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VOLUME 44, NUMBER 45 NOVEMBER 8, 2017 ONE DOLLAR Newport Congratulations, Rangers! water bond defeated by Joseph Gresser

NEWPORT — Fewer than one out of ten Newport voters turned out Tuesday to defeat a proposed $3-million bond issue to supply water to the city’s east side. The measure was defeated 154 to 136, an 18- vote margin. Had the vote gone the other way, the bond would have paid for a 450,000-gallon water tower, a booster pump station, and a new floating cover for the Palin reservoir. Although the loan would have been for the full $3-million, the state loan fund would have charged a negative 3 percent interest rate on the 30-year bond. As a result, it would have cost the city only $1.8-million to repay the loan. The entire project was meant to replace water currently supplied by Derby Center. The village The Lake Region Union High School soccer team with their championship trophy and medallions on the field at water company and the city signed an agreement South Burlington High School following Saturday’s Division II final. The members of the team are Keith Herman, Dylan Gagnon, Logan Ingalls, Parker Perron, Riley Urie, Noah Royer, Caleb Rodgers, Brady Perron, Evan Inkel, in 1997 setting terms under which the village Mathew Menard, Chad Royer, Hunter Matte, Bradey Kerr, Mason Svag, Connor Lanou, Isaiah Braithwaite, would provide water for a proposed industrial Jackson King, Gabe Riendeau, Drew Dragesett, and Liam Kennedy. Brad Urie is the head coach, assisted by park, just off Route 5. Jason Kennedy, Mark Royer, and Laurie Carr-Wolff. For stories and more photos, please see page sixteen. (Continued on page twenty-six.) Photo by The Old One IRS scammer makes New Barton Senior a bad call Center gets a boost by Tena Starr day, all of them recorded messages by Elizabeth Trail Appropriations are approved by with a call back number, Chief voters at Town Meeting in March, A scammer pretending to be Deputy Brooks said by phone last BARTON — The new senior but aren’t distributed until after from the IRS recently made a week. center here is one step closer to property taxes are paid in the fall. remarkably bad call. She dialed the So he called back. serving its first meal. Organizers The appropriation can’t be Orleans County Sheriff’s The IRS scam is a particularly hope it can be up and running for transferred, select board members Department and, unbeknownst to vicious one because the callers are the holidays. said, though the money won’t be her, ended up talking to Chief sophisticated and can be very A delegation from the newly given to the Barton Senior Center, Deputy Phil Brooks, who she threatening. They typically say that formed Barton Area Senior Services, either. threatened with arrest if he didn’t a person owes a significant amount Inc., (BASSI) went to Monday night’s The BASSI delegation left with immediately pay what she claimed of money in back taxes, and a Barton Select Board meeting to ask the promise of a $7,000 grant from he owed the federal government. sheriff will arrest them soon if they if there was any way that a $7,000 the select board on behalf of the The Sheriff’s Department has don’t pay up. Like, right now. appropriation earmarked for the now town, and a letter of support. The several lines and received four defunct Barton Senior Center could (Continued on page twenty-nine.) (Continued on page thirty.) phone calls from scammers that be transferred to BASSI. Farmers see price for organic milk drop by Joseph Gresser The Cooperative Regions of Organic Producer $20 per hundred pounds to make their milk and Pools (CROPP), the dairy cooperative that are seeing milk prices a little over $17 a The price paid to Vermont organic milk markets Organic Valley products, has told its hundredweight, even the lower price might seem producers dropped by $6 per hundredweight over Vermont members it will pay $28.80 per hundred like a dream come true. the past year, according to a report provided to pounds of milk this December. At the same time But the producers alliance says New England the Vermont Milk Commission by the Northeast last year the price was $34.80. organic dairies’ break-even price is around $35 a Organic Dairy Producers Alliance. According to the producers alliance, the hundredweight. average price paid by CROPP during 2016 was Members of the organic cooperative have $35.68 per hundredweight. This year it is quotas based on a farmer’s purchase of preferred estimated the average price will fall to $30.59. stock in CROPP. Should a farmer produce more By spring the price paid farmers will drop milk than it allows, the co-op will pay $20 less another $2, CROPP has told its farmers. per hundredweight for the overage. For conventional farmers, who spend around (Continued on page twenty-eight.) Page Two the Chronicle, November 8, 2017 the Chronicle Search continues for INDEX Crossword Puzzle...... 11 Chris McCarthy Kids’ Corner ...... 13B Kingdom Calendar ...... 8B-13B Police, rescue workers, friends, and family McCarthy’s home using multiple K-9 teams, but Letters to the Editor ...... 4-8 continued to search this week for Chris the search did not yield any new evidence or tips Obituaries...... 3B-6B McCarthy, the 47-year-old Westmore man who as to his whereabouts. Perimeter ...... 9 was last seen on November 2. “Based on the circumstances of the case and Ruminations...... 2B State Police Lieutenant Matt Amadon said in the ongoing missing persons investigation, foul Sports...... 16-19 a press release that family members advised play is not suspected at this time,” a press release Sudoku Puzzle ...... 6 police Saturday evening that Mr. McCarthy was says. Advertising Sections missing. State Police went to his home and State Police urge the public to report any tips searched the immediate area but said they did regarding Mr. McCarthy’s whereabouts. With Auctions & Real Estate ...... 6B-7B not find him. hunting season about to start, hunters are also Auto ...... 29-31 Through Tuesday, members of the State asked to report any suspicious items or Building Trades ...... 4B-5B Police Search and Rescue team, the Westmore, circumstances that might help with locating Mr. Classified Ads...... 14B-15B Orleans, Newark, and Sutton fire departments, as McCarthy. Hair...... 25 well as family and friends, searched for Mr. The search is ongoing. Jobs...... 26 McCarthy in several locations he was known to “The Vermont State Police would like to Pets...... 28 frequent, but he wasn’t found. thank all of the persons and agencies that have Restaurants & Entertainment...... 9B-11B Mr. McCarthy is Westmore’s fire chief. assisted in the search and the outpouring of In an update Tuesday afternoon, State Police community support to this point in the said they had searched wooded areas around Mr. investigation,” the release says.

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FPR leaders Protect Willoughby quoted from that section of Without the bridge, the two men have to drive the management plan in its most recent public up an extremely steep slope that’s icy during the In mid-October, representatives of the informal letter, one of 37 that the group has now e-mailed winter months, Mr. Warner said in a phone citizens’ group Protect Willoughby met with leaders to supporters and posted on its website. interview early in October. of the Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and However, FPR’s long range plan also goes on Mr. Warner appeared before the select board Recreation (FPR), including Commissioner Michael to say that due to the high level of use at the last month to talk about his concerns, according to Snyder; Director of State Parks Craig Whipple; and south end of the lake, it anticipated needing to the minutes of those meetings. Letters from both Director of Forests Steven Sinclair. change or restrict patterns of use in the future. men and their attorney are also part of the public The citizens reminded the FPR officials that Even in 2004, FPR foresaw the possibility that record for those dates. Willoughby Lake is a National Natural Landmark the area would eventually be designated as a state Kempton Hill Road isn’t the steepest road in and is listed on the Vermont Fragile Area Registry. day use area. That’s what the state calls parks town, selectmen said at their October 17 meeting. “We expressed our overarching concern that and forests that charge an entrance fee but don’t The minutes say Mr. Warner replied that his the south end area be restored rather than allow overnight camping. situation is unique in that, from his house, there’s developed,” says the group’s latest e-mail bulletin. 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Opinion One way to really thank a veteran by James Ehlers We must demand that veterans get the same when in need. They already have. And they medical care our elected officials bestow upon continue to do so right now. Friends and neighbors, on this Veterans Day, themselves. Most urgently, the VA needs to This, I believe, is the best way you can thank while I greatly appreciate the e-mails, texts, and acknowledge the medical science behind the a vet. In the eyes of this one man honored to messages thanking me for my service, please poison Agent Orange and extend benefits to our have donned the uniform worn by scores of know that my sacrifices were few in comparison to Vietnam veterans suffering the ill effects of Americans far more courageous than myself, we many with whom I served. In fact, the gifts I exposure to this potent toxin. No less important need to see to it that our brothers and sisters are have received in the form of the lifelong fellowship is the need to restore the cuts just made to the not forgotten in the hype of parades and sales and of my brothers and sisters in arms make all the Veterans Outreach program here in Vermont, a the sensationalism of war. Please, show your hardships seem but a small investment. program critical to ensuring no Vermonter feels gratitude by caring for our band of brothers and This Veterans Day, let us all demand that our so abandoned or betrayed by our country that sisters. Make the call. Make the post. Send the elected officials who have sent us to war, under they tragically join the 20 veterans a day in e-mail. Please. whatever pretext, accelerate even further the America taking their own life. Join with me in supporting those still overhaul of the Veterans Administration (VA). While most of our fellow Americans enjoy a fighting, not a foreign enemy, but our own No nation, but especially not ours, can afford paid day off, many of our brothers and sisters will government agencies. Enlist a friend a today. endless wars if we cannot afford to care for those never be able to take a holiday from their Then we can begin to make it a truly happy sent to do the fighting in our name. I ask sacrifices on behalf of our nation. No American Veterans Day today and tomorrow and the next everyone, today, to please send their elected sailor, soldier, or airman should be on a waiting day. It is the least we can do for those who have officials a note, leave them a message, or post to list for medical care, either mental or physical, or given so much. their social media pages, demanding that our worse, denied care. Freedom and unity. nation does more than just thank our vets — that Celebrate this Veterans Day by enlisting your James Ehlers is a U.S. Navy veteran and we also see to their care. friends to serve our veterans in need. You know Democratic candidate for Vermont Governor. they would do the same for us and the nation Chronicle office hours Student seeks help with trip to Thailand Dear friends and family, I attended a small school in Walden growing We are open for business: My name is Jaden Willey. I am a 15-year-old up before moving to Coventry with my parents sophomore from Coventry attending St. Johnsbury and little sister. Since I was ten, I was Monday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Academy, taking advanced classes like engineering volunteering at youth camps and 4-H events, and Tuesday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Japanese 2. had my first paying job at 13 years old. Wednesday, closed. 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Opinion Perpetrators, not victims, should suffer public scorn by state senators Chris Pearson herself in a bad situation only (Chittenden) and Joe Benning (Caledonia) misdirects attention from the acts of the perpetrator. Minimizing the The recent phenomenon known perpetrator’s behavior (“Charlie’s as #MeToo is a powerful way for just being Charlie.”) is a sad and victims of unacceptable sexual desperate attempt to maintain a behavior to speak up and support flimsy illusion of decency. We must one another. It also provides all of stay focused on the alleged us with a priceless opportunity that perpetrator. When behavior is cannot be missed. Even though we inappropriate, we must find the come from opposite sides of the courage to say so. political spectrum and the That courage will not come rural/urban Vermont demographic, easily. Society has yet to recognize we two Vermont state senators agree that inappropriate behavior comes in the #MeToo discussion is a critical many forms, from the seemingly first step in the hard work necessary innocent to the grossly obvious. It is to bring about much needed social found, but masked, in our White change. House, our State House, and A brief review of #MeToo potentially in every gathering where postings reveals a wide array of acts conversation flows freely. As males that have left a trail of pain and bad we know it is much easier to look memories that can last a lifetime. the other way or join the crowd. But Those acts range from what have too this is not isolated to the male long been considered “harmless play” gender. Saying “that’s not cool” in (cat calls or the snapping of a bra reaction to an inappropriate joke, levels of government, and against $1 for the same job. This disparity strap) to outright sexual violence. comment or act is foreign to the employers in all work environments. is a cultural inequity, a symptom of The common theme is disrespect. It social norm. But those brave When power is used as a an accepted power differential that is for juries to decide whether a #MeToo commentators have inspired manipulative weapon to engage in has been allowed to exist for far too given act transgresses a criminal us to work together and join their bad behavior, justice should be swift long. Its end will only come about if statute, but just because something fight to foster social change. and to the fullest extent of the law. we speak up at every opportunity. doesn’t rise to the criminal definition Our society must recognize this That perpetrator must be removed Vermont is not immune to of “sexual assault” doesn’t mean it is inappropriate behavior as both a from power and, where necessary, inappropriate behavior and we acceptable. It is time for all of us to symptom of, and a foundation for, subject to civil and/or criminal should all thank those who have stop standing idly by. We must hold cultural inequities that must be penalties. The perpetrator, not the added their personal experiences to each other accountable whenever corrected. Power differential is one victim, should be the one who suffers the #MeToo commentary. Their behavior creates a hostile such inequity. It is the common public scorn. courageous testimony is just the first environment for anyone. thread that binds the men making Another form of inappropriate step. Step two requires all of us to Let’s start by recognizing that allegations against Kevin Spacey behavior is gender economic muster up the fortitude to confront victims are not obliged to share their and the women making allegations inequality. Although we in Vermont such behavior wherever it is found. traumatic1 experiences with the against Harvey Weinstein in consider ourselves as doing better This is an important fight for world. Casting blame upon the Hollywood. That same thread winds than the nation as a whole, Vermont cultural change and all of us need to victim by suggesting her clothing through allegations against women still earn only 82 cents when be a part of it. was inappropriate or that she placed politicians from all parties at all their male counterparts are earning

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Opinion Show me a felon who wasn’t convicted by Norman Rioux meaning of that verb. Consider the verb pull. There is pull over (when a police car is chasing The other night I awakened from a deep sleep you), pull out (of a parking place), pull in (to an and a dream in which I was lecturing a creative available parking spot), pull up (to a gas pump), writing class on the plethora of unnecessary pull for (support for some candidate to win words tacked onto verbs in particular, but other something), and pull on (a sweater). expressions as well, in the English language. I Think about the hapless student trying to grabbed the pad and pencil that sit on the master English when he/she has to learn all these nightstand for these moments so I could make a individual meanings. Pause for a moment to list of them to write about some future time. consider this grouping: take on, take off, take The hour has come. English is a crazy out, take over, take in (respectively) a new job, a language, and when someone like me has tried to coat, a pizza, a country, and too many inches on a teach it as a second tongue to another human pants waist. being, gray hairs begin to abound even if one Then there’s the verb pick and its ancillaries. already had more than enough of them. Plain old pick (to choose one out of many, or your At the top of my most aggravating list is the nose if you happen to have a resident goober phrase “convicted felon.” I hear this nonsensical needing to be dislodged), pick up (a man at a bar word combination on the evening TV news more looking for female companionship), pick on (to times than I could ever count. In our real world harass, annoy, or bother somebody), pick at (a there is no way to be a felon unless one is fussy child not wanting to eat the food on his or convicted by a court, a judge, a jury, or some legal her plate), a guitar (to make music), ice (in the process. Your local kind priest can forgive even pond in winter in the old days with a proper your most heinous sin. The fellow to whom you implement), and pick up in another situation (a owe money can forget the debt. The fiancée you paper clip that has fallen on the floor), All horizontal rows of nine, all vertical promised to marry can agree to break the How about go? The list is long, but here are a columns of nine, and all the heavily arrangement, but you can’t dub yourself a felon. few classics. Somebody can go crazy, wild, nuts, outlined boxes of nine squares must You have to be convicted. Ask yourself some time or berserk when there is no movement contain all the numbers from one to nine. how many unconvicted felons there are whatsoever involved. A person careless with wandering around. money can go broke, but he can’t go rich. No Solution, tips and computer program at Over the years when I have been teaching movement is involved if Jane goes red when www.sudoku.com English as a second language classes I’ve had to embarrassed. Somebody asks, “How did the deal patiently with intelligent students who meeting go?” The reply can’t be “by horse.” The The answer is on page 2B. asked me why we say in English, for example, betting man in Las Vegas tells the croupier, cash money, elm trees, big snobs, sick invalids, “Anything goes because what happens in Vegas and a whole host of other word combinations that stays in Vegas.” Joe is going off the handle with are like saying wet water. Money and cash are the way his wife treats him, and as a result he’s telling the listener that operators are “standing one and the same thing, how many elms have you letting himself go. Where, one might ask? “I by.” Let me assure you they are sitting and not ever seen that are automobiles or vacation plan,” the man said, “to go about my own standing on two feet. In the late nineteenth resorts as opposed to trees, and how many times business.” Finally, “I am going along with your century when telephones were brand new and have you ever known a little snob, and a healthy plan,” the banker replied. used just for talking, males stood at a large invalid? More examples of wet water. Sleep was calling me to return to the arms of wooden board nailed to a wall and made the wire Then there are the prepositions tacked onto Morpheus. I must finish with those TV ads connections. Therefore, we have operators still verbs that completely change the original trying to get you to respond for a purchase by standing by 125 years later.

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It is easy in acceptance of Fascist ideals that have occurred week he was reading about the latest terrorist these days of reactionary politics to be sold on the over the last year or so from “nativist” groups. attack in New York City and was questioning the idea that the persecution of these groups is a These white supremacists, who have also risen in motivation of “people like that.” reliable way to fix society’s problems. Our power and influence in other countries this past “What sort of person would do that?” he asked. national reaction is: “Look at the papers, these year, are no less extreme or dangerous in their I remembered our conversation from just a criminals are all Muslim, black, or Hispanic; let’s tactics and they come from the white majority. few days earlier and asked the student to get rid of them all!” We rarely look beyond the Sure, we can’t excuse the New York attack, but consider what it was about all the rules he was differences in people, and historically it has we must also examine what sort of bigoted questioning at the school that angered him the always been easy to convince a certain group of stimuli might have caused the behavior in the most. Several students overheard and chimed in, folks that others who look or behave differently first place. To what extent is modern racism and the result of the conversation was that all of are a problem. Nobody wants to accept that the actually fanning the flames of radicalism? In them felt “marginalized.” They all had to suffer reason the crime happened is more complicated (Continued on page eight.) for the behavior of a few troublemakers, and the result had been stricter rules and more punishments. As a teacher, I understand that this behavior is natural in all people. The human Help Newport Wireless Mesh come alive response to restrictive and/or punitive Dear editor: Internet access to families for whatever they can environments is often rebellion or “acting out.” Newport Wireless Mesh is a simple idea to get afford to donate (hopefully an average of about Our country was founded on the idea. I low cost Internet to Newport, starting with the $15 a month) so they can use it for applications postulated that this individual may have been downtown residential neighborhood. We’ll be that are difficult on a cell phone screen, like reacting to some sort of negative stimulus, and bringing fiber optic service to a gateway at the online learning, job applications, and homework. found the answer in his misguided act of terror. United Church, sending it to backbone stations Great idea, right? Today we live in a world where it is becoming around the neighborhood and then to homes We think so. So do a lot of people. After a increasingly acceptable to lash out at various using special routers that can connect with any successful pilot project, our neighbors often ask groups of people, such as Muslims, African- other router in the system, finding the best route us when the final project will be starting. We Americans, Mexican-Americans, or immigrants to do so. plan to start building the mesh in the spring, but and paint them all with the same brush when a We’re hoping to start with 50 to 100 Mbps, raising money for startup costs hasn’t been easy. representative from one of these sectors of society serving about 40 to 80 households, but we could We want to thank all the people who have commits a crime. I am not in any way excusing start smaller if necessary. We are a 501(c)(3) donated already and urge others to go to our bad behavior, which in this case was a non-profit and all labor is donated, so we won’t website at www.newportmesh.net and find out horrendous crime against humanity. I told my have any costs except equipment and the more about the project. Please help make the students, however, that many of these people bandwidth. So all in all the system is mesh come alive. probably feel frustration and anger just as you do inexpensive, efficient, and relatively easy to Diane Peel at being told that they are all causing the install by community volunteers, and can be Newport problems when it is only a small minority of the easily repeated in other neighborhoods. It’ll get

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It is because they perceive their with its job of protecting the rights of its citizens, Though criminals must be brought to justice, they rights and dignity are being threatened. we should certainly be able to stem these are also given rights of their own until they are If someone is constantly marginalized, told “rebellions” by helping these outsiders assimilate. proven guilty. Unfortunately, some in our society they are a problem, discriminated against We would then spare their lives as well as those have already convicted them before they commit a because they are of a certain sex, race, or of their potential victims just by simply reaching crime. Though society does not necessarily lynch religious belief, they then become prime targets out with a helping hand. all these individuals, they do lynch their for the sort of radicalization that terror groups For an immigrant, leaving one’s home is in reputations. One of the benefits of the United use. They will then lash out at those who most cases a desperate decision. The people States is it is supposedly a classless society. I marginalize them and become one of the coming to this country, for instance, give up all sometimes wonder if we lived in a country where individuals we read about in the paper. that is familiar to them, and then face a grueling there was more respect given to diversity, we Persecution becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy, three-year vetting process to get into the country. could avert some of the reactionary behavior we and those who are constantly told they are Nearly all of our ancestors had to assimilate to are discussing here. If we all followed the Golden criminals, often become criminals. Sometimes this country as well, so when are we going to get Rule, and treated others as we would like to be these individuals are mentally ill or emotionally it? Since an immigrant’s survival depends on it, I treated in the first place, (bear in mind, this rule disturbed in the first place, but in their minds, would assume that the vast majority of them is common to most cultures/religions,) we might being marginalized by society gives them the would want to behave as responsible citizens to introduce a healthy dose of societal preventative right to act out and fight back. Indeed, when a make the system our founders created work for medicine. Accusations and ignorant stereotypes government does not serve us, according to them. The rest of us, however, must give them a only anger and escalate negative behavior. English philosopher John Locke and Thomas chance. The root of the problem goes beyond In our world today, those of us who hope for a more peaceful and forgiving world now feel as though we are moving further and further from that goal. Instead of just trying and punishing Service November 15 for loved ones who have died criminals, it must also be the role of government, and our citizens, preferably with the help of our To the editor: Association and Hospice will sponsor such a various religions, to work towards peace. November has been designated Hospice and community memorial service on Wednesday, Hopefully this can prevent these acts before they Palliative Care Month. It is also the time of the November 15, at the United Church on Third happen. In order to fix our problems, we must year when we joyfully anticipate and prepare for Street in Newport. The program will begin at 7 stop the behaviors that escalate them. If we holiday gatherings with family and friends. But p.m. and will include readings, music, and candle promote goodwill in this country, we might go a for those caring for a dying loved one or those lighting. long way towards stemming the unfortunate who have experienced a recent death, the Organizations participating in the palliative surge of violence we have experienced in our upcoming holidays are a difficult time — a time of care initiative have extended invitations to country of late. sadness and a reminder of loss and separation. families of those who they cared for during their Brian K. McCrae For this reason, hospices and palliative care final journey. This is a general invitation for all Newport programs across the nation reach out during the those in our community who have lost family month of November to the families they serve members, whether locally or out of the area and who will be facing the holidays without a loved would like to participate in this memorial service. one. They do this through community memorial All are welcome. A reception will follow the services, which acknowledge and celebrate the service. lives of those who are loved and will be missed at For the Northeast Kingdom Palliative Care the Thanksgiving dinner table or during the Initiative December festivities. Denise Niemira, M.D. The Northeast Kingdom Palliative Care Newport Initiative and Orleans Essex Visiting Nurse

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Today it’s the vehicles rather had been repeating all these years had a few than the houses that are being wired for holes in it. electricity. Electric vehicles (EV) are being What I found was a transcript of an oral touted as the up-and-coming option in history interview for a radio show, called the transportation to reduce carbon emissions. “Green Mountain Chronicles.” Created by the That’s somewhat daunting for someone who Vermont Historical Society, the program ran for shares Rodney’s memory of using generators to two years, 1987 and 1988. I don’t know how power televisions and home appliances. But it’s many interviews were recorded, but the one on coming. By 2025, Vermont’s Comprehensive line was recorded on August 7, 1987, and Energy Plan calls for 45,000 EVs to be on the occurred between the interviewer, Mary road, compared to the 2,000 operating today. Kasamatsu, and Rodney Noble. Dealers are giving customers financial Rodney told his interviewer that he had spent incentives to buy EVs. In June, for example, the first 23 years of his life in Granby, Victory’s Nissan awarded a $10,000 rebate to customers closest neighbor and a town that had also been who bought its all-electric car, Leaf. Presently, bypassed by the power companies. I felt a certain Green Mountain Power is providing battery kinship with Rodney as during his youth in the chargers to its customers free of charge, with fifties, people ran their televisions on generators. discounted rates for charge during off peak hours. At $125,000, he said, the costs of erecting utility At a recent meeting of the Legislature’s Join Yours from the Perimeter poles and stringing power lines was out of reach Energy Committee, a senior analyst with the for the few people who lived in either town. state’s Agency of Transportation said a study will by Paul Lefebvre By the late fifties, according to his account, be released in the next few weeks, demonstrating citizens from both towns formed a committee that where charging stations for EV vehicles will be As someone who has lived off the grid since went on to organize Holiday in the Hills. The placed within a 30-mile-radius of every town. 1989 — the last time I set up housekeeping in main purpose of the festival was to attract And there is a push to spend the $18-million Newark — I know how complicated life can potential buyers to the towns who might invest in Volkswagen award on buying electric school become without electricity. For many years land, build houses or camps and bring the cost buses. Rocky and I got by using a generator and by down as the demand for power increased. It When people ask me what we do for relying exclusively on gas appliances. More than didn’t work. entertainment in the Upper Kingdom, I tell once I checked with the utility company to see According to the transcript, Rodney also them we ride the roads a lot, stopping whenever how much it would cost to bring power into my revealed “there was a misconception that the the occasion arises or wherever an interest house, and at $19,000 the price remained pretty Hills was formed to raise money to bring power beckons. Maybe no more. From what I’ve constant. in. Well we made a $1,000 on our first Holiday in learned, the cost for living and driving on back “Maybe you could organize a Holiday in the the Hills. So 125 years later, maybe we would roads is going to go up. And we can either pay Hills,” Rocky said one day, pulling my chain when have it,” he said, referring to the much-desired the price or move to town. she heard me grumbling about the cost. electricity. Long before I returned to the Upper Kingdom, Contrary to hopes, the annual festival also she had been living in Lost Nation in a cabin lit failed to trigger a land rush in either Granby or by two gaslights and a couple kerosene lamps, Victory. What the festival did do, according to while raising two boys. When she agreed to live Rodney, was publicize the plight of two towns with me in Newark, though, she had had enough that had to make do without electricity and bring and made me promise we wouldn’t live in the pressure to bear on Vermont’s politicians and dark. Our first night could have been our last, for utility companies. as soon as I fired up the generator, it quit and As news of the annual festival spread, the Happy Birthday refused to start again, leaving me blue in the face towns put on a Christmas program that lit a from pulling the starter cord and fiddling with Christmas tree with candles rather than bulbs. to the following people! the choke. “That of course made the front page of the Boston Thankfully, my father came to our rescue by Globe,” Rodney told his interviewer. Afterwards, Josh Wolf, Orleans, Nov. 8 buying a top-of-the-line generator that started organizers from the towns met with the Governor, Derek Williams, Camarillo, CA, Nov. 9 nearly every time with just one pull. But a who at the time was Phil Hoff and the president Danielle Paquin, Newport Center, Nov. 9 generator could only do so much. It unfailingly of Central Vermont Public Service. And Ann Jenne, North Wolcott, Nov. 10 would run out of gas whenever someone, namely sometime, in the summer of 1963, the utility me, forgot to buy gas in town. Some winters, we president promised Granby and Victory “we could Wendell Dopp, Derby, Nov. 11 got by on a single gaslight and a television that have power by the time snow flies,” recalled Preston Libby, Burlington, Nov. 12 ran off a truck battery for the better part of a Rodney. Quentin Derbyshire, Barton, Nov. 12 night. All I had to do was park the driver’s side Presently, I’m hoping snow flies by the time Nancy Lanou, Orleans, Nov. 12 of the truck very close to a window so the power deer season opens Saturday. Hunting camp is in Kaden Swett, Brownington, Nov. 13 cord could span the distance between the fairly good shape, although I haven’t made any television set and the positive and negative posts improvements in how the place is lit. For me, gas Micheline Lafleur, Newport, Nov. 13 on the 12-volt battery. Nothing to it. and kerosene lights are as essential to a camp as Avon Stevens, Barton, Nov. 14 As the years went by, I learned that Rocky a sharp knife and compass are to a hunt. At Nick Jenne, Morrisville, Nov. 14 used to sell her stained glass medallions at a two- home I light my house with solar panels and a Yvette Sheltra, Irasburg, Nov. 14 day festival in Victory called Holiday in the Hills. generator, but would never consider using either Victory was one of the last towns in the state to one at camp. Electricity hums in a modern world Penny Queenin, Derby Line, Nov. 14 get power, and when it came in 1963, most people that’s another world apart from hunting camp. Frank Lackie, Westmore, Nov. 15 I talked to credited its arrival to the annual Admittedly, though, we are standing on the Glendon R. 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In Barton Wheelock settles in as principal by Elizabeth Trail “Tiger Pride” students can be nominated by anyone on the staff, BARTON — Kim Wheelock has from teachers to kitchen or custodial only had a few months to settle in staff. Children can be nominated as principal at the Barton Academy for acts of kindness, or for and Graded School, but the big demonstrating particular character, corner office looks and feels or persistence, or determination. different. “A lot of kids will never make In recently retired Principal Bob the honor roll,” Ms. Wheelock said Partridge’s day, the big wooden desk in an interview Monday. “And they sat solidly facing the door. Ms. need to be recognized for what they Wheelock has moved the desk so it do well.” sits on the diagonal. The white Everyone who works at the walls are sparingly decorated. school is required to nominate one There’s a round conference table in student per quarter. But it’s not an one corner with chairs for four. The “everyone gets something” kind of room feels open and welcoming but thing. purposeful. “It has to be earned, something The same could be said of Ms. that kids work for,” she said. Wheelock. And the changes she’s The first honor roll and Tiger making at the school are subtler but Pride assemblies will be on no less purposeful. November 14. She has her own vision of school Ms. Wheelock hails from culture and climate, and it’s a Groveton, New Hampshire, where positive one. It’s based on she taught middle school English for encouraging children and getting 12 years and high school English for parents and families more involved. five years. This is her first job as a Instead of hearing from the school school principal. only when there’s a discipline problem, She’s certified in both parents may get calls from their curriculum and administration. children’s teachers — or even from the And that, she believes, is important principal — telling them their kids did these days as teachers navigate the something especially well. Common Core curriculum, a new And it means that children get testing system, and other increasing recognized at quarterly assemblies demands. Kim Wheelock, the new principal of Barton Academy and Graded School, hails from for all kinds of achievements besides Groveton, New Hampshire, where she taught English for 17 years. (Continued on page eleven.) their grades. Photo by Elizabeth Trail

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Newport City Council Council gets virtual walking tour of downtown by Joseph Gresser Ms. Poor said motorists are inconsistent in benches and trash containers to the downtown. stopping for pedestrians in crosswalks despite the Mayor Paul Monette said there are a few NEWPORT — The city council got a virtual requirement in state law. She suggested benches in Pomerleau Park, but not on Main walking tour of downtown Newport at its regular installing flashing lights that walkers can operate Street. meeting Monday evening. Doug Morton, by pressing a button before heading across the “The benches were very controversial,” he transportation planner for the Northeastern street. said. “The merchants wanted them all removed Vermont Development Association (NVDA), and The published version of the report also very adamantly. Now’s the time to see if we can representatives from AARP laid out ideas for suggested Newport could improve conditions for put some back on Main Street.” improving conditions in the city for pedestrians. citizens with disabilities by installing sidewalk While the Spate’s Block was still standing, Kelly Stoddard Poor, AARP’s Vermont cuts for wheelchairs and audible signals for the many store owners believed that some Main outreach director, was joined by Mary Butler, the benefit of those with impaired eyesight. Street residents spent too much of their time chair of the Newport Age Friendly Advisory Ms. Butler said she joined a group that walks hanging out on the street and frightened their Council, as they shared the results of a street and to and from the Vista supermarket at Waterfront customers off. sidewalk audit performed in June. Plaza. She said much of the trip was very City Council President John Wilson The city joined AARP’s age friendly pleasant, but suggested a couple of possible contributed to the bench discussion by asking his community network in 2013. The audit, improvements. colleagues to give their blessing to a pair of performed by community volunteers, People with bundles might like a place to sit granite benches that an anonymous donor offered representatives from North Country Hospital, and rest for a spell, Ms. Butler told the council. to the city. and city workers along with members of the She suggested that it would be a good idea to The first would be in Pomerleau Park, and advisory council, checked out intersections, install benches as a convenience for the public. would bear the inscription “Enjoy the Lake,” he sidewalks, and crosswalks in downtown Newport. “It’s possible that someone might have a said. A second bench will be placed in Gardner According to Ms. Poor and Ms. Butler, drink and want to throw away the cup when its Park near the war memorial. It will be inscribed Newport’s sidewalks are in decent condition, but finished,” she said, pointing out the absence of “From Your Vietnam Brother,” Mr. Wilson said. its crosswalks could do with some improvement. trash receptacles along the walk. His request was approved unanimously. Ms. Poor timed the light at the intersection of Ms. Poor said she noticed the absence of Mr. Morton summarized the results of a study Coventry and Main streets at 13 seconds. That, benches on Main Street, and recalled hearing of Main Street traffic performed by Stantec, an she said, is too short a time for a person pushing they were removed because of objections from engineering firm, and funded by NVDA. a baby stroller to make it across the street. Main Street merchants. The study proposed a number of changes “Age friendly is not just for seniors,” Ms. “Perhaps the benches were turned to face the between Coventry and Third streets. It did not Butler observed. She said AARP cares about windows, and store owners didn’t like being extend as far east as Railroad Square, which people of all ages, including parents and young watched from the street,” Ms. Poor proposed. She already is slated to be rebuilt by the state children. suggested it would be a good time to return sometime in the next few years. Mr. Morton highlighted the biggest change, which involves converting the intersection at Third and Main streets to a four-way stop. At present, traffic headed west on Main Street can go straight or turn left without stopping. Vehicles coming from West Main Street, School Street, or Third Street must stop. He said out-of-town motorists find the unusual traffic pattern confusing. Mr. Monette was dubious about the idea, noting that local drivers are accustomed to going through the intersection while headed west. Mr. Morton said the plan also includes (Continued on page thirteen.)

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She thinks about how fragile She also wrote a grant that children are, and how many of them helped the school buy rain gear for are dealing with trauma in their the whole class. And the school lives. She thinks about how they bought extra winter gear in case need lots of supportive people anyone gets to school without a coat. around them, trained in dealing Finally, she needed enough with their needs. parent and community volunteers to She thinks about how cutting keep an eye on 16 preschoolers in an staff at schools to get to lower environment that includes acres of student-teacher ratios also cuts the woods, fields, and water. number of professional jobs She got them. available in a state that’s struggling “One of the biggest safety to keep its young college-educated features is the number of parents adults. involved,” Ms. Ellis said. And she thinks about all the But preschoolers aren’t the only tangible and intangible things her kids at Jay-Westfield school who students stand to get out of the time spend a lot of time in the woods. they spend in the woods just down All of the teachers at the school the road from the school. take their classes across the road to “These are the opportunities the recreation center trails. that will stick with children all their “Every grade and every subject lives,” she said. goes out into the woods at some With her principal firmly behind point,” Ms. Ellis said. her, Ms. Ste. Marie held meetings The school’s outdoor classroom last summer to see if prospective is a circle of benches in a clearing preschool families would be on among the trees. board with having their children It’s completely open to the weather. Jay-Westfield Joint Elementary School students (from left) Violet Hisman, Oliver outdoors two days a week. Farney, Ily Leyva, Avery Sevigny, and Olivia Perrault were delighted to splash in a So the whole school was behind The forest days are Tuesday and puddle they found in the woods. Friday. It would be perfectly the idea of building a simple open- sided shelter — nothing fancy, but The scavenger hunt was on the something with a roof overhead and calendar rain or shine. posts to lash tarps onto as a There wasn’t much shine windbreak. Friday. But that didn’t bother the Last week, the school held a children as they set off into the nature scavenger hunt at the woods in teams, looking for colored recreation center trails to raise leaves, odd-shaped rocks, and money for the project. everything else on the scavenger The scavenger hunt part was hunt list. the children’s idea. 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SOUTH BURLINGTON — They were tried and tested, but in the end the Lake Region Union High School Rangers left Munson Field at South Burlington High School just as they had arrived: as the reigning Division II soccer champions for the state of Vermont. Up 2-0 in the second half, the top ranked Rangers (15-2) weathered a two-goal rally by the sixth-seeded Harwood Union Highlanders (10-4-1) before Brady Perron seized the championship with a golden goal header just 5:57 into the overtime period. It has been an incredible run for a talented group led by senior snipers Riley Urie and Brady Perron. The Rangers ran the table last year (18- 0) to win the school’s first ever soccer title in the team’s first finals appearance since 1978. In 2015 Brady Perron (10) starts the celebration after his golden goal in the sixth minute of overtime lifted Lake Region to its second straight Division II state championship. Riley Urie (6) and Parker Perron (5) join in the chase. The they also finished the regular season undefeated dejection is evident for the Harwood Union players who battled back from two goals down to force the extra period. before falling to U-32 in the semifinals. Over the Perron’s header was set up by a well-placed free kick off the foot of Mathew Menard. Photos by Brad Usatch past four seasons, Lake Region has racked up a combined record of 62-6, capped by a pair of silver championship bowls for the display case. with a low easy shot into the left side of the net. Exactly two minutes after its first tally, In addition to the team’s offensive stars, this Down but not discouraged, Harwood really Harwood knotted the game when freshman Asa year’s seniors include goaltender Liam Kennedy seemed to find its groove in the middle part of the Moskowitz threaded a cross to Connor Woolley at who came up with a number of big saves on second half. For a stretch of about 20 minutes, the 18, and Woolley buried the shot head-high Saturday, starting fullbacks Noah Royer, Bradey the Highlanders dominated possession, spread just inside the post. Kerr, and Gabe Riendeau, and forward Chad the field, and sent wave after wave of dangerous To their credit, the Rangers kept their Royer. attacks at the Ranger defense. composure and marked Harwood well in the final “Most of us have been together since we were Charlie Zschau nailed the corner where the minutes. Regulation drew to a close, and for both like seven years old,” Kennedy said, “so we’ve crossbar meets the post at about the 19-minute teams an entire season boiled down to next goal grown together as a team. It’s great. It’s mark. Moments later, off a Harwood corner kick, wins. amazing. There’s no better feeling than this, Kennedy somehow covered up in front of the net It wouldn’t take long. especially in our senior year.” after an amazing series that looked like a mash- O’Brien ripped a decent shot for Harwood in On Saturday, nerves were evident on both up of a pinball machine and a rugby scrum. the opening minute, but Kennedy was equal to it. sides in the early going, but as the teams found Harwood’s pressure finally paid off with 10:59 At the other end, Urie tried to dribble through their feet the result was an exchange of near left in regulation when Jacob O’Brien got hauled five players but only got through four of them. misses. Brady Perron’s header missed high in the down in the penalty area. Kennedy dove to stop Then just under six minutes into the extra period, eighth minute. In the tenth he took a pass deep the initial penalty kick, but O’Brien buried the Mathew Menard served a perfect free kick from in the box but pushed the shot wide of the far rebound, closing the gap to 2-1. the right side of the field to the far post and Kilts ablaze, the Highlanders kept charging. post as he tumbled over Harwood’s charging (Continued on page seventeen.) goalkeeper Max Hill. On the counterattack, Harwood’s Ely Kalkstein nailed the crossbar, then moments later set up Will Lapointe in close, but Lapointe’s shot sailed high. In the nineteenth minute, Kennedy made a diving save on a low burner off the foot of Wyatt Adams. Sophomore Jackson King finally found the mark for Lake Region with 18:29 to go in the first. The play started with a pass straight up the middle of the field from Urie to Perron at the top of the box. Perron’s shot rang off the crossbar, but King charged and headed the rebound into the open net. Still at 1-0 in the opening minutes of the second half, Kennedy robbed senior Henry Drake with another diving save. Riley Urie gave the Rangers a 2-0 lead at 31:56 of the second. He had been bottled up fairly well by Harwood, but on this play seemed to will his way past two defenders and finished

Moments before the start of the game, the team lines up awaiting the introduction of the lineup.

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Page Eighteen the Chronicle, November 8, 2017 Rangers return to finals with win over U-32 by Joseph Gresser A string of wet days left the pitch in soggy Kissner throughout the half, but their shots were condition for the start of the contest and players either high or wide. Lake Region boys punched their ticket for a struggled to maintain their footing for the early The period ended with Lake Region holding a return trip to the Division 2 soccer finals before a part of the match. Those problems abated as thin 1-0 lead. hometown crowd on November 1. The Rangers time went on, though. Raider Coach Steve Towne evidently gave his topped U-32’s Raiders by 3-1 in their semifinal As befitted a side seeking to defend its side a motivational lecture, because they came match. championship, the Rangers pressed hard in the out of the gate with a ferocious attack on the With an 11-2-0 record over the season, Lake early going. Lake Region drew first blood with 33 Rangers’ goal. Despite their all-out effort, Lake Region did not equal last year’s unbeaten string, minutes and 54 seconds left in the first half. Region was able to turn the tide. but played a more difficult schedule and wound Forward Riley Urie battled Raider defenders Meanwhile, Urie was beset by Raiders in up in first place for the division. to bring the ball to the left side of U-32’s goal. pairs and trios who vainly tried to slow or change The Rangers and Raiders met during the Despite the slippery pitch he managed to fire a his game. Their efforts proved to be in vain, and season, a match Lake Region took three goals to shot across the mouth of the goal to the waiting in one important instance during the second half, two. Over the season, U-32 compiled a record of foot of Evan Inkel, who fired it home. were counterproductive in the extreme. eight wins, four losses, and one draw. The Rangers attacked U-32 goaltender Max Urie was elbowed hard and knocked to the ground with 23 minutes and 48 seconds remaining in the second period, and the referees awarded him a spot kick. He set it up carefully, stepped back from the ball, then walked up to it again and rotated it to his liking. Urie then launched the ball into the right corner of the net. Kissner saw where it was headed but simply couldn’t intercept the ball’s flight. The Rangers were up 2-0. The Rangers added to their lead five minutes later with 18 minutes and nine seconds remaining on the clock. Urie, trailed by a trio of defenders, carried the ball across the face of the goal before dealing it to Mathew Menard, who placed it nicely in the goal. With seven minutes and 42 seconds to go, the Raiders had their moment. U-32 worked the ball Evan Inkel shoots over U-32 goalie Max Kissner, as Riley Urie (right) looks on. His position was perfect but the into the area, and midfielder Rowan Williams shot went wide. Nevertheless, Inkel did not leave the Division I semifinal game empty-handed; he scored Lake drove it past Ranger goalie Liam Kennedy, to mar Region’s first goal in the team’s 3-2 win over the Raiders. Photos by Joseph Gresser his otherwise perfect day. (Continued on page nineteen.)

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Lake Region clamped down on defense, and the Raiders didn’t get another look for the remainder of the game. The team was jubilant as the players realized they had earned themselves another shot at the division title. Coach Brad Urie was a bit more complacent. “That’s what we do,” he said in the aftermath of the game. “We do LR soccer. I’m very proud of these boys. At the right time everything was going in the right direction. They’ve earned it.” Looking at it from the other side, Coach Towne saw only Riley Urie. “Riley made the difference again,” he said, reflecting also in his team’s earlier loss to Lake Region. “He’s got enough support around him. We can mark him, defend him with two or three men, but when you can run with the ball on your foot like he can, it’s hard to stop.” Coach Urie sounded relaxed as he looked forward. “We’ll play Saturday,” he said. “We’ve got Raiders Rowan Williams (left) and Malone Bruce have the unenviable task of trying to defend against Raider nothing better to do.” forward Riley Urie

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Police concluded that at the an accompanying charge of unlawful The police described time of the accident, Ms. Root was mischief. paraphernalia as the wax packaging Jury convicts on three charges driving “at least 30 miles per hour According to the affidavit of used to contain the heroin at the in excess of a local speed limit of 25 Orleans County Deputy Sheriff time of sales, according to a Heather Root, 41, of St. MPH.” Tyler Jacob, he responded to a call supplemental affidavit from the Johnsbury was sentenced to serve Gregory McAllister, 56, of Troy on October 25 that a man had forced Director of the Vermont Forensic 15 years after a jury found her was fined $750 after pleading guilty his way through the door of a Derby Laboratory Trisha Conti. guilty on two felony charges of gross to driving while under the influence residence in search of a co-worker. Michael Stevens, 21, of Barton negligent operation with an injury of alcohol (DUI). He allegedly was looking and acting pled innocent to felony charges of resulting and a companion He was cited on August 21, weird. selling or delivering heroin, selling misdemeanor of careless and 2016, when police, acting on a tip, According to the co-worker’s drugs to minors on school property, negligent operation. pulled him over for failing to use his description, he “had white foam aiding in the commission of a felony, Ms. Root was acquitted on a signal before tuning onto the coming from his mouth,” and he was third felony charge of negligent Coventry Station Road. and violating court conditions of (Continued on page twenty-three.) release, a misdemeanor. operation resulting in a serious The court ordered a hearing for injury. Mr. Stevens, who is presently in The case stems from a single car custody, to determine if he could be accident on the Lake Road in released into the care of a Newport on September 25, 2014. supervising adult. Upon arriving at the scene, Jeudevine Library will The four charges pending Newport Patrolman Jay Lillis said against the defendant stem from in his affidavit that he found an two separate cases. The latest case extensively damaged green Ford host Vermont Holocaust of dealing heroin was brought in Mustang down an embankment, April by Detective Sergeant Shawn about 60 yards into the woods. Loan of the Vermont Northern Drug Inside, he found a “toddler Memorial speakers Task Force. laying limp on the center console,” Speakers from the Vermont understanding. According to the detective’s and a juvenile trapped in the back Holocaust Memorial (VTHM) will Jeudevine Library is proud to be affidavit, Mr. Stevens sold heroin on seat. discuss the importance of history in carrying forward the important April 14 to an individual He also found the driver sitting promoting tolerance, respect, and lessons learned from the Holocaust. cooperating with the police at an on the ground who, when asked, understanding with a program at Knowledge is the most powerful tool undisclosed location in Orleans denied she had been drinking, the Jeudevine Library on Tuesday, in the fight against ignorance, County. blaming the accident on a loss of November 14, at 7 p.m. intolerance, and fear. By sharing At the time of the sale, Mr. headlights. VTHM’s moving exhibit: “From stories of survival, and teaching Stevens was allegedly free on court Police discovered that there Generation to Generation …We Are their invaluable lessons learned, the conditions from an earlier court were five people inside the vehicle Here! Honoring lives lost and stories Vermont Holocaust Memorial appearance on charges of selling at the time of the accident, which of survival,” was introduced in envisions a time when prejudice, drugs on school property and aiding occurred around 9:30 at night. Stowe earlier this year. The exhibit, bigotry, and hate are replaced by in the commission of a felony. Ms. Root, who sustained two which included historical photos and respect for all. According to information broken hands as a result of the stories, touched several hundred Additional information can be amended by State’s Attorney accident, later on allegedly told Vermonters statewide including found on the Vermont Holocaust Jennifer Barrett, Mr. Steven police the accident occurred after a students, religious leaders, and Memorial website: dispensed or sold a regulated drug passenger prompted her to drive visitors of all faiths and www.holocaustmemorial-vt.org. on school property on March 22 faster. backgrounds. VTHM is now in the There will be refreshments and during a transaction that occurred Later, when police interviewed process of fund-raising to create a informal discussion after the new, more permanent, mobile presentation. For more information, exhibit to showcase Vermonters’ call 472-5948. — from Jeudevine family Holocaust histories in order Library. to promote respect, compassion, and

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Notice The Barton Inc. School District education ? FORECLOSURE ? taxes are due on or before 4 p.m. on NOTICES November 17, 2017. The drop-off box located at If you are about to lose your the Barton Village Office will be picked up on November 16 at 4 p.m. home, property, or business to NOTICE On November 17, 2017 the taxes will need to town tax or foreclosure — Village of Barton property tax payments be paid at the Treasurer’s home located at 51 are due on or before November 17th, 2017 at Maple Hill Road, Barton, VT. After November 17, Please call us... 4 p.m. Payments may be dropped off at the 2017 at 4 p.m. the taxes will be considered village office, mailed to 19 School Street, delinquent and will be turned over to the maybe we can help. Orleans, VT 05860 or contact the Village Clerk delinquent tax collector. (802) 754-6616 to schedule an appointment. Any questions, please call 802-525-6274. Call for FREE message: In addition, the clerk will be at the Barton POSTMARKS DO NOT COUNT. Town office at 34 Main Street, Barton on 802-334-6665. Friday, November 17th, from 7:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. Postmarks are not accepted. If you have any questions, please contact NOTICE the Village Clerk at 754-6616. The Town of Glover tax bills are due November 16, 2017 by 4 p.m. Postmarks and leaving your payment in the locked payment box after 4 p.m. on the 16th are not accepted. Office hours are NOTICE Monday –Thursday 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Closed Village of Orleans property tax payments Fridays and on Monday, November 8th, for Veterans Day. Payments may be left in the locked are due on or before November 17th, 2017 at STATE OF VERMONT 4 p.m. Payments may be dropped off at the box anytime except on the 16th. Over the SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION village office, mailed to 19 School Street, weekends the box is checked regularly and during ORLEANS UNIT DOCKET NO: 160-8-16 Oscv Orleans, VT 05860 or contact the Village Clerk the week every morning. Taxes are delinquent (802) 754-6616 to schedule an appointment. after 4 p.m. on November 16th and 8% penalty OCWEN LOAN SERVICING, LLC. In addition, the clerk will be at the Barton and 1% interest will be added. Plaintiff Donna Sweeney v. Town office at 34 Main Street, Barton on SHANE R. LONGE; Friday, November 17th, from 7:30 a.m. – 4 Glover Town Clerk/Treasurer CINDY L. BOSLEY; p.m. Postmarks are not accepted. If you OCCUPANTS RESIDING AT: 4068 VT ROUTE 105 NEWPORT, VT 05857 have any questions, please contact the Defendants Village Clerk at 754-6616. NOTICE OF SALE

PROPOSED STATE RULES By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain By law, public notice of proposed rules must be given by publication in mortgage given by Shane R. Longe and Cindy L. Bosley to Mortgage newspapers of record. The purpose of these notices is to give the public a Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for GMAC Mortgage STATE OF VERMONT chance to respond to the proposals. The public notices for administrative Corporation, its successors and/or assigns, dated August 30, 2002, and SUPERIOR COURT CIVIL DIVISION rules are now also available online at https://secure.vermont.gov/SOS/rules/. recorded in Book 32A at Page 281-289 of the City/Town of Newport ORLEANS UNIT DOCKET NO: Docket No.: 88-5-16 Oscv The law requires an agency to hold a public hearing on a proposed rule, if requested to do so in writing by 25 persons or an association having at least Land Records, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by Assignment of Mortgage recorded in Book 59A, Page 24, MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P. 25 members. for breach of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of Plaintiff To make special arrangements for individuals with disabilities or special needs foreclosing the same will be sold at Public Auction at 4:00 PM on v. please call or write the contact person listed below as soon as possible. To obtain further information concerning any scheduled hearing(s), obtain December 14, 2017 at 4068 VT Route 105, Newport, VT all and SCOTT A. MCALLISTER, ESQ. singular the premises described in said mortgage, ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF copies of proposed rule(s) or submit comments regarding proposed rule(s), please call or write the contact person listed below. You may also submit CHERYL A. CORNELL, et al. comments in writing to the Legislative Committee on Administrative Rules, To Wit: Defendants State House, Montpelier, Vermont 05602. (802-828-2231). Being a parcel of land together with building and improvements NOTICE OF SALE ———————————————————————————————— Lucky for Life Rules. thereon commonly known as 4068 VT Route 105 in the Village of Newport Center which are all and the same lands and premises By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Vermont Proposed Rule: 17E05 conveyed to Myrl Hilliker and Loretta Hilliker, husband and wife by mortgage given by Cheryl A. Cornell to Mortgage Electronic AGENCY: Vermont Lottery Commission Registration Systems, Inc., as nominee for NorthCountry Federal CONCISE SUMMARY: The effects of these rules changes are as follows: The Home Owners’ Loan Corporation by Deed dated November 2, 1943 Winner(s) of the Top Prize or the second prize who do not request the cash option and recorded in Book 5WD at Page 13 of the town of Newport Land Credit Union, its successors and/or assigns, dated March 1, 2012, and shall be paid their appropriate Prize on a weekly basis. In the event the claimant is recorded in Book 211 at Page 325-340 of the Town of Newport Land a minor, in no event shall a Minor's life be the measuring life for the Annuitized Records. Records, of which mortgage the undersigned is the present holder by Payment Option for the Top Prize or the second prize. Payment to a Minor for a Assignment of Mortgage recorded in Book 211, Page 340D, for breach Top Prize or second prize winning Ticket shall be for a period of twenty (20) years. Being all and the same lands and premises conveyed to Shane R. of the conditions of said mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mary Vaupel, Vermont Lottery Longe and Cindy L. Bosley by Janet Hilliker Gustin, Executor of the Commission 1311 US Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641 Tel: 802-476-0105 Fax: Estate of Loretta L. Hilliker by Warranty Deed dated August 30, 2002, the same will be sold at Public Auction at 2:00 PM on November 22, 802-479-4294 Email: [email protected] URL: 2017 at 578 Pleasant Street, Newport, VT all and singular the premises https://vtlottery.com/games/lucky-life. which deed, though not yet of record, is to be recorded in the Town of described in said mortgage, FOR COPIES: Mary Cassani, Vermont Lottery Commission, 1311 U.S. Route 302, Newport Land Records. Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641. Tel: 802-476-0109. Fax: 802-479-4294. Email: To Wit: [email protected]. The said Myrl Hilliker predeceased the said Loretta L. Hilliker on ------September 28, 9178 leaving full title to the subject property in the said Being all and the same land and premises conveyed to and Cheryl A. Mega Millions Rules Loretta L. Hilliker. Cornell by Administrator’s Deed of Allyn R. Temple, Administrator of Vermont Proposed Rule: 17E06 the Mary Temple Estate dated January 14, 1994 and recorded in Book AGENCY: Vermont Lottery Commission Reference is here made to the above mentioned deeds and their 111, Page 89 of the City of Newport Land Records. CONCISE SUMMARY: These rule changes affect the matrix of the Mega Millions records and to all prior deeds and the records thereof for a further Game, the odds of winning a prize, and the cost of a Play. The matrix of the game changes from a player choosing 5 (five) out of 75 (seventy-five) numbers, plus 1 description of the within conveyed lands and premises. Being further described as a parcel said to contain 0.53± acres and (one) out of 15 (fifteen) numbers, to 5 (five) out of 70 (seventy) numbers, and 1 dwelling located at 578 Pleasant Street, Newport City, Vermont. (one) out of 25 (twenty-five) numbers. The odds for winning the second prize level The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control of $1 million are substantially improved, as well as higher starting jackpots. The price per play will increase from $1 (one) per play, to $2 (two) dollars per play. in the event of a typographical error in this publication. The description of the property contained in the mortgage shall control FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Mary Vaupel, Vermont Lottery in the event of a typographical error in this publication. Commission, 1311 US Route 302, Suite 100, Barre, VT 05641. Tel: 802-476-0105. The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time Fax: 802-479-4294. Email: [email protected]. not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and without The public sale may be adjourned one or more times for a total time URL: https://vtlottery.com/games/mega-millions. publication or service of a new notice of sale, by announcement of the not exceeding 30 days, without further court order, and without FOR COPIES: Mary Cassani, Vermont Lottery Commission 1311 US Route 302, Suite new sale date to those present at each adjournment or by posting 100, Barre, VT 05641 Tel: 802-476-0109 Fax; 802-479-4294 Email: publication or service of a new notice of sale, by announcement of the notice of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the new sale date to those present at each adjournment or by posting notice [email protected]. sale. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or by certified check of the adjournment in a conspicuous place at the location of the sale. ------Privacy of Consumer Financial and Health Information Regulation. by the purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. Terms of Sale: $10,000.00 to be paid in cash or by certified check by Vermont Proposed Rule: 17P044 The sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, the purchaser at the time of sale, with the balance due at closing. The AGENCY: Department of Financial Regulation municipal liens, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage sale is subject to all liens, encumbrances, unpaid taxes, tax titles, CONCISE SUMMARY: In December 2015, the U.S. Congress amended the Gramm - above described. municipal liens, if any, which take precedence over the said mortgage Leach-Bliley Act ("GLBA") to create an exception to the annual privacy notice above described. requirement if certain conditions are met. The Department of Financial Regulation ("Department") proposes to incorporate the 2015 GLBA changes into the Banking The Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to The Mortgagor is entitled to redeem the premises at any time prior to Division Privacy of Consumer Financial and Health Information Regulation. the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including Generally, an annual privacy notice is no longer required if: the financial institution the costs and expenses of the sale. the sale by paying the full amount due under the mortgage, including does not share information in a manner that would require an opt-in or an opt-out; the costs and expenses of the sale. the financial institution has not changed its policies or procedures from the most recent privacy notice provided to its customers; and the financial institution posts Other terms to be announced at sale. its privacy policy on its web site. The proposed amendments also describe the time Other terms to be announced at sale. frame within which a financial institution must inform its customers if the financial institution changes its policies or practices in a manner that no longer qualifies for Ocwen Loan Servicing, LLC., MTGLQ Investors, L.P., the exemption. ______FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Sue S. Clark, Department of Financial Jennifer Maynard, Esq. Jennifer L. Maynard, Esq. Regulation 89 Main Street, Montpelier, VT 05620. Tel: 802-828-3307. Fax: 802-828- Shechtman Halperin Savage, LLP 1477. Email: [email protected]. Shechtman Halperin Savage, LLP 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 URL: http://www.dfr.vermont.gov/proposed-rules-and-regulations. 1080 Main Street, Pawtucket, RI 02860 877-575-1400 FOR COPIES: Steven Knudson, Department of Financial Regulation, 89 Main Street, 877-575-1400 Montpelier, VT 05620. Tel: 802-828-3307. Fax: 802-828-1477. Email: Attorney for Plaintiff Attorney for Plaintiff [email protected] [email protected]. [email protected] Dated: October 23, 2017 Dated: October 13, 2017 Page Twenty-eight the Chronicle, November 8, 2017 Hardest hit are those transitioning to organic (Continued from page one.) foods chain that was recently bought by Amazon, producers alliance. Perhaps the hardest hit farmers are those the Internet retailing giant. Amazon has decided Stonyfield is owned by Groupe Lactalis, a transitioning from conventional to organic to slash prices for organic milk and butter at French corporation. It buys milk from CROPP production. They have been told they will not Whole Foods. and has supply contracts with its own group of have a buyer when they produce organic milk. That, the producers alliance says, could well farmers. The report says Stonyfield hopes to Another buyer of organic milk, DanoneWave, keep organic milk prices depressed for more than expand production by sourcing milk to its own has announced it will not take on new producers. two years. processing facility in New Hampshire. It is also cutting the amount it pays for milk by The dairy producers alliance also blames the Should the company further increase $4 a hundredweight. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) production and buy in New England, it would The report says Organic Valley can adjust its National Organic Program for failing to pass increase the competition for milk in the region, prices more quickly than DanoneWave. The regulations to set and maintain a consistent possibly sparking a rise in prices in Vermont. former company can adjust the rates it pays its organic standard. Ben and Jerry’s is reported to be in the cooperative members with a single vote by its It says the National Organic Program has process of converting to organic milk, the board of directors. DanoneWave, which sells its producers alliance says. At present, it is buying milk under the Horizon brand, has separate its organic milk components from a processor in contracts with each farm it buys from, the New York State. producers’ alliance says. Given the current problems in Vermont, the Organic milk, like conventional, is a national Amazon has decided producers alliance says, Ben and Jerry’s might business, and it costs less to make milk in the see an advantage in buying from Vermont Midwest than in New England, according to the to slash prices for farmers. report. The producers alliance notes it would not be However, New England is nearer to large organic milk and butter the most inexpensive option for Ben and Jerry’s metropolitan areas that buy large quantities of and would require some capital investment for a fluid organic milk. That ought to give farmers in at Whole Foods. processing facility, but the report suggests it the region an advantage, but shipments from would be a good way of showing how the company Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan, have supports Vermont farmers. cut into the market and resulted in lower prices. Vermont law has given the milk commission The producers’ alliance told the milk been lax in enforcing existing standards and has the job of offering advice to the state’s commission there is a steady demand for organic neglected to keep an eye on “large scale vertically congressional delegation concerning the farm bill fluid milk. Nationally, the sale of organic milk integrated organic dairies that have economies of that will come up in 2018. products was down 1.8 percent in July, compared scale and economies of fraudulent practices.” The producers alliance offered several to the year before, but still amounted to 208 Those large producers upset the balance suggestions to ease the plight of organic million pounds of milk. between supply and demand, the report says. producers. They include requiring inspectors for Sales of organic milk products were up a little The organic producers alliance’s organic certification to be licensed to preserve the less than 1 percent in the first six months of 2017 recommendation for a solution was relatively integrity of the organic designation. as compared with the same period a year earlier. simple. If the USDA regulated organic standards A program intended to allow farmers to buy Whole milk sales were up 4 percent in July consistently and fairly, much of the problem insurance against low milk prices should be 2017 compared to July 2016, and store prices are would be solved, its report says. modified to allow organic producers to buy generally holding steady, the producers’ alliance Two companies, Stonyfield and Ben and protection based on the cost of organic feed and says. Jerry’s, could have a positive effect on the organic other supplies. The exception is Whole Foods, the natural milk economy in the region, according to the The Dairy Margin Protection Program is already in the milk commission’s sights. It has come under fire from conventional producers who said the program uses unrealistically low national standards to determine the cost of

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&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& & & && & && &&& & & && & && > & the Chronicle, November 8, 2017 Page Twenty-nine Don’t give personal information to callers (Continued from page one.) “The Orleans County Sheriff’s Department does Security number or personal financial “The ‘agent’ utilizes fear and intimidation not issue arrest warrants and does not enforce information, such as bank numbers or credit tactics to get the victim to forward money federal IRS tax laws. If you receive one of these cards. discretely and privately, and even tells them that calls, hang up the phone and do not return a call “Don’t be fooled. The IRS won’t be calling you a warrant will be issued by the Sheriff and the to the phone number they provide. If you think out of the blue asking you to verify your personal person will be arrested if they don’t comply,” the that you DO owe money to the IRS, call them tax information or aggressively threatening you Sheriff’s Department wrote in a press release directly at 1-800-829-1040.” to make an immediate payment,” the website about the incident. The IRS warns of such scams on its website. says. Chief Deputy Brooks dragged the call out for It says that scammers can resell iTunes cards or The IRS reminds taxpayers to guard against 15 minutes or so and pretty much let the scam use them to buy products, a new iteration of the all sorts of con games that continually change. run its course. scheme. In January, the Treasury Inspector General In this case, the scammer, who called herself Chief Deputy Brooks said he saw a story for Tax Administration said the agency, at that IRS agent Christina Fernandez, said he owed about a Walmart employee who saved a person point, reports of roughly 896,000 phone scam $7,986 to the IRS. He said that when he from being scammed. The worker suggested to contacts since October 2013 and was aware of informed Ms. Fernandez that he didn’t have that the customer that either she had an awful lot of over 5,000 victims who had collectively paid over amount of money, the sum drifted downward to birthday gifts to buy, or was the victim of a $26.5-million as a result of the scam, the IRS $2,795. scammer. website says. Eventually, Chief Deputy Brooks told her he “Aggressive and threatening phone calls by The call back numbers do not actually lead to only had $1,872. She was apparently good with criminals impersonating IRS agents remain a the scammers, Chief Deputy Brooks said. In this that and went on to tell him how to transfer the major threat to taxpayers, but now the IRS is case, the call came from California, but he doubts money from his savings account to his checking receiving new reports of scammers calling under it actually originated there. Scammers are able account and pay the Department of the Treasury. the guise of verifying tax return information over to acquire telephone numbers that appear to be The call ended when the chief deputy said: the phone,” the IRS website says. local, or at least somewhere where they actually Why don’t I just go to Walmart and buy some “Scam artists call saying they have your tax are not. iTunes gift cards or send you some money in a return, and they just need to verify a few details The IRS warns that it does not call to way that’s untraceable? to process your return. The scam tries to get you threaten arrest; do not fall for a scam. Hang up. At that point, he said, the caller hung up on to give up personal information such as a Social him. He didn’t get to tell her that she was talking to the Sheriff’s Department’s chief deputy and it was unlikely he’d arrest himself. Or that his boss, sitting nearby, would either. Chief Deputy Brooks said he called back and asked for Christina Fernandez but was disconnected. Legislators will meet in Barton to The call could easily have been frightening for someone unfamiliar with IRS or police and legal discuss privacy, data security procedure, he said. He said “Christina” told him that the call was The House Committee on Commerce and security breaches. Members of the House of being recorded and the recording was being sent Economic Development is a legislative committee Representatives and the Senate have been invited to the courthouse every 15 minutes. If he hung that considers matters related to business to join the committee at these hearings. up, or they were disconnected, a sheriff would organizations, including issues related to privacy The committee will invite the public to share arrive to arrest him. and data security breaches. their questions, experience with breaches, “I did tell them that I didn’t want the sheriff House Speaker Mitzi Johnson has authorized concerns, and suggestions. This topic is a to come arrest me because I’m afraid of the the committee to meet this fall to hold hearings continuation of the committee’s work last session, sheriff,” Mr. Brooks said, chuckling. around the state to discuss issues related to and of particular interest in light of current He said he dropped a lot of hints that the privacy and data security breaches. events in relation to the Equifax breach. scammer might have called the wrong place, but Representatives from the Attorney General’s The committee will meet at the Barton she didn’t catch on until he made it clear he was Office, the Department of Financial Regulation, Village Office at 17 Village Square in Barton on onto the scam. and the Office of Legislative Council will join the Thursday, November 9, at 5:30 p.m. Signup will “They were very intimidating,” he said. committee in presenting a brief summary of begin 30 minutes prior to the hearing’s start time. The Sheriff’s Department press release says: current law and recommended responses to — from the Office of Legislative Counsel.

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Several of River City’s illustrious ladies entertain their fellow citizens with a Fourth of July pantomime in the Lake Region production of The Music Man. Demonstrating the mysteries of flight are (front, left to right) Sarah McCartney, Alyssa Cloney, and Ana Prue. Behind them stand Hilary Wailonis, and Jade Warner. The attentive audience includes, from left to right, Shelby Fortin, Owen Sukkaew, Sam Heinrichs, Professor Harold Hill (Nate Chambers, left) horrifies librarian Marian Paroo (Olivia Hailey Thompson, Audrey Roessler, and Sydney Harper. LeBlanc) as he sings of his love for her. Sarah McCartney (top) and Sydney Whipple (seated on the floor) try to read in the Lake Region Union High School production of The Music Man. The high school offered a student matinee on November 3, but the show’s main run at the Orleans Municipal Building is from Thursday, November 9, through Saturday, November 11. All performances are at 7:30 p.m. Photos by Joseph Gresser

At right, Nate Chambers (center) as Harold Hill, an unscrupulous traveling salesman who stirs up concerns about the arrival of a pool table in the small town of River City, Iowa, as part of his scheme to sell band instruments. In “Trouble,” one of The Music Man’s most famous numbers, he succeeds in persuading residents, from left to right, Melina Hapgood, John Matthews, Sam Heinrichs, Shelby Fortin, Audrey Roessler, Nate Chambers, Hilary Wailonis (obscured), Jade Warner, Sydney Harper, Audrey Roessler, and Anna Quinn, that their community’s morals are threatened. Lake Region students will present the award-winning musical Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at 7:30 p.m.