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August 20, 2011
Area sailors compete in lake classic Gonzalez wins 2011 Ladies Cup Race
By Lou Varricchio
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Vermont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott.
Lt. gov. to spend a day at The Eagle By Mary Beth Schaeffer newmarketpress@denpubs.com
M I D D L E B U RY — Ve rmont Lt. Gov . Phil Scott will spend a day New Market Press, LLC, pub lishers of the Addison Eagle and Green Mountain Outlook newspapers. Scott will visit the staf f of the newspapers Aug. 16. The lieutenant governor ’s visit is part of his statewide Everyday Job Initiative. Scott has been touring Vermont and working as a “temp” in a variety of small busin ess. He was in Addison County last in 2010 when he worked as a lunch server at Hlen Porter Nursing Home in Middlebury. Scott said the initiative is a way for him to better understand the challenges facing Vermont businesses. On Aug. 16, Scott will attend New Market Press’ weekly s taff m eeting. H e will also meet Publisher Edward Coats, Managing Editor Louis V arrichio, and Sales Dir ector Mark Brady. Scott will join Brady on several sales calls in the Addison County area. Scott’s visit to the newspaper offices resulted after Varricchio invited him to become a sales associate for a day as part of his Everyday Jobs challenges. See LT. GOVERNOR, page 10
SHELBURNE — A mostly all-female flotilla of the Lake Champlain Yacht Club—with a few male teams competing—took part in the annual Ladies Cup Race on the lake last weekend. This year ’s 110-year-old race included 5 0 b oats a nd s ailors f rom Burlington, Middlebu ry, V ergennes, Mallets Bay , Bomoseen, Plattsburgh, and Montreal. The race started at the end of Shelburne Bay , went to Quaker Smith point in Charlotte, to the Four Brothers Islands in New York, to Apple T ree Point in north Burlington, and finished at the mouth of Shelburne Bay. The winner of this year ’s race was Luis Gonzalez of Vermont. LCYC was founded in 1887 on the shore of Shelburne Bay. The club is a member-run clu b with a mission to promote and encourage boating on Lake Champlain while emphasizing racing, cr uising, and education. Several LCYC members wer e A mostly all-female flotilla took part in last week’s 110-year-old Ladies Cup Race on Lake Champlain. The 2011 winner was a male sailor, founders of the Lake C hamplain Luis Gonzalez, of Grand Isle, Vt. Community Sailing Center.
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Lake Champlain bridge opening in question NYSDOT uncertain when span will be ready By Fred Herbst
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The arch of the new Champlain Bridge is being constructed in Port Henry, N.Y. and will be floated to the bridge site later this month. Photo by Nancy Frasier
CROWN POINT — Will the new Champlain Bridge open as scheduled Oct. 9? No one seems to know. “We are currently in discussions with the contractor to see what impact the spring weather and flooding has had on constr uction and determine when the bridge will be opened to traf fic,” said Car ol Breen, senior public information officer with the NewYork State Department of Transportation. She declined to offer an opening date. DOT officials have insisted the
bridge pr oject is on sched ule, despite granting the contractor a 65day extension to its pr oject schedule in March. Flatiron Constr uctors of Lafayette, Colo., is building the span. It was the low-bidder at $69.6 million. Flatiron is under contract to build the new span within 500 days of gr oundbreaking. The contract includes a pr ovision r equiring Flatiron to absorb the costs of the adjacent, temporary ferry service — about $30,000 a day — for every day beyond the 500-day limit. The contract also pr ovides a financial incentive — up to $1.5 million —
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