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February 5, 2011 Middlebury Business
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VERMONT OUTDOORS
Trapping attracts young Vermonters By the Eagle staff
By Lou Varricchio
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newmarketpress@denpubs.com Brian Emilo Webb of Middlebury isn’t your stereotypical Vermont hunter or trapper. The 25year-old college educated trapper appr oaches his passion for the outdoor lifestyle by studying natural r esource management at Paul Smith’s College in the Adir ondacks. Like many young outdoorsmen and women of his generation, he appr oaches his trade with an eye on V ermont’s precious hunting heritage and a new emphasis on, and respect for, the environment. “There’s a sad misunderstanding about the value of hunting, fishing and trapping here in Vermont. The outdoor community of sportsmen and women
MIDDLEBURY — A popular song during the 1970s claimed that “everything old is new again.” Certainly in the case of Middlebury’s Trackside Depot, old is definitely new — and on the upscale. The historic Rutland Railroad passenger and freight depot has been a landmark on Seymour Str eet, with its trackside facing the Marbleworks, since the early years of the 20th century. Today, a few V ermont Railway trains r umble past the depot, but they haul industrial materials and or e mined nearby; they no longer stop to take on water, coal or passengers. Now owners Steve and Mar cia Dupoise of T rackside Depot LLC have r ecaptured the look of V ermont’s vanished passenger rail days. The husband-and-wife team spent considerable effort — and capital — during 2010 and on into the new year refurbishing the classic structure. Area architect Jean Terwilliger worked with the Dupoises to create an attractive and functional office building that remained true to its historic past. It is now Middlebury’s newest and most intriguing downtown commercial address.
See DEPOT, page 8 Brian Emilo Webb with his coon dog Duke and pellts harvested in Vermont and New York. Eagle photo
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Students wait to leave Egypt uprising By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com MIDDLEBURY — It became the a year of living dangerously for 22 Middlebury College students stuck in Egypt during the current uprising. All 22 students studying with Middlebury College’s program in Alexandria, Egypt, have made it safely to the Alexandria airport, according to college off icials. Jeff Cason, dean of international programs, assured parents Jan. 29 that
the airport is secure and guarded by the army. “Two Middlebury staff members are with the students at the airport, and staff in the International Programs office in Middlebury are in regular contact with our staf f in Egypt. We expect that the students will be leaving the Alexandria airport tomorrow, and that their first stop outside Egypt will be Athens, from where students will travel back to the United States,” Cason said in a memo. “We will provide further updates when they become available.”
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Vermont state budget: Austere, sobering By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Vermont’s newly elected head-ofstate, Gov. Peter Shumlin (D), said the state’s fiscal 2012 budget plan is “austere, sobering” but it must be linked to health car e r eform if it is to succeed. Most state Republicans appear to support the new governor ’s budget, saying it emphasizes cuts in human-services instead of burdening working Vermonters by increasing taxes.
Trackside Depot on Seymour Street in Middlebury
In short, Shumlin wants to leverage taxes on health-car e pr oviders plus cuts in related programs to erase a $176 million shortfall in the state’s ailing general fund. And j ust a s P resident O bama’s n ational health car e plan was being r epealed by the new GOP-majority U.S. Congress last week, Shumlin was touting a s ingle-payer h ealth-care s ystem for Vermont. “We will work together to pass a bill... that puts Vermont on a solid road
to single-payer health car e and we must do it befor e we adjourn this spring,” Shumlin told house members during his budget address on Jan. 25. The governor ’s proposed budget reductions include the following (and re ductions in dollars): •Vermont Health Access will absorb Catamount Health to form a single health-care offering ($5 million r eduction).
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