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September 12, 2015

VSP arrest Burlington cop

By Gail Callahan

HINESBURG Ñ A Burlington Police Department officer was arrested Sept. 2 by Vermont State Police on three misdemeanor charges of domestic assault. Cpl. Ethan Thibault, 37, a resident of Hinesburg, was taken into custody after meeting with state police at their Williston headquarters and lodged at the Chittenden County Correctional Center in South Burlington. He was arraigned the following day in Vermont Superior Court, where he pleaded not guilty to the charges. Thibault, who joined the Queen City force in 2001, was released on conditions, including he have no contact with the victim, undergo a mental- health evaluation and surrender his weapons. Thibault is the third Burlington Police officer arrested this year. Ò Obviously, this is a very serious case,Ó said Chittenden County StateÕ s Attorney T.J. Donovan. Thibault was involved in the fatal shooting of Wayne Burnette of Burlington nearly two years ago. Burnette, who had a history of mental illness and had interactions with law enforcement in the past, was yielding a shovel. Thibault and his partner were cleared to return to work, and an investigation cleared the two officers of any wrongdoing. ItÕ s unclear how the latest charges would impact, if at all a federal lawsuit filed by Burnette’s widow, against the two officers, former Burlington Police chief Michael Schirling, the burlington police and the City of Burlington. A spokeswoman at the U.S. Federal Courthouse said motions in the case were CONTINUED ON PAGE 7

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Solar sprawl set to erase no-billboards tourism appeal By Bruce Parker Vermont Watchdog Report MONTPELIER Ñ When Ted Riehle won his crusade to end the scourge of billboards in the 1960s, the former state lawmaker helped create the Vermont brand. A Republican from South Burlington, Riehle was outraged at promotional signs going up on interstates, on the sides of barns, and along small byways. When his bill became law in 1968, it forced the removal of outdoor advertising and codified nature as the cornerstone of VermontÕ s tourism industry. Ò ItÕ s completely part of our brand. We promote the fact that we donÕ t have billboards. ItÕ s part of our aesthetic appeal,Ó Megan Smith, commissioner of the Department of Tourism and Marketing, said. Ò We put it in a lot of our PR. Anytime we can mention the fact that we donÕ t have billboards, we do.Ó According to Smith, 80 percent of Vermont is undeveloped. That unique characteristic catches the eye of tourists and creates a striking contrast with neighboring states. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12

Vermont towns lawyering up and spending money to fight Big Solar include New Haven, Bennington and Rutland Town. Siting controversies have also cropped up in Barton, Poultney, Dummerston, Pownal and Charlotte.

Students learn team work, engineering skills in rocket design By Lou Varrichio lou@addison-eagle.com

Hannaford Career Center STEM Academy students formed teams to compete in an annual bottle-rocket competition at Tiger Field last week. Instructors Doug Atwood and Jason Burham were on hand to assist students and help record the data. Photo by Lou Varricchio

MIDDLEBURY Ñ Hannaford Career CenterÕ s veteran instructors Doug Atwood and Jake Burnham are proud of the schoolÕ s STEM AcademyÑ so, too, are students who discover the fun and challenges of engineering design and precision machining. Atwood is an industrial design and Fabrication/STEM instructor. Burnham is an architecture and engineering systems/STEM instructor at the vocational technical school adjoining Middlebury Union High School. STEM is a relatively new acronym Ò buzzwordÓ which stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. And not unlike the Sputnik days of the late 1950s, the USA is once again falling behind other Western nations in science, math and engineering education. Thanks to dedicated technical teaching efforts, such as the STEM Academy program at the Hannaford Career Center, teachers are helping to local students get up-to-speed in technical skills in an ever increasing environment of international technical competitionÑ from basic science R&D and engineering to industrial manufacturing processes. Good-paying skilled jobs and AmericaÕ s future are on the line. According to instructor Jake Burnham, who has been teaching STEM-related CONTINUED ON PAGE 6


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