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Suspect held in South Burlington killing

MIKE DONOGHUE CORRESPONDENT

A South Burlington man has been charged with killing a friend in Burlington and is also the prime suspect in a second homicide at a South Burlington motel. Denroy Dasent, 52, of Garden Street, pleaded not guilty in Vermont Superior Court Monday to a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the fatal shooting of a friend at a Burlington apartment Sunday night.

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Dasent is also the main suspect in a second Sunday night homicide in South Burlington at the Swiss Host Motel and Village on Williston Road, police chief Shawn Burke said.

Dasent, formerly of New York, admitted to both shootings as he was taken into custody shortly before midnight, police said.

Police said he has been in Vermont for at least a year.

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Amid inflation, hunger helpers feed hundreds

TOMMY GARDNER STAFF WRITER

Although the pandemic-era scenes of massive food drives organized by literal armies at high schools and airports around Vermont are a thing of the past, something quieter and bigger has replaced it: the population of people still needing help getting food.

It’s unclear sometimes if there are more hungry people or if the stigma of availing oneself to food shelves and other public health organizations is simply eroded amid the pandemic. As the cost of living goes up, so do visits, and so does the economic variety of visitors.

South Burlington Food Shelf director

Peter Carmolli said September was the Dorset Street pantry’s busiest month ever. The organization opened three years ago, so most of its existence has been in troublesome times for food insecurity — a global pandemic replaced by worldwide inflation and supply shortages.

Instead of succumbing to viruses or economics, the food shelf has instead thrived under the pressure.

“We just go with the flow,” Carmolli said. “We’re so new, that, with anything that happens, it doesn’t really throw us off.”

In the most recent monthly email newsletter sent out Oct. 1, Carmolli said

See FOOD SHELVES on page 15

with Dr. Alice Chen and Ferene Paris Meyer

Victoria Jean PierceMulliss took this photo of a hot-air balloon that floated over her home in South Burlington Sept. 29.

Former South Burlington police officer convicted in domestic violence cases

MIKE DONOGHUE CORRESPONDENT

A former South Burlington police officer has resolved his high-profile domestic violence criminal cases that have been pending in Vermont Superior Court in North Hero for more nearly three years.

Christopher Matott, 33, most recently of Rouses Point, N.Y., received a suspended prison sentence of 120 days to two years and was placed on probation for four years for domestic assault and criminal threatening convictions.

He pleaded guilty to both charges and was assessed $294 in court costs.

In a separate case, Judge Samuel Hoar Jr. also imposed $400 in fines on Matott for two cases of violating pre-trial release conditions, but as part of the plea agreement the payment of the fines was suspended.

The judge did assess Matott another $354 in court costs for those two convictions.

Grand Isle County State’s Attorney Doug DiSabito said the domestic assault conviction means Matott will never be able to serve as a police officer and he will be prohibited under federal law from carrying or using a firearm.

Matott still is facing a felony aggravated domestic assault charge in Chittenden County. Matott reportedly grabbed a woman around the neck until

she lost consciousness on Nov. 21, 2018, at a South Burlington hotel hours after she threw him a surprise 30th birthday party, court records show.

The South Burlington case is due for jury selection on Nov. 7 with a pre-trial hearing on Nov. 2.

Matott worked for South Burlington police from March 5, 2014, and left in good standing to join Winooski Police on July 12, 2017, the city said. After working in the patrol division for Winooski for about two years, Matott was assigned to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Task Force in 2019.

Matott was initially suspended and later fired by the city of Winooski after he was arrested on more than a half dozen charges by Vermont State Police in February 2020.

Matott filed a union grievance over his dismissal by then-Winooski City Manager Jessie Baker, now city manager in South Burlington. The four-step union grievance reached the final level — a federal arbitrator — but the two sides agreed to put it on hold until his criminal cases were resolved.

The Matott arrest also led to a sweeping internal affairs investigation for South Burlington department because of claims some officers may have known about the abuse and did not report it. The investigation eventually resulted in discipline for two female officers. There was a forced resignation of one detec-

tive due to inconsistencies in her statements. There was a letter of reprimand issued to a patrol officer, who subsequently resigned and was hired at Norwich University, records show.

Matott has been working recently as a part-time building code and zoning officer for the town of Chazy, N.Y., and as a part-time code enforcement officer and safety officer in the town and village of Champlain, N.Y.

DiSabito said the terms of the plea agreement were acceptable to the victim.

The victim attended the 35-minute court hearing last Thursday with family and friends but declined Judge Hoar’s offer to make a statement.

Matott also declined to address the specific charges.

“I’m just trying to put it behind me,” he told the court.

Defense lawyer Robert W. Katims said the plea agreement also provides that his client undergo screening, evaluation and counseling if recommended. Matott has post-traumatic stress disorder due to his activities as a law enforcement officer, Katims said.

Katims said his client is looking to move forward and will comply with conditions of probation. While acknowledging his client has had trouble following court conditions, Katims said he did not expect Matott would violate the terms of his probation.

Matott faced a maximum sentence of up to 18 months in prison and up to a $5,000 fine for the domestic assault case, the judge noted.

Original charges

The original charges in Grand Isle were one felony count for unlawful restraint in Alburgh on Dec. 15, 2019, while the other five were misdemeanors: three counts of domestic assault and two counts of criminal threatening, all between July and December 2019 in Alburgh, records show.

Matott pleaded no guilty to those six charges in 2020, along with a felony aggravated domestic assault count from Chittenden County.

The charges all stem from a single complaint from the woman who said she was physically assaulted and threatened repeatedly during their relationship, court records show.

The claims involved strangling, being restrained by force, receiving repeated threats of death and violence and being prevented from leaving a room or residence, Vermont State Police said at the time.

The victim also had several

audio and video recordings. DiSabito added more criminal charges, including violation of conditions of release and obstruction of justice, after Matott made improper contact with the victim while the case was pending.

As part of the plea bargain, DiSabito agreed to dismiss two other counts of domestic assault, and charges of both unlawful restraint and criminal threatening from the original prosecution. DiSabito also agreed to drop three other counts of violation of conditions of release and one charge of obstruction of justice stemming from subsequent interactions between the victim and Matott, he said.

The obstruction of justice charge stemmed from Matott trying to get the woman to write a recantation. DiSabito said the charge centered on Matott repeatedly texting the woman about thoughts of suicide and to get her to download a specific texting app designed to make their conversations untraceable.

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Christopher Matott, right, with defense attorney Robert Katims.

“I’m just trying to put it behind me.”

— Chris Matott

Regional commissions confront climate change

AARON CALVIN STAFF WRITER

About 100 years ago, Vermont was three degrees cooler than it is today; 80 years from now, it’s going to be anywhere from three to 12 degrees hotter, according to David Grass, an environmental health program manager with the Vermont Department of Health.

“That means a lot more extreme heat days,” he said. “So, to the extent that we can begin adapting — doing the long-term planning, the mitigation work, and some short-term planning — what do we do leading up to and during the crisis, we’ll figure out the steps that we need to take to protect Vermonters and to protect each other, which is what it comes down to.”

While Vermonters are no strangers to the frigidly cold days of winter, it’s the increased frequency of dangerously hot days, when temperatures reach over 95 or even 100 degrees Fahrenheit, that could represent an increased health threat to the state’s most vulnerable populations.

“Heat is not a threat that we have to deal with very frequently, and it’s because of that it looms large as a threat for us,” Grass said. “Some of the places around the world where they’ve seen high levels of death and illness resulting from heat events are those places that are least accustomed to experiencing them, so the effort here is to get ahead of that.”

To that end, the department of health is urging regional and town-level planning commissions to identify both their most vulnerable populations and cooling centers to keep them out of the heat.

The Chittenden County Regional Planning Commission is taking the lead in Vermont’s most populated cluster of towns and attempting to identify and map out emergency responses to temperature extremes and other emergency events that could arise out of a changing climate.

A draft of a new hazard mitigation plan is working its way through the commission, the second such plan in which environmental dangers specifically tied to a changing climate have been factored into emergency planning procedures.

The plan, mapped out in detail across nearly 400 pages, digs deeply into granular detail for both the likelihood that Chittenden towns will face certain types of environmental emergencies, and how best to prepare for and respond to them.

Some Chittenden towns are at

greater risk than others. On a scale that ranges from low to high, both Charlotte and Shelburne face a medium risk to their population due to severe temperatures and flooding, while South Burlington and Hinesburg are at lower risk for such dangers.

When it comes to severe rainstorms, however, South Burlington, Hinesburg and Shelburne all face a high-level risk, but only Hinesburg residents have been determined to face elevated risks from severe winter storms.

South Burlington has 45 hazardous waste sites, the second highest number of such sites outside of Burlington in the county.

The analysis is based on a comprehensive study of climate change published by the University of Vermont in 2021. Key findings highlighted in the hazard mitigation plan include the increase in average temperatures in Vermont since 1900, particularly winter temperatures, which have increased 2.5 times faster than average annual temperatures since 1960.

The time free of freezing temperatures has also lengthened by three weeks since that date and, on average, lakes and ponds have thawed three days earlier each decade. Extreme temperature events are expected to grow in frequency, according to climate experts.

years. If carbon emissions continue apace or grow, the ski season is expected to be shortened by a month by 2080, but only by two weeks if emissions are reduced.

According to regional planner Dan Albrecht, this hazard mitigation plan is all about taking stock of the possible threats alongside towns’ vulnerabilities and capabilities. To him, climate change is not so much the problem as a broader phenomenon that affects a variety of hazards Chittenden towns will face in the years to come.

The regional plan is intended to act as a guide for local planning commissions, where the preparedness efforts can be hammered out in detail. Progress has been made over the past decade or so in helping municipalities strengthen bylaws around hazard mitigation and establish master plans for stormwater issues.

“It’s just so highly variable. The summer has been just wicked dry, whereas other summers, it’s a big rainstorm once a month. It’s obviously variable, but it definitely seems in recent years that the intensity has grown. It affects the bread-andbutter issues for towns, like roads are the bread and butter of both our urban towns and our rural towns.”

— Dan Albrecht

Identifying cooling centers for those dangerously warm days is relatively simple in Chittenden towns, where air-conditioned public buildings such as libraries are easily identifiable, as opposed to Vermont’s more rural towns.

The whole back section of the plan identifies possible mitigation strategies, accounts for state and local initiatives, and includes how the regional planning commission can assist in these efforts.

Vermont has gotten wetter too. Since 1900, precipitation has increased 21 percent, with 2.4 more days of heavy precipitation than in the 1960s, mostly in the summer. This wetter climate will impact forestry and rainstorm operations and will require stormwater, infrastructure and planning improvements.

Some changes are irrevocable, but some can be mitigated. Over 70 bird species are expected to disappear from Vermont in the next 25

One aspect that’s difficult to plan for is the increasingly erratic nature of potential severe weather events.

“It’s just so highly variable. The summer has been just wicked dry, whereas other summers, it’s a big rainstorm once a month. It’s obviously variable, but it definitely seems in recent years that the intensity has grown. It affects the bread-and-butter issues for towns, like roads are the bread and butter of both our urban towns and our rural towns,” Albrecht said.

Alarm: 16

Public assists: 11

Agency assists: 9

Motor vehicle complaint: 8

Traffic stop: 8

Disturbance: 8

Directed patrol: 7

Welfare check: 6

Accident with property damage: 7

Directed patrol: 7

Fraud: 7

Retail theft: 7

Stolen vehicle: 6

Domestic: 3

Sex crime: 3

Total incidents: 184

Top incidents

Sept. 25 at 7:08 a.m., a domestic incident was reported from Williston Road.

Sept. 25 at 7:39 a.m., suspicious event on Shelburne Road.

Sept. 25 at 11:54 a.m., police were called to a report of someone violating a restraining order on

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Shelburne Road.

Sept. 26 at 8:37 a.m., police looked into a report of an unsecured premise on Midland Avenue.

Sept. 26 at 9:33 a.m., police took a theft of service report on Berard Drive.

Sept. 26 at 11:55 a.m., a report of domestic assault or abuse on Farrell Street.

Sept. 26 at 8:55 p.m., someone lost — or found — some property on Gregory Drive.

Sept. 27 at 2:55 p.m., a sex crime was reported from Central Avenue.

Sept. 27 at 7:28 p.m., threats were reported by someone on Lime Kiln Road

Sept. 27 at 4:37 p.m., someone was reportedly bitten by an animal on Dorset Street.

Sept. 27 at 11:53 p.m., a case of simple assault on Farrell Street.

Sept. 28 at 2:15 p.m., police investigated a report of an undis-

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Sept. 28 at 3:01 p.m., overdose on Dorset Street.

Sept. 28 at 5:40 p.m., another overdose report, this time on San Remo Drive.

Sept. 28 at 10:18 p.m., police dealt with a report of intoxication on Williston Road.

Sept. 28 at 11:02 p.m., a theft from a home or business was reported on Farrell Street.

Sept. 29 at 9:03 a.m., police performed a needle pickup from the Lime Kiln Bridge.

Sept. 29 at 6:51 p.m., a trespassing report emanated from the Victory Drive and Williston Road area.

Sept. 29 at 9:39 p.m., someone reported that something was stolen from their vehicle on Farrell Street.

Sept. 30 at 7:50 a.m., a burglary was reported on Shelburne Road.

Sept. 30 at 10:23 a.m., police were called to an apparent overdose on Dorset Street.

Sept. 30 at 11:38 a.m., a fraud on

Shelburne Road was reported.

Sept. 30 at 1:29 p.m., someone left the scene of an accident at Williston Road and East Avenue.

Sept. 30 at 6:45 p.m., a mental health issue on Shelburne Road.

Oct. 1 at 2:12 a.m., police stopped a motorist suspected of driving under the influence on Williston Road.

Oct. 1 at 11:19 a.m., another fraud report, this one on Spear Street.

Oct. 1 at 2:15 p.m., a vehicle was stolen on Gregory Drive.

Oct. 1 at 3:00 p.m., fraud was reported on Mills Avenue.

Oct. 1 at 7:55 p.m., police investigated a trespassing report on Shelburne Road.

Arrests

Sept. 27 at 1:29 p.m. Jessica L. Robishaw, 34, address unknown, was arrested for misdemeanor retail theft and providing false information to a police officer.

Sept. 25 at 7:08 a.m., Jack A. Hurlburt, 26, of St. Albans,

was arrest for first degree aggravated domestic assault.

Sept. 27 at 9:28 p.m., Scott D. Conant, 48, of Winooski, was arrested for petty larceny.

Sept. 28 at 11:07 p.m., Jesse D. Reed, 43, of Burlington, was arrested on an in-state warrant and misdemeanor possession of cocaine.

Sept. 29 at 7:50 a.m., Sean M. Brosnan, 36, of South Burlington, was arrested on an in-state warrant.

Sept. 29 at 6:51 p.m., Jaime L. Billings, 45, of Winooski, was arrested on an in-state warrant.

Sept. 30, 1:20 a.m., Brandon A. Brown, 36, of Burlington, was arrested on an in-state warrant.

Oct. 1 at 2:12 a.m., Max D. Plunkett, 22, of South Burlington, was arrested for gross negligent operation and eluding a police officer while operating a vehicle in a grossly negligent manner, a felony.

Oct. 1 at 1:42 a.m., Mathew Douglas Joyal Sr., 48, of Richford, was arrested on an in-state warrant.

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Oh, my heavens: Looking to the stars In

Musing

Carole Vasta Folley

I don’t read horoscopes. I skim them. It’s because I can tell instantly if it’s applicable to my life. Like if the horoscope speaks of adventure when I’m home sick in bed, I’ll disregard it as a bunch of bunk. However, if it advises focus while I’m in the midst of a huge project or recommends imbibing when I’m headed to a family reunion, then I’ll take note. I’ll cut the dang horoscope out and laminate it.

I’m not sure why I bother. It could simply be because, every now and then, a horoscope says just the right words to soothe my soul and send me on my way.

But first, before any laminating, I had to get over my despair at my zodiac sign. Even as a kid, I’d bemoan, “Why, oh why, am I a Sagittarius?” I mean, what girl wants to be half horse and half man? With a bow and arrow, nonetheless. Besides, it was never lost on me that the half horse part was the back end, if you get my drift. And a bearded man? A burly chested one at that. Face it, the centaur of my youth needed a bra more than I did.

How I’d pine for a different birth month, wishing I was born in late August and could be a Virgo. A young maiden carrying a sheaf of wheat. Exquisite. I’d have settled for even a crab or a scorpion. But no. My sign will always be essentially a horse’s ass.

Eventually, I grew up, matured, left my whine behind, put it in my glass, and accepted my sign. But to this day, it never has made sense. Sagittarians are “adventuresome risk-takers, with a sharp business and sports mentality.” Has the zodiac ever met me?

But who am I to argue with astrology? It’s been around since Mesopotamia. That’s the cradle of civilization, people. This idea that the placement of planets, sun and moon can be analyzed and interpreted into predictions for our daily benefit is quite

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astonishing. Perhaps I should take it more seriously.

So, today, I checked my horoscope at three different sites. The Washington Post said I should explore places I haven’t been. The Chicago Tribune recommended trying something new. And Cosmo said I should get outside my comfort zone. I picked that one because it’s kind of like traveling. Plus, I’ve never been there.

I’ve noticed this astrological Ann Landers doles out universal, semi-helpful, advice. Therefore, aren’t horoscopes missing the full spectrum of being human? That some days are just hard. What if, instead of some positive-thinking maxim, our horoscope said the truth?

Like, “Today will be challenging, people won’t be nice and you’ll drop something, maybe on your foot, it’ll hurt, you’ll curse inappropriately and when you finally limp home, a stench from hell will tell you something has turned vilely rotten in your refrigerator, but you can’t find it because there’s too many containers of unidentified inedible leftovers and as you reach behind the bagged lunch you forgot to give your kid so they had nothing to eat all day, for a beer, another one will land on your foot, yes, of course, the same one . . .”

I think you get the idea. Some days are just like that.

So, maybe occasionally getting a horoscope that reads, “For the love of god, don’t go outside today!” Or “Are you kidding me, you haven’t flossed all week?” would be the perfect addition to their usual peppy prophecies.

Meanwhile, I’ll continue to read my horoscope. And, if I don’t like it, I’ll just pretend I’m a Virgo. Don’t worry, it’s OK, I switch it up; I’m a Sagittarius, you know, an adventuresome risk-taker.

Carole Vasta Folley’s has won awards from the Vermont Press Association, The New England Newspaper and Press Association and the National Society of Newspaper Columnists.

Letters to the Editor

both humans (mother and child) equally.

As a lifesaving medical procedure, abortion is a legal option.

Proposal 5 denies legal rights for humans in the womb.

An example of the many fallacies of the abortion argument is using terms such as “theoretically independent human” and “potential life of the fetus” to describe the human in the womb.

The human in the womb is a genetically distinct human, biologically alive and has the right to due process of law and access to legal representation.

The state has an obligation to treat

Any abortion must first pass through legal and medical review.

Proposal 5 does not acknowledge the distinctness, the aliveness, or legal rights of the human in the womb

Vote no on Proposal 5 and petition Vermont to acknowledge the legal rights of mother and child and rewrite legal statutes the embrace and preserve these rights.

Paul Lyon South Burlington

Carole Vasta Folley

Dr. Aerwen Stagers, DMD

SB schools start a ‘normal’ year with key changes

Guest Perspective

Alex McHenry

Carter Higgins

The beginning of school is always exciting. Students return to spruced-up school buildings, fall sports are in full swing and all of us are making new bonds with

one another.

The South Burlington School Board is in full swing as well.

The school year began with the hiring of interim superintendent Violet Nichols, who has stepped up to the role from her previous position as director of learning. The school board is busy refining the process for finding a permanent superintendent and

will use valuable feedback from the community about our first hiring process from last spring to make the process better. The board also welcomes De-Dee Loftin-Davis as executive director of equity. Loftin-Davis has already begun examining policies, procedures and school district culture to ensure that it is fully inclusive.

This time of year: ‘Sheer volume of pumpkin-esque offerings inescapable’

Guest Perspective

Walt Amses

I often invest time and energy in serious investigative journalism, particularly when questions need answers, situations require far more than a superficial glance or subtle threats have infiltrated without setting off too many alarm bells. Others probably perceived these issues as well but hadn’t paid them much mind simply because, like most Americans, they’re far too busy being far too busy to notice anything out of the ordinary.

In fact, in its own insidious way, this issue has become quite ordinary and therein dangerous. You’ve probably guessed by now what I’m talking about.

Years ago, since they mainly showed up in autumn, first as jack-o’-lanterns on Halloween and then later, as tasty pies on Thanksgiving, pumpkins have crept into our lives so gradually we’ve sat idly by while the

country was inundated each fall with what R.E.M. or the Denver Broncos might call an “Orange Crush.”

But whether you’re celebrating music or mayhem, you’d be hard pressed to deny that between the days growing shorter as October looms and dwindling down to a precious few, gourds rule. It’s become pumpkin everything.

Which prompted my initial quest for as much data on this seasonal invasion as I could lay my hands on. So, I Googled “pumpkin everything” but instead of the usual multiplicity of website insights and glut of related information, I landed on a Facebook community called “Pumpkin Everything,” created by a woman named Lara, claiming to have “loved all things pumpkin for as long as I can remember.”

With over 140,000 followers, posting inane comments and photographs of guess what, the pledging of pumpkin allegiance began feeling like a cult, albeit a

harmless one, like the people who collect salt and pepper shakers and meet in RV parks. Mysterious even to me, I somehow found out that in August, a guy broke the record for floating on a river in a 767-pound pumpkin that he grew himself. He’d never tried such a thing before, vowing to never do it again but managing to travel nearly 38 miles down the Missouri River, hefting a beer afterward, asserting “the biggest feat was to grow a pumpkin big enough to do this.”

Just about as frivolous as most of the pop-up nonsense we typically encounter daily on our various devices, this, apparently

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Another new face to welcome is new board member Laura Williams, who fills the vacant board position until next March.

Williams is a teacher at Essex High School and will bring a teacher’s perspective to the board.

The Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School also welcomes new principal Scott Sivo. These new hires do not complete the administrative team as we are in the process of hiring a finance and operations director and a director of learning.

Community members are encouraged to attend budget forums and participate in feedback surveys regarding the superintendent position, which will be discussed in further detail at subsequent meetings.

The board has also taken steps to address overcrowding at both elementary schools, Orchard and Rick Marcotte. This fall, construction will begin on four modular classrooms for each school, known as Zero Energy Modulars. These are not merely trailers, but efficient and comfortable classrooms that will buy the district time to find a long-term solution to its growing student population needs.

Conceptual layouts are being

developed now. Architects Dore and Whittier, DEW Construction and the manufacturer plan to have a cost estimate in early October. We hope for a January installation.

With the school year now in full swing, students have finally begun what many are calling their first “normal” year of school since the start of the pandemic.

As the district continues to move forward, community involvement and feedback will be very important to the board.

Community members are encouraged to attend budget forums and participate in feedback surveys regarding the superintendent position, which will be discussed in further detail at subsequent meetings. With that, the South Burlington School Board wishes all a happy and healthy school year.

Alex McHenry is a member of the South Burlington School and Carter Higgins is the board’s student representative.

for me, was a tipping point.

I’ve never really thought much about it, but if I had, I’d most likely think that aside from pie, the pumpkin spiced latte would have been quite sufficient to get us through the autumn holidays, especially since the only one I’ve ever had tasted a lot like that same pie put through a blender set on liquify. It tasted kind of stupid, like drinkable candy, so I dismissed it immediately as anything worthy of entering my mouth.

That was well before marketing determined anything worth doing was worth doing until it became a parody of itself. And even then, if it continued making money, sell the hell out of it because after all, nothing succeeds in life like excess in the too much is not enough world.

The initial foray into Latte Land was unsurprisingly by Starbucks in 2001 and Peter Dukes, now the company’s director of Global Growth and Concepts who was once in charge of espresso drinks. Fresh off the success of another barely drinkable holiday favorite Peppermint Mocha, Dukes and others were charged with creating a drink for fall.

According to CBS News, they eventually narrowed their initial hundred concepts down to 10 with caramel and chocolate initially winning out in taste tests but the pumpkin idea stayed alive after they brought slices of pumpkin pie into the R&D lab, “poured shots of espresso on ‘em and ate ‘em.”

As they say, the rest is history. Actually, more like well beyond history. The sheer volume of pumpkin-esque offerings is inescapable this time of year as bizarre and redundant as some of them can be. With the guy bobbing down the Missouri as the catalyst, my antennae were primed and ready. I would search for the orange gourds in whatever dark corners they lurked, which turned out to be pretty easy

because they didn’t lurk. They were right out there in the open, flaunting their seasonal status as the national fruit of choice.

Pumpkin spiced baked goods made some sense as variations on a pie theme, but pumpkin Twinkies or Oreos? How about a little pumpkin in your popcorn, or chocolate truffles? Cereal, nondairy creamer, almonds, bonbons, cheesecake ice cream and biscotti all make the cut. But exploring the pumpkinization of all things edible quickly veers into “Whose idea was this?” territory. And — full disclosure — I never actually attempted eating or drinking any of the products listed since my gag reflex was activated by simply reading labels and imagining how they might taste.

How about, for instance, pumpkin spiced instant noodles, eggnog, yogurt, and even vegan mini marshmallows, which sound like they should be accompanied by an attendant well versed in the Heimlich maneuver. You can cleanse your palate with pumpkin-flavored beer. If you’re wondering what wine pairs with pumpkin-infused gnocchi or pumpkin-filled ravioli, wonder no more. The California Fruit Wine Company fills the bill with a vintage called Pumpkin Bog, which sounds confused with cranberries.

As my investigation intensified, I realized I’d bitten off more than I could chew, especially considering the thought of chewing anything on the growing list of culinary catastrophes filled me with dread. Can anything be worse than what KFC is calling a Pumpkin and Feta Twister? Is there a way of making candy corn or Peeps taste worse? Even the option of brushing it all away with pumpkin spiced toothpaste or soap on a rope offered little solace. I was out of my league.

Paging Merrick

writer.

Is Climate Council unraveling?

Guest Perspective

Rob Roper

The mood at recent Vermont Climate Council committee meetings is bleak as the folks tasked by the Legislature to come up with a plan to meet the greenhouse gas reduction mandates of their Global Warming Solutions Act do not have one.

It’s not entirely their fault. The task is and always was politically and logistically impossible. The whole thing has echoes of the Legislature passing a law to deliver a single-payer health care system before looking at the details of what it would cost and what it would take. When the public finally saw the price tag, dreams of single payer very quickly evaporated.

Now there is a palpable frustration growing between the more idealistic climate council committee members who are eager to put forward concrete proposals to meet the mandates and the more politically oriented members who are trying to keep things vague because they know the second those kinds of details come out the public will reject them.

Such an exchange took place at the Aug. 29 Transportation Task Group meeting when Gina Campoli asked about providing an estimate of how much money the state would need to raise for just one program and where the money would come from.

the gap to get to the numbers we need?”

An easy calculation that any reasonable person would expect to be a top priority for any action plan, and one that shouldn’t take nearly two years and counting to answer. This unwillingness to face fiscal facts is the reason Gov. Phil Scott vetoed the council’s clean heat standard recommendation.

Jane Lazorchak, the Global Warming Solutions Act project director, deflected Campoli’s question, hinting that it’s OK to discuss spending federal money, but not money Vermont will have to raise itself.

“The kinds of questions you’re diving into, Gina, are like bigger funding issue and where are there gaps and state funding needed, like weatherization is a great example. We’re floating the boat with federal dollars, but there’s going to be a cliff, so how are we going to pay for that long term?”

Yes, how? And how big exactly is that cliff you’ve put us on track to go over?

It’s the reason they signed up. Months passing without meaningful debate over substantive ideas led Sebbi Wu, a Vermont Public Interest Research Group employee who serves as liaison between the Just Transitions Committee and the Transportation Task Group, to ask with visible disillusionment, “Where are the specifics?”

From the other side, the frustration stems from logistical realities.

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“For example, we need X number of incentives and X amount of charging infrastructure,” said Campoli. “We’re spending X amount now. Then there’s a gap … to get to the numbers of electric vehicles that are necessary. This would be the easiest calculation. It’s going to require a certain investment on the part of the state both to underwrite the incentives and the cost of the infrastructure. What’s

Campoli offers a rundown, including increasing Vermont’s electric vehicle fleet from 5,000 to 126,000 and weatherizing 90,000 homes, “not to mention bike, ped and transit, and all that stuff … There are big long-term needs, ongoing, present and future. I mean, if we think we can just put $50,000 in here and $100,000 in there and mission accomplished, we’re kidding ourselves. It’s going to be major,” she said.

Major indeed. And new taxes on motor and home heating fuels to cover that number, which what the council is discussing in one form or another, will be majorly unpopular.

But this do-not-ask-fordetails, do-not-reveal-costs attitude is clearly unsatisfying to council members who think asking and telling should be a celebrated part of the process.

As Lazorchak admitted in a moment of candor: “We’ve been circling in on cap and invest, cap and reduce, or a performance standard. But we don’t have, well, one Transportation and Climate Initiative, which is probably not coming back online in our timeline of joining that in a year. … There’s just this practical nature of like Vermont cannot afford to stand up a performance standard on our own. Administratively it would be impossible. So, there’s also this component of analysis to happen around, like, ‘How are we going to,’ I just, I don’t even know. That’s where my head starts to spin. If no other New England state is really looking at this right now, how do we say we’re going to adopt one in 2024? … It’s so hard because we’re really just not capable of doing much on our own.”

So, no revenue, no interested partners, no logistical capability, no ideas and no public support. Perhaps this is why a number of key legislatively appointed council members are asking not to return when their terms are up next month. These folks are fleeing the sinking ship, but the taxpayers are trapped down in the hold, and we are being set up to waste a major amount of taxpayer dollars for “not doing much.”

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Dasent forced his way into an apartment at 185 Pine Street and fired at least five or six rounds at Sheikhnoor “Snake” Osman, 40, before fleeing in a car registered in New York about 8:15 p.m. Sunday, according to Burlington police.

Osman was dead at the scene.

Burke said Dasent is also believed to be the gunman who killed Brian K. Billings, 37, at his family residence at the Swiss Host at about 11:05 p.m. Police said Billings may have been shot outside his residence and made it back inside before he died in front of two children and a companion.

According to acting Burlington police chief Jon Murad, Dasent is a suspect in a third shooting at Burlington City Hall Park that occured at about 7:15 p.m. last Wednesday. Nobody was reported injured.

Burlington has had at least 25 reported shooting cases this year.

Murad said he was unable to say the Pine Street homicide was drug-related but noted that it appeared to be connected to an unknown money dispute.

The Pine Street apartment “is frequented by law enforcement primarily for illegal narcotic

related incidents and is rented to Wesley Alexander,” Burlington Det. Cpl. Nicole Moyer said in a sworn affidavit filed in the homicide case.

Dasent and his wife operate a restaurant, Island Passion, in the food court at the University Mall on Dorset Street in South Burlington, Burke said.

Murad told reporters he knew nothing about Dasent’s background.

Court records show Dasent has criminal records in Vermont, New York and California and is a convicted felon, which would not allow him to own or possess firearms.

His convictions include felony drug sale, aggravated assault and battery, obstruction to a public officer, firearm restriction, misdemeanor assault and violation of conditions of release, court records show.

Dasent’s wife, Suesan, bought two firearms — a 10 mm Glock pistol and a 9 mm Ruger pistol — at the Powderhorn in Williston, Moyer said. A 10 mm casing was found at the scene of the Osman homicide, police said.

Burke said Billings was known to the police. His sister,

Jeannie Billings, also known as Jeannie Morrill, 40, was a girlfriend to Osman and was in the bedroom at the Pine Street apartment when the shooting happened Sunday, police said.

Osman had been the victim of an unsolved shooting when wounded in the head in City Hall Park in May, police said.

Special Agent Alex Schmidt, the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in Vermont, said the new Chittenden County Gun Violence Task Force worked well together on the two homicide cases.

Schmidt said investigators got a little bit of a head start in the Osman homicide case because the task force was looking at Dasent for the City Hall Park shooting in Burlington. He said there was a quick response from off-duty task force members and the Vermont Drug Task Force on Sunday.

He said that the coopera-

tive federal, state and local task force will net more results in the future for other violent crimes. Local officers are assigned from seven police departments, Burlington, South Burlington, Shelburne, Williston, Milton, Colchester and Winooski.

Dasent was arrested shortly before midnight, but not before attempting to get Burlington Police to shoot him. Murad praised the restraint by Lt. Michael Henry when he pulled over Dasent and he got out of his car with hands up and asked to be shot.

Dasent ignored various orders and after saying “you’ll have to shoot me,” he eventually jumped back into his gold SUV and sped off at speeds up to 60 mph through city streets.

A few minutes later Dasent crashed his car near the Burlington Waterfront and ran. Violent crime task force members and

Burlington Police flooded the area, and he was eventually spotted. Dasent continued to refuse to surrender, court records show.

Police used a Taser to strike him twice. They then used beanbags fired from a shotgun that struck the defendant and he began to comply with police orders to get on the ground near Spot on the Dock restaurant on King Street.

Burlington Det. Sgt. Mike Beliveau said Dasent began to make unsolicited statements, which were captured on his police body camera. Beliveau said “Dasent said unintelligible things to me and began to laugh to himself.”

He said Dasent made statements that he could not understand and then said, “So I clap them out. You understand what I just said. I shot two of them.”

Beliveau said Dasent went on to say, “I was gonna come up like I had a gun ... I gonna pretend I had a gun. If I knew it be you, I let you shoot me my boy.”

Beliveau said he had past dealings with Dasent, the most recent while investigating the shooting in City Hall Park last Wednesday night.

Burlington police chief Jon Murad praised the restraint by Lt. Michael Henry when Dasent got out of his car and asked to be shot.

Williston church holds chicken pie supper

It’s chicken pie supper season.

Williston Federated Church is holding a takeout-only chicken pie supper Saturday, Oct. 8, 44 North Williston Road.

The meal includes chicken pie and biscuit, squash, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, cranberry sauce and apple or pumpkin pie. Tickets are $15; children $8. Reservations are required.

Pick up times are staggered starting between 4:15 and 7 p.m. Exact change is appreciated. Drive through the parking lot at the designated time and meals will be delivered to your car.

Call 802-862-7400 for reservations. More at steeple.org.

PR firm welcomes new associate director

Whitney Coombs Bowden has joined Charlotte-based public relations firm Junapr as associate director.

Bowden will focus on some of the firm’s key Vermont-based clients, including Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Previously, Bowden was the director of business development

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at Greater Burlington Industrial Corp. and marketing director for Kelly Brush Foundation. She has worked with agencies, resorts and non-profit organizations.

Bowden graduated from Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies.

Bowden resides in South Burlington with her husband, Seth, and dog, Pepper.

Hyperbaric Vermont hires new general manager

Kathryn Blume has joined the nonprofit Hyperbaric Vermont as general manager.

The mission of Hyperbaric Vermont is to raise awareness of hyperbaric oxygen therapy and to make this treatment more accessible. One of its treatment centers is located in South Burlington.

Blume is a public speaker, award-winning solo performer, writer, life coach and passionate advocate for creative, justice-infused, world-saving action.

She was the co-founder and executive director of the award-winning climate and sustainability game Vermontivate and served as communications director for the cannabis media and events company Heady Vermont.

She also founded the environmental news radio show “Earth on the Air,” co-founded the Lysistrata Project, the first worldwide theatrical event for peace, and is the author of “Dancing to the Beat of the Great, Green Heart,” a collection of essays and speeches on building a climate movement of hope and power.

Red Cross hosts blood drive in Charlotte

The American Red Cross holds a blood drive on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2-7 p.m., at the Charlotte Senior Center

Call 800-RED-CROSS or visit redcrossblood.org and enter charlotte to schedule an appointment.

Howard Center holds World Mental Health Day event

Join Howard Center on Wednesday, Oct. 12 from 6-8 p.m. for a World Mental Health Day event with featured speakers Dr. Alice T. Chen and Ferene Paris Meyer.

Chen is a board-certified internal medicine physician and a national leader in physician advocacy, community organizing and public health. Meyer is a storytell-

Restoring Our Faith Summit

An inspiring one day conference with world renowned social scientists, faith leaders and physicians to discuss the importance of science, faith and family in a time of social upheaval.

Tuesday,

South Burlington actors Kimberly Rockwood and Kevin Cahoon star in this weekend’s production of “Almost, Maine” by The Shelburne Players. The play follows the residents of Almost, Maine, one night as they find themselves falling in and out of love in the strangest ways. Knees are bruised. Hearts are broken. Love is lost, found, and confounded.

er and founder of All Heart Inspirations.

Chen will draw on her years of experience and expertise to discuss the causes of burnout, particularly those present in health care and social services settings, physical and mental symptoms, and strategies for addressing burnout in all facets of life, including the workplace.

Life for the people of Almost will never be the same.

Shows are Friday and Saturday, Oct. 7-8, 7 p.m., with a 2 p.m., Sunday matinee on Oct. 9. Shows continue the follow weekend, but with an added Saturday matinee showing at Shelburne Town Center, 5420 Shelburne Road. Tickets and information at shelburneplayers.com. Masks are encouraged.

Meyer empowers those navigating mental health to be their authentic selves and has personally found storytelling to be healing and transformational in her own experience with anxiety and depression.

Advance registration is free but required for this virtual Zoom webinar. More at howardcenter. org.

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Kimberly Rockwood and Kevin Cahoon

‘Almost, Maine’

Cannon 5K Walk/Run honors beloved teacher

On Sunday, Oct. 16 students from South Burlington High School will host the 10th annual 5K Walk/Run in honor of George Cannon, a beloved science teacher.

All money raised will be donated to the Cannon Memorial Scholarship Fund. A scholarship is awarded to a South Burlington senior at graduation in June.

Start time is 9:30 a.m. (registration begins at 9 a.m.) in front of South Burlington High School. Everyone is encouraged to wear a costume with a superhero theme, or something green

to celebrate Cannon’s favorite superhero, the Green Lantern. Prizes will be awarded.

Dogs, on a leash, are welcome.

To participate, organizers are asking for a minimum $5 donation. Can’t attend but would like to donate? Send a check to South Burlington High School, Attn: Cannon Walk/Run, 550 Dorset Street, South Burlington VT 05403. Checks should be made out to South Burlington Schools Foundation and include “Cannon Fund” in the memo section.

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Participants from the Cannon 5K Walk/Run from 2018.

George Cannon

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Tips for ecologically sensitive autumn garden cleanup

It’s September, and to many gardeners, that means it’s time for end-of-the-year garden maintenance. This includes cutting back plants, clearing out leaves and composting most of the vegetation that grew this season.

Before continuing the normal routine, it’s a good time to step back

and think about the bigger picture. A question to consider is why do we clear out our gardens before the winter? What’s the purpose?

One of the reasons that we put our gardens to bed is that herbaceous plants (like annuals and many perennials) will not hold up through the winter. Foliage turns brown and crispy, and the moisture

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from snow breaks down leaf structure.

Perennials store energy in their underground root systems and regrow fresh vegetation in the spring. Annuals are just that and need to be replanted in the spring. The foliage of both is often cut back before the next growing season.

Additionally, cutting back certain foliage in the spring can be a wet, gooey mess, and it is often easier to cut back plants when the soil and plants are dry.

A final reason for cleaning up garden foliage is to eliminate those diseases and pests that may overwinter on the dead plants or in the soil. Since pests and diseases can build up if plants are grown in the same place every year, make notes or a map of where your crops were in the garden this year and rotate them to a new spot next growing season.

I suspect that another reason for fall garden maintenance is the desire to have a tidy-looking garden at the end of the season. This is an opportunity to look at the bigger picture and change our thinking.

In this case, appearance and ecological function are at odds. Many beneficial insects and caterpillars overwinter as eggs, larvae or adults in leaf litter. Bees and other

beneficial insects create homes in hollow plant stems until spring.

Birds feast on seeds to survive the long winter.

Take a look at a natural area near where you live and think about how it changes through the seasons. Nature is not tidy or clean.

It is beautifully messy, regenerative and evolving.

If we can adjust our expectations about what is beautiful, and follow the lead of nature, we can cultivate gardens that are both lovely and ecologically sensitive. How can we do this?

Start by leaving the plants with seed heads up through the winter. See which plants withstand snow loads, and which plants birds visit. Use this to decide what to do next year.

In my garden, plants such as sunflowers (Helianthus spp.),

purple coneflowers (Echinacea purpurea) and black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia spp.) hold up to the snow.

Leave plants with pithy, hollow stems such as milkweed, asters, goldenrod, bee balm, raspberry, elderberry, rose, ornamental grasses and many wildflowers. These stems will provide beneficial insects, including butterflies and bees, with homes throughout the winter.

Don’t remove all the leaf litter in your garden. This natural blanket not only provides food sources and a home for butterflies and moths during cold months, but it also provides nutrients to the soil as it breaks down.

Ideally, a layer of leaf litter could be left in your garden forever. But if you need to remove it, wait until after the insects have had a chance to emerge and relocate in late spring.

While many of the traditional fall-maintenance practices are valid, they are not applicable in all cases. Essentially, garden maintenance should be performed on a plant-by-plant basis.

For information on adjusting your maintenance practices to create habitat in your garden, check out go.uvm.edu/overwintering.

Bonnie Kirn Donahue is a master gardener and landscape designer from central Vermont.

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Leaving plants with seed heads up through the winter is one way to provide a source of food for birds.

Math competition provides geography lesson

RICHARD JIANG CONTRIBUTOR

I have collected many special pins over the years: Shiny, pretty, colorful and, most of all, unique to different parts of the country.

I got them by trading with other people from all around the U.S., most recently at the Mathcounts National Competition in Washington, D.C., where I was proudly one of three competitors representing Vermont.

Each team, made up of all the states and U.S. territories, as well as the federal government, brought its own pins for trading.

The Mathcounts competition brings together students from all 50 states in a series of in-person contests to help students build problem solving skills and positive attitudes about math.

For the three days of the competition, we enthusiastically exchanged these pins as souvenirs during breaks. Many are in the shape of states, while some pins are covered in a state’s flag. Others have pictures of things associated with their states, such as a bald eagle, lobster or bear.

Vermont’s pins are made of golden metal with the state flag and the word Vermont on top. The surface is not completely flat so you can feel every detail of the flag by touching it.

In addition to my home state, I also admired pins from other places, especially Alabama, which holds a very special meaning to me because I was born there. Its pin is in the shape of the state flag with the crimson cross of St. Andrew with a raised golden border, waving in the wind. On the left side of the flag is a black flagpole, also surrounded by gold.

Coincidentally, the winner of the Mathcounts National Competition was from Alabama.

One pin with a lot of detail comes from Massachusetts, with illustrations of a lobster, ship, leaves and even a miniature map of the state. The map is covered in white, with markings of three towns, Westford, Lexington and Acton.

The pin has a picture of a lighthouse at the coast, and out in the ocean, there is a sailing ship with three masts. There are colored leaves — green, yellow and orange — from different species of trees, like oak and maple. A red lobster is seen over the blue background. The state name in yellow, with red edges, is bordered in white.

These places look beautiful, and I wish I

could pay a visit.

The California pin stands out as the most expensive pin, which unfortunately cost me six Vermont ones in trade. The circular pin is covered by the California flag in the shape of the state, with a red star on the top, the state name, a red stripe on the bottom and a brown bear in the center walking on grassland. On the left side of the bear lies the Golden Gate bridge, and underneath it rests a couple of green palm trees.

The Californians seem to be very proud as they put a very big dark blue Mathcounts of California at the top of their pin.

Each pin has its own style, and Ohio’s has the simplest design of all. It’s just a piece of golden metal in the shape of the state. It is covered with the flag of red and white stripes and a blue triangle, inside of which a red circle is surrounded by 14 white stars. On the right lies the word Ohio in gold. The simplistic design conveys a clear meaning without excessive detail, and I was very impressed by this style.

All these different state pins are unique and special. Each of them is priceless and indispensable to me. I will always cherish these amazing pins, because they’re not just tiny pins, but rather a vivid memory. I’ll also never forget the intense competition and the many extraordinary people met along the way.

Richard Jiang is a ninth grader at South Burlington High School.

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State pins from around the U.S. collected by Richard Jiang.

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the South Burlington Food Shelf had 243 customers in the 14 days it was open in September. In the last week of the month, there were 49 customers, of which four were new visitors.

The Shelburne Food Shelf is also somewhat new, opening at the end of 2015. According to its website, it serves between 80 and 90 Shelburne households a month. During the height of the pandemic, the organization delivered and custom-packed orders for about 130 households a month.

The Hinesburg Food Shelf illustrates the hidden need for food help. According to director Jeff Glover, visits to the food shelf were lower during the height of the pandemic than they have been in recent months. He said things started picking up in August, and he expects to keep adding another eight to 10 families a month going forward through the holidays, the busiest times for food shelves everywhere.

“There’s something about hunkering down for Christmas or the winter season, and the storehouses need to be filled, so all of a sudden, people will start coming back to the food shelf to get the food that might help them,” Glover said.

He said financial help such as the series of checks that millions of people received from the federal government was often spent at the grocery store, instead of being used to pay a utility bill, rent or a car payment. Now, that money’s all gone, and food is more expensive.

“Ideally, I would have always hoped they would have come to the food shelf all along,” Glover said. “But I think that, overall, maybe they just decided they would like to be the average family, and not have to come. They’re coming back now, and they’re kind of storing up for the winter, and things are back to normal.”

Getting hungrier

A study conducted earlier this year by researchers at the University of Vermont and the University of Maine, interviewing

roughly 1,000 people — 415 Vermonters — found that the prevalence of food insecurity this past spring “remains similarly high to early points in the pandemic (35 percent overall), likely driven by inflation and food prices, and long-term impacts from the pandemic.”

Other findings:

• 62 percent of respondents — and 90 percent of food-insecure respondents — said recent food cost increases affected their food purchasing.

• One-third used food assistance programs in the previous 12 months.

• Two-thirds did some sort of home food production, such as gardening, raising animals, foraging or hunting, and half of that cohort were doing so for the first time.

• Nearly 40 percent of food insecure respondents ate fewer fruits and vegetables in the past year.

• Half of the respondents faced a health care challenge.

• More than half indicated anxiety or depression, with 17 percent of those people newly diagnosed in the past year.

One survey respondent said they lost their job due to COVID-19 complications, but even before that, was missing so much work that the paychecks weren’t enough to live on.

“The huge increase in food (prices) made it that much harder to get groceries and though my daughter had the items she eats, I would often go without meals due to not being able to buy more than my daughter’s food,” the respondent said. “I haven’t eaten my daughter’s food items so as to make sure she always had enough.”

Carrie Stahler, government and public affairs officer at the Vermont Foodbank, said food shelves always see more visitors in hard economic times.

“Food insecurity is just a really tangible symptom of greater economic insecurity,” Stahler said.

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Peter Carmolli at the South Burlington Food Shelf.

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Role of the hemlock in Vermont’s 19th-century tanneries

Connect the Dots

Jane Dorney

How fitting to be surrounded by hemlocks, I thought as I scrambled down the steep bank of the brook. Hemlocks were one of the key elements in the 19th-century mill I was exploring and here were some of their descendants as witnesses. Would I find any remnants of the old dam or the foundation of the water-powered bark mill? I continued downslope to see.

The old bark mill was part of the local tannery that operated from the early 1800s to the 1880s processing animal hides into leather. After the sawmills and gristmills creating materials for shelter and basic foodstuffs, the tanneries were the next most important local industry supporting early European settlers.

Without shoes and boots for people, or harnesses and saddles for horses, farming life would have been very difficult in the era before plastics, rubber and gas-powered vehicles.

Transforming animal skin into leather was a skilled, labor-intensive, multi-step process that used a sequence of salt, lime and tannin treatments with large amounts of water. Tannins are natural chemicals produced by many plants to deter pests — they also give

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coffee and tea their color and astringency.

Tannins in a water solution will chemically bind to the animal skin proteins and alter them to keep them from decaying.

Tannins also make the skins more durable, water and heat resistant and flexible. Hemlocks have large amounts of tannin in their bark, and are common in Vermont, so tanners here used them extensively. The hemlock bark needed to be ground to a powder so the tannins would easily dissolve in water.

The tannery site I was looking for was on several 19th-century maps and had all the key environmental features together in one place. To produce the power needed, it was built below a steep section of brook created by a geologic fault line.

The tanner built a dam to impound the flowing water and regulate its flow to the bark mill. The water power turned the bark mill’s grindstones to grind the bark into powder, much like a grist mill’s grindstones grind wheat seeds into flour. Of Vermont’s 126 bark mills in 1850, three-quarters were water-powered, with most of the rest horse-powered.

The brook’s steady flow of water was also essential to processing hides because many of the steps required chemical solutions soaking in large vats and rinsing with large amounts of water.

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Tanners gathered the materials they needed locally. Farmers brought hides in from their livestock, often paying the tanner with a portion of the hides. Woodlot owners provided hemlock bark, and lime came from the limestone quarries common in the Champlain Valley.

The tanner’s process began by salting the skins to stop bacterial growth, then rinsing the salt out with water. This was followed by soaking the hides in a lime solution to remove the hair and any fats left, then de-liming them with either water or a vinegar solution. Finally, the hides were put to soak in a series of water vats with increasing concentrations of dissolved tannins.

Hides were moved from vat to vat as determined by the skill of the craftsman over many months to become fully cured leather. The tanning process was known to be very smelly, and the waste was

usually disposed of in the brook.

Cobblers and harness shops bought most of the finished leather. In the end, the community was shod and had the harnesses for horse-drawn farm work.

Later in the 19th century, bark tanning was eventually displaced by a synthetic tanning process using chromium salts, which took only hours to produce finished leather instead of months. Bark tanneries eventually closed.

I looked around the site to see what was left of the 19th-century mill works. Upstream, I could see the remnants of a gristmill and sawmill, but there was little evidence left at the tannery site. Some stonework seemed to line up on both sides of the brook, but it was heavily damaged. Probably the floods through the narrow valley over decades had flushed much of it out, leaving me to imagine the rest from the descriptions.

It was time for me to head back up the steep ravine, and I steadied my ascent by holding onto the two-foot diameter hemlock trunks. I paused for a moment to catch my breath, and because the hemlocks’ dense shade keeps out understory growth, I was able to review the valley below. All the pieces had come together here: the geology of the steep ravine creating the opportunity for power, and the rushing water to drive the bark mill, to soak the hides and take away the refuse. But without the gray, platy hemlock bark under my hands, none of this would have been possible.

Jane Dorney is a consulting geographer who does research and education projects to help people understand why the Vermont landscape looks like it does. See more at janedorney. com.

Jane Dorney

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The brook that supplied the tannery’s water power dropped over a geologic fault line.

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Helping the helpers

Food shelves thrive on partnerships, and they all lean on the Foodbank for support, while also looking locally, whether for grocery store donations, food drives by organizations or individual donations of food, money or both.

Trader Joe’s donated 881 pounds of items to the South Burlington Food Shelf last month, and another 827 pounds came from other community members, from churches, farms and the library, according to Carmillo. That’s about par for the course and will help shore up reserves during the cold months, he said.

Peggy Sharpe, the secretary for the Charlotte Food Shelf, noted that food isn’t the only thing people need help with. To that end, her organization does things like a clothing drive — currently happening — or a backpack donation program for students. Sharpe said the food shelf also distributes gas cards and helps set people up with fuel assistance for their homes.

The Shelburne shelf has, since 2017, made sure kids don’t go hungry during the summer, when school is out of session, with weekly summer food program for children.

The Charlotte Food Shelf is now housed in the basement of the Charlotte Congregational Church, which makes it tough to go up and down the stairs with food deliveries, both incoming from donations and grocery purchases. Also, Sharpe said the church could use the space, and she is grateful for its use.

“Our community really serves the food shelf very well,” she said. “They always have, and they continue to.”

Glover said Lantman’s Market in Hinesburg donates turkeys for the Thanksgiving baskets — and the local Rotarians buy an extra 75 or so birds to extend into the holiday season. The fire and police departments work together for a big food drive in mid-November, right before deer season.

“We have a lot of community support helping us organize for the winter, and I’m feeling pretty positive about things,” Glover said.

South Burlington is fortunate with its partnerships, and people who visit might be surprised with some of the items that come through. Carmolli said inflation has left grocers with plenty of unsold luxury items like filet mignon or swordfish that butchers and fishmongers must drastically reduce in price to move it — and frequently it lands in the food shelf freezer.

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At a glance: local food shelves

Food shelves in southern Chittenden County have differing hours of operation and different needs — although cash is always a good choice. For more information, check out their websites.

• South Burlington: southburlingtonfoodshelf.org

• Shelburne: shelburnefoodshelf.org

• Charlotte: charlotteucc.org

• Hinesburg: hinesburgresource.org

a farmstand at the South Burlington Food Shelf whenever it’s open, late spring through late fall, and gives away quality produce, but also things like day-old flatbread pizzas from banquets.

Breaking stigma

Asking for help can be almost as difficult as finding it, and there was a time in the 1980s and 1990s where the image of “welfare moms” and food stamp recipients were framed in shame, often directed by people who were more well off.

Now, everyone’s being affected by things like inflation and housing shortages, and food shelf workers say there’s far more empathy and willingness to help one’s neighbors.

ship, if you will,” Glover said. “That kind of softens the blow.”

Carmolli said the stigma has thankfully receded, and food shelf workers just see people as people, whether they are on government assistance or, more likely, not.

Roughly 80 percent of food shelf goers are employed fulltime, Carmolli said.

“Making people feel guilty over having problems putting food on their table ... That’s just criminal.”

The South Burlington Food Shelf is only 150 yards away from a methadone clinic, and Carmolli said he knows a guy who goes to get his shot every day, and swings by the food shelf when its open.

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“I think the way through that is to make people realize it’s just a very normal process, and we’re here to help, and when they come, it’s just about encouraging them and getting to know them personally, to be able to share a friend-

“Making people feel guilty over having problems putting food on their table because they’re in some situation? That’s just criminal,” Carmolli said. “I want to make sure that me or anyone else that works at the food shelf is the personification of kindness, so that everyone who comes in, irrespective of how they look or what they do, you treat them with great respect and dignity.”

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SeaWolves capture first gridiron victory

Football

South Burlington-Burlington 20, BFA-St. Albans 14: The South Burlington-Burlington football team captured its first win Friday, Sept. 30, beating the BFA-St. Albans Bobwhites with a second half comeback.

Trailing 7-6 at halftime, the SeaWolves scored in the third quarter to take a 13-7 lead and did not look back.

Nick Kelly had a 2-yard TD rush and 10-yard touchdown pass for the SeaWolves, who move to 1-4. Sam Parris caught Kelly’s touchdown pass, while Taysean Metz ran 35 yards for another touchdown.

Boys’ soccer

South Burlington 3, Essex 1: South Burlington scored two goals in the first half enroute to a win over Essex Friday.

Evan Richardson tallied twice for the Wolves, while Hammad Ali also scored.

Andrew Chandler made seven saves in goal for the win. With the victory, South Burlington moves to 6-1-1.

Field hockey

South Burlington 1, Mount Mansfield 0: The South Burlington field hockey team won its fifth game in a row, beating Mount Mansfield Friday.

Oli Roy had the game-winning goal for the Wolves. Izzy Redzic earned the shutout with seven saves.

The Wolves move to 6-1-1.

Girls’ volleyball

South Burlington 3, Montpelier 1: The South Burlington girls’ volleyball beat

Montpelier on Friday to move to 2-4.

The Wolves won the first set before Montpelier captured the second set 26-24. But South Burlington came back to win the second set (25-22) and the third (25-14) to get the win.

Girls’ soccer

South Burlington 1, Essex 0: Elsa Nygaard-Ostby had the lone goal in a win for South Burlington over Essex on Saturday, Oct. 1.

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game winner for the Wolves, who move to 4-2-2 with the win.

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South Burlington Rep. John Killacky is participating in upcoming video projection project as part of Montpelier Alive ArtWalk, Thursday through Sunday, Oct. 6-8, 7-9 p.m. each night, outdoors, at 22 Main St., home of The Drawing Board and Savoy Theater. Killacky’s short video, in collaboration with Arthur Bell, “FLOW, 2017” will be screened, along with a dozen or so other short films by a variety of artists. Rain or shine. There will be an indoor venue at The Susan Calza Gallery, 138 Main St. Find updates @thesusancalza gallery. Participants are welcome to bring chairs for watching the salon outdoors. Above, a still from “FLOW,” a short video by John Killacky and Arthur Bell.

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‘Flow’

Attract monarchs: Grow milkweed

Guest Perspective

Elise Tillinghast

During a late summer walk, I noticed that the common milkweed in our back field is becoming not-so-common. Once vigorous patches of the milky green plants have dwindled, engulfed in a sea of Canada goldenrod.

Goldenrod is a habitat rock star, and during this walk, I counted at least 13 moth, wasp, butterfly, fly and bee species nectaring on the bright yellow flowers. But for those of us who worry about monarch butterflies, common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) and other milkweed species get preference of place. As the obligate hosts of monarch caterpillars, the plants are linked to the fate of one of our most beautiful and threatened summer visitors.

My family has previously tried to spread milkweed by shaking ripe seed pods to promote windborne dispersal. This is a fun activity, especially for little kids, but it hasn’t seemed to help local milkweed populations. So, this September, I decided to get serious and seek out expert advice.

Anna Fialkoff, ecological programs manager at the Wild Seed Project (wildseedproject. net), explained that my milkweed patches’ decline is a natural part of plant succession, and that this progression is complicated by the widespread presence of European cold season grasses and other alien plants that outcompete native species.

“The species that are taller and a little bit pushier tend to take over eventually,” Fialkoff said. “It’s hard to have native meadows that are dominated by our native grasses and wildflowers unless we make a

concerted effort to do so.”

Rather than seek to regenerate milkweed over the whole field, Fialkoff suggested taking a page from the forestry practice of creating uneven age stands to enhance biodiversity. Mowing some areas and leaving others untouched on a two-or-more-year cycle can help native bees, which use second-year dried stems of joe pye weed, flowering raspberry and other woodyand semi-woody plants, both for adult hibernation and as protected chambers for eggs.

Localized wildflower diversity also provides more reliable nectar options for many species across the spring and summer months. Goldenrod, for example, nourishes migrating monarchs and other late-season pollinators, long after milkweed flowers and most other wild blooms have faded.

To establish a new patch of milkweed, Fialkoff recommended first considering which milkweed species is best suited to growing conditions. Common milkweed, which spreads vigorously by the roots and is tolerant of a wide range of soils, is the obvious choice for fields, and can be harvested guiltfree from the wild, without risk of depleting native populations.

Other species grow in tidier clumps. Poke milkweed is a good choice for shady spots, and swamp milkweed works well in sunny, moist ground. For well-drained sunny spots, butterfly milkweed — native to the Northeast but rare in most of the region — is a good choice.

Regardless of species, Fialkoff suggested a tandem process of preparing the ground while germinating the seeds. This autumn, mow the desired patch site low to the ground, and then “sheet mulch” the grass and other existing plants

with a thick, overlapping layer of cardboard. On top of the cardboard, spread 4 to 6 inches of aged bark mulch or composted leaves. Over a few months, Fialkoff said, this process will produce “really great, organic matter that’s going to break down and smother the weeds below.”

Meanwhile, start the seeds. Common milkweed pods ripen between now and mid-October and are ready to harvest when they begin to split open. Look inside, and you should see that the seeds at the bottom of the pod — and attached to silky hairs that extend to the top — are a dark brown, versus an unripe light tan.

Sow the seeds between mid-November and February in small pots, placing multiple seeds on top of, not in, compost-rich potting soil. Yogurt containers work well for this, as long as you add drainage holes. Sprinkle about an eighth of an inch of coarse sand on top, and then cover the pots with hardware cloth or other screening to protect the seeds from rodents. Put the pots outside, exposed to the winter weather.

Sprouting time is variable, ranging from early to late spring. When the seeds sprout, put the pots in a spot with partial shade, and keep the young plants well-watered. In early autumn, transplant them into the sheet-mulched soil. Keep watering the plants until they are well established, and occasionally mow around the new patch to prevent competitors from pushing in. With luck, you’ll provide a home for monarch caterpillars and other native insects for years to come.

Elise Tillinghast is the executive director of the Center for Northern Woodlands Education. More at nhcf.org.

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March 21 - April 20

Aries, others are counting on you this week, so you’ll need to direct all of your attention toward a special project. Don’t let distractions get in the way.

TAURUS

April 21 - May 21

Taurus, rather than wishing for something to happen, gure out a plan to make it happen. Before taking action, consult with a few close friends for guidance.

GEMINI

May 22 - June 21

Someone may come to you this week with a problem asking for your advice, Gemini. It’s tempting to react right away. However, take a few hours to mull things over.

CANCER

June 22 - July 22

Someone at work may not agree with your point of view lately. Rather than cause friction, try to look at things through this person’s perspective.

LEO

July 23 - Aug. 23

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VIRGO

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LIBRA

Sept. 23 - Oct. 23

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Oct. 24 - Nov. 22

Maintain a positive outlook this week, Scorpio. Things may not go exactly according to plan, but that doesn’t make it any less successful and satisfying.

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Sagittarius, you may have to put others rst for the next few days, particularly if you care for an elderly relative or a young child. It’s a sacri ce worth making.

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Dec. 22 - Jan. 20

Capricorn, let another person lead a team or spearhead a project at work, even if you have an urge to take control. You can use a break from your responsibilities.

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Aquarius, hands-on work not only helps save you some money, but also strengthens your skills. Think about a more DIY approach with your next project.

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5. Hurt

10. Icelandic poems

14. A taro corm

15. Metaphorical use of a word

16. It fears the hammer

17. Excessively quaint (British)

18. Laid-back California county

19. Cook in a microwave oven

20. Not late

22. Go from one place to another

23. Peoples living in the Congo

24. Popular pasta

27. Available engine power (abbr.)

30. Popular musician Charles

31. Angry

32. Spelling is one type

35. One who makes a living

37. Indicates location

38. Imperial Chinese dynasty

39. Small water buffaloes

40. Hungarian city

41. Fabric

42. Ancient kingdom near Dead Sea

43. Precursor to the EU

44. Philly footballers

45. Female sibling

46. “When Harry Met Sally” actress

47. Magnetic tape of high quality

48. Insecticide

49 Apparatus to record and transmit

52. Some is considered “dog”

55. Israeli city __ Aviv

56. Fencing sword

60. Ottoman military title

61. Wise people

63. Cold wind

64. Popular type of shoe

65. Administrative district

66. A way to reveal

67. Cooked meat cut into small pieces

68. Actress Zellweger

69. Romanian city

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2. Site of famed Ethiopian battle

3. German river

4. Christmas carols

5. Cash machine

6. Rough and uneven

7. Rumanian round dance

8. Widespread occurrence of disease

9. A place to relax

10. Feeling of listlessness

11. Coat or smear a

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substance

12. Wild mango

13. Brews

21. Belgian city

23. Con ned condition (abbr.)

25. Swiss river 26. Small amount 27. Part of buildings

28. Vietnamese capital 29. Sailboats

32. Shelter

33. Terminated 34. Discharge 36. Snag

37. Partner to cheese

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PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE SOUTH BURLINGTON LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS

Public Hearing Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 7:00 pm

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, October 25, 2022 at 7:00 PM to consider amendments to the Land Development Regulations. The amendments affects areas of the City specified below. The hearing will be held in person and remotely via Zoom. Participation options:

· In Person: City Hall Auditorium, 180 Market Street

· Interactive Online: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87674559726

· Telephone: (929) 205 6099; Meeting ID: 876 7455 9726

The purpose of the hearing is to consider the following:

A. LDR-22-07: Modify the Zoning Map in a manner generally described as follows:

1) Redesignate land immediately north of Holmes Road from Commercial 1-Auto to Commercial 2

2) Redesignate land north and south of Fayette Road, immediately west of Shelburne Road, from Commercial 1-Auto to Commercial 1-Residential 15

3) Redesignate land beginning ~75’ west of Fayette Road and ~280’ west of Fayette Road’s planned extension, north of Old Orchard Park and south of the Chittenden County Humane Society, from Commercial 1-Residential 15 to Commercial 1-Auto

B. LDR-22-08 Allow Municipal Uses in the Commercial 2 District

Copies of the proposed amendments are available for inspection at the Department of Planning & Zoning, City Hall, 3rd Floor, 180 Market Street, and on the city website at www.sbvt.gov.

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