pro- likely prevent other dairy farmers duction. from making the same energy choicBut even low-noise turbines es we did,” she warned. “The PSB wouldn’t meet the PSB standard. proposal is unrealistic and creates Opponents of the low sound limits needless barriers to small farm-scale say they are well below the decibel wind turbine opportunities. We are levels of cars passing by. Indeed, the a three-generation family farm with PSB standard would ban wind tur- a proud tradition of caring for our bines with decibel levels that are be- animals, land and each other; if the low the sound in a quiet house. sound levels from our wind turbine A group of 40 farms last year were in any way harmful, we would called on Vermont officials to pro- be the first to do something about tect property owners’ rights to in- it.” stall solar and other energy.

The farm’s large and scenic wind “We are concerned,” they wrote turbine generates what Audet called Vermont officials, “about policies “a swooshing sound” that is “simibeing developed in Montpelier that lar to that of the wind blowing the could negatively impact our ability leaves on the trees. The flapping of

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our United States flag in front of the barn is noisier than the windmill.

The sound of traffic on the road is far more offensive and unnatural.”

Audet warned that the PSB standard could kill any further opportunities for other farmers.

“We have found harvesting the wind to be painless and simple,” she wrote. “It would be a shame if all Vermonters were denied benefit from this emerging promising technology as we continue as a community to increase our renewables portfolio for a cleaner sustainable future.”

The PSB standard is now subject to review by a legislative committee. But this unnecessarily restrictive regulation could stand unless there’s a public outcry to keep wind as a green option for Vermont property owners.

Would it be worth having that option?

I believe so. Wind already employs over 325 workers in Vermont and could provide many more jobs if there’s a market for systems like the Audets’. Existing wind projects contribute over $1 million to the state education fund — helping to ease the property tax burden — and account for more than $1.25 million in tax revenue to Vermont towns every year. Independent studies in the U.S. and Canada show no link between turbine noise and health issues.

At this point it’s customary to end with a comment that the answer to whether or not Vermont will benefit from wind power is “blowin’ in the wind.”

But it’s not. The answer lies with the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, where Middlebury House Rep. Amy Sheldon is the vice chair.

LCAR now has little more than a month to review the PSB standard and push back against these overly restrictive sound levels.

That’s important because everything we do to get off fossil fuels can be part of the solution to climate change.

For LCAR to do nothing would be one more small step toward a Green Mountain State where strong ski businesses are a thing of the past, the maple sugar industry is endangered, and our farmers are denied the benefits of generating sustainable energy on their land.

Gregory Dennis’s column appears here every other week and is archived on his blog at www.gregdennis.wordpress.com. Mail: gregdennisvt@yahoo.com. Twitter: @ greengregdennis.

Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) siblings about how we might help her through the last months, but we hadn’t gotten very far, yet, and we had not begun the conversation with her.

“That’s not what I mean, dear. I mean my body. You can take care of my body for me after I die. If it’s the last thing I do, I don’t want to give my business to the mortuary mafia!”

She always had been a revolutionary.

She even wanted to pre-pay, but Mr. Ide at the crematorium ended that discussion when he asked, “Are you making a reservation?”

Thus began an exploration.

Where do you take a body to be cremated when you are on your own?

What do we put the body in? What are the dimensions of said box? Can we make it ourselves? Where do we

get a permit for transporting a body (you have to have a permit)? How would her residence feel if we took care of her body instead of the usual? Could a friend make the urn for the ashes?

From that discussion about how to take care of her body (which we did), we moved on to helping her die over the next three months.

Actually, we didn’t help her; she helped us. For some reason, she was not scared. She went forward eyes open, unafraid. My sister-inlaw took advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act, and moved in. Her children and grandchildren were in and out, and friends.

Four of us were with her the night she died while the wind howled outside and ice grew on trees (it was the ice storm of December 1997).

Since then, we have taken care of

other loved ones, and I have become a hospice volunteer. A few weeks ago, two friends and I hosted a Death Café, where people come together, drink tea, eat cookies and talk about death. No agenda, no hierarchy; just talking, sharing and listening. It helps to talk about death and to hear other people’s stories. We’re all going to die.

Kate Gridley is an artist residing in Middlebury. She is currently working on a new series of paintings, “An Iconography of Memory.”

Friendship: The Tie that Binds

By VICTOR NUOVO a local shop who always has some friendship of any civic value, Aristotle suggests that love kind words to say, or who is witty and on Aristotle’s own grounds, or a feeling of mutual affection and with whom one can share a that it must be an achievement between citizens may be a more joke or items of mutual interest of pure goodness, it would be effective means of unifying a city — sports, movies, or life itself. contradictory. People who base than justice, indeed that the latter We all have many friends of this their friendship on the “birds of a may depend upon the sort. Without them, feather” principle are not friends to former. It is an alluring everyday life would anyone, most of all themselves. thought and deserves not be worth living, Aristotle makes equality a to be explored. our daily commerce condition of perfect friendship, He observes that with each other would and because he supposed that not there are three kinds be grim and, well, all persons are equal, he imagined of friendship: one unfriendly. that it was possible only within founded on mutual Aristotle regards a certain class: in an aristocratic utility, another on these first two sorts of society there can be no perfect mutual pleasure, friendship as deficient, friendship between an aristocrat and a third that he for the whole moral and a commoner; and even in a designates perfect person is lacking democratic society there may be friendship.

Almost in them.

Perfect class distinctions that inhibit the as an afterthought, friendship, then, is a cultivation of friendship. But in the he comes upon Thinking about mutual relationship nature of things, there is no basis friendliness, which is a of love between two for this sort of inequality, and the politics — civic virtue rather than individuals, where belief in inequality is a prejudice. a relation with some each party unselfishly The great benefit of marriage the origins person. Yet, of all the desires what is best for equality is that it hastens the end An essay by varieties of friendship, the other; it is a desire of prejudice. it is best of all.

Victor Nuovo motivated by pure But we cannot be friends with First there is goodness, a desire everybody.

Nevertheless, having Middlebury College friendship based to realize something friendships cultivates an attitude professor emeritus on utility: I know unconditionally good of friendliness, which is a civic of philosophy a man who has the not for oneself but for virtue. It involves being a friend to remarkable ability to another. the city, like the virtue of my friend fix any household appliance that It follows that perfect friendship who fixes appliances. breaks down and whom I can rely is a relationship of complete According to his method upon to come to my aid whenever equality, and to be realized it of seeking the mean between I need him, even on weekends, and requires that two persons live extremes, Aristotle locates it who asks a modest return for his together. It is like marriage. between being obsequious or services, far less than he deserves. However, Aristotle supposed that servile and being quarrelsome I hold him in the highest regard. this sort of friendship could occur or generally disagreeable. We But is he my friend? There is a only between two good men of acquire the virtue of friendliness relationship of mutuality between equal social status, allowing that it through relations with our friends, us inasmuch as I desire him to may involve sexual intimacy also. for being a good friend involves prosper and so am quick to pay him Because he supposed that marriage tolerating some faults yet being and recommend him to others. His is a relationship only ready to criticize readiness to serve may be based between a man and a Almost as an when it is needed, yet on the pleasure he takes in fixing woman, and that men never ceasing to be a things and in solving mechanical take wives as servants afterthought, friend. problems that the engineers and homemakers, he Aristotle Someone who who designed the project never did not regard marriage comes upon applauds all that we imagined could happen. But, I find as friendship, although friendliness, do or who never fails in his attitude something more, at its best it would which is a civic to express displeasure a desire to use his skills to help involve a natural virtue rather or disapproval of others, which I take to be a kind of affection between man whatever we do or affection or friendliness, directed and wife. But he was than a relation think or say, is no with some not to any one person in particular, wrong. friend.

Aristotle but to anyone in our community Today, we have come person. Yet, of gives no name to this who needs his help. I feel towards to see that marriage is a all the varieties virtue, but tradition him not only gratitude, I wish him relationship of perfect of friendship, it has designated it the best in life. So, to answer my mutuality between “friendliness.” It is question, he is a friend, but this is two persons (whatever is best of all. a love or affection because of his friendliness. their gender or sexual of one’s city and Then there are friendships based preference or race or ethnicity may community; a desire to bring about on mutual pleasure, the pleasure of be), and we know that it is or can what is truly best for it; a desire company or companionship; as well be a perfect friendship. Aristotle that is inclusive, excluding no one. as associations of persons drawn also supposed that friendship is It finds expression in a variety together by elective affinities, who more likely to occur between of sentiments: neighborliness, are kindred spirits. These arise two men of the same race. As a sympathy, compassion, a deep between individuals more or less statement of probability, this may yearning for the happiness of all. in regular contact; but they need have a small measure of truth in Friendliness is the tie that binds not. These sorts of friendships may it. But as a moral statement, it is a city together. It is a timely and be casual and everyday: a clerk in completely false. It would deprive timeless idea.

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) For six years, Gov. Shumlin tried to reduce the cost-shift by increasing Medicaid payments to providers. However, most of his ideas for paying for the increase were not accepted by the Legislature. So far, Gov. Scott has been focused primarily on education expenditures and property taxes. Will he try to reduce the health care cost-shift in future budgets?

Health care in Vermont will be in a state of considerable flux over the next few years. Will federal policy changes result in reduced payments to the state for Medicaid, and reduced subsidies and tax credits for participants in the individual insurance marketplace? Will the state and the providers continue moving toward a

model in which primary care is paid for largely on a per capita, rather than a fee-for-service, basis? Meanwhile, consumers and businesses should prepare for large increases in health care premiums next year.

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

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Obituaries

William Roberts, 77, Addison ADDISON — William (Skip) Lange Roberts, 77, passed away Saturday, May 13, 2017 at his home in Addison.

He was born August 26, 1939 in Ferrisburgh, the son of Sylvester and Elmira (Lange) Roberts.

William was a charter member of Addison Volunteer Fire Department and was a member of the National Guard. He had great passion for life; however, he was most passionate about his family, friends and his home life when all were together as one. He loved hunting, fishing, gardening and was a number one Red Sox fan. In these past few years he had a special twinkle in his eyes for a special family member Lily or as he would say Lilly gal, our family dog.

He is survived by his wife Doris (Smith) Roberts; his children, Sharon (Lucian) Pickett, Debra (Alfred) Wright, Dwayne Roberts, Jeremy Roberts; seven grandchildren, Justin (Libby) Diamond, Christopher Mohan (Jodi), Amber Lynne Mohan (William Cole), Jessica Dimond (Sam), Kaleb Roberts (Caitlin), Tiffany Roberts (Nick), Brendin Roberts; seven great grandchildren, Josie, Damian, Raygan, Rhylin, Mason, Nashua, and due in September baby Ellen Lorraine; a brother Jerry Roberts; several nieces and nephews.

Predeceased by two brothers and a sister.

Special thanks to Tara Spaulding and the rest of the staff at Addison

WILLIAM (SKIP) LANGE ROBERTS County Home Health & Hospice.

Visiting hours will be held on Thursday, May 18, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes from 5 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. on Friday May 19, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home.

Interment will be at Lake View Cemetery in West Addison. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health & Hospice, PO Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753 or West Addison United Methodist Church, Attn. Jennelle Boulanger, 115 Main St., Shoreham, VT 05770.◊

Doris Godard, 82, Bristol BRISTOL — Doris Irene (Bessette) Godard’s journey of life entered Eternal Glory to be with her beloved son, Darrell, on Tuesday, May 16, 2017, after residing at home, where it was filled with love and devotion.

Doris was born on Elgin Spring Farm in New Haven on Monday, November 26, 1934, to the late Solon and Helen (Fletcher) Bessette. Growing up on the family farm, Doris was devoted to sharing the chores with her three siblings. Times were trying during the Depression years, and she often helped her father in the farm fields of home and neighbors.

After Doris graduated from Beeman Academy in 1952, she became the womens’ basketball coach. They made several years of state championships, an honor she was proud of.

In 1953 she met the love of her life, Donald, and they married on October 12, 1957. They shared and endured the loss of their only son, Darrell, who was tragically killed in 1988.

Doris believed in raising their own children and teaching them the meaning of motherhood love. Once their children were in school, Doris went to work as a cafeteria cook at Bristol Elementary. The kitchen was her haven and she became well

DORIS IRENE (BESSETTE) GODARD known for her macaroni and cheese, rolls, beet pickles and mincemeat cookies.

Doris enjoyed gardening and crocheting. She often donated full size afghans to area rescue squads, church bazaars, friends and family.

To those people she passed on the warmth of love and friendship.

Doris leaves the legacy of her life to her devoted and caring husband Donald, and daughter Cheryl Godard of East Middlebury; special granddaughter Emily Godard

Budney (Tim) of Zelienople, Pa., and great grandson Max; stepgranddaughter Caisey Kurek of Brooksfield; her siblings Earl Bessette (Raymonde) of New Haven and Lois Zeno (Leonard) of Monkton, and many in-laws, nieces and nephews.

She was predeceased by son Darrell, her parents, and sister Eleanor Hawley.

Doris’ family would like to extend a heartfelt thanks to Addison County Home Health and Hospice and Hospice Volunteer Services who not only became her friends, but family. You were her “earthly angels” and fulfilled our dream for her to remain at home over the years.

Doris’ wishes were there be no calling hours. A celebration of life will be held 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 20, at St. Ambrose Catholic Church in Bristol.

Due to the overwhelming support, the family would appreciate donations, in lieu of flowers, in Doris’ memory to ACHHH PO Box 764, Middlebury, VT 05753 or to Hospice Volunteer Services, PO Box 772, Middlebury, VT 05753 as both organizations were instrumental in Doris’ footprints in life.

To send online condolences to her family please visit www.brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊

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Edward Gipson committal service MIDDLEBURY — Family and friends are invited to the graveside committal service and burial for Edward “Pete” Gipson, age 82, who died December 16, 2016. The service, including military honors, will be held on Thursday, May 25, at 11 a.m., Farmingdale Veterans Cemetery, East Middlebury.

Queenie Temple, 87, Bristol Betty Douglas, Shoreham SHOREHAM — Betty Douglas, widow of Robert C. Douglas, Sr., died on May 12, 2017. Mother of three extraordinary children and their spouses, Amy, Robert Jr. and Scott all of Shoreham. Betty’s life was enriched by the stepchildren, grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren her children’s spouses each brought to their marriages.

Betty Douglas was passionate about her beloved family, special relatives and wonderful friends, and many fur kids, especially Buddy and Babe, golden retrievers.

Heartfelt pleasure in music, orchards, hummingbirds, wild and garden flowers and fruits, glorious sunsets, rainbows and other natural phenomena. What a wonderful world!

Enjoy it and be kind to one another.

Many thanks to all the wonderful people at Addison County Home Health and Hospice, and most

BRISTOL — Queenie Ida Temple, 87, passed away Sunday, May 7, 2017 at Hanover Terrace in Hanover, N.H., after a five-month ordeal that began in November.

Queenie was born October 2, 1929 in Stockbridge, Vt., to the late Ralph Fred Bird and Queenie Townsend Bird. She graduated from Whitcomb High School in 1947 and Mary Fletcher School for Nursing in 1951. She then enrolled in the U.S. Air Force as a commissioned officer stationed in Biloxi, Miss.

It was there she met her future husband Floyd Temple. They were married on the base even though she out-ranked him, which

and was a member of the First Congregational Church in Gaysville. After retirement, she became a member of the Monkton Friends Methodist Church. Even though she said she did not like sports she never missed her son’s basketball games.

Survivors include her two sons, Kevin Temple and wife Lorraine of Rockwall, Texas, and Kirt Temple and wife Rachelle of Manassas, Va.; five beloved grandchildren, Stephanie Tesdal and husband Chris, Jessica Applegate and husband Tom, Amy Temple, Paul Temple, and Leslie Temple; greatgrandchild Paige Applegate; and

brother Stephen Bird and wife Martha of Lebanon, N.H. She was predeceased by both her parents and her beloved husband, who died of cancer in 1996.

The family wishes to thank Hanover Terrace for their compassionate and excellent professional care of Queenie while she was there.

A memorial gathering at Stockbridge Common Meeting House will be held at 10:30 a.m., Saturday, June 3. There are no calling hours. Burial will be at Maplewood Cemetery on Stockbridge Common.

Contributions in her memory may be made to the Monkton Friends

BETTY DOUGLAS especially to nurse Laura.

Donations in Betty’s memory may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice, PO Box 754, BRANDON — Audrey Ann Middlebury, VT 05753.◊ Alberico, age 84, died Sunday, May 14, 2017, at Rutland Regional Medical Center.

Mrs. Alberico was born in Proctor on January 19, 1933. She was the daughter of Carroll and Hazel (Parker) Comstock. She grew up Survivors include daughters in Proctor, where she received her Janice Wakefield and Sandy early education. She has been a resiWakefield, sister Mary Knapp, dent of Brandon since 1973, moving brothers Robert Norton of Hancock here from Rutland. She enjoyed and Wallace Everett of East knitting and sewing and loved babyBethel, one grandson and two sitting her grandchildren. Audrey great-grandchildren. loved her family time. Her family Graveside memorial services will was her world. be held at 10 a.m. Monday, May Surviving is her husband, Francis 22, at the Warren Village Cemetery, A. Alberico of Brandon, whom with Pastor Thomas Harty officiat- she married in St. Peter’s Catholic ing. There are no calling hours.

Church in Rutland on April 5,

Helen Wakefield, 87, Rutland RUTLAND — Helen M. Wakefield, 87, of Rutland, formerly of Hancock, died Tuesday, May 16, 2017, at Mountain View Health Care in Rutland.

She was born Feb. 15, 1930, in Hancock, where she was raised and attended school. She married Edwin Wakefield on March 10, 1952. He predeceased her in 1989.

She worked at the Hancock veneer mill over 40 years, retiring in 1992.

was something that the Air Force frowned upon and rarely, if ever, happened. Floyd was quickly transferred to a base in New York. So as soon as she could, Queenie got discharged so she could be with her husband.

Within a couple of years, Floyd was also discharged, whereupon the couple moved to Stockbridge, where they built their own home next to her parents. After a few years as the local visiting school nurse, Queenie became the postmaster at the Stockbridge Post Office, where she remained for 30 years, until retiring in 1986.

Queenie was very religious

Audrey Alberico, 84, Brandon 1952; two daughters, Cynthia Ann Borden of Manchester, N.H. and Deloris Jean Stone of Brandon; two sons, Anthony James Alberico of Ira and Don Francis Alberico of Proctor; four sisters, Doris Alberico and Joyce Notte, both of Rutland, Barbara McKenzie of Colchester and Charlotte Flanders of Rutland.

Thirteen grandchildren, 20 great grandchildren and many nieces, nephews and cousins also survive her.

She was predeceased by two daughters, Patricia Marie Stevens and Mary Ruth AlbericoCastonguay, two sisters, Charlene Elkey and Janet LaVictorie, and four brothers, William, Carroll, Richard and Donald Comstock.

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A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Thursday, May 18, 2017, at 10 a.m., at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Brandon. Rev. Vincent Onunkwo will be the celebrant. The graveside committal service and burial will take place at 11:30 a.m., in Calvary Cemetery in Rutland.

Friends may call at the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 from 6-9 p.m., where Fr. Vincent will deliver a vigil service at 8:45 p.m.

Memorial gifts in lieu of flowers may be made, in her memory to a charity of one’s choice.

Arrangements are under the direction of the Miller & Ketcham Funeral Home in Brandon.◊

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By the way the FCC plan. He said at a press conference that the new policy would be bad for consumers, entrepreneurs and an open democracy. Essentially, this rule would enable those who have the most money to drown out the voices of those who don’t.

Vermonters wishing to make their views known to the FCC can complete an online comment form at www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express. In the “Proceeding(s)” box, enter “17108” or “restoring internet freedom.”

(Continued from Page 1A) p.m. at the Ripton Elementary School. Pizza choices include cheese ($12), pepperoni ($15) and veggie special (mushroom, onion and pepper for $15). A gluten-free crust is available. Please call 3882208 or email wleeds@acsu.org by noon on the day of the bake to place your order. Checks should be made out to Christina Walker and will go directly toward supporting the family during their time of healing and recovery.

A Monkton resident let us know that the Northwest Chapter Master Gardeners’ Annual Plant Sale will be held during the Friends of the Horticulture Farm Bloom-Time Festival at UVM this Saturday.

Browse a selection of donated perennials, shrubs, veggies, etc. at 65 Green Mountain Dr. in South Burlington from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

This Master Gardeners serves Addison County.

Hunters who provided the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department with a tooth from their deer last fall can now find out how old their deer was by visiting the department’s website, vtfishandwildlife.com. The department is requesting additional information from hunters who harvested a buck three years or older. A total of 2,769 teeth were received from successful rifle season hunters. When added to the 1,831 deer examined by biologists during the youth and rifle seasons, the department was able to get accurate ages for 4,600 deer.

Caprine beauties

Some of the approximately 125 Alpine and LaMancha dairy goats on Blue Ledge Farm on the Salisbury/Leicester border offer their profile to a visiting photographer recently.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Leadership (Continued from Page 1A) broader consideration of outcomes. Koran Cousino joined veteran and there are no differences in the And that translates into a healthier Chair Susan Jefferies. general operation between men and company, a healthier community, a Interestingly, far more women women,” said Martin. “I think, quite healthier state.” lead selectboards in Addison County frankly, that women more times SOME COUNTY STATS than elsewhere in Vermont. Nine of than not play nicely in the sandbox.

Four of Addison County’s 11 state the county’s 23 selectboard chairs And that is important. Having a legislators (36 percent) are women: are women — 39 percent — as mix — this goes for Sen. Ayer plus Reps. compared to 16 percent statewide. everywhere, up and Robin Scheu and Amy While women on average make down the corporate Sheldon of Middlebury up 51 percent of the state’s school ladder and every other and Diane Lanpher boards, according to the Vermont place. Yeah, there are of Vergennes. With Women and Leadership report, different ways that women constituting percentages vary considerably people look at things 39.4 percent of the county to county. Leading the pack and isn’t it a wonderful state legislature, that is Essex County, where women thing and why don’t we puts the county just constitute 71 percent. Bottom of the take advantage of it.” below the statewide heap is Bennington at 41 percent.

But some women Addison County ranks 11th out of average. leaders also feel that Women make up 14, with 46 percent of its school other factors are 23 percent of Addison board members being women. equally if not more County’s selectboards SALES AND SERVICES important than gender.

According to the Vermont Women — just a squeak MARTIN For New Haven above the 21 percent and Leadership report, women head selectboard Chair statewide average only eight of Vermont’s 100 highestKathy Barrett gender matters less as detailed in Change the Story’s grossing companies; and that drops than character.

Vermont Women and Leadership to only four out of 100 if one omits “That’s a tough one because I don’t report. hospitals, colleges and universities. look at gender. I look at personalities Five of the county’s 23 towns Women lead seven of the state’s 23 and the ability to compromise and have all-male selectboards: institutions of higher learning and respect each other’s opinions,” Addison, represent 13 percent Goshen, Barrett said. “I don’t think that’s Granville, Lincoln and “That’s a tough of the state’s hospital a gender issue; I think that’s a Waltham. Only one CEOs. one because personality issue.

In Addison County, has a majority female “The ability to compromise and board: Hancock, with I don’t look at women lead two of to have the best interest of the town two women and one gender. I look the three organizations in mind — that to me is worth more man. For a brief time at personalities reporting the highest than is it a guy or a girl. But that’s in March before Donna and the ability budget or highest just my opinion.” sales data, as tallied Donahue’s resignation, to compromise A group called Emerge Vermont Middlebury also had

by Vermont Business works to recruit and train Democratic a majority female and respect Magazine in its women for office. Executive Director selectboard of four each other’s Vermont 100+ annual Ruth Hardy of East Middlebury said women and three men. opinions. I don’t reporting for 2017. that having diverse perspectives at Laurie Patton is now Most common in think that’s a the table enables decisionmaking Addison County is gender issue; in her second year as bodies to consider different angles a pattern that Hardy Middlebury College I think that’s and consider the impact of their describes as being president.

Marie decision on different people.

Jewett is president typical across the a personality “There’s been a lot of research to state, a board with issue.” and CEO of Patrons — Kathy Barrett Cooperative show that diverse bodies make better one woman and the Fire decisions … that diverse corporate rest men. Thirteen Insurance Company in boards make better decisions for the Addison County towns follow this Middlebury. In the Vermont 100+ company’s bottom line,” Hardy said. pattern: Bridport, Bristol, Cornwall, list these organizations ranked 14th “All kinds of diversity — racial, Ferrisburgh, Leicester, Monkton, and 39th respectively, statewide. ethnic, gender, socioeconomic, age. New Haven, Orwell, Panton, Ripton, Middlebury College reported an Just having more people at the table Shoreham, Vergennes and Whiting. annual budget of $255.6 million. with different perspectives enables Starksboro’s selectboard had a Cooperative Insurance reported more creativity, enables a broader single woman only until it expanded annual sales of $73 million. consideration of the options and a the board in March, and first-timer Middlebury’s second-largest

employer, Porter Medical Center, with a reported budget this year of $75.6 million, did have a female president and CEO last year, but that’s not the case now.

Of the eight Addison County organizations that made the 2017 Vermont 100+ list (Middlebury College, Porter Medical Center, Patrons Cooperative Fire Insurance, Champlain Valley Equipment, Foster Motors, Dock Doctors, Monument Farms Dairy and Martin’s Hardware and Building Supply), just two have women at the helm currently.

A DIFFERENT WORLD For Ayer, bringing more women to the table — whether it’s local or federal decisionmaking, whether it’s corporate or nonprofit — is also about empowering the next generation.

To illustrate her point, Ayer told the following story about Gaye Symington’s 2008 run for governor.

“She ran for governor and during that time she met with Madeleine Kunin and she met with Jeanne Shaheen, who was governor in New Hampshire, and she met with the woman who was then-governor of Connecticut. And her son was with her, who was maybe nine or so, and he asked her, ‘Mom can men be governors too?’

“Really? Do you see where I’m going? I think there are a lot of women who have a lot to give.”

To read the full Vermont Women and Leadership report go to changethestoryvt.org.

Next week’s story will look at barrier’s to more women in leadership positions.

Woodchuck Hard Cider on June 3 will host an evening of refreshments, live music and a raffle to benefit the Addison County Community Trust’s ongoing efforts to create more affordable housing in the area. The “Sip to Support Housing” event is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. at the Woodchuck Cider House off Middlebury’s Exchange Street.

Tickets cost $12 in advance, $15 at the door. Attendees are entitled to four, 2-ounce cider samples, appetizers, raffle entry, and live music. All proceeds, including $1 from every drink sold, will benefit affordable housing in Addison County. Tickets are available in advance at the ACCT offices in Vergennes or on-line at addisontrust. org/sip4housing.html.

Want to have a float or march in the Fourth of July parade in Bristol? The theme for the 2017 Bristol Fourth of July Parade is “225 Years Ago.” Committee members said they are leaving it up to participants to interpret what that means to them. Still, it’s important to note that this year on March 4, Vermont celebrated its 225th birthday. See the planning committee’s website at www. bristol4th.com to learn more about volunteer opportunities, signing up for the outhouse race (must be at least 13 years old), enlisting a float or group in the parade itself, or becoming a sponsor.

Attention members of the Middlebury Union High School class of 1967: Your 50th class reunion is coming up and organizers of the celebration need your responses back by June 16.

If you need more info or have misplaced your event form contact Linda Riley at riley68@gmavt. net or Anne Patch at 1004amp@ gmail.com. They are hoping for a huge turnout — don’t disappoint everybody.

Our Congressman, Peter Welch, this week urged Vermonters to make their views known to the Federal Communications Commission about its plan to allow internet service providers to create a fast lane on the internet for large corporate customers willing to pay a fee to move their content ahead of other internet users.

Welch, a longtime advocate of a free and open internet, strongly opposes

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Super-large photos, audio interviews on exhibit MIDDLEBURY — To celebrate the opening of their new exhibit, the Vermont Folklife Center will host a public reception and gallery talk on Thursday, May 25, from 4-7 p.m.

“The Dames” is an exhibition of large format color portraits paired with audio interview recordings, featuring members of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America in the state of Vermont.

Complimentary locally sourced food and drink, including “tea sandwiches,” craft cheeses, produce, and more will be served. The gallery talk will commence at 5:45 p.m.

The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (NSCDA) is a women’s lineage organization founded in Philadelphia in 1892. Vermont joined the Society in 1898, and it is now one of fortyfour state societies with over 15,000 members nationwide.

The Vermont group is among the smallest, with a current membership of 41 Dames. They work on community service projects, historic preservation, patriotic service and educational programs to promote “education of

our citizens and youth about the past and to stimulate interest, patriotism and love of country.”

But who are these women, these Dames? For the past two years, Vermont Folklife Center researchers have conducted an oral history and photographic documentation project in collaboration with the Vermont Society of the NSCDA to answer that question.

For many people, ancestral lineage organizations such as the Colonial Dames are a world apart. Peering from the outside in we might be intrigued by their celebration of family and colonial history, patriotic service, and shared values or, alternately, made uncomfortable by perceptions of elitism surrounding their lineagebased membership.

Without exception, these Dames speak of strong connections to history and to nature, and of families who prioritized education for their daughters. Most began their educations at women’s colleges in WWII and post-war times, just as traditional assumptions about women’s roles and capabilities were

overturning. Curious and earnest, dedicated and persistent, they have prided themselves in being life-long learners and lasting contributors to their wider communities.

Many speak honestly and intimately of complex issues surrounding privilege, exclusivity, and the relevance of their society in today’s world. They shed light on challenges in their personal lives met with grace and courage, opportunities embraced with pioneering spirit and preparedness, lives lived with a strong sense of purpose, the impact of changing gender roles across their lifetimes and a coming to terms with aging.

Ethnographic inquiry aspires to make people visible to one another across difference, and with that intention in mind, the exhibit invites viewers to drop into conversation with these Dames and meet them on their own terms.

The Vision & Voice Gallery at the Folklife Center (88 Main St., Middlebury) is free and open to the public Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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Casualties of war

“DEATH IN THE Wilderness,� a film produced and directed by Brandon resident Kevin Thornton, documents Brandonite Frankie Davenport and her long search for the body of her husband, George, who was fatally wounded in the Battle of The Wilderness on May 5, 1864. This photo depicts some of the casualties of the battle. The film will be screened at Brandon Town Hall on May 21 and Salisbury Congregational Church on May 25.

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Reading and book signing in Middlebury. Sunday, A Walk in their Shoes: Dementia May 21, 2 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, Main St. Philip Cooley Glen trail hike in Lincoln.

Simulation in Middlebury. Thursday, Baruth will read from and sign his new book, “Senator Saturday, May 20. This is a moderate May 18, 4:30-5:30 p.m. Join us for an experiLeahy: A Life in Scenes,� The reading is free and open 6.5 mile round trip with an elevation gain of CLOSED WEEKENDS ence that will help you understand how it feels to to the public. Sponsored in collaboration with Addison approximately 1,500 feet. Hike upstream on an old manage the many challenges dementia presents.

County Democrats. wood road along the New Haven River that gradually Mon. - Tue. 10:30am - 3:30pm Certified Dementia Practitioners will guide you Opening day at Rokeby in Ferrisburgh. Sunday, climbs away from the river and ascends steeply on a through the challenges of compromised vision, May 21, 3 p.m., Rokeby Museum, Route 7. Rokeby Wed. - Thur.

10:30am - 8pm trail to junction with the Long Trail. This is a dog friendly hearing and dexterity, which all affect cognition. In Museum will open for its 2017 season with a special hike. Contact Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@ Friday 10:30am - 9pm collaboration with Harvard Medical School and program. Come and meet our neighbors and learn comcast.net, or at 802-349-5653 or Anne Christie Brigham & Women’s Hospital. Free and open to the about the newest stop on Vermont’s African American at achristie1026@gmail.com or 802-388-4347. For public. Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Heritage Trail. Open daily, 10-5, through October 29, other events and activities visit www.gmcbreadloaf.

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Meet the Singers reception in Middlebury. Sunday, Early Bird Nature Walk in Orwell. Saturday, May 20, Spring peepers pig roast and silent auction in May 21, 5 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian ninospizzamiddlebury 8-10 a.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, Cornwall. Thursday, May 18, 5:30-9 p.m., Jackson Universalist Society. Join the Opera Company of 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Sue Wetmore, our bird ninosmiddlebury.com residence, 1301 Cider Mill Rd. Middlebury for its annual Meet the Singers recepFo r ou r Held to benefit The Parent Child tion and meet the cast of this season’s production ls ia Sp ec Center. Come enjoy great food of Puccini’s “Il Trittico.� Get to know the singers over The Slice Guy and drink at a family feast. Modern drinks and hors d’oeuvres and then settle back to Times Theater Comedy will enterenjoy their favorite arias. Space is tain. Excellent silent auction items MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult: Garden Planters, limited. Appetizers and performance also on offer. For info and tickets, On & Off the Wheel, Weds PM Wheel, Pastels, Chinese Brush $35. Cash Bar. Tickets available call 802-388-3171. the Town Hall Theater on line at Painting, Int/Adv Painting Children: Clay classes-hand & at Book reading and signing in www.townhalltheater.org, by telePROFESSIONAL DOG GROOMING wheel every Tues, Weds, Thurs, Art Camps: Amazing Art, Cosmic phone at 802-382-9222 or in person Middlebury. Thursday, May 18, OVER 17 YEARS 6:30 p.m., Vermont Book Shop.

Creations, Fairyland Creatures, Where the Wild Things at the box office.

EXPERIENCE Stephen Kiernan will read from and Are, Art of China, Viking Art, Birds of a Feather, Animal All-you-can-eat chicken and sign his new book, “The Baker’s biscuit supper in Middlebury.

Art, Art of Egypt. middleburystudioschool.org Contact Barb Sunday, May 21, 5-6 p.m. Middlebury Secret,� a story of the French 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol.com Resistance. This is a fundraiser United Methodist Church, 47 N. for HOPE’s food shelf. Otter Creek Pleasant St. Buffet-style. Home * Bakery will provide baked goods for made side dishes and desserts.

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Suggested donation: Adults - $8, children 5-12, $5, expert, introduces you to the birds of spring and F RANS “Daisy Turner’s Kin, An African American Family under 5 free. Held in fellowship hall. All are welcome! spring migration. Wear sturdy shoes and dress for the VETEH 6/15 UG Saga� in Bristol. Thursday, May 18, 7 p.m., More info contact Tom Colley at 802 388 9405 or atsrTHRO weather. No pets please. Meet in front of the Museum.

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Society will host Jane Beck, founder of the Vermont Annual plant and bake Sale in Monkton. Saturday, “Death In The Wilderness – A Love Story� on screen Folklife Center, to discuss the child of slaves and in Brandon. Sunday, May 21, at 7 p.m., Brandon May 20, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Monkton Friends Methodist her family. Open to the public. Call Steve Ayotte at Town Hall. Written, produced and directed by Church. Donations welcome. Wide selection of local If you’d like to include your pet as “Pet of the 453-7709 for details.

Brandon resident Kevin Thornton with the cooperaperennials. Pastries, desserts, baked beans, and Thank you to both our veterans Week� simply include your pet’s name, gender, tion of half the town, this edition is the updated and rhubarb. For more info contact Marilyn Cargill at approximate age (if you know it), along with final edit of Thornton’s film — the story of Brandonite and those who currently serve 802-453-5192. comments about the pet’s favorite activities, your Frankie Davenport, and her long search for the body Middlebury Garden Club annual plant sale in for your service and sacrifice. favorite activity with the pet, what the pet enjoys of her husband George, who was fatally wounded in Middlebury. Saturday, May 20, 9 a.m.-noon, on Storytelling workshop in Middlebury. the Battle of The Wilderness on May 5, 1864. Q & A eating, and any particular stories or incidents you the town green. Reasonably priced flowers, herbs, Friday, May 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Vermont with Kevin to follow. Free will donation event. might like to share concerning your pet. vegetables and other plants from members’ gardens Located in the Marble Works Folklife Center. “Storytelling for Social “The Long Ride� on screen in Middlebury. Sunday, — ready for planting.

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Proceeds benefit Send photo and story to Middlebury, VT Change,� a day-long workshop on collaborative May 21, 7 p.m., Marquis Theater. The story of the the club’s activities, community service programs news@addisonindependent.com documentary and storytelling skills, interviewing historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride that Like us on facebook and maintenance of the Sheldon Museum gardens. skills, and the design and planning of project ideas. sparked the birth of the new Civil Rights Movement Unsold plants are donated to area nonprofits.

Tuition $95. Attendance limited to 14. Registration Chronic disease management workshop in for immigrant workers in the United States. A moderdeadline May 18. Register at 802-388-4964 or www. ated panel discussion will follow, featuring film direcMiddlebury. Saturday, May 20, 9:30 a.m.- noon, The vermontfolklifecenter.org/education. tor Valerie Lapin and representatives from Migrant Residence at Otter Creek. Free healthier living workSpaghetti Dinner in Shoreham. Friday, May 19, 5-7 Justice and the Open Door Clinic. Suggested donashop for people living with a chronic disease such as Pets have taken on an increasingly imporp.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School tion $10. All proceeds raised will benefit Migrant arthritis, diabetes, cancer, obesity or heart disease. tant role in the lives of the people with whom J`q\ Gb^ ( Rd.Gb^ ) Tired after doing all that yard and garden work Justice and the Open Door Clinic.

Registration is required. Contact Christine Serfozo at N`[k_ o ?\`^_k =\Y fi Efm fecp outside =\Y Efm this spring? Treat yourself and your family they live. We humans appreciate their in388-8860 or cleach@residenceottercreek.com. to a +), Spaghetti Dinner. Both meat and vegetarian Champlain Bridge Run in Crown Point, N.Y. Saturday =lcc ('%., o (*%), ,,' born ability to entertain, their willingness to Family Outstanding Dentistry options will be available, along with tossed salad, ?Xc] ,%), o (*%), fi May 20, 10 a.m., Crown Point State Historic Site. provide uncomplicated companionship and garlic bread, beverages, and wonderful desserts!

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('%., o *%() (., (), Room, East View. Join nonprofit Technology always, donations of non-perishable items for the NY 12928 Online registration and registration forms <`^_k_ ,%), o *%() (), will celebrate local pet/people relationships for Tomorrow for free computer class on Facebook. food 0, shelf are greatly appreciated. available online at www.lachute.us. Registration $20 with articles about the following: These classes are intended for computer newbies to Artistâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;sorOpening until May 1 and $25 thereafter, $10 for children 17 For more information call 388-4944 email reception in Middlebury. Friday, advanced computer users and are relaxed, hands-on May 19, 5-7 p.m., Jackson Gallery, Town Hall and under. â&#x20AC;˘Pet owners, their choices of companNo Big Needles! ads@addisonindependent.com Theater. Elaine Ittleman, Paintings. Ittleman paints First Annual Human Powered Parade in Bristol. learning. Classes will continue on Mondays through ions and how they interact, including Deadline February 9 June 5. Open to the public. If you are interested in large and colorful abstract landscapes. Fourteen Saturday, May 20, 10 a.m. kickoff, Bristol Skate Park.

In Network CBA Blue, Delta Dental â&#x20AC;&#x153;How I ChoseforMy Pet (orCigna My &Pet Chose attending, please call 802-448-0595 or email info@ will be on view at the gallery. More info at 802-382Celebrate National Bike Month and all things humantech4tomorrow.org to sign up.

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Dr. Jim Cossaart DDS H.E.L.P. (Heroin Epidemic Learning Program) Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes. Friday, May at 802 385-1039 or bikingmelanie@gmail.com. â&#x20AC;˘Pets Presently in Need awards ceremony in Bristol. Monday, May 22, 19, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Sponsored by the Living Tree Alliance.

6 Park Place, â&#x20AC;˘Q & A: Questions and Answers fromBristol, an VT 6-7 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School. An event Church. The menu will include meatloaf, potatoes, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Fred Bacon & the Forest Dale Banjo Factoryâ&#x20AC;? talk 802.453.7700 â&#x20AC;˘ bristolparkdental.com to recognize students, staff, and volunteer experts gravy, vegetable and dessert. Come and bring Area Vet in Brandon. Saturday, May 20, 7 p.m., Brandon from the H.E.L.P program. PSAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s by participants will your friends. Free.

Town Hall. Historian Bill Powers presents a pictorial â&#x20AC;˘Pet Friendly Places in Addison County be shown.

Fly fishing for women in New Haven. Friday, and narrative presentation. The detailed account of â&#x20AC;˘Favorite Breeds of Local Pet Owners May 19, 6:30-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Vineyard. The Fred J. Bacon, a world renowned banjoist who lived New Haven River Anglers Association (NHRAA) â&#x20AC;˘Recipes for Homemade Dog Biscuits in Forest Dale from 1906-1915. Connections to Lake Call to invites women interested in learning how to fly Dunmore, Brandon, Rutland, Middlebury and envifish to sign up for the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Women in Wadersâ&#x20AC;? fly fishSchedule Delivery rons will be explored. More than 50 photographs and Quitting Tobacco group in ing program sponsored by the New Haven River illustrations will be displayed. Free will donation event.

Middlebury. Tuesday, May 23, 5:30-6:30 Anglers Association. On Saturday morning, May Singer-songwriters join forces in Brandon. Saturday, *Dry Wood is heated in our Kilns p.m., Conference Room B, Porter Medical 20, anglers will meet at Sycamore Park on the New May 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club at 200Âş until the average moisture Center. Offered by Vermont Quit partners, first Haven River at 8 a.m., where participants will be Rd. Nationally known and award-winning singer(Kiln Processed)* is down to 20-25% meeting of a five-week program. For more info guided on fishing and reading the river by NHRAA songwriters Caroline Cotter and Emily Mure play contact Christine Serfozo at 802-388-8860 or csermembers. Lunch at the park provided by the together after months of touring solo. The two will play fozo@portermedical.org.

NHRAA. All equipment will be provided as necesoriginal material from their most recently released sary. Participants are responsible for obtaining a albums as well as new material. This event is part of Certified for THE A. JOHNSON CO., LLC 2017 State of Vermont Fishing license. Register by Vermont Arts 2017, celebrating public funding for the Vermont Heat BRISTOL, VT 05443 calling Craig Zondag at 453-7237. Space is limited arts. Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is Treatment to 12. available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner www.VermontLumber.com Monthly Book Discussion in Lincoln.

The Sublime and the Mellifluous in Middlebury. and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call Wednesday, May 24, 7 p.m., Lincoln Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net for Library. Monthly book discussion group will Unitarian Universalist Society. Capital City reservations or for more information. discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of the Dustâ&#x20AC;? by Karen Hesse. Written Concerts presents The Sublime and the Mellifluous in sparse first-person free-verse poems, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Out of the with musicians from up and down the east coast Dustâ&#x20AC;? is the tale of Billie Joâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s struggle to survive during featuring violinist Laurie Smuckler, cellist Joel the dust bowl years of the Depression.

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Champlain Valley Fiddlers in You Can Make Today in Vergennes. Wednesday Anderson Fader guitar duo in Middlebury. Friday, Middlebury. Sunday, May 21, noon-5 May 24, 7 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. In the May 19, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal p.m., VFW, Exchange St. An afternoon of latest installment of Bixbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Coffeehouse series, Adult Church, 3 Main St. The duo will play works by J.S. fiddling, fun and dancing. Refreshments available. All Service Librarian Muir Haman will present mindful Bach, Granados, Haydn, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Footbridge,â&#x20AC;? a fiddlers welcome. $3 donation. practices offered in Brett Blumenthalâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book â&#x20AC;&#x153;52 Small suite for two guitars written by Vermont composer, Book Fair in Middlebury. Sunday, May 21, noon-4 Changes for your Brain.â&#x20AC;?

Damon Ferrante. Suggested donation Adults $15/ p.m., American Legion, Boardman St. More than Seniors $10/children & students $5. Tickets avail25 local authors will be on hand for book signing, able at the door. More info (802) 388-7200. readings, conversation, and sales. Book giveaways, Bat monitoring training and count in Ferrisburgh.

Annuals â&#x20AC;˘ Organic Veggie Sets â&#x20AC;˘ Perennials activities for kids, and refreshments from Sweet E.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m., Kingsland Bay State Bakery. Donations accepted for Toys for Tots literacy Berry Plants â&#x20AC;˘ Shrubs â&#x20AC;˘ Succulents â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Damesâ&#x20AC;? opening reception and Park. Volunteers will be trained to monitor the program. gallery talk in Middlebury. Thursday, May endangered little brown bat, followed by a count at Emily Sunderman plays in Middlebury. Sunday, May Trees â&#x20AC;˘ Ferns â&#x20AC;˘ Native Species 25, 4-7 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main dusk. Please arrive promptly with warm layers and 21, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge St. A public reception and gallery talk to celebrate the appropriate bug protection. Sponsored by Vermont Road. As part of the Sunday Music Series, Emily opening of an exhibition of large format, color portraits Fish and Wildlife. For more info contact Alyssa Sunderman, a member of the Addison String Trio and 2127 RTE 73 E ~ SUDBURY, VT ~ 802.623.7373 paired with audio interview recordings featuring Bennett a 802-786-0098 or at Alyssa.bennett@ accomplished violinist, will play classical music. Free members of the National Society of Colonial Dames vermont.gov. and open to the public. Handicap accessible. RSVP www.millerhillfarmvt.com of America in the State of Vermont. Complementary,

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THE ANDERSON/FADER guitar duo will perform at St. Stephen’s Church in Middlebury on May 19 at 7:30 p.m.

locally sourced food and drink. Gallery talk begins at 5:45 p.m.

Artist Kate Gridley in Middlebury. Thursday, May 25, 5:30 p.m., Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchants Row. Gridley will present “Gate to The Moon: Metaphor and Visual Symbolism,” exploring metaphor in visual images with a focus on her three new strands of still life work in paint and photography. For more info contact Edgewater on the Green at 802-989-7419, info@edgewatergallery-vt.com or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

Author Sonja Yoerg in Middlebury. Thursday, May 25, 6:30 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, Main St. Vermont author Yoerg will read from and discuss her latest novel, “All the Best People”.

“Death In The Wilderness, A Love Story” on screen in Salisbury. Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. The Salisbury Historical Society presents “Death In The Wilderness: A Love Story” written, produced and directed by Brandon resident Kevin Thornton. The updated and final edit is the story of Brandonite Frankie Davenport, and her long search for the body of her husband, George, who was fatally wounded in the Battle of The Wilderness on May 5, 1864. It is also the story of Brandon’s recovery from war. Presented in conjunction with the Salisbury Historical Society.

“The Healthcare Movie” on screen in Middlebury.

Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library Community Meeting Room. This documentary tells the story of how the Canadian and U.S. healthcare systems, which originally had much in common, evolved very differently A discussion of the film’s relevance to Vermont will led by Deb Richter, M.D., following the film.

More information, contact Ellen Oxfeld at 388-7214.

Stories You Should Know: Italian and German Folk Tales in Rochester. Thursday, May 25, 7:30 p.m., Spice Studio, 482 South Main St. Seven European folk tales will be performed by Ethan Bowen, artistic director of Bald Mountain Theater. Tickets $10. More info at Baldmountaintheater.org, 802-767-4800 or baldmountaintheater@gmail.com. Continued on May 26, 27 and 28.

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Benefit pizza bake in Ripton. Friday, May 26, 5-6:30 p.m. The Ripton community will hold a benefit pizza bake to support the Kerr Family. Pizza choices include: Cheese, $12; Pepperoni, $15; Veggie Special (mushroom, onion & pepper) $15.

Gluten-free crust available. For more info or to place your order, contact Wendy Leeds at 802-388-2208 or wleeds@acsu.org. Orders must be in by noon on May 26.

Stories You Should Know: Italian and German Folk Tales in Rochester. Friday, May 26, 7:30 p.m., Spice Studio, 482 South Main St. Seven European folk tales

performed by Ethan Bowen. See May 25 listing for full details.

Senior Week Choir Concert in Middlebury. Friday, May 26, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts.

The Middlebury College Choir’s annual performance, featuring the favorite repertoire of the members of the Class of 2017. Sponsored by the Department of Music.

Free. www.middlebury.edu/arts or 443-3168.

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Festival in the Greens — open house event at Spirit in Nature in Ripton.

Saturday, May 27, 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Spirit in Nature trail, Goshen Road. Come explore the paths and streams of this 70-acre forest and participate in a choice of contemplative walks, poetry exploration, zen drawing, dance, earth stories, and labyrinth walking.

Noontime potluck. More info at www.spiritinnature.org.

Town-wide yard sale in Monkton. Saturday, May 27, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., Monkton Fire House, 3747 State’s Prison Hollow Road and homes throughout Monkton. For More info contact Jamie Steadman at 802-338-6731 or jls_2499@hotmail.com.

Book & Plant Sale and Red Sox Raffle in Lincoln.

Saturday, May 27, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Lincoln Library.

Annual front porch book sale — accepting clean books in good in the library’s Community Room. Please check the box for mouse droppings. It’s best to deliver them to the Library during business hours. More info at www. lincolnlibraryvt.com. No textbooks, please. Plant donations needed. Accepting plants on the day before the sale. If you have plants you would like us to dig up, contact Sally Baldwin at 453-7231 or 802-233-0243.

Be sure all plants are labeled.

Annual town-wide lawn sale in New Haven. Saturday, May 27, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Maps will be available beginning Wednesday, May 24, at the Town Office and Library, The Village Green Market, New Haven Jiffy Mart & New Haven Mobil. To be added to “The Map” call Suzy at 453-5978 by 8 p.m. on Monday, May 22.

Chronic disease management workshop in Middlebury. Saturday, May 27, 9:30 a.m.- noon, The Residence at Otter Creek. Free healthier living workshop for people living with a chronic disease such as arthritis, diabetes, cancer, obesity or heart disease.

Registration is required. Contact Connie Leach at 388-1220 or cleach@residenceottercreek.com.

Studio grand opening in Vergennes. Saturday, May 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Ross Sheehan Studio, 37 Green St., next door to Bar Antidote and Hired Hand Brewing. Part of the Vermont Open Studio Weekend. First 10 visitors during the opening receive a complimentary woodcut print.

Pottery Sale in Middlebury. Saturday, May 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Rte. 7 South. Held in conjunction with Vermont Open Studio

Weekend. Pottery by: Kathy Clarke, Ken Martin, Su Shannon, local potters, studio assistants and students. Find pottery, cards, jewelry, paintings and some surprises. Funds raised will benefit the school.

Horseshoe Tournament in Bristol. Saturday, May 27, 10 a.m. 2 p.m., Sodbusters Horseshoe Club, 56 Airport Dr. Fundraiser for the Mount Abraham Field Hockey team. Check in: 9:30 a.m. $20 per player. All ages and abilities welcome. 50/50 Raffle, silent auction and refreshments. For more info contact Mike Brown at mbrownie56@comcast.net or www.sodbustershorseshoeclub.com.

Art opening reception in Bristol. Saturday, May 27, 11 a.m., Walkover Gallery. Opening for a retrospective of artist Grace Spring’s 50 years of work, including her clay sculptures, drawings, life-size papier-mâché sculptures, paintings and puppets. Exhibit runs from May 27 & 28, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m.

“King Pede” card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, May 27, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community The socializing begins with a sandwich supper and then on to an evening of fun and card games. This is a great way to keep in touch with your neighbors and support our Grange – so all are welcome.

Astronomy star party and workshop in Hubbardton.

Saturday, May 27, 7:30-10 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. The Green Mountain Astronomers hold an evening star party and workshop. Not only will they show you the stars but also help you with your personal telescopes, including how to use, collimate (adjust), and clean them. Inside program included. Bring your telescope. Call 802-2732282 to confirm. Admission by donation.

Stories You Should Know: Italian and German Folk Tales in Rochester. Saturday, May 27, 7:30 p.m., Spice Studio, 482 South Main St. Seven European folk tales performed by Ethan Bowen. See full details in May 25 listing.

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All-you-can-eat breakfast in Vergennes.

May 28, 7:30-10 a.m., Masonic Lodge, 54 School St. Only $8 for eggs, bacon, sausage, pancakes, blueberry pancakes, french toast, home fries, waffles, corned beef hash, sausage gravy and biscuits, juice, coffee and tea. All are welcome.

Proceeds support various local community needs and organizations.

Masonic Breakfast in Bridport. Sunday, May 28, 7:3011 a.m., Bridport Community Hall. All-you-can-eat pancakes, plain and blueberry, French toast, sausage, bacon, eggs, home fries, coffee, juice, and fruit cup.

Adults $8/Children $3, to benefit Masonic charities.

More info: Jim Walker 802-758-2414 or Russ Buck 802-758-2685.

Annual town-wide lawn sale in New Haven. Sunday, May 28, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Maps will be available beginning Wednesday, May 24, at the Town Office and Library, Village Green Market, New Haven Jiffy Mart & New Haven Mobil. To be added to “The Map” call Suzy at 453-5978 by 8 p.m. on Monday, May 22.

Studio grand opening in Vergennes. Sunday, May 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Ross Sheehan Studio, 37 Green St., next door to Bar Antidote and Hired Hand Brewing.

Pottery Sale in Middlebury. Sunday, May 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Middlebury Studio School, 2377 Route 7 South. Held in conjunction with Vermont Open Studio Weekend. Pottery by: Kathy Clarke, Ken Martin, Su Shannon, local potters, studio assistants and students. Find pottery, cards, jewelry, paintings and some surprises. Funds raised will benefit the school.

Last Train to Zinkov: David and Nate Gusakov in Middlebury. Sunday, May 28, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. This father and son duo will play cutting-edge acoustic folk — mindful of the heart, mindful of ancestry, mindful of life and death and joy; with strings, vocals, and original compositions, the Gusakovs (father and son) create music that reflects their love of Appalachian old-time, classical, gypsy jazz, and their own Eastern European roots. Free and open to the public. Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@residenceottercreek.com or 802-388-1220.

Stories You Should Know: Italian and German Folk Tales in Rochester. Sunday, May 28, 2 p.m., Spice Studio, 482 South Main St. Seven European folk tales performed by Ethan Bowen See full details in May 25 listing.

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NAEF ROBINSON OF Huntington works on a clay platter with her dog, Mona Louisa, during a class at Middlebury Studio School in January. The school will hold its semi-annual pottery sale fundraiser, featuring work by teachers and students, on Saturday and Sunday, May 26 & 27.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

Crazyhearse acoustic show in Middlebury. Friday May 19, 7-9 p.m., 51 Main.

Dr. No in Middlebury. Friday, May 19, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern Bob MacKenzie Band in Middlebury. Friday, May 20, 6 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

Paul Asbell in Middlebury. Saturday, May 20, 7:309:30 p.m., 51 Main.

Luke Concannon in Middlebury. Thursday, May 25, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main Cooper and Lavoie in Middlebury. Friday, May 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 51 Main.

Phil Yates & the Affiliates in Middlebury. Friday, May 26, Two Brothers Tavern.

Moose Crossing in Middlebury. Saturday, May 27, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main.

Robin Gottfried Band in Middlebury. Saturday, May 27, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

Low Lilly in Ripton. Saturday, June 3, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

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Hunt, McKenney MIDDLEBURY/WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Gregory McKenney of White River Junction is engaged to be married to Alison Hunt of Middlebury.

The bride-elect is the daughter of Dr. Donald Hunt and Julia Harris of Middlebury. The groom-to-be is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Gary McKenney of White River Junction.

Alison Hunt is a graduate of Middlebury Union High School, Skidmore College and Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk, Va. She is a mental health counselor and art therapist. the Willis Engineering Firm as an Greg McKenney is a graduate of engineer.

Hartford High School and Norwich The couple plan a summer University. He is employed by wedding.

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• Beth Crosby and Greg Hathaway of Middlebury, May 7, a boy, Benjamin Crosby Hathaway.

• Amanda Bowen and Andrew Balfe of Bridport, May 11, a girl, Ava JoAnne Balfe.

• Jenna Bordeleau (Whittemore) and Andre Bordeleau, May 13, a boy, Cole Andre Bordeleau.

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The party for Debi Gray at the Library was well attended and the food delectable! If you haven’t yet thanked her for her years of loving, dedicated service, please stop in to visit at the library before she leaves.

The Lincoln town-wide yard sale will be here before long. If you wish to have a sale, the sign-up sheet is at the Lincoln Store. For the small fee of $15, which benefits Weathervane Housing, your address will be drawn in on the map.

Maps will be available at the

Lincoln Store and the Library on the Saturday morning of the sales, May 27. Sales will be open from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and there will be food for sale at the store as well as the Fire Department.

The Library will have their plant sale and used book sale but n o food sale this year. We have new signs and arrows to lead you to the sales thanks to Mike Harding!

Hopefully all the rain and cold weather will be over and we’ll have a beautiful day for the sale!

A NEW VIDEO promoting Vergennes is filled with shots of the city’s downtown, Otter Creek Basin; events such as the Little City 5K road race, businesses, restaurants, landmarks and more.

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New video promotes big doings in Little City

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — A new threeminute video boosting Vergennes and its environs made its world premiere at the May 9 city council meeting.

Alderman and Vergennes Partnership President Renny Perry screened for the first time the new video designed to promote Vergennes and its surroundings to

ROTARY 5th Annual Rotary Flag Raising The Middlebury Rotary Club is pleased to announce its Fifth Flag Raising Project to promote patriotism and to raise funds for charitable use in our community.

We invite you to join your Middlebury neighbors by permitting us to display an American flag in one of several ways during the following time periods: Memorial Day Weekend Flag Day (June 14) Independence Day Weekend Labor Day Weekend Veteran’s Day (November 11) In exchange for an annual $50.00 subscription, our Rotarians will place one 3’ x 5’ flag on a 10’ pole into a short pipe which is driven into the ground so it will not interfere with lawn maintenance. The flag will be installed just after sunrise and removed before sunset for storage until the next holiday. Seeing these flags throughout town is an impressive sight.

Local charities are selected annually to benefit from your generosity and patriotism.

Homeowners and Businesses may select to have their flags on their lawns in front of their home or business, if they live close to town or the center of East Middlebury.

- OR Homeowners who live in outlying areas can have their flags flown at the top of the Town Green along Rt 7 with a small plaque engraved “in honor of” or “in memory of” a friend or family member.

- ORBusinesses that do not have a lawn or are located away from the town center, may have their flag placed on Court Square opposite the Middlebury Inn. Signs and Newspaper articles will memorialize your generosity.

- OR Finally, for those who wish to honor a Veteran, Rotary will install a flag with many others in Cannon Park opposite the Library. A Plaque with the Veteran’s name, rank, branch of service and tour of duty will be affixed to the flag pole.

This year’s beneficiaries are: HOPE, Homeward Bound. Elderly Services, ACHHH and VT Special Olympics.

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prospective visitors, residents and businesses.

Perry said the video, a year in the making and created at “a considerable discount” by Bristol’s Red Barn Productions, is now available for free at the partnership’s website to anyone who wants to use it to market the area for any reason, including business and employment recruiters and real estate agents. See the video here: www.vergennesdowntown.org/ littlecity.

Particularly, he said, the video is designed to be social-media friendly.

“You have to do it the modern way.

You have to do it on social media,” Perry said. “We’re really proud of this video. We hope people use it as much as they can.”

The video — titled “Welcome to Vergennes, VT. The little city with a big heart!” — includes shots of the city’s downtown, Otter Creek Basin and side streets; events such as Vergennes Day and the Little City 5K road race; businesses and restaurants; landmarks such as the Vergennes Opera House, city pool, and Bixby Library; and area attractions such as the Basin Harbor Club and Lake Champlain.

Interviewees include Friends of the Vergennes Opera House President Gerianne Smart and Alderman Jeff Fritz, who says he should have moved to the city decades ago. Vergennes native Matteo Palmer supplies an acoustic guitar soundtrack of original music.

Perry said the partnership successfully raised all funds necessary for the project.

Mayor Michael Daniels gave the video two thumbs up.

“It is a great video, and it does a great job of selling our beautiful city.”

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 18, 2017 — PAGE 11A

 Prom Night

Otter Valley Middlebury

THIS PAST SATURDAY night, three of the four local union high schools hosted their biggest dance of the year — Prom. Students from Vergennes gathered at the Champlain Valley Alpaca Farm events venue for a terrific time; Otter Valley students had fun at Howe Center in Rutland; and Middlebury partygoers stayed close to home with prom at the Town Hall Theater, where they even had a horse-drawn carriage. Thanks to Kelly McCullough for the Otter Valley photos, Michael Giorgio for the Middlebury photos and Chris Wyckoff for the Vergennes photos.

Vergennes

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Dattilio

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definitely not something I thought I (Continued from Page 1A) His painting “Morning Thunder,” would pursue as a career. But here which magnificently portrays a wild I am.”

He has drawn inspiration from his turkey in a meadow, was recently selected as the National Wild Turkey family history of hikes and hunting Federation’s (NWTF) 2018 “Stamp trips.

“I grew up in a family of hunters Print of Year.” Limited prints and $5 stamps of his vibrant painting will be and I decided that if I was going to auctioned off and/or sold to benefit pursue this, I wanted to combine NWTF’s conservation and hunting my passion for art with my love for hunting and the outdoors,” Dattilio programs.

Like past winners, Dattilio will said. “That’s how I’ve gotten to reap some financial rewards and where I am today.”

Since birds and animals won’t national exposure as a result of his artwork being shown and marketed politely pose in a meadow or throughout the country. Proceeds forest, Dattilio must use photos from the sale of this “Morning of his subjects as his guide.

Thunder” reproduction will benefit Fortunately, there are many wildlife the NWTF through 2018. At that photographers who post their point, Dattilio can derive income work online, and Dattilio dutifully requests permission from any from it.

And that’s a very good photographer whose work thing for a 24-year-old he wants to use. He will artist trying to make a “I grew up in sometimes be asked to name for himself in what a family of pay a fee. can be a challenging field hunters and “Most of the time, to make a living. (the photographer) is I decided The accolade has that if I was generous and won’t also affirmed Dattilio’s charge anything, perhaps decision to shift his going to just a print in exchange,” he said. “I’ve had some painting focus from pursue this, that didn’t want me to use humans to the animal I wanted world. This transition to combine their images — which is totally fine.” dovetails with his lifelong my passion Dattilio looks for photos love of the wilderness and for art with that show wildlife in hunting. interesting angles, stances “I don’t even know how my love for to explain it,” Dattilio hunting and and habitats. He has also said of his reaction to the outdoors. done some paintings based on mounts. He’ll learning of his NWTF That’s how selection. “I had to read I’ve gotten to take photos or mental notes of animals he sees the (confirmation) email where I am in the wild. several times.”

Dattilio’s success hasn’t today.”

A LUCKY BREAK — Dustin His entree into the come overnight. He’s Dattilio NWTF scene came by earned it through many happenstance. hundreds of hours of often In January of 2016, Dattilio was solitary labor in front of paper and canvas. He strives for photographic invited to show his work at the accuracy in his drawings and annual Yankee Sportsman Classic paintings, and that takes a great eye, in Essex. The event provides a market and forum for all things intense study and a steady hand.

His first painting, in 2013, was hunting. An exhibitor had canceled, of an owl. He confesses that initial and Dattilio was asked if he wanted work proved he wasn’t some kind of to take his place showcase some of his animal and bird artwork. prodigy.

He accepted, and received great “It wasn’t very good; I’ve come a long way,” he said, chuckling about feedback.

“The support that I got from all his first foray into painting. “I hear all the time, ‘You’re so talented.’ But the hunters and companies there people don’t understand the amount was unbelievable,” Dattilio said.

It was at this event that he met of hours I have put into this.”

It helped that Dattilio has always Fred Bird, the New England been interested in art, though not director of the NWTF. “He asked if I would be willing enough to think of himself as an to donate a print or an original artist.

“I used to draw comic books painting to their annual convention when I was a kid,” Dattilio recalled. in Nashville,” Dattilio said. “I said, “Outside of art classes in high ‘Sure.’” school, I didn’t really do anything That’s what got him working on (with art). I don’t think I was a “Morning Thunder.” He only had a stand-out student or anything like few weeks to complete the painting that when it comes to art. It was in order to meet the convention

(Continued from Page 1A) appointed town workers.

Board members said they were unable to bring into line a town official with whom they disagreed because he answered to voters, not to them.

Vergennes, like most Vermont cities, has appointed clerks and treasurers, and Panton recently made the switch, citing the same reasons, although the town was not experiencing any issues with its office workers.

Selectboard Chairwoman Loretta Lawrence said board members briefly considered waiting until next town meeting to have another vote “We’re on the issue. moving But, she said, forward. they decided the support We felt good for the charter on Town expressed at Meeting this past town Day with meeting and at 120 people two hearings there. There as well as the positive, even if was only close, vote last one person week provided who didn’t enough evidence like it.” for them to take — Loretta the next step Lawrence toward charter approval. A petition could still trigger a revote, however.

“We’re moving forward,” Lawrence said. “We felt good on Town Meeting Day with 120 people there. There was only one person who didn’t like it.”

Getting lawmakers’ approval probably cannot be accomplished during the current Legislative session, which could end this week. Lawrence last week said Reps. Diane Lanpher, D-Vergennes, and Warren van Wyck, R-Ferrisburgh, were preparing the necessary paperwork.

The proposed charter is brief in describing duties for the clerk and treasurer, but gives the selectboard the power to write job descriptions.

It also includes a provision that the jobholders do not have to be Ferrisburgh residents.

The two-page charter includes basic language giving the town the right to “continue to be a municipal corporation” with “all the powers granted to towns and municipal corporations by the Constitution and laws of the State.”

Lawrence said that the selectboard was happy with the performance of Town Clerk Gloria Warden, who was re-elected in March, and Treasurer Deb Healey, who unseated the incumbent in March, but the board believes the charter would protect the town if problems arose in the future.

“We’re excited to move forward with the charter,” she said.

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deadline. He spent many hours what’s going to happen,” Dattilio looking online for an appropriate said. “I’ve been close to finishing photo subject and finally came upon a painting and had the air brush a photo by Tes Jolly of Alabama. splatter. When it splatters, it’s gobs Jolly waived her usual fee because of paint on the canvass that you the painting would be donated to can’t just paint over.” the NWTF. “Morning Thunder” — “Morning Thunder” features a a term used to describe the powerful majestic wild turkey standing in a gobbling of a wild turkey in the meadow, in the middle of a fullmorning — was her title for the throated gobble. It is acrylic on photo, and she agreed to allow it to 16-inch-by-20 inch gesso board. be used as the painting’s moniker.

The painting — and others With permission in hand, Dattilio Dattilio has created — have given set to work on the painting last him a greater appreciation for the winter. He spent four straight days beauty in nature. on “Morning Thunder,” making for “When people see turkeys (in some late nights and early nature), they have a mornings. very ugly head,” Dattilio He sketched in the “My goal is said. “But during my outlines of his turkey, to have at time painting them, you and used an air brush for least one of realize all the different background coloring. He and there is a lot my paintings colors, filled in the details, very of beauty within each carefully, using various in all 50 animal. No matter what states.” paint brushes. you’re working on, — Dustin there’s always something “The drawing in Dattilio that catches my eye about my dorm room really enhanced my ability to that animal that I didn’t work from photographs and draw notice at first.” accurately,” Dattilio said.

He was ecstatic to learn earlier He doesn’t trace. this spring that his donated painting “You need to know how to draw had earned NWTF stamp honors, free hand,” he said. and was excited to tell Jolly about He fortunately did not experience the honor. He also got a kick out of any creative catastrophes along the sharing the news with the person way. Spills and other accidents who bought the original painting have been known to happen. at a recent NWTF auction in “When you’re dealing with an Nashville. air brush, you’re dealing with a “He was beyond thrilled about mechanical thing; you never know it,” Dattilio said of the buyer’s

reaction. That buyer agreed to make the painting available for scanning to generate the limited prints that will be sold.

“Morning Thunder” has already earned Dattilio a bunch of commissions, mostly from outof-state folks seeking realistic renderings of their pets, wild animals and hunters. Dattilio gratefully accepts the work, knowing that in the art business, you have to make hay while the sun shines.

“My goal is to have at least one of my paintings in all 50 states,” he said.

After the “Morning Thunder” wild turkey stamp is released, he’ll already have conquered the lower 48 states.

Dattilio will also continue to do some human portraits on commission, as well as wood burnings. And some people want to pay him the ultimate, extreme compliment — having his work appear on them permanently, as a tattoo.

That’s where he draws the line; some mistakes can be erased.

Others, not so much.

Painting. It’s worth the long hours and occasional periods of low sales, according to Dattilio.

“I’d rather struggle doing something I love than struggle dreading going into work every day,” he said.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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VUHS STUDENTS CASEY Kimball, left, Mason Charlebois, Ethan Sausville, Ben Praamsma, Lance Bergmans and Aaron Premont were selected by American Legion Post 14 to attend Green Mountain Boys’ State in at Lyndon State College next month.

VUHS students heading to Boys’ State VERGENNES — Vergennes American Legion Post 14 will be sponsoring five VUHS delegates to this year’s Green Mountain Boys’ State, held June 18-23, at Lyndon State College in Lyndonville. The five are Lance Bergmans, Mason Charlebois, Casey Kimball, Ethan Sausville and Aaron Premont.

VUHS student Ben Praamsma also was selected but is unable to attend.

The boys were nominated by faculty and staff based on leadership, character and honesty, cooperativeness, community participation and service, and scholarship.

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Vt. Folklife Center will host storytelling workshop Friday MIDDLEBURY — The Vermont Folklife Center (VFC) will host a day-long workshop on Friday, May 19, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. “Storytelling for Social Change” will introduce attendees to collaborative documentary and storytelling skills, interviewing skills, and the design and planning of project ideas. The workshop will be held at the VFC headquarters in Middlebury, at 88 Main St. Storytelling, oral history and ethnography can be powerful tools for capturing voices, memories and personal histories. They can also be catalysts for activism and social change. The workshop will explore the ethics and techniques of oral history, ethnography, and storytelling as activist research methodologies.

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Land (Continued from Page 1A) Butler regularly welcomes small Street,” reads a project narrative groups of Middlebury College provided by the VLT. “Not long ago, students who helped out with there were five farms shipping milk chores, such as feeding calves.

“The kids are a lot of fun, and and he’s seen the young people move the future looks off the farms.” great with the next But Doug’s son “I’d like it generation coming,” Casey is an exception conserved to Butler said. to that trend. protect myself The VLT and the He made a commitment to the from myself. Once Butlers have agreed on a price of $475,000 farm right after high it’s conserved I school, and wants to won’t be tempted for the conservation deal. The Vermont keep it in agriculture to sell it to a and for at least another developer. Believe Housing Conservation Board generation.

(VHCB) is being “He’s ‘old school’ me, our family like that,” Doug Butler has had plenty of asked to contribute offers.” $445,000 of that said of his son.

— Doug Butler sum. The Middlebury Doug is 60 and selectboard last he’s setting the stage to eventually transfer the farm to week unanimously agreed to Casey, Karnatz noted. To ease their contribute $30,000 from the town’s substantial debt, the family would conservation fund. like to conserve some of their best QUARRY ROAD FARM The Pominvilles have owned land — 148 acres, of which 80 percent is agricultural soil. The their farm off Quarry Road since parcel also includes 40 acres of rare 1953. It became certified organic clayplain forest. That area will be in 2003 and is now a sprawling protected by a wetland protection enterprise on four parcels with a zone that restricts logging and total of 565 acres. Joel Pominville prohibits conversion to agricultural also rents another 500 acres. use.

“I’d like it conserved to protect myself from myself,” Butler told the VLT. “Once it’s conserved I won’t be tempted to sell it to a developer. Believe me, our family has had plenty of offers.”

Conserving the property in perpetuity will provide some additional resources for the Butlers to help keep the farm sustainable, and it will also ensure its panoramic views will endure. On the Tuesday morning of his phone conversation with the Independent, Butler was enjoying a brief respite from the day’s chores. The splendid views of the Adirondacks to the west and the Green Mountains to the east helped restore his spirit and energy.

Hardly a cyclist can pass by the farm without dismounting and clicking a photo of the majestic scenery and grazing cattle.

“We are here for only a short time; let’s keep these views and use this land to feed people,” Butler said.

Long-term stability of the Butler Farm means it will continue to give young folks a first-hand look at a local family agricultural operation.

THE VERMONT LAND Trust is working on a deal to conserve substantial portions of the Quarry Road Farm, above, and the Butler Farm off Munger Street in Middlebury.

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At this point, the Pominvilles are only seeking to conserve a 210acre parcel they purchased in 1974 from John and Margaret Parke.

The property includes 115 tillable

acres, and 50 acres are wooded.

The remaining 40 acres is pasture/ riparian area, according to the VLT. According to a VLT’s project narrative, conservation of

the Parke parcel would allow Joel to become a controlling shareholder in the corporation.

He already makes all the day-today management decisions, and

conservation funding will ease the long transition process, according to Karnatz.

If “phase one” goes according to plan, the Pominvilles are open to conserving additional acreage, according to Karnatz.

Quarry Road Farm has one of the larger organic herds in the area, with 200 cows and 150 young stock. It’s also one of the few properties in the state that grows organic corn, according to the VLT. The Muddy Branch River flows through the middle of the property.

Typical Addison County clay soil is found throughout the Quarry Road Farm. There’s one house on the parcel and it is excluded on three acres.

Vermont Land Trust and the Pominvilles have agreed on a development rights acquisition price of $338,900, with $313,900 coming through the VHCB and $25,000 through the town of Middlebury’s conservation fund.

Like Butler, Pominville is keen on seeing his land remain open and in agriculture. He believes houses shouldn’t be plopped down in the middle of the countryside unless the people who reside there work around where they live.

“It’s just wrong,” he said.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Early trout and pike It’s Tuesday evening and I’m sitting in a dining room of the Swift House watching Kevin Ramirez tie pike flies while he and Brian Cadoret talk about strategies for fishing those flies. The flies are huge. They are both longer and more colorful than many of the trout that were stocked in local rivers early this month.

Speaking of trout, the 2017 trout season is a month underway. There have already been some fantastic days of fishing.

The warm weather at the end of April — when the temperatures topped 80 degrees through much of Vermont — brought a flurry of activity in the rivers. Area anglers had unusual success for that early in the season. Insect hatches and rising trout metabolism made for hungry fish.

And since most of the rivers are not stocked until May, those hungry fish were fat and hearty winter holdovers.

I usually think of prime conditions for trout fishing in Vermont as arriving in mid-May and continuing into early June. This year I was wrong.

Or, rather, I was temporarily wrong.

Rain and cooler weather (and in the mountains some snow) have since slowed things down again (and kept me off the river last week). However, the start of May also ushered in the transition in state stocking efforts from lakes to rivers. By the start of last week, the Middlebury River had already had two stockings, bringing in rainbow, brown and brook trout in both the lower and upper rivers. New Haven River stocking is also well underway. So for those who just want to catch lots of fish, the stocking is certainly making up for cooler, damper weather. Now is a great time to hit the water.

Don’t know how to fish? If you are a woman interested in learning to “hit the water” with a fly rod — or, rather, how to gently land a fly on or under the water in such a way as to attract a hungry fish — there is just such an opportunity arising. The New Haven River Anglers Association is running their annual “Women in Waders” pro(See Dickerson, Page 3B)

PANTHER FRESHMAN KATE Zecca fires a shot on Colby goalie Izzy Scribano during Sunday’s NCAA second-round game. Middlebury won the game, 10-9.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Panthers’ stunning rally tops Colby

Defense, grit, key in NCAA triumph

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls Lacrosse 5/15 Colchester vs. VUHS....................20-16 5/16 MUHS vs. Burlington......................20-7 5/17 VUHS at Randolph.........................Late Boys’ Lacrosse 5/15 MUHS vs. Woodstock.....................11-7 5/15 Mt. Abe vs. OV..................................9-5 5/16 Harwood vs. Mt. Abe......................16-2 5/17 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS...................Late 5/17 Rutland at OV.................................Late Softball 5/16 OV vs. Rutland.................................2-1 5/16 Missisquoi vs. VUHS......................13-0 5/16 Mt. Abe at CVU........................... 6-5 (8) 5/16 MUHS vs. St. Johnsbury................11-8 5/17 OV at Windsor................................Late Baseball 5/16 OV vs. Springfield...........................18-1 5/16 VUHS at Missisquoi........................12-5 5/16 CVU vs. Mt. Abe...............................2-1 5/16 St. Johnsbury vs. MUHS..................2-0 5/17 OV at Hartford................................Late Tennis 5/15 MUHS Girls at L. Region............. Canc.

5/17 N. Country at MUHS Boys..............Late 5/17 MUHS Girls at N. Country..............Late

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 5/19 Essex at MUHS......................4:30 p.m.

5/22 VUHS at Stowe.......................4:30 p.m.

5/23 MUHS at S. Burlington...........4:30 p.m.

5/24 Burr & Burton at MUHS..........4:30 p.m.

5/25 VUHS at Lamoille...................4:30 p.m.

5/26 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS...........4:30 p.m.

5/27 VUHS at U-32............................ 11 a.m.

Boys’ Lacrosse 5/18 Mt. Abe at Rice............................4 p.m.

5/19 OV at Montpelier..........................4 p.m.

5/20 U-32 at Mt. Abe..........................10 a.m.

5/20 MUHS at CVU........................... 11 a.m.

5/22 Essex at Midd. ............................4 p.m.

5/24 Midd. at Colchester......................4 p.m.

5/20 U-32 at Mt. Abe............................4 p.m.

5/22 Hartford at OV.............................4 p.m.

5/25 Mt. Abe at Stowe.........................4 p.m.

5/26 Mt. Abe at Rice............................4 p.m.

5/27 Spaulding at Midd......................11 a.m.

Softball 5/18 Colchester at VUHS...............4:30 p.m.

5/18 Milton at Mt. Abe.....................4:30 p.m.

5/18 MUHS at Spaulding................4:30 p.m.

5/19 OV at Mt. Anthony..................4:30 p.m.

5/20 South Burlington at Mt. Abe....4:30 p.m.

5/20 Essex at VUHS.......................4:30 p.m.

(See Schedule, Page 3B)

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE Jenna McNicholas scored the game-winning goal with 21.7 seconds left in regulation to lift the Panthers over Colby, 10-9, in Sunday’s NCAA second-round game.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Track and field athletes excel at BHS invitational

By ANDY KIRKALDY BURLINGTON — Track and field athletes from Mount Abraham and Middlebury union high schools posted strong individual results at Saturday’s Burlington Invitational, which drew competitors from 25 Vermont high schools.

Mount Abe’s Emma Radler tied for first place in the pole vault, while teammates Lydia Pitts placed in three events and Finn Clements and Jackson Counter finished second and third, respectively, in the boys’ javelin toss.

For MUHS, Josh Girard placed in two events, and the girls’ four-

by-400-meter relay team of Isabel Olson, Ailey Bosworth, Helen Anderson and Caroline Kimble took third.

In combined scoring for girls’ and boys’ event, St. Johnsbury picked up 288 points to win the meet, with Essex (159) in second.

Mount Abe (46) was 11th, and MUHS (16) took 17th.

The Tigers were set to host Vergennes on Wednesday at the Middlebury College track in their only home meet of the spring. The Independent plans to publish full results and photos in its Monday edition.

(See Track, Page 2B)

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — In Sunday’s almost painfully tense second-round NCAA Division III lacrosse game at Middlebury College, Colby scored five goals to the Panthers’ one in the first 6:41 of the second half to take an 8-5 lead.

In the past few weeks, the 15-4 Panthers had lost two starters, sophomore midfielder Henley Hall and junior attacker Georgia Carroll, and valuable freshman reserve Emily Barnard to injury. Before the season even started, another freshman tore a knee ligament.

And just before Sunday’s halftime, junior midfielder Hollis Perticone — the NESCAC Player of the Year, the team leader with 73 draw controls, third-leading scorer and a key member of its defense — received her second yellow card on a call that looked questionable. Perticone had to sit the rest of the game.

Oh, and Colby (15-4) had twice this season rallied late past the Panthers to defeat them, including eight days before on the same field.

Nevertheless, Middlebury won.

The Panther defense of seniors Delaina Smith and Jessie Yorke, junior Evie Keating and sophomore Alex White kept not only stopping the Mules, but also taking the ball from them.

Sophomore Casey O’Neill (of Burlington High School) started winning draws, and two of sophomore middie Emma McDonagh’s four goals came with 19:44 and 18:40 to go, one on a free position and one on a behind-thenet feed from senior leading scorer Mary O’Connell, and it was 8-7.

With 13 minutes to go, freshman Emma Johns, filling in for Perticone, caused a turnover. A minute later, Johns knotted the score, taking a cross-crease pass from classmate Sara DiCenso and beating Colby goalie Izzy Scribano inside the left post.

At 6:38, Colby — which also ex(See Panthers, Page 2B)

Otters, Eagles, Tigers pick up close victories ADDISON COUNTY — Otter McGee hit. Rutland tied the game on Valley, Mount Abraham and a fourth-inning squeeze bunt, but the Middlebury all picked up high Otters plated the winning run in the school softball wins on Tuesday, but sixth, when Winslow doubled and scored on an Alyssa Falco hit.

Vergennes fell to Division I’s firstThe Otters improved to 5-5 place team. heading into a Wednesday OTTERS game at Hartford.

D-II OV knocked off EAGLES D-I rival Rutland, 2-1, as The Eagles bounced Otter Courtney Bushey SOFTBALL and Raider Skyler Bird Wrap-Up back from their first three losses of the season to each tossed three hitters. defeat host Champlain Bushey walked none and struck out five, while Bird struck out Valley, 6-5, in eight innings. The Eagles scored twice in the eighth six, but walked five.

And one of those walks resulted in on an error and an Emily Aldrich a run: OV took a 1-0 lead in the third sacrifice fly and then held on to win. when Charlotte Winslow walked Eagle pitcher Rachael McCormick and eventually scored on a Molly (See Softball wrap, Page 2B)

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Otters only winners in high school baseball ADDISON COUNTY — Otter Valley picked up a road win in local high school baseball, but Vergennes, Middlebury and Mount Abraham came up short away from home in games all played on Tuesday.

OTTERS The Otters pounded out 23 hits in an 18-1 victory at Springfield.

Josh Beayon tossed the five-inning complete game, allowing three hits and striking out 11 while allowing one unearned run. Beayon also drove in four runs with three hits, while Colby McKay plated three runs with three hits and Dominic McCullough also added three hits.

The Otters won their third straight and improved to 7-4 heading into a Wednesday game at Hartford.

EAGLES Host Champlain Valley edged the Eagles, 2-1. George Bailey was the tough-luck losing pitcher, allowing five hits in six innings to the 9-3 Redhawks, who scored runs on a squeeze bunt and a steal of home.

Dustin Whitcomb scored for the Eagles on a wild pitch. Bailey, Adam Whitcomb and Chris Wood picked up hits for the Eagles, who dropped to 5-7, but remain in sixth place in Division II according to the Vermont Principals’ Association website.

TIGERS MUHS also lost a squeaker, 2-0 at St. Johnsbury (8-3). The Hilltoppers scored on a balk and an RBI groundout. Losing pitcher Skyeler Devlin allowed only three hits, and Austin Friend poked two of the 1-11 Tigers’ six hits.

COMMODORES Host Missisquoi defeated VUHS, 12-5, as Richard Walker gave up four hits and fanned 11 batters in six innings. Hunter O’Connor tripled, doubled and scored twice for the Commodores, who dropped to 4-7 with their third straight setback.

Lax: Eagles top Otters; Tiger teams prevail

By ANDY KIRKALDY ADDISON COUNTY — The Mount Abraham/Vergennes boys picked up a win at Otter Valley to highlight high school lacrosse action earlier this week.

In other action, the Eagles lost at home, the Middlebury girls won handily on the road, the Tiger boys earned a tough road win, and the Commodore girls came up just short on the road.

EAGLE-OTTER BOYS On Monday, the Eagle boys picked up a hard-fought win at OV, 9-5. Max Ratti-Bicknell (four goals and two assists) and Owein LaBarr (two goals, three assists) led the attack, and Neo Weaver, Addison King and Jack Willis chipped in a goal apiece. Patrick Davison backstopped the win with ten saves.

Hayden Gallo paced the 3-7 Otters with two goals, and Noah Smith, Tyson Cram and Ethan Sulik-Doty added a goal apiece.

Goalie Alec Stevens stopped nine shots.

(See Lacrosse, Page 3B)

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Threesome wins at Ralph Myhre

MIDDLEBURY — The threesome of Mike Adams, Joe Thilbourg and Karl Neuse prevailed last week in Bill Davidson Thursday Men’s Golf at Ralph Myhre Golf Course.

The trio of Marsdin Van Order, Fred Belanger and Deem Schoenfeld finished second, and the team of George Ramsayer, Nick Causton and Jim Hadeka placed third.

Schoenfeld shot the low net score for the day.

Results from the May 12 Buster Brush Memorial Tournament will be made available next week, according to a course email.

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, May 18, 2017

Track (Continued from Page 1B) GIRLS’ RESULTS Girls who recorded top-10 finishes for local teams in Burlington were: • 100: 9. Chloe Kane, MUHS, 13.24.

• 400: 10. Bosworth, MUHS, 65.13.

• 800: 10. Olson, MUHS, 2:31.83.

• 1,500: 9. Kimble, MUHS, 5:12.93.

• 100 hurdles: 3. Pitts, MAU, 16.61.

• 4X800: 3. MUHS, 10:06.7 (Olson, Bosworth, Anderson, Kimble).

• Pole Vault: 1. (tie) Radler, MAU, 9’-2”.

• Long jump: 4. Pitts, MAU, 16’0”.

• Triple jump: 3. Pitts, MAU, 34’6.25”.

• Shot put: 6. Emma Carter, MAU, 31’-6”.

• Javelin: 8. Vanessa Dykstra, MAU, 88’-10”.

BOYS’ RESULTS Boys who recorded top-10 finishes for local teams in Burlington were: • 400: 10. Girard, MUHS, 54.15.

• 300 hurdles: 9. Jude Bunch, MAU, 45.63.

• 4X100 relay: 5. MUHS, 47.2 (Tristan Durante, Ben Balparda, Anthony Garner, Damien Morris).

• Triple jump: 4. Girard, MUHS, 38’-9”.

• Shot put: 8. Nanja Horning, MUHS, 39’-8.5”.

• Javelin: 2. Finn Clements, MAU, 165’-7”; 3. Jackson Counter, MAU, 154’-11”.

Softball wrap (Continued from Page 1B) went the distance, allowing two earned runs and striking out 12.

McCormick, Katelynn Ouellette, and Ruby Ball led the Eagles, as each finished with three hits, while Savannah Earley scored twice as the Eagles moved to 8-3.

The Redhawks, an improved team under former VUHS coach Mike Sullivan, are 6-6.

TIGERS The visiting Tigers took advantage of St. Johnsbury miscues to rally for five runs in the seventh inning and escape with an 11-8 victory.

Darcy Staats led the MUHS attack with two hits and an RBI, while winning pitcher Payton Buxton allowed ten hits, walked none and struck out 12 as the Tigers improved to 10-2.

COMMODORES Visiting Missisquoi belted three homers and improved to 11-1 with a 13-0 win over the Commodores.

Maranda Aunchman took the pitching loss, while the T-Birds’ Lauren Perkins tossed a two-hitter and fanned 11. Taylor Bresnick and Sydney Tarte had the hits for the 2-9 Commodores.

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PANTHER JUNIOR HOLLIS Perticone fires a shot during NCAA second-round action against Colby Sunday afternoon on Kohn Field.

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Panthers (Continued from Page 1B) celled defensively and caused turnovers — cashed in after a Panther miscue, with Lexie Perticone (yes, she’s Hollis’s sister) setting up Gemma Bready in transition to make it 9-8 Mules.

Three times in the next three minutes, Colby gained possession, but Panther sophomore middie Susanna Baker and Keating forced turnovers, and Smith won a race for a ground ball when a Colby clearing attempt sailed high.

Middlebury Coach Kate Livesay called time at 3:45 after Smith’s scoop, and soon after O’Connell ran across the top of the fan and bounced a rocket past Scribano at 3:02. It was 9-9.

Colby got the ball back, but defense

by Keating returned it to Middlebury.

With about a minute to go McDonagh broke across the crease and tried to scoop the ball in, but Scribano smothered the shot and cleared up the right side. McDonagh chased the play down and checked the ball out of a Mule stick. The Panthers were back in business.

And they made the most of the chance. O’Connell possessed to the right of goal, and sophomore Jenna McNicholas saw a rare opening and cut to the crease. O’Connell hit her, and McNicholas finished high into the left side with 21.7 seconds to go: 10-9, the same score Colby had won by eight days before.

“We as a group wanted to wind down the clock as much as possible,” O’Connell said. “So it was really sweet to be able to find that open person with 20 seconds left.”

McNicholas said she saw O’Connell looking at the opening.

“Me and Mary work really well together,” McNicholas said. “I just cut for her and she put it right in my stick.”

O’Neill then flipped the draw high into the air, back toward the Panther end. Fittingly, Keating, who had caused four turnovers and picked up four ground balls, won the ball to erase Colby’s final hope.

O’Connell said the Panther always believed they would prevail.

“We had no doubt in our mind,” she said. “Lacrosse, you can score from one end to the other in 10 seconds, and so with 25 minutes left we knew we had the time to get the job done.”

Part of that faith, O’Connell said, came from the Panthers’ confidence in their back line and goalie Kate

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SENIOR Delaina Smith races up the field against Colby Sunday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Furber, yet another clean up some passing sophomore starter, and play with heart.”’ who on Sunday made A DEEP TEAM six saves.

After Sunday’s “There was no win, Livesay — who doubt in my mind coached Trinity to an with the ball down NCAA title before there, with the Coldoing the same at by team working our Middlebury in 2016 defense, that we were —added a couple going to be able to more attributes to the get the ball back, get Panthers’ list. the ball swiftly down “We have a deep the field,” O’Connell team, and we had to said. “Kudos to the dip into the depth of defense for being the “We have a deep the team this year. backbone of our team team, and we And we had to do that all season and for be- had to dip into the again today with Holing able to get us the lis being out,” Livesay ball back at the end of depth of the team said. “They are just a this year. And the game.” committed group, and McDonagh added a we had to do that just gritty, definitecouple other factors. again today with ly the grittiest team I have ever coached.”

The Panthers hoped Hollis being out.”

The grit showed in to give the team’s se— Coach Kate Livesay the stats. In the preniors (attacker Bea vious two games beEppler is the fourth) a victory on their last appearance on tween the teams, Colby had the total Kohn Field, and had other intangibles edge in draws (20-18) and ground balls (29-22). On Sunday, the Panin their favor.

“We worked hard all week and fig- thers held the advantage in draws, ured things out. We knew we could do 13-8, and Colby’s edge in rollers was it,” McDonagh said. “We just had to 17-15.

“We knew we had to even the ground balls and even the draw controls, and I think we did a great job,” Livesay said.

With both defenses and goalies playing well (Scribano made 10 saves), the Panthers and Mules took turns scoring in the first half. Eppler had two goals, from O’Connell and DiCenso, and McDonagh netted two free positions, as Middlebury took the 4-3 lead.

Four Mules scored as Colby exploded out of the blocks after halftime, including two by Kendall Smith, who led Colby with three goals. Only O’Connell was answering as Middlebury fell behind, 8-5.

But the Panthers answered that 5-1 Mule run with the more timely one of their own, and they advanced to an NCAA Regional round at The College of New Jersey on this Saturday and Sunday. Middlebury meets Brockport (16-2) at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, while TCNJ (16-1, with the one loss at home to Middlebury, 6-4) faces Mount Union (14-3) at 11:30 a.m. The winners square off at 1 p.m. on Sunday.

The Panthers do have one common foe with Brockport: Both won at St. Lawrence, Brockport by 6-5, and Middlebury by 13-7. Livesay said she believes the Panthers can again do well against TCNJ, assuming they get past Brockport on Saturday.

“They’re super speedy, really athletic, in between the 30s. We had trouble even getting to our offensive end the first time we played them in the first half. So we’ve got to be more poised in transition and make that a good phase of the game for us. Offensively we feel like we can score on them,” Livesay said. “Defensively, we did a nice job on them, so we just have to limit their go-to scorers.”

McDonagh said the Colby victory will also give the Panthers a shot in the arm this weekend.

“This will be a huge momentum boost for us,” she said. “We’re still just taking it one game at a time, but we’re really excited to see what we can do.”

Addison Independent, Thursday, May 18, 2017 — PAGE 3B

Panther women’s tennis reaches NCAA quarterfinal MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s tennis team on Sunday blanked visiting Amherst in an NCAA Division III regional final, 5-0, and as a result advanced for the third straight time and sixth time ever to an NCAA quarterfinal.

The 16-4 Panthers, who reached the semifinal round a year ago, will on Monday play Johns Hopkins in Chattanooga, Tenn., while 12th-ranked Amherst finishes its season at 7-10.

The Panthers were ranked No. 2 in the most recent poll, taken before they fell to Williams, 5-2, in the NESCAC final. And if they get past Johns Hopkins, Williams is their probable semifinal foe. However, the Panthers topped the Ephs, 6-3, in the regular season, and the NESCAC final was played at Williams.

Vs. Amherst on Sunday in matches played indoors, in No. 3 doubles, Alexandra Fields and Christina Puccinelli defeated Claire Carpenter and Megan Adamo, 8-2. At No. 2, Kaysee Orozco and Catherine Blazye defeated Avery Wagman and Anya Ivenitsky, 8-4, and at No. 1 Skylar Schossberger and Katherine Hughes completed the doubles sweep with an 8-4 triumph over Camille Smukler and Kelsey Chen.

At No. 4 singles, Heather Boehm defeated Adamo 6-1, 6-0, and Puccinelli clinched the match with a 6-1, 6-1 triumph at No. 2 over Ivenitsky.

Two matches being contested went unfinished. Fields led at No. 1 vs.

Smukler, 6-2, 4-1, while Blayze led vs.

Camilla Trapness at No. 3, 6-0, 5-1.

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s tennis team defeated visiting Skidmore, 5-1, on Saturday in an NCAA Division III Regional, and thus has advanced to the NCAA quarterfinal round for the 14th time in the past 15 years.

The 20-3 Panthers, who lost to Bowdoin in the 2016 final, will take on Gustavus Adolphus on Monday in Chattanooga, Tenn. The Panthers defeated the Gusties, 7-2, during their spring break trip.

If Middlebury wins again, they will face the winner of a quarterfinal between Claremont-Mudd-Scripps and NESCAC foe Wesleyan. The Panthers defeated CMS, 6-3, on the same trip they faced Gustavus, but Wesleyan upset Middlebury, 5-4, in the NESCAC regular season finale for both teams.

Bowdoin, which also defeated Middlebury in the NESCAC final

this spring, is on the other side of the bracket, as is Williams and perennial power Emory.

The Panthers had little trouble with Skidmore (12-7) this past Sunday, although the Thoroughbreds picked up a point a No. 1 doubles when Kai Yuen Leung and John Wynne edged Lubomir Cuba and William de Quant, 9-8 (7-4).

At No. 2 doubles, Panthers Hamid Derbani and Kyle Schlanger defeated Skidmore’s Steven Koulouris and Travis Leaf, 8-3, and at No. 3 doubles, Middlebury’s Timo van der Geest and Peter Martin topped Lucas Pickering and Nils Akesson, 8-6.

At No. 2 singles, de Quant topped Koulouris, 6-1, 6-2, and Derbani made it 4-1 with a 6-1, 6-3 victory over Pickering at No. 3.Van der Geest at No. 5 by defeating Leaf, 6-2, 6-4. The remaining matches went unfinished.

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Middlebury men’s tennis advances in tournament

Dickerson (Continued from Page 1B) gram on this Friday and Saturday, May 19-20. The program begins Friday evening at 6:30 p.m. at Lincoln Peak Vineyard on River Road in New Haven with fly casting instructions, and primers on fly tying, fly selection and knots. On Saturday it gets more exciting as NHRAA members act as guides for the interested learners, taking them out on the river for some fishing. Snacks, lunch and all equipment are provided, and the event is free. However, participation is limited to the first 12 women to register by calling 453-7237.

And speaking of the NHRAA, it was at their monthly meeting that I was watching local pike expert, professional fishing guide, and former NHRAA President Cadoret, along with Ramirez, a special guest visiting from Burlington. After the business meeting when the group talked about education efforts like “Women in Waders” and a trout-in-the-classroom program, as well as the group’s conservation efforts, Cadoret and Ramirez took the spotlight. They shared all of their best secrets and strategies for how to catch big pike and muskies.

Well, not quite all of their secrets.

When it came to their favorite locations, they remained secretive except for the occasional vague hint or accidental slip. Still, Vermont is fortunate to have an abundance of quality pike fishing, much of it right on Otter Creek from Rutland all the way down to Lake Champlain. What surprised me, though, was how good it can be early in the year. I think of pike fishing as running a month behind trout

— more of a summer adventure than a spring one. But that’s probably because I only turn to pike when the trout fishing slows down.

While it’s true that pike metabolism (like trout metabolism) is slower earlier in the year, Cadoret has success chasing them from March right through December, and Ramirez pointed out that he catches them through the ice. The main difference in strategy is that early in the season (like now when water temperatures in Otter Creek are still in the 40s) Cadoret uses smaller flies and retrieves them more slowly. Many of his favorite early-season patterns are in sizes and colors to imitate perch, a favorite pike food. Without giving away too much, he also said that the first impassable barrier upstream of Lake Champlain on most tributaries are good early season locations to catch many of the big fish that live in the lake.

Both Cadoret and Ramirez are passionate about pike and musky. And why not? These fish are monstrous predators often running three to four feet long. They will really put a charge in a rod. Ramirez’s only warning was how tiring it is to cast heavy flies all day. He shared that he broke one of his heavy fly rods casting for pike. I asked if he broke it on a pike.

He answered that he literally broke it casting; his heavy fly flew forward into his rod with such force that it broke the rod. Casting something like that all day is not for the faint of heart.

Though my bigger fear is not having my rod break, but hit myself in the head. I’ll probably stick with trout flies for a while.

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(Continued from Page 1B) On Tuesday, visiting Harwood breezed past the Eagles, 16-2.

Connor Woolley’s seven goals led Harwood, and Highlander goalie Cam Andrews stopped three shots.

Eagles Neo Weaver and Max Ratti-Bicknell scored and goalie Patrick Davison (nine s a v e s ) picked up LACROSSE an assist.

G r a d y Brokaw (two saves) also saw time in net for the 4-5 Eagles.

TIGER GIRLS On Tuesday the Tiger girls coasted at Burlington, 20-7, to improve to 12-0. Kate Donahue (five goals), Isabel Rosenberg and Andi Boe (four goals each) and Satchel McLaughlin (three goals) led the offense, and Ada Anderson, Emily Laframboise, Ella NagyBenson and Anna Hodson chipped in one score apiece.

Raven Payne made five saves for MUHS, and Seahorse goalie Koleigh Vachereau stopped 11 shots.

TIGER BOYS On Monday the Tiger boys snapped a 5-5 halftime tie with five straight goals on the way to an 11-7 victory at Woodstock. Coach Brian Carpenter was pleased with the team’s performance at both ends of the field. “It was just a complete game,” he said.

Goalie Cam Devlin made 13 saves in the back, and Jack Donahue (three goals, assist) and Trey Kaufmann (two goals, three assist) led a balanced attack.

Spencer Carpenter and Andrew Gleason added two goals apiece, Jake Peluso notched a goal and an assist, and Lane Sheldrick scored once as the Tigers improved to 5-6.

VUHS GIRLS On Monday, the Commodore girls gave Colchester a battle in a 20-16 setback. Ashley Turner (six goals, nine ground balls) and Jalen Cook (five goals, an assist and four ground balls) gave VUHS the biggest sparks, while Jackie Reiss scored twice and set up three goals, and Norah Deming scored twice. Coach Marikate Kelley said Chloe Johnston played well defensively.

She scores

PANTHER SENIOR MARY O’Connell gets a shot past Colby goalie Izzy Scribano during Sunday’s NCAA second-round game. O’Connell had two goals and three assists in Middlebury’s 10-9 win.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Schedule (Continued from Page 1B)

5/20 Missisquoi at MUHS..................11 a.m.

5/22 Mt. Abe at OV..............................4 p.m.

5/23 MUHS at St. Albans................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Milton at VUHS.......................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Mt. Abe at St. J.......................4:30 p.m.

5/23 OV at Springfield....................4:30 p.m.

5/25 OV at Fair Haven....................4:30 p.m.

5/25 Mt. Abe at Spaulding..............4:30 p.m.

5/25 VUHS at North Country..........4:30 p.m.

5/25 Burlington at MUHS................4:30 p.m.

5/27 Hartford at OV........................4:30 p.m.

Baseball 5/18 Colchester at VUHS...............4:30 p.m.

5/18 Milton at Mt. Abe.....................4:30 p.m.

5/18 MUHS at Spaulding................4:30 p.m.

5/19 OV at Bellows Falls................4:30 p.m.

5/20 South Burlington at Mt. Abe....4:30 p.m.

5/20 Essex at VUHS.......................4:30 p.m.

5/20 Missisquoi at MUHS..................11 a.m.

5/22 Springfield at OV....................4:30 p.m.

5/23 MUHS at St. Albans................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Milton at VUHS.......................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Mt. Abe at St. J.......................4:30 p.m.

5/24 OV at Fair Haven....................4:30 p.m.

5/25 Mt. Abe at Spaulding..............4:30 p.m.

5/25 VUHS at North Country..........4:30 p.m.

5/25 Burlington at MUHS................4:30 p.m.

5/26 Mill River at OV.......................4:30 p.m.

5/23 MUHS at St. Albans................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Milton at VUHS.......................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Mt. Abe at St. J.......................4:30 p.m.

5/25 Mt. Abe at Spaulding..............4:30 p.m.

5/25 VUHS at North Country..........4:30 p.m.

5/25 Burlington at MUHS................4:30 p.m.

5/23 MUHS at St. Albans................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Milton at VUHS.......................4:30 p.m.

5/23 Mt. Abe at St. J.......................4:30 p.m.

5/25 Mt. Abe at Spaulding..............4:30 p.m.

5/25 VUHS at North Country..........4:30 p.m.

5/25 Burlington at MUHS................4:30 p.m.

Tennis 5/19 Harwood at MUHS Boys.........3:30 p.m.

5/19 MUHS Girls at Harwood.........3:30 p.m.

5/22 St. Albans at MUHS Girls.......3:30 p.m.

5/22 MUHS Boys at St. Albans.......3:30 p.m.

5/24 U-32 at MUHS Girls................3:30 p.m.

5/24 MUHS Boys at U-32...............3:30 p.m.

5/26 Spaulding at MUHS Boys.......3:30 p.m.

5/26 MUHS Girls at Spaulding........3:30 p.m.

COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Lacrosse NCAA D-III Regional at TCNJ 5/20 TCNJ vs. Mt. Union..............11:30 a.m.

5/20 Midd. vs. Brockport.................2:30 p.m.

5/21 Final.............................................1 p.m.

Late events occurred after deadline. Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

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Spring Agriculture Law would shield farmworkers from ICE WA S H I N G T O N to legal permanent “Across our — Sen. Patrick Learesidency and obtain hy, D-Vt., earlier this country, including their green cards. month introduced leg- the many The provisions are islation to shield farm- dairy farms of widely supported workers from deportaby both agricultural tion and to put them Vermont, foreign stakeholders and by on a path to earned le- workers support immigrant workers gal status and eventual agriculture and rights groups citizenship. nationally and are help put food on Under the Agrisimilar to provisions cultural Worker Pro- our tables.” in the bipartisan — Sen. Patrick Leahy c o m p r e h e n s i v e gram Act, foreign farmworkers who immigration reform have worked in the United States legislation that Leahy guided in agriculture for at least 100 days through the U.S. Senate as chairman in each of the past two years may of the Judiciary Committee in 2013. earn lawful “blue card” status. Un- Leahy then successfully steered the der the proposed law, farmworkers bill to bipartisan passage by the who maintain blue card status for the full Senate. Republican leaders in next three or five years, depending the House subsequently blocked on the total hours worked in agricul- the Senate-passed bill from House ture, would become eligible to adjust (See Farmworkers, Page 5B)

Grants for innovative water quality projects available

Dandelion dream

A FIELD FLUSH with dandelions stretches up to the base of the Green Mountains in Middlebury.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Farmers’ worries: regulations, future of ag Agriculture agency holds listening tour

grams that get future farmers ready to take the reins. There are many existing programs, like 4-H, that do great work to get young people engaged — we’ll work hard to promote these opportunities and build awareness, to get more kids involved.

We’ll also continue to partner with the Vermont Housing Conservation Board and Land Trust to improve access to land.

RULES AND REGULATIONS What we heard: Many of the folks who spoke up at the listening sessions told us they feel burdened and overwhelmed by regulations.

What we’ll do: The current admin-

istration has made a commitment to limit new regulations. The Required Ag Practices (RAPs) were adopted in December of 2016. We are committed to working with farmers to implement them in a way that is fair. We have recently formed the RAP Advisory Committee, which includes farmer representatives and stakeholders involved in water quality issues. The role of this board will be to advise the Agency of Agriculture on the roll-out of the RAPs, to ensure they are effective, attainable, and take into account real-farm practices.

(See Ag tour, Page 5B)

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VERMONT — Throughout February and March, the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets held a Listening Tour to gather feedback and ideas about farming in our state. Over the course of six weeks, the agency hosted meetings in five and towns and cities, including Middlebury. More than 300 farmers and community members attended.

“The suggestions and ideas shared by participants were insightful, and covered a wide range of topics,” said

Agriculture Secretary Anson Tebbetts recently.

While the feedback was diverse, Tebbets said four main themes emerged: THE NEXT GENERATION What we heard: Vermonters want to ensure the next generation has opportunities to work in agriculture, and has access to land. They want young people to feel excited and optimistic about careers in agriculture.

What we’ll do: We will work with UVM, Extension, Vermont Technical College, Vermont Student Assistance Corporation, and the career centers to promote educational pro-

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USDA-NRCS in Vermont will invest up to a total of $225,000 for projects that spark the development and adoption of innovative conservation technologies and approaches that address water quality. The maximum award amount for any project will not exceed $75,000 in fiscal year 2017.

The topics listed below have been identified as priority water quality areas for consideration and funding under the Vermont Conservation Innovation Grants program this year:

• Demonstration and evaluation of a constructed wetland for drainage water treatment.

• Demonstration of two-stage ditch systems on agricultural lands.

• Wetlands restoration demonstration and monitoring project.

• Wetlands ecosystem services economic valuation.

Potential applicants should review the announcement for program funding available on www. grants.gov. Proposals are due in the Vermont NRCS office, 356 Mountain View Drive, Suite 105, Colchester, VT, by June 3, 4 p.m.

For more information about this grant program, email kip.potter@ vt.usda.gov or visit http://bit.ly/ VTCIG.

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Spring Agriculture Message to landowners:

Cut your land with confidence

MONTPELIER — Landowners considering logging on their land can now benefit from a series of simple and concise guides, designed to address the most common questions about timber harvests.

Gov. Phil Scott and Vermont Forests, Parks and Recreation Commissioner Michael Snyder recently introduced “The Landowner

Guides to a Successful Timber Harvest.” These guides encourage wisely planned harvests that support forest health while maintaining or enhancing wildlife habitat, protecting water quality, and encouraging opportunities for outdoor recreation.

“Growing forests and the forest product economy is integral to keeping Vermonters working on their land, which benefits the entire state,” said Gov. Scott.

“Landowners now have a helpful tool to ensure timber harvests are a viable way to support long-term forest health and bring in supplemental income over time.”

Pulling from recommendations already in the 2015 Voluntary Harvesting Guidelines, “The Landowner Guides to a Successful Timber Harvest” explain the processes behind selecting and cutting timber, and remove some of the confusion about the how, what, where and why of timber harvest operations.

“These guides came out of our understanding that landowners who love their land actually have lots of questions,” said Commissioner Snyder. “The guides outline the key steps of a harvest, promote effective communication between landowners, foresters and loggers, and help landowners plan for the health of their woods far into the future.”

The series includes an overview booklet with tips on how to plan harvest goals and discusses the five major steps of a successful timber harvest. Also included are four pocket-sized brochures covering specific topics of interest, such as harvesting to promote wildlife habitat, ways to protect water quality, the economics of timber harvests, and tips for working with foresters and loggers.

To download printable guides and access other resources provided by the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation Visit www.

VTCutWithConfidence.com, or contact the Department directly to obtain printed brochures or more information about landowner outreach and timber harvests via email at joanne.garton@vermont.gov or at 802-249-4217.

Fun facts about eggs

• According to the USDA Ag Census, Vermont farmers raise about 212,000 layer hens, annually.

• Each hen, in her prime, lays approximately 276 eggs per year. By that math, Vermont produces about 60 million eggs each year.

• In fact, the number is probably significantly higher, since backyard flocks are not counted in the Ag Census, and we all know Vermonters love to raise their own birds.

• Nationwide, 96.4 billion eggs are produced annually.

• Iowa is the nation’s largest egg producer, raising 5,420,900 layer hens, annually.

• The USDA estimates that each American eats about 255 eggs each year.

• That is a sharp decline from the 1950s, when

annual egg consumption was around 400 eggs, per person.

• Chicken eggs come in many colors — brown, white, even blue — but there’s no correlation between color and nutritional value. The color variation is entirely due to the breed of the chicken. For instance, Leghorns typically lay white eggs, Orphingtons lay brown eggs, and Ameraucanas can lay blue or green eggs.

• The average egg has six grams of protein.

• According to the USDA census, there are 1,682 egg farms in Vermont. The vast majority are raising relatively small flocks. In fact, 1,600 of those farms have fewer than 100 layers, each.

Source: Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food, and Markets

Farmworkers (Continued from Page 4B) consideration and a vote.

“Across our country, including the many dairy farms of Vermont, foreign workers support agriculture and help put food on our tables,” Leahy said in a press release. “It is past time we show our support for them and our understanding of the challenges that farmers and workers face in doing the hard work of dairy farming.

Our bill would allow these workers to come out of the shadows and contribute to their farms and communities without fear of arrest. The current system has long been broken, and it needs to be fixed.”

Co-sponsors of the Agricultural Worker Program Act are Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris of California, Michael Bennet of Colorado and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii.

Feinstein, the Ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, is also from a farm state.

“Everywhere I travel in California, I hear from farmers, growers and producers from all industries — wine, citrus, fruit and tree nuts, dairy — that there aren’t enough workers,” she said. “Farm labor in California is performed almost exclusively by undocumented immigrants — a fact that should surprise no one. By protecting farmworkers from deportation, our bill achieves two goals — ensuring that hardworking immigrants don’t live in fear and California’s agriculture industry has the workforce it needs to thrive.”

Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts said: “Farmers need predictability so they can manage their farms. This law would help our farmers and our farmworkers by bringing stability to agriculture.”

The legislation would greatly benefit Vermont’s dairy industry, which does not currently have legal access to foreign workers. The bill would not affect the H-2A visa program that brings temporary and seasonal workers to many diversified farms in Vermont, but which excludes dairy

farmworkers.

Farmworkers and their families with a “blue card” would be allowed to travel abroad and return to the United States as long as they remain employed in agriculture in the U.S. for a minimum number of days each year. They would be able to live freely within their communities and live without the constant fear of arrest

that has increased in recent months as a result of President Trump’s executive orders calling for greatly increased immigration enforcement.

More than 40 groups advocating for worker and immigrant rights, including National Farmworkers, Farmworker Justice and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, have endorsed this bill.

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Ag tour (Continued from Page 4B) CUSTOMER SERVICE & RELATIONSHIPS What we heard: Some folks told us they find it difficult to get in touch with key Agency of Agriculture staff, and that the agency needs to do a better job with customer service. They also felt we need to work harder to build positive relationships across the entire farming community.

What we’ll do: We have begun an agency-wide audit of our customer service practices. Over the next three months, we will be working closely with managers, inspectors, and technical assistance providers to identify the ways in which we can improve customer service across the Agency, and improve relationships. As a first

step, last week, we published a contact list for all agency personnel on our website. You can find it online at agriculture.vermont.gov/contact_us.

This will help ensure you are able to contact the right person to help address your need. We are committed to improvement.

COMMUNICATIONS What we heard: There’s a lot going on, and sometimes farmers find it hard to get the information they need.

The agency needs to do a better job communicating.

What we’ll do: In order to ensure farmers have timely access to the information they need, we are now mailing complimentary copies of our agency newspaper, Agriview, to all Vermont farmers on a monthly basis.

Over the course of the next year, we will also redesign our website, so that it is more user-friendly. The agency is also encouraging people to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, to get instant access to daily news, resources and agricultural information.

“This is just the beginning. Each comment shared with us at these meetings helps inform the decisions we, as a new administration, make each day on the job here in Montpelier,” said Alyson Eastman, deputy ag secretary.

“We are committed to working with our farming community, to grow the economy, make Vermont affordable, and enrich our communities,” added Secretary Tebbetts. “Thanks to all who came out to share their thoughts.”

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO RALPH NOYES of EastView.

Have a great day and year.

Love L & B. LIONS CLUB NEEDS stuff for their annual auction.

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

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.

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

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

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMILIES and friends affected by some‑ one’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. Newcomers wel‑ come. Confidential. St. Ste‑ phen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street.

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

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

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Garage Sales

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS MONDAY: As Bill Sees It Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NORTH FERRIS‑ BURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd.

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

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

802‑388‑4831.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEETINGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meet‑ ing 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd.

OA (OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS) MEETS on Thurs‑ days at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT.

NEIGHBORHOOD YARD SALE, 3 family, East Pros‑ pect Street, Brandon. Sat‑ urday, May 20, 9am‑3pm.

Raindate: Sunday, May 21.

1966 VW dune buggy, tools, antiques, baby equipment and toys, boy’s baby clothes, crib, suitcases, books, house‑ hold items. Follow signs by Town Hall.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SATURDAY: Dis‑ cussion Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Middlebury United Methodist Church. Discus‑ sion Meeting 10:00‑11:00 AM. Beginners’ Meeting 6:30‑7:30 PM. These two meetings are held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middle‑ bury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Came to Believe Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middle‑ bury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUESDAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Discussion Meeting 8:00‑9:00 PM. Both held at St. Paul’s Church, Park St. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congregational Church, Water St. ARE YOU BOTHERED

BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs).

Anonymous and confidential, we share our experience, strength and hope to solve our common problems. Baby‑ sitting available.

MAKING RECOVERY EASI‑ ER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Cen‑ ter (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 recov‑ ery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednes‑ days, 9 am, held at The Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required.

For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) step meeting.

Tuesdays, 3 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at the Mountain Health Center in Bristol. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

SPIRITUAL AWAKEN‑ INGS MEETING of Alcohol‑ ics Anonymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Friday, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middle‑ bury, VT.

Garage Sales LAWN SALE 259 North Or‑ well Rd. Saturday 9‑5 and Sunday 9‑4. Power take off generator, rototiller, wheelbar‑ row and other household and barn items.

MULTI‑FAMILY GARAGE SALE, 104 Jersey Street, West Addison. 5/19 & 5/20, 8am‑4pm. Something for everyone at very low prices.

SATURDAY, MAY 20, 2017 9am‑1pm. Tag sale at the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center Forestry Shop next to the greenhouse at 51 Charles Avenue in Middlebury. Wom‑ en’s and preteen boys cloth‑ ing, toys, furniture, household items, books. Please no early birds.

Opportunities STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown. Ap‑ proved for seating for 24.

Plenty of parking, lots of pos‑ sibilities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

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CELEBRATION RENTALS OF BRANDON is looking to increase its team for the 2017 season. Paying additional seasonal bonus.

Call 802-247-0002 to set up an interview.

WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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

Drivers Needed

Volunteer drivers are needed in Bristol, Bridport, Middlebury and Vergennes to deliver warm smiles and hot, nutritious, noon meals to seniors who are no longer able to cook for themselves. If you have 1 hour to give, every other week, you’ll make a huge www.unitedwayaddison difference by providing a service that enables seniors county.org/ to live independently in their homes. Full training VolunteerDonate provided.If interested please call 802-388-7189 and click on

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Seeks To Fill The Following Positions: MACHINERY OPERATOR for skilled mill positions due to employee retirement. Must be in good physical condition with good math skills, very reliable, have a strong safety awareness and work well with others.

An ambition to learn and tolerance of heat and cold are important.

The most challenging jobs such as sawing and grading take years to learn well and pay well for the skilled work. Mill work has a production bonus.

SKILLED FORKLIFT OPERATOR to run large forklifts at our operation in Bristol. Other work includes light construction, planing, lumber stacking. Must be very reliable, energetic, work well with others and have good safety awareness. Previous experience operating heavy machinery is a plus.

TRUCK DRIVER to replace an experienced employee who retired. Truck driving experience required and valid CDL. Summer and winter 60 plus hours; spring and fall 50 hours, and some maintenance work since hauling is slow during those times. Haul lumber and logs in a 75 mile radius around Bristol, VT. Wages based on experience and ability. A patient approach to driving is important. Please either send resume or visit the address below.

MAINTENANCE person to work on machinery in our mill, lumber sorters, planers and lumber drying kilns. There is a wide variety of work to do and many things to learn, particularly as machinery becomes more computerized. You must have maintenance or mechanical experience, have a strong commitment to safety and be interested in learning new skills. You must be physically fit and able to both lift and push/pull 50 pounds regularly throughout the day. Monday to Friday, about 50 hours per week.

Benefits available.

Apply in person at:

Maplefields of New Haven Route 7, New Haven, VT Ask for Sherry or pick-up an application EOE

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DIRECTORY

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• masonry • medical supplies • painting • plumbing & heating • renewable energy • septic

Plumbing & Heating

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Help Wanted

ORWELL VILLAGE SCHOOL

CUSTODIAN

This is a part time position, 17.5 evening hours per week, while school is in session and 29.5 hours per week throughout the summer. Maintenance experience preferred. Applicant must have the ability to work independently with a flexible schedule. For additional information contact the Orwell Village School at 802-948-2871.

For an application, please call the Superintendent’s Office at 802-2654905 or email kthirkield@arsu.org.

Mail completed applications with a cover letter, resume, and three current letters of reference to: Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union 49 Main Street Fair Haven, VT 05743 This position will remain open until filled.

ACORN PAINTING IS NOW hiring for the exterior season.

Experienced painters pre‑ ferred but willing to train the right candidates. Must have valid drivers license, trans‑ portation and be reliable. This is a fun job for people with a solid work ethic. Excellent starting pay with incentives to earn more. For an interview, or to learn more, please call 453 5611.

ADDISON 4 CORNER STORE is hiring for deli position. Afternoons until closing and weekends. Call 802‑759‑2332.

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

EOE

Help Wanted

Co-operative Insurance Companies has been meeting property and casualty insurance needs since 1915, offering farm, home, auto, business, and other insurance to people in Vermont and New Hampshire. We are passionate about outstanding customer service, giving back to our communities, and providing a great working environment for our employees. As a Co-op employee, you will join a group of people who care about their neighbors and the places they live, and do their best to help them succeed. We are seeking candidates for the following positions:

Claims Data Entry

• Process clerical work for claims department. Provide support to, and function as back-up for, the claims analyst.

• Process claims payments and claims department vendor payments.

• Process glass, towing and roadside claims, including opening new claims, researching coding as needed, and processing for payment.

• Process salvage, including title preparation or correspondence documentation; resolve outstanding title issues.

• Process federal compliance vehicle reports.

• VT/NH Adjusters License desired, or must obtain within 6 months of hire.

Underwriting Assistant

• Support underwriters and agents in placing new business and increasing current business appropriate to Co-op’s risk appetite.

• Gather and enter needed policy information on submitted forms.

• Quote business for agents; respond to agency inquiries.

• Provide systems support to agency staff; participate in ongoing systems development internally.

• Participate in development and delivery of training material to agency and company personnel.

To meet our goals and our members’ expectations, we look for the following in our new hires: • strong customer service and communication skills, • technology aptitude • collaborative approach • prioritization • analytical and problem-solving skills • a bachelor’s degree in business or a related field

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

BRIDPORT IS LOOK‑ ING for a Lister to work until March 2018. Must be a resident of Bridport.

Interested, write to P.O. Box 27, Bridport, 05734

by June 5th.

MARY’S AT BALDWIN CREEK in Bristol, is seek‑ ing individuals for front of the house positions, both server and bartender. Fine dining experience serv‑ ing the best of local food is preferred, but we are happy to train a positive, hardworking passionate server. Bartenders should have solid foundation in craft cocktails. Send your resume with a cover letter indicating why you feel you would be a great addition to our crew. Email: info@ innatbaldwincreek.com.

802‑453‑2432.

EXPERIENCED PART TIME cook. Weekends a must. Noon to 8 pm. In‑ quire in person, Halfway House Restaurant, Route 22A, Shoreham.

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IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR Director of Prop‑ erty Management (DPM) in support of Addison County Community Trust’s (ACCT’s) mission of pro‑ viding affordable hous‑ ing. The DPM oversees property management for a growing portfolio of mul‑ tifamily affordable housing and mobile home parks.

The DPM is responsible for supervising staff, man‑ aging performance, and developing policy and strategy related to property & asset management func‑ tions, e.g. tenant selection, fair housing, occupancy procedures, capital plans, etc. Proven supervisory and property management experience required; fed‑ erally assisted housing program compliance pre‑ ferred. Respond with re‑ sume and cover letter to: jobs@addisontrust.org.

Position open until filled.

EEO. LINCOLN SELECT BOARD seeks a quali‑ fied bookkeeper to work part‑time, processing ac‑ counts receivable and accounts payable and preparing timely and ac‑ curate financial reports.

Accounting/Bookkeeping education and experi‑ ence required. Specific experience with NEMRC accounting system is de‑ sired. Full job description available on‑line at www. lincolnvermont.org or at the Lincoln Town Office, 62 Quaker Street, Lincoln, VT 05443. Resumes and/ or letters of interest should be submitted to the above address or by email to admin@lincolnvermont. org.

Help Wanted

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POSITION: SUMMER CONCESSION/SNACK BAR Location: Brandon/ Middlebury (Salisbury).

Mid June through Labor Day. Part time position available, $10/hr. Must have transportation. Email Auntjennysconcession@ gmail.com. Please include in your response; Name, phone number, email ad‑ dress, availability and a few sentences about yourself.

SCHOOL NUTRITION ASSISTANT Mt. Abra‑ ham Union M/H School.

2 school nutrition man‑ agers‑Lincoln Commu‑ nity School and Monkton Central School. For more information and to apply, go to www.SchoolSpring. com or send resume with cover letter and referenc‑ es to: Kathy Alexander at kalexander@anesu.org or call 802‑453‑7002. Equal Opportunity Employer.

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THE TOWN OF HINES‑ BURG is currently seeking an individual to fill a high‑ way maintainer position with the Highway Depart‑ ment. A Class B CDL (com‑ mercial driver’s license) with tanker and trailer en‑ dorsements is preferred.

For an application or with questions, contact the Town Administrator’s of‑ fice (tlashua@hinesburg. org; 482‑2281, ext. 221) or visit the website (www. hinesburg.org). The Town of Hinesburg is an equal opportunity employer.

WHISTLEPIG CURRENT‑ LY HIRING FOR full time bottler. Eye for detail and accuracy. Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday.

Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unas‑ sisted lifting of 25 pounds.

Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com.

WHISTLEPIG FARM IS looking for a part time, weekend employee for our Distillery and team. Ap‑ plicants must be able to complete physical tasks in a timely manner with minimal direction. Daily activities include cleaning, mashing, running distillery equipment, and barreling.

Experience in brewing and chemistry is a plus. Also experience in operating and repairing machinery.

Please send cover letter, resume and 3 professional references to info@whis‑ tlepigrye.com.

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THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS is looking for reli‑ able early morning risers with a valid driver’s license and car insurance to de‑ liver our newspaper. Avail‑ able routes are in North Ferrisburg and Shelburne.

Deliveries are to be com‑ pleted by 6 am Mon‑Sat and 7:30 on Sunday. Earn an estimated profit of over $1,000 per month plus tips.

This is a great way to earn extra money without inter‑ fering with your day job.

Please contact Monique at 802‑316‑7194 for more information.

Help Wanted

SALISBURY

HIGHWAY MAINTAINER

The town of Salisbury is currently seeking a highway maintainer position.

Must have CDL, pass drug test, be dependable, willing to plow snow and operate and maintain equipment.

Starting pay and benefits depend on experience. Call or stop at the town shed for more information.

Contact: Tom Barker, Road Foreman Shed: 802-352-1017 or Cell: 802-734-3341

For Rent

Submit cover letter and resume to jobs@ciui.net www.co-opinsurance.com/u/jobs.html www.facebook.com/coopinsco

2 BEDROOM SUMMER RENTAL. Enjoy Lake Dun‑ more in your own private camp. Hillside camp over‑ looking Lake Dunmore with 320’ private frontage. Across from road on East side above Branbury State Park. Rental to one family, $6,000. for whole season. Mostly fur‑ nished, with all appliances.

Beautiful views, great swim‑ ming, sun deck and dock on water. Call 802‑352‑6678.

ADDISON: LAKE CHAM‑ PLAIN waterfront camp.

Beautiful views, gorgeous sunsets, private beach, dock, rowboat and canoe included. $600 weekly, or call for week‑ ends. 802‑349‑4212.

LAKE DUNMORE, SMALL lake front two bedroom cot‑ tage available June 12‑Au‑ gust 12. Fully equipped kitch‑ en, bathroom with shower. All NorthCove Cottages ameni‑ ties. 802‑352‑4236. karen@ northcovecottages.com.

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

A FRESHLY PAINTED ONE BEDROOM apartment. $900 month, heat and electricity in‑ cluded. No pets, no smoking.

New Haven, 802‑453‑7117.

BRISTOL APARTMENT, 1 LARGE bedroom with bo‑ nus room and 1 bath. Ef‑ ficient gas heat. Excellent condition. Wi‑Fi, water & sewer included. No pets. No smoking. $745 month. Call 802‑635‑9716.

ADULT ELECTRIC TRI‑ CYCLE, like new. Retails for $2,200. Asking $600.

Ray, 802‑453‑7850.

BRISTOL TWO AND THREE bedroom apartments. Ga‑ rage, full basement, heat and lawn care. 802‑453‑2566.

ANTIQUE DOUBLE BARREL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage firearm. $185.

802‑989‑5803.

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.

ARTICAT 86‑89, 340 JAG, 440 JAG 500 El Tigre, 500 Pantera, 6000 El Ti‑ gre (motor stuck), 340 Jag parts sled, 1 trailer‑ double. 2 Go‑Karts, new motors, 8 HP, good shape.

802‑324‑4237.

CEDAR POSTS for sale.

8 footers, no points.

802‑388‑4831.

Help Wanted

Vacation Rentals

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For Rent

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MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE available next to Valley Voice on Exchange Street. $500. 802‑388‑4831.

MIDDLEBURY ROOM FOR RENT. Kitchen privileges.

Available now. First and de‑ posit. $530/month. Located near Hannaford Supermar‑ ket. 802‑388‑1912.

NEW HAVEN, 2 BED‑ ROOM upstairs apartment.

Bright and spacious. Need 1st and last month’s rent.

Price includes heat, electric‑ ity & rubbish removal. No pets, $1195 per month. Call 802‑453‑4037.

NEW HAVEN: BEAUTIFUL VIEWS, sunny apartment.

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

STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION LOCATION. In the heart of downtown.

Approved for seating for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of opportunities. Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Ver‑ gennes. All income/assets must be verified to deter‑ mine monthly rent, but ten‑ ants 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 Oppor‑ tunity.

WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront.

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

860‑878‑9580.

THE WORLDS FINEST road tandem. Santana No‑ venta. Large frame and fork. Asking $3,500. Call Brad at 802‑388‑0050.

WOOD FURNACE FOR SALE Used, in good condi‑ tion. Franks piping hot wa‑ ter wood furnace. 123,000 BTU. 802‑388‑2460.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BEDROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit.

Some utilities included.

388‑0401.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BEDROOM apartment, fully furnished, all inclusive except internet/TV. Call 802‑388‑4831.

For Rent

For Rent

TIMBERWOLF FIREWOOD: Dry or green. Call for prices.

802‑388‑7300.

Real Estate DEER CAMP, ORWELL, Ver‑ mont. Wooded lot, 11 acres, water, sewer, power, garage, long driveway. $115,000.

802‑989‑2330.

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.

FactoryDirectHomesofVT. com. 600 Rte. 7 Pittsford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@ beanshomes.com.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Only three lots remain in the Daisy Lane Residential De‑ velopment. One is a beautiful wooded 1 1/4 acre with a small year round stream.

Lots are supported with vil‑ lage water and approved for simple in‑ground sep‑ tic. Located in East Middle‑ bury, just 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, 2 golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore. 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

Att. Farmers FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

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

Boats EVINRUDE 4HP OUT‑ BOARD motor. Looks and runs like new. Senior citizen owned for fishing. $450. OBO. Can hear run.

802‑453‑4235.

Wanted

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

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

M I D D L E B U RY ‑ T W O APARTMENTS available in the heart of town within walking distance to every‑ thing. Two bedroom and three bedroom available on June 1.

Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

METCALFE FIRE‑ WOOD‑QUALITY and clean hardwood for sale. $225/ cord. Call 802‑989‑8180 or email metcalfefirewood@ gmail.com for questions and delivery.

TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique col‑ lectibles, etc. Visit www. bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Con‑ sulting/appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.

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CLICK, CALL & SAVE‑ Green & Ready‑2‑Burn seasoned & kiln‑dried 16” split hardwood; free local deliveries; small orders OK; easy ordering ‑ Click: w w w. M I D D M E N . c o m ; Call: 1‑844‑KILNDRIED or 1‑855‑MIDDMEN.

WANTED, SOMEONE WITH artistic talent to draw a picture for an application of intel‑ lectual properties. Must be willing to sign a nondisclosure statement and show me an example of your work. Call 802‑777‑3461.

For Rent

For Rent

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

Named one of the 2017 Best Places to Work in Vermont by VT Business Magazine!

ADDISON NORTHWEST SUPERVISORY UNION VERGENNES, VT

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL

MAINTENANCE / CUSTODIAL POSITION Immediate Opening 2016-17

Addison Central School is currently seeking a 1.0 FTE Custodian to fulfill custodial duties and maintenance assignments. Candidates will be responsible for maintaining the school building and grounds for daily use. The ideal candidate will have experience working in an Elementary school setting.

This position will begin immediately, daily schedule TBD. Interested candidates should apply with a letter of interest, resume, transcripts and three current letters of recommendation on www. schoolspring.com or mail to:

Travis Park, Principal Addison Central School 121 VT Rte 17W Addison, VT 05491

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Public Notices Index

Can be found in this Page 10B.

Addison Central School District – Weybridge (1) Addison County Court House (1) Addison County Probate Court (2) Addison County Solid Waste Management District (1) Addison Northeast Supervisory Union – Bristol, Lincoln, Monkton, New Haven, Starksboro (2)

Addison Northwest School District – Addison, Ferrisburgh, Panton, Vergennes, Waltham (3) Cornwall (1) Ferrisburgh (1) Lakeview Cemetery Assoc. (1) Middlebury (1) New Haven (1) Starksboro (1) Vermont Gas Systems (1)

ADDISON COUNTY SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT DISTRICT REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS: TRANSPORTATION AND DISPOSAL OF HAZARDOUS WASTE

Issue Date: Bid Due Date: Contacts:

May 12, 2017 4:00 p.m., June 6, 2017 Don Maglienti or Teresa Kuczynski Tel: (802) 388-2333 Fax: (802) 388-0271 E-mail: don@acswmd.org or teri@acswmd.org The District is seeking proposals from qualified contractors to provide for the pickup, transportation and proper disposal of unregulated hazardous waste generated at the District’s permanent Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) and Conditionally Exempt Generator (CEG) waste collection facility, “the HazWaste Center”, located at 1223 Route 7 South, Middlebury, VT. For more information or to obtain a copy of the RFB, please contact the District office at the above address, or visit our website at www.AddisonCountyRecycles.org. 5/18

TOWN OF STARKSBORO DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT TRANSPORTATION BID INFORMATION AND REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

Notice is hereby given that the Addison Northwest School District will receive proposals to provide school bus transportation services until 1:00 PM on Wednesday, May 31, 2017.

All proposals should be sent to: Addison Northwest School District Attention: Tonia Mears 11 Main Street, Suite B100 Vergennes, VT 05491 Proposals must be submitted and securely sealed in a suitable envelope that is clearly marked on the outside as follows: DO NOT OPEN UNTIL 1:00 PM 5/31/17 SEALED PROPOSAL TO PROVIDE SCHOOL BUS TRANSPORTATION The District is not responsible for proposals not properly marked.

The Carrier will be required to comply with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity Laws and Regulations.

The District reserves the right to reject any or all proposals, wholly or in part, to waive any informality therein, to accept any proposal even though it may not be the lowest proposal, and to make any award which in its sole and absolute judgment will best serve District’s interests.

No award will be made at the time of opening.

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TOWN OF NEW HAVEN INVITATION TO BID

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WARNING ADDISON TOWN SCHOOL DISTRICT

The legal voters of the Addison Town School District are hereby notified and warned to meet at 6:30 p.m., on Thursday, May 25, 2017, at the Addison Central School to transact the following business: Article 1. To elect a Moderator.

Article 2. To elect a Clerk.

Article 3. To hear the report of the Town School District officers and take action thereon.

Article 4. To transact any other business proper to come before said meeting.

Dated at Addison, Vermont this 19th day of April, 2017.

Robert Hunt, Chair Addison Board of School Directors 5/11

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TOWN OF CORNWALL PUBLIC HEARING TUES, JUNE 6, 2017 6 PM LOCATION: at the end of Robbins Road in Cornwall

The Cornwall Selectboard will hold a public hearing at the end of Robbins Road in Cornwall to examine and discuss the request from Joseph & Kristen Brown to discontinue .072 miles at the end of Robbins Road.

The hearing will begin at 6:00 PM at the Robbins Road location. The hearing is open to all interested parties.

Information related to the request for the discontinuation of the road is available at the Town Clerk’s office, 2629 Route 30, Cornwall, VT 05753.

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ADDISON NORTHEAST SUPERVISORY UNION BEEMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL Request for Bids Beeman Elementary School is soliciting bids for grading and paving of approximately 1390 square yards of driveway and shim and recoat of approximately 563 square yards. Interested parties should contact Alden Harwood at 802-453-6957 to arrange for a site visit no later than May 19, 2017.

Bids will be due by 4:00 p.m. on May 30, 2017. The work will need to be completed by June 30, 2017.

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and rich moist woods and occur throughout the northeast and mid-west, to the far north in Canada, and in the mountainous parts of the southeast.

It is said that they prefer northfacing slopes, and that squares with my experience. Just near where I live there’s a north-facing slope almost completely covered with leeks that faces a leekless south-facing one across a small brook. North facing slopes are more likely to be moist than sunbaked southfacing terrain, and leeks don’t mind cold temperatures at all.

Unlike most plants, they grow best in the cool temperatures of early spring and tend to fade when it’s hot. The canopy in the hardwood forests that are home to wild leeks is closed by the end of May, and there’s not much time between snowmelt and dense shade. Like their fellow spring ephemerals, leek leaves are in a big hurry to manufacture may be thick with their broad sea a year’s worth of carbohydrates.

Wild leeks are often easy to find, green leaves and in late April they’re for in the proper habitat the ground almost the only green on an otherwise brownish forest floor. False hellebore is sometimes found in the same PROBATE DIVISION places and at the same time, but its DOCKET NO. 143-3-17 ANPR large pleated leaves have no oniony smell — which is helpful because STATE OF VERMONT false hellebore is poisonous. Another DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. difference is that the lower part of a IN RE THE ESTATE OF leek leaf has a purplish blush.

KENNETH SPENCER NORLAND Coming across the white flowers NOTICE TO CREDITORS in July is a bit strange. The leaves are To the creditors of the estate of Kenneth long gone: the domed balls of crisp Spencer Norland late of New Haven, Vermont. white flowers are on leafless nineI have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against inch stalks. This strange separation the decedent or the estate must present their of leaves and flowers may be because claims in writing within four (4) months of the pollinators are more numerous in July first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed than in May. And light on the forest below with a copy sent to the court. The claim floor is more plentiful in May than in

Outside Story

The Town of Ferrisburgh will be holding Grievance Hearings on Thursday, May 25th at the Ferrisburgh Town Clerks Office between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. according to V.S.A. Title 32, §4111(G). Please call the Ferrisburgh Town Clerk’s Office at (802)877-3429 to schedule an appointment.

“A person who feels aggrieved by the action of the lister’s and desires to be heard by them, shall, on or before the day of the grievance meeting, file with them his objections in writing and may appear at such grievance meetings in person or by his agents or attorneys. Upon hearing of such grievances the parties thereto may submit such documentary or sworn evidence as shall be pertinent thereto.”

Town of Ferrisburgh Board of Listers Joseph Blasius, Carl Cole, Charlene Stavenow 5/18

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

LAKEVIEW CEMETERY ASSOCIATION NOTICE

The Lakeview Cemetery Association will hold their annual cemetery meeting on Tuesday, May 23 at the West Addison Community House at 7:00 p.m.

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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 129-3-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm

IN RE THE ESTATE OF JOSEPH M. GARAFANO

Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT INVITATION TO BID

ACSD is seeking bids to paint the roof at the Weybridge Elementary School.

Contact Eric Warren at 802-382-1183 for more information. ACSD reserves the right to reject any or all bids in accordance with VT Statutes.

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Vergennes is scheduled to receive natural gas in 2017. As part of our commitment to safety, service teams will be out inspecting sewer lines in many neighborhoods this summer ahead of construction. We are excited to be a part of your community. Please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns you may have: www.VermontGas.com or 800-639-8081

may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: May 15, 2017 Norma M. Norland 1320 Hallock Road New Haven, VT 05491 (802) 545-2637 dcv@bvslawvt.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: May 18, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 5/18

802-388-1966

78 North Street New Haven, Vermont 05472 (802) 453 – 3516 The Town of New Haven is now accepting bids for a three (3) year contract for roadside mowing. Roadsides will be mowed two separate times during the summer season as follows: First mowing will be 2 passes; the second mowing will be done with a minimum of 8 feet with a boom or over the rail system to get behind guardrails and partial tree canopy if necessary. Mowing is at the direction of the Road Commissioner, using your own equipment. Proof of insurance provided to the Selectboard. For more information, please call the Road Commissioner @ 802 – 316 – 6125.

Please submit your sealed bid to the Town of New Haven by 4:30 on Tuesday, June 6, 2017. All bids are subject to approval by the Selectboard, who reserve the right to reject any and all bids.

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Mt. Abraham Union High School is soliciting offers for the sale and removal of a 28’ X 52’ double wide modular classroom.Offers will be accepted until 4:00 p.m. on May 31, 2017. Building must be removed no later than June 30, 2017. Contact Alden Harwood, 72 Munsill Ave, Bristol, Vt. 05443 for offers or questions. 802-453-6957

By VIRGINIA BARLOW — ­The white bulbs of wild leeks, also called ramps (especially in the south), can be eaten year round, but it’s the early leaves that are most appreciated. In pre-freezer days, ramps were the first greens available after five or so months of potatoes and they were considered important as well as good tasting. Ramp festivals are still held in much of Appalachia to celebrate the arrival of this nutritious fresh food, and these tourist attractions have become so successful that in some places ramps are overharvested.

Wild leeks are spring ephemerals that have no flowers in the spring.

I know this is confusing; there’s a tendency to call every spring-blooming thing an ephemeral. But most spring wildflowers keep their leaves through the summer and therefore don’t qualify — it’s the extra short lifespan of the photosynthetic machinery that defines a spring ephemeral, not the timing of flowering. The rounded flower heads of leeks appear in July, well after the leaves have withered and disappeared.

Wild leeks favor alluvial floodplains

TOWN OF FERRISBURGH

The Starksboro Development Review Board (DRB) will hold a public hearing on the following application(s) beginning at 7:45 P.M. on June 8, 2017 at the Starksboro Town Office.

Application # 2017DRB-05-SD is a request by Hog Back Heaven Farm, LLC for Preliminary Plat hearing review for a major 3-lot subdivision of parcel #D2257S. The Preliminary Plat hearing review will be conducted pursuant to sections #350 and #426 of the Starksboro Land Use and Development Regulations. Parcel D2257S is a 229+/- acre parcel with frontage on Tatro Road in the Agricultural Scenic and Rural Residential District and Forest Conservation District. Application # 2017DRB-05-SD is available for review at the Town Office. This will be the first business item on the DRB’s agenda.

Interested persons are invited to attend the hearing, or send a representative. DRB hearings are conducted in the order they are listed, applicants and other interested parties should be prepared to wait. Pursuant to 24 VSA § 4464(a)(1)(C) and 4471(a), participation in this local proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal.

David Wetmore Administrative Officer 5/18

ADDISON NORTHEAST SUPERVISORY UNION MT. ABRAHAM UNION HIGH SCHOOL

Ramps are one of Vermont’s local wild edibles

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Joseph M. Garafano late of Bridport, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: May 15, 2017 John M. Ruggiero 12 Tenney Brook Court Rutland, VT 05701 (802) 236-3149 tenneybrook@gmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: May 18, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 5/18

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY BOARD AND COMMISSION VACANCIES

We have a vacancy on the Middlebury Parks and Recreation Committee and are looking for a Middlebury representative on the Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) of Addison County Regional Planning Commission. If you are interested in either of these positions, please send an e-mail to kramsay@townofmiddlebury.org, or call Kathleen Ramsay at 388-8100, Ext. 201, no later than Friday, May 19, 2017. 5/15

FERRISBURGH CENTRAL SCHOOL PARKING LOT IMPROVEMENTS REQUEST FOR BIDS

Sealed Bids for the construction of the Ferrisburgh Central School Parking Lot Improvements will be received by the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union at the Central Office (11 Main Street, Suite B100, Vergennes, VT 05491) until 2:00 p.m. local time on June 6, 2017, at which time the Bids received will be privately opened and reviewed. The Project consists of the constructing improvements to the Ferrisburgh Central School Parking Lot including: earthwork, paving, pedestrian safety features, curbing, signage and drainage infrastructure.

Bids will be received for a single prime Contract. Bids shall be on a lump sum and unit price basis, with additive alternate bid items as indicated in the Bid Form.

The Issuing Office for the Bidding Documents is: East Engineering, PLC (802) 9896686 or tyler@eastengineeringplc.com Prospective Bidders may obtain copies of the Bidding Documents from the Issuing Office.

Bidding Documents also may be examined at the Addison Northwest Supervisory Union Office (11 Main Street, Suite B100, Vergennes, VT 05491) on Mondays through Fridays between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.

A pre-bid conference will be held at 9:00 a.m. local time on May 23, 2017 at the Ferrisburgh Central School (56 Little Chicago Road, Ferrisburgh, VT 05456).

Attendance at the pre-bid conference is mandatory.

Addison Northwest Supervisory Union Tonia Mears, ANWSU Business Manager 5/15

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July. Maybe the strange thing is that other plants haven’t figured this out.

The shiny black seeds look like small beads and often stay on the plants through the winter.

Wild leeks also reproduce by forming offshoots from the parent bulb. Sometimes these firmly rooted clumps are so densely packed that they are a bit hard to dig up.

In Vermont, Abenaki Native Americans called these plants winooski and they grew abundantly along what is still called the Winooski River. The name Chicago, too, is from shiko’ko, a Menominee word for leeks.

Native Americans used leeks medicinally for many ailments as well as gastronomically.

There are many ways to cook wild leeks, some quite complicated, but none better than frying them in butter until they are completely soft. Bacon fat is another recommended medium and batter fried versions are especially popular in the southern states. They can be made into pesto and used raw in salads and sandwiches, but raw leeks are not for everyone. Indigestion is a possible consequence, so best for the inexperienced eater to start with a small serving.

A much less common variety, sometimes called narrow-leaved wild leek (Allium tricoccum var. burdickii), lacks the purplish blush on the stem.

Virginia Barlow is the co-founder of Northern Woodlands magazine.

The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited

by Northern Woodlands magazine, www.northernwoodlands.org, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable Foundation: wellborn@nhcf.org.

MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES

RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for May 11 & May 15 BEEF R. Scholten Monument Farms M. Kelley Blue Spruce Farms Deer Valley Foster Bros Farm

Costs Lbs. per lb 1370 .795 1445 .79 1685 .775 1235 .71 1260 .71 1830 .70

Dollars 1089.15 1141.55 1305.88 876.85 894.60 1281.00

CALVES Sprague Ranch Tudhope Farm Pinello Farm J. Phillips Nolan Family Farm

Lbs. 98 101 88 117 98

Costs per lb 1.75 1.70 1.70 1.75 1.675

Dollars 171.50 171.70 149.60 204.75 164.15

Total # Beef: 384 • Total # Calves: 313 We value our faithful customers.

Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs.

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

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Altercation with kids ends in DUI citation BRISTOL — On Saturday, May 6, at approximately 11:35 p.m. Bristol police officers were dispatched to the area of West and South streets for a reported suspicious incident.

Apparently, a man had been involved in a verbal altercation with several juveniles on West Street and had reportedly left the area driving a red SUV. It was reported the man appeared intoxicated.

Investigation led police to the residence of Traven Cage Jerome, 21, of Bristol, where they located a vehicle matching the description.

Police determined that Jerome had driven under the influence of alcohol and they took him into custody and transported him to the Bristol Police Department, where he was processed without incident. Police report that Jerome’s blood alcohol content was found to be 0.110; the legal limit for driving is 0.08. They cited Jerome for driving under the influence and released him.

In other recent activity, Bristol police: • On May 1 at 8:49 a.m. responded to Champlain Farms on West Street on a report of a man loitering there. The man was gone when police arrived, but they found him and screened him for driving under the influence after a witnesses reported unusual behavior.

Police said he wasn’t impaired, but they warned him.

• On May 1 worked out of the office at Bristol Elementary School, and went with the principal to discuss concerns of a parent and a student crisis.

• On May 1 conducted towncontracted traffic patrol on Monkton Road and issued one ticket for speeding.

• On May 1 looked into a reported domestic disturbance on Mountain Street, where a woman reported a verbal fight that broke out as she was trying to leave. Police said no criminal acts occurred. Police helped the woman find temporary lodging with assistance of WomenSafe.

• On May 1 conducted a quarterly sex offender registry check of a local offender and said he was compliant.

• On May 1 found an unlocked door while checking security of Mount Abraham Union High School,

Bristol

Police Log

and locked it. An officer also found an unlocked Mount Abe door on May 2 and locked it.

• On May 2 at 11:45 a.m. responded to Mount Abe for a 911 hang-up call and 911 text message. No emergency was found at the school however the student whose phone the calls came from was not on campus, where he was supposed to be. The student’s last class teacher said he was in class when it ended at 11:30. The student returned to campus safely at 1 p.m. and admitted to leaving campus with friends without permission. The student told police he did not call 911, and he believes his phone may have been hacked. School staff are dealing with the students.

• On May 2 accepted old medication for disposal.

• On May 3 worked out the office at Bristol Elementary, followed up with the principal on a student family crisis, and interacted with students and staff passing from lunch and recess.

• On May 3 checked a report of a drug transaction in the Shaw’s parking lot but couldn’t find the cars in question.

• On May 3 were told by a woman that she had struck another vehicle while backing out of a parking space on School Street. She was provided a case number for her insurance company. She had exchanged information with the operator of the other vehicle.

• On May 3 while performing a Sex Offender Registry check found the offender in possession of marijuana.

Police seized a small quantity of marijuana along with three pipes and issued the offender a ticket for the possession of marijuana.

• On May 4 received a report from a Lincoln woman of a minor crash on Park Place, where she backed into an ACTR bus, causing minor damage to her own vehicle and no reported damage to the bus.

• On May 4 heard from a Main Street resident about a possible scam

when the subject gave remote access to her computer. The resident received a call from a person offering computer service and was given remote access to the woman’s computer. The woman gave bank information for payment but then changed her bank information fearing a fraud. Additional calls were received and new problems with her computer started. Follow-up is being conducted to see if ongoing access is possible.

• On May 4 received a complaint from two teens that a Little League coach had used obscenities toward them and told them to leave for no reason. The officer learned from the coach that police had been notified on previous game nights that these same teens were causing problems and smoking and on May 4 they started again. The coach admitted to the officer that he handled it inappropriately, and police told the coach to call them in the future if there were other problems and not to confront the teens.

• On May 4 blocked off part of the parking lots at Mount Abe as requested by school staff for the safety day.

• On May 5 Chief Gibbs participated in the mock crash at the Mount Abe Safety Fair. Bristol police, Bristol fire, Bristol rescue and Middlebury ambulance professionals also participated in the simulated fatal crash involving texting while driving.

• On May 6 received a report that a woman was confronted by a man in front of a West Street residence as she was jogging. The subject made rude comments and made the complainant feel uncomfortable. The suspect was reportedly wearing a corrections ankle bracelet. Follow up is being conducted.

• On May 13 at 6:10 p.m. responded with fire and rescue officials to a car crash near the Lord’s Prayer Rock on Route 116 east of the village. Although police found the car on its roof in the westbound lane, no one was injured. Police cited the driver, Benjamin Scott Fitzgerald, 32, of Bristol, for driving under the influence and for careless and negligent driving. Bristol police report that Fitzgerald’s blood alcohol content was 0.089 percent; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

Driving violations net a DUI charge • On May 9 at approximately ADDISON COUNTY — A Vermont State Police trooper reports 2:29 p.m. were notified of a one-car that he saw a motor vehicle commit crash on Route 22A near Route 74 violations while driving on Route 7 in Shoreham. Police report that April in Ferrisburgh at 1:30 a.m. on May Cootware, 35, of Burlington was driving a 2008 Honda 12; so he stopped the Pilot northbound on car.

Route 22A when she While speaking with drove off the roadway the driver, identified Police Log and collided with as 56-year-old Craig guide wire, telephone Lesage of Essex Junction, the trooper observed pole, and tree causing damage to the front end of the vehicle and several signs of impairment.

He screened Lesage for driving totaling it. The vehicle was later under the influence, arrested him towed from the scene. Neither for DUI and transported him to the alcohol nor drugs were determined New Haven state police barracks for to be contributing factors in the processing. Lesage was later released collision. No injuries were reported. with a citation to appear in Addison No charges were anticipated. State County Superior Court, criminal police were assisted by the Addison division, on May 22 to answer to the County Sheriff’s Department and the charges of DUI, fourth offense, as Shoreham Fire Department.

• On May 11 formally cited well as driving after his license had Shawn Newell, 33, of Springfield for been suspended or revoked. gross negligent driving with death In other recent activity, troopers: • On May 5 at approximately 1:46 resulting. Newell was driving the p.m. responded to a single-vehicle car that smashed into an oncoming crash on Route 73 in Orwell. Upon vehicle on Route 7 in Salisbury on arriving on scene troopers saw that April 20. Brian Kerr, 40, of Ripton, a black Chevy truck had collided a passenger in the car that Newell with a utility pole off the road; the struck, was killed; his partner, driver had left the scene before first Christina Walker, who was driving responders and troopers arrived on the car, was badly injured, as was scene. State police located the driver, Newell. whom they identified as Kalli Mann, At the time of the crash, state 49, of Orwell. Mann was transported police reported that Newell was to Rutland Regional Medical Center driving northbound at a high rate of for treatment of minor injuries. speed, passing slower vehicles that Police cited Mann for leaving the were ahead of him, and came into the scene of an accident and ticketed her path of Walker’s car when Newell’s for driving outside his lane, driving vehicle travelled left of center to too fast for the conditions, and pass another vehicle in front of him. leaving a motor vehicle unattended. Newell is due to answer the criminal The 2005 truck was a total loss. charge on June 5 in Addison Superior

Vt. State

Court, criminal division.

• On May 12 at 10:13 a.m. stopped a vehicle on Interstate 89 southbound at mile marker 2.6 for multiple motor vehicle violations. Police said driver Vilija Bizinakauskas, 29, of Middlebury was operating while intoxicated. Troopers arrested Bizinakauskas, took her to the Windsor Police Department and cited her for DUI, second offense.

• On May 12 at approximately 5:27 p.m. saw a 2015 Lexus NX15 driven by Tess Lieber, 19, of New York, N.Y., rear-end a 2012 Ford Focus driven by David Quesnel, 52, of Whiting on Route 7 near Quaker Street/Dakin Farm in Ferrisburgh.

No one was hurt, but both vehicles sustained bumper damage. Neither alcohol nor drugs were believed to be factors in the crash. Police ticketed Lieber for following too close and imprudent driving with an accident resulting.

• On the morning of May 13 stopped a motor vehicle driven by Jimmy Brown, 47, of Colchester on Basin Harbor Road in Panton, after observing the vehicle commit traffic violations. State police report that they detected signs of impairment, screened Brown for DUI, and took him into custody. Troopers cited Brown for DUI. Vergennes police assisted with the incident.

• On May 14 at approximately 2:51 p.m. responded to the area of Lake Street and Russell Lane in Panton for a report of a one-car crash. Police ended up citing Chad Lang, 43, of Jericho for driving under the influence of alcohol, second offense.

No leash

KATHY NILSSON, LEFT, Shalom Goldman, Nate Orvis and Drew Campbell “cut the leash” on Middlebury’s new dog park Saturday morning. The park, located near Porter Medical Center off Collins Drive, is now open to dogs and their owners.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Police deal with several driving violations VERGENNES — Vergennes police this past weekend cited two motorists for driving under the influence of alcohol.

On Saturday, May 13, city police stopped a driver after he failed to honor a stop sign at the intersection of South Maple and School streets.

Police said Noah Myott, 31, of Burlington showed evidence of intoxication, but refused DUI testing. They cited him for DUI refusal and for failure to stop at the stop sign.

On Sunday, May 14, city police stopped another driver for failing to stop at a stop sign, this time on New Haven Road. They cited Lance Masterson, 35, of Lincoln for DUI, alleging his blood-alcohol content tested at 0.94; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

Police also cited Masterson for the traffic offense.

In other action between May 8 and 14, Vergennes police: • On May 8 received two tips about potential illegal drug activity in the area.

Vergennes Police Log

• On May 8 helped Vermont State Police deal with a drunken man in Monkton.

• On May 8 helped the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad with a possible drug overdose at Northlands Job Corps.

• On May 9 heard a complaint from a woman that her daughter’s boyfriend’s ex-wife was sending personal information about him to her, her daughter, and his employer. Police said they, too, had received the information, but after consultation with the state’s attorney determined it was a civil issue and advised the woman to consult a lawyer.

• On May 10 learned that $38 and a winning scratch ticket had been stolen from an unlocked car parked in the city.

• On May 10 checked a report

of a car that had been running for an hour near the intersection of South Maple and School streets; police discovered it belonged to an employee of a downtown business who had forgotten to turn the engine off.

• On May 10 dealt with a Green Street barking dog complaint.

• On May 11 searched for, but could not find, someone said to have been looking win the windows at 2 Alden Place.

• On May 11 helped VARS at Vergennes Union High School.

• On May 11 accepted a wallet that had been found and contacted the bank that had issued a debit card found in the wallet to try to find its owner; there was no other ID in the wallet, police said.

• On May 13 and 14 found a door open at the same Main Street business.

• On May 14 accepted a dog that a resident had picked up wandering loose on Main Street and turned it over to the animal control officer, who returned it to the owner.

Bristol woman cited for domestic assault MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury someone slashing the tires on police cited Stephanie L. Dugan, a vehicle parked outside the 33, of Bristol for domestic assault, Champlain Farms store on Court after she allegedly struck a family Street on May 9. member in the Court • Helped state Street area on May 12. police search a In other action last suspicious vehicle week, Middlebury parked off North police: Pleasant Street on May Police Log • Investigated a 12. suspected break-in at a Court Street • Investigated a report of a tall apartment on May 8. Police said the man with an orange backpack who tenant believes someone got into her had allegedly been yelling at people home through a window via a fire leaving the 51 Main restaurant on escape. The tenant is searching her Main Street on May 12. Police said home to see if anything is missing. they were unable to find the man.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional • Responded to a noise complaint EMS with an upset and potentially in the Seymour Street area on May violent patient at the Residence at 12.

Otter Creek retirement community • Helped Middlebury College on May 9.

Public Safety with a driver thought • Investigated a report about to be under the influence on

Middlebury

Hillcrest Road on May 13. Police said the driver was sober.

• Checked on a woman found sleeping in a vehicle parked at Otter View Park off Weybridge Street at around 1:30 a.m. on May 13.

• Helped state police search for some people allegedly involved in a car crash in Ripton on May 13.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS with a suicidal woman in the Water Street area on May 14.

• Helped resolve a custody dispute at a Route 7 South location on May 14.

• Assisted state police with a car off the road near Cider Mill Road on May 14.

• Responded to a noise complaint at a North Pleasant Street residence on May 15.

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Local schools stage mock car crashes

At VUHS At Mt. Abe

DURING MOUNT ABRAHAM Union High School’s inaugural Safety Fair on May 5, students began with a “mock crash” organized by students in the Mt. Abe Vermont Teen Leadership Safety Program (VTLSP). Student actors, members of the Bristol fire, rescue and police departments, and Middlebury Regional EMS staged a simulated crash scene caused by distracted driving.

As students and teachers looked on, emergency responders arrived on the scene, secured the vehicles and addressed the staged medical needs of the students. A narrator explained the process and the likely outcome for the driver who caused the crash with his distracted driving. Above, student actor Owein LaBarr portrays the guy who caused the crash by texting while driving. Above left, student Lydia Pitts sees first hand how difficult it is to drive (a golf cart) while texting. Below left, Bristol Police Chief Kevin Gibbs helps secure the scene. Below, Vermont Attorney General T.J. Donovan urges students to take their own and others’ safety to heart. Automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for teens.

Photos by Aiden Brunola, Ian Reynolds and Jim Lockridge

ON MAY 11 Vergennes fire and police department and Vergennes Area Rescue Squad personnel, with help from eight Vergennes Union High School student volunteers, staged a mock drunk-driving crash behind the school. A school assembly explaining the event and the consequences was held in conjunction with the two-vehicle “accident.” Above, rescue workers prepare to remove an accident victim and student volunteer from one car; firefighters are getting ready to use the “Jaws of Life” to remove its roof. Left, student volunteer Anne Jackson, who is interning with VARS for academic credit, tends to accident victim and student volunteer Max Ratti-Bicknell, the “driver” of the second vehicle. Below, Jackson helps VARS move Ratti-Bicknell to a waiting ambulance.

Photos by Kristine Kirkaldy

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May 18, 2017

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Joan Lynch, owner of The Inner Garden, starts her 13th year designing, installing and maintaining gardens in Addison County.

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The Inner Gardener shares her secrets

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his time of year it’s easy to have garden-envy, especially if you’re just starting a landscaping or gardening project of your own.

When you drive around, do you notice the beautiful, wellestablished gardens hugging other peoples’ homes, bursting with native foliage, welltimed blooms and a mysterious sense of effortlessness? And then look at your shovel, bags of compost, weed-covered lawn and wonder — egads! How do I begin?

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Well, there’s good news. You don’t have to do it alone.

Joan Lynch launched The Inner Garden, Inc. — a horticultural services company that specializes

in sustainable landscapes and the use of tropical plants for green interior plantscapes — to help those of us (with or without green thumbs) achieve an envy-worthy garden.

“In the 25 years I’ve been doing this, what I’ve learned is to read the customer’s needs and interests,” said Lynch. “People say, ‘oh, I want gardens!’ Then I bring reality in.”

Lynch asks her clients how much work they want to do and what they want from their gardens.

To achieve the right balance, she said, it’s about scaling ideas and suggesting plants or designs that will make a dream-garden feasible.

“I like connecting with my customers,” the sunkissed gardener with scratches and scrapes (from pruning a Spirea) said. “The process of sharing ideas and opening them up to something that perhaps they would never have thought of is the true inspiration behind what I do. The ‘a-ha’

moments are priceless.”

Once the client’s needs are understood, the process starts. Lynch does the initial planning and drawings, then she calls on her team of five horticulturists and earthmovers who help her design, install and maintain gardens throughout the Addison County area.

“I have an amazing staff,” she said. “Everyone is very talented and we work together as a great team.”

Lynch herself came from Willmington, Del., where she lived and followed in her father’s footsteps as an electronic engineer until she was 34. “I was working on the gas management systems of nuclear class war subs, when I decided it was not feeding my soul,” she said. So she stopped, and transferred to Temple University in Philly, where she earned her degree in Horticulture SEE GARDEN ON PAGE 3

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Elaine Ittleman PAINTINGS ON DISPLAY AT THE JACKSON GALLERY, MIDDLEBURY

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are,” said Ittleman, who is a practicing laine Ittleman paints large labor and delivery nurse at the University abstract landscapes. Bold and of Vermont Medical colorful, they have Center. “We all react to an improvisational art differently. Therefore, I feel and apparent prefer to create rather than joie de vivre. interpret my work.”

Ittleman is passionate about When she is not working or art and has been painting, Ittleman and her painting for over 20 years in “WE ALL husband Frank welcome various media including oil, APPROACH the public to their Lemon watercolor and pastel. Her Fair Sculpture Park in work has evolved through ART AS Shoreham during the impressionistic landscapes INDIVIDUALS summer and fall months. to a more abstract The magnificent pastoral approach. She will exhibit WITH ALL THE setting is home to their 14 recent oil paintings in EXPERIENCES collection of outdoor works the Jackson Gallery from THAT MAKE by several sculptors. The May 19-June 25. An artist’s self-guided mile long reception will be held this US WHO WE path is the realization of Friday, from 5-7 p.m. in the ARE... WE ALL their vision­ — to share the gallery. beauty of the land and the REACT TO ART sculpture with everyone.

Ittleman creates art “simply DIFFERENTLY” for the joy of it” and has — Elaine Ittleman taken classes at the Arts The Jackson Gallery is League in New York City, located in the lower level Community College of Town Hall Theater in of Vermont and other Middlebury. Gallery hours workshops. Her paintings are Monday-Saturday have been included in 12-5 p.m., and an hour numerous regional exhibits. before any public events in the building. For more “We all approach art as individuals with info, call (802) 382-9222 or visit www. all the experiences that make us who we townhalltheater.org.

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and Landscape Architecture. “It was the best thing I ever did,” Lynch reflected. “It’s so much more fun to be with the plants!”

Lynch moved to Vermont in 1995 (the week after she graduated) and took a job working in Shrewsberry for an herb farm and then moved to Cornwall and worked with Dwight Dunning — who’s since retired his Addison County Landscaping business.

Next, Lynch took a few seasons to work for a large landscaping company in the Hamptons, where she learned a lot, but realized the Hamptons were not for her.

“There was a disrespect for nature and horticulture there,” she said. “It was upsetting and irritating. We never educated our clients; that’s what drove me out of there... There’s a reason why we all choose to live in Vermont: everyone I’ve interfaced with here has a grand respect for Vermont’s natural beauty and they try to enhance their piece of it.”

In 2004, Lynch launched her own business. Today, she and her team maintain 30 gardens, working hard from mid-April through Thanksgiving. “We all work really hard and then we have winter off,” she said.

“What do we do? Ski.” Oh, and design too.

Right now, at the beginning of their season, it’s all

“THERE’S A REASON WHY WE ALL CHOOSE TO LIVE IN VERMONT: EVERYONE I’VE INTERFACED WITH HERE HAS A GRAND RESPECT FOR VERMONT’S NATURAL BEAUTY AND THEY TRY TO ENHANCE THEIR PIECE OF IT.”

— Joan Lynch about new garden design.

“Everything works on paper,” said Lynch. “But once you put it in dirt, it changes... Change happens all the time and that’s what makes it fun. Gardens evolve when we evolve; the garden is never done.”

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For those looking to do-it-yourself, Lynch suggests a few simple tips: • Keep up on the weeds.

• Pay attention to nearby invasive species.

• Think about the big picture. How do you want to spend your summer and what do you want to get from your garden?

• Don’t be afraid to remove plants that don’t thrill you. (Give them to a friend if you feel bad.)

Be careful not to use up all your energy in your outside garden because indoor plants are important too.

“Indoor gardens help connect inside to outside,” Lynch said. “Interior plants have evolved from simple green decoration to an element that is conductive to creativity, calm, health and productivity in the home or office... For example, did you know that a 6-inch potted plant (like a spider plant or a peace lily) can purify the air in a 100-square-foot area?”

Lynch’s projects range from $5,000 to $100,000 depending on the size and scope. Many clients, she said, choose to do their grand garden plan in increments, which helps keep the bills and maintenance manageable.

Lynch and her team assess the light levels, humidity and environment and select plants (typically from South America and Florida) that “resonate with the spirit of the space.”

“To achieve our custom look for each setting, in addition to stone, we use native Northeastern trees, shrubs and perennials from local growers,” Lynch explained. “We also promote biodiversity with ecologically appropriate non-native species mixed in with native plants for additional textures and an inspired new look.”

“Indoor (and outdoor) plants can sometimes get pests,” warns Lynch. “Wash off insects with soapy water; if you’re going to use a chemical indoors use the soil-drench kind or a baking soda spray.” But in the end, Lynch said, “we have to be able to accept some insects and damage in the garden, it’s part of the natural world.”

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OUT OF TOWN Spend an evening with David Crosby and Friends

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egendary singer-songwriter and social justice activist David Crosby is a twotime Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, inducted as a member of both the iconic folk-rock band The Byrds — with whom he first rose to stardom — and the iconic Woodstock era-defining group Crosby, Stills & Nash. “Croz” will take Burlington’s TUESDAY MAY Flynn Theater stage on Flynn Theater, Burlington Tuesday, May 23, 8 p.m., with James Raymond, Michelle Willis, Jeff Pevar, Mai Agan and Steve DiStanislao.

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A native Californian — and son of an Academy Award-winning cinematographer — Crosby originally intended to be an actor when he moved from Santa Barbara to Los Angeles in 1960. Music prevailed, however, and Crosby began his career as a folksinger, playing clubs and coffeehouses nationwide. Back in L.A. in ‘63, Crosby formed The Byrds with Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, Gene

David Crosby and Friends will perform at Burlington’s Flynn Theater, Tuesday, May 23. Show starts at 8 p.m.

Clark and Michael Clarke, winning widespread recognition for his songwriting and charismatic presence. Driven by hits including “Eight Miles High,” “Turn! Turn! Turn!,” and a cover of Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man,” The Byrds’ signature electric folk-rock influenced countless musicians to come.

David’s most recent release, Lighthouse is an intimate, stripped-down set that highlights Crosby’s instantly recognizable voice, incisive songwriting, and incomparable guitar work.

The palpable joy in the nine-song collection captures the iconic artist in an unexpected burst of inspiration. For Lighthouse, Crosby received an able assist from Michael League, the bandleader/ bassist for Snarky Puppy who executive produced and co-wrote much of the album with Crosby.

Lighthouse features a rare economy of sound, filled primarily by Crosby’s voice and guitars, and League’s bass. There’s a sparse, unvarnished quality to the tracks that allows the songs breathing room and for the full emotional weight of the lyrics to emerge, unencumbered by extraneous instrumentation.

Tickets start at $44.50 in advance. Doors open at 7:15 p.m., show starts at 8 p.m. The show is presented by Kirschner Concerts and Higher Ground. For more info and tickets visit www. highergroundmusic.com.

Carpenters tribute concert comes to Higher Ground Acclaimed Karen Carpenter sound-a-like and look-a-like Sally Olson will perform on Friday, May 26, 8 p.m., at the Higher Ground in South Burlington. The show will include signature covers and hits by the Carpenters. Olson offers commentary on the history behind the Carpenters’ music, as well as Karen Carpenter’s rise to fame and her sudden death at the age of 32. Carpenters Tribute Concert, debuted in January 2015 and was conceived by Bill Reed and Sally Olson.

Randy Schmidt, author of Little Girl Blue: The Life of Karen Carpenter, said that “Sally’s tribute

to Karen Carpenter is heartfelt and honest” and Lane Gibson, recording studio owner, producer and engineer, claims that Olson has “an uncanny resemblance” and looks and sounds “just like Karen!”

Olson’s stunning vocals combined with state of the art video projection, vintage costumes, historical commentary, lovely arrangements and a live band led by Reed and featuring bassist Arthur DeQuasie and drummer Chanon Bernstein, will take you on an incredible journey into the world of the Carpenters.

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Olson has studied voice with Reed since 2009 and is the managing director at Bill Reed Voice Studio in South Burlington. She is a graduate of Middlebury College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Studio Art and French. Olson also attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Florence Academy of Art in Italy and the acclaimed Circle in the Square Theatre School in New York City. She has been acting and singing since childhood.

Olson’s Carpenters Tribute Concert was recently accepted to be a featured member of Vermont Arts 2017.

Reed completed his studies at Columbia University, where he earned a doctorate in

vocal music education. After a busy and rewarding career as a college choral director, studio voice teacher and concert singer, Reed established a private voice studio in New York City near Lincoln Center, and began his 25-year career as singing teacher at the renowned Circle in the Square Theatre School. For over 30 years, he was privileged to work with singers from all over the world, whose specialties ranged from opera to pop and rock, and Broadway to folk.

DeQuasie began his musical life at age 10 with the electric bass, an instrument he still loves to play. At age 16 he started piano lessons. He started studying the double bass two years ago.

DeQuasie is the Director of Operations of the Vermont Youth Orchestra Association and lives in Burlington.

Bernstein began playing the drums at age 11, and has played in a variety of musical settings over the past 35 years. In 2016, he led a Max Roach tribute ensemble at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival, and also played at the Newport, VT Jazz Festival.

He can be heard locally playing with “The Milo White Band,” “The Brambles” and “In the Moment.”

Tickets for Friday’s concert cost $17 in advance or $20 day of. Doors at 7:30 p.m. Show at 8 p.m. For tickets and more info visit www. highergroundmusic.com.

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IN TOWN Behind the curtain: Meet the singers of Il Trittico OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY HOSTS EVENT THIS SUNDAY AT UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY

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pera Company of Middlebury (OCM) has assembled an extraordinary cast of professionals for their June production of Puccini’s rarely performed gem, Il Trittico. Fourteen singers have SUNDAY MAY joined this year’s Unitarian Universalist company. On May 21, OCM offers an up-close, personal preview of the singers in a Meet the Singers concert and reception at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury this Sunday at 5 p.m.

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“This is without a doubt my favorite performance in the entire year,” OCM Artistic Director, Doug Anderson said, “with one amazing aria after another, performed by superbly talented singer-actors. And that room has incredible acoustics. I beam through the whole thing.”

Among the accomplished performers, each singing their own favorite aria, will be: Eleni Calenos, last seen here as Liù in OCM’s Turnadot. Calenos recently scored a major success in the LOFT Opera production of Tosca. The New York Times wrote: “From the moment she sauntered into the church in a hat and sunglasses, the soprano Eleni Calenos proved compelling as the jealous heroine, her

soaring voice heard to vivid effect in ‘Vissi d’arte.’”

West Coast mezzo Margaret Gawrysiak, who will be playing three roles in Il Trittico, has been praised by Opera News for “her powerful voice” and presence.

Returning favorites include Joshua Jeremiah, last year’s Macbeth; Bevin Hill, who has played numerous roles with the company including last year’s Papagena;

“THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT MY FAVORITE PERFORMANCE IN THE ENTIRE YEAR.”

— Doug Anderson

Matt Morgan, who starred in OCM’s Pearl Fishers and La Rondine; and Vermonter Suzanne Kantorski, joining the company for her fourth leading role.

The Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society is located at 2 Duane Court in Middlebury. Tickets are $35 and include appetizers and performance. A cash bar will be available. For tickets and more info call (802) 382-9222, stop by the Town Hall Theater Box Office or visit townhalltheater.org.

Vermonter Suzanne Kantorski will join the company for her fourth leading role in Il Trittico. Meet the singers this Sunday evening at the Unitarian Universalist Society in Middlebury.

one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK ANNUAL PLANT SALE

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Middlebury Garden Club will host their annual plant sale this Saturday, May 20, 9 a.m.-noon, on the Middlebury town green. Flowers, herbs, vegetables and other plants from members’ gardens will be for sale and ready for planting.

Come rain or shine. Proceeds benefit the club’s activities, community service programs and maintenance of the Sheldon Museum gardens.

Unsold plants will be donated to area nonprofits.

Philip Baruth will read MAY from and sign his new book, “Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes,” this Sunday, May 21, 2 p.m., at the Vermont Book Shop. Baruth is a professor of English at the University of Vermont and served as the majority leader of the Vermont Senate from 2012–2016. The reading is free and open to the public. Sponsored in collaboration with Addison County Democrats. For info call (802) 388-2061.

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The Heroin Epidemic Learning Program (H.E.L.P.), a new program started by the United Way of Addison County, will celebrate the work of students, staff and volunteers during an awards ceremony at Mt. Abraham Union High School this Monday, May 22, 6-7 p.m. During the program, participants made public service announcements about the heroin epidemic; their PSAs will be shown during the event.

Come and show your support.

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CALENDAR

ACTIVE

INFINITUS TRAIL RACE IN GOSHEN. Thursday, May 18, 8:08 a.m., Blueberry Hill Inn. The Endurance Society sponsors a series of wicked footraces that kick off with the 888 km (551.8 mile) race on May 18, followed by shorter races from 250 miles to 8 km on the same course. The races end on Memorial Day weekend. More info at www.endurancesociety.org.

ARTS ARTIST’S OPENING RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 19, 5-7 p.m., Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater. Elaine Ittleman, Paintings. Ittleman paints large and colorful abstract landscapes. Fourteen will be on view at the gallery. More info at 802-382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

OPENING DAY AT ROKEBY IN FERRISBURGH. Sunday, May 21, 3 p.m., Rokeby Museum, Route 7.

Rokeby Museum will open for its 2017 season with a special program. Come and meet our neighbors and learn about the newest stop on Vermont’s African American Heritage Trail. Open daily, 10-5, through October 29, 2017.

STUDIO GRAND OPENING IN VERGENNES. Saturday, May 27 and Sunday, May 28, 10 a.m.-5 p.m, Ross Sheehan Studio, 37 Green Street, next door to Bar Antidote and Hired Hand Brewing. Part of the Vermont Open Studio Weekend.. First 10 visitors during the opening receive a complimentary woodcut print.

ART OPENING RECEPTION IN BRISTOL. Saturday, May 27, 11 a.m., Walkover Gallery. Opening for a retrospective of artist Grace Spring’s 50 years of work, including her clay sculptures, drawings, life-size papier-mache sculptures, paintings and puppets. Exhibit runs from May 27 & 28, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 4-7 p.m.

BOOKS BOOK READING AND SIGNING IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 18, 6:30 p.m., Vermont Book Shop.

Stephen Kiernan will read from and sign his new book, “The Baker’s Secret,” a story of the French Resistance. This is a fundraiser for HOPE’s food shelf. Otter Creek Bakery will provide baked goods for the event.

READING AND BOOK SIGNING IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 21, 2 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, Main St. Philip Baruth will read from and sign his

new book, “Senator Leahy: A Life in Scenes,” The reading is free and open to the public. Sponsored in collaboration with Addison County Democrats.

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Museum gardens. Unsold plants are donated to area nonprofits.

MONTHLY BOOK DISCUSSION IN LINCOLN. Wednesday, May 24, 7 p.m., Lincoln Library.

Monthly book discussion group will discuss “Out of the Dust” by Karen Hesse. Written in sparse first-person free-verse poems, “Out of the Dust” is the tale of Billie Jo’s struggle to survive during the dust bowl years of the Depression.

FESTIVAL IN THE GREENS — OPEN HOUSE EVENT AT SPIRIT IN NATURE IN RIPTON. Saturday, May 27, 7 a.m-3 p.m. Spirit in Nature trail, Goshen Road.

Come explore the paths and streams of this 70-acre forest and participate in a choice of contemplative walks, poetry exploration, zen drawing, dance, earth stories, and labyrinth walking. Noontime potluck.

More info at www.spiritinnature.org.

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“DEATH IN THE WILDERNESS – A LOVE STORY” ON SCREEN IN BRANDON. Sunday, May 21 and Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

Written, produced and directed by Brandon resident Kevin Thornton with the cooperation of half the town, this edition is the updated and final edit of Thornton’s film — the story of Brandonite Frankie Davenport, and her long search for the body of her husband George, who was fatally wounded in the Battle of The Wilderness on May 5, 1864. Q & A with Kevin to follow. Free will donation event.

“DAISY TURNER’S KIN, AN AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY SAGA” IN BRISTOL. Thursday, May 18, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St. The Bristol Historical Society will host Jane Beck, founder of the Vermont Folklife Center, to discuss the child of slaves and her family. Open to the public. Call Steve Ayotte at 4537709 for details.

“THE LONG RIDE” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 21, 7 p.m., Marquis Theater. The story of the historic 2003 Immigrant Workers Freedom Ride that sparked the birth of the new Civil Rights Movement for immigrant workers in the United States. A moderated panel discussion will follow, featuring film director Valerie Lapin and representatives from Migrant Justice and the Open Door Clinic. Suggested donation $10. All proceeds raised will benefit Migrant Justice and the Open Door Clinic.

“THE HEALTHCARE MOVIE” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, May 25, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library Community Meeting Room. This documentary tells the story of how the Canadian and U.S. healthcare systems, which originally had much in common, evolved very differently A discussion of the film’s relevance to Vermont will led by Deb Richter, M.D., following the film. More information, contact Ellen Oxfeld at 388-7214.

GARDEN MIDDLEBURY GARDEN CLUB ANNUAL PLANT SALE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, May 20, 9 a.m.noon, on the town green. Reasonably priced flowers, herbs, vegetables and other plants from members’ gardens — ready for planting. Rain or shine.

Proceeds benefit the club’s activities, community service programs and maintenance of the Sheldon

“FRED BACON & THE FOREST DALE BANJO FACTORY” TALK IN BRANDON. Saturday, May 20, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Historian Bill Powers presents a pictorial and narrative presentation. The detailed account of Fred J. Bacon, a world renowned banjoist who lived in Forest Dale from 1906-1915.

Connections to Lake Dunmore, Brandon, Rutland, Middlebury and environs will be explored. More than 50 photographs and illustrations will be displayed.

Free will donation event.

DISCUSSING HAPPINESS AT BIXBY: SMALL CHANGES YOU CAN MAKE TODAY IN VERGENNES. Wednesday May 24, 7 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. In the latest installment of Bixby’s Coffeehouse series, Adult Service Librarian Muir Haman will present mindful practices offered in Brett Blumenthal’s book “52 Small Changes for your Brain.”

MUSIC THE SUBLIME AND THE MELLIFLUOUS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society.

Capital City Concerts presents The Sublime and the Mellifluous with musicians from up and down the east coast featuring violinist Laurie Smuckler, cellist Joel Krosnick and flutist Karen Kevra.

Tickets $15-25. Info: www.capitalcityconcerts.org.

SINGER-SONGWRITERS JOIN FORCES IN BRANDON. Saturday, May 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Nationally known and award-winning singer-songwriters Caroline Cotter CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE and Emily

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Mure play together after months of touring solo.

The two will play original material from their most recently released albums as well as new material.

This event is part of Vermont Arts 2017. Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net for reservations or for more information.

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FIDDLERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 21, noon-5 p.m., VFW, Exchange St. An afternoon of fiddling, fun and dancing. Refreshments available. All fiddlers welcome. $3 donation.

EMILY SUNDERMAN PLAYS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 21, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. As part of the Sunday Music Series, Emily Sunderman, a member of the Addison String Trio and accomplished violinist, will play classical music. Free and open to the public.

Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@residenceottercreek.com or (802) 388-1220.

SENIOR WEEK CHOIR CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 26, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. The Middlebury College Choir’s annual performance, featuring the favorite repertoire of the members of the Class of 2017. Sponsored by the Department of Music. Free. www.middlebury.edu/ arts or (802) 443-3168.

LAST TRAIN TO ZINKOV: DAVID AND NATE GUSAKOV IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 28, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Road. This father and son duo will play cutting-edge acoustic folk — mindful of the heart, mindful of ancestry, mindful of life and death and joy; with strings, vocals, and original compositions, the Gusakovs (father and son) create music that reflects their love of Appalachian old-time, classical, gypsy jazz, and their own Eastern European roots. Part of the Sunday Music series. Free and open to the public. Handicap accessible. RSVP to Connie Leach at cleach@ residenceottercreek.com or (802) 388-1220.

SOCIAL BUTTERFLIES SPRING PEEPERS PIG ROAST AND SILENT AUCTION IN CORNWALL. Thursday, May 18, 5:30-9 p.m., Jackson residence, 1301 Cider Mill Rd. Held to benefit The Parent Child Center. Come enjoy great food and drink at a family feast. Modern Times Theater Comedy will entertain.

Excellent silent auction items also on offer. For info and tickets, call (802) 388-3171.

FIRST ANNUAL HUMAN POWERED PARADE IN BRISTOL. Saturday, May 20, 10 a.m. kickoff, Bristol Skate Park.

Celebrate National Bike Month

and all things human-powered. For more info contact Melanie Kessler at 385-1039 or bikingmelanie@gmail.com. Sponsored by the Living Tree Alliance.

MEET THE SINGERS RECEPTION IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, May 21, 5 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society. Join the Opera Company of Middlebury for its annual Meet the Singers reception and meet the cast of this season’s production of Puccini’s “Il Trittico.” Get to know the singers over drinks and hors d’oeuvres and then settle back to enjoy their favorite arias. Space is limited. Appetizers and performance $35. Cash Bar. Tickets available at the Town Hall Theater on line at www. townhalltheater.org, by telephone at 802382-9222 or in person at the box office.

WORKSHOPS STORYTELLING WORKSHOP IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, May 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center. “Storytelling for Social Change,” a day-long workshop on collaborative documentary and storytelling and interviewing skills, and the design and planning of project ideas.

Tuition $95. Limited to 14. Register by May 18. Register at 388-4964 or www. vermontfolklifecenter.org/education.

ASTRONOMY STAR PARTY AND WORKSHOP IN HUBBARDTON. Saturday, May 27, 7:30-10 p.m., Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site, 5696 Monument Hill Rd. The Green Mountain Astronomers hold an evening star party and workshop. Not only will they show you the stars but also help you with your personal telescopes, including how to use, collimate (adjust), and clean them.

Bring your telescope. Call (802) 273-2282 to confirm. Admission by donation.

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never wanted chickens, because I didn’t want the carnage.

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Over the last 10 years or so, keeping backyard chickens has become fashionable, especially here in Vermont.

But my wife and I have two dogs, so I felt adding chickens to our lives would only increase the already high percentage of critter death on our property. Add two cats and most mornings I am presented with at least one headless mouse and/or a mole or chipmunk for good measure. Then our springer spaniel, Ziggy, snatches the bodies in his mouth and chews on them for half the day, flinging their wet, lifeless, bloody little corpses into the air and catching them; happily carrying them around on our walks in the woods. Eventually, he loses interest until the next fresh kill arrives on the doorstep.

But he was not the a was “Lightning”, who He was green, with a around his neck and as large, and clearly keeping the others i

BY LEE J. KAHRS

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To me, chickens always represented a larger, messier, feathered corpse that I would eventually have to dispose of, and I had staunchly opposed the idea for years. Until two years ago.

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In the decade since we bought our farmhouse on two acres, my wife, Sarah, has wanted two things — chickens, and a new mailbox. I had been stubbornly resisting both, but in the span of one magical month in October 2014, both of her wishes came true.

The late Janis, named after Janis Joplin for her fierceness and magnificence.

I DON’T WANT CHICKENS! Across the road from us sits a simple, white ranch-style house that served as an income rental property for years. The owners sold the house in the spring of 2014, and notified the family that they had to move out. Over the next six weeks or so, they did, leaving a yard full of Chevy truck bodies, empty propane tanks, garden hose, beer cans, scrap lumber and other junk. They also left their chickens.

We didn’t realize it at first. We would come down our driveway and across the road we could see the chickens down near the sugarhouse the tenants had built. For a few days, we just thought that eventually they would come back and gather up the chickens and take them wherever they had moved.

Then, the chickens started coming across the road, scratching and picking and foraging in the forested buffer between our driveway

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and the adjacent neighbor’s property. Their grandsons started feeding them.

After about 10 days, Sarah made her plea.

“They’re starving,” she said, looking at me with those eyes I’ve never been able to say “no” to. “They’re going to die. We have to do something.”

chicken flock. So, we got chickens.

For the next several weeks we started feeding them on their property near their coop, and it was during this “getting to know you” period than I began to develop a real fondness for the birds. They were a unique flock, and although you could fill a book with what I didn’t know about chickens, I could tell that these birds were special.

I sighed. “But I don’t want chickens!”

At the end of the day, I am a huge animal lover. And though it was a stretch for me, chickens are, in fact, animals. Since there was no other choice, I could not in good conscience be responsible for the demise of a

There were two full-size roosters. When the neighbor’s grandsons were feeding them, they named the roosters “Thunder” and “Lightning, and it stuck. Thunder was the classic Rhode Island Red, replete with green, orange and red feather on the side, a green

Then there was a pu white-flecked feathe “Maizie” and I was ne She didn’t lay eggs, scapegoat for the re was to eat enough t but to not draw too m

Finally, there was “G hen. She was lovely, and gold feathers. G greet me when I we morning, probably b

One evening a few m caring for the flock, I pilgrimage of the da spread the ground c and refilled the wate boxes. Holding a stil I did a quick head co Goldie was not pres

I started looking in th “Heeere, chick, chick chick, chick!” I looke around the sap buck wood. No Goldie.

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red waddle and comb. He s magnificent.

alpha rooster, oh no. That o was an Aracauna, I think. a ruff of white feathers d shoulders. He was just y bore the responsibility of in line.

oster, the size of a hen but waddle (the thing under ut he is a Bantam rooster. red with a red comb and black feathers at his r, 19 at the time, named e that I can’t print in a family ted roosting on top of a at night when all the other in the coop and wouldn’t o start grabbing him with putting him in the coop. name is “Billy”.

ens. “Big Bertha” was the hen, and she didn’t take She was big and dark, dark y laid huge, light green workhorse of the hens.

ut-upon hen with gray and ers. My wife named her ever sure of her purpose. and her role was the est of the flock. Her goal to flourish, which she did, much attention to herself.

Goldie”, the other laying , plump with light brown Goldie was the first hen to ent over to feed them in the because we had history.

months after I started I made my second ay over to the coop. I corn scratch on the ground erer. I check the nesting ll-warm egg in my hand, ount and realized that sent and accounted for.

he bushes, calling k chick! Heeere, chick, ed under the sugarhouse, kets and piles of scrap

I circled around the back of the coop past a large roll of unused chicken wire, starting to fear she had been eaten. I stopped and called again, and then I heard a sound.

“Goldie?” I said.

that my favorite chicken was going to be O.K. I rolled up the chicken wire, this time into a much larger roll with plenty of room inside in case the other chickens got the same idea.

“Goldie?”

After that, Goldie was even friendlier and seemed genuinely happy to see me every time I went over for to feed the flock. I started spending more time with them, sitting on a log, watching them peck their way around the driveway and drinking out of the waterer. They were a funny group to me, always purposeful but never angry, and very close knit.

“Cluck, cluck.”

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“Cluck.”

It was the softest “cluck: I had ever heard. I looked down at the roll of chicken wire.

I got down on my knees and on a hunch, looked into one end of the chicken wire roll.

There was Goldie, staring back at me.

“Cluck!” she said plaintively.

She had gone into the center of the wire roll to lay and had gotten stuck — very stuck. Goldie was a robust hen of solid proportions, and the opening in the roll was just slightly narrower than Goldie’s width. Add chicken feet caught in the wire and I had one stuck hen.

I quickly saw there was only one way to get her out of there. I had to unroll the roll of wire.

I found the end and gingerly started to pull it toward me, turning the roll.

“Hold on, Goldie,” I said. “We’ll get you out.”

It was a large roll of chicken wire, and as I pulled more and more of it out, Goldie went round and round inside the middle, making her little clucks each time. By the time of got to end where I could reach in and lift her out, there was about 40 feet of wire fencing lying in a large pile, and Goldie had gone around probably 10 times.

It was the first time I had ever held a chicken.

She was so soft. I held her close to by body and stroked her head. Then I gently placed her on the ground. She immediately fell over, still dizzy from being repeatedly rolled. Alarmed, I quickly picked her up again and steadied her on her feet, this time holding her upright while she got her bearings. After a minute or so, Goldie was walking on her own, seemingly unhurt by her experience.

It hit me how ridiculous this whole incident had been, and I started laughing, relieved

The coming winter turned out to be one of the coldest and snowiest in recent memory, and that’s when the flock really earned my respect.

I started doing some research and was impressed when I learned that the average chicken generates roughly 10 kilowatts of heat each within their little bodies.

By January, nighttime temperatures were well below zero. Daytime temps barely broke zero.

I locked the flock in the coop, changed out the frozen solid water twice a day, and bedded them down with extra wood shavings. They were fine. The rooster protected the hens and helped keep them warm.

But when spring finally began to emerge, I started letting the birds out. They like to roost on the nearby sugarhouse, but would often refuse to go in the coop at night.

It was then that slowly and in dramatic fashion I learned that my original opposition to having chickens, the fear of carnage, was steeped in reality. Spring brought predators.

I lost Lighting first. One morning in March, I went over to feed the flock and it was eerily quiet. Usually, they came running as soon as they saw me, but that morning there wasn’t a chicken or rooster to be found.

I found Lighting’s body outside the run attached to the back of the coop. There were green and white feathers everywhere, and there he lay in heap, a gory necklace of bites around his neck, his throat eaten out.

The rest of the flock had scattered and were hiding terrified in the brush and nearby woods.

Lighting had given his life protecting them.

training the flock to get inside the coop when it got dark in an effort to prevent more deaths.

I would lock them in, a 2x4 across the handles of the coop door.

But inside they had a door that connected to a small run totally enclosed with chicken wire.

The door was hooked to the ceiling of the coop, and I didn’t think to close it. I didn’t think anything would get in through the wire mesh.

But I learned that a hungry animal will do what ever it takes to get to a chicken.

A fisher cat or a marten got Thunder. I found him in roughly the same spot as Lighting, but his body was inside the wire run and his head was outside the fencing. Whatever got him had taken hold and didn’t let go, ate out his insides and left the rest.

It was horrible. It was only after those huge, beautiful roosters died that I ever touched them. Both times, I picked up their bodies and was startled at how heavy they were. They each must have weighed at least 15 pounds.

I’ve buried two cats and a beagle in the woods behind my house. I decided not to bury the roosters without even realizing at the time why. It was the first step I needed to take toward viewing chickens less as pets and more as livestock. I needed to put some distance between my raw emotions, the helplessness and sorrow I felt for what these birds had been through. I needed to start thinking like a veterinarian, or a farmer. I put Thunder and Lightning into trash bags and took them to the local dump.

But that May, Bertha was hit by a car, and I cried. I came home from work one warm afternoon and there she was in the middle of the road. She was my best layer, producing these big, beautiful blue Easter eggs.

I’m grateful that I never had to see Goldie’s corpse. She simply disappeared. I went to feed the remaining three hens one day and she was nowhere to be found. I spent an hour searching, beating the bushes, checking all of her favorite spots, but she was gone.

Same thing with Billy. He and Maizie were the

Thunder was killed a month later. I had started

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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org

In the Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater

ELAINE ITTLEMAN: PAINTINGS

Elaine Ittleman’s large abstract landscapes are bold and colorful with and improvisational feel and apparent joie de vivre.

Artist’s Reception Friday, May 19 5 – 7 pm On exhibit May 19 – June 25, 2017

Sun 5/21 5pm $35 OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY

MEET THE SINGERS

OCM has assembled an extraordinary cast of talented professionals for Il Trittico. Get to know the singers over drinks and hors d’oeuvres, and enjoy one amazing aria after another. CVUUS, 2 Duane Court, Middlebury.

Opera Company of Middlebury – 14th Season

IL TRITTICO

Puccini’s collection of three one-act operas featuring professional singers from across the country and the OCM Orchestra. Directed by Douglas Anderson.

$55 – $80 Fri 6/2, Thu 6/8 & Sat 6/10 @ 7:30pm; Sun 6/4 @ 2pm

Fri 6/2 5-5:30pm seating $40 (incl. tax & tip) AN ITALIAN FEAST PUCCINI WOULD LOVE!

MANGIARE!

An opening night feast at THE DINER, next door to the theater. Enjoy a fabulous Italian feast created especially for OCM. Seating is limited. Call 382-9222 or visit the box office to reserve.

Wed 6/14 11am $10/$5 Students

EXHIBITS ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

ELAINE ITTLEMAN PAINTINGS. On exhibit May 19-June 25, featuring large, bold and colorful abstract landscapes. An artist’s reception will be held Friday, May 19, 5-7 p.m. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury.

(802) 382-9222 or www.townhalltheater.org.

FISH, FOWL & FLOWERS: WOODCARVING AND PHOTOGRAPHY. On exhibit May 3-June 27, featuring floral photographs by Richard Conrad and wildlife woodcarving by William Barnard. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

GRACE SPRING: RETROSPECTIVE. On exhibit May 27-28, featuring 50 years of art by activist and Middlebury resident Grace Spring, including her clay sculptures, drawings, life-size paper-mache sculptures, paintings and puppets. WalkOver Gallery, 15 Main St, Bristol. (802) 453-3188.

JOE BOLGER: NEW WORKS. On exhibit through the month of May, featuring new paintings by Shoreham artist Joe Bolger. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill Street, Middlebury. (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

KATE GRIDLEY: A FEW TRUE THINGS. On exhibit in May, featuring Middlebury painter Kate Gridley’s work. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

SPLASH OF COLOR. On exhibit May 5-July 2, featuring Norma Montaigne’s vibrant and varied work. Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr, Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or www.cmacvt.org.

SUSPENDED MOMENTS. On exhibit April 13-May 28, featuring abstract oil paintings from Cameron Schmitz. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or www.northerndaughters.com.

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MUSIC Capitol City Concerts conclude

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apital City Concerts presents its final concert of the season, The Sublime and the Mellifluous, featuring longtime cellist of the Julliard String Quartet Joel Krosnick, and New York City violinist Laurie Smukler. This show will take place on Friday, May 19, 7:30 p.m., at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society of Middlebury and Saturday, May 20, 7:30 p.m. at the Unitarian Church of Montpelier.

Karen Kevra, Artistic Director of Capital City Concerts called Laurie Smukler “a mainstay” of the Montpelier-based concert series. “Laurie is at the center — at the very top of the the chamber

music world in New York City. The musicians she brings to Capital City Concerts are the best of the best... Laurie chooses substantial repertoire, the kind of masterpieces our audiences crave.”

Smukler will lead the ensemble in Brahms’ String Sextet No. 2, Op. 36, Schoenberg’s Romantic, Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) and Kevra will join in Mozart’s, Flute Quartet in D major, K. 285.

Krosnick, a cellist, joined the Juilliard Quartet in 1974. Last June — after 42 years with the group — he stepped down in order to focus on teaching at the Juilliard School.

Smukler and Krosnick, who have been collaborators for decades, will be joined by cellist

The Sublime and the Mellifluous is the last concert of the Capital City Concerts season. Cellist Joel Krosnick will be featured in Friday’s performance in Middlebury and Saturday’s in Montpelier.

Gwen Krosnick (Joel Krosnick’s daughter), violist Doris Lederer, violinist Nicholas DiEugenio, and violist Jesse Morrison. For more info or tickets ($15-$25) visit www.capitalcityconcerts.org.

Two singer-songwriters cross paths at Brandon Music Two nationally known singer-songwriters come together to perform in Brandon this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. With a captivating soprano voice and award-winning songwriting, Caroline Cotter’s songs take you from an intimate Parisian salon to the mountains of Colorado and into the depths of the human heart. A classically trained oboist, Emily Mure’s willingness to be vulnerable and honest will pull you in and allow you the same. Her lyrical melodies and voice take on a similar dark and reedy quality to that of her first instrument.

The musicians will be crossing paths in Brandon after months of touring solo; Cotter coming

from the west after a three month national tour, and Mure from the east after a tour throughout Ireland. The two singer-songwriters will share the stage performing original material from their most recently released albums as well as new material from albums to be released this fall.

Mure, a New York City native, got her start as a singer-songwriter busking on the streets of Ireland. She has two full-length albums and a few singles, Having lived, worked, and traveled all over the world, Cotter’s music bears the marks of a storyteller with unique tales to tell. Her first

national release, “Dreaming as I Do,” is both playful and profound. Since the album’s release, she has been on the road touring non-stop throughout the U.S. and Europe, playing over 200 shows a year.

Tickets to see Cotter and Mure take the stage together are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an extra $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, email info@brandon-music.net or visit www.brandonmusic.net for tickets or more info.

live music CRAZYHEARSE ACOUSTIC SHOW . Friday May 19, 7-9 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

PAUL ASBELL. Saturday, May 20, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

LUKE CONCANNON. Thursday, May 25, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

COOPER AND LAVOIE. Friday, May 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

MOOSE CROSSING. Saturday, May 27, 8-10 p.m., 51 Main, Middlebury.

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Emily Mure, pictured, will perform with Caroline Cotter at Brandon Music on Saturday evening.

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the movie THE DINNER — RUNNING TIME: 2:00 — RATING: R By way of confession, it’s not often that a movie digs into my fairly shallow well of negativity. Considering how tough it is to make a good movie, it seems only fair to look for the good before turning nasty. It’s not fun to tear down the hard work of someone else unless the film is an insult to the audience. That said, “The Dinner” is a carefully crafted film with a fine cast that is viscerally unpleasant from beginning to end. If that’s what you want, be assured this one will please you.

Stan (Richard Gere) is a U.S. Congressman now running for governor. His brother Paul (Steve Coogan) is a former history teacher who overwhelms us with his anger at everything and everyone in his world. Stan has trophy wife Kate (Rebecca Hall) at his side as he runs for office; Paul has Claire (Laura Linney), a kind, and protective wife to her obviously mentally disturbed husband.

Director Dan Moverman teases us with shots of the children of these two odd couples who work their way in escalating scenes toward committing an unimaginable crime while wrapped in their own delicious pleasure at the doing of it.

Paul and Stan, along with their wives, are meeting to discuss and decide how to treat the crime their children have committed. Should they use their power and influence to protect the guilty children with a cover up or admit the truth? In one of the oddest and ugliest parts of the story, Stan chooses to meet at a restaurant so fake and unimaginable that it becomes an ugly mockery of people who can afford to eat there.

A word about the restaurant. A single file procession of wooden soldier waiters walks slowly, deliberately, to the table with multiple courses of perfect food, which the head waiter describes in ludicrous detail. Each course is introduced with an announcement of the food along with an insulting description of its perfection. The awful ritual is interrupted repeatedly by Stan or Paul, jumping up to leave in anger at the other.

Steve Coogan, Laura Linney, Richard Gere and Rebecca Hall present an unpleasant portrait in “The Dinner.”

Nothing goes well because the two are usually involved in an outsidethe-the-dining-room verbal confrontation or — finally — in a violent physical rage where they vent years of resentment.

All this said, the acting is formidable, the filming clever. The fakery of the characters and that restaurant that caters to their tastes while they decide how to handle their murderous children is close to intolerable.

The overall effectiveness is a tribute to Richard Gere and Steve Coogan for making us detest the choices available to their characters. Coogan’s Paul, who labels himself “a warrior for the underclass” is a hideous bundle of his own disillusioning life experiences.

Although “The Dinner” is written, acted and filmed with skill, there is nothing here of the unexpected. When good writers create no change in character, no lesson learned over its length, an audience can feel they’ve been had. You decide.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

the book THE FARM IN THE GREEN MOUNTAINS — BY ALICE HERDAN-ZUCKMAYER (New York Review of Books Classics)

This trim paperback was born of a refugee’s letters home to the family she left behind in Weimar-era Berlin, Germany. Alice Zuckmayer, former actress and mother of two girls, and her husband Carl, were forced to flee when the Nazis took over. While living restlessly in New York City, a friend invited them to Vermont for a visit, and as Alice says, she had at last discovered her “native land.” They took up a life of farming near Barnard, and these experiences as novice farmers, learning as they went, from building chicken coops to surviving a Vermont winter, form the entertaining and thoughtful narratives in the book. The letters Alice wrote after the end of the war to her husband’s parents had survived the destruction of their house by fire bombs and happened to be seen by a German magazine editor. His publication of some of them encouraged Alice to write this book describing her life in this primitive, rural setting of 1940s Vermont and her knowledge and respect for America during that time. Originally published in 1968, this reissue has an introduction by Elisa Albert that does not add to the value of this witty charming book.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.

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only two left when I finally had the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 9 coop moved to my own backyard later that spring.

One cold, rainy night, he went back across the road and wouldn’t be caught. I came home to a note from my wife saying she was across the road trying to get Billy. I walked over in the drizzle to find her sitting next to the sugarhouse with a candle in front of her, crying.

CHICKENS

“I can’t catch him,” she sobbed.

I told her it was O.K., that he was named his other name for a reason. I tried to grab his feet but he was too quick. “Let’s leave him, Babe,” I said. “It’s O.K. It’s not worth it.”

We felt bad, but had to leave him there and go to bed, and we never saw him again. It was a blessing in disguise. He had no redeeming qualities. He crowed constantly and as the lone remaining rooster, was mounting Maizie so often that all her back feathers came off and she was rubbed bare.

So there she was, Maizie, the dumbest, least likable and most fearful hen, the sole survivor from the original flock. There’s a lesson there.

ONWARD AND UPWARD A few days later, Sarah saw an ad on Craigslist for four free hens in a neighboring town. They were Leghorns, all white, with red combs and yellow legs, and they were huge. I dubbed them “The Four Hens of the Apocalypse” because I couldn’t tell them apart. Except for one. Now, the other lesson I learned about not getting as attached is that perhaps we should stop naming the chickens. Bu this one Leghorn was so magnificent, even larger than the other three and clearly the hen in charge, that I named her Janis, after Janis Joplin.

She died of natural causes last May, but I did everything I could to save her. When Janis started to act unwell, I took her to the vet. My vet also has chickens, and lives in my town. I made an appointment and put her in a cat crate and took her in. After an examination, he gave me a prescription for an oral antibiotic that I’d have to administer twice a day for two weeks. It took a few days, but I developed a technique. Fill a plastic syringe with sticky pink antibiotic, clutch the hen under your left arm, bend over, and with your left hand pry open her beak and with your right hand attempt to squirt 20ccs of medicine down her gullet. They resisted.

Janis perked up after about five days of this. I started making her

special chicken salads. Chickens love spinach and tomatoes, so I would make her a special paper plate of spinach and chopped tomatoes topped with sunflower seeds and mealworms. Chickens love mealworms the most. Janis would be resting in the coop and even when she was too weak to move, I would put the plate in front of her and she would peck at her salad.

She rallied, and I probably added about a month to her life. In the end, though, it wasn’t enough. Janis died in the coop one warm spring day almost a year after she came to me, so huge and fierce. To this day I don’t know how old any of them are. For all I know, she could have died of old age.

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fencing that surrounded the coop. They were O.K., but terrified.

I walked quickly into the house and opened the cupboard under the kitchen sink and grabbed a garbage bag. I was still trying to comprehend what I’d just witnessed. I felt the way people who are victims of burglaries must feel, violated. How dare that hawk come onto my property and into my chicken yard and commit such a barbaric act.

But by the time I got back to Maizie and lifter her into the garbage bag, I had an important realization.

This was the trade-off. To have chickens is to be in touch with nature and its guaranteed cadence of life

“My wife calls me ‘The Chicken Whisperer,’ and I’m O.K. with that.”

She died just a week after one of the most unexpected and intrusive attacks on the flock. It was a cool late May afternoon and I was home a little early. I pulled my truck into the gravel driveway at my house around 3 p.m. and turned off the engine.

The barn was sat straight ahead and the coop was to the right, tucked up against the woods. A quiet, calm breeze passed through the birches, and black walnuts loomed large over the barn. No traffic on the road that time of day. But something was off.

I climbed out of the truck and walked straight for the chicken coop. It was sturdily built and had survived the move from across the street well, but it was missing a piece of metal roof and needed a coat of paint. The sun had dried the dew on the thick grass hours ago, and the smell of lilac was heavy in the spring air, the light purple blooms on the ancient trees around the house had peaked just days before.

I took less than 10 steps toward the coop and I saw him, an enormous hawk, crouched over something in the chicken yard. My heart sank, and I yelled something I don’t remember, waving my arms wildly, my throat tight with the familiar grief of finding another slain chicken. The raptor’s huge size became clearer the moment he spread his wings, five feet across if they were an inch. A broad back the color of rich coffee, gold flecks, a wide smooth tail. He took off without a sound and flew low into the dark green forest bordering the backyard, expertly passing through the large maples and branches of oak in his path. And he was gone.

I ran into the coop yard and saw what I dreaded.

Maizie, poor, dumb, nervous Maizie, who had become one of my best layers, who had survived four separate attacks on her flock, lay dead on the ground. Her belly was ripped open, intestines spilling onto the dirt, her breast torn, pink flesh exposed.

Feathers everywhere, gray, black and white striped, so many feathers. Her eyes were closed, and I hoped to God that she died of fright before the hawk’s beak and talons ripped her apart.

My eyes welled with angry tears as I found the other hens cowering in the weeds in corner of the white

and death, weakness and strength, vulnerability and protection. If I was going to keep chickens, I’d have to accept the fact that they are a quick, helpless meal to myriad predators that live around me and with me here in Vermont. And more importantly, it’s not personal. It’s nature. It’s survival of the fittest — there’s a limit to how much I can control.

ACCEPTANCE I thought we should stop naming the chickens because that makes them more like pets and we get attached. But then we’d watch an old movie and there would be a Beverly or a Harriet or some other throwback woman’s name from the good ol’ days that made a great chicken name, and we’d steal it.

Right now, three Hens of the Apocalypse remain, and we added three Barred Rocks that were free from a farm in the next town. I don’t pay for my chickens. I don’t have to. People are always trimming their flocks or deciding to go with a different breed. They advertise, I show up with a large dog crate and presto, free chickens.

The new alpha hen is one of the leghorns named Irene. The other two white hens are still unnamed, but the Barred Rocks are Flo, Frida and Telly.

Now, clearly, I am a chicken person. My wife calls me “The Chicken Whisperer”, and I’m O.K. with that.

As for carnage, I have accepted the fact that chickens are expendable on some level. They are rather helpless in the face of predators unless they are locked up tight in their coop. The hawk incident taught me that they need cover, which is why they hang out in the woods more that in the yard. And they know when there is trouble. I’ve been in the yard when suddenly they run for the woods.

“Hey, what’s wrong?” I call to them. “I’m right here.”

Then I hear it, that whistle-cry and I look up and there is a hawk, high above, circling my house.

Lee Kahrs is the managing editor of The Reporter in Brandon.

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Home & Garden Gardens and Plants

How to keep animals out of your garden (MS) — Many gardeners understand the frustration that stems from seeing a garden destroyed by wildlife.

While protecting wildlife is a cause that’s near and dear to many gardening enthusiasts, even the most ardent wildlife supporter does not want to see his or her garden trampled, eaten or adversely affected by animals.

Safeguarding gardens from local wildlife can require some trial and error. Animals may find ways to circumvent gardeners’ initial efforts to protect their gardens, but the following methods might just do the trick the first time around.

• Erect physical barriers around gardens. Barriers may not be gardeners’ first choices, as some people feel barriers such as wire cages or mesh coverings make it more difficult to tend to gardens and rob gardens of some of their aesthetic appeal. But coverings and wire cages can effectively prevent wildlife from trampling or eating plants while still allowing the gardens to get adequate sunlight. Make sure barriers extend to the ground so animals cannot access gardens by entering beneath the barricades.

• Fight intruders with odor. Stray cats may mistake gardens for litter boxes and enter them to relieve themselves. Preventing such intrusions can be as simple as placing items around the garden to reduce the likelihood that gardens will be mistaken for litter boxes.

Peels from oranges and lemons or coffee grounds can

be placed in the garden and can emit odors strong enough to deter cats.

• Install motion detecting lights around gardens. Motion detection technology might be enough to deter nocturnal wildlife from trampling or eating gardens.

Animals might be spooked and run away when lights suddenly turn on. A similar approach can be taken using noise instead of lights. Gardeners who hope to avoid erecting barriers around their gardens can put up posts instead, attaching aluminum cans or wind chimes to the posts that will make noise when animals come near. Much like light, noise can be enough to deter animals.

• Consider raised garden beds. When small critters, such as moles, are the main problem, then raised garden beds with wood or plastic bottoms and sides can be enough to safeguard gardens. Raised garden beds might not be accessible to small critters, though such beds likely won’t deter larger animals from getting into gardens that are not barricaded.

• Erect fencing around the yard. Though fencing is expensive, fencing in a backyard or side yard where gardens are located can deter wildlife big and small from trampling or eating gardens.

(MS) — Gardens add visual appeal to a yard, but Wildlife is worth protecting, but gardeners must also gardens also can appeal to individuals’ senses of take steps to protect their gardens from animals looksmell, taste, touch, and sound. Gardeners who want ing for something to eat. to create gardens that appeal to various senses can do so in the following ways.

SIGHT Aesthetic appeal is one of the most sought-after benefits of gardening. However, many homeowners put in so much effort planting for one particular season that they may not give thought to ensuring the garden looks vibrant no matter the time of year.

Gardeners can research planting zones to find plants that will blossom at different times of the year so they can enjoy impressive, aesthetically appealing gardens year-round. Spring bulbs can bloom early on, while annual and perennial summer favorites will thrive under the summer sun. Beautyberry and caryopteris will fill out in the autumn, while holly or mahonia can look lovely in the winter.

SMELL Gardeners can dot their landscapes with aromatic trees, shrubs and flowers that will make stepping out into the garden that much more special. Some of the more fragrant plants include gardenia, dianthus, calendula, lavender, and jasmine. Shrubs such as fragrant pineapple broom, Anne Russell viburnum and Christmas box can add fragrance as well.

SOUND The lively sounds of the garden are created by the

Design your garden for all senses wildlife that come to pollinate and enjoy the environment gardeners have created. By choosing indigenous plants, gardeners can be sure that insects and small critters will seek refuge within the foliage.

Songbirds also will add character to a yard. The Audubon Society suggests including a water source and a songbird border of shrubs along your property’s edge. Provide food sources and make sure they are located a fair distance from the main action of the yard so as not to scare off birds. Wait for musical chickadees, goldfinches, orioles, and cardinals to arrive and enjoy the accommodations.

TASTE Gardeners can expand their gardens to include fruit-bearing trees and rows of vegetables. Produce can be harvested from early spring through late fall depending on the crops planted.

TOUCH Apart from including trees and shrubs of various textures in the garden, look for other ways to stimulate a tactile response. Water features add relaxing sound and beauty. Stones, moss, mulch, and other accents have varied textures that can stimulate the sense of touch in various ways. Don’t forget to include a sitting area so that you can immerse yourself fully in the garden.

Go beyond visual appeal when designing a garden.

When gardeners tap into all five senses, they can enjoy their landscapes even more than they already do.

Planting trees correctly is easily done, and the effects will last forever

By LEONARD PERRY that are growing around the base of the trunk and, as Horticulture Professor Emeritus they grow, basically end up strangling the tree over University of Vermont time. They are a sign of poor culture in the nursery.

Yes, there are right and wrong ways to plant a tree.

When digging the planting hole, measure the width By following correct planting practices, you can ensure trees will avoid a slow decline and possible death from several causes. This is especially important for trees, which can be a large, long-lasting, and worthwhile landscape investment.

Choose the right tree for the right site, not just a tree you like. This means that it will be cold hardy in your area. It also means that it will be adaptable to your soils and site. A sugar maple near pavement and buildings may dry out with leaves turning brown, or show salt injury if near roads. A pine tree will grow poorly in heavy clay soil.

Consider trees for their function. Perhaps it is just the beauty of a spring crabapple in bloom, and the fall fruits it produces for birds. Native trees provide the thousands of insects that birds feed upon. Picking fresh fruits from your trees provides incredible taste and nutrition, plus saves money over buying them. Of course trees can be used for windbreaks and summer shade.

Choose a healthy tree. This is one that has a good amount of roots in proportion to the tops. Beware of trees that have been recently dug from the wild with little or no preparation prior to digging. Often you get what you pay for. Obviously check for signs of leaf injury from pests or diseases, or trunk damage from mishandling.

Local nurseries with trained professionals are your best bet usually for buying healthy and appropriate trees.

Beware of trees sold in many large national chain stores. These usually have been grown in distant areas, and may not be acclimated to our area. I have found ones at such stores with few roots, the pots containing stones to hold the plants upright. If in doubt, gently pull the plant out of the pot and look at the roots.

If non-existent, too few roots, too small pot and root size for the plant top, or the plant is pot-bound, keep looking.

Particularly early in the season, before trees are leafed-out or in bloom, it is hard to tell if they are labeled properly. One time I saw a tree labeled as a crabapple at a chain store, only to see a few weeks later when leaves were out that it instead was a non-hardy peach tree!

If you get home with a balled and burlapped tree and, once unwrapped, see girdling roots, either take the tree back or talk with your source. Girdling roots are those

of the root mass (root ball) and remove sod in an area three to five times the diameter of the root ball. Loosen this soil to a depth of about a foot, such as with a spading fork. Then dig a hole in the center of this area about a foot wider than the root ball.

If planting a potted tree, of course remove the pot. If a fiber pot, you can cut it off with pruners or a knife. If planting a balled and burlapped tree, remove any strings holding the burlap, once the plant is in the hole. Remove any wire with wire cutters. Even though burlap will decompose over time, it won’t if it’s treated. Best is to remove any burlap, again once the plant is in the hole, cutting it off. If the soil on the outside of the root ball is compacted or roots are crowded, tease them loose with pruners or similar hand tool such as a planting knife. Cut away any roots circling the surface around the trunk.

Planting depth is one of the most important factors in planting. Planting a tree too deep can kill it. Figure the depth to plant by pulling any soil away from the trunk. What you are looking for is the root collar or root flare — the bulge just above the root system where the roots begin to branch away from the trunk.

This root flare should be just above the soil surface, the base of the root flare at the soil surface.

This often may not be the top of the root ball, hence the need to make sure.

Measure from the base of the root ball to the base of the root flare. This is the depth to plant.

Don’t dig the hole deeper, as some instructions in the past or older books may indicate. Either the tree will be too deep to start or, if you backfill with soil, the tree will settle lower and end up too deep.

Don’t mistake the root flare with the graft union on some trees, particularly many fruit trees. This is the point at which two different trees are spliced together, the desired tree on an “understock” to provide traits such as vigor and hardiness. If you suspect a graft union, but aren’t sure, again check with your source or a local nursery with trained professionals. A graft union will resemble a swelling or bump on the stem, compared to the flared base of a standard tree trunk. Plant grafted trees with the graft union twoto four-inches above the soil surface.

Absence of a root flare near the soil surface is a sign the structural roots are too deep and need to

be planted nearer to the surface. Structural roots are the large woody roots from which all the finer roots branch.

Measured about four inches from the trunk, these should be no more than three inches deep. You can find these by probing with a long thin object. Many nursery trees have few structural roots, and these may be much deeper than three inches in the root ball.

Another misconception from the past is that you should amend the backfill soil. This promotes roots staying in the better environment you’ve created in the planting hole. This in turn promotes girdling roots. The recommendation now is not to amend the backfill soil, choosing the right tree for the right soil instead. Amend only if the soil is very poor, such as severely disturbed soils with rubble from construction.

If you have removed soil from the trunk base to expose the root flare, this trunk tissue may be more susceptible to cold or sun injury. If such is the case, replace with a mulch but do not mulch too deep. This is another cause of tree injury, and is often referred to as “volcano mulching” from its appearance. If you haven’t excavated near the trunk, keep mulch away from it.

Only mulch about two inches deep, uniformly around the planting area.

When planting, you may create a shallow basin away from the trunk to hold water, and water well. Keep the tree watered well for the first season if there isn’t sufficient rain. It is better to water deeply, less often such as once a week, than just a little every day. If it is difficult to get water to trees, you can use a tree watering bag or “donut” ring that you fill with water, fit around the tree, and they release water slowly. You often see these in commercial landscapes, and can find them for sale at complete garden stores or online.

Other practices to follow for a healthy tree:

• Don’t fertilize at planting time.

• Prune only injured branches. Don’t paint tree wounds.

• Remove any tree wrap or tape around trunks. This only should be used for protection in transit.

• Don’t stake trees unless necessary in very windy areas, or to prevent vandalism. If you do stake, use sturdy stakes and attach the tree with wide strapping or tree roping.

Normal twine can cut into the tree bark.

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Home & Garden Gardens and Plants

Shade-tolerant plants will thrive in darker woodland areas (MS) — Plants need sunlight to thrive and grow, but some need less sunlight than others. People who find their landscapes are less supportive to sun-loving plants can choose from a variety of shade-tolerant plants, shrubs and trees.

Shade tolerance refers to a plant’s ability to withstand low levels of light. Certain plants have adapted this feature to survive in the wild. Plants that grow at the base of forest floors, for example, will get less sunlight than others outside of the tree canopy. Such adaptations enable a wide variety of foliage to grow even though they are not exposed to much sunlight.

While sun-loving plants often have broad leaves and expend significant energy to capture sunlight for photosynthesis, shade-tolerant plants expend less energy and tend to be more efficient consumers of soil nutrients and sunlight.

Penn State Extension’s Plant and Pests division says the amount of shade a plant is growing under will directly affect the density of the foliage and the plant’s flowering and fruiting characteristics. Blending shade-tolerant

plants into the landscape can be an effective use of space.

Before choosing plants for an existing landscape, it’s important to assess the level of shade or sun the plants will receive.

• Heavy shade: Heavy shade is when no direct sunlight reaches a plant. This occurs at the base of northern-facing walls or beneath thick tree canopies.

• Full sun: Areas that receive full sun enjoy direct sunlight between six and eight hours per day.

• Moderate shade: These sites have reflected sunlight that may come off of water features.

• Light shade: Plants in these areas will get partially filtered or dappled sunlight.

Once homeowners understand which type of shade they are dealing with, they can then visit plant nurseries and select their plants. Most greenery comes with care instructions that include recommendations regarding the amount of shade/sunlight the plant will need to do well. If further assistance is needed, a knowledgeable employee can make suggestions based on landscape needs.

Those who are looking for some preliminary guidance

when it comes to selecting shade-tolerant shrubs, plants or trees can consult the following list.

• Bleeding heart: Bleeding heart, or Dicentra spectabilis, is typically found in woodlands. It’s a perennial in the poppy family that produces mounded foliage and arching vine-like stems of heart-shaped flowers in the spring.

• Amethyst flower: Browallia hybrids offer star-shaped blooms of blue and violet. These plants will billow out of hanging baskets or containers, and they prefer warm shade or filtered sunlight.

• Coleus: The coleus, Solenostemon scutellarioides, is another perennial that can have a variety of different leaf colors and striations.

• Witch hazels: These are a genus in the family Hamamelidacea, which has four different species in North America. This shrub or small tree features arching

branches with dense, multi-stemmed clumps. Witch hazel produces flowers in the late autumn when most other plants are sparse.

• Bayberry: Myrica pensylvanica can grow in partial shade as a hedge or natural property divider. The leaves of this shrub are aromatic when crushed. The shrub will produce tiny, gray/white fruits in late summer.

• English Ivy: Also known as Hedera helix, this trailing plant is widely cultivated as an ornamental plant. It will spread easily and can become invasive.

Those searching for shade-tolerant trees can choose among Sugar maple, Black alder, Flowering dogwood, and White spruce, among others.

Shade-tolerant plants can make welcome additions to the landscape, offering greenery and color in the darker areas of a property.

Give young trees a healthier start for life (MS) — More sunlight and warm temperatures frequently inspire homeowners to spend more time in the great outdoors during spring and summer.

Outdoor projects often top homeowners’ to-do lists in spring and summer, with gardens and landscapes taking center stage. Planting more trees around the yard is one popular project that can improve property value and benefit the environment.

WHY PLANT TREES? There are plenty of reasons to plant trees. Trees provide a natural form of shade, reducing air temperature by blocking the sun’s rays. This can reduce reliance on air conditioning systems and make it more comfortable to spend time outdoors during the summer.

North Carolina State University College of Agriculture & Life Sciences says trees absorb and block noise and reduce glare. They also can trap dust, pollen and smoke. Trees also absorb carbon dioxide and potentially harmful gasses from the air. One large tree can supply a day’s worth of oxygen for as many as four people, while also storing 13 pounds of carbon per year.

roots to grow and expand. Better Homes and Gardens experts say to prepare a hole that is two to three times as wide as the root ball of the tree. Treat the root ball gently. If the roots are wrapped in burlap, remove the burlap or push it to the bottom of the hole.

Backfill the hole with soil and check that the tree is straight. Stake the tree to help it stay upright and straight until the roots anchor it more effectively. A layer of mulch around the base of the tree can prevent weeds and reduce water loss. Water daily for several weeks until the roots have fanned out.

It’s best to leave trees be for the first growing season, only removing broken or diseased limbs. Resist pruning and shaping until the tree has survived its first growing season.

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Trees should not have any dead or dormant branches.

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Home & Garden Lawns

Weed through problem lawn problems (MS) — Millions of acres across North America are devoted to lush, green lawns. According to Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, lawns take up 40.5 million acres and individuals spend $30 billion on average for lawn and garden upkeep in the United States alone. People certainly love their lawns and often wonder if those lawns are best left in the hands of professionals.

The National Gardening Association states that 72 percent of American households do some work in their yards. However, a growing number of homeowners also hire others to make their lawns look pristine. Homeowners who want to leave lawncare to the professionals can consider the following factors as they search for a company that best suits their needs.

• Work with a licensed and insured company. Lawncare services that are licensed and insured provide more peace of mind to homeowners than the alternatives. Should an injury occur on your property while work is being done, an insured business will be able to take care of it and you won’t be liable.

• Ask about membership in a professional or trade organization. Businesses that belong to an organization invest in continually learning about the evolution of lawncare.

This increases the likelihood that member companies will be up-to-date regarding the latest, most environmentally friendly lawncare techniques. Participation in a trade organization also may indicate education in the landscaping field.

• Research reviews before hiring. Although public reviews may not paint the entire picture and they often reflect only the very positive or very negative experiences previous customers have had with a given business, they can provide an idea of how a lawncare company interacts with its customers. Prospective customers who contact the Better Business Bureau may learn if there have been any glaring complaints against a particular contractor.

• Find out which services are offered. Ask each business what services they provide. While nearly every lawncare contractor will mow the lawn and trim shrubs, many homeowners prefer companies that can adapt when the yard needs a change. This may include pest treatments, fertilization, aeration, and seasonal cleanups.

• Look for a company that’s organized and connected. Customer service should be a factor when choosing a lawncare service. You want to be able to reach the company promptly.

A company that responds quickly is ideal, especially if you need to change a service or need to inquire about additional or emergency work.

Shopping for a lawncare service can take time and effort, but the results will be well worth it when homeowners have lawns and landscapes that make their neighbors green with envy.

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Treat lawns during drought or dry periods (MS) — “Drought” can be a four-letter word to many lawncare enthusiasts. Homeowners who put in the hours and hard work to create beautiful, lush lawns can see the fruits of all their labor gradually disappear when drought sets in. That can be both frustrating to homeowners and detrimental to long-term lawn health.

Treating lawns during drought or dry periods can be tricky, as some homeowners may be forced to adhere to water restrictions established by their local governments.

Still, there are some ways to obey the law and still help lawns withstand drought and dry periods.

• Postpone fertilizer applications. Fertilizers are designed to help grass grow, but growing grass needs water it won’t have access to when water restrictions have been put in place. If a lawn needs to be fertilized during drought or dry periods, homeowners should consult with lawncare professionals, who may have experience applying fertilizer during drought. Professionals also may have access to more fertilizing products than homeowners will find at nearby lawn and garden centers.

• Pull weeds by hand instead of applying herbicides.

Herbicides are substances used to destroy unwanted vegetation, such as weeds. When applied during droughts or dry periods, such products can make it harder for grass to overcome weeds. Instead of applying herbicides during drought or dry periods, pull weeds by hand. Doing so can

address a weed problem without harming the grass.

• Water early. Water restrictions might not completely deny homeowners the right to water their lawns. Rather, such regulations restrict how much water homeowners can use to treat their lawns during drought or dry periods. Watering early, ideally between the hours of 4 a.m. and 8 a.m., ensures as little water as possible will be lost to evaporation and as much as possible will find its way onto the grass and into the soil. During periods of drought, temperatures tend to be at their highest in midto late-afternoon, so change automatic sprinkler timers if they are set to water during these hours.

• Adjust lawnmower blade height. Grass grows more slowly during drought or dry periods. As a result, homeowners won’t need to mow as often during such times as they would when conditions are more favorable. But lawns may still need to be mowed during drought. When mowing, leave grass on the longer side. Mowing stresses grass, which is already under considerable stress during drought. By setting mower blades to cut no more than one-third of the leaf blade at a time, homeowners can encourage roots to grow deeper. Deep roots help the grass combat the effects of drought.

Drought and dry periods need not ruin homeowners’ lush lawns. But lawn care enthusiasts will have to alter their lawn care routines when conditions are dry.

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Home & Garden

Pests and Pollinators Important pollinators go from bees to butterflies and beyond

By ANNIE WHITE University of Vermont Research Assistant and LEONARD PERRY UVM Horticulture Professor Emeritus Interest in gardening to support pollinators is at an all-time high. Books and websites are brimming with information about the importance of pollinators, as well as how to create gardens and landscapes rich with the floral resources that pollinators need. However, discussions about the full breadth of pollinators attracted to pollinator gardens are harder to find. Monarch butterflies and honeybees get a lot of attention but, in fact, they are just two of the thousands of species of pollinators in the U.S. that benefit from pollinator-friendly landscapes.

Bees are by far the most important pollinators worldwide, visiting and pollinating flowers more frequently than other pollinator groups. Bees also are very effective pollinators, helping to move pollen from one flower to another, fertilizing the plant. They feed on flower pollen and nectar during all stages of their life. Most female adult bees have specialized pollen-collecting structures and spend much of their time collecting pollen from flowers to feed their young. Furthermore, bees are covered in a dense coat of feathery hairs that effectively catch and carry pollen grains.

There are nearly 20,000 bee species in the world, but just one species, the European honeybee, lives in hives

and is managed commercially by humans. We rely on honeybees to pollinate large crops like almonds, apples, and blueberries and, of course, to make honey. In addition to the flowers of fruits and vegetables, honeybees favor nectar- and pollen-rich flowers like milkweeds (Asclepias spp.), hyssops (Agastache spp.), and clovers (Trifolium spp.).

Here, in North America, we have about 4,000 species of wild bees. They don’t make honey like the honeybee, but they are extremely important for the pollination of food crops and wild plants. Among the most recognizable of our wild bees and the most proficient pollinator is the bumblebee (Bombus spp.). Bumblebees use buzz pollination, also known as sonication, to release pollen from a flower’s anthers. If you watch a bumblebee pollinating a tomato flower, you will see the bee clinging to the anthers with their mouthparts or forelegs and vibrating their flight muscles to release the pollen.

Bumblebees are big and strong, allowing them to pry their way inside flowers such as wild indigo (Baptisiaspp.), great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), and bottled gentian (Gentiana andrewsii), which other pollinators have difficulty penetrating.

Many other wild bee groups, large and small, can be seen foraging on the pollen and nectar of flowers. You might see sweat bees, who owe their name to their tendency to gently lap the salty sweat off gardeners while

they work. Some sweat bees have eye-catching metallic green bodies. Like most small wild bees, they have a preference for small flowers, such as yarrow (Achillea spp.), or composite flowers comprised of many tiny florets, such as purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea).

Leafcutter bees are just one more group of wild bee that is easily spotted in the garden. They are unique in several ways. Unlike most bees that carry pollen on their hind legs, leafcutter bees carry pollen in a band of hairs on the underside of their abdomen. Secondly, as their name implies, leafcutter bees cut pieces of leaves to line their nests. The plant material provides waterproofing and antimicrobial properties. You will find leafcutter bees feeding on a variety of flowers including tickseed (Coreopsis spp.) and black-eyed susan (Rudbeckia spp.) You also will find them building nests in old hollowed stems of sumac, elderberry, and raspberry.

Behind bees, flies are the second-most frequent visitors to flowers, with the most common of all flies being syrphid flies. Nearly all of the 6,000 species of syrphid fly adults worldwide consume nectar, and most species also consume pollen. Some stingless syrphid flies mimic the appearance of stinging bees and wasps with black, white, and yellow markings.

Butterflies and moths are eye-catching and fun to see in the garden, but they are weak pollinators compared to other insects. With few exceptions, butterflies and moths

are nectarivorous, meaning they only consume nectar and no pollen. Therefore, any movement of pollen by butterflies and moths is an involuntary outcome of their nectar feeding. Butterflies and moths have a long sucking mouthpart, called a proboscis, to suck up nectar. It is particularly useful for reaching the nectar in long tubular flowers like beebalm (Monarda spp.). Butterflies also prefer to forage on composite flowers such as coneflowers (Echinacea spp.) and asters (Symphyotrichum spp.), which provide a nice surface to rest on while they feed. Many moths and butterflies also use plants as hosts for rearing their young. The monarch butterfly is an example of a specialist butterfly that uses a single plant genus, milkweeds (Asclepias spp.), as a host plant.

A huge diversity of less-frequent pollinator visitors are also observed in pollinator gardens, including beetles, parasitoids and predatory wasps (which, believe it or not, are great insects to have as they are nature’s control agents for pests we don’t want), ants, and hummingbirds.

By planting a diversity of flowering plants that vary in size, shape, color, and bloom time, you will be sure to attract an amazing diversity of pollinators to your garden.

Editor’s note: Distribution of this release is made possible by University of Vermont and Green Works—the Vermont Nursery and Landscape Association. Learn more of Annie’s PhD research and design services at pollinatorgardens.org.

(MS) — Although it’s virtually impossible to count them, insects are the most diverse group of organisms on the planet. Nine hundred thousand different kinds of insects are known to exist. At any given time, it is estimated that there are around 10 quintillion individual insects living.

Gardeners grow frustrated when seeing their gardens infested with insects. In an effort to restore their gardens, homeowners might be tempted to eradicate any bug that moves in their yards. But gardeners would be wise to first learn which insects are hurting their gardens and which can actually help gardens in the long run.

HARMFUL Certain insects can be dangerous to animals and plants.

The following are a handful of insects that can threaten the

vitality of gardens.

• Aphids: These insects suck on the juice needed to sustain plants, particularly when they congregate.

• Bald-faced hornet: Hornets tend to be an aggressive species that can sting repeatedly. Should you find a nest near an entertaining space or garden, it can cause trouble.

• Carpenter ants: These ants will burrow into wood causing damage. They may compromise any wooden structure in and around a home.

• Locusts: Various species of locust can damage plants and crops due to their voracious appetites.

• Treehoppers: These small, green insects mimic the look of leaves, and their appetites can affect crops and gardens.

• Red pavement ant: As they feed on all manner of human food, these ants can quickly overtake areas with their

staggering numbers and deliver painful bites.

• Grasshoppers: Certain grasshoppers, like the redlegged grasshopper, can decimate food crops and transfer parasites to birds when eaten as prey.

• Caterpillars: Many caterpillars, the precursor to adult moths, will feed constantly on leaves, stems and other parts of plants. The tobacco hornworm moth caterpillar can damage potato and tomato plants.

HELPFUL Plants depend on insects to transfer pollen as they forage, and many insects are quite beneficial to have around.

While some pollinate, others are predators of other pests.

• Antlion: A foe of ants, they’ll help eat and control ant populations and pollinate flowers. They pose no threat to humans, either.

• Big dipper firefly: These colorful insects feast on earthworms, slugs and snails during the larval stage. Fireflies add drama to evening gardens with their twinkling lights.

• Garden spiders: Although some spiders can be venomous, many are quite handy to have around the garden.

They’ll help control pest populations that can damage plants and crops.

• Dragonflies: These aerial artists that zip around the yard are consuming smaller insects that would otherwise pester plants and humans.

• Blue-winged wasp: This wasp attacks the larvae of Japanese beetles, helping to control beetle populations.

• Bees and butterflies: Butterflies and bees are some of the best pollinators out there, and each can add whimsy to gardens.

Know the difference between helpful insects and harmful insects

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Home & Garden Improvement Projects

Find the right replacement windows (MS) — Replacing old windows is often a worthwhile investment for homeowners. Energy-efficient windows can prevent heating and cooling loss and keep homes more comfortable throughout the year. Such windows also can improve a home’s resale value, proving a good return on investment for homeowners who want to upgrade their homes before putting them on the market.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, homeowners might find it more cost-effective to replace very old and/or inefficient windows to improve their energy efficiency. Such an upgrade can save homeowners substantial amounts of money on heating and cooling costs.

Window replacement projects can be costly, so it pays to get the job right the first time. Before beginning a window replacement project, homeowners should research which windows will meet their specific needs, learning the subtleties between finishes and features, as well as comparing prices for the windows and installation.

CHOOSE THE RIGHT TIME OF YEAR The best time of year to plan window replacement is when the weather will be warm, ideally in the spring or early summer. However, homeowners do not want conditions to be too warm, a s

each room where new windows will be installed will temporarily be exposed to the elements. Furthermore, caulk adheres better in warmer weather and will dispense easily.

CONSIDER AVAILABLE FEATURES When replacing windows, homeowners may want to install the same style windows they currently have. But the problems that led to the need to replace windows may still exist even when new windows are installed. When replacing windows, consider energy performance ratings based on the locations of the windows in the house. To make sure they make the most educated decision, homeowners can investigate the solar heat gain coefficient, U-factor, visible transmittance and light-to-solar gain. Explanations of these ratings are available at Energy.gov.

DON’T IGNORE MAINTENANCE NEEDS Maintenance costs involved with cleaning, repairs and painting can add up. When shopping for windows, consider the amount of maintenance they will need. Wood-framed windows may require more upkeep than aluminum, fiberglass or vinyl. Also, consider if certain window types, such as double-hung windows, casement windows, awning windows, or slider windows, would be practical.

KEEP HOME STYLE IN MIND A poor match between windows and the style of the home can produce unwanted changes in the appearance of the home. Replacement windows should match the style and appearance desired.

EXPECT MINIMAL DISRUPTION When homeowners hire professionals who are good at their craft, window replacement projects should not be a terrible inconvenience. According to American Window Products, Inc., seasoned professionals will be able to complete a replacement window upgrade in a short amount of time depending on the size of the home and the number of windows being replaced.

Replacing windows can be a costly task, but one that will provide a more energy efficient home that can help homeowners save money in the long run.

Pitch in and save money

(MS) — Home improvement projects can be expensive. While the size and complexity of a project will affect how expensive the project is, homeowners can expect to shell out a pretty penny when they renovate or remodel areas of their home.

According to HomeAdvisor, an online resource for homeowners looking to connect with home improvement, maintenance and repair professionals, the average bathroom remodeling project costs $9,348, while the average home addition costs slightly less than $41,000.

But renovation-minded homeowners need not reconsider their commitment to remodeling, as there are various ways to cut the costs associated with home improvement projects.

One such way is for homeowners to pitch in and do some of the work themselves. Calculating labor costs can be difficult, as such costs can vary greatly depending on the project, the contractor and the amount of hired help that contractor intends to employ. However, some estimates suggest labor will account for anywhere from 25 to 50 percent of the overall cost of the project. So it’s no surprise that homeowners can save themselves substantial amounts of money by doing some of the work themselves.

Homeowners who intend to do some of the labor themselves should discuss this plan with contractors during the vetting process. Before hiring a contractor, make sure homeowners’ expected labor contributions are clearly defined in the contract.

While it’s best to leave the most complicated parts of a project to the professionals, homeowners can pitch in

during the following phases.

• Demolition: Demolition involves more than picking up a sledgehammer and swinging away. Some demolition projects are best left to the pros. For example, any projects that involve exposure to hazardous materials are risky and therefore best left to experienced laborers.

However, many homeowners are capable of safely and effectively pulling cabinets from walls, removing flooring or knocking down drywall. Homeowners unsure of how to approach demolition tasks can ask their contractors to demonstrate the proper technique so the demolition is done right and on time.

• Salvage: Removing debris and items that will no longer be needed once the renovation is complete is another way homeowners can pitch in. Homeowners remodeling their kitchens may be replacing their existing stoves and refrigerators and hoping to donate these items. In such instances, driving the items to the donation site or arranging for them to be picked up rather than taken off the premises by the contractor or his employees can cut labor costs, as it allows laborers to keep working toward the end goal rather than requiring them to leave the work site to drop unwanted items off.

• Cleanup: Homeowners also can save costs by cleaning up after the contractors at the end of each workday.

Speak with the contractor about cleaning up the site each day, asking him or her what can be discarded and what must remain on-site.

Home improvements are costly. But homeowners who are capable of pitching in can greatly reduce the overall cost of their next renovation project.

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Home & Garden Grilling

Keep chicken from sticking to the grill (MS) — According to the grill manufacturer Weber, the keys to grilling chicken are temperature and time. But even cooks who have paid close attention to the temperature of their grills and the time their chicken spends over a hot flame have no doubt fallen victim to chicken that sticks to the grill.

This can affect the quality of a meal and make postgrilling cleanup that much more difficult. To prevent sticking, Weber advises cooks to put a light coating of olive oil and seasoning directly on the chicken

prior to putting it on the grill. Once the chicken has been dressed, make sure the grill temperature remains around 425 F to 450 F. Chicken will stick to a grill if the temperature is too high, so pay close attention to the temperature at all times.

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(MS) — People rely on indoor and outdoor grills to prepare foods all year long. Not only can menu items made on the grill taste delicious, but they also may be healthier than foods cooked via other methods. When done correctly, grilling is a versatile way to cook tasty foods relatively quickly.

One of the challenges of cooking over high, open heat is the difficulty in determining just how long to keep foods over the flame. Take them off too soon and they may be undercooked. Wait too long and items may be dry and charred. Use these tips to make grilling easy and safe.

• Preheat and prepare the grill Be sure to preheat the grill to between 400 F and 500 F. Use a nonstick spray on the grates while the grill is heating. This way foods will not stick and create a mess that will ultimately require considerable cleaning.

• Buy a meat thermometer One of the easiest ways to take the guesswork out of grilling is to use a meat thermometer. By knowing internal temperatures in a few seconds, grillmasters can have juicy foods that are cooked to the correct temperature so foodborne illnesses do not become a problem. Cooking by sight is inaccurate, as the outside of the food may look well done even though the inside is still pink. Thermometers allow cooks to avoid cutting open foods to check doneness, spilling out tasty juices in the process.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture advises on minimal internal temperatures for meats and poultry (https:// www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safetyeducation/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/safefood-handling/safe-minimum-internal-temperaturechart/ct_index). Keep in mind that food continues to cook when it is taken off the grill. Therefore, removing a few minutes before it has reached a certain temperature is ideal.

• Fish is fast Don’t avoid grilling fish because of its delicacy. Using wood planks or any of the newer grilling gadgets available can keep flaky fish from falling through the grates. Plus, fish is an ideal go-to when one is really short on cooking time. If necessary, experiment with varieties of fish that are durable, such as salmon or tuna.

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Use less energy in warm weather (MS) — The temperature is rising, and that can be a good thing for those people who love long days of outdoor recreational activities. Sometimes, though, there can be too much of a good thing, and consistently hot temperatures may become uncomfortable and even dangerous.

Finding ways to keep cool without spending a fortune or using a lot of energy is challenging but possible.

1. Find your comfort zone Determine an indoor temperature that works best for the household. Keep the thermostat set as high as possible to maintain that comfort level. If you will be out most of the day, set the programmable thermostat at a higher temperature, and then lower the temperature about an hour before you plan to return home. This reduces the number of hours the air conditioner is running.

2. Keep curtains closed Draw the blinds and close curtains on south- and westfacing windows during the hottest times of the day. This prevents the interior of the home from heating up.

3. Maintain air circulation Invest in ceiling fans, which can move air through the home. This w i l l help

prevent pockets of hot air in certain spaces. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, even in homes with air conditioning, ceiling fans enable homeowners to raise the thermostats on their AC units by about 4 F with no reduction in comfort.

Attic fans can draw heat out of a home through vents, also helping to reduce indoor air temperatures. These devices can reduce reliance on air conditioners, especially on moderate days or cool nights.

4. Cook outdoors Put that backyard grill to good use. Plan meals around outdoor cooking so the ambient heat will stay outside and you will not have to turn on the oven or the stovetop.

Include side dishes, such as salads, fresh vegetables and fruits or gazpacho, that can be served cold. If you must heat something indoors, try doing so in the microwave.

5. Run appliances at night Wait until the washing machine or the dishwasher is full before turning on the cycle. Temperatures are cooler at night, and you may not notice the extra heat in the home generated by such appliances. Consult your energy bill as well. Sometimes energy rates are lower in the evening than during the peak hours of the day.

6. Line dry clothes Maximize that fresh air and warm sun by hanging freshly washed clothes to dry outdoors. This also works for quickly drying swimsuits and towels used at the pool or the beach.

7. Rely on natural light In the summertime, the sun stays out longer, so you’ll be less reliant on electric energy to keep things illuminated.

Spend more time outdoors so you can read, play or chat in the sunlight while keeping indoor lights off.

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How does solar electricity work?

MS) — Solar panels are seen more and more on roofs of residential homes and even some businesses. Due in part to more aggressive marketing by solar energy companies, as well as greater awareness by customers, solar energy has become increasingly popular in recent years.

The Solar Energy Industries Association® reports that solar energy in the United States is booming. The association offers that, since the passage of The Solar Investment Tax Credit in 2006, solar has experienced a compound annual growth rate of more than 60 percent.

While many might assume that environmental preservation is the driving force behind the growing popularity of solar energy, it’s actually the financial benefits of solar energy that are leading the way. One Block Off the Grid polled nearly 200 solar homeowners to learn more about their motivations for going solar. Roughly 75 percent would not have gone solar if there was no economic benefit to doing so. A number of people who have switched to solar say they are getting a high rate of return on the investment. The average electricity bill a person saw prior to solar energy hovered around $177 a month.

After the conversion, bills were now as low as $55.

Those who are still pondering the decision to go solar may want to know more about how it works. Although the guidelines vary depending on location and the energy company issuing the bill, here are some of the basics.

GENERATING SOLAR ELECTRICITY Solar electricity is generated through a process known as the photovoltaic affect. Sunlight shines on solar panels, which are mounted on the roof of the home or in

another prominent location. Each panel typically has between 60 to 72 solar cells strung together. These photovoltaic cells use the irradiation in sunlight to stimulate the flow of electrons in the semiconductor material, which creates direct current (or DC), electricity. Systems that directly convert the DC to alternating current (or AC), the type of power voltage used in a house, do so by way of an inverter. The inverter feeds power to the circuit board.

DEMAND AND EXCESS When the demand from a home or business is equal to the amount of solar power being generated, the system is working optimally. When solar power falls a bit short, grid power will make up the deficit. There’s also the possibility that excess electricity will be produced.

In a grid connect system, certain areas may operate with a 1:1 net metering policy, states Solar Reviews, which offers consumer reviews of solar products. This means that the utility company will credit a homeowner 1 to 1 for every kilowatt hour (kwh) produced in excess because the excess energy goes back into the grid system. This is called “back-feeding” the grid. It’s handy for powering homes at night with standard electricity at no additional cost. If the production of kwhs exceeds what is purchased from the utility each year, some utility companies will continue to credit for the excess.

Solar electricity systems are changing the way people think about energy. With the financial motivation to do so, consumers who embrace solar energy are helping the environment while also saving money.

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Home & Garden Improvement Projects

These tools of the home trade will make your handiwork easier

(MS) — Home renovation projects can be both exciting and tricky. Do-it-yourselfers are inspired by designs showcased in magazines, websites and their own communities.

When DIY enthusiasts see a design they like, it’s understandable that they may want to emulate these looks at home.

Remodeling is one of the larger DIY undertakings, and it goes beyond simple carpentry. Considering demolition, reconstruction, electrical, plumbing, and masonry work may be part of the DIY package, homeowners who are thinking about renovations KEEP A HANDY tool bag stocked with these basic essential items. must first stock up on the tools and other supplies of the trade. one working on a project deals with obstructed vision.

Having the right tools can mean the difference between a job well done and a job Safety glasses also provide ample eye protection.

• Extension cords: If power tools are part of the renothat needs to be redone. vation picture, extension cords can safely extend power • Crowbar or prybar: Before you can put in new conwhere it is needed. Be sure to invest in a gauge that is struction, you might have to get your hands dirty with large enough to handle the amperage of your most powsome demolition. Crowbars or prybars can be used to erful tool. pry up wood slats, remove nails or remove old decking.

• Measuring tape: The “measure twice, cut once” • Tool pouch: A tool and fastener pouch gives DIYers mantra is key to home improvements. To measure aca place other than their pockets to store fasteners and curately each and every time, no tool chest is complete hand tools. Pouches can be attached to tool belts for without a sturdy measuring tape. added storage capacity.

• Ladder varieties: Home improvements aren’t always • Stud finder: Invest in a more fool-proof method at ground level. Purchase ladders of various heights of locating studs behind drywall then knocking on the so you can safely reach various areas of the home and wall. Stud finders can provide a picture of studs, pipes avoid injury. Step stools, a step ladder and an extension and other hidden items inside an entire length of wall. ladder all have their purposes on the job.

This is essential to driving nails where they belong and • Digital inspection scope: A scope lets you see inside can also prevent sending fasteners into wires or nearby walls, floors and ceilings to find the exact location of plumbing. pipes, wires and joists. It also can be used to seek out the • Level: A level is an essential tool for everyone from source of clogged drains or anywhere you desire sight casual decorators to more involved renovators. Whether into hard-to-maneuver areas. hanging pictures or ensuring molding is parallel, levels In addition to these tools, brooms, shop-vacs, hamare must-have tools for DIYers. mers, screwdrivers, wrenches and pliers can complete a • Safety glasses: Invest in a pair of safety glasses so no DIYer’s basic toolbox.

Should you update your electrical system?

(MS) — The invisible systems in a home often are taken for granted. When such systems are working as expected, daily life moves along smoothly. However, when a system goes awry, it can negatively impact routines and may create a dangerous home environment. This is especially true when something goes wrong with a home’s electrical system.

Faulty wiring is a leading cause of residential fires. Many homeowners, particularly those who live in older homes, might be living in properties that have outdated electrical systems. The experts at Lowes ProServices state that having old wiring and/or insufficient amperage in a house can endanger residents. It also may damage appliances and make it difficult to sell a property in the future.

It can be difficult to gauge exactly when to overhaul an electrical system. Unless circuits routinely trip or lights often dim, homeowners may put off the work. But degrading wires or overextended circuitry can pose a fire risk, so it is best to address electrical systems promptly.

Home inspections may uncover electrical problems. Some homeowners may discover potential trouble while making renovations that require opening up walls or tearing them down, exposing the wires. Still other homeowners learn about electrical systems when they’re adding new, large appliances or other gadgets that consume more power than existing items. These devices may continually cause power outages in the house, such as tripping the circuit breaker or popping a fuse.

When it comes time to update the electrical system, it is always best to work with licensed and bonded electricians who have the expertise to work with electrical wiring without

getting injured. This is not a do-it-yourself type of job since it requires specialized training.

Electricians likely will recommend upgrading the electrical panel to bring more power from the utility poles into the home. This can include replacing the existing meter and circuit breaker box to allow it to handle more power or replacing items that are obsolete or dangerous.

Many older homes are only capable of handling a minimum number of amps, utilizing just a few circuits. But nowadays, when homeowners have far more electronics in their homes than they once did, increased demand on electricity can overload a circuit (all of the outlets linked on one wire).

Tripping a circuit breaker is a safety measure to prevent the wire from becoming overheated and causing a fire. However, in some old systems, the circuit breaker will not trip, and this can be problematic.

Rewiring a home is another step. Wire insulation can deteriorate over time, and new wires may be needed. This can be messy and time-consuming, but it’s a small price to pay for safety. When rewiring an electrician also may suggest new outlets. Many home building codes now require outlets with ground fault interruptors, or GFIs, in kitchens, bathrooms and other rooms exposed to moisture. Some older homes may not even have three-pronged outlets, so this will necessitate an update as well.

Electrical systems are the heart of a home, delivering power where it is needed. It is essential to keep such systems up-to-date so they can handle the power demands of everyday life.

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Home & Garden Spring Cleaning

Create drama with bold paint colors

(MS) — Painting is one of the easiest and least expensive ways to transform the look of a space. Paint colors can dramatically change the mood and the design of a home. And depending on a homeowner’s goals, paint can make a statement or blend into the background.

Many people are now looking to bold colors to make spaces stand out. But choosing a paint color can be challenging. Homeowners looking to update walls and complement decor may want to look at some of the more impactful colors that Pantone indicates will be popular for the 2017 season. Primrose Yellow, Lapis Blue, Flame, Pink Yarrow, and Greenery are some of the more eye-catching selections. Once colors are selected, consider these guidelines for using bolder colors in room designs.

• Decide how big an impact you want to make. Are you looking for color overload or just a small focal point of vivid color? Remember, using bold color doesn’t mean every wall must be lathered in that hue. Instead, select one wall to serve as an accent point and use that spot as your bold color display. Otherwise, rely on bold colors to dress up otherwise mundane areas, such as the back wall of a cupboard or moldings and trim.

• Try bold in a small space. Many people are surprised at how well bold colors work in small spaces. Powder rooms can be an ideal spot to experiment with paint colors. Try deep colors that can make the area seem intimate and even exotic. Dark, bold hues can be toned

down by different accents, such as neutral colored fixtures and towels.

• Go bold in the kitchen. Incorporate a splash of color in the kitchen without going overboard. Try an appliance or design fixture in a bright shade. Or paint the inside of the cabinets in your favorite color and install glass inserts in the cabinet doors so that everyone gets a peek of the color beyond. A neutral kitchen also can be brightened up with the use of silverware, dishes, pots and pans, and other kitchen items featured in bold hues.

• Stick to boldness on interchangeable items. Those who like to experiment with color may find that they like to switch out the colors now and again. Instead of having to repaint every few months, use decorative items in bright shades to make swapping out color that much easier. For example, replace area rugs, throw pillows and draperies. Paint over terra cotta flowerpots when the mood strikes.

• Establish balance. Rely on neutral furniture, rugs, moldings and baseboards if you decide to take bold colors up a notch. This will help create a sense of balance in the room.

Painting is a fun way to experiment with color. Many homeowners are not hesitant to use bold shades of color when they learn the right techniques. And because paint is an inexpensive option for making over a room, homeowners who find they do not like a particular color can easily paint over it with a new color.

Six easy spring cleaning projects

(MS) — Warmer days are here and what better way to spend them than… cleaning? Although enjoying the great outdoors is probably high on many a to-do list come spring, by the end of winter, homes can probably do with a much-needed overhaul. Owners and renters can rely on temperate days to throw open the windows and engage in some easy spring-cleaning projects. The earlier one begins spring cleaning, the more quickly he or she will be able to head outside and bask in the warm spring sun.

Spring cleaning tasks can be stretched out across several days to make the jobs more manageable. While certain spring cleaning tasks can be time-consuming, many projects can be started and completed in 30 minutes or less.

1. Look up Start by looking up at ceilings, molding and ceiling fans. Chances are strong that some cobwebs and dust have formed in these areas. Always begin cleaning by working from the top downward so you don’t have to clean any tables countertops or floors twice. Static-charged dusting cloths work well to catch and contain dust. Use a pillowcase on ceiling fan blades to clear the dust and keep it from cascading to the floor.

2. Blinds and curtains Heavy window treatments can be removed and replaced with more gauzy fabrics. This lets in more light and warmth from the sun. Many curtains can be freshened up right in the laundry, but blinds may require a bit more effort. If the blinds can be snapped out of the brackets, place them in a tub full of vinegar, dish soap and water. Allow them to soak and then rinse with the shower nozzle. Stationary blinds can be cleaned with us-

ing an old sock over your hand dipped in a vinegar-andwater solution.

3. Change linens Remove and launder bed linens. While the linens are in the wash, thoroughly dust all furniture and vacuum the carpets. Move furniture so you can reach areas where dust gathers, such as under the bed or dresser.

4. Grout cleaner Grade school science lessons can be put to use as you look to remove stubborn dirt. Combining baking soda and vinegar produces a reaction that causes the formation of gassy bubbles. These bubbles can help to break up dirt that clings to crevices, such as grout between tiles. Some light scrubbing and then subsequent rinsing can rid surfaces of hard-to-remove dirt.

5. Vacuum vent intakes Many houses are heated by forced-air systems. The air intake vents can become clogged with dust and other debris. Vacuum these vents so that air flow is not impeded.

Let the heat run for a few minutes to catch any small particles that become dislodged, and then change the furnace filter.

6. Clean out the refrigerator Now is a great time to remove any of those mystery containers growing fuzzy experiments in the back of the refrigerator. Take the food out of the refrigerator and use a food-safe cleaner to scour the shelves and inside of crisper drawers.

Spring cleaning is a necessary task, but it doesn’t have to be a headache. Break up the work into manageable chunks of time, and projects won’t feel like such a hassle.

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