MONDAY Â Â EDITION
ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT
Vol. 25 No. 14
Middlebury, Vermont
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Monday, May 27, 2013
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40 Pages
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Pipeline  would  serve  up  to  70  homes By  JOHN  FLOWERS CORNWALL  —  Vermont  Gas  Services  Inc.  on  Friday  unveiled  a  natural  gas  pipeline  route  through  Cornwall  that  it  believes  will  comply  with  the  community’s  town  plan  and Â
setback  requirements  while  creating  taxable  infrastructure.  Company  of- ¿FLDOV VDLG WKH SLSHOLQH ZRXOG SRXU an  estimated  $240,000  into  the  mu- QLFLSDO FRIIHUV GXULQJ LWV ÂżUVW \HDU RI operation  while  allowing  a  limited Â
number  of  local  tie-Âins. The  new  map,  released  at  a  meeting  of  the  Multi-ÂTown  Working  Group,  which  includes  representatives  from  Cornwall,  Middlebury  and  Shore- ham,  also  has  implications  in  Mid- dlebury  and  Shoreham,  which  VGS  is  expected  to  discuss  at  meetings  in Â
those  communities  next  month. Release  of  the  proposed  route  (see  map  on  Page  39)  followed  a  May  21  Cornwall  selectboard  meeting  at  which  Vermont  Gas  CEO  Don  Gil- bert   offered  to  extend  natural  gas  ser- vice  to  60-Â70  homes  in  the  Cornwall  (See  Pipeline,  Page  39)
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Voices  up MIDDLEBURY  UNION  MIDDLE  School  choir  director  Elizabeth  LeBeau  conducts  students  during  the  school’s  spring  concert  on  May  21. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
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Danyow  succeeds  Rose  as  new  head  of  county  Humane  Society By  JOHN  FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY  —  It  was  almost  six  years  ago  that  Jackie  Rose  became  top  dog  at  the  Addison  County  Humane  Society  (ACHS). She  will  leave  that  posi- tion  next  week  with  a  great  sense  of  accomplishment,  having  boosted  programs  and  spearheaded  a  more Â
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than  $1  million  campaign  that  tripled  the  size  of  the  ACHS’s  Homeward  Bound  Animal  Welfare  Center  at  236  Boardman  St. “Without  a  doubt,  this  has  been  the  most  re- warding  professional  ex- perience  I  have  ever  had,â€?  Rose  said  on  Wednesday  as  she  showed  the  ropes Â
to  her  successor,  Jessica  Danyow. “This  community  embraces  gen- erosity  as  a  skill-Âset  and  has  been  very  gracious  and  accommodating  to  us  as  an  organization.â€? Rose  is  leaving  to  follow  her  husband,  Craig  Goldstein,  who  has  landed  a  job  in  New  York.  They  will  be  relocating  to  the  Hudson  Valley  area,  where  Rose  will  serve  as  exec- utive  director  of  the  Dutchess  Coun- (See  Director,  Page  18)
City  nears  deal  on  solar  array;Íž  Ferrisburgh  plan  called  off By  ANDY  KIRKALDY VERGENNES  —  While  Ver- gennes  nears  a  deal  with  Encore  Redevelopment  for  a  150-Âkilo- watt  solar  array  near  its  city  sew- HU SODQW WKH %XUOLQJWRQ ÂżUP KDV told  the  Ferrisburgh  selectboard  that  further  research  showed  (See  Vergennes,  Page  25)