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65-mile walk takes aim at global warming

Five-day hike to Montpelier marked by highs and lows

By CHRISTOPHER ROSS MONTPELIER — Without a word, more than 300 climate justice activists filed into the Statehouse Tuesday afternoon. The youngest of them, carrying pussy willows, gathered in the center of the

first-floor lobby, bathed in warm lamplight, and the rest filled in around them. Members of the press wove themselves into the group, too, jostling and beeping and clicking.

Once everyone had found their place, 600 hands shot into the air

with a great swish of windbreaker and raincoat sleeves, and 3,000 fingers began to count down from 10.

The moment between one and zero — between an index-fingered gesture of declamation and a closedfisted gesture of power — seemed to occupy an eternity, but fists were never used on this day. Instead, those gathered in the lobby, even as they withdrew their hands, renewed

themselves with one long breath — and began to sing.

Textured and warm, the sound poured over the lobby and down the halls. The deep pain expressed by opening stanzas of the song gave way to great hope, and then to silence once again.

Then one by one the youngest of them pleaded with their legislators to take immediate action to address climate change.

What was performed in that lobby could have been organized with a simple meeting beforehand, and to some degree it was. Just before their arrival, the singers had gathered nearby in Christ Church to organize themselves into groups that knew where to go and when.

What made that performance powerful, however, was the walking journey that had begun five days and (See Walk, Page 11A)

ON SATURDAY, CLIMATE justice activists hiked from Bristol to Hinesburg, completing the second leg of the five-day Next Steps Climate Solutions Walk in the shadow of the Hogback Mountains. The journey began on Middlebury’s Green and ended Tuesday in Montpelier. Activists were protesting the Vermont legislature’s inaction on climate change issues.

Independent photo/Christopher Ross

ACSD names new leaders for Cornwall, Mary Hogan and Weybridge schools

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — New principals this summer will take charge at four of the Addison Central School District’s seven elementary schools.

Three have already been hired: Nicole Carter, recently chosen to succeed longtime Weybridge Elementary School Principal Christina Johnston; Heather Raabe, who will replace Jen Kravitz at the Bingham Memorial School in Cornwall; and Kravitz, who will move from Cornwall to the helm of Middlebury’s Mary Hogan Elementary.

By the way It’s maple season, and the Robinson School Nature Club in Starksboro last week decided to measure the circumference of (See By the way, Page 12A)

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Steve Lindemann — current interim leader at Mary Hogan — chose not to apply for the job he has held since taking over for former Principal Tom Buzzell last summer, according to ACSD Superintendent Peter Burrows.

The Independent in February interviewed Kravitz on her move to Mary Hogan, and she’ll be aided by a new assistant principal: Michaela Wisell, currently the social emotional learning coordinator in the Mount Abraham Unified School District.

Meanwhile, a search committee (See ACSD, Page 12A)

Climate in spotlight at legislative breakfast

By JOHN FLOWERS WEYBRIDGE — While more than 200 hearty climatechange activists on Monday morning were battling rain, hail and wind during the final leg of their symbolic walk from Middlebury to the Statehouse in Montpelier, a much smaller group of citizens was meeting with local lawmakers in Weybridge to lobby for legislation aimed at reducing the state’s carbon footprint.

The proposed legislation includes bills H.439 and S.171, both of which call for a bump in fossil fuel taxes to bolster Vermont’s home weatherization programs. Supporters argue weatherizing more Vermont structures will result in less demand for fossil fuels and therefore reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

The House recently passed H.439, authored by the House Ways & Means Committee, calling for a 2-cent increase in the fuel tax to raise an additional $4.5 million for weatherization assistance and furnace replacement for low-income homeowners and renters.

Meanwhile, the Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee — chaired by Sen. Chris Bray, D-New Haven — is considering (See Breakfast, Page 14A)

Local prof puts mark on water-testing bill S.40 would help schools ‘get the lead out’

By JOHN FLOWERS MIDDLEBURY — If state lawmakers pass a new bill aimed at ridding school water systems of lead, Middlebury College Prof. Molly Costanza-Robinson is one of several people Vermont students should thank.

Costanza-Robinson, a professor of chemistry and biochemistry, provided key testimony at the Vermont Statehouse this past winter on her experiences testing water at Middlebury-area schools and on the importance of preventing people — especially children — from ingesting

lead. Medical research has linked lead poisoning to brain and nervous system problems in humans.

Her contributions — and those of her students who assisted her in testing water at the nine Addison Central School District schools — helped inform the composition of bill S.40, which has passed the Senate and now reposes in the House

Human Services Committee. The bill, among other things, proposes to require all schools and child care facilities in Vermont to test their drinking water outlets for lead contamination. If samples indicate lead at levels exceeding an “action level” defined of 5 parts per billion, the bill would require the school or (See Lead testing, Page 16A)

City council backs truck route plan

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The Vergennes City Council on Tuesday agreed to make a formal resolution to support an alternate route that would take through truck traffic out of the city’s downtown and send it along a new road through northern Vergennes that could be built in 15 years.

Vermont Agency of Transportation officials and traffic consultants have recommended as their top option a $39 million road that would, heading north, run from Route 22A/West Main Street near the Panton line, cross Otter Creek on a new bridge, and rejoin Route 22A/North Main Street not far north of the Vergennes police station.

Tentative plans call for (See City trucks, Page 15A)

Water skis

EARLY APRIL ISN’T usually shorts and tank-top weather, but this participant in last Saturday’s Pond Skim event at the Snow Bowl ski area begged to differ. She and 79 other skiers took part in the event, in which they built up speed skiing on the snow of the Lower Allen Trail until they slid across a temporary pond constructed just for this event. It was a fundraiser for the Middlebury Ski Club’s scholarship fund. See more photos on Page 13A. Photo by Benjy Renton/Middlebury Campus

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Pale Horse tattoo shop puts its mark on body art ‘A-Train,’ Clingenpeel gaining following

By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — The incessant hammering of two tattoo machines assaults the senses when you open the door of Pale Horse tattoo shop in downtown Brandon. Inside the studio, two bewhiskered men go about the business of putting permanent paintings on people.

Anthony “A-Train” Hylton is working at his tattoo shop today but he soon will be opening a second Pale Horse shop in the Outer Banks of North Carolina, a step towards expanding his award-winning art to new locations.

Hylton has been creating tattoo art PALE HORSE ARTISTS inked a at his shop in Brandon since he and colorful bouquet of flowers onto his shop artist and friend Andrew the skin of another satisfied cusClingenpeel moved from Killington tomer.

Courtesy photo to open it five years ago. “A-Train,” “I learned you have to appreciate as everyone calls him, was born and ARTIST ANDREW CLINGENPEEL, left, and Anthony “A-Train” Hylton, raised in West Virginia and his road every artist from any walk of life, no owner/artist, run the Pale Horse tattoo shop in downtown Brandon. matter the caliber of the artist, because to owning a tattoo shop in Brandon Hylton will soon open a second Pale Horse shop; this one in the Outer that person may just go on to be the stretches from coast-to-coast. He’s Banks of North Carolina. been in the body art business for 15 next famous tattoo artist,” he said.

Independent photo/Russell Jones “Those are your peers and giving them years.

The road started when he apprenticed the confidence to put their art on other where it is located now and decided to gotten a tattoo but had served in the Navy, called up one day and told him for a year in Beckley, W.Va., before people is what changed this industry.” focus solely on tattoos.

Now, he is getting ready to return to he wanted to get a big sailing ship opening his own shop there. He said FROM THERE TO HERE Back in 2012, “A-Train” met his North Carolina to open a second shop. tattoo, but was not ready for a big he was having a great time being at the current business partner, Clingenpeel, “We’ll be opening up a Pale Horse tattoo, so his son told him they’d start forefront of the artistic revolution that while working at Island Tattoo on the down there for the May through small. was going on in the tattoo industry, Outer Banks in North September months,” he said. “It’s a “There is a very famous, old design, but with no other artists Carolina. big step for us. We wanted to do this that was used by Sailor Jerry and Ed to share the burden in his “It’s hard to Clingenpeel, who grew years ago.”

Hardy when they were tattooing back shop, he quickly got burnt draw a circle up near Ludlow, Vt., went While “A-Train” is away in the in the day, of an anchor with a banner out. to art school in Savannah, Outer Banks, Clingenpeel will take that says ‘Mom’ or something,” “When I started, you that covers Ga., studying fine art. His over duties as primary artist for the explained “A-Train.” He convinced would come in and pick the top of interest in illustration led Brandon shop, although “A-Train” his dad to do a smaller version of that your design off the posters someone’s him to tattooing and he will be in and out of the shop, as well. idea with a fun twist. “I told my dad, on the wall,” he said. “You head. So we learned how to ink skin MEMORABLE TATOOS ‘Let’s do a wiener dog shaped like an got the picture on the wall, cut circles in in a shop in Burlington.

Looking back on his 15 years anchor.’” in the same size as it was cardboard After four years there, he of tattooing, “A-Train” said he has His dad had always owned on the wall, or you didn’t and laid it out moved to North Carolina tattooed every part of the human body dachshunds and so, the first tattoo that get a tattoo.” and ended up at Island you can imagine. One of the tattoos he put on a family member was an The business started on top of his he had the most fun with, he said, was anchor-shaped dachshund. to evolve that same head to get the Tattoo with “A-Train.”

After the Outer Banks putting a plate of bacon and eggs on “That was the first time my family year mainly because of design right. I shop closed for the top of a client’s head. accepted it fully,” he said. “It was so television shows like had fun with summer, Clingenpeel “It’s hard to draw a circle that goofy, but it was perfect. It was perfect “Inkmaster” and “L.A. that one.” convinced “A-Train” to covers the top of someone’s head,” he for him and who he was.”

Ink.” — “A-Train” move to Vermont for the said chuckling. “So we cut circles in “A-Train” said that the Brandon “Six months into my winter, and the two went cardboard and laid it out on top of his Pale Horse will be slowly stepping apprenticeship, everything changed to custom drawn actual art,” to work at a shop on the Mountain head to get the design right. I had fun in to body jewelry, and once the summer is over they will see what with that one.” said the burly 35-year-old. “Those TV Road in Killington.

“A-Train” had decided he was going One of the more memorable tattoos new possibilities come up for the Pale shows allowed people to see the true Horse brand. artistic quality that could be realized to buy the shop in the Outer Banks was the one he did for his father. that winter, but as it sometimes does, “Maybe one day we’ll expand “My parents were cool when I was from tattoos.”

As “A-Train” became more skilled life got in the way. Instead, he started growing up. They wouldn’t let me be statewide,” he said. “I love it here in how to properly apply tattoos, his tattooing in Middlebury the next year a savage, but I could be an individual,” in Brandon. Our clients come to us biggest problem was figuring out how and eventually opened the Pale Horse he recalled. “When I told them I because we’re extremely good at what wanted to be a tattoo artist, I know my we do… It’s the best career anyone to turn his artwork on a page into art in Brandon.

When it opened it was going to be a mom cried.” could ask for and you couldn’t pay me on the skin.

After several years in the business, to stop doing what I’m doing.”

That is when an imaginative idea tattoo shop, massage studio, and retail shop. Eventually, he moved the Pale he had still never tattooed a family “It’s in my blood,” he said. “I’ll helped take his art to the next level.

“I thought, what if I just traveled. Horse across the street to 22 Center St., member until his dad, who had never never get it out of me.”

I can hook up with shops all over the country, go to competitions, and meet other artists,” he recalled.

So he sat down with a map and drew out a route from West Virginia that led him south to North Carolina and west to Tennessee then heading back north to Ohio and Pennsylvania before leading back to West Virginia for the holidays.

After two years in Roanoke, Va., “A-Train” again went on the road. He stopped for stints at award-winning studios and started taking home trophies from different competitions all over the country.

“It was a giant breath of fresh air for my career,” he said. “The exposure I got to other artists who were pushing the boundaries of what you could do with tattoos was great. I was meeting new artists and working on art projects. I finally had someone to bounce ideas off of and talk about different techniques.”

Hylton’s experiences during his AT THE BEGINNING of the process of transferring a tattoo idea from paper to skin, A-Train outlines the detravels across the country helped sign in stencil and sharpie and then begins to ink it on the skin. Later in the process, he shades in some finer shape him into not only the artist he is details as he finalizes the tattoo.

Independent photo/Russell Jones today, he said, but also the man he is.

Residents picked to serve in Ferrisburgh

Board had choices for some posts

By ANDY KIRKALDY Huffaker, with Benoit opposed.

FERRISBURGH — The However, the board unanimously Ferrisburgh selectboard at its approved Olson as an alternate April 2 meeting made a series representative to the solid waste of appointments to local boards. district.

It had two candidates to choose Other appointments included: from for two of the jobs — • Zoning Board of Adjustment. representing Ferrisburgh on Bob Beach and John Paul were the Addison Northwest School reappointed, and Hinsdale, elected District (ANWSD) and Addison in March to the selectboard County Solid Waste Management stepped down.

District (ACSWMD) boards.

The selectboard interviewed Selectboard Chairman Rick two candidates to replace Hinsdale Ebel said the board was pleased — Kristin DeBellis and Nick to see the interest in serving the Thomann — but a third candidate, community, even if choices were Katie Quinn, could not make the difficult. meeting. Zoning board chairman “It’s a good problem to have. Norman Smith also noted that his The tough thing was we had to board had interviewed DeBellis make decisions,” Ebel said. and Quinn, but not Thomann.

The choice for ANWSD board The selectboard tabled the member was between appointment until the former multi-term The ANWSD final two interviews Ferrisburgh Central board formally could be done.

School board member Ebel this Monday Bill Clark and retired approved again noted the Vermont State Bill Clark’s multiple candidates.

Police officer Chris appointment on “I hope we can Campbell, who Ebel Monday. keep up this level of said has children in engagement,” he said. the ANWSD system • P l a n n i n g and is “highly engaged” in the Commission. The selectboard local schools. reappointed Bessie Sessions and Ebel told the Independent both Mike Quinn, but one vacancy candidates made compelling remains. cases, and the board recessed • Addison County Regional to meet behind closed doors Planning Commission.

The before opting for Campbell, 4-1. selectboard reappointed Tim Ebel said he, Jim Benoit, Clark Davis, Arabella Holzapfel Hinsdale and Red Muir voted and Huffaker as Ferrisburgh for Bill Clark, with the previous representatives to the ACRPC, board experience one reason. and reappointed Huffaker to the Jessica James cast the vote for ACRPC’s key Transportation Campbell.

Advisory Committee.

Afterward, Ebel said and board • Conservation Commission. minutes reflect board members’ The selectboard appointed Ron hope that Campbell will seek DeBellis and Jadziah Hannonoffice in the future.

Moonstone to the Ferrisburgh “We were asking, ‘Why can’t Conservation Commission; one we have two positions, because vacancy remains on that panel. these guys are both great,’” Ebel According to Town Clerk said, adding, “Hopefully he Gloria Warden this week, despite will be engaged in some other competition for some positions, capacity.” others remain open above The ANWSD board formally and beyond the planning and approved Clark’s appointment on conservation vacancies. The town Monday. is seeking three alternates to the The board ended up similarly regional planning commission, split on the choice for ACSWMD three fence viewers, a first representative. Board members constable, two town auditors, a interviewed both incumbent Steve town agent, and a delinquent tax Huffaker and another resident collector. who expressed interest, David Those interested may Olson. send letters of interest to the According to minutes, after Ferrisburgh Selectboard, c/o discussion, Ebel, Hinsdale, Ferrisburgh Town Clerk, 3279 James and Muir voted for Route 7, Ferrisburgh, VT 05456.

Middlebury reappraisal nearly done; property values reset MIDDLEBURY — Data collection is now complete for Middlebury’s new townwide reappraisal, with new property values to take effect for the 2019 grand list year (April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020), according to an April 3 update issued by the town of Middlebury.

Preliminary values, prepared by New England Municipal Resource Center (NEMRC), will be given to Middlebury Assessor Alison Joseph by the end of this month. Once those values are reviewed by the assessor, the information will be ready for publication.

The town is targeting early June for the mailing of “official notice of change of appraisal” booklets to

property owners.

Folks who want to contest their new property valuations can book a “pre-grievance” meeting, from June 18-21, to review their record and ask questions prior to entering the official grievance process. Those who want to go through that process must make appointments to meet with NEMRC staff between June 25-28.

Folks dissatisfied with the result of their grievance effort can take their case to the Middlebury Board of Civil Authority. The BCA will begin holding hearings in August and will continue to do so until all appeals are heard.

For more information, log on to townofmiddlebury.org.

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 11, 2019 — PAGE 3A

ANWSD job changes not yet decided

IRIS WYATT, LEFT, 8th grade, Phoebe Hussey, 9th grade and Isa Beck, 9th grade, get in character for “The Tower,” North Branch School’s upcoming play.

Photos courtesy North Branch School

North Branch students to perform original play RIPTON — The North Branch School, a small school for grades 7-9 in Ripton, will present its annual play, “The Tower,” on April 12 and 13 in the Ripton town firehouse.

Each year the students in the

GILES HEILMAN, A grade 7 student at North Branch School, poses in character for the North Branch School’s upcoming play, “The Tower.”

school create a play of their own invention, using their stories and poetry, current political and cultural events, experiences from the school year, individual musical talents, and topics the class studied to create an original theatrical production.

“It’s unlike any play you will ever see, in the sense that everyone in the school — the cast — writes it, together,” said Tal Birdsey, the school’s head teacher and director “Anyone involved in theater will tell you this is impossible, especially with such a diverse collection of kids, but they’ve pulled it off again.

The energy and humor they create is astonishing. And they still manage to say something important.”

This year’s play centers on a small coastal town in South Carolina. Established and conventional, the town and its original inhabitants are sent into a state of rage-filled chaos when some very “strange and weird” people move into their community. The play revolves around the destructive outcomes that occur when groups judge each other primarily from their superficial “identities,” rather than for each persons’ distinctly individual and unique qualities.

While humans may appear to be one way on the outside, they often share more than they could imagine.

Hovering over the town is a large,

VIVIAN SEIGFRIED, LEFT, 8th grade, Jholaia Pschorr, 7th grade, and Isabelle Wyatt, 7th grade, are ready to perform “The Tower,” a play written and produced entirely by North Branch School.

mysterious stone tower, which ing to push it the edge,” said Birdsey. simultaneously inspires fear and The students begin writing the curiosity in the townspeople. Who, play in January. This year, the or what resides there? What will school’s over-arching thematic focus become of the townspeople if they has been Utopia and Dystopia. The venture into the tower? students have, among other things, “We know that kids read “To Kill A Mockthis age project their fears ingbird,” studied the inwardly or outwardly,” “Almost Berlin Wall, Black Lives said Birdsey. “We also unconsciously, Matter, Henry David know that as a nation we the kids put Thoreau, the History of have historically feared their feelings the Holocaust, and the ‘otherness’ — from other history of Women’s Sufand ideas, races, religions, belief frage. One presentation systems, country of ori- both about was focused narrowly on gins. We often think we themselves the history of the “Pink are protecting something and about Triangle” as both a symby putting up walls to history and bol of human oppression otherness, when in fact our national and political power. walls and divisions “Almost unconsciousculture, into shrink us and limit us.” ly, the kids put their The play is laced with the play.” feelings and ideas, both serious themes, but the — Tal Birdsey about themselves and main vehicle is humor. about history and our “We use a lot of ridicunational culture, into lous, over-the-top satire — it’s kind the play,” said Birdsey. “It all comes of a blend of Saturday Night Live from them. And they take great pride and Monty Python run through the in what they make. It’s not a script bodies and minds of adolescents. that was handed to them. It comes Our school has a remarkably loose out of them and they feel like they and transgressive sense of humor. are entering into the world on their You can be assured that they are go- terms.”

The students round up all the props and costumes, make the play posters, help create the sets, and do all the stage management and setcrew work themselves. They also fill the scene changes with music. Every student who wants to can play or sing in the dark between scenes. “This is one of the most exciting aspects of the production,” remarked Birdsey.

“They get to bring their own talents to the play, and it ends up being a great celebration of performance and community.”

Most years, the play is performed in the Ripton Community House.

Due to ongoing renovations at the RCH, this year’s North Branch School play will be performed in the Ripton town firehouse. “The firehouse lacks a bit in ambiance and smells like smoke and rubber, but it’s big and it’s convenient,” commented Birdsey. “We are grateful to the town for letting us use it. The students this year will go down in school lore as “class that had the play in the firehouse.”

The play will be performed on April 12 and 13, at 7:30. Tickets are $7 and the play is open to the public and ADA accessible.

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — It won’t be known until May how Addison Northwest School District administrators will handle the ANWSD board’s March 28 directive to reduce personnel costs, according to ANWSD Superintendent Sheila Soule.

At its March 28 meeting the board voted to authorize administrators to “reduce the (work) force as necessary” to stay within the limits of the $22,139,341 budget voters backed on March 5.

School officials said at the meeting it could require a reduction of the equivalent of two full-time jobs to meet a projected shortfall in the line items for salaries and benefits.

Board members said it was clear from ongoing contract negotiations with both teaching and support staff that the money set aside in the budget would not be adequate to cover expected increases in salaries and benefits, and therefore staff reductions were necessary.

Although affected teachers had to be notified by April 1 they might not be retained, in emails to the Independent Soule said administrators could not yet pin down where reductions would be made. She described the process as “complex,” and wrote that administrators “are still in the process of determining staff assignments for next year.”

In particular, Soule said, there are unknowns among the three ANWSD elementary schools and among some personnel.

“We have a lot of shifting at the elementary level and some staff may decide on their own not to return,” Soule said. “We won’t know until the first week of May who is planning to return and where all staff will land.”

If voluntary departures do not meet the board’s savings goals, board members said at their March 28 meeting the savings target could be met through a combination of eliminating full-time jobs or reducing hours of full-time teachers or staff members to part-time.

The motion the board adopted at least left room for reductions deeper than the two full-time equivalencies discussed at the meeting.

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Why it’s savvy for Gov. Scott to OK a climate bill, gas tax Last spring, Gov. Phil Scott sent shock waves throughout Vermont and the country when he proposed and later signed — as a Republican governor — legislation that put modest restrictions on some gun sales. He won over a lot of Vermont moderates with that single stroke, and it remains a measure of Vermont’s bipartisanship that reasonable legislation can become law.

Gov. Scott could make a similar statement, on an issue of equal importance, by working with the Legislature to pass a climate change initiative that includes a modest gas tax. Two current bills are making their way through the Legislature, one of which deserves the governor’s support.

Both H.439 and S.171 call for a small bump in fossil fuel taxes, which would be used to bolster weatherization of low-to-moderate income houses.

H. 439, authored by the House Ways and Means Committee, calls for a twocent increase in the fuel tax to raise an additional $4.5 million for weatherization assistance and furnace replacement for low-income Vermonters.

The Senate Natural Resources & Energy Committee initiated S.171, which calls for a similar hike in the per-gallon tax on heating oil, propane, kerosene and other dyed diesel fuel from the current 2 cents to 4 cents; plus it calls for a gross receipts tax of 1.5 percent (up from 0.75 cents) on the retail sale of natural gas and coal. All the revenue would flow into the Home Weatherization Assistance Fund, which is available to homeowners and businesses to defray the cost of weatherization and investments in alternative heating systems, such as heat pumps.

Of the two bills, S.171 has the better approach as it applies to a wider sector of the population, includes the business community (helping to create a stronger business climate), encourages investing in alternative energy, and, importantly, because it has a component to train people to perform the weatherization work at $19 per hour.

Sen. Chris Bray, D-New Haven, who chairs the Senate committee and helped draft the bill, termed the legislation “weatherization for all,” adding that its jobs-development component is an essential aspect of the bill. “From the outset, it’s been a jobs development and training program, as well as delivering the weatherization program,” Bray said. “They go hand in hand.

It develops a workforce.”

The bill gained Rep. Peter Conlon’s, D-Cornwall, support in the recent Legislative Breakfast held this past Monday in Weybridge. “These are pretty decent paying jobs, providing skills to people that we’re going to need for years to come,” he said. “I think it really can be described as a win-win-win, in terms of job development, economic development and climate change.”

The best part may be the low cost that also meets a critical need.

Bray noted that the current waiting list for weatherization assistance for low-to-moderate income homeowners was about 50 years.

To address that backlog, the legislation would generate an additional $4.5 million annually, plus the increased receipts tax — more than doubling the available revenue from the taxes on fuels. That’s no small feat.

And what is the cost to the average Vermonter? Bray’s committee estimated the cost at $15 annually — about the tab of buying a burger and fries at your local pub once a year. Furthermore, the legislation calls for tax exemptions for the farm and forest industries.

Not only are the costs low, the benefits are substantial. Vermonters who have participated in the weatherization program see an average savings of $600 in fuel costs during their first year; a savings that repeats itself year after year. Add it up and S.171 is a measure that Gov. Scott and his Republican colleagues could and should get behind. No serious opponent can argue that $15 per year is a burden for any Vermonter, and the benefits in fuel savings after weatherization — as well as job creation — are overwhelmingly favorable. ********** Progressives might argue neither H.439 nor S.171 moves the needle far enough, and that’s fair criticism. They also would be right to point out that Vermont has made scant progress on its pledge to reduce its carbon footprint in 2030 and 2050. Indeed, Vermont’s carbon emissions are up 16 percent from 1990 levels, and have only recently started trending downward. Clearly more needs to be done.

But progressives can’t let their desire to achieve more, defeat the Legislature’s willingess to pass something that at least moves the state forward.

The pivot at this point is to counter the negative information campaign that is sure to arise from the fuel industry, and bring Gov. Scott on board to sign a modest proposal in bipartisan fashion.

Democrats and Progressives can help Scott by touting the governor’s own Decarbonization Study, which he recommended in 2017 and which received tri-partisan support within the Vermont House and Senate. In that study, the nonpartisan Vermont Legislative Joint Fiscal Office recently released what was effectively a “strategic roadmap for actions Vermont policy makers can take to strengthen the local economy, create jobs, lower the cost of living, reduce income inequality, improve public health and limit the pollution causing global warming.”

That’s a mouthful and a bold claim, but in specific findings the study — which again was commissioned with the support of the governor — concludes that the “combined climate and health benefits of the carbon pricing policies would exceed the economic costs for every carbon pricing scenario considered,” and furthermore that “impacts on the state’s GDP, level of employment, and overall economic welfare would be very small.”

Proving those claims are true is the ticket to gaining the governor’s support — and it’s also what will shift the conversation about climate change in Vermont from how much it might cost the average person, to how much the average person will gain. That’s a vital concept and strategy as Vermont seeks to get a leg-up on the carbon-lite economy, and simultaneously help save the planet for their children’s children.

Angelo Lynn

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‘Check engine’ light a headache

Who are you lookin’ at?

A CHESTNUT HORSE with a creamy tail and mane pauses during a rather large serving of lunch in Lincoln last week to see if the maître d’ could shoo away the paparazzi.

Independent photo/Steve James

Why isn’t the good stuff in the news?

I listen to the radio rather than watch television. Now, however, I am fasting almost entirely from conventional radio newscasts. I want, I need, hopeful news, inspiring news, or at least relevant news. I see no reason why radio newscasts have to be nearly entirely about tragedies or relative wealth, especially when the vast majority of us aren’t impacted by the subjects of these reports. Many stories are simply irrelevant.

I have actually heard these stories over the past several months: “Small plane crash in Texas, 6 killed.”

“Bridge collapsed in Genoa, Italy.”

How is that useful or helpful for us to know? Also, this one sentence was the complete story. If it is important for us

By Barbara to know, we need more than a single Clearbridge sentence.

“Earthquake in Indonesia.” This one is important, but why broadcast it with screams and people crying? We don’t need to hear that in order to understand. Also, often in these stories the damage done is expressed in dollars. Why? If a thousand cottages are destroyed, is that less of a tragedy than if a hundred expensive homes are destroyed?

“So-and-so (celebrity) is in the hospital.”

“Such-and-such movie made the most money at the box office this weekend.” Why is this news? How many of us want this information?

“In Athens, Greece, a house fire killed a family of four including two children.” (Interview with sobbing relative.)

“Stock market news including Japanese and European markets and futures trading.” If I’m an investor, am I getting my necessary information from a twenty-second

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news broadcast?

“The President is on vacation at his golf club today.”

This story, at least, was useful — I now know why he didn’t return my calls to the White House...

It’s especially annoying when an interviewer asks someone how they feel about the tragedy that has just devastated them. Am I wrong about this? Do people actually want to watch or hear other people sobbing in misery? I think if something terrible ever happens to me and an interviewer asks me how I feel about it, it will take every peaceful Quaker cell in my body to keep me from bashing them in the head with their microphone.

It’s not just conventional radio stations that do this. Vermont Public Radio frequently has the same stories as other stations, sometimes playing identical sound clips of screams and sirens.

Why not broadcast, instead, these real stories: Reports about some of the numerous Middle East peacekeeping efforts. For example, tell us who won the annual Goldberg Prize for Peace in the Middle East. Tell us about Daniel Barenboim and the Israeli/Palestinian youth orchestra he conducts every summer in Spain.

Microbank loan success stories. These banks offer very small loans to small businesses and individual people who don’t need much to turn their lives around.

Tell us about some of the borrowers so we can buy from them or tell us about the banks so we know where to go if we have an idea ourselves.

Restorative Justice and Court Diversion program success stories.

(See Ways of Seeing, Page 5A)

Popularity of some books a mystery I recently started thinking about writing a murder on my phone now.”

• Use dialogue for exposition, ignoring natural speech mystery set in Vermont.

I know nothing about writing mysteries, or fiction of patterns. For instance: “Katie Jones?” I grinned excitedly. “I haven’t seen you any kind, for that matter. And I really only read classic British “cozies” — Agatha Christie, P.D. James and since we were in school together at Bowdoin, which is a that crowd. I’m not sure my familiarity with early-20th- college in Maine.”

“Yes, we were best friends until I stole your boyfriend century English villages, with their glut of vicarages and Luke,” Katie muttered spitefully. parlor maids, would help me write a • And last — specifically for contemporary New England mystery. mystery writing — don’t worry about I decided to read a few new releases, motive. Someone has killed the victim set in the U.S., to figure out whether for reasons that make no sense, but it an old crowd-pleaser such as arsenic doesn’t matter. You wrote the book; poisoning would go over well in the you don’t have to explain yourself. age of forensic testing.

When I was done, I tossed the book I chose, at random, three new on the coffee table and glared at it. I mysteries from the library and headed

By Jessie Raymond was, as its author might say, “highly home to learn from them. irritated.”

It didn’t go well.

Not only had I not picked up I took away these dubious writing tips from the first book, written by a New York Times anything about mystery writing, I’d wasted hours on a supposed mystery that read more like a cell phone user best-selling author: • Be sure to have your characters do more than “say” manual. How could anyone have published this? things. They must “squeal,” “whisper,” “insist,” “purr” Looking for validation, I went to Goodreads.com, a and so on. (“The florist is dead!” he asserted.) website where readers can post reviews. To my shock, the • Forget “show, don’t tell.” In case readers can’t book had garnered outstanding praise. decipher the mood of a character who is smiling and People called it “sweet” and “cute.” Only one person singing to herself, say, “She was unusually cheerful.” (Use had reservations, writing, “I don’t get why the murder was a lot of adverbs.) committed” (same here!) — but even she gave it four out • Be sure to detail irrelevant processes step by step; of five stars. for instance, how one character sends a cell phone photo I don’t believe I’m a book snob. I steer clear of novels to another. Repeat it several times throughout the book, with intense jacket blurbs, like “The protagonist’s ennui in augmenting with dialogue: post-war Belgium will find you reflecting on the abstract “Did you receive the photo yet?” she inquired. otherness of time, of meaning, indeed of existence.” I look (See Jessie, Page 5A) “Yes, thanks,” he confirmed gratefully. “It is right here

Around the bend

This is in response to Dave Sharpe’s March 25 letter in the Addison Independent concerning the check engine light.

All the light says is check. It does not cause anything. Also on your dash is a light that says “service engine soon.” You change the oil, set the motor, problem solved.

The check engine light doesn’t reverse the computer. I know. I have replaced what it says to do. You set the computer and a while later it comes back on. I have replaced a vehicle that was in very good shape, very inspectable and had to junk it because of one stupid light.

Mr. Sharpe, we can’t, as poor people, afford to replace a vehicle every year. The exhaust smells the same whether the light stays on or not. I can see how if the muffler is bad or the converter is you replace it. If the converter is plugged it won’t run anyway no matter what the light says.

In the ’70s Ford Motor Company had a car that if the computer fouled up you replaced the computer as long as it was the same color.

Nowadays you can’t replace the computer if it malfunctions or not.

Too Bad. You have to buy a car you can’t afford.

So, Mr. Sharpe, before we jump to conclusions thinking that people are not obeying the law, let’s give some of us credit for trying. Also remember that the inspection stations do not get paid if they fail.

Just think of all of the trouble it is causing everyone.

Whitney Mayo Lincoln

Town needs a Mexican eatery Thank you for focusing your April 4 issue on climate change, the number-one threat to the future of life on our planet. Thank goodness for Bill McKibben, who has probably done more than anyone else to bring global attention to this impending global catastrophe and what we can still do to mitigate it. And thank goodness for newspapers like the Addison Independent for editorials and news coverage devoted to “This biggest issue of our times.”

On a more parochial level, your article about the future of the Ben Franklin property on Main Street suggests another use — a golden opportunity really — for this venerable space. The idea already presented of converting the two upstairs apartments into four units of affordable housing sounds like a good use of that space.

But in the former retail space downstairs, instead of game arcades, cheap food and a bowling alley, why not try to attract a first-class Mexican restaurant? That would obviously fill a huge void in the culinary offerings of our town. It would be a magnet for college students a short walk away, along with older folks from all around Addison County.

Shouldn’t the town planning commission, which just won a grant “to imagine the future of the village center,” include in its vision for Middlebury a really good but inexpensive Mexican restaurant on Main Street? The commission could undertake a search to find an enterprising restaurateur whose business, in this pivotal downtown location, would almost certainly thrive.

Dick Beamish Middlebury

Citrus County provides respite Thank you for publishing the “Ways of Seeing” column on March 28 by Alice Leeds. We receive the Addy Indy in Florida as Addison County snowbirds. Her column title, “The coast of Florida has hidden gems,” forced me to read about my winter home. She led me north from the Tampa area of tourist blight into our Gulf Coast locally named the Nature Coast. This coast extends without break into the Florida panhandle until white sand beaches reappear with more tourist blight.

Many hundreds of miles of pristine rivers, springs, state parks, wildlife sanctuaries and biking trails extend Florida gem exploration.

We winter in Citrus County where I guess Alice found our Homosassa wildlife center complete with manatees. There are many more (See Letter, Page 5A)

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 11, 2019 — PAGE 5A

Questioning common sense When the Congress met in 1776 Editor’s note: This is the 13th in a series of essays on the history it considered only two options: and meaning of the American reconciliation with Great Britain or independence. Looking back, political tradition.

Thomas Paine (1737–1809) was it may seem that the choice was a political activist, revolutionary, obvious, but it did not seem so and pamphleteer. English by birth, then. One of the so-called “foundhe became an American citizen and ing fathers,” John Dickinson of Delaware, a highly a citizen of the French respected member Republic by choice of Congress, did and played a key role not believe that the in their respective colonies were ready revolutions. He is for independence. He best remembered worried that the differfor his revolutionary ences between them, writings, Common chief among them Sense, The Rights of slavery, would conMan, and The Age of tinue to divide them Reason. and eventually lead to Common Sense conflict and civil war was published in Febbetween the states. ruary 1776 and was The American He counseled negotian immediate best seller. It is credited Political Tradition ations leading towards greater autonomy. He with having provided An essay by absented himself from direction and purpose Victor Nuovo Congress rather than to members of the Continental Congress Middlebury College vote on the question of independence and, as they deliberated professor emeritus when the Declaration their way towards of philosophy was adopted, he independence. It did refused to sign it. He this by identifying the available options, namely, resigned his seat in Congress and independence or reconciliation, enlisted in the militia as a private. and by giving cogent reasons for One year later, in recognition of choosing the former instead of independence, he freed his slaves. the latter. But Common Sense is Later, he played a major role in above all a call to action, and after drafting the Articles of Confederalmost two-and-one half centuries ation.

Paine begins Common Sense its passion is undiminished and its by distinguishing message timely. between human soci“O ye that love ety and government. mankind! Ye that dare The only Society is spontaoppose, not only the legitimate neous and natural, tyranny, but the tyrant, purpose of but fragile, unable to stand forth! Every spot government, sustain itself, which of the old world is overrun with oppres- large or small, necessitates the creation of government. sion. Freedom hath is to preserve Government, then, is been hunted round the the liberty a “necessary evil”; globe. Asia, and Afriand security what makes society ca, have long expelled fragile and unendurher. Europe regards of its citizens, ing is the incapacity her like a stranger, and to which they England hath given have a natural of individuals to maintain the purity her warning to depart. of motives and the O! receive the fugitive, right. friendliness that and prepare in time an originally brought them together. asylum for mankind.”

His vision of America as “an Paine appears to follow Rousseau asylum for mankind” is noble, who believed that all men are worthy of honor, but, even more, born innocent and become corrupt a never-ending imperative for all when they enter into civil society.

Americans, nor more so than today, Thus, he compares a person’s entry into society to the biblical Fall: when it is being cruelly ignored.

Scattered occurrences of armed corruption follows, and with it the conflict between the American necessity of mutual restraints, of Colonies and Great Britain began laws and governments to enforce in 1770 most notably with the them. “Government, like dress, is Boston Massacre and continued the badge of lost innocence.” But intermittently culminating in the process of corruption is incregeneral war. On July 3, 1775, mental; it accelerates and increasfollowing the Battles of Lexington es as states increase their domains and Bunker Hill, the Continental and enlarge their governments, Congress appointed George Wash- which stand apart from and above ington commander-in-chief of the those they rule, so that it becomes Colonial armies, and two days arbitrary and harsh.

Yet the only legitimate purpose later declared that a state of war existed between the Colonies and of government, large or small, is the British government. Congress to preserve the liberty and security described it as a civil war not a of its citizens, to which they have revolution, thus acknowledging a natural right. Governments that the continuing bond of the col- ignore this fundamental purpose onies with Great Britain and the and seek some other goal, for example, glory or empire, become British people.

Ways of Seeing (Continued from Page 4A) Alternatives to Violence program success stories.

News from Quirky, a website to help people get their inventions produced.

How the clinical trials are going for the new breast cancer drug called Ibranc. How the trials are going for what might be a new autoimmune disease drug, Low Dose Naltrexone.

News about the work of the Global Peace Initiative of Women Religious & Spiritual Leaders.

What laws are being considered today in the U.S. legislature? In the Vermont legislature?

Give us statistics every year on women’s pay compared to men’s in different occupations and regions, so we can see where progress is not being made. Tell us which occupations in the U.S. still have a “glass ceiling”?

What is the Southern Poverty Law Center working on this month?

They use litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy to realize the ideals of equal justice and equal opportunity.

What has the Rights of Nature movement accomplished lately?

Past results: Ecuador’s 2008 constitutional acknowledgment of the rights of Mother Nature, New Zealand’s granting legal personhood

to the Te Urewera forest in 2014; and India’s courts 2017 ruling that the Ganges and Yamuna rivers have the right to exist, thrive, and evolve.

Surely these stories are as important as telling us that a bus in Scotland ran off the road.

Last month, the people of Toledo, Ohio voted in favor of legislation that will protect Lake Erie by granting it the same rights as person. This information came from goodnewsnetwork.org. How about incorporating their stories into our mainstream daily news?

And, most important of all, tell us why our snowstorms so often come on Wednesdays.

Barbara Clearbridge, known around town by her nickname “Shulamith” (which means “peace”), has worked as a medical intuitive and energy work practitioner for over 25 years. She is now expanding her practice to include interfaith spiritual direction. She is the author of “Natural First Aid & Simple Health Solutions,” “Heal With Your Hands,” “Finding God

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tyrannical; they must be resisted.

Paine acknowledges that efforts have been made to reform civil government, with modest success.

He admits that the British have done more than other peoples to reform government. He offers faint praise for the English constitution, which served in its time as a successful antidote to absolutism and the tyranny of monarchs by creating a mixed government that combined the powers of king, nobles, and the people into a single system of countervailing forces.

But all this soon degenerated into a medley of tyrannies, “a house divided.”

This is his argument against the English constitution: power corrupts, and even if the mixed English constitution divides the power of government into three parts, each with its constitutional right, each will endeavor to maintain its power to a certain degree unchecked, yet if neither is able to subdue the others, then the establishment of three opposing tyrannies is the inevitable outcome; any hope that government will work for the welfare of the people diminishes. Stalemate follows and chronic injustice.

When government becomes corrupt, the best option is to separate oneself from it. Independence is the only rational option; the hope for reconciliation is an illusion.

The question remains whether we should expect anything better from the present American government. To be sure, the hereditary rights of the monarch and the noble aristocracy have been abolished here. The offices of government are open to all and are filled by popular elections. But the power of government is the same, whether British or American, whether in a president or a king, and power, now as then, corrupts. We have all become daily observers of how his happens.

We assure ourselves that the separation of powers prescribed by our constitution is a reliable system of checks and balances and this assurance persuades us that the common good will be served, as though our government were a “machine that runs by itself.” Is this assurance justified? What if, instead of checks and balances, the different branches stand incorrigibly opposed, and instead of a well-functioning machine, there is gridlock caused by the attempted tyranny of one part of government over the others? What if the separation of powers has brought us only an unending cycle of action and reaction? And if this should happen, what remedy is available to us, the people?

But I have strayed from my purpose, which is historical not homiletical. The founders were not unaware of the difficult tasks facing them, chief among them, how to design a system of government that was self-regulating and immune from corruption. John Adams was well aware of this and he proposed a remedy. Stay tuned.

Nominees sought for leadership award

MIDDLEBURY — Nominations are now being accepted for the $15,000 Con Hogan Award for Creative, Entrepreneurial Community Leadership. Initiated in 2015 by the Vermont Community Foundation, the annual award is a tribute to Con Hogan’s life’s work and commitment to public service. The goal of the award is to encourage and reward leaders who share Con’s vision of a better Vermont — one that places the highest value on the public good — who seize the responsibility for making that vision

real, and who mentor emerging leaders.

As in the past, the 2019 award will go to an individual selected by a committee representing a broad range of interests and experience including health and human services, the arts, government service, early care and education, agriculture, and civic duty. The individual will have demonstrated the following characteristics: focus on results, using data and measurement to mobilize action, working with people across diverse perspectives, taking risks in

pursuit of a vision, and persisting through setbacks.

The awardee must be an individual who is a Vermont resident and has not previously received the award.

Previous award recipients are James Baker (2018), Holly Morehouse (2017), Michael Monte (2016), and Ellen Kahler (2015).

Nominations will be accepted through the Vermont Community Foundation’s website until 5 p.m. on Thursday, June 27, 2019. For more information or to submit a nomination visit vermontcf.org/conhoganaward.

After my rage settled, I opened the second of the mysteries I had brought home. Maybe all I needed to soothe myself was a few pages of a better story by a different best-selling author.

On the very first page, I ran into something like this: Beth deftly pressed the “talk” icon on the upper right side of her steering wheel, activating Bluetooth, which allowed her to speak hands-free.

She greeted her husband, Trent, gleefully. “Hello, Trent!” she cooed.

“Hi, Beth!” he gushed romantically.

“When will you be back at our tasteful four-bedroom home in the suburbs of Chicago?”

“Right after I pick up our two children, Max and Bella,” she giggled warmly.

I closed the book.

To be honest, I’m not confident that I can write a decent murder mystery.

But my research did teach me one thing: A book doesn’t have to be good to be popular.

What a relief.

no dairy farms but do have a county fair much like Addison County Field Days. Go north on the Nature Coast for horse farms, dairy farms, and examples of the old Florida (see Marjorie Rawlings’ farm).

We found Citrus County 10 years ago by visiting Nancy’s mother.

When telling my Addison neighbor

of Citrus County his response included revealing the presence of 20 Addition County residents also wintering in Citrus County. We meet regularly for lunch during the winter. Plenty of room for more AC friends next winter.

David Spencer New Haven

Jessie (Continued from Page 4A) for words like “rollicking.”

I don’t expect to be deeply moved by a cozy mystery. I’m willing to accept the premise that a small town endures a couple of outlandish murders each year and no one finds it unusual.

But a good mystery should be fun to read. It should be well written.

It shouldn’t insult the reader’s intelligence. And characters shouldn’t be insisting and muttering all the time.

Letter (Continued from Page 4A) opportunities for kayaking, boat rides, and even a white sand beach (manmade).

Citrus County has very few citrus trees left because of an earlier citrus disease. The county now has cattle ranches, round bales and scattered retirement communities. We have

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Obituaries

Alexander MacDonald III, 68, Lincoln, avid angler, builder and conservationist LINCOLN —- Alexander Sterling MacDonald III, passed away peacefully at home, from cancer, with his wife and three daughters by his side on April 1, 2019.

Born May 8, 1950, in Beverly, Mass., to Mary Belle Wright and Dr. Alexander Sterling MacDonald, Jr., Alex had a playful childhood with his three younger sisters Amy, Susan, and Gene. He was a partner in crime to lifelong friends while exploring the woods, rivers, lakes, and coast of New England.

Alexander was just 17 when he met the love of his life. Nancy Chase Putnam of St. Louis, Mo., was babysitting for a family in Beverly, and Alex was mowing the lawn. They married three years later in Marion, Mass., in 1970, two years after Alex graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy.

To know Alex was to know that he was head over heels in love for over 50 years. When his daughter Tara was born, Alex took time off from college.

He returned to Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., with Nancy as dorm parents and role models to many students. Alex studied full time, looked after his daughter, juggled books, paints, close friends and parenting, while Nancy worked nights. Many friends sought out their company as a respite from campus life.

Alex got a degree in studio arts and graduated in 1974 with his wife and toddler at his side. Alex fished around for the perfect place to raise a family, and Vermont landed squarely in his sights. He, Nancy and Tara moved to Lincoln in 1974 and went about putting down roots and weaving themselves into the community they would call home. Two more daughters, Leah (who was his best fishing buddy and sweet sidekick) and Megan (his Red Sox fan, tomboy, and radiant burst of sunshine), joined the family — all five years apart — giving Alex a little team of ball players to coach, fisher girls to walk along rivers with, firewood collectors to follow him through the woods on fall weekends, and apprentice builders to hammer nails and snap true blue lines.

Coaching Little League for all three of his daughters’ teams added

up to lots of ball time. In addition to coaching he was integral in getting the Lincoln Preschool built. As the head of Alex MacDonald Construction, he crafted many beautiful homes in Vermont. He instilled in his team a sense of craftsmanship, pride, and integrity; they were not just building a house, but rather, creating a home, a work of art, and a trusting relationship with homeowners.

Throughout the Vermont building community Alex’s reputation was one of excellence. He mentored many young carpenters, and later in his career when he was ready to work a little less, he joined Silver Maple Construction, where he was a leader, a brother, a father figure and a beloved friend.

Alex created a life for himself that focused on his family, hard work, and his many passions. Any time not devoted to his family, work, playing hockey, skiing, friends, or cheering on his sports teams, Alex could be found on the river with a fly rod in his hand.

The river and its soothing ways and the act of trout fishing were his form of religion and his way of connecting himself to the natural world. His mind was always working overtime, thinking about his family, his friends, his work, and politics. Time on the river was peaceful for him — and if you were lucky maybe you were there too, to join him in his place of peace and see that smile.

Project Healing Waters was an organization Alex was especially passionate about. He loved the men and women he connected with and befriended there — wounded veterans and fellow volunteers. Alex was happy to be able to share with them his love of rivers and fly fishing, and the peace of mind that those things brought him.

He worked passionately with conservation organizations and was appointed by Governor Shumlin to the Lake Champlain Citizens’ Advisory Committee of the Future of Lake Champlain. He was an active member in the New Haven River Anglers Association. He was also a voracious reader — he consumed books, magazines and news articles spanning

ALEXANDER STERLING MACDONALD III topics from politics to arts and fiction — as well as a Lincoln rock star, playing drums with the Ramblers, another band of brothers who considered Alex family.

Alex was a grandfather to Sadie, Sommer, Waylan, Ramsey, and Glory and loved spending time with them doing what they and he loved — fishing, hiking, building, skiing, reading, drawing, rafting, sailing, snuggling, and squeaky toy. His sons-in-law David and Jeff had a special connection with Alex and felt they could not have been luckier to have gained another dad in their lives.

Laughter filled family adventures at home in Vermont, in the Florida sun, in the wilds of Wyoming, and on the coast of Massachusetts; those were special times for Alex. Saying he will be missed falls short. His extended family of brothers and sisters-in-law, nieces and nephews and his family of close friends are all heartbroken.

Alex would have loved you to think of the Green Mountain chapter of Project Healing Waters. A donation made in his name can be done at projecthealingwaters.org. His family would love to compile memories; please send those to info@jacksonholeanglers.com. A celebration of his life and memorial service will be held when the snow melts and rivers clear.◊

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Visiting hours will be at Sanderson’s Funeral Home from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 11.

A funeral mass will be held Friday, April 12, at 11 a.m., at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Middlebury with a reception to follow at the VFW in Middlebury.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Addison County Home Health and Hospice, Porter Medical Center Arch Rooms, St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury or a charity of your own choosing.◊

Lorraine Hallock, 83, Bristol BRISTOL — Lorraine E. Hallock, 83, passed away at her home on Thursday, April 4, 2019.

She was born at home, at the former Bristol Railroad Station, the daughter of Mitchell and Perlee (Thompson) Lathrop.

Lorraine is survived by her children Dale Hallock, Yvonne Jarvis, and Luke Hallock; grandchildren James and Brianne (Koch) Nye, Ben Nye and Samantha Prince, and Tyson Hallock; great-grandchildren Kylie and Bruce. She was predeceased by her parents,

her husband Paul, her sister Eliza Woodruff and brothers Chick and Dick Lathrop.

Special thanks to Alan, Denny, Jonathan, and Jacob Lathrop for always being so understanding and welcoming whenever she wanted to be at her beloved childhood home.

Visiting hours were held from 6-8 p.m., April 8, and funeral at 1 p.m., April 9, at the Brown McClay Funeral Home in Bristol. Memorial contributions can be made to the Bristol Federated Church at 6 Church St, Bristol.◊

LORRAINE E. HALLOCK

Dale Hallock, 62, Bristol BRISTOL — Dale P. Hallock, 62, passed away suddenly but peacefully at his home on Monday, April 8, 2019. He was born the eldest child of Paul and Lorraine (Lathrop) Hallock.

He gave the ultimate gift in his loving care of his mother. He fulfilled his promise to her that she would be able to live the rest of her life at home.

Dale is survived by his siblings Yvonne Jarvis and Luke Hallock; nephews and their families James and Brianne (Koch) Nye and son Bruce, Ben Nye and Samantha Prince and daughter Kylie, and Tyson Hallock and his sister Heather.

Dale is also survived by his loving

Aunt Carolyn and many beloved cousins, dear friends, and caring neighbors. He was blessed to be considered a brother and son in the Wendel and Farr extended families.

God has taken our earthly angel from us before we were ready to let him go. He has blessed so many lives and is truly loved by all who knew him.

Visiting hours will be held from 6-8 p.m., Thursday, April 11, and funeral at 1 p.m., April 12, at the Brown McClay Funeral Home in Bristol.

Memorial contributions can be made to the Bristol Federated Church at 6 Church St, Bristol.◊

DALE P. HALLOCK

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She was the office manager in the Dean of Students Office at Middlebury College for 32 years.

She was active in the American Legion Auxiliary and was a Lector at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Middlebury. She also served as town volunteer for voting, distributing ballots to residents.

Janet is survived by her brother Roch Malzac and his wife Liz, her sisters-in-law Shirley Lamothe and Jean Payne, her brother-in-law Herrick Hurlbert, Janet’s five children; Carolyn Perine (Ken), Robbie (Joanne), Jane Roy (Eugene), David “Crocky” (Susie) all of Middlebury, and Judy Whitney (Tim) of Chinook, Mont.

She is also survived by 12 grandchildren: Carolyn’s children Chandler Perine, Jennifer Quinn, Kristi Ryan and Kate Livesay; Robbie’s children Jody Reis and Will Leggett; Jane’s children Wesley and Jesse Roy; Judy’s children Kelsie Harwood and Luke Whitney; David’s children Cassandra McDonough and Heath Leggett; 24 great-grandchildren with her 25th great-grandchild only days away from arriving, close friends Joyce Sargent, Bill and Tiffany Sargent and their children, Asa and Hallett, and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews.

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MIDDLEBURY — Janet Leggett was born to Roch and Simone (Bolduc) Malzac on March 2, 1933, in Middlebury, and peacefully passed away surrounded by family on April 5, 2019 after a long courageous battle with cancer. She lived her entire life in Middlebury.

Janet married Robert Leggett in 1950. They were married 55 years and raised five children, Carolyn, Robbie, Jane, Judy, and David (“Crocky”). Bob passed away in 2006.

Janet was well known for her friendliness, kind heart and sound advice. Bob and Janet’s home was a regular gathering place for friends and family. At times, their house would be wall-to-wall people and would overflow onto their back deck and garage. Everyone was welcome in their home and the good times and memories would fill a book many times over.

Janet enjoyed traveling with the family, especially on family trips to Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the Dominican Republic. She and Bob also made numerous trips to Montana to visit her daughter Judy and her family. She loved the annual family gatherings at Branbury Beach and Button Bay. Janet was affectionately known as “Net” to her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. She

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BRISTOL — Stephen Joseph Smith of Bristol passed away surrounded by loving family and friends on April 8, 2019.

Steve was the fifth of nine children born to George and Doris Smith on Oct. 5, 1957, in Middlebury, Vt. He was raised in Bristol with his brothers and sisters and graduated from Mount Abraham Union High School in 1975. He enlisted in the army after graduation and served for four years, and was stationed in Germany for over a year.

In 1984, Steve joined the Vermont Army National Guard in Vergennes and retired in 2001. He was a lifetime member of the American Legion Post 19 (charter member of stool 7) in Bristol, and a member of Post 19 Color Guard for many years. In 1979, Steve began working at Polymers in Middlebury until they closed in 2001.

He then began working at Mount Abe Union High School as a custodian until his retirement due to illness in 2018.

Steve was a hardworking man who took great pride in all that he did, and routine was a comfort to him.

He could be a shy, quiet man but had a generous and caring soul, even thinking about the needs of others when making his final arrangements.

Interested in all things military, Steve was especially drawn to World Wars I and II. He also had a lifelong

fascination in trains that was cultivated by a family history of working with the railroad.

He was an incredibly brave person, and will be greatly missed by both his family and his close friends. Steve’s absence will leave a void that cannot be filled.

Predeceasing Steve are his mother Doris (D’Avignon) Smith and his brother Michael “Mickey” Smith.

Surviving Steve are his father George Smith of Bristol; brother Larry Smith and his wife Sheri of Vergennes; sister Jane Dearborn and her husband Reg of Bristol; sister Nancy Lee and her husband Ev of Bristol; sister Jean Russell and her husband Gary of Bristol; sister Joan Smith of Bristol; sister Terry Michel and her husband Joe of Milton, Wis.; and sister Denise Smith of Bristol.

Steve also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and cousins.

He also left behind his special friend April Orvis, and Post 19 members whom he considered family, along with many friends.

Steve’s family would like to give special thanks to Dr. Paul Unger for helping Steve with his battle against cancer for five years, Dr. Jennifer Lisle of UVM Orthopedics, and the team at Addison County Home Health & Hospice.

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STEPHEN JOSEPH SMITH Bristol on Saturday, April 13, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., followed immediately by a service at the same location until noon. Burial will be at St. Joseph Cemetery in Bristol following the service. A reception will be offered by Bristol American Legion from noon until 3 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Steve’s memory to the American Legion Post 19, Bristol, Vt., or Addison County Home Health and Hospice in Middlebury, Vt.◊

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Anne Weller, Colchester

Elizabeth Holbrook, 84, Middlebury native COLCHESTER — Elizabeth (Libby) M. Holbrook, 84, of Colchester, Vt., went to be with the Lord on Tuesday, April 2, 2019.

The daughter of the late William and Marion (Aldrich) Munson, Libby was born on Dec. 25, 1934, in Middlebury, Vt. Elizabeth grew up and went to school in Middlebury. Libby worked as a L.N.A. in nursing homes for 43 years. After retiring she did private duty care in private homes for the elderly. Libby truly loved caring for the elderly and maintained close relationships with the families of the people she cared for.

Libby loved spending time visiting with her family and watching old time country music DVD’s, true crime TV shows and reading books.

She will be greatly missed by all who knew and loved her.

She is survived by her sons Jesse Jr. of Westford, Vt., Gregory and his

wife Cindy of Colchester, Vt., and Gary and his wife Kelly of Underhill, Vt. She also leaves her grandchildren Jessica Palker, Shawn, Hillary, Tasha and Tyler Holbrook; her seven greatgrandchildren Ethan Palker, Faith, Jesse, Camilla, Kassidy and Kinsley Holbrook, and Kailyn Beane; and her sisters Anita Cram of Middlebury, Vt. and Joan Kirk of Natick, Mass.

Libby was predeceased by her husband Jesse Sr. in 1993, her brothers Richard, Earl, Kenneth, Bill and Ralph Munson and sisters Marjorie Kvaraitis, Shirley Melzac and Joyce Pelrine.

A service will be held Friday, May 3, at 10 a.m. at the Corbin and Palmer Funeral Home, 9 Pleasant Street, Essex Junction, Vt., with burial following at Mount St. Joseph’s ELIZABETH M. HOLBROOK Cemetery, 7026 Plank Road, Bristol, Vt. In lieu of flowers, kindly consider VNA Respite House, 3113 Roosevelt a donation in Libby’s memory to Highway, Colchester, VT 05443.◊

Kathryn Vaughn, 88, Monkton native PALM BAY, Fla. — Kathryn Scoville Vaughn (nee Provoncha) passed away peacefully in Palm Bay, Fla., on Dec. 16, 2018, at the age of 88. She grew up in Monkton, Vt., and later lived in New York, Connecticut

and Florida.

She is survived by her husband, Leslie Vaughn, of Palm Bay, Fla.; two of her three children, Tim Scoville of Crofton, Md. and Janet Scoville of Palm Bay, Fla.; two grandchildren

and two great-grandchildren. Her daughter Cheryl Scoville died in 1966.

A burial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at Mt. St. Joseph Cemetery in Bristol, Vt.

Leaders: Born or raised?

She sang for the U.S.O. in only other amazing parents can Vietnam going places Bob Hope understand. Does that mean that wouldn’t go. She entertained at great parents are great at parentthe Purple Onion in ing right from the San Francisco followstart? No! Most of Bridging Gaps, ing in the footsteps of their time, in the Building Futures the Smothers Brothers beginning, is learnand Phyllis Diller. ing from mistakes, She was kicked out learning from each of Brigham Young other, and learning University for refusthrough experience.” ing to stop the work Serena Wadeon the Equal Rights Harrington has been Amendment.

Nina recognized for her Wyatt Harrington leadership abilities. received her B.A. She is now on the and M.B.A from San Champlain Valley Francisco University Head Start Policy working all day in Council. She is on computer sales and the Policy Council going to college and because her children JAN DEMERS singing at cabarets at are in Head Start. She Executive Director night. is a leader because Champlain Valley She has given she said yes when Office of Economic her life for her asked. She is using Opportunity children, moving the voice she has been from Connecticut, given to make sure Wisconsin, Quebec and now to that those principles and values Vermont to make sure they had she believes in are promoted. what they needed in life. Nina was She works on a statewide level to a member of CVOEO’s Head Start promote strong families and is no Parent Policy Council after adopt- longer sitting on the sidelines. ing her granddaughter, Marcine.

When asked about one characShe is currently President of the teristic that makes a leader she Board of Directors at CVOEO. said without hesitation “show Are leaders born or are they up. I noticed that many people raised? Research coming out of said yes to projects and then were Psychology Today says leaders absent when the work started. You are one third born to two thirds have to be present, to show up and raised. speak up. I was given an opportuKris Fannon in Intelivate, nity and it was nurtured.”

January 29, 2018, says we are Laura Wilson is the Director of asking the wrong question. “A Operations at Cathedral Square leader is to leadership as a parent and Acting Executive Director is to parenting. Great parents are for Pillsbury Manor. She is in naturals. They have instincts that the business of making sure that

Vt. offering tips for bullhead fishing and preparing meals MONTPELIER, — The Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department is holding a series of introductory seminars this spring on a variety of fishing techniques.

These clinics are open to people of all ages and levels of experience, including those who are completely new to fishing. Participants will learn about aquatic ecology, fishing regulations and techniques, fish identification, and much more.

“With the arrival of spring comes new opportunities to go fishing and to try a new fishing technique or target a new fish species,” said Corey Hart, coordinator of the Let’s Go Fishing program.

Addison County will host two of the seminars. The first is Introduction to Bullhead Fishing, on Friday, April 26, from 6 to 9 p.m., in Panton. The clinic will explore different fishing styles to target bullhead, which are found in many of the shallower, muddier lakes, ponds, and rivers of Vermont.

Brown bullhead, like other species in the catfish family, are nocturnal bottom feeders, so the clinic will take place in the evening when they

are beginning to be active.

Lake Champlain Maritime Museum in Ferrisburgh will host a seminar on fish processing on Wednesday, May 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. Participants will learn how to catch and prepare their own dinner.

The program will focus on how to cut up a variety of fish species quickly, easily, and safely, as well as how to safely store just-caught fish to keep it fresh for eating.

Veteran anglers may also learn a few tricks to make processing fish easier and more efficient, as well as ways to maximize the amount of meat harvested from each fish.

Equipment for these seminars will be provided, but participants should dress for the weather as the programs will take place outside.

All seminars are free, and participants are encouraged to bring their own snacks or meal.

Space is limited to the first 30 registrants and seminars fill up quickly, so sign up as early as possible. Pre-registration is required and can be completed at vtfishandwildlife.com. Directions to the meeting spot will be given upon registering.

the elderly live out their lives in comfort, safety and in days that hold meaning. Laura is a strong and determined woman who exudes elegance, grace and compassion.

She is willing to admit that she doesn’t have all the answers and at the same time is ready to take the risks that get the job done well.

The respect that she shows staff and residents is given back to her in equal measure. Laura is a Board Member for CVOEO. We live in perilous times. To do the work of bridging gaps and building futures we need one third leadership born and two thirds leadership raised.

COLCHESTER — Anne Weller, widow of David L. Weller, who died Dec. 26, 2006, died at the McClure-Miller Respite House in Colchester on April 7, 2019.

She is survived by daughter Amy Eggleston, her husband and two granddaughters Eve and Lily,

all of Indianapolis, Ind. She is survived by a sister, Barbara Wilson of Billings, Mont., and many nieces and nephews.

A mass of Christian burial will be celebrated 11 a.m. on Monday, April 15, at St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Vergennes. Anne will be

buried next to her husband David in the cemetery at Hardy’s Corner Cemetery in Rushford, N.Y., at the convenience of her family. To send online condolences to her family please visit brownmcclayfuneralhomes.com.◊

Ruby Antonelli, 95, Bridport BRIDPORT — Ruby Antonelli was born on Dec. 29, 1923, in Providence, R.I. She is the daughter of Joseph Nocente and Inez (Melucci) Nocente.

She married her husband, Christopher C. Antonelli, in 1943, while he was serving in the U.S. Coast Guard during WWII. Ruby traveled to several ports to meet her husband during the war. Ruby and her husband were elected to International President and First Lady of the United Commercial Travelers. They traveled together to every state in the United States and Canada during their involvement with UCT.

Ruby and Chris enjoyed raising money for Special Olympics during their time in UCT and served on the original committee with Eunice Shriver. Ruby loved traveling and during a trip to New Orleans she was Queen of the Mardi Gras.

Ruby was predeceased by her husband Chris, her sister Dorothy, and her niece Inez. She is survived by her brother Eugene Nocente of Smithfield, R.I.; her darling daughter Cheryl and husband Jerry Connor of Bridport; her granddaughters Rebecca Carl and her husband Chris and their children Hunter and Calista;

Jennifer Sheldrick and her husband William of Peru, N.Y. and their children Alexandra, Rachel and Lane; Ruby’s son Christopher G. Antonelli and his wife Karen from Florida and their children Jamie and Kimberly.

Donations can be made to the Chris Antonelli New England Scholarship Fund in care of Alfred Maddalena, 53 Roxbury Ct., Niantic, CT 06357, ajmadd1@aol.com.

A Mass will be held at St. Mary’s Church in Middlebury at a later date.

Look for Mass information in our next print edition or online at addisonindependent.com.◊

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Age Well senior luncheon in Bristol. Monday, April 15, 10:45 a.m., Cubbers, 8 Main St. Doors open at 10:45 a.m., meal served at 11 a.m. Chef’s Choice – always delicious. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

“Ask the Dog Trainer” in Middlebury. Monday, April 15, noon-1 p.m., Homeward Bound, 236 Boardman St. Emily Lewis and Christine Blakeney will answer your questions at this Lunch and Learn presentation.

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Age Well senior luncheon in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 11, 7-8 p.m., Lincoln Library.

Wednesday, April 17, 11:15 a.m., Middlebury Millwood, author of “To Have And To Hold: Rec Center, 154 Creek Rd. Doors open at Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma” will 11:15 a.m. for program. Meal served at noon of baked explore the complexities of early motherhood, includpenne pasta with marinara and mozzarella cheese, ing its very real impact on marriage, with candor and succotash, wheat bread, and baked sliced apples with practical advice. cinnamon. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested “Citizen Science 101” in Addison. Thursday, April 11, donation. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call 5:30-7:30 p.m., Dead Creek Wildlife Management Area Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age Conference Room, 966 Route 17. Learn about how citi60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may zen science is employed to help with be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire. wildlife conservation in Vermont Free Lecture: Cannabis Panel in Middlebury. Wednesday, and open to the public and is limited April 17, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 to the first 50 people who register via Lodge Rd. A distinguished panel of guest speakers email. To sign up, email Amy Alfieri at share information and answer your amy.alfieri@vermont.gov. about Medical Marijuana in MIDDLEBURY STUDIO SCHOOL —Kids: Weds. Make Your Own questions Arena football team meet and Vermont, the science, regulation and Gifts for Mother’s & Father’s Day, Summer Art Camps are on distribution, and methods of adminisgreet in Middlebury. Thursday, April 11, 6-8 p.m., Otter Creek the website, Clay Wheel & Hand Building Adult: Intro to Digital tration. Free, open to the public and Brewery, Exchange St. Come Photography, Mon & Thurs Wheel Classes, Oils, Pastels, Garden fully accessible. RSVP to Suzanne meet members of Middlebury’s new Bennett at 802-388-1220, or sbenDesign Sess 2, Summer Clay Classes middleburystudioschool. nett@residenceottercreek.com. arena football team, Vermont Brew, org Contact Barb 247-3702, email ewaldewald@aol.com over free food and beers. Free.

“Building Our Future” dialogue in Space is limited. RSVP at addiMiddlebury. Wednesday, April 17, soncountyedc.org/services/events/ 6:30-8:30 p.m., Middlebury Union to the public. Preregistration is requested as seating is vermont-brew-mixer-20190411.

High School, 73 Charles Ave. The first of three commulimited. More info contact Hannah Manley at 802-388nity dialogues on the continuing process ACSD Board 1100 ext. 224 or hmanley@homewardboundanimals. created to develop a long-range plan to guide its use of org. buildings and other facilities for the foreseeable future.

American Red Cross Blood Donation in Orwell.

Dialogue will focus on different scenarios that address Rummage Sale in North Ferrisburgh.

Monday, April 15, 1-6 p.m., Orwell Fire House, 604 Main declining enrollment, grade configuration and creating Friday, April 12, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m., North St. Give blood or platelets during National Volunteer greater equity and opportunity for the students of our Ferrisburgh Methodist Church, 227 Old Hollow Month this April. Eligible donors of all blood types — district.

Rd. Proceeds support children and youth attending especially type O — are needed to help ensure blood summer camps and mission trips. Come enjoy an old products are available for patients this spring. fashioned rummage sale and support our neighbor- “Slowing the Spread of Nuclear Weapons” in hood youth. More info at 802-425-2770.

Middlebury. Monday, April 15, 4:30-6 p.m., Robert Green Mountain Club TAM hike in Lenten Fish fry in Bristol. Friday, April 12, 5-7 p.m., St A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room, 148 Hillcrest Middlebury. Thursday, April 18, Wright Park.

Ambrose Parish Hall, 11 School St. All-you-can-eat fried Rd. Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress, scientist-in-residence Afternoon/evening hike through Wright Park and or baked haddock, French fries, cole slaw, beverage and adjunct professor at the Middlebury Institute of the Otter Creek Gorge. Enjoy the extra sun and the full and dessert. Tickets adults$12.50/children under 9 $6/ International Studies (MIIS) gives this presentation. At moon, distance dependent on group and weather. More immediate family of 5 $37. More info at 802-453-2488. the Institute, he focuses on the proliferation of fissile info contact leader Ellen Cronan, at ecronana@yahoo.

Spring waterfowl migration bird-watching tour in materials, nuclear spent fuel management, emerging com or 908-595-2926. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.

Ferrisburgh. Thursday, April 11, 6-8 p.m. Little Otter technologies and verification of nuclear weapons. He org.

Creek Wildlife Management Area. Join state waterfowl teaches a course on Nuclear Treaty Verification. biologist David Sausville to catch the spring migration Water quality chat in Middlebury. Monday, April 15, American Red Cross Blood Donation in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 18, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m., MREMS, of waterfowl in this naturally productive wild rice marsh.

5-7 p.m., Middlebury Town Offices, 77 Main St. The 55 Collins Dr. Give blood or platelets during National Backup date, Friday, April 12.

Middlebury Conservation Commission and Addison Volunteer Month this April. Eligible donors of all blood County River Watch Collaborative invite all those types — especially type O — are needed to help ensure interested in water quality to join the discussion. River blood products are available for patients this spring.

Watch stream monitoring data will be presented and there will also be a chance for all participants to ask Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, Rummage Sale in North Ferrisburgh.

April 18, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area Seniors Armory questions and discuss their concerns. More info contact Saturday, April 13, 8 a.m.-11 p.m., North Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 802-434-3236.

Ferrisburgh Methodist Church, 227 Old Hollow a.m. for coffee hour. Money Smart for Older Adults – Rd. “Take-Whatever-You-Want” Day for a flat fee of Prevent Financial Exploitation Part 2 class at 11 a.m. $5.00 per person.

Meal served at noon of beef tips with mushroom and Monthly wildlife walk in Middlebury. Saturday, April onions over seasoned cavatappi pasta, green beans, Age Well Senior Luncheon in Vergennes.

13, 8-10 a.m., Otter View parking area, Weybridge St. wheat roll and cantaloupe. Bring your own place Tuesday, April 16, 10 a.m., Vergennes Area and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Otter Creek Audubon and the setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Middlebury Area Land Trust invite community members notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419.

Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee to help them survey birds and other wildlife at Otter Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any hour. SASH Health Awareness program at 11:15 a.m.

View Park and the Hurd Grassland. Shorter and longer age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-88Meal served at noon of BBQ pork loin, mashed potaroutes possible. Beginning birders are welcome. Come 2287 to inquire. toes, broccoli florets, biscuit and apricots. Bring your for all or part of the walk. More info call 802-388-1007 National Poetry Month celebration in Bristol. own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours or 802-388-6019.

Thursday, April 18, 6:30-8 p.m., Lawrence Memorial advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve Active Hope workshop in Middlebury. Saturday, Library, 40 North St. Join Five Town Friends of the Arts 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and April 13, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Champlain Valley Unitarian and Lawrence Memorial Library to and participate in an their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided.

Universalist Society, 2 Duane Ct. Addison County evening of sharing poetry out loud. Bring poetry to read Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Interfaith Climate Action Network host this workshop aloud or recite or just come listen, enjoy, and cheer your based on the work of environmental activist, author and American Red Cross Blood Donation in Middlebury. friends and neighbors on.

Tuesday, April 16, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., Vermont Hard Cider, Buddhist scholar Joanna Macy. Free and open to all.

NER Presents Three New Fiction Writers in Middlebury.

1321 Exchange St. Give blood or platelets during Half-day option available.

Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m., Vermont Book Shop, 38 National Volunteer Month this April. Eligible donors of Prize Bingo in Leicester. Saturday, April 13, at 1 p.m., Main St. New England Review presents a reading at all blood types — especially type O — are needed to Senior Center at the Four Corners. Hosted by the the Vermont Book Shop with three fiction writers: Brad help ensure blood products are available for patients Leicester Historical Society. Refreshments served and Felver, whose debut collection of stories, “The Dogs this spring. all are welcome. of Detroit,” won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize; Roast turkey supper in Vergennes. Saturday, April Books and Lunch on Tuesdays book club in East David Moats, a well-known Vermont journalist whose Middlebury. Tuesday, April 16, noon-1 p.m., Sarah 13, 5-6:30 p.m., Vergennes United Methodist Church, new fiction appears in the current issue of NER; and Partridge Library, 431 E Main St. Book selection is Sue Main St., across from the Opera House. Menu includes Kylie Winger, a Middlebury College senior and Bread Halpern’s new novel, “Summer Hours at the Robbers roast turkey, mashed potato, stuffing, vegetable, cranLoaf Writers’ Conference alum. Light refreshments Library,” and Sue will be there for the discussion. Bring berry sauce, dessert and beverage served buffet style. served. Free and open to the public. a bag lunch and join us for an enjoyable hour.

Tickets $9 adults/$5 children. Takeout orders are availVUHS Personalized Learning Parent Informational able. More info call 802-877-3150.

Series in Vergennes. Tuesday, April 16, 6-7 p.m., Bingo in Vergennes. Saturday, April 13, 5:30-8 p.m., St. Library, Vergennes Union High School, Monkton Rd. Peter’s Parish Hall, 85 South Maple St. Doors open at Family fun night in Vergennes. Friday, Parents will be able to learn about the new initiative of 5:30 p.m., Bingo starts at 6 p.m. All cash prizes. 50/50 April 19, 6-10 p.m., Addison County Eagles Personalized Learning, how it is being implemented, raffle. Refreshments sold. Sponsored by St. Peter’s Club 3801, 67 New Haven Rd. Use the Eagles and how it is designed to improve the students’ educaCemetery Committee to benefit the on-going efforts for board games and cards or bring your own games to tional experience. cemetery improvements. share. Pizza and beverages for sale. Open to all.

King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April Psychological Trauma and the Brain lecture in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 16, 7-8:30 p.m., Community 13, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center, Route Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. All estimates 7. The evening begins with a sandwich supper and suggest that psychological trauma is an experience then on to the games. King Pede is a unique game that has occurred in at least half of the American adult that involves “trick-taking” techniques such as in Hearts School vacation breakfast in Shoreham. population. How do these extreme stressors affect the and Spades or Pitch. A game of fun and skill. Come Saturday, April 20, 8:30-10:30 a.m., Shoreham brain, and how does this change the way individuals prepared to use your strategic thinking.

Congregational Church, 28 School Rd. Feast on experience the world? Join Matt Kimble, Professor of blueberry pancakes or French toast with local Vermont Psychology at Middlebury College, as he addresses maple syrup, sausages, home fries, quiche, beverages these questions and more. Free. and more. Tickets $8 adults/$4 children/ $20 families.

All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast in New Haven. Sunday April 14, 7-10:30 a.m., New Haven Town Hall, 78 North St. Menu includes plain or blueberry pancakes, French toast, pure VT maple syrup, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage, home fries, coffee, tea and juice. All proceeds benefit the New Haven Vol. Fire Department.

All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast in Addison. Sunday, April 14, 7-11 a.m., Addison Fire Station, jct. Routes 17 and 22A. Menu includes plain and blueberry pancakes, sausage, bacon, home fries, coffee, hot chocolate and orange juice. Tickets $7 adults/$5 kids under 12, will be used to purchase equipment for the Addison Volunteer Fire Department. Last breakfast until the fall. More info at 802- 759-2237.

Easter Egg Hunt in Vergennes. Sunday, April 14, 1-4 p.m., Addison County Eagles Club 3801, 67 New Haven Rd. The Eagles club hosts this hunt for over 500 eggs for children ages 1-10. Games, prizes and light snacks available. Free and open to the public.

Japanese Boatbuilding presentation in Ferrisburgh.

Sunday, April 14, 2-4 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center, Route 7. Douglas Brooks, a boat builder, writer, and researcher, specializes in the construction of traditional wooden boats for museums and private clients.

He teaches classes in boatbuilding and regularly publishes articles on his research, and is the author of “Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding,” the first comprehensive survey of the craft. Free. Refreshments. Open to all. More info contact Gail at 802-425-4505.

Community Meal in Bristol. Sunday, April 14, 5-6:30 p.m., St. Ambrose Parish Hall, School St. Menu includes meatloaf, mashed potatoes and corn and a dessert of banana trifle (pudding, whipped cream and bananas). Free and open to the public.

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FGP offers opportunities for volunteers to serve as classroom aides in Addison County, providing mentoring and support to children of all ages.

Foster Grandparents can serve from 10 - 30 hours a week and receive a stipend, training and travel reimbursement if income-eligible.

For more info on how to become a Foster Grandparent, please call 802-388-7044 or visit volunteersinvt.org

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Legislative Breakfast in New Haven.

Monday, April 15, 7-8:45 a.m., New Haven Congregational Church, Town Hill Rd. Talk with local legislators over breakfast. Purchase of breakfast not required to attend but helps defray the cost of opening the hall.

Escapee’s wisdom

AUTHOR LORE SEGAL will read from “The Journal I Didn’t Keep” at Hillcrest House in Middlebury on Tuesday, April 23, at 4:30 p.m. Former professor at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and Pulitzer-Prize-nominated writer, Segal is best known for her autobiographical novel “Other People’s Houses,” in which she describes her escape from Hitler’s Vienna in 1938 on a Kindertransport and subsequent exile in England, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.

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IN “SOUP TO Nuts: An Eccentric History of Food” at New Haven Town Hall on Wednesday, April 17, at 7 p.m., writer Rebecca Rupp, will talk about the rocky evolution of table manners, the not-so-welcome invention of the fork, the awful advent of portable soup, and the surprising benefits of family dinners – plus some catchy info on seasonal foods.

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Legislative Breakfast in Whiting. Monday, April 22, 7-8:45 a.m., 29 S. Main St. Talk with local legislators over breakfast. Purchase of breakfast not required to attend but helps defray the cost of opening the hall.

Age Well senior luncheon in New Haven. Monday, April 22, 11:30 a.m., Porky’s Place, Route 7. Doors open at 11:30 a.m., meal served at noon of pulled pork, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, applesauce, wheat roll, and tapioca pudding with granola crumbles. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age.

Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

American Red Cross Blood Donation in Brandon.

Monday, April 22, noon-5 p.m., Brandon American Legion, 550 Franklin St. Give blood or platelets during National Volunteer Month this April. Eligible donors of all blood types — especially type O — are needed to help ensure blood products are available for patients this spring.

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Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes.

Tuesday, April 23, 10 a.m. Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln., Vergennes. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Meal served at noon of cheese ravioli with meat sauce, broccoli florets, wheat bread, and peaches. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age.

Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Lore Segal Reading from “The Journal I Didn’t Keep” in Middlebury. Tuesday, April 23, 4:30 p.m., Hillcrest 103, Hillcrest Rd. Former professor at the Breadloaf Writers’ Conference and Pulitzer-Price-nominated writer Lore Segal is best known for her autobiographical novel “Other People’s Houses,” in which she describes her escape from Hitler’s Vienna in 1938 on a Kindertransport and subsequent exile in England, the Dominican Republic, and the United States.

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Mobile Making Workshop in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 24, 1:30-2:30 p.m., BUNDLE @ 60 Main St. Come to the Middlebury’s new Pop-Up event space and create a felt hanging mobile to decorate your favorite spaces. $30 all materials included. Register at rootstudiovt@gmail. com.

“Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport” on screen in Middlebury.

Wednesday, April 24, 4:30 p.m., Room 232, Axinn Center, Old Chapel Rd. Come see this AcademyAward-winning documentary that traces the remarkable British rescue operation that saved the lives of over 10,000 Jewish children from Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic. Kindertransport survivor Lore Segal will be present during the Q&A. “Murder and Indigenous Mobility in NineteenthCentury Vermont” in Orwell. Wednesday, April 24, 7 p.m., Orwell Free Library, 423 Main St. Vermont is the traditional homeland of the Abenaki people, and current conversations about indigenous Vermont focus on Abenaki persistence on the land. Cultural historian Jill Mudgett tells another story about indigeneity in Vermont by focusing on a man from southern New England who arrived in Vermont during the late nineteenth century and was then murdered in the Vermont woods. Surviving archival documents of the murder and subsequent trial not only tell us what white Vermonters thought about indigeneity, but reveal much about Native agency, mobility, and presence on the land.

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Green Mountain Club hike in Bristol. *RESCHEDULED from Friday April 12*.

Thursday April 25, the Watershed Center, Plank Rd. Moderate, approx. 5-mile hike on the Waterworks property, mostly level. Mostly gradual elevation gain of 550’ to west ridge and overlook. Dress for the weather; waterproof boots recommended. Bring poles, water and a hearty snack or lunch. Meet at parking area on Plank Road at 9 a.m. Contact Ruth Penfield at ruthpenfield@gmail.com or 802-388-5407 to confirm. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

American Red Cross Blood Donation in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 25, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Middlebury College, 58 Hepburn Rd. Give blood or platelets during National Volunteer Month this April. Eligible donors of all blood

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Age Well senior luncheon in Middlebury.

Friday, April 26, Rosie’s, Route 7 South.

Doors open at 11:30, meal served at noon of ham dinner with mashed potatoes, peas, coleslaw, dinner roll and strawberry shortcake. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. $5 suggested donation does not include gratuity. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age.

Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

Jay Parini lectures in Middlebury. Friday, April 26, 3 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Come hear Middlebury College professor Parini talk about his new novel, “The Damascus Road,” about the apostle Paul and his companion and fellow missionary, Luke. Free, open to the public and fully accessible.

Space is limited. RSVP required to Suzanne Bennett at 802-377-3393, or sbennett@residenceottercreek.com.

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on stage in Middlebury. Friday, April 26, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Winner of two 2005 Tony Awards, this musical puts audiences front and center at one of the quirkiest competitive events of the school year. Six awkward middle-school spellers try to keep their cool and win the bee while three well-intentioned adults run the show. Tickets available at Town Hall Theater Box Office.

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SATURDAY Green Mountain Club wildflower hike in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 27, Kingsland

Bay State Park. Easy two-mile leisurely walk with hope of seeing trillia and other wildflowers. More info contact Liana Merrill at merrill.liana@gmail.com or 603-9695449. More activities at gmcbreadloaf.org.

Pop-up rebag-making in Middlebury. Saturday, April 27, 60 Main St. 10 a.m.-1 p.m., 60 Main St. Sewing for change will host a pop-up bag-making day at the former Clay’s. Come help make a cloth bag for your shopping and keep up the momentum for banning plastic bags in Middlebury. Make a bag, take a bag.

Wild Middlebury Bioblitz in Middlebury. Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Otter View Park, Weybridge St. and Pulp Mill Bridge Rd. Join Otter Creek Audubon Society and Middlebury Land trust to discover and document the flora and fauna of Otter View Park for their inaugural rapid attempt to catalogue as many species as possible. People of all ages and levels of expertise are encouraged to join.

Auction fundraiser in Middlebury. Saturday, April 27, 3-7 p.m., VFW, 530 Exchange St. St. Stephen’s holds this auction of fine and fun items, including a used Mazda 3, fine antiques, gold jewelry, a hand-hooked rug by Amy Oxford, a catered dinner for 6 and many, more items Proceeds go toward maintenance projects for the historic church. Preview, 3-4 p.m., live auction

by Tom Broughton at 4 p.m. Refreshments available!

More info contact St. Stephen’s office at 802-388-7200.

“Too Late to Die Young” (original title “Tarde Para Morir Joven) on screen in Middlebury. Saturday, April 27, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. During 1990 in Chile, a small group of families lives in an isolated community right below the Andes, building a new world away from the urban excesses. In this time of change, 16-year-old Sofía and Lucas, and 10-year-old Clara, neighbors in this dry land, struggle with parents, first loves, and fears, as they prepare a big party for New Year’s Eve. Free.

Marshall Highet and Bird Stasz Jones in Middlebury.

Saturday, April 27, 4 p.m., The Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main St. Highet and Jones will read from, discuss and sign their new book, “Hold Fast.” Presented as part of Independent Bookstore Day, a celebration of independent bookstores nationwide. Free and open to the public.

Introduction to bullhead fishing in Panton. Friday, April 26, 6-9 p.m., TBD. Come to this Vermont Fish & Wildlife clinic and explore different fishing styles to target bullhead — nocturnal bottom feeders found in many of the shallower, muddier lakes, ponds, and rivers of Vermont. Equipment provided. Dress for the weather.

Free. Bring snacks or a meal. Space limited to first 30 registrants. Pre-registration required at vtfishandwildlife.com. Directions to the meeting spot will be given upon registering.

King Pede card party in Ferrisburgh. Saturday, April 27, 6:30 p.m., Ferrisburgh Community Center, Route 7. The evening begins with a sandwich supper and then on to the games. King Pede is a unique game that involves “trick-taking” techniques such as in Hearts and Spades or Pitch. A game of fun and skill. Come prepared to use your strategic thinking.

Sean Ashby performs in Brandon. Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Come hear one of North Americas go-to guitarists, whose guitar playing has appeared on albums with sales in excess of 10 million copies worldwide... so far. Concert tickets Concert tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info contact Edna at 802-247-4295 or info@brandon-music. net.

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on stage in Middlebury. Saturday, April 27, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Winner of two 2005 Tony Awards, this musical puts audiences front and center at one of the quirkiest competitive events of the school year. Six awkward middle-school spellers try to keep their cool and win the bee while three well-intentioned adults run the show. Tickets available at Town Hall Theater Box Office.

LIVEMUSIC The Addison String Quartet in Middlebury. Thursday, April 11, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church Mike Nunziante performs in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury The Good Parts.

The Castalian String Quartet in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

BlueBrass in Middlebury. Friday, April 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury The Horse Traders in Middlebury. Saturday, April 13, 5-9 p.m., Notte.

Snake Mountain Bluegrass in Brandon. Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

The Michele Fay Band in Lincoln. Saturday April 13, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall.

BlueBrass! in Middlebury. Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

Middlebury Community Wind Ensemble performs in Middlebury. Sunday, April 14, 4-5 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

Orgelgebet (organ prayers) in Middlebury. Thursday, April 18, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephens Episcopal Church The Mammals in concert in Middlebury. Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center.

Phil Henry and The News Feed in Brandon. Saturday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music Sean Ashby performs in Brandon. Saturday, April 27, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

Heron Fire in Middlebury. Sunday, April 28, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

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Gun control advocate Evelyn Augusto in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 25, 1-3 p.m., Community Meeting Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Otter Creek Poetry Workshop and Ilsley Library welcome Augusto to talk about the role poetry can play in this critical social issue. Her motto is “Guns Don’t Save People, Poets Do.” “We Are All Fast Food Workers Now” in Middlebury.

Thursday, April 25, 4:30 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room, 148 Hillcrest Rd. The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs hosts this lecture by Annelise Orleck, a professor of History at Dartmouth College and the author of five books on the history of U.S. women, politics, immigration, and activism. Orleck will discuss low-wage worker movements from around the globe, specifically those of fast-food workers and farmworkers in places such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, and the United States.

Age Well senior luncheon in Vergennes. Thursday, April 25, 10 a.m. Vergennes Area Seniors Armory Lane Senior Housing, 50 Armory Ln. Doors open at 10 a.m. for bingo and coffee hour. Money Smart for Older Adults – Prevent Financial Exploitation Part 3 at 11 a.m. Meal served at noon of turkey a la king, mashed potatoes, Harvard beets, biscuits and pumpkin custard with cream. Bring your own place setting. $5 suggested donation. 72 hours advanced notice required. Call Michelle to reserve 802-377-1419. Open to anyone age 60 and up and their spouse of any age. Free ride may be provided. Call ACTR at 802-388-2287 to inquire.

A Walk in their Shoes: Dementia Simulation in Middlebury. Wednesday, April 25, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Join an experience that will help you understand how it feels to manage the many challenges dementia presents.

Certified Dementia Practitioners to take you through an experience to better create a positive environment for those with dementia. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-3881220, or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

Red Scare discussion in Vergennes. Thursday, April 25, 6-7 p.m., Community Room, Bixby Memorial Library, 258 Main St. Authors and historians Rick Winston and David Holmes will facilitate a lively discussion centered on the anti-Communist fear known as the Red Scare and how if affected Vermont. The first 20 attendees will receive a free copy of Winston’s “Red Scare in the Green Mountains: Vermont in the McCarthy Era 19461960.” Copies of Holmes’s “Stalking the Academic Communist: Intellectual Freedom and the Firing of Alex Novikoff” will also be available. Light refreshments. ADA accessible by a lift. More info call 802-877-2211.

Middle East policy lecture by Ambassador Barbara Leaf in Middlebury. Thursday, April 25, 4:30-6 p.m., Robert A. Jones ‘59 House Conference Room, 148 Hillcrest Rd. The Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs hosts Barbara A. Leaf, the U.S. ambassador to the United Arab Emirates from 2014-2018 and Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute.

Gong and sound immersion in Middlebury. Thursday, April 25, 7-8 p.m. Illuminate, 211 Maple St, Middlebury.

Andrew Noethiger returns to Middlebury to offer an evening of sound immersion and vibrations that resonate with the body, mind and soul using an array of gongs, bowls, bells and chimes. Bring a yoga mat or blanket to lay on. Not recommended for children under 8 or pregnant women. Suggested donation $20. More info contact Andrew at gonggroove@yahoo.com or 802-777-9887.

“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” on stage in Middlebury. Thursday, April 25, 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Winner of two 2005 Tony Awards, this musical puts audiences front and center at one of the quirkiest competitive events of the school year. Six awkward middle-school spellers try to keep their cool and win the bee while three well-intentioned adults run the show. Tickets available at Town Hall Theater Box Office.

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THREE ADDISON CENTRAL Teens students constructed the hull of a sailboat over February break with the help of several adult Mentors. Once complete, the boat will be raffled off to raise funds for the teen center.

Addison Central Teens to raffle off boat they built

Photo courtesy Cicilia Robinson

MIDDLEBURY — Over February break, Addison Central Teens held a boatbuilding workshop. Three teens participated in building the hull of a 12-foot sailboat from Monday Feb. 18, to Friday, Feb. 22. They were given breakfast then went to the Patricia A. Hannaford Career Center to start building. The teens worked with boat builder Ed McGuire and several other adult volunteers from St. Stephen’s church to build the boat between before going back to

the Teen Center for lunch.

The workshop opened up the three teens’ eyes to a new type of creativity, and for one youth, sparked a potential career path. On the first day of the workshop, each teen was hesitant, waiting to receive direction from the St. Stephen’s volunteers. By the end of the fifth day, as the hull came into focus, every teen was engaged and able to not only find their own tasks, but to do them well.

To complete as the mast, rudder, jib and sail, the teens will return to the boatbuilding workshop held over their April break. They will also choose the color and name of the boat. Once completed, the boat will be raffled off to support the further efforts of Addison Central Teens.

The hull of the boat is currently on display in the front window of the National Bank of Middlebury.

Raffle tickets are available through ACT online at go.rallyup.com/

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Tickets are $10, and all proceeds will support programs at the Teen Center, which have included financial literacy, cooking, LGBTQ+ supports, and many others.

Addison Central Teens runs the teen center, which serves Addison Central School District and the surrounding area by providing teens access to supportive supervision, snacks, and increasingly enriching programming to teens after school.

ADDISON COUNTY — Every April, Addison County early childhood programs and professionals join the national Month of the Young Child to bring visibility and awareness to the young children in our communities, along with their families, teachers and caregivers. This year the Addison County Directors Network presents art exhibits in many of our local libraries. These exhibits feature the artwork of the youngest members of our communities.

You can find pieces at: Ilsley Library, Middlebury; Bixby Library, Vergennes; Lawrence Memorial Library, Bristol; and Lincoln and Starksboro libraries. Participating programs include: The Ark Preschool, Otter Creek Child Center, East Middlebury Nursery School, Lincoln Cooperative Preschool, Quarry Hill School, Parent Child Center, Evergreen Preschool, Wren’s Nest Forest Preschool, Starksboro Cooperative Preschool, College Street Children’s Center, Bristol Family Center, Mary Johnson Children’s Center, Mary Hogan Preschool, Sunshine Children’s Center, and Headstart-ACELC. In addition, the movie “No Small Matter” will screen at the Marquis Theater, 65 Main St. in Middlebury

on Monday, April 29. This new documentary explores the challenges we face as families, communities, and professionals in delivering high quality childcare to our nation’s young children. “No Small Matter” is the first full-length feature documentary that explores the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for leveling the playing field for children today — affordable access to high-quality child care.

Doors open at 6 p.m. with refreshments served in the cafe. The 45-minute screening will begin at 6:15 p.m., followed by a facilitated Q&A. Members of the panel include noted pediatrician and child development expert, Dr. Jody Brakeley, Otter Creek Child Center Director, Linda January and a parent from the Let’s Grow Kids Action Team.

Space is limited. RSVP at tinyurl. com/NSM-Marquis.

For more information email stephanie@letsgrowkids.org.

The screening of “No Small Matter” is supported by the Starting Points Networks, Building Bright Futures and Let’s Grow Kids. Thanks also to the Marquis Theater for including this film in their community supported screenings. Food provided by the Marquis kitchen.

Middlebury Sports Center fundraiser on tap Saturday MIDDLEBURY — The public is invited to join the Friends of Middlebury Hockey in a fundraiser for the Memorial Sports Center this Saturday, April 13, at Notte, 86 Main St., in downtown Middlebury.

The group will celebrate Middlebury’s commitment to “Heat it up!” at Memorial Sports Center, as it will soon be able to complete the 2nd floor of our town’s shared home for ice hockey and family recreation. This second floor work will complete work that was started in 2008.

The Notte event is a thank you to the more than 300 local families and businesses that have contributed to the fundraising effort and an opportunity to enjoy an evening of music from local legends the Horse Traders. The event begins at 5 p.m., music will be performed 6:30 to 9 p.m. Admission is $15 at the door.

The evening will also serve as a fundraiser, with admissions and raffle proceeds going towards the “Heat it up!” campaign. Local businesses and supporters of Memorial Sports Center have donated prizes for a raffle that will also benefit the 2nd floor “Heat It Up” campaign.

Prizes include, among many other things, a Boston Bruins jersey

autographed by the 2018-19 team; your choice of a season pass to Middlebury Snow Bowl or a season membership to Ralph Myhre Golf Course, a one-week stay at a house adjacent to Pinehurst Golf Course in North Carolina during the U.S. Amateur Championship, a $500 gift card to Woodware, a one night stay for two at the Inn on the Green and a private hockey lesson with Panther hockey legend Bill Beaney.

Raffle tickets will be available for purchase at the event and in advance at Forth ‘N Goal Sports and from your Friends of Middlebury Hockey.

For families with children ages 8 and up, Marquis Theater will offer supervised childcare for the price of a movie ticket ($8). Contact Kim Cook at reaney1609@gmail.com to reserve childcare at the Marquis and for details about the evening.

Pre-purchase of a movie ticket will be required to reserve your child’s spot.

Have questions or want to donate a raffle item? Email: fomh@memorialsportscenter.org.

Learn more about the plan to complete Memorial Sports Center at mscgift.org.

Centuries of service

MASONS WITH BRISTOL’S Libanus Lodge 47 this past Sunday, April 7, honored four of their most senior members for their many years of service. Pictured here are, left to right, member Cedric Tashro, Lodge President Cecil Foster, 70-year member Roger Layn, 75-year member Bill James, member Mike Bushey, and 60-year member Charlie Wesienbach. Also honored at Sunday’s ceremony at 2 Elm St. was 50-year Libanus Lodge member Robert Fuller.

Photo courtesy of Richard Merrill

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Climate march (Continued from Page 1A) magnificent potluck supper in Holley Hall. more than 60 miles before.

Tuesday’s State House action was DAY TWO: APRIL 6 Bristol to Hinesburg (17 miles). the culmination of the Next Steps Climate Solutions walk, which began Theme: Resistance: bearing witness in Middlebury this past Friday, April 5. to the Addison County Natural Gas During the journey walkers Pipeline.

• A morning blessing offered highlighted the climate

by Beverly Little Thunder, a consequences of the build-out two-spirit Lakota Elder from of the Vermont Gas pipeline, Standing Rock. while also celebrating and • Concerns over promoting examples of whether a rolling coffin, climate solutions. built by local members of At the Statehouse, an Extinction Rebellion, should organizer for the group accompany the walkers.

350 Vermont, which See “Marching After a meeting of staged the walk, faulted on: Dispatches from 350 Vermont’s Action Vermont lawmakers the climate walk” at Council, a compromise for not taking climate addisonindependent. was reached that change seriously com, which includes allowed its inclusion. enough. “Legislators are video, photos and an • Walking the first not acting swiftly to pass audio diary that reporter half hour in silence, a ban on new fossil fuel Christopher Ross sent WALKERS PROCEED IN a slow and sometimes painful pace from Hinesburg to Richmond amidst the snow-capped Green Mountains on Sunday, accompanied only by infrastructure or other back from the road. birdsong, barking dogs the third day of the demonstration. policies commensurate Independent photo/Christopher Ross and passing airplanes. with the crisis at hand,” • Banners catching in tree said Julie Macuga, 350VT’s collaborating together — usually it’s • Tamales, warm chocolate and roadsides.

Extreme Energy Organizer. “It can’t branches above leading to occasional doughnuts at Willowwell, provided • “Don’t talk to me. Get off my the kids who are asked to do that.” delays. wait till next session.”

• On the hill down into Richmond,

by Migrant Justice, who expressed property.”

• Mountains that seem suddenly solidarity with the walkers.

The Addison Independent covered • The distinction between a woman passing us in the other that walk from beginning to end. to rise over the walkers.

• We may or may not have taken the beep-beep of supporters’ car direction carrying a sign reading, • Shouting and whooping, then a shortcut that shaved a mile or so horns vs. the hooonnnnnnk of non- “Sorry we were rolling drunk on See more photos and a video at addisonindependent.com. Here are singing, after the walking silence is off our route. supporters’ car horns. petroleum.” lifted. some of the highlights: • Clouds, endless clouds, and • Nonviolent direct action training • After, walking the path of the • Shouting, too, from a front new natural gas pipeline, which was sometimes rain.

DAY ONE: APRIL 5 at the Richmond Congregational Middlebury to Bristol (11 porch along the way, where two men installed despite great opposition.

• Then sunlight during a visit to Church. miles), Theme: Reunion: building held a large “Trump 2020” banner.

Laughing Tree Farm in Monkton, DAY FOUR, APRIL 8 • Children still greening up community and relationships. where Jane and Nate Palmer, who Richmond to Middlesex (19 • The angle of sunlight cast kept saying “no” to Vermont Gas miles). Theme: Recreate: seeking through the Congregational Church Systems’ plans to extend a pipeline solutions, alternatives, transitions. of Middlebury’s tall windows during through their property. (VGS • Rain, snow, sleet, rain, wind, registration. eventually took “no” for an answer.) sleet, wind.

FREEZING RAIN BLEW at the • Two dozen North Branch • A brass band near sunset • Agreement that this was one of School students streaming past leading the walkers the final mile the best-organized journeys many walkers on Route 2 for an hour Monday afternoon, but proper those windows on their way into the into Hinesburg. people could remember. headgear kept smiles on Ari building.

DAY THREE: APRIL 7 • Pleasant surprise about how Erlbaum’s face.

• Spiritual blessings on the Hinesburg to Richmond (11 not-gross the traveling composting Middlebury Green. miles). Them: Reimagine: shifting toilet was. truth to power.

• A narrowing and lengthening consciousness.

• Freezing rain blown at the • Free breakfast at the Red Hen of the line when narrow shoulders • A ceremony of tears in walkers for an hour on Route 2.

Baking Company. made single-file walking necessary.

Hinesburg’s Geprags Park, where • Crossing the Winooski River • More rain.

• Children greening up roadsides.

Vermont Gas did not take “no” for on a swaying bridge and walking a • Youth contingents from • Damp settling into pants seats an answer. portion of the Long Trail.

Vergennes Union High School, during a front-yard lunch on Halpin • Grieving, poetry, red clover • Friendships forming.

Middlebury College and from local Road. seeds.

• More half-bananas magically schools.

• Seemingly endless supplies of • “You’re all part of an ongoing appearing at snack time.

• Arthur Blackhawk, a beacon bananas cut in half. ritual that never closes.”

• The “Solar Bus.” ahead of the marchers, alerting • And nearly as many • In one pocket, a talisman: a • A last-minute invitation to eat oncoming traffic. clementines. copy of a new Wendell Berry poem lunch in the warm, dry cafeteria at • Banners hung from a bridge • We learn the “noodle” that Middlebury College professor Smilie Memorial Elementary School over Interstate 89. maneuver: crossing in formation Jon Isham had three days before read in Bolton.

• “Our House Is on Fire – Greta from one side of the road to the other. aloud in tribute to Bill McKibben, • A last-minute invitation to enjoy Thunberg.”

• Reflective-vested walk which copy included Isham’s reading coffee and baked goods in the warm, • “Caution: Climate Crisis marshals with walkie talkies and and pronunciation notes. dry common area of SunCommon’s Ahead.” endless energy.

• Occasional reminders that Waterbury headquarters.

• Speeding, honking traffic • Snacks at a round house on walkers should check themselves for • The seeming defiance with below.

River Road. ticks. which many walkers chose to walk • A new roadside Green-Up • We learn to recognize the • A sometimes slow and painful miles 15–19 instead of taking public team. Weirdest find: a basketball. difference between supportive pace. transit.

• 300 activists preparing in Christ (beep-beep!) and non-supportive • Two Canada geese alighting • Addison-4 state Rep. Mari Church, Montpelier. (hooonnnk!) car horns. from a nearby wetland, one Cordes helping celebrate their arrival • As the Statehouse filled with • A driver slows down on Route immediately knocked down by the into Middlesex. song, the sight, through leaded 116 and shouts “carburetors rule!” fence wire it had flown into.

• Teenagers composing climate window panes, of rain turning to • South Street’s steep incline.

• Rolling hills, generous streams, justice messages to their legislators. snow.

HATS, GLOVES AND warm jackets were the order of the day as Next great broad fields, deep gullies.

• Singers welcoming walkers to DAY FIVE, APRIL 9 Reach Christopher Ross at Steps participants walked from Richmond to Middlesex on Monday, but Bristol.

• Well-used camera phones.

Middlesex to Montpelier (7 christopherr@addisonindepenent. the low temperatures didn’t stop the high spirits.

• Buzz and chatter over a • “It’s good to see adults miles). Theme: Reform: speaking com.

Independent photo/Christopher Ross

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Area Holy Week Directory Addison ADDISON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH. All are welcome for an Easter breakfast at 9 a.m., with special treats for the kids. RSVP to Pastor Steve at srpvt@ aol.com. Worship following at 10:30 a.m.

worship service with pot luck to follow, Bridport Community Hall.

WEST ADDISON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 14, 9 a.m., Palm Sunday service. Sunday, April 21, 9 a.m., Easter service. All are welcome.

Bristol BRISTOL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP. Sunday, April 21, 7 a.m. Easter sunrise service, Downingsville Rd, Lincoln.; 8 a.m., Easter breakfast, Rockydale Rd., Bristol; 9 a.m., Easter worship service, Rockydale Rd.

Brandon ST. THOMAS AND GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday service, Sunday, April 14, 8 and 10 a.m. Easter Service, Sunday, April 21, one service only, 9 a.m.

BRANDON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m.; Easter service, April 21, 10 a.m.

FURNACE BROOK WESLEYAN CHURCH. Easter Sunday Service, Sunday, April 21, 11 a.m. This service at the Brandon location (11 Center St.) is specifically designed for those who may feel uncomfortable in more formal church settings.

LIFEBRIDGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Easter Eggstravaganza family event, Saturday, April 13, 11 a.m.-2 p.m.; Good Friday service, Friday, April 19, 7 p.m.; Easter Sunday service, Sunday, April 21, 9:30 a.m. and 11:15 a.m. with Sunday Funday children’s program during both services. Visit at lbccvt.com/celebrateeaster for details.

OUR LADY OF GOOD HELP (ST. MARY’S). Holy Thursday Mass, April 18, 7 p.m. Good Friday service, April 19, 7 p.m.

Holy Saturday Easter Vigil, April 20, 8 p.m.

Easter Sunday Mass, April 21, 11 a.m.

Bridport HOPE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP. Sunday, April 21, 10:30 a.m., Easter

ST. BERNADETTE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Palm Sunday Eve, Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m. Easter Sunday, April 21, 11 a.m.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRISTOL. Palm Sunday, Sunday, April 14, 10:15 a.m. with special music and giving of the palms.

Maundy Thursday Communion service, April 18, 7 p.m. Good Friday, April 19, noon, ecumenical service at St. Ambrose Catholic Church followed by Soup lunch and Hot Cross buns. Easter Sunday, April 21, 6:30 a.m., sunrise service Gove Hill in Lincoln followed by breakfast at the First Baptist Church; 10:15 a.m., Easter service with special music.

ST. AMBROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH. Palm Sunday Mass, Saturday, April 13, 6:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 14, 8 a.m.; Holy Thursday Mass, 7 p.m., Thursday, April 18; Good Friday Ecumenical Service, Friday, April 19, noon, and Passion fo the Lord, 7 p.m.; Easter vigil, Saturday, April 20, 8 p.m. at St. Peter’s in Vergennes; Easter Mass, Sunday, April 21, 8 a.m.

Charlotte CHARLOTTE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m., Service of Palms and Passion; Thursday, April 18, Maundy Thursday, foot washing 6:15 p.m., service 7 p.m., Thursday, April 18, 8 p.m.-Friday, April 19, 3 p.m., Holy Vigil; Friday, April 19, Stations of the Cross, 4 p.m.; Saturday, April 20, 1 p.m. Easter egg hunt. Sunday, April 1, 5:30 a.m., Easter sunrise service; 9 a.m., early Easter service; 11 a.m., late Easter service

with holy communion.

East Middlebury VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH. Sunday, April 21, 8:30 a.m., early Easter service; 9:30 a.m., Easter breakfast and egg hunt; 10:45 a.m., Easter Sunday service.

Ferrisburgh FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Palm Sunday Service, Sunday April 14, 9 a.m.; Ecumenical Good Friday service, Friday, April 19, 4 p.m., with ministers from five different denominations; Sunday, April 21, 9 a.m., Easter service. All are welcome.

NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 14, 9:30 a.m., Easter egg hunt for kids 0-6; Palm Sunday service, 10 a.m.; Good Friday, April 19, 4 p.m., at Ferrisburgh Center Church. Easter Sunday, April 21, 5:45 a.m., sunrise service in North Ferrisburgh United Methodist Church pavillion followed by a pancake breakfast; 10 a.m., Easter service in sanctuary.

Lincoln THE UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN. Palm Sunday Service, April 14, 9:45 a.m.; Maundy Thursday, Thursday, April 18, 6 p.m.; Easter Sunrise Service on Gove Hill, Sunday, April 21 6:30 a.m.; (call United Church of Lincoln (453-4280) for details) followed by breakfast at Burnham Hall; Easter Service at 9:45 a.m.

Middlebury CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY. Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m., worship service with special guest composer and classical guitarist Sam Guarnaccio to share excerpts from his “Emergent Universe Oratorio.”

CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY. Palm Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m., Sanctuary, New Light Palm Sunday

service 4 p.m., Unity Hall. April 18, Maundy Thursday, soup and bread in Unity Hall, 6 p.m., service, 7 p.m. Easter Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m. service in Sanctuary.

GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m., music event and free supper to follow in lower level of church.

MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH. Palm Sunday Service, April 14, 10 a.m. MondayFriday, April 15-19, 7 a.m., 30 minute devotional, Fellowship Hall. MaundyThursday Service, April 18, 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21; Easter sunrise service 6:30 a.m., Grice Farm, Halpin Rd.; Easter worship, 10 a.m.

MIDDLEBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Palm and Passion Sunday, April 14, 11 a.m. Sunday services. Maundy Thursday, April 18, 6 p.m. Ecumenical Good Friday service Friday, April 19, noon, at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church. Easter Sunday, April 21, 6 a.m., sunrise service at Middlebury College’s Youngman Field; Easter worship, 11 a.m.

ST. MARY’S ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN. Palm Sunday: Saturday (Vigil) April 13, 5:15 p.m.; Sunday April 14, 8 and 10 a.m. Holy Thursday: April 18, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7 p.m. Good Friday: April 19, Celebration of the Lord’s Passion, 3 p.m.; Stations of the Cross, 7 p.m. Easter: Holy Saturday, April 20, Easter Vigil, 7 p.m.; Easter Sunday, April 21, 8 a.m and 9:30 a.m.

ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Sunday, April 14, 8 a.m., Palm/Passion Sunday service, Holy Communion; 10:30 a.m., Service, Holy Communion and “Godly Play.” Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m., Stations of the Cross. Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m., Maundy Thursday service with foot washing. Friday, April 19, noon, ecumenical Good Friday liturgy; 7 p.m., Good Friday Liturgy. Saturday, April 20, 7 p.m., Easter

vigil. Sunday, April 21, 8 a.m., Easter Service H o l y Communion; 10:30 a.m., Easter Service, Holy Communion, Easter Crafts for children.

Monkton MONKTON FRIENDS METHODIST CHURCH. Easter Sunday, April 21, 8:45 a.m.

Panton PANTON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH. Friday, April 19, 7 p.m., Good Friday service. Sunday, April 21, 10:30 a.m., Easter service.

New Haven NEW HAVEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH. Good Friday service, 7 p.m., Friday, April 19. Easter service, 10 a.m. and 7 p.m., Sunday, April 21.

Salisbury SALISBURY UCC CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m. Easter service Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m., with Flowering of the Cross.

Shoreham SHOREHAM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday Service Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m. Easter Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m.

ST. GENEVIEVE CATHOLIC CHURCH. The 11 a.m. Easter Sunday Mass will be held at St. Bernadette’s in Bridport.

Vergennes CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH. Palm Sunday Service Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. Good Friday Service, Friday, April 19,

7 p.m.

Easter Service, Sunday, April 21, 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.

ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 14, Eucharist with Palms Liturgy, 8 and 10 a.m.

Maundy Thursday, April 18, Foot-washing, Eucharist, Stripping of the Altar at 7 p.m.

Good Friday, April 19, Proper Liturgy of Good Friday at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 20, The Great Vigil of Easter at 8 p.m. Easter Day, April 21, Eucharist at 8 and 10 a.m.

ST. PETER’S CATHOLIC CHURCH. Palm Sunday Mass, Saturday, April 13, 4:30 p.m. and Sunday, April 14, 10:30 a.m.; Holy Thursday Mass, Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m. at St. Ambrose in Bristol; Good Friday, April 19, 3 p.m., Stations of the Cross with Communion & Veneration of the Cross; Easter Vigil, Saturday, April 20, at 8 p.m.; Easter Sunday, Sunday, April 21, 10:30 a.m.

VERGENNES CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 14, 9:30 a.m. Maundy Thursday, April 18, special evening last supper service, 7:00 p.m.

Easter Sunday, April 21, 9:30 a.m., Easter celebration and flowering of the cross.

VERGENNES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. Palm Sunday Service Sunday, April 14, 10:30 a.m. Maundy Thursday, April 18, pot luck supper at 6 p.m., worship at 7 p.m. Sunday, April 21, 10:30 a.m., Easter service. All are welcome.

VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH. Palm Sunday, April 14, 10 a.m. Eggcelent egg hunt, April 20, 10 a.m. Easter Sunday, April 21, 7:30 a.m., early service followed by breakfast; 11 a.m., Easter Worship. No evening service on Easter Sunday.

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Route 7 intersection plan to be unveiled

By ANDY KIRKALDY FERRISBURGH — On this coming Tuesday, Agency of Transportation engineers will unveil their preferred choices to manage traffic at the intersection of Route 7 and Old Hollow and Stage roads, a junction they and Ferrisburgh officials and residents agree is dangerous.

The meeting at Ferrisburgh’s town office building will open with VTrans officials presenting their preferred option and then taking questions and feedback. It will begin at 6:30 p.m.

Ferrisburgh Selectboard Chairman Rick Ebel said this week that option is highly likely to include traffic lights and alternatives for pedestrian safety such as sidewalks — and not a roundabout, as also had been discussed at a well-attended Jan. 15 forum at the same location.

All of the 70 residents who spoke at the Jan. 15 meeting opposed a roundabout, and the rest applauded those who spoke. Ebel said the study conducted by VTrans and

its consulting firm also showed a “significant difference in cost” between the two options.

“Tuesday night the final decision will be made. Certainly it’s leaning toward the signals,” Ebel said.

Exactly what could go along with the signals to enhance pedestrian safety has yet to be determined, and Ebel said VTrans will present alternatives on Tuesday.

“There’s an array of options,” he said.

Ebel said the selectboard will also formally back an option at the meeting’s conclusion.

“The selectboard is going to make a recommendation which option to select and move forward with,” Ebel said. “Then they (VTrans) take that to the engineers at the state level and decide if it meets all the criteria that they have. And if it does they’ll put it on the calendar.”

At the Jan. 15 meeting VTrans officials said they had studied the intersection in 2009, 2012 and 2017, but had concluded the intersection did not warrant safety upgrades

other than the left-turn lanes and other tweaks added in recent years.

Then, they said, VTrans research discovered 21 crashes in the vicinity in the past five years, and that data showed the intersection clearly needed further safety improvements, such as traffic signals or a roundabout.

The VTrans schedule laid out in January called for studying the alternatives in February and March, and then the presentation at the April 16 meeting. According to the engineers, that study intended to look at the traffic volume of 11,000 vehicles a day, the accident data, and the public feedback.

According to officials in January, VTrans plans to make an officials selection later this month and issue a final report in May or June.

VTrans engineer Erin Parizo said in January if all goes smoothly the intersection could get signals “in a couple years,” while a roundabout could take three to five years.

Residents at the January meeting asked for quicker action.

Chat is supported by the Rotary Club of Middlebury. For more information, contact: Matt Witten at 434-3236 or mwitten@gmavt.net, or Monica Przyperhart at Monica.erhart@gmail. com.

hour-long showcase of Vermontbased short films that screened at last summer’s Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. Among the films to be shown is “Lily,” directed

by Danilo Herrera of Middlebury.

Sas Stewart, co-founder of Middlebury’s Stonecutter Spirits, was recently singled out in Newsweek profile of women leaders in the beverage industry. Check it out at newsweek.com/vermontwomen-owned-winery-1384238.

The annual Relay For Life, an American Cancer Society fundraiser, takes place April 28 on the Middlebury College campus to honor individuals and families affected by cancer. Funds raised at this family-friendly event go to the American Cancer Society for groundbreaking research. This year’s relay begins at noon and lasts until 6 p.m. at Battell Beach (with a rain location of Kenyon Arena). Instead of the traditional walking-based relay event, this year’s edition will be a carnival. There will have lots of food, lawn games, bottle and ring toss, a dunk tank, a bounce house, live entertainment, traditional Relay For Life events (survivors lap and luminaria ceremony), and more.

Admission is only $10, and all ages are welcome. In the meantime, help kickstart donation efforts at tinyurl. com/y6j56ejc. Email to relayforlife@ middlebury.edu with questions.

By the way (Continued from Page 1A) some of the largest local trees from which the sweet sap is collected each year. They measured a mighty maple on the Robinson School front lawn as being 8 feet, 8 inches around at chest height. That one was a biggie, but not the biggest.

They measured two big maples on local residents Dave and Bette Mason’s property off Route 116.

One was the same size as the school tree, but the other one, which the Masons have dubbed “Big Mama,” registers 11 feet, 9 inches around.

Can you beat that?

The Middlebury Conservation Commission and Addison County River Watch Collaborative invite all those interested in water quality to participate in a “Water Quality Chat,” slated for Monday, April 15, from 5-7 p.m. at the Middlebury town offices at 77 Main St. River Watch stream monitoring data will be presented and participants will have a chance ask questions and voice concerns. River Watch staff and volunteers will share data from the New Haven River, Middlebury River, Otter Creek and Lemon Fair River. This Water Quality

The New Haven Planning Commission is seeking local volunteers to help write an enhanced energy plan to promote conservation and energy efficiency. The plan is also intended to stimulate local renewable energy projects. New Haven officials are also inviting folks from other towns to assist as consultants for this project. Organizers believe it could take up to two years to finalize the New Haven energy plan. Volunteers should contact Maggie Eaton at maggieeaton@me.com.

Next Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m., Vermont Public TV will telecast an

NICOLE CARTER, WEYBRIDGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

MICHAELA WISELL, MARY HOGAN ELEMENTARY ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

HEATHER RAABE, BINGHAM MEMORIAL SCHOOL PRINCIPAL

she said.

Carter began her career as an educator in California 20 years ago. That career has included seven years as school-based clinical social worker in both public and independent schools. She moved to Middlebury in 2012 for her first job as a school administrator, in Rutland City.

In addition to being an educator, she’s also a licensed psychotherapist in Middlebury — a vocation that she said deeply informs her understanding of schools, children, and families.

Carter described her leadership style as “authentic, intellectually engaging, and committed to building engaging and effective educational programs. I imagine I am seen as someone who works hard to help us all get it right. As a leader I aim to support children, staff, and families, with my whole heart and mind by helping us all ensure that a child’s schooling supports the development of academic skills as well as the innate human need for purpose, meaning, and connection.”

She’s anxious to start her new job.

“I am too excited for words,” she said.

HEATHER RAABE, CORNWALL Raabe joins the Cornwall school after four years as assistant principal at Global Village Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo., where she helped bring the community together in the redesign of its international school, according to Burrows. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Asian Studies from Colgate University as well as numerous post-graduate degrees, including an advanced certificate in Educational Leadership.

“She has a strong background in IB and leads with a commitment to student voice,” Burrows said.

“Her community focus, her ties to Vermont, and her experience in leading through collaborative engagement will make her a great leader at Cornwall school.”

Raabe saw in Cornwall a school committed to the “success of all learners,” and like Carter, wanted to be part of the ACSD’s transition to IB. “Cornwall is also in a beautiful area of the state and not far from our family,” she said in an email. “When I visited Cornwall elementary, I immediately felt welcomed and I noticed the strong sense of belonging that people share.”

Raabe, with two decades experience as an educator, described her leadership style as “People focused. I believe in a collaborative approach and building capacity from within.”

Raabe and her family are getting ready to move to the Green Mountain State.

“I am very excited to join the community and get to know the students, staff, and families,” she said.

MICHAELA WISELL, MARY HOGAN Wisell’s many contributions to the Mount Abe district include service as a physical education and health teacher and social emotional coach at Bristol Elementary School.

She holds a Masters in Education in School Leadership from the University of Vermont.

“Michaela has a strong vision of progressive education and the importance of building systems that are based in data and supported by professional development for teachers and staff,” Burrows said. “Her work is deeply rooted in creating belonging, safety, and joy for students and staff through collaboration, high quality instruction, and reflection.”

Wisell has been an educator for 14 years, and believes she’ll be a positive addition to the Mary Hogan Elementary team.

“What drew me to Mary Hogan was that it afforded me the opportunity to begin my leadership career in Addison County in a school that is similar in a lot of ways to the school in which I began my teaching career,” she said.

She promised to be a “democratic leader,” someone who’ll “make decisions collaboratively with a strong team. The leader typically, guides and facilitates the decision making process and harnesses the knowledge and strengths of their staff or team to make thoughtful decisions. I believe that including stakeholders in the change process is essential.”

She’s anxious to meet her new colleagues and the students they’ll all be serving.

“I couldn’t be more excited to join the team of incredibly dedicated staff at Mary Hogan,” she said. “I very much look forward to capitalizing on Mary Hogan’s strengths and working collaboratively to continue to serve the students and community of Middlebury.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

ACSD (Continued from Page 1A) is now interviewing candidates for the fourth ACSD principal opening, at Bridport Central School. Current Bridport Principal Jennefer Paquette is leaving to take an administrative post at the Fair Haven Grade School. Burrows said on Tuesday he hopes to name a new Bridport school leader within 10 days.

What follows are brief interviews with Carter, Raabe and Wisell, and testimonials from Burrows on what made them the preferred applicants for their respective jobs. Burrows said approximately 20 candidates applied for each of the four vacancies. It’s no coincidence that each hire has a talent in, or affinity for, the International Baccalaureate (IB) program, which the ACSD is adopting.

“We’ve had a successful hiring process and a strong pool of applicants,” Burrows said.

NICOLE CARTER, WEYBRIDGE Carter joins the Weybridge school after seven years as director of the Allen Street Campus of Rutland City Schools. She holds master’s degrees in teaching and social work and a doctorate in Educational Leadership and Policy.

“She brings a student-centered, collaborative approach to school leadership and a commitment to engaging with the Weybridge and ACSD communities,” Burrows said. “Her teaching and learning philosophy aligns perfectly with the mission of IB and our focus on providing learning environments where students explore, inquire, reflect, and take action.”

In an emailed response to the Independent, Carter said she — as a Middlebury parent — has long been aware of the Weybridge school’s commitment to “the best version of public education.”

“The application and interview process reaffirmed this understanding,” she said, adding the district’s “transparency, level of commitment to the community, and proactive examination of the issues, all make ACSD a place where I want to work.”

Moreover, Carter is excited to be part of the district’s transition to an IB curriculum.

“The implementation of the IB program is unique because of the way it shifts the experience of schooling toward a more engaged approach to learning, emphasizing not just content or academic skills, but the meaning and purpose of being an educated young human,”

Three fiction writers to read at book shop

MIDDLEBURY — The New England Review (NER) will present a reading from three new fiction writers at the Vermont Book Shop on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m. The trio is comprised of Brad Felver, whose debut collection of stories, “The Dogs of Detroit,” won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize; David Moats, a well-known Vermont journalist whose new fiction appears in the current issue of NER; and Kylie Winger, a Middlebury College senior

and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference alum, Light refreshments will be served, and the event is free and open to the public.

Along with the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, Brad Felver’s honors include the O. Henry Prize, a Pushcart Prize special mention, and the Zone 3 Fiction Prize. His fiction and essays have appeared widely in magazines such as “One Story,” “New England Review,” “Hunger Mountain,” and “Colorado

Review.” “City of Glass,” his essay about boxing and the city of Toledo, appears in the spring 2018 issue of NER. He lives with his wife and kids in northern Ohio.

David Moats was born in Salt Lake City and grew up in California.

For many years he worked as an editor at the Rutland Herald in Vermont, where he won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2001.

He is the author of the book “Civil Wars: A Battle for Gay Marriage,” published by Harcourt in 2004.

He is also the author of numerous plays, most recently “An Afternoon in France,” which was performed in Middlebury in 2012. “The Incident,” in the current issue of NER, is his first published fiction. He lives in Salisbury.

Kylie Winger is a senior at Middlebury College from Medford, Ore., and Elgin, Ill. A literary studies major, she also attended the 2017 summer session at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and received a Middlebury student scholarship in fiction to attend the 2018 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference. She is currently an intern at NER, where she does everything from addressing envelopes and updating the website to creating new episodes of the NER Out Loud podcast.

The Vermont Book Shop is located at 38 Main Street in Middlebury.

Addison Independent, Thursday, April 11, 2019 — PAGE 13A

Spring (?) skiing

THREE HUNDRED SPECTATORS cheered on 80 die-hard skiers and snowboarders at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl in Hancock on Saturday for the 1st Annual Middlebury Ski Club Pond Skim. Participants wearing costumes or just shorts and shirts (in most cases) hurtled down the Allen Trail and across the manmade pond built for this day.

Although the air temperature rose to 50 degrees, the water was in the 40s. Middlebury Technical Rescue personnel in wetsuits were on hand to help skiers out of the water. But many didn’t need any help.

Participants took a total of 200 runs, meaning that some crazies took a dip three times.

The event raised money for the Middlebury Ski Club’s scholarship fund, which helps kids pay to take part in winter skiing. The 2nd Annual Pond Skim is scheduled for April 4, 2020; start practicing now.

Photos by Benjy Renton/Middlebury Campus

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Breakfast (Continued from Page 1A) S.171, which would bump the pergallon tax on heating oil, propane, kerosene and other dyed diesel fuel from the current 2 cents to 4 cents. The bill also calls for a gross receipts tax of 1.5 percent (up from 0.75 percent) on the retail sale of natural gas and coal. Receipts would be deposited in the Home Weatherization Assistance Fund, available to homeowners and businesses to defray the costs of home weatherization and investments in alternative heating systems.

Bray calls S.171 the “weatherization for all” bill, because it provides resources for both low- and moderateincome families to fortify their homes against the cold.

The current waiting list for weatherization assistance — based on resources available and the number of eligible homeowners — is around 50 years, according to Bray.

“You save money in an entirely predictable and reliable way, you

deliver an environmental benefit across the board to everyone in the state, and you deliver public health benefits to the people in the weatherized home and the public at large,” he said. “It’s a win-win-win program, however you parse it.”

Both H.439 and S.171 are earning support in the Democrat-controlled General Assembly, but face an uncertain future if they make it to Gov. Phil Scott’s desk. Scott has been candid in his opposition to new fees and taxes.

Participants at Monday’s breakfast at the Weybridge Congregational Church urged strong, decisive action against global warming, including phasing out fossil fuels in favor of wind, solar and hydro energy. They acknowledged the transition to renewables can’t happen overnight, but argued smaller initiatives — including banning single-use plastic bags and beefing up the state’s home weatherization program — can

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provide incremental results without spending a ton of money.

“I think it’s one small thing legislators can do this year, and they could do a whole lot more,” Weybridge resident Fran Putnam said.

She alluded to the 60-mile Next Steps Climate Solutions walk, which included several students from Ripton’s North Branch School. The students’ studies have touched on global warming and a psychological bi-product of that issue: “Ecoanxiety.”

Teachers are encouraging their students to turn their ecoanxiety into action, and many adults are also taking that advice — including Putnam.

While a pair of achy feet precluded her from participating in the Climate Solutions walk, Putnam and her husband, Spence, have both immersed themselves in local, statewide and national efforts to reduce global warming. “(Ecoanxiety) is my new word for myself,” Fran Putnam said. “I’m

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suggesting that our legislators and development and training program, as maybe our governor get a little more well as delivering the weatherization ecoanxiety so these students have a program,” Bray said. “They go hand in little less, so we can all sleep a little hand. It develops a workforce.” better at night.”

Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall, is Lawmakers are trying to whittle among fans of the program. away at the problem, through greater “These are pretty decent paying subsidies for weatherization and a jobs, providing skills to people that proposed statewide ban on single-use we’re going to need for years to plastic bags used for store purchases. come,” Conlon said. “I think it really Middlebury last month passed a can be described as a win-win-win, in resolution advocating for a local terms of job development, economic plastic bags ban. development and Bray said the proposed climate change.” bump in the fuel tax By helping fund Addison Resident for weatherization is weatherization Mark Boivin said he projected to cost each “you save money believes Vermont should Vermont taxpayer in an entirely make its biggest climatearound $15 a year. change investments in predictable and “Low-income high-impact programs reliable way, advocates came to the like weatherization, committee and said, you deliver an while putting the brakes ‘Please go ahead and environmental on efforts like electric do this; yes, that’s $15 benefit across the cars. a year from people who board to everyone He also advocated are already facing tough in the state, and for self-help YouTube budgets, but we know videos on weatherization how cost-effective the you deliver public upgrades, rather than program is and we health benefits to building a “bureaucracy” want you to pick up the the people in the and training program for pace because we have weatherized home that line of work. thousands of people and the public at Rep. Harvey Smith, who’ve been served and R-New Haven, said large.” tens of thousands more he, too, supports — Sen. Chris Bray who could use service,’” weatherization Bray said. programs, but believes He noted program beneficiaries the funding should be spent with see an average savings of $600 in specially trained workers. He said the fuel costs during their first year of House didn’t make such an assurance, weatherization. and that’s why he voted against it.

WORKER TRAINING “If we’re going to have state money “The sooner people get service, going into a program, it ought to be the sooner they’re going to be able to well-defined and we need to have a save and the sooner we’ll all be better good definition of how (the money) is with climate change,” Bray said of the going to be used,” he said. program, which also trains people to Dan Monger of New Haven perform the weatherization work at asked lawmakers if they’d done $19 per hour. any studies to show how Vermont’s “From the outset, it’s been a job carbon-emissions reduction efforts

might offset the global warming in developing nations like China, India and Brazil.

Smith replied the Legislature hadn’t done such a study, whereupon Bray said Vermont shouldn’t wait for other states and nations to join the climate change fight.

“To me, it’s a question I would answer from a stewardship basis — I think Vermont should do the best it can for itself, always,” Bray said.

“Whether we’re going to tip the scale on any kind of global question or not, is really to me irrelevant. We should step up and do the best we can for ourselves to live as good stewards.”

He urged Gov. Scott to take a lead in the climate change battle. Bray believes major initiatives tend to make more progress when championed by the state’s chief executive, citing as an example former Gov. Madeleine Kunin’s advocacy for health insurance for all Vermont children — eventually achieved through the Dr. Dynasaur program. “(The Legislature) is good at implementing, but not as good at leading,” Bray said.

Meanwhile, the global warming problem continues to get worse, participants at Monday’s breakfast said.

“We need to completely change the conversation,” Sam Guarnaccia of Middlebury said. “There is a complete emergency on planet Earth right now … The devil is not in the details, it’s in the systems that keep us trapped in these conversations about ‘incremental change.’”

Shoreham resident Barb Wilson called the climate change problem “a crisis,” one that she said all legislators — regardless of party — should take on aggressively.

“In order to survive as a planet, we need to move forward,” she said.

Mt. Abe school district to recognize educators April 30

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BRISTOL — The Mount Abraham Unified School District will present Education Recognition Awards on Tuesday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m. to these nominated individuals in the five-town communities. They are being recognized for going above and beyond in contributing to the success of district youth in an educational environment and in promoting excellence in education.

The ceremony will take place in the Mt. Abraham Union High School Auditorium and will honor the following: Jen Allred, John Amory, Kristi Bedard, Jesse Brooks, Tom Buzzell, Lydia Davison, Michael Dennison, Holly Esterline, Jeremy Holm, Sheryl Kimball, Megan LaRose, Haein Lee, Brianna McCormick, Jennifer McCormick, Stowe Miller,

Karen Parker, Yvonne Bonnie Rathbun, MaryPat Roche, Karl Rowinski, Terry Rublee, Susie Snow, Rebecca Stude-Price and Jennifer Willey.

In addition, the Patricia Cummings Pierce Excellence in Teaching Award will be presented to a teacher from one of our schools by MAUSD and the Tari Shattuck Education Foundation.

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City trucks (Continued from Page 1A) roundabouts at either end, stop signs at the Panton Road and Comfort Hill intersections, and a requirement that through trucks use the road.

At the same time, officials said, the journey would be a little longer in distance and time, and passenger vehicles would thus be encouraged to stay on Main Street and drive through downtown.

Council members agreed that Vergennes City Manager Matt Chabot should draft a resolution expressing the city’s strong support for the in-city alternate truck route, with the expectation they will sign it at their April 23 meeting.

The council will then forward it to VTrans officials and legislators.

State and local officials cite the economic benefits to downtown of removing 98 percent of the 500 tractor-trailer units that rumble through Vergennes daily. Overall, there are about 800 trucks, including smaller rigs, and about six an hour carry hazardous materials.

They also said at a well-attended April 2 forum at the Vergennes Opera House that the new road could open up now empty land in northern Vergennes for development, adding to the city’s tax base and economic activity.

Chabot told the more than 100 gathered at the April 2 forum that Morrisville has seen benefits along those lines since the 2014 construction there of an alternate truck route.

Vergennes officials insisted on April 2 and on this Tuesday the proposed road should not be called a bypass, but rather be referred to with words that emphasize its potential as an economic development tool, something they believe will help convince VTrans to fund the project.

“It is the Vergennes Economic Corridor,” said Chabot at the council meeting, adding a mock warning: “Anyone who refers to it as a bypass has to write a check for $10,000.”

Residents at the April forum

unanimously backed the alternate route through northern Vergennes.

They also rejected the $23 million option of upgrading Route 17 through Addison and New Haven, an upgrade that would allow through trucks to connect with Route 7 in New Haven. The study showed no overall economic benefits when considering the devaluing of properties along that route.

Mayor Jeff Fritz on Tuesday said that route “has been tabled.”

The other choice studied, known as Option A, included upgrades to the existing route. Many of those improvements will be incorporated into the 2020 end-to-end repaving of Route 22A/Main Street already scheduled. upgrades include Proposed installing bike lanes and possibly widening the roadway on either side of the downtown, and within the downtown area between the Otter Creek bridge and Monkton Road improving crosswalks with build-outs and texturized pavement, creating visual road medians at intersections, and striping bike lanes.

Chabot said on Tuesday the downtown changes remained the city’s priority, but that city officials hoped all the work, estimated at $1.9 million, could be included in next year’s project.

“We have a very aggressive ask for Option A,” he said.

In the meantime officials are also working to drum up regional support for an alternate truck route through what is an area hub of commerce.

Chabot and Fritz have booked May 21 dates with the New Haven and Ferrisburgh selectboards to seek their backing for the project, and they said they have already reached out to Panton and Waltham.

Regional planning and state officials at the April 2 forum said widespread local support would be critical in persuading VTrans to fund and build the truck route.

Andy Kirkaldy may be reached at andyk@addisonindependent.com.

Boat builder to describe learning the craft in Japan FERRISBURGH — The Ferrisburgh Historical Society will host master boatbuilder Douglas Brooks on Sunday, April 14, at 2 p.m., at the Ferrisburgh Town Offices and Community Center, 3279 Route 7. The event is being hosted in conjunction with the Vermont Humanities Council’s Speakers Bureau Series.

Brooks, a boatbuilder, writer, and researcher from Vergennes, will give the talk “Ways of Learning; An Apprentice Boatbuilding in Japan.”

When people think about Japan, they usually have in their minds images of manga and anime, busy urban centers, and an economy based on innovations in electronics. Most people do not know that there is also a “second Japan,” wherein lies a rich history of traditional arts and crafts, many of which are fast disappearing.

Douglas Brooks has apprenticed

ATTENTION TO DETAIL and precision craftsmanship are the mark of Japanese boatbuilding.

with seven boatbuilders in Japan since 1996, building over a dozen types of traditional boats. In this slide talk he will share his experiences with traditional crafts drawn from twenty-two trips to Japan since 1990.

Brooks’ research in Japan focuses on the techniques and design secrets of the craft. These techniques have been passed from master to apprentice with almost no written record.

His most recent book, “Japanese Wooden Boatbuilding” is the first comprehensive survey of the craft, spanning his first five apprenticeships and including a chapter on Japan’s last traditional shipwright.

Brooks will also talk about the nature of craft education in Japan; an ethic that is largely at odds with our notions of teaching in the West.

The apprentice system produced craftspeople with incomparable skills, yet it required an intense devotion and seriousness from participants. Brooks has experienced first-hand what it is like to learn when the apprentice is forbidden from speaking. At the core of this process is the belief that one learns by observation and perseverance.

In 2017 Brooks apprenticed in Gifu, Japan, where he built a 42-foot cormorant fishing boat working alongside an 85-year old boatbuilder.

These boats are still used by a handful of fishermen who continue a thousand-year-old tradition of fishing with cormorants. In 2015, Brooks apprenticed with the last boatbuilder active in the region struck by the 2011 tsunami. There he documented the most common small wooden fishing boat of the Tohoku region, and area that saw 90 percent of all boats

DOUGLAS BROOKS, LEFT, with one of his Japanese boatbuilder mentors.

Photos courtesy of Douglas Brooks

destroyed in the disaster.

Japan’s last generation of traditional boatbuilders has almost disappeared.

Brooks’ teachers were all in their seventies and eighties when he worked with them, and he is the sole apprentice for six of his seven teachers.

In a 2003 nationwide study sponsored by the Nippon Foundation, Brooks was listed as the sole foreigner capable of building wasen, or traditional Japanese boats. The average age of the 300 boatbuilders listed in the survey in 2003 was sixty-nine. His first book, “The Tub Boats of Sado Island; A Japanese Craftsman’s Methods,” was honored by the Japanese Ministry of Culture for its contribution to maritime preservation.

Locally, Brooks has taught a Middlebury College Winter Term class entitled Building the Japanese Boat in 2015, 2016, and 2018.

Currently two of his class’ boats are on display in the Davis Library at the College. He also teaches boatbuilding in the Advanced Engineering class

at Hannaford Career Center in Middlebury as part of a research project on Lake Champlain boats in partnership with the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History.

Brooks specializes in the construction of traditional wooden boats for museums and private clients.

He worked in the Small Boat Shop at the National Maritime Museum in San Francisco from 1985-1990 and has since built boats at museums in Japan and across the United States. He teaches classes in boat building and has written regularly for magazines like “WoodenBoat,” “Classic Boat” (UK) and “KAZI” (Japan). Brooks attended the Williams Mystic Seaport Program in American Maritime History, and he is a 1982 graduate of Trinity College and a 2002 graduate of the Middlebury College Language School (Japanese). In 2014 he was awarded the American Craft Council’s Rare Craft Fellowship Award. He lives with his wife Catherine in Vergennes, Vermont.

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CHAMPLAIN DISCOVERY AT THE MARITIME MUSEUM Starting on June 17th, ten students from the Champlain Valley ages 13-16 will build their own 17’ sea kayaks and then embark on a 10-day voyage of a lifetime. Participants in the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum’s Champlain Discovery program will paddle from Whitehall, New York transiting Lock #12 on the Champlain Canal and paddle to Burlington, Vermont. They will experience sites of cultural and natural historical significance as they challenge themselves in new and positive ways. The program culminates when they land in Burlington on the morning of July 20th and are welcomed back to their worlds by family and friends.

The Maritime Museum is accepting applications for the Champlain Discovery program. Financial aid is available. Call 802-475-2022, email nickp@lcmm.org for information and an application, or check out the website www.lcmm.org.

Green Mountain Day Camp Green Mountain Day Camp for girls will operate August 12 – 16 (9am – 4pm). GMDC serves girls in grades K – 7 and operates with the support of Girl Scouts of the Green and White Mountains and local

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An overnight campout on Thursday is available for girls entering grade 4 and up. GMDC follows Girls Scouts of the USA Safety Activity Checkpoints, local and state camp licensing standards, and American Camp Association standards.

Registration is $200 per camper.

Girls in grades 8 – 10 may register to serve as a program aide for a reduced fee. Full-week adult volunteers may receive a registration waiver.

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Lead testing (Continued from Page 1A) water. And the professor had a group child care facility to implement a of eager students willing to help with lead remediation plan. the fieldwork.

“A lot of the framework (of the She approached Addison Central bill) that we established, in terms of School District Superintendent testing protocols and health-based Peter Burrows during the fall of levels of lead… we got from Molly,” 2016 about checking the quality of said Sen. Ruth Hardy, D-Middlebury, water flowing through faucets and a member of the Senate Education drinking fountains in the ACSD’s Committee that worked on S.40 and nine schools. Costanza-Robinson interviewed Costanza-Robinson. also called colleagues at the Vermont “Her testimony was really important Department of Health and asked to our understanding of the problem about the extent to which public and our understanding of how to go water had been tested. about legitimate testing protocols.” “(DOH officials) said ‘You have National headlines drew Costanza- good timing,’” Costanza-Robinson Robinson into Vermont’s water said. “Because they were just starting testing debate. to design their own 16-school pilot “I got interested in it largely test, but said it would have to wait because of the Flint case,” until after the election due to new Costanza-Robinson said, alluding budgets and potentially a new to a 2014 water crisis within that governor.”

Michigan community.

Costanza-Robinson Insufficient treatment “The lead had no reason to wait. of water from the She began planning Flint River and lead testing is … a water-testing protocols contamination from great project for Addison County aging pipes exposed for teaching schools, with input more than 100,000 students and from the DOH. Flint residents to getting them to “I wanted my elevated lead levels.

Addison County work pay attention “It was in the news, to match the methods and whenever there’s to those details they were going to use interesting chemistry and help them in their pilot,” she said. in the news that’s realize there’s With water testing important, those are real-world protocols in hand, always important consequences to the professor and things to bring into the her students began classroom,” Costanza- these numbers.” gathering samples at — Prof. Molly Middlebury Robinson said. “So Union a couple years ago, I Costanza-Robinson High School on April started teaching (the 17, 2017. effects of lead in drinking water) in They tested every faucet and my Environmental Chemistry class, fountain at MUHS, as well as and doing lab projects associated kitchen sprayers, ice machines and with lead and water, and corrosion utility sinks. chemistry that leads to lead getting “We found there were some into the water.” issues,” Costanza-Robinson Having children in the Middlebury concluded. school system, Costanza-Robinson Specifically, they found small began to wonder what they and their traces of lead emanating from several classmates were drinking. water dispensing fixtures at MUHS. “I thought, ‘What’s in our water Nothing that set off alarm bells, but here?’” Costanza-Robinson recalled. something testers felt ACSD should “The big phrase that you’ll hear a lot monitor and address — which it did. with lead is, ‘You don’t know that “Our testing suggested there it’s there unless you test.’ You can’t wasn’t anything systemic, like taste it, you can’t smell it, you can’t lead in pipes, but there were some see it. You really only know if you outlets — particularly outlets that do very careful analytical work. I got aren’t used much — where the water curious.” sits,” Costanza-Robinson said. “And Middlebury College’s chemistry that stagnation time is the major department has high-quality contributing factor.” equipment able to thoroughly test TESTING ALL SCHOOLS

The crew expanded its testing to the other eight ACSD schools in Middlebury, Bridport, Cornwall, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham and Weybridge. They visited most schools twice — with the initial visit being a walk-through with a district official familiar with the building in question.

“We would figure out, as best we could, the flow patterns of water through the school,” she said.

That flow pattern informed the order in which students gathered their water samples.

“We wanted to sample outlets in a certain order, so that as you’re taking samples, you’re not disrupting the samples in the other locations,” Costanza-Robinson explained. “You want to go upstream to downstream.”

Costanza-Robinson stressed to her students the importance of accurate water testing. One false step — such as not letting the faucet run long enough prior to taking a sample — can produce a false reading. Their guide was what she called the “bible” for testing water in schools: The federal Environmental Protection Agency’s “The Three T’s for Reducing Lead in Drinking Water in Schools and Child Care Facilities.”

The three T’s stand for “training, testing and telling.”

“The lead testing is easy to do, but it’s also easy to do wrong,” she said. “It’s a great project for teaching students and getting them to pay attention to those details and help them realize there’s real-world consequences to these numbers and getting them right.”

Participants gathered two kinds of water samples from each school: • A “first draw” — the first 250 milliliters (around a cup) of water to exit the faucet after sitting overnight.

It replicates what a student could drink from the tap upon entering school that morning.

“That gives us a sense of exposure levels,” Costanza-Robinson said.

• A “flush” sample, gathered after the tap water has run for 30 seconds.

“It’s basically by comparing the lead levels in those two samples that we can get a sense of, ‘Are the pipes the problem, or is the faucet the problem?’” Costanza-Robinson said.

The crew again found lead issues — fortunately none super alarming

MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE PROF. Molly Costanza-Robinson and her students recently tested water systems in all Addison Central School District schools for lead. Her findings helped inform new legislation aimed at helping Vermont schools test for lead and remediate any problems they encounter.

Independent photo/John Flowers

— at various water outlets in the schools. Costanza-Robinson cited Middlebury Union Middle School and Mary Hogan Elementary results as drawing the most scrutiny.

Based on the crew’s findings, ACSD officials identified the most troublesome water fixtures and switched them out, according Burrows.

As with MUHS, lead issues were traced to specific water fixtures, and not to pipes, which would have presented more serious problems.

The fixtures aren’t made of lead, but some of them have lead in them, Costanza-Robinson noted.

“The phrase I repeated often in the Statehouse is, ‘Lead-free doesn’t mean free of lead,’” she said with a smile. “And the definition of ‘leadfree’ has changed over time.”

LEAD IN FIXTURES For example, the 1986 Safe Drinking Water Act allowed a fixture to be called lead-free, even if 8 percent of it was made of lead.

Vermont in 2011 rejected that lead-free definition and reduced it to a level 33 time less than the federal 8-percent rule, according to Costanza-Robinson. State officials also forbade the installation in

Vermont schools of new water fixtures that exceeded the more rigorous lead-free standard.

She advised district officials to take the most concerning water fixtures off-line, which they did.

Costanza-Robinson’s report on the MUHS water system can be found at tinyurl.com/y4drt6fj. She’s been issuing reports for each school, with one left to turn in, on MUMS. Statewide, older fixtures with lead content continue to be used at many Vermont public schools, and S.40 is trying to address that issue. The bill includes around $2.5 million to help districts test water and replace lead bearing fixtures.

Rep. Caleb Elder, D-Starksboro, is one of five House Education Committee members who voted against advancing S.40. He stressed his opposition was based on his desire to see more of the state’s limited resources used for helping school districts replace lead bearing water infrastructure, rather than using the bulk of the $2.5 million for testing.

“I favor the federal, ‘get the lead out’ approach,” Elder said.

Praise continues to pour in for Costanza-Robinson and her young

charges.

“It’s fabulous she took the time out to come and testify, and I would love it if more Middlebury College professors with expertise would do that,” said Rep. Amy Sheldon, D-Middlebury, who chairs the House Natural Resources, Fish & Wildlife Committee.

Rep. Peter Conlon, D-Cornwall, sits with Elder on the House Education Committee.

“Her work in the ACSD has been very valuable, as a pilot, on what might be found in other schools around the state,” said. Conlon, who also chairs the ACSD board.

“There’s definitely awareness that lead in fixtures might be an issue when water first is run.”

Burrows said, “It was great to have someone with her expertise to reach out, and I think it’s a great example of our relationship with Middlebury College. She did all this on her own time, and is really committed to this as an issue as well… She’s also been helpful along the way to help us understand (the water testing), and understand it within the context of the new legislation that’s coming.”

Reporter John Flowers is at johnf@addisonindependent.com.

ADDISON COUNTY INDEPENDENT

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THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2019

KARL LINDHOLM

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Beatiful weather: No bells and whistles

It’s my favorite baseball experience: That is, watching the Middlebury College team play another worthy small college team on a beautiful warm sunlit day in the month of March.

Obviously, we’re not talking about baseball in New England. As we all know, there are two good reasons not to live in this part of the country — one is November and the other is March, two nasty bleak long cold months.

It’s important to get away in March, if at all possible, to more congenial climes, if only for a brief interlude.

That’s why most years I try to get to Middlebury baseball games during the team’s spring trip south or southwest — this year in Florida, and for many years, Tucson and Phoenix.

Once my kids were old enough not to need my impeccable paternal influence and support on a daily basis, I lit out during Spring Break for wherever the Panthers were playing baseball.

Why not: the weather is beautiful, the setting is ideal, and the baseball is good. And it’s all baseball: no bells and whistles. I’ll explain the bells and whistles in a minute.

A spring trip during Spring Break for many years now has been a crucial part of the schedule for any northern college that wants to have a baseball (See Lindholm, Page 3B)

ScoreBOARD HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Boys’ Lacrosse 4/3 MUHS vs. Burlington..........................7-6 4/6 Burr & Burton vs. MUHS...................10-7 4/8 MUHS at Essex......................Postponed 4/8 Rutland vs. OV.................................15-4 4/10 Lamoille at Mt. Abe.........................Late 4/10 MUHS at Woodstock......................Late Girls’ Lacrosse 4/5 S. Burlington vs. MUHS....................14-5 4/9 Rutland vs. MUHS............................15-9 4/10 U-32 at VUHS.................................Late Softball 4/5 Springfield at OV....................Postponed 4/8 OV at Rutland.........................Postponed Baseball 4/5 OV vs. Mill River...............................11-1 4/8 Fair Haven at OV....................Postponed COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 4/3 Midd. vs. Hamilton..........................17-14 4/6 Colby vs. Midd................................14-12 4/10 Midd. vs. Springfield.......................15-7 Women’s Lacrosse 4/4 Midd. vs. MIT....................................20-2 4/6 Midd. vs. Colby.................................14-5 Softball 4/6 Williams vs. Midd..............................10-1 4/6 Williams vs. Midd..............................18-1 4/7 Williams vs. Midd..............................11-1 4/10 Keene at Midd. (2)..........................Late Baseball 4/3 Midd. vs. RPI....................................14-7 4/4 Midd. at Norwich.....................Postponed 4/6 Tufts. vs. Midd....................................4-3 4/6 Midd. vs. Tufts....................................9-6 4/7 Midd. vs. Plymouth St.......................15-6 4/10 Lyndon at Midd...............................Late

Schedule

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS Girls’ Lacrosse 4/12 Hanover at MUHS................... 4:30 PM 4/13 Hartford at VUHS..................... 4:30 PM 4/15 Lamoille at VUHS.................... 4:30 PM 4/16 MUHS at CVU......................... 4:30 PM 4/18 Essex at MUHS....................... 4:30 PM 4/20 VUHS at Milton............................11 AM Boys’ Lacrosse 4/13 MUHS at Rutland.........................11 AM 4/15 South Burlington at MUHS........... 4 PM 4/16 OV at Hartford......................... 6:30 PM 4/17 MUHS at CVU.............................. 4 PM 4/19 Mt. Abe at Milton........................... 4 PM

(See Schedule, Page 2B)

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Tiger girls’ lax starts with pair of road losses

SOUTH BURLINGTON — The rebuilding Middlebury Union High School girls’ lacrosse team opened with a pair of road losses to teams that have each started their seasons with 2-0 records, South Burlington and Rutland.

On Friday, April 5, at South Burlington the host Wolves topped the Tigers, 14-5. Lacy Greenamyre and Malia Hodges scored two goals apiece for the Tigers, and Ada Anderson also found the net. Goalie Lydia Deppman (See Tigers, Page 2B)

Sports BRIEFS

OV baseball tops Mill River in five MIDDLEBURY UNION HIGH School midfielder Thatcher Trudeau forechecks Burr & Burton’s Conor Stauss in the first quarter of this past Saturday’s game played at Middlebury College. First-year coach Matt Rizzo said he was happy to see how athletic the Tigers were and how much effort they put in, but mistakes his players made contributed to the 10-7 loss to the Bulldogs.

Independent photos/Steve James

Tiger boys’ lax falls in home opener MUHS stands at 1-1 after BBA rally

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — After two games, new Middlebury Union High School boys’ lacrosse Coach Matt Rizzo said he had learned a lot about his team.

On Saturday Rizzo spoke after watching visiting Burr & Burton — a 3-0 team coming off a 6-5 win over perennial contender South Burlington — rally past the Tigers, 10-7, in a hard-fought, but at times ragged game played at Middlebury College’s Alumni Stadium.

There was a lot to like, he said, and also plenty for the Tigers, who had rallied past Burlington in their opener three days before, to work on.

“We’ve got a really athletic team.

(See Lacrosse, Page 2B)

MUHS SENIOR CAPTAIN Kolby Farnsworth fires a shot at the Burr & Burton Academy goal in the second half of Saturday’s game at Middlebury College’s Alumni Stadium. This was the Tigers’ final goal in a 10-7 loss to the Bulldogs.

Two locals help Vt. team win a U.S. title

AMHERST, N.Y. — The Vermont Shamrocks Under-16 team, including Middlebury Union High School freshman defenseman Carlisle Brush on the ice and MUHS girls’ hockey Coach Matt Brush behind the bench, on Monday won the USA Hockey Girls’ Tier II National Championship. The Vermonters defeated the Baldwin-Riverfalls Black Cats from Wisconsin in the final, 5-0, in Amherst, N.Y. The Shamrocks compiled a 5-1 record overall in the tournament. They qualified for the playoffs with a 2-1 round-robin record in games played on Thursday and Friday, and then defeated the Bay State Breakers, 3-0, in a Sunday morning quarterfinal, and the previously undefeated Junior Flyers, 5-0, in an afternoon semifinal.

Carlisle Brush played all six games on defense and did not record a point. She had assisted the last-second game-winning goal in the New England title game that allowed the

Shamrocks to qualify for the national tournament.

The Vermont Shamrocks U-19 team did not fare as well, compiling a 1-2 round robin record and failing to qualify for the playoff round.

Three Middlebury-area players laced up their skates for the U-19 team — Alexis Bartlett, Abby Gleason and Aleta Mathers — and MUHS boys’ Coach Derek Bartlett helped coach the group.

THE VERMONT SHAMROCKS Under-16 girls’ ice hockey team on Monday won the USA Hockey National Tier II Championship in Amherst, N.Y. The Shamrocks, including Middlebury Union High School freshman Carlisle Brush and co-coached by MUHS girls’ coach Matt Brush, went 5-1 in the tournament and defeated the Baldwin-Riverfalls Black Cats in the final. Matt Brush is at the right rear, and Carlisle Brush, wearing No. 77, is next to him.

Photo courtesy of Matt Brush

NORTH CLARENDON — The Otter Valley Union High School baseball team opened its season this past Friday, April 5, with an 11-1, five-inning win at Mill River.

Rain postponed the Otters’ game vs. Fair Haven on Monday.

Officials had hoped to move it from Fair Haven to OV because of better field conditions in Brandon, but the bad weather made it a moot point.

The game was not immediately rescheduled, and as it stood on Monday OV will next take the field at home on April 20 vs. Bellows Falls.

OV pitchers Josh Beayon, Pat McKeighan and Nate Hudson combined to limit the Minutemen to two hits over five innings in the opener for both squads, and MRU’s run was unearned off Hudson in the fifth. Beayon opened with two scoreless innings, striking out four, and McKeighan also worked out of trouble to toss two scoreless frames.

OV managed just three hits, but took advantage of walks, wild pitches and other miscues, and six stolen bases to round the bases.

Beayon, Marcus McCullough and Hudson rapped the hits for OV. A Hudson single plated two baserunners in OV’s seven-run fifth.

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Men’s lacrosse wins two of three games

TIGER JUNIOR THATCHER Trudeau reaches to ward off a pass by a Burr & Burton attacker early in Saturday’s game in Middlebury. In a game with moments of great athleticism but also some ragged play, MUHS came out on the short end of the stick in a 10-7 loss.

Independent photo/Steve James

Lacrosse (Continued from Page 1B) And we’ve got a team that puts in a lot of effort. And we’ve had in the first two games of the year a lot of unforced errors. We’re turning the ball over when we shouldn’t,” Rizzo said. “I just said to the boys, I’m really proud of their heart. They had a lot of heart and fought really hard … So if we take care of the ball and keep hustling we’ll be fine.”

On Saturday the MUHS defense for the most part made the Bulldogs take contested or long-range shots.

Senior Derek Felkl, junior Hunter Gale and freshman Matthew Kiernan started at defense, and juniors Trysten Quesnel and Eli Billings spelled them and played long-stick middie, meaning there was one defensive sub.

Sophomore goalie Jack Rizzo stopped 14 shots, including nine of the 12 BBA bids on goal in the first half.

But miscues gave the Bulldogs the ball and a territorial advantage, and Rizzo said the defense probably wore down in the second half, when BBA erased a 5-3 Tiger third-period lead.

“It’s hard when you have only two other long sticks to sub in. They played well. I think they got tired at the end just a little bit,” he said.

Jack Rizzo’s six-save first quarter helped the Tigers to a 2-2 tie after one. Bulldog attacker Jake Baker gave his team the lead with a 10-yard right-hand bullet four minutes in, but the Tigers answered with two goals by sophomore attacker Bode Rubright, both set up by senior Kolby Farnsworth.

The first came at 6:29, when Farnsworth found Rubright cutting through the slot from left to right, and Rubright tucked the ball inside the right post. The second came at 1:39 after senior middie Ben Crawford won a ground-ball battle in the defensive end, raced to midfield and fed Farnsworth, who relayed to

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College men’s lacrosse team took two of three recent home games and stood at 5-6, 3-4 in league play, heading into a 2 p.m. home game on Saturday vs. NESCAC foe Trinity.

On April 3 the Panthers topped visiting Hamilton, 17-14. The Panthers led by 15-7 entering the fourth quarter and held off a late charge by the 3-6 Continentals (1-6 NESCAC).

Chase Goree led Middlebury with four goals, while AJ Kucinski contributed three goals and an assist. Frank Cosolito and Will Brossman added two goals apiece, while Jake Madnick scored once and scooped up 11 ground balls. Eric Jeremiah picked up three ground balls, while goalie Charles Midgley finished with a season-high 19 saves.

Chad Morse scored six times and added an assist for Hamilton, while two Hamilton goalies combined for 14 saves.

On Saturday visiting Colby (5-4, 1-4 NESCAC), outscored the Panthers by 4-2 in the fourth quarter to earn a 14-12 victory.

In the fourth quarter the Panthers took their first lead since 6-5 when Jack Hoelzer converted a long shot on a feed from Kucinski. Colby answered with the next three goals, including a pair of CJ Hassan, to lead by 13-11 with 2:59 remaining.

Middlebury made it 13-12 at 0:56 on Goree’s spinning strike, but Colby won the faceoff and scored on an empty net to seal the win.

Zeke Emerson, Jack Gould and Tyler Forbes each scored twice for the Panthers, while Kucinski recorded a goal and two assists. Madnick won 18 of 29 faceoffs and scooped eight ground balls. Midgley finished with 13 saves.

Colton Michel led Colby with four goals and two assists, while Lane Kadish scored three. Colby goalie C.J. Layton backstopped the win with 18 saves. Middlebury led by 52-45 in shots and 41-29 in ground balls.

On Tuesday Middlebury scored the game’s first 15 goals on its way to a 15-7 win over visiting Springfield (4-8).

Luke Peterson and Marshall Cummings each scored twice for Middlebury, while Forbes had two goals and an assist. Alderik Van der Heyde dished out three helpers, while Goree had a goal and an assist in the win.

Jake Madnick dominated the faceoffs, winning 12-15 with a game-high 10 ground balls. Emerson finished with five ground balls and caused two turnovers. Tyler Bass made his first-career start in goal and made seven saves and allowing two goals in over 50 minutes.

Middlebury held a 62-22 shots advantage and forced 30 turnovers.

OV boys’ lax falls short vs. Raiders RUTLAND — Host Rutland defeated the Otter Valley Union High School boys’ lacrosse team on Monday, 15-4, in the Otters’ opener. The Raiders improved to 2-0.

David Williams scored twice for

OV, and Hayden Gallo and Ethan Sulik-Doty scored a goal apiece.

Aiden Potts led Rutland with four goals.

The Otters are off until April 16, when they are scheduled to visit Hartford.

Schedule (Continued from Page 1B)

TIGER GOALIE JACK Rizzo saves a shot from Burr & Burton attacker John Miceli in the second quarter of Middlebury’s 10-7 loss on Saturday at Middlebury College’s Alumni Stadium.

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Rubright out front to complete the transition strike. But Baker knotted the score at 2-2 with seven seconds left in the period.

Goals remained tough to come by in the second. Rubright made it 3-2 at 5:36 by powering in a 10-yard shot. BBA attacker Logan Sands tied the game at 3:20 with the first of his four goals, an underhand shot from the left. Rubright netted the last of his four goals 22 seconds before the half to restore the Tiger lead, curling around from the left and dodging a defender before beating BBA goalie Jack Momson (nine saves).

Rizzo made a kick save on Matt Kleckowski to open the second half.

Shortly afterward Rubright stole a BBA clear and drew a penalty.

Seconds after the penalty expired, Rubright found Crawford alone out front, and Crawford hit a corner at 9:45 to make it 5-3.

But then the Bulldogs went on a four-goal run over the next seven minutes. At 6:17 Sands scored from eight yards out, and with the Tigers shorthanded tied the game with a similar shot at 4:04.

Eleven seconds later BBA had the lead. Tiger junior Ezekiel Hooper helped MUHS win 12 of 19 faceoffs, but BBA defender Steven Schmitt won this one, bolted in and scored at 3:53 to make it 6-5. After a Tiger turnover, Sands converted in transition at 2:47, and it was 7-5.

Mason Kaufmann bounced a shot home through the five-hole at 1:39 to make it a one-goal game.

But the officials waved off what Kaufmann thought was a goal to open the fourth, and the Bulldogs went a three-goal run, with Egan Schmitt, Baker and Teddy Mired doing the damage. Farnsworth added a transition goal at 3:33 after a nice

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flick pass from senior middie Taylor Moulton; the play came on an empty net after the Tigers forced a Momson turnover after he wandered out of the crease with the ball.

Rubright has scored four times in each game, and Rizzo believes other players will create more offense as the Tigers, who were set to play Woodstock on Wednesday and will visit Rutland at 11 a.m. on Saturday, have more time to practice.

“Kolby is a senior captain and we need him to step up. He needs to be more present with the ball in his stick.

He’s very skilled and he can finish, but he can’t finish if he doesn’t have the ball,” he said. “We need to rely a little less on Bode. He’s very big, and also skilled, but he needs help.

We need a little more production out of the midfield. Ian Ploof and Mason Kauffman are playing great. We need them to step up a little bit.”

Baseball 4/11 Essex at MUHS....................Postponed 4/11 Rice at VUHS........................... 4:30 PM 4/13 Brattleboro at OV.........................11 AM 4/13 MUHS at VUHS...........................11 AM 4/16 Fairfax at VUHS....................... 4:30 PM 4/16 Milton at MUHS....................... 4:30 PM 4/16 Colchester at Mt. Abe.............. 4:30 PM 4/18 Spaulding at MUHS................. 4:30 PM 4/18 VUHS at Mt. Abe..................... 4:30 PM Softball 4/11 Essex at MUHS....................Postponed 4/11 VUHS at CVU.......................... 4:30 PM 4/13 MUHS at VUHS...........................11 AM 4/13 Brattleboro at OV.........................11 AM 4/16 Fairfax at VUHS....................... 4:30 PM 4/16 Milton at MUHS....................... 4:30 PM 4/16 Colchester at Mt. Abe.............. 4:30 PM 4/18 Spaulding at MUHS................. 4:30 PM 4/18 VUHS at Mt. Abe..................... 4:30 PM Track 4/12 VUHS, Mt. Abe at MUHS......... 3:30 PM

COLLEGE SPORTS Men’s Lacrosse 4/13 Trinity at Midd............................... 2 PM 4/17 Midd. at Plattsburgh...................... 4 PM Women’s Lacrosse 4/10 Plymouth at Midd.......................... 4 PM 4/13 Midd. at Trinity.............................11 AM 4/14 Midd. at Hamilton.......................... 1 PM Softball 4/10 Midd. at Keene (2)..........................Late 4/12 Midd. at Wesleyan........................ 5 PM 4/13 Midd. at Wesleyan (2)................... Noon 4/17 Midd. at Union (2).................... 3:30 PM 4/19 Midd. at Hamilton.......................... 5 PM Baseball 4/12 Midd. at Williams.......................... 4 PM 4/13 Midd. at Williams (2)..................... Noon 4/16 Midd. at Dartmouth....................... 4 PM 4/17 Plattsburgh at Midd.................. 3:30 PM 4/19 Midd. at Amherst...................... 3:30 PM Late games were played after deadline.

Spectators are advised to consult school websites for the latest schedule updates.

Tigers (Continued from Page 1B) made seven saves.

Six Wolves scored, led by Christina March and Sabrina Redzic with three goals apiece. Caroline Desautels chipped in two goals and two assists, and SBHS goalie Claire Phillips denied seven shots.

On Monday host Rutland took a 10-3 halftime lead on the way to a 15-9 victory over MUHS. Emily Laframboise and Avery Gale led

the Tigers with two goals each, and Deppman stopped six shots.

Rylee Burgess led the Raiders with four goals and an assist, Francie Ettori had three goals and three assists, and Kendra Sabotka netted a hat trick.

Two Raider goalies shared time: Leah Zmurko made eight saves, and Caroline Coloutti stopped two shots.

The Tigers are scheduled to host Hanover on Friday at 4:30 p.m., weather permitting.

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Middlebury nine moves to 13-6

Lindholm (Continued from Page 1B) program of any appeal and quality.

From March 25-30, just two weeks ago, Middlebury played 10 games in Florida and won seven, under third year coach Mike Leonard. This is a good team, 13-6 right now, with a big three game series with NESCAC rival Williams College this weekend.

During these baseball forays, I communicate with the home front in Vermont and get reports of March’s unpredictable weather — 10 inches of snow on the day Midd lost a tight, well-played game against WisconsinWhitewater, 4-3.

Darn, I always forget to bring sun block.

I root for more than the uniform with “Middlebury” stitched across the front. In retirement, I still teach a baseball class for credit on occasion during Winter Term, and nine of the players on this year’s team were my students. That provides a satisfying and immediate personal interest.

This year, the team played their games in the Orlando area. A number were at Chain O’ Lakes Park in Winter Haven. Red Sox fans, old-timers like me, will remember that Winter Haven was the Spring Training home of the Red Sox from 1966 to 1992.

In 1985, my good Middlebury friend Jon and I took the baseball cure and spent a week staying at the Best Western in Winter Haven and watched baseball morning, afternoon, and night.

We would be at the complex by 10 a.m., taking in batting practice and games on the lower fields, often in the presence of Ted Williams and his friend, teammate, and sidekick, Johnny Pesky.

Afternoons and evenings, we attended major league games, in the stadium at Chain O’ Lakes, or at other Spring Training sites nearby.

So watching Middlebury split a doubleheader with Hamilton College at the Chain O’ Lakes Stadium (which has become worse for wear over the years, as have Jon and I), was a lovely nostalgic exercise.

Now the bells and whistles: I get to a game in a different city each summer as “field work” at the Negro league conference I attend. I have come to find it difficult to watch a game at a major league park.

The distractions are constant. State of the art sound systems and giant TV screens in center field blare incessant nonsense at an ear-piercing level.

Conversation, the essence of the fan experience, is nearly impossible as some unseen force is exhorting us in shimmering neon to make “NOISE.” The game, the baseball itself, is incidental.

(Fenway is the happy exception to this excess, but there are other reasons that make Red Sox games a

TED WILLIAMS AND Johnny Pesky observe the action in a Red Sox minor league game on a lower field in the Chain O’Lakes complex in Winter Haven, Fla., in March 1985. The Middlebury College baseball team played a number of their spring trip games this year at Chain O’ Lakes.

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challenge, not the least the expense of tickets, the highest in the majors).

At the Middlebury games on their spring trip, there are no bells and whistles, just baseball. The only sounds you hear are baseball sounds.

We had a spring trip one of the years I played on the Middlebury team, a long time ago. Our southern swing was to Connecticut! Actually Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts.

The first game, at West Point, was the first college game I ever played.

I went in to pitch when things were already out of hand: Army was rolling over us.

In my debut, I surrendered the longest home run in the history of baseball.

I got the side out 1-2-3 in my first inning, then got the first two outs in the next. I managed to get two quick strikes on the next batter, the cleanup hitter, and then threw him a curve that spun lazily to the plate about

waist high.

The Cadet’s eyes got big, he took a mighty cut, and hit the ball nearly out of sight.

It soared over the left field fence, still going up, landed in the distance taking a high bounce off the road which ran behind the fence and splashed into the Hudson River beyond.

Three days later the ball came ashore on a beach in Marseille.

A French bather picked it up, exclaiming, “Mon dieu. Quest-ce que c’est?”

I figure it traveled about 3,000 miles.

I made that last part up, but the rest of it is true.

That’s a story my friends and family have heard before, many times. But it’s a good story, often embellished but mostly true. My wife says that good stories are meant to be retold, perhaps many times.

Bless her.

RBIs, while Woodring came off the bench to double and single and drive in a run.

The Panthers also stole seven bases to up their total to 69 in 10 games, 10 short of the program record set a year ago. Carroll (14 steals), Justin Han (11) and Henry Strmecki (10) lead the team. As of Monday they were running 2-3-4 in the league in the category.

On Saturday the Panthers split a doubleheader with NESCAC East team Tufts (15-4), losing the opener, 4-3, in eight innings and winning the nightcap, 9-6.

In the opener, Tufts took the lead in the second on Justin Mills’ two-run single. Middlebury made it 2-1 in the third on a Hennings RBI double.

Middlebury took a 3-2 lead in the sixth. Carroll walked and Jake Dianno singled, both stole bases, and Sam Graf singled them home. But the Jumbos tied the game in the bottom of the inning on a JP Knight homer off starter Colby Morris.

Tufts scored in the eighth on a walk, a Will Shackleford double, and a Mills sacrifice fly off losing pitcher Alex Price. Tufts reliever Aidan Tucker allowed just one walk over two innings and struck out three to earn the win.

In the nightcap, Middlebury scored two in the first on a Dianno sacrifice fly and a Hayden Smith RBI single, one in the second on a Bernstein RBI, and one in the third on a Strmecki homer to make it 4-0.

Tufts cut the margin to 4-2 in the fourth, but the Panthers responded with four runs in the fifth, when Ryan Hanrahan drilled a three-run homer after another RBI single from Smith.

Smith added a sacrifice fly in the ninth after a Panther double steal.

Andrew Martinson picked up the win with 1.1 innings of scoreless relief, and Bobby Sullivan earned his first career save.

On April 3 the Panthers crunched host RPI, 14-7, overcoming an early 7-2 deficit and clinching the win with six runs in the ninth.

Strmecki homered, singled twice, scored twice, stole two bases and drove in three runs to pace the Panthers. Woodring tripled, singled and scored twice; Carroll poked two hits, scored three runs and stole two bases; Graf drilled an RBI double; and Gray Goolsby had a hit and drove in four runs. Price picked up the win with 2.1 innings of relief, allowing two hits and one unearned run.

Women’s lacrosse rolls to a pair of wins MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s lacrosse team picked up two one-sided wins at the end of last week, a non-league home victory and a NESCAC road triumph.

The Panthers (9-1, 5-1 NESCAC) were set to host Plymouth State on Wednesday and will visit league foe Trinity on Saturday.

On April 4 Middlebury coasted past visiting non-league foe MIT, 20-2, as 11 Panthers scored. MIT dropped to 4-6 heading into weekend action.

Madeline Riordan’s four goals led the Panther attack, and Kate Zecca

scored three. Lily Riseberg added a goal and four assists. Julia Keith made one save as the Panthers took a 13-0 lead in the first half, and Kate Furber stopped two shots in the second half.

Middlebury held advantages of 31-11 in shots and 14-9 in draw controls.

At league foe Colby on Saturday Middlebury opened with an 8-0 run on its way to a 14-5 win at then No. 11 Colby (7-4, 3-4) on Saturday afternoon.

Colby did not score until 5:18 of the first half, and the Panthers led at the break, 10-1. Middlebury held an

opponent to fewer than 10 goals for the eighth time this spring and for the fifth straight game. Julia Keith made three saves in the first half, and Furber made six stops in the second half.

Erin Nicholas and Jane Earley each netted four goals to pace the Panthers. Lily Riseberg finished with three assists, Emma McDonagh had a goal and two assists, and Sara DiCenso dished out a pair of helpers.

Earley controlled eight draws.

Five players scored for Colby, and goalie Izzy Scribano made nine stops.

Panther track & field excels at Amherst AMHERST — The Middlebury College men’s and women’s track and field teams each finished second in a meet hosted by Amherst on Saturday. The Panther women earned 90 points, trailing only Wheaton’s 94 points, while the men’s 100.5 points trailed only host Amherst’s 152.

The women shone in the field events, collecting a host of top

finishes. Kreager Taber won the pole vault, clearing a height of 11 feet1.75 inches, while Alex Cook took top honors in the long jump with a leap of 18-1. Helene Rowland had the winning toss of 37-6.75 in the shot put, while Emily Ray won the discus (106-0), and Rebecca Gorman won the javelin (138-7).

On the track Lucy Lang won the

800-meter run in 2:19.86 seconds.

For the men, Nicholas Hendrix won the 200 in 22.01, while Jonathan Fisher won the 400 hurdles in 56.87.

Minhaj Rahman won the hammer throw (182-11), Zack Sieb prevailed in the discus (138-11), and Nathaniel Klein took the shot put (48-0.75).

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MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE BASEBALL coach Mike Leonard talks to his players between games in a doubleheader against Hamilton in Winter Haven, Fla. The Panthers were 7-3 on their recent spring trip and are now 13-6 heading into a big three-game series at Williams College this weekend.

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Women’s tennis knocks off No. 1 Emory MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College women’s tennis team had a big weekend, improving to 9-1, 2-0 in NESCAC play, with three home victories, including one over previously undefeated Emory, which entered Sunday’s match as the top-ranked team in NCAA Division III. The Panthers defeated Emory on Sunday, 6-3, and on the same day topped NESCAC foe Connecticut, 9-0. On Saturday the Panthers, ranked No. 5 in last week’s poll, edged visiting No. 6 Wesleyan, 5-4.

Against Emory the Panthers swept the three doubles matches.

At No. 1 Heather Boehm and Ann Martin Skelly defeated Ysabel Gonzalez-Rico and Defne Olcay, 8-4; at No. 2, Katherine Hughes and Skylar Schossberger defeated

MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College baseball team won three out of four recent non-league games, including its Sunday home opener, to improve to 13-6.

The Panthers will visit Williams this weekend for a three-game NESCAC West series. The Ephs are 13-3, but 1-2 in league play. The Panthers are 2-1 in league play, while Amherst, Hamilton and Wesleyan all sit at 3-3 in a crowded five-team race for two playoff berths.

On Sunday the Panthers pounded out a 15-6 win over Plymouth State (9-11) in the Panthers’ home opener.

Middlebury took a 6-1 lead early on and then scored seven runs in the fifth on five hits, doubles by Andrew Hennings and Phil Bernstein and singles

by Sam Guild, Brooks Carroll and Kevin Woodring.

Michael Farinelli (2-1) picked up the win, allowing one run on three hits over six innings while fanning eight.

Spencer Shores tossed a scoreless seventh.

Bernstein finished the game with three doubles and three RBIs, while Carroll doubled, singled, scored twice and drove in two runs. Guild had two hits, four runs, two walks and two

Emma Cartledge and Daniela Lopez, 8-2; and at No. 3 Christina Puccinelli and Maddi Stow defeated Christina Watson and Stephanie Taylor, 8-7 (11-9).

Picking up victories for the Panthers in singles were Boehm at No. 2, 6-1, 6-4, over Lopez; Puccinelli at No. 3, 6-4, 6-3, over Olcay, and Schossberger at No. 4, 6-0, 6-1, over Lauren Yoon.

Against Connecticut the Panther doubles teams all cruised to wins, with the closest match being 8-4.

Boehm and Skelly played at No. 1, Puccinelli and Stow at No. 2, and Emily Bian and Nora Dahl at No. 3.

In singles Boehm at No. 1, Hughes at No. 2, Schossberger at No. 3, Stow at No. 4, Bian at No. 5 and Ruhi Kamdar at No. 6 all posted straight-set wins. The Camels

picked up no more than two games in any set.

Wesleyan (8-2) gave the Panthers a tougher challenge on Saturday.

Middlebury took two out of three doubles matches. At No. 1 Boehm and Skelly defeated Wesleyan’s Victoria Yu and Kristina Yu, 8-2, and at No. 2 Hughes and Schossberger defeated Wesleyan’s Venia Yeung and Polina Kiseleva, 8-2. At No. 3 Wesleyan’s Alissa Nakamoto and Alexis Almy defeated Puccinelli and Stow, 8-5.

In singles, Middlebury picked up its wins at No. 1, where Boehm defeated Victoria Yu, 6-2, 6-0; at No. 3, where Puccinelli defeated Kristina Yu, 7-6 (7-5), 6-3; and at No. 5, where Stow clinched the match by defeating Nakamoto, 6-2, 6-4.

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Northeastern Wolves: Then and now

By SUSAN SHEA On a moonlit night two hundred years ago, a dog-shaped shadow slipped through the Vermont woods. The large, shaggy canid emerged onto a hilltop pasture, raised its muzzle, and howled — a deep, throaty howl that reverberated through the hills. A chorus of wolves responded.

Wolves were common in the Northeast and most of the U.S. when European settlers arrived. And it didn’t take long for the settlers, who were steeped in folklore that portrayed wolves as evil, to wage war. Towns enacted bounties, to which livestock owners were legally bound to contribute, for every dead wolf brought in. In 1657, New Haven, Conn., offered five pounds to anyone who could kill “one great black woolfe of a more than ordinaire bigness which is like to be more feirce and bould than the rest, and so occasions more hurt.”

Although eastern wolves preyed mostly on deer and beaver before European settlers arrived, as the forests were cut and wildlife disappeared, the wolves were forced to rely more on livestock like sheep. Thanks to the abundance of this easier prey, wolf populations may have actually increased for a time.

In addition to livestock protection, some sought to eliminate wolves because they symbolized wilderness.

When colonists arrived, “the whole continent was one dismal wilderness, the haunt of wolves and bears and more savage men,” wrote John Adams in 1756.

The settlers’ energies were devoted to vanquishing the wilderness, using its abundant resources, and creating a pastoral landscape of farms and villages.

All these efforts to eradicate wolves eventually succeeded.

The wolf disappeared from most of southern New England by the end of the eighteenth century, but hung on in parts of Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and the Berkshires until the late nineteenth or early twentieth century. The same process played out nationwide, as wolves were reduced to five percent of their original range in the lower

The

48 states.

Today, we have a more enlightened view of the role predators play in the landscape. Endangered species protection has allowed wolf populations to recover in the Great Lakes states. Canadian wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone and they naturally recolonized some Rocky Mountain states. Populations in these places are now stable or increasing.

Will wolves ever return to the Northeast? A 2011 report prepared for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service concluded that parts of our region, such as northern Maine and the Adirondack Park, have suitable wolf habitat with sufficient prey. However, proposals in the 1990s to reintroduce wolves in Maine were controversial, said Walter Jakubas, mammal group leader with the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife. People were concerned that wolves would frequent residential areas where deer densities were high.

According to Jakubas, the movement to reintroduce wolves also lost momentum when genetic analyses of eastern coyotes revealed a significant percentage of wolf genes.

Coyotes had interbred with wolves in Canada on their migration from west to east, and it seemed likely that they would hybridize with reintroduced wolves. A survey showed the majority of Maine residents preferred to let wolves come back on their own.

If wolves do come back to our region, that’s likely how it will happen. A wolf was killed in the Adirondacks in 2001 and two were

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shot in northern Vermont in 1998 and 2006. Scientists concluded that all three were wild.

Several wolves have been killed in Maine, said Jakubas, but based on their tame behavior, or hair analysis indicating they had fed on corn (probably dogfood) or were of Alaskan origin, they were determined to be captive wolves that had been released.

Jakubas has seen intriguing game camera photos of wolf-like animals and large canid tracks and believes Canadian wolves occasionally come into Maine. However, in his opinion, the likelihood of wolves establishing a breeding population there is “not impossible, but very low.”

The closest source population of wolves is in Quebec’s Laurentide Reserve, 75 miles from the Maine border. Ontario’s Algonquin Park, about 200 miles northwest of the Adirondacks, supports another wolf population. Still, there’s a lot working against a southerly migration. The St. Lawrence River, now kept ice-free in winter for ships, presents a major barrier.

If an animal were to cross the river, it might not survive the journey through southern Quebec, with its strong tradition of hunting and trapping. Once across the border, liberal coyote hunting seasons in the northeastern states would be another obstacle.

Although wolves are protected as a federally endangered species here, hunters could easily mistake them for coyotes.

This is not to say it won’t happen, though. If wolves are like their adaptable coyote cousins, who have survived and thrived despite centuries of human persecution, they may yet surprise us.

Susan Shea is a naturalist, conservationist, and freelance writer who lives in Brookfield, Vt. The illustration for this column was drawn by Adelaide Tyrol.

The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine (.northernwoodlands. org) and sponsored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation (wellborn@nhcf.org).

ADDISON COUNTY

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury police received a report of someone allegedly putting gasoline into a barrel of finished maple syrup at a Delancey Lane location on April 2. The incident remains under investigation.

In other action last week, Middlebury police: • Joined multiple police agencies that investigated a report on April 1 of an armed, possibly suicidal Middlebury man threatening another person. As previously reported by the Independent, Travis Tester, 30, led authorities after midnight on a car chase from Middlebury to Brandon, where he crashed his vehicle into a tree and took his own life with gun.

• Took a local juvenile to Porter Hospital to meet with a crisis counselor on April 2 due to a threat the child had allegedly made at home.

• Received a report about a

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for the FBI. Police conducted two similar investigations on April 4.

• Responded to the report of a dog bite of a family member, a young child, at a Union Street home. Police learned the dog had its shots, but the family decided to find it a new home.

On April 2: • Referred to Vermont State Police a complaint from a Panton man that a woman had improperly withdrawn money from a joint account and disposed of cars.

• Cited Northlands Job Corps student Rene Lajeunesse, 19, of Brooklyn, N.Y., for simple assault.

Police allege he knocked another student to the floor and punched him over a dispute about text messages that insulted a female acquaintance.

On April 3 and 4 began looking into allegations from three female Northlands Job Corps students that a male student had sexually assaulted them; police said an investigation is ongoing.

On April 4 dealt with a loose-dog complaint in Booth Woods.

On April 5: • Reported to the Department for

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vehicle leaving the scene of an accident on Hillcrest Road on April 2.

• Searched for a juvenile reported missing in the Lower Foote Street area on April 2.

• Issued a juvenile citation to a local minor who had allegedly threatened a family member on April 2. the Vermont • Assisted Department for Children & Families with a child custody issue at a Route 7 South location on April 2.

• Helped Middlebury Regional EMS officials on April 3 with a patient believed to be suicidal.

• Checked on the welfare of a person in the Stonegate Drive community who had hinted at selfharm through social media on April 3.

• Conducted a welfare check on a woman who appeared to be having a mental health episode in the Cedar Court area on April 3.

• Served a no-trespass order on a local man in the Fisher Road neighborhood on April 3.

• Ticketed a minor for being in possession of a nicotine device on Middlebury Union High School property on April 3.

• Responded to a report of a drunken man refusing to leave Two Brothers Tavern on April 4. Police said the man had left upon their arrival.

• Arrested Arlyn Sunderland, 45, of Shoreham on an outstanding

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IN THE MARBLE WORKS

Children and Families a man who left two young children locked in a car while he shopped at Shaw’s Supermarket; police were called to the scene by a tip.

• Served an abuse-prevention order to a South Water Street resident.

• Helped Vermont State Police by evaluating a motorist suspected of driving under the influence of drugs on Route 7; the Vergennes Drug Recognition Expert determined the driver was under the influence, and troopers cited him.

• On April 7: • Cited Amber Thomas, 23, of Orwell for suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. Police responded to a report of a speeding northbound vehicle on Route 7 and allege it was traveling at 83 mph in a 50 mph zone when they encountered the vehicle, resulting in Thomas also receiving a $351 speeding ticket.

Police said Thomas has four DUIdrug charges already pending in court.

• Checked a report of a suspicious vehicle near Aubuchon Hardware off Monkton Road in Ferrisburgh and determined a man was napping while waiting for his wife to pick up food to go.

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VERGENNES — Vergennes police on April 1 cited a homeless man, who they had just helped evict from the John Graham Shelter the day before, for allegedly hitting his four-year-old son twice, at least once hard enough to knock the child to the floor.

Cited for domestic violence was Stacy Rogers, 41, whose last address was Philadelphia. Police had been called to the shelter on March 31 when Rogers allegedly became abusive to shelter staff, and they had escorted him from the premises.

Shelter staff alerted police to possible child abuse, and police said their investigation uncovered video evidence of the alleged crime.

Police also issued Rogers a notrespass order on behalf of the John Graham Shelter.

Police also between April 1 and 7 operated a number of special traffic-control patrols throughout Vergennes. During two of them they issued tickets, two while on patrol in the West Main Street and Panton Road area on April 5, and one ticket while patrolling Main Street on April 6.

In other activity in that week, Vergennes police: On April 1: a background • Conducted investigation of a former city resident

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warrant, on Seymour Street on April 4.

• Mediated an argument between a parent and child in the Court Street Extension area on April 4.

• Were informed of the alleged theft of a jacket and medication from a Jayne Court residence on April 4.

• Arrested Dana Drown, 46, of Middlebury on an outstanding warrant, in the Seymour Street area on April 4.

• Assisted a person who was having mental health problems on Merchants Row on April 5.

• Spoke with an “aggressive” driver who had allegedly been following another driver on Route 7 South on April 5.

• Warned some participants in the recent climate action walk to adhere to the rules of their public assemblage permit in Court Square on April 5.

• Were informed a Middlebury Union Middle School student had left the campus without permission on April 5.

• Arrested Eva Trudea, 32, of Weybridge on an outstanding warrant, on Seymour Street on April 5.

• Responded to a reported fight between siblings at a Court Street home on April 6.

• Investigated a report of a man allegedly threatening to harm himself while at the Charter House warming shelter on April 6.

• Assisted Middlebury Regional EMS on April 6 at a medical call on Route 7 North and with an agitated patient on Eastview Terrace.

• Received a report about a guest allegedly leaving the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel without paying for his stay on April 6.

• On April 6 assisted an East Munger Street resident whose driveway was occupied by a vehicle, the driver of which allegedly declined to talk to the homeowner.

• Responded to a report of a man threatening self-harm at the Charter House warming shelter on April 6.

• Assisted Middlebury firefighters at a smoke-filled apartment on Court Street on April 7.

• Received a report on April 7 that a man had allegedly threatened another man in the Exchange Street area on April 7. The case remains under investigation.

• Served court diversion paperwork on “several” juveniles in the Main Street area for allegedly drinking alcohol on April 7.

• Responded to a domestic dispute between a man and woman at an East Main Street residence on April 8. Police said they served a temporary restraining order on the man.

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School News Two Bristol youths, Jack Frizzell and Jacob Graham, took home first place in their division at the 32nd Annual Vermont Scholastic Chess Championships on Saturday, April 6, at Berlin Elementary School.

Graham‘s victory in the Middle School division won him the right to represent Vermont in the Barber K-8 Nationals, held in Orlando, Fla., in August. Frizzell took home the prize for fifth-graders.

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CLASSIFIEDS

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

Public Meetings

ADULT ALL‑ RECOVERY Group Meeting for anyone over 18 who is struggling with addiction disorders.

Wednesdays, 3‑4 p.m. at the Turning Point Center (54 Creek Rd). A great place to meet with your peers who are in recovery. Bring a friend in recovery. For info call 802‑388‑4249 or 802‑683‑5569 or visit turn‑ ingpointaddisonvt.org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 4 WEDNESDAY. Big Book Meeting, Middle‑ bury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 7:15‑8:15am. Discus‑ sion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. 12 Step Meeting, Brandon, St. Thomas Episcopal Church, Rte 7 South, 7‑8pm.

NARCAN KITS are avail‑ able at the Turning Point Center of Addison County FREE of charge. Narcan (Naloxone) is a nasal spray used to reverse an opioid overdose in progress. These kits are specifically intended for public distribution and can be used by anyone to save a life. Easy train‑ ing is provided at Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, and takes approximately 10 minutes. Wednesdays between 9 a.m. ‑ noon, or call for an appointment (802) 388‑4249.

AL‑ANON FAMILY GROUP ‑ For families and friends of problem drinkers. Anony‑ mous, confidential and free.

At the Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd, Middlebury.

7:30‑8:30 PM Friday eve‑ nings.

AL‑ANON: FOR FAMI‑ LIES and friends affected by someone’s drinking.

Members share experience, strength and hope to solve common problems. New‑ comers welcome. Confiden‑ tial. St. Stephen’s Church (use front side door and go to basement) in Middlebury, Sunday nights 7:15‑8:15 pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 1 SUNDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am.

Discussion Meeting, Bris‑ tol, Howden Hall, 19 West St. 4‑5pm. 12 Step Meet‑ ing, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 7‑8pm. AA 24‑Hour Hotline 802‑388‑9284, aavt.org.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 2 MONDAY. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Ripton, Rip‑ ton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. As Bill Sees it Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Women of AA (Step/Speaker), Middle‑ bury, The Turning Point Ctr, 54 Creek Rd, 5:30‑6:30pm.

Big Book Meeting, New Ha‑ ven, Congregational Church, Village Green, 7:30‑8:30pm.

Discussion Meeting, Bran‑ don, St. Thomas Episco‑ pal Church, Rte 7 South, 7:30‑8:30pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 3 TUESDAY. 12 Step Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm.

Daily Reflection Meeting, Vergennes, Congregational Church, Water St. 7‑8pm.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 5 THURSDAY. 12 Steps and Traditions Meeting, Ripton, Ripton Firehouse, Dugway Rd. 7:15‑8:15am. Big Book Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Alternat‑ ing Format Meeting, Fer‑ risburgh, Assembly of God Christian Center. Route 7, 7‑8pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 6 FRIDAY. Spiritual Awakening, Middlebury, St. Stephes Church, 3 Main St., 7:30‑8:30am. Discussion Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. Noon‑1pm. Discussion Meeting, Vergennes, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Park St. 8‑9pm.

ALCOHOLICS ANONY‑ MOUS, 7 SATURDAY. Discussion Meeting, Mid‑ dlebury, United Methodist Church, North Pleasant St. 9‑10am. Discussion Meet‑ ing, Middlebury, Beginner’s Meeting, Middlebury, The Turning Point Ctr. 54 Creek Rd. 6:30‑7:30pm.

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BY SOMEONE’S DRINK‑ ING? Opening Our Hearts Al‑Anon Group meets each Wednesday at 1:30 pm at Middlebury’s St. Stephen’s Church on Main St. (enter side door and follow signs).

Anonymous and confiden‑ tial, we share our experi‑ ence, strength and hope to solve our common problems.

Babysitting available.

NA (JUST IN TIME) Mon‑ days, 6:30 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd. NA MEETINGS MIDDLE‑ BURY: Sundays, 3:00 pm, held at The Turning Point Center, 54 Creek Rd.

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ESTATE TAG SALE. Excep‑ tional tools and more. Sat. April 13, 2019. 27 Robbins Crossroad,Ripton, VT. 9am.

BANKRUPTCY: CALL to find out if bankruptcy can help you. Kathleen Walls, Esq. 802‑388‑1156.

MOVING SALE Suit cases ‑ like new, A/C, Dyson cord‑ less vacuum, lawn furni‑ ture, plants, Fenton glass figurines, bakers rack, plus much more. Free stuff. No kids stuff. 2733 Munger St., New Haven. Saturday only (4/13). 10am‑4pm. Rain or shine. No early birds please.

GREENHOUSE WORK‑ ERS seasonal ‑ full time and part time positions in Addison. Includes planting, watering, loading trucks.

Must be strong, depend‑ able, motivated. Week‑ end work required. Call Paul at 759‑2294 or email gardenart@gmavt.net.

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PARKINSONS SUPPORT GROUP meets on the last Thursday of every month from 10 am to 11:30 am.

We meet at The Residence at Otter Creek in Middle‑ bury. For info call APDA at 888‑763‑3366 or parkin‑ soninfo@uvmhealth.org.

R E F U G E R E C O V E RY ‑ TUESDAYS 6‑7 p.m. A non‑theistic, Buddhist‑in‑ spired approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds.

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CONSTRUCTION: ADDI‑ TIONS, RENOVATIONS, new construction, drywall, carpentry, painting, flooring, roofing, pressure washing, driveway sealing. All aspects of construction, also property maintenance. Steven Fifield 802‑989‑0009.

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Check the Classifieds twice a week in the Addison Independent.

Help Wanted

EXECUTIVE CO-DIRECTOR The Addison County Parent/Child Center (ACPCC) is continuing the search for a new Co-Director to lead this well-known and highly respected nonprofit located in Middlebury, Vermont. Founded in 1980, the ACPCC is a member of the Vermont Parent Child Center Network dedicated to providing family support services, therapeutic childcare and education, prevention and support for youth, adults and children in Addison County.

This is a great opportunity for an energetic and engaged community leader who is passionate about making a difference in the community by leading an organization in a co-directorship model. The successful candidate will possess strong communication skills, a team-oriented work style, a passion for working with families and children, and a dedication to social justice issues. The candidate will have experience working with human services and state agencies, experience in all aspects of human resource and personnel management and experience in managing and overseeing data collections and analysis. Candidates must also demonstrate understanding of financial management of multiple funding streams and fund development.

Preference will be given to candidates with a graduate degree in social work, nonprofit management, education, or a related field.

For more information, including a full job description, please contact Donna Bailey at dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org

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people-peRsoN foR ouR G HIRIN dyNAmIc sAles TeAm The Addison Independent is hiring a top-notch advertising representative with sales experience to sell new and service established accounts in Addison, Rutland, and Chittenden County. Individual must be excited to represent existing print and digital marketing plans as well as budding new digital platforms.

Must enjoy meeting and working with people, have strong written and verbal communication skills and a desire to actively listen and help businesses succeed.

Challenging, fast-paced work both within the office and on the road. Must have professional appearance, attention to detail and a creative attitude. This position offers ample opportunity to excel.

Commission-based compensation with health care package, 401K benefits and flexible work schedule.

Excellent opportunity for learning or honing sales/ business skills.

To apply, please send resume and cover letter to:

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Christy Lynn, Director of Sales 58 Maple Street | Middlebury, VT 05753 christy@addisonindependent.com

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Interested applicants are expected to submit their letter of interest, resume, and contact information, sent by regular mail to: ACPCC Search Committee, P.O. Box 646 Middlebury, VT 05753 or by email to: dbailey@addisoncountypcc.org

Addison County Restorative Justice Services Middlebury, Vermont Executive Director Addison County Restorative Justice Services is seeking an Executive Director who shallhave overall responsibility for the administrative and fiscal management of the agency, including all personnel matters and oversight of all client services.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • The ACRJS Executive Director will develop excellent working relationships with other agencies, Vermont Courts, Law • Enforcement and Community Stakeholders.

• Is responsible for assuring that programs operate within and implements the statutory, regulatory, and policy guidelines of the agency and all its programs.

• Create and develop new and innovative programs appropriate to the mission and goals of ACRJS. • Responsible for recruitment, hiring, training, evaluation, and support of all ACRJS staff.

• Coordinate the development of effective community restorative panels through active volunteer recruitment and training.

The successful candidate will possess excellent Leadership skills, compatible to a teamwork environment, and excellent verbal and written communications skills. Excellent fiscal management skills and ability to seek new revenue sources including grant writing.

Excellent organizational and computer skills and ability to work independently. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent education and relevant work experience. Previous experience in Restorative Justice or the Criminal Justice System preferred.

Must have a valid Driver’s License, own transportation, proof of insurance, able to pass a criminal and financial background check.

The Executive Director will report directly to the Board of Directors.

Interested individuals may apply by sending a cover letter, writing sample and resume to PO Box 957, Middlebury, VT 05753.

Applications will be accepted until April 30, 2019.

ACRJS is an equal opportunity employer.

ACRJS is a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to providing restorative justice programs to residents of Addison County.

More information about ACRJS is available at: www.acrjs.org Please send a Cover Letter, Resume, and Writing Sample.

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OUTREACH WORKER

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Join the Addison County Parent/Child Center Team!

Food Service Director/Cook

We are seeking a social worker to work with young families as an outreach worker on our highly skilled, creative and energetic team.

You will work in coordination with parents in the home, community, and in our program in Middlebury in order to ensure that children are growing healthy and strong in our community.

Vacancies 2018-2019

Cornwall School is seeking a food service director to work at our small (82 student) school with a thriving Farm to School program. We are looking for an individual who is committed to scratch cooking healthy, locally-sourced, fresh food for our students. The ideal candidate will be familiar with using fresh, in season produce; and knowledgeable about governmental food storage and safety regulations (Safe Serve certification is preferred, though not required). The ideal candidate will also work collaboratively with students, parents, and teachers around food service; be interested and willing to work with Farm to School program and our Cornwall School garden; collaborate with our parent organization on special events; and be able to accommodate different dietary restrictions/needs. The manager is responsible for all aspects of running the school kitchen as well as the serving of all meals. The position requires a person to lift 50 lbs. Competitive hourly rate and benefits available.

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Responsibilities for this position include: Planning monthly breakfast and lunch menus Shopping and ordering all food and managing stock rotation Maintaining production records Enter daily breakfast and lunch counts Dishwashing Upkeep and cleaning of the kitchen 12 hours of food service related training including attending monthly meetings

Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, and three current reference letters via School Spring or send to: Jennifer Kravitz Bingham Memorial 49 Charles Avenue, Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

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Food Service Director/Cook 2019-2020

Addison Central School District is seeking a part-time (4.5 hrs/day) Food Service Director/Cook at Ripton Elementary for the 2019-2020 school year. The successful candidate should have experience in preparing nutritional meals, breakfast and lunch, and managing a meals program for 30-55 students. The candidate must also be organized, have strong communication, collaborative and computer skills, as well as an interest in participating in school wide health and nutrition initiatives. If you have questions, please contact Tracey Harrington at 802-388-22018 or tharrington@acsdvt.org.

Candidates must have a solid understanding of child development, family systems, communication skills and flexibility.

A Master’s Degree in Social Work is required.

Please contact Donna Bailey: dbailey@addisoncountyparentchildcenter.org

help wanted

Busy Landscaping and Excavating firm seeking skilled, motivated and reliable people. Full-time and Seasonal positions available. We are looking for experienced help in landscaping, excavation and lawn maintenance. Must have valid drivers license.

Commercial mowing or excavation experience required. Wage based on experience.

Mail or email resume:

TOM BODETTE Excavating & Landscaping, Inc. tombodettelesinc@gmail.com.

6 Lower Plains Rd, Middlebury, VT 05753, Attn: Leslie.

Call 388-4529.

Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, and three current reference letters via School Spring or send to: Peter Burrows, Superintendent Addison Central School District 49 Charles Avenue, Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications will be accepted until position is filled.

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ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

Vacancies

Administrative Assistant Addison Central School District is seeking a full time Administrative Assistant at Middlebury Union Middle School to begin May 15, 2019. Candidates must have excellent interpersonal skills and a sincere enjoyment of helping others and working as part of a team.

Qualifications include: • • • • • • •

Associate’s Degree preferred; Strong background in various computer applications, ie, Excel,Word; Strong organizational skills with emphasis on detail and accuracy; Ability to multi-task; Strong written and oral communication skills; Ability to work independently as directed; and Ability to work collaboratively with administrative office team;

Apply by submitting a letter of interest, resume, three current reference letters, and complete transcripts via School Spring.

Applications will be accepted until position has been filled E.O.E.

Delivery Driver neeDeD

Class A CDL and two years’ experience required. Must have a clean driving record and be able to lift 50lbs repetitively. Pay based on experience. Paid vacation, Health Insurance and IRA available after probationary period.

Taking loaded truck home at night could be an option for the right candidate. Occasional overnights depending on weather. Stop by to fill out an application at Green Mountain Feeds, Main Street, Bethel, vermont, or send resume to tlittle@greenmountainfeeds.com.

ADDISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT

WhistlePig is the most decorated rye whiskey in the world! Located in Shoreham, on a 500-acre farm, we are looking for hospitality folks that have the skills to create a guest experience equal to the premier status of our whiskey.

Do you have waitressing, bartending, guiding or other hospitality experience?

Skills that are needed for this position • A friendly, professional and enthusiastic attitude.

• Able to work flexible hours including nights & weekends.

• Skilled at storytelling and creating an excellent guest experience.

• An interest in distilling, craft spirits, and cocktails, a plus.

• Past experience in hospitality, bartending, guiding, and guest relations also beneficial.

• Must be 21 years of age or older.

See website for full description www.whistlepigwhiskey.com/work-with-us Send resume and 3 references to: jobs@whistlepigrye.com No phone calls, please.

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For Rent

LANDSCAPERS‑ COLBY HILL Landscape Com‑ pany is now hiring for the 2019 season. We are a landscape construction company, specializing in the installation of patios, walkways, walls and plant‑ ings, as well as mainte‑ nance. Applicants must have vaild drivers license and reliable transporta‑ tion. Starting pay $14/hr.

Pay may commensurate with experience. Call Dave at 802‑363‑9958.

MOOSE RUBBISH AND Recycling is looking for a recycling attendant on Saturday’s. 8:30‑12 noon.

Call Randy 377‑5006.

BRISTOL 2+3 BEDROOM apartments. Heat, lawn care, snow removal, park‑ ing, small storage space included. 802‑453‑2566.

LOOKING FOR EXPE‑ RIENCED carpenter/ construction worker. Mini‑ mum 2 years’ experience.

Must be willing to do all aspects of construction work. Must have reliable transportation. Pay based on experience. This is a full‑time year‑round po‑ sition. Contact Chris at Summit Up Construction, 802‑558‑0784 or send re‑ sume to: summitupcon‑ struction@gmail.com.

PAINTERS WANTED ‑ Acorn Painting is now hiring for the 2019 exte‑ rior season. Experience preferred but willing to train. Please have a valid drivers license, your own reliable transportation, good work ethic and good attitude. 453 5611.

VERMONT SOAP IS look‑ ing for a full‑time Shipper/ Receiver. Experience in both shipping and receiv‑ ing freight, small packages and use of Starship is pre‑ ferred. Competitive pay, vacation & sick time, paid holidays, gym membership and more. Please send resume and cover letter to nichole@vtsoap.com.

R O O F E R S WA N T E D No experience needed.

Willing to train the right person. Excellent pay and benefits. Basic hand tools and valid driver’s license needed. Call 802‑388‑2903.

VERMONT SOAP IS also hiring Production Team Members. Must be detail oriented, work well as part of a team and an eye for quality control. Competi‑ tive pay, paid time off, gym membership, employer matched IRA and more.

Send resume to: nichole@ vtsoap.com.

For Sale 4 MOUNTED COOPER studded tires. 260/R17.

Like new. Fit Ram 1500. $400. 598‑1646.

BARRELS ‑ 55 GALLON food grade. Great storage for sap/syrup, water, grain, compost. $25/each. Call 453‑4235.

K A R AVA N T R A I L E R 8x10, sides, like new, ramp, lock. $1,200. 860921-7765 P R I VA C Y H E D G E S ‑ spring blowout sale. 6ft.

Arborvitae ‑ reg. $179, now $75. Beautiful, nurs‑ ery grown. Free Installa‑ tion/Free delivery. Lim‑ ited Supply. Order now: 518‑536‑1367, lowcost‑ treefarm.com.

TEARDROP CAMPER 2016 T@G. $8,600. 13ft. long 1,300 lbs. Easy tow‑ ing, full galley kitchen, dry, comfortable cabin, queen bed, AC/TV 48” Inside height (cannot stand up).

No bathroom. Side tent included; Google T@G; reply to renglish@wcvt. com.

For Rent

1 BR. DETACHED fur‑ nished apartment. No pets or smoking, private.

Kayak, $600/mo. (860) 921‑7765.

2, 3 AND 4 bedroom apartments available June 1st. In the heart of downtown Middlebury.

Walking everywhere, in‑ cluding to college. Text Baba 802‑373‑6456.

2,500 SQ.FT. LIGHT IN‑ DUSTRIAL or food‑based business. Vermont state or USDA inspected. 656 Exchange Street, Middle‑ bury, Vermont. Call for information 802‑388‑4831.

BRISTOL VILLAGE, HIGHLY Visible Retail/Of‑ fice street level space on the Main Street. Approx.

1,800 SF plus basement storage. Available March 1, 2019. $1,370 mo. Call Tom at Wallace Realty 453‑4670 or Tom@Wal‑ laceRE.com.

CHARMING STUDIO APARTMENT in the heart of downtown Middlebury.

Tile bath and kitchen.

Available June 1st. Text Baba, 802‑373‑6456.

DRY, WINTER/SUMMER STORAGE SPACE in Addison. Available stor‑ age space in my barn for summer/winter storage.

The barn is structurally sound and weather‑tight with electricity. No heat or running water. The barn is also available for lease. The entrance door measurements are 8’ wide by 7’ high. For more info: 802‑363‑3403 or rochon_m@yahoo.com.

For Rent MIDDLEBURY, 2,600 SQ FT office space. Court St., central location, park‑ ing. Can be subdivided.

Real‑Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

NEW HAVEN, TWO one bedroom apartments. All utilities included. W/D on site. First and last month rent plus deposit required.

No pets. One at $975/mo.

One at $1,075/mo., this one fully furnished. Call 453‑3870.

SMALL OFFICE SPACE, 656 Exchange Street, Middlebury. $500/month.

802‑388‑4831.

SUGARWOOD APART‑ MENTS is currently ac‑ cepting applications for 2, 3 and 4 BR apartments in Middlebury. All income/as‑ sets must be verified to de‑ termine monthly rent, but tenants only pay 30% of their income toward rent.

NP/NS. W/D hook‑ups.

Call 802‑247‑0165 or visit our website summitpmg. com. Equal Housing Op‑ portunity.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM apartment. Close to college. $800/month plus deposit. Some utilities included. 388‑0401.

MIDDLEBURY 1 BED‑ ROOM, fully furnished apartment, all inclusive, W/D. $1,250/month.

802‑349‑8544.

MIDDLEBURY 2 BED‑ ROOM near downtown.

Appliances, off street parking, lease. No pets.

Real Net Management Inc. 802‑388‑4994.

MIDDLEBURY 3 BED‑ ROOM ground floor apart‑ ment with deck and park‑ ing, in the center of town. $1,800/mo. all inclusive.

No pets. 802‑349‑8544.

M I D D L E B U RY‑ R T E 7 e ff i c i e n c y a p a r t m e n t .

Heat, water and trash removal included. No pets. No smoking. $700/ month. Available May 1.

802‑388‑1917.

Want to Rent PROFESSIONAL FE‑ MALE WISHING TO share two bedroom apartment.

Rent $650. including utili‑ ties. 978‑489‑5810.

Wood Heat FIREWOOD. CUT, SPLIT and delivered. $210/cord seasoned. $185/cord green. 802‑282‑9110.

Custodian

Real Estate

Addison Central School District is seeking two part time Custodians, Monday through Friday second shift.

Experience is a plus, but not required.

2019 ENERGY STAR homes, Modular, Dou‑ blewides and Single ‑ wides. Open 7 days a week. Beanshomes. com. 600 Rte. 7, Pitts‑ ford, VT. 1‑802‑773‑2555. tflanders@beanshomes. com. Down Payment As‑ sistance Now Available.

For Rent

Apply through Schoolspring or by sending a letter of interest, resume, and three current letters of reference to: Dr. Peter Burrows, Superintendent Addison Central School District 49 Charles Avenue Middlebury,VT 05753 Applications will be accepted until the position has been filled.

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For Rent

HOSPITALITY

Help Wanted

For Rent

For Rent

P.O. Box 156 • Vergennes, VT 05491

VERGENNES, VT 3 BEDROOM APARTMENT - RENT: $1,066.

Second story apartment located on Main St. in Vergennes. All basic utilities included except electricity. Nicely remodeled apartment with new flooring. Includes trash, recycling, lawn care, snow removal, professional management and 24-hour emergency maintenance. Income limits apply.

References required.

To request an application visit www.addisontrust.org, call (802) 877-2626 or email info@addisontrust.org

For Rent

Equal Housing Opportunity

It’s against the law to discriminate when advertising housing.

Att. Farmers HAY FOR SALE. Small square bales, first cut + mulch. 802‑349‑9281.

WHITNEY’S CUSTOM FARM WORK. Pond agi‑ tating, liquid manure haul‑ ing, drag line aerating.

Call for price. 462‑2755, John Whitney.

Particularly on sites like Craigslist.

And it’s easier to break the law than you might think. You can’t say “no children” or “adults only.” There is lots you can’t say.

The federal government is watching for such discrimination.

Let us help you sift through the complexities of the Fair Housing Law. Stay legal. Stay on the right side of the nation’s Fair Housing Law. Call the Addison Independent at (802) 388-4944.

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Beautiful, level 1/2 acre building lot with good southern exposure on a private lane. Town water, power and cable hookups at curbside. Site approved for four bedroom home with conventional (no mound necessary) sep‑ tic system. $68,000. Call Jack Brown 388‑7350.

Trucks 2008 TOYOTA TACOMA Florida truck. 118,000 miles. Excellent shape.

Asking price $12,995.

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Audubon invites all to join wildlife walks in April and May MIDDLEBURY/BRISTOL — Otter Creek Audubon (OCAS) has several events for nature lovers coming up in the next several weeks, starting with their monthly wildlife walk on Saturday, April 13. The walk meets at the parking area for Otter View Park and Hurd Grassland, located at the corner of Weybridge Street and Pulp Mill Bridge Road, from 8-10 a.m.

OCAS runs this walk in partnership with Middlebury Area Land Trust. The organizations invite community members to help them survey birds and other wildlife at Otter View Park and the Hurd Grassland. There are shorter and longer routes possible, beginning birders are welcome and participants can come for all or part of the walk. For information on the monthly wildlife walk call 388-1007 or 388- 6019.

April 27 marks a new event for OCAS, the inaugural Wild Middlebury Bioblitz. The aim is discover and document the flora and fauna of Otter View Park in a rapid attempt to catalogue as many species as possible. The Wild Middlebury Project, Middlebury Area Land Trust, and the Otter Creek Audubon Society are bringing together students from Middlebury College, local youth,

Public Notices are found in this

ADDISON INDEPENDENT on Pages 9B & 10B.

To publish a legal notice, email information to legals@addisonindependent.com or fax it to (802) 388-3100.

PUBLIC NOTICE POLICY WARNING

The Slate Valley Unified Union School District Board will conduct a public hearing at their meeting on April 22, 2019 at 6:30 P.M., at the Orwell Village School, and take action on the following policies: ACCESS CONTROL SECURITY CAMERA Copies of the policies are available from the Superintendent of Schools’ Office, 33 Mechanic Street, Fair Haven, Vermont.

Brooke Olsen-Farrell Superintendent of Schools

TOWN OF MIDDLEBURY INVITATION TO BID PRINTING OF OFFICIAL NOTICE OF CHANGE OF APPRAISAL BOOKLETS

Competitive bids for printing of the Town of Middlebury Official Notice of Change of Appraisal Booklets will be received at the office of the Town Manager, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753 until 2:00 p.m., April 18, 2019. All bids must be submitted in sealed envelopes, addressed to the Town of Middlebury in care of the Town Manager, 77 Main Street, Middlebury, VT 05753, plainly marked with the name of the bid and the time of bid opening. Any bids received after the time and date specified, shall not be considered and will be returned to the bidder unopened.

For full bid specifications, please contact Beth Dow at: bdow@townofmiddlebury.org or by calling 802-458-8002.

4/11

PUBLIC NOTICE Full Passport Service Addison County Courthouse The Addison County Clerk is available to accept passport applications and provide passport photos.

REGULAR HOURS Monday – Friday 9am to 1pm Appointments appreciated, but not necessary.

802-388-1966

and the wider community for this goal. Experts on local birds, trees and slippery salamanders will lead stations where participants can learn in depth about different types of species.

Whether spotting a raptor high in the sky with binoculars or uncovering a water beetle with a net, this event will offer participants the opportunity to discover the diversity of life in Addison County while learning to use iNaturalist (an app where people can submit and view observations of species) as a tool for citizen science and nature discovery in their daily lives. People of all ages and levels of expertise are encouraged to join.

In conjunction with The Watershed Center, OCAS will host the Warbler Warm-Up on Sunday May 5, from 7:30-10:30 a.m., at the Watershed Center. Ron Payne and Chris Runcie will lead a search for newly arrived spring migrants and help folks hone their birding identification skills before leafout. The event will be held at the Bristol Waterworks, Plank Road, east of North Street, Bristol. Call Ron at 388-6019 if in doubt about the weather.

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TOWN OF NEW HAVEN INVITATION TO BID

TOWN OF NEW HAVEN INVITATION TO BID

78 North Street New Haven, Vermont 05472 (802) 453 – 3516 The Town of New Haven is now accepting bids for a one(1) to three (3) year contract for roadside mowing. Roadsides will be mowed two separate times during the summer season as follows: First mowing will be 2 passes; the second mowing will be done with a minimum of 8 feet with a boom or over the rail system to get behind guardrails and partial tree canopy if necessary. Mowing is at the direction of the Road Commissioner, using your own equipment. Proof of insurance required. The first mowing is to begin in early June and the second in September.

For more information, please call the Road Commissioner @ (802) 316 – 6125.

Please submit your sealed bid to the Town of New Haven by 4:30 on Tuesday April 23, 2019. All bids the Selectboard reserves the right to reject any bids.

78 North Street New Haven, Vermont 05472 (802) 453 – 3516 SEALED BIDS FOR: Reclaiming, and furnishing and placing asphalt at noted locations will be received at the New Haven Town Offices at 78 North Street, New Haven, Vermont 05472 until 7:00 pm on May 7, 2019, and will be publically opened at the Selectboard meeting on May 7, 2019 on or after 7:00 pm at the New Haven Town Offices listed above.

Specifications for bidders and bid forms may be obtained without charge at the New Haven Town Offices, 78 North Street, New Haven, VT 05472.

The Town of New Haven, VT reserves the right to waive any informalities in, or to reject any and all bids, or to accept the bid deemed to be in the best interest of the Town of New Haven.

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PUBLIC NOTICE INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES Selective Vegetation Control Green Mountain Power, 2152 Post Rd., Rutland, Vermont 05701 has applied for a permit from the Vermont Secretary of Agriculture to apply herbicides. All herbicides will be applied selectively to cut stumps, or stems and foliage. This notice is to inform residents along the right-of-way that water supplies and other environmentally sensitive areas near the rightof-way should be protected from an application. It is residents’ responsibility to notify the contact person of the existence of a private watersupply near the right-of-way. The contact person at Green Mountain Power is Jarod Wilcox 1-888-835-4672. Further information may also be obtained from Plant Industry Division, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, 116 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602-2901; (802) 828-2431.

Operations will begin on or about May 20, 2019 using the following herbicides: Garlon® 4 Ultra, Krenite® S, Polaris®.

Maintenance involves select sections of GMP distribution* lines in: ADDISON COUNTY: Addison, Bridport, Bristol, Cornwall, Ferrisburgh, Goshen, Granville, Hancock, Leicester, Lincoln, Middlebury, Monkton, New Haven, Orwell, Panton, Ripton, Salisbury, Shoreham, Starksboro, Waltham, Weybridge, Whiting.

• Treatment is limited to select areas in the distibution line right-of-way. Distribution lines carry electricicty from electrical substations to the homes and business of customers.

Green Mountain Power 2152 Post Rd., Rutland, VT05701 4/4, 4/11

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 104-6-18 ANCV

PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC v.

HENRY M. BABCOCK JR. A/K/A HENRY BABCOCK AND STACY L. BABCOCK A/K/A STACY BABCOCK OCCUPANTS OF: 2750 Leicester Whiting Road, Whiting VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered January 9, 2019, in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Henry M. Babcock Jr. and Stacy L. Babcock to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CTX Mortgage Company, LLC, dated July 23, 2008 and recorded in Book 65 Page 351 of the land records of the Town of Leicerster, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder PennyMac Loan Services, LLC, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for CTX Mortgage Company, LLC to PennyMac Loan Services, LLC dated August 14, 2017 and recorded in Book 80 Page 517 of the land records of the Town of Leicester for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2750 Leicester Whiting Road, Whiting, Vermont on May 2, 2019 at 9:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Henry Babcock and Stacy Babcock by Warranty Deed of Steven P. Deitz and Lois A. Deitz dated November 30, 2006 and recorded December 6, 2006 at Book 63, Pages 196-198 of the Town of Leicester Land Records.

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser.

The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED: April 1, 2019 By: /s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren Rachel Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151, Farmington, CT 06032 4/11, 4/18, 4/25

STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION

DOCKET NO: 172-10-17 ANCV SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING, LLC v.

ANN M. DITTAMI OCCUPANTS OF: 65 Mountain Road, Salisbury VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Ann M. Dittami to Bank of America, N.A., dated January 12, 2010 and recorded in Book 63 Page 239 of the land records of the Town of Salisbury, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of an Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A. to Specialized Loan Servicing, LLC dated June 19, 2017 and recorded in Book 69 Page 517 of the land records of the Town of Salisbury for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 65 Mountain Road, Salisbury, Vermont on May 2, 2019 at 10:00 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: In the Town of Salisbury, in the County of Addison and State of Vermont, described as follows, viz: “Beginning at an iron pipe at the Southeast corner of Lot #18 as shown on a Plan of Lots entitled ‘’Lake Dunmore Cottage Lots owned by M. H. McLaughlin, Salisbury, Vermont, 1938”, and running thence North 78 degrees 30’ West 175.4 feet to an iron pipe; thence South 57 degrees 00’ West 39.7 feat to an iron pipe; thence South 83 degrees 45’ West 99 feet to a point; thence South 83 degrees 45’ West 44.9 feet to a point in the center of an existing dock at the shore line of Lake Dunmore, thence running along the Easterly shore line of Lake Dunmore to a point marking the Southwest corner of Lot #19 as shown on the aforementioned Plan; thence running North 56 degrees 00’ East 85.4 feet; thence South 42 degrees 30’ East 66,1 feet; thence South 50 degrees 00` East 45.3 feet to an iron pipe at a Sixteen inch white birch; thence North 78 degrees 15’ East 135.7 feet to an Iron pipe making the Southeast corner of Lot #19 as shown on the aforementioned Plan; thence North 14 degrees East along the Easterly Pine of Lot 19 79.86 feet to the place of beginning.

Reference is made to a Map of Lake Dunmore Cottage Lots re-surveyed and checked by Lee H. Lowell October 20, 1957, a copy of which Is on File in the Town Clerk’s Office, Salisbury, Vermont.”

Being the same parcel conveyed to Francis R. Dittami, Jr. and Ann M. Dittami from Jonathan Blake and Cathie Hahl, by virtue of a Deed dated 08/29/1988, recorded 08/31/1988, in Deed Book 36, Page 226, County of Addison, State of Vermont Assessor’s Parcel No: 0135-3097-000A-1 Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : March 18, 2019 By: /S/Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 4/4, 4/11, 4/18 Farmington, CT 06032

TOWN OF SALISBURY CEMETERY BID

The Town of Salisbury is accepting bids for the mowing of the West Side Cemetery, Holman Cemetery, Village Cemetery and the Town Library for 2019. Bidders may bid on each parcel separately or on all four. Bids must include proof of insurance and be submitted by April 23, 2019.

For questions, please contact the Town Office at 352-4228. Bids may be dropped off during business hours or mailed to Town of Salisbury, PO Box 66, Salisbury, 4/11 VT 05769.

WEYBRIDGE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL MEETING

The Weybridge Cemetery Association Annual Meeting will be held Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. at the Weybridge Congregational Church. For information, 4/4, 8, 11 call 545-2502.

PUBLIC NOTICE INTENT TO APPLY HERBICIDES Green Mountain Power, 2152 Post Rd., Rutland, Vermont 05701 has applied for a permit from the Vermont Secretary of Agriculture to apply herbicides. All herbicides will be applied by ground-based, hand-held equipment. This notice consitutes a warning to residents along the right-of-way that water supplies and other environmentally sensitive areas near the right-of-way should be protected from an application. It is residents’ responsibility to notify the contact person of the existence of a private watersupply near the right-of-way.

The contact person at GMP is Jarod Wilcox 1-888-835-4672. Further information may also be obtained from Plant Industry Division, Vermont Agency of Agriculture, 116 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602-2901; (802) 828-2431.

Operations will commence on or about May 20, 2019 using the following herbicides: Garlon® 4 Ultra (triclopyrs), Escort XP (metsulfuron methyl), Polaris (imazapyr) & Rodeo (glyphosate).

Maintenance will be conducted on the following transmission lines in the following towns: LINES: Silver Lake - Rochester TOWN(S): Salisbury Green Mountain Power 2152 Post Rd., Rutland, VT05701

4/4, 4/11

ANWSD BOARD OF DIRECTORS’ MEETINGS

The following schedule of the Board of School Directors’ meetings is announced for the month of APRIL, 2019.

Friday, April 5

Monday, April 8

7:30 AM

6:00 PM

Wednesday, April 17

7:30 AM

5:00 PM 6:00 PM

Thursday, April 18

5:30 PM

Monday, April 29

5:00 PM

Facilities Committee Mtg. At the ANWSD Office ANWSD Regular Board Meeting at Vergennes Union Elementary School Strategic Planning Committee Mtg. At the ANWSD Office Negotiations Committee Mtg. At Vergennes Union High School Negotiations Committee Mtg. w/ANTA At Vergennes Union High School Community Engagement Committee Mtg. At the Bixby Library Policy Committee Mtg. At the ANWSD Office

ANWSD VISION STATEMENT We envision a kind, collaborative, and creative community for all that nurtures a diverse and accessible learning environment. Students will flourish as critical thinkers and productive citizens, cultivating resilience in an ever changing world.

The purpose of each meeting is to transact regular business, including a review of correspondence, reports, approval of bills, and any other business proper to be brought before said meetings, unless otherwise specified.

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STATE OF VERMONT VERMONT SUPERIOR COURT ADDISON UNIT, CIVIL DIVISION DOCKET NO: 49-3-18 ANCV NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/S MR. COOPER v.

JAMIE JO BARROWS AND BENJAMIN E. SMITH OCCUPANTS OF: 1907 Mountain Road, Addison VT MORTGAGEE’S NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE OF REAL PROPERTY UNDER 12 V.S.A. sec 4952 et seq.

In accordance with the Judgment Order and Decree of Foreclosure entered FORMTEXT , in the above captioned action brought to foreclose that certain mortgage given by Jamie Jo Barrows and Benjamin E. Smith to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for ARK-LA-Tex Financial Services LLC DBA Benchmark Mortgage, dated December 11, 2009 and recorded in Book 95 Page 446 of the land records of the Town of Addison, of which mortgage the Plaintiff is the present holder, by virtue of the following Assignments of Mortgage: (1) Assignment of Mortgage from Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for ARK-LATex Financial Services LLC DBA Benchmark Mortgage to Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP dated May 14, 2012 and recorded in Book 99 Page 121 and (2) Assignment of Mortgage from Bank of America, N.A., successor by merger to BAC Home Loans Servicing, LP to Nationstar Mortgage LLC dated June 9, 2015 and recorded in Book 104 Page 566 of the land records of the Town of Addison for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 1907 Mountain Road, Addison, Vermont on May 2, 2019 at 11:30 AM all and singular the premises described in said mortgage, To wit: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Benjamin E. Smith and Jamie Jo Barrows by Warranty Deed of Hedy M. Sackett, dated December 11, 2009, to be recorded prior hereto in the Addison Land Records, and being more particularly described therein as follows: “Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Hedy M. Sackett by Warranty Deed of Elizabeth H. Burgess dated June 16, 1998 and recorded in Book 65 at Page 70 of the Town of Addison Land Records and partially described therein as follows `Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Elizabeth H. Burgess by Warranty Deed of John W. Freyberger dated May 6, 1986, and recorded at Book 45 Pages 125-126 Addison Land Records, and being therein described as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to John W. Freyberger by Warranty Deed of Ricky R. Condon and Holly D. Condon dated April 4, 1985, and recorded at Book 43 Pages 529-530 of the Addison Land Records, and being therein described as follows: Being all the same lands and premise described in a Warranty Deed from Yvonne R. Condon to Ricky R. Condon and Holly Condon, dated June 16, 1981, recorded at Volume 40, Page 405 of the Addison Land Records. Said lands and premises are more particularly described therein as follows: Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Stephen J. Condon, Jr. and Yvonne R. Condon by Warranty Deed of Charles L. Phillips and Jacqueline Phillips, dated June, 16, 1971, and recorded at Book 34 Pages 454- 455 Addison Land Records and being therein described as follows: Commencing at a telephone pole in the easterly line of the highway known as the Mountain Road, southwesterly of the house on the lands hereby conveyed; Thence northerly in the line of said highway 298.20 feet, more or less, to a point; Thence S 60° 54’ E 205.82 feet to an iron pipe; Thence S 08° 00’ W 24.10 feet, more or less, to an iron pipe; Thence continuing southerly in approximately the same bearing 200 feet, more or less, to a point; Thence westerly 192 feet, more or less, to the point of beginning.

Said land and premises are a part of the land and premises described in a deed to the Grantors herein from Frank Whitford’s Admx., recorded in Addison Land Records Book 31, Page 492.

This deed is executed for the sole purpose of correcting the description in a previous deed from the Grantors herein to the Grantees herein, dated August 31, 1960 recorded in Book 32, Pages 27-28 Addison Land Records.

Reference is hereby made to said deeds and their records and to all prior deeds and their records for a further and more complete description of the land and premises herein conveyed.

Reference is made to one certain Order and Decree of the Addison County Court, Yvonne R. Condon v. Stephen J. Condon, Jr., Docket No. C74-73Ad, dated December 17, 1973, and recorded at Book 36 Page 64 Addison Land Records awarding the above described lands and premises to the Grantor free and clear of the marital rights of Stephen J. Condon, Jr. Reference is hereby made to the aforementioned deeds and deeds and records therein referenced, all in further aid of this description.

Subject to easements and rights of way of record.

Reference is hereby made to said deed and its records and to all prior deeds and their records for a more complete description of the lands and premise conveyed....’

Reference is hereby made to said deeds and their records and to all prior deeds and their records for a further and more complete description of the lands and premises herein conveyed.”

Reference is hereby made to the above instruments and to the records and references contained therein in further aid of this description.

Terms of sale: Said premises will be sold and conveyed subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, municipal liens and assessments, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage above described.

TEN THOUSAND ($10,000.00) Dollars of the purchase price must be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check at the time and place of the sale by the purchaser. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid by a certified check, bank treasurer’s or cashier’s check within sixty (60) days after the date of sale.

The mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including the costs and expenses of the sale.

Other terms to be announced at the sale.

DATED : March 20, 2019 By:__/s/ Rachel K. Ljunggren________ Rachel K. Ljunggren, Esq. Bendett and McHugh, PC 270 Farmington Ave., Ste. 151 Farmington, CT 06032 4/4, 4/11, 4/18

PAGE 10B — Addison Independent, Thursday, April 11, 2019

Troopers tag 2 men for intoxicated driving, 2nd offense, on Rte. 7 ADDISON COUNTY — Vermont State Police cited out-oftowners for drunk driving, second offense, on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh twice recently in separate late-night incidents.

The first incident took place shortly before 1 a.m. on April 4, when troopers clocked a 2016 Subaru WRX driving 67 mph in a 40 mph zone on a southbound stretch of Route 7 near the Ferrisburgh Fire Department. Police stopped the car driven by Paul West, 33, of Fort Ann, N.Y., and while speaking with him took note of several signs of impairment.

Troopers screened West for driving under the influence of alcohol and arrested him for DUI. Police also alleged that West recklessly endangered the life of his passenger

Public Notices

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Addison Co. Superior Court (3) Addison Northwest School District (1) Addison Rutland Supervisory Union (1) Ferrisburgh (1) Green Mountain Power (2) Middlebury (1) New Haven (2) Salisbury (1) Shoreham (1) Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation (1) Vermont Secretary of State (1) Weybridge Cemetary Association (1) AGENCY OF NATURAL RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION WATERSHED MANAGEMENT DIVISION 1 NATIONAL LIFE DRIVE MONTPELIER, VERMONT 05620-3522 Notice of Draft General Permit 3-9016 (2019) Reissuance of General Permit 3-9016 for Discharges from Petroleum Related Remediation Activities into Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities (WWTFs) The Secretary of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources is proposing to issue General Permit 3-9016 (2019) for discharges of surface or groundwater from petroleum related remediation activities to municipal wastewater treatment facilities (WWTFs).

Coverage is required under this general permit for discharges of groundwater or surface water to municipal WWTFs from petroleum related remediation systems, excavation activities, that is contaminated by spills, or results from pumping or monitoring aquifers. In 2014 DEC reissued General Permit 3-9016 which will expire on June 30, 2019. The general permit authorizes permittees to discharge surface or groundwater from petroleum related remediation activities provided the operation is in compliance with the requirements of the permit. The DEC plans to reissue General Permit 3-9016 (2019) with updated public notice requirements in accordance with 10 V.S.A. Chapter 170, a name change to reflect the permit name used in Chapter 170, and updated Discharge Monitoring Report submittal requirements. The revised permit also includes minor corrections, clarifications, and format changes that do not alter the terms and conditions of the most recently issued general permit.

Process for Public Comments Public comments on the proposed permit are invited and must be received by Wednesday, May 15, 2019 through the DEC Environmental Notice Bulletin. To submit comments through the Environmental Notice Bulletin you need to register and select to receive notices related to “General Permit 3-9016: Discharges from Petroleum-related Remediation Activities into Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities” under the Watershed Management Division Wastewater heading on the My Subscription page. Note this is different than the “General Permit 3-9016: Notice of Intent: Discharges from Petroleum-related Remediation Activities into Municipal Wastewater Treatment Facilities” which will provide notices related to authorizations under the general permit but not the general permit itself. See the ENB website https://dec.vermont.gov/ permits/enb) for information on registering for and commenting through the ENB. All comments received by the above date will be considered in formulation of the final General Permit 3-9016 (2019). A public meeting will be held at 3:00 pm on Thursday, May 2, 2019 in the Catamount Room located at 1 National Life Dr., Montpelier, VT 05620. For additional information on the draft permit please contact Chris Gianfagna at 802-490-6174 or by email at chris.gianfagna@vermont. gov”chris.gianfagna@vermont.gov.

by operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol.

Officers took West to the New Haven state police barracks for processing and released him after citing West for DUI, second offense, and for reckless endangerment.

In a second case, troopers on April 6 at around 12:30 a.m. stopped a vehicle driven by Adam McAllister, 38, of Eden Mills on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh for an equipment violation. While speaking with McAllister, troopers detected several signs of impairment, screened him for DUI and arrested him. Troopers took McAllister to the Vergennes Police Department, where Vergennes Officer Barber, who is a Drug Recognition Expert, screened McAllister and determined that he was impaired by

marijuana.

So police took McAllister to Porter Hospital, where he provided law enforcement with a sample of his blood.

Troopers r e l e a s e d McAllister after citing him for DUI-drugs — his second DUI offense.

In other recent activity, Vermont State Police: • On April 2 at a little past midnight aided Middlebury police in trying to apprehend a Middlebury man who was thought to have threatened a person in Middlebury.

State police pursued a car driven by Travis Tester, 30, south on Route 7. After Tester drove over a spike

strip deployed by Brandon police, Tester’s car crossed the centerline and crashed into a tree on the northbound side of the highway. Police found Tester dead in the driver’s seat of what they said was a self-inflicted gunshot; they found a handgun near his body in the car. The incident was described more fully in a story in last Thursday’s edition.

• On April 3 at around 11:30 p.m. clocked a Chevy Silverado at 76 mph in a 40 mph zone on Route 7 in New Haven Junction. Police cited Harry M. Seger, 51, of South Burlington for excessive speed (a criminal misdemeanor for driving more than 30 mph

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TOWN OF FERRISBURGH THE SELECTBOARD IS ACCEPTING LETTERS OF INTEREST TO SERVE THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS. • • • • • • • •

Addison County Regional Planning Representative (3 Alternates) Conservation Commission (1 position) Fence Viewers (3 positions) First Constable Planning Commission (1 position) Town Auditor (2 positions) Town Agent Delinquent Tax Collector Please send you letter of interest addressed to the:

Selectboard at Town of Ferrisburgh, 3279 Route 7, Ferrisburgh, VT 05456 or by email to ferrisburghselectboard@comcast.net Questions about the positions may be addressed to the town clerk at 877-3429 or ferrisburghclerk@comcast.net 04/11

PROPOSED STATE RULES By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/.The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least 25 members.

To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible.

To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602 (802-828-2231).

Step Ahead Recognition System (STARS) Standards.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 19P023 AGENCY: Agency of Human Services CONCISE SUMMARY: The proposed rule removes “Regulatory Compliance History” as a category in which a regulated child care program can be awarded points under the Step Ahead Recognition System (STARS).

The rule also eliminates the application process for being recognized as a one-star program when the regulated program’s licensing status in in good regulatory standing.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Melissa Rigel-Garrett, Policy Director VT Agency of Human Services, Dept. for Children and Families, Child Development Division NOB 1, 280 State Drive, Waterbury, VT 05671-1040 Tel: 802-989-9685 Fax: 802-241-0846 Email: melissa.riegel-garrett@vermont.gov, URL: https://dcf.vermont.gov/cdd/laws-regs.

FOR COPIES: Heidi Moreau, CDF Policy Analyst, VT Agency of Human Services, Dept. for Children and Families, 280 State Drive, HC1 South, G107-2, Waterbury, VT 05671-1020 Tel: 802-595-9639 Fax: 802-241-0461 Email: heidi.moreau@vermont.gov.

Self-Insured Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements and Association health Plans (I-2018-02).

Vermont Proposed Rule: 19P024 AGENCY: Department of Financial Regulation CONCISE SUMMARY: In June 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its final rule relating to the creation of Association Health Plans (AHPs). The rule allows small businesses to band together by geography or industry to provide health care coverage to their members as if they were a single large employer. The DOL’s final rule allows states significant flexibility in regulating AHPs. to promote the stability of Vermont’s health insurance markets and to ensure that Vermonters who join AHPs receive affordable coverage and the benefits to which they are entitled under state and federal law, this rule establishes a regulatory framework that requires self-insured AHPs to provide comprehensive health insurance plans that protect their members and do not compete unfairly with the comprehensive coverage offered on Vermont Health Connect (VHC). The rule treats self-insured AHPs as insurers and subject them to the same regulatory requirements.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Emily Brown, Insurance Director of Rates and Forms, Life and Health, Department of Financial Regulation 89 Main Street, 2nd Floor, Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802- 828-4871 Fax: 802-828-1919 Email: Emily.Brown@vermont.gov URL: http://www.dfr.vermont.gov/proposed-rules-and-regulations.

FOR COPIES: Steph Hoffman, Assistant General Counsel, Department of Financial Regulation 89 Main Street, 3rd Floor, Montpelier VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802-828-1316 Fax: 802-828-1919 Email: steph.hoffman@vermont.gov.

2018 Vermont Plumbing Rules.

Vermont Proposed Rule: 19P025 AGENCY: Plumbers Examination Board CONCISE SUMMARY: The primary focus of this rule is to update the Vermont Adoption of the International Plumbing Code from the 2015 to the 2018 edition. The rules also allow more current methods and materials to be utilized. Rules are amended to clarify intent and answer frequently asked questions.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Joseph R. Benard Department of Public Safety 1311 US Route 302, Suite 600, Barre, VT 05641-2351 Tel: 802-476-7566 Fax: 802-476-7562 Email: joseph.benard@vermont.gov URL: http://www.firesafety.vermont.gov.

FOR COPIES: Gerald Garrow, Department of Public Safety 1311 US Route 302, Suite 600, Barre, VT 05641-2351 Tel: 802-786-5841 Fax: 802- 786-5872 Email: gerald.garrow@vermont.gov.

Rule No. S-2016-01 Vermont Securities Regulations (Revised 2019).

Vermont Proposed Rule: 19P026 AGENCY: Department of Financial Regulation CONCISE SUMMARY: The proposed revisions amend various sections of the Rule to improve readability and internal consistency, and to ensure that the Rule is drafted in a manner consistent with model laws and regulations promulgated by the North American Securities Administrators Association (NASAA), federal securities laws and regulations, and to the extent possible, with laws and regulations of neighboring states.

Substantive changes include adopting a consumer protection requirement that investors affirmatively opt-in to automatic reinvestment plans for certain securities offerings, as well as a policy regarding use of electronic offering and subscription documents.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Dan Raddock, Department of Financial Regulation 89 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802-828-2921 Email: dan.raddock@vermont.gov.

URL: http://www.dfr.vermont.gov/proposed-rules-and-regulations.

FOR COPIES: William R. Carrigan, Department of Financial Regulation 89 Main Street Montpelier, VT 05620-3101 Tel: 802-828-4858 Email: william.carrigan@vermont.gov.

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The Towns of Addison, Bridport, Cornwall, Shoreham, Starksboro and Vergennes

2019 PUBLIC NOTICE HERBICIDE SPRAYING

The above mentioned municipalities have each requested from the Secretary of the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets a permit to apply the following herbicides: Garlon 4 ultra (Triclopyr), Garlon 3A (Triclopyr), Krenite S (Fosamine), Escort XP (Metasulfuron),Oust Extra (Sulfometuron) and Accord (glyphosate) to control unwanted vegetation along town and city owned highways. Selective spray operations will start approximately June 1st. The applications will be made by certified pesticide applicators using mechanically controlled equipment and hand control methods. Residents along the right-of-way are encouraged to protect sensitive environmental areas, organic farm land and water supplies from spray.

It is the resident’s responsibility to notify the town of the existence of these situations adjacent to the town right-of-way. Citizens wishing to inform the town are urged to contact the contact person for their respective town as follows: Addison- Bryan Nolan 759-2570, Bridport- Dusty Huestis 758-2113, Cornwall- Mike Sunderland 462-2752, ShorehamJason Paquette 897-5451, Starksboro - Tom Estey 453-2319 and Vergennes- Jim Larrow 877-3585 The appropriate place to contact with comments, other than the towns is the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets, Agriculture Resource Management and Environmental Stewardship, 116 State Street, Montpelier, VT 05602, telephone 802-828-2431. Their link Web page that would describe the town’s spray permit request can be found at www.

VermontAgriculture.com 4/11, 4/18

over the speed limit), and issued him civil traffic tickets for speeding and for not having his driver’s license with him, which carry a total fine of $438 and a total of 10 points on his license.

• On April 4 at approximately 9:25 a.m. saw Ryan West, 29, of Addison driving on Route 22A in Bridport, stopped his vehicle, and cited West for driving with a criminally suspended license.

• On April 4 at approximately 20 minutes after 11 p.m. stopped a 1999 Toyota truck on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh and cited Kalie A. Fleming, 33, of Shoreham for driving with a criminally suspended license.

• On April 6 at a little past 11 a.m. responded to a reported burglary at a residence on Dog Team Road

LINCOLN — Join us for Green Up Day on Saturday, May 4, from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Lincoln Fire Station as we come together as a community to help cleanup Lincoln’s roads. After roadside cleanup is completed, there will be a volunteer appreciation lunch, a table full of raffle items, and the ever-popular Kids Only raffle where we will again give away two Razor Kick A Scooters. (To be eligible for the raffle, kids must have participated in roadside cleanup.)

For the regular raffle, volunteers will receive one raffle ticket per bag that is brought back after cleanup.

The raffle will be held promptly at 12:45 p.m. You must be present to win raffle items.

Are you a student in need of volunteer hours? I have just the opportunity for you. This year I am looking for one person to help us out by checking to make sure that all of the trash that goes into the trucks is in the Green Up Day bags.

We’ll feed you lunch and give you some raffle tickets for your help. I am also looking for volunteers to help with roadside cleanup. If you are able to help out this year, email

in New Haven. Police report that someone forced their way into the home and stole an undisclosed amount of cash. Anyone with information regarding on this burglary is asked to contact Trooper Mae Murdock at the state police’s New Haven barracks at 802-388-4919.

• On April 9 at 1:43 a.m. stopped a motor vehicle on Route 7 in Middlebury after seeing it speeding. After seeing signs of impairment in driver Dillon MacDougall, 21, of Leicester, police screened him for driving under the influence and cited him for DUI. Police also alleged that MacDougall recklessly endangered the life of his two passengers by operating a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol, and cited him for reckless endangerment.

Have a news tip?

Call Dawn Mikkelsen at 453-7029 NEWS

me at dawnyanks@gmail.com to ensure that you get the road/s that you want to cleanup. Hope to see you there.

FROM THE TOWN: It’s mud season. Our roads have been posted to restrict heavy weight vehicles from traveling on them. If there is a critical need, please contact Road Foreman, Dave Cavoretto, at 453-3703.

Join our parent-child class for parents with 9- to 18-month-old children, hosted by pediatric occupational therapist and attachment based parenting coach Sa Budnitz.

Sa offers parents a gently guided and safe environment to connect with their children through movement and play. Our time together will support healthy sensory motor development, strong parent-child attachment and mindful communication. Classes take place on Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., April 30 through June 4, at Peace Village Temple, 2202 Downingsville Road. The cost is $75 for all six classes.

Come play and enjoy a healthy, nurturing environment where children and caregivers are held within

an atmosphere of deep respect.

There is limited space so email sa@ budnitz.com to sign-up. For more information or for a list of other offerings please visit thetrilliumcenter.com.

The Lincoln Library is starting to assemble the specific items needed to create three nature activity packs: birding, tracking, and the constellations. The packs will be available for check out through the library. The library is looking for things such as binoculars (kids and adults), magnifying glasses, field guides about birds, animal tracks or the night sky. If you have these items or anything related to these topics that you aren’t using anymore, please consider donating them to the library. Email lincolnlibraryvt@gmail.com or stop by the library with your donations.

SAVE THE DATE: School break is the week of April 22-26.

Until next time ... You Get What You Focus On, So Focus On What You Want. Change Brings Opportunity. Start That Thing You’ve Been Putting Off Today.

Otter Valley to perform at regional event Thespians taking part in New England fest

CRANSTON, R.I. — Otter Valley Union High School will represent the state of Vermont in the 2019 New England Drama Festival, hosted by the New England Drama Council (NEDC) and the Rhode Island Theatre Education Association

(RITEA), from April 15-17.

Following successful showings at the regional and state festival, OVUHS was chosen by the Vermont Drama Council as one of two representatives for the state to the New England festival. Otter Valley performs “The Last Firefly,” a mythical adventure following Boom, the son of Thunder, who must take on the forces of nature

in a journey of self-discovery and finding inner-strength.

“The festival is an opportunity to connect high school thespians across New England in a shared sense of community and art, and we hope Otter Valley will feel at home in the Ocean State,” said Richard Sylvia, RITEA President.

OVUHS will perform on Tuesday, April 16, at 10:10 a.m.

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April 11, 2019 Elisa Van Duyne corrects a student’s foot and leg position in posse during the first session of Spotlight Vermont dance classes held at the Vergennes Opera House. A spring session of dance and musical theater begins April 16.

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Spotlight shines on youngsters in Vergennes

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ou just never know when you’ll catch the theater bug. For Elisa Van Duyne it happened when she was in third grade.

“My mom took me to see Bob Fosse’s ‘Dancing’ — it was my first Broadway show,” remembered Van Duyne, who’d been dancing since she was four and a half. “After the show, I remember, I turned to my mom and said: ‘Mom, I’m going to be on that stage someday.’”

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And sure enough, she was.

More than once too. Van Duyne was in four Broadway shows over nine years. She also played in 62 musicals for Regional and Stock theater; choreographed shows professionally in Montana, New Jersey, Florida and Toronto; went on national and European tours; was filmed on TV shows like “The Today Show,” “The David Letterman Show” and “As the World Turns.” The list goes on… To put it simply, Van Dunne “made it.”

What’s it like?

“Oh my God, it’s amazing,” she said in a recent

interview. “It’s a thrill — a real dream come true. From 2001-2005, when I played in my first Broadway show, ‘42nd Street,’ I was in this awesome, elite community; we got to see other Broadway shows for free, we’d go out between shows, meet directors, I’d buy these fancy dresses and wear them to opening, preview and Christmas parties for different shows… it was glamorous.”

Hard work too. Van Duyne was only on stage 25-30 hours a week, which may seem like a breeze, but the competition is fierce. So she, like all the other actors, would take voice, dance SEE SPOTLIGHT ON PAGE 3

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Compass Center hosts Human Connection art

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hildren have been getting a chance to showcase their artistic side while helping them connect with their peers through “Human Connection,” a project at the Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon. Over the past three weeks, the center welcomed an estimated 600 children and young adults to create three-dimensional sculptures that involved the Human Connection theme.

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Leading up to the project, students all over the district discussed the theme and worked out plans for how they wanted to signify the way humans connect.

“The goal of this project is to get the students to learn to collaborate, not only with each other, but with students from around the district to make one complete project” said John Brodowski, art teacher at Neshobe Elementary School in Brandon.

From left, Ethan Dukette, Amelia Whitney, and Hannah Desabrais work together to create a face for the Human Connections art project at the Compass Center.

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During the first day of the project on March 18, fifth-grade students from Neshobe Elementary came to the center to see those ideas spring to life. Separated into three groups, they started making their sculptures with wire.

“We have had a lot of help from the community to get this project underway,” Brodowski said.

“Hays Pallets donated pallets to work on, Green Mountain Power donated all the wire, Nifty Thrifty pitched in as did the Compass Center and others.”

Led by Otter Valley Union High School art students, who helped the younger children get started, the three groups quickly went to work.

One group was charged with making hands, while another did eyes. The third group started working on faces. When Brodowski informed them they could make their sculptures on a larger scale, they outlined one of their classmates on the floor and started making a whole person.

“We have been studying Alexander Calder and his mobiles and wire sculptures,” Brodowski said. “The students all had a plan on how they would make a part of the human body that helps us connect.”

This is not the first mass art project the Compass Center has organized. Two years ago they ran an art workshop involving 1,000 children using Sumi ink to decorate the walls of the center.

Materials for the wire sculptures lay out on the table ready for more than 600 youths to come create art at the Compass Music and Arts Center in Brandon.

Liliana Mahoney shows off the iris she made for the human eye art project her group made.

“It was a thousand children using their hands to put ink everywhere,” Compass Center Director Edna Sutton said. “We were washing hands for days.”

lit the sculptures with different colors and displayed their shadows on the wall while music was played. The event was open to the public and all the children returned to see the finished project.

Artists from the Brandon Artists Guild were on hand for the Human Connection kickoff to give pointers or simply hold pieces of wire while the young artists collaborated on their designs. When they finished for the day, they hung their completed sculptures from the ceiling in the center.

Lothrop and Barstow elementary schools sent their own groups of students to the center on alternating days. After all 49 groups of five children each went through the process, the art was scheduled to be presented together beginning on Wednesday, April 10. Projectors

The Neshobe students on the first day of the project seemed to be enjoying themselves, each for a different reason. One student just liked getting out of the classroom, while another liked getting to make stuff. One had simpler reasons to enjoy her work.

“I like that they let us use these pliers,” Lilliana Mahoney said as she used a pair of needle nose pliers to snip off a piece of wire.

“Because I got bit by a horse yesterday and my fingers are sore.”

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“When you’re hot you’re hot, and then you have to move on to the next thing,” said Van Dunne, who moved with her husband (Vergennes Union High and University of Vermont grad Jeremy Palmer) and their two sons from New York to Monkton in the fall. “The reality is that now, as a Caucasian woman in her 40s, there aren’t a lot of jobs for me in New York City.”

So what’s a girl with a theater and dance bug gonna do here in Addison County?

Why teach a musical theater and dance class for kids, why not?

Enter (stage left) Jen Barden, owner of Spotlight Vermont. Some of us (ahem, like me) might remember Barden (formerly Laberge) when she used to teach dance for the Middlebury Rec Department back in the early ’90s. (I took jazz and tap, by the way.)

“I had lived in Vergennes for a year, and had always thought it would be fun to start dance classes there,” said Barden, who runs her performing arts school out of a studio in South Burlington; classes are also held at Middlebury Fitness. “When I met Elisa over the summer, I knew I had the right person to start classes in Vergennes.”

The first classes were held at the Vergennes Opera House in February, and 48 students turned up.

“We were just testing the waters,” Barden said. “And we’ve received so much great feedback. We’re hoping to make it a regular thing in the fall.”

The next Spotlight Vermont sessions in Vergennes start on April 16 and run Tuesdays through May 28. Classes include ballet, creative movement and musical theater (Broadway Jr., and Broadway for Teens), for ages 3 1/2 to 18 years old.

“The best way to ensure the sustainability of an arts center like the Vergennes Opera House is to create opportunities for the young community to be engaged in the arts center,” said Gerianne Smart, president of the Friends of the Vergennes Opera House. “Having Spotlight Vermont in our space working with kids ages 3 through high school is a bull’s-eye for our mission… These classes filled a need we didn’t even know that we had. I can see this being something that continues on.”

“The arts community has been fantastic here,” Van Duyne added. “Gerianne and the Vergennes Opera House have been so supportive of bringing more cultural performance opportunities to our community.”

Still… it’s not quite the same as Broadway.

“It’s been a culture shift for sure,” said Van Duyne, who’s hung up those glamorous dresses and pulled on some mud boots.

“I’m missing the cultural diversity of the city.

Here, you’re definitely held accountable for your actions — like your hairdresser’s daughter is also your baby sitter… It’s a very good life lesson.”

Interested in learning from Van Duyne?

Sign up for the spring session now at spotlightvermont.com, call (802) 865-7626 or email info@spotlightvermont.com.

Broadway professional Elisa Van Duyne, who recently moved from New York to Monkton, poses with one of her first classes at Vergennes Opera House in March. She will be teaching ballet, creative movement and musical theater classes in Vergennes beginning on April 16.

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OUT OF TOWN Button expo and education day to be held in Shelburne

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ermont’s only statewide button collectors club, the Verd Mont Button Club, will be holding a Button Exhibition and Education Day at the Shelburne United Methodist Church from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. on Saturday, April 13.

That’s right, a button club.

‘She Paints Like a Man’ CURATOR OFFERS LECTURE AT SHELBURN’S PIZZAGALLI CENTER This Wednesday, head up to Shelburne to listen to a lecture led by Assistant Curator Carolyn Bauer about the astonishing life and work of one of art history’s most celebrated and talented [female] artists: Rosa Boneur. “She Paints Like A Man: The Radical Art and Life of Rosa Boneur” will take place April 17, from 3-4 p.m. at the Pizzagalli Center for Art and Education in Shelburne. The talk will feature two extraordinary paintings from Shelburne Museum’s permanent collection — Sheep (c. 1860) and Foraging Party: Wild Boars in Fountainebleau Forest (1876). Free with museum admission. Pre-registration not required but appreciated. For more info visit shelburnemuseum.org.

Come and learn about collecting clothing buttons, military and transportation buttons, view button exhibits, button identification, research books, videos, craft ideas and more. Learn about the Verd Mont Button Club, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary in 2019.

The expo is partially sponsored by a grant from the National Button Society. Bring in a favorite button or two to have our members identify them to you.

Refreshments will be served. Free and open to all.

For more information find Verd Mont Button Club on Facebook, or contact Amy Larson (802) 775-3639, email AVTLARS@msn.com; or Susan Peden (802) 8972001, email susanbpeden@yahoo.com.

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IN TOWN Discover Michelangelo’s secret code at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury “The Michelangelo Code: Lost Secrets of the Sistine Chapel,” a fascinating investigation of one of the most famous paintings in the world, will screen at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater on Wednesday, April 17, as part of the Great Art Wednesdays series.

The largest and arguably most famous painting in the world, the “Sistine Ceiling” has invited years of admiration and wonder. But the hidden meaning behind Michelangelo’s masterpiece has eluded over 500 years of investigation and speculation. Now, British art critic Waldemar Januszczak has finally discovered what the great painting has been trying to tell us.

Musicians Timothy Cummings, Alex Kehler and Jeremiah McLane will play traditional folk dance music at Fest Noz this Sunday, April 14, 4-7 p.m., at Tourterelle.

Fest Noz brings Celtic tradition to New Haven

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his Sunday, April 14, there’s gonna be a big party in New Haven that you won’t want to miss. It’s called Fest Noz (or Breton Night Festival), and it’s happening from 4-7 p.m. at Tourterelle in New Haven.

Kehler — the trio goes by the band name Triton. The folk dances will be called by Mary Wesley.

What is Fest Noz?

This isn’t the first time Fest Noz has been celebrated in Addison County. There was one held at Tourterelle in late-August 2018, and another at Middlebury College this past November.

It’s a joyful gathering following the centuries-old tradition from Brittany, the Celtic region of northwestern France.

The Breton Fest Noz is related to the ceilidh and is now a designated UNESCO treasure.

“In many ways this event could be summed up as “Scotland meets France’” explained bagpiper Timothy Cummings, who will be playing traditional dance music with Jeremiah McLane and Alex

Add to this crepes and cider from Shacksbury and it’s sure to be a delicious evening.

Join in for this third celebration on April 14. General admission $10, add crêpe and cider for $25 (tickets at the door); children under 10 are welcome for free.

For more info call Tourterelle at (802) 453-6309.

Granted unparalleled access to the Sistine Chapel by the Vatican, Januszczak works out the secret code that Michelangelo had hidden in the ceiling, overturns the myths surrounding the masterpiece, and presents an exciting new theory involving the Branch Davidians of Waco, two della Rovere Popes, a Vatican spin doctor, and an intensely religious artist by the name of Michelangelo Buonarroti. This film is full of exclusive new footage of the world’s greatest piece of art and the results of Januszczak’s research will amaze you.

Come see for yourself on Wednesday, at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Tickets ($13 / $8) are available and can be purchased at the THT box office, by phone at (802) 388-9222 or online at townhalltheater.org.

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NER PRESENTS THREE NEW WRITERS On Thursday, April 18, New England Review presents The Vermont Book Shop, a reading at The Vermont Middlebury Book Shop with three fiction writers: Brad Felver, whose debut collection of stories, “The Dogs of Detroit,” won the 2018 Drue Heinz Literature Prize; David Moats, a well-known Vermont journalist whose new fiction appears in the current issue of NER; and Kylie Winger, a Middlebury College senior and Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference alum.

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The reading will begin at 7 p.m. at The Vermont Book Shop, 38 Main Street, Middlebury. Light refreshments will be served. The event is free and open to the public.

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CALENDAR

ANTIQUES

ANTIQUE APPRAISAL DAY IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 13, 1-4 p.m., The Brandon Museum at the Stephen Douglas Birthplace, 4 Grove St. Come and learn the current market value of treasures, whether antique or collectible. Cost is $6 per item, 3 for $15.

DANCE

CONTRA DANCE IN CORNWALL. Saturday, April 13, 7-9:30 p.m., Cornwall Town Hall, Route 30.

Featuring Dana Dwinell-Yardley calling to live banjo and fiddle music by Red Dog Riley. $510/person (sliding scale). All are welcome. No experience or partner necessary. Questions?

802-462-3722.

FACULTY DANCE CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 18, 7:30 p.m., Dance Theater, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. On one night only, the Middlebury College Dance Program offers samples of faculty choreography, featuring works by Karima Borni, Christal Brown, Dante Brown, Laurel Jenkins, and Lida Winfield.

Tickets: $15 Public/$12 Midd ID holders/$8 Youth/$6 Midd students. More info at 802-4433168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

ELDERLY SERVICES SWING DANCE BENEFIT IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. Dance the night away to The Sound Investment big band and its classic swing repertoire — Ellington, Basie, the Dorsey Brothers and more while helping raise funds for Elderly Services. Doors open at 7 p.m.

Music starts at 7:30 p.m. Snacks and a cash bar available. Tickets $15 general/$10 students, with added $1 preservation fee, available at townhalltheater.org.

FILM

“ASH IS PUREST WHITE” (ORIGINAL TITLE “JIANG HU ER NÜ”) ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 13, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. Qiao is in love with Bin, a local mobster. During a fight between rival gangs, she fires a gun to protect him. Qiao gets five years in prison for this act of loyalty.

Upon her release, she goes looking for Bin to pick up where they left off. Free.

“FACES/PLACES” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Wednesday, April 17, 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. *THIS FILM REPLACES “THE MICHELANGELO CODE”* “Faces/ Places” celebrates filmmaker Agnès Varda, a

leading figure of the French New Wave. In this documentary/road movie, French photographer and muralist JR joins Varda on a journey around the villages of France meeting locals, learning their stories and producing epic-size portraits of them. Tickets $13/$8 students, available at townhalltheater.org, at 802-382-9222, at the THT box office Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m., or at the door one hour before show time.

“MUSEO” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m., Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. On a fateful Christmas Eve in Mexico City, two unremarkable men decide it’s finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history. The magnitude of the theft exceeds the amateur thieves’ expectations, and by the very next morning they realize, too late, the full scope and implications of their actions. Inspired by true events. Winner of the Best Screenplay award at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival. The latest installment of the MNFF Winter Screening Series. Tickets $13.

“DOGMAN” ON SCREEN IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 20, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium, 356 College St. In a seaside village on the outskirts of an Italian city, where the only law seems to be survival of the fittest, Marcello is a slight, mild-mannered man who divides his days between working at his modest dog grooming salon, caring for his daughter Alida, and being coerced into the petty criminal schemes of the local bully Simoncino, an ex-boxer who terrorizes the neighborhood. Free.

JOIN IN

FEST NOZ IN NEW HAVEN. Sunday, April 14, 4-7 p.m., Tourterelle, 3629 Ethan Allen Hwy. Experience the centuries-old tradition from Brittany, the Celtic region of northwestern France.

The Breton ‘Fest Noz’ is related to the ceilidh and is now a designated UNESCO treasure. Join dance instructor Mary Wesley, ‘Triton’ musicians Timothy Cummings, Jeremiah McLane, and Alex Kehler, and the Tourterelle team for this soirée.

All ages and levels of experience are welcome.

Tickets $10 general admission, includes music and dance/$25 general admission with a crêpe and cider.

LECTURES & LEARNING

PARKER MERRILL SPEECH COMPETITION: GRAND CHAMPIONSHIP IN MIDDLEBURY. Tuesday, April 16, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. In a tradition dating

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back to 1825, six student speakers will compete for the title of Middlebury Speaker of the Year and a top prize of $500. Free. More info at 802-4433168 or middlebury.edu/arts.

“SOUP TO NUTS: AN ECCENTRIC HISTORY OF FOOD” IN NEW HAVEN. Wednesday, April 17, 7 p.m., New Haven Town Offices, 78 North St. Presented by writer Rebecca Rupp, this talk let attendees find out about the rocky evolution of table manners, the not-so-welcome invention of the fork, the awful advent of portable soup, and the surprising benefits of family dinners – plus some catchy info on seasonal foods.

MUSIC

THE ADDISON STRING QUARTET IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 11, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 3 Main St. The quartet features Carol Harden, Emily Sunderman, Joy Pile and Tom Dunne. All are welcome. Feel free to bring a lunch. Light refreshments provided.

BLUEBRASS! IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., in the Bistro, EastView at Middlebury, 100 EastView Ter. Margie Beckoff plays a 32 string electric harp and Jim Morse plays a flugelhorn. Their repertoire consists of songs from the Great American Songbook, some pop tunes, some originals and some traditional Celtic songs. They don’t play bluegrass, but their duo name, BlueBrass!, does come from when someone asked Jim what they play and he answered, “BlueBrass!” Free and open to the public.

THE CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Professor of Music Larry Hamberlin will offer a pre-concert lecture at 6:30 p.m. Free.

THE HORSE TRADERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 13, 5-9 p.m., Notte, 86 Main St. The Horse Traders and Friends of Middlebury Hockey host a celebration and fundraising night for Memorial Sports Center. Doors at 5 p.m., music starts at 6:30 p.m. Tickets $15 at the door. Raffle Tickets $10 per ticket or five for $40, available at Forth n’ Goal Sports, Two Brothers Tavern, and Friends of Middlebury Hockey at fomh@memorialsportscenter.org. More info and reservations contact Notte at 802-989-7351.

SNAKE MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Snake Mountain Bluegrass

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easily combines the best of great traditional and modern bluegrass. With harmonies and songs that vary in tempo from “breakdown” to ballad, this popular Addison County group consistently puts on an authentic and enjoyable show for everyone. Concert tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info at 802-247-4295 or e-mail info@ brandon-music.net.

THE MICHELE FAY BAND IN LINCOLN. Saturday April 13, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. Come here the band perform original and Americana music for the Burnham Music Series.

Tickets $10 for adults/kids and teens free.

Refreshments served. More info at 802-388-6863.

BLUEBRASS! IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek, 350 Lodge Rd. Margie Bekoff (Harp) and Jim Morse (Flugelhorn) have been demonstrating the seemingly unlikely pairing of harp and horn for the past few years.

They play a variety of genres of music including Jazz, Blues, Pop and Celtic tunes, creating their own arrangements to complement their instruments. Free, open to the public and fully accessible. RSVP to Pat Ryan at 802-388-1220 or pryan@residenceottercreek.com.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND ENSEMBLE PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 14, 4-5 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. Come hear the ensemble’s spring concert, featuring exciting programmatic works such as The Lord of the Rings (arr. P. Lavender), and Mt. Everest (R. Galante), as well as rich standards such as Gordon Jacob’s William Byrd Suite.

Concert tickets $20. Pre-concert dinner available for $25. Reservations required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. More info contact Edna at 802-247-4295 or info@ brandon-music.net.

POETRY

POETRY PUBLISHING WORKSHOP IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 18, 1-3 p.m., Community Room, Ilsley Public Library, 75 Main St. Otter Creek Poetry Workshop and Ilsley Library welcome Trisha Knoll, a widely published poet whose latest book is “How I Learned to Be White” (Antrim House, 2018). Knoll will be giving a workshop on publishing poetry.

THEATER

“ADA AND THE ENGINE” ON STAGE IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 11, Friday, April 12, and Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m.,Town Hall Theater, 68 S. Pleasant St. As

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the British Industrial Revolution dawns, young Ada Byron Lovelace (daughter of the flamboyant and notorious Lord Byron) sees the boundless creative potential in the “analytic engines” of her friend and soul-mate, Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. Jane Austen meets Steve Jobs in this poignant pre-tech romance heralding the computer age. General admission $25/students $12, available at 802-382-9222 or townhalltheater.org. Repeats April 12, 13 and 14.

“THE TOWER” ON STAGE IN RIPTON. Friday, April 12, Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., Ripton town firehouse, 25 Dugway Rd. Come see the North Branch School’s annual play, created by the students and reflecting their stories and poetry, current political and cultural events, experiences from the school year, individual musical talents, and topics the class studied to create an original theatrical production. Tickets $7. Open to the public and accessible.

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ORGELGEBET (ORGAN PRAYERS) IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 18, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 3 Main St. Come hear the eighth annual presentation of the events of Holy Week, as interpreted by organ composers from the Renaissance to the present.

All are welcome. Feel free to bring a lunch. Light refreshments provided.

THE MAMMALS IN CONCERT IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 19, 7:30 p.m., Robison Hall, Mahaney Arts Center, 72 Porter Field Rd. These Indie-roots trailblazers are known for just the right amount of guitar grit, soothing harmony, barn-burning fiddle, retro grooves, and storytelling savvy. They’re equal parts musicians and activists. Their campus show will include selections from newest album “Sunshiner,” which highlights issues surrounding climate change. Free. More info at 802-443-3168 or middlebury.edu/arts PHIL HENRY AND THE NEWS FEED IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 20, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music, 62 Country Club Rd. Phil Henry is an accomplished musician who loves to create beautiful chords and a big acoustic sound. Henry performs with his new ensemble, Phil Henry & The News Feed.

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DANCE

Faculty Dance Concert to premiere new work

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he Middlebury College Dance Program offers samples of faculty choreography on Thursday, April 18, 2019, at 7:30 p.m., in the Dance Theatre of the Mahaney Arts Center. This year’s new works from Karima Borni, Christal Brown, Dante Brown and Lida Winfield offer a wide range of aesthetics and artistic voices, representing the breadth and depth of the College’s resident dance scholars and creators.

The evening launches with a rare improvisational performance by the faculty, inviting the viewer to witness the collaborative problem solving of composing a dance before their eyes. Also improvising with the ensemble are composer and Music Department faculty member Matthew Evans Taylor and lighting designer Jennifer Ponder.

The revelations continue with four premieres created in collaboration with students, each tailored to the unique and individual movement style of the performers. Additional lighting design is contributed by New York transplant Joe Cabrera. The evening culminates with a new duet, “Same and Different,” devised and performed by Brown and Winfield, two artists who use humor and storytelling to create an instant rapport, transporting the audience into their lived experience, and challenging the viewer to embrace their frank realness.

Tickets are $15 for the general public; $12 for Middlebury College faculty, staff, alumni, emeriti, and other ID card holders; $8 for youth; and $6 for Middlebury College students. For more information, or to purchase tickets, call (802) 443-MIDD (6433) or visit go.middlebury.edu/arts.

Lida Winfield, top left, Christal Brown, top right, Dante Brown, bottom left, and Karima Borni, bottom right, will perform samples of choreography from their new works on Thursday, April 18, at 7:30 p.m., in the Dance Theatre of the Mahaney Arts Center.

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MUSIC Michele Fay Band set to groove at Burnham Hall

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he Michele Fay Band will be performing for the Burnham Music series at Burnham Hall, 52 River Rd. in Lincoln, this Saturday, April 13, at 7:30 p.m. The band features original and Americana music that brings a comfortable groove of folk, swing and bluegrass-influenced songs.

Fay’s heart-felt lyrics are central to the ensemble, as she sings with a crystal clear, authentic voice. She’s been singing with her guitar and composing songs for decades, originally inspired by the early sounds of Emmy Lou Harris and Claire Lynch. Her “crack backing band,” adds to the charm and sincerity of these songs without detracting from their earnest messages.

The band’s repertoire provides a mix of understated originals and well-placed traditional covers, played and sung with relaxed polish, personality and taste.

Kalev Freeman, on fiddle, adds a magical, effervescent sound. Michael Santosusso, on upright bass, (Smokin’ Grass, Big Spike, Hot Pickin’ Party) adds dynamic beat and perfectly matched harmonies. Fay’s husband, Tim Price, contributes accomplished, melodic instrumentals on mandolin, electric guitar, and acoustic guitar.

Performances by the Michelle Fay Band are both energetic and unpretentious, appealing

The Michele Fay Band will bring their energetic groove of folk, swing and bluegrass to the Burnham Hall on Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m.

to a wide range of audience. Its growing musicianship is increasingly being well received throughout the region as it continues to gather its well-deserved recognition.

live music THE ADDISON STRING QUARTET IN MIDDLEBURY. Thursday, April 11, 12:15-12:45 p.m., St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church.

THE CASTALIAN STRING QUARTET IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 12, 7:30 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

BLUEBRASS IN MIDDLEBURY. Friday, April 12, 3:30-4:30 p.m., EastView at Middlebury.

THE HORSE TRADERS IN MIDDLEBURY. Saturday, April 13, 5-9 p.m., Notte.

SNAKE MOUNTAIN BLUEGRASS IN BRANDON. Saturday, April 13, 7:30 p.m., Brandon Music.

THE MICHELE FAY BAND IN LINCOLN. Saturday April 13, 7:30 p.m., Burnham Hall.

BLUEBRASS! in Middlebury. Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m., The Residence at Otter Creek.

MIDDLEBURY COMMUNITY WIND ENSEMBLE PERFORMS IN MIDDLEBURY. Sunday, April 14, 4-5 p.m., Mahaney Arts Center.

Ticket’s to Saturdays gig are $10 for adults, teens and kids free. Refreshments will be served. For more info, call (802) 388-6863.

Snake Mountain Bluegrass brings tunes to Brandon On Saturday, April 13, Brandon Music welcomes back the ever-popular Snake Mountain Bluegrass. Enjoyed by audiences for their toe tapping tunes Snake Mountain combines the best of modern and traditional bluegrass with harmonies and songs that vary in tempo from “breakdown” to ballad. Retired Middlebury College Professor, Gregg Humphrey (guitar and vocals), and Middlebury construction company owner, Mike Connor (banjo and vocals), formed Snake Mountain Bluegrass about 25 years ago. They are joined by Earle Provin (mandolin and resophonic guitar) and Jacob Blumberg (bass).

Tickets are $20 with a pre-concert dinner available for an $25. Reservations are required for dinner and recommended for the show. Venue is BYOB. Call (802) 2474295 or email info@brandon-music.net for reservations or more information.

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T HEATER

OWN HALL

Merchants Row, Middlebury, VT Tickets: 802-382-9222 www.townhalltheater.org Preservation Fee: $1-$2 per ticket

Thu–Sat 4/11 – 13 @ 7:30pm; Sun 4/14 @ 2pm $25/$12 Students

ADA AND THE ENGINE

PRESENTED BY MIDDLEBURY ACTORS WORKSHOP

At the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, Ada Byron Lovelace (Lord Byron’s daughter) adores Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer. In this story of love and edgy aspirations Ada envisions a future where art and information converge. Post-show talk with Middlebury Professor of Mathematics, Michael Olinick on 4/14 after the 2pm performance.

Wed 4/17 11am & 7pm $13/$8 Students GREAT ART WEDNESDAYS

FACES/PLACES

Agnès Varda, a leading figure of the French New Wave passed away at 90 years old in March. In this Oscar-nominated documentary/road movie Varda collaborates with 33 year-old French photographer, muralist, and co-director JR. Together they travel through French villages meeting locals, learning their stories, and producing epic-size portraits/murals.

Thu 4/18 7pm $13 MNFF WINTER/SPRING SCREENING SERIES

MUSEO

Inspired by Mexico’s infamous 1985 museum heist, and starring Gael Garcia Bernal as the underachieving mastermind of this audacious theft, Museo is “fabulously entertaining” and “made of dazzle and wit and melancholy.” The same Variety review notes that director Alonso Ruizpalacios is “an exciting talent” who made a film in which “every shot feels novel.”

Sat 4/20 7:30pm $15/$10 Students SWING DANCE WITH

SOUND INVESTMENT JAZZ ENSEMBLE

The joint will be jumpin’ when Middlebury’s big band returns to THT for a sparkling evening of great music and swingin’ dance moves – with some community swing dance groups showing off their steps! This special evening honors the work of Project Independence/Elderly Services.

Now Through 5/4 in the Jackson Gallery

ERIC NELSON

PHOTOGRAPHS OF VERMONT LANDSCAPES & PATTERNS IN NATURE

Using landscapes The Middlebury artist captures images whose common themes are pattern, rhythm, and the interaction of color and light in nature.

Raffle Drawing: Thu 5/9 5:30-7:30pm $5 per/$20 for 5 tickets

A TOAST TO THE ARTS RAFFLE

Win a stunning piece of wearable art from Raintree Handcrafted Fine Jewelry! One exceptional custom ring will be raffled off May 9th, as part of A Toast to the Arts fundraiser for THT. Winners need not be present. Raffle tickets are now available at the Box Office, Mon-Sat/12-5pm, and online at: townhalltheater.org.

FIND OUT WHAT TO SEE AND WHERE TO SEE IT. LOOK HERE EVERY THURSDAY.

EXHIBITS 50/50: FIFTY YEARS OF COLLECTING FOR MIDDLEBURY. On view Jan. 25-Aug. 11, featuring one piece of art from every year Middlebury College has formally been acquiring art for its permanent collection. Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

ALTERED REALITIES. On view April 11-May 4, featuring approximately 35 images for exhibition in the gallery, and 35 for our Online Gallery Annex selected by photographer Brooke Shaden. PhotoPlace Gallery, 3 Park Street, Middlebury. (802) 388-4500 or photos@photoplacegallery.com.

ART OF THE EARTH. On view March 1-April 30, featuring BAG artists take on the Earth, including pottery by guest artist Amanda Ann Palmer. This is part of a series of themed exhibits honoring our planet and celebrating the BAG’s 20th anniversary. The Brandon Artists Guild, 7 Center Street, Brandon. (802) 247-4956 or brandonartistsguild.org.

ERIC NELSON PHOTOGRAPHY. On view March 29-May 5, featuring images whose common themes are pattern, rhythm, and the interaction of color and light in nature. Jackson Gallery at Town Hall Theater, Middlebury. (802) 382-9222 or townhalltheater.org.

FREE & SAFE, IN NEW ENGLAND. A permanent exhibition at the Rokeby Museum that addresses slavery, abolition, and the Underground Railroad.

Rokeby Museum, 4334 Route 7, Ferrisburgh. (802) 877-3406 or rokeby.org.

ICE SHANTIES: FISHING, PEOPLE & CULTURE. On view Feb. 15 through the summer, featuring the structures, people and culture of ice fishing seen through the lens of Vermont-based Colombian photographer Federico Pardo — with audio reflections from the shanty owners drawn from interviews conducted by the Vermont Folklife Center. Vermont Folklife Center, 88 Main St., Middlebury. (802) 388-4964 or vermontfolklifecenter.org.

KEEP IT SIMPLE. On view April 4-May 31, featuring paintings with one subject by Salisbury artist and cheese maker Hannah Sessions. An opening reception will be held on April 19, from 5-8 p.m. During the opening reception Sessions will speak about her process and this body of work.

Greg Bernhard, her husband and co-owner of Blue Ledge Farm, will read excerpts from his new poetry anthology “Goats & Those Who Live By Them.” Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery, 221 Main St., Vergennes. (802) 877-2173 or northerndaughters.com.

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION. On view Jan. 8-April 28, featuring more than 30 works from the museum’s modern and contemporary collections, including recent video works by William Kentridge, Tracey Moffatt, and the Swiss team of Peter Fischli and David Weiss. Other artists represented include Andrew Lenaghan, Banksy, Damian Hirst, Shazia Sikander, Dale Chihuly, Elizabeth Catlett, Andy Warhol, Judy Chicago, Christian Marclay, Kara Walker, and Dennis Byng. Middlebury College Museum of Art at Mahaney Center for the Arts, Route 30, Middlebury. (802) 443-5007 or museum.middlebury.edu.

POETRY ON AND OFF THE PAGE. On view through the summer, featuring “Object Poems” by Vermont-based poet and translator, Jody Gladding along with fine press poetry broadsides and manuscripts by poets such as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, and William Carlos Williams. Middlebury College Special Collections, Atrium, Lower Level, and Special Collections, Davis Family Library. (802) 443-3028.

THE LANGUAGE OF ART. On view through April, this group exhibition combines both fine art and poetry. Featuring the work of six artist across both Middlebury galleries. Edgewater Gallery at the Falls, 1 Mill St., Middlebury. (802) 458-0098. Edgewater Gallery on the Green, 6 Merchants Row, Middlebury. (802) 989-7419 or edgewatergallery.com.

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EXHIBITS Artist ‘keeps it simple’ for exhibit in Vergennes

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annah Sessions has a new exhibit on view at Northern Daughters Fine Art Gallery on Main Street in Vergennes. “Keep it Simple,” a solo exhibit of new work from Sessions, will be on view April 4-May 31, with an opening reception on April 19, from 5-8 p.m. During the opening reception Sessions will speak about her process and this body of work. Greg Bernhard, her husband and co-owner of Blue Ledge Farm, will read excerpts from his new poetry anthology “Goats & Those Who Live By Them.”

“For this show I have focused largely on work which highlights one subject alone,” Sessions explained. “The backgrounds are blurred or simplified, or sometimes just a solid color. By ‘keep(ing) it simple’ this has been a great exercise in engagement and attention.

Sometimes I feel the need to cover the whole canvas with busy-ness, information, and background ‘noise,’ just as we feel the need to fill every nook and cranny of our lives with stuff and activity. Sometimes this works, but I have held myself back for this body of work; I have simplified.

“For this collection, I have allowed each image to be ‘enough,’ and it has been more fun than I ever could have anticipated,” added Sessions, who also runs Blue Ledge Farm, established in 2000, in Salisbury with her husband. “As a farmer, parent, entrepreneur and artist I have a busy life. This show has given me the opportunity to realize that focusing on one thing at a time (in art and in life) is enough; in fact, it is a breath of fresh air! It takes courage to pursue one idea, and courage to not say too much. For this collection I asked myself ‘what is the minimum I can say?’ to let the moment speak for itself and the viewer have their own

“Big Picture Farm Moment” by Hannah Sessions, oil on canvas, 18” x 24”. Available at Northern Daughters Gallery or northerndaughters.com.

interpretations. I hope it is a chance to allow our eyes to rest on open space, to take time to notice some simple marks, simple moments and enjoy a lively respite.”

“It is always an honor to have Hannah’s work in the gallery in part because her relationship to her subject is so clear,” said gallery co-owner Sophie Pickens. “She talks about how she lives amongst her muses, and that authenticity shows in her paintings.”

“Hannah took the opportunity of a solo exhibit to explore this process of simplification and focus, and the product is lovely,” added gallery co-owner Justine Jackson. “Her works are painted as the eye sees, focused on one thing at a time, with everything else slightly blurred or abstracted. In this way the viewer is able to experience the awe of that moment.”

For more information contact info@ northerndaughters.com or (802) 877-2173.

Call for entries in Art on Main’s Community Art Show Art on Main in Bristol will once again host their adult Community Art Show. This year’s theme will be “Home.” Addison County residents are invited to participate and share their artful endeavors with their friends and neighbors.

The exhibit will take place from June 7 to early July and will hang on the walls of both Art on Main and the Walkover Gallery. Artists will be limited to one piece unless they are working on a small scale then we can discuss

multiples. A short statement addressing the theme as well as pertinent details on the piece submitted must accompany the submissions.

Work will be accepted on a first come basis, so let Art on Main know as soon as you can what you are planning. Work must be delivered to Art on Main by May 28.

An opening reception will be held on June 7,

from 5-7 p.m. All are welcome. For more info call (802) 453-4032 or stop by the gallery.

submit your art Addison County residents are invited to submit art to the Adult Community Art Show at Art on Main in Bristol. Art is due to the gallery by May 28. The exhibit will be on view June 7 through early July.

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FILM New cash prize for ‘Best Vermont-Made Film’

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he Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival recently announced the addition of a new cash prize to the array of awards presented annually at MNFF’s August festival. Thanks to the generosity of the Shouldice family, prominent lifelong residents of Vermont, MNFF will present the Shouldice Family Prize for Best Vermont-Made Film to either a short or feature film created in Vermont. The Shouldice Family Prize, like others given to winning MNFF filmmakers, is valued at $1,000. The inaugural presentation of this prize will take place at the

Closing Ceremonies of the 5th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival on Sunday, Aug. 25.

“The Shouldice family members have been foundational supporters of MNFF since the very inception of the festival five years ago,” noted Lloyd Komesar, MNFF Producer. “We are so delighted that the family has increased its support to a whole new level with this substantial cash prize, named in their honor.

The festival has worked hard to provide diverse opportunities for new filmmakers and creating a Vermont-centric prize like this is a major milestone in our development. We hope that the Shouldice Family Prize will be a significant incentive for Vermont filmmakers, whether they’ve created a short or a feature, to put their films in consideration at MNFF.” Speaking for the family, Carole Shouldice said that “the family was proud to underwrite this new prize at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival. The Shouldice family has been very active in support of the Fest since Lloyd was first inspired to found this great event. My

husband Bill and our daughter Heather were involved early on in securing sponsors, and our son Bill, through his leadership of the Vermont Teddy Bear Company, collaborated with Lloyd on the design and build of the iconic VTeddy Awards that Festival winners receive. So, we are very excited about presenting the Shouldice Family Prize in celebration of the Best VermontMade Film at MNFF this August. We all think this is a wonderful event.”

The MNFF was formed to support, promote and showcase the dynamic and imaginative efforts of first and second time filmmakers from around the world. The bedrock commitment at MNFF is to offer a level playing field to new and emerging voices in independent filmmaking, to give festival audiences an opportunity to discover fresh and engaging talent and to give filmmakers a chance to be discovered in a setting that is all about their work, from start to finish. All genres are welcome at MNFF including narrative, documentary, animation, experimental and virtual reality. The festival takes place in scenic Middlebury, in late August each year. The 5th Annual festival will roll out Aug. 22-25 this year. For further information, contact info@middfilmfest.org.

Catch ‘Museo’ at Town Hall Theater The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival is delighted to present the rollicking narrative drama “Museo” on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m., as its featured April film for the MNFF 2018/19 Winter/Spring Screening Series at Town Hall Theater in Middlebury.

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Inspired by true events, and shot on neverbefore filmed locations in Mexico, “Museo” is a sardonic, cautionary tale that underscores the old adage, you don’t know what you have until you lose it. Well into their 30s, Juan Nuñez (Gael García Bernal) and Benjamín Wilson (Leonardo Ortizgris) still can’t seem to finish veterinary school or leave their parents’ homes. Instead, they wallow in comfortable limbo in the district of Satelite, Mexico City’s version of an American suburb. On a fateful 1985 Christmas Eve, however, they decide it’s finally time to distinguish themselves by executing the most infamous cultural artifacts heist in all of Mexican history, looting the country’s iconic National Museum of Anthropology. Directed by rising Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios, Museo is a very rich dramatic experience and winner of the prestigious Silver Bear Award at the 2018 Berlin International Film Festival.

“Museo” will screen at Middlebury’s Town Hall Theater, presented by the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival, on Thursday, April 18, at 7 p.m.

This is part of the MNFF 2018/19 Winter/Spring Screening Series, which concludes in May.

Catch “Museo” at Town Hall Theater on Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m. Tickets are $13 and available at the Town Hall Theater Box Office, by phone at (802) 382-9222 or online at townhalltheater.org/calendar-and-tickets.

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the movie THE AFTERMATH — RUNNING TIME: 1:49 — RATING: R The bones of “The Aftermath” are solid. The setting — Hamburg in ashes after World War II — is haunting. The interpretation by the cast is first rate.

Why then does the film become a little ordinary during its last third?

The story opens with Rachel (Keira Knightley) riding in silence on a train to Hamburg to reunite with her husband, Colonel Lewis Morgan (Jason Clarke). Director James Kent does a fine job of showing us the ruins of that city that followed the surgical strike by the British that killed thousands at war’s end. The city was reduced to ashes. Rachel and Lewis, the British couple, have been assigned to occupy a country mansion now lived in by German architect Stephen (Alexander Skarsgård). With a kind gesture, Lewis invites Stephen to stay on.

The wartime death of the son of Rachel and Lewis is the unexplained cloud that hangs over the couple. While their chemistry has the understandable feel of relief at war’s end, it is laced with restraint that is rooted in the circumstances around the loss of their young son.

The movie unfolds in the hands of the three fine actors who give us the story with their silences far more than with their words. When Colonel Lewis leaves for six days of an occupation crisis, Rachel and Stephen inevitably overcome their British/German resentment and become lovers. Director Kent has designed a love scene bathed in a fluid mix of light and color as we wonder what will happen when the Colonel comes home to this love affair.

It is then that Director Kent begins to fall into the more conventional ups and downs of lovers/wives/husbands. You will spot the ordinary stuff.

Even then though, we are still interested in this quiet film because neither the acting nor the dialogue ever becomes excessive. It’s just the script.

Keira Knightley and Jason Clarke star in “The Aftermath” (2019).

of conqueror and enemy, again in silence, learning to live in the same house.

For its first two thirds, the movie conveys the deep feelings of these quiet, damaged people in a way that draws us deeply into the ruins of war. The scars are delivered through silence. Is it worth going? For me, yes. Though ordinary slip ups do undercut the strength at times, actors conveying emotions with expressions rather than words is affecting.

Silence is their language in a terrible historical time.

Knightley does all that with few words and big effect. In the same understated but dramatic tone, both Skarsgård and Clarke deliver strength and kindness with few words. The chemistry among the three is sophisticated. When the director turns to the ordinary in the last third, let’s look at it as excusable error in a story compelling for the silences laced with emotion delivered by three good actors.

How can anyone resist the long opening train ride while we try to figure out who Rachel is and why she’s there? Equally affecting is the sight

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It never hurts to reflect on the good things, and in this novel, Bethany, whose heartbreaking admission forms the crux of this book, is doing just that. As a result of her actions, she is incarcerated and she is instructed to write a list of the good things as a way of possibly discovering the good with herself, and perhaps finding redemption. Each chapter’s title is the “good thing:” 1. Smelling A Baby’s Head Right Into Your Heart or 14. How Cats Can Find Sun To Lie In, Even On A Cloudy Day. She has access to and reads all of the case files pertaining to her years in foster care which reveal how she was initially found by social workers. Her recollections are lively and warm, even in a life marred by trauma, but her experiences are marked by judgement, as though one action is enough for her to be known and found less than. These stories reveal Bethany, flawed as she is, with heart and humor and pathos. Through it all, Bethany’s voice is unique and irrepressible; she is still able to hope, even through the hard times she walked.

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This week’s property is managed by Century 21, Jack Associates, The LandMark Group. More info at c21vt.com.

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Benefits to open concept floor plans in your home

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he way a home is designed can say a lot of things about it. In fact, many real estate professionals and contractors can determine when a home was built based on the design of its interior. For example, homes with sunken living rooms were likely built sometime in the 1960s and 1970s.

Open concept living rooms are one trend that might one day make people nostalgic for the early 21st century. Many of today’s home buyers want homes with open concept floor plans, which can give homes a more spacious feel, perhaps even creating the illusion that a home is bigger than it really is.

Home buyers who have never before enjoyed open concept floor plans can consider these benefits to these wildly popular layouts.

ENTERTAINMENT Many people who live in homes with open concept floor plans cite their convenience when entertaining as one of their biggest assets. In an open concept home, guests don’t have to be corralled into a single room in the home.

Instead, hosts and their guests can roam freely from room to room because there are no walls dividing common areas. This can make gatherings feel less cramped than in homes with more traditional floor plans.

SAFETY The safety of open concept floor plans may be

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Open concept floor plans allow parents to keep an eye on their children while cooking dinner, working from home or tending to other chores around the house. Since there are no walls to divide rooms in open concept homes, parents don’t have to wonder what their curious kids are up to because they can see them at all times.

FLEXIBILITY Open concept floor plans give homeowners more flexibility. For example, homes with more

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traditional floor plans may have designated spaces for dining areas. These spaces don’t leave much room to work with and may not be valued by homeowners who don’t often host dinners at home. As a result, such rooms may just be wasted square footage. With an open concept floor plan, homeowners have the flexibility to make dining areas as big or small as they see fit and can even adjust the rooms on the fly on those occasions when people are coming over.

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April 11, 2019

addison independent presents local high school

SPORTS

FEATURING:

• team rosters • schedules • pictures and stories

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MIDDLEBURY

UNION

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MUHS Softball

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury softball team enjoyed a solid 2018 season, winning eight games, including a first-round Division I playoff contest.

And Coach Polly Rheaume’s Tigers, despite seeing three seniors graduate, return most of their top players.

“Returning players, we’ve got a lot of them, love it,” Rheaume said.

They include top hitter Gwen Stafford, a junior who will pitch this season, and power-hitting catcher Aby LaRock, also the No. 2 pitcher.

Stafford played mostly center field last year, but Rheaume said she is ready to take over on the mound.

“She’s doing good. She worked hard all winter,” Rheaume said.

The Tigers also return solid senior veterans at three infield positions: Metro all-star Carly Larocque at second base, Taylor Sylvester at shortstop and Ashley Sunderland at first base. Junior Sydney Provencher will back up Sunderland.

Rheaume believes senior outfielder Kyra Roberts can handle the transition to third base, with sophomores Grace Paquette, and Bailey Farrell a capable backup around the infield, also possibilities at the hot corner. Paquette is also an outfielder, while Rheaume said Farrell could fill in around the infield. But Roberts was Plan A in the preseason.

“We’re working on that right now, getting Kyra used to it,” Rheaume said.

Two more seniors are set in the outfield. Katelyn Stearns will take over in center, and if LaRock takes the mound Stearns will go behind the plate and Stafford can head back out to familiar pastures. Harley Williams will line up in right field.

There are plenty of candidates for left field, including Paquette; junior Addison Hubbell, also a backup catcher; and sophomore Olivia Audet, the team’s No. 3 pitcher.

In 2018 health issues at times held the Tigers back, and early on Rheaume

said so far, so good on that front.

“Last year we started out with some injuries. We’re hopeful we’ll stay away from that. That’ll be good,” she said.

In all, Rheaume expects the Tigers to be competitive.

“We’re always hopeful,” Rheaume said. “They look good. They’ve got a good attitude. So we’ll see how it goes.”

Middlebury Union High School Varsity Softball 5/7 @ Missisquoi Time 5/9 Milton 4:30 p.m.

5/11 @ South Burlington 11 a.m.

5/14 Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

5/16 @ Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

5/18 @ BFA Fairfax 11 a.m.

5/21 @ Mt. Abraham 4:30 p.m.

5/24 @ Missisquoi 4:30 p.m.

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Date Opponent/Event 4/11 Essex 4/13 @ Vergennes 4/16 Milton 4/18 Spaulding 4/21 BFA St. Albans 4/23 Mt. Abraham 4/30 @ Mt. Anthony 5/2 BFA Fairfax

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MUHS Varsity Softball Team Coach: Polly Rheaume Name Grade Aby LaRock 12 Carly Laroque 12 Kyra Roberts 12 Ashley Sunderland 12 Taylor Sylvester 12 Katelyn Stevens 12 Harley Williams 12 Addison Hubbell 11 Sydney Provencher 11 Gwen Stafford 11 Olivia Audet 10 Bailey Farrell 10 Grace Paquette 10

MUHS Boys’ Tennis

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — After an enjoyable and successful 2018 season and with many players back in the fold, Middlebury boys’ tennis Coach Ken Schoen is looking for more of the same.

“I think it’s going to be another strong season. We’re going to win most of our matches again,” Schoen predicted.

The team’s top two singles players last year were a senior and an exchange student who do not return.

But Schoen said players up and down the ladder have improved, while newcomers could also challenge for spots in the starting lineup as the season progresses.

“We’re going to be stronger at second doubles. We’re going to be stronger at fourth and fifth singles,” he said. “Everybody is going to be competitive.”

Seniors Jesse Rubin, the steady No. 3 a year ago, and the improving Spencer Doran should hold down the

top two spots and battle for No. 1, Schoen said.

He expects seniors Sam Daley and Drew Kiernan and junior Hunter Munteanu to occupy the Nos. 3, 4 and 5 slots in the singles ladder to open the season, in some order. But junior newcomers Eben Jackson and Joseph Findlay are knocking at the door, Schoen said.

“After the first match or two, then they can challenge in,” Eben and Joseph “Whoever is fourth or fifth, they’ll challenge those two positions.”

Sophomores Abel Anderson and Andy Giorgio return at first doubles, and sophomore Aiden Cole was a second-doubles mainstay a year ago who Schoen said has the talent to challenge for the singles ladder if he chooses. Jackson, Findlay and two promising sophomores who are also new to the team, Oliver Poduschnick and Karic Riche, will challenge for doubles slots.

All will see plenty of action,

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — There’s no question the Middlebury girls’ lacrosse team has a different look this spring.

After all, among the 11 seniors who graduated a year ago were an all-American goalie, three starting defenders, the team’s leading scorer, and many other athletes who helped the Tigers win back-to-back Division I titles.

Second-year Coach Brandi Whittemore acknowledges she faces a different challenge this year, but during the preseason she was looking forward to it.

“This year is definitely a rebuilding year. We’ll put all the pieces together, and hopefully we’ll be successful,” Whittemore said.

And there are players who are back after making an impact, either for one season or more.

Senior Emily Laframboise is a

proven scorer, senior midfielder Lacey Greenamyre is a tenacious defender who developed an allaround game last season, senior midfielder Ada Anderson played a vital role in transition last year and will be looked to carry a bigger load this spring, senior Phoebe Smith is versatile and could either defend or attack, junior middie Malia Hodges will play a bigger role this season, and sophomore Kaitlyn McNamara emerged on defense late last campaign.

“Our returners are all very key players and good leaders. They’ve showed up a lot the past two weeks,” Whittemore said.

Then there are the newcomers.

Starting in the back, sophomore Lydia Deppman steps into the goal after solid varsity field and ice hockey seasons.

Joining McNamara in the back will be juniors Katie Berthiaume and Alice Ganey, sophomore Cam

Schoen pledged.

“These other guys are going to be filling in no matter what, because you’ve got nine positions for every match, and I’ve got 12 players,” he said. “Everybody is going to get a lot of playing time. And they should.

They’re a bunch of super good athletes.

Jaring and freshman Fairley Olson, plus Smith if she doesn’t play attack. Freshman Ivy Doran could also line up at low defense.

Anderson and Greenamyre will anchor the midfield, with Hodges, juniors Taylor Moulton and Maeve Hammel, sophomore Clara Wolff, freshman Carlisle Brush and Doran ready to run with them. Hammel and possibly Hodges could also line up at attack, Whittemore said.

Sophomore Ella McKhan could also figure into the mix if she recovers from injury late in the season.

Attack was the least settled position, with only junior Grace Tucker and freshman Avery Gale listed solely at the position along with Laframboise. Whittemore said she would be looking at one or more of Smith, Hodges and Hammel to join the front line.

She does expect many of the younger players to excel quickly.

“It’s a strong incoming class, and they’ve all played sports together, so they have that connection, and they fit right in,” Whittemore said.

“The chemistry is there.”

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And just because it is a different season doesn’t mean it can’t be a good season, she said.

“Anything can happen. We’re a new team, definitely rebuilding,” Whittemore said. “But I’m not doubting or putting any restrictions on that these girls are capable of.

They have a lot of talent, and they do have that unique team chemistry that I do think will make them successful.”

MUHS Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Date Opponent/Event Time 4/5 @ South Burlington 4:30 p.m.

4/9 @ Rutland 4:30 p.m.

4/12 Hanover 4:30 p.m.

4/16 @ CVU 4:30 p.m.

4/18 Essex 4:30 p.m.

4/29 @ Rice 4:30 p.m.

5/1 Burlington 4:30 p.m.

5/3 Mt. Mansfield 4:30 p.m.

5/6 @ Mt. Anthony 4:30 p.m.

5/8 South Burlington 4:30 p.m.

5/11 CVU 11 a.m.

5/13 @ Burr & Burton 4:30 p.m.

5/15 @ Essex 4:30 p.m.

5/18 @ Burlington 11 a.m.

5/20 @ BFA-St. Albans 4:30 p.m.

5/23 @ Mt. Mansfield 4:30 p.m.

MUHS Boys’ Varsity Tennis Team Coach: Ken Schoen Name Grade Samuel Daly 12 Drew Kiernan 12 Jesse Rubin 12 Spencer Doran 11 Joseph Findlay 11 Eben Jackson 11 Hunter Munteanu 11 Abel Anderson 10 Aiden Cole 10 Andrew Giorgio 10 Oliver Poduschnick 10 Karic Riche 10

MUHS Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Team Coach: Brandi Whittemore Name Grade Ada Anderson 12 Lacy Greenamyre 12 Emily Laframboise 12 Katie Berthiaume 11 Alice Ganey 11 Maeve Hammel 11 Malia Hodges 11 Taylor Moulton 11 Phoebe Smith 11 Grace Tucker 11 Lydia Deppman 10 Cam Jaring 10 Ella McKhann 10 Kaitlyn McNamara 10 Clara Wolff 10 Carlisle Brush 9 Ivy Doran 9 Avery Gale 9 Fairley Olson 9

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So, yes, Schoen is looking forward to the matches.

“We’re going to have a winning season. I’d be surprised if we didn’t because these guys are committed,” he said. “They’re really smart.

They’re fun. And they know how to work hard.”

MUHS Boys’ Tennis Date Opponent/Event Time 4/13 @ Colchester 10 a.m.

4/22 Hartford 4 p.m.

4/30 @ Mt. Mansfield 3:30 p.m.

5/3 @ Harwood 3:30 p.m.

5/6 Spaulding 3:30 p.m.

5/8 @ BFA St. Albans 3:30 p.m.

5/10 @ U-32 3:30 p.m.

5/13 North Country 3:30 p.m.

5/15 Montpelier 3:30 p.m.

5/17 @ Hartford 4 p.m.

5/20 @ Spaulding 3:30 p.m.

5/22 BFA St. Albans 3:30 p.m.

5/24 Harwood 3:30 p.m.

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury track and field Coach Ed Blechner was looking forward to good results this spring when he surveyed his team during a break from supervising a preseason warm-up.

“We’ve got a few really good kids who have come back, and I have some really high expectations for them,” Blechner said. “And we’ve got a lot of newcomers.”

On the girls’ side junior Isabel Olson finished fourth in the Division II state championship meet at 400 meters a year ago and ran on two second-place Tiger relay teams, the four-by-400-meter and 4x800 teams.

Senior Ailey Bosworth joined her on both those teams, and Blechner believes there are candidates who will emerge to join them.

“We’ve got some people that might surprise us,” he said.

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Blechner is also looking for junior hurdler Merry Kimble to move up onto the podium after a seventh-place finish in the 300 hurdles a year ago.

Among many younger athletes who could blossom he cited freshman Maddy Stowe, who is coming off a strong Nordic season.

On the boys’ side sophomore sprinter CJ Bryant anchored both the second-place 4x100 and the fourthplace 4x400 Tiger teams, and two of his 4x100 teammates return, senior Tristan Durante and junior Anthony Garner.

Especially with Garner healthier

Middlebury Union High School Varsity Track and Field Team Coach: Ed Blechner Name Grade GIRLS Aileen Bosworth 12 Lian McGarry 12 Maisie Newbury 12 Samantha Paige 12 Virginia Patz 12 Emily Pottinger 12 Natali Sullivan 12 Katherine Wallace 12 Mary Ann Eastman 11 Merry Kimble 11 Annie Lapiner 11 Journey LaRose 11 Isabel Olson 11 Michelle Skovsgard 11 Tea Zizis 11 Sofia Stefani 10 Genevieve Rose Dora 9 Catherine Mary Dyer 9 Viviana Hammond 9 Eve Huntington 9 Ella Landis 9 Zoe Noble 9 Maddy Stowe 9 Hannah Turner 9

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — The newest varsity sport at Middlebury Union High School is the latest official high school sport in Vermont — and in the U.S. Vermont in late 2018 became the first state to sanction Ultimate — don’t call it Ultimate Frisbee, because the name of the flying discs used to play the game is trademarked. And MUHS this spring will be around one of about 20 high schools around the state to field an official varsity team.

But the sport is not new at the school. Coach Michelle Steele has been guiding the sport there since it was formed as a club in 2012.

“Over the years we’ve kind of gotten more and more serious and attended more and more games,” Steele said. In recent years the Tigers have competed in state championship tournaments, finishing 10th two years ago and earning 5th place in 2018 in the Open division, which places no restrictions on the numbers of girls and boys who take the field on the

BOYS Isaac Buttolph Tristan Durante Ian Fenster Ethan Reiderer Nico Brayton William Carpenter Gabriel Cason Anthony Garner Hunter Heffernan Samuel Klingensmith Ulysse Niel Peter Wolosinski Frank Wolff Darrien Brown C.J. Bryant Alex Mencel Lucas Nelson Thomas Nevins Kieran Sheridan Nicholas Suchomel Cameron Clark Castelli Ethan Foster Noah Manns Elvis McIntosh Nathaniel McVeigh Lucas Palcsik

this spring than in 2018, according to Blechner, the 4x100 team members hope to break the school record they approached a season ago.

“That’s a goal this year,” he said.

Junior Will Carpenter ran on the Tigers’ fourth-place 4x800 team last spring and also is back.

Junior pole vaulter Gabe Cason also returns after finishing fourth in D-II a year ago, while senior Ian Fenster took ninth.

“We’ve got a few more pole vaulters that could do something as well,” Blechner said.

Junior hurdler Hunter Heffernan also took a fourth in 2018, at 300 meters, and finished just off the podium in the 110 hurdles. Blechner

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Ultimate seven-strong team at a time.

“Along with becoming varsity and along with kids taking it more seriously every year and becoming more committed we’ve been able to recruit more and build a stronger team,” Steele said.

MUHS Ultimate plays on what Steele calls the Ultimate field, but most of Middlebury knows as the MUHS football field. Players score points by catching the discs in the end zone from a teammate. The central rule is that players cannot run once they catch the disc, but must throw it to a teammate to advance the disc up the field.

The sport is non-contact, and players may not interfere with athletes looking to get open to catch a disc (they’re called “cutters”) thrown by a “handler,” nor may they interfere with a cutter looking to make a catch.

Handlers must establish a pivot foot, as in basketball. An incomplete pass or a foul means the other team takes possession of the disc at the spot of the throw or infraction.

Many of the Tigers who handled and cut last year graduated, although the players on this year’s roster all got some experience in 2018, Steele said.

“We graduated 12 seniors last year, so it is a little bit of a rebuilding year for us. I will say with the youth Ultimate scene it changes a lot from year to year, because it is a new sport in high school,” she said in the preseason. “It can really change from year to year depending who’s on the roster, who’s not. So I feel optimistic.

But it could be hard to say until we get out there and see our competition.”

The captains are seniors Silas Conlon, Michael Huber and Xavier Wyncoop, while senior Jack Singh is “Spirit Captain.” Ultimate players call their own fouls, and Spirit Captains help settle disputes or even call gamewide timeouts if things get testy.

Steele said she planned a freeflow offense without set cutters and handlers. Other players are seniors Jacob Galvin, Audrey Huston and Peter Orzech; juniors Kenneth (See Ultimate, Page 4C)

believes sophomore Nick Suchomel could also emerge in the hurdling events.

Blechner looks to sophomore Thomas Nevins and freshman Elvis McIntosh to run well in distance events, and is confident others will step forward as the season progresses.

“We’ve got some kids who I think are going to show some things,” he said. “I’m quite pleased with the way things are going.”

Blechner also early on saw a promising attitude and focus among the athletes.

“We’ve got a fair number of seniors, so hopefully we’ll get some good leadership from them. So I’m optimistic,” he said. “We always

MUHS Varsity Track and Field Date Opponent/Event Time 4/12 Home Meet 3:30 p.m.

4/16 @ CVU 3:30 p.m.

4/24 @ Essex Vacational 3:30 a.m.

5/1 @ Essex 3:30 p.m.

5/7 @ Mt. Abraham 3:30 p.m.

5/11 @ Burlington Invitational 9 a.m.

5/15 Home Meet 3:30 p.m.

5/21 @ Rice 3:30 p.m.

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point toward the end of the season.

The other sports you have to win the games to get into the playoffs. Here, we point toward the end of the season.

I’m optimistic that by the time we get into mid- to late May we should be kicking into high gear and do well.”

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — First-year Middlebury boys’ lacrosse coach Matt Rizzo foresees his Tigers at the very least being once again competitive within Division I after a .500 season a year ago, if not take a step forward.

That belief assumes the Tigers will play hard, focus, and not beat themselves, Rizzo said.

“We’re probably going to be one of those teams where we need to win the intangibles, like the ground-ball game.

We’re going to have to win the ground balls. We’re going to have to win the face-off game. We’re going to have to not turn the ball over. Unforced errors, those will hurt us,” Rizzo said. “If we do those things I do think we can compete with CVU, Essex, St. Albans and South Burlington.”

The Tigers have lost players last year and the year before to graduation and prep school, but Rizzo believes plenty of talent remains.

There are plenty of veteran in the back, starting with senior Derek Felkl.

“The defense will be anchored by our senior captain, Derek Felkl, and really I think all of our long sticks are going to get playing time,” Rizzo said.

Most of the other long-stick wielders also have experience: juniors Hunter Gale (probably the starter at long-stick middie), Trysten Quesnel and Eli Billings. They will be joined by freshman Matthew Kiernan. All the defenders will probably take turns at long-stick middie as well, Rizzo said.

Sophomore Jack Rizzo takes over in goal after seeing some varsity action a year ago, and Coach Rizzo said he is ready for the challenge. Senior Colton Paquette will back up Rizzo.

Junior Zeke Hooper will serve as a faceoff specialist, and Rizzo said he should provide the Tigers a crucial edge there. Junior Ian Ploof, senior Ben Crawford, and sophomore Mason Kaufmann will comprise (See Boys’ Lacrosse, Page 4C)

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By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — In 2018 Coach Charlie Messenger’s Middlebury baseball squad won 11 times, including a long-awaited first-round playoff contest, and claimed a share of first-place in the newly formed Lake Division.

With his top three pitchers and six starting position players back in the fold, Messenger believes the Tigers are capable of more of the same.

“They figured out how to win some games that usually got away from them (last spring). But I think we can be a lot better this year,” Messenger said.

Those top three pitchers are staff ace Wyatt Cameron, a senior; senior Jordy Stearns; and junior Hale Hescock. Crafty junior lefty Nick Carrera joins them to comprise what Messenger said should be a strong front four.

“Those are the top four,” he said. “I

MUHS

By ANDY KIRKALDY MIDDLEBURY — If anything, Middlebury girls’ tennis coach Jill Dunn was faced with too much of a good thing when preseason began.

While many area high school coaches fretted about low turnout in their programs, 24 girls showed up for Dunn’s team.

The catch was with only four Middlebury recreation park courts to play on, that’s about twice as many as ideal for a program that cannot carry a JV team.

Dunn had to set up a tournament to decide who made the team, and as of the deadline for this report a couple of spots were still up in the air.

But Dunn was not unhappy to see the high level of interest in the lifetime sport, and she was working on a way

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Baseball think four good pitchers should get us through the year.”

If necessary junior Devon Kearns or freshman Milo Thomas Gordon can also give the Tigers innings, Messenger said.

Kearns has a bigger job, however: He is the starting catcher, with sophomore Wyatt Rubright also ready to step in behind the plate.

Carrera and Spencer Cadoret are the first baseman, and Messenger plans to move Stearns from third base and make him a primary second baseman. Cameron and Hescock are the shortstops, with Hescock ready to slide over to second base if necessary.

Junior Ryan Nadeau can also step in at second base.

Cadoret, sophomore Drew Gill and Stearns can line up at third base.

Messenger is confident in the Tiger infield.

“We’ve got a pretty solid infield, and we’re working on some backups,”

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he said.

In the preseason Messenger was leaning toward an all-senior outfield of Simon Fischer in left, Sean Deering in center and Aaron Larocque in right.

“We’ve got a lot of speed in the outfield,” he said. “That’s a strong, really fast outfield.

Thomas Gordon, junior Avery Austin-Neil, senior Lucas Farrell and freshman twins Tucker and Calvin Kennett offer outfield depth.

Messenger is cautiously optimistic about his offense, but noted two .300 hitters graduated.

“I don’t have any problems with our pitching and fielding. It’s going to be do we hit the ball or not,” he said.

Messenger also said at times he arranged his rotation last year to make sure Cameron faced winnable opponents, thus ensuring victories for the Tigers. This year he will let the chips fall where they may.

“Then we get to see exactly how

to keep at least some of the players interested in tennis.

“This is a really good problem to have,” she said. “We’re going to figure out a program to keep these girls in the loop.”

What Dunn could determine about this year’s edition was that her 10 veterans were all likely to be back.

Sophomore Elizabeth Bright ended up playing No. 2 singles a year ago, while senior Anna Scharstein held down the No. 3 spot. Sophomores Abigail Bailey and Sara Nicolai also return after trading off the Nos. 4 and 5 spots late in the 2018 season.

Juniors Isadora Luksch and Ellie Kiel both saw action on the No. 1 doubles team, as did sophomore Emma Franklin. And sophomores Lois Alberts, Bridget Graham and

Gwen Troumbley all took turns on the No. 2 doubles team. Dunn said she was planning to play Alberts and Franklin, Luksch and Kiel (who were voted captains), and Graham and Troumbley as teams.

Dunn said two newcomers, freshman Julia Bartlett and junior exchange student Gabi Marin Aspichueta, could find themselves high on the singles ladder. Freshman Oni Krizo is also in the singles mix.

“We’re excited about returning players, but we have some new talent,” Dunn said.

The Tigers a year ago won just once after graduating almost all of a successful team from the year before.

But Dunn sees improvement already from where the team ended a year.

“It was a completely rebuilding year last year, but honestly the girls have gotten so much better,” Dunn said. “I feel we’re going to have some

Sophomore Antonio Abdul-Sater will also see time on the attack.

Rizzo sees strengths up and down the field.

“Kolby at the attack, Ben Crawford at the midfield and Derek Felkl on defense are probably the leaders there.

But I also think Ian Ploof is going to have a big year, and I think Bode Rubright has the potential to have a big year. And I think Jack has the potential to have a huge year in goal,” he said.

And Rizzo said the Tigers played

the state’s best tough a year ago.

“We lost to CVU in the quarters by two or three goals, and in the regular season it was a one-goal game, and they ended up winning the title game,” he said. “We can compete with anybody. So we’ll see.”

good we are or aren’t,” Messenger said. “I want to see how good we can be.”

How good is that?

“I don’t know about wins and losses during the season. We’ll see how that plays out,” Messenger said. “What I would like to do is be competitive.

I’d like to win a first-round Division I playoff game again. And then if that happens I’d like to be more competitive in the second round.”

strong matches.”

And she expects that to translates into improved results, in part because the internal competition will be tougher.

“We’re going to win more than one, just because we’re a better team,” Dunn said. “Because of the level of competitiveness, we’re having a real strong preseason. And that’s going to translate.”

MUHS Varsity Baseball Date Opponent/Event Time 4/11 Essex 4:30 p.m.

4/13 @ Vergennes 11 a.m.

4/16 Milton 4:30 p.m.

4/18 Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

4/20 BFA St. Albans 11 a.m.

4/23 Mt. Abraham 4:30 p.m.

4/30 @ Fair Haven 4:30 p.m.

5/2 BFA Fairfax 4:30 p.m.

5/7 @ Missisquoi 4:30 p.m.

5/9 @ Milton 4:30 p.m.

5/11 @ South Burlington 11 a.m.

5/14 Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

5/16 @ Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

5/18 @ BFA Fairfax 10 a.m.

5/21 @ Mt. Abraham 4:30 p.m.

5/23 @ Missisquoi 4:30 p.m.

MUHS Varsity Baseball Team Coach: Charlie Messenger Name Grade Spencer Cadoret 12 Wyatt Cameron 12 Sean Deering 12 Lucas Farrell 12 Simon Fischer 12 Aaron Larocque 12 Jordy Stearns 12 Nick Carrara 11 Hale Hescock 11 Devon Kearns 11 Ryan Nadeau 11 Drew Gill 10 Wyatt Rubright 10 Avery Austin-Neil 9 Calvin Kennett 9 Tucker Kennett 9 Milo Thomas Gordon 9

MUHS Girls’ Tennis Date Opponent/Event Time 4/13 Colchester 10 a.m.

4/30 Mt. Mansfield 3:30 p.m.

5/3 Harwood 3:30 p.m.

5/6 @ Spaulding 3:30 p.m.

5/8 BFA St. Albans 3:30 p.m.

5/10 U-32 3:30 p.m.

5/13 @ North Country 3:30 p.m.

5/15 @ Montpelier 3:30 p.m.

5/20 Spaulding 3:30 p.m.

5/22 @ BFA St. Albans 3:30 p.m.

5/24 @ Harwood 3:30 p.m.

MUHS Girls’ Varsity Tennis Team Coaches: Jill Dunn Name Grade Anna Scharstein 12 Gabi Marin Aspichueta 11 Ellie Kiel 11 Isadora Luksch 11 Lois Alberts 10 Abigail Bailey 10 Elizabeth Bright 10 Emma Franklin 10 Bridget Graham 10 Sarah Nicolai 10 Gwen Troumbley 10 Julia Bartlett 9 Oni Krizo 9

Boys’ Lacrosse (Continued from Page 3C) what Rizzo said will be a strong first midfield line, and the second group of middies will be junior Thatcher Trudeau, freshman Eddie Hodde, and either junior Kam Bartlett, who will rotate between attack and midfield, or junior David Peters.

Two other middies will see action as short-stick defensive specialists, senior Tucker Moulton and junior Jacob Weber.

Up front Rizzo said senior Kolby Farnsworth and sophomore Bode Rubright will start, while Bartlett and juniors Logan Pierson-Flagg and James Jette will most likely rotate through the third spot on the left side.

MUHS Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Date Opponent/Event Time 4/3 Burlington 4 p.m.

4/6 Burr & Burton 4 p.m.

4/8 @ Essex 4 p.m.

4/10 @ Woodstock 4 p.m.

4/13 @ Rutland 11 a.m.

4/15 South Burlington 4 p.m.

4/17 @ CVU 4 p.m.

4/30 @ Rice 4 p.m.

5/2 Mt. Mansfield 4 p.m.

5/7 @ Colchester 4 p.m.

5/10 Essex 4 p.m.

5/13 @ South Burlington 4 p.m.

5/16 Woodstock 4 p.m.

5/18 Hanover 11 a.m.

5/21 @ BFA St. Albans 4 p.m.

5/24 CVU 4 p.m.

Middlebury Union High School Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Team Coach: Matt Rizzo Eli Billings Name Grade Hunter Gale Ben Crawford 12 Ezekiel Hooper Kolby Farnsworth 12 James Jette Derek Felkl 12 David Peters Tucker Moulton 12 Ian Ploof Colton Paquette 12 Trysten Quesnel Kamrin Bartlett 11

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Thatcher Trudeau Jacob Webber Antonio Abdul-Sater Mason Kaufmann Jackson Rizzo Bode Rubright Edwin Hodde Matthew Kiernan

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Ultimate (Continued from Page 3C) Barkdoll, Brian Limoge and Catherine Schmitt; and sophomores Jack Christner and Timothy Hunsdorfer.

The Tigers’ schedule doesn’t start until an away game on May 1. Steele is excited about the Tigers’ home opener on May 3, which will be under the lights at Doc Collins Ultimate Field, with the concessions stand open and an announcer to set the stage for the action.

“It will be a showcase game to hopefully introduce Ultimate to our community,” Steele said. “That will be a fun opportunity for people who are interested in learning more to come and check it out.”

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@ Long Trail 5/6:15 p.m.

5/1 Burlington @ CVU 5/6:15 p.m.

5/13 Vermont Commons 4 p.m.

5/3 Montpelier/Rice 4/7:30 p.m.

5/17 Brattleboro/Burr & Burton 5/6 Rice 4 p.m.

@ B & B 5/6:15 p.m.

5/9 Vermont Commons 4 p.m.

5/24 Long Trail/Brattleboro 5/10 Burr & Burton/Long Trail

@Long Trail 3:45/5 p.m.

MUHS Varsity Ultimate Coach: Michelle Steele Jack Singh Name Grade Xavier Wyncoop Silas Conlon 12 Bryan Limoge Jacob Galvin 12 Catherine Schmitt Michael Huber 12 Jack Christner Audrey Huston 12 Timothy Hunsdorfer Peter Orzech 12

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By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — For the first time in over three decades, Otter Valley has a new coach heading up their softball program, actually they’ll have two. Legendary OV softball coach Pattie Candon retired last season after 33 years, racking up 347 wins and four state championships. Two coaches were brought in to replace the hall-offamer and this year, a new era of Otter softball begins under the guidance of Kelly Trayah and Toni Poalino.

Trayah, who also coaches the OV girls’ basketball team, is a former head coach of the Mount Abe softball team, which he led to the championship game in 2016. Poalino, who was Trayah’s assistant coach during the basketball season, headed Mount St. Joseph’s softball program for a season before taking a teaching position at crosstown rival Rutland High School.

The coaches have a wealth of experience to draw from having both played the game — Poalino for 30 years — and both have coached at various levels for years.

They are off to a good start as they had a large pool of players; 30 girls tried out.

“The numbers were really encouraging,” Poalino said. “We’ll have 12 on varsity and 17 on JV, but 2 of those are injured and when they come back we don’t know where they’ll end up.”

The two have some large shoes to fill; Candon was elected to the Vermont Principals’ Association Hall of Fame, the Castleton

Softball University Athletic Hall of Fame and the Northeast Women’s Hall of Fame.

“We don’t really feel like we’re in the shadow of Patti,” Trayah said. “We like to think of it more as building upon the solid foundation that she laid down.”

The foundation that they will look to build upon is largely about getting the basics mastered.

“Patti was big on fundamentals, that was her thing,” Trayah said.

“We’re going to take that base and expand, while giving it our own twist.”

Candon still stops by and helps the young girls out, according to the two coaches, and they plan on utilizing any help she wants to give.

“We’re going to have a small ball approach,” Trayah said. “We will be really aggressive on the bases.”

“Every girl is going to be able to lay down a bunt,” Poalino added.

“It’s an important tool that we plan on using to our advantage. It helps to keep the opposing pitcher flustered.”

Trayah said that the bunt is an easy way to advance the runners, move the defense in, and get runners in scoring position before bringing them around and something they plan on doing a lot of.

On the pitching side, the coaches say they will focus on accuracy and consistency although they may not have speed. The starter will be Morgan LaPorte, a junior who has increased her velocity in the offseason but is also throwing more strikes this season.

“With being more accurate and hitting the strike zone with more regularity, she’s built a lot of confidence,” Trayah said.

Freshman Riley Keith will do some of the heavy lifting on the mound as well.

“She’s very promising, she still has some maturing to do, but she’s a freshmen,” Poalino said. “But she’s got great velocity, she’s the fastest on the team, and she’s working on her accuracy.”

During preseason the team was still practicing in the gym, but the coaches say, “so far, so good.”

“It’s hard to judge indoors, but I’ve been pretty impressed by what I’ve seen so far,” she said. “It’s a really young team, we don’t have any seniors.”

“The team has great energy and they’re building great camaraderie,” Trayah said. “We’re excited about the season and we’ll continue to grow as the season goes on.”

OVUHS Varsity Softball Team Coach: Kelly Trayah, Toni Poalino Name Grade Livia Bernhardt 11 Isabella Falco 11 Madison French 11 Carolynn LaFountaine 11 Morgan LaPorte 11 Renee O’Connell 11 Stephanie Palmer 11 Shayla Phillips 11 Josie Cone 10 Mia Politano 10 Jadynn Pope 10 Riley Keith 9

OVUHS

Girls’ Tennis

By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — The Otter Valley girls’ tennis program will return all but one player from last year. The squad will be made up of four seniors and three sophomores.

“The expectations for the team this year are to be competitive with our opponents but to have fun as well,” coach Hailey Watters said. “This will be my first year (ever) coaching a tennis team so I’m hoping we can learn and grow together.”

Due to six of the seven girls also being a part of the school’s “One Act Play” program, they have only had a

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4/13 Brattleboro 11 a.m.

4/23 @ Mill River 4:30 p.m.

4/25 @ Windsor 4:30 p.m.

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Hartford 4:30 p.m.

OVUHS Boys’ Lacrosse

By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — Otter Valley boys’ lacrosse coach Jesse Milliman has a large squad of varsity lacrosse players to work with this season, in fact it’s his largest ever in his five years as the OV coach. Milliman attributes this large influx mostly to the town recreation department’s success with the seventh- and eighthgrade programs.

Milliman has 24 players who suited up this spring where he usually only sees around 15 come out. It will be a strong team with quality, veteran leadership. He has eight seniors returning this year, and his goalie, Alec Stevens; two attackers, Hayden Gallo and Tim Kittler; and midfielder Ethan Sulik-Doty were all-state selections last year.

“It certainly helps to have that senior leadership in place,” Milliman said. “But we’ll also have young guys in key roles.”

There are nine freshmen that will be expected to contribute throughout the season and the team should have a really deep bench that will help

with the tough schedule they’ll face.

“We’ll need to get the young guys adjusted to the game at this level,” said Milliman. “The intensity and speed is different than what they’re used to.”

The Otters opened play last week with a scrimmage at the Norwich Jamboree. They will need to get adjusted early on because they have a very difficult early schedule and will face three Division I teams in Rutland, Woodstock and Brattleboro.

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4/20 Brattleboro 11 a.m.

4/23 Lamoille 4 p.m.

4/25 @ Woodstock 4 p.m.

5/2 GMVS 4 p.m.

5/6 @ Mt. Abraham/Vergennes 4 p.m.

5/8 Montpelier 4 p.m.

5/14 Stratton 4 p.m.

5/18 Mt. Abraham/Vergennes 11 a.m.

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Stratton and Green Mountain.

“Our first three games are against Rutland, Hartford and Brattleboro,” Milliman said. “But I’m always telling them, if you want to improve you have to step on the field with the best.”

Otter Valley Union High School Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse Team Coach: Jesse Milliman Ross Fiske Name Grade Jakob Stevens Hayden Gallo 12 Parker Swain Joshua Granger 12 David Williams Timothy Kittler 12 Hayden Bernhardt Jacob O’Connell 12 Dominic Davis Zachary Scarborough 12 Isaac Derepentigny Alec Stevens 12 Samuel Martin Kameron Strickland 12 Matthew Moseley Ethan Sulik-Doty 12 Daniel O’Brien Jared Denis 11 Nicholas Parker Spencer Pelkey 11 Evan Thomas Levi Cram 10 Kieran Williams

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limited number of practices.

“The girls all have pretty powerful swings and once we work on being more accurate I think they will be good at placement of their shots to win points,” Watters said.

The team has been focused so far on swings, serving and placing the ball, but as they are able to get more practice in they will focus more on footwork and serving.

Watters said their most difficult opponents will be Woodstock and Burr and Burton.

“They always bring their A-game when competing,” she said of those

Baseball

By RUSSELL JONES BRANDON — The Otter Valley baseball program fulfilled all of its goals in 2017, bringing home the Division II state championship that season. Two years later, the team still has nine players that were there for that ride and are ready to do it one more time. But, those players also know it will take more than just lacing up their cleats and stepping onto the field to bring home the trophy.

“They know that it will take more than just energy, more than just effort,” head coach Michael Howe said. “It will take commitment and they’ll have to work hard to get there.”

That 2017 championship team was young, and that may be one of the biggest factors that influence the success of the Otters this season.

“We have seven guys who have essentially played the game for their whole careers so far,” Howe said.

“They have all gotten the time on the

OVUHS Girls’ Varsity Tennis Team Coach: Hailey Watters Name Grade Evelyn Bart 12 Meghan Chaney 12 Madeline Fuller 12 Brenna McCullough 12 Madilyn Morgan 10 Anoushka Pschorr 10 Sydney Singh 10

OVUHS Girls’ Varsity Tennis Date Opponent/Event Time 4/6 Brattleboro 11 a.m.

4/22 @ Woodstock 4 p.m.

4/25 @ Burr & Burton 4 p.m.

4/29 Rutland 4 p.m.

5/1 @ Bellows Falls 4:30 p.m.

5/3 MSJ 4 p.m.

5/8 MAU 4:30 p.m.

5/10 Bellows Falls 4:30 p.m.

5/15 Woodstock 4 p.m.

5/20 @ MSJ 4 p.m.

5/22 Hartford 4 p.m.

field and the lineup won’t change much so there’s a consistency there.”

Howe said the team’s pitching is good and they have a number of players who can throw lots of innings.

“It’s always a good thing when you have experience and can go out there and throw strikes,” he said.

“We have quite a few guys who can eat up innings, which is important when you get into the meat of the season and you’re playing three or four games a week.”

The coach said the offensive philosophy would rely on pressure.

“When we get a runner on base, our goal is to drive that runner in,” Howe said. “We can hit-and-run and we can steal. We’ll do whatever it takes to keep pressure on that opposing pitcher. If we can keep the focus on the runners, the batters have a much easier time at the plate.”

As far as the most challenging matchups of the season, Howe said he doesn’t know much about the northern part of the state, but Fair Haven will be a test.

“Fair Haven is always good,” he said. “That is a fun competition.

They always play their best against us.”

The snow has kept the team practicing indoors, but they will make up for that soon enough. The team has a trip to Florida planned in a few weeks, where they will practice at Dodgertown, where the Dodgers hold spring training.

Howe said when they get to the playoffs, anything can happen. As his team found out last year when they lost at home in the quarterfinals.

“The goal is always to make it to Centennial Field, and these guys have kind of a sour taste in their mouth with the way last season ended,” he said. “They’re playing with a chip on their shoulder this season. The goal is to hang another banner and I think they’re ready for the challenge.”

OVUHS Varsity Baseball Team Coach: Michael Howe Name Grade Jack Adams 12 Joshua Beayon 12 Kollin Bissette 12 Nathaniel Hudson 12 Marcus McCullough 12 Patrick McKeighan 12 Reilly Shannon 12 Nathanial Blake 11 Logan Trombley 11 Aidan Blier 10 Lane Eddy 10 Dylan Gaboriault 10 Alexander Polli 10 Lucias Sheldrick 10 Parker Todd 10

OVUHS Varsity Baseball Date Opponent/Event Time 4/5 @ Mill River 4:30 p.m.

4/8 @ Fair Haven 4:30 p.m.

4/20 Bellows Falls 11 a.m.

4/20 Burr & Burton 3 p.m.

4/23 Mill River 4:30 p.m.

4/25 @ Windsor 4:30 p.m.

4/29 @ MAU 4:30 p.m.

5/1 Windsor 4:30 p.m.

5/3 @ Rutland 5 p.m.

5/7 Springfield 4:30 p.m.

5/9 Mt. Abraham 4:30 p.m.

5/13 @ Springfield 4:30 p.m.

5/15 Hartford 4 p.m.

5/17 @ Brattleboro 5 p.m.

5/20 @ Bellows Falls 4:30 p.m.

5/22 Fair Haven 4:30 p.m.

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MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION HIGH SCHOOL

Mt. Abe

Baseball

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — Longtime Mount Abraham baseball Coach Jeff Stetson sees potential for a bit of a bounceback from 2018’s five-win season, thanks in part to his ability to roll out three solid starting pitchers, backed up by four more Eagles he thinks can throw strikes and help the team.

“I’m very hopeful that our deep pitching is going to keep us in some games while we sort some things out,” Stetson said.

Those top three will be junior veterans Nolan Whitcomb and Eben Clifford and senior Ethan Bissonette, who pitched well for Vergennes in 2018 but is studying in Bristol this year.

“I think I’ve got seven guys who can give me innings, with those first three getting the majority,” Stetson said. Rounding out the staff will be juniors Max Breault and Silas Burgess and sophomores Ryan Whitcomb and Will Vichi.

At catcher senior Parker Hines — one of only two seniors active on the roster his season after classmate Jacob Hoag was injured — is the incumbent, but juniors Tristin Roscoe and Jackson Gepfert will look for time behind the plate.

Stetson said in many cases he expected who will play where would be sorted out on the team’s trip to Florida, which was set to begin the day

Mt. Abe

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — The Mount AbrahamVergennes cooperative boys’ lacrosse team is looking to take a step forward from 2018’s one-win campaign, and Coach Ed Cook is optimistic the Eagles can make that happen.

“Our team dynamic is so much better than it was last year. Our stick skills are so much better. And we can pass and catch and we’re putting some balls in the back of the net this year, at least in practice,” Cook said.

“So our offense should be clicking a little bit more than it was last year.”

And Cook doesn’t believe the attack will be the team strength.

The team’s back line returns four starters, senior goalie Grady Brokaw, junior defender Jonas Schroeder, sophomore defender Quincy Cook,

after he spoke to the Independent.

Clifford, when he’s not pitching, and sophomore Colby Lathrop are first-base candidates. Middle infielders include Bissonette, juniors Wyatt Thompson and Griffin Louer, and Ryan Whitcomb. Third-base possibilities include senior Jacob Thomas, junior Max Breault and Nolan Whitcomb.

Burgess is the only player whose primary position is outfield, and Stetson said Hines, Thomas, Breault, Clifford, Roscoe, Lauer and Vichi could all end up chasing fly balls.

“That will have to sort itself out in Florida,” Stetson said. “I don’t have a ton of guys who think they’re outfielders, but obviously there’s going to be some guys who if they hit that’s where they’re going to find themselves.”

Stetson said even with the lineup “pretty wide open,” he expected the Eagle defense to hold its own.

“I think we’ve got a little bit of work to do. I think the potential is there,” he said.

Offensively Stetson said the Eagles should be able to put pressure on opposing teams.

“I think we’re going to put the ball in play, and there are a couple kids who have shown pretty good potential to have gap power,” Stetson said.

And he has been pleased with the Eagles’ approach.

“Their attitudes have been good.

Everybody has been working hard,” Stetson said.

He thinks a winning record is within the Eagles’ grasp.

“And I would say a reasonable goal for us is that come tournament time at the end of the year we’re a pretty good put-together team, and we’re going to be a tough out for anybody to knock us out of the tournament,” Stetson said. “By the end of May and early June I expect us to be a pretty darn good baseball team.”

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Boys’ Lacrosse and senior long-stick middie Nathan Wojciechowski.

Joining the returning low defenders in the starting lineup will most likely be freshman Carmelo Miceli, while senior Kaelen Dopson will rotate through. Junior Alder DonovanCook could also see time in the back, sophomore Aidan Danyow will back up Brokaw, and junior Ethan DeWitt will see time at long-stick middie.

Senior Andrew Morris could also play some at long-stick middie.

“Our defense is going to be really solid with Quincy and Jonas and Carmelo. They’re all really athletic.

Quin and Jonas have had a year together. I think we’re going to sneak up on people at the defensive end,” Cook said.

Of Brokaw, who took over between

the pipes with little experience a year ago, Cook said, “It’s going to be great to having Grady back there. When he’s in the net he’s taking command of the defense. He’s more vocal. He’s more confident, which is what you want in a goalie.”

At midfield four strong players were contending for the first line, seniors Jack Halpin and Andrew Woods, junior Same Schoenhuber and sophomore Griffin Paradee. One will anchor a second unit that could include junior Ryan Lathrop and sophomore Louis Beauchaine. Senior Erik McLysaght and junior Asa Shlansky are penciled in on a third line, with seniors Devon Coleman and Tom Carlton candidates to join them.

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Weaver return to anchor the attack, with sophomore Liam Oxford joining them.

Assistant Tim Brokaw is coordinating the offense and said the Eagles are making progress.

“We’re working on our lacrosse IQ and moving the ball and having fun,” Tim Brokaw said. “I’m really impressed with the stick skills we’re demonstrating the first two weeks in the gym. I think the players are excited to get out on the field and compete.”

And that’s what Cook believes the Eagles will do this season. “(Our expectation) is to be competitive in games,” Cook said.

“We’re really young, so we’re going to be moving in the right direction this year and next year.”

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MOUNT ABRAHAM UNION HIGH SCHOOL

Mt. Abe Softball

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — Coach Don McCormick has a tough act to follow, but he’s already done it once already: His Mount Abraham softball teams have won back-toback Division II titles.

Doing so again could be a challenge after the graduation of the Eagles’ starting pitcher, shortstop, second baseman and center fielder — all top-of-the-order hitters.

But McCormick expects Mount Abe softball to contend again.

“I think we’re pretty solid,” McCormick said. “If we’re strictly talking Division II I think we’ll be a top three seed.”

To start with, senior Ruby Ball fared well as the team’s No. 2 pitcher a year ago, while sophomore Camilienne Masse also tossed a few innings in 2018. And McCormick is also high on freshman hurler Cami Willsey.

“It may be the deepest pitching staff we’ve had,” McCormick said.

The Eagles are also stacked behind the plate, with both junior veteran Abigail Hoff and former Vergennes standout Sam Rathbun, a senior who moved into the Mount Abe district.

Willsey could also fill in there.

Senior Cora Funke and the powerhitting Masse are the first basemen.

McCormick said senior Shealyn Layn is ready to step in at second base, while Willsey or even Masse could also see time there.

Senior Jess Murray will take over as the starting shortstop, and senior Erika Tracey is back at third base after a solid 2018. Hoff or Willsey could spot in a third base as McCormick looks ahead to 2020, and senior Molly Murray, sophomore Carissa Livingston, and Ball could

Mt. Abe Track and Field

By ANDY KIRKALDY BRISTOL — Things will look different this spring for the Mount Abraham track and field team. To start with, Lydia Pitts graduated, taking her 18 indoor and outdoor Division II titles with her. And three other athletes who scored points at the D-II championship meet this past spring also earned their Mount Abe diplomas, including Jackson Counter, who won two throwing golds.

Meanwhile, two new co-head coaches arrived, both Mount Abe graduates — Nathan Reynolds (1992) and Cam Perta (2011).

And Reynolds said they are bringing with them a philosophy that will place a greater emphasis on the good of the whole.

“This is a season we’re looking at as a season of change,” Reynolds said. “There was kind of a spirit of

individualism in the past couple of years. Everybody did their individual events, but it didn’t feel like a team.”

Specifically, Reynolds would like the athletes to consider new events, and more events, other than their preferred specialties. For example, he said sometimes athletes who prefer to sprint might thrive at slightly longer distances.

“This year we’re going to try to push them in a direction that is maybe more beneficial to the team and themselves,” Reynolds said.

Or, for example, one of the team’s returning scorers is senior Oliver Roy, fifth in the D-II boys’ pole vault a year ago. Reynolds said he is also “a phenomenal runner” who could achieve more for the team.

“I think we’re going get some points out of him in the 800, or maybe the 400,” he said.

also fit into the middle infield.

For now, however, Molly Murray will probably start in left field, with Ball possible there as well when she’s not pitching. Junior Addy Harris, a three-sport athlete who hit the ball hard in limited action off the bench last spring, will start in center field. “I can’t wait to see her in center field the next couple years,” McCormick said.

Also in the outfield mix are Rathbun; juniors Justice Green, Riley Mason and Carly Counter, the team’s only lefty swinger; and

sophomore Liz Porter.

McCormick said the Eagles might not demolish the softball the way they did in 2018, but he is high on them at the bat and in the field.

“I think our offense is going to be down slightly, but we’ve got some really good hitters back, too,” he said. “I think our defense is maybe going to be as solid as ever.”

Certainly, he and the Eagles are aiming high.

“We want to win every game,” he said. “That includes the first one and the last one.”

Reynolds would also like to see more consistent effort and attendance for the Eagle relay teams.

“We had a lot of meets where we didn’t compete because we didn’t have enough people there to run it.

The team that we build this year, whether it’s the four fastest of the four that show up most often, we’re going to build a relay team and hopefully put some points on the board,” he said.

Reynolds can cite his own experience with former Mount Abe track coach Al Lunna as one basis for his philosophy. He became a successful distance runner for the school with Lunna’s encouragement.

“I never was a sprinter and always wanted to be a sprinter. But the coach back then told me I was not made for that and I was going to run distance,” Reynolds said, and he ended up competing at 1,500 and 3,000 meters, and “because I agreed to run those I got to run an occasional 800 … and I put points on the board for the team.”

As for this year’s team the other returning scorer is another pole vaulter,

junior Lucy Guy, who finished fourth among D-II girls in 2018. The next best result a year ago among returnees came from junior John Bent, who was ninth in the javelin.

Reynolds believes others could step up, including other throwers, seniors Peter Koenig and Nevin Jemison and sophomore Bridger Counter.

And freshman runners like Noah Engvall and Ruby Markowski did well in the cross-country season.

“I feel like this year we have some really incredible distance runners that have come to us as freshmen,” Reynolds said.

Reynolds also lists his son, sophomore sprinter Branden Reynolds as someone who could emerge at 100 and 200 meters.

He also noted that among the coaches not only he and Perta are Mount Abe graduates, but that description also fits volunteer assistants Todd Goodyear, Meridith McFarland and Carol Weston.

“We’re all invested,” Reynolds said.

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4/18 Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

4/20 @ Burlington 11 a.m.

4/23 @ Middlebury 4:30 p.m.

4/27 Missisquoi 11 a.m.

4/30 @ BFA Fairfax 4:30 a.m.

5/2 Milton 4:30 p.m.

5/6 @ Vergennes 4:30 p.m.

5/7 @ Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

5/9 @ Otter Valley 4:30 p.m.

5/11 Mt.Mansfield 10 a.m.

5/14 @ Missisquoi 4:30 p.m.

5/16 BFA Fairfax 4:30 p.m.

5/18 @ Milton 11 a.m.

5/21 Middlebury 4:30 p.m.

5/23 Spaulding 4:30 p.m.

Mt. Abe Varsity Softball Team Coach: Don McCormick Name Grade Ruby Ball 12 Cora Funke 12 Shealyn Layn 12 Jesslyn Murray 12 Molly Murray 12 Sam Rathbun 12 Erika Tracey 12 Carly Counter 11 Justice Green 11 Addy Harris 11 Abigail Hoff 11 Riley Mason 11 Carissa Livingston 10 Camilienne Masse 10 Liz Porter 10

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5/21 @ CVU 3:30 p.m.

4/18 @ Burlington 3:30 p.m.

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5/11 @ Burlington Invitational TBD Mt. Abe Varsity Track and Field Team Coaches: Nate Reynolds, Cam Perta Emmaline Heilman Name Grade Branden Reynolds Weston Allred 12 Abigail Roy Nevin Jemison 12 Isaiah Szczecinski Peter Koenig 12 Jacob Thomsen Oliver Roy 12 Hannah Zimmer Elizabeth Siminitis 12 Jonathan Armell Jasmine Stalcup 12 Hugh Ball John Bent 11 Eliza Bent Jnana Breck-Arndt 11 Bill Breault Lucy Guy 11 Isaac Clifford Charlotte Layn 11 Kaia Companion Sean Meyer 11 Jade Edwards Roza Stewart 11 Jack Eikenberg Ulysses Suazo 11 Noah Engvall Jack Beauchaine 10 Gavin Kouwenhoven Bridger Counter 10 Ruby Markowski Shea Cravens 10 Tristan Parker Liam Davison 10 Jesse Thomsen Isabella Emmons 10 Forrest Tillotson Sam Forbes 10 Alexander Yaggy Scout Hall 10

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VERGENNES

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Softball

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — New coach Travis Scribner hopes he can start pointing the Vergennes softball program upward again after its winless 2018 campaign, and he believes the building blocks are in place to do so.

To begin with, Scribner welcomes the second consecutive group of talented freshman into the varsity program. Among the projected starters, two are the team’s only seniors, four are sophomores, and three are freshmen who are veterans of winning middle school and Little League teams.

“The middle school had a real successful season,” he said. “So we’re going to continue to grow.

We have a young team, two seniors and the rest are all freshmen and sophomores.”

Scribner, a 1999 Mount Abraham graduate who wrestled and played baseball there, coached that group for most of the past nine years before throwing his hat in the ring when Mike Martin stepped down as the VUHS varsity coach.

Scribner watched Martin’s crew last year maintain a positive outlook despite its record, and considers that attitude another building block.

“The cohesion is there, lifting each other up, and that’s really what we need to start with as a foundation,”

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he said. “Maybe some of that is a product of last season, because you can’t make it through an 0-16 season without lifting each other’s spirits when you need to. It’s a really wonderful group of kids.”

The two seniors who will probably start are second baseman Sydney Tarte and left fielder Cheyenne Jewett, who could also toss a few innings on the mound.

But Scribner will hand the ball first to freshman Sierra Bertrand, with sophomore Ema Gernander also available. Bertrand fared well in middle school, Scribner said, and should thrive under the tutelage of former VUHS and Castleton University ace Taylor Paquette.

“She’s here working with our pitchers a few nights a week, and she’ll be at games. So we have the right person here to help the girls coming up to advance in that department,” he said.

Sophomore Karrie Ayer will handle the bulk of the catching, and freshman Felicia Poirier will line up at first base, with Bertrand also possible there.

Freshman Audrey Tembreull is the shortstop, and Gernander will start at third, Scribner said. Sophomore Jordan Norris can back up third base but will probably start in right field, while freshman Ella Hameline is available at middle infield, but can

Track and Field

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — There’s little doubt the Vergennes track and field team will make its mark at the Division III championship meet later this spring.

After all, the athletes who won four titles at the D-II indoor meet in February are all running for the Commodores this spring.

Senior Wade Mullin won at 600 meters back in February at the University of Vermont, and anchored the Commodores’ winning four-by-

800-meter and 4x400 teams, while sophomore Ben Huston claimed the 1,000-meter crown. They will stretch out to 800 and 1,500 meters, respectively, this spring.

Mullin and Huston ran together on the 4x800 team along with junior Erich Reitz and sophomore Gabe Praamsma to set a D-II record in February, and Mullin joined with seniors Ezekiel Palmer and Spencer Hurlburt and sophomore Xander DeBlois to win the 4x400.

Coach Brad Castillo thinks a

also play the outfield.

Scribner expects sophomore Jordan Kimball to start in center field, while sophomores Chloe Mailloux and Bethany Cram and freshman Audrey Scribner will also see time in the outfield.

Scribner said he will bring “high-paced, high-energy coaching style,” and that he has enjoyed his time coaching many of younger Commodores.

“It’s kind of an unfinished business with these kids, following them up through, and it’s been a great experience for me, and hopefully for them as well,” he said. “Ultimately

the girls are why I coach, to give them the most positive softball experience that they can have at their time at VUHS. That’s really what the common goal should be.”

That said, Scribner also expects the Commodores to gradually become more competitive this year and beyond.

“We’ll see how this season goes.

We know we have a lot of work to do. But we may surprise some people with the crop of freshman coming up,” he said. “They put a lot of work in in the offseason, too, to get better as well. So hopefully that will show up on the diamond.”

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number of other VUHS runners — and maybe some from among a trio of throwers — could also contribute to the team’s point total at the D-III meet.

“I’m happy with the way things are going right now. Everyone seems excited and ready to capitalize on the successful indoor season,” Castillo said. “We’ve got a chance at a few (titles), and everyone’s coming in ready to go.”

On the boys’ side Praamsma and Reitz ran 5-6 in the 1,000 in the winter, while Praamsma was sixth at 1,500 meters, with Reitz right on his heels.

And in the 2018 D-III title meet Palmer was sixth at 400 meters, and

junior Josias Salomao was 10th in the 100.

On the girls’ side this winter senior Cedar Winslow was fourth at 300 meters and seventh at 55, while senior Ashley Cray was sixth at 1,500 meters and fifth in the 3,000, with classmate Marin Howell on her heels in sixth.

In the spring of 2018 senior Olivia Hawkins was 10th in the high jump.

Two runners also return from the girls’ 4x100 team that was sixth in 2018, Winslow and junior Amber Krumrie. And reinforcements have arrived for that team: Senior Ciara McClay and freshman Rhode Miguel, who will also, like Winslow and Krumrie, run the 100 and 200.

That quartet has potential in the relay, Castillo said, and he will work with the newcomers on relay techniques.

“I’m putting a lot of eggs in the four-by-one basket,” he said.

Throwers have been rare at VUHS, but three seniors have signed up for both javelin and shot put: Emma Bryant, Maddy Smith and Gabe Quinto. Castillo said early results have been promising, even if he would like to find a specialist to help coach them.

“For the lack of throwing coaching I’ve done, we’re learning it all together. Even now they’re throwing it close to state qualifying distances,” he said. “We’re figuring it all out at the same time, and it’s been nice to see some aha moments.”

In all, Castillo expects the Commodores to enjoy the season and end up holding some hardware.

“I went into the indoor season with the idea we could win four, and we did it somehow,” Castillo said. “I think we can win four again, and we can make things harder for those bigger teams.

And we’re so well rounded right now with somebody covering most of the

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Vergennes Union High School Varsity Softball Team Coach: Travis Scribner Name Grade Cheyenne Jewett 12 Sydney Tarte 12 Karrie Ayer 10 Bethany Cram 10 Ema Gernander 10 Jordan Kimball 10 Chloe Mailloux 10 Jordan Norris 10 Sierra Bertrand 9 Ella Hameline 9 Felicia Poirier 9 Audrey Scribner 9 Audrey Tembreull 9

events we can score some points.”

And he expects to enjoy the season, but at the same time agreed it will be sad to know it will be the last for a senior class that has meant so much to the program.

“It will be very bittersweet,” Castillo said. “I’m going to love every second of that state meet. I’m also going to hate every second of that state meet.”

VUHS Varsity Track & Field Date Opponent/Event Time 4/12 @ Middlebury 3:30 p.m.

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By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — Coach Dwight Burkett’s Vergennes baseball program is coming off a five-win season, but not a discouraging one: The Commodores closed with three wins in five outings, including a first-round playoff victory in 2018.

A few key cogs from that squad have moved on, but Burkett in the preseason said he saw a group with talent and the right attitude to gel as the spring progressed.

“We could have a solid team.

We’ve just got some holes to fill, but the one thing I do like about this team is I feel a real strong work ethic,” Burkett said. “They take coaching well. They understand it’s not criticism. And they reach inside and find a way to make it better. That makes my job a lot easier.”

Two players who return will be the Stearns brothers, junior Jeff, who is back for his third year starting behind the plate, and sophomore Tucker, who projects as the team’s No. 1 pitcher and shortstop.

Burkett called the elder Stearns “a rock back there” behind the plate, and said Tucker Stearns has been thriving under the pitching tutelage of former VUHS and Castleton State all-star Devin Hayes, now a Middlebury College assistant.

“He’s really done a great job with Tucker,” Burkett said.

Baseball Sophomore Barrett Barrows, who Burkett said also worked hard in the offseason to improve, slots in at No. 2 in the rotation, with senior Cooper O’Brien and junior Aidan Gardner the top candidates to round out what could be a deep pitching rotation.

“The potential is there,” Burkett said, adding juniors Jake Russell, Zeke Clark and sophomore Jarret Muzzy are also likely to toss some innings.

O’Brien will probably start at first, Jake Russell ready to step in. Russell will also back up at catcher and could line up in the outfield, Burkett said, and should see plenty of time.

Muzzy is the likely starter at second base, with Barrows at third.

Junior Robbie Bicknell could also play middle infield, as could Clark or sophomore Jeremiah Moulton. All could be in the mix when Stearns, Barrows or Muzzy head to the mound.

Burkett was leaning toward Gardner in center and sophomore Xander DeBlois in left, noting that both cover plenty of ground. Russell and Bicknell are candidates for right field, as are seniors Austin Goodell and Ira White.

Burkett didn’t get into predicting wins and losses, but was happy to say he was confident a group that should be largely together this spring and next would be ready to give an

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Vergennes Union High School Baseball Team Coach: Dwight Burkett Name Grade Austin Goodell 12 Cooper O’Brien 12 Ira White 12 Robbie Bicknell 11 Zeke Clark 11 Aidan Gardner 11 Jeffrey Stearns 11 Barret Barrows 10 Xander DeBlois 10 Jeremiah Moulton 10 Jarret Muzzy 10 Jake Russell 10 Tucker Stearns 10 Vergennes Union High School Varsity Baseball Date Opponent/Event Time 4/11 Rice 4:30 p.m.

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honest effort each time out.

“I’m cautiously optimistic. I think we’ve got a pretty solid club,” he said. “You’ve got a core of good, blue-collar kids that want to play the game better. So that’s really all you can ask for as a coach.”

VUHS

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Girls’ Lacrosse

By ANDY KIRKALDY VERGENNES — The VergennesMount Abraham cooperative girls’ lacrosse program, which plays at VUHS and wears Commodore blue, is entering its third season at the varsity level after showing progress in year two. In 2018 the Commodores jumped from one win in their debut season to four victories a year ago after an influx of young talent.

Coach Marikate Kelley hopes history will repeat itself with another group of freshmen joining the program, most of whom played on a league championship middle school team in 2018. They will blend in with team that she said gained important varsity time this past spring.

“We’ve got a bunch of ninthgraders with some good lacrosse experience coming in. We’ve kind of shifted the tone in the past three years so people understand what it’s like to be on a varsity program,” Kelley said. “I’m really excited to see how it all shapes up.”

It remains a young team, with only two seniors: team leader and midfielder Jalen Cook and backup goalie Lilly Goodyear. Of the other 14 on the roster, only three are juniors, the versatile duo of Emma Beauchemin and Leah Croke, and Siobhan Eagan, who will see time on the attack.

But Kelley notes many of the six

sophomores and five freshmen have played other varsity sports as well as plenty of lacrosse.

“It’s a really young team. But for a young team they seem to understand what it’s like to play at a varsity level,” she said. “It’s nice to have some kids coming in who have experienced that.”

Starting in the back, sophomore Ashley Tierney returns in goal.

Kelley was leaning toward starting Beauchemin on defense to anchor the back line, and Croke could play there, too. Two other sophomores are defenders, Hannah Kelly and Savannah Scrodin, although Kelly could also line up at attack. Two freshmen, Txuza Konczal and Elena Bronson, round out the defensive corps, with Bronson also a possibility to move up front.

Cook will be a mainstay at midfield, along with most likely Croke and freshman Grace Harvey and Molly Laurent.

The attack features Eagan; sophomores Harriet Anderson, Marley Keith and Sophie Davis; and freshman Ryley Olsen, with Kelly and Bronson ready to join in.

Asked what the positives of the group were, Kelley noted that 11 of the athletes broke seven minutes in a mile run, and several others were close behind.

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and stamina. And then I think we’re getting better at catching and passing the ball,” she said. “I think along with the speed and endurance we have some kids who are really aggressive. They’re going hard at those loose balls.”

To sum up, Kelley expects more progress from the program.

“We’ll be stronger this year than we were last year,” she said. “I’ve got a lot of kids who worked hard in the offseason to get better. And then we’ve got some freshmen who are going to make a difference right away.”

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