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MIDDLEBURY — It was no April Fool’s joke, and it proved to be very good news for a Ripton family and the Middlebury College community. College officials received word April 1 that junior student Pathik “Tik” Root, 21, of Ripton, who had been detained by authorities while studying in Syria this spring, was released from custody.

Root had studied in Egypt earlier this year and resumed his foreign studies in Syria. He had been reported missing March 16. His father, a professor at the college, later reported that his son was being detained in Syria.

The student’s amateur video footage of this year ’s Egyptian uprising had been broadcast around the world on CNN-TV. Emergency law in Syria had been suspended which cast a doubt over the whereabouts of Root last month.

Middlebury College President Ron Liebowitz released a statement to the public April 1 about the student’s ultimate release: “I want to express how very happy the Middlebury College community is that Tik Root, ‘12, has been released to the U.S. Embassy in Damascus. Faculty, staff, and students have anxiously awaited news about Tik's status throughout the two-week period when he was first missing and then in Syrian custody.

“We are thrilled for his parents, Tom Root and Andi Lloyd, and their family now that they will be reunited, and we all look forward to seeing Tik when he returns to Vermont.

“The college has received a great deal of support in its efforts to assist the family in obtaining Tik's release, and we are enormously grateful.

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Think Global Teacher Huiling Xu of Shanghai, China, is teaching Neshobe Elementary School students about the Chinese language, arts and culture. She will return home to her husband and daughter later this year.

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It’s a small world at Neshobe School

Australians, Chinese in Vermont

By Lou Varricchio

newmarketpress@denpubs.com BRANDON — For teachers, staff and students enrolled at the Neshobe Elementary School this year, the world has come to their doorstep.

The Brandon school community has enjoyed befriending a visiting Australian student, his teacher parents, and a special guest Chinese teacher. And for this rural school, these foreign faces have been a sturdy bridge of friendship across many thousands of miles.

Australian married couple Leon Syme and Mar-

garet Mulvey, of Humpty Doo, N.T., along with their children Neva and Charlie Syme, have been in residence here since last fall. The husband and wife teaching team qualified for a two-year-long sabbatical from their Australian jobs; they chose to travel the world with their children. They included three months in Vermont to learn more about life here as well as observe local teaching methods.

Both Syme children are enrolled in the Rutland Northeast Supervisory Union. Neva is an 8th grader at Otter Valley High School and Charlie is a third grader at Neshobe School.

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Middlebury College increases student fees From News Reports MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College has set its comprehensive fee for the 2011-12 academic year at $53,420, a 2.5 percent increase from the current year's figure of $52,120.

Middlebury's comprehensive fee includes tuition, room and board. Adding in a mandatory student activities fee, unchanged this year at $380, brings the total to $53,800, versus $52,500 for the current year. Those numbers do not include books, personal expenses or travel to and from the college.

The fee increase was approved by the board of trustees at its meeting on Feb. 19. As a percentage, the increase is the smallest at Middlebury since at least 1970, and is in keeping with a college pledge to limit comprehensive fee increases to no more than 1 percentage point above the Consumer Price Index.

In February 2010, Middlebury adopted a policy that limits increases in the comprehensive fee to no more than 1 percentage point (100 basis points) above the annual increase in the Consumer Price Index, as determined at the end of the previous calendar year. President Ronald D. Liebowitz, cit-

ing the need to control the cost of a liberal arts education, proposed the "CPI + 1" initiative, and the strategy was endorsed by the board of trustees.

The CPI rose 1.5 percent in 2010, according to government figures, which meant Middlebury's fee increase for 2011-12 would be no more than 2.5 percent.

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From massacre to building a nation Vermont town was fuse of rebellion

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newmarketpress@denpubs.com WESTMINSTER — “Who, but the heroes of Vermont, were first to strike the blow? At Lexington and Bunker, before a martyr bled, the blood of that glorious war, at Westminster was shed.” — Charles G. Eastman Westminster. Off hand, this sleepy Vermont village doesn’t conjure up rebels, redcoats, or revolutions yet with less than 3,100 residents today, Westminster might very well force a few revisions to history textbooks—at least if one Vermont historian gets her way.

For before the Battles of Lexington and Concord there was—the Westminster Massacre. And then came author and historian Jesse Haas, 236 years later.

Haas's’ new book, titled “Revolutionary Westminster” (The History Press • ISBN:978-1-60949-1666 • Paperback • 176 pages • $19.99 • 2011), may help rewrite those dog-eared patriotic texts. The book should become the definitive history of the true, first shot-heardround-the-world.

While Massachusetts has long been blessed the cradle of the American Revolution, the Green Mountain State deserves a lot more of the limelight. After all the first American blood shed in the War of Independence was right here, on Vermont soil.

On March 13, 1775, a little over a month before Lexington and Concord, Westminster Whigs (later the

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Republicans) endured an attack from the local Loyalist sheriff— William Paterson, an Irish immigrant—and his surly men that left two local patriots, William French and Daniel Houghton, dead.

Sheriff Paterson led his Loyalist posse that day from the nearby Tory Tavern and marched the musketeers to the courthouse. It was said Paterson shouted to the posse, “Fire on them, God damn ye, and send them all to Hell!”

In response to the cold-blooded killing of French and Houghton, people of Windham County—and far beyond—rose up following what became known as the Westminster Massacre.

“Really, it’s a wonder there was only one Westminster Massacre,” Haas said. “It was a confused and passionate time. Vermont towns were granted by three different colonies. Westminster alone had four charters. A new king trying to close a budget deficit, growing sentiment for independence, jurisdictional confusion: Vermont was a revolutionary incident waiting to happen.”

The small but bloody event in Westminster had big implications when viewed from today’s perspective; it set the stage for Vermont’s eventual secession from the British Province of New York (and those other pesky claimants as well). It also established Vermont’s position as the lodestone of American independence, both during and after the war. For even as the new United States of America was born, Vermont wandered off on its own short-lived experiment in independence—as a free, unfettered republic—before returning to the continental fold as the fourteenth

state in 1791.

In her book, Haas vividly retells the story of this real first battle of the American Revolution and Windham County’s role throughout the war.

And in Haas’s case, too, the apple of Vermont independence hasn’t fallen far from the Liberty Tree.

She grew up in Westminster on a farm owned, back in Revolutionary War times, by militia man and Continental soldier John Wells.

Haas’s parents were the inspiration to the author; they were always interested in local history including appearing around town as costumed reactors of the massacre event. Of course, as a youngster, Haas wasn’t too interested in what her parents were doing but later it all clicked.

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of the massacre by local school children but it hasn’t been done in awhile,” she said. “There’s still strong memory of the event locally but some of our newcomers aren’t aware of it.”

Haas has found her creative voice in Vermont and is also no stranger to the rugged pioneering lifestyle of the Revolutionary era.

She and her husband, anti-nuclear activist Michael J. Daley, built their own cabin where they live, off-the-grid; it’s one way to escape the prying eyes of 21st-century equivalents of 18th-century Loyalists.

“It’s probably an uphill battle to think textbooks will be revised to include the Westminster Massacre,” Haas said, “but we can hope.”

A graduate of Wellesley College,

Haas is the author of over 30 award-winning books for children and young adults, including several historical novels. But her prime interest is now American history and the shots fired in Westminster that started a great rebellion. And from the author ’s bloody hometown soil sprang a state, a nation, a beacon of freedom.

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Oil, gas and Vermont

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hen I hear some politicians talk about “energy independence” today I don’t believe a word they say. How could they be serious about America’s energy independence when they still discount developing abundant fossil fuel, nuclear, and other energy resources right here at home? Yes, that includes drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and elsewhere — maybe even here in Vermont. Yes, I said drilling in Vermont.

When I think of the term “energy independence,” I certainly don’t limit my thinking to simply “green,” renewable resources. I am not that narrow minded. I consider renewables, fossil fuels, hydro, geothermal, and nuclear fuels as part of the bigger picture — all important stepping stones on the painful but necessary path to U.S. energy independence.

As far as our national energy policy goes, when only narrow political agendas are being considered, well, I distrust both the agendas and the folks proposing them.

Take Vermont’s congressman, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D). He is outraged about rising gasoline prices. Me, too. But, instead of being open minded about all the energy options here at home, he proposes, instead, to tap the rainy day strategic oil reserve — yet what about drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska and elsewhere? The idea appears far off the Congressman’s radar screen.

So, in my estimation, Congressman Welch isn’t the least bit serious about reducing America’s dependence on foreign oil.

Did you know that Vermont has considerable promise as a source for natural gas and possibly some petroleum reserves?

Since the mid 1950s, over two dozen energy concerns have probed our area for natural gas and oil deposits.

This mid-20th century exploration boom was focused in the Champlain Valley lowlands along the Vermont border with Quebec; the technical results of several geological surveys were — and remain — highly encouraging. What limited more finetuned exploration here was the drilling technology of the era. The area was last probed seriously during the 1970s. Since then, however, drilling technologies have improved tenfold with newer, stronger alloys and synthetics along with more sensitive instrumentation.

Even today, natural gas occurs regularly

in a number of deep water wells in northern Vermont. This indicates a gas potential that deserves more serious investigation using 21st-century technology. Some commercial-level, gas-producing wells have already been drilled in the St. Lawrence lowlands, south of Montreal, by Canadian concerns. There’s strong evidence that these same deposits underlie nearby Vermont and New York.

The basin of ancient Cambrian and Ordovician age sedimentary rock in the northern Champlain Valley is the key terrain feature that warrants a resumption of oil and gas exploration.

Although only traces of crude oil have been found in Vermont so far (using 1960s detection technology), several natural gas wells of commercial potential have been reported, yet the focus on drilling turned elsewhere. Well, it’s time to look closer to home agian and resume the exploration of oil and gas here in Vermont.

In 1973, geologist Lincoln Page of the U.S Geological Survey reported that northern Vermont has significant uranium deposits, too. He said abundant uranium also occurs in southern Vermont. So, while nuclear power remains controversial, there are ample uranium ore deposits to mine and process for use in reactors right here at home, if needed.

And since 1999, we have learned that Vermont might be a good location for deep-drilling to access geothermal energy.

We have the technology today to drill far into the crust to tap the limitless heat of the inner Earth.

So, the Green Mountain State is good for more than just wood, wind, solar and biomass energy resources. Vermont is a multifaceted energy diamond that is worth exploring more. So what are we waiting for?

There are always risks in developing and using intensive energy resources, but U.S. energy independence will take vision and require some risks; the alternatives to the nation are even costlier.

Yes, we have the energy. Now let’s get to work.

Louis Varricchio

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The high price of static analysis obstinacy

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f I had my druthers, one of them would be enforcement of that very basic rule-of-justice used by the retail antique industry: if you break it, you’ve bought it. I’d apply it to a particular mode of breakage caused by the political class as they continue to use a practice which, by now, you’d think, they’d have to recognize doesn’t work.

It’s called static analysis, and it’s based on the law-makers’ interesting notion that, if they change some of their laws, the citizenry subject to those laws won’t change some of their own behaviors in response.

Scottish economist Adam Smith knew (and wrote) better in the 18th century, when he codified in print the observeable truth that, in trade for example, changing the rules—the price for a product or service— triggers an inverse change in the buyer response.

In Economics 101 I was taught to call it the supply-demand curve. I wasn’t taught anything about its applicability to taxation; back then, the Laffer Curve’s illustration of lower tax rates producing higher tax revenues was still a couple of decades in the future.

At about the same time that Laffer was doodling charts on restaurant napkins, professional economists began using the

labels “static analysis” for law-makers’ policies which don’t recognize predictable tax-avoidance behavior, and “dynamic analysis” for policies which do.

On the “you-break-it-youbought-it” side, if I had my druthers, there’d be suitable penalty, fiscal preferred (beyond mere capitol-building defenestration) for law-makers who get their taxpayers into deep-debt by increasing spending (and tax levels) by refusing to recognize (static analysis) that revenues won’t rise just because marginal rates do, or new targets are selected.. And the same goes for the universal health-care problem. Here, Tennessee has posted a classic case-study example, and Vermont is about to.

The Tennessee example, called TennCare, is now some 17 years old.

TennCare’s first budget, $2.64 billion, was based on a not very dynamic analysis of the increase in health-care-service demand as a half-million more previously uninsured or uninsurable mostly low-income consumers were given access to “expanded Medicaid”, or “TennCare Standard”, for modest premiums and co-pays.

By 2005 the budget had grown past $8.5 billion. As both Adam Smith and Arthur Laffer had earlier observed and codified, consumer demand and participation see MARTIN HARRIS, page 14

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y beloved Goddaugher went into labor two hours ago. She’s going to give birth to Anthony Cerminara. That will make me a grand Godfather right? How I love that. In the scheme of life, grand Godfathering carries some weight.

On another subject - For no reason other than you may have experienced the same thing I did this winter regarding leakage - in your home - I’m going to become a niche columnist this week. The niche is home care.

I’ve not had any trouble with my house for 6 years, beyond a few small barely noticeable cracks in the sheet rock. The house has stayed true, perched on a mountaintop where the wind blows gales with such ferocity, that some nights I feel the entire house might topple over.

One afternoon in February I was surprised to notice a trickle of water on the inside pane of a four paned window at the entrance of my home. I dabbed at the water, tilted open the window, and stuffed part of a paper towel in between the window frame and it’s casing. The towel seemed to sop up the entire flow and I went to bed figuring I’d need to have my roof looked at.

The outside temperature that day, and the next, was no lower then 25 degrees, but the trickle was there a second day. I repeated the towel effort, and it stopped the flow again.

I ran the leak history by my painter buddy who seemed to think I shouldn’t worry that my house was going to fall in. He mentioned that sometimes snow and ice on a roof melts in such a way that it gets pushed up and into cracks and crevices and accumulates where it normally wouldn’t,

and causes leaks. He told me to keep an eye on the leak area, but said it would probably stop.

He was right.

By February, snow accumulation was above the norm, so around mid-winter all hang broke loose at hardware stores as folks everywhere felt their roofs might cave-in. Roof rakes where selling like, roof rakes during extra snowy winters.

Round about the first part of February I noticed that several boards had buckled in my great room creating a heave, back where my cat Scarlet’s bed is. A week or two later I noticed another spot, not as big, a foot from the original spot. The rest of the room, some 800 sqaure feet, showed no sign of tweakage.

I like to keep my house up to snuff, so I called a carpenter who had put the floor down to come and check it out.

He came and figured what he’d need to fix it . He’s a quiet guy, but his face showed he was curious. I asked what he thought might have cause the buckle, and he said he’d just worked on a home with a similar problem that he figured was caused by a leak near a dormer. He mentioned he’d heard lots of folks, builders included, had reported leaks in their homes this winter that they’ve never had before. And they’d all suspected it was the fault of the winter ’s wild snowy personality.

My problem boards were also by a dormer, and I told the carpenter about the little leak I’d had earlier in the winter, and said that it had been the first ever in my house.

We deduced the buckled boards had most likely been see LOGGER, page 14

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Briefs Boys & Girls Club receives grant VERGENNES — The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Vergennes was awarded a Prevention Framework Grant to build upon the existing prevention systems in the local community and to address making positive changes in high risk drinking among young adults.

The club was awarded for its efforts to increase young adult knowledge around the consequences of drinking and driving through a campaign. Through a focus group, club participants came up with a campaign that included: Advertisement on face book, sticker shock and coasters with the message “DUI Affects All.” The campaign involved the support of local business such as Shaws in Vergennes and The Vergennes Redemption store participating in young adult sticker shock and the local bar City Limits using coasters from our campaign within the bar.

“I am happy to put the coasters in the bar to help support the efforts of the campaign,” said Brett Ward, owner of City Limits.

Student heads up fundraiser LINCOLN — Clarkson University student Adam Rainville, of Lincoln, is heading up a regional effort for the Clarkson University Leadership Corp by raising money for the new Center for Cancer Care at Canton Potsdam Hospital. Rainville is a freshman studying engineering and management at Clarkson. For more information, e-mail crista@culeadershipcorps.com.

Local students on Tufts Dean’s List MEDFORD, MASS. — Tufts University recently announced the Dean’s List for the Fall 2010 semester.

Among these students are Benjamin Chamberlain, of Goshen, class of 2013; and Jeremy Peterson, of Middlebury, class of 2011.

Mendell on Dean’s List ITHACA, N.Y. — MollyRose Mendell, daughter of James Mendell and Peg Kamens of Saint George, was named to the Dean’s List at Ithaca College’s Roy H. Park School of Communications for the fall 2010 semester. To qualify for this academic honor, students must attain a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and complete a minimum of 15 credit hours, of which at least 12 are graded.

‘Good Earth’ program at Ilsley MIDDLEBURY — On several Fridays this month, April 8, 15, 22, 29, at 3:30-4:30 p.m., join Middlebury College students Anoushka and Gillian at the Ilsley Public Library in Middlebury to celebrate Mother Nature. Each week, with local children, the students will present “The Good Earth” which includes reading books and creating crafts that focus on environmental themes. The program is geared fro children grades K-2.

Garden talk at Sheldon Museum MIDDLEBURY — On April 17, 2-3 p.m., a special Spring Garden talk will be held at the Sheldon Museum.

Titled, “The Three Bs — Gardening for Birds, Bees and Butterflies,”the talk will discuss how the plants in the garden can provide a habitat to attract, feed and host butterflies, moths, bees and birds throughout the growing season in a talk by local gardener Jane Burton. A plant list will be provided to participants. The fee is $10. Space is limited, and advance registration is recommended. For information or to reserve a space, call the Sheldon at 802388-2117. The Sheldon Museum is located at 1 Park St. in Middlebury across from the Ilsley Public Library.

Fire station to hold breakfast ADDISON — An all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast will be held Sunday, April 17, 7-11 a.m, at the Addison Fire Station located at the junction of Routes 17 and 22A in Addison. Price is $6/adults; $4/kids under 12. Benefit of the Addison Volunteer Fire Department. Funds will be used to purchase new firefighting equipment. For more information, call 802-759-2237. This will be the last breakfast until the fall.

Alcoholism Research event at Swift House Inn MIDDLEBURY — On May 3, the Foundation for Alcoholism Research, Inc. will hold its third annual lunch and card party fundraising event at the Swift House Inn. Last year, Dan and Michele Brown, owners of the Swift House Inn, hosted the event prepared by the inn’s new chef Robert Fenn. This year, the dining room will be filled with nine tables for any card game, and the library will hold three tables of duplicate bridge. Card players from Middlebury, East Middlebury, Bristol, Leicester, New Haven, Panton, Salisbury, Shelburne, and Burlington will convene.

Doors open at 11:30 a.m. Reservations are required; call 802-758-2243 or e-mail info@alcoholismresearch.org.

The cost of $30 per person includes lunch, beverage, dessert, and snack.

Local 4-H Club members R iley Ochs of Or well, Grace Kuehn of Benson, Ghazi Smith of M iddlebury, Gabrielle Ochs of Or well and Jarod and Raymond Bushey of Middlebury toured the Bourdeau & Bushey and FCI facilities on Seymour Street in Middlebury.

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4-Hers vist Bourdeau & Bushey MIDDLEBURY — On Saturday, March 26, 4-H members from around Vermont visited Bourdeau and Bushey feed company on Seymour Street and the FCI feed mill on Exchange Street.

Following the morning visit at the feed facilities, 4-H members travelled to the Weybridge Elementary School for the state 4-H Sheep Quiz Bowl contest.

Vermont 4-H Clubs are positive environments where youth belong to a group, elect officers, plan and attend meetings, conduct community service, participate in competitions or other events and make friends. Typically the club picks a project, with a learn-by-doing approach, that serves as a vehicle for learning both subject matter skills and life skills.

Foresters wage battle against insect invader From News & Staff Reports newmarketpress@denpubs.com MIDDLEBURY — Two foresters from the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation recently participated in an interstate effort to survey for the emerald ash borer in eastern New York.

The emerald ash borer is an invasive insect from Asia, which was detected in Ulster and Greene Counties in New York last summer. The State of New York, with assistance from the U.S. Forest Service, is conducting a survey to delineate the extent of this infestation so that management options to slow the spread of the insect can be developed.

Emerald ash borer attacks and kills all species of ash, and threatens over 100 million ash trees growing in Vermont. In 2002, this insect was discovered in the vicinity of Detroit and neighboring Ontario. Since then, it has been found in fifteen states and two Canadian provinces, killing tens of millions of ash trees. Emerald ash borer has never been detected in Vermont, but the eastern New York infestation and an infestation near Montreal are within 50 miles of the state.

Outlier populations like these, which are far removed from the primary infested area in the Great Lakes region and close to urban areas, pose the greatest risk in terms of population expansion and economic impact, according to Nate Siegert, U.S. Forest Service entomologist, and technical advisor to the effort in New York.

The two foresters joined colleagues from New York and other New England states on the survey crew. They assisted local foresters by inspecting ash trees for woodpecker activity and other evidence of beetle infestation, and collecting ash bolts for closer examination. Team members worked together in a nearby warehouse, debarking the bolts, and dissecting them to look for insect galleries and other signs of emerald ash borer.

In addition to providing needed assistance to New York, team participants had the opportunity to learn firsthand how to survey for an insect which may spread to Vermont.

“I was glad to help”, said Jim Esden, one of the State of Vermont foresters who participated in the week-long assignment. “The staff from the New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the US Forest Service are faced with a daunting task to delineate this infestation and slow its spread. They were very helpful and professional. Working with them taught us a lot that may help us in Vermont someday.”

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of effort that will be required to address an emerald ash borer infestation. “When it shows up, you can’t get rid of it.

You’ve just got to manage it”, observed Aaron Hurst, who also worked in New York. State of Vermont agencies are working with federal partners to prepare for emerald ash borer. A Vermont Emerald Ash Borer Action Plan is in place.

Over one hundred campgrounds have been surveyed for the insect. In the spring, citizen volunteers interested in becoming Forest Pest First Detectors will be trained to assist their communities with emerald ash borer detection and response.

Moving infested firewood over long distances has been the primary cause of emerald ash borer ’s rapid expansion over the past nine years. Outbreaks are often found near campgrounds or parks.

“One of the most important things we can do to protect our forests is to stop moving firewood. It’s really that simple.” says Jay Lackey, Forestry Specialist with the Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation.

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By Fred Herbst

fred@denpubs.com CROWN POINT — The Crown Point State Historic Site has a long history, but its top attraction this summer may be something that is yet to happen.

The site — open in the summer only — is the prime location to watch construction of the new Lake Champlain Bridge that links Crown Point with Chimney Point, Vt. “Come view the Lake Champlain Bridge, a once-in-a-lifetime sight, not-to-bemissed,” said Tom Hughes, site manager.

“Take the day off – bring your cameras and your binoculars.”

A highlight of the bridge construction will be the arch-raising. No date has been determined for the structural feat.

The Champlain Bridge linking Crown Point o Addison, Vt., was abruptly closed in

Special events July 29: Mettawee River Theatre Company presents a live outdoor performance, 8 p.m., based on three epic poems of the Ainu people, who have lived in northern Japan since ancient times. People should bring lawn chairs or a blanket.

Aug. 13-14: French and Indian War Encampment weekend. Stroll military camps beside the ancient ruins of the French-built Fort St. Frédéric and the standing ruins of the British “Crown Point” fort. People can watch British and French soldiers, Canadian militiamen, Woodland Indians, and boatmen on the march and during tactical weapons demonstrations.

Sept. 16-18: Festival of Nations / Fête des Nations. The event celebrates the heritage of nations which left a deep imprint on this region: Canada, France, Great Britain, Native American Indian tribes, and the United States. It is cosponsored by Chimney Point (VT) State Historic Site and also by Crown Point Reservation Campground.

Date TBA: Lake Champlain Bridge Dedication Celebration weekend, including a fireworks display, parades on land and lake, ceremonies and a variety of activities.

The Crown Point State Historic Site is the prime location to watch construction of the new Lake Champlain Bridge that links Crown Point with Chimney Point, Vt. Photo by Nancy Frasier

October 2009 when engineers discovered dangerous deterioration of the structure. It served about 4,000 vehicles a day.

A ferry service now links Crown Point and Vermont.

The bridge was demolished in December 2009 and construction started on a new bridge in June 2010. The new bridge is expected to be open to traffic by October 2011.

The contract to construct the new Champlain Bridge has been awarded to Flatiron Constructors of Lafayette, Colo. It was the low-bidder at $69.6 million, which is about $10 million under engineering estimates.

The 300-foot-wide bridge will be based on a modified network arch design and will include bike paths and pedestrian walkways on both sides.

The Crown Point State Historic Site will mark its 101st anniversary this year. The his-

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Crown Point State Historic Site is one of 35 historic sites and 174 parks operated by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. It boasts two National Historic Landmarks on 380 acres of Lake Champlain waterfront, the stone remains of the French-built Fort St. Frederic (1734-1759) and the British Crown Point fort (1759-1773).

Both sites have endured through the centuries as authentic ruins, allowing guests to see the foundations of the forts in their orig-

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Each year the site hosts a pair of major events, a French & Indian War encampment in August and the annual Festival of Nations in September.

The French & Indian War encampment will feature British and French soldiers, Canadian militiamen, Woodland Indians, boatmen,and civilian re-enactors at the tactical weapons demonstrations.

The historic site museum is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Monday and closed on Tuesday.

Construction of Fort St. Frederic was complete by 1734. It included a four-story high tower, commander ’s quarters, canon, a powder magazine, bakery and other buildings surrounded by an outer stone parapet wall that was nearly square and had six corner bastions covering about an acre. It was the base of three major French operations until July 1, 1759, when the British forced its 200man garrison to blow up the tower and retreat.

The British did not build a new fort on top of the French ruins. Instead they took three years to construct a new fort, Fort Crown Point, adjacent. A stone and timber fortress, the new fort was a half mile in circumference and shaped like a pentagon. The parade ground covered six acres and contained three stone, two-story barracks, a guard house and an armory. The 40-foot high outer wall was 22-feet thick of timber and limestone, making it Britain’s greatest military installation in North America.

Fort Crown Point was the launching point for British forces that brought about the surrender of Montreal in 1760. The fort was destroyed April 23, 1775, when a fire ignited the powder magazine and its 100 barrels of powder causing a huge explosion.

Americans captured the remains of the fort May 11, 1775, and its 111 canon. They transported 29 of the canon overland to Boston to lift the British siege.

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Small world from page 1 “We get asked how we got from hot, humid Australia to Vermont a lot,” Leon said.

“Well, we’ve been teaching in the Northern Territory for eight years. Part of the incentive to teach in this remote region is that you earn points for the amount of time you teach for the territory schools. Margaret and I earned two years leave, so here we are!”

The Aussie couple found a comfortable house to rent in Goshen near Blueberry Hill and have enjoyed crosscountry skiing and playing in the snow for the first time in their lives.

“We knew Vermont was going to be cold, but we had no preconceptions about the place,” Leon added. “We’ve never seen snow before so here we are — experiencing the worse Vermont winter in 30 years. But we adjusted quickly. We like it. Still I can’t comprehend how to describe this experience to my Aboriginal students when we return home.”

In northern Australia, students certainly don’t get “snow days” off from school, but they do get “cyclone days.”

“Well, half of the year we get blue sky and sunshine,” Leon noted, “the other half we get humid, wet monsoon weather.”

So how did this Down Under family keep warm during the Vermont winter?

“It’s an easy place to keep warm,” Leon said. “We didn’t bring a lot of warm clothes but we hit the thrift shops and got some quality wool gear.”

To learn more about American teaching styles, Margaret volunteered as an aide in a classroom at Neshobe.

“I assisted Mrs. Faber with individual students,” she said. “I took on board quite a few ideas. It was fantastic. Neshobe is a very organized school. The staff and front office are wonderful.”

Both parents have been familiar faces at both Neshobe and Otter Valley with afterschool programs. The couple spent many weeks taking photographs and video footage to assemble a video about the schools; they plan to show to their students and administrators back in Australia next year.

Just last week, Leon and Margaret presented Neshobe students with a fun show-and-tell program about life in Australia. Of keen interest to the younger students assembled was Leon’s stories about working on a crocodile farm.

“We have lots of dangerous crocs in Australia,” Margaret said. “The students were fascinated with Leon’s real-life story about a crocodile that made of with a little girl. I had one little boy ask me later if it was ok to swim here in Vermont. I told him Vermont didn’t have crocodiles.”

The Mulvey-Syme family are ready to move on from with their sabbatical. They are leaving Vermont to travel to Denver, Chicago, and Toronto before heading off to France and then home.

But in their wake are many friends and lots of exchanged e-mail addresses.

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tralian student Charlie Syme’s class is teacher Mrs. Huiling Xu classroom.

This 36-year-old Chinese educator has been a guest teacher at Neshobe School since the start of the 2010-11 school year.

“I am teaching Neshobe students all about the Chinese language, writing, and culture,” the Shanghai resident said.

With an exotic smile and excellent spoken English, it’s easy to see why students have become enamored of Mrs. Xu. She is bright and energetic. And her obvious love of her native culture is infectious even as she enjoys and respects learning more about America, too.

In the main hallway at Neshobe, Mrs. Xu stopped next to a large map of the world. She placed a finger to the map, pinpointing the great city and port of Shanghai, the most populous city in China at the mouth of the mighty Yangtze River.

“It is a very small world,” Mrs. Xu said. “And that’s why it is delightful to be here and get to know the teachers, staff and students of Neshobe School. Everyone is very nice.”

Mrs. Xu’s husband, Limning Kang, and their thirdgrade daughter, named Kang Kang, are back home in Shanghai.

The young teacher won’t return home until later this year. And if she misses her distant family—as she must—she doesn’t let on.

No matter, it’s clear that when Mrs. Xu leaves Neshobe School later this year, she’ll be sorely missed by the entire community.

It’s a small world after all.

Teachers Leon Syme and Margaret Mulvey of Darwin, Australia, are visiting the Brandon area. Their children are attending the Neshobe Elementary School and Otter Valley High School. At home the husband and wife team teach in an Aboriginal school in the humid Northern Territory.

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VERGENNES — Concerned about the devastation in Japan resulting from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, artists and friends of the Creative Space Gallery in Vergennes have teamed up to host benefit events during April.

On Saturday, April 9, special presentations at the Vergennes Opera House will be followed by an open house at Creative Space Gallery. From 2 to 2:30 p.m., “Toyo” will present an exciting combination of Kabuki stage performance, classical Buyo dancing and Nagauta classical music, with dancer Yukiko Washio, and Shamisen player/singers Kichina Kineya and Chikako Abe. And from 2:30 to 3 p.m., Douglas Brooks, a boat builder, writer and researcher who has traveled to Japan 12 times since 1990, gives a slide presentation and talk about the culture and geography of the area affected by the tsunami.

“Journeys and Journals,” a new exhibition will be on view through April 30. The artwork is inspired by travel which reflects Japan with a tea chest, lamp, kimono, and digital slide show of photographs taken by Douglas and Catherine Brooks in 2002-03 when they were living in the coastal villages that have recently been damaged by the tsunami.

Then stroll to Creative Space Gallery for an Open House from 3 to 5 p.m., to enjoy the Journeys & Journals exhibition while learning to fold origami cranes with Jill Abilock, an artist and Japanese-English translator who spent 12 years in Japan.

The gallery’s project, called “Senbazuru: 1,000 Cranes of Hope,” aims to raise funds to aid recovery efforts in Japan while creating as many senbazuru as possible to carry wishes for health, safety, and recovery to the people of Japan.

Throughout the month of April, crane-making kits will be available at the gallery in exchange for donations to the American Red Cross, or you can receive a kit when you make an online donation at www.tinyurl.com/1000CranesOfHope.

On April 30, Senbazuru will culminate in an event at the Creative Space Gallery from 1-5 p.m., when all the cranes received will be strung into senbazuru. There will also be an opportunity to purchase and fold more cranes during the final event.

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STARKSBORO — A free film about Lyme Disease, "Under Our Skin" followed by a discussion on the status of Lyme Disease in VT at the Public Library, Route 116 Starksboro, sponsored by the Jerusalem Schoolhouse Lecture Series an the Starksboro Public Library. Questions call 453-3826 or 453-3732. At 7 p.m.

VERGENNES — Theophilus North. Little City Players present Theophilus North

by Matthew Burnett, based on the nov el by Thornton Wilder. At 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 adults, $10 senior/student, a vailable at VOH, Classic Stitching or at our website.

Please e -mail t o: theeagle@addison- eagle.com, minimum 2 w eeks pr ior t o event. E-mail only. No faxed, handwritten, or USPS-mailed listings accepted. For questions, call Jennifer at 388-6397.

Friday, April 8 HINESBURG — Music Night at Brown Dog Books & Gifts! John Dalyn Acoustic Guitar Originals. This event is free and open to the public. For more information, call 802-482-5189. Event at 7 p.m.

LINCOLN — At 7 p .m. Lincoln Librar y: Teen M ovie N ight. Grades 7 and up .

Please call the library for the movie title.

MIDDLEBURY — The library is offering a free workshops on the genealogical databases at 3 p.m. No registration is necessary.

MIDDLEBURY — The Sound I nvestment Jazz Ensemble: Dance N ight 8 p.m., Town Hall Theater. For more information 802-382-9222.

MIDDLEBURY — Swing Dance with Sound I nvestment, Town Hall Theater at 8 p.m. Tickets are $10/$6 students, and may be purchased at 382-9222, our website, at the THT Box Office (noon-5 p.m., Monday-Thursday) or at the door. Drinks and snacks will be available.

VERGENNES — ”Theophilus North” by the Little City Players, based on the novel by Thornton Wilder at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 adults, $10 senior/student, available at VOH, Classic Stitching.

LINCOLN — 1 p.m. L incoln Community School. 2 010 “Vermont Reads” Author, K atherine Paterson speaks. This program is sponsor ed by the Lincoln Library and the Vermont Humanities Council.

MIDDLEBURY — A ddison County R ight To Life will meet at 7 p .m. at Valley Bible Church East Middlebury. Visitors are welcome. Call 802-388-2898 or L2Paquette@aol.com.

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LINCOLN — At 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Library: Film about black bear expert Ben Kilham of Lyme, N.H. Ben has raised orphaned bears and then followed them as they matured in the wild. Admission is free.

MIDDLEBURY — Br own Bag L unch H istory Talk at Henr y Sheldon Museum.Jane Williamson, director of Rokeby Museum, will present a talk at the Sheldon Museum in conjunction with the Sheldon’s current exhibit Town Treasures: Addison County before the Civil War. At noon. Bring a brown bag lunch; beverages, dessert provided. $2.

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Saturday, April 9 BRISTOL — The F irst Baptist Chur ch of Br istol will be ha ving their Annual Spring Clothing Rummage Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Bargain bags, 1-2 p.m.

MIDDLEBURY — The library is offering a free workshops on the genealogical databases at 10:30 a.m. No registration is necessary.

MIDDLEBURY — Stone Document 8 p.m., Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free 802-443-3168.

MIDDLEBURY — ” The Beaches of Agnes”, 3 and 8 p.m., Middlebury College’s Dana A uditorium. A r eflection on ar t, lif e, and the movies . Sponsor ed by the Hirschfield International Film Series. Free 802-443-3168.

MIDDLEBURY — Rossini's "L e Comte Or y," starring Bel cant o sensation Juan Diego Flórez, will be broadcast at the Town Hall Theater at 1 p.m. Tickets, $22 are available through the Town Hall Theater Box Office by calling 802-382-9222 or in person Monday-Saturday, noon-5 p.m.

VERGENNES — ”Theophilus North” by the Little City Players, based on the novel by Thornton Wilder at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 adults, $10 senior/student, available at VOH, Classic Stitching.

WEYBRIDGE — Weybridge School Tag Sale, 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Huge variety of stuff!

Clothes, t oys, books, spor t equipment, housewar es and mor e. Weybridge Elementary.

Sunday, April 10 MIDDLEBURY — Annual Otter Creek Mud Run. 8:30 a.m. for a 5K run starting at the Middlebury Coop back parking lot and heading up onto the TAM. Directly after the 5K is a Tot Trot. Registration information: www.active.com or stop by the center on Weybridge Street for a paper form. Registration: 5K Adult $25,5K Student $15, Tot Trot $8.

MIDDLEBURY — Vermont Contemporary Music Ensemble. Steven Klimowski, director3p.m., Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Ar ts, Concert Hall.

Free. Call 802-443-3168.

MIDDLEBURY — Rossini's "L e Comte Or y," starring Bel cant o sensation Juan Diego Flórez, will be broadcast at the Town Hall Theater at 3 p.m. Tickets, $22 with a $10 student price on are available through the Town Hall Theater Box Office by calling 802-382-9222, online at our website or in person Monday - Saturday, noon - 5 p.m.

MIDDLEBURY — Spr ing G arden Talk “Nature P lants and Ecolog ical Landscapes” at Sheldon Museum from 2-3 p.m.The talk is the third in a series of 4 garden talks at the Sheldon. F ee: $10. Space is limit ed, please register in advance.

For information on the series or to reserve a space, call the Sheldon at 802-3882117.

BRIDPORT — Spring Fling for Seniors. Luncheon at the Grange Hall. Suggested donation $3. Reservations required. Call 1-800-642-5119, ext.615. Transportation: call ACTR 388-1946.

LINCOLN — At 10 a.m., Lincoln Library: Jackie Tuxill presents “To China and Back” a talk and slide sho w on her tr ip to China. M onthly program for seniors, but all welcomed. Refreshments served.

LINCOLN — At 6:30 p .m., Lincoln Librar y: Parkinson’s Support Group. Questions may be directed to atempo@gmavt.net or grayland@gmavt.net.

MIDDLEBURY — Celebrated pianist Dubravka Tomsic at Middlebury College’s Mahaney Arts Center’s Concert Hall at 7:30 p.m. For tickets or information, contact the Middlebury College Box Office or call 802-443-6433.

MIDDLEBURY — A talk t o be given by Professor Daniel J.B. Mitchell of UCLA focusing on the ‘future of retiring baby boomers’ at Middlebury College. At 4:30 p.m. in the Middlebury College’s Twilight Auditorium.

MIDDLEBURY — Dubra vka Tomsic, piano at 7:30 p .m., Middlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Reserved Seating. Tickets: $24/18/6.

Thursday, April 14 MIDDLEBURY — Spr ing Student Symposium: Opening G ala 7-10 p .m., M iddlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts. Free.

Friday, April 15 CHARLOTTE — Tax Day Bluegrass Banjo Bonanza at the Old Lant ern Dance Hall Greenbush Road in Char lotte 6 p .m. Har d Scrabble, An A coustic Blend of Original Bluegrass and Blues. $5 cover with a donation of non-per ishable food items for local food shelf ($10 without).

MIDDLEBURY — Cr eacionismo y Musica: Explor ing Spanish P oetry through Music Hannah Br otherton '11, mezz o-soprano 7:30 p .m., M iddlebury College’s Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221, and Concert Hall. Free.

MIDDLEBURY — Liam Gluck '12, piano K atie Dunlea vy '12, soprano 8:30 p.m.,Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall. Free. *Please note revised time.

MIDDLEBURY — Senior Thesis Concert: Alena Giesche '11, Catherine Miller '11, Christian Morel '11, and Heather Pynne '11at 8 p.m. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre.Tickets: $10/8/6.

MIDDLEBURY — Senior dance majors Alena Giesche, Catherine Miller, Christian Morel, and Heather Pynne will present their collaborative senior thesis work on Friday and Saturday, April 15th and 16th at 8:00 P.M. at the Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theater. Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for faculty, staff, alumni, and children under 12, and $6 for students. For tickets, call the Middlebury College Box Office at 443-6433 or order online.

MIDDLEBURY — Senior dance majors Alena Giesche, Catherine Miller, Christian Morel, and Heather Pynne will present their collaborative senior thesis work on Friday and Saturday, April 15th and 16th at 8:00 P.M. at the Mahaney Center for the Arts Dance Theater. Tickets are $10 for general admission, $8 for faculty, staff, alumni, and children under 12, and $6 for students. For tickets, call the Middlebury College Box Office at 443-6433 or order online at our website.

MIDDLEBURY — Senior Thesis Concert: Alena Giesche '11, Catherine Miller '11, Christian Morel '11, and Heather Pynne '11at 8 p.m. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre.Tickets: $10/8/6.

MIDDLEBURY —Screening and Discussion with Writer/Director Rob Epstein, 3 and 8 p.m., Dana Auditorium. Free.

MIDDLEBURY —The Earth Day Concert. Folksinger Geoff Kaufman (Midd. '69) celebrates Earth Day with students from Middlebury College, combining selections from the great nature writers of our time with eloquent songs from some of the best songwr iters of our era. At Town Hall Theater, at 8:00 pm. Tickets, $15/$6 students, are available through the Town Hall Theater Box Office by calling 802-382-9222, online at our website, or in person Monday - Saturday, noon - 5 p.m.

NEW HAVEN — Ladies Union Annual Spring Sale New Haven Congregational Church 9a.m. – 3p.m. Attic treasures, plants, toys, games, Rada Cutlery and items, sheets, blankets, linens, baked goods, puzzles, books, furniture and special items section. If you have any questions call 453- 5381.

FERRISBURGH — Rokeby Museum celebrates volunteers every April – National Volunteer Month – with an orientation session for new recruits. Join us on Saturday, April 16 at 10 am to check out the opportunities. Volunteering at Rokeby offers a unique oppor tunity f or personal education and ser vice r olled int o one.For more information e-mail Jane Williamson at rokeby@comcast.net .Rokeby Museum, 4334 Route 7.

VERGENNES — Theophilus North. Little City Players present Theophilus North

by Matthew Burnett, based on the novel by Thornton Wilder. At 2p.m. and 8 p.m.

Tickets are $12 adults, $10 senior/student, available at VOH, Classic Stitching or at our website.

Sunday, April 17 ADDISON — All-you-can-eat pancake breakfast at 7 a.m.-11a.m. at the A ddison Fire Station, at the junc tion of Rout es 17 & 22A in A ddison . $6/adults; $4/kids under 12. Benefit of the Addison Volunteer Fire Department. Menu includes: plain and blueber ry pancakes, sausage, bacon, home fr ies, coffee, hot chocolate, and orange juice. Funds will be used to purchase equipment. More Information: 759-2237.

MIDDLEBURY — 2-3 p .m. Spr ing G arden talk at the Sheldon Museum: “The Three B’s – Gardening for Birds, Bees and Butterflies. Fee: $10. Space is limited, advance registration is recommended. For information or to reserve a space, call the Sheldon at 388-2117 or visit our website.

VERGENNES — Wasabi, a Dragon'sTale. The Evergreen Preschool in Vergennes will be hosting this benefit per formance by the No Strings Marionette Company at the Vergennes Opera House at 2 p.m. Tickets are $8 adults, $6 kids, age 2 & under are free. They are available at the VOH or contact the preschool for tickets & more information, 877-6702.

VERGENNES — M ellow Yellow presents "Hit Parade Live" at the VOH at 7:30 p.m. Mellow Yellow, is back with a new show sure to please fans of music from the 50's & 60's. Tickets are $15 in advance ($18 at the door) and $8 f or children 12 & under. They can be purchased at VOH, Classic Stitching, or at our website.

Tuesday, April 19 BRISTOL — C ommunity p oets a t B ristol's L awrence M emorial L ibrary f rom 6:30-7:30p.m. Refreshments served, free. Info: 453-2366.

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Track team opens in California MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury College Panther track and field teams opened up their spring season with a meet at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego Calif. The men won the 12-team meet, while the women were second among a dozen teams.

Junior Margo Cramer (Seattle, Wash.) picked up a win in the 3,000 steeplechase, earning an NCAA provisional time of 11:02. Also provisionally qualifying in the event was senior Amanda Lee (Lincoln, Neb.), who came in second in 11:06.66. Earning a win in the 800 was sophomore Juliet Ryan-Davis (Newton, Mass.) in 2:14.18, while senior Erin Toner (New Providence, R.I.) was second in the 1,500 (4:43.06).

Other top performers for the women were rookie Colette Whitney (High Bridge, N.J.) in the 5,000 (17:57.73-2nd), junior Mia Martinez (Ridgewood, N.J.) in the 100 hurdles (15.402nd) and sophomore Grace Doering (Darien,

Conn.), who provisionally qualified for the NCAA’s in the high jump (5’5”-2nd).

Senior Addison Godine (Milton, Mass.) and sophomore John Davies (Grosse Pointe, Mich.) both earn wins for the men, with Godine taking the 800 (1:55.32) and Davies capturing the 5,000 (5:03.60). Senior Jack Terrett (Sherborn, Mass.) finished second in the 5,000 (15:16), followed by rookie Greg Krathwohl (Ipswich, Mass.) in third (15:22.70) and sophomore Anthony Lee (Plainsboro, N.J.) in fourth (15:23.93). Junior Silas Wong (Needham, Mass.) placed second in the triple jump (44’5.25”), first-year racer Peter Hetzler (Rumson, N.J.) was fourth in the 100 (11.26), while sophomore Stuart Fram (Waterbury Center, Vt.) came in fourth in the 110 hurdles (15.63). Junior Michael Schmidt (Wilmette, Ill.) competed in the 5,000 at Stanford, provisionally qualifying for the NCAA’s with a time of 30:38.15.

MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury College men’s basketball player Andrew Locke (Seattle, Wash.) has been named District I Academic second-team AllAmerican by CoSIDA (College Sports Information Directors Association) for the second straight season.

Locke is an economics and neuroscience major at Middlebury, currently boasting a GPA of 3.55. He and his teammate recently finished the most successful season in school history with a record of 28-2. The Panthers won their second NESCAC Championship, captured an NCAA Sectional and made their first appearance in the Final Four.

Locke was been the anchor of the nation’s best defense and was recently named the NESCAC Defensive Player of

the Year, also earning second-team allconference honors. The 6’10” center was currently third in Division III with 4.2 blocked shots/game, while altering many more.

Locke finished second on the team in scoring (9.9 ppg) and rebounding (7.6 rpg) this season, shooting .640 from the floor. He owns school records for blocked shots in a game (13), season (114) and career (377). Locke enjoyed a triple double earlier this season with 15 points, 10 rebounds and 10 blocks in a win at Colby-Sawyer, while owning five double-doubles.

Locke finishes his career with 805 points, 568 boards, shooting .597 from the floor.

Religious Services

ADDISON ADDISON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH Addison Four Corners, Rts. 22A & 17. Sunday Worship at 10:30am, Adult Sunday School at 9:30am; Bible Study at 2pm on Thursdays. Call Pastor Steve @ 759-2326 for more information.

WEST ADDISON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday, 9am HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY - Havurah House, 56 North Pleasant St. A connection to Judaism and Jewish life for all who are interested. Independent and unaffiliated. High Holy Day services are held jointly with Middlebury College Hillel.

Weekly Hebrew School from September to May. Information: 388-8946 or www.addisoncountyhavurah.org BRANDON BRANDON BAPTIST CHURCH - Corner of Rt. 7 & Rt. 73W (Champlain St.) Brandon, VT • 802-247-6770. Sunday Services: 10a. Adult Bible Study, Sunday School ages 5 & up, Nursery provided ages 4 & under. Worship Service 11 am * Lords supper observed on the 1st Sunday of each month. *Pot luck luncheon 3rd Sunday of each month. Wednesdays 6:30pm, Adult prayer & Bible study, Youth groups for ages 5 & up LIFEBRIDGE CHRISTIAN CHURCH - 141 Mulcahy Drive, 247-LIFE (5433), Sunday worship 9am & 10:45am, www.lifebridgevt.com, LifeGroups meet weekly (call for times & locations) BRIDPORT BRIDPORT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Middle Rd., Bridport, VT. Pastor Tim Franklin, 758-2227. Sunday worship services at 8:30am and 10:15am with nursery care provided.

Children’s ministries include Sprouts for children age 3-Kindergarten and WOW for grades 1-6, during the 10:15am service.

HOPE COMMUNITY FELLOWSHIP - Meets at Bridport Community Hall. Bridport, VT • 759-2922 • Rev. Kauffman. Sunday 9am, 10:30am, evening bible study.

ST. BERNADETTE/ST. GENEVIEVE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm Nov.1-April 30 (See Shoreham) BRISTOL BRISTOL CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP - The River, 400 Rocky Dale Rd., Bristol. Sunday Worship 9:00am. 453-2660, 453-4573, 453-2614 BRISTOL FEDERATED CHURCH - Sunday service at 10:15am FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF BRISTOL - Service Sunday, 10am ST. AMBROSE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday service 5:15pm, & Sunday 9am BRISTOL SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 839 Rockydale Rd. - Saturday Services: Bible Studies for all ages-9:30am to 10:30 am, Song Service, Worship Service at 11am. Prayer Meeting Thursday 6:30pm. 453-4712 THE GATHERING - Non-denominational worship, second & fourth Saturday of the month, 7pm Sip-N-Suds, 3 Main St. • 453-2565, 453-3633 CORNWALL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF CORNWALL - Sunday worship 9:30am EAST MIDDLEBURY/RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday worship, 9am VALLEY BIBLE CHURCH - Rev. Ed Wheeler, services on Sundays: Sunday School for all ages at 9:30am, morning worship at 10:45am (nursery provided), and 6:30pm on Wednesdays; Youth Group and AWANA meet on Thursday evenings at 6:30pm ESSEX CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE ESSEX ALLIANCE CHURCH - 36 Old Stage Rd., Essex • 878-8213

ESSEX JUNCTION CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH - 61 Main St., Essex Junction - 878-8341 FERRISBURGH/NORTH FERRISB. FERRISBURGH METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday worship 9:30am NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 227 Old Hollow Rd., North Ferrisburgh, VT 802425-2770. Rev. Kim Hornug-Marcy. Sunday worship 10am, Sunday School 10am, Nursery Available. http://www.gbgm-umc.org/ nferrisburgumc/ CROSSROADS CHAPEL - 41 Middlebrook Rd., Ferrisburgh, VT 05456. (802) 425-3625. Pastor: Rev. Charles Paolantonio.

Services: Sunday 10am.

FERRISBURGH CENTER COMMUNITY METHODIST CHURCH - Rt 7, Ferrisburgh - next to the Town Offices / Grange Hall. New Pastors Rev. John & Patrice Goodwin. Worship time is now 10:45am.

HINESBURG LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH - 90 Mechanicsville Rd., Hinesburg. Sunday Service at 10:30am. Pastor Hart, info: 482-2588.

ST. JUDE THE APOSTLE - 10759 Route 116 Hinesburg.

Masses: Sat. 4:30pm; Sun. 9:30am LINCOLN UNITED CHURCH OF LINCOLN - Sunday worship service 9:45, Church school 11:15am, united Student Ministries for grades 7-12, 6:30pm Sunday evenings. 453-4280 MIDDLEBURY CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY - Sunday service & church school, Sunday 10am CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY - Middlebury.

Middlebury Community House, Main and Seymour Sts, Sunday Service and Church School-10am; Wednesday-7:30pm.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) Sunday 10am worship service THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS - Sunday Sacrament 10am-11:15am EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN WORSHIP Service in Middlebury area: call 758-2722 or 453-5334.

HAVURAH, THE JEWISH CONGREGATION OF ADDISON COUNTY - Saturday morning Shabbat services, 388-8946 MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH - 97 South Pleasant St., Middlebury. Sunday morning worship & church school 10am, Wednesday evening Bible Study, 6:30pm. 388-7472.

MIDDLEBURY FRIENDS MEETING - (Quakers), Sunday worship & first day school 10am (meets at Havurah House) SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday, 5:15pm, Sunday 8am, 10am ST. STEPHEN’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - (On the green in Middlebury). Reverend Terence P. Gleeson, Rector.

Sunday Eucharist 8 & 10:30am Child care & Sunday school available at 10:30am service. Wednesday at 12:05pm Holy Eucharist in the chapel. www.ststephensmidd.org or call 388-7200.

UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 10am Grades K-5: Activities, Grades. 6-8 & 9-12: Church School Classes, Refreshments & fellowship time: 10:45am-11am. Sunday morning worship service 11am. Nursery provided both at 10am & 11am.

MONKTON MONKTON FRIENDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - Sunday service & Sunday school, 8:45am NEW HAVEN ADDISON COUNTY CHURCH OF CHRIST - 145 Campground Rd., 453-5704. Worship: Sunday 9 & 11:20am; Bible

classes: Sunday 10:30am, Tuesday 7pm. Watch Bible Forum on MCTV-15 (Middlebury) or NEAT-16 (Bristol) NEW HAVEN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Church services 10am on Sunday. All are welcome.

NEW HAVEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH Sunday services, 10am & 7pm ORWELL FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Sunday worship service, 10:00am. Contact: Rev. Esty, 948-2900 SAINT PAUL’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Sunday mass 11am, 468-5706 RICHMOND RICHMOND CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST - 20 Church St., Richmond • 4342053. Rev. Len Rowell. Sunday Worship with Sunday School, 10am; Adult Study Class, Sunday 8:30am RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 388-2510 SALISBURY SALISBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sun. worship svc., 10am SHELBURNE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SHELBURNE - 127 Webster Road, Shelburne • 985-2848 TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 2166 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. 985-2269 Sunday Services: 8am & 10am. Bible Study 9:00am • Sunday School: 9:50am.

The Reverend Craig Smith ALL SOULS INTERFAITH GATHERING - Rev. Mary Abele, Pastor. Evensong Service and Spiritual Education for Children Sun. at 5pm. 371 Bostwick Farm Rd., Shelburne. 985-3819 SHELBURNE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH - 30 Church St., Shelburne • 985-3981 • Rev. Gregory A. Smith, Pastor, 8:00am - Holy Communion Service • 9:30am - Family Worship Service with Sunday School SHOREHAM ST. GENEVIEVE/ST. BERNADETTE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm, May 1-Oct. 31. (See Bridport) SHOREHAM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHUCC - Sunday worship and Sunday school 10am. Pastor Gary O’Gorman. 897-2687 STARKSBORO THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STARKSBORO - 2806 Route 16, Starksboro. Sunday worship 11am. Chat, Chew & Renew, a pre-worship fellowship and discussion time 10am-10:45am. Sunday mornings in the Fellowship Hall on the accessible first level. All are welcome. First Baptist is an American Baptist church yoked with The Community Church of Huntington for support of its pastor, The Rev. Larry Detweiler revdets@gmail.com; 802.453.5577.

SOUTH BURLINGTON NEW COVENANT BAPTIST CHURCH SBC - 1451 Williston Rd., South Burlington. 863-4305 VICTORY CENTER - Holiday Inn, Williston Road, South Burlington • 658-1019 BURLINGTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH - Pastor Paul Lyon • 860-5828. Sundays: 10am & 6pm. Wednesdays: 7pm. at 294 North Winooski Avenue.

SUDBURY SUDBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH - Sunday worship service and Sunday school, 10:30am SOVEREIGN REDEEMER ASSEMBLY - Sunday worship 10am

VERGENNES/PANTON ASSEMBLY OF GOD CHRISTIAN CENTER - 1759 U.S. Route 7, Vergennes, VT • 802-877-3903 • Sunday school 9am, Sunday worship #1 10am, Sunday worship #2 6pm, Youth, adult gathering 6pm CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH - Sunday worship svcs. 10am & 7pm CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF VERGENNES (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sunday, 9:30am NEW WINE COVENANT (CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST) - Sunday worship 10am PANTON COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH Sunday school from 9:30am-10:15am Pre-K to adult, Sunday worship service 10:30am ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH - Main and Park Streets, Vergennes. Rector: The Rev. Alan Kittelson. Sunday Services 8am and 10am; childcare provided at 10am. All are welcome. For information call 758-2211.

ST. PETER’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH Saturday 5pm, Sunday 8:30am, 10:30am VERGENNES UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 10:30am VICTORY BAPTIST CHURCH - 862 US Rt. 7, SUNDAY: 9:45am Bible Hour For All Ages Including 5 Adult Classes; 11:00am Worship Including Primary Church Ages 3 to 5 & Junior Church 1st - 4th Graders; 6pm Evening Service Worship For All Ages. WEDNESDAY 6:30pm Adult Prayer & Bible Study; AWANA Children’s Clubs (3yrs to 6th grade); JAM Junior High Group (7th & 8th grade); Youth Group (9th - 12 grade).

Nursery is provided for children up to 3 years old. Classes are provided for children age 3 and up. 802-877-3393 WEYBRIDGE WEYBRIDGE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH Worship and Sunday School 10am. Daniel Wright, Pastor. 545-2579.

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It now faces a handful of other regulatory obstacles, including approval by the New York’s Public Service Commission and Army Corp of Engineers.

Under the plan, Transmission Developers would bury two 5-inch power lines from Montreal to New York City, mostly under waterways, including the bottom of Lake Champlain and the Champlain Canal.

The line would then exit the canal in Fort Edward and be buried inland along railroad right-of-ways for about 70 miles to avoid areas of PCB contamination in the Hudson River. The line would re-enter the river south of Albany, ending in a sub-station in Yonkers.

The system is estimated to cost nearly $2 billion and stretch 385 miles. When complete, it would supply New York City with 1,000 Megawatts of power. The average power transmission line, in comparison, is approximately 30 Megawatts. Power would come from hydroelectric and wind sources in Canada.

New York City has long been underpowered while its residents pay some of the highest rates in the country, according to LTI. The new transmission line would power more than 1 million homes, saving consumers roughly $750 million a year, Jessome said.

Mike Winslow, a staff scientist with the Lake Champlain Committee, said his group has identified a number of potential concerns with the plan, including disturbing historic wrecks and sensitive sediment areas on the bottom of the lake.

“Our greatest concerns were in the southern part of the lake where we anticipated wetlands impacts and perhaps

This is the proposed route of a mostly underwater power line Transmission Developers Inc. would like to build through the region, including a portion that would run on the bottom of Lake Champlain. greater sediment disturbance,” Winslow said.

In response, the company is considering altering its route in that area, though Jessome could not divulge the exact route because the company is working that out with the New York’s Public Service Commission, in a process known as Article VII. “We are currently in settlement discussions in the Article VII process, and routing issues are deemed to be confidential. We expect to have more detail in this regard by mid April,” Jessome said.

Winslow said the company should contribute to the cost of cleaning up Lake Champlain and keeping the watershed healthy if it is allowed to use the lake as its conduit. The company has said underwater installation is $2 million cheaper per mile than burying lines underground.

“There is so much work that needs to be done to clean Lake Champlain that it only seems fair if the company is going to be using the lake to benefit themselves and their stockholders that they make a substantial contribution to those clean up efforts,” Winslow said.

Jessome said it is the company’s intent to do just that.

“In projects of this type, funds to support studies and mitigation are typically part of the certification process,” he said.

TDI will also be providing annual financial assistance for environmental projects, he said.

In addition, Jessome said local labor will be used to help install the power line — which will be dredged three feet below the lake’s bottom. In total, the company hopes to create about 200 jobs during the installation process.

For more about the project, including a detailed question and answer section, visit www.CHPExpress.com.

RUTLAND — U.S. Rep. Peter Welch (D) and Gov. Peter Shumlin (D) were in downtown Rutland March 28 to welcome the nation’s top rail official. The Vermont delegation hosted the top-level meeting at the Franklin Conference Center in the Howe Center.

The effort was a public display of support for the socalled Western Corridor High-Speed Rail project and organized by the two Vermont Democrats. This multi-million dollar project, if it is built, will be funded entirely

by U.S. taxpayer funds.

Joining Welch and Shumlin in Rutland was Deputy Administrator of the Federal Railroad Administration Karen Rae. She is responsible for managing the Obama administration’s national rail policy.

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Welch has spoken out in favor of the pricey project since it was first proposed by President Obama. He was responsible for inviting Rae to visit Rutland and meeting a group of enthusiastic local rail supporters downtown.

After the meeting, Rae joined Welch and Shumlin to visit Westminster Cracker. The Rutland business has become somewhat of a local poster child for rail use in Vermont. Omya officials also met Rae. Omya, which operates marble quarries and a processing plant in Vermont, is a heavy user of freight rail. It also hopes to be the prime user of a controversial $34 million, 3.3-mile-long rail spur that is being planned for Middlebury by Vermont Railway. Taxpayers will also be tapped to build this rail line.

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According to a study by Subsidyscope of the Pew Trust, 41 of Amtrak’s 44 passenger routes lose money annually. The rail service requires large taxpayer subsidies to cover its operating costs.

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increase as prices fall, whether those prices are health-care charges or taxes: when they’re seen as high, consumers passively go without or actively avoid, and when they’re seen as lower, they do the opposite.

The Tennessee experts had foreseen some of these behaviors, and a key part of TennCare was the creation of a dozen new Medical Care Organizations to provide “managed care” for all the 1.2 million beneficiaries, with the expectation that “managed care” would produce, by means of judicious gate-keeping, reasonable cost control.

It didn’t, and by 2002 the MCO’s got the state to relieve them of the previous costguarantee provision (capitation) in their original contracts. After that, understandably, costs went even higher, so the state responded, in 2005, by changing the rules to reduce the enrollment numbers in TennCare Standard by 170,000.

More recently, the Tennessee Hospital Association has revealed plans to “tax” its membership (except the tiny rural ones) at the rate of 3.5 percent of net patient revenues, and donate the proceeds (which, in an arcane federal-funds increase formula, bring in an additional $430 million from Washington) and the monies would go to

Nashville to be used to prevent further cuts in TennCare, which by 2009 had been whittled down to the $7.6 billion level. Of course Vermont, a highly-skilled-in-taxation governance, already has a 6 percent provider tax.

This year the new Tennessee governor, first-Republican-in-150-years Bill Haslam, has proposed another $40 million in TennCare cuts, which will require either further enrollment cuts or more intensive gate-keeping. The aim of both would be to rescue as much as possible the original budget, by reducing the dynamic aspect of service-demand growth closer to the original more static analysis number, which is exactly what the innovative MCO’s were set up (and failed) to accomplish.

One additional note: TennCare went through 12 directors in 12 years, a leadership casualty rate which suggests that, while each new director knew what to do, he didn’t know how to get his proposals approved by the marble cupola folks who function within the Greek-Revival Parthenon in Nashville.

As befits this opinion column, here’s my opinion: the TennCare lesson to Vermont’s ShumlinCare experts is that demand and costs will rise dynamically when a formerly more costly or unavailable service (heath-care) is made less costly and/or more available, and that most state governments, even those in newly-red states like

Tennessee, fail to construct, successfully, health care policies with both a more dynamic analysis to forecast the increased beneficiary demand, and a more static analysis coupled with more rigorous gatekeeping to keep beneficiary demand (and the resulting costs) from increasing past budgeted levels.

A recent Wall Street Journal article (March 22) discussing variations in states’ gate-keeping for another health-related service, disability insurance, shows why an optimistic forecast for rigorous medical gate-keeping in Vermont is very probably a mis-placed and insufficiently guarded prognosis: it turns out that Vermont is one of the dozen easiest states when measured as “the percent of Social Security Disability Insurance applications which received initial approval in 2010”, and Tennessee is one of the most rigorous; and yet, even Tennessee couldn’t keep its own TennCare under control. Vermont is already no. 1 in the nation for number of Medicaid recipients in managed care per poverty-level person, and no. 4 in the nation for per capita welfare expenditures, the Taxpayers’ Network reports.

An approach which is so politically-incorrect that it hasn’t even been mentioned elsewhere, I’ll mention here: just as poor driving behavior produces higher vehicle insurance rates, poor personal health status, stemming from voluntary social recre-

ational activity, food, tobacco, potable ethanol use or vegetation-parts-ingestion, should be, in my opinion, deemed by gatekeepers as indicators for higher beneficiary co-pays or premiums.

More on this unpleasant subject next week.

Former Vermonter Martin Harris lives in T e nnessee.

Logger

from page 4 cause by a runaway stream of snowmelt that had found it’s way under the flooring via an angled area of the dormer.

So there my friends. If you’ve had a few leak problems this winter, that you’ve not had before, don’t fret and feel you’re going to have to rip and tear into your roof and walls to find and fix the problem. In fact, the problem may have been a once every 6 or 7 year thing that has already fixed itself.

Winter in Vermont. You can’t beat it.

And you can’t beat it.

Rusty DeWees tours Vermont and Northern New York with his act “The Logger.” His column appears weekly . He can be r eached at rustyd@pshift.com.

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Propane Top Soil Save

20

%

Off All Carhartt

5

$

$1/bag 79

40 Lbs.

limit 10 per customer

SAVE ON EXTRA

Cedar Mulch

Including all new in stock spring styles.

Off any 20 lb propane fill

64

SALE* *EXCLUDES BAGGED LIVESTOCK FEED

10

$

99

12

$

FREE

3 Big Bags for

Take Advantages Of These Sale Flyer Specials

99

EVERYTHING THAT’S NOT ALREADY ON

3 cu. ft.

limit 3 per customer

$

10% OFF

Door Prizes!

Grilled Hot Dogs & Refreshments

Sat., Apr. 16 • 10 AM - 2 PM

99 30 Lbs.

Agway® 4 Stage Lawn Program

Agway ® Fast Acting Lime

Stage 1 Crabgrass Preventer & Fertilizer

Goes to work instantly. Helps to fix acidic soils, raise pH level, and green up lawns. Not available in ME. (102-07134)

•Apply March through April •Tough crabgrass, foxtail and spurge preventer (102-00734)

Stage 2 Weed Control & Fertilizer

•Apply May through June •gets rid of dandeliond and other broadleaf weeds (102-00737)

49

$

Stage 3 Insect Control & Fertilizer

•Apply August through September •Good control for lawn damaging & nuisance insects (102-04615)

NEW TECHNOLOGY CORRECTS pH INSTANTLY! ONE Bag of Agway Fast Acting Lime is equal to FOUR bags of regular lime.

99 5,000 Sq. Ft.

includes 2 bags

Agway ® Supreme

Stage 4 Winterizer Fertilizer

•Apply September through October •Specially designed for application in the fall for early spring greenup (102-00743)

Your Choice

7

$

99

SAVE 20% *Suggested Retail $9.99

Long Handle Garden Tools Round Point Shovel (105-11456) 14 Tine Bow Rake (105-11466) Square Point Shovel (105-11467) Heavy Duty Garden Hoe (105-11472)

2 Part Program Saves time nd money, Spring and Fall applcations with “New Nitrogen Technologies” - Zero Phosphate Formula

15,000 Sq. Ft .

(102-00724, 00737, 04615, 00743). . . .All

4 for $159.99 New Seeding Option Program 5,000 Sq. Ft.

•includes: New seeding Option, Stage 2, Stage 3 & Stage 4 (102-00741, 00737, 04615, 00743)..............All 4 for $89.99

89

$

BUY!

4

99 $ 99

Agway® Organic 4 Stage Lawn Care Program 4,000 Sq. Ft. (102-09991, 09992, 09993, 09994)

40 lbs/ Bag

Agway® Pelletized Limestone Improves fertilizer effectiveness. Easy to spread. (102-00703)

BUY BULK AND SAVE!

Bulk Compost

Best Value on

FREE Assembly & FREE Propane Fill with purchase GREAT of Weber SELECTION Gas Grill!

IN STOCK!

We carry 3 types of bulk mulch:

Hemlock, Red Cedar and Pine/Spruce

Weber Gas Grills Starting at

$

399

Many Weber Gas & Charcoal Models in stock with your choice of color!

Open ay!

D Every

Bulk Topsoil

Available for pick up or call to arrange delivery

10% Off All Pet Food & Supplies!

Sat., 4/16 Only

Personalized Pet Tags Custom Engraved...

While You Wait!

Try Our Beautiful Self Service Dog Wash!

Washing Your Pet Has Never Been Easier!

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