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Gerri Barrows of New Haven was honored with a child advocacy group’s top award. See Page 4B.
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ADDISON COUNTY
INDEPENDENT Vol. 69 No. 42
Middlebury, Vermont
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Thursday, October 29, 2015 â—† 28 Pages
Board OKs Middlebury nuisance law
Bobolinks  losing  ground  to  solar Policy could balance wildlife, renewable energy
Landlords of unruly tenants to be targeted
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Brandon  site  eyed  for  state’s  largest  solar  power  farm By  LEE  J.  KAHRS BRANDON/FLORENCE  —  A  PDVVLYH PHJDZDWW VRODU DUUD\ LV EHLQJ SURSRVHG RQ PRUH WKDQ DFUHV RI ODQG RII 6\QGLFDWH 5RDG LQ )ORUHQFH DQG %UDQGRQ DQG LI DS- SURYHG LW ZRXOG EH WKH ODUJHVW VRODU project  in  Vermont. Representatives  from  Ranger  6RODU EDVHG LQ <DUPRXWK 0DLQH ZLWK RI¿FHV LQ 1HZ <RUN DSSHDUHG EHIRUH WKH %UDQGRQ VHOHFWERDUG RQ 0RQGD\ WR JLYH D SURMHFW SUHVHQWD- WLRQ DQG WR DQVZHU TXHVWLRQV 7KRVH LQ DWWHQGDQFH H[SUHVVHG D ZLGH UDQJH RI IHHOLQJV IURP HQWKXVLDVWLF WR VXV- SLFLRXV ZLWK PRVW WRZQ RI¿FLDOV H[- pressing  support.  Details  have  been  scarce  since  LQLWLDO PHGLD UHSRUWV RI WKH SURMHFW
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Spooktacular! A  PENGUIN  COLLECTS  candy  along  Middlebury’s  Main  Street  Sunday  afternoon  during  the  town’s  an- nual  Spooktacular  celebration,  at  which  children  played  games  on  the  green  before  parading  downtown.  For  more  photos,  see  Pages  4A,  14A  and  15A. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
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Hogback Mtn. brewmeister turns on the taps in Bristol By  GAEN  MURPHREE %5,672/ ² 9HUPRQW FXUUHQWO\ home  to  more  microbreweries  per  capita  than  any  other  state  in  the  XQLRQ LV DERXW WR ZHOFRPH RQH PRUH +RJEDFN 0RXQWDLQ %UHZHU\ ZLOO VRRQ EH UHDG\ WR KLW WKH VKHOYHV %UHZHU .HYLQ +DQVRQ KDV VSHQW WKH SDVW \HDU REWDLQLQJ VWDWH DQG IHGHUDO SHU- PLWV UHQR- ADDISON COUNTY vating  his  North  Street  barn  in  %ULVWRO DQG GHYHORSLQJ KLV VHDVRQDO OLQH RI WUDGLWLRQDO EUHZV +DQVRQ VDLG KH ZLOO QRW EH EUHZLQJ KLV RZQ IDYRULWH EHHU ² FODVVLF ,QGLD SDOH DOH —  which  is  the  most  popular  beer  in  WKH DOUHDG\ FURZGHG $PHULFDQ PL- FUREUHZ PDUNHW EXW ZLOO LQVWHDG IR- FXV RQ WUDGLWLRQDO EHHUV WKDW IDOO PRUH into  niche  categories. +DQVRQ H[SHFWV WR KDYH ERWWOHV RQ the  shelves  at  Bristol  Discount  Bev- HUDJH DQG DW /DQWPDQœV 0DUNHW LQ (See  Brewing,  Page  7A)
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KEVIN  HANSON  IS  starting  a  “nano-Âbreweryâ€?  in  his  renovated  barn  in  Bristol.  Hanson  will  be  selling  his  beer  under  the  Hogback  Mountain  Brew- ery  label  at  just  a  few  locations  within  the  next  two  weeks. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
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Addison  Independent,  Thursday,  October  29,  2015  —  PAGE  3A
New Middlebury rental units offer affordability By  JOHN  S.  McCRIGHT MIDDLEBURY  —  Nearly  a  year  and  a  half  of  construction  on  two  new  buildings  and  rehabilitation  on  three  existing  structures  culminated  in  the  formal  dedication  of  22  units  of  decent,  affordable  housing  in  the  heart  of  Middlebury  last  Thursday.  More  than  50  people  gathered  at  the  complex  off  North  Pleasant  Street  at  John  Graham  Court  on  Oct.  22  to  dedicate  the  complex  as  the  Pe- ter  Coe  Village  Apartments. The  apartments,  managed  by  the  Addison  County  Community  Trust,  were  created  to  help  make  it  possible  for  people  of  modest  means  to  live  with  dignity  in  Middlebury.  They  will  be  available  to  households  earning  up  WR SHUFHQW RI WKH PHGLDQ LQFRPH for  Addison  County.  ACCT  and  its  partner  Housing  Vermont  said,  as  an  example,  a  two-Âperson  household  could  earn  up  to  $35,220  a  year. The  development,  which  was  EXLOG DW D FRVW RI MXVW XQGHU million,  includes  14  two-Âbedroom  apartments  and  a  mix  of  other  units  UDQJLQJ IURP HIÂżFLHQFLHV WR IRXU bedroom.  Monthly  rents  range  from  IRU D RQH EHGURRP XQLW WR for  two  bedrooms  —  both  include  heat  and  hot  water. Crucially,  one  building  includes  a  laundry  facility,  a  common  room  where  tenants  of  the  neighborhood  can  hold  birthday  parties  and  other  larger  gatherings,  and  an  apartment Â
for  an  on-Âsite  manager. The  chairman  of  the  ACCT  board,  John  Tenny,  pointed  out  that  design- ers  and  builders  took  great  care  to  maintain  the  architectural  detail  of  the  homes,  which  is  particularly  ap- parent  in  the  two  historic  buildings  facing  North  Pleasant  Street.  Work  in  these  older  buildings  fo- FXVHG RQ HQHUJ\ HIÂżFLHQF\ URRI UH- pair,  mechanical  and  electrical  sys- tem  upgrades,  interior  updates  and  masonry  repair. )XQGV IRU WKH SURMHFW FDPH IURP many  sources,  the  largest  component  PLOOLRQ FRPLQJ LQ WKH IRUP RI federal  tax  credit  equity  from  the  Green  Mountain  Housing  Equity  Fund.  Some  $22,000  came  from  the  town  of  Middlebury’s  revolving  loan  fund. According  to  ACCT,  more  than  4,000  Addison  County  residents  —  almost  one  in  10  —  live  in  poverty.   For  a  family  of  four,  this  means  earning  about  $24,000  per  year  or  less  and  corresponds  to  about  30  percent  of  area  median  income  for  similar  families.   A  family  at  that  LQFRPH OHYHO FDQ DIIRUG WR SD\ per  month  in  rent  without  exceeding  30  percent  of  their  income,  the  level  generally  considered  “affordable.â€?  Median  rent  in  the  county  hovers  around  $1,000  for  a  two-Âbedroom  apartment,  according  to  ACCT,  and  with  the  county’s  vacancy  rate  chronically  below  1  percent,  afford-Â
TWO  NEWLY  CONSTRUCTED  buildings  in  a  new  affordable  housing  neighborhood  in  the  Middlebury  village  center  offer  10  townhouse-Âstyle  apartments  at  slightly  below-Âmarket  rents.
ecutive  Director  Elise  Shanbacker. The  original  buildings  on  John  Graham  Court  were  originally  run  as  affordable  housing  by  the  prede- cessor  of  the  agency  called  Help- ing  Overcome  Poverty’s  Effects,  or  HOPE.  That  agency’s  executive  director,  Jeanne  Montross,  recalled  when  Peter  Coe  of  Shoreham  ap- plied  to  be  the  property  manager  for  that  and  other  affordable  housing  sites.  She  said  Coe  didn’t  seem  to  be  exactly  what  they  were  looking  for,  but  he  proved  himself  quite  capable,  taking  care  of  the  broad  range  of  characters  who  resided  in  the  apart- ments  under  his  watch. Âł+H ZDV QRW MXVW DQ DSDUWPHQW manager,  but  a  social  worker,  too,â€?  Montross  recalled.  “He  was  fantas- tic.  Peter  walked  right  up  to  the  edge  RI WKH ÂżQH OLQH ÂŤ :H DUH DOO EHWWHU off  for  the  work  he  did  for  us.â€? Sadly,  Coe  was  killed  on  Dec.  27,  2009,  at  age  43.  A  member  of  the  Shoreham  Fire  Department,  Coe  was  helping  free  a  car  that  had  slid  off  an  icy  road  into  a  ditch  when  he  was  struck  by  a  pickup  truck. Coe’s  widow,  Valerie  Coe,  and  their  daughter,  Genevieve  Coe,  who  came  from  New  York  City  to  be  at  the  event,  cut  a  ribbon  in  front  of  the  Peter  Coe  Village  Apartments  to  sig- nify  their  completeion.  Genevieve  Coe  said  she  learned  from  her  father  and  from  her  mother,  a  nurse,  the  VALERIE  COE,  THE  widow  of  Peter  Coe,  cuts  a  ribbon  at  the  new  Peter  Coe  Village  Apartments  off  Pleasant  importance  of  giving  oneself  to  the  Street  in  Middlebury  last  Thursday  as  her  daughter,  Genevieve,  and  other  affordable  housing  advocates  look  on. community,  which  has  led  her  into  a  Independent  photo/John  S.  McCright career  in  mental  health  counseling. Â
VUHS (Continued  from  Page  2A) dents  are  “present,  in  all  senses  of  the  word  —  and  there  are  stats  to  prove  it.  In  the  2013–2014  school  year,  the  schoolwide  attendance  rate  was  nearly  97  percent.  The  four-Âyear  graduation  UDWH LV SHUFHQW ÂżYH \HDU UDWH percent,  and  six-Âyear  rate  97  percent.  “In  terms  of  standardized  test  per- formance,  VUHS  students  perform  on  par  with  students  across  the  state  of  Vermont.  That  said,  what  they  get  out  of  their  education  —  the  opportunity  to  cultivate  a  deep  appreciation  for  the  world  around  them  —  cannot  be  mea- sured  solely  in  test  scores.â€? In  selecting  schools,  Noodle  re- searchers  “pored  over  state-  and  school-Âreported  data;Íž  analyzed  years  of  news  coverage;Íž  examined  aca- GHPLF VWXGLHV RQ WKH HIÂżFDF\ RI YDUL- ous  teaching  methods;Íž  and  listened  to  the  perspectives  of  students,  parents,  alumni,  teachers,  and  administrators.â€? CORRECTION:  According  to  Green  Mountain  Power  spokesper- son  Dorothy  Schnure,  GMP’s  pro- posed  5-Âmegawatt  solar  array  in  Panton  would  generate  renewable  energy  credits  (RECs)  for  GMP  if  WKDW SURMHFW FRPHV WR IUXLWLRQ 7KH Independent’s  Oct.  22  story  on  the  proposed  array  incorrectly  stated  the  SURMHFW ZRXOG QRW JHQHUDWH 5(&V EH- cause  the  power  would  go  directly  WR WKH JULG 6FKQXUH FRQÂżUPHG WKH power  would  go  directly  to  the  grid,  EXW WKH SURMHFW ZRXOG VWLOO TXDOLI\ GMP  for  RECs.  Schnure  said  GMP  could  keep  the  RECs,  but  might  also  decide  to  sell  them.  CORRECTION:  Our  Oct.  5  story  “Falcons  back  from  the  brinkâ€?  quoted  a  Vermont  Center  for  Ecostudies  estimate  that  the  state  had  350  pairs  of  peregrine  falcons  in  the  1940s,  but  after  hearing  from  Audubon  Vermont  peregrine  falcon  expert  Margaret  Fowle  the  center  updated  its  website  with  the  cor- rect  estimate  for  pairs  of  falcons  at  32  pairs.  The  350  number  is  for  the  entire  Eastern  region.
able  apartments  are  exceedingly  dif- ¿FXOW WR ÂżQG Many  families  in  Middlebury,  as  well  as  in  other  area  towns,  are  cost-Âburdened,  meaning  they  spend  so  much  of  their  income  on  rent  and  utilities  that  they  can’t  raise  them- selves  up,  according  to  ACCT  Ex-Â
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She  said  that  dedicating  an  afford- DEOH KRXVLQJ SURMHFW LQ KLV QDPH LV D perfect  tribute  to  her  father. ACCT  board  chair  John  Tenny,  principal  of  the  Middlebury  builder  Mill  Bridge  Construction,  was  hap- S\ WR VHH WKH SURMHFW FRPH WR IUXL- tion,  but  he  sees  the  need  for  more  affordable  housing  in  town. “I  got  involved  (ACCT)  in  1992  because  I  had  employees  working  for  me  who  couldn’t  afford  the  prod- uct  I  was  selling,â€?  Tenny  said.  He  was  thankful  that  ACCT  and Â
other  groups  have  added  some  diver- sity  in  the  price  of  housing  in  Addison  County  through  creation  of  dedicated  lower-Âpriced  rentals,  but  overall  he  said  “that  situation  has  not  improved.â€? Tenny  said  that  a  community  is  more  stable  when  it  has  a  mix  of  people  with  a  mix  of  different  in- comes  and  a  mix  of  housing  where  WKH\ FDQ OLYH $ FRPPXQLW\ ZLWK MXVW a  lot  of  high-Âpriced,  single-Âfamily  homes  is  not  healthy. “We  need  more  good  affordable  housing,â€?  he  said.
Nurses  charge  Porter  Hospital  with  labor  law  violations By  JOHN  S.  McCRIGHT MIDDLEBURY  —  A  nurses  union  and  management  at  Porter  Medical  Center  are  squaring  off  over  a  claim  that  hospital  administrators  aren’t  fol- lowing  federal  labor  laws  by  sanction- ing  a  nurse  for  perceived  union  activ- ity  and  failing  to  follow  the  details  of  a  contract. ,Q WKLV WKH ÂżUVW PDMRU GLVSXWH VLQFH the  two-Âyear-Âold  Porter  Federation  of  Nurses  and  Health  Professionals,  AFT,  DQG WKH KRVSLWDO VLJQHG WKHLU ÂżUVW XQLRQ contract,  communication  between  the  parties  has  been  minimal. “We  haven’t  heard  from  Porter,â€?  Al- ice  Leo,  RN  and  president  of  the  Por- ter  union,  said  late  on  Tuesday. Â
“We  have  not  yet  seen  these  charg- es,  as  the  union  has  chosen  not  to  share  them  with  us;Íž  rather  they  chose  to  issue  a  press  release,  which  is  dis- appointing,â€?  Porter  Vice  President  of  Development  and  Public  Relations  Ron  Hallman  said  in  a  statement  on  Wednesday  morning.  He  said  the  hos- pital  did  not  violate  the  law. In  late  2013  Porter  Medical  Cen- ter  nurses  voted  to  unionize  the  more  than  140  full-  and  part-Âtime  nurses  who  work  at  Porter  Hospital,  Helen  Porter  Healthcare  and  Rehabilitation  Center,  and  the  network  of  around  a  GR]HQ SK\VLFLDQVÂś RIÂżFHV DIÂżOLDWHG with  Porter  Medical  Center.  Nurses  KDG FLWHG FRQFHUQ RYHU VWDIÂżQJ OHYHOV
and  a  desire  to  become  more  involved  in  Porter  Medical  Center  operations,  as  well  workplace  issues  like  continu- ing  education,  professional  advance- ment,  comprehensive  orientation  for  new  nurses  and  recruitment/retention  of  personnel. The  medical  center  and  the  union  DJUHHG WR WHUPV RI WKHLU ÂżUVW FRQWUDFW LQ late  December  2014. On  Monday,  the  union  sent  out  a  SUHVV UHOHDVH VD\LQJ LW KDG ÂżOHG unfair  labor  practices  charges  with  the  National  Labor  Relations  Board,  which  they  said  cited  “numerous  violations  of  the  law.â€?  Leo  explained  WKDW KHU XQLRQ KDG ÂżOHG ÂłJULHYDQF- esâ€?  against  Porter  for  what  it  saw  as Â
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the  charges  generally  fell  into  three  areas.  First,  she  said,  Porter  violated  its  duty  to  bargain  in  good  faith.  She  VDLG RI¿FLDOV XQLODWHUDOO\ WHUPLQDWHG discussion  on  a  clinical  advancement  program  even  though  the  contract  said  they  would  negotiate  on  the  future  of  the  program. ³,Q WKH YHU\ ¿UVW PHHWLQJ WKH\ (See  Porter  nurses,  Page  6A)
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Sanders:  Make  higher  ed  tuition  free  for  U.S.  students ,Q 5XWKHUIRUG % +D\HV EHFDPH WKH ÂżUVW SUHVLGHQW WR PDNH a  strong  case  for  universally  available  public  education.  “Universal  suffrage  should  rest  upon  universal  education,â€?  he  said  in  his  inau- gural  address,  adding  that  “liberal  and  permanent  provision  should  be  made  for  the  support  of  free  schools.â€?  Hayes,  a  Republican,  GLGQÂśW ZRUU\ WKDW VRPH SRRU NLG PLJKW EHQHÂżW IURP DFFHVV WR ÂłIUHH stuff,â€?  nor  did  he  believe  that  the  children  of  wealthy  elites  should  be  excluded  from  the  universal  nature  of  the  program.  For  him,  education  was  the  basis  for  full  economic  and  political  participation,  and  full  participation  was  the  basis  for  all  prosperity.  An  education  should  be  available  to  all  regardless  of  anyone’s  station. Today,  there  is  universal  access  to  free,  public  schools  across  the  United  States  for  kindergarten  through  12th  grade.  That  didn’t  happen  by  presidential  decree.  It  took  populist  pressure  from  the  progressive  movement,  beginning  in  the  1890s,  to  make  widespread  access  to  free  public  schools  a  reality.  By  1940,  half  of  all  young  people  were  graduating  from  high  school.  As  of  2013,  that  number  was  81  percent.  But  that  achievement  is  no  longer  enough.  A  college  degree  is  the  new  high  school  diploma. In  the  1950s  and  1960s,  it  was  possible  to  graduate  from  high  VFKRRO DQG PRYH ULJKW LQWR D GHFHQW SD\LQJ MRE ZLWK JRRG EHQHÂżWV Strong  unions  offered  apprenticeships,  and  a  large  manufacturing  sector  provided  opportunities  for  those  without  an  advanced  degree.  A  couple  with  a  sole  breadwinner  could  buy  a  home,  raise  a  family  and  send  their  kids  to  college.  That  was  the  American  dream.  Unfor- tunately,  today,  for  too  many  Americans,  it’s  not  a  possibility. An  important  pathway  to  the  middle  class  now  runs  through  higher  education,  but  rising  costs  are  making  it  harder  and  harder  for  ordi- nary  Americans  to  get  the  education  they  want  and  need.  In  1978,  it  was  possible  to  earn  enough  money  to  pay  for  a  year  of  college  tu- ition  just  by  working  a  summer  job  that  paid  minimum  wage.  Today,  it  would  take  a  minimum  wage  worker  an  entire  year  to  earn  enough  to  cover  the  annual  in-Âstate  tuition  at  a  public  university.  And  that’s  ZK\ VR PDQ\ EULJKW \RXQJ SHRSOH GRQÂśW JR WR FROOHJH GRQÂśW ÂżQLVK RU graduate  deeply  in  debt.  With  $1.3  trillion  in  student  loans,  Ameri- cans  are  carrying  more  student  debt  than  credit  card  or  auto-Âloan  debt.  That’s  a  tragedy  for  our  young  people  and  for  our  nation. In  my  view,  education  is  essential  for  personal  and  national  well- being.  We  live  in  a  highly  competitive,  global  economy,  and  if  our  economy  is  to  be  strong,  we  need  the  best-Âeducated  workforce  in  the  world.  We  won’t  achieve  that  if,  every  year,  hundreds  of  thousands  of  bright  young  people  cannot  afford  to  go  to  college  while  mil- lions  more  leave  school  deeply  in  debt.  We  need  to  ensure  that  every  young  person  in  this  country  who  wishes  to  go  to  college  can  get  the  education  that  he  or  she  desires,  without  going  into  debt  and  regard- less  of  his  or  her  family’s  income. It  may  seem  hard  to  believe,  but  there  was  a  time  when  higher  education  was  pretty  close  to  free  in  this  country,  at  least  for  many  $PHULFDQV $IWHU :RUOG :DU ,, WKH *, %LOO JDYH IUHH HGXFDWLRQ WR more  than  2  million  veterans,  many  of  whom  would  otherwise  never  KDYH EHHQ DEOH WR JR WR FROOHJH 7KLV EHQHÂżWHG WKHP DQG LW ZDV JRRG for  the  economy  and  the  country,  too.  In  fact,  scholars  say  that  this  investment  was  a  major  reason  for  the  high  productivity  and  eco- nomic  growth  our  nation  enjoyed  during  the  postwar  years.  And,  in  certain  states,  such  as  California  and  New  York,  tuition  was  so  low  that  college  was  practically  free  for  much  of  the  20th  century.  That  is  no  longer  the  case  in  America,  but  free  college  is  still  a  priority  in  many  parts  of  the  world. In  Finland,  Denmark,  Ireland,  Iceland,  Norway,  Sweden  and  Mex- ico,  public  colleges  and  universities  remain  tuition-Âfree.  They’re  free  WKURXJKRXW *HUPDQ\ WRR DQG QRW MXVW IRU *HUPDQV RU (XURSHDQV but  for  international  citizens  as  well.  That’s  why  every  year,  more  WKDQ VWXGHQWV OHDYH WKH 8QLWHG 6WDWHV DQG HQUROO LQ *HUPDQ universities.  For  a  token  fee  of  about  $200  per  year,  an  American  can  earn  a  degree  in  math  or  engineering  from  one  of  the  premier  uni- YHUVLWLHV LQ (XURSH *RYHUQPHQWV LQ WKHVH FRXQWULHV XQGHUVWDQG ZKDW an  important  investment  they  are  making,  not  just  in  the  individuals  who  are  able  to  acquire  knowledge  and  skills,  but  for  the  societies  these  students  will  serve  as  teachers,  architects,  scientists,  entrepre- neurs  and  more. It  is  time  to  build  on  the  progressive  movement  of  the  past  and  make  public  colleges  and  universities  tuition-Âfree  in  the  United  States  —  a  development  that  will  be  the  driver  of  a  new  era  of  American  prosperity.  We  will  have  a  stronger  economy  and  a  stron- ger  democracy  when  all  young  people  with  the  ambition  and  the  talent  can  reach  their  full  potential,  regardless  of  their  circumstances  at  birth. —  Sen.  Bernie  Sanders Bernie  Sanders,  an  Independent,  represents  Vermont  in  the  U.S.  Senate  and  is  a  candidate  for  the  Democratic  nomination  for  president.
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Foote  Street  work  well  done Many  thanks  to  the  Middlebury  Department  of  Public  Works  and  Engineers  Construction  Inc.  for  the  great  job  at  the  water  main  replace- ment  project  on  Foote  Street.  Thanks  also  to  Adam  Piper  and  Jim  Foster. It  was  a  professional  job,  courte- ously  done,  with  excellent  results. Ron  Holmes Middlebury
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Candy  Ho! A  FAMILY  OF  sailors  goes  trick-Âor-Âtreating  on  Main  Street  in  Middlebury  Sunday  afternoon  during  the  annual  Spooktacular  celebration.  For  more  photos  from  the  event,  see  Page  14A. Independent  photo/Trent  Campbell
For  my  sister,  Meigan,  on  her  birthday Two  days  ago,  my  older  and  only  sister  would  have  turned  60.  Instead,  she’ll  always  be  43.  Much  has  been  said  about  the  opioid  addiction  problems  plaguing  Vermont.  But  it  hits  you  differently  when  it’s  not  just  a  state  statistic  or  a  headline  in  The  New  York  Times  put- ting  addicts  in  Rutland  or  Barre  or  next  door  where  we  all  like  to  think  there’s  just  cows  and  golden  glowing  leaves.  My  sister  died  of  a  heroin  overdose  at  43.  This  last  part  is  ironic.  She  almost  died  of  a  heroin  overdose  as  a  teenager.  She  was  no  longer  living  at  home.  It’s  a  long  story,  so  we’ll  just  say  she  emancipated  herself  early.  But  as  my  mom  years  later  told  me,  one  night  my  then-Âteenage  sister  sort  of  “appeared  to  her,â€?  like  a  ghost  or  a  message  or  a  vision,  and  my  mom  knew  she  was  in  trouble.  And  indeed  that  very  same  night  —  one  state  away,  some- ZKHUH LQ 1RUPDQ 2NOD OLYLQJ *RG knows  where  or  how  —  it  turns  out  my  sister  had  almost  died  of  an  overdose. By  Gaen When  the  call  came,  so  many  decades  Murphree later,  at  5  a.m.,  to  say  that  “her  old  bad  habits  had  caught  up  with  her,â€?  I  wasn’t  expecting  it.  She  was  happy.  She  was  married.  She  lived  in  a  ranch  house  —  how  settled,  how  ordinary  is  that?  It  seemed  that  she’d  moved  away  from  her  chemically  propelled  lifestyle.  But  she  was  dead  just  the  same.  I  still  have  the  police  report,  which  I’ve  pored  over,  again  and  again. Like  a  lot  of  folks  who  end  up  battling  addiction,  my  sis- ter  was  forced  to  grow  up  way  too  fast.  The  oldest  daughter  RXW RI ÂżYH FKLOGUHQ KHU FKLOGKRRG VHHPHG WR KDYH HQGHG soon  after  our  dad  died  when  she  was  six.  By  eight,  she  was  shopping,  cooking,  doing  the  laundry,  looking  after  the  rest  of  us.  By  12,  she  was  hanging  out  with  kids  from  the  local  college.  By  15,  she  ran  away  from  our  small  farming  town Â
in  Kansas  for  San  Francisco,  just  a  few  summers  after  the  Summer  of  Love. Meigan  was  a  blues  and  rock  ’n’  roll  singer  in  always-Âlo- cal  bands.  Her  voice  —  sort  of  like  Janis  Joplin’s  or  Bessie  Smith’s  or  Lucinda  Williams’s  (to  whom  I  am  sure  we  are  linked  down  some  long-Âlost  branch  of  our  Southern  family  tree)  —  was  often  so  real  it  cut  just  to  listen.  She  was  gener- ous  to  a  fault.  And  she  was  fearless.  Case  in  point  was  when  she  invited  to  her  grade  school  birthday  party,  a  little  girl  with  no  friends,  who’d  been  labeled  “slowâ€?  and  “differentâ€?  and  ostracized  as  only  the  playground  can  so  cruelly  do.  After  the  party,  when  the  girl’s  mother  picked  her  up  she  told  my  mom  that  her  daughter  was  so  thrilled.  No  one  had  ever  invited  her  to  a  birthday  party  before.  Meigan  had  that  kind  of  courage  —  to  love  and  in- clude  somebody  that  everybody  was  supposed  to  shun. My  sister  grew  so  wild  in  high  school  that  my  mom,  at  her  wits’  end,  packed  her  off  to  a  girls’  home  run  by  a  religious  zealot  so  besotted  with  a  WZLVWHG YHUVLRQ RI 2OG 7HVWDPHQW VW\OH SXQLVKPHQW WKDW HYHQ WKH VWDWH RI 7H[DV ÂżQDOO\ VKXW KLP down.  But  when  I  visited  her  there,  just  a  sixth-Âgrader,  she  told  me  serenely  how  she’d  learned  the  Hebrew  word  for  eagle  and  that  she’d  gotten  really  good  at  plucking  chick- ens.  Then,  when  she  was  called  on  to  testify  in  church,  she  gave  a  bang-Âup  blues  rendition  of  “Just  as  I  Am.â€?  She  was  in  “prison,â€?  but  she  found  a  freedom  within  herself. Meigan  made  a  patched  together  living  singing  in  local  bands  and  Dumpster  diving  and  trading  in  vintage  clothes.  ,Q IDFW ZH KDG KHU FUHPDWHG LQ RQH RI KHU EHVW ÂżQGV HYHU D JUHHQ VHTXLQ WX[HGR VXLW 2QH RI P\ FRXVLQV HYHQ WRRN (See  Clippings,  Page  5A)
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Act  46  looming  as  election  issue Act  46,  the  school  consolidation  bill  passed  by  the  Leg- islature  earlier  this  year,  will  be  a  major  issue  in  2016,  both  in  local  elections  on  establishing  new  consolidated  school  districts  and  in  the  statewide  race  for  governor. The  act  provides  property  tax  reduction  incentives  to  newly  consolidated  districts  that  receive  voter  approval  by  July  1,  2016.  While  some  incentives  will  be  available  to  districts  that  consolidate  after  that  date,  the  prospect  of  a  10-Âcent  reduction  in  property  taxes  is  leading  several  districts  to  accelerate  planning  for  consolidation  votes.  These  districts,  including  the  towns  in  the  Addison  Central  Supervisory  Union,  hope  to  have  proposed  charters  for  new  con- solidated  districts  on  the  ballot  for  Town  Meeting  Day  on  March  1.  Aus- tralian  ballot  turnout  that  day  will  be  much  higher  than  usual,  because  the  Vermont  presidential  primary  will  be  held  on  March  1.  With  presidential  contests  in  both  the  Democratic  and  By  Eric  L.  Davis Republican  parties,  primary  turnout  should  be  strong. It  is  too  early  to  project  how  vot- ers  will  respond  to  consolidation  votes,  in  the  ACSU  and  in  other  districts  across  Vermont.  However,  the  statute  requires  that  a  consolidated  district  must  be  approved  by  every  town  in  the  proposed  district  in  order  to  go  into  effect.  This  will  pose  a  particular  challenge  to  districts  such  as  the  ACSU,  where  one  town  (Middlebury)  has  a  majority  of  the  voters  and  students,  and  would  have  a  majority  of  the  members  of  the  proposed  new  district  board.  A  nega- tive  vote  in  any  one  of  the  six  other  towns  in  the  ACSU  district  would  defeat  the  proposal. Â
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Some  voters  in  the  outlying  towns  may  be  concerned  that  a  Middlebury-Âdominated  board  could  vote  to  close  their  local  elementary  school  over  their  objections,  es- pecially  if  the  small  school  has  a  higher  cost  per  pupil  than  other,  larger  elementary  schools  in  the  district.  A  requirement  written  into  the  new  district’s  charter  for  a  two-Âthirds  super-Âmajority  board  vote  to  close  a  school  might  help  alleviate  this  concern. Act  46  is  also  shaping  up  as  a  major  issue  in  both  the  Democratic  and  Republican  primaries  for  governor.  2Q WKH 'HPRFUDWLF VLGH +RXVH 6SHDNHU 6KDS 6PLWK LV a  strong  supporter  of  Act  46,  which  passed  the  House  under  his  leader- ship.  He  says  that  Act  46  will  give  school  boards  tools  to  respond  to  unsustainable  cost  increases,  and  will  spread  educational  opportunities  more  widely,  to  all  students  within  a  consolidated  district. Democratic  gubernatorial  candi- date  Matt  Dunne  opposes  Act  46.  He  says  the  deadlines  established  by  the  act  are  unrealistic  and  will  cause  school  districts  to  make  hurried  decisions.  He  also  says  $FW WDNHV D ÂłRQH VL]H ÂżWV DOO´ DSSURDFK WKDW GRHV QRW UHĂ€HFW WKH TXDOLW\ RI HGXFDWLRQ FXUUHQWO\ RIIHUHG LQ VRPH small  community  schools. The  third  Democratic  candidate,  Sue  Minter,  supports  the  general  goals  of  Act  46,  but  says  that  the  Legislature  may  need  to  tweak  the  law.  In  particular,  she  does  not  like  the  spending  cap  provisions,  which  she  says  are  in- ÀH[LEOH DQG PD\ QRW EH DSSURSULDWH IRU HYHU\ ORFDO VLWXD- tion  around  the  state. (See  Davis,  Page  5A)
I  want  to  thank  the  Addison  Inde- pendent  for  printing  Professor  Victor  Nuovo’s  articles  on  Socrates. , ÂżQG WKDW 6RFUDWHV SUREDEO\ UHDOO\ existed  and  was  not  just  the  imagina- tion  of  Plato,  who  did  a  lot  of  the  writing  about  Socrates. I  found  it  hard  to  follow  what  Socrates  was  doing.  For  instance,  The  Republic  started  with  Socrates  walk- ing  down  the  street  one  day  and  was  soon  joined  by  several  fellow  citizens  who  talked  about  old  age  and  other  problems,  and  if  it  was  “justiceâ€?  to  pay  back  debts. 7KHUH DUH VHYHUDO GHÂżQLWLRQV IRU MXV- tice,  but  Socrates  asks  several  people  what  justice  is.  If  he  had  looked  in  a  somewhat  recent  dictionary  (which  was  printed  probably  2,300  years  too  late)  he  would  have  found  around  four  GHÂżQLWLRQV DQG LQ WKH 2(' 2[IRUG English  Dictionary)  there  are  11  or  12. Then  Socrates  asks  the  people  around  him  what  justice  is.  He  pleads  ignorance,  as  he  tosses  in  a  golden  apple  to  get  things  started,  by  asking  if  justice  is  more  than  telling  the  truth  and  paying  debts  (which  I  don’t  think  ZDV FRYHUHG LQ WKH 2(' The  ensuing  dialog  gets  the  local  people  confused  as  to  which  of  many  possible  concepts  are  contained  in  the  proposition  of  justice.  Socrates  doesn’t  ask  for  a  list  of  various  pos- VLELOLWLHV IRU GHÂżQLQJ MXVWLFH KH WUHDWV his  audience  as  if  there  might  be  just  one  idea  and  we  must  choose,  which  really  confuses  some  of  his  listeners.  And  then  I  am  confused  as  to  where  Socrates  is  going  with  this.  It  seems  he  is  really  trying  to  take  people  for  a  head  spin  and  confusing  them  so  they  don’t  even  know  the  way  home. So,  I  really  appreciate  the  Addison  Independent  for  printing  the  Nuovo  work,  which  clears  away  the  peregri- nations  and  gets  to  the  meat  of  what  3ODWR UHDOO\ ZDQWHG WR VD\ 2U ZDV LW really  Socrates?) Peter  Grant Bristol
:HOFK ZDIĂ€LQJ on  TPP  question I  recently  signed  an  online  petition  to  Congressman  Welch,  urging  him  to  YRWH DJDLQVW WKH 7UDQV 3DFLÂżF 3DUWQHU- ship  (TPP).  Here  is  his  reply,  and  my  response  to  it.  Evidently,  he  needs  to  hear  from  lots  of  people  encourag- ing  him  to  take  a  more  decisive  stand  against  the  TPP. “Dear  Ms.  McKay, “Thank  you  for  contacting  me  DERXW WKH 7UDQV 3DFLÂżF 3DUWQHUVKLS (TPP)  trade  agreement.  I  appreciate  hearing  your  views  on  this  issue. “When  properly  negotiated,  trade  agreements  can  create  good  American  jobs,  protect  workers  and  our  environ- ment,  and  spur  economic  growth.  Un- balanced  trade  agreements  can  send  MREV RIIVKRUH DQG EHQHÂżW D QDUURZ class  of  investors.  Recent  agreements  KDYH ERRVWHG FRUSRUDWH SURÂżWV EXW failed  to  boost  wages  and  employment  for  American  workers. “The  TPP  trade  agreement  would  ORZHU WUDGH EDUULHUV LQ WKH $VLD 3DFLÂżF region  with  the  participation  of  the  8QLWHG 6WDWHV DQG RWKHU 3DFLÂżF Rim  countries.  I  am  skeptical  that  it  ZLOO EHQHÂżW $PHULFDQ ZRUNHUV DQG will  make  my  decision  on  the  basis  of  whether  it  is  likely  to  increase  wages  and  jobs  in  this  country.  I  voted  against  the  President’s  request  to  ‘fast  track’  its  consideration  by  Congress  with  no  opportunity  for  amendments,  which  passed  in  the  House  on  June  12,  2015,  and  the  President  signed  into  law  on  June  29,  2015. “I  will  keep  your  views  in  mind  as  I  UHYLHZ WKH WHUPV RI WKH ÂżQDO DJUHH- ment.  Please  keep  in  touch.   I  look  forward  to  seeing  you  in  Vermont  soon. “Sincerely, “PETER  WELCH  Member  of  Congressâ€? 'HDU &RQJUHVVPDQ :HOFK Your  response  puzzles  me.  It  seems  a  carefully  neutral  nod  to  both  pros  and  cons  of  trade  agreements  in  gen- eral.  Yet  surely  you’re  aware  of  Sen.  Sanders’  unequivocal  denunciation  of  (See  Letter,  Page  5A)
Addison  Independent,  Thursday,  October  29,  2015  —  PAGE  5A
Ready for another automotive romance , ERXJKW P\ ÂżUVW FDU \HDUV DJR DW ZKDW GULYDEOH ,W ÂżQDOO\ JDYH XS WKH :H\EULGJH *DUDJH ,W ZDV D 9: ghost  shortly  after  I  hit  the  Arizona  %XJ ZLWK PLOHV DQG IRXU \HDUV desert. of  Vermont  road  rust.  Lesson  No.  2:  Avoid  buying  a  Dat- I  had  acquired  just  enough  money  VXQ (VSHFLDOO\ ZKHQ WKH JX\ VHOOLQJ from  college  graduation  presents  to  it  admits  the  car  “has  a  few  small  is- EX\ D FDU 6R , ERXJKW WKH ÂżUVW %XJ , sues.â€?  saw.  Having  thumbed  my  way  to  the  2ZQLQJ D 9: ZDV YLUWXDOO\ D JHQ- California  coast,  I  had  scraped  togeth- erational  requirement  at  the  time.  Plus  HU HQRXJK FDVK WR EX\ D 'DWVXQ my  girlfriend  and  I  needed  wheels  as  wagon.  It  was  the  perfect  surfmobile  we  embarked  on  the  trial- for  a  San  Diego  summer  E\ ÂżUH RI OLYLQJ WRJHWKHU —  if  only  it  had  remained  Four  decades  and  sev- capable  of  forward  mo- eral  cars  later,  it’s  time  tion.  to  think  about  getting  Short  story:  I  cracked  yet  another  new  vehicle.  the  block  and  traded  it  in  Time  to  open  yet  another  IRU WRZDUG D QHZ tiny  chapter  in  the  Great  Honda  Civic  hatchback. American  Love  Affair  Lesson  No.  3:  Never  with  the  Car.  leave  a  trusty  Honda  be- And  as  much  as  I’m  hind.  Two  years  after  I  trying  to  avoid  the  un- bought  the  Civic,  I  em- ÀDWWHULQJ FRPSDULVRQ barked  for  a  year  in  Aus- between  cars  and  roman- tralia.  I  sold  the  Honda  to  tic  partners,  not  all  the  a  former  girlfriend  before  romance  has  gone  out  of  I  left.  And  when  I  re- the  automobile.  turned,  carless,  I  watched  Perhaps  old  cars,  like  her  drive  that  lovable,  ROG Ă€DPHV KDYH VRPH- by Gregory Dennis unstoppable  little  Civic  thing  to  teach  us. around  the  neighborhood  /HVVRQ 1R 1HYHU for  years  to  come. EX\ D IRXU \HDU ROG 9: %XJ ZLWK Lesson  No.  4:  “Rabbitâ€?  is  a  cute  PLOHV RQ LW (VSHFLDOO\ LI LWÂśV name  for  a  car  —  way  better  than  the  been  driven  in  Vermont  before  the  Golf  name  it  later  acquired  —  but  a  ZRUG ÂłUXVWSURRÂżQJ´ KDV HQWHUHG WKH cute  name  doesn’t  mean  the  sunroof  (QJOLVK ODQJXDJH won’t  leak.  , ZDV PDNLQJ D ZHHN DW WKH Contrary  to  the  song  and  current  time,  so  there  was  no  money  for  re- drought,  it  does  sometimes  rain  in  pairs  done  by  a  mechanic.  Facing  one  Southern  California.  In  the  Rabbit,  HPHUJHQF\ Âż[ DIWHU DQRWKHU , IHOO XQ- there  were  mornings  when  I  would  der  the  spell  of  “How  to  Keep  Your  drive  to  work  with  a  towel  in  my  Volkswagen  Alive:  A  Manual  of  Step- lap,  to  soak  up  the  rainwater  leaking  by-ÂStep  Procedures  for  the  Compleat  through  the  top. Idiot.â€? :KHQ LW FDPH WLPH WR VHOO WKH 5DE- , FHUWDLQO\ TXDOLÂżHG DV D FRPSOHDW bit,  a  young  woman  and  her  mother  idiot.  Somehow  I  kept  the  car  alive  DQVZHUHG WKH FODVVLÂżHG DG 7KH\ long  enough  to  hit  the  highway  two  seemed  like  the  perfect  owners.  Un- years  later.  til,  that  is,  they  took  the  car  for  a  test  On  that  Great  American  Road  Trip,  I  drive  and  returned  three  minutes  later.  HQFRXQWHUHG Ă€RRGHG URDGV LQ *HRUJLD On  foot. that  splashed  water  up  through  the  rot- The  Rabbit’s  battery  had  died  down  WHG Ă€RRU ERDUGV RI WKH 9: 0LQQHVRWD WKH EORFN :LVHO\ PRWKHU DQG GDXJK- winds  damn  near  blew  me  and  the  car  ter  chose  not  to  make  a  purchase  that  RII WKH LQWHUVWDWH , ÂżQDOO\ SORZHG WKH day. WKLQJ LQWR D 6RXWK 'DNRWD FRUQÂżHOG Nonetheless,  I  was  determined  to  There  a  friendly  old  mechanic  was  continue  my  inexplicable  love  affair  able  to  straighten  the  bent  front  axle,  ZLWK 9:V 6RPH PHQ ZLOO SLFN WKH at  least  enough  to  make  the  car  some- same  type  of  woman,  no  matter  how Â
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many  times  it  doesn’t  work  out. The  Rabbit  ended  up  as  part  of  a  trade-Âin  for  a  new  Jetta.  That  red  sedan  had  the  virtues  of  a  payment  I  could  afford  and  a  sunroof  that  didn’t  leak.  Over  several  years  of  Jetta  ownership,  however,  I  came  to  learn‌ Lesson  No.  5:  &RQVXPHU 5HSRUWV can  be  wrong. The  Jetta  came  with  stellar  recom- mendations  from  the  car-Âbuying  bible.  But  several  years  and  costly  repairs  later,  it  was  obvious  to  me  that  the  ex- perts  had  blown  it  in  their  evaluation. (YHQ D EHDXWLIXO ZRPDQ FDQ EH DQ XQGHVLUDEOH FRPSDQLRQ $QG (XUR- pean  cars,  it  turns  out,  are  no  more  re- liable  overall  than  American  vehicles.  :KLFK OHG PH WRÂŤ Lesson  No.  6:  Buy  a  Japanese  car. For  several  years  there,  my  then- wife  and  I  were  happy  Honda  drivers.  Like  millions  of  others,  we  struck  up  a  lasting  accord  with  an  Accord.  Two  of  them,  in  fact.  They  were  comfortable,  they  sipped  gas,  they  had  enough  power  to  pass  on  the  freeway,  and  —  blessing  of  bless- ings  —  they  needed  no  repair  work  until  the  timing  chain  needed  to  be  replaced. %\ WKDW SRLQW ZH ZHUH PLOHV down  the  road.  And  those  pesky  little  monthly  payment  coupons  were  a  dis- tant  memory. /HVVRQ 1R %X\ PRUH -DSDQHVH cars. %\ WKH WLPH , ÂżQDOO\ FDPH WR P\ senses  and  moved  back  to  Vermont  some  years  ago,  I  had  migrated  to  a  7R\RWD &DPU\ :H VKLSSHG LW WR 9HU- mont,  and  all  these  years  later  that  car  is  still  rolling  along. ,ÂśYH KDG D FRXSOH RWKHU Ă€LQJV VLQFH then  —  with  a  used  Audi  wagon  and  a  leased  Ford  hybrid  that  gets  a  glori- RXV PLOHV SHU JDOORQ %XW , KDYHQÂśW found  anything  with  the  rock-Âsolid  re- liability  of  a  Honda  or  Toyota. So  will  my  next  car  be  a  Japanese  RQH" Don’t  bet  on  it.  Some  men  never  learn. Gregory  Dennis’s  column  appears  here  every  other  Thursday  and  is  ar- chived  on  his  blog  at  www.gregdennis. wordpress.com.  Email:  gregdennis- vt@yahoo.com.  Twitter:  @greengreg- dennis.
Editor’s  note:  This  is  the  sev- parents  in  Platonic  music  and  also  enth  in  a  series  of  essays  or  re- children’s  libraries,  for  if  we  fail  ÀHFWLRQV DERXW Âł7KH 5HSXEOLF ´ D our  children  at  these  earliest  stag- book  written  two  and  a  half  mil- es,  we  handicap  them  for  all  that  lennia  ago  by  the  great  philoso- follows.  This  seems  right. Plato,  and  most  likely  Socrates,  pher  Plato. By  culture,  I  mean  the  knowl- who  speaks  for  him,  also  suggests  edge  and  skills  that  a  person  must  that  the  work  of  storytellers  and  acquire  to  be  a  good  citizen  and  poets  must  be  censored,  especial- more  particularly  a  leader,  all  of  ly  those,  like  Homer  and  Hesiod,  which  make  up  the  course  of  edu- who  tell  stories  about  the  Gods  cation  that  a  civil  society  provides  committing  heinous  crimes,  for  in  its  schools,  but  in  other  ways  example,  how  Cronus  castrated  as  well.  In  the  5HSXEOLF,  Socrates  his  father,  Ouranus,  at  the  insti- gation  of  his  mother,  sums  it  up  under  two  Gaia,  and  assumed  his  headings,  music  and  place  as  chief  God,  gymnastics.  The  goal  only  to  be  assaulted  for  everyone  is  a  sound  and  overthrown  by  mind  in  a  sound  body. Zeus. Music  includes  These  tales  and  oth- much  more  than  ers  like  them  of  vio- compositions  of  in- lence  and  war  among  strumental  or  vocal  the  Gods  are  veritable  sounds  that  have  cer- lies  and  must  not  be  tain  melodic,  rhythmic  told  to  young  chil- and  expressive  quali- dren,  but  “buried  in  ties;Íž  it  includes  also  silence.â€?  This  was  a  poetry,  story  and  gen- Justice bold  suggestion,  for  eral  discourse,  for  all  poets,  especial- languages  have  rhyth- and Plato’s these  ly  Homer,  were  re- mic  turns  and  melodic  garded  as  inspired  by  qualities  that  serve  to  Republic the  Greeks,  and  their  edify,  uplift  and,  most  An essay by writings,  a  sort  of  sa- importantly,  express  Victor Nuovo cred  scripture.  It  is  truth  through  a  wide  range  of  emotions  and  Middlebury College tantamount  to  censor- moods.  Today,  per- professor emeritus ing  the  Bible. In  place  of  this,  haps  more  than  ever,  of philosophy Plato  substituted  a  the  beats  and  rhythms  prosaic,  but  surely  en- of  music  seem  to  be  sounding  in  everyone’s  ears  and  lightened,  rational  theology.  God  perhaps  shaping  their  souls  as  they  is  wholly  good  and  can  cause  no  harm.  Hence  God  is  not  the  cause  go  about  their  daily  business. The  concern  here  is  with  edu- of  everything,  not  the  creator  of  cation,  and  most  especially  the  the  world  out  of  nothing.  Plato  education  of  children.  The  truth  is  supposed  that  not  only  the  Gods,  to  be  told  to  them  in  a  form  that  but  the  physical  universe  and  the  is  able  to  take  root  in  their  souls,  stuff  out  of  which  it  was  made,  in  a  manner  that  both  charms  and  were  eternal  and  required  only  an  HGLÂżHV :KDW VRUW RI WUXWK" 0RUDO intelligent  fashioner. He  believed  that  evil  has  no  truth,  not  about  what  is,  but  of  what  ought  to  be,  for  the  stories  real  cause.  Secondly,  the  Gods  we  tell  children  from  earliest  are  unchanging,  because  they  are  childhood  are  fables,  not  histori- perfect,  so  that  any  change  that  cal  or  factual  narratives.  Moral  they  might  undergo  would  make  truth,  even  when  we  are  certain  of  them  less  than  perfect,  which  is  it,  is  not  easily  located  in  reality.  impossible.  Finally,  the  Gods  are  But  fables,  like  those  of  Aesop,  neither  deceived  nor  can  they  enter  the  mind,  capture  the  imagi- deceive,  for  the  Gods,  having  nation  and  teach  moral  or  practi- existed  from  eternity,  know  all  cal  truths  that  seem  self-Âevident.  things,  and  therefore,  unlike  us,  Finding  reasons  for  them  occurs  when  considering  the  past,  have  at  a  higher  stage  of  education,  but  no  need  to  resort  to  telling  noble  OLHV :H KXPDQV EHLQJ OLPLWHG LQ ÂżUVW WKLQJV ÂżUVW In  reading  Plato  one  cannot  fail  so  many  ways,  and  ignorant  of  so  to  be  struck  by  the  importance  many  things  must  resort  to  fables.  that  he  attached  to  primary  edu- Unfortunately,  Plato  provides  no  cation,  beginning  in  the  nursery,  H[DPSOHV RI WKH VRUW RI SXULÂżHG and  what  is,  for  us,  pre-Âschool,  fables  that  we  might  tell  our  chil- kindergarten  and  the  early  grades  dren.  But  the  point  is  made. One  may  ask,  “Did  Plato  be- of  elementary  school.  If  he  were  speaking  today,  he  would  say  this  lieve  in  God,  or  did  he  suppose  is  where  money  and  the  greatest  merely  that  belief  in  God  is  a  talent  should  go,  and  we  might  XVHIXO ÂżFWLRQ IRU FLYLO VRFLHW\"´ throw  in  also  a  school  for  young  There  is  no  sure  answer  to  this Â
Clippings  (Continued  from  Page  4A) a  picture  of  us  all  together,  around  her  lifeless  corpse  clothed  in  that  sparkling  green  tuxedo.  Grief  will  make  you  cap- WXUH VWUDQJH LPDJHV ,I , ULĂ€H WKURXJK my  cedar  chest,  I  can  pull  out  more  of  KHU ÂżQGV  D UHG FUHSH V FRFNWDLO GUHVV D VWXQQLQJ VLOYHU\ JUD\ V swing  coat  that  grazes  my  calves,  and  D GHOLFDWH ODFH MDFNHW FLUFD E\ WKH look  of  it. The  summer  she  overdosed,  heroin  was  in  the  news  nationally.  There  was  a  kind  of  heroin  coming  up  from  Mexico  that  was  far  more  powerful  than  any  previously  available.  Different  ver- sions  of  our  family  tragedy  played  out  weekly  for  a  while  there  on  national  television.  It  is  a  grim  reminder  that  drug  addiction  links  us  in  an  interna- tional  unholy  web  of  lives  devastated  —  not  just  by  illegal  drugs  but  the  violence  that  fuels  the  underground  in- dustry  they  feed  and  the  poverty,  fear  and  despair  that  suck  so  many  into  its  vortex. I  cannot  change  my  sister’s  story,  I  cannot  rewrite  her  life  so  that  every-Â
thing  that  was  brilliant  and  loving  in  her  could  still  be  shining  and  all  the  grime  would  just  have  washed  away. :KHQ , WDXJKW KLJK VFKRRO IRU D time,  I  did  my  best  to  be  there  for  “troubledâ€?  students  because  maybe  if  somebody  had  been  there  in  some  different  way  for  my  sister  when  she  was  a  teen  things  might  have  gone  dif- ferently.  The  newspapery  part  of  this  essay,  the  public  service  announce- ment,  if  you  will,  is  the  importance  of  looking  after  all  the  kids  in  our  care,  in  our  schools,  in  our  communities  —  because  we  know  if  we  have  opioid  problems,  we  have  stressed  families  and  kids  who  need  our  attention  so  that  their  best  selves  get  to  shine. I  named  my  older  daughter  after  my  sister,  Meigan,  because  of  her  ¿HUFHQHVV EHFDXVH RI KHU JHQHURVLW\ because  of  all  the  ways  that  she,  the  older  sister,  took  care  of  me,  though  only  four  years  older.  My  sister  —  the  VPDUWHVW RI RXU EXQFK RI ÂżYH ZKR LQ- cluded  a  brother  who  went  to  Cal  Tech,  a  brother  who  became  a  doctor,  three  Phi  Beta  Kappas  —  was  a  high  school Â
GURSRXW ZKR ÂżQDOO\ JRW D *(' Thanks  to  her,  I  got  to  be  the  “normalâ€?  (boring  is  how  it  seemed  to  me  at  the  time),  over-Âachieving  “good  kid.â€?  My  own  daughter  Meigan  has  had  D EOHVVHGO\ RUGLQDU\ FKLOGKRRG :HÂśYH worked  like  the  dickens  to  make  it  so. As  a  sort  of  talisman  for  my  sister,  we  also  gave  our  daughter  Meigan  the  middle  name  “Quetzal.â€?  My  husband,  a  travel  writer,  became  enamored  with  this  brilliantly  plumaged,  almost  leg- endary  bird  of  Central  America,  where  they  are  a  symbol  for  freedom.  Quet- zals,  reputedly,  die  when  put  in  captiv- ity. Above  all  else,  my  sister,  Meigan,  was  a  poet.  She  was  always  writing,  calling  me  up  at  2  a.m.  to  read  me  her  latest  in  a  drug-Âslurred  haze,  going  up  to  total  strangers,  reciting  her  poetry  in  bars  while  she  played  pool,  holding  people  mesmerized.  So  I  will  leave  you  with  her  words,  always  so  much  more  eloquent  than  mine: “Que  milagro,  beloved,  we  are  still  here.â€?
Letter  (Continued  from  Page  4A) the  TPP.  The  “liberalâ€?  read  on  this  bill  is  uniformly  negative.  I  hope  you  will  have  NO  hesitation  in  voting  against  such  a  blatantly  pro-Âcorporate,  anti- environment  and  anti-Âlabor  bill. You  must  know  that  under  the  TPP,  corporations  gain  the  right  to  sue  governments  (in  “secretâ€?  courts  outside  existing  legal  systems)  for Â
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question,  because  Plato  kept  his  personal  beliefs  to  himself.  Of  this  at  least  we  can  be  sure:  Plato  was  no  dogmatist.  His  manner  RI ZULWLQJ LV VXIÂżFLHQW SURRI RI that.  His  purpose  was  to  provoke  thoughtful  consideration  of  im- portant  issues,  to  free  the  mind  from  the  superstitious  fear  that  the  Gods  might  do  us  harm  here  or  hereafter,  and  to  promote  ratio- nality  and  not  faith.  Gymnastics,  the  other  part  of  primary  education,  is  about  train- LQJ WKH ERG\ VR WKDW LW LV ÂżW KHDOWK\ and  strong.  Diet,  as  well  as  exer- cise,  must  be  carefully  planned  to  achieve  these  aims.  Overall,  like  his  model  city,  the  course  of  training  he  prescribes  is  Spartan.  Yet,  like  all  the  Greeks,  Plato  ad- mired  the  human  body,  and  just  as  he  prescribed  the  cultivation  of  the  musical  attributes  of  lan- guage,  with  melodic  turns  and  a  variation  of  cadences,  so  the  body  must  be  trained  to  move  with  all  the  gracefulness  and  spontaneity  of  a  dancer.  He  suggests  in  all  this  that  physical  strength  and  graceful  movement  are  physical  conditions  of  courage. The  program  of  music  and  gym- nastics  that  is  proposed  in  the  5HSXEOLF  is  meant  primarily  for  the  guardians  and  auxiliaries.  It  LV PHDQW WR PDNH WKHP ÂżW WR UXOH and  protect  the  city.  Moreover,  because  all  their  needs  would  be  provided  by  the  city,  they  were  not  to  be  allowed  to  acquire  any  private  wealth.  Nor  were  they  to  marry  and  have  a  family.  Nor  were  they  to  have  any  other  interest  that  might  distract  them  from  their  vo- cation  in  life,  to  protect  and  defend  the  city. In  this  way,  it  was  supposed  they  would  be  incorruptible.  But  Socrates’  friends  have  doubts.  The  city  belongs  to  them,  yet  they  can- not  enjoy  it.  They  are  like  hired  mercenaries,  there  to  guard  the  city  but  not  free  to  do  anything  else. Socrates  responds  that  his  con- cern  is  not  with  the  happiness  of  any  particular  group  in  the  city,  but  with  the  happiness  of  the  city,  by  which  he  means,  the  absence  of  corruption,  dysfunction  and  destabilizing  change.  And  that  is  achieved  when  every  member  of  society  knows  their  station  in  life  and  pursues  their  proper  function.  Such  a  city  is  well  situated  for  re- sources  and  safety,  modest  in  size,  and  without  any  motive  but  to  live  together  in  peace. Beside,  he  thinks  his  friends  are  PLVWDNHQ *XDUGLDQV ÂżQG KDSSL- ness  in  being  lovers  of  wisdom,  ZKLFK LV SDUW RI EHLQJ MXVW :H shall  see  how  this  works  out  in  the  next  act.  Â
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Janice Wheelock, 82, native of Vergennes ORLANDO,  Fla.  —  Janice  Wheelock  of  Orlando,  Fla.,  passed  away  quietly  at  home  with  her  family  on  Oct.  21,  2015.  She  was  born  Dec.  12,  1932,  in  Vergennes,  Vt.  Janice  spent  her  childhood  grow- ing  up  in  Vermont  and  later  moved  to  Bristol,  Conn.,  with  her  husband,  Robert  Wheelock  Sr.,  who  prede- ceased  her. Janice  retired  from  the  Aetna  Insurance  Co.  in  Hartford,  Conn.  She  spent  time  with  her  close  friends,  Betty  and  Agnes,  often  going  to  shows  and  dinner.  She  enjoyed  playing  slots,  cooking  for  friends  and  family,  traveling  and  spending  time  with  her  dogs. Janice  is  survived  by  her  son  Robert  J.  Wheelock  Jr.  of  Orlando,  Fla.;Íž  grandsons  Josh  Wheelock  of  New  York  and  Jared  Wheelock  of  Orlando,  Fla.;Íž  son  Steven  Wheelock  and  his  wife,  Donna,  of  South  Windsor,  Conn.;Íž  grandson  Mike  Wheelock  of  Manhattan,  N.Y.;Íž  a  sister,  Brenda,  of  Bristol,  Conn.;Íž  and  a  brother,  David,  of  Watertown,  Conn. Her  graveside  service  will  be  Oct. Â
JANICE  WHEELOCK 31,  2015,  at  Greenwood  Cemetery  in  Bristol,  Vt.,  at  11  a.m.  with  a  lunch  to  follow  at  Middlebury  Inn.  ,Q OLHX RI À RZHUV GRQDWLRQV FDQ EH made  to  the  Federated  Church  in  %ULVWRO 9W ¸
Patricia Peters, Middlebury MIDDLEBURY  —  Ms.  Patricia  R.  Peters  of  Middlebury,  Vt.,  passed  on  to  her  next  life  on  Saturday,  Oct.  24,  2015,  after  a  brief  and  intense  struggle  with  cancer. She  is  survived  by  her  loving  wife,  Ms.  Val  Boni;Íž  her  parents,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peter  and  Katherine  Peters  of  Rhoadsville,  Va.;Íž  her  sister,  Mrs.  Kelli  Rupe,  also  of  Rhoadsville;Íž  her  three  daughters,  Ms.  Cassandra  L.  (Smith)  Franklin  of  Ripton,  Vt.,  Mrs.  Katie  May  (Smith)  Snider  of  Happy  Valley,  Ore.  and  Mrs.  Crystal  R.  (Smith)  Petruska  of  Smock,  Pa.  She  is  also  survived  by  seven  grandchildren.  Ms.  Peters  received  her  MBA  from  Southern  New  Hampshire  University  in  2015.  Ms.  Peters  worked  for  Middlebury  College,  and  had  been  hoping  to  move  into  administrative  business  after  completing  her  degree.  Ms.  Peters  was  an  amazing  cook,  and  a  dear  friend  to  many.  Ms.  Peters  was  very  much  a  free  spirit;Íž  she  believed  that  the  strength  of  the  world  depends  on  the  integrity  within  its  smaller  communities.  She  also  lived  that  philosophy,  reaching  out  to  others  through  her  free  soup  program.  Her  absence  from  this  world  will  be  missed.  Our  family  invites  you  to  join  us  in  a  celebration  of  the  life  of  our  dear  mother  and  friend,  Ms.  Pat  Peters.  This  memorial  service  will Â
PATRICIA  PETERS take  place  at  The  Congregational  Church,  2  Main  St.,  Middlebury,  VT  05753  on  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  2015,  at  1  p.m. Our  family  invites  you  to  join  us  for  a  reception  downstairs  imme- diately  following  the  memorial  VHUYLFH ¸
Roberta Preston, 84,Vergennes VERGENNES  —  Roberta  T.  Preston,  84,  of  Vergennes  passed  away  unexpectedly  Monday,  Oct.  26,  2015,  at  Starr  Farm  Nursing  Center.  Roberta  was  born  June  23,  1931,  in  Randolph,  the  daughter  of  Church  and  Muriel  (Fullam)  Tabor. If  you  have  ever  had  the  pleasure  of  meeting  Roberta  for  more  than  30  seconds,  there  is  a  chance  you  have  already  received  a  hug  and  a  new  name.  When  you  combine  a  soft  but  ¿ UP VSRNHQ PRWKHU RI HLJKW ZLWK D heart  of  gold  and  an  infectious  smile,  you  get  an  amazing  knitter,  queen  of  the  campground,  meticulous  game  player,  and  an  extensive  resume  as  a  people  person.  The  hearts  she  touched  and  people  she  has  inducted  into  her  family  in  her  84  years  was  ongoing  until  the  day  she  unexpectedly  left  us.  When  referring  to  her  as  tough,  she  would  straighten  up  and  tell  you  that  her  twin  brother,  Robert  Tabor, Â
kicked  her  out,  which  was  followed  by  that  laugh  that  no  one  could  possi- bly  replicate. During  Roberta’s  long  life  she  enjoyed  meeting  new  people  while  working  at  Toziers  Restaurant  in  Bethel.  She  also  enjoyed  such  careers  as  a  bus  driver  for  the  Monkton  School  District  and  a  cafeteria  worker  as  Simmonds.  She  spent  time  employed  at  Shelburne  Museum,  Kinney  Drugs  and  Kennedy  Brothers,  all  of  which  she  valued. Roberta  was  predeceased  by  the  love  of  her  life,  Russell  Raymond  Preston,  to  whom  she  was  married  for  62  years.  He  would  tell  you  it  felt  like  100  years  with  a  smile  on  his  face. She  is  survived  by  son  Russell  Jr.  and  Pam  Preston  of  Panton,  daughter  Lillian  and  Greg  Cota  of  Monkton,  son  Wayne  and  Debbie  Preston  of  Monkton,  son  Gary  and Â
Bus  schedules  easier  to  use  with  faster  loading  resources MIDDLEBURY  —  ACTR  is  This  past  spring,  ACTR  installed  improving  its  ability  to  serve  the  new  maintenance  software  to  better  community  by  making  several  tech- track  vehicle  repair  costs  so  they  can  nology  investments,  with  special  grant  be  lowered.  Next  year,  ACTR  will  be  assistance  from  the  Vermont  Agency  of  installing  new  trip-Âplanning  software,  Transportation  (VTrans). which  will  increase  the  number  of  trips  “Maximizing  information  technol- it  can  provide  with  the  same  resources. ogy  to  support  all  aspects  of  the  orga- ACTR  has  also  been  in  recent  nization  is  one  of  ACTR’s  key  Strategic  discussions  with  VTrans  with  several  Goals,â€?  said  Jim  Moulton,  potential  pilot  projects,  including  executive  director.  posting  of  open  seats  on  “Beyond  several  vehicles  provid- recent  changes,  ACTR  ing  demand- is  pursuing  other  response  service  innovative  ways  and  real-Âtime  to  use  technol- posting  of  bus  ogy  to  improve  routes. services.â€? S a i d  This  past  M o u l t o n ,  summer,  two- “ACTR  has  a  his- way  radios  were  tory  of  technology  ACTR  BUS installed  in  the  innovation,  having  $&75 Ă€ HHW WR PDNH FRPPXQLFD EHHQ WKH Âż UVW LQ WKH VWDWH EH RQ *RRJOH tion  and  rider  transfers  much  simpler  Transit,  and  we  believe  in  its  value  to  and  easier.  The  new  equipment  meets  help  provide  more  rides  in  more  cost- Vermont’s  hands-Âfree  requirements  and  effective  and  user  friendly  ways.â€? has  made  travel  between  routes  more  ACTR  enhances  the  economic,  social  seamless. and  environmental  health  of  the  region  At  the  end  of  October  ACTR  by  providing  community  transportation  is  launching  a  redesigned  www. services  that  are  safe,  reliable,  acces- actr-Âvt.org  website.  The  new  site  works  sible  and  affordable  for  everyone.  To  better  on  smartphones,  gives  faster  learn  more  about  ACTR’s  bus  and  Dial- access  to  bus  schedules  and  loads  more  A-ÂRide  services,  go  towww.actr-Âvt.org  quickly  —  all  user-Âdesired  changes. or  call  388-Â2287.
'LDQQD 3UHVWRQ RI 3LWWVÂż HOG 0DVV son  Randy  and  Irene  Preston  of  East  Middlebury,  daughter  Emily  Bush  and  Gary  Steadman  of  Vergennes,  daughter  Faye  and  CJ  Hebert  of  Vergennes,  and  son  Robert  Preston  of  Ferrisburgh;Íž  26  grandchildren;Íž  and  24  great-Âgrandchildren. She  was  predeceased  by  sister  -HDQQH +XWFKLQVRQ RI 1RUWKÂż HOG WZLQ brother  Robert  Tabor  of  Randolph,  brother  Dwayne  Tabor  of  Barre,  and  son-Âin-Âlaw  Tom  Bush  of  Vergennes. Please  join  the  family  to  share  memories  of  Roberta  at  the  Monkton  Fire  House  on  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  2015,  from  1  to  4  p.m.  A  graveside  VHUYLFH ZLOO EH SULYDWH ,Q OLHX RI Ă€ RZ ers,  donations  may  be  made  to  Project  Independence,  112  Exchange  St.,  Middlebury,  VT  05753,  or  Addison  County  Home  Health  &  Hospice  Inc.,  PO  Box  754,  Middlebury,  VT  ¸
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Porter  nurses (Continued  from  Page  3A) informed  us  there  would  be  no  negotia- tion  on  it,â€?  Leo  said. She  explained  that  the  clinical  advancement  program  is  more  than  continuing  education;Íž  it  promotes  excellence  in  nursing  and  might  have  the  nurses  go  out  into  the  community  to  educate  the  public  on  health  issues.  The  hospital  had  such  a  program  until  2009;Íž  Leo  recalled  that  it  was  ended  as  a  cost-Âsaving  measure. 6HFRQG VKH VDLG KRVSLWDO RIÂż FLDOV cancelled  a  scheduled  negotiating  session  with  only  two  hours’  notice.  The  third  charge  is  that  the  three  nurses  were  not  allowed  to  wear  union  pins,  even  though  the  law  says  union  members  are  allowed  to  wear  such  insignia,  according  to  Leo.  She  said  the  pins  prominently  displayed  the  word  “respect,â€?  and  that  a  manager  told  three  nurses  to  take  them  off.  Two  of  the  nurses  took  off  their  pins  when  WROG WR WKH Âż UVW WLPH 2QH QXUVH WROG WKH manager  that  it  was  within  her  rights  WR ZHDU WKH SLQ DQG Âż QDOO\ WRRN LW RII after  being  told  a  third  time,  according  to  Leo.  “They  said  she  was  insubordinate,â€?  Leo  said,  adding  that  the  nurse  was  told  she  was  suspended  but  not  told  the  duration  of  the  suspension. She  said  other  nurses  said  this  employee  is  a  “really  good  nurse,â€?  and Â
some  of  her  colleagues  went  to  a  Porter  RIÂż FLDO WR DGYRFDWH IRU KHU UHLQVWDWH ment,  which  came  after  one  day.  Leo  declined  to  name  the  nurse  who  was  suspended. Hallman  declined  to  answer  ques- tions  beyond  the  emailed  statement. BENEFITS  FOR  PART-ÂTIMERS 7KH FRPSODLQWV WR IHGHUDO ODERU RIÂż cials  come  as  some  Porter  employees  IHDU WKH Âż QDQFLDO VFUHZV DUH EHLQJ WLJKW ened  at  the  community  hospital.  Leo  said  they  know  of  a  plan  to  discontinue  KHDOWK FDUH EHQHÂż WV WR DQ LQFUHDVLQJ number  of  part-Âtime  Porter  employees.  She  said  that  currently,  employees  who  work  fewer  than  20  hours  per  week  GR QRW JHW KHDOWK EHQHÂż WV EXW WKDW WKH administration  is  planning  to  not  give  KHDOWK EHQHÂż WV XQOHVV HPSOR\HHV ZRUN at  least  30  hours  per  week. Leo  said  that  there  are  employees  with  families  who  will  be  hurt  by  this  decision,  noting  the  irony  that  a  busi- ness  that  provides  health  care  won’t  offer  it  to  all  its  employees.  “Porter  is  a  health  care  facility,  we  take  care  of  people;Íž  we  need  to  take  care  of  our  people,â€?  Leo  said.  “Health  insurance  is  a  basic  right.â€? Nurses  have  sponsored  a  petition  drive  asking  Porter  to  reinstate  the  KHDOWK EHQHÂż W WR SDUW WLPH HPSOR\HHV Leo  said  that  in  six  days  they  got  more  than  700  signatures  on  the  petition, Â
with  most  of  the  signers  living  in  Addison  County. Like  all  health  care  providers,  Porter  LV XQGHU Âż QDQFLDO SUHVVXUH DV WKH KHDOWK care  industry  evolves. In  August,  Porter  asked  regulators  to  approve  a  budget  that  represents  a  3.1-Âpercent  increase  in  spending  that  DPRQJ RWKHU WKLQJV UHĂ€ HFWV D ELJJHU commitment  in  helping  opiate  addicts,  an  ongoing  investment  in  health  care  WHFKQRORJ\ DQG WKH UHÂż QDQFLQJ RI WKH organization’s  debt  at  a  more  favor- able  rate.  The  medical  center  requested  a  net  revenue  increase  of  3.3  percent,  which  is  well  within  the  state  regula- tor’s  3.6-Âpercent  guideline  for  Vermont  hospitals. Leo  acknowledged  that  the  nurses  XQLRQ LV VWLOO OHDUQLQJ DERXW WKH Âż VFDO constraints  that  the  hospital  operates  under. Âł7KHUH DUH WKLQJV DERXW Âż QDQFH WKDW we  don’t  understand,â€?  she  said. Porter  also  saw  a  new  president  take  the  helm  since  the  contract  was  signed.  Lynn  Boggs,  who  started  her  career  as  a  nurse,  came  on  in  early  July. “She  said  right  from  the  beginning  the  most  important  thing  is  patient- centered  care,  and  we  agree  with  that,â€?  Leo  said.  “She  has  also  told  us  that  the  bottom  line  is  important.â€? A  spokesperson  for  the  NLRB  did  not  reply  by  deadline  to  a  request Â
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for  information  on  the  Porter  nurses’  complaint.  An  explanation  on  the  NLRB  website  of  the  process  of  investi- gating  unfair  labor  practices  complaints  shows  many  steps  that  could  end  in  the  charges  being  dismissed  to  an  injunc- tion  or  a  remedial  order.  Typical  cases  on  the  site  appear  to  last  at  least  a  few  months,  and  some  longer. Asked  if  the  complaints  to  the  NLRB  could  be  attributed  in  part  to  the  learn- ing  process,  Leo  did  not  deny  that  it  is  new  to  her. “All  of  us  are  learning  —  the  nurses  and  management,â€?  she  said. “However,  these  unfair  labor  prac- tices  are  incredibly  disrespectful  to  the  nurses  unions  ‌  I  feel  we  are  abiding  by  the  contract  and  we  are  asking  them  to  abide  by  the  contract  and  labor  law. Âł:H Âż OHG XQIDLU ODERU SUDFWLFHV complaints  because  the  law  was  broken,â€?  she  added.  “That’s  not  a  learning  process,  that’s  the  law.â€? Hallman  said  Porter  will  comply  with  the  process  laid  out  in  labor  law. “There  is  an  established,  legally  required  and  mutually  agreed  upon  process  in  our  contract  with  the  union  for  addressing  and  resolving  issues  between  the  union  and  our  organization  which  we  will  follow,â€?  he  said  in  his  statement.  “We  do  not  believe  we  have  violated  the  law  and  welcome  review  by  the  NLRB.â€?
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(Continued  from  Page  1A) you  were  doing  one  cold  day  in  Janu- ary  of  1975?  Pat  Leahy,  Vermont’s  senior  senator  and  the  most  senior  member  of  the  U.S.  Senate,  remem- EHUV ² KH ZDV FDVWLQJ KLV ¿UVW YRWH in  Congress;͞  it  set  up  the  Church  Committee  to  look  at  abuses  in  intel- ligence  gathering.  This  past  Monday,  /HDK\ FDVW KLV WK YRWH LQ WKDW DXJXVW ERG\ 2QO\ ¿YH VHQDWRUV LQ KLVWRU\ KDYH FDVW PRUH YRWHV 5RE- ert  Byrd  of  West  Virginia  (18,689),  Strom  Thurmond  of  South  Carolina  (16,348),  Daniel  Inouye  of  Hawaii  (16,300),  Ted  Kennedy  of  Massa- FKXVHWWV DQG 7HG 6WHYHQV RI Alaska  (15,033).  Leahy’s  milestone  occurred  during  Senate  debate  on  the  F\EHUVHFXULW\ ELOO *LYHQ KLV ORQJ UH- cord  of  good  sense,  we  hope  he  casts  many  more.
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The  Green  Mountain  Club  is  seeking  a  few  more  volunteers  for  a  trail  workday  on  the  Long  Trail  in  Ripton  this  Saturday,  Oct.  31.  If  you’d  like  to  help,  meet  the  group  at  8:30  a.m.  at  the  Ripton  Commu- nity  House  to  carpool.  Experience  is  helpful  but  not  necessary.  Bring  KEVIN  HANSON  DUMPS  pale  malt  into  the  mash  tun  tank  in  his  Hogback  Mountain  Brewery  in  Bristol  last  week.  Hanson  will  soon  be  selling  his  water  and  snacks.  Make  sure  to  let  beer  at  Bristol  Discount  Beverage,  Lantman’s  Market  in  Hinesburg  and  Bar  Antidote  in  Vergennes. Trail  Manager  David  Morrissey  Independent  photos/Trent  Campbell know  you’ll  be  coming  so  he  can  plan  for  enough  tools  and  helmets.  Other  former  Bristol  businesses  He’s  especially  impressed  with  the  ZRXOG JLYH 9HUPRQW EHHUV D WHUULÂżF PRYH SURGXFWLRQ WR KLV %ULVWRO +RXVH that  will  be  memorialized  on  the  la- 9HUPRQW +RSV 3URMHFW DW WKH 8QLYHU- start.  And  indeed,  Vermont  beers  and  Pilsner  and  other  lighter  beers.  Next  You  can  contact  him  at  352-Â1060  or  EHOV LQFOXGH :RUOG :DU , Ă€\LQJ DFH sity  of  Vermont,  run  by  Heather  Dar- breweries  currently  are  earning  top  summer,  he  plans  to  produce  a  thirst- email  dfmorrissey117@gmail.com.  -RH 5RFNÂśV Âł5RFNÂśV )O\LQJ 6HUYLFH´ by.  He  knows  intimately  where  hops  ratings  nationwide. TXHQFKLQJ *HUPDQ JRVH FDOOHG 5 : Late  last  week  the  Vermont  Cham- D SDOH DOH Âł%DUWOHWW 3ORZ :RUNV´ and  grains  can  be  sourced  in  Addison  Hanson  plans  to  roll  out  his  beers  Shadrick  Motor  Sales  and  a  Bristol  ber  of  Commerce  announced  its  D EURZQ SRUWHU DQG Âł7KH &RIÂżQ County  and  throughout  the  state  and  seasonally,  pairing  taste  to  the  weath- 5DLOURDG KHIHZHL]HQ 7RS 7HQ :LQWHU (YHQWV LQ )DFWRU\´ DQ (QJOLVK VW\OH ,QGLD SDOH is  hoping  to  brew  a  Carriage  Barn  er.  This  winter  he  plans  to  follow  up  Area  journalists  are  expecting  9HUPRQW DQG IRU WKH ÂżUVW WLPH LQ \HDUV ale). limited  release  using  locally  grown  the  release  of  his  Drake  Smith  &  Co.  WKHLU IDYRULWHV WR LQFOXGH WKH %ULVWRO Middlebury’s  Chili  Fest  is  not  on  the  Currently  brewing  and  fermenting,  fresh  hops  next  fall. with  other  dark  beers  such  as  his  Herald  and  the  Bristol  Press. OLVW :KDW JLYHV" $PRQJ RWKHU HYHQWV DQG ÂżUVW WR EH KLWWLQJ WKH VKHOYHV ZLOO One  key  local  ingredient  in  Han- Bartlett  Plow  Works,  Lake  Dunmore  Reporter  Gaen  Murphree  is  we  got  beat  out  by  a  Mardi  Gras  pa- be  an  American-Âstyle  brown  ale  with  son’s  approach  to  beer  brewing  is  3RZHU 7UDFWLRQ &R DQG 5RFNÂśV reached  at  gaenm@addisonindepen- rade  in  Burlington,  a  tree  lighting  in  Cascade  hops  called  “Drake  Smith  spring  water,  which  he  collects  him- )O\LQJ 6HUYLFH 1H[W VSULQJ KH ZLOO dent.com. Woodstock  and  an  artists’  open  studio  &R ´ DQG D ZLOG FDUG RIIHULQJ IRU self  direct  from  two  local  sources,  weekend  in  Putney.  a  short-Ârun  series  that  he’s  calling  one  from  higher  up  and  another  from  ³&DUULDJH %DUQ ´ +DQVRQ ZLOO XVH WKH lower  down  the  mountains.  Water  When  the  Vermont  State  Hous- Carriage  Barn  limited  release  beers  is  incredibly  important  to  so  many  ing  Authority  held  its  annual  meet- to  experiment  with  more  quirky  al- of  the  classic,  traditionally  brewed  ing  recently  it  announced  new  ad- WHUQDWLYHV DQG WR WHVW GLIIHUHQW LQJUH- beers,  said  Hanson.  And  he  discusses  ditions  to  its  staff,  including  Matt  dients  and  brew  styles.  at  length  how  the  naturally  soft  water  Baron,  who  is  site  manager  in  7KH ÂżUVW &DUULDJH %DUQ LV EHLQJ found  around  Pilsen  in  what’s  now  Middlebury.  VSHA  serves  more  brewed  with  locally  grown  hops  WKH &]HFK 5HSXEOLF FUHDWHG D VW\OH than  8,200  families  statewide  and  from  just  a  few  blocks  away  in  Bris- of  beer  popular  since  the  1200s,  and  provides  housing  opportunities  for  tol. how  the  gose  style  of  beer  gets  its  very-Âlow  and  low-Âincome  Vermont  Though  working  with  tradition- saltiness  from  the  high  saline  content  families. ally  malted  grains  from  Belgium,  found  naturally  around  Goslar,  Ger- England  and  elsewhere  and  hops  many,  where  it  originated. With  many  kids  in  the  county  get- primarily  from  the  Yakima  Valley  in  *LYHQ WKH JODFLHUV WKDW FDUYHG 9HU- ting  ready  for  Halloween  this  coming  Washington  state,  Hanson  speaks  en- mont  and  left  behind  its  mountains,  Saturday,  there  are  a  group  of  kids  at  thusiastically  about  the  possibilities  JUDQLWHV PDUEOHV DQG JUDYHOV RQH Vergennes  Union  High  School  who  for  sourcing  locally. would  think  that  local  spring  waters  will  keep  that  spooky/fun  feeling  go- ing  for  a  couple  more  weeks.  A  tal- ented  cast  of  students  is  rehearsing  their  fall  play,  “The  Addams  Family,  a  New  Musical  Comedy.  The  play,  ZKLFK ZLOO UXQ 1RY ´ RSHQV ZLWK D JUDYH\DUG JDWKHULQJ RI DOO $GGDPV IDPLO\ PHPEHUV ² OLYLQJ dead,  and  undecided!  It  looks  to  be  a  creepy  and  funny  production. Our  congressional  delegation  and  Gov.  Shumlin  this  week  an- nounced  a  $10  million  federal  grant  to  improve  rail  service  along  the  state’s  Western  Corridor  that  they  VDLG ZLOO UHPRYH ÂłWKH ÂżQDO KXUGOH for  restoring  passenger  service  between  Rutland  and  Burling- ton.â€?  Do  they  not  know  about  the  hurdle  presented  by  the  railroad  overpasses  going  through  Middle- bury?  Maybe  on  the  big  scheme  of  HOGBACK  MOUNTAIN  BREWERY  bottles  are  labeled  with  names  of  things  our  downtown  isn’t  much  of  KEVIN  HANSON  GRINDS  pale  malt  as  part  of  the  process  for  brewing  historic  Bristol  businesses.  Each  bottle  includes  an  old  photo  of  the  a  porter  at  his  Bristol  “nano-Âbreweryâ€?  Hogback  Mountain  Brewery. (See  BTW,  Page  16A) business  and  a  description.
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“Paying  for  Collegeâ€?  Day  of  the  Dead  (DĂa  de  los  Muertos)  workshop  in  celebration  in  Middlebury.  Sunday,  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Nov.  1,  time  TBA,  Vermont  Folklife  Center.  Oct.  29,  6:30  p.m.,  Middlebury  Third  annual  celebration  offering  the  opportunity  for  Union  High  School.  Vermont  the  hundreds  of  Addison  County  Student  Assistance  Corp.  will  offer  a  Mexican  farmworkers  to  maintain  BEGINNING SWING DANCE — Great fun & exercise too in free  workshop  to  help  families  plan  vital  connections  to  their  living  a friendly, easy format. Classes held in the Community Room how  to  pay  for  college  and  training  cultural  traditions.  Come  share  at EastView at Middlebury on Sundays Oct 11 – Nov 1, 5:30 after  high  school.  Topics  include  stories  of  departed  loved  ones.  – 6:30 pm. Partners not necessary. $40 per person for 4 week W\SHV RI Âż QDQFLDO DLG KRZ DLG LV Refreshments,  traditional  food  awarded,  student  and  parent  loans,  and  music.  Info  and  time:  www. series. and  more.  Full  schedule  of  work- vermontfolklifecenter.org  or  BEGINNING WALTZ — Anyone can learn this classic shops:  www.vsac.org/schedule. 388-Â4964. ballroom dance. Wow your friends with just a few easy to learn Eckankar  of  Vermont  meeting  in  Annual  turkey  dinner  in  New  moves! Classes held in the Community Room at EastView Middlebury.  Thursday,  Oct.  29,  Haven.  Sunday,  Nov.  1,  11:30  6:30-Â7:30  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  An  a.m.-Â2:30  p.m.,  New  Haven  at Middlebury on Sundays Nov 8 – Nov 22, 5:30 – 6:30 pm. open  discussion  that  includes  tech- Congregational  Church.  Seatings  Partners not necessary. $30 per person for 3 week series. niques  to  help  people  understand  the  at  11:30  a.m.  and  12:30  and  1:30  OPEN DANCE after all classes from 6:30 – 7:30 pm. Open amazing  connections  in  their  lives.  p.m.  Misty  Knoll  turkey  with  all  to the public! Please bring clean, dry soft soled shoes (smooth Hosted  by  Eckankar,  the  Religion  WKH Âż [LQJV SXPSNLQ RU DSSOH SLH of  the  Light  and  Sound  of  God.  Info:  beverages.  Gluten-Âfree  alternatives  leather works best). Call Jim Condon for more information at www.eckancar-Âvt.org. available.  Adults  $12,  ages  6-Â12  $6,  475-2349 or email jscondon@mac.com. Adult  book  discussion  group  in  under  6  free.  Reservations  recom- Shoreham.  Thursday,  Oct.  29,  7  mended  but  walk-Âins  welcome.  Call  HEAL WITH YOUR HANDS / REIKI WORKSHOP — Learn the p.m.,  Platt  Memorial  Library.  Check  453-Â2724.  Takeout  available;Íž  call  gentle yet powerful science of laying-on-of-hands to help yourself with  the  library  for  copies  of  the  ahead. and others. Includes fundamentals of energy work, how to use selected  title.  Light  refreshments  and  Monster  Dash/Trick-Âor-ÂTrot  5K/ lively  discussion.  Info:  897-Â2647  or  fun  run  in  Brandon.  Sunday,  Nov.  earth energies, beginning Reiki, lots of practice, and optional www.plattlib.org. 1,  11:30  a.m.,  behind  Otter  Valley  follow-ups. Instructor Barbara Clearbridge has over 20 years’ Wu  Man  and  the  Shanghai  String  Union  High  School.  Fundraiser  for  experience. Saturday–Sunday, November 7–8 in Middlebury. Quartet  in  concert  at  Middlebury  the  OVUHS  senior  class.  5K  run  for  Love offering. Limited to 9 participants. 802-324-9149; www. College.  Thursday,  Oct.  29,  7:30  ages  12  and  up,  fun  run  for  ages  11  p.m.,  Mahaney  Center  for  the  Arts.  and  younger.  Come  in  costume  for  FeelingMuchBetter.org. World-Ârenowned  pipa  player  Wu  a  chance  to  win  prizes.  Registration  MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL — Adult: Beaded Jewelry, Man  and  the  Shanghai  String  Quartet  at  11:30,  race  starts  at  12:30.  Info:  present  “An  Evening  in  New  and  http://ovuhs.rnesu.org. Paper Sculptures, Thurs AM Clay Hand Building, Weds AM Ancient  China.â€?  Tickets  $25/$20/$6.  Flutist  Anne  Janson  in  concert  Painting, Weds Wheel, Thurs. AM Oils, Drawing, Pastel, Info:  www.middlebury.edu/arts  or  at  Middlebury  College.  Sunday,  Mon PM Oils. Children: Mondays Holiday Gifts, Weds. Art 802-Â443-Â3168. Nov.  1,  4  p.m.,  Mahaney  Center  for  of the World, Pottery-Mon & Weds Wheel & Thurs Hand “The  Effect  of  Gamma  Rays  on  WKH $UWV $IÂż OLDWH DUWLVW $QQH -DQVRQ Man-Âin-Âthe-Âmoon  Marigoldsâ€?  on  and  UVM  colleague  Sylvia  Parker  Building, Tues. Gingerbread Fantasy. Contact Barb at 247stage  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Oct.  perform  the  Claude  Bolling  Suite  for  3702, ewaldewald@aol.com, middleburystudioschool.org 29,  7:30  p.m.,  Town  Hall  Theater.  À XWH DQG MD]] WULR ZLWK 890 PXVLF Pulitzer  Prize-Âwinning  1971  play  by  faulty  Jeff  Salisbury  on  drums  and  Paul  Zindel  about  a  single  mother  John  Rivers  on  bass.  Concert  also  $XGLWRULXP $ 'DUGHQQHV %URWKHUV Âż OP LQ ZKLFK trying  to  raise  two  young  daughters  without  money  includes  works  by  Mozart,  BartĂłk  and  Faure.  Free.  Marion  Cotillard  plays  a  young  Belgian  woman  or  help.  Show  runs  75  minutes  without  intermis- Info:  www.middlebury.edu/arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. whose  coworkers  have  voted  against  her  medical  VLRQ 7LFNHWV DYDLODEOH DW WKH 7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH leave  in  favor  of  preserving  their  own  bonuses.  She  382-Â9222  or  www.townhalltheater.org;Íž  $10  student  has  one  weekend  to  change  their  minds.  In  French  rush  available  at  the  door.  Runs  Oct.  23-Â30. with  English  subtitles.  Free.  Info:  www.middlebury. Preschool  story  time  for  children  in  edu/arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. Shoreham.  Monday,  Nov.  2,  10:30  a.m.,  Library  trick-Âor-Âtreat  in  Monkton.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  Platt  Memorial  Library.  For  children  ages  4-Â6  p.m.  Kids  who  come  in  costume  will  receive  a  Halloween  story  time  in  Lincoln.  3-Â5  with  caregiver.  Info:  897-Â2647  or  www.plattlib.org. free  book  and  a  treat.  Info:  453-Â4471. Friday,  Oct.  30,  10:30  a.m.,  Lincoln  Library.  Trunk  and  Treat  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  Children  may  come  in  costume.  Stories,  5-Â7  p.m.,  Middlebury  United  Methodist  Church  park- songs,  snack  and  Halloween  craft.  Info:  453-Â2665. ing  lot,  Seminary  Street.  Kids  can  move  from  one  HomeShare  Vermont  informational  meeting  in  decorated  car  trunk  for  treats.  Cider  and  donuts  Blood  pressure/foot  clinic  in  Brandon.  Middlebury.  Friday,  Oct.  30,  noon-Â12:30  p.m.,  Ilsley  served  in  the  church,  with  additional  fun  and  games. Tuesday,  Nov.  3,  10  a.m.,  Forest  Dale  Library.  Learn  more  about  HomeShare  Vermont,  Halloween  dinner  dance  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Senior  Center.  Foot  clinic:  $10.  Info:  whether  you  are  someone  looking  for  affordable  Oct.  31,  5-Â10  p.m.,  Middlebury  VFW.  Cocktails  from  775-Â0568. housing  who  can  lend  a  helping  hand,  or  a  home- 5-Â6  p.m.,  spaghetti  and  meatball  dinner  to  follow.  RZQHU ZLWK DQ H[WUD URRP ZKR FRXOG EHQHÂż W IURP Dance  to  Triple  B  DJ.  Wear  your  best  costume.  Behind-Âthe-Âscenes  lunch  and  discussion  at  Middlebury  College.  Tuesday,  Nov.  3,  12:30  p.m.,  rental  income  and/or  help  around  the  house.  Info:  Admission  $10.  Wright  Memorial  Theatre.  Join  director  Richard  www.homesharevermont.org  or  802-Â863-Â5625. Kids’  Halloween  party  in  Salisbury.  Saturday,  Oct.  Romagnoli  and  his  cast  and  crew  for  a  presentation  “Off  the  Wall:  Informal  Discussions  About  Artâ€?  31,  5  p.m.,  Salisbury  Free  Public  Library.  Kids  are  about  the  upcoming  production  of  Terence  Rattigan’s  at  Middlebury  College.  Friday,  Oct.  30,  12:15  invited  to  enjoy  pizza  and  cider  before  heading  out  1941  play  “Flare  Path.â€?  Suggested  donation  $5,  free  p.m.,  Mahaney  Center  for  the  Arts.  Janis  Staggs  to  trick-Âor-Âtreat. to  Middlebury  College  ID  holders.  Info:  www.middle- talks  about  Gustav  Klimt  and  Egon  Schiele  in  the  Trunk  or  Treat  in  Vergennes.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  5:30- bury.edu/arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. context  of  the  nude  female  body  and  its  visualiza- 7:30  p.m.,  Assembly  of  God  Christian  Center,  1759  tion  in  the  period  leading  up  to  and  following  WWI.  Route  7.  Candy,  food,  game  center,  bouncy  house  “Body  and  Earth:  Seven  Web-ÂBased  Somatic  Excursionsâ€?  presentation  at  Middlebury  College.  Discussion  continues  over  a  light  lunch.  Lunch  and  prizes.  Info:  802-Â877-Â3903. Tuesday,  Nov.  3,  12:30-Â1:15  p.m.,  Axinn  Center,  provided.  Suggested  donation  $5,  free  to  college  Trunk  or  Treat  in  Monkton.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  5:30- Room  232.  Professor  Andrea  Olsen  and  others  pres- ID  cardholders.  Info:  www.middlebury.edu/arts  or  6:30  p.m.,  Monkton  Friends  Methodist  Church  park- ent  a  short  screening  of  “Seven  Web-ÂBased  Somatic  802-Â443-Â3168. ing  lot.  Come  decorate  your  vehicle  and  hand  out  Excursions,â€?  and  then  talk  about  the  process  of  creat- Pizza  bake  in  Ripton.  Friday,  Oct.  30,  5-Â7  p.m.,  Ripton  treats  to  the  little  ghosts  and  goblins  of  Monkton.  ing  a  web-Âbased  learning  series  for  courses  linking  Elementary  School.  Friends  of  Ripton  School  are  Hot  chocolate,  coffee,  tea  and  Halloween  activities  the  environment  with  the  deep  intelligence  of  the  VHOOLQJ Âż UH URDVWHG SL]]D IRU WDNHRXW RU GLQLQJ LQ inside  the  church.  For  info,  or  to  reserve  a  parking  body.  Preview  at  body-Âearth.org.  Free.  Info:  www. Cheese  $12,  pepperoni  or  harvest  special  $15.  VSRW RU WÂż W]BJHUDOG#KRWPDLO FRP middlebury.edu/arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. Or  stay  for  dinner  and  a  movie  at  the  school:  $18  Trunk  or  Treat  in  Vergennes.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  6-Â8  per  family  includes  pizza,  movie  and  drinks.  Info:  p.m.,  Victory  Baptist  Church.  Around  30  trunks  will  Brain  Injury  Support  Group  meeting  in  Middlebury.  Tuesday,  Nov.  3,  6-Â7:30  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  This  802-Â388-Â2208. be  offering  candy  to  trick-Âor-Âtreaters.  Hayrides;Íž  free  month’s  topic:  Managing  time  and  staying  organized.  Foraging  workshop  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  Oct.  30,  FRIIHH KRW FRFRD DQG SXPSNLQ PXIÂż QV ERQÂż UH Info:  388-Â2720. 6  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library.  In  this  slideshow  and  talk,  King  Pede  party  in  Ferrisburgh.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  Alice  Eckles  will  share  her  knowledge  of  useful  6:30-Â8:30  p.m.,  Ferrisburgh  Community  Center  and  Donkey  basketball  in  Bristol.  Tuesday,  Nov.  3,  6-Â7:30  p.m.,  Mount  Abraham  Union  High  School.  plants  from  the  woods  where  she  lives  and  will  Town  Hall.  Sandwich  supper  followed  by  an  evening  Green  Mountain  Donkeyball  comes  to  Mount  Abe.  facilitate  discussion  about  foraging  in  general.  Info:  of  fun  and  card  games.  Come  planning  to  play  Fundraiser  for  the  music  department.  Tickets  $8  in  388-Â4095. King  Pede  or  bring  your  own  favorite  card  game.  advance,  $10  at  the  door,  free  for  kids  4  and  younger.  Lighted  Pumpkin  Patch  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  Requested  donation:  $2.50.  7LFNHWV DYDLODEOH DW WKH VFKRRO RIÂż FH RU DW 0DUWLQÂśV Oct.  30,  6-Â8:30  p.m.,  Helen  Porter  Healthcare  and  The  Dick  Forman  Jazz  Group  in  concert  at  Hardware  in  Bristol. Rehabilitation  Center.  The  public  is  invited  to  walk  Middlebury  College.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  8  p.m.,  through  the  Helen  Porter  courtyard,  which  will  be  Mahaney  Center  for  the  Arts.  “A  Jazz  Conversationâ€?  Author  talk  in  Lincoln.  Tuesday,  Nov.  3,  7  p.m.,  Lincoln  Library.  Jane  Beck  will  talk  about  her  new  book,  decorated  with  jack-Âo’-Âlanterns  and  luminarias.  is  an  evening  of  sparkling,  sophisticated,  main- “Daisy  Turner’s  Kin.â€?  Beck  tells  the  story  of  Turner,  Indoor  displays  as  well.  Free  event.  Hot  cider  and  stream  jazz,  enhanced  by  a  chance  to  look  behind  the  daughter  of  freed  slaves  who  lived  in  Grafton.  cookies  available.  Info:  385-Â3666. the  curtain  to  see  how  jazz  is  created.  Free.  Info:  Refreshments  served.  Info:  453-Â2665. “Sickness  and  Healing  in  Songâ€?  recital  at  www.middlebury.edu/arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. Middlebury  College.  Friday,  Oct.  30,  7-Â8  p.m.,  Mahaney  Center  for  the  Arts.  Jack  DesBois  pres- ents  his  senior  recital,  an  evening  of  song  exploring  the  ways  that  sickness  and  health  have  shaped  the  classical,  folk  and  musical  theater  song  traditions.  Free.  “The  Effect  of  Gamma  Rays  on  Man-Âin-Âthe-Âmoon  Marigoldsâ€?  on  stage  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  Oct.  30,  7:30  p.m.,  Town  Hall  Theater.  Pulitzer  Prize- winning  1971  play  by  Paul  Zindel  about  a  single  mother  trying  to  raise  two  young  daughters  with- out  money  or  help.  Show  runs  75  minutes  without  intermission.  Tickets  $22,  available  at  the  THT  box  RIÂż FH RU ZZZ WRZQKDOOWKHDWHU RUJ student  rush  available  at  the  door.  Runs  Oct.  23-Â30.
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GMC  Trail  Work  Day  in  Ripton.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  8:30  a.m.-Â1  p.m.,  meet  at  Ripton  Community  House  to  carpool.  Volunteers  are  asked  to  help  do  maintenance  on  the  Long  Trail.  Experience  helpful  but  not  neces- VDU\ %ULQJ ZDWHU DQG VQDFNV &RQÂż UP SDUWLFLSDWLRQ at  352-Â1060  or  dfmorrissey117@gmail.com.  More  at  www.gmcbreadloaf.org. Craft  fair  in  Vergennes.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  9  a.m.- 3:30  p.m.,  St.  Peter’s  Parish  Hall,  85  South  Maple  6W /RFDO FUDIWHUV UDIĂ€ H EDNH VDOH DQG OXQFKHRQ 3URFHHGV EHQHÂż W WKH 6W 3HWHUÂśV &HPHWHU\ Association.  Info:  877-Â2367. Free  spooky  movie  in  Bristol.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  10  a.m.,  Lawrence  Memorial  Library.  Info:  453-Â2366. Kids’  carnival  in  Vergennes.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  11  a.m.-Â1  p.m.,  Champlain  Valley  Christian  Reformed  Church.  Free  carnival  featuring  games,  face  paint- ing,  cotton  candy,  popcorn,  cake  walk,  hay  rides,  hot  dogs,  prize  table  and  more.  Friendly  costumes  are  encouraged.  Met  Opera  live  broadcast  of  “Tannhäuserâ€?  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  noon-Â4:30  p.m.,  Town  Hall  Theater.  James  Levine  conducts  this  Wagner  masterpiece.  The  title  character  is  based  on  a  real  13th-Âcentury  poet-Âmusician  who  inspired  a  legend  that  Wagner  used  as  the  basis  for  his  opera.  Pre-Âshow  talk  at  11:15  in  the  downstairs  studio.  Tickets  $24,  $10  students.  Tickets  available  at  the  7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH ZZZ WRZQKDOOWKHDWHU RUJ
Ice  as  art “ICICLES,â€?  BY  JEAN  Cannon,  is  among  the  works  on  exhibit  and  for  sale  at  the  Brandon  Artists  Guild’s  holiday  show,  “Fine  Arts  Gifts  for  Holiday  Giving.â€?  The  show  runs  Nov.  4-ÂDec.  29,  with  an  opening  reception  on  Friday,  Nov.  6,  from  5-Â7  p.m.  at  the  guild.
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Susan  G.  Komen  Foundation  public  meeting  in  Middlebury.  Wednesday,  1RY D P S P ,OVOH\ /LEUDU\ The  public  is  invited  to  help  develop  a  community  VWUDWHJ\ WR UHGXFH EUHDVW FDQFHU LQ $GGLVRQ &RXQW\ identify  ways  to  best  utilize  available  Susan  G.  Komen  funds,  and  learn  how  to  apply  for  these  funds. Skype  lecture  on  “American  Born  Chineseâ€?  graphic  novel  at  Middlebury  College.  Wednesday,  Nov.  4,  4:30  p.m.,  Davis  Family  Library,  Room  105.  Cartoonist  *HQH /XHQ <DQJ JLYHV DQ LOOXVWUDWHG OHFWXUH YLD 6N\SH GHVFULELQJ KRZ KH FUHDWHG KLV FULWLFDOO\ DFFODLPHG JUDSKLF QRYHO Âł$PHULFDQ %RUQ &KLQHVH´ DQG GLVFXVVLQJ DPRQJ RWKHU WKLQJV WKH SODFH RI WKH FRPLFV PHGLXP LQ $VLDQ $PHULFDQ FXOWXUH )UHH ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU Community  College  of  Vermont  information  session  in  Middlebury.  Wednesday,  Nov.  4,  5  p.m.,  &&9 RIÂż FH 0HUFKDQWV 5RZ &RPH OHDUQ DERXW WDNLQJ FODVVHV DW &&9 DQG UHJLVWHU IRU VSULQJ DQG VXPPHU FODVVHV ,QIR Book  club  meeting  in  Bridport.  Wednesday,  Nov.  S P %ULGSRUW +LJKZD\ 'HSDUWPHQW JDUDJH FRQIHUHQFH URRP $OO LQWHUHVWHG UHDGHUV DUH LQYLWHG WR GLVFXVV WKLV PRQWKÂśV WLWOH Âł7KH :D\ :H /LYH 1RZ´ E\ $QWKRQ\ 7UROORSH ,QIR Historical  society  meeting  in  Shoreham.  Wednesday,  Nov.  4,  7  p.m.,  Platt  Memorial  Library.  Tim  Short  SUHVHQWV Âł6KRUHKDP 7URRSHUV LQ WKH )LUVW 9HUPRQW &DYDOU\ ´ &RPSDQ\ . )LUVW 9HUPRQW &DYDOU\ ZDV GUDZQ ODUJHO\ IURP $GGLVRQ &RXQW\ DQG VDZ DFWLRQ LQ PDQ\ EDWWOHV RI WKH 5HEHOOLRQ RI /LJKW UHIUHVK ments  follow.  “Becoming  American:  An  Inaugural  Poet’s  Journeyâ€?  talk  at  Middlebury  College.  Wednesday,  Nov.  4,  7  p.m.,  Mead  Chapel.  Richard  Blanco  read  DW 3UHVLGHQW 2EDPDÂśV LQDXJXUDWLRQ DQG ZDV WKH Âż UVW /DWLQR LPPLJUDQW DQG JD\ ZULWHU WR KDYH WKDW KRQRU Blanco  examines  cultural  identity  and  the  essence  RI SODFH DQG EHORQJLQJ $ 9HUPRQW +XPDQLWLHV &RXQFLO )LUVW :HGQHVGD\V HYHQW ,QIR ZZZ YHUPRQWKXPDQLWLHVFRXQFLO RUJ RU
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Coffee  and  Conversation  group  in  Bristol.  Thursday,  Nov.  5,  10  a.m.,  Bristol  )HGHUDWHG &KXUFK $OO RXU ZHOFRPH XVH WKH middle  door  of  the  Church  Street  entrance).  Larry  *LOH ZLOO WDON DERXW KLV H[SHULHQFHV LQ 9LHWQDP ,QIR Working  Board  Luncheon  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  1RY D P S P &DUROÂśV +XQJU\ 0LQG Common  Good  Vermont  invites  members  of  any  board  to  a  luncheon  and  talk.  Jane  Van  Buren  of  1RRQPDUN 1RQSURÂż W 6HUYLFHV SUHVHQWV Âł%RDUG *RYHUQDQFH ´ 1HWZRUN ZLWK IHOORZ ERDUG PHPEHUV 5HJLVWHU DW KWWS ELW O\ 4; GGV Senior  meal  in  Bristol.  Thursday,  Nov.  5,  noon,  First  Baptist  Church  of  Bristol.  On  the  menu:  Roast  turkey,  PDVKHG SRWDWRHV VWXIÂż QJ JUDY\ JOD]HG FDUURWV homemade  rolls  and  pumpkin  pie  with  whipped  FUHDP 6XJJHVWHG GRQDWLRQ 7R EH RQ WKH OLVW FDOO Lecture  on  Near  Eastern  art  at  Middlebury  College.  Thursday,  Nov.  5,  4:30  p.m.,  Mahaney  Center  for  the  $UWV 6XVDQ $FNHUPDQ DQG 6KDORP *ROGPDQ SUHV HQW Âł$QFLHQW 1HDU (DVWHUQ $UW ² ,Q 1HZ (QJODQG DQG LQ WKH 1HZV ´ )UHH ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU Cinema  Appreciation  Group  in  Vergennes.  Thursday,  1RY S P %L[E\ /LEUDU\ 3DUWLFLSDQWV ZLOO ZDWFK DQG GLVFXVV -HQQLIHU .HQWÂśV Âł7KH %DEDGRRN´ VKRUW SULRU WR ZDWFKLQJ WKH IXOO OHQJWK IHDWXUH RQ WKHLU RZQ WLPH 7KH\ ZLOO WKHQ UHFRQYHQH RQ 1RY WR GLVFXVV WKH IHDWXUH 5HJLVWHU DW RU PXLU KDPDQ#EL[E\OLEUDU\ RUJ Sheldon  Museum  annual  meeting/dinner.  Thursday,  Nov.  5,  5:45  p.m..  Laurie  L.  Patton,  president  of  0LGGOHEXU\ &ROOHJH ZLOO EH WKH NH\QRWH VSHDNHU 0HHWLQJ DW IROORZHG E\ GLQQHU DQG 3DWWRQÂśV UHPDUNV 7LFNHWV SHU SHUVRQ DYDLODEOH DW WKH Sheldon  or  online  at  www.henrysheldonmuseum. RUJ 5HVHUYDWLRQV UHTXLUHG E\ 7XHVGD\ 2FW ,QIR Twist  O’  Wool  Spinning  Guild  meeting  in  Middlebury.  7KXUVGD\ 1RY S P $PHULFDQ /HJLRQ :LOVRQ 5RDG *HQHUDO PHHWLQJ IROORZHG E\ D SURJUDP WLWOHG Âł5HÂż QLQJ 6SLQQLQJ 6NLOOV´ XVLQJ GURS VSLQGOHV 1DYDKR VSLQGOHV 1DYDKR FDEOH SO\LQJ UHJXODU SO\LQJ DQG $QGHDQ SO\LQJ ,QIR “The  Good  Doctorâ€?  on  stage  in  Middlebury.  7KXUVGD\ 1RY S P 7RZQ +DOO 7KHDWHU $ 1HLO 6LPRQ FRPHG\ SDURG\ 5XQV WKURXJK 1RY 7LFNHWV 7KXUVGD\ RQO\ DYDLODEOH DW WKH 7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH ZZZ WRZQKDOOWKHDWHU RUJ RU DW WKH GRRU
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FRIDAY
Senior  luncheon  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  1RY QRRQ 0LGGOHEXU\ 9): &9$$ invites  area  seniors  for  a  First  Friday  OXQFKHRQ RI URDVW WXUNH\ ZLWK JUDY\ VWXIÂż QJ PDVKHG SRWDWRHV RYHQ URDVWHG EHHWV FUDQEHUU\ VDXFH dinner  roll,  pumpkin  pie  with  cream,  and  coffee.  %ULQJ \RXU RZQ SODFH VHWWLQJ 6XJJHVWHG GRQDWLRQ 5HVHUYDWLRQV UHTXLUHG H[W )UHH WUDQVSRUWDWLRQ ZLWK $&75 Holiday  exhibit  opening  reception  in  Brandon.  )ULGD\ 1RY S P %UDQGRQ $UWLVWV *XLOG &HOHEUDWLQJ WKH RSHQLQJ RI Âł)LQH $UW *LIWV IRU +ROLGD\ *LYLQJ ´ ZKLFK UXQV 1RY 'HF ,QIR ZZZ EUDQ GRQDUWLVWVJXLOG RUJ RU House  concert  in  Leicester. )ULGD\ 1RY S P )HUQ /DNH 5RDG $GLURQGDFN IRON VLQJHU $OH[ 6PLWK ZLOO SHUIRUP DFFRPSDQLHG E\ Âż GGOHU -DNH %ULOOKDUW $GPLVVLRQ DW WKH GRRU ,QIR ZZZ DOH[ VPLWKORQJODNHPXVLF FRP “Flare  Pathâ€?  on  stage  at  Middlebury  College.  Friday,  1RY S P :ULJKW 0HPRULDO 7KHDWUH 7HUHQFH 5DWWLJDQÂśV SOD\ VHW LQ D KRWHO QHDU DQ 5$) %RPEHU &RPPDQG DLUEDVH GXULQJ :RUOG :DU ,, 7KH SORW GUDZV D ORYH WULDQJOH EHWZHHQ D SLORW KLV DFWUHVV ZLIH DQG D IDPRXV Âż OP VWDU 7LFNHWV RQ VDOH 2FW ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU $OVR RQ 6DWXUGD\ DQG 6XQGD\ California  Guitar  Trio  in  concert  at  Middlebury  College. )ULGD\ 1RY S P 0DKDQH\ &HQWHU IRU WKH $UWV .QRZQ ZRUOGZLGH IRU WKHLU WHFKQLFDO ZL]DUGU\ EUHDWKWDNLQJ LQWHQVLW\ DQG ZLGH UDQJLQJ UHSHUWRLUH WKLV WULR SHUIRUPV DQG H[FLWLQJ DQG LQQRYDWLYH HYHQLQJ of  classical  and  contemporary  interpretations  of  jazz,  FODVVLFDO URFN DQG ZRUOG PXVLF 7LFNHWV ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU “The  Good  Doctorâ€?  on  stage  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  1RY S P 7RZQ +DOO 7KHDWHU $ 1HLO 6LPRQ
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St.  Peter’s  breakfast  in  Vergennes.  6XQGD\ 1RY D P 6W 3HWHUÂśV 3DULVK +DOO 7KH .QLJKWV RI &ROXPEXV KRVW WKLV EUHDNIDVW RI HJJV RPHOHWV KRWFDNHV )UHQFK WRDVW EDFRQ VDXVDJH DQG PRUH $GXOWV VHQLRUV NLGV NLGV XQGHU IUHH IDPL OLHV RI Âż YH RU PRUH ,QIR Music  swap  in  Brandon.  6XQGD\ 1RY D P S P &RPSDVV 0XVLF DQG $UWV &HQWHU 6HOO RU WUDGH your  new  and  used  audio  equipment,  vinyl  records,  CDs,  78s,  memorabilia  and  more.  Reserve  space  WKURXJK )ULGD\ 1RY ,QIR ZZZ FPDFYW RUJ RU Chess  club  in  Middlebury. 6XQGD\ 1RY S P ,OVOH\ /LEUDU\ VHFRQG Ă€ RRU QRRN )RU DOO DJHV &OXE ZLOO PHHW HYHU\ 6XQGD\ LQ 1RYHPEHU )UHH ,QIR RU JUHHQPRQW\#HDUWKOLQN QHW “The  Good  Doctorâ€?  on  stage  in  Middlebury.  Sunday,  1RY S P 7RZQ +DOO 7KHDWHU $ 1HLO 6LPRQ FRPHG\ SDURG\ 5XQV WKURXJK 1RY 7LFNHWV DYDLODEOH DW WKH 7+7 ER[ RIÂż FH ZZZ WRZQKDOOWKHDWHU RUJ RU DW WKH GRRU Historical  society  meeting  in  Ferrisburgh.  Sunday,  1RY S P )HUULVEXUJK +LVWRULFDO 6RFLHW\ 5RXWH 7.  Silas  Towler  and  Lisa  Patton  will  share  their  coastal  FUXLVLQJ DGYHQWXUHV DERDUG WKHLU IRRW KRPHPDGH VORRS WKH &RRW IRFXVLQJ RQ WKHLU WULS WR 1RYD 6FRWLD DQG WKH %D\ RI )XQG\ ,QIR “Flare  Pathâ€?  on  stage  at  Middlebury  College.  6XQGD\ 1RY S P :ULJKW 0HPRULDO 7KHDWUH 7HUHQFH 5DWWLJDQÂśV SOD\ VHW LQ D KRWHO QHDU DQ 5$) %RPEHU &RPPDQG DLUEDVH GXULQJ :RUOG :DU ,, 7KH SORW GUDZV D ORYH WULDQJOH EHWZHHQ D SLORW KLV DFWUHVV ZLIH DQG D IDPRXV Âż OP VWDU 7LFNHWV RQ VDOH 2FW ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU
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Nov
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Indoor  multi-Âfamily  yard  sale  in  Middlebury.  6DWXUGD\ 1RY D P S P +DQQDIRUG &DUHHU &HQWHU +XJH YDULHW\ RI LWHPV )RRG DQG EHYHUDJHV DYDLODEOH 3URFHHGV VXSSRUW WKH 'LYHUVLÂż HG 2FFXSDWLRQV FXUUHQW HYHQWV JHRJUDSK\ FODVV WULS WR :DVKLQJWRQ ' & Weatherization  information  session  in  Weybridge. 6DWXUGD\ 1RY D P :H\EULGJH UHF\FOLQJ FHQWHU 7KH :H\EULGJH (QHUJ\ &RPPLWWHH ZLOO RIIHU IUHH /(' EXEV IUHH FLGHU DQG GRQXWV DQG LQIRUPD tion  about  weatherization.  This  precedes  and  11  D P %XWWRQ 8S 9HUPRQW ZRUNVKRS DW :H\EULGJH (OHPHQWDU\ 6FKRRO Holiday  bazaar  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Nov.  7,  10  D P S P &RQJUHJDWLRQDO &KXUFK RI 0LGGOHEXU\ $QQXDO HYHQW IHDWXULQJ KDQGPDGH Ă€ HHFH DQG NQLW WHG LWHPV QHZ DQG DQWLTXH ZRRGHQ FUDIWV $WWLF 7UHDVXUHV KRXVHSODQWV KRPHPDGH JRRGLHV DQG much  more.  Lunch  and  snacks  for  sale.  Santa  will  visit.  Proceeds  support  community  outreach  SURJUDPV Penny  fair  in  Vergennes.  Saturday,  Nov.  7,  10  a.m.,  6W 3HWHUÂśV 3DULVK +DOO 6RXWK 0DSOH )LIW\ WKLUG DQQXDO SHQQ\ IDLU D IXQ Âż OOHG DQG LQH[SHQVLYH GD\ take  a  chance  on  many  items  and  see  if  you  win.  'UDZLQJ DW S P Button  Up  Vermont  workshop  in  Weybridge.  6DWXUGD\ 1RY D P S P :H\EULGJH (OHPHQWDU\ 6FKRRO 7KH :H\EULGJH DQG &RUQZDOO HQHUJ\ FRPPLWWHHV ZLOO FR KRVW WKLV HYHQW ZKLFK LV GHVLJQHG WR KHOS 9HUPRQWHUV OHDUQ WKH EDVLFV RI EXLOGLQJ VFLHQFH DQG KRZ WR LPSURYH HQHUJ\ HIÂż FLHQF\ LQ WKHLU KRPHV )UHH 5693 RU  “Farewell  My  Concubineâ€?  on  screen  at  Middlebury  College.  Saturday,  Nov.  7,  3  and  8  p.m.,  Dana  $XGLWRULXP 'RX]L LV D GHOLFDWH \RXQJ ER\ ZKRVH mother,  a  prostitute,  drops  him  into  the  hands  of  0DVWHU *XDQ WKH KHDG RI WKH 3HNLQJ 2SHUD LQ ,Q 0DQGDULQ ZLWK (QJOLVK VXEWLWOHV )UHH ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU Lazyman’s  Lobster  or  Baked  Ham  Dinner  in  Shoreham. 6DWXUGD\ 1RY VHDWLQJV DW DQG S P 6KRUHKDP &RQJUHJDWLRQDO &KXUFK %RWK meals  include  homemade  rolls,  tossed  salad,  potato,  squash  and  homemade  desserts.  Lobster  dinner  KDP GLQQHU 7DNHRXW DYDLODEOH $GYDQFH UHVHUYDWLRQV UHTXLUHG Chicken  and  biscuits  supper  in  Brandon.  Saturday,  1RY S P %UDQGRQ &RQJUHJDWLRQDO &KXUFK Chicken  and  biscuits,  coleslaw,  apple  crisp  and  EHYHUDJHV )UHH ZLOO RIIHULQJ Turkey  supper  in  Orwell.  Saturday,  Nov.  7,  5:30  p.m.,  2UZHOO 7RZQ +DOO 7XUNH\ JUDY\ DQG DOO WKH Âż [LQJV LQFOXGLQJ KRPHPDGH UROOV DQG SLHV $GXOWV FKLO GUHQ XQGHU 7DNHRXW DYDLODEOH FDOO 6SRQVRUHG E\ WKH )LUVW &RQJUHJDWLRQDO &KXUFK of  Orwell. “Flare  Pathâ€?  on  stage  at  Middlebury  College.  6DWXUGD\ 1RY S P :ULJKW 0HPRULDO 7KHDWUH 7HUHQFH 5DWWLJDQÂśV SOD\ VHW LQ D KRWHO QHDU DQ 5$) %RPEHU &RPPDQG DLUEDVH GXULQJ :RUOG :DU ,, 7KH SORW GUDZV D ORYH WULDQJOH EHWZHHQ D SLORW KLV DFWUHVV ZLIH DQG D IDPRXV Âż OP VWDU 7LFNHWV RQ VDOH 2FW ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU $OVR RQ 6XQGD\ Moors  and  McCumber  in  concert  in  Ripton.  Saturday,  Nov.  7,  7:30  p.m.,  Ripton  Community  House.  The  Ripton  Community  Coffee  House  welcomes  these  PXOWL LQVWUXPHQWDOLVWV IRU DQ HYHQLQJ RI EOXHV EOXH JUDVV DQG D ELW RI &HOWLF $GPLVVLRQ ,QIR KWWS UFFK RUJ Last  Train  to  Zinkov  in  concert  in  Brandon. Saturday,  Nov.  7,  7:30  p.m.,  Brandon  Music.  Father  DQG VRQ 'DYLG DQG 1DWKDQ *XVDNRYÂśV (DVWHUQ (XURSHDQ URRWV LQĂ€ XHQFH WKHLU RULJLQDO VRQJV DORQJ ZLWK WUDGLWLRQDO $PHULFDQ ROG WLPH PXVLF DQG J\SV\ VZLQJ 7LFNHWV 5HVHUYDWLRQV UHFRPPHQGHG DW RU LQIR#EUDQGRQ PXVLF QHW Bluegrass  Gospel  Project  in  concert  in  Vergennes. 6DWXUGD\ 1RY S P 9HUJHQQHV 2SHUD KRXVH
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Illustrated  lecture  on  the  Tale  of  Genji  in  Japanese  manga  comics  at  Middlebury  College.  0RQGD\ 1RY S P 0DKDQH\ &HQWHU IRU WKH $UWV /\QQ 0L\DNH SUHV HQWV ³6XEMHFWV 2EMHFWV RI 3URGXFWLRQ &RQVXPSWLRQ DQG 'HVLUH 7KH -DSDQHVH 0DQJD &RPLFV 7DOH RI *HQML ´ )UHH ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU A  Reading  with  Three  Vermont  Authors  in  Middlebury. 0RQGD\ 1RY S P 0DLQ DW WKH %ULGJH 7KH 9HUPRQW %RRN 6KRS DQG WKH 1HZ (QJODQG 5HYLHZ 9HUPRQW 5HDGLQJ 6HULHV SUHVHQW WKUHH ZULWHUV LQ WKUHH JHQUHV &DVWOH )UHHPDQ -U .DWKU\Q .UDPHU DQG 5HEHFFD 6WDUNV )UHH /LJKW refreshments  available  for  purchase.
Nov
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Coffee  and  Conversation  group  in  Bristol.  Thursday,  Nov.  12,  10  a.m.,  %ULVWRO )HGHUDWHG &KXUFK $OO RXU ZHOFRPH XVH WKH PLGGOH GRRU RI WKH &KXUFK 6WUHHW HQWUDQFH 'DYH 6KDUSH ZLOO WDON DERXW $FW ,QIR Lap-Âsit  story  time  for  babies  and  toddlers  in  Shoreham.  Thursday,  Nov.  12,  11  a.m.,  Platt  0HPRULDO /LEUDU\ )RU FKLOGUHQ DJHV ZLWK FDUH JLYHU ,QIR RU ZZZ SODWWOLE RUJ Community  College  of  Vermont  information  session  in  Middlebury. 7KXUVGD\ 1RY QRRQ &&9 RIÂż FH 0HUFKDQWV 5RZ &RPH OHDUQ DERXW WDNLQJ FODVVHV DW &&9 DQG UHJLVWHU IRU VSULQJ DQG VXPPHU FODVVHV ,QIR Otter  Creek  Audubon  Society  annual  dinner  and  meeting  in  Middlebury.  Thursday,  Nov.  12,  5:30  S P $PHULFDQ /HJLRQ :LOVRQ 5RDG 6SHDNHU -LP $QGUHZV SUHVHQWV Âł6HOHFWHG 5HSWLOHV DQG $PSKLELDQV RI $GGLVRQ &RXQW\ ´ 5HVHUYDWLRQV QHHGHG IRU GLQQHU DW S P 1R IHH IRU WDON DW S P 5HVHUYDWLRQV 2&$6 PHPEHUV ZLOO receive  invitations  by   mail. Faculty  showcase  dance  concert  at  Middlebury  College.  Thursday,  Nov.  12,  7:30  p.m.,  Mahaney  &HQWHU IRU WKH $UWV $ SHUIRUPDQFH RI RULJLQDO ZRUNV E\ GDQFH IDFXOW\ IURP VHYHUDO FROOHJHV 3DUW RI WKH VHFRQG DQQXDO 9HUPRQW &ROOHJH 'DQFH )HVWLYDO WKLV \HDU KRVWHG E\ 0LGGOHEXU\ &ROOHJH 7LFNHWV RQ VDOH 2FW ,QIR ZZZ PLGGOHEXU\ HGX DUWV RU “Seussicalâ€?  on  stage  in  Bristol.  Thursday,  Nov.  12,  S P 0RXQW $EUDKDP 8QLRQ +LJK 6FKRRO $ SRSXODU WZR DFW PXVLFDO EDVHG RQ WKH ZRUNV RI 'U 6HXVV 7KHRGRUH *HLVHO 5HVHUYHG VHDWLQJ DGXOWV VHQLRUV DQG FKLOGUHQ XQGHU 7LFNHWV EHLQJ VROG RQO\ DW 0DUWLQÂśV +DUGZDUH LQ %ULVWRO $Q\
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Finding  one’s  place LATINO  POET  RICHARD  Blanco,  who  read  at  President  Obama’s  second  inauguration,  presents  “Becoming  American:  An  Inaugural  Poet’s  Journey,�  at  Middlebury  College’s  Mead  Chapel  on  Wednesday,  Nov.  4,  at  7  p.m. Photo  by  Craig  Dilger
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Student  works  concert  at  Middlebury  College.  Friday,  Nov.  13,  4:30  p.m.,  Mahaney  Center  for  the  Arts.  In  conjunction  with  the  Vermont  College  Dance  Festival,  student  choreog- raphers  present  completed  dances  to  each  other,  followed  by  a  feedback  session,  in  an  exchange  of  ideas  and  information.  Tickets  $12/$10/$6,  on  sale  Oct.  26.  Info:  www. middlebury.edu/arts  or  802-Â443-Â3168. “Seussicalâ€?  on  stage  in  Bristol.  Friday,  Nov.  13,  7:30  p.m.,  Mount  Abraham  Union  High  School.  A  popular  two-Âact  musical  based  on  the  works  of  Dr.  Seuss  (Theodore  Geisel).  Reserved  seating:  adults  $11,  seniors  and  children  under  12  $7.  Tickets  being  sold  only  at  Martin’s  Hardware  in  Bristol.  Any  remaining  tickets  will  be  sold  at  the  door.
LI V E M U S I C Myra  Flynn  in  Middlebury.  Friday,  Oct.  30,  8:30-Â10:30  p.m.,  51  Main. Ivory  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  9-Â11  p.m.,  51  Main. The  Horse  Traders  in  Middlebury.  Saturday,  Oct.  31,  9  p.m.,  Two  Brothers  Tavern.
ONGOINGEVENTS By  category:  Farmers’  Markets,  Sports,  Clubs  &  Organizations,  Government  &  Politics,  Bingo,  Fundraising  Sales,  Dance,  Music,  Arts  &  Education,  Health  &  Parenting,  Meals,  Art  Exhibits  &  Museums,  Library  Programs. FARMERS’  MARKETS
Brandon  Farmers’  Market.  Fridays,  mid- May  through  mid-ÂOctober,  9  a.m.-Â2  p.m.,  Brandon  Central  Park.  Fresh  produce,  breads,  jams,  honey,  maple  products  and  crafts.  Info:  802-Â273-Â2655. Middlebury  Farmers’  Market.  Summer  hours:  Wednesdays  and  Saturdays,  9  a.m.-Â12:30  p.m.,  outdoors  at  the  Marble  Works,  May-ÂOctober.  Local  produce,  meats,  fresh  breads,  granola,  prepared  foods,  maple  syrup  and  more.  Info:  www. middleburyfarmersmarket.org  or  on  Facebook. Vergennes  Farmers’  Market.  Thursdays,  3-Â6:30  p.m.,  City  Park.  Rain  or  shine. SPORTS Co-Âed  volleyball  in  Middlebury.  Pick-Âup  games  Monday,  7-Â9  p.m.,  Middlebury  Municipal  Gym.  Jack  Brown,  388-Â2502;Íž  Bruce  at  Middlebury  Recreation  Department,  388-Â8103. CLUBS  &  ORGANIZATIONS ACT  (Addison  Central  Teens).  Drop-Âin  hours  during  the  school  years:  Monday,  Tuesday,  Thursday,  3-Â6  p.m.;Íž  Wednesday  and  Friday,  3-Â7  p.m.  94  0DLQ 6W 0LGGOHEXU\ 7RZQ 2IÂż FH EXLOG ing),  below  rec.  gym.  Teen  drop-Âin  space  for  kids.  Hang  out  with  friends,  play  pool,  watch  movies,  and  eat  great  food.  Baking:  every  Thursday  from  3:30-Â5  p.m.  Info:  388-Â3910  or  www.addisonteens. com. Addison  County  Amateur  Radio  Association.  Sunday,  8  p.m.  On  the  air  on  club  repeater  147.36/147.96  MHz,  100  Hz  access  tone.  Nonmembers  and  visitors  welcome. Addison  County  Emergency  Planning  Committee.  Last  Wednesday,  5  p.m.  State  Police  Barracks.  Public  invited. Addison  County  Republican  Party.  Third  Friday,  7  p.m.,  Ilsley  Library,  Middlebury. Â
897-Â2744. American  Legion  Auxiliary  Post  27.  Fourth  Monday,  7  p.m.  American  Legion,  Wilson  Road,  Middlebury. Addison  County  Council  Against  Domestic  and  Sexual  Violence.  Fourth  Tuesday,  noon-Â1:30  p.m.  Addison  County  Courthouse  in  Middlebury.  388-Â9180. Brandon  Lions  Club.  First  and  third  Tuesday,  7  p.m.,  Brandon  Senior  Center. Brandon  Senior  Citizen  Center.  1591  Forest  Dale  Road.  247-Â3121. Bristol  Historical  Society.  Third  Thursday,  7  p.m.,  Howden  Hall,  19  West  St.,  Bristol. Champlain  Valley  Fiddlers’  Club.  Middlebury  VFW,  530  Exchange  Street.  Third  Sunday  (except  Easter),  noon  to  5  p.m.  Donation  $3.  Refreshments  avail- DEOH /RRNLQJ IRU Âż GGOHUV \RXQJ DQG ROG Open  to  public.  Info:  342-Â0079.  The  Hub  Teen  Center  and  Skatepark.  110  Airport  Drive,  Bristol.  Open  mike  night,  ¿ UVW 7KXUVGD\ RI WKH PRQWK p.m.,  free  for  all  ages;Íž  reserve  a  spot  at  thehub@gmavt.net.  Info:  453-Â3678  or  www.bristolskatepark.com. LGBTQ  (Lesbian,  Gay,  Bisexual,  Transgender,  Queer).  Youth  support  group  meets  Monday  nights,  4-Â6  p.m.,  Turningpoint  Center,  Marble  Works,  Middlebury.  Info:  388-Â4249. Middlebury  Garden  Club.  Second  Tuesday.  Location  varies.  Pat  Morrow,  802-Â462-Â3741. NEAT  (Northeast  Addison  Television)  Channel  16.  Fourth  Monday,  5-Â7  p.m.  NEAT  studio  in  Bristol.  Bruce  Duncan,  bduncan@madriver.com. Neshobe  Sportsman  Club.  Second  Monday,  6  p.m.  potluck;Íž  7  p.m.  meeting.  97  Frog  Hollow  Road  in  Brandon. Otter  Creek  Poets.  Open  poetry  workshop  held  Thursdays,  1-Â3  p.m.  Ilsley  Library  in  Middlebury.  Poets  of  all  ages  are  invited  to  share  their  poetry  for  feedback,  encouragement  and  optional  weekly  assignments.  Bring  a  poem  or  two  to  share  (plus  20  copies).  Led  by  David  Weinstock.  Free. Orwell  Historical  Society.  Fourth  Tuesday,  7:30  p.m.  Orwell  Free  Library. PACT  (People  of  Addison  County  Together).  Third  Thursday,  11:30  a.m.-Â1  S P 9HUPRQW VWDWH RIÂż FH EXLOGLQJ RQ Exchange  St.  in  Middlebury,  Health  Department  conference  room.  989-Â8141. Salisbury  Historical  Society.  First  Saturday,  9:30-Â10:45  a.m.  Salisbury  Congregational  Church. Samaritan’s  Cupboard.  Assembly  of  God  Christian  Center,  1759  Route  7,  Vergennes.  Third  Thursday  through  October.  Vergennes  Lions  Club.  First  and  third  Wednesday,  6:45  p.m.,  American  Legion.  Club  address:  PO  Box  94,  Vergennes,  VT  05491.  Info:  President  Tim  Cowan,  877-Â2382. Vergennes  Rotary  Club.  Tuesday  mornings,  7:15-Â8:30  a.m.,  Champlain  Valley  Christian  School,  2  Church  St.  Breakfast  served  at  7:15  a.m. See  an  extended  calendar  and  a  full  listing  of Â
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I  found  love‌  in  Lincoln One  beautiful  summer  small  Western  town.  Other  cast  evening  a  few  years  ago,  members  include  a  young  man  our  family  was  enjoying  the  with  Williams  syndrome  who  music  at  Festival  on-Âthe- SOD\V RQH RI WKH Âż OPÂśV OHDG Green.  I  can’t  remember  the  ing  roles,  Bulletproof  Jackson.  band  that  was  playing,  only  Several  other  cast  members  that  the  music  was  irresistibly  have  Down  syndrome,  and  danceable.  I  was  on  my  feet,  many  others  are  able  bodied.  moving  to  the  beat,  on  the  left  All  are  participating  in  what  side  of  the  stage.  That’s  when  camp  director  Peter  Halby  I  noticed  a  bunch  of  dancers  calls  “a  radical  experiment  in  nearby,  who  had  obviously  diversity.â€? come  to  the  festival  together,  Zeno  Mountain  Farm  doesn’t  in  a  large  group.  There  might  have  “campersâ€?  and  “counsel- have  been  30  people,  many  ors.â€?  No  one  pays  to  come  to  of  them  with  visible  disabili- camp,  and  no  one  gets  paid  to  be  ties,  each  one  with  one  or  two  there,  either.  Everyone  partici- “abledâ€?  friends.  Many  were  pates  to  their  fullest  potential,  dancing  in  a  hugging  position,  and  everyone  receives  the  beaming  enormous,  radiant  assistance  they  need  to  be  able  by Joanna Colwell smiles. to  take  part  fully.  The  belief  at  Who  were  these  people?  Zeno  Mountain  Farm  is  that  the  I  found  myself  dancing  closer  and  closer.  I  most  important  thing  in  the  whole  world  to  us  wanted  to  be  part  of  this  vortex  of  love  that  as  human  beings  is  friendship,  community  and  seemed  to  have  touched  down  in  the  center  the  knowledge  that  we  matter  to  each  other. of  Middlebury.  Thinking  about  this  moment,  In  classical  yoga  philosophy,  the  universe  several  years  later,  I  can  actually  feel  my  heart  is  made  up  of  two  entities.  In  Sanskrit  these  expand  inside  my  chest! are  called  Prakriti  and  Purusha.  Prakriti  is  the  I  recognized  a  yoga  student  in  that  joyful  primordial  matter  that  makes  up  the  phenom- crowd,  and  asked  her  where  all  these  folks  enal  world.  The  planets,  rocks,  trees,  rivers,  had  come  from.  I  bet  some  of  you  readers  can  even  our  bodies,  are  all  made  of  this  stuff.  The  guess  her  answer:  “Zeno  Mountain  Farm,  in  nature  of  Prakriti  is  that  it  is  always  changing.  Lincoln.â€?  If  you  ever  go  to  Some  changes  happen  quickly,  the  Bristol  Fourth  of  July  ho were OLNH D EXWWHUĂ€ \ VLSSLQJ VRPH parade,  you  may  have  seen  QHFWDU IURP D Ă€ RZHU EHIRUH these Zeno  Mountain  Farm’s  moving  on  to  another  landing  IDEXORXV Ă€ RDW ,W LV DOZD\V people? spot.  Some  changes  happen  amazing.  gradually,  like  the  way  our  hair  My  daughter  attends  I found myself turns  silver  over  time.  Some  the  North  Branch  School,  dancing closer changes  happen  so  slowly  they  in  Ripton,  which  is  now  DUH GLIÂż FXOW WR SHUFHLYH OLNH and closer. I celebrating  their  15th  year.  stones  being  worn  down  by  the  To  mark  the  occasion,  the  wanted to be ULYHUÂśV Ă€ RZ school  is  holding  some  part of this Purusha  is  the  divine  light  special  events  throughout  of  the  soul,  present  inside  WKH \HDU 7KH Âż UVW RI WKHVH vortex of love every  one  of  us.  The  nature  of  ZDV D VFUHHQLQJ RI WKH Âż OP that seemed to Purusha  is  that  it  is  unchang- “Becoming  Bulletproofâ€?  at  ing.  Even  when  the  body  gets  Town  Hall  Theater.  This  is  a  have touched sick  or  injured,  or  dies,  the  light  documentary  about  another  down in the of  the  soul  remains.  Because  the  of  Zeno’s  activities.  Every  practice  of  yoga  brings  us  into  year  they  make  a  movie!  center of direct  awareness  of  our  own  They  have  made  a  pirate  Middlebury. Purusha,  our  deepest,  lumi- movie,  a  superhero  movie  nous  Self,  it  can  help  us  keep  and,  recently,  “Bulletproof  Jackson,â€?  a  Western.  illness  and  loss  in  perspective.  It  can  also  So  I  took  my  seat  at  Town  Hall  Theater,  help  us  relate  to  others  in  a  loving  manner.  If  NQRZLQJ , ZDV DERXW WR VHH D Âż OP DERXW D everyone’s  body  is  a  vessel  containing  their  ¿ OP DQG WKDW LW KDG VRPH FRQQHFWLRQ WR =HQR radiant  Purusha,  does  it  matter  so  very  much  Mountain  Farm.  Beyond  that,  I  didn’t  know  what  we  look  like,  whether  we  need  help  to  what  to  expect.  I  had  no  idea  that  in  the  next  bathe  or  eat,  or  whether  our  voice  is  easy  to  one  hour  and  20  minutes  I  would  feel  like  I  understand? had  made  new  friends  with  people  whose  lives  The  community  of  Zeno  Mountain  Farm  is  a  are  very  different  from  mine.  People  like  A.J.  ZLOG SDUW\ DIÂż UPLQJ WKH ZRUWK RI HYHU\ RQH RI Murray,  a  young  man  from  Atlanta,  Ga.,  with  us.  Right  in  our  own  neighborhood,  up  there  in  cerebral  palsy  so  severe  that  he  needs  help  with  Lincoln,  is  a  bubbling  fountain  of  inclusivity,  every  single  daily  activity.  From  getting  out  of  love  and  delight,  medicine  for  our  world. bed  in  the  morning,  to  brushing  his  teeth  at  Joanna  Colwell  is  the  director  of  Otter  Creek  night,  A.J.  relies  on  others.  An  incredibly  artic- Yoga  in  Middlebury’s  Marble  Works  District.  ulate  speaker,  A.J.  has  always  had  the  dream  -RDQQD LV D FHUWLÂż HG ,\HQJDU \RJD WHDFKHU 6KH of  acting.  lives  in  East  Middlebury  with  her  family,  and  Luckily  a  spot  opens  up  in  Zeno’s  movie- welcomes  feedback  for  this  or  any  column:  making  camp,  and  A.J.  is  cast  as  mayor  of  the  joanna@ottercreekyoga.com.
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asking  her  the  same  questions,  and  that  she  appreciated  his  response. “It’s  not  ‘Shark  Tank’,  but  these  questions  are  appropriate  to  ask,â€?  she  said.  Phelps  said  he  understood. “We’re  just  looking  for  a  com- PLWPHQW IURP WKH WRZQ EHIRUH ZH invest  more  time  and  resources,â€?  he  said. $VHUPLO\ DOVR DVNHG DERXW SDUN- ing,  something  she  said  many  in  WRZQ KDYH DOVR ZRQGHUHG DERXW Phelps  said  NexBridge  added  as  PXFK DV ÂżQDQFLDOO\ IHDVLEOH LQ LWV conceptual  designs,  even  though  ³VWUXFWXUDO SDUNLQJ´ ZDV WKH PRVW expensive  component,  and  it  pre- served  all  of  the  parking  behind  the  library,  even  though  some  of  the  spaces  lie  on  the  lot  to  be  trans- ferred. “We  took  the  approach  in  almost  all  of  the  concepts  of  maximizing  parking  on  the  site,â€?  Phelps  said,  adding  that  parking  studies  might  DOVR VKRZ WKDW SHDN GHPDQG IRU RI- ¿FH DQG UHVLGHQWLDO XVHV ZRXOG QRW coincide.  3KHOSV DQG $OEHUWV DOVR VDLG WKH\ ZRXOG EH ZLOOLQJ WR DGMXVW DQ\ FRQ- struction  schedule  around  the  loom- ing  railroad  bridge  reconstruction  project.  :KHQ DQG LI WKH WRZQ DQG LWV UHVL- dents  and  NexBridge  agree  on  a  de- sign  and  reach  an  agreement,  Phelps  VDLG LW ZRXOG WDNH DW OHDVW D \HDU WR obtain  local  and  state  permits  and  WKHQ PRQWKV WR EXLOG %XW WKH ÂżUVW VWHSV ZRUNLQJ WR- ZDUG D SURMHFW WKDW HYHU\ERG\ DS- SUHFLDWHV ZLOO EH FULWLFDO KH VDLG Âł+RZ ZH SXOO WKLV WRJHWKHU ZLOO EH D FRQYHUVDWLRQ HDUO\ RQ WKDW ZLOO be  very  important,â€?  Phelps  said. Andy  Kirkaldy  may  be  reached  at  andyk@addisonindependent.com. Â
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(Continued  from  Page  1A) projects  in  the  state. $GGLVRQ 5XWODQG &RXQW\ SLSHOLQH But  it  is  those  small,  one-  to  10- ZKLFK LV RYHU EXGJHW DQG DOVR WKH DFUH VRODU DUUD\V GRWWLQJ WKH 5RXWH subject  of  public  opposition. FRUULGRU EHWZHHQ %UDQGRQ DQG %XU- “We  feel  this  is  disheartening,  lington  that  have  many  people  say- that  there  are  not  very  many  energy  ing  enough  is  enough.  Currently,  the  choices  for  this  region,â€?  Peyton  said. largest  solar  installation  in  the  state  She  added  that  the  electrical  infra- LV PHJDZDWWV RQ DERXW DFUHV structure  in  the  Brandon  area  is  “re- DOWKRXJK *UHHQ 0RXQWDLQ 3RZHU LV DOO\ JRRG ´ DQG WKDW WKH WRZQÂśV SUR[- proposing  a  5MW  project  in  Bran- LPLW\ WR 5XWODQG LV FRQYHQLHQW DV WKH GRQ RQ DFUHV DQG LV H\HLQJ WZR city  has  “a  large  need  for  electricity.â€? RWKHU SURMHFWV ZLWK D VLPLODU VFRSH Peyton  said  the  project  represents  HOVHZKHUH LQ 9HUPRQW 7KH VL[ SURM- D PLOOLRQ FDSLWDO LQYHVWPHQW HFWV SURSRVHG E\ 5DQJHU 6RODU ZRXOG IURP 5DQJHU DQG ZRXOG FUHDWH each  cover  more  than  100  acres. short-Âterm  construction  The  Florence  Solar  MREV DQG WZR RU WKUHH “We see these 3URMHFW ZRXOG RFFXS\ full-Âtime  operational  projects are 100  to  140  acres  off  jobs. 6\QGLFDWH 5RDG DQ ROG really great $V IRU ORFDO LQFHQ- Class  IV  dirt  road  that  tives,  Peyton  said  the  opportunities for runs  from  the  end  of  project  is  expected  to  towns. But we Carver  Street  in  Bran- JHQHUDWH DQ- understand that don  to  West  Creek  QXDOO\ LQ QHZ WD[ UHY- these projects 5RDG RQ WKH )ORUHQFH HQXH IRU WKH WRZQ RI must be sited Brandon  border.  Much  Brandon. of  the  road  meanders  Peyton  said  that  appropriately.â€? along  the  Otter  Creek  — Ranger Solar DQG OLHV LQ ORZ ODQG 5DQJHU KDV EHJXQ WKH Development EHWZHHQ :HVW &UHHN permitting  process  and  Manager Liz Peyton 5RDG DQG 5RXWH the  required  studies,  including  an  archaeo- Peyton  said  the  area  logical  study.  She  said  the  required  ZDV FKRVHQ SUHFLVHO\ IRU WKDW UHDVRQ GD\ QRWLFH ÂżOLQJ IRU SXEOLF FRP- “Nobody  is  going  to  drive  by  this  PHQW ZLWK WKH 3XEOLF 6HUYLFH %RDUG project,â€?  she  said,  adding  that  the  ac- LV SODQQHG IRU HDUO\ 1RYHPEHU ZLWK FHVV ZLOO OLNHO\ EH IURP WKH )ORUHQFH the  PSB  permitting  application  to  be  side  of  the  property,  not  the  Brandon  ¿OHG E\ WKH HQG RI WKH \HDU 5DQJHU side. hoped  to  begin  construction  in  spring  Peyton  characterized  the  environ- or  early  summer  and  have  the  project  mental  impact  of  the  project  as  mini- IXOO\ RSHUDWLRQDO E\ 'HFHPEHU mal. Peyton  said. “It’s  the  equivalent  of  driving  a  She  began  her  comments  by  ac- fencepost  into  the  ground,â€?  she  said.  NQRZOHGJLQJ WKH LQFUHDVH LQ SXEOLF “There  are  no  concrete  foundations.â€? concern  over  the  siting  of  solar  ar- There  is  also  a  decommissioning  rays  in  areas  visible  from  roads  and  component  to  the  lease  agreement  KLJKZD\V ZLWK WKH ODQGRZQHU 3H\WRQ VDLG WKH “We  see  these  projects  are  really  lifespan  of  the  array  is  estimated  at  JUHDW RSSRUWXQLWLHV IRU WRZQV ´ VKH \HDUV DIWHU ZKLFK WKH ERQG VDLG Âł%XW ZH XQGHUVWDQG WKDW WKHVH required  as  part  of  the  agreement  projects  must  be  sited  appropriate- ZRXOG EH XVHG WR GHFRQVWUXFW WKH DU- ly.â€? ray  and  return  the  land  to  its  original  The  proliferation  of  solar  projects  use. in  Vermont  in  recent  years  has  been  $W WKLV VL]H WKH )ORUHQFH 6RODU fueled  by  federal  and  state  tax  incen- Project  is  not  entitled  to  any  state  tives,  the  latter  a  priority  of  Vermont  WD[SD\HU VXEVLGLHV VDLG 5DQJHU 9LFH Gov.  Peter  Shumlin  during  his  three  President  Paul  Harris. WHUPV LQ RIÂżFH 7KH SXVK IURP WKH “We  don’t  qualify  for  the  tax  cred- Statehouse  to  encourage  develop- LW VR ZHÂśUH QRW EHLQJ GULYHQ E\ VWDWH PHQW RI UHQHZDEOH HQHUJ\ SURMHFWV incentives,â€?  he  said.  “We’re  driven  in  Vermont,  particularly  solar,  over  by  a  robust  solar  economy  fostered  the  last  six  years  has  resulted  in  al- E\ VRODU JURZWK ´ PRVW MREV DQG TXDGUXSOHG WKH 5HFHQW PHGLD UHSRUWV WKDW WKH 9HU- amount  of  solar  energy  generating  PRQW (OHFWULF 3RZHU &R 9(/&2
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Medical  pot  cultivator  arrested By  LEE  J.  KAHRS Rutland  County  Organics  owner  BRANDON  —  A  man  who  worked  Alexandra  Ford  said  in  a  phone  inter- as  a  cultivator  at  the  medical  marijuana  view  Monday  that  St.  George  has  dispensary  in  Brandon  was  arrested  been  suspended  from  his  full-Âtime  job  last  week  after  he  admitted  growing  as  a  cultivator  at  the  dispensary.  pot  in  the  basement  of  the  building  “He  was  suspended  as  soon  as  where  he  lives. he  disclosed  Brandon  police  “We helped many, this  (arrest)  to  arrested  Benjamin  St.  me,â€?  Ford  said.  George,  37,  on  Oct.  18  many patients, and Âł:H QRWLÂżHG WKH at  his  Steinberg  Road  it’s always heartDepartment  of  apartment.  Another  breaking when an Public  Safety  tenant  in  the  building  and  will  cooper- employee makes had  called  police  after  ate  fully,  as  we  KH UHSRUWHG ÂżQGLQJ a bad decision, always  do.â€? four  marijuana  plants  but it happens Ford  said  St.  growing  in  the  build- and it may cost George  will  ing’s  cellar.  remain  under  According  to  the  them a job, it may suspension  at  police  report,  another  cost them a car, least  until  his  tenant,  Hannah  we don’t know. It Nov.  16  arraign- Davidson,  told  police  won’t affect our ment  in  Rutland  she  believed  the  plants  Court  Superior  belonged  to  St.  George.  ability to help Court,  criminal  When  police  went  to  people.â€? division,  and  St.  George’s  apartment  could  lose  his  job  — Rutland County and  confronted  him,  Organics owner depending  on  the  St.  George  reportedly  Alexandra Ford outcome. acknowledged  that  the  The  Brandon  plants  were  his.  He  told  d i s p e n - police  that  he  had  originally  planted  sary  opened  in  the  fall  of  2013,  WKH PDULMXDQD SODQWV LQ D EDFN ÂżHOG after  approval  from  the  Brandon  on  the  farm  property  surrounding  the  Development  Review  Board  and  a  house  in  August  and  recently  brought  settlement  of  an  appeal  from  neigh- them  inside  to  the  basement  because  boring  property  owners  on  that  deci- of  the  cold  weather.  Police  said  the  sion  to  the  Environmental  Court. plants  stood  roughly  2.5-Âfeet  high. The  Vermont  Medical  Marijuana  According  to  police,  St.  George  law  of  2004  allowed  for  up  to  four  moved  to  the  Steinberg  Road  apart- medical  marijuana  dispensaries  state- ment  in  August  2014  and  was  wide  to  serve  almost  500  patients  on  employed  by  the  Rutland  County  the  state  medical  marijuana  registry.  Organics  medical  marijuana  dispen- The  Brandon  dispensary  was  the  sary  on  Lover’s  Lane  in  Brandon.  He  third  to  open.  There  are  also  dispen- told  police  he  planted  the  marijuana  saries  operating  in  Burlington  and  plants  for  his  own  use. in  Waterbury.  There  are  almost  200 Â
patients  on  the  state  registry  living  in  four  southern  counties  of  Vermont  who  are  unable  to  access  the  more  northern  dispensaries. By  law,  a  patient  must  suffer  from  a  “debilitating  medical  conditionâ€?  in  order  to  qualify  for  the  medical  marijuana  registry.  State  law  allows  patients  suffering  from  illnesses  such  as  cancer,  AIDS,  HIV,  glaucoma,  multiple  sclerosis,  wasting  disease,  or  Parkinson’s  disease  to  access  medical  marijuana  in  order  to  alleviate  their  symptoms  and  improve  their  quality  of  life.  Patients  must  have  the  approval  of  a  physician  they  have  been  seeing  for  at  least  six  months,  who  authorizes  the  use  of  medical  marijuana  for  the  patient  once  all  other  avenues  have  been  exhausted.  Patients  must  be  screened  by  the  Department  of  Public  Safety,  submit  to  a  background  check  and  agree  to  no-Âknock  searches  by  law  enforcement  before  being  accepted  onto  the  state  registry. The  dispensaries  operate  under  the  authority  of  the  state  Department  of  Public  Safety. 7KLV LV WKH ÂżUVW DUUHVW RU FULPL- nal  incident  related  to  the  Brandon  dispensary  in  the  two  years  since  it  opened.  Ford  said  she  will  continue  to  operate  the  facility  in  good  faith  and  stay  on  mission. “We  helped  many,  many  patients,â€?  she  said,  “and  it’s  always  heartbreak- ing  when  an  employee  makes  a  bad  decision,  but  it  happens  and  it  may  cost  them  a  job,  it  may  cost  them  a  car,  we  don’t  know.  It  won’t  affect  our  ability  to  help  people.â€? She  paused. “It  was  a  single  employee  who  made  a  very  poor  and  disappointing  choice.â€?
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SHOREHAM  —  A  truck  crash  on  Route  22A  on  Tuesday  morning  resulted  in  the  state  highway  being  closed  in  Bridport,  Shoreham  and  Orwell  for  more  than  two  hours. Vermont  State  Police  reported  that  at  around  8:30  a.m.  on  Oct.  27  a  2014  5\GHU )5+7 7UXFN ZLWK Ă€DW EHG WUDLOHU drove  off  the  western  side  of  Route  22A  in  Shoreham.  The  driver  of  the  truck,  65-Âyear-Âold  Austin  Aubin  of  Charlestown,  N.H.,  was  not  injured.  But  the  crash  made  such  a  mess  that  troop- ers  closed  the  road.  Shoreham  Volunteer  Fire  Department  personnel  also  came  to  help  out. Both  northbound  and  southbound  lanes  of  Route  22A  were  shut  down  from  the  Route  125  in  Bridport  to  Route  74  in  Orwell. Police  reported  that  the  truck  was  removed  by  11:12  a.m.  and  both  lanes  of  travel  were  opened.
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tested  for  contaminants,  according  to  the  Vermont  Department  of  Health,  ZKLFK ZDV UHFHQWO\ ZDV DZDUGHG ÂżYH years  of  federal  funding  ($670,010)  to  reduce  contaminant  exposures  from  private  drinking  water  sources.  Grant  funds  will  be  used  to  support  water  testing  for  vulnerable  populations  that  are  at  greatest  risk,  especially  chil- dren  and  pregnant  women,  as  well  as  to  compile  and  analyze  private  well  testing  data  to  identify  geographic  areas  where  drinking  water  supplies  may  put  vulnerable  populations  at  increased  risk  of  adverse  health  ef- fects.  Naturally  occurring  contami- nants  —  such  as  arsenic  and  uranium  —  are  colorless,  odorless  and  taste- less.  Long-Âterm  exposure  to  these  and  other  drinking  water  contaminants  can  have  adverse  health  effects.  The  Health  Department  offers  test  kits  for  sale  to  the  public  and  recommends  that  private  water  sources  be  tested  for  coliform  bacteria  every  year  and  be  tested  for  inorganic  chemicals  and  IRU JURVV DOSKD UDGLDWLRQ HYHU\ ÂżYH years.
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ÂżHOGV DZD\ IURP WUHHV LQFOXGLQJ The  loss  of  these  27  acres,  while  “solar,â€?  those  are  now  27  acres  bobo- seemingly  small  in  and  of  itself,  is  links  are  unlikely  to  use,  mowed  or  part  of  what  state  wildlife  experts  see  unmowed,  according  to  the  experts. as  one  of  Vermont’s  greatest  habitat  “In  the  grand  scheme  of  things  challenges,  the  piecemeal  fragmenta- that’s  a  bad  deal  for  bobolinks,â€?  said  tion  of  habitat  as  one  small  piece  here  Allan  Strong,  an  associate  profes- or  there  gets  pulled  out  of  habitat  and  sor  in  the  University  of  Vermont’s  into  human  development. Natural  Resources  and  Wildlife  and  “These  habitat  losses  are  insidi- Fisheries  Biology  programs  and  the  ous  over  time,â€?  Gobeille  said.  “They  Vermont-Âside  leader  of  the  New  Eng- keep  occurring.  And  a  lot  of  people  land-Âwide  Bobolink  Project. will  think,  ‘Well,  it’s  just  this  20  acres  DECLINE  OF  A  VT  BIRD here,’  but  it’s  not.  It’s  the  20  acres  the  Over  the  past  50  years,  bobolinks  next  road  over,  the  next  town  over.  It  have  declined  in  Vermont  by  75  per- all  sort  of  adds  up,  so  we  have  to  be  cent  as  the  open  grasslands  they  need  very  vigilant  about  habitat  loss.  We  to  nest  have  given  way  to  develop- QHHG WR SURWHFW LW ZKHUHYHU ZH ÂżQG ment  and  as  farming  practices  have  it.â€? led  to  earlier  haying.  Bobolinks  nest  Bobolinks  are  important  because  in  open  grasslands  from  about  mid- they  are  among  39  bird  May  to  mid-ÂJuly,  and  baby  VSHFLHV LGHQWLÂżHG E\ WKH “Protecting birds  can  get  munched  up  state  as  “species  of  great- hay  mowers  at  what  wildlife is not by  est  conservation  need.â€?  experts  describe  as  a  “100  (An  additional  12  species  something percent  mortality  rate.â€?  To  are  designated  threatened  you can make  matters  more  com- or  endangered).  Bobolinks  just put a plicated,  around  90  per- are  also  considered  an  in- monetary cent  of  bobolink  habitat  dicator  species,  whose  value on.â€? in  Vermont  is  on  private  overall  health  and  habitat  land,  as  most  public  lands  —  state wildlife needs  helps  us  understand  are  forest,  not  open  grass- biologist other  grasslands  birds  on  land. John Gobeille 9HUPRQWÂśV RIÂżFLDO WKUHDW- Strong  and  the  Bobolink  ened  and  endangered  list  Project  have  been  working  like  the  upland  sandpiper  and  the  with  farmers  to  encourage  later  mow- grasshopper  sparrow. ing  practices,  so  that  more  baby  birds  Given  bobolinks’  status  as  a  “spe- make  it  through  the  haying  season.  cies  of  greatest  conservation  need,â€?  But  habitat  loss  is  a  different  issue.  Gobeille  suggested  possible  mitiga- In  a  sort  of  wildlife-Âmanagement  tion  strategies  for  the  Next  Genera- Catch-Â22,  the  state  faces  both  escalat- tion  array,  including  moving  the  ar- ing  challenges  from  climate  change  rays  toward  the  side  rather  than  the  and,  according  to  the  Wildlife  Ac- middle  of  the  site  to  preserve  more  tion  Plan,  loss  of  habitat  to  renew- habitat  or  keeping  the  array  site  as  able  energy  development  that  leaves  already  planned  and  mitigating  the  many  species  less  able  to  withstand  loss  of  habitat  by  paying  for  bobolink  the  challenges  that  climate  change  is  conservation  measures  elsewhere.  bringing. These  so-Âcalled  offsite  mitigation  Fully  19  percent  of  Vermont’s  268  options  can  include  paying  into  the  ELUG VSHFLHV DUH LGHQWLÂżHG LQ WKH UH- UVM  Bobolink  Project  to  help  farm- vised  2015  draft  Wildlife  Action  Plan  ers  defray  the  cost  of  losing  an  early  as  “species  of  greatest  conservation  mowing  or  helping  to  purchase  lands  QHHG ´ 7KH SODQ DOVR LGHQWLÂżHV ÂłFRQ- or  land  easements  elsewhere.  version  of  forest  and  grassland  habitat  Vandal  said  that  Green  Peak  Solar  to  utility-Âscale  wind  and  solar  energy  worked  with  the  ANR  once  it  found  generationâ€?  as  “perhaps  the  single  out  that  the  Field  Days  site  was  home  PRVW VLJQLÂżFDQW HPHUJLQJ LVVXH LP- to  bobolinks.  It  worked  out  a  plan  pacting  birds  in  Vermont  during  the  ZLWK DJHQF\ RIÂżFLDOV DQG ERWK VLGHV last  10  years.â€?  signed  a  memorandum  of  understand- Wind  and  solar  energy  develop- ing.  ment,  the  plan  explains,  still  leads  to  “We  reached  an  agreement  about  “habitat  loss  and  impairment.â€?  And,  things  that  the  project  would  do  to  try  as  the  plan  discusses,  species  driven  to  mitigate  impacts  to  bobolinks  and  to  more  marginal  and  fragmented  what  it  primarily  came  down  to  was  habitat  have  less  ability  to  withstand  leaving  areas  outside  of  the  fence  as  the  challenges  of  climate  change. not  mowing  them  more  than  once  per  The  plan  continues  its  descrip- year,â€?  Vandal  said.  “They  also  wanted  tion  of  the  habitat/climate  change  some  similar  restrictions  relative  to  tightrope  that  wildlife  management  some  class  2  wetlands.â€? strategies  will  have  to  address:  “The  So  seven  acres  around  the  20-Âacre  seemingly  benign  impact  of  alterna- fenced  array  will  be  mowed  only  after  tive  energy  development  to  the  pub- Aug.  1  and  only  once  a  year.  lic  will  create  a  challenge  to  ‌  bi- ,I WKLV ZHUH D KD\ ÂżHOG $15ÂśV VWLS- ologists  when  developing  equitable Â
habitat  mitigation.  A  sound  depiction  of  the  problem  and  reasonable  solu- tions  will  have  to  be  narrated  by  the  Department  to  achieve  bird  conserva- tion  success.â€?  That  bit  of  bureaucratese  means  that  what’s  happening  on  Field  Days  Road  is,  one  20-Âsomething-Âacre  chunk  at  a  time,  what’s  happening  to  birds  across  the  state  as  communities  and  state  agencies  wrestle  with  how  to  regulate  development  —  including  the  development  of  renewable  energy  —  in  a  way  that  most  broadly  serves  the  public  good. PIECEMEAL Both  Strong  and  Gobeille  describe  ANR’s  current  approach  to  renewable  energy  and  species  habitat  as  “piece- meal.â€? According  to  Gobeille,  ANR  is  working  on  a  policy  about  habitat  mitigation  and  renewables  develop- PHQW WKDW ZLOO KDYH WKH RIÂżFLDO EDFN- ing  of  the  entire  agency.  He  antici- SDWHV WKDW DQ RIÂżFLDO SROLF\ PLJKW EH worked  out  and  on  the  record  by  the  end  of  the  year.  In  the  absence  of  such  DQ RIÂżFLDO SROLF\ )LVK DQG :LOGOLIH ÂżHOG VFLHQWLVWV FDQ YLVLW SURSRVHG VLWHV and  can  recommend  mitigation  strate- gies,  but  these  recommendations  will  likely  be  overlooked. “It’s  tough,â€?  said  Strong  on  the  challenges  of  weighing  the  various  human  and  environmental  factors  in  siting  solar  and  other  renewables.  “For  nearly  all  species  of  wild- life,  large,  unfragmented  patches  of  habitat  will  be  more  likely  to  pro- tect  populations  than  small  isolated  parcels,â€?  he  continued.  “A  strong  mitigation  policy  around  the  loss  of  grassland  habitat  would  improve  habitat  quality  for  grassland  birds,  as  well  as  allow  better  planning  in  terms  of  where  we  want  to  prioritize  their  conservation.â€? Strong’s  impression  is  that  the  con- siderable  evidence  in  favor  of  push- ing  effective  mitigation  strategies  is  shared  amongst  Fish  and  Wildlife  ¿HOG VFLHQWLVWV EXW QHHGV XSSHU OHYHO agency  backing. Said  Strong,  “I  just  don’t  know  at  this  point  if  they’ve  gotten  enough  LQWHUQDO VXSSRUW WR VD\ WKLV LV RIÂżFLDO policy.  That’s  sort  of  the  way  that  I  read  it.  It’s  a  policy  that  they’re  still  trying  to  push  through.  But  I  get  the  impression  that  they’re  still  doing  this  on  a  piecemeal  basis.â€? “Protecting  wildlife  is  not  some- thing  you  can  just  put  a  monetary  val- ue  on,â€?  said  Gobeille,  “I  can’t  tell  you  that  every  deer  or  every  bobolink  is  worth  this  much  money.  But  wildlife  is  part  of  our  natural  heritage  in  Ver- mont.  We’re  not  just  sidewalks  and  cars  and  highways.  We  have  a  natural  environment  here,  a  beautiful  state,  and  these  are  all  part  of  our  native  ZLOGOLIH $QG WKH EHQHÂżW WR SHRSOH ² it  could  be  something  as  very  direct  as  putting  deer  meat  on  your  table  for  your  family  every  fall  or  it  could  just  be  the  peace  and  solace  of  a  hike  in  Vermont  and  seeing  wildlife.â€?
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