April 28 2014

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MONDAY Â Â EDITION

ADDISON COUNTY

INDEPENDENT

Vol. 26 No. 8

Middlebury, Vermont

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Monday, April 28, 2014

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36 Pages

75¢

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By  EVAN  JOHNSON ADDISON  COUNTY  â€”  It’s  that  time  of  year  again.  With  winter’s  GHSDUWXUH ÂżQDOO\ D QXPEHU RI XQ-­ sightly  surprises  from  tires  to  cans  and  bottles  left  by  accident  or  simple  carelessness  have  revealed  them-­ selves  on  the  side  of  public  roads. Â

And  this  Saturday,  May  3,  all  of  it  must  go  â€”  it’s  Green  Up  Day. In  Bristol,  local  Green  Up  orga-­ nizer  David  Rosen  will  be  on  the  town  green  starting  at  8:30  a.m.,  giv-­ ing  out  coffee  from  Vermont  Coffee  Company  to  the  scores  of  folks  they  hope  to  see  picking  up  trash  along Â

local  roads. “We’re  telling  people  to  bring  mugs,â€?  he  said.  â€œThis  is  Green  Up  Day,  we  don’t  want  any  paper  cups.â€?  This  week,  a  team  of  more  than  20  organizers  representing  every  town  in  Addison  County  will  coordinate  volunteers  picking  up  trash  along Â

sections  of  roads  in  their  respec-­ tive  towns.  In  Bristol,  for  instance,  Rosen  said  the  Bristol  Conservation  Commission  is  organizing  groups  on  Front  Porch  Forum  to  clean  up  along  VSHFL¿F WKRURXJKIDUHV Unlike  previous  years  when  vol-­ (See  Green  Up,  Page  21)

City  OKs  50-­house  cluster New  subdivision   on  West  Main  St. By  ANDY  KIRKALDY VERGENNES  â€”  The  Vergennes  Development  Review  Board  this  month  approved  a  50-­lot  housing  subdivision  on  a  94-­acre  parcel  that  borders  West  Main  Street,  Hopkins  Road,  Otter  Creek,  and  homes  and  apartments  on  Hillside  Drive. The  subdivision,  which  has  been  in  the  works  more  than  a  decade  and  still  requires  Act  250  approval,  is  called  Claybrook  and  is  a  Planned  Unit  Development  (PUD).  It  calls  for  the  roughly  half-­acre,  single-­family  home  lots  to  be  clustered  around  a  new  road  that  will  access  the  land  from  West  Main  Street  and  loop  through  the  land. The  landowner,  River’s  Edge  As-­ (See  Vergennes,  Page  26)

Into  Africa BRIDGE  SCHOOL  TEACHER  Cynthia  Clarke  leads  some  students  through  a  game  on  a  giant  National  Geographic  map  of  Africa  that  was  laid  out  in  the  school’s  gymnasium  recently.  The  map  is  one  of  sev-­ eral  continent  maps  that  National  Geographic  sends  to  schools  around  the  country. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell

The master of his domain Middlebury actor recalls roles on ‘Seinfeld,’ ‘Twin Peaks’

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By  ZACH  DESPART mont.  He  enlisted  in  the  U.S.  Navy  in  World  War  MIDDLEBURY  â€”  Warren  Frost  has  slowed  II  and  enrolled  at  Middlebury  College  after  dis-­ GRZQ MXVW D OLWWOH 7KH DFWRU ZKRVH ÂżYH GHFDGH charge,  and  studied  theater.  It  was  there  he  met  career  included  roles  on  the  TV  shows  â€œTwin  Virginia,  and  the  couple  married  after  his  junior  Peaks,â€?  â€œMatlockâ€?  and  â€œSeinfeld,â€?  will  give  a  talk  year. this  Thursday  on  his  unpredictable,  hi-­ “We  decided  we  were  going  to  take  larious  and  sometimes  strange  career  â€œEveryone Broadway  by  storm,  and  of  course  in  show  business. things  never  work  out  the  way  you  Frost  is  retired  and  lives  in  Middle-­ wanted to be think  they’re  going  to  work  out,â€?  Frost  bury  with  his  wife,  Virginia.  He’s  88  on ‘Seinfeld,’ said.  â€œWe’ve  had  a  good  run  at  it,  and  now,  and  relies  on  a  cane  to  get  around.  and the had  some  very  strange  moments.â€? Yet  he  retains  the  impeccable  diction,  Over  the  next  50  years,  Warren  and  role was a the  wily  charm  and  the  passion  for  Virginia  moved  all  over  the  country,  as  storytelling  that  successful  actors  pos-­ grouchy old he  got  jobs  performing  on  stage  and  on  sess.  While  he’s  no  longer  popping  up  man, and I screen. LQ IHDWXUH ÂżOPV DQG QHWZRUN VLWFRPV Ă€W ULJKW LQ Âľ “I  was  doing  regional  theater,  main-­ Frost  still  has  â€œthe  bug,â€?  as  they  say  ly,â€?  Frost  said.  â€œWe  went  to  California,  â€” Warren Frost in  theater. to  Minnesota,  to  Florida,  to  California  WARREN  FROST  REMINISCES  about  his  long  Frost  sat  down  with  the  Independent  again.â€? acting  career  during  a  visit  at  his  Middlebury  on  Thursday  to  talk  about  his  career,  his  craft,  and  The  moving  about  included  a  layover  in  New  home  last  Thursday.  Frost  will  give  an  auto-­ York,  where  Frost  worked  as  a  stage  manager  at  biographical  talk  titled  â€œWhere  Did  All  the  Time  the  memorable  roles  he  has  played. Frost  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  but  after  a  NBC.  He  worked  on  â€œThe  Philco  Television  Play-­ Go?â€?  at  Eastview  on  Thursday  at  7:30  p.m. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell stint  in  New  York  City,  his  parents  moved  to  Ver-­ (See  Warren  Frost,  Page  21)


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