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Vol. 3 No. 19 • May 11, 2011
Alderman’s Chevrolet: AAA award winner for excellent auto servicing.
Alderman’s Chevy earns AAA award By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com RUTLAND — AAA Northern New England announced that Alderman’s Chevr olet of Rutland has been awarded the distinction of the Vermont Approved Auto Repair Facility of the Year in the dealer division. This is the first time Alderman’s has been recognized with the honor. The facility of the year award is pr esented by AAA Northern New England honoring one dealership and one Independent repair facility in each of the thr ee Northern New England states. Scoring is derived fr om an annual customer satisfaction rating based on AAA’s service evaluation card r esponses. Alderman’s Chevr olet scor ed the highest AAA rating of all the participating dealers in Vermont. AAA’s Appr oved Auto Repair pr ogram r ecognizes outstanding service facilities thr oughout Northern New England which have met the See ALDERMAN page 10
Water, water everywhere Lake Champlain at historic high level
The lake began rising sharply late in the afternoon May 3 in Vermont. On May 4, it was two feet above the past record flood level. The Route 125 approach to the temporary ferry cr ossing in Addison, a few hundr ed yar ds newmarketpress@denpubs.com south of the site of the new bridge constru ction, ADDISON — Lake Champlain floodwater was closed May 3. continued to expand inland last week as days of After a w eek o f th reatening l evels, w ater f iheavy rain, and a r ecord mountain snow melt, nally spilled on to the roadway just south of the flowed into the lake basin fr om feeder rivers Bridge Restaurant in Addison. Access to the Adand creeks. dison ferry was closed on the morning of May 4.
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By Fred Herbst
fred@denpubs.com CROWN POINT — Historic flooding along Lake Champlain will not delay the scheduled See BRIDGE page 10
1882 John Brown letter discovered Visited Proctorsville; Vergennes man noted
By Margo Caulfield margoc@tds.net
CAVENDISH —A one-of-akind letter , addr essed to John Redparth, a biographer of antebellum terr orist John Br own— the famous abolitionist who set off the spark that started the Civil W ar—and penned by Cavendish lawyer Henry Bridge Atherton in 1882, was brought to the Cavendish Historical Soci-
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ety's attention recently. A copy of the historic local letter, which adds to the knowledge that the Pr octorsville-Cavendish are—as well as Vergennes— played an inter esting role in the Civil War era, has been released. Not only was V ermont Gov . Ryland Fletcher , fr om Cavendish, but he was a staunch abolitionist and sympathized with Brown’s viewpoint. The rar e letter indicates that Brown was seeking guns and money to help with his cause, and that he had begun to lay out the plans for the eventual insur-
rections in Kansas, which led to the death of five people that wer e pro slavery . Unfortunately, the last page of the what was most likely a five page letter, is missing. This text of the letter follows: Proctorsville, Vt. M. 9th, 1882 (To:) James Redparth Esq. I have sometimes thought the day would come where your publishers would issue another edition of your “Public Life of John Brown,” which was 1st published at Boston in 1860 by Thayer and Eldridge 11 St and 116 Washington St. See JOHN BROWN page 10
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