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The Logger takes issue with Snowflake Bentley and his chilly theory.
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Many fall victim to sub-zero temps Arctic cold knocks out power to thousands By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com If you were waiting for global warming to help reduce your annual winter heating bill — fah get about it. The coldest air mass of the 2010-2011 winter season is stalled above the Champlain Valley. There’s certainly no sign of global warming this year, at least in the North Country. Early Monday morning Jan. 24 in Middlebury saw temperatures ranging from 13 to 15 below zero. Several low spots in the valley region of Addison County may have seen temperatures to 25 below — possibly lower. Around 4:30 a.m., Jan. 24, over 2,300 households in Addison County were without power according to Central Vermont Public Service. Many of the customers were in the Leicester area. A power line snapped at the Leicester substation causing the outage. CVPS crews restored by 8:30 a.m. The Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union, including Brandon schools, delayed the start of classes by two hours Jan. 24 due to frozen fuel lines in a number of school buses. So far, the winter of 2010-2011 has been cold and snowy breaking several records for extremes and snowfall. A coastal storm was predicted to approach the area Jan. 26-28. Snow was expected to be more prevelant east and south of the Vergennes-Middlebury corridor.
BACKROADS—This snow-covered U.S. Forest Service access road in the Green Mountain National Forest was deserted last week after another fresh blanket of snow. The road, which branches off Route 125 in Ripton, is located near the slopes of Mt. Grant in Vermont’s Presidential subrange. Photo by Lou Varricchio
The shadow scorpion knows
Citizens meet to plan lake bridge festivities
Vermont man claims life as gov’t assassin
By Lou Varricchio
By Lou Varricchio
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A new public committee organized and met Jan. 24 to begin planning a bistate celebration that will open the new Lake Champlain Bridge now under construction between Vermont and New York. Currently on schedule, the span will open sometime in October this year barring unforeseen delays; no exact opening date hasn't been established. The old bridge was blown up in a much publicized event Dec. 28, 2009. After years of neglect along with fingerpointing by residents and businessowners on both sides of the big lake, the structure was finally considered unsafe and demolished. Officials of the Lake Champlain Bridge planning committee said they hope to model the autumn 2011 celebration after the celebration which christened the first bridge prior to the earthshaking 1929 Stock Market Crash. The new committee members met at the Crown Point Historic Site Museum, introduced themselves, and planned to hold future meetings at the locale; the meetings are open to private citizens, business owners, and government officials. The kickoff meeting began with a call for volunteers to help staff event planning subcommittees as well as help create and coordinate various activities.
According to the recently published autobiography of Vermont author White Wolf Von Atzingen, U.S. CIA agents are tracking the lives of selected American youth; their mis-
White Wolf Von Atzingen
sion: prepare these individuals for nefarious, stealth tasks in foreign and domestic espionage and mayhem. Titled “Shadow Scorpion: Memoirs of an Assassin,” the Starksboro, Vt.-based author tells the fantastic story of how he was abducted by the so-called secret government and trained in elite and shadowy methods of assassination. Readers of Von Atzingen’s book may have to suspend their disbelief as they become fully engaged in this true life thriller. Von Atzingen claims, cover-to-cover,it’s all true. In the end, the reader will have to take his word for it to go along for the amazing ride. Given the first name White Wolf by his post-Woodstock hippy parents homesteading in Pennsylvania, Von Atzingen said he wrote the tell-all book to heal. “I have lived a life of extreme struggles against all odds with a broken state of consciousness,” he said. “I have survived many trials and experiences that can only be described as a living hell.” In one case, the author reports being poisoned and later recovering in a Colorado hospital; he emerged from the bizarre ordeal with only vague memories of what actually happened. Beginning life in the Appalachian woodlands of Pennsylvania, Von Atzingen became a solitary youth and was drawn to living close to nature. He claims that he was kidnapped by government agents driving a van while he was in his teens; he was treated well and then trained to be an assassin.
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