Best Night!
Light returns
VUHS rules
Dana & Sue Robinson and many others will perform in Bristol for New Year’s Eve. See Page 10A.
There was some fun at the Waterworks on the Winter Solstice. See photos on Page 13B.
The Commodores improved to 5-1 with a big win on Monday; the league slate awaits. See Page 1B.
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT Vol. 69 No. 53
Middlebury, Vermont
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Thursday, December 31, 2015 â—† 36 Pages
75¢
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Students make memories Alaska trip inspires travelers’ powers of description Editor’s  note:  The  writer  is  a  Middlebury  College  senior  majoring  in  Environmental  Studies. By  JULIA  JOHN ALASKA  —  Sea  kayaking  in  Prince  Wil- liam  Sound,  falling  into  the  serene  rhythm  of  oar  strokes  cutting  the  gentle  water  as  we  paddle  by  a  rookery  of  hundreds  of  chatter- ing  black-Âlegged  kittiwakes  on  a  cliff  face  iced  with  streaks  of  cream-Âcolored  excre- ment. Crunching  over  the  cirques  and  crevasses  of  the  Matanuska  glacier  with  Yaktrax  on  our  feet  and  ski  poles  in  our  hands,  gazing  in  awe  at  the  icy  blue  sculptures  and  bottomless  se- racs  we  pass.  Rafting  down  its  meandering  meltwater,  half  capsizing  in  a  crashing  hole,  and  frantically  pulling  a  friend  back  into  the  boat  by  her  lifejacket,  adrenaline  in  our  veins  even  hours  after  we  settle  on  land  and  dry  off.  Watching  an  otter  lounging  on  its  back  with  its  arms  crossed,  so  inert  we  mistake  it  for  a  log,  on  a  rocking  ferry  ride  from  Homer  Spit  to  the  Alaskan  Center  for  Coastal  Stud- ies  across  Peterson  Bay.  Preparing  and  shar- ing  a  dinner  in  one  of  our  suites  at  Soldotna’s  Kenai  Peninsula  College,  featuring  baked  sockeye  salmon  and  Dolly  Varden  trout  that  one  of  my  classmates  and  Professor  Dicker- son  had  caught  the  other  day. These  are  some  of  the  myriad  unique Â
PHPRULHV WKDW UHĂ€HFWLQJ RQ P\ PRQWK ORQJ summer  sojourn  in  Alaska  invokes.  This  past  July  to  August,  I  joined  eight  other  Middle- bury  College  students  and  two  professors  on  this  unforgettable  experiential  learning  journey  comprising  the  “Essay  Writing  on  Nature:  Alaska  and  Its  Charâ€?  course  in  the  college’s  new  summer  study  program.  6FUDPEOLQJ RQWR WKH WZR Ă€LJKWV WKDW ZRXOG carry  me  by  airplane  over  3,000  miles  north- west  to  the  last  frontier  of  the  continent,  I  was  jittery  because  I  had  little  idea  what  to  expect.  The  Alaska  in  my  mind  was  a  frigid  land  of  perpetual  day,  barren  tundra,  craggy  peaks,  lumbering  grizzlies,  and  struggling,  culturally  displaced  natives.  Although  this  preconception  was  not  wholly  inaccurate,  I  learned  that  the  state  was  so  much  more  than  its  harsh  environment  and  troubled  people.  Middlebury’s  Professor  of  Computer  Sci- ence  Matthew  Dickerson  and  his  friend  David  O’Hara,  a  philosophy  professor  at  $XJXVWDQD &ROOHJH DUH ERWK DYLG Ă€\ ÂżVKHU- men  and  writers.  They  have  published  books  together,  and  they  planned  and  taught  this  class.  It  entailed  two  weeks  each  in  Anchor- age,  the  state  capital,  and  Soldotna,  a  small  city  situated  by  the  world-Ârenowned  salmon- ¿OOHG WXUTXRLVH ZDWHUV RI WKH .HQDL 5LYHU DV well  as  a  three-Âday  camping  escapade.  Our  lessons  involved  almost  daily  trips  to  H[SORUH UHĂ€HFW RQ GLVFXVV DQG ZULWH DERXW
MIDDLEBURY  STUDENTS  HIKE  across  a  moraine  toward  the  27-Âmile-Âlong  Matanuska  glacier,  the  largest  one  in  the  country  that  is  DFFHVVLEOH E\ URDG RQ WKH ÂżUVW DIWHUQRRQ RI D WKUHH GD\ FDPSLQJ WULS Photo  by  Yuki  Hu
the  ecology  of  Alaska’s  trout,  char,  and  salm- on,  the  different  river  systems  they  inhabit- ed,  and  the  larger  environmental  and  social  issues  surrounding  these  creatures.  Every  PRUQLQJ ZH ZRXOG ¿OH LQWR WKH YDQ DQG VHW RII RQ DQRWKHU DGYHQWXUH ¿OOHG ZLWK KLNLQJ observing,  pondering  and  taking  notes  in  a  new  location.  In  this  way,  we  went  around  south  central  Alaska,  from  Chugach  State  Park,  near  Anchorage,  to  Veronica’s  Cof- fee  House,  a  quaint  acclaimed  cafÊ  next  to  Kenai’s  old  Holy  Assumption  of  the  Virgin  Mary  Russian  Orthodox  Church.
Alaska  was  vastly  different  from  any  place  tion,  Professor  Dickerson  strode  over  to  our  I  had  visited  before;Íž  although  I  initially  felt  van  and  launched  his  drone,  a  college-Âowned  at  odds  with  the  unfamiliar  landscape,  I  soon  device  that  he  had  packed  on  the  trip  for  aer- grew  to  appreciate  its  distinctive  beauty.  My  ial  photography  and  video  footage.  With  his  eyes  had  never  before  experienced  the  shade  remote  controller,  he  sent  the  gadget  over  the  of  deep  emerald  that  imbued  its  coniferous  stream  in  the  direction  of  the  metallic  splash- IRUHVWV D FRORU WKDW DW ÂżUVW VHHPHG DOPRVW ing  noises  to  capture  some  shots  of  the  elu- ominous  compared  to  the  bright  green  of  sive  “bearsâ€?  in  action  below. 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Alaska  left  us  with  much  to  Throughout  the  course  of  HFRORJ\ RI $ODVND¡V contemplate,  grow  from,  and  our  stay,  apart  from  the  mul- WURXW FKDU DQG always  cherish.  At  a  fun- WLSOH VSHFLHV RI ÂżVK ZH ZHUH VDOPRQ WKH GLIIHUHQW damental  level,  four  weeks  studying,  our  class  spotted  river systems they in  the  state  expanded  our  moose,  bald  eagles,  pica,  inhabited, and the knowledge  through  the  gate- SXIÂżQV DQG VHYHUDO RWKHU way  of  char  and  its  environ- fauna.  Yet  after  a  month  see- ODUJHU HQYLURQPHQWDO mental  and  social  linkages.  ing  abundant  piles  of  bear  DQG VRFLDO LVVXHV It  built  our  awareness  about  scat  but  not  a  single  bear,  VXUURXQGLQJ WKHVH everything  from  the  ecologi- we  spent  our  last  morning  FUHDWXUHV FDO UDPLÂżFDWLRQV RI WKH 3HE- in  Alaska  camped  out  above  ble  Mine  and  Exxon  Valdez  a  wildlife  corridor  running  oil  spill,  to  the  indigenous  along  a  creek  where  sightings  were  suppos- Dena’ina  people’s  oppression,  and  the  sub- edly  frequent.  Crouched  by  the  tunnel  below  VLVWHQFH DQG UHFUHDWLRQDO ÂżVKLQJ DQG KXQWLQJ the  road  with  bated  breath,  we  waited  silent- that  drive  the  Alaskan  economy  and  identity.  ly  for  two  hours,  eagerly  straining  to  catch  a  Our  Alaskan  adventure  also  taught  us  the  JOLPSVH RI GDUN ZHW IXU RU D VQLIÂżQJ VQRXW importance  of  patient,  keen  sensory  obser- at  the  far  end  of  the  stream.  When  we  heard  vation,  whether  we  were  counting  caddis  splashing  accompanied  by  a  clanging  sound  À\ ODUYDH XQGHU D EHQWKLF URFN RU ORRNLQJ that  seemed  to  alternately  intensify  and  fade  for  a  salmon-Âchomping  bear.  It  gave  us  the  as  if  a  creature  were  slowly  shifting  toward  rare  opportunity  to  become  inspired  by  and  us,  we  were  almost  certain  a  bear  was  wad- develop  our  writing  in  an  extraordinary  eco- ing  our  way. logical  and  social  setting  that  it  would  oth- “There’s  more  than  one,â€?  Professor  Dick- HUZLVH KDYH EHHQ GLIÂżFXOW WR DFFHVV WR VXFK erson  whispered  as  he  peered  through  his  an  extent.  Additionally,  it  brought  the  11  of  binoculars. us  together,  connecting  us  with  the  strong  )XUWKHU H[FLWHG E\ WKLV FRQÂżUPDWLRQ WKH bonds  of  not  only  friendship,  but  also  family.  rest  of  us  sat  by  the  sloping  embankment,  Above  all,  nature  writing  in  Alaska  reminded  some  edging  down  toward  the  water,  craning  us  to  check  our  assumptions  and  reformulate  our  necks  to  see  what  he  saw.  All  we  noticed,  our  preconceived  notions  about  place,  to  however,  were  the  nimble  crimson  bodies  of  keep  our  eyes  and  minds  wide  open  to  ques- STUDENTS  IN  MIDDLEBURY  College’s  “Writing  on  Natureâ€?  course  last  summer  paddle  sea  kayaks  past  a  black-Âlegged  kittiwake  a  few  large  salmon  darting  though  the  water.  tion  and  appreciate  the  intricacies  of  our  en- URRNHU\ LQ 3ULQFH :LOOLDP 6RXQG LQ WKH *XOI RI $ODVND RQ D 6DWXUGD\ PRUQLQJ After  many  more  futile  minutes  of  anticipa- vironment. 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Cornwall  kids  learn  about  life  on  the  farm By  JOHN  FLOWERS CORNWALL  —  Children  attend- ing  Cornwall’s  Bingham  Memo- rial  School  are  surrounded  by  some  of  the  county’s  most  successful  and  renowned  farms.  But  in  this  age  of  digital  distractions  and  other  compet- ing  interests,  most  of  the  kids  hadn’t  given  much  thought  to  what  the  farms  are  producing  —  even  though  they  and  their  families  are  likely  reg- ular  consumers  of  the  milk,  cheese,  apples  and  syrup  made  a  veritable  stone’s  throw  away. Well,  Bingham  School  students  in  grades  3  to  6  are  now  well  informed  about  local  agriculture,  thanks  to  a  recent  program  that  saw  the  children  spend  time  among  a  half-Âdozen  area  farms  learning  about  where  their  food  is  made  and  the  hard  work  that  goes  into  its  production.  It  was  all  part  of  an  integrated  studies  program  through  which  students  were  asked  to  ponder,  “How  do  we  shape  the  land?â€?  and  “How  does  the  land  shape  us?â€? “A  lot  of  what  we  are  trying  to  do  in  integrated  studies  is  do  a  lot  of  ‘place-Âbased  focus,’  so  students  are  really  understanding  their  local  community  and  extrapolating  those  ideas  to  the  larger  world  and  seeing  whether  that  makes  sense,â€?  Bingham  School  Principal  Jen  Kravitz  said  of  the  fall  semester  project.  “We  are  such  an  agricultural  community  and  to  have  that  history,  the  farms  seemed  OLNH D UHDOO\ QDWXUDO ÂżW ´ Cornwall  teachers  Emily  Hoyler,  Mindy  Harvey  and  Andrew  Hirsch  spearheaded  the  program.  They  en- listed  the  participation  of  local  farms,  including  Sunrise  Orchards  in  Corn- wall,  Mountain  Meadows  Farm  in  Bristol,  Monument  Farms  in  Wey- bridge,  Twig  Farm  in  West  Cornwall,  Elmer  Farm  in  Middlebury  and  the  Williams  Maple  Farm  in  Cornwall. Students  were  divided  into  six  groups  of  around  eight  each.  Each  group  visited  a  farm  for  an  afternoon  just  prior  to  the  Thanksgiving  vaca-Â
tion.  Folks  from  the  Vermont  Folklife  Center  in  Middlebury  taught  students  how  to  capture  still  images  and  audio  recordings  to  document  their  farm  visits,  Kravitz  noted. And  the  farm  operators  were  very  gracious  in  opening  their  doors  to  the  inquisitive  kids,  who  asked  questions  ranging  from  the  amount  of  milk  pro- duced  by  cows,  to  the  amount  of  feed  needed  to  sustain  the  farm  animals. It  didn’t  hurt  that  the  operators  of  Twig  Farm  and  Mountain  Mead- ows  already  had  family  connec- tions  to  some  of  the  Cornwall  stu- dents,  Kravitz  noted.  The  school  had  worked  with  Sunrise  Orchards  in  the  past.  And  the  Bingham  School  gets  food  from  all  six  of  the  participating  farms,  which  provided  yet  another  connection. Teachers  were  excited  that  the  project  provided  students  with  a  hands-Âon  atmosphere  in  which  to  ap- ply  science,  social  studies,  reading  and  math  skills,  as  well  as  the  arts. “This  approach  lends  itself  to  in- terdisciplinary  learning,  because  questions,  problems,  themes,  topics  tend  to  cross  subject  boundaries,â€?  Kravitz  said. Students  on  Dec.  17  unveiled  the  fruits  of  their  labor  to  community  members,  parents  and  the  farmers  who  helped  them.  They  linked  the  farms’  activities  to  the  soil  and  the  broader  picture  of  how  that  resource  was  molded  over  the  millennia  by  geological  shifts  in  the  Champlain  Valley.  The  students  themselves  will  become  a  part  of  local  history,  as  their  presentations  were  recorded  by  Folklife  Center  of- ¿FLDOV Students  gleefully  shared  some  of  the  following  facts: ‡ 6XQULVH 2UFKDUGV SURGXFHV an  average  of  179,000  bushels  of  apples  annually.  That  translates  to  22,554,000  apples. ‡ 0RXQWDLQ 0HDGRZV LV DQ RUJDQ- ic  beef  farm  that  sells  to  whole  food Â
Remains  found  in  Goshen  are  those  of  local  woman By  JOHN  FLOWERS Conn.,  resident  last  seen  leaving  a  GOSHEN  —  Vermont  State  Police  friend’s  home  in  Sudbury  almost  a  KDYH FRQÂżUPHG WKDW KXPDQ VNHOHWDO year  ago. remains  found  at  the  side  of  the  Gap  The  Addison  Independent  was  Road  in  Goshen  on  Dec.  22  are  those  among  media  present  on  Aug.  18  of  Denise  Hart,  a  24-Âyear-Âold  woman  when  the  Vermont  State  Police  Scu- who  had  been  ba  Team  and  missing  from  other  search- the  Sudbury  and-Ârescue  di- area  since  Jan.  visions  of  the  25.  Authorities  VSP  took  ad- have  ruled  her  vantage  of  a  death  a  homi- low  water  mark  cide,  based  on  in  the  Otter  examination  of  Creek  to  inves- the  remains  and  tigate  a  rough- the  crime  scene. ly  six-Âmile  The  remains  stretch  of  the  were  discov- waterway  near  ered  by  a  group  the  Cornwall- of  people  who  Salisbury  bor- were  in  the  area  der  for  Hart’s  at  around  1  p.m.  remains.  DENISE  HART on  Dec.  22,  ac- On  that  date,  cording  to  state  elements  of  the  police.  The  Vermont  State  Police  VSP  Marine  Patrol  launched  their  Crime  Scene  Search  Team  processed  boats  into  the  creek  from  a  park- the  scene  and  the  remains  were  taken  ing  area  adjacent  to  the  single-Âlane  WR WKH 2IÂżFH RI WKH &KLHI 0HGLFDO covered  bridge  on  Swamp  Road  in  ([DPLQHU IRU LGHQWLÂżFDWLRQ Cornwall.  It  was  in  this  parking  area  The  case  remains  under  investiga- WKDW VWDWH RIÂżFLDOV LQ )HEUXDU\ IRXQG tion. the  burned  remnants  of  a  borrowed,  This  break  in  the  case  follows  silver  2001  Pontiac  Grand  Am  that  many  months  of  hard  work  by  in- Hart  had  been  driving  while  in  the  YHVWLJDWRUV WR ÂżQG +DUW D +DUWIRUG area.
Police say man threatened social workers in Midd. MIDDLEBURY  —  John  Ryan  Stice,  a  26-Âyear-Âold  resident  of  Win- chester,  Ky.,  sought  by  police  for  al- legedly  threatening  Vermont  social  service  workers  in  Middlebury,  has  turned  himself  in  to  Vermont  State  Police. On  Dec.  18  troopers  said  they  were  seeking  Stice  in  connection  with  threats  he  allegedly  made  by  telephone  against  two  workers  at  WKH 0LGGOHEXU\ RIÂżFH RI WKH 'HSDUW- ment  of  Children  &  Families  (DCF)  on  Dec.  11.  Police  said  they  would  charge  him  with  obstruction  of  jus- tice. Stice  is  involved  in  a  custody  dis- pute  in  which  DCF  has  involvement,  according  to  state  police. Police  issued  a  press  release  say- ing  that  Stice  called  state  police  and  said  he  wanted  to  turn  himself  in  to  authorities.  He  was  driven  from  Kentucky  nonstop  to  Vermont  and  he  arrived  at  the  New  Haven  State  Police  barracks  on  Dec.  26,  where  he  was  taken  into  custody  without  incident,  according  to  authorities. Stice  was  lodged  on  $100,000  bail  at  the  Chittenden  County  Correc- tional  Center. Â
CORNWALL  ELEMENTARY  SCHOOL  students  talk  about  a  local  farm  during  a  school-Âwide  presentation  this  month.  Bingham  Memorial  School  students  spent  time  on  several  area  farms  for  the  project. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
stores  in  New  York  and  Boston.  The  farm  did  $1.2  million  in  gross  sales  last  year. ‡ 7KH FRZV DW 0RQXPHQW Farms  produce  a  combined  total  of  4,000  gallons  of  milk  per  day.  Each  cow  eats  80  to  100  pounds  of  food  and  roughly  30  gallons  of  water  each  day.  Each  cow  produces  about  60  gallons  of  manure  each  day,  which  is  used  to  generate  electricity  through  a  methane  digester  (cow  power)  sys- tem. ‡ :LOOLDPV )DUP SURGXFHV PDSOH syrup  and  high  quality  lumber  for  fur- nishings.  It  takes  40  gallons  of  maple  sap  to  make  one  gallon  of  syrup. ‡ 7KH (OPHU )DUP SURGXFHV
different  varieties  of  vegetables,  in- cluding  beets,  kale,  carrots,  pump- kins  and  tomatoes. ‡ (DFK RI WKH JRDWV DW WKH 7ZLJ Farm  eat  8  pounds  of  food  each  day.  The  farm  also  has  chickens  and  ducks. Following  their  presentation,  stu- dents  invited  their  guests  to  taste  some  of  the  dishes  using  cheese,  veg- gies,  beef,  apples  and  milk  made  on  the  farms  they  had  showcased. Mike  Lee  is  owner-Âoperator  of  Twig  Farm.  He  was  among  those  present  for  the  Dec.  17  presentation  and  said  he  enjoyed  the  students’  visit  to  the  farm.  Mike’s  son  was  among  the  students  who  toured  the  farm.
Minimum wage increase to take effect MONTPELIER  —  Vermont’s  minimum  wage  will  increase  from  $9.15  to  $9.60  on  Jan.  1.  A  2014  law  mandates  that  the  wage  rise  each  year  until  it  reaches  $10.50  in  2018. The  legislation  signed  by  Gov.  Shumlin  in  June  2014  raised  the  minimum  wage  from  $8.73  to  $9.15  in  2015.  After  rising  to  $9.60  in  2016,  the  wage  will  increase  to  $10  in  2017  and  $10.50  in  2018.  It  will  EH LQGH[HG WR LQĂ€DWLRQ LQ VXEVHTXHQW years. 9HUPRQW ZDV RQH RI WKH ÂżUVW WR answer  President  Obama’s  call  for  states  to  bypass  Congress  and  raise  the  minimum  wage.  Vermont  has  one  of  the  highest  stateside  mini- mum  wages  in  America,  although  some  cities  have  set  their  minimum  wages  as  high  as  $15  per  hour. California’s  per  hour  minimum  wage  will  rise  to  $10  on  Jan.  1,  and  the  wage  in  the  District  of  Columbia  will  rise  to  $11  next  July  1.  Many Â
states  have  a  state  minimum  wage  equal  to  the  federal  rate  of  $7.25  per  hour.  Five  states  —  Alabama,  Louisiana,  South  Carolina,  Tennes- see  and  Mississippi  —  have  no  state  minimum  wage.  New  Hampshire  repealed  its  minimum  wage  law  in  2011,  according  to  the  National  Conference  of  State  Legislatures. *RY 6KXPOLQÂśV RIÂżFH SRLQWHG RXW that  the  increase  in  Vermont’s  mini- mum  wage  has  corresponded  with  strong  job  growth  from  Vermont  em- ployers.  According  to  the  Vermont  Department  of  Labor,  since  the  law  went  into  effect  a  year  ago  Vermont  employers  have  added  3,200  jobs. “I  was  proud  to  sign  this  law  and  I  am  pleased  to  see  the  minimum  wage  rise  once  again  next  year,â€?  Shumlin  said  in  a  release.  “Giving  a  boost  to  hard  working  Vermont- ers  is  not  only  the  right  thing  to  do;Íž  it  is  also  good  for  our  economy  as  a  whole.â€?
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“Some  (students)  were  very  famil- iar  with  what  went  on  at  the  farm,  and  some  had  no  idea  what  was  go- ing  on,â€?  Lee  said.  “But  my  overall  impression  was  it  was  wonderful  to  have  the  kids  be  in  a  place  and  see  where  something  is  made,  rather  than  just  see  a  picture  or  read  about  it. “The  connections  they  could  make  from  that,  I  think,  were  really  worth- while.â€? Dadne  Fuentes  is  a  student  in  the  group  that  visited  the  Williams  Farm.  She  said  her  favorite  parts  of  the  visit  involved  “hearing  about  when  the  glaciers  were  formed  and  how  when  they  left,  they  left  Lake  Champlain.â€? Fuentes  also  liked  learning  about Â
the  network  of  tubing  on  the  farm  that  collects  sap  from  the  trees.  It  was  KHU ÂżUVW WULS WR D VXJDU ZRUNV “The  sap  comes  to  this  little  cot- tage  where  there’s  a  big  tank,  and  they  make  the  syrup,â€?  she  said. Kravitz  believes  the  project  will  leave  a  lasting  impression  with  the  students. “I  think  (the  students)  were  amazed  with  how  many  apples  were  produced,  or  how  many  carrots  were  produced  —  and  also  with  how  the  farm  works,â€?  Kravitz  said.  “We  are  trying  to  get  kids  to  understand  farms  and  issues  associated  with  them.â€? Reporter  John  Flowers  is  at  johnf@addisonindependent.com.
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First  of  all,  when  I  come  back  to  my  car  in  a  parking  chance  it  might  be  true,  and  because  fear  mongering  is  lot,  I  typically  approach  it  from  the  rear.  It  seems  to  me  (See  Jessie,  Page  5A)
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Middlebury  P.D.  helped  out  Santa We  wanted  to  take  a  moment  to  let  the  Middlebury  Police  Department  know  how  much  several  children  appreciated  them  delivering  Santa  to  us  on  Dec.  13. The  Middlebury  Police  Depart- ment  made  sure  Santa  was  able  to  DUULYH DW WKH $PHULFDQ /HJLRQ GXH to  the  lack  of  snow  and  no  place  to  ODQG KLV VOHLJK 7KDQN \RX 2I¿FHU Bill  Austin  for  getting  Santa  to  all  the  children  safely.  They  were  so  grateful. Tammy  Fisher Secretary  American  Legion  Auxiliary  Unit  27 Middlebury
Starksboro  asks  for  Act  46  change Editor’s  note:  This  letter  was  sent  to  the  leaders  of  the  Vermont  Senate  and  Vermont  House  of  Representatives. I  am  writing  to  you  today  on  behalf  of  the  Starksboro  Elemen- tary  School  Board.  At  our  monthly  meeting  last  night  our  board  voted  unanimously  in  favor  of  a  motion  to  request  that  you  rescind  the  per- pupil  threshold  amounts  that  the  /HJLVODWXUH SDVVHG LQ FRQMXQFWLRQ with  Act  46  last  June. Our  board,  our  school  and  our  supervisory  union  have  worked  very  hard  over  the  last  few  years  to  honor  and  implement  the  educational  directives  that  have  issued  from  the  /HJLVODWXUH :H KDYH FRQVROLGDWHG our  food  service,  transportation  services,  facilities  management,  IT  and  special  education  into  our  super- visory  union,  the  Addison  Northeast  Supervisory  Union.  And  this  fall  we  have  embraced  the  charge  contained  in  Act  46  and  come  together  to  create  an  Act  46  Study  Committee  that  has  met  twice  already.  Though  opinions  are  diverse  within  our  SU  regarding  the  wisdom  and  ultimate  effect  of  Act  46,  we  are  deter- mined  to  promote  a  robust  public  discussion  of  how  our  governance  structures  might  be  improved  to  best  meet  the  educational  needs  of  the  students  in  our  district  and  our  shared  SU  in  a  way  that  is  equitable,  striving  continuously  towards  excel- OHQFH DQG ÂżQDQFLDOO\ VXVWDLQDEOH The  per-Âpupil  threshold  amounts  or  caps  currently  mandated  by  the  /HJLVODWXUH ZLOO WKZDUW WKH SURJUHVV of  our  district  and  SU  towards  these  goals.  For  Robinson  Elementary  School  we  are  looking  at  a  spend- ing  cap  of  1.56  percent.  Preliminary  HVWLPDWHV IURP RXU EXVLQHVV RIÂżFH have  given  our  board  a  maximum  increase  of  $6,785  for  next  year’s  budget.  The  predicted  VEHI  Health  Insurance  increase  will  cost  our  district  around  $12,000.  To  stay  (See  Letter,  Page  5A)
Addison  Independent,  Thursday,  December  31,  2015  —  PAGE  5A
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ADDISON COUNTY
Bonnie Pulsifer, 60, Brandon
Obituaries
Donald Burchard, 84, Salisbury SALISBURY  —  Donald  Bishop  Burchard,  age  84,  died  Friday,  Dec.  11,  2015,  at  his  home  in  Salisbury. Mr.  Burchard  was  born  in  Millville,  N.J.,  on  July  26,  1931.  He  was  the  son  of  Allan  and  Florence  (Kopke)  Burchard.  He  grew  up  in  Tuckahoe  (N.J.)  where  he  received  his  early  education  and  graduated  from  Ocean  City  (N.J.)  High  School,  class  of  1949.  He  had  played  football  and  track  and  was  the  State  Champion  Shot  Putter.  He  served  in  the  United  States  Army  from  1952-Â1954  during  the  Korean  War.  He  earned  his  Bachelor  of  Science  Degree  in  Forestry  from  the  University  of  Maine,  Orono,  where  he  received  “Mâ€?  letters  in  indoor  and  outdoor  track. Don  worked  as  Forester  for  the  Bureau  of  Land  Management  in  Oregon  and  as  a  logger  and  forester  for  Donnell  Enterprises  in  Maine.  He  was  a  log  buyer  and  mill  supervisor  for  Weyerhaeuser  Co.,  and  log  buyer  for  John  Eaton  Lumber  Co.,  both  in  Hancock. He  established  his  own  land  surveying  business  in  Salisbury  in  1968,  retiring  in  2006.  He  served  the  town  of  Salisbury  as  a  member  of  the  selectboard;Íž  the  town,  local  UD-Â3  and  the  VoTech  school  boards;Íž  and  WKH ODQGÂż OO FRPPLWWHH +H UHFHLYHG a  Vermont  Public  Service  Award  for  20  years  of  service  in  2010.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Vermont  Society  of  Land  Surveyors.  He  served  on  the  Education  Committee  and  helped  GHÂż QH VWDWH UHJXODWLRQV ZKHQ WKH state  required  licensing  for  land  surveyors.  He  enjoyed  camping  trips  to  Maine,  the  Maritime  Provinces  and  all  across  Canada  to  Alaska.  He  raised  Labrador  puppies  for  Guiding  Eyes  for  the  Blind  and  loved  all  Labs. Surviving  are  his  wife,  Mary  (Donnell)  Burchard  of  Salisbury;Íž  whom  he  married  in  Bath,  Maine,  on  June  15,  1957;Íž  two  daughters, Â
DONALD  BURCHARD Brenda  Burchard  of  Salisbury  and  Gayle  Burchard  of  Stowe;Íž  and  his  black  Lab,  Bella.  Several  nieces  and  nephews  also  survive  him. He  was  predeceased  by  his  parents;Íž  a  brother,  Allan  Burchard;Íž  and  his  sister,  Kathryn  Schellinger. A  gathering  “In  Celebration  of  His  Lifeâ€?  will  be  held  on  Saturday,  Jan.  23,  2016,  from  11  a.m.  until  1  p.m.,  at  the  Middlebury  American Â
Legion  Post  27.  Friends  are  invited  to  pay  their  respects  and  visit  with  the  family  and  share  remembrances. 0HPRULDO JLIWV LQ OLHX RI À RZ ers  may  be  made  to  Guiding  Eyes  for  the  Blind,  611  Granite  Springs  Road,  Yorktown  Heights,  NY  10598;͞  Homeward  Bound,  236  Boardman  St.,  Middlebury,  VT  05753;͞  or  Ducks  Unlimited  Chapter  006,  252  East  Thompson  Point  Road,  Charlotte,  VT  05445. Arrangements  are  under  the  direc- tion  of  the  Miller  &  Ketcham  Funeral  +RPH LQ %UDQGRQ ¸
Pauline Juaire, 63, Proctor PROCTOR/RICHFORD  —  Pauline  Juaire,  age  63,  passed  away  Friday,  Dec.  25,  2015,  at  the  Birchwood  Terrace  Nursing  Home  in  Burlington. She  was  born  in  Richford  on  June  12,  1952,  the  daughter  of  the  late  Theophile  and  Ruth  (Rushford)  Juaire. Pauline  attended  the  Brandon  Training  School  and  took  part  in  the  Rutland  Community  Access  Program.  She  enjoyed  listening  to  old-Âtime  country  music  and  going  for  car  rides,  especially  in  the  Red  Convertible.  For  the  past  25  years,  Pauline  made  her  home  with  her  sister,  Theresa  in  Proctor. She  is  survived  by  her  siblings,  Bernadette  Hope  and  her  husband  Ken  of  Swanton,  Joseph  Juaire  of  Pawlet,  Theresa  Steady  of  Proctor,  Noella Â
Rock  of  Wells  River,  Gary  Juaire  and  his  wife  Carol  of  Deland,  Fla.,  and  Deb  Hare  of  Ware,  Mass.;Íž  and  many  nieces  and  nephews  including  her  special  nieces,  Stacey,  Robin,  Paulette,  SueEllen  and  Cathy. A  time  of  visitation  will  be  held  Saturday,  Jan.  2,  2015,  from  1-Â2  p.m.  with  a  prayer  service  being  held  at  2  p.m.  at  the  funeral  home.  Interment  will  follow  in  All  Saints  Cemetery  in  Richford. For  those  who  wish,  contributions  in  Pauline’s  memory  may  be  made  to  the  Special  Olympics  Vermont,  16  Gregory  Drive,  Suite  2,  South  Burlington,  VT  05403-Â6015. Messages  of  condolence  may  be  sent  to  Pauline’s  family  online  through  ZZZ VSHDUVIXQHUDOKRPH FRP ¸
Barbara O. Daniels, 93, Hubbardton HUBBARDTON  —  Barbara  O.  Daniels,  93,  died  Dec.  28,  2015,  in  Hubbardton. She  was  born  July  3,  1922,  in  :DLWVÂż HOG 6KH PDUULHG (UQHVW Daniels  in  1950.  She  worked  at  Whitehall  Metal  and  General  Electric  in  Rutland,  retiring  to  take  care  of  her  elder  sister.  She  is  survived  by  her  daughter, Â
Trudy  Booth  of  Hubbardton;Íž  three  JUDQGFKLOGUHQ Âż YH JUHDW JUDQGFKLO dren;Íž  and  nieces  and  nephews.  She  was  predeceased  by  her  husband  and  six  siblings.   Memorial  contributions  may  be  made  to  one’s  own  charity. At  her  request  there  will  be  no  funeral  service.  A  private  burial  will  take  place  at  a  later  date.  Â
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Frances O’Bryan, 82, Bristol BRISTOL  —  Frances  M.  O’Bryan,  82,  passed  away  Friday,  Dec.  25,  2015,  at  Helen  Porter  Healthcare  &  Rehabilitation  Center  in  Middlebury. She  was  born  July  27,  1933,  in  Rutland,  the  daughter  of  Cecil  and  Reta  Smith  Burton. She  loved  to  crochet  hats  and  mittens  and  she  enjoyed  giving  them  away  to  friends  and  family. Predeceased  by  her  husband,  Robert  L.  O’Bryan,  on  March  22,  2013. Frances  is  survived  by  her  four  children,  Brenda  Lee  Svitavsky,  William  R.  O’Bryan  (Janet),  Nelson  O’Bryan  (Mellissa),  and  Millie- Jean  Castillo  (Louis);Íž  13  grand- children;Íž  four  great-Âgrandchildren;Íž  three  sisters;Íž  and  several  nieces  and  nephews. Funeral  services  will  be  at  a  later  GDWH ,Q OLHX RI Ă€ RZHUV FRQWULEXWLRQV may  be  made  to  American  Legion  Post  19,  10  Airport  Drive,  Bristol,  97 ¸
Anne Musselman, 76, Atlanta, Ga.
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Fletcher Foote, 53, native of Middlebury MONTGOMERY,  Minn.  —  Fletcher  “Randyâ€?  Raymond  Foote,  age  53,  of  Montgomery,  Minn.,  died  on  Friday,  Nov.  27,  2015,  at  May  Systems  Hospital  in  New  Prague. Randy  was  born  on  July  12,  1962,  in  Middlebury,  Vt.,  to  Fletcher  Edgar  and  Sandra  Mabel  (Gerry)  Foote.  Randy  graduated  from  Mount  Abraham  Union  High  School  in  1980.  He  served  in  the  U.S.  Navy  for  20  years  active  duty  and  built  a  career  in  cryptological  security  systems.  After  retiring  from  the  military,  he  contin- ued  his  career  in  home  securities  and  home  improvements. Randy  is  survived  by  his  wife,  Dana  Foote  of  Montgomery;Íž  four  children,  Fletcher  “Ericâ€?  (Christina)  Foote  of  Houston,  Minn.,  Melissa  Foote  (Shaun  Rosik)  of  Lake  City,  Megan  'UHQWODZ RI 1RUWKÂż HOG DQG $QGUHD Foote  of  New  Prague;Íž  seven  grand- children;Íž  and  his  sisters,  Rebecca  “Beckyâ€?  Mashak  of  Vergennes,  Vt.,  Betsy  Bathalon  of  Vergennes,  Vt.,  and  Bonnie  Bathalon  of  LaCrosse,  Wis. Randy  was  preceded  in  death  by  his  parents. Military  honors  were  provided  by Â
ATLANTA,  Ga.  —  Anne  (Wheeler)  Musselman,  76,  passed  away  peacefully  in  her  sleep  on  the  evening  of  Dec.  12,  2015.  She  was  born  in  Baltimore,  Md.,  to  Ezekiel  and  Margaret  Pherigo  and  was  sister  to  Richard,  Lindsey,  Elizabeth  and  Charles. A  dedicated  music  teacher  with  a  Master’s  Degree  in  Education  from  the  University  of  Vermont,  Anne  began  teaching  music  in  Vermont  in  Burlington,  in  1967.  She  taught  choral  music  at  Middlebury  Union  High  School  for  over  15  years,  sharing  her  love  for  music  with  the  children  she  taught  in  Vermont,  New  Jersey  and  North  Carolina  for  over  30  years.  She  was  also  deeply Â
committed  to  her  faith,  earning  her  Master’s  in  Divinity  from  Emory  University  in  1997.  An  ordained  minister  in  the  Methodist  church,  Anne  was  also  a  very  accomplished  organist,  and  directed  and  sang  in  her  church  choir.   She  is  survived  by  her  two  sons,  Austin  Wheeler  and  Brendan  Martin,  DQG KHU ¿ YH JUDQGFKLOGUHQ +D\HV Wheeler,  Copeland  Wheeler,  Julian  Wheeler,  Jahred  Martin  and  Charlotte  Martin. The  family  has  chosen  to  say  good- bye  to  their  mother  privately.  In  lieu  RI À RZHUV SOHDVH VHQG GRQDWLRQV WR the  Susan  G.  Komen  Foundation  in  honor  of  Anne  who  bravely  battled  EUHDVW FDQFHU IRU \HDUV ¸
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FLETCHER  “RANDY�  FOOTE the  Montgomery  area  Honor  Guard. Arrangements  were  made  by  the  Schoenbauer  Funeral  Home  in  Montgomery.  Burial  will  be  at  a  later  GDWH ¸
Erwin Elithorpe, 74, Bristol BRISTOL  —  Erwin  “Eliâ€?  J.  Elithorpe,  74,  passed  peacefully  on  Dec.  20,  2015,  at  his  home,  with  his  family  by  his  side.  Eli  was  born  on  Jan.  22,  1941,  in  Burlington.  He  was  the  son  of  John  and  Una  (Farnsworth)  Elithorpe. Eli  grew  up  in  Shoreham,  attended  1RUWKÂż HOG 0RXQW +HUPRQ LQ 1RUWKÂż HOG 0DVV DQG JUDGXDWHG from  Shoreham  High  School.  He  served  in  the  Air  Force  from  1959- 1963  and  worked  many  years  for  Foster  Motors  and  Mid-Âstate  Truck  before  moving  to  Bristol  in  1982. He  enjoyed  classical  music  and  had  a  keen  way  with  dogs,  especially  Akitas.  Eli  was  an  avid  photogra- pher  and  was  highly  respected  for  his  meticulous  restorations  of  old  vehicles  of  all  types.  He  was  known  for  his  attention  to  detail,  intelligence  and  for  his  ability  to  momentarily  silence  a  room  with  his  dry  sense  of  humor. He  is  survived  by  his  three  chil- dren,  Scott  (Michelle)  Elithorpe,  Lynn  (Michael)  Gardner  and  Laurie Â
BRANDON  —  Bonnie  Lou  Pulsifer,  60,  of  Brandon  died  Monday,  Dec.  28,  2015,  in  Rutland.  She  was  born  Aug.  21,  1955,  in  Burlington. Survivors  include  her  husband,  Allen  R.  Pulsifer;͞  her  mother,  Marie  Carpenter;͞  children  Allen  R.  Pulsifer  Jr.,  Casey  J.  Pulsifer,  Rose  M.  Pulsifer  and  Mary  A.  Boardman;͞  a  brother  and  sister;͞  and  several  grandchildren,  nieces  and  nephews. A  funeral  service  is  on  Saturday,  BONNIE  LOU  PULSIFER Jan  2,  2016,  at  1  p.m.  at  LifeBridge  Christian  Church,  Brandon,  with  visiting  hours  from  noon  to  1  p.m.   suggested  to  a  breast  cancer  founda- Memorial  contributions  are  WLRQ RI RQHœV FKRLFH ¸
(Bill)  Morvan;Íž  two  brothers,  Arnold  Elithorpe  and  Kenneth  Elithorpe;Íž  and  grandchildren  Kyle  (Jessica)  Elithorpe,  Kaitlyn  Morvan,  Lance  Elithorpe,  Analiese  Morvan,  Caleb  Morvan  and  Madison  Parker.  He  also  leaves  his  faithful  companion,  Kudjo. He  was  predeceased  by  his  parents  and  infant  grandson,  Ethan  L.  Morvan. Eli’s  family  would  like  to  extend  their  heartfelt  gratitude  to  all  of  his  friends  for  their  tremendous  outpour- ing  of  support  shown  towards  Eli  GXULQJ KLV Âż QDO PRQWKV 7KH\ ZRXOG also  like  to  thank  Addison  County  Home  Health  and  Hospice  for  their  wonderful  care  and  support.  The  family  would  like  to  extend  a  very  special  thank  you  to  his  sister- in-Âlaw  and  hospice  nurse,  Kathy  Laframboise,  for  her  exceptional  care  DQG ORYH GXULQJ WKLV GLIÂż FXOW WLPH A  private  celebration  of  Eli’s  life  is  planned  for  the  spring.  Memorial  donations  may  be  made  to  the  American  Cancer  Society  or  your  ORFDO KXPDQH VRFLHW\ ¸
MONTPELIER  —  Bears  in  Vermont  your  food  scraps  to  your  local  drop-Âoff  are  still  currently  in  search  of  easy  facility  or  composter  that  accepts  food  calories  to  fatten  up  for  the  winter.  scraps.â€?  Other  methods  could  include  Residential  trash  bins,  bird  feeders,  burying  food  scraps  deeply  in  your  pet  food,  and  beehives  can  become  garden,  known  as  trench  composting,  or  bear  attractants  if  not  properly  secured.  using  a  home  solar  digester  such  as  the  Composting  in  bear  country  may  also  Green  Cone  or  Algreen’s  Solar  Digester. be  an  issue,  and  many  residents  wonder  Compost  is  not  the  only  food  source  how  to  compost  without  enticing  curi- that  may  interest  bears.  “If  you  live  ous  bears. where  bears  are  common,  your  trash  and  While  food  scraps  left  outside  in  pet  food  bins  must  be  properly  secured,  trash  cans  or  composters  may  attract  using  a  bear-Âproof  container  if  neces- hungry  bears,  Vermonters  can  take  a  sary,â€?  said  Hammond. IHZ PHDVXUHV WR PLQLPL]H FRQĂ€ LFWV The  Vermont  Fish  &  Wildlife  according  to  Forrest  Department  also  Hammond,  bear  “With more recommends  that  project  leader  with  bird  feeders  be  Vermont  Fish  &  Vermonters removed  between  Wildlife. April  1  and  Nov.  30,  choosing to “With  more  and  that  beehives  and  Vermonters  choosing  compost, we chicken  coops  should  to  compost,  we  want  want to help be  secured  with  elec- to  help  them  prevent  tric  fencing  in  bear  any  potential  prob- them prevent any country. lems  with  bears,â€?  said  potential problems Because  bears  Hammond.  “People  make  a  habit  of  feed- can  effectively  reduce  with bears,â€? ing  on  human  food  the  chances  of  bears  said Hammond. sources  once  they  causing  damage  to  ¿ QG WKHP +DPPRQG “People can their  property  and  says  that  residents  protect  the  bears  as  effect.â€? should  carefully  well.â€? — Forrest Hammond, manage  and  secure  Hammond  recom- bear project leader with all  trash,  bird  feed- mends  that  people  Vermont Fish & Wildlife ers,  pet  foods,  and  maintain  a  compost  compost. bin  that  is  as  scent  “It  is  extremely  free  as  possible,  which  will  help  avoid  GLIÂż FXOW WR UHORFDWH D QXLVDQFH EHDU ´ attracting  bears  with  their  powerful  sense  said  Hammond.  “Sadly,  these  bears  of  smell.  This  can  be  done  with  regular  sometimes  need  to  be  put  down  in  order  maintenance  of  the  pile  by  adding  three  to  protect  human  health.  In  Vermont  parts  carbon-Ârich  “brownâ€?  materials  like  we  treasure  our  wildlife  and  we  want  dry  leaves,  straw,  or  ripped  up  paper  for  to  ensure  our  children  have  a  chance  to  every  one  part  food  scraps  or  “greenâ€?  enjoy  experiencing  these  animals  well  materials. into  the  future.  It’s  up  to  people  to  avoid  Additionally,  turning  the  pile  every  attracting  bears  before  a  bear  becomes  couple  of  weeks  and  burying  fresh  food  an  issue.â€? scraps  down  in  the  pile  helps  reduce  Residents  are  now  required  by  law  their  attractiveness.  Residents  interested  to  remove  bear  attractants  and  are  in  home  composting  should  know  that  prohibited  from  killing  problem  bears  Vermont’s  Universal  Recycling  Law,  ZLWKRXW Âż UVW WDNLQJ H[WHQVLYH QRQ OHWKDO which  will  be  fully  implemented  in  measures. 2020,  does  not  require  them  to  compost  For  more  information  on  living  with  meat  and  meat-Ârelated  food  scraps  when  black  bears,  visit  the  “Living  with  the  food  scraps  are  composted  by  a  resi- :LOGOLIH´ SDJH DW YWÂż VKDQGZLOGOLIH FRP dent  at  home. For  more  information  on  Vermont’s  new  However,  if  bears  are  already  common  Universal  Recycling  Law,  including  the  in  your  area,  Hammond  says  there  are  Materials  Management  map  of  local  other  options.  “If  you  believe  that  bears  composting  facilities,  go  to  recycle. may  become  a  problem,  consider  taking  vermont.gov.
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“Count  Down  to  Noon  Yearâ€?  kids’  event  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Dec.  31,  11  a.m.-Â12:30  p.m.  A  New  Year’s  Eve  family  celebration  for  kids  who  won’t  be  up  at  midnight.  Free.  Info:  388-Â4095. Best  Night  in  Bristol.  Thursday,  Dec.  31,  5  p.m.,  around  Bristol.  Annual  New  Year’s  Eve  celebration  with  live  music  by  four  groups  from  5-Â9  p.m.,  and  soups,  breads,  chili  and  more  at  the  First  Baptist  Church  of  Bristol.  Buttons  $10  before  Dec.  25,  $12  at  the  door.  Children  under  12  and  seniors  over  75  free.  Info:  www.bestnight.org. Fireworks  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Dec.  31,  7:30-Â8  p.m.,  Middlebury  Rec  Park.  Free  skating  at  the  Memorial  Sports  Center  immediately  afterward. “A  Rockin’  New  Year’s  Eveâ€?  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Dec.  31,  8  p.m.-Â1  a.m.,  Town  Hall  Theater.  The  Horse  Traders,  Middlebury’s  upbeat  rock/pop  band,  takes  the  stage  to  rock  New  Year’s  Eve.  Cash  bar  and  free  champagne  toast  at  midnight  on  the  THT  steps.  7LFNHWV DYDLODEOH DW WKH 7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH or  www.townhalltheater.org.
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Paul  Asbell  in  concert  in  Ripton.  Saturday,  Jan.  2,  7:30  p.m.,  Ripton  Community  Coffee  House.  Admission  $10/$15/$3.  Info:  http://rcch.org.
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“Meruâ€?  documentary  screening  in  Middlebury.  Sunday,  Jan.  3,  7  p.m.,  7RZQ +DOO 7KHDWHU Âł0HUX´ LV WKH Âż UVW Âż OP LQ the  Middlebury  New  Filmmakers  Festival’s  Winter  6FUHHQLQJ 6HULHV 7KH 6XQGDQFH DZDUG ZLQQLQJ Âż OP is  an  adventure  documentary  about  the  passions  and  perilous  choices  of  the  world’s  best  mountain  climbers.  Tickets,  $12  each  or  IRU DOO IRXU Âż OPV LQ WKH VHULHV DYDLO DEOH DW WKH 7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH RU www.townhalltheater.org.
Acoustic,  eclectic GUITAR  VIRTUOSO  AND  singer-Âsongwriter  Paul  Asbell  performs  at  the  Ripton  Community  Coffee  House  on  Saturday,  Jan.  2,  at  7:30  p.m.
Happened  on  the  Way  to  the  Forum.â€?  Show  runs  April  28-ÂMay  8.  Info:  www.middleburycommunityplayers. org.  Also  on  Jan.  12. Author  talk  in  Middlebury.  MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult: Mon. PM Oils, Monday,  Jan.  11,  7-Â8:30  p.m.,  Weds AM Int/Adv Paint & PM Wheel, Thurs. AM Hand Ilsley  Library.  Vermont  author  Ford  will  read  from  his  Building & AM Oils, Thurs. PM Drawing and Pastels, William  new  novel,  “Gate  of  Fog,â€?  a  Basket Making. Children: Mon. Wheel, Mon. Paint It, Wed. murder  mystery  set  in  Japan  “Volunteering  for  the  Peace  Young Artist & Clay Hand Building, Thurs. Clay Hand during  the  late  1940s.  Between  Corps  in  Tanzaniaâ€?  talk  in  Middlebury.  Monday,  Jan.  4,  7  Building. Contact Barb at 247-3702, ewaldewald@aol. short  passages  from  the  story,  images  from  occupied  Japan  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  Middlebury  native  com, middleburystudioschool.org will  be  shown  and  the  history  -HQQLIHU 'D3ROLWR GLVFXVVHV KHU Âż UVW behind  the  novel  discussed.  Info:  year  as  a  Peace  Corps  volunteer  in  the  388-Â4095. southern  highlands  of  Tanzania.  Free.  Addison.  Saturday,  Jan.  9,  time  and  meeting  place  Info:  388-Â4095. TBA.  Moderate  3.5-Âmile  hike  with  a  gradual  ascent  of  980  feet.  Great  views  of  Lake  Champlain  and  the  Adirondacks.  Bring  water  and  lunch  or  snack.  Dog-Âfriendly  hike.  Contact  leader  Mike  Greenwood  for  Blood  drive  in  Middlebury.  Tuesday,  details:  mike802vt@comcast.net  or  802-Â349-Â5653.  Jan.  12,  10  a.m.-Â4  p.m.,  American  Legion.  Blood  pressure/foot  care  clinic  in  More  info  at  www.gmcbreadloaf.org. Reading  series  in  Vergennes.  Tuesday,  Jan.  Brandon.  Tuesday,  Jan.  5,  9:30  a.m.,  Book  sale  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Jan.  9,  11  a.m.- 12,  6  p.m.,  Bixby  Library.  Participants  in  the  library’s  Forest  Dale  Senior  Center.  Foot  clinic  $10.  2:30  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  Info:  388-Â4095.  writing  workshops,  with  help  from  actors  and  other  Info:  802-Â775-Â0568.  Roast  pork  supper  in  Vergennes.  Saturday,  Jan.  9,  writers,  will  read  from  their  works.  For  this  meeting,  5-Â6:30  p.m.,  Vergennes  United  Methodist  Church.  &OLII $GDPV ZLOO VKDUH KLV Âż OP VFULSW Âł9HUPRQW /RYH Buffet-Âstyle  supper  includes  roast  pork,  mashed  pota- Story.â€?  Learn  more  at  bixbylibrary.org/adult-Âprograms.  WRHV VWXIÂż QJ YHJHWDEOH DSSOHVDXFH UROOV GHVVHUW Refreshments  served.  Free.  Info:  802-Â877-Â2211,  ext.  and  beverage.  Adults  $9,  children  $5.  Takeout  avail- 208,  or  muir.haman@bixbylibrary.org.  “Girl  with  a  Pearl  Earringâ€?  museum  able.  Info:  877-Â3150. Âż OP LQ 0LGGOHEXU\ Wednesday,  Jan.  6,  11  Contradance  in  Cornwall.  Saturday,  Jan.  9,  7-Â9:30  Middlebury  Community  Players  auditions  in  Middlebury.  Tuesday,  Jan.  12,  6-Â9  p.m.,  Mary  Hogan  a.m.,  Town  Hall  Theater.  The  THT’s  Great  Art  p.m.,  Cornwall  Town  Hall.  Lausanne  Allen  calls  to  live  Elementary  School.  Auditions  for  MCP’s  spring  musi- :HGQHVGD\V Âż OP VHULHV VWDUWV ZLWK ³¾*LUO ZLWK D 3HDUO music  by  Red  Dog  Riley.  Cost:  $5  per  person.  Info:  cal,  “A  Funny  Thing  Happened  on  the  Way  to  the  Earring’  and  Other  Treasures  from  the  Mauritshuis  462-Â3722. Forum.â€?  Show  runs  April  28-ÂMay  8.  Info:  www.middle- LQ 7KH +DJXH ´ 7KH Âż OP JRHV EHKLQG WKH VFHQHV DW “Rock  On  Filmâ€?  series  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Jan.  burycommunityplayers.org. the  world-Ârenowned  Mauritshuis  Museum  to  look  9,  7  p.m.,  Town  Hall  Theater.  “Stop  Making  Sense,â€?  the  at  Johannes  Vermeer’s  intriguing  portrait,  ca.  1665.  7DONLQJ +HDGV FRQFHUW Âż OP 3DUW RI D QHZ 7+7 VHULHV Tickets  $10,  $5  students,  available  at  the  THT  box  RI WKH Âż QHVW URFN DQG UROO Âż OPV HYHU PDGH 7LFNHWV RIÂż FH ZZZ WRZQKDOOWKHDWHU RUJ RU DW WKH DYDLODEOH DW WKH 7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH ZZZ door.  townhalltheater.org  or  at  the  door.  “Off  the  Wall:  Informal  Discussions  Middlebury  Actors  Workshop  auditions  in  Pete’s  Posse  in  concert  in  Lincoln.  Saturday,  Jan.  About  Artâ€?  at  Middlebury  College.  Middlebury.  Wednesday,  Jan.  6,  5-Â8  p.m.,  Town  Hall  9,  7:30  p.m.,  Burnham  Hall.  Part  of  the  2015-Â2016  Wednesday,  Jan.  13,  12:15  p.m.,  Mahaney  Theater.  Auditions  for  MAW’s  2016  season,  which  Burnham  Music  Series.  Doors  open  at  7  p.m.,  concert  Center  for  the  Arts,  Room  125  and  lower  lobby.  Till- includes  “Seminarâ€?  in  April,  “Macbethâ€?  in  October/ at  7:30.  Admission  $8  adults,  free  for  kids  and  teens.  Holger  Borchert,  director  of  the  Groeningemuseum  November,  and  “It’s  a  Wonderful  Life,  A  Live  Radio  See  the  Burnham  Music  Series  Facebook  page  for  in  Bruges,  Belgium,  presents  “Ars  devotionis:  Play,â€?  in  December.  Info:  middleburyactors.org.  full  schedule  of  monthly  concerts.  Info:  388-Â6863. Reinventing  the  Icon  in  Early  Netherlandish  Painting.â€?  Schedule  an  audition  at  melissa@middleburyactors. Swing  Noire  in  concert  in  Brandon.  Saturday,  Jan.  Lunch  follows;Íž  free  to  Middlebury  College  ID  holders,  org.  Auditions  also  on  Jan.  10. 9,  7:30  p.m.,  Brandon  Music.  The  quartet  evokes  or  suggested  $5  donation.  Info:  www.middlebury.edu/ “Defense  of  the  Westâ€?  talk  in  Middlebury.  Wednesday,  the  energy  of  a  swingin’  jazz  club  with  their  unique  arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. Jan.  6,  7  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  Middlebury  College  take  on  gypsy  jazz,  known  as  hot  swing.  Tickets  $20.  visiting  scholar  Stanley  R.  Sloan  examines  the  chal- Reservations  recommended:  1-Â802-Â247-Â4295.  Info:  Festival  on-Âthe-ÂGreen  annual  meeting  in  Middlebury.  Wednesday,  Jan.  13,  6:30  p.m.,  Middlebury  Union  lenges  posed  to  the  West  by  Russia,  Middle  East  www.brandon-Âmusic.net. Middle  School.  Volunteers  are  being  sought  for  turmoil,  terrorism,  and  political  tendencies  in  some  The  Bessette  Quartet  and  the  H.S.  All  Stars  in  the  38th  annual  festival,  July  10-Â16,  2016.  Info:  European  countries.  A  Vermont  Humanities  Council  concert  in  Vergennes.  Saturday,  Jan.  9,  7:30  p.m.,  802-Â462-Â3555. First  Wednesdays  event.  Info:  www.vermonthuman- Vergennes  Opera  House.  Info  and  tickets:  www. Book  club  meeting  in  Bridport.  Wednesday,  Jan.  13,  itiescouncil.org  or  802-Â262-Â2626. vergennesoperahouse.org  or  802-Â877-Â6737. 7  p.m.,  Bridport  Highway  Department  conference  room.  The  Bridport  Book  Club  meets  to  discuss  “The  Parrot  Trainerâ€?  by  Swain  Wolfe.  Info:  758-Â2858.
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Maplefields in Middlebury and The Exxon/Mobil Educational Alliance Program is proud to give $500 to Ferrisburgh Central School for their Science program. Pictured with Store Manager Karrie Beebe are Ferrisburgh Central School students.
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Senior  meal  in  Bristol.  Thursday,  Jan.  7,  noon,  First  Baptist  Church  of  Bristol.  Menu:  shepherd’s  pie  with  peas  or  corn,  homemade  bread  and  a  surprise  dessert.  Suggested  donation  $4.  Sign  up  at  453-Â5276. Twist  O’  Wool  Spinning  Guild  potluck  and  meeting  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Jan.  7,  6  p.m.,  49  Wilson  Road.  Potluck  at  6  p.m.  followed  by  general  meeting  at  7.  Bring  a  dish  and  any  projects  you’ve  completed  to  share.  Info:  453-Â5960.
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Board Member Spotlight Shari Johnson
“I  joined  the  Parent  Child  Center  Board  after  volunteering  there  for  two  years,  directing  the  greenhouse/vegetable  garden,  my  master  gardener  project.   I  was  impressed  by  the  P.C.C.’s  mission  ‘to  provide  support  and  education  to  families.’  It  complimented  my  life  goal  of  helping  others,  especially  those  who  have  not  had  the  same  life  advantages  that  I  have.   As  a  veteran  high  school  teacher  and  avid  gardener,  my  involvement  at  the  P.C.C.  is  a  perfect  marriage.  �
Senior  luncheon  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  Jan.  8,  noon,  Middlebury  VFW.  CVAA  invites  seniors  to  its  monthly  First  Friday  luncheon,  featuring  pot  roast  with  vegetable  brown  VDXFH PDVKHG FDXOLĂ€ RZHU JUHHQ EHDQV DOPDQ dine,  tossed  salad,  dinner  roll,  vanilla  ice  cream  with  chocolate  sauce  and  cream,  coffee  and  decaf.  Bring  your  own  place  setting.  Suggested  donation  $4.  Reservations  required:  1-Â800-Â642-Â5119,  ext.  634.  Free  transportation  with  ACTR:  388-Â1946.  Info:  www. cvaa.org.   Zephyr  in  concert  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  Jan.  8,  7:30-Â9:30  p.m.,  Byers  Studio  at  Town  Hall  Theater.  7KLV ORFDO TXDUWHW EULQJLQJ WRJHWKHU LQĂ€ XHQFHV RI Americana,  folk,  bluegrass,  blues,  gospel  and  coun- try,  will  play  in  the  intimate  setting  of  the  Byers  Studio  FDEDUHW 7LFNHWV DYDLODEOH DW WKH 7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH 382-Â9222,  www.townhalltheater.org  or  at  the  door. Â
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The  Heath  Quartet  in  concert  at  Middlebury  College.  Thursday,  Jan.  14,  7:30  p.m.,  Mahaney  Center  for  the  Arts,  Robison  Hall.  This  U.K.-Âbased  quartet  is  spending  :LQWHU 7HUP DW 0LGGOHEXU\ &ROOHJH DV WKH Âż UVW ever  quartet  in  residence.  Program:  BĂŠla  BartĂłk’s  String  Quartets  1,  3  and  5.  Free.  Info:  www.middle- bury.edu/arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. Financial  aid  forms  workshop  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Jan.  14,  6:30  p.m.,  Middlebury  Union  High  School  Learning  Center.  VSAC  leads  an  informal  ZRUNVKRS WR KHOS VWXGHQWV DQG SDUHQWV Âż OO RXW FROOHJH Âż QDQFLDO DLG IRUPV VXFK DV WKH )$)6$ ,QWHUQHW access  available.  Space  limited.  Participants  should  bring  Social  Security  number,  most  recent  federal  tax  return  and  most  recent  W-Â2  or  year-Âend  pay  stub.  To  reserve  a  space  or  check  for  weather-Ârelated  cancel- lation,  call  802-Â382-Â1500. Otter  Creek  Audubon  Society  illustrated  lecture  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Jan.  14,  7  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  The  OCAS  Cabin  Fever  Series  welcomes  Tyler  Poquette  shares  photos  and  stories  on  his  quest  to  photograph  as  many  bird  species  as  possible  during  his  2014  travels  across  the  U.S.  Info:  388-Â4095.
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Best New Year’s resolution? Forget the list! It’s  that  time  of  year  again.  You  make  a  list  and  New  Year  and  you  live  in  New  before,  after  and  quite  possibly  check  it  twice.  But  wait!  Hanukkah,  Solstice  and  England,  not  Southern  France.  during  Christmas  and  New  Year’s.  Christmas  have  come  and  gone.  This  must  be  a  Let  me  propose  a  different  kind  On  the  other  hand,  you  are  lucky  different  list,  yes?  Indeed,  it  is  time  for  that  Other  of  list  —  a  List  of  Appreciations.  enough  not  to  have  to  get  in  List:  the  2016  list  of  New  Year’s  Resolutions.  Doesn’t  that  sound  better  than  your  car  and  look  even  vaguely  Just  like  the  2015  list,  and  shockingly  reminis- Resolutions?  The  word  “appre- put  together.  You  can  wear  your  cent  of  the  2010  and  2005  lists,  it  generally  goes  ciationâ€?  has  a  warm,  emanating  tattered  jeans,  drink  hot  choco- VRPHWKLQJ OLNH WKLV JHW PRUH H[HUFLVH Ă€ RVV quality,  like  heat  from  the  wood- late  and  feel  virtuous  about  being  remember  to  write  thank  you  notes;Íž  once  you’ve  stove.  Writing  a  list  of  appre- carbon  neutral.  remembered,  sit  down  and  actually  write  them;Íž  ciations  is  also  a  proven,  effective  So  perhaps  the  needles  are  call  your  mother  (texting  doesn’t  count);Íž  clean  guilt-Âblocker  because  the  very  prematurely  dropping  from  your  out  and  organize  your  garage/basement/closets.  act  of  appreciating  is  ipso  facto  a  Christmas  tree,  your  uncle  hated  Sound  familiar? Good  Thing.  It  is  laudable  simply  the  book  that  you  so  carefully  This  year,  I  am  taking  a  new  approach.  I  am  to  muse  about  what  might  be  on  chose  for  him  —  perhaps  hoping  making  only  one  resolution:  out  with  the  resolu- that  list,  should  you  happen  to  that  you  could  thereby  sway  his  tions!  I  mean,  what  do  New  Year’s  Resolutions  make  one.  Moreover,  you  can  do  political  views  —  and  you  resent  really  accomplish?  There’s  a  brief  frisson  of  it  without  ever  leaving  the  haven  that  you  never  got  to  make  latkes  By Rebecca Kneale Gould for  Hanukkah  because  you  broke  excitement  that  comes  with  the  promise  of  of  your  couch. 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Act  46   (Continued  from  Page  1A) —  which  at  $20,200  spends  the  most  in  the  state  per  student  —  to  7.21  percent  in  Greens- boro,  which  spends  the  lowest  amount  of  money  per  student. 6RPH VFKRRO RIÂżFLDOV KDYH been  urging  the  Legislature  to  ease  up  on  the  per-Âpupil  spend- ing  caps,  which  they  argue  do  QRW DOORZ WKHLU GLVWULFWV WR FRYHU FRQWUDFWHG VDODU\ DQG EHQHÂżWV increases. “For  Robinson  Elementary  School  we  are  looking  at  a  spending  cap  of  1.56  percent,â€?  Starksboro  School  board  Chair- man  Louis  duPont  wrote  in  D 1RY OHWWHU WR 9HUPRQW House  and  Senate  leaders  urg- ing  repeal  of  the  Act  46  spend- ing  thresholds. “Preliminary  estimates  from  RXU EXVLQHVV RIÂżFH KDYH JLYHQ our  board  a  maximum  increase  RI IRU QH[W \HDUÂśV EXG- get,â€?  the  letter  continues.  “The  SUHGLFWHG 9(+, KHDOWK LQVXU- ance  increase  will  cost  our  dis- trict  around  $12,000.  To  stay  below  the  threshold  the  Leg- islature  has  mandated,  we  will  need  to  reduce  educational  op- portunities  and  postpone  need- ed  repairs  to  the  building  that  has  been  entrusted  to  us.â€? The  House  Education  Com- mittee  met  last  month  to  con- sider  legislation  that  might  UHVSRQG WR VFKRRO ERDUGVÂś concerns  about  the  per-Âpupil  spending  limits  imposed  by  Act  5HS 'DYH 6KDUSH ' %ULV- tol,  chairs  that  committee.  He  said  the  panel  emerged  from  its  1RYHPEHU PHHWLQJ ZLWK IRXU potential  recommendations: ‡ 'R QRWKLQJ DQG OHDYH WKH law  the  way  it  is. ‡ 5HSHDO WKH SHU SXSLO spending  limits  that  higher  VSHQGLQJ GLVWULFW DUH KDYLQJ GLIÂżFXOW\ DFKLHYLQJ 7KH VWDWH Senate  has  already  gone  on  re- cord  as  opposing  those  limits,  Sharpe  noted. Under  this  option,  the  Act  46  limits  would  be  replaced  by  D OLPLW ÂłEDVHG RQ WKH DYHUDJH spending  per  pupil  in  the  state  LQ LQĂ€DWHG E\ WKH VWDWH DQG ORFDO JRYHUQPHQW LQĂ€DWLRQ rate  which  has  been  around  2.5  SHUFHQW WR SHUFHQW RYHU WKH past  couple  of  years,â€?  Sharpe  VDLG ,I LW ZHUH LQ SODFH QH[W
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(March  continued  from  Page  13A) during  which  his  teams  notched  602  wins  and  eight  NCAA  Division  III  NCAA  titles. Ric  Lavallee  signed  on  as  the  new  executive  director  of  Middlebury  5HJLRQDO (06 /DYDOOHH ÂżOOHG D SR- VLWLRQ WKDW KDG EHHQ YDFDWHG WKH SUH- YLRXV VSULQJ E\ %LOO (GVRQ $OVR LQ 0DUFK ZH UHSRUWHG RQ 1RUWKODQGV -RE &RUSVÂś ODWHVW GLUHF- tor:  George  Sabol,  a  Pennsylvania  native  and  18-Âyear  veteran  of  the  U.S.  Coast  Guard.  He  brought  with  KLP WR 9HUJHQQHV \HDUV RI KHOSLQJ RWKHU MRE FRUSV FHQWHUV LQ WKH FRXQ- try.
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(May  continued  from  Page  14A) article  restoring  the  school’s  Spanish  enrichment  program.  Combined,  the  results  created  a  2  percent  budget  hike,  less  than  if  voters  had  backed  an  initial  proposal  in  March.  And  Starksboro  voters  gathered  at  Mount  Abraham  Union  High  School  for  a  special  meeting  to  reconsider  the  budget  approved  in  February  for  their  elementary  school.  The  reconsideration  was  mandated  by  a  petition  sparked  because  voters  amended  the  school  board  proposal  at  the  Feb.  28  meeting.  By  a  142- 65  tally  in  May,  residents  backed  a  $2.9  million  plan  that  cut  $80,000  from  what  voters  approved  at  town  meeting,  but  added  $115,000  to  the  town  school  board’s  original  proposal.  In  April,  a  new  plan  for  a  Bristol  ¿UHKRXVH KDG GHEXWHG WR SRVLWLYH reviews.  In  May,  the  estimated  price  tag  arrived:  $3.19  million  including  WKH ODQG QHHGHG 2IÂżFLDOV EHJDQ WR work  toward  a  vote  to  replace  the  outdated  and  inadequate  existing  ¿UHKRXVH In  Middlebury,  neighbors  of  the  airport  opposed  a  plan  to  relocate  and  expand  its  runways.  Opponents  said  they  feared  more  and  larger  aircraft,  more  noise  and  lights,  and  even  groundwater  pollution. By  the  end  of  May,  the  Vergennes  and  Mount  Abraham  union  high  school  and  Bristol  elementary  union  boards  all  regrouped,  made  cuts,  scheduled  votes  for  June,  and  launched  campaigns  to  educate  voters  and  encourage  residents  to  YRWH 0DQ\ ÂżQJHUV ZHUH DOVR FURVVHG as  the  deadline  neared  to  operate  schools  in  the  fall  without  approved  budgets.  2UJDQL]HUV RI WKH ÂżUVW HYHU Middlebury  New  Filmmakers  Festival,  which  would  screen  scores  RI QHZ ÂżOPV LQ WKH VKLUH WRZQ ODWHU this  summer,  scored  a  major  sponsor  this  month  —  the  Vermont  Teddy  %HDU &R 7KH 6KHOEXUQH ÂżUP ZRXOG supply  the  custom-Âmade  VTeddy  Award  statuettes  given  to  the  ZLQQLQJ ÂżOPPDNHUV The  pain  is  inconceivable.  While  other  moms  throughout  the  nation  were  being  celebrated  by  their  children  on  Mother’s  Day,  Katie  Gorton  of  Bristol  was  pressing  her  ear  to  her  15-Âyear-Âold  son  Jacob’s  chest  to  hear  his  heart  beat  for  the  last  time.  Young  Jacob  had  been  at  St.  Jude’s  Hospital  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  he  had  been  receiving  treatment  following  his  second  bone  PDUURZ WUDQVSODQW WR ÂżJKW WKH 7 FHOO acute  lymphoblastic  leukemia  with  which  he  had  been  diagnosed  back  in  2012.  Dr.  Mike  Kiernan  faces  many  challenges  as  a  physician  with  Porter  Hospital’s  Emergency  Department.  But  this  spring  he  treated  a  different  clientele  when  he  traveled  to  the  Himalayan  nation  of  Nepal  to  help  the  people  there  recover  from  the  devastating  earthquake  that  struck  on  April  25. Another  local  physician,  Jean  Andersson-ÂSwayze,  headed  overseas  in  the  opposite  direction  to  help  people  in  a  far-Âoff  land  recover  from  a  different  tragedy.  Andersson-ÂSwayze Â
spent  time  in  the  West  African  nation  of  Sierra  Leone  treating  people  who  had  been  struck  by  the  dreaded  Ebola  disease. Weybridge  Elementary  sixth- grader  David  Liebowitz  was  Vermont’s  representative  at  the  27th  annual  National  Geographic  Bee  held  in  Washington,  D.C.,  May  11- 13.  And  while  he  didn’t  take  the  title,  the  11-Âyear-Âold  answered  a  majority  of  the  brain-Âcrushing  queries  tossed  his  way  by  the  folks  at  National  Geographic. People  from  Addison  County  were  among  the  5,000  boisterous  supporters  who  crowded  into  Burlington’s  Waterfront  Park  late  in  May  to  cheer  on  Vermont’s  junior  senator  as  he  kicked  off  his  presidential  campaign.  We  could  almost  hear  the  chant  “BERRR-ÂNIE!  BERRR-ÂNIE!  BERRR-ÂNIE!â€?  35  PLOHV WR WKH VRXWK DQG ZH GHÂżQLWHO\ saw  a  lot  of  Bernie  Sanders  bumper  stickers  appear  on  local  vehicles. A  long  race  of  a  different  sort  kicked  off  in  Goshen  that  same  week.  Ten  members  of  the  newly  formed  Endurance  Society  started  running  laps  around  a  26.4-Âmile  course  up  and  down  through  the  Green  Mountain  National  Forest,  and  they  looked  to  do  it  for  10  days.  They  faced  frost  and  snow  on  the  trail,  sleet  and  rain  and  temperatures  soaring  into  the  high  80s.  During  the  race  they  encountered  bear,  moose,  porcupines,  snakes  and,  of  course,  mosquitoes.  Who  would  be  the  last  one  standing? 7KH ÂżQDO ZHHNHQG LQ 0D\ VDZ WKH
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vote,  which  board  members  said  they  wanted  to  hold  on  a  different  date  so  that  town  residents  would  see  them  as  “two  separate  issues.â€? Maybe  it  was  a  good  idea  to  ask  Bristol  voters  to  make  a  second  trip  to  the  polls:  A  $4.9  million  Bristol  Elementary  budget  breezed  to  vic- tory  on  June  16,  285-Â134.  That  bal- ORWLQJ HQGHG VFKRRO ÂżQDQFLQJ GUDPD until  this  winter,  when  spending  caps  and  penalties  that  a  bill  that  legisla- tors  passed  last  spring,  Act  46,  start- ed  affecting  the  boards’  budgeting  processes. Act  46  also  encourages  school  dis- tricts  and  supervisory  unions  to  con- solidate  their  governance  structure,  and  creates  potential  penalties  for  those  that  do  not.  In  June,  Addison  Central  Supervisory  Union  launched  its  effort  to  unify  its  nine-Âboard  orga- nization  into  a  one-Âboard,  one-Âbud- get  system.  Soon  afterward,  Rutland  Northeast  also  formed  a  committee  to  study  the  issue.  We  brought  you  some  school  news  of  a  different  sort  in  early  June  with  a  story  on  Monkton  Central  School’s  “Maker  Fair.â€?  Students  had  been  working  all  year  —  hands-Âon  —  with  projects  that  emphasized  critical  thinking  and  problem  solving  in  a  kind  of  “organized  chaos.â€?  The  re- sults  were  educational  AND  fun. Mount  Abe  Principal  Gaynell  Ly- man  announced  that  she  would  be  leaving  her  job  in  Bristol  to  take  a  position  with  a  consultancy  that  helps  schools  adopt  technology  and  innovation  plans.  In  Middlebury,  the  second  incarna- tion  of  Skihaus  in  downtown  Middle- bury  announced  that  it  would  close  its  doors.  The  shop  was  founded  six  decades  ago  and  had  done  business  as  The  Alpine  Shop  for  a  number  of  years  during  its  60-Âyear  run.  News  broke  in  the  form  of  an  inventory  liq- uidation  ad.  New  tenants  soon  signed  up  for  the  key  downtown  retail  space  on  the  corner  of  Main  Street  and  Merchants  Row.  At  the  same  time  another  Middle- bury  business  said  it  would  expand.  The  owners  of  the  Appalachian  Gap  Distillery  said  they  wanted  to  triple  their  2,000  square  foot  headquarters  in  Middlebury’s  industrial  park.  The  addition  would  give  the  growing  business  additional  warehouse  space  to  house  its  whiskey  barrels,  more  room  for  grain  storage  and  a  larger  tasting  room,  and  would  allow  for  in- stallation  of  a  bottling  line. Nearby,  Otter  Creek  Brewing  said  it  would  build  a  7,000-Âsquare-Âfoot  addition  to  its  Exchange  Street  fac- tory  that  would  allow  it  to  double  its  annual  production  of  65,000  bar- rels  of  beer.  And  just  down  the  street  Vermont  Coffee  Co.,  which  makes  a  different  kind  of  brew,  opened  a  new  cafĂŠ  on  site  with  its  coffee  roasting  operation. Brandon  artist  Warren  Kimble  gathered  some  of  the  work  he  has  created  over  the  past  70  years  and  as- sembled  a  show  at  the  Sheldon  Mu- seum  of  Vermont  History  in  Middle- bury.  The  exhibition  was  unveiled  in  June. Local  chicken  and  turkey  produc- ers  were  worried  about  the  outbreak  (See  June  Page  16A)
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— A Year In Review —
(July  continued  from  Page  16A) dlebury’s  municipal  workers  inked  a  new  pact  with  the  town,  assuring  members  wage  increases  of  2.5  per- cent,  3  percent  and  3  percent,  respec- tively,  during  the  next  three  years.  The  three-Âyear  pact  also  requires  workers  to  pick  up  a  slightly  greater  share  of  their  health  care  premiums. $ \HDU ORQJ FRQĂ€LFW RYHU D proposed  gravel  pit  near  downtown  Bristol  came  to  an  end  in  late  July  with  an  order  from  Vermont  Envi- URQPHQWDO &RXUW WKDW QXOOLÂżHG DOO previous  permits  and  zoning  deci- sions  concerning  the  26-Âacre  area.  The  order  from  Judge  Thomas  Dur- kin  further  stipulated  that  any  new  project  proposal  would  be  subject  to  current  zoning.  &RQVHUYDWLRQLVWV VWDWH RIÂżFLDOV and  interested  citizens  celebrated  the  expansion  of  the  Lemon  Fair  Wildlife  Management  Area  in  Corn- wall.  The  Vermont  Fish  and  Wild- life  Department’s  purchase  of  330  acres  from  local  landowners  nearly  doubled  the  area,  expanding  it  to  744  acres  in  total. Many  in  the  community  were  up  in  arms  when  the  local  state’s  attor- ney  decided  to  charge  a  Ferrisburgh  woman  only  with  driving  under  the  LQĂ€XHQFH RI DOFRKRO LQ D -XQH incident  in  which  the  car  she  was  driving  struck  and  killed  a  bicyclist.  Holly  Gonyeau,  36,  pleaded  inno- cent  in  late  July  to  DUI.  Dr.  Kenneth  Najarian,  60,  of  Charlotte  was  on  a  bike  ride  on  Greenbush  Road  that  June  evening  when  he  was  struck  by  Gonyeau’s  car.  According  to  court  documents,  Gonyeau’s  blood-Âalco- hol  content  at  the  site  tested  at  0.123,  and  two  hours  later  her  evidentiary  test  read  0.087.  Addison  County  Deputy  State’s  Attorney  Christo- pher  Perkett  said  evidence  gathered  by  Vermont  State  Police  and  an  au- WRSV\ SHUIRUPHG E\ WKH 2IÂżFH RI WKH Chief  Medical  Examiner  supported  the  theory  that  Najarian  had  turned  into  the  middle  of  Greenbush  Road  in  front  of  Gonyeau’s  car,  an  action  that  probably  caused  the  accident.  An  attorney  for  Najarian’s  family  said  his  experts  had  reviewed  the  evidence  and  come  to  a  different  in- terpretation:  that  Najarian  was  riding  in  a  straight  line  when  he  was  struck.  A  private  company  is  exploring  the  possibility  of  taking  over  plan- ning  and  possible  construction  of  a  hydroelectric  facility  at  Middlebury’s  Otter  Creek  falls  that  would  employ  a  new  technology  borrowed  from  an  ancient  Greek  physicist  to  potentially  reduce  the  footprint  and  impact  of  the  project.  New  England  Hydroelectric  &RPSDQ\ RIÂżFLDOV IURP DV IDU DÂżHOG as  Great  Britain  converged  upon  the  Otter  Creek  falls  in  downtown  Mid- dlebury  in  July  to  size  up  the  loca- tion’s  potential  for  hosting  a  hydro  project  using  a  principal  known  as  “Archimedes’  screw.â€? Â
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(September  continued  from  Page  18A) A  landmark  agreement  between  Vermont  Secretary  of  Agriculture  Chuck  Ross  and  the  Conservation  Law  Foundation  (CLF)  put  Addi- son  County  farmers  on  alert  that  all  farms  within  the  Champlain  Valley  watershed  must  abide  by  more  strin- gent  requirements  that  reduce  phos- phorus  runoff  into  Lake  Champlain.  Farms  of  all  sizes  will  see  on-Âsite  in- spections  and  will  have  to  begin  fol- lowing  industry  standard  best  prac- tices  for  manure  handling.   Vermont  State  Police  Trooper  Kyle  Young  died  on  the  afternoon  of  Sept.  17,  following  a  medical  event  during  training  at  the  Ethan  Allen  Firing  Range  in  Jericho.  Young,  a  28-Âyear-Âold  Monkton  resident  and  father  of  two,  was  assigned  to  the  New  Haven  barracks  and  provided  law  enforcement  services  through- out  Addison  County.  Later,  the  death  was  linked  to  heat  stroke. As  schools  around  Addison  Coun- ty  resumed,  school  directors  faced  FKDOOHQJHV DV WKH\ FUDIWHG ÂżVFDO \HDU 2017  budgets  that  met  per-Âpupil  spending  guidelines  prescribed  by  Act  46,  the  state’s  new  education  reform  law.  The  act,  passed  during  the  2015  legislative  session,  offers  ¿QDQFLDO LQFHQWLYHV WR VXSHUYLVRU\ unions  that  agree  to  establish  single,  consolidated  K-Â12  school  districts.  The  law  also  calls  for  schools  to  fol- low  per-Âpupil  spending  guidelines  during  a  two-Âyear  transition  toward  a  full  implementation  of  Act  46  or  face  tax  penalties  if  they  spend  be- yond  the  guidelines.  After  June  saw  a  deluge  of  monu- mental  proportions  and  early  Sep- tember  was  marked  by  unseasonable  heat,  there  was  reason  to  wonder  about  the  health  of  the  apple  crop  in  Addison  County.  But  as  the  pickers  came  down  out  of  the  trees,  local  orchardists  said  it  had  been  a  superb  year  for  apples  —  the  largest  crop  ever  for  some  growers.
October Early  in  October,  as  many  bird  VSHFLHV EHJDQ Ă€\LQJ VRXWK IRU WKH winter,  state  wildlife  biologists  re- ported  good  news  for  the  2015  pere- grine  falcon  breeding  season.  Forty- four  cliff-Ânesting  pairs  of  peregrine  falcons  produced  a  record  67  chicks,  several  in  Addison  County.  After  the  species  declined  for  many  years,  in  1970  only  one  wild  falcon  was  sighted  in  Vermont.  The  breed  was  reintroduced  in  the  1980s  and  came  off  the  federal  Endangered  Species  list  in  1999  and  the  Vermont  Endan- gered  Species  list  in  2005.  Also  for  the  birds,  a  new  draft  of  the  Vermont  Wildlife  Action  plan  released  in  early  October  cited  habitat  loss  to  “utility-Âscale  wind  and  solar  energy  generationâ€?  as  ³SHUKDSV WKH VLQJOH PRVW VLJQLÂżFDQW emerging  issue  affecting  birds  in  Vermont  during  the  last  10  years.â€?  In  Addison  County,  this  seeming  Catch-Â22  between  preserving  habi- tat  and  addressing  climate  change  was  seen  in  the  proposed  2-Âmega- watt  Next  Generation  solar  devel- opment  in  New  Haven  on  Field  Days  Road,  which  would  render  20  acres  of  bobolink  habitat  unsuitable  for  that  species. Seven  years  of  planning  and  over  $12,000  in  fundraising  came  to  frui- tion  at  Mount  Abe,  where  students  celebrated  the  completion  of  the  school’s  state-Âof-Âthe-Âart  composting Â
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November As  November  began,  the  18  school  districts  within  Addison  County’s  three  supervisory  unions  continued  their  investigations  of  how  to  best  approach  the  Act  46  mandate  for  JRYHUQDQFH XQL¿FDWLRQ $ 1RY Addison  Central  Supervisory  Union  community  forum  featured  a  panel  that  included  Vermont  Secretary  of  Education  Rebecca  Holcombe.  The  ANeSU  Act  46  Study  Committee  met  twice  in  November  and  on  Nov.  YRWHG QRW WR SXUVXH WKH IDVW WUDFN option,  given  the  number  of  issues  the  district  had  on  its  plate.  In  the  Vergennes  area,  the  ANwSU  Act  46  6WXG\ &RPPLWWHH KHOG LWV ¿UVW PHHW- ing  early  in  the  month  and  at  the  end  of  the  month  announced  community  forums  to  be  held  in  December. The  Anbaric  Transmission/Nation- al  Grid  partnership  that  is  proposing  the  Vermont  Green  Line  power  line  continued  to  woo  Addison  County  towns.  Developers  from  the  Green  Line  Infrastructure  Alliance  (GLIA)  attended  two  selectboard  meetings  in  New  Haven,  answering  questions  DW RQH DQG RXWOLQLQJ D EHQH¿WV SDFN- age  at  the  other.  GLIA  developers  offered  New  Haven  $700,000  a  year  for  20  years  in  addition  to  regular  municipal  and  state  education  taxes.  In  Ferrisburgh  they  offered  that  town  a  similar  deal  to  the  tune  of  an  ad- GLWLRQDO (See  November,  Page  20A)
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Chronology 2015 — A Year In Review —
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(November  continued  from  Page  19A) For  Ferrisburgh,  the  Vermont  Green  Line  means  nine  miles  of  un- derground  HVDC  cable.  For  New  Haven  it  means  a  converter  station  ¿YH VWRULHV KLJK DQG WKH ZLGWK DQG EUHDGWK RI D IRRWEDOO ÂżHOG RQ D ÂżYH acre  site,  turning  power  from  DC  to  AC  current  24/7. Middlebury  police  and  some  local  social  service  organizations  teamed  up  to  create  a  drug  amnesty  program  that  allows  addicts  to  voluntarily  turn  in  their  drugs  without  facing  crimi- nal  charges.  The  program  is  modeled  on  the  Police  Assisted  Addiction  and  Recovery  Initiative  established  ear- lier  this  year  in  Gloucester,  Mass.  “We  look  at  (drug)  addiction  the  same  way  people  are  addicted  to  to- bacco,  to  alcohol  or  whatever  it  hap- pens  to  be.  We  need  to  deal  with  it  as  a  health  issue  and  not  so  much  as  a  criminal  issue,â€?  Police  Chief  Tom  Hanley  said. More  than  60  Addison  County  residents  turned  out  for  an  ACSU  board  meeting  Nov.  3  to  support  the  'LYHUVLÂżHG 2FFXSDWLRQV SURJUDP The  program,  based  at  the  Patricia  A.  Hannaford  Career  Center,  serves  Addison  County  high  school  stu- dents  with  special  needs.  The  board  is  evaluating  the  program,  based  on  recommendations  from  the  state  Agency  of  Education  for  more  main- streaming.  Parents  at  the  meeting  of- fered  impassioned  testimonials  of  how  the  program  —  which  teaches  students  at  their  own  level  outside  of  traditional  classrooms  —  had  ben- HÂżWHG WKHLU FKLOGUHQ E\ WHDFKLQJ UHDO world  skills.  The  Boys  &  Girls  Club  of  Greater  Vergennes  prepared  to  begin  a  reno- vation  of  its  leased  School  Street  clubhouse.  The  club  had  already  raised  over  $40,000  of  the  close  to  $90,000  it  needs  for  renovation. Members  of  the  Porter  Federation  of  Nurses  and  Health  Professionals  petitioned  Porter  Medical  Center  ad- ministrators  to  reinstate  health  ben- HÂżWV IRU SDUW WLPH ZRUNHUV $GPLQ- istrators  had  raised  the  bar  for  health  EHQHÂżWV IURP KRXUV SHU ZHHN WR 30  as  a  cost-Âcutting  measure  aimed  at  saving  $200,000  a  year.  Porter  of- ¿FLDOV UHSRUWHG D PLOOLRQ ORVV IRU ÂżVFDO DQG D ORVV IRU WKH FXUUHQW ÂżVFDO \HDU ZKLFK EH- JDQ 2FW With  Vermont’s  gubernatorial  race  well  under  way,  three  of  Vermont’s  ¿YH FDQGLGDWHV SDUWLFLSDWHG LQ D IR- rum  at  the  EastView  retirement  com- munity  in  Middlebury:  Matt  Dunne, Â
a  Hartland  Democrat,  former  Ver- mont  lawmaker  and  current  Google  executive;Íž  Bruce  Lisman,  a  Shel- burne  Republican  and  former  Wall  Street  executive;Íž  and  Waterbury  Democrat  Sue  Minter,  a  former  state  lawmaker  who  most  recently  served  as  secretary  of  the  Agency  of  Trans- portation.  Candidates  Phil  Scott  and  Shap  Smith  could  not  attend. In  November  we  wrote  about  two  QHZ NLORZDWW VRODU DUUD\V EHLQJ proposed  in  Panton,  both  on  land  owned  by  the  Vorsteveld  Farm. VTrans  rejected  Middlebury’s  pro- posal  to  maintain  the  current  height  of  the  downtown  rail  underpasses,  as  part  of  the  multimillion-Âdollar  up- grade  of  the  Burlington  to  Rutland  rail  line.  VTrans  plans  to  replace  the  two  deteriorating  underpasses  at  Main  Street  and  Merchants  Row  with  a  concrete  tunnel  that  provides  D PLQLPXP RI IHHW RI FOHDUDQFH IRU WUDLQV &XUUHQW FOHDUDQFH LV feet,  9  inches.  Downtown  merchants,  WRZQ RIÂżFLDOV SURSHUW\ RZQHUV DQG residents  remain  concerned  that  the  estimated  three  years  of  construction  will  disrupt  downtown  Middlebury  and  hurt  local  businesses. The  Vergennes  City  Council  select- ed  resident  Mark  Koenig  to  replace  Alderman  Joe  Klopfenstein,  who  is  PRYLQJ WR 2UHJRQ .RHQLJ ZLOO VHUYH out  Klopfenstein’s  term  and  must  then  decide  whether  to  stand  for  election  on  Town  Meeting  Day. Â
Addison  County  was  stunned  by  news  of  the  terrorist  attacks  in  Par- LV WKDW OHIW PRUH WKDQ GHDG DQG ZRXQGHG %HKLQG WKH VFHQHV DW Middlebury  College,  administrators  worked  around  the  clock  to  make  sure  that  all  the  college’s  students  in  Paris  were  safe  and  accounted  for. As  sure  as  the  leaves  drop  in  No- vember,  area  high  schools  perform  their  fall  musicals.  Middlebury  Union  High  School  performed  Ste- phen  Sondheim’s  “Into  the  Woods,â€?  Mount  Abe  performed  Stephen  Flaherty  and  Lynn  Ahrens’s  “Seus- sical,â€?  and  Vergennes  Union  High  School  performed  “The  Addams  Family.â€?  Down  in  Brandon,  audienc- HV HQMR\HG 2WWHU 9DOOH\ÂśV SURGXFWLRQ of  “Snow  White.â€? Ferrisburgh  resident  Holly  Gon- yeau,  36,  was  sentenced  in  Addison  County  Superior  Court  to  a  year’s  probation  and  80  days  of  commu- nity  service  for  striking  and  killing  a  bicyclist  while  driving  under  the  LQĂ€XHQFH RI DOFRKRO WKLV SDVW -XQH Gonyeau  in  November  pleaded  no  contest  to  a  charge  of  DUI  stem- PLQJ IURP WKH -XQH LQFLGHQW WKDW claimed  the  life  of  Charlotte  physi- cian  Kenneth  Najarian.  His  family  asked  why  the  charge  wasn’t  more  serious,  but  the  prosecutor  said  the  evidence  would  not  support  a  more  serious  charge. ANeSU  hired  former  Vermont  Sec- retary  of  Education  Armando  Vilas-Â
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December As  the  end  of  the  year  rolled  around  and  days  shortened  and  dark- ened  into  December,  Addison  Coun- ty  residents  anticipating  the  thrill  of  WKH ÂżUVW VQRZIDOO ZHUH GLVDSSRLQWHG and  disheartened  to  get  unseasonably  high  temperatures  and  rain. 7KH 3DULV &OLPDWH &RQIHU- ence  brought  together  more  than  SDUWLFLSDQWV WR DGGUHVV JORE- al  warming.  Among  the  throngs  of  world  leaders,  delegates  and  activists  were  Middlebury  College  students  Nicole  Cheng  and  Emma  Ronai- Durning  and  noted  author,  Middle- bury  College  professor  and  climate  activist  Bill  McKibben.  Harking  back  to  this  side  of  the  Atlantic,  the  three  encouraged  Addison  County  resi- dents  to  protect  the  countryside  they  loved.  “None  of  the  things  that  make  Vermont  Vermont  can  withstand  the  kind  of  temperature  increases  pre- dicted  unless  we  take  dramatic  ac- tion,â€?  McKibben  said. Addison  County  schools  boards  continued  their  work  on  Act  46  dis- WULFW XQLÂżFDWLRQ 7KH $1H68 6WXG\ Committee  continued  to  meet.  AN- wSU  hosted  three  community  fo- UXPV ZLWK SODQV WR SUHVHQW D XQLÂżFD- tion  plan  to  the  state  by  mid-ÂJanuary.  And  the  state  Agency  of  Education  approved  the  ACSU  and  Rutland  Northeast  Supervisory  Union  uni- ¿FDWLRQ SODQV RQ 'HF +DYLQJ gained  the  state  stamp  of  approval,  voters  in  the  Brandon  area  will  vote  RQ WKH 51H68 XQLÂżFDWLRQ SURSRVDO and  ACSU  is  now  poised  to  present  its  plan  to  Middlebury-Âarea  voters  on  Town  Meeting  Day  and  to  win  its  WD[SD\HUV DQG VFKRROV WKH ÂżQDQFLDO LQFHQWLYHV IRU IDVW WUDFN XQLÂżFDWLRQ built  into  the  law. School  boards  around  the  county  also  began  drafting  budgets  for  the  VFKRRO \HDU $Q DGGLWLRQDO hurdle  in  this  year’s  budgeting  will  be Â
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a  7.9  percent  hike  in  school  employee  health  insurance  costs  together  with  the  limits  to  increases  in  per  pupil  spending  embedded  in  Act  46. ANeSU  teacher  contract  nego- tiations  —  ongoing  since  February  —  are  no  closer  to  agreement.  The  contract  expired  last  June.  After  a  ¿YH KRXU 'HF QHJRWLDWLRQ VHVVLRQ facilitated  by  a  professional  mediator  came  to  naught,  the  ANeSU  Bargain- ing  Council  asked  that  negotiations  JR WR D IDFW ¿QGLQJ KHDULQJ 7KH hearing  will  take  place  sometime  in  January. 0RUH WKDQ 1HZ +DYHQ UHVL- dents  turned  out  for  yet  another  Vermont  Green  Line  informational  meeting  —  this  one  conducted  town  meeting  style,  with  town  meeting  rules.  Representatives  from  Anbaric  Transmission  and  National  Grid  said  they  would  lay  an  HVDC  cable  capa- ble  of  only  400  MW  —  half  of  what  they  had  planned  —  as  a  concession  to  the  town.  Additionally,  the  VGL  developers  adjusted  their  November  offer  of  $700,000  per  year  for  20  years,  to  an  offer  of  municipal  taxes  plus  whatever  amount  would  bring  WKH WRWDO WR PLOOLRQ 7KLV FRXOG HI- fectively  increase  or  decrease  their  offer  of  cash  to  the  town,  depending  RQ WKH ¿QDO YDOXH RI WKH SURSRVHG converter  station  in  New  Haven.  The  Waltham  selectboard  came  away  from  a  Dec.  7  meeting  with  VGL  developers  saying  it  would  rec- ommend  the  project  to  the  town.  For  Waltham,  the  Vermont  Green  Line  PHDQV PLOH RI XQGHUJURXQG +9'& cable.  For  New  Haven  the  VGL  PHDQV D FRQYHUWHU VWDWLRQ ¿YH VWRULHV high  covering  the  size  of  a  football  ¿HOG The  fall  deer  hunting  season  ended  'HF 'XULQJ DUFKHU\ ULÀH DQG muzzleloader  seasons  and  Youth  Hunting  Weekend  —  which  together  VSDQQHG 2FWREHU 1RYHPEHU DQG 'H- cember  —  Addison  County  weigh  stations  handled  772  deer,  the  third- lowest  total  in  the  past  eight  years.  Numbers  were  down  especially  in  muzzleloader  season  —  no  muzzle- loader  doe  permits  were  issued  this  year  in  Addison  County.  Also,  the  lack  of  snow  in  December  made  WUDFNLQJ GLI¿FXOW Woodchuck  Cider  will  now  be  dis- WULEXWHG E\ 3DEVW 2Q 'HF :RRG- chuck  maker  Vermont  Hard  Cider  &R RI 0LGGOHEXU\ VLJQHG D \HDU
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What  can  deer  see  that  we  can’t,  and  what  colors  are  invisible  to  them? By  DAVE  MANCE  III they  don’t  experience  them  in  the  of  cones  that  ours  do,  which  and  other  longer-Âlived  animals  laundry  detergent  manufacturers  department  urges  hunters  to  wear  If  you’re  a  hunter  who’s  ever  same  way  we  do.  They  can  pick  affects  their  daytime  and  long- have,  which  means  they  see  blues  often  add  UV  dyes  and  enhanc- orange  —  in  fact,  hunters  should  ordered  something  from  a  sporting  out  short  (blue)  and  middle  (green)  wavelength  color  vision. and  other  short-Âwavelength  colors  ers  to  their  garments  and  cleaning  feel  free  to  wear  orange  during  goods  company,  it’s  probably  safe  wavelength  colors,  but  they’re  If  you’re  a  hunter  or  nature  about  20  times  better  than  we  do.  products,  so  clothing  can  take  on  archery  season,  too.  If  you’re  to  assume  that  you’ve  been  inun- less  sensitive  to  long  wavelength  photographer  who’s  trying  to  be  “Blue  jeans  are  much  more  vivid  an  ultraviolet  glow  regardless  of  more  inclined  towards  cool  colors,  dated  with  catalogues  over  the  past  colors  such  as  red  and  orange.  inconspicuous  in  the  woods,  it  to  a  deer  than  blaze  orange,â€?  color  or  pattern. avoid  blue  and  anything  that’s  UV  four  months.  God  help  you  if  you  “They’re  essentially  red-Âgreen  seems  that  the  worst  color  you  can  said  Murphy.  Color-Âconscious  The  takeaway  seems  to  be  that  brightened. save  your  seed  catalogues,  too.  colorblind,â€?  said  Brian  Murphy,  a  wear  is  blue.  Deer  eyes  lack  the  outdoorspeople  should  be  aware,  there’s  nothing  conspiratorial  And  if  you’re  a  young  hunter  If  you  take  a  moment  to  flip  wildlife  biologist  and  the  CEO  of  ultraviolet  light  filter  that  human  too,  that  clothing  companies  and  going  on  when  a  fish  and  wildlife  feeling  overwhelmed  by  the  through  your  now  complete  Quality  Deer  Management  advice  being  dispensed  by  seasonal  collection,  you  might  Association.  Murphy  partici- clothing  manufacturers  and  find  yourself  wondering  why  pated  in  research  done  at  the  self-Âappointed  experts  in  during  archery  season  in  October  the  University  of  Georgia  the  hunting  magazines,  also  the  companies  were  in  the  1990s,  keep  in  mind  the  big  picture  trying  to  sell  you  where  different  here.  A  deer’s  sense  of  smell  the  latest  and  great- wavelengths  of  may  be  1,000  times  better  est  camo  patterns  light  were  emit- than  ours,  their  hearing  is  at  “Blue jeans that  would  make  you  ted  into  the  eyes  least  as  good  as  ours,  and  as  are much invisible  to  deer,  but  of  sedated  deer  a  prey  species,  their  brains  then,  during  rifle  and  researchers  have  been  hardwired  over  more vivid season  in  November,  measured  the  millennia  to  pick  up  on  the  to a deer the  same  compa- deer’s  brainstem  slightest  movement  in  the  than blaze nies  tried  to  sell  you  responses. woods  and  associate  it  with  glowing  blaze  orange  The  difference  danger.  In  short,  what  color  orange.â€? suits  —  but  don’t  in  the  way  that  your  hunting  clothes  are  is  worry,  deer  can’t  see  humans  and  deer  pretty  insignificant  in  the  those  colors  anyway.  see  goes  beyond  grand  scheme  of  things.  Over  the  years  I’ve  had  hunt- color.  Deer  have  excellent  Dave  Mance  III  is  ers  tell  me  that  deer  can  too  see  night  vision,  thanks  to  eyes  the  editor  of  Northern  color,  and  that  the  conventional  with  a  high  concentration  of  Woodlands  magazine.  The  deer-Âare-Âcolorblind  thing  is  a  rods,  an  oval  pupal  that  acts  illustration  for  this  column  white  lie  dreamed  up  by  well- like  an  aperture  on  a  camera,  was  drawn  by  Adelaide  meaning  government  officials  and  a  layer  of  tissue  that  acts  Tyrol.  The  Outside  Story  who  were  tired  of  hunters  shoot- like  a  mirror  and  magnifies  is  assigned  and  edited  by  ing  one  another.  (For  the  record,  light.  (This  tissue,  called  Northern  Woodlands  maga- there  is  overwhelming  evidence  the  tapetum  lucidum,  is  why  zine  and  sponsored  by  the  that  wearing  bright  colors  during  their  eyes  glow  when  you  Wellborn  Ecology  Fund  of  rifle  season  saves  human  lives,  shine  a  light  on  them  in  the  New  Hampshire  Charitable  and  blaze  orange  is  mandatory  in  dark.)  But  their  eyes  have  Foundation:  wellborn@ some  states.)  On  the  other  hand,  only  about  half  the  number  nhcf.org. there’s  a  similar  conspiracy  theory  that  holds  that  maybe  it’s  just  the  camo  clothing  companies  who  are  blurring  the  truth  here,  as  it’s  in  their  best  interest  to  sell  you  two  sets  of  hunting  clothes,  one  for  - / 4 ) 6!4 ) / . s ) . 3 0 ) 2 !4 ) / . s 2 % 3 5 ,4 3 each  season. 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Finally,  snow! TOM  AND  PHOEBE  Hussey  ski  on  some  of  the  trails  at  the  Rikert  Nordic  Center  in  Ripton  Tuesday  PRUQLQJ IROORZLQJ ¿YH LQFKHV RI snow  that  fell  Monday  night.  The  snowfall  and  colder  temperatures  will  allow  the  center  to  open  more  ski  trails  in  the  next  few  days,  which  also  means  more  terrain  will  be  open  for  the  center’s  fat  bikes  as  well.  Nearby,  the  Middlebury  College  Snow  Bowl  was  expected  to  open  by  this  weekend  at  the  latest  and  possibly  as  early  as  Thursday. Independent  photos/Angelo  Lynn
)LUHÂżJKWHUV (Continued  from  Page  1A) 50  percent  to  60  percent  of  the  vol- XQWHHU URVWHU GXH WR ÂżUHÂżJKWHUVÂś SUR- fessional  and  family  commitments. “If  you’re  running  with  30  (mem- EHUV \RXÂśUH RQO\ JHWWLQJ RQ DQ DYHUDJH FDOO ´ 6KDZ H[SODLQHG +DYLQJ ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV RQ WKH URV- ter  would  draw  an  average  of  around  25  members  to  a  blaze,  Shaw  said. Âł7ZHQW\ ÂżYH VRXQGV OLNH D ORW RI people,  but  it’s  not  when  you  pull  up  to  a  Middlebury  College  dorm,  D VKRSSLQJ FHQWHU RU WKH 5HVLGHQFHV DW 2WWHU &UHHN ² DQ\ RI WKRVH ODUJHU VWUXFWXUHV ´ VDLG 6KDZ ZKR DGGHG his  department  responded  to  235  calls  for  service  last  year. As  a  result  of  its  recent  member- ship  dip,  the  Middlebury  Fire  Depart- ment  has  had  to  rely  more  heavily  on  mutual  aid  from  other  departments  and  get  more  creative  in  its  response  WDFWLFV RIÂżFLDOV VDLG )LUHÂżJKWHUV have  learned  to  multi-Âtask.  In  years  gone  by,  the  pump  operator  drove  the  pumper  to  the  scene,  stayed  with  the  truck  and  worked  the  pump. “Today,  the  task  is  totally  differ- HQW ´ 6KDZ VDLG ,Q DGGLWLRQ WR GULY- ing  the  pumper  and  operating  the  pump,  this  individual  is  likely  to  be  asked  to  set  up  ventilation  and  moni- tor  power  sources  to  the  equipment,  Shaw  noted. “He’s  a  much  more  active  man  on  WKH ÂżUH JURXQGV WKDQ KH HYHU XVHG WR EH ´ 6KDZ VDLG Âł:H DUH FURVV WUDLQ- LQJ D ORW PRUH WKDQ ZH XVHG WR ´ And  it  also  means  calling  neigh- ERULQJ ÂżUH GHSDUWPHQWV IRU KHOS LQ battling  blazes  close  to  other  com- munities’  borders.  For  example,  Bristol  is  called  to  help  Middlebury  IRU LQFLGHQWV LQ WKH 5RXWH DUHD DQG :H\EULGJH ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV DUH FDOOHG for  blazes  in  the  Weybridge  Street  area,  according  to  Shaw. “I  don’t  even  think  about  it  any- PRUH ´ 6KDZ VDLG DERXW WKH DXWR- matic  nature  of  asking  for  mutual  aid  these  days. It’s  a  statewide  and  even  national  trend,  Shaw  emphasized,  and  it’s  emblematic  of  competing  time  com- mitments  for  prospective  members  as  well  as  mandatory  training  re- quirements  that  are  becoming  more  complex  and  lengthy.  Vermont  and  more  than  30  other  states  throughout  the  nation  have  adopted  national  standards  in  the  WUDLQLQJ RI YROXQWHHU ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV This  entails,  among  other  things,  200  hours  of  training  for  new  mem- EHUV DQG UHJXODU UHFHUWLÂżFDWLRQ So  recruits  must  give  up  several  evenings  and  weekends  for  the  du- ration  of  the  course,  which  for  Ad- GLVRQ &RXQW\ ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV LV RIIHUHG in  Middlebury  from  September  to  April. Four  years  ago,  the  Middlebury- based  training  course  was  maxed  out  at  40  students.  This  year’s  class  has  around  25  recruits  from  various  departments.  Four  of  those  individu- DOV DUH IXWXUH 0LGGOHEXU\ ÂżUHÂżJKW-Â
ers.  Unfortunately,  the  four  Middle- bury  recruits  in  this  year’s  class  will  merely  replace  the  four  personnel  the  department  has  lost  during  the  past  year.  And  some  of  the  county’s  smaller  departments  have  no  recruits  in  this  year’s  class. Middlebury  Fire  Department  ser- vice  used  to  be  a  popular  draw  for  Middlebury  College  students.  The  department  has  historically  set  aside  ¿YH VORWV IRU FROOHJH VWXGHQWV 7KHUH are  currently  three  students  on  the  roster,  though  there  are  no  new  re- cruits  from  the  college  this  year. Âł8VXDOO\ ZH KDYH DW OHDVW RQH ´ Shaw  said. TWO  JOBS  AND  KIDS Shaw  and  Addison  County  Fire- ¿JKWHUV $VVRFLDWLRQ 3UHVLGHQW %UHWW /D5RVH DJUHHG WKDW GHSDUWPHQWV DUH losing  members  with  six  to  14  years  RI H[SHULHQFH )LUHÂżJKWHUV LQ WKDW GHPRJUDSKLF /D5RVH H[SODLQHG DUH RIWHQ ZRUNLQJ RQH RU WZR MREV KDYH a  spouse  doing  the  same;Íž  and  have  children  at  the  center  of  their  lives.  Consequently,  a  lot  of  the  volun- WHHU ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV WKHVH GD\V DUH HLWKHU young  men  and  women  who  are  not  yet  established  with  families  of  their  own,  or  are  older  members. “The  people  with  eight  to  15  years  of  service  are  not  there;Íž  they’re  JRQH ´ 6KDZ VDLG /D5RVH VDLG WKH %ULVWRO )LUH 'H- partment,  of  which  he  is  the  chief,  is  currently  in  good  shape  with  a  PHPEHUVKLS RI ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV DQG four  cadets.  But,  he  added,  attracting  and  retaining  members  is  an  ongoing  battle. “Volunteerism  in  Bristol  is  strong,  EXW WKHVH DUH FKDOOHQJLQJ WLPHV ´ /D5RVH VDLG RI WKH FRPSHWLQJ WLPH FRPPLWPHQWV IRU ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV DQG their  families. And  those  who  make  a  commit- ment  to  their  department  want  to  put  WKHLU WUDLQLQJ WR XVH /D5RVH VDLG That’s  never  an  issue  in  a  town  like  Bristol,  which  annually  logs  up- ZDUGV RI FDOOV IRU ÂżUH VHUYLFH %XW /D5RVH SRLQWHG WR VPDOOHU PRUH UXUDO ÂżUH GHSDUWPHQWV LQ WKH FRXQW\ that  might  get  only  a  dozen  tone-Âouts  per  year.  Every  community  wants  to  KDYH DV IHZ ÂżUH HPHUJHQFLHV DV SRV- sible,  but  a  consistent  lack  of  action  can  weigh  heavily  on  the  minds  of  volunteers  looking  at  200  hours  of  up-Âfront  training,  along  with  regular  PHHWLQJV DQG UHFHUWLÂżFDWLRQ Âł 6HUYLFH LV ZKDW ZHÂśUH KHUH IRU ´ /D5RVH VDLG RI PHPEHUVÂś H[SHFWD- tion  of  activity. /D5RVH QRWHG WKH %ULVWRO 0LGGOH- EXU\ DQG 9HUJHQQHV ÂżUH GHSDUWPHQWV are  fortunate  to  be  part  of  their  re- spective  communities’  budgeting  process.  The  other  14  departments  in  the  county  are  independent,  though  they  do  request  assistance  from  their  townspeople  annually  at  town  meet- ing. The  cost  of  maintaining  local  de- partments  is,  and  will  continue  to  be,  DQ LQFUHDVLQJ FRQFHUQ IRU ÂżUHÂżJKWHUV
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(Continued  from  Page  1A) occupy  2,000-Â3,500  acres. from  renewables,  according  to  the  To  reach  1,500-Â2,250  megawatts  draft  update  to  the  Vermont  Com- of  solar  in  2050,  the  plan  assumes  prehensive  Energy  Plan  presented  that  the  state  would  have  350  mega- to  the  commission  on  Dec.  9  by  Asa  watts  of  solar  installed  on  buildings  Hopkins,  director  of  Energy  Policy  and  up  to  1,900  megawatts  across  and  Planning  for  the  Vermont  De- 13,000  acres.  According  to  the  De- partment  of  Public  Service.  The  partment  of  Public  Service  plan,  400-Âpage  draft  plan,  which  is  built  that  would  mean  adding  roughly  on  and  updates  the  state’s  2011  200  to  350  acres  of  solar  a  year,  Comprehensive  Energy  Plan,  lays  over  35  years. out  strategies  by  which  Vermont  Hopkins  says  there  is  discussion  will  meet  its  goal  of  90  percent  re- of  creating  incentives  to  place  solar  newable  energy  by  2050. arrays  on  buildings  rather  than  on  The  plan  offers  several  ratio- open  land,  and  to  place  arrays  on  nales  for  doing  this,  including  im- ³EURZQ ÂżHOGV´ ² SDUNLQJ ORWV DQG proving  energy  security  and  thus  places  that  are  already  disturbed  or  boosting  the  economy,  as  well  as  GHYHORSHG ² UDWKHU WKDQ RQ ÂłJUHHQ improving  air  quality.  Much  of  the  ¿HOGV´ ² RSHQ ODQG WKDW KDV DJUL- public  focus  has  cultural  or  sce- been  the  plan’s  nic  value.  But  at  goals  for  reduc- present,  that  is  ing  production  of  discussion  and  climate-Âchanging  not  policy. greenhouse  gases  PERCENT  OF  and  improving  TOTAL  ACRES  e n v i r o n m e n t a l  How  much  of  s u s t a i n a b i l i t y.  Vermont  does  Indeed,  the  plan  the  Department  calls  for  cutting  of  Public  Service  greenhouse  gas  want  to  cover  emissions  by  80  in  solar  panels?  percent  by  2050. Hopkins  noted  To  reach  the  90  See the full Comprehensive that  Vermont  percent  renew- Energy Plan update with this covers  roughly  ables  by  2050  story online at 5.9  million  acres.  goal,  the  plan  sets  Of  that  total,  addisonindependent.com. interim  goals  for  about  3,650  are  the  state  to: in  commercial  ‡ 5HGXFH HQHUJ\ FRQVXPSWLRQ buildings,  43,200  acres  are  in  roads,  per  capita  by  15  percent  by  2025,  and  around  1.3  million  acres  are  in  and  by  more  than  one-Âthird  by  2050. ÂłSULPH DJ´ DQG ÂłVWDWHZLGH´ VRLOV ‡ 0HHW SHUFHQW RI WKH VWDWHÂśV The  state’s  new  Comprehensive  energy  needs  from  renewable  sourc- Energy  Plan  calls  for  13  times  the  es  by  2025;Íž  40  percent  by  2035. present  amount  of  solar  panels  and  The  state’s  model  for  reaching  its  would  increase  the  percentage  of  goals  is  to  reduce  the  use  of  fossil  the  state’s  acreage  dedicated  to  solar  fuels  in  transportation,  industry  and  from  0.017  percent  to  0.22  percent. heating,  while  increasing  the  use  of  ³:H WKH $&53& WKLQN UHQHZ- renewably  generated  electricity  in  able  generation  is  important,  and  those  same  sectors. we’ve  generally  supported  it,  but  we  The  plan  suggests  three  differ- want  to  make  sure  that  we  as  a  state  ent  scenarios  for  putting  together  are  doing  our  best  to  do  it  right,  to  enough  power  to  meet  the  state’s  ¿W LW ZLWKLQ WKH 9HUPRQW ODQGVFDSH need  for  an  estimated  9  terawatt  DQG WR WU\ WR KDYH LW EHQHÂżW DV PDQ\ hours  of  renewable  electricity  in  9HUPRQWHUV DV ZH FDQ ´ VDLG /RX- 2050,  each  with  a  slightly  different  gee.  “The  state  has  a  lot  of  control  mix  of  fuels  sources:  solar,  wind,  over  the  incentives  that  it  gives,  and  methane,  biomass  and  hydropow- we’d  like  to  see  those  incentives  er.  In  each  of  the  three  plans,  solar  EURDGO\ EDVHG JR WR 9HUPRQWHUV ´ power  would  see  the  greatest  in- /RXJHH FRQWLQXHG Âł:H ZDQW crease  as  its  proportion  of  the  state’s  them  to  be  conscious  of  and  protect  energy  portfolio.  the  Vermont  landscape,  so  we  do  At  present,  Hopkins  said  the  state  believe  that  siting  is  absolutely  im- had  120  megawatts  of  solar  already  portant.  And  we  think  that  smaller  built  and  75  megawatts  in  progress,  scale  and  net-Âmetered  systems  or  occupying  about  1,000  acres  across  community  solar  systems  tend  to  Vermont. KDYH PRUH EHQHÂżWV WR 9HUPRQWHUV ´ To  reach  the  state’s  renewable  /RXJHH H[SODLQHG WKDW E\ ÂłVPDOO- energy  goals,  the  draft  energy  plan  HU VFDOH´ KH PHDQW SURMHFWV RI assumes  that  the  state  will  need  to  kilowatts  and  smaller.  generate  500-Â750  megawatts  of  so- “If  we  can  get  those  two  things  lar  power  by  2032.  As  laid  out  by  right,  we  can  both  protect  the  land- the  plan,  this  would  mean  200-Â250  VFDSH DQG EHQHÂżW PRUH 9HUPRQW megawatts’  worth  of  arrays  would  FLWL]HQV ´ KH VDLG be  installed  on  buildings  and  the  re- Reporter  Gaen  Murphree  is  at  maining  300-Â500  megawatts  would  gaenm@addisonindependent.com.