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Take advantage of early bird rates by registering for what’s becoming one of Addison County’s late summer hottest events—the third annual Tour de Farms.

The event will take place rain or shine on Sunday, Sept. 19, starting and ending at the Shoreham Green.

Join bicyclists from all over Vermont and beyond in hitting the roads to take in one of three scenic routes highlighting the agricultural landscape of the Champlain Valley, while stopping and sampling the freshest foods at farms along the way.

Cyclists who take advantage of the advance registration pricing will save $10 for adults and $5 for kids. Advance registration for adult riders is $20 and $10 for kids 12 and under. All kids in bikeseats or trailers ride free. The deadline for advance registration is Monday, Sept. 13 (sorry – no exceptions). Those who miss the advance registration deadline are welcome to come and ride at the higher day-of registration fee. Day-of registration fees will increase to $30 for adults and $15 for kids 12 and under. All Tour de Farms proceeds benefit the Addison Country Relocalization Network (ACORN), Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition, and Rural Vermont.

This year ’s event will again feature a 30, 25, and 10 mile route, with start times of 10:30 a.m., 11 a.m., and 11:30 a.m., respectively. Many of the farms featured on the routes in previous years will be back for year number 3: Doolittle Farm, Golden Russet Farm, Eagle’s Flight Farm, Champlain Orchards, Douglas Orchards, Shoreham Winery, Crescent Orchards, Millborne Farm, Singing Cedars Farmstead, Stonewood Farm, North Branch Farm and Gardens, and Vermont Cookie Love are just some of the farms and food producers to expect, plus many new additions are planned.

New to this year ’s Tour will be special event tee shirts and a Ploughman’s Lunch (apple, cheese, chutney, and bread), both available for purchase in advance or on the day of the event. The Tour de Farms is sponsored by Earl’s Cyclery in South Burlington and Sovernet Communications.

The Shoreham Apple Fest, hosted by the Platt Memorial Library, is back and will again take place on the Shoreham Green following the Tour de Farms. Apple Fest proceeds benefit the Platt Memorial Library Building Fund.

For complete details about the Tour de Farms and to register in advance, visit www.ruralvermont.org, or call 802-2237222.

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Brandon’s ‘Little Giant’ Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace

By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com BRANDON — It’s funny how we can vacation in a distant place and, as tourists, learn far more about the local lore than the history of our own backyard. Case in point: the Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace at the intersection of Routes 7 and 73 in downtown Brandon.

The museum opened officially last October and is now in its first full year of operation.

Built in 1813, the quaint Douglas cottage is now a local time capsule with fascinating exhibits and period-piece furnishings from Vermont’s antebellum era.

This little gem of a museum is actually the core of the home of “Little Giant” Stephen A. Douglas, threetime Democrat U.S. presi- Museum volunteer John Wilson enjoys introducing visitors to the life and times of America’s “Little Giant” at the new dential candidate. He gained Brandon Museum and Visitor Center located at the 1813 Stephen A. Douglas Birthplace in downtown Brandon. The mu-

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Airplane crashes in Middlebury Champlain Oil project faces uphill battle

Two persons injured

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A private Cessna 177 aircraft apparently lost control while taking off at the Middlebury State Airport Aug. 1, a few minutesd after noon. The plane made an emergency crash landing at the far end of the runway.

Airport officials told news reporters that two people were on board were onboard.

Both individuals and were both taken to Porter Hospital with non-life threatening injuries. According to the Federal Aviation Administration website, the crashed airplane is owned by Gary Cutbill of Westford, Mass. Cutbill was one of the individuals taken to the hospital

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A small fire broke out in the front of the plane after the crash and was quickly extin-

guished. FAA investigators were at the airport to conduct an on-site investigation.

FERRISBURGH — Vermont Superior Court Environmental Division has approved a segment of Champlain Oil Company’s proposal for a convenience store and service center located at 2822 U.S. Route 7 in Ferrisburgh. But the project still faces an uphill battle.

A group of vocal residents—known as “Friends of Ferrisburgh for Responsible Growth”—continue to oppose the project. They claim the proposed store violates local zoning laws; they also claim the store is “out of scale” with the community. And after last week’s court’s ruling, the group’s efforts to stop the project appear to be vindicated.

While the court decision by Judge Thomas Durkin approved part of the project plan, it still leaves it mostly in

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Vermont ospreys struggle After a decade, birds fail at offspring were successful, I think a predator is probably is to blame for most of the failures at Lake Arrowhead,” Gobeille said. “A fisher or a great horned owl may have found this to be a perfect place to hunt this summer.”

Lake Arrowhead became famous for its ospreys thanks to Meeri Zetterstrom, a wildlife advocate who convinced the state and Central Vermont Public Service to put up nesting platforms for the birds in the late 1980s.

After a decade of work to provide suitable sites and educate Vermonters about the birds, the first chick hatched and fledged in 1998.

At least once osprey chick has been successfully fledged at the lake every year since, until this year.

CVPS spokesman Steve Costello, who worked with Zetterstrom, Gobeille and other state officials over the years, said the failed nests provided a reminder of how the natural world is filled with interdependancies.

Gobeille and Costello plan to add a new platform at Lake Arrowhead this fall, and will look at ways to install new predator shields on existing nest platforms in case a fisher is responsible for the failures.

“Given their rebound from near extinction, we do want to provide the ospreys an opportunity to thrive at the lake,” Costello said. “It was a disappointing season, but if predation was the cause of most of the failures, as it appears to be, it’s imprtant to remember that

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that the applicant’s proposed drive-in facility is allowed as part of a restaurant that is permitted in the HC District.

Cross appellants’ motion for summary judgement on these issues is therefore denied,” wrote Durkin in the judgement order filed July 16. “...We conclude that (the)

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“We conclude that the applicant’s proposed retail store is permitted in the HC District, whether or not it is also a convenience store, and

Above: One of Vermont’s few ospreys nesting at Lake Arrowhead. This female osprey, identifiable by her "necklace" of brown feathers, calls from her nest. None of the birds have produced offspring this summer.

Right: An abandoned osprey egg at Lake Arrowhead in Vermont sits in its nest beside an old corn cob and other nest materials.

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every species has got to eat – even species that see ospreys as a meal ticket.”

applicant's proposed project, as currently configured, cannot receive conditional use approval as a matter of law.”

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Judge Durkin’s ruling read that, (the) Applicant's proposed project, as currently configured, cannot receive conditional use approval as a matter of law.

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The circle of life may be at work at Vermont’s Lake Arrowhead, where ospreys failed this summer to produce fledglings for the first time in more than a decade, most likely due to a fisher or other predator.

Despite a record-setting six nests at Lake Arrowhead, ospreys failed to produce any fledglings at the manmade lake for the first time since 1998.

Five pairs of ospreys were sitting on eggs early this spring, but one nest was abandoned after a few weeks. A sixth nest appeared a short time later, presumably built by the pair that abandoned their initial nest, but none of the birds have been successful.

A lone egg, covered in debris, remained in the abandoned nest weeks after the ospreys moved on. The nest was close to the lake’s boat access and a train trestle that skirts the eastern end of the lake.

“My guess is that these were young birds building their first nest, so this is a learning process,” Vermont Fish and Wildlife biologist John Gobeille said. “I don't know why they chose this site, because there are plenty of better nest sites nearby.

It is probably due to the birds’ preference to nest over water.”

Many of the other nest failures were at locations that have previously produced chicks that grew into fledglings.

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Auto break-ins on the rise July 19, 2010 Animal problem, small dog was attacked by larger dog, Dog Team Road, New Haven.

ATV incident, ATV operator not wearing helmet and driving too fast, Lincoln Road, Ripton.

Welfare check, Vermont Route 73, Goshen.

July 20, 2010 Traffic hazard, cow in the road, Vermont Route 30, Cornwall.

Theft of a tailgate from a truck, Route 7, Leicester.

Theft of a purse from an unlocked vehicle, Kampersville, Lake Dunmore Road, Salisbury.

Two vehicle accident, with injuries, Route 7, Ferrisburgh.

Cited William Postier, age 48, of Bristol into Court for Possession of Marijuana, US Route 7, Ferrisburgh.

Landlord/tenant dispute, Maple Street, Waltham.

Gasoline drive-off, theft of over $40 worth of gasoline from Jerusalem Corners Store, Vermont Route 17, Starksboro Property watch, Panton Road, Panton.

July 21, 2010 Cited Ryan Phelps, age 29, of Shoreham into Court for Driving with License Suspended, Route 7, Leicester.

Theft of two license plates from a vehicle, Bristol Pond Road, Bristol.

Vehicle break-in. Two vehicles were broken into on Lincoln Gap Road, Lincoln.

Checks and an I Pod were stolen from one vehicle, and paperwork and an FM trans-

mitter for an MP3 player were stolen from the second vehicle.

Harassing telephone calls to a resident of Ferrisburgh.

Burglary and theft of an air conditions, checks, safe, and other items from a residence, Fuller Mountain Road, Ferrisburgh.

July 22, 2010 Theft of a pocketbook from an unlocked vehicle at a residence, Ledgemont Lane, Cornwall.

One vehicle accident, with injuries, Vermont Route 116, Bristol.

Theft of an inspection sticker from a vehicle, Eagles Nest Road, Ripton.

Assisted Lebanon Police Department in serving a subpoena, Quaker Street, Lincoln.

Served a subpoena on a subject, Route 7, Ferrisburgh.

Assisted Bristol Police Department with a subject who was walking in the middle of the road, Lovers Lane, Bristol.

Theft of I Phone, wallet, and I Pod from an unlocked vehicle, Bartlett Falls, Vermont Route 116, Bristol.

Assisted Middlebury Police Department with a unresponsive subject, Route 7, Salisbury.

Harassing text messages to a resident of Leicester.

Theft of a scooter from a residence, Vermont Route 125, Cornwall.

Two vehicle accident, no injuries, Vermont Route 125, Ripton.

Welfare check, Vermont Route 125, Bridport.

July 23, 2010 Two vehicle accident, with injuries, Vermont Route 7, Ferrisburgh.

Two vehicle accident, ATV v car, no injuries, Upper Plains Road, Salisbury.

Assisted Addison County Sheriff ’s Department in locating a subject, Route 7, New Haven.

Assault, Vermont Route 17, Starksboro.

Report of people shooting paint guns, possibly at vehicles, Hunt Farm Road, Bristol.

July 24, 2010 Noise disturbance, Many Waters Road, Bristol.

Theft of a purse from an unlocked vehicle, Town Beach Road, Ferrisburgh.

Family fight, Mountain Road, Monkton.

One vehicle accident, no injuries, Route 4, Castleton.

Burglary and theft of a TV and other items from a residence, Leicester Whiting road, Leicester.

July 25, 2010 Threatening text messages sent to a resident of New Haven.

Burglary and theft of TVs and other items from a residence, Shellhouse Mountain Road, Ferrisburgh.

Threats made to a resident of Bristol.

Welfare check, Lazy Brook Drive, Starksboro.

Threats made to a resident of Shoreham.

Additional citations issued during the past week: Cited Robert Jennings, age 65, of Bridport into Court for Driving with License Suspended, Creek Road, Salisbury – June 30, 2010.

Cited Whitney Williams, age 18, of Cornwall into Court for Possession of Marijuana, Vermont Route 30, Whiting – July 1, 2010.

Cited Shawn Reckell, age 32, of Lincoln into Court for Driving with License Suspended, Route 7, New Haven – July 3, 2010.

Car break ins on the rise: The State Police in New Haven are seeing an increase in car vandalisms and thefts at favorite swimming pull offs and hiking trails. Locations include Bartlett Falls in Bristol, the Silver Lake hiking trail in Salisbury, and Kampersville on Lake Dunmore.

Motorists are reminded to lock their vehicles, and remove any valuables from their vehicles, while left unattended.

Bristol man arrested On July 20, at approximately 11:35 a.m., a Vermont State Police trooper stopped William Lloyd Postier, 48, of Bristol for operating a non-inspected motor vehicle along U.S. Route 7 and 22a in Ferrisburgh. Postier was later arrested for possessing a felony amount of marijuana (approximately 2.5 oz.)

Bristol man accused According to Vermont State Police Senior Trooper Joseph Pregent, William Lloyd Postier, 48, of Bristol was accused of drug possession (felony). While driving through Ferrisburgh on Route 22A July 21, Postier was stopped for driving a vehicle without state inspection. A state police news statement said Postier possessed over 2 ounces of marijuana which qualified as a felony. Postier will appear in Vermont District Court in Middlebury Sept. 13.

Hinesburg LNA charged Nursing assistant Christina Moulton, 27, of Hinesburg was charged with grand larceny and multiple counts of exploiting a vulnerable adult suffering from multiple sclerosis under false pretenses. Moulton, a LNA, was accused of stealing thousands of dollars in jewelry. She also was accused of taking a patient’s credit card and using it.

The charges against Moulton were announced last week. Police said she will appear in Vermont District Court Aug. 30.

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The mysterious centaurs

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trange space objects called centaurs have recently been discovered in the far reaches of the solar system. Orbiting our Sun in a region called the Kuiper Belt, located beyond Pluto, centaurs are small objects—up to 125 miles (200 km) across; they now bridge the mini-planetoid classification gap between asteroids and comets.

Centaurs are a little bit like

By Lou Varricchio asteroids and a little bit like comets; they are composed of rock, ice, gases and various organic compounds. Water ice has been confirmed on a number of centaurs.

In deep space, far from the Sun, centaurs behave as nomad asteroids. But when a centaur occasionally wonders closer to the Sun, its surface ices boil off and the object becomes more comet-like, even developing a gauzy tail. These strange objects, like the dwarf-planet (or just plain planet) Pluto and its moons, are part of a vast debris field left over from the formation of the solar system 4.54 billion years ago.

Orbits of centaurs are highly unstable. Occasionally, Neptune’s gravity field will affect a centaur ’s orbit nudging it closer to the Sun. When the centaur ’s surface heats up due to increased solar energy, some of its ice sublimes to sport a blunt comet’s tail.

Chiron is the largest centaur object discovered so far. It’s named after the mythological centaur named Chiron. Chiron is best remembered as the amazing tutor of both ancient Greek superheros Achilles and Hercules.

Originally classified as a deep-space asteroid, Chiron was reclassified as the first centaur in 1977.

A similar object, called Pholus, was discovered in 1992.

Ever since, astronomers have been finding more centaur objects beyond Pluto’s orbit. Despite the distance between Earth and the remote space pastures where centaurs roam, astronomers have been able to detect some surface color variations.

Most centaurs appear to be red due to similar chemicals, perhaps organics. Chiron, however, appears darker than its lonely companions. No one knows for sure, but this may be due to the fact that its original surface material has been boiled off countless times in its drunken-like orbit around the Sun. Then again maybe Chiron is more rocky than its fellow centaurs.

We’ll probably have to wait a very long time to get a closeup view of Chiron or other centaurs. Neither the U.S. nor Europe has any plans for a robot space mission to visit a centaur object at least through the year 2020. NASA, thanks to tinkering by the anti-space Obama regime, may no longer be a significant player in the planetary exploration game.

What’s in the Sky: During early August, look low in the west at sunset for four planets visible to the unaided eye: Venus, the brightest, and to its left are Mars, Saturn and elusive Mercury.

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Herbie the love cat H

erbie was my mom’s cat. He had to be put to sleep today. I was in the room with ma and Herbie when he passed, and I want to apologize to Herbie. Here’s why.

Herbie had been having trouble getting his business done for the past year or so, especially the past week, so mom called her vet., who was on vacation, so she called another vet and made Herbie an appointment.

Herbie was seventeen and a half and lived four of those years with mom and dad, five more with mom alone. Herbie would smush his twenty-five pounds of coon catness beside dad on the recliner, and dad would pet Herbie all night long. When dad died, and you don’t have to care or believe me, or believe in the spirit of this, but when dad died, Herbie mourned him by not getting up into dad’s recliner for nearly a month. Herbie would sit in front of the recliner, look at it for a good spell, and go rest somewhere else. Good soul.

Since dad died, Herbie had become mom’s main man.

His giant green eye’s looking after her like his life depended on her. Which of course it did.

Mom feared Herbie might not come home from the vet. this time; but she hoped the vet .would be able to get Herbie flushed out enough to send him home for one more run. I hoped the same. We always want a little more.

“Fries with that?” Yeah, fries, and another two weeks with ole Herbie around would be just fine, thank-you.

So when ma got the call this morning from the vet. saying Herbie’s kidneys had done their last work, she wasn’t surprised.

I watched the slow but dignified death of my father; saw him lying passed away in his bed. Saw my Aunt lifeless in her bed at the nursing home too. I’ve been around my share of old, and very sick, and extremely hurt people, but I’ve never been witness to putting an animal down, which I feel is why I screwed up just a little.

Ma and I were in the room when a nurse brought Herbie in, two IV’s held with gauze and stuck in his little forearm. On the table Herbie cawed a bit, but it didn’t seem like he was in pain. I’d like to think his caw was more from discomfort then blatant pain.

Ma kissed Herbie and told him she loved him and that she will always love him. I pet him, and listened to what the doc had to say. I put my ear down to the bulk of Herbie’s body to hear if he was purring. Brilliant eh? He wasn’t.

Cause she doesn’t stand well at eighty, ma settled in a bench a couple feet from Herbie. I stood behind Herbie as the doc went about presenting a sedative into his arm. I lightly stroked Herbie’s back a bit, but when the doc plugged the shot of relaxant into the IV, I let up petting.

Herbie fell into a medicated haze, a sleep, basically. I walked over to ma and put my hand on her shoulder, tapped her a couple of times, and the doc quietly said “this will stop his heart,” as he administered the second and final dose.

Gentle ending of a gentle giant seventeen and a half year-old, green eyes the size of marbles, nice as can be, at one time 25 pound, cat.

Why do I want to apologize to Herbie? Because I wasn’t chatting with him as the doc gave the first sedative. For some reason I thought getting in too close to Herbie could muddle the procedure. I’ve always had good instincts; known what to do and say with folks who’re hurting. But this was different. This was someone who was going out, right then and there, and my usual dead on instincts let me down a little bit and allowed me to succumb to the odd certainty of the moment.

So I’m sorry Herbie that I wasn’t chatting with you right before the end. I should have been right down with you, loving you up, going about all normal saying “ole Herbie, he’s the feller, he’s a good boy, a handsome feller, you’re my buddy.” Sorry about that ole Herb, cause maybe going about normal could have made the very, very end, a bit more comfortable for you.

I’m not worried Herbie that you didn’t have a subtle end, I’m just thinking it might have been a tiny bit better had I talked to you through it. Live and learn for me, for you Herbie, die and teach. I’ll be better next time.

Thanks Herbie, for everything.

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his column is about two venerable institutions which, until fairly recently, functioned quite differently from their present governance practices.

Each institution has devoted special efforts to actions which seem to have been designed pointedly to affront that part of the constituency of each, once in the majority and now in the not-even-disguised-despised minority. One is my collegiate alma mater, which, for perhaps misplaced reasons of loyalty, I won’t identify here; the other is the fourteenth state, the historical label claimed by Vermont even though there was briefly a state labeled no. 14 named Franklin in Appalachia, its short political and geographical life ending just as Vermont’s began.

Both institutions—university and state—share a common history; within living memory both were quintessentially conservative in population membership and governance outlook—neither one is any more. The once majority outlook on institutional purpose—education and/or governance in the historic “liberal”, not the modern “progressive” sense—having been reduced to minority status by an aggressively dominant left-leaning governing majority.

A defender of what happened could well say that both were just as ideologically motivated then as they are now, albeit in different directions, then as what’s now called “conservative” and today as what’s now called “liberal”.

A rebutter might argue that the university’s educational menu, particularly in the soft subjects (not the hard sciences), wasn’t nearly as ideologically directed then as it is now, while conceding that state governance on the Jeffersonian model is just as much of an ideological template as the progressive concept of the intelligent governing the stupid (for our own good, of course).

The verb alienate should be enlarged to convey what I’d guess was the motivation for these symbolically valuable actions: to the minority of alumni and voters alike, the unspoken message is “sit down, shut up, and send money; we’re in charge now, and we don’t need or want your input”.

Both actions are part of a broader pattern: in Vermont, the campaign to shut down Vermont Yankee is part of a much larger anti-business governance attitude which has been reflected by such new demographics.

At my old school, the hiring of Obama’s leftist agitator, wealth redistributionist, and self-professed communist Van Jones as a visiting lecturer matches well the long list of recognized leftists (and absence of rightist ones) in the economics department. There, the Keynesian stimulus-viagovernment spending concepts are taught as if there were no such thing as the recent research proving that such “multipliers” are typically negative in their effect. And in the sociology department, a professor teaches that “whiteness is the (unfortunate) absence of blackness.”

I’d argue that both the Van Jones hiring and the Vermont Yankee shutdown were designed for symbolic intent only;

the former accomplishing little beyond confirming the university management’s wish to be seen and admired as more eclectic, inclusive, diverse, multi-cultural, out reaching, and so on other ivyclad competitors.

In contrast, the Vermont action started out as symbolic rhetoric, which to its authors’ consternation, metamorphosed into a real objective. Perhaps the turning point was the adoption of compostthrowing at a Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearing as an environmentalist debating strategy (which may well succeed at shutting down a third of the state’s electric power, with no concern for either its replacement or replacement cost).

As a former news reporter, trained back in the days when we were instructed by our editors to build the lead graph around who, what, where, when, and not why or how unless it was provable fact—not opinion—I’ll admit to both an opinion (and lack of one) here.

I have reported above on the four Ws and opined on the reasons for university and state action; but I have no opinion (beyond a fairly vague theory) regarding the fifth W. Why would the managers of each of these institutions take largely symbolic actions they knew would antagonize part (admittedly, an impotent minority) of their constituencies? It sure ain’t the “reaching out” inclusiveness they more typically advocate.

Each of these initiatives might be explained as the victory lap or touchdown dance common in the sports world; until now, such dancing is uncommon in the halls of governance or education. Unfortunately, that explanation doesn’t enlighten anyone on why (beyond a primitive sort of cave-man—oops, make that “caveperson” or even better Homo neanderthalensis—triumphalism now expressed in more contemporary ways. Maybe my own level of sophistication is simply inadequate to an understanding what their strategy is and what their tactics were.

Maybe this simply proves the progressives’ basic point of self-identification: that they are smarter than the rest of us, are therefore our natural-born leaders. We should be grateful for whatever they do even when we can’t comprehend why they’re doing it. What I have mistakenly interpreted as a pair of mal gestes or political gotchas, should be accepted with suitable humility—each as a beau geste of noble intent, executed by a pair of noble institutions each acting as pater familias for us their political children in constant need of adult supervision.

Longtime Vermont resident Martin Harris now lives in Tennesee.

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Customers enjoy homemade pies at last year’s Annual Pie and Ice Cream Social in Ferrsiburgh. This year’s event is Aug. 15 at the Rokeby Museum.

Got a hankering for homemade pie? Plan on driving to Rokeby Museum in Ferrisburgh for the Annual Pie and Ice Cream Social on Sunday, Aug. 15 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Rokeby Museum volunteers have been perfecting the art of pie making for more than 25 years.

Peach, apple, berry pies of every kind, even recipes from the Robinson family collection, including “Maple Butternut Chiffon.” How about “a la mode” with Wilcox Dairy ice cream? It’s a selection like you’ve never seen before! And you can justify helping yourself to a second slice because all proceeds support the Museum’s mission. Enjoy the soothing sounds of the Vergennes City Band as you relax in the shade with summer ’s sweetest treat.

Guided tours of the house will be available every halfhour throughout the afternoon; tour admission is $6 adults, $4 for seniors, and $2 for children.

Rokeby Museum is a 90-acre historic site and National Historic Landmark designated for its exceptional Underground Railroad history. Rokeby was home to four generations of the Robinson family, from 1793 to 1961. The Museum is located on Route 7 in Ferrisburgh.

Call 877-3406 or e-mail at rokeby@comcast.com for more information.

What’s the latest buzz on chain saw art? On Saturday, Aug. 7 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., stop by the Sheldon Museum in downtown Middlebury to watch Marvin Chamberlin turn logs into sculptures using only a chainsaw.

Chamberlin will be carving outside in the side yard at the Sheldon, rain or shine.

Owner of Marvin's Carvins in Richmond, the artist has been carving wood since childhood, an affinity which sometimes caused his father a great deal of consternation, for example, when the object of Marvin's whittling was a farm tool handle. He has used a chainsaw since the age of twelve, helping to gather firewood for the family, and later working as a logger.

One day, while out for a drive, he stopped at a gift shop to watch someone creating sculpture using a chainsaw and thought “I bet I can do that.” After trying it at home, he was hooked. His carvings since have ranged from small 12-inch bears to 25-foot onsite tree carvings, with many sculptures incorporated into the tree. His love of the craft is evident in his work, and he is often asked to do exhibitions at trade fairs and other venues, as well as many on-site sculpture commissions, which turn useless stumps into things of beauty.

There is no charge to watch the demonstration, but visitors are encouraged to take time to tour the Sheldon and browse the Museum Shop. This carving demonstration is offered in conjunction with the Sheldon’s current exhibit, The Nature of Wood: Vermont Furniture and Woodware, 1790 to the Present. The exhibit has received generous sponsorship from Edgewater Gallery at Middlebury Falls and is a 2010 State of Craft Showcase event.

The 2010 State of Craft Showcase was organized by the Vermont Crafts Council, in cooperation with the Bennington

Marvin Chamberlin Museum, the Vermont Folklife Center, and the Vermont Department of Tourism and Marketing.

The Henry Sheldon Museum is located at 1 Park St. in downtown Middlebury across from the Ilsley Library. Museum hours: May 23-Oct. 17: Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun. 1-5 p.m. Fall/Winter/Spring: Tues.-Sat. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Research Center hours: Tues., Wed., Fri. 1-5 p.m., Thurs. 1-8 p.m. Admission to the museum is $5 adults; $3 youth (6-18); $4.50 Seniors; $12 Family. For more information call 802-3882117 or visit ww.henrysheldonmuseum.org.

Advantage names agents Century 21 Advantage of South Burlington named Katie Winterbottom and Tina Tomasi to the firm’s sales associate team. Winterbottom has five years, and Tomasi Katier Winterbottom Tina Tomasi with six years, of real estate experience with an understanding of the regional market, according to Brian French, president/owner of Advantage.

Death notices Kathy Cormier Hurlburt, age 75, died July 27, 2010, at her home in Salisbury.

She was born in Middlebury on August 10, 1934. She was the daughter of Shirley and Beatrice (Dutton) Ovitt. She received her education in local East Middlebury schools. She had worked many years at Tops Restaurant in Middlebury. She is survived by her husband Earl A. Hurlburt, Sr., of Salisbury and children.

MEET THE GENERAL — Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas, a resident of Middlebury, visited Iraq last week. While visiting Vermont troops stationed in the new democracy, Douglas met briefly with U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus. The general replaced Gen. Stanley McChrystal after the general’s published comments about the White House’s mismanagement of the war on terrorism.

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n a startling development last week, the Obama Justice Department, defending against a host of lawsuits to invalidate the ObamaCare law, declared that the law's individual insurance mandate is not founded on the power of Congress to regulate interstate commerce. Surprise. It's a new tax.

The reason obviously, was that trying to hang the ObamaCare coverage mandate on the interstate commerce clause looked more and more like a loser in court.

In 1942 the federal commerce power reached its high water mark. In that year the Supreme Court informed Roscoe Filburn that he couldn't grow his own wheat to fatten his own hogs on his own farm, without submitting to the New Deal wheat management program.

Its argument was that if Roscoe hadn't grown his own hog feed, he would have had to go into the marketplace and purchase feed. A million hog farmers growing their own feed would of course wreck the New Deal regulatory scheme, that depended on every wheat farmer submitting to Federal crop production controls. Too bad, Roscoe.

But note the difference between Roscoe's case and the ObamaCare insurance mandate. The government regulation of the national wheat market was, by 1942, conceded to be a legitimate exercise of the commerce power. ObamaCare is something else.

ObamaCare mandates that by 2014 almost every American must prove to the IRS that he or she is enrolled in a government-approved health plan. Absent that proof, the IRS will hound the luckless citizen for a "penalty" of 2.5% of his or her income (by 2016), or $695 a year, whichever is greater.

In a 2008 debate with Hilary Clinton, Sen. Barack Obama scored points by strongly opposing this mandate policy, on the reasonable grounds that people without enough income to buy health insurance would be caught, fined, and still not have any health coverage. But that was then.

Unlike Roscoe, these uninsured Americans are not even arguably engaged in commerce. They aren't in the health or insurance businesses. They aren't creating anything of value to sell into a regulated market.

It's not hard to see why a reasonable constitutional lawyer would conclude, as many have, that Congress cannot stretch the commerce power to regulate and fine people who merely exist.

So now-aha!-the U.S. Justice Department finds that the individual mandate rests upon the power of Congress to tax. This was no sudden stroke of legal genius. The Housepassed version of ObamaCare - the one supported by Congressman Welch - contained the key Sec. 401: "Tax on Individuals Without Acceptable Health Care". But that tax language wasn't enacted. The Senate bill that replaced the House language relies on regulation of commerce (Sec. 1501).

But the individual mandate does not involve a tax increase. Who said so? President Barack Obama, who "absolutely rejects" that notion when pressed by George Stephanopoulos on ABC 's This Week last September. But that was then.

So the Obama Administration's position now comes down to this: Congress has the power to tax you until you do any specific thing Congress thinks is good for you, or for the nation, or for the planet. If you're one of the 18 million working uninsured, you must buy government-ap-

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am a fairly recent transplant to Vermont having just settled here in June 2006. I purchased a home in Vergennes primarily because it was one of only two homes available in the region in my price range and possessing all the amenities I was seeking. While I thought the city was "cute", I had lived in ten different towns in the 12 years preceding, so I was not particularly discriminating.

How extremely fortunate for me (and my ever growing family) to have landed by sheer dumb luck in such an amazing community. What started out as merely a place to live for awhile has quickly become my home, in every sense of that word, in large part due to the character of Vergennes and the openness and generosity of its residents.

In December 2009, I had the opportunity to offer a little something back to this wonderful city by joining the Vergennes Planning Commission (VPC), a group of dedicated individuals who share my passion for our Little City. Due to a series of life changes for other folks on the VPC, I was elected chair in June.

As I have learned over the past few months, the work done by any municipality's boards and commissions is ex-

tremely important to daily life for every citizen. In September 2009, the city council adopted a new Municipal Development Plan (MDP) for Vergennes to span the years 2009-2014. The VPC spent almost two years working closely with city officials, a private consultant and, most importantly, as many members of the community as possible to craft the MDP. The result is a comprehensive document, representative of OUR vision of Vergennes for the future.

As we embark on the second stage of that project, rewriting the zoning regulations for existing districts to comply with the MDP and creating entirely new regulations for two new districts, the VPC will once again seek community feedback at every stage of the project. We hope to continue in the tradition of operating in an open and transparent way so that all members of the Vergennes community can feel engaged in the process and proud of the end result.

One of the first tasks we must complete before we can move forward is to add one more member to our team. If you are a Vergennes resident who is passionate about your community, please think of submitting your name for consideration. The VPC holds regular, public meetings on the

proved insurance or face the IRS Penalty Patrol at your doorstep. Not good.

There is growing concern about obesity, a major health risk factor. Under the Obama theory, Congress could levy a new tax on every excess unit of your Body Mass Index, until you prove to the Federal Obesity Regulation Bureau that you have, through diet, exercise and perhaps surgery, reduced your BMI to 25.

To be subject to the law, you wouldn't have to be in the business of being obese say, by working in a circus sideshow. You would just have to exist. That's all it would take to trigger a new tax, that the IRS would make you pay until you complied with Washington's dictates. And if you don't pay the IRS, you can end up in jail.

Make no mistake: whether by stretching the commerce power beyond all known bounds, or by levying new taxes on anything and anybody to validate regulations unsupported by any power found in the Constitution, ObamaCare is a mortal threat to our liberty - and to our constitutional republic.

John McClaughry is vice president of the Ethan Allen Institute (www.ethanallen.org). third Monday of each month in addition to occasional, special sessions such as community forums or public hearings. We are seeking a candidate who can commit to that schedule as well as some assignments outside of meetings (for example, reviewing a section of the old regulations to offer suggestions for appropriate ways to bring them into compliance with the MDP). Those interested should also consider whether they might have frequent conflicts of interest; while each member might, from time to time, have occasion to abstain from a discussion or vote, the VPC needs members who can actively participate in our process as much as possible.

Candidates with experience in any sort of related field will obviously be able to hit the ground running, which is certainly helpful, but we encourage any interested community member to submit their name for consideration. The most important qualifications we seek are an ability to commit to the team, the interest to learn about Vergennes' municipal process and the drive to help implement the MDP. Please contact Mel Hawley, Vergennes city manager/zoning administrator, at 877-3637 or mhawley@vergennes.org if you are interested in joining our team.

Most residents of Vergennes feel connected to the city, whether they are lifelong residents or, like me, wound up here by happenstance. It is a special place whose character cannot be defined in mere words. We look forward to working closely with a new member as well as each resident of Vergennes in the coming months.

Alexandria S. McGuire

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HINESBURG — Hinesburg Lions Farmers Market on Thursdays 3:30-7 p.m. June thru September at the Hinesburg Community Church. Vermont products abound.

Friday, August 6 BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, Fridays 9 a.m 2 p.m. in Central Park. Farm, craft products. Contact 2732655.

FAIR HAVEN — Fridays 3-6 p.m. in the Fair Haven Park.

At the south end of the park next to the parking lot. 518-2829781 or Sherry12887@yahoo.com.

MIDDLEBURY — CVAA's First Friday Luncheon at noon.

Suggested donation $3. Bring place setting. Reservations are required. Transportation provided, call 388-1946.

RICHMOND — The Swing Peepers on Astage at the Richmond Farmers’ Market, 5-6 p.m. Face painter on hand. Market open, 3-6:30 p.m. on Volunteers Green. 434-5273 or cmader@surfglobal.net.

Saturday, August 7 CAVENDISH —The Cavendish Fletcher Community Library "Drive In Movie" at 8:30. "FIndingNemo" on the library wall rain or shine. Bring folding chair, blanket, snacks and bug spray. 226-7503.

MIDDLEBURY — Sheldon Museum, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Marvin Chamberlin turns logs into sculptures using only a chainsaw. Chamberlain, of Marvin's Carvins in Richmond, has been carving wood since childhood. 1 Park St. across from the Ilsley Public Library. For information call 388-2117.

MOUNT HOLLY — The Odd Fellows’ Home-Style Roast Pork Supper to benefit the Colfax Lodge 21, 5 p.m., at the Odd Fellows Hall. Admission $10 adults, $5 children 11 and under. 259-2205.

RUTLAND — Block Party at the Rutland United Methodist Church, 71 Williams St. featuring games for the kids; dance contest; hula hoop contest; all with a ‘50s and ‘60s theme.

All ages, free admission. BBQ $8 Adults $5 kids. 773 2460.

RUTLAND —- Saturday Night Live: Worship on the Hill.

Outdoor worship experience. At Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (behind Pizza Hut), 5:30 p.m.

RUTLAND — WalkRutland Guided Hike at 9 a.m.: White Rocks/Ice Bed Trail in Wallingford. Estimated distance 2.5 miles; 342-3479 for directions.

Sunday, August 8 BENSON — Benson Public Library Book Sale, 9:30 a.m.

Adults, children, and cookbooks available at affordable prices. Money used for new computers.

LINCOLN — Lincoln Historical Society Museum Open House, 2 p.m. Featured guests: J. Francis Anger, WWII veteran and author. Veterans encouraged to attend. Refreshments. Free. 453-2807.

Monday, August 9 VERGENNES — Vergennes City Band Concerts 7 p.m. on the green.

Tuesday, August 10 BOMOSEEN — “Healthy Living Workshop”, 9 a.m.11:30am at the Castleton Community Center, 275 Rt. 30 N. Free. 772.2400.

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Wednesday, August 11 BRISTOL — St. Ambrose Lawn Party and Chicken BBQ on Bristol Green, 5 p.m.-dusk. White elephant table, games.

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CAVENDISH — Free concert on Proctorsville Green by Voodoo Alien Blues Band, 6 p.m. Concert rain or shine. 2366638.

HUBBARDTON — Senior Brunch, 10 a.m.-noon. Hubbardton Town Hall. Free brunch for over age 60. RSVP 2732953.

Thursday, August 12 HINESBURG — Hinesburg Lions Farmers Market, 3:30 7 p.m. at the Hinesburg Community Church.

Friday, August 13 BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Central Park. 273-2655 or cijka4@localnet.com.

FAIR HAVEN — Market hours, 3-6 p.m. in the Fair Haven Park. 518-282-9781 or Sherry12887@yahoo.com.

RICHMOND — On stage, 5-6 p.m., at the Richmond Farmers’Market: Dark Star. Market open, 3-6:30 p.m. on Volunteers Green. Buy Local. 434-5273 or cmader@surfglobal.net.

Saturday, August 14 LUDLOW — The Friends of the Library’s Annual Book Sale, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.

RUTLAND — Worship on the Hill at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Rutland (behind Pizza Hut), 5:30 p.m.

Monday, August 16 VERGENNES — Vergennes City Band Concerts every Monday at 7 p.m. on the green until Aug. 23.

Thursday, August 19 HINESBURG — Hinesburg Lions Farmers Market on Thursdays from 3:30 and 7 p.m. at the Hinesburg Community Church.

Friday, August 20 BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m., in Central Park. 273-2655 or cijka4@localnet.com for more info.

FAIR HAVEN — Fair Haven Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m. in the Fair Haven Park.

Monday, August 23 VERGENNES — Vergennes City Band Concert at 7 p.m.

Thursday, August 26 HINESBURG — Hinesburg Lions Farmers Market, 3:307 p.m., at the Hinesburg Community Church.

Friday, August 27 BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Central Park. 273-2655 or cijka4@localnet.com for more info.

FAIR HAVEN — Fair Haven Farmers Market, 3-6 p.m.

Friday, September 3 BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. in Central Park.

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FAIR HAVEN — The regular market hours for the 2010 season are Friday's from 3-6 p.m. running from June 4 - October 8 in the Fair Haven Park. We are on the green at the south end of the park next to the parking lot. For more information about The Fair Haven Farmer's Market contact Sherry Smith - Fair Haven Farmer's Market Manager at 518282-9781 or Sherry12887@yahoo.com.

Friday, October 1 BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, Running now until October 8th on Friday’s from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Central Park. A wide variety of farm & craft products are offered.

Contact Wendy Cijka at 273-2655 or cijka4@localnet.com for more info.

FAIR HAVEN — The regular market hours for the 2010 season are Friday's from 3-6 p.m. running from June 4 - October 8 in the Fair Haven Park. We are on the green at the south end of the park next to the parking lot. For more information about The Fair Haven Farmer's Market contact Sherry Smith - Fair Haven Farmer's Market Manager at 518282-9781 or Sherry12887@yahoo.com.

Friday, October 8 BRANDON — Brandon Farmer’s Market, Running now until October 8th on Friday’s from 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. in Central Park. A wide variety of farm & craft products are offered.

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FAIR HAVEN — The regular market hours for the 2010 season are Friday's from 3-6 p.m. running from June 4 - October 8 in the Fair Haven Park. We are on the green at the south end of the park next to the parking lot. For more information about The Fair Haven Farmer's Market contact Sherry Smith - Fair Haven Farmer's Market Manager at 518282-9781 or Sherry12887@yahoo.com.

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Ryan wins at Devil’s Bowl WEST HAVEN — Jim Ryan took advantage of a front-row starting position and a cautionless feature to record his first modified win of the season Sunday night in the double-points, Mid-Season Championships at Devil's Bowl Speedway.

The front row was the place to be, as Seth Roberts, who started next to Ryan, came across the line second, the best run of his young career.

While Ryan and Roberts were opening up a little breathing room, Don Mattison, Mike Bruno and Tim Laduc hooked up in their own little battle a couple of car lengths back. Early in the feature, Bruno and Laduc were running side-by-side, but on lap 13, Laduc got his left front on the rumble strips, letting Bruno to get around him on the high side on the front stretch.

Roberts stayed within striking distance of Ryan, but couldn't find the grip on the outside to make the pass.

Ken Tremont Jr. made a late charge, getting by Laduc for fifth with seven to go. Two laps later, Andy Durie got a flat tire, but he was able to duck into the pits without bringing out the yellow.

Tremont kept battling, and finally worked his way around Bruno late in the feature. When the checkered flag fell, Mattison, Tremont and Bruno chased Ryan and Roberts across the finish line.

Don Miller continued to dominate the sportsman division, picking up his fifth win of the season. Jack Swinton set the early pace, but Miller, who started seventh, got the lead on lap eight.

At about the same time, Josh Joseph went flying off the backstretch.

The grounds were so saturated that Joseph sent off a high rooster tail of water, and the race had to be red-flagged for 15 minutes while crews pulled his car out of the muck.

Once the race resumed, the field strung out quickly. Hunter Bates made a late charge and tried to close the gap on Miller, but he again proved to be too tough, and came away with the victory. Bates, Swinton, Fred Proctor and Jon Rheome completed the top five.

Brandon Emigh came away with his first win of the year in the Renegade feature, and Robert Leitch also made his first visit of the year to victory lane, taking the checkered flag in the Bomber War-

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Charlotte’s Rich Lowrey earned his first feature win of the season and eighth career Late Model feature win at Thunder Road last week. Lowrey came from the sixth starting spot to take the lead from rookie Cody Blake at the halfway mark.

He then held off eventual runner-up finisher Nick Sweet on the final restart of the event on lap 29.

Lowrey and Sweet were followed to the line by Matt White, Phil Scott and Blake completing the top five. Point leader Dave Pembroke finished with a solid sixth with Reno Gervais, Cris Michaud, John Donahue and Joey Becker rounding out the top ten.

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Players from high schools in Rutland, Addison, Windsor and Chittenden counties will be players on the all-star team this year.

This is the third year that KUA has hosted the Shrine football teams and the school’s close proximity to Windsor and the availability of both natural and artificial turf make it an ideal location.

The players will under go physicals and have team pictures this morning and then take to the field for afternoon and evening workouts before finally calling it a day. Vermont head coach Charlie Burnett from Essex and New Hampshire head coach Ken Sciacca from North County Regional (Conway) have told their players to report in shape and ready to go.

Both teams are scheduled to have triple sessions starting tomorrow and even the threat of showers will not detract from the plan of having both offenses in place by this weekend.

New Hampshire leads the overall series 41-13-2, including last year's 40-6 victory over Vermont, but the Vermonters hope that this will be their year as the game moves across the Connecticut River for only the third time in Bowl Game history.

Preceding the bowl game in Windsor, there will be a spectacular parade through the streets of Windsor featuring over 3,000 marchers. The parade is scheduled for noon and in addition to units from seven Shrine Centers in the Northeast, there will be an appearance by the Shrine All Star High Band, made up of nearly 100 high school musicians from 20 high schools, kick-off for the football game is set for 2:30 p.m. Tickets for the game is $8 in advance and $10. on game day. There is also reserved seating for $20 and these can be obtained from any of the ticket outlets throughout New Hampshire Custom and Vermont. For more information, contact the Shrine Vinyl Fencing Bowl Football office at 603Available 448-1042.

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Vergennes: Little City, big history

By Catherine Oliverio VERGENNES—Vergennes ranks as one of the third oldest cities in New England, as well as the smallest American, historical Vermont communities settled in 1766 and incorporated in 1788. The brick, wood, and stone of Main Street resonate with history. Vergennes’ central business and residential district is listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

The history of Vergennes is quite unique in the way it attracted its population. Rather than the traditional Vermont farmers, a different class of people settled here, such as manufacturers, merchants, and professional men including mechanics and laborers. The stretch of 1,200 acres did not afford many to use the land for farming.

Instead, Vergennes served as a commercial center for the surrounding agricultural areas.

To date, Vergennes maintains a strong industrial base with two major companies, Goodrich Aerospace (where vital parts for NASA’s space-shuttle fleet and defense craft are manufactured) and Nathaniel Electronics. The convenience of Otter Creek and the presence of the Monkton Iron Company, one of the largest iron works in the United States, enhanced the growth of Vergennes into a visible commercial success. With the success, elaborate homes appeared block after block with diverse architectural structures.

Early in Vergennes’ history rapid industrial growth appeared with forges, blast furnaces, a wire factory, and other facilities. Such growth made Vergennes the most suitable location for and played an integral part of the War of 1812.

It was during the War of 1812 that Commodore Thomas MacDonough established a shipyard at the foot of Otter Creek where he prepared his navy and built numerous ships including, the flagship Saratoga, the largest military vessel ever launched in Vermont.

After the war and within ten years, the Lake Champlain Steamship Company built four lake steamers at the same shipyard MacDonough established. In 1824 the opening of the Champlain Canal connected Lake Champlain with the Hudson River and led to increased passenger traffic on the lake. The railroad in 1855 also increased production as lumber was transported.

Aside from Vergennes’ history, there are also cultural and recreational attractions. Visit the Opera House, the Greek Revival style Bixby Library, Rokeby Museum, Round Barn Merinos, and the Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. Picnic on the banks of the Otter Creek or the city green where one can experience a true farmer ’s market. Another fabulous idea would be take a cruise down the Otter Creek to Lake

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The Rokeby Museum Find the National Historic Landmark Underground site in nearby Ferrisburgh. This fully furnished house holds 200 years of treasures, as well as eight historic farm buildings to explore and plenty of land to hike.

The Stevens House The Stevens House, originally Painter ’s Tavern, built in the late 18th century still remains and features the original architecture. This building served as a stagecoach stop, a tavern, and a hotel. Currently, it houses two restaurants and a bank. The Stevens House is the oldest existent structure on Main Street, a true landmark, and a fine example of Italianate architecture.

City Hall/Opera House City Hall erected in 1897 is the only Romanesque Revival building on Main Street. By the early 1970’s the Opera House had deteriorated having been closed for 24 years. A group of volunteers, known as The Friends of the Vergennes Opera House, raised $1.5 million in a grassroots effort to restore the building, which reopened in 1997. It remains the cultural and educational hub of Vergennes, as well as home to the City Hall offices.

The historic city of Vergennes is home to H.J. LeBoeuf & Son, Inc., one of the longest-standing family-owned establishments located at 210 Main St. HJL Inc. has operated for five generations as a general contracting firm specializing in a diverse range of custom residential, commercial and restoration projects. Norman LeBoeuf, President, carries on the Vergennes family tradition started in 1888 by his great, great grandfather.

Some of the restoration/renovation projects undertaken over the 119-year history of the family business include the Stevens Residence (1870) and St. Peter ’s Roman Catholic Church and Rectory both done in conjunction with Joseph Falardo. CL built the Bridport Masonic Hall in 1891 and H.J. LeBoeuf restored it in 1991.

The Clock Shop The Clock Shop will transport you back in time. Buying some time with David Welch, the owner of the Clock Shop, located at 33 Green St., will be worth your while in all respects. “Time is of the essence” according to David, and he has captured time in his nostalgic shop.

It is his motto, “Buy Some Time from Us,” that drives him.

One of his famous lines includes, “These clocks control, they take control, and I have no control.” Sound familiar? Time does seem to get away from us.

Welch’s forte is clocks. Clocks are everywhere in the Vergennes shop, hanging, sprawled over counters, and near his workbench. Displaying and operating cuckoo clocks brings out one’s “inner child” as we ponder the thoughts of days past.

Coffee—who can forget coffee? Welch’s window display of coffeepots includes percolators, both electric and nonelectric, just like the ones mother and grandmother used to use.

For more information, you may want to contact the Ferrisburgh Historical Society, 1217 Sand Rd., Ferrisburgh, Vt. 05456, 802-877-3217 since the Vergennes Area History Club has joined that group.

Basin Harbor Club Not far from the heart of Vergennes is Basin Harbor, one of the jewels of the Champlain Valley. This historic hotel situated on Lake Champlain with views of the Adirondack Mountains includes fine dining, a full golf course, tennis, lake cruise boat, ropes course, fitness center, and more.

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Vergennes offers a variety of restaurants varying and offering an eclectic array of fare including a touch of the Asian realm and al fresco dining, lodging, and shops including just about everything from Vermont handcrafted products, quality clothing, as well as fresh produce.

Further information on some of the historical buildings and businesses include the following:

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Vergennes prepares for Aug. 28 event The Vergennes Area Chamber of Commerce, a division of the Addison County Chamber of Commerce, is hosting Vergennes Day on Saturday, Aug. 28 in Vergennes. On the Friday evening before, the event kicks off with a street dance featuring the music of “The Hitmen” from 7 to 11 p.m.

Vergennes Day is a celebration of city and community and can be enjoyed by all ages. Full details of the event and a schedule of activities are available at www.vergennesday.com.

Activities on Saturday take place between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. The day begins with a pancake breakfast at the Vergennes Fire Station from 7 to 10:30 a.m. At 9 a.m. the Little City 5K and 10K races and walk will start in front of the Vergennes Opera House. Registration begins at 8 a.m. from Steven’s House on the corner of Main and North Green streets.

More information and registration is available at www.runvermont.org.

The bandstand in City Park will be occupied throughout the day by several musical groups: Vergennes City Band at 10 a.m.; Vermont Ukulele Association at 11 a.m., Rehab Roadhouse at 12:20 p.m., The Vergennes Day attendees’ line up for a barbequed chicken meal served by members of the Vergennes Lions Club. Starting in City Park at 1 p.m.

Galaxies/Take Two at 1:15 p.m., and L.C. Jazz at 2:30 Vergennes Union High School is the site of the antique ve- Champlain Valley Properties, there is a nominal fee of $5 per p.m. City Park is also the site of more than 75 crafters’ and hicle, tractor and engine show, with a “People’s Choice person/$20 per family which will benefit future Vergennes vendors’ booths offering fine handcrafts, locally made prod- Award”. Go and see this nostalgic display (between 10 am events. ucts, food and more. and 4 pm) and vote for your favorite! The Vermont Army Free horse-drawn wagon rides are available from 10 a.m.

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. children can participate in games National Guard will be located at VUHS with an array of to 4 pm from Clay Country Farms and beginning at 1 p.m., and face painting by the Boys & Girls Club at the Boys and Army vehicles and offer a Baseball Pitch and Soccer Kick to the Lions will be selling barbequed chicken in City Park. The Girls Club at 55 School St. Also for kids, the Vergennes Area test your skills. Also at VUHS will be the Champlain Valley Rotary’s Rubber Duckie Race (3:30 p.m.) is a tradition at the Rescue Squad and Safe Kids Addison County will be at Bix- Flyers, flying radio-controlled airplanes between 10 a.m.

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by Library from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to inspect and fit a limitand noon.

For a full schedule of events, visit the event website at ed supply of bike helmets. The Vergennes Fire Department New this year at VUHS will be rides in a tethered hot air www.vergennesday.com. For more information call 802-388will again entice kids with their ever popular bubble pit. balloon (weather permitting).Sponsored by RE/MAX 7951 or e-mail marguerite@addisoncounty.com

‘Family Cow’ hosts milk workshop Rotary plans annual dinner “Free Enterprise Farming” Workshop Series – From Cow to Customer: Expanding Raw Milk Production to Meet a Growing Demand, Monday Sept. 13, 11 a.m.–3 p.m., at the Family Cow Farmstand in Hinesburg.

Rural Vermont hosts this on-farm workshop and invites current and aspiring farmers to tour the first farm to be state certified as a tier II raw-milk producer. See, share, and learn best practices for the production and sale of raw milk in excess of 50 quarts per day.

Brown bag lunch, $10 for Rural Vermont members, $20 all else. Space is limited . RSVP by calling 802-223-7222 or shelby@ruralvermont.org.

The Rotary Club of Middlebury will have it popular annual 10/100 dinner Oct. 1 at the American Legion in Middlebury.

For only $100, two persons will be admitted to the catered dinner where $3,000 in prize money will be drawn. The tickets cover dinner and drinks and the Horse Traders will provide the music. There will also be door prizes.

An additional $100 per week will be drawn over the next ten weeks and everyone’s tickets will be in the draw.

Contact Ullie Holtzinger at holzinu@hotmail.com or 7582528 for further information and tickets or contact a Middlebury Rotarian.

ELECTRICAL STORM Lightning strikes a distant line of trees making it appear it is striking the road sign in the foreground.

Several powerful thunderstorms over the past two weeks have pounded Addison County with heavy rainfall and high winds. A tropical-like storm July 27 dumped two inches of rain in the Middlebury area in a matter of minutes.

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There are no application fees, SAT scores or essays required. Financial aid is available to eligible students. Anyone interested in applying for financial aid should call 8858360 to make an appointment with a financial aid advisor.

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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)

Stephen A. Douglas as he looked in the late 1840s.

Photo courtesy of the Brandon Museum & Visitors Center

worldwide fame as the vitriolic opponent of Republican Abraham Lincoln during the fiery pre-Civil War election of 1860.

How this shrewd Vermonter got branded as a pro-slavery candidate is a long story; he had supported the Dred Scott Supreme Court ruling of 1857, which was the South’s clever attempt to sneak slavery into Northern states like Vermont.

In addition, Douglas made so-called racist comments during the 1860 campaign and—along with his decision to champion Dred Scott—a dark cloud followed him the rest of his life.

Brandon’s favorite son was early nicknamed the “Little Giant” because he was a short, barrel of a man, but a giant on the American political stage.

Douglas eventually left Vermont during the 1830s. He raveled through New York and then headed west to the shores of the Great Lakes. He became a traveling teacher and finally came to rest in Illinois. It was there that Douglas made his great mark on politics. He served in various state offices and was later elected as a U.S. Congressman twice. Of course, the Brandon native is best known for his three-term service as U.S. senator from Illinois.

Douglas seemed destined for the White House although he never quite had the “right stuff” for the nation’s highest office, at least in the eyes of many voters. Yet many Democrats loved him. He was nominated as the Democrat Party’s presidential candidate in 1852, 1856 and 1860. He proved his toughness and is best remembered as the supreme stump debater against Lincoln during the nip-and-tuck 1860 campaign. When Douglas lost the election, he urged his supporters to rally behind Lincoln. But the bipartisan good feelings—as they always tend to be—were short lived. Less than a year later, Americans were killing each other over states rights in a civil war.

Less than seven months after the election of 1860, Douglas died suddenly from a surprise onset of typhoid fever. His passing shocked many of his loyal supporters who had hoped the perennial candidate might take on Lincoln, again, in the war-time election of 1864.

The “Little Giant” is buried along the shore of Lake Michigan; a lifelike statue marks his final resting place.

Check It Out: You can learn more about the life and times of the “Little Giant”, as well as the life of early Brandon, at the Stephen A. Douglas Museum in downtown Brandon. The homestead and museum is open daily 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. from May to October. For more details, call 802-247-6401 or visit the museum website at www.douglasbirthplace.org.

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THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MIDDLEBURY (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sunday 10am worship service

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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Sunday Sacrament 10am-11:15am

BURLINGTON UNITED PENTECOSTAL CHURCH - Pastor Paul Lyon • 860-5828. Sundays: 10am & 6pm. Wednesdays: 7pm. at 294 North Winooski Avenue.

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

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

SAINT MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH - Saturday, 5:15pm, Sunday 8am, 10am

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

MIDDLEBURY FRIENDS MEETING - (Quakers), Sunday worship & first day school 10am (meets at Havurah House)

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 • 434-2053. Rev. Len Rowell.

Sunday Worship with Sunday School, 10am; Adult Study Class, Sunday 8:30am RIPTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 388-2510

ESSEX JUNCTION CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH - 61 Main St., Essex Junction 878-8341

SALISBURY SALISBURY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST) - Sun. worship svc., 10am

FERRISBURGH/NORTH FERRISB. FERRISBURGH METHODIST CHURCH, Sunday worship 9:30am

SHELBURNE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF SHELBURNE - 127 Webster Road, Shelburne • 985-2848

NORTH FERRISBURGH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH, 227 Old Hollow Rd., North Ferrisburgh, VT 802-425-2770. Rev. Kim Hornug-Marcy. Sunday worship 10am, Sunday School 10am, Nursery Available. http://www.gbgm-umc.org/ nferrisburgumc/

TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH - 2166 Shelburne Rd., Shelburne. 985-2269 Sunday Services: 8am & 10am.

Bible Study 9:00am • Sunday School: 9:50am.

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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.

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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.

WHITING WHITING COMMUNITY CHURCH - Sunday school 9:45am, Sunday Service 11am & 7pm WILLISTON CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH - 1033 Essex Road, Williston.

878-7107. St. Minister Wes Pastor. Services: 8:30am and 10:30am TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH - 19 Mountain View Rd., Williston.

878-8118 CHRIST MEMORIAL CHURCH - 1033 Essex Rd., Williston 878-7107 CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE - 30 Morgan Parkway Williston, VT 05495 • 802-878-8591 bwnazarene@juno.com CAVALRY CHAPEL - 300 Cornerstone, Williston. 872-5799 MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CHURCH - 1037 S. Brownell Rd., Williston. 862-2108

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

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

CHAMPLAIN VALLEY CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH - Sunday worship svcs. 10am & 7pm

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.

ESSEX CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY ALLIANCE ESSEX ALLIANCE CHURCH - 36 Old Stage Rd., Essex • 878-8213

CROSSROADS CHAPEL, 41 Middlebrook Rd., Ferrisburgh, VT 05456. (802) 425-3625. Pastor: Rev. Charles Paolantonio. Services: Sunday 10am.

SHOREHAM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH-UCC - Sunday worship and Sunday school 10am. Pastor Gary O’Gorman.

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MIDDLEBURY CHAMPLAIN VALLEY UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY Sunday service & church school, Sunday 10am

MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH - 97 South Pleasant St., Middlebury. Sunday morning worship & church school 10am, Wednesday evening Bible Study, 6:30pm. 388-7472.

ST. BERNADETTE/ST. GENEVIEVE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm Nov.1-April 30 (See Shoreham)

SHOREHAM ST. GENEVIEVE/ST. BERNADETTE - Combined parish, Saturday mass 7:30pm, May 1-Oct. 31. (See Bridport)

STARKSBORO THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF STARKSBORO - 2806 Route 16, Starksboro. Sunday worship 11am. Chat, Chew & Renew, a pre-worship fellowship and discussion time 10am10:45am. 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.

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

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.

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BIG TRUCKS — The Lake Champlain ferry Grand Isle transports big Wal-Mart and Lowe’s bound truck rigs across Lake Champlain between Chimney Point, Vt., and Crown Point, N.Y., while the new bridge is being constructed. While big rigs muscle out cars on ferry crossings, as long as they are well balanced on deck, the ferry can effortlessly float them across the narrows.

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CONSTRUCTION ZONE — Work continues this summer on the abutments of the new Lake Champlain Bridge that will span the narrows between Crown Point and Chimney Point. The project is coordinated by the New York State Department of Transportation and the Vermont Agency of Transportation. NYSDOT is responsible for progression of the project and costs are being shared equally by both states.

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VERGENNES — A portrait of the Canadian sailboat Lady Dragon docked at the Vergennes basin, below the falls, last week. Solar panels charge onboard batteries that power the boat’s electronics and refrigeration devices while passengers visit downtown shops. ‘The Little City’ is a popular port-of-call for international boaters cruising Lake Champlain. Boats dock in the basin and passengers walk downtown to enjoy shopping and dining.

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Automotive

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Middlebury Office

Vergennes Office

66 Court Street Middlebury, VT

48 Green Street, Vergennes, VT

802-388-1000

802-877-3232

OPEN HOUSE Sunday, 1-3 p.m.

7 Thomas Circle Middlebury

www. lmsre.com

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$136,000

LAIN

AMP LAKE CH MIDDLEBURY - One level living on a cul-de-sac. Large level lot with above ground pool. Partially finished basement. Fireplace in dining.

$175,000

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$184,900

MLS 3108600

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MLS 4005698

$300,000

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$150,000 -$160,000 MLS 3067053

MLS 4012987

LISTED

NEWLY

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MLS 3106661

$480,000

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$229,900

MLS 4011993

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25 Years in Business!

To Celebrate,Take...

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• • • 2010 • • •

THE CHAMPLAIN VALLEY FAIR

Best of

A N A H K GYM ore Than Fun

ho Want M “For Riders W

& Games”

Sponsored By:

September 3rd • 12 NOON •

Junebug, a funky resale shop in downtown Middlebury, features gently used maternity and kids clothing and accessories. Open from 9:30-5:00 TuesdaysSaturdays, the store is easy to visit with a playroom, comfy seating, and a family friendly bathroom.

Finding this gem of a local business may prove challenging (in the Star Mill across from The Bike Center), but once you do, you’ll check back often as the racks are a constantly changing treasure trove! And shopping here is guilt-free as all profits go to benefit Addison County families in need.

August is the perfect time to visit new co-directors Drey and Maria. All summer resale clothing is 30% off and back-to-school items are appearing daily. Bring the whole family on August 13 for Arts Walk when Junebug will host an interactive event featuring local henna artist, Shivani.

For directions to Junebug, or more information about donating or selling your onceloved favorites, call 802.388.1055 or find them on Facebook.

Sponsored In Part By: • Millbrook Shavings • Denny’ s Restaurant • MR Satellite • Corey Equine Dental • Fashion Corner Bridal • G.W. Tatro Construction Inc. • Harvest Equipment • Riverside Tractor • Pet Food Warehouse • BCI Construction • Blue Flame Gas • Walker’ s Farm, Home & Tack • Upper 10 Trailer Sales • Vermont Large Animal Clinic Equine Hospital • www.HorsemensGuide.com • New World Coin & Jewelry • Natural Horsemanship Center of VT at New Horizons Farm Technical support for this event is provided by Shirley Langlois & Northwestern Riding & Driving Club Staff

Competitors must be 16 years or older to participate in events.

45 Rider Maximum Pre-registration required

by August 3rd!

Register early...we sold out last year!

Rider must run in all 6 classes - $75 entry fee for 6 events.

Special Exhibition Event Optional.

No Point Value No Extra Charge - Just Fun!

••• Event List •••

• JUMP & BEND • BALL & CHAIN • WEAVE & BACK • BARREL RACE • SKILL BARRELS • HORSE SHOE RACE

•••Special Exhibition Event•••

Champlain Valley Exposition Essex Jct., VT • Rain or Shine

1st Place Award • $1,000 (Compliments of 98.9 WOKO & The Eagle) nd

2

(Compliments of Poulin Grain & Depot Home & Garden)

(Optional Game - No Points)

RESCUE RACE

FOX & HOUND

2 Rider Team Event - 2 Rider Team Event $ 20 Bales of Shavings 200 To Each Rider To Each Rider Of The Winning Team Of The Winning Team Compliments of Compliments of Millbrook Shavings FORD-TOYOTA-SCION

Place Award • $500

3rd Place Award • $350 (Compliments of Family Farm Insurance) th

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Place Award • $250 (Compliments of F.E. Hart Fence Co.)

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5

Place Award • $150 (Compliments of Tony’s Tack Shop)

1000

$$

TO WINNER OF THE

BARREL RACE Sponsored By Ridgefield Stables Bill & Dawn Superneau, owners

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For More Info. or Sign-Up Packet Call Heidi Littlefield: 802-527-0257 or e-mail: heidivttimes@yahoo.com

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ALL RIDERS MUST BE CHECKED IN BY 11 AM DAY OF SHOW

5 Park Street, Middlebury • 802-388-1055