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ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

Vol. 29 No. 33

Middlebury, Vermont

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Monday, December 4, 2017

• An advent tradition returns to Middlebury next Sunday. Read about it in Arts Beat on Pages 10-13.

ERICA MORRELL, A postdoctoral fellow in sociology at Middlebury College, far right, and her senior students Emma Shumway, left, Jennifer Ayer, Matthew MacKay and Isabel Wyer have authored a report that details the charitable food efforts in Addison County and how those efforts could be affected by Vermont’s new recycling and composting law.

• A Vermont family recognizes the accomplishments of those striving to become new Americans. See Page 23.

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Students help local food efforts Ideas offered to fight hunger in our county

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Addison County businesses, institutions and individuals could play a larger role in donating food to low-income residents if there were more storage space, transportation options and publicity about the need for such contributions, according to a recent

study of the local food system completed by a group of Middlebury College students. The report, which will soon be delivered to the Addison County Hunger Council, also hints at a potential upcoming spike in food donations due to Vermont’s Act 148. That universal recycling and compost law requires all Vermont households and businesses to have diverted their food scraps from the state’s waste stream by July 1, 2020.

Advocates for low-income residents are hoping much of that unused food can be diverted to folks now going hungry. The new report is the product of more than two months of research by four Middlebury students under the leadership of educator Erica Morrell. The senior students — Jennifer Ayer, Emma Shumway, Isabel Wyer and Matthew MacKay — are part of Morrell’s class, (See Food, Page 18)

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — Green Mountain Power and groSolar are expected early this month to file jointly to the Vermont Public Utility Commission for a Certificate of Public Good that would allow the companies to install a 4.99-megawatt solar array on a 40-acre parcel that lies at the junction of Route 7 and Greenbush Road in Ferrisburgh. GroSolar originally proposed the array, now called the GMP MicroGrid-Ferrisburgh Project. If the Public Utilities Commission approves the project, the array would be 800 feet west of the state highway at its closest point, be among the state’s largest, and could power the equivalent of about 1,300 homes. When GMP came aboard this fall it also added a Tesla battery “micro-grid” to the plan, one that company officials said can store eight megawatt hours of power. GMP spokesperson Kristin Carlson said the battery installation would be similar to the one that GMP is proposing to add to its already built 4.99-megawatt array in Panton. According to GMP’s Oct. 17 notice of intent to file for its Certificate of Public Good (CPG) the array’s solar power will charge the battery storage (See Ferrisburgh, Page 22)

Second-floor upgrade on tap at sports center Camels skate on Panther home ice • Panther women’s hockey looked to bounce back from two losses when they hosted Connecticut. See the results in Sports, Pages 20-21.

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Stewards of Middlebury’s Memorial Sports Center have embarked on a new fund drive that would result in the long-awaited completion of the second floor of the 24-year-old community recreational facility that has served as the much-used home for Addison County ice hockey programs. Specifically, boosters of the Memorial Sports Center, or MSC, want to raise $350,000 for a project that would, among other things, create a heated viewing area, elevator access and public restrooms for the top floor of the sports center. “Now is the time to complete the center and make it a point of civic pride,” reads a fundraising letter signed by campaign leaders Devin McLaughlin, Dave Donahue and iconic Middlebury College hockey coaches Bill Beaney and Bill Mandigo. That letter was sent out last month to more than (See Sports center, Page 31)

SUPPORTERS OF THE Memorial Sports Center in Middlebury are seeking $350,000 to complete second-floor expansion plans. A mural by Thatcher Littlefield currently spans the planned second-floor glass viewing area.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

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ACTR delays launch of new bus stop to save parking

MIDDLEBURY — In order to maximize access to downtown shops and the post office during the holiday season, Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) announced that it will delay implementation of use of the new, pull-off bus stop on the St. Stephen’s side of Main Street until after the first of the year. At least one local resident had

complained that the bus stop eliminated four parking spots on a Main Street that had already lost many parking spaces due to the downtown railroad bridge construction. ACTR itself had lost its Merchants Row bus stop because of the construction, too. ACTR Executive Director Jim Moulton said ACTR was pleased to

support local shops and post office users during the busy holiday season by modifying the use of the bus stop near St. Stephen’s. “Full use of the stop will still be necessary in the new year to ensure we are meeting our obligations to provide access for transit users but this temporary change is the right action for the whole community,”

Moulton added. Staff from the town Department of Public Works on Friday covered or modified the markings on the parking spaces involved and said they would make it clear that the spaces are available, as soon as weather allows and necessary supplies are obtained. The northbound bus on the Main

Street route will continue to stop in front of the Post Office when riders are waiting at the stop or if a rider asks for a stop, Moulton noted. “ACTR drivers will be operating with extra care and caution in this area during this period with the modified stop and ask car drivers to be aware for extra caution, as well,” he said.

THE OWNERS OF the Vorsteveld Farm in Ferrisburgh have mostly completed the cleanup of the clear cutting they did along Arnolds Bay Road, but the town is still expecting to meet with the owners about the tree removal. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Town warns local farm owners Tree cutting issue spurs tough letter

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh town attorney has sent a certified letter to the owners of the Vorsteveld Farm threatening legal action “for the cutting of shade trees within the public right of way of Arnold Bay Road without prior approval,” unless the Vorstevelds respond to the letter by Jan. 1. In the Nov. 22 letter, attorney James Carroll wrote, “I further ask that you ask your attorney or any identified insurance claims representative to contact me to discuss the contents of this letter and

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a possible resolution of this matter.” The Ferrisburgh selectboard met behind closed doors on Nov. 21 and voted, 4-1 (with Selectman Jim Benoit in dissent), to ask Carroll to write the letter. Area residents have complained to the board since the Vorstevelds had the work done in April. Carroll had been researching the issue for weeks, and Carroll references state statutes that he alleges the Vorstevelds violated by hiring a contractor to remove, per the letter, 306 shade trees with trunks at least 6-inch diameters and another 1,870 trees and shrubs along Arnold Bay Road. According to the letter, the Vorstevelds “as individuals and

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partners of Vorsteveld Farm, LLP, are subject to a fine of not more than $500 for each tree so injured or removed, as well as an award of damages … for the trespass and removal of the shade trees, as well as other injunctive relief to assure that the damage caused is mitigated through a replanting plan.” Carroll’s letter alleges the contractor “essentially clear-cut” a 0.75-mile stretch on the east side of the road, starting on the Panton town line and running north. The Vorstevelds own farmland in both Panton and Ferrisburgh, with most of their holdings in Panton. The letter concludes, “If I do not hear from you or your representative on or before January 1, 2018, Ferrisburgh will take immediate steps to pursue this matter in the appropriate judicial jurisdiction.” Ferrisburgh Selectboard Chairwoman Loretta Lawrence last week described the letter as an attempt to trigger an exchange of ideas on how to resolve the situation. She said the selectboard has discussed possibilities in executive session, but would not make them public. “The goal is to settle this without going to the court. So we’re giving them the opportunity to at least come back with something,” Lawrence said, adding, “We want to open up the talks and start up the discussion … We’d like to hear how they plan (See Trees, Page 3)

Bank offers Printer’s Alley property to Middlebury By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury selectboard last Tuesday agreed to consider an offer by the National Bank of Middlebury to convey to the town (at no charge) Printer’s Alley. That alley connects Main Street to the Marble Works complex. It has come into sharper focus in recent months because of its proximity to the ongoing downtown rail bridges project. Printer’s Alley was closed to one-way vehicle traffic this past spring when a temporary bridge was installed on Main Street. The alley has remained open to pedestrian traffic. Ownership of the alley could give the town more flexibility in coordinating the railroad bridges project, which will include some micro-tunneling on the former Lazarus building site for a drainage system serving the construction area. Bank officials have asked, among other things, that the bank be granted a 5-foot buffer extending from the northeast edge of the building into Printer’s Alley. “This area will likely be a green space managed by the National Bank of Middlebury,” reads the bank’s proposal. The selectboard on Tuesday gave its preliminary approval of the Printer’s Alley transaction. If final terms are hammered out by the two parties,

the town could take possession of the alley within 30-60 days, according to Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay. In other action on Tuesday, the Middlebury selectboard: • Unanimously approved, subject to some minor language changes, an updated Middlebury Town Plan. This updated plan is a precursor to what will next be a major re-write of the document. The town plan is meant to serve as a visionary document for all aspects of what the community would like to see happen to it during the next five years. • Unanimously appointed Dana Hart as the new director of the Ilsley Library. As previously reported in the Independent, Hart, 28, has for the past three years served as administration manager for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Thomas J. Watson Library in New York City. Prior to that, she was a worker in the map division of the New York Public Library. She and her partner have family and friends in Vermont. • Unanimously agreed to appoint Middlebury College student Sullivan Barth to a vacancy on the Middlebury Energy Committee. • Nominated Barbara DoyleWilch to fill a vacancy on the Ilsley Library Board of Trustees. That vacancy was created by the recent departure of member Skylar Atkins.

Trees (Continued from Page 2) on resolving the issue.” Farm co-owner Hans Vorsteveld said on Tuesday, “We’ll probably have to” talk to the town, but said it was too early to make any further comment on the letter. “We have not really looked into it yet,” Vorsteveld said. “We’re planning on talking to our attorney and seeing what our approach is. We’ve just called our lawyer and he hasn’t gotten back to me yet.” The Vorstevelds bought the land a little more than three years ago. In June Hans Vorsteveld said the work was done to improve drainage for the farm fields that lie behind what he said was an “overgrown hedgerow” along that side of Arnold Bay Road. He said the finished product would look attractive and hoped that town officials and neighbors would appreciate its appearance. Vorsteveld also told the Independent then he and his family farm co-owners believed they owned the land to the middle of the road, were simply making improvements to better farm it, and did not believe their use of the land interfered with the town’s right of way. Although in his letter Carroll cites statutes and cases that set precedents favoring the town’s position, in June he told the selectboard and a gathering of neighbors at the town office building a case might not be cut and dried.

“These statutes are very openended. There is not a lot of case law that has been developed around them,” Carroll said back then, adding that the statutes “have gray about them.”

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Pseudo journalist visits Middlebury By GAEN MURPHREE MIDDLEBURY — Angling for a speaker spot at Middlebury College, right wing provocateur James O’Keefe ended up at the Courtyard by Marriott this past Thursday evening. His appearance in town came the same week that O’Keefe and Project Veritas, the organization he founded, were under fire for trying to plant what they admit is fake news in a prominent national newspaper. The crowd of over 50 attendees was mostly journalists — pens, cameras, digital recorders in hand, on the spot not so much to listen to O’Keefe himself but to see if protesters, counter-protestors or some other unscheduled eruption might make news. Nothing happened. And rather than the lofty and legitimacy-providing stage of Middlebury College’s Wilson Hall, the event was squeezed into JAMES O’KEEFE a small beige and tan hotel conference room, with brown geo- Project Veritas, known for its undermetric nonstain carpeting on the cover videos, as a lone crusader for floor. truth. In a talk purporting to be on Typical was his statement about the topic of “Middlebury’s Free his need for security while visiting Speech Problem,” Vermont: “It’s sort of my O’Keefe instead gave cross to bear.” a 90-minute slideshow “We use There appeared to be no heralding his under- all types of threats of physical harm or cover efforts to “in- deception.” intimidation at the Marrivestigate and expose — James ott. corruption, dishonesO’Keefe said repeatedO’Keefe ty, waste, fraud and ly that while his motives misconduct” with the have been criticized, what not-for-profit Project Veritas or- people really object to is that he chalganization. lenges the powers that be. His attitude throughout was “It’s like triage on a battlefield beself-aggrandizing and self-pity- cause there’s so much crap and so ing. In his presentation, O’Keefe much fraud and so much hypocrisy, repeatedly depicted himself and self-dealing,” said O’Keefe of his

self-described “journalistic” activities. He addressed longstanding claims that his video editing has led to misleading presentations of others’ beliefs or actions. In his defense, O’Keefe merely asserted that all journalists edit. He did not discuss what ethical or journalistic standards one might use to edit fairly. He did play several entertaining clips of Jon Stewart on “The Daily Show” responding to O’Keefe’s signature outing of an employee of the housing advocacy group ACORN. In that notorious video, O’Keefe posed as a pimp wanting to house 13 underage prostitutes, trafficked from Central America. O’Keefe’s repeated assertion that “if there’s waste, fraud, abuse, dishonesty, unethical behavior, hypocritical behavior, it deserves to be exposed” stands in a peculiar tension and juxtaposition to the part his organization played in events brought to light this past week. The organization’s methodologies and intent came into the full glare of the national spotlight last Monday when multiple news outlets revealed O’Keefe and Project Veritas’s latest attempt at an undercover “gotcha.” Jaime Phillips, a Veritas operative, attempted to scam The Washington Post by approaching reporters at that newspaper with a fake story about how Alabama Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore had sex with her when she was 15. Since the Post in early November first broke the story of Moore (See O’Keefe, Page 7)

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Editorial Dems not the same as GOP!

In the run-up to the 2016 presidential election, a popular lament among voters was that both political parties were equally bad, and that Democrats were not that much different from Republicans. Many voters cast a pox on both parties and Republicans, in particular, rejected 16 other candidates in their primary to pick one of the least experienced, least credible, least informed and most caustic candidates in the nation’s history. Two years later, much has changed, including a dramatically clearer distinction between the two major political parties. Let’s count the ways: • Tax cuts: Republican majorities in the House and Senate sided with Trump to pass tax cuts that will mostly benefit wealthy Americans and corporations. Forget the lip-service to tax cuts for the lower- and middle-class Americans, some middleclass payers may get a few nickels on the dollar but the bulk of the tax cuts go to the rich. Democrats argued fruitlessly (no hearings on the tax cuts were held, preventing any public airing of the pros and cons of the Republican bills) for greater tax cuts to help the middle class and poor, but were shut out of any legislative participation. The contrast couldn’t be clearer: While Republicans stand for tax cuts that benefit the rich, Democrats stand for keeping higher taxes on the wealthiest few, and using taxation to help bridge the wealth gap and provide programs to help move more Americans into higher income households. • Fiscal discipline. It’s obvious that the Republican Party has none. After years of complaining about President Barack Obama’s fiscal stimulus programs, which were necessary to jump-start an economy that was stopped dead in its tracks by the 2008 Great Recession, the GOP just added a trillion dollars to the deficit and will get nothing in return (except more campaign contributions to get re-elected). In 2008, when President Obama added billions of dollars to the deficit he was juicing the economy with infrastructure projects and other longer-lasting investments that would lay the foundation for a more robust economy. (He took a while but it’s the foundation that Trump is now benefiting from.) Obama saved hundreds of thousands of autoworker jobs at General Motors and Dodge-Buick-Chrysler, bailed out banks too big to fail, and protected hundreds of thousands of additional jobs. Trump’s plan, on the other hand, just cuts the taxes of rich people. There is no requirement to create a single job with those trillions of dollars in tax cuts. There is no investment in infrastructure, no plan to improve the job market going forward. That’s a big difference between the principles of both parties, and in the specifics of how they govern. • The environment: Trump has led his Republican party into an all-out assault on efforts to curtain climate change. Rather, he and his fellow Republicans have adopted a drill-baby-drill attitude across the board. Particularly egregious is that includes environmentally sensitive areas like above the Arctic Circle. As an energy policy it’s shortsighted; environmentally it’s killing the planet. • Health care: President Obama and Democrats spent much political capital on landmark legislation to create a health care system in which tens of millions more lower and middle class Americans were covered by health care insurance. Republicans have spent the past year trying to take that coverage away, as well as sabotage the financial underpinnings of the Exchange. If they are successful, they will have taken away health care to millions, caused health care insurance rates to skyrocket, and, in general, made health care more uncertain, unreliable and more confusing that ever before, while also putting Medicare and Medicaid coverage in jeopardy. • While Democrats have long supported social programs — like Social Security, Medicare, federal aid for special education students, student aid for school loans, etc. — Republicans will soon use the tax cut legislation to sound the call of “irresponsible deficit spending” and attempt to cut the very programs that benefit the lower and middle classes. • Women’s rights, human rights: Democrats have long championed equality among all Americans. Too many Republicans, led by Mr. Trump, have most recently embraced a racist, sexist, xenophobic outlook toward others who do not represent a white, Christian-based profile. • Crime and guns: Mr. Trump and too many Republicans increasingly define their party as a law-and-order regime that finds it uncomfortable to even discuss sane gun policies, like placing some limits on rapid-fire weapons (used to kill high numbers of people at recent concerts.) Democrats have argued that Americans can be secure in the second amendment rights, while also supporting saner gun safety rules. • Lies and hypocrisy: Trump is supreme in one thing, his willingness to lie repeatedly and his willingness to hide his business interests, taxes, and how he and his family members are benefitting financially from his reign in the White House. Rather than drain the swamp, he has increased its size and its inhabitants ten-fold. Democrats need to hammer that theme over and over throughout the upcoming year. — Angelo Lynn

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ROADSIDE GRASS IN Panton catches some sunlight and powerful wind blasts last Thursday afternoon. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Letters to the Editor Mt. Abe board could lease existing facility, build new The bond request of $35 million to renovate Mt. Abe has failed twice. I believe that the request is asking for too much money to be invested in the wrong place. The reconstruction of the 50-year-old Mt. Abe building does not address three important background facts: 1. The community cannot afford this request. 2. Mt. Abe ranks number 33 of 55 public high schools in Vermont (by 2017 test results). 3. The student body is shrinking because the region is losing young adults due to lack of opportunity.

I have an alternate suggestion that I believe addresses all these relevant issues. The district should sell the current Mt. Abe building to an outside entity, and lease back those parts of it that remain useful to the Mt. Abraham mission, namely the entrance, auditorium, gymnasium, pool, cafeteria and perhaps the library. The new “owner,” given a guarantee of a base income from such a negotiated lease, could be bound to offer the balance of the building as incubator space for local nascent business operations that require affordable space.

They could also offer the athletic facilities to a health club, the food prep facilities to small food enterprises, the auditorium to a movie house and the gymnasium to the Town Recreation Department during those times when the school wasn’t using them, for a fee. At the other end of a connecting hallway to the north, build a new academic building that addresses the needs of the teaching aspects of the 740 students that currently attend Mt. Abe. This building should be a single story, net zero, state-of-the-art aca(See Letter, Page 5)

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Our healthcare delivery system is changing in Vt., for the better My career as a family practice boxes, and had a lot of flashbacks physician working in Vermont and realizations. Being a primary spans nearly two decades. I have care provider has been in my DNA been a practicing physician at since I first began thinking about Porter’s Brandon becoming a physician, Primary Care Office and I have had the (formerly Neshobe honor of spending Family Medicine) for a career treating the 18 years and I have whole patient. I carry seen many changes in that desire through This week’s medical practice over my work now, as Community Forum is these years. Chief Medical Officer written by Dr. Carrie One of the most for Porter Medical Wulfman, a Primary positive changes I have Center, where I have Care Provider at seen is the creation the opportunity to UVMHN, Primary of OneCare Vermont, ensure that the work Care-Brandon, in a collaborative we are doing as an Brandon, VT. initiative between the organization is in University of Vermont service to, not just Medical Center and Dartmouth the whole patient, but our entire Hitchcock Medical Center. One community of Addison County. of the key aspects of OneCare is Finally, I am absolutely certain that to reward primary care providers I have more tools, training, and like me to work with our patients resources now than ever before to to keep them healthy rather than do this work. treating them only when they are I am convinced that the goals sick. This approach is an effort to of payment and delivery system move away from the current fee- reform — to increase quality, for-service system and move us to access, and affordability — can a value-based system focused on only be accomplished by bringing improving quality and promoting as many resources as we can wellness by focusing on primary provide to the patient, to help them care for Vermonters. engage in improving their health. Below is an example of how I When my patients are healthier, I have put this new model of care will know that we have succeeded into actual practice here in our in this work. community. The patient I discuss I want to share a story about a below has given me permission to patient who has truly improved his share his story. health. I have been treating a patient A Success Story: Treating the with diabetes and heart disease for Whole Patient several years. I will call him Joe. Thirty years ago, when I was Due to uncontrolled glucose levels applying to medical school, I wrote over time, Joe required amputation an essay titled “Treating the Whole below the left knee and a partial Patient.” I recently came across this foot amputation on the opposite paper while going through some side. He walks without a cane,

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having adapted admirably to his succeeded in getting his diabetes metal fake leg, and is able to drive control to the level required by himself to his appointments. the knee surgeon in order to He recently needed to have a knee proceed with knee replacement. replacement in his Not only was Joe right (good) leg I am convinced that able to have the due to breakdown knee replacement of that joint over the goals of payment surgery, he time. Because of and delivery system changed his his underlying reform — to increase lifestyle dedication complex health to wellness and quality, access, conditions, I is back to health referred him to an and affordability maintenance visits orthopedic surgeon — can only be every three to four at the UVM accomplished by months. Medical Center This is one to be evaluated bringing as many patient and one for surgery. Joe resources as we story, but know was sent home can provide to the that primary care without a surgical patient, to help them providers across appointment the state are scheduled, because engage in improving engaging in these his blood sugar their health. When reforms with the levels were too high my patients are absolute same goal: to safely operate. to improve the healthier, I will When I met with lives of the people Joe and reviewed know that we have we serve. We can the note from the succeeded in this all continue to treat surgeon, the patient work. the whole patient, and I made a plan but now we get together to utilize to do it with a lot resources for him that we are now more tools and resources, upheld able to access, thanks to programs by a team approach to coordination like the Blueprint for Health and of care and prevention of illness. OneCare Vermont — our statewide I realize that we have seen accountable care organization. numerous programs come and This patient was able to access a care coordinator, a dietician, and a physical therapist, all within our office, which is his primary care medical home. Together as a care team we developed a plan to get Joe’s blood sugar under control. The patient actively participated in his shared care plan and plant-based diet, and

Letter (Continued from Page 4) demic teaching machine, wired for computer learning, distance learning, laboratory training, language arts and liberal arts. The academic requirement of space is 90 square feet per student, for a total new building size of 66,600 square foot, or a square building footprint of a little over 250 feet on a side. At the average construction cost of contemporary high schools in the U.S. of $259/square foot, this new building would cost in the neighborhood of $17.3 million. Such a building could include a new gymnasium of 6,000 square feet, a second

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library of 6,000 square feet and still have room for 36 classrooms of 1,000 square feet each, space for two teachers and up to 30 students. That’s enough for the whole student body to be in class at the same time, clearly more than necessary, but a place to start planning. Such an approach would offer solid advantages over the current proposal: 1. New building, half the cost.

2. Non-disruptive of current operations. 3. New larger building complex with an expanded mission (partnering business and education). 4. Enhanced school/community engagement. 5. New Academic building focused on current technology and teaching philosophies. Stephen Harris Lincoln

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go intending to improve both the delivery system and reduce the cost of health care. I believe that the OneCare Accountable Care Organization will be successful and will support primary care providers like me who are true believers in health promotion and keeping our patients well rather than sitting back and waiting for them to come to us when they are sick. It is a partnership between providers and patients that will make the difference and fundamentally change how care is delivered. It aligns the incentives of the provider and the patient, and that does make all the difference in my opinion. It is now time to stop talking about healthcare reform and start working on it — and that work has begun here in Vermont. OneCare is investing in primary care and is promoting the type of medicine that I love to practice and that our patients need. That is why Porter Medical Center is “all in” on healthcare reform and an active participant in the OneCare program. It is the right thing to do for our patients, our community, and our organization. It is a winwin for everyone and a promising investment in supporting the mission of UVM Health NetworkPorter Medical Center.

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Obituaries

ADDISON COUNTY

Linda McMeeken, 69, Orwell native

WILLISTON — Linda McMeeken, 69, of Williston, passed away Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2017 at McClure Miller VNA Respite House after a long illness. She was born in Rutland on Nov. 27, 1947, the daughter of Daniel McMeeken and Edith Bascom McMeeken. Linda, a life-long Vermonter, grew up in Orwell. She attended public school in Orwell and at Fair Haven High School, then received a B.S. in Nursing at UVM. Her first job as an R.N. was at the Sheraton House (Burlington Health and Rehab). She enjoyed a summer as camp nurse at Brown Ledge Camp before settling into community health nursing at Addison County Home Health and Hospice. After a few years she moved to Burlington to join the VNA Hospice Team for the next 17 and a half years, covering Chittenden and Grand Isle Counties. Colleagues at both agencies say that she was among the best. She was forced into retirement in 2008 due to disability. She is survived by her spouse, Carol Trombley; her brother William McMeeken and his wife Judith; her sister Margaret Carpenter and her husband Donald; her sister Helen Sears; her niece Kimberly Pinkham, who was such a great help to her; and many other special nieces and nephews, great nieces and nephews, in-laws Brenda and George LaCasse and Debbie and John Metruk. Linda was predeceased by her

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LINDA MCMEEKEN parents, and infant brother Daniel, sisters Joyce Brown and Marilyn James, brothers-in-law Willy Sears and Elmer James, and nephew James Giannone. There will be a celebration of her life at JP’s Restaurant in Essex on Saturday, Dec. 9, 2017, from 2 to to 4 p.m. with light refreshments. A graveside service is planned for Spring, 2018. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to McClure Miller VNA Respite House or MS Society. To send online condolences to her family please cremationsocietycc.com.◊

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Electric co. seeks 5% rate hike By MIKE POLHAMUS costs, the company is offering innoVTDigger.org vative products such as battery storVERMONT — Green Mountain age, she said. Power’s electric rates are slated A Nov. 24 filing by Canadian to rise by 5 percent in 2018 if firm Valener, which owns a 30 the Public Utility Commission percent stake in GMP and Vermont approves a deal the state’s larg- Gas Systems’ parent company, Gaz est utility reached this month with Metro, paints a slightly different the Vermont Department of Public picture, portraying this and future Service. rate increases as a consequence of The deal incorpoenergy efficiency rates approximately measures required $18 million due to “GMP experienced by the state. GMP customers as lower demand for These rate hikes a result of terms the electricity in fiscal are expected to company agreed to 2017 than the be offset by those when it purchased same efficiency Central Vermont previous fiscal year, measures, which Public Service Corp. mainly due to the will drive down in 2012. the amount of elecadoption of energy The proposed 5 Vermonters efficiency measures tricity percent rate increase require, the report is somewhat lower by customers in the states. than it would have residential, small “GMP expebeen without that commercial and rienced lower sum, said Kristin demand for elecCarlson, a GMP vice industrial markets.” tricity in fiscal president. — Canadian financial 2017 than the “This filing previous fiscal firm Valener reflects uncontrolyear, mainly due lable cost presto the adoption sures,” Carlson said. Those costs of energy efficiency measures are related to the aging state of by customers in the residential, Vermont’s and New England’s small commercial and industrial power grid, she said, the cost of markets,” the annual investor report transmitting electricity, and the cost states. of a type of energy contract usually “GMP expects that overall used for small-scale solar power demand will fall slightly over the called net metering. medium term due to continuing These costs actually represent improvements in energy efficiency a 6 percent upward rate pressure, measures across the state and growCarlson said. ing use of self-generated electricity In response to these larger influ- in the residential and commercial ences that are driving up GMP’s markets,” the report states. “GMP

expects that these energy efficiency measures, which will translate into lower energy consumption, will help customers realize savings that will exceed the rate increases resulting from the lower consumption and from the investments required to implement these measures.” Another portion of the report states that GMP’s 2017 revenues are down by $6.8 million compared with last year at this time, “mainly due to the adoption of energy efficiency measures and the use of solar power.” Carlson said she had not seen the report and that Green Mountain Power functions independently of its corporate parents. The utility’s rates are tied to its return on equity, meaning the percentage return that regulators allow Green Mountain Power on the value of its infrastructure. As with other Vermont utilities, GMP earns money not directly from the power it sells, but rather from the infrastructure it lays to handle that power. For 2018, GMP will seek approval from the Public Utility Commission, or PUC, for a 9.1 percent rate of return on its Vermont assets, which amounts to just over $1.43 billion. In 2019, the utility will seek a 9.3 percent rate of return, according to Valener’s 2017 annual investor report. The PUC is expected to rule by the end of the year on whether to accept the deal GMP reached with the Department of Public Service, and to adopt the proposed 5.02 percent rate increase.

Roger Audette, 92, native of Highgate, Vt. BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. — Roger P. Audette, 92, passed away on Monday, Nov. 27, 2017. Born in Highgate, Vt., on October 28, 1925, he was the son of Edward and Rose Emma Audette. Roger moved to Ballston Spa in 1967. He was the service manager at J. R. Sousa and Sons in Clifton Park for many years. After retiring from Sousa’s, he was the parts delivery driver for NAPA in Ballston Spa. He drove for NAPA until he was 88 years old. Roger had a passion for cars. He had a collection of automobiles, including a collection of hot wheels. ROGER P. AUDETTE He was predeceased by his siblings, Raymond, Richard, Gilbert and Gabrielle. Roger is Catherine Audette, and their chilsurvived by his wife of 69 years, dren Michael Audette (Kathy)

of Clifton Park, Diane Branagan (Charles) of Ballston Spa and Scott Audette (Julienne) of Ballston Spa; grandchildren Michael (Jennifer), Annemarie (Jeffrey), Anthony, Alec, Isabella, and Roman, stepgrandson Kyle; great grandchildren Thomas, Abigail, Gabriel, and Samuel; siblings Morris Audette and Rita Brusoe; and several nieces and nephews. A mass of Christian burial will be held 11 a.m. Friday, Dec. 1, at St. Mary’s Church, Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa. There will be no calling hours. Memorial contributions may be made in memory of Roger to St. Mary’s Church, 167 Milton Avenue, Ballston Spa, NY 12020. Online remembrances may be made at armerfuneralhome.com.◊

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O’Keefe (Continued from Page 3) dating teenagers when he was in his 30s, several women have come forward alleging sexual misconduct and sexual assault that occurred when each was in her teens and Moore an assistant DA in his early 30s. In her attempted deception, Phillips told Post reporters that Moore impregnated her and that she then had an abortion. Post reporters sifted through Phillips’ claims using their usual journalistic standards and found inconsistencies in her story. The Post said its reporters also found “evidence that the woman concocted the sensational claim to try to dupe reporters and coax them into discussing the political impact her story could have on Mr. Moore.” According to a Nov. 27 Post story on Phillips’ ties to O’Keefe’s organization: “A reporter with the Post confronted the woman about the holes in her story (on Nov. 22) and then Post journalists saw her on (the morning of Nov. 27) entering the offices of Project Veritas. The organization, led by the activist James O’Keefe, has recently targeted journalists, trying to goad them into revealing biases or unethical schemes to discredit the news media.” When asked about the incident in a Q&A session at the end of his presentation in Middlebury on Thursday, O’Keefe did not directly address the Phillips incident. Instead he said merely, “All of our work is aimed at using — we use all types of deception. I said I wanted to start a child prostitution business ... We use all types of bizarre and elaborate ruses to go in but every time the point is to get that footage exposing what they believe. It’s all about what they say. It’s not about my motivations in using a technique. That’s a non sequitur.” Others question if wondering about O’Keefe’s motivations is a non sequitur. According to a story by Will DiGravio in the Middlebury Campus, the college’s student newspaper, organizers with the nonprofit Leadership Institute contacted several Middlebury students about bringing O’Keefe on campus. The Leadership Institute, founded in 1979, focuses on helping conservatives learn “how to succeed in politics, government and the media.” Students took the proposed event to college administration but were told the event could not be accommodated until January 2018. Event requests on campus must now be received at least three weeks in advance and the students had missed that deadline. According to DiGravio, the students then decided they did not want to sponsor O’Keefe. Nevertheless, the Leadership Institute sent O’Keefe to Middlebury. On Tuesday, O’Keefe spammed the college’s email system with a flyer announcing that “James O’Keefe, renowned conservative activist, will be addressing Middlebury’s Free Speech Problem this Thursday Night ... at the Courtyard Marriott.”

JAMES O’KEEFE ADDRESSES a gathering at the Courtyard by Marriott in Middlebury Thursday night. O’Keefe was brought to Middlebury by the Leadership Institute, headquartered near Washington, D.C. O’Keefe gained new notoriety last week for trying to pass off a false story to The Washington Post. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

The flyer said the event was being hosted by the “Preservation Society, a group of Middlebury College students committed to bringing freedom of speech back to Middlebury College.” What is Preservation Society? “We are unaware of any student group called The Preservation Society,” said Middlebury College Vice President for Communications Bill Burger in a campus-wide email responding to O’Keefe’s spam. “No one claiming to represent such an organization has approached the

college with a request for recognition as a student organization.” Burger also stated unequivocally: “Middlebury College has nothing to do with this event. Mr. O’Keefe has chosen to travel to town to pursue his own political and personal agenda.” O’Keefe was introduced at his Marriott meeting room by Middlebury College sophomore Samuel Zimmer. Zimmer said he couldn’t “speak for the Preservation Society” but that “a friend of mine, Bronson, who’s now a public mem-

ber of the Preservation Society, approached me and asked if I could introduce Mr. O’Keefe.” Zimmer did not give his friend’s last name. Zimmer said that he himself was not part of the Preservation Society, but he is on the college Student Government Association’s Student Organization Oversight Committee, which hears applications from potential student organizations, as well as applications from existing organizations to maintain their status. Zimmer said that Preservation

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Lions Club Memory tree lighting in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 4, 5:30 p.m., Courthouse Square. Bill McKibben in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 4, 6:30 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Local and noted author and environmentalist McKibben will read from, discuss and sign his new book, “Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance.” A festival of Gregorian chant and seasonal music in Vergennes. Monday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m., St. Peter’s Church, 85 South Maple St. The Vermont Gregorian Chant Schola will perform. There is no cost. A free-will offering will be taken up. MUHS Music Department Fall Concert in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 4, 7 p.m., MUHS Auditorium, 73 Charles Ave. Middlebury Union High School’s featured ensembles include Concert Band, Concert Choir, vocal ensembles and Jazz Ensemble. Free and open to the public. Amaryllis in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the green. Vermont’s early voice ensemble will perform “Alleluya: Christmas Hymns and Motets.” The select a capella vocal ensemble will perform a Magnificat by Nicolas Gombert, motets by other 15th- and 16th-century composers such as di Lasso and Sweelink, and settings of beloved old German Christmas hymns. Susanne Peck directs. Suggested donation $13. More info at lunalove@ gmavt.net, 802-453-3513 or amaryllisvt.org.

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“The Music of 209” in Middlebury. Tuesday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Students from Su Lian Tan’s Music I course perform original compositions in a semester-end celebration of their work. Free.

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Green Mountain Club TAM hike in Weybridge. Wednesday, Dec. 6. The Blue Trail section of the TAM. A 4.7-mile trail through a patchwork of pastures, cropland, and intermittent woodlands. Visit Bittersweet Falls and have stunning views of the surrounding farmland and the Adirondacks along the way. This hike is rated as moderate in terms of difficulty. Car spotting will be necessary. The TAM map is available at www.maltvt.org. More info. contact Kathy Duclos, at kduclos@gmavt.net or 802-453-2149. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org. “Canaletto and the Art of Venice” on screen in Middlebury. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 11 a.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Journey into the life of Venice’s famous view-painter in this film documenting over 200 paintings, drawings and prints. Part of THT’s Great Art Wednesdays series. Tickets: adults $13/students $8 available at 802-382-9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box

office Monday-Saturday noon-5 p.m., or at the door. Illustrator Stephanie Stouffer in Brandon. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2-8 p.m., Compass Music and Art Center, 333 Jones Dr. Meet Stouffer while and view her exhibit “Holiday Legacy,” shop for the holidays, take advantage of special deals, have dinner provided by SoundBite’s chef Vicky Regia, and more. Chess instruction and friendly play in Middlebury. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 3:15-8:30 p.m., Aurora Learning Center, 238 Peterson Terrace. For ages 14 to 94. Drop in as late as 7:00 p.m. Players of all abilities welcomed. Free instruction offered. Chess equipment provided and also offered for sale. Sponsored by Chess Club of Addison County. More info contact Parker Montgomery at middmont@earthlink.net. Moonlight Madness in Brandon. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 4-7 p.m., Brandon Town Hall. Over 20 vendors fill the upstairs and downstairs of the hall with food, drinks, holiday gifts and more. “Loving” on screen in Middlebury. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 4 and 7 p.m., Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. The second offering in Showing Up for Racial Justice’s Seeing Color/Seeking Justice film series, this Academy Award-nominated film tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, the plaintiffs in the 1967 Supreme Court decision Loving v. Virginia, which invalidated state laws prohibiting interracial marriage. Suggested donation of $10, but no one turned away for lack of funds. Money raised will go to support Rokeby Museum and Middlebury SURJ. Holiday book sale in Brandon. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 4-7 p.m., Brandon Free Public Library, 4 Franklin St. A holiday used book sale as part of Brandon’s Moonlight Madness. An assortment of fiction and non-fiction for adults, teens, tweens and children as well as CDs for sale, and a special section of Holiday books as well. Stop by, browse and shop, and enjoy refreshments. “Physicists’ Dream of a Theory of Everything” lecture in Middlebury. Wednesday, Dec. 6, 7 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Dartmouth professor Marcelo Gleiser describes how physics and astronomy obtain knowledge of the natural world and how their limitations preclude us from ever getting a “final theory.”

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AURORA LEARNING CENTER will host an evening of chess instruction and friendly play for ages 14 to 94 and of all abilities on Wednesday, Dec. 6, from 3:15-8:30 p.m. The center is at 238 Peterson Terrace. Free instruction offered. The event is sponsored by Chess Club of Addison County.

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The Addison String Quartet in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 7, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the town green. Directed by Emily Sunderman of Middlebury Community Music Center, the group will perform the “Allegro” from Beethoven’s Quartet, opus 59, no. 1 and Corelli’s “Christmas Concerto,” accompanied by George Matthew Jr., organist. Free. Midd Night Stroll in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 7, 5-8 p.m., downtown. Middlebury stores will be open late for holiday shopping with goodies and a festive atmosphere. Restaurant specials, free tastings, Hot Cocoa Hut, free gift wrapping at 44 Main, and S D Ireland’s light-encrusted truck to light the night from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Canid slideshow in Cornwall. Thursday, Dec. 7, 7-9 p.m., Bingham Memorial Elementary School, 112 School Rd. Vermont naturalist Sue Morse will be on hand to talk about coyotes and foxes — what traits they share

and what role they play in maintaining a healthy ecosystem — in “Cousins of Our Best Friends: Wolves, Coyotes and Foxes.” Free and open to the public. More info contact Mary Dodge, mdodge@ middelbury.edu. Jazz Showcase in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 7, 8 p.m., Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Some of the College’s top jazz instrumentalists and singers will present selections from their term’s work. It’s a celebration of the music that’s been called America’s National Treasure. Free. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168. Twist O’ Wool Spinning Guild meeting in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec 7, 7 p.m., American Legion, 49 Wilson Rd. The Guild’s annual Christmas gift swap and spin in meeting. Bring the hats and mittens you have been making to donate to children in our area. All are welcome. More info at 802-453-5960.

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FRIDAY Jim Blair, “The Past is Prologue” exhibit presentation in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 8, 12:30 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 73 Porter Field Rd. In 1970 Blair photographed the relatively “new” issue of ecological crisis for National Geographic magazine. He has continued to cover the topic all over the planet. Using photographs from many stories he discusses “how we have made some

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progress but are still always playing catch up.” Part of the Fridays at the Museum series. Free. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168. Children’s Christmas reading of “the Polar Express” in Brandon. Friday, Dec. 8, 4-5 p.m., Book and Leaf Bookstore, 10 Park St. Children are welcome to wear their pajamas to the reading. Complimentary healthy snacks will be served. Join us for this fun and festive event. Magic on Main in Vergennes. Friday, Dec. 8, 5-7 P.m., downtown. Stores in Vergennes are open late for holiday shopping. Buy local and enjoy the festive surprises at downtown businesses. Christmas Music night in New Haven. Friday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m. New Haven United Reformed Church, Route 7, 4 miles north of Middlebury. Christmas songs, readings, and refreshments as to prepare for the holiday season All are welcome. More info contact Judy at 802-877-3878. Broadway Direct in Vergennes. Friday, Dec. 8, 7:30 p.m., Vergennes Opera House, 120 Main St. Bill Carmichael brings a few of his talented friends from Boston and New York to put on a show celebrating music from Broadway and more. “How to Eat Like a Child” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m., MUHS Auditorium. Based on the book by Delia Ephron, this play lampoons the adult world through the eyes of children in a series of comedy skits and songs. Tickets $7 available through the THT Box office, at 802-382-9222 on in person. A Middlebury Community Players production.

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Breakfast with Santa in Bristol. Saturday, Dec. 9, first seating 8 a.m., second seating 9:30 a.m., third seating 10:30 a.m., Holley Hall. Santa’s presence will be accompanied by carriage rides from 8:30-10:30 a.m., arts and crafts and live music. Breakfast includes pancakes, sausages, juice, milk coffee or tea. Tickets $10 per person/children two and younger are free, available at Recreation Department Office or at bristolrec.org. Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 8-10 a.m., Otter View Park parking area, intersection of Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members to help survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Birders of all ages and abilities welcome. More info contact 802-388-6019 or 802-388-1007. Holiday character pancake breakfast in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, seatings at 8:30 and 10 a.m., Middlebury Inn. Breakfast with favorite characters, balloons music and more. Tickets $12 adults/$8 children 12 and under available at eventbrite.com. Search Very Merry Middlebury Character Breakfast. Limited seating. Green Mountain Club Skylight Pond and Skyline Lodge hike in Ripton. Saturday, Dec. 9. A moderate 5.2-mile hike or snowshoe up to the ridge on switchbacks for a gradual ascent to Skylight Pond and Skyline Lodge. Lunch at the Lodge. Optional short spur trail for a great western overlook. Wear appropriate clothing, bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. This is a dog-friendly hike. More info contact Jill Vickers at jvickers@gmavt.net or 802-989-2840. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org. Christmas Cookie sale in Vergennes. Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Champlain Valley Christian Reformed Church, Church St. Fancy cookies, candies, Dutch goodies, and other treats will be sold by the pound. Choose and package your favorites. Enjoy hot cider and festive music while you shop. More info contact Martha at 802-349-0229. Holiday Card making for Adults in Bristol. Saturday. Dec. 9, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., ARTSight, 6 South St. Make your own holiday cards with

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materials provided. All ages welcome but 16 or under must be accompanied by adult. Come and go as you please. Free. 802- 989-1333. Old fashioned Santa visits in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Danforth Pewter Flagship Store, Seminary St. Free. Hot Cocoa Hut in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Cannon Park. Hot cocoa with all the fixings, just 25 cents a cup. Free gift wrapping in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, noon-4 p.m., 44 Main St. For any item purchased in Middlebury. Just show your receipt. Prize bingo in Leicester. Saturday, Dec. 9, 1 p.m., Leicester Senior Center. Sponsored by the Leicester Historical Society. Refreshments served, all are welcome. Christmas Storytime in Shoreham. Saturday, Dec. 9, 1:30-2:30 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. A special Christmas story time with a visit from Bob Claus, cookies, a craft, and several Christmas-themed books. “How to Eat Like a Child” on stage in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 2 p.m., MUHS Auditorium. Based on the book by Delia Ephron, this play lampoons the adult world through the eyes of children in a series of comedy skits and songs. Tickets $7 available through the THT Box office, at 802-382-9222 on in persona Middlebury Community Players production. Open Studio and Art Sale in Bristol. Saturday Dec. 9, 2-6 p.m., Studio Roji, Bristol Mill studio #2, 23 Main St. Studio Roji invites you to come see our diverse artwork including Indigo-dyed shibori, photography, encaustics, and watercolors. Come have a warm drink and talk art process and inspiration as we head into winter. Midd Kid Dance holiday fair in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 3-7 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Free. Maiden Vermont “Come Fly With Us” in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 4 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. A holiday spectacular from local favorite women’s barbershop chorus,

with special guest Moira Smiley. Tickets $25 Adults/$22 Seniors/$22 Students and children, available at 802-382-9222, townhalltheater. org, at the box office Monday-Saturday noon-5 p.m., or at the door. Chicken and biscuit supper in Vergennes. Saturday, Dec. 9, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, Main St. across from the Opera House. Menu includes chicken and biscuits, stuffing, vegetable, roll, and dessert. Adults $9/children $5. Served buffet style. Takeout available. More info at 802-877-3150. “A Christmas Carol” out loud in Shoreham. Saturday, Dec. 9, 6 p.m., 279 Platt Memorial Library, Main St. A Reader’s Theater presentation. Talented local voice actors set the tone for a warm season by giving a staged reading of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic. Light refreshments will be served. Contra dance in Cornwall. Saturday, Dec. 9, 7-9:30 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall, Route 30. Featuring Adina Gordon calling to live banjo and fiddle music by Red Dog Riley. $5-10/person (sliding scale). All are welcome. No experience or partner necessary. More info at 802-462-3722. They Might Be Gypsies on stage in Lincoln. Saturday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Inspired by the 1930’s Gypsy Jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli and contemporary gypsy masters as well, They Might Be Gypsies plays high energy, uplifting music with tremendous passion. Part of the Burnham Music Series. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30. Admission $10 adults/teens and kids free. More info at 802- 388-6863. The DuPont Brothers in Brandon. Saturday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Lush finger-style guitar work complimented by elegant prose and a vocal blend that could only be matched by blood relation. 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. Vocal Recital in Middlebury. Saturday, December 9, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 72 Porter Field Rd. Students of affiliate artists Carol Christensen, Susanne Peck, and Beth Thompson cap off a semester of vocal study with an evening of songs and arias. Accompanied by affiliate artist Cynthia Huard, piano. Free. More info at middlebury.edu/arts or 802-443-3168. Public Skating in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 8-10 p.m., Memorial Sports Center, 296 Buttolph Dr. Concession stand open.

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Champlain Valley Fiddlers Christmas dinner in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 10, 11 a.m. Middlebury VFW, 530 Exchange St. Jam session begins at 11 a.m., followed by dinner. All fiddlers welcome. Tickets $16. For more info call 802-462-2834 by Nov. 29. “How to Eat Like a Child” on stage in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., MUHS Auditorium. Based on the book by Delia Ephron, this play lampoons the adult world through the eyes of children in a series of comedy skits and songs. Tickets $7 available through the THT Box office, at 802-382-9222 on in persona Middlebury Community Players production. Holiday Concert to Help Others in Vergennes. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church, 30 South Water St. Performers: O’hAnleigh Irish Folk; Emily Sunderman, classical string music; Ava Kelly, vocalist; Josh, Addie and Olivia Brooks, vocals and guitar; Margie Bekoff, harpist accompanied by Jim Morse; Vergennes Congregational

Church Choir and Jenny Bower, Vermont’s organist of the year, at the Church’s historic organ. Admission is free, but donations welcomed. Every dollar raised will assist local people with fuel, electricity, medical expenses, transport, rent and more. Reception following with light refreshments. Contact: vucc@vergennesucc.org. Amaryllis in Lincoln. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m. United Church of Lincoln, 23 Quaker St. Suggested donation $13. Brandon Festival Singers in Brandon. Sunday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m., at Brandon Congregational Church, 1 Carver St. Under the direction of Gene Childers, the 25 voice choir will present the 37th Annual Brandon Carol Festival, featuring a wide variety of Christmas choral arrangements of traditional, contemporary and original music for the season, accompanied by piano, flute and percussion. The second section of the concert will feature, Harpist Rev. Matthew WollamBerens, the Curbtone Quartet and tenor Joshua Collier. Free will donation. Lessons and Carols for the Advent of Christmas in Middlebury. Sunday Dec. 10, 4 and 7 p.m., Mead Memorial Chapel, Middlebury College. Modeled after the longstanding European tradition, this annual program includes Bible readings of Advent and Christmas carols performed by the college choir with the congregation. Preceded by performances on the chapel carillon. Donations collected for area charities. Community dinner in Bristol. Sunday, Dec. 10, 5-6:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. Menu will be Turkey pie with biscuits, garden salad, brownies and ice cream, and beverages. Come and share with neighbors, family and friends. All are welcome. Free. Candlelight vigil for victims of gun violence in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 10, 5:30-6 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Four days before the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook School shooting, followed by a write-in to legislators. Materials provided. Parking behind church and up the hill at the high school.

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Chanukah Carnival in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 11, 3:45- 5 p.m., Havurah House, North Pleasant St.

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Holiday choral concert in Middlebury. Tuesday, Dec. 12, noon, Sanctuary, the Congregational Church of Middlebury, 1 Main St. Join the Middlebury Union High School chorus for their annual holiday concert and sing along to favorite Christmas songs. Free and open to the public. Reception to follow in Fellowship Hall. Craft night at Ilsley in Middlebury. Tuesday, Dec. 12, 5-6:30 p.m., Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Feeling crafty? Gather at the library for an evening of crafts. Snacks provided.

LIVEMUSIC Amaryllis in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 4, 7:30 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Addison String Quartet in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 7, 12:15 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Maiden Vermont in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 4 p.m., Town Hall Theater. DuPont Brothers in Brandon. Saturday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. They Might Be Gypsies in Lincoln. Saturday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m., Burnham Hall. Lessons and Carols for the advent of Christmas in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m., Mead Chapel. See a full listing of

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BE CHARMED BY Maiden Vermont at the annual holiday show, Saturday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m. at Town Hall Theater.

An all-child cast to perform at MUHS this weekend The Middlebury Community made this show a favorite ever since it Players Foundation offers up the premiered in 1981. perfect break from the holidays, “How Delia Ephron’s bestselling book was To Eat Like A Child And adapted by Judith Kahan Other Lessons in Not Being into a one-hour special a Grown-Up.” Opening starring Dick Van Dyke for Friday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. at NBC. The television show the Middlebury Union High was then adapted to the School Auditorium, the live stage three years later, show continues on Saturday by Greg Pahl opening in New York in the 9th and Sunday the 10th 1984. Since then, countless with 2 p.m. matinees. productions have been It’s kids versus the adults in this mounted across the country, making revue, and guess who wins? The this one of the most enduring family all-child cast will give you lessons shows in recent theatrical history. in things like how to beg for a dog, The show’s director and musical how to torture your sister, how to act director is Kerianne Severy. after being sent to your room and Choreography is by Ellie Kiel, with how to laugh hysterically. The music mime direction by Marshall Eddy. score by John Forster enhances and The low ticket price of $7 makes underscores the comedy and has it an affordable outing for the whole

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THEY MIGHT BE Gypsies channel Django Reinhardt and others when they perform at Burnham Hall in Lincoln on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m.

Barden (Colchester) and Sam Dickin (Colchester). Tickets are $18 for adults, $15 for seniors 65 and over, and $5 for students 18 and younger, available online in advance from the VOH website vergennesoperahouse.org. Tickets are also available in advance at Classic Stitching in Vergennes and

at the door. General seating. Doors will open at approximately 6:45 p.m. For more information visit the VOH website or call 877-6737. THT PRESENTS CANALETTO & THE ART OF VENICE Town Hall Theater presents “Canaletto & the Art of Venice” as part (See Arts Beat, Page 11)

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Cosmic Forecast

THE ANNUAL “LESSONS and Carols for Advent and Christmas” will take place at Middlebury College’s Mead Chapel on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 4 p.m., and again at 7 p.m.

Arts Beat (Continued from Page 10) of their Great Art Wednesdays series on Wednesday, Dec. 6, at 11 a.m. Canaletto is an immersive journey into the life and art of Venice’s famous view painter, Giovanni Antonio Canal. No artist better captures the essence and allure of Venice than Canal, better known as Canaletto. Despite his close relationship with the city in which he lived and died, the world’s largest collection of his works resides not in his native Italy, but in Britain as part of the Royal Collection. In 1762, George III purchased almost the entire collection amassed by Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice and Canaletto’s principal agent. Filmmakers were granted unique access to the Royal Collection’s exceptional holdings of Canaletto’s work, much of which is on display as part of the exhibition “Canaletto & the Art of Venice” at The Queen’s Gallery. The remarkable group of over 200 paintings, drawings and prints on display offer unparalleled insight into the artistry of Canaletto and his contemporaries, and the city he became a master at capturing.

Tickets are $13/$8 students and may be purchased at townhallteater.org, by calling 802-382-9222, at the THT box office, Monday - Saturday, noon to 5 p.m., or at the door, if available. THE DUPONT BROTHERS AT BRANDON MUSIC Sam and Zack DuPont form the sibling indie-folk-rock duo, The DuPont Brothers. They’re based out of Burlington but they’re not there very much. The duo has been living on the indie circuit, driving around sharing their stories through songwriting since 2013. On Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m., they perform at Brandon Music in what will be one of their last performances as The DuPont Brothers. Back from a Midwest tour, the brothers will perform new original songs from their much-anticipated upcoming release. The new album is the start of a rebranding for 2018 with a sound that will have more of a rhythmic pulse. Check them out at Brandon Music to catch a glimpse of where the brothers’ music is headed and be a part of their new chapter. (See Beat, Page 13)

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2017 Memory Tree is dedicated to Ellen Young who started this memory tree years ago. This will be the last year St. Genevieve’s is doing the tree. We urge you to send donations as soon as possible so we may publish the list on the 28th.

Name of Giver: Address: Phone: List of those to be remembered: 1. 2. 3. 4. (List additional names on seperate paper). Please enclose $3 per name payable to St. Genevieve’s Woman’s Guild, 1633 Vt. Rt. 74 West, Shoreham, VT 05770. For further information, call 897-2633. Names and donations accepted until December 21.

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Beat (Continued from Page 11) Concert tickets are $20. A preconcert dinner is available for $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@brandon-music.net for reservations or for more information. Brandon Music is located at 62 Country Club Road in Brandon. LESSONS AND CAROLS AT MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE Middlebury College will host the annual holiday event “Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas” on Sunday, Dec. 10, at 4 and again at 7 p.m., in Mead Chapel. Members of the Middlebury College community will read the “lessons” — readings from scripture that frame the Christmas story. The Middlebury College Choir and Collegium under the direction of Jeffrey Buettner will perform carols and compositions of different times and places, including European, African and African American traditions. The choir will lead the congregation in singing Advent and Christmas music. Organists Jeffrey Buettner and Ronnie Romano will accompany the choir and congregation, and provide organ music before and after the services. Middlebury College Chaplain Laurie Jordan will lead the service. There is no admission charge; instead, donations are collected for local community non-profit organizations. Free-will donations will be accepted on behalf of local charities. Mead Chapel is located on the campus of Middlebury College at 75 Hepburn Road, just off Vermont Route 125 west. For more information, contact the college chaplain’s office at 802-443-5626. MAIDEN VERMONT AT THT The excitement is building for Maiden Vermont’s holiday show, “Come Fly With Us,” on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m., in Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater. With their rich harmony and bell ringing tones, Maiden Vermont will sing songs of the season along with songs that they love all year. The Maidens will also be performing renditions of traditional folk music with body percussion taught to them by their guest artist Moira Smiley. An Addison County native, Smiley is a world-renowned composer of original arrangements and a performer with rich and varied vocal colors. Her inspiring personality engages audiences of all ages. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors/students, including all fees, and may be purchased at townhallteater. org, by calling 802-382-9222, at the THT box office Monday - Saturday, noon to 5, p.m., or at the door, if available. Since there will be one show only, advance ticket purchase is suggested. THEY MIGHT BE GYPSIES IN LINCOLN They Might Be Gypsies will be performing for the Burnham Music Series at Burnham Hall in Lincoln on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 7:30 p.m. Inspired by the 1930’s Gypsy Jazz of Django Reinhardt and Stephane

Grappelli and contemporary gypsy masters as well, They Might Be Gypsies plays high energy, uplifting music with tremendous passion. The group is comprised of father and son duo Greg and Aidan Ryan, who won the Times Argus Tammie Award for Best Instrumental CD of 2010. Aiden was merely 14 when the album was recorded, had been playing the guitar since he was four, and performing for audiences since he was six. Admission is $10 for adults, teens and kids are free. Refreshments will be served during intermission. For more information, call 802-388-6863. Burnham Hall is located at 52 River Rd. in Lincoln. Doors open at 7 p.m. THE ADDISON STRING QUARTET IN MIDDLEBURY At 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 7, The Addison String Quartet (Emily Sunderman, violin; Carol Harden, violin; Joy Pile, viola and

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Addison County’s Humane Society Cassidy. 5 years, Corgi/Terrier mix, spayed female. Cassidy is a 5 year old, 18 lbs solo artist looking for a gig of her own! This independent, affectionate, playful lap dog is looking for a home where she doesn’t have to share the spotlight with other pets or with children. Cassidy is a pup who needs firm guidance but a light hand, and ample opportunities to exercise her mind as well as her body. This silly goose loves to snuggle and give kisses, and has a quirky fondness of trying to catch airplanes as they fly overhead! Cassidy is staying at home with her guardian so that she doesn’t have to live at the shelter while we help find her a new home. If you would like more information about Cassidy, please contact her guardian Lesli Hyland at blhyland@comcast.net or 802-558-0512.

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Food (Continued from Page 1) titled “The Sociology of Food and Knowledge.” Morrell said she wanted to get her students out of the classroom and into research that could improve the quality of life for many low-income Vermonters. “This is a knowledge course, but I wanted some way to bring knowledge to life,” she said.

Morell said she and Bethany Yon of the Vermont Department of Health had been chatting earlier this fall about ways of getting college students involved in studies of the state’s food system. Yon steered Morrell toward the Addison County Hunger Council, made up of leaders of area nonprofits who meet to explore ways of getting more food to people who need it.

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The students’ collective appetite to go through the time and expense for doing a food-related study of disposing of the food. The moral of this story: Please gained momentum after listening to guest speakers talk about hunger only donate good food you would in Vermont and Addison County’s gladly eat yourself. • Middlebury College is a major charitable food system. “From those two discussions, consumer, but is not suited to the students themselves started being a major food donor due to mapping out what we had learned, several factors. College officials where there seemed to be gaps (in have taken great pains to limit food food philanthropy), and where the orders to amounts that students will students were interested in looking predictably consume, and typically at more research,” Morrell said. there is not enough leftover food to “They arrived at two key things they donate on a daily basis. The report authors also noted were interested in: How individual people in the community come to the college’s meals are served on know about hunger, the need, and trays, and as a practical donation how to donate food; and where does they would have to be individually packaged. government fit into all “This additional this?” “Once we step may require STUDY DETAILS resources that Students began were given an institutions do not interviewing council opportunity to have,” the report members and other interact with the states. “Furthermore, county officials who community and donors may run into play roles in the actually help the problems with food county’s charitable community, that safety. Having hot food system. The list of interviewees was an awesome food cool and then be reheated could included Addison experience to create a hazardous County Solid have. I’ve often food source and Waste Management found myself District (ACSWMD) thinking, ‘I wish I would not be able to be served. In Program Manager Don Maglienti, knew more about addition, anything that may have been Middlebury College Middlebury and Director of Dining ways I could help touched by someone, such as trays that Dan Detora, St. the community were out for serving Stephen’s Church I am benefitting in the dining hall, volunteer Holly from, but not cannot be given Stabler, and Lily Bradburn, local food really giving back to charitable food shelves because of access coordinator for to.” Helping Overcome — Emma Shumway safety concerns.” It should be noted, Poverty’s Effects however, that the (HOPE). Here were some of their main institution donates food left over from its occasional catered events. findings: • More than 11 percent of • The ACSWMD is suggesting Vermont’s 626,000 residents can five strategies for people in dealing be classified as “food insecure,” with their excess food. First meaning they don’t have access and foremost, the organization to enough nutritional foods to stay wants residents to limit their healthy. Some of these Vermonters food purchases to what they can earn wages that won’t put enough consume. The second priority food on the table because of should be to get that food to the other competing household people who need it, officials said. expenses — such as rent, heat and The students believe purveyors transportation. of donated food need to get more • Most county residents — and information out on who needs the Vermonters in general — tend to food and how to get it to them. time their food donations with the To that end, the report authors are preparing two fact sheets. One holiday season. Nonprofits appreciate these will explain the basics of Act 148 donations, but they produce and will encourage donation of two unintended consequences, excess food. The second sheet will according to those interviewed. provide a brief overview of hunger First, nonprofits and churches often in Vermont, and the circumstances don’t have enough storage space to — such as low wages and high cost accommodate the volume of food of living — that contribute to tight given during late fall and early food budgets. winter. And then the donations LENDING A HAND tend to subside during the spring Ayer, Shumway, Wyer and and summer, when people continue MacKay said they learned a lot to need food. about the needs of the community • HOPE and other area food in which they will continue to shelves each year receive some reside for at least the next six food donations that can’t be used: months. Either the food has reached its Attending Middlebury College, expiration date, or it has been Shumway noted, can at times be donated because it is offbeat akin to living in a “bubble.” One’s or unusual. In either case, the food, educational needs and social receiving church or nonprofit has network are all on campus, thus

minimizing the amount of time students spend in the getting to know the area. “Once we were given an opportunity to interact with the community and actually help the community, that was an awesome experience to have,” Shumway said. “I’ve often found myself thinking, ‘I wish I knew more about Middlebury and ways I could help the community I am benefitting from, but not really giving back to.” The hunger/Act 148 report has provided that outlet for students to help. And it was exciting for them to realize they could make a real difference while earning college credit. “We realized there are definite gaps (in the food system) that don’t seem crazy-hard to solve, or at least help solve,” Ayer said. “But right now there isn’t a ton of time, labor and money for that to happen. I think trying to increase the education part has been one of our main goals.” MacKay hails from New Hampshire. He’s impressed with how Vermont has emerged, through Act 148 and other initiatives, as one of the most progressive states in the union when it comes to conservation and recycling. He pointed to the annual Green Up Day as an example of how Vermonters are personally invested in environmental stewardship. “Vermont is at the forefront, and I wouldn’t say they are done,” MacKay said. The students got some major props from Bradburn and Maglienti, who are optimistic the report will help advance the charitable food system in Addison County. “This is the kind of information that can really be helpful as Act 148 progresses,” Bradburn said. Bradburn appreciates the emphasis in the report on using surplus food to help those who are hungry, rather than relegating it to compost. Maglienti called the students’ work “fantastic. We all benefit from shared resources, and by using the expertise of students and staff at Middlebury College. The energy and enthusiasm the students bring to these projects helps a lot.” Morrell often says “knowledge is power,” and she’s pleased her students are using their power to help people who are less fortunate. “These students have a certain privilege in their position in Middlebury, and they learned a lot from the wisdom and knowledge of community members,” she said. “So in exchange for benefitting from their time and knowledge, the students I think felt a responsibility to use their position to get that knowledge to a next step, to make something positive out of the experiences of people in the community.” Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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Women’s hockey splits with fellow NESCAC contender By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s hockey split two weekend games with visiting Connecticut when the Camels prevailed in overtime on Saturday, 4-3, after the Panthers blanked them on Friday, 3-0. The results left the teams tied for second in NESCAC at 3-1 in the league behind Hamilton, which is 4-0 against two teams yet to earn a league win. Middlebury, ranked No. 6 in NCAA Division III heading into the weekend, dropped to 3-3 overall after playing four games against top10 foes — including the pair against the No. 8 Camels (4-1). Middlebury will end its first semester by hosting Castleton on Saturday at 3 p.m. Coach Bill Mandigo will be looking for a more consistent effort than he believes the Panthers delivered against the determined Camels. “We had six periods on the weekend. We played well in the first period today. We played well in the third period yesterday. So there’s two. I’ll take half of the first period yesterday, so there’s two-and-a-half. And then that’s just about it,” he said, “They just outworked us. They wanted it more. We just don’t stick our nose in and battle.” To be fair, youth and injuries are factors. Half of the Panthers’ starting defenders are freshmen, while two more started up front this weekend. Another half-dozen players are hurt: Starting forwards Lizzie Sheline and Rachel St. Clair should be back in January, other freshmen who could give the starters a break are out in the short term, and promising freshman forward Danielle Brown will miss the season. “We’ve got to get healthy,” Mandigo said. “All of a sudden you’re playing back-to-back and you’ve got no depth.” Saturday’s best period for the Panthers did not start well, as the Camels took advantage of defensive errors to take a 2-0 first-period lead on their first two shots. At 1:42 Kyla Floresca won a puck in the right corner and fed an open Elena Gualteri off the right post for a one-timer. After several good Panther chances, including a strong stick save by Camel goalie Bailey Mertz on Elizabeth Wulf, Camel Katlyn Paiva made it 2-0 at 6:33. Paiva walked out of the right corner and roofed a backhand home after Gualteri broke up a Panther clear. But in the period overall the Panthers won puck battles, outshot the Camels by 10-4, forced two penal-

ties with their constant pressure, and converted both power plays to tie the score at 2-2. Freshmen scored the goals. At 11:04 Ellie Barney tipped Jess Young’s pass from the right side inside the far post, with Janka Hlinka picking up the second assist. At 14:59 Madie Leidt ripped a one-time slapper from the top of the left circle, on a pass from defender Jenna Marotta. Young picked up the second assist. The Panthers did not capitalize on that momentum in the second, although they extended the lead at 12:25, when Young one-timed a Leidt pass into the slot between Mertz’s pads. Leidt also had a great

chance earlier in the period, but Mertz made a blocker save on her wrister from the slot. Mertz also stopped Katarina Shuchuk’s breakaway bid later in the period. But for the most part the Camels were winning pucks and disrupting the Panthers, and Panther goalie Lin Han made some solid stops, including on Kristine Earl from the high slot in the 14th minute. On a late Camel power play Marotta also blocked two close-range bids. In the third Middlebury nearly stretched the lead, but Mertz got her glove on a Hlinka blast from the left circle, and the puck deflected off the bottom of the crossbar and bounced (See Hockey, Page 21)

PANTHER SENIOR JESSICA Young charges out of the Middlebury zone during Saturday’s game against Connecticut College. Young tallied a goal and two assists in Middlebury’s 4-3 loss. Independent photos/Trent Campbell

PANTHER SENIOR MADDIE Winslow crashes the net and tries to get the puck past Connecticut College goalie Bailey Mertz Saturday afternoon at The Chip.

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Boys’ soccer players earn league nods

PANTHER SENIOR ELIZABETH Wulf carries the puck across center ice during Saturday’s game against Connecticut College. Middlebury lost in overtime Saturday, 4-3, but beat Connecticut Friday, 3-0.

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(Continued from Page 20) straight down, hitting, but not crossing, the red line. At 13:23 on a Camel power play Lilly Connolly banked a shot in off Han, and after the Camels survived a late Panther power play it was onto overtime. The Camels won with 3:02 gone, when Paiva shot from the right circle, picked up her own rebound and found an open Erin Dillon at the left post for the game-winner. Middlebury outshot the Camels, 30-28, but Connecticut outshot the Panthers, 24-20 after the first period. In Friday’s 3-0 Panther win Maddie Winslow gave Middlebury a 1-0 lead on a five-on-three power play seven minutes into the second period. Young and Hlinka assisted. Paiva nearly tied the score later in the period, but Winslow blocked her shot at an open net. Early in the third period Han preserved the tie by denying Floresca from in close during a net-front scramble. Katherine Jackson made it 2-0 at 6:25 by one-timing home a Young feed, and Young made it 3-0 at 12:13 by picking up her own rebound, circling the net and sliding the puck home. Han (22 saves) preserved the shutout in the late going by sprawling to stop Lauren Helm’s power-play bid.

ADDISON COUNTY — Twenty-two members of the Middlebury, Mount Abraham, Otter Valley and Vergennes union high school boys’ soccer teams earned postseason accolades from league and statewide soccer coaches. Eight were named as either Division I, II or III all-state players: Vermont coaches chose MUHS senior goalie Santiago Fernandez and sophomore midfield Eben Jackson in D-I, Mount Abe senior midfielder Nick Catlin and senior defender Will Schoenhuber in D-II, OV senior striker Josh Letourneau and senior midfielder Maxwell Williams in D-II, and VUHS senior defender/ midfielder Ben Kayhart and junior midfielder/striker Ezekiel Palmer in D-III. In addition, Fernandez earned Defensive Player of the Year honors from the Lake Division. Three of his Tiger teammates joined him as FirstTeam Lake all-stars, Jackson, senior striker Camden Simpson, and junior defender Tucker Moulton. In addition, MUHS Coach Reeves Livesay was voted the Lake Division Coach

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of the Year after the Tigers won the league title. Three Eagles made the Lake first team: Catlin, Schoenhuber, and junior striker William Wright. They were joined by Palmer from VUHS. Letourneau and Williams were chosen as Marble Valley League B Division First-Team all-stars, and they were joined by senior midfielder Justin Tremblay on the MVL First Team. Area Lake Division Second Team picks were Kayhart and sophomore midfielder Josias Salomao from VUHS, junior midfielder Ben Turner and senior midfielder Tyler Giorgio from MUHS, and three Eagles, senior defenders Jackson Counter and Eli Rickner and sophomore midfielder Eric McKean. Two Otters earned Second Team MVL nods, senior defender Sawyer Heath and junior midfielder Ethan Sulik-Doty. Finally, two players earned Honorable Mention from the Lake coaches, VUHS sophomore goalie Jeffrey Stearns and MUHS junior defender Ben Crawford.

12/1 Midd. vs. Conn..................................3-0 12/2 Conn. vs. Midd. ....................... 4-3 (OT) Women’s Basketball 11/29 Midd. vs. RPI..............................64-54 12/1 Midd. vs. Colby-Sawyer....... 66-59 (OT)

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PANTHER SOPHOMORE LIN Han blocks a high shot during Saturday’s game against Connecticut College. Han made 24 saves in the 4-3 loss and earned a shutout with 22 saves Friday night.

Mertz made 15 saves for Connecticut. The Panthers other two losses have come to No. 2 Elmira and No. 4 Adrian, as the challenging schedule has also figured into the slow start for a program with high standards. Certainly, Mandigo expects better

going forward. “I’m disappointed. It’s the heat of the moment. We’ll watch the film and we’ll see,” he said. “But it’s not what you want it to be.” Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Boys’ Hockey 12/8 Brookline at MUHS....................... 7 PM Wrestling 12/9 .........OV & Mt Abe at St. J Tournament COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Hockey 12/8 Midd. at Hamilton.......................... 7 PM 12/9 Midd. at Amherst........................... 3 PM Women’s Hockey 12/9 Castleton at Midd.......................... 3 PM

Women’s Basketball 12/5 Plattsburgh at Midd.................. 5:30 PM 12/7 Sage at Midd................................ 7 PM 12/8 Midd. at Skidmore......................... 8 PM Men’s Basketball 12/5 Plattsburgh at Midd.................. 7:30 PM 12/8 Midd. at Skidmore......................... 6 PM Late events occurred after deadline. Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

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Ferrisburgh (Continued from Page 1) system to be discharged during peak demand hours, thus helping to “drive down costs for customers.” Carlson said that after GMP was invited by groSolar it did not take long for the power company to sign onto the array, which could be

built by early 2019 and would by owned by GMP and installed and maintained by groSolar — which has offices in White River Junction, Rutland and Maryland. “GroSolar brought the solar project to GMP, which we evaluated and felt this was a good project

for our customers and also a good opportunity to include battery storage,” Carlson said. As part of a memorandum signed by groSolar and the Ferrisburgh selectboard, groSolar and GMP will also build and maintain a small, 15-kilowatt array for the town.

MCTV SCHEDULE Channels 15 & 16 MCTV Channel 15 Tuesday, Dec 5 6:30 a.m. VVSA – For the Animals 7 a.m. Development Review Board (DRB) 8:30 a.m. Energy Week 10 a.m. Selectboard 12 p.m. Green Mt. Care Board 4 p.m. Congregational Church 5:30 p.m. Energy Week 6:30 p.m. Community Bulletin Board 7 p.m. Selectboard 9 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange (VMX) Wednesday, Dec. 6 5 a.m. Selectboard 7:30 a.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 9 a.m. VVSA – For the Animals 9:30 a.m. Lifelines 10 a.m. Selectboard, DRB 3 p.m. Energy Week, VMX 6 p.m. Vote for Vermont 7 p.m. Community Bulletin Board 8 p.m. DRB, Green Mt. Care board Thursday, Dec. 7 5 a.m. Energy Week, Public Affairs 7 p.m. Vote for Vermont 8 a.m. Congregational Church Service 9:30 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange 11:30 a.m. Eckankar 12 p.m. Selectboard, Public Affairs 6:30 p.m. Lifelines 6:45 p.m. Community Bulletin Board 7 p.m. VVSA – For the Animals 7:30 p.m. Eckankar 8 p.m. Selectboard, DRB Friday, Dec. 8 5 a.m. Eckankar 5:30 a.m. VMX, Public Affairs 10 a.m. Selectboard, DRB 4 p.m. Memorial Baptist Church Service 5:30 p.m. Eckankar

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Selectboard Chairwoman Loretta Lawrence said the board has made no decision on where that array might go, but it could be sited near the town’s office building, garage or fire station. Lawrence said the board backs a project that GMP said will add to

Ferrisburgh’s tax base — two years ago GMP told the Panton selectboard its array there could generate about $45,000 of annual property taxes. “We support it, absolutely,” Lawrence said. The site is to the rear of a parcel, (See Solar array, Page 23)

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MCTV Channel 16 Tuesday, Dec. 5 5 a.m. ACSD Board Meeting 7 a.m. Hannaford Career Center (HCC) 8 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange (VMX) 11:30 a.m. First Wednesdays 1 p.m. The Story Matters 5 p.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 6 p.m. MUMS Assembly 6:33 p.m. The Poetry Show 7 p.m. Extempo 7:30 p.m. Senior Moment: Music History 10 p.m. All Things LGBTQ Wednesday, Dec. 6 5 a.m. ACSD Board Meeting 7 a.m. Hannaford Career Center 10:30 a.m. The Story Matters 11 a.m. Senior Moment: Music History 4 p.m. First Wednesdays 5:30 p.m. Senior Moment: Music History 7:04 p.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 8 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange 10 p.m. All things LGBTQ 11 p.m. The Story Matters Thursday, Dec. 7 5:30 a.m. All Things LGBTQ 6:30 a.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 8 a.m. ACSD Board Meeting 10 a.m. HCC 11 a.m. First Wednesdays 12:30 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange (VMX) 5 p.m. All Things LGBTQ 6 p.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 7 p.m. MUMS Assembly 7:33 p.m. First Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. Senior Moment: Music History Friday, Dec. 8 5 a.m. Senior Moment: Music History 6:35 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange (VMX)

9 a.m. The Story Matters 9:30 a.m. Senior Moment: Music History 1 p.m. First Wednesdays 6:45 p.m. Readathon 7 p.m. MUMS Assembly 7:33 p.m. Extempo 8 p.m. The Poetry Show 8:30 p.m. Festival on the Green, VMX Saturday, Dec. 9 4:45 a.m. Vermont Youth Orchestra 6 a.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 7 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange 8:30 a.m. MCTV Girls’ Video Camp, Readathon 10 a.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 11 a.m. Senior Moment: Music History 3:30 p.m. The Story Matters 4 p.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 7 p.m. Extempo 10:30 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange (VMX) Sunday, Dec. 10 5:30 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange (VMX) 7 a.m. The Story Matters 8 a.m. First Wednesdays 10 a.m. ACSD, HCC Board Meetings 5 p.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 7:30 p.m. The Story Matters 8 p.m. First Wednesdays 9:30 p.m. Vermont Media Exchange (VMX) Monday, Dec. 11 5:45 a.m. Tiger TV 6:24 a.m. Chronique Francophone 7 a.m. HCC, ACSD Board Meetings 10:05 a.m. Vermont Media Exchange 12 p.m. Tiger TV, First Wednesdays 4 p.m. Shakespeare: It’s Elementary 6 p.m. Tiger TV 6:15 p.m. Chronique Francophone 10 p.m. Vermont State Board of Education

Crystal family offers hope to immigrants

“My name is Fardowsa Ibrahim, 22 years old and a fourth-year Medical Laboratory Sciences major at the University of Vermont. I identify as a first-generation college student and as a Black, Muslim woman who wears a hijab. I was born in Kenya and my parents are from Somalia. I got married at 18 years old. I am a wife, full-time student and mother. My parents came here because of war and wanted to give my siblings and me an opportunity to receive an education in a safe environment.” The pilgrims came to escape religious persecution and political turmoil to start a new life in a new land. Abdelali Amrani came to Burlington in February 2017 from ABDELALI AMRANI, LEFT, and Fardowsa Ibrahim flank Andrew Crystal of the Crystal Family New Hope Award. The two immigrants Morocco. “My Family and I faced many were recipients of this year’s award. hardships and challenges. Being homeless and unemployed was not the Crystal Family New Hope the idea for this award. The Crystal the ideal situation for raising a New Award to be presented to two New family gives its time and skill past American family.” After help from American recipients. Jon describes and present to the work of nonCVOEO, the State and COTS, and the $500 awards this way. “The profits, the Peace Corps, justice New Hope Award efforts for refugees and building up “armed with a precise recognizes and honors of our community. action plan along with a the contributions, Andrew is the other benefactor lot of determination and Bridging gaps, accomplishments and for this Award. He found his passion perseverance, I was able building futures potential of those who and purpose in Amrani’s words: to write a business plan are, or are striving “My family and I are very fortunate for our future Moroccan By Jan Demers to become, new to have been surrounded by so many restaurant, enroll as Executive Director Americans. The people great people who have helped us a full-time student at Champlain Valley Office it celebrates are the transition quickly from the dangers CCV this summer to of Economic Opportunity ‘new hope’ for this of homelessness … We hope in the study business law, land a job as an interpreter with AALV, country, enriching it in important near future to be able to give back to and was promoted soon after as an ways. At the same time, this country this community and to help inspire interpreter coordinator with this represents ‘new hope’ for these others to do the same.” individuals, as their lives are shaped Thanksgiving is the most amazing organization.” To Plymouth Rock, Ellis Island anew.” Ibrahim and Amrani were important and treasured holiday for the first to receive this award on the Crystal family. They established and Burlington, Vt., we come. the New Hope Award to give now so The Crystal Family came from November 16, 2017. Jon Crystal is a former CVOEO that others can do the same later. Europe and entered the United We gather together and do give States through Ellis Island. Jon board chair and from his awareness and his brother Andrew established of the work of CVOEO originated thanks.

Solar array (Continued from Page 22) owned by Clifford Harris, on Greenbush Road’s west side, and will be accessed by an existing farm road. Most recently the bulk of the land to be used for the array was either mowed for hay or planted with corn, according to GMP. Lawrence said because of extensive natural screening and additional landscaping — including a proposed “30-foot-wide hedgerow of native species,” according to selectboard minutes — it would barely be visible from Route 7. “You’re not even going to notice it,” she said. For its preliminary filing with the utilities commission, GMP hired the SE Group to evaluate the array’s visual impact on the area. SE Group, which will prepare a more detailed report for GMP’s CPG application, concluded the array would have “limited potential public visibility … Views of the project are most likely near the intersection of Greenbush Road, Route 7 and Robinson Road. As noted before, any visibility from this location would have to consider the considerable setback (almost 1,000 feet) between

observers and the initial row of panels comprising the array.” The array itself would consist about 20,000 10-foot-tall, single-axis solar trackers. They would be arranged in two groups with the trackers facing south. The companies also pledge to use a pollinator-friendly seed mix at the array site. According to GMP, the project should produce about 9,250

megawatt hours of energy annually, and it fits in with the company’s larger goals. “The project is part of GMP’s efforts to transform our energy landscape away from a centralized regional bulk grid to one that is more home-, business-, and communitybased,” Carlson said. Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

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TAG SALE. HUGE CLEAN OUT! Building materials, small tools, doors, windows, misc. office supplies and lots of free stuff. Mill Bridge Construction, 319 Pulp Mill Bridge Road, Middlebury. Friday, Decem‑ ber 8, 8am‑4pm. Saturday, December 9, 8am‑2pm.

For Rent

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WAREHOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092. 15 MINUTES FROM MIDDLE‑ BURY spacious 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment in coun‑ try. $900 plus utilities and 1 month deposit. No pets or smoking please. Available December 1st. Call for photos. 802‑897‑5447. 2 CAR GARAGE in Brandon. 24’x24’ with two 7’8”x6’8” high garage doors. Electricity and snow plowing included. $250/ mo. Available immediately. 802‑352‑6678. BRANDON, GARAGE STOR‑ AGE. 10’x25’. Dry, secure. 802‑349‑4212. 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.

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BRISTOL VILLAGE, LARGE 1 BEDROOM apartment, 1st floor of large Victorian house, sunny southern exposure, heat included. No pets or smoking. References, Lease, security deposit. $825/mo. Available December 1st. Call Doug, 802‑578‑6049.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BEDROOM ranch. Two car attached ga‑ rage with automatic opener. Fully furnished, even beds and bedding. Big screen Sony. Central vacuuming, central air, 2 bathrooms, dishwasher, garbage disposal, all appli‑ ances, including washer and dryer. Front and back porch. Paved driveway. Nice lot, nice neighborhood. 3 miles or 7 minutes to Middlebury Col‑ lege, or Porter Hospital. Lawn mowing, snow, and satellite dish included. $2,000 plus utilities. One month security deposit. (802) 388‑5474.

MIDDLEBURY: RETAIL/OF‑ FICE space for rent. 1,303 square feet. Front door park‑ ing. Contact Eric at 388‑6054. (Countryside Carpet and Paint)

ORWELL: SHARE A HOME with a woman who enjoys yoga, vegetarian cook‑ ing, and dance. $400/mo. plus some help around h e r fa r m . 8 6 3 ‑ 5 6 2 5 o r HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks req. EHO.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com. E. MIDDLEBURY: SHARE A home w/ man in his 70s. Provide some companion‑ ship, housekeeping and cook 3‑4 meals/wk in exchange for minimal rent. Private Bath. Would consider a pet. No deposit. 863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks req. EHO.

M I D D L E B U RY O F F I C E SPACE for rent. 400 sq.ft., second floor. Available Janu‑ ary 1, 2018. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054. MIDDLEBURY; 3 BEDROOM apartment available, fully furnished. All inclusive heat, electric and water. $1,800/ mo. 802‑349‑8544.

FOR RENT: BRIDPORT, Commercial/retail office. 1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. tbrought@middlebury.edu. MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM Court St. apt. $1,100 per month plus deposit. Wash‑ er, dryer and heat included. 388‑2925. MIDDLEBURY 2 BEDROOM near downtown. Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets. Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY: SHARE A lovely home w/ active, re‑ tired professional who en‑ joys cultural events. $400/ mo (all inc). Seeking a house mate who might en‑ joy walking together & shar‑ ing some meals. 863‑5625, HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background check required. EHO. NEW HAVEN VILLAGE APT. Bright, hard wood floors, pos‑ sible home office space. No pets, no smoking. Referenc‑ es, security deposit, lease. $895/month plus utilities. 802‑236‑2040.

For Rent

MIDDLEBURY, VT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT 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.

RIPTON ONE BEDROOM CABIN, furnished or un‑ furnished. No smoking, no pets. $800/mo., plus utilities. 388‑2641. SEEKING A LIVE‑IN CARE‑ GIVER compensation and room and board for eve‑ ning and overnight care of elderly couple. Addison County location. 15 minutes from Middlebury. Contact lincolnexpress@comcast.net or call 802‑999‑6373. S TA R K S B O R O S M A L L HOUSE, 1 bedroom with extra room. House on shared own‑ er’s property. $700/mo. plus all utilities. Security deposit, references required. No smok‑ ing, no animals. 453‑5526. VALLEY VIEW APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 1 and 2 BR apartments in Vergennes. All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent. Elderly or disabled only. W/D onsite. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website www.summitpmg.com. Equal Housing Opportunity.

To request an application, call 802-472-5016 or e-mail pinemeadow@maloneyproperties.com.

It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing

Equal Housing Opportunity.

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Real Estate CORNWALL, VT‑ A BEAU‑ TIFUL building lot for sale. Amazing view. Septic permit in place. Please call between 9a.m‑10a.m 802‑462‑3313. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE Only three lots remain in the Daisy Lane Residential De‑ velopment. One is a beauti‑ ful wooded 1 1/4 acre with a small year round stream. Lots are supported with village water and approved for simple in‑ground septic. Located in East Middlebury, just 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, 2 golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore. 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

Att. Farmers FIRST CUT HAY for sale. Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281. WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agitating, liquid manure hauling, drag line aer‑ ating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Wanted TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer special‑ izing in jewelry, watches, silver, art, military, an‑ tique collectibles, etc. Visit www.bittnerantiques.com or call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. Consulting/appraisal services available. House calls made free of charge.

For Sale ANTIQUE DOUBLE BARREL ACME Arms Co. 12 gauge. Beautiful vintage firearm. $185. 802‑989‑5803. DOG TEAM ORIGINAL RECIPE Sticky Buns. Call 802‑349‑9473 for order and pickup time. 658 Exchange Street, Middlebury. U S E D R E S TA U R A N T EQUIPMENT plus chairs, tables and hood systems. 802‑388‑4831. HUDSON 21’ SAWMILL. 18 foot track, 3 blades. Barely used ‑ 5 hours total. Owner had a stroke and not fit to run it any longer. Like new. $2,900 for all. 802‑462‑3313 or 802‑349‑4230. Busy phone, keep trying.

SNOW TIRES ‑ 4 Firestone winter force. 205/60/16. Used 1/2 a season. $275 firm. 349‑8907.

LOOKING FOR THAT unique, one of a kind gift, check out Compass Treasure Chest we have furniture, collectibles, new clothing, toys, cherish teddies, stamp collection, Decorations and more. Come find treasures to create memo‑ ries. Located in Compass Music and Art Center, 333 Jones Drive, Brandon VT. Open Monday thru Saturday 10 to 5, Sunday 10 to 5.

THOMASVILLE BEDROOM FURNITURE, like new con‑ dition. Large dresser with mirror, chest of drawers and night stand. Priced to sell. Call 802‑545‑2282.

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SEEKING LIVE IN CARE‑ GIVER, compensation and room and board for eve‑ ning and overnight care for elderly couple. Addison County location. 15 minutes from Middlebury. Contact lincolnexpress@comcast.net or call 802‑999‑6373. THE OXFORD COMPANY in Cornwall, VT seeks adminis‑ trative assistant. We manufac‑ ture a rug hooking tool, have a mail order business, and operate a rug hooking school. We’re hiring a new employee to train in the art of punch needle rug hooking and will pay for punch needle certifica‑ tion. Ideal candidates would enjoy teaching their new skills to others through customer service, and support. Use your skills in Phone, Computer, Order Fulfillment, and Office Management. Fast passed, friendly, creative working en‑ vironment. $15.00/hr. Full time (40 hours). Monday‑Friday. Rug hooking experience not necessary. Email cover letter, resume, and 3 references to amy@amyoxford.com.

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Busy 6 doctor medical practice looking for a part-time experienced Front Desk Receptionist to join our team. Job includes answering busy phone lines, checkin/check-out, insurance verification, collecting payments & batch out, triaging phone calls and other miscellaneous duties. Previous medical experience preferred. Additional hours available. Send resume and references to: Middlebury Family Health Attn: Stacy Ladd, Practice Administrator 44 Collins Drive Suite 201 Middlebury, VT 05753 sladd@middfam.comcastbiz.net

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ALL SHIFTS AVAILABLE FOR FULL & PART TIME We are seeking people with winning personalities and great attitudes to join our team. Full & Part-time positions available with flexible scheduling. Must be willing to work some nights & weekends. Full & Part-time Cashiers & Deli Employees needed. Apply in person or pick up an application at: Maplefields –– Shoreham Service Center

Corner of Routes 22A and 74 • Shoreham, VT EOE

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Full- and Part-Time Sales Associates for flexible shifts Nights & Weekends included Benefits available for F/T staff

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MAINTENANCE MECHANIC Middlebury, VT Agri-Mark has a full-time immediate opening for a THIRD SHIFT (12am-8am) Maintenance Mechanic. Flexible work schedule required, including rotating weekends, and working scheduled holidays. Mechanical background is a must. There is a wide variety of work to do. Willing to train, must have ambition to learn. Must be able to work both independently and as a team member. Excellent troubleshooting and ability to maintain equipment, and have a strong safety awareness. 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:

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THE ADDISON INDEPENDENT IS SEEKING A WEB PRODUCER/REPORTER The Addison Independent in Middlebury, Vt., is seeking an energetic multimedia journalist to join the award-winning, twice-a-week newspaper’s staff. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated excellence in reporting and producing stories in text, audio and video formats. This position will feature a mix of classic print media and cutting-edge online news. As such, those applying should have a demonstrated experience in journalism and understanding of news writing and feature writing, as well as be interested and engaged in social media with an eye toward understanding the community and building reader loyalty. Some knowledge and experience with posting multimedia stories and content management systems a big plus. The job will include a lot of hands-on work improving the website, so candidates should bring ideas for doing that. Addisonindependent.com has been named the best news site in Vermont many times — our new hire will be responsible for making sure we continue and improve upon this tradition of excellence. The person we hire will be intelligent, curious, indefatigable and work well as part of a team. Also, the candidate must have a car, as in-person interviews are a must. Send a letter outlining your qualifications, resume and examples of your work to: news@addisonindependent.com. ADDISON COUNTY

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WHISTLEPIG CURRENTLY HIRING FOR full time bottler. Eye for detail and accuracy. Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday. Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unassisted lifting of 25 pounds. Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com.

HOPE HAS AN opening at its resale store for a 25 hour a week textile sorter. Must be able to lift up to 25 pounds, to stand, sit and walk for pro‑ longed periods, be able to perform work requiring re‑ petitive hand motion, must be speedy and attentive to detail. Send resume and cover letter to receptionist@hope‑vt.org.

MINUTE TAKER NEEDED for select board meetings in Salis‑ bury. Work involves two meet‑ ings a month of approximately 2 hours each. Compensation is $60 per meeting. Please call the Town Office for details, 352‑4228.

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Town of New Haven

is seeking a Zoning Administrator to fill a part time position, approximately 20-24 hours per week. Prior zoning experience is desired. For a complete job description, please view the advertisement posted at the town website www.newhavenvt.com Please submit resume by December 9, 2017 to: New Haven Planning Commission Attn: Pam Kingman, Town Clerk 78 North Street, New Haven, VT 05472.

-SUBURBAN PROPANE, NATIONWIDE provider of pro‑ pane & related services has the following opening in the Rutland/Middlebury, VT area: Propane Support Technician ‑ full time. Qualifications: HS diploma or equivalent propane experience and/or Class B CDL with Hazmat preferred. Responsible for inspecting, maintaining and filling cyl‑ inders. Suburban offers a competitive salary. Visit our website at: suburbanpropane. com. Search for job opening ID 17758. Background checks and pre ‑ employment drug tests are performed. Suburban Propane is proud to be an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer of females, minorities, individuals with disabilities and protected vet‑ erans in accordance with all applicable laws. BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

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Zoning Administrator Starksboro, Vermont The Town of Starksboro is seeking a part-time Zoning Administrator. Duties to include: implementation of land-use regulations; administering zoning permits; enforcement actions for non-compliance with land-use regulations; and assistance to the public, Planning Commission, and Development Review Board, including taking minutes at meetings. Position will also help the Selectboard and Town Clerk with planning and land-use related issues. Interested candidate must be available for evening meetings and daytime work at town offce; estimated 24 hours per week. A detailed job description is available at www.starksborovt.org. Salary will depend on qualifcations and experience. To apply, please send cover letter and resume to Town of Starksboro. P.O. Box 91, Starksboro, VT 05487 or starksboro@madriver.com Applications preferred by Friday, Dec. 22, 2017. Position open until filled. The Town of Starksboro is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

FAMILY LUMBER OPERATION

Seeks To Fill The Following Positions: MACHINERY OPERATOR for skilled lumber mill positions due to employee retirement. You must be in good physical condition, have a desire to learn, be reliable, have a strong safety awareness and work well with others. We will teach you the skills you need to use the technology investments we are putting in place. Mill work has a production bonus. SKILLED FORKLIFT OPERATOR to run large forklifts at our operation in Bristol. Other work includes light construction, planing, lumber stacking. Must be reliable, energetic, work well with others and have good safety awareness. Previous experience operating heavy machinery is a plus but not required, we will teach you the skills you need. Call 802-453-4884 or visit The A. Johnson Co., 995 S 116 Rd, Bristol VT 05443 for an application.

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Public Notices Index Addison County Emergency Planning Committee (1) Addison Rutland Supervisory Union (1) Addison Northwest School District (1) PUBLIC NOTICE POLICY WARNING

The Orwell Village School Board will conduct a public hearing at their regular meeting on December 19, 2017 at 7:00 P.M., at the Orwell Village School, Orwell, VT, and take action on the following policy: Prevention of Harassment, Hazing & Bullying of Students Copies of the policy are available from the Superintendent of Schools’ Office, 49 Main Street, Fair Haven, Vermont. Brooke Olsen-Farrell Superintendent of Schools Addison-Rutland Supervisory Union 12/4

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY PLANNING COMMISSION

Public notices for the following can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on Pages 30.

The Middlebury Select Board is looking for applicants for a vacancy on the Planning Commission. This position is for an unexpired term ending in April of 2020. If you are interested in this position, please submit a letter of interest to the Town Manager’s Office, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, or send an e-mail to bdow@townofmiddlebury.org, no later than Friday, December 8, 2017. If you would like to find out more about any of these positions, please contact us at 388-8100, Ext 202.

Cornwall (1) Notice of Foreclosure (1) Vergennes-Panton Water District (1)

12/4, 7

Middlebury (2)

TIER 2 HAZARDOUS MATERIALS REPORTING WORKSHOP

Addison County Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC 8) invites you to a Tier 2 workshop with Todd Cosgrove, State Tier 2 Coordinator. Learn how to report your hazardous materials to the State and your local fire department on Wednesday, Dec 6th. 10am at the American Legion on Boardman Street. Contact Tim Bouton at 388 3141 or Tbouton@acrpc.org for more information.

ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS Monday, December 4

5:00 PM

Wednesday, December 6 5:30 PM Friday, December 8 Monday, December 18

7:30 AM 6:00 PM

Tuesday, December 19

5:00 PM

Wednesday, December 20 7:30 AM

STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

Policy Committee Meeting At Vergennes Union High School Community Engagement Committee Mtg. At Vergennes Union High School Facilities Committee Meeting At ANWSD Office ANWSD Board Regular Meeting At Addison Central School Community Engagement Committee Mtg. At Vergennes Union High School Facilities Committee Meeting At ANWSD Office

12/4

WARNING ANNUAL MEETING OF THE VERGENNES-PANTON WATER DISTRICT, INC. DECEMBER 12, 2017

12/4, 7

VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT DOCKET NO: 105-4-15 ANCV

BAYVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC, A DELAWARE LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY v. DOUGLAS F. BRADLEY AND JUDITH FALK OCCUPANTS OF: 665 County Road, Lincoln VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq. In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered February 9, 2017, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Douglas F. Bradley and Judith Falk to CitiFinancial, Inc., dated December 17, 2007 and recorded in Book 66 Page 247 of the land records of the Town of Lincoln, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from CFNA Receivables (MD), Inc. f/k/a CitiFinancial, Inc. to CitiFinancial Servicing LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company dated May 9, 2014 and recorded in Book 76 Page 677 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from CitiFinancial Servicing LLC to Bayview Loan Servicing, LLC, A Delaware Limited Liability Company dated June 21, 2017 and recorded in Book 80 page 530 both of the land records of the Town of Lincoln for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 665 County Road, Lincoln, Vermont on December 13, 2017 at 10:00AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: ALL THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OF LAND IN THE TOWN OF LINCOLN, ADDISON COUNTY, STATE OF VT, AS MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN BOOK 54 PAGE 169 ID# 41100219-400, BEING KNOWN AND DESIGNATED AS LANDS AND PREMISES CONVEYED TO JULIA A BRADLEY BY WARRANTY DEED OF LYLE D. RAMONS AND CHRISTIE C. RAMONS DATED JULY 24, 1987 AND RECORDED IN VOLUME 37, PAGE 466 OF THE LINCOLN LAND RECORDS AND BEING MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS METES AND BOUNDS PROPERTY. SUBJECT TO RIGHT OF WAY. BEING THE SAME FEE SIMPLE PROPERTY CONVEYED BY WARRANTY DEED FROM JULIA F BRADLEY TO DOUGLAS F BRADLEY and JUDITH FALK HUSBAND AND WIFE , DATED 10/20/2000 RECORDED ON 10/26/2000 IN BOOK 54, PAGE 169 IN ADDISON COUNTY RECORDS, STATE OF VT. Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description. Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described. TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale. The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale. Other terms to be announced at the sale. DATED: November 3, 2017 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. sRachel K. Jones, Esq., Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

11/20

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY TREE WARDEN – PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER REMOVAL OF A TREE ON SOUTH STREET MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2017 MIDDLEBURY TOWN OFFICES

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 24 VSA § 2509, on Monday, December 18, 2017, at 4:30 p.m., Christopher Zeoli, Tree Warden for the Town of Middlebury, will hold a public hearing at the Middlebury Town Offices, 77 Main Street, Middlebury to consider removal of an apple tree at 33 South Street. Please contact the Middlebury Town Manager’s Office, 802-458-8000, to request special accommodations to attend the meeting. Christopher Zeoli, Tree Warden Town of Middlebury November 6, 2017 12/4

To publish a legal notice in The Addison Independent email information to legals@addisonindependent.com or fax it to (802) 388-3100. Deadline for the Monday edition is the previous Thursday at noon. Deadline for the Thursday edition is the previous Monday at 5pm.

The legal voters of VERGENNES-PANTON WATER DISTRICT, INC. are hereby notified and warned to meet at the V.P.W.D. office building on Canal Street in the City of Vergennes in said District, on the 12th day of December, 2017 at 7:00 P.M. to transact the following business to wit: ARTICLE I: To elect by ballot the following officers: (a) a moderator (b) a clerk (c) a treasurer ARTICLE II: To hear and act upon the reports from the officers of the VERGENNES-PANTON WATER DISTRICT, INC. ARTICLE III: To have presented by the Board of Commissioners of the VERGENNES-PANTON WATER DISTRICT, INC. their estimate of expenses for the ensuring year and to appropriate such sum as it, the VERGENNES-PANTON WATER DISTRICT, INC. deems necessary for said expenses together with the amount required to pay the balance, if any, left unpaid expressing said sum in dollars in its vote. ARTICLE IV: To establish salaries for the Commissioners and other elected officers of the Water District. ARTICLE V: To see whether the voters of said Water District will authorize its Board to borrow money pending receipt of water rents, by issuance of its notes or orders payable not later than one(1) year to date. ARTICLE VI: To transact any other business proper to come before said meeting. Dated at Vergennes, Vermont, this 27THday of November, 2017 Maria L. Brown, Clerk VERGENNES-PANTON WATER DISTRICT 11/27

TOWN OF CORNWALL PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE CORNWALL TOWN HALL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2017 • 7:00 PM

Discussion Topic: One-Year Extension of Interim Bylaw Regarding Screening and Siting Requirements for Ground-Mounted Solar Energy Generation Plants 1. Authority; Implementation A. This interim Bylaw was enacted pursuant to 24 V.S.A. §§ 2291(28), 4414(15), and 4415. B. In accordance with 24 V.S.A. §§ 2291(28)(A), 4414(15)(A) and 4415, this interim Bylaw is intended to be no more restrictive of ground-mounted solar electricity generation plants than the screening requirements governing new commercial development in Cornwall. C. The Cornwall Select Board is hereby designated as the municipal body to make recommendations to the Public Service Board applying this Bylaw to groundmounted solar electricity generation plants. D. This interim Bylaw was adopted by the Town of Cornwall due to the sudden changes wrought by Act 56 of the Vermont Legislature in the 2015 session and to set forth a clear, written community standard regarding the aesthetics of ground mounted photovoltaic systems. The effectiveness of this interim Bylaw, adopted as an emergency measure, shall be extended for one year from the date of its extension by the Cornwall Select Board, or for such extended term as may be allowed by 24 V.S.A. § 4415, while the Cornwall Select Board and Planning Commission continue to study the issue of ground mounted solar screening, siting, and setbacks in the Town. The Cornwall Select Board is extending the effectiveness this interim Bylaw for one year in order to protect the general welfare of Cornwall residents and land owners and to provide for orderly physical and economic development within the Town. 2. Definitions 3. Screening Requirements 4. Set Backs 5. Decommissioning 6. Good Neighbor Policy 7. Waiver 8. Severability 9. Effective Date: This interim Bylaw shall become effective upon the affirmative vote of the majority of the Cornwall Select Board, subject to the notice and public hearing requirements of 24 V.S.A. §4415. The full text of the interim by-law is available at the Town Clerk’s office or on the town’s website at www.cornwallvt.com. You may call Ben Marks, Selectboard Chair at 462-3536 or Ben Wood, Selectboard Member at 462-3216 with questions about the Interim By-law. 11/30

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Arts + Leisure Section every Thursday in the Addy Indy! EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY 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 Toll-free at 1-800-424-8590. For the Washington, DC area please call HUD at 426-3500.

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THE U.S. Forest Service has closed its Middlebury office, but permits to cut a Christmas tree in the Green Mountain National Forest are still available in Middlebury. The Forest Service will have a staff member who can issue the $5 permits at the Addison County Chamber of Commerce office at 93 Court Street in Middlebury from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays and Fridays. A USFS official said this will save folks the hassle of traveling to federal offices in Rutland or Rochester. And it’s not just Christmas tree permits, he said; other USFS permits, like for cutting cordwood for firewood, will also be available in the Chamber of Commerce even after Christmas. The photo shows Abe Ready of Lincoln showing the permit he purchased to cut his Christmas tree last December.

Sports center (Continued from Page 1) 700 MSC supporters, some of whom have been patrons and contributors to the facility since it opened its doors off Buttolph Drive back in 1993. It was a community effort, spawned by contributions ranging from $1 to $100,000 from area individuals, businesses and civic groups. Friends of Middlebury Hockey — a taxexempt organization with a goal to support youth hockey of all types in the Middlebury area — has been directly involved in the fundraising, construction, expansion and ongoing improvements of the sports center. Organizers many years ago signed over ownership of the center to the town, but the Friends group continues to manage and operate the facility. The Middlebury Amateur Hockey Association has long operated youth hockey programs in the MSC, and has taken a keen interest in its operation, maintenance and improvement. It should also be noted the MSC has evolved into a year-round amenity, used for high school commencement, charity events, and other activities.

Boosters, led by the MSC Commission, have completed several upgrades at the center during the past two decades. It was equipped with a seasonal ice system in 1995, followed by permanent refrigeration in 2000. The community also supported the installation of donated boards and bleachers, as well as a new Zamboni room. In 2008, MSC boosters celebrated the opening of a new, 6,490-foot addition containing four locker rooms with shared bathrooms, along with a skate rental area that also served as a concession stand. This meant athletes no longer had to hobble their way on skates to changing rooms in the adjacent municipal pool house. Almost 10 years later, MSC fans want to “crown” the center with a second-floor transformation that will include: • A heated viewing area for up to 150 spectators to comfortably view the rink action through 60 running feet of 8-foot-tall glass. The area would afford a mixture of seats and standing room. • Bathrooms for spectators. No longer would viewers have to trudge across the MSC property to use the pool house restrooms.

• Free Wi-Fi. • Elevator access. • An administrative office for rink staff. • A multi-purpose room for team meetings, community events, birthday parties and more. • Improved concessions. McLaughlin noted the organization has already raised $115,000 toward its goal through an ongoing silent phased of the campaign. He gave a big shout-out to the Middlebury American Legion Post No. 27 for its $25,000 pledge. “That got us off the ground running,” he said. Organizers hope the project can be started and completed during the 2018-2019 winter season, according to McLaughlin. And he’d like to see some new faces share in the funding effort. “We hope to be able to reach the next generation of people who can enjoy the benefits (of the MSC) going forward,” McLaughlin said. “It’s time for the next generation to step up.” For more information on the project and how to donate, log on to memorialsportscenter.org. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

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