Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017

Not for kids

School’s in

Sports kick off

With disc golf, foursquare & more, Recess for Adults is not your typical beer festival. See Arts + Leisure.

With the start of school this week, see the new teachers at two local school districts. Page 7A.

Leaves have yet to turn, but a sign of fall is the beginning of high school sports. See Page 1B.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 71 No. 35

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

Six-year-old Forestdale boy fights rare disease

By JOHN FLOWERS FORESTDALE — Mason Wedge should be joining hundreds of other Vermont kids entering first grade this week for a year of educational adventures.

But a serious disease known by three capital letters — DKC — is shackling him to his Forestdale home and leaving him and his family praying for a cure, or at least a critical bone marrow transplant.

“DKC’ is the acronym for Dyskeratosis Congenita, an

inherited disorder that includes such early symptoms as abnormal skin pigmentation, thin nails, white patches inside the mouth, a breakdown in the immune system, fatigue and loss of appetite. Of more serious concern, however, is that DKC patients are predisposed to bone marrow failure, some cancers and lung problems.

Symptoms typically surface in patients between ages 5 and 10.

Mason just turned 6 on Aug. 20.

To say the young lad has (See Mason Wedge, Page 11A)

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Supreme Court reverses solar decision

By GAEN MURPHREE NEW HAVEN — The Vermont Supreme Court has reversed a key permit for a solar array off Route 7 in New Haven and ordered the state utilities regulator to reconsider the matter.

In a unanimous decision issued last Friday, the court ordered the Public Utilities Commission to consider town comments it had deemed to be filed too late and to hold a technical hearing on an interconnection issue in its reconsideration of the solar power project.

This is the first time the Supreme Court has reversed a Certificate of Public Good on a solar project,

“We look forward to working with the Public Utility Commission, the Department of Public Service and Green Mountain Power to address the issues raised by the Supreme Court.”

— Sam Carlson

according to Cindy Hill, the town attorney for New Haven, which had appealed the case to the Supreme Court.

The Aug. 25 court decision reverses the Certificate of Public Good, or CPG, issued for the Waterbury-based Green Lantern Group’s 500-kilowatt GLC Solar project, an array built on the Russell Farm property west of Route 7 and north of Campground Road. In a 19-page decision written

by Chief Justice Paul Reiber, the court demarcates where the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) did and did not correctly follow the rules and regulations that govern its processes.

Hill explained that the main issue the court wanted addressed was for the Public Utilities Commission to follow “its own rules regarding both the interconnection rules and

the process rules of notification of appropriate parties.”

At stake is the integrity of the process by which Vermont regulates utilities, said Vermont Law School’s Jared Carter, a specialist in legal activism and environmental law.

“There are rules of the road that have to be followed in order to ensure the integrity of the process,” said Carter. “Without that integrity, I don’t think you can have a good process and make good decisions about siting these projects.”

Sam Carlson, Green Lantern Group director of project development, said his company was surprised and (See Solar array, Page 11A)

Bridport landmark closes its doors

Ray Boise ran Citgo station for 45 years

RAY BOISE, LONGTIME owner of Boise Citgo at the intersection of Routes 125 and 22A in Bridport, retired this week after 45 years running the local service station. The property and its assets were scheduled to be sold at auction on Wednesday, Aug. 30.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By JOHN FLOWERS getting tired,” Boise said. “I haven’t BRIDPORT — It’s Monday had a vacation in 45 years.” morning at Boise Citgo in Bridport, And he’s not taking that vacation and it’s a beehive of activity. until after the auctioneer’s gavel But on this day, workers aren’t falls on the sale of the last tape pulling ailing vehicles into the measure, tire iron and fuel tank in garage for tune-ups, oil his inventory. Boise changes or repairs. wouldn’t chew the fat They’re hauling out “I’m going to with this reporter until a variety of automotive miss it, but I’m he had made the rounds equipment, including his property aboard getting tired. I on brake lathes, floor his trusty scooter, jacks, anvils and king- haven’t had a expertly weaving in and sized wrenches. vacation in 45 out of work stations, Some of the stuff years.” making sure the final hasn’t seen the light of — Ray Boise chores were being done day since the Gerald to his specifications.

Ford administration, The scooter has but it’s now getting pressure-sprayed allowed him to remain an active part and wiped down for an auction that of the operation as he has become was scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. more physically limited.

30.

He took some time on Monday to Everything must go, including the gaze nostalgically in the rearview 4,800-square-foot building on 1 acre mirror at his relationship with the at the intersection of Routes 22A and local service center. Boise, a lifelong 125.

Bridport resident, began leasing Ray Boise, 78, has finally decided the property from Champlain Oil to retire after 45 years of pumping back in 1972. He had been working gas and fixing vehicles at his beloved, in construction with H.B. Hood, family-owned service station. but wanted to run a business in “I’m going to miss it, but I’m (See Boise, Page 12A)

Portrait of a migrant dairy farmworker

By the way

Mexican flees violence, poverty to work in Vt. Editor’s note: This newspaper He’s crossed into the United States has done a number of stories about six times: three times through Vermont’s immigrant farmworkers. Arizona and three through Texas.

He’s been in Vermont, working In this article, the Independent’s agriculture reporter puts a personal mostly on dairy farms for six years. lens on this issue. What follows is Before that he worked in Texas and one person’s story, as told to the in New York. Among his first jobs in Texas was working at a Chinese Independent. restaurant. In New York, he started

By GAEN MURPHREE ADDISON COUNTY — “Mateo” doing farm work. In Addison sits at the kitchen table in the trailer County, he lives far from the nearest that comes as part of his work on a town (and nearest store), without a car. He has only a bike for local dairy farm. He’s 32 transportation. years old. The last time “I want Why is he here? he saw his two kids — a (my “I came for work. I don’t daughter, 11, and a sevenhave any education, and year-old son — was seven kids) to where I’m from there’s no years ago, when his daughter have an was four and his son nine education, work,” Mateo says, through a translator. months. His two children not to be At his current wage, live with his mother and like I am $8.50 an hour plus extra father. He calls home often. for additional tasks, he About the children’s mother, now.”

— Mateo, can make in one hour in he doesn’t say. a Mexican Vermont about what he can Every two weeks he sends farmworker make in an entire day in half his paycheck home Mexico (around $10 a day, to his parents to take care of his kids and his larger family. he says).

“Here, depending on your job and The money he sends home buys essentials, like food and clothes, and how much you work, you can make pays for tuition, books and uniforms $500 to $600 a week,” he says; and to send his kids to school. Primary that doesn’t include the housing that and secondary education is not free many farmers also provide.

LIFE IN MEXICO in Mexico.

Mateo is from Tabasco, one of Mateo (not his real name) first came to the United States when he Mexico’s southernmost states. His was 17. So almost half his lifetime home is on a small farm close to (See Farm worker, Page 10A) has been spent working in the U.S.

LOCAL FILMMAKER ANDY Mitchell, left, speaks with fellow cinematographers Chapin Hall, second from left, Brad Heck and Allie Humenuk during a panel discussion at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival Saturday afternoon at Town Hall Theater.

The streets of Middlebury will be hopping with activity for a couple nights this week. No, the college students are not back early, it’s just that the Middlebury Highway Department will be repainting lines on some of the streets overnight. Crews were scheduled to take to the streets last night (Wednesday) and will do so again tonight (Thursday) between 9 p.m. and 5 a.m. on Friday. Roads to be painted are Court Square, Court Street from the square south to Creek Road, North Pleasant Street from the square to Elm Street, Main Street from North Pleasant to South Street, and Cross Street from the roundabout to Court Street. If a section of road is closed (See By the way, Page 12A)

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Festival excites viewers, filmmakers Adds partnerships, prizes and venues

By YVETTE SHI MIDDLEBURY — With the awarding of 13 fuzzy, well-groomed teddy bears, the third annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival closed its curtains on Aug. 27, concluding what festival

organizers said was the best year ever.

MNFF Artistic Director Jay Craven reported that this year’s festival featured the largest number of films screened (96), the most filmmakers to attend (over 40), and a record number of special guests.

That the festival also attracted bigger audiences with high engagement also gave this year’s

festival high marks.

“It’s a high point for sure,” Craven said after the four-day festival. “I think it’s one of the most stimulating arts events in Vermont.”

Festival passes were up 35 percent, day pass sales were higher, and audience attendance and participation at the panel discussions and workshops was over the roof, (See Film festival, Page 2A)

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Reporter reveals story of Boston’s crime boss

Film festival

Film, panel discuss role of the press

By YVETTE SHI MIDDLEBURY — The third annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival continued its tradition of inviting special guests to talk about their experiences and accomplishments in filmmaking and beyond.

One of the guests this year, Dick Lehr, is a prominent author, journalist and screenwriter based in Boston.

Lehr is co-author of “Black Mass: Whitey Bulger, the FBI, and a Devil’s Deal,” which became the basis for the 2015 film “Black Mass,” which starred Johnny Depp as the notorious crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger.

The film screened on Friday, Aug. 25, in the Marquis Theater, followed by an on-stage talk with festival Artistic Director Jay Craven and a more in-depth discussion with the two in the municipal building about Lehr’s work. Both venues were packed with community members and filmmakers.

“I can’t think of a more heinous criminal depicted in the history of film,” Craven said, commenting on the absolute realism of the movie adaptation. Lehr noted that even in the entire gangster history in America, Bulger could be considered the “most notorious,” because of his accomplishment in forging an unprecedented corrupt relationship with the FBI, most notably with John Connelly and John Morris.

Lehr’s experience covering Bulger and the FBI’s story as a reporter for Spotlight, the investigative reporting unit of The Boston Globe, was more complicated than what the fast-paced

WRITER DICK LEHR, right, talks with MNFF Artistic Director Jay Craven last Friday about Lehr’s non-fiction books that have been made into movies, including the 2015 hit “Black Mass.”

movie depicts. In the summer of 1988, Lehr interviewed a retired FBI supervisor to confirm the rumors about Bulger and the FBI. He started recording their conversation.

“And it’s good to have the tape recorder because I would’ve dropped my pencil and my jaw would’ve just dropped open,” Lehr said.

“What I was hearing was just so unbelievable.”

To learn the full scope of the Bulger story, the gripping film is not enough. “There’s so much time, so much history here to make a twohour movie out of 20 years, and it gets compressed and rearranged,” said Lehr.

One issue with the film is that it adopts a narrative that “Connelly and Morris were two bad apples.” The record, however, says that corruption in the FBI was deeply ingrained at the time. Yet most of the agents involved were able to dodge the bullet, and so there was never a “full understanding of the scope of the corruption.”

The account of Connelly and

Morris as the only two bad guys actually continued in real life, and that has led to Lehr’s increased skepticism about the FBI’s credibility.

“They’ve done an enormous amount of good stuff,” he said. “But they are so PR-conscious.”

Lehr also talked about his latest work “The Birth of a Movement,” a non-fiction about D. W. Griffith’s immensely popular yet deeply racist film “Birth of A Nation” and its consequences. The film was technologically groundbreaking, but its horrifying content proved dangerous.

In 1979, Lehr, working as reporter for the Hartford Courant, decided to test David Duke’s claims that the secret Ku Klux Klan was welcoming hundreds of new members in Connecticut.

“So I had this young crazy idea to join the Klan in Connecticut, and we will figure out the leader and the numbers,” he said. “I did that and it wasn’t hard.” A secret meeting in Connecticut, at which Duke screened

“Birth of a Nation,” turned out to draw only a dozen people.

“Fake news,” both Craven and Lehr commented.

Both “Black Mass” and “The Birth of a Movement” have been made into movies, and another one of Lehr’s books, “The Fence,” is undergoing development. “The Fence” chronicles the cover-up of a police brutality case against black policeman Michael Cox in Boston, indicative of the corruption in the Boston police scene.

Investigative reporting, and moreover the press itself, are becoming increasingly at risk, Lehr maintained, as an unprecedented number of people are opting for what is called “alternative reality,” as Craven called it.

Lehr believes that the only way forward is to continue doing journalism. “It makes it harder and more challenging,” Lehr said. “But it makes it more important than ever to stay at the core and do honest journalism.”

Diversity of festival is one of its strengths

By YVETTE SHI Documentary filmmaker Thomas Bena had just finished writing an email to Dick Lehr, the former Boston Globe investigative reporter, when I recognized him in Carol’s Hungry Mind Café on Saturday afternoon. I remembered him from that day’s earlier screening of “Nashville.” I quickly did some research on my phone and, as a rookie reporter and aspiring filmmaker, and engaged him in a conversation.

As soon as I sat down, I learned that Bena met Lehr just a day before at the screening of “Black Mass,” a narrative feature adapted from Lehr’s 2000 biography about James “Whitey” Bulger, one of the most notorious criminals in American history. Bena felt lucky to speak to the Pulitzer Prize finalist, and he was even able to pitch a story idea for Lehr to bring to the Boston Globe’s Spotlight Team, the newspaper’s investigative reporting unit.

Bena’s idea concerns a big bridge construction project on Martha’s Vineyard.

Bena maintains the huge concrete architecture disrupts the local environment and lifestyle and would be inappropriate, or worse, for the island community. He said he was thrilled that his efforts (he had done a documentary on a tangential subject on the island) might end up

ALEX GONZALEZ, A filmmaker and website developer, shows off the Virtual Reality gear he let viewers use in the Marquis Theater Café to view his VR movie this past weekend.

Independent photo/Yvette Shi

in Boston Globe.

“That’s like amazing,” he said.

“And that’s just something that happens here at a little festival.”

He opened Google Earth and showed me the bridge and other enormous houses built in Martha’s Vineyard, the subject matter of his film. The next morning, I got to see the same aerial views come to life in his documentary “One Big Home.” The long sequence of satellite images of the place before and after the trophy homes were

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built was powerful.

The film chronicles Bena’s 12year journey to make sense of the emerging giant houses and to take action in his community.

In it he strives to show different perspectives in the film, including his own, and he does not shy away from expressing his opinions.

I was curious what specifically brought him to Middlebury’s festival, and it turned out Bena had been a long-time fan of Jay Craven, the MNFF Artistic Director. “I respect how he brings his films all around New England and makes films about New England,” he said.

“So I reached out to him.”

His film aims to spark discussions in communities throughout New England and beyond. And in Martha’s Vineyard, where he calls home, he created the Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival 17 years ago.

“I founded my film festival having never been to a film festival,” Bena said. “I was really going to call mine a community festival, but I figured that would scare people off, because it would sound a little too out there.”

“I’m a believer in community festivals. I’ve been to the big market festivals, and quite frankly, I think these (smaller festivals) are as important if not more important,” Bena said. “Some of the big festivals, you know, you walk out of the film and you are on the city street. You are at a loud party with techno music and you can’t talk.”

I could certainly relate. Having been to the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City, I can attest to the access and intimacy provided by smaller festivals like the MNFF, which is exemplified by the fact that I was sitting on the same couch at a café with a filmmaker that afternoon and had the opportunity to speak with many filmmakers throughout the four-day festival.

While the MNFF is intimate, that doesn’t mean it wasn’t busy.

Alex Gonzalez, a filmmaker and (See Virtual Reality, Page 3A)

(Continued from Page 1A) cy at the Westchester County, N.Y., said Craven. A total of 12 screenings center, where she will have access to were sold out compared to last year’s all resources and facilities. four, even with the addition of a fifth The center also introduced the first screen at the National Bank of Mid- Virtual Reality demonstration to the dlebury Community Room. festival, featuring Alex Gonzalez’s About 2,900 community members short “Beyond the Mountains.” Gonwent to the movie screenings during zales showed his VR production at the the second festival. This year, festival Marquis Theater Café, where about 40 producer Lloyd Komesar is certain people got to see the 7-minute film on that number was substantially exceed- Gonzales’ personal VR goggles and ed. equipment.

“I think all of us were immensely In other activities during the fourpleased at the way the festival rolled day festival, the MNFF marked the out,” Komesar said. “Just in general I second year of its partnership with thought that this is our best year.” the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, The duration of the festival was which presented the Award in Best Inextended with Thursday early bird tegration of Original Music. Ben Gusscreenings, and Komesar said he’s tafson’s film “Seared” was this year’s likely to expand that next year. winner. Gustafson will be able to team “I felt Middlebury and the MNFF up with a composer to work on a film came alive in a way that felt new and its accompanying score together. and groundbreaking,” added Phoebe Other awards included: “A Pact Lewis, the festival associate produc- Among Angels” for Best Feature Narer. “I was also very pleased to see the rative; “The Peacemaker” for Best filmmakers forging friendships and Feature Documentary; “There Are No exploring Middlebury and becoming Brothers Here” for Best Short Narmembers of the community in a way rative; “An Outrage” for Best Short that I’m confident will extend beyond Documentary; and “An Autobiogtheir four days here.” raphy” for Audience Award in Short The filmmakers felt the same way.

Films.

“We want to come back, so I guess As a tribute to experienced profeswe will get back to work,” said Shawn sionals in the field, whose works conConvey, whose documentary feature tinue to inspire and educate, the Award “Among Wolves” won the $1,000 in Sustained Excellence in Acting was Hernandez/Bayliss Prize in Triumph given to Michael Murphy, while the of the Human Spirit. filmmaker duo of Ricki Stern and AnAmong the other winners, Alexan- nie Sundberg was awarded Sustained dra Dean’s documenExcellence in Docutary “Bombshell: The mentary Filmmaking.

Hedy Lamarr Story” “I think it’s one “You are blessed and took two awards home: of the most you are screwed,” MurThe Audience Award stimulating phy joked at the awards in Feature film and the arts events in ceremony, encouraging Clio Visualizing Histhe new filmmakers to tory Prize for the Ad- Vermont.” embrace the challenges — Jay Craven and hardships that will vancement of Women in Film, the latter one come along. also being a $1,000 prize.

To provide opportunities for the “I am privileged to be among you budding filmmakers to converse and as a cohort,” Dean said on the THT learn from each other, festival orgastage during Sunday’s awards cere- nizers introduced two craft workmony. “I have loved talking to the au- shops. On Saturday, the cinematogdience about my film and having such raphy session, hosted by Craven, an emotional and real response from and the film distribution discussion, people.” hosted by Komesar, were joined by The Clio Visualizing History Prize professionals in the respective fields. resonated with the festival’s focus on A merchandise store (sponsored women filmmakers this year. Dean’s by Bourdon Insurance Agency) at the documentary explores the famous film old barbershop on Merchants Row actress Hedy Lamarr, who was also an became what Komesar considered to inventor of technological advances, a be “one more focal point for the feslittle-known fact that was the basis of tival,” as many people enjoyed going the documentary. The film’s message to the store for ice cream and meron the difficulty Lamarr experienced chandise. in getting recognized for her brilliance Outside the four-day fest, this in the technology industry remains year’s MNFF Winter Screening Secritical today. ries will start on Sunday, Dec. 3, with “The truth is it’s still hard for us a 2017 film “Novitiate.” The series to be taken seriously as filmmakers,” will bring one film each month at the Dean said.

Town Hall Theater until May. And a NEW PARTNERSHIP possible special evening screening of A new partnership with the Jacob the 2018 Oscars is now on the orgaBurns Film Center introduced the nizers’ calendar.

Creative Culture Award, which was “I feel that this year was a real given to Martha Gregory for her docu- breakthrough for us,” Komesar said. mentary short, “Three Red Sweaters.” “And we are already planning for Upon receiving the award, Gregory next year based on the successes we was also offered a one-month residen- had in our third year.”

BRUCE BAYLISS, LEFT, Michele Hernandez and their son, Ian, paused for a photo op at the MNFF. They endowed the Hernandez/Bayliss Prize for the film that “best demonstrates the triumph of the human spirit.”

Addison Independent, Thursday, August 31, 2017 — PAGE 3A

ANWSD support workers ink new, two-year contract

By JOHN FLOWERS VERGENNES — The Addison Northwest Support Staff Association (ANSSA) and the Addison Northwest School District (ANWSD) board have agreed on a new, twoyear pact that includes annual pay increases and requires support staff in the Vergennes-area schools to pay more for their health insurance.

But the ANSWD school board has not seen the last of the bargaining table this year. Board negotiators were scheduled to meet their Addison Northwest Teachers’ Association (ANTA) counterparts on Thursday, Aug. 31, to try to hammer out a new contract for district teachers.

The new support staff agreement covers roughly 100 Addison Northwest workers. It grants those employees a $1.35-per-hour raise during the current academic year (2017-2018) and another 75-centsper-hour bump during 2018-2019, according to a press release signed

by George Gardner, chief negotiator for ANWSD, and Jackie Russet, chief negotiator for ANSSA. A portion of these raises compensate staff members for their increased share of health care premiums, which now align with the state’s new mandate of an 80/20 split between the school district and its employees, according to Gardner and Russet. The state now requires school employees to pay at least 20 percent of their health

insurance premiums.

The board will also provide staff members with a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) to help offset health care deductibles. An HRA account is funded entirely by the employer. The employer contributes a specified amount to each participant’s HRA each year. As long as there is money in the employee’s account, he or she can use the funds toward eligible HRA expenses.

“It seems like people are satisfied that this was fair,” ANWSD negotiator Mark Koenig said of the support staff pact, which is retroactive to June 30, the date on which the former contract expired.

June 30 was also the day on which the most recent Addison Northwest teachers’ contract expired. Negotiators have been meeting off and on since last September in an effort to strike a new accord. Both sides recently agreed to bring in a mediator after declaring impasse this past April.

The areas of disagreement have primarily involved health insurance, wages, length of school day and professional development.

Thursday’s bargaining session will be the first between the two sides since the Vermont Legislature mandated an 80-20 split in premium contributions by school boards and teachers, respectively.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Two badly hurt in Case Street crash MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police are investigating a motorcycle-versus-truck accident on Case Street on the evening of Monday, Aug. 28, that resulted in serious injuries to a man and woman who were riding the motorcycle.

Middlebury police Chief Tom Hanley said the crash occurred when a northbound motorcycle struck a northbound dump truck that was turning into a driveway at 4961 Case St., which is about halfway between Cobble Road and Mead Lane.

Hanley identified the motorcycle

driver as George Thomas, 22, of Bristol, who sustained “significant injuries” and was taken to Porter Hospital. The passenger on the bike — Alyse Wanke, 21, of Leicester — was also seriously hurt and required hospitalization, according to Hanley.

The truck — which was towing a trailer bearing an excavator — was being driven by Matthew DeBisschop, who was unhurt, according to Hanley.

Anyone with information on the crash is asked to call Middlebury police at 388-3191.

Behind the robot

CAMP COUNSELOR KRISTINE Su, left, woks with campers Abby Andres, 8, Lucy Goetz, 8, and Ella Kozak, 10, during S.T.E.A.M. Girls camp at the Middlebury Recreation Department gymnasium on Aug. 18. Last week’s camp was for 7-10-year-olds. The camp continued last week for 11-14-year-olds.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Motorcyclist dies in collision after fleeing state police

NEW HAVEN — An Essex Junction man who was speeding away from a state trooper was killed this past Saturday afternoon when his motorcycle crashed into another motorcycle and then slid under a pickup truck on Route 7 in New Haven.

Vermont State Police report that between 4:30 and 4:45 p.m. on Aug. 26 a trooper observed a group of motorcycles traveling north on Route 7 through Middlebury, north of the green, at a high rate of speed. The trooper attempted to stop the group, but only one motorcyclist stopped.

State police Sgt. Stephen McNamara reported that the others accelerated away to speeds in excess of 100 mph.

The trooper immediately lost sight of the motorcycles and stopped chasing them because of the extremely high speeds Shortly thereafter, Christopher Dusablon, 29, of Essex Junction and Joshua Morris, 25, of Bakersfield, who were part of the group driving motorcycles north out of Middlebury, came upon another state police cruiser — this one parked on the side of Route 7 approximately 500 feet north of the Campground Road intersection.

Troopers’ investigation indicates that Dusablon, driving a 2009 Suzuki RGSX motorcycle, then attempted to make a left turn onto Campground

Virtual Reality (Continued from Page 2A) website developer, produced sevenminute featured short “Beyond the Mountain,” the first Virtual Reality Screening held at the festival.

I sat in the café and watched Gonzalez get up every seven minutes to talk to another viewer about his or her experience, and then set up the gear for the next person.

He encouraged the viewers to move around in the squeaky arm-chair.

“See you on the other side,” he said to them. During the times he “I’ve been was showing to the big his film on market S a t u r d a y festivals, and Sunday and quite afternoons, he was packed frankly, I with back-tothink these viewers. (smaller film back It was indeed festivals) another type are as of the intimate and personal important atmosphere if not more important.” created at the festival.

— Thomas I was the Bena last one to put on the goggles on Sunday. The wide array of landscapes, animals and mystical characters shown in the film was beautiful and absorbing.

“I set out to make an emotional rollercoaster with this,” said Gonzalez. “So there are moments of peace and tranquility, and there are moments where it kind of turns into a nightmare.”

Road and crossed into the path of the 2003 Yamaha YZF-R6 motorcycle that Morris was driving, causing the motorcycles to collide. Both motorcycles traveled left of center and into the path of a southbound Chevy Silverado pick up truck driven by 35-year-old Jason Roberts of Rutland.

When the three vehicles made impact, Morris was ejected from his motorcycle and Dusablon became lodged underneath the truck. He was pinned there until rescuers could extricate him and take him to Porter Hospital in Middlebury, where he was pronounced dead.

Morris was rushed to UVM Medi-

cal Center, where he was treated for a broken left ankle.

Roberts reported no physical injuries, but the pickup sustained damage to the right side front and undercarriage. Both motorcycles were totaled.

Police and firefighters closed Route 7 for several hours and diverted traffic around the scene via side roads.

Police cited Morris for driving with a suspended license.

This crash remains under investigation. State Police would like to identify the other motorcycle operators that were involved. Anyone with information is requested to contact the state police, New Haven barracks, at 802-388-4919.

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THOMAS BENA To create the film, Gonzalez worked for the first seven months mainly at night, because he worked full-time during the day. “It’s a struggle because it’s a battle between the technical difficulties and the artistic decisions,” he said, also acknowledging the financial necessity of holding down a job.

As for his future as a filmmaker, he has many different development ideas in mind, from creating a flying game to helping handicapped

people, and is eager to find the time to get to them.

The two producers, Bena and Gonzalez, represent the diverse selection of the 96 films at the MNFF this year, all of which bring powerful and relevant statement on crucial topics. But you could say that about any film festival today.

One thing that made the MNFF special for me was the filmmakers’ openness and honesty about their experiences.

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explored their challenges and obstacles, but were highlighted by their months and years of passion and persistence — discussion that motivates filmmakers to advance their personal projects and skills, and viewers to broaden and sharpen their perspectives.

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Harvey, Sandy and hypocrisy

Time to chip in for Open Door Clinic

As Americans across the nation reach out with sympathy to Texans reeling from Hurricane Harvey’s destruction, Congress has briefly united to pledge the full help of the government. Democrats were solidly in support of their Republican colleagues in the solidly Republican state. Truly, as President Obama said many times during his eight years in office, in times of crisis we are not red and blue America, but a united America.

And yesterday, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-California) made it clear that Democrats would not play politics with the aid Texans need: “Republicans must be ready to join Democrats in passing a timely relief bill that makes all necessary resources available through emergency spending,” she said.

Five years ago, when Hurricane Sandy devastated large parts of the Northeast, Republicans were not so generous. Then, Congress passed a $50 billion spending bill to help the Northeast recover. In the House, the package passed by 241-180, with 192 Democrats voting in favor. Among Republicans, however, 49 voted yes and 179 voted no. In the Texas delegation, 23 of 24 Republicans voted no. The vote was similar in the Senate: All Democrats voted yes; 36 Republicans voted no. Among those 36 were Ted Cruz and John Cornyn of Texas.

Yet, this week, it was the Texas delegation who sent out an immediate cry for federal help. Hypocrisy? As bald-faced as it gets.

Some conservative talking heads will try to tar Democrats with the same brush, saying Dems would be just as hypocritical. But the facts show otherwise. When Katrina hit New Orleans, Democrats were strong in their support of federal assistance. And while there will be a debate about the extent of aid to Texas, most Democrats (if it’s a vote up or down on hurricane relief, and not tied to funding Trump’s wall or some other budget blackmail) will vote to help their fellow Americans in Texas.

That’s because Democrats believe government’s role is to help citizens when in dire need. Today’s Republicans, on the other hand, vote for federal aid when it helps their own, but not so much if those states are blue.

Imagine, 23 of 24 House Republicans from Texas, among 156 others, voted not to fund federal aid for Hurricane Sandy’s victims, and 36 Republican senators joined them in opposition. What does that say about today’s GOP?

I read about the need of the Open Door Clinic in your Aug. 24 edition.

They need to fill a shortfall of $62,000. I believe that there are enough individuals or service minded groups in our communities who can chip in. Some simple math: 620 X 100 = 62,000.

Here is the name and address to which you can send the check: Open Door Clinic, 100 Porter Drive, Middlebury, VT 05753.

Thank you for your generosity.

Patricia Heather-Lea Bristol

Co-housing acted unneighborly

Angelo Lynn

One thing in which Trump excels Trump continues to underperform in every presidential exercise except one: reversing regulations put in place by previous administrations that worked to the benefit of individual Americans. That he has done more than any other president in the first 200 days in office, is true only if the qualifier “to harm Americans” is added to his claim.

Several news outlets, including Fox News, have published such lists in recent weeks. Here’s a partial list by subject area as compiled by Philip Bump of the Washington Post: The economy • Withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The trade deal would have established a trade partnership between the United States and countries on the Pacific Rim. (Critics of the move note that China has moved into the vacuum created by Trump’s action and will benefit at America’s expense.)

• Revoked a rule that expanded the number of people who could earn overtime pay. (The rule had been put in place by the Obama Administration to benefit hourly workers — the majority of whom are lower- and middleclass Americans.)

• Revoked an executive order that mandated compliance by contractors with laws protecting women in the workplace.

• Cancelled a rule mandating that financial advisers act in the best interests of their clients. (Unbelievable as this sounds, the benefactors of Trump’s move are brokerage houses and big banks — part of the swamp he had promised to drain. Rather, Trump gave individual investors the shaft.)

The justice system • Rescinded an Obama effort to reduce mandatory sentences. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered that prosecutors seek the most stringent penalties possible in criminal cases. (This will flood the nation’s prison system, often for petty crimes, at the expense of taxpayers.)

• Reversed the government’s position on a voter ID law in Texas. Under the Obama administration, the Justice Department argued that the law had discriminatory intent. Under Sessions, Justice withdrew that complaint.

A week ago, a federal court threw out the law (which validated Obama’s initial action and proved Sessions wrong.)

The environment • Withdrew from the Paris climate agreement.

• Blocked the Clean Power Plan. The plan implemented under Obama focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

• Ended a study on the health effects of mountaintop-removal mining.

• Rescinded a rule mandating that rising sea levels be considered when building public infrastructure in flood-prone areas.

• Reversed an Obama ban on drilling for oil in the Arctic.

• Reviewed the status of national monuments for possible reversal.

• Withdrew a rule regulating fracking on public land.

• Reversed a ban on plastic bottles at national parks. (Really? Why?) • Delayed and potentially rolled back automotive fuel efficiency standards.

• Ended a rule banning dumping waste from mining into streams.

• Removed a bike-sharing station at the White House. (Even if Trump doesn’t exercise, the action cost taxpayers thousands of dollars to remove, and in bicyles, all for no benefit. That’s just dumb.)

Foreign policy and immigration • Rolled back of Obama’s outreach to the Cuban government.

• Ended the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents program. DAPA extended protections for some immigrant parents whose children were citizens of or residents in the United States.

Other areas • Revoked a ban on denying funding for Planned Parenthood at the state level.

• Repealed a rule mandating that Internet service providers seek permission before selling personal information. (That means more spam in your mailbox and more unwanted calls to your phone.)

• Reversed a rule that would ban gun sales to those deemed “mentally defective” by the government.

• Cancelled public reporting on visitors to the White House and other online data. (Trump does not want the public to know which lobbying firms and foreign governments are frequenting the White House — the first president to do so since the custom was established decades ago.)

••••••• And that’s just a sampling of the good Trump has undone; what Trump calls making America great again.

Angelo Lynn

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SEVERAL APPLE-PICKING ladders lean against a Sunrise Orchard apple tree Tuesday in Cornwall and await use for the coming harvest.

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Facing fear, anxiety on life’s journey

I am a person who likes to plan for all contingencies. It supports my illusion that I am in control. My daughters know this about me. They know the anxiety that has been passed down the generations like family china. That’s why they chose for me a gift of a silver necklace with natural stones.

My grandfather Carl was the only one of four children who lived to his seventies. His brother Alfred died of a debilitating muscular disease. An infant died in a flu or smallpox epidemic. Sister Selma drowned with her fiancée on a Sunday school picnic at Lake Dunmore when Carl was nine years old. Having never learned to swim, he almost drowned in the flood of 1927 when he fell out of a rowboat while rescuing others.

There is anxiety that prevents us

By Johanna from living our lives as fully as posNichols sible. When I was three, my mother experienced severe anxiety that manifested in panic attacks. My earliest memory is of my father standing at the phone in the front hallway calling my grandmother to come. My mother is crying. When my grandmother arrives, my parents drive off to the family doctor’s office.

There is anxiety that is “the price of a ticket on the journey of life.” As author James Hollis puts it: “we are impelled to face what we cannot face, bear what we cannot bear, name the unnamable that haunts us.” A Jungian analyst, he urges us never to deride ourselves for such anxiety, but to make our fears our agenda. When we take on that agenda, we know we are living in good faith with ourselves. (Swamplands of the Soul: New Life in Dismal Places 1996)

Ways of Seeing

A string of stones — labradorite, white jade, onyx, tourmilated quartz, white jade, onyx, quartz — are set in silver. My daughters chose this design for its metaphysical aspects, wishing me “strength for those things that tire you, focus for those that nurture your soul.”

In my thirties, already a parent of these two, I discovered that the less power and control I had (or perceived I had), the more anxious I felt. I learned to ground myself by focusing on what was closest to home — my family.

Then, I could move out into expanding circles of community, state, nation and globe. At that time, we did not own a computer nor had we conceived of the Internet or cell phones. Still, the world found its way into my life in disturbing ways.

In the early 1980’s, I was president of Parents, Teachers and Students for Social Responsibility. PTSSR was founded, in response to the ongoing threat of the nuclear arms race, to empower parents and teachers with the knowledge and strategies to become active in working for peace on behalf of all the worlds’ children. In support of this work, we created and distributed over one half million copies of the booklet “What About the Children?” which was translated into six languages and distributed worldwide.

World news now comes at us from 24-hour broadcasting and a proliferation of Internet programs. I am committed to make sense of what is unfolding and evolving around the world while reminding myself that I am not the general manager of the universe.

I have spent most of a lifetime striving to become more (See Ways of seeing, Page 5A)

Dorm drop-off comes full circle

I’ll never forget what I said to my parents in 1986, on hook to keep him from calling back.

My sophomore year, the school installed individthe day they dropped me off at college: “Bye!” To be fair, I was at college — kind of a big deal — and ual phones in each dorm room. They came with a they were just older people who, as far as I could tell, mind-blowing feature known as “voicemail” — your didn’t have much going on in their lives. I’m sure they own personal answering machine built right into the were envious that I was finally free from our boring little phone.

Colleges today, on the other hand, don’t even have Podunk town, and they were probably devastated that landlines, because students have cell phones. (But kids, from then on it would be just the two of them.

I watched them from my dorm room window as they did you know voicemail is still a thing? Check your messages once in a while; your mom returned to the car. Oddly, it looked worries.) like they were skipping. Funny how Then there’s college food. I teased people deal with grief. our daughter about the sad state of That day was on my mind because institutional dining. Turns out, her this past weekend my husband and I school serves a full range of fresh, brought our youngest child to college. locally grown foods raised by spirWhat a strange feeling, experiencing itually grounded farmers on stressit from the other side. free farms. Not a tater tot in sight.

Her dorm room looked much like

By Jessie Raymond As she unpacked her duffel bag, I mine had way back when. But, as I warned her about the laundry room. told her, things have changed.

In my day, if you let your clean launWhen I started college, for instance, we had a single pay phone on each hall. (For dry sit in the washer, someone who needed the washer you youngsters out there, a “pay phone” is a public would throw your clothes more or less on a nearby table phone that works only after you feed change into a slot. but also on the lint-covered floor. And if you left your “Change” is random coins that people used to use as dry laundry in the dryer too long, someone would steal it.

She just smiled. Now — really — there’s an app that currency before debit cards were invented.)

The phone on my freshman hall was, unfortunately, alerts you when your laundry is almost done.

And course registration. What a drag! You used to line just outside my room. Wendy, a girl from New Jersey who lived down the hall, was trying to break up with her up in a packed gym in front of card tables to sign up for boyfriend back home by ignoring him (for you over-30s your classes. With gritted teeth, you’d wait 20 minutes to get into Principles of Modern Thought 101, while you out there, this is now called “ghosting”).

He would call her over and over in the middle of the could see that Evolution of Philosophical Applications, night, leaving my roommate or me to stagger out of bed across the gym, would be full before you could muscle and either answer the phone repeatedly or leave it off the (See Davis, Page 5A)

Around the bend

I live on Mountain View St., the new driveway to the “Co-Housing Development.” After a year of putting up with huge construction vehicles, mud, dirt, dust, my lawn torn up for new water pipes and sink holes that are still happening near my driveway, I now have an issue with it.

This morning while walking my granddaughter to the park I chose to walk through the cohousing development, after all they have what looks like roads and walkways in there. I was approached by a woman who told me that I was not to walk through there as it was private property.

Well, so was my lawn that had to be dug up for your development and the young lad that lives in there somewhere who has been in my driveway several times and on my front porch, I didn’t tell him to leave because it was private property.

When I hear the term co-housing I think of living harmoniously in a community with others. Guess I was wrong.

Ginny Vautier Bristol

At the Middlebury Dog Park What joy unleashed, seeing you here again, late in the afternoon, after work.

So we can say hello, front to end. Let out of our cooped-up houses and apartments. Owned and for a moment freed.

To feel like ourselves.

Breeding and not bred.

Writing our names in pee.

Covering each other’s crap with our own. To say remember who we are.

Friends-in-the world of different kinds.

Although I’m glad it’s you, my look-alike.

Your friendly-growling.

Tail, a wagging metronome.

Your tongue, a pink flag-waving.

We can get lost in each other’s fur for awhile. Before we’re found over here, under the underpass, with that homeless man, giving us his hand to lick. For us to please.

My love, my Great Pyrenees.

Gary Margolis Cornwall

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Trump, climate & summer disaster films It’s still summer, so still a season the Oval Office, no less — that he for disaster films. And we’re in did it to take the heat off himself the middle of watching two such for allegedly colluding with the Russians to steal the 2016 election. spectacles.

No one knows how this disaster Let’s call the first one “Trump: movie will end. But if Watergate The Sequel.”

The Donald’s presidency holds history is any indication, we have daily plot twists. But if you’d a pretty good idea of the next big paid attention to his past career — scenes.

First the special counsel including bankrupt casinos, Trump investigation widens, “University” and other as allowed by law, rip-offs — well, then to encompass related you had some idea of elements of presidential what was coming. corruption. For both Hence “The Sequel.”

Nixon and Trump that After the continuing has included cheating idiocy of the Electoral on tax returns and College vaulted him to attempting to obstruct White House, we knew federal investigations of it was gonna be a rough ride. their crimes.

The second ongoing The next big scene disaster film could comes when Trump fires be called “Climate Mueller.

(Remember the signature line of Apocalypse.” I think his reality-TV career: “Day of the Living “You’re fired.”)

Dead” is a better Mueller will be title. But someone in Hollywood already by Gregory Dennis removed as he tightens the noose around the owns that one. necks of Trump and All At least these disaster flicks are gripping ones. No one the President’s Men (and Women; knows how the stories will end. lookin’ at you, Ivanka).

There’s not enough space in Trump can’t directly fire the this newspaper to enumerate the special counsel. But that’s a minor outrages of Trump’s seven months detail. He’ll first have to fire in office. But in case you haven’t Mueller’s boss, Rod Rosenstein, had your daily fix of Trump-induced and keep firing others down the line adrenaline, I’ll offer these recent until he finds a Justice Department ones: flunky to do the deed.

• News that Trump sought aid The way things are going now, it from a close Putin aide to boost a could even get down to the janitorial project in Moscow — at the same staff. time he was running for president But you can bet Trump will find and peddling a policy of appeasing someone willing to remove Mueller.

Russian aggression.

Just as Nixon found Robert Bork • The failure to consistently willing to fire Archibald Cox, the condemn racists and neo-Nazis in first Watergate special prosecutor, Charlottesville, while calling some after Eliot Richardson and William of them “very fine people.”

Ruckelshaus bravely refused to do • The pardon of Sheriff Joe it.

Arpaio, who was convicted for The mysteries will remain, his policy of illegally rounding up though: Will there be a replacement Latinos and imprisoning them in for Mueller (as Leon Jaworski facilities Arpaio proudly called replaced Cox)? And will the “concentration camps.”

Republican-dominated Congress • Signaling that Trump could have the guts to eventually impeach well grant other pardons, including Trump and force him from office? to those caught up in the Russian Or will the Republicans roll over probes by the special counsel, and play dead as they have so many Robert Mueller. times this year, watching as this • Firing FBI Director James Dumpster fire continues to burn Comey. And then brazenly admitting through the heart of America.

— to the Russian ambassador in Speaking of burning: Bigger and

Between The Lines

more dangerous forest fires are just one of the many scenes in the climate catastrophe movie. Highly destructive hurricanes like Irene and Sandy are part of the picture, too — and probably Hurricane Harvey, too, which is now devastating Houston.

One new scene in “Climate Apocalypse” is playing out this way: There’s convincing evidence that the Alaskan permafrost is no longer permanent — and is in fact melting at a dangerously rapid rate. That in turn releases much more carbon into the atmosphere. It intensifies sea level rise, food shortages, social unrest, and levels of heat that will soon make some parts of earth uninhabitable.

We used to be able to say that at least Vermont was doing its part to fight climate change. We could point to the emergence of 350. org, to the continuing resilience of activist groups such as Rights & Democracy and 350Vermont.org, and to clean-energy efforts such as those of Efficiency Vermont and the Energy Action Network.

VPIRG is also doing an admirable job building grassroots support for a “fee and benefit” approach to price carbon emissions.

But Gov. Phil Scott has taken a right-hand, anti-climate turn. He’s appointing opponents of clean wind energy to prominent positions, including leadership of the Public Utility Commission. His new climate change panel is dominated by business representatives and has only a couple people representing Vermont’s large environmental community.

So if you’re looking for a big scene in “Climate Apocalypse” where Vermont’s governor plays a heroic role — well, don’t hold your breath.

The endings of these films aren’t written yet. But we know one thing for certain.

To quote a famous line from “Apollo 13”: When it comes to the Trump presidency and climate change, “Houston, we have a problem.”

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

Raymond (Continued from Page 4A) your way over there.

Now you register online, your choices limited only by how fast you can click.

While I marveled aloud at how easy college kids have it these days — “Cable? Right in your room?

Wow!” — our daughter gently guided us to the door.

I had always known she wouldn’t be the homesick, clingy type. Thir-

teen years earlier, we had driven up to Mary Hogan Elementary School for her first day of kindergarten, and she had asked us to let her off at the curb instead of walking her inside (request denied). She was ready.

Gently pushing us into the hall, she gave us a big hug and a cheerful “Bye!” and closed the door.

That was it? Eighteen years of togetherness was over, just like that?

There she was, starting a new and exciting life, away from home, on her own. But where did that leave us? We’d go back to our boring little Podunk town. From now on, it would be just the two of us.

We took a quiet moment to work through the poignant emotions brought on by this striking change in our lives.

And then we skipped most of the way back to the car.

Ways of seeing (Continued from Page 4A) compassionate and to create more fairness and equality in the world, often feeling powerless to create the change I can envision. I wish I could do more about so many issues. Yet, it lessens my anxiety when I contribute in small ways, mostly close to home, but also through some national and global organizations.

It is better to let go of some family heirlooms and not to pass them down to the next generation. Before I brought my daughters into the world, I learned to face my fears, living life as fully as possible. It is rewarding, even exhilarating, to accomplish what I can without letting my fears

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I will face challenges as long as I continue on the journey of life.

They seem to come even faster with age; some may be embedded in my DNA. May I have the strength, focus, and spiritual awareness to live

in good faith with myself and others.

Johanna Nichols is a grandmother, writer, and Unitarian Universalist minister emerita. She welcomes responses to these columns at nichols. johanna@gmail.com.s

Locke & Hobbes: Origin of Civil Society Editor’s note: This is the 22nd is just one more thing that mankind In Locke’s case, the reason for essay by Middlebury College has made, and, whether it be civil founding a civil state is to create Professor Emeritus Victor Nuovo war or a war between nations, it an orderly administration of law, on the origins of western political presupposes the existence of states which is not so different from or nations. (Note: Locke’s account making peace. thought. of the origin of civil society is But there are more important

By VICTOR NUOVO How did civil society or the given in The Second Treatise of differences between Locke and civil state begin? There is general Government, which bears the title Hobbes, which pertain to the agreement that a civil state is not a “An Essay Concerning the True notion of sovereignty. Hobbes product of nature, but something Original, Extent, and End of Civil believed that sovereignty properly belongs to governors, whether made by human art, the art of Government.”)

Some interpreters of Locke they are many or one. Locke politics. This is what Hobbes believed and affirmed in the believe that he had a softer and disagreed; he located it in the more sentimental people. memorable sentence view of human nature Hobbes maintained that those that begins his great than Hobbes. They who rule, whether a monarch or work, Leviathan: are mistaken. The a representative assembly, are “Nature (the Art Second Treatise is not above the law; for the law is an whereby God made at all sentimental. In expression of their arbitrary will. and governs the fact, in some places, Locke, to the contrary, World) is by the Art Locke’s remarks seem contended that rulers have an of man, as in many downright cruel. He absolute duty to promote the other things, so in differs from Hobbes welfare of the people, and in any this also imitated, regarding the place of case are just as much subject to that it can make an law in the nature of the law as anyone under their rule.

Artificial Animal.” things.

Monarchs who violate this rule The great animal Locke reasoned that by seeking their own advantage that it then describes is the civil state; he Thinking about if the state of nature rather than the welfare of the is a state of war, then people lose their legitimacy and likens its parts to the politics — it must be a totally become tyrants, and the people, parts of the human the origins lawless state, for war every one of which is a bearer of body: sovereignty was considered to be the law, have the right to remove is its soul or vital An essay by absent of all law, hence them. principle; public Victor Nuovo the saying “All’s fair in But this right must be carefully officials are its Middlebury College love and war.” defined. Locke did not conceive joints; laws its But Locke believed it as a right to revert to a state of sinews; rewards professor emeritus this is impossible, nature, for the people who have and punishments of philosophy for he was sure that once given their consent, directly its nerves; and every human being or tacitly, to the formation of a the welfare of the people, its chief business. He is a bearer of the law of nature, civil society cannot dissolve that did not suppose that this act of whose content includes the whole society. They can do no more than creation happened only once, but of public morality, especially replace the government. Locke many times over. It was ongoing keeping one’s word, for without does not spell out the process, but that there could be no social he seems to imply something like a and continuous. Locke agreed. constitutional convention, enacted But if we human beings are contract.

According to Locke, the state by the people through their special mere animals, and civil states representatives, are artificial ones created by us, of nature is one of who would then the question arises: What perfect equality, in “Monarchs who temporarily is it about mankind and our which all human powers circumstances that makes us want beings are free “to violate this rule by assume order their Actions, seeking their own of government: to make such things?

Remember that the civil state and dispose of their advantage, rather e x e c u t i v e , and than the welfare legislative, and is only one of the many sorts of Possessions, things created by human art, Persons” as they of the people, lose judicial. without Here, I think, among them: clothing, houses, please, their legitimacy the very idea of and all their furnishings, ploughs, “depending on the the rule of law the wheel, saws, axes, musical Will of any other and become comes into view instruments, and lethal weapons. Man.” Yet they tyrants, and the The will to survive is the general are always “within people… have the with all its power, and we should pay cause of all this creative activity. the bounds of the right to remove close attention, But there are others, including: Law of Nature,” them. ” for it seems today having the means for living for human nature is that members comfortably and well, convenience endowed with this in meeting needs, efficiency in law, and in a state of nature every of our civil society have many assuring our safety, and having at human being is not only a bearer grievances, some just, some hand instruments of sheer delight of this law, but has executive unjust, but in either case their preferred method of dealing with to occupy our moments of leisure power to apply it.

The law can be harsh: if anyone them more often than not is to and to enhance our comfort.

What originally prompted assaults me, I have the right to kill go outside the law and become mankind to create the civil state him; if a thief enters my house, I instruments of violence and have the same right. And, Locke anarchy. It is like throwing out the and how did it all come about?

Hobbes said it was to make adds, if my condition is secure, baby with the bathwater.

So, here’s the problem. Given peace, for the state of nature is a I should consider it my duty “to state of war, and, given our selfish preserve the rest of Mankind” human nature, and its universal and aggressive nature we are and to do whatever tends “to tendency to be corrupted by never free of becoming victims the Preservation of the Life, power, grievances must come. of it. To this end, it was necessary Liberty, Health, Limb, or Goods How are those who are aggrieved that a formal agreement or social of another,” if need be using the to seek redress within the rule of contract be enacted between same harsh methods, treating law?

Locke posed the problem, people, a union of wills, a civil thieves as one would dangerous beasts of the wild. but failed to provide a reliable society.

It is hard to distinguish this solution. I believe that the framers Locke agreed with the method, but disagreed on the reason. He did vigilante justice from the state of of the American Constitution not believe that the state of nature war of all against all. They are provided one; so there is more to is a state of war. To his mind, war equally suited to the Wild West. come.

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Jessie Booska, 95, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — Jessie Olene Booska passed away on Aug. 21, 2017. She was born in Devereux, Ga., the daughter of Walton and Jessie (Walker) Davis.

She is survived by her daughter, Glenna Piper and her husband AJ of Weybridge, her son Gary of Middlebury and many grand and

great grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband Paul in 1982.

A graveside service will be held Saturday, Sept. 2, at 2 p.m. at the Weybridge cemetery. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to Middlebury Regional Emergency Medical Services or Addison County Home Health and Hospice.

Emile Paquette, 84, Bristol BRISTOL — Emile A. Paquette, born October 29, 1932, in New Haven, passed away at 84 on Monday Aug. 28, at his home in Bristol with his loving wife by his side.

Emile married Marjorie Cousino on July 18, 1953. They resided in Bristol and raised seven children: Anne Layn and husband David of Monkton; Emile and Elaine Paquette of New Haven; Geralyn Barrows and husband Gary of New Haven; Pat and Sage Paquette of New Haven; Tim and Melanie Paquette of New Haven; Alice Barnum and husband Charles of New Haven, and Amy Driscoll and husband Mark of Monkton.

Emile is also survived by 22 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren, as well as two sisters Lucille Cousino of Monkton and Rita Tatro of New York. He is predeceased by two brothers, Maurice and Robert Paquette.

Emile served in the Korean War in 1953. He worked in construction operating heavy equipment for over 62 years and was still working fulltime until four weeks before melanoma cancer took him from us. He loved traveling with his wife of 64 years and vacationing in Florida for the winter.

Emile’s greatest pride was all of his family he was known for his generosity and kindness. He seldom missed an opportunity to help someone. His children will always cherish the memories of Emile’s loving care and devotion to their mother over the

EMILE A. PAQUETTE last five years. He belonged to Saint Ambrose Parish in Bristol, and his faith brought him much comfort and strength.

A celebration of life will be held at Saint Ambrose Parish in Bristol on Friday, Sept. 1, 2017 at 10 a.m. Burial will follow at St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery. Calling hours will be at Brown-McClay Funeral Home in Bristol on Thursday, Aug. 31, from 5 to 8 p.m. Donations in memory of Emile can be sent to Craig Scribner for care of Saint Joseph’s cemetery.

To send online condolences to his family visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊

Michele Forman, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — After several years of dealing with complications from Type1 Diabetes and dementia, Michele V. Forman died on August 28, 2017. A full obituary will follow

in a future edition of the Independent.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a contribution to either Elderly Services or Addison County Home Health Care and Hospice.

Katherine Schmidt memorial MIDDLEBURY — A memorial and celebration of the life of Katherine G. Schmidt, who died Jan. 11 at her East Middlebury home at the age of 94, will

be held Saturday, Sept. 9, from 1-3 p.m. at the Champlain Valley UnitarianUniversalist Society, 2 Duane Court, Middlebury.

Raymond Cousino, 60, Lincoln LINCOLN — Raymond F. Cousino of Lincoln passed away unexpectedly on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2017. He was born in Middlebury on July 13, 1957, the son of Edmund Cousino and Nancy (Sargent) Ash. He is survived by Jayne, his wife of 37 years; sons Josh and wife Julie and Joe and wife Simona; daughter Sarah and partner Randy; Son-in-law Todd and partner Jolene; four grandchildren, Tristin, Kelsey, Caden and Everett; brothers Edward, Donnie, Paul, Johnny and Nicky, and sisters Rhonda and Paula.

Raymond was raised by his aunt and uncle, Viola and Rogue Emmons.

He was and avid outdoorsman, loving husband, father and grandfather.

He was predeceased by his mother Nancy, aunt Viola and uncle Rogue.

A memorial Service will be held at the Cousino home in Lincoln on Saturday, Sept. 9, at 2 p.m. Donations can be made to the Lincoln Fire Department and the Bristol Rescue Squad.

Conservationist group to award Ripton leader MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Natural Resource Council will present this year’s Arthur Gibb Award for Individual Leadership to Ripton resident Warren King, a lifelong conservationist, at VNRC’s annual meeting on Thursday, Sept. 21, at The Kirk Alumni Center at Middlebury College.

King will be celebrated for the remarkable creativity, compassion, and energy he has brought to his work with Audubon Vermont, Vermont Nature Conservancy, Ripton’s Planning and Conservation Commissions, New England Wildflower Society, and more, in service of Vermont’s natural resources and communities.

“Warren King epitomizes how the practice of taking local action can help address global challenges,” said VNRC Executive Director Brian Shupe. “King’s work has rippled across the state to better inform public policy and local action on a range of initiatives that have deeply impacted Vermont communities and our environment for the better.”

The award will be co-presented by author, educator and environmentalist Bill McKibben, also a Ripton resident, and member of VNRC’s Advisory Committee. In his book “Wandering Home,” McKibben noted that King and his wife, Barry, are the “sort of people who make a place tick — there’s not a good civic work in which they’re not implicated … [and they are] governed by common sense and a dose of wry humility.”

King moved to Vermont in 1989, after serving as the executive assistant of the Smithsonian Institution’s International Council for Bird Preservation and chairing the U.S. section of the council, but his roots in

WARREN KING OF Ripton has received this year’s Arthur Gibb Award for Leadership for his lifelong contributions the to conservation of Vermont’s natural resources and communities.

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Vermont go back to his time as staff at Camp Keewaydin of Lake Dunmore in the 1960s, where he helped lead canoe trips into Quebec.

Laurie Cox, chair of the Ripton Selectboard, wrote in her nomination of King, “Warren’s commitment to leading our town — our community — in a positive direction is deeply

based, long lived, and vigorously worked at. He is a leader and ... he has consistently sought to involve people who represent a range of opinions to ensure the wider community is represented in the process while aiming for consensus ... He will share his knowledge, he will share his ideas, and he will share the recognition for

success.”

The Arthur Gibb Award has been given since 2006 to a Vermont resident who embodies qualities similar to those of the late Arthur “Art” Gibb of Weybridge, and who has made a lasting contribution to his or her community, region or state in advancing smart growth policies.

Police continue crackdown on speeders ADDISON COUNTY — Law enforcement agencies have been busy this month trying to make area highways safer, and they will continue with extra efforts through Labor Day. Vermont State Police and other law enforcement agencies ran some saturation patrols in Addison County in an effort to reduce speeds, monitor distracted driving, enforce traffic laws and remind the public of the importance of wearing seat belts.

State police patrols were conducted: • On Aug. 16 during the morning on Route 7 in Addison County.

A total of 13 vehicles were encountered. During the late afternoon, troopers shifted the saturation patrol to Route 22A in Addison, Bridport, Panton and Shoreham.

They stopped 10 vehicles and issued three traffic tickets and seven written warnings.

• On Aug. 17 during the late day on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

Troopers stopped eight vehicles, issued seven traffic tickets and one written warning, and cited one man

for driving under the influence.

• On Aug. 19 during the mid-day hours on Route 7 in Middlebury and New Haven. Police stopped four vehicles and issued one traffic ticket and three written warnings.

The Addison County Sheriff’s Department joined with state police working out of the New Haven barracks, Shelburne police and the Chittenden County Sheriff’s Department on Aug. 19 to conduct a saturation patrol in the towns of New Haven, Vergennes, Panton, Waltham and Ferrisburgh from 7-9 p.m.

After that, the team conducted a Sobriety Checkpoint on Route 7 near the intersection of Route 22A until 11 p.m.

During the checkpoint, police made contact with 520 vehicles, and 1,300 people. As a result, officials arrested one person for driving under the influence of alcohol, one for driving under the influence of drugs, and one for possession of marijuana greater than two ounces.

Police report that the person cited for possession had three and a half large Mason jars and one large

plastic bag full of marijuana, and, according to police, admitted to trying to sell it at the cider festival.

A sheriff’s deputy said individual agencies that made the arrests would release details on who specifically was arrested.

Also on Aug. 19, between 9 and 11 p.m., Vermont State Police joined with police from Vergennes, Killington and Fair Haven, and deputies from the Addison County and Rutland County sheriff’s departments to conduct a checkpoint on Route 7 in Leicester.

Police stopped 266 vehicles including 665 occupants, screened 13 people for impaired driving, searched two vehicles with consent of the driver and took one driving into custody for driving under the influence.

These high visibility patrols will be continuing throughout the Addison County area in an effort to improve safety on public roads.

The Northwest Vermont DUI Task Force combined efforts with the Addison County law enforcement agencies (Vermont State Police; Vergennes, Bristol

and Middlebury police; Addison County Sheriff’s Department, and the DUI Task Force) on Aug. 18 kicked off a Labor Day DUI enforcement campaign.

The Labor Day DUI campaign is part of a national mobilization sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and the national campaign message is “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over.” Campaign activities in Vermont are funded through the Vermont Governor’s Highway Safety Program (GHSP).

The campaign runs through Labor Day, Sept. 4. Law enforcement agencies across the state will increase both saturation patrols and checkpoints with funding from GHSP. The goal is to combat impaired driving over the last holiday of the summer and to raise awareness that students are heading back to school.

It is hoped that these combined efforts will help to remove impaired drivers from our highways and reduce the number of serious injury and fatal crashes occurring on Vermont’s highways.

Help your neighbors; volunteer with WomenSafe

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MIDDLEBURY — Do you have a desire to help to make your community a more just and safe place to live? Are you looking for a rewarding volunteer experience?

WomenSafe, an Addison County nonprofit organization, works to prevent, address and end dating, domestic, intimate-partner and sexual violence and we are now accepting applications for the organization’s annual volunteer training.

The comprehensive training opportunity is scheduled to start on Saturday, Sept. 23,

and WomenSafe is encouraging community members to apply now. Participants will acquire all the tools needed to: • Provide direct service through WomenSafe’s 24-hour hotline, at court hearings and in the office.

• Coordinate public awareness and community outreach events.

• Provide childcare or perform administrative assistance tasks.

Space is limited. For more information or an application packet, call WomenSafe: 388-9180, email info@womensafe.net or visit womensafe.net.

Legion fun

THE AMERICAN LEGION Vergennes Post No. 14 Legion family picnic on Sunday, Aug. 13, turned into a sudsy day, complements of the Vergennes Fire Department. Here, Sara Leach and her new friend, Wyatt, bubble up for a photo. There was also a pig roast with all the fixin’s for the Legion family, which includes members of the Legion, Women’s Auxiliary and Sons of the Legion.

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ADDISON COUNTY — On Wednesday, Aug. 23, at approximately 1:18 p.m. Vermont State Police, the Addison Fire Department and Middlebury Regional EMS responded to a two-vehicle crash on Route 22A at the intersection with Grand View Lane in Addison.

State police reported that Daniel Schools, 27, of St. Petersburg, Fla., was driving a tractor-trailer northbound on Route 22A when an ATV driven by a 12-year-old Addison girl entered the highway from Grand View Lane. The truck hit the rear, driver’s side of the ATV causing it to exit the southbound shoulder and flip. Both drivers were wearing their seat belts.

The Addison girl, identified as Kathryn Fitzgerald, sustained leg and head trauma, and was taken to UVM Medical Center and was discharged after treatment.

This incident is still under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to contact Trooper Gurwicz at 802-388-4919.

Separately, Vermont State Police ran saturation patrols at various places in the county in an effort to reduce speeds, monitor distracted driving, enforce traffic laws and remind the public of the importance of wearing seat belts (see related story).

In other recent activity, Vermont State Police troopers: • Investigated a fire at a home at 616 Union St. in Brandon on Aug. 14.

Nobody was injured in the fire, but the garage, contents, and camper trailer is considered to be a total loss. Damage to the garage, trailer, pool, and contents was estimated to be approximately $75,000. Police determined that the cause of the fire was careless discarding of smoking materials into combustible materials inside the garage. Officials classified the fire as accidental and closed the case.

• On Aug. 15 at approximately 5:28 p.m. responded to a one-car crash on Route 22A near the Halfway House restaurant in Shoreham. Police report that Eric Patton, 31, of Huntington was driving southbound while on his cell phone when he lost control of his vehicle, which traveled across Route 22A and over an embankment where the vehicle rolled over several times. Patton suffered cuts on his face, but was not hospitalized; his car was totaled. Police cited Patton for careless and negligent driving.

• On July 27 stopped a vehicle driven by Allen Pike, 39, of Monkton for driving with a criminally suspended license. Pike left the scene before being taken into custody. Pike arrived at the New Haven state police barracks on Aug. 15, where he was fingerprinted, photographed and released on a citation to appear in Addison County Superior Court, criminal division, to answer the charges of driving with a criminally suspended license and violating conditions of release.

• On Aug. 16 at 4:43 p.m. received a report of a vehicle driving erratically on Big Hollow Road in Starksboro.

Police stopped a vehicle driven by Steven Clark, 38, of Starksboro and cited him for driving under the influence.

• On Aug. 17 at a little passed 6 p.m. stopped a motor vehicle on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh after witnessing a traffic infraction. Police cited Kenneth Bushell, 52 of Ferrisburgh for driving under the influence.

• On Aug. 18 at a little before 9 a.m. were notified of a one-car rollover in the area of Rabeck Mountain Road on Route 4 in Killington. Police report that 32-year-old John G. McKown of Brandon hydroplaned in standing water on the roadway before leaving the road and rolling. McKown was wearing a seatbelt and no injuries were reported. Police issued him a traffic ticket.

• On Aug. 18 at approximately 8:15 p.m. received a report of a man sitting in a blue Audi at the Jolley gas station on Route 7 in North Ferrisburgh acting suspiciously. Before police arrived, the New Haven barracks received a second call that the man had driven off and upon doing so, crossed the intersection of Route 7 from Stage Road and crashed into an oncoming vehicle heading north on Route 7. The man, later identified as 28-year-old Timothy Williams of Bridport, then left the scene of the crash.

The driver of the vehicle that was hit, 52-year-old Chris Gatland of Waltham, Mass., was not injured.

Police located Williams later that evening and cited him for leaving the scene of an accident, driving with a criminally suspended license, and violation of his current conditions of release.

• On Aug. 19 at 2 a.m. were conducting traffic enforcement on Main Street in Vergennes. Troopers observed a vehicle travelling south on Main Street and recognized the driver as Matthew Swan, 39, of Monkton.

Police cited Swan for driving with a criminally suspended license.

• On Aug. 19 at around 2:15 p.m. responded to a three-car car crash on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh. Police report that Carolina Harper, 33, of Burlington was driving northbound when her car drifted left of center for an unknown reason, crossing the double yellow line. It struck the rear, driver side of a southbound car drive by Christina Safford, 41, of Vergennes then struck, head-on, an southbound car driven by Edward Bittle, 59, of Whitehall, N.Y. No one was injured. Charges are pending. Vermont State Police were assisted on scene by members of the Addison County Sheriff’s Department, Ferrisburgh Fire Department and the Vergennes Area Rescue Squad.

• On Aug. 21 at approximately 6:45 a.m. responded, along with the Shoreham Fire Department and Middlebury Regional EMS, to a one-car crash into a tree off Route 22A in the vicinity of Lapham Bay Road in Shoreham. Police said driver Deandre Gay, 26, of Burlington possibly fell asleep while travelling northbound on Route 22A, crossed the center line, left the roadway and struck a tree off the west shoulder.

Gay was not injured but her passenger sustained critical injuries — including a possible serious head injury, and a fractured pelvis, femur and ankle — and was transported to the University of Vermont Medical Center.

• On Aug. 22 reported that they had cited Benn Lussier, 20, of Middlebury for driving under the influence of drugs. The charge came after state police stopped a car driven by Lussier on July 30 and suspected that he was intoxicated.

• On Aug. 22 at approximately 3:45 p.m. looked into a report of a vehicle in a ditch off Columbus Smith Road in Salisbury. Police ended up citing 62-year-old Anthony Desautels of Salisbury for driving under the influence, simple assault on a police officer and resisting arrest.

• On Aug. 24 at approximately 9:19 p.m. along with Vergennes police, dispatched to a reported family fight in Ferrisburgh. Police alleged that Christopher Devos, 51, or Ferrisburgh physically assaulted another individual, and they cited him for domestic assault.

• On Aug. 24 investigated a report of threatening and intimidating contact via electronic communication.

State police report that Eric LaRose, 27, of Bristol sent threats to inflict injury or physical harm to another person through text messages. Police cited LaRose for disturbing peace by use of telephone or other electronic communications.

• On Aug. 25 at approximately 2:08 a.m. responded to a one-car crash on Rockydale Road in Bristol.

Police cited Raechel Schuldenrein, 25, of Lincoln for driving under the influence, third offense, and driving with a criminally suspended license.

Her car was totaled and she suffered minor cuts.

• On Saturday, Aug. 26, at approximately 12:30 a.m. stopped a vehicle on Route 7 at Route 17 in New Haven.

Police cited 38-year-old Todd Shorey of Fair Haven for driving under the influence, second offense.

• On Aug. 26 cited Christopher Summer, 35, of North Ferrisburgh for driving with a criminally suspended license on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

• On Aug. 26 at around 4:45 p.m. responded to a crash on Route 7 at Campground Road in New Haven.

Police report that two northbound motorcycles collided and then crashed into a southbound pick up truck resulting in the death of motorcyclist Christopher Dusablon, 29, of Essex Junction. See full story in A section.

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New faces at area schools

Every year when our students return to the 23 area schools there are some new faces among the teachers and administrators.

Addison Northwest School District, including Vergennes Union Elementary School (VUES), Ferrisburgh Central School (FCS), Addison Central School (ACS), Vergennes Union High School (VUHS) and the central office (ANW). Pictured, left to right, are: Front Row: Kate Sansom, VUES sixth-grade English language arts and social studies teacher; Angela Kunkel, VUHS library/media specialist; Cailin O’Hara, VUHS choral teacher; Angela Shugart, VUES receptionist/student services assistant; and Meghan Polus, VUES fourth-grade English language arts and social studies teacher; and middle row: Gabrial Marder, ACS school nutrition cook assistant; Dana Bibb, VUES second-grade math and social studies teacher; Katie Saley, VUHS student teacher; Sarah Bicknell, VUHS paraeducator; Billy

Corbett, VUHS high school social studies teacher; Isaac Kreisman, VUHS middle school social studies teacher; and Brian Johnson, VUHS student teacher; and back row: Nancy Bunyea, FCS special educator; Bruce Meader, FCS custodian; Laura Frangipane, VUHS middle school social studies teacher; Dylan Stoll, ANW, school psychologist; Derek Spear, VUHS student teacher; Brian Gero, ACS, custodian; and Brad Miller, VUHS student teacher.

Missing from the photo are Elizabeth Atkins, ANW, business manager; Jamie Bryant, VUHS school nutrition assistant; Lisa Lawrence, VUHS school nutrition assistant; Ken Sullivan, ANW, director of Building, Grounds and Safety; and Karen Takeda, ANW, school nutrition head chef; and Tricia Leone, VUHS paraeducator.

Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, including Leicester Central School, Neshobe Elementary in Brandon, Sudbury Country School, Whiting Elementary, Lothrop Elementary in Pittsford, Barstow Memorial in Chittenden, Otter Valley Union High School and the central office (RNESU).

Pictured, left to right, are: Front row: Suzanne Sadowski, Lothrop: grade 2 teacher; Angela Champine, Barstow music teacher; and Brenda Trombley, Leicester, EEE paraeducator; and middle row: Elainey Fitzpatrick, Barstow preschool teacher; Katie Kloss, Neshobe academic interventionist teacher; Alyssa Adamsen, Lothrop academic interventionist teacher; Lindsey Hard,

Neshobe preschool teacher; and Rod Driscoll, Leicester/Sudbury/Whiting co-principal; and back row: Alexis Blake, RNESU coordinator of IT services; Christine Tate, Lothrop/Leicester/Sudbury/Whiting library media specialist/tech integration; Kathleen Pominville, Leicester/Sudbury/Whiting nurse; and Thomas Fleury, Leicester/Sudbury/Whiting co-principal.

Missing from the photo were Aria Brissette, Barstow science teacher; Robert Steventon, Lothrop custodian; Heather Todd, RNESU EEE SLP; Michele Witherbee, Neshobe EEE paraeducator; and Claire Yentz, Barstow custodian.

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Chief Gibbs salute in Bristol.

Monthly Wildlife Walk in Middlebury.

Modern Slavery/Antislavery presentation in Thursday, Aug. 31, 3-4:30 p.m., Bristol Saturday, Sept. 9, 8-10 a.m., meet at Ferrisburgh. Sunday, Sept. 10, 3 p.m., Rokeby Police Department, Bristolworks, Building the parking area of Otter View Park at the Museum, 4334 U.S. 7. Learn about the modern 6, Suite 603. A retirement open house in honor of intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge antislavery movement at Rokeby Museum retiring Police Chief Kevin Gibbs.

Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury with historian Robert Wright, who will describe Huddlebury Meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Area Land Trust invite community members to contemporary slavery and other forms of trafAug. 31, 4-5:30 p.m., Middlebury Police Station help us survey birds and other wildlife at Otter ficked, coerced, and “unfree” labor. $2 program Conference Room.

View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Birders of all only or free with Museum admission. ages and abilities welcome. For more informa“Marjorie Prime” staged reading in Middlebury. tion, call 802-388-6019 or 802-388-1007.

Sunday, Sept. 10, 4 p.m. Town Hall Theater Fall rummage and food sale in Shoreham.

Studio, 68 Pleasant St. The Middlebury Actors Saturday, Sept, 9, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Shoreham Workshop presents this work by young playAuditions for wright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison.

Brandon Has Talent The play explores the mysteries of human idenin Brandon. Friday, tity and the limits—if any—of what technology Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m., Brandon can replace.

Town Hall. If you like to sing, Sheldon Uncorked in Middlebury. play an instrument, dance, play VERGENNES MOVEMENT STUDIO ‑ Mindfulness Based Sunday, Sept. 10, 5-7 p.m., 1 Park in a band or have a special Come for an evening of wine, Stress Reduction, a suite of meditative practices improving wellness, St. talent, don’t miss this opportuhors d’oeuvres and historic curioffered at Vergennes Movement Studio, 179 Main St., Vergennes, osities, offering attendees chances nity to perform on your Town Hall stage. A showcase of talent — no weekly beginning Thursday, September 28th – November to win fine bottles of wine. Tickets judges, no prizes. To schedule 16 @6:00 p.m. – 8:30 visit www.ronidonnenfeld.com, 802 are $50 a person and are available an audition call 802-247-5420. by calling the Sheldon Museum -793-5073. Registration Deadline – September 21.

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Saturday, Sept. 2, 8-10 a.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Enjoy plain or blueberry pancakes with Vermont maple syrup, scrambled eggs, home fries, sausages, juice, and beverages and a special surprise as you begin your rounds of the TownWide Yard Sale. Breakfast Sandwiches also available. Tickets: $8 adults/$4 children under 12/$20 families with small children. Breakfast sandwiches $5. Yard Sale Maps also available at the breakfast.

Town Wide Yard Sale in Shoreham. Saturday, Sept. 2, 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Maps available at Half Way House Restaurant, Shoreham Service Center (Maplefield’s), and the Shoreham Congregational Church.

Bring your mushrooms foray in Orwell. Saturday, Sept. 2, 10 a.m.-noon, Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Back at the Mount by popular demand, the public is invited to bring mushrooms for identification by mycologist Sue Van Hook. Sort and learn how to identify common edible and medicinal fungi, venture onto the trails to see what is fruiting, or a bit of both. All ages welcome. Bring a hand lens or magnifying glass, if you have one. Lens available to share. Co-sponsored by Mount Independence Coalition.

Auditions for Brandon Has Talent in Brandon.

Saturday, Sept. 2, 2-4 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

If you like to sing, play an instrument, dance, play in a band or have a special talent, don’t miss this opportunity to perform on your Town Hall stage.

A showcase of talent — no judges, no prizes. To schedule an audition call 802-247-5420.

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Masonic Breakfast in Bridport.

Sunday, Sept. 3, 7:30-11 a.m., Bridport Community Hall. All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast with plain and blueberry pancakes, French toast, sausage, bacon, eggs, coffee, juice and fruit cup. Proceeds to benefit Masonic charities. Adults $8/Children $3. More info contact Russ Buck at 802-758-2685.

VFW breakfast in Middlebury. Sunday, Sept. 3, 8-10 a.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. All-you-caneat. Adults/$9, Children $4.50. Open to the public.

Hike into History in Orwell. Sunday, Sept. 3, 1-3 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. On this guided tour, walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary War soldiers. Wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.

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Writing workshop in Vergennes.

Thursday, Sept. 7, 6-8 p.m., Otter Creek Room, Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “Writing Horror: Defining Terror, Fear & the Dark Side of Imagination.” Led by Kris Johannesson, explore human responses to fear. Investigate nightmnares, terror, questions of safety and sanity, and the collective macabre. Workshop runs every Thursday through Oct. 26. Free. Register: muir. haman@bixbylibrary.org or 802-877-2211.

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Friday, Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m., Art on Main, 25 Main St. Poets from Bristol’s South Street Writers’ Cooperative will read their work in the gallery followed by light refreshments and a chance for conversation. Readers include Karla Van Vliet, Ruth Farmer, Ann Fisher, Basha Miles, Lily Hinrichsen, Carol Talmage and Sally Burrell.

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FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS of Revolutionary War soldiers on a guided tour of Mount Independence in Orwell on Sunday, Sept. 3, from 1-3 p.m.

Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Come for great bargains in clothing and household items and excellent baked goods and other food products. The special Bag Sale starts at noon — only $5 a bag. Clean donations accepted at the church from 1-3 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 7, and Friday, Sept. 8. More info contact Jeri at 802-897-8591.

12th Annual Kelly Brush Ride in Middlebury.

Saturday, Sept. 9. For registration and information visit kellybrushfoundation.org.

Woofstock in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 9, 10 a.m. Memorial Sports Center/Middlebury Town Pool. Walk for the Animals and annual doggie dip in the town pool. homewardboundanimals. org.

Harvest Fair in Rochester. Saturday, Sept. 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Rochester Village park. The White River Valley Players presents their 29th annual Harvest Fair with live music, food, crafts, markets, information booths and the popular flower show on the park’s bandstand. For more info Martha Slater at 802-767-3025.

Inquiry into the Revolutionary Mind: What Were You Thinking John Burgoyne and Friedrich von Riedesel in Orwell. Saturday, Sept. 9, 1-2:30 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Modern-day historian Paul Andriscin turns back the time machine to interview British Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne and German Maj. Gen. von Riedesel about the events on Lake Champlain, Mount Independence, and further south 240 years ago in 1777.

Roast pork supper in Vergennes. Saturday, Sept.

9, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, Main St. Served buffet style, adults $9/ children $5. Take out available. More info at 802-877-3150.

4th Annual “Brandon Has Talent” show in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m., Brandon town Hall. The Friends Of Brandon Town Hall host this fundraiser for the town hall, showcasing the multi-talented community members from Brandon and the surrounding area. Tickets available at the door: adults $7. seniors, students & military $5. Children 5 and under free.

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Green Mountain Club Mt. Philo hike in Charlotte. Sunday, Sept. 10, Mt. Philo State Park. An easy/moderate two-mile hike with an elevation gain of 636 feet with breathtaking views of the Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Wear appropriate clothing for hiking and bring water, a snack and hiking poles, if used. This is a dog friendly event. Contact Ralph Burt at 802-3554415 or reburt@gmavt.net. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Clam bake in Middlebury. Sunday, Sept. 10, 11 a.m.-7 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. Buffet meal followed by New England clam chowder, raw clam bar and steamers, lobster, one half chicken and corn on the cob, with games of chance and other activities. Tickets $35, available until Sept. 3 at Middlebury American Legion, Joe’s Barber Shop, and Pratt’s Store. Proceeds go to veterans’ and community service projects.

More info at 802-388-9311.

Chicken and Biscuit Dinner in New Haven.

Sunday Sept. 10, seatings at noon and 1 p.m., New Haven Congregational Church, Town Hill Rd. Adults $10/children 6-11 $5/under six Free.

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Book discussion in Vergennes.

Monday, Sept. 11, 7 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “The Zookeeper’s Wife” by Diane Ackerman. Volunteer-led. Bixby provides copies for participants.

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Blood drive in Middlebury. Tuesday, Sept. 12, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. Tai Chi Yang 24 class in Bristol. Tuesday, Sept.

12, 10-11 a.m., Holley Hall. The first meeting of a class that runs through March 27, 2018. Learn one of the most popular tai chi sets in the world.

Free. Open to beginners and experienced practitioners. More info at 802-453-5600 or swallis@ wcvt.com.

Tai Chi for Beginners in Bristol. Tuesday, Sept.

12, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Holley Hall. The first meeting of a class that runs through March 27, 2018. An introductory class to learn movements that improve balance, decrease chances of falling, strengthens legs and core, and calms the mind. Free. More info at 802-453-5600 or swallis@wcvt.com.

Middlebury College Community Chorus rehearsal in Middlebury. Tuesday, Sept. 12, 7-8:30 p.m., Mead Chapel, Middlebury College. Come join the chorus and prepare for their annual Thanksgiving concert. Works include inspirational pieces by American composers written during the past two decades, including Addison County’s Moira Smiley, and classical choruses by Bach, Brahms, and Fauré. Open to high schoolers and adults without audition. More info contact conductor Jeff Rehbach 8023-989-7355. The first of a series of rehearsals happening Sundays and Tuesdays.

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Blood drive in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Sept. 13, noon-5:30 p.m., Middlebury Parks & Recrrecreation, 154 Creek Rd. Writing workshop in Vergennes. Wednesday, Sept.

13, 3-5 p.m., Otter Creek Room, Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “Microcosms & Magnifications: The Short Story” Led by Kris Johannesson, focus on the elements of fiction as they apply to the short story form. Bring a project you are working on or come as a first-time writer. Workshop runs every Wednesday through Nov. 8. Register: muir. haman@bixbylibrary.org or 802-877-2211.

Book club meeting in Bridport. Wednesday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m., Bridport Highway Department conference room, Crown Point Road at Short St. The Bridport Book Club resumes its monthly meetings with discussion of “The Watchmaker of Filigree Street” by Natasha Pulley. All interested readers welcome. More info at 802-758-2858.

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THURSDAY

“I want to write a book – how to begin” in Vergennes. Thursday, Sept.

14, 3-5 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “Vermont Wild” author Megan Price will lead this workshop about getting you writing project started. Free. Registration required. Limit 20.

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Brandon Farmers’ Market. Fridays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., May 26-July 21, Central Park, July 28-through Oct. 20, Crescent Park. Vegetables, flowers, plants, Vermont maple syrup, honey, baked goods, organic beef, goat cheese, hand-crafted and tiedyed items, jewelry, paintings and more.

Middlebury Farmers’ Market. Wednesdays and Saturdays at the VFW parking lot, Exchange St. Baked goods, organic products, cheese and dairy products, crafts, cut flowers, fresh fruit and vegetables, honey, jam, jellies, preserves, maple syrup, meat and poultry products, wine, bread, plants, pickles, prepared foods, soap and bodycare products, eggs, yarn, and cider.

Vergennes Farmers’ Market. Thursdays, 4-7:30 p.m., June 1 through Oct. 5, Kennedy Brothers, 11 Main St. Up to 20 vendors, live music, free parking, rain or shine. Local food, produce, eggs, cheese, baked goods. jewelry, crafts and gifts.

Whiting Farmers’ Market. Thursdays, 3-6 p.m., Whiting four corners. Maple syrup, honey, baked goods, eggs, pork, bacon, lamb, and many other seasonal offerings.

The people’s platform

SENATOR BERNIE SANDERS will be at Middlebury’s Labor Day celebration on the Green on Monday, Sept. 4, from 4-7 p.m. as part of the People’s Platform launch by the organization Rights and Democracy.

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“Angels in America Part 1: Millennium Approaches” in Middlebury. Thursday, Sept. 14, 7-10:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. THT’s National Theatre Live series kicks off with a broadcast of Tony Kushner’s multi-award winning two part play live from London. Set in America in the mid-1980’s, in the midst of the AIDS crisis and a conservative Reagan administration, New Yorkers grapple with life and death, love and sex, heaven and hell. Tickets adults $17/students/$10, available at townhalltheater.org, 802-382-9222 or in person at the Town Hall Theater Box Office, daily except Sunday, noon-5 p.m.

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Blood Drive in Shoreham. Friday, Sept 15, 10 a.m.-3;30 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Tai Chi for Beginners in Middlebury. Friday, Sept.

15, 11 a.m.-noon, Middlebury Recreational Center.

The first meeting of a class that runs through Nov. 30. An introductory class to learn movements that improve balance, decrease chances of falling, strengthens legs and core, and calms the mind.

Free. More info at 802-453-5600 or swallis@wcvt. com.

Tai Chi Sun Style 73 Forms in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 15, 1-2 p.m., Middlebury Recreational Center. The first meeting of a class that runs through Nov. 30. Open to those who have experience with this set. Free. More info at 802-4535600 or swallis@wcvt.com.

Bandaloop performs in Middlebury. Friday, Sept.

15, 5:45 and 6:45 p.m., Plaza, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. A pioneer in vertical performance, where performers turn the dance floor on its side. Free. Weather permitting.

Sep

16

SATURDAY

Fabulous Flea Market in Middlebury.

Saturday, Sept. 16, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. This annual event returns with 25 vendors and dealers offering antiques, jewelry, furniture, rugs, textiles, food and more. Free. All proceeds go to support THT performances.

ACTR birthday party in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept, 16, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., Mary Hogan Recreational Field, Mary Hogan Dr. Join ACTR and other service agencies for this Community Jamboree with live music by Full Share, a Bike-A-Palooza safety course. Help Stuff-The-Bus with non-perishables for local food shelves and get a sweet ice cream reward. sOther Community Jamboree. Also pet adoptions, bocce, face painting, food concessions and games.

Bristol Democrats meeting in Bristol. Saturday, Sept. 16, time and location TBA. Every four years, Bristol’s Democratic Party members reorganize.

We need new people to fill the Party and get things going, to take the opportunity to get active in running our country. Help us pick an open and public place to meet, maybe at the Town Hall.

Come with new names for party officers. More info contact Peter Grant at 802-453-2278.

JPL Golf Classic in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Sept.

16, noon-6 p.m., Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Rd. Proceeds benefit the Addison County Firefighter’s Association, with a focus on training needs of the county. Registration is $85 per person, $340 for a team of 4, deadline Sept. 2.

Green fees, cart, awards and appetizers included for all players. More info contact Bob Patterson at 802-453-3896.

Bandaloop performs in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 16, 1, 2 and 3 p.m., Plaza, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. A pioneer in vertical performance, where performers turn the dance floor on its side. Free. Weather permitting.

Harry Houdini Silent Film Double Feature in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Rare surviving films from the great illusionist’s brief movie career. In ‘Terror Island’ (1920) Houdini stars as a swashbuckling inventor who steers his high-tech submarine to a forbidden tropical isle to rescue the woman he loves; in ‘The Man From Beyond’ (1922), Houdini plays a man frozen 100 years in the Arctic who returns to civilization to reclaim his reincarnated love. Part of Brandon’s silent film and live music series.

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TAM Trek in Middlebury. Sunday, Sept. 17, 8 a.m., Wright Park. Middlebury Area Land Trust’s annual event to raise funds for the Trail Around Middlebury. Timed races of 18 miles and six miles, and two-mile family fun run/walk, all through woods, farmland, meadow and river valleys. Postrace celebration with refreshments, prizes and music. All welcome, any ability. Registration at maltvt.org.

Hawk watch in Waltham. Sunday, Sept. 17, 11 a.m.-2 p.m, Buck Mountain.. Meet at 10:30 a.m. at Vergennes Park and Ride, junction of Routes 22A and 7, or at 11 a.m. at the trailhead on Route 66.

Carpool to Route 66 if possible; parking there is extremely limited. Led by Ron Payne and Warren King. More info or rain date contact Warren at 802-388-4082.

Bridport Historical Society annual meeting in Bridport. Sunday, Sept. 17, 1-4 p.m., Bridport Community/Masonic Hall. Gregory Sharrow of the Vermont Folklife Center will deliver a talk on “A Sense of Place: Vermont’s Farm Legacy,” exploring the fabric of farm culture that has strongly influenced the identity of Vermonters. Pot-luck lunch at 1 p.m. (Bring a dish to share)! Gregory Sharrow at 2 p.m. BHS Annual Meeting to follow. Free and open to the public. More info, call 802-758-2218.

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MONDAY

“Being Mortal” on screen in Bristol.

Monday, Sept. 18. 6 p.m., Bristol Fire Station, 1 South St. Join the Addison County End of Life Care Partnership for a screening and discussion of this Frontline documentary.

Palliative care specialist Dr. Diana Barnard will lead the discussion. Free and open to the public.

Light refreshments served. More info at 802-3884111 or lborden@hospicevs.org.

L I V EM U SIC Moose Crossing in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m., Two Brother’s Tavern, lounge.

The Press Gang in Ripton. Saturday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House.

R.D. King in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Station Mountain Band in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m., Two Brother’s Tavern, lounge.

Cradle Switch debut in Brandon. Saturday, Sept.

9, 7:30 p.m. Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Last Train to Zinkov in Lincoln. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Toast in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m., Two Brother’s Tavern, lounge.

Blind Dog & Mama Medicine in Middlebury.

Saturday, Sept. 9, 9 p.m., Two Brothers.

ONGOINGEVENTS By category: Farmers’ Markets, Sports, Clubs & Organizations, Government & Politics, Bingo, Fundraising Sales, Dance, Music, Arts & Education, Health & Parenting, Meals, Art Exhibits & Museums, Library Programs.

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SPORTS Co-ed volleyball in Middlebury. Pick-up games Monday, 7-9 p.m., Middlebury Municipal Gym. Jack Brown, 388-2502; Bruce at Middlebury Recreation Department, 388-8103.

Community Rowing Club in Vergennes. Thursdays, 5:15 – 7:30 p.m. June-Aug., Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Info lcmm.org or 802-475-2022.

Family tennis court time in Middlebury. Sundays, 10:30 a.m.-noon, Middlebury Indoor Tennis.

Family play drop-in offers families a chance to play together. Equipment is provided. Open to all levels of play. Info: Erin Morrison, emorrison@acafvt.org.

CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS ACT (Addison Central Teens). Drop-in hours during the school years: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, 3-6 p.m.; Wednesday and Friday, 3-7 p.m. Warming Hut, 77 Mary Hogan Drive. Teen drop-in space for kids. Hang out with friends, play pool, watch movies, and eat great food. Info: 388-3910 or addisonteens.com.

Addison County Amateur Radio Association. Sunday, 8 p.m. On the air on club repeater 147.36/147.96 MHz, 100 Hz access tone. Non-members and visitors welcome.

Addison County Emergency Planning Committee.

Last Wednesday, 5 p.m. State Police Barracks.

Public invited.

Addison County Republican Party. Third Friday, 7 p.m., Ilsley Library, Middlebury. 897-2744.

American Legion Auxiliary Post 27. Fourth Monday, 7 p.m. American Legion, Wilson Road, Middlebury.

Addison County Council Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. Fourth Tuesday, noon-1:30 p.m. Addison County Courthouse in Middlebury.

388-9180.

Brandon Lions Club. First and third Tuesday, 7 p.m., Brandon Senior Citizen Center, 1591 Forest Dale Road. 247-3121.

Bristol Historical Society. Third Thursday, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West St., Bristol.

Champlain Valley Fiddlers’ Club. Middlebury VFW, 530 Exchange St. Third Sunday (except Easter), noon to 5 p.m. Donation $3. Refreshments available. Looking for fiddlers young and old. Open to public. Info: 342-0079.

The Hub Teen Center and Skate park. 110 Airport Drive, Bristol. School year hours 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

Summer hours 10 a.m. ‘til dark as staff is available. thehub@gmavt.net. Info: 453-3678 or bristolskatepark.com.

LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer). Youth support group meets Monday nights, 4-6 p.m., Turning Point Center, Marble Works, Middlebury. Info: 388-4249.

Middlebury Garden Club. Second Tuesday. Location varies. Pat Morrow, 462-3741.

Middlebury Lions Club. First and third Monday, 5:30 p.m., Rosie’s Restaurant. Meetings held October through June.

NEAT (Northeast Addison Television) Channel 16.

Fourth Monday, 5-7 p.m. NEAT studio in Bristol.

Bruce Duncan, bduncan@madriver.com.

Neshobe Sportsman Club. Second Monday, 6 p.m. potluck; 7 p.m. meeting. 97 Frog Hollow Road in Brandon.

Otter Creek Poets. Open poetry workshop held Thursdays, 1-3 p.m. Ilsley Library in Middlebury.

Poets of all ages are invited to share their poetry for feedback, encouragement and optional weekly assignments. Bring a poem or two to share (plus 20 copies). Led by David Weinstock. Free.

Orwell Historical Society. Fourth Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.

Orwell Free Library.

PACT (People of Addison County Together). Third Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Vermont state office building on Exchange St. in Middlebury, Health Department conference room. 989-8141.

Samaritan’s Cupboard. Assembly of God Christian Center, 1759 Route 7, Vergennes. Third Thursday through October.

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18-mile & 6-mile timed runs, 2-mile family fun run/walk.

All courses are loops on pristine trails through woods, farmland, meadow and river valleys, circumnavigating the town.

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Start & end at Wright Park in Middlebury, VT. Postrace celebration with refreshments, prizes & music. All welcome, any ability.

Event hosted by the Middlebury Area Land Trust (MALT).

All proceeds help to maintain & improve the Trail Around Middlebury (TAM).

Registration open now at http://www.maltvt.org

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The full Century is 100 miles (S) traveling down to the Crown Point Bridge and returning through the Champlain Valley. Those looking for an extra challenge can do the Double Gap Century which is 113 miles and includes the Middlebury and Appalachian Gaps. More info contact Kevin

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A TRIO OF breakfasts are on tap for Labor Day weekend, including a pancake breakfast at the Shoreham Congregational Church on Saturday, Sept. 2, from 8-10 a.m., a Masonic breakfast at the Bridport Community Hall from 7:30-11 a.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, and an all you can eat affair from 8-10 on Sunday, Sept. 3, at the VFW in Middlebury.

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Farm worker (Continued from Page 1A) similar stories, not just of poverty farmworkers report feeling.

Cardenas, population 200,000. and lack of education but of a kind Mateo is frustrated that the surgery A 2014 study rates Tabasco as of endemic crime and corruption has required such a long recuperation, among “the five worst (Mexican) that make just getting by an and he’s long past ready to get back states for both employment and ongoing struggle. (See these stories to work. He worries about what unemployment rate.” A 2012 study at vermontfolklifecenter.org/ would happen to his family, to his pegged Tabasco as the 12th poorest elviajemascaro.) children if he were no longer able to state in Mexico (out of 31 states), ON THE JOB IN VERMONT work. with a poverty rate of 50 percent.

At his present job, Mateo said he Yet throughout our conversation, Home to one of Central America’s works six days a week, in two four- Mateo punctuates his story with oldest civilizations, the Olmecs, hour shifts, milking cows. The first comments and observations that Tabasco is dominated shift is 11 a.m. to 3 make even the interpreter laugh — a by rain forest. Its p.m.; the second is 7 to sign that he’s learned to look at life lagoons, rivers and “What’s going on 11 p.m. with a sense of humor. marshes provide some in Mexico is that “I work six days a A HARROWING JOURNEY of Mexico’s most if you want to fix week, and I rest one But his manner shifts when he extensive wetlands. your house, even day,” he says. recalls the most harrowing parts of Traditional foods if it’s just a little What he likes best, his life story: crossing from Mexico include corn, beans, he says, is “just being into the United States. bit … right away chocolate, yucca, here and being able Although nature presents many papaya, fish, shellfish people will think to work, to have the dangers — rattlesnakes, poisonous that you have — and even iguana. opportunity to support spiders, heat, thirst — the most For Mateo this place money and they my family back in dangerous element, he relates, is of weighty history, will kidnap your Mexico ... Just being man. The kind of grim news that plentiful rains and loved ones … able to wake up every hit America earlier this summer tropical lushness has day and morning, just — when nine Mexicans died from been a place where just because you being alive and having asphyxiation and heat while locked poverty combined with want to fix up the opportunity to be in the back of a tractor-trailer parked wide scale corruption your house.” alive the following day at a San Antonio, Texas, Walmart and the threat of — Mateo, a Mexican — I can’t complain.”

— underscores the predatory nature extortion, violence Mateo hit a rough of the human trafficking system by farmworker in or kidnapping makes earlier this which migrants typically cross the Addison County patch living there difficult. summer when he border illegally.

Asked if these suddenly had to When he first came into the kinds of crimes are the result of undergo major surgery for a life- United States at 17, it was easy, gangs, drug trafficking, or corrupt threatening illness. Post-surgery his Mateo says. He was young and authorities, Mateo says: “It’s a little doctors said he wasn’t supposed to strong. That first time he traveled in bit of everything — because there’s lift anything or bend at the waist a group of about 10, but was on his no work. for about eight weeks — a tough own.

“These narcos just come in,” he sentence for someone who does “I thought it was easy, a piece continues, “and you have to make manual labor for a living. He was of cake. I was much younger, so I some deal, you have to pay them able to work things out with his boss helped the others carry their bags, some amount of money for them to until he could come back to work helped them out. It was just my first allow you to have your own business. safely, without rupturing wounds time, and I was experimenting,” he So that’s the problem.” or tearing muscle says.

He gives an example of the kind of tissue before it healed times didn’t go “I came for work. soOther extortion that can occur. properly. easily.

“What’s going on in Mexico is He’s lucky, he said. I don’t have any On one crossing, that if you want to fix your house, Mateo has a brother education, and he and his group were even if it’s just a little bit, just fix and sister also working where I’m from kidnapped by a group the front porch or something, right nearby, and they’ve there’s no work.” of rival “coyotes,” a away people will think that you have helped him as he’s — Mateo, a Mexican term for people paid to money and they will kidnap your recovered. farmworker help arrange passage loved ones — your daughter, your “It’s a big help for across the border. son — just because you want to fix me having my siblings “When my group up your house.” around. They were able to help me came from Tabasco, we arrived Other first-person farmworker and take care of me after my surgery. at a border post. And when we got accounts — such as those in the If it wasn’t for them it would be a there, another person took us to the “Most Costly Journey” series of little bit harder,” he says. coyote who was going to pick us stories at the Vermont Folklife Having family nearby also up. And he tricked us. We went with Center in Middlebury — relate decreases the isolation many this guy, and he took us to a house

that same night. They grabbed us.

They had some bags with water and stuff to drink and everything. They loaded us into a van without saying anything to us. And since they were carrying firearms, we couldn’t really do anything. We climbed on board, they dropped us in the desert, and we began to walk. We spent five days walking.”

The kidnapper/coyotes forced them to pay double the promised fee: $3,000 instead of $1,500, Mateo said.

Another time, they were crossing the desert in the pitch dark. Suddenly there was a bad smell in the air. They came across two dead people along the trail and a third, barely alive, moaning. Some wanted to stop and help, but the coyote forced them to walk on without rendering aid.

“It sticks in my mind,” Mateo said quietly.

Coyotes often take people’s money but don’t deliver on their end of the bargain, he says.

“A lot of people come to the border and say, ‘I’ll help you cross over, I’ll get you across.’ There are lots of people who come to a border crossing and they all say, ‘Come on, I’ll take you, I’ll charge you very little.’ And since so many people come with little money, but with the strong desire to cross, they trick us and leave us stranded in the desert.”

LOOKING TO THE FUTURE Asked about his plans for the future, Mateo says that he’d like to return home and raise buffalo.

He already owns a few cows, he says. But lately there’s been more cattle rustling and he’s already had five cows stolen. Buffalo, he thinks, might be a better investment because they’d be harder to steal.

“My plan is that I’m going to buy buffalos and not buy cows.

Cows are easy prey for people.

When thieves come into your farm at night, they throw a lasso around the cow and grab him. They grab him fast. But buffalos, by contrast — the buffalo is tame during the day, but at night you can’t mess with him because you won’t come out alive,” he says.

Mateo is instant and unequivocal in when asked to share his hopes for his children: “I want them to have an education, not to be like I am now. I want them to keep studying and not have to go through what I’ve gone through, not to be so far from home.”

Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

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By GAEN MURPHREE VERMONT — An estimated 1,200 Latino farmworkers labor on Vermont’s dairy farms, according to University of Vermont researcher Dan Baker. He said most are undocumented.

In Baker’s most recent study, which is soon to be released, the average workweek for these farmworkers is 68 hours; the median is 70 hours. His current study did not log the length of the workweek, Baker said, but he estimates that a six-day week is most typical.

Most of these Latino farmworkers come from Mexico and are in their late teens to mid-30s. Baker’s earlier 2013 study showed that about half were married, with fewer than 20 percent living with their spouse here in Vermont.

Virtually all send earnings home to support family members; typically they send around 50 percent of their U.S. earnings. Most plan to work in the United States and then return to their country of

origin, using their U.S. earnings to start a better life, according to Baker.

The only visas open to foreign farm laborers is a seasonal one that demands they return to their home country after a number of months.

Sen. Patrick Leahy has worked to create a long-term visa for dairy workers, but to no avail.

Based on statements by and interviews with interested parties from local dairy farmers to the Vermont Secretary of Agriculture to the governor, these workers are vital to the state’s $2.2 billion dairy industry. For more than a decade farmers have been largely unable to find local laborers willing to milk, feed, clean up after and take care of dairy cows and other barn work.

Although undocumented, these workers still pay taxes; nationwide undocumented foreign workers paid $11.74 billion in state and local taxes, according to a 2017 report from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy.

Marketing tracking seminar to be held on September 13 ADDISON COUNTY — It’s website landing page. difficult to make informed marketing • Why Google Analytics can be decisions unless you can measure the most powerful resource in your the results of your campaigns. On marketing toolbox.

Wednesday, Sept. 13, from 8–9:30 • How to use Google Analytics a.m. at Kennedy Brothers, to connect and track your in Vergennes, the Addison ADDISON COUNTY marketing efforts.

County Chamber of Presenter Rob Carter, of Commerce will hold their Bristol Marketing LLC, works latest educational Seminar: with companies small and “Measure Your Marketing: large to apply the marketing Use Online Tracking to Make principles he’s learned Smart Marketing Decisions.” over the years to their products and This seminar will give you an marketplace. Rob helps business and understanding of how to track digital non-profits with website launches and and non-digital media marketing upgrades, strategic market planning, efforts using Google Analytics — a search marketing, email copywriting free service offered by Google. Topics and response analysis, website covered in the seminar include: analytics and social media integration.

Everyone is welcome. The seminar • Why tracking all marketing and sales back to the source is essential to is free for Chamber members and $5 for non-members. To RSVP email Sue the success of your business.

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SALISBURY — Salisbury property tax bills are being mailed to property owners this week.

Students returned to school this week; watch for school buses picking up and dropping off children and remember not to pass a stopped bus.

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church’s summer raffle were drawn this past Sunday. Winners were Jim and Susan Farrell, quilted throw; Garry and Betsy Gossens, maple syrup, Sid Hutchins, maple syrup; Greg Smith, bucket of chocolate and Elwood Martin, Vermont Home lamp.

Addison Independent, Thursday, August 31, 2017 — PAGE 11A

Mason Wedge (Continued from Page 1A) had a rough year would be an understatement. His dad, Billy J. Wedge, passed away just two weeks prior to Mason’s DKC diagnosis on April 20. The family has Addison County roots, previously residing in Bristol and Salisbury.

Mason has good days and not-so good days, when he is tired, sick, pale and has no appetite to speak of.

He has been feeling like a pincushion these days, according to family members.

“Every Thursday, he has to go to the University of Vermont Medical Center to have blood drawn,” said Lisa Tatro, Mason’s great-aunt who has been organizing fundraisers to help defray family expenses related to the boy’s treatment.

“He’s sick of needles,” she said.

His mom, Jennifer Wedge, has taken leave from her longtime job as a caregiver at the Shard Villa senior care facility in Salisbury, in order to better focus on Mason and his three half-siblings. They are currently staying with family in Forestdale as they regroup to confront tragedy and illness.

“It’s been very tough on her,” Tatro said.

Mason and his mom will be heading to Boston Children’s Hospital on Sept. 11 to meet with a team of doctors that will outline some of the young patient’s medical options. That menu will likely include a bone marrow transplant, according to Tatro. Future treatment will require Mason and his family to do more traveling and thus rack up fuel, food and lodging expenses that medical insurance won’t cover. So Tatro and others have been setting up donation jars and scheduling events to generate some cash.

For example, an Aug. 5 motorcycle ride from Brandon into Middlebury raised more than $700 on what was a very rainy day.

“Water was running off of all of them, and they didn’t complain,” Tatro said of the riders.

An Aug. 19 dance at Middlebury Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 7823 generated around $1,300. The event also included a silent auction, bake sale, face painting and other activities.

Mason’s supporters have raised around $2,600 of the $5,000 they’d like to bank for the family’s upcoming expenses. Tatro wants to organize another dance and give it a little more pre-publicity.

She’s talking to the local senior center in Forestdale about hosting a

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MASON WEDGE community potluck dinner to benefit Mason. A bottle drive is also in the works.

Mason is on a waiting list for a trip to Florida through the Make A Wish Foundation. The foundation is also trying to find Jennifer Wedge and her children some housing of their own, according to Tatro.

Meanwhile, Jennifer Wedge is taking as many precautions as possible to make sure Mason doesn’t get sick. It’s meant a pretty solitary life for the child, but it could be disastrous for his health if he were to catch a cold from a friend. The local school district is looking to set Mason up with a tutor.

“It tears me apart,” Tatro said of Mason’s health situation.

Jennifer Wedge said Mason is generally in good spirits, though at 6 years old, he isn’t fully cognizant of the hurdles that lay ahead. But he clearly has a lot of support in his quest for a clean bill of health.

“I just keep going,” Jennifer Wedge said of her approach to the challenges the family is facing. “It’s pretty emotional for everyone.”

The hardest part right now is the unknown. She wants answers.

“It’s a waiting game,” Wedge said.

People wanting to contribute to the Wedge family can do so by: • Logging on to gofundme.com/ Mason-s-Mission, to donate online.

• Write a check payable to “Mason 6,” and send it to Jennifer Wedge, P.O. Box 253, Brandon, VT 05733.

• Pop a few bucks in donation jars that can be found in such local businesses as Shafer’s Market & Deli in Middlebury and Brandon House of Pizza.

An evening of poetry set Sept. 8 in Bristol BRISTOL — Art on Main will hold its second evening of poetry in the Written Word Out Loud series on Friday, Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m.

Poets from Bristol’s South Street Writers’ Cooperative will read their work in the gallery followed by light refreshments and a chance for conversation. Readers include Karla Van Vliet, Ruth Farmer, Ann Fisher, Basha Miles, Lily Hinrichsen, Carol

Talmage and Sally Burrell. All are welcome.

The third event in the series, scheduled for Oct. 20, will feature Waterways — a poetic exploration of New Hampshire’s waterways by William O’Daly, poet and translator of eight books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, and J.S. Graustein, biologist and editor in chief of the Folded Word press.

(Continued from Page 1A) disappointed, but will fully comply with the Supreme Court’s order.

“We look forward to working with the Public Utility Commission, the Department of Public Service and Green Mountain Power to address the issues raised by the Supreme Court,” he said.

THE HIGH COURT SPEAKS In explaining its reasoning, the high court first reviewed the history of proceedings leading up to New Haven’s appeal. In July 2015, Green Lantern filed for a Certificate of Public Good. The Public Utilities Commission (then the Public Service Board) issued a CPG on March 4, 2016, and New Haven appealed to the Supreme Court. The court heard the case last October.

Meanwhile, on July 26, 2016, Green Lantern began building the project, which began generating electricity this past February.

In reversing the CPG, the court upheld some of New Haven’s claims and denied others. Most importantly, the court agreed that the PUC broke its own rules in two instances: rejecting the town’s Sept. 17, 2015, comments and failing to order the more rigorous study required for projects that fail interconnection criteria.

Comments. The PUC said New Haven didn’t submit its comments before the GLC Solar application was completed. In its appeal, New Haven maintained that the GLC Solar application wasn’t completed until Oct. 20, 2015. The Supreme Court concurred, noting that on Oct. 2, 2015, the PUC itself directed Green Lantern to respond to the town’s Sept. 17 comments and on Oct. 15, asked for a supplemental document. The court said the application wasn’t effectively completed until Oct. 20, and thus New Haven’s Sept. 17 comments were timely.

The court rejected GLC Solar’s argument that this was a “harmless” error on the PUC’s part, noting that many of the town’s comments that the PUC did consider resulted in numerous changes to the project.

Interconnection issues.

In granting GLC Solar a CPG, the PUC acknowledged the project failed certain system stability and reliability requirements that are part of what’s called a “fast track analysis.” The rules stipulate that projects that fail fast track criteria for connecting to the electrical grid must then be subject to further studies. Instead, the PUC deferred to Green Mountain Power’s assertion that the criteria in question was “no longer relevant.”

In doing so the PUC waived its own requirement that applications not meeting all of the screening criteria must be evaluated under a more rigorous process, wrote the court. It ordered the PUC to follow that more rigorous process and hold a technical hearing.

RAMIFICATIONS The New Haven town attorney considers the Supreme Court’s

THE 500-KILOWATT GLC Solar project off Route 7 in New Haven began operations this past February. Last Friday, the Vermont Supreme Court reversed the Public Utilities Commission’s March 2016 decision to issue the project a Certificate of Public Good: a Vermont first. The court remanded the CPG process back to the commission. It is unkonwn what will happen to this array if the commission changes its decision on the CPG. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Certificate of Public Good?

A Certificate of Public Good, or CPG, is a document issued by the Public Utility Commission that authorizes a company to own or operate a utility. The commission grants the CPG if it finds the business will serve the general good of the state. decision significant for a number of reasons, the most important being due process.

“We’re supposed to have a fair process,” Hill said. “The rule of law is that there’s rules, there’s a process, and we go through them.

It may mean that substantively sometimes you win, sometimes you lose but everybody has a level playing field because the process is transparent and fair and evenly applied.”

But PUC processes haven’t always been clear, Hill added.

“The PUC process is renowned for being very confusing for people trying to participate in it,” she said.

“So the decision really helps going forward in terms of providing some clarity and guidance to a process that has been quite confusing.”

Hill said the decision is also important in underscoring the responsibilities of state regulatory agencies to fulfill that function, rather than defer to the industry itself, as the PUC did in waiving an interconnection rule solely on Green Mountain Power’s recommendation.

Hill and other attorneys interviewed for this article also said the decision is notable because all of the Supreme Court justices concurred with the opinion.

A previous case provided fewer clear legal guidelines because the high court’s opinions were so

splintered, noted Kevin Brown, an well sited.

“We spent an extra $80,000 to attorney with Langrock, Sperry and move the project 900 feet from Wool.

Brown represented the town Route 7 so it would be invisible of Rutland in an April 2016 case over the berm,” Carlson said. These opposing a CPG issued on a solar measure included burying the development. The court upheld the interconnection lines so there would CPG, but the vote was divided, 3-2. be no new power poles, using an He said he believes that the Rutland existing driveway as the access road case was a turning point as “the first so there wouldn’t be new major road one where the Supreme Court got cuts into Route 7.

“The town of New Haven has a view of how broken the system already put this solar project on to was.”

Hill agreed that the Supreme its grand list and sent us a tax bill ($2,075) for the solar Court’s Aug. 25 decision set precedent. “We’re supposed project, which we have paid. So the project “It’s the kind of case to have a fair is already providing that will wind up being benefits to the town,” cited by many other process. The Carlson said. people in other cases, rule of law is Concerning the whether it’s the Public that there’s interconnection issue, Utilities Commission rules, there’s Carlson said that he and or numerous other a process, and others have testified agencies, because it recently before the helps provide guidance we go through PUC that the criterion as to how agencies them. It may GLC Solar failed is are to apply their mean that “silly” and that there rules regarding public substantively are hundreds of solar participation and sometimes you operating waivers of their rule,” win, sometimes projects throughout the state that she said. you lose but failed this benchmark.

WHAT NEXT? “At least 50 percent Now that the Supreme everybody has of net-metered solar Court has remanded a level playing projects fail Criterion 3. the CPG process back field because It is largely irrelevant,” to the PUC, what’s the the process is Carlson said. status of the operating Hill said the root solar array? No one transparent and fair and evenly of the matter is that knows. any such concerns Green Lantern applied.”

Group has contacted — Cindy Hill be addressed via the proper channels. the Department “I think the of Public Service to get clarification on the solar importance of this decision and one of the cruxes of our argument is that development’s status.

Meanwhile, Carlson said Green the Public Utilities Commission Lantern remains puzzled about is supposed to regulate the utility “what possible harm this project is industry; that’s what these rules are doing to the town of New Haven.” about,” she said. “And if it’s time to He stressed the extent to which change the rules because they don’t Green Lantern has taken steps to dovetail nicely with these distributed comply with the town and make it generation projects then so be it.”

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Registration & Equipment Issue — Middlebury Town Gym

Tuesday, September 5: Grades 6-8 8th Grade: 6:00 p.m.

7th Grade: 6:15 p.m.

6th Grade: 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, September 6: Grades 1-5 1st-3rd Grade: 6:00 p.m.

(registration only, no equipment needed)

4th Grade: 6:15 p.m.

5th Grade: 6:30 p.m.

Please bring 2 checks (or cash): one for registration fee, one for refundable $125 equipment deposit • 5th - 8th Grade: $45 • 4th Grade: $25 (skill building practices, no games)

NEW Program this year!

Grades 1-3: FREE skills sessions on Mondays September 11th - October 9th 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. at MUHS

5th - 8th Grade games are held Saturday mornings at MUHS September 16th - October 21st Additional practice and game information available at registration Please contact Peter Brakeley with questions at 388-2194

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Boise

MONEY FROM A federal grant will be used to update Lincoln’s nearly 100-year-old Burnham Hall to meet current standards.

Accessibility work slated for Burnham Hall

By GAEN MURPHREE LINCOLN — Lincoln has been awarded a $17,600 Community Development Block Grant to make additional accessibility improvements to Burnham Hall.

“We’re delighted that the Vermont Community Development Program awarded us this grant. They’ve helped us before and they’ve continued to help us,” said Mark Benz. Benz spearheaded the grant writing and is a member of the nine-person Walter S. Burnham Committee that oversees the building and will be overseeing the renovations.

The committee began making accessibility improvements to the hall in the 1990s, first installing an elevator. In 2003, they improved the interior restrooms and outside access to the lower level ADA compliant.

This current project will improve access through the lower entrance, Benz said.

The two main problems have been pooling ice and a doorsill too steep for wheelchairs to get over easily.

“The walkway was built to the then-published requirements for a

handicapped accessible walkway, the right angle, not too steep and so forth,” said Benz. What no one realized was that when snow melted in the winter “all the water would run down the walkway and form a small pond in front of the doorway which would freeze and make lots of ice.”

Work will also eliminate the “bump” at the doorsill that makes getting a wheelchair over the doorsill difficult.

Work has already begun on improving the pedestrian walkway to prevent the formation of ice. This part of the project will include: • Modify or replace sidewalk sections.

• Improving grading to drain rain and snowmelt away from the sidewalk and doorway area.

• Renovating the stairway that leads to the doorway area.

Later in the fall, work will begin on eliminating the door sill “bump” and other improvements to make the entrance to Lincoln’s polling place more easily accessible to those in wheelchairs or with limited mobility.

These improvements include: • Improving parking space

identification signs.

• Creating a van-accessible parking space.

• Identifying a designated dropoff area.

• Upgrading to an automatic door opener.

The improvements will be completed by next summer, Benz said.

Benz noted the importance of Burnham Hall to the Lincoln community. In addition to being Lincoln’s polling place, Burnham Hall is used for town meeting, a monthly music series, Lincoln Community School sixth grade graduation, public meetings, monthly lunches for seniors and a host of other activities.

Planning is already underway for a 2019 celebration of the building’s first hundred years.

Benz said the building first opened sometime in the early 1920s, but that locals date its beginnings to the 1919 will of Walter S. Burnham, a local man who “grew up in Lincoln and went West to make his fortune — ‘west’ being Cleveland, Ohio.”

sign up at https://doodle.com/poll/ qiup2b46zqce4pnr. Bring gloves, water, a snack and tools. Volunteers may park between the two town sheds on the right as you enter at the top of the old dump. Do not park in front of the sheds. For more information, contact Porter Knight at knight@ gmavt.net.

library if you can just wait a week.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) a detour will take you around it. If you have any questions or concerns contact the Middlebury Highway Department at 388-4045.

Community members working to create a series of trails around Bristol have officially named the initiative the Bristol Trail Network. The network is calling all parties interested in volunteering this weekend to clear a trail around the former town landfill.

Work dates are Saturday, Sept. 2; Sunday, Sept. 3; and Monday, Sept. 4.

Work runs from 9 a.m. to noon each day. Saturday weather looks clear and sunny, so work that day might push into the afternoon for who are game. Organizers ask volunteers to

If you’re itching for a good book to buy cheap, you’ll have to wait a little longer this month. The Friends of the Ilsley Library’s used book sale that is usually on the first Saturday of the month, will be on the second one this month — Sept.

9, instead. The Friends promise plenty of great books from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Middlebury

Joseph Connor of Orwell placed in two competitions at the 2017 4-H Shooting Sports Jamboree held in St. Johnsbury, July 21-23. Connor tied for honorable mention in overall points in the junior (ages 11-13) competition; and placed third in the shotgun category. The 4-H’ers worked with certified instructors on Friday to hone their skills before competing in archery, pistol, rifle, Seneca Run (muzzleloader, hawk and knife throw, instinctive bow, fire starting), shotgun and a hunting/wildlife contest on Saturday. The latter involved hunter safety, a timed compass course and identification of animal furs, feathers, skulls, tracks and scat.

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(Continued from Page 1A) his hometown. Boise could find his way around under the hoods of most vehicles, and his wife, Theresa, was up for the challenge of running the small convenience store they decided to add to the mix.

For the first two years, Ray and Theresa Boise worked at their new venture from around 6 a.m. to midnight, virtually year-round.

“Back then, he used to work on Christmas,” noted Ray’s son, Joey Boise, who grew up at the Citgo station.

As a kid, Joey would help out around the place in small ways, handing tools to his dad and the handful of employees he would eventually add as the business became more prosperous.

When he got old enough, Joey put in 10 years at his dad’s service center as a mechanic, repairing vehicles of all sizes and makes.

“Definitely, a piece of me is left here,” Joey said as he stood in the suddenly quiet convenience store, gazing at a wall display of grainy, black-and-white photos of Boise Citgo during its heyday.

Snapshots in time, with time now running out on a business that served legions of locals, farmers and travelers passing through the intersection of two of the county’s busiest roads.

That local and pass-through traffic brought prosperity to the Boise family during the 1980s and much of the 1990s. Ray tested new ventures at the station, including a deli and used car selection. And lest people think his talents were limited to diagnosing a worn head gasket or topping off an oil reservoir, Ray Boise earned a reputation for serving up what some are calling the best maple creemees in the county — and perhaps beyond.

“Turn your car around from whatever direction you’re driving in right now and order yourself a maple creemee from the very nice folks behind the counter,” reads an on-line testimonial from “Gerry P.” of Brooklyn, N.Y. “Then, go outside, take in the view, taste your creemee, and prepare to be transported to deliciously heavenly realms.”

Ray is coy about his creemee credentials, and don’t ask him for the recipe — unless you want to buy it from him. As stated earlier: Everything must go. And he wants that retirement nest egg to grow as big as possible.

“Everyone wants to know the secret,” Ray said through a mischievous grin. He will concede the syrup he uses comes from the Plouffe sugarworks in Bridport.

JOEY BOISE AND his father, RAY, stand outside Boise Citgo in Bridport Monday morning. The service station, which Joey grew up at and Ray ran for 45 years, was scheduled to be sold at auction on Wednesday.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Ray’s role at his business evolved through the years. He relinquished the automotive repair role to Joey and others as vehicles became increasingly computerized. Later in his career, his primary domain became the convenience store. And king of the creemee machine.

Jerry Connors has been a customer at Boise Citgo since it opened in 1972.

It’s been his go-to place for repair work and his daily cup of coffee, which has often included some local gossip at no extra charge.

“It’s handy, and the service has been good,” Connors said of the reasons for his loyalty.

He called Ray Boise “a nice guy.

I’m going to miss him.”

WHAT’S NEXT? It remains to be seen what will replace Boise Citgo. The land is zoned commercial in a highly visible part of town, so it could host another business — perhaps another in a growing number of filling station/ mini-mart operations that have multiplied across the state. Ray said it’s tough for an independent service station owner to make a living these days — particularly on gas. He said he could make $25 cents per gallon off gas 40 years ago, a number that

he said has declined to around 6 cents per gallon these days.

But Boise has no regrets. He thanked his many loyal customers, and Champlain Oil for selling him the property around 30 years ago and for being his fuel supplier throughout his 45-year run.

“No complaints,” Boise said.

Fortunately, Boise’s employees have pinned down new jobs — except of course for Ray, who on Thursday suddenly found himself somewhere other than his service station. He doesn’t have any big plans on the horizon, except for a trip his spouse Theresa wants to take to Florida.

“I like to work,” Boise said Monday, but then quickly added, “I can’t stay here forever.”

Asked how he might react to seeing the property liquidated at auction, he replied, “I’ll probably cry.”

And so might Joey.

“It’s bittersweet, but I know it’s necessary for a lot of reasons,” said Joey, who now has hands full with two other family businesses: Cyclewise and Midstate Towing.

“You put in a lot of hours, get attached to the place and get to know a lot of people,” Joey Boise added. “It will be a tough day.”

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 2017

KARL LINDHOLM

SPORTS

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• School News • Legal Notices

Celebrating my reverse bucket list I was able to check off one of the items on my Sports Bucket List this summer: I played golf on the Poland Spring Golf Course in Maine with my close childhood friend Johnny Mauro, whom I hadn’t seen in years — and with Gary and Bill who I last saw in high school long ago.

“That’s it?” I can hear you saying to yourself. “Golf in Maine with old buddies? What’s so special about that?”

I worked on that golf course at the grand Poland Spring Hotel for eight years growing up, from age 13 to 20. As a caddy, a counselor at the Caddy Camp, and as a golfer, I walked the course hundreds of times. I know every inch.

The hotel burned down in 1975, but the golf course remains — and the memories of that time and place and people linger. It’s hallowed ground.

I didn’t realize it was on my Bucket List until the round was over and I was contentedly home. A beautiful July day, time with friends, lovely setting, exercise, those memories — that’s pretty good, Bucket Listworthy, after the fact.

As a young man in my twenties, I fantasized that I was an international sportsman, fabulously wealthy, jetting about the world from one major sporting event to another, learning languages, meeting fascinating people, and experiencing cultures: the Olympics, World Cup matches, British Open, World Series. I would be “the world’s most interesting man,” like the guy in the beer commercials.

Reality of course intrudes.

Bucket List is the cliché du jour.

Everyone of a certain age, mine, is supposed to have one. Mine is a very modest one. We Yankees don’t overreach.

I’m not entirely sure I need a Bucket List. I’ve already had way more than my share of wonderful, extraordinary sports experiences. So I’m developing something I’m calling my “Reverse” Bucket List. Instead of looking forward in time, I’m going back.

Here are some of the experiences on it: • Playing catch with my dad, night after night in the yard in Maine as a boy. Some nights friends came by and my dad played “pepper” with us, hitting grounders and flies.

Baseball was everything in those days and I developed an obsessive interest in the game, as did many of my friends, an interest that would endure and deepen over time with me.

(See Lindholm, Page 2B)

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Field Hockey 9/1 Mt. Abe at Harwood.......................4 p.m.

9/1 OV at Windsor..........................4:30 p.m.

9/5 Mt. Anthony at OV....................4:30 p.m.

9/6 Mt. Abe at U-32..............................4 p.m.

9/7 MUHS at CVU...............................4 p.m.

9/9 MUHS at Mt. Abe.........................10 a.m.

9/9 Fair Haven at OV......................... 11 a.m.

Football 9/1 Colchester at MUHS .................... 7 p.m.

9/1 Mt. Abe at U-32..............................7 p.m.

9/2 Milton at OV ..................................1 p.m.

9/8 Windsor at Mt. Abe........................7 p.m.

9/8 MUHS at Hartford .........................7 p.m.

9/9 Fair Haven at OV...........................1 p.m.

Girls’ Soccer 9/1 Arlington at OV.........................4:30 p.m.

9/2 Stowe at MUHS ..........................10 a.m.

9/2 VUHS at Mt. Abe ....................... 10 a.m.

9/5 VUHS at MUHS .......................4:30 p.m.

9/5 Milton at Mt. Abe.......................4:30 p.m.

9/8 Fair Haven at VUHS ................4:30 p.m.

9/8 OV vs. Proctor at B. River ............6 p.m.

9/8 MUHS at Missisquoi.................4:30 p.m.

9/9 Rice at Mt. Abe............................ 11 a.m.

9/9 OV vs. TBD at B. River...............6/8 p.m.

Boys’ Soccer 9/1 MUHS at Mt. Mansfield ............4:30 p.m.

9/1 VUHS at GMVS .......................4:30 p.m.

9/5 Twin Valley at OV.....................4:30 p.m.

9/6 Mt. Abe at GMVS .....................4:30 p.m.

9/6 Colchester at MUHS................ 4:30 p.m.

9/6 Fair Haven at VUHS ................4:30 p.m.

9/7 OV at Mill River.........................4:30 p.m.

9/9 MUHS at Spaulding ....................10 a.m.

9/9 Missisquoi at Mt. Abe.....................1 p.m.

9/9 OV vs. F. Haven at Proctor ...........1 p.m.

Cross Country 9/2 MUHS/VUHS at Essex Invit...........9 a.m.

9/5 OV at Rutland.......................... 4:30 p.m.

9/9 MUHS/VUHS at Burlington Invit....9 a.m.

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School’s Tyler Giorgio takes the ball up the field during practice Monday afternoon. The team’s home-opener is next Wednesday against Colchester.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Area high school season to kick off Teams in all sports open this weekend

By ANDY KIRKALDY OV field hockey team also opens ADDISON COUNTY — Leaves on the road on Friday, at Windsor at have yet to turn, and V-formations 4:30 p.m. The Otters return home on of geese have yet to soar over area Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. for a date with towns, byways and pastures.

Marble Valley League rival Mount But sure signs of fall began to ar- Anthony. rive two weeks ago: double sessions, First-year Tiger Coach Chelsey wind sprints and pinnies.

Giuliani’s Tigers will visit ChamAnd this weekend those pinnies plain Valley on Thursday before will give way to clean uniforms, heading to Bristol on Sept. 9. The Tiunblemished records and gers, who are dropping high hopes as the area’s down to Division II for high school fall sports This weekend the first time ever this teams take to the fields, those pinnies fall, host South Burlingtrails and — for the first will give ton on Sept. 13. time — links this fall.

FOOTBALL way to clean That’s right, the Ver- uniforms, Two football teams mont Principals Assoalso open on Friday. unblemished ciation moved to make Coach Dennis Smith’s golf a fall sport, although records and Middlebury squad, easonly Otter Valley among high hopes ily the region’s biggest the four local schools as the area’s draw, hosts Colchester still has a team. The Ot- high school at 7 p.m. The Tigers, ters were scheduled to fall sports who will rely on youngplay earlier this week as er athletes in some pothe first squad to have teams take sitions, will visit dean official competition, to the fields, fending D-I champion on Monday on the road. trails and — Hartford next Friday.

Sadly, results were not for the first Coach Lee Hodsden’s immediately available. time — links Mount Abraham-VerThe Otters are scheduled gennes collective footthis fall. to host a competition this ball team opens its D-II coming Wednesday at schedule at U-32 on Neshobe Golf Course.

Friday at 7 p.m. Windsor will visFIELD HOCKEY it Mount Abe the following Friday Friday is the big day for many oth- at 7 p.m. for the program’s annual er teams. First up is the Mount Abra- night game. ham field hockey squad, which visOV, moved to D-II for this fall, its Harwood at 4 p.m. Coach Mary will open by hosting Milton on SatStetson’s Eagles, the most successful urday at 1 p.m. The Otters lost their program in the county since 2000, new head coach in the weeks leadare also on the road next Wednesday ing up to the season and will be led before they host Middlebury on Sat- by a cooperative effort. Local rival urday, Sept. 9, at 10 a.m.

Fair Haven will visit Brandon on Coach Stacey Edmunds-Brickell’s Sept. 9.

• Classifieds • Police Logs

Ralph Myhre golfers defeat Basin Harbor MIDDLEBURY — Last week brought good weather and lots of action to the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and its members.

Over the weekend, the Ralph Myhre team visited the Basin Harbor Club for the final leg of the 2017 three-way competition among those two courses and Neshobe Golf Club, and Ralph Myhre came away with a 10.5-5.5 victory. Combined with Ralph Myhre’s earlier win over Neshobe, that result means the Middlebury course wins the 2017 Addison Cup. Also, back in Middlebury this past weekend Ralph Myhre held closest-to-the-pin competitions on its annual Member Appreciation Day. Randy McFall earned the honor on two holes, and Anne McFall, Jane Schoenfeld and Ken Perine were closest on one hole apiece. Also, Sheila Cameron won a longest-drive contest.

The regularly scheduled Tuesday Evening Men’s Scramble on Aug. 22 produced a tie between two foursomes: Dale White, Dean George, Hogan Beazley and Sivan Cotel, and Bert Phinney, Ric Wheeler, Josh Girard and Mike Adams.

The trio of James Hadeka, Dave Campbell and Steve Maier prevailed in Thursday Night Bill Davidson Men’s Golf play on Aug. 24. Finishing second and third, respectively, were the threesomes of Dave Foran, Bill Brown and Russ Reilly, and Joe Thilbourg, Tom McGinn and Russell (See Golf, Page 2B)

Baseball champ from Virginia has Bristol relatives

MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School soccer player Ben Crawford takes a pass during practice Monday afternoon. The MUHS boys’ soccer team opens the season at Mt. Mansfield Saturday.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

GIRLS’ SOCCER Coach Rick Hedding’s OV girls’ soccer team also opens on Friday, when the Otter will host Arlington at 4:30 p.m. Next up for the Otters will be Black River’s four-team tournament in Ludlow on Sept. 8 and 9.

Vergennes, MUHS and Mount Abe all open at 10 a.m. on Saturday — and Co-Coaches Dwight Irish and Peter Maneen’s Commodores will be visiting Coach Dustin Corrigan’s Eagles in a kickoff rivalry game. At the same time, Stowe will visit Coach Wendy Leeds’ Tigers.

The Commodores continue their county tour on Tuesday with a trip down Route 7 to square off with the Tigers at 4:30 p.m., while at the same

time the Eagles host Milton.

BOYS’ SOCCER Coach Kevin Hayes’ Commodores and Coach Reeves Livesay’s Tiger boys’ soccer teams both open on the road on Friday at 4:30 p.m. VUHS visits Lake Division rival Green Mountain Valley, while the Tigers take on Metro Conference foe Mount Mansfield.

Both teams then open at home at the same time, at 4:30 p.m. next Wednesday. The Commodores welcome Fair Haven from up Route 22A, and Colchester will head down Route 7 to meet the Tigers.

Coach Dick Williams’ Otters open at home on Tuesday vs. Twin Valley, (See Fall sports, Page 2B)

CLIFTON, Va. — The son of a Bristol native was the top pitcher for a 14-and-under Babe Ruth baseball team that in July won the Virginia championship and reached a national semifinal in August before losing by a run. The team won four games before being ousted.

Ben Cousino, a rising sophomore at Centerville High School in Clifton, Va., a school of 3,500 students, according to his great aunt, Connie LaRose of Bristol, is the son of Navy Commander Christopher Cousino, a 1988 Mount Abraham Union High School graduate and standout athlete himself who is currently completing a 12-month tour of duty in Bahrain.

According to his many relatives in Bristol, Ben Cousino was one of the top hitters for his U-14 Babe Ruth team as well as its No. 1 starter.

The team was part of the Glen Allen Sports Youth Athletic Association in the Richmond, Hanover and West Chesterfield County area of Virginia.

As a freshman, Ben Cousino began last season on the Centerville High JV baseball team, but was called up to the varsity near the end of the regular season.

At Mount Abe, Chris Cousino played soccer and baseball and wrestled. He attended Springfield College, where he continued to play baseball, graduating in 1992.

Rod and Shelly Cousino of Bristol are Chris Cousino’s parents and Ben’s grandparents. Chris and his wife, Tracy, Ben and younger sister Madeline, live in Clifton.

Quenneville’s wins are Devil’s Bowl first

VINCE QUENNEVILLE JR. of Brandon made Devil’s Bowl Speedway history last Saturday and Sunday when he became the first driver to win on both the asphalt and dirt surfaces at the track on the same weekend.

Photo by Barry Snelling/Devil’s Bowl Speedway

WEST HAVEN — Veteran Brandon driver Vince Quenneville Jr. made history at Devil’s Bowl Speedway this past weekend by becoming the first racecar driver to pick up back-to-back wins in the track’s Saturday night asphalt and Sunday night dirt-track action.

Quenneville won the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series feature race on the 0.03-mile dirt track at on Sunday and one of two Sportsman Modified races on the half-mile asphalt track on Saturday.

Quenneville, who has raced for 30 years at Devil’s Bowl, posted a dominant win in Sunday’s 35-lap Sportsman Modified feature race.

Three earlier races gave Quenneville a low handicap and the pole starting position for the race, and a quick car and Quenneville’s trademark flashy

driving style in the corners did the rest of the work.

Seven cautions in the first half of the race gave the field plenty of opportunities to take the lead away from Quenneville, but he withstood every challenge and cruised to his first dirt win of the season. It is possible that Quenneville’s new two-surface weekend record may never be broken, as there is only one event left in the history of the asphalt track before it is covered with clay for the 2018 season.

Orwell’s Tim LaDuc came from the back of the pack twice to finish fourth. Whiting’s Jimmy Ryan took fifth, and Middlebury’s Justin Comes was eighth.

New York’s Kenny Tremont, who was third, enters the Stove Depot (See Devil’s Bowl, Page 2B)

PAGE 2B — Addison Independent, Thursday, August 31, 2017

Successful bear hunters must submit animal’s teeth

MONTPELIER — The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is reminding successful bear hunters that a regulation now requires them to submit a bear tooth so wildlife managers can collect important information on Vermont’s bear population.

Teeth submitted by hunters are used to determine the ages of bears.

Wildlife biologists use age and sex data to estimate the number of bears in Vermont and to determine the status and health of the bear population.

Envelopes for submitting teeth are available at all big game check stations.

“Successful bear hunters will be helping in our management of this magnificent big game animal,” said Forrest Hammond, bear project leader for the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department. “The premolar tooth we’re asking hunters to extract is small and easy to loosen with a knife. Directions for removing the

tooth are on the back of the envelope provided by the check station, and a short video showing tooth removal is linked on our website.”

Vermont has two bear hunting seasons. The early bear-hunting season, which requires a special bear tag, starts Sept. 1 and continues through Nov. 10. The late bear season begins Nov. 11 and continues through Nov. 19. The limit for bears remains one per calendar year.

“Carefully regulated hunting plays a very important role in scientific wildlife management by helping to control the growth of Vermont’s bear population now estimated at about 5,400 bears,” said Hammond.

“Minor fluctuations in the bear population will always occur due to changes in food availability, winter severity and hunter success. Despite these fluctuations, we look at the long-term trends to manage for a healthy, robust population.”

Lindholm LOKE LANNESKOG STOPS a high ball during Middlebury Union High School boys’ soccer practice Monday afternoon.

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JOSEPH FINDLAY RUNS a drill during Middlebury Union High School boys’ soccer practice Monday afternoon.

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Fall sports (Continued from Page 1B) and then bus down Route 7 to Mill River on Thursday.

Last to see action will be Coach Mike Corey’s Mount Abe crew, which first visits GMVS on Wednes-

day at 4:30 p.m., and then on Saturday, Sept. 9, opens at home vs. Lake Division rival Missisquoi at 1 p.m.

CROSS COUNTRY The MUHS, VUHS and Mount Abe cross-country teams all official-

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The only home meet set for any of the three teams comes on Sept. 26 at

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The OV cross-country team opens on Tuesday at Rutland at 4:30 p.m.

The Otters’ next meet is their only home race of the fall, on Sept. 12 at 4:30 p.m.

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Aaron Mulready of Buskirk, N.Y., took his fourth win of the season in the 15-lap Mini Sprint race. Shoreham’s Colby Beinhaur was third, and his father Sean Beinhaur, was fourth.

Salisbury’s Brent Warren finished eighth. Colby Beinhaur is third in the points race for the series, 22 points behind leader Austin Saves and one point behind Robert Griffin.

Evan Roberts of Fletcher won the eight-lap Bandit Youth Mini Stock Feature, with Nick Austin-Neil of Salisbury in second.

Asphalt action on Saturday saw double features in each division.

Connecticut driver Robert Bryant Jr. and Zach Wood of Georgia, Vt., each won twice.

Bryant’s double scores came in 25-lap races in the Late Model division. Mark Norris of Benson was fifth in each race.

Wood scored twin 15-lap victories in the Mini Stock division. In the first race, Panton’s Mike Preston finished seventh and New Haven’s Kaleb Shepard was ninth. Shepard moved up to sixth in the second race.

Swanton’s Dylan Rabtoy won the first of two 20-lap Super Stock races, with Bristol’s R.J. Germain in fourth. New York driver Jim McKiernan won the second race, with Germain moving up to third.

propel them past their competitors.

• Watching a Middlebury College NESCAC soccer tournament game on the South Street pitch, a game in which my son David was inserted in the goal at the half with the Panthers down 2-0 to Tufts. Almost immediately, Tufts struck again and took an apparently insurmountable lead.

Middlebury persisted and miraculously scored three goals in the final 16 minutes, and then another at the beginning of overtime. David played brilliantly. Jubilation.

• Driving to Salem, Va., with Gary, my roommate and teammate in college and lifelong friend, in March of 2011 to attend the NCAA Division III Basketball Championship. We watched the 28-1 Middlebury Men’s team play in the Final Four, alas losing to eventual national champion St. Thomas (Minn.) by a single basket: A great road trip!

• Watching on TV, in Cornwall with my wife Brett, Game Four of the Red Sox- Yankees American League Championship Series in 2004, when the Sox reversed “the Curse of Jackie Robinson” (Dave Roberts’ steal, Bill Mueller’s single, David Ortiz’s homer).

It was a sports experience in marked contrast to my late night viewing in 1986 of the ball skittering through Bill Buckner’s legs, by myself in East Middlebury. Redemption.

These are only a few of the experiences on my Sports Bucket List. I have many more, and my List will continue to expand, as sports remain a joyful part of my life.

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(Continued from Page 1B) 100 championship finale on Sunday with a five-point lead on LaDuc (663-658). Tremont also holds the unofficial lead on Quenneville for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Vermont State Championship title.

On Saturday, Quenneville and Ron Proctor of Charlton, N.Y., split the two 20-lap Sportsman Modified races. Proctor held on for his fifth win of the season in the opening race, with Quenneville in third. In the second race, Quenneville dominated for his fourth win, with Proctor in third.

Entering the season finale on Saturday, Quenneville has an eightpoint lead on Proctor for the final Sportsman Modified asphalt track championship at Devil’s Bowl.

In other results on Sunday, Bill Duprey of Hydeville claimed his 49th career Devil’s Bowl win in the 20-lap Super Stock feature for the Rosen & Berger Auto Recyclers Super Stock division. Fair Haven’s Chris Murray was second. Murray enters the final event of the year with a lead 15 points over Duprey (594579). Cornwall’s Garrett Given was fifth.

Chris Conroy of Newport, N.H., won the 15-lap Mini Stock race.

Brandon’s Dakota Desabrais finished eighth.

(Continued from Page 1B) • Hitting a home run in a high school baseball game, the ball clearing the fence in left field at the Lewiston Athletic Park, bouncing off the back wall of the Armory, the building behind the fence, about halfway up.

Old Mr. Whittingham who came to all our games told me that he hadn’t seen anyone hit a ball that high off the Armory since Bobby Flynn routinely hit them there. This put me on Cloud Nine as Bobby was our coach, a Lewiston boy like me, and had played five years of pro baseball in the Pirate system.

• Playing basketball in college at Middlebury with Gerry Alaimo as our coach. I wasn’t a good player, nor were many of us — we won very few games, but Gerry never conceded to our inabilities. He worked us hard, taught us the game, took us seriously, and got from us the best we had.

This basketball education served me well for decades after I finished at Middlebury as I held my own in pickup games and adult men’s leagues into my 40s. I found little in life that gave me more joy on an ongoing basis.

• Riding in the launch of my daughter’s rowing coach at Harvard, just me and the coach, on the Charles River on a crisp spring afternoon’s practice, listening to her instructions to her charges on the fine techniques of their sport.

I was able to see my daughter Jane’s strength and concentrated effort, and come to understand the essence of teamwork that is crew, eight individuals in a narrow boat hoping to achieve the synchronicity that will

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(Continued from Page 1B) Leng. Campbell shot the best net score of the evening.

Taking first in the Friday Night Mixer on Aug. 25 were Dale White, Jill Jesso-White and Wes Smith.

The trio of James Hadeka, Deb Hadeka and Harold Strassner finished second, and the quartet of Frank Broughton, Mary Broughton, Priscilla Leng and Russell Leng took fourth.

ONE OF THE columnist’s sporting highlights was watching his daughter Jane pull with the Harvard crew team while travelling alongside in a boat on the Charles River.

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Forsyth, Kireker ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Caitlin Burke Forsyth, daughter of Dr. Laureen Burke and Scott Forsyth of Rochester, N.Y. was married on June 24, 2017 at Oak Hill Country Club in Pittsford, N.Y. to Bennett Jensen Kireker, son of Marie and Charlie Kireker of Weybridge. Benn is a 2003 graduate of Middlebury Union High School and a 2008 graduate of Wake Forest University in WinstonSalem, N.C., while Caitlin is a 2004 graduate of The Harley School in Rochester, N.Y., a 2008 graduate of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. and a 2015 graduate of the

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The couple lives in Manhattan, where Caitlin works as an attorney for Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and Benn as Director of Business Development for the digital marketing agency, DAC Group.

Orwell site plans history hike ORWELL — September is Vermont Archaeology Month, as part of the month’s activities Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell is running a “hike into history” on Sunday, Sept. 3.

The tour runs from 1-3 p.m.

Long-time site staff Paul Andriscin and Elsa Gilbertson will lead the hike, which focuses on locations and sites on the Mount that tell some of the story of 1777 — 240 years ago. Learn about the southern batteries built by the Americans in June, as they prepared

for British invasion; the times of early July when the Americans decided to withdraw; the following British and German occupation; and the stirring days of September when the Americans tried to take back the Mount from the British.

Dress for the weather and wear walking shoes or boots. The program is included with the regular admission of $5 for adults and free for children under 15. Tour participants will meet at the museum.

MIDDLEBURY — The 12th Annual Kelly Brush Ride, powered

by VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations is ready to roll on Saturday, Sept. 9, in Middlebury.

The bicycle and handcycle ride supports the Kelly Brush Foundation’s mission to empower those with paralysis through sport and recreation and to prevent ski racing injuries.

“We have routes for riders of all abilities with beautiful views of Lake Champlain, the Adirondacks and Green Mountains,” said Kelly Brush Foundation Executive Director Zeke Davisson. “It’s not too late to join us in our biggest fundraiser of the year and help make it possible for the Kelly Brush Foundation to further its mission to improve the quality of life for those with paralysis and to work with the ski racing community to make racing safer.”

The ride, Vermont’s largest charity ride, draws more than 700 riders and several dozen handcyclists from across the country and Canada.

Last year’s ride raised more than $450,000.

Funds raised from the event have contributed to the purchase of more than 475 pieces of adaptive sports equipment, such as handcycles, sport wheelchairs and monoskis, to enrich the lives of those with paralysis. In addition, the foundation has supported ski clubs and race organizations in efforts to improve ski racing safety, helping protect

A CONTINGENT OF handcyclists compete in last year’s Kelly Brush Ride. This year’s ride will take place on Saturday, Sept. 9, in Middlebury.

thousands of racers around the country with safety netting, trail widening projects and awareness campaigns.

The event’s title sponsor, VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations, continues to enthusiastically support the event and the foundation’s mission.

“This year will be our sixth as title

sponsor of the Kelly Brush Ride. We are honored to be a part of the tradition that this ride has become and to be a part of an event that makes a positive difference in the lives of so many through sport and recreation,” said Timo Shaw, president of VBT Bicycling and Walking Vacations.

The ride offers rolling terrain

through the Champlain Valley over options from 20 to 100 miles.

Riders and teams of riders compete to raise the most money with prizes for reaching fundraising goals. The ride ends with a wellearned and festive barbecue. For registration and information visit: kellybrushfoundation.org.

Bridge School adding several new programs, teachers for 2017-18

MIDDLEBURY — Bridge School, an independent elementary school in Middlebury, is starting the school year with some new employees and programs that, school officials said, expand its dedication to creativity and the arts, outdoor education, and innovative, student-driven learning.

This year, community collaboration is a unifying focus throughout Bridge’s programs; the school said it will get students out in the community, and open its doors to provide space for the entire Addison County community to gather, play and learn.

Each student will participate in Bridge’s new outdoor education curriculum, spearheaded by new teacher Jennifer Grilly. She comes to Bridge from Bath, Maine, where she was assistant director of Wilderness Programs at Hyde School. Grilly will create three seasonal curriculums — fall, winter and spring — and Bridge students will be out exploring and learning wilderness skills in the Green Mountains all year.

Also new is Nikki Juvan, a wellknown leader of children’s theater camps and actress in Town Hall

Theater productions. She will lead Bridge’s creativity and arts programs, which will expand this year. Juvan will deepen and extend Bridge’s devotion to helping each child see his or herself as a unique and creative individual through expanding the arts and drama program. Each student at Bridge already participates in 45 minutes of art education every day. Juvan will continue this tradition of bringing arts into school, as well as take students outside of school to experience theater in Middlebury and Burlington.

Bridge has a new Spanish language

curriculum. Each student will receive 70 minutes of Spanish class per week in groups of eight-10 students. Spanish language proficiency is becoming an essential skill in the United States.

Furthermore, learning Spanish will give students a new understanding and window into migrant dairy workers, a significant aspect of the Addison County community.

Bridge School is expanding its offerings and opportunities for community connection beyond the typical school day, as well. Bridge will be opening its doors this winter for “Cabin Fever

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

Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

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

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

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRANDON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Discus‑ sion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. Fri‑ day, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South.

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURS‑ DAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turn‑ ing Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Stephen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green).

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

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

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S S AT U R ‑ DAY: Discussion Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM at the Mid‑ dlebury United Methodist Church. Discussion Meet‑ ing 10:00‑11:00 AM. Be‑ ginners’ Meeting 6:30‑7:30 PM. These two meetings are held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

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

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

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Babysitting available.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NEW SUPPORT GROUP ‑ Grief Anonymous Meeting every Thursday @ 6:30 pm at Grace Baptist Church 52 Merchants Row, Middelbury, Vt. First Meeting Thursday, December 1st, 2016

OA (OVEREATERS ANON‑ YMOUS) MEETS on Thurs‑ days at 6 PM. Located at the Turning Point Center of Addison County, 54 Creek Road, Middlebury, VT. ( O A ) O V E R E AT E R S ANONYMOUS Saturday’s at 1:00pm. Located at Law‑ rence Memorial Library, 40 North St. in Bristol, 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.

OVEREATERS ANONY‑ MOUS (OA) step meeting.

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

Garage Sales

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OLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT

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

802‑388‑4831.

CLEANING SOLUTIONS. For your home, camp, or organization; weekly, bi‑weekly, monthly. Experi‑ enced, professional, reliable.

References available. Saige, 802‑458‑5635.

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

Garage Sales

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SHOREHAM TOWN WIDE yard sale. Saturday, Sep‑ tember 2, 8am to 2pm.

Maps available at Half Way House Restaurant, Shoreham Service Center, Shoreham Congregational Church.

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

Best prices. References.

802‑989‑5803.

Garage Sales BARN SALE RAIN OR Shine. 9/2 & 9/3 Saturday/ Sunday 9 am ‑ 2 pm. 3 Up‑ per Plains Road, Salisbury.

Across from Kampersville ball field. Tools, tool boxes, hand tools, rakes, shovels, stag‑ ing, forming planks, industrial masonry saw, building materi‑ als, trim, PVC pipe, Honda generator, Woods backhoe bucket (new). Woodstove, portable dishwasher, work bench, ladders, some house‑ hold items. 802-352-6678.

ANTIQUES, FURNITURE, BABY STUFF, Lots of mis‑ celaneous. Everything must go. Saturday, Sunday, Mon‑ day, 9am to 5pm. Main Street, Whiting, across from fire de‑ partment.

Monday 5pm for Thursday papers

that pets are current with shots, and volunteers must complete both an interview and background check. To learn more about this opportunity, please contact RSVP at 388-7044 or rsvpaddison@volunteersinvt.org.

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

Mail in your classified ad with payment to : 58 Maple Street, Middlebury VT 05753 OR Email your ad to: classifieds @addisonindependent.com OR stop in and drop it off to Alicia at our office in the

M U LT I ‑ FA M I LY YA R D SALE Saturday, Sept. 2, 9‑2. 941 Richville Road, Shoreham. Furniture, jew‑ elry, housewares, clothing.

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 2ND, 9‑2, 89 North Street, New Haven. DVD’S, quilt‑ ing books, candle holders, cow collection, antiques and more.

349 MUNSON ROAD, MID‑ DLEBURY, Friday 9/1 and Saturday 9/2, 9am-3pm.

1/2" impact wrench with 2 batteries. Fireplace wood ring and irons. Much, much more.

SHOREHAM, 277 WATCH POINT Road. Musical instru‑ ments, boat trailer, DR trim‑ mer, tools and lots of odds and ends. Sat., 9am to 4pm.

Sun. 9am to 3pm.

DONATIONS WANTED for Town Hall Theater’s Sep‑ tember 16, Fabulous Flea Market. Drop off at Smart Move(next to used book‑ store). 1485 Route 7 North.

9‑12 Friday’s and Satur‑ day’s, September 1,2,8,9.

Household goods, antiques, collectibles, jewelry, ect.

Watch for our signs. Ques‑ tions? 802‑345‑1596.

SALE Season...

Let us get the word out for you!

Deadlines: Thursday Noon for Monday papers

VOLUNTEER NOW!

Opportunities STOREFRONT LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. In the heart of downtown Middlebury. Approved for seating for 24. Plenty of parking, lots of possibilities.

Available September 1. Text only to 802‑373‑6456.

Help Wanted ADMINISTRATIVE SUP‑ PORT: Full time, Mon‑ day through Friday, with an occasional scheduled weekend rotation. Admin‑ istrative support including data entry, phones, errands and medical records sup‑ port. Must be flexible, de‑ pendable, able to multitask and prioritize; proficient in Word and Excel. Benefits/ competitive salary. To ap‑ ply, please email or send resume to Kristen Smith, P.O. Box 754 Middlebury, VT 05753 or hr@achhh.org.

Help Wanted

Help Wanted

Administrative Assistant Bristol, Vermont The Town of Bristol is seeking a full-time Administrative Assistant. This position works as a liaison between all departments and the public.

Successful candidate will be self-motivated and detail oriented.

A detailed job description is available at www.bristolvt.org. Salary range $16.00 to $17.60 per hour, commensurate with experience.

To apply, please send cover letter and resume to Town of Bristol at P.O. Box 249, Bristol, VT 05443, or email it to jstetson@gmavt.net.

Position open until filled. The Town of Bristol is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

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The Volunteer Center, a collaboration of RSVP and the Do you own a pet that is very well socialized and behaved, United Way of Addison County, comfortable with other pets and with individuals of all posts dozens of ages? The Residence at Otter Creek is looking for owners volunteer opportunities who would like to accompany their pet buddies to visit on the Web.Go to with residents. Owners must provide documentation

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has been an active volunteer with RSVP’s Warm Hearts Warm Hands Program for the past 10 years. During that time, she has donated over 900 handmade baby hats and blankets for newborns to Porter Medical Center. Rachel enjoys volunteering with the program and says, “it keeps me engaged and busy while helping to support the community. My favorite part is delivering the items I make to the hospital.” Thank you for your time and contributions, Rachel!

county.org/

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

Garage Sales

Rachel Codding, of Middlebury,

www.unitedwayaddison

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

Services

Mon. 5 p.m. for Thurs. paper

• 25¢ per word • minimum $2.50 per ad • $2 internet listing for up to 4 issues • minimum 2 insertions

Notices Card of Thanks Personals Services Free** Lost ’N Found** Garage Sales Lawn & Garden Opportunities Adoption ** no charge for these ads

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DIRECTORY

• accounting • advertising • appliance repair • auto glass • automotive • business cards

• carpentry/contractors • computers • engineering • equipment rentals • floor care • insulation

Engineering

Accounting

Rene Many - CTPA, Inc.

• landscape design • lumber • marketing • masonry

Insulation

1438 S. Brownell Rd. • PO Box 159 • Williston, VT 05495 802-862-5590 • www.gmeinc.biz

Tax Preparation & Accounting

Corporate Partnerships, Small Businesses & Personal Returns

Call 758-2000 Today!

Advertising

Dense Pack Cellulose • Blown In Insulation Complete Air Sealing

Alan Huizenga, P.E., President Kevin Camara, P.E. Jamie Simpson, P. E. • Middlebury Brad Washburn, P. E. • Montpelier

Advertise your business or service both in print and online in Addison County’s go-to source for local news and services.

802-545-2251 • Maurice Plouffe 1736 Quaker Village Road, Weybridge, VT 05753

“INNOVATIVE ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS WITH A COMMON SENSE APPROACH DELIVERED TO OUR CLIENTS IN A PROFESSIONAL, COST EFFECTIVE AND PERSONAL MANNER”

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

Lumber  Rough Lumber Native Vermonter

 Open most nights & weekends

 Pine Siding

mikeysmill.com

Long Beams

802-388-7828  End of S. Munger St.  Middlebury

Marketing

WWW.ADDISONINDEPENDENT.COM

Bristol Marketing LLC “Providing businesses with measurable marketing results.”

Marketing & Competitive Analysis Search Marketing Email Marketing Social Media | Website Analysis

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Dryers Ranges Microwaves Air Conditioners

Rob Carter | 802-349-6612 www.bristolmarketingllc.com

Equipment Rentals

Jack Alexander

982 Briggs Hill Road • Bristol

Masonry

40 TYPES OF RENTAL EQUIPMENT TO CHOOSE FROM

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

Desabrais Means Glass & Affordable Service

• Windshield Repair • Insulated Glass • Plate Glass • Window Glass • Plexiglass • Safety Glass • Mirrors • Auto Glass • Storm Windows • Screen Repairs • Custom Shower Door Enclosures Vinyl Replacement windows and Complete Installation Insurance Approved discounts

Middlebury, VT 05753 • 388-9049

Quaker Village Carpentry

Complete Auto Service • Domestic & Foreign Repairs

Preventive Maintenance Brakes • Tune-ups Exhausts • Alignments Air Conditioning • State Inspections 62 Meigs Rd., Vergennes

877-9222

Windows • Vinyl siding • Garages Roofs • Additions • Decks

802-877-2102 Toll Free: 888-433-0962 mlbrunet@gmavt.net

www.cloverstate.com

Labels & Letterhead too!

Remodeling • Additions Painting • Roofing

WINNER of “Best Local Contractor” THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS by READERS CHOICE AWARDS!

802.388.0860 MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT

NEW & REPAIR Residential • Lake Camps (Dunmore) Brick – Block – Stone

mini excavator Chimneys, Fireplaces, Outside Barbecues, mini excavator air Compressor Steps, Patios, Stone Walls air Compressor Compressor air 27 Years Experience Honest & Fair Pricing Free Estimates Fully Insured

Andre’s Floor Refinishing - An Established Vermont Business with Over 30 Years of Experience -

Salisbury, VT

Call Bruce

802-352-6050

Specializing in Hardwood & Softwood Floors Commercial Oil and Waterborne Finishes Quality Workmanship - Competitive Pricing

802-948-2004

Carpet Cleaning & Water Removal Stripping - Waxing - Buffing 802-759-2706 802-349-6050

Call Vicki at 388-4944 or stop by our office in the Marble Works between 8am & 5pm Monday- Friday.

GENERAL CARPENTRY HOME IMPROVEMENTS LOCAL CONTRACTOR

Floor Care Skid Steer Steer Skid

54 Daigneault Hill Road Orwell,Vermont 05760

Addison Independent.

MARK TRUDEAU

Scissor Lifts up up to to 32’ 32’ Scissor Lifts excavator excavator excavator Skid Steer

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Fork lifts lifts up up to to 15,000 15,000 lbs. lbs.

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Certified by the Dry Stone Wallers Association of Great Britain

Bruce A. Maheu’s

www.brownswelding.com

40’ to 80’ manlifts manlifts 40’ 80’ 42’to material forklifts 42’ material forklifts 42’ material Fork lifts up forklifts to 15,000 lbs.

Waste Management – Roll-off container service

Business Cards

Jamie Masefield

1-800-880-6030 Fax:1-800-880-6030 (802) 453-2730 1-800-880-6030 Fax: (802) 453-2730 Fax: (802) 453-2730

(802) 453-3351• Cell (802) Please give us363-5619 a call.

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We the Lifts liftupfor 40’ to 80’ manlifts haveScissor to 32’ you! mini excavator

1736 Quaker Village Road Weybridge, VT 05753

CLOVER STATE

• concrete compactors • backhoes

275 South 116

802-545-2251

Field Automotive Inc.

Fine Dry Stone Masonry

jmasefield@gmavt.net

Maurice plouffe

Over 30 yrs. experience

up to 188

802-233-4670

Bristol, VT116 05443 275 South 116 Siding, Windows, Garages, Decks & Porches 275 South Bristol, VT 05443 Bristol, VT 05443 New Construction, Renovations and Repairs

Automotive

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

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email: cmulliss@gmavt.net 1900 Jersey St., S. Addison, VT 05491

The PC MediC of VerMonT

GET YOUR COMPUTER RUNNING LIKE NEW AGAIN !

• Fast, Reliable Repairs • Hardware & Software Installations & Upgrades • Spyware Removal & Virus Protection • Secure Wireless Network Setup • Computer Purchasing Assistance • Affordable Rates at Your Convenience

Paul Claudon • 802-734-6815 pcmedic@gmavt.net

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DIRECTORY

Business Service Medical Supplies

Renewable Energy Soak Up The Sun! Don’t spend your hard-earned money making the hot water or electricity that you use today–

Medical Equipment and Oxygen

SOLAR IS MORE AFFORDABLE THAN EVER! We’ve been here for you for 43 years – Let us help you with your solar projects today.

SALES & RENTAL Knowledgable Staff

Personalized Service

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

• roofing • septic & water • siding • specialized services

Specialized Services

Towing

Motor Home Specialties, LLC

TREADWAY & RINGEY

H. D. Oliver 3025 & 3233 Vt. Rte. 22A, Bridport, VT 05734

(802-349-8123) Office

Repairs & Maintenence Custom Built Trailers & Hitches, Transporting Cars & Compact Equipment, Specialized Landscaping & Retaining Walls

Shoreham, Vermont

24 hr Heavy Towing & Recovery Heavy Truck Repair & Diagnosis Heavy Haul, Oversize, Local & Long distance Come see us at our new location!

110 Mt. Independence Rd., Orwell

Fax: 388-4146 Marble Works, Middlebury, VT

388-9801

Call Jeff 802-948-2950 Go Green with us –

Tree Service

Call for a FREE on-site evaluation

Painting

Roofing

DaviD vaillancourt Painting & Carpentry

802-352-4829

2321 W. Salisbury Rd.Salisbury, VT davama53@myfairpoint.net

• Interior/Exterior • Drywall • Taping • Building Maintenance • Fully Insured

roofing Michael Doran

STORAGE Monthly prices

6’x12’ $30 • 8’x12’ $45 10’x12’ $55 • 12’x21’ $75

owner/operator

• Standing seam • Standing seam ••Asphalt shingles Asphalt shingles Slate •• Slate

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Plumbing & Heating Professional Installation • Heating Systems • Plumbing Supplies • Bathroom Design • Water Treatment Great Advice Rt. 22A, Orwell 948-2082 388-2705

NDO N RESTROOMS DUPlumbing & 'S Rt.PORTABLE 22A, Orwell • 948-2082 Rely on the professionals.

Heating

Rt. 7 So., Middlebury •388-2705

AIRPORT AUTO Self Storage • Low Rates

Reasonable Rates • Year-round Service • Fully Insured

(802) 453-3351 • Cell (802) 363-5619 24 Hour Emergency Service 453-7014

Brownswelding.com

44 School House Hill Road, E. Middlebury

388-0432 • 388-8090

TANK & CESSPOOL PUMPING ELECTRONIC TANK LOCATING TANK & LEACH FIELD INSPECTIONS NEW SYSTEMS INSTALLED ALL SEPTIC SYSTEM REPAIRS DRAIN & PIPE CLEANING Full Excavation Service

Dave’s Tree Service Stump Grinding, Trimming, Tree Evaluation, Storm Damage, Firewood & Lot Clearing

Short Surveying, inc.

Serving Addison County & Area Lakes

Serving Addison County Since 1991

Timothy L. Short, L.S. Property Line Surveys • Topographical Surveys FEMA Elevation Certificates

Middlebury, VT

135 S. Pleasant St., Middlebury, VT 388-3511 ssi@sover.net

Serving all your plumbing and heating needs.

Owned and operated by: Bill Heffernan, Jim & David Whitcomb

LAROSE SURVEYS, P.C. Celebrating 31 Years

Environmental Consultants – Licensed Designers Steve Revell CPG, LD#178 BW Jeremy Revell LD#611 BW • Tyler Maynard LD#597 B • Water Supply - Location, Development and Permitting • On-Site Wastewater Design • Single & Multiple Lot Subdivision • Property Development & Permitting • State and Local Permitting • Underground Storage Tank Removal & Assessment Toll-Free: 800-477-4384

Ronald L. LaRose, L.S. • Kevin R. LaRose, L.S.

Land Surveying/Septic Design

Dangerous trees our specialty!!

“We will take you through the permitting process!”

25 West St. • PO Box 388 Bristol, VT 05443 Telephone: 802-453-3818 Fax: 802- 329-2138

larosesurveys@gmail.com

Premium window treatments, retractable screens and awnings.

Fax 802-453-5399 • Email: jrevell@lagvt.com 163 Revell Drive • Lincoln, VT 05443

www.lagvt.com

Barnard & Gervais, LLC Land Surveying - Water & Septic Designs State & Local Permitting Environmental Consulting

Jason Barnard

Michael Gervais

Licensed Designer

Licensed Surveyor

Serving Vermont from offices in Hinesburg and Enosburgh

802-349-8433 802-482-2597 www.barnardandgervais.com

Home Projects

298 Maple Street Middlebury, VT 802.247.3883 vtshadeandblind@gmail.com VermontShadeandBlind.com

LIST YOUR SERVICE!

WWW.ADDISONINDEPENDENT.COM

Call Anna today to list YOUR ad in our Business & Service Directory

Winter Products & Services

802-282-9110 Free Estimates • Fully Insured!!!

Window Treatments

802-453-4384

Sawmills

FREE ESTIMATES FOR TREE SERVICES

Dangerous Trees Cut & Removed Stumps Removed Trusses Set Trees Trimmed Land Clearing

Also a good selection of used vehicles

SEPTIC SERVICE

Fuel Delivery 185 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-4975 champlainvalleyfuels.com

BROWN’S TREE & CRANE SERVICE

WE HAVE THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT FOR THE RIGHT JOB – TO GIVE YOU REASONABLE RATES

Septic & Water FOR SEPTIC TANK PUMPING & DRAIN CLEANING SERVICE,

Serving Vermont for over 42 years!

CREDIT CARDS ACCEPTED

www.livingstonfarmlandscape.com

Phone (802) 537-3555

Plumbing • Heating 125 Monkton Road Bristol, VT 05443 802-453-2325 cvplumbingheating.com

Brett Sargent

as seen at Addison County Field Days!

mpdoransr@gmail.com

Heating

25 Yrs Experience 60’ bucket truck wood chipper available Fully Insured Free Estimates

4 Sizes ~ Self-locking units Hardscrabble Rd., Bristol

Free estimates estimates •• Fully Fully Insured Insured Free

NDO N DUPlumbing & 'S

• storage • surveying • tree services • window treatments

388-4944

Painting Odd Jobs

Laundromats

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Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

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We are proud of our reputation for quality, reliability, and service that we have earned over the years, and are confident in our continued commitment to provide the best quality concrete products, delivered and erected on time, and to meet the most demanding construction schedules.

Help Wanted AFTERNOON MILKER WANTED on an organic dairy farm in Cornwall.

Experience preferred but willing to train the right person. Must be reliable and timely. 603‑359‑6504 or butterwickfarm@ standardmilk.com.

NOW HIRING — MIDDLEBURY LOCATION MACHINE OPERATOR

The Machine Operator at our Hollow core division is a full time position that includes responsibilities to perform Slip former set-up prior to casting on a daily basis as well as operation of Slip former during the casting process.

Other Essential Duties include: • Pressure washing and overall clean-up of Slip former is required as well as routine maintenance.

• Assisting with hollow core bed stripping/ set-up process as well as assisting with all sawing operations.

• Lead all bed laborers during the stripping/set-up process.

• Oversee and assist with all hollow core bed maintenance issues.

Requirements: • Knowledge of proper use of equipment, materials and supplies used in construction work.

• It requires heavy lifting and standing/walking for long periods of time in outdoor elements.

CONCRETE LABORERS

A Laborer performs tasks involving physical labor on heavy precast projects.

Operating a variety of hand and power tools is a vital part of this process.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES INCLUDE: • Performing manual work in preparing surfaces.

• Placing cables, steel, and then concrete into precast forms.

• Leveling the top of the concrete using a flat tool and straightedge.

• Maintaining a clean job site each day in order to eliminate potential hazards.

• Material handling and storage, including cutting pieces.

• Loading and unloading trucks and hauling and hoisting materials using various hand and powered lifting machines.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES: • Some knowledge of proper use of equipment, materials and supplies used in construction work.

• Ability to work independently and complete daily activities according to work schedule.

• Ability to lift heavy objects, walk and stand for long periods of time and perform strenuous physical labor.

• Ability to meet attendance schedule with dependability and consistency.

Our benefit package includes: Health Insurance/Paid Vacation/401(k) and Profit Sharing Retirement Plan/STD/Life Insurance.

Please email your resume to lynn@carraraconcrete.com Attn.: Lynn/ HR, fax to 802-775-1048 or complete an application at 2464 Case Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 Equal Opportunity Employer

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AMERICAN FLATBREAD IN Middlebury is hiring.

Employees are more than just “warm bodies” to us‑we want you to like your job as well as your peers. This is an open kitchen with multi‑ generational staff, focus on good food, and emphasis on cross training. No previ‑ ous kitchen experience re‑ quired for the right person.

Must be motivated, highly responsible with a positive attitude. Nights/weekends required. American Flat‑ bread Middlebury Hearth is dedicated to promoting a di‑ verse and positive work en‑ vironment. All applicants in‑ cluding those from women, people of color, individuals with disabilities and veter‑ ans. Pick up an applica‑ tion or email: middlebury@ americanflatbread.com.

EOE.

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

CHAMPLAINSIDE FARM IS looking for a person that works with equipment in a safe manner. 50 hr week with relief feeding duties every other weekend. Me‑ chanical skills preferred an valid driver’s license required. Successful can‑ didate will also work well with others in a fast paced environment on a multitude of tasks. Housing may be available. Send resume to: twhowlett@yahoo.com.

CHAMPLAINSIDE FARM IS looking for a Young Stock Manager. Success‑ ful candidate will possess skills including observation of animal health issues, organization of workload and work collaboratively with others. Responsibili‑ ties include maternity and newborn care, raising and monitoring calves within a group fed system, organiz‑ ing and maintaining the vaccination and reproduc‑ tion program and animal movements from birth to freshening. In exchange for your efforts, we provide salary commensurate with experience, and housing may be available. Submit resume to: twhowlett@ yahoo.com.

DISHWASHING‑THIS SUP‑ PORT position performs a variety of services in the kitchen area such as dish‑ washing, basic food prep, line prep, food storage, general kitchen cleaning and as assigned, performs bus services in the main or auxiliary dining rooms.

Email greatplacetowork@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 989‑7507.

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CALF MANAGER/FEED‑ ER WANTED The Goodrich Family Farm is looking for someone to be manager and maintain the farm’s calf herd. Competitive com‑ pensation on a family farm atmosphere. For more in‑ formation please call Chase Goodrich at 802‑989‑8848.

ALL‑ AROUND FARM HAND, 802‑233‑1249 or 802‑233‑3849.

Are you a night owl and looking for a great place to work?

Wake Robin seeks health care staff who are licensed in Vermont to work collaboratively to provide high quality care in a fast paced residential and long-term care environment, while maintaining a strong sense of “home”. We offer an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

Staff Nurse (LPN or RN) – Full/Part Time Nights (10:45pm-7:15am) Full Time Evenings (2:45pm-11:15pm) LNA – Full-Time Night Shifts We continue to offer generous shift differential for evenings, nights and weekends!

Wake Robin offers an excellent compensation and benefits package and an opportunity to build strong relationships with staff and residents in a dynamic community setting.

Seeks To Fill The Following Positions:

MACHINERY OPERATOR for skilled mill positions due to employee retirement. Must be in good physical condition with good math skills, very reliable, have a strong safety awareness and work well with others. An ambition to learn and tolerance of heat and cold are important. The most challenging jobs such as sawing and grading take years to learn well and pay well for the skilled work. Mill work has a production bonus.

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

Monday to Friday, about 50 hours per week.

Call 802-453-4884 or visit The A. Johnson Co., 995 S 116 Rd, Bristol VT 05443 for an application.

Description: Warehouse and Yard Worker – Part Time Warehouse Worker Job Purpose: Loading and assisting with customer orders from the Yard, Warehouse and Store.

Stocking Shelves and Filling Propane Tanks.

Skills/Qualifications: Ability to lift 50lbs repeatedly throughout the day. Weekends and dependability a MUST! Preferable age 18+ by September 1st.

PLEASE FILL OUT AN APPLICATION IN PERSON. Middlebury Agway – 338 Exchange St. – Middlebury, VT.

Wait staff – Evening & Catering Line Cook – Part Time/ Full Time, Mornings and Evening, Prep & Baking Skills Positions at the Inn may be permanent or seasonal. Responsibilities may require morning hours as well as evening. Weekends and holidays are often required.

Please call the Inn, email resume to mgr@wayburyinn.com or stop in to complete an application.

Waybury Inn Route 125, East Middlebury 388-4015 phone 388-6440 fax

Interested candidates please email a cover letter and resume to hr@wakerobin.com or complete an application online at www.wakerobin.com.

Wake Robin is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Part-Time Positions MIDDLEBURY VERMONT As an Aubuchon Hardware Associate, You Will Be Responsible For Providing Legendary Customer Service Offering Helpful Solutions to Customer’s Hardware Store and Outdoor Green Needs

REQUIREMENTS: Previous Retail and/or Cashier experience is a Definite Plus Strong People Skills Nights and Weekends Required

FAMILY LUMBER OPERATION

The Inn seeks individuals with high standards, experience, the ability to assume responsibility for assigned projects, has high motivation to work and positive communications within a team and guest environment.

WE OFFER: Variable Hour Scheduling PT • Success Sharing Incentive Competitive Wage • 401(k) Plan/Company Match Paid Time Off After 90 Days • Employee Discount Advancement Opportunities Equal Opportunity Work Place We promote a Smoke Free Work Environment

Please apply in person at 40 Court Street (Village Court Shopping Center) OR on-line at

hardwarestore.com

AGENT ASSISTANT – IPJ Real Estate, a fast-paced, leading real estate firm in Middlebury, VT is seeking a professional and courteous employee to assist our top-producing real estate agents in day-today activities. Applicant must have a friendly and helpful attitude, be organized, resourceful and highly detail-oriented. Must also be proficient on Mac and PC and be able to honor the confidential details of real estate transactions. A reliable and clean vehicle and professional dress is also required. We will consider applicants with or without industry experience as we are willing to train the right candidate. This is a supportive role. Compensation based on experience and necessary training. Must be willing to take classes (Montpelier) and obtain a Vermont real estate license. Applications will be considered until September 1, 2017. Start day is flexible, but we’d prefer to have someone in place by October 1, 2017.

Please submit a cover letter, your resumé & references, as well as compensation requirements to Amey@middvermontrealestate.com.

SHARD VILLA A residential care home in the country and a national historic site

NOW HIRING

Shard Villa in Salisbury Vt. is now hiring LPN’s, Medication Technicians, Personal Care Givers, Cooks & Housekeepers.

All shifts available, part time & full time.

Must be a reliable & compassionate team player.

Send resume to shardvilla@myfairpoint.com or Shard Villa 1177 Shard Villa Rd. Salisbury VT 05769.

Or apply in person.

Town of Salisbury Needs Positions Filled:

Minute taker for Select Board: 2 meetings each month starting in September. $60. per meeting. Contact Town Clerk at 352-4228 Fulltime Highway Worker: Must have CDL and pass random drug tests. Operate equipment and plow snow. Pay and benefits based on experience. Opportunity for promotion.

Vacation, sick pay. Health benefits. Contact Road Foreman at 352-1017.

Auditors for town level work. Annual audit conducted by CPA. Hours flexible. Contact Town Clerk at 352-4228

IMMEDIATE OPENING

School Nutrition Cook/Assistants 2017-18 The Addison Northwest School District seeks a School Nutrition Cook/Assistant at the Ferrisburgh Central School and the Vergennes Union High School.

Ideal applicants will work as part of a dynamic team to prepare and serve daily meals for students in school. Follow recipes for breakfast and lunch menus, assist with food preparation, meal service, inventory and daily cleaning duties.

Qualified applicants will possess cooking/ culinary and basic computer skills as well as a strong interest in healthy food. Applicants must enjoy working as a team. High school diploma or equivalent is required.

Applicants must submit through www. schoolspring.com, a letter of interest, current resume, transcripts, and three (3) current letters of recommendation. Positions are open until filled.

DR POWER EQUIPMENT now hiring Repair Shop Associates to join our Ver‑ gennes Team. If you have experience repairing small engines, and want to spend your days at a fun and flex‑ ible workplace, this may be the job for you. Full‑time, benefit eligible positions lasting up to 10 months.

Visit www.chp.com/careers or call Rachael 870‑1491 to apply.

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks a FT House‑ keeper who is friendly and detail‑oriented to provide quality cleaning service in our retirement community.

Email greatplacetowork@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 989‑7507.

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks enthusiastic and experienced caregiv‑ ers to provide hands‑on care in our dynamic re‑ t i r e m e n t c o m m u n i t y.

Email resume to acoyle@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 802‑989‑7507.

FULL TIME DELI POSI‑ TION. Set hours, Mon‑ day‑Friday 6:00am ‑ 2:00 pm. Prior work experience with food preparation in a commercial kitchen / deli required. Applicants should apply in person at Small City Market in Vergennes or call Cory at 802‑349‑7101.

FULL TIME HOUSE‑ KEEPER 40/hr per week.

Pay based on experience.

Candidate must pass back‑ ground check and drug test. We offer health and life insurance, 401k, paid vacation and sick days as well as other employee benefits. All candidates should send their resumes to ma3024@metzcorp.com or hand them in person‑ ally at one of our Valley Vista facilities at 23 Upper Plain in Bradford or 1 Alden Place, Vergennes, VT. HELP WANTED‑ needed for around the house and farm. 760‑807‑6187.

HOPE IS HIRING‑ HOPE’s growing resale store seeks a 40 hour a week retail as‑ sociate. Applicants should be physically fit, able to stand, walk, and have solid cash handling and cus‑ tomer service experience.

To apply, send resume and letter of interest to receptionist@hope‑vt.org.

RESIDENTIAL INSTRUC‑ TOR SOUGHT: Join a team of dedicated professionals supporting a group of indi‑ viduals with developmental disabilities in their home in Middlebury. The home is a therapeutic and fun environment that promotes learning life/social skills, empowerment and com‑ munity inclusion. Experi‑ ence with personal care and medical oversight for this population a plus.

Patience, good judgment, attention to details and flex‑ ibility necessary. HS di‑ ploma/equivalent and valid driver’s license required.

Sun. through Wed. with two overnights per week. Com‑ prehensive benefit pack‑ age. Apply to CSAC HR, 89 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, 388‑6751, ext. 425, or visit: csac‑vt.org.

ROUSE TIRE SALES in Middlebury and Williston, VT is looking to fill the fol‑ lowing positions: Service truck driver(commercial/ag/ otr tires). Mechanic(auto/ light truck) Tire Technician.

Alignment Technician must be able to work in a fast paced environment, be dependable, have good mechanical skills and work ethic, have a valid driver’s license and have good cus‑ tomer service skills. Previ‑ ous experience preferred.

Please send resume and prior employment refer‑ e n c e s t o : R o u s e Ti r e Sales, Inc. Attn: Carolyn Rouse. P.O. Box 902, Middlebury,VT 05753. Ap‑ plications also available in both locations. No phone calls please.

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THE BURLINGTON FREE PRESS is looking for reliable early morning riser with a valid driver’s license and car insurance to deliver our newspaper in the North Fer‑ risburg area. Deliveries are to be completed by 6 am (the route takes 3 hours) Mon‑Sat and 7:30 on Sun‑ day. Earn an estimated profit of $1,400 per month plus tips. This is a great way to earn extra money without interfering with your day job. Please contact Kathy at 802‑458‑5049 for more information.

VERMONT SOAP IS NOW hiring for the following posi‑ tions: Plant Engineer‑ Look‑ ing for someone to maintain our machines and factory equipment. Must be self‑mo‑ tivated and able to work independently as well as part of a team. Production Assistant‑ Must be able to lift 50 pounds and stand a good portion of the day. Ba‑ sic computer skills needed.

Packer/Floater‑ Must be able to lift 50 pounds and do a variety of work includ‑ ing packing and production work. Basic computer skills needed. Vermont Soap of‑ fers a variety of benefits including competitive start‑ ing wages, vacation time and free gym member‑ ship! Email your resume to hr@vermontsoap.com.

WHISTLEPIG CURRENTLY HIRING FOR full time bottler.

Eye for detail and accuracy.

Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday. Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unassisted lifting of 25 pounds. Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whis‑ tlepigrye.com.

For Sale ANTIQUE DOUBLE BAR‑ REL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage fire‑ arm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.

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DODGE CARAVAN SE 4 cylinder with 136,000 miles.

Great shape for the year.

Interior near mint. Has rust on rocker panels underneath and tube that goes to the water pump is damp. All very inexpensive fixes. Runs and drives good. $1,500 or best reasonable offer. Inspected.

877‑2934.

OPENING SUMMER/FALL 2017 Newly Constructed Loft, One Bedroom and Two Bedroom Apartments in Downtown Middlebury Historic Building | Air Conditioning European Appliances, Quartz Countertops & Washer/Dryer Off-Street Parking | Pet friendly Walk to Middlebury College campus Contact: Christine Golden 802-373-5893 battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

For Rent

For Rent

1,800 SQ. FT. WARE‑ HOUSE commercial space.

As is or renovate to suit.

Creek Road, Middlebury.

802‑558‑6092.

ADDISON ‑ 3 BEDROOM, 2 BATH mobile home with garage on 22A. $1350 a month. Deposit, first month, last month and references required. Call 802‑482‑3765, afternoons please.

2‑BEDROOM, 920 SQ. FT. 2nd floor apartment. Pine floors. eat‑in kitchen. Huge living room. Small 2nd floor porch. Walking distance to elementary school and across the street from the Shoreham Inn and Pub. No Smoking. No pets. Available September 15. $775/mo. plus utilities. 802‑388‑5411.

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CHARMING 3 BEDROOM, 2.5 Bath home for rent. Built in 2011, this home is well designed, efficient, and en‑ joys spectacular views of the Adirondacks from a pastoral setting in Bridport. Country living that’s convenient to Middlebury, Front and back decks, a living room that features a soaring cathe‑ dral ceiling and wall of west facing windows. Laundry appliances are included in the finished basement.

Outside amenities include a large open yard, large storage shed, and raised bed gardens. Great neigh‑ borhood, great location, great house. Available after September 1st. References required, pets negotiable. $1,750. Call for an appoint‑ ment – 802‑758‑2930 or 802‑363‑7247.

BRIDPORT 1 BEDROOM, 4 room apartment with porch/ lawn. Washer/dryer, heat/hot water included. No smoking, no pets. References and credit check. $800/mo. plus security deposit. For more info, Charlie 802‑758‑2218.

BRISTOL 2 BEDROOM HOUSE extra large living room and bath and nice porch, undercover parking for two cars. 1,000 sq ft. Pri‑ vate with views. First floor liv‑ ing. New gas stove. Washer and dryer hookups. Garden space available. Snow re‑ moval provided. No pets.

No smoking. Credit check, security, references and lease. Available October 1st. $985/mo. Leave message.

802‑352‑4266.

BRISTOL 3 BEDROOM. 802‑453‑2566.

BRISTOL; 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, stove, re‑ frigerator, hot water, park‑ ing, rubbish removal, se‑ curity entrance, no pets, no smoking. Reference and security deposit required.

802‑899‑3578.

FRESH GARLIC FOR SALE $2 a bulb. Call 475‑2112.

2500 SQ.FT. LIGHT IN‑ DUSTRIAL or food‑based business. Vermont state or USDA inspected. 656 Ex‑ change Street, Middlebury, Vermont. 802‑388‑4831.

CORNWALL: COZY ONE bedroom apartment. 15 min‑ utes to college. $775 in‑ cludes all. batesproperties@ yahoo.com.

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For Rent

IF YOU DIDN’T SPRING into action before, now’s the time to FALL into our store. The Treasure Chest has items galore. Our consignment shop is open daily 10 to 5, located in the Compass Music and Art Center, 333 Jones Drive, Brandon, VT. Check out our Facebook page.

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SNOW BLOWER $250.

Large kennels, $20 each.

Hammock, $15. Call 345‑7734.

THE BARREL MAN; plastic and metal barrels, 275 gallon food‑grade totes. 55 gallon plastic food‑grade barrels with spin‑on covers. Great for rain barrels. A barrel for every need. 802‑453‑4235.

Vacation Rentals ADDISON: LAKE CHAM‑ PLAIN waterfront camp.

Beautiful views, gorgeous sunsets, private beach, dock, rowboat and canoe includ‑ ed. $600 weekly, or call for weekends. 802‑349‑4212, no texts.

For Rent

For Rent

Real Estate

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

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.

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. tflan‑ ders@beanshomes.com.

FOR RENT: BRIDPORT, Commercial/retail office.

1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. Available Oct. 1.

802‑758‑2494.

SUGARWOOD APART‑ MENTS is currently ac‑ cepting applications for 2, 3 and 4 BR apartments in Middlebury. All income/ assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent.

NP/NS. W/D hook‑ups. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg. com. Equal Housing Op‑ portunity.

HOUSE FOR RENT 2 bed‑ room, fully furnished. Nine month rental from 9/15/17 ‑ 6/16/18. Washer, dryer, all appliances, gas grill, fully equipped kitchen, deck, screened porch, private dock on Lake Dunmore.

No smoking, no pets. Snow plowing and lawn mainte‑ nance included. $1100/ month plus utilities, security deposit. 802‑352‑6678.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit. Some utilities in‑ cluded. 388‑0401.

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

NEW HAVEN DUPLEX, 3 bedrooms plus room for office. Heat and electricity included. Large yard, 2 full baths, washer, dryer, 1 year lease. References, security deposit. 802‑382‑9355.

NEW HAVEN, 2 BED‑ ROOM apartment with all appliances, heat and rubbish removal. No pets, no smoking. $800/ month, $850. deposit.

802‑453‑2275.

NEW HAVEN: BEAUTIFUL VIEWS, sunny apartment.

Garden space. No pets, no smoking. References, security deposit, lease. $900/month plus utilities.

802‑236‑2040.

For Rent

Att. Farmers 50 ACRES STANDING CORN will be mature 10/1. Six miles west of Vergennes. 802‑349‑8891.

FIRST‑CUT HORSE HAY small square bales (50 lbs avg). $4 at barn. Delivery at cost. 802‑462‑3912. jwelkey7606@gmail.com.

HAY, STRAW. FIRST CUT dry round bales, 4x4, $35.

First cut baleage 4x4, $35.

Rye straw, 4x4, $40. Brad 802‑222‑7700.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown. Ap‑ pliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Available Sept. 1. Real Net Manage‑ ment Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY: FOR RENT PRIME retail space. 1,303 square feet. Location, loca‑ tion. Front door parking.

Good visibility. Call Eric at 388‑6054.

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Only three lots remain in the Daisy Lane Residen‑ tial Development. One is a beautiful wooded 1 1/4 acre with a small year round stream. Lots are supported with village water and ap‑ proved for simple in‑ground septic. Located in East Mid‑ dlebury, just 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, 2 golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore. 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM Newly renovated. $850/ month Includes heat, hot water, trash, lawn care and snow re‑ moval. Other utilities extra.

802‑453‑3135.

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

Motorcycles Wood Heat FIREWOOD FOR SALE seasoned 2 years. $275 per cord. 802‑558‑1069.

MIDDMEN‑FIREWOOD WWW.MIDDMEN.COM. Green‑Seasoned‑Kiln Dried. Free delivery‑ Free kindling. Call: 1‑855‑MID‑ DMEN. Email: custserv@ middmen.com.

TIMBERWOLF FIRE‑ WOOD: Dry or green. Call for prices. 802‑388‑7300.

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2005 HARLEY DAVID‑ SON Softtail Deluxe.

23,852 miles, good con‑ dition. $7,999 obo. Call 802‑349‑4424 and ask for Jeff.

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

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

CORNWALL, VT‑ A BEAU‑ TIFUL building lot for sale.

Amazing view. Septic per‑ mit in place. 760‑807‑6187.

For Rent

For Rent

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

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

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

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

Talk to our sales professionals.

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

VERMONT’S TWICE-WEEKLY NEWSPAPER Middlebury, VT 05753 • (802) 388-4944 • www.AddisonIndependent.com

can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT

on Pages 8B and 9B.

Addison (1) Addison County Court House (1) Addison County Probate Court (4) Orwell (1) Vermont Secretary of State (1) PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 302-6-17 ANPR

PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 365-8-17 ANPR

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

IN RE THE ESTATE OF BRIAN E. KERR

IN RE THE ESTATE OF GLADYS C. AUSTIN

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Brian E. Kerr late of Ripton, 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: August 28, 2017

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Gladys C. Austin late of Middlebury, 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: August 23, 2017 John L Austin P.O. Box 221 Middlebury, VT. 05753 802-989-9012

Heather Kerr 30 South Village Green, Apt 202 Middlebury, VT 05753 kerrh45@gmail.com Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: August 31, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 8/31

Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: August 31, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Addison Probate Court, 7 Mahady Court, Middlebury, VT 05753 8/31

PROPOSED STATE RULES By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record.

The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont. gov/SOS/rules/ . The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Municipal Pollution Control Priority System.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P030 AGENCY: Vt. Agency of Natural Resources CONCISE SUMMARY: This rulemaking is an update to the Municipal Pollution Control Priority System Rule, which ranks water pollution abatement and control projects (e.g. wastewater facility upgrades and stormwater remediation projects) for purposes of awarding federal and state funding, both loans and grants. The Rule includes new criteria and updated processes for ranking projects, pursuant to Act 103 (2016). The Rule also includes the process to determine the amount of grant funding a project may be eligible for. Additionally, the Rule updates the Subchapter requiring certain projects to demonstrate they will not result in scattered development to focus on project types that are the most likely to cause such issues; updates administrative processes, including public notice requirements; updates definitions consistent with state statute and other rules; clarifies language; and updates formatting, style, and grammar consistent with Department drafting conventions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Eric Blatt, P.E. Agency of Natural Resources 1 National Life Drive, Main 1, Montpelier VT 05620 Tel: 802-585-4901 Email: eric.blatt@ vermont.gov URL: dec.vermont.gov/facilities-engineering/rules.

FOR COPIES: Elizabeth Schilling, Esq. Agency of Natural Resources 1 National Life Drive, Davis 2, Montpelier, VT 05620 Tel: 802-490-6102 Email: elizabeth.schilling@vermont.gov.

Lucky For Life Rules.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P031 AGENCY: Vermont Lottery Commission CONCISE SUMMARY: The effects of these rules changes are as follows: The Winner(s) of the Top Prize or the second prize who do not request the cash option shall be paid their appropriate Prize on a weekly basis. In the event the claimant is a minor, in no event shall a Minor’s life be the measuring life for the Annuitized Payment Option for the Top Prize or the second prize.

Payment to a Minor for a Top Prize or second prize winning Ticket shall be for a period of twenty (20) years.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mary Vaupel, Vermont Lottery Commission 1311 US Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641 Tel: 802-476-0105 Fax: 802-479-4294 Email: mary. vaupel@vermont.gov URL: vtlottery.com/games/lucky-life.

FOR COPIES: Mary Cassani, Vermont Lottery Commission 1311 US Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641 Tel: 802-476-0109 Fax; 802-479-4294 Email: mary.cassani@vermont.gov.

Mega Millions Rules.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P032 AGENCY: Vermont Lottery Commission CONCISE SUMMARY: These rule changes affect the matrix of the Mega Millions Game, the odds of winning a prize, and the cost of a Play. The matrix of the game changes from a player choosing 5 (five) out of 75 (seventy-five) numbers, plus 1 (one) out of 15 (fifteen) numbers, to 5 (five) out of 70 (seventy) numbers, and 1 (one) out of 25 (twenty-five) numbers. The odds of winning the second prize level of $1 million are substantially improved, as well as higher starting jackpots. The price per play will increase form $1 (one) dollar per play to $2 (two) dollars per play.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mary Vaupel, Vermont Lottery Commission 1311 US Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641 Tel: 802-476-0105 Fax: 802-479-4294 Email: mary. vaupel@vermont.gov URL: vtlottery.com/games/lucky-life.

FOR COPIES: Mary Cassani, Vermont Lottery Commission 1311 US Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641 Tel: 802-476-0109 Fax; 802-479-4294 Email: mary.cassani@vermont.gov.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

For Rent 1 BEDROOM‑$400/MONTH includes utilities, washer, dryer. Share 2 bedroom home with male profes‑ sional, Mineville, NY (518) 570‑2801.

STUDIO APARTMENT‑2 ROOMS, bath. All utilities, wifi included. Outside deck.

No smoking. No pets. $600/ month. 802‑578‑7284.

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Health Care Stop Loss Insurance (H-2009-02).

Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P033 AGENCY: Department of Financial Regulation CONCISE SUMMARY: These amendments remove the per-employee dollar-amount provision governing minimum aggregate attachment points (§ 4(A)(b)(i)), clarify the amendment’s effective date, and require the Department of Financial Regulation to commission an actuarial study of appropriate attachment points every three years.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Gavin Boyles, Department of Financial Regulation 89 Main Street, Montpelier VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802-828-1425 Fax: 802-828-2896 Email: gavin. boyles@vermont.gov URL: dfr.vermont.gov/proposd-rules-and-regulations.

FOR COPIES: Emily Brown, Assistant Director of Rates & Forms, Department of Financial Regulation 89 Main Street, Montpelier VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802-828-4871 Email: emily.brown@ vermont.gov.

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Investigation launched into cruelty to child Got Firewood? We Do! MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police launched an investigation on Aug. 22 into a possible case of cruelty to a child, stemming from information police they received from Porter Medical Center officials.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Responded to a report of a family fight near the intersection of Route 116 and Mead Lane on Aug. 21. Police said two brothers had been fighting.

• Quieted a loud party at a Valley View Drive residence on Aug. 21.

• Helped defuse a landlord-tenant dispute at a Route 7 North property on Aug. 22.

• Assisted Vermont State Police with a suspect who was allegedly combative and resisting arrest following a reported drunk driving incident on Columbus Smith Road in Salisbury on Aug. 22.

• Were asked to stand by at a Court Street home during a visit by the Vermont Department for Children & Families.

• Responded to two noise complaints at the Jayne Court apartments during the early morning hours of Aug. 22.

• Picked up a drunken man seen

Middlebury Police Log

walking in the middle of Route 7 North in New Haven on Aug. 22.

Police released the man to a sober family member.

• Checked on the welfare of a Woodland Park youth at the request of a person who had allegedly seen a Facebook post indicating the youth was going to harm herself on Aug. 22. Police said the youth was OK. • Responded to a noise complaint at a Jayne Court residence on Aug. 22. Police said a tenant had been yelling at her barking dog.

• Responded a report about a dog being left in a hot car off Creek Road on Aug. 23.

• Helped a local woman who had reported receiving a phone call on Aug. 23 from a man purporting to be from a collection agency. The woman said she had not done business with the company in question.

• Located a man who had prematurely left Porter Hospital on Aug. 23 while being counseled for a

mental health crisis. The man agreed to return to the hospital to speak with mental health counselors.

• Responded to a report of a “possible rabid cat” in the Jackson Lane area on Aug. 23. Police found the cat’s owner who maintained the animal was ill, but not rabid.

• Investigated a two-car accident on Aug. 24 at the intersection of Foote Street and Route 7 South.

Police said a person in one of the vehicles sustained minor injuries.

• Got help for a woman found sleeping outside near the intersection of South Main and Academy streets on Aug. 24.

• Provided a courtesy ride (to a hotel) on Aug. 25 to an intoxicated person on Court Street Extension.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS with a medical call in the Jackson Lane area on Aug. 25.

• Responded to a report about a man allegedly driving a vehicle without the owner’s permission in the South Village Green neighborhood on Aug. 25.

• Responded to a noise complaint in the Marble Works complex at around 11 p.m. on Aug. 26. Police said the party was breaking up when they arrived.

• Received a report about a man sleeping off Bakery Lane — under the Cross Street Bridge — on Aug. 26. Police asked the man to move along.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS with a suicidal woman in the Water Street area on Aug. 26. Police said rescue officials took the woman to Porter Hospital.

• Helped a driver who had run out of gas on Route 30 on Aug. 26.

• Responded to a dispute between two Jayne Court neighbors on Aug. 27. Police said the neighbors agreed to stay away from one another.

• Took a drunken man to Porter Hospital on Aug. 27.

• Reunited a lost dog with its owner on Aug. 27.

• Cited Drew J. Thomas, 50, of Salisbury for driving under the influence (second offense) after receiving a report on Aug. 27 that he was missing. Police said they learned Thomas had driven to a yard sale in Middlebury that day. Police said they measured Thomas’s bloodalcohol content at 0.264 percent; the legal limit for driving is 0.08.

• Warned a person who was seen walking on the railroad tracks off Water Street on Aug. 27.

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Public Notices and be found on Pages 8B & 9B. TOWN OF ORWELL HEARING DEVELOPMENT REVIEW BOARD

The Orwell Development Review Board will meet on Wednesday, September 20, 2017 at 7:30 pm at the Town Clerk’s Office to conduct the following business: 1. Permit # 8-49-17: Lisa Limoge for a conditional use permit to open a yoga studio/retreat center at 116 Old Sawmill Rd. Information pertaining to this matter may be viewed M, T, Th, 9:30-12:00 and 1:00-3:00 and Fri. 9:30-12:00 and 1:00-6:00 at the Town clerk’s Office.

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The Addison Planning Commission will hold a monthly meeting on Monday, September 18, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at the Town Clerk’s Office.

To consider the following: 1. To approve the meeting minutes of the August 21, 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.

We will invite Z.A., Ed Hanson, to join our meeting for assistance on several issues pertaining to the “Subdivision” and “Zoning Regulations”. We may invite Adam Lougee from ACRPC to offer guidance with the intertwining it all together.

6. We will continue working on Zoning Regulations (2013 copy) & Subdivision Regulations so as to bring them into compliance with the revised Town Plan.

Frank Galgano, Chair Starr Phillips, Secretary Addison Planning Commission 8/31

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22A; a blood test is pending.

• On Aug. 22 tried, but failed, to find two men after a witness said one had slapped the other on South Water Street.

• On Aug. 23 went to Valley Vista at 1 Alden Place to help deal with an out-of-control female client; the Counseling Service of Addison County calmed her, police said.

• On Aug. 23 looked into a complaint that skateboarders had run through freshly poured concrete

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near the intersection of Main Street and Macdonough Drive.

• On Aug. 25 responded to a report of a man hiding behind a Dumpster near the intersection of Main and School streets; police found a man whose blood-alcohol content at about 11 a.m. tested at 0.312, and they took him to the Act 1 detoxification center in Burlington to sober up. As a matter of comparison, the legal blood alcohol limit for driving is .08.

• On Aug. 25 helped a motorist get into a locked car at the Ferrisburgh McDonald’s Restaurant.

• On Aug. 25 told three teens to move along from behind Vergennes Union Elementary School because they were arguing.

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• On Aug. 25 took a report that a car had been scratched while parked at Shaw’s Supermarket.

• On Aug. 26 during Vergennes Day provided support for the road race and took a report of a parking complaint.

• On Aug. 26 told a Hillside Drive resident that problems with the private sale of her vehicle were a civil issue.

• On Aug. 27 helped the Charlotte Rescue Squad at a Victory Street call.

• On Aug. 27 failed to find a car they were told was nearly driven off the road at the intersection of Green and Main streets, but called ahead to Shelburne to ask police there to watch for it.

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IN RE THE ESTATE OF PAUL A. MURRAY

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Beverley R. MacLachlan late of Bridport, Vermont.

I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court.

The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period.

Dated: August 24, 2017

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Paul A. Murray late of Bristol, 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.

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City police busy with alcohol-related cases VERGENNES — A citation for driving under the influence of drugs, an alcohol-related case and a family fight were among incidents that Vergennes police handled between Aug. 21 and 27.

During those seven days, Vergennes police: • On Aug. 21 responded to an argument between a man and his girlfriend’s daughter at a Scovil Lane residence. Police calmed the dispute, persuaded the woman to find a place to stay for the night, and told the man, who alleged the woman had struck him, how to obtain a relief-from-abuse order.

• On Aug. 21 dealt with a Main Street accident in which a vehicle struck the Champlain Farms building.

• On Aug. 22, with the help of the department Drug Recognition Expert, cited Amir Tolebeyan, 29, of Manchester, Mo., for DUI-drugs, an action taken after a report of erratic driving northbound on Route

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Mtn. Health Center adds OB services Bratspis gains Porter delivery privileges

By ADDISON INDEPENDENT BRISTOL — Mountain Health Center in Bristol is expanding its women’s health services at the same time as it is announcing a nearly $50,000 infusion of federal money.

“Effective immediately, Mountain Health Center will begin offering obstetrical services for vaginal birth deliveries and long-term contraception, such as intrauterine devices (IUDs) and the Nexplanon implant, an under-the-skin birth control method that lasts for up to three years,” said Martha Halnon, executive director of Mountain Health, which operates as a Federally Qualified Health Center, or FQHC. Mountain Health Center adds these new services to its long-time women’s health offerings, including preventive health examinations, pap smears, referrals for mammography and bone density scans, and the prescription of birth control pills and Depo-Provera injections.

Family physician Renee Bratspis, M.D., said Mountain Health is excited to expand women’s health services, which she said will offer “one-stop shopping” for prevention, pre- and postADDISON natal care, childbirth and contraception.

“We also expect that it will allow us to expand our pediatric services, as those newborns transition seamlessly to our family doctors,” she added.

Bratspis joined Mountain Health Center in November 2016. In addition to the training in delivering babies she received during her family medicine residency program, Bratspis completed an additional year of training in obstetrics. She has privileges at Porter Medical Center to independently perform vaginal births and to assist Porter obstetricians in doing cesarean sections.

Bratspis, a Monkton native, was

RENEE BRATSPIS valedictorian of the class of 2004 at Mount Abraham Union High School and is the daughter of a local veterinarian and a physical therapist.

“Since middle school, all Renee wanted to do was become a doctor and practice medicine at Mountain Health Center,” said Mountain Health Medical Director Frank Provato.

In addition to Bratspis, COUNTY several other medical providers at Mountain Health participate in women’s health services, including Marian Bouchard, M.D.; Jeff Wulfman, M.D.; Suzanne Germain, ANP (adult nurse practitioner); and Amber Jimerson, FNP (family nurse practitioner).

Word of the expanded women’s health services came just before U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., last week announced that 11 FQHCs in Vermont received $816,251 to help improve access to affordable health care. The federal grants are part of $105 million in funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration awarded throughout

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the country.

Five-Town Health Alliance Inc., which operates under the name Mountain Health Center, was tapped for a $49,412 payout.

Another FSHC, Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region, received funding of $111,325 as part of the announcement. This center operates the Shorewell Community Health Center in Shoreham and the Brandon Medical Center in Brandon.

More than 155,000 Vermonters — about one in four people in Vermont — obtain health care at federally funded community health centers.

“Community health centers not only provide high-quality and affordable care where it’s needed and when it’s needed, they do it in a very cost-effective way,” said Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate subcommittee on primary health and a strong supporter of community health centers.

FQHCs provide a range of services and access to low-cost prescription drugs. They accept patients with Medicare, Medicaid, military insurance, private insurance, and no insurance at all. Vermonters without insurance can pay on a sliding scale, according to their income.

Last Thursday’s funding announcement came during “National Health Center Week.”

Mountain Health Center was started as a local family practice in the mid-1980s by Dr. Ed Clark and his wife, Suzanne, a nurse practitioner. In 2012, the practice became an FQHC, which allows it to take advantage of state and federal subsidies and provide care across the economic spectrum. Mountain Health Center provides acute and chronic care for injuries and illnesses and prevention services for children, adolescents and adults. In addition, Mountain Health Center offers onsite mental health counseling, a fullservice dental clinic, and alternative/ complementary practices such as acupuncture.

For more information, call 4535028.

Bus service will be closed for Labor Day MIDDLEBURY — In observance of Labor Day, Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) will be closed Monday, Sept. 4. There will be no bus service and ACTR’s

administrative offices will be closed.

This applies to: Tri-Town Bristol, Tri-Town Vergennes, Middlebury Shuttle, Burlington LINK, 116 Commuter and Rutland Connector.

Normal service resumes Tuesday, Sept. 5.

For more details and bus schedule information, visit actr-vt.org or call 802-388-ACTR.

Ski + Ride expo on tap Oct. 7-8

BURLINGTON — Vermont’s “Pretty much everyone will be there, first winter sports show, the VT SKI bringing with them bargains and + RIDE Expo returns to Burlington some never-seen new gear.” this year, Oct. 7-8, at its new location This year, a whole new line-up — the downtown Hilton. of exhibitors is expected, along For the second with the top returning year, Rotary Club of “It was a huge brands.

“We’re Burlington will hold welcoming new coming together apparel brand Orsden the EXPO. VT SKI + RIDE Magazine of everyone as well as shops such is sponsoring the in the ski and as the Alpine Shop event, along with board business. and SlopeStyle Ski additional support Pretty much & Sport, Sugarbush from University of everyone will be Resort, Stowe, Vermont College of organizations such Medicine, Farrell there, bringing as the Catamount Distributing and Long with them Trail Association and bargains and Trail Brewing. more,” says Beck. “It’s Last year, more than some never-seen going to be an even 1,000 people showed new gear.” better event than last up for the inaugural year.”

— Jesse Beck EXPO, coming from What can you as far as Boston, look for at this year’s Albany and Hartford. The EXPO EXPO? • THE LATEST GEAR — Major welcomed more than 50 exhibitors — emerging Vermont brands such ski shops will showcase what’s new as WhiteRoom Skis and Powe. for 2017/18. Plus, see what brands Snowboards; ski resorts Stowe, such as Volkl, Marker, Powe.

Sugarbush and Smuggler’s Notch; Snowboards and others have on tap apparel companies Ski the East; ski for this year and check out great shops and more. Ski films showed bargains on last year’s equipment.

• RESORT NEWS & DEALS round the clock and experts hosted talks on topics ranging from sports — Vermont’s major resorts will medicine to the latest trends in boot showcase what’s new for 2018 and the latest deals on lift tickets and fitting.

“It was a huge coming together passes.

• MOVIES, TALKS & of everyone in the ski and board business,” says Rotary’s Jesse Beck. CLINICS — See the latest releases

from Matchstick Productions, Ski the East, TGR and others. Learn backcountry tips, boot fitting techniques and more at top clinics that will be going on all day.

• BEER & MUSIC — Long Trail Brewing is just one of our many sponsors. Drink up and listen to the rockin’ blues of The Dog Catchers and other live music acts.

All proceeds from the 2017 EXPO support the charitable works of the Burlington Rotary and the Flying Ryan Foundation. “We want this show to celebrate the passion for freeskiing and principles that my son Ryan lived by,” says Peter Hawks, referring to freeskiing legend Ryan Hawk’s Principles of Living, which the Flyin’ Ryan Foundation promotes. “And we hope to get more people excited about what skiing and riding here in Vermont can offer.

“This is the first consumer ski show of the season not just in Vermont, but anywhere on the East Coast“ says VT SKI + RIDE editor Lisa Lynn. “So if you want to get the inside scoop on gear and what’s going to be happening on snow in 2017/18, it’s the place to be.”

Information on schedule, vendors, and tickets: vtskiandride. com/expo2017/ Tickets are on sale now for $5 at vermontskiandrideexpo.ticketspice. com/vermont-ski-and-ride-expo.

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The Addison Independent

Andrew Peterson, owner of Peterson’s Quality Malt in New Haven, is hosting Recess Day for Adults — a day of games, food and drinks. Join the party (if you’re over 21) at Addison County Field Days this Saturday, 12-8 p.m. Camping overnight available.

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Not your average brewfest, it’s Recess for Adults!

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BY ELSIE LYNN PARINI

ho didn’t love recess as a kid? Kickball, foursquare, swings, some sort of tag, mazes … whatever; it was the best part of the day, hands down.

But once you leave elementary school … where does recess go?

Well, this Saturday is our lucky day, because recess is back! And this time it’s only for adults. Yup, “no kids, no pets and no teenagers with fake IDs.” Says so right on the website, recessvt.com.

The first 21-and-over Recess for Adults starts on Sept. 2 around noon at the fairgrounds in

New Haven and wraps up around 8 p.m. — unless you want to spend the night, camping is an option. There will be all sorts of free games like kickball, three-legged races, sack races, a water balloon toss and board games if you get tired. There will also be some higher stakes, pay-to-play games like the pro and amateur tournaments of disc golf, the Vermont State Championship of foursquare (winner gets a pair trip to the National Championship in Maine this February), the Vermont State Championship of corn hole and the legendary Beer Mile.

Hilary Casillas, her 25 volunteers from the American Cancer Society and others will be on site organizing and running the games.

Casillas oversees all the fundraising for ACS in Vermont and has been with the organization for the past 14 years.

“I’m trained to help spread the word,” the Monkton resident explained. “This event appealed to me because it’s in Addison County and also because it’s a demographic we need to reach … Our melanoma rates here in Vermont are the highest in the country. Twentyone- to 35-year-olds are at the highest risk of melanoma, so we’ll be at the event handing out sunscreen and information.”

Part of the proceeds from Saturday’s event will be donated to American Cancer Society, which provides assistance to people in cancer treatment and “leads the fight to find cures to all cancers.”

After getting your bracelet (confirming you’re 21 and paying the $10 entrance fee) from one of the volunteers, head on out to the fields and SEE RECESS ON PAGE 3

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RECESS CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1

details When: Saturday, Sept. 2, 12-8 p.m.

Where: Addison County Field Days, New Haven

find some fun.

Music by The Welterweights, Pete’s Posse, David Gerald (the frontman for the Vermontbased band Crazyhearse) and Elephants of Scotland will fill the fields; and food sold by Bar Antidote of Vergennes will fill bellies.

Besides the fact that it’s just plain fun, the main reason for throwing this party is to thank Vermont breweries.

Specifically, Andrew Peterson of Peterson Quality Malt in Monkton wants to say thank you to his customers.

“A few years ago, I had the idea to do some sort of open house to thank the brewers I’ve been working with,” he explained during a recent interview in his renovated barn turned malthouse. “There’s a brew-fest like every other weekend throughout the summer, so I thought, instead of just standing around with a small glass of beer in your hand listening to music … let’s do games!”

The other thing that makes this brew-fest different is that the brewers won’t be working the event. They’ll be there to play and hang out with fellow beer-makers and beer-lovers.

Bar Antidote will be handling all the food and pouring drinks from 15 Vermont brewers, two hard cideries and more.

Peterson once had a dream to make his own craft beer. But after moving to Vermont in the late ’90s from North Carolina, raising two boys with his wife and a career in IT stuff, the time had passed. “By the time I got around to putting a brewery together, others had already done it,” Peterson said. “So I got to figuring out how I could make a local product for those breweries.”

He came up with malt — grain used to make beer. And launched his company almost five years ago with a few small batches for home brewers.

Fast forward to today, and Peterson has 150 acres of grains growing mostly in Ferrisburgh, with some in New Haven, Monkton and South Burlington. Brian and Bill Van De Weert, owners of Pleasant Acres Farm on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh, help Peterson farm the grains and Jamie Dragon of New Haven is Peterson’s right-hand-man at the malthouse. Together they produce roughly 180 tons of malt per year or about

Games: Kickball, foursquare, disc golf, corn hole, beer mile, sack races, water balloon toss, and more.

Music: The Welterweights, Pete’s Posse, David Gerald and Elephants of Scotland.

Tickets: $10 entrance, plus pay-toplay game fees.

Website: RECESSVT.COM

2 tons per batch and sell to commercial brewers. Seems like a lot, but it’s not really. To give you some perspective, the companies of Anheuser-Busch use about 250 tons of malt in each batch.

“I make about 1.6 percent of all the malt used in Vermont,” Peterson said, a market share he hopes to grow.

Foam Brewers in Burlington, Frost Beer Works in Hinesburg and Foley Brothers Brewing in Brandon have been consistent clients of Peterson’s. Hired Hand Brewing (Bar Antidote’s brew) in Vergennes and Hogback Mountain Brewing in Bristol are new to Peterson’s malt. These five brewers, as well as the debut of Cousins Brewing in Waitsfield, will be on tap at Recess.

“My goal was to create a new pallette for them,” Peterson said, while munching on a few grains of malted barley in his “lab” as a three-foot Darth Vader action figure looked on from the windowsill. “Malt from me is more expensive, but it’s been kilned in the last month and has a fresher flavor.”

Plus it’s local.

“I want people to pick up a six pack and think, ‘Oh, that came from the grains growing on the side of the roads I drive by every day,’” said the die-hard localvore (and StarWars fan). “I want people to know when they buy beer made with my malt it’s supporting farmers and open fields.”

So even though we adults don’t head back to school this week, we can certainly enjoy a cold brew and a good game at recess. See ya on Saturday!

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OUT OF TOWN What to see at Shelburne Museum ONGOING EXHIBITS AND UPCOMING EVENTS NOT TO MISS IN SEPTEMBER

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ith new exhibitions opening throughout the year, Shelburne Museum is a lively and everchanging destination for engaging and unconventional images, objects and ideas. Don’t miss these exhibitions

closing Oct. 31:

Upstream with Ogden Minton Pleissner Drawn from Shelburne Museum’s permanent collection, the paintings, prints, and ephemera featured in “Upstream with Ogden Pleissner” transport viewers to some of the avid angler’s favorite streams, rivers, and lakes from Maine to Wyoming while also conveying Pleissner’s firsthand knowledge of and passion for the sport.

Pieced Traditions: Jean Lovell Collects Jean Lovell, a resident of Carmel, Calif., and

longtime friend of Shelburne Museum, has been collecting historic bedcovers since 1979. This exhibit features donations and loans from Lovell’s collection of historic quilts.

events FRIDAY, SEPT. 1, 1 p.m.

Celebrate the re-opening of Dorset House. Curator Kory Rogers will lead a discussion of the Museum’s extraordinary decoy collection.

SUNDAY, SEPT. 10, 2 p.m.

A screening of the film “Pressing On: A Letterpress Film,” followed by a printing demonstration.

Featured Outdoor Sculpture: Aaron T Stephan Artist Aaron T Stephan likes to provoke and challenge visitors to reassess their perceptions of the world built around them. “Flat World” — a two and a half ton globe comprised of 20 cast iron triangular segments bolted together — is on view along with “30 Columns” — a spiraling cascade of classical Greek Doric columns that unravel and dance across the lawn.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 23, 3 p.m.

Carpet Diem: Molly Nye Tobey Designs for the Mid-Century Home Bringing together a selection of vibrant hooked rugs alongside preparatory watercolors, sketches, and other ephemera, this exhibit spotlights the creative range of pioneering American designer and fiber artist Molly Nye Tobey (1893-1984).

SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 3 p.m.

Join associate curator Katie Wood Kirchhoff for a lecture followed by a tour of the special exhibition “Hooked on Patty Yoder.”

Join Curator Kory Rogers and assistant curator Carolyn Bauer for an opening lecture exploring the special exhibition “Sweet Tooth.”

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IN TOWN Off-Broadway play reading series cuts the edge PROVOCATIVE, RELEVANT, INTELLIGENT NEW YORK THEATRE IS COMING TO MIDDLEBURY

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staged readings of four plays “The Cutting Edge” will share the bold, clever work of some of the most dynamic young writers to hit the New York scene in the last five to 10 years. Each play enjoyed a successful run in a boundary-pushing Off-Broadway theater. Each play speaks to our contemporary moment.

This play reading series will be directed by Rebecca “Becky” Strum, a newcomer to the Vermont theater scene, with a distinguished history of directing and teaching theater in the New York Metro area. “The collaborative nature of theatre provides opportunities learn about ourselves, each other and our world and that through this work we almost always grow in the process,” said Strum.

Memorable collaborations for Strum include directing the New Jersey professional premiers of David Mamet’s Oleanna and Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” at Summmerfest Theatre, directing Wendy Wasserstein’s “The Heidi Chronicles” at William Paterson University and serving as founder/artistic director of The Academy for Visual and Performing Arts (a New Jersey Model School of the Arts) in Hackensack where she directed young actors in works as diverse as “Twelfth Night” and “42nd Street.”

Kicking off this new play reading series is Jordan Harrison’s “Marjorie Prime,” coming to the Town Hall Theater on Sunday, Sept. 10.

All four plays in “The Cutting Edge” will be rehearsed and performed by Vermont actors. Shows will be held at various Middlebury venues on Sundays at 4 p.m., with refreshments and discussion for those interested. These events are free, but donations are encouraged. For more info visit middleburyactors.org or call (802) 233-5255.

upcoming shows “MARJORIE PRIME”

BY JORDAN HARRISON

“SEX WITH STRANGERS”

BY LAURA EASON

Sunday, Sept. 10, 4 p.m.

Town Hall Theater

Sunday, Feb. 25, 2018, 4 p.m.

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Sometime in the future, 85-year-old Marjorie — a jumble of fading memories — has a handsome new companion who’s programmed to feed the story of her life back to her. What would we remember and what would we forget, if given the chance? In this 2015 Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits — if any — of what technology can replace.

When 20-something prodigy sex blogger Ethan tracks down his idol, the gifted but unsung 40-ish novelist Olivia, he finds they each crave what the other has. As attraction turns to sex, and they inch closer to getting what they want, both confront the dark side of ambition and the trouble of reinventing oneself when the past is only a click away.

(Language warning)

“THE BIG MEAL”

BY DAN LEFRANC

“THE NETHER”

BY JENNIFER HALEY Sunday, Nov. 5, 4 p.m.

Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse The Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion.

Just log-in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination. (Content warning, not appropriate for children under 16)

Sunday, June 3, 2018, 4 p.m.

Stonecutter Spirits Somewhere in America, in a typical suburban restaurant on a typical night, Sam and Nicole first meet. Sparks fly.

And so begins an expansive tale that traverses five generations of a modern family, from first kiss to final goodbye.

A stunning, big-hearted play that spans nearly 80 years in roughly 90 minutes, “The Big Meal” tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary family.

one two three THREE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS WEEK STONECUTTERS’ SCAVENGER HUNT

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BANDALOOP BACK IN MIDDLEBURY

Stonecutter’s Spirits in Middlebury is kicking off Labor Day weekend with their SEPT. second annual scavenger hunt.

Participants grab a Stonecutter cocktail at any of the 30+ participating Burlington and Winooski bars and get their scavenger hunt card signed by their bartender. Guests who find five or more cocktails between Sept. 2-9 can return their card to Stonecutter Spirits for free prizes. Check out stonecutterspirits.com for more details.

Art on Main brings a second evening of poetry in the Written Word Out Loud FRIDAY SEPT. series. On Friday, Sept. 8, at 6:30 p.m., poets from Bristol’s South Street Writers’ Cooperative will read their work in the gallery followed by light refreshments and a chance for conversation.

Readers include Karla Van Vliet, Ruth Farmer, Ann Fisher, Basha Miles, Lily Hinrichsen, Carol Talmage and Sally Burrell. All are welcome.

BANDALOOP is coming back to Middlebury (they were first here in SATURDAY SEPT. 2004) to celebrate 25th anniversary season of the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 15-16. A pioneer in vertical performance, BANDALOOP weaves dynamic physicality, intricate choreography, and the art of climbing to turn the dance floor on its side. About 15 minutes per performance. Come watch this free show on Saturday at 1, 2 and 3 p.m.

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HIKE INTO HISTORY IN ORWELL. Sunday, Sept.

3, 1-3 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. On this guided tour, walk in the footsteps of Revolutionary War soldiers. Wear walking shoes and dress for the weather.

“ROGUE ONE” ON SCREEN IN VERGENNES. Friday, Sept 1, 6:30 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Part of Bixby’s Friday Night Movie series. Free admission, free popcorn. Rated PG-13.

MONTHLY WILDLIFE WALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7-9 a.m., meet at the parking area of Otter View Park at the intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help us survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. For more information, call 802388-6019 or 802-388-1007.

12TH ANNUAL KELLY BRUSH RIDE IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept. 9. For registration and information visit kellybrushfoundation.org.

ANIMALS WOOFSTOCK IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept. 9, 10:30 a.m. Memorial Sports Center/ Middlebury Town Pool. Walk for the Animals and annual doggie dip in the town pool. $20 adults, $10 youth, and free for those 5 and under. Funds benefit Homeward Bound. homewardboundanimals.org.

ARTS ARTIST RECEPTION WITH NORMA JEAN ROLLET IN BRANDON. Friday, Sept. 8, 5-7 p.m., Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street.

Middlebury artist Norma Jean Rollet is exhibiting “Portraits of the Vermont Landscape” at the BAG from Sept. 1-Oct. 31 featuring her paintings and pastels. For more info call 802247-4956 or visit brandonartistsguild.org.

CRAFTS TWIST O’ WOOL SPINNING GUILD IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Aug. 31, 7 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. A show and tell followed by a general meeting and spin/knit-in.

All are welcome. More info at 802-453-5960.

JUST FOR FUN BRING YOUR MUSHROOMS FORAY IN ORWELL. Saturday, Sept. 2, 10 a.m.-noon, Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Back at the Mount by popular demand, the public is invited to bring mushrooms for identification by mycologist Sue Van Hook.

Sort and learn how to identify common edible and medicinal fungi, venture onto the trails to see what is fruiting, or a bit of both. All ages welcome.

Bring a hand lens or magnifying glass, if you have one. Lens available to share. Co-sponsored by Mount Independence Coalition.

HARVEST FAIR IN ROCHESTER. Saturday, Sept. 9, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., Rochester Village park. The White River Valley Players presents their 29th annual Harvest Fair with live music, food, crafts, markets, information booths and the popular flower show on the park’s bandstand. For more info Martha Slater at 802-767-3025.

SHELDON UNCORKED IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Sept. 10, 5-7 p.m., 1 Park St. Come for an evening of wine, hors d’oeuvres and historic curiosities, offering attendees chances to win fine bottles of wine. Tickets are $50 a person and are available by calling the Sheldon Museum (802) 388-2117 or online at HenrySheldonMuseum.org.

MUSIC STARLINE RHYTHM BOYS ON STAGE IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m., Lincoln Peak Winery, 142 River Rd. Vintage country and rockabilly. 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.

POINT COUNTERPOINT FACULTY CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m., at Middlebury Congregational Church. Handicap accessible. Request of good will donation.

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THE PRESS GANG IN RIPTON. Saturday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, Route 125, Ripton. Doors open at 7 p.m. Open mic begins at 7:30 followed by the featured performers. $10 general admission, $15 generous admission and $3 for kids under 12. More info at rcch.org or 802388-9782.

R.D. KING LIVE IN BRANDON. Saturday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Boston’s R.D. King brings his acoustic guitar fuse pop melodies, metal rhythms, folk fingerstyle and hints of jazz harmony to the Brandon Music stage.

Tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295, info@brandon-music.net or brandon-music.net.

CRADLE SWITCH DEBUT IN BRANDON. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m. Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. This five-piece acoustic Americana group plays originals and a range of songs drawing from bluegrass, country, folk and blues. The set will include songs from their upcoming debut album. Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295, e-mail info@brandon-music. net or brandon-music.net.

LAST TRAIN TO ZINKHOV ON STAGE IN LINCOLN. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Last Train to Zinkhßov will perform cuttingedge acoustic folk music as part of the Burnham Music Series. Doors open at 7 p.m. Refreshments during intermission. Admission: adults $10/teens and kids free. More info at 802-388-6863.

THEATER AUDITIONS FOR BRANDON HAS TALENT IN BRANDON. Friday, Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. If you like to sing, play an instrument, dance, play in a band or have a special talent, don’t miss this opportunity to perform on your Town Hall stage. A showcase of talent — no judges, no prizes. To schedule an audition call 802-247-5420.

AUDITIONS FOR BRANDON HAS TALENT IN BRANDON. Saturday, Sept. 2, 2-4 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. If you like to sing, play an instrument, dance, play in a band or have a special talent, don’t miss this opportunity to perform on your CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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LET YOUR PET STRUT THEIR STUFF AT THE ANNUAL WOOFSTOCK: WALK FOR THE ANIMALS ON SATURDAY, SEPT. 9. THIS YEAR’S LEISURELY ONE-MILE JAUNT AROUND MIDDLEBURY WILL CONCLUDE WITH MUSIC, FOOD AND A DOGGIE DIP IN THE TOWN POOL (DON’T WORRY IT’S THE LAST DAY THE POOL’S OPEN). FUNDS BENEFIT HOMEWARD BOUND, ADDISON COUNTY’S HUMANE SOCIETY.

Town Hall stage. A showcase of talent — no judges, no prizes. To schedule an audition call 802-247-5420.

4TH ANNUAL “BRANDON HAS TALENT” SHOW IN BRANDON. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7 p.m., Brandon town Hall. The Friends Of Brandon Town Hall host this fundraiser for the town hall, showcasing the multi-talented community members from Brandon and the surrounding area. Tickets available at the door: adults $7. seniors, students & military $5. Children 5 and under free.

“MARJORIE PRIME” STAGED READING IN

MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Sept. 10, 4 p.m. Town Hall Theater Studio, 68 Pleasant St. The Middlebury Actors Workshop presents this work by young playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Jordan Harrison. The play explores the mysteries of human identity and the limits—if any—of what technology can replace.

WRITING “GOOD NAKED” WORKSHOP IN VERGENNES. Wednesday, Sept. 6, 4 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. Joni B. Cole, author of “Good Naked:

Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better and Be Happier,” for a talk and workshop on techniques to tap into your creativity.

WRITING WORKSHOP IN VERGENNES. Thursday, Sept. 7, 6-8 p.m., Otter Creek Room, Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “Writing Horror: Defining Terror, Fear & the Dark Side of Imagination.” Led by Kris Johannesson, explore human responses to fear.

Investigate nightmnares, terror, questions of safety and sanity, and the collective macabre.

Workshop runs every Thursday through Oct. 26.

Free. Register: muir.haman@bixbylibrary.org or 802-877-2211.

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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org

Accepting Donations for THT’s Fabulous Flea Market

Town Hall Theater is accepting your donations of antiques, jewelry, art, collectibles and nice things on Friday and Saturday from 9am til noon on September 1, 2, 8, and 9 at the former Paquette Storage on Route 7 north of town, 1/10 a mile beyond the Exchange Street intersection. Now SMART MOVE STORAGE. Donated items will be sold at The Fabulous Flea Market on 9/16, with proceeds to benefit THT.

Sun 9/10 4pm Free Donations accepted in the Byers Studio MIDDLEBURY ACTORS WORKSHOP PRESENTS A STAGED READING OF :

MARJORIE PRIME

Part of The Cutting Edge Play Reading Series. 85 year old Marjorie is a jumble of fading memories, but her new companion is programmed to feed back to her the stories of Marjorie’s own life.

Part 1 Sept 14 and Part 2 Sept 21 7pm $17/ $10 students NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE IN HD

ANGELS IN AMERICA

Tony Kushner’s Pulitzer Prize-winning Angels in America, a play in two parts, features Andrew Garfield, Denise Gough, Nathan Lane and Russell Tovey.

Sat 9/16 9am-2pm FREE

THE FABULOUS FLEA MARKET

Treasures abound at THT’s amazing annual Flea Market.

Proceeds benefit the Theater and its many worthy projects and shows.

THT also presents its own booths with a wide array of donated items, jewelry, art,.etc. Income from the THT booths supports THT performances.

Sun 9/24 2pm $17/$10 Students NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE IN HD

PETER PAN

Captured Live from London this wondrously inventive coproduction with the Old Vic will delight children and adults with a riot of magic, music and make-believe.

Sat 10/7 1pm $24/$10 Students MET LIVE IN HD

NORMA

This new and evocative production of Bellini’s masterpiece sets the action deep in a Druid forest where nature and ancient ritual rule.

A free talk by Jim Pugh in the studio at 12:15pm.

IN THE JACKSON GALLERY

ATTENTION TO DETAIL

Gayl Braisted, Catherine M. Palmer, Mike Mayone & Reed Prescott A group showing of notable Addison County artists who specialize in realistic art in fine detail, rendering their images in sharp focus with precision and passion.

On Display through October 1st

EXHIBITS A STORY OF ART. On exhibit Sept. 5-Dec. 10, featuring the gifts and bequests from collector Charles Moffett — a Middlebury alumnus from the Class of 1967 and one of the most highly regarded world authorities on Impressionism — and his widow Lucinda Herrick. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007.

ATTENTION TO DETAIL. On exhibit Aug. 18-Oct. 1, featuring fine-detail work by local artists Mike Mayone, Catherine M. Palmer, Gayl Braisted and Reed Prescott. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

DEBORAH HOLMES. On exhibit Aug. 4-Aug. 31, featuring her paintings of classic farms, old barns, trees, mountains, long views, woodpiles and the occasional chicken. Art on Main, 25 Main Street, Bristol. (802) 453-4032 or artonmain.net.

DRAW ME A STORY, TELL ME A TALE. On exhibit June 13-Oct. 15, featuring original artwork, sketches and more from 17 Vermont children’s book illustrators/authors. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury.

(802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org.

LAND AND LENS: PHOTOGRAPHERS ENVISION THE ENVIRONMENT. On exhibit Sept. 15-Dec. 10, featuring 71 photographs spanning the mid19th century to the present day, including work by Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Eliot Porter and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as other contemporaries.

The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

LAND, SEA & SKY. On exhibit July 27-Sept. 10, featuring shimmering, dreamlike oil paintings on panel and canvas by artist Peter Brooke. BigTown Gallery, 245 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 349-0979 or bigtowngallery.com.

NATURAL AFFECTION. On exhibit Aug. 25-Oct. 28, featuring paintings of the natural beauties in by Susan Bull Riley’s surroundings. An artist’s reception will be held Friday, Aug. 25, 5-7 p.m., Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr., Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or cmacvt.org.

OLD FRIENDS AND NEW FACES. On exhibit for the month of August, featuring work by Philip Frey, Woody Jackson, and Homer Wells, at our Falls location, and Kim Alemian, Timothy Horn and William B. Hoyt.

Edgewater Gallery on the Green (6 Merchants Row) and at Middlebury Falls (1 Mill Street), Middlebury. (802) 989-7419, (802) 458-0098 or edgewatergallery-vt.com.

PORTRAITS OF THE VERMONT LANDSCAPE. On exhibit Sept. 1-Oct. 31, featuring paintings and pastels by Middlebury artist Norma Jean Rollet.

An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept. 8, 5-7 p.m. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

SWIPES AND SLASHES: ABSTRACT MONOTYPES. On exhibit July 21-Aug. 31, featuring 10 abstract expressionistic monotypes by Ross Sheehan. Otter Creek Custom Framing, 3 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-2370 or visit Sheehan’s website at rosssheehanart.com.

THE STRONG AND THE WEAK. On exhibit Sept. 1-Oct. 15, featuring paintings by Patrick Shoemaker. An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept. 8, 5-8 p.m. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

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ART “The Strong and the Weak” EXHIBIT AT NORTHERN DAUGHTERS GALLERY, VERGENNES

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orthern Daughters welcomes “The Strong and the Weak,” a solo exhibit of paintings from Patrick Shoemaker. The exhibition is on view at the gallery’s 221 Main Street location in Vergennes, from Sept. 1 through Oct. 15. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Sept. 8, from 5-8 p.m.

This exhibit (made possible through collaboration with Anna Zorina Gallery of New York City) features pieces that show the breadth of Shoemaker’s work, his unique use of color and reference to American history and folk art. The ambiguities in the paintings are what first attracted Northern Daughters to his work.

There is tension in each piece, between subjects, within the color palette and the bold blurred composition of his work that draws the viewer in. His distinct quality of

paint application allows for the subjects to meld together, engaged physically, possibly dancing, possibly fighting, or some combination of both.

Shoemaker lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. He received his BFA in 2006 from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, and his MFA from from the School of Visual Arts, New York City, in 2013. Recent fellowships include Artist in Residence Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Mt. San Angelo, Virginia, and Artist in Residence, The Riverview Arts Center, Phillipsburg, New Jersey. Shoemaker has exhibited in numerous exhibits throughout his career most recently his solo exhibit, “Fire on Fire,” was on view at Anna Zorina Gallery in New York City.

For more information contact info@ northerndaughters.com or (802) 877-2173.

“Red Boot” by Patrick Shoemaker – 30” x 24.”

COURTESY IMAGE / NORTHERN DAUGHTERS, VERMONT AND ANNA ZORINA GALLERY, N.Y.

“Portraits of the Vermont Landscape” EXHIBIT AT BRANDON ARTISTS GUILD, BRANDON

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he Brandon Artists Guild (the BAG) celebrates Vermont’s colorful scenery with a new exhibit of paintings and pastels

by Middlebury artist Norma Jean Rollet.

The show, “Portraits of the Vermont Landscape” runs Sept. 1 through Oct. 31. An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept.

8, 5-7 p.m., at the BAG, 7 Center Street in Brandon.

Rollet, who attended the New England School of Art and Design in Boston, moved to Vermont in 1983, and became captivated by the diversity of the landscape.

“From mountains to meadows to farm fields and woodlands, the characteristics of the Vermont

landscape are no different than the individual features of its citizens,” the artist explained. “The beauty of the countryside forming its profile and features is the essence of what I hope to portray in my work.”

Working in oils and pastels, Rollet paints in plein air when the weather allows.

“The long winter months of Vermont drive me indoors,” she admits, “but on location color studies, notes and photographs allow me to complete pieces more comfortably in my studio.”

“Reflecting Pines” by Norma Jean Rollet.

The recipient of several awards for her work, Rollet is a member of the Vermont Pastel Society, Pastel Society of America, Degas Pastel Society, and International

Association of Pastel Societies.

The Brandon gallery is open Mondays through Saturdays from

10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sundays from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. For more information call (802) 247-4956 or visit BrandonArtistsGuild.org.

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COVERING GRO

A stepping stone path runs through this bed in Judith’s garden in Goshen. Beneath the path a layer of newspaper and bark mulch deters the weeds, while on either side the plant leaves just touch

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urely weeds are some of nature’s greatest opportunists. They appear spontaneously in places where other plants would not stand a chance, such as in disturbed soil or along the dry salty edges of Vermont’s beloved dirt roads.

BY JUDITH IRVEN

And in our gardens? Within weeks of making our beds all tidy and seemingly weed-free, new weeds pop up uninvited!

How does this happen?

First, it is helpful to understand that many weed SEEDS can lie dormant in the dark earth for a long time — 10 years or longer in some cases. As soon as we dig in the soil, some of those seeds are exposed to light — a condition all young plants need to grow — which causes those cunning seeds to germinate.

Secondly, when the conditions are favorable, the ROOTS of many perennial weeds are able to spontaneously regrow from a joint or node. And additional light favors this process also.

THE CYCLE OF WEEDS The sad fact is that many aspects of normal gardening inevitably perpetuate the cycle of weeds.

For instance, as we fluff up the soil in preparation for a new row of vegetable seeds or we break up clods of earth before planting a new perennial bed, we unavoidably churn up the soil. And thus some of those dormant weed seeds and weed root fragments finish up near the surface of the soil, where they promptly respond to the added light by cheerily sprouting.

And, as we cultivate around established flowers and vegetables, it will not take long for persistent weeds with filamentous roots — like sorrel and bishop’s weed — to begin to regrow. Also, as everyone knows, when you break off the tap root of a dandelion in the middle, rather than getting the whole thing out, it too will grow back into a new dandelion plant.

So before planting it is really important to manually remove as many perennial weed roots as possible.

I am always on the lookout for telltale problem roots — especially those filamentous roots that run horizontally through the soil — and try to follow them back to their origin.

But to prevent surface weed seeds from germinating and the remaining weed roots from resprouting, we need to cover the ground and shade the soil from light.

Let’s take a look at three easy ways to cover the

ground and deter those weeds.

TARPS Tarps are inexpensive and durable, and I use them to cover any section of my vegetable garden that is temporarily empty.

My vegetable garden consists of four 12-foot square beds and every year I rotate the crops around the squares. Each year, one square will be devoted to sprawling winter squash while in the remaining three squares I use three-foot wide rows separated by narrow paths for individual crops.

During the summer, after I harvest an early crop like garlic, I cover the empty row with a 12-foot by 4-foot tarp (sold to cover wood piles) until I get around to planting some late season peas or greens.

And every fall, after the harvest is complete, I cover each square with a pair of overlapping 12-foot by 8-foot tarps. These remain in place until next season when I am ready to plant that particular square. This strategy prevents those opportunistic weeds from getting a head start in spring and it also warms the soil ahead of planting.

MULCH Everybody knows about mulch, and indeed sometimes we see way too much of it.

A sea of mulch separating a few paltry perennials looks anything but natural. And those “mulch volcanoes” that get heaped up around the base of

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matures, but a small amount is often a great way to show off special plants or garden features.

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trees are positively harmful. They provide a winter haven for rodents who enjoy nibbling the bark.

And if they are mounded up over the root flare, it stimulates the tree to produce girdling roots at the surface. These eventually encircle the entire trunk which strangles the tree.

But, if used in moderation, mulch has a role in every garden. For instance in a new flower bed it is critical to shade the soil to prevent those weed seeds from germinating. I like to start by covering the soil with about six layers of overlapping newspaper to keep out the light. In my flower gardens I will top off the newspaper with a thin layer of finely ground bark mulch (one to two inches is plenty), whereas in my vegetable garden I cover the newspaper with fluffed up hay.

You need less mulch as the garden

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A WEED IS A PLANT THAT IS NOT VALUED WHERE IT IS GROWING AND IS USUALLY OF VIGOROUS GROWTH; ESPECIALLY: ONE THAT TENDS TO OVERGROW OR CHOKE OUT MORE DESIRABLE PLANTS.

The final way to deter the weeds is to use the plants themselves to shade your soil.

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A carpet of groundcover around the trees and shrubs is an attractive addition (and is less work than replenishing the mulch annually). Barren Strawberry (Waldsteinia ternata), Barrenwort (Epimedium), Deadnettle (Lamium maculatum) and various types of Hardy Geranium including Geranium “Biokova” and Geranium macrorrhizum are all well-behaved ground covers.

Also I like to position my perennials so that, as they mature, their leaves overlap to naturally shade the soil. For instance, the leaves of a single daylily plant can easily grow into a three foot circle and very little light reaches the soil beneath it. So, in a sunny border, a group of three or five daylilies becomes completely self mulching. Similarly in a shady bed, large leaved hostas and dense ferns perform the same function.

PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER This picture of the bed that surrounds our gazebo illustrates these ideas.

A narrow ribbon of mulch not only deters the weeds but also draws attention to the stepping stone path that meanders through the bed. The remainder of the soil is naturally shaded by groups of taller plants including daylilies and azaleas and some low-growing geranium and sedum. And finally, a small amount of mulch serves to visually separate the main plant groups from their neighbors.

Judith Irven and Dick Conrad live in Goshen where together they nurture a large garden. Judith is a Vermont Certified Horticulturist and teaches Sustainable Home Landscaping for the Vermont Master Gardener program. You can subscribe to her blog about her Vermont gardening life at www. northcountryreflections.com. Dick is a landscape and garden photographer; you can see more of his photographs at northcountryimpressions.

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MUSIC Rock out with the Starline Rhythm Boys Friday LINCOLN PEAK VINEYARD HOSTS HONKY-TONK, ROCKABILLY BAND FOR WINE DOWN CONCERT SERIES

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he Starline Rhythm Boys will play at Lincoln Peak Vineyard in New Haven on Friday, Sept. 1, 6-8 p.m. The Boys play vintage country, honkytonk, and rockabilly music with strong harmony vocals. Their repertoire includes many originals as well as covers of both classic and lesser-known tunes. They’re always great fun for listening and dancing.

The trio includes Danny Coane (“Little Danny C”) on acoustic rhythm guitar, Big Al Lemery on electric lead guitar, and Billy Bratcher (“Slappin’ Billy B”)

on acoustic upright “slap” bass. The Boys are known region-wide for their dynamite energy and their high lonesome and hot rockin’ sound.

The vineyard opens at 5:30 p.m. for picnicking. Food for sale by Antidote of Vergennes, and wine by the glass.

Admission is free. Bring lawn chairs or a picnic blanket, but leave your pets and outside alcohol at home.

Part of the Wine Down Friday series, which happens rain or shine — there’s room on the winery porch in the case of rain. For more info call the vineyard at (802) 388-7368 or visit The Starline Rhythm Boys will play at Lincoln Peak Vineyard in New Haven this Friday, 6-8 p.m., part of the Wine Down Friday series.

PHOTO / NATALIE STULTZ lincolnpeakvineyard.com.

R.D. King performs live at Brandon Music this Saturday A genre-defying, fingersblazing guitarist from Boston, R.D. King’s acoustic guitar performances fuse pop melodies, metal rhythms, folk fingerstyle

and hints of jazz harmony.

King is touring the New England region following the April 2017 release of his newest album “vs. Self” and stops at Brandon Music

this Saturday, Sept. 2 for a 7:30 p.m. performance.

King’s audiences describe his music as passionate, powerful, deeply memorable and — at times

— extraordinary.

Using only instrumental music, King creates compelling narratives and emotional experiences.

Through composing and performing, he explores life, consciousness, and meaning, grappling with questions of individual and shared experience.

King draws inspiration from literature, philosophy, psychology and meditation, and turns to the creative process as the framework for introspection and growth. Trained in classical guitar performance at the Ithaca College of Music, King is now a full-time performing musician. He was the First Place Winner of the 2017 Canadian Guitar Festival Fingerstyle Guitar Competition.

Concert tickets are $20.

Enjoy a pre-concert dinner for an extra $25.

Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, e-mail info@brandon-music.net or visit brandon-music.net for more info.

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MUSIC The Press Gang fills coffee house with Irish brew

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bold new sound has emerged in New England’s traditional music scene: The Press Gang fuses the talents of squeezebox player Christian “Junior” Stevens, fiddler Alden Robinson, flute-player and vocalist Hanz Araki, and guitarist Owen Marshall into a high-octane musical partnership. And they’re coming to the Ripton Community Coffee House this Saturday, Sept. 2.

The quartet blends their skill and fluency in traditional Irish music with their curiosity and aptitude for other styles. The joy that these musicians pour into playing music together is unmistakable and infectious. The result is a unique sound; at once energetic and sensitive, innovative and reverent.

Doors open at 7 p.m. Open mic gets things warmed up at 7:30 p.m. and the featured performers follow. $10 general admission or $15 generous admission; $3 for kids under 12.

For more info call (802) 388-9782 or visit rcch.org.

The Press Gang will perform at the Ripton Community Coffee House on Saturday, Sept. 2.

live music MOOSE CROSSING. Friday, Sept. 1, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury THE PRESS GANG. Saturday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Coffee House.

R.D. KING. Saturday, Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

STATION MOUNTAIN BAND. Saturday, Sept. 2, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury.

CRADLE SWITCH. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

TOAST. Friday, Sept. 8, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury.

LAST TRAIN TO ZINKOV. Saturday, Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, Lincoln.

BLIND DOG & MAMA MEDICINE. Saturday, Sept. 9, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury.

Play the 2017 Garden Game!

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Contact Mary at 877-2626 ext. 100 or via email at mary@addisontrust.org for more info. *Income limits:

P.O. Box 311 • Vergennes, VT 05491

Family of 1: $61,680.00 Family of 2: $70,560.00 Family of 3: $79,320.00

Family of 4: $88,080.00 Family of 5: $95,160.00

186 Burnham Drive Middlebury, VT 05753 Bedrooms: 3 Bathrooms: 1 Market Value: $212,000 ACCT/VHCB Investment: $71,950 Buyer’s Price: $140,050* (*Income requirements) Details: Raised ranch style home built in 1995, sits on 1 acre, with 2 bedrooms and 1 bath up top and a third bedroom and an additional living space below. This house comes with lots of space for the kids to run around outside and room for everyone inside as well. This house is 1,620 square feet and is a must see.

$140,050* 7B Country Commons Vergennes, VT 05491 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1.5 Market Value: $171,000 ACCT/VHCB Investment: $32,600 Buyer’s Price: $138,400* Estimated Property Taxes of $3,166.28 per year. HOA Fees: $155 per month.

Details: Built in 2008 - Two Stories - Two Bedroom, 1.5 bath condo with 1car garage. 1,280 sq. feet; additional 640 sq. feet in full unfinished basement.

Open living space, good size closets and only 8 years old!

NO DOGS ALLOWED due to association rules.

$138,400*

8C Country Commons Vergennes, VT 05491

$140,750*

Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1.5 Market Value: $176,000 ACCT/VHCB Investment: $35,250 Buyer’s Price: $140,750* (*Income requirements) Estimated Property Taxes of $3,169.64 per year. HOA Fees of $155 per month.

Details: Open floor plan, 2 bedrooms with 2 closets in each, 1.5 bath, great basement area. Central vac and garden space are extra perks of this great condo! 1 car garage with a remote control included. Nice and quiet neighborhood! Built in 2008 and well maintained! NO DOGS ALLOWED due to association rules.

21 Hollow Road Monkton, VT 05469 Bedrooms: 2 Bathrooms: 1 Market Value: $129,000 ACCT/VHCB Investment: $21,200 Buyer’s Price: $107,800* (*Income requirements) Details: This house is a colonial style 1,534 square foot home built in 1920, 2 bedrooms and 1 bath on the second floor with a wide open living space on the ground floor. The second floor has an open area at the landing which allows for an office area or a craft space. Painted 2 years ago, weatherization and a new rubber membrane roof 8 years ago. This unique home was once a store! On a ground lease (with ACCT) and shares a septic and well with the neighbor.

$107,800*

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the movie WIND RIVER — RUNNING TIME: 1:47 — RATING : R Of Wind River, the studio says. “An FBI agent teams with a town’s veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.” That description is a one sentence understatement of a movie that may well be one of the best of this year.

Anyone who visits an active Indian reservation in the West or the main street of a town like Gallup, New Mexico, carries away a permanent brain imprint of what we did to the Indians by taking their land. Alcohol, sadness and emptiness are at every turn.

Taylor Sheridan, who wrote, directed and set the story in Wyoming, shows the results of the past without sermonizing. For an hour or so he shows us the majestic beauty of snow-covered mountains, woods and flatland until we begin to wonder whether anyone could live there. Then, as he introduces the characters, we begin to understand the problems of weather and isolation on the people who do.

Cory Lambert (Jeremy Renner) is a tracker for the wildlife department. We watch him roar through the wilderness at top speed on his snowmobile (to avoid becoming stuck) in search of predatory animals who kill the smaller ones who belong there. In the silence, we watch him follow patterns and tracks of both humans and animals on land he knows so well Suddenly Cory comes uon the dead body of Natalie (Kelsey Abile), the 18-year-old daughter of his Indian friend Ben (Gil Birmingham). He offers emotional support to Ben with understanding born of losing his own daughter to the culture of emptiness some years before.

The FBI is summoned and arrives in the unexpected form of Jane Banner (Elizabeth Olsen), a new young agent from Las Vegas who is smart though inexperienced and looks to Cory for advice on how to find the killer. That’s it for the story.

Jeremy Renner in Wind River (2017)

At that point we are feeling quiet appreciation for director Taylor Sheridan’s subtle gift to us of the nature of physical isolation and the danger of the country. He then hits us with a prolonged explosion of violence. The beauty has turned to desolation; blood spreads on white snow; hatred and anger explode in an overwhelming violence of assault, rape and battery. Thirteen people die. How did this brutality root itself in all this beauty? Suddenly, we understand this is why Sheridan spent the first hour of Wind River showing us the erosive effect of isolation on people. Does isolation always breed violence?

My graphic description here is intended for people who avoid brutal violence in movies. So be warned, it is rare to see a director’s vision delivered so powerfully despite one raw piece of overacting late in the film. Jeremy Renner is superb in his quietness; Elizabeth Olsen is excellent as the smart but inexperienced FBI agent; Gil Birmingham is powerful as the grieving father. You will best remember Taylor Sheridan who is a man unafraid of unleashing unvarnished historical truth.

the book THE BURNING GIRL — BY CLAIRE MESSUD (W. W. Norton & Company)

Julia and Cassie were the very best of friends all through their childhood, they shared everything, inseparable since nursery school in a small Massachusetts town. Then adolescence begins to assert itself, and the girls begin to drift apart. An unfortunate incident that derails their last summer before middle school doesn’t help, and then middle school itself, or rather what comes out of children beginning to discover who they really are as they begin to grow up, drives them further and further apart. It seems Julia remains in the warm grasp of an easy childhood, while Cassie is forced to reckon with adult situations not of her own making. In this gripping, thrilling, yet beautiful and touching new novel, international bestselling author Claire Messud cast a spell over her readers as she skillfully explores complex relationships — those between friends you have known since you were practically a baby and those between a mother and daughter — thoughtfully, honestly and true to life. This coming-of-age story is irresistible, and Messud (The Woman Upstairs, The Emperor’s Children) is a masterful writer.

— Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Store in Middlebury.

BESTSELLING YOUNG ADULT BOOKS IN PAPERBACK Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,

by J. K. Rowling Passenger, by Alexandra Bracken Red Queen, by Victoria Aveyard 13 Reasons Why, by Jay Asher Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver Lost in the Sun, by Lisa Graff Wrecked, by Maria Padian Everything, Everything,

by Nicola Yoon

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Understanding reappraisals Editor’s note: Middlebury town appraiser Bill Benton put together this Frequently Asked Questions primer in the run up to the townwide reappraisal of properties. While it is for Middlebury residents, we felt that residents of other towns would also find it useful.

WHAT IS A REAPPRAISAL?

HOW IS THE NEW ASSESSMENT CALCULATED?

A reappraisal is the complete re-valuation of all properties within a municipality to adjust tax assessments to fair market value and bring all properties into an equitable state.

Residential assessments include a value for the unimproved site that is based on actual land sales. The dwelling is valued using a market derived cost system that includes: gross living area, building quality, condition and the contributory value of amenities such as garages, porches, finished basement, outbuildings etc. The computer assisted mass appraisal (CAMA) system is customized to the Middlebury market and market values based on cost and depreciation are prepared and reviewed.

WHY IS MIDDLEBURY PERFORMING A REAPPRAISAL? Middlebury last reappraised in 2005. Over time, markets and properties change.

Currently, our residential assessments are about 88 percent of market value and dropping. The reappraisal will eliminate differences in property classes and catch up on renovations and interior changes that have not been assessed since 2005.

Commercial properties are valued in a similar fashion. If a commercial property includes income generation, an income approach to value using net income capitalization or gross rent multiplier will be used as well.

WHO WILL BE PERFORMING THE REAPPRAISAL? The reappraisal division of New England Municipal Resources Center (NEMRC) will be conducting the reappraisal. They are the same folks who oversaw the 2005 reappraisal and are very familiar with Middlebury. There will be a total of 4-5 staffers working on the reappraisal at any given time.

WHAT IS THE TIME TABLE FOR THE REAPPRAISAL? The reappraisal will begin in August 2017 with property inspections continuing for approximately 18 months. Land, time-location and depreciation schedules will be prepared in early 2019 and the final review, pregrievance hearings and mailing of Change of Assessment Notices will be in June 2019.

Formal grievance hearings will take place in June 2019.

WILL MY REAL ESTATE TAXES INCREASE AS A RESULT OF THE REAPPRAISAL? Not necessarily. A reappraisal is intended to “level the playing field” of assessments and bring everyone into equity. The majority of assessments will increase and the grand list will increase. All other things being equal, the

municipal tax rate should be reduced by the same percentage that the grand list increases.

WHAT SHOULD I EXPECT WHEN THE REAPPRAISAL FOLKS COME TO MY PROPERTY? The appraiser will review your assessment record and make any revisions that are necessary. He/she will walk through your house and ask a few questions, verify house dimensions and take a current exterior photograph.

The appraiser will carry identification.

DO I HAVE TO LET THE APPRAISER IN MY HOUSE? No, you are under no obligation to let the appraiser in the house. In that case, the appraiser will update the record as he/she sees fit based on an exterior inspection. Any documents in the file including permits, notes or public real estate information may be used to update the appraisal. If you appeal the assessment to the Board of Civil Authority, by law you must let the inspection committee of the BCA in the house.

WHAT IF MY NEW ASSESSMENT SEEMS TOO HIGH? NEMRC will conduct a “pre-grievance” set of hearings to answer any questions or concerns.

This is an informal meeting with one of the appraisers where you can correct errors or make comments. If you do not feel that you were treated fairly at the pre-grievance you have the opportunity to file a formal grievance with the Middlebury Board of Listers and they will hear your concerns and act on the evidence that is presented at the hearing.

WHAT INFORMATION DO I NEED TO CHALLENGE MY NEW ASSESSMENT? Changes in the assessment will have to be based on evidence. The courts have ruled that the town has the “presumption of validity” when it comes to accuracy of tax assessments. If you paid substantially less than the assessment, that is a good starting point. If you have a fair market value appraisal from a licensed appraiser for a purchase or refinance that is below the new assessment it should be presented at the hearing. In addition, photographs of damage, needed repairs or obsolescence are helpful.

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