Thursday, Dec. 7, 2017

Back in the day

Unbeaten

Some locals look back 21 years to the time they acted in an all-kid play. See Arts + Leisure.

Good defense and balanced scoring help the Panther women get off to a good start. See Page 1B.

Sleep out Around 40 people spent a cold night near Otter Creek Falls to help the homeless. Page 11A.

ADDISON COUNTY

Vol. 71 No. 49

INDEPENDENT Middlebury, Vermont

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Bray suggests a per-parcel fee to fund clean water

State officials differ on payment plan By JOHN FLOWERS State officials in 2015 approved MONTPELIER — Debate in the Clean Water Initiative (Act Montpelier surrounding efforts to 64), aimed at addressing federal clean up the state’s waterways has concerns about pollution in been surging like the Otter Creek Vermont’s waterways. Federal in April, but legislative authorities regularly action on funding for call upon states to those efforts has been “This proposal develop “Total Daily moving at a glacial says, per Maximum Load pace. (TMDL)” thresholds parcel, With that in mind, for their impaired let’s collect Sen. Chris Bray, waters. TMDL D-New Haven, is the money identifies the maximum suggesting Vermont through that amount of a pollutant adopt a per-parcel (local tax) bill. that a body of water fee that would yield can receive while still $18.8 million of the Add a new meeting water quality estimated $30 million line item to it.” standards. the state will need to — Sen. Chris Bray While state officials raise during each of have zeroed in on the the next 20 years as its water quality problems share of a federally mandated, $2.6 and potential solutions, they have billion cleanup of Lake Champlain yet to agree on a 20-year funding and related waterways. plan for the work that needs to be “Vermonters want clean water, done. Individual lawmakers have faster,” Bray said. “We owe it to sought to protect their respective them to figure out how to get it constituencies as much as possible done.” (See Sen. Bray, Page 12A)

Puttin’ on a show

CHANCE KOENIG, LEFT, Ava Schneider, Ella Kozak, Asa Baker-Rouse, Thea Jackson and Sophie Mason rehearse a scene from the Middlebury Community Players’ production of “How to Eat Like a Child” Tuesday night. The show opens Friday night in the Middlebury Union High School auditorium and runs through Sunday. For more photos see Pages 2A and 4A.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Hundreds gather to honor beloved county firefighter

FIRETRUCKS AND CARS line up along Route 7 in Ferrisburgh before the start of a ceremony honoring Bob Jenkins at the Ferrisburgh fire station Sunday.

Photo by Mark Bouvier

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Firefighters from all corners of Addison County and beyond converged on Ferrisburgh this past Sunday, Dec. 3, to help one of their own celebrate a national tribute earned through years of selfless service to others. They wore different uniforms, but they were all part of the same family, honoring Bob Jenkins — a 49-year member of the Ferrisburgh Fire Department and a man who has helped train generations of area firefighters. “He was like a father to the firefighters of the county,” Dean Gilmore, New Haven’s assistant fire chief, said of Jenkins. And many of his “children” looked on while a tragically frail Jenkins — who is battling cancer — was read a recent entry into the U.S. Congressional Record acknowledging the legendary firefighter’s contributions to public safety in the county he has cherished. (See Firefighters, Page 14A)

Diplomat offers hope to Mexican dairy farm labor By GAEN MURPHREE MIDDLEBURY — Microphone in hand, Consul General Emilio Rabasa addressed Mexican nationals at a mobile consulate event in Middlebury last Saturday, exhorting an assortment of Mexican dairy farm workers to know their rights — rights guaranteed by federal law and the U.S. Constitution. Later that afternoon he stood in a Middlebury barn chatting with two local dairy workers about their lives both at home and here in Vermont. Both workers, as it turns out, were from the state of Chiapas — near where Rabasa himself grew up. “My grandfather had a farm in Chiapas. He raised dairy cattle and pigs. I used to go for vacations,” Rabasa said. “My best gift from my parents during the summer would be to send me with my grandpa to stay at the (See Dipolmat, Page 11A)

$2.5 million fund drive launched for theater’s future THT endowment would support facility upkeep, artistic director

By the way The Mount Abraham Unified School District Board anticipates seeing a draft budget for the coming school year when it meets on Dec. 19 at the Bristol high school. Earlier this fall the MAUSD Board instructed Superintendent Patrick Reen to develop a fiscal year 2019 spending plan that maintains level funding per equalized pupil. The decision to start with (See By the way, Page 14A)

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By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Town Hall Theater officials are midway through a $2.5-million fund drive that would permanently endow a new “artistic director” position as well as ongoing maintenance at Middlebury’s historic downtown hub for community arts and entertainment. Organizers on Monday went public with what they’re calling the Doug and Debby Anderson Endowment. If “It would realized, the $2.5 million nest be a dream egg would generate enough come true, annual interest income to cover an artistic director’s salary and to walk into a litany of annual upgrades to this building 1884-vintage THT building every day and the at the corner of Merchants Row just do what and South Pleasant Street. I was trained Plans call for Doug Anderson — the THT’s first executive to do, which director — to transition to the is to create new artistic director post. That productions would follow what would likely and events.” be a nationwide search for a new — Doug Anderson chief administrator for what has become a thriving venue showcasing local, regional and national talent. “I’m leaving, but I’m not going anywhere,” Anderson quipped during a recent interview in the THT lobby. The change in positions would extend Anderson’s run with an artistic institution he imagined and then spearheaded two decades ago. It was in 1997 that he went on an initial walk-through of what was then the local (See Anderson, Page 13A)

TOWN HALL THEATER boosters are midway through a $2.5 million fundraising effort that will, in part, allow for the creation of a new artistic director position, to be taken by current THT Executive Director Douglas Anderson, seen here.

Independent photo/Trent Campbell

PAGE 2A — Addison Independent, Thursday, December 7, 2017

‘How to Eat Like a Child’

THIS YEAR’S MIDDLEBURY Community Players winter kids show is “How to Eat Like a Child,” a collection of skits and songs about growing up. The all-kid cast has been working hard preparing the show for its opening in the Middlebury Union High School auditorium on Friday night. See the Arts & Leisure section for a story by Elsie Lynn Parini about the production and its previous MCP staging in 1996. Pictured here are, clockwise from top left, Sophie Mason and Ella Kozak; the cast; Clara Chant; Luke Bleich, Ava Schneider, Thea Jackson, Caroline Teague, Julliette Hunsdorfer and Kozak; Bleich; Mason; and Chant, Callie Rees and Jackson.

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Pond Lane building owner names Vt. Gas, contractor in lawsuit By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Gas officials said they anticipate quick resolution to a recent lawsuit filed by an insurance company seeking reimbursement for a claim it paid for cleaning up a building at 38 Pond Lane, Middlebury, after an on-site water/sewer line ruptured while a contractor was installing a natural gas line at the property on Oct. 22, 2014. Sentinel Insurance Co. filed the lawsuit in Chittenden Superior Court on Oct. 9 of this year. Details became public after the three listed

defendants accepted service of the complaint on Nov. 15. Sentinel is naming Vermont Gas, it’s contractor Northeast Underground, and the town of Middlebury as defendants. Bat Re Inc. is listed as the owner of 38 Pond Lane, a structure that houses several tenants, including Seedsheet and Geiger of Austria. Sentinel alleges in its complaint: • A “water and/or sewage line was negligently ruptured by defendant Northeast Underground, which caused substantial flooding” into the building located on the Pond Lane

property. • The flooding caused “significant damage” to the building and its contents. • Northeast Underground was performing work under contract with Vermont Gas and as “an agent” of the town of Middlebury. • The town of Middlebury “approved and authorized” the work, “including means and methods of performance.” Sentinel, in its lawsuit, said it paid off the property owner’s damages claim and is now seeking to get reimbursement from the defendants.

The complaint does not include the specific amount it is seeking to recoup. The company is asking the court for “all costs associated with this action,” including legal fees. The Middlebury selectboard on Nov. 28 went into executive session to discuss a legal matter, but it’s not clear whether the Sentinel issue was the subject of that discussion. The board didn’t take any action following its executive session, according to Middlebury Town Manager Kathleen Ramsay. Vermont Gas spokesperson Elizabeth Parent provided the

following statement about the Sentinel complaint: “In 2014, while working to install pipe in the town of Middlebury, the contractor is alleged to have accidentally hit a sewer line. We believe the work was immediately repaired that same evening. The contractor is expected to take full responsibility, as appropriate, and is working to resolve this issue.” Asked whether Vermont Gas had encountered any other water/sewer line mishaps as it continued to install its Addison Natural Gas Project pipeline, Parents said, “Under normal

construction activities, we work with our contractors to ensure the safe and efficient installation of pipe, including identifying the location of sewer lines and other buried infrastructure. In a few instances, contractors have impacted sewer lines and on those few occasions, the contractor immediately worked to repair the issue.” In this Pond Lane case, the contractor repaired the damaged water/sewer line, according to Parent. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

Addison Independent, Thursday, December 7, 2017 — PAGE 3A

Panton board aims to start town hall repairs By ANDY KIRKALDY PANTON — The Panton selectboard will have bids and drawings in hand at its Dec. 12 meeting for a project that would fix Panton Town Hall’s deteriorating steps up to its main meeting space and replace what board members call its also sub-par handicap-access ramp. Board members said last week they had hoped to have that work done already, but is has been slowed by delays in getting plans. They are still aiming to hire a contractor who could finish the job before Town Meeting Day in March, but even with proposals coming in on Dec. 1 from Middlebury’s Breadloaf Corp. and Brandon’s McKernon Group the timing is uncertain. “We’re always hopeful. We’re playing the best we can with what we’ve got in front of us, but we’re definitely hopeful and excited to look at a couple of bids and get moving,” said board member Zachary Weaver, who led the board’s Nov. 28 meeting while Chairman Howard Hall was out of town. “We’re feeling confident we’re moving in the right direction.” Hall, back in town, described the problems, for which the town has set aside about $55,900 to address. “They (the stairs) are fairly old, and the board’s concern is safety. We want to make sure they’re up to code, and they’re safe, and they’re usable,” he said. “Our handicap ramp definitely needs to be replaced. It’s unsafe, and its construction initially, it was probably not up to par. Again, we need to follow proper business codes and make sure it’s built in the way it’s supposed to be built.” Hall also acknowledged what is reflected in Nov. 14 selectboard minutes, that board members wished the town’s volunteer Town Hall Committee had forwarded plans and identified potential contractors more quickly. “They were supposed to be pro-

duced some time in June,” Hall said. “We want to get this project done before Town Meeting Day. I want to make sure everything is safe and secure on the stairs. I don’t want any problems, or even thoughts of problems, and now we’re kind of behind the 8-ball a little bit here.” Weaver said on Nov. 28 the board agreed to focus on making a decision on the 12th that could allow the project to be completed by March. “It is starting to head in the right direction. We’re getting excited. We just want to pore over the bids and get those on the table,” Weaver said. “We should have them in front of them for the meeting of the 12th, so we’ll have a good idea then.” The current focus does not include replacing town hall’s cupola. In 2016 the town earned a $25,000 Walter Cerf Community Fund grant from the Vermont Community Foundation toward restoring the cupola, which was removed in 2011 in order to save money on a roofing project and since then has been sitting in town hall’s side yard. A project to put the cupola back on top of the building has been estimated at $75,000. The selectboard insisted then that town funding should be put toward what board members believed were more pressing needs, but they said they would support a private fundraising effort for the cupola. OTHER WORK DONE Although the cupola timetable remains uncertain, many other improvements have been made to Panton Town Hall as part of a deal between the town and Green Mountain Power involving its nearby 5-megawatt solar array. That array also includes a proposed battery-powered micro-grid that could provide electricity to town buildings and surrounding homes and businesses in case of an outage. As well as providing that micro-grid and donating to the funds

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PANTON TOWN HALL has seen many energy-efficiency improvements thanks to the town’s partnership with Green Mountain Power. Town officials are now working on fixing the stairs to the hall’s main meeting space and replacing its access ramp. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

that Panton will use toward the stairs and ramp work, GMP also agreed to contribute toward energy-efficiency improvements to Panton’s town hall and garage. That work is just wrapping up. Hall said the upgrades include: • New hot water heaters for town hall and the town garage. • Five heat pumps, one each for the town clerk’s and town garage offices, and three for town hall’s meeting space. • New energy-efficient windows and fiberglass doors for town hall. • Insulation in town hall’s sidewalls and attic. • LED light fixtures throughout town hall and the town garage. • An auxiliary heater for the town hall meeting room, and repairs to the building’s furnace. The town is paying a $240 surcharge on its monthly GMP bill to pay for its share of the improvements, according to Town Clerk and Treasurer Pam Correia. Hall said the energy savings from the upgrades will help to offset that fee, and the fact that Panton did not have to front money was a huge bonus. “Just the windows alone, there’s no way we could have bid all those

items,” Hall said. Those projects also make the meeting space more user-friendly year-round, and Hall said once the building is fully accessible, that space could be used for private as well as town functions. “We’re trying to use that building more, and emphasizing with all the new improvements to it, we want to make it more accessible to the public,” he said. Weaver said all those who have worked on improving Panton Town Hall share those hopes. “That’s obviously the end goal, to have the town hall be a great meeting place Panton can be proud of,” he said. “That’s the end goal for everyone.”

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Bristol residents question plan for natural gas By GAEN MURPHREE dation wasn’t acted upon. BRISTOL — Concerns, questions, At Monday’s meeting, selectboard support for and objections to the an- members clarified two important acticipated extension of the Addison tions in the town’s five-year engageNatural Gas Project pipeline to Bris- ment with the project: tol took up a good part of Monday • On Dec. 17, 2012, the Bristol night’s selectboard meeting. selectboard voted to support Vermont The meeting also brought to light Gas’s proposed extension of natural some townspeople’s concerns about gas to Addison County and to affirm how the selectboard has both made “the town’s desire to take advantage and communicated its Vermont of natural gas if it becomes availGas-related decisions. able,” according to seEarly in the meeting, “Where is there lectboard minutes. Bristol resident Sally room for things to • On Dec. 18, 2012, Burrell gave voice to Town Administrator some of those concerns. be decided? Is it William Bryant sent a “It sounds like you just in how (the letter to the state utility want to have the (pub- gas pipeline is) regulator communicatlic input) meeting after coming through? ing that the selectboard you’ve finalized the Or is there an had “voted to support agreement,” she said. the expansion project, opportunity for “And that seems like including service to you’re not allowing us there to be some Bristol.” The letter then to participate in bring- negotiation on sketched out a series of ing forward concerns whether this conditions. The letter that would be very im- actually happens stated that “the town of portant to the negotia- in Bristol?” Bristol has an interest tions. That’s what I’m in receiving natural gas — Alice Leeds feeling left out of is the service supplied by the opportunity to let you Vermont Gas Compaknow what my concerns are.” ny and commits in principle to being In a similar vein, Bristol resident supplied natural gas service by the Alice Leeds asked: “Is it a given that Vermont Gas Company.” they’re coming through, and we’re In 2012, the selectboard included just talking about details? Where is current selectboard members Joel there room for things to be decided? Is Bouvier and John “Peeker” Hefferit just in how they’re coming through? nan, together with Sharon CompagOr is there an opportunity for there to na, Carol Wells and Alan Huizenga. be some negotiation on whether this Chico Martin, the town’s representaactually happens in Bristol?” tive to the Addison County Regional About 10 people attended Mon- Planning Commission, at that time day’s meeting, in addition to select- told the selectboard that the ACRPC board members. supported the project and urged the The meeting’s most important out- selectboard to vote on the matter come was the selectboard’s decision and craft a letter immediately so the to hold a public forum in February to town’s letter could be submitted to the gather citizen input on bringing nat- regulator the next day along with maural gas to Bristol. The selectboard terials from the ACRPC. also agreed to create a place on the One year later, on Dec. 23, 2013, town website with links to import- the Public Service Board greenlightant Vermont Gas-related documents ed the Addison Natural Gas Project, so citizens could be better informed. issuing a Certificate of Public Good Selectboard members explained that and a Final Order. February was the soonest they could But what those documents mean hold such a forum because December for Bristol isn’t fully spelled out. and January are devoted to developAt its Dec. 4 meeting, the selecting the municipal budget in time for board fielded further questions about town meeting. where the project stands now. The Burrell, who is also a member of selectboard clarified that it was in the Bristol’s Communications Commit- midst of drafting a licensing agreetee, said that, as with the discussion of ment with Vermont Gas. the proposed LED message board in Earlier in the summer, the town had front of Holley Hall this past spring, submitted to Vermont Gas a draft of she felt unsure as to when in the pro- the licensing agreement that had been cess the selectboard would seek pub- put together by Kirby and by selectlic input and concerned that it might board member Michelle Perlee. At not seek citizen input in a timely fash- Monday’s meeting, Town Adminision. trator Valerie Capels said Vermont At the June 26 selectboard meeting, Gas had in the past two weeks rethen-Town Administrator Therese turned that draft marked up with its Kirby recommended that the board own suggested changes. hold a forum at its Sep. 18 meeting. In a follow-up interview, Capels But after Kirby left, that recommen- said the selectboard would discuss

the draft licensing agreement at an upcoming meeting in December. While some safety concerns were discussed at Monday’s meeting, most residents who attended were concerned about the town’s committing to a big infrastructure project that delivered a non-renewable source of energy. Bristol resident Patty Heather-Lea read a prepared statement citing a host of ongoing criticisms of the project including: cost overruns, higher than promised costs to consumers, alleged violations of blasting rules and other component’s of the project’s Certificate of Public Good, the project’s being investigated by the Federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and science showing that methane gas is “not clean.” Said Bristol resident Alice Leeds: “You hear about natural gas as a bridge fuel but our long-term goal is to get into more renewable energy sources. People are getting heat pumps and different kinds of stoves. This is one of a number of options that people consider when they’re thinking how they’re going to heat their home ... We’re putting this major infrastructure, all of this pipe into the ground. It sounds like we have a lot of assurances and a lot of testimonials that it’s reliable. But it seems like a lot to do to the town for one of the options and an option that hopefully down the road we will not be using as we’re going into more renewable sources of energy.” Various selectboard members responded that the project would cost the town nothing and would bring in tax revenue. Burrell questioned to what extent the town was bound by its 2012 letter to the regulator: “Honestly, 2012 — that was so long ago and so much has changed in those years as far as the amazing technologies now and local renewables available. There’s so many changes in the past five years that that 2012 request seems outdated. And it seems like it should be a newly discussed thing with a lot of input from the town about whether we really feel that for Bristol overall ... is that really wise.” Bristol resident Kevin Hanson sees natural gas coming to Bristol as a good thing. “I’m in favor of it,” he said. “Fuel oil creates greater emissions. People talk about fracked this and fracked that, oil as well as gas, so that’s an even playing field as far as I’m concerned.” Hanson said he thought that natural gas prices would be more stable than fuel oil and said that Vermont Gas has put aside a “kitty to prepay for this” so that customers won’t be unduly affected.

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Midd rail project: The prudent step is to stop and reconsider A citizen’s campaign calling for a review of Vermont Agency of Transportation’s proposed $52 million, three-year Middlebury rail project has a straight-forward objection: stop and reassess before pulling the trigger on a project that opponents say is two or three times as expensive as the alternative, and will cause substantial harm to downtown businesses. It’s a clarion call that has been made before, and which was rejected by the powers that be at the AOT. What’s different today? Perhaps more details about the shortcomings of the AOT’s plan, and more clarity about a far less expensive alternative. Specifically, opponents have spent considerable time and research on assessing the current AOT proposal and found that its $52 million price tag may be low. One account reportedly puts the potential price tag at half-again that much or more. While the federal government would still cover the vast majority of the cost (that is if the Republican Congress doesn’t pull the plug on rail transportation projects in a liberal state), it could also up the state costs as well — and there is little extra capacity at the state level. You can bet state budget watchers, from the governor on down, are looking to shave expenses on projects wherever possible. To put this argument in perspective, remember that at its core this project is about replacing two downtown bridges over existing rail tracks. The lowering of the tracks to gain 21-foot clearance — at the AOT’s insistence — is what has turned a $15-$20 million project to $40 million, plus another $12 million to compensate Vermont Railway for its inconvenience and lost revenue. Remove the 21-foot mandate and keep the bridge clearance at its current 18 to 19 feet and the cost drops dramatically — as does the impact to business. What’s perturbing about this argument is that the AOT and past administrations have insisted that their hands have been tied to the 21-foot clearance with no-wiggle room. Zero. Nada. To that end, the selectboard and many residents and businesses in town, pursued what they considered the best option available. And who is to say that the AOT’s plan isn’t already too far along to stop, with engineering, planning, building contracts and other expenses already in the works? Yet, if the clearance height were to change, and opponents maintain that is possible, then it is an entirely different scenario that the town should fully explore. What’s known is that the need for 21-foot height clearance is far-fetched. There are no short-term plans calling for double-stack trains of that height, and even if additional freight or passenger capacity were some day needed in Vermont, the alternative plan (without a tunnel) keeps that as a possibility years down the road. Other issues, however, remain. Water drainage alongside the tracks is a top priority, as is a new rail bed and welded tracks — but those additional priorities are all part of the alternative plan. Details are still not publicly available, but suffice it to say there’s enough evidence to warrant a final public review. So, why not? Let’s ask the AOT to stop, reassess their plan and the alternative plan side-by-side, and explain why spending two, three or four times more makes sense. And this need not be antagonistic. Rather, the public simply deserves to see how a comparative plan might meet the town’s and AOT’s needs, save a bundle of money and a lot of downtown grief, and perhaps even be a tad safer; or perhaps fall short in one of several ways. Whatever the findings, it’s the prudent step to take. Angelo Lynn

A way to trump Trump If you’re sick-to-your-stomach with Trump’s reckless actions that are undermining America’s fight against global warming (not to mention our role in world affairs, the long-term economy, health care, education, immigration, and on and on and on), here’s a positive step you can take to fight back: Share your ideas on what climate policies and solutions Vermont should pursue to meet its clean energy and greenhouse gas reduction goals. You can do that through Vermont’s Climate Action Commission, which is looking for short- and long-term solutions. The commission was established by Gov. Phil Scott this past July and is seeking to develop at least three recommendations by Jan. 1, 2018, that the governor can take action on. There’s a Dec. 14 deadline for submissions. Here’s a juicy fact to stimulate your thinking: According to the Vermont Natural Resources Council, Vermonters spend almost $2 billion a year to heat their homes and get people and products where they need to go. Of that amount, $8 out of every $10, goes out of state into the pockets of fossil fuel giants like Exxon and Shell. If we can bend that curve and keep more of those dollars at home, we can employ more Vermonters and help create a more robust 21st Century economy. A few ideas to ponder, as proposed by VNRC’s Johanna Miller, include: implementing a carbon tax; various ways to use the $18.7 million Environmental Mitigation Trust Funds the state will receive as part of the Volkswagen diesel emissions settlement; expand weatherization investments. Be creative, be innovative, be involved and help Vermont be the state that shows a better way forward. Send your ideas to: anr.vcac@vermont.gov by Dec. 14. Angelo Lynn

A modest answer to train’s height Regarding the height requirement for the Amtrak passenger train of the future — it is unfortunate that Amtrak is unwilling to compromise on the double decker car height requirement. I’m almost embarrassed to suggest as I am sure someone must have thought of this already, as rider numbers increase and the cars get too crowded, simply add another car. Trains can easily get longer. Must they become taller? Lee Beckwith Bristol

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Good dog!

MARY GIBSON AND Toby Baker-Rouse rehearse a scene from the Middlebury Community Players’ production of “How to Eat Like a Child” in the Middlebury Union High School auditorium Tuesday night. The show opens there Friday and runs through Sunday. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

Many traditions light winter’s dark The sun is going to set at 4:15 tonight — or, more precisely, this afternoon. However you parse it, that’s way too early for me. But while it is tempting to resist this basic fact of December life, I’m not sure how much sense that actually makes. Let’s see, me versus the tilt of the earth’s axis ... Who should cry “Uncle” first? Now that we have this question of planetary power dynamics out of the way, how might we move on from here? How do we manage these oh, so short days and these ever-lengthening nights? For everyone, it is different, this managing of darkness and light. Whether solar or political, the time of the sunset or the latest tax bill, it takes By Rebecca creativity and fortitude to make our Kneale Gould way through this season. In the face of December’s darkness, one approach I take is to embrace whatever music and light I can find in any available holiday context. In my own multi-branched spiritual family tree, Christmas, Chanukah and the winter solstice all have their roles to play, and as adults, my siblings and I have each woven new traditions shaped around the partners, children and animals that are in our lives. My mother, for instance, loves to sing through the Christmas Eve service at Emmanuel Church in Boston, but she also always makes sure that the “Chanukah Elf” makes his way annually to our door with a box of rugelach and bagels from Zabars. It’s confusing, I know. Should I try to explain further? I think not. For the Chanukah Elf needs no explanation or justification and if you ever have the good fortune to meet him, you’ll understand why. What most unites my family across our various

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holiday traditions is a shared love of music. My sister likes to go caroling with friends. I lead a Hebrew chant group. My partner plays French horn all over the state of Vermont — and in the living room. And I scarcely have to close my eyes to conjure up an image of my tall, slim brother in high school conducting the marching band and sporting the fuzzy, white drum major’s hat that earned him the nickname “Q-tip” (not the rapper). Meanwhile, my 82-year-old (going on 65) mother currently sings alto in a well-known Boston choir. This is in addition to playing the cello, which she took up in her mid-sixties. We even have a video of Rachel our sheep playing the garden chimes. It is to my music-loving family and particularly my mother that I credit my love of Handel’s “Messiah.” In these last two weeks, it has been singing “Messiah” — along with the anticipation of the Chanukah Elf — that has preserved my spiritual light in this time of seasonal and political darkness. It is, in fact, entirely worth it to be doing my grading (and finishing this column) in the wings of the Barre Opera House just to get a chance to perform with the Vermont Philharmonic Chorus, under the brilliant direction of Lisa Jablow. Music and memory are so deeply intertwined that one never knows precisely when one leaves off and the other begins. While intensely rehearsing this last week, I found myself remembering how cozy and magical it felt to fall half-asleep in a warm pew during a “Messiah Sing” (I must have been around nine) surrounded by grown-ups (See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Sen. Bray gets to the point Of marriage and coffee tables Sen. Chris Bray’s idea to create a per-parcel fee to help pay for the cleanup of Lake Champlain and its related waterways addresses the elephant in the room that others have failed to do: find a way to raise the long-term money needed to accomplish the task. An advisory council formed to make funding recommendations outlined vague suggestions of what to consider in a funding mechanism, but had dodged the nut of the issue. Bray’s proposal raises $18.8 million of the estimated $30 million that needs to be raised each year for the next 20 years as the state’s share of a federally mandated $2.6 billion cleanup of Lake Champlain and related waterways. According to one funding model, the per-parcel fee would amount to about $1 per week, or $52 per year. We profile Bray’s solution in a front-page story, and encourage everyone to read it through to get an understanding of the issue before he brings it up in bill form during the 2018 session. Bray’s solution will undoubtedly need to be fine-tuned. Bugs will be found, workarounds required and compromises made. That’s the legislative process. But someone has to first address the problem head-on. Kudos to Sen. Bray for taking that leap. Angelo Lynn

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Last weekend I decided to refinish our old, banged-up When the really nice handmade coffee table failed coffee table. to materialize, I got to work on the old table. With a Mark objected. measuring tape and a saw, through some miracle that has “You’re not going to do a great job,” he said. This was yet to be explained by science, I managed to cut the legs true. He’s seen me tackle all kinds of projects, only to to exactly the same length. (The more likely scenario lose interest in the process and, in the end, fudge them. was that I’d cut one leg short and find myself taking an “I don’t have to do a great job,” I said. “I just have extra eighth-inch off each leg in turn, again and again, to make it better than it was.” I reminded him of an old until I ended up with just a large cutting board on the saying: “Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.” living room floor.) He reminded me of his own old We’ve had the table for 25 years saying: “Don’t be lazy.” The nerve. now, 15 of them as a coffee table. And But he had a point. In my eagerness Saturday morning I decided that it to go from “before” to “after,” I get needed a new finish on top and a fresh bored with the in-between stuff — coat of paint on the legs. Immediately. the prepping, the work, the finishing. When Mark pointed out my lax I consider it a win if the completed attitude toward quality control, I said, project looks, in the right light, like “You’re right. Maybe you should an improvement. refinish it for me.” By Jessie Raymond This drives Mark nuts. He thinks No dice. you must be willing to spend “Why would I want to waste time several sleepless nights working on that ratty old table,” he said, “when on a project until a magnifying glass couldn’t reveal I could build a really nice one in a day or two?” any imperfections. Since even he admits that’s nearly “You said that 15 years ago.” unattainable, he rarely starts anything at all. He shrugged. “I’ve been busy.” It’s kind of an issue with us. He left me with two choices: I could (a) live with the Take the coffee table. It didn’t start out as a coffee coffee table as it was and seethe with marital resentment table. It started out as a counter-height Shaker-style until one of us died, or (b) refinish it myself. work table. When we no longer needed it in the kitchen, I changed into my work clothes. I suggested we cut the legs down and use it in the living When Mark sands, he makes it a days-long affair, room. methodically going over the whole surface with a coarse“Why mess with that old thing,” Mark said, “when I grit paper and then working his way to finer papers in can build a really nice coffee table in a day or two?” single-grit increments until he reaches a smoothness that (Lesson learned over many years of marriage: “Can” and can be measured in nanometers. “will” are not the same thing.) (See Raymond, Page 5A)

Around the bend

Kudos and thanks to Bruce Hiland and his group of concerned citizens for bringing more attention to the rail project before it is too late. This committed group has spent hours researching the history of this project. Their efforts have brought forth information that we, as concerned citizens, should know and, consequently, be able to act upon accordingly. Bruce’s recent letter to the editor was enlightening and informative. What harm can it do to stop and take another look at this project NOW and the viable alternative that costs taxpayers less money, makes FAR less disruption in our town, meets all safety standards, as well as provides for the future of the slim possibility of ever having doubledecker rail cars on that track. We wholeheartedly agree that NOW is the time to get an objective third party review. This is our delightful, unique town. Is this proposed project the BEST we can do? Let’s take another good look, please. The sooner the better. Jenn and Bob Nixon Middlebury

Lock ’im up now, later is too late Lock him up, lock him up! Yes, I’m referring to the fascist, illegitimately-elected moron in the White House. Hopefully some of the mean-spirited MAGA-heads who voted for this guy are feeling some remorse by now. Donald Jerk Trump and his Repugnantan apologists are ruining our country in every way possible. One doesn’t have to spell out the litany of abuses this administration has heaped on our country and the world, from lying repeatedly, to environmental degradation, to dividing the nation, to promoting hate groups, to eviscerating health care, and now to this unbelievably unfair tax (theft) bill they’re promoting. We need to take America back from this idiot and his ilk now in any way possible. We can’t afford to wait for the next election. Bruce Acciavatti Bristol

Alternative rail plan sparks action Last week’s letter about the VTrans’ rail project triggered requests for more specifics about anticipated disruption and damage. Many readers asked: “What can I do?” Several noted that if VTrans’ plan is followed it will disrupt everyone who works in, lives in, shops in, drives through or otherwise uses Middlebury. This is NOT just a “downtown problem.” First, some facts…. VTrans plans to lower 2/3rd mile of RR track to increase vertical clearance under the two bridges. For 168 years trains have leaked oil, brake fluid and other contaminants on those tracks. That excavation will yield 1,600 dump truck loads of contaminated material which they plan to truck over Water St., Cross St., Main St. and down Seymour St. where it will be dumped — temporarily — near Wright Park alongside Otter Creek. Sometime later it will be moved to a hazardous waste site. During the 10 weeks, June-August, of actual bridge replacement, VTrans’ work plan calls for seven-day-per-week, 24-hours-perday construction with consequent all-night lighting and construction noise, dust and dirt. Car, truck and pedestrian traffic will have to deal with the shutdown of both Merchants Row and Main Street. Virtually closing our downtown for 10 weeks will be a death sentence for some retailers and a (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, December 7, 2017 — PAGE 5A

Finances hang over legislative goals

Serving a dog’s breakfast in D.C. When Gina McCarthy was a the stage for cuts to the economic little girl and would get unneces- safety net. It is a time, as Joan Baez put it sarily wound up about something, her mother would tell her, “Never in a song, of little victories and waste a good worry on something big defeats. The author and activist Naomi you can’t control.” At a time when the Trumpsters Klein coined the term “shock dochave hijacked efforts to combat trine” to describe the tactics that climate change, McCarthy offered the Right is using to steamroll moderate and liberal that coping strategy opposition. The shock to a large crowd of doctrine, she wrote, Vermont community is “the brutal tactic of leaders. She was the using the public’s diskeynoter at Saturday’s orientation following 10th annual confera collective shock ... ence of the Vermont to push through radiEnergy and Climate cal pro-corporate meaAction Conference sures.” Network (VECAN). And so after Trump McCarthy, a powlost by 3 million votes, erhouse who just he becomes president happens to look like and we end up with everyone’s favorite tax “reform” that bengrandmother, is well efits the rich, raises positioned to hand taxes on the poor and out good advice. Havmiddle class, and proing risen through the a passel of corranks of government by Gregory Dennis vides porate loopholes that to become head of the were literally passed Environmental Proin the dead of night. tection Agency under How did we get here? Obama, she led creation of the Republicans in Congress spent Clean Power Plan. That far-reaching plan was aimed at reducing the Obama presidency decrying carbon dioxide emissions and policies that they said would grow slowing climate change. It was the federal deficit and wreck the a keystone of the Paris climate economy. That didn’t happen, of course. agreement. But today the new tax legislaWhich Trump has now said he tion will, according to Congress’s will abandon. I attended the VECAN confer- own nonpartisan experts, add at ence looking for a healthy dose least $1 trillion to the deficit. So where were the self-proof optimism. Amid a long string of record warming, Vermont claimed deficit hawks on this isstands out as a leader in com- sue? Rushing to vote against a batting global warming. I want- budget buster? Of course not. With the exceped to hear about expanding solar and wind power, cleaning up the tion of one Republican, every transportation and heating sec- GOP senator backed the tax bill. tors that account for most of our Even Maine’s Sen. Susan Coldangerous carbon emissions, and lins, who had opposed the repeal putting a realistic price on carbon of Obamacare, voted for the bill pollution through the new ES- — despite the fact that it would repeal the individual mandate on SEX plan. I heard plenty of that at Satur- health insurance and raise average day’s conference. Some grim opti- premiums by 10 percent. What a dog’s breakfast this is. mism that day, too, with the news of Gen. Michael Flynn’s guilty Including the lie that it will generplea. He confessed that he lied ate so much economic growth as to the FBI to cover up the Trump to pay for itself. That so called Laffer Curve campaign’s likely illegal interactions with the Russian government. economic theory has been thorBut here’s how it goes these oughly discredited. But it gets days for so many of us who love trotted out every time the best our country and hate what is hap- Congress money can buy wants to pening to it. give more tax breaks to big corpoAt the same time hundreds of rations and the rich. us gathered to celebrate and stratBeyond the specific flaws of the egize how we can successfully tax bill, what is most galling is the adapt to climate change, Congress hypocrisy over the deficit. was moving to enact a tax bill There are plenty of good reathat ignores global warming and sons to be concerned about defigives trillions of dollars to rich cit spending in the long run. But people — while brazenly setting the GOP’s willingness to hammer

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against deficits under Obama — and to now explode the deficit to benefit the rich donors who fund campaigns — is a sickening sight. To make matters worse, this spectacle has been cheered on by senators trotting out the same old prejudices against the less fortunate. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch said it’s hard to fund the Children’s Health Insurance Program — which covers 9 million kids — “because we don’t have money anymore.” And then he turned around and voted to blow a huge hole in the budget through tax cuts for the richest Americans. Hatch compounded this outrage by saying he had “a rough time” helping “people who won’t help themselves, won’t lift a finger and expect the federal government to do everything.” Puh-lease. Foghorn Grassley, the Iowa Republican, justified one tax break for the rich by saying it “recognizes the people that are investing, as opposed to those that are just spending every darn penny they have, whether it’s on booze or women or movies.” You can almost feel the sweat of contempt for ordinary Americans as it drips off these bought-andpaid-for senators. Next up are two more items on the right-wing agenda: Big increases to the military budget. Despite the fact that the U.S. already outpaces most other countries combined in “defense” spending. Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. President Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other right-wingers have made it clear they’re going after these safety-net programs. They didn’t even bother to get the tax bill passed before they teed up “entitlement reform.” I’d like to offer some much needed optimism at this point. But it’s a sad state of affairs when the nation’s best hope seems to rest in the removal of a mentally unstable president who calls climate change a hoax. And who appears to have conspired with the Russians to get elected. American voters will have the opportunity to weigh in on all this madness in next November’s elections. But in the meantime, it’s going to be a long 11 months. Gregory Dennis’s column appears here every other Thursday and is archived on his blog at www.gregdennis.wordpress.com. Email: gregdennisvt@yahoo.com, Twitter: @greengregdennis.

Hiland letter (Continued from Page 4A) hardship for the extended community. This isn’t a matter of business owners “making a little less profit.” They will be unable to pay employees, their rent and other operating expenses. That means lost jobs and closed businesses. Compare the $12 million VTrans budgeted to re-route freight traffic to not one dollar to protect Middlebury businesses. The alternative…. Common sense and pragmatism demand the goal should be to minimize cost, damage and disruption while constructing permanent bridges and fixing the tracks. The alternative approach meets safety objectives, avoids the damage and disruption, takes far less time and costs a small fraction of the $52 million VTrans approach. It uses Carrara pre-cast components (as with the Cross St. bridge) to

replace the bridges at their current clearance and includes the needed upgrades to rail bed, drainage and tracks. There should be no delay since the alternative is far less complex. The temporary bridges are safe and the alternative takes dramatically less time to complete while accommodating any needs VTrans imagines in the far distant future. What can I do? Tell the Governor. The message is clear: “Please stop this extravagant, destructive project. Don’t waste our $$$ and don’t waste our community.” Email, write or call Governor Phil Scott. He listens and it’s easy to do. • Email via his website: governor.vermont.gov/contact-us/message, • Write to: Governor Phil Scot, 109 State St. Pavillion, Montpelier,

VT 05609 • Call: 802-828-3333. Send a copy to your legislators: • Sen. Claire Ayer — cayer@leg. state.vt.us. • Sen. Chris Bray — cbray@leg. state.vt.us. • Rep. Amy Sheldon — asheldon@leg.state.vt.us. • Rep. Robin Scheu — RScheu@ leg.state.vt.us. Your voice is important and it needs to be heard! Bruce Hiland Middlebury

in the service of ultimately having a fabulous (Baroque) time. Thank you, Beverly Taylor and Mrs. Di. It is easy to get Grinchy when the days are short and holiday commercialism seems to lurk on every corner. And my own thoughts, indeed, went back to politics when the baritone soloist intoned, “For behold, darkness shall cover the earth.” But music, and the collective creativity it takes to produce it, carries me through the deep midwinter every time. May it also carry many of you. Rebecca Kneale Gould is a writer and associate professor of Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, focusing on comparative religion and the environmental humanities. She lives in Monkton, where she tends — and is tended by — a small flock of adorable sheep.

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Hand-written Christmas cards bring long-lasting cheer Every year even before Halloween my mail box on my front porch begins to be stuffed with ads for things I don’t need or want. There are catalogues for things I’ve never needed and companies I’ve never heard of. After sorting out the few bills I receive, the rest goes into the recycling bin. The poor postal courier’s bag gets heavier and heavier. As October becomes November and then December, there appears to be something new in my mail box. I begin to sort through the mail with more care. Stuck between the auto dealer’s ad and a catalogue

The Addison Independent’s recap of the Nov. 27 meeting of the Mount Abraham Middle/High School’s Renovation Committee meeting was superb. As the author noted, the session was a lively and yet respectful discussion full of energy and tension. The Addy Indy article captured all of this very well.

you laugh as she tells of their misadventures. I leave all of my cards in my basket on the sideboard all winter long. It cheers me up on a cold, dark winter day to read them over again and once more feel the holiday spirit they bring. Three cheers for the U.S. Postal Service that brings these greetings to us. Much thanks to the postal carriers who trudge through snow with their sack on their back to bring joy to us. Who ever said there was no Santa Claus? Miriam Hardy Middlebury

Special thanks to all who made the meeting so! As reported in the article, the top vote getters from the facilitated process were “Fiscal Responsibility” and “Community Engagement.” More specifically, the ‘engagement’ sought included community vision, empowerment, and ownership.

Perhaps the best drama of the evening was when Lincoln’s Steve Harris attempted to insert a bold new approach for addressing the finances and deferred maintenance of our aging relic. In a nutshell, Steve proposed that we recognize that the MAUM/HS building has (See Brynn letter, Page 7A)

Oh, well. I’d keep a runner on the table, and maybe no one would notice. Mark wasn’t having it. He tolerates many of the annoying things I do by ignoring them — or by being genuinely oblivious, which requires much less effort — but he could not let this pass. Griping but resigned, he re-sanded the entire top and put a smooth, bubble-free finish on it, so all I had to do was paint the legs. What a guy.

In the end, the coffee table looked just like the “after” picture I had envisioned, except for a few runs on the legs where I had gotten sloppy with the paint. When Mark pointed them out, I said, “I don’t care. I refuse to let perfect be the enemy of good.” “I get that,” he said. “But maybe, once in a while, you should try letting good be the enemy of crappy.” Sounds like way too much work to me.

Raymond (Continued from Page 4A) I just like to get the sanding over with as fast as possible. Having accomplished that tedious task — in record time! — I opened the can of polyurethane. I dreaded the laborious process of slowly applying the finish to avoid generating bubbles. Long story short: I generated bubbles. A lot of bubbles. The pebbly finish didn’t even meet my low standards.

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abuse situation is damaging to the fiber of Vermont’s society and as a result we cannot put things on hold. We must press ahead in finding solutions for those afflicted, and prevent more people from succumbing to these sicknesses. • I support the Paid Family Leave Bill as passed by the House last year. • Clearly defining who is an independent contractor will be a big plus for many small businesses. • And finally I plan on continuing to sponsor and support legislation to increase the availability of sound affordable/workforce housing. In 2017 we had a new governor, House speaker and Senate protem. The session was relatively non-eventful as the parties became comfortable with their roles. In 2018 the financial challenges that face us could put the various power brokers at odds with each other on important issues. Time will tell if this happens. My hope is that we are able to work out what differences that may crop up. Yes, politics is played in Montpelier; however, we aren’t the gang in Washington.

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Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) who seemed to thrive on singing endless cascades of sixteenth notes in the same way that I thrived on baseball and ice cream. Soon I, too, would come to add sixteenth notes to my list. At our performance last Friday, while galloping through the thorny rhythms of the final “Amen” section — sometimes hanging on for dear life — other memories flashed through me. I paid mental homage to wonderful choral directors I had sung under in high school and college, teachers from whom I learned precision, discipline and the cardinal rule of never taking your eyes off of the conductor. My high school and college conductors deployed a stern sense of discipline, but they were also softies underneath. Their strict devotion to discipline was always

What are some of the major agen- ed States is in one of the longest da items for the coming Legislative economic growth periods in the session? The list includes: funding nation’s history. While Vermont’s the Clean Water Act, continuing to economy is advancing, growth has focus on mental health been anemic. Without a and opioid abuse, advancmore vigorous increase in ing paid family leave, the state’s GDP (growth the $15 minimum wage, domestic product), plus carbon tax, independent job and wage growth, our contractor clarity, and afability to pay for existing fordable/workforce houspromises, to say nothing ing. As we consider all of new programs, is made these matters and more, much more difficult. the financial realities and Finally any federal leguncertainties surroundislative actions that reing the state’s finances duce federal funding to will be hanging over our Vermont could make our heads. job to protect the most by Rep. Fred Baser, vulnerable and at the same There are three major R-Bristol financial situations on the time fund other promises horizon for 2018. First is and goals a difficult task. a likely 8- or 9-cent increase in the To put this in prospective, federal state’s education property tax. This dollars equal about 35 percent of the means about a $160 increase in the state’s appropriations. property tax on a home appraised Despite these financial uncertainat $200,000. In our efforts to make ties I hope we will see action on Vermont more affordable this tax many measures: • We need to make a funding increase is not good news. The second financial reality to strategy to meet obligations in imconsider is the lack of strong growth proving our waterways. • The mental health and opioid in the state’s tax revenue. The Unit-

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Obituaries

Sarah Arthur, 78, formerly of Orwell

ELK PARK, N.C. — Sarah Lund (Sally) Hyde Arthur, 78, former Orwell resident, passed away peacefully at her home in Elk Park, N.C. on Dec. 2, 2017. Sally was born at Riverside Hospital, Jacksonville, Fla., to James Kilbourne and Gladys Hyde on March 10, 1939. She was preceded in death by her parents, her sister, Susan H. (George) Grimes, and her cousin, Margaret (Peggy) Padgett. She will be deeply missed and lovingly remembered by her devoted husband, Tom S. Arthur and by her three daughters, Patricia (Roger) Owens, Sarah Arthur (Sonya Caughron), and Ellen (Bill) Squires. Also left to cherish her memory are her grandchildren, Brigid (Buddy) Wallace, Roger Owens Jr., Brooke Owens, Lora (Michael) Rabon, Julia Hicks, Sally (Josh) Lanning, Lucy Beck and Savannah Caughron; her GERARD H. BENOIT great-grandchildren, Shaylee, Tre, Charlee, Cade and Joshua ll James, Evelynn and Rowan; and (Boomer); brother-in-law, David many nieces and nephews. (Audria) Arthur; her nieces and A funeral service will be held nephews Michael, Ann Marie, Friday, Dec. 8, at 10 a.m. at St. Allen and Julie; her cousins Howard Mary’s Church in Middlebury. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society or the American Heart Association. To send online condolences to his family visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊ MIDDLEBURY — Carolyn W. Trudeau, 82, a life-long Middlebury area resident, passed away in the comfort of her family on Nov. 23, 2017. Carolyn was born in Rutland, Vt., daughter of Raymond and Alice Willis. She was predeceased by her husband of 50 years, Gerard F. Trudeau in 2013, and leaves her daughters; Michelle Trudeau and Nicole Doolan; her son Mark Trudeau; five grandchildren, Keara and Haleigh Doolan and Jesse, Andre, and Jack Trudeau; and brother William Willis. Carolyn was a true Vermonter. After being a legal secretary in her early years, she went on to raise her family and pursue her passions of antiquing, gardening, arts and crafts, and volunteering in several organizations in Middlebury. During this time she was also involved in assisting her husband with his businesses. In addition, she devoted numerous years volunteering with the Lake Dunmore/Fern Lake Association. Her contribution was her devotion to conserving these lakes. When in CALVIN R. REYNOLDS Town, she also enjoyed visiting with people while she was out and about. VT 0 5753. A private internment will be held Online condolences at sanderson- at a later time. In lieu of a memorial service, those who wish to extend funeralservice.com.◊

Gerard Benoit, 93, Bridport BRIDPORT — Gerard H. Benoit, 93, passed away Thursday, Nov. 30, 2017, at his home in Bridport surrounded by his family. He was born Aug. 3, 1924, in Crysler, Ontario, Canada, the son of Felix and Hermaline (Charlebois) Benoit. He was a member of St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury. He owned and operated a successful trucking business for over 40 years. His hobbies were going to the races, horseshoes and bowling. He is joining his wife of 61 years, Evelyn L. Benoit, who predeceased him on March 29, 2015. He was also predeceased by his parents and 14 brothers and sisters and their spouses. Gerard is survived by his six children, Dennis Benoit and wife Donna Woods, Christine Wells and husband Paul, Luann Benoit, David Benoit, Brian Benoit and wife Naomi, Lisa Foster and husband David; grandchildren Erik and wife Jennifer, Jessica and husband Tom, Justin, Caryn and husband Rob, Sarah and husband Jud, Joshua, Alyshia and husband Matt, Tabitha and husband Chris, Britani and husband Jonathan, Josiah, Alexa and husband Mitch, and Kylie; great grandchildren

SARAH LUND HYDE ARTHUR Padgett and Tommy Padgett; and her lifelong friend, Mary (Tommy) Thrift. A memorial service will be held in the springtime. Online condolences may be sent to the Arthur family at.hamptonfuneralnc.com.◊

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Calvin Reynolds, 74, Bristol BRISTOL — Calvin R. Reynolds, 74, died early Saturday morning, Dec. 2, 2017, at the University of Vermont Medical Center. He was born January 23, 1943 in New Britain, Conn., the son of Leigh E. and Alice (Mahannah) Reynolds. Calvin was a Veteran serving with the United States Army in Vietnam. He worked for Munson Earth Moving Corporation for over 37 years. Calvin enjoyed gardening, hunting, cars, animals and was an avid N.A.S.C.A.R. fan. He is survived by his two daughters Angela Reynolds of Bridport and Melissa Reynolds of Shelburne, by his brother Morris Reynolds and wife Joyce of Florida, a niece and a nephew. Services will be private and at the convenience of the family. Memorial contributions may be made to the Homeward Bound Addison County Humane Society at 236 Boardman Street, Middlebury,

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CAROLYN W. TRUDEAU their respects to the family may do so by posting an on-line condolence through Sanderson’s Funeral Home in Middlebury or by sending a personalized note to CWT c/o Nicole T. Doolan at P.O. Box 1338, Derry, NH 03038. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions can be made to the Addison County Home Health & Hospice, P.O. Box 754, Middlebury, VT 05753.◊

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John Fitzgerald, 71, Salisbury SALISBURY — John “Jack” Fitzgerald, 71, died suddenly at home Saturday afternoon, Dec. 2, 2017, with his wife by his side. Jack was born June 13, 1946, in Bronx, N.Y., the son of Edward and Eileen (Handley) Fitzgerald. His family moved to Rochelle Park, N.J., when he was young, and he grew up there with his sisters and good friends, hanging around at Arcola Pool and the Sandpit. Jack was a graduate of Hackensack High School, Hackensack, N.J., class of 1965. After high school he served in the United States Marine Corps. He felt fortunate to have been stationed on Vieques Island, Puerto Rico during the Vietnam War, and was very proud of having served our country. On April 1, 1973, he married Suzanne Haeser at St. Joseph’s Church in Bogota, N.J. Their wedding date perfectly reflected who he was — always a jokester. Jack and Suzanne spent their early years together in New Jersey and in 1979 moved to Salisbury, Vt., where he spent the next 40 years of his life. While he could never lose the name “flatlander,” Vermont was certainly where his heart was. He loved being outside, taking care of the pigs, cows and chickens, or riding on his motorcycle, but most of all, summers by the pool with ZZ Top blasting away in the background. He founded Business Telephone Systems (BTS) in the early 1980s and loved making the rounds in town, especially at Middlebury College. When he became sick, his sons, John and Jim, took over the business, which was very gratifying and a great source of pride for Jack. He was a storyteller by nature and could often be found at Middlebury Beef in the mornings or Amigos on Friday nights telling one of his tales. Jack loved being surrounded by his family, most notably his ten grandchildren who knew him as “Pa.” He took great pride in his children and his work, and cherished the community around Middlebury. Jack was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church. In his later years, he spent a few days a week at Elderly Services Project Independence. Jack was an avid reader, enjoyed playing chess and never lost his love of Harleys,

JOHN “JACK” FITZGERALD classic cars and hot rods. He is survived by his wife Suzanne Fitzgerald of Salisbury; by his children Kelly Griffin and husband Patrick of Essex, Vt., John Fitzgerald and wife Casey of Salisbury, James Fitzgerald of Addison, Kate Nelson and husband Rowan of Weybridge, and Kristine Fitzgerald and companion Alex Hurt of Livingston, Mont.; by his two sisters, Maura Lester and husband Sam of New Haven and Eileen Hodges and companion Bill Coleman of Rochelle Park, N.J.; and by his grandchildren Jayden, Reese, Willow, Aidan, Nilah, Stella, Jack, Alexandra, Harper, and Georgia. He was predeceased by his parents. Visiting hours will be held on Friday, Dec. 8, from 4-6 p.m. at the Sanderson-Ducharme Funeral Home, located at 117 South Main Street, Middlebury. A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated on Saturday, Dec. 9, at 10 a.m. at St. Mary’s Catholic Church with the Rev. Luke Austin as the celebrant. Burial will follow in St. Mary’s Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to Elderly Services Project Independence at 112 Exchange Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, or to Special Olympics Vermont, 16 Gregory Drive, Suite 2, South Burlington, VT 05403-6015. Online condolences at sandersonfuneralservice.com.◊

Bristol churches join in live nativity to help food shelf BRISTOL — Six local churches will participate in a live outdoor nativity on Sunday, Dec. 17, from 4-5 p.m. on the Bristol town green. The public are invited to take a “Journey to Bethlehem,” beginning at the War Veterans Memorial. Scenes depicting the Christmas story will be portrayed by members of six community churches: New Haven Congregational Church, First Baptist Church of Bristol, St. Ambrose Catholic Church, Federated Church of Bristol, Lincoln United Church and Bristol Christian Fellowship. At the end of the journey the New

Haven Bell Choir and other musicians will entertain with festive music while participants warm up with some hot chocolate and holiday treats at the First Baptist Church of Bristol. Although the event is free, donations are appreciated for the local Have a Heart Food Shelf. If the weather is predicted to be 10 degrees, including wind chill, the music and treats will still be offered, but there will be no guided tours. Watch the Bristol Front Porch Forum for announcements or call 802-453-6302.

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Five drivers receive DUI citations ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police tagged five motorists for driving under the influence, or DUI, this past weekend. Four of the citations were issued in Addison County, and one Addison County man received his citation in Rutland County. First, on Friday, Dec. 1, at just before 6 p.m., state police were called to help out at a one-car rollover crash on Forrest Road near Snake Mountain Road in Weybridge. The trooper said driver Lauren Jellison, 35, of Addison was unhurt by the crash but she showed signs of impairment. He screened Jellison for DUI and eventually cited her for DUI. The same trooper encountered another DUI case just a few hours later. State police got a report of a wayward vehicle, and at a quarter past midnight on Dec. 2, the trooper found a vehicle parked in a field at the intersection of Plank Road and Burpee Road in Bristol. Police report that the driver, identified as 34-yearold Joey-Lynn Maness of Middlebury, exhibited signs of impairment. Police cited Maness for DUI. Bristol and Vergennes police assisted in the case. Within an hour, at approximately 1:13 a.m. that Saturday morning, troopers were notified of a one-car crash on Route 22A in West Haven near Devil’s Bowl. Driver Jordan Handy, 22, of Orwell told police that he drove off the road to avoid collision with a deer; his car struck a culvert. He suffered minor injuries and the 2003 Nissan Exterra he was driving sustained extensive damage. Police cited Handy for driving under the influence of alcohol. Later that morning, at 8:26 a.m., a different trooper observed a vehicle traveling northbound on Route 22A in Shoreham at a high rate of speed. The trooper reported that she clocked the vehicle at 88 mph in a 50 mph zone, so she stopped the car and took driver David Sears, 51, of Fort Ann, N.Y., into custody. After noticing signs of impairment, she had Sears evaluated by a Drug Recognition Expert and ended up citing him for speeding and DUI-drugs. Finally, at around 1:25 a.m. on Sunday morning, state police stopped a motor vehicle on Route 22A in Addison and ended up citing Cody Steele, 25 of Shoreham for DUI. Separately, state police issued a report of the traffic safety program they ran during the Thanksgiving holiday. During the five-day Operation C.A.R.E. (Crash Awareness and Reduction Effort), Nov. 22-26, troopers across Vermont conducted high-visibility enforcement and worked collaboratively with other state, county and local law enforcement agencies to reduce overall crashes on our highways and encourage safe driving behavior. During this period Vermont State Police statewide dealt with 58 motor vehicle crashes; they involved: • Property damage only – 48. • Injury – 9. • Fatal – 1. • Alcohol/drug related – 7. Other state police activity in this

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period included: • DUI arrests – 24. • Speeding violations – 516. • Safety belt violations – 9. • Motorist assists – 42. Troopers made contact with 26 percent more drivers in 2017, for motor vehicle violations, then over the same period in 2016. There was a 48 percent reduction in reported motor vehicle collisions over the same period in 2016, when 108 crashes were reported. Through Nov. 28, Vermont has experienced 65 motor vehicle deaths in 2017. Approximately 53 percent of those fatalities were not wearing seat belts. The Vermont State Police asks all those who will be travelling over the December holidays to remember that safe, responsible driving is the priority for every trip. In other recent activity, troopers: • On Nov. 25 at approximately 1:30 p.m. went to a one-car crash on Route 74 in Shoreham. Police report that Christy Fay Robtoy, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., told them she saw another vehicle coming at her in her lane of travel, she crossed the centerline and left the roadway. Robtoy was transported to Porter Medical Center for observation and evaluation. This crash is still under investigation, anyone with information on it is asked to contact the New Haven VSP barracks at 388-4919. • On Nov. 26 at approximately 1:20 p.m. responded to a one-car crash on Ripton Road near Dow Road in Lincoln. Police report that William Freegard, 47, of Starksboro was driving a 1998 Toyota SR5 that experienced mechanical difficulty, left the road and crashed into a tree head on. A passenger was taken to UVM Medical Center for evaluation and treatment. The Toyota sustained heavy front-end damage. Troopers were assisted on scene by the Lincoln Fire Department and the Bristol Area Rescue Squad. • On Nov. 27 at approximately 7:50 a.m. stopped a car on Route 7 in Pittsford and cited Bryton Fontaine, 20, of Brandon for speeding. Police claim Fontaine was driving 82 mph in a 50 mph zone. • On Dec. 3, at approximately 9 a.m. were dispatched to a family fight at a Whiting home on Route 30. Police investigated and determined that Kyle LaFountain, 30, of Whiting was involved in a verbal altercation on Dec. 3 and a physical altercation on Dec. 1, where LaFountain was allegedly the aggressor. Troopers cited LaFountain for domestic violence. • On Dec. 3 at approximately 10:18 a.m. stopped a vehicle driven by Sara Kimball, 22, of Shoreham on Route 30 in Middlebury for not having a Vermont inspection sticker. Police cited Kimball for driving with a criminally suspended license.

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Vermont State Police release a daily log of a selection of their activities. In Addison County, those activities included: • Nov. 27, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 7, New Haven. • Nov. 27, vandalism, Orchard Terrace, Bristol. • Nov. 27, larceny, Hillside Drive, Starksboro. • Nov. 27, alarm, Route 7, Leicester. • Nov. 27, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 7, New Haven. • Nov. 28, 911 hang-up, Shard Villa Road, Salisbury. • Nov. 28, citizen assist, River Road at Route 116, New Haven. • Nov. 29, directed patrol, River Road and Route 7, New Haven. • Nov. 30, sex offender registry check, Route 7, New Haven. • Nov. 30, motor vehicle disturbances, Court Street, Middlebury. • Nov. 30, citizen assist, Route 7, New Haven. • Nov. 30, suspicious person or circumstance, Lovers Lane, Bristol. • Nov. 30, sex offender registry check, Route 7, New Haven. • Nov. 30, agency assist, Dog Team Road, New Haven. • Nov. 30, citizen assist, Richville Road, Shoreham. • Dec. 1, citizen assist, Green Street, Vergennes. • Dec. 1, ATV incident, Quaker Village Road, Weybridge. • Dec. 2, traffic crash, Route 125 and Natural Turn Pike, Ripton. • Dec. 2, consent search, Route 22A and Farr Cross Road, Addison. • Dec. 2, agency assist, Victory Street, Vergennes. • Dec. 3, directed patrol, Route 7, New Haven. • Dec. 3, agency assist, Route 7, New Haven. • Dec. 3, citizen dispute, Ripton Road, Lincoln. • Dec. 4, citizen assist, Maple Street, Waltham. • Dec. 4, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 7 and Town Hill Road, New Haven. • Dec. 4, citizen assist, Route 22A, Shoreham. • Dec. 4, motor vehicle disturbances, Route 7 at the New Haven/Middlebury town line. • Dec. 4, citizen assist, Route 116 South, Bristol. • Dec. 4, alarm, Southwick Road, New Haven. • Dec. 4, citizen dispute, Cutting Hill Road, Shoreham.

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Letters to the Editor Proposed Middlebury rail project is unnecessary, unsafe I should like to add my voice to that of Bruce Hiland and the others who continue to describe the shortcomings and dangers inherent in the Middlebury “train-tunnel” project as currently proposed. While Jim Gish and others have done their best to mitigate the problems, this does not change the fact that the tunnel arrangement as currently proposed is unsafe and unnecessary. It has been noted that a derailment and explosion in the proposed tunnel

would likely damage a considerable part of the downtown with attendant loss of life. It has been documented that the track clearance has already been changed from twenty-three feet to twenty-one feet and that nothing in the statutes precludes a further change to eighteen feet. At that clearance level we would be spared days of blasting and disruption and could have a safer arrangement that would also provide for proper storm water removal.

Please, fellow citizens, although you may be focused on the Holiday Season, please take a moment to write to the Governor, your legislators and the “Addy” to add your voice to those opposing this assault on our community. Yes, the New Year with all that it offers is coming, but so is the summer of 2018 and another stage in this unnecessary project that will affect us all. Max Kraus Middlebury

Pondering why my sunny disposition is now gloomy? I’m not a person prone to depression, but over the past several months my mood has changed. A cloud has drifted over my usually sunny (or at least partly sunny) outlook. To figure out what was going on with me (I’m a retired psychologist) I did an internal check that included the following: Is my wife happy? Yes as best as I can figure out. Finances OK? Not bad — could always be better. Health issues? Yeah. Aches here and there. The norm for 74. Golf game improving? Nope. But spring is just around the corner (optimistic view) and the perfect swing is just a few months away.

Extended family OK? Yep. So, what’s going on? Why the depressed mood? Answer: It’s TRUMP. Every day — literally EVERY day — this head of the most powerful country in the world (used to be the most influential country in the world) commits another act that I would only expect to take place in Seinfeld’s “Bizarro” world. A few examples: • Trump lies at least once a day (Obama was not born in the United States, the new tax code will not benefit him…..etc., it’s a long list). • He encourages racist groups on a weekly basis (e.g., the recent British First re-tweets). He has

strained relations with our allies — the Brits for example (see above). • He has zero regard for women’s well-being (he has refused to condemn the Alabamian candidacy of Moore, indeed supports it.) • His behavior is unacceptable and dangerous. Will his presidency bring to our nation nuclear war, the resurgence of the KKK, a further increase in the economic gulf between the “one percent” and rest of us, and, no safe place for women? It’s depressing! Write Sens. Leahy and Sanders and Congressman Welch. Maybe they can help remove this president from office. Bill Brown Bristol

optimized and MAUM/HS students would be actively engaged just as they were when the wood heating plant was added several years back. Steve’s Five-Town community incubator idea is a brilliant one and worth pondering in whole or at least in part. My tweak would be that the new partnership not be simply a public-private one. These often end up with the community getting the short end of the stick. A public-private-commons partnership might better serve the needs of the Five-Town community in general and MAUM/HS in particular. It could create a venue where all of the citizens, residents, and/ or commoners who see MAUM/HS as home to their community-based

theater productions, master’s swim, Addison United soccer, and much more could be actively engaged in creating the vision and holding a portion of the ownership. This approach is at the very core of ‘polycentric governance’ for which Elinor Ostrum won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2009. Perhaps our Five-Town community could open up to that possibility. It might just put us on the map and on the road to a renewed MAUM/HS organism, fiscal responsibility and community vision, empowerment, and part ownership with a new gym and/or field house thrown in for good measure. David Brynn Bristol

Brynn letter (Continued from Page 5A) served its purpose and that it should be replaced rather than renovated. To accomplish this, Steve suggested that the building be sold to another entity and portions be leased back for as long as needed. He suggested that a new, one-story building measuring about 250 feet by 250 feet be built just north of the existing one and connected to the old one. The new building could include a second gym and space enough to serve 750 students. It could be built for $17 million or so. Not everyone bought Steve’s numbers but they seem realistic to me if the design is a prudent one. Hopefully local contractors and building materials would be

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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. Santaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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 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. Midd Kid Dance holiday fair in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 3-7 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. Free. Maiden Vermont â&#x20AC;&#x153;Come Fly With Usâ&#x20AC;? in Middlebury.

Saturday, Dec. 9, 4 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. A holiday spectacular from local favorite womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A Christmas Carolâ&#x20AC;? out loud in Shoreham. Saturday, Dec. 9, 6 p.m., 279 Platt Memorial Library, Main St. A Readerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Theater presentation. Talented local voice actors set the tone for a warm season by giving a staged reading of Charles Dickensâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Christmas classic. Light refreshments will be served. King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Dec. 9, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center, 3279 Route 7. A sandwich supper and followed by an evening of fun and card games. Free and open to the public. Public Skating in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 9, 8-10 p.m., Memorial Sports Center, 296 Buttolph Dr. Concession stand open.

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Holiday Concert to Help Others in Vergennes. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church, 30 South Water St. Performers: Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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, Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organist of the year, at the Churchâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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: Vermontâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Early Voice in Lincoln. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., United Church of Lincoln, 23 Quaker St. The small vocal ensemble will perform â&#x20AC;&#x153;Alleluya: Christmas Hymns and Motetsâ&#x20AC;? with a Magnificat by Nicolas Gombert, motets by other 16th-century composers such as di Lasso and Sweelink, and settings of old German Christmas hymns. Suggested donation $13. More info at lunalove@gmavt.net, 802-453-3513 or amaryllisvt.org. Cooie DeFrancesco in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Come hear Cooieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear and vibrant vocal stylings bring lyrics to life, whether sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s singing traditional tunes, popular songs, or originals. Part of The Residenceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sunday Music series. Free, open to the public and handicap accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com. Annual caroling party in South Starksboro. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2-4 p.m., Jerusalem Schoolhouse, 782 Jerusa;em Rd. Caroling, cookies and good holiday cheer. Santa will arrive at 2:45 p.m. to greet kids old and young. More info at 802-453-4573. 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 Wollam-Berens, 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. Addison County Democratic Committee meeting in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 11, 7-8:30 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman will be the featured speaker. All are welcome to attend.

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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. Shepardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pie community dinner in New Haven. Tuesday, Dec. 12, 6:30 p.m., New Haven Congregational Church, Town Hill Rd. Choice of meat or vegetarian shepardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s pie. Meal is free, but donations

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Chess instruction and friendly play in Middlebury. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 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. Public Menorah lighting in Middlebury. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 5:30 p.m., town green. Community celebration will follow. The Festival of Sankta Lucia in Middlebury. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7-8 p.m., St. Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, on the town green. Celebrate the traditional Swedish Christmas festival, with costumed children, youth and adults from Orwell Congregational Church, St. Paulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catholic Church, Orwell, St. Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and the Congregational Church of Middlebury. St. Lucia brought food to the Christians in the Catacombs of ancient Rome and her crown of light symbolizes the turning point from the darkest night of winter to the lights of Christmas. Middle School winter concert in Bristol. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School/ Middle School, 220 Airport Dr. Come and listen to the middle school music ensembles perform a variety of songs to celebrate the winter season. Free. High school winter concert in Vergennes. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Vergennes Union High School auditorium, Monkton Rd. The VUHS Music Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performing ensembles include the Symphonic Band, Concert Choir, Commodore Jazz Ensemble and the Commodore Singers.

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Computer basics class in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 14, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Vermont Adult Learning, 282 Boardman St. A free hands-on introduction to the computer for people with no or with very limited computer experience. The first class in a six week Thursday night series. Available to everyone Class size is limited to 6 participants. More info at 802-388-4392. Recital of French Advent and Christmas in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 14, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Episcopal Church, on the town green. Music by George Matthew Jr., St. Stephenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s organist. Works by Balbastre, Dandrieu, Guilmant, Joulain and Eugene Gigout. Free. A Very Merry Peaches Storytime in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 14, 4:30 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Shaundra Bartlett Lerman, now based in Saratoga Springs, NY, but born in Middlebury is the author and illustrator of a childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book series called Bartlettberry Briar. She will read her first book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peaches Bakes A Pieâ&#x20AC;? and her new book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Spirit of Christmas, Peaches.â&#x20AC;? High School winter concert in Bristol. Thursday, Dec. 14, 7 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School/Middle School, 220 Airport Dr. Come and listen to the high school music ensembles perform a variety of songs to celebrate the winter season. Free. Student one-acts dinner theater in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 14, 7-10 p.m., Black Box Theater, Patricia Hannaford Career Center, Charles Ave. Addison Repertory Theatre presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Never Before Seen,â&#x20AC;? student-written 10-minute one-act plays dinner theater in collaboration with the Culinary Arts program at the Hannaford Career Center. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. and the show will start at 8 p.m. with dessert at intermission. Tickets $25. To reserve call 802-382-1036. Middle school winter concert in Vergennes. Thursday, Dec.14, 7 p.m., The Vergennes Union High School auditorium. The VUMS Music Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performing ensembles include the Concert Band, Middle School Choir, and the Jazz Jammers.

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Green Mountain Club Water Tower trails hike in Ripton. Friday, Dec. 15. Hike or snowshoe beginning at the Robert Frost Interpretive area. This is a 3-4 mile hike lasting 2 to 3 hours in duration. Moderate difficulty with an elevation gain of about 500 feet. Wear appropriate clothing; bring water, food and hiking poles if desired. More info contact Ruth Penfield at 802-388-5407 or ruthpenfield@gmail.com. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org. Intermediate computer class in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 15, 2-3:30 p.m., Vermont Adult Learning, 282 Boardman St. A free interactive computer lab for people who already have basic computer experience. In this hands-on class you will learn how to download and manage computer files, use Google Docs, and get an introduction to MS Excel. The first in a six â&#x20AC;&#x201C;week series held Firdays. Available to everyone. Class size is limited to 6 participants. More info at 802-388-4392. Eat, Drink & Be Merry in Bristol. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-9 p.m., downtown. Music and wine tasting at Bristol Bakery & Cafe, as well as various happenings downtown in Main Street businesses. Free. 802-760-6076. Trunk show in Bristol. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-8 p.m., Vermont Honeylights, 9 Main St. Beautiful jewelry from Island Girl Jewelry (Audrey Beckwith). Free. 802-453-3952. Free wine tasting in Vergennes. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-8 p.m., Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St. Enjoy hand-picked wines courtesy of Vergennes Wine and a special menu of miniature holiday treats. Find unique gifts, stocking stuffers, candles and cards at the Holiday Show, featuring new work from member artists and guest artists. More info at 802-877-3850 or at the galleryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook page. Christmas caroling in Bristol. Friday, Dec. 15, 6 p.m., Holley Hall. Joins carolers as they sing around town.

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PJ Story Hour in Vergennes. Monday, Dec. 18, 6-7 p.m. Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main St. For children aged preschool to kindergarten. More info at bixbylibrary.org.

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Miniature Christmas tree raffle drawing in Middlebury. Tuesday, Dec. 19, 5 p.m., Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park St. Come see the 21 artist-decorated trees and enter the raffle to bring one of them home. Tickets $4 each/3 for $10/6 for $20. Light of Love tree lighting and open house in Middlebury. Tuesday, Dec. 19, 6-7, Homeward Bound, Boardman St. Pets can celebrate too. Free. Annual concert and carol sing in Middlebury. Tuesday, Dec. 19, 7 p.m. Middlebury United Methodist Church, Seminary and N. Pleasant St. Come sing to raise money for the Charter House.

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MEMORIAL SPORTS CENTER in Middlebury will be open for public skating on Saturday, Dec. 9, from 8-10 p.m. The concession stand will be open and youngsters (or more likely their parents) can get a good skate in for a better night’s sleep. Independent file photo/Trent Campbell

All are welcome. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Meet back at Holley Hall for cocoa and cookies. Sign up at the Recreation Office. “Merry, Mary” Exhibit opening in Bristol. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-9 p.m., ARTSight, 6 South St. An exhibit of the latest work by Rachel Elion Baird, featuring live bluegrass music with the local band Old Bones. Free. (802) 989-1333. Student one-acts in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 15, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theater, Patricia Hannaford Career Center, Charles Ave. Addison Repertory Theatre presents “Never Before Seen,” student-written 10-minute one-act plays. Tickets $10 adults/$7 students available at 802-382-1036.

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Green Mountain Club Button Bay State Park, Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Dec. 16. An easy two-mile hike with very little altitude change, Lake Champlain views. Some alternate trails available to extend hike into local woods. Wear appropriate clothing for hiking and bring water, a snack and hiking poles, if used. More info contact Ralph Burt at 802-355-4415. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf. org. Pancake breakfast in Shoreham. Saturday, Dec. 16, 8-10 a.m., Shoreham Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Let someone else cook breakfast. Pancakes with Vermont maple syrup, breakfast casseroles, sausages, home fries, beverages, and a special Surprise. Adults $8/children under 12 $4/$20 for families with small children. Bring a non-perishable item for the food shelf to help spread holiday cheer. Food drive in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, 8 a.m.-5 p.m., Hannaford’s parking lot, 260 Court St. Roundup some non-perishable food items and help the Eddy Farm School for Horse and Rider fill their trailer to benefit Middlebury’s local food shelf. More info at 802-989-8326. Decorate a gingerbread house in Brandon. Saturday, Dec. 16, two sessions, 10:30-11:30 a.m., and 12:301:30 p.m., Compass Music and Art Center, 333 Jones Dr. SoundBite Cafe’s Chef Vicky will provide the houses (or church) and all the decorating (or munching) fixings for this family-friendly creative event. Come and have some holiday fun. The houses: Small (graham cracker) house $12/large (graham cracker) church $20/homemade gingerbread house $15. More info at 802-247-4295 or info@cmacvt.org. Old fashioned Santa visits in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, 10 a.m.-noon, Maple Landmark Wwoodcraft, Exchange St. Free. Hot Cocoa hut in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Just 25 cents for a cup of cocoa with all the fixings. Free gift wrapping in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, noon-4 p.m., 44 Main St., For any item purchased in Middlebury. Just show your receipt. Gentle Christmas and lunch in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, noon, St Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the green. Free. Santa comes to Monkton. Saturday, Dec. 16, 1 p.m., Monkton Volunteer Fire Department, States Prison Hollow Rd. Santa sweeps in on a fire truck. Cookies, juice and candy canes will be served. All are welcome from near and far, by truck, bike or even car. More info at 802-877-2442. Winterfest in New Haven. Saturday, Dec. 16, 4:30 p.m., on the town green. An afternoon and evening of warm drinks, carols, tree decorating, horse drawn wagon rides, and a visit from Santa. Free and open to the public and ADA accessible. More info contact Suzy Roorda at 802-453-5978 or newhavenrec.gmavt.net. Christmas concert in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Grace Baptist Church, 52 Merchants Row. Come hear a mixture of traditional carols and newer arrangements and enjoy refreshments. Free and open to the public. A Holiday Concert: Songs of the Season in Bristol. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m., Holley Hall, 1 South St. Celebrate the music of the season with your friends and neighbors in the tradition started long ago. Suggested donation $5. 802-453-5885. 2017 Mr. Christmas Tree pageant in Bristol. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School/ Middle School, 220 Airport Dr. Six senior boys compete for the crown of Mr. Christmas Tree in a very funny pageant format. Formal wear, interviews, talent and bathing suit portions have entertained the community since 2013. Free for all ages. 802-349-0498. Student one-acts in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theater, Patricia Hannaford Career Center, Charles Ave. Addison Repertory Theatre presents “Never Before Seen,” student-written 10-minute one-act plays. Tickets $10 adults/$7 students available at 802-382-1036. Public Skating in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, 8-10 p.m., Memorial Sports Center, 296 Buttolph Dr. Concession stand open.

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Green Mountain Club Young Adventurers Wright Park hike in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 17. Geared towards adventurers 4-8 but all are welcomed. Club meets at 10:00 a.m., and its outings are tailored to individual participants. More info contact YAC Leader Lauren Bierman at 802-349-7498 or laurenbierman1218@ gmail.com. For more activities visit gmcbreadloaf.org. Vermont Book Shop birthday in Middlebury. Sunday,

Dec. 17, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Help our local bookshop celebrate. Free cake. Annual Community holiday dinner in Bristol. Sunday, Dec. 17, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Mary’s at Baldwin Creek, 1868 N. Route 116. Mary’s 35th annual holiday celebration for local residents. Free dinner, music and entertainment - plus a visit from Santa! 802-453-2432. McLane, Cummings and Kehler in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 17, 1:30-6 p.m., Middlebury Community Music Center, 6 Main St. Jeremiah McLane, Timothy Cummings and Alex Kehler will be sharing old world carol melodies and traditional dance tunes in both a workshop and concert. The workshop is open to anyone interested in learning a Scandinavian tune, a Gaelic carol melody, and/or a simple Breton folk dance. Workshop 1:30-3:30 p.m., concert 4-6 p.m. Tickets at the door: $20 workshop, $15 concert, $30 combined. Annual “Messiah” sing in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m., Congregational Church of Middlebury, 1 Main St. Join other members in the community to celebrate the holiday season by singing Handel’s “Messiah” together. Free and open to the public.

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Decorate a gingerbread house in Brandon for grown-ups. Wednesday, Dec. 20, 6:30-8 p.m., Compass Music and Art Center, 333 Jones Dr. SoundBite Cafe’s Chef Vicky will provide the houses (or church) and all the decorating (or munching) fixings. Price: $25 (large graham cracker church or homemade gingerbread house) includes light snacks and a choice of festive drinks. Minimum 5 people. More info at 802-247-4295 or info@cmacvt. org.

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Recital of Advent and Christmas in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 21, 12:1512:45 p.m. St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the town green. Music with strings, woodwind, and vocalists, accompanied by organ and piano. Free.

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A Grinch-tacular Christmas Eve-eve-eve in Middlebury. Friday, Dec. 22, 10:30-11 a.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. View the classic animated movie with free popcorn, hot chocolate and candy-canes. Decorate a gingerbread house in Brandon for grownups. Friday, Dec. 22, 6:30-8 p.m., Compass Music and Art Center, 333 Jones Dr. SoundBite Cafe’s Chef Vicky will provide the houses (or church) and all the decorating (or munching) fixings. Price: $25 (large graham cracker church or homemade gingerbread house) includes light snacks and a choice of festive drinks. Minimum 5 people. More info at 802-247-4295 or info@cmacvt.org. Lumen celebration of fire and lights in Bristol. Friday, Dec. 22, Main St. Experience fire performers Cirque de Fuego on the green, a lighted walk down Main St and fire pits at Tandem and Vermont Tree Goods complete with hot drinks, tasty eats and handmade s’mores kits from Lu.lu. Wrap up the night at Hatch 31 with music and revelry. Part of Bristol’s Cool Yule celebration.

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King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, Dec. 23, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center, 3279 Route 7. A sandwich supper and followed by an evening of fun and card games. Free and open to the public.

Vigil for gun victims

A CANDLELIGHT VIGIL for victims of gun violence will take place on Sunday, Dec. 10, from 5:30-6 p.m., at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, at 2 Duane Court in Middlebury. The vigil takes place four days before the fifth anniversary of the Sandy Hook School shooting.

Wayne Canney in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Come enjoy the music of Wayne Canney, a singer, songwriter and guitarist from Vermont who has performed and recorded all across the country. Wayne’s primary influences are blues and R&B based most notably Steely Dan, Al Green, Eric Clapton, Bill Withers, Tom Waits, Dobie Gray, and Delbert McClinton. Part of the Residence’s Sunday Music series. Free, open to the public and handicap accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com. Chanukah party in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 17, 3-6 p.m., Havurah House, North Pleasant St. Outdoor live nativity in Bristol. Sunday, Dec. 17, 4-5 p.m., Bristol town green. Take a journey to Bethlehem beginning at the Veterans’ Memorial. Scenes depicting the Christmas story will be portrayed by members of six community churches. Following the walk, festive music performed by the New Haven Bell Choir and others, hot chocolate and holiday treats will be served up at the First Baptist Church of Bristol.Taking donations for Have a Heart Food Shelf. “Celebration of Christmas” in Monkton. Sunday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m., East Monkton Church, 3256 Mountain Rd. Lausanne Allen and Rick Ceballos will fill the church with their lively melodies and songs. Come and enjoy this event and take the opportunity to have refreshments and conversation with friends and neighbors. Free. Donations welcome and appreciated. All are welcome. Note: there are no restroom facilities. More info at 802-453-7575. Winter Solstice Fundraiser at The Village Shala in Bristol. Sunday, Dec. 17, 5 p.m., The Village Shala, 14 School St. Surrounded by candlelight, learn the Gayatri mantra, known for calling on the light. We will then chant it 108 times, celebrating the darkness and calling on the light. We will be accepting donations to support a local organization. All are welcome. Suggested donation of $10-$20. 802-349-2320. The Festival of Sankta Lucia in Orwell. Sunday, Dec. 17, 7-8 p.m., Orwell Congregational Church, Main St. Celebrate the traditional Swedish Christmas festival, with costumed children, youth and adults from Orwell Congregational Church, St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Orwell, St. Stephen’s and the Congregational Church of Middlebury. St. Lucia brought food to the Christians in the Catacombs of ancient Rome and her crown of light symbolizes the turning point from the darkest night of winter to the lights of Christmas.

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Red Cross Holiday Blood Drive in Middlebury. Monday, Dec. 18, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Middlebury EMS building, 55 Collins Dr. More info at redcrossblood.org or 800-RED-CROSS (800-733-2767).

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Woodchuck’s Revenge in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 24, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Come hear this performing group three of friends who have combined their lifelong love of music to offer their audiences an eclectic and refreshing mix of traditional and contemporary folksongs played with spirit and an old time country sensibility. Free, and open to the public and handicap accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-3881220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

LIVEMUSIC 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. Vocal Recital in Middlebury. Saturday, December 9, 8 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Center for the Arts. Holiday Concert to Help Others in Vergennes. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., Vergennes Congregational Church Amaryllis in Lincoln. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., Burnham Hall. Cooie DeFrancesco in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek. Brandon Fesitval Singers in Brandon. Sunday, Dec. 10, 3 p.m., Brandon Congregational Church. Lessons and Carols for the advent of Christmas in Middlebury. Thursday, Dec. 10, 4 and 7 p.m., Mead Chapel. MUHS Choir in Middlebury. Tuesday, Dec. 12, noon, Congregational Church of Middlebury. Middle School winter concert in Bristol. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School. High school winter concert in Vergennes. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Vergennes Union High School auditorium High School winter concert in Bristol. Thursday, Dec. 14, 7 p.m., Mount Abraham Union High School. Middle school winter concert in Vergennes. Thursday, Dec.14, 7 p.m., The Vergennes Union High School auditorium. Christmas concert in Middlebury. Saturday, Dec. 16, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Grace Baptist Church. Songs of the Season in Bristol. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m., Holley Hall. The Promise is Hope in Brandon. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. McLane, Cummings and Kehler in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 17, 1:30-6 p.m., Middlebury Community Music Center Wayne Canney in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek “Celebration of Christmas” in Monkton. Sunday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m., East Monkton Church Woodchuck’s Revenge in Middlebury. Sunday, Dec. 24, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek

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Middlebury ‘Sleep Out’ yields more than $46K to help homeless By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — John Graham Housing & Services’ (JGHS) fourth annual “Sleep Out,” held near the Otter Creek Falls in Middlebury overnight from Dec. 2 to 3, raised more than $46,000 for programs helping homeless people in Addison County. Elizabeth Ready, executive director of JGHS, said the impressive total is likely to climb even higher as participants and donors confirm their pledges and hand in their checks during the coming days.

“Here in Addison County we are grateful for the many businesses and individuals who stood with homeless families by making donations, attending the vigil and sleeping out,” Ready said in an emailed response to the Addison Independent. “This was our most successful Sleep Out to date.” It was in 2014 that JGHS held its inaugural Sleep Out, designed not only as a fundraising tool, but also as an opportunity for participants to experience first-hand what it’s like to

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Lasell, Haskins NEW HAVEN — Mr. and Mrs. Roy Charbonneau of New Haven announce the engagement of their daughter Jenna Lasell to Jared M. Haskins, son of Michelle Haskins of Pownal, Vt. and Tom Haskins of Bennington, Vt. Ms. Charbonneau is a graduate of Castleton State College and works at the University of Vermont Medical Center. Mr. Haskins is a graduate of Castleton State College and works at Howard Mental Health. A Sept. 22, 2018, wedding is being planned at the Killington Grand Resort.

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• Hilary (Bedell) and Nathan Thompson of Bridport, Nov. 30, a girl, Penelope Ann Thompson.

why so many Vermonters are homeless, with the number continuing to rise,” Ready said. “Simply put, their wages aren’t enough to live on. The very weekend when 40 Addison County residents were sleeping out by the falls, members of Congress were voting for broad tax cuts for the wealthy.” She and other human services advocates are expressing concern Congress could choose to pay for those tax cuts by trimming federal PEOPLE HOLD CANDLES before subsidies — such as Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security — dozens of brave souls spent the that provide critical assistance to the chilly Saturday night in 20 tents and a cardboard box set up next to elderly and low-income citizens. the Otter Creek Falls in downtown “It is painful to connect the dots Middlebury. linking childhood poverty, homelessness, opiate addiction and child the raw disdain some members of SCORES OF PEOPLE rallied in Triangle Park in downtown Middlebury on Saturday evening to kick off the fourth annual “Sleep Out” to benefit welfare to the lack of opportunity Congress have for working class the John Graham Homeless Shelter. Statistics show that on any given for working poor families and the people.” widening gulf between rich and Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@ night 100 people in Addison County are homeless. poor,” Ready said. “Worse still is addisonindependent.com. be homeless for a night during a cold transitioning from the shelter to new Vermont winter. The debut Sleep Out homes. drew around 40 brave souls who faced Ready was pleased with the overbone-chilling temperatures and some all fundraising effort, and people can wind-driven icy rain to raise around still chip in by logging on to tinyurl. $30,000 for JGHS, a Vergennes-based com/yajub2gf, or by sending a check nonprofit that provides food, tempo- to John Graham Housing and Services rary shelter and transitional housing at 69 Main St., Vergennes, VT 05491. to homeless people, as well as a variAbi Sessions of Cornwall reached ety of support services to help them the most donors (more than 80) this sustain their independence. year, while Owen McClain of Lincoln As in past years, Sleep Out partici- raised the most money — a grand total pants met on the Middlebury town of $11,288, according to Ready. green for a candlelight vigil, followed The Champlain Valley Unitarian by a communal meal at the nearby St. Universalist Youth Group — which Stephen’s Church. They then made often cooks meals for shelter residents temporary camp on the Marble Works — fielded the largest Sleep Out team, side of the Otter Creek Falls to spend followed by the Walden Project of the night. This year’s group pitched a Vergennes Union High School. combined total of around 20 tents and “Our smallest donation was $5 and a cardboard box, according to Ready. our largest was $8,400,” Ready said. Some also brought cans or bags of She hopes the reason for the Sleep food, diapers, toiletries, hygiene prod- Out stays in the public’s consciousWITH THE AVERAGE rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Addison ucts, cleaning supplies, and/or a new ness for many weeks to come. County at $1,016 a month, some working people turn to John Graham quilt or set of sheets to help families “We hope people will understand Shelter because they can’t afford housing.

The horses of summer August at Dusk

Kathleen McKinley Harris

The sun has dropped below Sterling Mountain, freeing for the brief night hours the pasture of endless summer sun’s incessant beating heat. In relief the grasses breathe out vapors. In the rising, warm air stream, like a kind thought before a friend speaks, we sense in the night a benign presence before their huge, dark bodies take shape.

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t is not easy during can feel their warm these cold autumn breath falling onto days to remember the speaker and her August, but it wasn’t friend, which allows all that long ago. This me to feel more poem, “August at fully the breath of Dusk,” takes us back the evening and the with strong sensory moisture in the air images so we don’t and grasses. The have to try hard to moment of coming feel the heat or the upon the speaker’s grasses that “breathe beloved horses feels out vapors.” We know like the moment in just what the speaker the poem where it means, especially if we shifts from being have ever stood near a a pleasant evening pasture or meadow on stroll, to part of a a hot summer night. larger story of the By Susan Jefts The poem moves interconnectedness through the evening of everything on heat, the pasture’s earth, and a sense of vapors, and the speaker’s motions, something even beyond earth. The to the waiting horses. We can feel all poem takes on a bit of a dreamlike of this intermingling while walking quality, as movement slows and color the field of earth that holds it all. But fades. As darkness descends and a it is the horses’ presence that feels more subtle presence emerges. strongest as the poem progresses. I Yet, the breath is still present in

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Our two mares, expecting gentle hands, after generations of their kind and ours sharing lives— interrupt their serious night grazing to greet us. They breathe on us as we stroke their softness— their breath, ours, the earth’s intermingling.

Kathleen McKinley Harris, a former teacher and co-publisher of the newspaper “The Champlain Courier,” is the author of the children’s book “The Wonderful Hay Tumble.” Her poem “Bear Fear” won the Ralph Nading Hill, Jr. Literary Award. Finishing Line Press is publishing her chapbook, “Earth Striders,” a collection of poems centered on horses and set mostly in Vermont. “August at Dusk,” as part of this collection, was first published by Finishing Line. Her book, out this month, is available in local bookstores and at finishinglinepress.com.

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this dream like setting of the poem. In Chinese culture the breath is called qi, in India, prana, in Africa, ashe. The word breath in every culture, including western culture, carries a meaning that includes spirit or soul. None of this information is in the poem, but the sense of it and the feel of it is. It’s in the breathing of the grasses, the warm air stream rising, and especially the horses, whose warm breath and mere presence shifts the speaker’s consciousness to greater awareness, and ours too, if we let it. ————— Susan Jefts is a poet living in Cornwall. She teaches college level writing, facilitates workshops, and publishes her work in journals throughout the country. She offers writing workshops and also programs that use poetry as a vehicle for exploring life themes and directions. For more info, visit the workshops page of her website at ManyRiversLifeGuidance.com, or email her at sjefts7@gmail.com.

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Education tax rate projected to jump

State officials eyeing 9.4-cent hike By MICHELLE MONROE from $10,160 to $9,842. Even St. Albans Messenger if every district spends exactMONTPELIER — Both the ly what it spent last year, the average Vermont business and change in the yield would raise average homeowner can expect tax rates. a 9.4-cent increase in their eduThat’s because the tax rate is cation tax rate next year, based determined by comparing the on preliminary projections from yield to the district’s cost per tax commissioner Kaj Samson. pupil. If the cost per pupil is 25 Statewide, education spend- percent larger than the yield then ing is expected to reach $1.681 the tax rate will be $1.25. If per billion in fiscal year pupil spending is 2018-2019, an in50 percent larger crease of $60.2 mil- Statewide, than the yield, then lion over the current education the tax rate is $1.50 fiscal year. spending is in that district. For a homeown- expected to Thus, the lower er with a $250,000 reach $1.681 the yield, the greathouse, that means an er the gap between increase of $235 in billion in fiscal the yield and per year 2018-2019, pupil their tax bill. spending. Samson last week an increase of The larger the gap, said the median tax $60.2 million the higher the tax bill for both busi- over the current rate. nesses and residents, Samson’s profiscal year. For including those who jections are not pay education taxes a homeowner set in stone. Once based on income, with a $250,000 local communiwill increase 7.2 house, that ties have approved percent. school budgets for means an The projections increase of $235 the upcoming year, are based upon an the final yield and anticipated 3.5 per- in their tax bill. non-homestead tax cent increase in edrates will be set by ucation spending across the state the legislature. Those rates must and a $79.6 million deficit in the be sufficient to collect the monEducation Fund. ey needed to run all of state’s In Vermont, all education tax- schools. es are paid into the Education If voters approve smaller budFund, although they are collect- gets, then the yield will be raised ed locally, and all schools then and the tax rates will then drop. receive the funds they need to Education is the state’s largest operate from the fund. single expense, Gov. Phil Scott By law, the tax commission- noted in a speech to the Vermont er must provide the Legislature Press Association Thursday. with an estimate of the yield — Those costs continue to rise the amount the state could spend even as the number of students per pupil with a homestead prop- in the system decreases. erty tax rate of $1.00 per $100 of In a letter to legislative leadassessed value — by Dec. 1 of ers, Samson said, “As we coneach year. The Tax Department tinue to lose an average of three must also provide an estimate students from our schools every of the non-homestead tax rate, single day, this rate increase is a that is the education property tax sobering indication that the cost rate on businesses and second of our education system will not homes. That rate is projected to adjust to our demographic trarise by 9.4 cents to $1.629. jectory absent other efforts and The yield is expected to drop interventions.”

Where education dollars come from

Next year, Vermont is projected to spend $1.68 billion to educate its K-12 students. Those funds are expected to come from: $634.1 million Homestead Education Tax $693.4 million Non-homestead Education Tax paid by businesses and owners of second homes $322.9 million transfer from the General Fund $144.1 million Sales and Use tax $36.5 million Purchase and Use tax $25.6 million Vermont Lottery $8.6 million Medicaid transfer $1.1 million Wind and solar tax, other sources

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Diplomat (Continued from Page 1A) farm and work at the farm.” Every year officials from the Mexican Consulate in Boston visit Middlebury to help Mexican citizens in Vermont in any way they can. At this year’s event at the Champlain Valley Unitarian Universalist Society, consulate officials said they served around 120 people and issued 82 passports, 58 consular IDs and two Mexican birth certificates. The Boston Consulate serves close to 70,000 Mexican nationals in New England. Officials estimate that close to 1,500 Mexicans are in Vermont, working mostly in agriculture. This year’s Mexican Consulate Day brought together Hispanic workers critical to the local dairy industry and other parts of Addison County’s agricultural economy. It demonstrated the strength of the county’s support for migrant workers — offering food, clothing, English language tutoring, child care, transportation, legal and pastoral advice, and medical care as well as addressing other needs of a work force that is often isolated and hampered by a language barrier. For Rabasa, the top diplomat at the Boston Consulate, a key function of his agency’s visits is to get close to the people. “We want to first of all hear their concerns, hear their claims, their demands,” Rabasa said. “And also we want to let them know that they are not alone, that there is a consulate there for them that they can reach any moment.” This has been something of a momentous year for migrant workers on Vermont’s dairy farms and in other parts of the agricultural sector. On Oct. 3, Waterbury ice cream giant Ben and Jerry’s Homemade Holdings Inc. signed an agreement with the advocacy group Migrant Justice that commits the company to buy only from farms that meet certain wage, housing, work schedule and work condition standards. Farmers in return receive a premium. The agreement will be monitored by an outside party. Against this landmark accomplishment, Rabasa also described an increase in tensions for Mexicans working in the United States under President Donald Trump. And on the very farm where he spoke to the two workers from Chiapas, Rabasa faced a different kind of barrier for workers from Mexico: a sparkling new barn built around a robotic milking facility. Once the construction on the barn is completed and the robotic milkers go into full swing, the farm will reduce its Hispanic workforce by half or more. CLIMATE CHANGE “There has been an increase of tension in the Mexican communities (under the Trump administration),” Rabasa said. And it’s not only in the Mexican communities, he added. He hears of stories from the 10 consulates from Latin American and the Caribbean he meets with in Boston. “During our meetings and our talks we have perceived there is a growth of tension among the communities,” Rabasa said. “They are concerned

EMILIO RABASA TALKS with two dairy workers from Mexico in the Foster Brothers Farm milking parlor Saturday.

Independent photo/Gaen Murphree

about all that has been said of the executive orders, specifically about deportation of undocumented people. The children are perhaps the most affected ones because they fear that if they go to school when they come back Dad or Mom will not be there. So that creates a tension, a social tension.” Rabasa said a substantial increase in deportations has been reported from states bordering Mexico. He also noted the volatility of federal immigration policy under Trump, saying: “That doesn’t mean things will keep as they are. They could change at any moment.” In New England, Rabasa said the consulate has noticed more pressure on individuals providing advocacy and leadership, rather than a substantial increase in deportations. Rabasa gave the example of Migrant Justice advocate Enrique Balcazar, who also spoke at Mexican Consulate Day. “He’s here, Enrique. That’s a very symbolic case.” Balcazar, a 24-year-old from Tabasco, Mexico, spent three years in Addison County as a dairy farm worker before becoming an advocate with Migrant Justice. He was appointed last January to Vermont

Attorney General T. J. Donovan’s task force on immigration issues. In March 2017, Balcazar and other Migrant Justice leaders were picked up by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers outside the organization’s offices. He was later release on $2,500 bail after an outpouring that included letters of support from Sen. Bernie Sanders and multiple state elected officials and religious leaders. Balcazar still faces deportation proceedings. Rabasa said it was difficult to generalize about labor and living conditions on Vermont farms because they vary widely: “There is a range that could go from very bad to very god. And there would be a good percentage of people in between.” What’s needed, he said, is to ensure “that they all have minimum labor and housing conditions.” Noting the critical importance of Mexican and other Hispanic workers to Vermont’s agricultural sector, Rabasa said he believed that the Ben and Jerry’s agreement would have a wider effect because it provides a model and sets a precedent. He said that the day before the mobile consulate, he met with Vermont state officials to discuss labor

EMILIO RABASA, CONSUL General of the Mexican consulate in Boston, leads a workshop on legal rights as part of a mobile consulate visit to Middlebury last Saturday.

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issues, including ways to implement the Ben and Jerry’s standards more widely. Rabasa said of the Ben and Jerry’s model: “It’s a huge transformation. And it would be, I am absolutely sure about this, a win-win situation for all because if you have happy workers in the sense that they have good conditions, they’ll be more productive. The owner will have better results and also the industry.” KNOW YOUR RIGHTS Alongside the consulate’s processing of key documents like Mexican passports and Mexican birth certificates last Saturday were a number of workshops on key topics like public health, financial management and legal rights. Encouraging mobile consulate attendees to “know your rights” was Rabasa himself. As he encouraged workers to contact the consulate if they ran into difficulty, Rabasa also enumerated that in the United States one has “the rights that are confirmed by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, which are the right to keep silent in case of a detention, the right to call a lawyer, the right to call the consulate etc.” Rabasa also encouraged the workers to be proud of their contribution to the state’s economy. “Are we going through difficult times at the moment? Yes,” he said. “But it’s also true that thanks to your work, to your efforts, waking up every day at 5 a.m., sometimes working two shifts per day, sometimes working 12 hours nonstop, you are sustaining not only the dairy industry of Vermont, but one of the most important industries of the entire East Coast of the USA. Thanks to your work. “I said this to the folks at Ben and Jerry’s yesterday, that Mexican labor goes into every single ice cream that gets eaten,” Rabasa continued. “And I say this moreover with great pride. I am, like many of you, from Chiapas. So I have to say that your effort, your work, this sweat of your brows, is worth something.” Reporter Gaen Murphree is at gaenm@addisonindependent.com.

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Sen. Bray (Continued from Page 1A) from the sticker shock. Business groups have lobbied against suggestions the commercial sector bear a larger proportion of the water quality improvements. Farmers have also voiced concern about being targeted as a result of fertilizer runoff. And Gov. Phil Scott has made clear his disdain for any increases in broad-based taxes or fees. The state Legislature this past session created a six-member Working Group on Water Quality Funding, through Act 73. Chaired by Secretary of Natural Resources Julie Moore, the group was tasked with evaluating existing resources, and drafting legislation “to JULIE MOORE establish equitable and effective long-term funding methods to support clean water efforts in discussion and other ideas — has Vermont.” decided to pitch the notion of a perLawmakers also approved an parcel fee. He is now polishing his advisory council to assist the proposal, which he will introduce working group, which released through a bill he will file next its report on Nov. 15. The panel month when the 2018 legislative offered five recommendations, session gets under way. including: The per-parcel fee, Bray • Use existing state revenues reasoned, epitomizes the and resources to fund clean water General Assembly’s consensus through fiscal year of “everybody in, 2021. everybody pays” when • Allow clean water “I felt the only it comes to a critical, priorities “to guide how responsible universally used costs are shared across thing for me resource like water. sectors.” Bray took several to do was if • E s t a b l i s h facts and figures into approaches for I’m going to consideration as he collecting revenue and bring forward developed his proposed delivering services that a request to per-parcel fee. are “environmentally ONE DOLLAR efficient and cost do clean water PER WEEK work, at this effective.” The average • “ P u r s u e scale, for the Vermont household technological and long term, size is currently 2.4 regulatory innovation people, and there — including I owed it to are roughly 360,000 c o m m o d i t i z i n g everyone to put parcels in the state, phosphorus, developing a proposal on according to Bray. So flexible financing, and a statewide per-parcel the table.” leveraging integrated tax of $1 per month planning and permitting — Sen. Chris Bray would yield $4.4 models.” million. Raise it to $1 • “Commit to adaptive per week per parcel — amounting management.” to $52 per year for the landowner Bray — who chairs the Senate — and it would yield $18.8 million Natural Resources & Energy annually, according to Bray. Committee — commended the Combine that $18.8 million with working group’s efforts, but noted another $12 million each year the panel fell short of fulfilling its from the state’s capital bill and mission. you’ve arrived at what Bray calls “What they came back with is, Vermont’s annual $30 million “lift” ‘Here are some things we think for water quality programming. the Legislature might want to look “(Senate) Finance and at,’ but no recommendation,” Bray Appropriations (committees) will said. “To be direct about it, they sort out the money,” Bray said. did not meet the charge that was “But I felt the only responsible given to them.” thing for me to do was if I’m going So Bray — in an effort to spur to bring forward a request to do

clean water work, at this scale, for impurities with it, he noted. A 10-year veteran of the the long term, I owed it to everyone to put a proposal on the table. So Legislature, Bray is prepared for some criticism of his proposal. that’s what my bill does.” He believes the per-parcel fee Talk of raising revenues is could be collected economically and always unpopular — especially now, during tough financial without a lot of new bureaucracy. “When developing tax policy, times. The Vermont Agency of you want it to be fair, transparent, Administration’s budget report to have a connection to who’s being for October indicated cumulative taxed and who’s getting a benefit General Fund revenues were down out of it,” Bray said. “And you $12.43 million, compared to the want it to be efficient; you want to same time last year. Bray’s plan has met with have a way of collecting it that isn’t skepticism from some members of too expensive. “Towns already have a list of the working group. The working group considered all the parcels in town and send people bills,” Bray added. “There’s four options for administering a property tax and an education tax either a per-parcel fee, or an and other things. This bill says, impervious surface fee. Those per parcel, let’s collect the money options included billing/collection through that (local tax) bill. Add done by the municipality, state, a new line item to it. It’s not too “parallel systems,” or by a local or expensive to simply adjust an regional storm water utility. The state of Vermont already existing mailing, an existing bill pays communities a combined total that goes out to Vermonters.” Bray’s bill would also of more than $5 million for help in create a new state utility that collecting the statewide education would determine financing and property tax so collection of a programming for Vermont’s clean separate fee could exact a similar water efforts going forward. He toll, according to the working reasoned a utility, as a non-political group’s report. Group members also considered entity, should be in charge. “Utilities in Vermont have a very a Vermont League of Cities & rigorous budgeting process that is Towns estimate that it could cost relatively free of politics, and they between $1.76 million and $6.775 are always looking long-term,” million to create a new storm water billing system in each Bray said. “And we of Vermont’s 246 have a long-term need and a long-term legal “We found the municipalities. The group commitment to clean administrative acknowledged Bray’s water that we need to costs could suggestion that the fee fulfill.” be added as a line item That utility, Bray run as high to existing bills, but is added, could consider as 20 or 25 not sold on the idea. ways of adjusting the percent of the “It was mentioned water quality fee so total amount that placing a storm that it applies more water fee as a separate rigorously to parcels of revenue on existing that tend to be most that needed to line property tax bills responsible for water be raised.” could be a less-costly pollution. These are — Secretary of option, result in higher often parcels with Natural Resources compliance rates, and impervious surfaces, Julie Moore could be paid through that host buildings escrow accounts with expansive roofs, that offer large parking resulting in less paperwork for areas occasionally serving leaky property owners,” the report states. vehicles, and farmland close to “However, since a storm water waterways. So the utility could fee is not a tax, it was also noted consider a higher per-parcel fee for that placing a storm water fee properties possessing some, or all, on property tax bills may cause of the aforementioned attributes confusion.” The Water Quality Funding affecting to water quality. “The ideal thing for water is to Working Group’s report can be let it soak into the ground,” Bray found, in its entirety, at tinyurl. said. “It’s when it runs off that we com/yam27hrz. have all these problems. The water ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS “Based on the current set of is going to go somewhere.” And a lot of it is flowing into assumptions about the amount streams, rivers and lakes, taking of revenue that needed to be

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raised, we were concerned that the administrative fees could be disproportionately large,” Moore said during a Tuesday phone interview with the Independent. “We were assuming the revenue target was on the order of $20 million to $25 million, based on work documented in the treasurer’s water quality funding report … We found the administrative costs could run as high as 20 or 25 percent of the total amount of revenue that needed to be raised.” This is one of the main reasons why the working group has recommended a deeper dive into how a storm water fee could be collected at a lower administrative cost, according to Moore. In the meantime, Moore believes Vermont will be able to meet its Clean Water Initiatives through 2021, using funding from the property transfer tax, the state’s capital bill, and revenue through what she described as “some competitive federal grant

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“I call this ‘THT 2.0,’” Anderson (Continued from Page 1A) Knights of Columbus Hall, which said of the generational makeover in years gone by had served as the that will be key to the organization’s Middlebury town hall, a theater and long-term success. “Where will other commercial uses. Anderson we be in 10 years? What will we rallied support for purchasing and be in 10 years? We need to start renovating the building to serve addressing these questions now. once again as a place where the New energy in the form of a new community could go for dramatic executive director is precisely the productions, musical performances place to start.” The new executive director’s and art exhibits. Boosters in 2008 capped a tasks will include stewardship of successful $5 million fundraising a historic THT building that needs effort to make the Town Hall regular repairs. Recent additions to Theater a reality. Anderson agreed the list have included replacing an to take the helm of the fledgling electronic soundboard, switching to LED light fixtures, upgrading enterprise. It should also be noted THT the projector (at a cost of $35,000), has added personnel through the painting inside and outside the years. Current ranks include six building, and replacing thousands full-timers and four part-timers, of exterior bricks. The $2.5 million endowment including a box office manager, education director and operations/ would be managed by the Vermont Community Foundation, and there marketing manager. would be no dipping Anderson has sought into the principal. to lessen his managerial Freed from r e s p o n s i b i l i t i e s “Where will budgeting and through the years we be in 10 building maintenance in order to focus issues, Anderson said strictly on directing years? What he’d look forward productions and will we be in to spending the rest nurturing local 10 years? We of his life directing talent. Serving in need to start performances and both roles has often cultivating new talent made for some 80- addressing hour workweeks for these questions at THT. “It would be a Anderson, who noted now. New dream come true, to he will soon turn 65. walk into this building “Anyone who has energy in the every day and just do created a business form of a new what I was trained to knows that you’ll do executive do, which is to create whatever it takes to director is productions and get it established,” events,” Anderson Anderson said of precisely the said of his potential his initial drive to place to start.” take on multiple – Doug Anderson new role. The new title would responsibilities. also allow Anderson “You’ll put in all of the hours and sweat equity you to work more closely with the 10 can possibly give it to make the resident companies that call Town Hall Theater their home. Those business a success.” But serving in multiple roles is companies include The Middlebury fast becoming “unsustainable,” he Community Players, the Opera Company of Middlebury, the said. Many theater organizations, he Middlebury Actors Workshop and said, have both an artistic director Maiden Vermont. Plans now call and executive director, with the for creation of a children’s theater latter position overseeing contracts, company. He promised to keep THT budgets, human resources, promotion, building maintenance programming eclectic and diverse and theatrical amenities, according — a formula that has kept the organization successful through the to Anderson. The artistic director handles the years. A recent five-day stretch included creative side of the organization — programming events, directing an art film, a live broadcast of a productions, searching for new play from London, a jazz concert, acts, and crafting a diverse season a rock concert, and the Howard that appeals to a wide range of University Gospel Choir. Another people and interests. At THT, that week might include a conference, a adds up to more than 165 events women’s barbershop choir, a Judy Collins concert and the MUHS per year. Anderson currently directs Junior Prom. “Theaters can seem like elitist around a half-dozen productions each year, above and beyond his places, catering only to those who administrative job in the THT love theater,” Anderson said. “We office. So he occasionally has to made the decision early on to serve interrupt his directorial duties to as many people in this community troubleshoot heating, lighting and as we possibly can — hence the wide array of our offerings. I’ve other glitches. “It takes its toll after so many told the staff that a theater packed years,” he said of his diverse with kids for a trained dog show is duties. “And while I love this place just as important as a theater packed and what we’ve accomplished here, at my age one job — rather PROFESSIONAL DOG GROOMING OVER 17 YEARS than two — is all I can handle. And EXPERIENCE my true value to this place is on the creative side.” THT board members agreed, and they launched the silent phase of the $2.5 million endowment campaign around a year ago. As of this week, that campaign had harvested $1.25 million, including * several contributions of $100,000, FOR ALL according to Anderson. 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with adults for an opera. Both groups deserve the best.” SUSTAINABILITY Benj Deppman, president of the THT board, is excited about the fund drive and its potential to strengthen the organization. “In many ways, Town Hall Theater has become the social and cultural town hall of Middlebury,” he said. “We have accomplished so much in such a short period of time, we have a lot to be proud of and enthusiastic about … We need to ensure the sustainability of the programming as well as maintain the building. We want ticket prices affordable and we want to stage a lot of events. The demands on

Doug have been significant for years. We believe this community would benefit tremendously if Doug transitioned to artistic director, so he could focus on the performances.” Board member Susan AndersonRay believes the $2.5 million investment in THT will pay big dividends. “This is an exciting time for Town Hall Theater,” she said. “The endowment will also ensure that we can be good stewards of our historic building, as well as keep the infrastructure and technology current so that it continues to be used a truly unique performing arts venue.”

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(Continued from Page 1A) “The bottom line is that Bob Jenkins has unselfishly protected and served his community for 55 years,” reads the entry, offered in late October by U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. “He is a model for what leadership is about.” Jenkins’ public service resumé is impressive. He joined the Vergennes Fire Department in 1962, following in the footsteps of his father, George Jenkins. After serving five years in Vergennes, Jenkins helped form the New Haven Volunteer Fire Department in 1967. He continues to be an honorary member of that force. Jenkins moved to Ferrisburgh in 1968 and immediately joined that community’s fire department. His peers elected him chief in 1970, a position he held for 19 years. “Bob remained very active after stepping down as chief, spending countless hours working with successive chiefs, passing on knowledge and expertise to help maintain a professional and highly trained department with wellmaintained equipment,” reads the tribute to Jenkins. His contributions to firefighting have reached far beyond Ferrisburgh’s borders. Jenkins served on numerous Addison County Firefighters Association committees. He was made a lifetime member of the association in 1993. He also served many years as an instructor for the annual Addison County Regional Fire School, which draws firefighters from throughout Vermont, New York and Canada. In 1994, the 24th Annual Regional Fire School was dedicated to Jenkins for his commitment to the training program. He served for decades as an instructor for the Vermont State Firefighters’ Association and is a charter member of the Vermont Fire Academy training center in Pittsford. “He is passionate about teaching young firefighters all aspects of the fire service, from today’s firefighting skills to department history,” the tribute reads. His expertise in building construction has been particularly important during training and has helped keep many Vermont firefighters safe during fire calls, his colleagues noted. Last summer, the Ferrisburgh Fire Department took delivery of a new frontline engine and appropriately dedicated it to the man many continue to call Chief Jenkins. Gilmore and current Ferrisburgh Fire Chief Bill Wager had been looking at ways to pay tribute to Jenkins and his more than halfcentury of fire safety service. Gilmore had successfully

(Continued from Page 1A) 0 percent growth was brought on by several factors, including expected reduced education payments from the state and rising health insurance premiums. A school district official this week sent out an update that said with health care costs anticipated to climb by at least 8 percent, these new spending caps may be exceeded, in which case additional money would need to be found from elsewhere in the budget. Community forums on the budget proposal will be held in early January; voting is on Town Meeting Day.

FORMER LONG-TIME Ferrisburgh Fire Chief Bob Jenkins hugs Corey Lumbra of Vergennes during a ceremony Sunday honoring Jenkins. More than a dozen area fire departments attended the ceremony at the Ferrisburgh fire station. Jenkins has spent more than a half century fighting blazes and training new firefighters. Photo by Mark Bouvier

A PLAQUE HONORING Bob Jenkins is attached to the side of a Ferrisburgh firetruck.

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spearheaded a Congressional tribute for the late Vergennes Fire Chief Ralph Jackman, and decided to attempt the same thing for Jenkins. That meant compiling Jenkins’ considerable biographical information, which he turned over to Sanders’ office. This effort preceded Jenkins’ cancer diagnosis. The disease has tragically advanced to a point where it has sapped Jenkins of his strength and energy. This made Sunday’s ceremony a decidedly bittersweet occasion. “It was a very emotional ceremony,” said Wager, who

organized the event at the Ferrisburgh station that drew an estimated 300 participants. Along with Jenkins and his family and friends, attendees included members of the Vergennes, Ferrisburgh, New Haven, Addison, Middlebury, Bristol, Weybridge, Starksboro, Monkton, Salisbury, Bridport, Hinesburg, Shelburne and Charlotte fire departments. Many of these departments brought fire trucks, which first gathered at the Ferrisburgh town garage off Little Chicago Road, then paraded up Route 7 to the town firehouse.

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Wager has been with the Ferrisburgh Fire Department for 40 years, the past 19 as chief. He said he was greatly influenced by Jenkins. “Bob was my mentor,” Wager said. “I learned an incredible amount from that man.” Gilmore believes Jenkins has had a positive impact on virtually everyone with whom he has crossed paths. “If you met Bob, he was your friend,” Gilmore said. “He lived for working with new firefighters, particularly the young firefighters.” While the medical prognosis for Jenkins wasn’t good as the Addison Independent went to press, it’s clear the veteran firefighter’s legacy will have a positive impact on others for many years to come. “I’m proud of Bob and glad he was able to get this recognition for everything he’s done,” Wager said. Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

CHRIS MULLIS OF the Addison Fire Department was among the estimated 300 people who attended Sunday’s ceremony honoring Ferrisburgh firefighter Bob Jenkins. Photo by Mark Bouvier

When more than 260 people gathered at the Hilton Burlington this past Saturday for the Vermont Association of Broadcasters annual meeting, the voice of at least one of the three longtime broadcasters who were inducted into the association’s Hall of Fame may be familiar to those who were listening to Addison County radio way back in the day. New Hall of Famer Brian Collamore started his radio career in 1968 at WRMC and WFAD radio stations while at Middlebury College. He went on to bigger things from there, but can anyone say they were better things? Congratulations, Brian. Vermont Gas, the company that made all the hullabaloo about laying a natural gas pipeline in Addison County, this week announced it is now generating its own renewable energy, thanks to nearly 100 solar panels it installed on its South Burlington offices. The gas company in a press release said the solar project is part of is “commitment to sustainability” and will allow it to “produce clean energy and help contribute to a clean energy future.” With help from its newly created Sustainability Committee, Vermont Gas said it is working to reduce its carbon footprint, including by encouraging walking, biking, carpooling to work, decreasing use of paper products and increasing the building’s efficiency. This is the company that sells nonrenewable fossil fuels. We guess there are lessons that can be learned everywhere.

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Middlebury’s virtuoso coach So, on her way to a graduate degree in Music Performance, she got waylaid ... and became a coach instead. She traded in her violin for a whistle: And now Katharine Perry Delorenzo is Middlebury College’s virtuoso field hockey coach, and her athletes play beautiful music on Kohn Field in the fall. Those athletes and their families and fans are certainly grateful for that change of heart nearly three decades ago. On November 19, Coach Delorenzo led her team to its second national championship in D-3 field hockey in the last three years, soundly defeating defending champs Messiah, 4-0, in Louisville, Ky., and in doing so avenging last year’s loss to Messiah in the NCAA quarterfinals. Katharine was a violin performance major as an undergraduate at Goucher College in Baltimore, while playing three sports (she’s in the Athletic Hall of Fame there), and then headed off to Indiana State University for graduate school in music, intending to be a professional musician or educator (like her mom, a pianist). “I agreed to coach in order to pay for grad school in music,” she explained. “But as soon as I stepped on the field as a coach, I knew what I wanted to do. I changed my major from violin performance to athletics administration!” Stops at Oberlin (she played in their famous Music Conservatory) and Skidmore as head field hockey coach preceded her arrival at Middlebury to take over the program here after Missy Foote stepped down to focus on lacrosse (Missy’s team in 1998 also won a National Championship). Field hockey at Middlebury has an extraordinary record of success. Next year will mark its 50th year as an intercollegiate sport at the College. In 38 of those seasons, Middlebury has been led by just two coaches, Foote and Delorenzo, and the winning percentage over 49 years is nearly 75 percent. (Katharine’s teams are 266-60, .816 winning percentage). (See Lindholm, Page 2B)

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE SOPHOMORE Kira Waldman fights off some defensive pressure from Plattsburgh State’s Brooke Benna Tuesday night. Middlebury won the game, 60-33.

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ScoreBOARD COLLEGE SPORTS Women’s Basketball 12/5 Midd. vs. Plattsburgh....................92-68 Men’s Basketball 12/5 Midd. vs. Plattsburgh....................60-33

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PANTHER JUNIOR ALEX Huffman had four points, four steals and eight rebounds in Middlebury’s 60-33 win over Plattsburgh Tuesday night.

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — On Tuesday the Middlebury College women’s basketball pulled away in the middle quarters to rout visiting Plattsburgh State, 60-33 — and improve to 7-0 for the first time since 2001. Whether this edition of the Panthers can match that team’s 22-5 record and appearance in the NESCAC final remains to be seen. Even equaling the 2001-2002 squad’s 9-0 start will be a challenge: Middlebury will on Thursday at 7 p.m. host a “We’ve been 4-2 Sage team that played in playing the NCAA Digreat team vision III tourbasketball.” nament last — Coach spring, and K.J. Krasco then the next day conclude first-semester play by visiting a 3-3 Skidmore team that has defeated the Panthers’ NESCAC rival Williams. But Panther Coach K.J. Krasco said a lot of things are going right for a program that last winter hosted its first NESCAC playoff game since 2013 and posted its first winning NESCAC record since 2001. “We’ve been playing great team basketball,” Krasco said. “Overall I just think this team has just really bought into the culture, the concepts. (See Panthers, Page 3B)

ADDISON COUNTY — The Lake Division and Marble Valley League girls’ soccer coaches named 22 members of the Mount Abraham, Middlebury, Vergennes and Otter Valley union high school teams as all-stars, and seven received Division I, II or III All-State honors. Earning D-I All-State nods were Tiger senior midfielders Andi Boe and Helen Anderson. From Mount Abe, senior midfielder Casey Ober and senior forwards Lydia Pitts and Emma Carter received D-II All-State recognition. In D-III, OV senior goalie Gabriela Poalino and VUHS sophomore midfielder Emily Rooney received All-State honors. Boe, Anderson, Pitts, Ober, Carter and Rooney were also named First Team Lake All-Stars, and Poalino was chosen to the MVL B Division First Team. Also named to the Lake Division First Team were three Tigers, senior striker Isabel Rosenberg, junior midfielder Ada Anderson and senior defender Alexa Lapiner. Five Eagles were named to the Lake Second Team, senior defender Jenna McArdle, senior striker Abby Mansfield, senior midfielder Delana Tow, and sophomore midfielders Mae Peterson and Becca Laurent. Three Commodores earned Lake Second Team recognition: sophomore defender Sophie Hatch, freshman midfielder Sydney Weber and junior midfielder Morgan Lynk. Four Tigers earned Lake Second Team berths: junior midfielders Emily Laframboise and Ailey Bosworth, senior defender Sierra Barnicle, and senior goalie Abby Gleason.

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Men’s hoop earns No. 2 ranking MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s basketball team on Tuesday led throughout and pulled away in the second half to defeat visiting Plattsburgh, 92-68. The Panthers improved to 5-0 and have risen to No. 2 in the early-season NCAA Division III rankings, a status due in part to their Elite Eight NCAA tournament appearance and NESCAC playoff championship last winter. The Panthers will close out their first semester with a road test on Friday at 6 p.m., when they visit undefeated No. 16 Skidmore. Plattsburgh dropped to 3-3. On Tuesday the Panthers held

the Cardinals to 33.3 percent shooting from the floor, and no Cardinal starter reached double figures; reserve Eli Bryant paced the Cardinals with 12 points. Meanwhile four Panther starters scored at least 12 points. Matt Folger and Jack Daly each netted 14. Folger added 10 rebounds and four blocks, while Daly grabbed nine boards and dished out nine assists. With his nine assists, Daly moved into fifth place all-time at Middlebury with 418. Hilal Dahleh chipped in 13 points on five-for-seven shooting, freshmen Jack Farrell went five-for-six from the floor for a career-best 12

points, and freshman Griffin Kornaker came off the bench to hit four of five shots for a career-high 11 points. Middlebury led by as many as 14 (27-13) in the first half before settling for a 38-30 lead at the break. The Cardinals then scored the first four points of the second half, but the Panthers responded with a decisive 21-3 run during which Folger netted nine points and Daly added six. The lead dipped below 20 points just once the rest of the way. Middlebury held advantages of 52-44 in rebounds and 23-9 in assists, and forced 23 Cardinal turnovers.

Middlebury men skate to first win MEDFORD, Mass. — The Middlebury College men’s hockey team split two NESCAC road games this past weekend, including earning its first victory of the winter. The Panthers, 1-5 overall and 1-3 in league play, hit the road again this weekend for NESCAC games at Hamilton on Friday and Amherst on Saturday as they close out their first semester. On this past Saturday Middlebury goalie Stephen Klein posted 37 saves and his defense blocked another 24 shots and the Panthers made two early goals stand up in a 2-0 win over host Tufts (1-5-1, 0-3-1 NESCAC). Vincent Gisonti scored just 43 seconds into the game. Gisonti

netted the rebound of a Brendan Dawson shot, Michael Fahie getting the second assist. The Panthers extended the lead with Jimmy McKee’s shorthanded goal at 12:30. Alex Heinritz pounced on a turnover in the neutral zone and set up McKee for a one-timer for his first goal of the season. The assist was Heinritz’s first point as a Panther. In a scoreless second period the Panthers had an effective penalty kill, after which Klein made key back-to-back saves on shots by Craig Uyeno and Charley Borek. Klein made 14 saves in the period. The teams traded chances midway through the final period. Klein

denied Mason Babbidge as he cut across the slot, and less than a minute later, Middlebury’s Mark McLellan found some room in the between the circles and whistled a shot high. Klein also stopped Brian Brown from the top of the crease with 7:31 remaining, and the Panther defense did not allow any quality chances in the final 2:08, when the Jumbos pulled goalie Drew Hotte (12 saves) for an extra attacker. Klein’s shutout was the ninth of his career. On Friday host Connecticut College (2-2) dealt the Panthers a 5-0 setback, scoring twice in the opening period and not looking back. The Camels outshot Middlebury, 34-28, and Connecticut goalie Connor Rodericks made 28 saves. Klein finished with 29 saves for the Panthers.

12/16 Mt. Abe at Missisquoi............. 1:30 PM 12/16 MUHS at Enosburg................ 2:30 PM Wrestling 12/9 .........OV & Mt Abe at St. J Tournament 12/12 VUHS at Milton........................... 6 PM 12/14 BBA/Mill River at OV.................. 6 PM 12/14 MUHS at Spaulding.................... 6 PM 12/16 .Mt. Abe/MUHS/OV/VUHS at Granville Gymnastics 12/14 Montpelier at MUHS................... 6 PM 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 12/7 Sage at Midd................................ 7 PM 12/8 Midd. at Skidmore......................... 8 PM Men’s Basketball 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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12/12 VUHS at Fair Haven................... 7 PM 12/14 OV at Brattleboro........................ 7 PM 12/15 Hazen at VUHS.......................... 7 PM 12/15 U-32 at Mt. Abe........................... 7 PM 12/16 Fair Haven at MUHS........... 12:30 PM 12/16 Proctor at OV.............................. 1 PM Boys’ Basketball 12/12 Mill River at Mt. Abe.................... 7 PM 12/14 Fairfax at VUHS.......................... 7 PM 12/14 OV vs. Windsor at Proctor.......... 5 PM 12/15 OV vs. TBD at Proctor............. 5/7 PM

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COACH KATHARINE DELORENZO doesn’t talk to her Panther field hockey teams about winning or losing, but she emphasizes that they should play the best they can. Photo by Will Costello/Middlebury Athletic Department

Lindholm (Continued from Page 1B) In her 17 years, Katharine has earned many honors: NESCAC Coach of the Year twice; twice also the National Coach of the Year. Her teams have earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament for 15 consecutive years and played in five National Championship games. When asked if when she arrived in 2000 she thought she would be here for 17 years, she answered with an unequivocal, “Yes. I knew this was where I wanted to be.” She knew that she had a remarkable team this year. “I told (coaching colleague) Bill Beaney before the season that this was the best collection of players I’ve ever had. I had greater confidence than

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KATHARINE DELORENZO ever in match-ups on the field, player by player, position by position, all 11 spots.” She installed a new system of play for the team this year, away from a conventional 3-3-1-3 alignment to a 3-2-3-2, in order to “utilize certain players on the field to best effect.” She showed me at length how this system worked to great advantage — and when she saw my uncomprehending look, offered to show me film of some games to see it in action. She’s a field hockey proselytizer. She explained that her style and approach, her “philosophy,” if you will, is “always evolving,” but “preparation” is central: “Luck favors those who are prepared,” she said. “With clarity comes motivation.” “College sports teach that a superb level of preparation will not result in winning every game but will put you in the best position to win. “We don’t talk about winning; we don’t talk about losing, we talk about playing the best possible game ever. Sometimes that leads to championships, sometimes not.” Katharine’s teams watch a lot

of film. There’s video of every team, every game; the video gets downloaded and clipped. Players watch in a group and individually. They all have “field hockey notebooks” in which they note tendencies in the play of their opponents against whom they will be aligned. Of this cerebral approach, Katharine enthused: “I never had a team that was so geekily into it.” Her players confirm their coach’s dedication to the game and one another. Sophomore Kelly Coyle summarized, “Every game became an opportunity to play better, and I thought our championship game was our best game of the season. Our team is very close and I think that translates on the field.” Senior Audrey Quirk agreed: “Our feats epitomized Coach Delorenzo’s tireless dedication to this sport and love for this program. As she reminds us every season, ‘The reward of a job well done is having done it.’” The NCAA Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player and AllNESCAC First Team selection Lauren Schweppe, a senior captain, added, “De Lo is more than a coach to her players — she always emphasized fulfilling our potential as people and not just athletes.” Katharine considers herself a “Vermonter.” Her dad was in the Navy (on nuclear submarines), so the family moved frequently. They maintained a home, however, in Richford, Vt., on Lake Carmi. Her parents moved recently to Middlebury to EastView Retirement Community. Katharine promises there will be Sunday concerts with her mom. More beautiful music to come, then, from Middlebury’s virtuoso Coach Delorenzo.

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Panthers (Continued from Page 1B) They’re really a pleasure to coach. It’s an exciting time to be part of our program.” In winning those seven games this season the Panthers have outrebounded teams by an average margin of 11.1 per game, held opponents to 28.7 percent shooting from the floor and 44.4 points per game, and on the offensive end moved the ball well enough to record assists on 63 percent of their baskets. Krasco is happiest with the team defense, which stifled the 1-5 Cardinals all night on Tuesday, holding them to 21.6 percent shooting and forcing 20 turnovers. Middlebury entered the game ranked No. 9 in NCAA Division III in scoring average against. “That’s been pretty steady for us. We talk a lot about that in practice,” Krasco said. “We’ve had some cold spells (on offense) in almost every game this year, and I think we’ve really bought into the fact that if we defend we can be in any game.” On Tuesday the Panthers’ cold spell on offense came in a rough first quarter that ended with each team having eight points and six turnovers. Sophomore forward Maya Davis scored four of her game- and career-high 16 points inside in the period to keep the Panthers afloat. The Panthers adjusted to the Cardinal defense in the second quarter. After Cardinal guard Hanna Whitney gave her team an early 11-8 lead with a three-pointer, Middlebury went on a 16-3 run over the next 6:16. Sophomore forward Betsy Knox, the team’s leading scorer in the early going, and reserve freshman guard Emily Wander scored four each in the surge, and four other Panthers added points as Middlebury took command. Krasco noted the guards began to do better working the ball inside against Plattsburgh’s switching player-to-player defense. “Our kids realized they were switching screens on us and finally realized what was going to be open, and started looking into our posts,” she said. By the half Middlebury led, 2917, with a late three from sopho-

PANTHER SENIOR SABRINA Weeks pulls down a rebound during Middlebury’s 60-33 win over Plattsburgh Tuesday night in Pepin Gymnasium.

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more Kira Waldman pushing the lead to 12. And then the Panthers kept their foot on the gas after the break by outscoring the Cardinals, 19-5, in the third period, and opening it with a 6-0 run: Davis hit inside on an assist from point guard Alex Huffman, senior guard Sarah Kaufman nailed a short jumper, and Huffman drove for a hoop that made it 34-19 at 7:36. Krasco said she was pleased to see no let-up out of the halftime break. “In the third quarter we really started out strong and got some good looks,” she said. Krasco was also happy to see a dozen assists on the scoresheet and 11 Panthers with points. Waldman and Wander were next after Davis with seven points apiece, Knox had six, senior guard Sabrina Weeks scored five, and Huffman, Kaufman and sophomore forward Lily Kuntz chipped in with four apiece. Huffman and Waldman led with three assists each, and Kaufman had a pair. Anna Thompson led the Cardinals with seven points. That ball movement and balance is critical for the Panthers, Krasco said. “It’s what we want to make us a tougher team to defend,” she said. “We did a better job of that in the

PANTHER SOPHOMORE BETSY Knox puts up two of her six points against Plattsburgh Tuesday night in Pepin Gymnasium.

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PANTHER SOPHOMORE MAYA Davis scored a career-high and game-high 16 points against Plattsburgh Tuesday night. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

second and third quarters.” Leading the Panthers’ 49-36 advantage on the boards were Davis and Huffman, with eight each, and Waldman, with seven. Huffman led the way with four steals, and Davis, Wander and Waldman had two apiece as the Cardinals turned the ball over 20 times. On the flip side, the Panthers coughed the ball up 15 times, something Krasco would like to see tightened up as the calendar flips in January to Middlebury’s challenging NESCAC schedule. “I’d like to see us improve at reducing those turnovers and giving us more opportunities to get shots,” she said. Krasco also noted the Panthers hit just seven of 14 free throws, and missed some layups and open shots. In tight NESCAC games she said they might not be able to afford those misses. “Most importantly it’s the mental game. I know every single kid on this team is capable of making a layup and a free throw. But given a game situation and a pressure situation, are they going to do it? That’s where we have to get to,” she said. “So I think it’s just focusing and becoming more mentally strong team.” EARLIER GAMES On Dec. 1 the Panthers defeated host Colby-Sawyer, 66-59, in overtime. The Panthers ended overtime on a 7-0 run against the 3-1 Chargers, with a Huffman three-pointer the big shot. Middlebury took a 49-42 fourth-quarter lead on hoops from Kaufman and Davis, but Colby-Sawyer tied the score at 54-54 with 1:26 to play. A Davis layup put Middlebury back on top, but Tianna Sugars banked home a jumper at 0.9 to force

overtime. In overtime, Huffman’s three pushed the lead to 63-49, and the Panthers added three free throws in the final 32 seconds. Knox also hit an overtime trey. Davis paced Middlebury in that game with 14 points and 14 rebounds, while Knox tacked on 13 points and Huffman added 10 and seven rebounds. Kaufman chipped in 10 points and five rebounds. Lexie Hamilton led the Chargers with 20 points and six assists, while Sugars posted 16 points and 11 boards. On Nov. 29 the Panthers pulled away late to defeat visiting Rensselaer, 64-54, in their home opener. Middlebury led most of the way, but RPI rallied to lead, 40-39 at 8:13 of the fourth quarter. Then back-to-back threes from Huffman and Weeks sparked a 16-5 Middlebury run over the next 4:58 to make it 55-45. The Panthers hit nine of 10 free throws to nail down the win. Knox paced Middlebury with career highs of 23 points and nine rebounds, while Huffman chipped in with 13 points and Weeks added 10 points and five blocks. Davis recorded eight points and eight rebounds. LaKissa Martin led RPI with 19 points. Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

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The following Orwell students were named to the Honor Roll at Fair Haven Union High School for the first Quarter of the 2017-2018 School Year. Grade 9 High Honors: Allison Lanthier, Nathaniel Quesnel, Sebastian Redondo, Andrew Rockwell and Nathan Stone. Honors: Cody LaDuc. Grade 10 High Honors: Kaitland Breen, Paige Cusanelli, Jonas Greene,

Andrew Lanthier and Riley Ochs. Honors: Furious Roy, Seth Tupper and Julianna Williams. Grade 11 Honors: Sean Dougherty, Anna Harrigan, Brett Huntley and Bailee Wigginton. Grade 12 High Honors: Rhiana Carr, William Cousineau, Timothy Fyles and Gabrielle Ochs. Honors: Olivia Fortin and Gaibrial Nichols.

Coyotes are getting ready for the winter, too By Susie Spikol Faber Eight years ago, my husband and I planted 128 fruit trees on a hillside, mostly apples, but the back few rows included stone fruits. Our apples began producing with gusto after only a few years. We made gallons of cider and sold bushels of heirloom apples. But the plums have required patience. Their blossoms are so delicate and our springs so unpredictable that after eight years, there are still varieties we have yet to taste. Over these eight years, we have been loyal. We have not eaten anyone else’s plums. This year, we were rewarded when all five of our small Stanley plum trees produced dark blue fruit. By the end of September, they had almost ripened. Then one morning, all the plums were gone. At base of the trees, I found torn and pierced The skins, and barren pits. My later discovery of a long, tapered blue scat, found on a raised rock, confirmed my suspicion. Eastern coyotes, I should have known, also like to eat plums. Canis latrans var. and I share a similar world view. I would have eaten all the plums too. Greedy, some might say, but I would describe it as opportunistic. Coyote researchers agree that coyotes are fluid when it comes to diet. They are true localvores, eating what is available, when it is available. Fall is fat times for the coyote and the farmer. We are both busy

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preparing for winter. My family is stockpiling food. Our root cellar is full, the jam is put up, and dried peaches, like slivers of the sun, are secreted away until the dark of winter. The coyote’s cellar is its body. It is fueling up on the sugar from fall’s fruits, proteins from prey and fats from seeds and nuts. Its varied autumn diet prepares its muscles, flesh and even fur for the hard winter. Its ragged summer coat falls away and a thicker winter coat takes its place. With its long, coarse guard hairs and thick undercoat, the 30 to 50 pound canine assumes a much heftier appearance. There is much for these generalized opportunists to eat in the fall, but it’s their frequent consumption of small rodents that lets me forgive them for eating my plums. In the earliest hours of an October morning, I saw

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this in action as I watched a lone coyote pause with ears tilted toward the ground. It leaped forward, thrusting its snout into a tangle of dead grass, and came back up with a small rodent gripped in its jaws. If you are a fruit farmer, a worse fate than a coyote stealing your plums is a vole gnawing your trees. This autumn’s nights have been filled with the howls and yips of the local coyote pack. In winter, this sound may dwindle. Male juveniles tend to leave in search of their own territories and mates, although young females will often stay with their parents for an additional year or two. These females will help to maintain the pack’s territory, hunt larger prey such as deer, and raise the next litter of pups. Only once in my twenty years of winter tracking did I ever come across a fresh coyote kill. A young deer, scattered and torn — fresh

tracks laying out the tale of its final moments, pulled down by three coyotes. When I returned three days later, all that was left of the deer was a few ribs and one hoof. Winter is hard on coyotes and clearly hard on deer. Evidence from many coyote studies conducted throughout the eastern United States, show that deer are the dominant winter food for coyotes, but it doesn’t follow that coyotes are the main reason for deer mortality. According to Will Staats, a New Hampshire Fish and Game regional wildlife biologist, most deer consumed in the winter by eastern coyotes are winterkill or roadkill. As fall tips towards winter and the night grows quiet, I reflect on coyote and me. We have much in common. We eat what we can, when we can. My family lives large off our farm during harvest season. We eat like kings, or perhaps coyotes. We pack it in ahead of winter, and thicken our coats to endure the cold. If I could, I would grow my underfur too, and howl at the night sky as my own growing children begin to slip away to new terrain. Susie Spikol Faber is Community Program Director for the Harris Center for Conservation Education in Hancock, New Hampshire. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine, www.northernwoodlands.org, and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of New Hampshire Charitable

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MIDDLEBURY — The following students have been named to Middlebury Union High School’s honor roll for the first quarter of the 2017-2018 school year. Grade 9 High Honors: Lois Alberts, Abel Anderson, Olivia Audet, Elijah Bachand, Abigail Bailey, Anna Berg, Alexander Bleich, Elizabeth Bright, Chloe Clark, Owen Connelly, Ava Devost, Emma Franklin, Chase Given, Benjamin Graham, Evan Gregory, Colby Hammond, Wesley Hirdler, Mason Kaufmann, Camille Kutter, Kaylee Lathrop, and Andrew Lee. Also Camille Malhotra, Ella McKhann, Kaitlyn McNamara, Alexander Mencel, Fraser Milligan, Lucas Nelson, Thomas Nevins, Sarah Nicolai, Andrea Palmer, Rhys Pitner, Oliver Poduschnick, Sophie Pope McCright, Chelsea Robinson, Alexander Shashok, Kieran Sheridan, John Sidaway, Sofia Stefani, Nicholas Suchomel, Kelsey Treadway, Anna Wagner, Kathryn Waterman, Paige Williamson, and Ireland Young. Honors: Jordyn Bessette, Lukas Broughton, Aiden Cole, Ember Comes, Lydia Deppman, Audrey Drinkwine, Gabriel Dunn, Matthew Fitzsimmons, Drew Gill, Andy Giorgio, Adin Girard, Mahaila Gosselin, and Bridget Graham. Also Charles Hodson, Martha Horne, Timothy Hunsdorfer, Silas Jackson, Rosa Kehoe, Ahsan Khan, Isaac Norris, Kai Pasciak, Sutton Perry, Phineas Peterson, Karic Riche, Bode Rubright, Wyatt Rubright, Marshall Sanchez, Griffin Schneider, Samantha Schnoor, Harper Sinclair, Andrew Thorpe, Gwen Troumbley, Camila Van Order Gonzalez, Samuel Visser, and Andy Whitney Jr. Honorable Mention: Antonio Abdul Sater, Zachary Bean, Gabriel

Cotell, Maycee Godshalk-Tidd, Camryn Jaring, Megan McGettrick, Kyle Mitchell, Abagail NicholsonWemette, Tate Rheaume, Jackson Rizzo, and Tristin Sullivan. Grade 10 High Honors: Kenneth Barkdoll, Caleb Benz, Celeste Berenbaum, Ellen Berg, Katherine Berthiaume, Eli Billings, Nicolas Brayton, Carly Burger, Wren Colwell, Miah Cushman, Matthew DeMatties, Eryn Diehl, Spencer Doran, Mary Ann Eastman, Joseph Findlay, Lillian Fleming, Timothy Goettelmann, Maeve Hammel, Hale Hescock, Malia Hodges, Emma Huntington, Ebenezer Jackson, and James Jette. In addition, Ethan Kent, Meredith Kimble, Annie Lapiner, Journey LaRose, Kelsy Lawrence, Martine Limoge, Mira Maglienti, Rosemary Munkres, Hunter Munteanu, Jameson Murray, Isabel Olson, Owen Palcsik, Emily Pecsok, Eva Phair, Logan Pierson-Flagg, Isabella Pistilli, Olivia Pottinger, Catherine Schmitt, Alison Seaton, Anika Shook-Kemp, Phoebe Smith, Dalylah Sorrell-Cushman, Grace Tucker, Sabina Ward, and Theo Wells-Spackman. Honors: Ileigh Aube, Derek Bartlett, Quinn Berry, Kelsey Buteau, Tyler Buxton, William Carpenter, Nicholas Carrara, Gabriel Cason, Camden Devlin, Timothy Dyer, Morgan Galipeau, Alice Ganey, Anthony Garner, Jasmine Gero, Eloe Gile, Chloe Hamilton, Liam Hamilton, Jenna Howlett, Devon Kearns, Kira Kemp, Ellie Kiel, Isadora Luksch, Kennedy Montani, and Taylor Moulton. Also Ryan Nadeau, Riley O’Neil, Ian Ploof, Devyn Pratt, Spencer Pratt, Emma Quesnel, Clement Simpson, Gwen Stafford, Cassie Stearns, Kassidy Sunderland, Talin Teague, Thatcher Trudeau, Sylvia

Vorsteveld, Katelyn Warner, Charles Welch, Michael Whitley, and Peter Wolosinski. Honorable Mention: Avery AustinNeil, Louis Bergevin, Isaiah Bullock, William Forbes, Hunter Gale, Andrew Hinman, Addison Hubbell, Alexia Huestis, Brianna Lathrop, Rosemary Maheu, Anna McIntosh, David Peters, Mckenna Phillips, Sydney Provencher, Josie Rheaume, Nadya Sato, Daniel Wiles, and Mayson Wisnowski. Grade 11 High Honors: Parker Beatty, Trinity Bryant, Elizabeth Chamberlain, Silas Conlon, Colin Dowd, Nora Draper, Owen Heminway, Anabel Hernandez, Suzanne Klemmer, Naoko Maruyama, Maisie Newbury, Michael Odell, Samantha Paige, Jesse Rubin, Ruth Simpson, Benjamin Turner, and Grace Widelitz. Honors: Ada Anderson, William Barber, Hogan Beazley, Jack Berthiaume, Aileen Bosworth, Riley Brown, Spencer Cadoret, Max Carson, Brenna Cook, Benjamin Crawford, Samuel Daly, Zachary Dunn, Kolby Farnsworth, Ian Fenster, Simon Fischer, Jayden Fitzgerald, Bethany Gale, Niccolo Gori-Montanelli, Lacey Greenamyre, Marina Herren-Lage, Max Hirdler, Nanja Horning, Anne Kappel, Isaiah Kelly, Larkin Kenney, Joshua Kerr, Simon Kiel, Drew Kiernan, Justin Koontz, and Sarah Grace Kutter. Also Emily Laframboise, Kristin Landry, Carly Larocque, Will Larocque, Keighla Martin, Eleanore McGarry, Virginia Patz, Sophie Poppenga, Emily Pottinger, Joel Pyfrom, Ethan Reiderer, Brandon Ronish, Anna Scharstein, Kaylee Shum, Arianna Slavin, Katelyn Stearns, Natali Sullivan, Ashley Sunderland, Taylor Sylvester, Diya Taylor, Megan Thomas-Danyow,

Joshua Trautwein, Silas Wisell, Xavier Wyncoop, and Carson Yildirim. Honorable Mention: Kadin Bullock, Heather Cloutier, Catara Doner, Derek Felkl, Jacob Galvin, Jaime Gonzalez Muniz, Deanna Hilaire, Michael Huber, Justin Jackson, Loke Lanneskog, Abigail LaRock, Tucker Moulton, Holly Rancour, Kyra Roberts, Nickolas Roberts, Camden Schnoor, Jaskaran Singh, Grace Walker and Katherine Wallace. Grade 12 High Honors: Josephine Abbott, Lydia Alberts, Helen Anderson, Rebekah Anderson, Bridget Audet, Janet Barkdoll, Sierra Barnicle, Andrea Boe, Jacob Brookman, Hunter Cummings-Washburn, Dylan Disorda, Keagan Dunbar, Krystian Gombosi, Lauren Greig, Lucy Groves, Margreta Hardy-Mittell, Anna Hodson, Jane Holmes, Justin Holmes, Alexandria Johnson, and Emma Jones. Also Brian Kiernan, Caroline Kimble, Katherine Koehler, Waseya Lawton, Sophie Lefkoe, Rachal Lussier, Elizabeth Marini, Ezra Marks, Sophia Marks, Satchel McLaughlin, Ella Nagy-Benson, Bethany Palmer, Nicole Palmer, Raven Payne, Jaro Perera, Brandon Porey, Isabel Rosenberg, Lianna Sargent-Maher, Jared Schauer, Julian Schmitt, Justine Smith, Lucy Ursitti, Oziah Wales, Jack Waterman, Laura Whitley, and Christina Wiles. Honors: Jonathan Alger, Jordan Allen, Benjamin Balparda, James Baroz, Ella Beattie, Olivia Beauchamp, Tre Bonavita, Sarah Broughton, Cooper Bullock, Leigah Burbo, Arden Carling, Rebekah Chamberlain, Alyson Chione, Duncan Crogan, Cassidy Cushman, Megan Delorme, Jack Deppman, Skyeler Devlin, Jackson Donahue, Ciara Eagan, and Thomas Eastman. In addition Fyn Fernandez, Brian Foote, Alexander Friedlander, Wyatt Galipeau, Tyler Giorgio, Abigail Gleason, John David Goettelmann, Colin Grier, Polly Heminway, Tulley Hescock, Samuel Hodges, Tyler Hotte, William Huntington, Thomas Hussey, Chloe Kane, Nikolaus Kaufmann, Olivia Kayhart, Brynn Kent, Steven Landry, Alexa Lapiner, Brooks Maerder, Joseph Miller, Archie Milligan, Ryan Morgan, and Georgina Mraz. Also Matthew Ouellette, Addy Parsons, Bastiaan Phair, Jebadiah Plouffe, Cheyanne Putnam, Meilena Sanchez, Lane Sheldrick, Gaia Sheridan, Anthony Shores, Camden Simpson, Spencer Smith, William Stanley, Blair Stone, Michael Stone, Gabrielle Sullivan, Shannon Sunderland, Katalin Tolgyesi, Matthew Townsend, Megan Townsend, Emma Vanacore, Caileb Vaudrien, Brendan Wagner, Joseph Whitley, Daniel Wisell, and Alexander Yurista. Honorable Mention: Kathryn Billings, Brennan Bordonaro, William Chandler, Brianna Cotroneo, Santiago Fernandez, Gabe Lamphere, Cassidy Lucia, Jacob Martin, Ziven McCarty, Jason Paquette, Victor Pomainville, Tristin Shuping, Jay Smits, and Garrett Troumbley.

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FERRISBURGH — Are you be Wednesday, Jan. 10 at 6:30 p.m. looking for ideas for a holiday gift in the VUHS Resource Response for friends or family? Consider Center (Room C15 across from the shopping locally via the Ferrisburgh principal’s office). businesses as organized by Maxine Can’t commit to meetings but (Mickey) Davis at theferrisburghlist. want to get involved? Just let the com. Mickey and web designer Cara group know and they will add you Gorman have created a to their distribution list. comprehensive listing You will receive not only agendas of our of nearly 200 local Dec. 4 and 18: PJ Story monthly meetings but businesses and have Hour for children, Bixby also periodic requests captured an amazing Library at 6 p.m. for help with different array of talent and Dec. 5 and 19: school initiatives that services. Ferrisburgh Selectboard might be a better fit for Examples include meeting, 6:30 p.m. you and your schedule. artisans, tradesmen Dec. 9 and 23: Contact Lynne (carpenters, mechanics, Ferrisburgh Grange King Rapoport at lrapoport@ painters, roofers, Pede card party, 6:30 p.m. anwsd.org if you are electricians, plumbers, interested or just attend handymen, etc.), bakers, Dec. 13: VUHS Music the next meeting. farmers, childcare, Concert ,VUHS, 7 p.m. Parents and babysitting, and many Dec. 14: VUMS Music community members more. With so many Concert, VUHS, 7 p.m. are always encouraged businesses available to sign up for the right here in our town, Jan. 10: Commodore Vergennes Union we really don’t need Parent Teacher Group, Middle/High School to travel outside of VUHS, 6:30 p.m. blog. Subscribing to Ferrisburgh for our the blog can be done with an email holiday shopping. Local businesses who want to account to get regular updates and/or list their services can send the follow @VergennesUHS on Twitter. following information to mzdavis@ School information, with resources and gmavt.net: Name, address, email contact information, is also available address, telephone number, website on the school’s website, vuhs.org. NOTE: We are always interested in or Facebook page, service and/or business name and short description including a variety of Ferrisburghof the business. The only stipulation related news in this column, so if is that the business must be based in you have news that would be of Ferrisburgh and/or do business from interest, contact Sally Kerschner at a Ferrisburgh address. There are no smwkersch@comcast.net. You are fees for being listed as a business able to access these columns and other or for using this service. For more information about Ferrisburgh news information, call Mickey Davis at and events by viewing the Ferrisburgh Town Website at ferrisburghvt.org. 802-425-3034. The Ferrisburgh Grange “King Pede” card parties are scheduled for the Saturdays of Dec. 9 and 23. These get-togethers are held at the Ferrisburgh Town Hall and Community Center and begin at 6:30 p.m. with a sandwich supper and then on to an evening of fun and card games. King Pede is an unusual game that involves “trick-taking” techniques such as in Hearts and Spades or Pitch. This is a game of fun and skill so come prepared to use your strategic thinking. Ferrisburgh students at our area schools have been working this fall preparing for the upcoming winter concerts. This is a lovely opportunity for the entire community to support and enjoy the music created by our student musicians. The Vergennes Union High School concert is Wednesday, Dec. 13, and the Vergennes Union Middle School concert is Thursday, Dec. 14. Both concerts are in the school’s auditorium and begin at 7 p.m. For more music department news, follow the link below:
 anwsu.org/vuhs-music/. The Bixby Library has many offerings for December and throughout the winter months. The Library is open for students to use after school until 7 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays and 5 p.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Students are welcome to come after school to relax, do homework, or chat with friends. The students can access the library’s laptop computers and there is Wi-Fi throughout the building. A library card is not required for the students. There are other fun events at the library, such as the PJ Story Hour for children aged preschool to kindergarten on Dec. 4 and 18 from 6-7 p.m. and card-weaving sessions on Tuesdays from 12:30-3:30 p.m. Visit the Bixby website for more information and also to sign up for the Bixby Buzz Newsletter at bixbylibrary.org. Are you looking for a way to get involved at VUHS? The Commodore Parent Teacher Group is always looking for new members to work toward their mission of promoting family involvement in the school, improving communication between parents, teachers and administrators and providing enrichment programs for students. The next meeting will

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LEICESTER — The Leicester Historical Society is again sponsoring the annual Memory Tree at Leicester Four Corners. Names for the Memory Tree, clearly written, can be sent to Diane Benware at 1594 Old Jerusalem Rd., Salisbury, VT 05769 by Dec. 20, or payment and names can be dropped off at the Leicester Town Office. The tree will be lit on Sat., Dec. 23, at 4 p.m. The cost is $5.00 for six names. The Leicester Historical Society is sponsoring Prize Bingo on Sat., Dec. 9, at 1 p.m., at the Senior Center. Refreshments served, all are welcome.

Police find construction equipment tampered with BRISTOL — On Nov. 23, Bristol police officers on a routine patrol found a piece of road-construction equipment that appeared to have been tampered with, in the pull-off at the Lord’s Prayer Rock on Route 116. It appeared that someone had tried to start the equipment, and its lights were activated. Police removed the ignition key and secured the equipment. If anyone has information on this incident is asked to call the Bristol Police Department at 453-2533. In other recent activity, Bristol police: • Conducted foot patrol along Main Street on Nov. 20, 21, 22 and 24, and on Mountain Street and in areas near Bristol Elementary School on Nov. 20 and 21. • Checked security at Mount Abraham Union High School on Nov.

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21, 24, 25 and 26. • Conducted town-contracted traffic patrols on Nov. 22, 24, 25 and 26, covering north Route 116, Hardscrabble and Monkton roads, and other parts of Bristol. Police issued one warning and two tickets for speeding. • Completed fingerprint requests for two individuals for employment purposes on Nov. 21. • Helped monitor traffic along the West Street roadwork site on Nov. 20 from around 8:45 a.m. until enough workers arrived at the site to keep traffic moving more smoothly.

• Conducted 30 minutes of directed traffic enforcement in the police district on Nov. 20, after receiving reports of traffic violations during certain times of the day. • Found money in the town park on Nov. 20. Anyone who lost money may contact police to recover it. • Released records in response to a citizen’s information request on Nov. 21. • Participated in a multiagency checkpoint and high visibility patrols coordinated by the Vermont State Police on Nov. 22. • Completed online first aid training on Nov. 23. • Participated with state police in a saturation-directed patrol as part of the Governor’s Highway Safety Program on Nov. 23. Two warnings were issued.

• Helped Bristol Rescue Squad to load a patient at a local residence on Nov. 24. • Found a small amount of marijuana during a traffic stop on Nov. 24. Police conducted a consent search after noting an odor of marijuana. No criminal charges were filed. • Took part in an Addison County law enforcement sobriety checkpoint on Nov. 24. • Began an assault investigation on Nov. 24. According to police, the complainant was under the influence of intoxicants, so police will follow up to obtain more information. • Helped an out-of-state resident try to located a family member in Bristol on Nov. 25. • Began investigating a criminal action that occurred via the internet on Nov. 25.

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ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders. Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit www. turningpointaddisonvt.org.

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

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

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

AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anony‑ mous, confidential and free. At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. 7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings. AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking. Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRANDON MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Discussion Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. All held at the St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS BRISTOL MEET‑ INGS: Sunday, Discussion Meeting 4:00‑5:00 PM. Wednesday, 12 Step Meet‑ ing 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Big Book Meeting, 6:00‑7:00 PM. All held at the Howden Hall, 19 West Street. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS FRIDAY: Dis‑ cussion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY M E E T I N G S M O N D AY: As Bill Sees It Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM. Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS SUNDAY: 12 Step Meeting 9:00‑10:00 AM held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Came to Believe Meeting 1:00‑2:00 PM held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS THURSDAY: Big Book Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Mid‑ dlebury. Speaker Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at St. Ste‑ phen’s Church, Main St. (On the Green). ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS TUESDAYS: 12 Step Meetings; Noon‑1:00 PM. AND 7:30‑8:30 PM. Both held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ M O U S M I D D L E B U RY MEETINGS WEDNESDAY: Big Book Meeting 7:15‑8:15 AM is held at the Middlebury United Methodist Church on N. Pleasant Street. Discus‑ sion Meeting Noon‑1:00 PM at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NEW HAVEN MEET‑ INGS: Monday, Big Book Meeting 7:30‑8:30 PM at the Congregational Church, New Haven Village Green. ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS NORTH FER‑ RISBURGH MEETINGS: Sunday, Daily Reflections Meeting 6:00‑7:00 PM, at the United Methodist Church, Old Hollow Rd.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS VERGENNES MEETINGS: Sunday, 12 Step Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM. Friday, Discussion Meeting 8:00‑9:00 PM. Both held at St. Paul’s Church, Park St. Tuesday, Discussion Meeting 7:00‑8:00 PM, at the Congregational Church, Water St. ARE YOU BOTHERED BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs). Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems. Babysitting available. GRIEF ANONYMOUS MEETING every Tuesday @ 6:00 pm at Grace Baptist Church, 52 Merchants Row, Middelbury, Vt. A support group for those grieving the loss of a love one. MAKING RECOVERY EAS‑ IER (MRE). Wednesdays, 1‑2 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). This will be a facilitated group meeting for those struggling with the decision to attend 12‑Step Programs. It will be limited to explaining and dis‑ cussing our feelings about the 12‑Step Programs to create a better understand‑ ing of how they can help a person in recovery on his/her life’s journey. A certificate will be issued at the end of all the sessions. Please bring a friend in recovery who is also contemplating 12‑Step Programs. NA (JUST IN TIME) Wednesdays, 9 am, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Fridays, 7:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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

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Volunteers are needed to lend an extra hand in the kitchen cutting up fruits and veggies, serving meals, or helping with dishes. The staff and Volunteers of any age volunteers also enjoy doing cooking projects can contact The United with the kids on occasion. For more information Way of Addison County’s on this fun and flexible volunteer opportunity, Volunteer Center at www. unitedwayaddisoncounty.org please contact RSVP at 388.7044 or rsvpaddison@ and click on VOLUNTEER! volunteersinvt.org.

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, Middle‑ bury. Friday, December 8, 8am‑4pm. Saturday, De‑ cember 9, 8am‑2pm.

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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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ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Vacancies The schools of the ACSD seek outstanding applicants interested in the following positions: Middlebury Union High School • High School Bookkeeper/Teacher Substitute Caller (Full Time) - The position is responsible for securing and tracking all substitute positions, insuring payment for these services and for processing the school’s accounts payable. This position requires a strong background in accounting practices, strong interpersonal and communication skills, excellent organizational capacity and proficient computer skills. • Anticipated Social Studies Teacher - Temporary (Full Time) - Successful candidate must hold a Vermont Licensure in 9-12 Grade Social Studies. Candidates should have a demonstrated knowledge/background in Social Studies, willingness to be flexible and creative regarding instruction and assessment, knowledge of Vermont’s Assessment Program; exemplary oral, written and technology skills required; demonstrated knowledge of standardsbased curriculum and structure, demonstrated successful experience in a diverse classroom setting, effectiveness regarding rapport with students and communication with parents and interest and willingness to become involved in co-curricular activities. • Spanish Teacher - Temporary (Full Time) - Foreign Language Teacher for Spanish beginning February 26, 2018 through end of school year, approximately June 15, 2018. Successful candidate must have an appropriate 9-12 Licensure, Bachelor’s Degree, Master’s Degree preferred, minimum of one to three years related teaching experience in public or private school setting, Subject appropriate Vermont Certification, demonstrated knowledge/background in Spanish language, willingness to be flexible and creative regarding instruction and assessment, exemplary oral, written and technology skills required, demonstrated successful experience in a diverse classroom setting; and demonstrated knowledge of standards-based curriculum and structure. Salisbury • Assistant Cook (Part Time - about 10-15 hours per week) For the breakfast and lunch programs for the remaining 2017-2018 school year. Responsibilities include food preparation, serving students and lunchroom/ kitchen clean-up. Weybridge • 1:1 Paraprofessional (Full Time) - Needed for the remaining 2017-2018 of the school year. The successful candidate needs to be flexible, observant, and confident. S/he will need to work effectively within a team structure and plan, as well as independently. Position provides an excellent opportunity to explore education and social services as a career choice. Apply by sending a letter of interest, resume, three current reference letters and complete transcripts to: Dr. Peter Burrows, Superintendent Addison Central School District 49 Charles Avenue Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications reviewed upon receipt or until positions are filled. ACSD is also seeking paraprofessionals and substitute teachers for grades PK-12 for the 2017-18 school year. Ideal candidates should have strong organizational skills, strong written and oral communication skills, and computer literacy skills. For grades 7-12, preference would be given to candidates that have the ability to provide content areas (ex. English,World History, Math, Science, Special Education). Bachelor’s Degree with prior experience preferred. If you are interested in being a substitute teacher, visit our website at www.acsdvt.org to complete an online application form. E.O.E.

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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.

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

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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.

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DELIVERY DRIVER/LOAD‑ ER Champlain Orchards is looking for a full‑time deliv‑ ery driver & loader. You will be responsible for ensuring that our trucks are loaded properly for delivery to our customers and will serve as a back‑up to our normal route drivers. Must have a clean driving record and a valid CDL class A or B. At Champlain Orchards we are looking for folks that want to be a part of a great team, have a strong work ethic and appreciate local food/ agriculture. If that describes you, please visit our website at champlainorchards.com/ employment/ and complete a job application.

MAINTENANCE TECHNI‑ CIAN/EQUIPMENT Opera‑ tor. Champlain Orchards has a full‑time opening for a talented Maintenance Technician and Equipment Operator. If you have skills in diesel mechanics, plumbing, heavy equipment operations and carpentry, are good with your hands and love to make things work, this could be a dream job for you. If you feel you are qualified for this position, want to be a part of a great team, have a strong work ethic and appre‑ ciate local food/agriculture please visit our website at champlainorchards.com/ employment/ and complete a job application.

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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, Vermont manu‑ factures a wood and metal tool for making hooked rugs. Seeking production tech‑ nician to assemble, pack‑ age, oversee quality con‑ trol and inventory product. Basic woodworking skills required. This is a precision tool and meticulous attention to detail is needed during assembly. Job will be done here at our Route 30 Oxford Rug Hooking School. Will train. Full‑time (40 hours.) Monday‑Friday. $10/hour. To apply please call Amy at (802) 462‑2011. THE OXFORD COMPANY in Cornwall, VT seeks ad‑ ministrative assistant. We manufacture a rug hook‑ ing 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 certification. Ideal candidates would enjoy teaching their new skills to others through customer ser‑ vice, and support. Use your skills in Phone, Computer, Order Fulfillment, and Office Management. Fast passed, friendly, creative working environment. $15.00/hr. Full time (40 hours). Mon‑ day‑Friday. Rug hooking experience not necessary. Email cover letter, resume, and 3 references to amy@ amyoxford.com. WHISTLEPIG CURRENTLY HIRING FOR full time bot‑ tler. Eye for detail and ac‑ curacy. Flexible duties and hours Monday‑Friday. Be able to stand on feet for 8 hours a day with unas‑ sisted lifting of 25 pounds. Please send resume and 3 professional references to info@whistlepigrye.com.

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DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addi‑ son. Available storage space in my barn for summer/winter storage. The barn is structur‑ ally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measure‑ ments are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

LOOKING FOR THAT unique, one of a kind gift, check out Compass Trea‑ sure Chest we have furni‑ ture, collectibles, new cloth‑ ing, toys, cherish teddies, stamp collection, Decora‑ tions 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. SAWMILLS FROM ONLY $4,397. Make & save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free Info/DVD: NorwoodSawmills.com. 1‑800‑578‑1363, Ext. 300N. SNOW TIRES ‑ 4 Fires‑ tone winter force. 205/60/16. Used 1/2 a season. $275 firm. 349‑8907. U S E D R E S TA U R A N T EQUIPMENT plus chairs, tables and hood systems. 802‑388‑4831.

For Rent 1,800 SQ. FT. WARE‑ HOUSE commercial space. As is or renovate to suit. Creek Road, Middlebury. 802‑558‑6092. 15 MINUTES FROM MID‑ DLEBURY spacious 2 bed‑ room, 2 bath apartment in country. $900 plus utilities and 1 month deposit. No pets or smoking please. Available December 1st. Call for photos. 802‑897‑5447.

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BRANDON, GARAGE STORAGE. 10’x25’. Dry, secure. 802‑349‑4212. BRIARWOOD APART‑ MENTS is currently accept‑ ing applications for 2 BR apartments in Middlebury. All income/assets must be verified to determine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income to‑ ward rent. NS/NP, onsite laundry. Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website w w w. s u m m i t p m g . c o m . Equal Housing Opportunity. BRIDPORT 1 BEDROOM, 4 room apartment with porch/ lawn. Washer/dryer, heat/hot water included. No smoking, no pets. References and credit check. $800/mo. plus security deposit. For more info, Charlie 802‑758‑2218. BRISTOL VILLAGE, LARGE 1 BEDROOM apart‑ ment, 1st floor of large Victo‑ rian house, sunny southern exposure, heat included. No pets or smoking. Ref‑ erences, Lease, security deposit. $825/mo. Available December 1st. Call Doug, 802‑578‑6049.

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OPENING FALL 2017 Newly Constructed Loft, One Bedroom and Two Bedroom Apartments in Downtown Middlebury Historic Building | Air Conditioning European Appliances, Quartz Countertops & Washer/Dryer Off-Street Parking | Pet friendly Walk to Middlebury College campus Contact: Christine Golden Nedde Real Estate 802-373-5893 battellllc@gmail.com www.BattellBlock.com

E. MIDDLEBURY: SHARE A home w/ man in his 70s. Provide some companion‑ ship, housekeeping and cook 3‑4 meals/wk in ex‑ change for minimal rent. Pri‑ vate Bath. Would consider a pet. No deposit. 863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks req. EHO. F O R R E N T: B R I D ‑ P O R T, C o m m e r c i a l / retail office. 1,200 Sq. Ft. High traffic visibility. tbrought@middlebury.edu.

MIDDLEBURY; 3 BED‑ ROOM apartment available, fully furnished. All inclusive heat, electric and water. $1,800/mo. 802‑349‑8544. MIDDLEBURY: RETAIL/ OFFICE space for rent. 1,303 square feet. Front door parking. Contact Eric at 388‑6054. (Countryside Carpet and Paint) MIDDLEBURY: SHARE A lovely home w/ active, retired professional who enjoys cultural events. $400/mo (all inc). Seeking a house mate who might enjoy walking together & shar‑ ing some meals. 863‑5625, HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background check required. EHO.

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.

ORWELL: SHARE A HOME with a woman who enjoys yoga, vegetarian cook‑ ing, and dance. $400/mo. plus some help around her farm. 863‑5625 or HomeShareVermont.org for application. Interview, refer‑ ences, background checks req. EHO.

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

Particularly on sites like Craigslist. And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say. The federal government is watching for such discrimination. Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944. Talk to our sales professionals.

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RIPTON ONE BEDROOM CABIN, furnished or un‑ furnished. No smoking, no pets. $800/mo., plus utili‑ ties. 388‑2641. SEEKING A LIVE‑IN CAREGIVER compensa‑ tion and room and board for evening and overnight care of elderly couple. Addison County location. 15 minutes from Middlebury. Contact lincolnexpress@comcast. net or call 802‑999‑6373. STARKSBORO SMALL HOUSE, 1 bedroom with ex‑ tra room. House on shared owner’s property. $700/mo. plus all utilities. Security de‑ posit, references required. No smoking, no animals. 453‑5526.

MIDDLEBURY OFFICE SPACE for rent. 400 sq.ft., second floor. Available Janu‑ ary 1, 2018. Contact Eric at 802‑388‑6054.

MIDDLEBURY, VT 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT

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PROCTOR, VT, AVAIL‑ ABLE 1/1/18, 2 br. town‑ house. Garage, washer, dryer, hookup. $900/mo. Includes heat. Call Kathy at 855‑1570 or Tony at 855‑1531. References and criminal background check required.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ ROOM ranch. Two car at‑ tached garage with automat‑ ic 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 College, or Porter Hospi‑ tal. Lawn mowing, snow, and satellite dish included. $2,000 plus utilities. One month security deposit. (802) 388‑5474.

NEW HAVEN VILLAGE APT. Bright, hard wood floors, possible home office space. No pets, no smok‑ ing. References, security deposit, lease. $895/month plus utilities. 802‑236‑2040.

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Wood Heat FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802‑282‑9110. NEXT WINTER’S WOOD, c u t , s p l i t . Tr u c k y o u r own. $200 per cord. 802‑247‑6061. READY ‑2 ‑ BURN™ Seasoned ‑ Everyday low prices; Free delivery ‑ Free kindling ‑ Small orders OK. Click www.MIDDMEN.com or call 1‑855‑MIDDMEN.

Real Estate CORNWALL, VT‑ A BEAU‑ TIFUL building lot for sale. A m a z i n g v i e w. S e p t i c 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 vil‑ lage water and approved for simple in‑ground septic. Located in East Middle‑ bury, just 15‑20 minutes from the Snow Bowl, 2 golf courses and beautiful Lake Dunmore. 802‑388‑2502 or 802‑388‑7350.

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CROPLAND FOR RENT - 220 acres in Addison. Bid deadline Dec 15. Info: davidhspencer@hotmail. com FIRST CUT HAY for sale. Small square bales. Call 802‑349‑9281. W H I T N E Y ’ S C U S TO M FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating. Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Wanted TRUSTED 3RD GEN. VT Antique dealer specializ‑ /5/11) 5 : d e h s ds (Publi ing in jewelry, watches, A d e ifi s s Cla silver, art, military, antique llege.etc. Visit For Rent collectibles, ENT Close to co TM AR AP rb fu ished. OM re O ly R w D ne BE y, 1 www.bittnerantiques.com or . , Middlebur 0000 Main Street , includes heat. 000call Brian at 802‑272‑7527. th ebury dl id $750/mon M of north 0000. TMENT, Consulting/appraisal ish, 1 mile posit. 000- ser‑ rubb OM APAR 1 BEDRO udes heat, electric, $595/month plus de cl ly,vices available. House calls in te , ia rs ed ai m st up Available im e d referenc made free of charge. on Route 7. me Deposit an

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Spreading cheer

KATHLEEN AND BEKAH Parent and Dylan Lee helped the GFWC Orwell Fortnightly Club begin the holiday season by putting up wreaths around town last week.

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Nominate a Vt. Small Business of the Year VERMONT — The Vermont District Office of the U.S. Small Business Administration is accepting nominations for its 2018 small business awards. Previous Vermont winners include Ben and Jerry’s, Switchback Brewing Company and Mike Rainville of Middlebury’s Maple Landmark, who was 2017 Small Business Person of the Year. Since 1963, the SBA has recognized the outstanding achievements of America’s small businesses for their contributions to their local

communities, and to the nation’s economy. The award categories are: • Small Business Person of the Year. • Exporter of the Year. • Family-Owned Business of the Year. • Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year. • Veteran-Owned Small Business of the Year. • Minority-Owned Small Business of the Year. • Young Entrepreneur of the Year. • Microenterprise of the Year.

Public Notices Index Addison County Courthouse (1) Addison Northwest School District (1) Ethan Allan Highway Storage (1) Housing Vermont (1) Middlebury (1)

Public notices for the following can be found in this ADDISON INDEPENDENT on this Page 10B.

Notice of Abandonment (1) Notice of Foreclosure (1) Notice to Creditors (2) Vergennes-Panton Water District (1)

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos. REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

802-388-1966

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY PLANNING COMMISSION

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.

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STATE OF VERMONT CHITTENDEN UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

To nominate a company for a district award, email the following information about the nominee to vermont_do@sba.gov: • Owner’s first and last name. • Name of business. • Award category. • Phone number. • Email address. All nominations must be submitted by 3 p.m. on Jan. 9. Businesses may self-nominate. For more information, email vermont_do@sba.gov or call 802-828-4422.

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To Creditors of: Lawrence E. White, Jr.; the Estate of Laurence E. White, Jr.; the Estate of Lawrence E. White, Jr. d/b/a Lawrence White Construction & Logging; The Danby Trading Post; White’s Fuel Stop. This Notice is given in accordance with Title 14, Vermont Statutes Annotated, Sections 1201 and 1203 relating to claims against a decendent’s estate. You are hereby notified that: Victoria Lloyd has been appointed as Administrator of this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the publication of this Notice. The clain must be presented at the address listed below with a copy sent to the Rutland Probate Court, 83 Center Street, Rutland, VT. The claim should state with specificity claimant’s name and address, the amount owed, the date the debt was incurred or the claim arose, the nature of the claim, and any service or product provided by claimant or which claimant did not receive. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented withing the four (4) month period. Estate of Lawrence E. White, Jr. Attn: Amy R. Menard, Esq. One Cross Street Middlebury, VT 005753 A copt if this Notice is being sent to the Vermont Attorney General’s Office. Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: December 7, 2017 12/7

ETHAN ALLEN HIGHWAY STORAGE NOTICE OF SALE

Here is notification of sale property of Courtney Forrest - unit #188 and Charles Jacien- unit #101 at Ethan Allen Highway Storage at 229 Ethan Allen Highway in New Haven, VT 05472. To be sold at public auction on December 9, 2017 at 9:00 am to the highest cash bidder. All sales are final. Unit must be broomed cleaned. 11/30, 12/7

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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION v. KEITH M. GONYEAU AND HOLLY J. GONYEAU OCCUPANTS OF: 655 Hawkins Road, Ferrisburgh 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 May 8, 2017, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Keith M. Gonyeau and Holly J. Gonyeau to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., dated February 4, 2009 and recorded in Book 129 Page 424 of the land records of the Town of Ferrisburgh, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 655 Hawkins Road, Ferrisburgh, Vermont on January 11, 2017 at 2:00PM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: “BEING ALL AND THE SAME LAND AND PREMISES AS CONVEYED TO WILLIAM G. HOUSTON AND CONSTANCE T. HOUSTON BY WARRANTY DEED OF MAURICE J. PAQUETTE AND MILDRED V. PAQUETTE DATED NOVEMBER 22,1996 AND RECORDED AT BOOK 85, PAGE 231 OF THE TOWN OF FERRISBURGH LAND RECORDS. SAID PARCEL BEING FURTHER DESCRIBED THEREIN AS FOLLOWS: “BEING A PORTION OF THE LANDS AND PROMISES CONVEYED TO MAURICE J. PAQUETTE AND MILDRED V. PAQUETTE BY WARRANTY DEED OF ALLEN P. CLARK, ET.AL, DATED NOVEMBER 18,1971, AND RECORDAD IN BOOK 43 AT PAGE 67 OF THE FARRISBURGH LAND RECORDS. THE PORTION CONVEYED HEREIN IS LOT #9 AS SHOWN ON A SURVEY MAP ENTITLED “PLAT OT SURVEY FOR MAURICE J. PAQUETTE AND MILDRED V. PAQUETTE,” PREPARED BY JOHN A. MARSH, DATED DECEMBER 10, 1991, LAST REVISED MARCH 19, 1992, AND OF RECORD IN PLAT BOOK 4 AT PAGE 57 OF THE FERRISBURGH LAND RECORDS. “SAID PROPERLY IS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: “BEGINNING AT A POINT WHICH MARKS THE SOUTHEAST CORNER OF LOT #9, SAID POINT LYING ON THE WEST, SIDE OF HAWKINS ROAD, SO-CALLED; “THENCE PROCEEDING N 81° 05’ 00” W, A DISTANCE OF 350 FEET TO A POINT MARKED BY A REBAR PIN; “THENCE PROCEEDING N 81° 03’ 00” W, A DISTANCE OF 1410.00 FEET TO A POINT, SAID PAINT MARKING THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF THE PROPERTY HEREIN CONVEYED; “THENCE PROCEEDING N 06° 51’ 20” E, A DISTANCE OF 250.00 FEET TO A POINT, WHICH POINT IS THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF THE PROPERTY HEREIN CONVEYED; THENCE PROCEEDING S 81° 05’ 00” E, A DISTANCE OF 1410,00 FEET TO A POINT MARKED BY A REBAR PIN; “THENCE PROCEEDING S 81° 05’ 00” E, A DISTANCE OF 350 FEET TO A POINT MARKED BY A REBAR SET, WHICH POINT MARKS THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF THE LOT CONVEYED HEREIN; “THENCE PROCEEDING 06° 06’ 20” W, A DISTANT OF 250 FEET TO THE POINT R PLACE OF BEGINNING. “ANY PROPERTY LYING WITHIN THE RIGHT OF WAY FOR HAWKINS ROAD, SO-CALLED, IS HEREIN CONVEYED BY QUIT CLAIM ONLY. “SAID PROPERTY IS HEREBY CONVEYED SUBJECT TO AND WITH THE BENEFIT OF A COMMON RIGHT OF WAY RUNNING OVER A PORTION OE THE SOUTHEASTERLY PORTION OF LOT #9 AND THE NORTHEASTERLY PORTION OF LOT #8. SAID COMMON RIGHT OF WAY WILL SERVE LOT #9 AND LOT #8. THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMON PORTIONS OF SAID COMMON DRIVEWAY SHALL BE SHARED EQUALLY BY THE OWNERS OF LOT #9 AND LOT #8. ALL ANOWPLOWING AND MAINTENANCE OF THE COMMON PORTION OF SAID COMMON DRIVEWAY SERVICING LOT #9 AND LOT #8 #8. “SAID PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO AN OPEN SPACE AGREEMENT DATED JULY 21, 1992, AND RECORDED IN BOOK 76 AT PAGE 3430F THE FERRISBURGH LAND RECORDS. SAID PROPERTY IS SUBJECT TO THE FERRISBURGH PLANNING COMMISSION ORDER, DATED MAY 18, 1992. “SAID PROPERTY IS ALSO SUBJECT TO AND HAS THA BENEFIT OF A 50 FOOT DRAINAGE EASEMENT AS DEPICTED ON SAID SURVEY. Being the same property as transferred by Warranty Deed on 08/21/2006 and recorded 08/29/2006 from JEANNE M. SENESAC to KEITH M. GONYEAU and HOLLY J. GONYEAU , Tenants by the Entirety, recorded in Book 120 and Page 301 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 17, 2017 By: /S/Rachel K. Jones, Esq. sRachel K. Jones, Esq., Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032

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EARLY NOTICE AND PUBLIC REVIEW OF A PROPOSED ACTIVITY ADJACENT TO WETLANDS

To: All Interested Agencies, Groups, & Individuals This is to give notice that the Agency of Commerce and Community Development (the Agency) has determined that the following proposed action under HOME Investment Partnership Program of the U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is located near a wetland and the Agency will be identifying and evaluating practicable alternatives to locating the action near wetlands and the potential impacts on the wetlands from the proposed action, as required by Executive Order 11990, in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C Procedures for Making Determinations on Protection of Wetlands. The proposed project is a new construction project of a 24-unit family housing building with associated parking on a 6.51-acre site located at Armory Lane, Vergennes, VT. The subject property includes one Class II wetland (approximately 0.78 acres) and four Class III wetlands (approximately 0.51 acres total). No direct or indirect impacts to the Class II wetland or its required 50 foot buffer are anticipated. Class III wetlands are not regulated by the State of Vermont and do not require a buffer. No direct impacts to the Class III wetlands are anticipated. A wetlands permit is not required. Many natural and cultural resources, including fertile soils, endangered species and archaeological resources can be found in wetlands, making wetlands sensitive to disruption. In addition, wetlands as a natural system are important during flood conditions, in respect to natural moderation of floods, preservation of water quality, and as a conduit for groundwater recharge. Most of the original natural values of the wetlands at the subject property remain and therefore sensitivity of the wetlands must be considered during the redevelopment. There are three primary purposes for this notice. First, people who may be affected by activities in floodplains/wetlands and those who have an interest in the protection of the natural environment should be given an opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Second, an adequate public notice program can be an important public educational tool. The dissemination of information about floodplains/ wetlands can facilitate and enhance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associated with the occupancy and modification of these special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government determines it will participate in actions taking place in floodplains/ wetlands, it must inform those who may be put at greater or continued risk. Written comments must be received by the Agency at the following addresses on or before December 22, 2017: Department of Housing and Community Development, One National Life Drive, Davis Building, 6th floor, Montpelier, Vermont 05620, Attn: Environmental Officer. Comments may also be submitted or further information can be requested via email quin.mann@vermont.gov. A full description of the project may also be reviewed at the addresses listed above on the following days: Monday through Friday from 8am – 4:30pm. Date: December 7, 2017 12/7

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

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

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PUBLIC NOTICE OF ABANDONMENT OF OIL, GAS AND MINERAL LEASE PURSUANT TO TITLE 27 V.S.A. SUBSECTIONS (G) AND (H) OF SECTION 563 NAME OF RECORD OWNERS OF INTEREST: Cambrian Corporation, RD#1, Fowler Ohio 44418 Cambrian Associates, Ltd. c/o Anthony Abatiell, President One Justice Square, Rutland, Vermont 05701 NAME OF PROPERTY OWNERS: William G. Rader, Glenn T. Rader and Marylou E. Smith, Trustees of the Rader Family Trust 2010 Gloria G. Rader, Trustee of the Gloria G. Rader Revocable Trust William G. Rader and Rhoda Rader DESCRIPTION OF LAND: Being all and the same lands and premises converyed to William A. Rader (now deceased) and Gloria G. Rader by the following deeds, including but not limited to: Book 23, Page 433, Book 23, Page 540, Book 25, Page 281 and Book 25, Page 532. Said lands and premises were subsiquently conveyed to the above property owners as follows: 1. Warranty Deed from William G. Rader, Glenn T. Rader and Marylou E. Smith, Trustees of the William A. Rader Revocable Trust to William G. Rader, Glenn T. Rader and Marylou E. Smith, Trustees of the Rader Family Trust 2010, said deed is dated June 9, 2011, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 75 at Page 353. 2. Deed to Trust from William A. Rader and Gloria G. Rader to William A. Rader, Trustee of the William A. Rader Revocable Trust and Gloria G. Rader, Trustee of the Gloria G. Rader Revocable Trust, said deed is dated January 12, 2006, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 65 at Page 188. 3. Warrenty Deed from William A. Rader and Gloria G. Rader to William G. Rader and Rhoda M. Rader dated December 20, 1985, and recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 34 at Page 557. NATURE OF INTEREST: Oil, Gas and Mineral Lease granted by William Rader and Gloria Rader to Cambrian Corporation dated September 23, 1964, is recorded in the Shoreham Land Records in Book 25 at Page 614. A Preservation Notice of Cambrian Corporation is recorded in the Shorham Land Records in Book 33 at Page 379. NAME AND ADDRESS OF PERSONS GIVING NOTICE: William G. Rader, Glenn T. Rader and Marylou E. Smith, Trustees of the Rader Family Trust 2010 Gloria G. Rader, Trustee of the Gloria G. Rader Revocable Trust William G. Rader and Rhoda Rader c/o Langrock Sperry & Wool, LLP, PO Box 351, Middlebury, Vermont 05753 It is presumed that this Oil, Gas and Mineral Lease is Abandoned. Dated at East Dover, Vermont, this 30 day of November, 2017 Gloria G. Rader, Trustee of the Gloria G. Rader Revocable Trust By Mary Lou E. Smith by Delegation of Powers Dated September 22, 2017

Marylou E. Smith, Trustee of the Rader Family Trust 2010

Dated at Shoreham, Vermont, this 30th day of November, 2017 William G. Rader for Glen T. Rader William G. Rader, Trustee of the Rader Family Trust 2010 by Trustee of the Rader Family Trust 2010 William G. Rader, Trustee under Delegation of the Trustee from Glen T. Rader Dated September 22, 2017 William G. Rader

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PROBATE DIVISION DOCKET NO. 510-11-17 ANPR

ADDISON NORTHWEST SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

STATE OF VERMONT DISTRICT OF ADDISON, SS.

Monday, December 4

IN RE THE ESTATE OF MARGARET PETRI

Wednesday, December 6 5:30 PM

NOTICE TO CREDITORS To the creditors of the estate of Margaret Petri late of Middlebury, Vermont. I have been appointed to administer this estate. All creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate must present their claims in writing within four (4) months of the first publication of this notice. The claim must be presented to me at the address listed below with a copy sent to the court. The claim may be barred forever if it is not presented within the four (4) month period. Dated: November 27, 2017 Carl Petri 463 E. Main Street Middlebury, VT 05753 (802) 388-3442 Name of Publication: Addison Independent Publication Date: December 7, 2017 Address of Probate Court: Rutland Probate Court, 83 Center Street, Rutland, VT 05701 12/7

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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

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Police search for unwanted guest MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police helped a Weybridge Street resident who had complained of an uninvited guest on Dec. 1. The caller told police there was a “strange man” at the house who was refusing to leave. Police said the man left prior to their arrival. Authorities then searched for the man, who said he had been “drinking and talking” with some people who had returned to the Weybridge Street residence to socialize. Police told the man not to return to the residence. In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Helped Vermont State Police find a man reported missing from a New Haven address on Nov. 27. Police said they found the man with a friend in Middlebury. • Interviewed a Court Street resident who had made a disorderly conduct complaint after receiving a hostile phone call on Nov. 28. • Helped a Twin Circle resident find her 14-year-old son who had been late

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returning home from a friend’s house on Nov. 28. • On Nov. 28 sent a truancy notice to the family of a Middlebury Union High School student who had been missing from campus for several days. • Responded to a report of an elderly man with dementia acting aggressively at a Sidney Way residence on Nov. 29. Police said Middlebury Regional EMS officials took the man to Porter Hospital. • Received a report about a vehicle allegedly leaving the scene of an accident on Court Street on Nov. 29. • Responded to a two-vehicle crash, with injuries, on Route 7 South, near the Magic Wok restaurant, on Dec. 1. Police said a southbound vehicle driven by Ella Dyett, 19, of Brooklyn, N.Y., was making a left-hand turn and

Monkton MONKTON — Are you ready? Do you have your Christmas list ready for Santa? Get your list ready because Santa is on his way to Monkton. He will be coming by fire truck at 1 p.m. to Monkton Volunteer Fire Department on State Prison Hollow Road for all to see, and he will be ready to put you on his knee. The date is Saturday, Dec. 16, with cookies, juice and candy canes also to enjoy. Save the date because Santa wants to see you all from any town, girl or boy. Bring your cameras to take a picture with the jolly old elf, as he loves to “Ho, Ho, Ho” at pictures of himself. All are welcome from near and far, by truck, bike or even car. For more information call 802-877-2442. It’s time to once again gather at the East Monkton Church for an evening of wonderful music. For this year’s ‘Celebration of Christmas’ Lausanne Allen and Rick Ceballos will fill the church with their lively melodies and songs on Sunday, Dec. 17, beginning at 4 p.m.. Since 1991, this pair has enjoyed playing in a host of bands together, leading their musical friendship to continue and bear new fruit as a duo. Lausanne, from South Starksboro,

collided with a northbound vehicle driven by Sally Short, 66, of Brandon. Police said Short and one of her passengers, as well as a passenger in the Dyett vehicle, were taken to Porter Hospital for treatment of minor injuries. • Told a Maecliff Court homeowner to extinguish an illegal fire in his backyard on Dec. 1. • Were informed of the theft of an undisclosed amount of money from Shafer’s Market & Deli on College Street on Dec. 1. Police continue to investigate the matter. • Spoke with a man who was experiencing neck pain following a Court Street car accident on Dec. 2. • Served a no-trespass order on a man who had allegedly refused to leave Two Brothers Tavern on Main Street on Dec. 2. Police said the man was picked up by a family member. • Checked on the welfare of a Court Street resident who had expressed a desire — through social media — to harm himself on Dec. 3. Police spoke with the man, who said he was OK.

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plays fiddle, flute and whistle, and is currently a member of Va et Vient. Rick, from Bristol, plays five string banjo, fretless banjo, button accordion and bones, and plays in Daddy Long Legs. He is currently working to compile over 40 years of his original compositions for publication. These two people will offer up some of their favorite toe tapping old-time songs and Appalachian fiddle tunes, a few of Rick’s original melodies and of course, some familiar

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VUHS honor roll Otter Valley to accept VERGENNES — The following students have been named to Vergennes Union High School’s honor roll for the first quarter of the 20172018 school year. 12th Grade High Honors: Ally Atkins, Lance Bergmans, Anneke Boelens, Sierra Chamberlain, Mason Charlebois, Lillian Clark, Adelaide Cushman, Norah Deming, Kayla Gevry, Nora Hatch, Kristina Jochum, Erin Lawrence, Benjamin Praamsma, Aaron Premont, Alivia Roach, Lianna Sargent-Maher, Bailey Smith, Megan Tarte and Marigrace Wojciechowski. Honors: David Bowen, Leigah Burbo, Ryan Emmons, Emma Husk, Samir Kadric, Benjamin Kayhart, Casey Kimball, Brody King, Chloe Martin, Ethan Sausville, Anya Sonwaldt and Jade Sutton. 11th Grade High Honors: Bethany Delgadillo, Connor Gill, Bess Gramling, Emily Jackson, Evans Kile, Wade Mullin, Ezekiel Palmer, Hannah Philbrook, Madeline Smith, Paiton Tolmer, Brianna VanderWey, Carter Visicaro and Cedar Winslow. Honors: Sepehr Belar, Dylan Brileya, Emma Bryant, Benjamin Clark, Holden Clark, Ashley Cray, Rudy Davis, Cyrus Devine, Cody DeVries, Raven Duke, Dominic Fleming, Brady Gebo, Jacob Gonyeau, Jameson Haggett, Jack Halpin, Saige Henderson, Marin Howell, Olivia Lorrain, Morgan Lynk, Dylan Rapoport, Sarah Rathbun, Lydia Sabourin, Sydney Tarte, Gabrielle Terry, Caitlin Walsh and Ira White. 10th Grade High Honors: Emma Beauchemin, Luke Bergmans, Brianna Billings, Ian Brons, Adelaide Brooks, Leah Croke, Benjamin Curtis, Alder Donovan-Cook, Jackson Hameline, Sophie Hatch, Marlie Hunt, Alexyss MacKinnon, Rory Patch, Erich Reitz, Emily Rooney and Kai Williams. Honors: Emily Brinkman, Eleni Brouillard, Kaleigh Campbell, Heather French, Aidan Gardner, Kyla Heir, Abigail Hutchins, Payton Jones, Karyn Kenfield, Robert Kenfield, Justin McEntee, Maya Praamsma, Aidan Scott, Grace Smith, Jeffrey Stearns, Robert Verburg, Zander Wildasin and Kathryn Wyckoff. 9th Grade High Honors: Summer Chabot, Amanda Cook, Sophia Davis, Xander DeBlois, Aidan Gebo, Emma Jackman, Reagan Kayhart, Hannah Kelly, Kobe Kessler, Ethan Kile, Jordan Kimball, Thomas Lawrence, Anna Rakowski and Pearl Sutton. Honors: Jenna Abbey-Lowell, Harriet Anderson, Katherine Anderson, Daniel Anguish, Karrie Ayer, Christopher Bolduc, Stang Chantawan, Ava Collins, Lauren Curtis, Zehra Cushman, Ryleigh Dieterle, Rebekah Duprey, Alexis Emmons, Jonathan Flores-Torres, Emma Huestis, Gabriel Kadric, Dominic Kandzior, Riley Lane and Alyssa MacKinnon. And also Chloe Mailloux, Nima Mehregan, Jeremiah Moulton, Jarret Muzzy, Gabriel Praamsma, Abbigail Rivait, Adam Sausville, Jacob Sestokas, Antonio Socinski, Isabel Steen, Brendan Whitehouse and Angelina Yantz. 8th Grade High Honors: Olivia Brooks, Ila Collette, Richard Cosgrove, Mykenzie Duffy, Una Fonte, Payden Garthaffner, Priya Ginalski, Ella Hameline, Andrew Kachmar, Bradley Kutchukian, Kaitlyn Little, Jonah Mahe, Clarinda McAllister, Felicia Poirier, Avery Rugg and Audrey Tembruell. Honors: Timothy Ashley, Alisae Berg, Sierra Bertrand, Timothy Bolduc, Hayden Bowen, Anna Carr, Alisdair Chauvin, Allison Croke, Audrey Delp, Bryce Delp, Wilder Devine, Jonathan Forgues, Ethan Gebo, Abigail Goodyear, Ian Henderson, Renee Marshall, Shea McLaren, Rhode Miguel and Ryley Olsen. And also Gavin Quinlan, Colin Raymond, Alexandria Rice, Tori Scott, Audrey Scribner, Cal Seyler, Skylar Steady, Taylor Stearns, Eric Tarte, Christopher Terrien, Jordan Visser, Derek Vorsteveld, Lolke Vorsteveld, Trevor Woods and Olivia Wyckoff. 7th Grade High Honors: Raia Bryant, Reese Gernander, Morgan Hurlburt, Parker Kayhart, Madison Laberge, Jasmine Little, Nathan Muzzy, Avry O’Brien, Gideon Palmer, Shamus Rooney and Keaton St. Martin. Honors: Sydney Adreon, Jonas Amerson, Henry Anderson, Jackson Bennett, Brooke-Lynn Bolduc, Paige Bolduc, Eli Brace, Brett Brisson, Miranda Brouillard, Xavier DeBlois, Arielle Dumont, Frances Eckels, Abrim Francis, Thane Gill, Madison Graves, Samantha Hallock and Claire Hatch. And also Caden Howell, Emily Lowe, Samuel Michaels, Reese Moulton, Kassidy Quinlan, Carlyn Rapoport, Connor Raymond, Wyatt Rochon and Opal Sutton.

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Relationship with VIA makes it possible By LEE J. KAHRS The partnership was celebrated BRANDON — After years of with a ceremony at OV on Tuesday working on cultural exchange with afternoon in the auditorium featuring China, Otter Valley Union High VIA Executive Director ZJ Chen and School Principal Jim Avery ushered James Cross, president of VIA and in an era of official partnership with a professor at Champlain College the Vermont International Academy in Burlington. Avery, Rutland last week. Northeast Superintendent Jeanne Avery announced a formal Collins and members of the RNeSU agreement with VIA in and Otter Valley Unified Shanghai under which “I had been Union School Boards OV will accept students thinking about were also on hand. on a yearly basis from described and looking at it Avery that Chinese city. as “a ceremonial The partnership will different ways event solidifying our allow up to 10 Chinese we could do relationship.” students to attend Otter this in China, Vermont International Valley each year as but not all Academy is an ninth-grade students international, multiprograms can after they finish their campus, collegeown ninth-grade year in provide the in- preparatory school Shanghai. They will be country support in grades 10-12 with tuition-paying students that the VIA campuses located at OV and host families can.” in Shanghai, China. will be paid a monthly — Principal The curriculum and stipend through VIA. Jim Avery academic experiences are “It’s a great designed to ensure that opportunity for us to not international students are only expand cultural awareness with well prepared for American higher visiting students, but to also gain education. It is an English-language tuition students,” Avery said in an school and features English-speaking interview. faculty, which Avery said will make In return, the VIA partnership it easier and less stressful for OV will allow OV students to travel to students to study Mandarin. Shanghai in a cultural education “Our kids’ will have a successful exchange. experience based on that,” he said. “It’s a two-way street,” Avery said. “The Chinese culture is so different, “It could be for a semester, a year, and the VIA program allows a two years, we are still negotiating the greater percentage of our kids to terms.” have a successful experience.”

VERMONT INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY Chairman Wei Lu, left, Rutland Northeast Superintendent Jeanne Collins, VIA President James Cross and Otter Valley Principal Jim Avery stood for a photos at the Vermont International Academy Headquarters in Shanghai, China, this past April. Otter Valley announced it will accept Chinese students through a relationship with VIA. Courtesy photo

Since 2003, OV has been involved in programs with China. Most recently Otter Valley has worked in collaboration with Confucius Institute. Through this relationship OVUHS has been able offer a Mandarin Chinese language program and has maintained an ongoing relationship with Chinese educators. Avery said Harry Chaucer at Castleton State University originally wrote the curriculum for VIA after being approached by Cross. “Being a small state, Cross wanted to connect Vermont high school

kids with the VIA,” Avery said. “He spoke with Chaucer, who was aware of OV’s connection with Chinese culture over the years.” Avery said Cross had been focusing on Chittenden County schools until Chaucer asked him to contact OV. Superintendent Collins, the former superintendent of the Burlington School District, was also aware of VIA through her Chittenden County ties. “Jeanne has been involved in this conversation from the very beginning,” Avery said. “I had

been thinking about and looking at different ways we could do this in China, but not all programs can provide the in-country support that the VIA can.” Avery said OV is currently beginning the long process of applying for and receiving a federal F1 visa through the Department of Homeland Security in order to host the Chinese students. If all goes accordingly, he said the first group of Chinese students could arrive on the OV campus in January 2019.

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The Addison Independent

This year’s cast of “How to Eat Like a Child” will bring three performances to the Middlebury Union High School stage starting Friday at 7 p.m.

Do you remember ‘How to Eat Like a Child’?

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hat can you remember from 21 years ago? That was 1996.

“Squaring off with my older brother, Andrew, in ‘How To Torture Your Sister.’” — Alessandra LaFiandra, White River Juncion.

Anything?

“I made many friendships that shaped my adolescent years and still feel close to some cast members today.” — Eliza Murawski, Graniteville.

Some of us have incredible memories for random things, like our hair style or favorite sweatshirt. Others remember the feelings around big life moments. Then there

are a few, who forget it all. So, I wasn’t sure if anyone from our 1996 cast of “How to Eat Like a Child: And Other Lessons in Not Being a Grown-Up” was going to remember the show (or me, for that matter) when I asked around last week. But I was wrong. Very wrong. “My favorite thing would be the fun we had on and off stage.” — Hannah Harding-Minton, East Middlebury.

“The sense of community we built as a cast.” — Rini Lovshin-Smith, Shelburne. My curiosity was inspired, of course, because this same play will take the Middlebury Union High School stage this Friday and through the weekend. The cast, crew and director are new, but the story is the same. It’s kids versus the adults in this revue, and guess who wins! The all-child cast will give you lessons in things like how to beg for a dog, how to torture your sister, how to act after being sent to your room, and how to laugh hysterically. The charming and witty music score by John Forster enhances and underscores the comedy and has made this show a favorite ever since it premiered

in 1981. The best-selling book by Delia Ephron was adapted by Judith Kahan into a one-hour special starring Dick Van Dyke for NBC. The television show was then reworked for the live stage three years later, opening in New York in 1984. Since then, countless productions have been mounted across the country. Twenty-one years ago, 21 of us kids (including my sister Christy and myself) performed our version of “How To Eat Like a Child” at Mount Abraham Union High School with the help of our director Barbara Harding and others. And 21 years later, I bet we can all still sing the songs (maybe with a little help). “I always started off each play I directed saying it was going to be a lot of fun. And it always was,” remembered Barbara Harding, who owns Otter Creek Used Books in Middlebury. “I thoroughly enjoyed witnessing the growth of each cast member and seeing their characters blossom on stage. The camaraderie seemed to be extra special in ‘How To Eat Like A Child’ because of the SEE CHILD ON PAGE 3

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ART New exhibit brings ‘more light’ to Vergennes NORTHERN DAUGHTERS GALLERY WELCOMES A GROUP SHOW OF SMALL WORKS, ON VIEW DEC. 1-JAN. 28

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orthern Daughters welcomes a new exhibit to their gallery on Main Street in Vergennes. “more light” opened on Dec. 1 and will be on view through Jan. 28. The show features small works from six artists who work in a range of media, including watercolor, oil painting, encaustic and collage. Exhibiting artists include Anne Cady, Pamela Smith and Sobelman Cortapega — who are regularly exhibited at Northern Daughters; as well as three artists exhibiting with NoDa for the first time: Edward Holland, Julia Jensen and Molly Bosley. Edward Holland is an abstract artist based in New York City who works in a wide variety of materials including acrylic and oil paint, colored pencil, graphite and collage. “I am not interested in depicting

a specific narrative,” he said of his artwork. “Instead, I am interested in establishing a space where narrative can be developed.” Holland received his Bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and his Master’s from New York University. His artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally in galleries including Peter Marcelle Gallery in Bridgehampton, N.Y., Gerald Peters Gallery in Santa Fe, N.M., and New York City, and Phyllis Weston Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio. Edward’s artwork may also be found in private collections nationwide. Julia Jensen is a Vermont-based landscape artist working in encaustic. “Paintings exist at the meeting ground between the external world and one’s internal, emotional, and spiritual responses to it,” said Jensen. “For me, landscape is the perfect point

“The Fish, Version 7” by Edward Holland is one of the pieces on exhibit at Northern Daughters Gallery in Vergennes. An opening reception will be held Friday, Dec. 8, from 5-8 p.m. with live music and cocktails.

of access for this exploration.” A graduate of Tulane University with a Bachelor’s in Art History. Jensen has been painting for 20 years. Molly Bosley is a mixed media

artist based in Vermont. Bosley says she strives to create “art that is arresting, yet familiar, like a memento you find tucked away in between the pages of an old book.” Indeed, at first glance her patterned paper-cuts are decorative and nostalgic, only after closer examination do the modern elements and unexpected stories layered into the details emerge. Bosley is a graduate of University of Vermont, with a Bachelor’s in Studio Art. She has exhibited nationally and gained recognition in online publications, as well as landing the cover of the Random House book titled, “The Aviary.” This exhibit will host an opening reception on Friday, Dec. 8, from 5-8 p.m. There will be live music from Nate Wallace-Gusakov and Jacob Weiss, and cocktails from Barr Hill Gin. For more info contact info@ northerndaughters.com or (802) 877-2173.

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content of the play itself and the catchy songs that made everyone smile. Seriously, the cast always seemed to have a twinkle in their eyes. It sure was a fun play and one that always makes me smile when I look back on it.” This year’s show, supported by the Middlebury Community Players Foundations, is directed by Kerianne Severy, choreographed by Ellie Kiel, and with mime direction by Marshall Eddy. Believe it or not, Severy was a cast member of “How to Eat Like a Child” when she was 10 and growing up in Maine. Her little sister was in it too. “This play has been so fun to put together,” said the 28-year-old who now lives in Salisbury, with her husband Nate Severy (a native of Cornwall). “It was the first show I was ever in as a child so how fitting that it be the first show that I direct. To me, while the show is funny and exposes truths that kids and adults try to hide, it serves to point out the absurdity of some of the words and actions that children sometimes say and do. I hope it springboards a conversation about being more aware of our words and actions as well as being more mindful about how what we say and do affects others.” Tickets cost $7 and are on sale in person or by calling the Town Hall Theater Box Office at (802) 3829222 (68 South Pleasant St., Middlebury, MondaySaturday, 12 to 5 p.m.), online at townhalltheater.org, or at the door at Middlebury Union High School one hour before show times. The show will open Friday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m., and continue Saturday and Sunday, at 2 p.m.

The cast of “How to Eat Like a Child” from 1996. Pictured in no particular order: Becca Bodette, Cliff Burnham, Sophie Greenwalt, Hannah Harding, Anna Kaufman, Emily Kimler, Alessandra LaFiandra, Andrew LaFiandra, Steve LaLiberte, Rini Lovshin-Smith, Elsie Lynn, Christy Lynn, George Martin, Eliza Murawski, Elisa Schine, Buck Sleeper, Becky Straub, Chris Straub, Justine Tompkins, Sage Trombulak and Christine Winkler.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF BARBARA HARDING

1996 “THE PLAY IS VERY ACTIVE AND FUN. IT’S VERY ENERGETIC AND EXCITING, BUT SOME OF THE STUFF YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE BECAUSE IT’S KIDS DOING NAUGHTY THINGS.”

— Sam Wootten, 10, Cornwall “MY FAVORITE PART OF BEING IN THIS PLAY IS HOW YOU GET TO KNOW EVERYONE, THE FAMILY. I ALSO LIKE TELLING THE STORY IN SOMEONE ELSE’S SHOES.”

— Asa Baker-Rouse, 11, Middlebury

“THE PLAY IS FUN AND COMICAL AND HELPS GET KIDS INTERESTED IN MUSIC. IT’S ABOUT HOW TO BE A KID AND HOW GROWNUPS EXPECT KIDS TO BE, COMPARED TO WHAT KIDS ARE REALLY LIKE.” — Sophie Mason, 10, Weybridge “IT’S HILARIOUS WITH A HINT OF SASS IN IT. MY FAVORITE PART IS ALL OF US BEING TOGETHER AND SINGING ‘HAMILTON’ TOGETHER AT REHEARSALS.”

— Callie Rees, 9, Middlebury

“MY FAVORITE PARTS WERE: A) GETTING TO KNOW SO MANY KIDS OUTSIDE OF MY TOWN, AND B) SQUARING OFF WITH MY OLDER BROTHER, ANDREW, IN ‘HOW TO TORTURE YOUR SISTER.’” — Alessandra LaFiandra, White River Junction

“HANDS DOWN THE BEST PART OF BEING IN THE SHOW WAS THE CAST. I MADE MANY FRIENDSHIPS THAT SHAPED MY ADOLESCENT YEARS AND STILL FEEL CLOSE TO SOME CAST MEMBERS TODAY... I STILL KNOW MANY OF THE SONGS BY HEART! I HOPE THE NEW CAST HAS AS MUCH FUN AS WE DID!” — Eliza Murawski, Graniteville “ONE OF MY MOST FAVORITE MEMORIES ABOUT BEING IN ‘HOW TO EAT LIKE A CHILD’ WAS THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY WE BUILT AS A CAST. I REMEMBER ENJOYING THE LONG NIGHTS OF REHEARSAL BECAUSE I GOT TO BE WITH MY FRIENDS AND WE WERE ALL WORKING ON A COLLECTIVE GOAL. IT WAS A SPECIAL EXPERIENCE IN MANY WAYS. — Rini Lovshin-Smith, who now lives in Shelburne

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OUT OF TOWN Brandon artist exhibits in Jeffersonville gallery BRYAN MEMORIAL GALLERY SELECTS ONE OF JIM SAMLER’S PAINTINGS FOR JURIED EXHIBIT

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ne of Jim Samler’s paintings was selected for a juried show at the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville. Samler is a resident of Brandon and was the Otter Valley Union High School art teacher before retiring a few years ago. His painting features two white birds flying in a forest. The exhibit “Fantastical Lanscapes & Imaginary Places” is an exhibit sure to take you to places you’ve never been. Work by artists

who excel in creating magical places, sometimes created from imagination, sometimes inspired by real landscapes, fills the Jeffersonville gallery’s main space. If you’re going north, take the opportunity to escape from reality and enjoy art that celebrates imagination in Jeffersonville. The exhibit will be on view in the main gallery through Dec. 23. The Bryan Memorial Gallery is located at 180 Main Street in Jeffersonville. For more info call (802) 644-5100 or visit bryangallery.org.

RIGHT: Jim Samler, a Brandon artist and retired Otter Valley art teacher, has a painting in a juried exhibit at the Bryan Memorial Gallery in Jeffersonville.

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IN TOWN

Maiden Vermont will perform their winter holiday show at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater this Saturday at 4 p.m.

Smiley joins Maiden Vermont for holiday show

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he excitement is building for Maiden Vermont’s holiday show, “Come Fly With Us.” The Maidens will take the Town Hall Theater stage in Middlebury this Saturday, Dec. 9, at 4 p.m. 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.

cameo appearances by small groups from within the chorus. Smiley will lead off Act 2, with the Maidens joining her in the grand finale.

Smiley, an Addison County native, is a worldrenowned composer of original arrangements and a performer with rich and varied vocal colors. Smiley’s inspiring personality engages audiences of all ages. Act 1 will feature the full chorus plus

Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors/ students, and may be purchased at townhallteater.org, by calling (802) 382-9222, at the THT box office (Monday-Saturday, 12-5 p.m.) or at the door, if available.

College rings in season with Lessons and Carols ANNUAL HOLIDAY EVENT INCLUDES READINGS AND SONGS OF CHRISTMAS AND ADVENT

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iddlebury College will host the annual holiday event “Lessons and Carols for Advent and Christmas” on Sunday, Dec. 10, 4 and 7 p.m., at Mead Chapel in Middlebury. Now in its 46th year in Middlebury, this service has been a special Addison County tradition. A large SUNDAY DEC. audience of college and Mead Chapel, Middlebury community members and families will fill the chapel to share in a sense of community and

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hopefulness of the season. 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 ’20 will accompany the choir and congregation,

and provide organ music before and after the services. Middlebury College Chaplain Laurie Jordan will lead the service. The event is free. Instead of admission, each year donations are collected for local community non-profit organizations. Proceeds will be given to HOPE (Helping Overcome Poverty’s Effects), Elderly Services and Addison County Home Health and Hospice. For more information, contact the Middlebury College Chaplain’s Office (802) 443-5626.

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JIM BLAIR, “THE PAST IS PROLOGUE” EXHIBIT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Dec. 8, 12:30 p.m., Middlebury College Museum of Art, Mahaney Center for the Arts, 73 Porter Field Rd. Using photographs from many stories Blair discusses “how we have made some 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.

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.

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 Indigodyed shibori, photography, encaustics, and watercolors. Come have a warm drink and talk art process and inspiration as we head into winter.

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.

“MERRY, MARY” EXHIBIT OPENING IN BRISTOL. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-9 p.m., ARTSight, 6 South St. An exhibit of the latest work by Rachel Elion Baird, featuring live bluegrass music with the local band Old Bones. Free. (802) 989-1333.

CRAFTS 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. 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. MAKERCLUB IN SHOREHAM. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2:45-3:45 p.m., Platt Memorial Library, 279 Main St. On the first day of Hanukkah, light some lights with wearable electronics. Come learn about how to create simple circuit jewelry. A snack will be served.

DANCE 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.

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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.

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.

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 802-4622834 by Nov. 29.

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HIGH SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT IN VERGENNES. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Vergennes Union High School auditorium, Monkton Rd. The VUHS Music Department’s performing ensembles include the Symphonic Band, Concert Choir, Commodore Jazz Ensemble and the Commodore Singers.

BEFORE SCHOOL LETS OUT FOR THE HOLIDAYS, GO SEE ONE OF THE SHOWS NEXT WEEK. VERGENNES AND BRISTOL STUDENTS WILL PERFORM MUSIC, AND STUDENTS FROM MIDDLBURY PUT ON ONEACT PLAYS. GET READY TO BE IMPRESSED. THESE STUDENTS HAVE CHOPS!

AMARYLLIS IN LINCOLN. Sunday, Dec. 10, 2 p.m. United Church of Lincoln, 23 Quaker St. Suggested donation $13.

MIDDLE SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT IN BRISTOL. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School/Middle School, 220 Airport Dr. Come and listen to the middle school music ensembles perform a variety of songs to celebrate the winter season. Free. HIGH SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT IN BRISTOL. Thursday, Dec. 14, 7 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School/Middle School, 220 Airport Dr. Come and listen to the high school music ensembles perform a variety of songs to celebrate the winter season. Free. MIDDLE SCHOOL WINTER CONCERT IN CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE

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VERGENNES. Thursday, Dec.14, 7 p.m., The Vergennes Union High School auditorium. The VUMS Music Department’s performing ensembles include the Concert Band, Middle School Choir, and the Jazz Jammers. NIGHT FIRES IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Dec. 15, 8 p.m., Saturday, Dec. 16, 4 and 8 p.m., and Sunday, Dec. 17, 4 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. As Winter Solstice approaches, this year’s Night Fires is a shout of hope and passionate prayer for our “Turtle Island” and all the many different peoples living here today — abundantly offered in a delicate intertwining of prose, poetry, song and dance. Tickets $25/$21 seniors/$20 student, available at 802-382-9222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office MondaySaturday noon-5 p.m., or at the door. THE PROMISE IS HOPE IN BRANDON. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Married couple Ashley and Eric L’Esperance, explore through their music the mysteries of love, spirituality, and the joys and struggles of life’s journey. Tickets $20. Preconcert 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.

THEATER 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., Saturday, Dec. 9, 2 p.m., and 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 person. A Middlebury Community Players production. STUDENT ONE-ACTS DINNER THEATER IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Dec. 14, 7-10 p.m., Black Box Theater, Patricia Hannaford Career Center, Charles Ave. Addison Repertory Theatre presents “Never Before Seen,” student-written 10-minute one-act plays dinner theater in collaboration with the Culinary Arts program at the Hannaford Career Center. Dinner will be served at 7 p.m. and the show will start at 8 p.m. with dessert at intermission. Tickets $25. To reserve call 802-382-1036. STUDENT ONE-ACTS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, Dec. 15, and Saturday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m., Black Box Theater, Patricia Hannaford Career Center, Charles Ave. Addison Repertory Theatre presents “Never Before Seen,” student-written 10-minute one-act plays. Tickets $10 adults/$7 students available at 802-382-1036.

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BRANDON 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. 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. DECORATE A GINGERBREAD HOUSE IN BRANDON. Saturday, Dec. 16, two sessions, 10:30-11:30 a.m., and 12:30-1:30 p.m., Compass Music and Art Center, 333 Jones Dr. SoundBite Cafe’s Chef Vicky will provide the houses and all the decorating fixings for this familyfriendly event. Cost: Small (graham cracker) house $12/large (graham cracker) church $20/homemade gingerbread house $15. More info at 802-247-4295 or info@cmacvt.org.

BRISTOL 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 8:3010:30 a.m., arts and crafts and live music. Tickets $10 per person/children two and younger are free, available at Recreation Department Office or at bristolrec.org. 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 materials provided. All ages welcome but 16 or under must be accompanied by adult. Come and go as you please. Free. 802- 989-1333. EAT, DRINK & BE MERRY IN BRISTOL. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-9 p.m., downtown. Music and wine tasting at Bristol Bakery & Cafe, as well as various happenings downtown in Main Street businesses. Free. 802-760-6076.

TRUNK SHOW IN BRISTOL. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-8 p.m., Vermont Honeylights, 9 Main St. Beautiful jewelry from Island Girl Jewelry (Audrey Beckwith). Free. 802-453-3952. CHRISTMAS CAROLING IN BRISTOL. Friday, Dec. 15, 6 p.m., Holley Hall. Joins carolers as they sing around town. All are welcome. Children under 10 must be accompanied by an adult. Meet back at Holley Hall for cocoa and cookies. Sign up at the Recreation Office. A HOLIDAY CONCERT: SONGS OF THE SEASON IN BRISTOL. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m., Holley Hall, 1 South St. Celebrate the music of the season with your friends and neighbors in the tradition started long ago. Suggested donation $5. 802-453-5885. 2017 MR. CHRISTMAS TREE PAGEANT IN BRISTOL. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m., Mt. Abraham Union High School/Middle School, 220 Airport Dr. Six senior boys compete for the crown of Mr. Christmas Tree in a very funny pageant format. Formal wear, interviews, talent and bathing suit portions have entertained the community since 2013. Free for all ages. 802-349-0498. ANNUAL COMMUNITY HOLIDAY DINNER IN BRISTOL. Sunday, Dec. 17, 11:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Mary’s at Baldwin Creek, 1868 N. Route 116. Mary’s 35th annual holiday celebration for local residents. Free dinner, music and entertainment - plus a visit from Santa! 802-453-2432. WINTER SOLSTICE FUNDRAISER AT THE VILLAGE SHALA IN BRISTOL. Sunday, Dec. 17, 5 p.m., The Village Shala, 14 School St. Surrounded by candlelight, learn the Gayatri mantra, known for calling on the light. We will then chant it 108 times, celebrating the darkness and calling on the light. We will be accepting donations to support a local organization. All are welcome. Suggested donation of $10-$20. 802-349-2320.

MIDDLEBURY I SPY CONTEST TEN TINY CHICKENS IN MIDDLEBURY. Dec. 1-31, downtown. Try to find the hidden ornaments in ten store windows in downtown Middlebury and be entered to win $100 in Middlebury Money. BE YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS CHARACTER IN MIDDLEBURY. Dec 1-31, downtown. Ever wonder what you’d look like as a snowman or a gingerbread girl? Pose for a picture with an adorable assortment of character cutouts around town. CONTINUED ON PAGE 13

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From Maxine Clark’s “Chocolate: Deliciously Indulgent Recipes for Chocolate Lovers” (Ryland, Peters & Small). Makes about 12 large cookies

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TRY A NO-BAKE RECIPE No bake cookies come together in a matter of minutes, but still employ a host of delicious ingredients. Recipes frequently feature similar ingredients to traditional cookies, but rely on chocolate, honey or peanut butter as the setting agent to keep them

If you have a fair amount of cookies remaining or several that broke apart or do not look good enough to serve, never fear. Such cookies can be used as part of another delicious dessert. Grind cookies into crumbs that can serve as a pie crust for pudding pies or nobake cheesecakes, or mix cookie crumbs with cake frosting or a nut butter and roll into balls. Dunk the balls into melted chocolate, add a lollipop stick and make delicious cookie pops. — MetroCreative

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Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Sat 12/9 4pm $25/$22 Seniors, Students & Children

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Fri & Sat 12/15-16 8pm; Sat & Sun 12/16-17 4pm $25/$21 Seniors/$20 Students

NIGHT FIRES

This annual winter solstice play will be a big shout of hope inside a passionate prayer for this beautiful, aching county of ours. A delicate yet dramatic intertwining of prose, poetry, song & dance.

Sun 12/31 8pm Doors/9pm Show $18 Doors/$15 Advance

NEW YEARS EVE WITH THE GRIFT

A STORY OF ART. On exhibit Sept. 5-Dec. 10, featuring the gifts and bequests from collector Charles Moffett — a Middlebury alumnus from the Class of 1967 and one of the most highly regarded world authorities on Impressionism — and his widow Lucinda Herrick. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND EARLY EUROPEAN ART. Ongoing exhibit, highlighting an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting. Lower Gallery at the Middlebury College Museum of Art, 72 Porter Field Road, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007. DRAW ME A STORY, TELL ME A TALE. On exhibit June 13-Jan. 13, 2018, featuring original artwork, sketches and more from 17 Vermont children’s book illustrators/authors. Henry Sheldon Museum, 1 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-2117 or henrysheldonmuseum.org. DRIVING THE BACK ROADS: IN SEARCH OF OLD-TIME VERMONTERS. On exhibit, Sept. 23-Jan. 6, featuring photographs and stories by Ethan Hubbard. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St, Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org. FIRE AND LIGHT. The gallery will be open by appointment and on Dec. 9, 15 and 22. ARTSight, 6 South St., Bristol. (802) 989-1333.

Middlebury’s favorite band rocks the region’s biggest dance floor for a New Year’s Eve Party with a free champagne toast at midnight (for 21+). Cash Bar on site.

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TENTH ANNUAL HOLIDAY SHOW

ORIGINAL WORKS BY LOCAL ARTISTS Original, handmade and hand printed art and fine crafts by talented regional artists comprise THT’s holiday show that has become a tradition – featuring unique and affordable works available for immediate purchase.

Sun 1/7 2pm $12/$60 Series Pass MNFF WINTER SCREENING SERIES

CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER

A documentary portrait of artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter. Featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, the late Sam Shepard, and more.

Fri, Sat & Mon 1/26, 1/27 & 1/29 @ 7:30pm Sun 1/28 @ 2pm MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE J-TERM MUSICAL

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Vivacious, wounded cabaret performer Sally Bowles and American writer Cliff fall in love in the looming shadow of Nazi Germany. Tickets are $20/$15 staff/$6 students On Sale 1/10 at 8am online or call 802-382-9222

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Sir David McVicar’s ravishing new production offers a splendid backdrop for two extraordinary sopranos sharing the title role of the jealous prima donna: Sonya Yoncheva and Anna Netrebko. A free talk about Tosca will be given at 12:15 – in the studio.

GINGERBREAD HOUSES. On exhibit Dec. 1-Dec. 22, featuring handmade gingerbread houses. Come vote for your favorite. An opening reception will be held Friday, Dec. 1, 4-6 p.m. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org. HOLIDAY SHOW. On exhibit Nov. 18-Dec. 31, featuring work by 22 area artists in a variety of mediums and genres. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org. LAND AND LENS: PHOTOGRAPHERS ENVISION THE ENVIRONMENT. On exhibit Sept. 15-Dec. 10, featuring 71 photographs spanning the mid19th century to the present day, including work by Ansel Adams, Arthur Rothstein, Eliot Porter and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as other contemporaries. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu. MORE LIGHT. On exhibit Dec. 1-Jan. 28, featuring small works by Anne Cady, Edward Holland, Julia Jensen, Molly Bosley, Pamela Smith & Sobelman Cortapega. An opening reception will be held Friday, Dec. 8, 5-8 p.m. Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St, Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com. STEPHANIE STOUFFER’S “HOLIDAY LEGACY.” On exhibit Nov. 17-Dec. 31, featuring original paintings and commercial products over this Vermont artist’s 35-year career. Meet the artist on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2 p.m., at the gallery. Compass Music and Arts Center, 333 Jones Dr., Brandon. (802) 2474295 or cmacvt.org. THE SOVIET CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION. On exhibit Sept. 22-Dec. 10, featuring highlights from the museum’s holdings of Russian art, including photographs, luxury items by the firm of Fabergé, and a recently acquired Soviet poster. The Middlebury College Museum of Art, located in the Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-3168 or museum.middlebury.edu. WINTER IN VERMONT. On exhibit, Nov. 3-Jan. 3, 2018. Featuring an ensemble show by the membership of season-appropriate artwork. The show includes a Christmas tree full of ornaments (for sale). Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center St, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

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MUSIC Duo performs in Lincoln

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hey Might Be Gypsies will perform for the Burnham Music Series at Burnham Hall in Lincoln this Saturday, Dec. 9. This band plays high energy, uplifting music with tremendous passion. They weave together the traditional sounds of early 20th century France with modern influences from Argentina to Barcelona. At the core, the group is comprised of father and son duo, Greg and Aidan Ryan, both life long musicians. Greg grew up steeped in the musical traditions of his family, drawing inspiration from many genres. Greg’s playing expresses fire and passion mixed with sophistication and sensitivity. Aidan, now in his early twenties, has been performing for audiences since he was six.

“A Quiet Walk in The Snow – Christmas Version” Composed by Pauline Frechette. Arranged by David Campbell

Father-son duo Greg and Aidan Ryan will perform as They Might Be Gypsies in Lincoln for the Burnham Music Series this Saturday evening.

Their debut album came out in 2010. With such success they produced their second CD, “Rendezvous” that also received rave reviews. Come catch this duo in Lincon to see for yourself. Burnham Hall is located at

52 River Road in Lincoln. Doors open at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $10 for adults, teens and kids are free. Refreshments will be served during intermission. For more information, call (802) 3886863.

live music ADDISON STRING QUARTET. Thursday, Dec. 7, 12:15 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury. MAIDEN VERMONT. Saturday, Dec. 9, 4 p.m., Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. DUPONT BROTHERS. Saturday, Dec. 9, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. THEY MIGHT BE GYPSIES. Saturday, Dec. 9, 7 p.m., Burnham Hall, Lincoln. LESSONS AND CAROLS FOR THE ADVENT OF CHRISTMAS. Thursday, Dec. 14, 12:15 p.m., Mead Chapel, Middlebury. SONGS OF THE SEASON. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7 p.m., Holley Hall, Bristol.

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usic that has descriptive, naturalistic titles usually makes me uneasy, because that commercial model has bred too many cheesy pieces of music. However, Pauline Frechette’s “A Quiet Walk in the Snow – Christmas Version” is a delightful surprise. This is beauty personified in a format that is more than just accessible; it’s as if it were always a part of me. I don’t know how else to describe it.

Out of curiosity, I clicked on Frechette’s web site (paulinefrechette.com) to listen to the original version of “A Quiet Walk in the Snow;” it became immediately apparent why it has had over 500,000 hits between Soundcloud and Spotify. The original version is beautiful and has received rave reviews. The Christmas version weaves in bell-like elements, to give it a particularly late December flavor. One of the things I like so much about Frechette’s music, is that her melodies stay with me long after I’ve listened. As a reviewer I hear quantities of songs and often, even if the overall production is good, there is not a deep emotional connection for me. This is not the case with “A Quiet Walk in the Snow.” Although the composition clocks in at under two minutes, it is two minutes of gorgeous melody and emotional composition, arranged with the skill and originality that has marked David Campbell’s illustrious career. Frechette and Campbell have collaborated for years as creative and romantic partners. In fact, in celebration of their anniversary there will be a new album release, “Always Lovers,” scheduled to drop on Valentine’s Day, 2018. Might I suggest that If you’re beginning to feel the pressures of the holidays coming on, take two minutes to close your eyes and be refreshed by the contemplative mood of “A Quiet Walk in the Snow - Christmas Version.” I’m certain you won’t be disappointed.

THE PROMISE IS HOPE. Saturday, Dec. 16, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music. Ron Powers, formerly from Middlebury, does freelance A&R for several indie labels and is constantly searching for and writing about his new hot music discoveries.

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the movie ROMAN J. ISRAEL, ESQ. — RUNNING TIME: 2:09 — RATING : PG-13 For movie lovers, anticipation and reality are the two states we inhabit in relation to any movie. When the reality turns out to be disappointment, we feel let down for ourselves and sympathetic toward the people who worked hard to make a good film. “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” was a big disappointment for me. Here’s the why of that. For 26 years, Roman Israel (Denzel Washington) has been the in-office work horse of a two man criminal defense firm while his partner did the public work in the court system. That partner has had a heart attack and lies dying slowly in a hospital. George (Colin Farrell), an upscale, successful lawyer, steps in to shut down the dingy office where Roman works to redesign the court system that punishes down and out lawbreakers without any effort toward rehabilitation. George hires Roman to address the social justice side of life in a token way in his own big firm. This is a one man show for Denzel Washington and that is a big undertaking for one actor whose character rarely interacts with others and walks through life talking mostly to himself. His Roman Israel has an encyclopedic grasp of the criminal codes along with dedication to social justice, 1960s style. For two hours this is what you will see: Roman coming to the office in ill matching old pants, shirt, and sweater or jacket, talking to himself about injecting rehabilitation into the system. His only social interactions unfold with George who hires him for his mastery of the criminal code and with Maya (Carmen Ejogo) who sees he is as troubled as she is. Even when he is with either of those two, he is muttering under his breath in an unreachable inner place. He cannot relax enough to get to know either of them. This is a man so trapped in himself that he can’t respond to the two people who reach out to him.

Denzel Washington in “Roman J. Israel, Esq.” (2017)

Roman searches for a job with civil rights in his heart and tears in his eyes as he sees his dream of a grand new era of social reform is of little importance in the world of modern law. Whenever he tries to sell his reform, he is dismissed as a nuisance. He is an eccentric in a world that sees little importance in his ideas. A few light hearted scenes unfold when he violates his own code to stay in a fancy hotel and cavort in the ocean. Can he walk comfortably in the shoes of a rich man? Writer/director Dan Gilroy creates a character so absorbed in his own dreams that he is of little interest either to on screen characters or to theater audiences. One actor must create this man who is a prisoner in his own mind. He must carry the movie for two hours, and that’s a devil of a load for any actor, even for the grand Denzel Washington.

the book THE GIRL IN THE TOWER — BY KATHERINE ARDEN

— Reviewed by Joan Ellis

NEW BOOKS IN PAPERBACK Mrs. Caliban, by Rachel Ingalls Reservoir 13, by Jon McGregor

(Del Rey Books)

The author, writing under a pen name, fell in love with Russian literature when she traveled to Moscow and when she studied it at Middlebury College. The first book in the Winternight Trilogy, “The Bear and the Nightingale,” garnered praise and accolades from fellow authors, critics and readers, and began as a way to pass the time, on a whim, and turned out, in her own words, as “kind of a fairy tale and kind of not.” This sumptuous literary fantasy continues in “The Girl in the Tower,” as the strong and daring Vasya battles rogue bandits, all the while concealing her true identity, as the deep winter of Moscow and the surrounding forests closes in. She is headstrong, bold and fierce, completely heedless of her family’s warnings and the dire consequences that threaten her. Brave Vasya gallops ahead, like a wild stallion, choosing what she believes is the right path, the only path. The writing is a feast for the senses with danger, deception and trickery at every turn. — Reviewed by Jenny Lyons of The Vermont Book Shop in Middlebury. Editor’s note: Katherine Arden will read from, discuss and sign her book at The Vermont Book Shop, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 6:30 p.m.

The Lost City of the Monkey God, by Douglas Preston They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us, by Hanif Abdurraqib Being a Dog, by Alexandra Horowitz Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee Thank You for Being Late, by Thomas L. Friedman Undoing Project, by Michael Lewis The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn Elmet, by Fiona Mozley

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by Balbastre, Dandrieu, Guilmant, Joulain and Eugene Gigout. Free. ANNUAL “MESSIAH” SING IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Dec. 17, 2 p.m., Congregational Church of Middlebury, 1 Main St. Join other members in the community to celebrate the holiday season by singing Handel’s “Messiah” together. Free and open to the public.

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.

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.

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.

CHANUKAH CARNIVAL IN MIDDLEBURY. Monday, Dec. 11, 3:45- 5 p.m., Havurah House, North Pleasant St.

CHRISTMAS MUSIC NIGHT IN NEW HAVEN. Friday, Dec. 8, 7 p.m. New Haven United Reformed Church, Route 7. Christmas songs, readings, and refreshments to prepare for the holiday season. Contact Judy at 802-877-3878.

OLD FASHIONED SANTA VISITS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, Dec. 9, 9:30 a.m.-noon, Danforth Pewter Flagship Store, Seminary St. Free.

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.

WINTERFEST IN NEW HAVEN. Saturday, Dec. 16, 4:30 p.m., on the town green. An afternoon and evening of warm drinks, carols, tree decorating, horse drawn wagon rides, and a visit from Santa. Free and open to the public and ADA accessible. More info contact Suzy Roorda at 802-453-5978 or newhavenrec.gmavt.net.

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.

PUBLIC MENORAH LIGHTING IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 5:30 p.m., town green. Community celebration will follow.

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.

THE FESTIVAL OF SANKTA LUCIA IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, Dec. 13, 7-8 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the town green. Celebrate the traditional Swedish Christmas festival, with costumed children, youth and adults from Orwell Congregational Church, St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Orwell, St. Stephen’s and the Congregational Church of Middlebury. St. Lucia brought food to the Christians in the Catacombs of ancient Rome and her crown of light symbolizes the turning point from the darkest night of winter to the lights of Christmas.

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 802-3829222, townhalltheater.org, at the box office Monday-Saturday noon5 p.m., or at the door. LESSONS AND CAROLS FOR

RECITAL OF FRENCH ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, Dec. 14, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, on the town green. Music by George Matthew Jr., St. Stephen’s organist. Works

CHANUKAH PARTY IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, Dec. 17, 3-6 p.m., Havurah House, North Pleasant St.

NEW HAVEN

ORWELL THE FESTIVAL OF SANKTA LUCIA IN ORWELL. Sunday, Dec. 17, 7-8 p.m., Orwell Congregational Church, Main St. Celebrate the traditional Swedish Christmas festival, with costumed children, youth and adults from Orwell Congregational Church, St. Paul’s Catholic Church, Orwell, St. Stephen’s and the Congregational Church of Middlebury. St. Lucia brought food to the Christians in the Catacombs of ancient Rome and her crown of light symbolizes the turning point from the darkest night of winter to the lights of Christmas.

SHOREHAM CHRISTMAS STORYTIME IN SHOREHAM. Saturday, Dec. 9, 1:302:30 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. “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.

VERGENNES 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 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 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 to follow. Contact: vucc@vergennesucc.org. FREE WINE TASTING IN VERGENNES. Friday, Dec. 15, 5-8 p.m., Creative Space Gallery, 214 Main St. Enjoy handpicked wines courtesy of Vergennes Wine and a special menu of mini holiday treats. Find unique gifts, stocking stuffers, candles and cards at the Holiday Show, featuring new work from member artists and guest artists. More info at 802-877-3850 or at the gallery’s Facebook page.

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