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VOLUME 47, NUMBER 27 JULY 8, 2020 ONE DOLLAR Social distancing Reasons for not wearing masks vary by Meghan Wayland politics were relevant to the question asked, but her impulse to DERBY — Outside Walmart talk about how she casts her ballots Sunday, nurse Chelsea Bishop wasn’t uncommon. When asked rolled an empty shopping cart about mask wearing, people often across the parking lot. She hadn’t mentioned President Trump. worn a mask inside the store. For Ms. Bishop, not wearing a With many calling for Governor mask wasn’t a political statement, Scott to make wearing a face mask however. A nurse at North Country mandatory in Vermont, the Hospital, she’s required to wear a Chronicle randomly approached mask all day at work — three to people outside shopping centers to four days a week, 12 hours a day — ask why they choose to wear or not and it’s uncomfortable, she said. wear a mask in public. Few were She lifted a hand over her mouth in reluctant to talk. the shape of a cage, her fingernails “I’m not a Trump supporter,” gripping the skin. Ms. Bishop said leaning against the “The N95s dig into your face,” bed of her pickup. She added she said. quickly that she wasn’t sure if her (Continued on page twenty-seven.) Closed border hits campgrounds hard by Meghan Wayland was the following weekend, but beyond that, Mr. Fischer anticipated Doug Fischer has owned White stretches where weekend business is Caps Campground in Westmore slow at best and weekdays even since 2006, and he said this is his worse. worst year yet. Even as Vermonters He said he spent years forming vacation closer to home amid the a relationship with Canadian pandemic, campground owners say clientele and has been hit hardest Uncle Sam made an appearance in Newport for July Fourth, vertically social the stay-at-home mandate and distancing. Josephine and Phillip Dreher seemed to enjoy the dignitary’s by the border closing. presence. Uncle Sam is also known as Steve Myott of Westfield. For more stories closing the Canadian border have According to tourism figures on and photos about how folks spent Independence Day this unusual year, please see hit the industry hard. the Canadian government’s website, pages eighteen and thirty-six. Photo by Paul Dreher “Hard to have a record season in 2017 Canadian travelers spent when you lose the first six weeks of $122-million in the state. In 2014, business,” Mr. Fischer said in a data shows Vermont ranked among phone interview Sunday. the top 15 states most visited by July Fourth weekend was (Continued on page twenty-four.) Craftsbury Academy booked solid at White Caps. So, too, disputes $140,000 electric bill Governor extends by Emmett Avery mistake Hardwick Electric made. Back in the fall of 2010, around emergency order CRAFTSBURY — The the time of significant energy by Joseph Gresser will continue, at whatever Hardwick Electric Department efficiency renovations at the frequency, for some time to come. (HED) is trying to recover academy, HED installed a faulty If the frequency of press On Tuesday the Governor said he approximately $140,000 it says electric meter. For that, the briefings by Governor Phil Scott and will extend his emergency order, Craftsbury Academy owes for academy board blames HED, while members of his administration are which was set to expire on July 15, electricity over the past decade or HED General Manager Mike any guide, Vermont may be one- for at least another 30 days. so. But the academy’s board says Sullivan said there were two third of the way through the COVID State regulations currently the charge is unfair, and the school components improperly installed in pandemic. At any rate, the Governor allow most businesses and other district should not have to pay for a the meter, one by HED and one by a has reduced the number of weekly public places to be open at 50 contractor the academy hired. briefings from three to two. percent of capacity. In order to The improperly functioning Governor Scott also changed continue to manage the reopening of meter ran until HED discovered the schedule so the press conferences the state and control visitation from issue in the spring of 2019. The are on Tuesdays and Fridays at 11 other parts of the country, an utility said that, upon investigation, a.m. rather than Mondays, emergency declaration must be in (Continued on page twenty-six.) Wednesdays, and Fridays. place. It appears likely the briefings (Continued on page thirty.) Page Two the Chronicle, July 8, 2020 the Chronicle Economic recovery grants available INDEX by Joseph Gresser The maximum amount a business can get is $50,000. Crossword Puzzle...... 9 Despite his expressed disappointment in the Lawmakers appropriated $25-million to help Kids’ Corner...... 9 amount of money the Legislature allocated to dairy producers and processors as well as another helping businesses recover from recent shutdowns, $5-million to non-dairy farmers. In addition, Kingdom Calendar ...... 32-33 Governor Phil Scott signed the bill it sent him into $500,000 of the CARES Act money has been Letters to the Editor ...... 4-7 law. By Monday morning the Agency of Commerce dedicated to assist the state’s agricultural fairs, and Community Development had information and along with $2-million for Vermont’s agricultural Obituaries ...... 31 application forms up on its website — organizations. Sudoku Puzzle ...... 6 accd.vermont.gov/covid-19/economic-recovery- Anyone looking for information on how to grants. apply should check with the Agency of Advertising Sections Money for the grants comes from the CARES Agriculture, Food, and Markets — Auctions & Real Estate...... 26-27 Act passed by Congress soon after the extent of agriculture.vermont.gov/vermont-covid- the COVID-19 pandemic became clear. Among its agriculture-assistance-program. Auto ...... 23-25 provisions was one sending money to states to Forestry businesses, those engaged in Building Trades...... 28-29 deal with the effects of the illness on their managing, harvesting, trucking, processing, economic lives. Vermont received $1.25-billion. manufacturing, crafting, or distributing forest or Classified Ads ...... 34-35 The grants are divided up by category of wood products from Vermont forests, can apply Hair...... 17 business, but to be eligible for any of them one for some of the $5-million set aside for them in must be located or have its main place of business the Forest Economy Stabilization Program. Jobs ...... 20-21 in Vermont. An eligible enterprise has to have at It is administered by the Department of Landscape & Garden ...... 13 least one non-owner employee unless it is a Forests, Parks, and Recreation, which has woman or minority-owner business. information about the program posted at Pets...... 16 To qualify for a grant, a business must have fpr.vermont.gov/FESGrantProgram. Restaurants & Entertainment...... 32-33 been open and active before February 15, 2020. Healthcare providers can apply through the It must be open for business when it files a grant Agency of Human Services for money from the application, although a business that closed due $275-million Health Care Provider Stabilization 5025 U.S. Route 5 to COVID-19 restrictions can say it plans to Grant Program. Newport, VT 05855 reopen when those are lifted. Among those entitled to apply for money from An eligible business can’t have more than that fund are hospitals, private medical practices, $20-million in revenue or be a subsidiary of a dentists, health centers, laboratory and imaging company that does make that much. centers, mental health providers, substance abuse www.AllAboutHomeVT.com In order to be eligible for a grant, a business disorder treatment providers, emergency medical has to show it had a 50 percent or larger drop in service and ambulance providers, physical total revenue in any one-month period between 65 School Street, Newport, Vermont 05855 therapists, podiatrists, optometrists, March 1 and August 31 of this year when chiropractors, and other healthcare providers OPEN FOR FALL ENROLLMENT compared with the same month last year. licensed by the Board of Medical Practice or the UnitedCall and discussChristian your child’s Academy future with an Educational Success Consultation. 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Barton Select Board Board will now meet Thursday morning by Joseph Gresser to grant a waiver to one organization and deny it Mr. Mitchell-Eby said the phones weren’t to all others. If the Town Meeting Warning is answered at the village office, and no one put a BARTON — The Barton Select Board met open to requests from all without requiring message explaining the situation on the village’s Tuesday and changed the days of their meetings evidence of some support from citizens of Barton, answering machine. from the first and third Tuesday of each month to the town could be besieged by nonprofits that As a result, he said, callers bombarded Town the first and third Thursday. The time for have previously not asked for money from Barton. Clerk Kristin Atwood and select board members meetings remains at 9 a.m. Were there a policy in place exempting groups with pleas for an explanation. The select board received requests from that have been on the Warning annually for a Ms. Atwood put a message explaining the Orleans County Citizen Advocacy and Orleans- number of years, it would be easier to handle the situation on the town’s website, but Mr. Mitchell- Essex Visiting Nurse Association and Hospice request, Mr. Zenonos said. Eby said many Barton Village residents are older asking to have petition requirements waived this The board decided to put the question to the and need to speak with a human being to allay year. All organizations wanting an article side for the time being. their concerns. appropriating money to them on the Town Appointed town officers, unless state law says The town clerk was out of the office and the Meeting Warning must currently submit a otherwise, will now have their terms begin and board’s request to have an advertisement placed petition signed by 5 percent of the town’s voters. end in March. In proposing the change, Mr. soliciting applicants for the position of zoning Both organizations said they have concerns Mitchell-Eby said that, under the current system, administrator got lost in the shuffle, Mr. Mitchell- about seeking signatures during the COVID which has terms ending at random times of the Eby said. pandemic. year, it can get hard to keep track of when terms An advertisement will be placed this week, Board Chair Ken Mitchell-Eby said he thinks end. and candidates for the job will have until July 21 it is too early to consider the request. The board discussed the July 2 water shut-off to apply. Board member Lenny Zenonos disagreed. in Barton Village. Mr. Mitchell-Eby said the In other business the board appointed Mr. Getting names to support a article on the cause was a break in a main. Repairing the Zenonos to serve as its representative to the warning takes time he said. problem, he said, took a full day. town’s loan oversight committee. The committee Nevertheless, Mr. Zenonos said he could not Mr. Zenonos said the village crew did a fine has traditionally had a member from the select support the request, even though he is job fixing the damage. board. It was created to keep an eye on a appreciative of the work done by both The two members said their concern was lack revolving loan fund established with money from organizations. of communication about the nature of the problem a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural The problem, he said, is that it is impossible on the part of the village. Development grant.

Newport City Council Fuel prices are down by Joseph Gresser she said. Propane, priced at $1.35 a gallon costs As is customary in such matters, the official 9 cents less than last year. was not named. NEWPORT — Monday saw a lovely early The council was not shy to jump on a deal and The council muted the outside world and summer evening. With all members of the city agreed to buy oil for $45,052 and propane for went into private conference while members of council participating in their meeting from the $23,625. the public were treated to repetitive hold music. comfort of their own home, there was every Mayor Paul Monette said the city bought After about 45 minutes the council returned reason to think it would be brief. more this year than last, but saved around to public session, and Mr. Monette announced And so it was at the start. Council members $10,000 by his calculations. there would be no action taken. quickly agreed to allow the Veterans of Foreign The only new business consisted of Mayor Before adjourning, the mayor said he is Wars (VFW) Auxiliary to hold a coin drop on July Monette offering his commendations to the uncertain whether the next meeting, scheduled 25 despite the Newport Fire Department’s fund- Department of Recreation and Parks for the for July 20, will be held remotely or in public. raiser on July 11, only two weeks earlier. Independence Day fireworks. His decision will depend on whether Governor Ordinarily, Newport schedules only one coin Ms. Dolgin said the fire and police Phil Scott renews the current state of emergency drop a month, but as council member Melissa departments ought to be recognized for their work on July 15. Pettersson pointed out, COVID-19 restrictions as well. If he does, Mr. Monette said, meetings will earlier in the year kept the auxiliary away from Mr. Monette said he received a message from continue to be held online. the streets on their original date in June. a tourist who praised the city’s floral plantings If not, council meetings will take place in the The council then turned its attention to and compared Newport to cities in Europe. city gymnasium with chairs placed six feet apart. winter and the certainty that Newport’s trucks Just as it appeared the council would wrap All those who attend will have to sign a log and and furnaces will need fuel. things up on a note of civic pride, Mr. Monette give their phone number for the use of contact City Manager Laura Dolgin advised the said there needed to be a motion for an executive tracers in case someone comes down with COVID. council to accept the pre-buy offer from Fred’s session to discuss the appointment or evaluation To avoid that possibility, the mayor said, Energy. The price for oil, at $1.69 a gallon, is 93 of a public official. This was the second everyone will have their temperature taken as cents cheaper than what the city paid last year, consecutive meeting with such a session. they enter the building.

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Page Four the Chronicle, July 8, 2020 the Chronicle Editorial OFFICE will now be open to the ATV riders: Don’t blow it public on TUESDAYS ONLY. This is a message to ATV riders: Be on your group of folks out for an afternoon ride, and with PLEASE WEAR MASKS. best behavior. access to town centers, have the potential to buy More and more towns are cautiously opening gas, stop at a store, and go to a restaurant as part The office is usually staffed up roads to ATVs despite substantial skepticism, of the outing. Judging from a look at the parking for phone calls, but voicemail can even vocal opposition. This is the year when lot at Cajun’s snack bar in Lowell, or even Nick’s be left if there is no answer. riders can either demonstrate responsible use — Snack Shack in Barton, ATV riders are playing Email correspondence still works best. or plain blow it. their part in boosting business. They were also There’s no question the activity has grown highly visible on Main Street in Newport during a To reach the editor, email: immensely in popularity in recent years and that couple of recent weekend visits there. [email protected] it has economic benefits. As snowy winters have Northern New Hampshire has seen a To contact the advertising dept., email: [email protected] become less reliable, it appears that more and significant economic benefit from accommodating To contact the subscription dept., email: more people have shifted from snow machines to ATV riders, and Vermont could, too. [email protected] ATVs — these days more accurately described as But ATVs are different from snow machines. side-by-sides — and a more predictable season. For one thing, they’re operating in summer when Anything else can be put in the Over the years, we’ve written many stories people have their windows open. For another, drop box or mailed to us at: about snowmobiling and its effects on the they’re on the roads, not on a VAST trail in the economy, often dismal ones when the winter fields or woods. And there are a lot of them. P.O. Box 660 traffic started to decline due to lack of snow. We’re beginning to hear complaints, both Barton, VT 05822 Restaurants and bars struggled, even folded. anecdotally and through the paper, where we’ve Out-of-state snowmobilers who came to Vermont not heard them before. Most riders are Thank you for your understanding as we for its snow showed up less often, hurting lodging respectful, even sedate. ATVs are not what they continue to provide the local news. establishments. once were — small machines straddled by young ATVs are the new snowmobile economy. A folk, or farmers and sugarmakers looking to get around their land. They’re more likely to be open air four-seaters with children and grandchildren Chronicle An invitation to tell end-of on board putting slowly by. But as roads open up, there appears to be an office hours life stories increase in hotshots and inconsiderate behavior. We are open for business: On rare but memorable occasions the A couple of weeks ago, we saw several ATVs Chronicle has published interviews with local navigate Main Street in Newport, keeping the Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. people who were facing their own imminent speed limit and making not much more noise Wednesday, closed. death. For the subjects, these pieces provided an than a car. But an hour later, we saw a couple of Thursday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. opportunity to summarize and reflect on a long young fellows revving it up and cutting into and interesting life. For the readers, they may traffic across from Gardner Park. Come by our office located on Water Street in have served as a reminder of what the community Glover Select Board member Jack Sumberg Barton or phone us at (802) 525-3531. was losing. recently said at a board meeting that he’s We are thinking of expanding this sort of received his first serious complaint about ATVs in feature, if we can find any willing subjects. his eight years on the board. And even the more Anyone who would like to be part of this forgiving are getting irritated by noise and speed the Chronicle experiment, or knows someone who might, should in several towns. © copyright, 2020 let us know. For your own sake, for the sake of a Vo lume 47, Number 27 July 8, 2020 Some ground rules: These will be newspaper floundering economy, and for the sake of your articles rather than obituaries, and are not neighbors, be considerate. Monitor your fellow Published weekly, except for first week in January, subject to review or editing by their subjects. The riders’ behavior, speak to them if they’re out of by the Chronicle, Inc. Chronicle will publish them immediately, or after line. Don’t mess this up. — T.S. the Chronicle (014-590) the subject’s death. That choice is entirely up to Publishing office: 133 Water Street you. — C.B. Barton, VT 05822

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To the editor, It was disturbing to read the article published in the Chronicle June 24 — Vandalism in Craftsbury; Albany family feels threatened, by Megan Wayland. More disturbing was reading her article published July1 — Albany family says ropes were boat ropes, no threat. Megan needs to verify a story before including information in her articles. Knowing the Vermont State Police was conducting an investigation that was not complete, and not being able to contact all involved in the situation herself she should never have written that part of her article until she knew the whole story. Excellent investigative reporting will sell your newspaper, sensationalizing a story without all the facts will not. One should never have to read two articles, a week apart to get the whole story. Dennis Liddy Churchton, Maryland Eden Mills

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To the editor: caused nine providers to make the tough 2021 to hire additional personnel. Once an all- Emergency Medical Services, or EMS, is a choice to take temporary leave as they’re at risk volunteer organization, Hardwick Rescue has young branch of healthcare. Our “modern or care for someone at risk. Our intake of hired two full-time providers for coverage as system” consisting of trained providers community members we can train right now is many volunteers have commitments that prevent developed heavily in the 1970s. The original limited due to a lack of initial EMS certification them from leaving work during the day. The purpose of EMS was to provide immediate care at classes. challenge is we must compete with other agencies the scene of motor vehicle collisions to improve When the COVID-19 pandemic began, that are hiring from the same small pool of the overall mortality of trauma patients. Vermont EMS suspended a rule that required two candidates. In 2020, our agencies still serve this function. licensed providers on We have received several donations Now, we lift people from the ground. We do social each ambulance, allowing us to run crews with of supplies. Our greatest needs right now are work. We manage medical complaints from heart one EMT and one CPR-trained driver. It became disinfecting wipes, protective gowns, and attacks to more ambiguous complaints of pain evident this model limits our ability to serve respirators. and weakness. We screen for COVID-19 and our rural communities and we are trying to We need our patients and their families to thoroughly decontaminate our ambulances after resume our pre-pandemic crews with a minimum wear masks when we respond to a call. Your every call. Our protocols change, with the latest of two providers and ideally a driver. habits of wearing a mask and social distancing in round rolling out for us to learn this summer. We To accomplish this, we must fill several public are also important to keep COVID-19 in all must maintain our professional certifications vacancies and we are thinking creatively to meet check. The safer we can keep our communities, with additional training hours. the short-term need. the sooner our EMS providers on leave can return The call volume at Hardwick Rescue has The Hardwick Rescue Squad wants to help. increased over the years. Seven years ago, to serve its eight communities for years to Be well and consider doing anything you can we attended about 400 calls annually. In 2020, come. We ask for you to consider the following to to help ensure an ambulance will be there for our count will near 700. In the last two years, we help us: your emergency. have seen a 20 percent increase in calls. Reach out if you’re interested in volunteering. Tyler Molleur I drive 120 miles round-trip twice a month so We train people to drive the ambulance. If you Executive board member/training officer I can take calls in Hardwick. Eighty percent of are interested in providing patient care, we can Hardwick Rescue Squad Vermont EMS agencies report recruitment and refer you to the next available EMT class. Milton retention issues. The current pandemic has We will ask voters to approve funds in

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To the editor, call us racists, and we will take care of it from It started off as such a small ask. At the city there.” council meeting where meetings are set for the It is fascinating that raising an issue is year, we, citizens of Newport, asked for the city considered to be attacking the city, and that it is not to schedule a meeting on Martin Luther King “none of their affairs,” and ending the quote with Jr. Day. Out of respect for the day. It was “we will take it from there” is considered an refused. And it was made clear at that meeting appropriate communication style. The article that not only did the council always meet on that generated several responses, none of which day but that city employees did not observe it as apparently count, as the some of writers do not a city holiday. live in the city. They pointed out the impact the We were shocked. A holiday elsewhere for city stance could have on tourism, an industry we more than a quarter of a century, a holiday depend on up here. The city manager’s op ed recognizing an important black leader who was followed in the NDE where, those of us who have murdered in our lifetime. The state of Vermont the audacity to question, were again taken to observes the holiday, schools observe it, banks task. and the post office to name just a few. At the city As a taxpaying resident of this city, I believe I council meeting on January 20, the issue was not only have the right to question, I also have raised again, loudly and clearly by Anne the responsibility to do so when an issue is one of Chiarello. She was supported in this by others importance. Since the first ask in January the including one city council member. Other council issue of racial and environmental injustice has members were unsupportive for a variety of exploded in this country. Newport had a reasons, although none of them had worked that successful and peaceful Black Lives Matter march day, their day jobs were closed — in observance of organized by a high school student, well attended the holiday! See the following link for further and supported by many, including the city information including a video recording of that manager, the police and one city council member. All horizontal rows of nine, all vertical specific meeting. It is particularly worth noting The issue is not going away, it is escalating and that several people, including the mayor, felt that the events that precipitated it are continuing. A columns of nine, and all the heavily the discrimination experienced by French recent email from the mayor to a NEK resident outlined boxes of nine squares must speakers was the same as the racial (who had asked the city to consider the contain all the numbers from one to nine. discrimination experienced by others. importance and appearance of recognizing MLK https://vtdigger.org/2020/01/23/debate-over- Day) states “I also will not cave in to the Solution, tips and computer program at recognizing-mlk-jr-day-incites-tempers-at- demands of people outside of Newport City who www.sudoku.com newport-meeting/amp/ do not live or pay taxes here. I have had zero https://youtu.be/8lB9lQ1OoWc calls and or emails from Newport City residents The answer is on page twenty-three. Fast forward to the meeting on June 15 when regarding the matter” makes it pretty clear that the new union contract was to be ratified, the input is not valued from anyone, as we who live event we had been told at the previous meeting here are told we have no right to comment, and events. (See the shelved reports online or in the was the time for change. A question was raised those who don’t live here, but do visit, are Municipal Building.) There is no way to organize in the comments part section (the only place dismissed out of hand. It is a challenge to figure a large event in the city without being papered to citizens are allowed to comment or ask questions out the right form of input or commentary. death and charged a large fee. Or appearing unless there is a motion on the floor. The mayor There are several issues here: before the council and begging for fee exemption. is not required to answer and comments/issues 1. What does observance of a holiday mean Even if this was appropriate a federal and state frequently get no response) about the issue of and to whom? Should any state/federal holiday holiday should receive appropriate recognition at MLK Day. We were informed that the contract come with rules about how it can, can’t or should a city level, too. could not be discussed. After the executive be recognized? Who makes those rules? It is 2. MLK Day. Apparently, despite the state’s session, and during the appropriate time prior to certainly true that many holidays have changed position, and the push nationally to recognize the vote, the question was asked again. We were their original meaning and are now considered Juneteenth also as a holiday, Newport City has informed that the content of the contract was not days where families come together and celebrate. not considered this holiday or partial day of for discussion but the issue of MLK day was not How is that not a good thing? Some days have service to be important. It is challenging to have part of this contract. The vote then took place. been combined, e.g. both Presidents days. Does to provide service without it being a day off from As this meeting took place virtually, there were that indicate a lack of respect? regular employment. State and federal leaders few attendees and sound quality was poor. We Consider the mayor’s email again: “Most obviously saw that, just as they recognized the were told the discussion was over. people receive Memorial Day and Veterans Day importance of a day honoring those who fought This meeting was reported in the Chronicle off but do not attend the ceremonies honoring the against atrocities and worked for equity and and Newport Daily Express. A particular quote in brave men and women who served our nation so inclusion. More than that, Martin Luther King the Newport Daily from the city manager is worth we can enjoy our freedom. I have noticed over the Jr.was the first modern private citizen to be noting. “When asked by the Newport Daily past decade less and less people are attending honored with a federal holiday. And the first, Express to comment, she said: “Why the public those ceremonies each year. The members of the and only, minority. While Newport would like to thinks it can attack the city in this way is new to public are free to organize events without the city discuss only the “service” part of the day it should me. It’s none of their affairs. If they’re trying to being involved.” be noted that the federal legislation has never lay claim that we are racists because we don’t “Ceremonies” and “parades” are challenging suggested that this be more than part of the day. celebrate Martin Luther King Day, then simply in Newport. Actively discouraged despite every Nowhere was it suggested that hardworking high-priced consultant that we have had over the people, working towards equality (the original last ten years emphasizing the importance of intent of the day) should work more on the day! (For Newport’s opinion on how to “celebrate” this Northeast TV day please listen to the recording of the city and Music council meeting from January 20. A day that was intended to promote equal rights for all Americans should be able to do that (Continued on page seven.)

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(Continued from page six.) for us. No surprise, we do not “volunteer.” When who question as “negative.” It lauds the city for without those celebrating it being judged and significant changes are proposed to communities, coming back to life after the EB-5 debacle without denigrated. input is dismissed, ignored and clearly recognizing that the same “negative” people asked 3. Citizen participation. For this to occur unwelcomed. We are expected to obey. Attempts a lot of appropriate questions during that process, citizens have to be valued for more than their to discuss and suggest changes are called “fear and were shot down verbally, very loudly and financial contribution to the city’s bottom line. and spite” rather than constructive attempts for publicly. Those who questioned were correct. And we do not seem to be. We are actively win/win solutions where neighborhoods get the Questions are not the problem! prevented from speaking at meetings, or asking same consideration as those wanting the changes. We, who live, work and play here, want the questions. A recent city summit asked for The annual City Report (see link voices of all our communities to be heard and questions before we had the agenda. Not https://drive.google.com/file/d/1k_1KsVPpKCPjaA recognized for their value and contributions. surprisingly, they got very few. We are asked to QKmQAWz9cZKquPQx7t/view p. 6-11 which is Pam Ladds join committees that are formed without our read by citizens, and those considering moving to Newport input as to relevance, to follow paths mapped out the area) in the mayor’s report dismisses those

OCSU’s equity statement is a “spectacular failure”

To the editor, directly related to race and equity. Not only was throughout the Northeast Kingdom. Disparities Have you had the opportunity to read the I named in their courageous letter, but they are that we’ve seen get worse and more polarizing the Orleans Central Supervisory Union’s (OCSU) asking me for a more specific accounting of their, last three years have become more glaring in the statement on equity? It was written by “the our efforts, w hich I couldn’t provide. That past four months and could be downright Leadership Team” last month, I believe as an saddened me. In addition to all the world’s cataclysmic four months from now. attempt to express the supervisory union’s turmoil, the place and community where I’ve tried Schools, municipalities, any organizations support for the Black Lives Matter movement and to make the most positive impact on race receiving, allocating, or spending taxpayer money the social activism that has been, is still, and will relations doesn’t even get it, or maybe they do? I owes its constituents more of a strategy for continue to occur. mean if NASCAR can say, “Black Lives successfully maneuvering through these It was a spectacular failure, and I’m not the Matter”...why can’t OCSU? tumultuous times in which we’re living. Between only one who thinks so. The fact is that several Have I not shared enough of the litany of COVID-19, the economic, and social unrest, we community members brought it to my attention, incidents of explicit and implicit bias and racism are fighting pandemics on three fronts, any one of asking for my feedback, but only after they had my daughter and I have endured since we moved which could decimate our small rural written a letter of their own to the supervisory to Orleans County? I lived in Chittenden County communities if left unchecked. union demanding further clarification and a more for 20 years before moving to Orleans County but Lastly, I would ask you to publish OCSU’s detailed plan of action. have suffered more overt acts in the last eight public statement on equity and the letter the Why me? Well, not only am I a black man, years than my entire time in Chittenden County, parents wrote in response so that we can broaden but I am also an eight-year resident of Barton, reminiscent of my time growing up in the state of this discussion, as we are all anxiously awaiting a whose biracial daughter graduated from Barton Georgia. I’ve seen it on display in all aspects of response from the supervisory union on July 20. Academy and Graded School. Then Lake Region the community, and these aren’t just my Cordially, Union High School and will be a senior at experiences. Students, parents, and other Roderick J. Owens Harvard this fall. I also “theoretically” work for community members have brought real issues Orleans County Coalition for Creating Equity the supervisory union, and have more accurately and concerns to me, revealing systemic and Barton been working for the supervisory union on issues systematic racial and socioeconomic inequities

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65th Wedding Anniversary Card Shower Runaway tortoise didn’t get far for Clair & Charlotte Dane by Meghan Wayland janitor at her son’s school also had a tortoise who had eaten mostly corporate tortoise food (not July 9th EAST ALBANY — Shelly the pet tortoise grass), and the result was that the tortoise had a Mail cards to: went missing Friday. He busted out of the large, very “misshapen, uneven” shell, Ms. Beshar said. grassy pen where he sleeps and grazes alongside Shelly, having eaten grass most of his life, was a 1224 Sunset Drive a flock of dusty chickens. After an urgent Front looker. By comparing the two tortoises, it was West Charleston, VT 05872 Porch Forum post, a small wealth of Facebook easy for students to see the effects good nutrition shares, and handful of emails from concerned can have on the body. neighbors, Shelly was found to have traveled “It helped it sink in for them,” Ms. Beshar said. downhill, through a neat veggie plot and past the Once sulcatas reach dinner-plate size, they sheep paddock, to land near a greenhouse on the have no natural predators, Ms. Beshar said. So other side of the farm. when Shelly escaped Friday, she wasn’t so CARD SHOWER The search for him wasn’t exactly a high- worried he’d be eaten. It would be hard to flip speed chase. He disappeared, then sort of just him over, for one thing. And his entire body is 101st Birthday reappeared in a different spot. either covered by his shell or in an armor of thick July 8, 2020 “I guess the grass is always greener,” spines that look like overgrown toenails. adoptive owner Susan Beshar said Monday. There was some concern Shelly would misstep Please send cards to: A rescue, Shelly is a sulcata tortoise (also and fall into a body of water, where he’d likely known as an African spurred tortoise) who was Bernard Matthews drown. likely hatched in the United States, sold at a pet “He’s not a turtle, he’s a tortoise,” Ms. Beshar 45 Water Street store, then given up when his urban family in said. He’s not a swimmer. He gets soaked in Orleans, VT 05860 Queens, New York, moved from a house with a water from time to time to rehydrate his tough yard to an apartment. Ms. Beshar adopted Shelly skin and to keep the mites off him. about ten years ago, “when he was the size of a The biggest concern, however, was that Shelly dinner plate,” she said. — if not found for months — would freeze to At 20 years old, more or less, he’s still a death. A cold blooded animal, Shelly’s body THANK YOU! relative baby in tortoise years. Sulcatas are temperature is regulated by the outside known to live between 100 to 180 years. He’ll environment. Although he’s hardened off some outlive Ms. Beshar, so she put him in her will. If due to having been raised in New England, she dies before her 14-year-old son Anthony can Saharan tortoises typically can’t survive a We would like to thank all our family and take care of Shelly, the tortoise will go to the temperature drop below 70 degrees Fahrenheit. friends for all the beautiful cards and gifts Bronx Zoo in New York City, close to where Ms. Shelly can hang with temps above 52 degrees, but and well wishes. Beshar grew up. any colder and his blood would become too thick To our children: The number of sulcata tortoises in the wild is Curt and Jackie, Amy and Robert; to move through his veins and he’d die. grandchildren: decreasing due to the pet trade, habitat loss, and To adjust his temperature, Shelly used to Angel and Justin, Olivia, and Caleb; poaching for use of their shells and body parts. open the glass doors that lead to Ms. Beshar’s and great‐grandchildren Dylan and Ethan. The species is considered vulnerable, which former kitchen where he’d lay on the cool tile in Thanks for theWith delicious heartfelt cookout love, and gifts, means that it may become endangered in the the summer. She said he’s smart. The glass door Anthonyand loving and Diane words. Lewis near future. itself was one of two in a series of five identical You all made our 50th anniversary so Native to the southern edge of the Saharan looking panels of glass, but Shelly never mistook special, something we will always treasure. desert, sulcatas are the third largest species of an immobile window for a door — he knew which tortoise in the world. They can grow to weigh 70 panels he could push open to get where he to 100 pounds by eating a natural diet of 95 wanted to go. percent grass. Due to recent curiosity about Shelly brought on Happy Birthday “He grazes like a cow would,” Ms. Beshar said. by social media posts and the like, his owner is to the following people! Because of his healthy diet, Shelly is — as the considering incorporating him into the farm stand Front Porch Forum post detailing his escape she plans to open in the next week or so. The farm JULY: described — the “size of a turkey platter” and in stand will be called AJ’s Happy Chick Farm Stand model shape. after her late husband and childhood best friend, He’s so good looking for a tortoise that, back AJ, and their son Anthony. The roadside stand will in New York, Ms. Beshar used Shelly to teach the offer “a little bit of everything,” Ms. Beshar said: importance of nutrition to school kids. The veggies, canned goods, artwork, specialty maple Sean McCarthy, York, PA, July 7 products, and now maybe a place where Shelly can Jodi Morley, Orleans, July 8 perch for the day and get petted by the locals. Shelly isn’t the only rescue at Ms. Beshar’s Beccy Hardy, Derby, July 8 farm. She has a reputation for rehabilitating Carmen Brault Menard, St. Johnsbury, neglected and injured animals. She was only in July 10 Vermont for a few weeks before she got her first Carolyn Hardy, Derby, July 11 call to rescue Happy, a retired dairy cow, from Marjorie Judd, July 12 slaughter. 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She’s been steadily building her farm to provide her son and boyfriend’s son a better future. “I want them to be able to survive anything global warming has to throw at them and their kids, and their kids’ kids,” she said. In her few short years farming at the end of Sinon Road, she’s managed her unofficial animal sanctuary, amassed a flock of sheep and three huge Maremma sheepdogs, planted several gardens, built new paddocks, planted 140 blueberries and 18 apple trees, and whipped the 100-some-year-old buildings back in shape. Ms. Beshar said she’s likely to rescue another sulcata male when she gets the chance — maybe one set loose in Arizona or California, as often happens when pet owners get in over their heads, Shelly with adoptive owner Susan Beshar. Photo by Meghan Wayland die, or their living situations change, she said. She said she’s not going to buy one, but Shelly — use a friend. of local fans at the farm stand, or try to run like all tortoises — is a social creature and could For now, he’ll have to settle for the company away, again.

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See solution on page 33. SeeSee solution solution in on Section page 36.B. Page Ten the Chronicle, July 8, 2020 Holcombe discusses COVID, education, healthcare by Joseph Gresser The COVID pandemic exposed Vermont’s weaknesses, she said. BARTON — Former Secretary The broadband system proved of Education and current candidate incapable of handling telemedicine for the Democratic gubernatorial and online education. Even in nomination Rebecca Holcombe communities that are said to have dropped by the Chronicle’s office Internet service, Ms. Holcombe said, Friday to discuss her hopes for the speeds are not high enough to future as well as decisions she made conduct business. in her previous job. “We just have to understand In the course of a conversation that broadband is the electricity of that lasted close to an hour and a the twenty-first century and we just half, Ms. Holcombe defended her need to figure out how to get it handling of Act 46, the school done,” she said. district merger law, and criticized COVID also exposed Governor Phil Scott’s approach to shortcomings in the state’s education funding. healthcare system, she said.

“The first time I talked to someone who said they were spending $900 a month on their premiums and had a $7,000 deductible, I thought that is someone who doesn’t have health care because they literally can’t afford to go to the Democratic gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Holcombe. Photo by Joseph Gresser doctor.” the desires of their communities’ “We did not expect mergers in voters. the first year,” she said. “In fact, we “Act 46 was never going to solve deliberately tried to make very tight She outlined the main themes of “The first time I talked to everyone’s problems,” she said. “It gates, because we at the agency had her campaign, but shied away from someone who said they were actually says that right up front in no staff to support it. And we had what is likely to be the thorny issue spending $900 a month on their the bill. At its best, it was a menu of never done this before. So we hoped of making cuts to a state budget premiums and had a $7,000 options, that people who were in real we would have a year to figure out currently predicted to be close to a deductible, I thought that is trouble — and we have school how to support school districts that half billion dollars out of balance. someone who doesn’t have health districts that were in real trouble and chose to merge. To our surprise 11 Ms. Holcombe said Governor care because they literally can’t looking at losing their community supervisory unions merged in the Scott made the right call in afford to go to the doctor,” Ms. schools — for some of them, this was first year. It was like getting run declaring a state of emergency in Holcombe said. an opportunity to make changes that over by a truck.” mid-March. She said Governor Scott has will protect our schools and make Ms. Holcombe said she thinks “That particular weekend was shown little interest in reforming them more resilient in the long run. the experience of the first year important because it’s when schools the system. And in some places, it’s done that. taught the agency lessons it could were coming back from spring break “We need a governor who’s There are school districts that have apply to make the second group of from all over the country and people willing to work on healthcare been very successful.” mergers go more smoothly. were coming back from colleges out reform. He hasn’t mentioned it for About 65 percent of the votes She said Governor Scott tried in of state,” she said. ten years,” Ms. Holcombe said. cast around the state favored the first two years of his Although some worried She was asked about her own mergers, Ms. Holcombe said. Administration to undo local school Governor Scott acted too soon, Ms. part in the implementation of Act “You had very strong votes budgets after communities had Holcombe said he was correct and 46, the law that pushed school against merging up here because approved them. deserves credit for his decision. districts to consolidate regardless of this particular community did not “He ended up using one-time feel Act 46 is the right solution, and money and mandated reserves to it was never going to be the right buy down tax rates on budgets that solution in some communities,” she voters had already voted on, in ways said. that created a huge hole in the fund The big surprise at the Agency that we all knew who would have to of Education was that some repaid the next year,” Ms. Holcombe communities wanted to merge in the said. first year of Act 46, Ms. Holcombe “That created a spike in tax said. rates the second year, which was (Continued on page eleven.)

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The state’s like a big pinball on its investment. college system ….” cuts, again, in the budget,” she said. machine, because the needs of She noted Governor Scott’s Ms. Holcombe said she has not “One of the things that we did is different communities are so willingness to borrow money to looked carefully at the proposal to work with school districts and said, different.” support the state education fund, change Northern Vermont here’s what’s coming, here are some Nevertheless when looking at but pointed to other aspects of the University from a liberal arts school ways to handle it. The second year, places like central Orleans County state’s education system where to a work college and was reluctant they voted on their budgets again, where a merger was mandated by changes can be made. to say much about it. and school districts did a really good the state even though voters twice “Anyone who says they were “We need to be asking across job of being extremely strategic and overwhelming rejected the idea, Ms. surprised by Jeff Spaulding’s memo every sect or, is there a way to put actually made a lot of savings.” Holcombe said, “I got uncomfortable. is disingenuous, because this has these dollars together so that Governor Scott said the boards Because I think it’s problematic. been in the conversation for at least instead of just competing for scarce did not do enough and Public trust is important.” six years,” she said, referring to the resources, we’re actually getting Representative Adam Greshin, an Ms. Holcombe had to be asked Vermont State College System’s more value for the dollars?” she independent who sat on the three times what cuts she thought Chancellor’s memo saying Northern said. Education Committee said it was will have to be made in state Vermont University should be By splitting the cost of time for the state to take over again, spending given the projected closed. overhead, small rural schools can said Ms. Holcombe. shortfall in revenue due to the “The southern tier of the state cut the cost of running a childcare After the Governor twice said pandemic’s effects on Vermont’s already lost three colleges. We program by as much as 30 percent, local votes don’t count, she said, economy. cannot afford to be a fragmented she said, leaving families with “Personally, I felt it was an She finally said, “I think system with complicated overhead money they can use for other needs. untenable position, I could feel that wherever we’re sending dollars out and a lot of sites, we need to look Ms. Holcombe also said Vermont everybody was anxious about their of state for services that we provide across the entire state college should work to improve its ability to last plan, their final plan, the trust in state, we should cut that off, system,” she said. “We can work create renewable energy and stop wasn’t there.” because we need to be investing together in ways that may shed sending $2-billion a year out of state Ms. Holcombe resigned as Vermont taxpayer dollars in some of our physical footprint, but for that purpose. secretary without a making public Vermont right now. maintain the people that make a “I think we’ve been relying on a statement in April 2018. She had “When I look at our economic college vibrant. Just in this area, lot of one size fits all policies and held the position since she was development strategy, we spent a lot you’ve got a CCV campus in St. that doesn’t always work,” she said. appointed by Governor Peter of money trying to retain large Johnsbury, you’ve got a campus in On August 11 Ms. Holcombe Shumlin four years earlier. corporations, including some with Lyndon. These are wonderful will face Lieutenant Governor David She said she still believes Act 46 $3-billion in revenue annually,” she facilities that we need to keep this Zuckerman, Bennington lawyer Pat served some areas well. continued. “Those are multi- footprint here. We also have state Winburn, and Ralph “Carcajou” “I have no doubt that it left nationals, their commitment to workforce development and adult Corbo in the Democratic Primary. r some communities better off,” Ms. Vermont is tenuous. And we are education programs trying to will be the party’s nominee to face Holcombe said. “I have no doubt not going to be able with a $5- provide some complementary the winner of the Republican there are some communities that million investment to hold on to the services, maybe there’s a way to Primary. are going to lose their schools $3-billion corporation that has a because they didn’t merge. I can heavy footprint somewhere else. think of one right now that saw a But if you take that money, it 50-cent tax increase in their budget makes a huge difference if you this year. If they’d been in a invest in the Vermont entrepreneur merger, it would not have who’s creating opportunity in happened.” Vermont, at a smaller scale and SUMMER CLEARANCE! In other areas, she said, “There growing the next level of viable were some that they were never businesses.” going to merge right out of the gate, Ms. Holcombe said it’s We need to make room in our warehouses! and that was obvious already. 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In Newport Republican candidates hold rally by Joseph Gresser run against U.S. Representative Peter Welch, as well as Russ Ingalls NEWPORT — The crowd that and Jonathan Morin, who are gathered on the Lake looking to replace Bobby Starr and Memphremagog boardwalk Friday John Rodgers in the Vermont afternoon wasn’t huge — it Senate. numbered about 35 people — but to The Lieutenant Governor’s office political candidates who have been is open because the incumbent, kept by the coronavirus from freely David Zuckerman, is competing for mingling with voters it seemed the Democratic nomination to run much bigger. against Governor Phil Scott in the “I’m saddened by that because I fall. really want to reach out and talk to people, but it’s not available to us Meg Hansen this year,” said Meg Hansen, who seeks the Republican nomination for Ms. Hansen was the first to Lieutenant Governor. address the gathering, and she was She is a first-time candidate, ready with a prepared address and the restrictions on public explaining the reason for her gatherings have made it difficult to candidacy. get attention, she said. She began by referring to recent Chet Greenwood, who heads the events around the country, saying, Orleans County Republican Party “All good and decent people reject Committee, organized the get- and condemn George Floyd’s together to introduce several horrifying murder.” candidates ahead of the August 11 Ms. Hansen went on criticize Primary Election. He said he was what she called “anti-police taking advantage of the relaxation sentiment and violence.” Meg Hansen. Photos by Joseph Gresser in state rules about public meetings. Data on police killings of Mr. Greenwood was careful to unarmed citizens published by the say his position requires him to Washington Post, she said, “does not clickbait spectacle sound bites, rage back,” Ms. Hansen said. “No one remain neutral in Primary elections, support the allegation that and outrage.” speaks for middle class families. No and he offered to put together American law enforcement is She denounced efforts to remove one speaks for American workers. similar meetings for any other systemically racist, rooted in white monuments in honor of “the fathers No one calls out the cultural and candidates who want to speak with supremacy or genocidal in its of America’s exceptional founding” spiritual rot that has gripped our Northeast Kingdom residents. conduct.” and called such efforts “a form of society.” In addition to Ms. Hansen, the Ms. Hansen went on to cultural desecration. The Democratic party has been Orleans party welcomed Anya denounce “counter culture and a “We got here because no one in taken over by the extreme left, and Tynio, who wants her party’s nod to media ecosystem that peddles any position of influence fights (Continued on page thirteen.)

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Ms. Hansen asked her audience if they want The dreams and ambitions of the middle class for SALE change. a better life should be encouraged not restrained • ANNUALS • VEGGIES • HERBS “Yes,” they shouted. by a know-it-all state apparatus that tells Starting Thursday, July 9th! If so, she said, they must understand “real Vermonters what to do and when.” change is time-consuming, frustrating, difficult According to her website, Ms. Hansen was and conflict-ridden. born in India, but left with her family at a young BUY 2, “Conflict has to arise because all those that age. She returned to study medicine, but decided benefit from the current system and don’t want it she was a writer, and after earning a degree in GET ONE FREE! to change will feel threatened and attack you. If fashion in Florence, Italy, attended Dartmouth you are not ready to deal with conflict, then you College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Perennial of the Week are not ready for real change,” Ms. Hansen said. She is currently the executive director of She cited Margaret Thatcher, the former “Vermonters for Health Care Freedom,” an AST IBILE Prime Minister of Great Britain as her model, organization that argues against socialized (a.k.a. False Goat’s Beard) saying she called herself a conviction politician. medicine and Vermont’s One Care system. Such a politician shares her beliefs with the This year’s Republican Primary for goal of persuading rather than bullying people, Lieutenant Governor is a crowded field. In HOURS: Ms. Hansen said. addition to Ms. Hansen, Dana Colson Jr. of Monday-Friday 8 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Republicans in Montpelier, she said, place Sharon, Jim Hogue of Calais, Scott Milne of Saturday 8 a.m.-4 p.m. great virtue on being in the center. That, she Pomfret, and Dwayne Tucker of Barre Town are Sunday 9 a.m.-1 p.m. said, means “staying as inoffensive as possible to vying for the nomination. 1376 E. 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I value a problems for a long time and we actually helping us.” also draws to mind the necessity of strong education system, one that never seem to get around to them.” Ms. Tynio said America and our voices being heard. If we are puts students first and politics Mr. Ingalls said he is Vermont have to be able to feed silent, and if we are passive and we second. I will fight to incentivize particularly bothered by seeing themselves, because supplies from allow the overwhelming force of and retain quality teachers, young people from the area go off to elsewhere can’t be guaranteed in liberal ideals to take hold, we administrators and staff while college and not be able to work in difficult times. cannot win. And we have to be bold holding those accountable who are their field of study when they come “The same goes for and stand up and say, this is not for subpar. I am pro life and back home. manufacturing and American jobs,” me. And this will not be for my unapologetic for it. Simply put, I “We’ve got to do something to she continued. “We need to be self- children or my grandchildren.” will do everything in my power and turn this business climate around to sufficient. We need to be self- influence to leave you alone.” make business in Vermont not a sufficient in order to help other State Senate candidates Last up was Russ Ingalls, whose dirty word,” Mr. Ingalls said. countries. Other countries rely on name will be on the ballot in the “Nothing you hear out of Montpelier America whether they will admit Mr. Greenwood then introduced Senate race. is favorable to business.” that or not. They rely on the two candidates for the Essex- He said people ask why someone Mr. Ingalls also said he thinks stability of our dollar. And we need Orleans Senate district. One, as busy as he is might want to be in more needs to be done for to make sure that our country is Jonathan Morin, he explained, is the Legislature. agriculture in the state. stable and secure so that we can not on the ballot and is looking for His answer was, “I’m tired of “We’ve talked for 50 years about fulfill our role as a world leader.” write-in votes so he can represent seeing things come out of our farmers and how we really During the question period Ms. the Republicans in November. Montpelier that even I don’t (Continued on page sixteen.) 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As evidence, he told a story of a politician who did not follow the party line being placed on the agriculture committee as punishment. “Put me on the agriculture committee,” Mr. Ingalls said. “I’ll be happy to serve.” He went on to criticize renewable energy mandates he said were responsible for paving Vermont mountaintops and dividing communities in the process. He said it would be cheaper to use electricity produced by “clean natural gas,” than solar or wind power. While he said he was happy for the people of Coventry who benefit from the landfill there, Mr. Ingalls suggested New England Waste Systems of Vermont, the company that runs it, ought to Jonathan Morin. Russ Ingalls. express its gratitude for being allowed to do business in the area by giving “a free dump pass to every resident of Orleans County.” Finally, Mr. Ingalls mocked the ban on single- use plastic bags that went into effect on July 1 by imagining a lunch he would provide for a Senate committee. 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They will be held every Wednesday from June 24 through August 12 from 1 to 2 p.m. Although free, registration is required to obtain the login link for each session. For details or to sign up, go to www.uvm.edu/extension/youth/announcements. To request a disability-related accommodation to participate, contact Lauren Traister, UVM Extension 4-H teen and leadership program coordinator, at (802) 888-4972, extention 402, or [email protected]. Weekly topics are as follows: Half a dozen masked women were puttering over one of Vermont’s tidiest gardens Monday morning. The garden, July 8: What do pickles, yogurt, and soy behind the Barton Public Library, is a “giving garden,” its produce intended for those who need it. The original idea was to install a community garden in Barton, said Pam Kennedy. But that idea, where community members would sauce have in common? How fermentation feeds claim space to grow vegetables, was derailed both by the coronavirus and the fact that there were no takers for us. individual plots in the garden. The group of about 20 volunteers who set out to create the garden received a grant July 15: Watershed wise — explore local of $1,000. It’s also received lots of local donations of materials, a picnic table from E.M. Brown and Son, a rain water quality challenges and learn how you can barrel to collect water from former Lake Region Union High School teacher Gerry Cahill, seeds from the Barton make a difference. library’s seed exchange, dirt from Black Dirt Farm, and more. Here, volunteer Anne Carroll is in the foreground. July 22: A different kind of veterinarian — Lindy Sargent and Angie Rutherford pluck weeds in the background. Ms. Sargent said the hope is that people will veterinary infectious disease epidemiology and come to the garden to learn about gardening. “This is how you learn how to be sustainable, how to grow your own one health. food,” she said. Photos by Tena Starr July 29: Not just neurons — the brain’s other cells. August 5: The importance of pollinators. August 12: Bacteria and backyard chickens — how much salmonella is there? In addition to this series, a free online Natural Resources Management Academy will be offered July 13 through 17. Teens with an interest in the environment may register at www.uvm.edu/extension/youth/announcements. — from UVM Extension.

Pictured at right, Anne Carol (left) and Pam Kennedy inspect one of the many raised beds in the Barton giving garden. Ms. Kennedy said volunteers met Monday afternoon and decided they will bag and label produce so it will be ready for folks to take on Wednesdays by noon when the Lunchbox, a food truck, is in town. The group is also collaborating with Barton Area Senior Services. If there’s an abundance of something, or if the senior center has a specific need, perhaps the garden can be of help there, too. The senior center is preparing and delivering meals.

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The Chronicle interviews a variety of people from time to time to see how their lives have been affected by COVID-19. This week, we asked people about how this year’s July Fourth weekend differed from last year’s — whether or not they were celebrating differently and the holiday carried new meaning amid protests and a pandemic. Answers have been edited for length and continuity.

T he Hoadley family and Alan Stone, Glover

Tony Hoadley and five of his children pulled over on Shadow Lake Road in Glover to talk with neighbor Alan Stone in the late afternoon on July Fourth. He was driving his son Cameron’s red truck, which sported an American flag. A hay wagon traveled in slow, methodical lines in the field across the street.

Mr. Hoadley said the difference between this year’s Fourth and last year’s is that, last year he would have been in the field with the hay wagon. Instead of haying, he was taking his family to a cookout in Eden. Dugout owner Sherry White of Derby prepares milkshakes for customers from her food truck in Gardner Park He nodded to Mr. Stone. “He’s giving us a Saturday. Photos by Meghan Wayland break this year,” he said. Half-trying to recruit another person to throw truck noticeably cool and tranquil compared to the trip. He made it back into the States the day hay bales, Mr. Stone ribbed this reporter. “What world around it. The friends said they had come before the Canadian border closed, he said. are doing for the next half an hour?” he said, to Willoughby Lake — with hoards of others — to He said outdoor sports have kept him on the grinning. enjoy the beautif ul weather. They commented on right track and pulled out his phone to play a He and Mr. Hoadley took turns leaning on the the crowds and out-of-state plates at the beach. hang-gliding video in which a person harnessed to truck while the kids sat in the bed. Mr. Hoadley an enormous kite ran off the side of a cliff. He announced that his 17-year-old son Cameron had “It’s blown up,” Mr. Touchette said. “I can was training to be able to do the same. It looked recently joined the Air Force. Cameron matched only imagine if Canadians were here. I like harrowing. There were no training wheels — it his truck — red T-shirt, American flag. seeing out-of-state plates here usually but with was fly or die. Mr. Hoadley said Cameron’s older brother the second wave of this virus just starting….” was enlisted in the Army. This time nodding to There were maybe one or two people in a Steve Alexander, Derby Cameron he said, “He had to one-up his brother.” crowd of hundreds wearing a mask at the beach “I feel like I need to do something to help my on Saturday. It was packed. Steve Alexander was at the bar inside the Elks country,” Cameron said. “The military provides Mr. Touchette said he had e arlier taken a Lodge in Derby on July 4. He’s worked for the good benefits I couldn’t get anywhere else.” He photo of the scene because it was so incredible. Nelson farm in Irasburg for 15 years. said he’ll earn college credits just by completing The designated lot was full, and cars and trucks basic training and will be able to move on to spilled onto Route 5. “I do a little bit of everything — maintenance, college after his time in the service — if he They said “the not wearing masks thing” was drive truck, spread shit,” he said. He said COVID chooses to go that route, he said. unnerving. hit the farm hard — “Milk was $10.86 a month Once Cameron leaves for training, the family Mr. Touchette said he was going to his first- ago, and it’s $20 per hundredweight to break even plans to move out of state. Mr. Hoadley has a for ever protest — a Black Lives Matter protest in — but he was never worried about losing his job. sale sign in his yard in the hopes he’ll be able to Burke — in celebration of the Fourth. He said he “Nobody wants to work for a farmer,” he said. sell the family’s double-wide trailer and ten acres made his sign the night before: “I will never “It’s job security as long as you’re willing to show in Glover and, as seven year-old Isabelle Hoadley understand, so I stand. up and work. People don’t know how to work put it, move somewhere with bigger fields and “I’ve never protested before in my life, but I hard anymore.” fewer people. decided to celebrate the Fourth differently this He talked about the demise of dairy, how it “Too many regulations in this state,” Mr. year,” he said. “I’m 29 years old, time to do changed downtown Newport over the years, Hoadley said. The family might go to Virginia something different. Instead of drinking in a closed the department stores he went to as a where land’s cheap and there are more lawn chair, I’d rather do something I’ll actually teenager living in Derby. opportunities, he said, adding: “It’s hard for the remember, something in line with my beliefs — “Back in the sixties, Main Street, that place average person to get by.” especially our country being the way it is. was packed, ” he said. He went on to talk about the “I’m proud of this country,” he said, “but it recent months of closed businesses and isolation. Ian Touchette, East Burke and Cliff Savage, feels weird celebrating the Fourth.” “Let’s hope this whole virus doesn’t get Lyndon Mr. Savage, a carpenter, said he wasn’t sure worse,” he said. “We’re careful at the farm. Got what his plans were for the night, but he was done with work around five o’clock and stayed Ian To uchette and friend Cliff Savage were in definitely celebrating his sobriety. “Thirteen home. What else was I going to do? It’s not like the cab of Mr. Savage’s pickup after a day at Lake months to this day,” he said — the Fourth any place was open,” he said Willoughby’s north beach. The glass in the back marking a hard-earned, personal freedom. Mr. Alexander said he usually spends the of the cab was blown out and a black plastic trash Mr. Savage had just traveled through the Fourth watching the parade in Derby. The Elks bag hung in its place, which kept the inside of the U.S. and Canada on a months-long snowboarding Lodge usually isn’t open on the holiday, but with nothing else going on in town, it opened its doors to at least provide a place for regulars to get together, he said. Commercial, Residential & Industrial Mr. Alexander is an Army veteran, having spent his time in the service in the mechanized infantry in Germany. (Continued on page nineteen.)

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From left to right are West Glover residents Alan Stone, Cameron Hoadley, 17, Isabelle Hoadley, 7, Jesse Hoadley, 12, and Arthur Hoadley, 22.

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Jana Smart and Emily Maclure, Craftsbury

Emily Maclure, Jana Smart, and Kit Basom own and operate the Craftsbury General Store. Typically, the trio, along with the C Village Store and other local businesses, hosts a July Fourth block party that draws together community members and people from surrounding towns. When we talked with Ms. Smart at the store on Sunday, she was busy preparing 220 servings of chicken pot pie for Sunday Supper, a takeout meal the “Genny” began offering during COVID-19.

“By the time the block party came around, I had sort of forgot about it,” Ms. Smart said. “People were coming into the store saying, it Robert Desrochers said his father, Real, “spent a little extra” on this new, big American flag when he heard the would’ve been a great day for the block party. It’s traditional parade wouldn’t be coming through town. The family, which runs Real Desrochers Excavating, Inc. in felt like a big loss for our community but it didn’t Derby, has been hanging a flag on U.S. Route 5 every July Fourth since 2003. seem like a hard decision. Given the state of things, it was a bit of a no-brainer.” business model in order to provide food and jobs changing” — it was enough just to run the store, She said time spent organizin g the event was in the community amidst the pandemic. which has remained well-supported by the spent this year, instead, on reimagining the Regulations and health reports are “ever- community and summer residents. In a phone interview, Ms. Maclure said the block party started six years ago to celebrate the anniversary of her buying the general store. “I called up Pete [Johnson of Pete’s Greens] Old Stone House Museum and Kristy [Lamarche of the C Village Store], and said, if the town supports it, do you want to go in public workshop on this event together? It’s the one day of the A knit virtual workshop event: Democracy cable with fingers. year for us that feels like we’re all in it together. together knitting circle with Eve Jacobs- Please register in advance for this There’s community. People come out and enjoy Carnahan, will take place on Saturday, July 18, workshop by visiting: some music, food, talk to their neighbors, and talk from 7 to 8 p.m. https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsf- to people they don’t otherwise spend time with — Like the historic sewing circles where iorT4uGNVioErqcxiOlkWLTOPFGN3_. It can suddenly they’re sitting together at a picnic table. abolitionists and suffragists discussed the issues also be watched on the YouTube channel after the “It feels like there’s a lot of pull to start of the day, artist (and election law lawyer) Eve workshop ends. bigger conversations in our community right now Jacobs-Carnahan will lead and facilitate a For knitting instructions — conversations about race, people coming gathering to knit building blocks of a state capitol visit: https://knitdemocracy.org/makeblocks/. together to work toward equity,” Ms. Maclure sculpture. Participants will make pieces of the Those interested in receiving a free kit with said. “One of the biggest things that happens at sculpture from yarn while hearing how some yarn and instructions before taking part, please the block party — you form real relationships cities and states have decreased candidate email Eve Jacobs-Carnahan. — from the Old with people. Those relational events are the reliance on private campaign money. Simple Stone House Museum. things that bring us together and where we see patterns provided for knitting, crochet, or making and understand each other a little more. The absence of that this year is really hard in a way we couldn’t have realized.” LAKE REGION UNION HIGH SCHOOL LAKE REGION UNION HIGH SCHOOL Coaching Position For Fall 2020: Immediate Opening Girl’s JV Soccer EVENING CUSTODIAN Interested persons should contact James Ingalls, (3-11 p.m.) Director of Athletics. Applicants must submit three letters of reference, resumé and a letter of interest. EMPLOYMENT E-mail all documents to: Interested applicants should submit a [email protected] or [email protected] letter of interest, resumé, and three letters of Lake Region Union High School E.O.E./Background check required. reference to: Food Service Assistant/Cook Andre Messier 6 hours a day, 175 school days Open until filled. 317 Lake Region Road Orleans VT 05860

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In fact, they are Bender of Goethe University completely harmless — at least to Frankfurt determined that male humans. fishing spiders briefly produce Fishing spiders boast a leg span vibrations of less than 50 beats per of up to three inches. Their rear legs second. Conversely, insects fighting cling to vegetation along pond and the deadly grip of surface tension stream edges, while their front legs produce faster vibrations for a rest on the water’s surface, awaiting longer period of time. These cues along the water surface by summer spooked by a large spider coming to the tell-tale vibrations that signal a can spell the difference between life breezes. rest on your kayak, or in a cool meal — or a mate — is nearby. On and death for amorous male spiders. Although fishing spiders do not corner of your basement, as class trips, we regularly encounter Males sometimes miss other critical use webs for hunting, they use silk sometimes happens, take heart that the appropriately named dark information, however: according to for other purposes. They spin drag you have met one of the best fishing spider (Dolomedes Mr. Zimmermann and Mr. Spence, lines to reduce their risk of being mothers of the invertebrate world. If tenebrosus) on streams, and the six- males often approach already mated swept away by currents. Females nothing else, this spectacular spotted fishing spider (D. triton) females uninterested in romance, make two distinct silks layers to organism may well have consumed more commonly on ponds. A third and more interested in their next protect their eggs: an inner layer some mosquito, depriving it of the species, the striped fishing spider meal. In this case, the male spider consisting of large, loosely spun chance of consuming part of you. (D. scriptus), is also common in may well become a snack, rather fibers and an outer layer of finer eastern North America. than a mate. fibers densely woven to repel water. Declan McCabe teaches biology Although these spiders can Few spiders scamper and sail on Female fishing spiders carry their at Saint Michael’s College. His work subdue small fish, they rarely do, water — or dive beneath it -– but egg sacs until the spiderlings hatch, with student researchers on insect opting more often for smaller prey. fishing spiders are uniquely at which time the mothers spin communities is funded by Vermont Manfred Zimmermann and John qualified for the task. Among ten their first web. Like other members EPSCoR’s Grant NSF EPS Award Spence from the University of spider families examined in one of their nursery-web spider family #1556770 from the National Science Alberta recorded 625 fishing spider study, fishing spiders were the (Pisauridae), fishing spider mothers Foundation. The illustration for this meals that included not a single hairiest, and their hairs more construct silken homes for their column was drawn by Adelaide fish, and only one tadpole. Water effectively repelled water than those offspring and remain with them for Tyrol. The Outside Story is assigned striders topped the menu, followed of the other spiders tested. This some time. 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Dated: June 30, 2020 Name of Publication: the Chronicle Publication Date: July 8, 2020 Address of Court: Executor/Administrator: Vermont Superior Court NAME: Terry Lumbra Orleans Probate Division ADDRESS: 774 Holland Pond Road 247 Main Street, #2 TOWN: Derby Line, VT 05830 Newport, VT 05855 PHONE: 802­895­4429

WARNING SPECIAL TOWN MEETING TOWN OF JAY JULY 13, 2020 The legal voters of the Town of Jay are hereby warned and notified to meet at the Jay Volunteer Fire Department, located at 157 Revoir Flat Road, in Jay Village on Monday, July 13, 2020 at 6:30 P.M. to transact the following business: Pictured holding their catch are Ron Gunther and his daughter Jocelyn of Jay. On Friday, July 3, the Article 1. “Shall the legal voters of the Town of Jay, Vermont, vote Gunthers got up early to get out on the lake. Fishing is to allow the use of ATV on specified Roads (Cross Road, North Jay a favorite activity of the Gunther family. Mr. Gunther, Road and Belle Vista, Revoir Flat Road, as these roads connect NOTICE: adjacent towns)?” his wife, Connie, Jocelyn, and even their dogs love to Town of Westmore get out on the water and fish. Asked if there was a Article 2. “Shall the legal voters of the Town of Jay, Vermont, vote story to go along with catch, Mr. Gunther replied: “We to allow the use of ATV on all Town Roads to access the VASA trails were trolling with down riggers between 50 and 60 feet from their residences?” North Beach Parking Lot nd long off the northwest shore of Crystal Lake. The Article 3. Adjourn. Beginning July 22 , the gate contour changed and we needed to raise the down Dated at Jay this 22nd day of June, 2020. at the parking lot will be riggers. While doing so, one of them released. I thought it was a snag on the bottom at first until it David Sanders, Selectboard Chair Tara Morse, Selectboard locked from 9pm to 7am daily. pulled back. I worked it to the surface slowly. It made Le-Anne Tetrault, Selectboard three strong runs before landing it, spooling out 50 to Thank you! 100 feet of line each time. After 20 minutes or so, the Jay Town Clerk’s Office received for record this 23rd day of June, fish was at the surface and netted. It was quite a fight 2020 at 7:00 a.m. Westmore Selectboard with a 7.5-foot medium action rod with a 12-pound test Recorded in town meeting book of the Town of Jay, Vermont. line for a 33.5-inch, 13.2-pound laker. God Attest: Lynnette Deaette, Town Clerk bless America!” Photo by Connie Gunther

NOTICE WARNING IRASBURG FIRE DISTRICT NO. 1 IRASBURG FIRE DISTRICT NO. 1 VOTING OPTIONS DURING THE SPECIAL MEETING ------NOTICE ------COVID-19 PANDEMIC JULY 21, 2020 The Town of Barton Select Board’s regular meeting day has The legal voters of Irasburg Fire District No. 1, Vermont Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the Irasburg Fire District will changed to the first and third Thursday of each month at 9 A.M. are hereby notified and warned to meet at the Irasburg Town institute temporary options for voting in the July 21 bond They will next meet on Thursday, July 23, at 9 A.M. and vote. Clerk’s Office, in the Town of Irasburg on Tuesday, July 21, 2020 between the hours of ten o’clock (10:00) in the forenoon thereafter will assume this schedule. Please call the Barton 1. Absentee ballots will be sent to all the legal voters of (a.m.), at which time the polls will open, and seven o’clock Town Clerk at 525-6222 with any questions or to be put on an the Irasburg Fire District. We encourage voters to cast (7:00) in the afternoon (p.m.), at which time the polls will agenda. their ballots by mail rather than in person. close, to vote by Australian ballot upon the following article 2. Ballots will be accepted by mail or by drop-off at the of business: Irasburg Town Clerk’s office at 161 Route 58 East up until 7:00 p.m. on July 21, 2020. ARTICLE I Shall general obligation bonds or notes of Irasburg Fire PROPOSED STATE RULES 3. The Town Clerk’s office will be open on July 21 from By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by 10:00 a.m. until 7:00 p.m. for in-person voting. The District No. 1 in amount not to exceed Five Hundred publication in newspapers of record. The purpose of these polling place will operate consistent with the rules Thousand Dollars ($500,000), subject to reduction from notices is to give the public a chance to respond to the regarding social distancing, building occupation, available state and federal construction grants-in-aid and proposals. The public notices for administrative rules are other financial assistance, be issued for the purpose of now also available online at masks or other restrictions in place at the time. https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/. The law requires an 4. As usual in Vermont, you may register to vote at the constructing water system improvements, namely, agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if Town Clerk’s office up until the day of the vote, or replacement of transmission and distribution lines, such requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an online at improvements estimated to cost Five Hundred Thousand association having at least 25 members. Dollars ($500,000)? https://sos.vermont.gov/elections/voters/registration To make special arrangements for individuals with through Friday, July 17. The legal voters and residents of Irasburg Fire District disabilities or special needs, please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible. There will be an informational meeting on July 14, 2020 No. 1 are further warned and notified that an informational hearing will be held at the Irasburg Town Hall in the Town of at 6:00 pm in the Town Hall. To obtain further information concerning any scheduled Irasburg on Tuesday, July 14, 2020, commencing at six 1. A presentation will be made that explains the nature of hearing(s), obtain copies of proposed rule(s), or submit o’clock (6:00 p.m.) for the purpose of explaining the subject comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the water system modifications, the reasons for the proposed water system improvements and the financing the contact person listed below. You may also submit project, the cost and finances, and the financial impact comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on thereof. on the water district members. Administrative Rules, State House, Montpelier, Vermont 2. The Town Hall is big enough to hold a large number The legal voters of the Irasburg Fire District No. 1 are 05602 (802­828­2231). of attendees and still operate consistent with the rules further notified that voter qualification, registration and ————————————————————————— absentee voting relative to said special meeting shall be as Rules Regarding Phase Down of the Use of regarding social distancing, building occupation, Hydrofluorocarbons. masks or other restrictions in place at the time. Seats provided in Section 2484 of Title 20, and Chapters 43, 51 and Vermont Proposed Rule: 20P016 will be disinfected before and after the meeting. 55 of Title 17, Vermont Statutes Annotated. AGENCY: Agency of Natural Resources Adopted and approved at a duly convened meeting of CONCISE SUMMARY: The purpose of this rule is to achieve 3. If too many people show up for the meeting to be held greenhouse gas emissions reductions through the phase out with everyone in attendance, there will be a request the Prudential Committee, of Irasburg Fire District No. 1 held of high global warming potential hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) for volunteers to attend a meeting the following on June 17, 2020. Received for record and recorded in the in air conditioning and refrigeration equipment, aerosol evening. records of Irasburg Fire District No. 1 on June 18, 2020. propellants, and foam end­uses. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Collin Smythe, ATTEST: IRASBURG FIRE DISTRICT NO. 1 ATTEST: IRASBURG FIRE DISTRICT NO. 1 Agency of Natural Resources, 1 National Life Dr., Davis 4, Guillermo Maldonado Peter Limon (Chairman) Guillermo Maldonado Peter Limon (Chairman) Montpelier, VT 05620, Tel: 802­689­0003, E­mail: [email protected], URL: https://dec.vermont.gov/ Fire District Clerk Ray Decelles Fire District Clerk Ray Decelles air­quality/laws. Guillermo Maldonado Guillermo Maldonado FOR COPIES: Megan O'Toole, Agency of Natural Resources, 1 Prudential Committee Prudential Committee National Life Dr., Davis 4, Montpelier, VT 05620, Tel: 802­ 249­9882, E­mail: [email protected]. the Chronicle, July 8, 2020 Page Twenty-three Howard awarded first scholarship from new fund North Country Hospital’s (NCH) scholarship registered nurse (RN) and charge nurse. After “This new scholarship fund is a welcome review committee selected longtime nurse, several years, she transitioned to the intensive addition to our program here at North Country Rhonda Howard, to receive the first $2,000 care unit (ICU), when she completed her Hospital,” added Wendy Franklin, director of continuing education scholarship from the newly bachelor’s degree in nursing and became a critical communications and foundation. Ms. Washburn established Sheryl M. (Washburn) and Buddy L. care certified nurse. She also served as the ICU was vice-president of patient care services at Carter Nursing Scholarship Fund. educator during that time. She then transitioned North Country Hospital from 2008 through 2013. Ms. Howard began her career in the U.S. to the education department as a nurse educator. She had a passion for rural healthcare and rural Army as a flight medic and then a flight nurse. She has also worked as a clinical manager of the nursing. She was especially interested in After serving eight years in the military, she med/surg floor and ICU. supporting Northeast Kingdom residents to seek started working as a licensed practical nurse Ms. Howard commented, “My love for nursing degrees and subsequently provide (LPN) on the medical/surgical floor at North education pulled me back to the education excellent nursing care in local healthcare Country Hospital in 1997. She completed her department where I currently work as a clinical settings. Ms. Washburn loved one to one associate degree in nursing and became a nurse educator. Through the years I have also mentoring of novice nursing leaders and fostered worked as an adjunct clinical instructor for the their growth into being role models and mentors Vermont Technical College nu rsing programs. My for their staff. She and her husband, Buddy, sudoku career goal is to complete my master’s degree in chose to establish this scholarship fund to further nursing education, and when I learned of this these efforts. She also seeks to honor the memory solution scholarship award, I was so grateful. This is the of her late husband, John Washburn, who first scholarship I have ever received, since much benefited from NCH nursing care prior to his of my higher education was paid for through the death in 2013. — from NCH. military.” AUTOMOTIVE

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As “We’re getting more business from couple said, they made the decision to refuse at most campgrounds, the seasonal RVers — the Vermonters that have stayed closer to home, but reservations from hot spots early on, not wanting people who return summer after summer to stay out-of-state campers were the majority of my to disappoint people by having to cancel their in their RVs for months — pay “the bills, the business,” Mr. Fischer said. He said while locals vacations as the pandemic progressed. taxes, the insurance,” Ms. Crawford said. “But it are helping to fill gaps, he’s still hoping the “A bad review goes a long way,” Mr. Bushey doesn’t give you gravy. You really need the said. weekend people.” border will open soon. Much of Belview’s business is Canadian as She said she and her husband, Jim, didn’t “ I don’t think Canada’s really anxious to open well. qualify for the Paycheck Protection Program to it up to us,” he said blaming the uptick in recent “More Vermonters than usual are calling, but help them get through this time because they confirmed COVID-19 cases. it isn’t anything to write home about,” Ms. don’t have any non-family employees. The The border was closed to tourism and other Bushey said. Crawfords run the campground without any forms of non-essential travel March 18 and has The couple has furthered limited business by outside help. been closed since — with exceptions for food, being extra cautious not to bring COVID-19 to Ms. Crawford also said the Canadian border medicine, fuel, trucking, and traveling essential their family or the Barton community. They said closure has made for a tough season. workers. they just don’t have the capacity or desire to “We’re only eight miles from the North Troy President Donald Trump has suggested the monitor whether or not people are following rules border,” she said. “We get a lot of Canadian border could reopen as soon as July 21, but with around quarantine. weekenders normally, and we have not been able COVID-19 cases on the rise, it’s unclear if that “Normally, we would be full every weekend — to take one. At the beginning of the season, we will happen. 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Mr. Sullivan said the academy is looking for June 23 that, “HED threatened to cut off the they found that the meter was registering only 15 law that does not exist in cases before the Public power to our school when we would not pay percent of the academy’s electricity use. Utility Commissio n. He said commission everything that they demanded. … The taxpayers After a review by the Department of Public precedent is clear that it does not matter why in Craftsbury should not be held financially Service (DPS) — the state agency tasked with electricity was not paid for in the first place; once responsible for HED’s errors. We have already representing the public interest in disputes with it’s been used by a ratepayer, it’s the individual offered to reasonably settle the matter, but HED utilities — Hardwick Electric came to Craftsbury ratepayer’s responsibility to pay for what’s been has rejected our offers.” Academy with a bill in the fall of 2019. According consumed. The statement also claims that HED’s to documents from the academy, the utility was The first status conference for the case was estimate of how much energy the academy used asking for $139,019, though the most recent bill held on June 10. A transcript of the conference while the faulty meter was in place may not from HED is for $143,927. shows that no one representing Craftsbury accurately represent the true consumption over According to Mr. Sullivan, $139,019 was the Academy attended. The academy’s lawyer said he the years in question. amount the academy owed up to the point of his made an embarrassing scheduling error, and Mr. Sullivan counters that claim, saying that first report. However, he said, the faulty meter simply forgot the meeting. his calculation of how much the academy owes remained in place for several months after his Craftsbury School Board members said, in HED was confirmed by the Department of Public initial report, continuing to register incorrectly conversations and in filings with the PUC, that Service. He also credits HED’s disconnection until Hardwick Electric installed a new meter, at having to pay the back charges in full could notice with getting the conversation started again which point the total undercharge had increased negatively impact the education they can provide when, he claims, the academy had been ignoring to $143,927. at the academy. HED’s communications. Alongside the initial $139,019 bill, HED “What are the implications?” Jen Schoen, a “We have a responsibility to make a good presented the Craftsbury School Board with three teacher at the Albany Community School and an faith effort on behalf of all of our other customers payment plans. The longest, for 99 months, academy board member, said in a phone to get this money,” Mr. Sullivan said in a recent would reduce the total amount owed by $10,000. conversation Friday. “I mean worst case scenario, phone interview. “And if the PUC in the end That would result in a payment of $1,303 per this is going to make a huge impact on our ability rules whatever they rule, it’s okay with us.” month on top of the roughly $1,400 the academy to provide a public education to the students of According to a clerk at the Public Utilities now pays for its monthly electrical use. The Craftsbury. One hundred forty thousand dollars Commission, the next step in the dispute is for shortest payment plan, 51 months, would take — that would be two or three teaching positions. the Department of Public Service to present a $20,000 off of the total, resulting in a charge of “We want to do what is right, but we also formal scheduling proposal for the case. $2,333 per month. want it to be fair for the town and for Hardwick Michael Tousley, hearing officer for the case At the time, Craftsbury School Board Chair Electric.” before the PUC, said that, as a first step, the Harry Miller said that because HED had installed “I am totally open-minded,” Mr. Miller said Department of Public Service tries to negotiate a the meter and logged the incorrect numbers each recently. “But I just think we are not in the settlement. If that doesn’t work, and the billing cycle, in his opinion the academy should wrong. We have never done anything wrong.… In department feels all options have been exhausted, not be fully liable. order to come up with that money we’d have to it proposes a formal schedule for resolving the “There’s got to be a statute of limitations for come back to the town, say okay, this is what’s matter. As of July 7, Mr. Tousley said, he has not some length,” he said. He also said that the going on. It would be a significant raising of heard from the Public Service Department. board was not ready to choose a payment plan. taxes for sure.” “Maybe that’s a good sign,” he said. “Maybe “I’m just not ready to go onto that without more Brittany Currie, the director of finance for the that means they are talking. Or maybe it doesn’t. give and take.” Orleans Southwest Supervisory Union said in an I don’t know.” In January of 2020, a lawyer representing the interview Monday that she has not calculated any academy wrote a letter to HED claiming that tax impact numbers for Craftsbury. various legal doctrines could prevent the “I just felt that it wasn’t really appropriate to department from reclaiming any of the money it look at those numbers yet because we are not sought if the issue went to court. The letter even close to being on the same page as far as offered to settle the matter by paying HED what we would like to pay back,” she said. Jones Memorial $20,000 over three months. HED’s board of commissioners wrote, in a Mr. Sullivan said the settlement proposal was press release dated June 29, that it would be library offering pennies on the dollar, and on behalf of his unfair to ratepayers in the 11 towns HED covers ratepayers, he could not accept it. He said he if the academy does not pay the bill. “While we reached out to the academy several times over the understand that having to begin to pay for such a curbside services next few months but got no response. He said the large amount of electricity is not something The Jones Memorial Library is offering lack of response led HED, after consultation with anyone wants to do, it is a matter of fairness,” the scheduled curbside services at 1 Water Street in counsel and the Public Service Department, to commissioners wrote. “Hardwick Electric’s Orleans. Books, audio books, and DVDs are issue the academy a bill for $143,927 and a ratepayers should not have to cover the cost of available. Visit their card catalog or put books on disconnect notice on March 2, 2020. Craftsbury Academy’s electricity.” hold at The school appealed the disconnect Gina Campoli, a Craftsbury resident and www.jonesmemoriallibrary.wordpress.com. The proceedings to the Public Utility Commission HED commissioner, underscored that point in an username is jones memorial and there is no (PUC), which regulates utilities, and that’s where interview Friday. “We [HED] had to purchase password required. the case now stands. According to filings with the power to light the lights at the Craftsbury One may also email, commission, the academy is asking to have the Academy, and somebody had to pay for that.” [email protected], or give a call at 754- entire charge thrown out, partially on the And, she said, if the academy does not pay, that 6660 to place an order or get assistance. Please grounds that it’s protected by statutes of somebody is all the other ratepayers. allow up to 48 hours to schedule an appointment. limitation, and partly because the malfunctioning The Craftsbury School Board has a different — from the Jones Memorial Library. meter was HED’s fault. view. The board wrote in a press release dated

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Up the road from Walmart, at the Shaw’s twenty-somethings, the elderly, smokers, mothers, Vermont currently has the fourth lowest supermarket in Derby, the overhead speakers had veteran’s license plates, drove UTVs. number of total confirmed cases in the nation, he inside the store played a song whose only lyrics Deputy Health Commissioner Tracy Dolan said pointed out. seemed to be “we’re all in this together,” while an in a phone interview Monday the state conducted a “We have a very robust testing and tracing unmasked woman said “check…account…balance” recent market survey for the purpose of starting a program, so I feel good with where we’re at,” he slowly into her phone so the robot on the other end mask-normalizing campaign. They heard from 500 said, but he didn’t deny that he’d also like to see of the line could register her request. Vermonters over the age of 18 about why they do or more people wearing masks. At the checkout, a teenage cashier weighed in do not wear a mask. (The Chronicle has heard it’s become on having a high-risk job. The top three reasons people said they wear a increasingly difficult in recent weeks to schedule a mask were “for the safety of themselves and others, test due to the closing of local pop-up sites — respect for others, and the public health benefit.” including a privately run site formerly in the The top three reasons people chose not to wear Walmart parking lot.) a mask were because “they felt they didn’t need The Administration has started a campaign to Governor Scott: “There’s a one, they don’t go out, and because it’s encourage the voluntary wearing of masks by uncomfortable.” helping people understand their importance. lot of friction, controversy, She said the age groups least likely to wear Governor Scott said he’d prefer to “educate, lead, masks were people between the ages of 18 and 24 and inspire people to do the right thing,” rather defense mechanisms — and people between ages 45 and 54. Eighty-five than mandate mask wearing, emphasizing percent of people said they always or often wear a willingness over force. the government telling you mask. “Just mandating, as they’re seeing in states what to do once again.” The study was conducted in order to try to across the country, doesn’t make [mask wearing] identify the barriers with mask wearing so the happen,” he said. “There’s a lot of friction, state can better encourage the practice with controversy, defense mechanisms — the targeted ads on social media and via online news government telling you what to do once again.” outlets. He reminded the public that some people don’t “It’s been alright,” he said and shrugged his For people who have to wear a masks at work wear masks because of health conditions or for shoulders. “Most people are wearing masks.” and are exhausted by it, she said, she understands other complex reasons. He also reminded people On first glance, his assessment didn’t seem how uncomfortable masks can be and said it was that he has enforced the wearing of masks on true. In a random count of 100 people in and out of alright to selectively don the protection. “You don’t public transportation and has given cities and the doors on Sunday night, 61 shoppers were need to wear one if you’re not near people,” she towns the latitude to make their own mask-related unmasked, 39 were masked. said. “Throw one on once you hit the door of the regulations. Outside the C&C Supermarket in Barton, 65 grocery store.” “We’ll try this and see where it takes us,” he shoppers were masked while 35 were unmasked. Ms. Dolan said the new statewide campaign is said. “You can’t argue with the numbers.” Another 100-person count outside Walmart designed to make masks, and the virus, hit closer Twenty states have instituted or renewed proffered the opposite results. Sixty-six people to home. She said she understands that people are orders requiring the use of face masks, most were unmasked, 34 were masked. Shoppers sometimes skeptical of the genuine risk if they recently Kansas and Texas. Texas reported record streamed into a temporary metal queue — don’t know anyone who’s been affected by COVID- high new confirmed cases over the weekend — something you might see in a stockyard — where a 19. nearly 12,000 in two days. masked employee controlled the flow of traffic. A The hope is that a statewide campaign puts Most of the state orders require people to wear banner on the scaffolding requested people please “positive peer pressure” on Vermonters who are still masks in both indoor and outdoor public spaces wear a mask inside the store. (Continued on page twenty-nine.)

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Mr. “People might not know someone who’s been the Democratic Party under President Kennedy. MacRitchie wasn’t wearing a mask, while Ms. Fox affected by COVID, but if they hear a personal “People don’t think of the Kennedy was. story about how somebody’s uncle or grandfather Administration as conservative, but it was,” he said. Mr. MacRitchie said he had a mask and nodded passed away, that makes it more real,” Ms. Dolan He lamented over how divisive — how “extremely toward the inside of the car. said, adding that when it comes to mask wearing, opposed” — the country’s become. “If I were going to a protest, I’d have it on,” he “We don’t care if you believe in it, we just care Deputy Health Commissioner Dolan said it’s said. “We’ve been good so far.” that you do it.” difficult to hear that some think the virus is a hoax Ms. Fox said she wore her mask because of an Farmer Mike Rodgers doesn’t much believe in or has been blown out of proportion for political existing health condition. the threat of the pandemic. He doesn’t wear a reasons. Back at Walmart, John Williams from mask, in part, he said, because he’s read it’s “A couple of months ago this was just raging Hardwick said he wears a mask not because he’s dangerous to breathe one’s own carbon monoxide. through a couple long-term care facilities in the much concerned about getting the virus but He said the virus has been blown out of state,” she said. “We were just watching the rapid because it’s the “responsible thing to do — it’s proportion to benefit progressive politics. succession of deaths and wringing our hands. The considerate of other people.” “The flu kills more people,” he said. “They’re heartbreak from staff and families was immense.” Jason Bowers from Troy didn’t disagree. He blaming everything on COVID. Heart attack? She said she wouldn’t put the importance of wasn’t wearing a mask Sunday, but if someone had COVID. Drowning? COVID. They’re scaring wearing masks above staying home, hand washing, asked him — respectfully, he was careful to say — people.” or social distancing while in public, but she did cite to put one on, he’d do it. He said he kept a mask on He talked about how the left could have more multiple peer-reviewed studies on the CDC website him at all times and reached in his pocket and leverage in the presidential election if the public — 17 from the year 2020 and 20 in all —that have pulled out a thick, neoprene-looking mask. is afraid of what’s to come. shown masks to be effective against the spread of He said he carries it in case not wearing a “You scare people, you control them better,” viruses. mask “hits a sensitive chord with anyone.” he said. “Masks are a barrier to prevent repository He said he’s been “scolded, asked, told, ordered” He said he has the feeling that if President droplets from going through the air and landing on to put one on. 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One aspect of the emergency that has led to more bring the virus to Vermont, avoid infection while Every student will undergo a health screening questions at the Governor’s briefings than any here, and put a plan in place to deal with COVID when arriving on campus, and must register for other is his refusal to make wearing face masks if it should pop up. the Sara Alert app, which provides health in public mandatory. Rich Schneider, the president of Norwich reminders from the state. At Tuesday’s session, Governor Scott said University, Suresh Garimella, president of the On move-in day, usually one on which a saying something is mandatory doesn’t make it University of Vermont, Susan Stitely, director of campus overflows with visitors, each student will so. He pointed to California, which has required the Association of Vermont Independent Colleges, be allowed to bring only two people with her. facial coverings, but is not able to enforce the and Sophie Zdatny, appointed as chancellor of the Those guests have to meet state health rule. The number of COVID cases there is Vermont State College System, were also part of requirements and won’t be allowed into the rapidly increasing. the committee. dorms. On July 1, Governor Scott said having the Every college in Vermont is required to Each student will also have to be tested for government order people to do something can develop its own health safety contract, and all COVID-19, regardless of where he comes from. create its own resistance. students, faculty, and staff must sign it. The The same policies will be in place when “I would rather educate, lead and inspire pledge commits all to abiding by health and students get back from school breaks. people to do the right thing,” he said. “This is a safety rules. For this reason schools will have to change good thing to do when you can, in those A student who breaks the pledge must leave their schedules to reduce the amount out-of-state conditions where you can’t physically distance the campus. travel their students do. yourself from someone else, or you don’t have a School employees who refuse to wear masks The fall semester will end before health condition that prevents you from wearing or otherwise flout health rules will face Thanksgiving, and students will return later than a mask, because some people just can’t wear immediate discipline. usual, thus eliminating spring breaks. them.” The plan calls for all out-of-state students Big events, such as parents and alumni Governor Scott pointed out that he’s required who can get to school by car without making weekends will be a thing of the past as long as face masks on public transit and allows prolonged stops to self-quarantine at home for 14 the pandemic remains a concern. In addition, municipalities to create their own, stricter rules. days before heading off to school. there will be fewer programs and activities, such Given the low number of COVID cases, If a COVID test taken after one week of as off-campus speakers. Governor Scott said, “You can’t argue with the isolation shows the student does not have the Everyone on campus must wear face results.” virus, she may drive to college if she doesn’t coverings while in the presence of others, Should the number of illnesses rise, he said, break quarantine on the way. outdoors masks are not required but are he will be willing to reconsider his decision. Those who start out from a county deemed encouraged. So far, that has not been the case, said safe by state health officials need not quarantine All members of the school community will Commissioner of Health Mark Levine on themselves if they drive directly to Vermont. have their health checked daily. They are also Tuesday. Students who must take mass transit, or are encouraged to keep a journal of where they go The total number of cases so far in the headed to Vermont along with others from and who they see to assist contact tracing in the pandemic is around 1,254. About 1,039 patients different households, have to quarantine for two event someone falls ill with COVID. recovered and 56 died of the disease. weeks after getting to school. Schools will have to make it easy for everyone The state continues to restrict free travel to Should a student need to be quarantined on on campus to wash their hands frequently and counties within driving distance having fewer arrival in Vermont, there are several choices. must clean and disinfect common spaces often. than 400 active COVID cases per million The student can self-isolate in a private home, Classrooms and dining halls will have to be inhabitants. People who visit from farther afield, including at an off-campus apartment. reconfigured to maintain social distancing. who arrive by train or plane, or who are coming Alternatively, the student can stay at a hotel Athletic programs will have to be changed so from a place with a high incidence of COVID, or Airbnb for the necessary time. they comply with state rules. Mr. Schneider said must self-isolate for 14 days before venturing out, Finally a student can quarantine on campus. athletic directors will discuss what to do and or can stay isolated for a week and get tested for For those in the last category there are bring their recommendations to school presidents. the virus. another two choices. It appears contact sports, such as football, If the test is negative, the visitor can move One says they can arrive at school two weeks will be on hiatus for a while. around Vermont freely. before their fellow students and quarantine on Similarly, only those performing arts that Those rules are a major component of the campus while maintaining strict social distancing allow for social distancing should occur, the rules guidance issued to Vermont colleges and from other students and members of the staff. say. universities anticipating the return of out-of-state The other calls for students to be quarantined Mr. Schneider said the rules are the students for in-person instruction this fall. in a residence hall in the smallest groups minimum required. Colleges and universities Governor Scott appointed a team of secondary possible. While they are in isolation all school may decide to add their own, stricter, standards. school educators to work with health officials in services, such as meals, classes, and orientation He presented the idea of offering students a chance to study in Vermont, with its low prevalence of COVID-19, as a kind of competitive advantage for the state’s colleges. As such, he said he thought it would be a mistake for Vermont schools to institute remote VEC returning patronage capital early learning and give up the benefit of being in a place people believe is safe. This summer Vermont Electric Cooperative have appeared on September bills. Joan Goldstein, commissioner of the (VEC) will be returning patronage capital to The VEC Board of Directors determined that Department of Economic Development, reported members a month earlier than usual in an effort VEC’s strong financial results for 2019 allowed applications for the state’s business grants to provide some financial support to members the co-op to prudently return patronage capital to program went well on Monday, the first day they during the COVID-19 pandemic. members, and to do it earlier than usual, despite were available. “We know some of our members have been pandemic-related financial challenges expected She said some people had to wait online, but facing financial challenges over the past few for 2020. by afternoon the hold time was down to a few months, so the board of directors took this This will be the eighth consecutive year that minutes. unusual step to get these credits out sooner VEC members have received a patronage capital The news on initial unemployment claims was rather than later,” said Rebecca Towne, VEC’s distribution, with over $7 million refunded over not so rosy. 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the Chronicle, July 8, 2020 Page Thirty-one Obituaries Richard R. Del Favero

Richard R. Del the University of Connecticut was a member of the Knights of Favero, 85, husband of (UCONN) in ’56 with a degree in Columbus. He served in the U.S. Barbara J. agricultural engineering and in ’58 Army Reserve, and also was a (Michalowski) Del with a master’s degree in member and chair of several local Favero for 61 years, went to be with agricultural economics. He was a commissions and boards in both the Lord when he died on founding brother and former Connecticut and Vermont. Wednesday, July 1, 2020. president of Alpha Gamma Rho Richard was a strong proponent He was born October 4, 1934, in fraternity at UCONN. of education and he often said that he Meriden, Connecticut, the son of the He started his career with attributed his success in life to his late Victor M. Del Favero and Julia Rexnord Corporation and in 1964 education at UCONN. He generously Hyde Del Favero. returned to Meriden to join his supported many funds and He is survived by his four sisters: father in the family building scholarships at the University of Dolores Leary (Jack) of Meriden, business, DelFavero Builders, Connecticut, including the funding of Mary Ann Maselli (Pete) of Clinton, Inc. He constructed more than 400 the first endowed chair in Sheila Leighton (Dick) of Guilford, condominiums in central agricultural resource economics. He and Jean Serey (Pat) of Prospect, Connecticut and built several was a lifetime member of the Church at 59 Elm Street in Derby. Kentucky; and his one brother Robert commercial developments. UCONN Alumni Association and a Mass will be streamed via Zoom for (Sheila) of Clermont, Florida. Although he had a successful member of the Founder’s Society of those who are unable to be present. He was predeceased by his career in the construction industry, the UCONN Foundation. He was a The Zoom invitation link for Mass brother Victor (Dee). his heart always remained in lifetime member and recipient of the can be found under Richard’s He is the father of five children: agriculture. He often referred to distinguished alumni award from the obituary on jferryfh.com. Calling Jeffrey Del Favero (Denise), Linda himself as a “farmer without a University of Connecticut College of hours and burial will be private. Morasutti (Robert Lee), Robbin farm.” In 1988, he began his second Agriculture and Natural Resources The family would like to thank Cabelus, Joyce Gomez (Tony), career after he and Barbara and was a 2011 recipient of the the many caregivers at Pond Ridge Laureen Seoane (Carlos). He leaves purchased Hayward Farm, a 500-acre college’s highest honor, “The Charles North and Masonicare Home and behind 12 grandchildren; his farm in Derby where he raised beef and Augustus Storrs Award.” Hospice for the love, support and recently born great-granddaughter; cattle for over 30 years. He was a Richard was a generous man compassion shown to Richard and his his many dear friends; and his member and former trustee of the who offered support as a mentor and family during these past months. faithful black lab Kobi. Vermont Beef Producers Association. father figure to many. He will be In lieu of flowers, donations may Richard graduated from Meriden Richard was a trustee of Saint greatly missed. be made to Mater Dei Parish, High School in 1952 and from early Mary’s Church in Meriden, Family and friends are invited to attention St. Edward the Confessor childhood was an active member of Connecticut, served on the board at attend a Mass at 11 a.m. on Friday, Church, 191 Clermont Terrace, 4-H. He went on to graduate from St. Edward’s Church in Derby, and July 24, at St. Edward the Confessor Newport, Vermont 05855.

Sandra J. Bowen

Sandra J. Bowen, 74, died half, Kyle Johnson, of Morrisville, Michalla”Micki” Bowen; her peacefully at The Manor on and Jason Herman and other half, grandson Cory Nelson; her brother Saturday, June 27, 2020. Melissa Herman, of Brownington; Mick Rooney; and her sister Betty She was born April 26, 1946, in her daughter Penny Herman and Nolan. Burlington, the daughter of Hilary other half, Michael Herman, of A graveside service will be held Rooney and Madeline Trapps Brownington; her siblings: Barbara Friday, July 17, at 1 p.m. at Fletcher Rooney. Warren and other half, Marty Jedediah Hyde Cemetery in Hyde Sandy worked as a housekeeper Warren, of Morrisville, Lee Hubbard Park. at the Trapp Family Lodge and and other half, Richard Hubbard, of In lieu of flowers contributions owned and operated a store in Fairfax, and Alberta Harrington of may be made to the Lamoille Area Albany. She was also very involved Manchester; her great- Cancer Network, 198 Farr Avenue, with the Lanpher Memorial Library grandchildren: Eva, Mason, Nora, Morrisville, Vermont 05661. in Hyde Park. Brianna, and Kailee; and her Faith Funeral Home is assisting She is survived by her several cousins, nieces, and with arrangements. Online grandchildren: Scott Nelson and nephews. condolences may be made at visiting other half, Danielle Plante, of In addition to her parents, she faithfh.net. Morrisville, Hilary Braun and other was predeceased by her daughter Death notices and funeral services Phyllis Burrington Roland F. Desmarais Rose Desmarais

Funeral services for Phyllis Burrington will Funeral services for Roland F. Desmarais will Rose Desmarais, 98, of Orleans died on be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, July 18, at the be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 10, 2020, at the Tuesday, June 23, 2020, in Newport. A Mass was Derby Community Church with the Reverend St. Paul’s Catholic Church in Barton with the held on Monday, June 29. A full obituary will Mike Haddad officiating. Arrangements by Reverend Curtis Miller officiating. The interment follow in a later edition. Curtis-Britch and Bouffard Funeral Home. will follow at the St. Elizabeth’s Cemetery in Collyn G. Lorimer Sr. Lyndonville. 802-334-2314 A graveside service will be held for Collyn G. Lorimer Sr. at the West Barnet Cemetery on •Monuments Sunday, July 12, at 2 p.m. •Lettering Desiree Elizabeth Eurbin •Cleaning It is with broken hearts that the family •Restoration shares that their daughter Desiree Elizabeth •Granite Eurbin, born November 29, 1997 (also known as Benches Desiree Lopez), went to sleep in Jesus when she •Cremation died on Thursday night, July 2, 2020. She lived a bright and colorful life, and had a Memorials contagious laugh and a smile that could brighten • MONUMENTS • LETTERING • CLEANING • REPAIRS •Granite & any room. • LANDSCAPE PRODUCTS • GRANITE COUNTERTOPS Quartz A memorial service will be held on Sunday, BIANCHI MEMORIALS cares about our customers and it shows Countertops July 12, at the family home of Travis and in every granite monument and countertop we create. We take Catherine Eurbin located at 18 Chamberlain customer satisfaction and quality seriously. Come in and visit Scott & Lori Bianchi, Owners Road in Barton. The visitations and gathering our display in DERBY and experience firsthand the attention 515 Union St., Newport,VT to detail and care that goes into every design. Hours: Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Saturday 9 a.m.-12 p.m. will be at 10 a.m. with services starting at 10:30 Any time by appointment. a.m. A prepared light lunch will follow. For more information related to the service please call (802) www.heritagememorialsvt.com 272-2578. www.bianchimemorials.com • Rudy & Linda Bianchi, Owners Page Thirty-two the Chronicle, July 8, 2020

HE . We reserve theINGDOM right to reject or edit events and do not accept events over the phone.ALENDAR Submit events by emailing [email protected]. DEADLINE FORT EVENTS: MONDAY AT NOON K C To qualify, events must be a benefit, not for profit, or NVSS SOCCER CAMP CANCELED JONES MEMORIAL LIBRARY free to attend to be listed at no charge. Events are Due to the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, and in The Jones Memorial Library is offering scheduled curbside also listed online at www.bartonchronicle.com/events. the interest of public health, Northern Vermont Soccer services at 1 Water Street in Orleans. Books, audio School (NVSS) has canceled its thirty-fourth annual NVSS books, and DVD’s are available. Visit their card catalog or Soccer camp, which was to be held July 27 through 31, at put books on hold at GENERAL CANCELLATION NOTICES the junior high in Derby. Any applications received will be www.jonesmemoriallibrary.wordpress.com. The username returned with full payment. is jones memorial and there is no password required. One PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU ARE CANCELING OR may also email, [email protected], or give a POSTPONING AN EVENT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. OUR SMfG HAS CANCELED ITS SUMMER CONCERTS call at 754-6660 to place an order or get assistance. DEADLINE IS NOON ON MONDAYS. Summer from Music from Greensboro has canceled its 2020 summer concert season due to novel coronavirus Please allow up to 48 hours to schedule an appointment. pandemic. MOOSE HUNTING PERMIT AUCTION NOW OPEN BREAD AND PUPPET MUSEUM CLOSED PER STATE Vermont’s auction for three moose hunting permits is open VFW AUXILIARY #798 JULY MEETING CANCELED GUIDELINES The VFW Auxiliary #798 meeting for July is canceled. The until 4:30 p.m. August 12. Bids will be opened and Bread and Puppet’s first museum open house was in June winners notified on August 13. Auction winners will hunt in of 1975, and since then there have been 54 more, with next auxiliary meeting will be held on Sunday, August 9, at 6:30 p.m. Wildlife Management Unit E in the northeast corner of the museum tours, short shows, music, and guest performers. state during the October 1 through 7 archery season, or in This year the doors will be closed until state guidelines the October 17 through 22 regular season. Bids must be change and it’s safe to open. entered with a sealed bid form available from Vermont BRIGHTON HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI BANQUET GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS Fish and Wildlife. A minimum bid of $1,500 is required. CANCELED Bids do not include the cost of a hunting license, or moose The Brighton High School Association has canceled its SUNDAY SERVICES ON ZOOM hunting permit fee. Moose permit bid packets can be alumni banquet that was to be held on August 1. St. Mark’s Episcopal Church in Newport, is having Sunday obtained by calling Fish and Wildlife at (802) 828-1190, or services on Zoom. Those interested in attending may call by emailing [email protected]. HOLLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 2020 MEETINGS (802) 334-7365, or email [email protected] to CANCELED get the link and the password, or for more information OUR LADY FATIMA CATHOLIC CHURCH MASS Due to the coronavirus, Holland Historical Society (HHS) Our Lady of Fatima Catholic Church in Craftsbury will is canceling all meetings for 2020 and the annual Old BARTON PUBLIC LIBRARY have their summer Masses on Saturdays at 6 p.m. For Home Sunday, which is usually held on the first Sunday in The Barton Public Library is now open Monday, information on updated Mass protocols go to: August. Wednesday, and Friday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Only three www.vermoncatholic.org. patrons at a time. ISLAND POND FRIDAY NIGHT LIVE AND JULY 4TH QUILTS FOR A CAUSE AT THE NEWPORT FARMERS CELEBRATION CANCELED COBLEIGH PUBLIC LIBRARY MARKET The Island Pond Chamber of Commerce’s Friday Night 70 Depot Street, Lyndonville. Curbside service —Call in The Morgan-based Circle of Friends will not be able to Live concert series and the Kingdom’s favorite July 4th request at 626-5475, or email [email protected], or have its annual bazaar this summer due to COVID-19 celebration are being canceled for 2020 due to the place a hold through the catalog with a library card constraints. They will be selling, handmade crafts and COVID-19 crisis. Future event information can be found number. Once the request is ready, the library staff will raffle tickets for a beautiful queen-sized quilt every at www.VisitIslandPond.com. Those who have questions, call. Pick up hours are Monday, Wednesday, and Friday Saturday in July and into August at the Newport Farmers’ contact Mike Strait at The Hearth and Home Country Store between noon and 4 p.m. Market from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. to raise money for various groups in Essex and Orleans counties. To learn more (802) 723-0470, or Jeanne Gervais at Gervais Ace COMMUNITY SEED EXCHANGE BARTON Hardware (802) 723-6138. The Community Seed Exchange at the Barton Public about the sale, or to make a donation, please contact Library is operating out of a member’s house. These free Candy Moot at (802) 279-8449. JAY SUMMERFEST The Jay Summer Fest has been canceled. seeds are donated by seed companies and are mostly heirloom and open-pollinated, never GMO. Those interested can request the latest inventory and order form by emailing [email protected]. Those who have extra seeds to spare that are non-GMO and viable can donate JULY THIS WEEK’S SPECIALS them to the CSE to be given to area gardeners. • Roast prime rib • Chicken marsala with prosciutto, FAMILY GARDENING SERIES The University of Vermont (UVM) Extension 4-H is hosting pinenuts and mushrooms • Pan seared fresh salmon CRYSTAL LAKE FALLS HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION “Eating what we grow,” an online bi-weekly gardening with roasted tomatos, parmesan and pesto • Antipasto ONLINE plate - assorted cured meats, cheeses, marinated and Crystal Lake Falls Historical Association now has summer series that will run throughout the summer. Each hour- long class will include a 20-minute presentation followed pickled vegetables open hours for the Barton Museum — Pierce House, Sundays, July 12 through August 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. Brick by an interactive Q and A session. Geared to beginner Kingdom park daylight hours. gardeners, ages 9-14 but can be for all ages. Pre- registration is required by the Monday prior to each week’s SUMMER HOURS HCA: THE SHOW MUST GO ONLINE session. To sign up, go to http://go.uvm.edu/4-h-garden- Highland Center for the Arts (HCA) has temporarily closed survey. Classes are free. Sessions will run from 10-11 Wed. - Sun. its doors in light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic. HCA a.m. on the following dates: July 21: What plants eat and 11-8 has created an online, crowd-sourced gallery titled what eats plants. Viewers will learn about composting, soil Pigment and Paper. All mediums, including poetry, have building and how to identify and control common garden been submitted and are showcased along with pests. To request a disability-related accommodation to biographical information. Visitors to the site, participate, contact Rose Crossley at highlandartsvt.org/HCA-goes-online/, are encouraged to [email protected], or (866) 860-1382. interact with each other through the comment section built into the gallery. Artists at all stages in their craft are LAKE WILLOUGHBY HIGHLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS NEW EXHIBIT 280 VT RTE. 5A, encouraged to submit work to Highland Center for the Arts will be hosting a new exhibit WESTMORE • VT [email protected]. called Sheltering in Place: A reflection by Vermont artists and writers’ on time spent during Covid-19, created by HITCHCOCK MUSEUM AND LIBRARY REOPENED Calais artist Hasso Ewing with creations by over 100 Hitchcock Museum and Library in Westfield reopened on Vermont artists and writers. This exhibit opened July 1 Tuesday, June 23. The library hours will remain Tuesdays and will run through August 9. The hours are Wednesday and Thursdays, 1 to 7 p.m. Contact the library at 744-8258 through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. by reservation only. for additional information. For more information go to highlandartsvt.org.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, please check with your local library, • ( ) 371 Hayward Rd., Derby, VT 05829 802 766-8807 gallery, historical society, museum, and Church for up to date information on cancellations. We will resume running these listings when we have updated information and as space allows. Vendors’• Market Saturday, July 11th 11 a.m.-3 p.m. BEER & WINE Fresh daily served in house! specials Fun & relaxed for - OPEN RAINTO ORTHE SHINE! PUBLIC - & full deli the whole family! Vendors include: • Groceries menu. 95 Rte. 14N • Gas SCENTSY, TASTEFULLY SIMPLE, • Wine Irasburg, VT 05845 MAGNABILITIES, TUPPERWARE, • Beer • Gifts PAMPERED CHEF, CHECK US 802-754-6042 MORGAN MAPLEWORKS, OUT ON OWNERS: Julie Jacobs-Seguin & Libby Jacobs FACEBOOK! COLOR STREET NAILS, Take out, delivery, Featurin: BUG-A-BEE CREATION, Sushi, Braxton, McK Lobster or curbside! MOOSEY CRAFTS, BLT every Outside seating available! Friday! Limited indoor seating. BAKED & CANNED GOODS. No entertainment until further notice. Water slide will open June 10, Mon. - Thurs. 7:00 a.m.-7 p.m., Fri. & Sat. 7:00 a.m.-8 p.m., Sun. 8:00 a.m.-5 p.m. 12-3 p.m. daily. Subject to change. 8411 VT RTE. 111, MORGAN, VT • 802-895-2726 Ice cream shop open to the public, Visit our website for our summer activity list: 11 a.m.-7 p.m. daily. A UNIQUE COUNTRY STORE SETTING www.treecorners.com www.char-bo.com the Chronicle, July 8, 2020 Page Thirty-three

HE INGDOM. We reserve the right to reject or edit events and do not accept eventsALENDAR over the phone. Submit events by emailing [email protected]. DEADLINET FOR EVENTS: MONDAYK AT NOON C PARKER PIE GALLERY appointment. Those donating can streamline their encouraged and customers with pre-orders will be able to The Parker Pie Gallery is showing a new exhibit until July experience and save up to 15 minutes by visiting wait for their purchases in a designated loading zone. 28, oil paintings by Maggie Neale. Located at 161 County RedCrossBlod.org/RapidPass to complete a pre-donation Walk-up patronage will be allowed with social distancing. Road, West Glover. (802) 525-3366. reading and health history questions on the day of the Customers and vendors must wear masks and maintain appointment. six feet of distance from all others with ten customers JAY FOCUS GROUP SALE FUNDRAISER allowed within the vending area. Hand sanitizer Jay Focus Group will be hosting a tag sale fundraiser in dispensers at the market’s access and exit points, masks Jay on Beadle Hill Road on Thursday, Friday, and provided for those without, and regular cleaning of Saturday, July 30, 31, and August 1, from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. AUGUST surfaces. To learn more please visit www.nofavt.org. Donations are needed. Those interested can call (802) Vendor applications available by contacting 343-5687, or email [email protected] for an FAMILY GARDENING SERIES [email protected]. appointment to bring items to Jay or for pickup. The group The University of Vermont (UVM) Extension 4-H is hosting is looking for: in good condition household items, arts, “Eating what we grow,” an online bi-weekly gardening crafts, decorations, sports equipment, jewelry, tools, series that will run throughout the summer. Each hour- gardening items, small furniture (indoor or outdoor), toys, long class will include a 20-minute presentation followed etcetera. Please no clothing, no books, no televisions, by an interactive Q and A session. Geared to beginner “Downtown Jay” and no computers or printers. gardeners, ages 9-14 but can be for all ages. Pre- ONLINE registration is required by the Monday prior to each week’s Good Food session. To sign up, go to http://go.uvm.edu/4-h-garden- SUBSCRIPTIONS Good Spirits survey. Classes are free. Sessions will run from 10-11 SATURDAY, JULY 18 a.m. on the following dates: August 4: Garden neighbors. AVAILABLE!

The focus will be on weeding, thinning, pruning and Youngsters Barton Trustees explore their propose village future careers. budgets. VIRTUAL SHEEP AND GOAT CAMP mulching and include easy-to-prepare vegetable recipes to 12 3 University of Vermont Extension 4-H is sponsoring a the Chronicle try at home. August 18: This year, next year — planning THE WEEKLY JOURNAL OF ORLEANS COUNTY TWO SECTIONS, 48 PAGES VOLUME 47, NUMBER 6 FEBRUARY 12, 2020 ONE DOLLAR virtual sheep and goat camp on Saturday, July 18. Youths, Winter carnival is part Towns to vote on and preserving. Featured topics include harvesting of Island Pond revival Internet service union by Joseph Gresser Community Broadband under the provisions of 30 V.S.A. Chapter 82?” LYNDON — A group of Katherine Sims, the head of the Kingdom residents, working under collaborative, which was formed to ages eight to 18, are invited to partake. The free camp, the umbrella of the Northeast develop priorities for the three- Kingdom Collaborative, has decided county area, said one item almost to do something about the lack of everyone has at the top of their list adequate broadband service in is improved communications. vegetables to eat fresh or preserve, drying herbs and Orleans, Essex, and Caledonia Private corporations have shown counties. They have gotten articles they are not going to invest in on the Town Meeting Warnings of broadband in the Kingdom, she 27 Kingdom towns, asking voters to said. offered through Facebook Live, will run from 9:30 a.m. to consider forming a communications “We can’t sit back and wait for union district. someone, somewhere to deal with it. Those towns include Albany, It’s not going to happen,” Ms. Sims Coventry, Craftsbury, Glover, said. 802-988-2306 planning for next year’s garden, including soil testing. To Greensboro, Lowell, and Westfield At the same time, she said, good in Orleans County as well as service is necessary to “support our Brighton in Essex County. modern life.” Poor availability for Each will have an article asking good broadband service is “a drag on if the town should “enter into a our economy,” she said. 12:30 p.m. Participants do not need to be enrolled in 4-H. communications union district request a disability-related accommodation to participate, (CUD) to be known as NEK (Continued on page nineteen.) 1078 Rte. 242, Downtown Jay, VT Barton Select Board To register, go to http://go.uvm.edu/sheepgoatcamp. To Board resolves sticky issues, sets budgets www.thejayvillageinn.com contact Rose Crossley at [email protected], or by Joseph Gresser Board members voted on January 29 to seek bids on the If you live out ofBARTON state — The Barton Select project.and At the time both Mr. Board followed a long, winding trail Croteau and select board member to resolve a couple of sticky issues Doug Swanson asked whether the request a disability-related accommodation to participate, Lay minister Muriel O’Gorman, 90, braved the cold to bless snowmobilers in Island — how much to pay the town’s project engineer or officials from Pond on Saturday. She and Jodi Gonyaw-Worth, a fellow member of Christ zoning administrator, and what to Vermont Agency of Transportation Episcopal Church, prayed with riders for a safe season on the trails. do about bids on a town bridge (VTRANS) District Nine had been Photo by Meghan Wayland project. consulted about the bid Guest Rooms: 802-988-2306 (866) 860-1382. On February 4, at the end of a specifications. are tiredby Meghan Wayland ofThe carnival,waiting which was contentious meeting, it appearedfor the Boardthe Chair Toni Eubanks said organized by the Island Pond board was about to cancel the bids she and Barton Town Clerk and ISLAND POND — Despite the Chamber of Commerce and Island for the Maple Hill Road bridge and Treasurer Kristin Atwood had heavy snow and bitter cold, Pond Renewal Committee, is one of reconsider its recently enacted drawn up the documents in contact Wendy Sorrell, UVM Extension 4-H livestock downtown businesses thrived several weekend-long events that procurement policy before soliciting accordance with the town’s during the thirteenth annual aim to build community, encourage new ones. The Chronicle did not procurement policy. She said town winter carnival in Island Pond last tourism, and bring prosperity to attend the meeting, but watched on weekend. local businesses. a video provided by NEK-TV. (Continued on page twenty.) post Foroffice three days, the historic In 2017,to the Vermont Councildeliver your railroad hub boomed with activity. on Rural Development facilitated a Downtown boasted a variety of series of community-wide indoor and outdoor family friendly conversations about how to boost educator and camp organizer, at (802) 651-8343, events — many of which were prosperity in Island Pond. The Frozen pipes at root geared toward snowmobilers. discussions led to the bolstering of Among them were a lighted the Destination Island Pond event snowmobile parade on the iced- series of which the winter carnival of Newport house fire subscription,over lake, a best-in-show chili is part. youNEWPORT — In the wakecan of a second floor and the attic of the cookoff, a cornhole tournament at If the goal of the series is to house fire here earlier in the month, house, Assistant State Fire Marshal The Food the Legion, and a cardboard sled keep local businesses from the Division of Fire Safety is Tim Angell said in a press release. race. shuttering, it’s working. A little reminding people to avoid using After putting the fire out, Newport’s extension 531, or [email protected] by July 10. over three years ago, there were torches to thaw frozen pipes. fire chief requested an investigation. close to ten vacant storefronts The fire at a Lake Road home, That investigation determined downtown. Now there are only owned by Mike and Kristen that the fire had started on the first two. Anderson, was reported about 9:30 floor, on an inside wall. Fire then FARMER’S MARKETS subscribe toIsland Pond struggledthe in recent a.m.Chronicle on February 2. The Andersons traveled upward within the walls of were home at the time. the old house and into the attic (Continued on page twenty-two.) Heavy fire was found on the (Continued on page twenty-four.) Is Awesome! GROW YOUR OWN WILD EDIBLES WORKSHOP online and view the entire Grow Your Own will host a free workshop on wild edibles paper the day it’s published FREE WiFi in Hardwick on Saturday, July 18, led by Erin Roshenthal NEWPORT FARMERS MARKETS – no waiting! The Newport Farmers Market is opened Saturdays • Homemade Pizza • Burgers and Lucian Avery. Registration is required by July 15. through October 17, and Wednesdays June 3 through • J.R.’s Famous Ribs • Fresh Participants will learn to identify wild edibles, cook them Only $28 Seafood • Pasta • Hand-cut October 14, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 246 Causeway, rain and taste test. Masks are required. Social distancing Steaks • Daily Specials or shine. Community and vendor safety is first, masks are per year! rules will apply. Space is limited. To register contact Something for every palate! highly recommended. Take out orders from Bowen Jr. [email protected], or call (802) 472- Fried Chicken is available. Also Renee Fontains’s shaved That’s a savings of $14 per 5940. POOLSIDE DINING ice and smoothies. EBT and debit cards accepted. Farm- year! If you have AVAILABLE! OLD STONE HOUSE MUSEUM PUBLIC WORKSHOP to-family coupon site. Crop cash coupons available. 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Newport’s fireworks display lights up the sky Saturday night. The city canceled all of its usual Independence Day activities and put its efforts into a show designed to be viewed drive-in style. Photos by Joseph Gresser

The skies over Greensboro blazed with color Friday night as skyrockets burst over Tolman Corners. As always, the town celebrated its own Funky Fourth on a day other than July 4, but this year the celebration was confined to a fireworks show.

An unconventional rainbow appears above Greensboro Friday to oohs, aahs, and applause of the hundreds of people who gathered to view the town’s annual celebratory display.

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Just listed ­ First floor end unit at Holbrook Delightful Derby Center home for Bay. Lakefront living with pool and tennis. $139,000. Huge attached garage. Formal Bring in those dirty dogs! Screened in porch. Wood burning fireplace. dining. Updated kitchen. 2 baths. $185,000. • New stainless raised walk-in tub

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3262 U.S. Route 5 Just listed ­ Derby home loaded with One of Newport’s grand old homes Derby, VT character and charm on an acre just on over 68 acres at the end of a city street (Across from the Derby Post Office.) outside Derby Center. with PHENOMENAL lake views and $189,000. complete privacy. Over 3700 square feet of (802) 766-2714 living space. $425,000. Open Mon.-Fri. 7-5:30, Sat. 7-3