Reconstruction
Fourth of July
Slow start
A Salisbury couple has a nifty business restoring great works of art. See Arts + Leisure.
All four of the biggest towns in the area will have fireworks. Find out where to see them on Page 2A.
The AC nine lost at home on Sunday to Montpelier and remained winless. See Page 1B.
ADDISON COUNTY
Vol. 71 No. 26
INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont
Thursday, June 29, 2017 38 Pages
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City council cites ‘thin cushion,’ adds 2 cents In Middlebury, town levy rises by half-penny By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The Vergennes City Council on Tuesday added two cents to the tax rate needed to support city services and adopted a $2,290,291 municipal budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1; the budget will increase city spending by about $58,000. Most of the increased spending comes in the police budget, which
rose about $32,000 to $898,600. Police spending accounts for about 39 percent of the Vergennes general fund budget that the council adopted on Tuesday. The general fund budget does not include the sewer budget, which is funded separately by user fees. The tax rate for fiscal year 20172018 is 81 cents, up from 79 cents. That 2-cent increase translates to $20
more in taxes for every $100,000 of assessed value of city property. City officials said they expect state officials to release final school tax rates this Friday, June 30. Addison Northwest School District estimates released in February projected a 1.3-cent increase in the Vergennes residential school tax rate. City Manager Mel Hawley told (See Vergennes, Page 12A)
By JOHH FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard on Tuesday unanimously OK’d a new municipal property tax rate of 98.2 cents per $100 in property value, reflecting a bump of approximately a half a penny compared to this year’s rate of 97.8 cents. Middlebury’s overall tax rate — municipal rate plus education rate
— is expected to come into focus by the end of this week, when state officials are scheduled to release education property tax rates for all Vermont communities. Education expenses make up the majority of the overall property tax rate, which for the current year is $2.786 in Middlebury. The new municipal rate, which takes effect July 1, corresponds to
the town budget and other special money items that Middlebury voters approved at their annual town meeting in March. On March 6, voters OK’d a general fund operating budget of $10,321,456 for fiscal year 2018, with $7,106,034 of that sum to be raised by taxes. Additionally, voters authorized several special articles that: (See Middlebury, Page 12A)
Five-town arts guild asks local donors to take a seat Six ‘Chair-ity’ chairs to be auctioned July 4 By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — Attendees at next week’s Fourth of July celebration in Bristol will get yet another chance to be sitting pretty — by bidding on one-ofa-kind, work-of-art chairs painted by local artists. The 5 Town Friends of the Arts’ “Chair-ity” event is part of the group’s annual silent auction fundraiser. “Funky chairs can be really fun in your house,” said Chair-ity organizer Vera Ryersbach. Six local artists are contributing this year’s chairs they have painted in a variety of creative and funky ways: • Thacher Hurd, children’s book author and illustrator and son of
Street food
THE THIRD-ANNUAL Foodaroo Festival presented by Middlebury UndergrounD in Middlebury’s Marble Works complex drew big crowds Sunday for a variety of food vendors in addition to music and street performances. Organizers were thrilled with the event’s success. See Page 10A for more photos.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
Proposed law seeks path to legal status for farmworkers By GAEN MURPHREE VERMONT — A key to finally getting federal law changed so immigrants can more easily work on Vermont’s dairy farms is getting farmers and farm advocates here to reach out to their counterparts in Republican-leaning states. That is the analysis of people familiar with the legislative process in
Washington, D.C. They were commenting on the future of the Agricultural Worker Program Act of 2017, bill S.1034 in the U.S. Senate and bill H.R.2690 in the U.S. House. The bills would provide a legal pathway for current agricultural workers — those who are in the country for at least 100 work days
over the previous two years — to obtain “blue card” status. Blue cards could also be obtained by a farmworker’s spouse and children. Blue card farmworkers would be eligible to earn lawful permanent residency (“green card” status) over the next three to five years, under provisions of the bills. “Like so many dairy issues, the
germ of an idea is often born in Vermont and grows outward from there,” said David Carle, a longtime spokesperson for Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. “Vermont farmers and Vermont dairy organizations have been very aggressive, very adept at reaching out to their counterparts in other states. In Wisconsin, (See New law, Page 7A)
“Good Night Moon” illustrator Clement Hurd. Hurd grew up partly in Vermont, has lived most of his life in California and returns to Starksboro each summer. One of his best-known books, “Art Dog,” tells the story of how a masked dog avenger helps reclaim Leonardo Dog Vinci’s stolen masterpiece, “Mona Woofa.” • S t a r k s b o r o landscape painter (See ‘Chair-ity’, Page 14A) THE 5 TOWN Friends of the Arts are sponsoring a “Chairity” event at next week’s Fourth of July celebration in Bristol. One-of-a-kind, workof-art chairs painted by local artists will be auctioned at the event. This chair was painted by Starksboro artist Nancy Carroll. Independent photo/Trent Campbell
Bridge work suspended for festival, market and auction By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The temporary parking barriers erected in downtown Middlebury for a Vermont Agency of Transportation (VTrans) project to install temporary bridges will recede early next month to ensure convenient access to three popular annual July events set for the village green: The Festival on-the-Green, St. Stephen’s Church Peasant Market and Lion’s Club auction and barbeque.
“The fact that (the town and VTrans) are accommodating us is amazing,” said Pat Boera, secretary of Festival on-the-Green, which will stage live music and other entertainment July 9-15. The festival follows the annual Peasant Market on July 8 and precedes the Lion’s Club Auction and BBQ, set for 4:30 p.m. on July 19. A lot of the parking along Main Street and Merchants Row has been (See Festival, Page 12A)
Middlebury innovating in new form of film criticism Scholars learn the art of the video essay By WILL DIGRAVIO and Jason Mittell, both Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Is criticism professors of Film and Media ever art? Can academic analysis Culture, teaches the art of the video move a person with the kind of essay. In other words, how scholars appeal to emotion that art does? can use the objects of their study — Videographic criticism, a motion pictures, television and other relatively new kind of electronic audiovisual scholarship that relies as forms — to produce much on the aesthetic as “I couldn’t help scholarship. it does on the analytical, but wonder An innovator in the is being produced at what would field, Keathley first Middlebury College. A it be like to began experimenting National Endowment not always with the video essay for the Humanities grant 1989. However, it have to resort in funded a workshop was not until recent this month where film to language years, when digital and media scholars to describe, technologies — DVDs, are learning how to but to use the Blu-Ray, the internet, produce cutting edge audiovisual etc. — made electronic videographic criticism. media more accessible medium to “Part of why I applied to scholars, that he began is to think about my show.” to seriously produce — Christian and teach videographic materials in a new Keathley criticism. way,” said workshop participant Nike Nivar He likened the video Ortiz, a grad student at the University essay to literary criticism, where of Southern California. scholars, given the nature of the The workshop, created and written word, are able to directly facilitated by Christian Keathley (See Videographic, Page 13A)
By the way Representatives of the Bristolarea school boards and of the public school teachers in the 5-town area last week came to a tentative agreement for teacher contracts that will cover the next two years. The ANESU Bargaining Council and ANEDA Bargaining (See By the way, Page 13A)
Index Obituaries................................. 6A Classifieds.......................... 5B-8B Service Directory............... 6B-7B Entertainment.........Arts + Leisure Community Calendar......... 8A-9A Arts Calendar.........Arts + Leisure Sports................................. 1B-3B MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PROFESSORS of Film and Media Culture Chris Keathley, left, and Jason Mittell have received a National Endowment for the Humanities grant to run a two-week workshop on videographic criticism. Independent photo/Trent Campbell
PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, June 29, 2017
Rt. 7 rebuild project getting mixed reviews
Just one bite
TWO GIRLS SAMPLE some strawberries while picking at Douglas Orchards in Shoreham last week.
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
College St. option eyed for ACTR bus stop
South Pleasant St. proposal draws fire
By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — A new, leading location has entered the conversation on where Addison County Transit Services’ (ACTR) main Middlebury bus stop should temporarily relocate for the next four years: College Street, near the newly created town park. Middlebury selectboard members seemed to warm to that new option on Tuesday after hearing a lot of people speak against what had been the two leading locations to host the downtown Middlebury ACTR bus stop that has been uprooted from Merchants Row in order to make way for replacement of two downtown bridges Those two options were:
No shortage of fireworks this July 4
Independence Day is a time to celebrate the birth of our nation. For many, the best way to do that is to watch some fireworks. Here is a listing of some places to see fireworks in the area in the coming week, displays start at dusk, weather pending: Thursday, June 29 Middlebury College athletic fields behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts, in conjunction with the Sheldon Museum’s 25th annual Pops Concert. Saturday, July 1 Park Village off Route 7 north of the village of Brandon, in conjunction with Independence Day celebration in Brandon. Monday, July 3 Bristol Recreation Fields in conjunction with the Fourth of July eve festivities in Bristol. Vergennes Union High School athletic fields, with music by the Vergennes City Band.
• The north end of South Pleasant Street, starting opposite the Soldiers Monument and running south for approximately 200 feet. This proposal calls for a jersey barrier to separate the queue-up zone for buses, and for South Pleasant Street to become one way southbound (toward Cross Street). ACTR officials have identified this spot as their preferred location because of scheduling and passenger safety reasons. But South Pleasant Street residents are opposed to the prospect of having a long-term bus stop in their midst that they said will generate noise, diesel fumes and traffic back-ups in their neighborhood. • Seymour Street, in a spot just south of the historic train station, on both sides of the street. ACTR officials have called this their least preferred option, citing safety concerns posed by having buses queu-
ing up on both sides of what can be a busy street. Agency officials also noted the busy Main Street/Seymour Street intersection, where bus drivers would have to potentially wait for long periods and thus throw off their route schedules. ACTR currently provides around 180,000 rides annually, primarily through its Middlebury In-Town Shuttle and its Tri-Town Shuttle serving Middlebury, Bristol and Vergennes. The Merchants Row stop has provided important connections for those local routes, as well as for regional buses from Middlebury to Burlington and Rutland. So a lot of people are dependent on ACTR services and want a reliable location at which to find the buses, according to ACTR board Chairman Adam Lougee. “A majority (of ACTR buses) flow through this hub,” Lougee said of
the central Middlebury stop. “A significant portion of your community uses ACTR services.” South Pleasant Street residents have already gotten a little taste of having the ACTR stop nearby. Officials recently moved the stop from Merchants Row to the former Cole’s Flowers building near the south end of South Pleasant for an interim period, to end in early November. Resident Pamela Smith told selectboard members her concerns about the safety of area school children, saying the ACTR buses are adding to an already busy traffic pattern during morning and afternoon commute periods. “There are times I can’t get out of my driveway for 10 to 15 minutes,” she said, referring to the queue of vehicles waiting to turn onto Cross Street to get to Middlebury Union (See ACTR, Page 3A)
By GAIL CALLAHAN VTDigger.org FERRISBURGH/CHARLOTTE — Halfway through a two-year project to rebuild Route 7 in Ferrisburgh and Charlotte, local reaction is mixed, with some supporting the project and others complaining of property damage and increased traffic on the back roads as commuters avoid the construction zone. The stretch of Route 7 has something of a split personality: a scenic rural road through stunning landscapes, and a suburban commuter pipeline carrying 14,000 cars a day through Charlotte. The $20 million, 3-mile road reconstruction and shoulder-widening project got underway in 2016 and is slated for completion by July 2018. The project is on schedule, said Ken Upmal, project manager with the Vermont Agency of Transportation. He said the project is 90 percent federally funded, with Vermont paying the balance. Much of the work on the northsouth road involves widening it from 28 to 42 feet. Most of that gain is in the shoulders, which will go from narrow bands to 8 feet wide. The work also includes improving drainage. The project has both critics and supporters. Charlotte selectboard member Carrie Spear said she supports the project and is happy with the state agency’s efforts to communicate with local officials. But she wants to see the town bring in increased police presence — including county sheriff’s deputies — to crack down on commuters speeding on the town’s secondary roads. Francine Perkins, project outreach
coordinator with the state agency, said the good communications have gone both ways. “I think the community has been really great,” she said. Charlotte resident Jim Amblo, who runs the Tarry-Ho Miniature Horse Farm off Route 7, was a lot less enthusiastic. Road workers “removed five maple trees and they did away with one of my driveways,” said Amblo. “They devalued my property by about $100,000. I think they’re spending too much money on what we’ve got.” But Duker Bower, a co-owner of the Inn at Charlotte Bed & Breakfast, likes the project. He favors the shoulder widening and the tunnel that is set to allow cyclists and pedestrians to cross under Route 7. “I think it’s safer, and I think it’s prettier, too,” Bower said. “People complain about the trees cut down, and the shoulders are an improvement and so is the tunnel underneath.” Chris Fisher, owner of Charlotte Collision on Route 7, said he likes the project. “The turning lane into my driveway is open, and I think it looks very nice. I think they’re doing a good job,” Fisher said At Archie’s Grill restaurant, Michael Henzel, chef-manager, said the traffic delays caused by the project “can be a headache for commuters.” He said customers who stop in for food at the Route 7 business just north of the village of Shelburne don’t talk “a whole lot about the project.” In Vermont, Route 7 runs for 176 miles along the western side of the state, much of it as a two-lane road.
Hawley talks about his (eventual) retirement By ANDY KIRKALDY On the other hand, Hawley also VERGENNES — Vergennes said that date is not a hard deadCity Manager Mel Hawley could line, and that he would make sure step down as soon as August 2018, the city would have a smooth tranit was made public in Tuesday’s sition to his successor. He added Vergennes City Council meeting. he intended to fulfill his recent Hawley has said openly in the three-year appointment as the past year or so that his second term city’s zoning administrator, which as Vergennes city manager could runs through the spring of 2020. be nearing a close, but rarely in “I want to make sure this works detail in such a public for everybody,” forum. Hawley said. “I’m The discussion was “It’s not like I’m not going anytriggered when May- going to give two where.” or Michael Daniels weeks notice. I On Wednesday and Senior Alderman have not said morning, he exRenny Perry wonpanded on his remy last day as dered if they needed marks. to add funds to the city manager is “It’s not like I’m 2017-2018 munici- Aug. 7, 2018.” going to give two pal budget to fund a — Mel Hawley weeks notice,” search for Hawley’s Hawley said, addreplacement, an idea that was ing, “I have not said my last day eventually tabled. as city manager is Aug. 7, 2018.” Hawley said because of the way Hawley began working for Verhis pension is structured — it is gennes as its city clerk in 1977, complicated because of the decade and he became city manager in between 1998 and 2008 he left the 1981, staying in that post until public sector to work for Country leaving for CHP in 1998. Home Products — that there is Hawley stayed on as zoning little financial benefit for him to administrator during his years in work in his current job after he the private sector, and in Septemturns 65 on Aug. 7, 2018. ber of 2008 served as interim city “It doesn’t make a lot of sense manager after Perry, then the city for me to work full-time after manager, left for a post in Vermy 65th birthday,” Hawley told mont’s court system. In Novemthe council and the dozen or so ber of that year, a hiring commitcitizens on hand, adding, “And tee removed the interim tag from anybody who knows me knows Hawley’s title, and he returned to I don’t do things that don’t make a full-time post in Vergennes City sense.” Hall.
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ACTR idling bus engines during the early (Continued from Page 2A) High School and Mary Hogan Ele- morning hours and related diesel fumes could become a nuisance for mentary. Smith added South Pleasant has guests, who would also face more become a magnet for “overflow competition for limited parking. And making South Pleasant Street parking” from various businesses and events — especially with recent one way, Grove argued, would make construction of temporary bridges it more difficult for guests to get to on Merchants Row and Main Street the inn. “Please don’t impair claiming parking spots. our ability to run our Madeleine Field, anbusiness,” Grove told other South Pleasant With opposition the selectboard. Street neighbor, echoed growing on the Middlebury Police Smith’s concerns. Seymour Street Chief Tom Hanley and “Traffic tends to be and South Fire Chief Dave Shaw horrible,” she said of Pleasant bus on Tuesday expressed recent conditions, addreservations about a ing there is often no stop options, South Pleasant Street available parking for the new College bus stop. Making the local residents’ visi- Street proposal street one way, Shaw tors. is looking more Field also voiced attractive to local noted, would likely prevent firefighters concern about some of officials and from being able to the passengers she said access the Inn on the she’s observed taking neighbors. Green with the departthe Rutland and Burlment’s large ladder truck. ington buses. Officials want the new Middle“Some of the people getting off these buses are a little sketchy,” she bury bus stop in place until at least the end of 2020. At that point, the said. Making the South Pleasant Street stop would either shift again to a bus stop a long-term solution, ac- permanent spot or be kept in place cording to Field, “would be too if it has proven satisfactory to the town, neighbors, passengers and much for our street.” Bruce and Brenda Grove own the ACTR. Inn on the Green at 71 South Pleas- A NEW OPTION So with opposition growing ant St. Bruce Grove noted the proposed new bus stop would be only on the Seymour Street and South 50 feet away from the inn. He said Pleasant bus stop options, the new
College Street proposal is looking more attractive to local officials and neighbors. As tentatively mapped out, the plan calls for a small bus shelter at the corner of College and Academy streets. ACTR would be allotted 140 feet to queue up as many as four buses at a time on a portion of College Street that is currently one-way, near the Weybridge Street intersection. The regional Burlington and Rutland buses would have a designated spot on nearby Academy Street, which is also one-way. Proponents noted the College/ Academy Street location is still in the downtown and is close to often-unused parking spaces attached to the new park. Some folks at Tuesday’s meeting suggested putting a bus stop in the Academy Street parking area. Bill Cunningham, ACTR’s regional director, said he believes the College/Academy Street solution is “workable,” if it can be made safer for passengers. “There’s room for discussion,” he said. A working group studying ACTR’s bus stop needs and town’s Infrastructure Committee will discuss the issue on June 29 and July 6, respectively, paving the way for the selectboard to potentially settle the matter at its July 11 meeting. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.
City library holding regular writing workshops
RECENT MIDDLEBURY UNION High School graduate and Middlebury College freshman Henry Ganey
Independent photo/Trent Campbell
MUHS graduate headed to China
Henry Ganey wins State Department language scholarship By WILL DIGRAVIO Founded in 2006, the mission of MIDDLEBURY — The U.S. NSLI-Y, according the State DeDepartment of State has awarded partment, is “to improve Amera newly minted Middlebury Union icans’ ability to communicate in High School graduate a scholarship select critical languages to advance that will allow him to spend a year international dialogue and increase studying Chinese in Changzhou, American economic global competChina. itiveness.” One of the goals of the Henry Ganey is one of 600 stu- program is to develop the next gendents from across the United States eration of leaders who can use their to receive the scholarship as part of language skills to foster diplomacy the National Security Language Ini- and engage in global dialogues. In tiative for Youth (NSLI-Y), a pro- addition to Chinese, the program gram affiliated with offers scholarships for the State Department’s “It’s a way for students to study in Bureau of Educational young American Arabic, Hindi, Koreand Cultural Affairs. an, Persian, Russian students to get A Middlebury naand Turkish-speaking tive, Ganey said his involved early on countries. desire to learn Chinese in the way the “It’s a way for young came during a trip he U.S. interacts American students to took to China and other with other get involved early on Asian countries in the countries.” in the way the U.S. summer of 2013. interacts with oth— Henry Ganey er countries,” Ganey “While I was there, I fell in love with the said. “They have told culture and country,” he said. “And I us numerous times, ‘You’re an was frustrated that I couldn’t under- ambassador for the United States stand anything.” while you’re overseas.’ That carries Though MUHS does not offer any a lot of weight.” Chinese language courses, that did Starting this August, Ganey will not stop Ganey from trying to learn be one of 10 U.S. students living in the language. After that trip, he be- Changzhou, a city of 4.6 million in gan searching online for Chinese eastern China. There, for five days a language programs. The summer week Ganey and the other students after his freshman year at MUHS, will receive two to three hours of he enrolled at StarTalk, a NSLI-Y Chinese language instruction. They affiliate program at the University will also live with host families and of Vermont, where he began to learn enroll at a local high school. very basic Chinese. He also applied “My main goal is to learn as twice to NSLI-Y, but was not accept- much Chinese as I can. I hope to ed until his third try. establish some good connections
with people there (for) when I visit again,” Ganey said. After the year spent in China, Ganey will enroll at Middlebury College as part of the class of 2022. Ganey said that, while he plans to study Chinese in college, he does not plan on majoring in the language. He said he will be pursuing his interests in Geography and International Politics and Economics. “I hope to take these language skills and use them (at Middlebury) and maybe attend (the college’s) language school,” he said. “I hope to really immerse myself in the Chinese language and culture because you get out of it as much as you put in.” As a young observer of the geopolitical landscape, Ganey says he believes that it is crucial for young people to learn the language of one of the world’s fastest-growing superpowers. “It’s probably not going to be too long until China is the largest economy in the world. They’re flexing their newly growing muscles in eastern Asia and have really become the power there,” he said. “They’re going to be the ones that the U.S. is going to have to learn how to stand up to and it’s important to have people who have learned the language at a young age,” Ganey continued. “It’s a lot easier to retain and learn the language as a young person than it is as someone whose brain is fully developed.”
VERGENNES — Bixby Library and Zig Zag Lit Mag are bringing writing workshops to the Vergennes area all summer long. Two ongoing workshops will meet each week at the library, and both will be open to new participants. Co-founders of Zig Zag Lit Mag and Editors-In-Chief A. Jay Dubberly and Muir Haman will each lead a separate workshop. For projects of length in nearly any form, Dubberly will guide writers each Monday from 6 to 8 p.m. in the library’s Kerr Room. In the past this group has helped writers working on forms as
diverse as novels and novellas, poetry chapbooks, dramatic scripts and screenplays. This group will be targeted for writers who are producing work regularly and are looking for structured feedback. Haman will lead an 8-week workshop that will guide writers from beginning to end of a short project of their own choosing beginning Thursday, June 29 at 6 p.m. in the Otter Creek Room. Over the course of eight weeks, this group will plan, set project goals, meet those goals, and finish by creating a unique or reproducible book object.
This group will be targeted for beginning to intermediate writers, those looking to add structure to their writing routine and who don’t know where to begin. It will be focused on short forms: essay, poetry, short fiction. Tools and techniques will be discussed, and prompts and feedback provided. These workshops are free and open to the public. Space is limited, and registration is required. For questions or to register, contact Muir Haman at 802-877-2211 or muir.haman@bixbylibrary.org.
VUHS student nets Land Steward Award VERGENNES — Local student Howie Vander Wey received the Land Stewards Award from the Vermont Land Trust. The award, now in its twelfth year, acknowledges the hard work of tomorrow’s agricultural and forestry leaders with an unrestricted cash prize of $250. Eleven qualified students across Vermont received the Land Stewards Award this year. Howie is a student at Vergennes Union High School, and was nominated for the award by Agriculture Teacher Bill Van De Weert. Mr. Van De Weert nominated Howie because of his experience working on his family’s dairy farm and raising his own pigs. “Howie loves the land,” said Mr. Van De Weert about why he chose to nominate Howie for the award. “He and his family have a culture of valuing agriculture. It is what they live and breathe.” Howie has grown up on Nea Tocht farm in Ferrisburgh, where he takes care of the heifers, cleans the barn, and helps out with haying. He has started raising two pigs each year, one to sell and the other for his family. He is interested in starting a cut firewood business as well. Howie received the Land Stewards Award and the $250 prize earlier this month from Allen Karnatz of the Vermont Land Trust. Howie hopes to continue to work in agriculture as a career, perhaps raising pigs, beef, and/or some crops like corn or oats. He is a part of the Vergennes FFA chapter (Future Farmers of America) and is
HOWIE VANDER WEY of Vergennes Union High School received the Land Stewards Award and the $250 prize earlier this month from Allen Karnatz of the Vermont Land Trust.
working towards getting his Commercial Driver’s License. He has taken Plant and Animal Science and Diesel Power Technology classes at
the Hannaford Career Center, and plans to continue and complete the diesel power technology program next year.
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Letters
A DDIS ON INDE P E NDEN T
Guest Editorials
to the Editor
Meals on Wheels loses compass
Twenty years later, Act 60 has paid some big dividends
Age Well (formerly the Champlain Valley Agency on Aging) seems to have bought into the Trumpish philosophy that money is more important than people. A whole community of volunteers in Addison County is incredulous and angry that the Meals on Wheels coordinator on the ground in the county has been dismissed so that a computer program and people in an office in Essex Junction can try to replace her. Meals on Wheels delivers to needy people — usually seniors, often living alone — 5 days a week all year round. There are eight routes every day in the Middlebury area and I don’t know how many in Vergennes and Bristol. That’s a lot of drivers; I am just one of them. Among other things, the coordinator enlists and trains all the volunteers, schedules them, inspires them, which results in dedication and high morale, fills in on routes when necessary (usually at the last minute), runs a weekly senior meal (now cancelled) and a host of other supportive activities. The Age Well Board of Directors has allowed the staff, in anticipation of Federal funding cuts, to eliminate her position. The board and staff seem to think that a consolidation of information in their main office and occasional visits from 35 miles away can produce the same nutritional and companionship benefits. We all know it requires money to run such a program, but the human element is just as important for Meals on Wheels. The board has abdicated its responsibility to carry out Age Well’s mission “To provide the support and guidance that inspires our community to embrace aging with confidence.” Susie Leonard New Haven
By Jack Hoffman
The Equal Educational Opportunity Act, better known as Act 60, turned 20 years old this past Monday. On June 26, 1997, at an outdoor ceremony in Whiting, Gov. Howard Dean signed into law Vermont’s unique and groundbreaking education funding system. As we face tensions over school consolidation and who should determine teachers’ health insurance benefits, it’s worth remembering what Vermont has already achieved in school funding. Vermont has taken a huge step toward solving a problem that still plagues other states: educational disparities between kids born into wealthy communities and those in cities and towns with less wealth and fewer educational resources. About five months before Act 60 became law, the Vermont Supreme Court had ruled the funding system in place in 1997 unconstitutional. At the time, Vermont, like many states, relied heavily on local property taxes to support public schools. The problem was that towns with lots of valuable property could easily raise the money with low property tax rates to educate each student in town, while poorer communities struggled with high tax rates and still couldn’t raise enough to give their kids a decent education. The Legislature provided state aid to try to even things out, but the court found it inadequate. In Brigham vs. State of Vermont, the court said public education is a fundamental right, and the state is responsible for seeing that all schoolchildren have equal educational opportunity. “Equal opportunity does not necessarily require precisely equal per-capita expenditures,” the court said, “nor does it necessarily prohibit cities and towns from spending more on education if they choose, but it does not allow a system in which educational opportunity is necessarily a function of district About two-thirds wealth.” Act 60 largely did away with the idea of Vermont of local educational resources. Instead, it resident recognized that we—all of us in Verhomeowners mont—have a responsibility to see that pay an incomeall Vermont children—not just those in based school our town—get a good education. For the tax. However, kids, it’s a matter of fairness. They all high-income deserve the chance to get the skills and homeowners still learning they need to live happy, producpay propertytive, fulfilling lives. As a practical matter, based taxes. The if a child in the next town grows up to be our doctor or mechanic or electrician, we system would want her to be at least as well educated as be fairer if all Vermonters paid our own children. Act 60, in effect, pools all of the state’s school taxes as education resources in one fund, and all a percentage of school districts have the same opportunitheir income. ty to draw on that money. Before Act 60, it was chaos—there was no correlation between tax rates and per-pupil spending. It’s now a rational system. For resident homeowners, the level of per-pupil spending in their town determines their payment into the pool. Towns with the same education spending per pupil have the same school tax rates, and towns that spend more have proportionally higher tax rates than those that spend less. A 2012 study of Vermont’s Act 60 funding system commissioned by the Legislature stated: “The state has designed an equitable system. We found virtually no relationship between district fiscal capacity (measured by either by district property wealth or personal income) and spending levels.” That’s not to say there isn’t room for improvement. About twothirds of Vermont resident homeowners pay an income-based school tax. However, high-income homeowners still pay property-based taxes. The system would be fairer if all Vermonters paid school taxes as a percentage of their income. We also have an achievement gap that has its roots in poverty. As the Vermont Supreme Court said 20 years ago, “Equal opportunity does not necessarily require precisely equal per-capita expenditures.” In fact, equal educational opportunity requires additional resources for some children to ensure that they have the same chances to succeed as their peers. Act 60 was a big step forward for Vermont kids. We now have the challenge of ensuring that all Vermont children can succeed in school. Editor’s note: Jack Hoffman is a senior analyst at Public Assets Institute, a non-partisan nonprofit in Montpelier. Before joining Public Assets, he was a reporter with the Vermont Press Bureau for 20 years and wrote extensively about education funding and Act 60. He attended the Act 60 signing in Whiting.
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Time to rest
A TRACTOR sits idle outside a New Haven barn Tuesday afternoon.
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The country needs more patriots We’re coming up on our nation’s 241st birthday, so I thought to celebrate by reading the Declaration of Independence. Its second sentence is perhaps the most familiar to us: “We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” The thirteen colonies, then at war with Great Britain, sent 56 delegates to the Continental Congress that formed a new nation of sovereign states — the United States of America — and voted to declare independence from Great Britain. It is the last sentence that draws my attention: “And for the support of this By Johanna Declaration, with a firm reliance on Nichols the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.” It’s hard to imagine today’s Congress taking such a bold move on behalf of our nation. There are times when our delegates have been bold. In 1966, Vermont’s progressive Republican Senator George D. Aiken said that the United States should declare victory and bring the troops home from Vietnam. In 2001, moderate Republican Senator Jim Jeffords, upon learning that President Bush’s budget did not secure funding for special education — as was promised for his endorsement in the 2000 presidential race — declared himself an independent in a 50-50 split Senate and gave the majority to the Democrats. If we think of Ethan Allen as a patriot in the Revolutionary War, I think of Aiken and Jeffords as contemporary
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patriots. I include Madeleine Kunin, seeking to be the first woman governor. A good citizen loves, supports, and defends her country and its interests with devotion. In the thesaurus, a good citizen is a synonym for a patriot. In the family photo taken when I was 5 years old, my mother, father, sister and I are dressed in bathing suits, ready to go for a swim. I am wearing a plastic tube around my neck. My mother said, “that was you, Johanna, always prepared.” Three years later, I joined the Girl Scouts. The motto — “Be prepared” — is defined in the 1947 Girl Scout Handbook: “A Girl Scout is ready to help out wherever she is needed. Willingness to serve is not enough; you must know how to do the job well, even in an emergency.” I promised, on my honor, to live by the Girl Scout Law: “I will do my best to be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring, courageous and strong, and responsible for what I say and do, and to respect myself and others, respect authority, use resources wisely, make the world a better place, and be a sister to every Girl Scout.” Ann Ross, a long time resident of Addison County, was also a Girl Scout Leader. Before I met Ann, she had helped to establish the Children’s Art Exchange with the goal, she says, of “improving relations between our country and the former Soviet Union through an exchange of children’s art. After ten years of continual exchanges and annual visits to the USSR to deliver ours and pick up their kids’ work, just maybe the project was on some level part of improving the relationship between the two countries.” (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)
Tax rates rarely force exodus of rich Nearly every year, Progressive and some Democratic legislators propose increasing the income tax on the highest-income Vermonters — those whose economic situation has improved the most since the 2008 financial crisis — in order to provide more resources for state programs that serve low- and middle-income Vermonters. The response to these proposals — from nearly all Republicans and from some Democrats — is that such tax increases will end up hurting the state because wealthier Vermonters will move away if their taxes are raised. The response is often accompanied by an anecdote about a well-off Vermonter who recently moved to Florida or another low-tax state. Many academic studies of the impact of state tax rates on interstate moves have been completed in the last five years. The consensus of these studies is that changes in income tax rates have very little impact on afflu- By Eric L. Davis ent taxpayers’ decisions about where to live. A comprehensive study using IRS and Census Bureau data concluded that, in any given year, there are approximately 500,000 tax returns filed nationally by households reporting income of $1 million or more. About 12,000 of these households move from one state to another each year. This represents a migration rate of 2.4 percent, lower than the 2.9 percent interstate migration rate for the entire American population. Of those affluent households that do relocate, approximately the same number move each year from a lower-tax state to a higher-tax state than vice versa. The principal reason for these moves is job-related: corporate
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executives and professionals are reassigned to a new position, or take a position with a new firm. There is little evidence that entrepreneurs’ decisions about locating new firms are affected much by state income tax rates on high earners. Far more important are considerations related to the availability of a workforce with the proper skills, transportation and communications infrastructure, and the state’s regulatory climate. For middle-income retirees, interstate moves are much more often affected by climate and proximity to children and grandchildren, rather than by variations in state income tax rates. State legislatures can change tax rates, but they cannot make northern winters less cold. There is also some evidence that local property tax rates and other factors associated with the cost of housing, not income tax rates, are a determinant in retiree households’ residential decisions. The research does conclude that raising taxes on the most affluent households is likely to introduce additional volatility into state budgets. In years in which business profits and financial markets perform strongly, tax receipts will be considerably higher than in years in which profits and markets are weaker. The best policy response to such volatility is for states to have rigorous provisions for rainy-day funds in their budgets, so that some of the extra revenue collected in strong years is set aside to use in years in which the economy will underperform. The issue of raising state taxes on wealthier Vermont(See Davis, Page 5A)
Americans can help N. Koreans
Editor’s note: As part of their study of communism, 8th-graders at Middlebury Union Middle School wrote letters to the editor about life in North Korea and what Americans can do. Here is one of those letters; we expect to run a few more next week. A traveler is crossing the Tumen River. A shifty guide, her only companion, whispers orders constantly, while frantically looking for armed border guards. The only reason this traveler is crossing through this place is to escape her government, which rules with an iron fist and lets its people starve to death. Of course, with only the clothes on her back and a few possessions of her past life, the traveler is not likely to survive out here either. While this specific scenario is fictional, it perfectly emulates the plight of North Koreans who flee from their motherland. The North Korean regime stamps it’s people to the ground, and many who try to leave are forced into major dangers in the outside world. Still, there are ways the situation can be made better for them, and all involve you helping. Of course, to help, you must have information on what you are helping against. The North Korean government rules with an iron fist over its people, controlling every aspect of their lives. As seen in the BBC “Inside North Korea” documentary, the citizens of North Korea are forced into constant poverty by the dictatorship, with some people even forced to scrounge around in mud for food due to being unable to purchase it. The documentary also shows that the North Korean regime has a tight control over what people read, hear, and can say, and use several forms of propaganda to brainwash its citizens so that they only agree with what the dictatorship wishes. If any dissatisfaction is discovered, then the citizens found out are subject to prison camps, torture, and even execution. As you can see, there is plenty of reason for the people to leave North Korea, which is what they do, becoming defectors. Still, the defectors face major dangers when in the outside world as well. There are always the hazards of the elements, and with only a small amount of possessions, the refugees are ill-prepared. A very ominous case of this is seen in the PBS documentary “A Tale Of Two Heavens: Escaping North Korea,” where a South Korean journalist team discovers a frozen body of a North Korean woman on the Tumen/Yalu River, showing how bad the outside exposure is on the defectors. These people also risk being returned to North Korea, as also detailed in the PBS documentary, where China and Laos will repatriate defectors (See Letter, Page 5A)
Scott held state budget hostage
Last week’s veto session in the that would go back to taxpayers. Legislature ended with what has There was a window of opportunity been described as a compromise that where the governor’s proposal might few were happy with — therefore a have worked, but it closed many true compromise. I would classify it weeks ago. as a hostage negotiation with Gov. It would have been tempting last Phil Scott, House Republicans and week for Democrats to simply let conservative independents to free the veto stand, and let Gov. Scott and the state budget, a hostage they all House Republicans put the state’s praised in glowing terms bond rating and borrowing two months ago. power in jeopardy, That budget met the and potentially cause a governor’s goal that it government shutdown. have no new taxes or They created the problem. by Rep. Peter fees. But he vetoed it Let them solve it. anyway. The budget Fortunately, cooler Conlon, D-Cornwall earned tripartisan support Democratic heads prefor meeting the needs of vailed. Putting Vermont’s Vermonters while, for the first time in bond rating in jeopardy would cost years, really closing the gap between all Vermonters dearly. A government spending and revenue without using shutdown helps no one. So a “comone-time funds. In the entire House promise” was worked out. Too much and Senate, only Rep. Warren Van time had passed and too many conWyck of Ferrisburgh voted against tracts had been hammered out for it. This was model legislation, model government to step into health care bipartisanship. But when we returned negotiations, so, instead, the Scott for the veto session, the Republicans administration will simply take from joined Gov. Scott in holding the school districts the savings that the budget hostage by reversing course governor believes he could have neand voting against it to sustain the gotiated on his own and apply that veto. money to reducing statewide propThe governor vetoed the budget erty tax rates. The administration is because he did not get his way on simply going to short Education Fund public school employee health care payments to school districts by $13 negotiations during the session. It million. was an idea worthy of debate, and Who can argue with reducing it was debated and voted on with statewide property taxes? Well, no political tricks. It lost. That’s that savings is based on all school democracy. Meanwhile, many school districts hitting specific benchmarks districts were settling contracts and in negotiating health care. If a school realizing savings locally — savings district does not hit the benchmark, it
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will have to make up the difference. Of the roughly 15 districts that have reached settlements only a couple have hit the benchmark. Those school districts that settled contracts before this new law was passed and did not hit the target will pay, even though they can no longer negotiate. Locally, the recent Addison Central School District settlement with teachers missed the benchmark, and that money will have to be found elsewhere in the budget, or the district will have to cut or deficit spend. Other districts in Addison County are at impasse but will also find themselves short if they miss the benchmark. This is why I see this more as a hostage negotiation, not a compromise. Folks in school districts that miss the benchmark will pay the ransom. Folks in those districts may want to ask their Republican representatives why they supported the governor on this. I am not normally one to play politics, but that is what this was all about. The governor wants Vermonters to think he is saving them $13 million and told his party’s House members to play along. But those savings were already under way at the local level, and the opportunity for the governor to really make those savings happen passed when the snow was melting. Now, if local boards can’t negotiate to the benchmark — and most won’t, or haven’t — that money will simply be added back to the local tax rate. At least the hostage was rescued unscathed.
Letter (Continued from Page 4A) back to North Korea, where they face extreme punishment. The defectors also run risks of being fooled into underground slavery operations, and, if they do successfully reach a safe place, they have an extremely hard time supporting themselves. Sometimes the outside dangers are far too much for them alone to resist. The plight North Korean refugees suffer is not a totally irresistible one. If you help these people, you can lessen the burden they carry during and after their escape. However, you may ask yourself, how can someone on one side of the world help someone on the other? Well, with the wonderful thing that is the internet, you can
actually do a lot. When you get in contact with groups like the LFNKR, who rescue and support North Korean defectors, you can learn a lot of information about things like donating. As reads on the LFNKR website, “If you would like to assist with our rescue operations, we invite you to donate towards the ongoing rescue missions.” With the added money, these nonprofit support missions are able to provide better quality rescue and support operations for the refugees. The website also contains other details on how to help. For example, “If you have friends or colleagues who are interested in North Korean issues, why not organize a study group, or
invite speakers in?” As you can see, there are plenty of ways to aid these people. Be it raising awareness, or supporting agencies that aid these people, you have the power to help. And when you have the power to help, you are obligated to help. The problems North Koreans face are very real, and very dangerous. Refugees from the North Korean regime run several risks in the outside world. It is your obligation to these people to support them, via raising awareness or donating to support groups that rescue the defectors. With your help, the traveler crossing the Tumen River can have a better life. Tom Nevins MUMS Grade 8
Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) Ann has devoted herself to causes promoting peace, joining peace marches, standing vigil Saturday mornings in Triangle park and organizing Addison County Citizens for Alternatives to Military Service, ACCAMS. Yet, Ann doesn’t call herself a patriot. She says, “I would be a World citizen from the USA by choice. “ The current administration and the Congress in Washington, D.C. are heading an effort to dismantle 40
years of social structure and institutions that guarantee the majority of Americans some level of safety and quality of life. I harken back to the Girl Scout Law: be honest and fair, friendly and helpful, considerate and caring. Be responsible for what you say and do, and respect yourself and others. If the Democrats and Republicans can play ball nicely, they can work together to protect our institutions and defend our democracy.
The delegates to the Continental Congress set an example for us to resist tyranny by a government or a ruler. The times call for new courageous patriots to love, support and defend our country and its interests with devotion. We must stand up. Johanna Nichols is a grandmother, writer, and Unitarian Universalist minister emerita. She welcomes responses to these columns at nichols. johanna@gmail.com.
the primary beneficiaries of the tax cuts in the Republican health care proposals, in order to make up some of the federal budget cuts. If so, that issue should be debated on its merits, without recourse to the unproven
assertion that tax increases will lead affluent Vermonters to move out of state. Eric L. Davis is professor emeritus of political science at Middlebury College.
Davis (Continued from Page 4A) ers may arise in response to federal budget cuts. All of the Republican health care bills being considered in Washington would cut federal reimbursements to Vermont for Medicaid and Dr. Dynasaur by several hundred million dollars over the next decade. These programs cover more than a third of Vermont children, a high percentage of Vermont elders, especially the chronically ill, and represent a critical revenue stream for the state’s community hospitals and nursing homes. The Legislature may well consider increasing taxes on the wealthiest Vermonters, who will also be
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Machiavelli: Discourses on Livy, Part II Editor’s note: This is the 13th conquests of princes or imperial prosper if it does certain things: essay by Middlebury College republics, like Rome before the two, in particular. The first may Professor Emeritus Victor Nuovo Caesars, with those of migrating be likened to setting up exercises: on the origins of western political peoples. The former enlarge their those states live longest that renew thought with a focus on the great empires by subjecting other nations themselves by constantly returning to their rule; their purpose is mere to their beginnings. political thinkers of the times. acquisition, and so they are willing He goes on to explain why this By Victor Nuovo to allow their newly is so. It is because the good that Without doubt, conquered subjects to a republic is supposed to embody Machiavelli’s retain their ancestral and which is the source of its Discourses on Livy is land and to continue health is most abundantly present unsurpassed among to live according to in its beginning or founding. works of political their own laws and The preamble of our constitution philosophy. Neither customs, so long as may serve as an example of such Plato’s Republic, they remain peaceful. good. It tells why the People of nor the Laws, nor However, when the United States have established Aristotle’s Ethics entire peoples and the constitution: “to form a more and Politics stand their families are perfect union, establish justice, above it. And it is far driven by famine, or ensure domestic tranquility, more readable. It is a war, or oppression, or provide for the common defense, browser’s delight, and imagine themselves promote the general welfare, and easy to navigate. Each of its 142 Thinking about led by God to seek secure the blessings of liberty, to another land, their ourselves and our posterity.” If a chapters, which are politics — desire is not just to nation could follow this, it is all divided into three the origins rule over it, “but, the good that a civil society needs books, is headed by rather, to possess it, to live a long and happy life, and a descriptive title that An essay by even private property, to continue as a whole nation of tells the reader what Victor Nuovo and to drive out or integral and well-functioning parts; it’s all about. The Middlebury College murder its ancient a just society. It is our highest good. titles are gathered in inhabitants,” in short, When Machiavelli mentioned a table of contents, professor emeritus to exterminate them. the good in this chapter, he was which, together with of philosophy Machiavelli adds alluding to Aristotle’s notion that several prefaces, offer the comment: “This political science was the science of an overview of the whole work to which readers can kind of war is extremely cruel and the highest human good, and so it repeatedly return without losing frightful,” which he intended as a is. The second way that a civil their place. Machiavelli began statement of fact and not as a moral society is able to live a long writing the Discourses soon after judgment. The comment is calculated, life is by recognizing the noble his forced retirement, around 1512, of its great but unlike The Prince, he lingered nonetheless, to open the minds of achievements over it, and it remained a work in his readers to political reality and personages. He had in mind progress until he died in 1527. It its inherent cruelty. His explanation individuals who occupied high should enlighten and disturb us, office in the government of Rome, gave him consolation. Unlike his illustrious because it fits too well to events and who remained faithful to the predecessors and successors, in the founding of our own nation laws, especially those “instituted Machiavelli does not start off and its western expansion and the against men’s ruthless ambition with a declaration of fundamental motives of the early settlers to and insolence.” In this way, principles derived from mere possess the land as though it were he perceived that the laws and institutions of government became reason, but with examples from a wilderness, which it was not. Related to this alive “through history. I do not mean that the virtue of Machiavelli was unprincipled— is the two-faced Roman Nowhere in single citizens” as is commonly supposed. He policy who exemplified employed an inductive method, c o n q u e r o r s the book does to Machiavelli bother them in action, deriving principles from well- employed Rome’s with ideals or who bravely tried practices, which is why he increase endeavored to chose a work of history as his p o p u l a t i o n — f o r ideal narratives. enforce them primary source. Discourses on without a growing and prevailed. Livy reads like a user’s manual. populace any city He writes about become the past, recent or This is the sort Each chapter, regardless of length, cannot They remote, describing of leadership that treats a substantial topic. The great. breathes life into shortest (I. 42), which is less than a a c c o m p l i s h e d the actions of and page, observes how easily men are this by the joint princes and peoples institutions makes them noble. corrupted, even those who are well- use of force and Thus it would educated and are otherwise well- love, “by keeping and their outcomes. pathways seem that reputed, and why it is necessary the to have laws to restrain them from open and safe” for immigrants, Machiavelli was not lacking in or by destroying nearby cities principles, in spite of his realism evil doing. The longest chapter (III. 6) is and enslaving their inhabitants and the ambiguities of political about conspiracies; it discusses (II. 3). The policy of love is the life that he described. Rather, he the motives that lead to them, seed of beautiful idea of a nation was an advocate of the classical the hazards of engaging in them, of immigrants. But we have not ideal of the noble and the good. He discovered it arising spontaneously and how best to defeat them. It outgrown the policy of force. There are many more in the active life of a political should be required reading for all and disturbing society, in the city. May it long conspiracy theorists (they may be illuminating in Machiavelli’s endure! enlightened by it) and anyone else moments One last word: Machiavelli, like with an interest in current politics. book, and I could go on forever Nowhere in the book does commenting on them, but there is the ancients, regarded the city — Machiavelli bother with ideals room for only one more. I have the polis — as the archetype of or ideal narratives. He writes selected the first chapter of the civil society, as the highest good. about the past, recent or remote, third book (III. 1), because, more He regarded the city more as a describing the actions of princes than any other, it offers a key to sanctuary of law than a school of virtue, but he nevertheless and peoples and their outcomes. understanding the whole work. In this chapter, Machiavelli endeavored to endow it with his He never fails to be enlightening, but also troubling. For example, imagines that a civil society is own variety of pragmatic virtue. Bk. II, Ch. 8 is all about wars like a living body, that it is mortal, He is our link to ancient values and of conquest. He compares the but nevertheless can live long and the first real modern.
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CHARLOTTE — Janice M. Armell, 80, passed away Monday, June 26, 2017, at her home in Charlotte. She was born on January 1, 1937 in Claremont, N.H. Janice was the daughter of Ralph and Madelyn (Gregory) Watson. She worked for many years at Eating Well Magazine in Charlotte, and enjoyed reading, knitting, bird watching, trips to the ocean and spending time with her family. She is survived by her children; Pamela Cousino and spouse Guy, Susan Johnson and spouse Charles, Sally Boisvine, Ilene Knox and spouse Larry, Lester Armell, Jr. and friend Shirley, Charlene Gorton and spouse Paul, June Melillo and spouse Gary, Betty Sabourin and spouse Gerald, Mark Armell and spouse Brenda, along with 18 grandchildren, 34 great grandchildren, seven great-great
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grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She also leaves behind a very special friend Sandy Armell. She was predeceased by her husband, Lester Armell, Sr. and their son Eric. We would like to thank the Visiting Nurse Association as well as niece Penny Armell, Doris Brace and Hilary Norton for their care. Visiting hours will be held on Thursday, June 29, at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Vergennes from 5 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, June 30, at North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church. Interment will be in North Ferrisburgh Cemetery. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Shriner’s Hospital, 51 Blossom St, Boston, MA 02114, or Muscular JANICE MARILYN ARMELL Dystrophy Association of Vermont, University of Vermont Medical Center Clinic, 790 College Parkway, online condolences to her family visit Colchester, VT 05439. To send brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊
Francis Waterman, 75, Ferrisburgh FERRISBURGH — Francis Arthur Waterman, 75, passed away peacefully in his home the evening of June 26, 2017, after a battle with Alzheimer’s, surrounded by family. Fran was a loving husband, father, brother and papa. He leaves his wife, Louise; his son, Ben and wife Catie; his daughter Katie and husband Nick; his son Bigs and wife Jen; his son Pat; his daughter Emme; and his seven grandchildren. He was predeceased by sister Susan and many other close friends and family. Fran was the district sales manager for Blue Seal Feeds, where he met the love of his life, Louise and many long-time friends. When he retired, he started his own business, Waterman Property Maintenance, doing what he had a passion for — digging in the dirt. Fran enjoyed spending time with his family, camping, being outside and going hunting in Maine every
year with his close friend Laurel Junkins and his son Ben. He loved animals and had a passion for tinkering with big equipment. Wherever Fran was, you can bet he’d be chatting with someone within seconds. To say he was a social butterfly would be an understatement. His cheery laugh and great sense of humor would have anyone in the room smiling within seconds. Fran’s warm soul will not be forgotten. He left an impression on many people, including his caregivers, and he will live on in all of our memories. The family would like to thank all the wonderful people who took care of Fran at the end of his life, especially Grace Striker and all the people associated with Hospice. FRANCIS ARTHUR A service will be held Saturday, WATERMAN July 1, at 10 a.m. at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Vergennes. In to Hospice Volunteer Services, P.O. lieu of flowers please send donations Box 772, Middlebury, VT 05753.◊
Mary Sleeper, 77, West Addison WEST ADDISON — Mary E. (Fisher) Sleeper, 77, of West Addison, passed away peacefully at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center on June 23, 2017, surrounded by her loving family after a courageous battle with Dementia She was born on September 28, 1939, in West Addison, the daughter of Harold and Gertrude (Wiley) Fisher. Mary grew up in West Addison and graduated from Vergennes High School. She attended Champlain College, where she received a Certificate in Junior Accountancy with dean’s list honors. It was there that she met her soul mate, Roger Sleeper. They were married in the West Addison United Methodist Church, where she was a member. Roger and Mary lived in Burlington, Winooski, and South Burlington before residing in West Addison to raise their children. Mary was a devoted lifetime member of the church, where she served as Secretary of the church Administrative Council, church Treasurer and Secretary of the United Methodist Women for several years. She also was Treasurer and Secretary of the Addison PTO, and held the offices of President and Treasurer of
the Champlain Homemakers for a number of years. Mary was most happy being with her family, especially at the holidays, when she enjoyed being home. She was a very family-oriented person. She also loved to cook big meals for the family and was an amazing cook. She enjoyed watching the birds on the feeder, always hoping to see cardinals, as they were her favorite bird. Mary was very much loved by all who knew her. Mary is survived by her husband Roger Sleeper, their children; Mark and his wife Mary Melanie of Ferrisburgh; Greg and his wife Julie of Colchester; Jeff and his wife Jeannette of Vergennes; and Janet and her husband Reg of New Haven. Mary is also survived by her brother John Fisher of Anaheim, Calif. She was blessed with eight grandchildren; Mike, Dan, Bradley, Emily, Allison, Amy, Jenna and Andrew; four step grandchildren, Corey, Nikole, Theresa and Reagan; and six step great grandchildren, Cidney, Mason, Noah, Melanie, Joseph and Gabe. She was predeceased by granddaughter Sarah Ann Sleeper in 1990, sisters-in-law, Linda (Landon) Fisher in 1995 and Ing Mei (Westervelt) Fisher in 2014.
MIDDLEBURY — Wilton Warner “Bud” Covey, M.D., passed away on June 21, 2017. Born on December 22, 1919, Bud was raised in Manchester, N.H. As a child, he spent many summers with his grandparents in Brattleboro. It was there that he met Marjorie Louise Dix, whom he courted and eventually married on June 16, 1944. They shared 69 wonderful years of marriage before Marge passed away in 2013, just short of her 94th birthday. Bud attended Middlebury College and U.V.M. Medical School. His 15 years of practicing family medicine in Milton included house calls to several neighboring towns and the delivering of many babies. Always a forward thinking practitioner, he was an early advocate of seatbelt use and gave the first dose of polio vaccine in the State of Vermont. Responding to a shortage of mental health practitioners, he returned to U.V.M. at age 43 for a residency in psychiatry. Upon completion of these studies in 1966, the Coveys moved to Cornwall, where Bud was employed with Middlebury College Health Services, the Counseling Service of Addison County, and Spring Lake Ranch in Rutland County. Throughout his career, he also saw patients in private practice. He and Marge subsequently moved to Bridport and then Middlebury. Bud was a dedicated longtime member of the Middlebury United
Methodist Church. He served as Medical Director of the Counseling Service of Addison County and also as a member of the Board of Directors for Elderly Services/ Project Independence. Always eager to serve others, Bud and Marge traveled to Bosnia with Volunteers in Mission in 1996, where, at age 76, they worked to rebuild and restore homes damaged or destroyed by the Bosnian War. As Bosnian families began to settle in Vermont, Bud enjoyed teaching several of them to drive. His work with refugees was consistent with a lifelong desire to help mend wounds and create peace. In the last few years of his life Bud reconnected with his childhood hobby of playing the harmonica, an activity which brought him much peace and which he especially enjoyed when playing with and for others at The Residence at Otter Creek or when teaming up with his son, Alan, to give concerts at Elderly Services in Middlebury. Other hobbies over the years included piloting small aircraft, boating and water skiing, camping, downhill skiing, and gardening. Bud was devoted to his family: sons Alan and wife, Wendy; Laird and wife, Marcy; Eric and wife, Helen Toomey-Covey; and Mark and wife, Judy. He adored his grandchildren, Ethan (and partner Rachel Van Dolsen), Wes (and wife Erin Covey-Smith), Justin, Erin, Kelly,
BRIDPORT — Russell L. Giard, 83, passed away peacefully Thursday, June 22, 2017, in his home surrounded by his family. He was born in Bridport on Sept 20, 1933, the son of the late Victor and Marguerite Giard. He was a Lineman, and worked for Cartmell Sales and Service until he went out on his own doing refrigeration and service until he retired. He loved to camp, fish and hunt with his family. He is survived by his daughter Debbie Butler and her husband Doug; his son Steve Giard and his wife Missy; his daughter Pat
Watkins and her husband Eric; daughter Linda Carter and her husband Kevin; and son Jim Giard and his wife Wendy. He is also survived by 11 grandchildren and five great grandchildren. He is predeceased by his wife, Eloise Giard in 2013. Per Russell’s request, there will be no visiting hours or services. A Celebration of his life will be held at a later date, at the convenience of the family. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice or Addison County Humane Society.◊
RUSSELL L. GIARD
Paul Murray, 81, Bristol BRISTOL — Paul A. Murray, 81, passed away Sunday, June 25, 2017, at his home in Bristol. He was born January 17, 1936 in Middlebury, the son of Kenneth and Rena (Whittemore) Murray. He enjoyed hunting and fishing. Paul is survived by three
children Samuel Murray, Todd Murray and Rebecca Murray; his sisters Shirley Dwyer of Bristol, Patricia Austin of Vergennes, Molly Flagg of Massena, N.Y., and Nancy Abbott; and his brother Kenneth Robert Murray of East Middlebury.
There will be no funeral services. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Homeward Bound Animal Welfare Center, Boardman St., Middlebury, VT 05753. To send online condolences to his family please visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com. ◊
MARY E. SLEEPER Per Mary’s wishes, there will be a church service on Thursday, June 29 at 11 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in West Addison. For those who wish to make a donation, the church was closest to her heart. Please send donations to the United Methodist Church, Attn: Grace Birchmore, 5264 Lake Street, West Addison, VT, 05491. To send online condolences to her family visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊
Doris LeBeau-O’Brien, Vergennes VERGENNES — Doris LeBeauO’Brien passed away on Monday, June 26, 2017 at the home of Sylvia Hallock with her family by her side. Daughter of the late Arthur and Marjorie LeBeau, she was preceded in death by her husband Phil O’Brien I; her son and daughter-in-law, Philip J. II and Brenda; her brothers Robert and Paul; and her sister Carol Rivers.
Ms. Lebeau-O’Brien is survived by her son James O’Brien; grandchildren Heather, JT, Shana, Dana and Lauren; great-grandson Walker; brother Fred; brother-in-law James Rivers; special friend Tootie and too many more to name. She is also survived by several nieces and nephews and a special nephew, Michael ‘Swany’ LeBeau.
Doris and her family would like to say a special thank you to Sylvia and Tammie for all the love, care and support that they have given over the years. In lieu of Flowers, donations to Addison County Hospice are greatly appreciated. There will be no calling hours or funeral service per Doris’ request.◊
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New law (Continued from Page 1A) California, the Midwest, the other New England states, the mid-Atlantic states — dairy farms are facing similar issues and desperately hope for remedies like this. So that is the way of building grassroots support that can eventually convince senators in other states to come on board or begin studying the issue in earnest.” In early May, Leahy partnered with California Sens. Diane Feinstein and Kamala Harris, Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet and Hawaii Sen. Mazie Hirono to introduce the Senate bill. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., co-sponsored the identical House bill on May 25. “Across our country, including the many dairy farms of Vermont, foreign workers support agriculture and help put food on our tables,” Leahy said at the time of the bill’s introduction. “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 community without fear of arrest. The current system has long been broWHILE FOREIGN-BORN WORKERS provide much of the labor on Vermont dairy farms, their ability to stay ken, and it needs to be fixed.” At present 40 groups advocat- in the country legally is hampered by U.S. immigration law. Photo courtesy of Open Door Clinic ing for farmworker and immigrant rights — including the National so difficult that it’s hardly ever at- roster still lacks “R” legislators. In “Talking with many of my counFarmworkers, the United Farm tempted,” he said. the Senate, the bill has gained three terparts around the Northeast and Workers of America, and FarmGiven the difficulty of passing new cosponsors: Kirsten Gillibrand New York, they are facing the same worker Justice — support the blue comprehensive immigration reform (New York), Tom Udall (New Mex- issues. At a recent meeting in New card legislation. ico) and Al Franken (Minnesota). York, immigration reform was over the past decade-plus, this “Migrant Justice supports the new bill is intentionally limIn the House the legislation discussed. Those around the table bill as a measure that would rec- ited in scope. now has 42 cosponsors were hoping Congress could come ognize and advance the rights of (from an initial 26), but all together on a plan.” “In the immediate years immigrant farmworkers,” Migrant after Sen. Leahy pushed are still Democrats. Tebbetts continued, “Farmers Justice spokesperson Will Lambert the comprehensive immiMOVING FORWARD need stability. They can’t control said. “The law, however, would not gration reform bill through When asked how Addi- the weather but they would like replace the need for a comprehen- the Senate there was son County residents some control over their labor issive immigration reform that pro- a hope that faded To read the full text of the proposed who approve of the sues. If Congress and the President vides permanent protection for all over time that the Agricultural Worker Program Act see bill could best lend were able to forge a new law it immigrants in the United States. House would do its this story on addisonindependent.com their support, Carle’s would go a long way of solving an And regardless of what happens job and take up that answered: “Well, this important issue to our farmers.” in Washington, we will continue bill and make changis a common problem Carle observed that 2017 is alfighting for our human rights here es to it or work on comprehensive that we in Vermont have with oth- ready a year in which Congress is in Vermont.” immigration reform,” said Carle. er policy issues, especially during moving farm issues “to the front AN ONGOING STRUGGLE “But now, since years have gone this new Trump administration. burner,” as it takes on the work of The proposed legislation is the by and there’s still no action on a The Vermont delegation is on board crafting a new farm bill (the 2014 latest in a series of efforts to ad- comprehensive plan, Sen. Leahy, with the need for reform and the Farm Bill will expire in September dress the labor needs of farms in Sen. Feinstein and others are com- need for action, so contacting the 2018). Vermont and nationwide. Migrant ing forward with some of the ele- Vermont delegation is nice but it’s “It’s easier to get people to folabor, mostly from ments of what had not as critical as reaching out to oth- cus on things like this when a farm Mexico and mostly passed before be- er states.” bill’s in the offing,” he said. undocumented, has Berry also emphacause there’s a pressCarle and Berry formed the backbone ing need to deal with sized the importance also noted that forof the Vermont dairy these festering issues of those in Vermont’s “Part of the larger mer U.S. Agriculture workforce for the past like farm labor and ag sector, especially, strategy on this Secretary Sonny Per10 to 15 years. Current dairy labor. This is to reach across state legislation is due was one of the immigration law does a new approach to lines. few Trump nominees to get the bill not allow foreign-born “Part of the larger pass parts of what’s that Leahy ultimately workers to stay over needed in the larg- strategy on this leg- introduced and to supported — in part an extended period, er scheme of things, islation is to get the expose it to farm because of Perdue’s but dairy farmers in but not to tackle the bill introduced and groups. Vermont track record in adparticular need help on enormous job of to expose it to farm is often looked to dressing farm labor the farm every day. comprehensive re- groups,” Berry said, as a leader” on issues as governor The impact of losing form if that just can’t noting that “Vermont of Georgia and his ag issues. this workforce could “Across our is often looked to as a be done.” pledge to work with — Tom Berry be devastating to the country, including Leahy’s Ver- leader” on ag issues. Congress on this isstate’s dairy industry, Many ag advocamont-based ag exsue. ag experts say. Local the many pert Tom Berry also cy organizations have both state Nevertheless, both men emphafarmers are equally dairy farms of emphasized the and national presences, said Berry, sized that legislating is a “methodclear on the critical Vermont, foreign sharply focused na- mentioning such organizations as ical process.” importance of migrant workers support the American Farm Bureau Federature of S.1034. “It has to begin with the introlabor. tion and the National Milk Produc- duction of the bill to start the pro“The intent of the agriculture and “They keep the legislation is to pro- ers Federation. Another key group cess, start the conversation,” said help put food on farms going,” said vide an opportunity are state directors of agriculture, Carle. “So that’s what they’re doBridport dairy farmer our tables.” for those who are including Vermont Agriculture Sec- ing ... It doesn’t happen instantly. Cheryl Connor. “If we — Sen. Patrick Leahy already here doing retary Anson Tebbetts. Nothing does. And we’ve only didn’t have migrant “Secretary Tebbetts is a mem- recently begun the process in this this work and meet workers, we wouldn’t have dairy the other qualifications to remain in ber of the National Association of new Senate.” farms.” the country,” Berry said. “But it’s State Departments of Agricultural Reporter Gaen Murphree is at In 2013 Leahy was instrumental not intended to create an opportu- (NASDA). So having this bill car- gaenm@addisonindependent.com. in getting comprehensive immigra- nity for new agricultural workers to ried forward by Vermonters as they tion reform legislation passed in the enter the country. It’s meant to be go and mingle with their national Senate. That legislation, however, a somewhat circumscribed oppor- organizations hopefully begins to was never brought to a vote in the tunity.” expose members of those organiHouse, though supporters believe it By contrast, earlier versions of zations from states where they’re would have had a good chance of similar legislation also attempted represented in Congress by Repubpassing that year. to replace the federal H-2A visa licans,” Berry said. Instead, said Carle, immigration program with a new agricultural Tebbetts, a supporter of the bills issues have languished in a “toxic worker visa program for incoming in Washington, said he has already environment.” taken the conversation across state workers. “Just the topic of immigration has As introduced, the bill’s spon- lines. become somewhat of a so-called sors are all Democrats. Close to “Agriculture, for the most part, third rail on Capitol Hill, where it’s two months later, the cosponsors is not a partisan issue,” he said.
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Vermont Gas pipeline is buried too shallow Safety is not a concern for regulator By MIKE POLHAMUS VTDigger.org NEW HAVEN — Vermont Gas Systems didn’t bury its controversial natural gas pipeline as deeply as it was supposed to, but the company and the state Department of Public Service say that doesn’t pose a problem. The department says Vermont Gas should be allowed to leave the pipeline as is. However, DPS officials want an investigation into why the company didn’t abide by its permit. The 41-mile pipeline leading into Addison County was to be buried at least 4 feet deep in most places. However, contractors put it under as little as 3 feet of soil in at least 18 locations along a 2,500-foot section near New Haven, according to documents the Public Service Department filed with the Public Service Board. DPS staffers say the pipeline remains safe as long as Vermont Gas marks and monitors the segment where it’s less than 4 feet below the surface. The department has recommended that the board investigate how the deviation from the permit came about. An attorney for a group that has opposed the pipeline said its entire length needs to be reviewed to see if it’s closer to the surface than intended in other areas. Pipeline opponents say the extra foot of depth is needed to ensure that vehicles and farm machinery don’t damage it, and to insulate the pipeline from high-voltage electric lines nearby. Vermont Gas attorneys contend that the 3-foot depth constitutes a “nonsubstantial change” from the pipeline’s permit. They have asked the Public Service Board to alter the permit retroactively so it authorizes the burial depth Vermont Gas actually used. Both Vermont Gas and the Department of Public Service agree the pipeline as it exists meets all applicable state and federal safety standards. But while Vermont Gas argued to the Public Service Board that the change isn’t substantial, DPS special counsel Timothy Duggan described it in sharper terms. “A material deviation from the approved plans has likely occurred” as a result of the change, Duggan said
in his department’s filing to the PSB, and an investigation is warranted. The investigation would look into why the permit wasn’t strictly followed, not whether the pipeline itself is safe, said Jim Porter, the director of the DPS’ Public Advocacy Division. “It’s almost a technical violation, is what we’re looking at,” Porter said, “but we do want to know why they deviated” from the permit’s terms. “Fortunately, in this instance, we don’t think there’s a safety concern,” Porter said. Porter said the pipeline is buried deeply enough to meet federal and state safety standards. The 4-foot depth was included in the pipeline’s permit through an agreement between VGS and Vermont Electric Power Co. for pipeline buried in the utility’s right of way, he said. On June 26, Vermont Gas filed a response to the DPS memo that recommended an investigation. The incident doesn’t warrant an investigation, Vermont Gas attorney Owen McClain said, arguing that the difference between what the permit allowed and what was built “is not material.” It was only by coincidence that the mistake was brought to regulators’ attention, said Jim Dumont, an attorney for several of the pipeline’s opponents. A piece of heavy machinery stuck in a boggy section of the pipeline’s route brought onlookers to the site, Dumont said. They discovered that sections of the pipeline were buried with as little as 1.5 feet of soil, according to him. Dumont said that depth would violate federal and state standards, and he called for an independent inspection of the entire pipeline to ensure it’s safe. But the Department of Public Service has told state regulators that the pipeline is no less than 3 feet below the surface along its entire length. Vermont Gas spokeswoman Beth Parent also said it is buried no shallower than 4 feet anywhere other than the 18 locations already identified. Parent said Vermont Gas is pleased that DPS agrees the pipeline is safe, and said the deviation from the permit “did not and does not represent a substantial change.” Parent said no investigation is needed but that the company would cooperate if one is begun.
Walk in the footsteps of soldiers July 5 & 6 ORWELL — The Revolutionary War’s Northern American Army withdrew under the cover of darkness on July 5 and 6, 1777, from their fortifications at Mount Independence in Orwell, Vt., and Fort Ticonderoga, N.Y., as the British under Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne drew near. On July 6 and 7, 2017, a group of about 20 or more intrepid Revolutionary War re-enactors will honor the 240th anniversary of this retreat with a walk of their own. They will follow in the footsteps of history, leaving the Mount Independence State Historic Site on Thursday, July 5, about 9:30 a.m. The public is invited to give them a good send-off and watch them leave. Look for the walkers as they head down Mount Independence Road, Old Stage Road, Route 144, Hortonia Road and Frog Hollow Road,
ending up at the Hubbardton Battlefield State Historic Site in Hubbardton on Friday, July 7. Thousands of soldiers made this same trek 240 years ago. The re-enactors will arrive in time for the Battle of Hubbardton Revolutionary War Living History Weekend, July 8 and 9, honoring the anniversary of the July 8, 1777, battle — the only Revolutionary War battle fought on Vermont soil. The Mount Independence State Historic Site, a National Historic Landmark, is one of the best-preserved Revolutionary War archaeological sites. It is located near the end of Mount Independence Road six miles west of the intersection of Routes 22A and 73 in Orwell. It has an air-conditioned museum, six miles of trails, and is open daily through Oct. 15, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Call 948-2000 for information.
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fun competition, which features teams pulling “outhouses” toward Main Street with a rider on the “throne” of each vehicle. Enjoy the entertainment. Five-Town Friends of the Arts silent auction in Bristol. Tuesday, July 4, 9-2:30 p.m., on the town green. Original art, and other items. All proceeds go toward 5-TFA’s efforts to support the arts in the 5-town community, including scholarships for three Mt. Abe seniors each year, community grants and other programs. For more information about 5-Town Friends of the Arts: 5townfriendsofthearts.org. Independence Day parade and celebration in
Hubbardton Battlefield, arriving on July 7 for the Battle of Hubbardton weekend (July 8 and 9). Their march commemorates the 240th anniversary of the Vermont Philharmonic and fireworks American withdrawal. Send them off at the Mount in Middlebury. Thursday, June 29, 7:30 or watch for them along the roads and byways. Call p.m., behind the Mahaney Center for the 802-948-2000 to confirm. Arts (rain site: Kenyon Arena), Middlebury College. The wonders of our wetlands in Orwell. Thursday, The Sheldon Museum presents its 25th annual Pops July 6, 10:30 a.m., Orwell Free Library. Head over Concert featuring the Vermont Philharmonic followed to Vermont Wetland Plant Supply where aquatic by fireworks. Grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for picnics. ecologist Daniel Redondo will present the wonders Bring chairs, blankets, and flashlights. Ticket prices: of Vermont wetlands. Adult $25, Youth $10; children under 12 admitted free; Senior meal in Bristol. Thursday, July 6, noon, First adult tickets purchased by June 25: Baptist Church of Bristol, 10 Park St. Baked beans, $20. Tickets may be purchased potato salad, broccoli salad, cottage cheese and by calling 802-388-2117, online at vanilla ice cream with strawberries. Suggested henrysheldonmuseum.org or in donation $4. To be on the list phone Nancy at person at the Sheldon, One Park 453-5276. Come early and enjoy MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult: Sketching, Mon. talking with friends and make new Street in Middlebury. On & Off the Wheel, Weds PM Wheel, Pastels, Raku, Chinese ones. Rice reading in Brush Painting, Int/Adv Painting, Japanese Bookbinding Elizabeth Middlebury. Thursday, July 6, 4-5 & Suminagashi, Color Theory Children: Clay classes‑hand p.m., Community meeting room, & wheel every Tues, Weds, Thurs, Art Camps:Where the Wild Ilsley Public library, 75 Main St. Pajama Storytime in Middlebury. Friday, June Things Are, Art of China, Viking Art, Birds of a Feather, Rice, who grew up in South Korea 30, 5-6 p.m., Ollie’s Other following the Korean war, will Animal Art, Art of Egypt. middleburystudioschool. just Place, 13 Washington St. Free, read from “Rituals of Separation: org Contact Barb 247‑3702, ewaldewald@aol.com geared for kids age five and under. a South Korean Memoir of Identity Wear your P.J.s for extra fun. This Belonging.” TAI CHI CLASSES: SUN‑STYLE 73. ‑ Open to anyone with and week, Hooray for BIRDS! More info Willard Sterne Randall in experience in the 73. Fridays 1 to 2 pm during July and August. Tai Middlebury. Thursday, July 6, 7-8 contact Jenny Lyons at 802-3828558 or olliesotherplace.com. Chi for Beginners. Intergenerational class offered to anyone age p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, Arts Walk in Vergennes. Friday, June fifteen and older, with or without experience in Tai Chi. Fridays 350 Lodge Rd. The Vermont Book 30, 5-8 p.m. Art on view and for sale presents Champlain College 2:30 to 3:30 pm during July and August. No classes will be held Shop at participating locations throughout professor and Revolutionary era on July 14. Middlebury Rec Facility, 154 Creek Rd, Middlebury. historian Randall, who will read downtown Vergennes, including all along Main St. After-hours events from and discuss his latest book Free of charge. Instructor: Susan Wallis. 453‑5600. at art galleries and local businesses “Unshackling America — How invite you to explore this walkable the War of 1812 Truly Ended the Bristol. Tuesday, July 4, 10:30 a.m., throughout the historic downtown. Browse shops, antiques, and American Revolution.” village. This fantastic parade starts at the corner of artwork. Information VergennesDowntown.org. Liberty and Pleasant streets, moves up Pleasant/ Artist’s reception in Vergennes. Friday, June 30, 5-8 Spring Street, right onto Mountain Street, right onto p.m. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St. Reception Tai Chi Sun-Style 73 in Middlebury. Main Street, and down West Street to the Rec Field. for the exhibit “The Handmade Book.” Beginning Friday, July 7, 1-2 p.m., This is followed at noon by The Festival on the Street dance in Brandon. Friday, June 30, 5 p.m., Middlebury Rec. Facility, 154 Creek Rd. Green, which includes food and craft vendors, pony Estabrook Park. Cookout begins at 5 p.m.; music Open to anyone with experience in the 73. Free. rides for the kids, an inflatable family fun center, and begins at 6 p.m. with DJ from Jam Man Entertainment. No session on July 14. Contact Susan Wallis at music by Mango Jam. Free shuttles leaving from Rite Aid & Post Office at 6, 453-5600 to register. First in a Friday afternoon 6:30 & 7 p.m. (returning at 9:30, 10 & 10:30 p.m.). summer series. More info: bidcc@yahoo.com or 802-345-0056. Tai Chi for beginners in Middlebury. Beginning “Pity in History” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, June Friday, July 7, 2:30-3:30 p.m., Middlebury Rec. 30, 6 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater, Mahaney Center Author Bill Schubart to speak in Facility, 154 Creek Rd. Intergenerational class for for the Arts, Middlebury College. An informal, work-inLincoln. Wednesday, July 5, 7 p.m., anyone 15 or older, with or without Tai Chi expeprogress showing of Howard Barker’s play by PTP/ Lincoln Library. Schubart, who has lived with rience. Free. No session July 14. Contact Susan NYC, an off-Broadway theatre company specializing his family in Vermont since 1947, writes about the Wallis to register at 453-5600. First in a Friday afterin creating socially and politically acute theatre for the Green Mountain State in fiction, humor and opinnoon summer series. 21st century. Free. More info at ptpnyc.org. ion pieces. He will talk about his latest book, “Lila Pajama Storytime in Middlebury. Friday, July 7, 5-6 & Theron.” p.m., Ollie’s Other Place, 13 Washington St. Free, Stargazing open house in Middlebury. Wednesday, geared for kids age five and under. Wear your P.J.s July 5, 9-10:30 p.m., Mittelman Observatory, for extra fun. This week, Rock Paper Scissors. Vermont Gran Fondo in Middlebury. McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Route 125. See Jupiter More info contact Jenny Lyons at 802-382-8558 or Saturday, July 1, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Woodchuck and Saturn and other celestial phenomena through olliesotherplace.com. Hard Cider, Exchange Street. The Green the observatory’s telescopes. Free and open to the George Matthew Jr. carillon concert in Middlebury. Mountain State’s premier cycling event will return for public. Check the Observatory at go.middlebury. Friday, July 7, 5 p.m., Mead Chapel and surroundits fourth edition with an emphasis on rider comforts. edu/observatory/ or 802-443-2266 after 7 p.m. on ing lawns, Middlebury College. Matthew is the The event will begin and end at Woodchuck Hard evening of event for weather status. carillonneur for both Middlebury College and Cider, with the après-ride party-taking place from 2-7 Norwich University. He will be playing American p.m. with live music and fare from an array of food music composed for the carillon. Part of Middlebury trucks. For more information and to register, go to College’s Summer Carillon Concert series. More vermontgranfondo.com. info at go.middlebury.edu/carillon. Withdrawing from the Mount in Green Mountain Club hike — Silver Lake loop in Comedic storytelling in Middlebury. Friday, July Orwell. Thursday, July 6, 9 Salisbury. Saturday, July 1, meet at Falls of Lana/ 7, 8-10 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. a.m., Mount Independence Silver Lake parking lot on Rte. 53 south of Branbury Come see “Behind the Punchline,” State Historic Site, 497 State park. Moderate, 5.5 miles route including a loop where stand-up comedians will Mt. Independence Rd. hike around the Lake. Contact leader Ruth Penfield tell their favorite jokes and Re-enactors followat 802-388-5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail.com for the story behind that joke. ing the footsteps more information. For more activities, visit gmcbreadAdmission is free and of history begin loaf.org. open to the public. their 26-mile Free Tae Kwon Do Class in Vergennes. Saturday, July More info at withdrawal 1, 9 a.m.-noon Champlain Valley Christian Reform 802-779-5488 m a r c h Church, 73 Church St. Master Kellie Thomas, 5th or mrk4vt@ to the Degree Black Belt and owner of TaeKwon Do KICKS aol.com. will offer this class in this Korean martial art known for its dynamic kicking. More info contact Master Thomas at tkdkicks101@yahoo.com or 802-377-0476 Independence Day celebration in Brandon. Saturday, July 1, 10 a.m.- 10 p.m., Park Village. Silent auction, food, karaoke, family fun, dance party and fireworks. Parade at 1 p.m. Free shuttles from Rite Aid and Post Office running hourly 10 a.m.-1 p.m., then after parade hourly up to last shuttle after fireworks. More info: bidcc@yahoo.com or 802-345-0056. More info at brandon.org. Mad Hatter’s tea party in Bristol. Saturday, July 1, 1 p.m., on the town green. Rain location Lawrence Memorial Library. Choose a role, slip into a costume or just join the party. Cupcakes will be served. RSVP by calling 453-2366. Tom Stoppard’s “Arcadia” on stage in Middlebury. Saturday, July 1, 1 p.m., Seeler Studio Theater, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. An informal, work-in-progress performed by PTP/ NYC, an off-Broadway theatre company specializing in creating socially and politically acute theatre for the 21st century. Free. More info at ptpnyc.org. Of Arms and Artists in Orwell. Saturday, July 1, 2-3:30 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Paul Staiti, author of the new book “Of Arms and Artists,” examines five artists of the American Revolutionary era, including Mount Independence’s own John Trumbull. Books available for purchase and signing by the author. Annual J. Robert Maguire lecture. Sponsored by Mount Independence Coalition.
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THE GREAT BRISTOL Outhouse Race returns Tuesday, July 4, at 9 a.m. Last year, Sydney Perlee, seated, and her teammates Kayla Flint and Jesse Otis won their heat, but lost in the final. Independent file photo/Trent Campbell
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Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, July 8, 7-9 a.m., Otter View Park, intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Meet at the parking area. Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. For more information call 388-6019 or 388-1007. Peasant Market in Middlebury. Saturday, July 8, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., on the Green. A local favorite. Come and find some treasures. Proceeds benefit area non-profits and service organizations. Ayles skiff racing and skiffie outing in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, July 8, registration, 9 a.m., race starts at 10 a.m. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Rd. Ferrisburgh. Start at the museum’s North Harbor and head across the lake, approximately one mile. Rowers will rest (maybe even swim!) before racing back to North Harbor. Free. Information & Registration: Nick Patch 802-475-2022 x113 or nickp@lcmm.org. Recharge with nature hike in Middlebury. Saturday, July 8, 9-10:30 a.m., TAM Battell Woods entrance, Seminary St. Ext. Middlebury Area Land Trust invites you to join hike leader Michelle McCauley, Middlebury College Professor of Psychology. Spend time in nature and boost your physical and emotional well being. More info: 802-388-1007 or info@maltvt.org Annual Town Picnic in Weybridge. Saturday, July 8, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., Weybridge School, 210 Quaker Village Rd. Music by Snake Mountain Bluegrass, kids activities, baked beans and best pie contests. The town provides meat, drinks and desserts. Bring a salad or hot dish to share. More info contact Kirsten Hendy at 802-349-7167 or kirstenhendy@gmail.com Cold Roast Turkey and Salad Supper in Vergennes. Saturday, July 8, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, Main St. Menu includes cold roasted turkey, potato salad, broccoli salad, rolls, dessert and beverage served buffet style. Tickets: $9 adults/$5 children. Take out orders available. More info at 802-877-3150.
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Green Mountain Bicycle Club Monkton Ridge ride in Monkton and surrounding area. Sunday, July 9, 8:45 a.m., Meet at Shelburne Village Shopping Center. Three options, 23 (E), 38 (M) and 48 (M) miles, will travel some familiar roads and some less traveled. The short ride will not ascend to Monkton Ridge. Lots of food stops available along the way. More info contact Brian Howard at 802-505-1148 or bjhowd@gmail. com or Kerry Crosby at 802-578-3249 or crosbykn@comcast.net. Basin Bluegrass Festival in Brandon. Sunday, July 9, end of Basin Rd. The 23rd annual four-day event. Potluck under the big tent at 6 p.m. Three-day advance tickets $50 by June 27, $60 at the gate, under 15, free. Admission $25 after 5 p.m. M o r e info at
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Robert & Gigi in Middlebury. Monday, July 10, noon, on the green. A Brown Bag Lunch performance – part of Festival on the Green. Free Tae Kwon Do Class in Middlebury. Monday, July 10, 4:45-7:30 p.m. Middlebury Fitness, 175 Wilson Rd. Master Kellie Thomas, 5th Degree Black Belt and owner of TaeKwon Do KICKS will offer this class in this Korean martial art known for its dynamic kicking. More info contact Master Thomas at tkdkicks101@yahoo.com or 802-377-0476 The Sea the Sea in Middlebury. Monday, July 10, 7 p.m., on the green. Indie folk-pop duo-band with rich harmony and lyric-driven songs. Part of Festival on the Green. Doll make-under workshop part 1 in Shoreham. Monday, July 10, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Tired of children’s dolls with gobs of makeup on their faces? Bring fashion dolls that need a change to our doll make-under workshop. We’ll be washing, prepping, and creating shoes at this evening’s event. Ages 12 and up. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore in Middlebury. Monday, July 10, 8:30 p.m., on the green. Grammy award winner who stretches musical boundaries. Part of Festival on the Green.
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TUESDAY Blood Pressure and Foot Care Clinic in Forestdale. Thursday, July 11, 10 a.m., Forestdale Senior Center, 1591 Forestdale Rd. Sponsored by Vermont VNA & Hospice. Cost $10. No appointment necessary. More info at 802-770-1536.
CREATIVE SPACE GALLERY will hold an opening reception for their show, “The Handmade Book” during the Vergennes Art Walk on Friday, June 30, from 5-8 p.m. Works such as this “Dictionary” by artist Dorsey Hogg will be on display.
John Gailmor in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 11, noon, on the green. A Brown Bag lunch performance by a perennial favorite. Part of Festival on the Green. Political Luncheon in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 11, 12:30-2:30 p.m., Community Room, EastView at Middlebury. Middlebury College Professor Matt Dickinson will lead a discussion on political topics. Bring your own lunch or buy from our Bistro. Cash or check accepted. Free Community Dinner in Bristol. Sunday July 11, 5-6:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. Pulled BBQ chicken on a bun, baked beans, tossed green salad with dressing, watermelon, cookies and beverages. All are welcome. Rick Redington and the Luv in Hancock. Tuesday, July 11, 6:30 p.m., on the town green. Bring a chair and a picnic, rain site available. Free and open to the public. Part of the Hancock Green summer concert series. Sponsored by Hancock Town Pride Committee. Emily Braden Trio in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 11, 7 p.m., on the green. An effortless blend of jazz and soul. Part of Festival on the Green. Upstate Rubdown in Middlebury. Tuesday, July 11, 8:30 p.m., on the green. A stew of jazz, blues, gospel, soul and pop. Part of Festival on the Green.
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No Strings Marionette Company in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 12, noon, on the green. A Brown Bag Lunch performance. Part of Festival on the Green. Kids Middle Grade Book Club (MGBC) in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 12, 6-7 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, Main St. “One Crazy Summer” by Rita Williams-Garcia. Vermont Book Shop bookseller Jenny Lyons leads this book group for kids ages 8 to 12 who want to read fun, engaging contemporary middle grade books. Parents are welcome, but not required. Pizza is served. Come to one or all three. Free. For more info or to RSVP email jenny@vermontbookshop. com. Brandon Town Band in Brandon. Wednesday, July 12, 6 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Part of Brandon’s Summer Music series. More info at brandon.org. Left Eye Jump in Brandon. Wednesday, July 12, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Authentic blues. Part of Brandon’s Summer Music series. Free. More info at brandon.org. Pete’s Posse in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 12, 7 p.m., on the green. Multi-generational roots music. Part of Festival on the Green The Molly Tuttle Band in Middlebury. Wednesday, July 12, 8:30 p.m., on the green. Award-winning flat-picker with a voice like an angel. Part of the Festival on the Green.
L IV E M U S I C Dan Weintraub in Middlebury. Friday, June 30, 6-8:30 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern Point Counterpoint Chamber Players in Salisbury. Friday, June 30, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. Dana and Susan Robinson in Ripton. Saturday, July 1, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House. Extra Stout in Brandon. Wednesday, July 5, 7 p.m., behind the Brandon Inn. Bristol Town Band in Bristol. Wednesday, July 5, 7 p.m., on the town green. Left Eye Jump in New Haven. Friday July 7, 6 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery. Aaron Brush in Middlebury. Friday, July 7, 6-8 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern. O’Hanleigh in Salisbury. Friday, June 7, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Meeting House. Carpenter’s tribute in Brandon. Saturday, July 8, 7:30 p.m., Brandon town Hall. Steven Kirby Quartet in Brandon. Saturday, July 8 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Crazyhearse with Sand Machine in Middlebury. Saturday, July 8, 9 p.m., Two Bothers Tavern. Radio Free Honduras in Middlebury. Sunday, July 9, 7 p.m., on the green. The Sea the Sea in Middlebury. Monday, July 10, 7 p.m., on the green. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore in Middlebury. Monday, July 10, 8:30 p.m., on the green.w See a full listing of
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Foodaroo
THOUSANDS OF FESTIVAL-GOERS enjoyed the late afternoon sunshine that brightened up the third annual Foodaroo Festival in Middlebury’s Marble Works Sunday evening. The celebration of Vermont food, beverages, bakers, music and entertainment attracted an estimated 3,000 people, according to festival organizer Middlebury UndergrounD. The new location this year provided plenty of room for the 23 vendors and grassy picnicking areas, bottom right, with beautiful views. Seen here are Peter Day, above left, of The Grift; Luiza Bloomberg, above right, of Luiza’s Homemade Pierogi; high-flying Wacky Chad, right; and clothes line poetry, bottom left, the festival’s version of refrigerator magnet poetry. Look for the fourth annual Foodaroo next summer in the same location. Independent photos/Trent Campbell
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Orwell student given scholarship to Castleton ORWELL — Andrea Tester has dreamed of becoming an English teacher for middle school children. This dream was placed in jeopardy when her father suffered a severe work-related back injury in 2012. As a result of his injury, he was unable to work for four years. Fortunately, he is beginning to recover, but the financial challenges to his family remain. Enter Kids’ Chance of Vermont,
who awarded Tester $12,000 to attend Castleton University, starting in fall 2017. The organization, founded in 2014, is run by a board of directors comprising workers’ compensation professionals from the areas of law, insurance, vocational rehabilitation, and state government. Their objective is to raise money to provide scholarships for the children of workers seriously injured or killed on the job.
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MIDDLEBURY — Vermont historian Willard Sterne Randall will read from, discuss and sign his new book “Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution” on Thursday, July 6, at 7 p.m. at The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. in Middlebury. Randall, author of “Ethan Allen” and “Alexander Hamilton,” among others, “challenges the traditional notion that the War of 1812 was a second American Revolution,” according to Carol Berkin, Presidential Professor of History, Emerita, Baruch College & The Graduate Center, CUNY. She goes on to say, that instead “he lays out a convincing case that
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Festival (Continued from Page 1A) blocked off in recent weeks with the launch of a major effort to install temporary bridges over the railroad through the village. The deteriorating, 1920s-era spans currently in place are being swapped for the temporary bridges, after VTrans issued an emergency order to do so earlier this year. They will eventually be supplanted by a concrete tunnel — the lynchpin of a $52 million project that will get under way next spring and last into 2021, according to the most recent VTrans projections. Plans call for the temporary bridges project to be wrapped up by mid-August, but according to Jim Gish, community liaison for the rail bridges project, VTrans officials agreed to suspend construction activities during the July 4 holiday and other key events next month. “The temporary bridges schedule I negotiated with VTrans split the project into two phases specifically so that the community could hold three of our marquis summer events … on the village green,” Gish said. “All parking was restored on Merchants Row this past Friday. We expect to wrap up work on the Main Street waterline by the end of the week and restore all parking on Main Street by the weekend.” All downtown parking should be available from Saturday, July 1, through Thursday, July 20, according to Gish. That’s great news for organizers of the Peasant Market, Festival and Lion’s auction, who had been concerned that construction and limited parking would put a damper on turnout. With their fears allayed, downtown event planners want people to know that Middlebury remains open for business and attendees should find the same access to parking and services they have enjoyed in past years. Still, Boera hopes attendees will consider biking or carpooling to get to events to ease any lingering
Vergennes parking concerns. “We want to encourage people to come out for the festival, and we encourage them to think of other ways to get to downtown Middlebury,” she said. MUSIC FESTIVAL The festival is in its 39th year, and Boera has been a co-organizer since its humble beginning. Since then the festival has earned a statewide reputation, which has helped it draw outstanding local, regional and international talent. This year is no exception: The roster of performers includes singer-songwriter Jon Gailmor, the Jason Anick Gipsy Jazz Trio, Radio Free Honduras, Dave Keller’s 9-Piece Soul Review, and Grammy Award winners Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore. “We have some groups that people will be really excited to see,” Boera said (See more on the Festival onthe-Green in next Thursday’s Arts + Leisure section). It’s never too soon to look ahead to next year, and festival organizers are doing just that in anticipation of the rail bridges project being in full swing in July 2018. The board wants the annual event to be nimble, and a few years ago transplanted the festival to Middlebury’s recreation park for two years in anticipation of downtown bridge work that was ultimately postponed. Boera said the board will either ask for permission to return to the rec park next year, or will consider another intriguing, temporary landing spot: The new downtown park at the intersection of College and South Main streets. The Better Middlebury Partnership and the Middlebury Community Music Center are cosponsoring their “Midd Summer Music & Movies” series at the new park most Wednesdays from June 28 to Aug. 23. Boera said she and her colleagues will keep a close eye on the success of the Midd Summer series to see whether the new park could stage the Festival on-the-
Festival on-the-Green 2017 Free, family-friendly music series on the green in Middlebury Sunday, July 9 7:00 p.m. Radio Free Honduras Acoustic Latin folk-rock band fronted by Honduran music legend guitar virtuoso Charlie Baran Monday, July 10 Noon Robert and Gigi 7:00 p.m. The Sea the Sea Indie folk-pop duo-band with rich harmony and lyric-driven songs 8:30 p.m. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore Grammy award winner who stretches musical boundaries Tuesday, July 11 Noon Jon Gailmor 7:00 p.m. Emily Braden Trio Powerhouse vocals and an effortless blend of jazz and soul 8:30 p.m. Upstate Rubdown A stew of jazz, blues, gospel, soul and pop Wednesday, July 12 Noon No Strings Marionette Company 7:00 p.m. Pete’s Posse Dynamic and wild multi-generational roots music 8:30 p.m. The Molly Tuttle Band Award-winning flat-picker with a voice like an angel Thursday, July 13 Noon Stephen Gratto 7:00 p.m. Jason Anick Gypsy Jazz Trio One of the best jazz violinists and mandolinists of his generation 8:30 p.m. Seamus Eagan Project Members of Solas explore the far reaches of the Irish tradition Friday, July 14 Noon Magician Tom Verner 7:00 p.m. Starline Rhythm Boys Swinging rockabilly and honky-tonk band 8:30 p.m. Dave Keller’s 9-Piece Soul Revue Glory days of soul and Keller’s funk-filled original songs Saturday, July 15 7:00 p.m. Vermont Jazz Ensemble Street Dance Come early for swing-dance lessons with Jim Condon
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Green next July. PEASANT MARKET Meanwhile, organizers of the Peasant Market have been busy since June 19 taking in a lot of donated items that will be sold to raise money for local charitable causes. Jim Pugh chairs the St. Stephen’s committee that helps make the annual market a reality. Pugh said he’s pleased a sense of normalcy will prevail downtown for the Peasant Market, which can yield $20,000 to $30,000 for such organizations as Addison Central Teens, Episcopal Relief & Development, Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects, area homeless shelters, Middlebury Parks and Recreation, Open Door Clinic and Vermont Food Bank. Pugh acknowledged drop-offs of stuff for the market flagged during the middle of last week, probably due to construction traffic issues and limited parking. The church added evening drop-off hours to compensate for the expected premarket disruptions and donations are again on pace with past years, according to Pugh. Organizers will accept items at the church through July 1, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., with some additional intake from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, June 29. Pugh said that volunteers work to unload donations as quickly as possible and are willing to pick up larger items at donors’ homes. Information about the festival is available at festivalonthegreen.org. Peasant Market information may be found at ststephensmidd.org. Middlebury Lion’s Club information is available at e-clubhouse.org/ sites/middleburyvt. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.
(Continued from Page 1A) better idea. council members on Tuesday he “I’d prefer 1 or 2 cents more now, expected the city’s fiscal year, which not 10 cents later,” Fritz said. ends on June 30, to end with a fund Alderman Lowell Bertrand said balance of about $140,000. he agreed with Fritz and added he If council members chose to use thought the fund balance would be $118,000 of that projected fund “a little too thin” without the extra balance to offset taxes, Hawley said, 2 cents on the rate, which will raise they could leave the tax rate at 79 about $45,000 of revenue. cents. All present — Alderwoman Lynn A year ago, the council used Donnelly did not attend the meeting $140,000 of a $180,000 fund balance — then voted in favor of the 81-cent while they raised the city rate. tax rate by 4 cents to 79 Most of the increase in cents. This time, Hawley “At some police spending comes said, if the council kept point we’re from a $30,000 increase the 79-cent rate the going to have in the capital purchases remaining fund balance to steer the line item. Hawley said he would leave less margin boat into and Chief George Merkel for error. getting more agreed to postpone buying “It’s a thin cushion,” a new cruiser for a year, Hawley said, adding, revenue.” but at the same time pay — Alderman off early an internal loan however, “It’s not like Matt Chabot from the city Water Tower you would be adopting a budget with red ink.” Fund’s “continuation Hawley’s budget drew praise from fund” to the department, with that Mayor Michael Daniels. amount reflected in that line item. “I don’t think we should step The public works budget will backward in any way, and what increase by about $16,000 to you’ve presented is very solid,” $761,881. Hawley said it includes Daniels said. more money for sidewalk upgrades, Some council members were while paving funding is level. concerned about long-term needs, The administration budget is up by including maintenance of the city about $4,000 to $380,647, but will pool. rise by another few thousand dollars “At some point we’re going to when the council sits down next have to steer the boat into getting month and gives raises to Hawley more revenue,” said Alderman Matt and City Clerk Joan Devine. Chabot. The council also voted to restore Alderman Renny Perry moved $3,000 in funding to the Addison for the budget and the 79-cent rate, County Economic Development but Alderman Jeff Fritz suggested Corporation that Hawley had an amendment to the 81-cent rate, removed from the budget. Hawley citing, like Chabot, needs that said he did not approve of ACEDC included the pool. Fritz also pointed Executive Director Robin Scheu’s to the sewer rates, which were stable decision last fall and to run for the for many years and then required a Vermont House (she now represents substantial increase, and suggested Middlebury) and the board’s smaller, regular increases were a approval of that decision.
He said he resigned from the ACEDC board in protest, and made the budget adjustment for the same reason. “Was I sending a message by putting a zero in there? Absolutely,” Hawley said. After listening to residents and ACEDC board members Chris Knapp, Sarah Cowan and Sas Stewart speak on behalf of economic development commission and describe the lending and support it gives to local and county businesses, the council restored the $3,000 line item. The budget also includes $7,500 for the Vergennes Partnership, which the council also agreed to boost with another $7,500 from the city’s Water Tower Fund. The partnership is charged with overseeing the health of the city’s downtown and enhancing its economic development. Amy Bodette Barr, Partnership marketing and development coordinator, and Partnership board member Danelle Birong outlined the partnership’s own fundraising, which they said totaled $22,000 since the beginning of 2016, and recent accomplishments. Among those, they listed helping Shacksbury Cider move to Kennedy Brothers, improving WiFi downtown and establishing it in the Otter Creek basin, creating a promotional video that has been viewed more than 20,000 times on the Vermont tourism website, upgrading its own website to serve visitors and residents with a comprehensive events list, working to establish a “Neighborhood Development Area” in Vergennes that could lower the cost of new housing in the city, and writing the grant to help fund the streetscape project at the corner of Green and School streets.
tax exemption from $10,000 to $40,000 of assessed value. That means Middlebury taxpayers are responsible for the education property taxes on that increased exemption level. Middlebury’s grand list also influences the municipal tax rate. The grand list is the total value of taxable property, divided by 100. The tax rate is set by dividing the
additional penny on the tax rate to fund improvements to public property downtown. The Downtown Improvement District Commission is still in the process of gathering enough signatures to a petition re-authorization of the special assessment district. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.
Middlebury (Continued from Page 1A) by a combined total of $7,400. • Re-established a local police K-9 program, for $30,610. • Granted appropriations of $2,500 and $1,200, respectively, to Addison County Restorative Justice Services and the Addison County River Watch Collaborative. Several years ago, the town raised the local veterans’ property
dollar amounts to be raised by the grand list value, noted Middlebury Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay. So Middlebury’s fiscal year 2018 grand list, as determined by the town listers, is $7,441,418. It should be noted the selectboard has yet to set the Downtown Improvement District tax rate, through which property owners in the core village area pay an
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Videographic will serve to supplement their (Continued from Page 1A) quote their objects of study in their dissertation, while others may choose to experiment with a new work. “As film scholars, we couldn’t (do idea altogether. Many scholars will that), we always had to describe,” walk away from the camp seeing a he said. “I couldn’t help but wonder film, one they had previously studied what would it be like to not always for hours and hours, in a completely have to resort to language to describe, new way. “I come from a comparative but to use the audiovisual medium to show at the same time you’re doing literature background, so it has been really interesting for me to think analysis or argumentation.” By using the moving images they about my corpus in a new way and study, scholars are able to craft video think about the audio-visual as a essays to explore and present ideas juxtaposition within itself,” said that may be difficult or impossible Nivar Ortiz, the USC student. “We’re to truly express in a traditional all coming to this with projects that academic essay. According to are pretty fleshed out already, most of us are in the writing Mittell, the videographic stages of our dissertation. elements allow criticism So this, for most of us, to mimic the aesthetic “I don’t think and affective properties it’s an accident is complementary to something we’ve been of film. we’re doing working on for years in a “Some of the best this at a very rigid form.” video essays that we liberal arts Long, who graduated have seen work to engage from Middlebury in viewers emotionally and college. The 2008, said one of the aesthetically,” Mittell sort of play, goals of the workshop is said. “I’ve read very exploration to encourage academics few scholarly essays and to approach their area of that make me cry or openness of study in ways that make laugh. (Videographic (videographic them uncomfortable. criticism) is a way that This, he said, allows you can explore a range criticism) them to view their work of emotional responses parallels the in a completely different while still conveying liberal arts light. As Mittell put it, ideas, exploring questions experience.” and moving people’s — Jenny videographic criticism knowledge forward.” Oyallon-Koloski encourages scholars to look at their work not VIDEO CAMP as just a self-contained, This year’s workshop, which the 14 participants standalone narrative, but as a set of affectionately refer to as “video audio-video tracks to be manipulated. “(Videographic criticism is camp,” is being held at the college from June 18 to July 1. The about) not looking at your object participants, all of whom are scholars as just a place where you’re trying pursuing their Ph.D.s, have traveled to find evidence for something you to Middlebury from all around already know, but as something that the United States, Canada and the is speaking to you,” said Nicole Morse, a student at the University of United Kingdom. Participants, or “campers,” spent Chicago. their first week learning how to NEW KIND OF SCHOLARSHIP In the field of film and media use the software programs needed to produce their essays. They studies, Middlebury has earned a also participated in a number of reputation as a leading institution and videographic exercises, designed innovator in the art of the video essay. by Keathley and Mittell, that allows This year’s workshop is the second that Keathley and Mittell have cothem to experiment with the form. One of the differences between directed. Also funded by the National videographic criticism and Endowment for the Humanities, the traditional scholarship is its emphasis first workshop took place in 2015. on experimentation. Participants They have received funding to host a are encouraged to pursue ideas that third workshop in 2018. “They may have been too modest may not be fully developed and ask questions that may not have a to mention it, but it’s worth pointing out that Jason (Mittell) and Chris definitive answer. “On the first day, Jason (Mittell) (Keathley) are major scholars in sort of summed things up quite the development of this work,” said effectively in a kind of mantra for Jenny Oyallon-Koloski, a workshop the workshop: Make first, think participant and University of later. There’s a kind of experimental Wisconsin graduate student. Though not unheard of, it is rare ethos to the whole enterprise,” said Derek Long, a participant and for innovative scholarship and the graduate student at the University of training of graduate students to take place at an undergraduate, liberal Wisconsin. Keathley likened the workshop to a arts institution like Middlebury. “I don’t think it’s an accident we’re toolbox, where participants learn the skills and theory necessary to craft doing this at a liberal arts college. The a piece of videographic criticism. sort of play, exploration and openness They are spending the second week of (videographic criticism) parallels producing a video essay on a topic of the liberal arts experience,” OyallonKoloski said. “I can’t imagine this sort their choice. Last Friday, each participant of experience happening at (larger pitched, in no more than 30 seconds, institutions), not because people a final essay topic. One camper wouldn’t be interested in doing it, but decided to explore themes and motifs I think the structure here lends itself commonly found across television so well to it.” Mittell explained that at an series finales. Another planned to institution like study the films of Otto Preminger, undergraduate looking at his work in relation to Middlebury it is easier to produce research in the production history. A third chose to high-profile humanities because, unlike the examine the discourse and cinematic practices of steadicam operators, natural sciences, it does not require specifically exploring the aesthetics expensive equipment and teams of graduate students. and feelings behind those shots. “(Videographic criticism) is a type For some, their video essay
of research practice that is creative, that is interdisciplinary and that is scoped to the point that an individual can do it,” he said. “You don’t need a team to edit a video.” In 2014, Keathley and Mittell helped launch (in)Transition, the first peer-reviewed academic journal of videographic film and moving image studies. Keathley serves as one of the journal’s co-editors, and Mittell as one its co-project managers. The journal is co-sponsored by Cinema Journal, the publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, as well as Media Commons, an initiative based at Pennsylvania State University that promotes teaching and learning through multimedia technology. Keathley said those organizations lend legitimacy to the practice of using video essays as a form of scholarship. Last May, Keathley and Mittell co-authored a book on the form, appropriately titled, “The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image.” Their book details the philosophy that underlies the creation of a videographic essay. It also describes the pedagogical methods the two have used in the workshop and the undergraduate class they teach at the college on videographic criticism. The duo have earned reputations as innovators, not necessarily for creating video essays, but in developing a method to teach the form in a way that produces quality scholarship. Their practices have been adopted by other academics in the field. “I met several people who were quick to admit, ‘I don’t know how to teach (videographic criticism),’” Keathley said. “A lot of (our work) had to do with developing an effective way to teach basic conceptual principles about working with moving images and sounds.” Mittell described their work as developing a school of thought for how to approach videographic criticism. “People refer to it as the ‘Middlebury approach’ elsewhere,” he said. One of their goals is to build a network of scholars that support and create videographic scholarship. The workshop is, in part, an attempt to create a community that will determine the future of the form because, as Mittell and Keathley said, the possibilities are endless. “The field is still new enough that we’re asking questions,” Mittell said. “What does an argument look like in videographic form? Does it have to follow a set structure? Are there norms of citation? Are there norms of reference? We don’t have those norms for the form yet. It’s a much more diverse form than academic writing is.” Keathley emphasized that, while they are looking to establish norms for the medium, they’re constantly pushing to make sure that it evolves. “Nothing is more satisfying than seeing a work that makes you feel: This is a videographic essay, it hits all the markers for what I expect from audio-visual scholarship, and yet it looks like nothing I’ve ever seen,” he said. “That is the most gratifying part.” Editor’s Note: Will DiGravio, who is an intern with the newspaper this summer, is currently a Film and Media Culture major at Middlebury College; Jason Mittell is his academic adviser.
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permit is July 3. Applications are available on the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s website at vtfishandwildlife.com. Printed applications are also available from Vermont license agents. Lottery applications are $10 for residents and $25 for nonresidents. Winners of the permit lottery will purchase resident hunting permits for $100 and nonresident hunting permits for $350. A total of 63 regular moose season permits and 17 archery moose season permits will be issued for Vermont’s 2017 October moose hunt. The archery season is Oct. 1-7; the season for hunting moose with a rifle will be Oct. 21-26. The number of permits is reduced from last year’s 165 total number of permits, and permits will only be issued for bulls this year. Hunters are expected to harvest roughly 33 moose statewide in this year’s hunt. Officials estimate Vermont has 1,750 moose statewide with the greatest concentration in the Northeast Kingdom.
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In recognition of Independence Day, Addison County Transit Resources will be closed Tuesday, July 4. There will be no bus service and the Community Transportation Center will be closed. That means there will be no Middlebury Shuttles, Tri-Town Shuttles, Rutland Connector, 116 Commuter or Burlington LINK buses on Tuesday.
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ART LOVERS RAISED a substantial amount of money through a silent auction of these artist-painted chairs at last July’s “Chair-ity” event in Bristol.
Chair-ity (Continued from Page 1A) reaching out to local art students. Cynthia Kling exhibits at Art on Last year’s silent auction, for Main in Bristol and is part of the example, featured a chair by Alicia gallery’s artist cooperative. Stone, a recent Mount Abraham • Deborah Rickner is the art Union High School graduate who’s teacher at Bristol Elementary now studying drawing and painting School and a Monkton resident. at Lyme Academy College of Fine • Nancy Carroll of Starksboro Arts in Connecticut. has recently begun to devote Nancy Carroll is contributing herself to painting after her first chair to retiring from 37 years as the Chair-ity silent the Beeman Elementary “People seem auction. Carroll’s School librarian. chair, which she to just like • Barbara Moffi, a the idea of humorously describes textile artist, interior as a “Lilly Pulitzer designer and landscape having a wanna be,” features architect runs the chair that’s poppies against an Windy Dog Hill bed and something intensely spring green breakfast in Starksboro. background with a totally • Chair-ity organizer pink raw silk seat. Vera Ryersbach, a different and Said Carroll, Starksboro resident, not machine “Making things taught art at Robinson made, more beautiful is a Elementary School (as wonderful thing to do. well as in Lincoln and something The idea of making an New Haven) for over 20 that’s an everyday object more years. beautiful quite appeals object they 5 Town Friends of the can use but to me.” Arts added the Chair-ity Landscape artist event to the annual silent clearly hand Cynthia Kling has auction about five or six created by a contributed a Chairyears ago, Ryersbach local artist.” ity chair since the said, as a way to bring — Thacher Hurd event’s inauguration. fun, functionality and For Kling, painting a fundraising together. seat for the Chair-ity The group starts from donated auction is a way to support the chairs and then lets each artist “do important work of 5 Town Friends what they like to do.” of the Arts, especially its artists’ “People seem to just like the idea cooperative gallery, Art on Main, of having a chair that’s something which features Vermont artists and totally different and not machine artisans in a variety of mediums. made, something that’s an object Kling is painting two chairs for they can use but clearly hand this year’s auction: one presenting created by a local artist,” said Starksboro landscapes, the other Hurd. using European folk motifs. Many patrons have come back Thacher Hurd said he’s often year after year, said Ryersbach, drawn to contrasts. The antique, to see what new chair a familiar, spindle chair he’s starting from returning artist has on offer. this year is inspiring an outer Ryersbach said she’s always on the space-related design. lookout for new local artists who Ryersbach said that her own want to participate and also likes chair for this year will be inspired
by hand-loomed, hand painted mud cloth from Mali. Mud cloth is a traditional Malian textile art that features bold geometric patterns — painted using a kind of indigenous mud — in black and ivory patterns. The silent auction, including the Chair-ity section, begins setting up early on the morning of July 4. Ryersbach said that bidding officially starts at 10 a.m., but early birds can come by and put their bid
on the bid sheet. Bidding on each chair starts at $50. Silent auction winners will be announced, said Ryersbach, between 2:30 and 3:30 on Tuesday afternoon. Auction winners can pick up their chairs and other objects thereafter. Friends of the Arts like to have all purchases completed and silent auction objects picked up by around 4 p.m. Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.
A DETAIL OF poppies on Nancy Carroll’s “Chair-ity” chair.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 2017
MATT DICKERSON
Glacier National Park Diaries 2: Midd. meets Montana Glacier National Park is a big beautiful place. At roughly the size of Rhode Island, it is one of the largest national parks in the United States. The world, by contrast, is small. At the end of my first week as artist-in-residence, I gave a public presentation. At the end, a bearded man in a ranger uniform introduced himself as John. “I grew up in Middlebury,” he said. “I used to read your columns.” I was delighted to meet somebody from back home (even if he was only being polite in claiming to have read my columns.) And his next words were pure music: “Want to go fishing with me while you’re here?” It took a week and a half to come together, but at noon on Sunday I met Ranger John Ceballos for an afternoon and evening of fishing and exploring. By then I had been in the park almost three weeks. It had been a fascinating experience, with time to sit, write, learn and be attentive. What I had done little of, however, was fishing for the native cutthroat trout I had come in part to write about. Snow still buried the high backcountry and the famous Going-to-the-Sun Road hadn’t even opened. The major creeks were flooded and unfishable with silty water from melting snow. Hiking distances to lakes with good fishing, and being alone in bear country, were additional limitations. Mostly, though, I was just focusing on writing and getting a sense of place. So my arms were itching to cast a fly for native west slope cutthroat. We loaded our gear into his Subaru, threw a canoe on the roof, and took off northward out of the park into the Flathead National Forest along the North Fork of the Flathead River, the dividing line between park and forest. Our plans were fluid. John had explored a lot of trout water in his four years as ranger, but was always interested in exploring new waters. We both wanted to start by wading the North Fork (which was finally coming down, though there was still plenty of snow left in the mountains to melt in (See Dickerson, Page 3B)
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Triathlon season opens at Dunmore Locals fare well in pair of events
SALISBURY — This past Saturday morning Vermont Sun Fitness Centers kicked off its summer triathlon series for the 32nd season. Despite steady rain, two races were held at Branbury State Park on Lake Dunmore: The Vermont Sun Triathlon, a 600-yard swim, a 14-mile bike ride, and a 3.1-mile run; and the Lake Dunmore Triathlon, an Olympic-distance event with a 1,600-yard swim, 28-mile bike ride, and 6.2 mile-run. On the men’s side in the Olympic race, Eric Cochran, 36, of Grand Isle won the swimming and biking legs to take a commanding lead on the way to winning the race in 2:21.30 over second-place finisher Carl Regenauer, 52, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Regenauer had the fastest run of the day and second-best bike to finish in 2:24.18. Charles Lester, 35, also of Saratoga Springs, was third in 2:30.11. The two old(See Triathlon, Page 3B)
BRISTOL / VERGENNES — Calling all former Eagle football players. There will be an alumni game on the Mount Abraham football field this Saturday, July 1, at 7 p.m. Everyone who has played on an Eagle football team — that includes alumni from both Mount Abraham and Vergennes union high schools — is welcome to play. Admission for spectators is free; players will be asked for a suggested donation of $20 to cover the cost of the field. There will be a concession stand. Eagle coach Eric Hartman, who is organizing the game, said it will be an 8-man flag-football contest with full contact blocking. Teams will play on the full 100-yard field. This is the third year the alumni game has been held. Hartman said it drew 30 participants last year, and he hopes for more this year. CORRECTION: The June 22 sports column that, among other things, looked back on the number of championships won by area sports teams, contained a crucial error: The Mount Abraham Union High School field hockey team has won seven Division II championships since 2000, not six. Not only does that extra crown make Coach Mary Stetson’s program the most successful in the millennium — breaking a tie with Eagle baseball and Middlebury Union girls’ lacrosse — but it also lifts Mount Abe into a deadlock with MUHS at 22 team titles apiece since Y2K. Congratulations to both schools’ athletic endeavors, and apologies to Coach Stetson and her athletes from the math-challenged author.
Area stars helped Vt. take on rival N.H.
By ANDY KIRKALDY NEW HAMPSHIRE — A number of recently graduated high school athletes played for Vermont teams vs. their New Hampshire counterparts in Twin-State All-Star Games this past weekend, but were unable to help their Green Mountain teams pull off victories in games played in the Granite State. On Friday night at St. Anselm’s College in Manchester, the New Hampshire field hockey team defeated Vermont, 4-1, in a game local coaches said was more competitive than the final score. Mount Abraham’s Ashley Turner and Jackie Reiss (Eagle Hannah Wahl was an alternate), Otter Valley’s Allison Lowell and Middlebury’s Lily Smith all took the field for Vermont. Mount Abe Coach Mary Stetson said “Addison County was represented well” by the quartet. Both Stetson and OV coach Stacey Edmunds-Brickell said Vermont had great chances in the first half, some from Lowell, but N.H. took a 1-0 lead. N.H. stretched that lead to 3-0 before Woodstock’s Lily Doton converted a Reiss assist with six minutes to go for Vermont’s score. (See Twin-State, Page 2B)
Champs fall at away pool in first meet KAREN NEWMAN OF South Burlington crossed the finish line third. GRAND ISLE’S ERIC Cochran was the first out of the water in the Lake Dunmore Triathlon on Saturday and also posted the fastest time on the bike as he held off a challenger to win the overall race.
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WEST HAVEN — Cornwall’s Garrett Given won for the first time in Saturday asphalt racing at Devil’s Bowl Speedway, while on Sunday Orwell’s Tim LaDuc and Brandon’s Vince Quenneville Jr. ran one-two in the main event on the dirt track. On Saturday, Given became the third-straight first-time winner in the Super Stock division, taking the 20-lap main event after fending off a late bid from runner-up Scott FitzGerald. The lead pack had no fewer than six cars in it at all times in a
competitive race; Bristol’s R.J. Germain took fourth. In the next race, the 15-lap Mini Stock feature, Given was a half-lap away from back-to-back wins, but broke a gear while leading on the backstretch on the final lap. Rookie Shawn Moquin of Milton passed Given for his first career win, and Given settled for second, with Andrew FitzGerald third. Ferrisburgh’s Brad Bertrand, who dominated the class early on, took sixth. In Saturday’s main event, a 50-lap
Late Model Feature, New Hampshire’s Chris Bergeron cruised to the win. Steve Miller from Vergennes took fifth after leading the first 16 laps. Billy Lussier of Fair Haven scored his third career victory in the 20-lap Sportsman Modifieds. Quenneville was fourth. Swanton’s Maddy Rabtoy picked up her first-ever win in the 10-lap Ladies Mini Stock feature. Bristol’s Sami Sargent took third. In Sunday dirt-track action La-
Duc scored his first career NASCAR Whelen All-American Series victory and the 48th win of his career at Devil’s Bowl. LaDuc, 10th at the start, took command on lap 13 of the 35-lap Sportsman Modified Feature and never relinquished the lead, but he was tested multiple times by New York’s Bobby Hackel and Quenneville. Quenneville passed Hackel late for second, and then Quenneville and Hackel made contact coming (See Devil’s Bowl, Page 2B)
BURLINGTON — In its home pool, The Edge swim team coasted to a 356.5-134.5 victory over the Vergennes Champs as the Champlain Valley Swim League got under way on Tuesday. Age 8 and under swimmer Will Clark prevailed in three races to provide most of the highlights for the Champs, who are set to host Winooski on Thursday. Scoring points with top-three finishes for Vergennes in individual events on Tuesday were: BUTTERFLY • U-8 boys: 1. Clark, 20.27. • U-10 girls: 3. Amelia Giroux. • U-10 boys: 3. Ethan Croke. • U-12 girls: 2. Madelyn Giroux. • U-12 boys: 2. Carson Hoffman. • U-14 girls: 3. Jordan Jewell. • U-14 boys: 2. Jarret Muzzy. • U-18 girls: 3. Leah Croke. • U-18 boys: 2. Ethan Sausville. BACKSTROKE • U-8 girls: 1. Eleanor Brooks, 25.34; 3. Isabella Romond. • U-8 boys: 1. Clark, 20.75. • U-10 girls: 3. Sophia Johnson. • U-10 boys: 3. Ethan Croke. • U-12 girls: 2. Hadley Harris; 3. M. Giroux. (See Swim meet, Page 3B)
Legion baseball seeking to hit stride By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — Four recent home games at the Middlebury College baseball diamond left the Addison County American Legion baseball team still searching for its first win of the summer at 0-6. On Sunday, AC dropped a tight contest to Montpelier, 4-2. On Saturday, visiting S.D. Ireland swept a doubleheader from AD, 15-4 in six innings and 6-2, and on Thursday Colchester scored five times in the seventh to snap a 1-1 tie and win, 6-1. Coach Mike Estey said he still believes AC can string some wins together, but acknowledges the local nine has not played well. They have not made back-to-back hits, and at times have struggled on defense, for example failing five times on Saturday and Sunday to get outs after pickoffs or during rundowns. Estey was asked what has to hap(See Baseball, Page 2B)
ADDISON COUNTY’S DUSTIN Whitcomb tries to tag a Montpelier base runner out at third during Sunday’s game in Middlebury. Addison County lost the game, 4-2.
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Hole in one the highlight of recent local golf action
ADDISON COUNTY — A hole in one at Neshobe Golf Course in Brandon as well as a new weekly competition at Middlebury’s Ralph Myhre Golf Course highlighted recent local action on the links. Panton’s Ray Roberts on Sunday, June 25, sank the hole in one. According to witness Bill Laberge, Roberts aced the 140-yard, Par 3 12th hole with a 6-iron. According to Laberge, the ace was the second of Roberts’ golf career. Also witnessing the feat were Bev Roberts and Nicole Laberge. Ralph Myhre on June 20 introduced its Tuesday Night Men’s Scramble, using the same random-assignment format as its Friday Night Mixer, a co-ed event (which was rained out last week).
The inaugural winning team was the threesome of Dayton Wakefield, Chris Prickett and Jim Twitchell, followed by the trios of Mike Adams, Hank Hagar and Dick Crumb, and Doug Biklen, Russ Reilly and Pete Damone. Also, Matt Biette shot the evening’s low net score, and Deem Schoenfeld was closest to the pin on Hole No. 12. In regular Bill Davidson Thursday Men’s Golf, the young foursome of Nick Leach, Keenan Bartlett, Cullen Hathaway and Connor Higgins earned top honors, with the quartet of Mike Adams, Ric Wheeler, Bert Phinney and Josh Newton taking second. The foursome of Griffan Gilman, Darren Kerr, Darren Ouellette and Adam Lougee earned third.
Twin-State (Continued from Page 1B) New Hampshire ended up outshooting Vermont by 14-9. On Saturday, Mount Abe’s Turner joined Tiger Riley Fenster on a Vermont girls’ lacrosse team coached by Marikate Kelley, who led the firstyear Vergennes-Mount Abe team this spring. New Hampshire pulled away late to win, 26-14, in a typical lacrosse all-star game shootout played at Hanover High School. Kelley said she moved Fenster from defense to midfield because Vermont was short on middies, and Fenster scored the game’s first goal to give Vermont a short-lived lead. Kelley said Turner also played well at midfield and launched two shots, one wide and one saved. Kelley said New Hampshire controlled the draw in the final 13 minutes to pull away, and also had trouble controlling the host team’s “speedy midfielders running to goal.” Three N.H. players — Madi Kochanek (three goals and two assists) and Emily Holland and Emma Lindquist (four goals each) did a lot
of the damage. For Vermont, Burr and Burton’s Lydia Morgantini scored three times, and Mount Anthony’s Emily Altland scored once and set up four goals. Lamoille’s Katelyn Shaw made 10 saves. “New Hampshire also had trouble stopping our attack,” Kelley said. Middlebury midfielder Trey Kaufmann was selected for the boys’ Twin-State boys’ lacrosse game in Hanover, in which New Hampshire took a 10-0 lead and then had to hold off a Vermont rally to win, 14-11. Vermont cut the score to 13-11 in the late going before New Hampshire clinched the win with a late goal. Burr and Burton’s Carter Vickers scored four times to lead the Vermont attack, and seven players had a goal apiece. Two Vermont goalies made two saves apiece. CORRECTION: In an article last week previewing the Twin-State games Jackie Reiss’ and Hannah Wahl’s names were omitted. The Independent attempted to find a roster for the game but was unsuccessful, but apologizes for the omission.
Devil’s Bowl (Continued from Page 1B) to the checkered flag, with the front half of Hackel’s car perched atop Quenneville’s rear deck lid; they crossed the finish line in a cloud of smoke, four-wide in traffic, still attached. Middlebury’s Justin Comes was sixth in the race. The other five races saw first-time winners. Mount Holly’s Josh Bussino won the 20-lap Super Stock Feature. Orwell’s Ronnie Alger was sixth in that field.
New York driver Robert Garney prevailed in the 15-lap Mini Stock Feature. Leicester’s Derrick Counter took fourth in that event. Chester’s Austin Chaves won the 15-lap Mini Sprint Feature, with Shoreham’s Sean Beinhaur finishing second. Rob Sanford of New York won the 15-lap Vintage Dirt Modified Series Feature, a race with no local participants.
ADDISON COUNTY’S ADAM Whitcomb slides safely into home to score one of his two runs against Montpelier Sunday. Addison County lost the game, 4-2.
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Baseball (Continued from Page 1B) pen for AC to achieve better results. “I think it’s a combination. Right now we’re just asking them to compete, give us what you got. Some of it is a lack of focus, and the mistakes,” he said. “It just snowballs.” AC’s schedule has, to be fair, been tough, with road games vs. Essex and Colchester before the homestand. AC will visit South Burlington, another team not off to the best of starts, on Thursday at 5:30 p.m. before hosting Franklin County for a twin bill starting at 11 a.m. on Sunday. “We hope for a good outcome there (at South Burlington). Dustin (Whitcomb) will throw there,” Estey said. “A win will give us a lot, I think, give us something positive to build off.” MONTPELIER, 4-2 On Sunday, Jackson Root (who threw for U-32 vs. Otter Valley Union High School in the Division II final) tossed a complete-game four-hitter, striking out four, hitting two batters and walking none to earn the win for visiting Montpelier. He outdueled Adam Whitcomb, who allowed four runs, two earned, on 10 hits and also struck out four. Whitcomb worked out of a bas-
ADDISON COUNTY OUTFIELDER Greg Whitney tries to lay down a bunt during Sunday’s Legion baseball game against Montpelier. Whitney did connect for an RBI later in the game.
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es-loaded jam in the first by inducing In the fourth, Gordon couldn’t a force-out at home and striking out hold onto a tough chance running a batter. into right field to catch a pop fly, and AC took a 1-0 lead in the second. with two out Flinn doubled the runAdam Whitcomb singled and Root ner home to make it 4-2. Whitcomb hit first baseman Bruce Wright with allowed only one more hit, a leadoff a pitch. Whitcomb moved to third on double in the sixth, but again pitched Greg Whitney fielder’s choice and out of trouble, this time with defenscored on shortstop Wyatt Camer- sive help: Cameron scooped a short on’s fly ball to left. hop to retire O’Brien. Will Wormer Montpelier started the third with came on to pitch a scoreless seventh. four straight hits and took a 3-1 lead. But in the meantime AC manGood defense first aged only a run in the limited the damage. “I think it’s a fourth. Dustin WhitJake O’Brien doubled comb led off with a to right to lead off, combination. single, and was erased but Whitney hustled Right now we’re by an Adam Whitto track the ball down just asking them comb fielder’s choice. and hit second baseWright reached on to compete, man Oakley Gordon, catcher’s interference, who relayed to third give us what and Adam Whitcomb base to erase O’Brien. you got. Some scored when Whitney But Cameron Flinn, of it is a lack of rolled a single into left Ethan McCallister field. and Root followed focus, and the S.D. IRELAND with singles to tie the mistakes. It just SWEEPS game, and an error by snowballs.” In Saturday’s openWhitney on Root’s — Coach Mike Estey er SDI scored in five ball allowed the runof six innings in its ners to reach second 15-4, six-inning victoand third. An error by Cameron al- ry. A seven-run sixth made it 15-3, lowed the next batter to reach as the and when AC scored just once in the go-ahead run scored. Whitcomb then bottom of the frame the game ended picked the runner off first base. But on the 10-run rule. Root broke for home and Wright Gordon led AC with two hits, an threw wildly as the third run scored. RBI and a run. Liam Smith singled, Whitcomb whiffed the next two bat- scored a run and drove in a run, and ters to limit the damage. Dustin Whitcomb and Jeffrey Stea-
rns picked up RBIs, and Devin Kimball and Wyatt Gendreau also scored. SDI roughed up Cameron, Wright and Wormer in the course of the game, but Estey said he expects both Cameron and Wormer to pitch well for AC. In the nightcap SDI scored three times in the first and once in the second to take a quick lead. AC got one run back in the fourth when Chris Wood singled to lead off and eventually scored on a Dustin Whitcomb hit, and another in the fifth when Wright homered. But SDI scored two insurance runs in the sixth with the help of three AC errors to pull away again. Hunter O’Connor took the loss, allowing three earned runs on eight hits and three walks and striking out three. COLCHESTER, 6-1 This past Thursday, Colchester took a 1-0 lead in the fourth on an unearned run, sandwiching two singles around an infield error. AC tied it in the bottom of the sixth when Kimball stole home, but Colchester then erupted for five runs in the seventh, with Tom Vesosky’s tie-breaking triple and Eben Probost and Chase Corley’s RBI doubles the key blows. Dustin Whitcomb got the start, and allowed three runs on seven hits in 6.1 innings. “He pitched really well for us,” Estey said. “That was a good competitive game until the seventh.”
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DESPITE THE HEAVY rain on Saturday, Eric Florio of East Williston, N.Y., powered through the biking leg in the Vermont Sun Triathlon in Salisbury and Leicester and won the men’s division.
Triathlon (Continued from Page 1B) to a comfortable win in 1:10.22. Sara est athletes in the race, competing in Lombardi had the second-fastest the 60-64 age group, finished fourth bike and run and finished second in and fifth overall. Middlebury’s Steve 1:16.07. Fifty-two-year-old cancer Hare held off Jeff Reed of Norwich survivor Karen Newman of South to take fourth in 2:35.00, with Reed Burlington was third in 1:18.40. fifth in 2:35.27. Among local resiOn the women’s side, Among local dents, Jeff Schuman Jodie Casarico, 42, of of Salisbury won the residents, Shelburne was first in 60-64-year-old men’s 2:41.41, 1:42 ahead of Jeff Schuman group in 1:11.36. Four runner-up Lauren Water- of Salisbury Bristol women had exman, 39, of Keene, N.H., won the cellent results. In the in 2:43.23. Waterman led 60-64-year-old 35-39 group Mara Urby nearly seven minutes men’s group in ban was first in 1:21.35, after the swim, but Casaand Annie Rossier was rico caught her in the 1:11.36. second in 1:22.08. In bike race and then made the 60-64 group Wenda quicker transition to the run, and ie Puls claimed first in 1:35.32, Waterman couldn’t make that time and Andrea Halnon was third in up on the last leg. 1:51.59. Among local finishers, in the Complete results and informamen’s 30-35 age group New Haven’s tion are available at vermontsun. Kyle Flack, a 240-pound former all- com or at 388-3060. state lineman for the Mount AbraThe next event in the series is the ham Union High School football second Vermont Sun Triathlon on team, was second in 2:40.16. Two Sunday, July 16. On Sunday, Aug. Middlebury men claimed third and 13, both triathlons will be held for sixth in the group: Daniel Norwood the final of the season. Vermont Sun was third in 2:44.36, while Joseph will also hold it’s annual half-marPowers claimed seventh in 2:52.31. athon run on Sunday, Sept. 24. Brandon’s Doug Robinson, 60, won the 60-64 group (Reed and Hare, pulled out of age-group results) in 2:58.46. SHORTER RACE RESULTS Eric Florio, 30, of East Williston, N.Y., won the men’s Vermont Sun Triathlon in 1:01.22. He was 3:28 ahead of runner up Sean Flemming, 34, of Charlotte. Florio was second to exit Lake Dunmore, but powered to the day’s fastest bike and run times to cruise to victory. Julia Schofield of Charlotte was the 11th woman out of the water, but she was fastest on the bike by 4:20 and on the run by 1:01 to roll
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(Continued from Page 1B) the weeks to come), and end in a canoe on Bowman Lake. Along the drive we talked about Middlebury, people he went to high school with at MUHS whom we both knew, and his early experiences fishing in Vermont, which were for pike in Otter Creek. (John took up fly-fishing for trout when he moved west.) We also talked about his enjoyment of being a park ranger in a dramatically beautifully place. His job involves a lot of educating and interacting with the public, and the delight of sharing what he loves with a curious and engaged audience — often younger people learning about important ecological concepts. We talked about stupid things park visitors occasionally do, often involving bears, as well as interesting work being done here to protect native species like cutthroat and bull trout, which are imperiled from climate change, invasive species and habitat loss. It is important collaborative research and work that is possible largely because it is a national park. We also spoke about how the entire annual budget for a million-acre national park with hundreds of employees is only $12 million. John put that into context: It is less than what many good receivers in the NFL makes per year. So a lot of important conservation and research projects are underfunded. We arrived at a creek mouth on the west shore of the North Fork — the national forest side — where John had fished in the past. The view looking downstream was stunning, across an emerald green river and wide valley toward the skyline of Glacier’s famous northern peaks, splotched with snow. The sky was blue and cloudless. A few kayaks and inflatable rafts drifted past us, and a car or two wandered along the dirt road as folks stepped out by the river to take pictures. Overall, though, it was quiet, remote and beautiful. And no fish were biting. So after an hour and a half, we packed up and drove downriver to the village of Polebridge, along a poorly marked dirt road over an old bridge, and back into Glacier National Park. Just above the bridge, Bowman Creek flows into the Flathead. Scouting it out, we decided to try the upstream side of creek confluence. This required some adventurous bushwhacking. I sent John first in case we ran into bears hiding in the
THE GLACIER NATIONAL Park visitor bushwhacked through bushes and alders to the Flathead River to land a 15-inch cutthroat trout.
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bushes we whacked. This was the least scenic place we fished. Our backs were to the mountains, and bushes and alders blocked our view. However, an enticing gravel bar stuck out above the water where Bowman flows into the Flathead, and behind was a deep pool of calm water, with current flowing down both sides. We fished, waded, and bushwhacked our way down the Flathead to reach this gravel bar, and there I proceeded to land a half dozen cutthroat trout plus a mountain whitefish. The second-to-last cutthroat was the fattest: a 15-inch fish that rose from the bottom of the pool to slam a caddis imitation.
We finally pulled ourselves away from the hole, scrambled back through the bushes and alders, and drove seven more miles up a bumpy gravel road to Bowman Lake. We spent the last two and a half hours of daylight in one of the most scenic places in the park. Water, with a tint of glacial green, at moments as calm as glass, reflected the famous spires and jagged peaks of the park’s northern portion. Thrushes sang to us from the woods. The lake is several miles long, and we never got out of sight of the western end where Bowman Creek flows out. For much of the evening a lot of small cutthroat rose for mayflies that
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NATIVE TROUT RISE from the bottom of a deep poo to feed in the waters of a national park in Montana.
Swim meet (Continued from Page 1B) • U-12 boys: 3. Calder Rakowski. • U-14 girls: 3. Anna Rakowski. • U-14 boys: 2. Adam Clark; 3. Muzzy. • U-18 girls: 3. L. Croke. • U-18 boys: 3. Dylan Rapoport. BREASTSTROKE • U-8 girls: 3. Eloise Eckels. • U-8 boys: 2. Clark Clary; 3. Juan De La Cruz. • U-10 girls: 2. A. Giroux. • U-10 boys: 3. Grey Fearon. • U-12 girls: 2. Harris; 3. Carlyn Rapoport. • U-12 boys: 1. Hoffman, 38.85.
were falling to the surface to lay eggs. Unfortunately, we saw very few big cutthroat rise, and those that did were sporadic and spread far apart. We landed no fish, but it didn’t matter. We had already caught fish for the day, and both of us thought of the excursion as a sunset canoe trip in a beautiful lake watching the alpenglow on distant snow-covered pinnacles that rose like crow’s beaks pecking the sky. We just happened to have fly rods with us, and we cast them from time to time. By the time I got back to my cabin it was already midnight. I had come a long way to meet somebody from Vermont with the same passions for beauty, fly-fishing and education. In the midst of many wonderful days and stunning beauty, it was one of the very best.
• U-14 girls: 3. Grace LeBeau. • U-14 boys: 2. A. Clark. • U-18 girls: 3. Sadie Kass. • U-18 boys: 3. Sausville. FREESTYLE • U-8 girls: 2. Brooks. • U-8 boys: 1. W. Clark, 15.63; 2. De La Cruz. • U-10 girls: 3. A. Giroux. • U-10 boys: 3. E. Croke. • U-12 girls: 2. Harris; 3. C. Rapoport/M. Giroux. • U-12 boys: 2. Hoffman. • U-14 girls: 2. Jewell. • U-14 boys: 2. Muzzy. • U-18 girls: 2. Emma Beauche-
min; 3. L. Croke. • U-18 boys: 3. Sausville.
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Police transport women to hospital MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police responded to a report on June 21 of a woman threatening to break some windows on a Case Street home in order to get inside to collect her children, whom police said were not inside. Police said they took the woman to Porter Hospital to be evaluated by the Counseling Service of Addison County. In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Heard from a local man who told police on June 19 he believed he was being followed by people who intend to harm him. Police looked into the complaint. • Served a no-trespass order on June 19 on a man who was no longer welcome at a Court Street apartment. • Helped Key Bank officials investigate a possible online fraud case on June 19. • Warned two drunken men who were hanging out at the gazebo on the village green on June 20. • Received a report that someone had left their dog in a parked vehicle at The Centre shopping center parking lot for several minutes during warm temperatures on June 20. • Responded to a report about a woman “with mental health issues” at the Middlebury Short Stop on Court Street Extension on June 20. • Helped Porter Hospital officials
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with an out-of-control patient on June 21. • Assisted Porter Hospital officials with a patient who was having a mental health crisis on June 21. • Received a visit at police headquarters from a woman complaining about a child custody issue on June 21. • Were informed someone had sprayed graffiti onto the Sand Hill Bridge on Route 125 in East Middlebury on June 21. Anyone with information on the culprit(s) is asked to call Middlebury Police at 388-3191. • Helped resolve a child custody issue at an Elm Street residence on June 22. • Quieted two women who had allegedly been heard screaming in the Mill Street area on June 22. • Responded to a trespassing complaint at a Jayne Court residence on June 22. • Responded to the Seminary Street area on June 22 on a dispute between two people related to the ownership of a vehicle. • Arrested Daniel Williams,
a 30-year-old transient, on an outstanding arrest warrant on June 22. Police said they arrested Williams in the Jayne Court neighborhood. • Helped resolve a family dispute at an Elm Street residence on June 23. Police said a man had threatened to take his child from his girlfriend’s residence. • Were informed on June 23 that a mental health patient was trying to leave Porter Hospital without permission. Police said the patient was back in hospital care upon their arrival. • Helped Middlebury Regional EMS officials with a patient who had cut himself in the Court Street area on June 23. • Responded to two separate noise complaints on June 24, one about loud music coming from the Rogers Road area, and the other about a loud party at a Weybridge Street residence. • Received a report about a drunken woman walking off Route 7 North on June 25. Police said they were unable to locate such a person. • Investigated a report of a stolen tricycle in the Jayne Court neighborhood on June 25. • Responded to an unlawful mischief complaint at Middlebury Union High School on June 26. Police said someone had poured some sugar in the gas tank of a student’s vehicle.
Untimely death is under investigation VERGENNES — In a mostly quiet seven days between June 19 and 25, Vergennes police helped calm a couple tense situations, dealt with minor car accidents, served or attempted to serve three different orders to city residents, and began the investigation of an untimely death. During those seven days, Vergennes police: • On June 19 dealt with two minor one-car accidents on Monkton Road, one at its intersection with Route 7 and one at its intersection with Main Street. • On June 19 responded to Main Street to look for a man reported to be acting strangely outside a building, but could not find him. • On June 20 served an abuseprevention order on a Hillside Drive resident. • On June 20 responded to a minor two-car accident on South Water Street.
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• On June 20 looked unsuccessfully for three juveniles reported to be throwing rocks at each other on Main Street. • On June 21 helped calm an unruly Valley Vista client at 1 Alden Place. • On June 21 attempted to serve a juvenile protection order on a Green Street resident, but the resident was not at home. • On June 21 in response to citizen complaints of excess speeding on Macdonough Drive and South Maple Street conducted enforcement duty on those roads and found no problem; for example, police said of 40 vehicles clocked on Macdonough Drive the fastest was traveling 6 mph over the posted limit.
• On June 22 issued a no-stalking order to a Meadow Lane resident. • On June 22 helped car owners get into locked vehicles on Main and Green streets. • On June 23 checked a complaint of a dog in a car with its windows up on Alden Place and found no problem. • On June 24 checked a Bowman Road residence for the presence of squatters and found none. • On June 24 calmed a verbal family fight at a West Main Street residence. • On June 24 checked the welfare of a Bowman Road resident; police said she was fine. • On June 25 ticketed a motorist for speed and possession of marijuana and paraphernalia, which was confiscated, at a West Main Street traffic stop. • On June 25 began investigating the circumstances of an untimely death at a Meadow Lane apartment.
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MEMBERS OF THE Addison County Board of Realtors paused for a photo on June 9 while helping out at the community supper at the Congregational Church of Middlebury. Pictured are, from left, (back row) Mandy Daly Hodson, John Snyder-White, Tim Hollander, George Brewer and Dan Brett; and (front row) Stephanie Corey, Judy Sperry and January Sterns.
Police help rescue dogs left in hot cars BRISTOL — Bristol police responded to two incidents of dogs being left in hot cars during the week of June 12. On June 12, police responded to the American Legion for a report of a dog in distress. Police found the vehicle windows down and the dog was fine. The officer contacted the dog’s owner and warned him about leaving dogs in hot vehicles. On June 18, when outside temperatures were between 90 and 95 degrees, police responded to a vehicle parked at Shaw’s with a dog in the back seat. Police warned the dog’s owner, provided additional information, and advised the owner that another incident would result in prosecution. Between June 12 and 18, Bristol police conducted two towncontracted traffic patrols, covering Monkton and Carlstrom roads. On June 18, an officer saw an ATV in the road in front of a residence. Police issued one ticket for refusal to produce an ID and another for operating the vehicle in the road. Officers patrolled downtown on foot on June 13 and 15, patrolled local bars on June 16, and checked businesses on Main Street and in the surrounding areas on June 17. On June 17 and 18, Bristol police conducted three security checks of Mount Abraham Union High School. In other recent activity, Bristol police: • Took fingerprints for a district resident seeking employment with the local schools on June 12. • Investigated a reported theft of $200 from a backpack left in the boy’s locker room at MAUHS on June 13. • Provided records to the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System on June 14. • Investigated a June 14 report of a student found by MAUHS staff to have consumed intoxicants while on
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a field trip. Juvenile court action is pending. • Received a cell phone found near the town park on June 14 and posted a picture of the phone to the department’s Facebook page. The owner remains unidentified. • Investigated a report of a threeyear-old riding a bike down the road by himself on June 14. Police found the three-year-old with a slightly older child near the sidewalk of a residence. Police warned the mother. • Received, on June 14, a pair of sunglasses found near the fountain on the town park. The owner has not been identified. • Worked out of office at Bristol Elementary School on June 15. The officer visited with students and staff, including a farewell visit with guidance counselor Jere Urban, who is retiring after more than 30 years of service. • Assisted Vermont State Police with the consent search of a tablet on June 15. • Checked the welfare of a Lauritsen Lane resident on June 15 at the request of Windsor police. Bristol police found the resident to be home and safe. • Logged a June 15 complaint of speeding vehicles on Plank Road. The complainant asked for extra speed enforcement patrols. All officers were notified and directed patrols will be conducted. • Investigated a reported hit and run crash in the MAUHS parking on June 16 at 9:03 a.m. in which a student’s vehicle was damaged. No suspect was identified. • Deliver an emergency message to a Pleasant Street residence on June 16. Burlington police were attempting to notify family members
that a subject was in the UVM Medical Center following a heart attack. Bristol police found no one at home and advised Burlington police. • Conducted a property check at Bristol Elementary School on June 17. • Provided contracted security and detour traffic control for the Pocock Rocks Music Festival and Street Fair on June 17. • Investigated the smell of burnt marijuana coming from a Main Street apartment on June 17. Police seized marijuana and gave the resident a ticket for possession. • Found a vehicle still parked on Main Street after the street was closed for Pocock Rocks on June 17. Police tried to contact the owner, got no answer and then summoned a tow truck. Prior to its arrival, the owner came forward. Police issued the vehicle owner a parking ticket. • Participated in a Click It or Ticket detail on June 17. The officer made nine traffic stops, issued one ticket for marijuana possession and issued five warnings. • Spoke to a town resident about someone owing rent on June 17 and advised the caller that their concern was a civil matter. • Spoke, on June 18, with the owner of an apartment building in which a disturbance had occurred the night before. A tenant had been given notice to move out and reportedly became disruptive in the early morning hours. • Responded to a burglary alarm at Holley Hall on June 18 at 2:40 p.m. A class was beginning in the hall upstairs. Police found that someone had opened the rear door and set off the alarm, and that someone had deposited fresh human feces against a storage door just outside. No one present admitted being in the area of the door. • Contacted the owner of a debit card found in the Rite Aid parking lot on June 18.
State troopers cite Bridport man for DUI 4 ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police say that a Bridport man has driven drunk multiple times and they want him off the road. A trooper on June 21 at approximately 7:40 p.m. stopped a vehicle driven by 37-year-old Chad Nunn on Route 7 in Middlebury. The officer determined that Nunn had been consuming alcohol and took him to the state police barracks in New Haven where he was cited fro driving under the influence, fourth offence, and driving with a criminally suspended license. In other recent activity, troopers: • On June 21 at around 12:30 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle near the Williston rest area on the northbound side of Interstate 89 in Williston and cited Monroe F. Marshall, 35, of Vergennes for driving with a criminally suspended license. • On June 23 at 3:39 p.m.
Salisbury SALISBURY — The Salisbury Church will hold its annual Ice Cream Social at the church on July 4 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Ice cream cones, sundaes with a variety of toppings, pies and cakes will all be available. The first event in the church’s “Summer Series” takes place on Friday June 30 at 7:30 p.m. The Point Counterpoint faculty ensemble will present music for
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reported that Route 30 at Parkhill Road in Cornwall was closed due to a motor vehicle crash and urged motorist to seek alternate routes. Troopers reported the road was open at 4:23 p.m. No details on the crash were released. • On June 24 at approximately 12:25 p.m. responded to a one-car crash on Lower Hardscrabble Road near Old Airport Road in Monkton. Police report that Calista Sargent, 18, of Bristol was driving a 2006 Subaru Impreza southbound at 35-40 mph when the car struck several potholes causing her to lose control of the vehicle, which left the roadway, overturned and struck several bushes nearby. Sargent was
transported to Porter Hospital as a precaution. The car was considered to be a total loss. The Bristol Rescue Squad and Monkton Fire Department assisted troopers at the scene. • On June 25 at around 7 p.m. saw a motor vehicle violation on Monkton Road in Vergennes and stopped the vehicle. Police report that the driver, identified as 23-yearold Alara Bourgeois of Bristol, was not allowed to drive and cited her for violation of conditions of release. • On June 26 at just after 10 p.m. stopped a vehicle on Route 4 in Castleton after seeing a motor vehicle violation. Police report that driver Rowan M. Peterson, 27, of Brandon displayed signs of impairment and was screened for driving under the influence. Troopers processed Peterson for DUI drugs and released him pending toxicology results.
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violin, cello and piano by HandelHalvosen, Shostakovitch and Mendelsshon. On Friday, July 7, at the Salisbury Congregational Church the group O’Hanleigh will perform Irish immigrant music: pub tunes, ballads, fiddle pieces and original songs based on Irish myths and legends along with stories and poems. Tom Hanley, his daughter Becca, Doug Riley and Cindy Hill will sing and play a large
variety of instruments, including guitar, bouzouki, mandolin, fiddle, bass, dulcimer, autoharp, bodhrans, harmonica, spoons and penny whistles. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free, although donations are always welcome. The church is handicapped accessible through the rear entrance. The town office and the library will be closed on Tuesday, July 4.
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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Dis‑ cussion 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.
NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.
SPIRITUAL AWAKENINGS MEETING of Alcoholics Anon‑ ymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Fri‑ day, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middlebury, VT.
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. Babysit‑ ting available.
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
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.
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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. 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‑ 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 TUESDAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both 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 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 NORTH FERRIS‑ BURGH MEETINGS: Sun‑ day, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hol‑ low Rd. 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.
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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 recovery 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: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek 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. OPIATE OVERDOSE RES‑ CUE KITS are distributed on Wednesdays from 9 am until 12 pm at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury, VT. A short training is required. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org. PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am. We meet at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.
WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.
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MOVING SALE: BRISTOL, 64 Mountain Street. 7/1/17, 9:00‑2:00. Furniture, elec‑ tronics, books, ski and tuning equipment, tools, household items, children and adult items. Everything prices to sell.
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.
SPRING IS HERE Wet Paint. Interior & exterior quality painting. 30 year’s quality workmanship. References. Insured. 802‑458‑2402. SUMMER HOUSE CLEAN‑ ING available. Honest, de‑ pendable, reasonable rates. Call or text 802‑349‑9775.
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ANTIQUES, FURNITURE, HOUSEWARES ‑ 55‑2 Bry‑ ant Circle Countryclub Town‑ houses, Brandon.
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GREEN PASTURE MEATS is looking for full time butcher/ meat cutter for our New Ha‑ ven store location. Experi‑ ence required, some train‑ ing available. Contact Su‑ zanne 802‑349‑6781, email milepointvt@yahoo.com .
PART‑TIME/CLEANING cot‑ tage rentals at Lake Cham‑ plain in Shoreham. Resume and vehicle/driver’s license required. Call 802‑353‑6188.
EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks a full time housekeeper who is friendly and detail‑oriented to provide quality cleaning service in our retirement community. Email: greatplacetowork@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 802‑989‑7507. FULLTIME SERVICE CO‑ ORDINATOR Anticipated opening at the Counseling Service of Addison County in a multidisciplinary case management position (Devel‑ opmental Services, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Choices for Care Elder program). Exten‑ sive training and mentoring provided but candidates need to have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a related field and a B.A. degree. Ex‑ cellent supervisory, problem solving, and documentation skills required. Comprehen‑ sive benefit package includes medical, dental, life insurance, generous paid time‑off, and retirement plan. To apply, visit csac‑vt.org. HANDY PERSON WANTED TO work in a non‑smoking, non‑alcohol, drug free en‑ vironment. Pay will depend on work. Some chainsaw work, some work in vegetable garden and must be familiar with small carpentry jobs and have own transportation (pick up preferred) 760‑807‑6187.
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POLICE DISPATCHER‑ PART TIME The Middlebury Police Department is seeking applicants for the position of part‑time dispatcher. The dispatcher must be available for regular dispatch shifts on Saturdays, 7am‑3pm or 3pm‑11pm. Starting wage is $18/hour. Details and job description may be obtained at www.middleburypolice.org.
CEDAR POSTS for sale. 8 footers, no points. 802‑388‑4831.
HOME HEALTH AIDE‑ Per‑Diem position available: Addison County Home Health and Hospice is looking to fill a part time, 15‑20 hours/week, Home Health Aide position, providing direct patient care in the home as part of a care team. Must have a current LNA license and driver’s li‑ cense. Candidates must be available to work every other weekend. Please submit re‑ sume and cover letter to Kris‑ ten Smith, Human Resources P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753 or hr@achhh.org. WEEKEND COMMUNITY SUPPORT worker. This position involves providing home based and community based supports for an adult female living in Middlebury. We’re seeking candidates with strong communication skills, and prior experience and/or compassionate curios‑ ity regarding ways to support people coping with life impact‑ ing mental health conditions. We offer a supportive team approach and a rich learning environment. 16hr. / wk. Must have valid driver’s license, satisfactory driving record, own vehicle, and live within 30 minutes from Middlebury. Send cover letter and resume to: apply@csac‑vt.org or visit our website at: www.csac‑vt. org.
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NEEDED IMMEDIATELY: RESIDENTIAL /Commer‑ cial Concrete Finisher/Lead Person and Laborer needed for foundations and flat work. Wage based on experience. Valid driver’s license, depend‑ able and a positive attitude. Call Donnie at 802‑453‑6426.
RETAIL STORE ASSOCIATE needed. HOPE is looking for a person to work 29.5 hours a week, including every other Saturday. Must have solid experience in running a cash register and cash handling, excellent customer service skills, and the ability to work in a fast‑paced store. To ap‑ ply, send resume and brief letter of interest to HOPE, PO Box 165 in Middlebury, or email these to: receptionist@ hope‑vt.org. SEARCH REOPENED FOR: warehouse and administrative assistant. 29.5 hour position greeting donors, answering phones, scheduling pickups and deliveries, performing supportive clerical tasks, and more. Able to lift up to 25 pounds and stand for long periods of time, have solid customer service experience, and excellent organizational skills including proficiency in Microsoft programs. To ap‑ ply, send resume and brief letter of interest to HOPE, PO Box 165 in Middlebury, or email these to: receptionist@ hope‑vt.org.
For Sale 2012 VESPA SCOOTER LXV 150. 50 miles, brown with leather seat. $3,000. 802‑453‑6135. ANTIQUE DOUBLE BAR‑ REL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage firearm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.
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ALL SHIFTS AVAILABLE FOR FULL & PART TIME We are seeking people with winning personalities and great attitudes to join our team. Full & Part-time positions available with flexible scheduling. Must be willing to work some nights & weekends. Full & Part-time Cashiers & Deli Employees needed. Apply in person or pick up an application at: Maplefields –– Shoreham Service Center
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NEW HAVEN, 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment. Bright and spacious. Need 1st and last month’s rent. Price includes heat, electricity & rubbish re‑ moval. No pets, $1195 per month. Call 802‑453‑4037.
CORNWALL, VT‑ A BEAU‑ TIFUL building lot for sale. Amazing view. Septic permit in place. 760‑807‑6187.
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TORO SNOW BLOWER, 6 months old, 4‑1/2 hours on it. $500. 802‑388‑6961. VITAMIX‑ PURCHASED 2017, like new. $250. Kitchen Aid Slow Cooker, purchased 2017, like new. $50. Call Su‑ san Wallis at 453‑5600.
Vacation Rentals 2 BEDROOM SUMMER RENTAL. Enjoy Lake Dun‑ more in your own private camp. Hillside camp overlook‑ ing Lake Dunmore with 320’ private frontage. Across from road on East side above Bran‑ bury State Park. Rental to one family, $5,000. for whole season. Mostly furnished, with all appliances. Beautiful views, great swimming, 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.
For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092. 2 BEDROOM, FIRST FLOOR apartment with full private basement. W/D hookups. Located in Middlebury, close to town on Court St. Off street parking, lawn care and snow plowing included. $1,100 per month plus utilities. No smok‑ ing or pets. 802‑352‑6678.
BRISTOL THREE BED‑ ROOM apartment. Garage, full basement, heat and lawn care. 802‑453‑2566. DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com. FOR RENT PRIME RETAIL space. 1,303 square feet. Location, location. Front door parking. Good visibility. Call Eric at 388‑6054. FOR RENT, COURT ST., Middlebury. Two bedroom apartment, recently remod‑ eled, includes water and sew‑ er, off street parking, private entrance. $1,200 per month. Call 349‑7755 for more in‑ formation. MIDDLEBURY ‑ TWO 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. WEST ADDISON: 2 STORY, furnished house on lakefront. Washer, dryer. No smok‑ ing. Available September through May. $1,000/month. 860‑878‑9580.
BRANDON: PARK VILLAGE is now accepting applications for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apart‑ ments. Rents starting at $700, includes heat and trash. No pets. Laundry onsite. Income restrictions apply. Call Summit Property Management Group at 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg. com. BRIDPORT; 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment. No smok‑ ing, no pets. 802‑758‑2361. 802‑388‑2754.
NEW HAVEN: UNIQUE and recently renovated, fun filled apartment. Includes many extras. No smoking. No pets. References. $900 per month plus utilities. 802‑236‑2040. SOUTH STARKSBORO, 1 BEDROOM house, fridge, stove, washer/dryer, great views, very private. No pets. No smoking. Year lease, avail‑ able August 1st. $875 plus utilities. Bob 802‑453‑2380. STARKSBORO: SMALL ONE bedroom house with ex‑ tra room for office on shared property with owners. $700 plus all utilities. Security de‑ posit and references required. No smoking or pets. Call Me‑ lissa. 802‑453‑5526. 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.
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3 BEDROOM 2 BATH house on 2 1/2 acres of land in Brandon. Totally renovated. Energy efficient. All hardwood floors except kitchen and bath. Full base‑ ment. Beautiful backyard. Includes stove, refrigerator, microwave, washer and dryer. Screened porch. No smoking. One pet possible. $1,200/ mo. plus utilities and security deposit. Credit references and background check required. 802‑352‑6678. A FRESHLY PAINTED ONE BEDROOM apartment. $900 month, heat and electricity in‑ cluded. No pets, no smoking. New Haven, 802‑453‑7117.
NEW HAVEN, DUPLEX four bedroom. Heat, Electricity included. Large yard. Two full baths, washer, dryer included. One year lease, references and security deposit. $1,750 per month. 802‑324‑7385.
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CLICK, CALL & SAVE: MIDDMEN‑FIREWOOD. www.1‑844‑KILNDRIED.com. 1‑844‑545‑6374. MIDDLEBURY 1 BEDROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit. Some utilities included. 388‑0401. MIDDLEBURY, 1,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, parking. Can be subdivided. Real‑Net Man‑ agement Inc. 802‑388‑4994. MIDDLEBURY, NEWLY RENOVATED duplex. Two bedroom, heat, washer, dryer, dishwasher all included. Yard, one year lease. References, security deposit. $1,200 per month. 802‑324‑7385.
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 village water and approved for simple in‑ground septic. Located in East Middlebury, 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. WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agitat‑ ing, liquid manure hauling, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whit‑ ney.
Boats EVINRUDE TWIN CYLIN‑ DER 4HP outboard motor. Very good condition. Great for dingy or trolling. Few hours. $400. OBO. 802‑453‑4235. HONDA 1‑1/2HP 4 STROKE, short shaft outboard motor, 2008. Very low hours. Came off dingy. $1,400 new. Asking $750 OBO. 802‑453‑4235. JOHNSON 1980 28HP long shaft, electric start outboard motor with controls. Can hear run in barrel. Also includes steering wheel and all acces‑ sories to fit same motor. $800. OBO. 802‑453‑4235. YAMAHA 4HP 4 STROKE, extra long shaft sailboat mo‑ tor, 2008. Excellent condition, very low hours. Owner gave up sailing. $1,800. new. Ask‑ ing $900. OBO 802‑453‑4235.
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1996 FORD EXPLORER, limited edition. 83,000 miles, 4wd. Leather, sunroof, cruise, tilt, power seats, run‑ ning board, roof rack, more. $1,500. 781‑690‑2407.
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TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, antique collect‑ ibles, etc. Visit www.bittne‑ rantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Consulting/ appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.
TIMBERWOLF FIREWOOD: Dry or green. Call for prices. 802‑388‑7300.
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Lions donates $3,550 to five local charities VERGENES — The Vergennes Lions Club is wrapping up their 2016-17 year by helping several local organizations. The club has several fundraisers throughout the year to support these donations, including the vehicle raffle, the Red Sox ticket raffle, scholarship raffle, Lions Charity Auction and Memorial Day sale items. President Jim McClay says, “This would not be possible without the tremendous support of everyone in our greater Vergennes area communities.” Mary Ann Castimore, from the Vergennes Community Food Shelf, attended a recent meeting and was presented with two checks — one for $750 from the club and one for $250, which was the amount folks donated during the Food from the Heart food drive. Elizabeth Ready, director of John Graham Shelter, was presented with a check for $750 to help meet the needs of the residents who end up at the shelter. Ms. Ready mentioned the number of folks at the shelter and transitional housing and how there has been an increase in the number of children involved. The club donated $350 to the Counseling Service of Addison County to assist their clients who need support. They also donated $500 to the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes Area to provide food for the young people who come to the club on a daily basis. In some cases, this could be the only
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MARKET REPORT ADDISON COUNTY COMMISSION SALES
RT. 125 • EAST MIDDLEBURY, VT Sales for June 22 & June 26 BEEF Pinello Farm Defreest Farm Four Hills Farm Foster Bros. Farm Wilcon Farm Hatch Farm
Costs Lbs. per lb 1670 .87 1515 .86 1440 .85 1395 .85 1530 .84 1355 .835
Dollars 1452.90 1302.90 1224.00 1185.75 1285.20 1131.43
CALVES R. Allen M. Russell A. Farr M. Churchill J. Noble
Lbs. 98 92 84 114 97
Costs per lb 2.15 1.90 1.90 1.80 1.70
Dollars 210.70 174.80 159.60 205.20 164.90
Total # Beef: 208 • Total # Calves: 403 We value our faithful customers. Sales at 3pm - Mon. & Thurs. For pickup and trucking, call 1-802-388-2661
JANE SPENCER, BIXBY Library’s Executive Director, and Jim McClay, Vergennes Lions Club president, display the check for $950 given to Bixby Library by the Vergennes Lions Club on June 7.
evening meal they would receive. On June 7, Jane Spencer, director of the Bixby Library, spoke at the club about the many and increasing
Public Notices Index can be found on this Page 9B.
Addison (1) Addison County Court House (1) Addison County Probate Court (1) Bristol (1) Lincoln (1)
TOWN OF WHITING NOTICE OF HEARING FOR APPEAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER DECISION
NICHOLAS IOCCO, MICHAEL AND LAWRENCE QUESNEL, AND ROGER AND BLANCHE QUESNEL REVOCABLE TRUST, of 299 Stickney Road, Whiting VT, 277 North Main St, Whiting VT, and 243 North Main St, Whiting VT respectively have submitted notices of appeal regarding a decision by the Zoning Administrator dated May 3, 2017, for a notice of violation regarding the operation of a shooting range and operation of a commercial business on property located at above cited addresses in the Town of Whiting. The Town of Whiting Zoning Board of Adjustment will hold a hearing on this application on Friday July 14th at 5:30pm at the Whiting Town Hall. A copy of the administrative officer’s decision and additional information may be obtained at the Whiting Town Office, 29 S Main St., Whiting VT. Pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §§ 4464(a)(1)(C) and 4471(a), participation in this local proceeding is a prerequisite to the right to take any subsequent appeal. Dated at Whiting Vermont this 26th day of June 2017. 6/29 Gale Quenneville, Town Clerk, Town of Whiting, Vermont
TOWN OF RIPTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The Historic District Commission will hold a public hearing in the Town Office on Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 7:15 p.m., to conduct a site plan review/hearing of application (#17-6) from Friends of Ripton Community Church for approval of the erection of a sign in front of the building, located on Vermont Route 125. (Tax Map ID# 10-01-17). The application is available for inspection at the Town Office. Interested parties who wish to appeal or to be heard at the hearing may do so in person, or may be represented by an agent or an attorney. Communications relating to the application may be filed in writing with the Commission either before or during the hearing. N.B.: Participation in the hearing is necessary to establish status as an ‘interested person’ and the right to appeal decisions rendered in that hearing, according to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. 117 §§4465(b) and 4471(a). Participation consists of offering, through oral or written testimony, evidence or a statement of concern directly related to the subject of the hearing. Respectfully submitted, Warren B. King, Chair 6/29
TOWN OF NEW HAVEN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
The New Haven Development Review Board (DRB) will hold a public hearing on the following applications beginning at 7:00 P.M. on Monday July 17, 2017 at the New Haven Town Office. 1. Application # 2017DRB-08-SP is a request by Silver Maple Construction, LLC for amended site plan approval for site use amendments proposed on parcel # 0788-100 on map #12. This amendment request alters previous DRB approval #2014DRB-05-PUD/SP. The amended site plan proposes to alter parking and on-site traffic patterns, change use of 2-family duplex for office use and acknowledge use of other existing accessory structures for construction storage. Review will be conducted pursuant to the New Haven Zoning Regulations Bylaw Regulations sections 351, 352 and 353. The property is located at 46 River Road in the Highway Commercial District. 2. Application #2017DRB-09-CU is request for conditional use approval to place the Vermont Gas distribution line within the Flood Hazard district and more specifically within the FEMA flood boundary and floodway. Pursuant to article IX and section 1008, the distribution line is not considered an open space use within the Flood Hazard district. All work will be completed within New Haven’s road right-of-way. The distribution line will be buried in the Flood Hazard district across parcel #0069-000. Applications are usually scheduled to be heard in the order they are listed above. However, applicants and interested persons should refer to the Boards agenda that will be posted pursuant to State law for changes. The above applications are available for review at the Town Office. Interested persons are invited to attend the hearing, or send a representative. 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 Dated: June 29, 2017 6/29
PUBLIC NOTICE TOWN OF ADDISON
programs being offered at the library, and encouraged members to stop by. She also thanked several Lions members who have or are
The Addison Planning Commission will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, July 17, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office. To consider the following: 1. To approve the meeting minutes of the June 19, 2017 meeting. 2. To transact any business found necessary before the board: 3. To allow time for public comment interaction at beginning of meeting. 4. The Zoning Regulations for discussing a future presentation of the 2013 copy of revisions. We will begin working on the “Subdivision” Regulations so to bring them into compliance. We have updating to do pertaining VSA24, Chapter 117 for making correct referencing. 5. Continue working on items that are considered to be projects in progress. 6. We will continue working on Zoning Regulations (2013 copy), Subdivision Regulations so to bring them into compliance with the revised Town Plan. Frank Galgano, Chair Starr Phillips, Secretary Addison Planning Commission 6/29
New Haven (1) Rte. 116 Self Storage (1) Ripton (1) Whiting (1)
PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 39-1-17 ANPR STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS. IN RE THE ESTATE OF ARMAND E. BENOIT NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Armand E. Benoit late of Ferrisburgh, 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: June 27, 2017 James L. Benoit and Laurie A. Wheatley c/o Jennifer R. Luitjens, Jarrett & Luitjens, PLC 1795 Williston Rd., Suite 125 South Burlington, VT 05403 (802) 864-5951 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: June 29, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 6/29
TOWN OF LINCOLN ZBA PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
The Lincoln Zoning Board of Adjustment will hold a public hearing on the application #17032 submitted by Lolly Otis, on July 10, 2017 at 7 p.m. at the Lincoln Town Clerks Office. The application by Lolly Otis requests a conditional use permit for a footbridge structure to be located at 1883 W River Road. (Highway #01 Map #03, Block #1, Parcel Id #01-03-01.73.000), as it pertains to Section 400 – Flood Hazard Areas. The Town of Lincoln Zoning Regulations were adopted in March 1, 2011. The application is on file at the Lincoln Town Office along with supporting documentation for viewing during regular office hours. Respectfully submitted, Barbara Rainville, ZBA Chair 6/29
PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos. REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.
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serving on the board of directors. A check for $950 was presented to Mrs. Spencer to further support the library.
TOWN OF BRISTOL HEARING NOTICE
The Bristol Planning Commission will hold a hearing on July 18, 2017 at Holley Hall located at 1 South Street beginning at 7:00 P.M. to consider the application for permit #17-04SD, Heather Burpee (parcel 06-01-33.1), 2 lot subdivision with a Right of Way access per Bristol Zoning Regulations Article IV Section 407. The Bristol Planning Commission will also hold a hearing on July 18, 2017 at Holley Hall located at 1 South Street beginning at 7:00 P.M. to consider the application for permit #17-05SD, Chad and Michelle Perlee (parcel 04-01-37.4), 2 lot subdivision with a Right of Way access per Bristol Zoning Regulations Article IV Section 407. Copies of the complete zoning applications are available for review at the Bristol Town Office during regular business hours. 6/29
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NOTICE OF SELF-STORAGE LIEN SALE 116 SELF STORAGE, BRISTOL, VT
Notice is hereby given that the contents of the self-storage units listed below will be sold at public auction by sealed bid at the 116 Self Storage facility. This sale is being held to collect unpaid storage unit occupancy fees, charges and expenses of the sale. The entire contents of each self-storage unit listed below will be sold, with the proceeds to be distributed to 116 Self Storage for all accrued occupancy fees (rent charges), attorney’s fees, sale expenses in relation to the unit and its sale. Any proceeds beyond the foregoing shall be returned to the unit holder. Contents of each unit may be viewed on July 10, 2017, commencing at 10 a.m. Sealed bids are to be submitted on the entire contents of each self-storage unit. Bids will be opened one-quarter of an hour after the last unit has been viewed on July 10, 2017. The highest bidder on the storage unit must remove the entire contents within 48 hours after notification of their successfull bid. Purchase must be made in cash and paid in advance of the removal of the contents of the unit. A $50.00 cash deposit shall be made and will be refunded if the unit is broom cleaned. 116 Self Storage reserves the right to accept or reject bids. D. Soberal – Unit 21 G. Cromis – Unit 14 C. Hahn – Unit 85 J. Sargent – Unit 76 M. Benton – Unit 68 C. Devoid – Unit 54 6/22
PUBLIC AUCTION JCT. ROUTES 22A & 125 • BRIDPORT, VERMONT Thursday Evening – JULY 6th 5:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M. 5:00 P.M. We have been commissioned to sell the following from Middlebury and Vergennes homes… Early graduated 8 drawer chest – Session shelf clock – 9 x 12 Oriental rug - Ag Barton Candle holders – Dupont Smoking powder tin – sm. Hook Sheep table piece – early sewing baskets – student lamp – wooden tea box – sm. Santa door stop – 36” drop leaf table – butter churn – brass music stand – doll furniture – Commodes – Wash bowl and pitcher set – foot bath – yarn winder – early tool chest – Spong & Co. Coffee grinder – cast iron cookware – brass lighting – ceiling light by Mayda Tiffany – candle molds – wooden sap bucket – early wooden clock shelf – early tin oil lamp – braided and rag rugs – maple dresser/desk – lg. pine step back cupboards – mahogany double canopy bed frame – 6 needlepoint dining room chairs – 4 & 5 drawers Thomasville dressers – Gentlemen’s shaving mirror – Rock & Roll LP records – Maple step down commode – variety of oil lamps – flow blue china – Gordi Welch – McCoy and Hall pottery – ironstone – mud figurines – blue opalescent candle holders – 10 pc. 22k gold Dixon art studio – set of Mark Twain books – 1886 Addison County Gazetteer – nice assorted VT books – early tin toys – pantry boxes – stamp collection – lg. 48 star flag – early flour sifter – cane bottom rocker – 6 oak T-back chairs – lg. dovetail blanket chest – Early child’s sled – Cannon ball rope bed (complete) – marble top parlor table – early child’s ice cream rocker – brass bed warmer – Child’s Morse chair – Zither – lg. variety of crocks and jugs – round drop leaf table w/4 chairs – Rutland double sided RR bench – quantity of silver plated tea sets – trunks – quilts and coverlets – lg. advertising posters – Wallace Nutting chair – early skates – brass fire extinguisher – leaded glass window – 1930’s collection of Watercolors and sketches by Herbert Leight – signed early silhouettes – Carl Webber pastel – O/C – Sawyer prints GUNS – GUNS Marlin 22 Lever action Model 39A – 20 ga. Remington pump 870 Express – 20 ga. H & R Bay single shot – S & W 38 Regulation revolver w/holster – spotting scope w/stand OUTSIDE – 5:00 p.m. Lincoln & Craftsman welders and supplies – Craftsman roll around tool chest – air compressor – Hitachi 10” table saw – Genco 5500 Generator – acetylene torches – Delta Chamfer – Ryobi table top drill press – Delta 36” wood lathe w/extras – hydraulic jacks – grinder – variety of logging chains – HD Lugall Comealongs and others – fishing tackle – screw clamps – vice clamps – Bounty 202 metal detector – lawn cart – lg. bird bath – truck tool box – welding equipment – car ramps – assorted garden tools… and much more too numerous to mention…. Terms: Cash, check, MC, Visa Lunch by Bridport Grange AUCTIONEER: Tom Broughton PO Box 53, Bridport, VT 05734 802-758-2494 AUCTIONEERS NOTE: Preview 3:30 p.m. –Partial listing only. All items sold as is, where is, with no implied warranty. 10% buyer’s premium cash or good check. 13% buyer’s premium with credit card
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A future boat
SIXTH-GRADERS AT SHOREHAM Elementary School admire “Oakley,” the white oak tree they planted outside the school earlier this month after representatives from the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum presented an interactive program on its “Stem to Stern” program. The program highlights forests, wood, boats and water, and how these interact in contemporary life as well as through regional history. The goals are to increase understanding of the relationship between forests and waterways, increase stewardship values and model community stewardship action. White oak and white pine are the principal tree species that have served as boatbuilding timber in the Northeast for hundreds of years.
Jessica Brisson receives sorority award from UVM
BURLINGTON — Every year the University of Vermont Fraternity and Sorority Life Awards Night celebrates and honors the accomplishments of individual members of the fraternity and sorority communities at UVM, as well as chapters that exemplified commitment to citizenship, friendship, leadership, lifelong learning, and justice. This year Jessica Brisson of Shoreham received the 2017 Outstanding President Award. The award is given to a chapter or society’s president who has set themselves apart with their everlasting commitment to their individual organization.
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Recently Emma L. Morgan of Starksboro was selected for inclusion on the dean’s list for academic achievement during the Spring 2017 semester at St. Lawrence University. To be eligible for the dean’s list, a student must have completed at least four courses and have an academic average of 3.6 based on a 4.0 scale for the semester. Morgan is a member of the Class of 2017 and is majoring in Neuroscience. Jeffrey Schnoor of Middlebury was awarded a Master of Business Administration from the Eugene W. Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. in May.
Southern Vermont College in Bennington has named two local students, Adrian Dickerson of Bristol and Amber Dow of Panton, to the provost’s list for high academic achievement for the Spring 2017 semester. Students must earn a grade-point average of 3.5 or greater for the semester in order to be named to the provost’s list. Rachel Howlett, daughter of Tim and Julie Howlett of Bridport, has been named to the dean’s list at the State University of New York College at Cortland. Howlett, a 2014 graduate of Middlebury Union High School is majoring in Childhood/ Early Childhood Education.
Kyle T. Pecsok and Andrew S. Myhre, both of Middlebury, have been named to second honors on the Clark University dean’s list. This selection marks outstanding academic achievement during the spring 2017 semester. To be eligible for second honors, students must have a grade point average of 3.5 or higher, of a maximum of 4.3. Jared North of Ferrisburgh is one of 606 seniors to earn their degree from Grove City College, in Grove City, Pa., on May 20, 2017. North earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology.
BRISTOL — The following students have made the Mount Abraham Union High School Honor Roll for the second quarter. GRADE 9 Work Habits Highest Honors — BJ Bennett, Jnana Breck-Arndt, Josie Brennan, Faith Brinkman, Emma Campbell, Jackson Gepfert, Alexis Kouwenhoven, Cole Kouwenhoven, Camille Lyons, Sean Meyer, Sydney Minnerly, Sydney Perlee, Jonas Schroeder and Maizy Shepard. Work Habits High Honors — Lucinda Guy, Addison Harris, Grace Hobbs, Abigail Iliff, Liam Kelliher, Rebecca Laurent, Eric McKean, Cassatt Melchior, Mae Peterson, Alanah Rockwell and Charlotte Willis. Work Habits Honors — Austin Ballou, Shayna Block, Abigail Bluteau, Seth Chesser, Eben Clifford, Carly Counter, Owen Darling, Wisdom Edwards, Travis Guillemette, Abigail Hoff and Katelyn McIntyre. Academic Highest Honors — Jnana Breck-Arndt, Emma Campbell, Carly Counter, Addison Harris, Abigail Iliff, Alexis Kouwenhoven, Camille Lyons, Sydney Minnerly, Sydney Perlee and Mae Peterson. Academic High Honors — Shayna Block, Owen Darling, Grace Hobbs, Abigail Hoff, Liam Kelliher, Max Konczal, Cole Kouwenhoven, Rebecca Laurent, Eric McKean and Jonas Schroeder. Academic Honors — Josie Brennan, Wisdom Edwards, Jackson Gepfert, Chloe Hamilton, Charlotte Layn, Sean Meyer, Maizy Shepard and Charlotte Willis. GRADE 10 Academic Highest Honors — Thomas Carr, Jalen Cook, Kai Dobek, Sawyer Forbes, Cora Funke, Eden Ginsburg, Chessley Jackman, Evan Laurent, William Martin, Elizabeth Siminitus, Emily Tardie, Leeya Tudek and William Wright. Academic High Honors — Ashley Aldrich, Maxine Cromis, Isaiah DiNapoli, Casondra Dykstra, Olivia Heath, Claire Holloway, Althea Kane, Patrick Marcotullio, Mhairi McMurray, Jessalyn Murray, Molly Murray, Julia Norris and Ryan Rougier. Academic Honors — Ryan Adams, Ruby Ball, Grady Brokaw, Hannah Carpenter, Carlyle Grundon, Caleb Hamilton, Johnathan Hill, Parker Hines, Jacob Hoag, Katherine
Kandzior, Roman Mayer, Erik McLysaght, Francis Nardiello Smith, Willem Oxford, Olivia Paine, Emily Rathbun, Ethan Sawyer, Angus Schwaneflugel, Jennifer Steadman and Walker Whittemore. GRADE 11 Academic Highest Honors — Emily Aldrich, Aine Alexander, Robyn Arena, Madeline Bernoudy, Martha Bruhl, Emma Carter, Nickolas Catlin, Vanessa Dykstra, Molly Funk, Eli Jensen, Renata Khusyainova, Emma LaRose, Isabella Lucarelli, Chloe Lyons, Abigail Mansfield, Aidan May, Jenna McArdle, Casey Ober, Samuel Paradee, Brooke Perlee, Lydia Pitts, Emma Radler, Eli Rickner, Gillianne Ross, Audrey Shahan, Carley Sherwin and Cecilia Vichi. Academic High Honors — Renee Bolduc, Bridget Davis, Katelyn Gebo, Phoenix King, Lucas Livingston, Abigail Nezin, Abigail Perlee and Dustin Whitcomb. Academic Honors — Sophie Alderman, Bailey Allard, Christopher Boyer, Toby Bunch, Brian Cousineau, Leo Farrell, Isaac Giles, Taylor Gurney, Allyson Hoff, Anna Igler, Mariah Malloy, Conrad Marsano, Kameryn Norse, Katelynn Ouellette, Ian Reynolds, William Schoenhuber, Sebastian Szczecinski, Mitchell Tierney, Georgia Tricou, Mason Wood and Olivia Young. GRADE 12 Academic Highest Honors — Robert Will Aldrich, Angela Barrows, Genysis Berube, Kayla Brennan, Zachary Hines, Siena Hoaglund, Francesco Iavarone, Katherine Moody, Margaret Moody, Satinder Pabla, Yana Tudek, Ashley Turner, Adam Whitcomb and Sofia Wolak. Academic High Honors — Baxter Clements, Keion Correll, Adeline Crosthwait, Patton Griswold, Brandon Hanley, Macie-Jo Kittredge, Samuel Kuhns, Owein LaBarr, Ernesta McIntosh, Mavis Reardon and Coleman Russell. Academic Honors — George Bailey, Noah Bessette, Aiden Brunola, Courtnee Cox, Peter Foley, Madison Gilley, Celia Heath, Ann Marie Hoag, Anna Iliff, Keeley Kane, Peyton Keith, Jordan Lathrop, Delaynah Leavitt, Megan McIntyre, Andrew Raymond, Jacqueline Reiss, Brittany Sheeran and Christopher Wood.
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June 29, 2017
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Linda and Randy Smith have been restoring art for private clients and dealers in the basement of their Salisbury home for over 20 years.
INDEPENDENT PHOTO / TRENT CAMPBELL
Masters of disguise; the Smiths’ restore art
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aintings age. Very slowly. “Much like people do,” said Randy Smith, an art restorer in Salisbury who’s been in the biz since the early ’70s. “You don’t notice it day to day, but after it’s been a while the varnish yellows, there can be nicotine, smoke or mold stains; the paint can blister or crack; even fire sparks can burn small holes.”
BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI
That’s when you call Randy and his wife, Linda Hampton Smith, to help restore the piece to it’s original quality. This couple has mastered the art of disguise. They flawlessly mask imperfections with reconstruction work by Randy and Linda’s fine in-painting (filling in areas with missing paint). “Our goal is to try to get the painting as authentic as possible, as near to the original as
we can determine,” explained Randy. “But we must confine our work to the damage and the damage alone.” Yes, there are rules to art restoration. Another rule: “Everything we do has to be reversible,” said Randy. “That’s museum standard.”
“EVERY TIME YOU SIT DOWN WITH A PAINTING, YOUR HEART IS IN YOUR THROAT.” — Randy Smith
So, the Smiths use special solvents to cleanse the painting of grime and other environmental stains, as well as overpainting (painting outside the damaged area) by prior art restorers. “Sometimes people take liberties,” Randy said,
pulling up an image of a piece they worked on. The first image shows a painting of a nude man draped in furs; the second image (after the Smiths cleaned the painting) revealed the nude with no furs. “Someone just decided to cover him up,” Randy summed up. Once the painting is cleaned, and rips are restored using museum-grade adhesives and mounting boards, it’s Linda’s turn. “I’m painting in the same colors as the original work,” said Linda, a self-described “perfectionist” who studied studio art in Paris and New York. “Pale colors are the hardest because it’s easiest to see my work.” It’s not often you hear an artist complaining about “seeing their work,” but in the world of art restoration, the goal is to go unnoticed. So layer by layer, Linda paints her way into obscurity until you can’t tell where the original ends and Linda’s work begins. SEE SMITH ON PAGE 3
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ART An influential love story in black and white “THE LOVINGS, AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREY VILLET” ON VIEW AT MIDDLEBURY MUSEUM OF ART
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he Lovings, an Intimate Portrait: Photographs by Grey Villet opened on May 26 at the Middlebury College Museum of Art’s Overbrook Gallery. The exhibition, which features 20 photographs by Grey Villet drawn largely from his germinal 1965 LIFE magazine photo essay telling the remarkable and epochal love story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving, takes its name from the recently published book, which presents that photo essay in its entirety for the first time. The book, which includes a text by his colleague and widow Barbara Villet, Middlebury Class of 1952, and was designed by their daughter Ann Villet, Middlebury Class of 1987, will be available for purchase through the Museum’s store for the duration of the exhibition, which will remain on view through Aug. 13. Because their home state of Virginia was one of 16 in the country that prohibited interracial marriage, the Lovings were legally married in Washington, D.C. in 1958. On returning to their families in Virginia, however, they were arrested on charges of violating Virginia’s antimiscegenation laws. Ultimately facing long jail terms, they were released on the condition that they left the state. With three children and little means of support away from their home, however, they risked their security and returned five years later to begin an uphill legal battle for the right to live together.
Mildred and Richard Loving, 1965.
Grey Villet visited the Lovings in the spring of 1965, as their case worked its way through the courts, and his warm and intimate images of their family life in their community document their remarkable bond. As Barbara Villet writes, they “tell of a love story that is still influential in a changing America.” Two years later, on June 12, 1967 in the Supreme Court case Loving vs. Virginia, they were
PHOTO BY GREY VILLET. USED WITH PERMISSION OF THE ESTATE OF GREY VILLET.
exonerated and the prohibition against interracial marriage was abolished. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Rte. 30 on the southern edge of campus, is free and open to the public Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and on the weekend from 12-5 p.m. For more information call (802) 443–5007 or TTY (802) 443–3155, or visit museum.middlebury.edu.
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boys in the city.
SMITH
Life was fast and the work was furious. “I worked in the studio in New York for nine years and we did about 1,000 paintings per year,” said Randy.
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“We have a sharp division of labor,” said Randy. “But we do make a good team,” added Linda. The couple first met in the late ’70s while they were both working at the Phyllis Lucas Gallery in Manhattan, N.Y. Randy did conservation of prints, frames and paintings, and Linda was a hand-colorist of antique engravings. From there, the then 31-year-old Randy, took a job in 1980 with the Joel Zakow Art Restoration studio in SoHo, NYC, whose clients included the Museum of American Folk Art, Sotheby’s, and many nationally renowned galleries and collectors. A year later, Randy established his own private practice along side his work at the SoHo studio. And by 1984, Linda and Randy were married, partners in business and raising two
By ’89 it was time to slow things down, so the couple decided to move to Vermont. “It felt like we were moving to the outback,” said Linda, a Brooklyn native, who spent several years teaching art at Leicester, Ripton, Weybridge and Salisbury elementary schools. “It reminded me of growing up,” mused Randy, a country boy from the flats of Illinois.
Master art restorer Linda Hampton Smith fills in the missing parts in an 1848 painting to restore it to its original beauty. She and husband, Randy Smith, are partners in Randy Smith Art Restoration in Salisbury. INDEPENDENT PHOTO / TRENT CAMPBELL
Twenty years ago they settled in their home in Salisbury, where they still restore work in the basement. They process at least 100 paintings a year for private clients and dealers, and have been at it for 28 years — roughly 3,000 paintings — which brings their total up to 12,000 paintings restored in their combined careers. But that huge number hasn’t slowed their enthusiasm.
“Every time you sit down with a painting, your heart is in your throat,” said Randy. “You never know what you have until you start working with it.”
of their own, it’s about the appreciation that comes along with a job well done.
“It’s very enriching to be surrounded with the art, and the history and stories that go with it,” Linda added.
“Seeing the person’s face when they look on the painting after it’s been restored is incredible,” Randy said. “They see the painting like they remember it as a kid.”
But the reward is not a masterpiece
“It’s very touching,” Linda agreed.
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OUT OF TOWN Playhouse celebrates 70 years of live theater
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aint Michael’s Playhouse enters its 70th season this June. The live professional theater has a stellar line-up of performances to celebrate the milestone that include area premieres and a Pulitzer-prize winning American comedy classic. “Seems like our 70th Anniversary season will be another great summer at Playhouse with productions of the high voltage, Tony Award-winning musical Million Dollar Quartet, the Vermont premiere Tom Dudzick’s charmer Miracle on South Division Street,
the area premiere of the hilarious musical whodunit Murder for Two, and the Pulitzer-prize winning American comedy classic You Can’t Take It With You. We are very excited to launch this special season with such a wide variety of enjoyable shows and offer our deepest gratitude to our audience members, financial contributors, production sponsors and program advertisers, without whose support, for the past 70 years, this professional theater would not be possible,” said Playhouse producing artistic director Chuck Tobin. “We rehearse our shows right here in our theater and design and
build our scenery, costumes and props on location with our crew of approximately 70 professional theater artists,” Tobin added.
Broadway’s Murder for Two).
2017 SEASON Kicking off the 70th Anniversary season is Million Dollar Quartet, the high voltage, Tony Award-winning Broadway musical inspired by the true story of the famed recording session that brought together rock ‘n’ roll icons Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins for the first and only time. Million Dollar Quartet plays June 20-July 1, and is directed by Keith Andrews (the Playhouse’s
Sister Act, Spamalot, Young Frankenstein, Drowsy Chaperone). Following Million Dollar Quartet is the Vermont premiere of Tom Dudzick’s comedy, Miracle on South Division Street. Living in a rough neighborhood in Buffalo, New York, Clara Nowak knew her family was special ever since the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared in her father’s barber shop in 1942. But, when new information and secrets are revealed, the family legend begins to unravel in hilarious and heartfelt ways. Miracle on South Division Street plays July 5-15, and is directed by Kenneth Kimmins (the Playhouse’s Neil Simon trilogy Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, Broadway Bound). The next show of the 70th Anniversary season is the area premiere of Murder for Two, the hilarious new musical whodunit. Two actors play thirteen roles, not to mention the piano, in this wild-and-witty homage to old-fashioned murder mysteries. Mixing classic musical comedy with a dash of Agatha Christie, everyone is a suspect in this madcap mystery. Murder for Two plays July 19-29, and is directed by Jeremy Scott Lapp (National Tour and Off-
The finale production of the season is the Pulitzer Prize-winning American comedy classic You Can’t Take It With You by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. Meet the gloriously madcap Sycamores and enjoy the mayhem that ensues when their daughter Alice’s fiancé arrives with his straight laced, conservative parents for dinner on the wrong evening. Everyone has family, but none quite like the Sycamores. Their zany antics and unconventional ways offer hope that love and laughter lead to happiness, even in the most troubling of times. An evening of screwball magic. You Can’t Take It With You plays Aug. 2-12, and is directed by Catherine Doherty (the Playhouse’s I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, and Spitfire Grill).
TICKETS The four mainstage plays of the 2017 season are available as part of the subscription series – Million Dollar Quartet, Miracle on South Division Street, Murder for Two, and You Can’t Take It With You. Season subscriptions range in price from $124-$143. Single ticket prices range from $35$46. The Playhouse is located at McCarthy Arts Center, on Route 15, in Colchester. Subscriptions and single tickets may be purchased online at saintmichaelsplayouse.org or by calling (802) 6542281 or visiting the walkup window in the lobby of McCarthy Arts Center.
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the poem
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IN TOWN BY DANIEL L. CADY
Addison County, Vermont, Clay
FROM: RHYMES OF VERMONT RURAL LIFE
The North Vermonter who would fain The Equinox Hotel attain, The South Vermonter, who, in turn, Would see some Swanton powder burn; The East Side habitant who tries To view Vergennes before he dies, Are each and all compelled to share The same intensive wear and tear, And cross, to their extreme dismay The Addisonian wastes of clay.
And answers two have come to hand Which absolute respect command; The first one say, “These lofty hills, Which give your motor man the chills, These hill that make the soul recoil, The spark plug swoon, the water boil, Require to hold ‘em where they b’long An underpinning stiff and strong, And nothing else will make ‘em stay In place but Addisonian clay.”
These reasons sort of disagree, But either one will do for me; For when I’m told a thing is so It’s all I ever want to know; I now can slip and skip and slue Through Weybridge and through Waltham, too, And ‘long the heights of Hancock hump, In Bristol bump and Shoreham slump And feel I’m favored all the way In travelling over first-class clay.
Each time my fliverette* goes through New Haven on the double skew, Each time my touring chariot skids Amongst the Dunmore dogs and kids, Each time I stop to set a tire In Middlebury’s classic mire, I ask myself, What in the deuce Can be the town or county use, The rhyme or reason, anyway, For such a monstrous mess of clay?
The other says, “that when the snow Makes up its April mind to go, When runners scrape and sleds cut through, And girls get red and “fellers” blue; When Lincoln teams throw off their loads And yuo’d be stuck on other roads, This pasty blueness acts like grease And slides you on your way in peace; Your harness holds, your heart is gay – You’re saved by Addisonian clay!”
(*Slang for an automobile, small, inexpensive and old)
Editor’s note: Daniel L. Cady was Poet laureate of Vermont in 1919. This poem was submitted by Jack Mayer, founding member of Rainbow Pediatrics in Middlebury and author of “Life in a Jar: The Irena Sendler Project” (2011) and “Before the Court of Heaven” (2015).
one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK
FR Walk on June 30. Receptions will be held from 5-8 p.m. Art will be E EMain Street, Vergennes. 30 all along FRIDAY JUNE on view and for sale at venuesC After-hours events at art galleries local businesses invite you Rand EE to explore this walkable historic downtown. Browse shops, antiques and artwork. MEE VERGENNES ARTS WALK. Cruise the streets of the Little City for the first Friday Arts
AUTHORS TALK AT ILSLEY. Elizabeth Rice and Karen Richardson Whitely will read at the Ilsley Library in July. Rice, a Middlebury College graduate, was raised in Seoul, South Korea. She has worked in nonprofits THURSDAY JULY from Seattle to Mississippi to Zambia, and is currently living SATURDAY JULY between Costa Rica and Vermont. Rice will read from her first book Rituals of Separation — a love song to a cross-cultural childhood and an exploration of issues of belonging, loss and cultural identity — on Thursday, July 6, 4 p.m. Whitely will read from her book Gorge: My journey up Kilimanjaro at 300 pounds on Saturday, July 22, 1 p.m. Her book is about climbing Tanzania’s Mount Kilimanjaro carrying a lot of extra weight. Whitely’s talk will address issues of positive self-image, food addiction/binge eating recovery, helping others (all three of her Kilimanjaro hikes raised funds for AIDS orphans in Africa) and the benefits of movement and spending time in nature.
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FREE CONCERT IN BRANDON. Based in the Green Mountains in Rutland County, Extra Stout is a traditional Irish band that brings all of the variety of Irish music from raucous drinking songs to ballads of home and country. Part of the Music at the Riverbend free summer music series that takes place every Wednesday night in July and August. Bring your picnic and something to sit on to the lawn behind the Brandon Inn. Outside alcohol not permitted. Beer and wine will be for sale. Concerts start at 7 p.m. Info: brandon.org.
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VERMONT PHILHARMONIC AND FIREWORKS IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, June 29, 7:30 p.m., behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts (rain site: Kenyon Arena), Middlebury College. The Sheldon Museum presents its 25th annual Pops Concert featuring the Vermont Philharmonic followed by fireworks. Grounds open at 5:30 p.m. for picnics. Bring chairs, blankets, and flashlights. Ticket prices: Adult $25, Youth $10; children under 12 admitted free. Tickets may be purchased by calling 802-388-2117, online at henrysheldonmuseum. org or in person at the Sheldon, One Park Street in Middlebury.
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INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION IN BRANDON. Saturday, July 1, 10 a.m.- 10 p.m., Park Village. Silent auction, food and craft fair, karaoke, family fun, ball race, dance party and fireworks. More info at brandon.org. FOURTH OF JULY EVE FESTIVITIES IN BRISTOL. Monday, July 3, 6 p.m.-dark, town recreation park. The DJ Jam Man will provide entertainment while folks mingle among the food and craft vendors and games. Raffle tickets will be sold. Fireworks start at dusk.
VERMONT GRAN FONDO IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, July 1, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Woodchuck Hard Cider, Exchange Street. The event will begin and end at Woodchuck Hard Cider, with the après-ride party-taking place from 2-7 p.m. with live music and fare from an array of food trucks. For more info and to register, go to vermontgranfondo.com. HIKE & NATURE BINGO IN ADDISON. Saturday, July 1, 9 a.m., Snake Mountain. A Green Mountain Club’s Young Adventurers activity, where the pace is geared towards younger adventurers (ages 4-8). Everyone welcome. Contact YAC Leader Lauren Bierman for meeting location, time and details: 802-349-7498 or laurenbiermanrn@ gmail.com. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org. GREEN MOUNTAIN BICYCLE CLUB MONKTON RIDGE RIDE IN MONKTON AND SURROUNDING AREA. Sunday, July 9, 8:45 a.m., Meet at Shelburne Village Shopping Center. Three options, 23 (E), 38 (M) and 48 (M) miles, will travel some familiar roads and some less traveled. The short ride will not ascend to Monkton Ridge. Lots of food stops available along the way. More info contact Brian Howard at 802-505-1148 or bjhowd@ gmail.com or Kerry Crosby at 802-578-3249 or crosbykn@comcast.net.
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FIREWORKS IN VERGENNES. Monday, July 3, dusk, VUHS athletic fields. Music and refreshments prior to display. Rain date July 5.
WARREN KIMBLE RECEPTION IN BRANDON. Friday June 30, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St. An opening reception for Kimble’s latest exhibit, which will run from June 30-Aug. 29. More info at 802-2474956, thebag@brandonartistguikd.org, or BrandonArtistsGuild.org.
INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE AND CELEBRATION IN BRISTOL. Tuesday, July 4, 10:30 a.m., throughout the village. This fantastic parade starts at the corner of Liberty and Pleasant streets, moves up Pleasant/ Spring Street, right onto Mountain Street, right onto Main Street, and down West Street to the Rec Field. This is followed at noon by The Festival on the Green, which includes food and craft vendors, pony rides for the kids, an inflatable family fun center, and music by Mango Jam.
SUSANNE PECK GALLERY OPENING IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, June 30, 5-7 p.m., Jackson Gallery, Town Hall Theater. Susanne Peck spent most of her professional life in the NYC area and relocated to Vermont in 2008. A classical singer, educator and conductor, she has been drawing commissioned portraits for 26 years. Tickets are available at the THT Box Office: 802-382-9222, townhalltheater.org, or in person Monday-Saturday noon-5 pm. ARTS WALK IN VERGENNES. Friday, June 30, 5-8 p.m. Art on view and for sale
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at participating locations throughout downtown Vergennes, including all along Main St. After-hours events at art galleries and local businesses invite you to explore this walkable historic downtown. Browse shops, antiques, and artwork. Information VergennesDowntown.org. ARTIST’S RECEPTION IN VERGENNES. Friday, June 30, 5-8 p.m. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St. Reception for the exhibit “The Handmade Book.” ART INSTALLATION OPENING RECEPTION IN BRANDON. Friday, July 7, 5-7:30 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center, 33 Jones Dr. Artist Bill Ramage’s latest installation of drawing and sculpture. Ramage will speak about his 35-year journey in art making. PHOTO EXHIBIT OPENING AND GALLERY TALK IN FERRISBURGH. Sunday, July 9, 3 p.m., Rokeby Museum, 4334 US Route 7. Rokeby’s 2017 exhibition “Yours in the Cause: Faces of Radical Abolition” is a collection of rarely seen historical photographs depicting 14 abolitionists with ties to the Robinsons of Rokeby. More info contact Jane Williamson at Rokeby@comcast.net
CRAFTS
PEASANT MARKET IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, July 8, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., on the Green. A local favorite. Come and find some treasures. Proceeds benefit area non-profits and service organizations. RECYCLED CRAFTS IN SHOREHAM. Saturday, July 8, 1-2 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Create some amazing crafts from recycled materials at this building-themed program. Ages 5 and up.
DANCE
STREET DANCE IN BRANDON. Friday, June 30, 5 p.m., Central Park. Cookout begins at 5 p.m.; music begins at 6 p.m. with DJ from Jam Man Entertainment.
FILM
BAG LUNCH MOVIE IN SHOREHAM. Saturday, July 1, 1 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Bring your lunch to the air-conditioned library for a cool kids’ PG movie. Popcorn will be served. More info at plattlib.org. CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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DOCUMENTARY MOVIE IN SHOREHAM. Monday, July 3, 7 p.m., Platt Memorial Library. Come to the air-conditioned library for our TV-PG documentary movie night. Popcorn will be served. More info at plattlib.org “BOSS BABY” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, July 5, 8 p.m., new college park, by the traffic circle. Part of the Better Middlebury Partnership outdoor movie and music series. SAS CAREY’S “GOBI WOMEN’S SONG: NOMADIC WOMEN SHARE THE SONG OF THEIR SOUL” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, July 6, 7-9 p.m., 248 Washington St. Ext, gazebo in back. Hear about Carey’s experience working with the United Nations Development Program and what inspired her to make this film. Suggested $10 donation per evening to Nomadicare. Bring a chair and a picnic. More info: sas@nomadicare.org or 802 388-1301.
JUST FOR FUN
GREAT BRISTOL OUTHOUSE RACE. Tuesday, July 4, 9 a.m., West Street at the town green. Watch this fun competition, which features teams pulling “outhouses” toward Main Street with a rider on the “throne” of each vehicle. Enjoy the entertainment.
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Sundaes, cones, pie, cake. Rain or shine.
MUSIC
POINT COUNTERPOINT CHAMBER PLAYERS IN SALISBURY. Friday, June 30, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. The opening concert of the 38th Summer Performance Series in Salisbury includes works by Handel-Halvosen, Shostakovitich and Mendelssohn. Free will donation. DANA AND SUSAN ROBINSON ON STAGE IN RIPTON. Saturday, July 1, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, Route 125. Doors open at 7 p.m., open mic at 7:30 followed by featured performers. Admissions $10/$15. More info at rcch. org or 802-388-9782. EXTRA STOUT IN BRANDON. Wednesday, July 5, 7 p.m., Behind the Brandon Inn. Vermont’s premier Irish band. Part of the Brandon Summer concert Series. Free. More info at brandon.org. BASIN BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL IN BRANDON. Thursday, July 6, Friday, July 7, Saturday, July 8, and Sunday, July 9, end of Basin Rd. The 23rd annual four-day event. Spaghetti supper at 5 p.m., $10/person, followed by a classic country concert by Corey Zink and Country Line. Concert free with weekend ticket, others, $10. More info at basinbluegrass@yahoo.com or basinbluegrassfestival.com.
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MOLLIE O’BRIEN AND RICH MOORE MONDAY, JULY 10TH, 8:30PM
Grammy winner Mollie O’Brien and powerhouse guitar player Rich Moore are two national musical treasures. Combining blues and bluegrass (and everything in-between) with their soulful voices and stunning instrumental chops, Mollie and Rich are a constant source of joy and inspiration. They are truly among the best out there keeping American music alive and vital.” -Dave Alvin
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LEFT EYE JUMP ON STAGE IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, July 7, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery, 142 River Rd. Gritty blues from Chicago to the Delta. Part of the Winery’s free Friday night concerts. Bring a picnic and something to sit on. Rain or shine. Wine and food available for sale. More info at 802-388-7368 or lincolnpeakvineyard.com. O’HANLEIGH IN SALISBURY. Friday, June 7, 7:30 p.m., Salisbury Congregational Church. Vocal and instrumental music of Irish America. Part of the Salisbury Summer Performance Series. Free will donation. CARPENTERS TRIBUTE CONCERT IN BRANDON. Saturday, July 8, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Rutland native Sally Olsen will present her acclaimed “Carpenters Tribute Concert” with signature covers and commentary on the history behind the Carpenter’s music. Tickets: Adults $8. Seniors, Students & Military $6. Tickets available at the door. STEVEN KIRBY QUINTET ON STAGE IN BRANDON. Saturday, July 8, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Jazz guitarist Kirby and his quintet will perform Kirby’s compositions and other contemporary jazz tunes. 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.
FESTIVAL ON-THE-GREEN
2016 SCHEDULE Free, family-friendly music series supported by community donations & volunteers Sunday, July 9 7 p.m. Radio Free Honduras Monday, July 10 Noon Brown Bag: Bob & Andrea Teer 7 p.m. The Sea the Sea 8:30 p.m. Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore Tuesday, July 11 Noon Brown Bag: Jon Gailmor 7 p.m. Emily Braden Trio 8:30 p.m. Upstate Rubdown Wednesday, July 12 Noon Brown Bag: No Strings Marionette Company 7 p.m. Pete’s Posse 8:30 p.m. The Molly Tuttle Band Thursday, July 13 Noon Brown Bag: Stephen Gratto 7 p.m. Jason Anick Gypsy Jazz Trio 8:30 p.m. The Seamus Eagan Project Friday, July 14 Noon Brown Bag: Magician Tom Verner 7 p.m. Starline Rhythm Boys 8:30 p.m. Dave Keller’s 9-Piece Soul Revue Saturday, July 15 7 p.m. Vermont Jazz Ensemble Street Dance
To see the full schedule, visit www.festivalonthegreen.org or “Middlebury Festival on the Green” on facebook. Info: 802-462-3555
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CADY’S FALLS
A Vermont garden gem
A meandering path separates the plants on the slope to the left, which enjoy dry conditions, and the lush water garden on the right at Cady’s Falls in Morrisville.
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was a beautiful Saturday afternoon in early June when Dick and I set off to visit some of our favorite haunts. After crossing the Green Mountains at the Brandon Gap we began our afternoon in fine style, enjoying a delightful lunch at Sandy’s Cafe and Books in Rochester.
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Then we took Route 100 north through the beautiful Gulf of Granville, past Waterbury and into Stowe, where we followed the Stagecoach Road to its end and, after two successive quick left turns, reached our final destination. Cady’s Falls Nursery and Garden, and the home of Don and Lela Avery, is hidden at the end of Duhamel Road, which runs alongside the meandering Lamoille River. Almost 40 years has passed since Lela and Don discovered the old dairy farm that was for sale. They immediately saw the unique potential of the site, with its old farm buildings and the rich bottomland of the Lamoille River, and decided to make Vermont their home.
And since then they have devoted their lives to creating a remarkable nursery in this beautiful setting, and also to raising all kinds of rare and interesting garden plants from around the world. Gradually word got out about Don and Lela’s amazing plant collection, and before long people from all over New England were making the trip to Morrisville to seek out the special nursery at Cady’s Falls. Indeed I have visited Cady’s Falls on numerous occasions and today my own garden is enriched by many of their beautiful plants.
CHANGES AT THE NURSERY But, as everyone knows, all good things eventually come to an end. This past spring plant aficionados were especially saddened to receive Don and Lela’s email saying that 2017 would be their last season for selling plants. Indeed it was their aim to have everything sold by July 1. So for this reason I felt a real urgency to head back up there one more time. And sure enough, when I left Cady’s Falls that day, our tiny car was crammed to the roof with many beautiful plants.
PHOTO / DICK CONRAD
BUT THE GARDEN LIVES ON The nursery is only part of the Avery’s story. Over the years Don and Lela have also developed a most amazing garden, where nursery visitors have the opportunity to see many of those special plants, growing in perfect harmony with one another. And now, although Don and Lela have decided the time has finally come to close the nursery, every weekend they will continue to welcome visitors to their garden. All they ask is that you contribute a goodwill donation to help with the cost of upkeep. Thus the ‘Garden at Cady’s Falls’ will continue to be a special destination for all — gardeners and photographers as well as non-gardeners — and is surely worth a trip from every corner of Vermont.
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whole. And since each of these “gardens within a garden” offers an individual growing environment — such as sunny, shady, wet or dry — each also supports a unique palette of plants adapted to the particular environment.
In complete contrast to the bog-loving plants at the water’s edge, the steep slopes rising up on either side of the water garden become the perfect environment for a delightful collection of Alpine plants that thrive in dry conditions.
Of course these environmental differences are of immense interest to plant lovers. But these inherent contrasts also create a sense of mystery for all visitors as they stroll from one part of the larger garden to another.
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Many people start their garden wanderings by dipping under the arbor draped with a weeping larch, entering a wide sweeping lawn that is surrounded by deep planting beds filled with all kinds of unusual shrubs and colorful perennials. Although lovely in every season, this garden comes to a natural climax in July and August. From the lawn area it is but a short step before we find ourselves in a shady woodland glen crisscrossed by meandering paths. These narrow paths, all meticulously covered with pea gravel or soft pine needles, provide a beautiful way for visitors to enjoy the individual plants up close. Like its wild counterparts, in springtime the woodland garden is a spectacular tapestry of colorful flowers—from the rhododendrons and azaleas, to diminutive primroses and trillium. But by early-summer, after the spring flowers have begun to fade, on the ground level it is the numerous varieties of ferns and hostas that combine to create a quieter textural composition which lasts for the remainder of the season. Continuing along the narrow gravel paths we soon encounter the spectacular water garden, which supports numerous plants that are adapted to growing in wet or even standing water. You will easily see the huge broad-leaved Umbrella Plant (Darmera pelata), contrasting with clumps of slender linear variegated iris. But look closer—and you may spot the carnivorous pitcher plants with their clever traps to waylay a curious insect.
Since Don and Lela have always loved the challenge of growing unusual or fastidious plants, today the garden offers an abundance of special plants to enjoy. For instance, about a decade ago, they perfected the technique of propagating the various species of our native Lady’s Slippers — orchids that grow wild in just a few locations across Vermont. As Don points out, while Lady’s Slippers (all species of the genus Cypripedium) are extremely hard to propagate in a nursery setting, they are actually not hard to grow in the garden. So unsurprisingly, in early summer you will find many Lady’s Slippers in flower in his garden.
Don is also a renowned expert on dwarf and slow-growing conifers. These are genetic mutations of forest-sized conifers, and most bear little resemblance to the parent trees. So it comes as no surprise that Don has a multitude of these interesting plants growing in the garden and he is always delighted to share his knowledge of the growth habits of different ones with interested visitors.
MORE PICTURES TO ENJOY See more photos of this lovely garden at northcountryreflections.com/rovinggardener/road-less-travelled and pictures of individual plants on the Cady’s Falls website cadysfallsnursery.com. Judith Irven and Dick Conrad live in Goshen where together they nurture a large garden. Judith is a Vermont Certified Horticulturist and teaches Sustainable Home Landscaping for the Vermont Master Gardener program. You can subscribe to her blog about her Vermont gardening life at northcountryreflections.com. Dick is a landscape and garden photographer; you can see more of his photographs at northcountryimpressions.
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rhododendrons (evergreen) and azaleas (deciduous). Indeed the azalea season starts in April and continues through August. So whenever you visit, you are likely to find some in bloom.
In addition to wandering through the beautiful garden spaces and absorbing the ambience of each, part of the pleasure of visiting the Garden at Cady’s Falls is the chance to enjoy the enormous variety of individual plants up close. And, should you want to know the identity of a particular plant, look down for the helpful label with large clear lettering.
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Share it on Twitter, Instagram or to Town Hall Theater’s Facebook page with the hashtag #bewareofdoug. We’ll display the pics at the THT box office.The prize for the best photo will win 2 festival passes to the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, August 24-27 (a $160 value!)
In the Jackson Gallery • Fri 6/30 – Sun 8/13, 2017
EXHIBITS ALNÔBAK: WEARING OUR HERITAGE. On exhibit June 24-Aug.12, featuring wearable art, such as garments, regalia, and accessories, by contemporary Abenaki artists, together with photographs and prints that reflect previous generations. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, 4472 Basin Harbor Road, Vergennes. (802) 475-2022 or lcmm.org. DEAR WILD ONES. On display June 1-July 9, featuring the work of Rebecca Kinkead and Eben Markowski. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com. JURIED SHOW: THE COLOR OF LIGHT. On display through June, featuring painting submissions from oil, acrylic and watercolor artists from all over the northeast. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery-vt.com. SABRA FIELD, NOW AND THEN: A RETROSPECTIVE. On exhibit May 26-Aug. 13, featuring 70 prints that span six decades of Middlebury College alumnae and Vermont artist Sabra Field. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443– 5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. 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 cmacvt.org. THE BAKER’S DOZEN. On exhibit through July 23, featuring work by Virginia Beahan, Varujan Boghosian, Deborah Bohnert, Lucy Mink-Covello, Peter Fried, Mark Goodwin, Marcy Hermansader, Edward Koren, Ben Frank Moss, Peter Moriarty, Marcus Ratliff, Celia Reisman, Nick Santoro, Rick Skogsberg, April Surgent, Nancy H. Taplin, Hugh Townley, John Udvardy and Bhakti Ziek. BigTown Gallery, 245 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 349-0979 or bigtowngallery.com.
SUSANNE PECK: DAILY ART
A variety of abstract, representational and expressionist works from this exceptional artist.
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A chamber music concert from the esteemed faculty of Point Counterpoint
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FILM SCREENING AND HOWARD MOSHER TRIBUTE BY FILMMAKER JAY CRAVEN Award-winning filmmaker Jay Craven will present a special tribute to Vermont writer, Howard Frank Mosher, who passed away unexpectedly in late January.
THE DAMES. On exhibit May 19-Aug. 19, featuring the oral history recordings and photographic portraits featuring 13 members of the Vermont Society of the National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org. THE HANDMADE BOOK. On exhibit June 10-July 30, featuring the fascinating world of handmade books by artists Rebecca Boardman, Elissa Campbell, Marilyn Gillis, Ann Joppe-Mercure, Jane Ploughman, Vera Ryersbach, Penne Tompkins and Marcia Vogler. A reception with the artists will be held Friday, June 30, from 5-8 p.m. Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main Street, Vergennes. (802) 877-3850 or creativespacegallery.org. THE LOVINGS, AN INTIMATE PORTRAIT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREY VILLET. On exhibit May 26-Aug. 13, featuring 20 photographs by Grey Villet drawn largely from his germinal 1965 LIFE magazine photo essay telling the remarkable and epochal love story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443–5007 or museum. middlebury.edu. YOUNG AMERICA: ROY LICHTENSTEIN AND THE AMERICA’S CUP. On exhibit May 26-Aug. 13, featuring the actual 77-foot hull of Young America as well as several related preliminary works by pop artist Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) and other works illustrating the history of the America’s Cup. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443–5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. HAVE AN EXHIBIT YOU WANT PUBLISHED?
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EXHIBITS Susanne Peck ‘Daily Art’ on view in Middlebury
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usanne Peck spent most of her professional life in the New York City area and relocated to Vermont in 2008. A classical singer, educator and conductor, she has always made art and has been drawing commissioned portraits for 26 years. In recent years she has branched out to include abstract and expressionist works as well as representational, and the exhibit will reflect this variety. Largely self-taught, her most valued instruction came privately from Elizabeth Steig in the Boston area and from portrait painter Laurel Stern Boeck at Katonah Art Center in New York, from Tad Spurgeon, Richard Weinstein and Mary Lower at the Middlebury Studio School. Peck has taught clay and drawing/painting to children and adults at Katonah Art Center, Frog Hollow and Middlebury Studio School in Vermont. Her commissions have included New York City Federal Judge Colleen McMahon and family,
animals hang in dozens of homes across the country and are considered exceptional in the genre of portraiture. The Jackson Gallery is located in the lower level of Town Hall Theater, a community and cultural venue located in the center of Middlebury. Gallery hours are Monday through Saturday 12 to 5 p.m., and an hour before any public events in the building. For more info call (802) 382-9222 or visit townhalltheater.org. Susanne Peck’s drawings will be on display June 30 - Aug. 13 at Jackson Gallery in Middlebury. An artist’s reception will be held Friday, June 30, 5-7 p.m.
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opera singers François Clemmons and Beverly Myers along with actor Richard Gere’s young son. A portrait of President Obama by Susanne Peck was gifted to the White House in 2009. Peck’s portraits of people and
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In July and August of 2017, the Brandon Artists Guild (The BAG) will celebrate one of its own founders, Warren Kimble, with an exhibition featuring the universally appealing folk art that has made him famous since 1987. The twist is that the folk art imagery he presents this summer is a new body of artwork. “I feel very invested in the Guild,” said Kimble. “I have an earnest desire to sustain its importance to the arts in the community.” Kimble’s beloved version of Americana — art that tells stories of a simple, less complicated era — is the genre for which he is most known. In recent years, however, the prolific artist has delved
Warren Kimble presents new work at the Brandon Artists Guild June 30 - Aug. 29. An artist’s reception will be held Friday, June 30 5-7 p.m.
into other subjects with timely content, such as the Widows of War installations, or with humor and satire in the The House of Cards collection. Now, to the delight of his many fans, the summer 2017 BAG exhibition will show
Warren Kimble in a current mood of nostalgia, once again painting his signature animal, barn and homestead scenes on antique wooden boards and other found objects. The artist combines his love of New England painting, architecture, and artisan imagery and applies this considerable knowledge of antiques and artifacts to the creation of his visionary folk art. Warren Kimble — Folk Art 2017 is on view from June 30 to Aug. 29, with a reception for the public on Friday, June 30, 5-7 p.m. Kimble will give a talk at the BAG on Saturday, Aug. 12 at 11 a.m.. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. For more info visit brandonartistsguild.org or call (802) 247-4956.
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the movie BEATRIZ AT DINNER — RUNNING TIME: 1:23 — RATING: R Beatriz at Dinner may not be perfect but it is rare and powerful in an unusual way and well worth seeing. Beatriz (Salma Hayek) is a multidimensional physical and emotional healer from Mexico with medical training and a great big heart. She has driven north to a gated mansion in Newport Beach to massage the grateful mother of a former patient. When her car refuses to start as she leaves, Cathy (Connie Britton) summons a tow truck and invites Beatriz to stay for dinner with the arriving guests. That’s our invitation to a culture clash that is by turns horrific, funny and tense. Three couples — the wives dressed in perfect high heels and silk, the husbands in immaculate business suits — and Beatriz in blue jeans and an old shirt. Two couples are indebted for their lifestyles to Doug Strutt (John Lithgow), a powerful real estate magnate who delights in recounting his African hunting adventures. Beatriz, who respects all life whether it is human or animal, is stunned and lashes out. The dinner had begun as a typical upper level social gathering with conversation rooted in travel stories and random incidentals — anything as long as it never leads to an exchange of ideas or serious talk of any kind. The clothes, the stories and the experiences are just another subtle form of competition. When Beatriz’s anger at Doug’s killing of an animal turns openly raw, the others cringe and puncture the silent embarrassment with a few labored comments here and there. But the battle is joined. Doug and Beatriz are front and center in a battle over nothing less than the value of life itself while the others sit in mortified silence. Beatriz erupts, “Doug, try healing something; destroy the source of the suffering.” Writer Mike White has written a script full of unexpected words and actions and director Miguel Arteta has made sure it is all filmed with appropriate subtlety. In an age when wealth equals permission, Salma Hayek builds a case for a social code rooted in kindness and caring.
Connie Britton and Salma Hayek in Beatriz at Dinner (2017).
When she is most upset, she turns Beatriz to stone and the film takes an unexpected turn. John Lithgow does the nearly impossible in creating the real estate tycoon. Although he exercises his right to do and say things a rich successful businessman can do in a culture where money is king, he endows Doug Strutt with one quality that draws our interest. He listens to Beatriz and actually hears her. The man who dismissed her as a maid on first sight learns she is both smart and wise. Writer, director and the two lead actors carry the action throughout while their supporting players are fine at creating the grim essence of dinner conversation among men who have succeeded financially and the women who play the supporting roles in life and in the film. Watching Hayek and Lithgow tower above them in anger and despair is a movie lover’s dream. — Reviewed by Joan Ellis
the book HUNGER: A MEMOIR OF (MY) BODY — BY ROXANE GAY (Harper)
While I knew who she was, I had not read Roxane Gay until I heard her interviewed recently by Terry Gross. So compelling was their conversation that I took the book she was on Fresh Air to promote, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, home that night and read most of it in one sitting. Candid, courageous, searing: they’re all words overused in reviews of memoirs, but there are few other adjectives that adequately communicate the power of Hunger. In it, she tells of her body everything she knows: joy, trauma, pleasure, and pain all. She withholds nothing in her search to make meaning of her size (six-foot-three and fat–her word), how she got that way, and what she intends to do about it, if anything. By laying bare her truth for the world to see, braving trolls and bullies, judgment and repudiation, Gay entitles the intrepid reader to an all-too-rare privilege: the means to empathy, the proverbial mile’s walk in another’s shoes. Sadly, those who probably need to read Hunger the most won’t touch it, but I expect those of us who do will come away with enough compassion to share. Unlike fat, it’s catching. —Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of the Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury.
BOOKS ABOUT (THIS) BODY Appetites, by Caroline Knapp A classic on battling eating disorders. Between the World and Me, by Ta-Nehisi Coates What it means to inhabit a black body. Shrill, by Lindy West On being big and bold about it. Becoming Nicole, by Amy Ellis Nutt An intimate portrayal of a transgender child.
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HOME How to use ‘comps’ to price your home
H
ow much can you sell your home for? Probably about as much as the neighbors got, as long as the neighbors sold their house in recent memory and their home was just like your home.
Knowing how much homes similar to yours, called comparable sales (or in real estate lingo, comps), sold for gives you the best idea of the current estimated value of your home. The trick is finding sales that closely match yours. What makes a good comparable sale? Your best comparable sale is the same model as your house in the same subdivision — and it closed escrow last week. If you can’t find
that, here are other factors that count:
LOCATION The closer to your house the better, but don’t just use any comparable sale within a mile radius. A good comparable sale is a house in your neighborhood, your subdivision, on the same type of street as your house, and in your school district.
HOME TYPE Try to find comparable sales that are like your home in style, construction material, square footage, number of bedrooms and baths, basement (having one and whether it’s finished), finishes and yard size.
AMENITIES AND UPGRADES Is the kitchen new? Does the comparable sale house have full A/C? Is there crown
molding, a deck, or a pool? Does your community have the same amenities (pool, workout room, walking trails, etc.) and homeowners association fees?
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DATE OF SALE You may want to use a comparable sale from two years ago when the market was high, but that won’t fly. Most buyers use governmentguaranteed mortgages, and those lending programs say comparable sales can be no older than 90 days.
SALES SWEETENERS Did the comparable-sale sellers give the buyers downpayment assistance, closing costs, or a free television? You have to reduce the value of any comparable sale to account for any deal sweeteners. — Houselogic.com
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