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By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com MIDDLEBURY — Addison County is fast becoming Vermont’s premiere centers for the wildly popular—and growing, by leaps and bounds—hard cider sector of the adult beverage market. It’s easy to understand, especially with several up and coming brands, made locally, and a solid source for natural apple product. This week comes the big news of another new hard cider label, made locally— Champlain Orchards and Two Brothers Tavern are joining hands to celebrate the official release of Champlain Orchard’s Pruner ’s Promise Vermont label hard cider at the tavern, located on Main Street at the traffic rotary in downtown in Middlebury, Friday, Dec. 7, starting at 9 p.m. The Two brothers kick-off event will be fun with a hard-cider kick or two thrown in for good measure. According to Champlain Orchards’ Julianna White, Pruner's Promise is made at the Shoreham orchard “with a blend of freshpressed local McIntosh and Empire cider and naturally concentrated Honeycrisp apple cider.” White added that Pruner ’s Promise hard cider is the orchard’s follow-up to its popular, but slightly drier Pruner's Pride. Pruner ’s Pride has received a lot of buzz—if you pardon the pun—on several cider blog sites. If Promise’s promises lives up to Pride’s pinache, the new hard cider should have all good pilgrims hankering for more. See HARD CIDER, page 11
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Rep. Greg SANTA IN MIDDLEBURY Clark dies in accident Served Addison-3 District since 2002
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newmarketpress@denpubs.com VERGENNES — Vermont State Rep. Greg Clark (R) of Vergennes, representing the Addison 3 District, died Nov. 30 as the result of an highway accident related to an early morning snow squall. Clark stopped along Woodman Hill in Waltham at 7:30 a.m. to clear his windshield of slush when he was accidently struck by a passing driver. Southbound motorist Todd Garthaffner, 41, of Addison, had pulled off the road in front of Clark’s parked vehicle and exited to advise Clark to move out of the road because visibility was poor. Clark pulled his station wagon over, partially into the shoulder, and again exited his vehicle to continue clearing the windshield. A short time later, another southbound vehicle operated by Rolf Trinkner, 74, of Ferrisburgh, struck Clark while he was standing outside his vehicle.
Santa Claus arrived in Middlebury last weekend with a lot of fanfare. The jolly old North Pole elf rode atop a spiffy Middlebury Fire Department engine to help kick-off the annual A Very Merry Middlebury event. The downtown event attracted hundreds of locals and tourists to town to help ring in the Christmas holiday season — cha ching! Photo by Mark Brady
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Middlebury’s Marshall Eddy is a prolific performer By Lou Varricchio
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Middlebury’s Marshall Eddy’s telling of “A Child’s Christmas in Wales” helped raise funds for the Town Hall Theater. Photo provided
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury’s Marshall Eddy may be one of Vermont’s most prolific performing artists. The talented local thespian and singer made a lasting mark playing Tevye in a long-ago production of “Fiddler on the Roof” in town. As a soloist with the Vermont Symphony Orchestra and Opera Company of Middlebury, he has demonstrated a keen ear for song with the “pipes” to back it up. And as an art teacher at Middlebury Union High School, Eddy has touched the lives of many area students.
Eddy donated his talents last weekend to help raise funds for the Town Hall Theater—the former town hall and Knights of Columbus lodge—in downtown Middlebury. Eddy again captured the hearts and souls of an intimate audience when he read Dylan Thomas’ beloved Christmas classic, “A Child’s Christmas in Wales,” Dec. 2. He was assisted by his grandson. This intimate event featured food and drink of the season, and was held in the Main Street home of Eddy and his wife Jane. Joining Eddy was Maiden Vermont, an all-female chorus, to help tell the Welsh holiday story.
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