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Take One
Vol. 5 No. 3 • January 16, 2013
Community News, Sports, Arts, Entertainment and Food for Rutland and Southern Vermont
Downtown Poultney receives $3,500 By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com MONTPELIER—Vermont Lt. Gov. Phil Scott (D) and Buildings and General Services Commissioner Mike Obuchowski (D) awarded $151,000 to eight projects from a new grant program established by the Legislature in 2012. Scott said the Poultney Downtown Revitalization Committee received $3,500. The Regional Economic Development Grant program will assist projects ranging from pre-construction work in Bellows Falls to entrepreneurial support in Poultney. This is the first time that this program has been made available and there was a limit of $25,000 per project. Lt. Gov. Phil Scott praised the winners of the REDG awards. “The flexibility of this program allows for applicants to be very creative and I am very impressed by the projects that were funded,” Scott said. Obuchowski leads the department that administers the REDG awards, as well as the recreational facilities and human services and educational facilities grant programs. “I am delighted that the Vermont Legislature added a new grant program to our portfolio,” Obuchowski said. “These funds will provide much-needed capital to eight very good economic development projects.” Projects that received funding include: Islands Center for Arts and Recreation $15,000. Green Mountain Economic Development Corporation (Randolph) See Grant, page 2
Celebrate Vermont's hunting, fishing heritage, Jan 18-20 Yankee Sportsman's Classic Show
By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com ESSEX JUNCTION — Nineteenth-century frontiersman, scout, hunter, and fur-trapper Hugh Glass probably could have learned a thing or two by visiting the annual Yankee Sportsman's Classic Show held at the Miller Expo Center in Essex Junction. In August 1823, while hunting for food as a scout for the overland Henry Expedition along the Grand River in what later became Dakota Territory, an angry momma grizzly bear charged Glass and nearly mauled him to death. Left to die in the wilderness by his companions, Glass eventually crawled and limped his way more than 200 miles to the safety of Fort Kiowa. Early on, during the bloody odyssey, Glass rested his mauled, oozing back on a rotting log for two days. He wanted maggots to consume his dead flesh as a means to prevent gangrene. Now if Glass had attended the hunting and fishing presentations at the Yankee Sportsman's Classic Show, he might have learned, first, that you can be easily rid of a ticked-off momma grizzly with a few sprays of UDAP Magnum Bear Spray—a highly condensed mixture of pepper spray-in-a-can with a range of 20 feet; it’s the world’s best guarantee to ward off any bear attack. It’s certainly See YANKEE SPORTSMAN’S, page 5
The 20th Yankee Sportsman's Classic Show — and the great American spirit of frontiersman Hugh Glass, along with every other outdoorsman to follow in his footsteps, will be celebrated, Jan. 18-20, at the Miller Expo Center in Essex Junction. Photo courtesy of Champlain Valley Exposition
College, Stafford Center sign agreement on earning credits By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com RUTLAND — On Jan. 3, 2013 an articulation
agreement between Stafford Technical Center and the College of St. Joseph was formalized in a “signing ceremony” at the Clementwood Mansion on the CSJ Campus. “This agreement between the two schools will
allow students enrolled in Stafford’s Public Safety Services program to earn up 30 college credits in their junior and senior years which can be applied to a degree at the College of St. Joseph,” according to Peg Bolgioni, Stafford spokeswoman.
Killington "lost skier" incidents taxing police By Lou Varricchio
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In less than two weeks, the new year has seen an unacceptable amount of skiers, primarily at Killington Mountain, intentionally leaving the marked trails and eventually having to call for assistance. The Vermont State Police will be looking to work with Killington Resort to curtail reckless and poorly thought out acts by skiers. Photo by Petr Kratochvil
KILLINGTON — On Jan. 8, at approximately 4:30 p.m., the Vermont State Police received two 911 calls from two skiers who had intentionally skied off the main trails at Killington Mountain and were now lost. They were identified as:Trevor Smith, 21, and Christopher Feehan, 21, both from New Jersey. The skiers became lost and had separated from each other. Smith was advising that he was not doing well as he had gotten wet during the decent. State Police began tracking the two skiers via GPS and eventually the two located each other and were being talked down when Smith began experiencing serious fatigue, became incoherent, and would not respond to State Police and ski patrol requests to keep moving. Smith eventually stopped moving, was reportedly unconscious and Killington ski patrol rapidly sent four members in via a hiking trail in Mendon. Both Smith and Feehan were eventually assisted out at approximately 10 p.m., five and a half hours after the first call to 911 and were both checked out medically and released. In less than two weeks, the new year has seen an unacceptable amount of skiers, primarily at Killington See Lost Skiers, page 2
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