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CHEF PAUL DOW is offering BBQ, deli sandwiches and other tasty fare at his new business, located in the former Down Home Deli & Market space at 51 Ossie Road in East Middlebury. It’s called “Paul’s Deli & BBQ.”
Independent photo/Andy Kirkaldy
BBQ delicatessen opens in East Middlebury Chef-owner plans to expand menu
By ANDY KIRKALDY EAST MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury area’s latest culinary offering is breathing new life into the longtime East Middlebury site of the Down Home Deli & Market, which for those with long memories was before then Betourney’s Market. Chef Paul Dow, 42, opened Paul’s
Deli & BBQ at 51 Ossie Road on Feb. 11 after buying the Down Home building this past fall. For now Dow is offering pulled-pork specialties (including one dish served on a waffle that drew a positive review from a local resident); deli sandwiches, including Cubans; beverages; and
cookies and brownies. Paul’s hours for now are 7 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Friday, but Dow said his offerings will expand, possibly to Saturday, and his hours will probably change. “I’m going to add hot food for lunch, and I’m going to add dinners to go. So if you want to come through and have lasagna, lasagna is a good example, lasagna for four, I can have
it ready for you. I just need a couple hours notice. I haven’t started doing it yet, but I will be very soon,” Dow said. “I’ll do baked pasta dishes. I’ll do a ham dinner maybe.” And more barbecue offerings are on the way from the East Middlebury resident who lives within walking distance of his new venture. “I just really like barbecue. Right (See Paul’s Deli, Page 3)
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By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — With a contested selectboard race in Brandon, the Brandon Area Chamber of Commerce will hold a Meet the Candidates forum at the Town Hall basement meeting room at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 28. Bill Moore will be the moderator for the forum and candidates will have the opportunity to answer questions from the public. As the only contested selectboard race in Brandon, voters will choose between Tim Guiles and Dennis Reisenweaver for the seat being vacated by Devon Fuller. Fuller served eight years on the selectboard, and has decided to devote more time to the Downtown Brandon Alliance, saying he feels the board is in capable hands and has a great manager working for them. The two candidates bring diverse backgrounds and volunteer in many capacities around the community. TIM GUILES Guiles, 59, is a professional musician. Originally educated and employed as a software engineer, he moved to Vermont in 1992 to explore issues of sustainability. He is also a jack-of-all-trades kind of guy. While in Vermont, he has been a town librarian, an EMT, a tiny house builder, a musical theater director, and a pianist for many small and large singing groups, including the Vermont Symphony Orchestra chorus. Most recently, Guiles ran for the Rutland-6 House seat as a Progressive/Democrat and was endorsed by Bernie Sanders. Being passionate about sustainable living, Guiles built a carbon neutral small house in Brandon with solar panels on the roof that supply his heat, hot water, cooking, lights, appliances, lawn mower and electric car. Guiles volunteers at the Brandon Town Hall, the Brandon Free Public Library and the Brandon Food Shelf. He also teaches weekly piano lessons at the Rutland jail. “I feel the town of Brandon is well run and that the selectboard is a well functioning group of people,” Guiles said. “If elected, I look forward to (See Brandon, Page 3) CORRECTION: A story on Snelling Center for Government graduate Jessica Lynch of Shoreham inaccurately described her role at the Addison Central School District in Middlebury. Lynch is one of two prekindergarten-6th grade elementary curriculum leaders in the district. She and her colleague Joy Dobson, also a Snelling graduate, oversee the development and implementation of the IB’s Primary Years Program (PYP) curriculum for students ages 3-12 years old.
