Hinesburg currently has four full-time officers, police Chief Anthony Cambridge said. The department recently hired a new sergeant but is still looking to fill two vacancies to fill out the staff. Richmond, meanwhile, is working with three full-time officers, including interim Hinesburg, Richmond move forward with police merger First of its kind in Vermont
“I have talked to a lot of people in the police world — retired police officers, current police officers, state troopers, local police officers — and I have yet to find someone who doesn’t think that regional ization at some point is going to have to happen and would be a great idea,” Rich mond selectboard chair June Heston said. “We’re going to have a lot of resourc es to draw on, because there’s so many people across the state that want to see this happen.”Both town’s departments are operating with skeleton crews. Hinesburg, after its $815,483 budget was narrowly rejected at March Town meeting, spent weeks debat ing what it wanted its department to look like only to see part of its force depart.
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The Hinesburg and Richmond select boards had their first joint meeting Monday to discuss a merger of the town’s police departments, which, if established, would mark the first time two municipalities in Vermont have created a shared police department. The meeting held Monday in Rich mond marked the “very beginning of an exploration of options about sharing police departments,” Hinesburg selectboard chair Merily Lovell said, starting what will likely be a lengthy process but one both towns seemed ready to undertake.
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A crowd gathers as a helicopter heads in to make a drop during a previous Rotary club golf ball drop fundraiser in Shelburne.
Graveside services set for Saturday
A rain of golf balls from a hovering helicopter is a fun sight to see and that’s what you get when the Rotary Club of Char lotte-Shelburne-Hinesburg holds its annual golf ball drops at The Kwini Club-Gonzo’s Driving Range in Shelburne on Friday, Sept. 16, 4 p.m. Rotary has had its golf ball drop for many years to benefit many good causes in the area. Last year’s event netted more than $11,000, which was distrib uted among the fire and rescue services in the three towns. The odds are great as there are a limited number of balls. The person whose ball gets in the hole or nearest the pin wins $1,000. The next closest win $500 and $250, respectively. The person with the ball farthest from the hole will get a large gift basket of golf-related items and Vermont products.Atthe event, golfers and wannabes can compete in a long ball driving competition using the club’s power tees and TopTracer range. Prizes will be offered for longest ball and closest to the pin. Proceeds will support the purchase of automated external defibrillators and other emergen cy services in our area. Winners need not be present. To purchase a number and for more information go to bit.ly/3w CpdXi.Ball numbers will also be available for purchase at the Kwini Club at the time of the event.
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The remains of a soldier killed during World War II will be interred Saturday, Sept. 3, at Hinesburg Village Cemetery. Graveside services for Army Pvt. Alevin A. Hathaway will be performed by Ready Funeral Service preceding the interment. A native of Hinesburg, Hatha way’s unit was engaged in battle with German forces near Hürtgen, Germany, in the Hürtgen Forest, when he was reported missing in action Nov. 6, 1944, at age 20. His body was not recovered, and he was declared killed in action Nov. 7, Following1945. the end of the war, the American Graves Registra tion Command conducted sever al investigations in the Hürtgen area between 1946 and 1950 but was unable to recover or iden tify Hathaway’s remains. He was declared non-recoverable in December 1950. While studying unresolved American losses in the Hürt gen area, a historian with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency determined that one set of unidentified remains recovered from a minefield south of Hürt gen in 1946, possibly belonged to Hathaway. The remains, which had been buried in Ardennes American Cemetery in 1950, were disinterred in April 2018 and sent to an Air Force base laboratory in Nebraska for iden tification. Hathaway’s name is recorded on the Walls of the Missing at Netherlands American Cemetery, an American Battle Monuments Commission site in Margraten, Netherlands, along with others still missing from World War II. A rosette will be placed next to his name to indicate he has been accounted for. For more information, go to bit.ly/3CyEsV0.
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Hinesburg EMTs, firefighters train for active shooters
On Aug. 20-21, eight members of the Hinesburg Fire Department attended a Tactical Emergency Critical Care course, a 16-hour class that trains EMTs in provid ing emergency care during an active shooter situation, training everyone agreed they hope they’re never forced to use.
The first day included lectures and hands-on practice: learning how to set up command and entry teams; working with law enforce ment in the building; triaging patients; providing fast lifesaving techniques such as stopping bleed ing with tourniquets and opening airways; and moving patients to safe area for further treatment and transport.Sunday started with two short lectures before the team moved to Champlain Valley Union High School to get comfortable with the equipment and learn how to move through the building with law enforcement.Oncepolice cleared the build ing, two officers with two EMTs between them, moved toward the patients for triage. The lead offi cer moved ahead, making sure the hallways and rooms were still clear, and then looked for victims. The teams’ movements were controlled by the officer. As the team moved up, the second officer moved backwards, protecting the team from behind. Sunday afternoon featured several scenarios that began with the “shooter” being located and stopped, allowing EMTs to triage and treat patients. As the afternoon progressed, so did the scenarios. One scenario featured EMTs in the building and having to unexpectedly shelter in place. Another scenario required the immediate evacuation of the building.Students in the current EMT class helped as patient models, and local law enforcement officers helped in the training, along with the instructors.
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PHOTOS COURTESY OF HINESBURG FIRE DEPARTMENT
Above: From left, back row, Lt. Jeremy Southwell, EMR; assistant chief Eric Spivack, EMT; firefighter Jeremy Steele; firefighter and EMT Erik Short; and firefighter and EMT Justin Beauchemin. Front row, firefighter and EMT Scott Loftus Jr. and firefighter Connor Contois. Not pictured, captain and EMT Ed Waite. Right: EMTs, under police protection, move a patient outside for further treatment and transport during a recent Hinesburg Fire Department Tactical Emergency Critical Care training. Below: EMTs triage a patient.
Correction The Hinesburg Fire Department very graciously pointed out that the photo of the Hinesburg Fire Depart ment in last week’s newspa per is not the Hinesburg Fire Department. We sincerely regret the error. There are a few photos of members undergoing tactical emer gency casualty care training on page 3.
The first phase of updates to Charlotte’s outdated land use regulations have been sent to the selectboard.Theselectboard will ultimate ly decide which amendments — with or without any changes — to put up for voters in November. The board has set its public hear ing for the draft land use regu lations for Monday, Sept. 19, at 7:45 p.m. at Charlotte Town Hall, town planner Larry Lewack said.
A more complete guide to the first phase of land use regula tion updates can be found at ly/3CKYEDw.bit.
“This first part, it’s more cleaning up things and making sure language inghaverequirementsjiveseverythingandwithotherweandcleanupsomelanguage to transi tion from planning commission to development review board,” PugheCharlottesaid. last year moved to reconfigure its land regulatory bodies after months of discussion about roadblocks to development. The town has since moved all permitting reviews into a single body, the development review board.Prior to the change, the plan ning commission oversaw permits for site plans, subdivisions and boundary adjustments, while the zoning board of adjustment was responsible for deciding on condi tional use
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phasepreviously.Lewackteerableingessentiallyvariances.applicationsreviewand“Wewerecreatanimpossiworkloadforstrictlyvolunboard,”saidThesecondofupdates, which the town hopes to complete for a March Town Meeting Day vote, will be more substantive changes to the ways land use regs are written currently for the east and west village,” Pughe said.
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“I would say that our second set of updates are more policy driven than what we’ve been the majority of what we’ve done this time,” he added.
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Since the creation of the Development Review Board last year, the planning commission has set out to complete a major overhaul of its land use regu lations, aiming to have voters approve two rounds of changes — one in November and one on March Town Meeting Day. Planning commissioners spent several months on the first phase, which focused mainly on clean ing up language that was unclear or vague, and added technical updates.But a “substantial amount of time was invested” in simply updating the towns regulations to reflect or get them in line with state statute, said Charlie Pughe, the chair of the town’s planning commission.Forexample, telecom projects and renewable energy projects were still being regulated under town land use laws. The Legislature has preempt ed towns from being involved in permitting renewable energy projects, like windmills and solar farms, as well as the regulation and construction of new tele communications facilities, like wireless towers, and has given exclusive purview over almost all aspects of that process to the state’s Public Utilities Commis sion.Conditional use review stan dards, meanwhile, were brought into alignment with Act 179 so “residents (and board members) may not oppose (or deny) projects solely on the basis of alleged fit (or mismatch) of proposed struc ture(s) with the ‘character of the area.’”
The town’s rules governing accessory dwelling units — or a separate habitable living unit on a property — are stricter than state laws governing them.
Proponents of Article 22, the Reproductive Liberty Amend ment, says it protects every person’s right to make their own reproductive decisions about whether and when to become pregnant, use temporary or permanent birth control or seek abortion care. If passed, Vermont will become the first state to fully protect reproductive rights in its constitution.Moreinformation at lwvofvt. org or league@lwvofvt.org.
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Johanna Nichols and Lyn Blackwell, members of the League of Women Voters, will talk about the language and benefits of Article 22 to amend the Vermont Constitution, review the histo ry of abortion rights in Vermont, and open a dialogue with partici pants about their experiences with family planning before and after passage of Roe v. Wade in 1973, on Monday, Sept. 14, 3-4:30 p.m., at the Montpelier Senior Activity Center, 58 Barre St., Montpelier.
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Al Gobeille is the executive vice presi dent for Network Operations and COO of the University of Vermont Health Network. Rick Vincent is the executive vice presi dent for finance and CFO of the network.
Since 2017, our budgets have been constrained, growing below the rate of medical inflation and below the rate necessary to cover our expenses. There wasn’t time to say goodbye, It was time for you to go. There’s so many things about you Through the years we’ve come to know. We will surely miss your pictures Of this land through its seasons. Every view and scene you captured Purely for love, the reason. Your forest and trails will miss you. Your voice whispers in the breeze. Your chapel was always with you When you walked beneath the trees. We knew your love of Orchard Cove, Western views along the shore. Lake Champlain and Adirondacks, Beauty meaning so much more. We’ll remember you each morning And in every setting sun. We will carry on your mission Not forgetting ALL you’ve done.
The University of Vermont Health Network recently presented next year’s budget proposal to the Green Mountain Care Board. Despite years of serious belt tightening, several major forces are driv ing the need for a significant increase. The health network took this opportunity to share with the board what’s at stake and explain why its budget proposal is necessary to stabilize finances and put it on a path to Together,sustainability.thetwoof us have more than three decades of experience managing and reviewing hospital budgets. From our perspective, this is the most crucial budget we’ve assembled. Actions taken now will clearly impact the future of health care in our communi ties.To serve patients in the way they deserve, it’s essential we stabilize financ es to protect services, invest in staff and maintain modern facilities. Our networkwide operating margin — the funds left over after expenses, which we use to make those vital investments — has shrunk from 3.26 percent in fiscal year 2017 to a projected negative margin of -3.39 percent at the end of this fiscal year. To cover operating expenses, we’ve been forced to tap into cash reserves at a rate that puts our long-term financial sustainability at risk. This cannot contin ue. We recognize we are not alone, as many organizations in health care and beyond are struggling to balance budgets in the face of inflation, workforce shortag es and supply chain disruptions. What has made our situation particularly challeng ing is that we went into the COVID-19 pandemic more than two years ago already on uncertain Comparedground.toother states, Vermont strictly regulates hospital budgets. Since 2017, our budgets have been constrained, growing below the rate of medical infla tion and below the rate necessary to cover ourHealthexpenses.care is about people taking care of people. To not only respond to the needs of all of the patients who come to us every day, but innovate the ways in which care is provided, we need talented nurses, physicians, social workers, phlebotomists, environmental and food service workers, and many others. Like many business and nonprofit leaders in our community, we are seeing dramatically increasing costs recruit ing and retaining skilled people. More than 60 percent of our annual expenses go to pay for people — by far the single largest driving factor in the 2023 budget request. The budget we presented to the Green Mountain Care Board will help us retain great employees, help many gain new skills and advance in their careers, and will help us recruit the best talent from the region and the country to fill the hundreds of vacancies we currently have.We know increasing insurance costs are competing with other inflationary pres sures everyone is dealing with — from individual households to businesses and nonprofits. The request before the board does not mean that insurance premiums will automatically increase at the same rate we’ve requested for the coming year. For years when our commercial rates were at or near zero, commercial insurance holders still saw near double digit premi um increases. In fact, commercial insurers paid out less than they or we budgeted during the pandemic. This means hospital rates shouldn’t automatically translate into premium increases. In addition, we’re working vigorously to seek increases from Medi care and Medicaid to offset what we need from commercial payers. We’re very thankful that Gov. Phil Scott’s adminis tration and specifically Agency of Human Services secretary Jenney Samuelson have been working with us to find opportunities on these fronts. Our goal is simple: To share with the Green Mountain Care Board and the people we serve in Vermont and North ern New York the work we’ve done to put forward the most responsible budget we could develop, while minimizing the impact to patients, protecting critical services people depend upon and continu ing to make forward progress addressing access.
On behalf of the entire network, we appreciate — and need — the partnership and support of everyone in this region as we take on this complex work.
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— Rick Bessette, written in honor of his friend, Marshall Webb, Aug. 18, 2022 Remembering Marshall
Small-scale farming intersects economic, climate crises Guest Perspective Grace Oedel
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I belong to a local CSA that supplies my weekly milk from a small herd of 15 or so cows. Across Charlotte’s gentle hills the small herd grazes: One of the farming practices known for sequestering carbon out of the air and growing healthy soil, while creating wildlife corridors, polli nator habitat and filtering water. Truly exemplary people tend this land. They regularly host pasture walks to share with other farmers how they have restored so much ecosys tem health to their land and soil. They also offer product.thisequalVermontersrangeaofferingpricingtybuildgenerosityincredibleandcommuniwithintheirmodel,milkatslidingscalesothatallhaveaccesstonourishingTheyexemplify the best of the best in small-scale farm ing.Then, two weeks ago, an acci dent: tractor flipped, broken leg. It was a harsh moment of reality. The family had a brief debate, and quickly made the call that after being in dairy for almost 20 years, they would sell the cows. This accident wasn’t the main reason, but it was the last straw; dairy farming has become simply too taxing, too costly and, despite caring deeply and being the best managers and commu nity members, dairy simply isn’t tenable.Why is this? Why are Vermont’s postcard-perfect farm ers one broken leg away from having to sell their cows? Factors surely vary farm to farm, but the big picture remains the same at present: economic crisis (infla tion, fuel, feed all up enormous ly, while the price of milk is not) and climate crisis (ever drier and hotter years, making hay more costly and scarce, cows harder to keep cool and healthy, new infra structure demands to beat the heat) — both layered onto a federal valuesbackgroundpolicythatgiant corporate profit above all else. Dairy isn’t unique. Farms of all types are having a rough season — wells running uptransportdry,coststogetto market, consumers who them selves have less in their wallets to spend on Corporatefood.consolidation — that is, a few major companies gobbling up all they can of food production and distribution — is a pattern that repeats across the whole food system. I’ve painted this picture to some non-farmer friends who have replied with some form of, “Yeah, true. But it’s hard for all small businesses.” Which is absolutely correct, and we should investigate why being small in any sector is impossible right now. You don’t have to dig too deep; corporate consolidation is ubiquitous.But,for two major reasons, farming is also different. We all need to First,care.farmers aren’t just business owners. Farmers, particularly organic farmers, are ecosystem stewards. Organic dairy farms keep land open — organic regulations require cows to be on pasture — sequestering carbon, protecting biodiversity and filtering water. What happens if an unconserved farm goes out of business?Looknofurther than the mini storage units recently plunked down in what had previously been a farm field up in Fairfax. Then think about that pattern repeated across the state: the ripples of box stores slapped onto any field that a farmer can’t afford to keep in produc tion. Consider what this does to Vermont’s identity as a pastoral, beautiful place people wish to come visit and live. What it does to the rural community that the farm helped to sustain. Think also of the environmen tal difference of a store versus a farm field. What happens to the rain that falls on that imperme able concrete parking pad and the soil underneath it. Consider the pollinators that used to find food for their journey in the hedge rows and the wildlife that came to the pond to drink. While on the surface this looks like an outcome of an economic crisis, it morphs into yet another small piece of kindling tossed onto the climate fire that grows hotter by the year. Or, in the hopeful alternative, each small, organic farm that can remain viable protects a bucket of water for dousing climate chaos.Second, farmers grow food, which, at the risk of stating the obvious, we all need to stay alive. Currently, you can go to a box store and buy food brought in from away. But we must not quickly forget the lessons we learned at the start of the pandemic about how utterly brit tle massive food supply chains are.How it doesn’t take much to disrupt that food showing up stocked on our shelf. What will we eat when the next disrup tion happens if there is no local farmer who has been able to keep producing?Wecannot let short-term economic crises exacerbate longer-term climate chaos and food insecurity. Vermont’s small and organic farmers feed us, help Vermont thrive and feed our chances of a habitable planet. Every way we as individuals — if we are in the fortunate economic group who can — or we as a collective through state policy and investment, can support organic, small farms in thriving is a step toward a livable future for us all.
The project also received support from the Vermont Hous ing & Conservation Board and USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service.
A Hinesburg farm has been protected for farming and clean water, the Vermont Land Trust announced this week. Tim and Kay Ballard conserved 177 acres of pasture, farm fields and woods, with assis tance from Vermont Land Trust, Hinesburg Land Trust, Vermont Housing and Conservation Board and local community. The farm lies on the west side of Route 116 two miles north of the village and offers views of the Adirondacks. It includes 117 acres of pasture and cropland and 57 acres of managed woodland that abut the town’s Geprags Commu nityThePark.Ballard family has been farming the land since 1937. In 1994, the farm was passed down to the couple from Tim’s mother. They sold their dairy herd over 15 years ago and since then have been renting the cropland to neighboring dairy farmers Larry Garvey and his son Michael who grow hay on the property.
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COURTESY PHOTO Tim and Kay Ballard conserved their farm, with support from the Vermont Land Trust, the Hinesburg Land Trust, and the community.
Rita Ann St. George
Rita Ann St. George Rita Ann (Thomas) St. George, 89, died on Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. She was born on Sept. 24, 1932, the youngest daughter of Rita (Noonan) and Fred Thomas of Shelburne. She grew up on their dairy farm where she acquired her work ethic. In 1952, she married Richard St. George, and they went on to raise five children. She was predeceased by her husband, Richard (1987); daughters, Chardy (2012) and Carmie (2015); son, Bill (2020); her parents and siblings, Pat, Thelma, Ursula, Jim and Jerry. She is survived by her oldest daughter, Candace Boyce of Shelburne, and her youngest, Richard and his wife, Dawn of Charlotte. She also leaves behind many nephews,great-grandchildren,grandchildren,nieces,friendsandherfaithful little dog, Pippen. Rita spent 25 years at the University of Vermont in the telecom department before retir ing. Previously, she worked for many years at Garden Way Research and the once famous Harbor HideAway restaurant. She loved visits from all her grands and greats and looked forward to lunches each month to celebrate loved ones’ birthdays. She never went by a good garage sale without stopping to look for treasures.Shewas most proud of being part of the Charlotte Volunteer Fire and Rescue Auxiliary. She loved everyone on the depart ment, especially her son and grandsons. She took special care in seeing that they were fed and hydrated during their training sessions and fires. This was her pride and joy next to her family. Her funeral was held at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Shelburne on Friday, Aug. 12, 2022, at 11 a.m. with burial in the village cemetery. A gathering in the hall followed the commit tal. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Rita’s honor to the Charlotte Fire and Rescue or the Humane Society of Chittenden County. Obituary
“The Ballard farm is an excel lent addition to a large block of conserved farmland in the area,” Allen Karnatz of the Vermont Land Trust said. “Including the Garvey farm, the former LeFre niere property and Geprags Park, over 1,000 acres are protected from future development. Conser vation helps to ensure that the farm will remain affordable for futureThefarmers.”Ballard farm’s rolling fields slope down to a wetland that includes a tributary of the LaPlatte River. These wetlands are now protected, and land alongside the tributary will be kept vegetated with native shrubs and trees to support clean water and wildlife habitat.The project was supported by the community through a fund raising campaign led by the Hines burg Land Trust. In the future, the town and farm owners may collaborate to develop a trail for non-motorized recreation through the farm’s wooded area to join up with a trail in Geprags Park. “The Hinesburg community has always recognized the impor tance of this open farmland,” Andrea Morgante of the Hines burg Land Trust said. “We are grateful to have had the opportu nity to work with Tim and Kay to conserve their highly scenic and productive land.”
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Chittenden Solid Waste District is proposing to build a new recy cling facility, or materials recov ery facility, in Williston. Vermont ers are recycling more and more but the current facility is outdated, inefficient and limits the amount that can be recycled. The waste district will hold a presentation for Charlotte, Shel burne and Hinesburg residents on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 5:30-7 p.m. at the Charlotte Senior Center. Come learn more about how this new facility will allow Vermonters to recycle more pack aging and preserve landfill space — without impacting taxes. Learn more at cswd.net/ mrf-bond. Try out shape-note singing at Charlotte Senior Center Shape-note singing, or a cappella, four-part harmony, has been called “full-body, shout-itout singing” and is also known as Sacred Harp (1750-1850).
The Community Resource Center in Hinesburg is sponsoring a school supply pickup for fami lies and teachers in the communi ty. There will be a basket of school supplies outside on the porch at Twice as Nice thrift shop for fami lies in need. If you have a few extra school supplies, consider drop ping off a donation to help other community members. Suggested items include pencils, pens, bind ers, five-subject notebooks, lined paper and inexpensive earbuds.
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The Charlotte Senior Center holds a sing-in on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1-3 p.m. with Mark Williams. Songbooks are provided and the event is open to both newcom ers and experienced singers. There are no performances and no audi tions, and a “good voice” is not required.Stopby to listen, sing and leave whenever you wish.
There is a free, walk-in COVID-19 vaccine clinic with Garnet Healthcare at the Charlotte Senior Center Tuesday, Sept. 13, 12:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. and Tuesday, Sept. 27, 9:30-3:30 p.m. No appointment is necessary. Vaccines and boosters are avail able for pediatric Pfizer (ages 5-11), and adult Pfizer (12 and up) and Moderna (18 and up).
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On the second Thursday of the month, men gather for breakfast and conversation at the Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Road. This month’s program is Sept. 8, 7-9Thisa.m. month the guest speaker is Eric Howe, the program direc tor of the Lake Champlain Basin Program (lcbp.org). Howe will talk about the current health of the lake as well as the goals and mission of the Lake Champlain Basin Program. To register, contact Tim McCullough at cubnut5@aol. com. Register the Tuesday before the breakfast. Suggested donation is $6
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“St. Catherine’s is committed to strengthening our communi ty and helping meet hospital and patient needs through blood dona tions,” said Ann Cousins, Red Cross drive manager. “This blood drive is our way of giving neigh bors an opportunity to help save lives.”Blood is a perishable product that can only come from volunteer blood donors. With someone in the U.S. needing blood every two seconds, blood products must be constantly replenished, according to the Red Cross. Donors with all blood types are needed, especially those with type O negative, A negative and B negative.
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Senior center hosts Monday Munch
The next Monday Munch at the Charlotte Senior Center is Sept. 12, 212 Ferry Road, 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The meal features chicken salad niçoise — chicken, potato, egg, green beans and more — on a bed of lettuce, and apple cake.A $5 donation is appreciated. The menu for the munch on Sept. 26 features a meatloaf, mashed potatoes, broccoli salad and apple pie with ice cream. The menu on Sept. 19 has not yet been announced.Checkthe website in case of last-minute cancellations at char lotteseniorcentervt.org. Register ahead for Age Well meals
Pick up meal to go at St. Catherine’s Sept. 13 Age Well and St. Catherine’s of Siena Parish again team up to provide a meal to go for anyone age 60 or older on Tuesday, Sept. 13. The meal will be available for pick up in the parking lot at 72 Church St., 11 a.m.-noon. The menu is Swedish steak with mushroom sauce, seasoned penne pasta, chopped broccoli, wheat bread with butter, fresh fruit salad and milk. To order a meal, email Sheryl Oberding at soberding@yahoo. com or call 802-825-8546 by Sept. 9. (Please note we had the wrong date in our headline last week.)
First Friday features funk with the Reflexions Free First Friday, the last of 2022, returns Sept. 2, 5-7:30 p.m. to Shelburne Museum. Check out the historic build ings, play lawn games and enjoy food from local vendors, includ ing Lake Champlain Chocolates, Southern Smoke Foods, Taco Truck All-Stars and Weathervane Café.Beginning at 6 p.m, enjoy live music from the reggae-funk band Reflexions. More information at shelbur nemuseum.org.
The Age Well meal pickup for Thursday, Sept. 15, is from 10-11 a.m., Charlotte Senior Center, 212 Ferry Road, and features Swed ish steak with mushroom sauce, seasoned penne pasta, chopped broccoli, wheat bread with butter, fresh fruit salad and milk. You must have pre-registered by Monday, Sept. 12, with Kerrie Pughe, 802-425-6345 or niorcentervt.org.utecakewheattoesroast29milk.butter,vegetables,turkey22charlotteseniorcentervt.orgkpughe@ThemealonThursday,Sept.—registerbySept.19—istetrazini,ScandinavianwheatdinnerrollwithappleandberrycrispandThemealonThursday,Sept.—registerbySept.26—isporkwithgravy,boiledpotawithparsley,butternutsquash,breadwithbutter,applewithicingandmilk.Checkthewebsiteforlast-mincancellationsatcharlottese
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The Will Patton Trio will perform on the town green on Thursday, Sept. 8 at 5.30 p.m. as part of the Grange on the Green summer music series. Combine a jazz/choro mandolinist and a symphony violinist who also plays bluegrass and hot swing with a lifelong guitarist equally at home with flatpicking fiddle tunes and fiery Gypsy jazz solos, then spice it all up with a little rock and roll attitude, season all of that for 20 years in small clubs and large concert halls and you get the music of the Will Patton Trio. This concert is sponsored by Charlotte-based Cumbancha record label, booking agency and music publisher. Bring friends, family, and a picnic or pick up dinner from several local eateries on hand at the event. Popsicles will be sale as well, courtesy of Adam’s Berry Farm. Grange on the
Shelburne church hosts Red Cross blood drive St. Catherine of Siena Parish is hosting a blood drive in partner ship with the American Red Cross on Thursday, Sept. 15, noon-5 p.m., 92 Church St., Shelburne. For more information or to make an appointment to donate, call 800-733-2767 or sign up online at redcrossblood.org.
Splitting the air
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To say that lightning “splits” the sky is no mere poetry. A single stroke contains about one billion joules of energy, roughly 280 kilo watt-hours of electricity, and could power a modern American house hold for more than nine days. What’s more, it’s enough to blast apart the very molecules that make up the atmosphere and temporarily scramble its composition. One of these molecules is oxygen. Oxygen in the atmosphere is diatomic, meaning it normally exists as pairs of oxygen atoms with a strong double bond. But lightning rips these paired atoms apart, and in the ensuing chaos some aban don monoga my. The result is ozone, composed of three oxygen atoms.Ozone in the stratosphere shields the planet from the carcinogenic effects of too much ultraviolet solar radia tion. It’s also behind the electric tang in the air after a particularly active lightning storm or — less dramatically — when using a copier.Most of the air around us is made of another diatomic mole cule: nitrogen. Nitrogen compris es about 78 percent of the atmo sphere, oxygen accounts for about 21 percent, and the remainder is a grab-bag of gasses, including carbon dioxide. Nitrogen is also one of the most abundant elements in your body. It’s used to construct the paired bases — the letters of DNA. It’s needed to build amino acids, which build proteins, which build, well, ultimately, all life on Earth.Yet despite its apparent abun dance, entire ecosystems can be throttled by low nitrogen availabil ity. That’s because free-floating nitrogen molecules have a power ful triple bond — even stronger than oxygen pairs’ double bond — that makes them so utterly code pendent as to render them chem ically inert. Atmospheric nitrogen is useless to plants and animals without outside intervention. Here is perhaps the only context in which a bacterium in the roots of an alfalfa plant, a fertilizer manufacturing plant, and Zeus’s elemental wrath have something in common: They can all “fix” nitrogen. Nitrogen fixa tion is the process by which atmo spheric nitrogen gets split up and recombined with other elements to form compounds that plants and other life forms can utilize. Among living things, only a limited selection of bacteria and other microorganisms have the biochemical tools necessary to perform nitrogen fixation. Of these, some are found living freely in soil, while others have formed primenutsicansuchandtionedthelegumesonfoundrhizobiawithrelationshipscloseplants.Thebacteriainnodulestherootsof—peas,aforemenalfalfawildspeciesasAmerground—areaexample.
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In northern boreal forests, cyano bacteria that colonize mosses are a major source of nitrogen for the ecosystem.Unsurprisingly, a great deal of today’s nitrogen fixation also occurs in industrial fertilizer facto ries. They combine nitrogen and methane under high heat and pres sure to form ammonia and other compounds. The wide availability of nitrogen-based fertilizers has been a boon to farmers. But, in a classic case of too much of a good thing, the nitrogen-rich runoff from farms can also cause entire lakes to be strangled by algal over growth.Ofcourse, the heat used in the industrial processing of nitrogen is mild compared to the 50,000degree Fahrenheit fury of a stroke of lightning. Even nitrogen’s strong triple bond isn’t enough to hold up to such an overwhelm ing infusion of energy. In the momentary chemical free-for-all following a lightning strike, some newly single nitrogen atoms join up with eligible oxygen atoms to form nitrogen oxides. These get washed out of the air by rain, find their way into the soil, and can be taken up by thirsty plants. The short-term role of lightning in the nitrogen cycle appears to be minor, amounting to little more than an occasional ecological perk, especially in our relatively thun derstorm-poor region. On a deeper timescale, however, lightning’s role was likely fundamental. Lightning helped shape the chemistry of early Earth and may well have provided the spark — literally — needed to make essen tial elements such as nitrogen and phosphorus available to early organisms before the evolution of nitrogen-fixing bacteria. When we feel the primal frisson only a late-summer thunderstorm can bring, it augurs more than just a break in the heat: it’s the presence of some remarkable, potentially planet-changing chemistry.
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Kenrick Vezina is a freelance writer, naturalist, and racon teur based in the Greater Boston area. Illustration by Adelaide Murphy Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned and edited by Northern Woodlands magazine and spon sored by the Wellborn Ecology Fund of the New Hampshire Char itable Foundation, nhcf.org.
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Lightning helped shape the chemistry of early Earth and may well have provided the spark — literally.
Trembling aspen is also important for pileated woodpeckers, which forage for grubs and insect larvae in its soft wood, often creating cavities used by a huge variety of wildlife species for dens and nests. While not commonly used in lumber, aspen wood is light, soft and pretty, often becoming purplish as it ages. It is a poor fire wood, although sometimes used by maple sugarmakers for boiling sap. Throughout its range, aspen’s most common use is as pulp for paper. At present in Vermont, demand and prices for aspen timber and pulp are generally poor. Due to its low market value, aspen is a species that I manage nearly entirely for wildlife. Creat ing some larger, at least 2-acre canopy gaps where all or nearly all of the trees are cut creates poten tial habitat for the species, as well as a variety of other early-suc cessional trees, plants and shrubs and for the pollinators, birds and mammals that depend on them. Cutting some larger aspen within these gaps will inspire them to produce clones, creating a vibrant young aspen forest rela tively quickly. Outside of canopy gaps, I leave most aspen trees as legacy trees. These trees live out their natural lives, eventually declining, becoming riddled with cavities, dying and becoming dead wood on the forest floor. In life and in death, trembling aspen provides so many benefits to our forests.
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Cutting an aspen tree often results in an abundance of fast-growing root sprouts, clones which may grow four or five feet tall in a single growing season. Especially in the western United States, this quality means that the lifespan of an aspen can be indefinite; it can continue to clone itself for generations. An aspen clone in Utah called Pando, or the “Trembling Giant,” is considered by some to be the oldest and most massive organism on Earth, cover ing more than 100 acres and esti mated to be between 14,000 and 80,000 years old. In Vermont, trembling aspen provides important habitat for many wildlife species, including several bird species in decline. It is important habitat for ruffed grouse, which use aspen stands of several different ages to complete different parts of their life cycle.
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Cutting larger aspen in forest gaps inspire them to produce clones, creating a vibrant young aspen forest relatively quickly.
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Aspens, also known as poplars or popple, are trees in the Populus genus. Vermont is home to four species of poplar: bigtooth aspen (Populus grandidentata), eastern cottonwood (Populus deltoides), balsam poplar (Populus balsam ifera) and trembling or quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides). While all the aspen species are unique, trembling aspen is perhaps the most enigmat ic of the bunch. It is the most widely distribut ed tree in North America, with a range that stretch es from Alaska to Newfound land and south into Mexico. It is the only upland deciduous tree in parts of western North Ameri ca and defines aspen and aspenbirch forests — some of the most common forest types in the lake states and some western states. All the poplar species’ leaves tremble or quake — shimmering in the wind. They do so because the petiole — the stem that attach es leaf to twig — is flat. This trem bling appears to be an adaptive quality: reducing leaf herbivory, lowering leaf temperature, lower ing transpiration (the loss of water from leaves) and helping light reach lower parts of aspen crowns. Trembling aspen is shade-in tolerant, requiring nearly complete sunlight to establish. Aspens seeds are small, wind-borne and abundant, spreading far and wide across the landscape. While most of the seeds produced each year don’t land on an appropriate site, their mobility increases the chance that a lucky few will — usually the aftermath a large disturbance. Once established, aspens grow at a dizzying rate, easily out-com peting other, slower-growing species before declining and dying young — for a tree — usually at around 60-80 years of age. Like white birch, trembling aspen is so intolerant of shade that its presence in your forest is almost certainly an indicator of a large natural or human-caused disturbance in the past. If you were to count the rings on one of your aspens, it would tell you about how many years ago that itsingmostblinger,forests.specieslyeredistremblingshortoccurred.disturbanceDuetoitslifespan,aspenoftenconsidarelativeephemeralinourHowevoneoftremaspen’sinterestqualitiesisresilience.
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Construction Hunters traveling outside Vermont to hunt deer or elk need to keep in mind that a regulation designed to protect Vermont’s wild deer from chronic wasting disease remains in effect, accord ing to state wildlife officials. Chronic wasting disease is a fatal disease of the brain and nervous system in deer and elk. Abnormal prion proteins produce lesions in the brain that cause disorientation and emaciation in conjunction with other abnormal behaviors. This highly contagious disease is always fatal to deer. It is illegal to import or possess deer or elk, or parts of deer or elk, from states and Canadian prov inces that have had chronic wast ing disease, or from captive hunt or farm facilities with the follow ing
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The other mechanism would be to form a union municipal district, essentially creating a new municipal entity that would be formed through voter approv al and a charter change, McLean said.The Chittenden County Public Safety Authority, the regional dispatch entity overseeing several towns in the county, is an exam ple of a union municipal district.
Shared municipal police services “is what’s going to happen — maybe not in the next couple of years, but at some point, municipal districts are going to be where things are going to end up,” Herrick said. “It’s getting to the point where it’s very expensive and very time consuming to have a police department,” he said. “There’s so much more that we have to be trained in that it’s difficult to have a two- or three-person department — the cost of having a police department is substantial, and if you can share that cost, it’s not so much that the cost is going to go down, it’s what you’re going to get for the same amount of money, having a large department.”
Officials were quick to note that the formation of a union municipal district, however, is “not a quick process,” Richmond selectboard member Jeff Forward said, and suggested that an creat ing an interim shared service agreement while the town contin ues setting the parameters for a municipal district could be a good move.
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“Chronic wasting disease is a very persistent disease that can resurface after years of absence,” said Mark Scott, Vermont’s direc tor of wildlife. “Vermont’s regu lation is designed to help prevent it from infecting Vermont’s deer and the drastic population reduc tion measures that would be required if it appears here.”
• Antlers with no other meat or tissue attached.
• Upper canine teeth with no tissue attached. Vermont’s importation regu lations currently apply to hunters bringing in deer or elk carcasses from Alberta, Arkansas, Colo rado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Penn sylvania, Quebec, Saskatchewan, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
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Wildlife officials remind hunters about regulations on importing deer, elk police Chief Ben Herrick. The department has had three differ ent chiefs in three years. Cambridge was previously in discussions with Shelburne to combine services but talks between those two towns have since fallen by the wayside. Shelburne only months ago was struggling to keep police offi cers after problems with its previ ous police chief caused an exodus of officers and dispatchers. But “things are looking up” for the Shelburne department, police Chief Michael Thomas now says. It has six officers in full-time rotation, providing enough flexi bility to cover days and evenings without overtime or without offi cers being alone on a shift.
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Cambridge, after Herrick expressed some hesitation over one department absorbing the other, said that the “best thing would not be to dissolve both police departments or either police department until a munic ipal police district could be creat ed. I think that a possible move would be to create a contract for management ... one chief for both towns and that would get us that would give us the ability to sched ule both departments together and start hiring Officialsconsistently.”forbothtowns agreed to continue proceeding with joint meetings as they moved forward.
A fine of up to $1,000 and loss of hunting and fishing licenses for one year are applicable for each deer or elk imported illegally.
The two towns have several directions they can take to merge their police services. During the meeting on Aug. 29, Joseph McLean, an attorney with Stitzel Page & Fletcher, gave a presen tation on some of the statutory framework for “potentially form ing some joint endeavor around policeTheservices.”townscould create an inter-local, or inter-municipal contract, which provides that any one or more municipalities may contract to perform any govern mental service with another municipality, according to state statute. McLean described that mechanism as “one municipal ity providing service to another municipality or governmental entity — not necessarily shared service between.”
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“We’ve been talking about regionalization for years,” Lovell said. “I’m very hopeful that we’ll be able to do this, and I agree with what everybody says — this is the way of the future. This has got to happen. It’s going to happen, whether we participate in it or not.”
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LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Leo, seek the path not often taken this week, even if it seems long and winding. Sometimes the most direct way to go is not the easiest even if it seems that way.
ARIES March 21 - April 20 Listen to the people around you as well as your inner voice this week, Aries. With all the information at hand ,you can make some dif cult decisions with con dence.
The Citizen • September 1, 2022 • Page 15 CLUES ACROSS 1. Taxi 4. Cattle disease (abbr.) 7. Before the present 8. They burn in a grill 10. Enough (archaic) 12. “A Doll’s playwrightHouse” 13. Long loop of cloth worn around the waist 14. Napoleonic Wars battle 16. Chinese surname 17. Fragrant essential oil 19. Follows sigma 20. Model 21. A place with many dining options 25. BBQ dish 26. Corn comes on it 27. A sheep in its second year 29. Triad 30. They __ 31. Actor DiCaprio 32. TV’s “Edith Bunker” 39. Sustenance 41. Man who dishonorablybehaves 42. Cause a loud, harsh sound 43. A way to take in liquids 44. Gene type 45. The Miami mascot is one 46. Excessive tissuesaccumulationuidin 48. Casino machine 49. Contains cerium 50. Something with a letter-like shape 51. ScandinavianHandwoven rug 52. Legendary actress Ruby CLUES DOWN 1. Conqueror 2. Kin relation 3. Increases the value of 4. Pack 5. Popular nut 6. Dogs’ enemies 8. Former OSS 9. Unpleasant person 11. Come again? 14. Beverage container 15. Rock formation 18. Dorm of cial 19. The bill in a restaurant 20. Type of jug 22. actionrequiringImportanceswift 23. Out t 24. Small Eurasian deer 27. Weight used in China 28. A major division of geological time 29. Popular beverage 31. Con ned condition (abbr.) 32. Practical joking 33. Pouchlike structure 34. Pound 35. Lilly and Manning are two 36. Stopped discussing 37. ballplayerBaltimore 38. Candymaker 39. One thousandth of a second (abbr.) 40. Northern sea duck 44. Partner to cheese 47. Cannot be found CROSSWORD
CAPRICORN Dec. 22 - Jan. 20 Capricorn, let your emotions rather than your intuition guide you this week. That’s not something you hear often, but it’s for the best right now.
VIRGO Aug. 24 - Sept. 22 Virgo, you have a strong urge to start one project or another that can be used as a stepping stone to a promotion. Run your ideas by someone you trust.
SUDOKU Here’s How It Works: Sudoku puzzles are formatted as a 9x9 grid, broken down into nine 3x3 boxes. To solve a sudoku, the numbers 1 through 9 must ll each row, column and box. Each number can appear only once in each row, column and box. You can gure out the order in which the numbers will appear by using the numeric clues already provided in the boxes. The more numbers you name, the easier it gets to solve the puzzle!
GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Gemini, do not be afraid to think outside the box this week. The stars are spurring you in a particular direction that could in uence various components of your life.
CANCER June 22 - July 22 Ideas come from where you least expect them this week, Cancer. Keep your eyes wide open and pay attention to all conversations so you can be attuned to any clues.
SCORPIO Oct. 24 - Nov. 22 Scorpio, you can be effective and ef cient when you’re in your element. Others will attest to that this week after they see you in action. Enjoy the attention.
SAGITTARIUS Nov. 23 - Dec. 21 Sagittarius, professional motivation is easy to muster this week. Embrace your extra energy and put it to good use at work. Others will take notice.
TAURUS April 21 - May 21 Taurus, it may prove challenging to gure out where inspiration will come from next. Rather than seeking it out, wait for things to unfold more organically.
AQUARIUS Jan. 21 - Feb. 18 Aquarius, even though you have little to no work to do this week, the stars indicate you will be busy nonetheless. Enjoy any down time you can muster. PISCES Feb. 19 - March 20 Few signs understand the importance of building a strong foundation as well as you, Pisces. Start crafting a new relationship this week.
LIBRA Sept. 23 - Oct. 23 Libra, big nancial decisions are looming. A little restraint now can pay big dividends down the road. The rewards will be worth it.
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“We’ve set a big goal because we want to be able to give more people from the spinal cord community than ever the opportunity to enjoy being active,” said Kelly Brush, whose family started the foundation following a ski racing accident that left her paralyzed in 2006.In-person participants can ride 100-, 50-, 20- or 10-mile routes through the scenic Champlain Valley. For those who can’t make it to Vermont, the foundation offers a ride anywhere option that allows participants to join in the fundraising ride from the road or trail of their Registrationchoosing.isnow open at kellybrush foundation.org/ride.Onlineregistration closes Sept. 7.
Hand cyclists on the 16th Kelly Brush Ride last year. The ride draws more than 900 riders from all over the region to raise funds for people with spinal cord injuries. This year’s ride is Sept. 10 in Middleburywww.awrfh.com
The Champlain Valley High School cross country team, along with runners from other schools, in an Aug. 27 relay at the Hinesburg campus.
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Cyclists from all over the region will be once again gathering in Middlebury to join in the biggest charity cycling event in the state, the 17th Kelly Brush Ride. The ride, devoted to the Kelly Brush Foundation’s mission to inspire and empow er people with spinal cord injuries to lead active and engaged lives, returns Saturday, Sept.“This10. year we’ve set a high bar with a fundraising goal that will allow us to award a record number of grants,” said Kelly Brush Foundation executive director Edie Perkins. The foundation hopes to raise $975,000, which will allow the foundation to allocate over $1 million for adaptive sports equip ment, setting a record for annual grants awarded by the foundation. Last year, the event drew more than 942 in-person and virtual riders, including 47 hand cyclists, and raised more than $825,000 to provide direct support for adaptive sports equipment like skiing, basketball, cycling, and tennis.
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