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VOTERS TO DECIDE OVUU DISTRICT BUDGET
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Former selectman: New Haven solar array is in violation By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
BRANDON | Voters in the Otter Valley Unified Union School District will gather Wednesday, Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m., for part 1of the annual district meeting and budget vote. The meeting will be held at the OVUHS auditorium. On the agenda this year are the elections of district moderator, clerk and treasurers. The Board of School Directors will also present its estimate of district expenses for the 2018-19 academic year. Also on the agenda is the decision
to determine approve compensation, if any, to Unified Union District officers. The board will also determine authorization of the OVUU District to borrow money pending the receipt of payments from the Vermont Education Fund or town tax funds by th issuance of notes or orders payable, not later that the end of February 2019. However, the OVUU District is authorized by state law to borrow all funds needed to meet its obligations. The Feb. 28 meeting will recessed until Town Meeting Day, Tuesday, March 6, for voting by Australian ballot. Voting will see the election of school
directors from the OVUU District towns. Voters will also decide on the over $19 million district budget, which amounts to roughly $14,000 per student. While contentious, the cost per pupil is 1.22 percent less than this year’s spending. Polls open March 6 around the OVUU District, which spans communities in both Rutland and Addison counties, are as follows: Brandon Town Hall (7 a.m.-7 p.m.), Goshen Town Hall (9 a.m.-7 p.m.), Leicester Town Hall (10 a.m.-7 p.m.), Pittsford Town Hall (7 a.m.-7 p.m.), Sudbury Town Hall (10 a.m.-7 p.m.), and Whiting Town Hall (7 a.m.-7p.m.). ■
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NEW HAVEN | A recent victory by solar proponents in the town of New Haven, Vt., has upset a former New Haven selectman. Douglas Tolles, who served on the New Haven Selectboard until 2017, claims a currently inactive 500 kW photovoltaic solar project in town is in violation of both the new town plan, old town plan, and state regulations regarding net metering*. The project, located along the Ethan Allen Highway (U.S. Route 7), was constructed and entered service a year ago. Tolles has been the most vocal opponent of large, commercial solar projects within the town of New Haven. He is also critical of the project’s developer, Green Lantern Group of Waterbury. » Solar array Cont. on pg. 3
Voters in the Otter Valley Unified Union School District will gather Feb. 28, at 6:30 p.m., for part 1of the annual district meeting and budget vote. The meeting will be held at the OVUHS auditorium. Photo courtesy of Banwell Architects
Climate crusaders to hit the road for 2018 election By Lou Varricchio EDITOR
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont mocked PresidentTrump, saying sarcastically that he was “one of the great scientists of our time.” He also said that Trump believes climate change is “a hoax from China.” Photo by YouTube & 350.org
MIDDLEBURY | Billing itself as 350.org’s climate-resistance campaign, Fossil Free Fast kicked off an anti-Trump campaign 2020 lobbying effort Wednesday via the internet. The pep rally-like event — co-hosted by 350.org founder and environmentalist Bill McKibben of Middlebury College, and black activist Rev. Lennox Yearwood, Jr. — not only focused on ending America’s reliance on fossil fuels, but over the course of 90 minutes cleverly weaved-in every banner Democrat-progressive cause from immigration and white-male supremacy to free college tuition and single-payer health care. The event, which was aimed at communitybased activists around the U.S., was broadcast from the Piscataway Indian Nation in Maryland, near Washington, D.C. Viewers could either watch the event streamed at home
or attend a variety of public-screening sites, including several around Vermont. As a response to President Trump’s State of the Union address, the left-leaning campaign involved U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and McKibben making keynote addresses to viewers, among others. U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., addressing the livestream audience at the Fossil Free Fast event last Wednesday. (350.org YouTube screen capture) “Thank you … for standing up for our environment, for standing (up) to the fossil-fuel industry and telling them short-term profits are not more important than the future of our planet,” Sanders said. He added: “It’s not just that Bill McKibben is a neighbor of mine in Vermont, it’s that I am … truly inspired by the work that you are doing and the understanding that, while Donald Trump wants to divide us up, you are helping to bring people from all walks of life together.”
Sanders said climate change is not just an American problem, but a global crisis: “It’s imperative that we bring people from all over the world to help save this planet.” When Sanders first referenced President Trump and his State of the Union address, the audience booed. “It was my job as a U.S. senator to have to be there (last night); it’s what I gotta do. But among the many absurd and dishonest, and ugly things that he said … if you go to the scientific community and you say to them what is the major global crisis that we face, the vast majority will say it is climate change … a life and death issue that we have to transform our energy system away from fossil fuel to sustainable energy. And yet Donald Trump spoke last night for over an hour (and) … somehow he forgot to mention the words climate change. What an outrage. We should not be surprised.” » Crusaders Cont. on pg. 9
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