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Bristol cop leaves Full Steam Ahead woman cuffed to wall SOUTH BURLINGTON — A Bristol police officer allegedly left Chantel Storti handcuffed to a wall outside of a South Burlington prison for nearly 30 minutes last week. The incident stems from an interdepartment squabble over where the woman was to be housed. According to news reports, Storti was underdressed for the winter weather when she was left outside the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility. Prison guards called the Vermont State Police in response to the incident. Troopers arrived on the scene to investigate the bizarre happening. The incident and the Bristol Police Department are now the subject of a criminal investigation by the state police.
Get your local crime records online The Vermont Criminal Information Center (VCIC), a program of the Criminal Justice Services of the Vermont Department of Public Safety, announced last week that they have launched a new service that allows citizens and businesses to retrieve Vermont criminal conviction records over the Internet. The service is available through the state’s official website, http://www.vermont.gov. In 2008, the Vermont Legislature passed a new law allowing for Vermont criminal conviction records to be purchased and retrieved online. The legislation allows anyone to obtain a criminal conviction report on any person for any reason provided they have the individual’s name and date of birth. Online requests will be queried against the Vermont criminal record repository maintained by the VCIC. Only conviction information or a no record response is returned to the service user. “We are very pleased to be able to offer this important service to our customers,” said Bruce Parizo, deputy director of VCIC. “Users can now immediately get access to criminal conviction records by using the online service. In addition, the service allows users to submit feedback if they believe a record is in error.” A criminal conviction record is a record of conviction in a Vermont district court. Each record currently costs $20 per request. On July 1, 2009 the cost will increase to $30 per request. Users may securely pay for the service with a credit card. Authorized Vulnerable Population agencies will be able to use the service without charge. The easy to use service guides users through a brief “User Agreement” that outlines authorized uses of the conviction record. Users can then search for a record by name and date of birth, using up to two additional aliases for each search. Users also have the ability to validate the authenticity of a record at no cost through a simple form. Conviction record service will benefit employers, individuals and other groups doing background investigations by providing the records immediately from any computer with internet access. This is in contrast to the seven to 10 day wait period required for a mail-in request. Monthly billing is available for companies and agencies that need to run large numbers of record checks. The Vermont Criminal Conviction Record Internet Service (VCCRIS) provides a public resource by allowing ready access to the most complete and accurate criminal conviction reports available.
Capt. Steve Pond, a Middlebury native, skippers the Lake Champlain M.V. Cumberland ferry between Addison and Crown Point. After a full week of operation, the new, temporary ferry service broke records for winter crossings. A second ferry boat was added to accommodate more commuters. Photo by Lou Varricchio
Vermont’s disappearing gold mines Rush was centered around Plymouth Five Corners and lasted four years. In true frontier-style, hotels and saloons sprung up in Five Corners to
Vermont‘s Windsor County gold field was forgotten—until a brief, final spurt in the 1880s. The town of Five Corners was abanThe heyday of Vermont’s gold rush doned in the 1860s. All that remay have been a small dab of mained were cellar holes, stone paint on the state’s 215-year-old sluice walls, and rare privy artiIn 1884 the Rooks Mine was historic canvas, but the remains facts. of nearly a dozen mines and test top news here since it was For professional outdoor guide shafts pepper the landscape in producing $50-ton ore. But things and veteran caver Rick Pingree of the Bridgewater-Plymouth area Rutland the gold rush-era history changed in 1887. The Rooks was of Windsor County. of Vermont is a treasure that deWindsor County was the prime bankrupt, and the last stage of the serves better; the period is sadly focus of Vermont's 1850s-1880s Vermont gold rush was over ignored by most historians pergold rush era. — Rick Pingree haps due to its lack of many writIn 1855, a California gold minten and photographic records. er returning home to Vermont Not a single state historic roadfound gold flakes and a small side marker stands to commemorate service miners, merchants and hangers nugget in Reading Pound Brook. Withon. However, by 1861—when civil Vermont's forgotten gold-rush era; yet in a few months, Reading Pound, Broad the state has erected markers to recogstrife broke out between the North and and Buffalo brooks were swarming nize far less historically significant South—young Vermonters headed off with panners looking for gold. events and individuals. for battlefields instead of the Windsor The first-phase of Vermont’s Gold gold fields. See GOLD, page 11
By Lou Varricchio
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