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Download PDF File OU NTA I N IMES M T Vol. 50, No. 24 I’m FREE - you can even bring me home to your parents! June 16-22, 2021 Vermont hits 80% Governor lifts all Covid restrictions, recommendations remain in place for the unvaccinated By Hannah Laga Abram Gov. Phil Scott Monday morning lifted all als fanned out around the state to administer state-mandated Covid-19 restrictions. vaccines at walk-in clinics in 56 locations. Nine HAPPY FATHER'S DAY! The state of emergency, in place since March more clinics were scheduled yesterday, with an To all of the father 13, 2020, will expire at midnight June 15. additional 59 planned throughout this week. figures out there. The order came after the announcement As Scott emphasized, “the people we By Angelo Lynn that Vermont became the first state to vaccinate vaccinate tomorrow are just as important as Record-breaking crowd cheers at the 2019 Killington Cup. over 80% of its eligible residents, making it the those we vaccinated yesterday.” global leader in Covid-19 vaccinations. As of today 80.3% of Vermonters age 12- “Vermont has shown the world what’s plus and 83.6% of Vermonters age 18-plus World Cup ski possible,” Gov. Scott said in Monday’s press have at least one dose of the vaccine, Scott conference. “We are here only because of said. He lauded his fellow Vermonters for the unity of the people of Vermont, whose their effort to protect their community. “You racing to return commitment to their neighbors and care for care for each other, you followed the sci- each other never wavered.” ence, and you put others first,” he said. The state reached the vaccination milestone While happy to rescind the state of emer- to Killington after a weekend in which first responders, Na- gency, Scott was not ready for Vermonters to tional Guard members and health profession- take their guard down completely. Resort will host the FIS Ski World Cup on JUNETEENTH Restrictions lifted > 4 Also known as Freedom Thanksgiving weekend 2021 and 2022 Day. Saturday, June 19 Staff report celebrates the On June 10, Killington Resort and U.S. Ski & Snowboard, the emancipation of those national governing body of Olympic ski and snowboard sports in who had been enslaved the U.S., announced a two-year agreement for Killington Resort in the United States. to host the women’s FIS Ski World Cup. The Killington Cup will take place Thanksgiving weekend, Nov. 27-28, 2021. It is an Olympic qualifying year. HOW TO "VERMONT" As with the past four years, the 2021 and 2022 races at Killing- A sample itinerary ton will be broadcast worldwide to more than 60 nations, along to get the most out of with national broadcast coverage across the U.S. The event has your summer days in drawn an increasing number of spectators who converge at Kil- Vermont —written by a World Cup > 4 Vermonter who knows! Page 16 Mendon drops gunfire safety proposal By Brett Yates After a monthslong effort, the Mendon Select Board has aban- doned its proposal to restrict gunfire within town limits. By Paul Holmes “I’m going to say no. I don’t think it’ll work,” Selectwom- an Valorie Taylor concluded at the board’s last meeting, Loon's only chick grows fast Monday, June 14. BREAK INTO SUMMER! Wednesday, June 9, was the first full day that this lone loon chick spent on the waters of Kent Negative public opinion appeared to play a major role in the Monday, June 21 is Pond. Unfortunately, there will only be one chick on the pond this summer as the second egg did board’s decision to drop the proposed ordinance. officially the beginning not hatch. Seen nearly a week later, this chick has reportedly doubled in size! “If there’s a petition and 5% of the voters sign the petition, it of summer! Check out is mandated that it go to a vote, which I believe would happen, our Summer Guide and based on the public comment, my guess is that it would get for upcoming events, defeated,” Chair Richard Wilcox observed. attractions and tips for What’s in a name? How much is it worth? In response to complaints of unsafe target shooting on Terra get you out there lovin' School district outlines donation regulations Lane, the board united in January in a determination to adopt a life while the sun shines. By Curt Peterson firearm discharge ordinance, which, with exemptions for hunt- Section, inside Windsor Central Uni- The “first reading” was First and foremost, the gifts ing and other protected activities, would have imposed fines for fied Union School District approved unanimously by the must support "the District’s shooting in proximity to roads, trails, and homes. Draft legisla- board member and Policy Board at their June 7 Zoom mission relative to providing tion underwent legal review in February and a public hearing in Committee Chair Lou Piconi meeting. The second reading a great education to every stu- March, but research into similar ordinances in other Vermont (Woodstock) reviewed the will take place June 21 and an dent,” according to the Policy towns cast doubt on its enforceability. Living proposed naming policy adoption vote could follow. Introduction. After discussions with law enforcement, the board learned the district hopes to employ Six pages long and quite com- The board will use 11 that neither the state police nor the Rutland County Sheriff’s Of- ADE when raising funds for the prehensive, the policy details criteria to determine non- fice nor the Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department’s game wardens WHAT'S HAPPENING new $80 million middle/high the process by which the acceptability of a donation: for typically respond to violations of municipal gunfire ordinances. THIS WEEK? school complex as well as District can name, or rename, non-mission compatibility, Instead, the burden would fall on Mendon’s lone constable. Take a look. other projects and programs facilities, programs or events commercialization, interfer- In the spring, Selectman Larry Courcelle advocated for a Page 16 on the drawing boards. to honor donors. Naming > 7 Gunfire > 2 2 • LOCAL NEWS The Mountain Times • June 16-22, 2021 Rutland to finish sewage system upgrades by November By Brett Yates After significant delays and cost over- The wastewater digester also turned out to CSO reduction projects, the smallest of the described. “I’m not going to say shortcuts runs, the Rutland City Dept. of Public Works be in worse shape than the city had known. package’s four components. CSOs occur were made, but I think the design period (DPW) expects by November to see the sub- “Once they opened it up, we discovered when a city uses the same sewer for both was compressed, and maybe we didn’t get stantial completion of the wastewater system additional work that needed to be done,” stormwater and wastewater: during heavy as much review time to digest every step of overhaul authorized on Town Meeting Day Rotondo recounted. “There were sleeves, rainfall, outfalls release raw sewage directly the way.” in 2019, when voters passed a $7.4 million there were wall penetrations that, once they into urban waterways in order to relieve Until recently, in Vermont, state-admin- bond to fund a package of four sewerage removed the old pipes, they found that they pressure upon the wastewater treatment istered subsidies for municipal wastewater improvements. were deteriorated plant. The Ver- and drinking water projects arrived only At that time, DPW hoped that the first of to the degree that “I’ve never seen this many mont Agency of upon their completion. In 2020, however, these projects — a replacement of the East it made no sense Natural Resources the Vermont General Assembly changed Creek force main (declared an emergency to put in new seals problems on these types of has directed Rut- the rules, effectively giving cities and towns in 2018 following the discovery of a leak in and new pipes projects,” Rotondo revealed. land City to come permission to make use of these subsidies the existing 1972 ductile iron pipe) — would without changing up with a “long- during construction. conclude by the fall of 2019. Contractors those out.” term control plan” This revision, it seems, will help Rutland would then handle the next three — a reha- The new force main “encountered the for such events, and the expected construc- City pay for its sewerage overhaul’s unex- bilitation of the wastewater treatment facil- most adversity,” in the words of Paul Clif- tion near Meadow Street will remain on hold pected costs without at any point unlaw- ity’s digester and a pair of efforts to reduce ford, who chairs the Board of Aldermen’s until the city determines how the project fully exceeding the level of indebtedness combined sewer overflows (CSO) in the public works committee. The city’s consul- will fit into its broader state-mandated CSO authorized by the 2019 bond. On June 7, the Northwest Neighborhood and near Meadow tant recommended a “directional drilling” abatement program. Board of Aldermen voted to let DPW use Street – during the 2020 construction season. method that would have allowed the pipe’s In 2019, city officials estimated that the new financing method for a set of last- Trouble began, however, when a Rutland installation to take place underground, the four sewerage improvements would minute procurements (totaling $662,000) city resident filed a lawsuit to invalidate the without the surface-level disturbances together leave behind $4.8 million of mu- for the digester — heat exchangers, swivel results of the city’s 2019 election, which pre- caused by excavation.
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