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Farmers’ market resuscitated F-35 widens
noise impacts in Williston
New manager steps up to spearhead 2019 season By Jason Starr
By Jason Starr
Observer staff
Observer staff
Williston’s farmers’ market seems to have nine lives. Earlier this month, Sharon Gutwin called all the market’s vendors from last summer to tell them the market would be a no-go for 2019. Gutwin had revived the market last summer after a two-year hiatus, locating it in the parking lot of the Kismet Place building on Blair Park Road, where she owns RehabGYM. A farmers’ market in Williston has been held in a variety of locations under different management in years past. Locations have included the village green, Catamount Outdoor Family Center and the New England Federal Credit Union parking lot. Gutwin planned to continue offering the space in front of Kismet Place for 2019, and she recruited a vendor — Meagan Snyder of Drunken Grains Bakery — to take over management of the market. But Snyder, citing a new job, backed out in April. Gutwin briefly considered managing it again herself, then decided to cancel the season. “When she bailed out and I wasn’t able, with my time, to pick it up, I was thinking it wasn’t going to happen,” Gutwin said. Kismet Place is a mix of wellness-related businesses, and in March it received a new tenant, Integrative Acupunc-
More than 100 Williston homes fall into an expanded 65 decibel sound exposure zone related to the F-35 fighter jet basing at Burlington International Airport beginning in August. Airport officials released sound exposure maps Wednesday that look out to 2023, when 18 F-35s are planned to be based at the Vermont Air National Guard. Compared to the existing noise exposure map created in 2015, which reflects the Air Guard’s operation of F-16 fighter jets, 260 more Williston residents will be affected by the F-35s in 112 homes. The new 65 decibel zone expands east along Route 2, from roughly the intersection of Industrial Avenue to the intersection of Harvest Lane. It includes a section of North Brownell and South Brownell roads as well as Shunpike Road. Most of the new impact falls in an industrial zoning district with smaller portions in residential and mixed-use districts. see NOISE page 16
Observer photo by Jason Starr
Jonathan Fleming, co-owner of Integrative Acupuncture, has taken over as manager of the Kismet Place Farmers’ Market in Williston.
ture. It’s co-owner, Jonathan Fleming, is an avid gardener and farmers’ market enthusiast who was looking forward to supporting the market as an attendee. Then he learned about its predicament and offered to step into the manager’s role. “I wanted to try to do my part to make it happen,” Fleming said.
Over the past few weeks, Fleming has been reaching out to last year’s vendors to invite them back for 2019. He is committed to having a farmer with produce at the market, as well as prepared foods and live music. “Having good, healthy produce is definitely a goal,” he said. Produce vendors did not
consistently attend the market last year. Some weeks, Gutwin would purchase produce at a local farm stand to have available for sale at the market. Fleming hopes to launch the market on June 9 and have it run Sundays through Sept. 15. The timing of the market Observer photo by Jason Starr see MARKET page 2
Airport Deputy Director Nic Longo discusses noise exposure Wednesday at the Burlington airport.
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