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Thursday, September 21, 2017  98 Pages

Mt. Abe still seeks school board members

By GAEN MURPHREE BRISTOL — When members of the Mount Abraham Union High School board gathered on Aug. 22 with the intent to vote on a proposed $35 million bond to renovate the school, the meeting had to be cancelled. The board lacked a quorum.

One week later the board met, with nine members present, and the proposal passed. But the delay put an exclamation point on a community concern: getting residents to serve on what is a lame-duck school board.

Designed as a 13-member board, with five representatives

from Bristol and two each from the other four Addison Northeast Supervisory Union towns, the board has been short-handed since March 2017 elections. A quorum for the MAUHS board, explained board chair Dawn Griswold, is half of current membership plus one.

(See Mt. Abe, Page 13A)

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PMC nurses, board agree on new pact

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The University of Vermont Health Network-Porter Medical Center and its nurses’ union have reached a tentative agreement on a new, three-year contract. Porter officials shared this news with employees in a Tuesday, Sept. 19, email.

Terms of the pact will be publicly released once the nurses’ union

has formally ratified the document, according to PMC spokesman Ron Hallman. Members of the Porter Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals (PFNHP) are scheduled to hold a vote on Thursday, Sept. 21.

“We’re really excited about this contract,” PFNHP President Alice Leo said. “Our bargaining team has unanimously recommended that our members ratify the agreement.”

Hallman said both bargaining teams worked hard to reach what he called “a fair agreement.”

He added he believes the resulting pact puts the interests of PMC’s patients and residents first, and that it “honors the important role of our nurses in the care of patients and residents.” Hallman also called the contract “reasonable for our nursing (See Nurses, Page 13A)

ACSD forms task force to weigh in on racism, bias

Helen Porter rehab, ARCH rooms to be upgraded

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Addison Central School District board on Monday unanimously approved the membership and charge of a new ACSD Task Force on Racism, Bias and Discrimination that will spend the next four months looking at ways to help Middlebury-area schools address “explicit and implicit bias” in district schools.

It was on Aug. 22 that the board agreed to form the task force in wake of reports of some Middlebury-area residents flying Confederate flags, which in turn elicited some candid stories from several local residents of color about alleged racial profiling and their children relaying allegations of racial insensitivity and/or intolerance in public schools.

A handful of district officials met on Sept. 12 to determine membership for the task force and the parameters of its work, which will culminate in a series of recommendations to the ACSD board by Jan. 15, 2018. ACSD board members Peter Conlon, Ruth Hardy and Victoria Jette revealed on Monday the task force would be co-chaired by Miguel Fernandez, the chief diversity officer Middlebury College, and Middlebury Union Middle School Principal Kristin Holsman-Francoeur.

(See Task force, Page 14A)

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Helen Porter Health Care & Rehabilitation Center (HPH&R) will soon undergo around $850,000 in renovations that will make the facility better equipped to serve patients rehabbing from serious injuries and illnesses, as well as those who are in the final stages of their lives.

The repairs, to begin as soon as next February, will involve a combined total of 11,300 square feet at HPH&R, a single-story building erected 25 years ago to serve as the county’s nursing home. But the evolution of health care — and a paradigm shift in patient care that emphasizes shorter hospital stays — has prompted Helen Porter to diversify its service portfolio. The center has taken on the added role of rehab center, a more lucrative endeavor offering recently discharged hospital patients the physical, speech and/or occupational therapies they need before they can return home for independent living.

“We already have a reputation for providing really good care; we now need facilities that match the skills of our providers,” said Ron Hallman, spokesman for University of Vermont Health Network-Porter Medical Center, which owns and operates Helen Porter.

The proposed HPH&R project will create: (See Porter, Page 13A)

Panel to issue report to school directors

MIKEY HAYLES PICKS apples at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury Tuesday afternoon. Local orchards are reporting good quality fruit with excellent color and good to average yields.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Scarlet color highlights county’s apple harvest

By GAEN MURPHREE ADDISON COUNTY — Midway through the 2017 harvest, Addison County apple growers are expecting a good to average season with one area orchardist calling it a “bumper crop.”

This year’s crop has been blessed and hampered with early rains and some spots of

hail. Temperatures in the 80s and 90s the past few weeks have orchardists hoping the hot streak ends so apples can be picked before they over-ripen and drop.

“When you deal with Mother Nature, you deal with whatever she dishes you out,” noted Boyer’s Orchard owner Genny Boyer, of Monkton.

Nevertheless, cool weather in mid-tolate August delivered what long-time apple grower Scott Douglas, of Shoreham’s Douglas Orchards, described as “the best early-season color I’ve seen in 46 years.”

The beautiful coloring has been a boon to harvesting Macs and other red varieties because (See Apple crop, Page 2A)

By the way You may remember the story we published this past June about newly minted Middlebury Union High School graduate Henry Ganey winning a scholarship that will allow him to spend a year studying Chinese in Changzhou, China. Well, the Middlebury resident made it to China and now has a blog in full swing. He updates it weekly with news from halfway around the world. If you want to see what Henry’s up to, log on to henrynsliy2017.wordpress.com.

Representatives of Bristol’s Lawrence Memorial Library will (See By the way, Page 13A)

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A LARGE CROWD fills the Middlebury town office’s meeting room for one of several Middlebury Climate Economy Initiative forums Monday. The forums were held to cultivate economic development, innovation and affordability in the face of climate change.

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Climate opportunity

Initiative seeks creative innovations in new economy

By YVETTE SHI MIDDLEBURY — How does a community position itself to reap the benefits of the new climate economy? That was the core question about 75-100 Middleburyarea residents grappled with Monday afternoon and evening at the kick-off of the Greater Middlebury Climate Economy Initiative — a series of community forums and task forces

that will work over the next couple of years to make progress toward a handful of community goals.

The Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD), partnering with Green Mountain Power and Efficiency Vermont, sponsored the Middlebury event.

“One can feel a little bit discouraged about the threat posed by climate change and what it

represents,” Jon Copans, VCRD’s Program Director of Climate Economy Model Communities, said about climate change. “At the same time, those communities and those businesses who figure out the models for both increasing economic vitality and weaning ourselves off of carbon, are going to thrive in this new economy.”

(See Climate, Page 12A)

JON COPANS, DIRECTOR of the climate economy communication program for the Vermont Council on Rural Development, leads a forum in the Middlebury town offices Monday afternoon. A series of forums allowed community members to identify and advance priorities for the area to capitalize on the new climate economy.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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Couple’s trek yields funds for local clinic

By JOHN FLOWERS STARKSBORO — A Starksboro couple’s almost year-long trek from Addison County to Sao Paolo, Brazil, has raised $5,178 for the Open Door Clinic (ODC) of Addison County.

It was on Sept. 10, 2016, that ODC Communications Specialist Christiane Kokubo and her husband, Mount Abraham Union High School Spanish teacher Nathan Shepard, packed their car for a trip to Kokubo’s native Brazil. Both took sabbaticals from their respective workplaces to allow for a lengthy adventure, pausing to drink in the scenery and culture of such countries as Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Cuba and Panama.

But the couple also wanted to make their trip educational and philanthropic.

Shepard got to fortify his knowledge of Spanish.

And they set a goal of raising $1 for each kilometer traveled, with proceeds going to the non-profit ODC, providing critical health care services to uninsured and under-insured Vermonters and to many migrant farm workers hailing from the countries the couple visited (primarily Mexico).

The couple ended up traveling 49,887 kilometers in 335 days. The $5,178 they have raised doesn’t add up to $1 per kilometer, but it’s not shabby at all. And the funds will be gratefully accepted by the ODC, which recently lost some significant federal grant funding. As reported last month in the Addison Independent, ODC leaders are trying to fill a $62,000 budget shortfall this year.

As of this week, the couple has received 67 donations coming from people living in 12 countries.

“Isn’t it amazing to think that people in so many different countries are supporting the ODC’s services for people living in Vermont?”

Kokubo said of the international support.

And thankfully, at least one other person has taken a page out of the Kokubo-Shepard book by using travel as a fundraising tool for the ODC. South Starksboro resident Larry Jones recently raised more than $6,000 for the clinic through sponsorships for his 500-mile walk on El Camino de Santiago (Way of St. James) in France and Spain.

“I was going to walk the Camino for fun and friendship, but it wasn’t supposed to be about me,” Jones said through emailed comments. “‘Who could benefit?’ I asked myself. Why not some organization which benefits others, especially those who are least able to help themselves with serious matters? I knew about ODC through the church I attend regularly, and so it was a good fit. I emailed and spoke with (ODC Director) Heidi (Sulis) beforehand, to make sure this was okay, and then I posted a note on Facebook and made an announcement in church. The results are due to the good work of ODC, not to anything I’ve done.”

People can continue to donate to the Kokubo/Shepard fund drive for ODC by logging onto fromhomeparacasa.com/challenge, or by sending their check to the Open Door Clinic, 100 Porter Drive, Middlebury, Vt., 05753.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

BRILLIANT RED APPLES, ripe for the picking, hang from a tree at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury Tuesday afternoon. Local apple growers are thrilled with the early-season color of this year’s crop.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Apple crop (Continued from Page 1A) pickers could more easily pick a tree at one go, orchardists explained.

And for anyone driving past the county’s orchards, this year’s scarlet apples have created a panoramic feast for the eye.

As for the health of this year’s apple crop, trees are generally in good shape. After last year’s drought, ample rains this May, June and July benefited tree health and plumped out the apples, said Happy Valley Orchard owner Stan Pratt. Pratt grows apples in Middlebury and New Haven, around 34 acres total.

“Mostly the rain was a plus,” agreed Douglas. “Certainly better than the drought last year.” Douglas said that Douglas Orchard expects to harvest around 30,000 bushels this year, a significant boost from last year.

The flip side to all that rain was scab, a moisture-loving fungus that can affect both leaves and fruit.

“I’ve talked to many, many people in the orchard business, and we’ve all picked up a little bit of scab.

There’s no way around it this year.

That’s just the way it is,” said Boyer.

Boyer said her orchard also came in for a bit of hail earlier in the growing season when the apples were still small, but it did little damage.

Boyer’s Orchard has 40 acres of fruit trees and bushes, close to 14 of which are in apples, and she sells to customers who come directly to her orchard. Those customers, she said, aren’t as concerned with small blemishes once they understand the taste isn’t affected.

For Whitney Blodgett of Sentinel Pine Orchards in Shoreham, however, light hail damage earlier in the season means some apples can’t go for top dollar. Blodgett sells almost all of the apples from his 500-acre orchard (210 in apples) wholesale for the table market. A tiny spot on the skin can put an apple out of the running for the extra fancy grade Blodgett seeks.

Like most apple growers interviewed for this article, Blodgett called 2017 an average year. Last

year’s drought dropped Blodgett’s production to 92,000 bushels. This year he expects to harvest around 100,000 bushels.

CLIMATE SHIFTS HARVEST Blodgett is a second-generation apple grower. His father started the orchard in 1964 and Blodgett took over in 1999. He said he’s been noticing over the past several years that the growing season is shifting, he believes due to global warming.

Twenty-five years ago harvest typically started in mid-September. Now it generally starts one to two weeks earlier, he observed.

Because most Addison County apples are picked by immigrant workers from Jamaica, the timing of the harvest is important to lining up the work force efficiently. Shifts in temperature can cause the harvest to progress too slowly or too quickly to make best use of the workers’ time.

MIKE HOLLANDER SORTS and polishes apples at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury Tuesday afternoon.

This year’s crop of apples is looking good but the recent hot weather is a concern for local growers.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Orchardists are hoping for a shift to cooler weather before too many apples ripen more quickly than they can be picked. While the market for drops and culls has picked up over the past several years because of

the growth of the hard cider industry, growers always hope to harvest top-quality fruit.

While all apple growers interviewed for this article are continuing to keep their eyes glued to the weath-

CIDER APPLES SIT in a crate and await pressing at Happy Valley Orchard in Middlebury.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

er station, Champlain Orchards Bill Suhr alone called 2017 “absolutely a bumper year.”

Up to now, Suhr said Champlain Orchards has harvested around 90,000 bushels of apples a year. This year, he expects to harvest closer to 115,000 bushels. Champlain Orchards grows around 250 acres of apples (and other fruit trees) on 500 acres of land.

Part of Champlain Orchard’s increase in production Suhr attributes to new plantings, young trees maturing enough to produce sizable amounts of fruit and to hitting the “on” year in the apple trees’ every-other-year cycle of heavier and smaller crops. But he also attributes what he called “great weather” for his location.

Suhr is happy, too, at the business he’s seeing coming out to pick apples. (Champlain Orchards, Boyer’s Orchard, Happy Valley Orchards and Douglas Orchard all offer U-pick.)

“Families are coming out for the wagon rides and the music we’ve been having on the weekends,” Suhr said, “and that’s an honor — that they’re choosing to come out with their precious weekend time. They seem to be having fun, and they’re focusing on what we hope is nourishing food. People seem to be celebrating local food.”

Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

Addison Independent, Thursday, September 21, 2017 — PAGE 3A

VUHS teacher gets award as N.E.’s ‘most promising’

Ilsley offering more films from festival

Lauded for concern for, motivation of students

By ANDY KIRKALDY mediate impact as a long-term subVERGENNES — Vergennes stitute when she arrived during what Union High School English teacher he called “an English department diAllison Mahoney remembers in May saster.” when colleague Michael Thomas “A new hire had tragically left the nominated her for the New England job after only a few weeks,” Thomas Association of Teachers of English wrote. “A series of substitute teachMarian Gleason Award, which goes ers that followed while we searched to the “Most Promising New Teach- for a replacement left behind a group er” in the field. of increasingly disengaged and angry Mahoney, a 31-year-old Burling- juniors and seniors. Allison, a brand ton native and Grand Isle resident new English teacher, stepped confibeginning her third year at VUHS, dently into this agitated classroom in was grateful to Thomas for the nom- an unfamiliar community and withination. in days had won over the students, But, as a young teacher in her first implemented a new smooth-flowing job, she never thought she would re- curriculum, and developed a reputaceive the honor. tion as both deeply caring and highly “I went home and told my hus- committed.” band, ‘I’m never going to win this Thomas calls Mahoney “a highaward. It’s so nice of him to nomi- ly valued colleague and a powerful nate me. I feel great that he did that, advocate for students” whose interbut I’m not going to win,’” Mahoney national and environmental studies said. “And my husband was like, ‘I experience has “greatly strengthened bet you’re going to win.’” the diversity and social relevance of Her husband was right. Over the our program.” second weekend of September the Thomas described Mahoney as association informed Mahoney that “a key player in some of our curshe had won the award, which recog- rent ongoing initiatives” who brings nizes a teacher who shows “extensive “positive energy to our school-wide knowledge of his or work shifting toward her discipline, interest a standard-based gradin and concern for stu- “One of the ing system,” and has dents and the ability to big lessons I committed “to advochallenge and motivate learned… is that cating for students them, (and) involve- it’s so much more and for authentic stument in professional than just what’s dent voice,” including organizations and/or through the VUHS happening with staff development.” school-wide advisory Mahoney, who took that lesson on system. a winding path to that day. You PATH TO teaching, said the hon- really have to get TEACHING or meant a lot to her. In to know kids and The recent award an interview, emotion their families and is not, in fact, Mabriefly got the better honey’s first “teachof her as she explained their communities ing” honor: In her seand their values. nior year at Burlington why.

Mahoney said her And once you High School teachers VUHS colleagues de- understand that gave her their Florserve credit for the and build that ence Green Award as award she will receive the student they saw relationship … in Foxboro, Mass., at as the most promising an Oct. 20-21 confer- then the work is future teacher. true joy.” ence.

But when Mahoney “You’re part of such — Allison Mahoney went to St. Lawrence a team as a teacher. It’s University she did not hard to be singled out sign up for that course for whatever award you get because of study. it’s everybody. We’re a school com“I got this award, and I was totally munity,” she said. surprised, hadn’t thought about it,” And Thomas in particular helped she said. “And I got to college and I her adjust to the VUHS classroom just didn’t pursue it. I just didn’t want after Mahoney had spent five years to accept my fate. I wanted to try othat the Burlington Boys & Girls Club. er things. I wanted to study abroad “This is partially his award,” she and I didn’t want to student-teach said. “He spent a lot of time mentor- while I was in college because I felt ing me and supporting me as I made young and didn’t feel like I was exthat difficult transition from the non- perienced enough and could build profit sector into the education sector. rapport with students.”

I owe a lot to him.”

She chose instead a dual major of Finally, she addressed her efforts.

Environmental Studies and English.

“It’s really humbling. It’s really “I wanted to have a science side, an honor. I often don’t give myself but I also wanted to have a humanenough credit for the work that I do,” ities side because I was pretty undeshe said. “It means a lot.” cided about what I wanted to do after Thomas believes the award is rich- school,” she said. ly deserved. In his nomination letter Studying abroad in East Africa he wrote that Mahoney made an im- while in college started her thinking

VERGENNES UNION HIGH School teacher Allison Mahoney recently won the most promising new teacher award from the New England Association of Teachers of English. Mahoney has taught at VUHS since 2015.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

about education. not going on to be successful after “During my semester, I interned high school. And we were really for an NGO that built schools in ru- struggling to take those next steps. ral Uganda,” she wrote in an email. So we put together what we called, “My connection to education and the and they still call, the Early Promise systems that support it can certainly Program,” Mahoney said. be traced back to this That program experience.” matches individual After her 2007 grad- “You’re part of students with supportuation from St. Law- such a team ive adults “throughout rence, Mahoney spent as a teacher. their entire academic a year in New Zealand It’s hard to be career.” Mahoney said with a program that the adult, for exammatched people with singled out for ple, could be a reading farms who are willing whatever award buddy or a math tutor. to exchange room and you get because About 80 percent of board for about four it’s everybody. the participants have hours a day of work. gone on to some form We’re a school Then it was back to of post-secondary edcommunity.”

Burlington to figure ucation, either Job — Allison Mahoney Corps, things out and voluncommunity teer with the Vermont college or a four-year Refugee Resettlement Program, tu- college. toring English; the Lake Champlain “We built a system of support that Committee; the Girls on the Run pro- starts in kindergarten, when we startgram; and the Boys & Girls Club. ed serving kids, up until post-second“I was waitressing and doing odd ary,” she said. “I worked with a team jobs,” Mahoney said. “I was just at the club to put it together, to exepiecing things together. I always said cute it and to staff it.”

I wished I could get paid to do all the Mahoney said her time at the club volunteer jobs that I loved to do.” was invaluable.

Because she enjoyed mentoring “One of the big lessons I learned and offering academic support to from that whole experience is that Boys & Girls Club members and tu- it’s so much more than just what’s toring refugees, Mahoney accepted happening with that lesson on that her destiny: She signed up for a sev- day. You really have to get to know en-month program to get her teach- kids and their families and their coming certificate.

“I just got connected to the club and really loved the work, and really loved the work that I was doing with refugee resettlement, and decided I wanted to go back to school to get my teaching certificate,” she said.

AS AN EDUCATOR As Mahoney concluded that program a job opened at the Boys & Girls Club for an educator. She was hired and worked there until VUHS came calling. At the club she helped found a mentoring program to create a more lasting impact on club members’ lives.

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But Mahoney wanted to make more of an impact in young people’s lives than a few hours after school allowed, and the classroom called.

It was tough to leave, she said, but she’s glad she did.

“Some of the kids I worked with, they needed a lot of support. And I was able to provide some of it,” she recalled, “but I wasn’t in the classroom with them, so I couldn’t provide as much support as I wanted.”

Still, the move to the classroom wasn’t easy, despite Thomas’s description.

“One of the challenges was just keeping up with the pace of a school … that constant planning piece, always having to know what’s next, planning for multiple different circumstances,” Mahoney said.

But she also discovered she was able to make the greater impact she sought.

“The joy was being able to connect with students and share my passions with them and help them become effective communicators and really develop that skill in them,” Mahoney said, “so when they go out in the world they feel like they have a path and they have a voice in their life.”

MIDDLEBURY — The next installment of donated Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival films has arrived at Ilsley Public Library and is now available for viewing by library card holders. MNFF has donated an additional 30 films to the library, growning its archive to more than 50 films. The donation is comprised of BluRay format films that were screened during the 2nd Annual event in the summer of 2016.

Titles include the VTeddy Award-winning short films “Pony,” “The Best and Worst Days of George Morales’ Unnaturally Long Life” and “Phil’s Camino.” Prominent feature films include the powerful documentaries “Radical Grace” and “Huntwatch,” as well as the narrative VTeddy winner “Broke.”

The partnership between MNFF and Ilsley Library was established in 2016 with the express purpose of making Festival films available to the community. The films can be found on a featured shelf of the DVD collection on the Library’s first floor.

“Ilsley Library is delighted to see this important collection of films continue to grow and we thank the filmmakers for making their work available to our community,” said Christopher Kirby, Ilsley’s Librarian for Adult Services & Technology. “With over 50 films, the MNFF donation enriches the Library’s independent film offerings.”

“MNFF is deeply committed to community outreach and the Archive at Ilsley is fast becoming a great way to help our Festival audiences and others see many of the fine films that they might have missed during the event,” said Lloyd Komesar, MNFF Producer. “It is generous of our filmmakers to give consent for their work to be seen and we sincerely appreciate Ilsley Library’s willingness to make these films available.”

This year’s recently concluded 3rd Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival brought over 3,000 filmgoers to view 93 movies at five venues around Middlebury MNFF4 is scheduled for August 23-26, 2018.

More about the Festival, including the highlights from MNFF3, is available at the MNFF website, middfilmfest.org.

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Trumpcare II: An inevitable race to the bottom for nation’s healthcare Anyone who has read anything about the Republicans’ latest plan to repeal Obamacare understands that its intent is to cut government spending on health care between 2020 and 2026, when the funding allotted in the current proposal would cease — and, we suppose, a new bill would need to be passed to supplement spending by the states, or a whole new system (Bernie’s Medicare-for-all should be popular by then) will be put into place.

The current GOP proposal, called the Cassidy-Graham bill, is expected to force 23 million Americans to drop their current health care coverage, expose those with existing conditions to much higher insurance rates, send prices soaring for senior citizens, and, over time, make it far more expensive for lower- and middle-class Americans to pay for health care insurance.

In the long-term, it’s a proposal certain to fail because it doesn’t attempt to address the nation’s health care issues — rather, it seeks only to fill a campaign promise, satisfy its conservative base, and then (after Democrats dig the country out of another Republican-caused crisis) blame Democrats for the taxes raised to save the country, promise tax cuts to foolhardy, and preach the ills of big government to those with two-year attention spans.

As a political charade, it is a frustrating cycle.

Specifically, the strategy under the Cassidy-Graham bill is to shift the responsibility of health care costs to states and away from the federal government. To do this, the federal government would make huge block grants to the individual states (starting in 2020) based on a complex per capita formula. States would also be given wide flexibility on how to administer the block grants — including defining their own terms (with some parameters) of coverage. Some states, for example, might choose to cover maternity costs or hospitalization, while other states might not.

And, of course, organizations like Planned Parenthood would likely lose government funding in conservative states, while more liberal states will keep such spending as long as they could. ********** But while greater state control may appeal to some conservatives, lowerand middle-class Americans (conservatives included) will likely be on the losing side of the deal. Worse, what could happen is a race to the bottom nationwide in terms of health care coverage. Here’s why: • The block grants states would be given are based on a per capita amount; but increases in those amounts will be set by preordained-amounts, not by how many people are enrolled in the program. Those amounts are not expected to equal annual increases in health care spending. Thus, it will behoove a state to be most restrictive on its health care benefits if it hopes to avoid paying an increasing amount of state taxes to cover health care expenses.

• The proposal pits state against state, but in the worst possible way.

States that do the right thing and offer health care benefits to take care of low-income and help subsidize premiums for the middleclass (as Vermont, Oregon, New York and others have done), as well as provide generous benefits to citizens needing the most care — those with pre-existing conditions, those needing mental health services, or even those needing maternity care — will face an ever-declining amount of federal aid, thus driving up state taxes if they are to continue offering those benefits.

On the other hand, states which decide to be the stingiest with their health care dollars — essentially turning their backs on those Americans most in need — could actually benefit from those block grants (but at a higher personal cost to citizens.) One fear is that poorer Americans, or those with the greatest medical needs, would migrate to states with more generous (liberal) health care policies. Unable to absorb those added expenses, however, those states might also have to pare back coverage — creating a downward spiral of health care across the country.

• The outcome of such a downward spiral is that more and more Americans would postpone doctor visits until conditions warranted emergency hospital care. That, in turn, creates higher health care costs because care would be needed at the most critical level. ********** Such a longer-term scenario is bad enough, but in the short-term the Republican proposal — which is another version of TrumpCare — would continue to destabilize insurance markets for the next two years; would cause health care premiums to jump around 20 percent this year and perhaps next, and would instill uncertainly and inconsistency in the nation’s health care policy.

Most Americans agree that is exactly the opposite of what the nation needs. In fact, polls show a solid majority of Americans now prefer to keep Obamacare and work to improve it, rather than repeal and replace.

How it is possible Republicans could support such an ill-conceived proposal? Politics.

Having lied for the past six years about the ills of Obamacare, they feel compelled to pass something. But even Republicans are wary of how many Americans would be priced out of the health insurance market, what burdens such a plan might eventually place on state budgets, how it might undermine the financial health of the nation’s hospitals, and how it might impact the general health of all Americans. Already, Americans rank in the bottom tier of affluent western countries in terms of public health, while we spend among the most as a nation on medical expenses. It won’t be a pretty outcome if the Republican plan sends expenses higher, while creating a virtual health care epidemic in the U.S. But few of these complex scenarios have been asked, let alone studied — nor have Republicans provided time for such discussion. The bill, which controls about one-sixth of the U.S. economy, was proposed two weeks ago and Republicans are rushing it to a vote before Sept. 30 (that’s less time that most town selectboards need to set their agendas) — all to force it through a Republican majority without needing a single Democratic vote. If it can’t get done by then, future votes to repeal Obamacare will need 60 votes in the Senate to pass, and Republicans know they won’t be able to repeal it if they have to seek bipartisan support.

That not only doesn’t serve the public good, it doesn’t even try. It’s pure politics — and the ugliest sort, at that.

Angelo Lynn

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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Freshman Eliza Van Voorhis and Hamilton defender Amanda Becker fight for control during Sunday’s game on Dragone Field. Van Voorhis scored the only goal for Middlebury in the 1-1 tie. For complete coverage see Page 1B. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Middlebury welcoming from day one They say “it takes a village.”

It started our first day in Middlebury, back in 1991.

Six inches of wet snow on the ground, November 1. I watch a couple of men unpack a small moving van, my four-month-old son on my back, my three-year-old son holds onto my right hand, asking questions. It’s a deep gray day in a new town where we know no one.

A young woman trudges by, with a baby on her back and a toddler gripping her right index finger. She is holding a plate of cookies — for US — and she invites us to come play the next morning. That night, another neighbor, a widow in her eighties comes by with a casserole.

24 Hours: we are already home.

As I look back over twenty-six years in the town we call home, there is no doubt that the saying “It takes a village”

By Kate was relevant as our sons made their Gridley way. It was safe to walk to school. As they grew, they found adults in the community for mentors. The community raised our boys. But in practice, I think the community may have raised the whole family. Here’s one example of many.

Three years ago this week, my husband returned home from a spinal fusion.

While John was regaining his ability to walk and move, my father suffered a medical setback and went into hospice.

For the next ten weeks, while I shuttled back and forth between managing the care for one man’s recovery and the care for another man’s death, two villages moved into action.

We weren’t used to asking for help.

There were food chains — the care and love that comes through food is nourishment on many levels.

There were also walking partners. If John was going to

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recover, he had to walk. This was a full time job: walk, eat, hydrate, and sleep. He started by counting the cement squares on the sidewalk on South Street. The first walk, five squares, about twenty-five feet, was a victory, and then he needed to rest. We set up a schedule of walkers, and folks he didn’t know particularly well, as well as close friends, signed up for either a late morning walk or an afternoon walk. At least fourteen walks a week, steadily increasing in length: fourteen opportunities for conversation and connection.

John made new friends on the walks. I was able to go to work. And go to Connecticut to help my father and mother.

When I was with my father four hours away, the walkers stayed to help John dress and deal with meals. He wasn’t allowed to go out or to go up and down stairs when he was alone for fear he might fall.

Meanwhile my father stopped walking. He and my mother desired more privacy and were uncomfortable asking for — and then receiving — help. Their village brought food anyway, held their hands, sat quietly, ran errands, helped my mother socialize, and kept us company. That company also came through notes, letters and emails: a laugh from California, tears from Florida, memories from Wisconsin.

So on this third anniversary of a personal ten-week tunnel of care — for which I will be forever grateful — I cannot help but note that as large parts of our country are on fire, under water, drying up, and drying out as wild fires, floods, droughts and hurricanes rage, we witness countless communities spring into action as folks scramble to help each other get out of harm’s way, and pick up the pieces after.

(See Ways, Page 5A)

Gerrymandering favors GOP in ’18 President Trump’s low approval ratings and the Republican Congress’ lack of legislative accomplishments to date would appear to create a favorable situation for Democratic candidates to gain the 24 seats they need to take control of the House of Representatives in the November 2018 midterm elections.

However, even if Democratic candidates in the aggregate receive more votes for the House than Republican candidates across all 435 districts, the Republicans may still be able to hold on to their House majority. Over the past decade, Republican legislatures in states across the country have successfully gerrymandered House district lines in such a way that Democratic gains in vote share will not necessarily translate into Democratic gains in House seats.

After President Obama’s election in 2008, Republican operatives in By Eric L. Davis Washington decided that gaining state legislative seats in the 2010 elections would be a high priority for the party, especially in states that also had gubernatorial elections that year. If Republicans could control both houses of the legislature and the governor’s office in states with multiple House districts, they could control the process of redrawing congressional district lines that would be required in all states with more than one House district after the 2010 census.

Aided by the Tea Party-inspired wave that helped Republicans in the 2010 midterms, GOP candidates picked up almost 700 seats in state legislatures all across the country. When redistricting began, Republicans con-

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trolled the process in key states such as North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Texas.

By the time all the maps were drawn, Republicans had complete control over drawing 193 seats, only 25 fewer than the number needed for a House majority.

Some of these seats were formerly competitive ones that became safe for Republicans. Others were formerly held by Democrats who could no longer win in their new districts. A common Republican redistricting tactic was to pack Democratic voters into a relatively small number of House districts, which Democratic candidates would win with 70 to 80 percent of the vote, while taking those voters out of competitive districts that then became much safer for the GOP. The best estimates for the 2018 cycle are that, in states with Republican-gerrymandered districts, Democratic candidates would need to win 53 to 56 percent of the aggregate House vote in the state in order to win a majority of House districts in the state. In other words, GOP-drawn district lines give the party an advantage of 6 to 12 points in House elections in those states.

There are two possible remedies to this sort of gerrymandering. The first is to take the task of drawing district lines out of the hands of legislatures and governors, and give it to an independent bipartisan commission. Since politicians are most unlikely to relinquish the power to determine who their voters will be, this approach is only possible in states such as California and Arizona where (See Davis, Page 5A)

The Thursday, Sept. 15, edition of the Addison Independent published a letter to the editor from Middlebury resident Dave Silberman regarding Selectboard consideration of the VLCT’s position on marijuana legalization in the upcoming 2018 legislative session. We wish to address an important point we take issue with as written.

In Mr. Silberman’s letter, he alleges the town held “secret” meetings on the issue and on the vote to support prior VLCT opposition to legalizing marijuana. We disagree. Middlebury Selectboard meetings are warned properly with accompanying information posted in our board packets. All Selectboard discussions and voting on this topic took place in open session. We do not hold hearings on every position the board takes.

At the conclusion of the 2017 Town Meeting, a quick straw poll was taken as an advisory to the Selectboard indicating a desire by some to have greater discussion on the matter of marijuana legalization and the VLCT position to lobby against legalization. The request was made again at the board’s first meeting to discuss VLCT policy following the VLCT presentation to our board.

The board listened and has provided warned agenda time in three meetings this year to discuss the VLCT position. We also conducted a survey to understand the community feeling on marijuana legalization.

It should be noted that VLCT’s Legislative Policy proposal with regard to the legalization of marijuana has evolved since last year. Under section 3.01, Public Safety — Priorities for Implementation, in 2016, the draft policy stated: “VLCT opposes the legalization of marijuana or the expansion of current exemptions to Act 76.” The same section in 2017 states: “Marijuana should only be legalized for recreational purposes after all public safety, public health, and local regulatory and budgetary concerns are adequately addressed.”

The town survey was written before the proposed VLCT policy was known, so data is not available reflecting public opinion on the new position.

While the will of the people is extremely important to your board (see Angelo Lynn’s September 15th editorial), the board also feels the responsibility of ensuring any state legislation provides for the needs of order and safety for the town and its people. We are weighing these somewhat disparate needs given the subject and, at our last meeting, there was some sense that the revised VLCT position strikes a balance.

The survey was a valuable part of the Sept. 12 Selectboard discussion, as it will again be at our upcoming Sept. 26 meeting. The public is welcome as the board appoints a delegate and decides whether we have any instructions for that person to take to the VLCT Board Meeting on Oct. 4.

Links to all the corresponding 2015, 2016 and 2017 meeting info, minutes and MCTV videos can be found on the Town of Middlebury’s Website, townofmiddlebury. org. Go to: Public Notices > Public Announcements > For the Record on Public Meetings and in the Sept.

26 Selectboard packet under VLCT Editorial Links, once the packet is live on Friday afternoon.

Brian Carpenter, Chair Susan Shashok, Vice Chair Middlebury Selectboard

ANESU summer effort a real plus On a Thursday evening this past August, I attended the showcase of learning presented by teachers of the Expanded Learning Program.

This program happened this summer at all the elementary schools in our district — Addison Northeast. Students had the opportunity to learn a variety of subjects. I will mention a few: robotics, Chinese, growing healthy food, poetry, . . .

I was moved by this event. Even though it was a hot evening, Holley Hall accommodated us. Children, parents, teachers and adults from the community attended. The general tone was one of excitement and pleasure. I, a retired high school teacher of over 30 years, felt that I, as an adult, could now relax; that our world was being taken care of by excited and exciting teachers (See Letter, Page 7A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, September 21, 2017 — PAGE 5A

Establishing the rule of law in America Editor’s note: This is the 25th in a series of essays by Middlebury College Professor Emeritus Victor Nuovo on the origins of western political thought.

By VICTOR NUOVO The United States of America came into existence on July 4, 1776, when delegates to the second Continental Congress adopted a resolution declaring that the original thirteen colonies were no longer colonies of Great Britain, but “Free and Independent States,” and that as such, they had “full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do.”

This was the conclusion of the Declaration of Independence. But it was only the beginning, for the thirteen colonies — now by their own declaration, independent states — intended to stay together. Unity was deemed necessary for neither of them alone had power enough to defend themselves against their former sovereign, Great Britain, and it was clear that the British government was not about to let any of them go.

The Continental Congress continued to meet, and two years later, on July 9, 1778, it voted to form a confederacy, “a perpetual Union,” to be named “The United States of America.” To that end, Congress enacted the Articles of Confederation.

By these articles, each state committed itself to mutual friendship and assistance, and the citizens of one state became citizens of them all, with all rights and immunities. Paramount authority was given to Congress (“The United States in Congress Assembled”) to wage war and make peace, enter into treaties with foreign powers, to regulate commerce, and to create currency.

A common treasury was created, as well as a standing executive committee (the Committee of the States) consisting of one member from each state, which would carry on the business of government.

However, neither the Congress nor the Committee of the States was empowered to act in any of these ways without the consent of a super majority of 9 of the 13 states.

No standing army or navy was established. Assembling and arming militias and building warships remained the responsibility of each state; in time of war, Congress was empowered to requisition them and to appoint a commander-in-chief to lead them.

These arrangements proved sufficient to allow the United States to wage war successfully against Great Britain and gain its independence. In 1783, the Treaty of Paris was signed, which ended

the war and granted The United directed that all office holders of the States territorial rights to an area legislative, executive, or judicial bounded by the Mississippi on the branches of government, either of West, Canada on the North, and the states or the nation, shall be Florida on the South. bound by oath “to preserve, protect, But, in spite of this victory, the and defend” the Constitution.

United States remained a mere There is an essential difference gathering of states, each jealous between the Articles of Confederation of its freedom and independence, and the Constitution. The former obsessed with self interest, willful, is like a treaty between constituent irrational and each states, which claim with its own militia. never-theless to What seemed to be be sovereign and irresolvable conflicts independent. The latter, continually arose within which negates this and among them. And claim, is more binding; there was no national it is an enactment agency with power by the People of a enough to establish and fundamental law, maintain peace. indeed it is presented as It soon became their original creation, clear to some cooler as their primary will. heads that if the United It is noteworthy in States of America this respect that, was to endure, it was Thinking about unlike the Declaration necessary to find a of Independence politics — more durable legal way and the Articles of to make them into an Confederation, there the origins indivisible nation, to is no mention in the An essay by form a more perfect Constitution of a higher union. To accomplish authority than the Victor Nuovo this, it was necessary to Middlebury College People, no references begin at the beginning, to divine providence. professor emeritus to rely on an authority The Constitution is of philosophy that was prior to or pure law and purely more fundamental than secular. the states and their constitutions.

But who are “the People” Taking a page from Locke, they credited with its creation? looked to the people, and fashioned Remember that the United States the notion of “the People of the was from the outset conceived as United States,” whose sovereignty a republic rather than as a direct they regarded as more fundamental democracy. Madison maintained than the sovereignty of any that the will of the people is the individual state. It was concluded foundation of any true republic, but that the United States of America it is filtered through representatives, could become one nation only by who are, to be sure, popularly elected the authority of the People, and or, in the case of appointment of that this must be accomplished by judges, are selected in a public and creating and adopting a constitution, open process. one that did not depend merely on So is the notion of “The People” a consensus of delegations from a fiction? Perhaps, yes, if one takes the states, but was “ordained and the expression literally. But in established” by the People. another respect, no, because “The It is important to recognize that People” refers to something very the Constitution presents itself as a real. public declaration, with a voice, the Representatives are not people’s voice, that addresses the private persons, but bearers of world in its magnificent preamble, the people’s will, which wills the which states its action and clarifies public good. Sovereignty of the its purposes: people transcends all other claims “We, the People of the United to sovereignty or presumed rights States, in Order to form a more to exclusive power, whether that perfect Union, establish Justice, power is wielded by a hereditary insure domestic Tranquility, provide monarch, a tyrant, a dictator, a for the common Defence, promote religious prophet or the privileged the general Welfare, and secure the few; it overrules them all.

Blessings of Liberty to ourselves The People’s sovereignty is and our Posterity, do ordain and established by a fundamental law, establish this Constitution for the the Constitution. Indeed, “We the United States of America.”

People of the United States” means And in Article VI, it is declared nothing without the Constitution. that this Constitution would become Together, they may be our surest a fundamental law, the supreme defense against tyranny, the surest law of the land, with which all laws antidote to fractious conflicts, and and treaties, as well as all judicial an effective instrument, perhaps the decisions, if they are to count as only one yet designed, to secure for law, must be consistent. us and our posterity the blessings of Also in Article VI it was liberty.

Davis (Continued from Page 4A) voters could establish a redistricting commission through referendums.

The second remedy is to seek relief in the federal courts. In November 2016, a federal court in Wisconsin ruled that state’s legislative district map unconstitutional, after recounting the extensive history of Republican attempts to manipulate

Ways (Continued from Page 4A) There are tales of courage, tales of sweetness, and tales of horror — many, though not all, beyond politics, beyond posturing.

Work to be done. Crisis. Help your neighbor.

In some places it is so easy.

In some places it is not.

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

Letters to the Editor can be found on Pages 4A and 7A.

the line-drawing process to advantage the GOP. In 2012, the first election the new districts were in effect, Republican candidates won 60 of the 99 state assembly seats with only 48.6% of the statewide vote.

The Supreme Court will hear the Wisconsin Republicans’ appeal of this decision in early October. Many Court-watchers expect a 5-4 deci-

sion, with Justice Anthony Kennedy determining the outcome of the case.

If the Court rules against the Wisconsin map, the redistricting cycle after the 2020 census might see less blatant gerrymandering than after the 2010 census.

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

Online/Use tax: To pay or not?

Paying taxes is not ed $1.8 million to fill an activity most Verthe budget gap by sinmonters enjoy. In fact, gling out only 20,000 department officials taxpayers who might responsible for collectThis week’s Com- be more willing to pay? ing taxes will readily munity Forun is But what might apadmit they wouldn’t by Mike Smith. He pear to be technically win a popularity con- hosts the radio proefficient, and in some test. Still, it’s fair to say gram “Open Mike respects more politthat state officials didn’t with Mike Smith” on ically viable, sends expect a backlash for WDEV, is a political a troubling message enforcement of a tax on analyst for WCAXto many Vermonters. online and out-of-state TV and WVMT raPaying the use tax is purchases that has been dio, and is a regular the obligation of every on the books for some political columnist taxpayer. While the tax time. is applied universally, for several print and Although most can digital media outlets. enforcement is highly agree the reason for He was the secretary selective. enforcing this tax pro- of Tax policy enforced administration vision is laudable, the and secretary of hu- selectively and not adway the Department of man services under ministered fairly underTaxes is going about it former Governor mines the credibility of defies logic. One could Jim Douglas, and is the tax department. argue the department’s a former U.S. Navy The use tax is colapproach is unfair and Seal. lected so that there is arbitrary. It is ultimately some equity in tax pola public relations nighticy between in-state mare for a department that most Ver- businesses who must collect the tax monters already love to hate. and those out of state firms that don’t Here’s the deal: Vermont law re- have to collect the Vermont sales tax. quires taxpayers to pay a use tax Unless Vermont is going to eliminate on items that are purchased online the sales tax — which is unlikely or out of state when no Vermont given the significant revenue it gensales tax is collected and the item is erates for the state — then it’s fair to used in this state. That means you find ways to level the playing field are supposed to voluntarily remit in our tax system for those Vermont taxes to the Vermont Department of businesses.

Taxes for internet purchases, or taxThe tax policy itself is sound. able items purchased in neighbor- But even if the public agrees with ing New Hampshire, for example, the fairness of the tax policy, issues where no sales tax exists. Vermonters are obliged to report these taxfree purchases on their income tax form and pay the 6 percent Vermont sales tax.

Between 80 percent and 85 percent of Vermonters don’t pay the tax, according to the department.

In an effort to increase compliance and fill a state budget hole, the tax department sent “informational letters” to 20,000 Vermonters.

That number represents only a small percentage of the estimated 200,000 taxpayers that may owe the tax, according to state tax officials.

But rather than viewing these letters as “informational,” many Vermonters saw the letters as threatening and designed to shake down targeted taxpayers in order to capture more of their money to balance the state budget.

No doubt the letters will catch the attention of the 20,000 recipients. The letter warns the tax must be paid, that these taxpayers have a three-year history of not declaring any use tax, and that penalties and interest will be assessed if they don’t pay after a pre-determined amnesty period.

But if the tax department is responsible for administering our tax laws fairly, then why not send letters to the 180,000 other taxpayers who haven’t paid the tax?

According to Kaj Samsom, the commissioner of the Vermont Department of Taxes, the 20,000 taxpayers were selected on three criteria: demographics, geography and a history of not paying the tax. But when pressed, he said that income was a factor, too, in addition to age and the ability to pay. From these comments it’s safe to assume the tax warning bull’s-eye was painted on those Vermonters that were most able, and likely, to pay up. And from a purely technical perspective it’s good reasoning.

Why send out letters to 200,000 Vermonters and cause an even greater uproar when you can get the need-

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of selective enforcement will cause Vermonters to lose confidence in the tax department’s ability to apply that same tax policy in a fair and impartial manner. The end result: compliance will likely wane.

And eventually, it will take more resources, not less, to enforce tax compliance.

When confronted with the fairness issue, Samsom said his department may send out more letters. But is sending out more letters that will certainly infuriate even more Vermonters the right approach?

Surely, the $1.8 million in this fiscal year that state officials had hoped to capture as a result of these letters can be found in savings elsewhere in a multi-billon dollar state budget. From my experience this shouldn’t be difficult.

A more comprehensive and fairer approach would be for the tax department to develop and implement an educational program informing all Vermonters of their obligation.

The likelihood is that in fiscal year 2019 the state will reap more money and with less compliance resources dedicated to collecting the tax. And all of this can be accomplished without causing the same public backlash and commotion the current approach is creating.

The methods by which a government achieves success, especially in tax collection, is just as important — perhaps, even more important — as achieving the goal.

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Obituaries Clifford Barrows, 84, Vergennes

VERGENNES — Clifford A. Barrows, 84, passed away Friday, Sept. 15, 2017 at Helen Porter Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center in Middlebury.

He was born on June 6, 1933 in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., the son of Rex and Vera Manning Barrows.

He was a member of the Victory Baptist Church. He enjoyed fishing and going to Project Independence, music, sports, helping people and doing work at the church. Beloved father, great grandfather and grandfather, brother and friend. Best remembered for the twinkle in his eye.

He was predeceased by his wife, Helen M. Barrows, on March 14, 2016.

Clifford is survived by three children; Pam Barrows and partner Bonnie, Patty Clark and husband

Rob, and Lucy Barrows; four grandchildren; two great grandchildren; several brothers, sisters, nieces and nephews.

He is predeceased by his son Clifford Barrows Jr., Joseph and James Barrows.

Special thanks to Alice Barnum, Project Independence, Helen Porter Memory Care, and Addison County Home Health and Hospice.

A memorial service will be held 11 a.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 19, at Victory Baptist Church in Vergennes. Burial will be at a later date. In lieu of flowers contributions may be made to Victory Baptist Church, 862 Route 7, Vergennes, VT, or Project Independence, Attn. Joanne, 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT 05753. To send online condolences to his family please visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊

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one great-nephew. She is survived by many Moran and Wetzel extended family.

Carrie was a life-long participant in community theater productions.

She loved the mountains and took any chance possible to go to the beach. She was an accomplished seamstress and gardener and loved animals — at the time of her death she had a turtle, five cats, and a dog.

Carrie was the caretaker of family photos and memories; her life was spent connecting with and caring for family. Carrie’s will to persevere and thrive was inspirational. Her positivity never wavered. During her pregnancy with the triplets she encountered numerous health complications; she was pronounced dead three times in the hours and days after their emergency birth and went on through intensive rehabilitation and willpower to live to raise her children, complete her Master’s degree at the University of Colorado while they were toddlers, to have a successful career in journalism and to teach all over the state of Vermont.

Carrie’s role in her large family is irreplaceable and she will be deeply

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ORWELL — Charles “Chuck” Eddy III died peacefully in the arms of his loving wife, Mary Anne, September 1, 2017, at their home in Orwell.

Chuck was born in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Connecticut with his parents, Charles F. and Nellie Bretz Eddy, as a young boy.

Upon graduating from King School in Stamford, CT, he enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Force, where he served as a bombardier of a B-24 in the South Pacific Theater in World War II. After receiving an honorable discharge at war’s end, he engaged in many endeavors, including boat building, lobstering, designing trays for Abercrombie and Fitch, before being accepted at Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio, where he majored in trumpet. Upon completing studies at Western Connecticut State University’s Music Department, he taught instrumental music at Wamogo High

School in Litchfield, CT. While at “WesCon” he met the love of his life for 65 years, Mary Anne Merrill. They had five children and made the life decision to raise their children in Vermont.

Chuck, having had carpentry experience also, built their home out of lumber from their property, and as the years passed, and children married, he built homes for them, also, all in Orwell. He worked at the Salisbury State Fish Hatchery for several years before retiring.

Surviving Chuck is his wife and his loving children and their spouses: Nell and Mike Ellis, Beth and Nick Montello, Tom and Ann Eddy, Chuck and Cathy Eddy, and daughter, Cathy Anne; 10 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren.

CHARLES EDDY III Contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753, in Chuck’s memory, for of Chuck’s life, allowing him to rest the professional, loving care hospice peacefully in the home he loved, people provided the last few weeks surrounded by his loving family. ◊

Former Sodbuster takes top place in tournament

Carrie Moran, Bristol BRISTOL — Carrie Ann Moran of Bristol, passed away on September 10, 2017 at UVM Medical Center from complications due to bilateral pulmonary embolism. Carrie graduated from St. Johnsbury Academy in 1972 and went on to the University of Vermont, graduating with a degree in English. This began her life-long career in education, journalism, early childhood literacy, and writing.

Carrie’s greatest joy was her triplet daughters; Emily Lynne (Ryan Williams), Laurel Faye, and Natalie Brooke; and her seven grandchildren Augie, Abby, Alex, Logan, Quinn, Angelina, and Finnley, who have all survived her. She was Quinn’s foster mother during his infancy and Finnley’s foster mother from his birth to the time of her death.

Carrie was predeceased by her fathers, Michael Moran and Lee Wetzel, and her cherished son in law, Ryan Frazier. She is survived by her husband, Edwin; her mother, Ruth; stepfather Jerry; her sisters Kathleen, Maureen, and Cosey (Eric) and brother, Terry; 11 nieces and nephews; one great-niece and

Charles Eddy III, 93, Orwell

BRISTOL — Tennessee’s Brian Simmons, a former Sodbuster, and Rhode Island resident Jill Molineaux won the top two flights at Sunday’s Sodbusters Fall Roundup tournament, hosted by the Sodbusters Horseshoe Club in Bristol.

The full results were: Class A: 1. Brian Simmons; 2.

Tyler Howard; 3. Rick Howe; 54.

David Rioux; 5. Theresa Howe; 6.

Linda Aurell; 7. Mike Fleming; 8.

Randy Smith.

Class B: 1. Jill Molineaux; 2.

Michael Devino; 3. John Remy; 4.

Skyla Rioux; 5. Shelly Martinez; 6.

CARRIE ANN MORAN missed for the rest of our lives.

Her memorial service is planned for September 30, at 1 p.m. at the First Congregational Church of Vergennes. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to any chapter of the Humane Society.◊

Jim Scully; 7. Edward O’Rourke.

Class C: 1. Patty Farrey; 2. Kayla Bushey; 3. Mistylee Baird; 4. Marty Zliczewski; 5. Lester Sanderson; 6.

Riley Malino; 7. Charlie Frost.

Class D: 1. Georgia McCormick; 2. Dawn Colema; 3. Dan Molineaux; 4. Denny Young; 5.

Destinnie Wilke; 6. Paul Wilson; 7.

Ron Williamson.

Class E: 1. Steve Clark; 2. Jerry Thompson; 3. Vicki Keithan; 4. Bill Breen; 5. Stan Bigelow; 6. Jeffrey Woodcock; 7. Nate Pelletier.

Class F: 1. Tracey Pecor; 2.

Elbert Trask; 3. Damon Young; 4.

Debbie Scully; 5. Blakley Bigelow;

Salisbury SALISBURY — Kaitlin Brown was the winner of the Summer Reading Program at the community school. Her prize was a new bicycle and helmet. Many children

6. Bill Tinker.

Class G: 1. Bruce Oldenburg; 2.

Dave Dickinson; 3. Leon Ross; 4.

Zach Prescott; 5. Tim Wilson; 6.

Maurice Cyr Class H: 1. Alan Curler; 2.

Angela Chellis; 3. Lou Cousino; 4.

Michael Wood; 5. Jackie Gorton; 6.

Rick Fitzgerald.

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Bruce Duchaine; 3. Paul Langlois; 4. Cindy Drake; 5. Beverly Forgues; 6. Thomas Tucker.

Class J: 1. Dave Adams; 2. John Plante; 3. Lisa Briggs; 4. Thomas Brooks Jr.; 5. Bonnie Davis; 6. Bob Briggs.

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participated in the program at the school and the town library.

Property taxes are due on Thursday, Oct. 5. The town office will be open on Saturday, Sept.

30 from 9:30 a.m. till 12:30 p.m. to receive payments. On the fifth the office will be open the regular Thursday hours of 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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THE UNIQUE VERTICAL dance troop Bandaloop performed at Middlebury College last Friday and Saturday as part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the college’s Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Bandaloop dancers perform their routines while dangling from ropes. Over the weekend the dancers performed on the side of the arts center.

Independent photos/Trent Campbell

Bandaloop awes audience

By YVETTE SHI MIDDLEBURY — When Mark Stuver entered Middlebury College as a student in 1993, he wasn’t expecting to become a professional dancer. He wanted to study geography.

But Penny Campbell, Senior Lecturer of Dance at the college and Stuver’s first mentor, insisted he continue his journey in dance.

“She took my arm, she looked me in the eye, and she said, ‘you need this,’” Stuver told a small audience at his career talk last Friday at the Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Stuver’s pursuit of dance led him to join Bandaloop, a San Francisco-based dance group that practices vertical dancing in all sorts of natural and artificial settings – museums, theaters, skyscrapers, historical sites, cliffs and in film and television.

Over the past weekend, the group held a series of performances at the Mahaney Center, hanging off the roof and dancing on the building wall facing the center plaza. The dances combined acrobatics and ballet to produce breathtakingly beautiful

movements, in part due to the sheer courage needed to perform against gravity.

When dancers jumped, they created slowmotion moves only possible in mid-air with just a rope keeping them in place.

A crucial aspect of Bandaloop’s work is the dancers’ response to the performance site. It takes the dance members about a week to organize their choreography based on the new environment, and the riggers need a day to set up.

“So every time you see them, it’s different,” Stuver said. “It’s a conversation and relationship with the place.”

The performance for Stuver had a special significance, as it was the last time he will perform with Bandaloop. At his talk, Stuver found it hard to describe his gratitude for his experiences he’s had by being part of the group for 17 years.

What words sometimes fail to convey can perhaps be brought to people through actions, and Stuver’s special solo performance at the college seemed symbolic of his two decades as a vertical dancer.

For Stuver, ending his last Bandaloop performance where he first started to dance was almost unreal.

“It’s amazing. When I first got here … when I came in and everyone was sitting on the floor, I had to turn around and walk out,” he said. “I thought I was walking right into the past.”

This was also not the first time for Bandaloop to perform at Middlebury. In 2004, the group performed on the Davis Family Library for then-President Ron Liebowitz’s inauguration. This time, they returned to kick off the 25th anniversary of the Mahaney Center.

Bandaloop is two years older than the arts center, and at the time of its own 25th anniversary, Stuver saw the group moving from being a pioneer dance company to bringing a unique kind of meaning to the communities in which they perform.

Almost always, Stuver said, performing

Proposed Ilsley Library project should be scaled back

Letters to the Editor Public safety objection is a red herring in pot debate

At its September 26 meeting, the Middlebury Selectboard will vote on whether to endorse a Vermont League of Cities and Towns (VLCT) lobbying position related to marijuana legalization. Based on what I saw in the video of the September 12 Selectboard meeting, it does not appear that the Selectboard members have reviewed the legislation currently under consideration in the Vermont Statehouse. I hope that before they take that vote, they consider whether these bills address the town’s needs and concerns.

The VLCT policy position to date has been to oppose legalization, which means that the association responsible for representing Vermont municipalities has been lobbying against legalization for the last several years. This year, the VLCT’s proposed position has shifted slightly, stating that “Marijuana should only be legalized for recreational purposes after all public safety, public health, and local regulatory and budgetary concerns are adequately addressed.”

Angelo Lynn’s September 14 editorial underscores the impossibility of ever reaching agreement on such concerns being “adequately addressed.” To add ambiguity, the VLCT does not enumerate these concerns, and it is clear that the Middlebury Selectboard is not prepared to do so either. The phrase “public safety” was used repeatedly at the September 12 meeting, without definition, to the point that Selectboard member Susan Shashok was still asking for an itemized list of concerns, even as the discussion was coming to a close.

Upon further examination, the “public safety” objection is a red

herring, a rhetorical diversion that implies good intentions, but as an argument fails to weaken the underlying logic of ending prohibition.

A critical analysis of each of the concerns raised by the Selectboard reveals their flaws: • It is true that enforcing drugged driving (or operation of machinery) is difficult without a breathalyzer-like test available, but this should not be a reason to delay legalization.

Some people are driving under the influence right now. This is a public safety threat now. Investments in a technology solution would be a very appropriate use of some of the revenue generated through taxing marijuana sales.

• A concern about employees coming to work high assumes that people will change their current behavior. People who are inclined to come to work high are probably already doing it, and those who know better now are unlikely to start. Employers have the right to, and should, prohibit such behavior.

• The belief that children will have greater access to cannabis is blind to current reality. Someone selling marijuana under prohibition makes money selling to anyone, regardless of age. Businesses operating under a regulated market will lose their permit selling to minors. Which model is more likely to provide kids with easy access to cannabis?

The Selectboard is clearly interested in ensuring that legalization does not negatively affect the Town of Middlebury. Luckily, the bills currently under consideration by the Vermont legislature make accommodations for municipal resources and authority.

on skyscrapers and 1,000-meter high mountains requires viewers to change their perspectives.

“In today’s world, when we are looking down a lot — whether it’s a phone or a computer or just a steering wheel on a tired day — Bandaloop lets you look up,” he said.

He also said there will always be an unknown side to other people and other cultures, and it is those unfamiliar aspects one should embrace.

“There could be … not necessarily common ground, because common ground can be pulled out from under you really quickly, as we are seeing in the world right now,” he said. “But I think what we all connect over is common inspiration.”

For Stuver, the inspiration he has received from college professors to childhood friends to Moby Dick to Freud’s quote on the nature of art, have now led him to go beyond dancing. He has written for various media and has decided to continue his career as a screenwriter, he said, while staying open to other opportunities.

S.22 passed in both chambers (and was vetoed by the Governor) during the 2017 legislative session.

This law simply eliminates penalties for possession of up to an ounce of marijuana by adults over the age of 21 and allows growing plants for personal use. This is unlikely to have a direct impact on towns.

House bill H.490 is currently in the House Committee on General, Housing and Military Affairs. This bill establishes a market and regulatory framework and the Middlebury Selectboard should pay close attention to it, as this bill will determine how Vermont implements legalization. Section 4505 specifically covers the authority granted to municipalities: towns have a right to determine the location of any retail outlets, including through zoning, or even vote on an outright ban of marijuana establishments.

A 2.5 percent tax (on top of state taxes) provides a revenue source for municipalities.

If the Selectboard has other specific concerns related to potential impacts on the town, I hope they will make them clear to the public so that we can evaluate the need to address them in law. Legalization is a moral issue, and the longer Vermont drags its feet, the longer it will be before our state can get out in front of this issue. It would be wonderful if Middlebury and other Vermont municipalities could, through the VLCT, proactively work with policymakers to ensure that the needs of cities and towns are met, rather than obstructing the process with vague demands that are impossible to meet.

Alison Nihart Middlebury

Let me add my support to Janine McDonald’s letter about the proposed renovation of the Ilsley Library.

I accept that there is need for updating and remodeling parts of this old building, but the planned budget of almost $10 million seems to include some unnecessarily “great things” and it would surely be better to scale back both the changes and the cost? I agree with Ms. McDonald that bigger is not necessarily better.

Of course, I admit I’m biased — I appreciate books, not technology.

I am very fearful that when/if all these plans come to pass, in the process we will have lost the lovely garden behind the library, which I imagine is a source of pleasure for many people as well as me, not to mention bees and butterflies. I stop in often and admire the abundance and variety of beautiful flowers.

Also, I have to support Ann Pomainville’s letter about the

monster tractor company vs. local businesses that sell the same things.

I moved here from a huge city (Los Angeles) and deeply appreciate now living somewhere with a different perspective on how things are done.

Finally, am I the only reader who, when looking at the photo of Kathleen Haughey on the front page (Sept. 14) thought I was looking at the Mona Lisa?

Sheila Khalladeh Middlebury

Vermont hunting policies reflect ‘wanton waste’ UVM’s Center for Rural Studies included the following question in their 2017 Vermonter Poll: “Vermont wildlife policies allow certain species, including coyotes, crows, porcupines, skunks and weasels to be killed without limit even when there is no intent to consume or use the remains. This is called “wanton waste” killing. Should Vermont wildlife policies prohibit the “wanton waste” of wildlife, except when these animals are causing damage to property or agricultural products?” The result of the survey indicates that 70.5% of Vermonters who responded opposed the intentional and wasteful destruction of Vermont’s wildlife. You can learn more on Protect Our Wildlife Vermont’s website.

Killing wildlife for no reason other than target practice or recreation is authorized by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Board in a blatant disregard

for ethics and responsible hunting practices. Killing wildlife with no intent to utilize the animal is referred to as ‘wanton waste,’ since animals are often left to rot where they‘re killed. Coyote carcasses are found each year across Vermont — their war torn bodies strewn like garbage for the unsuspecting hiker to stumble upon. Gruesome photos of dead coyotes captioned with comments like, “kill ‘em all” and “the only good coyote is a dead coyote” are omnipresent on social media.

This speaks to the deeply rooted culture of hatred and loathing towards these intelligent canids. Both hunters and non-hunters alike should be able to come together on activities like these and condemn them. The current policies and regulations of the Fish & Wildlife Board do nothing to discourage wasteful killing of wildlife and actually may encourage

it with open hunting seasons on many animals, including opossums and coyotes, who both play vital roles in Vermont’s ecosystems.

Vermont law requires “The State, through the Commissioner of Fish and Wildlife, [to] safeguard the fish, wildlife, and fur-bearing animals of the State for the people of the State.”

There is a growing contingency of people who want better protections for wildlife, yet feel as though their voices fall on deaf ears. It remains to be seen whether the Fish & Wildlife Department and Board will embrace an evolved culture that seeks more humane wildlife management with a greater focus on compassionate conservation, and abundant populations of watchable wildlife that all can enjoy.

Leslie Blow Middlebury

signed by Maisy.

Maisy understands what is important. Being open to learning enriches all of our lives. Learning is an integral part of living. Sometimes, summer experiences affect what happens during the rest of the

school year. My sense is that the Expanded Learning Program gives all students a positive slant on learning.

I thank our school district for allowing this program to unfold.

Patricia Heather-Lea Bristol

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) and students.

One student in her Block-Out Poetry class made this poem: “Everybody said, ‘Do anything.’ They can.” (“They can” was hand written by the creator.) The poem was

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Clifford Symposium in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Middlebury College, locations around campus. This year’s topic is “The Soviet Century: One Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution.” and aims to re-examine the global significance of this watershed moment in modern history in political, social and cultural terms. Highlights include a Keynote Address,

by Minkah Makalani, panel discussions on “The Revolution Abroad” and “The Dark Side of Utopia,” and closing keynote address by Mark Harrison. Free and open to the public. More info at middlebury.edu/ Clifford/2017.

22nd Annual Northeastern Open Atlatl Championship in Addison. Saturday, Sept. 23, 10:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 8149 Route 17W. Participate in or watch this annual atlatl championship testing skills in accuracy and distance. The sport of using the atlatl to throw darts is based on the ancient hunting technique. Newcomers to experts welcome.

Children’s activities. Workshops and demonstrations on flint knapping, Woodland pottery, and other crafts and skills. Competitors: $7 pre-registered, $8 sameday registration; visitors: $5 adult, free for children

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Huddlebury and Muddlebury joint Sun Style Tai Chi classes in Vergennes. meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Sept.

Monday, Sept. 25, 9-11:15 a.m., St Peter’s 21, 4-5:30, Community Room, Middlebury Parish Hall. Free. Intermediate, 9 – 10 a.m., Police Department, 1 Lucius Shaw Ln. through Monday, Dec. 11. Beginner, 10:15-11:15 Hannah Fair and Kevin Killen concert in Brandon. a.m., through Monday, Oct. 30. More info contact Lee Thursday, Sept. 21, 7-10 p.m., Foley Brothers Francis 802-877-2464 or lhfrancis1@myfairpoint.net.

Brewing, 79 Stone Mill Dam Rd. Presented by Addison County Democratic Committee meeting in BANDADE, a charitable business that strives to Middlebury. Monday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m., Community unite music lovers, musicians and fans in the fight Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Topics for against cancer. Tickets are $10 and can be bought discussion include planning for the Health Care Forum online at bandadeontour.us. on Sept. 28 and finalizing the slate of officers for 2017Clifford Symposium in Middlebury. Thursday, 2019. All Democrats are encouraged to attend.

Sept. 21, 4:30-10 p.m., Middlebury College, locations around campus. This year’s topic is “The Soviet Century: One Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution.” and aims to re-examine the global Sounding Out the “Afropolitan” lecture significance of this watershed moment in modern in Middlebury. Tuesday, Sept. 26, 4:30 history in political, social and cultural terms. Keynote p.m. Room 221, Mahaney Center for the address by Susan Buck-Moss at 4:30 p.m., in the Arts, Middlebury College. Ethnomusicologist Frank Mahaney Center for the Arts, and a screening of Gunderson of Florida State University explores the “Karl Marx City” at Twilight Auditorium at 8 p.m. Free connections between Tanzanian singer and band and open to the public. More info at leader Muhidin Gurumo’s 1973 musiki wa dansi middlebury.edu/Clifford/2017. dance genre piece Nimwokoe Nani? (Whom Should Jim Douglas in Bristol. Thursday, I Rescue?) and Trinidadian Lord Sept. 21, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 Kitchener’s 1950s calypso song “Wife West Street. The Bristol Historical Society will host former Vermont VERGENNES MOVEMENT STUDIO ‑ Mindfulness Based and Mother.” Free. middlebury.edu/ Governor Jim Douglas to talk about Stress Reduction, a suite of meditative practices improving wellness, arts or 802-443-3168. his activities and thoughts since offered at Vergennes Movement Studio, 179 Main St., Vergennes, leaving the governorship. The public weekly beginning Thursday, September 28th – November is encouraged to engage him in topics of current concern. Call Steve 16 @6:00 p.m. – 8:30 visit www.ronidonnenfeld.com, 802 Storymatters in Ayotte at 453-7709 for details.

-793-5073. Registration Deadline – September 21 Middlebury. Wednesday, Sept. 27, 4 p.m., Vermont Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. A local storysharing gathering. Drawing on the image of fire, the night’s theme will be “Sparks, flames, embers – cope and hope: tales from our lives.” Come listen and share.

“What can feminism speak to?” — A feminist dialogue in Middlebury. Wednesday, Sept. 27, 4:30 p.m., Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center. Writer Katha Pollitt and scholar Janell Hobson discuss what feminism can, and cannot, speak to, and how it has turned out to be an extremely powerful political force.

Free and open to the public.

Japanese film “Silver Spoon” on screen in Middlebury. Wednesday, Sept. 27, 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, Sunderland Language Center Middlebury College. This award-winning film portrays the struggles of an urban Japanese high school student who enrolls in an agricultural high school in Hokkaido. Sponsored by the 13th Japan Foundation Film Series and the Japanese Studies Department. Free and open to the public.

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“I joined the Parent Child Center Board after volunteering there for two years, directing the greenhouse/vegetable garden, my master gardener project. I was impressed by the P.C.C.’s mission ‘to provide support and education to families.’ It complimented my life goal of helping others, especially those who have not had the same life advantages that I have. As a veteran high school teacher and avid gardener, my involvement at the P.C.C. is a perfect marriage.”

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NINA KECK SNAPPED this photo of laundry during her tour of Syrian refugee camps in Jordan. Keck will talk about her experiences there at the One World Library Project presentation at Lawrence Memorial Library in Bristol on Saturday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m.

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Green Mountain Club Silver Lake hike in Salisbury. Friday, Sept. 22, Falls of Lana/ Silver Lake parking lot, Route 53, south of Branbury State Park. Moderate, 5.5 miles round-trip, including a loop hike around the lake. More info contact Ruth Penfield at 802-388-5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail. com. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Clifford Symposium in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Middlebury College, locations around campus. This year’s topic is “The Soviet Century: One Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution.” and aims to re-examine the global significance of this watershed moment in modern history in political, social and cultural terms. Highlights include a scene from Vsevolod Vishnevsky’s 1933 play, a panel discussion on Art and Revolution, keynote Address by Mark Steinberg. Opening reception, and a piano concert.

Free and open to the public. More info at middlebury. edu/Clifford/2017.

Atlatl Workshop in Addison. Friday, Sept. 22, noon-5 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 8149 Route 17W. Atlatl experts Bob and Cheryll Berg of Thunderbird Atlatl teach traditional and modern techniques of atlatl and dart construction, flint knapping, hafting stone points, and cordage making. Enjoy atlatl lore and coaching on the use of your new atlatl. Cost: $70 - includes instruction & materials. Pre-registration required.

Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes. Friday, Sept.

22, 5:30-6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church.

The menu will include chicken and biscuits, stuffing, vegetable, cranberry sauce and dessert. Come and bring your friends. Free.

Exhibition opening reception in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 22, 6-7:30 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center. Join us for light refreshments and the chance to view this installation on “The Soviet Century: 100 Years of the Russian Revolution,” with highlights from the museum’s holdings of Russian art, including photographs, luxury items by the firm of Fabergé, and a recently acquired Soviet poster. Brief remarks at 6:30 p.m. In collaboration with the 2017 Clifford Symposium, which marks the centennial of the Russian Revolution. Free. More info at www.middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

VPR’s Nina Keck discusses the Syrian Refugee crisis Bristol. Friday, Sept. 22, 7-8:30 p.m., Holley Hall, 1 South St. Hosted by the One World Library Project, Keck will share photos and talks about her recent reporting trip to Jordan, one of the countries most impacted by the crisis. Free and open to the public and accessible to those with disabilities.

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Hurricane relief breakfast in Shoreham.

Saturday, Sept. 23, 8-10 a.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Enjoy French toast with local maple syrup, breakfast casseroles, home fries, sausages, beverages, and a surprise. $8 for Adults $8/children under 12 $4/$20 for families with small children. All proceeds will benefit Hurricane Relief Efforts and the Church Restoration Fund.

WomenSafe volunteer training in Middlebury.

Saturday, Sept. 23. The first session of WomenSafe’s fall training. Acquire the tools needed to aid WomenSafe in their work in the community. Space is limited. More info at 802-388-9180, info@womensafe. net or womensafe.net.

Annual Silent Auction in Bristol. Saturday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Bristol town green. Art on Main will hold a silent auction as part of Bristol’s Harvest Fest. Stop by the booth and bid on prints, photographs, ceramics, jewelry, Vermont food products and gift certificates for local goods and services. Proceeds benefit Art on Main winter programs like the local student clay show and

under 15. Call for details.

Contemplative natural history of trees and shrubs walk in Orwell. Saturday, Sept. 23, 1-3 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Marc Lapin, an expert on natural community ecology and botany, leads this guided walk to enjoy the trees and shrubs on Mount Independence.

Co-sponsored by Mount Independence Coalition.

Fall ham dinner in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 23, 5-6:30 p.m., St. Thomas Church, Route 7. Tickets: good will offering. Proceeds go to support outreach efforts of the parish. More info contact Barb Brown at 802-247-3194.

Chicken BBQ in New Haven. Saturday Sept. 23, 5-7:30 p.m., New Haven Firehouse, 1389 Main St. The New Haven Fire Department’s BBQ will offer half of a barbequed Misty Knoll chicken, potato salad, baked beans, chips, rolls and drinks for $12.00 per serving.

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Vermont Sun Triathlon series in Salisbury. Sunday, Sept. 24, Branbury State Park. Vermont Sun Half Marathon. For more info or to register visit vermontsuntriathalonseries.com.

All-you-can-eat breakfast in Vergennes. Sunday, Sept. 24, Start Time: 7:30-10 a.m., Masonic Lodge, 54 School St. $8/person.

Green Mountain Club Young Adventurer’s Club hike in Ripton. Sunday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m., Robert Frost Trail. A family fun time at the interpretive trail of Robert Frost’s poetry. Geared towards adventurers between four and eight, but all are welcome. Outings are tailored to individual participants. More info contact YAC Leader Lauren Bierman at 802-349-7498 or laurenbierman1218@gmail.com. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Chicken pie dinner in West Addison. Sunday, Sept.

24, 12:30 p.m. West Addison Community House.

Adults $10, ages 6-10 $5, age 5 and younger Free.

Sponsored by the U.M.W. of the United Methodist Church of West Addison.

Lake Champlain Bridge Guided Walk in Addison.

Sunday, Sept. 24, 1-3 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 8149 Route 17W. Learn the history of what surrounds you as you walk across the Lake Champlain Bridge. Chimney Point site administrator Elsa Gilbertson and Crown Point site manager Michael Roets lead this guided round trip walk. Meet at Chimney Point. Rain or shine, dress for the weather.

Tickets $6.

Rotary Fall Festival in Middlebury. Sunday, Sept.

24, 2-6 p.m., in tents behind Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts. This event will feature music by the Horse Traders, contra dancing with Red Dog Riley, a beer and wine tent plus more than 20 food and craft vendors. Admission to this familyfriendly event with activities for all ages will be $10 for adults and $5 for children with tickets on sale at the Middlebury Inn, Countryside Carpet and Paint and Holden Insurance. More info: middleburyrotary.org.

Eliza Marsh’s Book of Sentiments talk in Ferrisburgh.

Sunday, Sept. 24, 3 p.m., Rokeby Museum, 4334 U.S. Route 7. Brandon resident Eliza Marsh had an unusual hobby — she collected the autographs of leading abolitionists in the 1840s. Vermont Historian Kevin Thornton discovered her project and will share his research on her life and labor. $2 program only or free with Museum admission.

“When Ends Don’t Meet: Poverty in Addison County” community conversation in Middlebury.

Sunday, Sept. 24, 4-5:30 pm, The Congregational Church of Middlebury. Join Jean Montross of HOPE, Doug Sinclair of the Charter House Coalition, Tiffany Sargent of Middlebury College’s Privilege & Poverty Academic Initiative, and Donna Bailey of the Addison County Parent/Child Center, for a frank discussion about poverty in our midst, and how our community can start to address it.

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“How to publish your book – let me count the ways” in Vergennes. Thursday, Sept. 28, 3-5 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “Vermont Wild” author Megan Price will lead this workshop about getting your work published. Free.

Registration required. Limit 20. More info contact Muir Haman at 802-877-221 or muir.haman@bixbylibrary. org.

Evolving health care in Addison County forum in Middlebury. Thursday, Sept. 28, 7-8:30 p.m.

Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Hosted by Addison County Democrats, speakers include Senator Claire Ayer, Porter CEO Fred Kniffin, Dr. Deb Richter, Universal Primary Care advocate, and Dan Barlow of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility. Light snacks at 6:30.

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Italian Spaghetti Dinner in Bristol. Friday, Sept. 29, 5-7 p.m., St Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. “Knights in Italy,” hosted by the St. Ambrose Knights of Columbus to raise funds for victims of Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. All-you-caneat spaghetti with sauce, garlic bread, salad, beverages and dessert. Adults $10/$5 for children 12 and under/$25 for family.

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Annual book, baked goods and pumpkin sale in Orwell. Saturday, Sept. 30, 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Orwell Free Library, Main Street. Delicious baked goods, a great selection of used books and pumpkins will be for sale to benefit the Orwell Free Library.

Benefit road race in Sudbury. Saturday, Sept. 30, 9:45 a.m., Sudbury Country School, 31 Schoolhouse Rd. The Sudbury Road Race is a 5K & Fun Run on to raise funds for Whiting and Sudbury Learning Academy students. Early bird registration through Sept. 23. Adults $16/18 & under $9. After Sept. 23, adults $20/18 & under, $10. Register in person or by mail at: Sudbury Country School attn: road race. 31 Schoolhouse Rd. Sudbury, VT 05733. Everyone is welcome. More info contact Shirley and Don Evans at 518 643-2414 or runforjon.com.

Hurricane relief dinner in Bristol. Friday, Sept. 29, 5-7 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. “Knights in Italy” spaghetti dinner hosted by St. Ambrose Knights of Columbus. All-you-can-eat spaghetti with sauce (with or without meat), garlic bread, salad, beverages, and dessert. All proceeds will go to those affected by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma. $10 for adults/$5 for children 12 and under/ $25 for a family. Handicapped accessible.

King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Sept.

30, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center The socializing begins with a sandwich supper and then on to an evening of fun and card games. A great way to keep in touch with your neighbors and support the Grange. All are welcome.

Ethiopian Boogie benefit in Lincoln. Saturday, Sept.

30, 7-10:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 East River St. The Willowell Foundation presents the New Nile Orchestra, “New England’s Finest Ethiopian Funk,” who will be playing to benefit One Love AIDS HIV Awareness Theater, a theater troupe in Hawassa, Ethiopia that performs shows about AIDS and gender equality in rural towns in Southern Ethiopia. Ethiopian food and crafts will be available. Tickets $10/ kids under 12 free, Food: $10/kids $5. Available at the door. More info at willowell.org, info@willowell.org or 802-453-6195.

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Green Mountain Club Mt. Philo hike in Charlotte. Sunday, Oct. 1, 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

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ROTARY CLUB OF Middlebury holds its first annual Fall Festival on Sunday, Sept. 24, from 2-6 p.m. behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts at Middlebury College. Local bands Red Dog Riley (above) and The Horse Traders will both play at the event, so get your dancing shoes on.

a dog friendly event. Contact Ralph Burt at 802-3554415 or at reburt@gmavt.net. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

“I Rise” on stage in Middlebury. Sunday, Oct. 1, 2-3 p.m. Town Hall Theater, 68 South Pleasant St. A fundand awareness-raising event for WomenSafe, “I Rise” is a multi-layered program of literary and performance art inspired by, and in service to people impacted by domestic and sexual violence. The performance promotes advocacy through dance, short plays, and readings. Tickets in advance $10/$15 at the door.

Chicken and biscuit dinner in Middlebury. Sunday, Oct. 1, 6 p.m., Middlebury United Methodist Church, 43 North Pleasant St., and very Sunday following through Nov. 5.

College. Cynthia Nixon plays 19th-century American poet Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies’ biopic. Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

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Madaila on the Mountain in Hancock. Saturday, Friday, Oct. 6, 8 a.m.-6 p.m., Burnham Hall, Oct. 7, 3 p.m., Middlebury College Snow Bowl. A 52 East River Rd. More info at 802-453-5995. fundraiser and celebration of United Way’s 50 years Senior Luncheon in Bristol. Thursday, Oct. 6, noon, in Addison County, featuring Vermont’s acclaimed First Baptist, 10 Park St. Chicken and biscuits, pop band Madaila, celebrated local youth bands, cranberry sauce, peas and carrots and brownie a food trucks, fall foliage chair lift rides, wine and la mode. Suggested donation is $4. Call Nancy at craft beer courtesy of Two Brothers Tavern, kids 453-5276 to be on the list. Come early and enjoy activities and many other surprises for all ages. talking with friends and meet new ones.

General Admission $15 in advance/$18 at the door; Artists’ reception in Bristol. Friday, Oct. 6, 6-8 p.m., students $12 in advance/$15/at the door; kids under ARTSight Gallery, 6 South St. “The Art of Word” 12 free. All proceeds benefit United Way of Addison features mixed media, collage, installation and County. More info at rockthesnowbowl.com or the paintings by Lily Hinrichsen, Karla Van Vliet, Rachel Middlebury College Box Office.

Baird, Basha Miles, Annie Perkins and Reagh Pre-performance Dinner in Middlebury. Saturday, Greenleaf Jr. Show runs Sept. 1-Dec. 31. More Oct. 7, 6:30 p.m. Lower Lobby, Mahaney Center info at kvavlie@middlebury.edu or lilyhinrichson@ for the Arts, Middlebury College. Join fellow Artist Brian Novatny in Middlebury. gmail.com.

Danish String Quartet concertgoers for a delicious, Tuesday, Oct. 3, 12:15 p.m., Room 304, Stargazing open house at Middlebury College seasonal meal. Catered buffet dinner, seated family Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury observatory. Friday, Oct. 6, 8-9:30 p.m., weather style. Meal tickets: $35; cash bar. On sale to PASS College. Cameron Visiting Artist Novatny is an innovapermitting. Mittleman Observatory is atop McCardell Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. tive artist, equally at home with painting and drawing, Bicentennial Hall. A variety of interesting stars, star middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802-443-3168. with a remarkable approach to mark-making, line, and clusters, and nebulae visible through the observaDowntown Bob Stannard on stage in Vergennes. materiality. His work has been exhibited across the tory’s telescopes, which range up to 24 inches.

Saturday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m. Vergennes Opera country. Free. He will be leading a four-day intensive Check the website go.middlebury.edu/observatory/ House, 120 Main St. Stannard and his band Those drawing workshop Oct. 2-5 for on- and off-campus or call the observatory at 443-2266 after 6 p.m. on Dangerous Bluesman will rock the house. participants. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or the evening of the event for weather status. Free.

Durham County Poets on stage in Brandon.

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“Behind the Punch line: an Evening of Comedic Saturday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 “VT Wildlife Biologist in Alaska — A First-Hand Storytelling” in Middlebury. Friday, Oct. 6, 8-9:30 Country Club Rd. A lively group from Quebec playAccount” in Orwell. Tuesday, Oct. 3, 7 p.m., Orwell p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Come hear ing soulful folk/roots with hints of blues and jazz.

Free Library, Main Street. Carol Shaw will present her seven storytellers tell first-person, true comedic Tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. experience while visiting Cape Krusenstern National stories without notes. If you would like to tell a story Reservations required for dinner and recommended Monument in Alaska, where she worked along side contact Michael Kingsbury at 802-459-2145 or for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247the Wildlife Conservation Society on their Lagoon mrk4vt@aol.com. Space closes quickly.

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Monitoring Project and began field research to discover net. local the Muskox herd integrity.

Joe K. Walsh Band on stage in Ripton. Saturday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Ripton Community Coffee House, 1305 Rt. 125.

Hailed by CBC-Newfoundland Toulouse Lautrec as “one of the best mandolinbiography on screen in ists of his generation,” Walsh Middlebury. Wednesday, will appear with an all-star Oct. 4, 11 a.m., Town Hall Theater. band featuring Avril Smith on Great Art Wednesdays, Town Hall guitar, Brittany Karlson, bass, Theater’s art film series, returns and John Mailander on fiddle. with the biography of Toulouse7:30 p.m. open mic followed Lautrec by Waldemar Januszczak by featured performers. $10 Tickets are $13/$8 students, general admission/$15 generwhich includes $1 preservation ous admission/$3 kids under fee. Tickets may be purchased 12. Doors open at 7 p.m. at townhalltheater.org, 802-382Open mic sign-up and info at 9222, at the THT box office, or at 802-388-9782 or rcch.org. the door Mon.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. or Danish String Quartet one hour before show time. performs in Middlebury.

Manhattan Short Film Festival Saturday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m., on screen in Middlebury.

Robison Hall, Mahaney Wednesday, Oct. 4, 6:30 p.m., Center for the Arts, Middlebury Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. Ten College. The Middlebury debut finalist films from the festival will program includes Bartók’s screen simultaneously around the first quartet, Beethoven’s first world and viewers will vote for Best Razumovsky quartet, and Film and Best Actor. Films hail arrangements of traditional from nine countries. Tickets $10.

Nordic folk tunes Reserved “Willa Cather’s Prairie seating. Tickets: $28 General Landscapes” lecture in public/$22 Midd ID holders/$6 Middlebury. Wednesday, Oct 4, 7 Midd students. On sale to p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main PASS Members 9/6, ID holdSt. European immigrant farmers ers 9/11, general public 9/14.

HANNA FAIR AND Kevin Killen will perform at Foley Brothers Brewing in Branfail as often as they succeed in middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice don for a fundraiser for BANDADE on Thursday, Sept 21 at 7 p.m. The organizaWilla Cather’s novels. Amherst or 802-443-3168. tion strives to unite music lovers, musicians and fans in the fight against cancer.

College professor Michele Barale examines the relation between Cather’s art and her very tangible The Grift in Brandon. Friday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., earth.

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Japanese film “Akanezora” on screen in Middlebury.

Stella Blue Sky in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 22, 9 Wednesday, Oct. 4, 8 p.m. Dana Auditorium, Ladies Aid rummage sale in Lincoln. p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

Sunderland Language Center. Based on Yamamoto Saturday, Oct. 7, 8 a.m.-noon., Burnham Vermont Symphony Orchestra in Middlebury.

Ichikiri’s award-winning novel, set in Edo in the midHall, 52 East River Rd. Saturday is $2/bag Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for 18th century, the film tells the story of a couple whose day. More info at 802-453-5995. the Arts. successful tofu shop is threatened by family problems.

Dave Keller Band in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 23, Sponsored by the 13th Japan Foundation Film Series 16th annual Dead Creek Wildlife Day in Addison.

Saturday, Oct. 7, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., Dead Creek 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music and the Japanese Studies Department. Free and open Management Area, 966 VT Route 17. Celebrate Del Rue in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept 23, 9 p.m., to the public.

Vt. Fish & Wildlife’s Dead Creek area with presenTwo Brothers Tavern. tations and nature walks and family activities Dafra Kura Band in Middlebury. Tuesday, Sept. 26, and explore the new visitor’s center. More info at 7:30 p.m., McCullough Student Center, Middlebury 802-828-1000.

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Green Mountain Club Snake Mountain “Quilting in the Land of Milk and Honey” in Jester Jigs in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 29, 9 p.m., hike in Addison. Thursday, Oct. 5, Snake Middlebury. Saturday, Oct. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern.

Mtn. An easy/moderate two-mile hike with a Middlebury Recreation Facility, 154 Creek Rd. A Dissipated 8 in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., gradual ascent of 980 feet. The summit offers great two-day quilt show to raise funds for the “Everybody Brandon Town Hall. views of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks.

Wins!” reading mentor program and the Milk and Will Hatch in Bristol. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., Appropriate clothing, water, hiking poles and lunch or Honey Quilters’ Guild. Featuring 100 quilts, vendor Hatch 31. snack. This is a dog friendly hike. More info contact booths, raffle baskets, ornaments and other handAdam Karch in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7:30 Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@comcast.net or made items. Lunch available for purchase. Tickets p.m. Brandon Music.

802-349-5653. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf. $5, available at the door. Lunch available for Emory Fanning in Middlebury. Sunday, Oct. 1, 4 org. purchase. More info at milkandhoneyquilters.com. p.m., Mead Chapel.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit in Middlebury. Thursday, The Year 1777 and the American Revolution in UNDUN in Middlebury. Friday, Oct. 6, 9 p.m., Two Oct. 5, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Actor MacArthur Orwell. Saturday, Oct. 7, 1-2:30 p.m., Mount Brothers Tavern.

Stine will open the never-seen sealed script of White Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Strangled Darlings in Bristol. Saturday, Oct. 7, 7 Rabbit, Red Rabbit in front of a live audience and Independence Rd. What was happening elsewhere p.m., Hatch 31. perform it as he reads it. in the American Revolution in 1777, 240 years ago, Downtown Bob Stannard in Vergennes. Saturday, Hunter access seminar for Vermont landowners as the British under Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne headed Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House. in Middlebury. Thursday, Oct. 5, 6:30-9 p.m., Ilsley toward Saratoga? Site interpreter and historian Durham County Poets in Brandon. Saturday, Oct. Public Library, 75 Main St. Co-hosted by the nonprofit Paul Andriscin gives an illustrated talk about events 7, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Vermont Coverts, Vermont Fish & Wildlife department on Long Island, New York City, and British Gen. Joe K. Walsh in Ripton. Saturday, Sept. 7, 7:30 p.m., staff will: introduce you to who hunters are and what William Howe’s effort to capture Philadelphia.

Ripton Community Coffee House. hunting is and is not; review landowner rights and the MET Live in HD in Middlebury. Saturday, Oct. 7, Danish String Quarter in Middlebury. Saturday, laws and regulations that govern hunting; and provide 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Live screening on the Oct. 7, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts. a forum to discuss concerns about hunters or huntMetropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s Second Half in Middlebury. Saturday, Oct 7, 9 p.m., ing on your property. Pre-registration not required.

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PAGE 10A — Addison Independent, Thursday, September 21, 2017

Addison County Agriculure News

DAN BARNES, RIGHT, discusses the diet of his dairy cows with Poulin Grain dairy nutritionist Diane Norris.

Bridport farmers leap into robotic milkers Milk production is up, cows happy

BRIDPORT —Today more than ever, technology is interwoven into our daily lives, and, recently, is becoming a key player on Vermont dairy farms. In April of this year, Dan Barnes of Barnes Black and White Farm in Bridport took a leap of faith this past April and turned to robotic milking technology to harvest the essential product from his dairy cows.

Robotic milking systems not only take care of the milking chores near-

ly 24 hours a day, they also regularly screen every individual cow’s health, monitor the quality of her milk, and aim to position the dairy to be more sustainable into the future.

Barnes has been impressed with his cows’ transition to the robotic milking facility, according to a media release from Poulin Grain Inc. “For the first few days, we had to move the cows up to the robot to show them where to be milked,” said Barnes. “But before we knew it the cows were visiting the robot to be milked completely on their own. I think they like the ability to manage

their own schedules, and decide on their own when they would like to eat, lie down or be milked.”

It appears that the cows, too, are enjoying their new home. In fact, they are even producing more milk, Poulin reported. Barnes still milks cows conventionally, three times a day in a milking parlor. However, at peak milk production, the cows in the robot facility are making over a gallon of milk per cow more than their conventionally milked herd mates.

Producing more milk, with the same number of cows, means that

A COW IS milked in the robotic milking station at the Barnes farm in Bridport. After being taught how to do it, the cows choose when to be milked voluntarily when their udders are full of milk.

Vermont to be represented at the Big E

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SPRINGFIELD, Mass. — Some Addison County businesses will be featured this week in the State Building at the Big E — New England’s largest agricultural fair.

Vermont will once again share its culture and heritage with more than 1 million attendees at the Big E. The fair kicked off last weekend in West Springfield, Mass., and will run through Oct. 1.

Among the Vermont companies that will be featured in the Vermont Building: American Flatbread, Cabot Cheese, Vermont Cookie Love of Ferrisburgh, Danforth Pewter of Middlebury, Seedsheet of Middlebury, Agricola Farm of Panton, Champlain Orchards of Shoreham

and Maple Landmark of Middlebury.

An already popular Big E attraction, the Vermont Building has added some new key features to help showcase Vermont products. The Journey’s End patio has been constructed in the back of the building, complete with a new performing stage, additional vendors and elegant landscaping, all replicating Vermont’s charming beauty.

Monkton’s own Pete Sutherland will perform traditional and roots music with his band “Pete’s Posse” on that stage on Oct. 1, 2-5 p.m.

The Agency of Agriculture, Food & Markets has teamed up with the Department of Tourism to help spread the #thinkvt message and

bring exhibitors in that demonstrate why Vermont is a special place to live, work and do business. Gov. Phil Scott is scheduled to visit the Vermont Building on Vermont Day, Saturday, September 23.

“It’s great to see our agricultural entrepreneurs get the opportunity to showcase their products at The Big E this year,” said Scott. “Our agricultural producers are known for high-quality, dependable goods, which distinguish the Vermont brand. With the sector evolving and new companies continuing to emerge in our state, the Big E represents an opportunity for growing businesses to build relationships and strengthen that brand with out-ofstate consumers.”

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the robots are also improving the overall sustainability of the dairy.

“There is a fixed amount of resources that go towards raising a young heifer into an adult milking cow,” explained Barnes. “Providing each adult cow with a comfortable environment, and allowing her to give us more milk every day, means that we are producing more food for our community without expanding our environmental footprint.”

Barnes Black and White Farm is owned by Dan Barnes, along with his father Bill and mother Meg, and his uncle Bruce. The Barnes family milks a total of 1,200 cows divided across three different locations in Addison County.

The decision to incorporate robotic milking into the farm business was threefold. First and foremost, Dan Barnes felt, “that it was the right thing to do for the cows.

There are so many benefits when you give the cows back their time and allow them to manage their own schedule.” Additionally, because the Barnes family milks cows at three different facilities, the autonomy of robots fit well into that system. And lastly, robots provided both a cost (See Robotics, Page 11A)

BRITT HILL OF Four Hills Farm in Bristol was recently awarded the Robert Jacquier Memorial Scholarship by Agri-Mark families.

The Scholarship will help Hill further her post-secondary education.

Hill wins scholarship from Agri-Mark BRISTOL — In order to provide financial assistance to their farm family owners, Agri-Mark Family Farms typically offer 10 post-secondary education scholarships of $1,000 each.

Members of Agri-Mark farm families are encouraged to apply and are judged based on their community activities, school activities, financial need, dairy activities and career objective. The applications are judged by the three Young Cooperator Program Officers and the three program advisors, who are also members

of the board of directors.

This year’s Robert Jacquier Memorial Scholarship award-winner is Britney Hill of Four Hills Farm in Bristol. Hill studied at SUNY Cobleskill for two years and is a rising senior at Cornell University studying Animal Science.

She is a member of the Red and White Junior Member Board and Vermont Junior Ayrshire Club. She is very involved in her community through the Cornell University Dairy Science Club, (See Britt Hill, Page 11A)

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Robotics (Continued from Page 10A) and stability advantage compared to a larger human labor force.

According to Barnes, “With robots, you are essentially locking in 20 years of labor.”

Barnes purchased four Lely Astronaut A4 automated milking systems.

Each robot can milk between 50 and 60 cows every day. The robot saves a map of each cows’ udder in its database, and the cows wear a collar with an Radio Frequency ID (RFID) card that identifies them when they walk into the robot.

Before milking, the robot uses lasers to determine how the cow is standing, and then cleans her udder. When she is finished milking, her teats are sprayed with an iodine-based moisturizer, and she is then free to return to the pen. Because the cows visit the robot voluntarily when they feel that they are ready to be milked, this entire process can be completed without a human present.

The maker of the robotic milking technology also promotes other features that it says improve the way a farm monitors cow health. The RFID collars count the amount of steps that a cow takes every day, similar to a pedometer worn by a human. The robots measure the temperature of the milk produced at each milking, and if a cow catches a cold and develops a fever, the milk temperature will be elevated and the cow will be flagged for further attention.

Perhaps most importantly, the robots also offer a gentle, predictable milking experience. A robot can pro-

COWS AT BARNES Black and White Farm have 24-hour-a-day access to feed, stalls to lie in, and the robotic milking station.

vides the consistency that cows love at every milking, and milks around the clock, which gives farmers like Dan Barnes the flexibility to focus

on other aspects of his farm, or allows him to skip away from the farm to spend time with his family.

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Britt Hill (Continued from Page 10A) Cornell Western Equestrian Team, and her professional agricultural sorority Sigma Alpha.

Hill plans to return to her family’s dairy farm, where she hopes to improve the genetics on her farm to increase herd components, and open the farm to public tours to inform consumers about agricultural production. She is looking forward to completing her final year at Cornell and continuing her career in dairy herd management upon graduation.

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PAGE 12A — Addison Independent, Thursday, September 21, 2017

STATE SEN. CHRIS Bray, second from left, speaks during a Middlebury Climate Economy Initiative forum Monday afternoon.

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Climate (Continued from Page 1A) With that objective in mind, eight forums were held Monday on topics related to economic opportunities presented by the economy moves away from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Topics included: Renewable Energy Generation Opportunities for Home and Business; Housing; Neighborhood-Scale Initiatives; Local Food, Agriculture and Health; Energy Efficiency and Transformation Opportunities for Home and Business; Infrastructure and Transportation Efficiency; Business Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Jobs; and Middlebury’s Vision for Climate Success.

The VCRD took detailed notes of the conversations at all forums and will identify common themes.

Community members will then be invited to reconvene on Oct. 26 to discuss those themes and vote on three to five topics — out of about 25 — that the community will set as goals to achieve. In November, task forces will be assembled and start to work on those initiatives.

Monday’s forums — held at Middlebury Town Offices, St. Stephens Episcopal Church, the Ilsley Library and Middlebury Union Middle School — took similar forms. All community members and visiting team members introduced themselves, and were asked to think about what the current climate economy landscape looks like in Middlebury, what obstacles they have been encountering, and

what potential solutions they might imagine.

CHALLENGES AND SUCCESSES At Middlebury’s Town Office, a net-zero energy building equipped with an energy dashboard, two discussions focused on energy generation and efficiency at the home and business level.

Community members recognized the encouraging progress made

by Addison County and the state, including individual and commercial installation of solar panels and heat pumps.

Businesses and non-profits have also led the way in various energy efficiency programs, including audit services provided by Vermont Gas and Neighborworks of Western Vermont, Button Up workshops led by Efficiency Vermont, and community nonprofits like the Addison County Relocalization Network (ACORN) that offer consistent ways to learn of new energy-related opportunities and take advantage of local and statewide programs.

One example cited was the state’s Vermont Home Energy Challenge, which set a goal in 2008 for improving the energy efficiency of 25 percent of the state’s homes. The town of Weybridge was recently recognized as improving the highest percentage of homes in its community over the past few years.

Daniel Wright, a member of the Weybridge Energy Committee, said that the community’s smaller size

and motivated leaders were keys to the town’s accomplishment.

MORE EDUCATION NEEDED Many residents at the forums stressed the need for more effective community-wide education, such as implementing cross-curricular projects in local schools that will allow students to engage and come up with theoretical and practical solutions. Middlebury College was also mentioned several times, as an institution that has the expertise and capacity to contribute to the community’s efforts.

Residents also noted that lower income groups face difficulties affording energy efficiency measures because of the relatively high cost compared to the current price of fossil fuels. That is, today’s price of oil and natural gas make the return on investment a lengthy process.

Betsy Bloomer, Director of Energy Innovation Center of Green Mountain Energy in Rutland, shared her own personal story of transforming her house. When she wanted to weatherize her large Victorian house in Rutland, the cost exceeded her budget at the time, so she had to postpone some improvements. Conversations about bringing banks on board to recognize the value of energy efficient homes (in terms of higher appraised values) and making loans more favorable for customers seeking to do energyefficiency projects was one of the possible solutions noted. However, others noted there were few silver bullets to make such improvements

SARAH BROCK, ENERGY program manager for Vital Communities, speaks during a Middlebury Climate Economy Initiative forum in the Middlebury town offices Monday afternoon.

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more affordable when renovating larger, older homes.

“People get overwhelmed by the size of project because they are not just dealing with weatherizing, they are dealing with structural issues that have been neglected,” said Laura Asermily, Middlebury Select Board member, who has also been on the Middlebury Energy Committee for the past several years.

OVERCOMING OBSTACLES While obstacles are plentiful, the wide array of opportunities introduced by the “visiting teams” (area experts who specialize in energy efficiency measures) demonstrated there are resources

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At one of the evening’s last forums, Middlebury’s Vision for Climate Success, Copans asked the more than a dozen people in the room what they were doing to make the changes needed to be successful in the new climate economy. Many agreed that the process of coming together as a community and discussing all facets of the challenge has been a crucial first step.

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Porter

Nurses

(Continued from Page 1A) • Five new patient rooms. Helen Porter already serves up to 105 patients.

• Two specially designed rooms for terminally ill patients, in collaboration with Addison Respite Care Home (ARCH), an organization specializing in end-of-life services.

The project also calls for two family rooms for visits between ARCH residents and their loved ones.

• Some private rooms for patients.

There are currently no such private rooms at HPH&R. • Better flow to the Helen Porter gym, which would also be endowed with more storage space.

• More privacy for rooms in which patients receive therapy.

Porter Medical Center is currently putting together a five-year master plan for facility improvements.

But PMC officials deemed the Helen Porter project so pressing that it is jumping to the head of THIS IMAGE SHOWS the suggested interior of one of the new Addison Respite Care Home (ARCH) rooms the construction line. And PMC’s that are part of a planned $850,000 renovation at Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center. The project, recent affiliation with UVM Health which will include major upgrades to the center’s rehab facilities, is slated to get under way next February.

Image courtesy of Porter Medical Center Network will help the organization raise the resources it will need to to help pay down the costs. illnesses in different kinds of ways. rehabilitation services at HPH&R. modernize its campus.

Once the project is completed, Having the options to have different The project will modernize Helen “We are building upon all of the all of the Helen Porter-based choices for different families and Porter’s rehab services and separate great services we currently provide ARCH rooms will become centrally situations is really important. them physically from the long-term and leveraging the resources of located within the horseshoe-shaped And that’s what ARCH rooms at (nursing home) care. the UVM Health Network to bring building. The current ARCH rooms Helen Porter do. They provide an “We realize post-acute care is a more specialty services to our are now based in the long-term opportunity for people who can’t be huge service to the community, it is region, improve care care wing of the at home.” in demand, and it is its own special coordination and, building.

Rita Elder, a member of the ARCH kind of care,” Hallman said. “We most important, keep “When ARCH H a l l m a n board, said her organization has, for are now stepping back and saying, care local,” PMC started, nobody acknowledged the a long time, wanted to have a larger ‘How can we deliver that care in President Dr. Fred several months of and more centrally located presence a setting that is designed for this wanted to talk Kniffin said of the construction will within Helen Porter. purpose and has all of the attributes, impending campus about dying — impose a temporary “It’s good for this to be a priority facilities and equipment?’” i m p r o v e m e n t s , especially that hardship on Helen for (Porter), too,” she said.

Kniffin said this current $850,000 which will include a they were dying Porter residents Laurie Borden is community project will be the first in a multinew medical office and patients. coordinator for ARCH and program phased effort to update HPH&R at Helen Porter or building.

“The biggest assistant for Middlebury-based facilities.

PMC officials Porter Hospital. But challenge will Hospice Volunteer Services. She Phase one is going to be a great are treating the they are. Now, we be to ensure we said a fortified presence of ARCH first step, according to Borden. upcoming Helen are bringing dying provide great care at Helen Porter will further serve “It’s a huge step for a small Porter renovations as to all the residents to dispel the notion of dying as community,” she said. two separate projects to the forefront, and while we are being an uncomfortable topic and Reporter John Flowers is at that will occur it makes people feel doing a significant something often done in isolation. johnf@addisonindependent.com. simultaneously.

“Here, people feel less isolated,” less isolated. They c o n s t r u c t i o n NEW ARCH project,” Hallman Borden said. “When ARCH started, feel cared for, and ROOMS said. nobody wanted to talk about dying Porter has for cared about.”

He noted the — especially that they were dying — Laurie Borden, ARCH project contractor at Helen Porter or Porter Hospital. more than a decade community coordinator — enjoyed a close Middlebury- But they are. Now, we are bringing relationship with based Bread Loaf dying to the forefront, and it makes ARCH. There are Corp.

— has people feel less isolated. They feel currently three ARCH rooms at experience with building projects in cared for, and cared about.”

Helen Porter and another — dubbed medical settings.

REHABILITATION “The Estuary” — at Porter Hospital.

“I think we have a great team CENTER UPGRADES Those rooms place terminally ill working on this,” he said.

Better care is also the goal patients close to the services they Once completed, the new ARCH behind the proposed rehabilitation need and provide a more home-like center should make Helen Porter center improvements at Helen environment in which to live their an even more desirable destination Porter. Patients rehabbing from final days in dignity, officials said. for patients seeking to die with major medical procedures Demand for ARCH rooms has been dignity, officials said. Porter Medical spend an average of 14 days at on the rise, reflective of Vermont’s Center already has a well-respected HPH&R, receiving many hours of aging population and the beauty and palliative care program under the therapy to allow them to return to serenity the Green Mountain state direction of Dr. Diana Barnard. independent living. Helen Porter offers its residents.

“We are trying to create as has unfortunately had to turn Porter and ARCH recently sent out much of a home-like environment away nine patients in recent weeks a brochure touting the project, pegged as possible,” Barnard said of the because it didn’t have the space at $300,000. Officials are hoping to ARCH project. “We have people in to accommodate them, according raise $200,000 from the community our community dying with different to Doreen Kadric, director of

(Continued from Page 1A) staff, for our organization and for the remainder of our staff.”

PMC nurses and administrators have been in negotiations for several months. Union members have been emphasizing “safe staffing levels” at Porter through colorful yard signs and gatherings near court square and on the PMC campus.

The union includes nurses who work at Porter Hospital, Helen Porter Healthcare & Rehabilitation Center,

and the network of around a dozen physicians’ offices affiliated with PMC. The nurses’ current contract, finalized at the end of 2014, guaranteed salary increases of 2 percent during each of the three years of the deal. It also addressed some overtime, professional development and wage-scale concerns brought forward by the union.

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@ addisonindependent.com.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) join participants from 19 other libraries at the Vermont Fairy Tale Festival slated for this Saturday, Sept. 23, in Killington. The event, hosted by the Sherburne Library, will feature storytellers, food and crafts. The Bristol delegation will include young puppeteers who will present the tale of “The Musicians of Bremen.” The Bristol group could use a few more puppeteers. Wear a costume and pick up your magic wand at the festival. For details, call Marita at the Lawrence Memorial Library at 453-2366.

Never underestimate the impact of a good idea. Local physician Michael Kiernan’s effort to establish pollinatorfriendly vegetation on solar farms is catching on — in a big way.

On Tuesday, Renewable Energy Vermont spearheaded a statewide effort to adopt Kiernan’s initiative, called “Bee the Change.” The organization called upon all solar farm developers to voluntarily plant vegetation that provides habitat and food for pollinators (see story inside this issue).

Gov. Phil Scott on Sept. 15

announced more than 150 appointments to boards and commissions throughout the state. Many of the citizens he appointed were from Chittenden and Washington counties, but there were others from around the state, including a handful from Addison County and Brandon. Those area residents included: Jean Richardson of North Ferrisburgh, to the District 9 Environmental Commission; Angus Chaney of Brandon, to the Joint Committee on Tax Credits; Eric Clifford of Starksboro, to the Citizens Advisory Council on Lake Champlain’s Future; Dean George of Middlebury, to the Parole Board; Ellen Kahler of Starksboro and Elizabeth Gregorek of Brandon, both to the State Workforce Investment Board; David Starr of Weybridge, to the Vermont Pension Investment Committee; and Karl Neuse of Middlebury, to the Vermont Veterans’ Home Board of Trustees. The Governor is soliciting applications to fill additional vacancies and upcoming term expirations.

Anyone interested in serving on a board or commission should visit governor. vermont.gov/boards-commissions, to apply.

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Mt. Abe (Continued from Page 1A) “There’s still work to do,” said Griswold. From now through July 1, 2018, when the separate districts of ANESU officially become the Mount Abraham Unified School District, local school boards still have duties to fulfill.

“The boards are still doing work and part of that work is being a voice for the community. People who are on the board obviously have some connection with people, but they don’t represent all the viewpoints necessarily. And so when you have more people you get more viewpoints and hear from other voices who might not be at the table right now,” Griswold said.

Going into the March 2017 Town Meeting, no candidates were listed on the ballot for Bristol, with two seats vacant, or for single seats open in New Haven and Starksboro. Those four vacancies remain unfilled. For the next two months, the board met with reduced numbers: five at one meeting, six at another, never higher than eight because of absences.

On May 10, Starksboro’s Steve Rooney attended his first Mount Abe

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board meeting, bringing the ranks to 10 members. On June 12, Tom Darling began as a Bristol school director.

At present, the Mount Abe board has 11 of its designated 13 members.

Two seats remain empty: one Bristol and one New Haven.

“It can be tough to fill these spots, as ever, especially when the board in question is slated to go defunct,” said Robinson Elementary School Board Chair Louis Dupont. The RES board appointed Rooney at its May 23 meeting. (Local school boards appoint members to their own and to the high school board when members resign or when vacancies aren’t filled by elections.)

Dupont continued: “There are and will be plenty of opportunities for interested volunteers to contribute.”

Bristol Elementary chair Elin Melchior noted that as the changeover progresses, her board is meeting less frequently than in previous years. Development of the 2018-2019 school year budget is in the hands of the MAUSD board, which began its work last February. She also observed that

responsibilities for the current Bristol Elementary board won’t conclude until the final audit on this year’s school budget — which could take place in late 2018 or early 2019.

Along with overseeing the bond vote, Griswold said the Mount Abe board would continue to pay the school’s bills and work on policy and governance issues. And, like the elementary school boards throughout the supervisory union, the board will be working on the handoff to MAUSD. “It’s kind of like closing up shop. We’re going to hand over responsibilities to the district board.

So we’re going to be defining what we pass on,” Griswold said.

Until that transition, Griswold reiterated the importance of the Mount Abe board.

“The board continues to have an important job of being in touch with the community, knowing what the community wants, and still overseeing that that’s happening.

That’s really important,” she said.

Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

Vt. seniors needed for aging survey

VERMONT — The Department of Disabilities, Aging and Independent Living (DAIL) is conducting a survey to better understand the needs of older Vermonters and the services and resources available to them. The results from this survey will help DAIL to develop Vermont’s next State Plan on Aging, a guiding document that outlines how the state of Vermont and the network of Agencies on Aging and service providers will strive to meet the needs of older Vermonters over time.

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If you live in Vermont and are age 60 or older, you are invited to take a few minutes to complete the survey. It can be found online at surveymonkey.com/r/AgingWellVT. If you would prefer a hard copy of the survey, contact Dr. Kelly Melekis at (802) 448-0928 or kellymelekisphd@gmail.com and a survey can be mailed to you at the address you provide.

The deadline to complete the survey is Oct. 1.

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“We know that Vermonters want to age well, and what you need to do that changes over time,” says DAIL Commissioner Monica Caserta Hutt.

“Let us know what’s working — and what we could be doing differently — in terms of meeting our mission to make Vermont the best state in which to grow old or to live with a disability — with dignity, respect, and independence. We value and appreciate your input.”

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Task force

Trio to launch new Middlebury restaurant

(Continued from Page 1A) schools, “and while racism shall “We felt their combined expertise remain central to its work, issues of of the world outside and the world misogyny, homophobia, ageism, antiwithin would be really helpful to start Semitism, Islamophobia, ableism and the task force off, since there’s such other forms of bias and discrimination a small window of time for the task should also be addressed,” according force,” said Hardy. to the group’s charge.

The task force will ultimately Some local residents on Monday include more than a dozen members, offered encouragement and advice including Farhad Khan, a Middlebury for the new task force. Among selectman, parent and local those who spoke was Joanna businessman; local resident Betty Colwell, a member of Middlebury Kafumbe; Weybridge Elementary chapter of Showing Up for Racial School Principal Christina Johnston; Justice (SURJ). The mission of Elaine Orozcothe 200-member Hammond, leader of The new panel will Middlebury SURJ is the Middlebury-based to educate Addison BOLD Women’s focus on issues County residents Leadership Network; of racism, bias about the harm former ID-4 board and hate in ACSD caused by white member Karen schools, “and while supremacy activities, Lefkoe; and Karen racism shall remain and to funnel money Guttentag, associate Vermont-based central to its work, to dean for judicial organizations led by affairs and student issues of misogyny, people of color. life at Middlebury homophobia, “We are really College. excited to work with ageism, anti“It’s been great Semitism, the task force and we getting all these Islamophobia, are excited to offer people interested (in opportunities to the serving), and it was ableism and other whole community on even better to find forms of bias and how we can dismantle out most of them discrimination racism in ourselves are enthusiastically should also be and in society,” interested,” Conlon addressed.”

Colwell said. said.

Poppy Reese, a District leaders will local parent and appoint some students to the task member of Middlebury SURJ, also force within the next few weeks. applauded formation of the task “We thought it would be better force. She believes the effort can be to form the task force first and then beneficial to all age groups — not go out and talk to students about just students. what their involvement would look “I think a lot of the work we need like and have things gel a little bit to do is going to start with the adults more…” ACSD Superintendent Peter working with themselves, and one Burrows said. of the things I’m really hoping for is Plans call for the task force to that the teachers and staff are going to operate as an independent working get some anti-bias training and antigroup, rather than as a subcommittee oppression training and looking at of the board. Its recommendations their own biases… ” Reese said. “In will become advisory for the order for us to do the work with the ACSD board and Burrows. Those kids, we have to do it with ourselves.” recommendations can touch on Piper Harrell is a parent and curriculum, training, policy and a teacher at Middlebury Union procedures, all in an effort to make Middle School. She said it will be ACSD schools “more diverse and incumbent on teachers to tackle welcoming,” according to the task issues of bias and intolerance headforce’s approved scope of work. on in the classroom.

Task force members won’t have “We must be courageous,” Harrell access to personnel or student said. “We must be explicit about files. And its role won’t include emotional education; we must be investigation of individual complaints explicit about the world we are related to ACSD employees or living in — in the United States and students. globally.”

The new panel will focus on issues Reporter John Flowers is at of racism, bias and hate in ACSD johnf@addisonindependent.com.

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The former “51 Main” space in downtown Middlebury will soon give way to a new, 60-seat BBQ restaurant called The Rough Cut, expected to debut in early November.

The Rough Cut will offer “southern comfort” food at reasonable prices, according to Ben Wells, the leader of a three-person team collaborating with Middlebury College on the new restaurant. The culinary foundation of the menu will be built on locally sourced poultry, beef and pork that will be given authentic BBQ treatment, as well as other items for non-carnivores and folks with gluten-free diet requirements, according to Wells.

Diners will be able to wash down their food with a wide variety of beers, wines, whiskeys and bourbons that will be carried at the new restaurant.

Unlike 51 Main, The Rough Cut won’t be staging live entertainment. But diners will be able to provide their own, courtesy of a mechanical bull that will be available for people who aren’t afraid of being thrown for a loop.

“This a really exciting project for me,” Wells said during a Monday phone interview. “I’ve done everything from washing dishes to cooking, and I waited tables for years. I’ve managed award-winning restaurants in Boston, Jackson Hole and Denver. For me, to step in and be the owner of my own place is definitely really exciting.”

The prominent spot in Middlebury’s Battell Block became available a few months ago when Middlebury College pulled the plug on 51 Main, a restaurant the institution had launched in 2008 to give students a hands-on, off-campus entrepreneurial experience that featured food, drink and occasional musical acts.

Unfortunately, 51 Main was consistently in the red, according to college officials.

“The college has been operating 51 Main at a significant loss for several years,” Middlebury College Director of Community Relations David Donahue said through an email. “We’ve tried

SEAN FLYNN, LEFT, Ben Wells and Sara Giard stand in front of 51 Main in downtown Middlebury Tuesday afternoon. The space will soon host a barbeque restaurant The Rough Cut. The trio are partners in the new venture.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

different approaches to try to improve the bottom line, but we haven’t been successful. At the same time, student interest in 51 Main has ebbed and flowed over the years. We felt it was time to try something different. We are excited to work with a partner, someone that will bring new ideas and energy to the restaurant.”

College officials found that partner in Wells and his two associates in the venture, Sean Flynn and Sara Giard.

Wells is a year 2000 alum of the Middlebury College Language Schools and serves as a volunteer coach with the Panthers’ rugby team. He has owned the Marquis Theater since 2014 and has previous experience in the restaurant industry. Wells has had a longtime goal of bringing a restaurant from concept to reality, and The Rough Cut will give him a chance to do so.

Flynn is co-founder of New Haven-based Silver Maple Construction, which is renovating the 51 Main space. The ongoing renovations — which the partners

were not quite ready to showcase this week — will create a more open layout and better flow within the new restaurant. A larger bar seating around 25 will be placed at the rear (Otter Creek side) of the space, Wells said.

Giard will serve as general manager of The Rough Cut. She has past experience working at area restaurants.

Middlebury College is helping the three partners put The Rough Cut on the local dining map.

Specifically, the institution is “discounting the lease to make the opportunity more attractive and to give the venture a better on-ramp to success,” Donahue said.

Middlebury College’s lease for the property extends through June 30, 2020. College officials have suggested some student-friendly ideas for The Rough Cut, but Wells and his colleagues will have full autonomy in its operation.

“We have discussed programming to attract students with the new ownership group and they are very interested in this kind of collaboration,” Donahue said.

“Beyond programming, the new ownership group will have control over all other facets of operating the restaurant. We did have the opportunity to review the proposal for the restaurant and to react to the concept and naming. And the group has been very responsive to our feedback.”

The college’s lease for 51 Main also includes the floor below the restaurant, and Donahue would like to see that space used by students for creative purposes.

“I think that space has tremendous potential,” Donahue said.

Plans call for The Rough Cut to be open for dinner five days per week, Wednesday through Sunday.

Wells said the restaurant might offer lunch service in the future.

The three partners are currently interviewing chef candidates, and will soon be in the market for restaurant staff. The Rough Cut team is currently hiring all positions, Wells said, adding those interested could email resumes to Giard at barbecuesara@gmail. com.

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

B Section

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

MATT DICKERSON

SPORTS

ALSO IN THIS SECTION:

• School News • Legal Notices

On trout and self-sacrifice A little more than 28 years ago I arrived in Addison County, moved into a new home in Bristol, and began my job at Middlebury College. I was relatively newly wed and still adjusting to married life. I’d never held a full-time teaching position, and had never owned a home. Though both of my wife’s parents had been born in Vermont, I had never lived in the state. It was a time of transition and uncertainties.

Chief among my uncertainties and anxieties was whether or not the fishing was any good, and if so how long it would take me to find good trout water. I’d moved here from a region in New York with an abundant variety of opportunities not only for decent trout fishing, but for numerous other species as well. Within 20 minutes of my apartment in Ithaca five rivers had carved gorges though the nearby hills, and at least three of those had good year-round trout streams.

Four of the five also had spawning runs of big rainbow trout coming up from Cayuga Lake in the spring, and brown trout and landlocked salmon moving up in the fall. Cayuga Lake itself is over 400 feet deep and nearly 40 miles long, and provided even more fishing opportunities. I was nervous moving to Vermont, thinking about what I had left behind.

Not by coincidence, my new house in Vermont stood the equivalent of a few long casts from the New Haven River, which looked like a good trout stream to me. I didn’t know anything about it, however, and when my first couple visits to the river failed to stir up any fish, I grew more nervous.

Even when I did begin to catch fish, they were only colorless stocked rainbows and browns uniformly ten or 11 inches long. I began to miss my old fishing grounds, and thought Vermont offered little other than a poor put-and-take fishery.

More than a quarter of a century later, I have dozens of favorite local fishing spots in several rivers and bodies of waters. I know sever(See Dickerkson, Page 2B)

VERGENNES UNION HIGH School junior Aaron Premont, right, knocks the ball away from Mount Abraham Union High School junior William Wright during Monday’s game in Bristol.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Eagle boys score late to top VUHS

Mt. Abe has edge; both earn chances

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Field Hockey 9/13 South Burlington vs. MUHS..............5-1 9/13 Mt. Anthony vs. OV...........................0-0 9/13 Colchester vs. Mt. Abe......................1-0 9/15 Rutland vs. OV.................................3-0 9/15 Mt. Mansfield vs. Mt. Abe.................2-0 Football 9/15 St. Johnsbury vs. MUHS..................9-7 9/15 Mt. Abe/VUHS vs. OV...................24-20 Girls’ Soccer 9/13 MUHS vs. Spaulding........................1-0 9/13 U-32 vs. Mt. Abe...............................2-1 9/15 Windsor vs. OV.................................4-2 9/16 Mt. Abe vs. Missisquoi......................7-0 9/16 Spaulding vs. VUHS.........................2-1 Boys’ Soccer 9/14 Woodstock vs. OV............................3-1 9/14 Mt. Abe vs. Mill River........................5-0 9/15 Burlington vs. VUHS.........................6-0 9/15 MUHS vs. Rice.................................5-0 COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Soccer 9/13 Midd. vs. Plattsburgh........................2-1 9/16 Midd. vs. Amherst.............................2-1 9/17 Hamilton vs. Midd.............................1-1 Men’s Soccer 9/16 Midd. vs. Amherst.............................1-0 9/17 Midd. vs. Hamilton............................1-0 Field Hockey 9/16 Midd. vs. Amherst.............................2-1 9/17 Hamilton vs. Midd.............................3-2 Football 9/16 Midd. vs. Wesleyan......................30-27

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Field Hockey 9/19 Colchester at MUHS....................4 p.m.

9/20 OV at St. Johnsbury...............4:30 p.m.

9/19 Mt. Abe at Burlington...................4 p.m.

9/23 Mt. Mansfield at MUHS..............10 a.m.

9/23 Springfield at OV.......................11 a.m.

Football 9/22 Essex at MUHS...........................7 p.m.

9/23 Mt. Abe at Lyndon........................1 p.m.

9/23 U-32 at OV...................................1 p.m.

Girls’ Soccer 9/19 Rice at MUHS..............................4 p.m.

9/19 Spaulding at Mt. Abe..............4:30 p.m.

9/19 VUHS at Milton............................7 p.m.

9/19 OV at Twin Valley........................6 p.m.

9/22 Rice at VUHS.........................4:30 p.m.

9/22 Mt. Abe at MUHS....................4:30 p.m.

(See Schedule, Page 3B)

EAGLE SENIOR NICK Catlin, left, and Commodore junior Ezekiel Palmer fight for a ball during Monday’s game in Bristol.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Union High School boys’ soccer team enjoyed advantages in shots, corner kicks and territory against visiting rival Vergennes on Monday, but needed a tie-breaking goal with 11:10 to go to edge the stubborn Commodores, 2-1.

The Eagles improved to 4-1, with their only loss to undefeated Division I South Burlington. VUHS fell to 2-2, but the Commodores’ only other loss came to defending D-I champion Burlington.

Eagle senior midfielder Nick Catlin, who scored one goal and helped set up junior middie Angus Schwaneflugel’s game-winner, agreed it took a while for the Eagles to find the net despite earning edges of 20-11 in shots and 9-3 in corner kicks.

“We had a little trouble today,” Catlin said. “But once we got to it, we have a lot of good players who know how to play, play really well, have a lot of possession and attack the goal really well. We finally broke through.”

Eagle Coach Mike Corey praised both his team and the Commodores, particularly their back line.

(See Soccer, Page 2B)

Girls’ soccer: OV ties while others defeated

ADDISON COUNTY — In high school girls’ soccer play, all on Tuesday, Otter Valley earned a tie, but Mount Abraham, Vergennes and Middlebury all came up short.

OTTERS The Otters received a 10-save effort from goalie Gabby Paolino, including a stop on a penalty kick, in a 0-0 tie at Twin Valley. OV is 1-4-1. Twin Valley goalie Tayler Courchesne made three saves.

EAGLES Visiting Spaulding took a 2-0 firsthalf lead on the way to a 3-1 win over Mount Abe. Emma Carter’s goal in the second half-10th minute, set up by Abby Mansfield, cut the lead to one, but Randi Dudley scored her second goal of the game for the Tide (2-3) to provide insurance. Spaulding goalie Lindsey LaPan made eight

saves, and Olivia Paine stopped five shots for the 3-3 Eagles.

COMMODORES Host Milton improved to 4-1 by defeating VUHS, 5-0. Yellowjacket Tatum Shappy scored twice, and goalie Madison North made three saves. Goalie Anya Sonwaldt stopped 10 shots for the 1-4 Commodores.

TIGERS Host Rice (4-1) got five first-half goals from Alex Dostie in defeating MUHS, 9-0. The loss was the first for the 4-1 Tigers. Tiger Coach Wendy Leeds said it felt “like they caught us on our worst night and we caught them on their best.” Tiger goalies Abby Gleason (two saves) and Carly Burger (four) combined for six stops. Two Rice goalies also combined for six saves.

girls and Vergennes boys and girls also competed, but did not field full teams.

Hodges finished fourth in the boys’ race, and Kimble took ninth in the girl’s race. Commodores Wade Mullin and Emma Beauchemin finished 29th and 54th, respectively, in the (See Runners, Page 3B)

Panther football starts with narrow win MIDDLEBURY — The host Middlebury College football team on Saturday held off a Wesleyan rally to win, 30-27, in the season opener for both teams. Middlebury earned its sixth win in its past seven games against Wesleyan and returns to action at Bowdoin this Saturday.

Middlebury scored on its opening drive when quarterback Jared Lebowitz hit tight end Frank Cosolito on a 70-yard catch-and-run play.

Wesleyan took a 7-6 lead when QB Mark Piccirillo connected with Mike Breuler for a 52-yard touchdown.

Jimmy Martinez returned the ensuing kickoff 96 yards for a touchdown and a 13-7 Panther lead.

The Panthers added to their lead late in the first quarter with a nineplay, 65-yard drive that was capped by a 25-yard connection from Lebowitz to Martinez down the right side. The duo hooked up three times on the drive for 54 yards.

Wesleyan registered the only points of the second quarter when Piccirillo found Breuler from 23 yards out, making it 20-13 at the half.

Middlebury’s Carter Massengill hit a 20-yard field goal to make it 2313 with 1:14 left in the third quarter.

A 25-yard touchdown pass from Lebowitz to Maxim Bochman gave Middlebury a 30-13 lead with 9:17 (See Football, Page 3B)

Sports BRIEFS

Leland & Gray topples OV boys

BRANDON — Visiting Leland & Gray doubled up the Otter Valley Union High School boys’ soccer team on Tuesday, 4-2, dropping the Otters’ record to 2-2.

OV Coach Dick Williams said Leland & Gray controlled the first half in taking a 3-1 lead. The Otters possessed the ball for most of the second half and created a few chances, he said, but not as many shots on goal as he would have liked.

Four players scored for Leland & Gray, and goalie Quinn Kelloway made four saves.

Josh Letourneau’s goal nine minutes into the game created a 1-1 tie, and Ethan Sulik-Doty added a late second-half goal to create the final score, assisted by Collin Elliot. OV goalie Clay Hays stopped 10 shots.

Women’s soccer earns tie, victory

Tiger runners lead the way with top-10 results at U-32 EAST MONTPELIER — Middlebury Union High School cross-country runners Sam Hodges and Caroline Hodges cracked the top 10 at Saturday’s U-32 Invitational to provide local highlights.

The Tiger boys finished seventh (209), while the Mount Abraham boys were 20th (548). The Tiger

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PANTHER SOPHOMORE GOALIE Ursula Alwang pulls in the ball while sandwiched between teammate Eliza Van Voorhis and a Hamilton attacker Sunday afternoon. Alwang made four saves in the double-overtime 1-1 tie.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s soccer team earned a win and a tie in two NESCAC games this past weekend. The Panthers improved to 3-1-1 overall and 1-1-1 in league play. They will travel to Bowdoin for another NESCAC game on Saturday.

On Sunday, Hamilton (2-2-1, 1-21) and Middlebury played to a 1-1 stalemate when the Panthers scored the tying score on a restart with 1:50 left in regulation. The Panthers flooded the box after a Continental foul, and Eliza Robinson lofted the ball toward the left post. Eliza Van Voorhis cut into the box and headed the ball back into the far corner.

Hamilton earned an edge in play in the first half, particularly in the final 20 minutes, and scored with 3:09 remaining. Cat Gambino took a Kayleigh Harris pass at the top of the box and beat a defender toward her left, back to the center of the field before pounding a left-footed shot into the upper left corner.

Middlebury dominated the second half, outshooting Hamilton 13(See Panthers, Page 3B)

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Men’s soccer takes two league victories

After the intermission, the Continentals nearly got on the board in the 50th minute when Wood sent a bending ball from the right 15 yards away, but Yeager dove toward the far post and punched the chance away.

Middlebury doubled up the Continentals in shots (105), while Hamilton held a 5-3 edge in corner kicks. Linds Caldwell made three saves for Hamilton.

On Saturday, Sass’s game-winner vs. Amherst (1-1) came on a direct kick in the 51st minute. Sass shot from the top of the penalty area and hooked a shot into the left corner.

Each team shot twice on goal in the first half, with Yeager (five saves total) and Amherst’s Lee Owen (two saves) stopping them. Despite the Panther’s 1-0 win, the Mammoths earned advantages of 15-8 in shots and 8-3 in corner kicks.

Middlebury nearly added an insurance goal in the 76th minute, but new Mammoth goalie Michael Stone (three saves in 14:55) smothered Drew Goulart’s shot from close range.

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s soccer team picked up a pair of 1-0 NESCAC wins this past weekend, including the 350th career victory for Coach David Saward, who will step down at the end of this season after 32 years.

Heading into a Wednesday night game at Keene State, Saward’s career mark stood at 351-120-59.

Next up for the Panthers (4-1, 2-1 NESCAC) is a game at league foe Bowdoin on Saturday.

On Sunday, the Panthers edged visiting Hamilton (3-2-1, 1-2 NESCAC) on a second-half goal from Jed Sass, his second game-winner of the weekend. Sass scored in the 55th minute. His initial 10-yard bid off a loose ball hit the right post and bounced back to him, and he netted the rebound from six yards out.

Hamilton had the only chance of the first half, but Middlebury goalie Jeremy Yeager (four saves) denied both an eight-yard shot from Aidan Wood and Jefri Schmidt’s pointblank rebound.

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MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION High School junior Kai Dobek knocks the ball behind Vergennes Union High School goalie Jeffrey Stearns and across to teammate Angus Schwaneflugel, who then scored the game-winning goal in the Eagles’ 2-1 win Monday.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Soccer (Continued from Page 1B) “We played well. I liked our level of intensity. Most of the time we were poised,” Corey said, adding, “Vergennes collectively defended very well.”

VUHS Coach Kevin Hayes cited his team’s grit against what he called “a good strong squad” of Eagles.

“It was a typical game with these guys. They’re always going to be tough, and we’re never going to give up,” Hayes said.

As well as good defense from his backs — including seniors Ben Kayhart and Samir Kadric, junior Jack Halpin and freshman Tucker Stearns — Hayes was pleased as the Commodores at times effectively countered the Eagle pressure.

“I saw some new stuff from some guys today,” he said. “The patience to work it out of the back is new, which is nice for our guys.”

The flip side of the Commodores’ ability to counterpunch was that Corey said the Eagle backs have to do better at picking their spots to step into the attack and being mindful of their defensive responsibilities.

“We had some bad moments we’ll have to clean up,” said Corey.

The Eagles launched six shots and earned two corners in Monday’s first 10 minutes, during which Halpin and junior middie Ezekiel Palmer both blocked shots and Eagle sophomore striker Silas Burgess launched a header.

The Eagles then blocked a Palmer bid on a corner kick struck by senior middie Lance Bergmans in the 11th

minute. In the 15th minute sophomore VUHS middie Josias Salomao blocked Catlin on a restart in the VUHS box.

Shortly afterward the Commodores nearly converted a Kayhart direct kick from the left side. Eagle goalie Ethan Dewitt (six saves) made the initial stop as he collided with a Commodore at the far post, but the ball popped to VUHS senior striker Ethan Sausville.

Sausville tried for the lower right corner, but the prone Dewitt kicked the ball aside.

At 20:50 Catlin gave the Eagles the lead on a play that included a half-dozen crisp passes. The last was a flick from junior middie Owen Maille from the penalty stripe to Catlin cutting from the left side. Catlin left-footed a short shot inside the left post.

The Commodores pressed in the half’s final 10 minutes. Eagle junior back Ethan Venman raced over to stop Sausville at the penalty stripe, senior backs Will Schoenhuber and Jackson Counter each broke up Palmer runs, and a Palmer header hit the crossbar on a corner kick with two minutes to go.

“We had some opportunities. We took the game to them a little bit more,” Hayes said. “We didn’t do a lot in the first 20 minutes, but settled in and played better.”

The Eagles came out strong in the second half. Catlin just missed twice early, and senior middie Sam Paradee almost tucked in a serve from junior back Takumi Melchior in the 11th minute.

Then the Commodores countered.

Kadric cleared an Eagle corner kick, and Palmer carried down the middle,

EAGLE JUNIOR TAKUMI Melchior, right, steps in front of the ball and Commodore senior Lance Bergmans during Mount Abraham’s 2-1 win Monday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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EAGLE SENIOR NICK Catlin wins a ball in front of Commodore senior Bailey Smith Monday afternoon.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

fed the ball wide right to freshman middie Jonathan Willis as he neared the box, took the return pass, and left-footed the ball inside the right post at 23:35.

The Eagles answered, forcing Halpin and Stearns to block shots, and sophomore goalie Jeff Stearns (six saves) to pull down a long shot from sophomore middie Eric McKean and slide to stop Catlin on a feed from junior striker William Wright in the 28th minute.

Shortly afterward the Eagles earned a free kick from 40 yards out, and McKean dropped it to Catlin to the right of the penalty stripe. Catlin headed it back toward the center of the goal, and junior middie Kai Dobek headed the ball just as Jeff Stearns arrived.

As they collided, the ball popped over them and rolled toward the goal, and Schwaneflugel bolted in to finish at 11:10.

Down the stretch Stearns denied Dobek from close range to keep it 2-1. The Commodores pressed, but Counter headed away a Kayhart free kick, and in the final minute a Palmer attempt to chip a shot in over DeWitt sailed just high.

Hayes, whose team will compete in the D-III postseason, saw positive signs.

“Hopefully we can progress in Friday’s game,” he said. “The game is slowing for them, which is nice.”

Catlin is optimistic because of the

Eagles’ attitude as much as because of their skills.

“We really think about improving.

The whole team just wants to get better and really hold high standards for each other,” Catlin said. “There’s a lot of competition throughout the whole team. We’re just trying to make each other better. It’s just really pushing the whole team to a good place.”

And Corey, likewise, is hopeful.

“I think they’re good enough to be really competitive with everybody we’re going to play the rest of the way,” he said.

(Continued from Page 1B) al places to go where I have a good chance of landing a few browns and rainbows, including wild fish and fish over 15 inches.

I know of another several locations where I can stir up brook trout in small streams or mountain ponds, and of some places in which I have caught brookies, browns, and rainbows in three consecutive pools in 30 minutes of fishing. I also have spots I can go to catch landlocked salmon, and others where I can land pike and smallmouth bass. Although I don’t fish often for perch, they are around also. I could even track down some lesser-known fish like bowfin (though I’ve only done so once.)

And I’m still learning. Last week I was working on an article for a national fishing magazine, and I headed out fishing with local pike legend Brian Cadoret. We hopped our way downriver to several different locations, spending 30 to 50 minutes at each spot. Three of the four locations I was quite familiar with, but the fourth was new to me. (I knew the place existed, but had never fished there.) And it turned out that this new location was the only spot I landed a pike.

Still, I think back on those first few couple years in the area when I really struggled to find what I thought of as good fishing water. It was a lonely time, and I was thankful whenever a friend invited me fishing, or suggested a new spot to try. (I’m still thankful to friends like Brian willing to point out a new location to me, which is why I’m not mentioning that location in this article or in the national magazine story.)

Thus when I recently met some-

body who had moved to Vermont from southwestern Colorado — a land I know from personal experience to be full of blue-ribbon trophy-trout water, and to which the Ithaca area paled in comparison — I could understand why he was nervous. He wondered, was there any good fishing to be found in Middlebury area? Was he giving up the possibility of ever catching a trophy trout again?

I took it as my duty to take him out fishing and try to reassure him that he hadn’t just moved to a desert. Like the duty of Bilbo Baggins to throw an Unexpected Party for a band of dwarves, it knew it could be a painful duty. It meant I had to spend three hours on a 78-degree September day under a canopy of azure skies, standing in a favorite local trout water, shadowed by the silhouette of a maple tree just starting to turn orange-red, while mayflies rose off the water all around me, casting dry flies and landing both brown and rainbow trout. And then to repeat the same hardship just a few days later. But if I didn’t make the sacrifice, who would?

AUTHOR’S NOTE: Although my guest didn’t manage to land any trophies that would make him forget about the rivers of Colorado, he did land his first few Vermont rainbow trout, as well as his first ever smallmouth bass and fallfish, and if nothing else got an impression of Otter Creek as a potential for big fish water. Equally importantly, the editor of the magazine article accepted my story on Otter Creek without trying to squeeze out of me the locations where I fished with Brian.

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Addison Independent, Thursday, September 21, 2017 — PAGE 3B

Middlebury field hockey splits

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College field hockey team split two NESCAC games this past weekend, including suffering their first loss of the season.

The Panthers (3-1, 2-1 in league play) will next visit NESCAC foe Bowdoin on Saturday. They were ranked No. 5 in NCAA Division III before losing at home on Sunday.

That 3-2 loss came at the hands of visiting Hamilton. The Continentals, ranked No. 15 before the result, improved to 4-1, 3-0 in league play.

Hamilton opened the scoring 12:16 into the game when Margaret Rivera capitalized on penalty stroke seconds after Middlebury’s Lauren Schweppe made a defensive save. Hamilton doubled its

lead 1:37 later when Tatiana Bradley knocked home a loose ball.

The Panthers scored at 11:07 of the first half, when Emma Johns poked in the rebound of Hamilton’s Cat Donahue’s defensive save.

In the second half, the Continentals got an insurance goal at 7:11 when Bradley converted a Lizzie Clark cross. Middlebury made it a one-goal game at 1:18, when Audrey Quirk tipped in a pass from Molly Freeman.

Panther goalie Megan Collins made seven saves, while Julia Booth had four for the Continentals. Hamilton held a 14-10 edge in shots and Middlebury had a 10-5 advantage in penalty corners.

On Saturday, the Panthers edged host Amherst, then ranked No. 7,

2-1. The Mammoths dropped to 3-1, 1-1 in league play.

Middlebury got on the board 12:37 into the first half when Quirk scored on the rebound of a Schweppe shot on a penalty corner.

Johns made a defensive save to preserve the tie early in the second half, but the Mammoths tied the game 15 minutes in on an Elizabeth Turnball penalty stroke.

Five minutes later the Panthers notched the game winner: Kelly Coyle scored on a sweeping shot with her back to the net, with Johns assisting.

Middlebury finished with advantages of 17-7 in shots and 7-5 in penalty corners. Collins tallied three saves, while Emilie Flamme made nine saves for the Mam-

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SENIOR Maddie Morgan makes a high-flying block during Sunday’s game against Hamilton. The teams played to a 1-1 tie.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Panthers (Continued from Page 1B) 1. Their best chance before the equalizer came when Virginia Charman’s long shot from the right side of the box hit the bottom of the crossbar near the bar post and bounced out.

Two minutes into the second overtime, Panther goalie Ursula Alwang (four saves) charged off her line to deny a bid from the left side by a sprinting Katie Kreider. Charman created two chances, crossing a ball that Hamilton goalkeeper Emily Dumont (six saves) punched away and also shooting a 12-yard shot wide right after pouncing on a loose ball.

On Saturday, the Panthers scored twice to erase a 1-0 first-half deficit and knock off host Amherst (3-2, 1-1 NESCAC), which entered the contest ranked No. 12 in NCAA Division III. The Mammoths scored in the 18th minute when Delancey King’s 40-yard shot bounced over Alwang. Middlebury tied the contest with 5:08 remaining in the half, when Clare Robinson headed in a free kick at the far post that was struck by Eliza Robinson from the left side.

Amherst came on strong to open the second half, but the Panthers scored against the run of play at 61:30.

Gretchen McGrath made a strong run down the right side and slid a pass to Amanda Dafonte at the 18. Dafonte took one touch and then pounded the ball back into the upper right corner.

Amherst pressed late. The Panther defense blocked a number of shots, Alwang (six saves) came out and sprawled to make a kick save when a Mammoth player broke in alone from the 18, and another Amherst bid from the right side glanced off the top of the crossbar. Chelsea Cutler made four saves for Amherst, which held advantages of 13-8 in shots and 4-1 in corner kicks.

Mount Abe ties, Tigers fall in field hockey ADDISON COUNTY — In high school field hockey action earlier this week Mount Abraham earned a tie on the road, while Middlebury dropped a home contest. Otter Valley (3-11) was set to visit St. Johnsbury on Wednesday after this issue’s deadline.

EAGLES On Tuesday, the Eagles earned a

tie at Burlington when Casondra Dykstra scored with 10 minutes left in regulation to make it a 1-1 final. The Seahorses, who received eight saves from Rotha Ibrahim, had taken the lead late in the first half. Goalie Chessley Jackman made three saves for the 3-1-1 Eagles.

TIGERS Also on Tuesday, visiting Colchester improved to 5-0 by defeating the Tigers, 5-0. The Lakers’ Molly Echo scored twice in the first half, and goalie Ciera Morse stopped seven shots. Naoko Maruyama scored, and Bridget Audet made seven saves for the 0-4 Tigers.

Banky handled the next onside kickoff attempt for the Panthers. The Cardinals held and got the ball back on their own 39, but Middlebury’s Bobby Ritter picked off a pass on the first play of the drive, returning it to the Wesleyan 14.

The Panthers turned the ball over on downs at the Cardinals’ 6-yard line with 56 seconds to go. Wesleyan could only reach its 42 before time expired.

Lebowitz completed 22 of 44 passes for 352 yards. Bochman caught seven passes for 114 yards, Banky had five catches for 73 yards, and Martinez caught five balls for 66

yards.

Panther Wesley Becton led all players with 11 tackles, two forced fumbles and a sack. Aaron Slodowitz made 10 stops in the game, while Ritter and Justin Fahey each made nine stops and picked off a pass.

John Jackson finished with seven tackles to give him 102 for his career, along with a pair of sacks.

Piccirillo completed 39 of 53 passes for Wesleyan for 432 yards.

Breuler led all receivers with 15 receptions for 178 yards. Wesleyan outgained Middlebury 451-394 and held a 35:18 to 24:42 advantage in time of possession.

132. Liam Davison, Mt. Abe, 25:23.98; 141. Brian Cousineau, Mt. Abe, 28:51.98; 144. Owen Farrell, Mt. Abe, 37:35.52.

The winner and local girls’ finishes in the varsity boys’ race were: 1. Konstanze Wendeln, Rice, 20:04.26;

9. Caroline Kimble, MUHS, 21:38.82; 46. Mary Ann Eastman, MUHS, 24:23.02; 53. Kate Wallace, MUHS, 24:53.62; 54. Emma Beauchemin, VUHS, 24:58.43; 67. Maisie Newbury, MUHS, 26:06.68; 75. Ashley Cray, VUHS, 27:04.37.

Football (Continued from Page 1B) remaining in the game; Bochman dodged two defenders after his reception. Conrado Banky pulled in a 32-yard reception on the drive.

Wesleyan then moved 84 yards on six plays in just 2:04 to make it 30-20 with 7:07 left to play. Dario Highsmith and Ryan Earle each caught 22-yard passes before Hallvard Lundevall snagged a seven-yard TD pass.

Elias Camacho then recovered an onside kick to give the Cardinals the ball at their own 47. That recovery set up a TD with 3:15 remaining, a three-yard reception by Breuler.

Runners (Continued from Page 1B) boys and girls’ races, and Aidan May led the Eagle boys by taking 74th.

The winner and local boys’ finishes in the varsity boys’ race were: 1. Andrew Crompton, U-32, 17:07.79; 4. Samuel Hodges, MUHS, 17:30.49; 29. Wade Mullin, VUHS, 18:59.15; 36. Julian Schmitt, MUHS, 19:12.92; 37. Jack Christner, MUHS, 19:17.12; 42. Spencer Hurlburt, VUHS, 19:27.20; 64. Erich Reitz, VUHS, 20:08.84; 69. Thomas Nevins, MUHS, 20:19.74.

74. Aidan May, Mt. Abe, 20:43.77; 86. Gabe Praamsma, VUHS, 21:06.35; 87. Cade Christner, MUHS, 21:06.68; 89. Daniel Wisell, MUHS, 21:07.84; 129. Ryan Adams, Mt. Abe, 25:20.30;

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PANTHER JUNIOR GRACE Jennings tries to gain control of a bouncing ball in front of the Hamilton goal while being checked by Hamilton defender Brooke Talsania Sunday afternoon. Middlebury lost the game, 3-2.

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LaDuc nets 50th win as Bowl ends year WEST HAVEN — Orwell’s Tim LaDuc cemented his place in the Devil’s Bowl Speedway record books on Sunday by winning the 50th feature race of his career at the track, leading wire-to-wire in a 29-lap open-competition dirt-track event for Sportsman Modifieds.

With the win in the year’s final night of racing at Devil’s Bowl, LaDuc moved into second place in the

track’s career win list. He topped a field including several local drivers: Whiting’s Jimmy Ryan was third, Orwell’s Lacey Hanson was 11th, and Brandon’s Vince Quenneville Jr. took 12th.

In the 29-lap Pro Stock Feature New York driver Kenny Martin Jr. prevailed. Benson’s Jeff Washburn finished ninth in a big field.

Chris Murray of Fair Haven won

the 20-lap Super Stock Feature. Cornwall’s Garrett Given took fifth, and Orwell’s Ronnie Alger finished 10th.

South Royalton’s Jesse Durkee claimed the 20-lap Mini Stock Feature. Brandon’s Dakota Desabrais and Monkton’s Jake Barrows finished eighth and 11th, respectively.

New York’s Bill Fountain won the 50-lap Enduro Series Feature. Monkton’s Barrows took fourth in that race.

Field Hockey 9/23 Midd. at Bowdoin.......................11 a.m.

Football 9/23 Midd. at Bowdoin.........................1 p.m.

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

Schedule (Continued from Page 1B)

9/23 Green Mt. Union at OV..............10 a.m.

Boys’ Soccer 9/18 VUHS at Mt. Abe....................4:30 p.m.

9/19 Leland & Gray at OV..............4:30 p.m.

9/20 Rutland at MUHS....................4:30 p.m.

9/21 Mill River at VUHS..................4:30 p.m.

9/22 Proctor at OV..........................4:30 p.m.

9/23 Missisquoi at VUHS...................10 a.m.

9/23 Mt. Abe at MUHS.......................10 a.m.

Cross Country 9/16 MUHS/Mt. Abe/VUHS at U-32...10 a.m.

9/19 Mt. Abe at Milton.....................3:30 p.m.

9/19 OV at MSJ..............................4:30 p.m.

9/23 VUHS at Manchester, NH.......9:30 a.m.

COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Soccer 9/23 Midd. at Bowdoin.......................... Noon Men’s Soccer 9/20 Midd. at Keene St. ......................7 p.m.

9/23 Midd. at Bowdoin.......................... Noon

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Sargent, Cinotti RENSSELAERVILLE, NY — Cheyenne Ashley Sargent, daughter of Donnie & Lisa Sargent of South Lincoln, Vt., and Erick Anthony Cinotti, son of Tony & Noreen Cinotti of Mahwah, N.J., were wed in a double ring ceremony on June 17, 2017 in New York’s Catskill mountains at the Carey Institute of Global Good in Rensselaerville, N.Y. Mr. Bill Wiles, who was both Cheyenne and Erick’s English professor at Castleton, officiated the ceremony.

Sargent and Cinotti are both graduates of Castleton University.

Sargent teaches pre-school children with special needs. Cinotti has completed a graduate degree in Physical Therapy at Sage Graduate School and is a practicing physical therapist.

The couple will travel to Negril Jamaica for their honeymoon, then return to the states, where they will travel the country while Cinotti works as a traveling physical pherapist. The bride will be continuing her education.

THE MUHS TIGER football squad from 1967 easily won the Division II title under the guidance of coaches Hubie Wagner, Chuck Martin and Mike Cummings. They will be honored at this year’s MHS/MUHS Homecoming on Sept. 23.

St. Ambrose Knights of Columbus Hurricane relief dinner is Sept. 29 BRISTOL — Spurred by the devastation left behind by hurricanes Harvey and Irma, the St. Ambrose Knights of Columbus are hosting a Knights in Italy spaghetti dinner on the evening of Friday, Sept. 29, from 5-7 p.m. at St Ambrose Parish Hall.

The menu includes all-you-can-eat spaghetti with sauce (with or without meat), garlic bread, salad, beverages, and dessert. The cost for the meal is

$10 for adults, $5 for children 12 and under, and $25 for a family.

If you are unable to make the dinner but would still like to contribute to the Knights’ efforts, checks can be mailed to the St. Ambrose Rectory at 11 School St., Bristol, VT 05443. Please make the check out to St. Ambrose Knights of Columbus with the note line “Hurricane Relief”.

THE 1968 TIGER Football team followed in the 1967 team’s footsteps with an even more impressive record to win a second Division II title in a row. They will be honored at the MHS/MUHS Homecoming game on Sept 23.

Tiger alumni to honor title teams on Friday MIDDLEBURY — The MHS/ MUHS Alumni Association will honor the 1967 and 1968 Tiger Football Teams at this year’s homecoming game against Essex on Friday evening Sept. 23. Coached by Hubie Wagner, Chuck Martin and Mike Cummings, they roared through their Division II schedules going 8-0 both

years.

The 1967 team allowed only 38 points while scoring 255 points on their way to a Division II Title. A familiar opponent, Hartford, was in Division II at the time. Co-captains Ron Emilo and Jack Malzac led a strong team that included 18 seniors.

The 1968 football team’s offense

picked right back up where the ‘67 team left off and went on to score 317 points while the stingy Tiger defense allowed only 32 points. Peter Mackey threw 20 touchdown passes that season and finished his three year career with 41 touchdown passes.

Vin Fucile was a favorite target and was regarded as one the best offensive

ends in the state. Henry Fourgues tied a state record intercepting eight passes. A great deal of the credit for two consecutive undefeated seasons and Division II Titles goes to the coaching staff. Coach Wagner was named Division II coach of the year for both the 1967 and 1968 seasons.

Congratulations Tigers.

MIDDLEBURY — Three new members of the Middlebury High School/Middlebury Union High School Hall of Fame will be inducted at halftime of this Friday night’s homecoming football game: Linda Andrews of Bristol, the late David Sears or Cornwall, and Randy Sabourin of Syracuse, N.Y. ANDREWS While at MUHS Linda raced on the downhill ski team. The 1965 MUHS yearbook states, “the pep and guidance of Captain Linda Andrews and Coach Wakefield have led the members of the girls ski team through an exciting year. Workouts on the mountain, weight lifting sessions in the gym, and running after school have created a group of girls with amazing endurance and strength.”

Linda’s athleticism, academic performance, and leadership earned her the Dorey Cup during her junior year.

Linda earned her B.S. in nursing from the University of Vermont in 1969, and then a nurse practitioner degree in women’s health care from the University of California-Los Angeles in 1974, and a master’s from the University of California’s School of Public Health in 1984.

Linda worked 34 years as a women’s health care nurse practitioner and reproductive health integration specialist. She began her professional career in Washington State, but

has spent the last 26 years working in Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Central Asian Republics, Bangladesh, Somalia, and Thailand, with shortterm assignments in Nigeria, India and Rwanda.

In these countries she has worked with ministries of health and nongovernment organizations to found needed health programs and help them become self-sustaining. She developed and established support programs for HIV positive women so that they would not pass HIV on to their children during birth. She has established programs to screen for and treat cervical cancer in rural and poor communities. She has also developed well-child clinics and worked to promote women’s health and family planning in many poor countries.

While in the U.S. between overseas jobs, Linda has worked locally as a hospice volunteer.

SABOURIN Sabourin grew up working hard on his family farm, and at MUHS he was a two-time state championship wrestler, earning a Most Outstanding Wrestler Award as a senior, and also played football for four years. As a senior he played for a championship team and also played the lead role in the senior play, “Grease.”

At Morrisville State College (N.Y.) he continued his wrestling career and qualified for the junior

college nationals, and then attended Cortland State (N.Y.) and won the SUNYAC championship and qualified for the NCAA tournament, in 1987 earning All-New York College All-Star recognition while maintaining strong academic standing.

After school he became a successful business owner and husband to Tina, father to three daughters, and an avid supporter of his community who also regularly travels hours each way back to Middlebury to help his mother.

After college Randy found a love for personal training, which became a career that evolved into his successful business, Metro Fitness.

In 1995 he opened his first business in Syracuse, and in 1997 opened a second branch at a local hospital, where he became a certified medical exercise specialist and post-rehab specialist.

His business has for the past four years in a row been chosen as Central New York’s Best Place to Work.

For the past five years, his business has offered free outdoor fitness and wellness classes. Randy has also worked with or volunteered for the local food bank, the American Heart Association, veterans’ organizations, and Blue Cross/Blue Shield to improved the quality of life for those in his community. Randy’s life shows a common thread of caring and commitment.

SEARS A 1977 graduate of MUHS, David died on July 11, 2015 at the age of 56. A lifelong resident of Cornwall, David was known as “The Voice,” for his effortless, booming baritone and his two games of announcing Tiger football and college sports games on local radio stations. He provided the only home and away football coverage of any high school program of the state over his final 17 years, David was a tireless community volunteer who was a friend to everyone who knew him. He cared deeply about people, loved sports, and was very generous with his time.

An umpire for the Addison County Softball League, he was well liked by coaches, players and officials in all the sports in which he was involved.

A Champlain College graduate, David was a dedicated member of the Cornwall Fire Department for 35 years, at one point holding the rank of captain. He was also a valuable asset to the Cornwall selectboard, as well as a lifetime member of the Middlebury Volunteer Ambulance Association and the Middlebury Knights of Columbus.

David was married to 1972 MUHS graduate Susan Fisler Sears, and his daughters Megan (2007) and Alexandra (2010) also graduated from MUHS. His now-deceased father Walter, mother Charlotte and sister Debbie were also MUHS graduates.

Rotary Club to hold first MHS/MUHS hall to induct three new members fall festival on Sept. 24

MIDDLEBURY — The Rotary Club of Middlebury will hold their inaugural Fall Festival on Sunday, Sept. 24, from 2-6 p.m. This firsttime event will be held under the tents behind the Mahaney Center for the Arts at the college. The proceeds will benefit local non-profits and will feature music by the Horse Traders and Contra Dancing with Red Dog

Lincoln

Riley.

A Beer and Wine Tent along with 20+ Food and Craft vendors will be featured. This is a family-friendly event with activities for all ages. Adults are $10 and Children $5 in advance with tickets on sale at the Middlebury Inn, Countryside Carpet and Paint and Holden Insurance. For more information visit middleburyrotary.org.

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I bet you thought I fell off the face of the earth! Well, almost. I had a partial knee replacement and have been hibernating for the last few weeks. It has been quite the experience, quite painful, but very glad I had it done.

Everyone at Porter Hospital was wonderful — friendly, professional, compassionate and caring. The only thing I would change? Don’t be so brave — take the “power pain pills” when needed.

The big yellow buses are again traveling over our roads, taking our children and grandchildren to and from school. I hope they all had wonderful summers and are happy to be back and ready to learn more interesting things during the next school year.

Church services at the United Church of Lincoln are very different now, but also very interesting. Our interim pastor, the Reverend France Marcott, is very nice and understanding. Stop in any Sunday morning at 9:45. Everyone is always welcome.

Sunday school has begun again. I wonder how that will change. There is always something new and different, but thankfully also the same.

My phlox were all out and beautiful. Now the asters are blooming pink and purple. It’s nice to see flowers blooming even though I haven’t been able to help them any this year.

Maybe next year?

The Ladies Aid-Industria’s Fall rummage sale will be on Oct. 7 and 8. Time to sort through your winter

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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, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. 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 THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Ste‑ phen’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.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am.

We meet at The Resi‑ dence at Otter Creek in Middlebury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkinsoninfo@uvmhealth. org.

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. Begin‑ ners’ 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.

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

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

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NORTH FER‑ RISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS RIPTON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, As Bill Sees It Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Thursday, 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM. Both held at Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd.

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

Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems.

Babysitting available.

MAKING RECOVERY EAS‑ IER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and dis‑ cussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understand‑ ing of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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Volunteers needed to be a part of our board for Addison County Readers (ACR). Responsibilities include attending monthly meetings and supporting the implementation of the all‑volunteer program. The primary focus of ACR is its sponsorship of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, a program that mails free monthly books to the homes of over 1,100 children in Addison County 0‑5 years of age.

Additional duties required are advocacy of the program, recruitment of children in Addison County, fundraising, and publicity. If you are interested in more information or would like to respond to this job please call the United Way of Addison County at 802‑388‑7189

Payroll Volunteers Needed

If you are 55 and older, contact RSVP @ 388‑7044, rsvpaddison@ volunteersinvt.org or visit www.volunteermatch.org.

Or contact The United Way of Addison County’s Volunteer Center at www. unitedwayaddisoncounty.org/ VolunteerDonate and click on VOLUNTEER NOW!

UWAC has some great corporate support from local workplaces that do not utilize the payroll option for their employees. You can help out by: Initiating contact with targeted workplaces that already give a corporate gift and offer them the opportunity to hold a workplace campaign. Connect with the CEO to set up a meeting with them. Send out a letter with our current campaign messaging to companies. Conduct follow-up with a letter in November to non-respondents. Payroll giving is a very easy and convenient way for all employees to get involved in supporting their community through UWAC. If you are interested in more information or would like to respond to this job please call the United Way of Addison County at 802-388-7189

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.

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If you are 55 and older, contact RSVP @ 388‑7044, rsvpaddison@ volunteersinvt.org or visit www.volunteermatch.org.

NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

SPIRITUAL AWAKEN‑ INGS MEETING of Alcohol‑ ics Anonymous, 7:30‑8:30 a.m., Friday, upstairs at St. Stephen’s Church., Middle‑ bury, VT. WOMEN OF AA Mondays, 5:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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

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.

HOUSE CLEANING‑ SMALL or large jobs.

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MULTI FAMILY YARD SALE 9a.m. to 2p.m. Saturday, September 23 at 415 Painter Rd., Middlebury. LOTS of of toys, furniture, sports equip‑ ment, hand tools, pottery and house wares.

SEPT 23, 9‑3 P.M. RAIN or shine, inside. SCA 1 head‑ lamp aimer, alignment items, gun cabinet, wooden rock‑ ers, stained glass, antiques and much more. 954 So. 116 Rd. Bristol.

NEW HAVEN, SATURDAY, Sept. 23, 9am‑2pm. 653 Quarry Road. Cleaning out house and barn, wicker, art, horse related items, tools, beds, Mad River rockets, jack jumpers, something for everyone. Rain or shine, inside big red barn.

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PROFESSIONAL PAINT‑ ING; interior/exterior, resi‑ dential/commercial, pressure washing. 20 years’ experi‑ ence. Best prices. Refer‑ ences. 802‑989‑5803.

Free BUTTERNUTS ARE FALL‑ ING all over my front lawn.

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Garage Sales 4 FAMILY GARAGE SALE Sept. 23 and 24. 8am to 5pm. 379 Rte 125, East Middlebury.

6 FAMILY yard sale. Some‑ thing for everyone. Middle‑ bury, 9/23/17. 9am‑2pm.

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CORNWALL GARAGE SALE Sept. 30, 9‑12 rain or shine. Dining table and chairs, desk, assorted end tables, lamps, costume jewelry, kid games, dishes, linens and more. No early birds. 985 N. Bingham St. GARAGE SALE‑ SAT‑ URDAY, September, 23rd.

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WINNER of “Best Local Contractor” THREE CONSECUTIVE YEARS by READERS CHOICE AWARDS!

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DIRECTORY

Business Service

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

• roofing • septic & water • siding • specialized services

Roofing

Specialized Services

Towing

roofing Michael Doran

Motor Home Specialties, LLC

TREADWAY & RINGEY

as seen at Addison County Field Days!

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(802-349-8123) Office

Repairs & Maintenence Custom Built Trailers & Hitches, Transporting Cars & Compact Equipment, Specialized Landscaping & Retaining Walls

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24 hr Heavy Towing & Recovery Heavy Truck Repair & Diagnosis Heavy Haul, Oversize, Local & Long distance Come see us at our new location!

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made you look.

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Serving all your plumbing and heating needs.

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Also a good selection of used vehicles

24 Hour Emergency Service 453-7014

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44 School House Hill Road, E. Middlebury

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Dave’s Tree Service

SEPTIC SERVICE TANK & CESSPOOL PUMPING ELECTRONIC TANK LOCATING TANK & LEACH FIELD INSPECTIONS NEW SYSTEMS INSTALLED ALL SEPTIC SYSTEM REPAIRS DRAIN & PIPE CLEANING Full Excavation 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

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owner/operator

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Addison Independent

CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

Help Wanted

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

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks a FT House‑ keeper who is friendly and detail‑oriented to provide quality cleaning service in our retirement com‑ munity. Email acoyle@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 989‑7507.

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY seeks enthusiastic and experienced caregiv‑ ers to provide hands‑on care in our dynamic retire‑ ment community. Email resume to acoyle@east‑ viewmiddlebury.com or call 802‑989‑7507.

EASTVIEW AT MIDDLE‑ BURY‑ Servers/Dishwa‑ hers. EastView at Middle‑ bury seeks individuals who are passionate about quality food and service to work in our dynamic retire‑ ment community. acoyle@ eastviewmiddlebury.com or call 989‑7507.

HELP WANTED: LOOKING FOR a person to work in a fast paced egg process‑ ing room 20‑25 hours each week. Applicant must be reliable, responsible self starter with good references and reliable transportation.

Pick up an application at Maple Meadow Farm, 518 Maple Street in Salisbury.

No phone calls please.

WHISTLEPIG CURRENTLY HIRING FOR full time bot‑ tler. Eye for detail and ac‑ curacy. Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday. Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unas‑ sisted lifting of 25 pounds.

Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com.

CDL‑A DRIVER WANTED part time possibly be‑ coming full time. Based in Addison County. Call Randy at 802‑897‑5637 or 802‑377‑5006.

Counseling Service of Addison County

FAMILY LUMBER OPERATION

Experienced Concrete Form Workers- Immediate Full-Time Opening & Competitive Compensation

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.

Founded in 1978, Naylor and Breen Builders, Inc is a leader among construction companies in Vermont, we perform a wide variety of commercial and residential new construction and renovations, from multi-phase commercial to high end residential to substation infrastructure.

Seeks To Fill The Following Positions:

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.

We are currently seeking an experienced concrete form worker to join our inhouse concrete crew. Our ideal candidate will be able to prepare, erect, strip and dismantle forms for pouring concrete. Mix and pour concrete into formwork.

Spread, compact, finish and cure concrete for buildings and sidewalks using hand tools, troweling machinery and other power tools.

Applicants should be able to lift 75-100lbs and have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation.

• • • • • • • •

Competitive Pay Paid Health Insurance Dental/Vison/ Disability Insurance 401(k) with 2% Match Annual Discretionary 401(k) Profit Sharing Paid Holidays 40hrs Paid Time Off Transportation provided for jobsites outside of a 30min travel radius from Brandon • Company Supplied Shirts • Use of Company Gym Candidates should submit a resume with 3 references to: Amanda Locke — alocke@naylorbreen.com Job applications are available on our website, www.naylorbreen.com or by calling 802-247-6527.

Are you a person who loves to be in the know? at acting d o o g d n ganized a our toes? y n Are you or o g in y d sta quickly an Do you love seeking creative solutions and developing new ideas?

Naylor & Breen Builders, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

We are seeking a coordinator for all sales and marketing programs with the Addison Press, primarily focusing on the Addison Independent and Brandon Reporter.

This individual will work closely with sales account executives and other sales managers to build growth strategies and coordinate their successful execution.

The successful applicant should be highly organized, a good communicator, friendly and willing to step in to a wide range of tasks within the office.

This is a full time position with benefits and room to grow as our local media company changes and adapts to new demands over time.

If you are looking for a job where you’re never bored and are excited to help spread the local news of Addison County, please send a résumé and cover letter to: Christy Lynn Director of Sales, Associate Publisher christy@addisonindependent.com 58 Maple St, Middlebury

Community Associates, CSAC’s developmental services program, has multiple openings. Come join our dedicated cadre of human service professionals!

Service Coordinator (2) Join management in this fast-paced multidisciplinary case management position (Developmental Services, Traumatic Brain Injury, and Choices for Care Elder Program). Extensive training and mentoring provided but candidates need to have a minimum of 3 years of experience in a related field and a B.A. degree. Excellent supervisory, problem solving, and documentation skills required.

Group Home Manager for a home for 5 women with developmental disabilities in Middlebury. Manage the daily functions of the home that supports individual growth and choice. Responsibilities include staff supervision, direct work with residents, oversight and organization of health care. Positive supervisory style and great organizational skills needed. B.A. degree and two years of relevant experience required. Sun-Thurs with 40 hours per week.

Community Support (2) Through 1:1 mentoring, help individuals achieve personal goals and enhance independence and belonging in the community. Have fun and be creative, while helping them access community resources, make friends, and learn new skills. Must have good boundaries and judgement. A perfect job for someone who is caring and wants to be active in the community!

Residential Instructor Join a great team of support for individuals with developmental disability in their Middlebury co-ed home. In a warm supportive environment, you will help the residents with their diverse needs, daily activities and skill learning. Experience with personal care and medical oversight a plus. 40 hours per week with two overnights, Sun through Wed. Good driving record, use of personal vehicle, and clean background required.

Comprehensive benefits with ample paid time-off, health/dental/vision insurance and FSA, retirement plan, disability and life insurance, on-site gym membership.

Experienced Carpenters- Excellent learning environment with great opportunities.

SALES & MARKETING COORDINATOR

If you answered yes to these questions, then you may be the perfect fit for the Addison Independent’s dynamic sales team.

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATES

Come work for a growing company that offers great benefits with opportunities to advance and learn alongside accomplished construction superintendents.

Founded in 1978, Naylor and Breen Builders, Inc is a leader among construction companies in Vermont, we perform a wide variety of commercial and residential new construction and renovations, from multi-phase commercial to high end residential to substation infrastructure.

We are seeking full time Experienced Carpenters with the potential for growth within the company. In this role, you will have experience in most aspects of commercial and residential rough and finish carpentry and roofing. Applicants should have a valid driver’s license and reliable transportation. Travel within Vermont or New Hampshire will be required.

• Competitive Pay • Paid Health Insurance • Dental/Vison/ Disability Insurance • 401(k) with 2% Match • Annual Discretionary 401(k) Profit Sharing

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

VERMONT’S TWICE-WEEKLY L NEWSPA P PER Middlebury, VT 05753 • (802) 388-4944 • ww w.AddisonIndependent.com

• Paid Holidays • 40hrs Paid Time Off • Transportation provided for jobsites outside of a 30min travel radius from Brandon • Company Supplied Shirts • Use of Company Gym

Candidates should submit a resume with 3 references to: Amanda Locke — alocke@naylorbreen.com Job applications are available on our website, www.naylorbreen.com or by calling 802-247-6527.

Naylor & Breen Builders, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.

To apply, please submit resume and cover letter to apply@csac-vt.org.

Apply online at www.csac-vt.org Or mail to Human Resources at 89 Main St, Middlebury, VT 05753

Our

Classified Ads Work!

Call 388-4944 to place one!

TOWN OF NEW HAVEN

HELP WANTED

Highway Department – Full and Part Time Positions available depending on expertise and experience.

Desired qualifications: • CDL and medical card – clean background and drug test • Equipment operator – backhoe, loader, grader, dump truck, snow plow, chain saw, etc.

• Knowledge of road maintenance and building, culvert installation, etc.

• Responsible for equipment maintenance and records • Ability to work both independently and with others. Physical labor and outside work required • Ability to work with the public • Snowstorm ability required – may require long hours or odd hours • Supervisory ability a plus • Grant writing a plus Normal working hours are Monday thru Friday from 7am to 3pm Salary and benefits will be determined based on hours and experience. 12 paid holidays after probationary period for full time.

Please request a job description and application form from the Town of New Haven Town Clerk.

NOW HIRING — MIDDLEBURY LOCATION FOREMAN — PRECAST CONCRETE

Organizes crew and ensures quality and safety of the crew’s work. Perform tasks involving physical labor. Works with other foreman, precast engineer, precast supervisor and the precast quality control personnel to coordinate work and schedule manpower needs. Performs checks on setups and finished products for accuracy and conformance to plan and specifications.

Requirements: • 2-5 years supervisory/lead experience.

• Knowledge of proper use of equipment, materials and supplies used in construction work.

• Experience in concrete finishing, tying rebar and/or carpentry required.

• Knowledge of prestressing operations preferred.

QUALITY CONTROL TECHNICIAN — PRECAST CONCRETE

This position verifies product conformity with approved shop drawings, PCI, and DOT specifications and identifies items that are non-conforming.

Requirements: A combination of education and/or work experience from which comparable knowledge and skills are demonstrated; including, but not limited to: • Associates Degree in Civil Technology, Construction Management, Engineering or equivalent work experience.

• Inspection or construction experience and fundamental concrete knowledge preferred.

• Ability to generate detailed inspection reports and documentation of non-conformances.

• Possess or able to acquire ACI Concrete Field Testing Grade I certification.

• Possess or able to acquire PCI Level I certification.

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

Application with references to be submitted by 4pm on Monday, September 25, 2017 at the Town of New Haven – 78 North St., New Haven, VT 05472

MAINTENANCE MECHANIC Middlebury, VT

Agri-Mark has a full-time immediate opening for a THIRD SHIFT (12am-8am) Maintenance Mechanic Technician to work in our Middlebury, VT facility. Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays.

Preferred candidate will have a journeyman’s electrical license and/or strong PLC experience. The candidate should be well versed in VFD’s, pneumatics, and production plant equipment. Must be able to work both independently and as a team member. Excellent troubleshooting and maintaining plant equipment in a food production environment.

Position provides 40+ hours per week, paid leave and holidays. Offers a competitive starting wage and excellent benefits, including health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k), pension plan, and much more. Apply in person, by email to ajacobs@agrimark.net or send your resume with cover letter to:

Agri-Mark

Attn: Mrs. Jacobs 869 Exchange Street Middlebury, VT 05753 EOE

M/F/D/V

The Town of Ferrisburgh is looking for a qualified person to perform various administrative and clerical tasks to support our Town office.

The ideal candidate must be reliable, hardworking, and familiar with office equipment, procedures and Microsoft Office.

Must enjoy working with the general public and have ability to multi-task with attention to detail and accuracy.

15-20 hours/week. No benefits. Compensation based upon experience. Please submit your letter of interest to the Ferrisburgh Select Board, 3279 Route 7, Ferrisburgh, VT 05456 or email to ferrisburghselectboard@comcast.net, by 4:00 p.m. October 6, 2017.

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Addison Independent

For Rent

CLASSIFIEDS Help Wanted

Help Wanted

MIDDLEBURY, VT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT

For Rent AVAILABLE NOVEMBER. LARGE 2 story, 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment. 12 min‑ utes from Middlebury. Fridge/ stove included and washer dryer hookups. $1,050 plus heat and electric. No pets or smoking please.

802‑897‑5447.

Accountant Needed

We are looking for a candidate to fill an Accountant position based in Middlebury, VT. This position will perform a variety of accounting functions such as Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Bank Reconciliation, General Ledger, Financial Reporting and Regulatory filings. The Accountant will also provide assistance in Payroll Processing, Fixed Assets, and Month End/Year End Analysis.

The incumbent requires 4 to 5 years of accounting experience and a strong experience using Microsoft Excel and Accounting software. Some experience in agriculture is a plus. A Bachelor’s Degree in Business or Accounting would be highly desirable. Ability to work independently, with initiative, multitask and prioritize work assignments and manage time.

This is a full time position with benefits including 401k, medical, life and disability insurance, generous time off. For more information about the company, visit www.feedcommodities.com.

BRANDON: PARK VIL‑ LAGE is now accepting applications for 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments. Rents starting at $700, includes heat and trash. No pets.

Laundry onsite. Income re‑ strictions apply. Call Sum‑ mit Property Management Group at 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg.com.

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.

Please send your cover letter and resume to: Irma Higgins, HR Manager ihiggins@feedcommodities.com.

For questions, call 802-458-3916.

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FCI is an equal opportunity employer.

BRISTOL; 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT Heat, trash, snowplowing, lawn care, parking included. $1,175/ mo. 802‑453‑2566.

Income Limits Apply. No Utilities Included. Modern apartment, carpet/tile, W/D connections plus onsite laundry facility. Efficient gas heat/hot water.

Ample parking and storage. Includes trash, lawn care, snow removal, professional management and 24-hour emergency maintenance. In quiet Middlebury neighborhood. References Required.

To request an application, call 802-472-5016 or e-mail pinemeadow@maloneyproperties.com.

Equal Housing Opportunity.

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 Nedde Real Estate 802-373-5893 battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

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CARPETED, HEATED CAR/ motorcycle storage; month‑ ly, seasonal, yearly rates.

Trickle charging allowed.

877‑3207.

The Woodworks by Silver Maple Construction is seeking a finish person with at least 5 years of experience spraying conversion varnishes and lacquers.

Additional duties will include all aspects involved with cabinet construction.

C O R N WA L L : C O Z Y ONE bedroom apart‑ ment. 15 minutes to col‑ lege. $775 includes all. batesproperties@yahoo. com.

Applicants should submit a cover letter, a resume and 3 references to: Silver Maple Construction 46-1 River Road, New Haven, VT 05472 or msweeney@silvermapleconstruction.com

Help Wanted

For Sale

ADDISON COUNTY HOME Health & Hospice is seeking an experienced Human Re‑ sources Director. The HR Di‑ rector will oversee the func‑ tions of the HR department, including employment, ben‑ efits, HRIS, compensation and employee relations. The right candidate will oversee the department’s operat‑ ing budget and HR staff.

The HR Director is also re‑ sponsible for staffing needs, maintaining and updating job descriptions, develop‑ ing a performance appraisal program, and researching changes in policies and pro‑ cedures. For a complete job description please visit to our web site at achhh.org. To apply to this position please e‑mail resume and cover letter to Kristen Smith at hr@achhh.org.

FOR SALE: NEW FULL size mattress with bed frame.

1 year old‑never slept on.

Comes with bedspread and pillow covers. $500 firm. Call 802‑989‑8923.

WANTED‑ HANDYMAN, MUST have own chainsaw.

802‑462‑3313.

CARPENTERS/SUBCON‑ T R A C TO R S B u r n h a m Builders is looking to hire experienced carpenters and subcontractors to help achieve general construction and renovation projects. In‑ dividual must obtain his/her own liability insurance and possess their own tools to perform all necessary proj‑ ects. Pay varies on experi‑ ence. 349‑7202 or 462‑3756.

YEAR ROUND WAITSTAFF ‑ needed for busy family restaurant. Apply in person to Rosie’s Restaurant, Rte 7 South, Middlebury.

For Sale 2009 DOUBLEWIDE HOME 3 bedroom with 2 bathrooms.

In very nice condition. Needs to be moved. 802‑462‑3624.

ANTIQUE DOUBLE BAR‑ REL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage fire‑ arm. $185. 802‑989‑5803.

MICROWAVE $70, TWIN BED $60. Sears‑Kenmore ‑ washer and dryer $450 pair, antique bureau $70.

802‑398‑7636.

R19 FIBERGLASS FACED 8 rolls of insulation. Cov‑ ers 48.96 sq. feet, for 16 inch studs for $18.00 a roll.

352‑4488.

TWIN AND FULL SIZE beds. Sofa and recliners, treadmill, bookcases, rock‑ ing chairs, bureaus and other furniture items. Very reason‑ able. 352‑4375.

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.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease.

The entrance door measure‑ ments are 8’ wide by 7’ high.

For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

FOR RENT: BRIDPORT, Commercial/retail office.

1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. Available Oct. 1.

802‑758‑2494.

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 smok‑ ing, no pets. Snow plowing and lawn maintenance in‑ cluded. $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.

For Rent 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.

SHOREHAM 2 BEDROOM upstairs apartment. All appli‑ ances. Electric and heat in‑ cluded. $1,000 a month plus security deposit. No smok‑ ing. No pets. 802‑236‑2656.

MIDDLEBURY: FOR RENT PRIME retail space. 1,303 square feet. Location, lo‑ cation. Front door parking.

Good visibility. Call Eric at 388‑6054.

NEW HAVEN, 2 BEDROOM apartment with all applianc‑ es, heat and rubbish re‑ moval. 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.

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For Rent ROOMS FOR RENT in his‑ torical Vergnnes Inn. Mid October through Mid May. Perfect for UTC, Travel‑ ing nurses or other travel‑ ing professionals. $650 to $1,000 per month. Call Bill 802‑877‑3293.

FIREWOOD FOR SALE seasoned 2 years. $275 per cord. 802‑558‑1069.

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METCALFE FIREWOOD. QUALITY, clean hard‑ wood for sale. Cut and split. $225/cord. Call Ja‑ son 802‑989‑8180 or email: metcalfefirewood@gmail. com.

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.

Real Estate 2009 DOUBLEWIDE HOME 3 bedroom with 2 bathrooms.

In very nice condition. Needs to be moved. 802‑462‑3624.

CHARMING YEAR ROUND or vacation home in the Northeast Kingdom. $89,000. 2 bedroom, 1 bath.

1 acre country setting. Deck overlooking brook. 20 min‑ utes to Kingdom Trails and Burke Mt., Close to VAST. Email for pictures and more info. Nekhouse@yahoo. com.

CORNWALL, VT‑ A BEAU‑ TIFUL building lot for sale.

Amazing view. Septic permit in place. 760‑807‑6187.

MORIAH, N.Y., 65 ACRES on pond with 3 bedroom house. Garage, barn, pas‑ ture, wood lot and unper‑ mitted sand pit. $165,000.

518‑597‑9760.

Att. Farmers 250 ACRES STANDING corn for sale. Addison/Pan‑ ton area. 802‑238‑9118.

ON LAKE DUNMORE, Salisbury, VT. Two bedroom winterized lake house di‑ rectly on Lake Dunmore.

Fully furnished, Chalet with 1 1/2 bathroom. Two Bed‑ rooms with closets, living room and kitchen open.

Beautiful deck overlooking the North Cove with 4 steps down to 80’ lawn to water to enjoy the outside. You pay your own utilities, (Propane heat). Available from Octo‑ ber 1‑2 until end of school year or end of June. Ice skating and ice fishing during the winter and swimming in warm weather. You will need references, 1st month rent and security deposit. No smoking or pets allowed.

Laundromat, store in walking distance. 15 minute ride to Middlebury. 30 minutes to Rutland. 802‑352‑4697 or leave message.

ONE BEDROOM APART‑ MENT in Addison will be available for rent on October 1. Rent is $800/month and includes electricity and heat.

Security deposit required. No smoking. No pets. Please call 802‑316‑7166 for more details.

Public Notices Index On Pages 10B & 11B. Addison County Courthouse (1) Addison Co. Fair and Field Days (1) Green Mountain Power (1) Middlebury (2) Middlebury Regional EMS (1)

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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.

MIDDLEBURY, BRIGHT SUNNY studio apartment.

Friendly quiet neighborhood.

Walk to store,. Private porch. $525 includes heat, electric, trash. No smoking, no pets.

Security deposit, references.

388‑4109.

COZY MIDDLEBURY B&B 1 night‑1 week stay. $70/night or $300 for the week. Perfect for 1 person or couple. Call 802‑349‑6006.

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.

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ ROOM, one is tiny, ground floor apartment. Large porch. Mostly natural gas heat. $1,100. plus utilities.

802‑989‑8399.

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FIRST CUT HAY for sale.

Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281.

TOWN OF RIPTON NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Zoning Board of Adjustment and Historic District Commission will hold a public hearing in the Town Office on Tuesday, October 10, 2017 at 7:15 p.m., to conduct a Conditional Use hearing and site plan review of application (#17-12) from Pamela Smith, Guardian for approval of the installation of solar panels to the roof of the dwelling located at 9 Lincoln Road (Tax Map ID# 10-01-08).

The application is available for inspection at the Town Office. Interested parties who wish to appeal or to be heard at the hearing may do so in person, or may be represented by an agent or an attorney. Communications relating to the application may be filed in writing with the Commission either before or during the hearing.

N.B.: Participation in the hearing is necessary to establish status as an ‘interested person’ and the right to appeal decisions rendered in that hearing, according to the provisions of 24 V.S.A. 117 §§4465(b) and 4471(a). Participation consists of offering, through oral or written testimony, evidence or a statement of concern directly related to the subject of the hearing.

Respectfully submitted, 9/21 Warren B. King, Chair

TOWN OF NEW HAVEN PROPERTY TAX NOTICE

Notice is hereby given to the taxpayers of the Town and Town School District of New Haven, VT. It was voted at the 2017 Annual Town Meeting that property taxes are due on Monday, October 2, 2017.

Tax Bills were mailed on July 17, 2017.

Property taxes will be considered late if not received in the Town Office by the close of the business day on Monday, October 2, 2017 @ 5:00 p.m.

POSTMARKS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED TIMELY. POST-DATED CHECKS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. Please allow several days for delivery.

Please pay promptly to avoid penalty and interest charges; Interest charges of 1% per month - and 8% penalty fee will be added to any late payments, per State Statute.

Tax bills are mailed to the owner of record as of April 1st of each year.

Please make sure your Escrow Company has a copy of your tax bill.

If you do not have a bill, or have any questions please call the Town Office @ 4533516.

Respectfully, Barbara Torian New Haven, Town Treasurer

9/18, 21, 25, 28

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Town of Middlebury Selectboard hereby provides notice of a public hearing being held pursuant to 24 VSA §4384 (Preparation of Plans) and §4447 (Public Hearing Notice) for the purpose of hearing public comments concerning the proposed 2017 Middlebury Town Plan Amendment.

The public hearing has been scheduled for: DATE: October 24, 2017 at 7:30pm PLACE: Municipal Office Building, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 Large Conference Room Statement of Purpose: Under Vermont State Law, town plans must be updated every 5 years (future versions of the plan must be updated every 8 years). The current 2012 Town Plan will expire in December 2017. The purpose of this hearing is to receive public comment on the updated, draft plan and to discuss any comments provided by the public.

Geographic Area Affected: This Plan shall apply to all areas in the Town of Middlebury, VT Table of Contents: (abbreviated) Education Context Colleges and Institutions Goals and Themes Community Facilities, Services and Historical Development Utilities Natural and Scenic Resources Land Use Local Economy Implementation Housing Maps Energy Appendices Transportation Location where full text may be examined: Copies of the full text of the proposed Town Plan amendment for the Town of Middlebury can be viewed in the Planning & Zoning Office or the Town Clerk’s Office at 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT. The proposed amendment may be viewed online on the Town’s web site www.townofmiddlebury.org.

9/21

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Wanted INFORMATION ON LOCA‑ TION of baptismal records of first congregational church in Vergennes before 1960, specifically 1935‑1950. Call 802‑846‑5212.

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Vt. enviromental group pledges to help bee and bird populations

MONTPELIER — Renewable Energy Vermont (REV) members pledged on Sept. 19 to help pollinators through bee and bird-friendly plantings at solar projects across the state.

In partnership with leading scientists and environmental organizations, solar leaders committed to help landowners re-create habitat to aid imperiled keystone species and valuable crop pollinators.

“The pollinator-friendly solar pledge reflects one of many ways that renewable energy helps heal our environment and support farmers,” said Olivia Campbell Andersen, Executive Director of Renewable Energy Vermont. “Working together, solar leaders and wildlife advocates are abuzz with the benefits that pollinatorfriendly solar projects bring. Nine businesses have already stepped up, committing to 24.8 megawatts of pollinator-friendly solar over the next year.”

In recent years, increased pesticide use and habitat loss have led to the near collapse of pollinator populations worldwide. Pollinators are a crucial part of any ecosystem, and their loss has spurred action across many sectors, including Vermont’s robust renewable energy sector.

“There is an opportunity to use the space under solar fields, wind towers, and power lines to restore critical habitat for our declining pollinators. We began in 2015 with a field south of Middlebury, Vermont built by Encore Renewable Energy for Middle Road Venture,” said Mike Kiernan of Bee the Change, a non-profit helping energy projects switch management methods.

“Our most recent work was a fouracre installation for the Green Lantern Group in New Haven and we’ve just begun work on a solar field with a demonstration garden at Rock Point School in Burlington, which will allow us to bring in school groups, garden clubs, and interested citizens and tell the story of the importance of pollinators. We are now in five solar fields across the state with several more in the works.”

Vermont solar businesses and landowners are creating win-win-win strategies for clean energy, agriculture, and

Public Notices

are found on Pages 10B & 11B.

ADDISON COUNTY FAIR AND FIELD DAYS, INC. NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

All residents of Addison County are hereby given notice of the annual meeting of Addison County Fair & Field Days, Inc., to be held at 7:00 p.m. on Monday, October 2, 2017 at the Weybridge Congregational Church, in Weybridge, Vermont.

AGENDA I. Welcome and Introduction of Board Members II. Review of 2017 Fair III. Financial Report IV. Audience Comments & Questions V. Election of Board Members and Officers VI. Refreshments will be served.

Cara N. Mullin, Business Manager 9/21

pollinators. By using the land under and around solar arrays to plant native pollinator-friendly plants, Vermont solar energy can play a significant role in re-establishing critical pollinator habitats to address the growing threat to bees and birds, which are valuable crop pollinators.

“Bee The Change installed over 90 species of plants and flowers at our four-acre solar project this spring, and to see the birds and bees buzzing all over the array two weeks ago was very exciting, said Sam Carlson, Director of Project Development at the Green Lantern Group. “The site is beautiful with so many flowers blooming, and the honey is going to taste great, too!

This is a great example of a solar project delivering not only clean Vermontmade electricity but also benefits for pollinators, who need our help.”

Audubon Vermont, which has been engaging Vermonters to protect birds and wildlife habitat for over 50 years, is another partner and resource to Vermonters hoping to protect local pollinators. “Audubon’s research has shown that half of Vermont’s birds are threatened by climate change.

We need to both enhance habitat and reduce the amount of carbon we are adding to the atmosphere around us,” said Jim Shallow, Audubon Vermont State Director. “These sites not only create the clean energy we need but also become part of a collective effort to develop and sustain habitat for birds and other pollinators.”

In Vermont, businesses and organizations have already committed to pollinator-friendly practices, including Ben & Jerry’s, Catamount Solar, Encore Renewables, Green Lantern Group, Grassroots Solar, Green Mountain Power, GroSolar, Shelburne Farms, and VSECU. REV Member Encore Renewable Energy, which hosts two

MIDDLEBURY REGIONAL EMS - PUBLIC NOTICE

Notice that a public meeting for comments will be held to review Middlebury Regional Emergency and Medical Services plan to file an application for Federal Assistance funds to assist with an ambulance purchase from the USDA Rural Development Community Facilities Loan and/or Grant program.

The public meeting will be held at 5:30 pm on Tuesday September 26th at Middlebury Regional EMS, 55 Collins Drive, Middlebury, VT 9/21, 25

TOWN OF SALISBURY INVITATION TO BID The Town of Salisbury is seeking bids for survey work on the Town Forest. The area to be surveyed is the portion west of Upper Plains Rd including the access road to Plains Rd. Work would include the survey, any research, plot plan and recording fees. Deadline for bids is 3PM on October 3, 2017. Bids may be mailed or delivered to the Town Office. Bids will be opened on October 10, 2017.

The Town reserves the right to reject any or all bids. A packet of information regarding the project is available at the Town Office.

9/14

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE

The Middlebury Development Review Board will hold a public hearing on Monday, October 9, 2017 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Large Conference Room at the Town Offices, 77 Main Street, to consider the following: 1. An application by John and Judith DeBouter for final subdivision review of a proposal to create a two-lot subdivision. The property is located at 450 Quarry Road, parcel ID 05:008, in the AR zoning district.

2. An application by David Joy for final subdivision review of a proposal to create a two-lot subdivision. This property is located at 46 Road 18, parcel ID 5:116 in the HDR zoning district.

3. An application by RK Miles for a conditional use review of structures for storage of materials, and two setback waivers. This property is located on the west side of Exchange Street, parcel ID 21:040 in the GC zoning district.

4. An application by SW Apartments for conditional use review and setback waiver request to construct attached storage units for several apartment units. The property is located on Sugarwood Court, parcel ID 5:108 in the HDR zoning district.

Plans and additional information regarding these applications may be viewed at the Planning and Zoning Office in the Town Offices or by calling 388-8100, Ext 210.

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

Jennifer L. Murray Town Planner/Zoning Administrative Officer

9/21

ACT 250 NOTICE MINOR APPLICATION 9A0368 10 V.S.A. §§ 6001 – 6093

On August 31, 2017, Green Mountain Power, 2152 Post Road, Rutland, Vermont 05701 filed application #9A0368 for a project described as the reconstruction/extension of an existing 1845’ long overhead distribution line on Notch Road in Bristol. The project would replace existing poles with 10’ taller poles, and extend the corridor an additional 6142’ with the installation of new 45’ tall poles. The project begins at the intersection of Route 116 and Notch Road and continues to the intersection of Notch/Lower Notch Road and Upper Notch Road, then turns in a southeasterly direction tying into an existing line on the Upper Notch Road. No hearing will be held and a permit will be issued unless, on or before October 5, 2017, a party notifies the District 9 Commission in writing at the address below of an issue requiring a hearing or the Commission sets the matter for hearing on its own motion. Such hearing request must include a petition for party status. The application and proposed permit may be viewed on the Natural Resources Board web site (www.nrb. state.vt.us/lup) Click on “Act 250 Database” and enter project number 9A0368. For more information contact the Coordinator listed below.

Dated at Barre, Vermont this 18th day of September 2017.

By: Susan Baird, District Coordinator District 5 Environmental Commission 5 Perry Street, Suite 60 Barre, Vermont 05641 802-476-0134 susan.baird@vermont.gov 9/21

Addison Independent, Thursday, September 21, 2017 — PAGE 11B

TOWN OF MONKTON NOTICE OF TAX SALE

500 kilowatt pollinator-friendly projects in the state, says there is a business case for the practice.

“We view the colocation of pollinator-friendly plantings within groundmounted commercial-scale solar arrays as a perfect example of a positive triple bottom line outcome. The social and environmental benefits of these projects are well documented, and solar project owners are able to lower site management costs over time,” said Chad Farrell of Encore Renewable Energy. “In addition, we feel that the favorable impact on project aesthetics offered by pollinators should allow for more solar projects to be built, something that will have multiple benefits as we look to deliver additional sources of distributed electrical generation to counter the negative effects of climate change.”

New tools and resources are available to help navigate implementation of these sustainable site management strategies, thanks to the guidance of experts at the University of Vermont’s Gund Institute and Agricultural Extension, Vermont’s Agencies of Agriculture and Natural Resources and engagement by local and national non-profits.

Following the REV conference in 2016, Energy Action Network brought together a diverse group of science, agricultural, and business leaders to develop a certifiable standard — or “scorecard” — to provide transparent guidance for vegetative management plans using pollinator-friendly plants.

The impactful collaboration provided important guidance to enable Vermont’s solar energy leaders to set the standard for generating both clean energy and vital pollinator habitats that are critical to the future of our birds, our bees, and our farms.

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

802-388-1966

The resident and non-resident owners, lienholders and mortgagees of the real estate in the Town of Monkton, in the County of Addison, and State of Vermont, are hereby notified that real estate taxes assessed by the Town of Monkton for the 2014, 2015 and 2016 tax years remain, either in whole or in part, unpaid upon the following described real estate in the Town of Monkton, Vermont as indicated below, to wit: George Bailey: 2016 Property Taxes improvements thereon, located at 54 South Shore, Monkton, Vermont Being 1.00 acre of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all (Parcel I.D. #13.101.095.000), and being all and the same lands and other improvements thereon, located at 1540 Hollow Road, Monkton premises conveyed to Brian G. Brown in a Warranty Deed from Robert E. Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Von Bruns and Andrea B. Von Bruns dated August 22, 2003, and recorded George Bailey in a Certificate of Non-Redemption and Writ of Possession in the Monkton Land Records in Book 93 at Page 349. Reference is made in the matter of George Bailey v. Kenneth Jennings, Jr., State of Vermont to the following documents of record: (a) Easement Deed from Richard L. Office of Child Support, and Gregory Supply Co. of Vermont, Inc. d/b/a Imes and Sandra M. Imes to Brian G. Brown dated August 1, 2003, and Gregory Building Supply, Addison Superior Court Docket No. 151-7-05 recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 93 at Page 351; and (b) Ancv, dated October 4, 2005, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records Easement Deed from Sean McLoughlin and Jamilah Vogel to Brian G. in Book 106 at Page 235. See also an Amended Judgment Order and Brown dated August 4, 2003, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records Decree of Foreclosure in the same matter, dated September 15, 2005, in Book 93 at Page 356; and (c) State of Vermont Potable Water Supply and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 106 at Page 236. and Wastewater System Permit WW-9-1101R dated October 15, 2007, Daniel N. Bennett and April L. Bennett: 2016 Property Taxes and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 116 at Page 371.

Being .92 acre of land, more or less, with any and all improvements Royce A. Dendler: 2015 and 2016 Property Taxes thereon, located at 576 Bennett Road, Monkton, Vermont, and being all Being 5.00 acres of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Daniel N. Bennett and other improvements thereon, located at 5012 Mountain Road, Monkton, April L. Bennett in a Warranty Deed from Robert F. Atkins dated June 29, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to 2000, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 78 at Page Royce A. Dendler and Susan Deming Dendler in a Warranty Deed from 374.

Sylvester Deming and Mary Elizabeth Deming dated August 4, 1975, and Timothy James Bora: 2016 Property Taxes recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 31 at Page 69. Reference Being 11.3 acres of land, more or less, with any and all improvements is made to the following documents of record: (a) Quit Claim Deed from thereon, located at 500 Boro Hill Road, Monkton, Vermont, and being all Susan Deming (formerly Dendler) to Royce A. Dendler dated July 18, and the same lands and premises conveyed to Timothy James Bora in 1983, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 38 at Page a Warranty Deed from Niles E. Bora and Joy M. Bora dated October 7, 31; and (b) Final Order of Divorce in the matter of Royce Arthur Dendler 2005, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 106 at Page v. Olga Bondarenko Dendler, Vermont Superior Court, Addison Unit 288. The herein Property may have the benefit of an easement as more Family Division Docket No. 177-9-10 Andm, dated November 2, 2011, particularly described in an Easement Deed from Edward R. Williams and and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 139 at Page 451.

Mary B. Williams to Timothy Bora dated August 12, 2005, and recorded in Christopher R. Driscoll and Melissa S. Driscoll: 2016 Property Taxes the Monkton Land Records in Book 105 at Page 232.

Being 2.13 acres of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and Jeffrey Boutilier: 2016 Property Taxes all other improvements thereon, located at 363 Hardscrabble Road, Being 13.76 acres of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and Monkton, Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises all other improvements thereon, located on Morgan Road, Monkton, conveyed to Christopher R. Driscoll and Melissa S. Driscoll in a Warranty Vermont (Parcel I.D. #01.207.009.004), and being that PORTION of Deed from Peter M. Norris, Sr. and Dolores M. Norris dated December lands and premises located within the Town of Monkton, Vermont only, 19, 2012, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 139 at which were conveyed to Jeffrey Boutilier in a Trustee’s Deed from Page 170.

Deborah Paolantonio and Allan Boutilier, Trustees of the Boutilier Family Bonita Larrow: 2015 and 2016 Property Taxes Trust dated August 11, 1999, said Trustee’s Deed dated July 9, 2010, Being a 14’ x 70’ 1986 Astro Country Manor mobile home, serial number and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 128 at Page 245. 6344, located at 1237 Tyler Bridge Road, Monkton, Vermont. Reference The herein Property may be subject to the terms and conditions of State is made to a Vermont Mobile Home Uniform Bill of Sale from Latham of Vermont Wastewater System and Potable Water Supply Permit WW- Trailer Sales, Inc., d/b/a Ray’s Homes to Bonita Larrow dated June 23, 9-1964 dated January 28, 2014, and recorded in the Monkton Land 1986, and of record in the Monkton Land Records. Reference is made to Records in Book 144 at Page 215. a Memorandum of Lease by and between Thomas H. Rawls and Wistar Brian Brown: 2015 and 2016 Property Taxes W. Rawls (Lessor) and Bonita Larrow (Lessee) dated April 27, 2001, and Being .50 acre of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all other recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 77 at Page 362. improvements thereon, located at 91 Beaver Lane, Monkton, Vermont Tara Lorraine Gymrek Tower (Pike): 2014, 2015 and 2016 Property (Parcel I.D. #13.101.083.000), and being all and the same lands and Taxes premises conveyed to Brian Brown in a Warranty Deed from Cora Rock Being 1.00 acre of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all dated November 6, 1972, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in other improvements thereon, located at 1120 Hollow Road, Monkton, Book 29 at Page 309. Reference is made to the following documents of Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to record: (a) Quit Claim Deed from Brian Brown to John A. Thompson and Tara Lorraine Gymrek Tower by Trustee’s Deed of Tove Nicole Gymrek Ellen B. Thompson dated May 14, 1984, and recorded in the Monkton Tower, as Trustee of the Sandra L. Tower Revocable Trust u/t/a dated Land Records in Book 38 at Page 351; (b) Quit Claim Deed from John A. December 20, 2011, as amended December 21, 2011, said Trustee’s Thompson and Ellen B. Thompson to Brian Brown dated May 14, 1984, Deed dated April 24, 2012, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 38 at Page 353; and in Book 136 at Page 304. (c) Memorandum of Decision and Judgment Order in the matter John Todd Whitney and Seaason Whitney: 2016 Property Taxes A. & Ellen B. Thompson and David D. & Juliette A. Barash-Cole v. Brian Being 5.00 acres of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all Brown, Addison Superior Court Docket No. S139-91 Ac, dated January other improvements thereon, located at 3130 Rotax Road, Monkton, 31, 1993, and recorded in the Monkton Land Records in Book 55 at Page Vermont, and being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to 247.

Todd Whitney and Seaason Whitney in a Warranty Deed from William P. Brian G. Brown: 2016 Property Taxes Porter and Kristen P. Goldstein dated March 3, 2015, and recorded in the Being .68 acre of land, more or less, with dwelling and any and all other Monkton Land Records in Book 147 at Page 517.

And so much of said real estate will be sold at public auction at the Monkton Town Clerk’s office, a public place in said Town on the 20th day of November, 2017 at 9:00 o’clock in the forenoon, as shall be requisite to discharge such taxes with costs and fees, unless previously paid.

Any questions or inquiries regarding the above-referenced sale should be directed to the following address: Carroll, Boe & Pell, PC ATTN: James F. Carroll, Esq. or Wanda M. Murray, Paralegal 64 Court Street Middlebury, Vermont 05753 Telephone: (802) 388-6711 Carroll, Boe & Pell, PC and the Town of Monkton do not give any opinion or certification as to the marketability of the titles to any of the abovereferenced properties as held by the current owner/taxpayer.

The only acceptable forms of bid payment at the day of tax sale are: bank check payable to Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C., Real Estate Trust Account; letter of credit from bank followed by bank check payable to Carroll, Boe & Pell, P.C., Real Estate Trust Account; and/or cash. No personal checks will be accepted.

Dated at Monkton, Vermont this 28th day of August, 2017.

William C. Joos, Town of Monkton Delinquent Tax Collector 9/7

The Public Notices section appears every Mon. & Thurs. in the Addison Independent REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AUDIT SERVICES1 FOR VERGENNES PANTON WATER DISTRICT OF VERGENNES, VERMONT

INTRODUCTION The Vergennes Panton Water District of Vergennes, Vermont, is requesting proposals from qualified firms of Certified Public Accountants to audit its financial statements for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2017, with the option of auditing its financial statements for each of the two subsequent fiscal years.

Proposals are to be submitted by 4:00 PM on Monday, October 2, 2017 to: Maria Brown, Clerk/Treasurer Vergennes Panton Water District of Vergennes, Vermont P.O. Box 152 / 7 Canal Street Vergennes, VT 05491 The Vergennes Panton Water District reserves the right to reject any or all proposals submitted. Proposals will be evaluated by VPWD based on firm experience and reputation, understanding of VPWD requirements, and price. During the evaluation process, VPWD reserves the right, where it may serve in the VPWD’s best interest, to request additional information or clarification from proposers. At the discretion of VPWD, firms submitting proposals may be requested to make oral presentations as part of the evaluation process.

Please direct all questions regarding this request for proposals to Maria Brown, Clerk/ Treasurer @ 802-877-2440.

NATURE OF SERVICES REQUIRED The Vergennes Panton Water District of Vergennes, Vermont, desires the auditor to express an opinion on the fair presentation of its general purpose financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles. VPWD also desires the auditor to express an opinion on the fair presentation of the combining and individual fund financial statements and schedules in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.

The audit shall be performed in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards as set forth by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants; the standards for financial audits set forth in the U.S. General Accounting Office’s Government Auditing Standards; the provisions of the Single Audit Act of 1984 and the Single Audit Act Amendments of 1996 (when applicable); and the provisions of the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Circular , A-133, Audits of States, Local Governments, and Non-Profit Organizations.

VPWD does not anticipate spending in excess of $500,000 in federal awards and will not require an audit in accordance with the Single Audit Act of 1984.

It is expected that in determining the extent of test procedures, full consideration will be given to the apparent effectiveness of the system on internal accounting controls. The feasibility of recommendations for improvements in the accounting system and internal controls will be discussed during the course of the engagement. In the required report on internal control, the auditor shall communicate any reportable conditions found during the audit. Reportable conditions that are also material weaknesses shall be identified as such in the report. Non-reportable conditions discovered by the auditors shall also be reported in a separate management letter, which shall include all instances of noncompliance.

The auditor will print, bind and submit (20) copies of the audit report to VPWD. Additional copies of the report shall be submitted to the federal cognizant audit agency and any agencies of the State of Vermont, as required At the conclusion of the audit, the auditor may be asked to meet with the Board of Commissioners to discuss the results of the audit and explain any findings that are included in the auditor’s management letter.

All working papers and reports shall be retained for a minimum of three years, unless the firm is notified in writing by VPWD of the need to extend the retention period.

DESCRIPTION OF THE GOVERNMENT The Vergennes Panton Water District is a potable water treatment municipality. VPWD provides the following services to its customers: The treatment of water taken from Lake Champlain for potable water use. We also sell bulk water to some water haulers. We install and maintain all meters for our customers served. We maintain, repair or replace water distribution lines within our service area. We have both In-District and Out-of-District customers. Our InDistrict customers are from the towns of Vergennes and Panton. Our Out-of –District

customers are located in the towns of Ferrisburg, Addison and Waltham.

VPWD has a total payroll of $154,000 covering 4 full-time and 1 part-time or seasonal employees and 7 Commissioners. The approved budget for the most recent fiscal year are $1,148,032.55 for all income and expenditures. VPWD uses the following fund types in its financial reporting: • General Fund • Special Revenue Funds • Debt Service Fund • Capital Projects Funds • Fiduciary Funds VPWD prepares its financial statements using the modified accrual basis of accounting for governmental funds and the accrual basis of accounting for proprietary funds. VPWD’s financial statements are prepared in accordance with Governmental Accounting Standards Board Statement No. 34, Basic Financial Statements – and Management’s Discussion and Analysis – for State and Local Governments.

PROPOSAL REQUIREMENTS Interested firms shall submit its proposal separated into two sections: the technical proposal and the cost proposal.

The purpose of the technical proposal is to demonstrate the qualifications, competence and capacity of the firms seeking to undertake the audit of VPWD in conformity with the requirements of this request for proposals. The technical proposal should demonstrate the qualifications of the firm and of the particular staff to be assigned to this engagement. It should also specify an audit approach that will meet the request for proposals requirements.

The technical proposal shall provide the necessary information in the following sequence: • Background of the firm. The proposer should state the size of the firm, the size of the firm’s governmental auditing staff, and the number and nature of the professional staff to be employed in this engagement. The firm is also required to submit a copy of the report on its most recent quality control review, along with a statement of whether that quality control review included a review of specific government engagements.

• Partner, supervisory and staff qualifications and experience. The proposer should identify the principal supervisory and management staff who would be assigned to the engagement and disclose each person’s government auditing experience.

• Similar engagements with other government entities. The proposal shall describe the five most significant engagements performed in the last five years that are similar to the engagement described in this request for proposals. Indicate the scope of the work and the name and telephone number of the client contact.

• Specific audit approach. The proposal should set forth a plan of implementation, including an explanation of the audit methodology to be followed. The work plan should include a description of tasks, estimates of work effort, time budgets, and a detailed breakdown of responsibilities of all audit personnel.

The cost proposal should be structured as follows: • Total all-inclusive maximum price for the engagement for the year ending December 31, 2017, and for each of the two subsequent engagement years for which VPWD has the option of continuing in this contract.

• Breakdown of costs by year by partner (principal), supervisory and staff level.

• Out-of-pocket expenses included in the total all-inclusive maximum price and reimbursement rates.

• Progress payments will be made on the basis of hours of work completed during the course of the engagement. Interim billing shall cover a period of not less than a calendar month.

EVALUATION CRITERIA The audit firm will be selected based on two criteria: technical qualifications and price.

The technical qualifications will compare each proposer’s expertise and experience in providing quality audit services to government entities and the quality of the firm’s professional personnel who would conduct the audit. The approach of the audit and the plan for implementation will also be scrutinized. Cost will not be the primary factor in the selection of the audit firm.

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Police assisst Midd. EMS with patient

THE MITTELMAN OBSERVATORY at the top of McCardell Bicentennial Hall on the Middlebury College campus will host night sky viewing events on Sept. 22 and Oct. 6 that will be open to the public.

Observatory open houses on tap MIDDLEBURY — Fall is often a Mittelman includes a 24-inch good time for stargazing because of telescope in a dome and smaller the cool nights and the earth pointing telescopes on the roof. in a direction that The Mittelman lends itself to viewing Observatory is located Saturn will be galaxies outside our atop McCardell in the evening own.

Bicentennial Hall on Those wishing to sky on these the west side of the enjoy celestial night dates. A variety Middlebury College views with the help of interesting campus. To reach the of a professional sky stars, star observatory, follow watcher will get several Route 125 west clusters, and chances this fall. from the Middlebury First, the Mittelman nebulae will village center, through Observatory at also be visible campus, and down Middlebury College through the the hill. Turn right and Middlebury observatory’s on Bicentennial Way Physics is hosting toward the parking lot, telescopes. stargazing open house enter the building, and nights this autumn. take the elevator to the These observatory events are 7th and top floor. scheduled for two Friday evenings Observatory open house nights — Sept. 22 and Oct. 6 — from are free and open to the public.

8-9:30 p.m., weather permitting.

However, these events will take Saturn will be in the evening place only if the sky is expected sky on these dates. A variety of to be mostly clear. Please check interesting stars, star clusters, and the observatory website at nebulae will also be visible through go.middlebury.edu/observatory or the observatory’s telescopes. The call the observatory at 443-2266

after 6 p.m. on the evening of the event for weather status.

A third stargazing opportunity will take place on Monday, Sept. 25, at an event sponsored by the Salisbury Conservation Commission and the Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association.

Retired Middlebury College physicist Crispin Butler will give another of his “Reading the Night Sky” presentations on that evening from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Turner Residence at 662 Leland Road in West Salisbury.

Attendees will find and discuss stars, constellations and planets (particularly Saturn). They will also look for the passage of the International Space Station.

Attendees may wish to bring binoculars, telescopes, star charts, smart phones, or a dim flashlight, though they are not needed. A blanket and/or a jacket may be needed. The presentation is free and open to the public. If the sky is not clear on the eve of the event, call 352-4442 for status.

Man cited for possession of heroin BRISTOL — On Sept. 16, Bristol police arrested Aaron John Myers, 35, of Ferrisburgh for heroin possession.

At around 4:32 p.m., police stopped Myers on Hardscrabble Road for speeding after he was observed traveling 66 miles an hour in a 35-mile-per-hour zone.

Investigation on the scene resulted in the seizure of suspected heroin and related paraphernalia.

Myers was processed and released with a citation to appear in Addison Superior Court, Criminal Division at a later date.

In other activity Sept. 4 through 10, Bristol police: • Patrolled Main Street and the surrounding area on foot. Police patrolled twice a day on Sept. 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9; and once on Sept. 10.

On Sept. 6 and 8, police found doors unsecured and took steps to secure them.

• Conducted security checks of Mount Abraham Middle/High School on Sept. 4, 5, 9 and 10.

• Carried out town-contracted traffic patrols on Sept. 9 and 10.

Police patrolled Route 116 and other

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roads and issued three tickets for speeding.

• Completed fingerprint requests for over 70 school volunteers on Sept. 6 and 8. Completed two other fingerprint requests on Sept. 6 and 8.

• Assisted Vermont State Police at a single-vehicle crash at which a car went over the bank on Upper Notch Road, on Sept. 4.

• Began investigating a reported theft from a district residence, on Sept. 5.

• Took a complaint from MAUHS that a vehicle passed a stopped school bus, on Sept. 5. Police identified the vehicle’s owner and are investigating the incident.

• Investigated a report of damage to a gas pump at a West Street business, on Sept. 5. After speaking with both company personnel and the driver, police determined that the incident was accidental not criminal.

• Responded to a district residence where a woman had reportedly made threats to harm herself, on Sept. 6 at 9:56 p.m. The woman was transported to Porter Medical Center for evaluation.

• Assisted Bristol Rescue at a district residence on Sept. 7.

• Received a debit card on Sept. 7 at 11:44 a.m. Police are taking steps to locate the owner.

• Located a phone reported as stolen, on Sept. 7.

• Provided security and traffic control at an MAUHS nighttime football game on Sept. 8.

• Responded to a citizen’s observation of possibly suspicious person on Sept. 9 at 5:35 p.m.

Police found that the person had been walking for miles with his unleashed dog, and provided the man a courtesy ride to a local residence.

• Stopped a vehicle that had been reported as failing to maintain its proper lane on Sept. 9. Police stopped the vehicle on Route 116 near Hewitt Road and found that the driver was a new driver with limited experience driving at night.

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police assisted Middlebury Regional EMS with a patient with self-inflicted (non-life threatening) knife wounds in the Washington Street area on Sept.

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In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Responded to a family argument at a Main Street residence on Sept. 11.

• Were informed of the theft of some furniture from a Colonial Drive home on Sept. 11.

• Issued Court Diversion paperwork to a Middlebury College student for possession of alcohol on Cross Street on Sept. 11.

• Were informed a dog had charged a possible rabid raccoon in front of the Co-op Insurance building on Washington Street Extension on Sept.

12. Police couldn’t find the raccoon.

• Received a report about a calf wandering near the intersection of Case Street and Leno Lane on Sept. 12. Police said the animal was retrieved by staff at the Addison County Commission Sales.

• Responded to a landlord-tenant dispute at a Piper Road home on Sept.

12.

• Responded to a littering complaint on Buttolph Drive on Sept. 13.

• Spoke with a Valley View Road resident who reported someone had stolen her television on Sept. 13.

• Responded to a report of cows wandering on Munger Street on Sept.

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13. Police said workers at the nearby Butler Farm corralled the animals.

• Extinguished a camp fire that someone had set off of Maple Street on Sept. 14.

• Disposed of some used hypodermic needles that someone had found on High Street on Sept. 14.

• Investigated a report of someone wanting to leave a Court Street store without paying for merchandise on Sept. 14. Police said the suspect was a mentally challenged resident who ultimately did not take any property.

• Warned the hosts of a loud party at a Seymour Street Extension home on Sept. 15 to quiet things down.

• Helped Porter Hospital officials with a suicidal patient on Sept. 15.

• Responded to a family dispute at a Seminary Street residence on Sept.

15. Police said a child was allegedly being disrespectful to her mom.

• Cited Karen Ferlito, 54, of Bristol, for retail theft, after she allegedly tried to leave the Hannaford Supermarket without paying for some items on Sept. 15.

• Quieted a noisy tenant at a Shannon Street residence on Sept. 16.

• Responded to a fireworks

complaint in the Jayne Court neighborhood on Sept. 16.

• Received a report about someone sitting in a crosswalk on Main Street on Sept. 16.

• Responded to separate noise complaints in the South Main Street and Weybridge Street neighborhoods on Sept. 16. The complaints involved loud parties, according to police.

• Assisted a Piper Road resident who reported being threatened by her ex-husband on Sept. 16.

• Helped Porter Hospital officials with a psychiatric patient who was attempting to leave the premises on Sept. 16.

• Assisted Porter Hospital officials with an out-of-control patient on Sept. 16.

• Responded to a report on Sept. 17 of a person trying to enter vehicles parked on Merchants Row. People were unable to find the suspect.

• Helped Vermont State Police look for a missing woman in the South Main Street area on Sept. 17.

• Investigated a suspected case of vandalism to a vehicle that had been parked in the Monarch Court area on Sept. 17.

• Were informed someone had used a beer bottle to vandalize a vehicle parked off College Street on Sept. 17.

• Helped state police get control of a drunken, suicidal man in the North Branch Road area on Sept. 17.

Little Free Library opens in Middlebury MIDDLEBURY — The first Little Free Library in Middlebury is up and running at 91 Main Street. You can take a book or leave a book or just stop by to browse. You will find this “little book box” in front of Middlebury Eye Associates, Inc. The library is always open. Little Free Libraries work on the honor system of free books for anyone who is interested. They are a community resource for everyone to enjoy.

Little Free Libraries are a network of book exchanges located in every state in the U.S. and in over 70 countries around the world with over 50,000 in existence. The idea began in Hudson, Wisconsin when Todd Bol built his first library in 2009 and installed it in his front yard to honor his mother, a schoolteacher and lifelong reader.

The idea grew and spread to become a non-profit organization with libraries located around the globe. Designed to share books and a

MIIDDLEBURY’S FIRST LITTLE Free Library has gone up in front of Middlebury Eye Associates at 91 Main St.

love of reading, Little Free Libraries help foster community connection and creativity, helping neighbor meet neighbor, and building goodwill along the way.

More information can be found at littlefreelibrary.org. Check out the

world map to find the first Little Free Library in Middlebury, and look for them wherever you travel. Finding good books couldn’t be easier or more affordable, they’re free. If inspired, you may want to start a Little Free Library on your street.

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Rachel Eldredge, an athletic trainer at Middlebury College, is a member of the Milk and Honey Quilters Guild. This blue and white quilt is one of Eldredge’s own desings, she calls it “pathways.” It was her final project for a class she took at Middlebury Sew-N-Vac. Eldredge’s work will be on display along with many others’ at the guild’s upcoming quilt show Oct. 7-8 at the Middlebury Rec Center.

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act: tomorrow is the first day of fall.

It’s hard not to get a little depressed as the warm summer days shorten, our colorful gardens fade, and we swap our shorts and sandals for sweaters and boots.

But, it’s not all bad. Fall brings the delights of harvest season, pies, pumpkins, corn mazes, hay rides, warm fireplaces and cozy beds layered with quilts.

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Ahh, yes, quilt season. If you’re a quilt lover, mark your calendars for the Milk and Honey Quilters Guild biennial show coming to Middlebury the first weekend of October. The guild is hoping to have close to 100 quilts on exhibit at the Middlebury Rec Center, submitted

by guild members and others.

Show-goers can peruse quilts and learn about each pattern and the creator’s inspiration on the information card next to the quilt. Then take a stroll by the various quilting vendors and buy lunch from Dot D’Avignon of Taco de Town (she’ll be serving a soup lunch). Don’t forget to enter the quilt and basket raffles.

Guild members thoughtfully craft each basket (valued at $50 or more), and made this year’s raffle quilt (a queen-sized quilt of a contemporary star block made from batik fabrics in vibrant colors).

“Janice (Gould) and myself volunteered to organize for the raffle quilt committee,” said Emmy Alford, a New York native who came to Vermont for the skiing in 1972, and has been a guild member for 25 years. “We held a one-day

workshop; we had seven or eight members get together in The Quilters’ Corner workroom. We had three sewing machines going, an ironer and runners... It was quilted by one of our members Andre Emmel.”

The quilt raffle winner will be drawn at end of the show on Sunday. You don’t have to be there to win. Tickets are $2 each, or three for $5.

If you’re feeling generous, buy an ornament and gift card holder (or a few) that guild members have made — all the money benefits Everybody Wins! Vermont, a literary-based mentoring program for elementary school children.

“For every quilt show the guild chooses a different local nonprofit organization to help; community giving is a wonderful part of being SEE QUILTS ON PAGE 3

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ART “Looking In, Looking Out: Two Galleries, Six Artists” PART 2: EDGEWATER GALLERY AT THE FALLS FEATURES THREE ARTISTS

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dgewater Gallery’s two Middlebury locations will host the group show “Looking In, Looking Out: Two Galleries, Six Artists” this September.

The show explores how manmade structures interact with the natural world. Edgewater Gallery on the Green will feature the work of painters Kathryn Milillo, Faye Mylen, and photographer Jim Westphalen, who were featured in Part 1 last week. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls will feature work by Steven P. Goodman, Emilie Lee and Jill Matthews, featured here.

STEVEN P. GOODMAN Steven P. Goodman has been an artist for over 30 years. Originally a painter, Goodman shifted his medium to digital imagery, using his experiences and current events as inspiration for his often abstract and open ended work. However, he recently felt the pull of painting once again and began honing his skills by working from life. Goodman now works in both mediums, his knowledge of each informing the other.

Regardless of the medium, Goodman stays true to his goals as an artist. “I saw my role as a visual artist as that of a poet but instead of using words, I composed with images, combining them in unique ways to create a personal statement,” he said of his digital imagery.

This poetry is also evident in his landscape paintings. His pieces convey the sense of a place and the experience of the artist, while staying open to the personal interpretation

of the viewer. These loose and vibrant pieces invite the viewer in and evoke a certain calmness in their ambiguity.

EMILIE LEE Emilie Lee is a classically trained oil painter and nature enthusiast. An accomplished artist, Lee got her degree in illustration and worked as a freelance writer and illustrator before continuing her studies under an artist in New York. Lee was also the principle artist and instructor at the Grand Central Atelier and is a senior fellow at the Hudson River Fellowship. Her skills are evident in her stunning, realistic landscapes.

Lee has taken her thorough training and merged it with an active lifestyle; her work is most influenced by her time spent outdoors climbing and adventuring. The artist makes sketches and plein-air paintings while looking at her subject matter to later inform her larger landscape pieces.

“I do not use photographs at any point in my process, intentionally limiting myself to memory and the information I can capture from life,” she said. “My goal is not to create a painting that captures every physical detail, but rather to communicate the emotional experiences I have in nature.”

Her beautifully detailed and soft landscapes convey this experience and transport the viewer.

JILL MATTHEWS Originally from Vermont, Jill Matthews studied

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“Garden Roses #2” by Jill Matthews, 20” x 20” – oil on canvas – $895.

fine art and art education at the University of Vermont before continuing to study painting in southern California. Matthews spent time on the west coast as an instructor of fine art before moving back east. Now situated in Maine, the artist rediscovered her passion for painting and began her a career as a professional artist.

Matthews creates small, colorful floral still lifes that are lighthearted and full of beauty. She has always been an artist; however, only with time spent focusing on painting has she discovered her artistic voice.

“I spent a long time focusing on replicating things that I saw rather truly seeing them through an artistic eye,” she explained.

“My work now is based on an initial idea or vision, I still will use some references in the process, but my most successful moments in painting happen when I lose that security and the work is coming from within.

Adding, editing, allowing color interaction to happen, letting the painting take it’s own direction… That is when I truly emerge as an artist.”

For more information about these artists or the exhibit, call Edgewater Gallery at the Falls at (802)458-0098, email info@ edgewatergallery-vt.com, or visit edgewatergallery-vt.com.

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in the guild,” said Lynn Blagden, guild member and organizer of this year’s fundraiser.

Other funds raised from the raffles and from the $5 door admission ($4 if your a guild member) supports the guild. The guild, which was established in the 1970s, didn’t have membership dues until 2008.

Then the group decided to adopt bylaws and collect $10 a year from members.

“With that money we hire speakers throughout the year,” Alford explained. “They bring a lot of new ideas; it makes meetings very interesting.”

The guild meets on the fourth Tuesday of the month, from 7-9 p.m., at the American Legion building in Middlebury. All are welcome.

“We have members of all ages and abilities,” said Alford, adding they encourage younger members to join. In fact, new at this year’s show will be projects made by local children aged 8-16. “If you’ve just got the bug, it’s a great place to come and learn. We all love to share.”

That’s certainly true. The 51-members of the guild each have a different style and favor certain techniques, which makes it fertile ground for learning. To showcase the different varieties of quilting, this year’s show will feature work by Phyllis Bowdish and Rachel Eldredge — two quilters at opposite ends of quilting extremes.

PHYLLIS BOWDISH Bowdish has lived in Weybridge her whole life.

She grew up on the dairy farm that she now owns with her husband Bob. There they raised their five children, and now have eight grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. She’s been sewing since she was 10 years old, and quilting since she started having children in her early 20s.

“I began my quilting fascination when I enrolled in a class taught by Leona Thompson in the early 1970s,” said Bowdish, explaining that Thompson was the University of Vermont’s extension agent for home-ec in the 1960s and 1970s. The Leona Thompson Bowl is an award that has been given out for 44 years (and counting) at Addison County Fair and Field Days for handicrafts and food.

“She showed me how to piece fabric together using the traditional method of hand stitching.

From then on I have enjoyed making some very original quilts and wall hangings. I like being able to sit and stitch quietly, designing as I stitch… I like to be creative; I can’t draw, but I can create with fiber.”

Bowdish’s collection consists of applique, art, celtic, crazy and pieced; often using a combination of styles. “My quilts are one-of-akind,” she added. “When I begin a quilting project,

Phyllis Bowdish, of Weybridge, is a three-time winner of the Leona Thompson Bowl award (given at Addison County Fair and Field Days for handicrafts and foods) and is a member of the Milk and Honey Quilters Guild. She will be at the Oct. 7-8 quilt show to talk about her hand-quilted pieces like this alphabet quilt.

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I have no idea what it will end up looking like because my best inspirations come when I least expect it, many times in the middle of the night.”

Bowdish has been awarded the Leona Thompson Bowl three separate times: 1986, 2002, and 2014.

But the honor hasn’t gone to her head.

Bowdish is as humble as ever. “Since all of my quilts are hand-worked, I don’t make tons of them and I don’t sell any,” she said. “Many of my quilts are on ‘loan’ with friends, family… I do that because I don’t want to have a pile of quilts, and so they can be enjoyed by family friends, hung all over the place, different states different towns. I think it’s a really neat way to share my joys of quilting.”

RACHEL ELDREDGE Eldredge, unlike Bowdish, uses the sewing machine almost exclusively for her quilt projects.

But Eldredge didn’t get into quilting right away.

First she pursued her career in sports medicine as an athletic trainer. After graduating University of La Verne in Southern California in 2001, Eldredge spent the next two years at Lindenwood University earning her Masters in Health Management, and getting on the job experience as an athletic trainer. In 2003, she was offered a position at Middlebury College and today counts 14 years as a full-time athletic trainer for the women’s field hockey and ice hockey teams; she also covers men’s and women’s tennis.

“I take care of all the injuries, referrals and work on prevention with the teams,” explained the 38-yearold. “I’m at all the practices and games during regular and post season.” That means she’s on the road a lot during the season (sometimes even internationally), but when summer comes, and students go home, Eldredge has lots of free time.

“I’ve always liked art,” she said. “About seven years ago I was in Idaho visiting my mom and one of her friends who’s a quilter. I spent six weeks learning a different technique each week. And I was hooked.

It became my form of therapy. I take care of others all day long and when I come home I can spend my time doing something else.”

Without the distractions of Cable or internet at her Shoreham home, Eldredge estimates she’s completed about 20 quilts.

“I enjoy what’s called paper piecing,” she explained. “The patterns are usually very intricate and complicated, so you stitch them on paper — then you tear the paper off at the end. The paper gives you a straight line and keeps everything together neatly.”

Eldredge first learned this technique from one of Judy Niemeyer’s certified instructors who came to a guild meeting to do a trunk show and workshop.

Another technique Eldredge is excited about is called stained glass quilting — “where you fuse the pieces together and sew in the leading.” She learned that at a class at Middlebury Sew-N-Vac. Eldredge, like Bowdish (and many other quilters), is generous. She’s a member of the Red Clover Quilters, an invite-only group at Middlebury Sew-N-Vac who make quilts to donate to residents at Shard Villa.

“Quilting is very expensive in both time and money, so it’s hard to sell pieces for what they’re actually worth,” said Eldredge. “I make quilts because I really love doing it and I don’t want them to sit around; I want people to enjoy and use them. It’s my way of giving back.”

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IN TOWN ‘Peter Pan’ flies to Middlebury NATIONAL THEATER’S LIVE PERFORMANCE SHOWED

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aptured live at the National Theatre, a recorded performance of JM Barrie’s much-loved tale “Peter Pan” comes to Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater this Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m.

When Peter Pan, leader of the Lost Boys, loses his shadow, headstrong Wendy helps him to reattach it. In return, she is invited to Neverland, where Tinker Bell the fairy, Tiger Lily and the vengeful Captain Hook await.

A riot of magic, music and makebelieve ensues.

A delight for children and adults alike, Sally Cookson (NT Live: Jane Eyre) directs this wondrously inventive production, a co-production with Bristol Old Vic theatre.

Tickets are $17 / $10 for students, and may be purchased at townhalltheater.org, by phone at (802) 382-9222 or in person at the Town Hall Theater Box Office (daily except Sunday, 12-5 p.m.)

Saikat Ahmed plays Tinker Bell and Paul Hilton plays Peter in the National Theater’s performance of “Peter Pan.” See the live recorded performance this Sunday at the Town Hall Theater.

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Study traditional Vermont music with stipend THE VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER ACCEPTS APPLICATIONS FOR FLANDERS AWARD

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ermont musician, Deb Flanders, created the Flanders Award for Traditional Vermont Music to honor the work of her great aunt, Helen Hartness Flanders. The award provides a stipend to a Vermont musician aged 15-29 to support the perpetuation and performance of the traditional Yankee and FrancoAmerican musical repertoire of the state.

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Award funds are intended to offset the cost of travel to one or more Vermont archival repositories so the recipient can work in person with collections of field recordings, manuscripts and rare books of vocal song or instrumental music rooted in the cultural heritage of Vermont.

In addition to assisting with travel costs, Award funds also serve to encourage learning and rehearsal of songs/music as well as basic research into the history and performance of the selected materials.

“Vermont’s archives, libraries and historical societies have preserved a rich collection of the state’s traditional music,” said Andy Kolovos, Vermont Folklife Center Director of Archives and Research, “the goal of the Flanders Award is to give these treasures new voice in the present.”

Applications are due by Oct. 9. Email Andy Kolovos with questions at akolovos@vermontfolklifecenter. org. Full details about the award are available at vermontfolklifecenter.org/flanders.

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IN TOWN Made in Vermont Tour returns to Middlebury VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA TRAVELS THE STATE WITH CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMANCES

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representing the VSO Award for Best Integration of Music into Film, given to filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer in 2016.

s summer turns to fall, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra (VSO) will cover the state from top to bottom for its Made in Vermont Statewide Tour. This Saturday, Sept. 23, at 7:30 p.m., the orchestra will perform at the Mahaney Center for the Arts in Middlebury on the SATURDAY SEPT. fourth day of the tour.

Mahaney Center for the Arts, The concert program Middlebury will include Mozart’s “Sinfonia Concertante,” Gluck’s “Dance of the Furies” from Orfeo, Britten’s “Simple Symphony,” and the new work “Breath” by Vermont composer Paul Dedell.

“This commission and premiere are a year in the making, as well as a work in progress,” explained Cadwallader. “This is an innovative partnership is new to us as well, because few public orchestras give awards to filmmakers for an original score. We are thrilled to reveal the process by which composers, filmmakers and orchestras work together to enhance the visual elements of film with music. What makes this partnership even sweeter is having so many Vermonters involved too.”

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“We are thrilled to continue our partnership with Middlebury College. The Mahaney Center is an acoustically and visually stunning space and we look forward to performing there again,” said VSO Executive Director Benjamin Cadwallader.

The Made in Vermont Statewide Tour will be a unique experience for even the most seasoned classical music concertgoers, and a delight for newcomers. First, renowned violin soloist Pamela Frank, a long-standing friend and colleague of VSO Music Director Jaime Laredo, will perform Mozart’s famous “Sinfonia Concertante,” a richly inventive double concerto for violin and viola.

Laredo will perform the piece on viola from the podium while also leading the VSO. The second notable aspect of the statewide tour

Jaime Laredo is the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s music director. He will lead the VSO in this year’s Made in Vermont Statewide Tour, coming to the Mahaney Center for the Arts on Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m.

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is VSO’s tradition of premiering a commissioned piece by a Vermont composer — this year, Paul Dedell’s “Breath.” This commission is a pioneering new venture between the VSO and the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival,

From the VSO’s beginning in 1934, the orchestra has toured the Green Mountains. “Tours are at the heart of what makes us the Vermont Symphony Orchestra,” said Cadwallader. “This tour is the perfect representation of us living our mission as we employ Vermont musicians, composers and filmmakers to create new art and share it widely with communities throughout the state.”

The VSO Made in Vermont concert will take place on Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., in Robison Hall at the Mahaney Center for the Arts. General admission tickets are $25 for adults; $10 for students (children ages 6-17 and full-time college students with ID); free for children ages 5 and under. Tickets are available at the Middlebury College box office at 802-443-MIDD (6433) or middlebury.edu/ arts/tickets, or at vso.org.

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On Saturday, naturalist Marc Lapin will lead a walk, titled “A SATURDAY SEPT. Contemplative Natural History of Trees and Shrubs,” at the Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell, from 1-3 p.m. Meet at the Mount Independence museum. Wear sturdy shoes, dress for the weather, and bring a snack to enjoy before the hike if you’d like. The walk is included in the price of regular site admission: $5 for adults and free for children under 15. For more information visit historicsites.vermont.gov.

Art on Main’s annual fall fundraiser is taking place this SATURDAY SEPT. Saturday, Sept. 23, during the Bristol Harvest Fest. Come find them under the tent from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. and bid on wonderful art, crafts, services and local goods. Harvest fest continues until 4 p.m. on the town green. While you’re there check out the other crafters and vendors, apple pie contests, bandstand music and more. More info at BristolHarvestFest.com.

This Saturday filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer and composer Paul Dedell present SATURDAY SEPT. clips from Kreitzer’s documentary, “Caregivers,” accompanied by a live chamber ensemble. This performance is part of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s “Made in Vermont Statewide Tour” and will be held at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College, Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m. Tickets: $25 adults, $10 children (6-17), free for children under six. Visit flynntix.org, middlebury.edu/ arts/boxoffice or call (802) 443-3168 for more info.

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CALENDAR

ARTS

CLIFFORD SYMPOSIUM IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-10 p.m., and Saturday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.-9 p.m., Middlebury College, locations around campus. This year’s topic is “The Soviet Century: One Hundred Years of the Russian Revolution.” and aims to re-examine the global significance of this watershed moment in modern history in political, social and cultural terms. Highlights include a scene from Vsevolod Vishnevsky’s 1933 play, a panel discussion on Art and Revolution, keynote Address by Mark Steinberg. Opening reception, and a piano concert. Free and open to the public.

More info at middlebury.edu/Clifford/2017.

ARTS WALK IN VERGENNES. September 22, 5-8 p.m., Downtown. Vergennes. Receptions from 5-8 p.m. Art on view and for sale at participating locations throughout downtown Vergennes.

Discover artwork at venues all along Main Street, after-hours events at art galleries. More info: info@ creativespacegallery.org.

OPENING RECEPTION AND GALLERY TALK IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Sept. 28, from 5-7 p.m., Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St. A public event to celebrate Ethan Hubbard’s exhibit “Driving the Back Roads: In Search of Old-Time Vermonters.” Complementary, locally sourced food and drink, including beer, wine, craft cheeses, produce, and more will be served. A Q&A session with the artist will begin at 6 p.m.

AN INTRODUCTION TO “LAND AND LENS” IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Sept. 29, 12:30 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Curator Kristen Hoving will lead an informal walk through the new photography exhibit at the museum. Free. museum.middlebury.edu or 802-443-2291.

PAINT-N-SIP FUNDRAISER IN BRANDON. Saturday Sept. 30, 2-4 p.m., Neshobe Golf Club, 224 Town Farm Rd. Raise funds for Making Strides Against Breast Cancer. Registration includes snacks and all painting materials for 11 x 14 canvas. $40 advance/ $45 at the door. For more info at 802-349-9315 or facebook.com/paintwithjackie/.

DANCE

BAKER & TARPAGA DANCE PROJECT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Sept. 29, and Saturday, Sept.

30, 8 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The transnational performance group, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from

Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics. BTDP presents Declassified Memory Fragment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently affecting the continent of Africa. Tickets: $22 General public/$16 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students (See related event September 26.) On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. www. middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802-443-3168.

FILM

“PARADISE” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept. 23, 3 and 8 p.m. Sunderland Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. Olga, a Russian emigrant and member of the French Resistance, French collaborator Jules and German SS officer Helmut cross paths in 1940s wartime. Sponsored by the Holocaust Film Fund. A Hirschfield International Film Series event.

Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

“FATIMA” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept. 30, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunderland Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. A Moroccanborn single mother living in France works as a maid to provide for her daughters: 18-year old Nesrine, who is just beginning medical school, and 15-year old Souad, who is struggling with her teenage years.

Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

FOOD

LAKE AND LAND DINNER IN FERRISBURGH. Sunday, Sept. 24, 5 p.m., Basin Harbor Club, 4800 Basin Harbor Rd. A culinary celebration of Vermont’s local foods — highlighting Lake Champlain fish in a family-style dinner.

Appetizers created by guest chefs and a cruise on the Escape also included. Tickets $55 general public/$45 Vermont Fresh Network/ Lake Champlain International members/$30 children 12 and under. More info contact grace@ vermontfresh.net or eric@mychamplain.net.

“EAT ON THE GREEN” IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Sept. 30, 3-8 p.m., city green. Sample a variety of dishes served up by Vergennes-area eateries while listening to music performed by three local bands. Craft crews for adults, Kids activities, including face painting, plinko, and hula hoop contests with prizes. Free entry, with food and beverage tickets — 1 for $1, 12 for $10.

ETHIOPIAN BOOGIE BENEFIT IN LINCOLN. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7-10:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 East River St. The Willowell Foundation presents the New Nile Orchestra, “New England’s Finest

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Ethiopian Funk,” who will be playing to benefit One Love AIDS HIV Awareness Theater, a theater troupe in Hawassa, Ethiopia that performs shows about AIDS and gender equality in rural towns in Southern Ethiopia. Ethiopian food and crafts will be available. Tickets $10/ kids under 12 free, Food: $10/kids $5. Available at the door. More info at willowell.org, info@willowell.org or 802-453-6195.

JUST FOR FUN

STARGAZING OPEN HOUSE AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE OBSERVATORY. Friday, Sept. 22, 8-9:30 p.m., weather permitting. Mittleman Observatory is atop McCardell Bicentennial Hall. A variety of interesting stars, star clusters, and nebulae visible through the observatory’s telescopes, which range up to 24 inches. Check the website go.middlebury. edu/observatory/ or call the observatory at 4432266 after 6 p.m. on the evening of the event for weather status. Free.

HARVEST FESTIVAL IN BRISTOL. Saturday, Sept.

23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., town green. Bristol’s annual fall celebration. Crafters and other vendors, children’s venue, apple pie contests, bandstand music and more. More info at BristolHarvestFest.com.

13TH ANNUAL BETTER L8 THAN NEVER CAR SHOW IN BRISTOL. Sunday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Bristol Recreation Field, 100 Airport Dr. Expecting more than 200 classic cars and trucks. Vendors, food, live DJ, raffle drawings, 50/50 raffle, piston toss, kids’ activities, bake sale and more. Fun for the whole family. Free for spectators. Donations accepted for Camp Ta-Kum-Ta. Vehicle entry fee — all makes, all models — $15 by Sept. 1, or $20 at the gate. More info at BetterL8ThanNever.com.

ROTARY FALL FESTIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Sept. 24, 2-6 p.m., in tents behind Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts. This event will feature music by the Horse Traders, contra dancing with Red Dog Riley, a beer and wine tent plus more than 20 food and craft vendors.

Admission to this family-friendly event with activities for all ages will be $10 for adults and $5 for children with tickets on sale at the Middlebury Inn, Countryside Carpet and Paint and Holden Insurance.

More info: middleburyrotary.org.

READING THE NIGHT SKY PRESENTATION IN SALISBURY. Monday, Sept. 24, 7:30-9 p.m., Turner Residence, 662 Leland Rd. Join retired Middlebury College physicist Crispin Butler in finding and discussing stars, constellations and planets, and look for the International Space Station. Attendees CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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can bring binoculars, telescopes, star charts, smart phones, or a dim flashlight, though the’re not needed. Bring a blanket and/or a jacket.

Free and open to the public. Call 802-352-4442 on the eve of the event for status.

LADIES CAR RALLY IN VERGENNES. Saturday, Sept. 30, 9 a.m.- 3 p.m., beginning on the city green. Spiffy vintage cars drive around the Champlain Valley to raise money for the Vergennes Opera house.

HARVESTFEST IN BRANDON. Sunday, Oct. 1, 1-4 p.m., Estabrook Park. Come make harvest people — stick figures, scarecrows, leaf people, etc. You can even take one home for free. Hay rides, food, pumpkins. Family fun, kids and adult activities. Music. More info at 802-247-6401 or 802-247-3635, ext. 213.

LECTURE

SOUNDING OUT THE “AFROPOLITAN” LECTURE IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, Sept. 26, 4:30 p.m. Room 221, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

Ethnomusicologist Frank Gunderson of Florida State University explores the connections between Tanzanian singer and band leader Muhidin Gurumo’s 1973 musiki wa dansi dance genre piece Nimwokoe Nani? (Whom Should I Rescue?) and Trinidadian Lord Kitchener’s 1950s calypso song “Wife and Mother.” Free. middlebury. edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

MUSIC

“THE GRIFT” DANCE PARTY IN BRANDON. Friday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. An evening of booty shaking grooves, improvisation with radio-friendly hooks, witty lyrics and tight vocal harmonies. Tickets available at the door: Adults $12; Seniors, students & military $10.

DAVE KELLER PERFORMS IN BRANDON. Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Keller, one of the finest soul and blues men of his generation, is a first-class singer, guitarist and songwriter who has produced three acclaimed albums.

Concert tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295, info@ brandon-music.net, or brandon-music.net.

“CAREGIVERS” FIRST LOOK IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer and composer Paul Dedell present clips from Kreitzer’s documentary “Caregivers” accompanied by a live chamber ensemble.

Part of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s “Made in Vermont Statewide Tour.” Tickets $25 adults/$10 children 6-17 at flynntix.org. or middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802-

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443-3168. Free for children under six.

VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept 23, 7:30-9 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The program includes the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival collaboration between composer Paul Dedell and filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer. Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, and lighthearted works by Gluck and Britten.

Tickets available through the Flynn Center for Performing Arts or the box office at the Middlebury College. More info contact Grace Spain, grace@vso.org, 800-VSO-9293 ext. 10, or 802-864-5741 ext. 10.

ANNUAL JAMAICAN HYMN SING IN SHOREHAM. Sunday, Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. The Jamaicans who come to work in local apple orchards each fall come together with rousing song. All are invited, and a free will offering will support mission work in Jamaica. Refreshments served.

“NELSON MANDELA”: STATE SONG PATRONAGE AND CENSORSHIP IN TANZANIA IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m., Conference Room, Robert A. Jones ‘59 House, Middlebury College. Frank Gunderson, associate professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University, discusses how Radio Tanzania invested in song composition and censorship from 1973–1993. Free. middlebury. edu/arts or 802-443-3168.

DAFRA KURA BAND IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., Wilson Hall, McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College. Hailing from Burkina Faso, the Dafra Kura Band fuses the high energy of the griot ancestral tradition and the contemporary sounds of modern African cities sourced from Manding tradition, nomad desert blues, and Afrobeat. Tickets: $10 General public/$10 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students (See related event September 29).

On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. middlebury.edu/ arts/boxoffice or 802-443-3168.

SHAKESPEAREAN ART SONGS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Sept 30, 3-4 p.m., Chateau Grand Salon, 139 Chateau Rd. Middlebury College. Middlebury College Departments of English and American Literature and Music present songs by Schubert, Quilter, Finzi, Stanford, ColeridgeTaylor, and the anonymous balladeers of Elizabethan England. Jack DesBois, bass, and Mal Chase, piano. Free and open to the public.

DISSIPATED 8 A CAPELLA IN BRANDON. Saturday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Middlebury College’s premier a capella group, founded in 1952, sings a range of songs, SEE CALENDAR ON PAGE 14

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GLUCK ................................. “Dance of the Furies” BRITTEN ................................... Simple Symphony PAUL DEDELL .. Breath (World Premiere Commission)* MOZART ............................. Sinfonia Concertante *accompanies video by Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival award-winner Jesse Kreitzer

9.20 - Randolph 9.21 - Woodstock 9.22 - Brattleboro

9.23 - Middlebury 9.24 - Derby Line 9.26 - Castleton

JAIME LAREDO Conductor and viola PAMELA FRANK violin

Tickets available online at www.vso.org/events, by phone 802-864-5741 ext. 10 or at your local box office In collaboration

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rive along any backroad in Addison County, and you’re bound to find yourself passing long lines of corn, spots of tomatoes, meandering cows and in the fall, fields speckled with pumpkins and gourds.

Somewhere on the farm, you can almost always count on a wooden stand with a colorful awning to hold an abundance of the crops grown on those fields.

BY EMMA COTTON

As the summer comes to a close, hungry locavores searching for the best tomatoes, sweet corn and squash head to Lewis Creek Farm in Starksboro, Red Sky Farm in Orwell, Riverfront Gardens in Vergennes and Sweet Hill Farm in New Haven. For mums and other late-summer flowers, Cornwall’s Sunset Hill Farm, Red Sky Farm and Scott’s Greenbush Gardens in North Ferrisburgh will light up your garden. And for fresh, local meat, head to Agricola Farm in Panton, where Alessandra Rellini raises heritage pigs, Icelandic sheep and heritage chickens.

Or, drive over to Cornwall, where Cheryl and Marc Cesario raise grass-fed beef at Meeting Place Pastures.

Many Addison County residents have already chosen their favorite farms stands, but for those who haven’t, we’ve got a few ideas.

LOOK FOR THE

FALL GUIDE IN TODAY’S PAPER FOR MORE HARVEST FUN!

PHOTOS / EMMA COTTON

GOLDEN WELL FARM & APIARIES 1089 River Rd, New Haven — Hours: 8 a.m.-8 p.m.

(802) 870-0361 • goldenwellapiaries.com Offers: kombucha, vegetables, mushrooms, herbs, flowers, eggs, fermented foods Many farm stands sell veggies, meat and sometimes baked goods, but Golden Well Farm & Apiaries has added something different to the list: kombucha. Nicole Burke and Ryan Miller, co-owners of the New Haven-based farm, have been selling the drink, which they’ve named Apis Kombucha at the Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op, Burlington’s City Market, and at markets and shops around the state. Miller, who previously worked as a cider maker, now works fulltime to make the drink — which, since it hit the market last summer, has been flying off the shelves.

In addition to kombucha, the Golden Well farm stand offers their organic vegetables, mushrooms, flowers and eggs from their free-range chickens. They also sell products from other local vendors, like V-Smiley’s honey jams, Northern Bayou cold brew coffee, Sobre Mesa’s fermented foods and Starbird’s sustainably-sourced Atlantic salmon. Kombucha drinkers can refill their growlers at the stand, and get a $1 discount for the fill-up (purchasing a growler anywhere else will cost you $8). This fall, the couple plans to insulate the farm stand, housed in one of the farm’s barns, so that customers can keep bringing winter veggies and other products home year-round.

RED SKY FARM MARKET

613 VT-73, Orwell — Hours: 7:30 a.m. – 7 p.m.

(802) 948-2566 • redskyfarm-queenbee.com Offers: vegetables, pumpkins, maple syrup, honey, jam

On Route 74 in Orwell, Paula Barnes, co-owner of Red bench beside the street-side farm stand and exchang every car that passes by. With her husband, Ed, she ow 2005, until the two decided to try their hand at growing Twelve years later, the farm sells all types of vegetable sell mums, apple and pumpkin pie, potatoes and onio everything is grown on-farm, Barnes does order a han of produce from outside growers. The only products g peaches.

But everything else that Barnes orders from elsewhere Shoreham, other fruits, honey — is grown locally.

“We try to grow a good variety of vegetables,” she said things we can’t grow because for some reason, our lan there’s a demand for it, we’ll work with another farm st a big believer in supporting the local guy, and hopeful think it’s a nice partnership.”

In the back of the farm stand, Barnes sells blankets an that she sews in the winter months. New this year, Red stand year-round and sell their bumper crops — potato zucchini and any other leftovers. Barnes said farming n

“I love to work with the land, I love the smell of the ear customers,” she said.

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LESTER FARM & MARKET 2297 Route 7, New Haven — Hours: 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

(802) 453-3132 • lesterfarmproduce.com Offers: vegetables, baked goods, eggs, cheese, fruit, berries, flowers, canned goods, maple, honey Sam and Maura Lester, owners of Lester Farm, searched for the perfect farmland all over the Northeast, in New York, New Hampshire and Maine, before settling in Vermont.

“It was a matter of finding a piece of property that was on the main road, not out in the boonies somewhere,” he said. When the two visited the 28-acre piece of Route 7-adjacent property in New Haven, he was immediately sold. “We literally were here for 10 minutes, and we said, ‘okay, this is the place.’ This was really what we were looking for.”

That was in 2006. Now, the farm stand sells sweet corn, all kinds of vegetables and melons along with milk, eggs, dry products like pasta, cheese, butter and more. All of these products can be purchased through a CSA, which gives customers a store credit to buy whatever produce they would like, whenever they can come by to get it. That way, customers don’t have to worry about produce going bad when they go on vacation, and anything not spent carries over to the following year.

For the fall season, Lester Farm has a corn maze, which will open this weekend, wagon rides, u-pick pumpkins, and plenty of fall decorations to keep young kids entertained. The stand stays open from June until the end of October.

Play the 2017 Garden Game!

Find more info on www.addisonindependent.com

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T HEATER

OWN HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org

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.

Sun 10/1 2-3:30pm $10 advance; $15 at the door

I RISE

WomenSafe presents I RISE, a multi-layered program of literary and performance art inspired by, and in service to people impacted by domestic and sexual violence.

Wed 10/4 11am $13/$8 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAYS

TOULOUSE LAUTREC: THE FULL STORY

This definitive two-hour biography documents Lautrec’s turbulent, infamous life, and violent, obsessive behavior. He produced a revolutionary body of work – decimating the barriers between high and low art.

Thu 10/5 7pm $10/$5 Students

WHITE RABBIT, RED RABBIT

The actor performing this show has never seen the script. No rehearsals. No director. Slyly humorous and audaciously pointed, this “theater entertainment meets social experiment” is unlike anything you’ve ever experienced, and will make you question everything.

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.

Thu 10/12 & Fri 10/13 @ 7:30pm; Sat 10/14 @ 2pm $45-$60 OPERA COMPANY OF MIDDLEBURY

L’ELISIR D’AMORE (THE ELIXIR OF LOVE)

A staged concert production directed by Douglas Anderson, with a full orchestra conducted by Jeffrey Rink. The Middlebury College Choir under the direction of Dr. Jeffrey Buettner serves as the chorus.

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 his widow Lucinda Herrick. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

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.

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.

DRIVING THE BACK ROADS: IN SEARCH OF OLD-TIME VERMONTERS. On exhibit, Sept. 23-Jan. 6, featuring photographs and stories by Ethan Hubbard.

An opening reception and gallery talk will be held on Thursday, Sept. 28, from 5-7 p.m., with a Q&A session at 6 p.m. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.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. An informal walk through this exhibit will be lead by curator Kristen Having on Friday, Sept. 29, 12:30 p.m. Free. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

LAND, SEA & SKY. On exhibit July 27-Oct. 21, 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.

LOOKING IN, LOOKING OUT: TWO GALLERIES, SIX ARTISTS. On exhibit for the month of September, featuring work by Kathryn Milillo, Faye Mylen, and photographer Jim Westphalen. 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.

NATURAL AFFECTION. On exhibit Aug. 25-Oct. 28, featuring paintings of the natural beauties in by Susan Bull Riley’s surroundings. Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr., Brandon. (802) 247-4295 or cmacvt.org.

PORTRAITS OF THE VERMONT LANDSCAPE. On exhibit Sept. 1-Oct. 31, featuring paintings and pastels by Middlebury artist Norma Jean Rollet. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

THE ART OF WORD. On exhibit Sept. 1-Dec. 31, featuring mixed media, collage, installation, paintings by Lily Hinrichsen, Karla Van Vliet, Rachel Baird, Basha Miles, Annie Perkins and Reagh Greenleaf, Jr. A public reception will be held on Friday, Oct. 6, 6-8 p.m. ARTSight Gallery, 6 South Street, Bristol. Lilyhinrichsen@gmail.com.

LYN DUMOULIN: Places of the Heart

THE SOVIET CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. On exhibit Sept. 22-Dec. 10, featuring highlights from the museum’s holdings of Russian art. An opening reception will be held Friday, Sept.22, 6-7:30 p.m., with remarks made at 6:30 p.m. In collaboration with the 2017 Clifford Symposium, which marks the centennial of the Russian Revolution. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-3168 or museum.middlebury.edu.

Artist’s Reception Friday, October 6th 5 - 7 pm.

THE STRONG AND THE WEAK. On exhibit Sept. 1-Oct. 15, featuring paintings by Patrick Shoemaker. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

In the Jackson Gallery 10/6 - 11/12

Watercolors by the Middlebury artist reflect her passion for nature and outdoor activities with scenes from Vermont and the Adirondacks.

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MUSIC The Dave Keller Band returns to Brandon Music

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VERMONT SINGER-SONGWRITER BRINGS BLUES AND SOUL TO TOWN ave Keller brings his soul and blues to Brandon Music this Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m. He’s a first-class singer, guitarist and songwriter who has produced three acclaimed albums, turning his personal experiences into universal ones. His latest SATURDAY SEPT. CD, “Right Back Atcha,” showcases Brandon Music his powerful voice, dynamic guitar playing and his meaningful, memorable songs.

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Keller has been described as “a superb songwriter and storyteller” by Bill Wilson of Billtown Blues. Wilson goes on to say “He is, without question, the real deal, pouring it out with heart, soul and a power that emanates from the deepest regions of the heart. This is the finest soul I’ve heard since the early days.”

The Dave Keller Band returns to Brandon Music this Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., for an evening of soul and blues.

PHOTO / STEFAN HARD

Keller launched The Dave Keller Band in Vermont in 1996. Over the years he’s worked with deep soul singer Mighty Sam

McClain and soul/blues greats Johnny Rawls and Robert Ward, adding further depth to his music. Keller has earned a devoted fan base extending far beyond Vermont by “paying his dues” — and his bills — with thousands of gigs, from coffeehouses and bars to the largest festivals in the northeast.

In 2009, Keller was discovered by legendary guitarist Ronnie Earl, and featured as singer and co-writer on Earl’s award-winning CD, “Living In The Light.”

Keller won the 2012 International Blues Challenge (IBC) Best Self-Produced CD Award (“Where I’m Coming From”), and earned a 2014 Blues Music Award (BMA) nomination for Best Soul/Blues Album (“Soul Changes”), which he recorded with Al Green’s original Hi Rhythm Section in Memphis, Tenn.

Concert tickets are $20. A pre-concert dinner is available for an extra $25.

Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 247-4295, e-mail info@brandonmusic.net or visit brandon-music.net for more information.

live music THE GRIFT. Friday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

STELLA BLUE SKY. Friday, Sept. 22, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury.

VERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury.

DAVE KELLER BAND. Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music DEL RUE. Saturday, Sept 23, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury.

DAFRA KURA BAND. Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College.

JESTER JIGS. Friday, Sept. 29, 9 p.m., Two Brothers Tavern, Middlebury.

DISSIPATED 8. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

WILL HATCH. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., Hatch 31, Bristol.

ADAM KARCH. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m. Brandon Music.

EMORY FANNING. Sunday, Oct. 1, 4 p.m., Mead Chapel, Middlebury.

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Catch The Grift playing at Brandon Town Hall this Friday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m. Tickets at the door: adults $12; seniors, students and military $10.

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the movie TULIP FEVER — RUNNING TIME: 1:47 — RATING: R An artist and the woman whose portrait he is painting can fall in love at any time in any place. In Tulip Fever it happens in 17th century Amsterdam when the tulip market soared and plunged in a way that feels just like the frenzy of our contemporary stock market. Sadly, the fact that the film opens with promise and ends in failure must be laid at the feet of writers Deborah Moggach, an experienced writer, and Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love).

Sophie (Alicia Vikander) has outgrown her stay at an orphanage run by the abbess (Judi Dench) who finds her a home and marriage to Cornellis Sandvoort (Christoph Waltz) who adores her on sight. Sophie, he knows, will be the fine mother of the son they must produce. So right at the start we have Vikander. Waltz, and Dench, each a deserving winner of an academy award in the recent past. How can anything go wrong with that cast?

Cornellis adores Sophie and commissions Jan (Dane De Haan), a promising young artist, to paint a majestic portrait of the couple. Sophie falls in love with Jan and they begin an affair that takes us through 17th century Amsterdam as they indulge themselves. So far so good. Not one of them is a villain and we can root for all.

We absorb a fun bit of history as abbess Judi Dench explains the tulip fever of the time. It’s a moment when the mania for tulips, especially the rare white one with slight red has become the headquarters of the tulip market with men bidding in a frenzied version of today’s high flyers. We are happily absorbed in the culture of ancient Amsterdam (actually filmed in England). Women are invisible; men are tyrannical.

And then the whole thing falls apart in the writing of Deborah Maggach and Tom Stoppard. In a jolt of convoluted reasoning and utterly ridiculous filming, Sophie and Jan will do the standard thing of running away together; but first they will collude with pregnant housemaid, Maria

Christoph Waltz and Alicia Vikander in Tulip Fever (2017).

(Holiday Granger) in a thoughtful effort to hurt Cornellis less. This leads to a delivery of the baby scene that is possibly one of the more ridiculous things ever filmed.

The cast is full of fine actors — add Tom Hollander as Dr. Sorgh, the delivery doctor — and it is a lethal act to all of them to force them to undermine their reputations with the prolonged silliness of two women screaming in pain — one real, one fake — while the happy father stands on the other side of the door. As much as I hate to savage a movie, this is one that begins with promise and ends in absurdity.

The word is out that it took several years along with cast changes and rewrites to make Tulip Fever. What was Tom Stoppard thinking? Given the fine quality of all the actors we can only wish they had quit while they were ahead.

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

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Satellite, by Nick Lake Tech prodigy Hideo Tanaka invented the best brain-computer interface ever built, a sleek pair of glasses, he called the NeuroLink.

In order to show people how it worked, he also created a video game, Warcross. Fast forward seven or eight years, and virtually everyone plays Warcross; it’s a way of life. The opening ceremony of the international Warcross Championships is viewed (i.e. virtually attended) by five hundred and twenty million people. When Emika Chen, scrappy hacker and bounty hunter, accidentally glitches herself into the opening game, rather than being prosecuted, again, for her hack, she is summoned to Tokyo by billionaire Hideo himself, suddenly thrust into opulent surroundings, and even more incredulously, she’s offered a spot in the Draft, a huge opportunity for an amateur player and part of every year’s championships. Hideo also has a job for Emika; another hacker has breached the game’s security and Hideo hires Emika to uncover the perpetrator. Fast-paced and fun, you will lose yourself (and not regret a minute of it), in the immersive world of this bestselling young adult author’s sci-fi creation.

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ADAM KARCH PLAYS IN BRANDON. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Guitarist Karch, of Montréal, plays a hybrid acoustic blues that consists of fingerpicking and an innovative percussive technique. 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, info@brandon-music.net, or brandon-music.net.

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“PETER PAN” IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Sept. 24, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Enjoy the live stream of the National Theater’s production of J. M. Barry’s beloved play direct from London. Tickets, adults $17/Students $10, available at 802-382-9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday-Saturday noon-5 p.m., or at the door.

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

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

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Want skylights? HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Skylights are a popular option for bringing natural light into a home. Even a single skylight can transform a room, adding 30 percent more light than a window and bathing interiors with balanced, energy-saving light. At first glance they seem inexpensive: A quality 2-by-4-foot skylight and flashing kit costs $150 to $500. However, installation adds another $500 to $3,000 to the project cost — good reason to carefully evaluate whether a skylight is right for you. Consider these things: Is your roof framed with trusses? Truss framing is typically 24-inch on-center, which accommodates a

2-foot-wide skylight (they’re actually 22.5 inches wide).

However, if you need to cut into a truss for a wider skylight (they can range up to 4 feet wide and 6 feet long), you’ll have to hire a structural engineer to spec alternative framing. Costs for engineering run from $300 to $500.

Is the attic space clear?

Once you have an idea where you’d like to add a skylight, check the attic for any HVAC, wiring, or plumbing in the way.

Will you need a chase? A chase is a framed tunnel that channels light from the skylight through your attic space to the ceiling

below. Typically it’s finished with drywall and painted.

Because it’s complex to build, it adds about $1,500 to a professional installation.

Will a skylight suit the architectural style of your home? In many ways, a skylight is a neutral element that blends with most styles, but it may affect the curb appeal of an older home.

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Fall Guide Welcome

In many ways, fall is the time to say goodbye. It’s goodbye to the annual plants in our gardens, so long to summer vacations, and farewell to the green foliage that we welcomed when our trees budded out last spring.

But in many ways it is a spectacular goodbye — with fantastic fall foliage, invigorating cool mornings and a change to a new seasonal wardrobe.

Sure, there are the traditional putting-the-landscape to bed chores: it’s harvest season, hunting season, slaughtering season. It’s time to cut the hay, prepare the fields and brace yourself for winter.

But before you retreat, reap the benefits of your summer labors. It’s time to gather fruits from the trees, vegetables from the vines. It’s time for canning and preserving in attempt to savor these flavors well into the winter.

And it’s time to get out and have some fall fun.

Take a drive or hop on a bike and cruise into the hills. Absorb the colors of fall, rich enough to carry us through the whitewash of winter. Enjoy the fields and vistas, covered bridges and mountain gaps. Pick your own apples and pumpkins, and get lost in a corn maze.

Celebrate the natural bounty that attracted the earliest settlers to Vermont’s landscape.

Pop in for a coffee or mulled cider and browse through a quaint, downtown shop. Pick up a sandwich or sit down for a relaxing meal at one of the excellent local restaurants featuring local produce and pouring local taps.

Eat cider donuts.

Chat with storeowners, hear their passionate tales and dig into the reasons they are proud to call Addison County home.

Flip through the pages of this publication; find an event to attend or a restaurant to try out. Let this be a curated guide to fall in Addison County and an invitation to discover this place, even if you have lived here all your life. There are new stories, new faces and new products to discover with each changing season.

Enjoy! ~ the editors

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and restaurant pages p. 46..............Ancient outdoor sport p. 47...............Rokeby Museum talks p. 48..............Vergennes food happening p. 50..............Distinctive art in Bristol p. 51...............Bristol harvest fest and car show p. 53...............Brandon Harvest People p. 54-55.......Hot Spots of Addison County

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Fall means apples & so much more

By FAITH GONG

My husband arrived home one evening during the first week in September after a stop at the Middlebury Natural Foods Coop. He raised his arm in triumph, clutching the handle of a small brown paper bag filled with Macintosh apples and bearing the stamp of Shoreham’s Champlain Orchards.

“Vermont apples are back!” he announced joyfully.

This is one of the hallmarks of the changing seasons: We know summer is giving way to fall when we no longer have to purchase plastic bags of apples shipped in from the West Coast.

That our family marks the seasons partly by the availability of local apples says something about our eating habits, in which apples loom large.

My daughters are still too small and picky to push us into the league of some large families we know — particularly those with teenagers — who consume gallons of milk daily and spend thousands on groceries each month. But apples are the one food all of my daughters agree upon, so we do go through a staggering number of apples every week.

Our typical practice is to eat those apples sliced — a practice my husband developed

FAITH GONG, RIGHT, and her daughters rejoice in the arrival of fresh apples in the fall. Shown, from left, are Fiona (age 9), Abigail (4), Georgia (6) and Campbell (8).

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

to cut down on apple waste, such as when a daughter asks for a “big” apple, takes three bites, and then leaves it sitting on the Lego

table for 24 hours. A bowl of sliced apples, served plain or with a side of peanut butter or sliced cheddar cheese, tends to insure

that what’s taken is fully consumed.

Whether big or sliced, when I crunch (See Revelling, Page 49)

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In these parts, local cider can be a bit of an obsession

By EMMA COTTON It’s fall. The temperature is dropping, flannels are becoming the requisite attire and many are developing a craving for a quintessential fall treat: apple cider. Of the many ways to enjoy cider — hot with a cinnamon stick, cold and fresh from the press — adults may crave their cider hard.

Hard cider — the juice of the apple that has been fermented to create alcohol — has been gaining traction with Vermonters for almost 30 years — ever since the Green Mountain State reintroduced the drink, which had completely vanished from American shelves for almost half a century, to the country.

First, a little history. Vermont’s love affair with cider dates back to the colonial era, when Ethan Allen was known for the “stonewall” — equal parts rum and cider — which is said to have provided some liquid courage when the Green Mountain Boys captured Fort Ticonderoga from the British in 1775. By 1800, almost every farm in the state had an orchard, and by the early part of the 20th Century, the Boston Globe reported that the country’s largest apple orchard was located in Vermont.

And nationwide, hard cider was everywhere during the early years of this nation — it was cheap, plentiful, and sometimes safer to drink than water, especially as cities developed.

John Adams was even known to drink a tankard of the stuff with breakfast each morning to calm his stomach.

But that all changed when European immigrants brought over beer recipes, which were cheaper to make and yielded fast results.

In 1920, when Prohibition became a reality,

apples regained their reputation as the forbidden fruit, and those most dedicated to temperance burned their orchards to the ground. The apples that remained were grafted and mass produced for fresh eating, and the best cider apples either disappeared from the landscape or were forgotten. Hard cider was erased from the market for 60 years — until it was reinvented in a garage in Vermont.

Flash forward to 1991. A winemaker named Greg Failing was sitting in his two-car garage in Proctorsville, experimenting with apples.

He shopped his creations, which he’d poured into wine bottles, around to distributors, but no one would take them. One such naysayer advised Failing to put the cider in 12-ounce beer bottles. When he did, the drink began to sell. Failing named his company “Woodchuck.”

“That was a turning moment for hard cider,” said Ben Calvi, the general manager and cider maker at Woodchuck’s parent company, Vermont Hard Cider, now based in Middlebury.

“Ten years later, in 2001, Woodchuck was the first hard cider company to sell a million cases of cider and be nationally distributed.”

Now, Vermont has 17 established cideries that range from nationwide distributors, like Woodchuck, to local craft operations, like Citizen and Stowe Cider, to hyper-local and orchard-based operations like Shacksbury and Champlain Orchards, to the wine-like libation made at Eden Specialty Ciders. The category is expanding and growing, and at the same time, cider makers are bringing the craft back to its roots.

Most of today’s mass-produced hard ciders

COLIN DAVIS, CO-FOUNDER of Shacksbury Cider in Shoreham/Vergennes, keeps an eye on the chemistry of the distinctive hard cider his company crafts.

Photo courtesy of Shacksbury Cider

are made with common grocery store apples: Golden Delicious, Gala, Granny Smith and the likes. While those sweet ciders are popular, a different kind of cider, made with an emphasis on the apple and all its varieties and complexities. This often results in a drier, more complex taste that is on the rise — especially in Vermont. So first, Vermont reincarnated hard cider and claimed a spot on the national market. Now, Vermont is undergoing its second cider revolution: understanding the apple enough to make cider really good.

“Twenty years ago, the only kinds of cider Woodchuck made were the sweet ciders that are alternatives to beer,” Calvi said. “Still, 70 percent of ciders in the United States are like that, whether it’s Angry Orchard or Woodchuck or Smith and Forage or Strongbow. But 30 percent is not a small proportion, and that’s everything else. So you have drier ciders that are really bringing out the characteristics of the apple, with balanced acidity and sugar and tannin levels, so they’re more complex. If you (See Cider, Page 52)

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Culture / History

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

Adolf Hiremy-Hirschl, Study of a Figure Walking Away, c. 1895, chalk on paper, 20 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches.

A Story of Art: Gifts from the Collection of Lucinda Herrick and Charles S. Moffett ’67 September 5–December 10, 2017 Charles Moffett, Middlebury Class of 1967, was one of the most highly regarded world authorities on Impressionism. As a curator at such prestigious institutions as New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, and The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and as director of the Phillips Collection in D.C., he organized widely celebrated solo exhibitions of the works of Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, and Gauguin. He then served for sixteen years as Executive Vice President and Vice Chairman of Impressionist, Modern, and contemporary art at Sotheby’s. An inveterate collector of art of all periods and mediums with a particular interest in 19th-century European drawings, he and Lucinda Herrick, his widow, have given and bequeathed some seventy-five works of art to the Middlebury College Museum of Art. Those works, as varied and engaging as Moffett’s broad interests, are the subject of this fall’s exhibition, A Story of Art. Organized by students in a January 2017 course taught

by Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture Carrie Anderson, the exhibition includes drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and ceramics dating from antiquity to the present day. While the selection reflects Moffett’s discerning and eclectic taste, it also examines broader issues of authorship, artistic identity, materiality, and temporality, drawing distinctions between studies for larger, more ambitious projects and works that are definitively finished.

A section of the exhibition devoted to Moffett’s life highlights his student days at the College, where he served as president of the Cinema Club was joint-chair of both the Student Educational Policy Committee and the Student Life Committee. There is also an impressive selection of many of the exhibition catalogues he produced.

James Balog, Greenland Ice Sheet, 28 June 2009, Adam LeWinter surveys Birthday Canyon, from the portfolio Ice: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers, 2009, chromogenic color print on paper, 16 x 24 inches.

Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment September 15–December 10, 2017 Featuring seventy-one images spanning the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, the works on view in Land and Lens: Photographers Envision the Environment, come primarily from the Museum’s rich holdings of historic and contemporary photography. Among the wide range of artists represented are historic figures Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Eliot Porter and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as many contemporaries. Among these Jamie Stillings, Richard Misrach, David Maisel, James Balog, and Edward Burtynsky are well known for their concerned image-making.

Land and Lens, which remains on view through Sunday, December 10, was curated by Kirsten Hoving, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, with the aid of numerous research assistants, interns, and students in her classes. With support from the Andrew J. Mellon Foundation and the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative at Middlebury College, Professor Hoving has produced an innovative and comprehensive digital catalogue of the works on view. Accessible on Museum iPads or personal tablets and smartphones, the digital catalogue enhances understanding of the photographs through short videos and written descriptions of their respective photographic processes or environmental contexts, as well as discussions of their art historical importance. Selected works are interpreted through original music composed and performed by Middlebury College students.

Since its earliest days, photography has helped us comprehend the beauty, complexity, and fragility of the natural world. The works on display in Land and Lens reflect the deep commitment of their makers to recording and responding to the world around them. The breadth and diversity of photographs together with their digital interpretation provide visitors an opportunity to contemplate the wide variety of ways photographers have envisioned the environment.

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Come and see it being made!

Have company coming and need to find things to do?

Need to buy a housewarming present, birthday gift, or wedding gift?

Like to support local businesses by shopping local and buying locally made?

Maple Landmark Woodcraft offers great visitor and gift giving experiences. Our showroom hosts hundreds of products and our seconds area is chock-full of discounted and discontinued items.

We offer full factory tours, weekdays at 10 am and 1 pm. Our guided tours are right out on the shop floor where visitors can see how things are made, learn our history, talk with employees and see what it takes to be “America’s Wooden Toy Company.” We are handicapped accessible.

Shelburne Museum is one of the nation’s finest, most diverse and unconventional museums of art, design, and Americana. Over 100,000 works exhibited in 39 exhibition buildings on a beautiful 45-acre campus. Impressionist masters – Monet, Manet, Degas. Prized folk art, stunning gardens, a steamboat, lighthouse, blacksmith shop, locomotive, carousel, and more. Open year-round. 802-9853346 or www.shelburnemuseum.org “Best Tourist Hot Spot” –Yankee Magazine “Best Museum”—Seven Days Newspaper Sweet Tooth: The Art of Dessert National, international, and local artists explore America’s appetite for tantalizing confections and its impact on modern visual culture. The paintings, sculptures, and installations featured in this exhibition delve beneath the sugarcoated surfaces of the works on view to contemplate the deeper threads of meaning linked to our insatiable desire for sweets.

Opening lecture: September 23 at 3 p.m. Exhibition runs September 23, 2017 – February 18, 2018.

Hooked on Patty Yoder This exhibition surveys the 13-year career of American rug hooker Patty Yoder (1943-2005). Best known for her beguiling Alphabet of Sheep (2003), Yoder conceived of her designs as “paintings with wool to be hung and enjoyed as art.”

Exacting attention to color, composition, and technique, paired with Patty’s penchant for high visual standards and whimsical designs, truly sets her work as a new standard within the field of American textile arts.

Opening lecture: September 30 at 3 p.m. Exhibition runs September 30, 2017 – January 21, 2018.

Museum Hours: May 1 – December 30 Open Daily: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

January 2 – April 30 Wed – Sun: 10 a.m. – 5 p.m.

6000 Shelburne Road, PO Box 10, Shelburne, VT 05482 802- 985-3346 www.shelburnemuseum.org

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cultural.historic.sites Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History

Fall is the perfect time for a visit to the Henry Sheldon Museum –featuring fine and folk paintings, sculpture and the decorative arts. The Museum offers lively tours, exhibits, programs and an extensive archival collection.

Come and discover Vermont’s past by exploring the 1829 JuddHarris House. Investigate the history of your Vermont family in the Research Center. Our friendly staff and volunteers are always available to help you make the most of your visits. Browse in our wonderful Museum Shop or picnic in the garden designed and tended by the Middlebury Garden Club.

Museum Hours: Tues-Sat 10 am — 5 pm And Sun 1-5 pm (through Oct. 15) Research Center: Thurs & Fri 1-5 pm, or by appointment Draw Me a Story – Tell Me a Tale Exhibit through January 13, 2018

One Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-2117 www.HenrySheldonMuseum.org

Henry Sheldon Museum presents Draw Me a Story — Tell Me a Tale

Featuring the work of 20 Vermont Children’s Book Illustrators and Authors

Jim Arnosky, Snowy Owl

Do you have fond memories of being read to as a child?

Perhaps you have children or grandchildren you read to now.

Don’t miss the Sheldon Museum’s current exhibit, Draw Me a Story – Tell Me a Tale on view through January 13, 2018. The exhibit celebrates the imagination of 20 Vermont children’s book illustrators and authors. Original artwork, sketches, and other related materials are on view.

Visitors may sit and read the books while looking at the original art.

All ages are encouraged to sketch in the guest illustrator book and young visitors can participate in a scavenger hunt.

Featured in the exhibit is work by Jim Arnosky, Mary Azarian, Harry Bliss, Janet Hayward Burnham, Jason Chin, Eileen Christelow, John and Jennifer Churchman, Sarah Dillard, Deirdre Gill, Thacher Hurd, Woody Jackson, Warren Kimble, Peter Lourie, Tracey Campbell Pearson, Jan Reynolds, Phoebe Stone, Ashley Wolff, Tami Crupi Zeman and Bruce Zeman, Jr. Museum Hours: Tues-Sat 10 am – 5 pm, Sundays through October 15, 1-5 pm Research Center: Thurs & Fri 1-5 pm One Park Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 802-388-2117 www.HenrySheldonMuseum.org

cultural.historic.sites Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Summer: Experiences, Exhibits, Events & Camps LCMM is open daily 10-5 May 27 through it of garments and accessories recently made Oct. 15, with daily hands-on opportunities in by VAAA members to reflect and celebrate blacksmithing or boating. Ask about the Mu- their traditions, and rare family photographs seum/Lunch/Cruise special discount package, from past generations. The exhibit will be on and Shipwreck ROV Tours. Information at view through August 2017 before traveling to www.lcmm.org or 802-475-2022, follow us other venues.

Rowing and Racing Weekend July 8-9, Regon Facebook and Instagram.

At LCMM’s Lake Adventure Camps, we use istration at 9:30am; Race starts at 11am.

Champlain Longboats built by students from For all ages of boaters! Bring your own Diversified Occupations, and our fleet of ca- non-motorized boat, kayak, or canoe for noes and kayaks to explore islands, cliffs, this three-mile race across the lake. Regwetlands, and beaches,” says Ecology Pro- istration fee admits two to the museum. grams Director Elizabeth Lee. “We discover LCMM’s Community Rowing Club offers a Theplants University of Vermont Morgan Farm just free Horse buffet lunch forisalllocated rowing participants. fish, birds, and microscopic life, and The University Horse Farm is located just At Kids Pirate Festival August 19-20 the Mulearnoutside about weather, wind, of andVermont waves.” of Middlebury and SnorisMorgan home to one the world’s best known outside of Middlebury andbring is home to isone the world’s best known seum taken over by the New England Brethkeling, video production and robotics families of Morgan horses. “The pride and product of America,” the ren ofand Pirates, Sirena, the Pirate Fairy, Pirates kids into the world of shipwreck discovery families of Morgan horses.

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Visitors Welcome Admission Admission Gift Shop Gift Shop Guided Tours Guided Tours Stallions at Stud Horses at for Stud Sale Stallions Horses for Sale

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There’s virtually nothing more quintessential than a Vermont fall foliage road trip in the Green Mountains. Paired with a couple of well-planned stops at a specialty store or country store for some freshly baked treats, crisp apples, hot coffee or just some local chat while you fill up the tank, you’ll be in for some home-grown memories that you won’t forget.

Here are a few of our favorite stores dotted around Addison County — check them out on your fall tour this year! We’re confident you won’t be disappointed.

VILLAGE GREEN MARKET

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Locally-sourced food and gifts.

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Hours: Mon. - Sat. 10 a.m. - 6 p.m.

7 S. Maple St. Vergennes, VT provisionarybox.com

VARIETIES of New England and Speeder and Earl’s coffees, full deli, baked goods, snacks, drinks and grocery items!

48 Town Hill Rd. New Haven, VT | (802)453-2163 Mon – Thurs 6:00AM – 8:00PM, Fri & Sat 6:00AM – 9:00PM, Sun 8:00AM – 8:00PM

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Growler station. Snacks.

Household items. Alcoholic beverages. Tobacco products.

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Local Smiles & Green Mountain Hospitality A MUST STOP for FRESH BAKED GOODS! • Homemade soups & sandwiches • Surprising selection of wines • Maple syrup, local bread • Great conversations!

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Tree expert will guide visitors through a foliage walk

By GAEN MURPHREE MIDDLEBURY — Celebrate “Fabulous Fall Foliage” with a walk along the Trail Around Middlebury, sponsored by the Middlebury Area Land Trust. This hour-and-a half walk will be led by tree expert Tim Parsons, Middlebury College’s Landscape Horticulturist.

For Parsons, who is also a Vermont Certified Horticulturist and certified by the International Society of Aboriculture, fall foliage speaks to the tree’s life cycle.

“What I find fascinating about why trees turn is it’s the last ditch effort to wring every little piece of food out of their leaves that they can,” Parsons said. “You are seeing leaves turn because they’re breaking down the chlorophyll to convert them into sugars to use as food for next year.”

Trees mark time differently, Parsons noted, and this year’s fall display is a response to growing conditions a year ago. He said that 2017 would be an early and “inconsistent” fall because trees are responding to the 2016 drought. He noted that by late August, trees on Snake Mountain on the Weybridge/Bridport border and elsewhere around Addison County were already beginning to turn.

“They didn’t grow as well last year because of the drought. So we’re seeing the stress this year,” he said.

MALT’s Fabulous Fall Foliage walk will begin near Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts and take the section of the Trail Around Middlebury — known lo-

Two guided walks with horticulturist Tim Parson MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE FALL FAMILY WEEKEND CAMPUS TREES CELEBRATION Explore connections between urban and rural settings on campus tour Friday, Oct. 13, 4 p.m.

Meet at the Franklin Environmental Center Family Weekend, but public is welcome the clayplain-oak-hickory forest that once covered much of the lower elevations of the Champlain Valley. The walk will pass through a “phenology” research site (phenology is the study of cyclic and seasonal natural phenomena), where Middlebury biologists are studying the timing of trees’ spring flowering and budding, in part to track global warming. Along the trail, participants will get to see mixed stands of native trees, including shagbark hickory, butternut, hackberry and, of course, maple.

The foliage hike will also pass by the college’s composting operation, where dining hall scraps get turned into over 400 yards of compost a year, used to nurture campus plants.

Parsons also hopes to show participants a 300-year-old burr oak near the Mahaney Center that Parsons estimates is about 60 feet tall and 90 feet wide. Parsons believes it was a “witness tree,” left to mark property boundaries.

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE LANDSCAPE Horticulturist Tim Parsons this October will lead two walks to see trees in Middlebury.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

cally as the TAM — that arcs alongside the Middlebury College golf course.

Highlights will include a stand of 200and 300-year-old red oaks: a remnant of

FABULOUS FALL FOLIAGE Tour the Trail Around Middlebury on the periphery of the college golf course Saturday, Oct 14, 9 a.m.

Meet at the Middlebury College Center for Fine Arts parking lot near the track More information: Katherine Branch, MALT, 388-1007, info@malvt.org As the Landscape Horticulturist Parsons takes care of the college’s urban forest, designs and installs the college’s landscapes, and insures sustainable management of the institution’s turf fields. Her has been in the green industry for more than 25 years, running a garden center and his own landscape design/build company, and has also been a caretaker for a large estate.

Asked why we never tire of watching fall foliage, Parsons revealed a personal connection to the annual bud to blaze pageant.

“For me it’s the end of a season,” Parsons said. “I don’t ever pay attention to New Year’s Day. My year starts in April when buds are starting to leaf out. And my year kind of ends when the leaves are gone.

Then, like a bear, I kind of hibernate all winter and then you come back into it. You kind of ebb and flow like a tree.”

The day before MALT’s Fabulous Fall (See Guided walks, Page 11)

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Middlebury gets spooky as Halloween draws near MIDDLEBURY — Better practice your cackle, dig out your best wig, find a vessel to collect treats within and head downtown on Sunday, Oct. 29. Yet again, the Better Middlebury Partnership will bring an outstanding Halloween event for kids of all ages and adults to the town of Middlebury.

Hay bales, festive games, face painting and costumes will decorate the town green for the tenth annual Middlebury Spooktacular. Rain or shine, the green will be alive with music, dancing, costumes and tasty treats like cider donuts, loved by all ages.

Festivities will kick off at 1 p.m. and will conclude with a children’s trick-ortreat parade along Main Street led by the legendary Spooktacular Witch.

The children’s Main Street trick-ortreat sidewalk parade will leave the green

at 2:30 p.m. Accompanied by parents and Spooktacular volunteers, the procession will cross to the Post Office and continue along Main Street to Cannon Park, where the parade will cross and go back up the street to the town green.

So, start planning your costume and get your candy bags ready.

Spooktacular is an annual event hosted by the Better Middlebury Partnership, a non-profit community organization, working to support initiatives to make Middlebury a better place to live, work and play. Spooktacular is supported by BMP members as well as this year’s sponsors, Neat Repeats and the National Bank of Middlebury.

For more information, visit experiencemiddlebury.com.

Guided walks (Continued from Page 10) Foliage walk, Parsons will also lead a tour of the trees on the Middlebury College campus, as part of the college’s Fall Family Weekend (the event is open to the public). While Parsons said in early September that he hadn’t plotted out this year’s route

entirely, highlights of the college’s collection of more than 2,200 trees include a rare collection of elm trees (most American elms were wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the 20th century), as well as such nonnative species as katsura, Chinese scholar tree and Serbian spruce.

Allegro Choruses, AGES 6 - 12 Music Discoveries, AGES 3-5 Music Together, AGES 0-5 Suzuki Method Strings class, ALL AGES

Fall registration now open for group classes & private lessons! For more info visit:

mcmcvt.org (802) 989-7538

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Fall Foliage Road Trips Ripton/Lincoln Tour — 1 Hour: From Middlebury, travel south on Route 7.

East on Route 125, passing the Waybury Inn. Turn left at the Ripton Country Store and follow this road north to Lincoln (take your time, part of this stretch is a dirt road).

Head west out of Lincoln down the mountain to Route 17. Travel Route 17 west through the quaint village of Bristol (where you may like to stop for lunch at a variety of dining establishments) and on to Route 7. Left on Route 7 traveling south back to Middlebury. © Google - Map Data © 2009 Tele Atlas

Chimney Point Drive — 2 Hours: Leaving Middlebury, take Route 125 west to Chimney Point, the site of the new Champlain Bridge, finished November 2011. A short trip across the bridge to Crown Point in New York will offer great views back to Vermont, and is a great place for a picnic or tour around a major historic landmark. Another stop along this route is the nearby DAR John Strong Mansion Museum and State Park.

Take Route 17 east to Addison, where you will pick up Route 22A and head north into Vergennes, the smallest city in the United States. Note: Vergennes has some of the most interesting buildings in Victorian architecture. If you have time, get out of your car, wander in the Bixby Memorial Library on Main Street, and gaze up at the glass ceiling in the center of the building.

In Vergennes, take Monkton Road east. Cross Route 7 and continue east to the village of Monkton Ridge. At Monkton Ridge turn right onto Bristol Monkton Road, heading south, and continue to Bristol. In Bristol take Route 17 west to Route 7 and head south on Route 7 back to Middlebury.

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From Middlebury, take Route 30 south to Sudb you pick up Route 73 and travel west to Larrabee Lake Champlain. You may want to cruise the lak Independence leaving from Larrabee’s Point, wh to the Fort Ticonderoga ferry. Continue north o passing through historic Shoreham.

Take Route 22A heading north. In Bridport take west to Chimney Point on Lake Champlain, whe admire the new Champlain Bridge, which open vember, 2011. Follow Route 17 east. At the We General Store, known locally as WAGS, bear lef 17 and, staying along Lake Champlain, head nort Street. Left on Button Bay Road and head nor beautiful Button Bay State Park, where one mig stop and picnic down past the Basin Harbor Reso Basin Harbor Road toward Vergennes will bring to Route 22A, where you’ll travel south to Add Route 17 east to Route 23 and Route 23 south thr bridge and back into Middlebury.

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2017 FALL FOLIAGE

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Sep

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THURSDAY

Jim Douglas in Bristol. Thurs‑ day, Sept. 21, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West Street. The Bristol Historical Society will host former Vermont Governor Jim Douglas to talk about his ac‑ tivities and thoughts since leaving the gov‑ ernorship. The public is encouraged to en‑ gage him in topics of current concern. Call Steve Ayotte at 453‑7709 for details.

“Angels in America Part 2: Perestroika” in Middlebury. Thursday, Sept. 21, 7‑11:15 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The second part of Tony Kushner’s multi‑award winning two part play capturedlive from London’s National Theater. 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 town‑ halltheater.org, 802‑382‑9222 or in person at the Town Hall Theater Box Office, daily except Sunday, noon‑5 p.m.

Sep

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FRIDAY

Green Mountain Club Silver Lake hike in Salisbury. Friday, Sept. 22, Falls of Lana/Silver Lake parking lot, Route 53, south of Branbury State Park. Moderate, 5.5 miles round‑trip, including a loop hike around the lake. More info contact Ruth Penfield at 802‑388‑5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail.com. For more ac‑ tivities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Atlatl Workshop in Addison. Friday, Sept.

22, noon‑5 p.m., Chimney Point State His‑ toric Site, 8149 Vt. Route 17W. Atlatl experts Bob and Cheryll Berg of Thunderbird Atlatl teach traditional and modern techniques of atlatl and dart construction, flint knapping, hafting stone points, and cordage making.

Enjoy atlatl lore and coaching on the use of your new atlatl. Cost: $70 ‑ includes instruc‑ tion & materials. Pre‑registration required.

Arts Walk in Vergennes. September 22, 5‑8 p.m., Downtown. Vergennes. Recep‑ tions from 5‑8 p.m. Art on view and for sale at participating locations throughout downtown Vergennes. Discover artwork at venues all along Main Street, after‑hours

Here’s what’s happening in our part of Vermont from mid-September through Thanksgiving weekend. Calendar listings were accurate at press time, but things can change — call before you travel.

More detailed and up-to-the-minute calendar listings are available in the twice-weekly Addison Independent and on the Independent website, addisonindependent.com. events at art galleries. More info: info@cre‑ ativespacegallery.org.

Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes. Fri‑ day, Sept. 22, 5:30‑6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church. The menu will include chicken and biscuits, stuffing, veg‑ etable, cranberry sauce and dessert. Come and bring your friends. Free.

“The Grift” dance party in Brandon. Friday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. An evening of booty shaking grooves, improvi‑ sation with radio‑friendly hooks, witty lyrics and tight vocal harmonies. Tickets available at the door: Adults $12; Seniors, students & military $10.

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WomenSafe volunteer training in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 23. The first session of Wo‑ menSafe’s fall training. Aquire the tools needed aid WomenSafe in their work in the community. Space is limited. More info at 802‑388‑9180, info@womensafe.net or womensafe.net.

Annual Silent Auction in Bristol. Satur‑ day, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.‑3 p.m., Bristol town green. Art on Main will hold a silent auction as part of Bristol’s Harvest Fest.

Harvest Festival in Bristol. Saturday, Sept.

23, 10 a.m.‑4 p.m., town green. Bristol’s annual fall celebration. Crafters and other vendors, children’s venue, apple pie con‑ tests, bandstand music and more. More info at BristolHarvestFest.com.

22nd Annual Northeastern Open Atlatl Championship in Addison. Saturday, Sept. 23, 10:30 a.m.‑4:30 p.m., Chimney

Point State Historic Site, 8149 Vt. Route 17W. Participate in or watch this annual atlatl championship testing skills in accu‑ racy and distance. The sport of using the atlatl to throw darts is based on the ancient hunting technique. Newcomers to experts welcome. Children’s activities. Workshops and demonstrations on flint knapping, Woodland pottery, and other crafts and skills. Competitors: $7 pre‑registered, $8 same‑day registration; visitors: $5 adult, free for children under 15. Call for details.

Contemplative natural history of trees and shrubs walk in Orwell. Saturday, Sept. 23, 1‑3 p.m., Mount Independence State His‑ toric Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Marc Lapin, an expert on natural community ecology and botany, leads this guided walk to enjoy the trees and shrubs on Mount In‑ dependence. Co‑sponsored by Mount In‑ dependence Coalition.

Fall ham dinner in Brandon. Saturday, Sept.

23, 5:30‑7:00 p.m., St. Thomas Church, Route 7. Tickets: good will offering. Pro‑ ceeds go to support outreach efforts of the parish. More info contact Barb Brown at 802‑247‑3194.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra: Made in Vermont Tour in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

Internationally renowned violinist Pamela Frank joins her longtime friend and col‑ league, VSO Music Director Jaime Laredo.

In collaboration with the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, the program features a world premiere from composer Paul De‑ dell, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante, and more. Tickets: $25 adults; $10 students (children ages 6–17 and full‑time college

students with ID); free for children ages 5 and under. middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Dave Keller performs in Brandon. Satur‑ day, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Keller, one of the fin‑ est soul and blues men of his generation, is a first‑class singer, guitarist and songwriter who has produced three acclaimed albums.

Concert tickets $20. Pre‑concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802‑247‑4295, info@ brandon‑music.net, or brandon‑music.net.

“Caregivers” first look in Middlebury. Sat‑ urday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Filmmaker Jesse Kreitzer and composer Paul Dedell present clips from Kreizer’s documen‑ tary “Caregivers” accompanied by a live chamber ensemble. Part of the Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s “Made in Vermont Statewide Tour.” Tickets $25 adults/$10 children 6‑17 at flynntix.org. Free for chil‑ dren under six.

“Paradise” on screen in Middlebury. Sat‑ urday, Sept. 23, 3 and 8 p.m. Sunderland Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Mid‑ dlebury College. Olga, a Russian emigrant and member of the French Resistance, French collaborator Jules and German SS officer Helmut cross paths in 1940s wartime. Sponsored by the Holocaust Film Fund. A Hirschfield International Film Series event. Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

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Vermont Sun Triathlon series in Salisbury. Sunday, Sept. 24, Branbury State Park. Vermont Sun Half Marathon. For more info or to register visit vermontsuntriathalonseries.com.

13th Annual Better L8 Than Never Car Show in Bristol. Sunday, Sept. 24, 9 a.m.‑4 p.m., Bristol Recreation Field, 100 Airport Dr. Expecting more than 200 clas‑ sic cars and trucks. Vendors, food, live DJ, raffle drawings, 50/50 raffle, piston toss, kids’ activities, bake sale and more. Fun for the whole family. Free for spectators.

Donations accepted for Camp Ta‑Kum‑Ta. Vehicle entry fee — all makes, all models — $15 by Sept. 1, or $20 at the gate. More

Middlebury Indoor Tennis offers programs year round for individuals, families and youth. We are open to the public and have many drop-in times, free court time options, and memberships available to fit your interest.

Stop by Middlebury Indoor Tennis or visit our website to start playing tennis today!

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Green Mountain Club Young Adventurer’s Club hike in Ripton. Sunday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m., Robert Frost Trail. A family fun time at the interpretive trail of Robert Frost’s po‑ etry. Geared towards adventurers between four and eight, but all are welcome. Outings are tailored to individual participants. More info contact YAC Leader Lauren Bierman at 802‑349‑7498 or laurenbierman1218@ gmail.com. For more activities, visit gmc‑ breadloaf.org.

Lake Champlain Bridge Guided Walk in Addison. Sunday, Sept. 24, 1‑3 p.m., Chimney Point State Historic Site, 8149 Route 17W. Learn the history of what surrounds you as you walk across the Lake Champlain Bridge.

Meet at Chimney Point. Rain or shine, dress for the weather. Tickets $6.

Rotary Fall Festival in Middlebury. Sunday, Sept. 24, 2-6 p.m., in tents behind Middle‑ bury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Music by Horse Traders, contra dancing with Red Dog Riley, a beer and wine tent plus food and craft vendors. Family-friendly event with activities for all Ages. Admission at the door $15 for adults and $5 for chil‑ dren. More info: middleburyrotary.org.

“Peter Pan” in Middlebury. Sunday, Sept.

24, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Enjoy the live stream of the National Theater production of J. M. Barry’s beloved play. Tickets, adults $17/Students $10, at 382‑9222, townhallthe‑ ater.org, at the box office or at the door.

Zig Zag Lit Mag Launch Party in Middlebury.

Sunday, Sept. 24, 2 P.m., Stonecutter Spir‑ its, 1197 Exchange St. Help this local literary magazine celebrate the publication of their third issue.

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25

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Sun Style Tai Chi classes in Vergennes. Monday, Sept. 25, 9‑11:15 a.m., St Peter’s Parish Hall.

Free. Intermediate, 9 – 10 a.m., through Monday, Dec. 11. Beginner, 10:15‑11:15 a.m., through Monday, Oct. 30. More info contact Lee Francis 802‑877‑2464 or lhfran‑ cis1@myfairpoint.net.

“Nelson Mandela”: State Song Patronage and Censorship in Tanzania in Middlebury. Monday, Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m., Confer‑ ence Room, Robert A. Jones ‘59 House, Middlebury College. Frank Gunderson, associate professor of ethnomusicology at Florida State University, discusses how Radio Tanzania invested in song composi‑ tion and censorship from 1973–1993. Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

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Sounding Out the “Afropolitan” lecture in Middlebury.

Tuesday, Sept. 26, 4:30 p.m.

Room 221, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Ethnomusicologist Frank Gunderson of Florida State University explores the connections between Tanza‑ nian singer and band leader Muhidin Gu‑ rumo’s 1973 musiki wa dansi dance genre piece Nimwokoe Nani? (Whom Should I Rescue?) and Trinidadian Lord Kitchener’s 1950s calypso song “Wife and Mother.”

Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

Dafra Kura Band in Middlebury. Tues‑ day, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., Wilson Hall, Mc‑ Cullough Student Center, Middlebury Col‑ lege. Hailing from Burkina Faso, the Dafra Kura Band fuses the high energy of the griot

ancestral tradition and the contemporary sounds of modern African cities sourced from Manding tradition, nomad desert blues, and Afrobeat. Tickets: $10 General pub‑ lic/$10 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students (See related event September 29). On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, gen‑ eral public 9/14. middlebury.edu/arts/boxof‑ fice or 802‑443‑3168.

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THURSDAY

“How to publish your book – let me count the ways” in Vergennes. Thursday, Sept. 28, 3‑5 p.m., Bixby Library, 258 Main St. “Vermont Wild” author Megan Price will lead this work‑ shop about getting your work published.

Free. Registration required. Limit 20. More info contact Muir Haman at 802‑877‑221 or muir.haman@bixbylibrary.org.

Sep

29

FRIDAY

An introduction to “Land and Lens” in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 29, 12:30 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Curator Kristen Hoving will lead an informal walk through the new photogra‑ phy exhibit at the museum. Free. museum. middlebury.edu or 802‑443‑2291.

Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project in Middlebury. Friday, Sept. 29, 8 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The transnational per‑ formance group, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics.

BTDP presents Declassified Memory Frag‑ ment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently af‑ fecting the continent of Africa. Tickets: $22 General public/$16 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students (See related event September 26.)

On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. www.middlebury. edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

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30

SATURDAY

Ladies car rally in Vergennes.

Saturday, Sept. 30, 9 a.m.‑ 3 p.m., beginning on the city green.

Spiffy vintage cars drive around the Cham‑ plain Valley to raise money for the Ver‑ gennes Opera house.

“Eat on the Green” in Vergennes. Saturday, Sept. 30, 3‑8 p.m., city green. A new com‑ munity food and music festival sponsored by the Vergennes Partnership.

“Fatima” on screen in Middlebury. Satur‑ day, Sept. 30, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunderland Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Mid‑ dlebury College. A Moroccan‑born single mother living in France works as a maid to provide for her daughters. Free. middlebury. edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

Dissipated 8 a capella in Brandon. Sat‑ urday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Middlebury College’s premier a capella group sings a range of songs, from modern day pop to traditional barbershop songs.

Their stage presence and comedic routines will entertain you, along with wonderful har‑ monies, solos and group numbers. Tickets available at the door: Adults $7; seniors, stu‑ dents & military $5.

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A BRILLIANT TREE catches some afternoon sunshine next to the Weybridge Congregational Church last fall.

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Baker & Tarpaga Dance Project in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 30, 8 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The transnational per‑ formance group, based in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, and Philadelphia, draws from Africanist and postmodernist aesthetics.

BTDP presents Declassified Memory Frag‑ ment, a dance theatre work with live music, inspired by memory, history, and images of the political and cultural realities currently af‑ fecting the continent of Africa. Tickets: $22 General public/$16 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students (See related event September 26.)

On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. www.middlebury. edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

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SUNDAY

Green Mountain Club Mt. Philo hike in Charlotte. Sun‑ day, Oct. 1, Mt. Philo State Park.

An easy/moderate two‑mile hike with an elevation gain of 636 feet with breathtak‑ ing views of the Champlain Valley and New York’s Adirondack Mountains. Wear appro‑ priate clothing for hiking and bring water, a snack and hiking poles, if used. This is a

dog friendly event. Contact Ralph Burt at 802‑355‑4415 or at reburt@gmavt.net. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

HarvestFest in Brandon. Sunday, Oct. 1, 1‑4 p.m., Estabrook Park. Come make harvest people — stick figures, scarecrows, leaf people, etc. You can even take one home for free. Hay rides, food, pumpkins. Family fun, kids and adult activities. Music. More info at 802‑247‑6401 or 802‑247‑3635, ext.

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WomenSafe benefit in Middlebury. Sunday, Oct. 1, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. “I Rise” 50th Anniversary concert by Emory Fanning in Middlebury. Sunday, Oct. 1, 4 p.m., Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury Col‑ lege. Professor Emeritus of Music Emory Fanning plays a concert on the magnificent Gress‑Miles organ in Mead Chapel to cel‑ ebrate his 50 years at Middlebury College.

Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

Chicken and biscuit dinner in Middlebury.

Sunday, Oct. 1, 6 p.m., Middlebury United Methodist Church, 43 North Pleasant St., and very Sunday following through Nov. 5.

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TUESDAY Artist Brian Novatny in Mid-

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS dlebury. Tuesday, Oct. 3, 12:15 p.m., Room 304, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Cameron Visiting Art‑ ist Novatny is an innovative artist, equally at home with painting and drawing, with a remarkable approach to mark‑making, line, and materiality. His work has been exhib‑ ited across the country. Free. He will be leading a four‑day intensive drawing work‑ shop Oct. 2‑5 for on‑ and off‑campus par‑ ticipants. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

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lic/$22 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students.

On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. middlebury.edu/ arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Oct

8

“Quilting in the Land of Milk and Honey” in Middlebury.

Sunday, Oct. 8, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m., Middlebury Recreation Facility, 154 Creek Rd. A two‑day quilt show to raise funds for the “Everybody Wins!” reading mentor program. Tickets $5, available at the door.

Lunch available for purchase. More info at milkandhoneyquilters.com.

30th Annual Ripton Ridge Run in Rip‑ ton. Sunday, Oct. 8, 12:30 p.m., Ripton Elementary School, 753 Lincoln Rd. This benefit for the Friends of Ripton School in‑ cludes 10k and 5k footraces and a 5k fun walk, all on scenic country roads. T‑shirts to the first 175 paid registrants. Prizes, lunch and raffle. Race‑day registration from 11‑ a.m.‑noon. More info at 802‑388‑2208 or riptonridgerun.org.

THURSDAY

Green Mountain Club Snake Mountain hike in Addison.

Thursday, Oct. 5, Snake Mtn. An easy/moderate two‑mile hike with a grad‑ ual ascent of 980 feet. The summit offers great views of Lake Champlain and the Adirondacks. Appropriate clothing, water, hiking poles and lunch or snack. This is a dog friendly hike. More info contact Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@comcast.net or 802‑349‑5653. For more activities, visit gm‑ cbreadloaf.org.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit in Middlebury.

Thursday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m., Town Hall The‑ ater. Actor MacArthur Stine will open the never‑seen sealed script of White Rabbit, Red Rabbit in front of a live audience and perform it as he reads it.

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16th annual Dead Creek Wildlife Day in Addison. Sat‑ urday, Oct. 7, 9:30 a.m.‑4 p.m., Dead Creek Management Area, 966 VT Route 17. Celebrate Vt. Fish & Wildlife’s Dead Creek area with presentations and nature walks and family activities and ex‑ plore the new visitor’s center. More info at 802‑828‑1000.

“Quilting in the Land of Milk and Honey” in Middlebury. Saturday, Oct. 7, 10 a.m.‑5 p.m., Middlebury Recreation Facility, 154 Creek Rd. A two‑day quilt show to raise funds for the “Everybody Wins!” reading mentor program. Tickets $5, available at the door. Lunch available for purchase.

More info at milkandhoneyquilters.com.

The Year 1777 and the American Revolu‑ tion in Orwell. Saturday, Oct. 7, 1‑2:30 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. What was happening elsewhere in the American Rev‑ olution in 1777, 240 years ago, as the Brit‑ ish under Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne headed toward Saratoga? Site interpreter and his‑ torian Paul Andriscin gives an illustrated talk about events on Long Island, New York City, and British Gen. William Howe’s effort to capture Philadelphia.

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TUESDAY

Red Green on stage in Ver‑ gennes. Tuesday, Oct. 10, 7 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St. In “I’m Not Old, I’m Ripe.”

Green, otherwise known as Steve Smith, will reflect on the twists and turns of his life.

Artists’ reception in Bristol.

Friday, Oct. 6, 6‑8 p.m., ART‑ Sight Gallery, 6 South St. “The Art of Word” features mixed media, collage, installation and paintings by Lily Hinrich‑ sen, Karla Van Vliet, Rachel Baird, Basha Miles, Annie Perkins and Reagh Greenleaf Jr. Show runs Sept. 1‑Dec. 31. More info at kvavlie@middlebury.edu or lilyhinrichson@ gmail.com.

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Robert Madrygin in Middle‑ bury. Wednesday, Oct. 11, 7 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, Main St. This Vermont author will read from and discuss his novel, “The Solace of Trees.”

PERFECT GOLDEN YELLOW leaves shine brightly in the afternoon sun in Cornwall last fall.

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Oct. 7, 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Live screening on the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “Norma.” A free talk about the opera at 12:15 p.m. in the Jackson Gallery precedes the show. Tick‑ ets, adults $24/Students $10, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

“A Quiet Passion” on screen in Middle‑ bury. Saturday, Oct. 7, 3 and 8 p.m., Sun‑ derland Language Center, Dana Audito‑ rium, Middlebury College. Cynthia Nixon plays 19th‑century American poet Emily Dickinson in Terence Davies’ biopic. Free. middlebury.edu/arts or 802‑443‑3168.

Madaila on the Mountain in Hancock. Sat‑ urday, Oct. 7, 3 p.m., Middlebury College Snow Bowl. A fundraiser and celebration of United Way’s 50 years in Addison County, featuring Vermont’s acclaimed pop band Madaila, celebrated local youth bands, food trucks, fall foliage chair lift rides, wine and craft beer courtesy of Two Brothers Tavern, kids activities and many other surprises for all ages. General Admission $15 in ad‑ vance/$18 at the door; students $12 in ad‑

vance/$15/at the door; kids under 12 free.

All proceeds benefir United Way of Addison County. More info at rockthesnowbowl.com or the Middebury College Box Office.

Pre‑performance Dinner in Middlebury.

Saturday, Oct. 7, 6:30 p.m. Lower Lobby, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Join fellow Danish String Quar‑ tet concertgoers for a delicious, seasonal meal. Catered buffet dinner, seated family style. Meal tickets: $35; cash bar. On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. middlebury.edu/arts/ boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Downtown Bob Stannard on stage in Vergennes. Saturday, Oct. 7, 7:30 p.m.,Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St. Stannard and his band Those Danger‑ ous Bluesman will rock the house.

Danish String Quartet performs in Middle‑ bury. Saturday, Oct. 7, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The Middlebury debut program includes Bartók’s first quartet, Beethoven’s first Razumovsky quartet, and arrange‑ ments of traditional Nordic folk tunes Re‑ served seating. Tickets: $28 General pub‑

Oct

12

THURSDAY

“Seeing the World, as the First Step Toward Saving It” in Middlebury. Thursday, Oct. 12, 4:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Schumann Distinguished Scholar Bill McKibben dis‑ cusses recent ways of seeing provided by today’s satellites and scientific instruments.

In conjunction with the Museum exhibit Land and Lens. Free. museum.middlebury. edu or 802‑443‑2291.

“L’Elisir D’Amore” on stage in Middlebury.

Thursday, Oct. 12, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. The Opera Company of Middle‑ bury presents Donazetti’s romantic comedy about a love‑sick waiter who tries to win the love a beautiful woman. Pre‑performance talk at the Middlebury United Method‑ ist Church at 6:30 p.m. Prosecco recep‑ tion with the cast. Tickets Rows B‑C $45/ Rows D‑M $50/Balcony $60, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

Oct

13

FRIDAY Green Mountain Club Water‑ shed Center hike in Bristol.

Friday, Oct. 13, Watershed parking

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS area. Moderate four‑mile hike on the Mid‑ dle Forest Trail with possible extensions on side trails if group is interested. Wear ap‑ propriate clothing. Bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. More info contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@gmail.com or 802.388.5407. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

“A New Acquisition after Titian” in Middlebury. Friday, Oct. 13, 12:30 p.m., Middle‑ bury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. In the 1660s, David Teniers the Younger com‑ piled the first‑ever visual inventory of an art collection, creating 243 small‑scale copies of paintings owned by Archduke Wilhelm Leopold of Austria. Pieter Broucke dis‑ cusses one such work, recently donated to the museum, depicting Titian’s early mas‑ terwork “Rest on the Flight to Egypt.” Free. museum.middlebury.edu or 802‑443‑2291.

Art opening reception in Bristol. Friday, Oct. 13, 5‑7 p.m., Art on Main, 25 Main St. Reception for the show “Bringing the Outside In” with terrariums made Susan Goldstein, photos by Krista Cheney and collages by Aurora Davidson. Show runs through Nov. 12.

“L’Elisir D’Amore” on stage in Middlebury.

Friday, Oct. 13, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall The‑ ater. The Opera Company of Middlebury presents Donazetti’s romantic comedy about a love‑sick waiter who tries towin the love a beautiful woman. Pre‑performance

talk at the Middlebury United Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m. Tickets Rows B‑C $45/ Rows D‑M $50/Balcony $60, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

Soovin Kim, violin, performs in Middlebury. Friday, Oct. 13, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Kim celebrates the release of his new solo Bach CD by performing Bach’s six sonatas and partitas for solo violin. Re‑ served seating. Tickets: $28 General pub‑ lic/$22 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students.

On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. middlebury.edu/ arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Oct

14

SATURDAY

Fall Open Studio Weekend Statewide. Saturday, Oct 14, locations around Addison County.

Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Sat‑ urday, Oct. 14, 8‑10 a.m. Otter View Park, 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.

Shorter and longer routes possible. Begin‑ ning birders are welcome. Come for all or part of the walk. More info at 802‑388‑1007

A COLORFUL CAMPUS tree frames the historic portion of Middlebury College’s Axinn Center.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

or 802‑388‑6019.

Green Mountain Club Long Trail work day in Ripton. Saturday, Oct. 14, 8:30 a.m., Contact trail manager David Mor‑ rissey at dfmorrissey117@gmail.com or

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THE COOL COLORS of Middlebury College campus structures contrast with the warm colors of fall as seen in a campus tree last year.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

Fall Foliage Walk in Middlebury. Satur‑ day, Oct. 14, 9‑10:30 a.m., behind Ma‑ haney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Middlebury College Landscape Join Horticulturist Tim Parsons on a walk along the TAM trail bordering the Ralph Myhre Golf Course and learn why Ver‑ mont’s fall foliage is so spectacular. More info at info@maltvt.org.

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Pre‑performance talk at the Middlebury United Methodist Church at 6:30 p.m.

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Balcony $60, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

“The Salesman” on screen in Middle‑ bury. Saturday, Oct. 14, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunderland Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. While rehearsing a production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” a couple must evacuate their home. After moving, the wife is attacked, leaving her husband de‑ termined to find the attacker despite his wife’s objections. Free. middlebury.edu/ art or 802‑443‑3168.

Cocoon story‑telling in Middlebury. Sat‑ urday, October 14, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Inspired by the popular storytell‑ ing phenomenon the Moth, Cocoon is a special evening of true stories told live without notes. A reception with the story‑ tellers follows. Tickets: $15 General pub‑ lic/$12 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students.

On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID hold‑ ers 9/11, general public 9/14. middlebury. edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

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SUNDAY Fall Open Studio Weekend Statewide. Sunday, Oct 15, lo‑

cations around Addison County.

Hike into History in Orwell. Sunday, Oct. 15, 1‑3:30 p.m., Mount Independence State Historic Site, 497 Mt. Independence Rd. Enjoy the last day of the 2017 season with a guided hike into history. Stephen Zeoli will be your guide. The focus will be on the effects at Mount Independence of British Lt. Gen. John Burgoyne’s surren‑ der at Saratoga October 17, 1777, and the British withdrawal from the Mount on November 8, 1777.

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16

MONDAY

Musical Witness and Holo‑ caust Representation in Mid‑ dlebury. Monday, Oct. 16, 4:30 p.m., Sabra Field Lecture Hall (Room 125), Mahaney Center for the Arts, Mid‑ dlebury College. Amy Wlodarski, associ‑ ate professor of music at Dickinson Col‑ lege, discusses the film score for Alain Resnais’s Holocaust documentary Nuit et Brouillard/Night and Fog (1955), with particular attention to how it illustrates the broader postwar phenomenon of second‑ ary Holocaust witness. Free. middlebury. edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

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TUESDAY

“Visualizing Renewable Energy” talk in Middlebury.

Tuesday, Oct. 17, 4:30 p.m., Room 221, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Photographer Jamey Stillings has been photographing the earth for several decades with a particu‑ lar interest in conservation and renewable energy. In conjunction with the Museum exhibit Land and Lens. Free. museum. middlebury.edu or 802‑443‑2291.

“The Sacred and the Secular” talk in Middlebury. Tuesday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m., Room 304, Johnson Memorial Building, Middlebury College. Marlon Blackwell, FAIA, serves as the E. Fay Jones Dis‑ tinguished Professor at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas. Working outside the architectural mainstream, his archi‑ tecture is based in design strategies that draw upon vernaculars, typologies, and the contradictions of place. Free. middle‑ bury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

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THURSDAY

Vermont and the Civil War in Bristol. Thursday, Oct. 19, 7 p.m., Howden Hall, 19 West Street. The Bristol Historical Society, in cooperation with the Vermont Humanities Council, will host Vermont Civil War his‑ torian Howard Coffin to discuss Vermont and the Civil War. Open to the public. Call Steve Ayotte at 453‑7709 for details.

“The Metromniacs” on stage in Middlebury. Thursday. Oct. 19. 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury Actors’ Work‑ shop adapts Piron’s 1738 French farce filled with mistaken identity, misplaced ardor and the fight for true love. Tickets, adults $22/Students $12, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

Oct

20

FRIDAY Written Word Out Loud in

Bristol. Friday, Oct. 20, 6:30 p.m., Art on Main, 25 Main St. A poetic exploration of New Hampshire’s waterways by Wil‑ liam O’Daly, poet and translator of eight books of the poetry of Chilean Nobel lau‑ reate Pablo Neruda and JS Graustein, biologist and editor in Chief of the Folded Word press. More info at 802‑453‑4032.

“The Metromniacs” on stage in Middlebury. Friday. Oct. 20. 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury Actors’ Work‑ shop adapts Piron’s 1738 French farce filled with mistaken identity, misplaced ardor and the fight for true love. Tick‑ ets, adults $22/Students $12, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

Oct

21

SATURDAY

Green Mountain Club Taconic Mountain Ramble hike in Hubbardton. Saturday, Oct. 21, Taconic Mountains Ramble State Park. Experience Vermont’s new‑ est state park, still under development. A two‑ to four‑mile hike with some ascents.

A choice of trails, many of them steep, rocky and moderately challenging, avail‑ able to choose from. Meditative time in‑ cluded at the Japanese water and rock garden within the park. For more infor‑ mation contact Susan Jefts at sjefts7@ gmail.com, 518‑232‑6776 or Wendy Warren at wwredhead@yahoo.com, 609‑751‑7633. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Craft fair & raffle in Vergennes. Saturday, Oct. 21, 9 a.m.‑3:30 p.m., St Peter’s Par‑ ish hall, 85 South Maple St. Bake sale and luncheon included. To benefit the St. Peter’s Cemetery Association.

Chiller theater — ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ on screen in Brandon. Saturday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. In ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ (1920). John Barrymore plays both title roles in the original silent film adaptation of the clas‑ sic novella by Robert Louis Stevenson.

A spook‑tacular performance that helped establish Barrymore as one of the silent era’s top stars. Part of Brandon’s silent film and live music series.

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A COLLAGE OF color fills a hillside behind a scene of grazing cows in Cornwall last fall.

“The Metromaniacs” on stage in Middlebury. Saturday, Oct. 21, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury Actors’ Work‑ shop adapts Piron’s 1738 French farce filled with mistaken identity, misplaced ardor and the fight for true love. Tickets, adults $22/Students $12, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

Oct

22

SUNDAY

Green Mountain Club Young Adventurer’s hike in Addison.

Sunday, Oct. 22, 10 a.m., Snake Mountain trailhead. A family fun time hik‑ ing Snake Mountain. Geared towards adventurers ages of four to eight, but all are welcome. Outings are tailored to indi‑ vidual participants. More info contact YAC Leader Lauren Bierman at 802‑349‑7498 or laurenbierman1218@gmail.com. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

“The Metromaniacs” on stage in Middlebury. Sunday. Oct. 22, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury Actors’ Work‑ shop adapts Piron’s 1738 French farce filled with mistaken identity, misplaced

ardor and the fight for true love. Tickets, adults $22/Students $12, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

Oct

26

THURSDAY

“Glengarry Glen Ross” on stage in Middlebury. Thurs‑ day, Oct. 26, 7:30 p.m., Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Come see Da‑ vid Mamet’s dark comedy focusing on five desperate, funny, conniving real es‑ tate salespeople who must make a sales quota or risk losing their jobs. Directed

by Richard Romagnoli. For mature audi‑ ences. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students; on sale October 9. middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Oct

27

FRIDAY A Story of Art: Gifts and Bequests from Charles Moffett ’67 and Lucinda Herrick in

Middlebury. Friday, Oct. 27, 12:30 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mah‑ aney Center for the Arts, Middlebury Col‑ lege. Join Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and exhibition curator Carrie Anderson and some of the students who participated with her in the January term project leading to the exhibition. Free. museum.middlebury.edu or 802‑443‑2291 Children’s Halloween party in Bristol. Fri‑ day, Oct 27, 4:30‑6 p.m., Holley Hall. Bring your ghosties and ghoulies for games, mu‑ sic, food and face painting. Dux the Bal‑ loon Guy will be there. Goodie bags and costume parade will wrap up the event.

Free.

Table of Grace free meal in Vergennes.

Friday, Oct. 27, 5:30‑6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church. The menu will include roast pork, scalloped potatoes, applesauce, vegetable and dessert. Come and bring your friends. Free.

“Glengarry Glen Ross” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m., Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Come see Da‑ vid Mamet’s dark comedy focusing on five desperate, funny, conniving real es‑ tate salespeople who must make a sales quota or risk losing their jobs. Directed

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by Richard Romagnoli. For mature audi‑ ences. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students; on sale October 9. middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Heath Quartet performs in Middlebury.

Friday, Oct. 27, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The Heath Quartet performs a rich, mixed repertoire program including works by Haydn, Tippett, Bach, and Men‑ delssohn. Pre‑concert lecture by Profes‑ sor of Music Larry Hamberlin, 7:00 p.m., Room 221. Reserved seating. Tickets: $28 General public/$22 Midd ID hold‑ ers/$6 Midd students. On sale to PASS Members 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Oct

28

SATURDAY

Green Mountain Club Snake Mountain hike in Addison.

Saturday, Oct. 28, Snake Moun‑ tain trailhead. A moderate 3.5‑mile hike with a gradual ascent of 980 feet. Great views of Lake Champlain and the Adiron‑ dacks. A family‑friendly and dog‑friendly

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS children under 5 free. Tickets available at St. Peter’s Parish Office and Jackman Fuels in Vergennes or call 802‑877‑2367.

Oct

31

TUESDAY

Trick and trunk gathering in Middlebury. Tuesday, Oct. 31, Middlebury United Methodist Church, 43 North Pleasant St.

Nov

2

THURSDAY

“The Crucible” on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m.,Town Hall Theater. Ar‑ thur Miller’s McCarthy‑era play set during the Salem witch trials. Directed by Chris Ross.

Nov

3

FRIDAY

“Ancient Egypt at Middlebury College: Art, Religion, Reception” in Middlebury. Fri‑ day, Nov. 3, 12:30 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Professors Shalom Goldman and Pieter Broucke and Director and Cu‑ rator Rebekah Irwin (Special Collections & Archives) present the College’s rich‑ ness of resources pertaining to Ancient Egyptian culture. Free. museum.middle‑ bury.edu or 802‑443‑2291.

“The Crucible” on stage in Middlebury.

Friday, Nov. 3, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall The‑ ater. Arthur Miller’s McCarthy‑era play set during the Salem witch trials. Directed by Chris Ross.

The King’s Singers perform in Middlebury. Friday, Nov. 3, 8 p.m., Mead Me‑ morial Chapel, Middlebury College. The renowned a cappella ensemble returns to Middlebury to celebrate its 50th an‑ niversary season, presenting a program surveying five decades of King’s Singers repertoire, plus new works commissioned for this anniversary year. Tickets: $30 General public/$25 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students. On sale to PASS Mem‑ bers 9/6, ID holders 9/11, general public 9/14. middlebury.edu/arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

PUMPKINS SIT ON display at Champlain Orchards in Shoreham last fall.

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hike. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, a snack and hiking poles if desired.

More info contact David Andrews, vtrev‑ da@yahoo.com or 802‑388‑4894, or Mike Greenwood mike802vt@comcast.net. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

“Glengarry Glen Ross” on stage in Middlebury. Saturday, Oct. 28, 2 and 7:30 p.m., Seeler Studio Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

Come see David Mamet’s dark comedy focusing on five desperate, funny, con‑ niving real estate salespeople who must make a sales quota or risk losing their jobs. Directed by Richard Romagnoli. For mature audiences. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd stu‑ dents; on sale October 9. middlebury.edu/ arts/boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

“Paterson” on screen in Middlebury.

Saturday, Oct 28, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunder‑ land Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. An intimate look at a

week in the life of a bus driver and aspiring poet in urban New Jersey. Free. middle‑ bury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Gang of Thieves on stage in Vergennes.

Saturday, Oct. 28, 7 p.m., Vergennes Op‑ era House, 120 Main St. Come see this Burlington‑based band.

Oct

29

SUNDAY

Spooktacular in Middlebury.

Sunday, Oct. 29, 1‑3 p.m., loca‑ tion TBA. Bring your hobgoblins, grumpkins and snarks out for an after‑ noon of Halloween fun. Music, games, and a costume trick or treat parade down Main Street.

Community Harvest Supper in Vergennes. Sunday, Oct. 29, sittings at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 85 South Maple St. Roast turkey and all the fixings. Adults/$10. children 6‑12/$5,

Nov

4

SATURDAY

Green Mountain Club Mt Philo hike in Charlotte. Satur‑ day, Nov. 4, Mt. Philo State Park.

An easy/moderate two‑mile hike and with an elevation gain of 636 feet with breath‑ taking 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. More info contact Ralph Burt at 802.355.4415 or re‑ burt@gmavt.net. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

St. Peter’s Penny Fair in Vergennes. Sat‑ urday. Nov. 4, 10 a.m.‑ 9 p.m., St. Peter’s Parish Hall, 85 South Maple St. Come for a fun‑filled day. Chance to win a variety of great prizes for pennies a chance. Draw‑ ings begin at 6:30 p.m.

“The Crucible” on stage in Middlebury.

Saturday, Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Arthur Miller’s McCarthy‑era play set during the Salem witch trials. Directed

by Chris Ross.

“Toni Erdmann” on screen in Middlebury.

Saturday, Nov. 4, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunder‑ land Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. Young workaholic Inès confronts a work‑family conflict as her jokester father, Winfried, poses as her CEO’s life coach. Free. middlebury.edu/ art or 802‑443‑3168.

Nov

5

SUNDAY

“The Crucible” on stage in Middlebury. Sunday, Nov. 5, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Arthur Miller’s McCarthy‑era play set during the Salem witch trials. Directed by Chris Ross.

“The Nether” staged reading in Middlebury. Sunday, Nov. 5, 4 p.m., Vermont Coffee Company Playhouse, 1197 Ex‑ change St. The Middlebury Actors Work‑ shop presents this work by young play‑ wright Jennifer Haley about a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. (Content warning, not appro‑ priate for children under 16).

Chicken and biscuit dinner in Middlebury.

Sunday, Nov. 5, 6 p.m., Middlebury United Methodist Church, 43 North Pleasant St.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS Spirit of Christmas in us all. Dan and Bar‑ bara will lead a carol sing at 1 p.m. Tickets: Adults $7; Seniors, Students & Military $5; Children 5 and under free.

Howard University Gospel Choir in Middle‑ bury. Sunday, Nov. 12, 2 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Come hear this legendary gospel choir, with over four decades committed to excellence in music ministry.

Diana Fanning, piano, performs in Middle‑ bury. Sunday, Nov. 12, 3 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middle‑ bury College. Affiliate artist Fanning per‑ forms a program of piano music by Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, and Villa‑Lobos. Free. middlebury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Nov

15

AN APPLE PICKER fills his bucket with the bounty of fall on an Addison County orchard last autumn.

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Nov

9

THURSDAY

Otter Creek Audubon Soci‑ ety annual dinner and meet‑ ing in Middlebury. Thursday, Nov. 9, 5:30‑8:45 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. Speaker Michael Winslow will highlight the health of Lake Champlain in his presentation “Lake Champlain: How We Got Here”. Reservations needed for dinner at 6 p.m. No fee for talk at 7:15. More info contact Sue Rasmussen, 802‑897‑5411.

“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in Mid‑ dlebury. Thursday, Nov. 9, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Edward Albee’s landmark play live from the Harold Pinter Theater in London.

Nov

10

FRIDAY

Green Mountain Club day trip to Bolton, GMC Head‑ quarters & hike Stowe Pinnacle.

Friday, Nov. 10. Carpool from Middlebury to the Winooski LT Footbridge in Bolton, then drive Stowe to hike the Stowe Pinna‑ cle trail. Moderate 2.8 miles, 1520’ eleva‑ tion gain. Views of the Worcester Range, the Green Mountains and Waterbury Res‑ ervoir. Wear appropriate clothing; bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. Day trip will include a stop at GMC Headquar‑ ters in Waterbury Center. More info contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@gmail.com or 802‑388‑5407. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Chuck Miller and Friends in Middlebury.

Friday, Nov. 10, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater. Middlebury favorite Chuck Miller brings his friends together for an evening of music.

NER Out Loud in Middlebury. Friday, Nov. 10, 8 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Cen‑ ter for the Arts, Middlebury College. Origi‑ nal prose and poetry from the New England Review literary magazine, read aloud

by Middlebury College students from Ora‑ tory Now. Stay for the “s’more readings” reception with contributions from student magazines. Free. middlebury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Nov

11

WEDNESDAY

Recital by Piano Students of Diana Fanning in Middlebury.

Wednesday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Student performers present an interesting and varied selection of piano works in this popular event. Free. middlebury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Nov

16

THURSDAY

Pre‑concert lecture in Mid‑ dlebury. Thursday, Nov. 16, 6:30 p.m., Room 221, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.

Members of the Performing Arts Series Society (PASS) are invited to a talk by Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin about the works to be performed by the Modigli‑ ani String Quartet. A members‑only event; membership information: 802‑443‑PASS (7277) or go.middlebury.edu/pass.

“Follies” live‑streamed in Middlebury.

Thursday, Nov. 16, 7 p.m., Town Hall The‑ ater. Sondheim’s musical about a reunion of Follies girls just prior to their theater’s demolition will stream live from London’s National Theater. Tickets, adults $17/ Students $10, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

Modigliani String Quartet performs in Middlebury. Thursday, Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College.The quartet

SATURDAY

Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, Nov. 11, 8‑10 a.m. Otter View Park, Wey‑ bridge 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.

Shorter and longer routes possible. Begin‑ ning birders are welcome. Come for all or part of the walk. More info at 802‑388‑1007 or 802‑388‑6019.

Vendor Fair in Bristol. Saturday, Nov. 11, 10 a.m.‑3 p.m., Holley Hall. A new event spon‑ sored by the Bristol Rec. Department. More info at 802‑453‑5885 or bristolrec.org.

“Julieta” on screen in Middlebury. Satur‑ day, Nov. 11, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunderland Lan‑ guage Center, Dana Auditorium, Middlebur College. Julieta discovers that her long‑lost daughter has returned to Madrid, forcing her to reflect on her checkered past. Free. middlebury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Turkey Supper in Orwell. Saturday, Nov. 11, 5:30 p.m., Orwell Town Hall. Hosted by the First Congregational Church of Orwell.

Friends of the Art Museum Purchase Party in Middlebury. Saturday, Nov. 11, 5:30 p.m., Lower Lobby and Middlebury Col‑ lege Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. The annual Museum Friends event to determine what addition it will make to the museum collec‑ tion. Members only, RSVP required. Mem‑ bership info: 802‑443‑2309 or museum. middlebury.edu.

Nov

12

SUNDAY

No Strings Marionettes, “Scrooge, A Christmas Car‑ ol” in Brandon. Sunday, Nov. 12, 1:30 p.m. Dan Baginski and Barbara Paulson bring 18 large‑scale marionettes to whisk you through the Good Ole Streets of Charles Dickens’ London. If the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future can awaken the forgotten love and joy within stingy Scrooge’s heart, just think what the story can do to encourage the everlasting

THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL Church of Cornwall serves as a neutral back‑ drop for a brilliant display of fall color in October of 2016.

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

“I Am Not Your Negro” on screen in Middlebury. Saturday, Nov. 18, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunderland Language Center, Dana Auditorium, Middlebury College. Based on an unfinished book by James Baldwin and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson, this documentary chronicles the history of activism during the civil rights movement. Free. middlebury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Middlebury College Community Chorus performs in Middlebury. Saturday, Nov. 18, 7 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. An annual concert celebrating the season of Thanksgiving, performed by Middlebury College students, staff, faculty, and singers from towns throughout the area. The program includes settings of psalms alongside uplifting and celebratory songs by classical and contemporary composers. Jeff Rehbach, conductor; Tim Guiles, accompanist. Free. middlebury. edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Nov

19

SUNDAY

Green Mountain Club Young Adventurer’s hike in Middlebury. Sunday, Nov. 19, 10 a.m., solar field, Middlebury College, Route 125.

A family fun time hiking a portion of the TAM. Geared towards adventurers between the ages of four and eight, but all are welcome.

Outings are tailored to individual participants. More info contact YAC Leader Lauren Bierman at 802‑349‑7498 or laurenbierman1218@gmail.com. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

Middlebury College Community Chorus performs in Middlebury. Sunday, Nov. 19, 3 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. An annual concert celebrating the season of Thanksgiving, performed by Middlebury College students, staff, faculty, and singers from towns throughout the area. The program includes settings of psalms alongside uplifting and celebratory songs by classical and contemporary composers. Jeff Rehbach, conductor; Tim Guiles, accompanist. Free. middlebury. edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Nov

25

THE MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE campus bursts with fall colors every September and October.

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plays works by Mozart and Debussy, plus Dvořák’s “American” quartet. Free. middlebury.edu/art or 802‑443‑3168.

Dance Alumni Showing in Middlebury.

Thursday, Nov. 16, 8 p.m., Dance Theatre, Mahaney Center for the Arts, Middlebury College. Recent alumni return to provide an update on their careers in dance and to perform excerpts from their latest creative work. Tickets: $15 General public/$12 Midd ID holders/$6 Midd students; on sale October 30. middlebury.edu/arts/ boxoffice or 802‑443‑3168.

Nov

17

FRIDAY Table of Grace free meal in

Vergennes. Friday, Nov. 17, 5:30‑6:30 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church. The menu will include meatloaf, potatoes, gravy, vegetable and dessert. Come and bring your friends. Free.

Nov

18

SATURDAY

“The Exterminating Angel” in Middlebury. Saturday, Nov. 18, 1 p.m., Town Hall Theater. A live strean of the MET’s American Premier of Thomas Adé’s opera , a surreal fantasy aout a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape. A free talk at 12:15 in the Jackson Gallery precedes the show. Tickets, adults $24/Students $10, available at

SATURDAY Green Mountain Club Silver

Lake hike Salisbury. Saturday, Nov. 25. A moderate hike of 5.2 miles with a gradual ascent of 793 feet. This is a family friendly and dog friendly hike. Wear appropriate clothing.

Bring water, a snack and hiking poles if desired. Contact David Andrews at vtrevda@ yahoo.com or 802‑388‑4894 or Mike Greenwood at mike802vt@comcast.net. For more activities, visit gmcbreadloaf.org.

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1

FRIDAY

George Winston performs in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 1, Town Hall Theater. An evening of acoustic piano music from the well‑known musican. Tickets $55, available at 802‑382‑9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday‑Saturday noon‑5 p.m., or at the door.

L IV E M U S IC The Grift in Brandon. Friday, Sept. 22, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra in Middlebury. Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts.

Dafra Kura Band in Middlebury. Tuesday, Sept. 26, 7:30 p.m., McCullough Student Center, Middlebury College.

Dave Keller Band in Brandon. Saturday, Sept. 23, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music Dissipated 8 in Brandon. Saturday, Sept.

30, 7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall.

Will Hatch in Bristol. Saturday, Sept. 30, 7 p.m., Hatch 31.

Strangled Darlings in Bristol. Saturday, Oct. 7, 7 p.m., Hatch 31.

Alex Smith in Bristol. Friday, Oct. 13, 7 p.m., Hatch 31.

Mike Scott in Bristol. Saturday, Oct. 14, 7 p.m., Hatch 31.

Dark Star Project in Bristol. Saturday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m., Hatch 31.

The Horsetraders Halloween party in Middlebury. Saturday, Oct. 28, Two Brothers Tavern.

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H1. General Tso’s Chicken ..............................................10.25 H1a. General Tso’s Shrimp ..............................................12.25 H2. Sesame Chicken.......................................................10.25 H2a. Sesame Beef ..........................................................11.25 H2b. Sesame Shrimp ......................................................12.25 H3. House Crispy Chicken Lightly battered and fried chunk breast, stir fried in ginger honey sauce ...................10.75 H4. Basil Triple Medley Chicken, beef, shrimp with Fresh green sauteed with basil sauce ...............................12.25 H5. Hunan Twin Delight Beef, chicken & veggie ............10.25 H6. Walnut Shrimp .........................................................12.25 H7. Hot & Spicy Shrimp Tomato & hot sauce.................12.25 H8. Triple Delight ...........................................................12.25 H9. Happy Family ...........................................................13.25 H10. Seafood Platter White Sauce .................................13.25

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H11. Basil Chicken ............................................................9.75 H12. Massaman Shrimp ..................................................12.25 H12a. Massaman Chicken Thai curry ................................9.75 H13. Salt & Pepper Shrimp.............................................12.25 H14. Tengering Beef.......................................................11.25 H14a. Tengering Chicken ...............................................10.25 H15. Red Curry / Green Curry Chicken ............................9.75 H15a. Red Curry / Green Curry Shrimp ..........................12.25 H16. Black Pepper w. Onion Pork ..................................10.25 H16a. Black Pepper w. Onion Beef ................................11.25 H17. Coconut Shrimp .....................................................12.25 H18. Duck w. Mixed Vegetable ......................................14.95

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OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK • 802.877.9962 161 Main Street • Vergennes, VT • www.parksqueeze.com

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to serve you lunch and dinner daily from 11am-10pm.

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cone at 11 Main Street in Bristol. Online at luluvt.com MARY’S AT BALDWIN CREEK – Since 1983 Vermont’s seasons have inspired Mary’s farmto-table menus. Chef-owner Doug Mack picks the highest quality ingredients as the basis for Mary’s evolving menus, focusing on locally raised products from his on-site organic farm and other smallscale artisan farmers. Whether you are sipping on a hand-crafted cocktail at the bar or savoring world-famous Cream of Garlic Soup, a visit to Mary’s is well worth the trip.

The best reason to visit is to meet the people that make it happen. The faces of Mary’s are talented, happy and dedicated to serving great food and drink. From house-made Boyden Farm burgers to Bubba’s Catfish with Voodoo Sauce; Pork Loin with Apples, Onion and Bacon – there is something for everyone. Awarded the Slow Food of VT Snail of Approval Designation for our commitment to local, sustainable food, Mary’s, and our on-site farm, is located at 1868 North 116 Road in Bristol.

Reservations are suggested by calling 802-453-2432 or booking online at baldwincreek.net.

PARK SQUEEZE – Located on Main Street in historic downtown Vergennes.Open seven days a week. We invite you to stop in for a bite and a beverage – bring the family or meet up with friends. Check us out on Facebook for specials like our half-price burger night and margarita Mondays. Walk-ins welcome...we’ll

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Whether you’re on the go and need something quick, want to enjoy the new park across the street or just want to sit and relax in our dining area; we have what you are looking for. We offer a wide variety of house-made options, from a full breakfast menu served daily, to wood-fired pizza, deli sandwiches, lunch & dinner specials and as always, creemees and scoop ice cream, sundaes, milkshakes & more. We are open Sunday thru Wednesday 7 a.m.

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The seasonal changing menu is sure to please all, carnivorous and vegetarian alike. So come enjoy a great meal today! Open for Breakfast Tuesday through Sunday, 9 a.m.- 2:00 p.m. Lunch Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and Sunday 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Dinner Tuesday through Saturday, 5 p.m. til close.

Dinner reservations recommended. 3 Mill St., Middlebury. Menus at thestormcafe.com.

802-388-1063. Follow us on Facebook!

TOURTERELLE – At Tourterelle, the fusion of classic French dishes made with local Vermont products delivers distinctive flavors to the Champlain Valley.

Whether you’re in the mood for a burger and beer at the bar or a romantic dinner for two featuring traditional French dishes with modern twists, Tourterelle has what you’re looking for.

Tourterelle also caters and is a beautiful wedding venue for a ceremony and reception.

Tourterelle, located in New Haven, is open for dinner Wednesday to Saturday, from 5:30 to 9 p.m., and Sunday 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Brunch on Sundays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call us at 802-4536309 or visit tourterellevt.com today.

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Mad River Valley Tour — 3-4 Hours: From Middlebury, take Route 7 south to Route 125. Route 125 east through East Middlebury and Ripton, passing the Robert Frost Wayside Recreation Area, the famous Middlebury College Bread Loaf campus, crossing over the Middlebury Gap (elevation 2,149 feet). Proceed down the mountain (also known as the Robert Frost Memorial Drive), into the town of Hancock.

Take Route 100 north through the town of Granville, watching on your left for the beautiful Moss Glen Falls. Continue north into Waitsfield, where you will pick up Route 17, and follow it west over the Appalachian Gap (elevation 2,365 feet). When you get to the bottom of the other side, you’ll take a left and Route 17 and Route 116 will run together for several miles, including through the village of Bristol. Just past the village, Route 116 peels off south but you should say on Route 17 westbound through New Haven until you come to Route 7. Take Route 7 south back to Middlebury.

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In Royalton take Interstate 89 (known as one of the most beautiful interstates in the country) and head north, passing Vermont’s capital city, Montpelier. Get off the interstate at Middlesex (Exit 9) and take Route 100B south to the town of Waitsfield. In Waitsfield, pick up Route 17 and head west over the Appalachian Gap (elevation 2,365 feet) to Route 7. Follow Route 7 south back to Middlebury.

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Ancient sport of Atlatl soars into Addison Sept. 22-24th

ADDISON — The 22nd Annual Northeastern Open Atlatl Championship at the Chimney Point State Historic Site in Addison will be Sept. 22-24. This ancient spearthrowing tool competition is a highlight of Vermont Archaeology Month. The event also includes workshops on Friday and Sunday.

On Saturday, the Chimney Point field on the shore of Lake Champlain becomes a competition ground. Contestants from all over New England and New York use an atlatl to test their prowess in accuracy and distance by throwing at a variety of targets. From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., visitors are invited to try their hand at flint-knapping (making tools out of stone) with expert Barry Keegan or learn about Woodland pottery with Charlie Paquin. Thunderbird Atlatl will demonstrate the skills needed to accurately throw the atlatl. Archaeology experts will be on hand to look at artifacts or photos of artifacts that people bring for identification from noon to 2 p.m.

Saturday’s competition starts with registration at 10:30 a.m., the International

PARTICIPANTS IN A past atlatl competition use the ancient hunting tool to chuck spears on the lawn of the Chimney Point State Historic Site in Addison. The venue will host the 22nd Annual Northeastern Open Atlatl Championship this fall.

Standard Accuracy Competition at 11 a.m., followed by the accuracy and distance event. The contest ends with a “Grand Champion” shootout. Categories include youth, women and men. Contestants range from interested novices to some of the best in the country. Competitors pay $7 with pre-registration or $8 on the day. Call (802) 759-2412 to register.

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STOP BY & DISCOVER SOME GREAT TREASURES! Artwork • Lamps •Couches Dressers •Dishes •Toys Jewelry • Children’s Books & much more!

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On Friday from noon to 5 p.m., the site will host an atlatl workshop with Robert Berg of Thunderbird Atlatl. Participants make an atlatl and three fletched darts, receive instructions on using them, and are welcome to compete the next day. The $70 fee includes materials, instruction and coaching. Pre-registration is required.

On Sunday, Barry Keegan offers a splint

basswood basket workshop from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Weave a basket out of basswood splints with the bark attached. The finished baskets will be about 10-feet tall.

The $60 fee includes materials. Pre-registration is required.

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Rokeby has talks on plants, autographs, tintype on tap FERRISBURGH — The Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh has three events scheduled for this fall, in addition to their usual display on the Underground Railroad and the history of the Robinson Family. Admission to these talks are $2 per program or free with museum admission.

First there is “Eliza Marsh’s Book of Sentiments” on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 3 p.m. Brandon resident Eliza Marsh had an unusual hobby — she collected the autographs of leading abolitionists in the 1840s. Though her autograph book has disappeared, historian Kevin Thornton discovered her project and will share his research on her life and labor.

Another talk will take place on Sunday, Oct. 22, at 3 p.m., with Robert Popp discusses “Rare and Unusual Vermont

Plants.” Botanist Popp tracks and inventories rare and unusual plants for Vermont’s Department of Fish and Wildlife. Species may be rare because they have particular habitat requirements, are subject to habitat loss, are at the edge of their range, or are vulnerable to disturbance or collection.

His talk reminds us of the Robinsons’ deep interest in natural history.

Tintype artist Jeff Howlett will bring his talents to the Rokeby on Sunday, Oct. 8, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., to share with guests. Howlett, a professional photographer, has perfected the art of making tintypes — early photographs made on small rectangles of metal.

He’ll be at the Rokeby offering his services and showing folks how it was done in the old days. Come and have your picture made. Tintypes will cost $50 each.

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The Chimney Point State Historic Site presents the history of the region’s earliest cultures — Native American, French Colonial, and early American. The site was used by Native Americans for thousands of years and was the location of the 1731

French fort.

The Chimney Point Museum is in the circa 1785 tavern building on Route 17W at the foot of the Lake Champlain Bridge in Addison. The phone number for pre-registration and information is (802) 759-2412. The site is open 9:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesdays through Sundays, until Oct. 15.

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Fall is here, let the picking begin!

Kids are back in school, the days are cooler, and Vermont’s apple orchards are brimming with fresh, juicy apples, just waiting to be picked. Now is the time to make plans to visit your local orchard with friends and family.

According to the Vermont tree fruit growers, our state produces around 1 million bushels of apples annually — that’s about 40 million pounds. Over 50 percent of those apples are McIntosh, but there are more than 150 varieties grown here in the Green Mountain State.

Donuts, cider, sauce and pies await you at orchards and farm stands across the Vermont. To find a pick-your-own location, or a farm stand near you, visit

the Vermont tree fruit grower’s website, where you can search by county: www. vermontapples.org/vermont-orchardlisting.

“Apples have always been an important part of Vermont’s agricultural economy and working landscape” said Vermont Secretary of Agriculture Anson Tebbetts. “We are seeing a lot of growth in the hard cider category, and of course apples play a big role in attracting tourists to the state this time of year. We appreciate all our apple growers do to create opportunity in our rural communities.”

To learn more about Vermont’s apple industry, visit www.vermontapples.org.

Photos courtesy of Champlain Valley Orchards

‘Eat on the Green’

Enjoy local eats, brews & tunes, Sept. 30 VERGENNES — If you’re looking for a fall activity that combines three of almost everybody’s favorites — local eats, brews and tunes —— then go to Vergennes on Saturday, Sept. 30, for their local festival “Eat on the Green.”

Join the crowd on the Vergennes City Green from 3-9 p.m. and celebrate fall with food, music, craft beverages and fun. Sample delicious dishes served up by some favorite local eateries while three local bands perform — The Good Parts (3 p.m.), The High Breaks ( 5 p.m.) and Rehab Roadhouse (7 p.m.).

Adult beverages including craft brews, hard cider and local wines will be served.

Lincoln Peak Vineyard and Shacksbury Cider will be on hand. Vergennes’ own Hired Hand Brewery will operate a beer

garden with a corn hole game set up.

There will other family-friendly games set up on the green, including giant Jenga and Plinko. Have the kids’ face painted.

Plus we’re told there will be a hula hoop contest.

Entry to the green is free, but tickets for food, beverages and activities are $1 each or 12 for $10.

Restaurants and local makers of comestibles signed up to run food trucks include Bar Antidote, Daily Chocolate, 3 Squares Café, Basin Harbor Club, Lulu Ice Cream, Park Squeeze, Black Sheep Bistro and the Ferrisburgh Bake Shop.

All proceeds benefit Vergennes Opera House, Vergennes Partnership, Bixby Library, and Boys & Girls Club of Greater Vergennes.

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Revelling (Continued from Page 3) the numbers I estimate that our family goes through at least 6-8 apples daily.

Which explains why our refrigerator’s fruit drawer is usually full-to-groaning with apples.

In an effort to address this apple consumption, we planted five heritage apple trees in our backyard last spring. To keep our costs low, we purchased rootstock instead of older trees; now, almost six months later, our apple trees stand about as tall as me (not very tall), and have sprouted several branches. We expect them to begin producing fruit in three years or so.

Side note: Time and patience seem to be the rule when it comes to growing one’s own fruit. My blueberry bushes, planted two years ago, continue to yield only a handful of berries every summer despite my vigilant care. When I inquire about other blueberry bushes that I see — bushes that produce vast quantities of fruit despite apparent neglect — the answer is almost always, “Oh, those bushes are over 20 years old now.”

While we wait for our own apple trees to reward us with fruit, we delight in the advent of our local apple season, which stretches from approximately early September until Thanksgiving, depending on the year.

The benefits of local apples are freshness (of course), and variety. I’m not much of a Macintosh or Granny Smith girl, so once the local apples come in I luxuriate in the dizzying array of options: Paula Red, Ginger Gold, Empire, Macoun, Honey Crisp, and more.

And then there’s the personal component: the pleasure that comes from supporting the labor of people you know. They know us at our closest local orchard, Happy Valley, so when our family arrived on opening day this year we were greeted with exclamations over how much our girls had grown since last year, and inquiries after my parents. “Well, it’s really apple season now that you’re here!” we were told.

Similarly, we know the owners of Champlain Orchards, whose children attend preschool and homeschool alongside our own, and who are very generous about donating apples to my daughter’s preschool. When we buy their apples at the orchard or the co-op, we know that we’re supporting a lovely family. There’s no comparison between this sort of relationship with our food producers, and the anonymous airlifted apples in plastic that we’re forced to buy in the winter.

It may be that its fleeting nature is part of what makes apple season so special. But then, the more I think about fall, the more I realize that the entire season is a brief flash of beauty before saying goodbye.

Consider the geese. One of the great delights of moving into our house last year was realizing, come fall, that we are located right under a major Canada geese flyway. All fall, regal, honking Vs of geese pass overhead, creating stunning scenes like the one I witnessed the other morning when my daughter and I went out at 6 a.m. to feed our poultry: The sun was

rising and staining the eastern clouds red while the moon still hung in the deep blue western sky, when a flock of geese flew directly over us. We waved them south as they passed beneath the moon, saying goodbye for another season.

Similarly, the two monarch caterpillars that my daughters found in our field will leave us soon. We put them in a tank and fed them milkweed until they wove the surprisingly strong filaments to anchor themselves to a surface (one attached to a leaf, one to the side of the tank), shed their skin, and encased themselves in green-and-gold chrysalises. In just a few days, if all goes well inside, they’ll emerge as monarch butterflies. Then, we’ll release them so that they can begin their long migration down to Mexico. As with the geese, we’ll wave goodbye and wish them well.

And what is Vermont’s celebrated autumn foliage, if not another goodbye — the ultimate blaze of glory before the fall?

The interesting thing is that fall — this season of many goodbyes — doesn’t seem to invoke sadness in many people.

On the contrary, an informal poll of family and friends reveals that many cite fall as their favorite season. They feel that fall carries with it the sense of a fresh start.

How can this be? How are we able to do in fall what we struggle to do in the rest of life: To be present in the moment? To relish the apples without weeping over the harvest’s end? To gasp over the beauty of the geese, the monarch butterflies, and the foliage without mourning their departure?

Being present in the present is not easy for us humans. As Wendell Berry wrote in his 2015 essay collection, “Our Only World”: There is in fact much at hand and in reach that is good, useful, encouraging, and full of promise, although we seem less and less inclined to attend to or value what is at hand. We are always ready to set aside our present life, even our present happiness, to peruse the menu of future exterminations. If the future is threatened by the present, which it undoubtedly is, then the present is more threatened, and often is annihilated, by the future.

“Oh, oh, oh,” cry the funerary experts, looking ahead through their black veils.

“Life as we know it soon will end. If the governments don’t stop us, we’re going to destroy the world. The time is coming when we will have to do something to save the world. The time is coming when it will be too late to save the world. Oh, oh, oh.”

If that is the way our minds are afflicted, we and our world are dead already. The present is going by and we are not in it.

——— Perhaps, as we revel in fall, we can learn something about appreciating the present goodness throughout the year.

Faith Gong has worked as an elementary school teacher, a freelance photographer, and a nonprofit manager. She lives in Middlebury with her husband, four daughters, assorted chickens and ducks, and one anxiety-prone labradoodle. In her “free time,” she writes for her blog, The Pickle Patch.

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Bristol is the place to go for a diverse variety of art BRISTOL — Bristol’s downtown gallery Art on Main will stage an exhibition this fall called “Bringing the Outside In. Running Oct. 13-Nov. 12, the show will feature three different artisans — three different ways of interacting with the natural world.

Susan Goldstein, Krista Cheney and Aurora Davidson all work directly with live natural materials — what they each do with them is unique to their own particular curiosity and artistic vision.

Susan Goldstein, through her “Muddy Toes Terrariums,” creates small, threedimensional worlds inside glass containers. They range from small hand-blown glass globes with artfully place succulents, rocks, moss and other natural elements to large, window-like containers that bring the outside in for a more intimate view.

Krista Cheney is a fine-art photographer who approaches her subjects a bit like a mad scientist — exploring the unpredictable interaction of flowers and frozen water and ultimately creating beautiful, mysterious, other-worldly images of plants and flowers.

Aurora Davidson, who’s company is Green Angel Arts, collects natural materials and combines them to make a kind

of botanical collage that she then photographs. Scenes of fields, forests and mountains shine from her images with the intimacy of the materials themselves — like walking through a meadow to gaze at a view. The original pieces, which are too fragile to display and sell, are kept safely in a climate-controlled space.

Art on Main, at 25 Main St., will hold a reception with these three artists on Friday, Oct. 13, from 5-7 p.m. You can meet Susan, Krista and Aurora there and talk about their work.

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The show features mixed media, collage, installation, paintings, and an ongoing invitation for visitors to tap out their words on the 1928 typewriter provided.

On Oct. 6, 6-8 p.m., ARTSight will host a public reception to celebrate words in art, and art in words as interpreted by these six Bristol artists — Lily Hinrichsen, Karla Van Vliet, Rachel Baird, Basha Miles, Annie Perkins and Reagh Greenleaf Jr.

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Addison Independent • FALL GUIDE • Thursday, September 21, 2017 — PAGE 51

‘Better L8 then Never Car Show’ is rolling into Bristol BRISTOL — The last full weekend of September will be a busy one in Bristol as two big events will bring visitors and area residents to downtown Bristol.

The Bristol Harvest Festival will be held on Saturday, Sept. 23, on the town green and the Better L8 Than Never Car Show will be held the next day, Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Bristol Recreation Field.

The 19th annual Bristol Harvest Festival is co-hosted by the Addison County Chamber and the Bristol Recreation Department. Activities are scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. when the town green will come alive with at least 65 crafters and vendors, an apple pie contest, demonstrations and live musical entertainment on the bandstand throughout the day.

Bands schedule to perform are as follows: 10 a.m.: Harvest Festival Band 11 a.m.: Erin Cassels-Brown 12 noon: The County Down

1 p.m.: Snake Mountain Bluegrass 2 p.m.: Daddy Long Legs 3 p.m.: West Road Rockers Among the vendors will be Art on Main, the local nonprofit gallery that holds its annual Fall Fundraiser under a tent at the Bristol Harvest Festival. Bid on wonderful art, crafts, local goods and services to support the gallery.

Then the Snake Mountain Cruisers car club and the Addison County Chamber will join to co-host the 13th annual Better L8 Than Never Car Show on Sunday at the Bristol Recreation Field, 110 Airport Drive.

The car show runs from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

More than 200 vehicles are expected, plus there will be a live DJ spinnin’ stacks of wax (as they say), vendors, kids’ activities, raffles, a bake sale and more. One fun event scheduled is a competitive piston toss.

Last year the car show welcomed a record-setting 260 vintage and customized vehicles and an estimated 500 spectators.

At the show, vehicles are displayed by make, model and year and judged on a variety of categories.

Trophies will be awarded to the Top 30 vehicles in the car show. Admission for spectators is free (donations are accepted for Camp Ta-Kum-Ta) and vehicle registration is $20 per vehicle.

For more information on either event visit their respective websites: BristolHarvestFest.com or BetterL8ThanNever.com or call the Addison County Chamber of Commerce at 388-7951.

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Cider

(Continued from Page 4) tasted our Addison, or our 25th Anniversary cider, it’s very different from the Amber.”

LAND OF APPLES

It’s not surprising that many of the cideries have started in the Champlain Valley. With its farming tradition and relatively mild climate, groves of apples for eating have grown up here, so locals are already familiar with how to grow and harvest this popular fruit.

One of these apple growers turned cider makers is Champlain Orchards, which is located not far from the lake in Shoreham.

Company founder Bill Suhr explained that in 2008 Champlain Orchards began to experiment with Honeycrisp ice cider.

“We have continued to expand our offerings annually as our cidery has grown,” he said. “We now have a dedicated cidery staff on farm which carefully creates our ciders.”

What separates Champlain Orchards is its 40 acres dedicated to cider production, which includes more than 30 varieties of cider-specific apples, from Dabinet to Brown Snout to Kingston Black, Suhr said.

The soil in this part of the orchard is a mix of Vergennes clay and Farmington loam soil, which lends a certain terroir to the ciders.

“That’s the difference — we’re locally grown, not just produced,” Suhr said. “These are true Addison County apples. People who take home our ciders are supporting a 250acre, land-trusted farm that will be here for years to come.

LOST AND FOUND APPLES

And then there’s Shacksbury: a growing, four-year-old cidery started on a farm in Shoreham and now based out of the Kennedy

LOCALLY GROWN APPLES have been used to create delicious hard cider for hundreds of years.

Brothers building in Vergennes. Founders Colin Davis and David Dolginow spend much of the fall foraging for “lost” apples, or apples growing on trees that evolved after Vermont’s colonial-age cider boom. (We know — flannel-clad cider makers traipsing through the woods in search of ancient apple trees — the only way it could get more “Vermont” is if they were drinking maple syrup along the way.)

The charming mission comes with another motive: to educate consumers about the fruit’s rich history.

Back in the colonial era, apple trees were planted with seeds (instead of the cloning and grafting that mark today’s commercial practices). But apple seeds do not reproduce the exact same fruit as the tree from which they came. The seeds of a McIntosh apple will not yield more McIntosh apples — they’ll produce something entirely different. When Europeans first brought apple seeds on their maiden voyages to North America, they planted millions of trees, and no two were alike.

Farmers came to understand the diversity of apples. They knew which varieties to use for

sauce, for pie, for cider.

Eventually, they identified the best baking apples and the best apples for fresh eating, and they cloned these species, reproducing them until the rest of the apples fell away and were forgotten. The result? Seven varieties now dominate the grocery store apple market, and many Americans would hesitate to try anything else.

“It’s a lost way of thinking about apples,” Davis says. “The cider that’s most interesting to us is expressive of the fruit.” Shacksbury has now made many ciders from these heirloom varieties, collecting crates of apples to make small, five-gallon ferments that they send to their cider club members. This drink is also available at Shacksbury’s new tasting room at 11 Main St., Vergennes — north side of the building. The tasting room, which is already accepting visitors Thursday through Saturday, will host a grand opening on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2-8 p.m., where there will be music and food, in addition to cider.

And Vermont is the perfect place to conduct such project. While orchards were once prolific throughout New England, Vermont’s continuous rural landscape has created space for trees to continue to reproduce, creating new, different varieties. Davis says the team samples apples from about 2,000 trees each fall.

“I think anyone who hikes around Vermont has noticed that there’s wild apple trees everywhere,” he says. And for those who want to discover apples themselves, he adds: “I would encourage people, if they walk by an apple tree in October or November, to try one.”

This story was first published in VT Ski + Ride Magazine.

CHAMPLAIN ORCHARDS FOUNDER Bill Suhr checks on a few boxes of apples brought in from the Shoreham orchards, where his company dedicates 40 acres of trees for cider apples, including Dabinet, Brown Snout and Kingston Black.

Photos courtesy of Champlain Orchards

Addison Independent • FALL GUIDE • Thursday, September 21, 2017 — PAGE 53

SHOWN AT LAST year’s leaf people work day are Brandonites mending broken arms and legs, putting on a new kerchief or swapping out for a little more fashionable frock.

Brandon gets ready for the Harvest People surge BRANDON — It’s almost time to build your own “Harvest Person.” That’s one of the draws at the annual Brandon HarvestFest, which, as always, will take place the Sunday before Columbus Day Weekend, Oct. 1 this year.

Because of the downtown road construction, this year’s HarvestFest has

LOOKING GOOD, Harvest People are ready for their close-up.

moved from Central Park to Estabrook Park north of the village just west of Route 7. It’s still at the usual time — 1-4 p.m.

At HarvestFest, the Brandon Chamber of Commerce supplies all materials, accessories and instruction on how to make your very own “Harvest Person” or “Leaf Person.” Event-goers choose clothes, a hat, shoes and embellishments to personalize their own “Person.” Volunteers help with the finishing touches.

This event is a great way for people to be creative and let imaginations run wild.

The first “Harvest Person” per family is free of charge. After that, they are only $5 each.

Besides Harvest People-making, the event includes hayrides, pumpkins, family fun and activities for both kids and adults.

The Neshobe PTO and the Brandon Recreation Department are providing a lot of the organization for this year’s event.

For more info contact the Chamber at 802-247-6401 or Brandon Recreation Dept. at 802-247-3635 ext. 213.

MEMBERS OF THE Brandon Chamber took some time in mid-September to repair and perk up of the faithful leaf people that are used at the HarvestFest each October.

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a. Rokeby Museum, Route 7, Ferrisburgh. Underground Railroad site and prominent Quaker family farm. www.rokeby.org. Open through Oct. 29. b. Kingsland Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh. Day use, nature path. www.vtstateparks.com/ htm/kingsland.htm. Open through Oct. 9. c. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Ferrisburgh. Traces the history of Lake Champlain, extensive indoor and outdoor exhibits, including boats. www.lcmm.org. d. Button Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh. Overnight camping, nature trails. www.vtstateparks. com/htm/buttonbay.htm. Open through Oct. 9. e. Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area, Route 17, Addison. Home to migrating waterfowl, walking paths, and boat launches. www.vtfishandwildlife.com/wmaguide.cfm. f. Bixby Library, 258 Main St., Vergennes. Stained glass ceiling illuminates historic library and extensive collection of early arrowheads and other artifacts. www.bixbylibrary.org. g. Lord’s Prayer Rock, Bristol. In 1891, Joseph C. Greene paid a carver to engrave the Lord’s Prayer on a huge rock sitting next to what is today Route 116. It’s still an unusual roadside attraction. h. Snake Mountain. Parking lot on Mountain Road in Addison. Family-friendly hike to beautiful vistas of Champlain Valley and Adirondacks. Don’t leave valuables in the car. www.vtfishandwildlife.com/wmaguide.cfm. i. Mount Abraham trail access, Long Trail, Lincoln. Summit includes 360-degree panorama. www.greenmountainclub.org. j. University of Vermont Morgan Horse Farm, Morgan Horse Farm Road, Weybridge.

Beautiful grounds featuring a leading breeding program for state’s official animal. Tours daily. www.uvm.edu/morgan. k. Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, 1 Park St., downtown Middlebury. Tour the Judd Harris House, ongoing exhibits and events. Fall show of Arthur Healy watercolors. www.henrysheldonmuseum.org.

L. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. Rotating exhibits. www.vermontfolklifecenter.org. m. Middlebury College. Campus tours available at admissions office. Event listings available at arts center ticket office. www.middlebury.edu. n. Green Mountain National Forest Ranger Station, Route 7 South, Middlebury. Extensive material available about hiking and camping in the GMNF. www.fs.fed.us/r9/gmfl. o. Trail Around Middlebury. The “TAM” is a 16-mile footpath that encircles Middlebury and links several hundred acres of town land, conserved properties and other local landmarks. www.maltvt.org/tam.html. p. Falls of Lana, Rattlesnake Cliffs, Silver Lake trails access, Salisbury-Leicester town line. www.newenglandwaterfalls.com/vermont.php. q. Branbury State Park, Salisbury. Day use and overnight camping, kid-friendly sandy beach and extensive grass lawn, boat rentals. www.vtstateparks.com/htm/branbury.htm.

Open through Oct. 9. r. Spirit in Nature Path, Goshen Road, Ripton. Immerse yourself in nature by walking any of the 11 different paths. www.spiritinnature.com. s. Chimney Point State Historic Site, Addison. Chimney Point is the site of Native American, early French, and Revolutionary War-era settlement. Historic tavern was an important meeting place. Ongoing exhibits and tours. www.historicsites.vermont.gov/chimneypoint. Open through Oct. 10. t. Fort Ticonderoga (across ferry in New York). Preserved Revolutionary War fort with extensive interpretation, guides, re-enactors, gift shop and many events. www.fort-ticonderoga.org. Open through Nov. 1. u. Mount Independence State Historic Site, Orwell. A largely undisturbed Revolutionary War site. Visitors center with extensive exhibits and many interpretive trails. historicsites.vermont.gov/directory/mount_independence. Open through Oct. 9. v. Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace & Museum, Route 7, Brandon. Town of Brandon museum located in historic birthplace of statesman Steven A. Douglas. Enjoy local history including architecture, industry, business, tourism, and immigration. brandon.org/thebrandon-museum. w. Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St., Brandon. Gallery shows work from a diverse group of more than 50 artists in various media. brandonartistsguild.org.

ROKEBY MUSEUM DIRECTOR Jane Williamson stands outside the visitor and education center near the museum’s historic Rowland Robinson home in Ferrisburgh.

Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

THE MORGAN HORSE Farm monument stands at attention in front of the farm’s Weybridge barn.

Independent file photo/ Trent Campbell

THE AMAZING DETAIL in these scale model sailing ships draws visitors at the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum into this bit of history from America’s founding.

Independent file photo/Victoria Provost

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