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Community News, Sports, Arts, Entertainment and Food for Rutland and Southern Vermont

Vol. 3 No. 38 • September 28, 2011

Poultney gets in the spirit! SHS senior Kyrstie Parker is a budding “steampunk” artist. She p oses h ere i n Victorianera fashions.

Steampunk art coming to Springfield By Lou Varricchio

newmarketpress@denpubs.com SPRINGFIELD— ”Steampunk” is a quirky , clunky term for Victorianera science and science fiction. You know—flying machines, time machines, and elegant fashions of fset by motor car goggles and other accouterments, circa 1800s. The modern term “steampunk” is teenage slang and it will never do justice to the fabulous worlds cr eated b y class ic Victorian age authors Jules Verne, H.G. W ells, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard and the like, it never-the-less is a gr owing movement and entertainment lifestyle within—and without—sci-fi fandom. On Sept. 16, a gr oup of 40 enthusiastic Springfield High School students— chaperoned by three art teachers and an English teacher—attended the Great New England Steampunk Exhibition at the Courtyar d Marriott in Fitchburg, Mass. The trip was pr ompted as a method of inspiration for an upcoming student art show at V AULT which will open Dec. 14 and run through the beginning of January 2012. When it comes to steampunk fans, you will see lots of brass, stovepipe hats, corsets, motor car goggles, and gears. The students at SHS will be See STEAMPUNK, page 2

Pictured above, left: The Poultney Middle School Foot Team pose for a team photo before last week’s first game of the season. Poultney schools celebrated Spirit Week to kick off the fall athletic season. Above, right: Poultney Middle School cheerleaders at the season’s first football game. Photos by Catherine M. Oliverio

Spirit Week at Poultney schools

By Catherine M. Oliverio

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POULTNEY—Spirit Week b egan t he w eek o f

Sept. 12 in support of the PHS Blue Devils’ rival game against Fair Haven the night Sept. 23. The week’s themes included pajama day, sports day, mismatch day , twin day , and Fri., blue and gold day. At last week’s pep rally assembly , the cheerleaders performed and led the students in various

activities—taping fellow classmates to the wall to see who would last the longest, singing the school song, as well as throwing cream pies in the faces of the principal and dean. The Poultney Middle School also got in on the “spirit” action. Spiritleaders cheered on the PMS football team’s first football game Sept. 14.

Police confirm recovered body is Garofano By Lou Varricchio

newmarketpress@denpubs.com RUTLAND—Vermont State Police and Rutland City Fir e Department officers said a body found in Mendon Br ook Sept. 23 is Michael G.

Garofano, 24, of Rutland. Garofano died, along with his father Michael J. Gar ofano, 55, Aug. 28. Michael J. Gar ofano was an employee of the Rutland Department of Public Works. A memorial service for the Gar o-

fanos was held Sept. 9 at St. Peter ’s Church in Rutland. Police search dogs discovered the in Rutland T own a few miles fr om where Gar ofano was swept away the Tropical Storm Irene flood water. On Sept. 23, the V ermont Chief

Medical Examiner ’s Office was able to positively identify Michael Gr egory Gar ofano. The identification was made based on dental records. Search operations cover ed mor e than five square miles. Three local See GAROFANO, page 2

Men’s chorus to raise funds for flood relief By Lou Varricchio

newmarketpress@denpubs.com RUTLAND—The Curbstone Chorus, Rutland’s own r enowned men’s barbershop chor us pr esents its thir d annual show , an “A Cappella Extravaganza III”, Satur day, Oct. 15, 201 1 at the Rutland Intermediate School Auditorium at 7 p.m. Half of this year ’s proceeds will be donated to the Vermont Disaster Relief Fund to aid the Vermont victims of Tropical Storm Irene. Joining the Curbstoners will be “The Honeymooners”, a mixed quartet from New Hampshire. Tickets are $15 and ar e available at Beauchamp and O’Rourke Pharmacy on Woodstock Avenue,

The Curbstone Chorus of Rutland, Vt.

See CURBSTONE, page 2

Photo courtesy Dick Nordmeyer

THIS WEEK Pets of the Week ..........2 Opinion ........................4 Local Flavor ..................5 Sports ..........................7 Classifieds....................10 Auto Zone ....................11-12

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