MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 27 No. 14
Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, June 22, 2015
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32 Pages
75¢
Ferrisburgh officials push back on new solar arrays
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Five projects floated, three get cold reception By  ANDY  KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH  —  Facing  a  batch  of  new  solar  array  proposals,  the  Ferrisburgh  selectboard  earlier  this  month  sent  out  a  letter  of  “non- supportâ€?  to  a  proposed  480-Âkilo- watt  array  on  the  new  Dollar  Gen- eral  property  on  Route  7,  and  board  chairman  Steve  Gutowski  said  the  board  will  oppose  two  other  nearby  arrays. Those  two  proposals,  both  also  near  the  intersection  of  Route  7  and  Monkton  Road,  call  for  a  494-ÂkW  ex- pansion  of  the  Ferrisburgh  Commu- nity  Solar  Project  next  to  Vergennes  Union  High  School  and  a  500-ÂkW  array  just  north  of  the  American  Le- gion  clubhouse  and  east  of  Country  Home  Products’  headquarters. Meanwhile,  two  smaller  Ferris- burgh  solar  installations  have  been  proposed,  one  on  Greenbush  Road  and  the  other  on  Pea  Ridge  Road,  although  Gutowski  said  the  select- board  is  less  concerned  about  those.  (See  Ferrisburgh,  Page  25)
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Some  youthful entrepreneurs  get  on  the  bus  to  their  future
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WARREN  KIMBLE  STANDS  with  his  “Self  Portrait,�  one  of  his  used  painting  aprons,  at  his  retrospective  exhibit  at  the  Henry  Sheldon  Museum  in  Middlebury.  The  show  runs  through  Oct.  18. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
Exhibit reviews 67 years of art Sheldon Museum shows range of Warren Kimble’s abilities By  PHOEBE  LEWIS MIDDLEBURY  —  Despite  having  produced  nearly  70  years  worth  of  work,  Brandon  artist  Warren  Kimble’s  favorite  piece  of  art  has  never  been  seen  by  the  general  public.  That’s  because  he  hasn’t  made  it  yet.  In  Kimble’s  words,  his  favorite  artwork  is  “the  next Â
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By  LIZZY  WEISS ADDISON  COUNTY  —  For  un- suspecting  children,  a  school  bus  turned  blue  overnight  recently.  Here,  in  the  parking  lot  of  the  Bing- ham  Memorial  School  in  Cornwall,  Middlebury  College  junior  Lena  Ja- cobs  has  transformed  a  typical,  yellow  school  bus  into  a  mobile  classroom  that  will  soon  depart  Vermont  for  a  summer-Âlong  trip  across  the  United  States.  In  its  new  capacity,  the  bus  will  continue  to  transport  youngsters,  only  QRZ LW ZLOO WDNH WKHP RQ WKH ÂżUVW OHJ RI a  trip  toward  achieving  their  dreams. The  newly  converted  bus,  which  Ja- cobs  purchased  off  of  Craigslist  from  a  seller  in  New  Haven,  Conn.,  is  de- signed  to  encourage  social  entrepre- (See  Dream  bus,  Page  20)