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Hunter Kaltsas’ life has gone full circle; a full circle dug in the earth by the excavators he runs. Kaltsas, the owner of Hunter Excavating Inc., just broke ground on a summer project on a new arts building dedicated to the memory of his late mother on the spacious grounds of Stratton Mountain School, a private high school academy run by his father, the headmaster. It is fitting that he has returned to the secondary school he attended as a teen, the school that his mother loved, because it was in high Crews work on the new commercial building dedicated to Hunter Kaltsas’s late school that Kaltsas first saw mother at the Stratton Mountain High School. bulldozers outside his cafeteria windows. The excavators dug up the asphalt while project and needed a bulldozer operator. sparking his interest in that “He asked me if I wanted kind of work. “I remember being in high to come run the bulldozer,” said Kaltsas. “At that time, I school, and there was a large had never even run a farm construction project going on right outside the cafeteria tractor. I went and worked for him for three weeks and window, and instead of ran a D61 Komatsu.” focusing of what was going on in school, I focused on A native of ConcordCarlyle, Mass., his family what was going on outside,” said Kaltsas. “During any Hunter Kaltsas takes a break on trees his crew moved to Stratton Mountain, Vt., when he was 13 for ski break I had in the school day, removed. I’d watch the men work and racing. “My father retired from being a lawyer and became headsort of fell in love with the machinery.” Kaltsas founded Hunter Excavating Inc. in 2005, but he is master of a local ski resort school, Stratton Mountain High, not typical of the construction workers who started after the a private high school. I went to the school and was a ski racer Great War, or who learned at the knees of their father, grand- at the time,” said Kaltsas. Later, Kaltsas attended the University of Vermont, studied father or uncle. Kaltsas’ father is a retired attorney and his mother was an interior decorator. natural resources and skied on a team. Soon he enjoyed the Kaltsas had his first lesson running equipment as a teenag- mountains for entirely different reasons. er. A friend, Josh Applegate, was working on an excavation see HuNtEr page 4