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¢
County organizers ready for annual Green Up Day Bristol land preserved ‡ *URXSV ZRUN WR VDYH SURSHUW\ QRUWK RI WKH YLOODJH IURP GHYHORSPHQW ORFDO FRXSOH SODQV GLYHUVLÀHG IDUP 6HH 3DJH
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By  EVAN  JOHNSON ADDISON  COUNTY  —  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  —  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.  “This  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-Âhouse  cluster New  subdivision   on  West  Main  St. By  ANDY  KIRKALDY VERGENNES  —  The  Vergennes  Development  Review  Board  this  month  approved  a  50-Âlot  housing  subdivision  on  a  94-Âacre  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-Âacre,  single-Âfamily  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  —  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  “Twin  Virginia,  and  the  couple  married  after  his  junior  Peaks,â€?  “Matlockâ€?  and  “Seinfeld,â€?  will  give  a  talk  year. this  Thursday  on  his  unpredictable,  hi- “We  decided  we  were  going  to  take  larious  and  sometimes  strange  career  “Everyone 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.  “We’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  “the  bug,â€?  as  they  say  ly,â€?  Frost  said.  “We  went  to  California,  — 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  “Where  Did  All  the  Time  the  memorable  roles  he  has  played. Frost  was  born  in  Massachusetts,  but  after  a  NBC.  He  worked  on  “The  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)