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From News & Staff Reports newmarketpress@denpubs.com MIDDLEBURY — On the weekend of Aug. 24-25 Two Brothers Tavern and Otter Creek Brewing will be teaming up for the third annual Two Brothers Tavern and Otter Creek Customer Appreciation Weekend to benefit the Porter Hospital Breast Cancer Screening Project. The weekend will include live entertainment, free food giveaways and a fundraising raffle with prizes generously donated by Otter Creek Brewery, Noonie Deli, artist Nancie Dunn, the Waybury Inn, Poet Ted Scheu and Two Brothers Tavern. This year ’s fundraiser will also feature a volleyball tournament on Saturday at the Middlebury Recreational Park hosted by Green Mountain Volleyball. A portion of each team’s entry fee will go to sponsor the Porter Hospital Breast Cancer Screening Project. For more information on how to register a team, go to vermontvolleyball@gmail. com. The Porter Hospital Breast Cancer Screening Project was created in 1990 to help provide free mammograms to uninsured and under insured women throughout Addison County and beyond. Over the course of its service, it has helped provide mammograms for hundreds of women who wouldn’t otherwise have such healthcare available to them. Of the program, Porter Hospital President James L. Daily said, “The Porter See BREAST CANCER, page 11
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Ghosts of Irene: one year after the flood The significant cost of Aug. 28, 2011
By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com MIDDLEBURY — The images still haunt us—a large section of U.S. Route 4 in Mendon washed away with a small, eroded canyon wall left in the wake; a portion of hyper-saturated Bethel Mountain slipped away into the valley below; the U.S. Route 7 bridge spanning the Cold River, located south of Rutland, collapsed into the raging chaos below; houses, barns, garages, and bridges washed away into oblivion in the Bridgewater-Plymouth area; the “eternal” rest of souls interred in the Windsor Hillside Cemetery was forever disrupted when tombstones and skeletal remains disappeared into a muddy torrent; several historic, iconic covered bridges were destroyed or damaged; See IRENE, page 5
A year after Irene, a sugar house along Route 100, near Ludlow, is still choked by sand berms resulting from cyclonic flooding of the Black River. A collection box asks passersby to contribute loose change. Photo by Lou Varricchio
Cider producer hands 'Longbow' import rights to Heineken By Lou Varricchio
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The Strongbow brand is among the top ten cider drinks, by sales, in English and Welsh pubs and bars. Officials of the Vermont Hard Cider Company, based in Middlebury, announced an agreement with Heineken of the Netherlands to transfer the brand's U.S. importation rights to Heineken USA. File photo courtesy of Strongbow
MIDDLEBURY — Officials of the Vermont Hard Cider Company, based in Middlebury, announced an agreement with Heineken of the Netherlands to transfer its importation rights to Strongbow-brand hard cider in the United States. Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, Vermont Hard Cider will cease being the U.S. importer of the cider. Heineken USA will become the brand's new importer to America. The Strongbow brand is among the top ten drinks, by sales, in English and Welsh pubs and bars. It has enjoyed 500 percent growth; it is the second largest cider brand in the United States. "We are proud of our accomplishments and the momentum we built with Strongbow and wish Heineken USA the best in furthering its success," according to a news statement by Vermont Hard Cider. "This change in our portfolio and operation will not change our course as the leading hard cider company in the country. No jobs will be lost. The plans for a new $24 million cidery in Middlebury remain intact and are moving forward." The new statement also noted that the 2011-12 period has seen a growth spurt for the cider industry in the U.S. However, increased competition has created greater shelf exposure for all cider makers domestically and abroad.
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