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Barking up the wrong tree

How is the weather?

Change to Fair Labor Standards Act will be a drag on the economy

If you don’t like the North Country weather, just wait a minute or so

Dan Alexander

Gordie Little

Column > Behind the Press Line

Police arrest Monkton woman

MONKTON Ñ Vermont State Police responded to a call on Hollow Road in Monkton June 24. Troopers located Tara Tower, 37, of Monkton. She had an active arrest warrant for being out of Rutland County. Tower was taken into custody without incident and was transported to the VSP New Haven Barracks for processing. Tower was subsequently transported to the Chittenden County Correctional Facility where she was held without bail.

Panton woman arrested

ADDISON Ñ On June 30, the Vermont State Police conducted a car stop on a 2006 Jeep Wrangler traveling southbound on Route 22a in Addison. During the car stop, Vermont State Police were able to determine the operator, Christina Cannon, 26, of Panton, had been drinking alcohol prior to driving. Cannon consented to performing field sobriety exercises and provided a sample of her breath with determined her BAC at that time was 0.131 percent. Cannon was subsequently arrested for driving under the influence and transported to the New Haven State Police barracks. Cannon was processed and released on a citation to appear in Addison County Superior Court Criminal Division on July 20.

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Column > Little Bits

July 11, 2015

Tara Tower

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Life-long Vermonters fleeing the state for opportunity elsewhere

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HOLIDAY WEEKEND

By Bruce Parker

Vermont Watchdog Report MONTPELIER Ñ Vacationers to Vermont dream of staying forever. But for many Vermonters trapped in the stateÕ s struggling economy, opportunities in other states are convincing them to flee the Green Mountains for greener pastures. ItÕ s no secret Vermonters are leaving the state. When researchers behind the Vermont Roots Migration Project set out to discover why people migrate in or out of Vermont, they could not have anticipated the startling results of their inquiry. CONTINUED ON PAGE 8

Towns around the area celebrated July 4 with parades and fireworks—from Bristol to Rutland. Despite a few clouds and scattered showers, the holiday weekend saw a return to more normal temperatures. Pictured: An antique tractor, parked along a back road in Rutland County, helped get out the word about Independence Day. Photo courtesy of Linda M. Ley

It was the first day of school for new Middlebury president By Lou Varricchio lou@addison-eagle.com

Laurie Patton

MIDDLEBURY Ñ Middlebury CollegeÕ s first woman president—and the college’s seventeenth leaderÑ took the reigns of the institution on July 1. Laurie Patton was welcomed to the campus and took time to address students, faculty and staff, as well as the wider Middlebury community, at the old chapel on campus. In a campus wide e-mail message July 1, Patton wrote: Ò I write to send warm greetings on my first day as Middlebury’s new president. The glorious Vermont summer weather has matched the excitement I feel in coming to work with such an extraordinary community... Upon arrival, I have already used sign language in an effort to respect the Language Pledge. ItÕ s wonderful to begin life as a Middlebury citizen!Ó Patton was first welcomed publicly to campus at a Nov. 18 news conference last year. At

the time, she told reporters she never intended to apply to the job of college president. The 53-year-old Patton is a Sanskrit scholar, professor of religion, and the dean of Trinity College of Arts and Sciences at Duke University. In 2014, Patton first outlined some of her goals as college president. She also discussed the challenges that face her presidency: Ò One of the biggest diversity challenges we have today is generational differences. I think so many folks from my generation were engaged with diversity issues that they thought they had figured them out. Diversity issues change over time...Ó According to her curriculum vitae, Patton is the editor or author of nine books on south Asian history, culture, and religion, including “Myth as Argument...,” “Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice,” and “Jewels of Authority: Women and CONTINUED ON PAGE 8


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